| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $200: Cersei:
"When you play" this, "you win or you die, there is no middle ground" the game of thrones |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $400: Maggie, to Brick in this play: "We mustn't scream at each other. The walls in this house have ears" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $600: This poet: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" Dylan Thomas |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $1000: He wrote the little ditty, "God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why" (Ogden) Nash |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $2,800 (Daily Double): From "Hamlet", "This above all:" this phrase to thine own self be true |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $200: This humorous poem of 5 lines takes its name from a city in Ireland a limerick |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $200: As this character, Tom Cruise radioed the tower, "This is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby" but was told the pattern was full Maverick |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $400: Client Rod Tidwell gets agent Jerry Maguire to say this 4-word phrase again & again, louder each time show me the money |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $600: In this comedy, Tom as studio exec Les Grossman dances to "Low" by Flo Rida & T-Pain & says, "This is... when the job gets fun" Tropic Thunder |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $800: "I am the world's last barman poet", Tom declaims in this film, "America's getting stinking on something I stir or shake" Cocktail |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | CRUISE LINES $1000: Tom Cruise tells Max von Sydow in this flick, "If you don't kill me, precogs were wrong & pre-crime is over" Minority Report |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these a quatrain |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $2000: The "March of the 10,000" involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name, trapped behind enemy lines Hoplites |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | MEMORY $400: This actress has an autobiographical memory like only 100 other humans & has no trouble remembering her lines, either Marilu Henner |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $800: "Pain don't hurt" is one of Patrick Swayze's iconic (?) lines from this 1989 cheese- & slugfest Road House |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: The lines "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" come from this book Ecclesiastes |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | NUMERICALLY PREFIXED $1600: Based on the 8 endpoints of the lines, a hashtag or pound sign is also known as this an octothorpe |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Ancient geoglyphs of animals & figures, known by this name, were etched into the arid Pampa Colorada Plain of Peru more than 2,000 years ago the Nazca Lines |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $200: In this book you'll find "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body" Dracula |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $600: It includes, "I had only just gone to my room, when my Mary told me a lady had thrown herself under the train" Anna Karenina |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: This Sinclair Lewis guy hears "Preacher... damned if I'm going to watch you seducing the first girl you get your big sweaty hands on" Elmer Gantry |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $1200: The classic anti-drug song "White Lines" by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film Cocaine Bear |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $300: "When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things" The Sound of Music |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $900: "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living" Les Misérables |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $1200: "It's time to try defying gravity, I think I'll try defying gravity, and you can't pull me down" Wicked |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $1500: "I don't need sunshine now to turn my skies to blue, I don't need anything but you" Annie |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $6,000 (Daily Double): "I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America" West Side Story |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $200: Of this type of poem, Shakespeare was keen / Its number of lines totals fourteen a sonnet |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | UP ABOVE $1000: Wordsworth wrote, "Lines composed a few miles above..." this place Tintern Abbey |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HEADQUARTERED IN $600: Home Depot;
Delta Air Lines;
UPS;
Coca-Cola Atlanta |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $1200: This mega producer & creator of "Scandal" declared, "You can waste your lives drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them" (Shonda) Rhimes |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | GEOMETRY $400: In 1795 John Playfair simplified Euclid's axiom about these, still saying they never meet parallel lines |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $400: This puzzle is so-named for the tool used to create the intricate lines & curves of its pieces a jigsaw |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | THE PIPE ORGAN $1600: Organ music is often written on 3 of these sets of lines, the lowest one for the pedal part a staff |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISHISM $1600: A limerick generally consists of 5 anapestic queues lines |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | TRAP $5,000 (Daily Double): In WWI the "Lost Battalion" lacked food & medical supplies while trapped behind enemy lines in this forest the Argonne |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $600: Lines that nobody understands include this "Othello" villain calling Cassio "a fellow almost damned in a fair wife" Iago |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $1000: This 1910 law said you couldn't take women across state lines for immoral purposes the Mann Act |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | VENN DIAGRAM INTERSECTIONS $800: Rum Brands & 1970s Barbie Lines Malibu |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | CHAPTER & VERSE $2000: Most of the stanzas in this Coleridge poem have 4 lines; a single 9-line stanza mentions a steersman The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $800: Dedicated to Stephen Hawking, Sarah Howe's "Relativity" describes these as "where parallel lines will meet" black holes |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | PLAY: THE GAME $200: Your wife asks for a divorce; lose direction in life; move in with sportswriter pal; clean his place. Clean it again. & again The Odd Couple |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $200: Stella! Stelllla! Man, that music's loud tonight! I said I'd like a Stella Artois for my pal & this other beer, PBR for short, for me Pabst Blue Ribbon |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $400: My good fellow, kindly prepare me a fuzzy navel, made with orange juice & the peach flavor of this distilled liquor schnapps |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $600: I saw a werewolf look up this drink in "Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide"; golden Puerto Rican rum & pineapple juice sound perfect a piña colada |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $800: Along with grenadine & orange juice, put in plenty of this potent potable to kick it up & see its "sunrise" of musical fame tequila |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | BAR LINES $1000: Did anyone ever tell you your eyes are--oh, I'm dripping with this trendy "spritz" made with an Italian aperitif invented in 1919 Aperol |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $400: 1942:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $800: 1933:
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" King Kong |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1600: Spoken by Mark Wahlberg: "I am a star. I'm a star. I'm a star. I'm a star. I am a big bright shining star. That's right" Boogie Nights |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $2000: This "Dirty Harry" sequel whose title mentions Harry's gun: "A man's got to know his limitations" Magnum Force |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | & EYE $400: "Avian" term for the tiny wrinkles that form around the eyes as we age; we prefer to call them "smile lines" crow's feet |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $1600: The Philippines' equivalent of a dollar sign is 2 horizontal lines through this letter a P |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $600: This knight's first line in "Henry IV, Part 1" is asking what time it is, which leads to 100 lines of banter & trash talk Falstaff |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $200: This spiritual leader of Tibet says he believes "the purpose of life is to find happiness" the Dalai Lama |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $400: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans", sang John Lennon in a song to this person he loved Sean Lennon |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $600: Writer Christopher Morley said "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and" this rhyming word yearning |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $800: A song from this musical says, "To life, to life, L'chaim!, L'chaim, L'chaim, to life!" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $1000: This Danish philosopher agreed that "Life can only be understood backwards, but... it must be lived forwards" Kierkegaard |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $600: This movie star purred lines like "Goodness had nothing to do with it" & "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" Mae West |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCORE TO SETTLE $1600: A 6-stanza poem of 6 lines each with repeated lines is called this sestina |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $200: This classic film gave us the line "Here's looking at you, kid" Casablanca |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $400: In this film Renee Zellweger tells Tom Cruise, "You had me at hello" Jerry Maguire |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $600: In "The Princess Bride", Westley says this phrase to Buttercup over & over, which she finally realizes means "I love you" As you wish |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $800: "I wish I knew how to quit you" is a line from this 21st century film Brokeback Mountain |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $1000: In "Moonstruck", after Nicolas Cage says, "I'm in love with you", Cher slaps him twice & says these 4 words Snap out of it |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | MANDY PATINKIN $400: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) I spoke one of the many great lines in this 1987 film: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" The Princess Bride |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $200: Holding the dead Cordelia in his arms, he hears that Edmund is dead & is dead himself a few lines later Lear |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $1000: Still a fashion icon at 101, she has produced her own clothing & jewelry lines Iris Apfel |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $1000: Thousands of years old, large geoglyphs representing plants & animals can be seen 15 miles northwest of this Peruvian city Nazca |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $200: It contains the opposite of its title in "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Out of Africa |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "1984" begins, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking" this very odd number thirteen |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $600: This novel begins, "It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him" Catch-22 |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" in this tale the Metamorphosis |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe" starts, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund &" her Lucy |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | HOW DID THEY DIE? $1600: Charlemagne died from this condition, an inflammation of the membrane that lines the chest & covers the lungs pleurisy |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | TELEVISION $1200: He played an Appalachian doctor on the front lines of the opioid crisis in "Dopesick" (Michael) Keaton |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGNETS! $2000: Shine a light into a gas in a magnetic field to see the Zeeman effect, the resplitting of lines in this arrangement of colors a spectrum |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $1200: Carnival Cruise Lines: Todd Rundgren singing about doing this all day bang on the drum |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $400: The wavy blue lines on Cincinnati's flag represent this river that the city lies on the Ohio |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | GEOMETRY CLASS $800: 2 of these infinite one-way lines diverging from the same vertex create an angle a ray |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | WAITS & MEASURES $600: A 2019 study found that Newark Airport had the longest average wait time, 23 minutes, in this 3-letter agency's lines the TSA |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | MIDDLE P $4,000 (Daily Double): 2 linked lines of verse a couplet |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $1000: Miller's crossing some lines; a wild ride through 1930s Paris with Tania & Boris; smuggled into the states Tropic of Cancer |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $200: A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams King Kong |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | NOW WE ARE SIX $800: Each divinatory figure in this Chinese work is made up of six parallel lines, some whole, some divided the I Ching |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | TOY STORIES $400: These toys that became a TV & movie franchise sprang from Japanese toy lines called Diaclone & Micro Change Transformers |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $800: After flying over the Nazca Lines in this country, get away to Huacachina, an oasis in the middle of the desert Peru |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $400: My Greek prof wants us to read 150 lines where Hector fights Ajax, 1% of this whole poem the Iliad |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $1000: The wavy lines in the expression seen here stand for this approximately (equal to) |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $800: This word for a group of rhyming lines in a poem comes from Italian stanza |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $1200: This word for a group of 4 lines of verse is from French for "four" a quatrain |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $200: "1 fish, 2 fish
red fish
blue fish.
Black fish
blue fish"
this fish
"new fish" old fish |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $400: "I am Sam
Sam I am...
do you like"
this offering? green eggs and ham |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $600: "...but the Grinch who lived just north of" this place "did not!" (like Christmas a lot, that is) Whoville |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $800: "On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool" this guy "heard a small noise" Horton |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS $1000: "Now, the star-belly" these "had bellies with stars. The plain-belly" these "had none upon thars" Sneetches |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | 5,5 $800: Hilarious term for the wrinkles seen here laugh lines |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR $400: French minister Léon Gambetta escaped the 1870 Siege of Paris by floating over the German lines in one of these a (hot air) balloon |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $400: Pacific Gas & Electric, we hear you're going to do this with 10,000 miles of power lines to keep them from sparking wildfires bury them |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | JOKERS $800: "I would like to give these kids a good home; in fact, there's a good one a few miles away" was one of his lines as a grumpy TV foster dad Bernie Mac |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | CHARTED $1000: His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances Mercator |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $6,000 (Daily Double): "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines Paradise Lost |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | NO MAN $800: In this 1944 battle named for the shape of opposing lines, U.S. General Anthony McAuliffe replied "Nuts!" to a demand for surrender Battle of the Bulge |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | 3-SYLLABLE VERBS $1000: An alternate term for a crossroads takes its name in part from this verb meaning what happens when 2 lines cross each other intersect |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $1600: A triangle is the simplest form of this type of closed plane figure bounded by straight lines polygon |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $1600: In the film of the same title, Lee Remick quotes to Jack Lemmon Ernest Dowson's lines about "The Days of" this pair Wine and Roses |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LOST VOICES $800: This actor had all of his lines in "Hercules in New York" redubbed by someone without an Austrian accent Schwarzenegger |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LOST VOICES $1200: Chris Farley recorded most of his lines as this title ogre before his death; Mike Myers replaced him Shrek |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LOST VOICES $1600: Samantha Morton recorded the lines on set as the A.I. assistant in this 3-letter film but was replaced by Scarlett Johansson Her |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LOST VOICES $2000: All of David Prowse's lines in "Star Wars" were redubbed by this actor James Earl Jones |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $2000: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard" Lear |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $400: In his "Advice to a Young Tradesman", he said, "Remember that time is money" Franklin |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $800: "The time has come", this character says, "to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--of cabbages--and kings" the Walrus |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1200: "You must remember" this song that says, "A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh" "As Time Goes By" |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1,500 (Daily Double): This book of the Bible mentions "a time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance" Ecclesiastes |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $2000: At a commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, he said, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" Steve Jobs |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SCIENCE $1600: On weather maps, isobars are lines that join areas of equal measures of this (atmospheric) pressure |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1200: It lines certain shells, like the abalone, seen here mother-of-pearl |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON BASS $600: James Jamerson laid down immortal bass lines on Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life" & "What's Going On" by this singer Marvin Gaye |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | HISTORY $400: To see a transit of Venus by telescope in 1761, Harvard professor John Winthrop had to go behind enemy lines during this war the French and Indian War |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | IN-CAR-CERATED $600: This action by OPEC in October 1973 produced long lines at U.S. gas stations an oil embargo |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $200: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal" Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "All children, except one, grow up" Peter Pan |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $600: "Buck did not read... or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not... for himself, but for every tide-water dog" The Call of the Wild |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing" A River Runs Through It |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BADJECTIVES $400: Loathsome, or a baseball hit outside the lines foul |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | AUTHORS WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY $800: C.S. Lewis fought in this war, arriving at the front lines in the Somme Valley on his 19th birthday World War I |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just before landing, it's when the pilot lines up the plane with the runway approach |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $400: Online advice from United Van Lines & Bekins says to pack these in small boxes--they'll get heavy real fast books |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | COPPING A "TUDE" $400: These 2 types of lines cross on maps latitude & longitude |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $1600: In 1993 this South American country awarded Maria Reiche the Order of the Sun for her work on the mysterious Nazca Lines Peru |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | "HOP" $400: Hinkspiel is a German version of this kid's game that involves not treading on lines hopscotch |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $800: On the Flight of the Gibbon tour near Bangkok, you can soar above the Thai rain forest on these inclined cables zip lines |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $1200: "C" is for these lines on a map that join points of equal elevation contour |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Mercator maps these parallel lines get farther apart as they get more distant from the equator lines of latitude |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $2000: His 1893 "A Woman of No Importance" has lines like "Never trust a woman who tells one her real age"; she "would tell one anything" Oscar Wilde |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $400: In a No. 1 song, he cautioned, "In every life we have some trouble but when you worry you make it double, don't worry be happy" (Bobby) McFerrin |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $800: "What, me worry?" is the motto of this Mad Magazine cover boy Alfred E. Neuman |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $1200: An old song says, "What's the use of worrying... so, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and" do this, this, this smile, smile, smile |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $1600: When he was chair of the Fed in 1995, he said, "I worry incessantly that I might be too clear" Greenspan |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $2000: In this compilation of teachings, the Jewish sage Hillel said, "The more possessions, the more worry" the Talmud |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WORD PUZZLES $200: Understand what is really being said read between the lines |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | WOMEN IN LITERATURE $1000: Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare's women As You Like It |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | SNAP, CRACKLE OR POP $800: Also called craze, it's the network of fine broken lines in the glaze of ceramics crackles |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | WORDSWORTH AT 250 $2000: The full poem title was "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above" this abbey "on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798" "Tintern Abbey" |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | ALL MY TROUBLES $800: I'm playing this "Othello" villain in an hour?! I know Roderigo helps him & he frames Cassio, but I don't know his lines Iago |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $2000: Before his more geometric style of intersecting lines, this Dutchman dabbled in Fauvism, painting a red amaryllis Mondrian |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: Tobey Maguire: "With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift. My curse. Who am I? I'm..." Spider-Man |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $800: Morgan Freeman: "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope" The Shawshank Redemption |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1200: Guy Pearce: "Now, where was I?" Memento |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $2000: Patricia Arquette: "Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis" True Romance |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $3,200 (Daily Double): Barnard Hughes: "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires" The Lost Boys |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $100 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from , Szentendre, Hungary at the Hungarian Open Air Museum.) For centuries, Hungary was on the front lines of Christian Europe's battles with Eastern invaders; the Mongols came through in the 1200s, and this empire occupied much of the country from 1541 to 1699 the Ottomans |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | 3 TO GET READY $200: One of these poems is arranged in 3 lines of 5,
7 &
5 syllables a haiku |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SCHOOL SUPPLIES $200: Notebook paper with horizontal lines 9/32nd of an inch apart is called this-ruled college |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TIME TO PAY THE "TAB" $2000: This type of musical notation used lines to denote an instrument's strings tablature |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $800: This two-word term describes the place on the horizon where parallel lines appear to meet the vanishing point |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ON TIME $400: "An American Tragedy" & "System Failure" were September 2005 cover lines about this Louisiana disaster Hurricane Katrina |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | POET-POURRI $400: Wanda Coleman's jazz-influenced "American" these poems sometimes have more than 14 lines, but 16 max Sonnets |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE COMICS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Cartoonist Mort Walker called the stars over a drunken character "squeans", and gave the name "waftaroms" to the wavy lines indicating this smell |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $400: In line 2 of this poem, "The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play" "Casey at the Bat" |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $800: In a poem by William Blake, these 4 words precede the second line, "In the forests of the night" Tyger! Tyger! burning bright |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $1200: Second line: "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height..."; first line: this How do I love thee |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $2000: Title of the poem with the second line "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored" "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $4,000 (Daily Double): Its second line is "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" "The Raven" |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | STARCHITECTS $1600: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the big star of this "worldly" 20th century style that emphasized straight lines the International Style |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | IT'S THE GIELGUD MOVIE OF THE YEAR $800: For this 1953 film Gielgud coached a nervous Marlon Brando, playing Mark Antony, on how to read The Bard's lines Julius Caesar |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | CHARITIES $800: To fight excessive punishment along racial lines, lawyer Bryan Stevenson founded this initiative, EJI for short Equal Justice |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $800: After quatorze: a very short poem with a fixed amount of lines a quatrain |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $800: In the 1860s the poles used in creating this communications link fell down when Buffalo used them as scratching posts the telegraph |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | GEOGRAPHICA $800: On a 3D topographic map, contour lines are used to identify points that have the same this altitude (elevation) |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: "Insure domestic tranquility" & "secure the blessings of liberty" are lines from this historic document the Constitution |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LIFE ON MARS $2000: Keep your water supply handy--long, straight surface lines thought to be systems of these proved to be a 19th century myth canals |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $400: In 1943 Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen designed the smooth lines of this St. Louis landmark Gateway Arch |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINISH LINES $400: After you climb 86 flights of stairs, the Observatory is the finish line in the ESBRU, or this building "Run-Up" Empire State Building |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINISH LINES $600: The 2019 Tour de France began in Belgium but the finish line, as always, was on this road in Paris Champs-Élysées |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $800: Finnish computer scientist Linus Torvalds wrote his master's thesis on this operating system of his Linux |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINISH LINES $800: Here's the finish line at this racetrack, home to the most exciting two minutes in sports Churchill Downs |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINISH LINES $1000: In 2018 this car rally that is named for a 1981 Burt Reynolds movie started in Vegas & finished in Seattle Cannonball Run |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $1200: In 1865 Finn Fredrik Idestam started a paper mill that evolved into this mobile phone company Nokia |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $2000: The press dubbed this Olympic champ "The Flying Finn", "The Phantom Finn" & "The Finnish Running Marvel" (Paavo) Nurmi |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | FINNISH LINES $4,000 (Daily Double): Named for 2 1950s presidents, the Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line meant not doing anything to annoy this country Soviet Union |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $800: "My kingdom for a horse!" Richard III |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $1200: "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" Romeo |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $1600: "Then fall", me Caesar |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES $2000: "I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss" Othello |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHAPE UP! $600: Connect two semicircles with parallel lines & you have this shape, named for a type of arena a stadium |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $800: A "heroic" one of these is 2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter couplet |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FOR WEDDINGS $1000: The bride & her bridesmaids can walk down the aisle towards the altar in one of these orderly, ceremonial lines a procession, or processional |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: One of his memorable lines in "A Fish Called Wanda" is "Don't call me stupid" Kevin Kline |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | PHYSICS $5,800 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows two waves on the monitor.) In transverse waves, each particle moves perpendicular to the wave's direction; in this 12-letter type, reminiscent of lines on a map, each particle moves parallel to the wave longitudinal |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | MNEMONICS $600: In a mnemonic for lines of the treble clef, these 3 words precede "does fine" every good boy |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | PATINKIN $200: In this film Mandy Patinkin has the memorable lines "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" The Princess Bride |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows lines on the monitor.) Lines that go on in the same direction & never intersect are parallel, while lines that meet at a 90-degree angle are said to be this perpendicular |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | EXTRACURRICULAR $1200: Get your box or delta ones of these soaring--just be sure not to fly them over an airport or power lines kites (or drones) |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | GOES "MOO" $800: To secure a boat with lines or anchors to moor |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | FAMOUS LEFTIES $400: He played the classic bass lines for "Michelle" & "Paperback Writer" as a lefty Paul McCartney |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | BALLOONS $1600: An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year power outages |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $200: Heading north on I-5:
California,
Oregon,
this Washington |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $400: Going due west:
Ohio,
Indiana,
this Illinois |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $600: Going south on U.S. 281:
Nebraska,
Kansas,
this Oklahoma |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $800: Heading north:
Rhode Island,
Massachusetts,
this New Hampshire |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | ACROSS STATE LINES $1000: Heading east on I-94:
Montana,
North Dakota,
this Minnesota |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | "R.R." $200: In this playground game of trying to break through lines, everybody's on the winning team at the end red rover |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $400: By Shaw: "Pickering! Nonsense! She's going to marry Freddy! Ha ha! Freddy! Freddy! Ha ha ha ha ha" Pygmalion |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ON THE MOVE $800: Manhattan subway lines the 7, the L & the S travel east-west, also called this direction crosstown |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $800: By Ibsen: "Nora! Nora! Empty. She's gone. The greatest miracle--"(door slams) A Doll's House |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $1600: By Oscar Wilde: "No one in particular. A man of no importance" A Woman of No Importance |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $2000: By Woody Allen: "Well, you see, the thing about Bogart that most people don't know is that..." Play It Again, Sam |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $5,000 (Daily Double): A musical: "How many can I kill... & still have one bullet left for me? Don't you touch him! Te adoro, Anton" West Side Story |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $1600: Maidie Norman, the maid who got offed by Bette Davis in this 1962 film, rewrote her lines so they wouldn't sound so stereotypical What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | FINAL JEOPARDY $2000: This French word means the final resolution of the plot lines of a drama denouement |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: A 1970s bestseller:
"The great fish moved silently through the night water" Jaws |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother" Charlotte's Web |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1200: A New York Times Best Book of the Year from 2010:
"Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in wardrobe" Room |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1600: "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested" The Trial |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $3,000 (Daily Double): From 1931:
"It was Wang Lung's marriage day" The Good Earth |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $600: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): "Some Like It Hot" has one of the great last lines in film: when Jack Lemmon reveals he's a man, Joe E. Brown replies, "Well, nobody's" this perfect |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $200: Clara was a caregiver, with the Red Cross she found fame / aided at the Johnstown flood, this was Clara's last name Barton |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $400: Emily was a poet, Massachusetts born & bred / wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", lived in this town 'til she was dead Amherst |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $600: Aretha was "The Queen of Soul", & as such, could do no wrong / in '67 she spelled it out, hit No. 1 with this great song "Respect" |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $800: Coco was a French designer, dabbled in perfume for fun / got her business set for life with this No. in '21 Chanel No. 5 |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $1000: Margaret this was out of Philly, she's an anthropologist / wrote of teens so far away, I chose her to end this list (Margaret) Mead |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | CITY FLAGS $2,000 (Daily Double): The wavy lines symbolize the convergence of the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers on the flag of this large city St. Louis |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | PUT ON YOUR "P.J."s $2000: In medieval times, it was the name of a fabled Christian king of Asia behind the lines of the infidels Prester John |
| #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 |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $400: In this song by the B-52s, "we were at the beach, everybody had matching towels" "Rock Lobster" |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $600: "We shall fight on the beaches", said Churchill in his June 4, 1940 speech on the evacuation from this port Dunkirk |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $800: A poem by her rhymes "your poor" with "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" (Emma) Lazarus |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | SHORE LINES $1000: A Steinbeck tale says, "Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach" the day he found this title object the pearl |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $800: Keats' poem about him includes the lines "Honour to Maid Marian, and to all the Sherwood-clan!" Robin Hood |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $800: A problem at the 2017 Intl. Math Olympiad for teens involved one of these lines touching a circle at a single point a tangent line |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | PATTERN RECOGNITION $400: Yankee fans know the lines on this uniform fabric pattern can be 1/16" or 3/32" wide pinstripes |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | GEOGRAPHY OF THE MOON $800: Sharing a name with sunbeams, these lines can spread out for hundreds of miles from craters rays |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $2000: As a verb, it means to slant or depict unfairly; in math it refers to 2 lines that do not intersect & are not parallel skew |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | STATE LINES $400: Arnold Schwarzenegger:
"I am selling ____ worldwide" California |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | STATE LINES $600: Sarah Palin: "It is from ____ that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia" Alaska |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | STATE LINES $1000: An official state song:
"On, ____!" Wisconsin |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | STATE LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): An 1803 speech:
"____ is the keystone of the democratic arch" Pennsylvania |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | poetry $1200: of the first 65 lines of his "howl", only 2 start with a capital letter: "I" & the "P" in "Peyote" (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $400: "You're the secretary to the vice president. That's like being Garfunkel's roadie" Veep |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $800: Dwight:
"I'm all about loyalty... I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most" The Office |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $1200: Alec Baldwin on this show: "Yes, my daughter is Canadian American but I'm going to treat her just like a human baby" 30 Rock |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $1600: "Have you seen that movie? Maris & I rented the video. I don't mind telling you, we pushed our beds together that night" Frasier |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | LINES FROM THE TV COMEDY $2000: On this '90s show:
"I can handle it. 'Handle' is my middle name. Actually, it's the middle part of my first name" Friends |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $200: Wearing SJP, you can literally stand in her shoes Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $400: She named Ivy Park in part for her daughter Beyoncé |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $600: She hit a grand slam with her Eleven athletic apparel Venus Williams |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $800: In 2018 his Sean John line turned 20 Sean Combs, Puffy Combs |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $1000: He founded denim-heavy William Rast with a childhood friend from Memphis Justin Timberlake |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | UNDER STUDIES $1600: Freud put plenty of laugh lines in "Jokes and Their Relation to" this part of the mind the unconscious |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $200: "Born down in a dead man's town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground" "Born In The U.S.A." |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $400: From Mr. Sinatra:
"And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain" "My Way" |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $600: From the Beatles, of course:
"I read the news today, oh boy" "A Day In The Life" |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $800: A Tom Petty classic:
"She's a good girl, loves her mama, loves Jesus and America too" "Free Fallin'" |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $1000: "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $200: 1884:
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $400: 1859:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $600: Page 001 (not 007):
"The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning" Casino Royale |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $800: 1878:
"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" Anna Karenina |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | FIRST LINES FROM NOVELS $1000: 1952:
"Roy Hobbs pawed at the glass before thinking to prick a match with his thumbnail" The Natural |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $200: This word for the snapper should tell you he lines up in the middle of the offensive line a center |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $400: 1939:
"What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett?" Gone With the Wind |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $800: 1946:
"I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $1200: 1999:
"People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden" Fight Club |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $1600: 1968:
"Hello, gorgeous" Funny Girl |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $2000: A 2010 remake:
"People did not give it credence that a young girl could leave home & go off...to avenge her father's blood" True Grit |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: "Battle Lines" is book one of the "Last Good War" novel series, set during this war World War II |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: They create the betting lines for the Super Bowl & other contests oddsmakers |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | THE FAST & THE FASTIDIOUS $600: Sean has joined the chase, but not before touching up these decorative car lines, also a live-action zebra movie racing stripes |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | OUR HISTORICAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT $400: Excitement fills the air in Utah on May 10, 1869 as this is completed, uniting 2 separate transport lines the transcontinental railroad |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | SNAKES ON A BOOK $400: This Milton poem has the lines "so talked the spirited sly snake; and Eve, yet more amazed, unwary thus replied" Paradise Lost |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | ALIMENTARY SCHOOL $800: This slimy membrane lines the organs & passages of the alimentary canal mucus membrane |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | WE'LL TAKE YOUR MEASURE! $2000: Used by the USGS, creepmeters gauge the slip of these, such as the strike-slip type fault lines |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | ____ OF THE ____ $800: The Germans drove a wedge into Allied lines during this World War II offensive, hence its name Battle of the Bulge |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER $1000: Lines from this tune: "There's one for you, 19 for me" & "Should 5% appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all" "Taxman" |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | A WIEN-WIEN SITUATION $1600: Most Viennese streetcar lines will take you into the Wienerwald, these, for a little hiking, ja? the Vienna Woods |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SAVED BY THE BELA $400: From 1931, one of this actor's memorable movie lines is "I never drink... wine" Bela Lugosi |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | TIME FOR SECONDS $1200: When the first transcontinental RR was completed in 1869, so was the second transcontinental one of these lines telegraph |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | DESERTS $2000: You'll find the Nazca lines, geoglyphs depicting animals & symbols, on the desert floor of this country Peru |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | LINE CRAFT $800: Parallel lines in a painting converge in a single vanishing point in the system known as linear this perspective |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | LINE CRAFT $1200: Check out the lines crafted by this Dutch painter in his "Broadway Boogie Woogie" Piet Mondrian |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | "HOME" LINES $200: These 5 words follow "be it ever so humble" "there's no place like home" |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | "HOME" LINES $400: The 17th c. play "The Scornful Lady" speaks of kissing until this bovine action occurs the cows come home |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | "HOME" LINES $600: Basketball gives us this expression about the psychological edge gained from familiar surroundings the home court advantage |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | "HOME" LINES $800: A familiar saying is "curses", like chickens, "always" do this come home to roost |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | "HOME" LINES $1000: Lady Antebellum has a song called this, also a proverb about an emotional attachment to the place you're from "Home Is Where The Heart Is" |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | TECHNOLOGY $800: In 1977 Dennis Hayes & Dale Heatherington invented this, enabling a PC to transmit data via phone lines a modem |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $400: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, & of having nothing to do" Alice in Wonderland |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $800: "It was a pleasure to burn" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $1600: From 19th century England:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" Jane Eyre |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $2000: A '70s book: "I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is 8:30 in the morning" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $5,000 (Daily Double): Nonfiction:
"June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone" All the President's Men |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | CALCULUS $800: The process of differentiation lets you find the slope of one of these lines that touches a curve at just one point a tangent |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THE "KID" STAYS IN THE PICTURE $1200: 2 memorable lines from this 1984 Ralph Macchio movie: "Sweep the leg" & "Get him a body bag!" The Karate Kid |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $200: "You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $400: "I see dead people" The Sixth Sense |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $600: "I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here" Annie Hall |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $800: "You want answers?! ...You want answers?! ...You can't handle the truth!" A Few Good Men |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $1000: "Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back" Ghostbusters |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | OTHER HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: (2 unfittable lines precede) /
This day's on May 12th /
I like it, myself /
& now it's on you to speak up National Limerick Day |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $400: In dealing with others, we need to set these lines, the title of a book subtitled "When to Say Yes, How to Say No" boundary |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | "M"PORTANT PAINTERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the "Gray Tree".) You can see the visible world starting to be reduced to lines and rectangles in the "Gray Tree" (1911), by this Dutch painter, who soon got into pure abstraction (Piet) Mondrian |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | LOOK AT THOSE CURVES $1,200 (Daily Double): Most latitude & longitude lines curve on the gnomonic type of this, a way to map the round Earth on a flat surface projection |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $200: This geographic line was first designated by an international conference in 1884 the prime meridian |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $400: Shifting priorities prompted Samoa to adjust this line in 2011 to go back to the future & be on the same day as Australia the international date line |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $600: The border line seen here separates these two nations that were part of the same union until 1523 Sweden and Norway |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $800: Mauritania north of the Nouakchott-Nema line is mostly this geographic feature the Sahara desert |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: The route of this fortification, built in the 1930s, stretched for hundreds of miles the Maginot Line |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | NOW YOU'VE STEPPED IN IT $800: If you step into this street opening when its cover is off, it matters whether it has sewer, phone or electric lines a manhole |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | STOCK SYMBOLS $200: Set sail on your vacation with this corporation, CCL Carnival Cruise Lines |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE CLASSICS $400: This novel ends with the lines "He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother" 1984 |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WRITTEN IN 18-SOMETHING $800: Acting guru Stanislavsky had trouble learning his lines for the 1899 premiere of this playwright's "Uncle Vanya" Chekhov |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | I LOVE LITERATURE $1600: This poet & typographic innovator wrote lines capturing childhood like "when the world is puddle-wonderful" E.E. Cummings |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: The book about her begins, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines" Madeline |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $400: "Good night good night! Parting is such" this oxymoron sweet sorrow |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $800: This British Romantic poet & lord wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh give me back my heart!" Lord Byron |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $1200: A song from this musical says, "So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodnight" The Sound of Music |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $1600: "Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell, Leicester Square, it's a long, long way to" this Irish place Tipperary |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | BYE LINES $2000: One of her poems says, "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell" Emily Dickinson |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $800: Canopy,
suspension lines,
harness a parachute |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | "AIR" INCLUDED $600: Recticle is the technical name for this pair of intersecting lines in a firearm scope crosshairs |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | STRAIGHT $1000: Adding these 5 letters to the beginning of "linear" gives you a word meaning "formed by straight lines" rectilinear |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $1600: Actor Micah Fowler, who has cerebral palsy, doesn't need lines to get laughs on this ABC comedy Speechless |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | TV & MOVIE JENNYS $1600: 1970 movie that features the lines "Oliver, the problem is more serious than that. Jenny is very sick" Love Story |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $400: He penned the lines "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | LOVE $1600: This Old Testament book, an 8-chapter love poem, has lines like "Behold, thou art fair, my love...thou hast doves' eyes" the Song of Solomon |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $200: Important in pre-Civil War America, it bears the name of two guys from England the Mason-Dixon line |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $400: With this ring, I thee wed to frigid temperatures and 24-hour sun on the solstice the Arctic Circle |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) China claims as its territorial waters everything within the Nine-Dash line; it used to have eleven dashes, but when Communist Vietnam was a closer ally, two in this gulf were dropped the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $800: Almost precisely straight lines mark the borders of these two states that joined the Union in 1876 and 1890 Wyoming and Colorado |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The way cities around the world line up on lines of latitude can be surprising; for instance, Los Angeles, California lies only about two minutes north of this 3-letter Moroccan city Fez |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | MOVING JOURNALISM $600: Latitudes is the magazine of this cruise line, NCL for short Norwegian Cruise Lines |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | LITERARY LINES $200: "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created" Frankenstein |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | LITERARY LINES $400: "If I make any mistakes, there'll be nothing left but the 'Mark Watney Memorial Crater'" The Martian |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | LITERARY LINES $600: A Pulitzer Prize-winning book: "You better not never tell nobody but God" The Color Purple |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | LITERARY LINES $1000: "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered..." The Lovely Bones |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | LITERARY LINES $1,300 (Daily Double): "In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz" Heart of Darkness |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $200: Adjective for lines that are the same distance apart at every point along their whole length P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $200: This James Bond movie theme says "When it crumbles, we will stand tall, face it all together" "Skyfall" |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $400: This T.S. Eliot "Love" poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $600: This title Chekhov relative is told, "We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds" Uncle Vanya |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $800: In this novel, Betty Smith wrote, "No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $1000: She gave us the lesser-known "O beautiful for halcyon skies" as well as "O beautiful for spacious skies" Katharine Lee Bates |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | I'M LIKE ON PAGE 1 $5,800 (Daily Double): Ponyboy says in the first few lines of this classic, "I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman"; don't we all, Ponyboy The Outsiders |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $2,400 (Daily Double): 2 lines, back to back in this play:
Regan: "Hang him instantly";
Goneril: "Pluck out his eyes";
'nuff said King Lear |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | "BING" $1600: Greyhound bus lines, Roger Maris & Bob Dylan all got their start in this Minnesota city Hibbing |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | AN "F" IN SCIENCE $1000: This technology has virtually replaced copper wire in long-distance telephone lines fiber optic |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAL QUOTATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): Bartlett's cites the lines "O my prophetic soul! My uncle!" from this Shakespeare play Hamlet |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | A POETIC CATEGORY $800: "The Song of" him includes the lines "by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water" Hiawatha |
| #7377, aired 2016-10-11 | ONE-WORD FILM TITLES $400: One of Al Pacino's lines from this 1983 film that's safe for us to quote is "Say hello to my little friend" Scarface |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $400: "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail" is a line from this story A Christmas Carol |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $800: Completes the line from "Treasure Island", "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, and..." a bottle of rum |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $1200: This call to action from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" goes back to a not-so-funny time during the Great Plague Bring out your dead |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $1,600 (Daily Double): He's the hard-boiled detective who silently muses, "You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep" Philip Marlowe |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $1600: Camus began this novel, "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know" The Stranger |
| #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 |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | MATH HYSTERIA $200: The point at which 2 or more lines cross together, or, say, Fairfax & 3rd an intersection |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | SEEN FROM ABOVE $1600: Extending over an area of nearly 200 square miles are these mysterious lines of Peru that are only evident from the air the Nazca Lines |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BRITISH POETS $400: Lines meant for her husband Robert say, "If thou must love me, let it be for nought except for love's sake only" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ART TERMS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a sketch on the monitor.) To give the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing, artists create a mesh-like pattern of lines in a technique called this crosshatching |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The Caped Crusader gets a "Blurred Lines" singer as a new sidekick & they tour as this duo Batman & Robin Thicke |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | SCAN $400: To scan a poem is to analyze its meter; tetrameter lines like "How still the bells in steeples stand" have this many feet four |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | SCAN $800: There once was this verse form of 5 lines written in anapests, short-short-long Limerick |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $400: "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene" begins this play Romeo and Juliet |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $800: A member of this trio asks "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" the three witches |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $1200: He's the aging subject of the line "I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall" King Lear |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $1600: Antonio, this title Italian, says, "In sooth I know not why I am so sad, it wearies me, you say it wearies you" the merchant of Venice |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST LINES $2000: One midsummer night, this Duke of Athens declares, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace" Theseus |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | WHO GOES THERE $400: "We have to be everywhere, behind the lines", said a WHO rep for this country discussing its recent conflict with Russia Ukraine |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. a bread line |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $800: This name of a whip used for flogging tells you the number of lines tied to its handle a cat-o'-nine-tails |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | UNITS OF MEASURE $800: In 1832 this measure was defined as the distance between lines 27 & 63 on a certain metallic bar a yard |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | "C" IN LITERATURE $400: This 1854 poem contains the lines "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1600: Funny quotes from a movie, or a nicer way of referring to crow's-feet laugh lines |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $800: AKA the White Slave Traffic Act, 1910's Mann Act dealt with the transport of women for immoral purposes across these state lines |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | FIRST LINES $200: A classic: "'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents', grumbled Jo, lying on the rug" Little Women |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | FIRST LINES $400: A kids' classic: "Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot" How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | FIRST LINES $600: A Rand-om novel: "Who is John Galt?" Atlas Shrugged |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | FIRST LINES $800: From the 1990s: "Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth..." Fight Club |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | FIRST LINES $1000: By Joseph Conrad: "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails..." Heart of Darkness |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | TERM OF ART $1600: In a painting it's the spot on the horizon where 2 receding parallel lines seem to converge the vanishing point |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $200: "You're fired" The Apprentice |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $400: "The tribe has spoken" Survivor |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $600: "Please pack your knives & go" Top Chef |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $800: "You're out. Auf Wiedersehen" Project Runway |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $1000: "Sashay away" RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $400: This actor, in a 2006 film: "I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane" Samuel L. Jackson |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $800: In a big moment in an action movie franchise, this actor let loose with, "Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon" (Bruce) Willis |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $1200: Getting busted on bogus charges, this "Beverly Hills Cop" says, "This is bozo, man" Axel Foley (or Eddie Murphy) |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $1600: We don't think this "Jackie Brown" director had "Freeze, moldy fingers!" or "my mutual funded money" in his script Tarantino |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE $2000: For the love of Keyser Soze! One guy in this title police lineup: "Hand me the keys, you fairy godmother" The Usual Suspects |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $400: Prospero,
Act IV, Scene i:
"Hey, mountain, hey!" The Tempest |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $800: Malcolm,
Act II, Scene iii:
"O, by whom?" Macbeth |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $1200: Regan,
Act IV, Scene v:
"Himself in person there?" King Lear |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $1600: Mercutio,
Act I, Scene iv:
"And so did I" Romeo and Juliet |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | RARELY QUOTED SHAKESPEARE LINES $2000: Dromio of Syracuse,
Act II, Scene ii:
"Basting" The Comedy of Errors |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | MUSICAL QUOTES $400: Eugene Ormandy puzzled orchestra musicians with lines like "Why do you (play) when I'm trying to" do this, baton in hand conduct |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | LIT-POURRI $200: A sonnet typically has this many lines with 10 syllables in each one 14 |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HIGH TENSION LINES $400: "Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed" Speed |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HIGH TENSION LINES $800: "You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun" The Untouchables |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HIGH TENSION LINES $1200: "I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper" Fargo |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HIGH TENSION LINES $2000: "Run to the light, Carol Anne! Run as fast as you can!" Poltergeist |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HIGH TENSION LINES $11,000 (Daily Double): "What am I supposed to do? You won't answer my calls. You change your number... I'm not gonna be ignored" Fatal Attraction |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $400: During a solstice, the sun is directly over one of these lines of latitude whose names suggest easy days & fruity drinks tropic |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $800: It's the only state whose borders, like with Montana to the north & Colorado to the south, are 4 straight lines Wyoming |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $1200: Lines called isobars & isotherms show up on these maps weather maps |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $1600: Heading east, the equator passes through the Maldives, & the next nation it reaches is this other island one Indonesia |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) These lines on a map connect points of equal elevation & allow mountains & other features to be depicted in 2 dimensions contour lines |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | THE BRADY BUNCH $400: In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor" Betsy Ross |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | SEE THE POP HIT $400: It generated a lot of talk & a lot of spoofs "Blurred Lines" |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $200: This puzzle is so-named for the tool used to create the intricate lines & curves of its pieces jigsaw |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | RETURN OF THE WOOD $400: A Con Ed electric safety brochure advises using a fiberglass or wooden one around power lines, never metal a ladder |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | MIND & BODY $1200: "Every good boy does fine" for the lines of the treble clef is an example of this device to enhance access to memories a mnemonic |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | LINES IN THE SAND $1200: "Like sands through" this, "so are the days of our lives", intoned the voice of MacDonald Carey the hourglass |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | LINES IN THE SAND $1600: In 1924, this pres. of China said the Chinese people didn't have a national spirit but were "just a heap of loose sand" Sun Yat-sen |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | LINES IN THE SAND $2000: This Shelley poem ends, "Round the decay of that colossal wreck... the lone and level sands stretch far away" "Ozymandias" |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: Lines in this poem: "I celebrate myself" & "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos" "Song of Myself" |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | LITERARY SIMILES $4,000 (Daily Double): Jonathan Harker's journal says this character's face "was deathly pale and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires" Dracula |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $200: The Beat Generation Bible:
"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $400: A dystopian novel:
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" 1984 |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $600: "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's grand gallery" The Da Vinci Code |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $800: By Joyce:
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road..." Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $1000: Hard boiled:
"Sam Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth" The Maltese Falcon |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | "G"REA"T" WORDS $1600: To "run" this was to endure an old military punishment as two lines of your comrades pummeled you the gauntlet |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $800: One of these on the front lines was typically 6 to 8 feet deep & wide enough for 2 men to pass a trench |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | MILITARY TV $1600: The Vietnam War was seen through the eyes of nurses near the front lines on this Dana Delany show China Beach |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THE HUMAN BODY $6,000 (Daily Double): The endometrium is the tissue that lines this organ the uterus |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | GEOLOGY $800: It's the splitting of rocks & minerals along their natural fissure lines; hey Mister, my eyes are up here cleavage |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | PAPER OR PLASTIC? $1200: This song by Robin Thicke says, "You don't need no papers" & "You're far from plastic" "Blurred Lines" |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | PLEASE, NO LETTERS $400: There are this many lines in a Shakespearean sonnet 14 |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | TEXT TALK $200: RBTL implores you to keep an eye on the subtext & to "read" this way between the lines |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | OUT, -LET $1600: Subtract "let" from a term for 2 lines of poetry & you get a type of overthrow couplet & coup |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $1600: These 7 words penned by Edward Buller-Lytton have inspired an annual contest dedicated to bad opening lines It was a dark and stormy night |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $400: "Noble six hundred!" ends this poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $800: This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | MILITARY MISTAKES $1200: This cheek-haired general's attack on Fredericksburg in 1862 saw 12,000 Union losses with little change in the rebel lines (General Ambrose) Burnside |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $1600: "In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" ends this poem "Annabel Lee" |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): A poem by him ends, "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils" (William) Wordsworth |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $2000: His poem about a "dream deferred" ends, "maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" (Langston) Hughes |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) There's no mistaking the sleek design lines of a classic, 1981 DeLorean; fewer than 10,000 were ever made, & all featured its unique doors with this unusual name gull-wing doors |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | BUSINESS & BRAND NAMES $200: Lines from this toy brand include Chima, Creator & Mindstorms Lego |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows crossed lines on the monitor.) This word, meaning "upright" or "vertical", also describes the relationship of the two lines seen here perpendicular |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | ABOVE $800: Wordsworth wrote lines composed a few miles above this place Tintern Abbey |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | THE FESTIVE CARIBBEAN $2000: The Shakespeare Mas in this "Spice Isle" country is a battle of wits using only lines from the Bard's plays Grenada |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | CANDLES $2000: In 1974 this Massachusetts firm introduced its Country Kitchen & Bath Brite apothecary candle jar lines Yankee Candle |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | "ZA" $400: A quatrain is one of these with 4 lines a stanza |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | TEEN CHOICE $1000: In Italy, it's considered unlucky; fear of it is sometimes called heptakaidekaphobia 17 |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | KATY PERRY $600: "I was dreaming for so long" & "Not losing any sleep" are lines from this hit "Wide Awake" |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE MONUMENTS WOMEN $400: O, a beautiful Falmouth, Mass. statue of Katharine Lee Bates shows her imagining the lines of this song "America The Beautiful" |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $200: "As your bright & tiny spark lights the traveler in the dark" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $400: "Build it up with
wood & clay,
wood & clay,
wood & clay" "London Bridge (Is Falling Down)" |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $600: "Cluck cluck red hen have you any eggs?" "Baa Baa Black Sheep" |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $800: "And if that Billy goat won't pull, papa's gonna buy you a cart & bull" "Hush, Little Baby" |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | OTHER LINES TO SING THE KIDS $1000: "Trumpet sound the jubilee, hallelujah" "Michael Row The Boat Ashore" |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | THE PUSSYCAT $1000: Without involving Old Possum, T.S. Eliot wrote "Lines to" this longhair breed with a Middle Eastern name a Persian |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $400: "And before him on the upland he could see the shining wigwam of the Manito of Wampum" "The Song of Hiawatha" |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $1600: "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!... the voice I hear this passing night was heard in ancient days" "Ode to a Nightingale" |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $2000: "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $2,400 (Daily Double): "10,000 eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt; 5,000 tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt" "Casey at the Bat" |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | COMMON BONDS $800: Disneyland rides,
a football field,
notebook paper things with lines |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | FOLKLORE $400: An urban legend says these hanging on power lines mark gang territory sneakers |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | POETIC TERMS $600: Term for any poem or stanza containing 4 lines a quatrain |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS $200: "You're far from plastic, talk about gettin' blasted, I hate these blurred lines" Robin Thicke |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | STATE LINES $200: Stephen Foster:
"I've come from ____ with my banjo on my knee" Alabama |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | STATE LINES $400: "I am from ____. You have got to show me" Missouri |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | STATE LINES $600: Woody Guthrie:
"From California to the ____ ____ Island" New York |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | STATE LINES $1,000 (Daily Double): From the pen of screenwriter Noel Langley:
"I've a feeling we're ____ ____ ____ ____" not in Kansas anymore |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | STATE LINES $1000: "So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, while we were marching ____ ____" through Georgia |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | J.S. BACH $800: Bach was a master of this art of combining melodic lines, a term also found in an Aldous Huxley title counterpoint |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | THE WEDDING OF ELIZABETH & PHILIP $1200: At a pre-wedding party, Elizabeth's father King George VI led one of these dance lines conga |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | STREET SMARTS $1000: Manhattan's Alphabet City gets its name from these, lettered A, B, C & D (no Q) Avenues |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | RADIOASTRONOMY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) In addition to giant modern scopes, Green Bank houses the first radio telescope used in 1938 to confirm that mysterious static on phone lines was caused by radiation emanating from this, visible as a glowing band across the night sky the Milky Way |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Nothing's final, it's all in this, also the name for magnetic lines that run from pole to pole forming magnetic fields flux |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: A Christie mystery: "It was 5:00 on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train..." Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife" Pride and Prejudice |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1200: E.M. Forster: "Except for the Marabar Caves... the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1600: 1962: "'What's it going to be then, eh?' There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs" A Clockwork Orange |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $2000: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The often parodied "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents" Paul Clifford |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) One of the first purely abstract painters, this Russian artist used lines, colors, & shapes as a visible language, much like the language of music, to evoke emotions Kandinsky |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.) Believing in an underlying mathematical structure of the universe, this Dutch painter tried to replicate the harmony of the cosmos, using just straight lines, right angles, primary colors & black & white (Piet) Mondrian |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $1200: This "Blurred Lines" singer is the son of "Growing Pains" star Alan Robin Thicke |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | RAP STAGE NAMES $200: Jay Z's name honors the J & Z subway lines in this borough, his hometown Brooklyn |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | RAID! $1200: In 1780 this "Swamp Fox" led guerrilla raids against British supply lines in South Carolina Francis Marion |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | STATE YOUR BUSINESS $600 (Daily Double): Delta Air Lines Georgia |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS $400: As one of these snapped fences & power lines in its path, Carsten Peter was there to get the photo for an article tornado |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: Type or print using thick, heavy lines for emphasis like this boldface |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $600: This term for a family tree comes from the Latin for "crane's foot" due to the appearance of the chart lines pedigree |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | UNDERWEAR $200: Minimal panties for women include the string bikini & this 5-letter one that prevents panty lines a thong |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1,200 (Daily Double): Amiens Cathedral is an example of Rayonnant, a phase of this style of architecture that features radiant lines of tracery Gothic |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $200: A tercet is this many lines of verse three |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | PSYCH 101 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a screen depicting several intersecting lines.) You're looking at an optical illusion. The converging lines make your brain think you're moving into the image, so the horizontal lines seem bowed, but are actually this, from the Greek for side by side parallel |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | HOMOPHONES $400: Got up, or lines of seats rose/rows |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | COLORFUL SONGS $1200: Grandmaster Flash
& Mellie Mel:
"_____ Lines
(Don't Do It)" White |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | BASEBALL BITS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of a baseball diamond.) On a scorecard, if a batter hits a double, we mark the lines from home plate to second base & write 2B; if we mark the first line & write HBP, it indicates the player reached first base in this way hit by a pitch |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PRETTY COLORS $800: A narrative poem of over 2,500 lines from around 1375 had Sir Gawain going up against this colorful fellow the Green Knight |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | AN UNFINISHED CATEGORY $2000: This 3-named British poet called his "Kubla Khan" a fragment, saying he meant to write several hundred lines, not just 54 Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: 1994: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" Forrest Gump |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $800: 1972: "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me" Don Corleone |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1200: 1987: "Greed is right. Greed works. Greed... captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit" Gordon Gekko |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $2000: 2010: "The nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. but I can't speak" King George VI |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | LINES FROM THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $5,000 (Daily Double): 1980: "Hey, Ray...I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray." Jake LaMotta |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING $2000: It's a fine online magazine, or a fine-grained rock that tends to split along parallel cleavage lines slate |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CELEBRITIES LOVE TV $400: (I'm BBC news anchor Katty Kay.) I can't get enough of Maggie Smith's dowager countess on this PBS show with lines like "Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class" Downton Abbey |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $200: It's where your line of fate & line of health are found your palm |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the American Red Cross in New Orleans Louisiana.) The Southeast Louisiana chapter of the Red Cross was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The height of the tile trim on the Memorial Wall denotes this the floodline (waterline) |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $600: This conduit carries oil about 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez Harbor the Alaskan Pipeline |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $800: The line of latitude called this is the northern boundary of the Tropical Zone the Tropic of Cancer |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $1000: In Monteverde & Puntarenas in this country you can zip line through cloud & rainforest canopies Costa Rica |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | LITERARY LAST LINES $400: A mega-bestseller: "After all, tomorrow is another day" Gone with the Wind |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | LITERARY LAST LINES $1200: A 1960 classic: "He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | LITERARY LAST LINES $1600: From Sinclair Lewis: "Dear Lord, thy work is but begun! We shall yet make these United States a moral nation!" Elmer Gantry |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | LITERARY LAST LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): A children's classic: "I'm so glad to be at home again!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | LITERARY LAST LINES $2000: A Virginia Woolf novel: "What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said, for there she was" Mrs. Dalloway |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $600: Lines of latitude & longitude & a bumpier part defined by the Rockies form the borders of this Canadian province Alberta |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | COMPUTING $200: In 2004 a U.S. law named in part for this type of unwelcome e-mail took effect to prohibit deceptive subject lines spam |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WITTY LINES $200: When asked how many husbands she's had, this Gabor sister said, "You mean apart from my own?" Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WITTY LINES $400: In one of their shorts, a judge cries for order, to which Curly says, "I'll take a ham sandwich" the Three Stooges |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $400: In a nature poem Whittier rhymed, "The winding water's sounding rush, the long note of" this bird a thrush |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WITTY LINES $600: This fraternal funnyman quipped, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" Groucho Marx |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $800: When this biblical king spares an ant hill, the Queen of Sheba realizes she knows "the secret of thy worth and wisdom" Solomon |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WITTY LINES $800: This comic deadpanned, "I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house & 4 people died" (Steven) Wright |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | WITTY LINES $1000: Noel Coward punned in a telegram: "Coughing myself into a" this, the Italian name for Florence Firenze |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $1200: In "Snow-Bound" Whittier was "content to let" this "roar in baffled rage at pane and door" the (north) wind |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $1600: Completes the line Whittier gave Barbara Frietchie: "Shoot, if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's..." flag |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $2000: "Thou hast nerved the Afric's hand", wrote Whittier in a poem to this abolitionist who published The Liberator Garrison |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | SYSTEMS OF THE BODY $1200: The lymphatic system is on the front lines of this system that fights abnormal substances the immune system |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | BREAKING NEWS $2000: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) In 2002 I broke the story of a peace plan--a return to June 1967 lines & a Palestinian state for a full peace between Israel & the Arab world--proposed by this now-king of Saudi Arabia King Abdullah |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | DEAR ABBEY $2000: "On the banks of this delightful stream / we stood together" are Wordsworth "lines composed a few miles above" here Tintern Abbey |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $800: (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train electromagnetic |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1200: A pair of rhymed poetic lines a couplet |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | INDIANA JONES $1200: In "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", Indy finds that this country's Nazca Lines offer answers to his quest Peru |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | KID RHYMES $1000: An arrangement of straight lines that cross each other to form squares a grid |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | POP MUSIC $1200: No more waiting outside the lines for this kid seen here Greyson Chance |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1200: He's the baron who wrote the lines "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die" Tennyson |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | QUEUES $200: Get ready, get set, wait! Lines at this Anaheim theme park are known to be long, especially for rides like Peter Pan's Flight Disneyland |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | QUEUES $600: Lines at U.S. gas pumps resulted from a 1973 oil embargo by OAPEC, OPEC with this 4-letter word added Arab |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | QUEUES $800: Long lines are the norm on the day after Thanksgiving, which has this colorful name referring to profit Black Friday |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | 20th CENTURY FOX TV $800: This 1960s show had lines like "Holy Human Surfboards!" & "Holy Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snoods!" Batman |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN LINES $200: After this man scoffs, "The ides of March are come", the reply is "Ay... but not gone" Julius Caesar |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN LINES $400: Dick the Butcher makes the bloody suggestion "The first thing we do, let's kill all" these professionals lawyers |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN LINES $600: "Get thee to a nunnery" is directed to this bard beauty Ophelia |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN LINES $800: "O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day", says Proteus, part of this title duo The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN LINES $1000: Contemplating murder, Macbeth asks, "Is this" this weapon "which I see before me" a dagger |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | EYE Q $2000: Allergies or infections can cause inflammation of this membrane that lines the eyelids & covers the eyes' surface the conjunctiva |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | LAUGH LINES $200: A pit boss, to Ned Flanders on this show: "Las Vegas doesn't care for out of towners! Take your money & go someplace else" The Simpsons |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | LAUGH LINES $400: Teddy Roosevelt, to Larry the security guard in this movie: "Lawrence! Why are you slapping a monkey?" Night at the Museum |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | LAUGH LINES $600: Shifu to Po the Dragon Warrior, in this film: "we do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears" Kung Fu Panda |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | LAUGH LINES $800: This Jon Heder character, when told he needs key chains: "I already made like infinity of those at scout camp" Napoleon Dynamite |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | LAUGH LINES $1000: Emma Stone in "Crazy Stupid Love" on seeing this actor shirtless: "It's like you're photoshopped" Ryan Gosling |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $1200: On a topographic map, contour lines join points of equal this altitude (or elevation) |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $2000: Isohyets are lines that join places that have equal this for a given period rain (or precipitation) |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | BHUTAN LINES $400: Nyingma & Kagyu are the major Bhutanese sects of this religion practiced by about 75% of the population Buddhism |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | BHUTAN LINES $800: Unified in 1907, Bhutan didn't ratify one of these until 2008 a constitution |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | BHUTAN LINES $1200: Bhutan's big event of 2011 came when the king took this--just one, unlike his father, who had 4 a wife |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | BHUTAN LINES $1600: The ngultrum, which is subdivided into chetrums, is the national this currency |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | BHUTAN LINES $2000: Bhutan is divided into 3 major regions, the Duars Plain & the Great & Lesser these Himalayas |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MUSICAL TERMS $400: In the 11th C. Guido D'Arezzo, a Benedictine monk, invented this set of parallel lines used for the placement of notes the staff |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | POETIC LAST LINES $400: T .S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" ends by telling us the world "ends not with a bang but" with this a whimper |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | POETIC LAST LINES $1200: He asked (with "Experience"), "What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" (William) Blake |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | POETIC LAST LINES $1600: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is one of his pieces of parting advice Dylan Thomas |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | POETIC LAST LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Poems are made by fools like me", Joyce Kilmer justly wrote, "but only God can" do this make a tree |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | POETIC LAST LINES $2000: Byron lamented, "the day returns too soon / yet we'll go no more a-roving by" this the light of the moon |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | MOVIE LINES $400: "Why if he's supposed to be like this super-advanced robot does he (convert) back into this piece of crap Camaro?" Transformers |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | MOVIE LINES $800: "You stay classy, San Diego; I'm Ron Burgundy?" "...who typed a question mark on the teleprompter?" Anchorman |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | MOVIE LINES $1200: "My master made me this collar; he is a good & smart master & he made me this collar so that I may talk--squirrel!" Up |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | MOVIE LINES $1600: "When I woke up on the roof, I happened to find $80,000 worth of Bellagio chips in my pocket" The Hangover |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | MOVIE LINES $2000: "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say, 'Yes!"' Ghostbusters |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS $600: He worked in a bank & a fur-cap store; working on a whaler in the South Seas gave him those great plot lines Melville |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $400: Kerouac:
"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up" On the Road |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $800: A kids' classic:
"'Where's papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother" Charlotte's Web |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $1600: No. 1 of 7:
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley... were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much" Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $2000: A 2002 novel:
"My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie, I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6, 1973" The Lovely Bones |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $8,000 (Daily Double): A bestseller: "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the... archway of the museum's Grand Gallery" The Da Vinci Code |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | TOYS & GAMES $600: Technic & Mindstorms are 2 of the lines of building sets from this brand Lego |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | LET ME CALL YOUR ATTENTION... $200: This 4-letter adjective can mean "showing courage" or "typeset in thick, dark lines" bold |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | GEOLOGY $1200: Shatter cones, with radiating fracture lines, are only found at the sites of space object impacts & of these tests nuclear tests |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | THE ENTERTAINER $400: To funnyman Dick Martin, Dan Rowan was this type of partner providing the setup lines straight man |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | TYPES OF POEMS $800: A cinquain is a poem consisting of this many lines 5 |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | TERMS OF ART $1200: It's the "disappearing" 2-word term for the place in a painting where receding parallel lines seem to meet the vanishing point |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | TERMS OF ART $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a painting shown on a monitor.) In art composition, to make the painting more interesting, divide it & put the focus along the lines to follow this fractional rule the rule of thirds |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | AGING GRACEFULLY $600: Moisturizer with glycolic acid helps prevent these alliteratively named results of years of chuckling laugh lines |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | COMPUSTUFF $200: As opposed to a cable modem, a DSL connection uses these lines to connect to the web phone lines |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | HELLO KITTY $1600: The face of this fastest cat has black lines that curve from the eye's inner corner to the mouth's outer corners a cheetah |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | POETS & POETRY $600: First name of the 16th & 17th century poet whose "Hymn to God the Father" uses the word "done" 7 times in 18 lines John |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $800: Giacomo da Lentini is credited with inventing this poetic form ("Let's see, 12 lines--not enough, 16--too many, hmm") the sonnet |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $400: This dramatist wrote in one of his many sonnets, "if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head" Shakespeare |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $800: W.S. Gilbert wrote, "he uses language that would make your hair" do this curl |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $1200: Sara Teasdale: "when I am dead and over me bright" this month "shakes out her rain-drenched hair... I shall not care" April |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $1600: His "Rape of the Lock" says, "fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair" (Alexander) Pope |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $2000: "Babies haven't any hair; old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lies a haircut and" this a shave |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | BEATLES LAST LINES $200: "All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" "Eleanor Rigby" |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | BEATLES LAST LINES $400: "You were only waiting for this moment to arise" "Blackbird" |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | BEATLES LAST LINES $600: "My baby don't care, my baby don't care" "Ticket To Ride" |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | BEATLES LAST LINES $800: "You know I feel all right" "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | BEATLES LAST LINES $1000: "Jai guru deva" "Across The Universe" |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $800: New types of vocal music emerged during the Baroque period including monody, a style with this many melodic lines one |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | KINDS OF SHIPS $200: It comes between "Carnival" & "Lines" Cruise |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | DEAD LINES $400: This character said, "Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies', there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead" Peter Pan |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | DEAD LINES $800: In 1975 this comedian-director wrote, "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens" Woody Allen |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | DEAD LINES $1600: In "Rabbit is Rich", he wrote, "the great thing about the dead, they make space" Updike |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | DEAD LINES $2000: "The Ballad of" this gaol says, "something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope" Reading Gaol |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | DEAD LINES $3,200 (Daily Double): John Donne wrote
that "any man's death diminishes me... therefore never send to know" this Hemingway title for whom the bell tolls |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | SCHWARZENEGGER $800: The few lines that Arnold mouthed in "Conan the Barbarian" were written by John Milius & this "Wall Street" director Oliver Stone |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | CHEESY INTERNATIONAL PICKUP LINES $200: You... me... Carnival in this city! We party with its nearly 11 million Cariocas & of course I'll wear my Speedo Rio de Janeiro |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $400: As Ricky Bobby:
"Well, let me just quote the late great Col. Sanders who said, 'I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"' Will Ferrell |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | CHEESY INTERNATIONAL PICKUP LINES $400: Oui baby, let's hit this landmark that opened on March 31, 1889 to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution the Eiffel Tower |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | CHEESY INTERNATIONAL PICKUP LINES $600: The Prado in this city may have 30 El Grecos & 100 Goyas, but it'll never house more beauty than when you step inside Madrid |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $800: In 2006:
"Enough is enough! I have had it with these... snakes on this... plane!" Samuel L. Jackson |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | CHEESY INTERNATIONAL PICKUP LINES $800: This Italian city that lies on about 118 islands was once "the Queen of the Adriatic" but you... you're the queen of my heart Venice |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | CHEESY INTERNATIONAL PICKUP LINES $1000: What has 4 thumbs & is going to this rhyming region of China with nearly 16,000 people per square mile? Us! Hong Kong |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $1200: As Dr. Evil:
"I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with... laser beams attached to their heads!" Mike Myers |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): To Marty Feldman:
"It's prounced Fronkonsteen" Gene Wilder |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $2000: The dude playing Kirk Lazarus:
"I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!" Robert Downey Jr. |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | GEOMETRY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) On the cube here, these two lines aren't parallel, & they don't intersect, so they're said to be this type of line skew |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | THE TOTAL NUMBER $1600: Lines in a Shakespearean sonnet 14 |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC ENDINGS $400: Lines from the Prince of Verona end this story of woe Romeo and Juliet |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1944 this man's Third Army tanks broke through the German lines surrounding Allied forces at Bastogne General Patton |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | WOOD HOUSE $1600: In Japan a nagaya is a traditional one of these houses named for the lines they form with their adjoining walls a row house |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | "INTER" MURALS $200: A junction of lines or streets an intersection |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | LITERARY TERMS $1600: Please "stop" repeating these recurring lines at the ends of the stanzas the refrains |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | BET YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING $1200: In 1950 this general & head of the U.N. military force led a surprise landing behind enemy lines at the Korean port of Inchon MacArthur |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SAD LINES $400: This Coleridge "rime" says, "a sadder and a wiser man he rose the morrow morn" "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SAD LINES $800: Shakespeare wrote, "a sad tale's best for" this season winter |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SAD LINES $1200: His "Ode to a Nightingale" says, "where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, where youth grows pale" Keats |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SAD LINES $1600: Whittier rhymed, "of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 "it might have been" |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SAD LINES $2000: One of his lines from "Tintern Abbey" mentions "hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity" William Wordsworth |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | McCARTNEY $800: Originally, the first 2 lines of this Beatles song were "she was just 17, never been a beauty queen" "I Saw Her Standing There" |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $200: The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins, "Reader, I married him" Jane Eyre |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $400: This novel says, "the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $600: The first line of this novel says, "It was Wang Lung's marriage day" The Good Earth |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $800: This 1852 book says, "I would rather not sell him ...I'm a humane man, and I hate to take the boy from his mother" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | LITERARY LINES $1000: He wrote, "All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" Tolstoy |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows parallel lines on the monitor.) These two lines are identical in length, but when opposing arrowheads are added, the bottom line appears to be longer in a classic example of this type of eye trick an optical illusion |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | METALS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) When you hold ferrofluid over a magnet, it spikes & marks the lines of the magnetic field because ferrofluid contains nanoparticles of this metallic element, symbol Fe iron |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" Huckleberry Finn |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a... fortune must be in want of a wife" Pride and Prejudice |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1600: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed...into a gigantic insect" Metamorphosis |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $2000: "In the town there were two mutes and they were always together" The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | ENDS WITH THE SAME 2 VOWELS $1,800 (Daily Double): Multiple straight lines extending from the center of a circle to the circumference radii |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | POP MUSIC $800: This Coldplay hit includes the lines "I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, Roman cavalry choirs are singing" "Viva La Vida" |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | KING KONG $1000: In the 1976 version she spoke the lines "Oh, come on, Kong, forget about me. This thing's just never going to work" Jessica Lange |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | TOYS & GAMES $600: Bionicle is one of the lines from this brand of building blocks Lego |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | STAY! $400: The Fairmont Hotel is located at the only spot where all of this city's cable car lines meet San Francisco |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | BRAND "O" $400: This brand of insect repellents includes Active & Deep Woods lines Off! |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | DROP A LETTER $2,000 (Daily Double): ...from a word referring to 2 lines of latitude & you get this word that refers to a subject for discussion topic (from tropic) |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | WITH BROTHERHOOD $200: Last name of Kevin, Joe & Nick, whose album "Lines, Vines And Trying Times" debuted at No. 1 in 2009 Jonas |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $200: This film gave us "The holiest event of our time. Perfect for their return" (& Tom Hanks') Angels and Demons |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $600: From this author's "The Jungle" I shall read lines like "On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood" Upton Sinclair |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $600: "Lather. Rinse. Save the world" advertised this Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $800: This WWII film from 2008 had the tag "Many saw evil. They dared to stop it" Valkyrie |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $1000: 1982 film that showed "A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now" Tron |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): This 2009 comedy proclaimed, "Some guys just can't handle Vegas" The Hangover |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | PHYSICS $400: In a magnet flux lines converge at these points the poles |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | SYMBOLISM $800: In meteorology 2 parallel lines denote this, not as dense as fog mist |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | IT'S A TELEGRAM $200: In 1912 White Star Lines in NYC got a distressing wire reading, "Deeply regret advise" this "sunk" the Titanic |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | DO PROCESS $400: For a business letter, if you don't have one of these preprinted name & address displays, type that info 4-6 lines from the top a letterhead |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $200: It's not me, it's a homophone for this female sheep that can weigh more than 225 pounds a ewe |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $400: This doctor wrote that dreams "are simply... realizations of wishes" & I've had a breakthrough; I wish to be single Freud |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $600: Our timing was all wrong, just like my '69 Camaro from this car line; you know a good mechanic? Chevrolet |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $800: Sorry, I'm going to concentrate on my career & never marry, like this woman born in 1830 who wrote over 1,700 poems Emily Dickinson |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $1000: I only have eyes for this White House bigwig & ex-Congressman seen here Rahm Emanuel |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | PHONING IT IN $600: Often used in business, it's a multi-person call involving 3 or more phone lines a conference call |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | IT'S 2-LETTER TIME $800: The object of this Japanese board game, over 3,000 years old, is to capture territory on a board of intersecting lines go |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $1,200 (Daily Double): A pair of successive lines of verse that rhyme & are of the same length & meter a couplet |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | CALLIGRAPHY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew does some calligraphy.) The line that connects the two vertical lines in an "H" is called one of these, just like the beam a football crosses over for a field goal crossbar |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | LET'S PUNCTUATE $600: Sesquipedalian words on 2 lines of text are divided by this a hyphen |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Santiago de Compostela in Spain.) Pilgrims can find Santiago de Compostela by these shells, the symbol of St. James; one theory is that the converging lines represent pilgrims coming from all over scallops |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | 47 $600: These 2 tropic lines, north & south of the equator, are 47 degrees apart Cancer & Capricorn |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | TIME LINES $400: "You may delay, but time will not", he wrote in "Poor Richard's Almanack" Benjamin Franklin |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | TIME LINES $800: This Marlowe title doctor asks the heavens to stand still "that time may cease and midnight never come" Faustus |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | TIME LINES $1200: Per Longfellow, "We can make our lives sublime /
And parting leave behind us /
footprints on" these the sands of time |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | TIME LINES $1600: "The time has come", this character says, "to talk of many things" the Walrus |
| #5821, aired 2009-12-28 | TIME LINES $2000: Andrew Marvell wrote, "At my back I always hear /
Time's winged" this transport "hurrying near" a chariot |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | ELTON JOHN: FIRST LINES $400: "It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside" "Your Song" |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | ELTON JOHN: FIRST LINES $800: "Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band" "Tiny Dancer" |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | ELTON JOHN: FIRST LINES $1200: "She packed my bags last night, pre-flight" "Rocket Man" |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | ELTON JOHN: FIRST LINES $1600: "When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land?" "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | ELTON JOHN: FIRST LINES $2000: "When I look back, boy I must have been green" "Honky Cat" |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | DEDICATED $800: His dedication of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to Katharine de Mattos includes some lines of verse (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | "FACE" BOOK $400: A style of type with thick, heavy lines to draw attention boldface |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | SCIENCE $2000: Don't blame me--the most common cause of earthquakes is movement along these lines fault lines |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $400: One of the last lines of this Vietnam war-set film is "The horror... the horror" Apocalypse Now |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | TV LAUGH LINES $200: About the Pope atop a subway grate, this "Daily Show" guy: "Look at those gams! No wonder they call him Legs Benedict!" (Jon) Stewart |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | TV LAUGH LINES $400: Kim Cattrall, on this HBO show: "I think I have monogamy. I must have caught it from you people" Sex and the City |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | TV LAUGH LINES $600: This "D List" comic: "Her address is just Cher, California. It's like writing a letter to Santa!" Kathy Griffin |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | TV LAUGH LINES $800: Debra Messing, on this show: "How could I not have known? He was Boy George for Halloween... & he's prettier than me" Will & Grace |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | TV LAUGH LINES $1000: Michael, on this show: "This is... Pam. If you think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple years ago" The Office |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | POET-TREE $800: "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast" is one of his lines from "Trees" Joyce Kilmer |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $400: "How do I love thee?"
L.M.C.T.W. Let me count the ways |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $800: "Take thy beak from out my heart, & take thy form from off my door!"
Q.T.R., N. Quoth the raven, "Nevermore" |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $1200: "In the room the women come and go"
T.O.M. talking of Michelangelo |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $1600: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee,"
B.T.S.B-S-W by the shining big-sea-water |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ABBREVIATED LINES OF POETRY $2000: "I am the master of my fate;"
I.A.T.C.O.M.S. I am the captain of my soul |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | ABBREV. $600: UPC, the little box of lines on grocery items universal product code |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | ABSOLUTE ADJECTIVES $800: Absolute mathematical terms include parallel & this, indicated by 2 parallel lines equal (equals accepted) |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | BE A SPORT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates some hockey strategies on a monitor) In ice hockey, player A's shot is legal; player B's shot crosses two red lines, which is this infraction icing |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | RESCUE ME $800: (Hey, I'm Michael Lombardi.) On "Rescue Me" along with remembering our lines we often have to lug these heavy tanks around; know as SCBA's, they provide air in hostile environments self-contained breathing apparatuses |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | ART $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a landscape on the monitor.) To show distance, the artist creates a place on the horizon where two parallel lines seem to converge, referred to by this 2-word term the vanishing point |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | SID & NANCY $400: After lines like "They call me Mr. Tibbs", they call him Mr. this Sidney Poitier |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $200: You might score with this speech's first line, but the second begins, "Now we are engaged in a great Civil War" the Gettysburg Address |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $400: "These united colonies... are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown" is a statement from this the Declaration of Independence |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $600: "Promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty" are 10 of the 52 words of this the Preamble to the Constitution |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $800: A speech by him included the line "In a sense, we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $1000: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" is the last line of this poem "The New Colossus" |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $200: 1961:
"Fat Man, you shoot a great game of pool." "So do you, Fast Eddie" The Hustler |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: 1964:
"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" Dr. Strangelove |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $600: 1941:
"The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of" The Maltese Falcon |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $800: 1953:
"Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name" From Here to Eternity |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1000: 1969:
"We'll be in Miami in just a few minutes" Midnight Cowboy |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | "C" DUTY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) An inflammation of the membrane that lines the eye is this medical condition, commonly known as pink eye conjunctivitis |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $400: Jules Verne:
"Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens" Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $800: Lee:
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow" To Kill A Mockingbird |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $1600: Kafka: "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for...without having done anything wrong, he was arrested" The Trial |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bradbury:
"It was a pleasure to burn" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LITERARY OPENING LINES $2000: Rushdie:
"'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'First you have to die"' The Satanic Verses |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | LINES FROM THE SITCOM $200: Jim Ignatowski:
"What does a yellow light mean?" "Slow down!"
"OK. What...does...a...
yellow...light...mean?" Taxi |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | LINES FROM THE SITCOM $400: Niles:
"After that shouting match...I had my secretary leave a heartfelt apology with your service" Frasier |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | LINES FROM THE SITCOM $600: Oscar, to Felix:
"Look at this. You're the only man in the world with clenched hair" The Odd Couple |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | LINES FROM THE SITCOM $800: Larry David:
"I don't like talking to...people I know, but strangers, I have no problem with" Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | LINES FROM THE SITCOM $1000: Jack Donaghy, asked why he's in a tux with no event to attend:
"It's after 6...what am I, a farmer?" 30 Rock |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | CAR TALK $1000: Inspect the master cylinder, part of the hydraulics sending fluid through the lines for this drum or disc system the brakes |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony" The Maltese Falcon |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house" Rosemary's Baby |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1200: "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714 , the finest bridge in all Peru broke" The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1600: "Except for the Marabar Caves ...the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $2000: "A screaming comes across the sky" Gravity's Rainbow |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | ABSTRACT ART $1200: When Mondrian worked in this style, he kept his lines straight to go even more geometric than its inventors Cubist |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FAULT LINES $200: Of this blundering 1854 "charge", French General Pierre Bosquet said, "it is magnificent, but it is not war" The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $400: This fault line is said to originate under the waters of the Sea of Cortez; it then stretches north for 1,000 miles the San Andreas fault |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FAULT LINES $400: In 2004 he took "responsibility for what happened at Enron" but not for "criminal conduct that I was unaware of" (Ken) Lay |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FAULT LINES $600: This onetime Presidential hopeful said he didn't "anticipate the cynicism of the Willie Horton case" (Michael) Dukakis |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $800: Alaska & this state have more earthquakes than any other state California |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FAULT LINES $800: "A total deflation in my gut", noted one astronomer after seeing blurred photos taken by this device in 1990 the Hubble Telescope |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FAULT LINES $1000: In 1990 Joseph Hazelwood, former capt. of this ship, said he felt like "Jean Valjean, with 100 inspectors chasing me" the "Exxon Valdez" |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $1600: The 3 main types of faults are normal, reverse & strike-this (strike-)slip |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $2000: This type of valley, like the "great" one in Africa, is bounded by parallel faults a rift |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $3,000 (Daily Double): There's rich mining to be had around this country's Atacama fault Chile |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | "F.M." $400: It sends copies of printed material over phone lines a fax machine |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $400: In this film Lt. Kaffee (Cruise) says, "I want the truth!" & Col. Jessep (Nicholson) replies, "you can't handle the truth!" A Few Good Men |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $800: Ethan Hunt (Tom) says, "My team is dead... They knew we were coming and the disk is gone" in this 1996 thriller Mission: Impossible |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $1200: As Jerry Maguire, Tom tells Renee, "You complete me"; she says: "Shut up, just shut up", then this 5-word line "You had me at 'hello'" |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $1600: As this vampire in "Interview with the Vampire", Cruise says, "What I wouldn't give for a drop of good... Creole blood" Lestat |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $2000: Joel (Tom) tells his Princeton interviewer, "Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the...'" in this film Risky Business |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | FACE THE MUSIC $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew chimes in about musical notation.) It's the bookkeeping term for the lines above & below the musical staff ledger lines |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $600: One of Henry IV's big lines is "Uneasy lies the head that wears" one of these crown |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $400: Her lines include "What a curious feeling!", "How queer everything is today!" & "I didn't know that cats could grin" Alice |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: Grant's Vicksburg campaign was delayed months by Gen. Forrest's destruction of these main supply lines the railroads |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE $200: Chorus:
"Two households,
both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene" Romeo and Juliet |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE $400: Roderigo:
"Tush, never tell me; I take it much unkindly that thou, Iago..." Othello |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE $600: "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York" Richard III |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE $800: Knock knock!
Barnardo:
"Who's there?" Hamlet |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | OPENING LINES OF SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): A ship-master:
"Boatswain!" The Tempest |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | THE HISTORY OF HOCKEY $1000: In 1913 the Pacific Coast Hockey Association introduced these, which form the border of teams' defensive zones the blue lines |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | THE TEENS $400: Sonnets are rhymed poems with this many lines 14 |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $200: CCR:
"Left a good job in the city..." "Proud Mary" |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $400: Pink Floyd (Part 2):
"We don't need no education..."
(5 words) "Another Brick In The Wall" |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $600: Nancy Sinatra:
"You keep sayin' you've got something for me..." "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $800: The Beatles:
"Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner..." "Get Back" |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $1000: Elvis:
"We're caught in a trap..." "Suspicious Minds" |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $200: Orwell: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night..." Animal Farm |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: Fitzgerald: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind..." The Great Gatsby |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $600: Tolstoy: "'Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes'" War and Peace |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: Golding: "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down...and began to pick his way toward the lagoon" Lord of the Flies |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1000: Bronte: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day" Jane Eyre |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | CLASSIC AD LINES $200: This coffee is "mountain grown" Folgers |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | CLASSIC AD LINES $400: This deodorant is "strong enough for a man, but made for a woman" Secret |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | CLASSIC AD LINES $600: This department store promised "The good life at a great price. Guaranteed" Sears |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | CLASSIC AD LINES $800: It's "Manly, yes, but I like" this soap "too" Irish Spring |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | CLASSIC AD LINES $1000: "I eat right, exercise & take" this brand of supplement Geritol |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | MUSIC $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents some musical notation.) Ledger lines are for notes that don't fit on the 5-line staff, like this note that's one line below the treble staff, or one line above the bass staff middle C |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | LET'S GO CRUISING $3,000 (Daily Double): Orient Lines' historical cruise from Istanbul to Venice is named for these 2 seas the Aegean & the Adriatic |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | THE INTERNET $600: Ordinary analog phone lines that deliver a low-cost broadband data connection use this 3-letter technology DSL |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: To perform this kids' activity "inside the lines" is to conform; to do it "outside the lines" is to be a free spirit color |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | NO PROMISES, NO DEMANDS $400: No demands:
Moving company Global Van Lines offers "a free, no-obligation" one of these a quote (or estimate) |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | GIRLY MOVIES $2000: For this 2004 film, Catalina Sandino Moreno was the first Best Actress Oscar nominee to speak all her lines in Spanish Maria, Full of Grace |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | SOUNDS FRUITY $600: It's a hydraulic crane with bucket attachment for fixing telephone lines or pruning trees cherry picker |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $800: One of the taglines for this movie was "For years, lines have been drawn... and then colored in yellow" The Simpsons Movie |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | MACHU PICCHU $1600: (Alex reports from Machu Picchu in Peru.) Some people believe that lines of energy around the globe come together at special spiritual points called these, like in Sedona, Arizona & here at Machu Picchu vortices (or vortexes) |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | MATH $400: It's a plane figure bounded by 3 straight lines that intersect at 3 vertices a triangle |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | A GAME OF NUMBERS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a globe with latitude & longitude lines on the monitor.) The Earth can be divided into this many units, each measuring 15 degrees longitude & roughly equal to a time zone 24 |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | A GAME OF NUMBERS $1200: A haiku consists
of 17 syllables
in this many lines 3 |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | WELCOME TO JAPAN $1200: (Kelly stands between two actors.) The kumadori makeup used in this form of Asian theater features red lines on the hero's face and blue on the villain's kabuki |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew is back on the map at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Fronts are boundaries where different air masses meet; alternating red & blue lines depict this type of front with little or no movement a stationary front |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | FASHION SENSE $600: Lord Spencer may have invented the Spencer style of this by burning off one of his tails, then cutting off the other jacket |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICS $1000: The 2 times of day mentioned in the first 2 lines dawn & twilight |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $200: This New York City place is commonly called a station. It's actually a terminal as train lines begin and end there Grand Central Station |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | WORLD OF WARCRAFT $1600: 14th C. armies hurling plague-ridden bodies behind enemy lines were practicing this type of warfare biological |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | HOW WAS SCHOOL TODAY? $1,000 (Daily Double): I daydreamed in the geography class about this warm region defined as lying between two famous lines of latitude the tropics |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: A group of full-time employees, or the set of 5 horizontal lines on which notes of music are written staff |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1600: Only one complete poem, 28 lines in length, remains from the poetry of this lyric poet from Lesbos Sappho |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | DESTINATION: MARS $800: In 1895 astronomer Percival Lowell argued that the straight lines on Mars' surface were these canals |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $400: In this novella, "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $800: In this novel, one of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag is described as being "as tall as an ordinary spire-steeple" Gulliver's Travels |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): Sandburg wrote that it "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on" The Fog |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $1600: Chapter 1 of it begins, "'Camelot--Camelot,' said I to myself. 'I don't seem to remember hearing of it before'" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | LINES FROM LITERATURE $2000: In his "Ode on" this, Keats writes, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" a Grecian Urn |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | LITERARY LASS LINES $400: "I'll never love anybody but you, Tom, and I'll never marry anybody but you--and you ain't to ever marry anybody but me" Becky (Thatcher) |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | LITERARY LASS LINES $800: "The way I flew? Do you know... I sometimes wonder whether I did really fly" Wendy Darling |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | LITERARY LASS LINES $1200: "Our names are worn away to Durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d'Urbervilles" Tess |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | LITERARY LASS LINES $1,800 (Daily Double): "It should be Christmas Day... on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man" (Mrs.) Cratchit |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | LITERARY LASS LINES $2000: "It is too deeply branded. Ye cannot take it off. And would that I might endure his agony, as well as mine!" Hester Prynne |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY $1600: Later killed by Japanese gunfire, in 1943 he released "Here is Your War", a collection of his articles from the front lines Ernie Pyle |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | SOME MEN (& WOMEN) ARE ISLANDS $1600: This actress' book "Life Lines" described her struggle with the drug habit of her son, Jason McCallum Bronson Jill Ireland |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | OF "RATH" $800: On election night 2000, this newsman spouted lines like "Bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster" Dan Rather |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | A NUMBER IN THE TEENS $400: Number of lines in a standard sonnet 14 |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | THE ZODIAC $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a couple of wavy lines on the monitor.) The somewhat aqueous symbol here stands for this sign of the zodiac Aquarius |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | BACH IN THE SADDLE $800: Bach often paired a prelude with this form in which a theme is stated, repeated & varied with contrapuntal lines a fugue |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $1200: De Quervain disease, affecting a tendon at this joint, is found in those with repetitive jobs, as on assembly lines wrist |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | THE LENGTHS YOU'LL GO $800: The arrangement of words in feet in each of a poem's lines; the "Iliad"'s is dactylic meter |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | POET'S GLOSSARY $800: The "heroic" variety of this pair of rhyming lines is written in iambic pentameter a couplet |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | POET'S GLOSSARY $1000: From the Latin for "stopping place", it's 2 or more lines of poetry that form a division within a poem a stanza |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | THE POETRY OF LOVE $400: This biblical "song" waxes poetic with lines like "As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens" Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon) |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): Completes Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1899 lines "A plea, that upward to heaven he flings / I know why..." the caged bird sings |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: The north-south & east-west dividing lines of their "Land Of Four Quarters" intersected in Cuzco the Incas |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $2,500 (Daily Double): Named for latitudinal lines, these 2 novels were penned by Henry Miller while he was in Paris Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | THE CANTERBURY TALES $600: 1 of the 2 months that appear in the first 2 lines of the prologue April (or March) |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $200: In 1966 he refused military induction by saying, "I ain't got no trouble with them Viet Cong" Muhammad Ali |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $400: After losing the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, he told his wife Estelle, "Honey, I just forgot to duck" Jack Dempsey |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $600: His 1973 call "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" will long be remembered Howard Cosell |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $800: This heavyweight champ was referring to Billy Conn & their 1946 bout when he said, "He can run, but he can't hide" Joe Louis |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | PUNCH LINES $1000: Red Smith wrote that this Cinderella Man's "time was the Great Depression and he was a man of his time" James J. Braddock |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $400: In Handel's "Messiah", "All we", like these, "have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way" sheep |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $1200: Thoreau asks, so what if we're inferior to past thinkers? "A living dog is better than a dead" this beast lion |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $1600: Keats felt "like stout Cortez when with" these eyes "he stared at the Pacific" eagle |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $2000: Davy Crockett said fame is "a shaved" this "with a greased tail" that slips through many hands before someone hangs on a pig |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | BEASTLY LINES $3,000 (Daily Double): In William Collins' "Ode to Evening", this "weak-eyed" creature "flits by on leathern wing" a bat |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MUSIC $400: Contrapuntal is the adjectival form of this, the combination of melodic lines counterpoint |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | TED'S HUES $1200: This color "shift", a change observed in spectral lines, gives astronomers like Ted a good idea of galactic motion red |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: 1942--
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $800: 1964--
"Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!" Dr. Strangelove |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1200: 1940--
"We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1600: 1931--
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Little Caesar |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | PUT ME IN COACH! $1,000 (Daily Double): 1920s buses from Safety Coach Lines of Muskegon, Mich. were known as these because of their color & sleekness greyhounds |
| #5044, aired 2006-07-13 | IT'S AN ILLUSION $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows another illusion on the monitor.) You think the two green vertical lines are different lengths, but they're not--it's the illusion of depth created by the horizontal lines doing this, from the Latin for "inclined together" converge |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | STAGE ACTING $400: (Cheryl walks around the living room set.) Actors need to remember more than just lines; also this, their assigned movement around the stage blocking |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | WHO WANTS TO BE A LEGIONNAIRE? $600: During this 1870s war, the Legion attempted to lift the siege of Paris by breaking through the German lines the Franco-Prussian War |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | START ME "UP" $600: 2 lines of rhyming verse at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet a couplet |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | WORD LORE $800: Jazzmen used this slang word in the '40s; Tommy Dorsey insisted it had nothing to do with lines on a record's surface groovy |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN UNION $1000: In 1964 Western Union began using these high-frequency beams transcontinentally to replace land lines microwaves |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES $400: Prologue:
"In Troy there lies the scene" Troilus and Cressida |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES $800: Duke Orsino:
"If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES $1200: Antonio:
"In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you" The Merchant of Venice |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES $1600: Leonato:
"I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SHAKESPEARE'S OPENING LINES $2000: Valentine:
"Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; home-keeping youth have ever homely wits" Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | MICRO $1000: Hamlet alone speaks 1,569 lines; Shakespeare's shortest play at 1,770 lines is this one involving 2 sets of twins The Comedy of Errors |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | POETIC LINES $400: In the words of Edgar A. Guest, "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it" this a home |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | POETIC LINES $800: 2 of his less famous lines are "A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray" Joyce Kilmer |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | POETIC LINES $1200: When this schooner wrecked, cruel rocks "gored her side like the horns of an angry bull" the Hesperus |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | POETIC LINES $1600: This "small" title character of a Eugene Field poem told his toy dog & soldier, "and don't you make any noise" Little Boy Blue |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | POETIC LINES $2000: In "Harlem", he penned, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Langston Hughes |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | WHO "R" YOU? $800: French cardinal who said, "Give me 6 lines written by the most honest man, (&) I'll find something in them to hang him" Richelieu |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT $600: When stockings were no longer available, ladies drew lines on their legs with eyebrow pencil to simulate these nylon seams |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | WALK THE LINE $2000: As a noun, these can be jumps, or limits you'd best not overstep bounds |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: In 1987 Greyhound Lines bought this Dallas-based competitor Trailways |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | THE SCHOOL PLAY: ROMEO AND JULIET $400: Those not cast in individual roles at least got to be part of this group that says the play's first lines the chorus |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew puts some lines on the ice in the Olympic Oval rink at Park City, UT.) In 1998, this U.S. skater was 2nd at Nagano; in 2002, she was 3rd here in Utah Michelle Kwan |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | "TEEN" SCENE $1000: Number of lines in Shakespeare's poem that starts "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" 14 |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | INITIALLY YOURS $600: At Ezra Pound's suggestion, he pared down his "Waste Land" to a mere 434 lines T.S. Eliot |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $400: On a weather map, 3 horizontal & parallel lines indicate this weather condition fog |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | PARACHUTING WITH THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a parachute at Fort Bragg, NC.) Also found on cars, when these steering lines are used dually, they slow the parachute; singly, they allow turning brakes |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew a-basses himself.) Queen's bassist, John Deacon, wrote this 1980 hit "Another One Bites The Dust" |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives us the low down on bass.) This song was nominated for a 1984 Oscar... Who ya gonna call? "Ghostbusters" |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays short on the bassline.) In 1973, this became Pink Floyd's first Top 40 hit "Money" |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew bottoms out on the bass.) This song topped the charts for 6 weeks in 1979 "My Sharona" |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew gets heavy with bass metal.) This track led off Metallica's 1991 self-titled CD "Enter Sandman" |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINES $200: "Puedo comprarle una bebida" is Spanish for this happy hour question Can I buy you a drink? |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to some horizontal line figures on a monitor.) In the ancient Asian divination system called this, solid & broken lines represent male & femaleness I Ching |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINES $400: In Russian it's "Ya tebya lyublyu" I love you |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINES $600: Lines like "Posso leva-la a casa", "May I see you home", show why Portuguese is this type of Latin-derived language a Romance language |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINES $800: Continues Labelle's sexy French invitation, "Voulez-vous..." coucher avec moi |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINES $1000: In a German goodbye, it follows "Auf"; to say "Can we see each other again", it follows "Konnen wir uns" wiedersehen |
| #4877, aired 2005-11-22 | SOFT "G" $1600: The lines & shapes on ancient Greek pottery like the item seen here gave the art of the period this name Geometric |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | WORLD WAR II MOVIES $1600: 1967:
Charles Bronson & Jim Brown are 2 of the 12 angry men on a secret mission behind Nazi lines The Dirty Dozen |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $1600: There are lines of latitude called this of Cancer & this of Capricorn Tropics |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew traces lines on a globe.) Two of these meet around the poles to form what's called a great circle around the Earth the meridians |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | POETIC LINES $400: Poe was referring to these when he wrote, "How they clang, and crash, and roar! What a horror they outpour" the bells |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | "AIN" DROPS $400: By definition, a poem of 4 lines quatrain |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | POETIC LINES $800: In a famous poem, this character asks, "If I can rid your town of rats will you give me a thousand guilders?" the Pied Piper |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | POETIC LINES $1200: "'E'll be squattin' on the coals givin' drink to pore damned souls, an' I'll get a swig in hell from" this Kipling character Gunga Din |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | POETIC LINES $1600: In this poem Coleridge penned, "He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small" Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | POETIC LINES $2000: In December 1839 he penned the line, "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea" Longfellow |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | ANATOMICALLY CORRECT $2000: It's the thin membrane that lines the outside of the lungs the pleura |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | OBJECTS $600: A hacker called "Captain Crunch" found one of these, in a cereal box, whose tone could manipulate phone lines a whistle |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $400: If the distinguished Cherry Jones asks you to run lines with her, you're probably a fellow one of these an actor |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $800: If you have some lines by Edgar Guest in your house, it's likely they're lines of this poetry |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $1000: Type of -ologist most preoccupied with isothermal lines a meteorologist |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | LINES FROM POE $400: "Thy naiad airs have brought me home to the glory that was" this "and the grandeur that was Rome" Greece |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | LINES FROM POE $800: These title objects are "keeping time, time, time, in a sort of runic rhyme" the bells |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | LINES FROM POE $1200: The teller of this tale complained of a sound, "such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton" "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | LINES FROM POE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Luchresi cannot tell" this wine "from sherry" amontillado |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | LINES FROM POE $2000: This Poe tale ends, "The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies" "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE NAACP $2,400 (Daily Double): (Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) This award, the NAACP's highest honor, was first bestowed in 1915 & named for a past chairman of the NAACP the Spingarn Medal |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: This star of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" had to learn some new lines to play Billy Flynn in "Chicago" in 2004 Wayne Brady |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | POP CULTURE $5,000 (Daily Double): This bestselling mystery writer's father, C.W., used consecutive lines of a nursery rhyme for his titles Sue Grafton |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ALSO A PLANET $2000: An important fuel project by the Allies during WWII, its goal was to build "pipe-lines under the oceans" the Pluto Project |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | TAKE "FIVE" $800: Early 20th century writer Adelaide Crapsey created the cinquain, which is one of these a five-line verse (a poem with five lines accepted) |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | WORLD "P"s $800: World Heritage sites in this nation include the Nasca Lines Peru |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $200: A CCR title:
"Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $400: It earned ours:
"What you want, baby, I got it, what you need, do you know I got it?" "Respect" |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $600: A disco anthem:
"First I was afraid, I was petrified" "I Will Survive" |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $800: "Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens" "Johnny B. Goode" |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $1000: Wayne & Garth rocked out to it:
"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy" "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | PILOTS $1000: American pilot on the ground & "Behind Enemy Lines" in Bosnia for 6 days in 1995 Scott O'Grady |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | THIRD WORLD $1000: In geometry, one way to prove 2 lines are this is to show they are both perpendicular to a third line parallel |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | MUSIC $5,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a chalkboard.) In the treble clef, the lines of the staff are E-G-B-D-F, so the spaces are known by this anatomical acronym FACE |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | GOOD CONDUCTORS $400: Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines aluminum |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | GOOD CONDUCTORS $800 (Daily Double): This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines graphite |
| #4698, aired 2005-01-26 | PARTYING LIKE IT WAS 1999 $200: J.K. Rowling held us "captive" in book lines when this third Harry Potter novel came out in 1999 The Prisoner of Azkaban |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | HAMLET $800: Subject of the lines in the first scene,
"'Tis here!"
"'Tis here!"
"'Tis gone!" Hamlet's ghost |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $2000: John Masefield got the job with lines like "All I ask is" one of these "and a star to steer her by" a tall ship |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of Wright's Robie House in Chicago, IL.) Wright's Robie House is from this school of architecture whose horizontal lines imitate Midwestern terrain the Prairie School |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | GET YOUR GOAT $2000: This sure-footed wild goat with back-curving horns can be found between the timber & snow lines of the Alps ibex |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | ECONOMICS $2000: The Laffer, the Phillips & the Lorenz are examples of these lines used by economists curves |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS $1200: Those portraying a Norwegian captain in this play don't have to worry about memorizing a lot of lines Hamlet |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS $1600: In this fairy tale, Snug doesn't get the lion's share of lines, but he does get the lion's lines A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS $2000: In Act V, Scene ii Dr. Butts shows up for a couple of lines with Cranmer & this title king Henry VIII |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | WEIRD HISTORY $1600: During the Battle of the Marne in this war, 6,000 French soldiers were rushed to the front lines in taxicabs the First World War |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | CALCULUS $1200: On a graph, the derivative of a function is this, which all lines except vertical ones have a slope |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BALLROOM BLITZ $200: The "Virginia" variety of this country dance starts with partners facing each other in 2 lines the reel |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | DANGER, CURVES AHEAD $400: In grammar, they're a pair of curved lines used to indicate interjected explanatory material parentheses |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | YUCATAN LINES $400: Cancun is a popular spot for this "seasonal" trip, as in the 2003 film "The Real Cancun" spring break |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | YUCATAN LINES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew crosses a pedestrian bridge over a Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico resort spot.) A touristy part of the Yucatan is known as this precolumbian people's Riviera the Maya |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | YUCATAN LINES $1200: Tikal National Park is in this country that shares the peninsula with Mexico & Belize Guatemala |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | YUCATAN LINES $1600: Just off the peninsula, this 189-sq.-mi. island attracting divers & tourists is part of Quintana Roo state Cozumel |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | YUCATAN LINES $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from the center of a small town on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.) Not the glitzy Yucatan, sleepy Puerto Morelos is so sleepy it is sometimes called this, rhyming with Puerto Muerto |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | MAPS $800: On topographic maps, contour lines are used to show this elevation |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | WE'RE IN BUSINESS $800: This van lines company moved Ronald Reagan to Washington & Elvis into Graceland Allied Van Lines |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | COMMUNICATIONS $800: It's the Hollywood term for a verbal presentation with lines like "It's 'Psycho' meets 'The African Queen'!" a pitch |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | THE INC. SPOTS $800: World capital where you'd find the head office of the airline JAL Tokyo |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | AIRLINES $800: Not surprisingly, in 1988 it was the official carrier of the Seoul Olympic games Korean Air Lines |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | THE PIPE ORGAN $1600: Organ music is often written on 3 of these sets of lines, the lowest one for the pedal part a staff |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote the lines "The lark's on the wing, the snail's on the thorn, God's in his heaven, all's right with the world" Robert Browning |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | IT'S A GAS $1600: This gas, atomic No. 2, is used as a tracer in detecting leaks in gas lines helium |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | COMPUTER "I"s $2000: Faster than a modem connection, it's a method of transmitting data digitally over phone lines ISDN |
| #4507, aired 2004-03-23 | TORONTO'S CN TOWER $1200: The horizontal bands are called "Friday lines" because they mark where the pouring of this was stopped each week concrete |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | EPICS $1600: From 1667, it includes the lines "Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? Th' infernal serpent; he it was" Paradise Lost |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | SIMPLE SCIENCE $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the chalkboard) By adding two lines, I've turned a math symbol for division into a symbol for this inequality/not equal to |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This early 20th century school designed with horizontal lines like the flatness of the land in the Midwest the Prairie School |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | LOVE LINES $200: A young Shakespeare title character, he says "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs" Romeo |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | LOVE LINES $400: Popular poetic question preceding "Let me count the ways" How do I love thee? |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | LOVE LINES $600: The song of Solomon's "My Beloved is Like a Roe or a Young Hart" compares a lover to this animal a deer |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | LOVE LINES $800: "Today I might snow, tomorrow I'll rain, 3000's always changing but you stay the same and I need that", rap this duo Outkast |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | LOVE LINES $1000: Continues the Tennyson passage "'Tis better to have loved and lost than..." "...never to have loved at all" |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | SPORTS TALK $1000: (Hi, I'm Trent Green of the NFL.) A football field is often called this, because the pattern of lines resembles a certain cooking utensil a gridiron |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BE BORN $200: Striae is the medical term for these silvery lines that sometimes appear on the skin during pregnancy stretch marks |
| #4470, aired 2004-01-30 | JAWS $1000: (Sarah) It completes one of the most famous lines spoken in "Jaws": "You're gonna need..." a bigger boat |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | MID-CENTURY MOMENTS $1000: One poem in her 1850 book "Poems" uses the word "love" 22 times in 44 lines Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | SEEING THE FUTURE $1200: The three main lines on your palm are usually designated life, head & this heart |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | SONGS EVERYBODY KNOWS $800: Lines added to this song include "She'll be tuggin' on two turtles" & "She'll be pluckin' four fat pheasants" "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" |
| #4451, aired 2004-01-05 | ARE YOU GIVING ME A LINE? $600: "Scabs" cross them picket lines |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 2 MUCH $800: Back in the 16th century, Robert Recorde used 2 short lines, one above the other, to create this sign the equal sign |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | BELOVED POEMS $400: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ..." rain must fall |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | SONNETS $400: Shakespeare's Sonnet 99 has this many lines, 1 more than each of the previous 98 15 |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | TAKE THE "A" TRAIN $600: Its lines include the Sunset Limited & the California Zephyr Amtrak |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | GEOMETRY $400: In 1795 John Playfair simplified Euclid's axiom about these, still saying they never meet parallel lines |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: "Soul Train" host & businessman nicknamed "Commodore" who made a fortune in steamship lines & railroads Don Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| #4351, aired 2003-06-30 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?" is one of Goneril's lines in this play King Lear |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | WHAT THE "L"? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) You can pinpoint any location on a map by following these imaginary lines that criscross latitude & longitude |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | IS THERE A POINT TO ALL THIS? $1000: In a perspective drawing, it's the point on the horizon where parallel lines appear to converge vanishing point |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $200: "This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure" is a line from Chapter 1 of this novel The Hobbit |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $400: Completes the concluding line from "Gone with the Wind": "After all..." "tomorrow is another day" |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $800: "1984" begins, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking" this odd hour 13 |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $1000: This 1934 novel begins "Monsieur Van Gogh! It's time to wake up!" Lust for Life |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $4,200 (Daily Double): 1954 novel that contains the lines "This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we'll have fun" Lord of the Flies |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $200: A satirical fable: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night..." Animal Farm |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune must be in want of a wife" Pride and Prejudice |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $600: The absurd:
"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure" The Stranger (L'Étranger) |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800 (Daily Double): By E.M. Forster:
"'The signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, '...she promised us south rooms...'" A Room with a View |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: About an Irish Catholic Youth:
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow..." Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | BIBLE STUDY $1600: This Israelite leader's last lines, in Deuteronomy 33, predict his people's conquest of their enemies Moses |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | LITERATURE $1200: Hamlet's most famous one of these speeches includes the following lines
Whether tis' nobler in the mind to suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles & by opposing... soliloquy |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | THE BOOK OF PROVERBS $800: "Drink waters out of thine own cistern" is one of the lines urging avoidance of this sin adultery |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | WORD PUZZLES $600: A good way to determine the implied meaning of something
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| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | LITERARY TERMS $800: Many an Italian poet used the ottava rima, a stanza with this many lines 8 |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | SOUTH OF THE U.S. $400: South of the continental U.S. are named latitude lines: the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator & the Tropic of this Capricorn |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | "L.P."s $1000: Objects appear to get smaller & parallel lines converge in the distance in this system of spatial representation linear perspective |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400: One of his most famous movie lines is "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" Humphrey Bogart |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | POETRY $200: Dante wrote in terza rima, rhyming stanzas of this many lines 3 |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | "MY" SONGS $600: 1991 hit that contains the lines, "I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing..." "Losing My Religion" |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES $200: 1975:
"I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES $400: 1980:
"He-e-e-e-re's Johnny!" The Shining |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES $600: 1992:
"You can't handle the truth!" A Few Good Men |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES $800: 1974:
"What makes you certain that your husband is, um, involved with someone?" Chinatown |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES $1000: 1994:
"Just marking my territory" Wolf |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STAR WARS STARS $600: Amidala in episodes "I" & "II", when she's not studying lines, she's studying at Harvard Natalie Portman |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: In 1911 explorer Hiram Bingham discovered this 15th C. Incan royal city that lies 50 miles northwest of Cuzco Machu Picchu |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | A CHICAGO TOUR $400: Though it seats 500, Gino's East regularly has lines outside for this culinary specialty, even in winter pizza |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $400: "It was one by the village clock, when" this man "galloped into Lexington" Paul Revere |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $800: "I shot" this "into the air, it fell to Earth, I knew not where" an arrow |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $1600: About him Longfellow wrote, "the muscles of his brawny arms are strong as iron bands" "The Village Smithy" |
