| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $400: Montbéliarde cows are part of the herds in this nation's milk-loving la Gruyère region Switzerland |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $800: Known for healthy honey, the Greek isle Ikaria is this type of "colorful" place named for its population's longevity a blue zone |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $1200: Not far from the skyscrapers of this emirate metropolis is Camelicious, a company that provides camel milk, ghee & chocolate Dubai |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $1600: From Australia & New Zealand, this honey with a Maori name is said to have antibacterial properties Manuka honey |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $2000: India, the leading milk producer in the world, gets almost half of it from this beast not considered cattle a water buffalo |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Coca-Cola tycoon Asa Candler donated $1 million & 75 acres of land for what became this Atlanta university Emory |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ON THE MAP $2000: This "Land", an unclaimed region of Antarctica, bears the name of the wife of an explorer Marie Byrd Land |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $800: In Cairo in 1978 he said, "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land" Sadat |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $200: Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot Free Parking |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $800: The newest wing of NYC's American Museum of Natural History includes the Davis family vivarium of these; some may land on you butterflies |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $800: Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands Indonesia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $8,600 (Daily Double): Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land Libya |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: The Pyramids of Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom Kush |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $400: In 1997, Pathfinder parachuted onto Mars, and cushioned its land with these, also a safety feature in your Buick airbags |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $400: To defend against missiles, Roman legions linked shields in a formation called the testudo, Latin for this land animal a turtle (a tortoise) |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building is prohibited & nature flourishes a green belt |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SO FAR AWAY $1000: This wedge-shaped country seems small next to its 2 giant S. Amer. neighbors, but it has 5x more land than Holland & 5x fewer people Uruguay |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $800: Present country stretching across Europe & Asia at 6.6 mil. sq. miles & ex-German land stretching from that country to Belgium Russia & Prussia |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun Clemson University |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | STARTS WITH SOFT "G" $2000: Anthony Trollope's novels about Barsetshire concern the high class known by this 6-letter word, especially when they owned land the gentry |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $400: The Sandusky Register affirmed this as the law of the land with 1920's "court declares that dry amendment is constitutional" Prohibition |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Tennyson's poem about the land of these people, named for their diet, in which it seemed always afternoon, inspired a painting the Lotus Eaters |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AGRICULTURE $800: This founder of Microsoft became America's largest private owner of farm land, with around 250,000 acres in 18 states Gates |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $200: One of the most isolated spots on Earth, Bouvet Island lies 1,100 miles north of this continent's Queen Maud Land Antarctica |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: About the size of a billiard ball, the eye of this bird is the largest of any land animal an ostrich |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $200: A French horn's name is technically just "horn"-- & the modern version was born not in France, but in this land of Oktoberfest Germany |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 50% "OFF" $1200: The EPA says it's "from rain and snowmelt that flows over land or impervious surfaces" runoff |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $300: Walking on land causes Lo major agony in "Fathomless", an adaptation of this Danish tale The Little Mermaid |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $300: This strip of land in the Susquehanna River, seen here, was the scene of a big scare in 1979 Three Mile Island |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $800: Further from land than anywhere else on Earth, a South Pacific spot is called Point this, after a fictional captain Nemo |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $600: The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel Wuthering Heights |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $400: Almost as big as the continental U.S., it's the "southern" land Australia |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $1600: This Middle East nation is the "land of the Aryans" Iran |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $1200: Carol II, pre-WWII king of this northern Balkan land, lost support due to his liaison with the mysterious Magda Lupescu Romania |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $200: Songs from this 2016 film include "Another Day Of Sun" & "City Of Stars" La La Land |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | COUNTRIES INSIDE OTHER COUNTRY NAMES $400: Inside the name Somalia, you can find this other conflict-plagued land to the west Mali |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $800: You might not want to wear your tag if there's anyone here from this land you ruled from 1971 to 1986 Haiti |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $400: This man came & went in the highest office in the land Hoover |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $800: Sure, put mozz & parm in lasagna--as long as you have me, this spreadable wonder Bon Appetit calls "fluffiest cheese in the land" ricotta |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $800: A crater on the big island of Hawaii is said to be the home of this goddess, she, who devours the land Pele |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $100: One of history's first travel writers, the 4th-century pilgrim Egeria explored the Holy Land using this book as a guide the Bible |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | CRITTERS $200: It's the world's tallest land animal whose young is known as a calf a giraffe |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically" to grok |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | A FISH CALLED... $400: The "walking" type of this fish, the Clarias batrachus, can travel across land in search of water the walking catfish |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | COUNTRIES THAT BORDER INDIA $800: India's longest land border, some 2,500 miles, is with this nation that gained independence in 1971 Bangladesh |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $7,200 (Daily Double): Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer; its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury! Titan |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $800: Long a bestseller in this native land, Olga Tokarczuk found a world audience after her 2018 Man Booker & Nobel Prizes Poland |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $800: What? You drove all the way from Duncansby Head to Land's End in this country? No wonder you're tired! the UK |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES $400: Among landlocked countries, this war-torn Asian land is alphabetically first Afghanistan |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: "The Land of Count Dracula"
(You've never been to Transylvania in October?
You gotta go!) Romania |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: "The Land of Fire & Ice"
(Do its citizens really believe in elves? I guess we'll never gnome) Iceland |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Poets & Thinkers"
(Hey Einstein, it's pronounced "GUR-tuh" , not "GO-thee") Germany |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | FROM "B" TO "F" $2000: This large & powerful canine breed with an 11-letter name was once bred to protect game land from poachers a bullmastiff |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | REAL FAST $1000: Driving jet-propelled cars, Craig Breedlove repeatedly broke the world land speed record at this Utah spot in the 1960s Bonneville (Salt) Flats |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $2000: Radar? Nope. You land manually in daylight only at Paro, not far from the capital of Thimphu in this Asian kingdom Bhutan |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $2000: "The summer range lay above the tree line on Forest Service land on Brokeback Mountain" Annie Proulx |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | STATELY DEMONYMS $400: Meaning "child of the land", a Kamaaina is a person from this state Hawaii |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): This poetic name for the land of Robert Burns is in the name of a Canadian province Scotia |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: Cera, Littlefoot, Spike, Petrie & Ducky try to reunite with their families in this 1988 film set long, long ago The Land Before Time |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | OFFICIAL NICKNAMES $1000: Longtime president Nazarbayev decided this vast Central Asian country would be the "Land of the Great Steppe" Kazakhstan |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $800: Jerusalem's November 29 Street is named for the day in 1947 the U.N. voted to partition this British-controlled land Palestine |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $600: Alexis' mid-1600s reign saw peasants get tied to land & landlords & fall into slavery as this class serfs |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | LET'S CHECK YOUR FAMILY HISTORY $1000: In 1566 this "beefy" family got its estates included in the oprichnina, or in land run under the czar's personal hand Stroganov |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | DIASPORA $600: A 19th c. migration from this land began the community of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, with a Patagonian form of their Celtic language Wales |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG $600: At the X Games in 1999, he became the first pro skateboarder to land a 900--it was epic! Tony Hawk |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | COUNTRIES IN SHORT $400: A tourism slogan for this Middle East country is the "Land of Creation" Israel |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | CON MUST GO $800: The act of taking land by force abandons "con" to go on a this, perhaps to seek more land to take by force quest |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $1000: In 1864 it became the northernmost state to see land action when about 25 Confederate soldiers raided the town of St. Albans Vermont |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land" |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Baa baa, Kara Koyunlu, i.e. these, have you any land? Yes, in 1410 our alliance conquered from Azerbaijan south to Baghdad black sheep |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | EPONYMS $400: Servants of Loughmask House, the Irish residence of this land agent, were told not to work there, giving rise to an eponym (Charles) Boycott |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY $2000: Medieval Europeans believed in a Christian land in Asia under this king with a 2-word name & the Pope even wrote him a fan letter Prester John |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $1200: (Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding
/ Lilacs out of the dead land" enjambment |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $600: Created as a real estate ad 100 years ago in 1923, the Hollywood Sign originally had this 4-letter word tacked on to the end land |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $400: In a Grimm Brothers' tale, an evil queen looks at her wall & says these 2 words, asking, "Who in this land is fairest of all?" Mirror, mirror |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $800: In "When Wendy Grew Up", James Barrie changed the name of a fictional setting to this double-talk one Never Never Land |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | THE GEODYSSEY $3,600 (Daily Double): After getting blown off course rounding Cape Malea, Odysseus & crew arrive at the land of these very happy vegans the Lotus Eaters |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GET "EM"! $2000: A body of water that juts into land, or a window recess shaped like one an embayment |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | ARMY "ANT"s $200: This branch of the U.S. Army is its principal land combat force infantry |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $1200: Every year in the Yukon, 200,000 of these deer embark on the longest land mammal migration on Earth, sometimes up to 1,300 miles a caribou |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $400: Canal get a witness? The isthmus of this is the only land bridge between the Asian & African continents the Suez |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $1200: For killing his brother Abel, Cain was exiled to this land "on the east of Eden" Nod |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $400: This stone-slinging man also "smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive" David |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DIVIDED ISLANDS $1200: In 2022 Canada got a land border with a second country, agreeing to split a tiny island near Greenland with this European nation Denmark |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1200: For the centennial of its publication, Matthew Hollis' 2022 "Biography of a Poem" is about this culture-spanning one by T.S. Eliot The Waste Land |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATE NICKNAMES $800: In 1995 it officially changed its nickname from the "Land of Opportunity" to "The Natural State" Arkansas |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $600: It took 2 months, 133 ballots & a lot of negotiating for Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel Banks to land this job in 1856 Speaker of the House |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST $400: When visiting the southwest's Monument Valley, be respectful of this tribe upon whose land the ancient site sits Navajo |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $400: In 1989 it changed its official name in English to Myanmar Burma |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | SAY THE ROMAN NUMERAL $600: Land bordering Oz:
9 IX |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $800: The Caribbean coast of this Central American country is indented by a gulf of the same name Honduras |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $1200: It borders Brazil & the South Atlantic Uruguay |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $1600: It borders Brazil & the North Atlantic Suriname |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $2000: In 1984 a West African country took this 2-word name meaning "land of honest people" Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | THE WORLD OF MIDDLE-EARTH $200: This is the land where most Hobbits live in Middle-earth the Shire |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THE SUPERLATIVE EARTH $400: With almost 40,000 people in less than a square mile, this little land on the Côte d'Azur is Earth's most densely populated country Monaco |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $400: The Netherlands, meaning low-lying country, is also known as the land of these flowers tulips |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $600: Norway is known as the land of the midnight sun & the land of these medieval marauders the Vikings |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Hungarians know their country not as the land of the Huns, but as the land of this nomadic people who settled there in the 9th c. the Magyars |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $800: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame South Bend |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $800: His autobio said in 1835 Mr. Freeland hired him from his master, but he wanted "to live upon free land as well as with Freeland" Frederick Douglass |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA $1000: Nicaragua's longest land border is with this country to its north Honduras |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $2000: This type of govt. official sent to a foreign land shares its name with an elected leader in the days of the Roman Republic a consul |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | NATIVE AMERICANA $800: More & more common, land acknowledgements include Florida State University's--its campuses are on this tribe's land the Seminoles |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THIS IS HOW I WIN $600: Be last off the Battle Bus & land by a quiet spot instead of the Citadel; have a wide range of weapons & a medkit; use headphones Fortnite |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $1000: This seemingly Utopian land is the title of an 1872 Samuel Butler work, which he "Revisited" in a 1901 sequel Erewhon |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $400: Katherine Paterson built a bridge to a Newbery Medal with a "Bridge to" this fantasy land Terabithia |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: One legend says this son of Erik the Red came to America in a boat he bought from a merchant who'd told of seeing a land of trees Leif Erikson |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $800: This company still markets bananas from Guatemala; when it was United Fruit Co., it helped kill a 1950s land redistribution there Chiquita |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ancient Mesopotamia was the land "between rivers", these 2 to be exact the Tigris & the Euphrates |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | IN THE NATION'S CONSTITUTION $400: "On its land, Moses grew up, the light of God appeared, and the message descended on Mount Sinai" Egypt |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | COME ON GET HOPPY $800: A predominantly western U.S. steakhouse chain, or one who seizes somebody else's land for mineral rights Claim Jumper |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | WESTERN EUROPE $1600: The treasure chamber of this little Alpine land includes Faberge eggs & Moon rocks Liechtenstein |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | SOIL $600: Seen here, this type of farming to preserve soil & maximize arable land sounds like a backyard patio terrace farming |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: 2/5 of this nation is made up of areas of land called polders that have been drained & reclaimed from the sea the Netherlands |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $1600: This South American nation, whose name means "land of waters", was visited by Walter Raleigh in 1595, looking for El Dorado Guyana |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $1000: England's southwesternmost point is the tip of this peninsula in Cornwall Land's End |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | 3.7 TRILLION FISH IN THE OCEAN $600: Similar to the puffer fish, this fish, named for a spiny land dweller, can puff itself up to twice its size when alarmed a porcupine fish |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: It can be a praiseworthy feat or proof of ownership to a piece of land a deed |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | EVERYDAY LATIN $2,000 (Daily Double): An unexplored field of study could be described as this "unknown land" terra incognita |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SPECIES IN PERIL $400: The Fernandina giant this land reptile, native only to one Galapagos island, seems to be down in single digits in population tortoise |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | WORKERS OF THE WORLD $400: The Tolpuddle Martyrs were 6 British farm workers who were sent far away to this land in 1834 for trying to start a union Australia |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LEGALLY SPEAKING $2000: A right of way is a type of this, which generally means an acquired right to use another person's land for a special purpose an easement |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $200: Now a term for any dreamy society, this Thomas More land from a 1516 work was Communist & populated by pagans Utopia |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $400: In the illustration seen here, the title character is tied up on business in this land Lilliput |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: An area of land, or a pamphlet a tract |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $200: Greg Ham rocked the flute as Men at Work topped the charts singing "I come from a land" here Down Under |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FLYOVER COUNTRIES $1600: We hope you enjoyed your time in Iraq; now take in the Persian Gulf on our left as we cross this small emirate & land in Saudi Arabia Kuwait |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $400: The plateau of this disputed land is the major source of the rivers of South & East Asia Tibet |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Osceola was a leader of this people who resisted removal from their land in Florida in the 1830s the Seminoles |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | A BIT OF EVERYTHING $800: Ursus maritimus, this animal is amazing both on land & at sea, able to run up to 25 mph & prey on beluga whales polar bears |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PACIFIC ISLANDS $400: Vanuatu's Pentecost Island is widely believed to be the birthplace of this "land diving" sport in which a cord is tied to your feet bungee jumping |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $1000: Facts about this seabird: Its 3-letter name has 2 vowels, it has short wings & webbed feet & it stands upright on land an auk |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $1000: During World War I you didn't want to get lost in this area between opposing trenches no man's land |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | PREPARING FOR THE ROLE $400: To get into character as Sebastian in this film, Ryan Gosling had to work on his dance moves & his piano playing La La Land |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | A DECADE TO REMEMBER $800: The Pinta sights land; Savonarola falls & Machiavelli begins to rise in Florence the 1490s |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | HOW TALL/LONG/HIGH? $2,000 (Daily Double): 525 feet tall:
A flagpole built in this strip of land by North Korea to make a statement the demilitarized zone (the DMZ) |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | OUR FLAG MEANS... $400: The white band on Nicaragua's flag represents the land; the 2 blue bands represent these bodies of water it borders the Caribbean & Pacific |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: Named for a U.S. minister to Mexico, this 1850s purchase gave the U.S. an additional strip of land south of the Gila River the Gadsden Purchase |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | LATE 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: This 1997 novel finds Inman exiting from the Civil War & sojourning across a ravaged land back to his love Cold Mountain |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $400: We pulled some strings to tell you about Dagda, a deity in Irish folklore who played this instrument to put enemies to sleep the harp |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $800: He wrote a verse play about the Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt & Edvard Grieg wrote music to go with it Ibsen |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $1200: Georgia's state flower is this people's rose; legend says one grew along the trail at each spot where their tears fell Cherokee |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $2000: A spider & a trickster god whose origins are in West Africa lives as Mr. Nancy in "Anansi Boys" by this writer Neil Gaiman |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $4,000 (Daily Double): The feathers of this creature of Russian legend that lent its name to a ballet were said to provide beauty & protection upon the earth firebird |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | LESSER-KNOWN GEOGRAPHY $800: One of the last "Parts Unknown" that Anthony Bourdain took us to was this remote Asian "Land of the Thunder Dragon" Bhutan |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $1200: Known as the "land of the Inca", it's also home to Machu Picchu Peru |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | CATCH-2022 $1000: In a March address, this president declared, "We will not give up anything. & we will fight for every meter of our land" Zelensky |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | THE CHASE $600: (Brad Rutter delivers the clue.) While chasing prey like antelopes & warthogs, this fastest land animal can reach speeds of up to 70 mph a cheetah |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1802 Congress passed the act establishing the U.S. Military Academy at this site on the banks of the Hudson West Point |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $600: Marie Byrd Land on this continent was named for the wife of Admiral Byrd Antarctica |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $600: Everything is perfect in this type of imaginary land Utopia |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $800: In C.S. Lewis' "The Horse & His Boy", young Shasta & a talking pony named Bree travel to this magical land Narnia |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | "GO"ING PLACES $1200: Southeastern Wyoming is the land o' this county that shares its name with an ancient home of the Hebrews Goshen |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: Spain shares its longest land border with this country Portugal |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THE EX-COUNTRY $600: Gran this was a South American republic from 1819 to 1830 whose land included the rough area of 4 present-day nations Gran Colombia |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: People who entered the Oklahoma District before the designated time were first called this about 6 months after the Land Run of 1889 Sooners |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $1600: This queen told Solomon, "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom" the Queen of Sheba |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $1200: Get out of the Land Rover in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, called the birthplace of the "walking" this tour safari |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $1000: This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $1000: In feudalism, it was someone given a "fief", land & workers, in return for services to a lord vassals |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | EARTH $200: 277 miles long & found in the American Southwest, it's one of the largest land gorges on Earth the Grand Canyon |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE $800: Ernesto de la Cruz & Miguel got animated in the land of the dead Coco |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $800: These insects "did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left" locusts |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $800: A narrow sea between 2 pieces of land, or to interpret for a spirit as a medium channel |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | CITY PARK-ING PLACES $2000: Familiar from "Project Runway" season finales, this, named for a writer, shares land with the New York City Public Library Bryant Park |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | MARINE BIOLOGY $800: A new theory says that as cetaceans evolved from land animals, the nostril moved to the top of the skull & became this orifice the blowhole |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $800: This European nation has been nicknamed "The Land of the 3 F's: Fado, Fatima & Futebol" Portugal |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $2000: A 1787 land ordinance set policy & was named for this large region acquired in the Revolutionary War the Northwest Territory |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THE FARMER $1000: In feudalism a villein (with an "E") was a type of these tenant farmers tied to a hereditary plot of land a serf |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | COUNTRIES IN THE U.S. $800: In the 19th century William Holmes named a city in southern Minnesota this, after a river in the Holy Land Jordan |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | KEEPIN' UP WITH NASA $1000: The NASA program named for this sister of Apollo looks to land a woman (& a man) on the Moon by 2024 Artemis |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | CATCHING YOU SHORT $1600: You might only need a 500-foot-long runway to land an aircraft with STOL short for this short take off & landing |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THINK "BIG" $600: This national park in Texas has more land area than the state of Rhode Island Big Bend |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $1200: Electric vehicles have brought cash to Chile, a land with large reserves of this lightest metal element, used in batteries lithium |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | LANDMARK LEGISLATION $800: The 1862 act that provided money for land-grant colleges specified that they should teach mechanical arts & this agriculture |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: An uncultivated, wild tract of land & an inhalation heath & breath |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | MAP QUEST $400: The Hudson Bay Lowland & the Saskatchewan Plain are 2 of the land regions that extend into this Canadian province Manitoba |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | MAP QUEST $1000: This 200-mile strip of land along the coasts of Honduras & Nicaragua got its name from a people, not bugs the Mosquito Coast |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $800: During the ice age what's now this strait was a land bridge linking Asia to North America the Bering Strait |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $200: If you're traveling to Tunisia, you might want to learn this alphabet of its official language Arabic |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $400: Seen here is a sample of the alphabet for the most popular American version of this shorthand |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $600: Vowels in the Korean hangul alphabet are divided into "bright" & "dark" types, representing this duality yin & yang |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $800: A monument northwest of Yerevan celebrates the alphabet of this language Armenian |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $1000: The Cyrillic alphabet is used in the country called this; the "Inner" region uses one derived from Uighur Mongolia |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | THE ANCIENT MARINER $1000: Henry Allingham died aged 113 in 2009 as the last survivor of World War I's biggest naval clash, the battle of this Danish land the Battle of Jutland |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | HOBBIES $1000: Settle in with some needlework & crochet this cozy blanket that gets its name from the land of the Pashtun people afghan |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | OCEANS $600: A "point" in the Pacific that's the farthest from any land--1,670 miles--bears the name of this Jules Verne captain Nemo |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land" the cruelest month |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $1000: "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SMALL ADJECTIVES $400: In nursery rhyme land, it describes Willie Winkie wee |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series ice & fire |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $2000: Engulfed by Bolivia, Argentina & Brazil, this country is nicknamed "the island surrounded by land" Paraguay |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $1000: This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America a California condor |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 18th CENTURY $1200: In 1767 the invading Burmese army sacked the city of Ayutthaya, the capital of this neighboring land Thailand |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $400: This "Junior" oil heir who gave the U.N. the money to buy land for its HQ will always be a center of attention in New York City Rockefeller |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | STATE QUARTERS $1000: Minnesota's quarter displays the years 1858 & 2005 & this other number greater than those 2 10,000 |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | ON ITS BORDER $1600: Northwest Territories:
This territory, "Our Land" in an Inuit language Nunavut |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $1600: In 1992 the U.N. gave this country that had been occupied in the first Gulf War more land with more oil wells Kuwait |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $2000: To journey to another land &
an umbilicus travel & navel |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | WE'VE GOT THE RECEIPTS $200: The price of this 1803 land deal, including interest, came to a bit more than $27 million the Louisiana Purchase |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | HISTORIC PAIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): From 2013 to 2018 former First Lady Livia Klausova was Czech ambassador to this former partner land Slovakia |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 3-LETTER ANIMALS $800: This species of deer crossed into North America about 12,000 years ago using the Bering land bridge elk |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | WELL, IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY $1000: Under this 2-word treaty with Mexico signed Feb. 2, 1848, the U.S. acquired land making up today's Southwest for $15 million Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $1200: In song, "Some came from a land beyond the sea, from Boston and New York, but the boys who beat the Black and Tans, were the boys from" here County Cork |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 5 RANDOM THINGS $600: Astronauts Scott, Worden & Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land Apollo 15 |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | SURNAMES $2000: This last name of a land manager in Ireland came to be used for a refusal to do business with a particular company or country Boycott |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THAT 1770s SHOW $1200: The "One (lantern) if by land & 2 if by sea" in this building were not meant to signal Paul Revere, but allies in Charlestown the Old North Church |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $400: "'Independence!' cries the American world; bathed in the blood of its heroes the land of Columbus" Colombia |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $800: The mission of BLM, short for this, is "to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands" the Bureau of Land Management |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1903 Cuba gave the U.S. a lease on 45 square miles of land & water on this bay Guantanamo |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $800: Taiga, perhaps meaning "land of little sticks", is used for what's also called the boreal this environment the forest |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | EXPLORERS $2000: Lope de Aguirre was among those who sought this mythic South American land of gold El Dorado |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY $800: You can land on St. James Place, Pacific Avenue or Vermont Avenue in this oceanfront resort city Atlantic City |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The first great land battle of the Hundred Years' War was the 1346 battle of this village in northern France the Battle of Crécy |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: At one time, a nook was a measure of land equal to about 20 of these acres |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | LET ME IN!! $400: In Russia "face control" is the job of these "elastic" workers in charge of the promised land behind the velvet rope bouncers |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STATE YOUR BUSINESS $200: General Mills,
Land O'Lakes Minnesota |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | 12-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $800: Largely ranch land until 1906, this city known for its wealthy celebs is mostly surrounded by Los Angeles Beverly Hills |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE $1600: Marc Cohn began this hit with "Put on my blue suede shoes & I boarded the plane / Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues" "Walking In Memphis" |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | 3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS $2000: The existence of this land mass that ends with 3 vowels was first suggested in 1912 Pangaea |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | ISLANDS $1600: Scattered over 300,000 square miles, the CSI, this colorful sea's islands, have a land area of less than 2 square miles the Coral Sea |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | IT'S YOUR LOKI DAY $800: Father of the year Loki gave the world Jörmungand, the serpent that at this final battle comes from sea onto land, spewing venom Ragnarök |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | IT'S YOUR LOKI DAY $2000: It's time to give you this goddess, Loki's daughter who rules over the same-named land of the dead Hel |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Paul Revere's lantern signal system (according to Longfellow) gets interpreted by a species of eared seal one if by land, two if by sea lion |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Lee Zurik.) Holding the title of longest continuous bridge over water in the world, the 23-mile Causeway over this lake finds drivers losing sight of land Lake Pontchartrain |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: Truly "The People's Princess", Diana crusaded against these weapons of war & after her death, 160-plus nations agreed to ban them land mines |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Gold found on his land in 1848 ruined this California man; people destroyed his property looking for more & by 1852 he was bankrupt Sutter |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | LITERARY MUSEUMS $400: Head to Wamego, Kansas for a museum dedicated to this fictional land created by L. Frank Baum Oz |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | SUCCULENTS $800: This desert tree was named for its resemblance to a biblical leader pointing the way to the promised land Joshua tree |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | TRANSPORTATION $1600: In 2010 Rocky Robinson reached 376.363 miles per hour, the fastest land speed ever riding one of these a motorcycle |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ROMAN MYTHOLOGY $800: Strange for a sea god, but Neptune is credited in Roman mythology with creating these land animals used for transport horses |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1200: A rare pink species of this land reptile lives around a volcano on Isabela Island in the Galápagos an iguana |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | PILGRIMS' PROGRESS $2000: One could make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land like St. Helena, mother of this first Christian Roman emperor, did Constantine |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | VENUS $400: Continent-sized land forms on Venus called terrae are named for Ishtar & this Greek counterpart of Venus Aphrodite |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $2000: Secure a boat, or uncultivated land in Britain covered with grass & heather moor |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | FAIRY TALES: A CLOSER LOOK $1000: An anthropomorphic cat with an interesting fashion sense murders rabbits, kills an ogre & steals land for his friend "Puss in Boots" |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | AMERICA IN THE 19-AUGHTS $1000: A 1903 treaty would've leased the U.S. a strip of land across this isthmus; the U.S. Senate ratified it, but Colombia's didn't Panama |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY $1000: Prince Philip spent 15 years designing his hearse from this automotive brand; in 2021 it came into use Land Rover |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | THE LANDLOCKED NATION $1,000 (Daily Double): After WWI this Central European country broke away from a dual monarchy but lost about 2/3 of its land Hungary |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2000: A line from Eliot's "The Waste Land" gave this British novelist the title "A Handful of Dust" Evelyn Waugh |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | EPIDEMIOLOGY $400: This 3-letter epidemiological organization is located in Atlanta on land provided by Emory University the CDC |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | MONOPOLY: SPECIAL EDITIONS $400: You might land on Bike Share or Week-Long Meditation Retreat in "Monopoly for" these folks born between 1981 & 1996 Millennials |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $2,500 (Daily Double): Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade the Teutonic Knights |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | "NOD" $200: It's where Cain lived, a place for kids to go at bedtime or an oddly named Yorkshire village the Land of Nod |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: Magyar is another name for these people, many of whom reside in a country known as the "Land of Magyars" Hungarians |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE FLYING... $1600: In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun" (Sally) Field |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $800: He gets a new job with a Mancha, Mancha man who promises future land ownership, but things don't exactly work out Sancho Panza |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | PENINSULAS $400: In 1985 the Supreme Court said this 118-mile-long piece of land forming part of NYC is a peninsula Long Island |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN $200: The Eisenhower Institute says Ike was in retirement "an amateur painter, & a gentleman" this man of the land a (gentleman) farmer |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE WILD WEST $600: A cavalry bugle at noon on April 22, 1889 began a massive land run in this territory Oklahoma |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1200: After the death of Moses, Joshua leads the Israelites in their conquest of this promised land Canaan |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | LOST $5,000 (Daily Double): The biblical Asher & Zebulun were 2 of these that, despite the name, reached the Promised Land the lost tribes of Israel |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT $800: The U.S. Grazing Service was one of the precursor agencies to this bureau that controls 245 million acres Land Management |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | ANTON CHEKHOV $1600: Chekhov's last play is about a woman who must decide if she wants to allow houses to be built on this title plot of land The Cherry Orchard |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $200: This turtle, also the symbol of the University of Maryland, is at home both in water & on land a terrapin |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | HURRICANES $600: A hurricane "makes" this when its center, not its outer edge, crosses a coastline land (landfall) |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR $800: A Templar church has been called London's first this type of place; Pilgrims would deposit money there & withdraw it in the Holy Land a bank |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Bernard Cornwell's low-born soldier has his first adventure in "Sharpe's Tiger", which takes place in this Asian land during British rule India |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | EUROPEAN PENINSULAS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this French region that protrudes into the Atlantic has a name related to the land to its north Brittany |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | HOMONYMS $600: The tilt of an aircraft when turning & the land alongside a river bank |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $400: The land of Oz, before & after Dorothy dropped in Wicked |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | LAND OF NICKNAMES $200: The "Land of the Pharaohs" Egypt |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | LAND OF NICKNAMES $400: The "Land of the Inca" Peru |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | LAND OF NICKNAMES $600: Translated from a Maori name, the "Land of the Long White Cloud" New Zealand |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | LAND OF NICKNAMES $1000: The "Land of the Khmer" Cambodia |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | LAND OF NICKNAMES $1,600 (Daily Double): The "Land of Genghis Khan" Mongolia |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | BEACH-Y KEEN $1000: This alliterative phrase that mentions the land closest to the sea means that it's safe to proceed & have a great time the coast is clear |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $400: 4,840 square yards of land & a type of athletic contest acre & race |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | A SIDE OF CHILE $600: Kristine Tompkins, who gave land for five national parks, joins Chile's president in this region, also the outdoor company she ran Patagonia |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | ODD STATE FACTS $200: An amendment to have court psychologists dress as wizards was jokingly proposed in this state; it is the "Land of Enchantment"... New Mexico |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | DESERT ISLAND READS $400: Civil War P.O.W.s crash land in a hot air balloon onto this French author's "Mysterious Island" Jules Verne |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | GAME $200: Since we're all about tennis, if you serve a ball that doesn't land in the proper service box, it's one of these a fault |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | "AD" IN $800: Home to a species of penguin, this Antarctic land was named by French explorer Dumont d'Urville for his wife Adelie |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In "Stranger in a Strange Land", this author came up with "grok", meaning to understand someone thoroughly Robert Heinlein |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $2000: The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture The Waste Land |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote this song because he was sick of hearing "God Bless America" "This Land Is Your Land" |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $1600: A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women Hadassah |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | THE 18th CENTURY $1600: Seen here as a model, the post--this word from the French--was the first comfortable wheeled land transport the post chaise |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | WELL VERSED IN POETRY $800: "The Waste Land" begins with the declaration that this "is the cruellest month" April |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | POP CULTURE $800: On Oscar night in 2017, this film took home 6 awards, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle La La Land |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $1200: This big black buffalo is named for a bit of land in way southern Africa Cape buffalo |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | A WHOPP"INGTON" OF A CITY $400: In 1790 Congress set aside land for this city Washington, D.C. |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | PLAY THAT FOLKY MUSIC $1200: 1940s folk supergroup the Almanac Singers included Pete Seeger & this other legend & writer of "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $400: It's paired with Odessa in a region of West Texas Midland |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $600: Volcanic activity created Surtsey Island off its coast in 1963 Iceland |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $800: Mills College, the first women's college west of the Rockies, is located in this Bay Area city Oakland |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | IN-CAR-CERATED $1000: The rally race named for this capital of Senegal features 12-hour shifts behind the wheel dodging camels & land mines Dakar |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $1000: The Pomeranian Lakeland has more than 1,000 lakes in this country Poland |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | KING $200: "In the land of" these people, "the one-eyed man is king" the blind |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Tribes are counted, wander in the desert & reach the borders of the promised land Numbers |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $800: This process of supplying agricultural land with water often can involve a system of canals or pipes irrigation |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $200: "Stranger in a Strange Land" refers to this leader exiled in Exodus; his son's name means "stranger there" Moses |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $400: While a student at Boston University, MLK met this 1951 enrollee of the New England Conservatory of Music Coretta Scott |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | FOSTERING "UNITY" $600: When you land on this space in Monopoly, you must take the top yellow card Community Chest |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $800: Here's this astronaut with his identical twin brother Mark Scott Kelly |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $1200: In a 1977 biopic Billy Dee Williams played this ragtime pianist who dreamed of having his opera produced Scott Joplin |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $1600: Before legal novels like "The Burden of Proof", he wrote about the Harvard law experience in "One L" Scott Turow |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $2000: In the Mexican War, this American general's forces captured Veracruz in 1847 Winfield Scott |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | LITERARY SETTINGS $400: Gillikin Country & Winkie Country are 2 divisions in this 2-letter land Oz |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | ASIA $400: Powerful mountain storms helped the small kingdom of Bhutan get the moniker "Land of the Thunder" this mythical beast a dragon |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | 6-LETTER COUNTRIES $200: It occupies about half the land mass of the South American continent Brazil |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | NECK & NECKING $200: The longest nerve on any land creature runs inside the neck of this animal a giraffe |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $1600: In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land" a lantern |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES $400: Sebastian, an idealistic piano player La La Land |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BORDERS $1600: Manzhouli is a town on the border between China's region of Inner this this land, & as you see, Russia Mongolia |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | TOYS & GAMES $400: While recovering from polio in 1948, teacher Eleanor Abbott invented this "sweet" board game for the children in the ward to play Candy Land |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | GLOVE $800: Right-handed participants in this hunting sport wear a leather glove on the left hand for the hawk to land on falconry |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | SNAP $600: The camera seen here from this company, founded by Edwin Land, was known to get you your picture in a snap, so shake it Polaroid |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | THE BOAT, ASHORE $200: Used by U.S. Marines in World War II, the "Alligator" was an AAV, this type of assault vehicle capable of moving on land & water amphibious |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $400: "This Land Is Your Land" does cover the country, "from" here "to the New York island" California |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | THE BOAT, ASHORE $800: Able to launch on land or sea, the first hovercrafts were made to travel this narrow arm of the Atlantic the English Channel |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | COUNTRIES' TRANSLATED NAMES $200: "Land of the Angles" (Europe) England |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | COUNTRIES' TRANSLATED NAMES $800: "Land beside the silvery river"
(South America) Argentina |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $600: There are still about 10,000 Jews in this country, the most in any Mideast Muslim land Iran |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | MIXED BAG $2000: Queen Maud Land in Antarctica is a dependency of this country where Maud was queen consort Norway |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS $500 (Daily Double): The NHA website for this region of the Mississippi River describes it as "the land where the blues began" the Mississippi Delta |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $800: This choreographer of "La La Land" & "So You Think You Can Dance" has the same name as a "This Is Us" actress Mandy Moore |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $600: In "A Grief Observed", he left the land of Narnia to grapple with his feelings of loss after his wife's death C.S. Lewis |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $2,200 (Daily Double): As a title character he's only a prince, but Caspian eventually becomes a king in this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | FARMING U.S.A. $1000: This act that gave people 160 acres to develop took effect in 1863; land claimed peaked 50 years later at 11 million acres the Homestead Act |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Young Miguel meets up with some of his ancestors in the Land of the Dead in this Disney Pixar film Coco |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MARCO POLO SLEPT HERE $400: At Hormuz on this gulf, Marco & co. didn't like the looks of the available ships & went on by land the Persian Gulf |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1832, hoping to reclaim land in Illinois, this Sauk leader led Native Americans against U.S. forces in a months-long war Black Hawk |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | FICTIONAL PLACES $400: Gulliver travels to this land whose residents are less than 6 inches tall Lilliput |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Sauron, the dark lord of this land, has ambitions to rule all of Middle-Earth Mordor |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | VERY PURITANICAL $1600: A Puritan idea that land not being farmed was theirs to take led to the Pequot War, ended by the Treaty of this Conn. capital Hartford |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | COMMON LATIN $400: "Firma" or not, this is the Latin word for "land" terra |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | AMERICAN ACCESSIONS $400: The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the greatest land bargain in U.S. history" the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL $2000: Land promised to Abraham in Genesis Canaan |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | SINGING FOR YOUR OSCAR $1600: "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" in "La La Land" Emma Stone |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | HISTORIC WOMEN $600: A freed slave chose this name for herself because she felt a call to "travel up & down the land" to preach the word of God Sojourner Truth |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | PUT IT IN THE CABINET DEPARTMENT $600: The Bureau of Land Management the Interior |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE $1000: Name it whatever you want, Mr. the Great! In 1703 the czar founded this city on land taken from Sweden; around 5 mil. live there now St. Petersburg |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | THE 15th CENTURY $400: Around 1494 he deluded himself into believing Hispaniola was the biblical "land of Sheba"; he'd later leave his brothers there Columbus |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | A 20th CENTURY DECADE $200: The first humans land on the Moon the 1960s |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | TAXES $200: Primarily imposed on land & buildings, in the U.S. it can be extended to farm equipment & automobiles property tax |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $800: Go due west on land from Newfoundland & Labrador to this large province Quebec |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | FOXES $800: This species, also known as the common fox, is the most widely distributed carnivore on land the red fox |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | LOVE, ACTUALLY $800: You've cast this 11-letter spell on me; New Mexico is the "Land of" it enchantment |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | BIBLE-POURRI $400: At the end of the Pentateuch, this leader of the Israelites "whom the Lord knew face to face" died in the land of Moab Moses |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | EUROPE $400: The Greek hero Pelops gave his name to the Peloponnese, this type of land mass that also starts with a "P" peninsula |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | MICRONATIONS $200: Made up of 5 islands off this continent, Flandrensis says it's the only country that doesn't want its land inhabited by people Antarctica |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | MICRONATIONS $400: In 2015 unclaimed land in the former Yugoslavia on a bank of this large "blue" river became the Free Republic of Liberland the Danube |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | PIC-POURRI $400: Oh, give me a home where the buffalo or bison roam in this national park; it has the largest number of them on public land Yellowstone |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | HITTITES $1600: Written soon after a king died of this disease, a prayer named for it asks, will it "never be eliminated from the land of Hatti?" the Plague |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | EUROPE $2000: This country on the Balkan Peninsula is nicknamed "Land of the Eagles" Albania |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LATITUDE $400: France lays claim to Adelie Land, though at 66 degrees 30 minutes south, it's part of this continent Antarctica |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | GAMES $400: Peppermint Stick Forest & Molasses Swamp were 2 tasty locations in the classic version of this board game Candy Land |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $1000: From the Bible: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and" this upright |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | RAISE THE FLAG $600: In a third verse this title object "in triumph doth wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave" the star-spangled banner |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | ON THE GLOBE $1600: In 1986 this country got a new province, Flevoland, built completely on reclaimed land the Netherlands |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | GOOD STUFF IN 2020 $400: At the Columbus Zoo, male & female cubs of this fastest land mammal were born via in vitro fertilization for the first time a cheetah |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | EARTH, WIND & FIRE $1600: Much of the business district in this New Zealand capital lies on reclaimed land after an 1855 earthquake raised its harbor bed Wellington |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | JUST DESERTS $2000: Locals call the bleak Skeleton Coast where the Atlantic meets this desert "The Land God Made in Anger" the Namib (Desert) |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | HEAVEN OR HELL $200: A 2-word synonym for heaven, it's the "land" of Canaan in Genesis reserved for Abraham & his descendants the Promised Land |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | HEAVEN OR HELL $1000: A famed Paris avenue bears the name of this blessed land where Greek heroes are sent in the afterlife the Elysian Fields |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: To wander through the land of the Caesars roam Rome |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This 2-word concept was used to justify the acquisitions of Oregon territory, California & Mexican land in the southwest Manifest Destiny |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: One who has left his or her native land; Americans living in, say, Ecuador form this "community" expatriate |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $200: Haiphong Vietnam |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $400: Piraeus Greece |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $600: Incheon, also home to this country's busiest airport South Korea |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $800: Port Said East Egypt |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PORT LAND $1000: Colón, founded in 1850 Panama |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $1600: "And" he "went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $400: The name of this N.J. city across the Hudson from Manhattan comes from Native American words meaning "land of the tobacco pipe" Hoboken |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $800: La Santa Sede is the local version of this official name of Vatican City the Holy See |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $1200: Sapporo is the major city on this island Hokkaido |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $1600: It's the state capital seen on the map here Hobart |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $2000: Denmark & Germany long squabbled over the region known as Schleswig-this Holstein |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | A PITCH FOR A HAPPIER MOVIE ENDING $400: I agree, the 2 title ladies leap off the cliff in their car...but! But! They "Smokey & the Bandit" the canyon & land safely! Thelma & Louise |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | SPORTS TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crews presents by a display monitor.) Tennis players shouldn't linger in this area between the service line and the baseline where returns are hard to hit; it shares its name with an area between trenches that World War I soldiers also wanted to avoid no man's land |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FAMOUS CANADIANS $800: This Canadian star of "La La Land" has written letters to KFC & McDonald's on behalf of PETA Ryan Gosling |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | THE LION KING $800: The king of the African country of Eswatini, formerly called this "land", has the title ngwenyama, or "lion" Swaziland |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $2000: A 1513 map labeled America with this Latin phrase for "unknown land"; in a 1522 version that became "Terra Nova" terra incognita |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | OLD HISTORY $400: In 1187 Pope Gregory VIII called for the third of these military expeditions to the Holy Land a crusade |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | ANAGRAMMED REPTILES $200: Slow mover on land:
TOE RIOTS a tortoise |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $200: In Exodus God says he wants to take the Israelites "unto a land flowing with" this pair milk and honey |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | INVENTIONS $1600: Smile & say cheese if you know that Edwin Land developed this name brand item, first sold in 1948 Polaroid |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | GIVING OUT "IOUS" $400: Able to live both on land & under water amphibious |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA $400: This addition to the nation during Jefferson's tenure included land that would end up being part of 15 states the Louisiana Purchase |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | GEOLOGY $800: One of the 3 main types of rock, it's formed by the buildup of material either on land or underwater sedimentary |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | EXPLORERS $1000: The island of Van Diemen's land, a name associated with Australian penal colonies, was renamed in 1855 for this Dutch explorer (Abel) Tasman |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | TRANSPORTATION $2,500 (Daily Double): The vehicle of choice on the Oregon Trail was this wagon with a type of flat land in its name a prairie schooner |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $400: A basin is a land area drained by a river; 2 basins can be separated by a ridge called this, like a continental one a divide |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $3,200 (Daily Double): This is a narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger land areas, like the one connecting North & South America an isthmus |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | PULITZER-WINNING JOURNALISM $1200: A Christian Science Monitor reporter won in 1996 for covering a massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica in this former Yugoslav land Bosnia |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: 4-letter word for a piece of land granted to a feudal vassal by a lord a fief |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $400: If you put up with a lot, you have "the patience of" this Old Testament man from the land of Uz Job |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka La La Land of the Lost |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS $600: Abbreviated DZ, it's the area where airborne troops, equipment or supplies are expected to land a drop zone |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | EARTH HISTORY $800: Land plants are about 450 mil. years old, but evolution didn't bring us these colorful seed-bearing parts until about 130 MYA flowers |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | POUND! SAND! $1600: He dedicated his poem "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound, "il miglior fabbro" ("the better craftsman ") (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | COMPOSERS $1200: One of England's most beloved tunes is the one by Hubert Parry named for this faraway Mideast city [Listen.] Jerusalem |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $2000: In 1967 part of Nigeria broke off & declared its independence as this land Biafra |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | RECOGNIZING THE COUNTRY $1000: The expanse of Long Island to Georgia is about the size of this troubled Asian land Afghanistan |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | HOMOPHONE CALLS $800: A small piece of land in the sea, or a theater walkway isle [aisle] |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | SCHOOL DAYS $400: Adam Sandler's song "Lunch Lady Land" says, "yesterday's meatloaf is today's" this sloppy joe |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | HISTORY $200: While the Crimean War was raging, this mountainous land fought a less well-known war with its neighbor Tibet Nepal |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $800: O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land "O Little Town of Bethlehem" |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: To give a break to those who fight conflagrations, this strip of cleared land helps stem the spread of a prairie fire a firebreak |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The only land border between the Netherlands & France is on this 34-square-mile Caribbean island split between them Saint Martin |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: Oddly, this word, land overgrown with tropical vegetation, is from Sanskrit for dry ground or desert a jungle |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | GREAT DANES $800: Let's get something strait; in 1724 Peter the Great appointed this Dane to find out if Asia & North America were connected by land (Vitus) Bering |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | C'MON, THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $1600: Newsflash, 338 B.C.! I'm hearing Philip II, ruler of this land, has taken Greece & I, for one, welcome our new overlord Macedonia |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $2,200 (Daily Double): From Indo-Iranian for "place", these 4 letters at the end of a place name mean "land of" stan |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $800: ...Iran / who ruled with too firm a hand / according to text / Khomeini was next / he was no longer the king of his land the Shah |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | REAL & UNREAL PLACES $800: Real: Humpybong & Burpengary, places in this Aussie "land" that holds its own in odd names Queensland |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | REAL & UNREAL PLACES $1200: Unreal: Mildendo, which must be a small town, as it's the capital of this land in "Gulliver's Travels" Lilliput |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $400: The Domesday Book, a record of the value & ownership of land in 11th century England, was compiled by order of this king William the Conqueror |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | HERE, KITTY $600: Distinctive black "tear tracks" along the snout of this fastest land animal may be an antiglare mechanism the cheetah |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Two main islands--east and west, and about 200 smaller ones with the total land area about the size of Connecticut make up this disputed territory, about 320 miles off Argentina the Falkland Islands |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | IF IT WERE AN ACTION MOVIE $1000: In a 2016 musical, "You fired me for playing jazz piano, not Xmas songs. We each made a choice. But you won't get to live with yours" La La Land |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES $800: This author of "Stranger in a Strange Land", a 1929 graduate (Robert) Heinlein |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $2000: Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | CHARACTERS IN THE AENEID $1600: This god calms the storm at sea that begins the epic, letting Aeneas get to dry land Neptune |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SNAILS $200: The eyes of most land snails are found atop the pairs of long stalks called these, like the limbs of a cephalopod tentacles |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1600: 1989:
"Jesus of ____" (not in the Holy Land) Montreal |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $200: In this Bible book "The children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea" Exodus |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $200: About 40 miles of Central Vietnam separates this country from open water Laos |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $400: Butch Cassidy reportedly died in this country bordering Peru Bolivia |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $600: Serbia, Albania, oo I wanna take ya to Montenegro, Macedonia, come on, pretty mama... those all border this new country Kosovo |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $800: Most people in this South American country speak an indigenous language called Guarani, also the name of its monetary unit Paraguay |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $1000: This country, with a tragic recent past, is the most densely populated on the African continent Rwanda |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | COLOR TELEVISION $800: Led by Kevin Costner, a ranching family in Montana faces off against those encroaching on their land in this series Yellowstone |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $800: It can be a line of mountain ridges or a grazing land for animals a range |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ $1000: This phrase about liberty in all 4 verses provides the title of a song by The Killers where it has a more ironic meaning the land of the free |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | GOVERNMENT ABCs $1000: Much of the acreage controlled by this agency is in Alaska & the western states: BLM the Bureau of Land Management |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $200: The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle Hogwarts |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | MOVING THE SAINTS $400: Swiped from the Holy Land, the reputed head of this decapitated saint is on display on a silver plate at Amiens Cathedral John the Baptist |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $400: The party tree that grew in this Middle-earth land was the location of Bilbo's farewell speech the Shire |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $600: Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy an apple |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): "It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood's depths" in an 1883 tale of this hero Robin Hood |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $1000: After this title character accepts Rochester's proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall Jane Eyre |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $200: Musician Ravi Shankar India |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $400: President to some, not so much to others Nicolás Maduro Venezuela |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $600: The whiskey-wanting Greta Garbo Sweden |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $800: Painter with a pipe dream René Magritte Belgium |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $1000: Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk South Africa |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES $400: Norway & Alaska, where there's 24 hours of light during summer, share the nickname the "Land of" this Midnight Sun |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES $1200: After one of its national symbols, this U.K. country is "The Land of the Leek" Wales |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | MINNESOTA...NICE $200: Though Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000" of these, the state's being modest as usual--about 12,000 is more accurate lakes |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | EXPLORERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Around 980 he sailed west & named the land he found Greenland Erik the Red |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | THE WORLD IN 1819 $2000: Sir Stamford Raffles landed on this diamond-shaped Asian island & began buying land to set up a trading operation Singapore |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THIS IS "SU" $400: To break up a plot of land into several building lots subdivide |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $200: Down under Suriname Brazil |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Down under Estonia Latvia |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $600: Down under Botswana South Africa |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $800: Down under Mexico Guatemala |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: Down under Slovakia Hungary |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $800: "The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade" is chapter 3 of "Bridge to" this enchanted land Terabithia |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | NEVER TO RETURN $800: In 1194 Richard I left England to fight for disputed land in this country, where he caught an arrow 5 years later France |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED $2000: The Yangtze & the Mekong are 2 of the rivers emerging from the plateau named for this lofty land Tibet |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | FANTASY ISLAND $200: Peter Pan can bring visitors to this island, home to the Lost Boys Never-Never Land |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows Earth on a monitor.) A computer algorithm concluded the longest distance you can walk in a straight line on land is nearly 7,000 miles, from Fujin in China to a point near Sagres in this country Portugal |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $1000: The 12th c. Knights Hospitallers helped pilgrims in the Holy Land while the Knights this protected 'em coming & going the Templar |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | LITERATURE $1000: Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of "The Waste Land" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $200: In "The Marvelous Land of Oz", he's the ruler of the Emerald City & is still full of straw the Scarecrow |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | VISIT A NATIONAL PARK $400: Denali Park & Preserve has 6 million acres of wild land & a 20,000' peak in this state Alaska |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | NATIONAL $1600: At about 10,700 feet, this "Land of the Thunder Dragon" has the highest average elevation of any nation on Earth Bhutan |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | QUEENS RULE! $800: Joan I was a 13th c. queen of Navarre, a land that controlled vital passes in these Franco-Spanish mountains the Pyrenees |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $800: "The Fools Who Dream" is the subtitle to "Audition", an Oscar-nominated song from this 2016 film La La Land |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | SHOPPING AT THE MALL $1000: I need to land a new pair of jeans from this store whose name means "airmail" Aeropostale |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WE BORDER GERMANY $600: This nation reclaimed about 1/3 of its land from the sea by pumping out water, making new areas called polders the Netherlands |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA $400: To settle a land dispute in the 1760s, Mason & Dixon marked the border between Penn. & this state to the south Maryland |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | CLIMATE $2000: Drought worsens the reduction of the land's productivity in arid & dry areas, a process known by this 15-letter word desertification |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | DO YOU LOVE ME? $800: Greek for "loving" gives us this word for one who loves the land of Cherbourg & Champagne Francophile |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ACRONYMS & INITIALISMS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 2018 this dividing strip of land was the site of a historic meeting between Kim Jong Un & South Korea's president the DMZ |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | HAMMER TIME $600: This song contains the lyric "I'd hammer out love between my brothers & my sisters all over this land" "If I Had A Hammer" |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "The Burial of the Dead" is the first of 5 sections that make up this T.S. Eliot poem "The Waste Land" |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: A land-grant school, it started out as East Alabama Male College; it got its colorful name in 1960 Auburn |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZES $1600: The ICBL, or International Campaign to Ban these long-lasting weapons, took home the honor in 1997 land mines |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WORDS IN TEACHER $800: It was originally reckoned as the amount of land a team of oxen could plow in a day an acre |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | THEM'S THE RULES $1200: Per Monopoly rules, if you land on this space, you must pay the bank either $200 or 10% of your total worth Income Tax |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY $800: In 1968 Bernard Montgomery said the U.S. had broken the second rule of war:
"Don't go fighting with your land army" on this continent Asia |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $800: "An aspiring actress (&) a...jazz musician...are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes" La La Land |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ANIMAL ROCKS $800: A helipad provides the easiest access to Wolf Rock Lighthouse off Land's End in Cornwall, in this country England |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $2000: This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land" (William) Faulkner |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | OLD TIMES $1200: Around 539 B.C. Cyrus the Great of this land conquered Babylon, the greatest city of the ancient world Persia |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BOTANICAL GARDENS $1200: Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia originated with land purchased from this Quaker in 1700 (William) Penn |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | DIET LAND $400: The Noble Diet, or Assembly, of this country was held at times in Buda & Pest Hungary |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | DIET LAND $800: This empire's Regensburg Diet of 1663 was "The Everlasting Diet"--officially ending with the end of the empire in 1806 the Holy Roman Empire |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | DIET LAND $1200: Since 1947 this Asian country's diet has consisted of Houses of Representatives & Councillors Japan |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | DIET LAND $2000: 1809's Diet of Porvoo brought this northern country under the control of Russia Finland |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | DIET LAND $5,000 (Daily Double): Traveling on foot, this reformer missed the Diet of Augsburg in 1518 but got a horse & wagon & made it to the one in Worms Martin Luther |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | IT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land that this 125' statue was inaugurated on Oct. 12, 1931 Christ the Redeemer |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | 18th CENTURY NICKNAMES $1600: A British empire builder was called "Clive of" this Asian land & was known there as Sabut Jung, or "Daring in War" Clive of India |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | ANCIENT AGRICULTURE $2000: Deuteronomy 8:8 promises a land not of milk & honey but of this salad dressing "and honey" olive oil |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $800: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) An immigrant from Belarus at age 5, Irving Berlin felt a very personal connection to his new home, deliberately using the first person for these 4 words that follow the title "God Bless America" "land that I love" |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | SPACE SCIENCE HISTORY $400: It was the first nation to land a spacecraft on the Moon, the Luna 2 the U.S.S.R. |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | SPACE SCIENCE HISTORY $2000: In 1997 this spacecraft used airbags to land on Mars, then sent the Sojourner rover on its way Pathfinder |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1000: In 2018 this southern African "land" changed its name to Eswatini Swaziland |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $400: Some of New Zealand's first colonists were convicts from the penal colony in this nearby land Australia |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT $600: In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field" hail |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT $800: In the eighth plague, swarms of these covered the face of the Earth, darkening the land locusts |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OUR FAIR CITY $1000: In this city, you can walk out to the lighthouse marking the point where Russia's land ends & the Pacific begins Vladivostok |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | "S"PORTS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a figure skating jump on the monitor.) Figure skaters are on their back inside edge, leap, then land on the back outside edge of the opposite foot to do this jump named for a Swede a salchow |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $400: In 1381 England had a revolt named for these lowly land workers; the same group rose up in Japan in 1428 peasants |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | WINDMILLS $1000: England's "Windmill Land" is an area called Fylde on the west coast, with breezes courtesy of this sea the Irish Sea |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | EURO COINS $1600: Cloudberries & cloudberry flowers represent this "land" o Finnish 2-euro coins Lapland |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | FICTIONAL AMUSEMENT PARKS $400: Evil genius Gru wins a very fluffy unicorn for his 3 girls at Super Silly Fun Land in this animated film Despicable Me |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | PLACES OF LEGEND $2000: Neither Pizarro nor Raleigh succeeded in their searches for this land of gold El Dorado |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $200: More than 1,300' below sea level, the shore of this body of water is the Earth's lowest point on land the Dead Sea |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $200: Between the Rockies & the Cascades is the Columbia one of these level areas of high land a plateau |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ENDS IN "ITE" $1000: Ruth, of the Old Testament, is this type of woman, after the land from which she came a Moabite |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | FREE AT LAST $800: 1917, from Russia:
this Nordic land Finland |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1961 this private Texas school provided most of the land that became NASA's Mission Control Center Rice |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) Able to take off & land vertically & fly like a conventional airplane, the tiltrotor Osprey was the product of a long & controversial development process, inspired by the failure of Navy helicopters during the aborted 1980 hostage rescue in this country Iran |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | IMPOSSIBLE WORDS $2000: Border land for Homer & Ovid in Dante's circles Limbo |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $200: "From" here "to the shores of Tripoli; we fight our country's battles in the air, on land, and sea" the halls of Montezuma |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ITALY & GERMANY UNIFIED $2000: On Jan. 18, 1871 King Wilhelm of Prussia answered "a duty to our common" this "land" to accept the title of kaiser fatherland |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | FLAGS $2000: The motto "Hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth" goes with the flag of this West Indies nation Jamaica |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | ALL ABOUT GERMANY $200: The name of Germany in German is this "land" Deutsch |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | FICTIONAL PLACES $600: Aslan created this well-chronicled land by singing Narnia |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | CHECK ONE TWO $800: A historical poem states, "One if by" this first item, "and two if by" this second item, "and I on the opposite shore will be" land and sea |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | FRESHWATER FISH $2000: The walking type of this fish can breathe air & make short journeys over land a catfish |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | HISTORIAN'S GLOSSARY $1600: Adjective for the architecture of that era in a nation's history when it was under another land's control colonial |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | THEME PARKS $1200: The Slinky Dog Dash Coaster coils through the new Disney World land named for this movie Toy Story |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | BASEBALL-ADJACENT FACTS $1200: A headline about "switch-pitcher" Pat Venditte used this land & water word instead of "ambidextrous" amphibious |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | ZEBULON PIKE'S PIQUES $800: Pike thought he bought land for the U.S. near the Twin Cities of this state in 1805, but the Sioux seemed to disagree Minnesota |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | LIFE IN COLONIAL AMERICA $400: In Connecticut a white male needed land worth 2 pounds a year in rent or livestock worth 40 pounds to be able to do this vote |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | STARRING WITH THE DANCES $600: Sebastian & Mia sing & dance above the lights of the city in this 2016 film La La Land |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $2,000 (Daily Double): German forces gave units from this U.K. land the nickname "the ladies from hell" for their fighting spirit & uniforms Scotland |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ISLANDS $1600: Stewart Island, this country's third largest, is also called Rakiura, "The Land of Glowing Skies" New Zealand |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | ON THE ROOF $800: This 7-letter compound word is a spot on the roof to land your chopper helipad |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | COBRA KAI $400: I'm happy to say most of these cobra family members, the most venomous of all snakes, can't crawl on land sea snakes |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1600: Never-Never Land J.M. Barrie |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN STORIES $400: Iroquois creation myths say their land actually rests on the back of one of these reptiles a turtle |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | RIVER WORDS $400: The land beside a river prone to flooding is called the "flood" type of this flat area a plain |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $1000: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) Portulaca, which is this type of plant named for its water-storing tissues, will turn a bright yellow in the rainy season, & the land iguanas that feast on this plant will eagerly approach visitors, if they happen to be wearing yellow succulents |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | TERMS IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This adjective meaning "Germanic" is the name of a medieval order of knights founded by Germans in the holy land Teutonic |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | SAINTS ON EARTH $400: Ponce de Leon took a very early Florida vacation in 1513 & claimed land for Spain near what is now this city St. Augustine |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $200: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the East German Volkskammer led to the start of building this land-mark that night the Berlin Wall |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land Egypt |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | "NEW" GEOGRAPHY $400: This state is the "Land of Enchantment" New Mexico |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | HOMOPHONES $800: The type of fabric seen here, or the little piece of land seen here eyelet/islet |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $400: This territory uses "Spanish civil code" & "the U.S. federal system" Puerto Rico |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $800: "System influenced by Japanese traditions and Communist legal theory" North Korea |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1200: (At the west end of a Caribbean island)
"Civil law system strongly influenced by Napoleonic code" Haiti |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1600: "Roman-Dutch civil law, English common law, and Jaffna Tamil customary law" Sri Lanka |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $2000: "Mixed legal system" including "British mandate regulations" Israel |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | STATE CAPITAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Lincoln Land Community College Springfield |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $400: The name of this desert city that can hit 130° is used to mean anywhere remote Timbuktu |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $800: This remote "-land" is from the German for "land behind" hinterland |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $1200: This remote "-water" is an uncultured place out of the mainstream a backwater |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $1600: Sent to work for an obscure movie co., Clark Gable asked employees, "Why ain't you wearing parkas in" this region? Siberia |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $2000: In 1846 a Buffalo, N.Y. newspaper spoofed life in small, out-of-the-way towns in "Letters from" here Podunk |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $800: Miguel journeys to the land of the dead in this 2017 animated film with a look inspired by traditional Mexican folklore Coco |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | 17th CENTURY LIT $800: Francis Bacon penned a vision of society based on 17th century science, "The New" this fabled lost land Atlantis |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | I LAKE IT LIKE THAT $1200: You can't see land in any direction as you drive 8 of the 24 miles of causeway over this Louisiana lake Pontchartrain |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $400: Islamorada, the "Village of Islands" in Florida, is made up of 6 of the islands called these keys |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | FLY, YOU FOOLS! $600: This waterway's land bridge once connected Asia & N. America, but I'm not waiting for it to happen again; book us a flight! the Bering Strait |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $800: Calif. wildfires first hit the news with number of these square units burned; big ones get converted into square miles acres |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $1200: Those who value land as a possession include John Bergson in this Willa Cather novel named for western settlers O Pioneers! |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $1600: Four-letter word for a long, narrow piece of land jutting into the ocean, like Britain's Spurn Point a spit |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MONARCHS FLUTTER BY $2000: In this north African land, Muhammad VI succeeded Hassan II in 1999 Morocco |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $2000: You got title to a nice tract of land if you lived on it & improved it under this 1862 law the Homestead Act |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | EXPORTS $400: Swaziland ships lots of soft drink concentrate; some say this company controls 40% of the land's GDP Coca-Cola |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | OKLAHOMA HISTORY $400: The Compromise of 1850 separated this strip of land from Texas & it later became the western part of Oklahoma the panhandle |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ILLINOIS AT 200 $1,200 (Daily Double): This official slogan of Illinois honors a man who moved there at age 21 the land of Lincoln |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: "Speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land" Exodus |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost point of land in the contiguous United States Maine |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | POP CULTURE TEACHERS $2000: This nostalgia network rebranded itself with edgy series like "Teachers", whose educators aren't exactly dedicated TV Land |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | STAND & DELIVER $1000: In a 1978 speech this Egyptian president said, "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land" (Anwar) Sadat |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $800: In 1997 Andy Green broke 760 MPH in Thrust SSC, the first land vehicle to officially break this the speed of sound |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: This Heinlein novel begins, "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger in a Strange Land |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $400: This Caribbean island that became a commonwealth in 1952 covers more than 3,400 square miles Puerto Rico |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $800: 2,300 miles SW of Hawaii, this territory that has "American" in its name is administered by the Interior Dept. (American) Samoa |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $1200: This became a territory on Aug. 1, 1950 & the focus of a possible nuclear confrontation in 2017 Guam |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $1600: This term that precedes "Guinea" is also found before "Islands" that include U.S. possessions like Kingman Reef equatorial |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $5,500 (Daily Double): Annexed in 1867, this island may be only 2 square miles but a 1942 battle there proved to be a key moment in the Pacific in WWII Midway |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | CHAIN $1200: 22 yards long & divided into 100 links, a gunter's chain is used in this land-measuring occupation surveying |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | 5-LETTER LANDS $800: East African land named for the 17,000-foot mountain in its middle Kenya |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | YES, MAMMAL! $800: The Arctic species of this canine is Iceland's only native land mammal a fox |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $1600: The vignettes in his poem "The Waste Land" are linked by the legend of the search for the holy grail T.S. Eliot |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | A QUESTION OF FILM $400: In "La La Land" this actor asks, "Why do you say 'romantic' like it's a dirty word?" Ryan Gosling |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | CORPS CURRICULUM $800: Representing air, land & sea, the Marine Corps emblem consists of an eagle, a globe & this naval item an anchor |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | SHOT FIRST $400: "La La Land",
"Zombieland",
"Tomorrowland" Zombieland |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | BIG 12 SCHOOLS $1000: Well, we're livin' here in Morgantown /
At this Big 12 land-grant school of renown West Virginia |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | LEAGUES $5,000 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the Land League on this island sought to gain more rights from their British landlords Ireland |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $400: The name of this large sea comes from words for "middle of the land" M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N-E-A-N |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | DISNEYLAND: YESTERDAY & TODAY $600: Original attractions from 1955 that are still around include Autopia & this boat ride in Adventure Land the Jungle Cruise |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | ON THE BOARD GAME $600: Gumdrop Mountains,
Lollipop Forest Candy Land |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | VERY POSSESSIVE $1200: As cars were so new, in 1904 this British company's first policy for one called it a "ship navigating on land" Lloyd's of London |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Reel in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" to know the land-based parts take place on this island Cuba |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | HISTORIC TRIOS $800: During the 1917 Russian Revolution, this faction promised the people "peace, land & bread" the Bolsheviks |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | PLACES TO "C" $600: This L.A. suburb settled in 1867 came straight outta an 18th century Spanish land grant Compton |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Calormen--it's south of a more famous land C. S. Lewis |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | ROAMIN' CATHOLICS $400: In 385 St. Jerome, a widow & a group of virgins went on a pilgrimage through this "land of the Philistines" Palestine |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | DOG BREEDS $400: In 1931 this Japanese breed was designated a national monument in its native land the Akita |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: "The Land of the Rising Sun" Japan |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $1000: "The Land of the White Elephant", AKA "The Land of Smiles" Thailand |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | THE ZONE $400: Tracts of land with no real boundaries; "nether" ones can refer to the Underworld regions |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | FLAGS $800: To see this flag fly in its native land, you might travel above 20,000 feet Nepal |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | LITERARY SETTINGS $2000: In a Samuel Butler satire:
Colleges of Unreason are found in this title land Erewhon |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | NOW GET OUT! $200: "The Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies" is in this Bible book Exodus |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | LIVE IN TEXAS $1200: Baytown & Sugar Land are in the metro area of this big city Houston |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | MAMMAL PLANET $1600: Resembling the leopard, this New World cat is a great swimmer & can hunt in water, but prefers an ambush from land, disabling its prey with a bite from its powerful jaws a jaguar |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | BEASTLY GLOSSARY $600: Mudskipper don't need water all the time; it gets around on land just fine using two souped-up pectoral these fins |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $2000: Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good land office |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | ONOMATOPOEIA $2000: He's the clockwork man of the land of Oz Tik-Tok |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica & a state in Australia Victoria |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | OLD NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Until 2003 this Middle East nation used "The Land Of Two Rivers" Iraq |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $200: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) Muscle Beach is on the Venice Beach boardwalk; before he was California's governor from 2003 to 2011 he helped make the place famous, with his outdoor workouts Schwarzenegger |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $400: After years with no NFL team, we got our second as this team announced its move north in 2017 the Chargers |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $600: This famed amphitheater has been dishing out performances since 1922 the Hollywood Bowl |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $800: 11-letter term for a place 2 highways meet; the one at the 110 & 105 was the location for the "La La Land" opening number interchange |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $1000: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) In downtown LA & named for philanthropists Edythe & Eli this $140 million art museum uses a "veil-&-vault" concept; the fiber-reinforced concrete facade is the veil, with the vault within the Broad Museum |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: It takes 640 of these units of land measure to make 1 square mile acres |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | IN OTHER WORDS, DEAD $400: Uh oh! You "bought" this tract of land, silo & all the farm |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $5,000 (Daily Double): Of the ratites, flightless land birds, this down under denizen is the smallest a kiwi |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AROUND THE JEOPARDY! LIBRARY $1000: The latest World Almanac keeps us up on changes like this new name with no "Republic" for the land where Prague is located Czechia |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | GEOGRA"P" $2000: National adjective for a 90-mile-long "corridor" of land extending to Gdansk that helped spark World War II Polish |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | WORDPLAY $1200: Malcolm X often used the device called chiasmus, as in "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was" this the rock was landed on us |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | MAPS "R" US $800: In Italy, this strip of land is divided into western and eastern sections, depending on what side of Genoa you're on the Riviera |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Woody Guthrie's American anthem salutes a Minnesota butter & cheese supplier "This Land Is Your Land" o' Lakes |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | ONE STATE, UNDER CANADA $800: Of states sharing land and water boundaries with Canada, Alaska leads at 1,538 mi.; this contiguous one is next with 721 Michigan |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | OPUS DAY $2000: May 13, 1833 was the premiere of Mendelssohn's opus 90, a symphony inspired by this southern European land the Italian Symphony |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $800: A land divided by Jordan, Egypt & Israel, or the seat of Anderson County, Texas Palestine |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | TOYS & GAMES $600: 2 of the characters in this game are Cutie Cone & Giggly Gumdrop Candy Land |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1000: This peninsular country's only land border is with Saudi Arabia Qatar |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE JOLLY ROGER $200: He founded the town of Providence on land he acquired from the Narragansett Indians (Roger) Williams |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | LUCKY 13th CENTURY $800: Obviously in no need of fertile land, Haakon IV of this country gained sovereignty over Greenland & Iceland Norway |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IN THE NEWS: 2017 $600: In an Oscar night, goof, "La La Land" was Best Picture for about 2 minutes until the award rightfully went to this film Moonlight |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $800: The duet "City Of Stars" from "La La Land" (2016) Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BAD-WORLD BOOKSHELF $400: Astronauts land on another world where humans are savages & chimps are civilized Planet of the Apes |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | PLACES IN CONTINENTS $1000: It's in Europe: its only land border is with Germany Denmark |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $400: In 1864 this school became New Jersey's land-grant college; 60 years later, it assumed university status Rutgers |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | LAST WORD IN THE ACRONYM, PLEASE $1200: EPCOT, a word that also has its own "land" tomorrow |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | GERMAN HISTORY $600: In the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the Carolingian Empire was split into 3; Louis the German got the land east of this river the Rhine |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $2000: Last name of brothers Admiral Richard & General William who led the British sea & land forces in America the Howes |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | QUOTH THE POET $1600: "One, if by land, and two, if by sea; and I on the opposite shore will be" Longfellow |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC FORMATIONS $800: The remnants of an ancient lake, these U.S. salt flats are often used to set land speed records the Bonneville Salt Flats |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $200: 2016:
Damien Chazelle for this musical La La Land |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MYTHOLOGY $400: The mythical birthplace of this pre-Columbian people was Aztlan, the "White Land" the Aztecs |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA $400: Prominent during the Gold Rush, this county bears the name of a mythical land of gold El Dorado |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | INFRASTRUCTURE $1000: Similar to dikes, these structures from the French for "raise" protect dry land from flooding levees |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $200: George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | AN ENVIRONMENTAL CATEGORY $1600: 40% of the world's coal mines use this method also called surface mining, worse for the land than going underground strip mining |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | THE OWL $800: Forest mascot Woodsy Owl's motto "Give a hoot--don't pollute" has been updated to "Lend a hand--care for" this the land |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Nineveh was a huge city of this land which, if the first 2 letters were removed, would spell a current Mideast country Assyria |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | IN THE DICTIONARY $200: The name of a land agent gives us this tactic for refusing to buy a company's products boycott |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | BORDER FRENZY $1,000 (Daily Double): The only Caribbean island nations that have a land border with another country are these 2 the Dominican Republic and Haiti |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WAIT"ER" $400: 2-word term for what you're in when waiting in the sky past arrival time until your plane is allowed to land a holding pattern |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | A FALLEN CATEGORY $800: This activity traces its roots to Pentecost Island, where "land divers" connected a vine to their feet bungee jumping |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | BOLD GOERS $400: Fridtjof Nansen was the first European to cross this land; a Danish official met him at the end in Godthaab in 1888 Greenland |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "F" $2000: This word refers to any land held by a feudal lord a fief |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | STATE HOLIDAYS $1600: Its Cherokee Strip Day celebrates the 1893 land rush in which former Indian lands were opened to settlement Oklahoma |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | THAT'S A MYTHTAKE! $2000: She boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids; Poseidon got mad & ravaged the land Cassiopeia |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $2000: When Columbus reached this alliterative body of water, his crew "saw much weed...& judged themselves to be near land" the Sargasso Sea |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | POETRY & BRIDGES $400: In "The Waste Land", "A crowd flowed over" this; good thing it wasn't falling down London Bridge |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $1600: For committing murder, he was exiled to "the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden" Cain |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $200: Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling star in this charming musical whose title is "a quaint old name for Los Angeles" La La Land |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | GEOGRAPHER'S DICTIONARY $1000: Larger bodies of land are connected by this narrow strip of land, like Panama's an isthmus |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The U.S. put down $11.25 million for this 1803 land deal, though the treaty didn't clearly describe the boundaries the Louisiana Purchase |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $800: This expression refers to the promise made to freed slaves; the land was in Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 forty acres and a mule |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | AN "I" LAND $400: It produces more than 1,500 feature films in a good year India |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | AN "I" LAND $800: Home to Europe's largest glacier by volume Iceland |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | AN "I" LAND $1200: You can find the Negev Desert here Israel |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | AN "I" LAND $1600: Country with the most Shia Muslims Iran |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | AN "I" LAND $2000: Home to the Wicklow & Blue Stack Mountains Ireland |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | TV THAT COOKS $1200: This highly recognizable TV personality seeks out great cooking all over our land Guy Fieri |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $400: Pierce Downer gave his name to Downers Grove, 21 miles west of the Loop in this state Illinois |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $800: In 1602 an explorer named this Massachusetts island for both its local flora & one of his female family members Martha's Vineyard |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $1200: You can go up on Cripple Creek southwest of this Colorado peak named for an Army officer Pikes Peak |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $1600: It took until the 21st century for Oregon to honor this Clark with a summit named Clark's Mountain William Clark |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $2000: John E.'s Pond is on Block Island in this state, about 9 miles off the mainland Rhode Island |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $800: Ray Bradbury to this "Stranger in a Strange Land" author:
"Your influence on us all... cannot be measured" (Robert) Heinlein |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | AIRPORT $200: At Courchevel, you land downhill & take off uphill for your trip to ski the nearby French these mountains the Alps |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $2,000 (Daily Double): "So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab" Deuteronomy |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $600: Like Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a thriller with this title about a land inhabited by dinosaurs The Lost World |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES $2000: This 2-word nation whose name means "Land of Honorable People" is landlocked like its neighbor Niger Burkina Faso |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | INVASIONS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from USS Intrepid in New York.) In April 1945, USS Intrepid supported the last major land campaign of the Pacific war, the invasion of this largest of the Ryukyu Islands, just 350 miles from the Japanese mainland Okinawa |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | YOU MAD, BRO? $400: Artaxerxes II, king of this land, had to deal with rebellion from his brother Cyrus the Younger--not cool, bro Persia |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | FUNNY LADIES $1000: Join this funny lady in "Sandy Land", her daily show on Andy Cohen's Sirius XM radio channel Sandra Bernhard |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | EVERY CLAIM YOU STAKE $1600: In the mid-19th century, Dumont d'Urville claimed Adelie Land, part of here, for the French Antarctica |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | EVERY CLAIM YOU STAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): On April 22, 1889 a bugle for a land run sounded in the new Oklahoma territory; those who entered early were dubbed this Sooners |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | CLASSIC MONOPOLY $1000: It costs $2 to land on this owned property, but nearby Baltic Avenue must be a lot swankier with double the rent Mediterranean |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | THE SPACE RACE $1200: A primary goal of this U.S. program that followed Mercury was to land a capsule on dry land--didn't happen Gemini |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | UNREAL ESTATE $2000: A sheep farmer & his girlfriend Arowhena escape in a balloon from this land created by Samuel Butler Erewhon |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | U.S. CITY SEALS $600: Adorning this state capital's seal are an Indian peace pipe & a stake symbolic of those who staked claims in an 1889 land rush Oklahoma City |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | ALLITERATIVE WORD PAIRS $1200: A friend in a distant land to whom you write letters a pen pal |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "C" THE WORLD $1600: About 1/4 of this Central American country's land has been set aside as protected area for the nation's diverse wildlife Costa Rica |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTER BACKS $1600: This 1862 act that granted 160-acre parcels of land is commemorated by a national monument & a quarter back the Homestead Act |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $1200: The first people came to Alaska some 15,000 years ago across what's called a "land" this a land bridge |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: A land bridge called al Lisan separates this "corpselike" body of water into a southern basin & a northern basin the Dead Sea |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | WE LOVE '80s MUSIC $1000: "Who can it be now?" perhaps this Colin Hay group, from the land "Down Under" Men at Work |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HOW NOVEL $2000: In addition to Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote about dinosaurs in the pulp novel "The Land that" this happened to The Land that Time Forgot |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE $1000: Our daughter is at Montana State, this type of school established from acreage donated to states a land grant |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | -OLOGIES $1600: Zoologists say this small Andean rodent prized for its pelt has the softest fur of any land animal a chinchilla |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | BOSTON, MISTER $800: The warning "one if by land, two if by sea" referred to lanterns hung in this Boston church's steeple the Old North Church |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $1600: "When the night has come and the land is dark", I'll be okay if you do this "Stand By Me" |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | A POETIC CATEGORY $2000: This American poet to whom T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Waste Land" spent 12 years in a mental hospital Ezra Pound |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | "Y" GEOGRAPHY? $2000: The seal of this state of the Federated States of Micronesia has a stone coin & the words "Land of stone money" Yap |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: In the U.K., the melody of "Pomp And Circumstance" has been sung as the patriotic song "Land Of Hope And" this Glory |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING 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 |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | A WHITMAN SAMPLER $600: "I hear" this land "singing, the varied carols I hear" America |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | SCANDINAVIA $800: Some authorities include this "land of a thousand lakes" nation in Scandinavia, but others do not Finland |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | STATE YOUR BUSINESS $1000: Land O'Lakes Minnesota |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | I'M NOT JUST SAYING $800: The book of Leviticus & the inscription on a certain bell say to "proclaim" this "throughout all the land" liberty |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | WAYS OF BEING $800: A narrow strip of land; Greece has one of Corinth an isthmus |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | HOLY MOSES! $2000: Mounts that Moses summited include Sinai & this one from which he got a look at the promised land Pisgah |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | TECHNO-THRILLERS $800: Theme park robots are hijacked in this Lincoln Child thriller that shares its name with Thomas More's ideal land Utopia |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: This post-civil war bureau provided jobs, medical care & land to former slaves & destitute whites the Freedmen's Bureau |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS $800: In the 19th century the city of Paris bought the land at the source of this river & erected a statue of the goddess Sequana the Seine |
| #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 |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $200: It's both the most populated & southernmost province in Canada Ontario |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $400: There were 66 sq. mi. less o' land when the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees was created in 1940 in this state Oklahoma |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $600: Britannica says in this Arabian Peninsula nation, "The sun is hot. It is worse when the wind blows; then it is like a furnace" Oman |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): The Musgrave Mountain Range is in this region that by some definitions, covers 80% of a continent the Outback |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $1000: The Shetland Islands are about 130 miles north of Scotland; this group of islands is just 20 miles north of the mainland the Orkneys |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the power of government to expropriate land for public use subject to reasonable compensation eminent domain |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | BEVERLY HILLS $800: Pre-1906, the land was a planned North African-themed area called this country that Bing & Bob took a "Road to" Morocco |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BLENDED WORDS $800: It's the combined land mass seen here Eurasia |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | CANADIANA $200: In Canada "This Land Is Your Land" goes, "From Bonavista" (in this land paired with Labrador) "to Vancouver Island" Newfoundland |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | ANTHROPOLOGY $2000: This now-extinct language was named for a strip of land along the Adriatic in Croatia Dalmatian |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $200: The North Island of this Kiwi country boasts its largest lake, Lake Taupo, which covers 230 square miles New Zealand |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $400: Off Mindanao, the 34,580' deep trench named for this country is one of the deepest spots in all the oceans the Philippines |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $600: The sultan of this ex-British protectorate is said to be worth $20 billion, including 600 Rolls-Royces Brunei |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | SHE-CAGO $600: Maiden name of Chicago socialite Edith, who donated land for the Brookfield Zoo; her father was John D. Rockefeller |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $800: Its same-named sea lies to the north of this island, the Indian Ocean to the south; why do I suddenly want a cup of coffee? Java |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $1000: The main campus of the U. of the South Pacific is in Suva, the capital of this country since 1882 Fiji |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | CONSERVATIVE $400: This Cabinet dept. is responsible for conserving the country's land, water, minerals, fish & wildlife Interior |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | COUNTRY DISTINCTIONS $1,800 (Daily Double): These 2 neighboring Middle East countries share the lowest elevation on land, about 1,300 feet below sea level Israel & Jordan |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $400: This tallest land animal was once known as a camelopard a giraffe |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | SPACECRAFT TYPES $1000: Like the Cassini around Saturn, this type of spacecraft by definition doesn't land, but circles a planet instead an orbital probe |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HORNS YOU CAN'T PLAY $800: This fastest land mammal in the W. hemisphere is sometimes called an antelope, but they're not closely related a pronghorn |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | RANCHING AS IT WAS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) After the Civil War, many African-American families rented & tended plots of land in exchange for a portion of the agriculture they grew, a system called "tenant farming", or this sharecropping |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: God compared the power of Job to this huge animal, kind of the land version of Leviathan a behemoth |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | STATE SONG LYRICS $400: This state is "Birthplace of a mighty nation, keystone of the land" Pennsylvania |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | STATE SONG LYRICS $3,400 (Daily Double): Out west "Blessed from Heaven above, it's the land that we love, this is the place" Utah |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | SHARED INITIALS $2000: The original cyberpunk scribe & the tunesmith of "This Land Is Your Land" William Gibson & Woody Guthrie |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | OLD TESTAMENT PEEPS $400: Esther was the Jewish wife of the King of this land & saved the Jews there from annihilation Persia |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | OLD TESTAMENT PEEPS $800: Joshua led the Israelites into this promised land Canaan |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | NEW ZEALAND $1200: New Zealand's only native land mammals are 2 species of this, short- & long-tailed; they live in trees, not caves bats |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | THE MIDDLE $1200: A documentary on music for the "Lord of the Rings" films told of "A Composer's Journey Through" this land Middle-earth |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | EXPLORATION $1200: While searching for a rich land named El Dorado in 1531, Diego de Ordaz explored this Venezuelan river the Orinoco |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MAMMALS $800: The "mule" this stubbornly migrates 300 miles round trip, the farthest of any land mammal in the lower 48 a deer |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | CRIME TIME $200: It's a 6-letter term for a military revolt against authority on land as well as aboard ship a mutiny |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | LET'S HAVE DESERT $1200: Located in China & Mongolia, this desert isn't primarily sandy but more bare rock in a 1,000-mile-long arc of land the Gobi Desert |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $600: One if by land & two if by sea--it's the most visited historic site in Boston the Old North Church |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE $800: The Central American area seen here is this type of narrow strip of land joining two larger land masses an isthmus |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | MR. ROBOT $800: The same company that makes the Roomba also made Ariel, a robot that detected & disposed of these buried munitions land mines |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1890 this bureau of the government reported that the West was so settled that no frontier could be said to exist the Census (Bureau) |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ROARING '20s READER $2000: Unitarian minister Leon Birkhead served as an advisor to Sinclair Lewis while Lewis was writing this 1927 novel Elmer Gantry |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND $200: Ferdinand Magellan,
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Portugal |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND $400: Jean Sibelius,
Linus Torvalds Finland |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND $600: Augusto Pinochet,
Gabriela Mistral Chile |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND $800: Katherine Mansfield,
Lorde New Zealand |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND $1000: Mariano Rivera,
Ruben Blades Panama |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Scholars believe the Exodus didn't go across the Red Sea, but somewhere on land between two bodies of water--this sea & this gulf the Gulf of Suez & the Mediterranean Sea |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | OPEC NATIONS $2000: Oil & Al Jazeera are major products of this land ruled by the Al Thani family Qatar |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN $400: In the 1920s this empire covered 13 million square miles with land on every continent but alas, the sun has set on it the British Empire |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | GEO-PARDY $2000: This country controls the only land route from Asia to Malaysia & Singapore Thailand |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | OK, "GO"! $1600: Land o' this pastoral part of lower Egypt Goshen |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $600: A raised area of flat land; one covers much of Tibet plateau |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | MEASURED WORDS $1000: After you land at the airport, pick up your car at this unit of frequency counter Hertz |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | WORLD WAR I $3,200 (Daily Double): The Zimmerman Note encouraged this nation to ally with Germany, which promised to let it annex lost land in the U.S. Mexico |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $400: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Tuesday we had some hidden Bobs; you'll find Dylan in this "classic board game with a peppermint forest" Candy Land |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | WOMEN IN POLITICS $1200: Hattie Caraway, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, represented this state, the Land of Opportunity Arkansas |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! $1200: It's sea vs. land as Hawaii's state mammal, a monk seal, takes on this state dog named for the capital of Massachusetts a Boston terrier |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES $600: In the 1940s this company introduced its Land Camera, which produced a finished print 60 seconds after exposure Polaroid |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | OKLAHOMA! $400: This state nickname comes from an April 22, 1889 land rush the Sooner State |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | THIS & THAT $800: In 1869 Indiana chose the Lafayette area for its new land grant university & named it for this man who gave $150,000 (John) Purdue |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $400: "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis begins, "This is the story of an adventure that happened" here Narnia |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $800: Mid-World's last gunslinger searches for the title edifice in this fantasy series by Stephen King The Dark Tower |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $1200: In one Seuss tale this place is found in a speck of dust; in another, near Mt. Crumpit Whoville |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $1600: New York, aka the "City of" these in "The Mortal Instruments" series, has faeries, warlocks & Shadowhunters the City of Bones |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $2000: This Terry Pratchett "world" sits on elephants that stand on a great turtle Discworld |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | BIBLICAL MENAGERIE $800: In the second plague, "Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters" & these amphibians covered the land of Egypt frogs |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM $400: Olympus Mons Mars |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM $800: Gagarin Crater the Moon |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM $2,000 (Daily Double): Huge cliffs called lobate scarps, discovered by MESSENGER Mercury |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM $2000: Maxwell Montes, discovered by cloud-penetrating radar Venus |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | WORLD LEADERS $200: Pierre Trudeau once led this land Canada |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE "MAIN" LAND $400: The bit left over when you divide 17 by 4 remainder |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE "MAIN" LAND $800: If you work for a major broadcast network, you're part of the MSM, this mainstream media |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE "MAIN" LAND $1200: Portmanteau word for a person's ashes cremains |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE "MAIN" LAND $1600: Now you see this synonym for slight of hand, now you don't legerdemain |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE "MAIN" LAND $2000: The Sun is near the middle of this section of astronomy's Hertzsprun-Russell diagram the main sequence |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | LITERARY SETTINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): The metropolis of Mildendo in this land in "Gulliver's Travels" was a square, each side "being five hundred feet long" Lilliput |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | OFFICIAL STATE MOTTOES $2,000 (Daily Double): Michigan's motto mentions this type of land area a peninsula |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $2000: This school was named for the Muncie, Indiana jar company founders who donated the land Ball State |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $400: In Exodus, God says he'll bring his people to a land flowing with these 2 things milk & honey |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | HISTORY $2000: Until annexed by Japan in 1910, this land had been ruled by the Choson Dynasty for more than 500 years Korea |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | CUBAN FIVE $800: The name of this bay is a native word meaning "land among rivers", not "land of detainees" Guantanamo Bay |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | THE 11th CENTURY $200: Made king of a reunited Leon & Castile in 1072, Alfonso the Brave declared himself "Emperor of all" this land Spain |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $400: This Dutch city's name comes from "count's hedge", a name used when it was a private hunting area The Hague |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $800: This arid, treeless region of South Dakota is home to many rugged formations & fossil deposits the Badlands |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $1600: A chain of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina where the U.S.S. Monitor rests today the Outer Banks |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $2000: This huge desert in the southern end of Arabia is the largest area of contiguous sand in the world the Empty Quarter |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $5,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting its precious resources, it was the colonial name for what is now Ghana the Gold Coast |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EASY SCIENCE $200: The name of this class of vertebrates is from the Greek for "double life", referring to life in water & on land amphibian |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $400: In the 500s B.C. the Jews were in the Babylonian this type of expulsion from one's land exile |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $1200: River buffalo are draft animals in this African land that has a river running 1,000 miles north through it Egypt |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH $200: I'm not ready to be "put out to" this, the land on which livestock graze pasture |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | AREA CODE REPRESENTIN' $600: If you don't know that 281 serves Sugar Land & this Southern city of 2.2 million, we have a problem Houston |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $200: It can be 20 years for biting off someone's limb in this smallest state but don't worry--that's only if you did it on purpose Rhode Island |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $400: B5, times 2! In North Carolina, an org. can only play this game 2 sessions a week, a max of 5 hours each time Bingo |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $600: In Michigan, thou shalt not hook up with thy neighbor's wife--this act--lest ye get 4 years in prison adultery |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $800: The constitution of this "Land of Enchantment" state says most folks can vote except "idiots (&) insane persons" New Mexico |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | THE LAW OF THE LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): Tennessee bars holding office if you take part in these, though Tenn.'s Andrew Jackson took part in as many as 100 duels |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Quadling Country is one of the 5 regions of this 2-letter land Oz |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | BEOWULF $1600: When one of these creatures ravages his land, the elderly Beowulf slays it but is mortally wounded a dragon |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | BEOWULF $2000: This evil monster who's terrorized King Hrothgar's land for 12 years is a demon descended from Cain Grendel |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | THE BOOK OF MERMEN $800: The Marvel character known as Sub-Mariner lives undersea in this fabled "lost" land Atlantis |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $400: 2 of its islands are Sicily & Sardinia Italy |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $800: The North Atlantic Ocean holds this country, home to Europe's largest glacier Iceland |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $1200: The cathedral city of Cork is the second-largest city in this country Ireland |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $1600: Fittingly, the national soccer team of this African nation is known as the Elephants the Ivory Coast |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $2000: More than 17,500 islands, including Buru & Sulawesi, make up this equator-straddling country Indonesia |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | UTOPIA $400: In 1516 this author coined the word "Utopia" as the name of a fictional land (Sir Thomas) More |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | AGRICULTURE $1600: The Bible commands that every 7 years, land should be left unused, lying this 6-letter word fallow |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH T $600: An area of land; you also have a digestive one tract |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) In 1888, this country annexed Easter Island, leasing the land for sheep-raising & later granted its inhabitants citizenship Chile |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | ZERO TO SIXTY $1000: This Toyota 4x4 celebrated 60 years of sailing the Earth in 2014 the Land Cruiser |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $2000: A Utah city was named for this Biblical land "Beyond the Jordan" Moab |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | WHAT?!... WHEN?! $400: In 1291 Acre, the last major Holy Land castle held by this group, fell to the Mamelukes the Crusaders |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ROUGH WORDS IN NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1000: The anthem of this North African land that battled to get rid of the French mentions "streams of generous blood" Algeria |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | YOU ARE HERE $1000: In this "holy" city on New Zealand's South Island, home to 350,000 & built largely on flat land that was once a swamp Christchurch |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $200: This state is about 48 miles long & 37 miles wide Rhode Island |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $400: Named for a freedom fighter, it's a Southeast Asian metro area of 6.4 million people Ho Chi Minh City |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $600: 2 central European countries took its place in 1993 Czechoslovakia |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $800: It's the New Jersey city near Jersey City shown here Hoboken |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | LAND "HO"! $1000: It's the northernmost of the 4 main islands of Japan Hokkaido |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | WHAT A COUNTRY! $800: In 1821 the American Colonization Society secured the land that became this African country Liberia |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $1000: Rich deposits of coal & copper are found in TVA land, which boasts mile-high peaks in this "Great" mountain chain the Great Smoky Mountains |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY $400: Just under 3 million square miles, it gets its name from a Latin phrase that translates to "unknown southern land" Australia |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $2000: "Land Of The Leek" Wales |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | ANOTHER DEFINITION, PLEASE $2000: Not a small, wrapped package for delivery, but a tract of land a parcel |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | "T.V." LAND $200: A narrow point of view named for a confined passageway tunnel vision |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | "T.V." LAND $400: A falling body reaches this when gravity is balanced by retarding forces terminal velocity |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | "T.V." LAND $600: Another name for a New World buzzard turkey vulture |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | "T.V." LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): This part of speech requires an object transitive verb |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | "T.V." LAND $1000: Spinal segments that extend from the seventh cervical to the first lumbar thoracic vertebrae |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel, a character sets aside a small piece of land, the income of which is to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | "OY" TO THE WORLD $200: Its SUVs include the Highlander & the Land Cruiser Toyota |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | SEAS THE DAY $800: The King Haakon VII Sea isn't near Norway but off this continent's Queen Maud Land Antarctica |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Around 1790 Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city Washington, D.C. |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | A LONG TIME AGO IN CANADA $400: Land battles in this war involving the United States were fought mainly in Canada the War of 1812 |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | ISLAND FACTS $1200: It's not a stretch that Kiritimati, with the largest land area of any atoll, is in this Pacific nation Kiribati |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | GREAT BALLS OF "IRE" $1600: Wet land that gives way underfoot a mire (or a quagmire) |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO $800: The highest peak of this mountainous land is 9,600-foot Coma Pedrosa near the frontier with Catalonia Andorra |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | HERALDRY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a coat of arms on the monitor.) During Queen Anne's reign, the arms of England & Scotland were moved to the 1st & 4th quarters, France in the 2nd, & this land's arms are in the 3rd Ireland |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $2000: (Jafar reads with an evil laugh.) I am Jafar, a powerful sorcerer & grand vizier to the sultan of this mythical land, the setting of "Aladdin" Agrabah |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $2000: We'll be cruel & ask for the first word in the first line of "The Waste Land" April |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | KIDDY LIT $1000: Writer & artist James Gurney created this series of books, the first of which was subtitled "A Land Apart from Time" Dinotopia |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $400: South of Morocco:
"Land of the Moors" Mauritania |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $600: Shiite central:
"Land of the Aryans" Iran |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | LITTLE, JOHN $1000: A land created by Jonathan Swift gave us this word meaning tiny Lilliputian |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | PLACES OF FABLE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an aerial photograph on the monitor.) In 2004, a physicist claimed that a rectangular anomaly in Spain's Doñana mudflats matched Plato's dimensions of Poseidon's temple in this lost land Atlantis |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | EARTHLY QUOTES $1600: Genesis 45:
"Ye shall eat" this "of the land" the fat |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | EARTHLY QUOTES $2000: "Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment", writes Sam Shepard in his play "Curse of" this group the starving class |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $200: "The Midnight Sun":
This state, parts of which get daylight 24/7 in summer Alaska |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $400: "Fire & Ice":
This island country with 300,000 people & 200 volcanoes Iceland |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $600: "The Long White Cloud":
This Down-Under country New Zealand |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $800: "The Morning Calm":
This peninsula, less calm since its 1948 division Korea |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $1000: "The Thunder Dragon":
This mountainous Central Asian country Bhutan |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | @midnight $200: Exodus 12:29 says, "At midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of" this Egypt |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $800: In 1858 land speculator Abraham Curry founded what became this capital, named for a frontier scout Carson City |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | REMEMBER THE PAST? $2000: In 2014 voters of this land said no to independence, we'll stay in the United Kingdom Scotland |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: This body of land was once connected to a much larger one Tasmania |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SEE TV $1600: Finn the human lost his arm on this cartoon that's set in the land of Ooo Adventure Time |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PUERTO RICO $400: Puerto Rico's anthem says that when this man reached the island he exclaimed, "This is the beautiful land that I seek" Columbus |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Since Pennsylvania had no coastline, in 1682 William Penn was granted land that later became this state Delaware |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | MOVIE "LAND" $400: Johnny Depp played J.M. Barrie in this 2004 film Finding Neverland |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | MOVIE "LAND" $800: Will Ferrell was sucked into a time-space vortex in this 2009 film based on a '70s TV show Land of the Lost |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | MOVIE "LAND" $1200: Debra Winger was Oscar-nominated for her part in this 1993 film in which Anthony Hopkins played C.S. Lewis Shadowlands |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | MOVIE "LAND" $1600: This 1988 animated film centered on 5 orphaned dinosaurs The Land Before Time |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | MOVIE "LAND" $2000: Sylvester Stallone played an overweight New Jersey sheriff in this 1997 drama Cop Land |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | "I" LAND HOPPING $200: Its ruling monarchy was chased out in 1979 Iran |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | "I" LAND HOPPING $400: It's about 650 miles west of Norway Iceland |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | "I" LAND HOPPING $600: About 6,000 of its more than 17,000 islands are inhabited Indonesia |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | "I" LAND HOPPING $800: Some 250 million of its people are ethnically Dravidian India |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | "I" LAND HOPPING $1000: It was created from 3 Ottoman provinces shortly after World War I Iraq |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $1600: Under the Treaty Of Paris that ended this war in 1763, France lost all of its land holdings on the North American Continent the French & Indian War |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $2000: The first coins of this ancient land, roughly modern Lebanon, were minted around the 400s B.C. Phoenicia |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | LETTERS FROM WRITERS $1000: T.S. Eliot divulged in a letter that a difficult marriage "brought the state of mind out of which came" this poem in 1922 "The Waste Land" |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $200: Northern islands surrounded by this ocean include Franz Josef Land & Severnaya Zemlya the Arctic Ocean |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $200: This continent covers about 30% of the world's land area & has about 60% of its people Asia |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | DRAWING THE "LINE" $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For much of its length, the 180th meridian of longitude is tracked by this line that varies where it diverges to avoid land the International Date Line |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $800: The Arctic type of this canine is the only native land mammal in Iceland a fox |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $10,000 (Daily Double): The fur of this largest weasel family land animal is used to trim parkas because it doesn't mat or freeze in the cold a wolverine |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $800: This author of a fantasy series set in the land of Westeros was a conscientious objector during Vietnam (George) Martin |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FIX THE CAR (NAME) $800: The Land Rover Meadow Rover a Range Rover |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FIX THE CAR (NAME) $1000: The Toyota Land Warship a Land Cruiser |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER $200: There are actually 4 verses to the song, each ending with the line "O'er the land of the free and" this "the home of the brave" |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | MILITARY FIRSTS $800: A new era dawned in land warfare in September 1916 when these armored vehicles were used in battle for the first time tanks |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER $2,000 (Daily Double): The big land buy named for one also got us the other Louisiana & Arkansas |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: There are about 30 million people in this "Land of the Incas" Peru |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $800: UBS is a bank based in this land, "The World's Piggy Bank" Switzerland |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: The first of these military expeditions to the Holy Land was launched in 1095 the Crusades |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | NATIVE LANDS $400: It's not the home but the native land of Senator Ted Cruz Canada |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | SWEET RELIEF $800: The first Relief Act in Britain in 1778 allowed those of this religious affiliation to buy land Catholic |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK $1,400 (Daily Double): These largest North American land mammals seem mellow but cause more injuries to humans in the park than bears do bison |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | LONDON SPRAWLING $1600: A post-WWII planning act surrounded London with a ring of open land known by this colorful name the Green Belt |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | WEIRD SPORTS $800: (Mike & Mike of ESPN deliver the clue.) The strangest sport in the world has got to be the wife carrying championships, held every year in Scandinavia... but not as weird as the championships held in Nepal where they play polo matches using these largest land animals elephants |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | SUGAR LAND $200: Amount of sugar in a 1964 movie song title; tell us "in a most delightful way" a spoonful |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | SUGAR LAND $400: The Big Gulp got a pass in 2012 when this NYC Mayor proposed a ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces Mayor Bloomberg |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | SUGAR LAND $600: Don't be intolerant of this carb AKA milk sugar that makes up about 5% of cow's milk lactose |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | SUGAR LAND $800: In 1975 the Sugar Bowl moved from Tulane Stadium to this other local venue the Superdome |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | SUGAR LAND $1000: 007, do be careful riding the cable cars at this peak overlooking Rio! Sugarloaf |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | THAT'S SPOOKY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 2013, a declassified CIA document showed a map with the name of this land parcel in the Mojave desert for the first time publicly; it was once used to test the U-2 spy plane (& who knows what else) Area 51 |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | IN THE "ZONE" $400: This 10-mile-wide strip of land in Central America was under U.S. jurisdiction from 1903 to 1979 the Panama Canal Zone |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | SEALED $800: Navy SEALs know that their name comes from these 3 places where they fight sea, land & air |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | L_ _ S $400: Landlocked land of Asia Laos |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | HISTORY, ON THE MOVE $2000: The isthmus that once allowed humans to migrate on foot from Asia to North America is called the "Bering" this 2-word term a land bridge |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | CZECHS MIX $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In September 1938, this land in Czechoslovakia, then containing a large population of German descent, was handed over to Germany to appease Hitler the Sudetenland |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE MIDWEST $2000: Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes Minnetonka |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | LETTERS TO CANADA $400: Put MB on your letter & it'll go to this province that could be called the Land of 38,000 Lakes Manitoba |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | SKYDIVING $1000: 2-word specified area where skydivers plan to land, or a Gary Busey film about skydiving crooks Drop Zone |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: Each fall silver eels migrate to this "sea" within the North Atlantic to breed, some traveling across land the Sargasso Sea |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES BEYOND THE GAMES $600: At the '88 Worlds, skater Kurt Browning was the first in competition to land a jump with this many revolutions 4 |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $400: This country's is with the United Kingdom Ireland |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $800: This country's is with Germany Denmark |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $1200: This country's is with Malaysia Brunei |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $2000: This country's is with Senegal The Gambia |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $5,800 (Daily Double): This country's is with France Monaco |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | TV IQ TEST $400: Yours truly guest-starred on a live broadcast of this TV Land sitcom with Valerie Bertinelli & Betty White... which you 3 saw, right?! Hot in Cleveland |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1200: Chosen in 1957 when France ruled the land, Nouakchott is just off the Atlantic in this country Mauritania |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | LET'S AGREE ON A PRICE $800: "Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand", this actor rapped on "Thriller" Vincent Price |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | POETS & POETRY $1600: In this Longfellow poem, the little village of Grand-Pre lay "in the Acadian land on the shores of the Basin of Minas" Evangeline |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | GEOGRAPHER'S DICTIONARY $200: 5-letter name for an area of land ruled by a duke a duchy |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | APRIL... $2000: Cruel--in fact it's the cruellest month, according to this T.S. Eliot poem The Waste Land |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SONG OF THE SOUTH $400: Completes the song lyric, "Look away, look away, look away" this land Dixie |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: United Fruit, now this banana company, once owned half the private land in Honduras Chiquita |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | STATE SCHOOLS $200: Introduced in 1964, the Sooner Schooner of this university resembles those used in the 1889 land run the University of Oklahoma |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | NBA FINALS MVPs $200: 1983:
This big man lived up to his name & led the Sixers to the promised land Moses Malone |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | 5-LETTER MAMMALS $800: Europe's largest land mammal, the wisent, is also called this, like its American cousin a bison |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES $3,000 (Daily Double): While this Balkan country's national name means "land of eagles", the name we know it by is from the Latin for "white" Albania |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | MOUNT RUSHMORE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.) The four presidents chosen for Mount Rushmore symbolize the first 150 years of American history--Washington is the founding, Lincoln is preservation, Roosevelt is development, & Jefferson is expansion for his role in this 1803 land deal the Louisiana Purchase |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $1000: This Marvel Comics hero is a stranger in a strange land, but he did manage to fall in love with human model Beverly Switzler Howard the Duck |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $1200: To secure a boat to a dock, or a stretch of open land covered with heather & moss moor |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | BIBLICAL ART $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Poussin depicted the return of spies in the book of Numbers; the size of the bunch of grapes tells us the place they've reconnoitered lives up to its billing as this land the Promised Land |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $400: A series of lawsuits forced team owners in 1993 to agree to this in the NFL free agency |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $800: A.A. Milne moved to London to make his living as this type of writer, though he did eventually join the staff of Punch magazine freelance |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $1200: The planets are in this alliterative state in the gravitational field of the Sun free fall |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $1600: Moving independently, like Bob Dylan in the title of a 1963 album freewheeling |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $2000: This government agency formed in 1865 to aid former slaves also had refugees & abandoned lands in its full name the Freedmen's Bureau |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | OBSERVATORIES $1600: Kitt Peak National Observatory, on land of the Tohono O'odham tribe in this state, operates 22 optical telescopes Arizona |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | KIWI FAUNA $400: New Zealand has 2 species of this flying mammal, the only land mammal native to the country bat |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | KENYA WEST $1600: Some of Kenya's most fertile land is within this 4,000-mile-long "great" depression the Great Rift Valley |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | SAINTS PRESERVE US! $400: Embittered by Rome, this translator of the Vulgate took some virgins & went to the Holy Land for good Jerome |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $2000: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Scenic spots in Palm Springs & a humongous set on a Columbia Pictures backlot were used to create this Utopian land in 1937's "Lost Horizon" Shangri-La |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT $400: Putting the rest of us land mammals to shame, it tops out at more than 70 mph a cheetah |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | THE PALACE OF NATIONS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a sculpture of a chair with one leg broken near the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.) The broken chair near the Palace of Nations is a monument to the victims of this two-word weapon; their eradication was Princess Diana's goal land mines |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HEAD FOR THE BORDERS $400: This nation of thousands of islands does have a land border with Papua New Guinea Indonesia |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of Argentina and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean including a group of islands.) In 1982, British forces made a 200-mile war zone & landed near Port San Carlos in this territory to attack its capital over land, a winning strategy the Falklands |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $400: This man came & went in the highest office in the land (Herbert) Hoover |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | LITERARY BYWAYS $400: Published in 1909, "The Road to" this fabled land featured Dorothy & her new friends Shaggy Man & Button Bright Oz |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN $400: Among landlocked countries, this war-torn Asian land is alphabetically first Afghanistan |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | "B" ABBREVIATIONS $600: BLM
(a government agency) the Bureau of Land Management |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | FICTIONAL WITCHES $600: Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land Narnia |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | WHERE ARE "-U"? $800: On this level area of land raised above the adjoining area plateau |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS $2000: The 1872 act establishing this called it a "tract of land in the territories of Montana and Wyoming" Yellowstone National Park |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | GREETINGS FROM THE NORTH POLE $1000: Kaffeklubben Island, which belongs to this larger Danish island, is the closest land to the North Pole Greenland |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | POETIC WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Longfellow called her the "handsomest of all the women in the land of the Dacotahs" Minnehaha |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $800: While a little awkward on land, these rodents are actually good swimmers; their quills help them float porcupine |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CARRY "WATER" $1000: A land ridge dividing the areas drained by 2 different river systems a watershed |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $2000: Under president Siad Barre, who left in 1991, this East African land had its last real government for many years Somalia |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | SOUND GEOGRAPHY $1200: Darwin Sound lies on the south coast of this South American island, the "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! $800: In 1779 all the states except Maryland, which had some land issues, had ratified this precursor to the Constitution the Articles of the Confederation |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | AMERICAN POETRY $800 (Daily Double): In "Paul Revere's Ride", these 9 words precede "and I on the opposite shore will be" "one if by land, and two if by sea" |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | READJUSTED $1200: Protrudes, like a strip of land into a bay juts |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | I CAN'T STOP THIS FEELING $400: I'm really in the mood to play this board game that features the Chocolate Swamp & Gumdrop Mountain Candy Land |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | HOUSE HUNTERS INTERGALACTIC $5,000 (Daily Double): Want land? Buying on this moon of Saturn is a no-brainer: its 3,200-mile diameter is bigger than Mercury! Titan |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | ANEMONES CLOSER $400: A sea anemone is a marine polyp; a land anemone is this type of flower that sounds like it lives forever a perennial |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: This measure of land area was originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day an acre |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $800: Local term for the open pasture land of South Africa veldt |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FIELD OF DREAMS $200: Dream states have been observed in all mammals studied, from tiny shrews to these largest land animals elephants |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | BIOSPHERE 2 $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Biosphere 2 at the University of Arizona.) The site where the first Biospherians grew food now houses the world's biggest earth-science experiment, which will show how our land forms over time; it's called "L.E.O.", the Landscape this Observatory--Darwin would be proud evolution |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | ETYMOLOGY $1200: This word that follows "land" in a term for a nautical newcomer is from the Middle English for "lazy lout" lubber |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $2000: Chiricahua Natl. Monument, native name "The Land of Standing-Up Rocks", is named for a tribe within this people Apaches |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | CNN ENVIRONMENT $200: (Sumnima Udas of CNN gives the clue from a boat in a river.) The pollution level of Delhi's Yamuna River more than doubled from 1993 to 2005; among the main culprits are these chemicals from the abundant agricultural land upriver pesticides |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | GEOGRAPHY 101 $400: Stretching for about 5,500 miles, the world's longest land mountain range is this South American one The Andes |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1958 Vivian Fuchs became the first to cross Antarctica by land; he was joined partway by this Everest conquerer Edmund Hillary |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $400: We hope the Gingerbread People avoid the Molasses Swamp & make it to the Lollipop Woods in this board game Candy Land |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $2000: He's short & round, he's pink, he's the title video game character in his "Return to Dream Land" Kirby |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | THE AMERICAS $800: Central America's smallest country, it's been called Cuscatlan, "Land of the Jewel" El Salvador |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | '60s SPEECHES $200: "I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. but...we, as a people, will get to the promised land" Martin Luther King |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | NATIONAL THINGS $1600: Sleep in "luxory" on sheets made of this from the land of the pharaohs in thread counts as high as 1,500 Egyptian cotton |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BUSINESS HISTORIES $600: In 1906 William Ramsay began making this shoe polish, which he named for his wife's native land Down Under Kiwi |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | FROM A TO E $400: Unit of land area about 9/10 the size of a football field an acre |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Gold"& "The Eureka State" California |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $800: Under feudalism, this was the land granted to a vassal by a lord in return for the vassal's loyalty & service a fief |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | FAMILY PLANNING $400: When he died in 1227, he passed on to his children land that extended from Beijing to the Caspian Sea Genghis Khan |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | EXTREME GEOGRAPHY $600: Canada's southernmost point of land is Middle Island in this Great Lake, eh? Lake Erie |
