| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENTS $800: In movies like "The Notebook", they're a cinematic technique; in PTSD patients, they're memories so vivid it's like reliving the event flashbacks |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $400: In 2023 this book by Judy Blume finally became a movie, with Rachel McAdams as the title girl's mom Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $600: Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $1000: Elvis hangs loose in Honolulu after a stint in the Army in this 1961 film Blue Hawaii |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $400: Forgotten by his family, young Kevin watches the film "Angels with Filthy Souls" on VHS in this movie Home Alone |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $800: This actor is the star of "Last Action Hero" & plays Jack Slater in "Jack Slater IV", the movie within it Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1200: Gene Kelly dances up a storm in this musical about folks working on the film "The Dueling Cavalier" in the new talking pictures era Singin' in the Rain |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1600: A woman on death row is the focus of "Habeas Corpus", a project within this film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $2000: Fake previews for "Werewolf Women of the SS" & "Hobo with a Shotgun" are within this Tarantino-Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $400: In a 2017 film Chris Hemsworth says it's the hall "where the brave shall live forever" Valhalla |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $800: In a 1969 film Maria Callas starred as this tragic woman that the Greek hero Jason discards Medea |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1200: In "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", this serpent of myth harms many with its gaze a basilisk |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1600: In "The Mummy Returns", this Egyptian god of the dead/cute li'l puppy takes the soul of Dwayne Johnson Anubis |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $2000: In this Guillermo del Toro tale set in the 1940s, a faun believes a girl named Ofelia is a mythical princess Pan's Labyrinth |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: This writer's "test" on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as "The Rule" in a 1985 comic strip (Alison) Bechdel |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $800: In "The Princess Diaries", Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country Genovia |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $400: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham & Jet Li are among the less than precious title mercenaries in this 2010 film The Expendables |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet Bowie |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $200: In "Why Him?" this "Breaking Bad" star does not understand the appeal of James Franco (but his daughter does) Cranston |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $400: Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott search for a jalopy while aliens look for the continuum transfunctioner in this film Dude, Where's My Car? |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $800: Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film Are We There Yet? |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $1000: The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1600: 2 friends leave a Mexican paradise & make their separate ways into a Maine prison The Shawshank Redemption |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $2000: A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man Gladiator |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $200: In the 1980 film "Superman II", Margot Kidder as this newspaper reporter sends a foe down with a nice right cross Lois Lane |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $400: Bob Barker throws 8 solid left jabs before putting this title golfer in the water hazard with a big right Happy Gilmore |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $600: This Carl Weathers boxer is told, "Finish (that) bum, & let's go home"; he does not finish that bum Apollo Creed |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $800: Just after showing a fake I.D. that says "McLovin", Fogell gets sucker punched in a liquor store in this 2007 comedy Superbad |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $1000: Russell Crowe takes some punches in the ring & in life as Jim Braddock in this film the Cinderella Man |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $400: The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other The Hunger Games |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $800: The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered The Running Man |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1200: Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $2000: In "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", a woman has the choice of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon or Bachelor No. 3 on this classic show The Dating Game |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent The Sound of Music |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $200: Rosario Dawson moves into the title domicile in this 2023 film based on a Disney attraction the Haunted Mansion |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $400: (I'm Shameik Moore.) As Miles Morales in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", I'm relaxing at home, unmasked, when I get a surprise visit from this spider-powered woman voiced by Hailee Steinfeld Gwen (Spider-Gwen) |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $800: She played Indy's goddaughter Helena in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: This Scorsese film is based on David Grann's nonfiction book about Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $200: "Kansas to Emerald City distance in miles, no traffic"; "red slippers from witch, curse?"; "winged monkeys unionized?" The Wizard of Oz |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $1600: Director Carol Reed was nominated for an Oscar for this 1949 Cold War thriller set in Austria & starring Joseph Cotten The Third Man |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT $800: Later movies in the "Rocky" oeuvre include scenes in the restaurant Mr. Balboa opened & named for her Adrian |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $200: Doing his iconic "pizza strut", John Travolta scarfs down a double-decker slice in the opening credits of this film Saturday Night Fever |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $800: Julia Roberts' star was on the rise after she played a waitress in this film set at a New England pizza parlor Mystic Pizza |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $1000: In "Home Alone", Kevin pays the pizza delivery guy & then plays audio of an old gangster delivering this memorable line "Keep the change, ya filthy animal" |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | HATS $400: Featured in the "Harry Potter" movies, this hat takes its name from its function at Hogwarts school a Sorting Hat |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $200: 2003 film Richard Roeper deemed "one of the worst movies I've ever seen"; at least it didn't keep Ben & J.Lo from reuniting Gigli |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $200: Rocky Balboa has begun training Adonis Johnson; will Adonis have the eye of the tiger? That's up next in sports Creed |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $400: A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness News starts now Knives Out |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $600: 2 musicians dressed like undertakers led police on a wild chase through Chicago. Their car, & many others, did not survive the trip The Blues Brothers |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $1000: 16th century queen of Scotland + last name = this actress who plays Joon in 1993's "Benny & Joon" Mary Stuart Masterson |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $400: This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger" (Jamie) Foxx |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $800: This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $2000: At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright Aeschylus |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | A EURO LEADER PASS $800: In 1986 prime minister Olof Palme of this country was assassinated while walking home from the movies with his wife Sweden |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $400: This character drowning at Camp Crystal Lake leads to all kinds of murderous fallout in "Friday the 13th" Jason |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $1600: She stars in Fresh, which seems like a rom-com at first, but thanks to Sebastian Stan, she soon learns there's more on the menu Daisy Edgar Jones |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $200: Anya Taylor-Joy voiced this character in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" Princess Peach |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $600: This Bill Murray "Ghostbusters" character has PhDs in parapsychology & psychology (Peter) Venkman |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $800: Robin Williams had a cameo as a mime class instructor in this film that Bobcat Goldthwait wrote, directed & starred in Shakes the Clown |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $2000: "Salmon Fishing in the ____" Yemen |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: "No man is a failure who has friends" is just one of the lessons George Bailey learns in this Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: "I coulda had class, I could've been a contender", said Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role in this film On the Waterfront |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: Having chipped his front tooth as a child, this comic actor removed the cap in "Dumb & Dumber" Jim Carrey |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: The last word in this 1974 Jack Nicholson movie is its title--"Forget it, Jake, it's" this place Chinatown |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We'll add they're the German judges in this movie) the Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $400: Cary Elwes to Chris Sarandon: "I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon" The Princess Bride |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $800: Peter Lorre: "You despise me, don't you?" Humphrey Bogart: "If I gave you any thought, I probably would" Casablanca |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1200: From a '90s animated film: "You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat & only your fleas will mourn you!" Aladdin |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1600: Jamie Lee Curtis to Kevin Kline: "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people" A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $2000: Not a fan of Olivia Colman's makeup, Rachel Weisz says, "You look like a badger" The Favourite |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $800: "The Sound Of Silence" is heard in the opening of this 1967 film The Graduate |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | BIOLOGY $1200: It's the thin, watery outer layer of an amoeba cell, or in the movies, ghost slime ectoplasm |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: This animated swashbuckler returned to the big screen in search of "The Last Wish" Puss in Boots |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800: In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time Elm Street |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $1200: The first Oscar in the new Makeup category went to Rick Baker in 1982 for turning David Naughton into one of these (in London) a werewolf |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $1600: This 2014 film about voting marches in Alabama shined a light on the contributions of Black women to the civil rights movement Selma |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $2000: Amputee Harold Russell, who played a returning serviceman in this 1946 classic, was an inspiration to fellow World War II vets & the disabled The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE SINGER WHO PLAYED... $1600: Cinna in "The Hunger Games" movies Kravitz |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $600: His powerful performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him a posthumous Supporting Actor Oscar (Heath) Ledger |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $800: "The Gold Rush", "The Kid" & "City Lights" are silent films that this comic legend wrote, directed & starred in (Charlie) Chaplin |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: "All the Right Moves" starred a young Tom Cruise as a Pennsylvania high school kid desperate for a scholarship in this sport football |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: John Lindqvist's novel "Let the Right One In", about Eli, who is one of these creatures, was made into Swedish & American films a vampire |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $1200: Spike Lee broke into the front ranks of Hollywood directors with this 1989 film about racial tensions in Brooklyn Do the Right Thing |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $2000: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore & Mark Ruffalo starred in this 2010 comedy about 2 children looking for their biological father The Kids Are All Right |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: He's the bumbling French detective in the Pink Panther movies Clouseau |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: The largest U.S. independent film festival, it showcases new talents & movies each January in Utah Sundance |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $200: "Quantum of Solace" finds this hero battling corporate environmental plundering around the world & in the Bolivian desert (James) Bond |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $800: In this classic film police detective Sidney Poitier investigates a murder in the racist town of Sparta, Mississippi In the Heat of the Night |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $1000: It's Emma vs. Steve as Billie Jean vs. Bobby on the big screen in this title tennis clash Battle of the Sexes |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: This veteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody" (Christopher) Lloyd |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $400: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Seen without makeup & mostly in closeups, French actress Maria Falconetti's performance in "The Passion of" this peasant girl turned martyr is considered one of the greatest of all time Joan of Arc |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $800: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Shot in Rome & Los Angeles at a cost of nearly $4 million, the 1925 version of this biblical epic with a great sea battle & chariot race was the most expensive silent movie ever made Ben-Hur |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1200: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Lon Chaney's face was so frightening in this Paris-set film that some moviegoers reportedly fainted when his mask was removed The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1600: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux dealt with racism in films like "Within Our Gates"; & in 1925's "Body and Soul", he introduced this actor & bass baritone later famous for his rendition of "Ol' Man River" (Paul) Robeson |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $800: Dr. Robotnik returns to menace Earth in the 2022 sequel starring this furry blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1600: In this 1988 comedy, Kevin Kline enjoys chips & the unfortunate title creature, much to Michael Palin's dismay A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $2000: Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a rural southern woman suspected of murder in this 2022 film based on a bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $400: In "The Rise of Gru" Pierre Coffin dug in as the voice of these title creatures the Minions |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $800: Jack Lemmon played one half of this title pair in the movies; Jack Klugman played the other half on TV The Odd Couple |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | YOUR ROLE $1000: Marty Kaan on "House of Lies" & Rhodey, also known as War Machine in the Avengers movies Don Cheadle |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $400: 908 S. Broadway in Los Angeles is where Harold Lloyd dangled from this in "Safety Last", one of the most famous movie stunts a clock |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $2000: In an Oscar winner, Piletti is the last name of Ernest Borgnine's butcher character; this first name is the title Marty |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $200: Yeah, baby! this groovy secret agent got back to the '70s in style in a customized Cadillac Eldorado Austin Powers |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $600: In the 1979 thriller "Time After Time", Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells on the hunt for this Victorian killer in the future Jack the Ripper |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $1000: The Omega 13 takes a spaceship's crew back 13 seconds in time to never give up, never surrender! in this 1999 film Galaxy Quest |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $1200: In 1995 "Streets Of" this won Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Male Rock Vocal & Best Song Written Specifically for Movies or TV Philadelphia |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $400: A masked killer known as Ghostface torments teens in this 1996 horror film & its 2022 outing Scream |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $800: In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $1000: The spawn of Satan is given this first name & is raised by an ambassador in "The Omen" Damien |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $1600: The scene at Burge's Drive-In in Modesto, California was one of George Lucas' inspirations for this 1973 film American Graffiti |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $2000: This press-shy director turned to his own past in "The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $400: Meryl Streep played President Orlean, ignoring the approach of a world-destroying comet in this 2021 comedy Don't Look Up |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $1600: Will Smith played dad to Venus & Serena Williams in this recent film with a royal title King Richard |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $400: Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines & sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy Airplane! |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $1000: What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film Oliver! |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $200: Ellen DeGeneres voiced this character in "Finding Nemo" & its sequel Dory |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $400: "May the odds be ever in your favor" is a line from this 2012 post-apocalyptic film The Hunger Games |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $600: In "Mary Poppins Returns", this actress took on the role of the magical nanny Emily Blunt |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Denzel Washington & Viola Davis reprised their Tony-winning roles in the 2016 movie version of this play Fences |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $400: This star of "Catwoman" accepted her Razzie Award for that movie in person, the first actress to do so Halle Berry |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $800: Lena Headey on the tube, Linda Hamilton in several movies Sarah Connor |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $800: Meryl Streep (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) & Robert Downey Jr. (over & over) have starred in movies with this element in the title iron |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $200: In the "Shrek" movies, it's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy Donkey |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $400: "Charlie Wilson's War" is about a Texas congressman's covert dealings to arm anti-soviet rebels fighting in this country Afghanistan |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1200: The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Judas and the Black Messiah |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1600: Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $2000: Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa Hacksaw Ridge |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $400: Many movies have been made about this title swordsman, but in 1981, he was "The Gay Blade" Zorro |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $400: In "Wild", she plays Cheryl, who deals with personal tragedy by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (Reese) Witherspoon |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1200: As the "Stanley", Henry Stanley, in part of a 1939 movie title, Spencer Tracy explores Sub-Saharan Africa seeking this doctor David Livingstone |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1600: Kirk Douglas turns up in the 1982 Aussie Western "The Man from" this river Snowy River |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $2000: "This isn't your typical corporate espionage. You asked me for" this... "the seed... we plant in this man's mind will grow into an idea" Inception |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $600: Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art karate |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: 1993: "It's like that movie... 'An Affair to Remember'... she's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building" Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $200: In "Remember the Titans", this actor is the coach of an integrated football team in 1971 (Denzel) Washington |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $400: Burt Reynolds starred as Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard"; this "SNL" alum, in the remake Sandler |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $600: Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie Brian's Song |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $800: As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves" Cruise |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $1000: The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team Horse Feathers |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $800: Ice Cube inherits this title business & grows into his role as a mainstay of the community in the sequels Barbershop |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz did plenty of swearing on the job when she was supposed to be instructing students in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1600: A homeless teen becomes a star football player after he's taken in by Sandra Bullock in this film based on a true story The Blind Side |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman The Princess Bride |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller Psycho |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: In a 1967 film Charles Bronson & Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission The Dirty Dozen |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $1200: An 8-time Oscar nominee, she could not be ignored as Nova Prime in "Guardians of the Galaxy" Glenn Close |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $1600: Knock knock! Oh hi, it's this creepy title monster who inhabits Amelia in a 2014 Australian film The Babadook |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $2000: In "Batman v Superman", Lauren Cohan & Diane Lane play moms with this first name, which turns out to be surprisingly crucial Martha |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $200: Paul McCartney said The Beatles wanted to be in a film, but wanted to make a good one--& did with this first film of theirs A Hard Day's Night |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $400: "The Hours & Times" fictionalizes a real trip that John Lennon took to Spain with this Beatles manager in 1963 Epstein |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $800: This 2019 film has Himesh Patel waking up in an alternate universe where he is one of the few who remembers The Fab 4 Yesterday |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning HBO (Home Box Office) |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $1200: This actor wanted to carry 120-lb. Butkus the dog up Philly's Museum of Art steps in 1976 but fearing "a terminal case of a hernia", did not Stallone |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $2000: A baby in a carriage rolls down stairs during a gunfight at a Chicago train station in this film but Andy Garcia has things under control The Untouchables |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $400: It's what "The Meg" is in the Jason Statham aquatic actioner a megalodon |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Anthony Ramos took over Lin-Manuel Miranda's singing bodega owner role in the film adaptation of this stage musical In the Heights |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CULT MOVIES $800: A moody crime drama involving a robbery gone wrong, "The Drop" stars this TV mob boss in his final film Gandolfini |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | TODAY I LEARNED $1000: This Vermont senator is not only 3rd in the succession line to the presidency, he was born blind in one eye & has been in 5 "Batman" movies Leahy |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $200: This country's Ravla Khempur stands in as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" India |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $400: In "Lost in Translation" , Bill Murray meets Scarlett Johansson high above this city in the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $600: This iconic San Diego hotel was a setting for "Some Like It Hot" the Coronado |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $800: Macaulay Culkin cons his way into a room at the Plaza Hotel in this sequel Home Alone 2 |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $1000: The secluded mansion where android Alicia Vikander is held captive in this movie is really Norway's Juvet Landscape Hotel Ex Machina |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $200: "You've Got A Friend In Me" (the original & the sequels) Toy Story |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $800: Performed by Baloo in the original & in the remake: "The Bare Necessities" The Jungle Book |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $400: A golfer isn't in the swing of things, so a mystical caddy played by Will Smith helps out in "The Legend of" him Bagger Vance |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $800: In "Caddyshack", he says, "Cinderella story, outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper... about to become the Masters champion" Bill Murray |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1200: In 1930 he became golf's first winner of the grand slam; Jim Caviezel portrayed his "Stroke of Genius" in a 2004 film (Bobby) Jones |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1600: In "Tin Cup", this actor finally makes it over the water to take a memorable 12 on the final hole (Kevin) Costner |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $400: In 2017 there were plenty of robotic performances in "The Last Knight", a continuation of this action film series Transformers |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $800: Steve Carell voiced the main character & also his twin brother Dru, who was up to no good in this "3" Despicable Me |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $2000: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) Voicing Snowball, I had an announcement to make in this 2016 animated film: "Death is coming to Brooklyn and it's got buck teeth and a cotton tail" The Secret Life of Pets |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $800: In 2020's "Mank", about the writing of "Citizen Kane", Amanda Seyfried plays this actress Marion Davies |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1200: As cops roll up mid-scene in this 1994 film about a director, Johnny Depp realizes, "We don't have a permit! Run!" Ed Wood |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1600: In 1978 this mustachioed actor was the title character in "Hooper", billed as "The Greatest Stuntman Alive" Burt Reynolds |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $400: Quick advice: If a killer cyborg asks whether your name is Sarah Connor, like in this 1984 film... say nope! Sarah who? Not me The Terminator |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $1000: It was far from bogus when these 2 title guys--& their old pal, Death!--returned to "Face the Music" in 2020 Bill & Ted |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $200: "Heeere's Johnny!" Well, not Johnny, but this actor who played Jack Torrance in "The Shining" in 1980 Jack Nicholson |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In "Guardians of the Galaxy", Vin Diesel employed numerous ways to express these 3 words of introduction "I am Groot" |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: Cinematographer Roger Deakins didn't say exactly how many shots were in this 2019 WWI film, but the longest was about 7 minutes 1917 |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $1200: He won an Emmy guest starring on "Friends" in 2000, the year he was "Unbreakable" as David Dunn Bruce Willis |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $1600: A "Bombshell" as Gretchen Carlson, she hit the smaller screen as Grace Fraser in "The Undoing" (Nicole) Kidman |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $2000: Her real-life roles include Marcia Clark on "American Crime Story" & Tony Bradlee in "The Post" (Sarah) Paulson |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | ALSO A BATMAN VILLAIN $600: In the movies he sings "If I Only Had A Brain" Scarecrow |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: The Razzies drew first blood in nominating this man for worst actor for his performance in "Rambo: Last Blood" Stallone |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: As of 2021 the last film appearance of this movie "Angel" was in a 2014 version of "Annie" Cameron Diaz |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | SMALL MAMMALS $800: A fanged mammal from the age of the dinosaurs has been widely called a sabertooth this, like Scrat in the "Ice Age" movies a squirrel |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $400: In 2019 the "Star Wars" saga came to a close with "Episode IX", the "Rise of" this name Skywalker |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $800: This killer doll slayed 'em in the 2019 remake of "Child's Play" Chucky |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $1600: Josh Brolin & Sean Astin made their big screen debuts in this film about a group of misfits searching for pirate treasure The Goonies |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | SUBURBS $400: Many John Hughes movies are set in the fictional Shermer, perhaps from Shermerville, now this city's suburb Northbrook Chicago |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1200: Hilary Swank's boxer starts a career in crime with Ansel Elgort's youthful master wheelman Million Dollar Baby Driver |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $600: This movie technique got its own feature film category at the Oscars in 2002 animation |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Ward Greene's "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" became this 1955 animated Disney film the Lady and the Tramp |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $200: In 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch voiced this Seussian title guy who wasn't as into Christmas as the Whos were the Grinch |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $800: In this film Santa tells Buddy there are 30 Ray's Pizzas in NYC; "They all claim to be the original, but the real one's on 11th" Elf |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $200: Amy Schumer wrote & starred in this 2015 comedy whose title is slang for "complete mess" Trainwreck |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $600: (I'm Ryan Reynolds.) In my 2020 movie, "Free Guy", I play a bank teller who comes to realize that he's really an NPC, short for this kind of character in an open-world video game a non-player character |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $800: Taron Egerton played Elton John in this 2019 musical fantasy Rocketman |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $1000: Rachel McAdams bawls reading a breakup letter from Ryan Gosling in this all-around weepy movie The Notebook |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Chad Stahelski, stunt double for the character Neo in this 1999 film, went on to direct John Wick movies The Matrix |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Rose Byrne & Ellie Kemper are 2 of the title attendants in this 2011 matrimonial comedy Bridesmaids |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $400: In 2019 Alfonso Cuarón won an Oscar for the black & white cinematography of this film about Mexico in the 1970s Roma |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $2000: As keepers of the title beacon, Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe really let the isolation get to them in this 2019 film The Lighthouse |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $400: Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle, a driver on the southern stock-car circuit, in this action flick Days of Thunder |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $800: She played Elizabeth Swann in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies Keira Knightley |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $2000: Since the '80s, this funny lady has appeared in movies from "Educating Rita" to the "Harry Potter" and "Mamma Mia" films Julie Walters |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $800: Morgan Freeman: "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope" The Shawshank Redemption |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $3,200 (Daily Double): Barnard Hughes: "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires" The Lost Boys |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $800: When this superhero "Returns" in a 2006 film, he must have spun the world backwards to erase movies No. 3 & 4, which were ignored Superman |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | CHOIR PRACTICE $200: Choral Director Magazine says in high school this Italian term "is all the rage", fueled by the "Pitch Perfect" movies a cappella |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $200: Named for the way it rolls around lonely streets in western movies, this plant was imported to the U.S. from Russia a tumbleweed |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | SECOND... $800: ...by release date in "Star Wars" movies The Empire Strikes Back |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $400: In the 1972 film "The Godfather", this actor as the title character is hit by 5 bullets but survives Marlon Brando |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $1200: In "The Godfather Part II", Fredo Corleone is shot after saying this Catholic prayer asking for the Virgin's help a Hail Mary |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $2000: As Jewish mobster Hyman Roth, this pioneer of method acting is shot at an airport in "The Godfather Part II" Lee Strasberg |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $400: Alice Cooper breaks down the etymology of "Milwaukee" to Mike Myers in this 1992 film Wayne's World |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $800: "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of" this 1980 musical title duo "has been approved" The Blues Brothers |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $1600: Dan Aykroyd wants a green card in this 1993 film (but he's not really from France) Coneheads |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $2000: In a trailer for a 1995 movie as Stuart Smalley, he said, "My father grew up in the Great Depression... his mother's" (former Senator) Al Franken |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka La La Land of the Lost |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs The Monuments Men in Black |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7 [He presents from Queens, NY].) Philip Johnson designed the soaring towers of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in the futuristic Googie style which fit perfectly in this 1997 film that featured them Men in Black |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush Oliver Stone |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Robert Hadlock from KXAN [He presents from Austin, TX].) The state capitol appears in 1982's "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" which starred this late actor as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd Burt Reynolds |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Chris Tanaka from Cleveland 19.) In "A Christmas Story", the huge box marked "fra-jee-lay" (actually, that's "fragile") contains this alliterative 2-word award the leg lamp |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Yes, it's safe to look at the angels that adorn the top of the object of Indiana Jones's quest in this 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Collectors prize unique props from classic films, such as this table lamp from Rick's Café Americain, used in this 1942 drama Casablanca |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Here's the outfit James Gandolfini wore in the final scene at the diner of this Emmy-winning drama series before they cut to black The Sopranos |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) I can't believe I'm holding the lightsaber used by this man playing Luke Skywalker in 1977's "Star Wars"--it would be even cooler with the blue light and sound effects Mark Hamill |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) The ermine-trimmed velvet coronation robe from 1933's "Queen Christina" of Sweden was worn by this star of the silent screen who actually did speak in the film Greta Garbo |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $200: Ronald Reagan was in the 1940 biopic "Knute Rockne" this All American |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $600: Diamonds & a winning lottery ticket, not $100 bills, are the goal in this 2002 action comedy All About the Benjamins |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: Annette Bening won a Golden Globe for her role in this 2010 film about children looking to connect with their sperm-donor dad The Kids Are All Right |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $1000: Robert Shaw was Henry VIII & Paul Scofield was Thomas More in this 1966 costume drama A Man for All Seasons |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $400: In 2006, the first "High School Musical" gave this actor his breakout role Zac Efron |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $600: Later to play U.S. President Bartlet, in 1974 he played the title deserter facing death in "The Execution of Private Slovik" (Martin) Sheen |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $400: Forky joins Woody & the gang for the fourth outing in this animated series Toy Story |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $800: I always tear up at the line "A toast to my big brother, George. The richest man in town!" in this Jimmy Stewart film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $1200: A line from this Tarantino film: "We ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business" Inglourious Basterds |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $2000: Hugh Jackman played this senator caught with Donna Rice during his 1988 presidential campaign in "The Front Runner" Gary Hart |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $400: The only actor to perform in all the "Star Wars" movies is Anthony Daniels, who plays this character C-3PO |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $200: Who else but this "SNL" alum, so near & dear to my heart, would go streaking through the quad at Harrison University in "Old School"? Will Ferrell |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $800: In 1998 this actor was "The Waterboy" for South Central Louisiana State until he became a tackling machine on the gridiron Adam Sandler |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $200: 2017 saw the 8th film in the "Saw" franchise, & 3 additional letters were needed for this, its title Jigsaw |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $600: Doris tries to play on this board alone (totally against the rules) & learns the "Origin of Evil" in a 2016 movie a Ouija board |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $1000: This Australian actress starred in the 2018 horror "Hereditary" about a family with dark secrets (Toni) Collette |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $200: This film went on to earn 10 Oscars, including Best Actress for Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $400: Ray Bolger & Buddy Ebsen switched roles in this film; then the silver makeup made Ebsen ill, so in came Jack Haley The Wizard of Oz |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $600: Charles Laughton was head & shoulders above the rest in this Paris-set film; does it ring a bell? The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $600: Don't let the sun go down on 2019 without seeing this biopic in which Jamie Bell plays Bernie Taupin Rocketman |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $800: Ryan Reynolds gave voice to the little yellow guy in "Pokémon Detective" him Pikachu |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $1000: In "The Upside", a remake of a French film, Kevin Hart cares for a quadriplegic man played by this actor Bryan Cranston |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $400: The 1857 search by Richard Burton & John Speke for the source of this river plays out in "Mountains of the Moon" Nile |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $1200: A treasure map takes Kathleen Turner to Colombia & into the arms of Michael Douglas in this 1984 adventure Romancing the Stone |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $1600: 2017's "Queen of the Desert" is the story of Gertrude Bell, a British writer & explorer on this peninsula in the early 20th century Arabian Peninsula |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $2000: He played a cartographer in the 1995 film "The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain" Hugh Grant |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $200: In this 2005 movie the lemur King Julien sings, "I like to move it, move it" Madagascar |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $400: The only Oscar nomination for "The Lego Movie" was for this ridiculously catchy tune "Everything Is Awesome" |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $800: Also in the 1967 movie, "I Wan'na Be Like You" made the cut for Jon Favreau's recent version of this movie The Jungle Book |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $1000: "Origami Birds" & "Monkey's Story" are tunes in this 2016 movie that references a musical instrument Kubo and the Two Strings |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $200: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law plays this future headmaster of Hogwarts Dumbledore |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $600: The title of this film based on Angie Thomas' Y.A. novel is what Tupac said the "Thug" in "Thug Life" stands for The Hate U Give |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $1000: The third & last film in this labyrinthine series is based on the novel "The Death Cure" The Maze Runner |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | STUFF ABOUT CELEBRITIES $2000: She played characters named Sophie in "Letters to Juliet" & the 2 "Mamma Mia!" movies Amanda Seyfried |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $800: In 2019, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth suit up as part of this organization that protects the Earth from the scum of the universe the Men in Black |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $200: As this film opens, Richard Gere is lost on Hollywood Boulevard & stops to ask Julia Roberts for directions Pretty Woman |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $400: Interiors of Grant High School (OMG, totally in the Valley!) were used in this film with Alicia Silverstone as Cher Clueless |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $600: (L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti gives the clue.) The 6th Street Bridge, which we're rebuilding, was featured in many films, including "Terminator 2" & this 1950s-set film in which John Travolta had a big racing scene Grease |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $800: Canoga Park & Van Nuys High Schools subbed for the title institution in this film that had Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $1000: Los Angeles City Hall plays itself in this iconic film in which Jack Nicholson plays 1930s P.I. J.J. Gittes Chinatown |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | KEY "KEY" $1200: They were the silent slapstick lawmen in Mack Sennett movies the Keystone Cops |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $2000: In TV & movies, the shape of the screen is measured by this 2-word term--standard HDTV is 16:9 aspect ratio (or display ratio) |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | NOT THE MAMA! $400: In Marvel movies, Frigga is not the mother of this "Thor" villain, who's really a frost giant Loki |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $400: "A girl...like another girl's guy & feels nobody cares about her birthday" Sixteen Candles |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $800: "An aspiring actress (&) a...jazz musician...are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes" La La Land |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $1200: 2 men, "on a mission from God, bomb around Chicago in an old police car, reuniting their hot band" The Blues Brothers |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $1600: "A therapist, a mathematician & working-class roughs vie for the soul of a janitor" Good Will Hunting |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $2000: "Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss & others meet their fates over the course of two days" Pulp Fiction |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $1200: In a 2018 film this bear is framed for a crime & winds up in prison, where he makes marmalade sandwiches for the other prisoners Paddington |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $2000: Bill Murray voiced this bear in the 2016 version of "The Jungle Book" Baloo |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: Lake Wakatipu in this country was used as a backdrop in the "Lord of the Rings" movies New Zealand |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In it, reporter Rosalind Russell tells Cary Grant, "I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up" His Girl Friday |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $2000: A marshal gets married. A train arrives right on time. A bride shoots a man in the back High Noon |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $400: Kristen Wiig & Maya Rudolph get into it as Wilson Phillips performs "Hold On" at the wedding Bridesmaids |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $800: Hugh Grant comes to the rescue & helps young Nicholas Hoult kill it with a "Killing Me Softly" cover About a Boy |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1200: Tom Hanks, suddenly all grown up, croons "The Way We Were" to his mom Big |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $800: Fresh from her role as Jan on this family sitcom, Eve Plumb starred in "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway" The Brady Bunch |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | BRAND OF "BROTHERS" $400: Theater owners Harry, Albert, Samuel & Jack decided to make their own movies as this company in 1913 the Warner Brothers |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $600: ____ & confused, in the movies
(5) dazed |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $200: James Cromwell has made about 50 movies; we believe this is the only one in which he sings to a pig Babe |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $800: For her part in a 2017 biopic, she learned to figure-skate Margot Robbie |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $1200: He played music instructor Terence Fletcher in "Whiplash" J.K. Simmons |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $800: He produced several hit movies in the 1930s and broke speed records, piloting airplanes of his own design Howard Hughes |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $800: With dialogue in Aramaic & Latin, this 2004 film became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time The Passion of the Christ |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $1200: After losing a battle & having the MPAA slap an R on "Fahrenheit 9/11", this director told America's teens he'd sneak them in Michael Moore |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $200: Donald Sutherland said he flashed his tush in this Belushi frat film after the director said it was just for the movie's dailies Animal House |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $800: Earth's potential fate is not so excellent with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu in the 2008 remake of this 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | TYLER, THE CREATOR $400: Mabel Simmons, AKA Madea, was created by this writer/actor for the stage & hit it big in the movies Tyler Perry |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | QUOTING THE MOVIES $1200: 2009:
"You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora" Avatar |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $800: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In "Moscow on the Hudson" this funnyman was superb as a Russian musician who defects during a trip to New York City Robin Williams |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $1000: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Real life refugee Haing S. Ngor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a translator in this film set in war-torn Cambodia The Killing Fields |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | CHRIS P. $200: In the movies, this actor has paid several visits to the final frontier Chris Pine |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $200: Heard at this event "honoring" Charlie Sheen:
"You're the black sheep of a family responsible for 3 'Mighty Ducks' movies" a (Comedy Central) roast |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $400: Bob Parr stays home taking care of the kids while Elastigirl is out saving the world in this 2018 sequel Incredibles 2 |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $800: A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar's Best Picture The Shape of Water |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $1200: Gloria Swanson utters the immortal line "I am big, it's the pictures that got small" in this classic film Sunset Boulevard |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $2000: A 12-year-old Jodie Foster played a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in this 1976 film Taxi Driver |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE WORST PICTURE RAZZIE $200: 2 numeric movies produced a tie in 2016: "Fifty Shades of Grey" & this not-so-great superhero quartet The Fantastic 4 |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | SLAYER $400: Of the movies' Marion Crane Norman Bates |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | "TEN"TERTAINMENT $1600: This song by General Public is featured in the movies "Clueless" & "Weird Science" "Tenderness" |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $800: In a 2017 film Frances McDormand puts messages on "Three Billboards Outside" this town Ebbing, Missouri |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Corey Haim & Corey Feldman co-starred in this 1987 film about vampires in California The Lost Boys |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: He played P.T. Barnum in "The Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: The queen of diamonds is a trigger for brainwashed sleeper agent Raymond Shaw in this 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $200: Garth & the title guy host a public-access show from a basement in this 1992 comedy Wayne's World |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | POP CULTURE SQUIRRELS $400: Scrat is the nutty, acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel in this series of movies Ice Age |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $800: Decapitation & the Jabberwocky are at least 2 things to be feared in this 2010 fantasy film Alice in Wonderland |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $1600: In 2007 it was Mr. Magorium's title place of business the Wonder Emporium |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $2000: We were gobsmacked--that is almost the right word--by Julianne Moore's work in this 2017 drama about 2 deaf kids Wonderstruck |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | "ZZ" MIDDLE $1000: Sailors in "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies have been known to shout this joyous exclamation huzzah |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $400: James Bond fails all over this film--doesn't save the girl, his house burns & the bad guy meets his goal to kill M & die Skyfall |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $800: Part of "Being" this actor included starring in 1990's "The Sheltering Sky" with Debra Winger John Malkovich |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $1200: Before heading off to "Brokeback Mountain", he played future NASA engineer Homer Hickam in "October Sky" (Jake) Gyllenhaal |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $1600: It's a rhyming nickname for a drone (t's watching us right now!), or a Helen Mirren film about them Eye in the Sky |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $2000: He had a healthy ego playing Peter Quill's dad in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" as well as a super-hero in "Sky High" Kurt Russell |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THE CELEBRITY OPINES $1000: This actress who played April in many "Sharknado" movies said, "I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist" Tara Reid |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $400: (RuPaul presents the clue.) In a twist, Nathan Lane's flamboyant character is out of drag & Gene Hackman's conservative senator is in drag at the end of this film based on "La Cage aux Folles" The Birdcage |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $1000: (RuPaul presents the clue.) John Travolta requested that his Edna Turnblad character be made voluptuous like role models Sophia Loren & Elizabeth Taylor for this film set in 1960s Baltimore Hairspray |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $200: 2 teen rivals team up after one of the kids they're watching goes missing in 2016's "Adventures in" this babysitting |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $1000: In this St. Patrick's Day favorite written by our own Andrew Price, Kyle Johnson discovers he's half-leprechaun Luck of the Irish |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | "MAG"NA CUM LAUDE $1200: It can be a small dynamo used to generate high voltage or a mutant villain in the X-Men movies Magneto |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $400: In the film of the same name, James McAvoy as Barry, Dennis et al. has this type of personality split |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $600: Woody Harrelson as "The Colonel" leads the humans against the chimps in this movie War for the Planet of the Apes |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: Bette Midler earned an Oscar nomination for this 1979 film in which she played a Janis Joplin-like rock star The Rose |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AT THE COMO PARK ZOO $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Como Park Zoo.) Contrary to what the movies portray, humans are rarely attacked by this giant water boa that thrives in the Amazon & Orinoco river basins & can grow up to 30 feet long an anaconda |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $800: This title kid danced out of the movies & onto Broadway in 2008 (Billy) Elliot |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | A STASH OF MUSTACHES $400: The 1912 story "The Zayat Kiss" introduced this sinister criminal portrayed in many movies since Fu Manchu |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $2000: In the 41st century, Jane Fonda fondly seeks out Durand Durand & his positronic ray Barbarella |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $800: Stan based this boss of Peter Parker on himself & wanted to play him in the movies (Jonah) Jameson |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS $2000: American Humane certifies movies & TV shows with this 4-word trademark in the end credits "No Animals Were Harmed" |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $600: Laurence Fishburne led the first unit of African-American fighter pilots in this HBO movie named for them The Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $800: This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" Tom Selleck |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $1000: Farrah Fawcett starred in this 1980s TV movie as a woman who ends years of abuse by incinerating her ex-husband The Burning Bed |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1200: Olaf the Snowman confessed he found this 1962 David Lean epic "hard to watch" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $200: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Will Ferrell is a delight in this 2003 film whose cast also includes old pros like Ed Asner & Bob Newhart Elf |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $400: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) I found the laughs mild & sparse in this reworking of "A Christmas Carol" starring Bill Murray as a vernal TV executive Scrooged |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $600: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Edmund Gwenn was the real deal as Kris Kringle, working as a department store Santa, in this delightful 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In the perennial favorite "A Christmas Story", Peter Billingsley plays this boy who wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun Ralphie |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $1000: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Bing Crosby introduced the timeless song "White Christmas" in this 1942 film about a hotel in the country Holiday Inn |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | THINK PINK $400: Mais oui, in the "Pink Panther" movies, Peter Sellers bumbles through as this detective (Inspector) Clouseau |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Penny Singleton colored her hair to play this Chic Young comic-strip heroine in 28 movies Blondie |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $400: In this movie Steve Carell's inexperience is revealed to his buddies over a card game The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: Fans of this movie series can tour the London locales used in the filming, including the one seen here the Harry Potter movies |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $200: Kevin Kline was the gadget-loving 1860s government agent Artemus Gordon in this film based on a TV show Wild Wild West |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $800: Meryl Streep needed a lot more than one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon on the water in this movie The River Wild |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $1000: Hushpuppy deals with some prehistoric creatures called aurochs in this 2012 drama set in the delta Beasts of the Southern Wild |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: (I'm Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.) Dooley Wilson, who played Sam in this classic 1942 film, was actually a professional drummer & didn't know how to play the piano Casablanca |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: "You was my brother, Charley, you should've looked out for me", says Brando to Rod Steiger in this film On the Waterfront |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1600: The leg with Dustin Hoffman on this movie poster isn't Anne Bancroft's but that of Linda Gray, later Sue Ellen on "Dallas" The Graduate |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $2000: Playwright William Inge won an Oscar for the screenplay of this love story with Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty Splendor in the Grass |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | MARVEL MOVIE MAGIC $2000: In the "Thor" movies, Idris Elba guards the entry to Asgard via a rainbow bridge with this Norse name Bifrost |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | NOW YOU'VE STEPPED IN IT $200: In the movies, this water-saturated granular substance sucks in anything resting on or falling into it quicksand |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | RETURN TO THE MOVIES $200: Gandalf & Aragorn & a host of others fought Sauron's army in this 2003 finale Return of the King |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | RETURN TO THE MOVIES $800: More scares awaited in "Halloween 4: The Return of" this crazed killer Michael Myers |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | JUST JOSHING $1200: In "The Hunger Games" movies, Josh Hutcherson plays this tribute & love interest of Katniss Peeta |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | RECENT MOVIES $200: Oscar winner Casey Affleck takes care of his nephew in this place "By the Sea" Manchester |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | RECENT MOVIES $400: In 2016 she donned the pillbox hat to play Jackie (Kennedy) Natalie Portman |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | RECENT MOVIES $600: Michael Keaton starred as this McDonald's man, the title role in "The Founder" (Ray) Kroc |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Squad goals for him included his role of the Joker in "Suicide Squad" Leto |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: Ron Howard's documentary on the Beatles' touring years had this song in its title "Eight Days A Week" |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | WHY I DRINK $600: Because it's this day, the one named for the guy Chris Hemsworth plays in those Marvel movies Thursday |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | SCI-FI MOVIES $200: In this film, the first in a series, Shailene Woodley stars as Tris, who discovers that she's not like the others Divergent |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | SCI-FI MOVIES $800: NTIs, or non-terrestrial intelligences, live very, very deep in the ocean in this 1989 James Cameron film The Abyss |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | ALMA MATTERS $1600: Once the "sex goddess" of this country's movies, Alma Moreno was elected to its Parañaque City council in 2007 the Philippines |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) Sure I direct, but I've also been in front of the camera, like when I acted in the epic named for this Civil War battle that included Pickett's Charge Gettysburg |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $800: Peter Weir made a film about this WWI debacle in Turkey; Russell Crowe set his directorial debut "The Water Diviner" there Gallipoli |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $1600: In the movie "300" King Leonidas & his forces fight the Persians at this fateful battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | WAR MOVIES $2000: A high adventure set in the desert, this "beautiful" 1939 film starred Gary Cooper as a French Foreign Legionnaire Beau Geste |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | GAMBLING ON VEGAS MOVIES $1000: In "Lost in America" the Desert Inn doesn't have as much heart as this actor hopes after his wife loses the nest egg Albert Brooks |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $1000: In 1941, before Brad & Angelina, the movies' Mr. & Mrs. Smith were Robert Montgomery & this actress Carole Lombard |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES $1600: Leo & Matt Damon have competing squad goals as Boston cops in this drama The Departed |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES $2000: This 1998 adaptation had Porthos wanting to replace French king Leo with non-French king Leo The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | TV MOVIES $800: This Oscar-winning actor brought the man & the music to life as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" Michael Douglas |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | TV MOVIES $2000: In "The Deliberate Stranger", Mark Harmon eerily played this handsome serial killer executed in 1989 Ted Bundy |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $2000: His zany antics from movies like "The Bellboy" weren't on view when he co-starred with De Niro in "The King of Comedy" Jerry Lewis |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $400: Dev Patel played mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 2016's "The Man Who Knew" this limitless number infinity |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $1200: The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13" a slide rule |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $1600: Jodie Foster directed & starred in this "Little" film about a math prodigy & his mom Little Man Tate |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Fibonacci sequence factors into the clues left behind by a museum curator in this 2006 film The Da Vinci Code |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $2000: I have the solution! This film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a mathematician afraid of inheriting insanity Proof |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WESTERN MOVIES $400: For this 2010 film, Jeff Bridges wore a patch over his right eye; in the original, John Wayne wore it over the left True Grit |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WESTERN MOVIES $800: The Buffalo herd in this 1990 Kevin Costner film numbered 3,500 & it took 8 days to film the hunt & stampede Dances with Wolves |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WESTERN MOVIES $1600: It's the classic film in which Alan Ladd rides off as Brandon de Wilde yells for him to "come back" Shane |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WESTERN MOVIES $2000: Audie Murphy played Tom Destry in 1954's "Destry"; oddly, this film with Jimmy Stewart in the role came 15 years earlier Destry Rides Again |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $1600: Last names of the 2 cops played by Mel Gibson & Danny Glover in the "Lethal Weapon" movies Riggs & Murtaugh |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | THE PACHEBEL CANON IN D $200: The Pachebel Canon is often played at this type of event & is heard in movies about its planner & crashers a wedding |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $1600: This veteran actor has appeared in Tarantino movies as Mr. White & the problem-solving man known as "The Wolf" (Harvey) Keitel |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MUSIC IN MOVIES $400: After the Nazis sing "Die Wacht Am Rhein" in "Casablanca", Laszlo tells the band to play this French anthem "La Marseillaise" |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MUSIC IN MOVIES $1200: At the riff-off in this 2012 movie, the Treblemakers sing "Feels Like The First Time", while the Bellas go with "No Diggity" Pitch Perfect |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MUSIC IN MOVIES $1600: In the third installment of this comedy, Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow sings "I Believe I Can Fly" while flying over Vegas The Hangover |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | MUSIC IN MOVIES $2000: In a scene from "Almost Famous", the Stillwater tour bus sings this Elton John tune "Tiny Dancer" |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $400: The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other The Hunger Games |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $800: The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered Running Man |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1200: Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $2000: "A Pig in a Poke" was the game show that sent this family headed by Chevy Chase on a "European Vacation" the Griswalds |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | POLITICAL MOVIES $400: After playing the Sundance Kid, this actor charmed in 1972's satirical "The Candidate" Robert Redford |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | POLITICAL MOVIES $1600: "You can't fight in here--this is the War Room", says President Merkin Muffley in this Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | POLITICAL MOVIES $2000: Dustin Hoffman & Robert de Niro cook up a war in Albania in this "canine" comedy Wag the Dog |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: "A Shot in the Dark" is one of the movies with Peter Sellers as this bumbling policeman Inspector Clouseau |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | "A" & "B" MOVIES $1600: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", says Robert Duvall in this film set during the Vietnam War Apocalypse Now |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | MOVIES' VILLAINS $1,400 (Daily Double): Biff Tannen, whether in 1955, 1985 or 2015 in this film series Back to the Future |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | MOVIES' VILLAINS $1600: In this 2015 edition of a franchise, Deckard Shaw, who gets a piece of The Rock Furious 7 |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $400: Billy Bob Thornton played a high school football coach in this 2004 film; Kyle Chandler in the TV series Friday Night Lights |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $800: Norman & his mom Norma run the title establishment in this prequel to "Psycho" Bates Motel |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $2000: A man can use all of his brain due to a drug called NZT in this series based on the Bradley Cooper film of the same name Limitless |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | "LITTLE" MOVIES $200: A tagline to this Disney film was "Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy" The Little Mermaid |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | "LITTLE" MOVIES $800: Classic gangster film in which Edward G. Robinson has the dying line "Mother of mercy! Is this the end of Rico?" Little Caesar |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | "LITTLE" MOVIES $1000: Lillian Hellman wrote the screenplay for this film based on her play of the same name The Little Foxes |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME $1200: This versatile actor played the sartorially splendid Caesar Flickerman in "The Hunger Games" movies (Stanley) Tucci |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $400: Syfy's take on medieval times is "Dark Relic", set in the Mideast in 1099, at the end of the first of these the Crusades |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $600: Let the "CHiPS" fall where they may--he starred in "Chupacabra vs. the Alamo" Erik Estrada |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SYFY MOVIES $800: Stuck in the middle of "Piranhaconda" was this "Reservoir Dogs" star, Virginia's brother Michael Madsen |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $400: Ray Walston played the put-upon history teacher Mr. Hand in this comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $800: Burt Lancaster was Wyatt Earp & Dennis Hopper was Billy Clanton in this 1957 Western Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | "AT" THE MOVIES $1000: Nicolas Cage played Sailor Ripley in this David Lynch film Wild at Heart |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $600: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King with "grace and dignity" in this 2014 film that ends in 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama Selma |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $1000: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) My review of this film starring Oscar winner J.K. Simmons & Miles Teller was titled "Drill Sergeant in the Music Room" Whiplash |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | NAME IN COMMON $1000: The movies' Trumbo,
English chemist John,
politics' Fred Thompson Dalton |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | FICTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $400: This evil organization that 007 has battled in many movies is the title of the 2015 James Bond film S.P.E.C.T.R.E. |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | POP CULTURE $1000: She plays Amy in the "Pitch Perfect" movies Rebel Wilson |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | 21st CENTURY MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Wendi McLendon-Covey.) In 2012 I shared the MTV Movie Award for Best Gut-Wrenching Performance with Kristen Wiig, Ellie Kemper, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy & Rose Byrne for a scene in this film Bridesmaids |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | HOME MOVIES $800: The fourth film in this series was subtitled "The Voyage Home" Star Trek |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | HOME MOVIES $1200: Reese Witherspoon returns to the Southern town of Pigeon Creek & her estranged husband in this romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | FILM FRANCHISES $1000: In addition to starring in Woody Allen films, she played Michael Corleone's wife in the "Godfather" movies (Diane) Keaton |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $800: He kicked butt in the movies "Until Death", "Wake of Death", "6 Bullets", I could go on... Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | ROLE IN COMMON $800: Michael Fassbender is simply magnetic playing the younger version of this actor in the "X-Men" movies Ian McKellen |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | ROLE IN COMMON $1600: In the "Hobbit" movies, this actor is golden in taking over the part of Bilbo from Ian Holm Martin Freeman |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE MOVIES $400: Ben Whishaw voiced this Peruvian bear, lost in London & taken in by the Brown family Paddington |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE MOVIES $800: She played the intrepid Ripley in the "Alien" films Sigourney Weaver |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE MOVIES $1200: To woo Ione Skye in this film, John Cusack memorably holds a boombox over his head, playing "In Your Eyes" Say Anything... |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE MOVIES $2000: Barbra Streisand played New York psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein in this 1991 film The Prince of Tides |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $1600: In "Some Like It Hot", this female sex symbol strums the ukulele Marilyn Monroe |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $2000: Denzel Washington played imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter in this film with a stormy title The Hurricane |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | SPORTS MOVIES $400: Parminder Nagra plays soccer for the Hounslow Harriers in this film Bend It Like Beckham |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | SPORTS MOVIES $1000: Paul Newman coaches the Chiefs, a losing minor league hockey team, in this favorite Slap Shot |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | 2014 ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $1000: Vincent Price in one of the first successful 3-D movies, "House of" this Wax |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | DISNEY MOVIES $200: Ruling the box office in 2011 was the re-release of this film with Simba & Mufasa in 3D The Lion King |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | DISNEY MOVIES $400: Dane Cook is the voice of Dusty Crophopper in this 2013 release Planes |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | DISNEY MOVIES $600: This live-action favorite with versions in 1961 & 1998 was based on a German novel, "Das doppelte Lottchen" The Parent Trap |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | DISNEY MOVIES $1000: Back in the day he starred in "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" & "The Strongest Man in the World" Kurt Russell |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $200: With Davy Jones (the sailor, not the Monkee), the second film in this series is "Dead Man's Chest" Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $1000: "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is the third offering in this animated series Ice Age |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | MOVIES WITH "HEART" $1200: Winning an Oscar for this film, Sally Field said, "I've wanted... to have your respect... I can't deny... that you like me" Places in the Heart |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $200: Billy Crystal so liked the horse he rode in this 1991 comedy that he rode him at the Oscars City Slickers |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $600: Paul Newman's role as a chain gang prisoner in this film was inspired by a safecracker named Donald Garrison Cool Hand Luke |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $800: Emma Stone & Nicolas Cage voice members of a modern Stone Age family in this 2013 animated film The Croods |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $1000: British housewives bare it all, or nearly all, to earn money for charity in this 2003 comedy Calendar Girls |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS $800: Syd Mead won a special jury award for visualizing the future in movies like "Tron", "Aliens" & this 1982 Harrison Ford film Blade Runner |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) One of my favorites is this 1973 movie in which Paul Newman invests a little time to con a large sum of out evil mobster Doyle Lonnegan The Sting |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $600: (I'm Dr. Jane Goodall.) When I really want to laugh, I watch this 1983 film with Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy whose plot has a lot in common with "The Prince and the Pauper" Trading Places |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | CITY-TITLED MOVIES $1600: Jeff Daniels as actor Tom Baxter steps out of a movie screen & into the life of a waitress in this Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | CITY-TITLED MOVIES $2000: Robin Williams played a Russian musician who defects in Bloomingdale's in this comedy Moscow on the Hudson |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $200: The "I'll have what she's having" scene in this romantic comedy took place at NYC's Katz's Deli When Harry Met Sally... |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Quvenzhané Wallis.) In an updated version of a beloved musical, I play this title girl as a foster kid--it's the hard knock life with Miss Hannigan in Harlem Annie |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $600: In the 1933 film, King Kong climbs this skyscraper & bats down a biplane with his bare hand the Empire State Building |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: "Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good" is a line from this 1987 film Wall Street |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1000: This Al Pacino movie was based on a botched bank robbery in Brooklyn in August 1972 Dog Day Afternoon |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | IT'S U.N. ANIMUS $1000: "President Reagan, Rambo only exists in movies", said Daniel Ortega, warning the U.S. against invading this country Nicaragua |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MOVIES $200: Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid & the rest of the gang return in the sequel to this movie with Vikings & dragons How to Train Your Dragon |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MOVIES $400: This villain from "Sleeping Beauty" got her own movie in 2014, with Angelina Jolie in the title role Maleficent |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | MUSIC & MOVIES $400: We'll never listen to "Stuck In The Middle With You" the same way again after seeing this 1992 Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | MUSIC & MOVIES $1200: The note sequence heard here played a huge role in this 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | MUSIC & MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): John Lennon said when this "came out in '65, I was actually crying out for" it Help! |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | AT THE MOVIES 10 YEARS AGO $200: This Michael Moore documentary about the war on terrorism took the top prize at Cannes in 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | AT THE MOVIES 10 YEARS AGO $600: Simon Pegg & Nick Frost starred in this British movie described as a rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | AT THE MOVIES 10 YEARS AGO $800: Cady moves from the jungles of Africa to those of high school & gets in with an A-list clique in this film Mean Girls |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | MALTIN ON MOVIES $1200: (Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) Javier Bardem sports blond hair & a lunatic grin as one of the more notable Bond villains of recent memory in this 007 film Skyfall |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | MALTIN ON MOVIES $1600: (Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) Though it doesn't break any new ground, this 2012 film provides lively entertainment in the hitherto unexplored world of collegiate a cappella choirs Pitch Perfect |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | MALTIN ON MOVIES $2000: (Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) Wes Anderson's filmmaking is inspired in this flamboyant movie mostly set between World Wars in Eastern Europe; I called it the first great movie of 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | MOVIE SOUND FX $2000: Named for a character, the cry known as this scream has been used in countless movies the Wilhelm |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | ARMS AND THE MAN $1200: If you want to get the arms of a god, follow the workout that this actor did to play Thor in the Marvel movies Chris Hemsworth |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | ALL 5 VOWELS IN ONE WORD $400: It's a conversation between 2 people, or the talky part of movies dialogue |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | MOVIES $1200: Alex Murphy is the Detroit police officer who becomes this title crime fighter after being rebuilt by Omnicorp in 2028 RoboCop |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $400: In 1933's "Flying Down to Rio", Fred Astaire teamed with this lady for the first of 10 films Ginger Rogers |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $800: In this 1991 film, Robin Williams was Peter Banning, who did grow up, became a lawyer & married Wendy's granddaughter Hook |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $2000: In this 1966 Billy Wilder film, Walter Matthau persuades Jack Lemmon to exaggerate his injuries for the insurance money The Fortune Cookie |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | NOEL, COWARD $600: Noel wouldn't open his tool box after seeing one of the movies in this horror series featuring Tobin Bell Saw |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | TWO OF A KIND $2000: In the 1930s Hollywood censor Joseph Breen suggested that movies use these items of furniture in marital scenes twin beds |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | MOVIES BY ONE-WORD QUOTE $1000: 1948:
"Badges?" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | SPIDER-MAN $400: Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen is played in the "Amazing Spider-Man" movies by this young actress Emma Stone |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $200: The Orca is Quint's not-big-enough boat in this '70s blockbuster Jaws |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $400: The pirates in this 2013 film based on true events are not the jolly yo-ho-ho kind Captain Phillips |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $600: In this 1972 disaster epic, an ocean liner capsizes at sea & the all-star cast struggles to survive The Poseidon Adventure |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SEA WORTHY MOVIES $1000: Denzel Washington is second in command to Gene Hackman aboard the nuclear submarine Alabama in this thriller Crimson Tide |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | WELCOME TO NASHVILLE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a statue in Nashville, Tennessee.) Developing his shooting skills as a boy in rural Tennessee, this sergeant & World War I hero, honored by the Nashville statue seen here, was later played by Gary Cooper in the movies (Alvin) York |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | ROCK & ROLE $800: Cinna in the "Hunger Games" movies Lenny Kravitz |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $400: (I'm Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.) My grandfather Herman Mankiewicz shared screenplay credit with Orson Wells on this film, often called the greatest movie of all time Citizen Kane |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $800: Ava Gardner was rarely lovelier than in Joseph L. Mankiewicz' "The Barefoot" this lady Contessa |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $1600: Joseph L. Mankiewicz' last film was this 1972 Olivier-Caine battle of wits, remade in 2007 with Caine & Jude Law battling Sleuth |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ALL AROUND AMERICA $1600: Seen in many sci-fi movies, the VLA, this system, listens in from Socorro, New Mexico the Very Large Array |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | MOM & DAD'S DATE MOVIES $800: Burns & Albright are the surnames of Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan as the title pair in this film When Harry Met Sally... |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | MOM & DAD'S DATE MOVIES $1200: M&D enjoyed the Kim Cattrall/Andrew McCarthy flick about one of these that comes to life in a department store a mannequin |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | MOM & DAD'S DATE MOVIES $1600: In "Splash", this actor falls for the mermaid who saved his life (Tom) Hanks |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | JOHN HUGHES MOVIES $600: This film takes place entirely on a single Saturday in a high school The Breakfast Club |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MOVIES & POLITICS $400: Orson Welles runs for governor of New York in this classic; the run doesn't end well Citizen Kane |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MOVIES & POLITICS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.) Films like "The Three Caballeros" resulted from a goodwill tour that Walt & some artists took in the early 1940s, at FDR's request, to combat the spread of this ideology of Mussolini & Franco fascism |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MOVIES & POLITICS $800: Will Ferrell's opponent in "The Campaign" was played by this usually bearded comedian Zach Galifianakis |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MOVIES & POLITICS $1000: Kevin Kline comes to the White House & solves unemployment in this 1993 film Dave |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: Tom Hanks & his soldiers storm the beaches of Normandy & rescue the guy who played Oliver in "Love Story" Saving Private Ryan O'Neal |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: The Edsels' 1961 doo-wop hit is a song by Dorothy & the Munchkins celebrating a notable demise in "The Wizard of Oz" Rama Lama Ding-Dong! The Wicked Witch Is Dead |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES $400: This movie jumped the gun a bit in 1996, actually opening on July 3rd Independence Day |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES $800: Giant creatures called kaiju rise from the title ocean & start a war on humanity in this 2013 film Pacific Rim |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES $1200: The title of this 2013 Matt Damon film is a paradise for heroes in Greek mythology Elysium |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES $2000: 1962's "La Jetee", about a man sent back in time to avert apocalypse, was remade as this numeric Bruce Willis film 12 Monkeys |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | SINGERS IN TOON $1200: This rapper/actress/talk show host is the voice of Ellie the woolly mammoth in the "Ice Age" movies Queen Latifah |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) The longer I am in television, the more I like this feature film comedy with Will Ferrell as a San Diego newsman, & I'm really looking forward to the sequel Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in viewers' minds when Stanley Kubrick played the situation for laughs in this 1964 classic Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1000: (Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) He directed, co-wrote & starred in "Lost in America", which eviscerated the materialistic culture of the 1980s Albert Brooks |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | COLORFUL MOVIES $600: Jake & Elwood are forced to abandon "Gimme Some Lovin" in favor of "Rawhide" in this comedy The Blues Brothers |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $400: Morgan Freeman played Lucius Fox, a valued employee of Wayne Enterprises, in this 2008 film The Dark Knight |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $1200: Movie in which Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain had the memorable line "The dingo's got my baby!" A Cry in the Dark |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $1600: "The Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty co-wrote this movie that featured Inspector Clouseau A Shot in the Dark |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | ANIMATED MOVIES BY CHARACTER $400: 1967:
Shere Kahn, a tiger The Jungle Book |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | NEWSPAPERS $800: In April 2013 the Chicago Sun-Times announced the death of this man who reviewed movies for the paper for 46 years (Roger) Ebert |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MOVIES WITH STRUCTURE $800: 2012's "____ in the Woods" Cabin |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1600: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut playing tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in "Lucky Guy", written by this late woman, a close friend of Hanks; unlike some of the movies she wrote & directed, her play feels only newsprint deep Nora Ephron |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | THE THESPIAN DIRECTS $2000: You know who this director of "Iron Man" 1 & 2 likes to play Happy Hogan in those movies? This director Jon Favreau |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | MOVIES $400: This cat from the "Shrek" movies got his own film Puss In Boots |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | HERE'S JOHNNY! $600: In the 1930s & '40s he was quite the swinger, starring in 12 Tarzan movies Johnny Weissmuller |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | FEEL NOT-SO-GOOD MOVIES $800: 5 teens are sentenced to one day in a confined setting; Dad issues arise; buns are said to have been taped together The Breakfast Club |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $200: The Black Pearl in the subtitle of this film had been Jack Sparrow's ship, lost in a mutiny Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $400: He had some trouble hiding his Scottish accent as a Soviet sub commander in "The Hunt for Red October" Sean Connery |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $800: This Spielberg film recounts how in 1839 captive men on a slave ship freed themselves & killed most of the crew Amistad |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | MIDDLE "C" $400: In the movies it was Tarzan's garment of choice a loincloth |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $600: Norman Bates in the first 4 "Psycho" movies Anthony Perkins |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL $800: In old movies ladies undressed by standing behind the privacy type of this & draping their undies over it a screen |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | ON BROADWAY 1913 $1600: Later to help establish sound in the movies, he had them rolling in the aisles starring in "The Honeymoon Express" in 1913 Al Jolson |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $800: Storm in the "X-Men" movies, she reigned as the cover girl in 2003 Halle Berry |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | MOVIE & TV DOGS $1600: Skippy, a wire-haired fox terrier, played this dog in the "Thin Man" movies Asta |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | COMPASS POINT MOVIES $800: A giant mechanical spider plays a key role in this 1999 Will Smith movie set in the 19th Century Wild Wild West |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | COMPASS POINT MOVIES $1600: Nick Nolte has the best hands in football but a "bad attitude" in this satire on the business of football North Dallas Forty |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | OF THE NINTH $1000: Entering legend & the movies, the ninth of these units is said to have disappeared in Britain in 117 A.D. the Ninth Legion |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | MOVIES: THE LINE OF THE END $1200: "My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over $8,000 in one night. The time of your life, huh, kid?" Risky Business |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | MOVIES: THE LINE OF THE END $4,000 (Daily Double): "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope" The Shawshank Redemption |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | COLORFUL MOVIES $400: Set in the 1930s:
"The ____ Rose of Cairo" Purple |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | COLORFUL MOVIES $600: Starring Gregory Peck:
"The Man in the ____ Flannel Suit" Gray |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In Men In Black III, now on BluRay, Will Smith's partner, a young Agent K, is played by this actor Josh Brolin |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Aaron Cross, not our old pal Jason, is the hero of this film, the fourth in a spy franchise The Bourne Legacy |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: In "Hope Springs" Tommy Lee Jones & this actress try to reignite their marital sparks Meryl Streep |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: The '70s brought us "Beneath" this & "Escape From" it; in 2011 we got The "Rise Of" it The Planet Of The Apes |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Cheech Marin, and...) You can't help feeling the exuberance of the Beatles in this, their first movie A Hard Day's Night |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $600: (Hi. I'm Isaac Mizrahi.) Like a lot of others, I loved the story of a paraplegic ex-Marine finding a new life on the distant planet of Pandora in this 2009 film Avatar |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1000: (Hi. I'm Jane Kaczmarek.) I sometimes need a hankie watching the love of Warren Beatty & Natalie Wood hit every kind of obstacle in this 1961 film Splendor in the Grass |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $400: Matt Damon brings an M.I.T. prof to his knees by burning a previously unsolved math proof in this film Good Will Hunting |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $800: O Captain!
My Captain!
He played English teacher John Keating in "Dead Poets Society" Robin Williams |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $1200: "Bad Teacher" Cameron Diaz set her sights on a colleague played by this singer/actor/anything else he wants to do Justin Timberlake |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $1600: Farewell! Robert Donat won an Oscar for playing a shy British teacher in this film Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $2000: Dude! Ray Walston totally lent a (Mr.) Hand to this 1982 comedy; Mr. Hand, not a fan of classroom pizza delivery Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | TOUCHÉ $800: Swordplay in movies like 1926's "The Black Pirate" earned this "senior" actor the title "king of the swashbucklers" Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | CINEMANIA $400: Many low-budget American movies of the 1940s were made in this genre, French for "black film" (film) noir |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $200: Melissa McCarthy was a scene-stealer as one of the bridesmaids in this raunchy chick flick Bridesmaids |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | QUOTES OF THE 2010s $600: In 2012 he asked, "Why would I make any more ("Star Wars" movies) when everybody... says what a terrible person you are?" (George) Lucas |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $1000: The third film in the "Shrek" series has this 3-word title Shrek the Third |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | THE RISE OF THE MOVIES $200: A teenage cannibal-in-the-making is featured in the prequel called him "Rising" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | THE RISE OF THE MOVIES $600: The chimps only get as far as crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in this 2011 film, so maybe the title implies a sequel is in store Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | THE RISE OF THE MOVIES $800: The third movie in this series was subtitled "Rise of the Machines" Terminator |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | OLD FRIENDS, NEWER GIGS $1200: The voice of Melman the Giraffe in the "Madagascar" movies David Schwimmer |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | C.C: ME $400: Within a year of picking up a cane & putting on a derby hat in 1914, he was the biggest star in movies Charlie Chaplin |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1200: (Hi, I'm Joshua Malina.) I don't think I'd like to live in the world that Jonathan Pryce inhabits in this fantasy movie from Terry Gilliam, but I sure enjoy watching it Brazil |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | MAKES SENSE--MOVIES EDITION $200: In the "Toy Story" franchise, the Tyrannosaurus has this name Rex |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | MAKES SENSE--MOVIES EDITION $400: Many residents of Rock Ridge in "Blazing Saddles" have the surname Johnson, & this character owns an ice cream shop Howard Johnson |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | MAKES SENSE--MOVIES EDITION $600: In the movie "Cars", the patriotic Sarge is a type of this vehicle a Jeep |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | MAKES SENSE--MOVIES EDITION $1000: In "Hellboy II" the troll market can be found underneath this alliterative NYC structure the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ANCIENT MOVIES $400: In "Year One" David Cross plays this character wanted for the murder of his brother Cain |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ANCIENT MOVIES $1600: The Rock plays an Akkadian assassin hell-bent on stopping the evil tyrant Memnon in this prequel to "The Mummy" The Scorpion King |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ANCIENT MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Ye gods! Sea monsters, Medusa & Hades are but a few of the villains in this 2010 remake of a 1981 film Clash of the Titans |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: A 1997 movie with Tommy Lee Jones policing aliens puts on a tutu to jete into a Natalie Portman film Men in Black Swan |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Mia Farrow taking a pregnant pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy Rosemary's Baby Mama |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: nytimes.com links to reviews of the top 10 DVD rentals: this Brad Pitt film about "baseball in the digital age" hit No. 1 in 2012 Moneyball |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1600: Stephen Holden noted this 17th c. title trio's return to the big screen in 2011 with "All for one, and then maybe a sequel" the Three Musketeers |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $2000: Manohla Dargis titled the review of this 2011 drama "Finding the Humanity in the F.B.I.'s Feared Enforcer" J. Edgar |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THE MOVIES $200: Larry, Curly, Moe & Snooki? In a 2012 film, this title comedy trio ends up starring in a reality TV show The Three Stooges |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THE MOVIES $400: To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the title ship sinking, this 1997 film was re-released in 3D in April 2012 Titanic |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THE MOVIES $600: He played Aragorn in the "Lord of the Rings" movies Viggo Mortensen |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THE MOVIES $800: Sam Worthington returns as Perseus, who must save Zeus from the underworld, in this 2012 adventure Wrath of the Titans |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $400: Fozzie's casino-ing in Reno & Animal's Animal-ing in Santa Barbara in this 2011 movie The Muppets |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $1200: This animated title robot goes about collecting trash in the year 2700 & is a sucker for musicals WALL-E |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $1600: In 2012 the artist formerly known as The Rock was rolling in this "2: The Mysterious Island" Journey |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | DUNN THAT $800: In the "Transformers" movies, Kevin Dunn as Ron Witwicky plays dad to this actor Shia LaBeouf |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE MOST POPULAR NETFLIX MOVIES $200: Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy in this feel-good film that became the most popular to get from Netflix The Blind Side |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE MOST POPULAR NETFLIX MOVIES $600: The title of this 2010 film refers to planting an idea in someone's subconscious during the dream state Inception |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE MOST POPULAR NETFLIX MOVIES $1000: Jeff Bridges played the delightfully evil Obadiah Stane in this superhero film Iron Man |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WILL SMITH MOVIES $800: 2005:
"Lean in, place your hand on the small of her back, say it in her ear like a secret. But watch your hand placement" Hitch |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | GOOD NEWS $400: For those wanting privacy to watch movies, the first of this type of theater opened in New Jersey on June 6, 1933 a drive-in theater |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | RECENT MOVIES $400: Christoph Waltz played Cardinal Richelieu in the 2011 adaptation of this swashbuckling novel The Three Musketeers |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy returned to put on a show in this 2011 favorite The Muppets |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: Kenny Wormald stepped into Kevin Bacon's dancing shoes in the remake of this 1984 film Footloose |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: The 2011 entry in this family espionage film franchise was released in 4D--the added dimension being smell Spy Kids |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1600: This film critic for the New Yorker won in 1974 for "Deeper into Movies", a collection of her reviews (Pauline) Kael |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | U.S. COMMUNITIES $1000: Movies like "The Departed" are set in this colorful area of Boston with a 1-word directional nickname Southie |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | MEMPHIS $400: One of the lions who roared at the beginning of this studio's movies lived at the Memphis Zoo until his death in 1944 MGM |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | I GOT 3 LETTERS! $2000: ACE, helping shape movies in the society of American Cinema these Editors |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | CITY FOLK $400: He plays Will Turner in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies Orlando Bloom |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | MOVIES IN REWIND? $200: 1954:
Title creature puts Tokyo back together, then goes to sleep in the depths of the ocean Godzilla |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | MOVIES IN REWIND? $400: 2009: Big guy gets signed by Baltimore Ravens, moves in with white family, things go downhill for him The Blind Side |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | MOVIES IN REWIND? $600: 2008:
Brad Pitt ages normally in New Orleans The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | MOVIES IN REWIND? $800: 1995:
While in Sin City, Nicolas Cage seems to set a record for spitting vodka back into the bottle Leaving Las Vegas |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | RHYMING MOVIES $400: Mike Myers took on the feline role in this adaptation of a Dr. Seuss classic The Cat in the Hat |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | "GIRL" MOVIES $400: Rooney Mara sports the title ink in this film based on a Swedish book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | "GIRL" MOVIES $800: In this film Emile Hirsch falls in love with new neighbor Elisha Cuthbert, a former porn star The Girl Next Door |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | "GIRL" MOVIES $1200: Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson play sisters vying for Henry VIII's affection in this 2008 film The Other Boleyn Girl |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | "GIRL" MOVIES $1600: In this 2002 film, Jennifer Aniston is a discount store clerk having an affair with Jake Gyllenhaal The Good Girl |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | 2 FOR THE SHOW $2000: Tommy Lee Jones & Aaron Eckhart played this duplicitous character in Batman movies Two-Face |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SUPERHERO MOVIES $200: Robert Downey Jr. taps Stan Lee on the arm & says, "You look great, Hef" in this movie, first in the series Iron Man |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SUPERHERO MOVIES $600: In 2008 this character's disappearing pencil trick was a memorable moment in "The Dark Knight" the Joker |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SUPERHERO MOVIES $800: "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight" begins the oath of this hero; beware his power! the Green Lantern |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | RECENT MOVIES $200: "Jeopardy!" champ Thomas Horn plays the kid in "Extremely Loud and" this Incredibly Close |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 2011 this director & star of the "Madea" movies topped Forbes' list of the highest-paid men in entertainment Tyler Perry |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | "MAN"LY MOVIES $400: In 2010 Robert Downey Jr. reprised his role as the heavy metal hero in this movie's sequel Iron Man |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | "MAN"LY MOVIES $800: Peter O'Toole sang & tilted at windmills in the movie adaptation of this musical Man of La Mancha |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | "MAN"LY MOVIES $2000: It's Greek to me, but in 1971 Richard Matheson's story "I Am Legend" was filmed under this title The Omega Man |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Gene Kelly croons & dances while taking his brother Dustin Hoffman on a road trip Singin' in the Rain Man |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: John Belushi & the boys set up their fraternity in the museum where crazy Vincent Price turns people into figurines Animal House of Wax |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $200: This animated feline is "the most daring swashbuckler, ladies man and all-around coolest cat" Puss in Boots |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $1000: This Bogart character exclaims in court, "Ah, but the strawberries! That's... that's where I had them" Captain Queeg |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | CARTOON VOICES $1000: In the "Ice Age" movies, Manny the woolly mammoth is voiced by this sitcom star Ray Romano |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $1600: Amanda Seyfried donned the title cloak in this 2011 film Red Riding Hood |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $3,150 (Daily Double): In this animated film Fred captains the title transport to Pepperland Yellow Submarine |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | 2011 MOVIES $200: In "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" the name of the fictional drug ALZ112 indicates it's a possible treatment for this Alzheimer's |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | 2011 MOVIES $400: Emma Stone starred as aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set drama based on a novel The Help |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | 2011 MOVIES $600: He was busy in 2011, with parts in "Paul", "Horrible Bosses" & "The Change-Up" (Jason) Bateman |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | 2011 MOVIES $1000: Kate Bosworth & James Marsden star in the 2011 remake of this Sam Peckinpah film Straw Dogs |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | ACTING THE PART $600: In the "National Treasure" movies, he plays archaeologist extraordinaire Ben Franklin Gates Nicolas Cage |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $1600: Ho! ho! no! Billy Bob Thornton is anything but in the spirit as a foul-mouthed con man in this 2003 flick Bad Santa |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | MOVIES ON THE MAP $1200: Steve Buscemi is part of a botched kidnapping; you might say it had a chipper ending Fargo |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | LUCY $1000: Lucy Pevensie is a character in the books & movies set in this fictional land Narnia |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | SIDEKICKS $800: In books & the movies, Harry Potter has 2 sidekicks: Hermione Granger & this redheaded boy Ron Weasley |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi. I'm Aisha Tyler.) Given the choice between the red pill or blue pill in this 1999 movie, like Neo, I'm taking the red one because I've got to know The Matrix |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $2000: (Hi. I'm CCH Pounder.) A favorite film of mine is this 1958 musical that featured the song "Bali Ha'i"; it was also the 1st film I ever saw in color South Pacific |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $800: "Mr. Rains is properly slippery and crafty as a minion of Vichy perfidy" in this drama Casablanca |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $1000: This pic shows "the social changes taking place in the south between 1948 and 1973, and (a) remarkable 25-year friendship Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | LESLIE NIELSEN MOVIES $800: Offered one of these in "The Naked Gun", Leslie is asked, "Cuban?" His response: "Dutch Irish. My father was from Wales." a cigar |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | LESLIE NIELSEN MOVIES $1600: Leslie was captain of the ship in this 1972 disaster movie--no wonder things turned upside down! The Poseidon Adventure |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | LESLIE NIELSEN MOVIES $2000: Leslie starred opposite Anne Francis & Robby the Robot in this 1956 sci-fi classic based on "The Tempest" Forbidden Planet |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | CELEBS $600: Before the "Twilight" movies, he was sharkboy in "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl" Taylor Lautner |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | MOVIES BY INITIALS $1200: 2010, set in the animated land of Far, Far Away: "S.F.A." Shrek Forever After |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | SODERBERGH MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $400: "Mr. Guevara" Che |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | SODERBERGH MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: "The accumulation of vehicles along highway routes" Traffic |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | SODERBERGH MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $1600: "One well-behaved Bavarian" The Good German |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES $400: Rockatansky is the last name of the title character of this 1979 film set in a dystopian future Australia Mad Max |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES $800: Though this sheep-herding pig was created in a book by an Englishman, the movie was set in Australia Babe |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AUSTRALIAN MOVIES $1600: In this movie that showed a new side of Aussie life, an old bus with a royal name takes 3 entertainers into the Outback Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES $400: In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing Billy Elliot |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES $1200: A young cop works with rogue detective Denzel Washington on the narcotics beat in Los Angeles Training Day |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $800: They changed a bit in illustrations & movies, but the library has this author's son's original animals, including a bear A.A. Milne |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: In 1991 Vincent Canby said this character, "grandly played by Mr. Hopkins, is a most seductive psychopath" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CELEBRITY FACTS $600: (Hi. I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) Thanks to my appearances in movies like "The Woodsman" & "Murder in the First", I have a 1, the best score possible, in this popular party game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | AUTHORS IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: Perhaps writing the movies "The Little Foxes" & "The Dark Angel" wasn't so "heavenly" for this female playwright (Lillian) Hellman |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | THE MOGULS & THE MOVIES $400: Starting in 1915, Carl Laemmle built this "city" named for his studio, complete with its own mayor & fire department Universal City |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | THE MOGULS & THE MOVIES $1200: The moguls proved their patriotism with movies like this one, in which Bogey battles Germans in the title desert Sahara |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | THE MOGULS & THE MOVIES $1600: Under siege by TV, Darryl F, Zanuck publicly declared every picture he made would now be in this widescreen process CinemaScope |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | COMPOSERS GO TO THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Gyorgi Ligeti's work "Lux Aeterna" premiered in 1966 & was used in this sci-fi film just 2 years later 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | ACTING SEQUELITIS $200: Break out the hat & the whip--Harrison Ford has played this character in 4 movies Indiana Jones |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $400: Reach for the sky! In 2010 Tom Hanks returned for a third time to provide the voice of this sheriff Woody |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $800: No jokering around! Gary Oldman's James Gordon got a promotion to commissioner in this 2008 film The Dark Knight |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $1600: Mais oui! In 2006 Monsieur Steve Martin played zis--I mean, this--bumbling detective Inspector Clouseau |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $2000: He did a "Hitch" as Del Spooner, a robot-hating Chicago cop investigating a murder in 2004's "I, Robot" (Will) Smith |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | PERIOD MOVIES $1200: "Grease" came out in 1978; that's already prehistoric to you, but it's set even longer ago, in this decade the 1950s |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | 2010 MOVIES $400: This third entry in the "Twilight" saga occluded screens in June Eclipse |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | 2010 MOVIES $600: John Malkovich trains the Triple Crown-winning title star in this animal biopic Secretariat |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | 2010 MOVIES $1000: Noah Ringer stars as the avatar (no, not that avatar) in this live-action adaptation of an animated TV series The Last Airbender |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $2000: (Doug Savant gives the clue.) If my voice sounds smokier than usual, I've been listening to the music of this troubadour, also an actor in movies like "Down by Law" Tom Waits |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $400: "Mr. Saturday Night" in the movies, in 2004 he starred in a one-man show called "700 Sundays" Billy Crystal |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | WATCH "ING" THE MOVIES $400: In this 1983 film Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd switch lives Trading Places |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | WATCH "ING" THE MOVIES $800: Nicolas Cage gambles he can drink himself to death before his money runs out in this movie Leaving Las Vegas |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | WATCH "ING" THE MOVIES $1200: In this 1988 movie Melanie Griffith schemes to take over when her boss takes a leave of absence Working Girl |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | WATCH "ING" THE MOVIES $1600: Drama in which Diane Keaton cruises nightclubs seeking one-night stands & more Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | WATCH "ING" THE MOVIES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue in Bethel, New York.) This 2009 movie is the true story of Elliot Tiber who helped launch a legendary rock concert, but he was only trying to get business for his family's hotel here in Bethel, New York Taking Woodstock |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | A DAY AT THE HORSE RACES $200: This Golden Palamino, "the smartest horse in the movies", noses ahead; Roy Rogers aboard Trigger |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | RVs $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN.) One of the first times a movie star received a fancy trailer as a perk was in 1931; Paramount gave a Chevy house car to this sexy star as she left the stage to make movies like "She Done Him Wrong" Mae West |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | YOU JANE $400: ...who played a Conehead on "Saturday Night Live" & in the movies Jane Curtin |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Christopher Meloni gives the clue) You feel like you're in the ring with Jake LaMotta in this classic collaboration of Scorsese & De Niro Raging Bull |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1200: (Wolf Blitzer gives the clue) "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" is some of the wisdom dispensed by the hooky player in this film Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1600: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives the clue) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough private eye who sends his love Mary Astor up the river in this 1941 film The Maltese Falcon |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $2000: (Dana Delany gives the clue.) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film In a Lonely Place |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | CARTOON VOICES $800: Fiona in the "Shrek" movies Cameron Diaz |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Simba climbs to the top of the Empire State Building with Fay Wray in his arms The Lion King Kong |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: A schoolteacher travels to Siam & finds herself the only living person left in New York City The King and I Am Legend |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Fanny Brice takes over for Diana Ross in a biopic Funny Lady Sings the Blues |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | RECENT MOVIES $200: He's the title hero seen here in a 2010 sequel doing exactly what you would do if you had the opportunity Iron Man |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Can we talk? A documentary covered a year in the life of this red carpet comedienne: "A Piece of Work" Joan Rivers |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: As Aldous Snow, Russell Brand sang & taught us all in this 2010 pic: "When the world slips you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall" Get Him to the Greek |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | MOVIES AT SEA $800: A captain & his inexperienced crew patrol the Atlantic in a sub in this 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film with a German title Das Boot |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | MOVIES AT SEA $2000: Jack Lemmon was Ensign Pulver, in charge of laundry & morale aboard a ship called The Reluctant, in this 1955 film Mister Roberts |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIES $200: 2009:
Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing executive with lots of frequent flyer miles Up in the Air |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | THE MOVIES $400: Maggie Gyllenhaal took over the role of Rachel Dawes in this 2008 Batman film The Dark Knight |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | THE MOVIES $800: Shades of apartheid: an alien race is forced to live in a slum in Johannesburg in this 2009 flick District 9 |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | THE MOVIES $1000: Stellan Skarsgard played the commander of the Swiss Guard in this 2009 religious action thriller Angels & Demons |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BANDS IN MOVIES $400: "Shout" if you know Otis Day & The Knights performed in this 1978 film Animal House |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BANDS IN MOVIES $800: Morris Day & The Time stole the show in this 1984 production Purple Rain |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BANDS IN MOVIES $1200: Los Lobos had a No. 1 hit with this song, also the title of a 1987 movie biography La Bamba |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BANDS IN MOVIES $1600: In 1968 The Monkees could be found in this film, also a body part Head |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BANDS IN MOVIES $2000: Bauhaus appropriately sang "Bela Lugosi's Dead" in this sanguine film starring Bowie & Deneuve The Hunger |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s" Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: The Times liked the "smoky, greasy, steam-punk rendering of Victorian London" in this 2009 Robert Downey Jr. caper Sherlock Holmes |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1200: The Times said that this director tackled "Alice In Wonderland" with "his customary mix of torpor and frenzy" Tim Burton |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1600: "Looking every inch a heavy-metal god, with a tangle of beard and power shoulder pads", Liam Neeson is Zeus in this 2010 flick Clash of the Titans |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BAD GUYS $1200: This character is the crazy, relentless killer in the "Halloween" movies Michael Myers |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS $200: This Spielberg film featured a longer ending in which Richard Dreyfuss explores the mother ship Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS $800: Dante got shot while minding the convenience store in the original end of this Kevin Smith comedy Clerks |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | MOVIES' ALTERNATE ENDINGS $1000: The original script for this Jamie Foxx film set in Saudi Arabia had his FBI team getting blown up The Kingdom |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | THE WIZARD $400: A wizard named Akiro is one of this title barbarian's companions in 2 1980s movies Conan |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | BOXING MOVIES $400: Ed Asner made his big screen debut in "Kid Galahad", a 1962 film with this rock star in the title role Elvis Presley |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | BOXING MOVIES $800: Ex-heavyweight champ Max Baer appeared in 1956's "The Harder They Fall", the last film of this actor, sweetheart Humphrey Bogart |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | BOXING MOVIES $1600: Cassius Clay, playing himself, ends the career of Mountain Rivera in this 1962 "Requiem" Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $1000: "An Unmarried Woman" in the movies, she played Donald Sutherland's wife Letitia on "Dirty Sexy Money" Jill Clayburgh |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ART HOUSE MOVIES $400: The brother of this artist is torn between art & business in the Robert Altman film "Vincent & Theo" Vincent van Gogh |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ART HOUSE MOVIES $800: Charles Laughton as this painter has to deal with men upset at being shown in shadow in the "Night Watch" Rembrandt |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ART HOUSE MOVIES $1600: Scarlett Johansson flashes some jewelry in this film in which she plays muse to Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | "BLUE" MOVIES $1200: Diana Ross belts out "God Bless The Child" in this musical biography Lady Sings the Blues |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | JULIE & JULIA $400: In the Shrek movies, she's the voice of Queen Lillian; in "The Princess Diaries", she's Queen Clarisse Renaldi Julie Andrews |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $200: This huge beast's fall from the top of the Empire State Building is an iconic moment in movies King Kong |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | GIRLS WHO KICK BUTT $1000: Don't mess with Halle Berry as this character in the "X-Men" movies--she'll blow you away Storm |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $800: In this 1955 film Marilyn Monroe says, "When it's hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the icebox!" The Seven Year Itch |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $1200: In this 1984 film Molly Ringwald's family is preoccupied with her sister's wedding & forgets Molly's birthday Sixteen Candles |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | OTHER PLANETS IN MOVIES $400: "Superman: The Movie":
It goes boom early Krypton |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | OTHER PLANETS IN MOVIES $800: "Star Wars":
It was Luke's home in the first film Tatooine |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | OTHER PLANETS IN MOVIES $1200: "Transformers":
The title robots' home Cybertron |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | OTHER PLANETS IN MOVIES $2000: "Forbidden Planet":
___ 4 (just like the first PC) Altair |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | 2008 BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES $1200: Mr. Bond could take a little comfort in the fact that this film about his quest for vengeance took in $570 million Quantum of Solace |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In a 2009 comedy this Tyler Perry title character "Goes to Jail" Madea |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Uh-huh, Jim Carrey is challenged to give an affirmative reply for a year in this release Yes Man |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: She plays a romantically challenged TV producer in 2009's "The Ugly Truth" Katherine Heigl |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: Will Smith has weight as an IRS agent changing the lives of others in this film Seven Pounds |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: Jules Verne could not have imagined Brendan Fraser in 3-D in this action film Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Dwayne Johnson plays a cabbie protecting 2 kids in "Race to" this title place Witch Mountain |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | AT THE MOVIES $800: The half-ape, half-fish Missing Link is one of the creatures that fight space invaders in this 2009 animated film Monsters vs. Aliens |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Title occupation of Paul Blart, who foils crooks at a shopping center in a 2009 film a mall cop |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: The title girl finds an alternate reality through a secret door in this 2009 film Coraline |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | "KER" $200: He sang "The Rainbow Connection" in the movies Kermit the Frog |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | ROYAL MOVIES? $400: Lindsay Lohan moves from the city to the suburbs in "Confessions of a Teenage" this Drama Queen |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | ROYAL MOVIES? $600: Jeff Bridges & Robin Williams search for the Holy Grail in this 1991 film The Fisher King |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | ROYAL MOVIES? $800: James McAvoy played a doctor in 1970s Uganda in this fact-based drama The Last King of Scotland |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | ONE-WORD MOVIES $400: Nicole Kidman & Hugh Jackman starred in this epic about the land Down Under Australia |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | ONE-WORD MOVIES $1200: John Travolta voiced the title canine in this 2008 family film Bolt |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | ONE-WORD MOVIES $2000: Jewish brothers Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber & Jamie Bell survive in the forest in this WWII-set drama Defiance |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | MMM...DONUTS $600: A familiar sight in TV & movies is the giant donut at Manchester & La Cienega boulevards, blocks from this international airport LAX |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | MOVIES & TV $800: Tim Robbins played a public TV newsman in "Anchorman: The Legend of" him Ron Burgundy |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: He stood 5'3" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006 (Truman) Capote |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MOVIES IN MINIVANS $200: The minivan in front of me is playing this 2001 movie where Fiona turns into a somewhat attractive ogre Shrek |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MOVIES IN MINIVANS $400: Hey, Minivan! Turn up this 2006 feature--I want to hear Larry the Cable Guy as a tow truck Cars |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MOVIES IN MINIVANS $600: Through the tinted glass, I see Sulley & Mike in Monstropolis; it's this 2001 Pixar flick Monsters, Inc. |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MOVIES IN MINIVANS $800: Aw man, I love this movie's ending where the family fights Syndrome's robot; I'm gonna miss my exit The Incredibles |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | MOVIES IN MINIVANS $1000: I'd love to watch more of this 1998 flick with Flik the Ant, but I'm in the guy's blind spot A Bug's Life |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MOVIES ANY TIME $200: Glenn Ford played Ben Wade in this 1957 film; 50 years later Russell Crowe took the part 3:10 to Yuma |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MOVIES ANY TIME $600: Attila the Hun & Sacajawea are characters in this 2006 Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MOVIES ANY TIME $1000: The mall seems a little deader than usual for Ving Rhames & others as they contest with zombies in this 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE $800: (Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) For this 1993 film, Brad Pitt practiced fly-fishing on the roof of his Hollywood apartment building, sometimes catching the hook in his head A River Runs Through It |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE $1200: (Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) During the filming of "My Left Foot", this actor spent the entire time in a wheelchair & learned how to paint with his left foot Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | TCM WITH ROBERT OSBORNE $1600: (Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne gives the clue.) Judy Holliday, reprising her stage role as ex-chorus girl Billie Dawn, beat Bette Davis & Gloria Swanson for Best Actress in this 1950 George Cukor film Born Yesterday |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | THE 1930s $2,000 (Daily Double): As a tie-in with the new president's programs, in 1933 Warner Bros. movies were advertised as this "in entertainment" a New Deal in entertainment |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $2000: "Katyn", from this country, is the story of the killing of its army officers by Soviet soldiers in 1940 Poland |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | GAME SHOWS IN TV & MOVIES $200: In a '62 episode of this toon, Barney won on "The Prize Is Priced" (Be sure to have your dinosaur spayed or neutered) The Flintstones |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | GAME SHOWS IN TV & MOVIES $600: A 1974 episode found this "Happy Days" lad refusing to cheat on the rigged game show "Big Money"; such a nice boy Richie Cunningham |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | GAME SHOWS IN TV & MOVIES $800: The game show "Pig in a Poke" sends the Griswolds on an international adventure in this 1985 sequel National Lampoon's European Vacation |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | GAME SHOWS IN TV & MOVIES $1000: On TV in '73 this youngest Brady froze on "Question The Kids" (The answer was Baton Rouge! Baton Rouge!) Cindy Brady |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $400: George McFly,
Dr. Emmett Brown,
Biff Tannen Back to the Future |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $1200: Ellis "Red" Redding,
Andy Dufresne,
Warden Norton The Shawshank Redemption |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $1600: Dean Keaton,
Fred Fenster,
Roger "Verbal" Kint The Usual Suspects |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | CHARACTERS IN MOVIES $2000: Jules Winnfield,
Butch Coolidge,
"The Wolf" Pulp Fiction |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | SPECIAL OPS MOVIES $400: The hijackers in "The Delta Force" didn't reckon with this man as Major McCoy--Mike Huckabee could have warned them Chuck Norris |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | SPECIAL OPS MOVIES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) The SEALs remain all male, despite this movie in which Demi Moore makes it through SEAL training & a Libyan rescue mission G.I. Jane |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | SPECIAL OPS MOVIES $1600: In "Tears of the Sun", special ops tough guy Bruce Willis tries to help a physician from this organization Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | SPECIAL OPS MOVIES $2000: In "Navy SEALs" Charlie Sheen & Michael Biehn try to get these SAMs back from the wrong hands Stingers |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS (SORT OF) $400: Oscar's Best Picture of 1991:
"Baaaaaaaa...
Baaaaaaaa...
Baa--"
(abrupt stop) The Silence of the Lambs |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS (SORT OF) $800: 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein film:
"Honk Honk,
Toot Toot,
Drum Drum,
Strum Strum" The Sound of Music |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | YOUR 5-CLUE NEWSCAST $600: At the movies, in July 2008 this flick made $158 milIion in its opening weekend;
holy box office! The Dark Knight |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $400: In the 1980 film "Airplane!", Leslie Nielsen memorably says, "I am serious... and don't call me" this Shirley |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $800: Gary Oldman leads the terrorists who hijack the President's plane in this 1997 action film Air Force One |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $2000: John Lithgow was the terrified passenger in the "Twilight Zone" movie's remake of this classic episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $400: Joseph Fiennes struggles with writing the play "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" in this film Shakespeare in Love |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $800: At the end of this movie, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan meet at the top of the Empire State Building Sleepless in Seattle |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $1200: Emile Hirsch plays a college grad who journeys to Alaska (with dire consequences) in this 2007 film Into the Wild |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $1600: Bill Murray hangs out with Scarlett Johansson in Tokyo in this 2003 treat Lost in Translation |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $2000: Crusty Secret Service agent Clint Eastwood protects the president from John Malkovich in this 1993 thriller In the Line of Fire |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: This animated "Star Wars" chapter swept through the galaxy in summer 2008 Clone Wars |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: Michael Cera & Kat Dennings are the title pair in "Nick and Norah's Infinite" this Playlist |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: In "Babylon A.D.", he stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package, which turns out to be a young woman Vin Diesel |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | THE ROLES OF A LIFETIME $2000: Nim Rusoe,
Maya Hayes,
Kit Kittredge Abigail Breslin |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | SPIELBERG MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: "Helios' Kingdom" Empire of the Sun |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | OLD HOLLYWOOD $800: In movies since 1943, he endured to be part of the "Spider-Man" series Cliff Robertson |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | AT THE MOVIES $600: Richard Dreyfuss & Ron Howard are 1962 high school grads cruising around town in this 1973 film American Graffiti |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | AT THE MOVIES $800: The "Legend of the Deep" in this 2007 film is a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish myth The Water Horse |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES $2000: A Capote tale set in the South:
"The Grass ____" Harp |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: "I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by" Back to the Future |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | ONE-WORD MOVIES $2000: Scenes in this 1997 Jodie Foster film were filmed at the Very Large Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico Contact |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: Film in which Daniel Day-Lewis searches for oil & citrus fruits with dark red flesh There Will Be Blood Oranges |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: Film of a typical day in the life of the Beatles, which includes running from bloodthirsty zombie fans in a Romero classic A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1200: Jim Carrey voices an elephant that heads to Toon Town to solve a murder with Bob Hoskins in this animated classic Horton Hears a Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: Boxer Hilary Swank has some tough decisions for Diane Keaton in this film: life or death, career or family Million Dollar Baby Boom |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones & Javier Bardem go to Alaska to get love advice from Anne Heche in this movie-TV hybrid No Country for Old Men in Trees |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $800: In "Psycho", it's the inn where Norman does his evil--or was it his mother? the Bates Motel |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $400: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) The name of my production company, Happy Madison, comes from the titles of these 2 movies I starred in Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: Organized crime is the real Corleone family business in this 1972 classic The Godfather |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: Margaret Hamilton played Miss Gulch & the Wicked Witch in this film The Wizard of Oz |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $400: This A.A. Milne feline finally earned his stripes: he got his own movie in 2000 Tigger |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $800: Someone left the cat out in the rain in this 1961 film (P.S.--it was Audrey Hepburn) Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $1600: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I could tell you a Thing One or a Thing Two about this film: I played Mr. Humberfloob & the voice of the fish in it The Cat in the Hat |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | FELINE FINE AT THE MOVIES $2000: This villain's face was never shown in his first film, "From Russia with Love", but we did get a good look at his cat (Ernst) Blofeld |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $200: Jack Palance's character is described as "a saddlebag with eyes" in this 1991 comedy City Slickers |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $400: (Drew Barrymore delivers the clue.) In my film "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays the "Jeopardy! Think Music" written by this creator of "Jeopardy!" Merv Griffin |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) In the 2003 film "Pieces of April", I played an offbeat neighbor of this actress who had yet to meet & marry Tom Cruise Katie Holmes |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Irene Bedard, the speaking voice of this heroine in an animated Disney film, played her mother in "The New World" Pocahontas |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $1000: Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe sang about being "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" in this 1953 movie musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: (Here's Morgan Freeman.) My character's directive leads to Steve Carrell reading "Ark Building for Dummies" in this film Evan Almighty |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | ONE OF THE 7 DEADLY SINS $1000: In the movies, Gordon Gekko said it was good greed |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MOVIES $2000: Bix Biederbecke's bio:
"Young Man With A ____" Horn |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | QUOTES FROM BRUCE WILLIS MOVIES $1200: "The army is a broadsword, not a scalpel. Trust me, Senator--you do not want the army in an American city" The Siege |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | QUOTES FROM BRUCE WILLIS MOVIES $2000: "Five billion people died in 1996 & 1997. Almost the entire population of the world. Only about 1% of us survived" Twelve Monkeys |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $400: "Joliet" Jake Blues John Belushi |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $800: Mrs. Prymaat Conehead Jane Curtin |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $1200: Axel Foley Eddie Murphy |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $1600: Wayne Campbell Mike Myers |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $2000: Joe Dirt David Spade |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | REALLY OLD MOVIES $800: Have some Reese's and enjoy this golden oldie from Steven Spielberg about aliens in America E.T. |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | REALLY OLD MOVIES $1200: If Sam Gamgee looked familiar, you probably saw him in this 1985 film about a pirate treasure map The Goonies |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | REALLY OLD MOVIES $1600: After playing a video game in his trailer park in this cosmic 1984 flick, Lance Guest became "The Last" this Starfighter |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $400: A mom in real life, she plays Grendel's mother in 2007's "Beowulf" Angelina Jolie |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $800: The Autobots & the Decepticons are dueling alien races that bring their war to Earth in this sci-fi flick Transformers |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Amir & Hassan are boys who fly kites in Kabul in this film based on a novel The Kite Runner |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: Vince Vaughn played this title guy, Santa's bitter older brother, in a 2007 holiday film Fred Claus |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: Lyra Belacqua has an extraordinary adventure in this film, based on the first volume of the "Dark Materials" trilogy The Golden Compass |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | CRESCENT CITY ROLES $2000: One of the great poker movies of all time is this New Orleans-set period piece with Steve McQueen in the title role The Cincinnati Kid |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | FIREARMS IN SHOW BIZ $2000: In the 1940s he was billed as the "Smartest Horse in the Movies" Trigger |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $800: Natalie Wood was just 8 years old when she played the little girl Susan in this Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $1200: Bing Crosby introduced the song "White Christmas" not in the movie "White Christmas" but in this earlier film Holiday Inn |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $1600: In this movie "2", Tim Allen has to find a Mrs., ASAP; says so in his contract The Santa Clause 2 |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $2000: In this movie, Tim Allen & Jamie Lee Curtis consider skipping the holidays altogether & taking a cruise Christmas with the Kranks |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | GIRLY MOVIES $2000: For this 2004 film, Catalina Sandino Moreno was the first Best Actress Oscar nominee to speak all her lines in Spanish Maria, Full of Grace |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | SPIELBERG MOVIES $1600: 13-year-old Christian Bale starred in this J.G. Ballard tale about a young prisoner in WWII China Empire of the Sun |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | SPIELBERG MOVIES $2000: Before "The Blues Brothers", Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi starred in this WWII farce 1941 |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy in the "Shrek" movies Donkey |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: Dr. Frank N. Furter is dragged aboard a paddle steamer to sing "Ol' Man River" with Paul Robeson in this musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show Boat |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Police detective Callahan enrolls at Hogwarts in search of a magical rock Dirty Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: A chummy animated phantom teams up with Nicolas Cage's demonic motorcyclist in this action fest Casper the Friendly Ghost Rider |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $1200: In the movies, it was Charles Foster Kane's cryptic final word Rosebud |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | WAR MOVIES $800: 1978:
The wife of a soldier fighting in Vietnam works at a VA hospital & has an affair with a wounded vet Coming Home |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | WAR MOVIES $2000: 1951:
Erwin Rommel succeeds... for a while... in North Africa The Desert Fox |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | ____ AND ____ MOVIES $800: Some in the Jane Austen Society complained that Hugh Grant was too good-looking to play Edward in this 1995 film Sense & Sensibility |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | ____ AND ____ MOVIES $2000: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I was far from kittenish when I played the voice of Mr. Tinkles in this 2001 film that pitted felines against canines Cats & Dogs |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $400: Elijah Wood provided the voice for Mumble, a tap-dancing penguin, in this 2006 film Happy Feet |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $600: Tom Hanks voiced 4 characters in this Christmas film that used motion-capture technology The Polar Express |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $800: In a 2001 film, aliens kidnap Earth's adults & this title boy genius leads the rescue effort Jimmy Neutron |
| #5317, aired 2007-10-23 | ANIMATED MOVIES $1000: Elastigirl is living in the suburbs as Helen Parr in this action comedy The Incredibles |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Cody the penguin & others compete in the waves off Pen Gu Island in this 2007 "major ocean picture" Surf's Up |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Remy, a rodent who works in a Paris bistro, longs to become a chef in this animated film Ratatouille |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: Fiona's long-lost cousin Arthur is a possible heir to the throne in this 2007 sequel Shrek the Third |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | QUOTABLE MOVIES $800: 1984: "There was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf!" This Is Spinal Tap |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | ELECTRONICA $1600: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan) Most DVD players use a red light laser; to show true HD movies, however, this player uses a laser of this color, which has a shorter wavelength blue |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $2000: Gregory Peck gets the scoop on anti-semitism in this film adapted by Moss Hart Gentleman's Agreement |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $600: Steve Martin & Bonnie Hunt are the parents of an extremely large brood in this 2003 remake Cheaper by the Dozen |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $1000: Queen Latifah wreaks havoc on the life of strait-laced lawyer Steve Martin in this 2003 comedy Bringing Down the House |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | CABLE CHANNELS $400: The "T" in TCM, which shows classic movies, stands for this last name Turner |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES $1200: Jack-Jack Parr is the baby of the family of superheroes in this animated film The Incredibles |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES $1600: The title guys of this 1997 sci-fi comedy are "protecting the earth from the scum of the universe" Men in Black |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | OFF TO THE MOVIES $400: "Everything in this room is eatable, even I'm eatable! But that is called 'cannibalism', my dear children" is from this film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | OFF TO THE MOVIES $1000: Jack Black wrestles with a problem & cooks up a scheme to save a monastery in this 2006 film Nacho Libre |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $800: In the '70s, he was a hockey player in "Slap Shot" & faced a future ice age in "Quintet" Paul Newman |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | COLD MOVIES $1600: The Uruguayan rugby team has a bad day & not enough seasoning in this 1993 Ethan Hawke film Alive |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | AFI'S 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES $400: This actor is in an impressive 9 films on the ballot; his daughter is in 3 Henry Fonda |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | AFI'S 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES $1600: This Lew Wallace "tale of the Christ" is the only title on the ballot twice; Charlton Heston was in one Ben-Hur |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | AFI'S 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES $2000: Big news--besides Tom Hanks' "Big", these are 2 of the 3 movies on the ballot with "big" in the title 2 of (The Big Chill, The Big Sleep, or The Big Parade) |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1200: In the '80s, he starred in movies like "Can't Buy Me Love" & "Loverboy"; now he's TV's Dr. McDreamy Patrick Dempsey |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $400: Norman Jewison asked Rod Steiger to chew gum, eventually 263 packs, as Police Chief Bill Gillespie in this 1967 film In the Heat of the Night |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $800: Hedy Lamarr sued Mel Brooks over the "use" of her name in this 1974 comedy & eventually settled out of court Blazing Saddles |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $1200: Steve McQueen & Paul Newman did some of their own stunts in this 1974 special-effects extravaganza The Towering Inferno |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $1600: This 1977 movie produced the second-best-selling soundtrack in movie history Saturday Night Fever |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COLLEGE MOVIES $800: Nick Cannon marches to his own beat as he tries to lead the marching band to victory in this film Drumline |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COLLEGE MOVIES $1000: A street dancer is courted by 2 frats that need his skills to win the national step show competition in this 2007 film Stomp the Yard |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Even dead-broke students should avoid staying in this title establishment of a gory 2005 film hostel |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Several cardiectomies are performed in "Apocalypto", set in this civilization the Mayans |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: In this Clive Owen movie, the human race has stopped having kids Children of Men |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | THE MOVIES $600: Shia LaBeouf discovers that "every killer lives next door to someone" in this 2007 horror film Disturbia |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | THE MOVIES $800: Rainn Wilson co-stars in this 2007 film about what happens after 2 siblings find a mysterious box of toys The Last Mimzy |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | THE MOVIES $1000: In its native Mexico, this Oscar-winning film was called "El Laberinto del Fauno" Pan's Labyrinth |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $400: In between "Austin Powers" movies, this actor played Griphook the Goblin in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" Verne Troyer |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | JUST ONE OF THE 2... $1000: movies in which Clark Gable starred that won consecutive Best Picture Oscars in the mid-1930s It Happened One Night |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In addition to the "Godfather" movies, he directed Michael Jackson's "Captain EO" (Francis Ford) Coppola |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Diane Keaton succumbs to a mysterious murderer in this morbid 1977 study of the singles-bar scene Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a tour-de-force performance, he played 8 different roles in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets" Sir Alec Guinness |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | ROMAN AROUND AT THE MOVIES $400: This sexpot nicknamed "La Lollo" lolled around with lots of men in the 1954 film "Woman of Rome" Gina Lollobrigida |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | ROMAN AROUND AT THE MOVIES $800: James Darren reprised his role as Moondoggie in the 1963 flick called this teen "Goes to Rome" Gidget |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | ROMAN AROUND AT THE MOVIES $1200: In a 2003 film, this Hilary Duff character goes to Rome & gets mistaken for an Italian pop star--doesn't everyone? Lizzie McGuire |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | ROMAN AROUND AT THE MOVIES $1600: She married Troy Donahue after Rome-ancing him onscreen in "Rome Adventure"; "The Bob Newhart Show" came later (Suzanne) Pleshette |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | MOVIES $400: Ed Speleers plays the title farm boy-turned-dragon rider in this 2006 fantasy film Eragon |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | MOVIES $800: He played Jack Frost, who's trying to take over Christmas in "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" Martin Short |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | MOVIES $1600: Working the graveyard shift, security guard Ben Stiller sees natural history exhibits come to life in this film Night at the Museum |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | MOVIES $2000: Will Smith is struggling single father Chris Gardner in this film based on a true story The Pursuit of Happyness |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $400: Linda Fiorentino became Agent L in this 1997 film Men in Black |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $1200: Jennifer Jason Leigh was the roommate from hell in this 1992 flick Single White Female |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | AT THE MOVIES $200: Robert De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci's rib during a sparring scene in this 1980 film Raging Bull |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | AT THE MOVIES $600: James Caan said he based his Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather" on this insult comic known as "Mr. Warmth" Don Rickles |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | AT THE MOVIES $800: The water in the glass on the dash rippled because of a plucked guitar string underneath, not a dinosaur, in this '93 film Jurassic Park |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: Costume designer Charles LeMaire had no trouble dressing the title character of this 1956 film The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MOVIES WITHIN MOVIES $200: In "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", Ben Affleck & Matt Damon are in a sequel to this, subtitled "Hunting Season" Good Will Hunting |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MOVIES WITHIN MOVIES $600: In the third installment of this horror franchise, Sidney Prescott visits the set of "Stab 3" Scream |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MOVIES WITHIN MOVIES $1000: Andy & Red view the Rita Hayworth film "Gilda" in this movie based on a Stephen King tale The Shawshank Redemption |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | HARPS & HARPERS $400: A member of this comedy team, Harpo was a virtuoso on the harp & played it in some of their movies the Marx Brothers |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $400: As this title superhero, Tobey Maguire spun his web across New York Spider-Man |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): On a Manhattan morning, Audrey Hepburn admires the gems in a shop window while eating a roll in this film's opening Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1200: A classic Christmas movie is called "Miracle on" this Manhattan street 34th Street |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1600: This writer/director's New York-set films include "Manhattan" & "Manhattan Murder Mystery" Woody Allen |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $2000: Who ya gonna call when spirits haunt the Big Apple? The title group of this 1984 comedy, of course Ghostbusters |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | MAN HATTIN' $1000: In the movies, this great fictional British detective often wore a hat called a deerstalker Sherlock Holmes |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | WAR MOVIES $400: Ken Burns & Ted Turner both had cameos in this epic TV movie bearing the name of a July 1863 battle Gettysburg |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | WAR MOVIES $1200: "Leave no man behind" was the tagline for this 2001 film about army choppers shot down in Somalia Black Hawk Down |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | WAR MOVIES $1600: The U.S. Civil War's first all-black military unit fights prejudice as well as the Confederates in this 1989 film Glory |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | WAR MOVIES $2000: The brutal 10-day battle for heavily defended Hill 937 unfolds in this 1987 film Hamburger Hill |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | NEWMAN'S OWN $1200: Paul Newman played "Fast" Eddie Felson in these 2 movies The Hustler & The Color of Money |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | KID'S TOUGH $400: Frankie Muniz has saved the day in 2 movies as this CIA teen Cody Banks |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | COOL MOVIES $400: Yo ho yo ho, in 2006 Johnny Depp returned as this swashbuckler in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" Captain Jack Sparrow |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | COOL MOVIES $1200: In "The Incredibles", Helen Parr isn't your ordinary mom; she also stretches herself thin as this superhero Elastigirl |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | COOL MOVIES $2000: There's nothing cooler than the scruffy mutt who smiles in the movie "Because of..." this Winn-Dixie |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | ANIMATED MOVIES $400: RJ the raccoon & Verne the turtle are 2 of the forest critters who invade the suburbs for food in this 2006 film Over the Hedge |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | ANIMATED MOVIES $1200: A 10-year old boy becomes the size of an insect & adventure follows in this 2006 film The Ant Bully |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | 1950s MOVIES $400: "Ah, but the strawberries... that's where I had them!" says Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in this film The Caine Mutiny |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1600: 1931--
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Little Caesar |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | FACT $800: To dial the old KLondike 5 exchange used in many movies & TV shows, dial this 555 |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | MOVIES THAT ARE ALL WET $400: Steven Spielberg named the mechanical shark in this 1975 classic "Bruce" after his lawyer Jaws |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | MOVIES THAT ARE ALL WET $800: Commercial fisherman George Clooney faces disaster in the North Atlantic in this fact-based 2000 film The Perfect Storm |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | MOVIES THAT ARE ALL WET $2000: Meryl Streep & her son go not so gently down the stream in this 1994 rafting suspense movie The River Wild |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | '80s MOVIES $2000: Kurt & Mel both like Michelle in this 1988 movie Tequila Sunrise |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $400: 1991:
Ice Cube co-starred in this saga about a group of friends chillin' out in an L.A. ghetto Boyz n the Hood |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | "B" MOVIES $1000: 1948:
In a classic of Italian Neorealism, a father & son search for a stolen vehicle The Bicycle Thief |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | SAMS OF THE CINEMA $800: This director of the "Spider-Man" movies has also acted in films like "The Hudsucker Proxy" & "The Flintstones" Sam Raimi |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | MEMORABLE MOVIES $400: In this film, Moe Green tells Michael Corleone to butt out of Las Vegas--big mistake The Godfather |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | MEMORABLE MOVIES $1600: The title female is seen here in this 1948 film
"Gamble? She's done it for a living."
"I'll bet you a dollar I've been to the place where you were born."
"Chifu."
"It's on the China coast. Chifu! It's the second wickedest city in the world!"
"What's the first?" The Lady from Shanghai |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | MEMORABLE MOVIES $2000: "What's the rumpus?" the gangsters ask in this Coen Brothers picture Miller's Crossing |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | CHAMPS OF THE SQUARE CIRCLE $800: In real life it was the nickname of welterweight champ Benny Paret; in the movies, of the "Galahad" played by Elvis "Kid" |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | FICTIONAL MOVIES $400: "The Dueling Cavalier" was the silent film being turned into a musical in this 1952 Gene Kelly favorite Singin' in the Rain |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | FICTIONAL MOVIES $1200: "Jaws 19" is playing at a movie theater in the first sequel of this Michael J. Fox time-traveling comedy Back to the Future |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | FICTIONAL MOVIES $2000: The mobsters turned filmmakers were trying to get the movie "Mr. Lovejoy" made in this John Travolta film Get Shorty |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | APRIL FOOL'S DAY BABIES $2000: Born in 1920, he starred in more than 130 movies, including "Rashomon" & "The Seven Samurai" Toshiro Mifune |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | MOVIES OF THE MONTH $1200: (1981)
"First Monday in ___" October |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: The first scenes in "Walk the Line" take place at this location, just before a famous 1968 concert Folsom Prison |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: "The New World" was filmed in Virginia, close to the real site of this colony that's central to the movie Jamestown |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | "MOON" ME AT THE MOVIES $400: Cher slapped Nicolas Cage in this 1987 hit Moonstruck |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | "MOON" ME AT THE MOVIES $800: Madeline Kahn was delightful as Trixie Delight in this Bogdanovich classic Paper Moon |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | "MOON" ME AT THE MOVIES $1200: Kristin Scott Thomas had her first major movie role in this "Prince"ly epic from 1986 Under the Cherry Moon |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | "MOON" ME AT THE MOVIES $1600: Judd Hirsch & Marilu Henner played themselves in this movie bio about Andy Kaufman Man on the Moon |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | "MOON" ME AT THE MOVIES $2000: Albert Finney & Diane Keaton deal with the collapse of their marriage in this 1982 drama Shoot the Moon |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | MOVIEMAKING $400: The length of movies was once described in numbers of these circular holders for film reels |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | YOUR FRIENDLY MILITARY RECRUITER $600: In the Army, gyms, movies & shopping are part of life on one of these, the P in PX post |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LET'S GO "2" THE MOVIES $400 (Daily Double): In this 1997 sequel a cruise ship is going too fast & everyone might get killed Speed 2(: Cruise Control) |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LET'S GO "2" THE MOVIES $400: Before becoming the supervillain in this film, Dr. Otto Octavius worked to make fusion a cheap energy source Spider-Man 2 |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | LET'S GO "2" THE MOVIES $1000: Jessie, a cowgirl doll, pines for her former owner in the song "When She Loved Me" in this 1999 sequel Toy Story 2 |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800: Gunnar Hansen brought the character of Leatherface to life in this 1974 thriller The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | SCARY MOVIES $1000: The third film in this scary series was subtitled "Dream Warriors" A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | MOVIE NEWCOMERS $600: In 1912, when most everyone in movies was a newcomer, these sisters debuted in "An Unseen Enemy" the Gish sisters (Dorothy & Lillian) |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | SCARY MOVIES $200: This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods The Blair Witch Project |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | MOVIES TO THE MAX $400: Max Detweiler is the impresario character who enters a family in music festival in this beloved 1965 film The Sound of Music |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | MOVIES TO THE MAX $800: Laurence Olivier starred as Maxim de Winter in this film, but no one played the title role Rebecca |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | MOVIES TO THE MAX $1600: He directed a 1984 documentary about Marlene Dietrich, his co-star in "Judgment at Nuremberg" Maximilian Schell |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | MOVIES TO THE MAX $2000: In 1935 this great German stage director brought "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the screen Max Reinhardt |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | STAR WARS FOREVER $1200: The only actors to be in all 6 "Star Wars" movies are the men who played these 2 robots C-3PO & R2-D2 |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | BLONDE AMBITION $600: She's starred in 2 "Charlie's Angels" movies & was the voice of Princess Fiona in 2 others Cameron Diaz |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $400: In the 1960s, California had over 200 of these, where people watched movies from their cars drive-ins |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $1000: This type of "seating", named for a place to watch sports, puts each row well above the one in front stadium |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | WHEN YOU GET THE MONEY $400: In the '30s he used some of his fortune to finance movies like "Hell's Angels" &, yes, "Scarface" Howard Hughes |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES $800: Chicago "L" token seller Lucy, in love with the comatose Peter While You Were Sleeping |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | SPORTS MOVIES $400: 1980:
A self-destructive middleweight boxing champ battles in & out of the ring Raging Bull |
| #4796, aired 2005-06-13 | SEASONAL MOVIES $400: "The Lion in ___" winter |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Apollo Creed & Ivan Drago duke it out in Vegas early in the fourth film in this series Rocky |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a nurse with a curse in this 2004 film based on a Japanese one The Grudge |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: In a 2002 film Josh Hartnett vows to stay celibate for this title length of time 40 Days and 40 Nights |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $1,700 (Daily Double): The name of this 1973 Martin Scorsese movie set in Little Italy can refer to any tough Urban area Mean Streets |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: One of the creepiest performances in a Hitchcock film is his as Bruno in "Strangers on a Train" Robert Walker |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | LABOR UNIONS $1600: The advent of sound in movies put many members of the AFM, this union, out of work the American Federation of Musicians |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | "W"HO CAN IT BE NOW? $200: The recipes in a cookbook called "True Grits" were inspired by the movies of this man John Wayne |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | BARBRA STREISAND MOVIES $200: 2004:
Barbra Streisand meets her potential in-laws Meet the Fockers |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | BARBRA STREISAND MOVIES $400: 1968:
Babs rises from the slums to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies Funny Girl |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | IN THE MOVIES $200: These title instruments are "dueling" on the "Deliverance" soundtrack banjos |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | IN THE MOVIES $400: He was acclaimed for his lead role in "Hotel Rwanda", the true story of a man who saved refugees during a genocide Don Cheadle |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | IN THE MOVIES $600: This title Tom Hanks character was named for the founder of the KKK Forrest Gump |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | IN THE MOVIES $800: "The jungle is jumpin'!" was a tagline of this 1967 Disney film classic The Jungle Book |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | IN THE MOVIES $1000: This 1981 Best Picture Oscar winner takes place in part at the 1924 Olympics Chariots of Fire |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | NAME THE JAMES $1200: The 2 Jameses who co-starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies "Promise" & "My Name Is Bill W" James Garner & James Woods |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | CANADIAN IDOL $800: In the movies, this Torontonian played the all-American Tom Tuttle, one of the Peace Corps "volunteers" John Candy |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | AUNTIE $1200: The 2 aunts that Clara Blandick played in 1930s movies based on characters by L. Frank Baum & Mark Twain Auntie Em & Aunt Polly |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | FUNNY HATS $800: Featured in the "Harry Potter" movies, this hat takes its name from its function at Hogwarts School the Sorting Hat |
