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#9065, aired 2024-03-22ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: L'ultima parola is the last word; l'ultima spiaggia is the last resort; l'ultima cena is this, found in Matthew 26 the Last Supper
#9053, aired 2024-03-06OCCUPATIONS $400: At the L.A. County Museum of Art, Stephanie Barron is a senior one of these in the Department of Modern Art curator
#9052, aired 2024-03-05PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $800: The first Latino senator from California, Alex Padilla grew up in this L.A. area with a Spanish name the San Fernando Valley
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $400: Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $800: In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada Baryshnikov
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1200: It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 X
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1600: In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids Nefertiti
#9045, aired 2024-02-231960s FICTION $200: The Mrs. W's (Whatsit, Who & Which) are guides through the universe in this Madeleine L'Engle classic A Wrinkle in Time
#9038, aired 2024-02-14I RAN $200: Stop, thief! Though we think of him just trotting around the bases after his home runs, Mike Trout led the A.L. in these in 2012 with 49 steals
#9036, aired 2024-02-12INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Booted out of Iceland, set foot in Vinland: L.E. Leif Erikson
#9031, aired 2024-02-05THE "ARE" YOU BREATHE $600: A sanctioned & medically supervised promotion founded in 2018 presents this style of boxing--John L. Sullivan would be proud bare knuckle
#9031, aired 2024-02-05FINAL RESTING PLACES $1200: This director's tombstone at Westwood Memorial Park in L.A. reads, "I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect" Billy Wilder
#9025, aired 2024-01-26FULL-COURT PRESS $600: The L.A. Times: Overturning it in 2022 was the "most significant curtailing of an established constitutional right" Roe v. Wade
#25, aired 2024-01-16SPELLING BIZ $200: This gasoline brand merged with Exxon in 1999; you can't spell it without spelling... _ O _ I L Mobil
#9016, aired 2024-01-15AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES $400: L. Frank Baum was born in May, so this was his birthstone--might make a great name for a city emerald
#1, aired 2024-01-12LETTER PERFECT $800: This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F in English words, it's often silent L (for the lek)
#9010, aired 2024-01-05ALLITERATION $1200: Mustarded or not, this L.A. stadium treat has been eaten in Chavez Ravine since the '60s & close to 3 million are sold each year a Dodger Dog
#23, aired 2024-01-02BOOKS IN THE SERIES $200: R.L. Stine: "The Ghost Next Door"; "Vampire Breath"; "Say Cheese & Die!" Goosebumps
#9000, aired 2023-12-22MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: A series of articles in the L.A. Times about people dying in their sleep, perhaps during bad dreams, inspired this 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street
#8995, aired 2023-12-15AN "L" OF A TEAM $400: They "bolt"ed into the NHL in 1992 the (Tampa Bay) Lightning
#8995, aired 2023-12-15AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers
#8994, aired 2023-12-14TENNIS-Y WILLIAMS $200: Venus & Serena grew up in this huge city's suburb of Compton, better known for rappers than groundstrokers L.A.
#8992, aired 2023-12-12HAVE YOU 8? $1000: When filled, the L-shell around a nucleus will have 8 of these in it electrons
#8982, aired 2023-11-28FOREIGN LANGUAGE $400: In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes a bird
#8982, aired 2023-11-28NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $1600: An earthquake levels buildings & overpasses in L.A. on January 17 1994
#20, aired 2023-11-15"N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $200: It's the term for a 200th anniversary; the United States celebrated one in 1976 bicentennial
#20, aired 2023-11-15"N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $400: Stereotypes about this demographic -- also known as "Gen Y" -- include "tech-savvy" & "saddled with student loan debt" millennial
#20, aired 2023-11-15"N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $600: It describes the "first pitch" thrown by a guest of honor at a baseball game -- a nice way of saying it doesn't actually count ceremonial
#20, aired 2023-11-15"N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $800: Showcasing life in the 18th century, this Virginia attraction calls itself "the world's largest living history museum" Colonial Williamsburg
#20, aired 2023-11-15"N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $1000: It's the 2000 comedy with the Sandra Bullock line, "I'm in a dress, I have gel in my hair... & I'm armed. Don't mess with me" Miss Congeniality
#8967, aired 2023-11-07ALBERT CAMUS $9,000 (Daily Double): Camus' attack on Stalinism in 1951's "L'Homme revolte" strained his relationship with this other existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre
#8959, aired 2023-10-26TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $600: In L.A. you can study the Meisner technique at the Elizabeth Mestnik Studio of this Acting
#8951, aired 2023-10-16BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R
#8951, aired 2023-10-16BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M
#8949, aired 2023-10-12SPOOKY LITERATURE $600: (Justin Long presents the clue.) "Welcome to Dead House" from 1992 was the first of the books in the "Goosebumps" series by this author that by now has sold a spooky number of copies (R.L.) Stine
#8949, aired 2023-10-12"L" ON EARTH $1200: This principality of Central Europe covers a scant 62 square miles in area Liechtenstein
#8949, aired 2023-10-12"L" ON EARTH $1600: It's the longest river entirely in France the Loire
#8949, aired 2023-10-12"L" ON EARTH $2000: It's "jar"ring to note that before sailing to America in 1620, the Pilgrims lived in this Dutch city for more than 10 years Leiden
#8948, aired 2023-10-11BOOK CLUB $2000: Lord Peter Wimsey frequents the Egotists' Club in mystery stories by this woman Dorothy L. Sayers
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $200: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion a Leo
#15, aired 2023-10-04NO CAP $600: It's a domesticated woolly relative of the camel _ L _ _ _ _ alpaca
#15, aired 2023-10-04NO CAP $900: It can be a type of joke or the title "Cats" in a T.S. Eliot book of poems _ R _ _ T I _ _ L practical
#15, aired 2023-10-04NO CAP $1200: Everything you owned was in the box to the left in this dismissive #1 hit from Beyonce I R R E _ L _ _ E _ B L E "Irreplaceable"
#8941, aired 2023-10-02THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $1600: After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset" James Garner
#8940, aired 2023-09-29POEMS ABOUT POETRY $1200: Youth poet laureate of L.A. in 2014 / Already quite the sensation / But she made her name / & rocketed to fame at the '21 inauguration (Amanda) Gorman
#8937, aired 2023-09-26SHATTERING ALLUSIONS $800: The double whammy goes back to Evil-Eye Fleegle, a character in this Al Capp strip Li'l Abner
#8931, aired 2023-09-18IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $1000: "Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889" by James Ensor parades through this L.A. museum named for an oil magnate the Getty
#8928, aired 2023-09-13I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man"
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THE U.S. IN 1964 $1000: In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan the New York Times
#8926, aired 2023-09-11KIN $600: In 2004 this distant cousin of "Trees" poet Joyce took to the L.A. stage as Moses in "The Ten Commandments" Val Kilmer
#8916, aired 2023-07-17FISH PEOPLE $400: In 2022 this L.A. Angel with a cutthroat swing won his 9th Silver Slugger Award (Mike) Trout
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WORLD "L" $400: In 2001 it officially joined Newfoundland in the name of a Canadian province Labrador
#8903, aired 2023-06-28GET KOALA-FIED $600: When your baby has a li'l accident at the diner, head swiftly to a koala kare, one of these 2-word platforms in the restroom a changing table
#8889, aired 2023-06-08BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $1200: On "Parks & Rec" this 4-legged phenom was Pawnee's biggest star; Andy sang "5,000 Candles In The Wind" at his memorial Li'l Sebastian
#8889, aired 2023-06-08BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $2000: Al Capp created this comic strip set in good ol' Dogpatch Li'l Abner
#8889, aired 2023-06-08YES, YOU CANAL $5,600 (Daily Double): In 1913 the L.A. Times noted an event celebrated at this site would "be known as the 'wedding of the oceans"' the Panama Canal
#8886, aired 2023-06-05THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $1000: In 1985, the teammates seen here the Edmonton Oilers
#8878, aired 2023-05-24TRAIN-ING DAY $1200: If you want to "be in" this, Chicago's official downtown area, use the Quincy & Clark/Lake "L" stops the Loop
#19, aired 2023-05-243-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $800: It's the S in S.L.E., the most common type of lupus, an autoimmune disease systemic
#15, aired 2023-05-22AMERICANS IN PROTEST $200: It's the L-A in LULAC, a civil rights organization founded at Salon Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi in 1929 Latin American
#8874, aired 2023-05-18MAGAZINES $400: "Biscuits & Jam" is a podcast hosted by Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of this regional magazine abbreviated S.L. Southern Living
#14, aired 2023-05-17SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $200: In "Annie Hall" it's called L.A.'s only cultural advantage; now some want it eliminated for pedestrian safety the right turn on red
#8871, aired 2023-05-15IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1200: L.A.'s Museum Row is on a stretch of Wilshire Blvd. between La Brea & Fairfax known by this wondrous & alliterative name the Miracle Mile
#8868, aired 2023-05-10CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood
#8852, aired 2023-04-18LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $600: After an 86-year drought without winning a World Series, this A.L. team has now won 4 of them in the last 19 years the Boston Red Sox
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SAVOIR FAIR $2000: In 2022 one of France's grandest renaissance fairs, the Roi de l'Oiseau, celebrated this writer & his creation Gargantua Rabelais
#8851, aired 2023-04-17TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Hamlin & Susan Dey leave the courtroom to investigate sex crimes in New York with Mariska Hargitay L.A. Law & Order: SVU
#8848, aired 2023-04-12OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $2000: Mexican street food in L.A. includes the memelas & tlayudas of this southwestern state bordering Chiapas Oaxaca
#8843, aired 2023-04-05SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1600: At L.A.'s Fairfax High, he showed a flair for poetry, later heard in his Red Hot Chili Peppers songs Anthony Kiedis
#8842, aired 2023-04-04TARANTINO FILMS $400: Hitman Samuel L. Jackson gets what he considers "divine intervention", as well as a Big Kahuna burger & a Sprite, in this movie Pulp Fiction
#8842, aired 2023-04-04SHALL FOLLOW ME $800: In 1992 a stolen car followed by the CHP, this organization, became L.A.'s first live TV police chase as KCOP broke into a "Matlock" rerun the California Highway Patrol
#8842, aired 2023-04-04PAINT ME A PICTURE $1600: Manet's scandalous "Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe" is known as this in English Luncheon on the Grass
#8831, aired 2023-03-20& EYE $1000: Referring to the device used, these 2 words are the "L-A" in LASIK eye surgery laser-assisted
#8828, aired 2023-03-15LITERARY VILLAINS $400: In a Dodie Smith children's book, this evil heiress wants to turn several dozens of cute li'l furballs into a fur coat Cruella de Vil
#8826, aired 2023-03-13THE BIG BANG THEORY $200: The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 3,000 miles away; that's like hearing something in L.A. when you're in this Rhode Island capital Providence
#8824, aired 2023-03-09FIRST WORDS $400: It's from the Latin for "beginning", or a letter like the L in Samuel L. Jackson an initial
#8805, aired 2023-02-10DON'T FALL IN! $400: Kids, don't fall in a big hole being dug for this base of a building; here's the 90-foot deep one for L.A.'s Wilshire Grand foundation
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $200: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked" William Shatner
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $300: In 2018 Willem Dafoe was all wet as Vulko, the trident-wielding trainer of this title superhero Aquaman
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $400: In 2020 Wil Lutz scored the first points in an NFL regular season game in this city for the visiting Saints against the Raiders Las Vegas
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $500: We got a kick out of watching William Zabka return to the dojo in the role of Johnny Lawrence on this Netflix show Cobra Kai
#8792, aired 2023-01-24FINDING NIMOY $200: Nimoy appeared in other TV series with this "Star Trek" co-star, including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." & "T.J. Hooker" William Shatner
#8792, aired 2023-01-24LAST BUT NOT LEAST $1600: It's the "L" in the SCLC, the Atlanta-based agency co-created by Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership
#8787, aired 2023-01-17THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $400: ...this L.A.-area city bask in the fact that realtor.com says the median listing home price is $1,400 per square foot Beverly Hills
#8787, aired 2023-01-17EMMY WINNERS $1600: This series about a New York doctor in Cicely, Alaska beat out "L.A. Law", among others, to win Best Drama Series at the 1992 Emmys Northern Exposure
#8780, aired 2023-01-06WE'RE ON THE CASE $600: In French, a clever remark you only think of after you've left is esprit de l'escalier, "wit of" this structure a staircase
#8780, aired 2023-01-06LETTER PERFECT $800: Chicago's rapid transit system; the South Side section opened in 1892 the L
#8777, aired 2023-01-03L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $400: Cheers to Henry IV, who became France's first king from this ruling house in 1589 Bourbon
#8777, aired 2023-01-03L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $800: 1804 to 1815 is known as the Empire Period; in the decorative arts it featured swans, a symbol of this empress Josephine
#8777, aired 2023-01-03L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $2000: The first examples of art by prehistoric people are Cro-Magnon, like at this French cave discovered by 4 teens in 1940 Lascaux
#8777, aired 2023-01-03L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $3,095 (Daily Double): After WWI, Germany lost this hyphenated border region to France, got it back in WWII, then lost it to France again Alsace-Lorraine
#8769, aired 2022-12-22WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $800: ...laughs, at this L.A. "Store" opened in 1972 on Sunset Blvd., with notable alumni like Billy Crystal & Eddie Murphy The Comedy Store
#8768, aired 2022-12-21GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1000: You can visit the Central High School National Historic Site at 2120 West Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive in this city Little Rock
#8764, aired 2022-12-15GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $200: It's the "I" in IQ, & it will be incredibly embarrassing for all of us if no one rings in now intelligence
#8764, aired 2022-12-15GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $800: It's the birdie you bop in badminton a shuttlecock
#8762, aired 2022-12-134 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL $600: 47 years after the OK Corral, his pallbearers in L.A. included silent movie Western star Tom Mix & a former mayor of Tombstone (Wyatt) Earp
#8755, aired 2022-12-02FIZZ-ICS $200: The competition was green with envy in 1908 when this brand of water won the Grand Prix des eaux minérales vente de l'année Perrier
#8752, aired 2022-11-29CAST UPON THE WATERS $400: Snakes didn't get Samuel L. Jackson in "Deep Blue Sea"--a mako one of these did; Thomas Jane & Michael Rapaport could only watch a shark
#8751, aired 2022-11-28THAT'S MAJOR $1200: Major League Soccer began playing in the U.S. in 1996 with 10 teams, including the N.Y./N.J. Metrostars & this team playing for Los Angeles the (L.A.) Galaxy
#8746, aired 2022-11-21WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $400: More than a decade before "A Wrinkle in Time", she wrote her first book for kids, "And Both Were Young" L'Engle
#8745, aired 2022-11-18PAINT SAMPLES $10,000 (Daily Double): Don't try to pet the cat in a tricky canvas by Louis-Leopold Boilly, who invented this French term trompe-l'œil
#8741, aired 2022-11-14FROM "D" TO "O" $800: Room 222 at the Strater Hotel in this Colorado city was where Louis L'Amour wrote many of his Western novels Durango
#8, aired 2022-11-13DRIVING IN L.A. $200: L.A. fans are notorious for pulling out of this venue onto Vin Scully Avenue around the 7th inning to beat the traffic Dodger Stadium
#8, aired 2022-11-13DRIVING IN L.A. $400: L.A. lore says when Johnny Carson asked Bette Davis how a young actress could get into here, Bette said, "Take Fountain" Hollywood
#8, aired 2022-11-13DRIVING IN L.A. $600: You can tell "The Big Sleep" was written 80+ years ago--the hero drives "through Pasadena & almost at once I was in" groves of these orange trees
#8, aired 2022-11-13DRIVING 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
#8, aired 2022-11-13DRIVING IN L.A. $1000: The 1950 movie with this title is about an hour & 50 minutes; it'll take about that long to drive the same-named 22-mile road Sunset Boulevard
#5, aired 2022-10-23PITCH PERFECT $100: Talk about Go Blue! Clayton Kershaw pitched well enough for this team in 2014 to win 21 games & the National League MVP award the Dodgers
#8721, aired 2022-10-17ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson
#3, aired 2022-10-09IN THE PARK $1500: Griffith Park in L.A. is home to one of these scientific places for stargazing (the kind in the sky, not the celebs) an observatory
#8707, aired 2022-09-27ALPHANUMERICS $1200: This type of wild cat with many names has a superstar in P-22, prowling the canyons of the L.A. area for years puma (cougar or mountain lion)
#8703, aired 2022-09-21BUDWEISER & SPORTS $200: In 2020 Bud Light became the official beer of the championship series of this video game, L.O.L. for short League of Legends
#8698, aired 2022-09-14AFRICA $1600: Adopted in 1960, the national anthem of this country of western Africa is "L'Abidjanaise" the Ivory Coast
#8696, aired 2022-09-12ON THE ROAD AGAIN $800: In a song by Phantom Planet, this 3-digit highway that takes you from L.A. to S.F. sort of rhymes with "California Here We Come" the 101
#8696, aired 2022-09-12THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1200: The maitre d' at L'Idiot in "L.A. Story" & also giving a thoughtful performance in "X-Men" Patrick Stewart
#8696, aired 2022-09-12CANADIAN HISTORY $2000: A World Heritage Site, these Newfoundland meadows contain the first evidence of Europeans in the New World L'Anse aux Meadows
#8695, aired 2022-07-29JUST TAKE THE L $200: Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect bowing & bowling
#8695, aired 2022-07-29JUST TAKE THE L $600: The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible label & Abel
#8695, aired 2022-07-29JUST TAKE THE L $800: Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way carousel & carouse
#8694, aired 2022-07-28AUTHORS $1600: Asked whether she'd call "A Wrinkle in Time" science fiction or fantasy, this author suggested "science fantasy" Madeleine L'Engle
#8683, aired 2022-07-13WORD "L" $1200: To mix with a modifying substance, or to produce fermentation in dough leaven
#8683, aired 2022-07-13WORD "L" $2000: A region of Sparta gives us this word meaning extremely concise in speech laconic
#8682, aired 2022-07-12SOUNDS SMART $800: There are 2 "L"s in the middle of this word that can refer to spectacular color, sound or smarts brilliant
#8670, aired 2022-06-24CITY PARK-ING PLACES $3,000 (Daily Double): An 1880s deal between George Patton's dad & L.A. led to a park later named for this other World War II general in 1942 (Douglas) MacArthur Park
#8665, aired 2022-06-17THINK PINK $400: In 1939 Paul & Betty Pink began selling soda & these from a cart on La Brea & Melrose in L.A. & the rest is history hot dogs
#8664, aired 2022-06-16GET OUT $800: Get out there & meet someone, then 7 minutes later meet someone else in this system invented by an L.A. rabbi in the 1990s speed dating
#8656, aired 2022-06-06ON THE COAST $400: Manuel Antonio is a magnificent beach in this Costa-l country of Central America Costa Rica
#8653, aired 2022-06-01BALLPARK FUN $1,000 (Daily Double): Traditionally, home fans of this A.L. East team give particular emphasis to yelling "O!" during the national anthem the Baltimore Orioles
#8650, aired 2022-05-27MAKEUP $200: L'Oreal's offerings for this cosmetic include Lash Paradise, which comes in Blackest Black & Mystic Black mascara
#8649, aired 2022-05-26MOVIE CO-STARS $2000: In "Die Hard with a Vengeance" & "Unbreakable": Bruce Willis & him Samuel L. Jackson
#8644, aired 2022-05-19TV PERSONALITIES $1200: A judge on "The Great British Baking Show", this man who sounds right at home in L.A. provides recipes for the BBC Paul Hollywood
#8624, aired 2022-04-21CALIFORNIA $1000: This city about midway between L.A. & Sin City is mentioned in the first sentence of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" Barstow
#8623, aired 2022-04-20ACTORS, INITIALLY $200: J.L.C., back for more in "Halloween Kills" Jamie Lee Curtis
#8615, aired 2022-04-08DONE THAT $600: Born in Toronto, this architect designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall for his adopted hometown (Frank) Gehry
#8610, aired 2022-04-01THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $800: Videos of people taking this "Challenge" in 2014 raised $115 million for the association fighting A.L.S. the Ice Bucket Challenge
#8608, aired 2022-03-30MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $800: A few career highlights: he won the Heisman at Auburn, ran for 221 yards in one game for the Raiders, & was an A.L. all-star Bo Jackson
#8600, aired 2022-03-18EASY PEASY $800: After "The Fly", Jeff Goldblum reunited with Geena Davis in this comedy about 3 aliens who want to party in L.A. Earth Girls Are Easy
#8600, aired 2022-03-18EASY PEASY $1000: Given first name Ezekiel, this fictional detective worked the Watts area of L.A. starting in the 1940s Easy Rawlins
#8590, aired 2022-03-04SAMS CLUB $200: In ads for Capital One, he has asked, "What's in your wallet?" (Samuel L.) Jackson
#8590, aired 2022-03-04THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $400: In a work by L. Frank Baum, the Scarecrow & this character are captured by a female giant & turned into a bear & an owl the Tin Man
#8587, aired 2022-03-01SUNDAY IN THE PARK $600: It's one of these geometric gatherings of joyous sound; one at L.A.'s Griffith Park has been around since the late 1990s a drum circle
#8587, aired 2022-03-01EDUCATORS $800: Bolivian émigré Jaime Escalante's dedication to teaching calculus to "unteachable" L.A. kids was featured in this 1988 film Stand and Deliver
#18, aired 2022-02-22FOOD COMBOS $1000: In L.A., foodies & locals like to dine at "Roscoe's House of" these paired foods Chicken & Waffles
#8576, aired 2022-02-14CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: Leo in this L.P. Hartley novel is this title person, carrying messages to further an illicit love affair The Go-Between
#8574, aired 2022-02-10AMUSING CANADIANS $400: Cheech Marin was born in L.A. but this "Up in Smoke" partner of his is from Edmonton, man Tommy Chong
#5, aired 2022-02-10BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Great Bear" constellation with teams like the L.A. Galaxy in it Ursa Major League Soccer
#8572, aired 2022-02-08HIS BIG PAINT SALE $1200: In 2021 this well-heeled L.A. museum paid a cool $53 million for a painting by Gustave Caillebotte the Getty
#8569, aired 2022-02-03THE 20th CENTURY $200: Her death following a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel produced worldwide mourning Princess Diana
#8557, aired 2022-01-18A PART OF IT $600: Brayan Villarreal threw just 4 pitches for this A.L. team led by David Ortiz in 2013 but got a World Series ring anyway the Red Sox
#8553, aired 2022-01-12CLASSIC SITCOMS $400: On this sitcom Will Smith played a fictionalized version of himself, sent from Philly to live with rich relatives in L.A. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
#8547, aired 2022-01-04FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" L. Frank Baum
#8534, aired 2021-12-16PROTEST SONGS $1600: "Killing In The Name" was this L.A. band's reaction to the beating of Rodney King & its aftermath Rage Against the Machine
#8524, aired 2021-12-02POP CULTURE-POURRI $1200: Conservatorship hearings in L.A. in 2021 attracted supporters of the movement known by this 2-word hashtag Free Britney
#8520, aired 2021-11-26L'HISTOIRE FRANCAISE $800: In 1942 U.S. ships fought a French naval force off Casablanca, then controlled by this collaborationist regime Vichy (France)
#8520, aired 2021-11-26L'HISTOIRE FRANCAISE $4,000 (Daily Double): He became king of the Franks in 768, the Lombards in 774 & then in 800, he took the Roman crown Charlemagne
#8516, aired 2021-11-22HISTORICAL FICTION $400: In "The March" by E.L. Doctorow, this general & his troops move through Georgia & the Carolinas Sherman
#8513, aired 2021-11-17NATIONS BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES $400: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump & L'anse aux Meadows National Historic Site Canada
#8511, aired 2021-11-15WHAT "A" TEAM! $600: They were N.L. champs in 2005 & A.L. champs in 2017 the Astros
#8503, aired 2021-11-03PHYSICS $2000: L, meaning the number of this elementary particle that includes electrons, is constant in every reaction the lepton
#8502, aired 2021-11-02UNPACK YOUR ADJECTIVES $800: There's a double "L" in the middle of this adjective meaning morose or gloomily silent sullen
#8501, aired 2021-11-01THE MAN'S PEN NAME $600: Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man L. Frank Baum
#8465, aired 2021-08-13THE LATE, GREAT CHADWICK BOSEMAN $600: The L.A. Dodgers tweeted, "From playing legendary figures to becoming one, we'll never forget your iconic performance as" him (Jackie) Robinson
#8453, aired 2021-07-28JARGON $800: In music, players of these may do a paradiddle, a pattern alternating hands: R-L-R-R, L-R-L-L drums
#8443, aired 2021-07-14MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $2000: Really putting the "O" in orchestra, E.L.O. did a live performance of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by this composer Grieg
#8425, aired 2021-06-18DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $1200: This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law" (David) Lynch
#8417, aired 2021-06-08L-M-N $1200: It's the type of horse seen frolicking here a palomino
#8417, aired 2021-06-08L-M-N $2000: It contains more than half of the total protein in an egg & almost none of the fat the albumen
#8415, aired 2021-06-04AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980 BET (Black Entertainment Television)
#8405, aired 2021-05-21ALSO KNOWN AS $400: Kids in this country learn to draw their homeland as a 6-sided figure, so the nickname "l'Hexagone" makes sense France
#8398, aired 2021-05-12'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $600: Here's a colonel of truth--"colonel" ain't spelled right in that phrase; please spell out this homophone, the gist of an idea K-E-R-N-E-L
#8394, aired 2021-05-06THE ROLE IN COMMON $1200: Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson John Shaft
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AROUND LOS ANGELES $600: Great views of L.A. can be had at lofty Griffith Park Observatory & great movie locations too, like in this 1955 James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause
#8390, aired 2021-04-30AROUND LOS ANGELES $800: Today a major symbol of L.A., this was set up in 1923 as an advertisement for new homes for sale in the area the Hollywood Sign
#8386, aired 2021-04-26FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $1200: Joseph Wambaugh is best known for writing about this profession in which he served in L.A. for 14 years a police officer
#8378, aired 2021-04-14MALFUNCTION $2000: This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine, but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928, flooding Ventura County William Mulholland
#8377, aired 2021-04-13SCOTT LAND $1600: Before legal novels like "The Burden of Proof", he wrote about the Harvard law experience in "One L" Scott Turow
#8373, aired 2021-04-07STARTS & ENDS WITH "L" $400: The majority of our household trash ends up in one of these a landfill
#8373, aired 2021-04-07STARTS & ENDS WITH "L" $2000: This adjective means lazy or deficient in spirit lackadaisical
#8363, aired 2021-03-24THE NEBULA AWARDS $200: The Dramatic Presentation Award is named for this Martian chronicler who joined the L.A. Science Fiction League in 1937 Bradbury
#8361, aired 2021-03-22HISTORY $1600: Echoing a name from about 19 centuries before, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led a slave revolt in Haiti, was known as "The Black" this Spartacus
#8351, aired 2021-03-08PORT "L" $400: This port on the Tagus River is the westernmost capital in Europe Lisbon
#8351, aired 2021-03-08REAL REVIEWS OF THE NOVEL $400: H.L. Mencken: The "clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters... this story is obviously unimportant" The Great Gatsby
#8339, aired 2021-02-18TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $800: E.L. James gained fame with this type of writing that puts the writer's favorite characters from books, TV, etc. in new adventures fan fiction
#8328, aired 2021-02-03SCIENTISTS $600: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes won a Nobel Prize for explaining the behavior of these "L.C."s whose "D" is used in video screens liquid crystals
#8301, aired 2020-12-14INVENTED LANGUAGES $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1887 language got its name from "Doctor Hopeful", the pen name in that language of creator L.L. Zamenhof Esperanto
#8298, aired 2020-12-09NEWSPAPERS $400: By circulation it's the largest newspaper in California The L.A. Times
#8289, aired 2020-11-26IT'S LIKE MAINE $800: A Maine-stay in the clothing business, he said, "Outdoor recreation, such as hunting & camping, has added years to my life" of 94 years L.L. Bean
#8288, aired 2020-11-25GLOBAL CHEERS! $400: L'chaim means "to life" in this language Hebrew
#8285, aired 2020-11-20SILENT "L" $200: In the Christmas carol "Silent Night", "all is" this, "all is bright" calm
#8285, aired 2020-11-20SILENT "L" $800: There's a silent L in this word for silently sneaking up on prey stalk
#8283, aired 2020-11-18V.O. INITIALS $600: Mater in "Cars": L.T.C.G. Larry the Cable Guy
#8274, aired 2020-11-05MUSIC VENUES $1600: Early in his career, Elton John performed at this legendary L.A. club whose name is a synonym for a lyric poet The Troubadour
#8270, aired 2020-10-30IF YOU LIVED HERE $1200: If you lived in L.A. 150 years ago, you'd be this, just like today, but you'd spell the word with a tilde over the second N Angeleño
#8265, aired 2020-10-23MOVIE SUM-UP $400: A cop saves his troubled marriage by visiting his wife in L.A. & killing a bunch of people in her office building Die Hard
#8259, aired 2020-10-15WHERE HAVE I SEEN THOSE STAIRS? $1200: HGTV remodeled the L.A. house used in exteriors on this '70s sitcom, adding the open staircase that had only existed on a stage The Brady Bunch
#8257, aired 2020-10-13WOMEN IN LITERATURE $600: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which help Meg Murry & her brother in this 1962 novel by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
#8242, aired 2020-09-22AMERICANS IN PARIS $400: In 1952 she & 2 French friends started a cooking school in Paris, L'ecole des trois gourmandes Julia Child
#8225, aired 2020-05-29PICTURE THE MOVIE $1000: It's 2019 in L.A. Blade Runner
#8218, aired 2020-05-20OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $800: This team moved from the NBL to the BAA in 1948, to the NBA in 1949 & to L.A. in 1960 the Lakers
#8215, aired 2020-05-01NAMES IN POP CULTURE $400: Celebrating this film's Oscars in 2020, director Bong Joon Ho partied on Galbi & Bibimbap in L.A.'s Koreatown until 5 A.M. Parasite
#8214, aired 2020-04-30WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR? $2000: The "L" in the drug LSD Lysergic
#8212, aired 2020-04-28DJ, JAZZY $400: Horace Silver's tune about L.A. DJ Chuck Niles isn't "the hippest guy in Hollywood"--it uses this 3-letter jazz word for "guy" cat
#8212, aired 2020-04-28DJ, JAZZY $800: Musicians Dave Koz & Brian McKnight DJed for L.A.'s KTWV in the format called this kind of jazz, nice & mellow smooth jazz
#8209, aired 2020-04-23LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS $400: One of the richest women in the world, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is an heiress to this French cosmetics company L'Oreal
#8200, aired 2020-04-10MODERN MUSIC $600: This L.A. native, seen here, is the first person born in the current millennium to have a Number One album Billie Eilish
#8193, aired 2020-04-01GIFTS FOR ANIMAL LOVERS $1200: You'll find animal-themed slippers at this retailer founded in Maine in 1912 L.L. Bean
#8176, aired 2020-03-09CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $1200: In 1812, inspired by Haiti's Toussaint L'Ouverture & preceding Nat Turner in Virginia, Jose Antonio Aponte led a revolt by them enslaved people
#8168, aired 2020-02-26HIT & "RUN" $800: In 2009 Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West teamed up to assert that they were gonna do this tonight, maybe to L.A. "Run This Town"
#8152, aired 2020-02-04MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $800: Complete with carved Johnny, Johnny Carson Park is in this L.A. suburb, the longtime home of "The Tonight Show" Burbank
#8143, aired 2020-01-22POUND! SAND! $1200: Readers got Ezra Pound's views on art, poetry & philosophy in his "Guide to" this, oddly spelled starting "K-U-L-C-H" Culture
#6, aired 2020-01-09CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $600: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 1968 I loaned this fellow Canadian the money for a plane ticket from London to L.A. so he could audition for the movie role that would change his life; the movie was "M*A*S*H"--& I got my money back Donald Sutherland
#8127, aired 2019-12-31IT'S CHARLIE! $200: This character first appeared in a comic strip called "Li'l Folks" Charlie Brown
#8117, aired 2019-12-17CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1943 the L.A. Times said this "tale of a little boy from a very little asteroid" was "so big with meaning" The Little Prince
#8116, aired 2019-12-16AMERICAN HOMES $400: The Wrigley Mansion in this L.A.-area city is today the headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association Pasadena
#8114, aired 2019-12-12DESIGNER INITIALS $200: In 2002 he announced his retirement & the closing of his famous haute couture house: Y.S.L. Yves Saint Laurent
#8114, aired 2019-12-12"EL" OR "LA" $400: A cemetery in Paris is nicknamed for this priest, confessor to Louis XIV Père Lachaise
#8104, aired 2019-11-28CIRCUMSTANCE $1000: An alarming increase led to a count of about 60,000 people in this circumstance in L.A. County in 2019 homeless
#8101, aired 2019-11-25WORD ON THE STREET $400: In L.A.: Glendale, Sunset or Wilshire Boulevard
#8087, aired 2019-11-05PAC-12 SCHOOLS $1200: In 2017 this private school opened a new $700 million "Village" featuring South L.A.'s first Trader Joe's USC
#8083, aired 2019-10-30COLLEGE TOWNS $200: It's the L-V in UNLV Las Vegas
#8076, aired 2019-10-21GAME OF CLONES $800: This man returned to the "Star Wars" universe in animated form, voicing Mace Windu in "The Clone Wars" Samuel L. Jackson
#8074, aired 2019-10-17ENFANTS TERRIBLES $1000: Little Antoine can think about his ways, during une mise à l'écart temporaire, what we in the States know as this a time-out
#8072, aired 2019-10-15POP CULTURE $2000: In the comics this town is the rural residence of Li'l Abner Dogpatch
#8069, aired 2019-10-10THE "NIGHT" WATCH $1600: Bounty hunter Robert de Niro is escorting bail-jumping accountant Charles Grodin to L.A. in this 1988 comedy Midnight Run
#8068, aired 2019-10-09CLASSIC TELEVISION $1600: 9114 South Central Avenue in L.A. was the TV home of this title father & son's house & junkyard Sanford and Son
#8054, aired 2019-09-19NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $600: In 2018 billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought this newspaper & moved its headquarters to El Segundo, California L.A. Times
#8054, aired 2019-09-19NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: In 1906 H.L. Mencken joined the staff of this Maryland newspaper that's still around today The Baltimore Sun
#8051, aired 2019-09-16COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $1200: Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw" Eddie Murphy
#8048, aired 2019-09-11NUMERIC LIT $400: E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on "Twilight" Fifty Shades of Grey
#8048, aired 2019-09-11NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $800: Kat Von D rose to TV fame on "Miami Ink" & "L.A. Ink" in this profession a tattoo artist
#8045, aired 2019-07-26SHAPE UP! $200: This chess piece can only move in an L-shape the knight
#8041, aired 2019-07-22THE LIVING WORLD $800: California sagebrush & coyote bush are good yard plants in L.A. because they are this kind of period "tolerant" drought
#8010, aired 2019-06-07ARTY FACTS $1200: In 2014 stolen paintings worth $12 million were recovered in L.A., including "Mexican Peasant" by this muralist Rivera
#8007, aired 2019-06-04LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $400: L.A. is this "of Angels"; the Shadowhunters live in Cassandra Clare's this "of Glass" City
#7999, aired 2019-05-23LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $600: (L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti gives the clue.) The 6th Street Bridge, which we're rebuilding, was featured in many films, including "Terminator 2" & this 1950s-set film in which John Travolta had a big racing scene Grease
#7996, aired 2019-05-20THE DOUBLE L WITH YOU $600: Count 'em up! There are 3 of these in the correct response, & 24 in the entire clue syllables
#7995, aired 2019-05-17MVP! MVP! $800: In 2012 the L.A. Kings' Jonathan Quick lived up to his name playing this position to bag the Conn Smythe trophy goaltender
#7992, aired 2019-05-14NON-POLITICAL PRESIDENTS $400: In 2019 Randi Weingarten, pres. of this union, AFT for short, joined L.A. educators on the picket line the American Federation of Teachers
#7988, aired 2019-05-08I NEED A SUPERHERO $1600: Lucius Best is the secret identity of this hero voiced by Samuel L. Jackson in "The Incredibles" Frozone
#7986, aired 2019-05-06BALLOONS $1600: An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year power outages
#7983, aired 2019-05-01ONE "L" OF A DRUG $400: Pfizer makes this popular anticholesterol drug that works by reducing low-density lipoproteins in the blood Lipitor
#7983, aired 2019-05-01ONE "L" OF A DRUG $1200: This topical anesthetic applied in adhesive patches has also been marketed as Burn-O-Jel Lidocaine
#7983, aired 2019-05-01BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery-winning novel that's also a vacation home A Wrinkle in Timeshare
#7983, aired 2019-05-01ONE "L" OF A DRUG $2000: In the name of a well-known hallucinogen, it comes before "acid diethylamide" lysergic
#7959, aired 2019-03-28MOVEABLE FEASTS? $800: Kogi, the food truck that started a trend in L.A., has a quesadilla made with this, Korean fermented veggies kimchi
#7948, aired 2019-03-13THE PULITZER PRIZE $400: The L.A. Times took a 2004 prize for an in-depth look at the methods used by this retailer to become the largest in the world Walmart
#7948, aired 2019-03-13CHILDREN'S LIT $400: "A Wind in the Door" is a follow-up to this classic by Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
#7932, aired 2019-02-19IT'S FULL OF STORES $600: Two Korean immigrants with no college degrees moved to L.A. & in 1984 opened Fashion 21, later renamed this Forever 21
#7932, aired 2019-02-19McPEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Randolph (AKA Rand'l) was the head of this clan in Pike County, Kentucky the McCoys
#7926, aired 2019-02-115 DIAMONDS $200: In 1993 & 1994 Mile High Stadium was this N.L. team's home field the Rockies
#7926, aired 2019-02-115 DIAMONDS $1000: A scaled-down version of the one in Chicago, L.A.'s Wrigley Field was the first home of this American League team the Angels
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC AT 100 $400: In 1779 he came home to Salzburg & wrote his 32nd symphony; in 2003 the L.A. Phil played it to open its new home, Disney Hall Mozart
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC AT 100 $1,000 (Daily Double): Site of the 1st outdoor recording by any symphony orchestra, this amphitheater in the Hills is the Phil's summer home the Hollywood Bowl
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC AT 100 $1200: In 1970 Frank Zappa said, "Zubin, hit it!" & the Phil played Zappa's "200 Motels" at this university's Pauley Pavilion UCLA
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC AT 100 $1600: The Phil has a flute chair named for this "Moon River" composer who started out on flute in a Sons of Italy band (Henry) Mancini
#7922, aired 2019-02-05THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC AT 100 $2000: The Phil's first tour kicked off in this seat of Kern County, California, better known for country music Bakersfield
#7920, aired 2019-02-01BILLY JOEL $200: An L.A. bar gig in the '70s inspired Billy to write this song "Piano Man"
#7918, aired 2019-01-30SPELLEMENTS $800: Cl C-H-L-O-R-I-N-E
#7916, aired 2019-01-28CELEBRITIES: THEY'RE JUST LIKE US! $200: Ah, date night! In 2011 Justin Bieber rented this L.A. Lakers home arena to screen "Titanic" for Selena Gomez; that was easy! the Staples Center
#7906, aired 2019-01-14FOUND IN TRANSLATION $400: Jean-Paul Sartre's "L'Être et le Néant" Being and Nothingness
#7898, aired 2019-01-02ART $2000: It was no picnic for Manet when critics saw his "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe", known in English as this meal "on the Grass" lunch
#7894, aired 2018-12-27INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $400: In this 1974 film Hollis Mulwray is partly based on William Mulholland, a real-life L.A. water engineer Chinatown
#7888, aired 2018-12-19CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $200: In 2013 this racy E.L. James trilogy was pulled from library shelves in Florida only to return due to public demand Fifty Shades of Grey
#7885, aired 2018-12-14TEAMS ON THE MOVE $200: This NFL team ditched L.A. for St. Louis in 1995 & came sheepishly back in 2016 the Rams
#7884, aired 2018-12-13JACK 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
#7883, aired 2018-12-12WORLD CAPITALS $800: In 1749 the French laid out this Caribbean capital in a grid pattern & called it L'Hopital Port-au-Prince
#7864, aired 2018-11-15GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: Carla L. Provost, chief of this patrol, worked in the field in the Tucson & Yuma sectors border patrol
#7861, aired 2018-11-12IN THE SPANISH DICTIONARY $400: Under L: Lavaplatos is this appliance a dishwasher
#7851, aired 2018-10-29FRENCH OFF THE BOAT $800: This future city planner was only 22 when he arrived on the Amphitrite to serve as an engineer in the revolution L'Enfant
#7850, aired 2018-10-26PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $200: In 1984 he traveled to L.A. to become the first sitting president to attend the Olympic Games Reagan
#7844, aired 2018-10-18THE L YOU DON'T SAY $200: You're pulling my leg! This fleshy part in the back of my leg the calf
#7844, aired 2018-10-18ONE-LETTER RESPONSES $2000: In chess notation, this, not K, denotes a knight an N
#7839, aired 2018-10-11METEOROLOGICAL RHYME TIME $800: A daily record of the pollution in L.A. or Beijing a smog log
#7826, aired 2018-09-24WORDS FROM THE COMICS $1000: Lockheed Martin adopted the name "Skunk Works" from a similar name for a backwoods still in this comic strip Li'l Abner
#7807, aired 2018-07-17A LIGHT CATEGORY $800: L.E.D.s, light-emitting these, were invented in 1962 but it took decades for them to come into wide use diodes
#7802, aired 2018-07-10NAT GEO $400: Raised in Chicago, Nat King Cole sang this song about a road that runs from the Windy City to L.A. "Route 66"
#7799, aired 2018-07-05"L"AKES $200: It's a 720-acre lake in North Carolina, or an artificial bait you might use in it a lure (or Lake Lure)
#7799, aired 2018-07-05"L"AKES $400: Lakes all over the U.S. are named for this bird with an eerie call; E.L. Doctorow wrote a novel set at one in the Adirondacks a loon
#7799, aired 2018-07-05"L"AKES $600: A lake in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest is named this, after the flows that formed it Lava (Lake)
#7799, aired 2018-07-05"L"AKES $1000: You take the high road, & I'll take the low road, to this largest lake in Scotland Loch Lomond
#7789, aired 2018-06-21WHO HAS MY LETTER? $400: Drop & give me 50, in Roman numerals L
#7774, aired 2018-05-31FLY, YOU FOOLS! $200: It's 120 degrees in this desert & you want to drive from L.A. to Vegas in your 1969 jalopy? Take a plane! the Mojave
#7773, aired 2018-05-30MY OLD "L.P."s $400: This instructional driver's license for the young can be obtained at age 14 in Iowa a learner's permit
#7773, aired 2018-05-30MY OLD "L.P."s $1200: In regard to phonograph records designed to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, "LP" stands for this long play
#7773, aired 2018-05-30MY OLD "L.P."s $1600: This city was founded by conquistador Alonso de Mendoza in 1548--its full name means "Our Lady of Peace" La Paz
#7773, aired 2018-05-30MY OLD "L.P."s $2000: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore" is the title in the original Italian of a 1921 play by this writer Luigi Pirandello
#7772, aired 2018-05-29RETORTS $800: Asked about a run for mayor, Ed Davis, head of this department in L.A. in the 1970s, said, "And give up all my power?" the police department
#7753, aired 2018-05-02CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS $2000: This Finnish maestro composed "L.A. Variations" in 1996 when he was music director of the L.A. Philharmonic Esa-Pekka Salonen
#7736, aired 2018-04-09CORPS CURRICULUM $1600: Pierre Charles L'Enfant was in this group that oversaw construction of the Washington Monument the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
#7733, aired 2018-04-04IT'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
#7726, aired 2018-03-26GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $800: This 19,340-foot African peak is said to be the highest "walkable" mountain in the world K-I-L-I-M-A-N-J-A-R-O
#7716, aired 2018-03-12LITERARY L.A. $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles.) Living in Los Angeles when he wrote "Fahrenheit 451", this author took the title from the temperature at which paper burns (Ray) Bradbury
#7716, aired 2018-03-12LITERARY L.A. $1200: In this author's "The Long Goodbye", Philip Marlowe is living on Yucca Ave. & drinking at Victor's Raymond Chandler
#7711, aired 2018-03-05A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $600: In 1989 Bo Jackson hit 32 homers for the Kansas City Royals & ran for 950 yards for this then-L.A. team the Raiders
#7711, aired 2018-03-05DITLOIDS $1000: The classic ditloid, a Solzhenitsyn novel: 1 D I T L O I D One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
#7705, aired 2018-02-23MUSEUMS $2000: Built in 1852 as a winter shelter for citrus trees, it's now a Paris museum that houses Monet's "Water Lilies" the l'Orangerie
#7704, aired 2018-02-22PLACES TO "C" $600: This L.A. suburb settled in 1867 came straight outta an 18th century Spanish land grant Compton
#7702, aired 2018-02-20A WRINKLE IN TIME $400: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) "Love may be stronger than all fears" is how the book is summed up by the American Library Association, which awarded this author the prestigious Newbery Medal Madeleine L'Engle
#7693, aired 2018-02-07THE WASHINGTON POST $400: Donald L. Neiffer is the chief one of these doctors at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. veterinarian
#7684, aired 2018-01-25THE PRODUCERS $1200: In 2017 Shawn Ryan, creator of the L.A. cop show "The Shield", produced this CBS reboot with Shemar Moore S.W.A.T.
#7679, aired 2018-01-18____ & ____ $1600: If you're in L.A. & can't decide between breakfast & lunch, have both at Roscoe's famous "House of" these 2 foods chicken & waffles
#7668, aired 2018-01-03WAIT WATCHERS $400: U.K. fans braved frigid climes in 2015, hoping this E.L. James film adaptation would raise their temperature Fifty Shades of Grey
#7668, aired 2018-01-03WAIT WATCHERS $800: Fans queued in L.A. in 2008 not to see a movie but rather to catch a glimpse of stars R-Patz & K-Stew from this soon-to-be hit Twilight
#7662, aired 2017-12-26FRANCE IN YOUR PANTS $1200: Makeup, skin & hair care products from this L'company with its HQ in Clichy? That's a lot to carry around! L'Oreal
#7648, aired 2017-12-06"L" ON THE MAP $800: Muhammad Ali & Hunter S. Thompson were born in this city Louisville
#7648, aired 2017-12-06"L" ON THE MAP $1200: Henry Clay & Citation are buried in this city Lexington
#7639, aired 2017-11-23FOR A SONG $800: In 2016 Jimmy Page & Robert Plant testified in an L.A. court that they did not plagiarize when they wrote this classic song "Stairway To Heaven"
#7638, aired 2017-11-22UNTOLD TV STORIES $600: Jay Jackson, who played Perd Hapley on this sitcom, is actually a real reporter, though in L.A., not Indiana Parks and Recreation
#7630, aired 2017-11-10FRENCH DIP $200: Francois went swimming in the Seine, even though I told him, "L'eau est froide", meaning this the water is cold
#7616, aired 2017-10-23AN "L" OF A TEAM $400: They "bolt"ed into the NHL in 1992 the (Tampa Bay) Lightning
#7616, aired 2017-10-23AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers
#7614, aired 2017-10-19WASHINGTON, D.C. $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the National Mall in Washington, D.C.) Because the ground is firmer, the Washington Monument was placed here, instead of at a spot in the center of the original D.C., as planned by this designer of the city (Pierre) L'Enfant
#7614, aired 2017-10-19EUROPEAN MOUNTAINS $1,200 (Daily Double): The principal chains of the northern part of this mountain range are the Ligurian, Tuscan & Umbrian Apennines
#7606, aired 2017-10-09NAUGHTY BY NATURE $1200: urbancarnivores.com says in the L.A. area, these canines mostly eat fruits & small wild mammals, hardly any pets coyotes
#7604, aired 2017-10-05DESIGNER INITIALS $400: Today his iconic polo shirt comes in 85 colors & patterns: R.L. Ralph Lauren
#7603, aired 2017-10-04WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES $600: Located in Barnsdall Park & open to the public, Hollyhock House was the first home in L.A. designed by this architect Frank Lloyd Wright
#7603, aired 2017-10-04WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES $1000: One of the largest city parks in the U.S., it's home to the L.A. Zoo & a famous observatory Griffith Park
#7601, aired 2017-10-02WHAT THE "L"? $400: In a BLT sandwich lettuce
#7601, aired 2017-10-02WHAT THE "L"? $800: In the text abbreviation ROFL laughing
#7601, aired 2017-10-02WHAT THE "L"? $1200: In the ACLU, a group that loves the U.S. Constitution liberties
#7601, aired 2017-10-02WHAT THE "L"? $1600: In the ALA, whose ALSC gives the Caldecott Medal library
#7601, aired 2017-10-02WHAT THE "L"? $2000: In the legal abbreviation LLC--both Ls, please limited liability
#7600, aired 2017-09-29WHERE ARE YOU WEARING? $400: This state precedes "hunting shoe" in the name of the first product introduced by L.L. Bean Maine
#7600, aired 2017-09-29NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y
#7600, aired 2017-09-29NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: In 1994 it was this 12-letter word meaning before the Biblical flood A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N
#7600, aired 2017-09-29AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1985 this state elected Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder as its first African-American statewide officeholder Virginia
#7595, aired 2017-09-22THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $1600: In the 1985 hit "Smooth Operator", this one-named singer crooned, "Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago"... huh?! Sade
#7586, aired 2017-09-11NICKNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): A gaudy, glittering metallic substance is in this nickname for the L.A. movie industry Tinseltown
#7579, aired 2017-07-20GETTING GEOGRAPHICA"L" $200: This British port on the River Mersey was founded in 1207 when King John granted a charter Liverpool
#7560, aired 2017-06-23NOW YOU'VE STEPPED IN IT $600: The bubbling pools of sticky asphalt at this L.A. spot have yielded millions of specimens since the Pleistocene the La Brea Tar Pits
#7559, aired 2017-06-22A CHEESY CATEGORY $200: At Canter's Deli in L.A., it's the traditional cheese for a Reuben sandwich Swiss
#7556, aired 2017-06-19WHO THEY SERVED $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1972 Nixon named L. Patrick Gray to replace a very big name as the head of this agency the FBI
#7543, aired 2017-05-31MOVIEMAKING $600: It was gloomy in L.A. that day, the day I asked 3 strangers about this 1940s film style, French for "black film" film noir
#7541, aired 2017-05-29ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) In 1911, President Taft spoke at the dedication of Captain of Engineers Pierre Charles L'Enfant's new grave; he's one of only 15 soldiers from this war at the cemetery the Revolutionary War
#7538, aired 2017-05-24COME TOGETHER $800: Based on a character in the "Li'l Abner" comic strip, a Sadie Hawkins dance has this main feature the women ask the men
#7538, aired 2017-05-2420th CENTURY NOVELS $2000: This novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera was first published in French, as "L'Insoutenable Légèreté de L'Être" The Unbearable Lightness of Being
#7535, aired 2017-05-19LET'S GO DODGERS! $200: Though he never played in L.A., this barrier-breaking Dodger grew up in Southern Calif. & attended UCLA in the 1940s Jackie Robinson
#7535, aired 2017-05-19LET'S GO DODGERS! $400: In 1958 the Dodgers came to L.A. from this Brooklyn ballpark that had been their home for 4 decades Ebbets Field
#7527, aired 2017-05-09EDUCATIONAL FILMS $1000: Before he took on Cylons, he took on teaching math in East L.A. as Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" Edward James Olmos
#7511, aired 2017-04-17BODY PART TITLES $400: "How I Got My Shrunken Head" & "The Headless Ghost" are 2 of the scary titles in this R.L. Stine series Goosebumps
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $200: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop cotton
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $600: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831 Nat Turner
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among the museum's largest artifacts is a railroad car whose colored section had no luggage racks & smaller bathrooms--just a reminder of these laws of segregation that persisted until the 1960s Jim Crow laws
#7476, aired 2017-02-27THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial Marian Anderson
#7475, aired 2017-02-24SNAP CHAT $1200: On a football team the person in this position, abbreviated L.S., does a lot of hiking a long snapper
#7471, aired 2017-02-20ALL IN A DAY'S WORK $200: First thing, this daily trip to the ol' salt mine, averaging about 30 minutes each way in the L.A. area a commute
#7470, aired 2017-02-17SERIOUS HARDWARE $600: The "L" you don't say in this iron you use to join metal objects together solder
#7464, aired 2017-02-09LOVE $800: L'amour is the raison d'etre of this character who does "zee woo-ing" in cartoons like "For Scent-imental Reasons" Pepé le Pew
#7452, aired 2017-01-24PLAY SETTINGS $400: From 1947: "A street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields & runs between the L & N tracks & the river" Streetcar Named Desire
#7451, aired 2017-01-23FROM CHUMPS TO CHAMPS $600: After a last-place finish in 2007, they dropped the "Devil" from their name; in 2008, they won 31 more games & the A.L. pennant the Tampa Bay Rays
#7448, aired 2017-01-18AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: In 1984 a Presidential Medal of Freedom went to this author of "Hondo" & dozens of other Western novels Louis L'Amour
#7447, aired 2017-01-17ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $400: Word after "open" in an Ali Baba command + term for a wide street like L.A.'s world-famous Sunset sesame boulevard
#7443, aired 2017-01-11"L"THY FOOD $400: This super-stinky cheese originated in Belgium but now mostly comes from Germany Limburger
#7434, aired 2016-12-29"L"ITERATURE $400: In the 1855 preface to this collection of poems, Whitman said, "A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but ...a beginning" Leaves of Grass
#7434, aired 2016-12-29"L"ITERATURE $2000: Ever the optimist, Hobbes wrote in this work: "The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" Leviathan
#7432, aired 2016-12-27PHYSICS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Geneva, Switzerland.) The "L" in LHC means large-- 17 miles in circumference; "H" is for hadrons, the particles being accelerated, and "C" refers to this, what happens when the particles moving in different directions meet collide
#7431, aired 2016-12-26GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $400: This beloved L.A. personality did the honors in 2014 Vin Scully
#7429, aired 2016-12-22DOUBLE L $400: "Animal Farm" is an example of this literary device in which abstract ideas appear as characters in a story an allegory
#7429, aired 2016-12-22DOUBLE L $800: In fashion, types of these include Mandarin, Chelsea & ruff collars
#7424, aired 2016-12-15TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $400: This "Big Poppa" rapper was killed on March 9, 1997 as he left a music industry party in Los Angeles Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.)
#7424, aired 2016-12-15TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $800: This L.A. lawyer gained notoriety at a murder trial for saying, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" Johnnie Cochran
#7424, aired 2016-12-15TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $1200: Western movie stars Tom Mix & William S. Hart were at the funeral of this lawman who died in L.A. age 80 in 1929 Wyatt Earp
#7424, aired 2016-12-15TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $1600: Elizabeth Short, known by this flowery name, was the victim in an L.A. murder case officially unsolved after 69 years the Black Dahlia
#7424, aired 2016-12-15TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $2000: L.A. Times reporter Ruben Salazar was killed during a 1970 protest by this community, a term for Mexican Americans Chicano
#7422, aired 2016-12-13NO STAN LEE CAMEO $1600: Jake Gyllenhaal was not a teleporting X-Man in this 2014 movie, but rather a psychotic L.A. newsman Nightcrawler
#7422, aired 2016-12-13NO STAN LEE CAMEO $2000: No room for Stan in the tank with Brad Pitt & Shia LaBeouf in this 2014 movie that wasn't about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s boss Fury
#7414, aired 2016-12-01CRIMINAL CHOICES $600: An L.A. carjacker should not have targeted a minivan of club members in this 4-letter martial art judo
#7412, aired 2016-11-29TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $600: In L.A. you can study the Meisner technique at the Elizabeth Mestnik Studio of this acting
#7405, aired 2016-11-18BUSINESS $1000: This casual clothing company debuted its "initial" catalog in 1983 J.Crew
#7396, aired 2016-11-07THAT'S OXYMORONIC $600: L'Oreal makes a lip gloss in this dull finish also used for photos matte
#7387, aired 2016-10-25NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in North Carolina.) In 1902, the Wright Brothers made over 1,000 glider flights from the slopes of this 90-foot hill that was then a massive sand dune Kill Devil Hill
#7383, aired 2016-10-19TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $1200: In "Django Unchained", this Tarantino veteran plays a house slave almost as evil as his master Samuel L. Jackson
#7382, aired 2016-10-18L.A. TELEVISION $1000: 5 decades apart, we spent time on this title road, at "77" & in "Studio 60" the Sunset Strip
#7382, aired 2016-10-18WHERE SELDOM IS HEARD $2000: "Sure, I'll have a 6th helping of" this 4-letter veggie with loose, curly leaves (actually, that may be heard in L.A. quite often) kale
#7376, aired 2016-10-10"L"8 WORDS $800: In the original Iroquois version of this sport, goals were miles apart, & games had hundreds of players lacrosse
#7376, aired 2016-10-10"L"8 WORDS $1600: To suffer hardship; many are said to do it in prison languish
#7374, aired 2016-10-06BRITISH SPELLING TEST $1000: Jail (more in bygone times than today) G-A-O-L
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum was built as a monument to the men and women who served in the war; in 1926, in front of a crowd of 150,000, this president broke his notorious silence to dedicate the memorial Calvin Coolidge
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature (Ernest) Hemingway
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING 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
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The museum's Horizon Theater features a vivid recreation of the dangerous battle-scarred landscape between opposing lines known by this 3-word name no man's land
#7365, aired 2016-09-23REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The tunic & cap belonged to this Prussian aristocrat who led Germany's wartime military dictatorship, gave his name to an ill-fated aircraft & appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's chancellor (Paul von) Hindenburg
#7363, aired 2016-09-21RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $1200: Jean Stein has a touch of John Steinbeck in the title of a history of 5 big families in L.A. called "West of" this Eden
#7361, aired 2016-09-19MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $400: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) The Hollywood Sign was originally the Hollywoodland Sign, a $21,000 billboard in 1923, for this 2-word type of development owned by the publisher of the L.A. Times real estate
#7361, aired 2016-09-19MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $600: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Using the term "California romanza" to mean "freedom to make one's own form", this 3-named architect's first L.A. project, Hollyhock House, was completed in 1921 Frank Lloyd Wright
#7358, aired 2016-09-14EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a model car at the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Before leaving the Daytona 500, stop by the gift shop & buy a scale model of Austin Dillon's No. 3 car, an SS model of this make a Chevy
#7353, aired 2016-07-27COMEDY TONIGHT $400: How do you stop police from tailing you in L.A.? Get Damon Wayans to give you bananas, like Eddie Murphy did in this '84 film Beverly Hills Cop
#7351, aired 2016-07-25THE MAGIC OF LAIKA ANIMATION $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) It's the "L.A." in "L.A.V.s", videos recorded by Laika animators walking through the scenes themselves beforehand, for a reference when animating later live action
#7338, aired 2016-07-06"L" ON WHEELS $400: Jerry Seinfeld said these 3 letters on a Ford stood for "limited", as in "how many of these damn things we can sell" LTD
#7338, aired 2016-07-06"L" ON WHEELS $800: It's no myth that Acura introduced this luxury sedan in 1986 Legend
#7338, aired 2016-07-06"L" ON WHEELS $1200: You'll look presidential in the Navigator SUV from this brand Lincoln
#7338, aired 2016-07-06"L" ON WHEELS $1600: This founder of a sports car with a raging bull emblem was born a Taurus in Italy in 1916 Lamborghini
#7337, aired 2016-07-05POTPOURRI, FROM US TO YOU $800: It's the second L in the acronym LOL, meaning "how funny" loud
#7336, aired 2016-07-04NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) The tires used in NASCAR have another tire within them for safety reasons, & are filled with this gas, symbol N, because it contains less moisture than air, & the tire pressure doesn't change as much in a race nitrogen
#7336, aired 2016-07-04NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) The window net used to prevent injuries by keeping a driver's arms inside the car during a crash became mandatory after this NASCAR legend, known as "King Richard", almost died in a 1970 wreck at Darlington Richard Petty
#7336, aired 2016-07-04NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Engines with carburetors ruled NASCAR for decades, but since 2012, all cars have been equipped with EFI, electronic this, because it's more efficient & produces a better air-gas mixture fuel injection
#7336, aired 2016-07-04NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Banking is the degree of incline of a racetrack's surface, which allows the cars to go faster in the turns with minimal lateral slippage; while Daytona has a 31% bank, Will Ferrell could tell you that this Alabama speedway is even steeper, at 33% Talladega
#7336, aired 2016-07-04NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Also known as the blade, this strip of metal on the rear deck lid is designed to create down force on the rear of the car to increase traction, but it has to be angled just right so it doesn't hinder speed on the straightaways a spoiler
#7334, aired 2016-06-30THE RED AUERBACH TROPHY $400: 1989-90: Pat Riley of this "Showtime" squad the L.A. Lakers
#7328, aired 2016-06-22ART TERMS $1000: This type of illusionism means "deceive the eye" in French a trompe l'oeil
#7327, aired 2016-06-21FAMOUS 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
#7301, aired 2016-05-16BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES $200: In 1934 this A.L. park got a new left field wall; in 1947 that wall was painted green to match the rest of the park Fenway
#7292, aired 2016-05-03WRITERS ON FILM $1600: Emma Thompson in "Saving Mr. Banks": This kids' author P.L. Travers
#7282, aired 2016-04-19A MIDNIGHT MOVIE $1600: Bounty hunter Robert De Niro has to get "The Duke" to L.A. in this 1988 film Midnight Run
#7275, aired 2016-04-08"GET" GOING $1600: The L.A. art center named for this tycoon opened in 1997 (Paul) Getty
#7266, aired 2016-03-28TARZAN REVIEW BOOKS $800: 1st E.L. James book in series. That one messed-up couple! Tarzan eyes wide as Tarzan read but Tarzan adult! Can handle! Fifty Shades of Grey
#7261, aired 2016-03-21NEWSPAPERS $2,000 (Daily Double): L'Osservatore Romano was founded in Rome, but moved here in 1929 during Mussolini's era Vatican City
#7260, aired 2016-03-18BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $400: "Beware, the Snowman" & "Night of the Living Dummy" are 2 titles in this R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps
#7258, aired 2016-03-16THE WRIGHT BROTHERS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) Frustrated with the data then available concerning wing & propeller designs, the Wrights built their own wind tunnel & tested dozens of models to see what shapes produced the most lift & the least of this force--the resistance to forward motion drag
#7258, aired 2016-03-16THE WRIGHT BROTHERS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) To provide more thrust, the Wrights used two propellers driven by a bicycle chain & sprocket; the laminated spruce propellers were carved by hand & mounted so they'd rotate in opposite directions, canceling out this twisting force torque
#7258, aired 2016-03-16THE WRIGHT BROTHERS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) A device called an elevator was placed on the front of the Wrights' plane for more efficiency & to protect the pilot in case of a crash; operated by a lever, it adjusted this upward and downward motion of the plane's nose pitch
#7253, aired 2016-03-09LIKE A BOSS $1000: In 2015 this ex-Microsoft man & L.A. Clippers owner was the richest sports team owner in the U.S., with $21.6 billion Steve Ballmer
#7248, aired 2016-03-02EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) At the Valley Forge Encampment Store, treat yourself to a pencil sharpener version of this man's headquarters George Washington
#7244, aired 2016-02-25"LAST" FILMS $1600: L.A. does have a football team & it's called the stallions in this Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans caper The Last Boy Scout
#7239, aired 2016-02-18WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: In "Goosebumps" author R.L. Stine Jack Black
#7236, aired 2016-02-15GOOD CAUSES $200: In 2015 about 6,500 athletes with intellectual disabilities, from 165 countries, came together in L.A. for this event the Special Olympics
#7201, aired 2015-12-28TEAMS ON THE MOVE $200: NFL: In 1995 the L.A. Rams became the first team to leave the west coast, relocating to this city St. Louis
#7193, aired 2015-12-16RECENT CINEMA $800: This film opens with its 2 heroes, Napoleon Solo & Illya Kuryakin, on opposite sides in the Cold War The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
#7181, aired 2015-11-30KIDNAPPING $600: In 1973 this oilman & founder of an L.A. art museum paid $2.2 million to get back a grandson--the most he could take off hs taxes (Jean Paul) Getty
#7180, aired 2015-11-27FEMALE NOVELISTS $400: In a 2015 bestseller, she retold "Fifty Shades of Grey" from Christian's viewpoint E.L. James
#7175, aired 2015-11-20MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $400: This actor, in a 2006 film: "I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane" Samuel L. Jackson
#7164, aired 2015-11-05"L" OF A CATEGORY $2000: It's a melodic phrase associated with one character in an opera a leitmotif
#7139, aired 2015-10-01OF HAPPINESS $1000: In 1997 this French-named cosmetics company introduced Happy, a fragrance for women Clinique
#7133, aired 2015-09-23CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS $2000: Though his original strip ended in 1975, this character lives on as Georgia's state 'possum Pogo
#7132, aired 2015-09-22A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $400: (Hi, I'm fashion designer Cynthia Rowley.) I got my start in retail when a woman on the "L" train admired my jacket; it turned out she was a buyer for this historic Chicago department store, which bought my first collection Marshall Field's
#7128, aired 2015-09-16QUICK LIT $800: Madeleine L'Engle won a 1963 Newbery for this fantasy story A Wrinkle in Time
#7119, aired 2015-07-23POTENT POTABLES $200: The Big Bukowski is an offering at the L.A. literary pub called "Catcher in" this, a kind of whiskey rye
#7115, aired 2015-07-17"L"AKES $400: On a clear night in Arizona's white mountains, look for the Moon's reflection in this lake, Spanish for "moon" Luna
#7115, aired 2015-07-17"L"AKES $1200: Sadly, the beautiful Chapel Bridge over this Swiss lake was badly damaged in a 1993 fire Lake Lucerne
#7112, aired 2015-07-141920s FICTION BESTSELLERS $2000: He continued his Old West tales with "The Man of the Forest" in 1920 & "The Mysterious Rider" in 1921 Zane Grey
#7108, aired 2015-07-08FIGHT OR FLIGHT $2000: It's the last name of the Galveston man who took off for L.A. but went the wrong way & landed in Dublin on July 17, 1938 Corrigan
#7094, aired 2015-06-18TO LIFE! $400: Promoting reading, the "L" in L.I.F.E. stands for this "Is for Everyone" Literacy
#7094, aired 2015-06-18TO LIFE! $800: These 3 letters from "life" front "-de-France" in a French region I-L-E
#7089, aired 2015-06-11CREDIT CARD WHERE CREDIT CARD IS DUE $600: Samuel L. Jackson is incredibly curious to know "What's in your wallet?" in ads for this company Capital One
#7088, aired 2015-06-10NUMERICAL TV $2000: It was Reed & Malloy on patrol in L.A. on this classic cop show Adam-12
#7082, aired 2015-06-02"L"EMENTARY $1200: From the Latin for "to pour out as an offering", it's a liquid used in a religious ritual a libation
#7067, aired 2015-05-12CITIES IN SONG $400: Randy Newman: "Looks like another perfect day, I love" this city L.A.
#7061, aired 2015-05-04THE "L" WITH IT $800: In the end, a good shoemaker sticks to this wooden model of a foot a last
#7059, aired 2015-04-30LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS IN SHORT $800: Marvin Hamlisch composed the music for it: "A.C.L." A Chorus Line
#7059, aired 2015-04-30LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS IN SHORT $1000: It's a gay old time: "L.C.A.F." La Cage aux Folles
#7052, aired 2015-04-21THE BIGGEST LOSER $800: In a Wimbledon singles final: Miss P.D.H. Boothby, in 1911 to Mrs. R.L. Chambers by this worst possible score 6-love, 6-love
#7052, aired 2015-04-21"IN"QUISITION $1600: L.A.'s beloved four-level one, where the 101 meets the 110, opened in 1953 an interchange
#7049, aired 2015-04-162014 ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $800: "Felicia", a 1965 documentary about a high school student living in this L.A. neighborhood before the riots Watts
#7047, aired 2015-04-14GENERAL SCIENCE $400: George Beadle & E.L. Tatum's studies of the Neurospora crassa mold on this food helped launch molecular genetics in 1941 bread
#7044, aired 2015-04-09"L"ITERATURE $400: The first & longest poem in this collection was given the title "Song of Myself" Leaves of Grass
#7044, aired 2015-04-09"L"ITERATURE $1000: Joe Christmas has an affair with Joanna Burden, kills her & sets her house on fire in this novel by Faulkner Light in August
#7033, aired 2015-03-25DON'T L ME $200: It's a possible response in a T or F quiz true
#7033, aired 2015-03-25DON'T L ME $400: This party has more than 50 seats in the U.K.'s House of Commons the Tories
#7033, aired 2015-03-25DON'T L ME $1000: A basic 4-letter category of food mentioned in 1 Corinthians 3:2 meat
#7031, aired 2015-03-23YOU CAN'T SPELL GEOGRAPHY WITHOUT "M" $400: This celeb-filled community in L.A. County lies on 21 miles of gorgeous but unstable coast Malibu
#7026, aired 2015-03-16THE LONDON STAGE $1200: In 2013 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Robert Vaughn played Juror No. 9 in a new version of this courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men
#7021, aired 2015-03-09THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) National security along with national wealth would be enhanced with safe boundless process that powers the Sun; one approach involves a powerful laser working like a spark plug fusion
#7021, aired 2015-03-09THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) A new military uniform material under development protects personnel from chemical and biological weapons using CNTs or these nanotubes which close up like tiny pores during an attack carbon
#7021, aired 2015-03-09THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) Keeping satellites safe is the goal of the STARE project, which can predict the orbit of thousands of pieces of space junk to within 100 meters using tiny satellites positioned in "L.E.O.", short for this low Earth orbit
#7021, aired 2015-03-09THE SCIENCE OF SECURITY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory in Livermore, CA.) The lab's high performance computing with the capacity of 20 quadrillion operations per second is not just helping to build weapons systems, but to model this, which Sec. of State Kerry in 2014 called directly related to the potential of greater conflict climate change
#7017, aired 2015-03-03SNAKES $1000: Everyone loves to vacation in F-L-A, including the nearly 19-foot Burmese this found in Miami-Dade in 2013 a python
#7013, aired 2015-02-25THE LIBERTY BELL $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Independence Nat'l Historical Park in Philadelphia, PA.) As it was being hung in 1753, the clapper struck a side, cracking the bell; two workmen named Pass & Stow later added this reddish metal as it was being recast, & their names are now prominently displayed copper
#7010, aired 2015-02-20LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $400: A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A. Vancouver
#7010, aired 2015-02-20LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $800: Nagoya, which in 1959 became L.A.'s first sister city, has some of the oldest shrines for this Japanese religion Shinto
#7010, aired 2015-02-20LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $1600: L.A. has 2 sister cities in Africa: Lusaka, Zambia & this pyramid city on the Nile Giza
#6990, aired 2015-01-23FINNISH HIM! $2000: A critic said this conductor made the L.A. Phil "the most intellectually lively orchestra in America" Esa-Pekka Salonen
#6990, aired 2015-01-23THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Soon after leaving Valley Forge, our troops proved themselves in this New Jersey battle, the last major northern battle of the war the Battle of Monmouth
#6978, aired 2015-01-07THE $1 BILL $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) The letter inside the circle indicates which one of the 12 Federal Reserve banks issued the dollar, from "A" for Boston all the way to "L" for the bank in this West Coast city San Francisco
#6972, aired 2014-12-30TELEVISION FOR SHORT $800: The "H" in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stands for this, also in the name of a Cabinet department Homeland
#6964, aired 2014-12-18COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES $2000: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump & L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site Canada
#6960, aired 2014-12-12"L"ITERATURE $200: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl in this tearjerker about Oliver & Jenny Love Story
#6960, aired 2014-12-12"L"ITERATURE $800: The second in Ian Fleming's series, it features James Bond battling Soviet spies & voodoo Live and Let Die
#6960, aired 2014-12-12"L"ITERATURE $1000: Pancho Villa's revolutionary deeds influence the lives of the characters in this Laura Esquivel bestseller Like Water for Chocolate
#6952, aired 2014-12-02SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $200: This gaming console that comes in PS4 & PS Vita models P-L-A-Y-S-T-A-T-I-O-N
#6952, aired 2014-12-02SPORTS STARS $200: LeBron James led this team to back to back NBA titles in 2012 & 2013 the Miami Heat
#6952, aired 2014-12-02AT THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Nat'l Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The museum has one of the original stuffed animals named for this president & avid hunter, after a story spread about him letting a bear go; although, in reality, all he did was refuse to shoot the bear when it was wounded Theodore Roosevelt
#6952, aired 2014-12-02SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $600: This title monster who squares off with the MUTOs in a 2014 film G-O-D-Z-I-L-L-A
#6947, aired 2014-11-25CHICK LIT $400: In an L. Frank Baum novel, Billina the hen is blown overboard from a steamship along with this girl Dorothy
#6946, aired 2014-11-24LINCOLN $600: An urban legend says Abe's hands in the Lincoln Memorial are spelling these two letters in sign language A & L
#6930, aired 2014-10-31WORDS ABOUT WORDS $400: The "L-E-T" in piglet is this kind of suffix added to mean small or young diminutive
#6925, aired 2014-10-24GEOGRAPHUN $1200: The Damrei Mountains, Chaine de l'Elephant in French, extend north in this country from the Gulf of Thailand Cambodia
#6918, aired 2014-10-15WHICH SANDWICH? $1000: Philippe's in L.A. claims to have invented this dunky sandwich the French dip
#6883, aired 2014-07-16HEADLINE NEWS $400: In January 1949 it was front-page news in the L.A. Times that this "Falls for Third Night, Tangling... Traffic" Snow
#6880, aired 2014-07-11"L" ON EARTH $800: These two countries were incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 Latvia & Lithuania
#6880, aired 2014-07-11"L" ON EARTH $1200: We are here! in this Louisiana city that's home to the Ragin' Cajuns Lafayette
#6880, aired 2014-07-11"L" ON EARTH $2000: On the loose north of Toulouse? Choose some china at Le Pavillon de la Porcelaine in this French town Limoges
#6880, aired 2014-07-11"L" ON EARTH $4,000 (Daily Double): Grand Duke Henri reigns in this European nation whose name means "little fortress" Luxembourg
#6873, aired 2014-07-02MOB MOVIES $1200: "Get Shorty", about mobsters in L.A., was based on a novel by this crime fiction legend who died in 2013 Elmore Leonard
#6873, aired 2014-07-02FINAL RESTING PLACES $1600: Begun in 1906, this L.A.-area cemetery is the final resting place of Elizabeth Taylor & Jimmy Stewart Forest Lawn
#6871, aired 2014-06-30TV HOSTS $800: For the 11th season of her talk show, the double "L" in her first name was changed to the number 11 Ellen DeGeneres
#6854, aired 2014-06-05SHEEP-POURRI $200: In Australia a sheep farm is called one of these, the second "S" in the l.S.S. station
#6852, aired 2014-06-03HOSPITALS $1600: A mural in the Harvey Morse auditorium of this L.A. medical center honors Jewish contributions to medicine Cedars-Sinai
#6848, aired 2014-05-28LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) At the heart of the Neutron Science Center is a powerful linear accelerator that accelerates protons to 84% of this, the "c" in E = mc2 the speed of light
#6848, aired 2014-05-28LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) When Trident is active, its three beams produce in 500 quadrillionths of a second the equivalent of 200 times the electrical output capacity of the U.S.; it's a type of this beam device first suggested by Einstein a laser
#6848, aired 2014-05-28LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) A Los Alamos operation center monitors instruments that help this craft that landed on Mars in 2012 analyze rocks & soil Curiosity
#6848, aired 2014-05-28LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) The National High Magnetic Field Lab owns a world record; its magnet reached the goal of 100 of these magnetic units, named for a European-American scientist teslas
#6848, aired 2014-05-28LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $2,300 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) The lab's 3-D visualization theater uses 33 digital projectors to study complex physical systems; for example, the asteroid impact that created the Chicxulub Crater on this peninsula, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs the Yucatán Peninsula
#6847, aired 2014-05-27LUCKY 13 $600: No. 13 in R.L. Stine's "Classic" this kids' book series is "Welcome to Dead House" Goosebumps
#6837, aired 2014-05-13RECENT NOVELS $1000: Detective Harry Bosch looks back 20 years at a killing during the 1992 L.A. riots in "The Black Box" by this novelist Michael Connelly
#6835, aired 2014-05-09THAT '70s SHOW $1000: Squad 51 kept on saving L.A. in this show with Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe & Julie London Emergency!
#6824, aired 2014-04-24DOES HOLD WATER $600: Painter David Hockney often depicted these in L.A., as in "Peter Getting Out of Nick's" swimming pool
#6823, aired 2014-04-23"B" IN THE TOP 40 $800: In 1987 this band of L.A. women hit No. 2 with "Hazy Shade Of Winter" the Bangles
#6821, aired 2014-04-21THE SALE MAKER $600: In 1912 he was the Maine (& only) man in his new clothing business; today, the company has annual sales of $1.5 billion L.L. Bean
#6814, aired 2014-04-10INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia, she wrote 1934's "Mary Poppins" & several sequels P.L. Travers
#6808, aired 2014-04-02"SELF-E"s $800: Adjective for an autodidact self-educated
#6807, aired 2014-04-01MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $800: Ava Gardner was rarely lovelier than in Joseph L. Mankiewicz' "The Barefoot" this lady Contessa
#6807, aired 2014-04-01MANKIEWICZES AT THE MOVIES $1600: Joseph L. Mankiewicz' last film was this 1972 Olivier-Caine battle of wits, remade in 2007 with Caine & Jude Law battling Sleuth
#6799, aired 2014-03-20LABOR UNIONS $800: When the N.A.L.C., the National Association of these, went on strike in NYC in 1970, soldiers delivered the mail letter carriers
#6794, aired 2014-03-13ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $1200: About 100 years ago, a circus elephant named John L. Sullivan participated in this sport in an act with his trainer boxing
#6785, aired 2014-02-28THE COOKIE AISLE $400: This brand's E.L. Fudge cookies come in an elfin shape Keebler
#6784, aired 2014-02-27NAMING RIGHTS $400: For $5 million in 2013 an L.A. movie house became TCL Chinese Theatre, but we bet many will still call it this, after its founder Grauman's
#6778, aired 2014-02-19RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $400: A Florida county pulled this 2011 E.L. James book from libraries, but it came back "in response to public demand" Fifty Shades of Grey
#6776, aired 2014-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State Rhode Island
#6772, aired 2014-02-11RECENT TV $200: Despite the inconvenience of being killed in a movie, Phil Coulson made it to the small screen as an "Agent of" this S.H.I.E.L.D.
#6765, aired 2014-01-31SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $600: In the Cambridge Shakespeare text, title word between "Love's" & "Lost" (don't forget the apostrophe) L-A-B-O-U-R-'-S
#6751, aired 2014-01-13VALLEY FORGE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the problems at Valley Forge was the inaction of this body, then meeting not far away at York, which failed to provide even shirts & blankets despite Washington's desperate letters the Continental Congress
#6751, aired 2014-01-13VALLEY FORGE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) At Valley Forge, both Washington & his men were indebted to this French marquis who used his own money to clothe soldiers & help defeat a plot to remove Washington from command Lafayette
#6751, aired 2014-01-13VALLEY FORGE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) After British victories at Brandywine & Germantown, the British went on to a comfy winter in Philadelphia; Washington retreated with 10,000 troops to camp at Valley Forge along this river that could be used as a defensive boundary the Schuylkill
#6751, aired 2014-01-13VALLEY FORGE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) One of the great feats in military history was the training at Valley Forge, turning a ragtag army into a professional fighting force; the architect of the training was this Prussian who didn't even speak English von Steuben
#6746, aired 2014-01-06IT'S A RAP $2000: Public Enemy: "You go ooh and ahh when I jump in my car/ People treat me like" this hall of fame L.A. Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#6744, aired 2014-01-02WORLD OF FACTS $1000: The Gran Sasso D'l'talia ("Great Rock of Italy") contains the highest point in this mountain range the Apennines
#6743, aired 2014-01-01ROMAN ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1000: A sacrarium was one of these in a home or temple, smaller than the L.A. awards show venue dating from 1926 a shrine
#6743, aired 2014-01-01BOTANY $3,400 (Daily Double): In the scientific name of the common onion, Allium cepa L., the "L" stands for this botanist Carolus Linnaeus
#6739, aired 2013-12-26BOXING DAY $1200: The first heavyweight match in the U.S. fought under these rules was in 1892 when Jim Corbett beat John L. Sullivan Queensberry Rules
#6734, aired 2013-12-19LITERARY LANDMARKS $1600: Louis L'Amour wrote many of his western novels in room 222 of the Strater hotel in Durango in this state Colorado
#6724, aired 2013-12-05I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $1200: He was a lawyer for hooligans in the 1991 episode "The Violence of Summer"; he later saw violence as Mace Windu, Jedi Samuel L. Jackson
#6724, aired 2013-12-05I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $2000: On "L&O" Ty Burrell played a guy named Paul in 2000 & a guy named Herman in 2003; now he plays this doofy dad on "Modern Family" Phil
#6718, aired 2013-11-27FAR SOUTHERN NOVELS $400: 32 years after "A Wrinkle in Time", she wrote of the South Pole in "Troubling a Star" Madeleine L'Engle
#6716, aired 2013-11-25I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE $400: It's the letter seen here in American Sign Language L
#6712, aired 2013-11-19TEXTING IN CLASS $2000: Per treasury sec, L/T prosperity "depends on an expanding, vibrant" this class the middle class
#6708, aired 2013-11-13T.P., YOUR HOUSE $400: Tom Petty, you had a house in Encino in this part of L.A. that's the setting of "Free Falling" the San Fernando Valley
#6689, aired 2013-10-17LANGUAGES IN THE USA $200: In 1993 KLAX-FM became the first station in this language to top L.A.'s radio ratings Spanish
#6688, aired 2013-10-16WHO OWNS IT? $400: We'll let you in on something; Limited Brands isn't so limited, owning Bath & Body Works & (shh!) this lingerie company Victoria's Secret
#6683, aired 2013-10-09WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $400: Richard Harris & others sang of this L.A. space "melting in the dark, all the sweet, green icing flowing down" MacArthur Park
#6674, aired 2013-09-26& FEEL ALL RIGHT $200: L-theanine, an amino acid in the green type of this beverage, helps curb a rising heart rate & may relieve anxiety (green) tea
#6673, aired 2013-09-25THE TALES OF HASSELHOFF, MAN $1000: In a 1998 TV movie, the Hoff played "Nick Fury: Agent of" this organization that got its own TV show in 2013 S.H.I.E.L.D.
#6658, aired 2013-07-24FILL IN THE NONFICTION BLANK $2000: L. Ron Hubbard: "___: the Modern Science of Mental Health" Dianetics
#6656, aired 2013-07-22HISTORICAL NOVELS $2000: Houdini & Henry Ford are among the figures who appear in this E.L. Doctorow tale of the early 1900s Ragtime
#6645, aired 2013-07-05LA LITERATURE FRANÇAISE $400: Harpagon & his money are reunited in Moliere's "L'Avare", English title this tightfisted person The Miser
#6645, aired 2013-07-05LA LITERATURE FRANÇAISE $600: In the original French, the first line of this Camus novel is "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte" L'Ètranger
#6643, aired 2013-07-03LITERARY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING $800: In "To the Far Blue Mountains", this prolific western author continued his tales of the pioneering Sackett family Louis L'Amour
#6641, aired 2013-07-01FAMILY PLANNING $1200: This owner's death in 2013 left his kids Jim & Jeanie in charge of the L.A. Lakers Jerry Buss
#6640, aired 2013-06-28GOOD "BI" $600: Geographic description of a firm with offices in L.A. & New York bicoastal
#6637, aired 2013-06-25ENDS IN DOUBLE L $200: When you write the name of our show as Jepperdy, you do this you misspell it
#6637, aired 2013-06-25ENDS IN DOUBLE L $400: This, please a drumroll
#6637, aired 2013-06-25ENDS IN DOUBLE L $600: A pistachio casing; "in a" this can mean "in very brief form" a nutshell
#6637, aired 2013-06-25ENDS IN DOUBLE L $800: Kindness, or a charity thrift store organization Goodwill
#6637, aired 2013-06-25ENDS IN DOUBLE L $1000: Things have come to a this 10-letter word, a cessation of movement a standstill
#6629, aired 2013-06-13FROM "L" TO "M" $400: This flooring invented around 1860 has come back in favor because it's environmentally friendly linoleum
#6629, aired 2013-06-13THE NFL $600: Pete Carroll left the sunny climes of L.A. & USC to become head coach of this team in a decidedly Rainier environment the Seahawks
#6629, aired 2013-06-13FROM "L" TO "M" $1000: This Greek school stood in a grove sacred to Apollo, the god for whom it was named Lyceum
#6628, aired 2013-06-12AN UNFINISHED CATEG $600: Setting up your business, the first "L" in an LLC stands for... limited
#6622, aired 2013-06-04JANE AUSTEN IN POP CULTURE $800: 2 sisters go broke & move to East L.A. in the rhymingly titled fiim "From Prada to" this, based on "Sense & Sensibility" Nada
#6600, aired 2013-05-03CALIFORNIA $400: Erected in 1923, this L.A. landmark was originally an advertisement for a real estate development the Hollywood sign
#6596, aired 2013-04-29THE 20th CENTURY $1200: In May 1963 L. Gordon Cooper became the last of 6 astronauts to fly in this project Mercury
#6575, aired 2013-03-29A PERSON, PLACE & THING $400: An L.A. Laker, a city in Japan, a type of beef Kobe
#6572, aired 2013-03-26PARTNERS IN CRIME $1200: L & L: Lewd & this lascivious
#6566, aired 2013-03-18PAN AM $400: In 1948 he quit his Pan Am pilot job & moved to L.A., where he used his aeronautical knowledge to create "Star Trek" (Gene) Roddenberry
#6560, aired 2013-03-08WORDS WITH A DOUBLE L $600: Extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points & never converging or diverging parallel
#6560, aired 2013-03-08WORDS WITH A DOUBLE L $800: A geographical feature, such as the one "of Ten Thousand Smokes" in a volcanic area of Alaska valley
#6547, aired 2013-02-19EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $800: Camille Pissarro showed this city in his painting detailing the Avenue de l'Opéra Paris
#6536, aired 2013-02-04L.A. TV $1600: This CW show starring Shenae Grimes is set in one of the ritziest parts of L.A. County 90210
#6536, aired 2013-02-04L.A. TV $2000: Exteriors for Cameron & Mitchell's house on this comedy are shot in Century City Modern Family
#6530, aired 2013-01-25A HOUSE IN LONDON $400: Fitzroy House, a fine 1791 mansion in this style named for the kings of the time, is now devoted to L. Ron Hubbard Georgian
#6529, aired 2013-01-24"L" CAN EAT $200: This twisty candy was used to make the shoe Charlie Chaplin ate in "The Gold Rush" licorice
#6529, aired 2013-01-24"L" CAN EAT $400: In Lombardy this layered dish is a Christmastime specialty, with the sheets of pasta symbolizing Jesus' swaddling clothes lasagna
#6529, aired 2013-01-24"L" CAN EAT $800: Delicate sponge cake in the shape of a digit ladyfinger
#6529, aired 2013-01-24"L" CAN EAT $1000: Make sure you have plenty of schmear to go with this brand of bagels that went frozen in 1962 Lender's
#6512, aired 2013-01-01KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $600: I can't conceive why you believed you had licence to dissemble in such a fashion L-I-C-E-N-S-E
#6510, aired 2012-12-28I LOVE "L.A." $400: Literature, history & philosophy are included in this type of modern college curriculum the Liberal Arts
#6510, aired 2012-12-28I LOVE "L.A." $800: During strenuous exercise, the muscles produce this, C3H6O3; it's also abundant in sour milk lactic acid
#6510, aired 2012-12-28I LOVE "L.A." $2000: You might need this service in the emergency heard here "I've fallen and I can't get up!" Life Alert
#6508, aired 2012-12-26SHIP SHAPE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia.) The CLS4 Carpenteria was built in 1917 to be a floating one of these; a sunlight-operated valve on the unmanned ship turned on the acetylene beacon a lighthouse
#6507, aired 2012-12-25SON OF... $3,000 (Daily Double): This common Irish prefix comes from the French for "son" Fitz
#6498, aired 2012-12-12EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $800: Pierre L'Enfant remodeled this hall in Lower Manhattan before it was the seat of government in 1789 & 1790 Federal Hall
#6496, aired 2012-12-10"B-L-T" $200: Ernest Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" is a treatise on this Spanish spectacle a bullfight
#6496, aired 2012-12-10"B-L-T" $800: This breed of dog originated in England in the 1800s a bull terrier
#6492, aired 2012-12-04DOUBLE "L" WORDS $600: A song in "Chicago" says, "Mister" this material "shoulda been my name... 'cause you can look right through me" cellophane
#6482, aired 2012-11-20DIFFERS BY A LETTER $200: With an "L", it's skiing in a zigzag course; with an "H", it's a Hebrew hello slalom/shalom
#6473, aired 2012-11-07WHO WROTE THESE KIDS' BOOKS? $600: "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" & "A Wind in the Door" Madeleine L'Engle
#6458, aired 2012-10-17L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE $400: In 1456, 25 years after her execution, the Pope declared this woman innocent; she'd later become an Orleans saint Joan of Arc
#6458, aired 2012-10-17L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE $800: The first stone of what would become this Paris prison was laid on April 22, 1370 the Bastille
#6458, aired 2012-10-17L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE $1200: In WWI this man, later president of France, spent 2 years & 8 months as a prisoner of war de Gaulle
#6458, aired 2012-10-17L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE $2000: Francois Mitterrand became France's president in 1981; this Francois became president in 2012 François Hollande
#6442, aired 2012-09-25THE ADMIRALS CLUB $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a figurehead in the Sydney, Australia Nat'l Maritime Museum.) The figurehead of this famed admiral, who died off Cape Trafalgar & became an English national hero, comes from an 1814 British battleship Nelson
#6435, aired 2012-08-03BOYS IN BALLET $1200: Boys' classes often emphasize jumps, maybe even the difficult tour en l'air, which means this in the air turn (twirl accepted)
#6423, aired 2012-07-18FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $400: Loverly 1964 winner: "M.F.L." My Fair Lady
#6423, aired 2012-07-18FILL IN THE BEST PICTURE TITLE $2000: 1945's makes you wish it was Monday: "T.L.W." The Lost Weekend
#6418, aired 2012-07-11WE LOVE "L.A." $400: In 1913 he was sent to the Colored Waifs Home in New Orleans, where he learned to play cornet Louis Armstrong
#6418, aired 2012-07-11WE LOVE "L.A." $800: On July 17, 1951 in Hollywood, the Ball dropped this actress, a Desilu production Lucie Arnaz
#6418, aired 2012-07-11WE LOVE "L.A." $1200: Known for girlswear, this London-based company traces its roots to patchwork quilts made in 1953 Laura Ashley
#6418, aired 2012-07-11WE LOVE "L.A." $1600: From 1978 to 1982 this actress was livin' on the air in Cincinnati... Cincinnati, WKRP Loni Anderson
#6418, aired 2012-07-11WE LOVE "L.A." $2000: This seventh-generation Tennessean now represents the state in the Senate Lamar Alexander
#6392, aired 2012-06-05MEDICAL HISTORY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us an iron lung at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The iron lung was used when normal breathing was impossible due to lack of muscle control; it was once a standard treatment for this disease that was tamed by vaccines in the 1950s polio
#6392, aired 2012-06-05MEDICAL HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a medical device at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) French surgeon Alexis Carrel invented the perfusion pump, an early type of artificial heart, with the help of this American aviator, who was a mechanic from earliest boyhood (Charles) Lindbergh
#6392, aired 2012-06-05MEDICAL HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us statues at the Int'l Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.) The Hall of Immortals honors medical pioneers, like Madame Curie, ancient Egypt's Imhotep, & of course, this man, born in Greece around 460 B.C. Hippocrates
#6391, aired 2012-06-04C.D.s $1000: In 1884 this French composer won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata "L'enfant prodigue" Claude Debussy
#6385, aired 2012-05-25SPELLING WITH THE STARS $600: The Kinks met this title gal at a club down in old Soho L-O-L-A
#6362, aired 2012-04-24"L" ON EARTH $1200: This lake in central Switzerland has a maximum depth of 702 feet Lake Lucerne
#6362, aired 2012-04-24"L" ON EARTH $2000: It's "jar"ring to note that before sailing to America in 1620, the pilgrims lived in this Dutch city for 11 years Leiden
#6362, aired 2012-04-24"L" ON EARTH $3,500 (Daily Double): It's the longest river in France the Loire
#6353, aired 2012-04-11WHAT'S UP, PIERRE? $1600: Oh, baby! Born in 1754, this French architect & engineer became the first modern city planner in the United States (Pierre) L'Enfant
#6349, aired 2012-04-05DREAM-Y SONGS $800: This hit by The Mamas & the Papas includes the line "I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A." "California Dreamin'"
#6347, aired 2012-04-03GOOD NEWS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the late 1700s Charles de l'Epee began the 1st public school for these people in Paris & created a language for them the hearing-impaired (the deaf)
#6340, aired 2012-03-23THE IMMORTALS $800: In "L.O.T.R.", this half-elf character renounces her eternal life to marry the mortal Aragorn & later dies aged 2,901 Arwen
#6338, aired 2012-03-21DOUBLE "L" $400: Combatants shoot pellets of colored gel at each other in this game paintball
#6333, aired 2012-03-14NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1200: She won in the children's paperback category for "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" Madeleine L'Engle
#6327, aired 2012-03-06SWEET LI'L FILMS $400: 4 years before "Field of Dreams", he gave a memorable performance as Gardner Barnes in "Fandango" Kevin Costner
#6327, aired 2012-03-06SWEET LI'L FILMS $1200: Paul Giamatti wrestles with life affer taking a teen grappler into his home in this double-talk 2011 film Win Win
#6327, aired 2012-03-06SWEET LI'L FILMS $1600: Dennis Christopher takes on the Italian bicycle team in this 1979 sleeper that won a best screenplay Oscar Breaking Away
#6323, aired 2012-02-29SCIENCE "L"AB $200: Milk production in mammals is called this lactation
#6317, aired 2012-02-21THE ALL-STAR GAME MVP $200: In 2011 this L.A. Laker took the award for a record-tying 4th time Kobe Bryant
#6309, aired 2012-02-09THEATER $2000: A play starring Samuel L. Jackson takes its title from a line in Martin Luther King's last speech, "I've been to" this summit the mountaintop
#6308, aired 2012-02-08BUZZ BANDS $200: Bethany Cosentino fronts the L.A. band called not "West" but "Best" this--in your face, Eastern Seaboard! Coast
#6303, aired 2012-02-01CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Rejected by 26 publishers, this beloved classic by Madeleine L'Engle is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012 A Wrinkle in Time
#6300, aired 2012-01-27LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $1200: A last-place 2006 N.L. Central finish insured a 98th straight year without a World Series title for this team the Chicago Cubs
#6300, aired 2012-01-27LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $1600: In 2007 this team was dead last in the N.L. West, but in 2010 it won the World Series the San Francisco Giants
#6295, aired 2012-01-20SPELLING IT OUT IN ROMAN NUMERALS $800: Now you're in a pickle with 501, 50 & 50 D-I-L-L
#6295, aired 2012-01-20SPELLING IT OUT IN ROMAN NUMERALS $1600: Be nice & string together the letters for 100, 4, 1, 50 to get this word C-I-V-I-L
#6295, aired 2012-01-20SPELLING IT OUT IN ROMAN NUMERALS $2000: The letters for 1,001 followed by 50 give you this word, a unit of length equal to .001 inches M-I-L (a mil accepted)
#6294, aired 2012-01-19FOREIGN $400: In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes a bird
#6289, aired 2012-01-12SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $1000: Unbearable, such as the "Acts" passed by the British parliament in 1774 I-N-T-O-L-E-R-A-B-L-E
#6288, aired 2012-01-11CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $200: The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song Leroy
#6267, aired 2011-12-13"BLIND" LEADING THE BLIND $600: "L'amore e cieco" is this familiar proverb in Italian love is blind
#6250, aired 2011-11-18SEEING A BIT OF AMERICA $200: We're off to thank the Academy at the Kodak Theatre in this part of L.A. Hollywood
#6238, aired 2011-11-02LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $600: L. Frank Baum's Oz books include these underground folk, spelled without the silent "G" Nomes
#6229, aired 2011-10-20SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $200: 8 years after Jackie Robinson broke in with the Dodgers, Elston Howard became the first black player on this A.L. rival the (New York) Yankees
#6218, aired 2011-10-05SPORTS VENUES $600: John L. Sullivan was the first heavyweight champ to box in this original venue; in 1971, Joe Frazier beat Ali there Madison Square Garden
#6218, aired 2011-10-05THE "N-H-L" $800: It's the branch of science that specializes in the kidney nephrology
#6208, aired 2011-09-21I, FOR ONE, WELCOME $600: In 1992 this author launched his "Goosebumps" series with "Welcome to Dead House" (R.L.) Stine
#6197, aired 2011-07-19FRANKS $800: If you see a "K" in a triangle on your hot dog pack, it's been certified as this-- l'chaim! kosher
#6185, aired 2011-07-01CHILDREN'S LIT CHARACTERS $600: In this Madeleine L'Engle story, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who & Mrs. Which help Meg travel through space & save her father A Wrinkle in Time
#6183, aired 2011-06-29AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: One of Maxfield Parrish's early commissions was to illustrate this "Oz" author's "Mother Goose in Prose" (L.Frank) Baum
#6182, aired 2011-06-28OUT OF JAIL $1000: This former professor & L.S.D. advocate escaped from a California jail in September of 1970 & lived on the run for years (Timothy) Leary
#6175, aired 2011-06-17ANIMA"L"S $400: These bloodsuckers have been put to use in medicine leeches
#6175, aired 2011-06-17ROMAN NUMERAL LETTERS $1200: The lofty railroad in Chicago sometimes goes by this letter L
#6169, aired 2011-06-09LANGUAGES $2,000 (Daily Double): L.L. Zamenhof grew up in an area of Poland where 4 languages were spoken, leading to ethnic animosity, so he created this Esperanto
#6161, aired 2011-05-30FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $1000: The Fray: "H.T.S.A.L." "How To Save A Life"
#6151, aired 2011-05-16WAR STUFF $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lafitte Nat'l Historical Park in New Orleans, LA.) Jean Lafitte changed from pirate to patriot when he & his men sailed out of these bayous in the national historical park named for him to aid the U.S. during this war the War of 1812
#6137, aired 2011-04-26COUNTRIES ALPHABETICALLY $1000: This European country is in last place in the "L"s Luxembourg
#6134, aired 2011-04-21LIVRES EN FRANCAIS $800: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "L'amour Aux Temps Du Cholera" Love in the Time of Cholera
#6131, aired 2011-04-18CALIFORNIA GOVERNORS $2000: In 1982 George Deukmejian beat this L.A. mayor to win the office Tom Bradley
#6130, aired 2011-04-15THE "L" YOU SAY $1200: Flows of this created the scenic landscape in Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument lava
#6123, aired 2011-04-06ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $800: In 2006: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these... snakes on this... plane!" Samuel L. Jackson
#6114, aired 2011-03-24THE MANSION FAMILY $800: Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island was bilt in the late 1800s for William, last name this Vanderbilt
#6112, aired 2011-03-22LET THERE BE LIGHT BEER $200: It's how Miller spells "light" in the name of its beer introduced in 1975 L-I-T-E
#6099, aired 2011-03-03WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $1200: A ticket stub from a concert at this outdoor venue, the summer home of the L.A. Philharmonic the Hollywood Bowl
#6075, aired 2011-01-28SO SAYETH THE TALK SHOW HOST $200: This "Late Show" guy: "Fall is my favorite season in L.A., watching the birds change color & fall from the trees" David Letterman
#6063, aired 2011-01-12FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: "L.H.O.T.P" by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie
#6049, aired 2010-12-23GET "L"IT $400: Jenny tragically dies in this Erich Segal weepie Love Story
#6049, aired 2010-12-23GET "L"IT $1600: Tessie Hutchinson is the unfortunate "winner" in this 1948 short story about a deadly village ritual The Lottery
#6049, aired 2010-12-23GET "L"IT $2000: No curtain call for playwright Eugene O'Neill when this domestic drama premiered in 1956; he was 3 years dead Long Day's Journey into Night
#6040, aired 2010-12-10CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $1600: It rocks Chicago's Grant Park in summer (12) Lollapalooza
#6026, aired 2010-11-22YANKEES, NO! $1600: In 2004 this team came back from a 3-games-to-0 deficit & beat the Yanks for the A.L. pennant; revenge gets no sweeter the Boston Red Sox
#6026, aired 2010-11-22YANKEES, NO! $2000: This ace L.A. lefty dominated the Yanks in the 1963 World Series, striking out 23 & beating them twice in a 4-game sweep Sandy Koufax
#6013, aired 2010-11-03SCI FI MOVIE SUMMARIES $1200: 1982: It's rainy all day in future L.A. as a cop looks for murderers & doubts his girl's humanity Blade Runner
#6012, aired 2010-11-02ON THE "L-I-E" $800: Put to use in a practical context, like a branch of physics applied
#5990, aired 2010-10-01NFL RECORDS $400: Appropriately, it's the record number of safeties by a player in one game; L.A.'s Fred Dryer ate up Green Bay on Oct. 21, 1973 2
#5986, aired 2010-09-27THE NP FOR L $400: In 1923: W.B.Y., for his "always inspired poetry" (William Butler) Yeats
#5986, aired 2010-09-27THE NP FOR L $800: In 1929: T.M., "principally for his great novel 'Buddenbrooks"' Thomas Mann
#5986, aired 2010-09-27THE NP FOR L $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1907: R.K. from the U.K. Rudyard Kipling
#5986, aired 2010-09-27THE NP FOR L $2000: In 1913: R.T., born in India; that first name's a doozie Rabindranath Tagore
#5985, aired 2010-09-24"L"EGALESE $400: These 2 4-letter words often precede "and testament" in the name of a legal document last will
#5981, aired 2010-09-20MOVIE CITIES $400: Of course there's a car chase on the freeway in 1985's "To Live and Die in __.__." L.A.
#5978, aired 2010-09-15"L" 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It's said there are 3 things that matter in real estate: this. this, this location
#5978, aired 2010-09-15"L" 8-LETTER WORDS $800: There once was a clue in our place/ about this type of poem, not mace/ short & quick/ a niffy old trick/ but then we ran out of a limerick
#5978, aired 2010-09-15"L" 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: One honored for achieving distinction in a certain field; poet is one type laureate
#5978, aired 2010-09-15"L" 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: To contest in court or to carry on a lawsuit litigate
#5969, aired 2010-07-22I COULDA HAD A G8 $1000: In 2009 the G8 countries met in L'Aquila in this country Italy
#5965, aired 2010-07-16A MAJOR IN HISTORY $200: Hired to design this area in 1791, Major Pierre L'Enfant turned into a major pain & was fired a year later Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia)
#5962, aired 2010-07-13BLOOM COUNTY $400: Here in L.A. County this flower is always in bloom in Pasadena around Jan. 1; there's even a big parade in its honor a rose
#5961, aired 2010-07-121920s LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1920 he published "Glinda of Oz", a story about the impending war between the Flatheads & the Skeeters L. Frank Baum
#5960, aired 2010-07-09LITERARY MONSTERS $400: Title monsters in this skin-crawling R.L. Stine series include a mummy, a scarecrow & a snowman Goosebumps
#5959, aired 2010-07-08FRENCH CLASS $800: One of these sensory organs is l'oeil in French; both of them are called les yeux eyes
#5952, aired 2010-06-29"Z" IS FOR... $1200: This getup popular in the '40s that lent its name to a wartime L.A. riot zoot suit
#5948, aired 2010-06-23UNIQUE WORLD ARCHITECTURE $2000: Opened in 2004, the $300-million Stata Center at M.I.T. was designed by this L.A.-based architect (Frank) Gehry
#5941, aired 2010-06-14ART & ARTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Dancer Jane Avril & printer Pere Cotelle are depicted in his 1893 lithograph "L'Estampe Originale" Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
#5940, aired 2010-06-11LITERARY BROTHERS $2000: In this E.L. Doctorow novel set around 1900, the radical sibling is known only as Younger Brother Ragtime
#5938, aired 2010-06-09READ ALL OVER $800: One of the most translated authors in the world is this founder of Dianetics & Scientology L. Ron Hubbard
#5935, aired 2010-06-04PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $1200: In 1915 William H, & William L. Bragg shared the prize for their analysis of the structure of crystals via this type of image x-ray
#5925, aired 2010-05-21GERMAN LITERATURE $400: Karl May has been called the German Louis L'Amour for works like "Old Surehand" in this genre Western
#5925, aired 2010-05-21SONG LYRICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", 2 of the 4 men with the initials "L.B." (2 of) Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs & Leonard Bernstein
#5923, aired 2010-05-19CLUES TO SECRET IDENTITIES $800: Spider-Man: Follows "valet" in a job outside L.A. restaurants Parker
#5898, aired 2010-04-14AT THE ANCIENT ROMAN CINEPLEX $1600: 2009: Zooey Deschanel in "(____) Days of Summer" D (500)
#5892, aired 2010-04-067-"L"ETTER WORDS $800: Old word for chronic pain in the lower back lumbago
#5892, aired 2010-04-067-"L"ETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "to read", it's a reading desk with a slanted top in a church lectern
#5871, aired 2010-03-08LYIN' IN WINTER $1600: In January 1898 the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore printed his letter accusing military & civilian authorities of lies (Émile) Zola
#5863, aired 2010-02-24"L.L.", SEE $400: This villain's obsession with Superman goes back to Action Comics No. 23 in 1940 Lex Luthor
#5863, aired 2010-02-24"L.L.", SEE $600: 2 of the unalienable rights set forth in the Declaration of Independence life & liberty
#5863, aired 2010-02-24"L.L.", SEE $1000: The 2 "L"s in the corporate abbreviation LLC stand for these 2 words limited & liability
#5857, aired 2010-02-16BOOK OF... $800: E.L. Doctorow wrote a novel titled "The Book of" him, like a biblical book set in Babylon Daniel
#5852, aired 2010-02-09DO IT YOURSELF $200: In 1947, Frank Ulrich pumped up L.A. drivers with the first successful self-serve this gas station
#5851, aired 2010-02-08THE BIG 10 $600: In L.A., the western tip of Interstate 10 is called this "freeway", after the beach community it passes through Santa Monica
#5851, aired 2010-02-08ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE $1000: "Boston Red Sox A.L. 1939-1960... batted .406 in 1941" Ted Williams
#5832, aired 2010-01-12FAMOUS AMOS $400: Samuel L. Jackson & Nicolas Cage team up in this 1993 comedy whose title plays off the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio series Amos & Andrew
#5830, aired 2010-01-08OH, THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD! $1000: In October 1982 this "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" band supported The Who at L.A.'s Coliseum The Clash
#5828, aired 2010-01-06YOU'VE BEEN TRADED $600: In 1988 the Oilers sent this "Great One" (& 2 others) to the L.A. Kings, getting 2 players, 3 picks & $15 mil. in return Wayne Gretzky
#5815, aired 2009-12-18JUST SAY NO $1600: In Hollywood, this 5-letter word of possibility (per the L.A. Times) maybe
#5814, aired 2009-12-17STABLER $1200: If you live in L.A. you know this word is used for reinforcing an existing building so it's stabler for the next quake retrofit
#5812, aired 2009-12-15FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $1000: John Osborne's "L.B.I.A." Look Back in Anger
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MICHIGAN MUSICIAN MISHMASH $800: In 1971 Detroit native Glenn Frey formed this band in L.A. with Don Henley; pretty good career move, Glenn The Eagles
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MMM, STEAK $1600: Taylor's Steakhouse in L.A. serves a boneless version of this choice cut also known as a Spencer steak rib eye
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MICHIGAN MUSICIAN MISHMASH $1600: Anthony Kiedis was born in Grand Rapids, but got a Flea infestation in L.A. in 1983 & formed this band The Red Hot Chili Peppers
#5809, aired 2009-12-10PITCHING THE PERFECT GAME $400: On May 5, 1904 he pitched the first perfect game in A.L. history; no wonder that big pitching award is named for him Cy Young
#5807, aired 2009-12-08THEN THERE'S MAUVE $800: Bella Donna Mauve is in the Color Riche line of these made by L'Oreal lipsticks
#5805, aired 2009-12-04NONFICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): Thomas L. Friedman explains "Why We Need a Green Revolution" in "Hot, Flat, and" this Crowded
#5801, aired 2009-11-30THE ACE OF HEARTS $800: Marguerite Duras' "L'amant", about an affair in Indochina, translates as this romantic person in English the lover
#5801, aired 2009-11-30I HAVE 5 KINGS $1000: In 1926 W.L. MacKenzie King was prime minister of this country twice (he gave it up in June but had it back by September) Canada
#5799, aired 2009-11-26THERE'S A TITLE IN THE TITLE $1600: Stephen L. Carter's novel "The ____ of Ocean Park" Emperor
#5795, aired 2009-11-20I LOVE L.A. KERS $800: A wizard at passing the ball, this Laker is the NBA's all-time leader in assists per game Magic Johnson
#5795, aired 2009-11-20I LOVE L.A. KERS $1600: This Hall-of-Fame guard & former Lakers GM is said to be the model for the player depicted in the NBA's logo Jerry West
#5794, aired 2009-11-19PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $200: "While Angie and the kids hung in L.A.", he was promoting "Inglourious Basterds" in Germany Brad Pitt
#5794, aired 2009-11-19PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $1000: "Mr. Smooth" was in L.A. on July 20, 2009 "as his alter ego, 1960s ad exec Don Draper, on the set of 'Mad Men'" Jon Hamm
#5789, aired 2009-11-12QUIZ BOWL $800: In one July week in 2009, this L.A. open-air venue presented Incubus & "Bravo Beethoven" the Hollywood Bowl
#5789, aired 2009-11-12SPELLING $1600: It precedes Falcon in the name of Han Solo's vessel M-I-L-L-E-N-N-I-U-M
#5787, aired 2009-11-10BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 2009 she headed out of "The Hills" & published her first novel, "L.A. Candy" Lauren Conrad
#5783, aired 2009-11-04TEEN LIT $600: In 2009 this 1962 classic by Madeleine L'Engle was still in Barnes & Noble's Top 20 list of teen bestsellers A Wrinkle in Time
#5776, aired 2009-10-26FILL IN THE AUTHOR $800: "The Rainbow" by D.H.L. D.H. Lawrence
#5772, aired 2009-10-20APPAREL "L" $400: "Top grain" this is used in shoes leather
#5772, aired 2009-10-20APPAREL "L" $800: The "In the Wings Teddy" (va va voom!) is an item of this from Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie
#5772, aired 2009-10-20APPAREL "L" $1000: These weren't just for a lord of the jungle; in Ancient Egypt, Amenhotep's chief architect was buried with 50 loincloths
#5759, aired 2009-10-01WHAT, ME HURRY? $1000: It's only 6:45 P.M. here in L.A.; I still have this many minutes to call my pal in Montreal before his 11 P.M. bedtime 75
#5754, aired 2009-09-24SCIENCE "L"IST $800: The major source of this treatment for bipolar disorder is mined in North Carolina lithium
#5738, aired 2009-07-15HIDE & SEEK $800: I'm hiding in the crowd around my star on the Walk of Fame, so seek me on this L.A. street Hollywood Boulevard
#5734, aired 2009-07-09CITY SPELLING $200: This S-T-E-E-L C-I-T-Y is the seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H
#5726, aired 2009-06-29SHAKESPEARE WITH A TWIST $800: "OthE.L.O." was an "Othello" spoof featuring the music of this '70s band (the E.L.O. in the title) Electric Light Orchestra
#5715, aired 2009-06-12THE MIRACLE OF VINEGAR $3,000 (Daily Double): We almost forgot, it's useful in cooking--try this aged type made from grapes in Modena balsamic
#5714, aired 2009-06-11ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew wears a hat and holds a small spinning propeller at the RISO Nat'l Lab for Sustainable Energy in Denmark.) Using polymers, RISO created an electricity-generating hat powered by this type of readily available energy solar
#5714, aired 2009-06-11ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the RISO Nat'l Lab for Sustainable Energy in Denmark.) Here straw is being converted into this type of fuel, whose name indicates it comes from living matter biofuel
#5714, aired 2009-06-11ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the RISO Nat'l Lab for Sustainable Energy in Denmark.) Danes produce 40% of the world's wind turbines & are making them more efficient as part of an energy-independence policy, spurred by this 1973 event the Arab Oil Embargo
#5708, aired 2009-06-03WORLD OF LITERATURE $800: His "L'Ile mysterieuse" , published in 1874, foresaw the submarine, the aqualung, TV & space travel (Jules) Verne
#5706, aired 2009-06-01ART $1600: "Revelations", an exhibit of her photos of '50s & '60s weirdos, has been seen in San Francisco, L.A. & New York (Diane) Arbus
#5705, aired 2009-05-29EATING PLACES $800: Canter's, a famous one of these restaurants, has been serving up chicken soup & knishes in the L.A. area since 1931 a delicatessen
#5703, aired 2009-05-27FILL IN THE DICKENS TITLE $1600: "L.D." Little Dorrit
#5698, aired 2009-05-20ARCHITECTS $1600: In 1791 Washington commissioned him to design the District of Columbia, but fired him a year later (Pierre) L'Enfant
#5697, aired 2009-05-19HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $800: (Hi. I am Aisha Tyler.) Before coming to Los Angeles for fame & moderate fortune, I grew up in the Haight area of this city that has a friendly rivalry with L.A. San Francisco
#5689, aired 2009-05-07LITERATURE $400: In 1917 L. Frank Baum wrote about "The Lost Princess of" this place Oz
#5672, aired 2009-04-14IF YOU BUILD IT $1200: With 15 bedrooms, Pickfair in this L.A.-area city began the trend of building large celebrity-owned homes there Beverly Hills
#5641, aired 2009-03-02LIVING IN "L" $400: It's paired with Newfoundland in the name of a Canadian province Labrador
#5641, aired 2009-03-02LIVING IN "L" $800: This Scottish body of water is the largest freshwater lake by volume in Great Britain Loch Ness
#5641, aired 2009-03-02LIVING IN "L" $1200: In 1893 this Southeast Asian nation became a protectorate of France Laos
#5641, aired 2009-03-02LIVING IN "L" $1600: Founded in 1854, it's the oldest city in Kansas; some "citizens" would rather be living elsewhere Leavenworth
#5641, aired 2009-03-02LIVING IN "L" $2000: Riga is its capital Latvia
#5633, aired 2009-02-18CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2008 Cliff Lee won the A.L. Cy Young for this team, just like C.C. Sabathia did the year before the Cleveland Indians
#5632, aired 2009-02-17LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $400: Instrument "of Orpheus" in a Robertson Davies title (4) a Lyre
#5632, aired 2009-02-17LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $1000: The White Queen's "floral" daughter in "Through the Looking-Glass" (4) Lily
#5623, aired 2009-02-04BEYOND THE HORIZON $800: Brush up on your kana & kanji if you head due west out of L.A. because you'll need them in this nation you reach Japan
#5622, aired 2009-02-03IT'S AN L.A. THING $200: Wanna live in this city, 90210? in July 2008 the median home price there was $2.3 million Beverly Hills
#5622, aired 2009-02-03IT'S AN L.A. THING $400: Originally the letters in this landmark were 30 feet wide & 50 feet tall, & had 4,000 20-watt light bulbs the Hollywood sign
#5622, aired 2009-02-03IT'S AN L.A. THING $600: Good times are Bruin in this district, home to UCLA, where John Wooden was a "wizard" Westwood
#5619, aired 2009-01-29IT HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR $1000: On this November holiday created in 1937 by Al Capp in "Li'l Abner", unmarried women pursue bachelors Sadie Hawkins Day
#5611, aired 2009-01-19HISTORIC NAMES $800: In 1651 he reportedly told the French parliament, "L'etat c'est moi", or "I am the state" Louis XIV
#5603, aired 2009-01-07WHO LIVES WHERE $1200: A resident of L.A., it's also a word preceding "Heights" in the name of an L.A. neighborhood an Angeleno
#5596, aired 2008-12-29CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $800: "Mother" deposit, in mining (4) a lode
#5594, aired 2008-12-25BEFORE & AFTER $400: Tomboyish Schulz creation who was kidnapped by the S.L.A. in 1974 Peppermint Patty Hearst
#5592, aired 2008-12-23IN-FLIGHT MOVIES $1600: Samuel L. Jackson has worse problems than airplane food in this 2006 thriller Snakes on a Plane
#5590, aired 2008-12-19HIP REPLACEMENT $1600: In 1994 this NBC show took over the Thursdays at 10 slot from "L.A. Law"; as of 2008, it was still there E.R.
#5586, aired 2008-12-15THE "L" WORDS $400: Calcium oxide, not a citrus fruit, gives us this term for what you bask in at center stage the limelight
#5585, aired 2008-12-12A ROLE IN THE HAY $800: Meryl Streep played this beautiful blonde bumpkin in her high school's production of "Li'l Abner" Daisy Mae
#5581, aired 2008-12-08PLANTS $200: In 2006 the city of L.A. Iimited its planting of this tall tree because it's disease-prone, non-native & gives little shade the palm
#5569, aired 2008-11-20TIME FLIES $1600: To land in NYC as the ball drops on New Year's Eve, your 6-hour flight from L.A. must have this departure time 3 PM
#5568, aired 2008-11-19T-R-L $800: In the video for "Here It Goes Again" the band OK Go gets nowhere fast on these exercise machines treadmills
#5568, aired 2008-11-19T-R-L $1600: Time to throw in this garden tool seen here--we dig it a trowel
#5568, aired 2008-11-19T-R-L $2000: A threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often in spiral form a tendril
#5568, aired 2008-11-19T-R-L $2,200 (Daily Double): It's the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe temporal
#5559, aired 2008-11-06PETER, PETER $200: Jason Alexander & this "Columbo" actor co-starred in the 2000 play "Defiled" at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse Peter Falk
#5557, aired 2008-11-04ESTRELLAS DEL BEISBOL $400: In 2007 Ivan Rodriguez was the A.L.'s starting All-Star receptor, this catcher
#5553, aired 2008-10-29THE MAINE THING $2000: L.L. Bean's company headquarters are in this city, just down the road from the original store Freeport
#5550, aired 2008-10-24FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $800: "S.A.L." by D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
#5548, aired 2008-10-22WHAT'S YOUR PRICE FOR FLIGHT? $1000: Go Dutch (& back) by flying from Amsterdam to L.A. on this 3-letter airline; in 2008, it cost 861 euros KLM
#5545, aired 2008-10-17HARRISON FORD $600: L.A. cop Harrison Ford terminates replicants in this futuristic cyberpunk film Blade Runner
#5544, aired 2008-10-16FLOWERS $1600: The victim of a 1947 murder in L.A. had this flower in her nickname Dahlia
#5542, aired 2008-10-14FOUND IN TRANSLATION $1000: Amazon.fr lists works by this U.S. author (with a French name), such as his "Hondo, L'Homme du Desert" Louis L'Amour
#5541, aired 2008-10-13WE'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
#5541, aired 2008-10-13ORGANIZATIONAL NAME CHANGES $2000: In 2000 the Leukemia Society of America added this other "L" ailment to its name lymphoma
#5539, aired 2008-10-09DON'T SAY THE L-WORD $800: This phenomenon results from the accumulation of electrical charges in cumulonimbus clouds thunder
#5539, aired 2008-10-09DON'T SAY THE L-WORD $1000: In Britain's Royal Navy, it's the rank just below captain commander
#5528, aired 2008-09-24ACTRESSES $400: Before "Sex and the City", she played SanDeE* in "L.A. Story" Sarah Jessica Parker
#5525, aired 2008-09-19NICE RIDE $1000: L.A.'s Starline Tours can take you past Hollywood landmarks in this, another word for a streetcar a trolley
#5520, aired 2008-09-12THE SECOND FILM IN THE SERIES $1000: Danny Glover tracks the nearly invisible alien hunter through the streets of L.A. in this 1990 sequel Predator 2
#5519, aired 2008-09-11WARREN BEATTY $600: L.A. Ram Warren Beatty comes back to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire in this comedy from 1978 Heaven Can Wait
#5518, aired 2008-09-10BEST PICTURE PICTORIAL $600: 2005: Things must be really bad in L.A. Crash
#5515, aired 2008-07-25FRENCH ARTISTS $1000: He was known for his readymades such as "L.H.O.O.Q.", a copy of the "Mona Lisa" with a penciled-in mustache & beard (Marcel) Duchamp
#5515, aired 2008-07-25FILL IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: "A.I.L.D." by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
#5509, aired 2008-07-17"M.L." $400: In 1521 an imperial diet at Worms declared him an outlaw Martin Luther
#5509, aired 2008-07-17"M.L." $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew relaxes with a drink at Tavern on the Green in New York.) I'm having a cocktail called Cherry Oz at Tavern on the Green; the restaurant is run by Jennifer LeRoy, granddaughter of this producer of "The Wizard of Oz" Mervyn LeRoy
#5509, aired 2008-07-17BELOVED BOSTON CELTICS $1600: Before winning 2 NBA titles playing for the Celtics, M.L. Carr played in the ABA for the Spirits of this city St. Louis
#5509, aired 2008-07-17"M.L." $2000: In 1948 she discovered the skull of Proconsul africanus Mary Leakey
#5502, aired 2008-07-08SCIENCE $200: It's what the "L" stands for in "laser" light
#5502, aired 2008-07-08LIPSTICK JUNGLE $1000: Sultry, Hot & Passionate (Excuse me--I need to cool down) are just 3 of the shades in this co.'s Lipfinity line Max Factor
#5489, aired 2008-06-19CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $1600: Name whispered by "every little breeze" in song (6) Louise
#5483, aired 2008-06-11LEGS $400: After arriving in L.A. in 2007 with an injured ankle, this midfielder missed 6 weeks of games with a sprained knee David Beckham
#5479, aired 2008-06-05GOVERNMENT $400: In both NYC & L.A., the mayor is the chief executive & this is the main legislative body the city council
#5475, aired 2008-05-30SOUSA'S $800: Sousa's great-grandniece, soprano Renee, appeared at this L.A. landmark in "The Magic Of Sousa" the Hollywood Bowl
#5464, aired 2008-05-15OPERA SLAYS ME $800: An evil opium dealer is strangled with his own pigtail in "L'Oracolo", set in this California city's Chinatown San Francisco
#5455, aired 2008-05-02MIND YOUR BUSINESS $600: In 1903 James L. Kraft began a company to handle the wholesale distribution of this food cheese
#5455, aired 2008-05-02MIND YOUR BUSINESS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1959 the Ohio Art toy company got the rights to l'Ecran magique, the Magic Writer, & renamed it this the Etch A Sketch
#5448, aired 2008-04-23L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $200: Geoffrey was the butler & Jazz was a pal on this '90s NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
#5448, aired 2008-04-23L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $400: In "Free Fallin'", Tom Petty sang, "All the vampires, walkin' through the valley, move west down" this "Boulevard" Ventura Boulevard
#5448, aired 2008-04-23L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $600: Billy Joel wanted to "Say Goodbye To" this storied L.A. area Hollywood
#5448, aired 2008-04-23L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $1000: Ivy League Ph.D.er Stu Bailey & the law-degreed Jeff Spencer, both judo experts, had an office at "77" this title place Sunset Strip
#5441, aired 2008-04-14BASEBALL $1600: This A.L. team's Jacobs Field has the largest video screen in the major leagues the (Cleveland) Indians
#5436, aired 2008-04-07THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS $600: Conjoined twins from Guatemala were separated in 2002 at the Mattel Children's Hospital at this L.A. school UCLA
#5434, aired 2008-04-03THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE $1200: USS Constellation beat both La Vengeance & L'Insurgente in this sea where the U.S. enjoyed a home-field edge the Caribbean
#5432, aired 2008-04-01I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE $1600: I lent you 300 of these, the local currency, last summer in Poland--oh, of course you've forgotten złoty
#5425, aired 2008-03-21TERMES D'ART $1600: This French-named illusory technique tricks the eye into thinking a painted object is real & not two-dimensional trompe-l'œil
#5423, aired 2008-03-19THE "L" WORLD $400: Founded as a haven for freed American slaves, it became an independent country in 1847 Liberia
#5423, aired 2008-03-19THE "L" WORLD $800: Home to the Sami & covering parts of 4 countries, it's in the far north of Europe Lapland
#5412, aired 2008-03-04WELCOME TO CARLSBAD CAVERNS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the amphitheater at Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) Each night thousands of Mexican freetail bats leave the batcave in search of food using this process in which sound reflects off prey echolocation
#5412, aired 2008-03-04WELCOME TO CARLSBAD CAVERNS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) The immense chambers in the cave at Carlsbad Cavern are the result of the aggressive dissolution of limestone by this acid, H2SO4 sulfuric acid
#5409, aired 2008-02-28SAMUEL L. JACKSON $400: In the late '80s, Sam was the rehearsal stand-in for this comedy legend on his self-titled sitcom Bill Cosby
#5409, aired 2008-02-28SAMUEL L. JACKSON $800: Sam proclaimed, "And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee" in this 1994 film Pulp Fiction
#5409, aired 2008-02-28SAMUEL L. JACKSON $1200: In 1995 Sam's Zeus Carver had a rough day with Bruce Willis in this sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance (or Die Hard 3)
#5409, aired 2008-02-28SAMUEL L. JACKSON $1600: As Elijah Price, Sam was the frail antithesis to Bruce Willis in this 2000 flick Unbreakable
#5407, aired 2008-02-26CALIFORNIA ROLE $400: In a classic 1959 film, writer Joe Gillis moves into Norma Desmond's mansion on this title L.A. street Sunset Boulevard
#5407, aired 2008-02-26CALIFORNIA ROLE $1000: L.A. P.I. J.J. Gittes investigates the city's water management & other mysteries in this 1974 film Chinatown
#5407, aired 2008-02-26BOXER $1200: From East L.A. this Mexican American won the WBO light weight title in 1994 & a Grammy nomination in 2001 Oscar De La Hoya
#5406, aired 2008-02-25"O.L." $200: In 1964 Jan & Dean sang about the "Little" this "From Pasadena" "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena"
#5406, aired 2008-02-25"O.L." $400: in the 1980s research scientists first detected a "hole" in this above Antarctica the ozone layer
#5406, aired 2008-02-25"O.L." $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports next to a giant cetacean at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) Featuring the world's biggest blue whale model, one of New York's most iconic spaces is the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of this Ocean Life
#5397, aired 2008-02-12WHAT'S ON TV? $200: In 2007 Marie Osmond blamed allergies & L.A. air quality for her waltz into unconsciousness on this show Dancing with the Stars
#5393, aired 2008-02-06FROM THE FRENCH $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew inspects a jewel.) Once a French term for an imperfect gem, it's now the name of the magnifying glass jewelers use to find flaws in gems a loupe
#5391, aired 2008-02-04THE SPORTING LIFE $800: This 7'1" NBAer's L.A. home, once adorned with a "love/don't love" traffic light, sold in 2002 for close to $3 million Wilt Chamberlain
#5374, aired 2008-01-10"L"ITERATURE $200: The ban on this D.H. Lawrence book was lifted in 1959 in the U.S. Lady Chatterley's Lover
#5374, aired 2008-01-10"L"ITERATURE $600: Whitman's "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd" was an elegy to him Abraham Lincoln
#5365, aired 2007-12-28WHAT A REVOLTIN' DEVELOPMENT! $600: In the 1790s Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave revolt that led to this Caribbean nation's independence Haiti
#5335, aired 2007-11-16IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE $400: In 1912 he opened his eponymous clothing & shoe store in Freeport, Maine L.L. Bean
#5324, aired 2007-11-01"L" ON EARTH $200: In 1959, a chapter of Gamblers Anonymous was formed in this city-- how apt! Las Vegas
#5324, aired 2007-11-01"L" ON EARTH $1000: One of the driest & most parched regions on earth is found in this country of North Africa Libya
#5323, aired 2007-10-3124--THE NOVEL $2000: This author of "The Berlin Stories" later lived in L.A. & wrote "A Single Man" about a day in L.A. Christopher Isherwood
#5320, aired 2007-10-26IT'S BASEBALL $600: Inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in July 2007, he won 8 N.L. batting titles during his 20-year career as a Padre Tony Gwynn
#5315, aired 2007-10-19"L" TO PAY $800: (Sarah puts her back into this clue) Most back pain is in the area commonly called the lower back; medically, it's made up of the 5 vertebrae classified as these lumbar vertebrae
#5295, aired 2007-09-21THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $600: Fort Necessity, the site of the first battle of this war on July 3, 1754, was designated a nat'l battlefield in 1961 the French & Indian War
#5293, aired 2007-09-19CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $2000: This E.L. Doctorow title character joins Dutch Schultz's gang as a 15-year-old in 1930s New York City Billy Bathgate
#5290, aired 2007-09-14CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $600: In addition to the "Goosebumps" series, he's also written the "Fear Street" series for older kids R(obert) L(awrence) Stine
#5287, aired 2007-09-11L.A. STORY $200: Sam the Eagle was created by the Disney Co. for this event that occurred in L.A. in 1984 the Olympics
#5287, aired 2007-09-11L.A. STORY $400: This school is the oldest private university in California & the largest private employer in Los Angeles U.S.C.
#5287, aired 2007-09-11L.A. STORY $800: An observatory & a park in L.A. are named not for a"Birth of a Nation" but rather a colonel with this surname Griffith
#5287, aired 2007-09-11L.A. STORY $1000: Docents at L.A.'s Page Museum are in a sticky situation-- "La Brea" means this substance in Spanish tar
#5282, aired 2007-07-24PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Austin, Texas.) At the dedication in Austin in 1971, he said that of all the words in his presidential library, the two that best express his philosophy are "man can" L.B.J.
#5279, aired 2007-07-19CELEBS $400: This Brit signed on to play for the L.A. Galaxy soccer team in 2007 David Beckham
#5277, aired 2007-07-17CLASSIC LIT $400: This classic is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet A Wrinkle in Time
#5272, aired 2007-07-10THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $1000: Pulitzer-winning op-ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote "A Brief History of the 21st Century" in "The World is" this Flat
#5270, aired 2007-07-06LITERARY THEATRE $1600: (Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.) I played the troubled piano player Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in this Broadway musical based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow Ragtime
#5270, aired 2007-07-06CELEB BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This recent King Kong actress was responsible for the civil unrest in South Central L.A. in 1965 Naomi Watts Riots
#5265, aired 2007-06-29RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE $800: Attacks in 2003 claimed by the Earth Liberation Front on L.A. area auto dealers destroyed 20 of these vehicles Hummers
#5260, aired 2007-06-22CHARLES GOT CHARGED $400: Onetime L.A. D.A. Bugliosi said this man has "received more mail than any other inmate in the history of the...system" Charles Manson
#5250, aired 2007-06-08DOUBLE LETTERS $200: It's in the dictionary as a short, high-pitched sound used to replace an expletive in a broadcast a bleep
#5245, aired 2007-06-01BETTER, STRONGER $1000: In the longest heavyweight title bout in modern history, in 1915 "Great White Hope" Jess Willard beat this man in 26 rds. Jack Johnson
#5243, aired 2007-05-30AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: Under the name Laura Bancroft, he wrote about Twinkle & Chubbins in Nature Fairyland after taking us to Oz L. Frank Baum
#5242, aired 2007-05-29A NEW "HOPE" $1000: Located just outside of L.A., this research & treatment center was founded in 1913 the City of Hope
#5240, aired 2007-05-25BASEBALL MOVIE SCORECARD $400: In "For Love of the Game", Kevin Costner is an A.L. pitcher, so a player with this position bats for him designated hitter
#5236, aired 2007-05-21ONE-NAMED TV CHARACTERS $400: Just one more thing, sir: this L.A. detective's show premiered in 1971, but his first name wasn't actually "Lt." Columbo
#5230, aired 2007-05-11LIBRARIES $2000: The Enoch Pratt Free Library in this U.S. city is known for its H.L. Mencken collection Baltimore
#5229, aired 2007-05-10WHAT'S THE PLAN? $200: In 1901 this city dug up the plans Pierre L'Enfant drew up for its layout back in 1791 and followed them Washington, D.C.
#5220, aired 2007-04-27THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $800: After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset" James Garner
#5218, aired 2007-04-25WHEEL OF FORTUNE $400: It's tops in cards R _ _ _ L _ L _ S _ a royal flush
#5213, aired 2007-04-18"L" IN... $400: ...The freedom-loving ACLU Liberties
#5213, aired 2007-04-18"L" IN... $800: ...H.L. Mencken & R.L. Stevenson Louis
#5213, aired 2007-04-18"L" IN... $1200: ...The LSAT, administered 4 times a year Law
#5213, aired 2007-04-18ROUTE 66 REVISITED $1600: "Well it winds from Chicago to L.A." but you're at the end of the road in this beach city on the Pacific Santa Monica
#5213, aired 2007-04-18"L" IN... $2,000 (Daily Double): ...The degenerative ALS Lateral
#5213, aired 2007-04-18"L" IN... $2000: ...LOC, as in www.loc.gov Library
#5211, aired 2007-04-16ARCHITECTURE $1200: This architect of L.A.'s Disney Concert Hall called it "a strange kind of sailing ship sitting in a box" Frank Gehry
#5209, aired 2007-04-12WHAT THE "L" IS IT? $1200: It's a term for a truck in Torquay lorry
#5209, aired 2007-04-12WHAT THE "L" IS IT? $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the state-of-the-art Jeopardy! marine biology laboratory.) This clinging marine gastropod is also the last name of Don Knotts's character in a 1964 marine movie a limpet
#5209, aired 2007-04-12WHAT THE "L" IS IT? $2000: They're tart red berries traditionally served in Sweden with thin pancakes lingonberries
#5208, aired 2007-04-11ROCK $600: Images carved on rocks by people of the past are a highlight of Petroglyph Nat'l Monument in this SW state New Mexico
#5207, aired 2007-04-10FANTASTIC SCAMS $1000: In 2004 this "Long Island Lothario" got a year in jail for running an L.A. car insurance scam Joey Buttafuoco
#5204, aired 2007-04-05GEOGRAPHIC FILM & TV $1600: Appropriately (unfortunately), Steve Martin gets in his car to drive next door in this 1991 film L.A. Story
#5199, aired 2007-03-29THE OLD COLLEGE TRY $800: John Wayne attended this L.A. university in the 1920s & also played on its football team USC
#5179, aired 2007-03-01MOVIE MANIA $1200: In this 1987 film, Cheech Marin gets deported to Mexico & must make his way back to the U.S. without any I.D. Born in East L.A.
#5172, aired 2007-02-20IT'S "D" LISH! $600: In the classic French dish Canard à l'orange, this is served in an orange sauce duck
#5171, aired 2007-02-19AROUND WASHINGTON, D.C. $2000: This Frenchman who planned D.C. had such a "terrible" temperament that he was dismissed in 1792 Pierre L'Enfant
#5156, aired 2007-01-29GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a circle on the monitor with arc AB, angle a between them, and the formula l(A,B)=ra.) In the formula here, the length of arc (A,B) equals the angle a times r, which stands for this measurement radius
#5144, aired 2007-01-11"BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $400: Linda Fiorentino became Agent L in this 1997 film Men in Black
#5139, aired 2007-01-04"L.L." $600: "League" founded in 1956 by a group of mothers to promote breastfeeding La Leche League
#5139, aired 2007-01-04FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE $800: "L.L.L." Love's Labour's Lost
#5139, aired 2007-01-04"L.L." $1000: Name in Spanish for the popular sport that might feature a mask seen here lucha libre
#5139, aired 2007-01-04FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE $1200: "A.Y.L.I." As You Like It
#5128, aired 2006-12-20BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: He introduced the Sackett family in his 1960 Western novel "The Daybreakers" Louis L'Amour
#5124, aired 2006-12-14INAPPROPRIATE TEAM NAMES $200: This NBA team name made sense when they were in Minnesota; they should now change their name to "The Smog" L.A. Lakers
#5123, aired 2006-12-13CONAN O'BRIEN $2000: Early in his career, Conan performed with this L.A. comedy troupe named for a theater audience section the Groundlings
#5118, aired 2006-12-06CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH? $1600: The Vikings visited L'Anse aux Meadows in this province Newfoundland
#5111, aired 2006-11-27LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $400: In Spanish this R.L. Stine book series is called "Escalofrios", which means "chills" Goosebumps
#5108, aired 2006-11-22URBAN DICTIONARY $200: The first "L" in the Internet acronym "LOL" stands for this, as it does in "ROFL" laughing
#5106, aired 2006-11-20ONE "L" $800: When not lowercase, letters are this capital
#5104, aired 2006-11-16METS, GIANTS, RANGERS & KNICKS $800: In 1973-74 this Zen-like Knick averaged a career-high 11.1 ppg; oh yeah, he's coached a little in Chicago & L.A., too Phil Jackson
#5101, aired 2006-11-13WORLD CAPITALS $400: In 1970 this capital's Place de L'Etoile was renamed Place Charles de Gaulle Paris
#5097, aired 2006-11-07EVERYTHING FRENCH $800: "L'Appel", the first volume of this French president's WWII memoirs, was published in English as "The Call To Honor" de Gaulle
#5091, aired 2006-10-30BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARS $1600: 2005: Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco for this tale of racism in L.A. Crash
#5090, aired 2006-10-27HYMNS & HERS $400: On a 1972 record she sings "What a friend we have in Jesus"; Rev. C.L. Franklin, her dad, is on the album too Aretha Franklin
#5083, aired 2006-10-18THEY HATE L.A. $400: This comedian who moved here in 1913 called L.A. ugly, hot & oppressive; we'd rather he'd stayed silent Charlie Chaplin
#5083, aired 2006-10-18THEY HATE L.A. $800: In this 1977 movie Woody Allen says L.A.'s "only cultural advantage" is a right turn on a red light Annie Hall
#5083, aired 2006-10-18THEY HATE L.A. $1000: An Oscar-nominated screenwriter in the 1930s, this witty woman called L.A. "a horror to me" Dorothy Parker
#5071, aired 2006-10-02I'M BORED $1600: Maybe you can tesser & travel to new worlds like Meg, Calvin & Charles Wallace did in this 1962 L'Engle novel A Wrinkle in Time
#5052, aired 2006-07-25TURN ME LEWIS $200: The father of John L. Lewis, first president of the CIO, had this job back in Wales a coal miner
#5037, aired 2006-07-04NAMES IN SPORTS $600: L.A. Ram defensive end David Jones was better known by this nickname "Deacon"
#5037, aired 2006-07-04NAMES IN SPORTS $800: (Hi, I'm James Worthy.) In the 1980s my L.A. Lakers got this "entertaining" nickname, also the name of a cable television network "Showtime"
#5036, aired 2006-07-03"SMALL" TIME $200: In L.A. County you can sue for no more than $7,500 in this court small claims
#5030, aired 2006-06-23COWBOYS & INDIANS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Teton Nat'l Park in Wyoming.) Created by native son George Ostrom, this trademark of the state of Wyoming is abbreviated BH&R Bucking Horse & Rider
#5022, aired 2006-06-13"B" MOVIES $400: 1991: Ice Cube co-starred in this saga about a group of friends chillin' out in an L.A. ghetto Boyz n the Hood
#5020, aired 2006-06-09OZ $1000: In L. Frank Baum's original book, this, not ruby, is the color of Dorothy's slippers silver
#5019, aired 2006-06-08LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $1,000 (Daily Double): Robin Hood's pseudonym in "Ivanhoe", or Tennyson's "Hall" (8) Locksley
#5016, aired 2006-06-05HOLD ME CLOSER, TONY DANZA $2000: Tony gets heavenly help in this 1994 film in which he plays struggling A.L. pitcher Mel Clark Angels in the Outfield
#5007, aired 2006-05-23ON THE GO $600: In the '30s the U.S. Navy had battleships named for states & these for cities: Macon, L.A. & of course Akron dirigibles
#4995, aired 2006-05-05BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M
#4992, aired 2006-05-02NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $800: An earthquake levels buildings & overpasses in L.A. on January 17 1994
#4990, aired 2006-04-28SAINT ELSEWHERE $200: St. Cadoc founded the monastery of Llancarfan in this country Wales
#4989, aired 2006-04-27CITIES IN SONG $800: In this 1968 hit Dionne Warwick claimed that "L.A. is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car" "Do You Know The Way To San José"
#4988, aired 2006-04-26SCIENCE CLASS $1600: A litmus test can help you set things on this scale devised by S.P.L. Sorensen a pH scale
#4982, aired 2006-04-18ORDER IN THE COURTROOM TV $2000: West Coast attorney Rosalind Shays got the (elevator) shaft on this NBC drama L.A. Law
#4981, aired 2006-04-17COFFEE TABLE BOOKS $2000: "The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis" highlights the houses in this California city 114 miles from L.A. Palm Springs
#4977, aired 2006-04-11CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $800: Her Angelus Temple, which was completed in L.A. in 1923, was said to look like a giant spaceship Aimee Semple McPherson
#4972, aired 2006-04-04GEOGRAPHIC CINEMA $600: 1987: "Born in ___" East L.A.
#4972, aired 2006-04-04GETTING ATTACHED $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from horseback in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) On the Western saddle, a cowboy can attach his lariat to the high one of these parts, also called the horn a pommel
#4971, aired 2006-04-03SPORTS-POURRI $800: Time-coded Dodger Stadium footage from this Larry David HBO show proved an L.A. murder suspect's alibi true in 2004 Curb Your Enthusiasm
#4956, aired 2006-03-13OPERA QUEENS $600: This queen reigned in several operas, including "L'Atlantida" & "Christophe Colomb" Queen Isabella
#4955, aired 2006-03-10LITERATURE $1200: In 1900 he wrote the line, "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick" L. Frank Baum
#4946, aired 2006-02-27THE "L" WORLD $800: This beautiful lake in Banff National Park is named for a British princess Louise
#4946, aired 2006-02-27THE "L" WORLD $1200: This highest capital in the Andes was founded on the site of an earlier settlement in 1548 La Paz
#4946, aired 2006-02-27THE "L" WORLD $1600: In 1994 this Norwegian town played host to the Winter Olympics Lillehammer
#4945, aired 2006-02-24THE 1800s $1000: Edouard Manet displayed this scandalous picnic painting in 1863 (Le) déjeuner sur l'herbe (or Breakfast or Luncheon on the Grass)
#4942, aired 2006-02-21"WALK" INTO THE TOP 40 $1200: "Holly came from Miami F.L.A., hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A." in this classic "Walk On The Wild Side"
#4928, aired 2006-02-01"B" IN FASHION $200: During the 1992 L.A. riots, one of these worn by Madonna in a video was stolen from Frederick's of Hollywood a bustier
#4921, aired 2006-01-23MASSACRE $1600: In the highest score ever in an int'l soccer game, Australia humbled this "American" territory 31-0 in 2001 American Samoa
#4918, aired 2006-01-18SOFT NEWS 2003 $200: In 2003 this young L.A. Laker became the third NBA player to average 40 points per game for a month Kobe Bryant
#4918, aired 2006-01-18DOUBLE "L" $800: A 6-story steel column in this Texas Panhandle city commemorates helium, which is found in abundance there Amarillo
#4916, aired 2006-01-16INITIALLY YOURS $200: In 2000 he gave kids more "Goosebumps" with a new series of books called "The Nightmare Room" R.L. Stine
#4915, aired 2006-01-13NEW YORK STATE $600: Chittenango holds an annual 4-day OZFest for this man born there in 1856 & no, Ozzy isn't that old L. Frank Baum
#4915, aired 2006-01-13AN "A" IN SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): This marine snail has a genus name, it's H-A-L-I-O-T-I-S abalone
#4913, aired 2006-01-11"BUSH"-ISMS $600: Curt Schilling called A-Rod's ball-punching move in the 2004 A.L. playoffs this type of play bush league
#4910, aired 2006-01-06IT'S STRICTLY BUSINESS $400: This suntan cream's nat'l ads began in 1953 & featured a little girl & the slogan "Don't be a paleface" Coppertone
#4907, aired 2006-01-03HACKER CINEMA $1000: Seth Green invents an algorithm to change the color of traffic lights in this 2003 L.A. heist film The Italian Job
#4899, aired 2005-12-22NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1000: 1994: Pertaining to the period before the flood, it also means out of date A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N
#4897, aired 2005-12-20NATIONAL ANTHEMS $100 (Daily Double): "Salut, o terre d'esperance" begins "L'Abidjanaise", the anthem of this nation Ivory Coast
#4893, aired 2005-12-14U.S. HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $1600: L.A.'s Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Parkway runs in front of what was this hotel, home to the Cocoanut Grove the Ambassador Hotel
#4885, aired 2005-12-02NEW HERE? $400: If you're a One L, you're in your first year here & sweating out contracts & civil procedure law school
#4883, aired 2005-11-30-OLOGY WHIZ $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows off her handwriting at the blackboard.) Tall letters, like the "L"s here, are a sign of pride according to this -ology, a term coined in 1875 graphology
#4880, aired 2005-11-25THE "L" IT IS! $800: Marine rank just above private first class lance corporal
#4880, aired 2005-11-25THE "L" IT IS! $1600: Walt Whitman's famous elegy talks about these that "in the dooryard bloom'd" lilacs
#4880, aired 2005-11-25THE "L" IT IS! $2000: A 1905 earthquake in this Punjab capital killed more than 10,000 Lahore
#4876, aired 2005-11-21WELCOME TO WYOMING $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is outstanding in his field, complete with dilapidated barn and mountain range, in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) The Grand Tetons are an impressive part of the northern section of this much larger mountain chain the Rockies
#4876, aired 2005-11-21WELCOME TO WYOMING $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew writhes his palm in a lovely pink raft in the Snake River, Bridger-Teton Nat'l Forest, Wyoming.) The Snake River may have gotten its name from a Shosone gesture, but it didn't mean "snake"; it meant the river was full of these fish
#4876, aired 2005-11-21WELCOME TO WYOMING $1600: (Kelly reports from horse country, horse in hand, in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) While living in Wyoming, Mary O'Hara created a classic equine literary character: "My Friend" this horse Flicka
#4848, aired 2005-10-12SPELLING $2000: Put your thoughts in order as you spell... C-H-R-O-N-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L
#4848, aired 2005-10-12KID LIT $2000: In 1981 she won a Newbery Honor for "A Ring of Endless Light"; she won the medal in 1963 for "A Wrinkle in Time" Madeleine L'Engle
#4842, aired 2005-10-04COMPANIES $600: This chain with a month as its name has acquired stores like Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh & Robinson's in L.A. May Company (May's Department Store accepted)
#4840, aired 2005-09-30SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES $800: Chicago "L" token seller Lucy, in love with the comatose Peter While You Were Sleeping
#4838, aired 2005-09-28ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $1600: His 2004 play "Exits and Entrances" made its entrance onto the world stage in L.A., not in his native South Africa Athol Fugard
#4834, aired 2005-09-22A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL $400: "You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door" L.A. Story
#4831, aired 2005-09-19HI, FRENCHIE! $600: In French, this French monk of the Middle Ages is known as Pierre l'Ermite Peter the Hermit
#4828, aired 2005-09-14THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $5,600 (Daily Double): The Jacobins used the assassination of this editor of L'ami du Peuple as an excuse to begin the Reign of Terror (Jean-Paul) Marat
#4827, aired 2005-09-1320th CENTURY POP CULTURE $600: The Shmoos in this Al Capp comic strip could be made into food, clothing or anything else you liked Li'l Abner
#4820, aired 2005-07-15SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal the Julia Louis-Dreyfus Affair
#4819, aired 2005-07-14FRIENDS $600: He's 6'2", was born in New York, raised in L.A. & graduated from Northwestern David Schwimmer
#4806, aired 2005-06-27CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: In his 20s this "New World" symphony composer played viola in the Czech nat'l theater under Smetana Dvorak
#4803, aired 2005-06-22WHAT A BROADWAY CHARACTER! $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the set of the Gershwin Theatre, New York.) The name "Elphaba", the leading character in "Wicked", is derived from the initials of this famous author L. Frank Baum
#4790, aired 2005-06-03'80s FASHIONS $200: In the '80s aerobics shoes were a big item from the company called L.A. this Gear
#4782, aired 2005-05-24RICH-ARTs & ROB-ARTs $400: Richard Diebenkorn's "Ocean Park" series is named for an area in this beach city near L.A. Santa Monica
#4776, aired 2005-05-16OF CHAMPIONS $600: In 1892 this gentleman knocked out John L. Sullivan to become the new heavyweight champion Corbett
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $800: L1 through L5 refers to 5 vertebrae in the lower back, with the "L" standing for this lumbar
#4773, aired 2005-05-11WOMEN IN SPORTS $1200: The first WNBA player to reach 4,000 points, in 2004 this L.A. Sparks center was named the league's MVP (Lisa) Leslie
#4766, aired 2005-05-02STATE FIRSTS $1000: In 1989 this state elected the first African-American governor, L. Douglas Wilder Virginia
#4766, aired 2005-05-02SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $1200: Chaucer spells this word to end in D-E-L; it's where a child of "half yeer age" lies a cradle
#4766, aired 2005-05-02SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $1,300 (Daily Double): In the first line of "The Canterbury Tales" this calendar word is spelled to end with a double L April
#4762, aired 2005-04-26MOVIE PORTRAYALS $800: In a 2005 film it's tough love for a high school basketball team when Samuel L. Jackson plays this coach Coach Carter
#4756, aired 2005-04-18BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: In the British version of Monopoly, you might draw a card saying "Go directly to" this lockup G-A-O-L
#4756, aired 2005-04-18BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R
#4749, aired 2005-04-07"A.M"/"P.M." $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) Complete with tire shredder, this make of car was used by James Bond in "Goldfinger" an Aston Martin
#4737, aired 2005-03-22YANKEE MAGAZINE $1200: A frequent Yankee advertiser is this business based in Freeport, Maine since 1912 L.L. Bean
#4729, aired 2005-03-10BRAND NAMES $2000: Lands' End still has its own catalog, even though it was purchased by this retailer in 2002 Sears
#4729, aired 2005-03-10AND THE HORSE $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a horse corral.) These types of horses are bred for herding or running races of 1,320 feet quarter horses
#4726, aired 2005-03-07JAMIE FOXX ROLES $1600: Max, an L.A. cab driver in for a long night Collateral
#4723, aired 2005-03-02A SUCCESS WITH BRUSH $2000: Victorine Meurent, his favorite model, is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" Edouard Manet
#4713, aired 2005-02-16THE L WITH U $600: A substance, such as oil or grease, for lessening friction in the working parts of a mechanism a lubricant
#4713, aired 2005-02-16WE MAKE MONEY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY $2000: In 2003 this "Maine hunting shoe" company took more than 56,000 orders at its website in a single day L.L. Bean
#4704, aired 2005-02-03FASHIONABLE STORES $1600: This chain founded as a sportswear & camping store in 1892 publishes a cool quarterly magazine Abercrombie & Fitch
#4697, aired 2005-01-25AUNTIE $1200: The 2 aunts that Clara Blandick played in 1930s movies based on characters by L. Frank Baum & Mark Twain Auntie Em & Aunt Polly
#4694, aired 2005-01-20THE 1980s $400: The L.A. Coliseum hosted the summer Olympics first in 1932 & then again in this year 1984
#4693, aired 2005-01-19DOSE $1200: L-dopa, which becomes this neurotransmitter in the brain, is used to treat Parkinson's dopamine
#4691, aired 2005-01-17IT HAPPENED IN THE '70s $200: L'eggs debuted as a brand of panythose & Homestyle Eggos as a brand of these waffles
#4691, aired 2005-01-17AUTHORS $800: This "Oz" author was urged to write his stories by his mother-in-law, noted suffragette Matilda Gage (L. Frank) Baum
#4691, aired 2005-01-17NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $2000: This Athenian school founded by Aristotle in 335 B.C. was the last word of the 1992 competition L-Y-C-E-U-M
#4688, aired 2005-01-12"DRESS"ED $600: Walter Mosley penned this mystery about Detective Easy Rawlins searching for a woman in post-WWII L.A. Devil in a Blue Dress
#4688, aired 2005-01-12NFL $1600: NFL owners vetoed this owner's attempt to move his franchise from Oakland to L.A. in the 1980s, but he went anyway Al Davis
#4674, aired 2004-12-23PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES $200: Next in line: J.B., A.L., ... A.J.
#4674, aired 2004-12-23SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST $1200: In July 1889 this fighter knocked out Jake Kilrain in the last bare-knuckled championship boxing match (John L.) Sullivan
#4658, aired 2004-12-01AMERICANA $2000: Had the photo seen here been taken in the 1920s, these four additional letters would've appeared at the right L, A, N and D
#4655, aired 2004-11-26AWARDS $400: In 1912 the Int'l Committee of the Red Cross created a medal for nursing named for this 19th century British woman Florence Nightingale
#4655, aired 2004-11-26AWARDS $1000: In 1965 this U.N. Secretary-General from Asia became the first to win the Nehru Award for Int'l Understanding U Thant
#4647, aired 2004-11-16DOUBLE "L" $400: Repetitive literary device illustrated in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" alliteration
#4647, aired 2004-11-16DOUBLE "L" $1200: An emblem of this city in Spain is the Giralda, a Muslim minaret that's part of the city's cathedral Seville
#4647, aired 2004-11-16DOUBLE "L" $2000: The Bulgarian language is written in this alphabet Cyrillic
#4642, aired 2004-11-09HERE I AM AT... $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands somewhere with a brightly-lit Eiffel Tower in the background.) I'm on the street called this, originally named by L.A. ex-cop Guy McAfee, who was reminded of Sunset Boulevard the Las Vegas Strip
#4637, aired 2004-11-03BASEBALL IN THE '60s $400: On May 8, 1968 this "fishy" Oakland A's pitcher threw the only A.L. perfect game of the 1960s Catfish Hunter
#4632, aired 2004-10-261959 $600: Valerie Harper is one of the chorus girls in this 1959 movie musical set in Dogpatch Li'l Abner
#4618, aired 2004-10-06THE CHURCH LADY $800: Known as Sister Aimee, this female evangelist founded L.A.'s Angelus Temple in 1923 Aimee Semple McPherson
#4617, aired 2004-10-05THEATRICAL ANGELS $800: This hard-boiled detective musical set in 1940s L.A. appeared several years before the unrelated Meg Ryan film City of Angels
#4615, aired 2004-10-01TAKE IN ORDER! $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew wears a warm, woolly coat.) Finally add these four letters to get the type of coat I'm wearing L-I-N-G
#4614, aired 2004-09-30PBS' ELECTRIC COMPANY $800: This composer of "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" penned the songs "Silent E" and "L-Y" for the show Tom Lehrer
#4611, aired 2004-09-27THE INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew narrates from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) You could give someone the kiss of death using the lipstick gun provided to employees of this Soviet spy agency the KGB
#4611, aired 2004-09-27THE INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew narrates from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) Here is the actual mailbox used by this C.I.A. mole with an alliterative name to signal his Russian handlers Aldrich Ames
#4611, aired 2004-09-27THE INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew narrates from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) An umbrella with a ricin tip was used to poison this defector near Waterloo Station in 1978 Georgi Markov

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (55 results returned)

#9007, aired 2024-01-02LANDMARKS: During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark L
#8920, aired 2023-07-21NUMBERS OLD & NEW: Expressed in today's numbers, it's the sum total if you add the 7 Roman numerals together 1,666
#8730, aired 2022-10-28ARTISTS: Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky René Magritte
#8675, aired 2022-07-01WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Mont Bellevue de l'Inini is the highest point in this European possession largely covered by the Amazon rainforest French Guiana
#8668, aired 2022-06-2219th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe
#8600, aired 2022-03-18NEWSPAPER TALK: Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting the lede
#8571, aired 2022-02-07TOYS & GAMES: Its co-creator said adding an "L" to the end of the 1st word in the original title of this board game invented in 1979 "made it" Trivial Pursuit
#8533, aired 2021-12-15AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour North Dakota
#8168, aired 2020-02-26SCIENCE WORDS: In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo satellite
#8165, aired 2020-02-21INTERNATIONAL AWARD TROPHIES: La Maison Chopard crafts this annual award’s crystal base & 118-gram, 18-carat frond Palme d'Or
#8138, aired 2020-01-15CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time
#8089, aired 2019-11-0720th CENTURY ART: A derisive description of the shape of the houses in the 1908 painting "Houses at l'Estaque" gave this art style its name Cubism
#7638, aired 2017-11-22THE CALENDAR: November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure Muhammad
#7599, aired 2017-09-28THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.: Once its own city, it joined with a neighbor in 1898; today on its own it would be the 4th most populous city in the U.S. Brooklyn, New York
#7515, aired 2017-04-2119th CENTURY EUROPE: Published in L'Aurore on January 13, 1898, it caused its author to be convicted of libel J'accuse
#7502, aired 2017-04-04CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: Raised in industrial Yorkshire, he moved to L.A. in 1964 & thought, "This is the place to be--in the land of swimming pools" David Hockney
#7429, aired 2016-12-22LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it L. Frank Baum
#7046, aired 2015-04-13GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea
#7012, aired 2015-02-241980s MOVIES: At his term's end, Ronald Reagan took an office in an L.A. high-rise, still a mess from the filming of this 1988 thriller Die Hard
#6887, aired 2014-07-22WORLD LANDMARKS: Built for a World's Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7 million a year the Eiffel Tower
#6548, aired 2013-02-20CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five"
#6457, aired 2012-10-16AMERICANA: The creator of this comic strip did not like its 1950 change in title, believing it suggested insignificance Peanuts
#6434, aired 2012-08-02BOOK SERIES: In the 8th book in a series by L. Frank Baum, this character begins to speak; he simply chose not to before Toto
#6172, aired 2011-06-14FLAGS OF THE WORLD: "L'Unifolié" is one of the names popularly given to the new flag unveiled in 1965 by this country Canada
#5926, aired 2010-05-24AMERICAN CITIES: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states California & Texas
#5879, aired 2010-03-18AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum
#5632, aired 2009-02-17AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 1945 Mr. & Mrs. Shoen founded it after no one locally would rent them a trailer for their move from L.A. to Portland U-Haul
#5454, aired 2008-05-01HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette
#5342, aired 2007-11-27CURRENT AMERICAN BUSINESS: This co.'s name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" Google, Inc.
#5205, aired 2007-04-0620th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: He published "Hunting, Fishing, and Camping" in 1942 & "My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant" in 1960 L.L. Bean
#5149, aired 2007-01-18ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote
#4875, aired 2005-11-18WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru
#4797, aired 2005-06-14EUROPEAN CAPITALS: In an August 1989 protest, a 2-million-person human chain stretched from Tallinn to Riga to this city Vilnius
#4723, aired 2005-03-02DETECTIVE FICTION: "Grand Master Villiers de l'Isle d'Adam had" this made "by Turkish slaves in the castle of St. Angelo" the Maltese Falcon
#4328, aired 2003-05-28PSYCHOLOGY: Partly from the Greek algos, "pain", it was first noted in 1688 in Swiss soldiers fighting far from home nostalgia
#4235, aired 2003-01-17BROADWAY MUSICALS: In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began" Ragtime
#4147, aired 2002-09-17STATE FACTS: In August 1959 a coin toss helped Hiram L. Fong become this state's senior senator Hawaii
#3998, aired 2002-01-091950s TELEVISION: According to the L.A. Times, he quipped, "How many stories should you tell about two people in an apartment?" Jackie Gleason
#3895, aired 2001-07-06HISTORIC MONARCHS: This monarch, who sold the United States its 2nd-largest piece of territory, was the second to bear his name Alexander II
#3823, aired 2001-03-28AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1900 he sent the Library of Congress $2.20 to copyright his "The Navy Alphabet" & another, more "Wonderful", book L. Frank Baum
#3804, aired 2001-03-01RECENT INNOVATIONS: Known by a 3-letter abbreviation, it was first proposed in 1989 by software developer Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web (www)
#2920, aired 1997-04-18BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: First sold in 1912, the Maine hunting shoe was his first retail product Leon Leonwood (L.L.) Bean
#2810, aired 1996-11-15PUBLISHING FIRSTS: In 1908 Ernest Henry Shackleton printed the first book on this continent Antarctica
#2774, aired 1996-09-26NATIONAL MOTTOES: Country whose motto is "L'Union Fait La Force" or "Eendracht Maakt Macht"—"Union provides strength" Belgium
#1961, aired 1993-03-01U.S. CITIES: To shorten its name to fit a newspaper's masthead, this Ohio city lost an "A" in 1832 Cleveland
#1921, aired 1993-01-04FOOTBALL: 3 of the 4 California cities in which the Super Bowl has been played (3 of) L.A., Pasadena, San Diego & Palo Alto
#1854, aired 1992-10-01THE CALENDAR: It was the last year that was just two letters long in Roman numerals 1500 (MD)
#1315, aired 1990-04-27EUROPE: In this country domestic mail is free & int'l mail can be sent from French or Spanish post offices Andorra
#1295, aired 1990-03-30WORLD HISTORY: He became a nat'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s Gen. Francisco Franco
#784, aired 1988-01-21WOMEN'S RIGHTS: U.S. women finally won the right to vote in nat'l elections during this president's administration (Woodrow) Wilson
#667, aired 1987-06-30ORGANIZATIONS: While Easter Seals is a group in itself, this group sponsors Christmas Seals the American Lung Association
#656, aired 1987-06-15YOUNG WOOD: Monthly, over 3 boxcars of ponderosa pine become this toy invented in 1916 by F.L. Wright's son John Lincoln Logs
#492, aired 1986-10-28NEWSPAPERS: With the weekday circulation close to that of "The N.Y. Times" & the "L.A. Times" combined, this is the largest-selling U.S. daily The Wall Street Journal
#490, aired 1986-10-24U.S. CITIES: Largest city in population east of the Rockies & west of the Mississippi River Houston
#476, aired 1986-10-06THE 1970s: Group, much in the news in the months following Feb. 4, 1974, their symbol was a seven-headed snake S.L.A. (Symbionese Liberation Army)

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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives "And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar "She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia "His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
Alan Rachins, an actor from L.A. Law "An Emmy nominee for the role of Douglas Brackman on L.A....
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri 2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University 2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game "This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz "On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana "She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Jane Kaczmarek, an Emmy-nominated actress from Help Me Help You "As Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, she earned seven straight...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA "He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida "Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina "This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California "From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
Justin Klos, a legislative staffer from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Season 25 player (2009-04-27). Last name pronounced like "CLOSE" (as in...
Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia "This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University "He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000. JBoard user name: jpahk
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "He was a writer living in Studio City, California, when he...
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C. Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas 2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania 1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr "Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Ashok Poozhikunnel, an underwriter from Wheaton, Illinois 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 29 4-time champion: $69,002...
Ashok Poozhikunnel, an underwriter from Wheaton, Illinois 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 29 4-time champion: $69,002...
Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont "As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
Jaldhar Vyas, a software developer and Hindu priest from Jersey City, New Jersey Season 28 player (2012-01-04). Last name pronounced like "VYAS" (in 1...
Steve Friedman, a writer from Los Angeles, California Season 22 player (2006-05-31).
Trisha Murai, a teacher originally from San Bruno, California Season 22 player (2006-03-27).
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Mikel Borg, a firefighter from Austin, Texas Season 3 player (1987-06-15). First name pronounced like \"MIKE-ul\". Mikel clearly...
Chris Fleitas, a high school college prep counselor from San Francisco, California Season 28 2-time champion: $82,901 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "FLEE-tas".
Dean Flagg, a contracts assistant from Los Angeles, California Season 29 player (2013-02-28).
William Castañeda, a human resources professional from San Francisco, California Season 28 1-time champion: $9,400 + $1,000.
Marge Burgess, a homemaker from Glenview, Illinois Season 6 1-time champion: $9,601 + a trip from L.A. to...
Rachel Liptak, a substitute teacher from Temecula, California Season 29 2-time champion: $48,002 + $2,000.
Rob Groves, a classics lecturer from Los Angeles, California Season 29 2-time champion: $41,701 + $2,000.
Toby Guebert, a community college instructor from Claremont, California Season 20 player (2004-06-01). Last name pronounced like "GEE-bert".
Oliver North, a radio talk show host from the Oliver North radio show "A combat-decorated Marine who now hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk...
Frank Liu, an anesthesiologist from Los Angeles, California Season 23 player (2006-12-29).
Joan Tosh, a manager from Port Chester, New York Season 22 player (2006-01-02).
Anne Anglim, a public health physician from Pasadena, California Season 26 player (2010-07-13).
Dan Rowley, an aerospace engineer from Westchester, California Season 20 player (2004-04-20). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: westchester guy
Eric Idle, an actor and comedian from Monty Python's Flying Circus "A founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, he fulfilled a...
John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
Connie Walters, a freelance music teacher from Jamesville, New York Season 23 player (2007-03-22).
Michael Bandiera, an attorney from Burbank, California Season 23 player (2007-03-15).
Alicia Aho, a bookseller from Seattle, Washington Season 22 1-time champion: $28,000 + $1,000.
Rena Miller, a university instructor from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Season 22 player (2006-04-03)



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