| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $800: This actor is the star of "Last Action Hero" & plays Jack Slater in "Jack Slater IV", the movie within it Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $1000: People were "lovin on me"... well, not me, but him when he took that tune to No. 1 Jack Harlow |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $400: Consider your heart (but really, these) warmed in song via "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $400: We'll keep you in suspense... Jack Ryan Jr. is on the campus in "The Teeth of the Tiger" from this author Clancy |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $400: Laugh:
Baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse didn't get this music term quite right when the national anthem was sung "Acapulco" a cappella |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $1000: Jack & Chrissy are gone, but "Three's Company" lives as the nation's partygoers dress up like this character Mrs. Roper |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $1600: In this Wilde work Algernon's manservant is named Lane, while Jack has a butler named Merriman The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 5 FOR THE ROAD $600: Ray Charles started off a song with these 4 words; now it means scram! Hit the road, Jack |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $800: Working for the CTU, this character played by Kiefer Sutherland raced against time, often with just "24" hours to save the day (Jack) Bauer |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $1600: Will Graham,
Jack Crawford,
Dr. Chilton Hannibal |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | RHYMING FOLKS $800: He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre" Jack Black |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | NONFICTION $800: Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen began ladling out advice in this book in 1993 Chicken Soup for the Soul |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $400: This brand's ubiquitous singles now come in Swiss & pepper jack Kraft |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $1000: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) With the French army on the brink of collapse & in need of reinforcements, this American general, also known as "Black Jack" lent the 369th Infantry to fight for France Pershing |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $200: Not very frugal, but romantic: Jack Benny left provisions for the delivery of one of these flowers to his widow every day (one long-stemmed) rose |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $800: In the 1990s a diary surfaced purporting to be written by this London serial killer from the 1880s Jack the Ripper |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $1200: Jack Kelly's nonfiction book "The Edge of Anarchy" is about the 1894 strike against this man's railroad car company Pullman |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $1200: Season one of this series ended with Jack & Locke looking into the hatch that Locke had just blown open Lost |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | PORTLANDIA $600: Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood was the grand Overlook Hotel in this 1980 Jack Nicholson movie The Shining |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | FLAGS $2000: Hawaii's state flag includes another flag: the one called this in the upper left hand corner the Union Jack |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $400: The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody The Shining |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $400: A playing card begins this idiom that ends "master of none" jack of all trades |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CAUTIONARY RHYMES $800: "Red touch yellow, kill a fellow" refers to the lethal coral snake; "red touch black, friend of jack", to this harmless "royal" one a king snake |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WISH I'D SAID THAT! $800: When asked what his favorite one of these was, Jack Palance joked, "Poppy seed" role |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $400: It's the state of Wayne State University, attended by Jack White, Lily Tomlin & Steven Dorfman Michigan |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: In the '80s this sitcom actress made a successful move to directing with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" & "Big" Penny Marshall |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $200: "A kid trades his cow for some magic beans & before you know it, a huge vine grows up to the clouds where an angry giant lives" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $400: Jack Black fronted & provided tutelage to this young band, also a 2003 movie title School of Rock |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FAMOUS GINGERS $1000: Ginger Baker played drums in this 1960s rock trio that also had Jack Bruce & Eric Clapton Cream |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $400: "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back" "Hungry Heart" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $400: Medics were dispatched to a local hillside where a man sustained head injuries fetching water with a female companion "Jack and Jill" |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DOGS & CATS LIVING TOGETHER $1000: The kitten's investigating the tail of a pup of this terrier breed named for an English cleric a Jack Russell Terrier |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $200: Writer Mike White created the role of Dewey Finn, played by him in the film "School of Rock" Jack Black |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $600: This actor won an Oscar in 1976, '84 & '98 Jack Nicholson |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $400: Troubled Texas nightclub owner Jacob Rubenstein Jack Ruby |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $1600: With no pandas, kung fu or otherwise in sight, he hawked "Pitfall" for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet!) Jack Black |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $400: "You're not going to drown, Jack." "Why, Rose?" "I have an inflatable life raft. I probably should've said something earlier" Titanic |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Miss this term for the main body of a church & it sounds like you don't know Jack the nave |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1000: In 1927, he did not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney who may have gotten a 14-second long count Jack Dempsey |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $300: Who is Cartman's dad? Jack Tenorman! Who was cooked into a pot of chili! South Park |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $100: The very first of these microblogging posts was sent by company cofounder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 a tweet |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $600: This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America" The Call of the Wild |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | PLAY PEOPLE $400: A seducing rake in 1675's "The Country Wife" is named this, like Little Jack in the corner Horner |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $800: After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't Apollo 13 |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $1200: Lloyd Bentsen, who knew Jack Kennedy & was not afraid to say so Dukakis |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | THAT HOLLOW FEELING $600: The national museum of Ireland has a plaster cast of an early 1900s "ghost turnip" this; we use pumpkins a jack-o'-lantern |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $800: Seen here as a boy with his dog, he hit the shelves with 1900's "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | BANDS ACROSS THE DECADES $1000: Last name, nickname, last name of Ricky, Michael, Ronnie, the R&B trio who dripped "Poison" in the '90s Bell Biv DeVoe |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WORD PUZZLES $200: A classic toy or a fast food franchise:
JACK jack-in-the-box |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WORD PUZZLES $800: An extreme weather condition:
King Tiger
Queen Puma
King Chow Chow
Queen Jack Russell reigning cats & dogs |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | A TV SERIES $600: Hosts of "The Tonight Show": Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, this man, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon Jay Leno |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $200: "But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas" "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $600: Book 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels is "The Cardinal of" this place The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HANG UP YOUR TV REBOOTS $400: Jack Bauer didn't appear in the short-lived reboot of this show that took place in 2016 as Sgt. Eric Carter was on the clock 24 |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | NONFICTION TV $800: The final leg of this show had Derek & Claire get their Jack Daniel's on (at the distillery) before winning big after 16 cities The Amazing Race |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | FRUITY RHYME TIME $1000: Fruit pulled out by Little Jack Horner from the largest part of the brain cerebrum plum |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $200: Beginning another word for a jack in a deck of playing cards K (knave) |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | POP CULTURE 2003 $2000: This hero of books by Patrick O'Brian came to cinemas in the person of Russell Crowe Jack Aubrey |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $800: She claimed in her 1896 autobiography that she captured Jack McCall with a meat cleaver after he killed Wild Bill Hickok; not true Calamity Jane |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $1000: (Hans Zimmer reads.) I'm a big fan of this jack-of-all-trades musician who scored films like "The Master" & "There Will Be Blood"; you may have also heard of his little band called Radiohead (Jonny) Greenwood |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $800: "I don't believe what I just saw" & "We'll see you tomorrow night" are among the many calls of this legend & dad of a legend Jack Buck |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: The last word in this 1974 Jack Nicholson movie is its title--"Forget it, Jake, it's" this place Chinatown |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $400: Philosopher's Path in Kyoto is a top spot to see Sakura, this tree's blossoms, burst with color during their spring festival cherry |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $800: The world's highest paved international road, the Karakoram highway between Pakistan & China follows this ancient trade route the Silk Road |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $1600: Canada's Icefields Parkway winds along the continental divide between Banff National Park & this one also in Alberta Jasper |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $2000: In 1966 Time magazine said this iconic street known for its fashion "illustrates the new swinging London" Carnaby Street |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $7,000 (Daily Double): Some give this highway's length as 19,000 miles, with stops including Fairbanks, Alaska, Monterrey, Mexico & Lima, Peru the Pan-American Highway |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $600: Here's this golf great; after sinking his putt in 1986, he would win the tournament for the sixth time Jack Nicklaus |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $2,000 (Daily Double): "Our evaluation of this intelligence data is that Red October is attempting to defect to the United States" Jack Ryan |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $600: "My Prerogative" by this singer is noted as a prime example of R&B's new jack swing era Bobby Brown |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $800: This other name for the jack in a deck of cards fits the bill a knave |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE WORLD $200: Police linked this man to the 1888 murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman & several others Jack the Ripper |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $400: The Western shirt created by Jack A. Weil of Rockmount Ranch Wear snaps |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $400: Always seeming to find large amounts of trouble, this CIA agent is the protagonist in "Clear & Present Danger" Jack Ryan |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $2000: Tough cowboy Curly in "City Slickers", this Western actor took a turn on TV as Bronk Jack Palance |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $800: In 1998 Michael Keaton was nipping at your nose as this title guy, a dad brought back to life as a snowman Jack Frost |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $2000: This jack-of-all-trades was part of the band fun. as well as being a super-producer known for work with Taylor Swift Antonoff |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COMPLETE THE PANGRAM $600: "Farmer Jack realized that big yellow" these bed coverings "were expensive" quilts |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOUTHERNERS $1200: What's poppin'? The career of this rapper from Louisville Jack Harlow |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | ON TIKTOK $600: A big food trend a couple of years back was this fluffy baked item made with egg whites, sugar & cornstarch cloud bread |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | ON TIKTOK $1000: Famous for his silent reaction videos & spoofs, he dethroned Charli D'Amelio as the most-followed TikTok star Khaby Lame |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE ELEMENTS $7,400 (Daily Double): This strong, lightweight metal was named for the dozen children of Gaia & Uranus titanium |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $600: One of the most valuable U.S. stamps is the "Inverted" this, the female nickname of the Curtiss JN-4 shown upside down Jenny |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $400: In 1930 she did a series of 6 paintings of an oversized jack-in-the-pulpit flower O'Keeffe |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | VENOMOUS CREATURES $400: Researcher Jack Barnes figured out this marine creature causes the agony of Irukandji syndrome by having one sting himself & his son a box jellyfish |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | CHARACTER/ACTOR $200: He's the roguish, rum-obsessed captain played by Johnny Depp in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise Jack Sparrow |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | POP CULTURE GOES TO MARS $1200: Jack Nicholson was the president & Glenn Close, the first lady in this 1996 Tim Burton film Mars Attacks! |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): As a noun, it is a tool in your toolbox; as a verb, it refers to something you don't want to do to your back wrench |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | DOG TALES $800: This "colorful" title wolfdog bounded to life in a 1906 Jack London novel White Fang |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE SINGER WHO PLAYED... $2000: The dashing Jack Chambers in "Don't Worry Darling" Harry Styles |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $500: Milo Ventimiglia was Jack Pearson, father of Kevin, Kate & Randall on this NBC drama, & now we're getting a bit choked up thinking about it This Is Us |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $200: This alternative rocker from Detroit mispronounced "Salvation Army" as a kid, leading to the title "Seven Nation Army" (Jack) White |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: Jack Bauer &
President Tom Kirkman Sutherland |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $1200: Claire Danes is married to this British actor who recently played Jack Barber in the movie "Downton Abbey: A New Era" Hugh Dancy |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | EVERYDAY ROYALTY & NOBILITY $200: Home to the Croissan'wich, this fast food chain had trademark issues Down Under, so it's known as Hungry Jack's in Australia Burger King |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | RECAST FOR TV $1200: Jack Lemmon
to
Tony Randall
to
Thomas Lennon Felix Unger |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $400: This sometimes terrifying toy often plays "Pop Goes The Weasel" a jack-in-the-box |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | TIME FOR READING $800: A Jack Ryan Jr. novel:
"____ Hour" Zero |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $600: In his high school yearbook this ex-Jersey governor noted his special friendship with Jill was special & shouted out someone named Fat Jack Christie |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | STARS OF OSCARS BEST PICTURE $1600: Crime did pay for Leonardo DiCaprio & Jack Nicholson The Departed |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | "P.J."s $800: Serrano & other chiles help flavor & name this cheese pepper jack |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $200: After wishing his coffee "had a little shot of Jack", Walker Hayes sang he was just trying to "stay out of" this 2-letter group AA |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $2000: The title of Jack Higgins' sequel to this World War II-set adventure yarn ends "...has flown" The Eagle Has Landed |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | BRING ME A SOUVENIR! $800: From Greece, a string of komboloi, or these, used not for religious reasons but to relax & counteract stress worry beads |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | ANOTHER SHOT AT THE TITLE $800: Stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967, Muhammad Ali won it back with a KO of this champ in 1974's Rumble in the Jungle George Foreman |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $1200: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) In the 2013 film “Kill Your Darlings”, I played this poet just starting at Columbia University and meeting Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs Ginsberg |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $200: Nathan "Nearest" Green is recognized as this Tennessee brand's first master distiller & taught the man it's named for how to make it Jack Daniel |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | PLURALS THAT DON'T END IN S $400: Moose moose |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Breakfast in Venezuela includes cheese these, Spanish-named turnovers empanadas |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $2000: She called a 2003 book of essays "The Opposite of Fate" (Amy) Tan |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | REVOLTS $5,000 (Daily Double): The -ists named for this month failed to topple the czar in 1825 but inspired the name of a 21st century band December |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE AUTOMOTIVE WORLD $400: The tail lights of recent MINI Coopers look like this flag the Union Jack |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | FIRST EPISODES $600: Dr. Jack Shephard had a bit of a rough landing after catching a flight out of Sydney in the premiere of this show in 2004 Lost |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The original version of this novel made vampires seem a real threat; an editor said people are jumpy from Jack the Ripper--go easy Dracula |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $1000: Before Jack chopped down the beanstalk, he stole the golden goose & a talking one of these musical instruments a talking harp |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | THE ACTOR'S STUDIO $1200: James Cagney starred in gangster films like "Public Enemy" for this studio founded by Albert, Jack, Harry & Sam Warner Brothers |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | NATURALISTS $1600: Jack Miner, a pioneer of doing this, to track birds, began a tradition of adding Bible verses to create flying missionaries tagging (banding) |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $800: Going from the movies to Prime Video, he grew as a character, as Alan Ritchson is about 6'2" & Tom Cruise... is not Jack Reacher |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $400: Though there was more than a decade to go, in 1988 golf magazine named him "Golfer of the Century" Jack Nicklaus |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TL;DW $600: We cut out after Jack said he was king of the world; this 1997 film is 3 hours & 14 minutes long, & what could possibly go wrong? Titanic |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $800: Jack Lemmon played one half of this title pair in the movies; Jack Klugman played the other half on TV The Odd Couple |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $1200: Jack London set "The Call of the Wild" during the 1890s gold rush in this Canadian region where he tried to strike it rich the Klondike |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $1600: Jack Ruby became known as the "assassin's assassin" after killing this man November 24, 1963 Oswald |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $2000: In 1908 he defeated Tommy Burns to become the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600: Jack, seen at the right in a 19th century illustration, is earning this title the Giant Slayer (a giant killer) |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $200: (Sheena Parveen of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) At San Diego’s Grant Hotel back in 1970, sci-fi master Ray Bradbury & superhero artist Jack Kirby, greeted the 300 fans who attended the first of these; now, it’s an annual event drawing more than 130,000 each year Comic-Con |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $600: In the 1979 thriller "Time After Time", Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells on the hunt for this Victorian killer in the future Jack the Ripper |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | & ON DRUMS... $400: Meg pounded the skins behind husband Jack in this 2-piece band that helped kickstart the 2000s garage rock revival The White Stripes |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC LIT $600: In "Oliver Twist", precocious pickpocket Jack Dawkins is better known by this nickname the Artful Dodger |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK $600: A 2021 Rolling Stone headline: "The best" these "shirts for channeling every style, from grunge to cool lumber jack" flannel shirts |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | TAYLOR'S VERSION $200: Choreographer Paul Taylor's first dance was a version of this kids' tale that includes some magic beans Jack and the Beanstalk |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MENACE TO SOBRIETY $800: A Lynchburg lemonade isn't meant for kids on a hot summer's day, as pouring this brand over ice into a highball glass is for adults only Jack Daniel's |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | APRIL FOOLS $400: On April 14, 1912 a nearby ship warned the Titanic of this; radio operator Jack Phillips scolded the ship for interrupting him an iceberg |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | TRIOS $1200: In the 1930s Frank Malina, Ed Forman & Jack Parsons began doing pioneering work on rockets at this Pasadena school Caltech |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $2000: Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin as told to |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | EASY PEASY $400: The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child Five Easy Pieces |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $400: Harrison Ford in a few films; John Krasinski on Prime Jack Ryan |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $1200: In "The Shining" this actor descends into insanity, to the dismay of Shelley Duvall Jack Nicholson |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $1200: In 2020 this author announced he was passing the Jack Reacher baton to his younger brother Andrew Lee Child |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang (Jack) London |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC $800: Jack Cover read about a man who survived walking into an electric fence & as a result, police use these devices tasers |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $1000: The first tweet ever, "just setting up my twttr", was from this Twitter co-founder (Jack) Dorsey |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $1000: (Michael Eaves delivers the clue.) ESPN has brought you the UFC since 2019 & we cover it all, including this pre-fight confrontation that's now an essential part of MMA, but became popular around 1930 at boxing weigh-ins with fighters like Jack Sharkey the stare-down |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In this 1997 film Jack Nicholson asks a group of psychiatric patients, "What if this is as good as it gets?" As Good as It Gets |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | GETTING YOUR LOOK TOGETHER $400: This company that sells prescription glasses was named for 2 Jack Kerouac characters Warby Parker |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | "KN"OWLEDGE $800: It's another name for the jack in a deck of cards knave |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | DEAN'S LIST $1600: Dean Moriarty comes out of reform school, not college, in a novel by this Beat Generation author (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $400: With great timing, this pirate in a 2003 film steps off his now-sunken boat & onto Port Royal's dock Jack Sparrow |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH $400: Jack Worthing finds out that he's really Ernest John Moncrieff in "The Importance of Being Earnest" by this playwright Oscar Wilde |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WATERLOGGED READING $1000: Overmatched Capt. Jack Aubrey & Dr. Stephen Maturin take on a Spanish frigate in this 1st Patrick O'Brian book in a series Master and Commander |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | NASTY, BRITISH $800: Actor Tobias Menzies says Black Jack Randall in this time-traveling TV show is a sadist & character Jamie would agree Outlander |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1600: Ben Affleck played a younger version of Jack Ryan in this explosive 2002 thriller The Sum of All Fears |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FICTION $1000: Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back! Shane |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | FAIRY TALES: A CLOSER LOOK $400: A boy breaks into a home after a gardening incident, steals a magical fowl, then kills an occupant "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE "HIT" PARADE $1600: "Don't you come back no more, no more" was a recurring theme in this Ray Charles classic "Hit The Road Jack" |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $1000: There are only two of me in a standard deck of cards; call us by our hyphenated name & we just might make your house full a one-eyed jack |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $400: Young again, Rose ascends a ship's staircase to reunite with Jack in this 1997 film Titanic |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | BOATS & SHIPS $800: The USS Doyle didn't have a mutiny during World War II, but it later played this movie ship that did the Caine |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $1600: Female mosquitos drink human blood & in so doing, can transmit diseases like this, also called breakbone fever dengue fever |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $1200: This character had just 2 hours to deal with a coup in Sangala in the TV movie
"24: Redemption" Jack Bauer |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $400: Jean-Louis was the original first name of this Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $800: At age 60, fitness pioneer Jack Lalanne swam, handcuffed, to Fisherman's Wharf from this S.F. Bay island--towing a boat behind him Alcatraz |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $1200: Jack on the left, was the youngest but best known of these siblings who made a lasting mark in Hollywood the Warner Brothers |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $1600: This titan of comic book art collaborated with Stan Lee to create the Fantastic Four & many more (Jack) Kirby |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $2000: Engineer Jack Kilby shared a 2000 Nobel Prize for helping to invent the integrated this circuit |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $400: After being a train-riding teen hobo, Jack London went to Cal-Berkeley but soon dropped out to search for this in the Klondike gold |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $400: This 1962 classic by Ezra Jack Keats has been praised for advancing multiculturalism The Snowy Day |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | AUDIBLE $600: Feel your pulse pound with a 1988 bestseller by this action novelist
"Look, Dr. Ryan," the general started to say. Jack cut him off. "General, I am cleared for Tea Clipper. You know that, so let's stop screwing around." (Tom) Clancy |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $200: They're the 5 words that "makes jack a dull boy" all work and no play |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $1600: In the film of the same title, Lee Remick quotes to Jack Lemmon Ernest Dowson's lines about "The Days of" this pair Wine and Roses |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | HISTORICAL NONFICTION $400: A dark portrait of Victorian London, "The Five" by Hallie Rubenhold examines the lives of the victims of this killer Jack the Ripper |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | AMERICAN NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling" Jack London |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS $1200: To reverse course using the same route, & the star of "Nacho Libre" backtrack & Jack Black |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | EPONYMOUS FOOD $200: In 1859 David Jack, a big landowner in this California town, began selling its white cheese under his name Monterey Jack |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | FIRST NOVELS $1200: Written in 1943, this beatnik's "The Sea is My Brother" took a long road to publication, finally seeing print in 2011 Jack Kerouac |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | U.K. TV $2000: Jack Davenport & Sarah Alexander were 2 of the 6 stars of this Britcom, a sort of U.K. version of "Friends" Coupling |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | "A" VOWEL $800: This nickname of General Pershing can also mean a face card in spades or clubs Black Jack |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | MAKING FETCH HAPPEN $200: In nursery rhyme news, this pair were airlifted from a hill after one suffered a severe head injury fetching water Jack & Jill |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALL THE BOOZE $800: This brand offers a 3-step recipe:
1) put ice in a highball glass;
2) pour its Old No. 7 over ice;
3) top with Coke Jack Daniel's |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $400: In song, these are "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $200: "Heeere's Johnny!" Well, not Johnny, but this actor who played Jack Torrance in "The Shining" in 1980 Jack Nicholson |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | FICTION $400: Tom Clancy left behind detailed notes on this, his most popular hero--dissertation topic, name of his back surgeon... Jack Ryan |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACTION FIGURES $200: Fact: This "Office" star sees plenty of action as the title character on Amazon's "Jack Ryan" John Krasinski |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $1600: The son of actors Dennis & Meg, he battles abusive superheroes on TV's "The Boys" Jack Quaid |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: For this show Justin Collette took the role of Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black in a 2003 movie School of Rock |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $3,000 (Daily Double): One of the most famous road trips in American lit began in 1947 when he rode the bus with crying babies from New York to Chicago Jack Kerouac |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $200: This star directed "The Two Jakes", the sequel to "Chinatown" Jack Nicholson |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $400: After being pelted by a burrito in "Anchorman", this funnyman punts Will Ferrell's dog off a bridge Jack Black |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $600: In a 2007 film this character asks, "Why should I sail with any of you? 4 of you have tried to kill me in the past--and one of you succeeded!" Jack Sparrow |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $800: One Jack named this was the first African American heavyweight champ; the other, a surfer turned rocker Jack Johnson |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $1000: Billy Wilder, his director in "The Apartment", said there was a little bit of genius in everything he did Jack Lemmon |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | "T-N-T" $1200: A friend & collaborator of Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden had this musical job a trombonist |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $1200: Robert Louis Stevenson rode his horse Jack to Apia, now capital of this Pacific island nation Samoa |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | "CRACK"LE $200: This product got a boost in 1908 when it was mentioned in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" Cracker Jack |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | THE NOVEL'S NARRATOR $1600: 5-year-old Jack, in this bestseller by Emma Donoghue Room |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | IT'S "IN" THE SPORT $1000: Jack Nicklaus says, "I've always used" this "grip" in which his right hand's pinky intertwines with his left hand's index finger an interlocking grip |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: A 2020 adventure based on a Jack London classic gets, well, a lot weirder as a 1990 David Lynch film about Sailor Ripley The Call of the Wild at Heart |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 1971 EMMY AWARDS $1600: Jack Klugman won for Lead Actor in a Comedy series for his role as this half of "The Odd Couple" Oscar Madison |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $200: This secretary for James Monroe succeeded his boss in the big job John Quincy Adams |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $600: Cordell Hull, the longest-serving secretary, spent 11 years on the job under this president Franklin Roosevelt |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | FLAG TALK $800: This male first name is used for a flag flown on a short pole at the bow of a ship jack |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $600: This "Golden Bear" turned around his golf game by using a new grip the way he did in a dream Jack Nicklaus |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | LET'S GET HAMMERED $200: If you don't know this type of hammer that uses compressed air, you don't know... jack |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $600: On "24", Mary Lynn Rajskub was the very efficient Chloe O'Brian, helping this Kiefer Sutherland character Jack Bauer |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ROM COMS $600: "Something's Gotta Give" is a ditty starring Jack & Diane, these 2 legendary actors Jack Nicholson & Diane Keaton |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | BANDS OF THE 21st CENTURY $5,000 (Daily Double): Jack White has had some conflict with Dan Auerbach of this band whose name oddly mirrors The White Stripes' The Black Keys |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | DAYTIME TV $2000: America's favorite zookeeper, he can be seen on "Into the Wild" and "Wild Countdown" Jack Hanna |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: A bathroom with 2 sinks situated between 2 bedrooms is named for this nursery rhyme pair Jack & Jill |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | MAKING A 4 "A" $2,000 (Daily Double): This royal title is from Sanskrit words meaning "great king" maharaja |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $3,600 (Daily Double): April 22 was chosen for this observance because it fell between spring break & final exams Earth Day |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: This guy is on a strict "no fat" diet; his wife is on a "no lean" diet Jack Sprat |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | ROCK STARS $400: (Conan O'Brien presents the clue.) Forced to engage in a guitar battle with the virtuoso Jack Black, I cheated a smidge and employed this curly-haired, top-hatted legend, aka Saul Hudson Slash |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | BO, JACK $400: Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" was inspired by this notorious Whitechapel prowler Jack the Ripper |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | BO, JACK $800: The first chapter of his 1910 work "Burning Daylight" mentions roulette, the Klondike & a sack of gold dust Jack London |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | BO, JACK $1200: From 1982 to 1985 he rushed for over 4,000 yards in college before signing a baseball contract with Kansas City Bo Jackson |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | DISCOUNT CEOs? $2,000 (Daily Double): Jack Dorsey, CEO of this credit card processing giant, gets a $2.75 yearly salary, 2.75 being the percentage charged per swipe Square |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES $800: "Rusty Nail" & "Bloody Mary" are titles in the series about this police detective whose name sounds like Tennessee whiskey Jack Daniels |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: Harrison Ford plays John Thornton, rescuer of sled dog Buck, in the 2020 adaptation of this Jack London novel The Call of the Wild |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: When "One Shot" by Lee Child came to the big screen, it was named this, after the main character Jack Reacher |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | MOVIE & TV ROMANCES $2000: He played Rory Gilmore's boyfriend Jess; now he plays Mandy Moore's hubby Jack Pearson Milo Ventimiglia |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | KIDS BOOKS EN ESPAÑOL $1000: By Ezra Jack Keats: "Un Día de Nieve" The Snowy Day |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | "T" TIME $1000: Meaning holding fast, it's also found in the name of a comedy rock duo featuring Jack Black tenacious |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LYRICS OF TODAY $200: Country's Jason Aldean sings about how it should be the other way around, but "memory drowns" this--Jack Daniel's, specifically whiskey |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS $1000: This golden golfer has won the most Masters Tournaments Jack Nicklaus |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | FOE PAs $1600: The Overlook Hotel was the site where this actor murderously chased his son around a snowy maze in a 1980 movie Jack Nicholson |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $800: Tellers of anecdotes, or the name of a Jack White band raconteurs |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | GET SCHOOLED $1600: This university's informal "Dropout Hall of Fame" includes author Jack London & '60s activist Jerry Rubin Cal (University of California in Berkeley) |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | CAST YOUR PEARLS $200: Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" Johnny Depp |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | LITERARY LEE $800: His Jack Reacher books include "Make Me" & "The Affair" Lee Child |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | 19th CENTURY HISTORY $400: April 9, 1878 was a normal night in Dodge City; Jack Wagner killed marshal Ed Masterson & this brother of Ed's killed Jack Bat Masterson |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | FAIRY TALE POLICE REPORT $800: "Traded the family's cow for some beans; charged with ogricide" Jack |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | YOU KILLED ME! $400: In 1963 Jack Ruby killed him, with literally millions of witnesses Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $800: This word for the Buddhist doctrine of universal truth precedes "Bums" in a Jack Kerouac novel about drifters on the West Coast Dharma |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $1200: "TI JEAN" on Jack's grave reflects his heritage; his parents immigrated to New England from this country Canada |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | BUCKETS $600: "The Bucket List" starred these 2 Oscar winners, known for playing God & Satan in other films Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | REBOOTS $800: Eric Carter had Jack Bauer's very big shoes to fill on the reboot called this: "Legacy" 24 |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | RUNNER-UP RUNNING MATES $800: Jack Kemp Bob Dole |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD $1000: Not a Halloween tradition, English Jack o' Lents were made on this mid-week Christian holiday Ash Wednesday |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $200: Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity Israel |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: He was recovering from typhoid fever when he was inaugurated Vice President on March 4, 1865 Johnson |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $600: The Crystal Cathedral, now known as Christ Cathedral the United States |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | SKATING INTO THE NHL $1000: A 1990 Oilers-Kings game saw 356 of these doled out, with Marty McSorley getting 37--that'd be more than half the game! penalty minutes |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $1000: St. Stephen's Cathedral, AKA Stephanskirche, consecrated in the capital in 1147 Austria |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600: Originally a set of graduated bells, now it's tuned steel bars struck with wooden hammers glockenspiel |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this novel Mark Watney says, "I didn't die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did" The Martian |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: Also known as a scraper, this percussion instrument originated in Latin America a guiro |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | TV TITLE TOUGH GUYS $800: John Krasinski, since 2018 Jack Ryan |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELTIES $1000: Ads in comic books featuring a scrawny kid getting sand kicked in his face sold this muscleman's fitness program Charles Atlas |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, after learning there are no grownups, Jack says, "We'll have to look after ourselves" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS $400: Unlikely allies Jack Ryan & Captain Marko Ramius Tom Clancy |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | CHEESE FOR THE MOUSE $200: Jerry, you may choose the dry, pepper or Monterey version of this Jack cheese |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | GRAND OLD FLAGS $800: In 1801 the Cross of St. Patrick joined the crosses of St. Andrew & St. George on this the Union Jack |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $600: George Bellows painted Luis Firpo, "The Wild Bull of the Pampas", de-ringing this champ in 1923. Ah, the champ came back to win Jack Dempsey |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $800: Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col. "Bat" Guano & Major "King" Kong are characters in this 1964 doomsday comedy Dr. Strangelove |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: On Sept. 30, 1888 Elizabeth Stride & Catherine Eddowes both ran afoul of this terrible man in London Jack the Ripper |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | BEFORE & LAUGHTER $1000: Candy-coated popcorn & peanuts that has some amusing "Deep Thoughts" on "Saturday Night Live" Cracker Jack Handeys |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS $200: A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds jack-o-lanterns |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $200: Fans of this show called it "The Jack Bauer Power Hour" 24 |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $400: Jack Skellington from Halloween Town tries to take over a holiday that's later in the year Christmas |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION $1200: Fred Haise, James Lovell, Jack Swigert handled some problems on this mission Apollo 13 |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | "RA", "RA", "SIS", "BOOM", "BA" $800: Jack Byham, a famous maker of these, sold thousands at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics (with a few returns) a boomerang |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | THE MEAT INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME $1000: Dave Theno of Jack in the Box was inducted for helping the industry improve after an outbreak of this bacterium E. coli |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOSS $1000: Jack London encouraged this young cartoonist who created the "Believe It or Not!" strip, later spun off into multiple TV series Ripley |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS $800: Mary Pope Osborne has taken kids all through history as Jack & Annie travel in this magic structure the magic tree house |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE WORKING DEAD $1000: The name of this man who passed in 1947 can be found on the Kentucky bourbon formerly known as Old Tub Jim Beam |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WHISKEY BUSINESS $600: Forbes says India's Officer's Choice is the world's top-selling whiskey; America's is this Lynchburg libation Jack Daniel's |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $400: Ray Bolger & Buddy Ebsen switched roles in this film; then the silver makeup made Ebsen ill, so in came Jack Haley The Wizard of Oz |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | REAL-LIFE METAPHORS $800: A 1979 book by conservative thinker Jack Kemp popularized this term for programs like welfare safety net |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK $800: ____-It crackers come in flavors like Cheddar Jack, White Cheddar & Hot & Spicy C-H-E-E-Z |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POPULAR INVENTION $800: Popularized by boxer Jack Broughton in the 18th century, the early version of these were used only in training bouts boxing gloves |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $1000: The UCB is this "Brigade" that does improv shows 7 nights a week Upright Citizens Brigade |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | TITL"ING" THE MOVIE $800: In 1980 it starred Jack Nicholson The Shining |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | JACK LONDON $800: "The Star Rover" of 1915 revolves around this concept of rebirth as a man on death row recounts his past lives reincarnation |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | JACK LONDON $1200: In London's early novel "A Daughter of the Snows", a young woman seeks adventure in the Klondike region of this territory the Yukon |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | JACK LONDON $1600: In "The Game", a man shows his fiancee the brutality of this sport in which he competes boxing |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | JACK LONDON $2000: The title of this novel refers to the brutality of ship's captain Wolf Larsen The Sea-Wolf |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Hit The Road Jack" with the singer & pianist who also came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection Ray Charles Darwin |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | 1960s TV $1200: In 1967 Harry Morgan joined "Dragnet" as Bill Gannon, the final partner of this police sergeant played by Jack Webb Joe Friday |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | MAKE IT SNAPPY $1600: This hyphenated tool company owns brands like Car-O-Liner & Kansas Jack Snap-On |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | 3-WORD LITERARY TITLES $200: In this novel by Jack Kerouac, Sal Paradise says he'd "often dreamed of going west to see the country" On the Road |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $1000: Los Angeles City Hall plays itself in this iconic film in which Jack Nicholson plays 1930s P.I. J.J. Gittes Chinatown |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | "NEW" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Wesley Snipes won an NAACP Image Award for his role as a drug lord in this 1991 movie, opposite Ice T as an undercover cop New Jack City |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | NOBODY EXPECTS $200: It's a hoot the first time a kid gets surprised by the clown emerging from this windup toy a jack-in-the-box |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: This leading U.S. general of WWI was Army chief of staff from 1921 to 1924 (John J.) "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | FACTS ABOUT POETS $800: This poet went to Columbia University & became friends with Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | MOOLAH $400: For the sake of our currency, Tim Geithner & Jack Lew both underwent signature remediation before taking this job Secretary of the Treasury |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | JAMES BOND & FRIENDS $1000: Jack Lord & Jeffrey Wright are 2 of the 8 actors who have played this American CIA agent & 007 ally Felix Leiter |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | SET IN THE CITY $400: "This Is Us"--remember when Jack covered up with a Terrible Towel? Pittsburgh |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Nickname for Britain's flag that's also a type of cheddar Union Jack cheese |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | CELEBRITY FILM VOICES $800: Po in "Kung Fu Panda" Jack Black |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | ON THE PGA TOUR $600: The long chip at the 1978 Jackie Gleason Classic was one of 5 straight birdies to seal the win for this Golden Bear Jack Nicklaus |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE IRISH-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME $1200: 2017 saw this comic legend earn his "stripes", & that's the fact, Jack! Bill Murray |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | A COLONEL OF TRUTH $400: In 2008 Hasbro updated this game as Colonel Mustard became ex-football player Jack Mustard Clue |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | TRIOS $1200: This rock band:
Eric Clapton,
Ginger Baker,
Jack Bruce Cream |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $1000: In 1902 Will Rogers joined Texas Jack's American circus as a bronco rider & trick artist using these a lasso |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THE 1920s $600: After losing the heavyweight title in 1926, this boxer said, "Honey, I just forgot to duck" (Jack) Dempsey |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | CELEBRITIES: THEY'RE JUST LIKE US! $400: With a reported $2 million a month in spending--$30,000 on wine alone--Mr. Depp might return to play Capt. Jack in this film series Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $600: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): "Some Like It Hot" has one of the great last lines in film: when Jack Lemmon reveals he's a man, Joe E. Brown replies, "Well, nobody's" this perfect |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | TEDDY ROOSEVELT, MEET JACKIE ROBINSON $200: In Jan. 1919 TR died & Jack Roosevelt Robinson was named for him in the town of Cairo, on this state's border with Fla. Georgia |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | MADLIBERALS $800: Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle: "Senator, you're no Jack (proper noun)" Kennedy |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $1200: When Ving Rhames won for "Don King: Only in America", he called this actor up & respectfully gave him the award Jack Lemmon |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | BRAND OF "BROTHERS" $400: Theater owners Harry, Albert, Samuel & Jack decided to make their own movies as this company in 1913 the Warner Brothers |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | A FISTFUL OF HEROES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this army guy was born when his author showed proficiency at getting things from high shelves Jack Reacher |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | THEY MAKE THAT $2000: Sinatra Select Tennessee whiskey Jack Daniels |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | JACK WHO OR WHAT? $400: His wife could eat no lean Jack Sprat |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | JACK WHO OR WHAT? $800: Terrible result for a semi-truck jackknife |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | JACK WHO OR WHAT? $1200: This guy, a type of weather personified, is seen here Jack Frost |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | JACK WHO OR WHAT? $1600: It's a fearless little terrier a Jack Russell |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | JACK WHO OR WHAT? $2000: Time magazine coined this nickname for paint-flicking artist Pollock Jack the Dripper |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $400: The unstable J.K. Stephen was the son of England's main authority on this type of law dealing with theft, murder, etc. criminal law |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $800 (Daily Double): This 19th c. author has been looked at; later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009's "Dust and Shadow" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $800: Richard Mansfield played the title roles in a stage version of this R.L. Stevenson tale at the time & was suspected Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $1200: Prince Albert Victor, brother to the future V king of this name, died soon after the murders & was suspected George |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $2000: The graphic novel "From Hell" posits that William Gull, who served Queen Victoria in this capacity, was the Ripper her doctor |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $1200: There are now over 250 titles in this series of inspirational books cooked up by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen Chicken Soup for the Soul |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | FERRY TALES $7,000 (Daily Double): This author's "The Sea-Wolf" opens with a ferry accident in San Francisco Bay Jack London |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | WATCHING THE TV DETECTIVES $800: It's the lead detective role played on TV by Jack Lord & Alex O'Loughlin 30 years apart Steve McGarrett |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | PIONEERING TELEVISION $400: In the B.C. (before Carson) era, Steve Allen & Jack Paar were hosts of this show The Tonight Show |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY $400: John Mellencamp got a songwriting credit on Jake Owen's "I Was Jack (You Were)" her Diane |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $400: He resolved that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth" Abraham Lincoln |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $1000: An 1844 campaign slogan was this number "or Fight", a reference to the northern border of the Oregon territory 54-40 or Fight |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $6,000 (Daily Double): As parties choose a nominee for pres., the 2 main contest types are primaries & these, where voters give support openly caucuses |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | RIVALRY $800: You will always remember today as the day that you named this captain who took down Barbossa with a single shot in 2003 Jack Sparrow |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 2018 a pres. pardon was given to Jack Johnson, a champion in this sport whose 1913 conviction had racial overtones heavyweight boxing |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | MUSIC CLASS $200: Vocal range for Rodolfo in "La Boheme"; it can also mean the general sense of something tenor |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE SPANISH DICTIONARY $600: Under C:
Castillo de arena is this, something you see at the beach a sandcastle |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | U.S. CITIES $600: KCK stands for this city just beyond the Missouri state line Kansas City, Kansas |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | THEME PARKS $1200: The Slinky Dog Dash Coaster coils through the new Disney World land named for this movie Toy Story |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $400: In Australia, Hungry Jack's is home to the Whopper, found at this chain in America Burger King |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $1000: This jack-of-all-sports-trades has had the longest sting of any "MNF" play-by-play guy, from 1986 through 2005 (Al) Michaels |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | FICTIONAL WRITERS $400: Hired as a hotel caretaker, Jack Torrance hopes to work on his play in this Stephen King classic The Shining |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $400: In this book Jack is the fiend who uses fear of an unknown beast to manipulate the other kids on the island Lord of the Flies |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $800: A man trying to blow up the Red October sub from within does not fare well against this Tom Clancy hero Jack Ryan |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $1200: Buck the sled dog finds the Yeehat Indians who killed his master & takes vengeance in this Jack London tale Call of the Wild |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $1600: In "Worth Dying For", this 6'5", 250-lb. Lee Child action hero makes life very difficult for the evil Duncan boys Jack Reacher |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | JACK & THE FIEND STALK $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey takes on the slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea in "The Commodore" by this author (Patrick) O'Brian |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TRIAL'S VENUE $400: The trial of Jack Ruby Dallas |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HELP ME WITH THE TITLE $800: William S. Burroughs got this title from Jack Kerouac Naked Lunch |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $2000: Jack Black is sweet on Sister Encarnacion in this 2006 movie; she's mad that kids are "wrestling in a sacred place" Nacho Libre |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Known by a "colorful" nickname, he got the rank of General of the Armies of the U.S. in September 1919 "Black Jack" Pershing |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | "LITTLE" NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS $800: Historically, his "plum" may have been the deed to Mells Manor in Somerset, England Little Jack Horner |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | TV SHOWS BY FAMILY $1200: The Johnsons, including baby DeVante & twins Jack & Diane Black-ish |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | BIRTH OF A SALESMAN $800: Born in 1914 in San Francisco, this fitness marvel & juicing guru swam handcuffed from Fisherman's Wharf to Alcatraz Jack LaLanne |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU $200: Before becoming Speaker of the House, he wrote speeches for Jack Kemp & was legislative dir. for Sam Brownback Paul Ryan |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | SHE CREATED HIM $1000: Tentmates Jack Twist & Ennis Del Mar Annie Proulx |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | BACK PEDDLING $200: "Jack's back", promised this fast food franchise Jack in the Box |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | TV & MOVIE COMMON BONDS $200: Jack Paar,
Johnny Carson,
Jay Leno The Tonight Show |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | BOOKS OF THE 1990s $200: Terrorists with a nuclear weapon must be stopped by this hero of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" Jack Ryan |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | NURSERY RHYME POLICE REPORT $400: First aid administered to this pair injured while tumbling down hill during water retrieval Jack and Jill |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | SWINGERS OF SPORTS $400: Untamable, this "Golden Bear" was the first man to win all 4 of golf's major titles at least twice Jack Nicklaus |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | WRITERS NOT WRITING $1200: As a youth, Jack London was a pirate--stealing these mollusks from farms in San Francisco Bay oysters |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | FAST FOOD $600: If you haven't had the Sriracha Curly Fry Burger Munchie Meal from this eatery, you don't know... Jack in the Box |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | I HEAR VOICES $800: Phil Lamarr tried to get back, back to the past voicing this magic sword-wielding title guy who took on the wicked Aku Samurai Jack |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: All toil & no play makes Jack this type of person who's addicted to his job a workaholic |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | CHARACTERS IN BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: Jack Kelly,
Katherine,
Joseph Pulitzer Newsies |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $1200: In 1908 he knocked out Tommy Burns to become the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title Jack Johnson |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | FOUNDLING FATHERS $800: Found as a baby in a railway station, Jack discovers he really is Ernest, the son of General Moncrieff in this Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $800: Jack Kerouac & Henry Miller both penned books with this "Big" stretch of Pacific coast in their titles Big Sur |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $800: (RuPaul presents the clue.) Billy Wilder hired famed drag artist Barbette to teach Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to move like women for this 1959 film Some Like It Hot |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ACTING UP ON TV $400: In 2018 this show revealed the circumstances of the death of Jack, played by Milo Ventimiglia This Is Us |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $400: In a fairy tale Jack climbs it to a magic castle in the clouds a beanstalk |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DORM LIFE $800: When a bathroom is shared between 2 suites, it's named for this nursery rhyme pair Jack & Jill |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | IT'S MEDICINAL $1600: In New York conditions that make one eligible for this alliterative aid include A.L.S., M.S. & Parkinson's medical marijuana |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $2000: Stolen in 1985, a work by this Dutch-born abstract expressionist was found in 2017 in a New Mexico home Willem de Kooning |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $200: Osaka is on this island, as are Japan's largest lake & mountain Honshu |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THAT'S SO CLICHE $800: Meaning to exhaust one's energy & resources, it sounds like quickly using up a pre-industrial light source burning the candle at both ends |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | R.C. $600: In 1961 he gave us "Hit The Road Jack" Ray Charles |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | INFAMOUSLY EPONYMOUS $600: The last man some 17th c. perps met was Jack Ketch, whose name became synonymous with this official job he did with zeal hangman (or executioner) |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | REAL "D" LIGHTS $800: Jack Black moonlights in this "persistent" band with partner Kyle Gass Tenacious D |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SUFFRAGETTE CITY $400: Lucy Burns took to the sky in 1916 to scatter leaflets over this city in Washington state Seattle |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | HUMANS IN THE GALAPAGOS $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Galapagos.) In Darwin Bay, Franklin Delano Roosevelt first came to the islands aboard the U.S.S. Houston on a fishing trip; along the way, he caught a shark, but more importantly, that trip helped us make a deal with this country to establish a base here in 1942 Ecuador |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SPRING MEDLEY $800: Spring training baseball in Florida is known as this league the grapefruit league |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The cruise line whose ships include the Rotterdam manages to sail to "purple mountain majesties" Holland "America The Beautiful" |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | LITERARY EPONYMS $1,600 (Daily Double): This nickname of little Margery Meanwell has come to mean one who is cloyingly virtuous Little Goody Two-Shoes |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | TV $1000: Finding God is hard but Jesse Custer has a woman named Tulip & a vampire named Cassidy to help the search on this AMC drama Preacher |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | A YEAR ENDING IN 8 $1200: The state of Israel is proclaimed 1948 |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | TAYLOR MADE $1200: Jack C. Taylor lived long & prospered, starting this rent-a-car- co. with 7 vehicles in 1957 Enterprise |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $1600: It's this 1974 Jack Nicholson L.A.-set mystery, Jake Chinatown |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | WORD PUZZLES $2000: Tuna fisherman's catch a skipjack |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | FEDORA $800: We wonder if this famously stingy comedian paid a lot for that swell hat Jack Benny |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | CRIME $200: Jack McCoy offers you a deal for pleading guilty to Man 1; Man is short for this manslaughter |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $800: To move up & down as if in a boxing ring Bob |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | FREEZE FRAME $2000: 2 animated shows have been based on this Ezra Jack Keats kids' book in which Peter plays in the city's first snowfall The Snowy Day |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $800: Jack-tar
(6) a sailor |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | VINYL RESTING PLACE $1200: A recent vinyl resurgence has been aided by this musician, who built a pressing plant in his Detroit hometown Jack White |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE $400: Tom Mapother IV &
Demetria Guynes in
"A Few Good Men" Tom Cruise & Demi Moore |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | FOE PA $2,300 (Daily Double): In this Emma Donoghue book, "Old Nick" is the father to young Jack, who thinks the title domicile is the whole world Room |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $1000: (Stan Lee presents the clue.) In 1961 I teamed up with Jack Kirby & told the story of this group of astronauts who gained superpowers after being bombarded by cosmic rays the Fantastic Four |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | "JACK" $400: The personification of icy cold Jack Frost |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | "JACK" $800: Here's a statue of this mythical creature the jackalope |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | "JACK" $1200: The name of this snack brand is 1890s slang for "excellent" Cracker Jack |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | "JACK" $1600: In a thriller by Frederick Forsyth, an assassin has this nickname the Jackal |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | "JACK" $2000: The sport of birling developed in the camps of these people lumberjacks |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "HOPE"FUL ENTERTAINMENT $2000: James Earl Jones earned his first Tony as boxer Jack Jefferson, who fights the title Caucasian in this play The Great White Hope |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | TV WATERING HOLES $800: The Regal Beagle on this sitcom was almost a second home to Jack Tripper, Janet & Chrissy Three's Company |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | CRIME TIME $1,600 (Daily Double): Jack the Ripper's ripping:
this decade the 1880s |
| #7640, aired 2017-11-24 | THEY PLAYED JFK $400: In 1963 Cliff Robertson was Jack-ed up & took to the seas in this title transport the PT-109 |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | UNTOLD TV STORIES $1000: When it was decided not to kill off this "Lost" doc in the pilot, Michael Keaton bowed out & Matthew Fox took over Jack |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | NOTORIOUS $800: Saying "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was with her all day February 14, 1929, Louise Rolfe got the name "The Blonde" this the Blonde Alibi |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $800: Jack Kerouac's only play was titled this "Generation" Beat |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: This Jack of many trades sought fortune in the 1897 Klondike gold rush & used the experience in his books Jack London |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | FAIRY TALES $800: The 4 words that complete the line from "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the..." the blood of an Englishman |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | PLAY THE JOKER $600: His version set a new standard for creepy good on the big screen in 1989 (Jack) Nicholson |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | YOUR FILM & TV WAIT STAFF $2000: Lorna Thayer was the waitress whom this actor wants to hold the chicken (between her knees) in "Five Easy Pieces" Jack Nicholson |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $200: He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922 & spent some time "On the Road" before his death in 1969 (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Original "Hawaii Five-O" actor who is Tolkien's follow-up to "The Hobbit" Jack Lord of the Rings |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | SYMBOLS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some flags on the monitor.) Many countries have special names for their flags; we have the Stars and Stripes, Denmark has its Dannebrog & then there's this flag the Union Jack |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1,200 (Daily Double): A domesticated dog reverts to its wild state in "The Call of the Wild"; the opposite happens in this other book by Jack London White Fang |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | STEPHEN KING'S BAD FOLKS $400: There's "no play" for this character who comes under the influence of evil at the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" Jack Torrance |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $200: Most casualties suffered by the Union in the Civil War came about not due to combat but rather this disease |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $400: In November 1862 this bewhiskered man replaced General McClellan as head of Union troops Burnside |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $600: Although the Union won the August 1864 Battle of this bay, the city itself remained in Southern hands Mobile Bay |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $800: This Scottish-born detective in charge of getting secrets from the South wrote a memoir called "The Spy of the Rebellion" Pinkerton |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE UNION, JACK $1000: Days after assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, he led the Union to victory at Gettysburg (George) Meade |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | BEEN THAT $200: Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin & Ben Affleck have all been cast as this CIA agent Jack Ryan |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | HOPE-POURRI $800: In Texas hold'em, it's the highest card you hope will come up on the river to make a straight flush a jack of hearts |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) Robert F. Kennedy wanted JFK buried under a simple wooden cross; that was overruled, but when he died, Robert, a World War II veteran of this same service as his brother Jack, got the humble monument he desired the Navy |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | CROSSWORD CLUES "N" $400: Spry like Jack be
(6) nimble |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: In "Reds" Jack Nicholson hit the boards as this American playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | POWER HITTERS $2000: @jack is the handle of this Twitter CEO (Jack) Dorsey |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $400: This "White Fang" author's "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" was based in part on his 1912 voyage around Cape Horn Jack London |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: "Deep Down" & "Never Go Back" are 2 of Lee Child's tales about this tough ex-Army guy (Jack) Reacher |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | MOVIE STARS $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1999 co-stars Anne Bancroft, Jessica Lange & Tom Cruise helped him celebrate his AFI Life Achievement Award Dustin Hoffman |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $200: It's the common name for the U.K. flag the Union Jack |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $400: The Sept. 7 2016 announcement that the headphone jack was out on this device was not 100% well received the iPhone 7 |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $600: In 1998 at Lincoln Center, John McDonough was a lumberjack & he was OK as this opera title role & folklore legend Paul Bunyan |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $800: This sturdy leather footwear reaching above the knee can also refer to authoritarian measures a jackboot |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $1000: Jack cheese is said to trace its origins to the late 1800s & a businessman in this city south of San Francisco Monterey |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1600: From 1960:
About Jack Lemmon's not-necessarily-crash pad The Apartment |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | THE TV SHOW'S CHARACTERS $800: Rainbow,
Andre &
Jack Johnson,
finding their way comedically on ABC black-ish |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES $800: Kelly, Jack & the seldom-seen Aimee Osbourne |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | MUNICIPAL LITERATURE $2000: This writer from Lowell portrayed small-town Mass. & big New York City in his first novel, 1950's "The Town and the City" Jack Kerouac |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CAPTAINS $200: This pirate of the Caribbean says, "My vessel is magnificent and fierce and huge-ish" Captain Jack Sparrow |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | QUIZINE $200: In radio ads back in the day, Kate Smith & Jack Benny both pitched this trademarked jiggly dessert Jell-O |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East Tube station Jack the Ripper |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $200: In a letter to Marlon Brando:
"I'm praying that you'll buy 'On the Road' and make a movie of it" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | AIRPORT $600: To accommodate big jets, a girder bridge helped extend the runway 4,000 feet at Madeira International on an island of this nation Portugal |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | THRILLER & SUSPENSE NOVELS $800: A beautiful spy named Tatiana Romanova is part of a trap to destroy 007 in this classic From Russia, with Love |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WOMEN & THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: Ann Bates spied for the British & Lydia Darragh spied for the colonists in this city that was also Betsy Ross' home Philadelphia |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | BRAZILIAN CUISINE $1600: Pao de queijo, or cheese puffs, are a popular accompaniment to meals made from Parmesan cheese & this cassava flour tapioca |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | BRAZILIAN CUISINE $2000: Large chunks of barbecued meat kabobbed on skewers, or sometimes impaled on swords churrasco |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | "G" CITIES $2000: This Colorado city was founded in 1870 & named for the New York Tribune editor who supported the settlers Greeley |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | 19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Jack Dawkins, Old Sally Oliver Twist |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $400: In 2013 this agency's director John Brennan gave Jack Downey & Dick Fecteau the Distinguished Intelligence Cross the CIA |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS $800: Jack Skellington's plot to kidnap Santa goes awry in this stop-motion fable from Tim Burton The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | WHAT A TV DRAMA KING $400: It seemed like Jack Bauer, played by him, always had the absolute worst day at work (Kiefer) Sutherland |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | BEN & JERRY'S FLAVOR GRAVEYARD $200: In the '80s you could enjoy this state's "Mud", flavored with Jack Daniel's Tennessee |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | THE COMPANY STORE $600: This auto supply store named for Manny, Moe & Jack has a proprietary brand called Definity Pep Boys |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | RHYME TIME $1000: Danny Elfman, formerly of this rock band, sang the part of Jack the Pumpkin King in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Oingo Boingo |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | WHAT $1000: It's the lively American breed of dog seen here a Boston bull terrier |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | HAVE FAITH $400: Jesus let his disciples pick grain on this day of rest & said it "was made for man, and not man for" it the Sabbath |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | AMERICAN SYMBOLS $400: All 4 verses of "The Star-Spangled Banner" end with these 4 words home of the brave |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | AMERICAN SYMBOLS $1,600 (Daily Double): Of the genus Haliaeetus, it represents strength & courage the bald eagle |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | HAVE FAITH $2000: A guji is a high priest of a large shrine in this religion of Japan Shinto |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | HAVE FAITH $3,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "many gods", it's the belief in multiple divine beings as opposed to only one polytheism |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | A CHANGE IS COMING $400: Change the lone vowel in the pulpy part of a fruit to "A" & you get "jumpin' jack" flesh & flash |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $2000: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I conducted a rare interview with Jack Ma, founder of this Chinese Internet company that made a big splash in 2014 by finishing its first day of trading with a market value of $231 billion dollars Alibaba |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IMPRISONED AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Call of the Wild" served 30 days in the Erie County Penitentiary for vagrancy Jack London |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | LITERARY LONDON $800: Alan Moore's graphic novel "From Hell" speculated on the identity & motives of this deadly Londoner Jack the Ripper |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | SPY FICTION $800: This submarine tale was the first of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels The Hunt for Red October |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | SPY FICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): Neil Armstrong provided the title of this 1975 Jack Higgins novel about a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill The Eagle Has Landed |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $800: "Coffee, Tea or Jack",
"Roper's Niece" Three's Company |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The German model 1902 field Howitzer could hurl a 95-pound shell nearly 5 miles; because of their power & black smoke, the incoming rounds got this nickname among the allied troops after the hard-hitting African-American heavyweight champion of the era Jack Johnson |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: The trial of Jack McCall was a highlight of the 2016 Wild Bill Days in this South Dakota town Deadwood |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | MAJOR LEAGUE BALLPARK FOOD $400: Buy me some peanuts & also the "Cracker Jack & mac" dog topped with caramel sauce at this team's PNC Park, arr! the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | SCHTICK $2000: To the command "Your money or your life", this comic paused, then responded, "I'm thinking" Jack Benny |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | SOMETHING TO EAT $800: The Monterey Jack jalapeno stuffed pretzels seem like they wouldn't fit in this lower-fat line from Stouffer's Lean Cuisine |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES $1000: "The Battle of the Fangs" White Fang |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | BOOK TO MOVIE $1200: Starring Tom Cruise: "One Shot" by Lee Child Jack Reacher |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | SONG WORDS $400: John Mellencamp gave us a "little" one "about Jack and Diane" a ditty |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | FAMOUS GINGERS $1000: Ginger Baker played drums in this 1960s rock trio that also had Jack Bruce & Eric Clapton Cream |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | HAMBURGER JOINTS $400: Bacon & Swiss Buttery Jack Jack in the Box |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | OF BOOKS & BOATS $800: The Sealing schooner ghost is brutal Captain Wolf Larsen's ship in a 1904 tale by this man Jack London |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | SIGNATURES $200: Jack Lew, now this cabinet bigwig, once used the signature seen here, but it never made it onto bills the Secretary of the Treasury |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN $1000: Shown here, it's the port city located on the same-named peninsula, Jack Monterey |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | RECENT POP CULTURE $2000: This R&B queen, who ought to team up with Jack Johnson or Jack Jones, had a No. 1 album with "Woman" Jill Scott |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | LOST & FOUND $400: Jorge Garcia won the lottery playing Hugo on "Lost" & stayed in Hawaii for the reboot of this Jack Lord series Hawaii Five-O |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | FAMOUS ELEPHANTS $1600: In the late 19th century a circus elephant named for this bare-knuckle champ boxed with a glove on his trunk John L. Sullivan |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $600: In this novel by Emma Donoghue, 5-year-old Jack lives in the title place with his ma (Brie Larson in the film) Room |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | THESPIANISTS $400: Dude! He played Jack Baker, one half of "The Fabulous" piano-playing "Baker Boys" Jeff Bridges |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | THESPIANISTS $2000: He played Bobby Dupea, a classical pianist turned oil rigger, a man who ordered a chicken salad sandwich, hold the chicken Jack Nicholson |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | RHYME WAVE $800: From Old English for "boy", it's another name for the playing card known as the jack a knave |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | AND THE OBSCURE OSCAR GOES TO... $800: Now discontinued, Assistant this, 1936: Jack Sullivan, for "The Charge of the Light Brigade" Director |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Capitol Hill newspaper that's also a Jack London novel about a dog Roll Call of the Wild |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | MODERATES $800: Judy Woodruff was the moderator when this man told Dan Quayle, "you're no Jack Kennedy" Lloyd Bentsen |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LITERARY GROUPS $800: He's the star of the Beat movement seen here (Jack) Kerouac |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | 2016 STAMPS $200: The first Halloween-themed stamps issued by the USPS feature these grinning items jack-o'-lanterns |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE! $800: Captain Jack, Will Turner & Elizabeth Swann sail off the edge of the map in 2007's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At" this place World's End |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | WE LOVE YOU, MOM! $200: His tattoos include a sparrow over the name Jack & his mom Betty Sue's name inside a heart Johnny Depp |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $2000: He was prime minister while JFK was president; the two became friends & were sometimes known as "Mac and Jack" Harold MacMillan |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $600: In 1927 he did not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney, who may have gotten a 14-sec. long count Jack Dempsey |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | COMICS' BOOKS $800: From his "Brain Droppings": "There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage and Grief?" George Carlin |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | THE THIRD WORD $400: ...of the nursery rhyme about Jack Sprat could |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | THE WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) "Pirates of the Caribbean" props include the dead man's chest, Jack's compass, & a medallion of stolen Aztec gold cursed due to the greed of this Spanish conquistador Cortés |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | MY WIFE! $800: Mavis Nicholson, who got used to late nights Jay Leno |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | STATE LANDMARKS $400: The Jack Daniel Distillery Tennessee |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | PIRATES $1200: At the end of a sword fight, Will Turner says, "You cheated"; this marauding movie character replies, "Pirate" Jack Sparrow |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $400: (Peter Bergman gives the clue as Jack from The Young and the Restless.) Being a business mogul, patriarch & all around good guy isn't as easy as it seems, with rivals like Victor Newman, sometimes I want to be angry, bloodthirsty, amoral & this adjective, kind of like a Bible missing the book named for a wife of Boaz ruthless |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | GET $800: Pick up a pair of Jack Purcell Signature sneakers from this All Star brand Converse |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | JILL & JACK $400: Raised in Manhattan, Jill Abramson was the first female executive editor of this newspaper The New York Times |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | JILL & JACK $800: This proud military mom is also an English professor Jill Biden |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | JILL & JACK $1200: He wrote "On the Road" on 120 feet of paper taped together & fed into a typewriter to keep a fast pace Jack Kerouac |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | JILL & JACK $1600: In 2000 engineer Jack Kilby won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the integrated one of these a circuit |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | JILL & JACK $2000: Kevin Bacon portrayed this astronaut in "Apollo 13" Jack Swigert |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | URBAN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): He sought his fortune in Yukon gold prospecting, but made it big as the USA's highest-paid writer Jack London |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: In "Goosebumps" author R.L. Stine Jack Black |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | NURSERY RHYME FOLKS $600: He's so fast & acrobatic, this character has no problem clearing a lit taper Jack |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | FICTION $400: He died in 2013, 2 months before the publication of his "Command Authority", a new Jack Ryan novel Tom Clancy |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: In 2015 Jack Dorsey became "permanent CEO" of this online co. & immediately posted about slashing 8% of its work force Twitter |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS $1000: (Po delivers the clue.) Jordan Noble was just 14 when he played the long roll in this 1815 battle, Andrew Jackson's victory over the British; so was a drummer, but's that's OK. We can't alI be, you know, in the thick of the fight the Battle of New Orleans |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPOST $600: OK, you hollowed it out, cut it up & stuck it on your front step but it's Nov. 1--compost this hyphenated holiday item a jack-o-lantern |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW $1600: The U.S. Ryder Cup team,
1983 & '87 Jack Nicklaus |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1600: Helen Hunt was still on "Mad About You" when she won an Oscar opposite Jack Nicholson in this film As Good As It Gets |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $1600: Along with his doggone novels, he wrote "That Spot", a short story about a faithful dog Jack London |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | ON THE STAGE $800: This Jack Black film went to Broadway in 2015, with Alex Brightman as Dewey Finn, who poses as a substitute teacher School of Rock |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $2000: Jack Burden, a newspaperman & aide to politician Willie Stark, narrates this 1946 novel All the King's Men |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $1600: He was "Hoffa" in 1992 Jack Nicholson |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | IN RESIDENCE $600: A popular type of living space; the 1960 Jack Lemmon movie of that title won 5 Oscars the apartment |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $1000: The unsung may be hailed, like NASA's Jack Kinzler, who designed a parasol that saved this imperiled space station in 1973 Skylab |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | NURSERY RHYME TIME $200: Jack's hill-climbing companion's aspirins Jill's pills |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | NURSERY RHYME TIME $1000: Fat-free Jack's pieces of neckwear Sprat's cravats |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | MAIL CALL $800: A Sept. 17, 1888 letter signed by this infamous man read, "Sorry about the blood" Jack the Ripper |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG! $200: Pre-Mellencamp, John Cougar had "a little ditty about" these 2 people Jack & Diane |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | THE ART OF DANCE $600: Jack Cole was "the Father of" the type of dance named for this great American musical style jazz |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THE BOOK OF NORMAN $800: Jack Anderson used this rhyming title for his heroic tale of General Schwarzkopf Stormin' Norman |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | LITERATURE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $800: He wrote of snowy climes in books like "White Fang", then traveled to balmy Tahiti & later penned "South Sea Tales" (Jack) London |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | YIPES, MOTHER GOOSE $800: "Old Dame Dob... patched his nob, with vinegar and brown paper", his nob being his fractured skull Jack |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $1600: Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter & moved on to this "geometric" mobile payment company Square |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | FOOD & DRINK $600: In this 2004 film Miles & Jack sip Pinot noir & wander the California wine country Sideways |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | PRINCELY NICKNAMES $800: Youthful thievery earned this "White Fang" author the nickname "Prince of the Oyster Pirates" (Jack) London |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | PUNNY CLASSIC LITERATURE TITLES $400: Jack London's tale of the place where feral creatures stop at the food court before hitting Old Navy The Mall of the Wild |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | WITNESS $800: Literally millions witnessed this man murder another on Nov. 24, 1963 Jack Ruby |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Charley Bates, Nancy & the pickpocket Jack Dawkins (who has an alias) Oliver Twist |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | MULTI-BAND MUSICIANS $600: After the White Stripes, he helped form the Raconteurs Jack White |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE $2000: Jack the Ripper makes himself known the 1880s |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $200: In April 1970, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert & Jim Lovell embarked on this mission Apollo 13 |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: Jack Handey's first collection Deep Thoughts |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEAVY $600: This novelist of Yukon adventure also wrote "Martin Eden", about a novelist who kills himself at the end Jack London |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | CELEBRITY FILL-INS $2000: Meg
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Black Ryan Lewis |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | TV MOVIES $1200: In 1997 Jack Lemmon & George C. Scott led a stellar cast in a remake of this jury drama 12 Angry Men |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | JACK IN THE BOXING RING $200: Lightweight champ Beau Jack fought the main event at this NYC venue a record 21 times Madison Square Garden |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | JACK IN THE BOXING RING $400: In his 70s, long after his 1920s championship days, he flattened 2 men who tried to mug him Jack Dempsey |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | JACK IN THE BOXING RING $600: Jack Sharkey won the heavyweight title in 1932 by defeating this German Max Schmeling |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | JACK IN THE BOXING RING $800: This pioneering black heavyweight fought in Paris, Havana & Leavenworth Jack Johnson |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | JACK IN THE BOXING RING $1000: Before becoming an actor, this "Shane" tough guy had a career in the pro ring Jack Palance |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THAT MOVIE TITLE IS LEGAL $3,600 (Daily Double): Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan in this film whose title comes from a legal test devised by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Clear and Present Danger |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | WHISKEY $800: This Tennessee man's career in the whiskey business started in 1863 while he was still a teenager Jack Daniel |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | THE WILD WEST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Deadwood, SD.) In 1876, "Wild" Bill Hickok moved to Deadwood & became a regular at the poker tables where, on August 2nd, he was shot by Jack McCall holding the dead-man's hand, reportedly a queen or a 9 & these four cards aces & 8s |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | RUNNING DOGS $1200: Named for a certain Reverend John, this small terrier can achieve speeds of 25 mph over short distances the Jack Russell terrier |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | LITERATURE $1200: This 1997 short story tells of ranch hands Jack Twist & Ennis del Mar, who tend sheep in Wyoming Brokeback Mountain |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | COLORFUL ENTERTAINMENT $800: This actor covers a lot of ground, voicing a panda on film & playing both Orson Welles & Elvis on TV's "Drunk History" Jack Black |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | TV SHOWS PAST & PRESENT $600: President Palmer was in good hands... for a while; a serious body count; Jack didn't like taking "no" for an answer 24 |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | DOG STARS $1600: In this movie Jack Nicholson has to take care of Verdell, Greg Kinnear's Brussels Griffon As Good as It Gets |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT $800: The 5 red crosses on this former Soviet Socialist Republic's flag are the symbol of a certain saint, the Union Jack has one such cross Georgia |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $1600: In this Jack London novel, Wolf Larsen is the captain of the Ghost, once a private yacht The Sea-Wolf |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE CELEBRITY SPOUSE IN COMMON $2000: Jack Cassidy, Marty Ingels Shirley Jones |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $800: Sydney Glazier & Jack Grossberg were the producers of this 1968 film The Producers |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | COLORFUL RHYME TIME $200: A very dark tire-changing aid a black jack |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | 1980s CINEMA $800: To prepare for his role as an astronaut in this 1983 film, Jack Nicholson met with real astronauts in Houston Terms of Endearment |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | NOVELS WRITTEN FAST $800: Jack Kerouac claimed he banged out the first draft of this novel in 3 weeks in April 1951 On the Road |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | 1910 $1600: Racial violence resulted from this boxer's July 4 whupping of former champ James Jeffries Jack Johnson |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | THE UKRAINE STRAIN $800: This "City Slickers" actor was such a proud Ukrainian he walked out of a Russian film festival where he was to be honored Jack Palance |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR RESUMÉ $600: This word referring to unceasing effort is in the name of Kyle Gass & Jack Black's band tenacious |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | TV ROOMMATES $1000: After a going-away party for their last roommate, Chrissy & Janet find this next roomie sleeping in their bathtub Jack |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $800: Londoner Marie Kelly, killed in 1888, is generally believed to be his last victim Jack the Ripper |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | CHICK LIT $800: A giant's hen lays golden eggs in many versions of this story "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BLUNT FORCE DRAMA $1200: In this play based on the career of Jack Johnson, Caucasian Frank Brady is the title boxer The Great White Hope |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | TV SHOWS' OPENING LYRICS $400: "Come and knock on our door, we've been waiting for you"--Jack & the girls, that is Three's Company |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | FISHY WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): In this mid-air position, a diver will bend at the waist while keeping her legs together & straight pike (jackknife accepted) |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | HALLOWEEN IS COMING $800: Everyone knows a jack-o-lantern is a hollowed-out pumpkin, except originally in the British isles, this vegetable was used a turnip |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO $400: Jack London's birthplace was destroyed by this 1906 disaster, but a plaque at Third & Brannan streets marks the spot the San Francisco earthquake |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO $800: When not "On the Road", this author & friend Neal Cassady hoisted brews at Vesuvio in North Beach (Jack) Kerouac |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | TV INITIALS $1600: In the title of the Jack Klugman series, the initials following "Quincy" M.E. |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | O CAPTAIN! MY LITERATURE CAPTAIN! $2000: Captain Jack Aubrey & surgeon Stephen Maturin first set sail in 1969 in this Patrick O'Brian novel Master and Commander |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | PUPPY LOVE $800: The chimps seen here were photographed in England in 1970 holding these little high-strung English terriers Jack Russells |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | RELIGIOUS & SECULAR HOMOPHONES $800: The core part of a church, or the jack in a deck nave/knave |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $400: 2008, starring the voice of Jack Black Kung Fu Panda |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | TEXAS, HOLD 'EM $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1966 an appeals court reversed the murder conviction of this Dallas inmate, but he died in January 1967 Jack Ruby |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | THE DOONESBURY GROUP $2000: This "California-American" called college "the best 9 years of my life" & won the Jack Ford medal for Best Tan Zonker Harris |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | CELEBRITIES $2000: In 2013 this singer became a new mom, giving birth to son Axl Jack Duhamel Fergie |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN $400: It's believed pirates used a simple red jack before adopting this flag with the skull & crossbones Jolly Roger |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | WHISKEY $1000: The "old No. 7" from this whiskey maker is "Charcoal mellowed. Drop by drop" Jack Daniels |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $2000: In this 1966 Billy Wilder film, Walter Matthau persuades Jack Lemmon to exaggerate his injuries for the insurance money The Fortune Cookie |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | MOB MOVIES $400: In "Casino" Robert de Niro played not Jack Rothstein or King Rothstein but him Ace Rothstein |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | MOVIES' 2 MALE LEADS $200: "Grumpy Old Men" (Walter) Matthau & (Jack) Lemmon |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | A "KN"ICE CATEGORY $400: A jack in a deck of cards can also be called this the knave |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $800: On March 4, 1966 John Lennon made the scandalous remark, "We're more popular than" him "now" Jesus |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | GRAB BAG $2000: In 1926 artist Walter Sickert won a Carnegie prize (yay); in 2002 Patricia Cornwell said Walt was this serial killer (boo) Jack the Ripper |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $1600: Bandleader & longtime Jack Benny associate Phil Harris voiced this bear in 1967's "The Jungle Book" Baloo |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | RECENT NOVELS $800: "Persuader" by Lee Child featured the return of this ex-military cop, 6'5", 250 in the book series & not 6'5", 250 onscreen Jack Reacher |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | ARETHA FRANKLIN $1600: Keith Richards joined Aretha for her cover of this Stones song, the title track of a Whoopi Goldberg movie "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | ROCK & ROLE $400: Captain Teague, Jack Sparrow's dad, in 2 "Pirates of the Caribbean" films Keith Richards |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | A LITERARY "B" $800: Jack London wrote that he "was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his" Buck |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $800: Josephine & Daphne in "Some Like It Hot" Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $1200: Jill Sadelstein in "Jack and Jill" (Adam) Sandler |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Jack is urged to be nimble & quick, helping him do this jump over the candlestick |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit plum |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: Jack of Jack & Jill got his head patched with these 2 things vinegar & brown paper |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | KIDDY LIT TITLE ADJECTIVES $800: Ezra Jack Keats' celebration of winter:
"The ____ Day" Snowy |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $200: Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of this microblogging site, sent its first message March 21, 2006 Twitter |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | TOO BAD $200: The commissioner of Scotland Yard resigned on Nov. 8, 1888, the day before the 5th & final murder attributed to him Jack the Ripper |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | WELCOME TO THE JUTE MILL $400: In a Jack London story, a jute mill worker breathes air "thick with" this substance that fills his lungs (& belly button) lint |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | A 1980s BOOKSTORE $400: In this thriller Jack Ryan is on a quest for an elusive Soviet sub somewhere under the Atlantic The Hunt for Red October |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WRITERS HATIN' ON WRITERS $2000: This writer famously said of Jack Kerouac's output, "it isn't writing at all--it's typing" Truman Capote |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | 21st CENTURY MUSIC $1200: 2012's "Blunderbuss" is the first official solo album by this "Jack" of many trades Jack White |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | EMMY M.D.s $800: 2010's Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie went to Al Pacino for "You Don't Know Jack", about this controversial Doc Kevorkian |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $200: In this 1954 novel Jack tells the other boys, "We're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything" Lord of the Flies |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | I SAW IT ON IMDb $600: It was a Time Magazine reporter who revealed to this "Chinatown" actor that his sister was really his mother Jack Nicholson |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | LORD OF THE RINKS $1000: After Bill Quackenbush won this sportsmanship trophy in 1949, his tough-guy GM Jack Adams promptly traded him the Lady Byng |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | PLAY THAT FIDDLE $1200: Dubbed "king of the one-liners", this comedian began his career as a violinist & used the instrument in his stand-up act Henny "Take my wife, please" Youngman |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $7,200 (Daily Double): He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories Jack London |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | PUPPIES & PETUNIAS $1200: This breed of terrier is named for the clergyman who first bred it Jack Russell |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $2000: With no pandas, kung fu or otherwise, in sight, he hawked "Pitfall" for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet!) Jack Black |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | CALIFORNIA $1000: This spectacular coastal region just south of Monterey, Calif. is the title of a "Big" Jack Kerouac novel Big Sur |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | JOKERS ARE WILD $600: Jack Handey: "Blow ye winds, like" this Miles Davis instrument "blows, but without that noise" a trumpet |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | '80s ONE-HIT WONDERS $2000: This actor, then starring as Frisco on "General Hospital", with "All I Need" Jack Wagner |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | THE PRODUCERS $400: "My Fair Lady",
"Gold Diggers of 1933"--
Jack of these brothers Warner |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | MYSTERY FOLKS $200: Found dead on Sept. 8, 1888, Annie Chapman is said to be one of this unidentified man's London victims Jack the Ripper |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $2000: A Fox drama about Jack Bauer divided by how many kids "Is Enough" 3 (24 ÷ 8) |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | PLANT THE FLAG $1600: The flag of this Central American country shows a mahogany tree & 2 men; the Union Jack was removed Belize |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | TV THROUGH THE YEARS $800: "I kid you not" was the catchphrase of this "Tonight Show" host before Johnny Carson Jack Paar |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1200: This phrase dates back to around 1600; "and master of none" was added 2 centuries later jack of all trades |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | AS HEARD ON TV $200: Angie, to Jack Donaghy: "As you know, my single, 'My Single Is Dropping', is dropping" 30 Rock |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | TRADEMARKS $2000: Not flap-jack but this is a brand of compressed powder makeup created by Max Factor Pancake |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | A CHEESY CATEGORY $400: A certain Monterey, California businessman named David helped popularize this type of cheese Monterey Jack |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | THAT '70s FILM $1600: In this 1970 film, Jack Nicholson has trouble ordering a plain omelet, a cup of coffee & wheat toast Five Easy Pieces |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | LITERARY SELF-PORTRAITS $800: This author's 1909 title character Martin Eden is a sailor turned writer in San Francisco--reminds me of someone Jack London |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | WRITING TEAMS $800: William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac of this movement co-wrote a 1944 novel, unpublished until 2008 the Beat Movement |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | WHO WROTE THAT BOOK? $1200: "Jack on the Tracks: Four Seasons of Fifth Grade" Jack Gantos |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | WHO WROTE THAT BOOK? $1600: "The Call Of The Wild" Jack London |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | CELEBRITIES $800: He's the funnyman who starred in "Grown Ups", "Jack and Jill" & "Bedtime Stories" Adam Sandler |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | KIDS THESE DAYS $400: At the age of 15, Jack Andraka won an Intel Award for a noninvasive method of early detection for the pancreatic form of this disease cancer |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | A CROSS TO BEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the crosses in the Union Jack is the Saltire, the X-shaped cross of this saint St. Andrew |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $200: The Black Pearl in the subtitle of this film had been Jack Sparrow's ship, lost in a mutiny Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $600: Perched at the front of the Titanic, Jack shouts, "I'm" this! (the) king of the world |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $1000: He played "Master and Commander" Jack Aubrey, Captain of HMS Surprise Russell Crowe |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | THIS & THAT $400: The Union Jack superimposes the crosses of St. George, St. Andrew & this patron saint of Ireland St. Patrick |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | TITLE ROLE PLAYING $1200: "Jack Reacher" Tom Cruise |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | 2 Js $400: 2-word conditioning exercise, & that's the fact a jumping jack |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | MOVIES BY COUPLE $400: 1997:
Jack & Rose Titanic |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | THE BURGERS $400: The Bonus Jack Jack in the Box |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | SLIM $1200: Jack Sprat's wife "could eat" none lean |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Warren Schmidt & J.J. "Jake" Gittes Jack Nicholson |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | YOU GOT AN "F" PLUS! $400: That's the fax, Jack! (Fax, short for this, Jack) facsimile |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | FAST FOOD, FAST $600: Dave's hot & juicy half pound double Wendy's |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | FAST FOOD, FAST $1000: Was the Big Fish, now the premium Alaskan fish sandwich Burger King |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $1600: Bach wrote a mean passacaglia, like his C minor one for this instrument he also played expertly organ |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | YOU'RE CRAZY, ME DRIVING? $1600: I always wait too long to fill up & spend another $20 replacing this part that gets clogged with gunk from the bottom of the tank fuel filter |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | MLB TEAM NAMES? $400: Capt. Jack Sparrow & Capt. Blood pirates |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | RING MAGAZINE'S GREATEST TITLE FIGHTS $800: Jack Dempsey's 1923 2nd-round thumping of Luis Firpo, the "Wild Bull of" these Argentine plains the Pampas |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LET'S GOLF! $600: By 1986 this "Golden Bear" had played in 100 major championships, with 45 top 3 finishes Jack Nicklaus |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $2000: In Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, physician Stephen Maturin is the sidekick of this captain Jack Aubrey |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | BUT THE END IS ROUGH $400: Accused of 2 murders, this man was killed on Nov. 24, 1963 in front of literally millions of witnesses Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $400: This Oscar-winning actor played Jack Byrnes, the overprotective father, in all 3 of the Fockers films (Robert) De Niro |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | ENTERTAINING FOOD & DRINK $600: In "Five Easy Pieces", this actor tells a surly waitress to "hold the chicken"--between her knees! Jack Nicholson |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $200: "Valley of the Moon", one of Jack's Sonoma novels, was set in this state's Sonoma Valley California |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $400: This title canine is severely wounded while protecting his master's home from an escaped convict White Fang |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $600: London's depiction of the brutality of this sport in "The Game" even shook up Gene Tunney boxing |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $800: In the short story "To Build" this, a newcomer to the Yukon struggles to keep warm in the frigid weather a Fire |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | THE JACK LONDON READER $1000: After his master John Thornton is murdered at the end of this novel, Buck abandons civilization to lead a wolf pack Call of the Wild |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | 1993: 20 YEARS AGO IN FILM $400: Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau were a pair of disagreeable codgers in this comedy Grumpy Old Men |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL $200: Your honor, this lad aka Jack Dawkins was clearly in cahoots with Fagin the Artful Dodger |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $800: Former adman Jack Finney wrote this novel to which Hollywood added "Invasion of" The Body Snatchers |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $200: Anonymous London killer of 1888 Jack the Ripper |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO $800: Jack Nicholson as a Boston gangster The Departed |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | EX-PATS $1200: Before he was Steve McGarrett on the original "Hawaii Five-O", he changed his name from John Joseph Patrick Ryan Jack Lord |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | TOUGH TV $1600: This ABC late-night talk show got into trouble on its very first telecast when it offered its audience & its guests an open bar Jimmy Kimmel |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $1600: This book by lawyer Louis Begley was about a retiring lawyer; the Jack Nicholson movie made him an insurance man About Schmidt |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | ON THE DOWNLOAD $2000: You can download a podcast of the Kokua Festival started by this Hawaiian singer-surfer-songwriter Jack Johnson |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $800: He "broke his crown", but Old Dame Dob just "patched his nob with vinegar and brown paper" Jack |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $2000: It was post-pie revenge later in this rhyme when "down came a blackbird and snapped off" a maid's nose! "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE CITY IN QUESTION $800: Lemon-lime soda, triple sec, sour mix & Jack Daniel's make up this city's "lemonade" Lynchburg (lemonade) |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | ON TV 10 YEARS AGO $200: This show featured Jack Bauer, on-screen clocks & dialogue like "Where's the bomb?! Don't make me ask you again!" 24 |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | MY WOMAN IS GONE & MY WHISKEY RAN DRY $400: I'm all out of Yukon Jack, imported from this country Canada |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES $1000: Jack Reed is one of its senators Rhode Island |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | 1920s NEWS FLASH! $600: 1927! Gene Tunney takes a long count in the squared circle but rises to defeat this "Manassa Mauler"! Howzabout that! Jack Dempsey |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | HE PLAYED A GUY NAMED JACK RYAN IN... $400: "Patriot Games"; he's had other iconic roles, in space & underground Harrison Ford |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | HE PLAYED A GUY NAMED JACK RYAN IN... $800: "The Hunt for Red October"; he went more comedic as Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock" Alec Baldwin |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | HE PLAYED A GUY NAMED JACK RYAN IN... $1200: "The Sum of All Fears"; he also won a screenwriting Oscar for "Good Will Hunting" Ben Affleck |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $800: He hit the "Jack" pot cooking up "Chicken Soup for the Soul" & now tells you how to achieve "Maximum Confidence" Jack Canfield |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: In his "Sunflower Sutra", he wrote, "Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole" Allen Ginsberg |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MOVIE MISSING LINKS $800: Jack ____/Nixon Frost |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | THE BEAT MOVEMENT $800: Seen here, Neal Cassady never wrote a novel but inspired some including this one that depicts him as Dean Moriarty On the Road |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | CROSSWORD CLUES "N" $400: Agile, like "Jack be"
(6) nimble |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | THE NAME OF THE FLAG $800: On YouTube you can watch Jack Webb talk about the U.S. flag in a clip rhymingly called "The Story of" this Old Glory |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | POP QUIZ $2000: This band made its Top 40 debut in 1967 with "Happy Jack" The Who |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL $1200: Jack Torrance, frozen at the end of this Stephen King tale, is an excellent typist, but somewhat creepy The Shining |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES $2000: Celebrity offspring Kelly & Jack Osbourne |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | COMPLETELY BASSLESS $800: This group, Jack on guitar & Meg on drums, broke up in 2011 the White Stripes |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS $1200: In 1908, he became the first black heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | FIRST NAME FILL-IN $200: Mr. Knife, seen here jack |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | TV ATTORNEYS $800: For 16 seasons he played Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy on "Law & Order" Waterson |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON $400: Johnny started his 30-year run as host on Oct. 1, 1962 with this "You Bet Your Life" comedian introducing him Groucho Marx |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | TEA TIME MOVIE $1600: Jack Black as this character has tea with the dolls of a Brobdingnagian girl Gulliver |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | NONFICTION $800: I'm Chris Matthews. In my new book "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" I relate that Jack Kennedy devoured this Prime Minister's writings, & sought to model himself after him Churchill |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | FIRST MUSIC, THEN A MOVIE $1600: 1968: The Rolling Stones
1986: Whoopi Goldberg made espionage funny Jumpin' Jack Flash |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | LITERARY WHITE PAPER $1600: "It was the wild, the savage, frozen-hearted northland wild", he wrote in "White Fang" Jack London |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: In the 1980s he & his daughter Holly hosted "Ripley's Believe It or Not", though we don't remember any one-armed push-ups Jack Palance |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | KID HEROES $1200: This youngest member of "The Incredibles" doesn't show any superpowers until Syndrome tries to abduct him Jack-Jack |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES? $800: In "Golden Trails 2" you're trying to exonerate a man accused of this crime, like Jack Sparrow might be piracy (pirating accepted) |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | "J" WALKING $1000: The U.S. military calls this 2-word exercise using the arms & legs a "side-straddle hop" a jumping jack |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BIG STUFF $400: Some of these Halloween gourds have tipped the scales at a thousand pounds or more jack o'lanterns (or pumpkins) |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $1200: "Ghost Town at Sundown" is one of the many adventures Jack & Annie go on in this book series by Mary Pope Osborne Magic Tree House |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $2000: Jack Nicholson was the lucky guy who shared a hot tub with an au naturel Kathy in this 2002 film About Schmidt |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | 30 ROCK $400: Jack Donaghy, played by this man, was "working the dayshift at that graveyard & the graveyard shift at that Days Inn" Alec Baldwin |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | DECONSTRUCTING THE NURSERY RHYME $200: This small boy based the perception of his behavior on the removal of a fruit item from pastry Little Jack Horner |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | DECONSTRUCTING THE NURSERY RHYME $1000: Obviously involved in a troubled marriage, this man locked his wife in a large version of the fruit of his dining choice Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $400: In "The Christmas Song", he's "nipping at your nose" Jack Frost |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $800: He's played daring Jack Sparrow in 4 movies so far Johnny Depp |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $1200: Summit ascending nursery rhyme duo Jack and Jill |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $1600: In "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover", it's Paul Simon's advice to Jack ""Slip Out The Back" |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | YOU DO KNOW JACK $2000: Stopping at mid-thigh, they're associated with heavy-handed government action jackboots |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | SEE "INSIDE" FOR DETAILS $1200: It's a long shot that if you return the Jack you will draw a seven to complete this hand an inside straight |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS $800: Jack, Chip, Jeffrey & Amy (Jimmy) Carter |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | DIAL M FOR MURDER $600: Firearm in the nickname of murderous Jack McGurn-- rat-tat-tat! machine gun |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | UPDATING THE NOVEL $2000: "We'll track the cell phone signal of the chief choir boy, Jack Merridew. The lads will be off that island by supper" the Lord of the Flies |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | TERRIERS $800: In 2003 the breed name this Russell terrier was changed to Parson Russell terrier a Jack Russell terrier |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $1600: 1986, Kurt Russell:
"You know what ol' Jack Burton always says in a time like this?" "Who?" "Jack Burton, me" Big Trouble in Little China |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $1600: He channeled Bill Clinton when he played Southern governor Jack Stanton in "Primary Colors" John Travolta |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | BESTSELLERS $400: This author's all-star team, including Jack Ryan & John Clark, was back in his 2011 bestseller "Locked On" Tom Clancy |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: In 1913, just days before he was to move into his "Wolf House" in northern Calif., the house was destroyed by a fire Jack London |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | THE AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD $600: 1994:
This "Five Easy Pieces" star Jack Nicholson |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE MOST POPULAR NETFLIX MOVIES $400: One thing to do before dying is rent this 2007 Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman buddy movie The Bucket List |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | TALE SHIPS $1200: After the ferry he was on sinks, a man is saved by the tyrannical captain of the Ghost in this Jack London novel The Sea-Wolf |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | "J" FOOD & DRINK $400: There are Monterey & Sonoma types of this cheese Jack |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | FAMOUS MENUS $2000: In 1945 this ex-heavyweight champ's NYC restaurant offered a $1.75 roast prime sirloin dinner Jack Dempsey |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | FROM JOCK TO POLITICIAN $400: He's seen here in his first career & then in his years quarterbacking HUD as its secretary Jack Kemp |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | BRITISH DRAMA CHARACTER NAMES $1600: Not Little Jack, just plain this is the seducer hero of "The Country Wife" Mr. Horner |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: This Halloween symbol originated in Ireland, where candles were once placed in turnips to keep away ghosts jack-o'-lanterns |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | OSCAR-WINNING CO-STARS $1000: Jack Nicholson &
Louise Fletcher
(1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $200: Citrus fruit belonging to one of the "Grumpy Old Men" Jack's lemons |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $400: He was a merchant seaman, then roamed around the U.S. before publishing "On the Road" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | FESTIVALS $400: In October 2011 a Highwood, Illinois festival set a world record with 30,919 of these carved gourds jack-o-lanterns (or pumpkins_ |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | GIANTS $400: In "Jack and the Beanstalk", Jack stole from the giant a little brown hen that laid these golden eggs |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT $400: It's a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug a jack |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE $400: A golf interjection, or toward the bow on a ship fore |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE $800: A band for around the waist, or a shot of liquor belt |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE $1200: It means to strike with a very quick blow / Or to rock the mic like Eminem, yo rap |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE $1600: A piece of wood, or to furnish with meals & lodging for pay board |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | JACK BE HOMONYM-BLE $2000: Trash, or a Chinese ship a junk |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC $600: This singer of "Jack & Diane" had to fight to record under his own name John Mellencamp |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | I PLAYED A DOCTOR & SOME OTHER GUY ON TV $1600: Quincy, M.E. &
Oscar Madison Jack Klugman |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | U.S.A. $1600: Though home to the Jack Daniel's distillery, this Tennessee town is in a county that's been dry since prohibition Lynchburg |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper" Pollock |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | THE LAST $2000: A Japanese officer found hiding on this island country 29 years after WWII was the last fighting soldier to surrender the Philippines |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | MOVIE STAR FILMOGRAPHIES $400: "Hoffa" &
"Chinatown" (Jack) Nicholson |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | MINER CLASSICS $400: He didn't strike it rich in the 1897 Klondike gold rush, but he did use the experience in works like "Son of the Wolf" (Jack) London |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | HELP ME, FONDA $1200: In this 1969 film Peter Fonda helps a young Jack Nicholson loosen up Easy Rider |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | '90s NOVELS $400: In this author's "Debt of Honor", Jack Ryan comes out of retirement to serve as the new National Security Advisor Tom Clancy |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | 2011 NEWS $1000: In January this "Godfather of Fitness", who opened his first exercise studio in 1936, died at age 96 Jack LaLanne |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | PICK A CARD $600: In the 19th century initial letters were added to cards' corners; to avoid confusion with the king, the knave became this a jack |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | NEED A "LIFT"? $1000: At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, Jack King declared, "We have" this "on Apollo 11" liftoff |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | JEOPORTMANTEAU $400: Jack-o-lantern gourd plus school for wee ones pumpkindergarten |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | CROSSWORD CLUES "F" $400: The Union Jack
(4) flag |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | MAN IN THE MIDDLE $200: Flap
____
rabbit Jack |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | BESTSELLERS $800: In 2010 Jack Ryan Jr. & Sr. were back in this author's "Dead or Alive" Tom Clancy |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $800: "Oh, Jack, it feels just like yesterday that you and Diane and I were celebrating the IPO."
"I've had my eye on you since before Diane died, and now I have even more reason to be..."
...this doubtful word that's in the title of Elvis' last No. 1 pop hit suspicious |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | IN THE PINK $1000: Jack London wrote that one type of drinker "sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and" these creatures pink elephants |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | RAY CHARLES $800: Ray Charles had a No. 1 hit with this song that says "I'll have to pack my things and go" "Hit The Road, Jack" |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | RHYMING NICKNAMES $200: John J. Pershing, commander of the AEF during WWI, had this rhyming nickname Black Jack |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | BOURBON PLANNING $800: Bourbon is made with this type of mash that uses liquid from a prior distillation; so is Jack Daniel's, but Jack ain't bourbon sourmash |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | MY SON, THE DOCTOR $1,600 (Daily Double): In a scene from a 2010 HBO movie, this doctor talks about his mother's long, painful last illness (Jack) Kevorkian |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $200: Manny Rosenfeld, Moe Strauss & Jack Jackson co-founded this company in 1921 the Pep Boys |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | SITCOM BY CHARACTERS $1000: Jack McFarland,
Karen Walker (not the title characters) Will & Grace |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | KINGS, QUEENS, & JACKS $400: Montague Druitt, a barrister with an interest in surgery, has been suspected of 19th c. crimes committed under this name Jack the Ripper |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | KINGS, QUEENS, & JACKS $800: His first Klondike stories, collected in 1900's "The Son of the Wolf", made this man a bestselling author Jack London |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | MEET MY EXES $800: Peter Allen,
Jack Haley Jr.,
Mark Gero,
David Gest Liza Minnelli |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | MOVIE WAITRESSES $400: 1970 classic in which Jack Nicholson told Lorna Thayer to hold the chicken...between her knees Five Easy Pieces |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | MOVIE WAITRESSES $800: In this film Helen Hunt as waitress Carol Connelly makes Jack Nicholson "want to be a better man" As Good as it Gets |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | MICHAEL DOUGLAS MOVIE ROLES $400: 1984: Reckless jungle treasure hunter Jack Colton Romancing the Stone |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | IT'S THE POLICE $400: The title of this Jack Webb TV drama refers to a systematic police search for a criminal Dragnet |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: He said, "What a good boy am I!"--if he's so good, why was he in the corner? (Little Jack) Horner |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over" this the candlestick |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | RECENT NONFICTION $800: Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen have written a series of books called this food "for the Soul" Chicken Soup |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | SPELL IT WITH STATE ABBREVIATIONS $600: Jack & Jill were carrying one Pennsylvania & Illinois |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | PRINCIPALS $800: Tom Cruise,
Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | JACKS OF ALL TRADES $200: Jack Wilson of the Eugene Register-Guard writes these opinion pieces, from the Latin for "to put forth" editorial |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | JACKS OF ALL TRADES $400: Jack Dorsey is chairman of this information network that touts itself as "the evolution of mobile messaging" Twitter |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | JACKS OF ALL TRADES $600: Jack Horkheimer, who passed away in 2010, was the longtime host of PBS' "Star Gazer", devoted to naked-eye this astronomy |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | JACKS OF ALL TRADES $800: Jack Cawthon, the "Bar-B-Que King" of this town, has a restaurant overlooking the Ryman Auditorium Nashville |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | JACKS OF ALL TRADES $1000: Jack Mazzola serves only organic & fair trade at his west village "Stir Brew" this Coffee |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | THIS CATEGORY IS MURDER $400: The London district of Whitechapel is where this fiend carried out his slayings in 1888 Jack the Ripper |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | THAT'S MY DRINK $400: Apple brandy, pineapple juice & bitters:
____-in-the-box Jack |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $800: Jack Black fronted & provided tutelage to this young band, also a 2003 movie title School of Rock |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FACE BOOK $1000: In 1910 this man published his story collection "Lost Face", which includes "To Build a Fire" Jack London |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $400: Retired actuary
Warren Schmidt
(2002) About Schmidt |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $800: Astronaut Garrett Breedlove
(1983) Terms of Endearment |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $1200: Oil rigger
Robert DuPea
(1970) Five Easy Pieces |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $1600: Hitman
Charley Partanna
(1985) Prizzi's Honor |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | JACK NICHOLSON'S OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLES $2000: Playwright Eugene O'Neill
(1981) Reds |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | "K" AS IN... $400: This archaic term for a male servant; in cards, a jack a knave |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $800: Jack Russell is a breed of this dog terriers |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | PERIOD MOVIES $1600: This comedy about long ago stars Jack Black, Michael Cera & Oliver Platt as the high priest of Sodom Year One |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | FAMILIAR SAYINGS $1200: If you're one of these capable fellows, you're unfortunately "master of none" a jack of all trades |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $400: "You're not going to drown, Jack." "Why, Rose?" "I have an inflatable life raft. I probably should've said something earlier" Titanic |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | START SPREADIN' THE BOOZE $400: Stories abound as to why this Tenn. sour mash whiskey has "Old No. 7" on its bottles, but its creator took that secret to his grave Jack Daniel's |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | BIOPIC-NIC $600: 1992:
Jack Nicholson as this labor leader Jimmy Hoffa |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | SCI-FI TV $1000: I've found it! This show about a town populated by geniuses & patrolled by sheriff Jack Carter Eureka |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | BURGER JOINTS $600: In a 1980 TV commercial, this burger joint blew up its iconic speakerbox clown (He was later resuscitated) Jack in the Box |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | CANDIED CAMERA $1200: Jack Nicholson plays the president in this Tim Burton tale with a candy bar in its title Mars Attacks! |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | BRAND LOGOS $400: A snack: a sailor boy & his dog Bingo Cracker Jack |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES $1600: naval-historian-action-guy@clancy.cia.gov Jack Ryan |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | THE 1990s $400: (Legal commentator Jack Ford gives the clue) The 1995 murder trial that ended in his acquittal was commonly called The Trial of the Century; the 1997 civil trial that found him liable got almost as much attention O.J. Simpson |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | TV CHARACTERS $1200: On "Lost" this character told Jack, "I've looked into the eye of the island, and what I saw was beautiful" (John) Locke |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | LITERARY CANINES & FELINES $2000: One Eye, a wolf, was the father of this Jack London canine; his mother was half-wolf, half-dog White Fang |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | "B" KEEPING $200: Fee fi fo fum, Jack ascends one in a fairy tale a beanstalk |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | LYRICS OF NO. 1 HITS $1200: 1976: "You just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free" "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $200: "A Man About the House",
"Honest Jack Tripper" Three's Company |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | JACKIE PAPER $2000: This former G.E. CEO has co-authored "Straight From The Gut" & "Winning" Jack Welch |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | YOU KNOW THAT SONG $400: ...It's on the tip of my tongue...The Rolling Stones...a hag beat Mick with a strap...you know, this "gas gas gas" tune! "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | LET'S PLAY TEXAS HOLD-EM $2,000 (Daily Double): Rushed from his Texas prison cell, he died of cancer in 1967 in the same hospital as the man he killed in 1963 Jack Ruby |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | THE DREADED COUNTING CATEGORY $400: In poker if you've got a jack high straight, these are your 3 lowest cards 7, 8, 9 |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE ROLES $1200: In 2007 Johnny Depp did double time playing both Jack Sparrow & this "Demon Barber" Sweeney Todd |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | WE'RE CUCKOO $400: In this 1975 film Jack Nicholson commented, "I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this!" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | CARTOON VOICES $400: Po, the title character in "Kung Fu Panda" Jack Black |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | FLIES & FLYING $1200: Jack kills a pig & Roger kills Piggy in this 1954 work Lord of the Flies |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | THE TRIALS OF WOMANHOOD $1200: (Legal commentator Jack Ford presents the clue from a courtroom.) After a 3-week trial in March 1951, she became the first woman executed by the U.S. government since alleged Lincoln conspirator Mary Surratt in 1865 Ethel Rosenberg |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | ALL HAIL $400: Aaron Burr, Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra New Jersey |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | NURSERY RHYME PEOPLE $800: This married woman "could eat no lean" Mrs. Jack Sprat |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ALCOHOLICS EPONYMOUS $800: The real first name of the maker of this Tenn. whiskey was Jasper, but a "Jasper & Coke" just doesn't sound right Jack Daniels |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | MOVIES AT SEA $2000: Jack Lemmon was Ensign Pulver, in charge of laundry & morale aboard a ship called The Reluctant, in this 1955 film Mister Roberts |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | SAY CHEESE $600: Cojack is a blend of Jack cheese & this one Colby |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | JACK $200: He was twice jailed in the 1990s for assisting the suicides of terminally ill patients Kevorkian |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | JACK $400: This Jack & his 3 brothers founded one of the "Big Five" Hollywood studios in 1923 (Jack) Warner |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | JACK $600: It's a mild, smooth cow's-milk cheese named for a town on California's central coast Monterey Jack |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | JACK $800: Fox-hunting dog breed named for a 19th century British clergyman Jack Russell |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | JACK $1000: This raspy-voiced DJ & "Midnight Special" host was a fixture of American radio in the 1960s & '70s Wolfman Jack |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | FUN WITH COLORS $800: A pale tan, like the color of a certain oval-shaped nut used to make marzipan almond |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | E BEFORE I $800: Not native foreign |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | PREFIXES $2000: An -ologist who specifically studies birds gets this Greek prefix before his or her name ornith- (or ornitho-) |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | '90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $400: Poor Jack Dawson leaves Southampton in 1912 to go to America for a new start; has trouble along the way Titanic |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP $800: Damon Runyon gave this champ the nickname "Manassa Mauler", Manassa being the Colorado town where he was born Jack Dempsey |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP $2000: This African American's first fight after winning the title was a 1909 bout against future actor Victor McLaglen Jack Johnson |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | RHYMING FOLKS $1200: He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre" Jack Black |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | YOU MAKE MY "HEART" SING $1000: This Springsteen song begins, "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack" "Hungry Heart" |
| #5929, aired 2010-05-27 | THE NEWS $400: You can tune into this network's "Situation Room" & hear a report from Jack Cafferty's "File" CNN |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | ORES $1600: Black jack & ruby jack are forms of the chief ore of this metal, symbol Zn zinc |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $800: A 1998 letter from this longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America praised China's crackdown on piracy (Jack) Valenti |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE FINAL FORE $400: In the final round at Turnberry in 1977, Tom Watson outdueled Jack Nicklaus to win this major by a stroke the British Open |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | SOME PUZZLING FOOD $1200: This hamburger chain started in 1951 in San Diego Jack in the Box |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | BUSY AS A BEAVER $600: Grey Beaver is the first master of this Jack London wolf-dog White Fang |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Charlie Salinger &
Jack Shephard Matthew Fox |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | BIBLICAL BAD STUFF $600: For rebelling against Moses & Aaron, Dathan & Abiram were swallowed up by this the earth |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: www.goducks.com is the official website for this West Coast school's athletics (University of) Oregon |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | SPORTS TALK $1000: What was originally the Houston Oilers is today this NFL team the Tennessee Titans |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | "C" IN SCIENCE $1600: The earliest period of the Paleozoic Era, it extends from about 542 to 488 million years ago Cambrian |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE NOVEL'S FIRST DRAFT? $1000: "We're saved!" Piggy exclaimed to Ralph. "Looking back", Simon said, "We probably shouldn't have eaten Jack" Lord of the Flies |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | 7-"L"ETTER WORDS $400: Jack Sprat could tell you it means having the lowest amount of fat leanest |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BAD GUYS $1600: Jack Torrance is the writer & axeman who goes mad at an off-season hotel in this 1980 film The Shining |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | POP CULTURE $2000: During WWII this "All-American Boy" of radio drama helped track down Nazi spies & traitors Jack Armstrong |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | WRITE ON, TOM! $400: Jack Ryan helps avert a nuclear war in "The Sum of All Fears" by this author; thanks, Jack! (Tom) Clancy |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE TOYOTA GRAND PRIX OF LONG BEACH $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets lowered in a racecar at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, CA.) You or AAA change tires with a mechanical jack; at the Long Beach Grand Prix, they use this more powerful type, from the Greek for "wind", built into the car's body pneumatic |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | MOVIE SPOILERS $600: Faye Dunaway's daughter is also her sister in this Jack Nicholson classic from 1974 Chinatown |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 3 OF A KIND $1000: Stede Bonnet,
"Calico" Jack Rackham,
Henry Morgan pirates |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | STUCK $400: If you're "in" this, like Little Jack Horner, there's no place you can go the corner |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $200: (I'm Jack Ford.) I couldn't choose just one; my favorite books are "Trinity", Leon Uris' novel of Ireland, & this Margaret Mitchell novel with an Irish-American heroine Gone with the Wind |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | FLICK ARRR! $400: Johnny Depp got gold caps for his turn as Captain Jack Sparrow in this 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | FACIAL EXPRESSIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Jack Nicholson movie villain known for his rictus the Joker |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | MAMMALS $400: Down Under, a male one of these is called a buck, Boomer or jack a kangaroo |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | "O" POURRI $1600: Jack London was a 2-time Socialist Party candidate for Mayor of this city near San Francisco Oakland |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | HOLLYWOOD REMAKES $2000: This 1960 Jack Nicholson-Jonathan Haze movie was remade as a musical in 1986 Little Shop of Horrors |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | NATURE $600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows two similar-looking snakes on the monitor.) The common mnemonic "Red touch black, friend of jack; red touch yellow, kill a fellow" helps distinguish a harmless scarlet king snake from this extremely poisonous snake a coral snake |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | ____ THE ____ $1000: In "Portrait of a Killer", Patricia Cornwell contends that this killer was actor & artist Walter Sickert Jack the Ripper |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): The flag of these South Atlantic islands features a Union Jack, a sailing ship & a ram the Falklands |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | OH, THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD! $600: On Sept. 2, 1978 this band grooved in Giants Stadium, playing tunes like "Jack Straw" & "Sugar Magnolia"; killer set, Jerry! The Grateful Dead |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE OF 1906 $1000: This author from nearby Oakland surveyed the damage & declared, "San Francisco is gone" Jack London |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $1200: He's worked with Ron Howard twice, playing astronaut Jack Swigert in "Apollo 13" & Jack Brennan in "Frost/Nixon" Kevin Bacon |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | MOVIE ROLES $400: 2009:
Zed, who lives in "Year One" Jack Black |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | DESCRIBING THE NOVEL $200: Sal Paradise found,
we got the Beat writer,
'50s 'Frisco fun On the Road |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | TV's SUPPORTING CASTS $1000: T.J. Thyne as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an expert on insects, spores & minerals at the Jeffersonian Institute Bones |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | DAYS IN... $400: This TV movie based on Mitch Albom's bestseller paired Hank Azaria & Jack Lemmon Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | BRAND "X" $1600: This company's Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit back in 1958 Texas Instruments |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: Jack:
"I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4,000 Cubans who are trained to kill me" A Few Good Men |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | ____ OF ____ BOOKS $400: In this Jack London novel, Francois says, "Nevaire such a dog as dat Buck!" The Call of the Wild |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG! $400: "...and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more" Jack |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 2008 comedy with Ben Stiller & Jack Black playing soldiers that's a Springsteen song with the line "Sit tight take hold" Tropic Thunder Road |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | CHILDREN OF PRESIDENTS $800: In the 1980s this son of Gerald Ford was a regular on TV's "The Young and the Restless" Steve Ford |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $400: In 2009, "dressed in Laker purple", this sunglasses-wearing "avid fan... watched the Lakers beat the... Magic 100-75" Jack Nicholson |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF $800: Dodge City marshal Ed Masterson, brother of this sheriff, was shot to death by Jack Wagner in 1878 Bat Masterson |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | THEY SHOT THE SHERIFF $1200: In 1876 Jack McCall shot this former Abilene marshal in the back of the head during a poker game in Deadwood Wild Bill Hickok |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | MUSIC OF TODAY $600: Being a surfer helped this Hawaiian musician "Sleep Through The Static" Jack Johnson |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS $200: Agent K,
Agent J,
Jack Jeebs Men in Black |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $1600: The tagline to this 1970 Jack Nicholson film declares, "He rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere" Five Easy Pieces |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | FAMOUS TRIALS $400: (Jack Ford delivers the clue.) A high school football coach as well as biology teacher, he volunteered to be the defendant in what became a world-famous test case on evolution (John) Scopes |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | FAMOUS TRIALS $800: (Jack Ford delivers the clue.) "I had orders" was among his statements at his trial in Israel after being seized in Argentina in 1960; he got the only death sentence Israel has ever imposed (Adolf) Eichmann |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | FAMOUS TRIALS $1200: (Jack Ford delivers the clue.) This rotund silent comic's 3 notorious trials brought 2 hung juries & an acquittal--then 6 days later the movies' morality czar banned him from the screen "Fatty" Arbuckle |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | FAMOUS TRIALS $1600: (Jack Ford delivers the clue.) On March 29, 1971, a court-martial found this lieutenant guilty in the My Lai massacre; though he faced the death penalty, he only got life & was paroled in 3 years William Calley |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | FAMOUS TRIALS $2000: (Jack Ford delivers the clue.) A passionate defense by Clarence Darrow spared the lives of this pair of Chicagoans, both of whom graduated from college in their teens, who in 1924 killed a 14-year-old for a thrill Leopold & Loeb |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | STARS BY MOVIE ROLES $1600: Boolie Werthan,
Jack Lambert,
Sgt. Joe Friday Dan Aykroyd |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: Louisa May Alcott wrote a book titled this boy-girl duo & sure enough, they go up a hill in Chapter 1 Jack and Jill |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | NOVEL QUOTES $1000: This novel begins, "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | WHAT THE TV TITLE MEANS $800: The title of this Jack Lord show refers to a certain state's entry into the Union Hawaii Five-O |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | MOVIE SYNOPSES $600: 1997:
Kate & Leo (Rose & Jack) have a shipboard romance Titanic |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | BETTER KNOWN AS $600: Infamous Dallas nightclub owner Jacob Rubenstein was better known by this name Jack Ruby |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | BAY O' WOLF $200: After this actor is bitten in the 1994 film "Wolf", he marks his territory all over James Spader Jack Nicholson |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | STORY TIME $200: Name of the Mother Goose thief represented here--what a son of a piper Tom |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | 3 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $800: Marko Ramius,
John Kelly (aka Mr. Clark),
Jack Ryan Tom Clancy |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | JUNGLE FEVER $1200: Go to the Columbus Zoo & see Jungle Jack's Landing, named for this director emeritus of the zoo Jack Hanna |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | JUNGLE FEVER $2000: He wrote of the law of the jungle, "The wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die" Rudyard Kipling |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A California cheddar-like cheese becomes a small terrier dog breed a Monterey Jack Russell terrier |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Poet who may lose a finger or toe to a bitter cold condition (after stopping by woods on a snowy evening) Robert Frostbite |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | HISTORY A LA JACK BAUER $400: It's Jan. 3, 1990; tell the president I have this Panamanian leader in custody & am transporting him to Miami Manuel Noriega |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | HISTORY A LA JACK BAUER $800: It's 1485 & this king is down! Repeat! This king is down! Henry VII has now become the first Tudor king! Please advise! Richard III |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | HISTORY A LA JACK BAUER $1200: Mercader is going after Trotsky on Aug. 20, 1940! I need the site! In Coyoacan, in this country? I'll be there in 20! Mexico |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | HISTORY A LA JACK BAUER $1600: Redeploy! The April 1, 1939 mission is scrubbed! Repeat, scrubbed! The U.S. just recognized his Spanish rebel government! Franco |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | HISTORY A LA JACK BAUER $2000: Chloe, I need a Jan. 24, year 41 location on this Roman emperor, aka "Little Boot"... cancel that; he's dead Caligula |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | DOG-EARED PAGES $400: Buck is a pampered dog that's stolen & taken to the Yukon during the Gold Rush in this novel The Call of the Wild |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | HOLLYWOULDN'T $400: Warner Bros.' "Green Lantern" missed the green light after fan outcry over this "School of Rock" guy as the lead Jack Black |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | CONAN O'BRIEN $800: Conan becomes the fifth host of "The Tonight Show" after Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen & him (Jack) Paar |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | WHAT A KNOCKOUT! $800: In 1937 he became the first African-Amer. heavyweight champ since Jack Johnson, with a K.O. of James J. Braddock Joe Louis |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | HOBO A GO GO $800: This American writer drew upon his experiences as a hobo in books like "John Barleycorn" & "Martin Eden" Jack London |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | SONG & MOVIE TITLES $1200: Rolling Stones tune that became the title of a 1986 Whoopi Goldberg spy comedy "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ASSERTING AUTHOR-ITY $400: Ginsberg called this fellow Beatnik "American lonely prose trumpeter of drunken Buddha sacred heart" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | RHYMES WITH TRACK $600: A knave who's a real card a jack |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | NAME THE WORK $800: Jack London:
"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind" The Sea Wolf |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $1600: Jack Donaghy,
Kenneth the Page,
Tracy Jordan 30 Rock |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | TV'S GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN $400: He played wacky bachelor Jack Tripper John Ritter |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | ON THE LABEL, LABEL, LABEL $800: Buy me some of this treat, & we'll pretend we're at a ball game Cracker Jack |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE BARTENDER SAYS... $800: I can just tell you're sweating for a Lynchburg lemonade, the Lynchburg referring to this brand of whiskey Jack Daniel's |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | "UP" WORDS $400: Jill, from Jack (for a moment) uphill |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Jack London story about the dog Buck who joins a Nick cartoon about Eliza, who can talk to animals The Call of the Wild Thornberrys |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | GEEK TV $400: Jack may be the brawn, but Chloe O'Brian is the brains as the CTU senior analyst on this show 24 |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | BOOK REVIEW $2000: "In the Belly of the Beast" is a prison memoir by Jack Henry Abbott, a protege of this writer who died in November 2007 Norman Mailer |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | SHOW BUSINESS $2,600 (Daily Double): In 1923 siblings Harry, Albert, Samuel & Jack established a studio under this name Warner Brothers |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | THAT'S THE FACT, JACK! $200: In 2008 this company's 77-year run as the world's largest automaker came to an end GM |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | THAT'S THE FACT, JACK! $400: This Norse god hammered Hrungnir to death Thor |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | THAT'S THE FACT, JACK! $600: In July 1918 this world leader was executed in the Ural Mountains Tsar Nicholas II |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | THAT'S THE FACT, JACK! $800: This element's symbol is Po polonium |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | THAT'S THE FACT, JACK! $1000: Exodus 2:10 says "and she called his name" this (it's Exodus, folks) Moses |
| #5643, aired 2009-03-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Long Jack is one of the crew on a cod boat that rescues Harvey Cheyne in the Grand Banks in this Kipling novel Captains Courageous |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | JOHN J. PERSHING $600: Pershing gained this rhyming nickname for commanding a unit of African-American soldiers Black Jack |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HUD $400 (Daily Double): This onetime HUD secretary was also a Buffalo Bills QB, a N.Y. Congressman &--oh yeah--a 1996 VP candidate Jack Kemp |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Rolling Stones song that's "A gas! gas! gas!" & a comic book hero who saves Earth from Ming the Merciless Jumping Jack Flash Gordon |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | TV's EATERIES & DRINKERIES $400: Jack's
(Jack Tripper's)
Bistro Three's Company |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $400: In poker, 3 & 5 of hearts, 10 of clubs, jack of hearts, king of hearts is called a busted this a flush |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | LINES FROM THE SITCOM $1000: Jack Donaghy, asked why he's in a tux with no event to attend:
"It's after 6...what am I, a farmer?" 30 Rock |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | ROCK FORMATIONS $600: Jack wed Meg & took her name, & in 1997 formed this band on a lark, with him on bass & her on drums The White Stripes |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | SPORTS FACTS $800: In the 1960s he won 7 major tournaments, more than any other golfer (Jack) Nicklaus |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | ALL THE MARBLES $200: This founder of the Roman empire said, "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble" Augustus |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | EPIGRAPHS $800: "The heart is half a prophet", Philip Roth's epigraph to "Goodbye, Columbus", is a proverb from this language Yiddish |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $800 (Daily Double): Among other things, this month is Cherry Month & Creative Romance Month February |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a piece of materiel.) The energetic materials center at New Mexico tech is testing shape charges, a type of this that's formed for maximum impact a warhead |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | WHERE'S THE BEEF FROM? $1000: Holstein the Netherlands |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | THE AUDACITY OF BOB HOPE $1000: Bob said, "No one" of these "can fool all of the people all of the time. That's why we have two" political parties |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | PRODUCTS $400: In 1899 this product got a waxed package for freshness, but the packages didn't yet have prizes inside Cracker Jack (Cracker Jacks accepted) |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | TEXT MESSAGING $400: "CYT" means this, regarding the next time I'll grace you with my visage see you tomorrow |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | MAKE YOUR PITCH $600: The ball got by the catcher & the runner's in from third--it was the hurler's fault & will be scored as this a wild pitch |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | FIELDS OF STUDY $800: Petrology rock(s) |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | MAMMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This medium-sized, distinctly marked cat of Asia has the scientific name Neofelis nebulosa clouded leopard |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED: ACTING EDITION $1200: This star of "School of Rock" says he & Philip Seymour Hoffman once read for the same roles (Philip got the parts) (Jack) Black |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | STARS & STRIPES $800: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse is a red one of these really, really, really big stars a red supergiant |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | "SP"EAK UP! $2000: The NAACP awards this medal annually for outstanding achievement by a black American the Spingarn Medal |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | THE VIKING SHIP MUSEUM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Viking Ship Museum In Roskilde, Denmark.) In vessels like these, Vikings may have sailed across the Atlantic to America where they ultimately settled in an area they called this Vinland |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | THE MOST POPULOUS NATION $400: Spain,
Ukraine,
Bahrain Ukraine |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | THE VIKING SHIP MUSEUM $1200: A "side scan" type of this helps the museum locate old shipwrecks; sound waves are emitted & bounce back with results sonar |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | OLD KING $2000: The XII Swedish king of this name led & won many battles in the 18th century's "Great Northern War" Charles |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $3,500 (Daily Double): Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | CENTRAL PARK ENTERTAINMENT $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) Central Park is dangerous & menacing in this film, when Jack Lemmon & Sandy Dennis are attacked by softball players The Out-of-Towners |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | MOVIE CALENDAR $800: Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, delivers toys to kids in this Tim Burton film The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $200: In "Patriot Games" this character stops Irish terrorists & joins the CIA (Jack) Ryan |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $400: In this novel Jack Merridew, a red-haired choir boy, tells Piggy, "You're talking too much!" Lord of the Flies |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $600: Ralph Ellison writes in this novel that the one-eyed Brother Jack was "a little bantam rooster of a man" Invisible Man |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $800: Patrick O'Brian wrote this series of novels about British Capt. Jack Aubrey; Russell Crowe played the role on film Master and Commander |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | A MUSICAL MENU $1,000 (Daily Double): This ConAgra sweet popcorn treat comes in butter toffee & caramel flavors Fiddle Faddle |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $1000: Gov. Jack Stanton, the main character in this 1996 Joe Klein book, was loosely based on Bill Clinton Primary Colors |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | WILL FERRELL ROLES $200: Actor Jack Wyatt who takes on the role of Darrin for the remake of a TV show Bewitched |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | SPORTS INITIALS $1000: Giants 1B (& son of a Rams Pro Bowl receiver) Jack Thomas (J.T.) Snow |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | NURSERY RHYME TIME $400: Non-fat-eating Jack's sombreros Sprat's hats |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | NURSERY RHYME TIME $800: Nimble candlestick jumper's press agents Jack's flacks |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | STATE OF THE UNION $200: The Jack Daniel's distillery is in Lynchburg in this state Tennessee |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | SUPERBAD $400: On Aug. 7, 1888 this murderer struck for the first time in London's East End Jack the Ripper |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | HEY "U"! $800: We salute you for knowing this popular name for the British flag the Union Jack |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | LITERARY RHYME TIME $1000: Kerouac's burlap bags Jack's sacks |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | THE ROLES OF A LIFETIME $400: Nacho,
Carl Denham,
Po the Panda Jack Black |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | MOVIES ON MY TiVo DVR $1200: Just wanted to see Jack Lemmon strain spaghetti through his tennis racket / The Apartment |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | HARRISON FORD $1000: Harrison played this CIA analyst in "Clear and Present Danger" & "Patriot Games" Jack Ryan |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | O CAPTAIN, MY POP CULTURE CAPTAIN $2000: "You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught" this captain, seen in a trilogy of films Jack Sparrow |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | WE LOVE DISNEYLAND $600: During the holiday season, Jack Skellington of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" appears in this spooky attraction The Haunted Mansion |
| #5541, aired 2008-10-13 | WE'RE TALKING FOOTBALL $200: Jack Kent Cooke once owned the L.A. Lakers & this pro football team based in our nation's capital the Washington Redskins |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | A MOTHER GOOSE PICTORIAL $600: Title guy with high self esteem whose famous act is shown here Little Jack Horner |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | KILLER OPERAS $800: "Lulu" has a lulu of an ending: the heroine is killed by this notorious London murderer Jack the Ripper |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | A MOTHER GOOSE PICTORIAL $800: Title duo whose end results we've illustrated Jack & Jill |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | MILITARY MOVIES $1000: 1981:
Misfits take over & complete their own basic training; "That's the fact, Jack!" Stripes |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $800: On Sept. 13, 1953 Marilyn Monroe made her network TV debut on this stingy comedian's program Jack Benny |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | HUMOROUS MEDICAL SLANG $400: A "Jack Bauer" is a doc who is still up & working after this many hours 24 |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | FREAKS AND GEEKS ALUMS $1600: Seth Rogen (Ken), in this Steve Carell film: "That's a good looking grandma! My grandma looks like Jack Palance" The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | 1908 $600: He pummels Tommy Burns to become the first black heavyweight champ (Jack) Johnson |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $800: Teddy Roosevelt,
Jack Moniker,
Euphegenia Doubtfire Robin Williams |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | HOP ON POP CULTURE $400: Sydney's dad, Jack, was a CIA double agent working against SD-6 on this Jennifer Garner show Alias |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | MOTHER GOOSE $600: Some say these 2 were actually Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, who were beheaded (or broke their crowns) in 1793 Jack & Jill |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | SINGLE DADS ON THE TUBE $1000: At 11:59 P.M. of the last episode of season one, this character's wife, Teri, is found dead, shot by Nina Myers Jack Bauer |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | "J.P." $600: He played Duke Washburn, Curly's twin brother, in "City Slickers II" Jack Palance |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | SOLDIERS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 he became "General of the Armies", the highest rank held by any American except George Washington Pershing |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | I KNOW THAT SONG $400: "Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if i never get back" in this song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He was playing poker in a Deadwood saloon when he was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876 Wild Bill Hickok |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $2000: This author was the son of a doctor, & he made the father of his alter ego Nick Adams a doctor, too Hemingway |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | MEN IN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): During the Russo-Japanese War, Jack London worked as a reporter for this man's newspaper chain (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | YOU DON'T KNOW JACK NICHOLSON $400: In the 1960s, Jack appeared on this TV show twice, including the "Opie Finds a Baby" episode Andy of Mayberry (or The Andy Griffith Show) |
