| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1600: Poet Wallace Stevens' feud with this novelist erupted into punches in a Key West street Hemingway |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $1000: The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982 Key West |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $400: Make sure the caps lock key isn't on when entering a password that's this hyphenated adjective case-sensitive |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | WORDS IN CONTINENTS $1600: A medicine, or the key note of a musical composition a tonic |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $200: Bow down to this key that'll open each one of a set of pin-tumbler locks a master key |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $400: Term for a key that'll start your car but won't open the glove box, or for the guy at the restaurant you give it to a valet key |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $600: It's the empty term for a key that hasn't been cut to fit a specific lock a blank |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $800: California's business & professions code forbids locksmiths from copying keys stamped "do not" do this duplicate |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $1000: Get down to bare bones with this term for a key that can open multiple old-fashioned locks a skeleton key |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER $400: Francis Scott Key wrote the words after the 1814 bombardment of this fort Fort McHenry |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $400: San Antonio mayor Julian Castro delivered this at the 2012 Democratic Convention the keynote address |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $800: A thingamajig; its usage dates back 100 years a doohickey |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This detachable men's shirt front started to become popular in the 19th century a dickey |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A tough way to get off a drug cold turkey |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $2000: If a person purchases a business that is fully equipped & ready to open, it is said to be this turnkey |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | ADMISSIONS $600: About a decade after he was admitted to the Maryland bar, he wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" Francis Scott Key |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | CHILDISH WORDS $1600: Not serious, like a superficial wound; it can also mean a type of musical key minor |
| #6394, aired 2012-06-07 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Gatorade Sports Science Institute in Barrington, IL.) Making sports drinks taste good as well as have the right amount of sodium is key to helping athletes overcome a natural reluctance to drink during exercise, a phenomenon called voluntary this dehydration |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $1200: The full title of the novel that Daniel Defoe wrote about this guy is 68 words long; one key word of the 68--"Shipwreck" Robinson Crusoe |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): "Ut" used to be used for the first or key note of the musical scale; this has replaced it do |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | "KEY" WORDS $200: The earliest authentic copy of his "Star-Spangled Banner" sold at public auction in 1934 Francis Scott Key |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | "KEY" WORDS $400: The part of a door you spy through, or the Eta Carinae nebula you might spy in the sky a keyhole |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | "KEY" WORDS $600: Qwerty is a standard format for one of these a keyboard |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | "KEY" WORDS $800: Democrat Zell Miller of Georgia delivered this address at the 2004 Republican National Convention the keynote |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | "KEY" WORDS $1000: In musical notation, it's the grouping of sharps & flats at the beginning of each staff the key signature |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER $400: Lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott key penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" during this war the War of 1812 |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a key linking word in many similes as |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | SINGING $800: Enunciation is key in singing the words this man wrote, like "I am the very model of a modern major-general" Gilbert |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | KEY WORDS $200: In 1960 this magazine opened its first Key Club in Chicago Playboy |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | KEY WORDS $400: This company added a remote keyless entry system to its 1996 Miata M edition Mazda |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | KEY WORDS $600: On a music score, it's the set of sharp &/or flat signs that follow the clef Key signature |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | KEY WORDS $800: If you read our credits you know this post on our crew is filled by Luke Lima Key grip |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | KEY WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Ken Follett novel was about a WWII code based on a Daphne du Maurier novel The Key to Rebecca |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $100: A console on a piano or typewriter Keyboard |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $200: Where partyers like to "pin the tail" On the donkey |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $300: Mentioned in Pennsylvania's state nickname, it's the central topmost support of an arch Keystone |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $400: It describes a schoolchild left unattended at home while the parents are working Latchkey |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $500: Thingamajig doohickey |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $100: Its name comes from the Latin words for "key" & "string", clavis & chorda the clavichord |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | JEOPARDY! KEY WORDS $100: Silent president Calvin Coolidge |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | JEOPARDY! KEY WORDS $200: Spineless sea creature jellyfish |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | JEOPARDY! KEY WORDS $300: Russian empress Catherine the Great |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | JEOPARDY! KEY WORDS $400: Cowboy humorist Will Rogers |
| #996, aired 1988-12-26 | JEOPARDY! KEY WORDS $500: Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | TRANSITIVE VERBS $200: To list a book's key words, usually alphabetically in the back index |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | ROLLER SKATING $500 (Daily Double): Title of the following:
"I rode my bicycle past your window last night / I roller skated to your door at daylight / It almost seems like you're avoiding me..." "Brand New Key" |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: To choose, harvest, or open a lock without a key to pick |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | PSYCHOLOGY $300: Standard test of responding to a key word with the 1st words which come to your mind word association |
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