| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | DOWNLOADING SOME APPS $600: Sprinkling cayenne pepper instead of paprika on halved hard-boiled eggs to make these Cajun--that's spicy! deviled eggs |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE CLOTHES CLOSET $800: If you want to be fancy, instead of saying boat neck, you can use this French word for boat bateau |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: This character who married Melanie instead of Scarlett O'Hara was said to have been based on Doc Holliday Ashley (Wilkes) |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $400: From a word for a bug to get this often small but enthusiastic type of religious group sect |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $400: Mr. Harrelson
& an insect sound associated with titillating news Woody & buzz |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | AS HEARD ON TV $400: From our pals down the hall came the puzzle here; instead of an M, this letter got called for, saucy but wrong K |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 4-LETTER HOMOPHONES $1000: An insect
&
to hurry away flea/flee |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $200: Some of the clothing from this designer features a cute polo bear instead of a pony Ralph Lauren |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $800: To be reductive, it's a martini with an onion instead of an olive a Gibson |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $800: January 6 is this feast day with a name from Greek that also means a sudden intuitive insight Epiphany |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $800: In Ray Bradbury's tale "A Sound of Thunder", the crushing of this insect "effected" the future a butterfly |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $400: While repeating his wedding vows in the 4th season finale of "Friends", Ross mistakenly said her name instead of fiancée Emily's Rachel |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $1000: If the author of "Push" had chosen her birthstone instead of this pseudonym, she would be Peridot Sapphire |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $800: Reagan's spaniel Rex was indeed kingly; his breed contains this name of multiple English monarchs King Charles |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | "LADY"S FIRST $200: Seen here, this insect's spots & bright color signal to predators that it will taste really bad if eaten the ladybug |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: Greek for "scale" & "wing", it's the insect order that includes moths & butterflies Lepidoptera |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $1600: West Virginia has a statue of this half-human, half-insect creature supposedly first sighted in Point Pleasant in the mid-1960s the Mothman |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y $800: The first "T" in GATT, they're taxes one nation puts on goods imported from another Tariffs |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $200: Though it costs him his head, Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" refuses to beg for mercy... & yells this word instead freedom |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | MACBETH'S WITCHES ON FOOD NETWORK $400: Instead of cilantro, we'll use slips of yew slivered during one of these of the Moon an eclipse |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | METRICKY PROBLEMS $800: Metric cowboys wear 37.85-liter hats instead of these a 10-gallon hat |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | IN COGNITO $800: This bar of gold an ingot |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | RAIN $500: Sometimes called "phantom rain", virga are wisps of precipitation that never make it to the ground; they do this instead evaporate |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | INSECTS $200: A variety of midge, a type of this, is believed to be the only insect species native to Antarctica a fly |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | INSECTS $600: A giant species of this "100-legged" insect grows to 12 inches in length & eats lizards a centipede |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | MATH SYMBOLS $800: Instead of a decimal point, the French use this common punctuation mark comma |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | EAT $1600: For a well-done filet mignon, do this "insect" cooking term that means to cut down the center almost completely butterfly |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | MICROSCOPY $1600: The single-use weapon of this insect is seen here a bee |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $100: Chef Jamie Oliver's website says that if you use lamb instead of beef for cottage pie, it should go by this occupational name shepherd's pie |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | OH, THAT'S RICH $300: One signature of Detroit-style pizza is that instead of mozzarella, it uses brick cheese from this dairy state Wisconsin |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $400: The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect a flea |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $600: The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait crickets |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $800: This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts a ladybug |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | A BUG'S LIFE $1000: Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect beetles |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $800: Oops... on a stamp in 2010--& 3 billion stamps, eventually--the USPS used a replica in Vegas instead of this New York landmark the Statue of Liberty |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHYSIOLOGY $1600: When your body burns fat instead of glucose for energy, this metabolic state occurs ketosis |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | BIOLOGY $600: Biologists prefer "transitional form" instead of this 2-word term for an intermediate species connecting, say, humans & apes a missing link |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | "M"MMMM $600: Inject cooked soybeans with a fermented grain called koji & you've got this Japanese bean paste miso |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | A LATIN BESTIARY $600: Instead of its deadly moniker, you can call the creature seen here by this 4-letter Latin name an orca |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SCIENCE CLASS $1000: Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to help establish the chromosome theory of heredity a fruit fly |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THAT CAN BE A GREEK LETTER $1,800 (Daily Double): Instead of the end, the beginning: this luxury watch brand traces its roots back to 1848 in the Swiss village La Chaux-de-Fonds Omega |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $800: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) "I feel I have blood on my hands", said a troubled Oppenheimer in a tense October 1945 meeting with this man, who replied that the blood was on his own instead Truman |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | STATE INSECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri a honeybee |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | STATE INSECTS $1000: New Mexico chose the tarantula hawk, a type of this stinging insect that preys on tarantulas wasp |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ANIMAL CHANGE A LETTER $400: A "gruff" quadruped of fable switches a letter, becoming an insect pest goat & gnat |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: An 1899 Saturday Evening Post article bemoaned the "lost art of" this, with everyone reading instead of talking to each other conversation |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | NIGHT SKIES $400: Illuminating the dark chrysalis of space, M6 emerges in Scorpius & is called this insect cluster; its stars resemble wings butterfly |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $800: Colorful name of the social insect seen here that commonly builds concealed nests underground a yellowjacket |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Some dieters attempt to enter ketosis, in which fat starts getting burned instead of this sugar in the blood glucose |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | THE NATURAL ORDER $800: Presumably, it's the most devout insect of the order Mantodea the praying mantis |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | HAMMER $400: You can look like a gunslinger but instead of a pistol, draw a hammer from one of these tool belt accessories a holster |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CANNERY $200: This brand with an insect name cans a few varieties of albacore tuna including chunk white Bumble Bee |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | OVERLAPS $400: Forbidden woolen baby socks worn instead of shoes tabooties |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | SOUNDS SPOOKY $200: You don't have to keep it under wraps: a British kid might use this 5-letter word instead of mother mummy |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | YOU BUG ME $400: Types of this destructive insect include subterranean, drywood & dampwood a termite |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | YOU BUG ME $800: The males of this insect better be doing a word in their name, as females often bite their heads off after mating praying mantis |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $1000: The Stern-Gerlach experiment gave insight into this, electrons' angular momentum, sort of like what planets do but also sort of not spin |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | "B" COOL $1600: In 1958 the San Francisco Examiner worried that "growing lads" might become these "instead of ball players" beatniks |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Nicknamed for something sweet, he joined the all-white New Orleans Rhythm Kings on an early integrated jazz recording session Jelly Roll Morton |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $1200: Dickens wrote several holiday books besides "A Christmas Carol", including the tale of this insect "on the Hearth" a cricket |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $5,800 (Daily Double): Play the notes of a chord in sequence instead of together & you've got this an arpeggio |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | IN THE AIR TONIGHT $800: "C" is for this musical insect; one type shows up in the air in 17-year cycles cicadas |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1200: Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" Inkheart |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | WHALES $800: These small whales have occasionally been known to grow 2 tusks instead of one narwhals |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | "SELF-E"s $600: The act of giving vent to one's inmost ideas, maybe artistically self-expression |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $400: This author went to Venus instead of Narnia in his space novel "Perelandra" C.S. Lewis |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | SCIENCE $800: There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis mosquitoes |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: Instead of a fancy fixture, kitchens commonly have this type of lighting named for the way it fits into the ceiling recessed |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AROUND THE HOUSE $1000: Instead of hardwood floors, many go for this cheaper 8-letter option of layered fiberboard that can mimic marble as well laminate |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $1200: With his descriptions of insect anatomy, Aristotle laid the groundwork for this life science entomology |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THIS IS HOW I WIN $600: Be last off the Battle Bus & land by a quiet spot instead of the Citadel; have a wide range of weapons & a medkit; use headphones Fortnite |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | I HAVE AN IDEA $2000: The institute named for this 18th c. Scot says his radical insight was that national wealth isn't gold but productive capacity Adam Smith |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $400: The inscription on her portrait in the National Portrait Gallery erroneously says she's the wife of Thomas Rolfe instead of John Pocahontas |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $3,000 (Daily Double): Singing about this comic who died in 1966:
"He didn't commit any crime, he just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time" Lenny Bruce |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Approved by Congress in 1861 but not ratified, a proposed this number amendment would instead have protected slavery the 13th |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $400: She says she wishes she had died instead of running off with Paris, leading to the Trojan War Helen of Troy |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | TAKING A GAMBLE WITH JAMES HOLZHAUER $900: (James Holzhauer presents the clue.) A popular variant of Texas hold 'em poker in casinos is this one named for a Nebraska city; you start with 4 cards instead of 2 Omaha |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: After the queen's death, the names of Prince William's children now end with "of" this place instead of Cambridge Wales |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SHORT A $1200: This state whose residents insist on the flat "A" once considered the name Washoe, which has its own pronunciation issues Nevada |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT PHRASE $800: Angry like a certain insect:
"Mad as a ____" a hornet |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | O CANADA $300: (Mattea Roach presents the clue.) In the 1960s, the Pearson Pennant was one of three finalists to be our national flag, but the Flag Committee went with a design using a single one of these leaves instead a maple leaf |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | 4th & GOAL $400: Launched to recapture this city from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople instead Jerusalem |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CLICHES $2000: To mean an overall picture, instead of "the view from" this high, people could say "from 5.68 miles" 30,000 feet |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | APPS & WEBSITES $600: It was founded in 1998 as Confinity but soon went by this name instead of something like Reimbursafriend or Dollar-a-Buddy PayPal |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | AMERICANA $400: So as not to clash with the surrounding scenery, one of these eateries in Sedona, Arizona has turquoise arches instead of golden McDonald's |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | NO GOOD $400: This Chicago man's operation had $100 million in annual revenue; in 2020s instead of 1920s dollars, that's about $1.8 billion Al Capone |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $400: As royally appointed deputy this 2-word job, Ben got mail from Charleston to Boston by road instead of by ship via London Postmaster General |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $800: An edit Ben made for Thomas Jefferson changed "we hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable" to this, rational instead of religious self-evident |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | ANGLES AMONG US $1200: Also 3 letters, this feature is similar to a bow window, but with sharp angles instead of a gentle sweep a bay window |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $400: A hyena, zebra, orangutan & tiger do not walk into a bar, but are instead on a lifeboat with a teenaged boy in this novel Life of Pi |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | MICRO FISH $800: The 1.5" goby here is named for this insect, unrelated to the tuna brand of the same name bumblebee |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | MAKING AN ASSONANCE OF YOURSELF $800: Gamers know it's replacing letters with similar-looking numbers, like when using 3 instead of "E" leetspeak |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE "A" LIST $200: In 2021 fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in Fla.'s Myakkahatchee Creek area, home to these long & toothy critters alligators |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SCIENTIFIC TRIOS $6,000 (Daily Double): Of the 3 main sections of an insect's body, this one is from the Latin for "breastplate" thorax |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $800: We were surprised to get Pierre Laclede as a response instead of this French explorer with a big U.S. lake named for him Champlain |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | DAYS OF YORE $800: Used centuries ago by Irish monks who craved discomfort, a clochán is also known as this insect domicile hut a beehive hut |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $1000: Gabriel Garcia Marquez stayed in his study for 18 months writing this 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | "LEFT", "RIGHT" OR "CENTER" $600: Related to the sports world, it's a source for unexpected or strange insight left field |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" in this tale the Metamorphosis |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1500: "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it" On the Waterfront |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPINELESS CREATURES $800: Metaphorically used for a studious person, literally it's a general term for any insect that damages paper volumes a bookworm |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | SAME FIRST & LAST CONSONANT $1200: The Doors used this word instead of "no time to 'sprawl luxuriously' in the mire" wallow |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | BEASTLY TALK $200: This insect route means heading straight for something making a beeline |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $200: You freaked me out by saying I had sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia instead of just calling it a this treat "headache"! a ice cream headache |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $1600: Sometimes called a long-horned grasshopper, this insect gets its name from the call of the male the katydid |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $2,000 (Daily Double): Named for its call, it's the tall North American bird heard here a whooping crane |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HERSTORY $200: In 1774 North Carolina's Penelope Barker led a protest against this British product, making a mulberry version instead tea |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1000: Its state insect is the honey bee & its state emblem is a beehive Utah |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | YOUR ROLE $200: Tonya Harding's movie mom & Anna Faris' TV "Mom" Allison Janney |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | CHEMISTRY $1000: Acids & bases are among these current conductors; using a solid instead of a liquid one reduces the risk of fire in batteries electrolytes |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | UNITS OF MEASURE $200: About .26 inches, a unit called this insect's space is based on the length of the gaps in a hive a bee |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | NATIONAL-SOUNDING ITEMS $1000: This fancy sleeve end doubles back on itself & uses links instead of buttons a French cuff |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WOOD $400: The eastern red type of this wood has a distinct aroma & insect-repelling quality that make it popular for closets & chests cedar |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | ROLE CALL $800: In this film, Jared Leto plays the title biochemist who tries to cure himself of a rare disease but infects himself with vampirism instead Morbius |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | DRINK $400: A Bloody Maria is similar to a Bloody Mary but contains this liquor instead of vodka tequila |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THE DEVIL $800: This insect is also called the devil's arrow or the devil's darning needle the dragonfly |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | I DON'T HEAR A SYMPHONY $2000: A bit like a symphony, the first work called this "for Orchestra" instead of for a solo instrument was in 1925 by Hindemith a concerto |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | ONE SMALL STEP FOR HAM $200: In 2022 France passed a law that reduces nitrites, the chemicals that make cured ham this color inside instead of gray pink |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Courting controversy, this Norwegian's 1881 play "Ghosts" dealt openly with venereal disease & incest Ibsen |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $200: I found this insect on a leaf a flea (from leaf) |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT $2000: It's the life stage of an insect that fits the category pupa |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | SPANNING THE GLOBE $200: Home to the office of New Zealand's prime minister, the building seen here has this insect-dwelling nickname Beehive |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | DR. MITTENS, CAT OBSTETRICIAN $600: When the offspring start trying to eat mom's solid food instead of suckling, it's time for this shift to independence weaning |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | GOING "PRO" $800: Instead of being passive about the situation, let's be this & take initiative in advance proactive |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | HERE COMES A BRONTE THESAURUS $800: Instead of "cuss words", Charlotte Bronte describes some rude watermen as using these, also heard in courtrooms oaths |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | SALT & PEPPER $400: Coal soot during the Industrial Revolution caused the peppered species of this insect to quickly evolve to have darker wings a moth |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $800: Ingest, or the bird seen here swallow |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE... $800: ...maybe stuck to the speaking circuit instead of making failed presidential runs in 1896, 1900 & 1908 William Jennings Bryan |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | INCREDIBLY ELF-CENTERED $1600: In the "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV special, Hermey the elf didn't want to make toys but wanted this job instead dentist |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | HOBBIES $600: Instead of paraffin, you might opt to make your candles from this, a by-product of honey making beeswax |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | I LOVE YOU 3,000 $1000: In 2021 a trader's "fat-finger" error led to a sale price of $3,000 instead of $300,000 for an NFT, short for this a non-fungible token |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | GENUS & SPECIES $2000: Musca is Latin for "fly", an insect that should fear Muscicapa, a genus of this bird a flycatcher |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | & NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT $200: A nephrologist said it was not "a harmful condition" after a Brazilian man was found to have 3 of these organs instead of 2 kidneys |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | SPACE: KIND OF HUGE $800: NASA reported the wingspan of this insect-named nebula covers 3 light-years & ejects layers of gas from a dying star at the center butterfly |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | FANG SHUI $800: The pit type of this creature has hollow fangs attached to movable bones in the jaw that it uses to inject poison a viper |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | VIRTUE SIGNALING $1000: This insect known for song & for returning after long periods symbolizes purity in Chinese art; it was supposed to live on dew cicada |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN $400: A flapping of an insect's wings, or your eyelashes flutter |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | OTHER COUNTRIES SEPARATED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE $400: French Canadians use "on" for this pronoun instead of "nous", more commonly used in France we |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | OTHER COUNTRIES SEPARATED BY A COMMON LANGUAGE $1000: For "good day", Austrians use "gruss gott" instead of this literal translation used in most of Germany guten tag |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | 4 LETTERS, 3 VOWELS $1200: "In" this means instead lieu |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | WINTER $400: This winter state of dormancy is a mammal thing; the poorwill is one of a few birds that do it instead of migrating hibernation |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | AGAIN $200: 5-letter term for a close copy, or what you could say instead of "I agree as well" ditto |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $800: The buzz is true--the smallest hummingbird is this one named for an insect the bee hummingbird |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $600: A USC cinema building is named for this director who was rejected 3 times by the school & attended Cal State Long Beach instead (Steven) Spielberg |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CREATURE COMFORTS $600: On Madagascar, these primates use a toxic secretion from millipedes as an insect repellent & is thought to get high lemurs |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | SHAKE YOUR BOOTY $800: The Wham! song "Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go" begins with a few mentions of this "insectoid" dance of the 1940s the jitterbug |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | STARTS WITH "W" $800: This insect is also known as a snout beetle a weevil |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: In the 1800s this Michigan island was the headquarters for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company Mackinac |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $1000: "I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain today instead of him" King Richard III |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $400: From a word meaning "insect", it's the study of bugs entomology |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | LESSER-KNOWN MARSUPIALS $400: These sticky-tongued insect consumers include proper ones like the giant & animals loosely called that, like Australia's numbat an anteater |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1600: A stinging insect is in this adjective for a slender midsection wasp-waisted |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $400: Because the British have no White Castle restaurants there, they used the title this pair "Get the Munchies" instead Harold & Kumar |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | HUT, HUT $400: With a low entry making an enemy stoop awkwardly, the iQukwane hut is said to have the shape of this insect structure a beehive |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | INTO THE J*E*T STREAM $200: To use a syringe to put a drug into a person's body inject |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $400: Many Australians celebrate this holiday in a homegrown way with a chocolate bilby; that's a marsupial Easter |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $1000: At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion Paul Blart: Mall Cop |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $800: Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase the bee's knees |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | CHARTED $1000: His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances Mercator |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | CHAIR-ISH $400: It's the insect name for the type of chair seen here a butterfly chair |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | PLOT POINT REWRITES $800: McMurphy returned to the ward as his old self, even livelier--instead of the planned surgery, the doctor had fixed a troubling hernia One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $2000: In the 2010 World Cup final, Andres Iniesta scored the goal to defeat this country that beat Spain in 1648 for its independence the Netherlands |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS $200: Instead of income tax, you have to pay a Central Perk Tab in the Monopoly edition based on this TV show Friends |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | GRAZE ANATOMY $200: Sheep don't have any upper front these, using a dental pad instead teeth |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | GRAZE ANATOMY $600: Llamas are sure-footed grazers because of their padded feet, which have these on their toes instead of hooves nails |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THAT'S CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Eve on "Killing Eve", she considered studying journalism but went to Montreal's National Theatre School instead (Sandra) Oh |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | LISTEN UP! $200: I said no! It's cashew on delivery...! After a failed joke, you are said to hear the noise of this insect crickets |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | A BORING CATEGORY $400: The emerald ash borer, a bark-eating type of this insect, has killed 40 million trees just in Michigan a beetle |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | LOST & FOUND $1600: Anne & Helge Ingstad rediscovered this North American Viking settlement thought to have been named for grapes Vinland |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $200: Timothy Winegard's 2019 book about this insect is subtitled "A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" the mosquito |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $200: Due to his New Deal spending, some called the president Franklin Deficit Roosevelt instead of using this middle name Delano |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FASHIONABLY $600: Wrap yourself up snug as a bug in its chrysalis state in this type of coat named for an insect structure a cocoon |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | -ISMs $1200: Saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow" is one of these, named for an Anglican clergyman a spoonerism |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: A small insect, or someone who reads a lot bookworm |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | NONFICTION $1200: "World of Wonders" mentions the glimmer-pop of this insect on a summer night fireflies |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | THE CONSTITUTION $400: The Constitution omits this 4-letter word, instead politely saying the president "shall return" a bill "with his objections" veto |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $200: Larboard, or the loading side, was once starboard's opposite, but to avoid confusion, sailors opted for this term instead port |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | FOR YOUR PIES ONLY $1000: Patti LaBelle is famed for this pie that can actually be made with yams instead of the tubers in its name sweet potato pie |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A CINEMATIC WEDDING ABROAD $400: In this 1965 film the captain calls off his marriage to the baroness & instead weds Maria in an abbey church with Alpine views The Sound of Music |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MR. PRESIDENT $400: Thomas Jefferson made the presidency less monarchical, shaking hands with guests instead of doing this bowing |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "AU" $1200: The price goes down instead of up in the Dutch type of this process an auction |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | TIGER $400: The mighty tiger swallowtail is this type of insect a butterfly |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | MODERN KITCHEN APPLIANCES $200: Instead of the deep type of this device, which uses hot oil, try the air type, which uses convection heating air fryer |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DIETARY MATTERS $400: A low-carb ketogenic diet tries to induce ketosis so that the body burns this instead fat |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | KNIVES OUT $800: The Philippine folding balisong knife is better known by this insect name butterfly knives |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE $400: Queens of this "sweet" insect species emit a "queen substance" that attracts males from other hives honeybees |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | GOOD "BI" $400: Zoologists don't consider the American buffalo a buffalo; they use this word instead a bison |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE $800: A pheromone in the "desert" type of these insect pests leads to them forming swarms of biblical proportions locusts |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CRASS WARFARE $3,000 (Daily Double): The USA's "Ghost Army" kept the Axis on its heels with inflatable M4 these, 93 pounds instead of the real thing's 32 tons tanks |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: A book called "The Magic Mirror of" this Dutch artist gives insight into how he created those optical effects M.C. Escher |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $1000: "The trial and the melodramatic conclusion" of this "seem contrived. But (the) insight into Southern mores is impressive" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | MAKING & REMAKING ROBIN HOOD $1200: Instead of Friar Tuck, this director played Rabbi Tuckman in his parody called "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" Mel Brooks |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A block of precious metal of a standard shape & weight an ingot |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $1600: A pioneer imagist, he spent 1946-1958 in St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital, future home of John Hinckley Ezra Pound |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SYMBOLS $400: Napoleon chose this insect to represent his status as emperor: it's hardworking, industrious & loyal the bee |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | NOW LISTEN TO ME $1000: I'm whining--not in complaint but to imitate this insect of the genus Aedes a mosquito |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | QUESTIONABLE VERBS $1600: A synonym for "canvass", it means to survey the opinions of a group to gain insight to poll |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NATURE $800: Instead of hemoglobin, an octopus has hemocyanin, which gives it this feature blue blood |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NATURE $1600: Also called Dionaea, this insect-eating plant of the Carolinas doesn't eat the ones that pollinate it; pretty smart a Venus flytrap |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | CANADIAN PLACES $1200: Traditionally constructed by the Inuit, Inuksuit are stone figures used as landmarks in this Inuit-majority territory Nunavut |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | SPACE-PODGE $200: So far we haven't been able to take a picture of the entirety of this galaxy of ours; NASA uses images of Messier 74 instead the Milky Way |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | PROS & CONS $600: Showing great insight & to cause to become perplexed profound & confound |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | THAT WORD WAS A TRADEMARK $1000: Black Flag still makes this brand of insect trap that has now come to mean a seedy place to spend the night a Roach Motel |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | MINCED OATHS $1600: Instead of referencing the almighty's son, this rhyming phrase with the same initial letters was used jeepers creepers |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $800: Instead of seeds, non-flowering plants like ferns, use these one-cell units to reproduce spores |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | STARTS WITH "E" $1,500 (Daily Double): A Christian holiday, or any sudden insight Epiphany |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Instead of calm or nonchalance, try this French phrase that means cold blood sang froid |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | ANIMALS $200: Those look like snake heads, but they are really the wing tips of the atlas this four-letter insect moth |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DOCTOR, NO! $400: No way! Back in the day, instead of tobacco, doctors used Page's inhalers, "medicated" these with tea leaves & kola nuts cigarettes |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $1,200 (Daily Double): When it comes to grading diamonds. the 4 Cs are cut, color, carat & this clarity |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | WORD DERIVATIONS $800: In Spanish, the language it's from, this word for a show of daring ends with "t-a" instead of "d-o" bravata |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BEASTLY REVIEWS $400: Including the weevil & the ladybug, there are 400,000 species of this insect type, more than any other animal on earth; 5 out of 5 stars beetles |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): This iconic insect theme was written by Rimsky-Korsakov as an interlude for the opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" "Flight Of The Bumblebee" |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $800: Tender-Conscience is the hero of an anonymous author's "Third Part" of this work, tacked on to John Bunyan's parts 1 & 2 The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | NEW TECHNOLOGY $2000: Instead of contaminating a burger, this bacterium can now make indigo in a process invented by a biotech company E. coli |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: U.S. executive mansion that's a legal confinement to one's own residence instead of prison White House arrest |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | I'D RATHER HAVE $200: Instead of any current politician, I'd have lunch with this 16th president & hear about frontier life Lincoln |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | I'D RATHER HAVE $400: Instead of a fancy restaurant meal, I'd rather have a backyard cookout serving up grilled these, like brats & chorizos sausages |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | I'D RATHER HAVE $1000: Instead of a beer, I'd rather have this French wine that Food & Wine Mag calls "the world's most popular white" chardonnay |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THEY DIDN'T SURVIVE THE FILM $200: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" in this film Forrest Gump |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | MAY DAY! MAY DAY! $600: Until May 1, 2008 Washington, D.C.'s cabs didn't have these; they used a zone system instead meters |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $1000: In "National Lampoon's Animal House", Dean Wormer tells Flounder, this 4-word state "is no way to go through life, son" Fat, drunk, and stupid |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $800: John Coffey doesn't ride the lightning & instead gets a full pardon & is released from death row The Green Mile |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | ROLL WITH IT $400: Instead of evaluating all applications after a hard deadline, some colleges use this 2-word process & reply more quickly rolling admission |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | SCHOLARSHIP $2000: In 1925 Leslie Hotson unearthed the 332-year-old record of the inquest into this "Dr. Faustus" playwright's death Marlowe |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $2000: Based on a 1960 Hugo award-winning novel, this movie starred Casper van Dien & Denise Richards as soldiers fighting insect-like aliens Starship Troopers |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | ANIMAL FACTS $1000: Insect blood does not have this protein that transports oxygen in our bodies & makes our blood red hemoglobin |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | LATIN PHRASES $1600: Julius Caesar summed up his victory in a 47 B.C. campaign with these 3 Latin words Veni, vidi, vici |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COMEDIA DELL'ARTE CHARACTERS $2000: Pedrolino often used white makeup instead of a mask & was the inspiration for the tragic clown of this Leoncavallo opera Pagliacci |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $400: Poets write of the evening "song" of this grasshopper relative, as in Archibald Lampman's "The homely" this "gossips at my feet" a cricket |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $800: In French this insect is a "coccinelle" & usually rouge avec points noirs (red with black spots) a ladybug |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $1200: One variety of this insect from Australia can grow up to 2 feet long a stick bug |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | RUBRIC CUES $1000: On men's pants these generally give a dressier look, but tuxedo pants are hemmed instead cuffs |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $1600: This type of delivery means that the baby is born feet or tushie first instead of head first breech |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $600: Non-fluid aneroid barometers use a partial one of these instead of mercury to measure air pressure vacuum |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES $200: In an Irish tale, clever Tom captures this title magical creature who promises to bring him wealth, but deceives him instead a leprechaun |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | MEDICAL MATTERS $1600: Red blood cells should be round but instead are crescent shaped in this type of anemia sickle cell anemia |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | IT COMES THIRD $1200: Beethoven was going to dedicate his 3rd symphony to Napoleon; instead he called it this, for "the memory of a great man" Eroica |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $1600: Appearing in mask & with sword on the cover of "As You Wish", this British actor gives insight on the making of "The Princess Bride" Cary Elwes |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHERE'S THE FLOWER? $1000: Here's Cuba's national flower, the mariposa, the Spanish name of this insect that the petals resemble the butterfly |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | "K"-9, -10 & -11 $1600: It's the insect-eating bird with a royal-sounding name, seen here a kingfisher |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELTIES $800: Ordering these sea creatures got you a packet of brine shrimp eggs instead of primates Sea-Monkeys |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $1600: 2 chambers of the heart quiver instead of beating properly in the condition called "AF", standing for this atrial fibrillation |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | INTERNATIONAL YULETIDE $600: This is a Christmas staple in Latin America, although some in Central America use banana leaves instead of corn husks tamales |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $1200: Perhaps Daveed Diggs should've won 2 Tonys for "Hamilton" instead of just one for playing both Thomas Jefferson & this Frenchman Lafayette |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $2000: Feeding on flies, zyzzyx is a sand type of this stinging insect a wasp |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | PATRIOT GAMES $800: On Oct. 11, 1963 the Red Sox weren't playing; it was the Patriots' first game of 6 seasons in this home field Fenway Park |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK! $200: In November 2018 fights broke out at a Houston-area bank when one of these began doling out $100s instead of $10s an ATM |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: If they used a well-known brand of kosher hot dogs instead of bats, the Dodgers & Phillies would be in this baseball group the Hebrew National League |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | HERE, KITTY $400: In the voice box, great cats like the lion & tiger have instead of the epihyal bone a special ligament letting them do this roar |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE $800: Revolutionary War hero Joshua Barney was so dashing that in France in 1782, this queen let him kiss her cheek instead of her hand Marie Antoinette |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | DEEP STUFF $200: This "Star Trek" spin-off boldly stayed in place--it took place on a station instead of a ship Deep Space Nine |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | FANTASY FOOTBALL $400: If this team had just handed it to Marshawn Lynch instead of calling a pass from the 1 in Super Bowl 49... the Seahawks |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | WORDS THAT USE ALL 5 VOWELS $400: To inject someone with a small amount of a disease so that they can become immune to it to inoculate |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $2000: Instead of Christmas the family in the movie "Captain Fantastic" observes the birthday of this linguist & left-wing social critic Noam Chomsky |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents a diagram on the monitor.) When you have two independent clauses that are separated by a comma, it's called a comma this, & it's to be avoided; instead, try adding a conjunction a comma splice |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | "T" BIRDS $800: In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead the turkey |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | THE GENDER-FREE OPTION $1600: How about "synthetic" or "artificial" instead of this hyphenated adjective man-made |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | OLD PHRASES $1200: Mercutio says "a plague o' both your houses", but often people say this other "P" word instead of "plague" pox |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: It's a word that tells people you're in a group; in the Bible those who said "sib" instead of "shib" were slaughtered a shibboleth |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | THE INSECT WORLD $400: The lepidopteran family Tineidae includes the clothes type of this insect a moth |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | THE INSECT WORLD $800: In the Bible 3 of the 10 plagues of Egypt were caused by insects: these swarmers were in at No. 8 locusts |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | THE INSECT WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): This bee named for its habit of tunneling into wood looks like a big, less hairy bumblebee a carpenter bee |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | THE INSECT WORLD $1200: There may be as many as 8 million species of insects & all have bodies divided into 3 major sections: head, abdomen & this thorax |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | THE INSECT WORLD $2000: Insects breathe through these holes in their exoskeletons, with a name from the Latin for "breathe" spiracles |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | BURGERS $600: Not seen on In-N-Out's drive-thru menu is the "Protein Style" burger, which uses this instead of a bun lettuce |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POPULAR INVENTION $600: Around 1870 Thomas Adams was experimenting with Central Amer. tree resin to replace rubber, but instead developed this (chewing) gum |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: In the early 20th century, he introduced a concept of nonviolent resistance called satyagraha Gandhi |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | THE LIVING WORLD $2000: The only insect to migrate across an ocean is called the wandering this, like an aircraft type; it covers miles without a wingflap glider |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | ALIEN INVASION! $400: The Asian tiger type of this insect found throughout the U.S. can transmit diseases like the Zika & West Nile viruses the mosquito |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | LET'S MAKE A NEW DEAL $400: The Federal Theater Project mounted an all-African-American version of this Shakespeare play set in Haiti instead of Scotland Macbeth |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | NAME THAT "OON" $1000: If you insist on chewin' that tobacco, make sure to expel it into this bowl a spittoon |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $200: Kat Graham played Nina Dobrev's very witchy friend Bonnie on this CW show The Vampire Diaries |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $400: The Martha Graham School of Contemporary this 5-letter art form is found in New York City dance |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $600: The flour Sylvester Graham promoted was turned into this baked good in the 1850s; using it in s'mores came later a graham cracker |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $800: This swimsuit model & body-positive activist is a judge on "America's Next Top Model" Ashley Graham |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $1000: In 2003 Lindsey Graham took over Strom Thurmond's Senate seat to represent this Southern state South Carolina |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | FIND A SYNONYM $1600: Instead of "global", you can use this more cosmic word for something that applies everywhere universal |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | YOU ARE A BAD SAILOR $200: Why did you insist on putting refrigerator magnets on the binnacle? You've completely messed up this device a compass |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | HEAVY SCIENCE $600: The heaviest beetle, & maybe the heaviest insect, is this 3-ouncer with a Biblical name goliath |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | POTENT POTABLES $600: A classic martini gets an olive, but a Gibson martini has a pearl one of these instead an onion |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PLANTS & FLOWERS $400: In addition to the insect in its name, this plant also eats spiders & crickets a Venus flytrap |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $2000: The Message Bible brings "a prize-winning heifer" to the prodigal son's feast instead of this familiar phrase a fatted calf |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | QUOTING THE CLASSICS $800: Aesop's moral to this insect fable:
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow" "The Ant and the Grasshopper" |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | THE AUNT HILL $800: With the help of a giant fruit & insect friends, this boy escapes his mean aunts Sponge & Spiker James (Trotter) |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | BEER $600: Instead of only using barley, Weissbier adds this grain into the mix wheat |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | "TOUCH"-Y, "FEEL"-Y $200: They're the long, thin parts on an insect's head used to search for food feelers |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $400: In the preface to this 1937 book, Tolkien explains that he is using "dwarves" instead of the preferred plural, "dwarfs" The Hobbit |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | U3 $600: Tom Jones could have sung "It's Not Uncommon" but went with this instead unusual |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | WE WOULD HAVE ALSO ACCEPTED... $200: It's okay to say "What is a diadem?" instead of this word for a small semi-circular crown a tiara |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | WE WOULD HAVE ALSO ACCEPTED... $600: Holy See is a perfectly fine response to use instead of this name for a small European country Vatican City |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $600: Instead of merging with the NBA, owners of the St. Louis team in this league got a cut of NBA TV money in perpetuity--hello, $300 mil.! the ABA (or American Basketball Association) |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | DEPRESSION-ERA DINING $400: Emeril Lagasse has brought back the desperation pie, which uses the apple cider type of this instead of lemons vinegar |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | FRANZ KAFKA $800: This story begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" Metamorphosis |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | ANIMAL FAKERS $200: AKA mosquito hawk or darning needle, this insect does not breathe magical fire dragonfly |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | WHAT A DAD WANTS $400: Dad's hungry! But on his own terms, opting for Wingstreet Chicken Wings at this chain instead of its title fare Pizza Hut |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | SHAPELY ADJECTIVES $800: Alveated means having the shape of one of these insect dwellings, be it vaulted or honeycombed a (bee) hive |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | COMMUNICATION $400: In Britain they dial 999 in emergencies instead of this number we use 911 |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $800: This 6-letter name of the shrimp seen here also follows "praying" in the name of an insect mantis |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $400: Deborah in Hebrew & Melissa in Greek both translate as this insect important to farming the bee |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | FIRST "IN", LAST "OUT" $800: Molten gold is sometimes poured into this type of mold an ingot |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | WHICH STATE? $600: Has parishes instead of counties Louisiana |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | CYBER MONDAY $400: You can also use "Amazon" or "Computer" to talk to your Echo device instead of this 5-letter name Alexa |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | THE GENDER-FREE OPTION $200: How about "first year" instead of this term for students entering high school freshmen |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | THE GENDER-FREE OPTION $800: An equal-opportunity archvillain can call his employees lackeys or minions instead of this 8-letter word henchmen |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ETYMOLOGY $400: Pavilion comes from the Latin for this beautiful insect a butterfly |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | CONQUISTADORS $400: Sent to Mexico to get this Spanish leader to resign, Panfilo de Narvaez lost the battle & his eye instead Cortés |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | BASEBALL-ADJACENT FACTS $1200: A headline about "switch-pitcher" Pat Venditte used this land & water word instead of "ambidextrous" amphibious |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | ENDS IN AN F SOUND $800: It can refer to a certain type of young insect, like this one, as well as a minor nature goddess a nymph |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | "HI" "HO" $200: An itchy skin condition, or places for certain insect colonies hives |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | ELECTION 1968 $400: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue.) Despite fears for his safety, Robert F. Kennedy spoke as scheduled in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968 but instead of his prepared remarks, gave a shocked crowd this news Martin Luther King's assassination |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | SpaceX $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, California.) Instead of a conventional test payload, Falcon Heavy's first launch carried a Tesla roadster, piloted by a mannequin named this, the title of a David Bowie song about an extraterrestrial who's waiting in the sky Starman |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | THE COMPANY CAR $800: Need some insight on its Insight? OK--the car gets 44 MPG Honda |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | HOW CHEAP WERE THEY? $200: Worth $58 billion, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad got haircuts when visiting developing countries instead of in this homeland Sweden |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $400: "I would throw out the old maxim, my country", this, "and instead I would say, 'My country when she is right'" right or wrong |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | GO FLY A KITE! $400: Kite Power Systems in the U.K. is developing the use of kites instead of turbines to provide this type of energy wind power |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | GO FLY A KITE! $600: The 1822 "Charvolant" was this type of passenger vehicle pulled at up to 20 MPH by kites instead of horses a carriage (or chariot) |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | DEAL THE CARDS $200: In a variant of this game, instead of "Do you have any aces?", you ask for an ace of a specific suit Go Fish |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | DEAL THE CARDS $800: Hold the gin & deal 7 cards when 3 or 4 play this game instead of just 2 people rummy |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $2,200 (Daily Double): The name of these yellow & black study guides is used to suggest "a superficial grounding but no real insight" CliffsNotes |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | WHY DO I KNOW THIS?! $800: On the 2018 edition of "The Bachelor", this ex-car racer broke up with fiancee Becca to pick Lauren instead Arie Luyendyk |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | A LIGHT CATEGORY $1200: Many stoves now use piezoelectric sparks instead of these to ignite the gas pilot lights |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $1000: Boaty McBoatface won a poll for the name of a big polar ship, but instead, the name chosen honors this British naturalist (David) Attenborough |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | A VANILLA CATEGORY $600: Mrs. Bumstead could tell you that a brownie made with vanilla instead of chocolate is called this a blondie |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | SHAKESPEAREAN MENAGERIE $1600: Ariel sings to Prospero, "where" this insect "sucks, there suck I; in a cowslip's bell I lie" the bee |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | A LITTLE MISTAKE $400: 4-letter result of hitting the "Q" on the keyboard instead of the "W" a typo |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | A LITTLE MISTAKE $1000: I used 30 instead of 29.87 in my calculations, leading to this kind of minor error a rounding error |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | ARCHITECTURE $1,800 (Daily Double): Instead of Doric, seen here, columns at Athens' temple of Athena Nike are in this order, named for a region in Asia Minor Ionic |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $200: A hypodermic instrument to inject fluids into the body a syringe |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | THAT RAISES A RED FLAG $1000: You'd think this British island would have a certain cat on its flag, but instead has the triskelion seen here the Isle of Man |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $600: Instead of "Hey, pal" or "mister", you can say "Hey", this word made popular by the character Wolverine bub |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | "YI" OUGHTA...! $1200: How cool would the street sign look if it used its synonym instead--surrender! yield |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | "YI" OUGHTA...! $1600: It's the insect seen here doing its thing a praying mantis |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | VIRUSES $600: The St. Louis encephalitis virus is transmitted in a cycle of bird to this insect to bird mosquito |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | PRONOUN TEST $1000: Let's not argue about whether it's OK to use this 5-letter relative pronoun instead of "that" in a restrictive clause which |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | THEATER SUPERSTITIONS $800: Hopefully it won't really happen, but instead of wishing an actor good luck, tell him to do this break a leg |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | WHAT'S YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL? $600: A jumping insect is the name (but not an ingredient) of this cocktail of cream, green creme de menthe & white creme de cacao grasshopper |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | 21st CENTURY OPERAS $800: This Welsh poet's "Under Milk Wood" was sung instead of spoken in a 2017 production (Dylan) Thomas |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | MANY ARE CALLED $800: ftc.gov says, "If you answer the phone & hear a recorded message instead of a live person, it's" this 8-letter annoyance a robocall |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | NEW CAREERS! $1600: The next decade or so is expected to bring 25% more jobs in this kind of care, like for the company Home Instead senior or elder care |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | THE VEGAN LIFE $400: Some vegan chefs make this sandwich spread by forgoing the egg & using cashews instead mayonnaise |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): A line from this kids' book: "Horrid little beasts... I shall like you so much better when you're skins instead of pups" 101 Dalmatians |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $400: Milkweed is being planted in the Midwest in an effort to preserve this "regal" insect a monarch butterfly |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | "I" CATCHING $1200: An investigation by a coroner to answer the question "How did he die?" an inquest |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | MEDICATIONS $2000: Instead of "calm down", some people say "take" this chill pill aka diazepam Valium |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | "EXO" $1000: Glands like sweat glands that secrete into layers of the skin instead of the bloodstream exocrine |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | PITT LIT $2000: A nurse is supposed to institutionalize a girl born with Down syndrome in this novel but instead moves to Pittsburgh with her The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $800: (Sarah shows an insect on the monitor.) This section of an insect's body takes its name from the Latin for "breastplate" thorax |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | HOMOPHONIC ANIMALS $1200: When this leaping insect can't pay rent, he just gets the heck out of Dodge a flea |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | PUBLIC ANEMONE $800: Sea anemones' tentacles have nematocysts that inject poison to do this to prey, which is a lot easier to kill afterwards paralyze |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | BUGS MEANIE $200: It's not hooray for hollow wood! A pest control co. says this insect causes $5 billion in damages & repair costs annually a termite |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | FIND IT ON THE INSIDE $1200: An insect home inside little green things atop a baked potato a hive |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | GOOD CAUSES $1,000 (Daily Double): J. Robert Atkinson, blinded in an accident, founded this inst. after transcribing books for his own library the Braille Institute |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS $1200: After Vera Miles' pregnancy, Hitch lost interest in her; Kim Novak got the lead in this film instead Vertigo |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | "INSTA"! $400: Now common, this TV sports innovation was first used in the 1963 Army-Navy college football game instant replay |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | "INSTA"! $800: "A community of more than 600 mil. who capture & share the world's moments" is promised by this internet service Instagram |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | "INSTA"! $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the ceremonial process of placing a new official in a job installation (or instating) |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | "INSTA"! $1600: This Kodak camera used an easily loaded drop-in film cartridge an Instamatic |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | "INSTA"! $2000: Referring to an unsettled situation, this word used in meteorology can be "regional" in political science instability |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CARD GAMES $400: You don't have to be in Nebraska to play this Texas Hold 'Em variant in which you're dealt 4 cards down instead of 2 Omaha |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STATE SYMBOLS $400: The Colorado Hairstreak, one of these, has floated in as Colorado's state insect a butterfly |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | TINDER $1000: An axe head can get stuck; instead, use this 4-letter heavy hammer to split firewood a maul |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | I TAKE THE FIFTH $400: I take the fifth set 7-6 (7-3) in this, played instead of a 13th game a tiebreaker |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $200: In the 1690s this captain was assigned to hunt pirates but became one, plundering instead of protecting ships Captain Kidd |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | RUINING THE RUMORS $600: Despite the legend, entomologists have known for years how this insect, genus Bombus, can fly bumblebees |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Mall in Washington, D.C.) Because the ground is firmer, the Washington Monument was placed here, instead of at a spot in the center of the original D.C., as planned by this designer of the city (Pierre) L'Enfant |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | LET'S REMODEL THE KITCHEN $800: Instead of an island, we'll be installing this item seen here, also named for a type of landmass a peninsula |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | NAUGHTY BY NATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): There's a 17-year & a 13-year type of this noisy insect that has multiple different calls to annoy you cicadas |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A PLANE $600: The plane named for this "monthly" insect first took flight in that month in the summer of 1908 the junebug |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | INSECTS $400: Mantis religiosa is a scientific name for this insect the praying mantis |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | INSECTS $1200: The Aedes genus of this insect carries dengue & encephalitis a mosquito |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | TV FOR THEE $800: If we rebuilt Steve Austin in 2017 instead of 1974 when this show premiered, the title number would be $30 million The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $400: In November 1862 this bewhiskered man replaced General McClellan as head of Union troops Burnside |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | YOU BUG ME $600: Gene science has led to thoughts of eradicating this insect, or maybe just the Culex genus that spreads encephalitis a mosquito |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IN THE NEWS: 2017 $200: Ben Carson wanted to be president, but instead settled for this cabinet position Housing and Urban Development |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | RADIO, RADIO $400: Mariners used to rely on radio beacons in these towers but now satellite positioning is used instead lighthouses |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | TANGLED UP IN BLUE $800: Blu-Ray video technology uses a blue one of these beams instead of the red one used by DVD a laser |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | DIFFERING BY ONE LETTER $200: A thin-waisted stinging insect & a tuft of hair wasp or wisp |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | THE I.T. DEPARTMENT $800: A Packers fan insisted on a laptop with memory in GBs instead of TBs, this measurement terabytes |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | DONE THERE $400: Becoming a man in the Amazon can be tough--boys of the Satere-Mawe must wear gloves filled with the bullet type of this insect an ant |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPELLING "BEE" $400: A towering hairdo, or an insect nest a beehive |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $1000: Excuse my this type of "reach" to get the salt instead of asking you to pass it boardinghouse |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | BETWEEN FIVE & FOUR $1200: "Insectoid" term for a sleazy hotel a flea trap (or fleabag) |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I NEED SOME TUDOR-ING $1200: The Tudors claimed the British throne with a victory over this monarch at Bosworth Field Richard III |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | HIT THE GYM $800: The Springfree brand of this lets you spring without springs; composite rods are used instead a trampoline |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | ALFALFA $400: No boll, the alfalfa type of this insect can devastate crops if not controlled weevil |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $1200: The Brits use a different prefix, producing this word instead of "counter-clockwise" anticlockwise |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $800: A male nursery web spider offers a female an insect wrapped in this; if snubbed, he deads up & gets dragged off with the gift silk |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | INSECTS $800: Wireworms, which feed on such ag products as corn & soybeans, are the larvae of the click type of this insect a beetle |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $5,000 (Daily Double): Technically, June 17 in Massachusetts should be called Breed's Hill Day instead of this Bunker Hill Day |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | SIX FEET UNDER $400: The 6 feet (OK, legs) under an insect are typically attached to this, the middle of its 3 body sections the thorax |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GET A JOB! $800: You can use "person" instead of "boy" in this word for one who clears tables busboy |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Instead of ending so the ballgame can start, the national anthem leads into a 1932 novel of the future the home of the Brave New World |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $400: "Go to" this hardworking insect, "thou sluggard; consider her ways" an ant |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | THE JEOPARDY! SORTING HAT $1000: The hat is all abuzz; you are now a member of this tiniest insect variety of hummingbirds bee hummingbirds |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | "A" FOR ART $400: This genre of art does not attempt to represent external reality, but communicates instead using shapes & colors abstract |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | BEASTLY STATE SYMBOLS $1000: The green darner one of these is Washington's state insect a dragonfly |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 7-LETTER VERBS $400: To leave your waiter 45% instead of 15% overtip |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): While it feeds mainly on termites & the insect in its name, this toothless mammal also enjoys avocados an anteater |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | TOUGH CHILDREN'S LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): In an 1883 book the talking insect tells him, "Woe to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home" Pinocchio |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | STUFF THAT EXPLODES $1600: The "bombardier" type of this insect gets its name because it blasts its enemies with an explosive puff of hot liquid a beetle |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | WOMEN OF NOTE $400: In the Bible, this woman says God "hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel" Eve |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | IN COGNITO $800: This bar of gold an ingot |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Michael Herr wrote in "Dispatches", "I think that" this place "was what we had instead of happy childhoods" Vietnam |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | CROSSED OFF WALTZ $2000: Dancing in "Ain't Misbehavin'" I performed Fats Waller's waltz with this "insect" name "Jitterbug Waltz" |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | U.S. COINS $200: On a penny you won't find the word "penny" but this instead one cent |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $200: In the old days of law enforcement, people might say, "There's a new shrieve in town" instead of this job sheriff |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $1000: Instead of B.C. some prefer the less religious B.C.E., for "before" this "Era" the Common Era |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | WE'LL BE GRILLIN' & CHILLIN' $400: Named for an insect, the preparation for grilling involves splitting meat down the middle butterflying |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | POISONOUS PLANTS $400: The stinging variety of this plant is covered in minute hairs that inject irritants when they are touched nettle |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | TV CHARACTERS $600: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I was going to kill off this character at the end of Season 1, but once we cast Aaron Paul, we killed that idea instead Jesse Pinkman |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1600: In 1796 Samuel Miles became the first elector to switch his vote, voting for Thomas Jefferson instead of this man John Adams |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | BOTANY $1600: Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus that's spread by the bark type of this insect a beetle |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | LETTER PERFECT $400: Instead of a middle name, Harry Truman's parents gave him just this middle initial S |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | INTERNATIONAL DAYS OF THE WEEK $1600: Instead of "Monday, Monday", the French Mamas & Papas would have sung this, this lundi, lundi |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN... THE BEETLES! $400: In the late 1800s this "fly away home" beetle was brought in to save California's citrus crops from insect pests ladybug |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | 3 VOWELS IN A ROW $800: Instead of "instead of", you can say "in" this "of" lieu |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $1200: 3 main types of classical Japanese theater are noh, kabuki & bunraku, which uses these instead of the actors puppets |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: As a mission specialist on STS-8 aboard one of these, Guion Bluford helped deploy INSAT-1B a Space Shuttle |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | TAKE IT "EZ" $600: Not to be confused with the Spanish word for beer, it's the Spanish word for head cabeza |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | A COOK-OFF $600: Be creative & use lima beans instead of chickpeas to make this Middle Eastern pita shmear hummus |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | "GAD"ZOOKS! $600: "Insect" term for a person who persistently annoys others with criticism a gadfly |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | TOYS $800: A spring that "walked" instead of falling when knocked over inspired this marvelous toy a Slinky |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | WHAT'S EATING YOU? $1200: The buzz is that the gallinipper is one of the largest types of this insect known for causing malaria a mosquito |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $800: Of the 4 creatures God sent as plagues upon the Egyptians, the one that isn't an insect frogs |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | SPACECRAFT TYPES $1000: Like the Cassini around Saturn, this type of spacecraft by definition doesn't land, but circles a planet instead an orbital probe |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | KNOT THE TIE $400: A style of bow tie with widening ends like wings is named for this insect a butterfly |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | ENTOMOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $600: Chitin is the main component of this tough, outer supporting structure of an insect the exoskeleton |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | ENTOMOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $1000: 7-letter term for the imitation by harmless insect species of poisonous ones to fool predators mimicry |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | FICTIONAL HUNCHBACKS $1600: In a Verdi opera, this hunchback jester vows to kill the Duke of Mantua but his daughter Gilda is killed instead Rigoletto |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | ROCKS & MINERALS $3,000 (Daily Double): The inside walls of these hollow rocks are lined with crystals geodes |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | CHICAGO TV $1200: If this sitcom was titled with the characters' last names instead of their first, it would be "Mr. Biggs & Ms. Flynn" Mike & Molly |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1600: He's the first African American from New Jersey to serve in the U.S. Senate Cory Booker |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | NOW YOU SEE ME $1000: This hard to spot insect lives up to its name, & some can force a toxin-containing blood from their exoskeletons a walking stick |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: In the 1990s printmakers took this French word for "squirted" to refer to fine art prints made using inkjet technology giclee |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | DRINK & FOOD $1200: This Mexican dish is kind of a taco with a flat instead of a curved shell a tostada |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | REAL ESTATE $1000: In England you don't contact a realtor to buy or sell property, but an "estate" one of these instead an agent |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | YOU BUG ME $1000: Bombus is the genus of this hairy insect a bumblebee |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | YOU BUG ME $1,200 (Daily Double): The queen of this destructive insect of the order Isoptera can lay 30,000 eggs a day for years on end a termite |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | FLORIDA & FAUNA $800: The Miami blue type of this insect is endangered; Hurricane Andrew wiped out one of the last colonies butterflies |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE MISSPELLED WORD $400: The atheist believed his existence would conclude with his final excursion to the cemetary cemetery |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | LET'S "GO" $800: The life stages of an insect: larva, pupa & then this adult one imago |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): After World War II he began writing mostly in French instead of his native tongue Samuel Beckett |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | RECENT CINEMA $400: As a tiny superhero, Paul Rudd enlists the aid of his insect allies to defeat Yellow Jacket in this film Ant-Man |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO $800: Marx & Engels wrote the manifesto for a society of German emigrants that met in this capital London |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A BOUNTIFUL TABLE $800: For Mexican-style this, Rachael Ray uses flour tortillas instead of flat pasta strips to separate the layers lasagna |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | FALLING OFF A LOG $600: The badger may be looking for a larval insect called this, also a word for human food grub |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | FALLING OFF A LOG $800: In Madagascar, the hissing type of this insect is semi-social as they nest together and take care of their offspring cockroach |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | CALIFORNIA WINE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Viticulture & Enology Dept. at UC Davis.) Grape growing is a constant battle against phylloxera, an insect that in the 19th century nearly wiped out the French wine industry; it's basically the vineyard equivalent of this garden plant louse an aphid |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | DEBUT NOVELS $2000: His first novel "Burmese Days" was published in 1934, not long after he began using this name instead of Eric Blair George Orwell |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | ORDERS OF MAMMALS $800: Chiroptera is made up exclusively of these, which may be fruit- or insect-eating bats |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | NEW MEXICO $800: New Mexico's state insect is a 2-inch long wasp named for this type of large spider it preys on a tarantula |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | FIRST AID STRATAGEMS $800: If an adult victim of anaphylactic shock has an EpiPen on him, inject it in this area of the body the thigh |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HODGEPODGE $1600: The plot of this interlude by Rimsky-Korsakov: a prince turns into an insect & stings his villainous relatives "Flight Of The Bumblebee" |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | BRUTE, EH? $400: In the "Illiad" the gods are chided for not saving Hector's corpse & instead helping this "brute... devoid of pity" Achilles |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: A Mormon cricket is a long-horned type of this insect; if we could jump like them, we could leap about 120 feet in the air a grasshopper |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | "ANY" WAY $400: A sudden perception or insight, or a Christian festival epiphany |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: In 2014 the Times got less legalistic & began using this word instead of terms like "harsh interrogation techniques" torture |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $1000: From a Latin word for "sharpness", it means keen insight acumen |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $600: A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes transistors |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | LINGO $1200: The U.S. military does not do this 7-letter action; instead, it is referred to as a "tactical retrograde" retreat |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | DIET FADS $600: A campaign to use these for weight loss included a 1920s ad that said, "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" cigarettes |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | THE ARTFUL ROGER $1200: Imagist painter Roger Brown also did set design for productions like this composer's "Cosi Fan Tutte" Mozart |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | OUR MISTAKE! $2000: Mein Frau turned 50 on June 6, 1944, but I could have stayed in my job defending the French coast instead of visiting her in Germany Erwin Rommel (the Desert Fox) |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: Using radishes instead of cabbage, Melissa Clark puts her own spin on this spicy pickled Korean dish kimchi |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | USA! $800: Instead of counties, Louisiana is divided into 64 of these, probably each with its own church parishes |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $200: By crowd vote, this convict was released instead of Jesus Barabbas |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | PERFUME $1000: Jasmin Noir is made by this company that uses a "V" instead of a "U" in its name Bulgari |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | AYE $1000: Ending debate on Vivek Murthy's nomination for Surgeon General, on Dec. 15, 2014 the Senate agreed to invoke this cloture |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | MUSIC MISHMASH $2000: Mac Dre's influential 1998 gangsta rap album was titled "Don't Hate the Player", do this instead hate the game |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | ENDS IN "TH" $1000: "To" this "degree" means to a large but inexact extent the nth degree |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | A VISIT TO SLEEPY HOLLOW $2,400 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Sleepy Hollow, New York.) In an 1849 letter, Washington Irving wrote, "Naming it" this "instead of the Sleepy Hollow cemetery was a blunder"; Irving also noted, "I shall one day lay my bones there", & was correct Tarrytown Cemetery |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | YOUR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In September 1620 this merchant ship left England for America; instead of cargo, this time it brought 102 passengers the Mayflower |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | LIKE SUNDAY MORNING $600: Shopping is always nice, like at this outdoor spot with a bloodsucking insect in its name a flea market |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WHIP SMART $1600: Used by equestrians, this short whip with a popper instead of a lash will grow on you a crop |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: Liam Hemsworth was under consideration for the lead role in this 2011 film; his brother got the part instead Thor |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | RIVER BANK ON IT $400: It turns so sharply on its trip through Paris that its west bank becomes its east, so locals say Right & Left Bank instead the Seine |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | KAZAKHSTAN $800: K-stan has an official anthem, but at ceremonies, the one from this 2006 movie sometimes gets played instead Borat |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | BROUGHT TO YOU IN H_D $800: Term describing both a composite & a 2014 Honda Insight a hybrid |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | TECH GOOFS $400: An NYU student hit this 2-word button instead of forward & 40,000 folks (& mom) were e-mailed, "Do you want me to do this?" reply all |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | INTERIOR DESIGN $800: Using urethane for this molding at the juncture of wall & ceiling will allow you to use adhesive instead of nails crown molding |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | 1920s SLANG $800: Something that was the best could have been the ant's pants or this other insect rhyme the bee's knees |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | SMALL STUFF $1,000 (Daily Double): Placed on an insect's leg, the onetime world's smallest ad was fittingly created for this book's website The Guinness Book of World Records |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | A HAMBURGER WITH ALL THE FIXINGS $1000: Instead of the usual condiments, we'll finish it off with this 5-letter garlic mayo from France aioli |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | SEAS THE DAY $1200: Instead of traveling around Denmark, ships often use the Kiel Canal to travel between the Baltic & this sea the North Sea |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL FIRSTS $800: This first inaugural poet wrote "Dedication" for the occasion but recited "The Gift Outright" instead (Robert) Frost |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $800: A deep red color, or what a pirate might do to a captive instead of giving him the deep six maroon |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | GREEN SCENE $1200: Run your water through this, like a Brita, instead of buying bottled water & adding to waste a filter |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | THE NATURE OF THINGS $800: Crabs fear this type of shrimp, whose name is also on a praying insect; its punch has the power of a .22-caliber bullet a mantis |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | THE "NFL" $400: Double-winged "mythical" insect a dragonfly |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | CREATURE COMFORTS $800: A wood type of this insect sunbathes outside, then releases the heat in a 7'-tall communal structure ants |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | THAT'S MY CUP OF TEA $800: Developed in 17th century China, this type of tea is sometimes spelled starting "wu" instead of "oo" oolong |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | WORLD LEADERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Not wanting to lose sight of his origins, he refused to stay in the opulent presidential palace & instead had this humble stilt house built after becoming president of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | TURN, TURN, TURN $1200: A heavy wheel on a revolving shaft that helps regulate an engine's power has this insect name the flywheel |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | GETTING ATTACHED $200: 1968 brought the first major-brand sneakers with this brand name fastener instead of laces Velcro |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | IT'S RAINING $800: It did rain on this Pasadena parade in 2006, maybe because it was held on Jan. 2 instead of Jan. 1 the Rose Parade |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | NATURE $1000: As seen here, fossilized resin, called this, can preserve an insect forever amber |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | CHRONICLES $800: July 19, 1910 for this author:
"Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life" (but not waking as a big insect was ok!) Franz Kafka |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME $400: Named for Darth due to its shiny black head & slit eyes, Agathidium vaderi is one of the 300,000+ species of this insect a beetle |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME $600: Rostropria garbo, a wasp named for Greta, was so-named because of this propensity of the insect it likes to be alone |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BRITISH ENGLISH $600: Instead of "cell phone", the Brits use this adjective, reflecting the fact that you can take the phone with you mobile |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | WINE GRAPES $800: Robert Mondavi found a new lease on life for this varietal when he started calling it fume blanc instead of this Sauvignon blanc |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS $2000: These Comedy Central cubicle guys insist, "You gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta be fresh" Workaholics |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $4,000 (Daily Double): He "went content to the crocodile"; instead of "Bad form", his last words should have been "Here's seconds!" Captain Hook |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Ketosis occurs when this sugar is unavailable as a source of energy, causing the body to use fats instead glucose |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | LEGAL MATTERS $1600: This 4-word maxim with "proved" instead of "proven", is in the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights "innocent until proved guilty" |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | SPACE STUFF $1600: This bright hyphenated comet that was seen in the skies in the 1990s had 3 tails instead of one the Hale-Bopp comet |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | HOLD YOUR HORSES! $3,000 (Daily Double): This small breed usually has 23 vertebrae instead of most horses' 24; the Najd region has a major stud farm the Arabian |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FAIRY TALES $800: In an Irish tale, Farmer Tom meets one of these beings who promises to bring him riches but tricks him instead leprechaun |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | CRITTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This largest sea turtle is the only one that lacks a hard shell, having instead skin with tiny bone plates the leatherback turtle |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | GHOSTBUSTERS $1000: (Here's Sarah to wrap up the category.) Dan Aykroyd wanted it to be black, but because of all the night scenes, the 1959 Cadillac known as this-1 was painted white instead & the rest is history Ecto |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | A FEW WORDS WITH "MOM" & "DAD" $400: For very low temperatures, these may use magnets instead of mercury thermometers |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | INSIDE INFORMATION $400: Insect that can be carpenter or army ant |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | BUGS $1200: This "pious" insect can turn its triangular head 180 degrees praying mantis |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | BUGS $1,400 (Daily Double): Ladybugs & boll weevils are types of this insect, the largest order in the animal kingdom beetles |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $400: The western pygmy blue type of this insect has a wingspan of 3/8 of an inch a butterfly |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | SEALED $400: The Weddell seal is usually found hanging around this continent Antarctica |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | STICK IT $1200: Ambulatory 12-letter name of the insect seen here a walking stick |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1600: This court jester arranges to have the Duke of Mantua killed, but his own daughter Gilda switches places & is killed instead Rigoletto |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | "CO"NCERNING SCIENCE $5,600 (Daily Double): In an experiment, the people getting sugar pills instead of the drug being tested are this group a control group |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | POLITICAL TERMS $2000: A Republican who supported Cleveland in 1884 instead of Blaine; it's from an Indian word for "war leader" a Mugwump |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SUFFIXES $1600: 19th century folks loved this suffix meaning "place for", adding it to terr-, insect-, etc. -arium |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY $1000: In 1879 this young Scot documented his adventures in France in "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | NATIONAL PEOPLE? $800: The "Seinfeld" holiday Festivus employed one of these instead of a tree a Pole |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: Some small beach birds are called peeps instead of these "pipers" sandpipers |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THE CITY $400: The South Dakota capitol in this city saved money by using columns made of something called scagliola instead of marble Pierre |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | WORDS REFASHIONED $1600: You'll have all the answers if "question" yields this, a coroner's search for cause of death inquest |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | TWEETING $1000: The song of this North American insect eater is its name a whippoorwill |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $200: The equine botfly lays these on a horse's legs; you really don't want to know what happens next eggs |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $400: Holy Moses! A plague of these struck Egypt in 2013--that's A.D., by the way locusts |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $600: Don't get the bullet species of this social bug for your "farm"--it's said to have the most painful sting of any insect ant |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $800: You might be surprised
by the result--the pepsis species of this stinging insect preys on tarantulas a wasp |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | INSECT, REPELLENT $1000: It's bad enough there are jumping & hissing types--does there really have to be one called the true death's head? cockroach |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | THEY DRINK BLOOD $800: The head type of this insect, Pediculus capitis, cannot survive apart from humans for more than 24 hours lice |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: In a kids' book, Chester is this title type of insect who comes from Connecticut to live in Times Square a cricket |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | A BUG'S LIFE $400: These insects, like the Anopheles variety, use a tubelike proboscis to inject saliva & draw up blood mosquitoes |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | A BUG'S LIFE $800: This "religious" insect can rotate its head (almost) 180 degrees & is the only animal with only one ear a praying mantis |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | A GREEK MYTHTAKE $600: After this guy tricked Zeus into accepting the bones from a sacrifice instead of the meat, Zeus hid fire from man Prometheus |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | RUN EMC $2000: The equation's insight into the behavior of light was an extension of the work of this 3-named Scot around 1870 James Clerk Maxwell |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | TV CARTOONS $200: The most despised man in Springfield, he offered his employees a free beer policy instead of a dental plan Mr. Burns |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | NONFICTION $600: (I'm New York Times reporter James Risen.) In 2003 I co-authored "The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with" this rival spy organization that no longer exists KGB |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | SHELVING! YES, SHELVING! $200: This retailer denies reports it's redesigning its Billy bookcase for tchotchkes instead of books no one now buys Ikea |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | PLAY THAT FIDDLE $2000: Plucking instead of bowing the strings; Bartok called for doing it extra-hard so the string snaps onto the wood pizzicato |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $600: The amadinda, a type of this percussion instrument from Uganda, uses logs instead of wooden bars a xylophone |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | FUN WITH ACRONYMS $200: This insect is also an acronym for a member of the Caucasian upper middle class wasp |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | BOXING DAY $1600: Insectoid name for the professional boxing weight class from 108 to 112 pounds flyweight |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY $1200: The Beatles chose their name partly in homage to Buddy's backing band with this other insect name The Crickets |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | ANIMAL IMPOSTORS $800: The common European glowworm isn't an annelid but this an insect |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: This "Oresteia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus Aeschylus |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Reagan gave "Mr. Gorbachev" this 4-word challenge "Tear down this wall" |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES $200: When you say it's fiber from insect larvae made from cocoon spinning, it's hard to believe we love to sleep on sheets of it silk |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $800: Probation is supervised release instead of jail time; this is supervised release before a full sentence is served parole |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $800: In this opera Frederic is to be an apprentice pilot, but his nursemaid mishears & he begins a totally different career The Pirates of Penzance |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | "P"OETS $2,500 (Daily Double): This Imagist became immersed in Fascist politics while living in Italy (Ezra) Pound |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | AESOP'S FABLES $400: "The Ant and" this leaping insect Grasshopper |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | WORDPLAY $600: "You don't know? Come on, take a dot in the shark" is an example of this a spoonerism |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | SPORTS STUFF $1000: An iPhone commercial featured these 2 sisters playing ping pong instead of tennis the Williams sisters (Venus & Serena) |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | AMERICA'S CUP RACING $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Instead of a traditional fabric sail on a mast, vessels like the AC45 use a wing sail, a rigid structure predominantly made from this elemental fiber for its greater strength & lighter weight carbon fiber |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | THE "BE"GINNING $200: On Utah's flag, industry (the state motto) is symbolized by one of these insect structures a beehive |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $2000: This novel preceded "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" in a trilogy by Cornelia Funke Inkheart |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | INSECTS $800: The West Nile virus is transmitted predominantly by the Culex genus of this insect the mosquito |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $800: My taste buds have been amputated, Ida, yet I yearn for your pies with this insect name with brown sugar, molasses & butter shoo-fly |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | INSECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 inches long with a 4-inch wingspan, the giant darner is the USA's largest species of this insect a dragonfly |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | A USEFUL CATEGORY $400: WWII fighting on insect-infested fronts led to the development of spray cans powered by this aerosol |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT $2000: Instead of cash for clunkers, the Houston PD asks the public to I.D. criminals with a program called "Cash for" these crooks |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | CONSTRUCTION $1000: Want to make a construction pro crazy? Instead of concrete, use this word that means a powder that's found in concrete cement |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | ¡HOLA TEQUILA! $600: To enjoy a blue margarita, all you need is the blue type of this orange liqueur instead of triple sec curaçao |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | ANIMAL CARE $2,800 (Daily Double): Vets discourage this procedure unless absolutely necessary: it severs tendons & can make kitty a biter de-clawing |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | A "BAR"RAGE OF CLUES $1600: All 4 gospels mention this Jewish prisoner whom Pilate freed instead of Jesus Barabbas |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $600: "Kara's Flowers" didn't work, so the band with Adam Levine decided on this name instead Maroon 5 |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | AN OGDEN NASH MENAGERIE $1,000 (Daily Double): About this insect Nash wrote, "would you be calm and placid if you were full of formic acid?" an ant |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | AN OGDEN NASH MENAGERIE $1000: Nash pondered whether this carnivorous insect was "from outer space, or lost Atlantis" a praying mantis |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $400: Some recipes for this sweet treat call for beets instead of food coloring red velvet cake |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | WHAT'S IT CALLED? $1000: 4-letter word for an insect in a cocoon a pupa |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | LEGAL MATTERS $1000: This medical professional's type of jury conducts an inquest into the cause of a suspicious death a coroner |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | I SAW THAT BOOK ON TV $800: Julia McKenzie, born in 1941, began playing this British snoop in 2008's "A Pocket Full of Rye" Miss Marple |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM $1200: Founder Jeff Bezos wanted to call it Cadabra, but when a lawyer misheard it as "cadaver", went with this instead Amazon(.com) |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | THE SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us fields of lemongrass at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.) While lemongrass is commonly used in Asian cooking, one species is a source of this oil, used as an insect repellent in sprays & candles citronella |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | ANAGRAMS $400: A destructive insect:
EMITTER a termite |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | "INSTA"GRAM $200: 13-letter word meaning occurring without delay instantaneous |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | "INSTA"GRAM $400: A particular example of something an instance |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | "INSTA"GRAM $600: Louis-Ferdinand Celine's "Mort a credit" has been translated as "Death on" this "Plan" an installment plan |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | "INSTA"GRAM $800: The State Department says Somalia has been subject to this chaotic condition since 1991 instability |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | "INSTA"GRAM $1000: An artwork created for a specific site an installation |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | CREATURES AMONG US $800: With a developmental cycle longer than many marriages, the 17-year type of this insect is aka the 17-year locust a cicada |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: 1994: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" Forrest Gump |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | MARINE MAMMALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew observes a whale at Baja California in Mexico.) Gray whales create heart-shaped spouts as they exhale because they have two of these vents instead of one liked toothed whales a blowhole |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | MOVIEMAKERS $400: Lighting & camera blocking are done with these people instead of the stars of the film stand-ins |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $400: The Hittite military redesigned these vehicles so they could carry 3 men instead of 2 chariots |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | STARTS WITH A PIECE OF CLOTHING $1600: An entertainment conveying emotions by gestures instead of speech a pantomime |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $400: The little brown species of this flying mammal can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour a bat |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $800: The best place to see tenrecs is on this large island off Africa's east coast Madagascar |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $1200: At about 4 weeks of age, this porcupine-like insectivore begins shedding large numbers of spines a hedgehog |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $1600: The vagrant species of this tiny mouselike insectivore uses echolocation to find its prey a shrew |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $2000: The star-nosed species of this takes about 1/4 of a second to determine if prey is edible & eat it! Now that's fast food! a mole |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | GREAT BRITON $800: At 13, instead of being bar mitzvahed, this Jewish-born future prime minister was baptized in the Church of England Disraeli |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | VIDEO GAME TIMELINE $400: 1995:
Sony releases PlayStation, which loads games from these instead of cartridges CDs |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | WEIRD SCIENCE $800: Researchers at NC State are equipping these household insect pests with mini-transmitters for eventual use in disaster zones cockroaches |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | "HOP" IN $600: Insect of the family Locustidae a grasshopper |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS $200: I'll adopt a rescue dog instead of last year's error, taking in this University of Michigan mascot a wolverine |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | EAT PREY $200: This bloodsucking insect preys on humans. Sleep tight a bedbug |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | STARTS WITH "M" $400: The Latin for "fly" gives this other insect its name mosquito |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | COMMA SUTRA $1200: The comma type of this insect in the Nymphalidae family has orange wings with ragged edges butterfly |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | JUMP AROUND! JUMP AROUND! $600: Yes, Caine of "Kung Fu", this insect can leap 20 times its body length; a human would have to leap about 120' to do that a grasshopper |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | "ING"LISH $400: A mass of metal cast into a bar an ingot |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | 1-LETTER STOCK SYMBOLS $800: T--
give them a jingle AT&T |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $1600: Completes the line Whittier gave Barbara Frietchie: "Shoot, if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's..." flag |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In February 1933 gunman Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate FDR but instead killed this city's mayor Anton Cermak Chicago |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE $1000: It begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found himself transformed... into a gigantic insect" Metamorphosis |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | HUMP DAY $1200: The thorny devil lizard, which has a spiny hump, feeds entirely on this social insect & may eat 3,000 in a single meal an ant |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | BUSINESS IS GOOD $200: In 2012 this 2-named energy company reported a quarterly profit of nearly $16 bil., the highest ever for a U.S. corp. Exxon Mobil |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | OLDE ENGLAND $2000: A London hospital founded for the Order of the Star of Bethlehem became known as this, also meaning a madhouse Bedlam |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | BREAKING NEWS $1600: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) In 2006 I broke the story that this man, the ex-governor of Virginia, had decided not to run for president in 2008--he went for the U.S. Senate instead & won Mark Warner |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | MONOLOGUES $800: A 1913 classic:
"I'll have to learn to speak middle class language from you, instead of speaking proper English" Pygmalion |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT $200: You can save 11 grams of fat per tablespoon if you use the 2% or nonfat Greek type of this instead of mayonnaise yogurt |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT $600: Use brown rice instead of white & you add this, aka roughage, making you feel full faster fiber |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT $1000: Instead of butter, saute in oil to consume less saturated fat; this flavorless oil has the least sat fat & also has omega-3s canola oil |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | LET'S PLAY IN THE YARD $800: Violations in this game include stepping onto an opponent's half of the pole & striking the rope instead of the ball tetherball |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: Instead of valves like a trumpet, this brass instrument has a slide with 7 positions a trombone |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BIBLICAL WIFERY $800: Chapter 18 of this third book of the Bible contains detailed regulations on avoiding incest in choosing a wife Leviticus |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HOMOPHONES $1200: Intuitive understanding, or to prompt into action, as a crowd to riot insight/incite |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | ILLINOIS STATE SYMBOLS $800: This orange & black butterfly reigns as the state insect the monarch butterfly |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | ISN'T IT AN -"ISM"? $400: If you said someone "went into the fertilizing business" instead of saying he died, you used this noun a euphemism |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | LUNAR FICTION $1200: In 1901 this Brit, a sci-fi pioneer, had his "First Men in the Moon" encounter insect-men called Selenites H.G. Wells |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | THE HELOISE WITH YOU $1000: "Instead of throwing away" this material when it's done wrapping food, "use it as a pot and pan scrubber" aluminum foil |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | SIT ON IT $2000: A type of chair is named for this insect because its shape resembles outstretched wings butterfly |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS $1000: In 2003 OPEC's secretary general said, "OPEC is not" this type of price-regulating body, "as some... insist on calling us" a cartel |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | GIRL SCOUT COOKIES $400: Due to flour, sugar & butter shortages, the Girl Scouts sold calendars instead of cookies during this period World War II |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | I'M GROVER CLEVELAND $2000: In 1863 I paid George Benninsky $150 to do this instead of me; it was perfectly legal, & George didn't get killed serve in the Civil War |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: The 3 main parts of an insect's body are the head, the thorax & this section the abdomen |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | BEASTLY BUSINESS $2,000 (Daily Double): A supercolony of an invading Argentine species of this insect stretches almost 4,000 miles from Italy to Portugal ants |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | LOOK AT ME $1000: Though he went off to Africa instead of attending university, he's known for his scholarship Cecil Rhodes |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | ZOOLOGY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some insects on the monitor.) Belonging to the same insect order as the stick insect is another inconspicuous one--look closer--aptly named this a leaf insect |
| #6316, aired 2012-02-20 | CHARACTER $1000: In giving his compositions these numbers, Erik Satie started with 62 instead of 1 opus |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | SENIORITIS $400: The wind is blowing, so instead of class, "Let's Go" do this, also the title of a "Mary Poppins" song fly a kite |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | SENIORITIS $1200: I was driving up PCH to take a class at Pepperdine in this city, but the waves looked so inviting that I went to the beach instead Malibu |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | THAT'S TREASON! $200: Accused of incest as well as treason, she was guillotined Oct. 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? $2000: 3-word phrase for a decisive instant; Arthur Koestler defined it as "the sudden emergence of a new insight" a moment of truth |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | THE LIVING PLANET $400: Able to lift 850 times its own weight, the strongest animal is the rhinoceros type of this insect beetle |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: A ravenous insect larva consumes a ton of food & undergoes metamorphosis in this classic by Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | FOOD PREPARATION $1000: The name of this technique indicates that meat is soaked in saltwater, though other liquids can be used instead brining |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | SCIENCE TERMS $1000: This life stage in the development of an insect occurs between the larva & the imago the pupa |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | BOWL GAME CITIES $600: The Insight Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium Tempe |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | WALT DISNEY $200: Too young to enlist in World War I, Walt signed up with the Red Cross instead & drove an ambulance--one of these Fords a Model T |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | THE JEOPARDY! TIME MACHINE $400: Sure, Mr. Gore, Palm Beach, early 2000--guess you want to rework the ballot named for this insect a butterfly |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Instead of with a "P-H", there's an alternate 4-letter spelling of this Greek pastry dough filo |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $2000: Invented by French scientist Lucien Vidie in 1843, this type of barometer uses a metal capsule instead of mercury an aneroid barometer |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | THE FIRST SUPPER $1000: Instead of an elaborate meal, this southerner served peanuts & pretzels Jimmy Carter |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $400: Instead of you receiving a check, the money can be transferred to your account by the paying agency via this method direct deposit |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | FICTIONAL LANDS $600: Shangri-La James Hilton |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: In a deceptive Greek "equine" of an ancient war lies a bloodsucking winged insect content to be an unseen observer a Trojan Horse-fly on the wall |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $1600: Instead of showing up once a week for 13 weeks, he'd appear 3 or 4 nights in a row, & it was always very dramatic Miniseries |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $5,000 (Daily Double): Cupolas are small domes, but can be pointy instead of dome-shaped when found on these mosque towers minarets |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | BUCHANAN, JAMES BUCHANAN $800: Buchanan's dreams of the presidency were postponed when this New Hampshire man was nominated instead of him in 1852 Pierce |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $400: The field type of this leaping insect chirps by rubbing a scraper on one forewing along a row of teeth on the other forewing a cricket |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | ENDS WITH "U" $1000: Found before "of" it's a 2-word term meaning instead, including the French for "place" in lieu |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $200: Avoid the sting as you tell us that un'ape is this insect the bee |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: This "insect" of a company calls itself the world's leading maker of construction & mining equipment Caterpillar |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THE STYLE OF ELEMENTS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a wall clock with symbols of the elements instead of numbers.) The Chem Time Clock helps chemistry students learn the periodic table by using elements' symbols in place of numbers; it's 1:35, or these two elements hydrogen & nitrogen |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: In philosophy it has a middle "A" instead of "I" & doesn't mean "about to happen" but "within one's mind" immanent |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | FOR KIDS $400: Get out the door faster in shoes that fasten using this material of tiny hooks & loops instead of laces Velcro |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | DR. SEUSS CHARACTERS $400: "If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead", said this character--so he called on his dog, Max the Grinch |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | EXPLORERS $2,800 (Daily Double): After studying medicine in the 1830s, this explorer & missionary hoped to be sent to China but ended up in Africa instead Dr. (David) Livingstone |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | ON WISCONSIN $1600: Surprisingly, these Wisconsin islands have names like Sand, Raspberry & Oak instead of Judas, Andrew & Peter the Apostles |
| #6181, aired 2011-06-27 | HINDSIGHT IS 1920 $200: You could have elected James Cox president instead of this opponent, who turned out to be ineffectual (Warren G.) Harding |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | THAT'S LIFE SCIENCE $1600: Able to reach a length of 6.5", the South American longhorn variety of this insect is one of the world's largest a beetle |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS $400: Compared to the violin, it has a low C string instead of a high E string a viola |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | IT'S A COUP D'ETAT $2000: In Pakistan Nawaz Sharif tried to dismiss this military leader in 1999 but was overthrown by him instead Musharraf |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | GRADE AVIS $400: The wingspan of the California this can be nearly 10 feet; instead of giving it an E for endangered, it gets a gentleman's "C" a condor |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | CALIFORNIA GOVERNORS $4,000 (Daily Double): Frank Merriam didn't suffer from "Jungle" fever after beating this novelist in the 1934 gubernatorial race Upton Sinclair |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | ANIMAL HOMOPHONES $200: A leaf cutter insect, or Mom's sis an ant/aunt |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | KNOCK U OUT $1600: A parasitic insect; remove the "U" to find a word meaning "to suffer defeat" louse & lose |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY $600: (Sarah gives the clue from the Moto Restaurant in Chicago, IL.) Food is cooked to precise temperatures & uniform doneness in a water bath without the water coming into direct contact with it; the food is sealed without air so the technique is called "sous vide", "vide" meaning this vacuum |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Instead of counties, this state has boroughs (or is it brrr-oughs?) Alaska |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | THE HALEAKALA OBSERVATORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Haleakala Observatory in Maui, Hawaii.) Astronomers at Haleakala are using the Faulkes Telescope North to observe the ongoing gigantic collision of two galaxies that gets this name from the long star trails that extend to each side, like sensory organs from the head of an insect antennae |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | ALPHABET HOMOPHONES $800: This insect is mentioned in Muhammad Ali's line about his boxing style a bee |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | SCIENCE TERMS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew performs a science demonstration.) You'd expect the paper to fly up when extreme pressure is applied, but instead... the wood breaks; air couldn't flow in quickly enough between the paper, the wood & the table, so a partial this 6-letter term was formed a vacuum |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | A NON-SPELLING "BEE" $400: A popular 1960s hairdo, or habitation for an insect a beehive |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | ORIGINAL TITLES $1000: William Faulkner,
1929:
"Twilight" (the title ended up 5 words instead of 1) The Sound and the Fury |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | COLLECTIBLES $400: Some people collect these metal objects, used instead of cash as fare on subways & buses tokens |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: The difference between a cornet & this almost-indentical inst. is that the cornet is shorter, with a more conical bore the trumpet |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | BIRDIE $200: The name of this small member of the parrot family can contain a "qu" instead of a "k" a parakeet |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | EAT $1600: For a well done filet mignon, do this "insect" cooking term that means to cut down the center almost completely butterfly |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | LET'S GET LOUD $1600: Seen & heard here, it's the loudest insect on the planet a cicada |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | CONSTELLATIONS $1200: Musca, or "the fly", was originally called Apis for this insect the bee |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD $1000: Japanese-Peruvians changed cubes to strips, making tiradito instead of this traditional marinated fish dish ceviche |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $400: His mom said, "If Karl, instead of writing a lot about" Das This, "made a lot of" this, "it would have been much better" Kapital |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | SCULPTORS $1200: Anthony Caro is known for placing works on the ground instead of this support, from the Latin for "foot" a pedestal |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | HAWAIIAN AGRICULTURE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Molokai.) High-temperature, forced-air treatment is used to kill any insect larvae in fruits as part of this, also a term for isolating contagious humans quarantine |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | FILL IN THE (BLANK) $1,400 (Daily Double): "What evil looks had I from old and young instead of the cross the (blank) about my neck was hung" the albatross |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | "W"ORDS $800: Snout beetle is another name for the true type of this insect a weevil |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | MY DORM ROOM IS SO SMALL... $600: I don't worry about infestation by the head type of this wingless insect; in here they get claustrophobia lice |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | THE 15th CENTURY $200: In the 1480s he designed a flying machine that used revolving paddles instead of wings da Vinci |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | TEACHING ASSISTANCE $800: Mr., your condescension gave your women's studies class new insight into this, domination by male elders patriarchy |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | CHAMBER MUSIC $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a string quartet at the Julliard School in New York.) One of Beethoven's best-known works would be the "Bridgetower Sonata" if Ludwig & violinist Bridgetower hadn't quarreled over a girl; instead, it's this sonata the Kreutzer Sonata |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | ECO-FRIENDLY VAMPIRES $800: Instead of driving, the E.V.s stay green by working from home via computer & fax--this 13-letter term telecommuting |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $400: This adjective describes the fear of small places or being closed in claustrophobic |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | REAL SIMPLE new uses for old things $800: Instead of using this device for arranging flowers, you can put pictures between its teeth a flower frog |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | ART STYLES $800: Warhol & Lichtenstein were figures in this 2-word style that's one letter off from a Kellogg's treat pop art |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | ADD A LETTER $800: Add a letter to a word for a product of Mount Etna & you get this term describing a very young insect larva |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THAT HURTS! $400: Angelina Jolie's lips are sometimes described as this hyphenated term, as if she'd been attacked by a flying insect bee-stung |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1600: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed...into a gigantic insect" Metamorphosis |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | SUPERMARKET SWEEP $200: I could've had this brand's vegetable juice--instead, I'll grab its "Splash" of berry blend V8 |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | THE LATE NIGHT CROWD $400: He expected to take over "The Tonight Show" from Johnny Carson, but moved to CBS instead David Letterman |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | CREATURES OF NATURE $1000: The Hercules type of this insect can lift things 850 times its own weight a beetle |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PREFERRED PLURALS $800: An insect's antenna antennae |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | BOOK WORMS $800: In the kids' book "Granddad's Fishing Buddy", little Sara puts a piece of licorice instead of a worm on this hook |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | THAT FILM'S A DISASTER $400: Instead of curing cancer, a virus has been created, leaving Will Smith to fend for himself in NYC I Am Legend |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | MATTEL-ICA $1000: Back in the '60s, you needed a Thingmaker to cook up the insect toys with this alliterative 2-word name Creepy Crawlers |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | BRAND "O" $400: This brand of insect repellents includes Active & Deep Woods lines Off! |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | SPELL CHECK HELL $800: Ay, caramba! Spell check changed the last name of a 16th c. conquistador into this, an old-fashioned girdle a corset |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | DRINK VARIATIONS $200: The chi chi, made with vodka instead of rum, is a variation of this pineapple & coconut cocktail a piña colada |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | U.S. BIZ $1000: On its website this Freeport, Maine company offers rod & reel outfits & insect shield apparel L.L.Bean |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | TREATIES $400: The I979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty allowed Israel access to this man-made waterway the Suez Canal |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | GOING GREENER $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) The residue from producing electricity with coal is called fly this; instead of ending up in a landfill, it's been added to the now eco-friendly concrete used at Sony ash |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | DARWIN IN THE GALAPAGOS $400: (Alex reports from a field of flowers in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) Specimens of finches from different parts of the Galapagos gave Darwin a deep insight into evolution; later, back home in England, he figured out its mechanism, this 2-word term natural selection |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | CHEMISTRY $400: In 1814 Jakob Berzelius proposed the idea of having these, instead of hieroglyphics, stand for the elements letters |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | DO PROCESS $600: To make this type of margarita, muddle your limes, pour fine tequila & use Grand Marnier instead of triple sec a Cadillac margarita |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $1200: A Times piece told readers about dogs trained to sniff out these insect infesters of the boudoir bedbugs |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | NATURE $200: Yellow jackets are a social type of this stinging insect wasps |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $800: This nocturnal insect, Cimex lectularius, often finds shelter in the seams, tufts & crevices of mattresses a bedbug |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | THEY LEFT THEIR MARK AT GRAUMAN'S CHINESE $400: This little robot left its wheelmarks instead of footprints R2-D2 |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | FRANKENSTEIN $800: Mick Jagger wanted to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this 1975 film; Tim Curry got the role instead Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | BREAKING THE PHONICS RULES $2,000 (Daily Double): "SH" doesn't sound as usual in this insect that can leap 20 times its length grasshopper |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CANADIAN CAPITALS, EH? $2000: Iqaluit, the capital of this territory created in 1999, means "place of fish" in the Inuktitut language Nunavut |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | THE NATURE OF THINGS $400: It's been said only Keith Richards & this 350-mil.-year-old insect of the suborder Blattaria would survive a nuclear war a cockroach |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE $800: The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s butterflies |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $400: The small, bloodsucking wingless insect lives in a dog-eat-dog world a flea |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $400: Thank you Akio Morita, who didn't take over the family sake biz but co-founded this electronics giant instead Sony |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | GOD BLESS NEBRASKA $600: Nebraska's state insect is this industrious one the honey bee |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY $800: Your dog will scratch his head if you don't know the ukulele's name comes from the Hawaiian for this "jumping" insect the flea |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE KILLERS $800: This "insect" of a gangster was a real-life hit man for Murder Incorporated in the 1930s & '40s Bugsy Siegel |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | MAMMALS $800: The daily diet for this toothless mammal is some 30,000 termites & the insect in its name an anteater |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE SCIENCE BUG $400: Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for work on animal behavior patterns, largely using the "dance' of this insect bees |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: The shofar is this animal's horn & is a reminder of the one that Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac a ram |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE SCIENCE BUG $800: Charles Ellington tethered a moth to this type of tunnel to divine the mechanics of insect flight a wind tunnel |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | STARTING A LEGAL HOME BUSINESS $600: Instead of buying equipment, you can arrange this type of long-term rental & write some of it off on your taxes a lease |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | SUPERLATIVES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew rubs her thumb and forefinger together.) You want me to feel sorry for you? Instead, I'm doing this playing the world's smallest violin |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | FRANCE $800: The oldest society of the Institut de France, it published its first dictionary in 1694 the (French) Academy |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | STATE FACTS $600: The honeybee, its state insect, is a reference to deseret, a Book of Mormon word meaning "honeybee" Utah |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | ROMAN NUMERAL MATH $1600: LII plus XV LXVII |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | LET'S MAKE A WISH $400: In the theater it's bad luck to wish someone "good luck"; instead, use this traditional 3-word phrase break a leg |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | GOING GREEN $800: At home, instead of writing notes on paper, use one of these white glossy wipeable boards with special markers a dry-erase board |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | MUSIC $1200: If a fingerboard has ridges to help players find their notes, it may be called this kind of board instead a fretboard |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | GEEK LOVE $800: If you're older than a teenager, you can't hear the 17-kHz ringtone named for this biting insect a mosquito |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | GEEK LOVE $2000: This company's redesigned Insight hybrid car is hoping to be a Prius killer Honda |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $1600: A repetitive song by a colony insect an ant chant |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | YOUNG MR. PRESIDENT $2,000 (Daily Double): As a boy in Kansas, he said his dream was to be a Major League Baseball player; he went into the Army instead Eisenhower |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: The author of a book with someone else's name on it instead ghostwriter |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | "P.M." $800: Bow your head & name this insect, seen here the praying mantis |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a skeletal armbone model at Sawbones.) For medical education, Sawbones makes bone models pre-fractured in common patterns; this fracture, where two cracks form a triangle, results from bending & is named for this insect butterfly |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | RHYME TIME $800: Movie for a fever-causing Rocky Mountain insect a tick flick |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | GEOGRAPHY $200: This river flows through the District of Columbia the Potomac |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $400: To have this insect's waist means to have a slender waistline wasp |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | FIX THE SPOONERISM $600: Greenpeace would be chagrined to see the sign "wave the sails", instead of this "save the whales" |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | BELIEVE $1600: Hold onto your bug spray--I saw one of these insect/human creatures Richard Gere sought in a movie mothman |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor problem that ruins something bigger is this insect "in the ointment" a fly |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $1600: "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" are sequels to this book Inkheart |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | NOVEL-TIES $400: In 1905 this still-controversial Twain book was banned because a character said sweat instead of perspiration Huckleberry Finn |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | SHAKESPEARE WITH A TWIST $1200: Instead of "Much Ado About" this, the troubadour theater company presented "Much Adoobie Brothers About" this Nothing |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | LIKE A SURGEON $2000: Slava Fyodorov developed radial this after taking glass out of a patient's eye & finding the vision improved keratotomy |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHEER CHAOS $400: Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, posited that an insect's flapping wings could alter this, far away air currents (or the wind or the weather) |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | ROCK STARS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS $1600: This "Maggie May" guy: "Instead of... (marrying) again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house" Rod Stewart |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | (WHOOPS) $600: Researchers found 2/3 of this company's employees use Google instead of its own MSN Search site Microsoft |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | CELEBRATING POE'S BICENTENNIAL $800: Instead of happy hours, the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va. celebrates Poe with these antonymic events unhappy hours |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | BALLETS ALEX COULD STAR IN $400: I'm too svelte to play Sancho Panza, so I'll dance this title role instead Don Quixote |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | I'M GETTING HUNGRY $800: Instead of wrapping sushi in nori, which is dried this, I'll eat the nori as a snack seaweed |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | THAT'S HISTORIC $1000: His 1844 manuscripts said private property caused man to work for himself instead of for the species Karl Marx |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | IN THE BAG $400: As this Scottish garment lacks pockets, a pouch called a sporran is worn instead a kilt |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | ALEXANDER $400: Hearing that only the future ruler of Asia could untie this, Alexander the Great cut it with his sword instead the Gordian knot |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | COMPUTER RHYME TIME $400: A parasitic insect on the device that moves the cursor a mouse louse |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | WHY YA BUGGIN'? $400: A jumping insect related to grasshoppers, or a game with wicket intentions cricket |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | WHY YA BUGGIN'? $1600: Joel 1:4 describes a plague where "that which the palmerworm hath left hath" this insect "eaten" locust |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | DARTH VADER, D.D.S. $800: I wanted these "royal" tooth-shaped caps on my teeth; instead he gave me a mouth full of tiny black helmets crowns |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN $400: The Confederates didn't call it the Battle of Bull Run, but named it after this nearby city instead Manassas |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $2000: For a cheaper stay on this Caribbean island nytimes.com says head to Pointe du Bout instead of Fort-de-France Martinique |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | THAT'S NOT CRICKET $200: The unlucky guy seen here is the hawk variety of this insect a moth |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | THAT'S NOT CRICKET $600: Yikes! It's the rhinoceros type of this common insect a beetle |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | THAT'S NOT CRICKET $800: It's easy to see how this insect got its familiar name a walking stick insect (stick insect accepted) |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $400: Helen! Feel it! W-A-T-E-R! Water! You can do it! Anne Sullivan |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $800: Keep up the pace! Question--response--question--response--OK, break. Be sure to drink hemlock Socrates |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $1200: Reach, reach, reach for that truth of cessation! You're not leaving the Deer Park until you reach! Buddha |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $1600: A woman: Work that sense memory, work it, work it--that's the method! That's how Marlon did it when he was here! Stella Adler |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $2,000 (Daily Double): All right, everybody got their workout clothes off? No pain, no gain here at my Indiana Univ. institute Alfred Kinsey |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | BUGS $600: This "pious" predator is the only insect that can move its head from side to side without moving other body parts a praying mantis |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | BUGS $1000: Also called the 17-year locust, this loud insect reaches over 100 decibels a cicada |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN $1600: I said I'd found this type of cast gold bar, spurring others to look as well ingot (in spurring others) |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | MATERIAL $1000: Instead of sand, many Cancun beaches are of this reef material, so your feet stay cool coral |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | CHOW $200: This layered, flat-noodled Italian favorite is sometimes made with a bechamel sauce instead of tomato lasagna |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | THE USED "-AR" SALESMAN $2000: This Aussie bird with a 10-letter name is the most popular caged parakeet, so it doesn't have a lot of miles on it a budgerigar |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | NATURE CALLS $400: The Asian tiger variety of this insect is invading the U.S. & transmits dengue fever, encephalitis & dog heartworm mosquito |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | WHAT DAY IS IT? $600: If it's the first Friday in May, it's "No" these "Day"--the promoters recommend boxers, bloomers or briefs instead Pants |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | FUNDRAISING $800: Donations in the form of equipment or time instead of money are called "in" this 4-letter word in kind |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | EUGENE O'NEILL $1200: In 1929 O'Neill's play "Strange" this was banned in Boston, so it played in nearby Quincy instead Strange Interlude |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | ELVIS COSTELLO $600: Elvis began playing "Less Than Zero" on this show in '77, then stopped & did "Radio Radio" instead; he wasn't on again until '89 Saturday Night Live |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | THAT'S NOT HOW THAT BOOK ENDS! $1000: ...All perfume no & his heart was going like mad & no I said no I won't no then I kicked him no Ulysses |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | YOUR HOME AQUARIUM $600: In the tank these edifices are resin instead of stone; my aquarium has a replica of Warwick castles |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | "MO" BETTER $1000: Instead of taking over his dad's upholstery business, he went on to become France's greatest comic dramatist Moliere |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this innovative theater & opera director is just 1 letter different from a late British comic actor Peter Sellars |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | HEALTH MATTERS $600 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew shows some animated blood cell models on the monitor.) Instead of being biconcave discs, red blood cells are distorted into a particular shape & don't carry oxygen well in patients with this disease sickle cell anemia |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | WORLD TRAVEL $800: Instead of going the whole 6,000 miles on this line, you can change at Tarskaya to the Trans-Manchurian for Beijing the Trans-Siberian Railway |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | "DIS" FUNCTION $800: This adjective means "tactful"; spelled -ete instead of -eet, it means "separate" discreet or discrete |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | INFESTED WITH INSECTS $1200: This luxurious fabric of Asia is produced by the larva of the insect Bombyx mori silk |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | INFESTED WITH INSECTS $1600: One of Japan's most complex kites is the mukade-dako, formed of jointed sections to look like this insect a centipede |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT $600: At her inquest this woman who inspired a rhyme said, "I knew there was an old axe down cellar, that is all I knew" Lizzie Borden |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | TEEN CUISINE $400: For a veggie version of this, top the crust with zucchini & bell peppers instead of the usual pepperoni pizza |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | ON THE MONEY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains with an animated illustration on the monitor.) The most common theory of the origin of the dollar sign is that instead of writing Ps as a plural, people started putting the S over the P; the P stood for this peso |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | HAD A WIFE & COULDN'T KEEP HER $400: Instead of becoming a pillar of the community, this biblical man's wife became just a pillar Lot |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | PUMPKIN EATER $400: Paula Deen puts a twist on tradition--instead of pumpkin pie, it's pumpkin gooey butter cakes for this holiday Thanksgiving |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $600: If I ask you to rustle up some of this slang term for food, don't bring me the insect larva of the same name grub |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | 1930s CINEMA $400: She almost got the role of Scarlett's sister Carreen in "GWTW" --fate intervened & she went to Oz instead (Judy) Garland |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $2000: This specialty from Philly, sorta like a calzone but rolled instead of folded stromboli |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | GEOLOGIC TIME $2000: The supercontinent called this land was the southern part of the Paleozoic landmass Pangaea Gondwanaland |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | DEAR JOHN $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1980 Carter passed up a debate, so Reagan debated this third candidate instead John Anderson |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | AND THE KINGDOM $1000: Rudolf Elphberg is about to be crowned king of Ruritania but instead becomes "The Prisoner of" this title place Zenda |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | WHATCHA EATIN'? $2000: This Middle Eastern dish served in a pita, made with fava beans instead of the usual chickpeas falafel |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | JUST DESSERTS $800: One story about the origin of the name of this pie says its sweetness attracted a certain insect shoo-fly pie |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | UPDATED LITERATURE? $1000: Gregor Samsa awakes one day transformed into a gigantic insect; family sprays him with industrial-sized can of Raid Metamorphosis |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | WORDS IN SEPTEMBER $600: A destructive insect, or just anyone annoying you pest |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MICROSCOPY $1600: The single use weapon of this insect is seen here a (honey)bee |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | IN THE SAND $1000: This desert insect was part of Egyptian cosmogony; it was the Sun, & its rolled food was the Earth a scarab beetle |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | THE REAL MTV $200: JabbaWockeeZ stomped the competition on the first season of this Randy Jackson floor show America's Best Dance Crew |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | PAUL REVERE $400: Revere's color engraving of this March 5, 1770 event depicted Crispus Attucks as white instead of black the Boston Massacre |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | IS IT SAFE? $200: A parasite spread by this insect sickens 300 million people a year & kills almost 3 million the mosquito |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GRASSHOP-POURRI $1000: This short-named tribe of the SW was also known as Grasshopper Indians; the insect was a big part of their diet Ute |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "D" IN SCIENCE $400: Children with this genetic disease have 3 No. 21 chromosomes instead of the usual 2 Down syndrome |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | BUGS $1200: A giant species of this "hundred-legged" insect grows to 12 inches in length & eats lizards a centipede |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Have you heard the latest buzz? The Mayans domesticated this native insect the bee |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: After his oratorio "Esther" hit big in concert instead of drama form, he wrote others like it, including "Messiah" Handel |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $400: In a classic children's story, he tries to get the 3 little pigs & instead ends up in a pot of boiling water the Big Bad Wolf |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | BUGGY $800: The term "locust" commonly refers to the short-horned variety of this insect a grasshopper |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | BUGGY $1000: Edward Lorenz' "effect" on how something small can make a big change in the weather is named for this insect the butterfly |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | SPELLBOUND $400: Afrikaaners would spell this 1985 Schwarzenegger ex-military man film with a "K" Commando |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | TIME TO "BEG" FOR IT $800: To envy or resent someone else's good fortune, like my friend Trudy winning that award instead of me begrudge |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | BOOZE-A-PALOOZA $2000: Double-talk name for a Piña Colada made with vodka instead of rum Chi-Chi |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a diagram on the monitor.) Instead of running around the curve, save strides & run this straight line that touches the curve, from the Latin for "to touch" a tangent |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | ANIMAL HOUSE $400: The army species of this insect has no permanent home; workers link legs to protect their queen ants |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BRITISH ROCKERS $1000: In hits like "Tuesday Afternoon" from "Days of Future Passed", this band blended rock and classical sounds The Moody Blues |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | I'M AN ANIMAL $400: This insect's sound as he rubs his wings together is a courtship song a cricket |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | FROM "RAG"s $600: 4-winged predatory insect of the order Odonata a dragonfly |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: 2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story McBoing-Boing |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $400: Brock is looking for diamonds but instead finds a picture of Rose, who is 102 years old; then--a flashback Titanic |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | TERMES D'ART $1600: This French-named illusory technique tricks the eye into thinking a painted object is real & not two-dimensional trompe-l'œil |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $400: "The Inquest of the Final Victim Mary Kelly" is the subtitle of a book about this late 19th century Londoner Jack the Ripper |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | THE CRUCIBLE $800: Brass usually comes out of a crucible in this 5-letter form, more familiarly used with gold an ingot |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | "PAN"HANDLING $400: In 1508 Dutch author Desiderius Erasmus first used her name with "box" instead of the traditional vase or jar Pandora |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | CURSES $2000: Attributed to King Tut's curse, the death of this British Lord was actually caused by an infected insect bite Lord Carnarvon |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | COOL CARS $1000: Powered by both a gasoline engine & an electric motor, this company's Insight was the first hybrid car sold in the U.S. Honda |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | SPELLING "BE" $400: Any insect of the order Coleoptera B-E-E-T-L-E |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | NERDS RULE! $800: In college, Larry Page, co-founder & co-pres. of this Internet search company, built an inkjet printer out of Legos Google |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | ADD A LETTER $800: Add a letter to "neuron" & instead of a nerve cell, it's this subatomic particle neutron |
| #5399, aired 2008-02-14 | WHERE ART THOU? $1200: As a child prodigy, this Cubist painter skipped school & went to Madrid's museums instead Pablo Picasso |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | FROM THE FRENCH $1200: I insist that my onion soup be served to me this way, French for "in crust" en croute |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600: Chris O'Donnell was originally cast as her son in "Prince of Tides", but she chose her real son instead Barbra Streisand |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | JUST DESSERTS $800: Try one of my blondies; it's like a brownie but made with this flavoring instead of chocolate vanilla (or butterscotch) |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $800: The Baltimore Checkerspot type of this flutters by as Maryland's state insect a butterfly |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | HAVE SOME "FUN" $1000: A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range is a basso this profundo |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | DUEL $200: To avoid war in this country in 2002, its VP Taha Ramadan offered instead to duel Dick Cheney Iraq |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | SEEK $400: This sought-after spring was thought to be on Bimini; Ponce De Leon then sought Bimini but found Florida instead the Fountain of Youth |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | CRESCENT CITY ROLES $800: In a 1953 comedy, Abbott & Costello try to go to this planet but end up at Mardi Gras instead Mars |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | HOW I LOOK DURING MY SUMMER VACATIONS $400: Any insect remarks about this 'do I'm wearing here and I might say "Kiss my grits!" beehive |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL $800 (Daily Double): Scientists are scrambling to find out the cause of colony collapse disorder, which is occurring with this insect bees |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: Alexander Wood & Charles Pravaz are credited with developing this device in 1853 first used to inject morphine a (hypodermic) syringe |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | SEEING EYE DOGS $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew watches as a dog refuses to cross a street despite its trainer's urging.) Thoreau talked of "civil" this, but dogs must learn "intelligent" this, like stopping instead of obeying an order to go forward disobedience |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | ON OUR USO TOUR $1,500 (Daily Double): (Alex struts on the runway at the Atsugi NAF, Japan.) The F/A-18 was designed with both fighter & strike capabilities; pilots really love its maneuverability & its precision attack capability, traits it shares in common with this insect it's named for the hornet |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | THE BUCKET LIST $1000: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) This Islamic tomb on the Yamuna River in India leads Carter and Edward to a discussion of funeral types in "The Bucket List" Taj Mahal |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $600: The mole variety of this insect has forelegs adapated for shoveling: the males can chirp a mean tune, too a cricket |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $1000: Instead of counting atoms, chemists simplify with the unit called a mole or this scientist's number (Amedeo) Avogadro |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | PIE-POURRI $400: You don't need a lot of dough to make pie crust; smash up some chocolate wafers to make this kind of crust instead a crumb crust |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | EUROPEAN CUISINE $800: Some folks make Welsh rarebit with milk instead of this traditional liquid; Homer Simpson would be outraged beer |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | HELPING HANDS MONKEYS $800: A non-profit since 1979, Helping Hands used to teach monkeys to play these 12-inch objects; now they play CDs instead records |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | BESTSELLERS OF THE DECADE $2000: "Arrowsmith" &
"The Age of Innocence" the 1920s |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | COMBAT! $1200: (Jimmy demonstrates a souvenir you can't take on the plane) The folding Filipino fighting knife, called a balisong is also known by this insect name a butterfly knife |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: You didn't want to make the mistake of following the South instead of the North Platte on this pioneer trail the Oregon Trail |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $1600: Its functions include insight, imagination & control of the left hand the right side of the brain |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | NERDVANA $2000: The energy source called this cell uses 2 chemicals & an electrolyte to get continuous power instead of storing a charge a (hydrogen) fuel cell |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $800: Instead of human actors, bunraku theatre features these, which are manipulated in full view of the audience puppets |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | FARK.com HEADLINES $1000: "Bush says he'll welcome" this Palestinian president "to U.S. but only if they agree to play 'Dancing Queen'" Abbas |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAPS $400: A 1957 Europe map had an inset showing countries that were this and non-this Communist |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $4,000 (Daily Double): This title heroine tries to set up her friend Harriet with Mr. Elton & is dismayed when Elton proposes to her instead Emma |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ODD WORDS $200: "Dumbledore" is actually an old word for this insect; J.K. Rowling imagined him humming all the time a bumblebee |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BOOKS $1000: A book by George Selden related the adventures of Chester, this insect "in Times Square" a cricket |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | COLORS $1,600 (Daily Double): Puce is a perfect shade for your doggie's collar: its name is French for this pesky insect a flea |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | FAMOUS MOMS $600: In 1872 Julia Ward Howe, mother of 6, suggested Mother's Day but wanted it in this month, which sounds a bit late June |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | IN MY FREE TIME $2000: Instead of playing with my yo-yo I'm playing like Yo-Yo Ma on this instrument the cello |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | INSECTS $400: The finest singers among species of this insect are the tree type, not the house or field type crickets |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | I HOP $1000: This tiny insect pest, Pulex irritans, can leap more than 130 times its own height flea |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This wood-eating insect gets its name from the Latin for "wood-eating worm" a termite |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): Seen here, he was the earliest president ever to be photographed, & the first to have a middle name John Quincy Adams |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | SUMMERTIME $200: The insect repellent product Off! has a special formula for hikers who venture into the "Deep" these woods |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | INSECT INVASION $400: About 300,000 people in Africa suffer from sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse variety of this insect a fly |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | INSECT INVASION $800: There are 20,000 known species of these insects, including social, parasitic & "killer" types bees |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | INSECT INVASION $1,100 (Daily Double): Of the one million species of insects, more than 300,000 are of this type, including the ladybug beetles |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | INSECT INVASION $1200: Responsible for millions of cases of malaria each year, the Anopheles variety of this insect is one deadly bug the mosquito |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | THINKING ABOUT COLLEGE $1600: Cornell's Dept. of this study would prep you for the "INSECT INVASION" category; it has more than 6 million specimens entomology |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | INSECT INVASION $2000: Noisy bug seen here a cricket |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600: February 1 (not always a Friday) is the day for this literary character based on sailor Alexander Selkirk Robinson Crusoe |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | "HI" $400: Some scientists who don't think bears do this in a true sense use the term "winter lethargy" instead hibernate |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | NATURE $1000: The insect seen here is called the "water" type of this word that also follows "Volga" in song boatman |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | JOHN LEGEND $3,200 (Daily Double): As the U.S. Constitution was vague, this V.P. decided to name himself President instead of calling for an election John Tyler |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | "F" STOP $800: An opera from 1900 gave wing to this popular "insect" composition by Rimsky-Korsakov "Flight Of The Bumblebee" |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | IF I RAN THE ZOO... $800: Instead of a ticket taker who's a big grouch; I'd hire this little kangaroo pal in his pouch a joey |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | HAVE SOME "T" $800: Instead of making the wet land type of this Polynesian tuber into poi, I've used the dry land type to make chips--have some! taro |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $800: Fancy design firms like the one founded by Mr. Hodgetts & Ms. Fung often use this sign instead of "and" or an & a plus sign |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | THE THIRD CATEGORY $200: In an Olympic swimming medley relay race, this "insect" stroke is the third leg butterfly |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | ON THE "GO" $2000: It's the term for an adult insect after metamorphosis imago |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | YOU SEE "LA" $200: Immature, wingless feeding stage of an insect larva |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | HOW ABOUT MED SCHOOL? $800: Using this insect, geneticist Thomas Morgan proved that some traits pass on to only one sex or the other a fruit fly |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | ART STYLE ETYMOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show impressionism |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | THE HISTORY OF APRIL 9th $400: 1939: Denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, Marian Anderson sings at this location instead the Lincoln Memorial |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | SCIENCE CLASS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew experiments with water and a paper clip.) Drop a paper clip into water, it sinks; drop it onto a paper towel, & because of the attraction of molecules of the same substance, called cohesion, this condition is created that seems to form a skin, allowing it to float surface tension |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | "M"-BRACE ME $5,000 (Daily Double): This insect pest, Ceratitis capitata, threatened Florida & California fruit in the 1980s the medfly |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | I-I-I! $200: Keen insight; "women's" seems to be especially potent intuition |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | LITERARY BROTHERS $2000: He wrote "The Insect Play" with his brother & the robot play "R.U.R." by himself Karel Capek |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | SCIENCE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reading points to a fly's eye on the monitor.) An insect's compound eye can detect 300 flashes of light per second compared to a human's 50, using thousands of tiny lenses known as these, as in a diamond a facet |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | '70s ALBUM COVERS $800: The frontman, guitar in hand, leans on Clarence Clemons in this "mobile" 1975 work Born to Run |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | LITERATURE $6,000 (Daily Double): Dickens divided this book into staves instead of chapters; Stave IV is called "The Last of the Spirits" A Christmas Carol |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS $200: Gordon Bowker, who helped found this chain in 1971, wanted to call it Pequod Starbucks |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE! $800: In 1866 a physician invented one of these that took a few minutes to take a reading instead of the normal 20 a thermometer |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $400: This state insect of Vermont is just as sweet as its state tree the sugar maple the honey bee |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | AN IRISH PUB QUIZ $400: On this day, instead of the usual colored beer, you might go for an Irish Eyes--whiskey & creme de menthe St. Patrick's Day |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: Her 1869 novel "Oldtown Folks" features runaway children instead of runaway slaves (Harriet Beecher) Stowe |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | PEOPLE IN DANTE'S INFERNO $800: He tells Dante that instead of staying home with Penelope, he went off to sea again--glub, glub Odysseus |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | GOLD $400: A bricklike bar of gold is called this, from the Old English for "pour" an ingot |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | IN TEXAS $800: Texas' state insect is this "royal" flyer the monarch butterfly |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | WORDS IN SCIENCE $400: The opposite of antibiotic, it's a term for healthful bacteria in yogurt probiotic |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | CROSSWORD CLUES "B" $200: To annoy, perhaps with an insect
(3) bug |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | "M"USIC $800: Stravinsky wrote a "Symphony in Three" of these instead of the traditional four movements |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | CAN I BUY YOU A DRINK? $1000: How about a martini or this identical cocktail garnished with an onion instead of an olive a Gibson |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | STAN THE CONTRACTOR $400: For the living room, instead of track or recessed types of these, Stan went for flood lighting |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | YOU MUST BE AN "EGG"HEAD $1200: The Culinary Inst. of America's recipe for this dish with a papal name calls for 8 English muffins & 16 slices of bacon Eggs Benedict |
| #5092, aired 2006-10-31 | HAPPY HALLOWEEN $600: Originally, instead of pumpkins, this small root vegetable of the mustard family was used for carving a turnip |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | "OCK"-TOBER $600: Household insect pest of the order Dictyoptera a cockroach |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | ADD A LETTER $800: When you add this letter to "quart", instead of a unit of measure, you get a mineral Z (for quartz) |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | SAUDI ARABIA $1000: This family's construction business boomed with contracts in Mecca; one son chose destruction instead the bin Ladens |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $1600: Imagist Amy
(6) Lowell |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | OCTOBERFEST $1000: Instead of Columbus Day, many Latin Americans celebrate their culture in "Dia de" this la Raza |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | FOOTBALL 101 $1000: (Jimmy watches an offensive drill.) In this pattern, whose name is also an insect, the receiver runs straight down the field at full speed a fly pattern |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: Swallowtail, viceroy & monarch are types of this pretty insect butterfly |
| #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 | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS $600: What's the matamata? An odd aquatic one of these that bends its neck instead of withdrawing it into the carapace a tortoise or turtle |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS $1000: Instead of eating the Egyptian variety of this bird, a crocodile lets it into its mouth to clean the croc's teeth plover |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1200: It's where the poinsettia is in the illustration seen here the inset (in poinsettia) |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: I knew the Duke of Fuffleborough was an impostor when he said he put a letter in the "mail" instead of this Britishism the post (in impostor) |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $800: When you descend a steep grade, it helps to do this instead of braking to save wear on your car's brakes downshift |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | GREEN DAY $2000: This shiny "Asian" green insect has become a major destructive pest in the Eastern United States a Japanese beetle |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $200: In Illinois it's good to be the king, or at least this butterfly, the state insect the monarch |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $400: It might want to fly away home to Massachusetts, where it's the state insect the ladybug |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $600: It wasn't until 1983 that Utah finally made this its state insect the honeybee |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $800: Alaska's state insect is the "four spot skimmer" this, so keep it away from St. George a dragonfly |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $2,500 (Daily Double): It's tough to separate church & state in Connecticut while having this as state insect the praying mantis |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | INSECTS $200: When placed on its back, the click family of this insect jumps into the air to right itself, making a click sound a beetle |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | ESQUIRE'S DUBIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS 2005 $600: "Actually, We're Gonna Go With 'Mr. Spears'": "Back then they called me K-Fed, but you can call me Daddy instead", he rapped (Kevin) Federline |
| #5044, aired 2006-07-13 | "F"RIENDS OF SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in Danzig in 1686, he improved on a Galileo invention by using mercury instead of a gas Fahrenheit |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | ANCIENT GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): The modern men's discus weighs 4.4 pounds; the ones found at this site in Greece's Elis Valley weighed up to 9 pounds Olympia |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | BE IT EVER SO "UMBLE" $800: Stephen Vincent Benet rhymed, "Sherman's buzzin' along to the sea, like Moses ridin' on" this insect a bumblebee |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | 3 Es FOR ME! $1600: A title of honor, applied to cardinals (more for Rome than Arizona) eminence |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | BUGS $1600: This "colorful" bristle-tailed insect, Lepisma saccharina, feeds on starchy items such as books & wallpaper silverfish |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | JEPOETRY $800: Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
"Instead of the cross, the Jeopardy! about my neck was hung" albatross |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | "BLUE" PLATE SPECIAL $1600: Ma looked for the Maytag type of this in appliances instead of the grocery aisle before she put it in Thurs.'s salad blue cheese |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: The hard protective outer covering of an insect or a crustacean exoskeleton |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | "BOOK"S $1000: It has lyrics & chords & is often used by cocktail lounge pianists instead of standard sheet music a fake book |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | IT'S CANADA, EH $4,000 (Daily Double): The big bay between Canada & Greenland was discovered by & named for this Englishman (William) Baffin |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | "C" FOOD $800: "Fabric" name for a certain cake made with oil instead of solid shortening chiffon cake |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | THE CORONER STORE $800: The inquest finds the cause of death to be hypoxic encephalopathy, a lack of oxygen to this organ the brain |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | A BUG'S LIFE $400: The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect a flea |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | SPORTS EVOLUTION $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Utah Olympic Park, with Cheryl and Jimmy pushing her in a bobsled.) Begun in the 1800s, the first bobsleds didn't have these--a garden rake was used instead brakes |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | A BUG'S LIFE $600: The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait crickets |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | A BUG'S LIFE $800: This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts ladybug |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | A BUG'S LIFE $1000: Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect a beetle |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | SHRIMPING $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew lets a deck hand do the dirty work on a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) A technique to cut open shrimp to take out the intestine shares its name with this diurnal insect butterfly |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | DESERT LIFE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers a thorny proposition from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Fortunes were made harvesting the prickly pear for this color dye, not from the plant, but from an insect on it that secrets caminic acid red |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | GODZILLA $2000: Over the years, Godzilla's adversaries have included King Kong, Gigan & in 1964, this giant insect Mothra |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | AUTO-BREVIATIONS $2000: A "CVT", using a belt instead of gears for smoothness, is a continuously variable this a transmission |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | INSECTS $400: The Colorado type of this plentiful insect is the terror of potato growers the potato beetle |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | EGGHEADS $800: In 1921 psychology prof Karl Jaspers became a professor of this instead; he went on to be a major existentialist philosophy |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | LIFE OF PIE $800: This Southern pie with an insect name really is green & often has a cookie-crumb crust grasshopper pie |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | "WA" THIS WAY $200: Dismissive insectoid name for an American ethnic group of British non-Catholic ancestry WASPs |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | SEÑOR CLASS $2,200 (Daily Double): Señor Garcia's geography test included Cabo de Buena Esperanza, which is on this continent Africa |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | MOVIEMAKING $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew claps together a traditional movie set sight.) Your film teacher will insist you use one of these before each shot; the sound of it helps sync up audio & video a slate board |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | UNUSUAL SPORTS $800: Overseen by WEPA, a polo tourney is played in Nepal each year using these huge animals instead of horses elephants |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the only state that has parishes instead of counties Louisiana |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | GOING NUCULAR $200: On TV this Springfield safety inspector once corrected someone who said nuclear instead of "nucular" Homer Simpson |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: This British adventurer liked to go by the initials T.E. instead of his given names Thomas Edward T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | SOVIET MAN $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia while a memorable melody plays.) This composer of film & ballet scores was overshadowed when he died the same day as Stalin, March 5, 1953 Prokofiev |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | PLAYING DOCTOR $800: In 2005 a woman birthed a twin 59 days after the 1st, as she had 2 of these body parts instead of just one a uterus |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | OBSTACLES $1000: Part 5 of "Les Miserables" begins with a description of these Revolutionary barriers in the streets of Paris barricades |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | OJ (ORANGE JUICE) THESAURUS $600: Instead of "frozen focused orange juice", the USDA uses this synonym for "focus" concentrated |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | REGIONALISMS $800: Note to Hoosiers: instead of "pitch-in dinner", use this "fortunate" term if you want out of staters to understand pot luck |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | INSECTOID RHYME TIME $200: Long, low sound of pain from a nonworker male bee a drone moan |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | INSECTOID RHYME TIME $400: Butterfly-like insect that listens to gloomy rock music a goth moth |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | INSECTOID RHYME TIME $600: A London apartment for a small biting fly a gnat flat |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | INSECTOID RHYME TIME $800: A loud & threatening speech from a colony-based insect an ant rant |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | INSECTOID RHYME TIME $1000: Acting instructor for an aspiring household pest a roach coach |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | SCRABBLE 50-POINT BONUSES $400: T, U, N, S, I, E, Q:
A judicial investigation of a death inquest |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | VENOMOUS ARTHROPODS $1200: The potter, a solitary species of this insect, hunts only caterpillars wasp |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In music this Italian term tells you to pluck the strings instead of bowing pizzicato |
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2024 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 39 9-time champion:...
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Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2024 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 39 9-time champion:...
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Zach Newkirk, an attorney from Alexandria, Virginia
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2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 36/37 6-time champion: $124,871...
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Zach Newkirk, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 36/37 6-time champion: $124,871...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
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Craig Chern, an assistant principal from Wall Township, New Jersey
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Season 29 player (2012-10-10).
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Sara Glidden, a college theater manager from West Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Season 19 2-time champion: $27,950 + $2,000. Johnny Gilbert misspoke and...
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Annette Todd, a marketing director from Riverside, California
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Season 28 player (2012-03-02). This was Annette's seventh game show appearance...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Arjun Malhotra, a 12-year-old from Sammamish, Washington
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"He says he's not naturally inclined to be an athlete, so...
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
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"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
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Alison Shapiro, a publicist from Santa Monica, California
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Season 29 player (2013-01-04).
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
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"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
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"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Angela Chuang, a public defender from New York, New York
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Season 31 player (2014-01-23).
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Sara Goodman, a graduate student originally from Huntington Woods, Michigan
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Season 31 player (2014-10-01). Daughter of Season 24 player Allen Goodman....
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Cameron Yahr, a university administrator from Encinitas, California
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Season 30 player (2014-03-14).
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
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"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
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"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Elizabeth Salinas, a historic interpreter from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 14 3-time champion: $31,300. Appeared in game #3000. (Because of...
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Jerod Klein, a biology teacher originally from Fullerton, California
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Season 14 player (1997-09-19). Appeared in game #3000. (Because of the...
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Tom Nichols, a process engineer originally from Lemont, Illinois
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Season 14 player (1997-09-19). Appeared in game #3000. (Because of the...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Nicole Welch, a tax lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 25 player (2008-12-17).
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Sandy Yates, a revenue agent from Petaluma, California
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Season 23 player (2007-04-20).
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Marisa Goldstein, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-03-02).
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Carol Gerber, a legal technology manager from Red Bank, New Jersey
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Season 23 player (2007-05-15).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Carolgrbr
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
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"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
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"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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