| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $200: Its magnetic field is 20 times stronger than Earth's Jupiter |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $400: The Rio Grande Valley is the birthplace of this dish of meat, onions & peppers sizzled & tortilla-ed fajitas |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $600: From the Latin for "close by", it's the placement of different elements side by side juxtaposition |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $800: Once the site of a state prison, this city near Chicago has an economy today based on tourism & casinos Joliet |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $1000: One of 3 core design languages, this programming mainstay is often used to add interactive features to webpages JavaScript |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $1000: While crossing the George Washington Bridge from N.J., drivers are greeted by a sign with these 4 words (it's been waiting for you) Welcome to New York |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $1500: When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear a red hat |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: He's a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger's Glass family; at one point, it's spelled as 2 words like "perceive extra" see more (Seymour Glass) |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | OOOH...FIREWORKS! $2,000 (Daily Double): From Greek words meaning "fire" & "art", this is the craft of making & shooting off fireworks pyrotechnics |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $400: The name of this N.J. city across the Hudson from Manhattan comes from Native American words meaning "land of the tobacco pipe" Hoboken |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | ADD A LETTER $200: Tie a letter to a mark from a wound to get something you might wear to cover it scarf scar |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MISSING PIECES $400: English first person singular pronouns & 1970 song title words: I, me... mine |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: Like its synonyms joking & joshing, this 7-letter non "ING" word begins with "J" jocular |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | ODD WORDS $400: A tittle is that little dot you place over these 2 lowercase letters I & J |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Term for a feudal Anglo-Saxon or Scottish lord; Macbeth was one "of Cawdor" thane |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $200: A short, straight punch in boxing a jab |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $400: One who makes ice cream sodas, whether he's rude or not a jerk |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $600: One theory derives this word from the name of a Mexican town where many used, dilapidated American cars were sent jalopy |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $800: This turnip-shaped veggie is used raw in salads or cooked in stews jicama |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Change the first letter in a problem for a car tire to get this, a point in time when a decision has to be made juncture |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | AN ACTOR'S LIFE FOR ME $1600: Alexander Chaplin played the speech-writer who put the words in the mayor's mouth on this Michael J. Fox sitcom Spin City |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $400: The admen at J. Walter Thompson came up with the slogan these 4 words. "The Marines" "The Few. The Proud." |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | "ON"WORDS & "UP"WORDS $200: WRITTEN ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS, LIKE THIS CLUE uppercase |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LETTERS & WORDS $400: At 10 points apiece, these 2 letters have the highest value in Scrabble Q and Z |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LETTERS & WORDS $800: The 2 lowercase letters of the English alphabet that have a tittle I & J |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | CHILDISH WORDS $800: It precedes "league" & "varsity" but, in another way, can come after sophomore junior |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE? $2000: A logophile words |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: His bark is worse than his bite except in the case of this barkless African dog B-A-S-E-N-J-I |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: On completing law school, you're likely to receive a J.D., a doctor of this degree jurisprudence |
| #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 |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Austin, Texas.) At the dedication in Austin in 1971, he said that of all the words in his presidential library, the two that best express his philosophy are "man can" L.B.J. |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | KING JAMES BIBLE $2000: Psalm 22 begins with this question to God, later asked by Jesus & goes on to say, "I cry... but thou hearest not" Why hast thou forsaken me? |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" drown |
| #3851, aired 2001-05-07 | DA BOMB $1000: This Los Alamos director recalled the words "Now I am become death...destroyer of worlds" during the first test J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: It's how the letters in the sequence "E, F, G, H, I, J" are arranged alphabetically |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | NEW HAWAIIAN WORDS $300: Holi hau is to do this, something a player of hoke has to learn Skate |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: What the French abbreviate ap. J.-C., meaning apres Jesus-Christ is abbreviated this way in Latin A.D. (Anno Domini) |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | IN OTHER WORDS THAT'S NIFTY! $300: It's the "feline utterance", daddy-o! Cat's meow |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $400: At the end, this German philosopher remarked "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough" Karl Marx |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $1000: "I go to seek the great perhaps", said this 16th century French satirist in his final moments Francois Rabelais |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | 12-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): In "The Magic Flute" this instrument provides the sounds of Papageno's magic bells Glockenspiel |
| #2873, aired 1997-02-12 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Buss is a synonym for this 4-letter word that also ends in "ss" Kiss |
| #1952, aired 1993-02-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: "J'ai perdu un verre de contact" means "I've lost a contact lens" in this language French |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $100: Last name of J.L., who arrived in Chicago in 1903, rented a horse & wagon & began selling cheese Kraft |
| #865, aired 1988-05-13 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: From Greek for "great city", it's a huge conglomeration of cities a megalopolis |
| #717, aired 1987-10-20 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: A lively manner of speaking, or a brand of home permanent lilt |
| #436, aired 1986-05-12 | "LAST"ING MUSIC $600: J. Frank Wilson's lips formed around the words to this, his only hit, in September 1964 "Last Kiss" |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "J" WORDS $100: Various sources say it's named for one of Popeye's pals, or for initials of "general purpose", G.P. a jeep |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "J" WORDS $200: In 1975, it was the Bee Gees' way of talkin' Jive |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "J" WORDS $300: "If you shut up your mug, I'll fill up" this with "good ol' mountain dew" your jug |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "J" WORDS $400: Flotsam's "friend" jetsam |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | "J" WORDS $500: To place side by side, as in an unexpected combination of colors or ideas juxtaposition |
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