| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $11,800 (Daily Double): A unique way to see wildlife in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is to take a sunset cruise on this river above Victoria Falls Zambezi |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $2000: Greek myth says Hermes invented this harp-like instrument using a turtle shell a lyre |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS $800: His 2015 acceptance speech for Best Male Lead did not, but should have, included him saying in a threatening way, "I'm Birdman" Michael Keaton |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $1000: Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way" Caliban |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | THE DEEP SOUTH $600: "The Fighting Gamecocks Lead The Way" is the fight song of this SEC school South Carolina |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | "LEAD" THE WAY $200: Alliterative 2-word term for a star actress leading lady |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | "LEAD" THE WAY $400: The Derrick Dolls were the Houston Oilers' squad of these cheerleaders |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | "LEAD" THE WAY $600: Harry Reid, in the U.S. Senate the Majority Leader |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | "LEAD" THE WAY $800: It's sold cheap to attract buyers to more expensive items a loss leader |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | "LEAD" THE WAY $1000: To supplicate plead |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | FOLLOW ME $1000: General Patton & others are quoted as originating the phrase "Lead, follow or" do this get out of the way |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | THE PERIODIC TABLE $600: Don't take this the wrong way: it's the most used & cheapest metal iron |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | HETERONYMS $400: A metallic element, or to guide the way lead [led/leed] |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | FACTS & FIGURES $5,000 (Daily Double): A pen with 1,400 diamonds depicting a mountain range was created in 2006 to celebrate this company's 100th anniversary Montblanc |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | TOP 40 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES? $200: "I believe the children are our future; teach them well and let them lead the way" Whitney Houston |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $3,500 (Daily Double): Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | JAPAN'S NEXT TOP MODEL $1000: The Grand Vitara Suzuki |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | THE LEFTY WAY $2,000 (Daily Double): Lefties who smudge what they write may prefer right-to-left languages like this one used in Qom & Tabriz Farsi (Persian) |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | FAMOUS FATHERS $1200: "The Father of the Gunpowder Plot" Guy Fawkes |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | HIGH "T" $200: Formerly an independent country, this region of China is known as the "Roof of the World" Tibet |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THE ELEMENTS $800: When pronounced another way, this element is the top story on a newscast lead |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING WOMEN $6,000 (Daily Double): This member of a prominent Boston family won a 1926 Pulitzer for her poetry collection "What's O'Clock" Amy Lowell |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | EXTREME TAKEOVER $4,000 (Daily Double): 1204:
Supposedly on their way to Jerusalem, Crusader knights sack this richest Christian city Constantinople |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | YOUR INITIAL RESPONSE IS CORRECT $10,000 (Daily Double): This postal abbreviation of the "Old Line State" has been doctored MD |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $800: "Lead me not into" this, says Rita Mae Brown; "I can find the way myself" temptation |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | HEARD OF HARDING $400 (Daily Double): Nickname of Suite 404 in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel where the deal was made to nominate Harding a "smoke-filled room" |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | MARY, TYLER OR MOORE $800: The 1999 book "Walk this Way" is about a rock group with this lead singer Steven Tyler |
| #2211, aired 1994-03-28 | WORLD LEADERS $600: Alberto Fujimori, the 1st person of Japanese descent to lead a Latin American nation, leads this one Peru |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | MIAMI $300: Miami's name comes from an Indian word meaning "big water" which may refer to this lake Lake Okeechobee |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | ENGINEERING $200: Begun by Appius Claudius as a public work in 312 B.C., it's one of the roads that lead to Rome the Appian Way |
| #164, aired 1985-04-25 | LITERARY QUOTES $1000: According to Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard", "The paths of glory lead but to" there the grave |
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