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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
#9058, aired 2024-03-13DIACRITICAL THINKING $1600: I'm getting a sense of déjà vu; I feel like I've said it's l'accent grave over the A & l'accent this over the E, like, a second ago aigu
#9056, aired 2024-03-11BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: A 2008 documentary tells the story of the legendary group of L.A. studio musicians known by this destructive nickname The Wrecking Crew
#9054, aired 2024-03-07GITALONG, OLD PAINT $2000: As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape Paul Cezanne
#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
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $2000: A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet a sylph
#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
#9043, aired 2024-02-21AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This alliterative author of Western novels wrote several Hopalong Cassidy books under the pen name Tex Burns Louis L'Amour
#9041, aired 2024-02-19POTENT QUOTABLES $600: This cocktail may be dry, like the wit of H.L. Mencken, said to have called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet" a martini
#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 2024-02-05TOOLS $600: Used on bolts or screws, metric hex keys are known by this letter, their shape a letter L
#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
#9029, aired 2024-02-01I'M SO WAVY $400: A man called Krazy George Henderson claims he introduced the wave during a 1981 A.L. playoff game for this Bay Area team the Oakland A's
#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
#9025, aired 2024-01-26DASHIELL HAMMETT $1200: This L.A.-based hard-boiled novelist said Hammett's work took "murder out of the Venetian vase & dropped it into the alley" Raymond Chandler
#9021, aired 2024-01-22LETTERS OF THE LAW $600: L: The unlawful taking of personal property with the intent of keeping it larceny
#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
#9008, aired 2024-01-03TV CONNECTIONS $200: L.A. ____ & Order Law
#23, aired 2024-01-02BOOKS IN THE SERIES $200: R.L. Stine: "The Ghost Next Door"; "Vampire Breath"; "Say Cheese & Die!" Goosebumps
#23, aired 2024-01-02URANUS, SHMURANUS $800: With no known cases on Uranus, tetanus is an infectious bacterial disease also known as this seven-letter "L" word lockjaw
#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
#8999, aired 2023-12-21BOOK TOCK $600: This author created Tik-Tok of Oz, a mechanical man who ran on clockworks L. Frank Baum
#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
#8995, aired 2023-12-15AN "L" OF A TEAM $1200: They chop down opponents for Cal Poly Humboldt, & they're okay the Lumberjacks
#8995, aired 2023-12-15AN "L" OF A TEAM $1600: It's the gender-specific name of the University of Tennessee's women's basketball team the Lady Volunteers
#8995, aired 2023-12-15AN "L" OF A TEAM $2000: They howl for the University of New Mexico, entiende? the Lobos
#8995, aired 2023-12-15WISH I'D SAID THAT! $3,000 (Daily Double): H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be" this word happy
#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
#22, aired 2023-12-06SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $300: The title ruler is the father of Goneril, Regan & Cordelia: K.L. King Lear
#8987, aired 2023-12-05TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $200: On average, this organ produces up to 2.5 pints of bile every day liver
#8987, aired 2023-12-05TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $400: A tree branch, or a solar flare seen at the edge of the Sun a limb
#8987, aired 2023-12-05TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $800: When you activate a light stick, the chemicals within react to produce this type of cold light luminescence
#8987, aired 2023-12-05TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $1000: 5-letter term for a center of activity, or the position of a gene on a chromosome a locus
#8987, aired 2023-12-05FLAGS $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road Black Flag
#8987, aired 2023-12-05TO "L" WITH SCIENCE $1,400 (Daily Double): Any of a hydrophobic group of organic compounds, including fats & oils a lipid
#8984, aired 2023-11-30QUOTABLE QUOTES $800: Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, "Can we all get along?" Rodney King
#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
#8978, aired 2023-11-22"B"OOKS $1000: The French title of this existential work is "L'Être et le Néant" Being and Nothingness
#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
#8969, aired 2023-11-09OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $2000: 1983: James L. Brooks, from the novel by Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment
#8967, aired 2023-11-07DUDE-ER-ONOMY $1200: On this drama, Kendall Roy rapped to his dad, Logan, "L to the OG, dude be the OG, A-N be playin', playin' like a pro, see" Succession
#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
#8966, aired 2023-11-06A "LA" CARTE $1200: Stick around after visiting the L.A. County Museum of Art & you can see this gooey attraction right next door the La Brea Tar Pits
#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 2023-10-12"L" ON EARTH $400: This state's largest inland body of water is the brackish Lake Pontchartrain Louisiana
#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 $800: Maseru is the capital of this African kingdom Lesotho
#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
#8948, aired 2023-10-11AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $2000: 'Cilla Mullins, it's the 17th c., baby, & I'm speaking for myself. Come on, li'l mama! We'll have 10 kids & make Plymouth rock! John Alden
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $100: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet" loo
#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
#16, aired 2023-10-11WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $200: The credo "Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done" led Pat Riley to 4 NBA titles coaching this team the L.A. Lakers
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $300: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry a levee
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $400: This Swedish automaker's museum features a full-sized XC90 SUV made from Legos Volvo
#16, aired 2023-10-11ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $500: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time evolve
#8946, aired 2023-10-09ELTON JOHN SONGS $800: "Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band" "Tiny Dancer"
#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"
#15, aired 2023-10-04NO CAP $1500: Your fitness trainer may measure your body fat using these pinching tools _ _ L I _ E R S calipers
#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
#8939, aired 2023-09-28MARVEL VILLAINS $200: Sorta like Hercules, the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." have to fend off this evil organization HYDRA
#8937, aired 2023-09-26ABOUT FACE TATTOO $600: If you don't like the L.A. Dodgers logo near the right eye of this West Side rapper, don't hate the playa--hate the... The Game
#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 2023-09-13STRAIGHT FIRE $200: L'Oreal's Colorista is just about the coolest thing ever to give this of yours a little more flair hair
#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
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $400: "The world's richest woman" is Françoise Bettencourt Meyers; grandpa founded this beauty co., & Françoise is worth it (& $80.5 billion) L'Oréal
#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
#8910, aired 2023-07-07HOTEL CALIFORNIA $1000: The historic Hotel Atwater on this island south of L.A. dates from the 1920s Santa Catalina
#8908, aired 2023-07-05MATH ABBREVIATIONS & SYMBOLS $400: The symbol for a right angle looks like this letter L
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WORLD "L" $400: In 2001 it officially joined Newfoundland in the name of a Canadian province Labrador
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WORLD "L" $800: Let's talk about this country, the home of the Letts Latvia
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WORLD "L" $1200: This longest river entirely within France flows through a valley of the same name the Loire
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WORLD "L" $1600: This city is home to the Netherlands' oldest university Leiden
#8904, aired 2023-06-29WORLD "L" $2000: It's Angola's capital & chief seaport Luanda
#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
#8903, aired 2023-06-28RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES $1200: An L.A. prosecutor, explaining the difference: "Robbery is a crime against a person, while" this "is a crime against a building or thing" burglary
#8897, aired 2023-06-20LET'S STICK TOGETHER $2000: Put on this old "L.P.", a thick white adhesive that, as you might guess, can be used for bookbinding library paste
#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 $600: Matthew Stafford & Odell Beckham Jr. the L.A. Rams
#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
#14, aired 2023-05-17SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $400: A columnist wrote that next to the Black Dahlia, L.A.'s biggest whodunit is who killed this streetcar system aka Pacific Electric the Red Car
#8872, aired 2023-05-16DON'T GO ANYWHERE $1600: Loiter is similar to but more frowned-upon than this other 6-letter "L" word linger
#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
#8866, aired 2023-05-08AMERICAN WOMAN $2000: A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great "L.P." is known to opera lovers as the "Blue Album" Leontyne Price
#8862, aired 2023-05-02EAT FOOD. NOT TOO MUCH. MOSTLY PLANTS $800: A dish prepared "à l'Argenteuil" means served with stalks of this green veggie asparagus
#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
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $200: It's the first name of singer Richie & soccer great Messi, though they pronounce it differently Lionel
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $400: This brand of disinfecting wipes claims it "kills 99.9% of viruses & bacteria", including the COVID-19 virus Lysol
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $600: It can mean pertaining to the tongue, or to languages lingual
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $800: It's the part of a suit jacket on which someone wears a boutonniere lapel
#8816, aired 2023-02-27BEGINS & ENDS WITH "L" $1000: Synonyms for it include bountiful & generous, & progressive & open-minded liberal
#8814, aired 2023-02-23AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A Buckeye by birth, R.L. Stine also attended this university where he edited the Sundial Ohio State
#8814, aired 2023-02-23ANNUAL EVENTS $2000: The jazz festival named for these L.A. towers built by Simon Rodia has been grooving annually since 1976 the Watts Towers
#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
#8804, aired 2023-02-09LIFE LINES $800: A song from this musical says, "To life, to life, L'chaim!, L'chaim, L'chaim, to life!" Fiddler on the Roof
#13, aired 2023-02-02WIL(L), WILLEM OR WILLIAM $100: Playing Alex Trebek hosting "Celebrity Jeopardy!", he noted, "Mr. Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Ferguson" Will Ferrell
#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
#8789, aired 2023-01-19THE ACTOR'S MIDDLE INITIAL $200: Samuel Jackson, walkin' the Earth L.
#8789, aired 2023-01-19THE ACTOR'S MIDDLE INITIAL $1000: Daniel Travanti, singin' the "Hill Street Blues" J.
#8789, aired 2023-01-19THE SERIES' AUTHOR $1200: The "Fifty Shades" trilogy (E.L.) James
#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
#10, aired 2023-01-12COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Until disallowed by the L.A. Coliseum, a live bear would take the field at home football games for this school UCLA (the University of California Los Angeles)
#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
#8779, aired 2023-01-05SO THAT HAPPENED $200: 79 A.D.: It's Stabiae vs. this volcano--Stabiae takes the L Vesuvius
#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 $1200: Named for a war minister, this 1930s "Line" of forts & small concrete bunkers, built to stop the Germans, didn't the Maginot Line
#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
#8771, aired 2022-12-26SOUNDS LIKE A UNIVERSITY $800: Cereal grain + 12th letter of the alphabet corn L
#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
#8765, aired 2022-12-16THE SCALES $800: The Moon is nearly invisible at "L=0", the lowest level on the Danjon scale, measuring its brightness during this event an eclipse
#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 $400: Reggie's bringing the potato salad & Veronica, the stew to this type of supper a potluck
#8764, aired 2022-12-15GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $600: It's slang for voluptuously attractive; Destiny's Child sang, "'cause my body too" this title "for ya, babe" bootylicious
#8764, aired 2022-12-15GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $800: It's the birdie you bop in badminton a shuttlecock
#8764, aired 2022-12-15GIVING YOU SOME T-L-C $1000: It means light can pass through an object but gets diffused so objects on the other side can't be seen clearly translucent
#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
#8746, aired 2022-11-21SPORTS $1000: This superstar forward, for both the Minneapolis & L.A. Lakers, was GM of the L.A. Clippers for 22 years (Elgin) Baylor
#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
#8738, aired 2022-11-09ONOMATOPOEIA $2000: "The Bells" pairs clamor with this word that also starts with "C-L-A" clangor
#8737, aired 2022-11-08WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $2000: "Who is Linnaeus?" said the script but someone wrote this other "L" scientist, who thought acquired traits can be inherited Lamarck
#8736, aired 2022-11-07HERBAL & SPICY NAMES $1600: Samuel L. Jackson played this Jedi with an amethyst-bladed lightsaber Mace Windu
#7, aired 2022-11-06BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: P.L. Travers is best remembered for her books about this magical nanny Mary Poppins
#8732, aired 2022-11-01VWLLSS HWN $400: A garland: L lei
#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
#8712, aired 2022-10-04SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM $1200: "Whistler's Mother" & Manet's "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe": this Paris museé the Museé d'Orsay
#2, aired 2022-10-02MYTHOLOGY $600: The son of Mercury & Venus, this li'l love god ended up falling for & marrying Psyche Cupid
#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
#8700, aired 2022-09-162022 GEOGRA-FEE $1000: Flying Emirates--first class, natch!--from L.A. to DXB, the airport serving this city, could set you back $16k, just one way Dubai
#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 $400: Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease curling & curing
#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
#8695, aired 2022-07-29JUST TAKE THE L $1000: A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete clement & cement
#8695, aired 2022-07-29FRENCH PHRASES $1200: The kid isn't really escaping from the picture frame; it's this style, meant to fool the eye trompe-l'œil
#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
#8686, aired 2022-07-18TROPHY HUSBAND $2000: L.A. Musicians Institute was the meeting place of Jae Lin & this husband, a 2022 Grammy winner with Silk Sonic partner Bruno Mars Anderson Paak
#8683, aired 2022-07-13WORD "L" $400: Experiments show this 10-letter word is from Latin for "workplace" laboratory
#8683, aired 2022-07-13WORD "L" $800: A marine one of these equals 3 nautical miles a league
#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" $1600: It means to slice or tear jaggedly lacerate
#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
#8676, aired 2022-07-04BYE, GEORGE $1000: On June 23, 1937 this American composer complained of headaches, & an L.A. hospital diagnosed hysteria; on July 11 he died George Gershwin
#8672, aired 2022-06-28SHOE KNOW IT! $800: This Maine company offers men's wicked good moccasins L.L. Bean
#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
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ABBREVIATED TV $400: Clark Gregg & Chloe Bennet fought evil as "Agents of" this S.H.I.E.L.D.
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ABBREVIATED TV $1000: The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization U.N.C.L.E.
#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
#8646, aired 2022-05-23TV $1200: Lux is the L.A. nightclub owned by this title character, last name Morningstar Lucifer
#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
#8633, aired 2022-05-04THE REALITY OF TV $800: The 2021 "Homecoming" of the L.A. season of this '90s MTV show had the cast including David & Tami relive the blanket incident The Real World
#8626, aired 2022-04-25WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: Ezekiel-quoting hitman Jules Winnfield Samuel L. Jackson
#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
#8623, aired 2022-04-20ACTORS, INITIALLY $1000: J.L.M., a cop on "Law & Order" & "The Flash" Jesse L. Martin
#8619, aired 2022-04-14CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $1200: This Harvard grad & future talk show host's first L.A. apartment was at Cochran & 3rd, $380 a month, living on tuna & miracle whip Conan O'Brien
#8618, aired 2022-04-13HOUSEHOLD INITIALS $200: P.L.: The one on the stove might go out occasionally the pilot light
#8617, aired 2022-04-12I HAVE A PLAN $2000: The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man (Pierre) L'Enfant
#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
#8607, aired 2022-03-29PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Attaching the camera to a tripod with an L-bracket allows for easier rotation from landscape to this orientation portrait
#8602, aired 2022-03-22SCIENTIFIC INITIALS $1600: C.L. (also just L.), an 18th century classifier Linnaeus
#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
#8590, aired 2022-03-04TRANSPORTATION $800: California's dream of this high-speed train from L.A. to San Francisco is now a hope to finish the Merced-Bakersfield route by 2030 a bullet train
#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
#8578, aired 2022-02-16NAVAL CONFLICT $1000: Octavian cut the communications of this fellow second triumvirate member & handed him a big L at the Battle of Actium Mark Antony
#10, aired 2022-02-1510-LETTER WORDS $1600: 10-letter word for background music written to accompany a play, like Bizet's for 1872's "L'Arlesienne" incidental
#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
#8, aired 2022-02-11TV, STREAMED $400: The devil didn't go down to Georgia, he went up to L.A. to open a nightclub & solve murders on this Netflix show Lucifer
#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
#6, aired 2022-02-10TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $800: I.L.L. is short for this service; your library can even get materials from the Library of Congress, but you can't take those home interlibrary loan
#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
#8564, aired 2022-01-27TRANSPORTATION $200: Chicago to Minneapolis & Las Vegas to L.A. are top routes on this bus line that advises "Leave the driving to us" Greyhound
#8562, aired 2022-01-25THIS WILL FLOOR YOU $1200: "L" is for this type of flooring, made of thin layers laminate
#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
#8555, aired 2022-01-14MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG $1000: E.L.O.: "A celebration," he's "up there waitin"' "Mr. Blue Sky"
#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
#8553, aired 2022-01-12IRON MAN $1000: Called the NBA's Iron Man, A.C. Green played 1,192 consecutive games & also collected 3 championship rings with this team the L.A. Lakers
#8552, aired 2022-01-1112-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: This capital on the island of Hispaniola was first called l'Hopital Port-au-Prince
#8547, aired 2022-01-04RECENT POP CULTURE $800: This scary "road" is a 2021 trilogy of horror films on Netflix adapted from R.L. Stine's books Fear Street
#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
#8542, aired 2021-12-28TOOLS $200: This L-shaped metal wrench with hexagonal ends bears a manufacturing company's name an Allen wrench
#8534, aired 2021-12-16LITERARY MUSEUMS $400: Head to Wamego, Kansas for a museum dedicated to this fictional land created by L. Frank Baum Oz
#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
#8532, aired 2021-12-14AN AD JUNKED $400: L'Oréal & Lancôme ads have been junked because of the misleading overuse of this, a verb that is also an Adobe brand Photoshop
#8531, aired 2021-12-13MODERN SHORTHAND $800: You might post your C.V. on this website, L.I. for short LinkedIn
#8526, aired 2021-12-06MAGAZINES $800: From scenic road trips to incredible natural wonders, this magazine, T+L for short, has it all Travel + Leisure
#8526, aired 2021-12-06WE GET LETTERS $2000: It's the symbol for the metric unit equal to a cubic decimeter L
#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 $400: Predominately Celtic, early France was known to the Romans by this 4-letter name Gaul
#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 $1200: Tracking history, when Louis XVI was executed there it was Place de la Révolution, later it was Place Louis Seize, now it's this Place de la Concorde
#8520, aired 2021-11-26L'HISTOIRE FRANCAISE $2000: The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 was aimed at these French Protestants the Huguenots
#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
#8514, aired 2021-11-18AMEND THE AMENDMENT $600: 6th: "The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public freeway" (there's an amendment L.A. can really get behind!) trial
#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
#8504, aired 2021-11-04THAT'S OUR FACTORY $1200: This beauty company whose name partly means "gold": the Lassigny plant north of Paris L'Oréal
#8504, aired 2021-11-04EPONYMOUS -ISMs $5,000 (Daily Double): A 1950 L.A. Times column said the "defect of" this seemed to be the senator for whom it was named McCarthyism
#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
#8498, aired 2021-10-27STATE YOUR HEADQUARTERS $600: Let's play dress-up with L.L. Bean Maine
#8497, aired 2021-10-26TV SHOW OPENING CREDITS $1000: Beautiful people frolic around L.A.; Heather Locklear is somehow a "Special Guest Star" for 6 1/2 of 7 seasons Melrose Place
#8496, aired 2021-10-25DOUBLE INITIAL GUYS $200: L.L. ____ ____, nicknames include "The Future of the Funk" LL Cool J
#8496, aired 2021-10-25THE LANDLOCKED NATION $400: "L" is for little, landlocked & these 2 tiny European nations separated by about 240 miles Liechtenstein & Luxembourg
#8483, aired 2021-10-06COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Barack Obama transferred to Columbia, but said his 2 years at this L.A. college "really helped me grow up" Occidental
#8473, aired 2021-09-22ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS $8,000 (Daily Double): The cosmetics brand e.l.f. is an acronym for these 3 areas where its products are used eyes, lips, face
#8467, aired 2021-09-14CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: It took 15 years to finish Panama City's Biomuseo, designed by this L.A. man; the nearby canal took 5 less, but he didn't design that (Frank) Gehry
#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
#8461, aired 2021-08-09THE LETTER AFTER M $1000: ...to abbreviate a unit of capacity equal to 0.03381 fluid ounce L
#8453, aired 2021-07-28TURTLE POWER $600: To stop turtles from being bycatch, L.E.D. lights visible to turtles but not to fish have been put on these nets
#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
#8444, aired 2021-07-15ARCHITECTS $2000: Appropriately, this French-born man's grave at Arlington overlooks the city beyond, which he designed & laid out Pierre L'Enfant
#8443, aired 2021-07-14SUPER GENIUS $400: For examining how "labor, identity, & human rights are transformed by the digital economy", Mary L. Gray earned this "Genius Grant" MacArthur
#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
#8432, aired 2021-06-29LIT-POURRI $2000: The Pen/Faulkner Award, for American fiction, has twice gone to this man--for "Billy Bathgate" & "The March" E.L. Doctorow
#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
#8422, aired 2021-06-15FACE THE PERFORMER $200: Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#8417, aired 2021-06-08L-M-N $400: Yes, my dear Watson, this adjective refers to carbon, or even potassium elemental (elementary)
#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 $1600: It's the highest or utmost point of something a culmination
#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
#8417, aired 2021-06-08L-M-N $4,800 (Daily Double): Hammurabi's code specified this as a payment of one piece of silver to a former wife by her former husband alimony
#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)
#8410, aired 2021-05-28PHILHARMONIC CONVERGENCE $200: Arturo Toscanini, Marin Alsop & the L.A. Phil's own Gustavo Dudamel are famous for this job conductor
#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 $400: When Quincy Jones came to L.A., he didn't know Sunset but knew of Central Ave., hub of this music style & now of a festival for it jazz
#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
#8387, aired 2021-04-27SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS' LAST NAMES $800: L.A.-born $inger-$ongwriter Sebert Kesha
#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" $1200: Politicians figuratively do this when they trade favors to get support for a bill logroll
#8373, aired 2021-04-07STARTS & ENDS WITH "L" $1,500 (Daily Double): Carol Burnett famously sued the National Enquirer for this & eventually won libel
#8373, aired 2021-04-07STARTS & ENDS WITH "L" $1600: This chemical is used at crime scenes to reveal hidden traces of blood luminol
#8373, aired 2021-04-07STARTS & ENDS WITH "L" $2000: This adjective means lazy or deficient in spirit lackadaisical
#8372, aired 2021-04-06BADJECTIVES $1200: Drop an "L" from the beginning of a word meaning "legal" to get this truly bad adjective awful
#8369, aired 2021-04-01SAFE AT HOME $200: The Sentry S6770 safe is U.L. classified to protect valuables for 1 hour during one of these a fire
#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
#8351, aired 2021-03-08PORT "L" $800: This city's port on the Ohio River is just southwest of Churchill Downs Louisville
#8351, aired 2021-03-08PORT "L" $1200: This port is central to the British county of Merseyside Liverpool
#8351, aired 2021-03-08PORT "L" $2000: This big port was once the capital of Nigeria Lagos
#8351, aired 2021-03-08PORT "L" $4,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "the harbor", this French port was the seat of the Belgian government for a time during World War I Le Havre
#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
#8337, aired 2021-02-16LITERATURE $800: Scholars think John Hunter, an 18th c. London surgeon known as "The Knife Man", inspired this R.L. Stevenson guy Dr. Jekyll
#8337, aired 2021-02-16HOOPS $800: WNBA teams include the New York Liberty, the Phoenix Mercury & these fire starters of Los Angeles the L.A. Sparks
#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
#8322, aired 2021-01-26LOCATION $400: Clubs like the Whisky a Go Go & the Roxy are on "The Strip", this L.A. boulevard the Sunset Strip
#8321, aired 2021-01-25MUSICAL THEATER $2000: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) This musical, based on an E.L. Doctorow novel, weaved together the stories of several characters & historical figures at the turn of the 20th century Ragtime
#8315, aired 2021-01-15U.S. CITIES $2000: About midway between L.A. & San Francisco, Fresno was founded by this railroad co.; Leland Stanford was said to have picked the site the Central Pacific
#8314, aired 2021-01-142-LETTER LIT $600: L. Frank Baum said he got the name for this after looking at his file cabinet Oz
#8305, aired 2020-12-18MOVING $1000: B.O.L. is short for this, basically a customer's itemized contract with a moving company bill of lading
#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
#8290, aired 2020-11-27PAPERBACK WRITER $800: When it comes to "L is for Lawless" & "C is for Corpse", "G" is for this bestselling mystery author (Sue) Grafton
#8290, aired 2020-11-27PAPERBACK WRITER $1000: This man who's given us "Goosebumps" has sold more than 400 million books (R.L.) Stine
#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" $400: These creatures swim hundreds of miles upriver from the Pacific to spawn salmon
#8285, aired 2020-11-20SILENT "L" $600: Part of your lower leg, or a baby black Angus a calf
#8285, aired 2020-11-20SILENT "L" $800: There's a silent L in this word for silently sneaking up on prey stalk
#8285, aired 2020-11-20SILENT "L" $1000: "To act on" someone's this is to represent their interests behalf
#8283, aired 2020-11-18V.O. INITIALS $600: Mater in "Cars": L.T.C.G. Larry the Cable Guy
#8282, aired 2020-11-17HATS AMORE! $1000: Samuel L. Jackson has his own line of this brand of caps that is an abbreviation of "knitted angora wool" a Kangol
#8275, aired 2020-11-06DID YOU KNOW? $800: The generic name for this cloth bag comes from the same-named Belgian town where it was first made, though the E & L can get reversed duffel
#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
#8261, aired 2020-10-19ZOOM $1000: Guitarist Billy Zoom rocks out with the pioneering L.A. punk band known by this near-the-end-of-the-alphabet letter X
#8260, aired 2020-10-16LV $400: The "L" that precedes this "V" can be legislative, liberum or even line-item veto
#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
#8240, aired 2020-09-18ALTRUISTIC ATHLETES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture.) The Game Changers Hall bears the name of this Chicago legend who donated $5 million to the museum; as of 2017, he was still ranked by "Forbes" as the highest-earning athlete of all time (Michael) Jordan
#8238, aired 2020-09-16THESE UNITED STATES $600: This L.A.-area valley where you'll find Reseda & Encino was named for a canonized king of Castile San Fernando
#8236, aired 2020-09-14ITALIAN OPERA $2000: Based on the same myth, Peri's "Euridice" & this Monteverdi work are 2 of the earliest Italian operas L'Orfeo
#8225, aired 2020-05-29PICTURE THE MOVIE $1000: It's 2019 in L.A. Blade Runner
#8222, aired 2020-05-26SONG SUNG BLUE $2000: E.L.O. asked this title guy, "Tell us why you had to hide away for so long... where did we go wrong?" Mr. Blue Sky
#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 2020-04-30TOOT SUITE $800: When the L.A. Phil did Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite", it used several flutes but only one of these highest-pitched woodwinds a piccolo
#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
#8189, aired 2020-03-26THE PRESIDENTIAL SWEET $800: JFK gave a French-themed dinner party featuring duck à l'orange & this smooth chocolate dessert mousse
#8185, aired 2020-03-20WE KNEAD THE BREAD $1000: Your Armenian grandma cooks with love and bakes this "L" word, a flat bread popular throughout the region lavash
#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"
#8165, aired 2020-02-21THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $200: H.L. Mencken wrote that this gloomy historical -ism is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" Puritanism
#8160, aired 2020-02-14TV VILLAINS $800: Kasius, Graviton & a Kree were bad guys on this Marvel series on ABC Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#8154, aired 2020-02-06FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES $2000: The French faithful know "Tout pour l'église", "All for" this the church
#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
#8145, aired 2020-01-241984 $1,200 (Daily Double): Thousands gathered at this iconic L.A. location for Olympic track & field events the L.A. Coliseum
#8144, aired 2020-01-23ENTERING THE LANGUAGE $1000: 1934, from an L.A. Times piece about a "lonely wives party": this rhyming 2-word term for a female buddy a gal pal
#8144, aired 2020-01-23NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $1200: The motto "L'Union fait la force", "Unity makes strength", is on the coat of arms not of France but of this next-door neighbor Belgium
#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
#8136, aired 2020-01-13BEAUTY BRANDS $400: Hair color products from this company include Féria, Excellence Creme & Superior Preference l'Oréal
#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
#8132, aired 2020-01-07POLITICS $1,600 (Daily Double): Cities as big as L.A. & Dallas have this kind of mayoral election where there's no "D"' or "R" after the candidates' names nonpartisan
#2, aired 2020-01-07ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $1600: Frank Gehry not only designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also this instrument at the rear of the stage the organ
#8127, aired 2019-12-31IT'S CHARLIE! $200: This character first appeared in a comic strip called "Li'l Folks" Charlie Brown
#8124, aired 2019-12-26GONNA TAKE MY HORSE $400: On this sitcom, all of Pawnee comes out for the memorial of beloved miniature horse Li'l Sebastian Parks and Recreation
#8119, aired 2019-12-19THE HALL OF FAME POSITION $2000: Lawrence "L.T." Taylor, Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks, Harry "no cool nickname" Carson linebacker
#8117, aired 2019-12-17NEW MILLENNIUM TV $600: Shemar Moore heads up an elite unit on the streets of L.A. on this CBS reboot S.W.A.T.
#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
#8115, aired 2019-12-13FACTS $1200: On I-64 it's about an 80-mile drive between these 2 metrop-"L"-ises of Kentucky Louisville and Lexington
#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
#8113, aired 2019-12-11THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $600: ...Maine / who made shoes to fight off the rain / his catalog mailed / & clothing detailed / outdoors would be his domain L.L. Bean
#8109, aired 2019-12-05THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM $1200: Seeing as how I'm no slouch on putting on a fancy costume, I felt right at home at a gathering of the whimsical folk who are into L.A.R.P. or LARP, short for "live action" this role-playing
#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
#8102, aired 2019-11-26AMERICAN CATHEDRALS $400: Downtown L.A. has the aptly named cathedral of Our Lady of these beings Angels
#8101, aired 2019-11-25WORD ON THE STREET $400: In L.A.: Glendale, Sunset or Wilshire Boulevard
#8098, aired 2019-11-20THE OCCUPATION OF FRANCE $600: Hôtesse de l'air flight attendant
#8092, aired 2019-11-12DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS $800: "No no no no no, oo-eee-hoo, I'll tell you once more, before I get off the floor", this E.L.O. title "Don't Bring Me Down"
#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
#8081, aired 2019-10-28PEN NAMES $1200: Erika Leonard wrote "Twilight" fan fiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon & the "Fifty Shades" books under this name (E.L.) James
#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
#8075, aired 2019-10-18ENABLING COOKIES $400: A little elf told me that this brand makes E.L. Fudge, but obviously, that elf was slacking & should get back to work Keebler
#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
#8063, aired 2019-10-02TV OR NOT TV $600: He played college football stars L'Carpetron Dookmarriot & Bismo Funyuns on TV & won an Oscar for writing "Get Out" (Jordan) Peele
#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 2019-09-16GIMME "5" $400: L.A. Dodgers Dusty Baker & Glenn Burke have been credited with inventing this gesture after a 1977 home run a high five
#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 2019-09-11NEXT $600: World Series winners since 2016: the Cubs, the Astros, this A.L. team the Red Sox
#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
#8042, aired 2019-07-23SPURN NOTICE $800: This adjective for something short, like a cute li'l nose, can also mean to spurn or ignore snub
#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
#8037, aired 2019-07-16FOLLOW THE LEADER $1200: Soviet leader after Khruschchev: L.B. (Leonid) Brezhnev
#8033, aired 2019-07-10STATE MOTTOES $1000: "L'etoile du nord" ("star of the north") Minnesota
#8027, aired 2019-07-02& SUCH $1200: A sci-fi author & Navy man, he founded the Church of Scientology (L. Ron) Hubbard
#8025, aired 2019-06-28DROP A LETTER $800: Drop the "L" from a type of bedspread to get this verb that means "to resign" quit
#8024, aired 2019-06-27THE 1600s $600: Hits of the stage included Moliere's "L'Avare", French for this type of greedy, money-obsessed man a miser
#8018, aired 2019-06-195-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The word embellishment, as of a story, has 2 L's; this synonym has 2 G's exaggeration
#8012, aired 2019-06-11BIRTHPLACES $1200: Danny Trejo: This U.S. city L.A.
#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
#8009, aired 2019-06-06A BIT OF LIT $1200: The epigraph to this E.L. Doctorow novel is a quote by Scott Joplin Ragtime
#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
#8004, aired 2019-05-30ON THE BEACH $600: There's a Barbie doll based on this 1990s TV show about beautiful & fit lifeguards on L.A. County beaches Baywatch
#8002, aired 2019-05-28AD SLOGANS $800: Ilon Specht was 3 when she came up with the tagline "Because I'm worth it" for this French-named beauty brand L'Oreal
#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 $200: It takes this community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town a village
#7996, aired 2019-05-20THE DOUBLE L WITH YOU $400: When talking about the U.S. federal budget, it's 1 followed by 12 zeroes trillion
#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
#7996, aired 2019-05-20THE DOUBLE L WITH YOU $800: Causing aversion, like a spray that fights off bugs repellent
#7996, aired 2019-05-20THE DOUBLE L WITH YOU $1000: Sheep fat used to make candles tallow
#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
#7994, aired 2019-05-16CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $200: A go-between, or a relationship that could be "dangerous" (7) a liaison
#7994, aired 2019-05-16CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $400: Potato pancake (5) a latke
#7994, aired 2019-05-16CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $600: Sane or easily understood (5) lucid
#7994, aired 2019-05-16THE ACCESSORIZED TEACHER $600: The First Amendment Center says public school teachers may wear non-obtrusive religious jewelry such as a cross or this; l'chaim! a Star of David
#7994, aired 2019-05-16CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $1000: A pale purple (8) lavender
#7994, aired 2019-05-16CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $2,400 (Daily Double): Fungi & algae combo (6) lichen
#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 2019-05-08SPELL THE BEANS $600: Sizzling cinnamon & juicy pear are 2 popular flavors of it J-E-L-L-Y
#7988, aired 2019-05-08SPELL THE BEANS $800: Geographic AKA of butter beans L-I-M-A
#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 2019-05-06INITIALLY YOURS $800: This guy started out with a 3-page flyer advertising his Maine hunting shoe; the catalog is bigger now L.L. Bean
#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
#7984, aired 2019-05-02TORY SPELLING $1200: Family name of the war hero better known as Wellington W-E-L-L-E-S-L-E-Y
#7984, aired 2019-05-02TORY SPELLING $2000: He's remembered for his 1917 "Declaration" about Palestine B-A-L-F-O-U-R
#7984, aired 2019-05-02TORY SPELLING $7,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Tory was nicknamed Dizzy D-I-S-R-A-E-L-I
#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 2019-05-01ONE "L" OF A DRUG $1600: Sing out the name of this brand used to treat fibromyalgia & nerve pain Lyrica
#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
#7983, aired 2019-05-01ONE "L" OF A DRUG $11,381 (Daily Double): The carbonate form of this is used to treat bipolar disorders lithium
#7969, aired 2019-04-1125 TCM $600: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) On TCM, I get to talk about my great-uncle Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won Oscars for writing & directing this 1950 film, the ultimate backstage drama where Bette Davis memorably says, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" All About Eve
#7966, aired 2019-04-08GET YOUR KICKS $200: According to the song, you can "get your kicks on Route 66" as it winds more than 2,000 miles from this Midwest city to L.A. Chicago
#7965, aired 2019-04-05COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: This Jesuit university not far from L.A.'s international airport is known as LMU for short Loyola Marymount
#7961, aired 2019-04-01AN APRIL TO REMEMBER $1000: On April 15, 1974, as everyone else paid taxes, this radical "Army", the S.L.A., was robbing a bank of $11,000 the Symbionese Liberation Army
#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
#7956, aired 2019-03-251960s AMERICA $400: On Jan. 15, 1967 the vast L.A. Memorial Coliseum had 35,000 empty seats for the first of these games the Super Bowl
#7951, aired 2019-03-18COLORFUL LIT $800: By James Ellroy & based on a real L.A. murder: "The ____ Dahlia" black
#7951, aired 2019-03-18THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $1600: The L.A. Times: "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a novel about" him, "Sherlock Homes' brother (and it's good!)" Mycroft Holmes
#7949, aired 2019-03-14ON THE MOVE $800: Manhattan subway lines the 7, the L & the S travel east-west, also called this direction crosstown
#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
#7946, aired 2019-03-11MOVIE PICTURES $200: Samuel L. Jackson has had it with them Snakes on a Plane
#7945, aired 2019-03-08SWAP THE VOWELS $2000: A British lockup can swap its vowels to become this netted area goal
#7939, aired 2019-02-28YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR $600: At the 2001 MLB All-Star game, Alex Rodriguez insisted that this retiring Oriole replace him as starting A.L. shortstop (Cal) Ripken
#7932, aired 2019-02-19AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: E.L. Doctorow's novel "The March" uses this general's 1864 trek through Georgia as its backdrop General Sherman
#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"
#7919, aired 2019-01-31SCRIBBLING SIBLINGS $600: "The Comedy Writer" is a novel of L.A. by Peter of these "There's Something About Mary" brothers Farrelly
#7918, aired 2019-01-30SPELLEMENTS $800: Cl C-H-L-O-R-I-N-E
#7918, aired 2019-01-30RECENT TV $1600: Disgraced L.A. lawyer Billy McBride has some "huge" issues to deal with on this Amazon show Goliath
#7917, aired 2019-01-29BUILDING BIG $1200: L.A.'s oldest jazz festival is held annually near these 100-foot towers bearing the name of an L.A. area the Watts Towers
#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
#7912, aired 2019-01-22SPECIAL DAYS $2000: A'phabet day, aka no "L" day, is punningly observed on this date December 25th
#7908, aired 2019-01-16UNLIKELY POP CULTURE PAIRINGS $400: The film "Ragtime" has Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien & at the other end of their careers, Samuel L. Jackson & her, "The Nanny" Fran Drescher
#7906, aired 2019-01-14FOUND IN TRANSLATION $400: Jean-Paul Sartre's "L'Être et le Néant" Being and Nothingness
#7903, aired 2019-01-09BARTLETT'S, A TO Z $1200: L: This one-named pianist with "I cried all the way to the bank" Liberace
#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
#7896, aired 2018-12-31AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): He wrote 1899's "Father Goose"; he came up with a "Wonderful" adventure the following year L. Frank Baum
#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
#7886, aired 2018-12-17WRITERS EXPOSED $800: Kids' author Robert Lawrence (R.L.) Stine
#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 2018-12-13THE FRENCH I TOOK $400: This word for hello! is the title of several books on basic French, including one that gives you help from Louis L'Escargot bonjour
#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
#7879, aired 2018-12-06AROUND LOS ANGELES $1000: The L.A. area has the Getty Center & the Getty this, a 5-letter word for a fancy residence & home to ancient Greek & Roman art the Getty Villa
#7869, aired 2018-11-22VWLLSS HWN $200: L (a necklace of flowers) lei
#7869, aired 2018-11-22VWLLSS HWN $400: L (a big feast) luau
#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
#7858, aired 2018-11-07OOPS ON STAMPS $400: A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L") illiteracy
#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
#7850, aired 2018-10-26NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1000: Diuretics are drugs that help rid the body of extra fluid; "Dianetics" is a book by him L. Ron Hubbard
#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 2018-10-18THE L YOU DON'T SAY $400: This light yellowish-pink color sure sounds fishy salmon
#7844, aired 2018-10-18THE L YOU DON'T SAY $600: Any oily substance of medicinal value derived from certain plants; you're the...! balm
#7844, aired 2018-10-18THE L YOU DON'T SAY $800: To fill the seams between planks to make watertight caulk
#7844, aired 2018-10-18THE L YOU DON'T SAY $1000: Limestone writing implement chalk
#7844, aired 2018-10-18ONE-LETTER RESPONSES $1200: Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time includes 2 by this L.A. punk quartet X
#7844, aired 2018-10-18ONE-LETTER RESPONSES $2000: In chess notation, this, not K, denotes a knight an N
#7839, aired 2018-10-11STOCK SYMBOLS $400: HD, DVD, A/V, L.E.D., HDMI... it's all here at this store--BBY Best Buy
#7839, aired 2018-10-11METEOROLOGICAL RHYME TIME $800: A daily record of the pollution in L.A. or Beijing a smog log
#7837, aired 2018-10-09TV FOR SHORT $200: This crime drama is doubly abbreviated "L&O: SVU" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
#7837, aired 2018-10-09BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $1200: Maine outdoor clothing company that moonlights as a number cruncher L.L. Bean-counter
#7833, aired 2018-10-03BRICK BY BRICK $1000: He wrote, "It was not long before they reached the road of yellow brick and turned again toward the Emerald City" (L. Frank) Baum
#7831, aired 2018-10-01NEWSY PUNS $800: From the L.A. Times: "Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 freeway, creates" this jam
#7828, aired 2018-09-26COLLEGE COURSES $600: RISD, short for this school, had a course on a li'l somethin' we all might want to know--"the meaning of life" the Rhode Island School of Design
#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
#7808, aired 2018-07-18A LITTLE SCIENCE $1200: We don't love this "L.A." when it makes our muscles burn during exercise lactic acid
#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
#7806, aired 2018-07-16CELEBRITY POSSESSIVES $1200: A famous L.A. chef's hockey projectile Wolfgang's puck
#7803, aired 2018-07-11LEXICON VALLEY $2000: This 8-letter name of an L.A. suburb & a Phoenix suburb is made of 2 different words for "valley" Glendale
#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 $800: Take a boat ride on this lake or disembark at the city of the same name to visit the Swiss Transport Museum Lucerne
#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
#7788, aired 2018-06-20THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $400: "Fifty Shades Darker" E.L. James
#7787, aired 2018-06-19HOOK, LINE & SINKER $1200: Orel Hershiser's sinker helped bring him the 1988 N.L. Cy Young Award & this team a World Series title the Dodgers
#7778, aired 2018-06-06A JOURNEY OF YOUR PIERS $1000: The solar-powered Ferris wheel is a highlight of the pier of this L.A.-area community Santa Monica
#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 $800: Figuratively, it's a place to start a project or career; literally, it's where a Saturn V rose from a launching pad
#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
#7752, aired 2018-05-01DOUBLE "L" WORDS $400: You can't make s'mores without this confection a marshmallow
#7752, aired 2018-05-01DOUBLE "L" WORDS $800: Often translated into English, "Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf" is this type of song a lullaby
#7752, aired 2018-05-01DOUBLE "L" WORDS $1200: Title shared by the heads of government of Austria & Germany & the chief administrator of a university a chancellor
#7752, aired 2018-05-01DOUBLE "L" WORDS $1600: It's another name for the esophagus the gullet
#7752, aired 2018-05-01DOUBLE "L" WORDS $2000: This bird is often hard to spot, but its song is easy to recognize a whippoorwill
#7749, aired 2018-04-26THE SPITTING IMAGE $1600: That's not Will Ferrell, it's Chad Smith of this L.A. band with a spicy name the Red Hot Chili Peppers
#7746, aired 2018-04-23HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $800: Losing his New Orleans customs job freed up H.L. Hunley to make this type of vessel he named after himself a submarine
#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
#7726, aired 2018-03-26GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $1600: The Dole Pineapple Company once owned 98% of this 5-letter Hawaiian island L-A-N-A-I
#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. $800: "I'm Losing You", "I'll Let You Go" & 2003's "Still Holding" are Bruce Wagner's showbiz trilogy named for this device a cell phone
#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
#7716, aired 2018-03-12LITERARY L.A. $1600: L.A. foster homes & poisoning with the white plant of the title are part of this Janet Fitch novel White Oleander
#7716, aired 2018-03-12LITERARY L.A. $2000: Michael Connelly says this cop & "Hollywood Station" author "took crime fiction to a whole new level" Joseph Wambaugh
#7712, aired 2018-03-06DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTIONAL UNIVERSITY $200: From L.A.'s Staples Center, take Figueroa past the 110 & hang a right on McCarthy Way University of Southern California
#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
#7710, aired 2018-03-02CHARITABLE FOLKS $1000: L.A. has a contemporary art museum & a playhouse named for this music & movie mogul David Geffen
#7708, aired 2018-02-28BOOKS TO BROADWAY $2000: Turning this man's "Ragtime" into a musical won Terrence McNally the Tony for Best Book (E.L.) Doctorow
#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
#7701, aired 2018-02-191970s MOVIES $1600: It's this 1974 Jack Nicholson L.A.-set mystery, Jake Chinatown
#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.
#7682, aired 2018-01-23FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Hebrew for "to life" or "to your health", it's used as a toast L'chaim
#7680, aired 2018-01-19THE BOSTON TANGLER $800: This great 19th-century bare-knuckle heavyweight champ was known as the "Boston Strong Boy" John L. Sullivan
#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
#7672, aired 2018-01-09SHOES $600: L.L. Bean sells these webbed-looking waterproof boots with an avian name duck boots
#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
#7666, aired 2018-01-01MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: A "warlike" Pat Benatar hit meshes with an L. Ron Hubbard novel "Love Is A Battlefield Earth"
#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
#7654, aired 2017-12-14SPORTS RECORD HOLDERS $1000: Don Baylor took 267 for the team to set the A.L. mark for HBP, this hit by pitch
#7650, aired 2017-12-08WRITERS & WRITING $2000: The title of a work by Aldous Huxley inspired the name of this 1960s L.A. rock band The Doors
#7649, aired 2017-12-07SPEECH OF PARTS $800: "Ezekiel 25:17... & I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance & furious anger those who... poison... my brothers" Samuel L. Jackson
#7648, aired 2017-12-06"L" ON THE MAP $400: This Nigerian city has about 18 million people & some estimate that will double by 2050 Lagos
#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
#7648, aired 2017-12-06"L" ON THE MAP $1600: This gulf was the site of a naval action also called the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea Leyte Gulf
#7648, aired 2017-12-06"L" ON THE MAP $2000: It's Italy's most populous region & a center of both agriculture and industry Lombardy
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Ellen Leyva with ABC7 Eyewitness News.) This southern California author has been especially successful with his Los Angeles-based quartet that includes "L.A. Confidential" & "The Black Dahlia" James Ellroy
#7646, aired 2017-12-04COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $2000: A clockwise tour of southeast Asian bordering countries is B, L, T--Burma followed by this pair Laos & Thailand
#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
#7637, aired 2017-11-21MILLENNIALS $1200: A European first, Leif Ericson may have landed around 1000 A.D. at L'Anse aux Meadows on this Canadian island Newfoundland
#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
#7626, aired 2017-11-06WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $800: Along with creating Ms. Gale & her little dog too, he self-published a book on interior decorating (L. Frank) Baum
#7626, aired 2017-11-06STARS' INITIAL SHOWS $800: Jason Bateman, 1981: "L.H.O.T.P." Little House on the Prairie
#7624, aired 2017-11-02BASEBALL RECORDS $1200: "My Oh My" is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' tribute to Dave Niehaus, the longtime announcer for this A.L. West team the Seattle Mariners
#7620, aired 2017-10-27THAT MOVIE HAD NO SEQUEL $400: "L.A. Confidential", "Escape from New York", "Beverly Hills Cop" L.A. Confidential
#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
#7616, aired 2017-10-23AN "L" OF A TEAM $1200: They chop down opponents for Humboldt State, & they're okay the Lumberjacks
#7616, aired 2017-10-23AN "L" OF A TEAM $1600: It's the gender-specific name of the University of Tennessee's women's teams the Lady Vols
#7616, aired 2017-10-23AN "L" OF A TEAM $2000: They howl for the University of New Mexico, entiende? Lobos
#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
#7609, aired 2017-10-12MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1000: Kids' author Pamela Lyndon (P.L.) Travers
#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 $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N
#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
#7598, aired 2017-09-27A NUMBER OF GROUPS $1000: It "Makes Me Wonder" if this L.A. band is well-red Maroon 5
#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
#7593, aired 2017-09-20BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $400: From a 1585 will, the only extant copy of the handwriting of this playwright shows he spelled his name M-A-R-L-E-Y Christopher Marlowe
#7588, aired 2017-09-13"L" $400: It's on the tip of your tongue... wait, no--your ear lobe
#7588, aired 2017-09-13"L" $800: Any anesthetic limited to a particular body part local anesthetic
#7588, aired 2017-09-13"L" $1200: These birds have longer tails and longer names than the very similar lories a lorikeet
#7588, aired 2017-09-13"L" $1600: Verb meaning to dissolve out via percolation leach
#7588, aired 2017-09-13"L" $2000: Don't be this 13-letter synonym for "lazy" lackadaisical
#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
#7584, aired 2017-07-27THE "STAR"S & "STRIPE"S $1000: If you're an L.A. County health career junior volunteer, you have this tasty job a candy striper
#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
#7579, aired 2017-07-20GETTING GEOGRAPHICA"L" $400: This Asian country on the Mediterranean is 40% Christian Lebanon
#7579, aired 2017-07-20FURNITURE $400: This type of sofa includes a piece such as a chaise completing an "L" shape a sectional
#7579, aired 2017-07-20GETTING GEOGRAPHICA"L" $800: This Swiss lake is also known as the "Lake of the Four Cantons" Lucerne
#7579, aired 2017-07-20GETTING GEOGRAPHICA"L" $1,000 (Daily Double): This island whose name means "Big Light" represents around 35% of the area of the Philippines Luzon
#7579, aired 2017-07-20GETTING GEOGRAPHICA"L" $1000: The ridge crest of this tallest Canadian mountain is about 10 miles across Mount Logan
#7577, aired 2017-07-18ICE CREAM COHENS $400: A Bugsy Siegel associate, mobster Mickey Cohen ran an L.A. ice cream parlor before being sent to this island prison Alcatraz
#7575, aired 2017-07-14ABBREVIATED NO. 1 TV SHOWS $1000: On ABC, 1977-1978: roommates "L & S" Laverne & Shirley
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE "L" IT IS! $400: From the Latin for "death", this adjective means capable of causing it lethal
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE "L" IT IS! $800: To make a down payment, then claim your purchase later after paying off the balance is this kind of plan layaway
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE "L" IT IS! $1200: A kid who spends part of the day at home unsupervised while the parents are at work latch key
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE "L" IT IS! $1600: The job of helping new mothers with breast-feeding problems is called this consultant lactation
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE "L" IT IS! $2000: Also found over a window or door, it's the technical term for this indicated piece lintel
#7561, aired 2017-06-26INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $1200: Billy Joel based this song on his experience playing at an L.A. bar called The Executive Room "Piano Man"
#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 2017-06-19NAMES YOU SHOULD KNOW $600: From this company Liliane Bettencourt can say, "Because I'm worth it" ($36 billion) L'Oreal
#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
#7549, aired 2017-06-08THE NEW DEAL $600: Among the thousands of projects built under the WPA was this observatory on L.A.'s Mount Hollywood Griffith Park Observatory
#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
#7536, aired 2017-05-22BOOKS $200: E.L. James added to her oeuvre with "Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by" him Christian Grey
#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
#7526, aired 2017-05-08PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $1200: As wee lads, most pirates got goosebumps reading his series of the same name R.L. Stine
#7524, aired 2017-05-04U.S. HISTORY $1600: John L. Lewis headed this pick-&-shovel-wielding union, the UMW, from 1920 to 1960 the United Mine Workers
#7523, aired 2017-05-03SUPERHERO TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $1200: Ghost Rider & Daisy Johnson (AKA Quake) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#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
#7504, aired 2017-04-06COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $400: E.L. Doctorow said he "liked commas" but "detested" these punctuation marks, a word he hyphenated a semicolon
#7499, aired 2017-03-30PEN NAMES $400: Helen Goff used the pen name P.L. Travers when writing about this magical nanny Mary Poppins
#7494, aired 2017-03-23DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND $200: Samuel L., Jesse, Reggie, Phil & Stonewall the Jackson 5
#7488, aired 2017-03-15WITH SCIENCE $2000: The 15 metallic elements at the bottom of the periodic table are "L"abeled these the lanthanides
#7483, aired 2017-03-08MUSIC SOOTHES $400: The L.A. County Fair has a contest for this type of singing, & also honors the hosts called KJs karaoke
#7482, aired 2017-03-07STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $400: En francais, c'est l'ecole school
#7480, aired 2017-03-03THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $800: Medical condition characterized by involuntary sleeping N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y
#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
#7474, aired 2017-02-23SPEED READING $800: Louis L'Amour: "The ____ and the Dead" Quick
#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
#7471, aired 2017-02-20ART & ARTISTS $1000: Paris' Musee de l'Orangerie is home to a set of "Water Lilies" canvases by this Frenchman Monet
#7470, aired 2017-02-17SERIOUS HARDWARE $600: The "L" you don't say in this iron you use to join metal objects together solder
#7466, aired 2017-02-13CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES $600: L.A. girls Zooey & Emily Deschanel
#7464, aired 2017-02-09PLAYING TRIBUTE $600: It's not just hearsay--L.A. & Liverpool both have bands named for this 1977 Fleetwood Mac album Rumours
#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
#7452, aired 2017-01-24WARTHOGS $400: A warthog's enemies include these 2 predators that begin with the same "L"etter lions and leopards
#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 $200: This pasta is 2-to-3-inch wide noodles with straight or rippled edges lasagna
#7443, aired 2017-01-11"L"THY FOOD $400: This super-stinky cheese originated in Belgium but now mostly comes from Germany Limburger
#7443, aired 2017-01-11"L"THY FOOD $600: This kind of soup is made from the lens-shaped seeds of Lens esculenta, a good source of protein lentil
#7443, aired 2017-01-11"L"THY FOOD $800: To make the popular Chinese dish chicken this, use boiled noodles mixed with stir-fried vegetables lo mein
#7443, aired 2017-01-11"L"THY FOOD $1000: Mmm, this spreadable stuff liverwurst
#7439, aired 2017-01-05FILE UNDER "L" $400: Convicts fleeing from the law are said to be "on the" this lam
#7439, aired 2017-01-05FILE UNDER "L" $1200: This type of fingerprint is not apparent to the eye but can be seen by dusting latent
#7439, aired 2017-01-05FILE UNDER "L" $1600: Meaning "allow", this word is also a synonym for "rent" let
#7439, aired 2017-01-05FILE UNDER "L" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's built into a fortress wall to shoot through; the tax code has a different type a loophole
#7439, aired 2017-01-05FILE UNDER "L" $2000: The school where Aristotle taught, it now refers to any hall where public lectures or concerts are held lyceum
#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 $800: This set of "Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper includes "The Deerslayer" & "The Last of the Mohicans" the Leatherstocking Tales
#7434, aired 2016-12-29"L"ITERATURE $1200: The first line of this D.H. Lawrence novel is "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically" Lady Chatterley's Lover
#7434, aired 2016-12-29"L"ITERATURE $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald died with this fifth novel unfinished; he may have wanted the title to begin "The Love of..." The Love of the Last Tycoon
#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
#7433, aired 2016-12-28MANET/MONET $1200: Monet's 1865-66 "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe", or "Luncheon on" this, was named after an 1863 Manet painting the grass
#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 $200: The name of this flavoring has also come to mean plain or ordinary vanilla
#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 $600: A metal capable of being shaped by hammering or pressure is said to be this malleable
#7429, aired 2016-12-22DOUBLE L $800: In fashion, types of these include Mandarin, Chelsea & ruff collars
#7429, aired 2016-12-22DOUBLE L $1000: John Dryden wrote, "What passion cannot music raise and" do this, meaning to pacify or quiet quell
#7426, aired 2016-12-19LETTER-WORD $1000: The movie "Awakenings" depicts the use of this drug, usually for Parkinson's, on catatonic patients L-dopa
#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 2016-12-155 "L"ETTER WORDS $400: This gate fastener consists of a bar that fits into a notch latch
#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 2016-12-155 "L"ETTER WORDS $800: A bedsheet or tablecloth linen
#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 2016-12-155 "L"ETTER WORDS $1200: It's a long rope used to catch horses & cattle a lasso
#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 2016-12-155 "L"ETTER WORDS $1600: The name of this grated potato pancake is related to the Greek eladion, or "little oily thing" a latke
#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
#7424, aired 2016-12-155 "L"ETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective means supple or marked by effortless grace such as the motions of a ballet dancer lithe
#7423, aired 2016-12-14STICK WITH ME $2,000 (Daily Double): More than 1 million fossil bones have been recovered at this sticky but popular L.A. tourist attraction the La Brea Tar Pits
#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
#7414, aired 2016-12-01ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Chicken & noodle dish from L.A.'s Chao Krung restaurant served when a tennis set goes to 6-all pad Thai-breaker
#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
#7411, aired 2016-11-28A SPELLING BEE $200: Adjective for lines that are the same distance apart at every point along their whole length P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L
#7411, aired 2016-11-28A SPELLING BEE $1000: Tagalog is a principal language of this country made up of more than 7,000 islands P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S
#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
#7395, aired 2016-11-04THE LIVES OF AUTHORS $1600: This "Magic Mountain" author left Germany for the same L.A. street where O.J. Simpson later lived Thomas Mann
#7390, aired 2016-10-28INITIALITERATURE $200: "L.C.L." by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover
#7389, aired 2016-10-27LETTER PERFECT $600: This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F, it's often silent L
#7388, aired 2016-10-26NUMERIC TERMS $1600: The main road between Chicago & L.A. before the interstate highway system Route 66
#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
#7385, aired 2016-10-21MUSICIANS' SIGNATURE MOMENTS $400: On March 27, 1987 this band played "Where The Streets Have No Name" on the roof of a downtown L.A. building U2
#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 $200: Throughout the '90s, David Hasselhoff & company kept L.A. County beaches safe on this TV series Baywatch
#7382, aired 2016-10-18L.A. TELEVISION $400: His trusty agent & close circle of friends helped film star Vince Chase navigate L.A. on this show Entourage
#7382, aired 2016-10-18L.A. TELEVISION $600: As inner city L.A. cop Vic Mackey on "The Shield", this actor wasn't above breaking a few rules (Michael) Chiklis
#7382, aired 2016-10-18L.A. TELEVISION $800: As this title fixer for the L.A. rich & famous, Liev Schreiber seems to solve everyone's problems but his own Ray Donovan
#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 $400: It's the fetching dog seen here a Labrador
#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 $1200: For the song "The Lady Is A Tramp", it was Lorenz Hart a lyricist
#7376, aired 2016-10-10"L"8 WORDS $1600: To suffer hardship; many are said to do it in prison languish
#7376, aired 2016-10-10"L"8 WORDS $2000: It's the word for the type of musician seen here a lutenist
#7374, aired 2016-10-06BRITISH SPELLING TEST $200: Parlor P-A-R-L-O-U-R
#7374, aired 2016-10-06BRITISH SPELLING TEST $800: Airplane A-E-R-O-P-L-A-N-E
#7374, aired 2016-10-06BRITISH SPELLING TEST $1000: Jail (more in bygone times than today) G-A-O-L
#7373, aired 2016-10-05ALLITERATIVE TV ACTRESSES $1600: Post-Xena, she's played Izzy on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." & Ruby on "Ash vs. Evil Dead" Lucy Lawless
#7372, aired 2016-10-04RISING $1600: Abbreviated C.O.L.A., it's a wage increase to help workers keep up with rising prices a cost of living allowance
#7368, aired 2016-09-28WHO'S THE BOSS? $400: Agent Phil Coulson, who survived death on the big screen Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#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
#7364, aired 2016-09-22INQUISITIVE WRITERS $2,600 (Daily Double): R.L. Stevenson wrote, “I had gone to bed” this man, “I had awakened” this other man. “How was this to be explained?” Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
#7363, aired 2016-09-21"POLY" WANT $600: An L. Frank Baum character has this 10-letter name because of her multicolored robes Polychrome
#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
#7361, aired 2016-09-19MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $800: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) At L.A.'s Griffith Observatory, the Astronomers Monument features 6 giants of the field: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Herschel & this Italian genius Galileo
#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
#7355, aired 2016-07-29SPELL THE FIRST NAME $800: The recent Oscars host known as NPH N-E-I-L
#7355, aired 2016-07-29SPELL THE FIRST NAME $1200: Donald Trump's current wife M-E-L-A-N-I-A
#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
#7351, aired 2016-07-25DUCK DAY AFTERNOON $800: French term that completes the name of a king that Martha Stewart makes with zest-- & juice: duck... à l'orange
#7351, aired 2016-07-25WHO MAKES IT? $1000: Preference hair color L'Oreal
#7349, aired 2016-07-21ON BROADWAY $1200: "Bright Star" shines on Broadway with music by Edie Brickell & this "L.A. Story" funny man Steve Martin
#7347, aired 2016-07-19L"UKE" $400: Franz Ferdinand's 8-letter noble title archduke
#7347, aired 2016-07-19L"UKE" $800: To express harsh disapproval of something a rebuke
#7347, aired 2016-07-19L"UKE" $1200: It's part of a whale's tail a fluke
#7347, aired 2016-07-19L"UKE" $1600: 7-letter term for a coin-operated phonograph a jukebox
#7347, aired 2016-07-19L"UKE" $2000: Thailand island called the "Pearl of the South" Phuket
#7345, aired 2016-07-15HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $600: A UCLA fight song begins, "We are the Sons of" this L.A. neighborhood Westwood
#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 2016-07-06HIT THE GYM $600: Crunch Gym offers a class that focuses on the lower body called B.L.T., standing for butt & these related parts legs & thighs
#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
#7338, aired 2016-07-06"L" ON WHEELS $2000: With 381 horsepower, the 2016 model of this Toyota behemoth can haul 8 passengers Land Cruiser
#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
#7332, aired 2016-06-28DOING BUSINESS ONLINE $400: "Favorites" from this Maine-based retailer include women's hiking boots & flannel sheets L.L.Bean
#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
#7325, aired 2016-06-17TOUGH AARON SPELLING WOMEN $400: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen's manipulative Valerie moved from Buffalo to L.A. & got busy with Dylan on this show Beverly Hills, 90210
#7325, aired 2016-06-17BECAUSE $400: The L.A. Dodgers went from 1967 to '76 & 1988 to '99 without having a game canceled because of this a rainout
#7324, aired 2016-06-16TIME FOR FRENCH $400: My friend & I get together dans l'apres-midi, during this time of day afternoon
#7317, aired 2016-06-07MUSEUMS $2000: L.A.'s Museum of Tolerance is an arm of the center named for this Holocaust survivor & Nazi hunter Wiesenthal
#7313, aired 2016-06-01IVY LEAGUE $600: L.A. restaurant The Ivy is a favorite of celebrities, hence also of these celeb-focused photographers the paparazzi
#7303, aired 2016-05-18LOUIS, LOUIS $200: With novels like "The Burning Hills" & "Silver Canyon", Louis L'Amour was a master of this fiction genre Western
#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
#7295, aired 2016-05-06PRONUNCIATION $800: This strip of fish can have a double L & a sounded T; McDonald's prefers a single L & silent T a filet (or a fillet)
#7292, aired 2016-05-03WRITERS ON FILM $1600: Emma Thompson in "Saving Mr. Banks": This kids' author P.L. Travers
#7284, aired 2016-04-21LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $800: E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city Boss Tweed
#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
#7265, aired 2016-03-25PLAYTIME WITH SHAKESPEARE $800: "A Y L I" As You Like It
#7261, aired 2016-03-21THE FRENCH MISTAKE, VOILA! $400: 2 scandals of this 2007-12 French pres.: cash-stuffed envelopes from a L'Oreal heiress & Pakistani arms deal kickbacks Sarkozy
#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 $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial.) Seeking a place for test flights with strong winds, privacy & sand for soft landings, the Wrights wrote a letter to the U.S. weather bureau & received a list of possible locations; this small fishing village on North Carolina's Outer Banks was just perfect Kitty Hawk
#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
#7249, aired 2016-03-03TIME OFF $1,000 (Daily Double): It's a peaceful & happy interlude &, perhaps fittingly, a homophone of a word for "lazy" idyll
#7249, aired 2016-03-03NONFICTION $1600: "The Modern Science of Mental Health" is the subtitle of this L. Ron Hubbard work Dianetics
#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
#7247, aired 2016-03-01CALIFORNIA PRO SPORTS TEAMS $600: David Beckham retired from Major League Soccer after helping this team win 2 MLS Cups the L.A. Galaxy
#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
#7235, aired 2016-02-12ACRONYMS $800: It's the word that gives laser its "L" light
#7222, aired 2016-01-26TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Agent Melinda May, Director Phil Coulson Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#7221, aired 2016-01-25SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: This table has the days of the month & year C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R
#7221, aired 2016-01-25SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: Joyous or cheerful, like Noel Coward's title "Spirit" B-L-I-T-H-E
#7221, aired 2016-01-25SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: A scary New Testament quartet is known as the Four Horsemen of it A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E
#7216, aired 2016-01-18GALLANTLY STREAMING TV $400: Title last name of Harry (aka Hieronymus), Michael Connelly's L.A. detective played by Titus Welliver Bosch
#7214, aired 2016-01-14THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road Black Flag
#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
#7199, aired 2015-12-24VAN THE MAN $1200: Van filmed 3 2009 L.A. shows so this bedridden, ailing one of "Charlie's Angels", a big fan, could watch Farrah Fawcett
#7198, aired 2015-12-23THEY MADE MARY $2000: Mary Poppins: This author P.L. Travers
#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.
#7192, aired 2015-12-15MED. ABBREV. $1200: L&D; it has to do with childbirth labor and delivery
#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
#7178, aired 2015-11-25U.S. MOUNTAINS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a view of Mount Misery at Valley Forge Nat'l Historic Park.) Mount Misery & Mount Joy, which make Valley Forge's valley, are said to have gotten their name from a miserable night this Quaker & state founder spent lost surveying the area, & the joyful next day where he could see his way William Penn
#7176, aired 2015-11-23YELLOW $400: L. Frank Baum wrote "The road to the city of emeralds is paved with" this yellow bricks
#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
#7170, aired 2015-11-13NAMING THE FIRST PRESIDENT $1000: Of Israel: L'him! (Chaim) Weizmann
#7167, aired 2015-11-10HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2000: This November observance, when girls court guys, began with a 1937 Li'l Abner comic strip Sadie Hawkins Day
#7164, aired 2015-11-05"L" OF A CATEGORY $400: Vigilantes "take" it "into their own hands" the law
#7164, aired 2015-11-05"L" OF A CATEGORY $800: A British elevator a lift
#7164, aired 2015-11-05"L" OF A CATEGORY $1200: Lucky's last name, or Pavarotti's first Luciano
#7164, aired 2015-11-05"L" OF A CATEGORY $1600: A certified competitive swimming pool has 8 lanes
#7164, aired 2015-11-05"L" OF A CATEGORY $2000: It's a melodic phrase associated with one character in an opera a leitmotif
#7162, aired 2015-11-03D.C. TV $600: Agent 86 & Agent 99 worked for the Washington-based intelligence agency CONTROL on this spy sitcom Get Smart
#7157, aired 2015-10-27DOWNTOWN CABBIE $800: Sure, I can take you to this L.A. sports arena where Kobe plays; you know it doesn't sell office supplies, right? the Staples Center
#7157, aired 2015-10-27TIMELY LIT $800: This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel captured the spirit of the U.S. from the turn of the 20th century to World War I Ragtime
#7139, aired 2015-10-01OF HAPPINESS $1000: In 1997 this French-named cosmetics company introduced Happy, a fragrance for women Clinique
#7138, aired 2015-09-30LITERARY CRIME WATCH $1200: Los Angeles-based novels by James Ellroy include "L.A. Confidential" & this one about an actual unsolved 1947 murder The Black Dahlia
#7137, aired 2015-09-29LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: A steamy E.L. James book becomes Canadian football's biggest team prize Fifty Shades of Grey Cup
#7136, aired 2015-09-28A "COOL" CATEGORY $400: It's the nom de rap of Artis Ivey Coolio
#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 2015-09-22REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $400: September is the awareness month for leukemia & this other "L" type of cancer lymphoma
#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
#7132, aired 2015-09-22"B"OOKS $1000: The French title of this existential work is "L'Etre et le neant" Being and Nothingness
#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 $800: At this Southern U.S. lake, you can tempt bass to bite with one of the artificial baits of the same name Lure
#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
#7115, aired 2015-07-17"L"AKES $2000: Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains are home to Lake Sidney this, named for a 19th c. Southern poet Lanier
#7115, aired 2015-07-17"L"AKES $3,400 (Daily Double): You take the high road & I'll take the low road to Milarrochy Bay on this Scottish loch Loch Lomond
#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
#7097, aired 2015-06-23NEW YORK POLITICIANS $800: A philosophy of Republicans, or the party of Senator James L. Buckley & his brother, losing mayoral candidate William F. Buckley conservative
#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
#7087, aired 2015-06-09POLITICAL VOCABULARY $400: The Nov. 8, 1972 L.A. Times headline was this type of huge "Victory for Nixon" landslide
#7082, aired 2015-06-02"L"EMENTARY $400: It's a raised embankment that prevents a river from overflowing a levee
#7082, aired 2015-06-02"L"EMENTARY $800: This Brazilian ballroom dance is often called the "forbidden dance" due to its sensuality lambada
#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
#7082, aired 2015-06-02"L"EMENTARY $1600: A jagged cut or wound a laceration
#7082, aired 2015-06-02"L"EMENTARY $2000: This group of organic compounds includes fats, oils, waxes & triglycerides lipids
#7080, aired 2015-05-29HISTORY $1000: Henri Christophe helped Toussaint L'Ouverture liberate this country, then tyrannically ruled its northern part Haiti
#7074, aired 2015-05-21BUSINESS ABBEV. $800: P & L: These opposites profits & losses
#7071, aired 2015-05-18COMPOSERS $1000: An "L" of a great pianist as well as a composer, he composed the "Liebestraum" or "Love Dream" heard here (Franz) Liszt
#7071, aired 2015-05-18LITERARY CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): L.A.'s corner of Hollywood Blvd. & Cahuenga, where this detective had an office, has been named Raymond Chandler Square Philip Marlowe
#7069, aired 2015-05-14WHAT THE "L" $400: It's the 8-letter term for the specialized vocabulary used by attorneys legalese
#7069, aired 2015-05-14WHAT THE "L" $800: Paul Bunyan could tell you it's a longer name for a logger a lumberjack
#7069, aired 2015-05-14WHAT THE "L" $1200: Trash usually ends up at this place, buried between layers of dirt a landfill
#7069, aired 2015-05-14WHAT THE "L" $1600: It's the University of Texas' football team the Longhorns
#7069, aired 2015-05-14WHAT THE "L" $2000: Freud popularized this word for sexual desire libido
#7067, aired 2015-05-12CITIES IN SONG $400: Randy Newman: "Looks like another perfect day, I love" this city L.A.
#7063, aired 2015-05-06TV ODDS & ENDS $800: The Facebook page for the Indiana Office of Tourism said they'd miss this retiring sitcom almost as much as Li'l Sebastian Parks and Recreation
#7061, aired 2015-05-04THE "L" WITH IT $200: It's a tennis stroke lofted over an opponent's head a lob
#7061, aired 2015-05-04THE "L" WITH IT $400: Before "car", it means a vehicle for hire, such as a limo livery
#7061, aired 2015-05-04THE "L" WITH IT $600: A plumber knows this item preceded "cinch" to denote a certainty a lead pipe
#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
#7061, aired 2015-05-04THE "L" WITH IT $1000: My dearest Millicent, if you take this alcoholic tincture of opium for your neuralgia, use just a drop a laudanum
#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
#7055, aired 2015-04-24THEY SAVED THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN $400: This "Singing Cowboy" of the movies & owner of baseball's Angels put his $27,700 to repair the second "L" (Gene) Autry
#7055, aired 2015-04-24THEY SAVED THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN $600: Last name of Les, sponsor of the first "L" & the man whose Blue Book tells you how much your car is worth Kelley
#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 $200: The title girl is the first word & also the last word of this Nabokov novel Lolita
#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 $600: This great Arthurian knight was dad to the pure Galahad Lancelot
#7044, aired 2015-04-09"L"ITERATURE $800: Garcia Lorca wrote one of these "for the Death of a Bullfighter" a lament
#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
#7041, aired 2015-04-06YOU MAY BE A WALNUT... $1000: ...if you're loaded with L-arginine, one of these alliterative compounds vital to growth & immunity an amino acid
#7039, aired 2015-04-02TEAM AKAs $1000: Blake Griffin helped turn this NBA team into "Lob City" the L.A. Clippers
#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 $600: It's a call an umpire can make regarding a ball hit down the line fair
#7033, aired 2015-03-25DON'T L ME $800: It's a color on Israel's flag white
#7033, aired 2015-03-25DON'T L ME $1000: A basic 4-letter category of food mentioned in 1 Corinthians 3:2 meat
#7032, aired 2015-03-24EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT THEM $400: E.L. Doctorow: "To... the public he appeared as some... German sexologist" Freud
#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
#7025, aired 2015-03-13PLAY ME... $400: This song that says, "It winds from Chicago to L.A., more than 2,000 miles all the way" "Route 66"
#7023, aired 2015-03-11SPY TECH $1,200 (Daily Double): A hub of cyberspying on U.S. institutions is the Shanghai base of P.L.A. Unit 61398, P.L.A. short for this People's Liberation Army
#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
#7009, aired 2015-02-19LAMB-POURRI $800: The L.A.M.B. shoe line, created by this "Hollaback Girl" singer, is an acronym for Love Angel Music Baby (Gwen) Stefani
#7003, aired 2015-02-11FASHION $600: L.L. Bean says, "From shirts to sheets, we're your... headquarters" for items made of this warm material flannel
#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
#6981, aired 2015-01-12PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $400: Think pink & name this web-footed bird up to 5 feet tall a flamingo
#6981, aired 2015-01-12PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $800: It can mean pertaining to earth, air, water & fire, dear Watson elementary
#6981, aired 2015-01-12PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $1200: To express sorrow or regret lament
#6981, aired 2015-01-12PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $1600: The act of granting mercy clemency
#6981, aired 2015-01-12PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $2000: It's the white of an egg albumen
#6978, aired 2015-01-07OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS $600: Designs by 2014 Lifetime Achievement winners Ivan Chermayeff & Tom Geismar include one for this L.A. museum MOCA (the Museum of Contemporary Art)
#6978, aired 2015-01-07LERNER & LOEWE SONGS $800: For "Gigi", L&L wrote of "The Night They Invented" this sparkling potable champagne
#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
#6975, aired 2015-01-02POLICE LINGO $600: When trying to locate a suspect, cops will often check this, his "L.K.A." last known address
#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
#6966, aired 2014-12-22KEEP ON TRUCKIN' $1200: A good reminder before backing up your truck at any time is the acronym "G.O.A.L."--"get out and" do this look
#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 $400: Eric Knight touched hearts with the 1940 novel imploring this dog to "Come Home" Lassie
#6960, aired 2014-12-12"L"ITERATURE $600: The villain of this novel is a cunning & vengeful Huron named Magua The Last of the Mohicans
#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
#6959, aired 2014-12-11TO LIFE $800: A song from this musical begins, "To life, to life, L'chaim!" Fiddler on the Roof
#6958, aired 2014-12-10POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $2000: Jimmy Stewart went from this mountain-named Eastern region of modest living to this L.A.-area city of the opposite Appalachia to Beverly Hills
#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
#6952, aired 2014-12-02SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: This Olympic sport that consists of 10 track & field events D-E-C-A-T-H-L-O-N
#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 2014-11-24STARTS & ENDS WITH L $200: It can mean progressive or generous liberal
#6946, aired 2014-11-24STARTS & ENDS WITH L $400: A continuation of a coat collar lapel
#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
#6946, aired 2014-11-24STARTS & ENDS WITH L $600: A type of move within an office that's not a promotion or demotion lateral
#6946, aired 2014-11-24STARTS & ENDS WITH L $800: Tip O'Neill wrote "All politics is" this local
#6946, aired 2014-11-24STARTS & ENDS WITH L $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a family tree diagram on the monitor.) Your sister's grandson is your collateral descendant; your own grandson is this type of direct descendant lineal
#6934, aired 2014-11-06TRANSPORTATION $2000: L.A.'s Angels Flight is an example of this short cable-drawn cliff railway funicular
#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
#6926, aired 2014-10-27ADD A LETTER $1200: To rescue from danger, perhaps by adding an "L" to make a medical ointment for healing save & salve
#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 2014-10-15TV GUIDE SAYS $800: "Coulson goes on the attack to save Skye's life" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
#6918, aired 2014-10-15WHICH SANDWICH? $1000: Philippe's in L.A. claims to have invented this dunky sandwich the French dip
#6914, aired 2014-10-09WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $800: ___ ___ Lewis cesium (Cs) (or chlorine (Cl))
#6911, aired 2014-10-06AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF SONGS $400: It took Sammy Hagar 16 hours to get to L.A.! "I Can't Drive ____" 55
#6907, aired 2014-09-30ARMS AND THE MAN $800: All that dunking & dribbling has been good for the muscle tone of this man's arms Blake Griffin
#6906, aired 2014-09-29"CAT" PEOPLE $800: Piscine nickname of the 1974 A.L. Cy Young award winner (yes, he had whiskers) "Catfish" Hunter
#6902, aired 2014-09-23DOUBLE-LETTER ENDINGS $1000: To sing with a vibratory or quavering effect to trill
#6902, aired 2014-09-23THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $1600: 6'3'' from Fairfax High, this author of crime books like "L.A. Confidential" James Ellroy
#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 $400: Small kingdom of southern Africa Lesotho
#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

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (74 results returned)

#9022, aired 2024-01-23U.S. BUSINESS FOUNDERS: A 1934 note to him: "Received hunting clothes... and thank you for those wonderful shoes they fit perfect... your friend, Babe Ruth" L.L. Bean
#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
#8807, aired 2023-02-14ART & SCIENCE: A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Halley's Comet
#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
#8479, aired 2021-09-30CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz
#8366, aired 2021-03-29AUTHORS: BOOK TO SCREEN: Horrified by the 1964 movie musical from her work, she okayed a U.K. stage version as long as "no Americans" were involved (P.L.) Travers
#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
#8044, aired 2019-07-251970s ALBUM REVIEWS: Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu" Hotel California
#7965, aired 2019-04-05EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Remove 2 letters from within the 6-letter name of this capital & you get the name of a capital from a neighboring country Berlin
#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
#7009, aired 2015-02-19POETS: On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L. of G. at last complete--after 33 y'rs of hackling at it" Walt Whitman
#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
#5671, aired 2009-04-13VIVE LA FRANCE!: AKA "Chant de guerre pour l'armee du Rhin", it was banned by Napoleon, Louis XVIII & Napoleon III "La Marseillaise"
#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
#4386, aired 2003-10-06AUTHORS: He chose a quotation by Scott Joplin as the epigraph for a 1975 novel E.L. Doctorow
#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
#4002, aired 2002-01-15ARTISTS: Marie von Goethem, a student of the Ballet de l'Opera, was the model for his most famous sculpture (Edgar) Degas
#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)
#3262, aired 1998-11-10FAMOUS NEW ENGLANDERS: Native New Englander seen here, modeling for his company's catalog sometime before WWI L.L. Bean
#3142, aired 1998-04-07CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS: He also created a 2-letter land called Ix L. Frank Baum (creator of the Wizard of Oz)
#3044, aired 1997-11-20ART: The Italian name of this 15th century masterpiece is "L'Ultima Cena" "The Last Supper"
#2920, aired 1997-04-18BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: First sold in 1912, the Maine hunting shoe was his first retail product Leon Leonwood (L.L.) Bean
#2869, aired 1997-02-06U.S. PRESIDENTS: The last names of 8 different presidents end with this 3-letter combination Son (Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, W.H. Harrison, A. Johnson, B. Harrison, Wilson & L. Johnson)
#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
#2607, aired 1995-12-26HISTORIC PEOPLE: Marie Antoinette called him "l'ambassadeur electrique" Benjamin Franklin
#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)
#1792, aired 1992-05-19ARTISTS: 2 of his major works are "Synagogue at Safed" (1931) & "King David" (1951) Chagall
#1321, aired 1990-05-07COMPOSERS: His most famous work includes "La primavera", "L'estate", "L'autunno" & "L'inverno" Vivaldi
#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
#690, aired 1987-09-11U.S. LANDMARKS: When he left to fight Civil War, the U.S. took his family's land & established Arlington Nat'l Cemetery on it Robert E. Lee
#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)
#310, aired 1985-11-15LANDMARKS: Popular name for the Jefferson Nat'l Expansion Memorial Gateway Arch

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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,...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother "He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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
David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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...
Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost "He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Marge Burgess, a homemaker from Glenview, Illinois Season 6 1-time champion: $9,601 + a trip from L.A. to...
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
Rachel Liptak, a substitute teacher from Temecula, California Season 29 2-time champion: $48,002 + $2,000.
Ashok Poozhikunnel, an underwriter from Wheaton, Illinois 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 29 4-time champion: $69,002...
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College "His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
Lauren Girard, a museum guest relations manager from Los Angeles, California Season 29 2-time champion: $51,000 + $2,000.
Crystal Leonard, a stay-at-home mom and substitute teacher from Upland, California Season 27 player (2011-06-07).
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Rob Groves, a classics lecturer from Los Angeles, California Season 29 2-time champion: $41,701 + $2,000.
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...
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Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
Nate Meyer, an attorney from Los Angeles, California Season 23 player (2007-01-26).
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Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC 2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania 1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
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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...
Thomas Talbot, a bookstore manager from New York, New York Season 22 player (2006-06-09).
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
Kevin Blackley, a service consultant from Los Angeles, California Season 21 1-time champion: $26,000 + $2,000.
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California "From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
Joshua Allen, a student from North Hollywood, California Season 21 2-time champion: $39,001 + $1,000.
Lisa Horowitz, a social media editor from Los Angeles, California Season 26 player (2010-03-22).
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana "She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
David Gibbs, an editor and graduate student from Los Angeles, California Season 21 player (2004-12-27).
Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
Greg Taylor, a lawyer from Glendale, California Season 21 player (2004-09-17). KJL game 48. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: 552
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...
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia "This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
Sara Harold, a mother and homemaker from San Diego, California Season 25 1-time champion: $11,500 + $1,000.
Laura Innes, an actress from ER "She's Dr. Kerry Weaver, attending physician on the top-rated TV drama...
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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...
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...
Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
Dan Rowley, an aerospace engineer from Westchester, California Season 20 player (2004-04-20). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: westchester guy
Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University 2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
Eric Idle, an actor and comedian from Monty Python's Flying Circus "A founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, he fulfilled a...
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri 2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
Alyssa Morgan, a museum collections manager from Pasadena, California Season 26 player (2010-07-28).
John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
Ali Binazir, an author and hypnotherapist from Santa Monica, California Season 27 player (2011-01-18).
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...
Justin Klos, a legislative staffer from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Season 25 player (2009-04-27). Last name pronounced like "CLOSE" (as in...
Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Marmi Maramot, a transplant data analyst from Los Angeles, California Season 25 player (2008-12-24). Web site at marmijeopardy.com. Jeopardy! Message Board...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California 2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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...
Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington 2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
Zac Showers, a college English professor from Geneva County, Alabama Season 25 player (2008-12-03).
Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington 2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
David Daniel, a writer and copy editor from Woodland Hills, California Season 24 2-time champion: $30,600 + $1,000.
Roy Arias, a building inspector from Rancho Cucamonga, California Season 23 player (2007-06-29).
Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas 2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
Dave Dye, an import specialist from Torrance, California Season 23 player (2007-06-20). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: TurboDave
Jane Kaczmarek, an Emmy-nominated actress from Help Me Help You "As Lois on Malcolm in the Middle, she earned seven straight...
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz "On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
Connie Walters, a freelance music teacher from Jamesville, New York Season 23 player (2007-03-22).
Mark Lee, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $67,500...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
David Hudson, Jr., an 11-year-old from Richmond, Virginia "If the L.A. Lakers don't have a spot for him, he'll...
Michael Bandiera, an attorney from Burbank, California Season 23 player (2007-03-15).
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
Inie Park, a research associate from Los Angeles, California Season 22 1-time champion: $10,800 + $1,000. First name pronounced like "EE-nee".
Karen L. Jones, a freelance puzzle editor from New Rochelle, New York Season 10 player (1993-09-06).
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...
Keith Thorell, an attorney from Altadena, California Season 24 2-time champion: $29,600 + $2,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
Alicia Aho, a bookseller from Seattle, Washington Season 22 1-time champion: $28,000 + $1,000.
Mark Lee, a sales manager originally from Peoria, Illinois 2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $67,500...
Eric Rosen, a production assistant from Los Angeles, California Season 22 player (2005-09-16).
William Love, a brick manufacturer from Los Angeles, California Season 22 1-time champion: $7,599 + $2,000.
Constance Swinger, a supervising deputy probation officer from Los Angeles, California Season 22 player (2006-01-10).
Rena Miller, a university instructor from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Season 22 player (2006-04-03)
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina "This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont "As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
Trisha Murai, a teacher originally from San Bruno, California Season 22 player (2006-03-27).
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York 2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky 2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado 2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...



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