| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $1200: The complex called these museums, with crossed keys as its symbol, has a 19th century "new wing" full of Roman art the Vatican Museum |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $600: Used on bolts or screws, metric hex keys are known by this letter, their shape a letter L |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $1200: This singer opened her 2020 Tiny Desk Concert with "Show Me Love"; she closed it with "Fallin'" Alicia Keys |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $600: At the 2020 Grammys, Alicia Keys & this trio sang "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" in a tribute to Kobe Bryant Boyz II Men |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $400: "We seceded where others failed" is the motto of the Conch Republic, formed for 1 minute by these Florida islands the Keys |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nation's military planes get frozen & you have to hit a combination of keys on your Mac or PC to exit them Air Force Quit |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS $1600: Make sure to bring the keys to our whisky distillery on this isle off Scotland's West Coast Skye (from keys) |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF? $600: Piano keys, once upon a time, both later mentioned in a song about racial equality ebony & ivory |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | HEAVEN ON EARTH $400: This country's flag bears 2 keys, symbols of the ones given to St. Peter that gave him access to heaven Vatican City |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $1600: Dan Auerbach & Patrick Carney make up this 2-man band that knew someone had an eye on their "Gold On The Ceiling" The Black Keys |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WORKING 9 2 5 $1000: A standard 88-key piano has this many white keys 52 |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $200: Always check your pants pockets! Specifically, I'll check this style of tight-fitting pants named for an Italian island capris |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $400: I do like to time travel, & my keys may be in this year: I saw D-Day firsthand & went to the premiere of "Double Indemnity" 1944 |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $600: Could've been at the Deerfield, Illinois HQ of this co. (before it moved to Texas) that makes the center-pivot 440 backhoe loader Caterpillar |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $800: Let's see, I remember heading directly north out of Israel into this country on the Mediterranean... maybe in Baalbek? Lebanon |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $1000: The patient had peritonitis from a ruptured one of these; I made the McBurney's incision to remove it & might have dropped my keys an appendix |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CAR ACCESSORIES $1000: A tracker for lost keys uses an app & this "colorful" technology to find them Bluetooth |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | DRIVING IN L.A. $800: This person who takes your keys may be a future star; Bill Paxton did that job at the Beverly Hills Hotel a valet |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK $1000: Alex had tons of hardware supplies, including these, also called half-moon keys; he never knew what they were for, though Woodruff keys |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BRAIN SURGEON'S TERMINOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This adjective is the "M" in an MRI diagnostic test, so do take your keys & your lucky coin out of your pockets magnetic |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY VIA KOKOMO $400: In the Florida Keys, this one immortalized as a Bogart title is one of the largest, 30 miles long & less than 2 miles wide Key Largo |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | WHAT'S YOUR "ANGLE"? $600: You do this to your keys to make a harsh sound jangle |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | KEY $400: The painting seen here depicts Christ giving the keys to heaven to this saint Saint Peter |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | OCEANS $600 (Daily Double): These islands off Florida have ocean cliffs a mile deep--don't know about that theory that the name is from Spanish for "shallow sea" the Bahamas |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | MUSIC CLASS $400: There are 52 white keys on a standard piano & this many black ones 36 |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | BILLBOARD YEAR-END NO. 1 ALBUMS $2000: This singer/pianist's "As I Am", featuring her hit "No One", was 2008's No. 1 (Alicia) Keys |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN $1200: It's the northernmost of the Florida Keys as well as the longest Key Largo |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FERRIES $800: Serving the Florida Keys, Yankee Freedom III ferries people to this "Dry" national park Dry Tortugas |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $800: Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood ebony |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | "CITY" $400: Its flag features 2 big keys that are mentioned in the New Testament Vatican City |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $2000: "We had it all when we were in our prime", sings Dan Auerbach on this duo's album "Turn Blue", recorded as his marriage ended (The) Black Keys |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Dits & dahs were the keys to this system devised in the 1830s that revolutionized communication Morse Code |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | CHANNEL ISLANDS $2000: Sissy Spacek & Sam Shepard ran an inn in the Florida Keys on this "sanguine" Netflix show Bloodline |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | THIS IS HOW WE DUET $600: Jay-Z & this woman had a No. 1 hit with "Empire State Of Mind" Alicia Keys |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | STATE PARKS $200: Florida's Bahia Honda State Park covers an entire island in this chain in the Gulf of Mexico the Keys |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $800: In a 1945 E.B. White kids' book, Eleanor is the mom of this tiny title character who can crawl inside a piano to fix keys Stuart Little |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $800: The letter on the name of these pre-packaged meals for WWII soldiers honors the last name of the Doctor who designed them K-rations |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $200: This "Girl On Fire" performer chose her last name in reference to the piano & because "it can open so many doors" Alicia Keys |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | THE SANDWICH GENERATION $800: Sliced meat, torpedo sandwich rolls (split) & cans of beef consomme are keys in a "French" this dip |
| #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 |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | E_I_E_I UH OH! $400: Traditional number of piano keys, or mph needed for time travel in "Back to the Future" eighty-eight |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $400: At the Grammys from the Staples Center in 2020, Alicia Keys said, "We are... heartbroken in The House That" this Laker "Built" Kobe Bryant |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1000: In 1922 London, over 50 companies were making this mechanical & musical wonder with no fingers on the keys player pianos |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | U.S. ISLANDS $600: Part of the Overseas Highway, the Seven Miles Bridge links islands in this famous chain the Florida Keys |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | SINGERS $600: This singer won a Grammy for her 2012 album "Girl On Fire" Alicia Keys |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $200: Alicia Keys piano |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | PLAYER'S PIANO $800: The piano on which Dooley Wilson "played" this standard in "Casablanca" was a Warner Bros. prop with just 58 keys "As Time Goes By" |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | SOLITARY SINGERS $1200: "Lonely Boy" was one of the songs on this duo's 2011 album "El Camino" The Black Keys |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: Spoken by Allison Williams in 2017:
"You know I can't give you the keys, right, babe?" Get Out |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $800: In 2009 Billy headed back out on the road for a "Face 2 Face" tour with this other legend of the 88 keys Elton John |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | THE FAB FOUR $800: "Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to" this song, recorded in 2 different speeds & keys & combined for an eerie effect "Strawberry Fields Forever" |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | NO. 1 SONGS $1200: "No One" was a No. 1 hit for her Alicia Keys |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | I WANNA SAX YOU UP $400: Bobby Keys played the sax solo on "Brown Sugar" with this group that he toured with for more than 45 years The Rolling Stones |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | PRISON $1200: In 2011 a Birmingham, England prison made news by losing these; happens to us all as we get older the keys |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | WHO "DIS"? $400: Presidential first name of male baseball player Bumgarner & of female tennis player Keys Madison |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $400: Islamorada, the "Village of Islands" in Florida, is made up of 6 of the islands called these keys |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NOT MADE $200: Steinway helped the conservationist cause when it stopped using this to make its keys way back in 1956 ivory |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | RHETORICAL DEVICES $1200: Black & white keys side by side on a piano are an analogy for racial harmony in this Paul McCartney/Stevie Wonder hit "Ebony And Ivory" |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $400: Young Charlie Parker played in the band of Lawrence Keyes, who was nicknamed this, the number of piano keys 88 |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | MUSICAL GROUP NAMES DEFINED $1,600 (Daily Double): On a standard piano, there are 36 of these, sharps & flats The Black Keys |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $15,700 (Daily Double): German for "play of bells", it has 2 rows of metal bars with the upper row corresponding to the black keys on a piano a glockenspiel |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $600: Hammer,
damper pedal,
keys a piano |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BLACK $200: If your black piano keys are shiny, they're probably plastic; if they dull with age, probably this wood ebony |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET? $1000: The keys to my 911 Turbo one of these a Porsche |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | A YEAR ENDING IN 00 $400: 1700 is often given as the birthdate of this instrument that can play louder or softer by pressure on the keys the piano |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | ON TV NOW $1200: Miley Cyrus & this "Girl On Fire" joined "The Voice" as coaches in 2016 Alicia Keys |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $400: This jazzy Miss Jones with the Grammy-winning "Come Away with Me" returns to the keys on the 2016 album "Day Breaks" Norah Jones |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | JOEL $800: In "Become a Better You", this popular TV pastor offers "7 keys to improving your life every day" Joel Osteen |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | A BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE $400: Seven Mile Bridge is a major link in this chain of islands stretching in a 150-mile curve out of Biscayne Bay the Florida Keys |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG $1600: Ghost Town DJ's
(1996) &
Usher & Alicia Keys
(2004) "My Boo" |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: Keys and coins can do it in your pocket, & a catchy ad can feature one a jingle |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 5-LETTER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: It must have been magic; a platinum one of these woodwinds with silver keys sold for $187,000 in 1986 a flute |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 5-LETTER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: This instrument used for military calls has no valves or keys; tones are made by changing the tension of the lips the bugle |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | "CL"ASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Bach wrote of the "Well-Tempered" this instrument, referring to a tuning system that would suffice for all keys the clavier |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | KEY WORDS $800: California's business & professions code forbids locksmiths from copying keys stamped "do not" do this duplicate |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | NOM NOM NOM DE GUERRE $1200: Reported named for Ancel Keys, these emergency field vittles were used when other food was scarce in WWII K-rations |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $2000: For the love of Keyser Soze! One guy in this title police lineup: "Hand me the keys, you fairy godmother" The Usual Suspects |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | SEE THE SEA CREATURE $800: It's business fin in front, party fin in back for this fish, as it hobnobs around the Florida Keys a mullet |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | CITIES IN SONG $1200: Jay Z & Alicia Keys:
"Now you're in" this city, "these streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you" New York |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $400: Samwise was back home. But then he remembered an awful thing. He'd left his keys at Mount Doom! With a sigh, he turned The Return of the King |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | "EL" CATEGORY $1200: This album by The Black Keys includes the song "Lonely Boy" El Camino |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | NUMBERS $400: It's the atomic number of radium, or the number of keys on a standard piano 88 |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | TODAY'S MUSIC $800: In 2007 her song "No One" hit No. 1 on Billboard's pop & R&B charts Alicia Keys |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY $200: Plantation, Windley & Upper Matecumbe are all islands in this chain the Florida Keys |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES $200: The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary offers a "trail" of these, like of the Adelaide Baker & the Benwood shipwrecks |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THAT TICKLES! $800: This phrase for playing the piano refers to the substance of which the keys were once made tickling the ivories |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS $1200: It's made up of about 700 islands & keys The Bahamas |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | BLOWING MY MIND $1600: 3-letter last name of instrument maker Adolphe, who patented a conical metal tube with padded keys in 1846 Sax |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | MASTERS OF SAX $400: That's Bobby Keys blowing sax all over this band's "Exile on Main Street" & other classic albums the Rolling Stones |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | MUSIC $1600: There's an "Inferno Version" of her hit song "Girl On Fire" Alicia Keys |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | LOCK $800: Warded door locks (the kind you can peek through) lost favor, as they can be easily opened by these "spooky" universal keys skeleton keys |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | MUSIC OF TODAY $1600: The Black Keys "got a love that keeps me waiting" in this song "Lonely Boy" |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | COMPLETE THE LYRIC $400: Usher & Alicia Keys:
"I know we haven't seen each other in a while, but you will always be my" this boo |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | SCIENCE 101 $2000: In 1986 the 101-key IBM keyboard, which became the PC standard, moved these keys from the left to a line across the top function keys |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $2000: The Spitfire & this lesser-known "stormy" fighter were the keys to the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain the Hawker Hurricane |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | RELIGION & FLAGS $800: The flag of Vatican City depicts a papal tiara & the crossed keys of this saint St. Peter |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | POP QUIZ $800: "Fallin'", from 2001, was the first Top 40 hit for this singer & pianist Alicia Keys |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | SOLVE FOR x $400: 99 - x = the number of keys on a standard piano 11 |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN $400: (Alex stands on the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Police work in those days could be a little bit shoddy: hours after the murder, a man named William Kent came back to the presidential box looking for his keys; what he found was the murder weapon, the small .44-caliber single-shot pistol bearing the name of this Philadelphia gunsmith who invented it Henry Deringer |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | COMPLETELY BASSLESS $1200: Patrick Carney & Dan Auerbach make up this blues-rock duo whose name is even musical the Black Keys |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: In addition to 88 keys, one of these has about 230 strings a piano |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | COMMON BONDS $600: A piano,
a typewriter,
Florida they all have keys |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | ALGEBRA $1600: Found on 2 of your keyboard's number keys, they're used in equations as signs of aggregation parentheses |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | YOUR 2012 HIT PARADERS $1200: "Lonely Boy": this band that's more than just piano parts The Black Keys |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | GRAMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: 2007:
Best female R&B vocal performance for "No One" Alicia Keys |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | STRINGING ALONG $400: The strings on the pedal type of this instrument heard here correspond to the white keys on a piano the harp |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | DID YOU GET THE NUMBER OF THAT SYMPHONY? $400: The Haydn one that matches the number of piano keys 88 |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | EBONY & IVORY $200: The white tops of its keys were once made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickle the ivories" a piano |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | COMPUSTUFF $600: If a program locks up, try hitting this combination of 3 keys at the same time to open the task manager ctrl + alt + delete |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | TOWER $1600: Every night at 9:53 p.m., the Ceremony of the Keys begins, locking up this fortress on the Thames the Tower of London |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | ISLANDS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)
The Florida Keys curve southwest for about 200 miles from Elliott Key to Loggerhead Key in this "dry" national park Dry Tortugas National Park |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $400: Its flag consists of 2 vertical bands in yellow & white & crossed keys of Saint Peter Vatican City |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS $200: Proverbially, it's "where the heart is" home |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS $400: A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders to below the waist a shift |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS $600: Football position that can be split or tight an end |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS $800: It's an abbreviation for Grand Prix auto racing F1 |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ALSO ON YOUR COMPUTER KEYS $1000: An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper an insert |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The keys weigh much more than the paper clips & fall to the ground, but a pencil acts as this support, pulling the clips sideways, where gravity & friction stop the keys' descent a fulcrum |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | POP & ROCK $400: Deepak Chopra performed the 2010 wedding ceremony of Swizz Beatz & this R&B songstress Alicia Keys |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MUSIC ALIASES $400: Alecia Moore got this nickname as a child, years before she dyed her hair accordingly Pink |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | SINGERS ON SCREEN $2000: As June Boatwright in "The Secret Life of Bees", she didn't play the piano but rather the cello, which she learned for the role Alicia Keys |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | DOMINOES $2,000 (Daily Double): Domino pieces are sometimes called these because they were originally made of ivory bones |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | TRADITIONAL ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $1200: For the 14th anniversary, you could give a piano, whose keys symbolize this traditional gift ivory |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | BIBLICAL PAINTINGS $500 (Daily Double): In a fresco at the Sistine Chapel, Pietro Perugino depicted "The Giving of the Keys" to him Peter |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | JUST HIT "PLAY" $200: You don't need to tickle the ivories on this device that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys a player piano |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | THE GRAMMYS $1000: No one but her took home the Female R&B Vocal award at the 50th Grammys Alicia Keys |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | HOW SINGERS GOT THEIR NAMES $600: Born Alicia Augello-Cook, this R&B lass chose her new last name for "the piano... and it can open so many doors" Alicia Keys |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | THE HELOISE WITH YOU $600: Take these off & clean their undersides individually (that open parens/9 is always especially grungy) keys (on your computer keyboard) |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WHAT'S YOUR FUNCTION? $400: On a standard Dell PC keyboard, model L100, the function keys run from F1 to this F12 |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $1600: Alicia Keys:
"N.O." "No One" |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH "E" $400: In 2002 this female rapper had her biggest hit, "Gangsta Lovin'" featuring Alicia Keys Eve |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | 1909: 100 YEARS AGO $2,000 (Daily Double): On March 4 he took the White House keys from Teddy Roosevelt Taft |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | THERE ARE SOME STRINGS ATTACHED $1600: On this pre-piano item played by Lurch on TV, the strings are plucked by points connected with the keys a harpsichord |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $800: Beethoven's first piano concerto includes this effect in which the pianist slides his finger along a series of keys a glissando |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | TREBLEMAKERS $600: The reeds and keys controlling the treble on the piano type of this flexible instrument are on the right side the accordion |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | FACE THE MUSIC $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew is down on one knee at Steinway & Sons in New York.) While many European pianos have two pedals, Steinways also have a middle one called by this Italian name, as it sustains the sound of certain keys sostenuto |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | ANIMALS $2000: One variety of the white-tailed species of this lives in the Florida Keys & weighs only 50 to 75 pounds a deer |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | COMMON BONDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Codes,
Songs,
Southern Florida keys |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | A WHITE CATEGORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Steinway & Sons factory in New York.) Steinway stopped using this material in keys decades ago, & in 1993 the company patented a piano key material made of a substitute for it ivory |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE 50th GRAMMYS $400: Before singing her hit "No One", she kicked off the telecast by duetting with Frank Sinatra Alicia Keys |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | FAMOUS COLLEGE DROPOUTS $1200: She dropped out of Columbia Univ. to sign with Columbia Records & later won a Grammy for "My Boo" Alicia Keys |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS! $1,600 (Daily Double): This ghost wears a long chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel" Jacob Marley |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | TECHNO THRILLERS $2000: In 2001 IBM sold these types of USB drives called "memory keys" in 8MB size; today you can get them in gigs flash drives |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Steinway & Sons in New York.) Today's keys are made of spruce, but the black keys & the whole body undergo staining to make them look like this traditional material ebony |
| #5402, aired 2008-02-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Chopin's funeral march is in B flat this, a group of keys used to depict sadness minor |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NEW IDEAS IN BUSINESS $400: This keyboard layout was developed to slow typing down, keeping the keys from jamming QWERTY |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | JAZZ HANDS $1600: We pray to hear his hands on the piano keys "'Round Midnight" (which he wrote) Thelonious Monk |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | AN UMBRELLA CATEGORY $200: This half-giant & "Keeper of the Keys" at Hogwarts has a pink umbrella that disguises his broken wand Hagrid |
| #5203, aired 2007-04-04 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the largest of the Florida Keys Key Largo |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | HYMNS & HERS $1600: Alicia Keys is featured on the Gospel-tinged title tune of this 2006 Josh Lucas film about a 1960s basketball team Glory Road |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THIRTYSOMETHING $1000: A standard piano has 52 white keys & this many black ones 36 |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | SINGLE WOMEN $2000: She is "Unbreakable" now that she "Unplugged" her piano (Alicia) Keys |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: This type of accordion has hexagonal or octagonal ends & button keys a concertina |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | CAN YOU DIGIT? $400: Number of stories on each of the 1,483-foot-high Petronas towers, or of keys on a standard piano keyboard 88 |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | QUITE A DICKENS CHARACTER $800: His outfit included a chain made of cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds & heavy purses Jacob Marley |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | GRAMMYS 2005 $600: Between the 2 of them, they picked up 7 Grammys, including one for their "My Boo" duet Usher & Alicia Keys |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The very farthest west you can drive in the Florida Keys is to this island Key West |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | ALBUMS $1200: "The Diary of" this songstress included "Diary", a haunting duet with Tony! Toni! Tone! Alicia Keys |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | CHAT ROOM LINGO $200: "CAD" stands for these 3 computer keys (often used together) Ctrl+Alt+Delete |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | I NEED MY "SPACE" $600: It's between the 2 "Alt" keys on a standard keyboard the spacebar |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | POP MUSIC $1600: Alicia Keys received 5 Grammys for 2001, including Best New Artist & Song of the Year for this hit "Fallin'" |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | PLACES TO GO $800: If sport fishing is your thing, head to Islamorada in these Florida islands the Keys |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: A book titled this many "Keys" is about "The Making of a Steinway Piano" 88 |
| #4515, aired 2004-04-02 | YEAH, I PLAY THE OBOE $1600: The oboe once had 6 finger pieces & just 2 of these, but added more of these over the centuries keys |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | WHAT DID I DO WITH MY KEYS? $200: They were in the pocket of those Red Tabs jeans from this company -- you know, the ones we just took to Goodwill Levi's |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | WHAT DID I DO WITH MY KEYS? $400: They fell into this pot that's also a term for one who makes his money growing cotton planter |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | WHAT DID I DO WITH MY KEYS? $600: They turned up in the bottom of the neighbors' jetted bath -- as Emile Zola might say, this brand Jacuzzi |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | WHAT DID I DO WITH MY KEYS? $800: One of these crow relatives famous for their love of shiny objects flew off with them magpie |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | WHAT DID I DO WITH MY KEYS? $1000: You left them in this (from the Latin for "fire"), you fool (from the Latin for "fool") the ignition |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | CONNECTICUT $800 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the ivory imported from Africa into Ivoryton, Connecticut was exported mainly as these piano keys |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | PATRON SAINTS $800: Zita is the patron saint you invoke in the search for these items, also a symbol of St. Peter's power keys |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | PLACES TO GO AFTER YOU'RE DEAD $400: If Peter forgets his keys at home, no one gets in here heaven |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | PIANO LESSONS $1200: (Sofia at the piano) I'm going to play the major chord named for this letter (hits 3 white keys simultaneously with her thumb, middle finger, & pinky) C |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE HARP $1200: The concert grand harp has this many strings, 3 more than half the number of keys on a piano 47 |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE HARP $2,500 (Daily Double): It's the Italian term for running your finger quickly up or down the keys of a piano or the strings of a harp glissando |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | I LOVE A PIANO $1600: At the 2001 MTV Music Awards, this appropriately name pianist pounded out Beethoven's "Fur Elise" Alicia Keys |
| #4341, aired 2003-06-16 | ON THE FLAG $1600: Its flag, adopted in 1929, has a 3-tiered tiara & a set of keys on it Vatican City |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | GIVE 'EM HELOISE $200: Recycle old keys by hanging them from a tree branch to make one of these tinkling devices wind chime |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | MINOR CLASSICS $400: Though minor keys often suggest sadness, this work in D minor contains an ode to joy "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | 21st CENTURY MUSIC $1000: In 2001 Alicia Keys won an MTV Award for Best New Artist in a Video for this song "Fallin'" |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | GUITARIST'S LINGO $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew holding a guitar) The tuning devices are called either keys or by this name pegs |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | THE COMMODORES $200: The first American naval victory in the Revolution came under Commodore Esek Hopkins in these islands off Fla. Bahamas |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | MUSIC $200: "It's not unusual" for female fans to pelt this singer of "Delilah" with room keys & panties Tom Jones |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | POP STARS $400: We're "Fallin'" for the "Songs in A Minor" by this soul diva Alicia Keys |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | THEY HAVE HOOVES $100: One variety of the white-tailed species of this weighs only 50-75 pounds & lives in the Florida Keys the deer |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | AH, FLORIDA! $400: These islands stretch out about 150 miles from Biscayne Bay into the Gulf of Mexico Florida Keys |
| #3710, aired 2000-10-20 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Keys on a standard piano 88 |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | THE LIVING WORLD $600: When a maple tree loses its keys, it loses these Seeds |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | COMMON BONDS $1000: Codes,
songs,
Southern Florida things with keys |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | ISLANDS $500: It's the last island as you travel the Florida Keys on U.S. 1 south Key West |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | FELINE FOLLIES $500: A cat stepping over his piano keys may have inspired this Polish-French composer to pen his "Cat's Waltz" Frederic Chopin |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | HISTORIC FLORIDA $100: The "Overseas Highway" linking these islands with the mainland was completed in 1938 Florida Keys |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | PIANO KEYS $200: It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key A |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | PIANO KEYS $400: Of the 2 types of piano keys in a Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder hit, it's what G-flat is ebony |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | PIANO KEYS $600: A 6-string guitar has 2 strings tuned to this note, each corresponding to a piano key E |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | PIANO KEYS $800: They're adjacent on the keyboard as well as in an abbreviation for a popular format of recorded music C & D |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | PIANO KEYS $1000: It's the key the French call "Le do du milieu du piano" middle C |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | STANDARD $200: Adopted in 1929, the flag of this independent state includes the keys to heaven The Vatican |
| #3188, aired 1998-06-10 | AUTHORS & THEIR SLEUTHS $400: Her 1996 novel "The Keys to the Street" centers on young Mary Jago, not chief inspector Wexford Ruth Rendell |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | THROUGH THE WOODS $500: It's the hardwood used to make clarinets & some piano keys Ebony |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: 2 Civil War forts were built on this western island of the Florida Keys Key West |
| #3120, aired 1998-03-06 | WHAT'S THE MATTER? $600: Barbie,
a MasterCard,
modern piano keys plastic |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | GONE FISHING $100: Control of thumb pressure & wrist position are keys to this motion that puts the line in the water casting |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | MUSIC $200: Irving Berlin could play this instrument in 1 key only, so he used a special gadget to help him switch keys Piano |
| #2914, aired 1997-04-10 | AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVALS $1,200 (Daily Double): In '95 the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in Florida had a group of snorkelers impersonating him:
[video clue] Elvis Presley |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | COLORS $100: It's a creamy white color, or what white piano keys were once widely made of Ivory |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | MUSIC CLASS $800: On a piano it's sweeping a finger up the white keys; on a harp, drawing the finger across the strings Glissando |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | PLANTS & TREES $300: The hard wood of this tree is used for knife handles & black piano keys Ebony |
| #2770, aired 1996-09-20 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: Anyone can play a hurdy-gurdy; just do this & press the keys crank the handle |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | THE PIANO $500: A piano has 52 white keys & this many black keys 36 |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | INVENTIONS $500: This key permitted the addition of lower-case letters to a typewriter without adding more keys the shift key |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | POTPOURRI $500: In a fairy tale he leaves his wife the keys to the castle, but warns her not to enter one of the rooms Bluebeard |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | J.S. BACH $1000: 1722 work of preludes & fugues in all keys for "musical young people eager to learn" "The Well-Tempered Clavier" |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | COMPOSERS $800: This composer invented the "Petrouchka Chord", in which 2 different keys are played simultaneously Stravinsky |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500: With the addition of keys, the double-reeded shawm evolved into this woodwind the oboe |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: In Florida the 113-mile-long Overseas Highway connects this group of islands to the mainland the Keys |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | MUSIC $300: A famous fugue by Domenico Scarlatti may have been inspired by one of these pets walking over harpsichord keys a cat |
| #2226, aired 1994-04-18 | BY THE NUMBERS $400: It's slang for a piano 88 |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | 20th CENTURY TRIVIA $300: These small food packets for soldiers were named for Ancel Keys, who devised them K-rations |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | SAINTS $400: The emblem of St. Zita is several of these; the emblem of St. Peter is 2 crossed ones keys |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: "Keeper of the Keys" was Earl Derr Biggers' final adventure about this Chinese-American sleuth Charlie Chan |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | TREES $200: The wood from this tree is used to make black piano keys & knife handles ebony |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | FLAGS $200: Its flag has "The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven" on it the Vatican |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | COMPUTERS $600: On current IBM keyboards, these keys are marked F1 through F12 the function keys |
| #1925, aired 1993-01-08 | ANCESTORS $200: This "licorice stick"s ancestor was the chalumeau; Johann Denner lengthened it & added 2 keys the clarinet |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: A standard piano type has 41 keys, 120 bass buttons, from 2 to 15 registers & a bellows an accordion |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | ANIMALS $200: Found in this state's Keys, the Key Deer is only about 2 1/2 feet tall Florida |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | ENGLISH HISTORY $600: The Ceremony of the Keys has been performed at this London landmark for more than 600 years the Tower of London |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | TREES $800: These trees are known for their winged seeds called keys maples |
| #1831, aired 1992-07-13 | COMMON BONDS $400: Locks,
typewriters,
pianos (things that have) keys |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | SAINTS $400: His emblem of 2 crossed keys is featured on the Vatican flag St. Peter |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500: The number of black keys on a standard piano; there are 52 white ones 36 |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | FOLKLORE $1000: He gave his wife keys to all the rooms in the castle, but said don't go in one (it had bodies of old wives) Bluebeard |
| #1617, aired 1991-09-17 | SLANG $400: Those who play piano really well can really tickle these keys the ivories |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: "Growing Up Happy" is an advice book by this kid's show star known for jangling his keys Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | THE PIANO $400: A standard grand piano has 52 white keys & this many black keys 36 |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $600: This bay is bounded by Miami, Miami Beach & the Florida Keys Biscayne Bay |
| #1463, aired 1991-01-02 | THE BIBLE $200: Jesus gave him the keys of the kingdom of heaven Peter |
| #1403, aired 1990-10-10 | MUSIC CLASS $500: Sliding one finger across all the harp strings, or drawing a fingertip over all the white piano keys glissando |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $400: Catholic tradition holds that Jesus gave him the keys to heaven Peter |
| #1169, aired 1989-10-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: They stretch for about 150 miles from Biscayne Bay into the Gulf of Mexico the Florida Keys |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | POTPOURRI $200: It's a flute without keys that's played in military bands a fife |
| #1033, aired 1989-02-15 | CONSTELLATIONS $200: This many constellations are officially recognized, the same number as keys on a piano 88 |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | THINGUMAJIGS $1000: If the typewriter keys strike this, you forgot to put the paper in platen |
| #978, aired 1988-11-30 | MUSICAL JONESES $100: He guesses he's had about 5,000 room keys thrown his way during performances Tom Jones |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | THE PIANO $100: The keys at both ends of the standard piano keyboard are this color White/Ivory |
| #912, aired 1988-07-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: In his "Black Key" etude, Op.10, No. 5, the right hand plays only on the black keys (Frédéric) Chopin |
| #899, aired 1988-06-30 | FASHION HISTORY $1000: A "chatelaine" was the mistress of a chateau or this, which she wore to hang keys on chain |
| #809, aired 1988-02-25 | DICKENSIAN CHARACTERS $200: His ghost wore a heavy chain of cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds & heavy purses Jacob Marley |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BRIDGES $400: 25 bridges carry U.S. Route 1 through much of this offshore Florida region the Florida Keys |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | ISLANDS $200: The Florida Keys stretch some 150 miles from Virginia Key, near Miami Beach, to this one Key West |
| #655, aired 1987-06-12 | DID YOU NOTICE? $100: On a piano, the high-pitched keys are at this end of the keyboard right |
| #635, aired 1987-05-15 | EQUIVALENCIES $300: As pressing valves changes a trumpet's tones, pressing these changes a saxophone's keys |
| #577, aired 1987-02-24 | CONSTELLATIONS $200: Total number of recognized constellations, it's the same number of keys on a piano 88 |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $100: You'll find 41 keys & 120 brass buttons on a professional model of this "squeezebox" accordion |
| #567, aired 1987-02-10 | AUTOMOBILES $400: Suggesting they got 40 mpw (miles per wind), some owners of these affixed wind-up keys to rear engine "hood" Volkswagen Bugs |
| #467, aired 1986-09-23 | MUSICAL FACTS $1000: From Latin for "measuring", this shifting of keys has been a Barry Manilow trademark modulation |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $500: In "The Well-Tempered Clavier", he wrote pieces in all the major & minor keys (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
| #355, aired 1986-01-17 | HEAVEN $200: In Catholic teaching, he holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven St. Peter |
| #342, aired 1985-12-31 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: This lets a guitarist change keys & not change fingerings a capo |
| #277, aired 1985-10-01 | GAME SHOWS $300: "Just Men" had 7 keys & 1 of these, while "Split Second" had 1 key & 5 of these cars |
| #265, aired 1985-09-13 | ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): "We had it all / Just like Bogie and Bacall / Starring in our old late, late show..."
Longest of the Florida Keys or title of this song Key Largo |
| #166, aired 1985-04-29 | SAINTS $200: He holds the keys to the gates of the kingdom of heaven St. Peter |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | TREES $400: Though its outer wood is white, its dark inner wood is used for black piano keys ebony |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | TRIVIA $400 (Daily Double): Number of vowels on the bottom row of keys of a standard typewriter 0 |
