Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9067, aired 2024-03-26SPORTY TALK $800: Someone who comes in to finish a job, or Joe Torre in the Cardinals lineup a cleanup man (a cleanup hitter)
#9065, aired 2024-03-22NONFICTION $400: The 2023 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction went to a book about this man, whose 2020 death in Minneapolis sparked protests worldwide Floyd
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Andrew Jackson "won" the E.C. 99-84-41-37 but having no majority there, lost the election in the House to this man John Quincy Adams
#9065, aired 2024-03-22THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: This man really wanted Jacob to marry his older daughter, Leah, before his younger, Rachel Laban
#9064, aired 2024-03-21HISTORIC FIRSTS $400: In 1986 this man became the first pontiff to enter the Great Synagogue of Rome John Paul II
#9064, aired 2024-03-21HISTORIC FIRSTS $1000: In 1992 this man from Egypt became the first African to be Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#9061, aired 2024-03-18VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $1600: It's the -ism that promotes the common man & in 2023 Mike Pence bemoaned "the siren song of" it "unmoored to" conservative ideas populism
#9060, aired 2024-03-15MOVIE SONGS $800: "Now I'm laughing to the bank", rap$ thi$ man in "Am I Dreaming" over the end credits of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" A$AP Rocky
#9055, aired 2024-03-08LITERARY AWARDS $400: The Man Group sponsored this prestigious British literary prize from 2002 to 2019 the Booker Prize
#9054, aired 2024-03-07SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $400: From 1979 to 1981 the Yankees fittingly had a mascot named this, also a word for a well-dressed man Dandy
#9053, aired 2024-03-06SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $600: Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" Bottom
#9052, aired 2024-03-055 FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS $600: With 1920's "The Outline of History", this "Time Machine" man went from bestselling novelist to bestselling educator H.G. Wells
#9051, aired 2024-03-04A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $800: In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada Baryshnikov
#9051, aired 2024-03-04I HEARD A RUMOR $800: In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a "meeting in" this title place "Meeting In The Ladies Room"
#9049, aired 2024-02-29IMAGE $400: Limiting his palette to mostly blacks & whites, Marc Chagall painted "The Praying Jew", also known as this holy man "of Vitebsk" Rabbi
#9047, aired 2024-02-27ANTONYMIC PAIRS $1000: Pres. James Garfield is quoted, "The best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard" to do this pair sink or swim
#9047, aired 2024-02-27AWARDS & HONORS $2000: "The Man Who Ate Too Much" is a biography of this American whose foundation gives awards to outstanding chefs James Beard
#9044, aired 2024-02-22BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $2000: Tough to win a race giving a 60-mile head start as Robert Scott did landing at McMurdo Sound when this man landed at the Bay of Whales Amundsen
#9043, aired 2024-02-21ENDS IN "IR" $800: According to National Geographic, the world's largest man-made one by surface area is Lake Volta in Ghana a reservoir
#9040, aired 2024-02-16CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The second-most populous city in Canada, it was founded in 1642 as a missionary center by Paul de Chomedey Montreal
#9040, aired 2024-02-16DESCRIBING THE SONG $1200: Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole "Piano Man"
#9038, aired 2024-02-14SNAKES IN A BOOK $800: On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree Sinbad
#9038, aired 2024-02-141970s MOVIES $2000: In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet Bowie
#9037, aired 2024-02-13DOCUMENTARIES $2000: In "The Fog of War" Errol Morris interviewed this man who was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 McNamara
#9036, aired 2024-02-12GENIUS: MLK/X $600: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A man who was raised Quaker & sang the blues with Lead Belly, Bayard Rustin drew from Gandhi's example to help inspire MLK to follow this 11-letter form of peaceful resistance nonviolence
#9032, aired 2024-02-06AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $200: Him: "If my aunt finds out I left my class trip, she's going to kill me" Spider-Man
#9032, aired 2024-02-062 BOOKS IN 1 $800: "A Farewell to the Sea" A Farewell to Arms & The Old Man and the Sea
#9031, aired 2024-02-05TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder)
#9031, aired 2024-02-05SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $1200: Hope you still know this Belgian-Australian man who had a smash hit in 2012 with "Somebody That I Used To Know" Gotye
#9031, aired 2024-02-05BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
#9030, aired 2024-02-02WEIGHTS & MEASURES $3,600 (Daily Double): This unit of force named for a 17th century man is equal to about .225 pound-force a Newton
#9029, aired 2024-02-01FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $1600: Eyebrows were raised in 1964 after Khrushchev gave way to this man Brezhnev
#9025, aired 2024-01-26COACHING BASKETBALL $1000: Real first name Glenn, this man had the prescription for the Celtics in 2008, taking them to the championship Doc Rivers
#9023, aired 2024-01-24BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1600: To date, he's played newsman J. Jonah Jameson in five live-action "Spider-Man" movies J.K. Simmons
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren
#9022, aired 2024-01-23POETS & POETRY $400: "Edina! Scotia's darling seat!" begins "Address to Edinburgh", a poem not in the Scottish dialect by this man (Rabbie) Burns
#9022, aired 2024-01-23MOVIES IN REWIND $2000: A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man Gladiator
#9021, aired 2024-01-22TEMPERA-MENTAL ARTISTS $800: Before tempera art, John Schoenherr did book covers; Frank Herbert called him the only man to visit this title place Dune
#9020, aired 2024-01-19MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $800: The classic 1944 Judy Garland film "Meet Me in St. Louis" was directed by this man, her soon-to-be husband (Vincente) Minnelli
#9019, aired 2024-01-18MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $400: The producers of "Tak3n" had a very particular set of skills to get this man back for time 3 in the role of Bryan Mills Liam Neeson
#9018, aired 2024-01-17FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe
#9014, aired 2024-01-11THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $400: Living up to its name: "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning" Proverbs
#9014, aired 2024-01-11NOTORIOUS $1000: In June 2022 this man who tried to assassinate President Reagan in 1981 was released without conditions Hinckley
#9013, aired 2024-01-10ONE MAN, BANNED $400: A Jacobite was a supporter of this exiled Stuart king who had to lay low after the Glorious Revolution James II
#9013, aired 2024-01-10ONE MAN, BANNED $2000: Yevgeny was the first name of this late mercenary leader who fled to Belarus after gaining Putin's ire in 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin
#24, aired 2024-01-09COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $400: An anagram of "Arabs", Basra is a port city in this country Iraq
#24, aired 2024-01-09CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams
#9011, aired 2024-01-08ITALIAN LITERATURE $800: Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos to 3 of this man's most famous operas, including "Cosi fan tutte" Mozart
#9010, aired 2024-01-05OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $400: In addition to being a Hall of Fame running back, Jim Brown could stick it to foes by scoring goals in this sport & Jim's in its Hall, too lacrosse
#9007, aired 2024-01-02THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor
#9007, aired 2024-01-02HISTORIC LASTS $1600: Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man" the passenger pigeon
#23, aired 2024-01-02DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $800: Elvis Presley, Cheap Trick (Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird) "Surrender"
#9003, aired 2023-12-27PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $1000: A big cockfight enthusiast, this man was known to yell "Twenty dollars on my Bernadotte!" outside the Old Nashville Inn Andrew Jackson
#9001, aired 2023-12-25BATS ENTERTAINMENT $800: & today (today), I consider myself (myself) the luckiest man to say he starred as Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees" Gary Cooper
#9000, aired 2023-12-22HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS $400: The 1850s Utah War began with "Buchanan's Blunder", when President Buchanan moved to replace this man as governor Young
#9000, aired 2023-12-22CONTEMPORARIES $1600: In 1794 Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped the execution of this man marked a return to moderation in the French Revolution Robespierre
#8999, aired 2023-12-21FOLKLORE & LEGEND $400: Also called Bigfoot, it's the Salish word for a huge, hairy man-monster said to inhabit Pacific Northwest woods Sasquatch
#8999, aired 2023-12-21A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $400: A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel" Nantucket
#8998, aired 2023-12-20OPERA $1200: In a Bela Bartok opera, Judith comes to live in this man's "Castle" & discovers its room of his previous wives Bluebeard
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $400: In 1966 this man stepped down from hosting the Western "Death Valley Days" to focus on his campaign for governor (Ronald) Reagan
#8987, aired 2023-12-05ALSO A SUPERHERO $600: This Black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field" "Iron Man"
#21, aired 2023-11-29FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface
#8981, aired 2023-11-27COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $400: In 1968, she had back-to-back No. 1 country hits with "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" & "Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette
#8975, aired 2023-11-17PITHY QUOTES $2,400 (Daily Double): The King James Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept", refers to the death of this man Lazarus
#8973, aired 2023-11-15SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $400: 5th century pope Celestine I sent this man & future saint to Ireland, where he is said to have established 300 churches Patrick
#20, aired 2023-11-15MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $400: Medics were dispatched to a local hillside where a man sustained head injuries fetching water with a female companion "Jack and Jill"
#20, aired 2023-11-15MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $1000: Officers responded to anonymous reports that a local man was sequestering his wife inside a large gourd "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater"
#8971, aired 2023-11-13THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $200: In 1914 this automaker raised the minimum wage for his employees to $5 a day, more than twice the going rate Henry Ford
#8971, aired 2023-11-13THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $800: This early 1900s racer who gave his name to a major GM division was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland Louis Chevrolet
#8970, aired 2023-11-10DROP A LETTER $1200: ...from a word for a mechanical man to get this verb that means "to cheer on" root (from robot)
#8966, aired 2023-11-06CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $800: After years of yelling at soldiers as a first sergeant in the Air Force, this man vowed to use a more soothing voice painting on TV (Bob) Ross
#8965, aired 2023-11-03FAMOUS PAIRS $200: William Barnes moved to New York & partnered with this man to sell books Noble
#8965, aired 2023-11-03TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $400: This man lived up to his name by asking, "What's my name" while adding "Bow wow wow, yippy yo yippy yay" Snoop Dogg
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC MAN-PERMS $200: Blame it on the humidity: this groovy TV stepdad unveiled a curly 'do in 1972 while taking his family to Hawaii Mike Brady
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC MAN-PERMS $400: Gene Simmons claims he accidentally set fire to his glam-rock hair numerous times while performing with this band Kiss
#19, aired 2023-11-01MARRIAGE STORY $400: 1985: "Phylicia Ayers-Allen! How's TV?" "I just got married" "Who's the groom?" "His last name is" this Rashad
#19, aired 2023-11-01ICONIC MAN-PERMS $500: Every day, it took 3 hours and 110 pink curlers to create Bradley Cooper's tight 'do for this Oscar-nominated film American Hustle
#19, aired 2023-11-01CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $500: In 1790, this smallest of the 13 original colonies became the last to ratify the Constitution Rhode Island
#8962, aired 2023-10-31THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $1600: Capricorns like privacy, but this ultra-rich man born Dec. 24, 1905 took that love of privacy to an unhealthy extreme Howard Hughes
#8959, aired 2023-10-26THE CAMERA MAN $400: Certain Robert Mapplethorpe photos prompted Congress to enact restrictions on grants given by this body the NEA
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ROCKET MAN $200: Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals the Canadiens
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ROCKET MAN $400: This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times Roger Clemens
#8954, aired 2023-10-19ROCKET MAN $800: This NBA center was "the Dream" leading the Houston Rockets to 1994 & 1995 NBA titles Hakeem Olajuwon
#8954, aired 2023-10-19PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $1200: His "Two Treatises of Government", which influenced Jefferson, said man has a natural right to liberty John Locke
#17, aired 2023-10-18MIDDLE "MAN" $600: The marsupial seen here is called a this devil, named after the Australian island it's native to Tasmanian
#17, aired 2023-10-18DENZEL WASHINGTON $600: "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film Philadelphia
#8952, aired 2023-10-17DUST TO DUST $2,400 (Daily Double): In a poem named for him, Rudyard Kipling calls this man a "limpin' lump o' brick-dust" Gunga Din
#8951, aired 2023-10-16& TAKIN' NAMES $800: The pseudonym he used for "The Running Man" in 1982 came to this author as he listened to a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive Stephen King (Richard Bachman)
#8951, aired 2023-10-16I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: Wilde said this "Man and Superman" author didn't have "an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him" George Bernard Shaw
#8951, aired 2023-10-16CHANGE A LETTER $1200: It's to swindle or trick someone, like George C. Scott does in a 1967 film flim-flam
#8949, aired 2023-10-12AARON BURR $600: The man he went to New Jersey to meet on July 11, 1804 Hamilton
#8949, aired 2023-10-12AARON BURR $800: The man he introduced the widow Dolley Todd to in 1794 Madison
#16, aired 2023-10-11LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $400: This man who seized power in his country in 1959 may have seen red when his sister Juanita sold her Miami pharmacy to CVS in 2006 Fidel Castro
#8946, aired 2023-10-09ELTON JOHN SONGS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell" "Rocket Man"
#8946, aired 2023-10-09THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $800: In 1990, this man here knocked out Buster Douglas to become the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield
#8946, aired 2023-10-09I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $2000: A classic logic puzzle from 1962 deals with the surnames of 3 train employees: the brakeman, the fireman & him the engineer
#8944, aired 2023-10-05MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $1000: An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man's amazing blue eyes & "failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke
#15, aired 2023-10-04BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $300: A giant beverage pitcher with legs who often causes property damage the Kool-Aid Man
#15, aired 2023-10-04BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle)
#15, aired 2023-10-04BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $500: A puffy French creature made of tires who bears an unsettling resemblance to a mummy the Michelin Man
#8942, aired 2023-10-03LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $800: Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord Thoreau
#8941, aired 2023-10-02NATIVE AMERICANS $200: A member of the Kaw Nation of Kansas, Charles Curtis, was vice president under this man from 1929 to 1933 Herbert Hoover
#8938, aired 2023-09-27BRAD TO THE BONE $600: In 2017 this Brad's status was executive producer, rather than leading man, of "Brad's Status" Brad Pitt
#8934, aired 2023-09-21WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $800: He was left "alone in an un-inhabited island", but after 28 years, 2 months & 19 days, what world will this man return to now? Robinson Crusoe
#8934, aired 2023-09-21WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $2000: The pain of beast folk creations such as Leopard-Man means nothing to this 1896 title character, but that could prove... costly Dr. Moreau
#8934, aired 2023-09-21WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $3,000 (Daily Double): Thomas More created this island in 1516, from Greek for "no place"; based on rational thought & no poverty, is it beyond man's reach? Utopia
#8931, aired 2023-09-18RESTAURANT HIJINKS $200: "Have it your way"! In 2016 a Neb. man threatened to rob this fast food place, left, came back & the cops were waiting Burger King
#8931, aired 2023-09-18RESTAURANT HIJINKS $400: In 2017 a Florida man called this important number--twice!--to complain the clams he had at a seafood shack were too small 911
#8930, aired 2023-09-15BUILDING, AMERICA $200: Home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the striking concert hall seen here is named for this man Walt Disney
#8929, aired 2023-09-14LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $1000: Last name of the man who said, "Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble" but whose trophy carries the ball with one hand Heisman
#8928, aired 2023-09-13I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man"
#8928, aired 2023-09-13& WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $2000: "'I would give a good deal to know how it comes about that"' this wealthy title man "'is acquainted with M. de Villefort"' the Count of Monte Cristo
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THAT SONG SLAYS $400: "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" is how one gets the "Folsom Prison Blues", per this singer (Johnny) Cash
#8924, aired 2023-07-27THE BAR MITZVAH BOY $800: Then still named Lifshitz, this man with plenty of fashion sense chose a blue blazer for his big day Ralph Lauren
#8922, aired 2023-07-25SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $4,000 (Daily Double): "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me" Ralph Ellison
#8918, aired 2023-07-19HISTORY $800: In the 16th century an African man in Japan named Yasuke became the first recorded foreigner to join the ranks of this warrior class Samurai
#8918, aired 2023-07-19TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho!
#8916, aired 2023-07-17WITH BELLS ON $400: The New York Times guide to spectator sports says this can happen, "if a man is knocked down in the closing seconds of a round" saved by the bell
#8910, aired 2023-07-07SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): The subtitle to this H.G. Wells novel is "A Grotesque Romance" The Invisible Man
#8910, aired 2023-07-07SEEING RIGHT THROUGH YOU $1000: Check out the man-of-war whose nationality derives from its resemblance to warships once made in this country Portugal
#8909, aired 2023-07-06A TV SERIES $200: Captains of the Enterprise: William Shatner; this man from 1987 to 1994; then Scott Bakula Patrick Stewart
#8907, aired 2023-07-04A BIBLICAL BURIAL $600: According to Matthew, this man returns the silver given to him by the priests & they buy a potter's field to bury strangers in Judas
#8907, aired 2023-07-04A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead
#8907, aired 2023-07-04LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $1200: "Pistol: The Life of" this man calls him a "fresh-faced, sad-eyed wizard cradling a grainy, leather orb" Pete Maravich
#8906, aired 2023-07-03TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $400: Doing some ceiling work around 1511, Michelangelo showed God reaching to give this man the divine breath of life with a touch Adam
#8906, aired 2023-07-03"B" MOVIE QUOTES $5,000 (Daily Double): "My people are praying for a man who can drive their team to victory over Messala" Ben-Hur
#8905, aired 2023-06-30WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $1000: In the city of 9.3 million, now named for this man, the War Remnants Museum was previously the Museum of Chinese & American War Crimes Ho Chi Minh City
#8900, aired 2023-06-23ON BROADWAY $400: A 2022 revival of this play broke ground with Wendell Pierce as the first Black man to play Willy Loman on Broadway Death of a Salesman
#8900, aired 2023-06-23I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1000: This man "made a deal with Napoleon: how'd you like to sell a mile or 2 (or 3, or a hundred, or a thousand)"? (Thomas) Jefferson
#8893, aired 2023-06-14UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES $400: India's Mahabodhi Temple Complex, one of the 4 holy sites related to this man's life Buddha
#8893, aired 2023-06-14RANDOM STUFF $800: Jesus was said to be born fully formed, so he looks like a little man in works called the "Throne of" this quality he shares with Solomon Wisdom
#8891, aired 2023-06-12POP SONGS $600: This NBA big man's 1994 rap song "Biological Didn't Bother" is dedicated to his stepfather Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal)
#8891, aired 2023-06-12CORE VALUES $800: Satyagraha, this man's doctrine against injustice, inspired James Farmer to found CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality Gandhi
#8886, aired 2023-06-05MYTHOLOGY $800: A very unfortunate family man, this future king of Thebes left Corinth on learning he was fated to kill his dad; fate is rough Oedipus
#8884, aired 2023-06-01"MAN" O' WAR $400: Army general Omar Bradley was the first to hold this position on the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff a chairman
#8882, aired 2023-05-30THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $1000: "Born Of A Broken Man", they urged us to "Wake Up" to the "Killing In The Name" Rage Against the Machine
#8881, aired 2023-05-29THE ROCKEFELLERS $1000: Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, & died during FDR's second term Van Buren
#8880, aired 2023-05-26AMERICA IN THE 1700s $600: A toast to William Horton, James Oglethorpe's right-hand man, who is credited with founding this colony's 1st brewery Georgia
#8880, aired 2023-05-26TECHNOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): This Elon Musk company says it aims "to design a fully implantable, cosmetically invisible brain-computer interface" Neuralink
#8879, aired 2023-05-25UP IN THE AIRLINE $400: A smiling Inuit man is meant to invoke the "spirit of the last frontier" on this airline's fleet Alaska Air
#8879, aired 2023-05-25OUR RETURNING CHAMPION $600: After defeating the Spanish at Boyacá in 1819, this man returned to Angostura a champion & helped create Gran Colombia Bolivar
#8877, aired 2023-05-23AVIATION $800: To honor a fallen comrade, the planes seen here perform this aerial salute the missing man formation
#18, aired 2023-05-23CLASSIC CAR TV $400: Hats hoff to this '80s show, "a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man... who does not exist" Knight Rider
#18, aired 2023-05-23CENTURY NOTES $13,200 (Daily Double): 3rd century: the first written reference to this Blue Man Group of present Scotland has them attacking Hadrian's Wall Picts
#17, aired 2023-05-23POWER OCCUPANTS $200: A national monument in Singapore, the villa named for this man was his base while he planned to end China's last dynasty Sun Yat-sen
#8873, aired 2023-05-17Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $400: An animated elderly man's wife dies, his house is literally uprooted & a boy is kidnapped (OK, inadvertently) to South America Up
#14, aired 2023-05-17MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Athena appears to Telemachus in the guise of this man, whose name later came to refer to any advisor Mentor
#13, aired 2023-05-17FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1200: The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" Kit Carson Kressley
#12, aired 2023-05-1616th & 17th CENTURY ART $1600: Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you Caravaggio
#9, aired 2023-05-15AND THE OSCAR WENT TO... $2000: In 1975 John Wayne presented an honorary Oscar to this alliterative man who had directed him in "Red River" & "Rio Bravo" Hawks
#8870, aired 2023-05-12A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $800: A birthday fete for Herod Antipas gave his wife Herodias a chance for revenge against this man; his head ended up on a platter John the Baptist
#8, aired 2023-05-12AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS $200: The Seattle Times declared 1996's "The Runaway Jury" by this man to be his "most addictive courtroom thriller" Grisham
#8, aired 2023-05-12I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $800: I was "the Great Pacificator" & in 1852 was the first man to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, then went back to Kentucky Henry Clay
#5, aired 2023-05-10CHAT G-P-T $800: This Mississippi city is home to one of the world's longest man-made beaches Gulfport
#8867, aired 2023-05-09PEOPLE $800: In his 1889 essay "The Gospel of Wealth", this Penn. steel man urged the well-off to use their money to help the less fortunate Carnegie
#8867, aired 2023-05-09LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $1000: A 1918 Nobel win/ It is tough to follow / A German physicist / Which kinda rhymes with lyricist? / He's a man of "constant" sorrow Max Planck
#8866, aired 2023-05-08FUTILITY $1200: In the "Odyssey", Homer wrote this man was "in violent torment, seeking to raise a monstrous stone" but ever failing Sisyphus
#1, aired 2023-05-08SPOONERISM PAIRS $200: A grand overall scheme & a stucco guy a master plan & a plaster man
#1, aired 2023-05-08JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $1000: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) Long before winning the first Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Richard Pryor wrote for this '70s sitcom; the star next to Richard is a big hint & man, its theme song was fantastic Sanford and Son
#1, aired 2023-05-08A TRIP TO ASIA $1600: Oh, man! As you can see, the Mohammed Al Ameen Mosque is breathtaking in this capital city on the Gulf of Oman Muscat
#8865, aired 2023-05-05NORTHERN LANDS $2000: This man credited as the first to reach the North Pole proved that Greenland is an island Robert Peary
#8864, aired 2023-05-04A SPECIAL TRAIN CAR $6,000 (Daily Double): An epically terrible trip from Buffalo to Westfield, N.Y. inspired this man to create the comfy rail cars named for him (George) Pullman
#8860, aired 2023-04-28LITERARY LIONS $2000: In this poet's "The Second Coming", "a shape with lion body and the head of a man... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" Yeats
#8859, aired 2023-04-27HISTORIC WIVES $200: Legally bound to a man who ghosted her, Deborah Read was the common-law wife of this printer & statesman Benjamin Franklin
#8859, aired 2023-04-27TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Built in England in 1916, a prototype of the first operational tank was nicknamed "Big Willie" in mockery of this man Kaiser Wilhelm
#8858, aired 2023-04-26RIHANNA $400: At age 16, Rihanna signed with Def Jam Records, then run by this man, & moved to his label a few years later Jay-Z
#8854, aired 2023-04-20MY PREROGATIVE $400: The rule that gives you "the right to remain silent" dates back to 1966's this man v. Arizona Miranda
#8852, aired 2023-04-18LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $1000: It took Fritz Hollings 36 years to become South Carolina's senior senator, as this man stuck around for a while, living to 100 Strom Thurmond
#8850, aired 2023-04-14YOU LOSE $200: In 1967 Ernie Terrell's refusal to call this man by his new name led to a beating with repeated queries of "What's my name?!" Ali
#8848, aired 2023-04-12LOST WITH THE TITANIC $800: The handwritten manuscript of a 1902 story by this "Heart of Darkness" man, on its way to a collector in New York Conrad
#8847, aired 2023-04-11I GOT THE RECEIPTS $1000: In 2014 a golden oval item a man hoped to sell as scrap metal was actually this Russian treasure & worth $33 million a Fabergé egg
#8846, aired 2023-04-10QUANTUM SCIENCE $400: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) As a consultant working with Marvel I coined this term for a world of things so tiny that Ant-Man has to shrink way down to enter it; Dr. Strange pays a visit too the Quantum Realm
#8845, aired 2023-04-07LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $800: A man awakens from a coma with the power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen King work The Dead Zone
#8841, aired 2023-04-03PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND'S NON-CONSECUTIVE WORLD $200: Police linked this man to the 1888 murders of Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman & several others Jack the Ripper
#8840, aired 2023-03-31LAST LINES OF MOVIES $2000: This "Dirty Harry" sequel whose title mentions Harry's gun: "A man's got to know his limitations" Magnum Force
#8836, aired 2023-03-27WE QUOTE MR. Ts $1200: Harry Truman said this man's "Plan" "will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world" Marshall
#8835, aired 2023-03-24AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $3,000 (Daily Double): Associated with measurement, this first man made a lord for his scientific work (Lord) Kelvin
#8832, aired 2023-03-21I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $1200: The cuneiform inscription on this type of pillar seen here refers to the doings of King Manishtushu a stele (or obelisk)
#8832, aired 2023-03-21BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $1200: In 2025, game shows are to the death in "The Running Man", written by Stephen King under this pseudonym Richard Bachman
#8831, aired 2023-03-20CRY UNCLE $1200: At the time of his 1914 assassination, Franz Ferdinand was heir to the throne occupied by this man, his uncle Franz Joseph
#8831, aired 2023-03-20CRY UNCLE $5,000 (Daily Double): In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor" Pliny
#8825, aired 2023-03-1020th CENTURY NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): His brother Ted eulogized him in 1968 as "a good & decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it" Bobby Kennedy
#8825, aired 2023-03-10TOOL TALK $1600: A cutting tool is in this term for a person hired to do someone else's dirty work a hatchet man
#8821, aired 2023-03-06HISTORY $1000: In 1522 this "Magnificent" Ottoman man used more than 100,000 troops to besiege & finally capture Rhodes Suleiman the Magnificent
#8820, aired 2023-03-03U.S. SIGHTS $600: Head to the Presidio & check out Industrial Light & Magic & the film production company named for this man George Lucas
#8819, aired 2023-03-02COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $200: Psych 200: Analyzing 1901's "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" by this man; also, how your mom figures in to that, in some way Freud
#8818, aired 2023-03-01CARPE DIEM $400: Michel Tournier's 1st novel reimagines Robinson Crusoe as a colonialist failing to bring this man into sharing his worldview Friday
#8812, aired 2023-02-21THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 2018 & '19 $400: Reports of these man-made fliers near London's Gatwick Airport led to the cancellation or diversion of about 1,000 flights drones
#8812, aired 2023-02-21HOME COMING $800: During his presidency, this man & his wife Nancy made several trips to Rancho del Cielo, his vacation home near Santa Barbara Ronald Reagan
#8811, aired 2023-02-20TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress
#8810, aired 2023-02-17ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film (Arthur) Miller
#8810, aired 2023-02-17MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1200: "Man of the House" was a bestseller by Tip O'Neill, who held this post from 1977 to 1987 Speaker of the House
#8808, aired 2023-02-15LOVE $2000: "Do I dare to eat a peach?" muses the middle-aged man in this T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
#8807, aired 2023-02-14IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $800: 1778: The U.S.S. Ranger, captained by this man, receives the first official salute to the stars & stripes flag, by the French fleet John Paul Jones
#8806, aired 2023-02-13BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man
#8805, aired 2023-02-10SUPER BOWL HEROES $400: (Greg Olsen of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Before joking around with Howie, Jimmy & the gang on "Fox NFL Sunday"'s pregame show, this man was all business while winning back-to-back Super Bowl MVPs in 1979 & 1980 as quarterback for the Steelers Terry Bradshaw
#8804, aired 2023-02-09PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $600: Someone who plays a supporting role is this fruit, like a straight man to a comedian second banana
#13, aired 2023-02-02THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $600: These tall timepieces were named for a 19th-century song that said, "It stopp'd short--never to go again--When the old man died" a grandfather clock
#8795, aired 2023-01-27GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $400: Eating a white snake gives a young man this magical ability also associated with Dr. Dolittle talking to the animals
#8793, aired 2023-01-25GOOD LUCK $800: From 1927 to 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was the star of silent films created & produced by this man Walt Disney
#8792, aired 2023-01-24POP CULTURE GOES TO MARS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell", sang Elton John in this hit "Rocket Man"
#8791, aired 2023-01-23"SIDE" EFFECTS $200: A straight man, like Gromit to Wallace a sidekick
#8788, aired 2023-01-18MOVIES THAT MATTER $400: Starring Tom Hanks as a gay man with AIDS, this was the first major studio film to deal with that disease & the stigma it carried Philadelphia
#8784, aired 2023-01-12YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $400: Martin Luther King never had a chance to meet this man who inspired him, but he did meet with his son Ramdas Gandhi
#8784, aired 2023-01-12SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT $1200: In 2019 organizers of this event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert were turned down for a permit to raise capacity from 80,000 to 100,000 Burning Man
#8783, aired 2023-01-11THAT'S SO LAST CENTURY $1000: Named for a place in Sussex, this "Man" once thought to be a missing link between humans & apes was proved to be a hoax Piltdown Man
#8779, aired 2023-01-05CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $1000: Trainer Yancey Durham took this man from a Police Athletic League gym to the heavyweight title & gave him his "Smokin"' nickname Joe Frazier
#8779, aired 2023-01-05THE LIFE OF RILEY $4,000 (Daily Double): Congressman Riley Wilson wanted to be governor of Louisiana in 1928 but lost out to this larger-than-life man (Huey) Long
#9, aired 2023-01-05INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $500: "He who has lost his mind & seeks to find it" is one rendition of the name of this hero whose story is darker in legends than in Longfellow Hiawatha
#9, aired 2023-01-05INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $600 (Daily Double): After being part of a rebellion with his fellow Titans, he seemed to have the whole world on his shoulders Atlas
#8778, aired 2023-01-04ON YOUR STATE'S LEFT $200: If you're near the border in Terre Haute, Indiana & want to go west, young man, you head directly into this state Illinois
#8778, aired 2023-01-04TRANSPORTATION $2000: The 1912 Classic Six was the first production car to bear the name of this man born in Neuchatel Canton, Switzerland Louis Chevrolet
#8776, aired 2023-01-02HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $800: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen nearly committed the perfect murder & fled across the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy Marconi
#8776, aired 2023-01-02GRAND OLE OPRY MEMBERS $1000: This Down Under man will be the judge of that! That, being "American Idol", from 2013 to 2016 (Keith) Urban
#8776, aired 2023-01-02FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE MAP $2000: 3 blocks long, the NYC St. called this Gospel man's Place has been home to Alexander Hamilton's widow, Leon Trotsky & Debbie Harry St. Mark's
#8774, aired 2022-12-29TV TO SEE IN 2022 $1200: He turned up on "Sea Hunt" as a kid, but an ex-CIA agent being hunted on "The Old Man" is his first starring role in a TV series Jeff Bridges
#8771, aired 2022-12-26STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1600: "There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop" Barnum
#8771, aired 2022-12-26STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $2000: "Little more speed, little more rope, little more wind, little more hope, gotta get this stupid kite to fly" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
#8770, aired 2022-12-235-LETTER WORDS $400: The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife covet
#8770, aired 2022-12-23NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name Chief Seattle
#8769, aired 2022-12-22THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $1200: In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon Stephen King
#8768, aired 2022-12-21PUTTING ON HEIRS $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops Franz Ferdinand
#8766, aired 2022-12-19TELEVISION THEN & NOW $200: Everybody who was anybody appeared on the talk show hosted by this man, near & dear to "Jeopardy!" Merv Griffin
#8761, aired 2022-12-12CHICAGO TV $400: Of surgeon, chef or hit man, it's the profession of Carmy, who returns to his home city to ply his trade in "The Bear" chef
#8761, aired 2022-12-12LOST FOR WORDS $1000: During World War I you didn't want to get lost in this area between opposing trenches no man's land
#8761, aired 2022-12-12NO GOOD $1600: One of Time's "Top 10 Real-Life Mob Bosses", this 1980s Medellín cartel man was said to burn $2 million to stay warm when on the run Escobar
#8759, aired 2022-12-08THE WORLD OF PATENT MODELS $1000: Brakemen would leap from car to car, but this man's air brakes could stop the whole train; an 1879 improvement is one of his 300 patents George Westinghouse
#8759, aired 2022-12-08LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $1200: In 1982 this man was found not guilty of shooting James Brady & Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity (John) Hinckley (Jr.)
#8758, aired 2022-12-07GINGER ZEE TALKS METEOROLOGY $600: (Ginger Zee presents the clue.) Severe weather events can be predicted earlier & more accurately, thanks to radar using the frequency shifting event named for this man Doppler
#8754, aired 2022-12-011, 2 & 3 $200: In 1735 Ben Franklin wrote, "Early to bed & early to rise, makes a man" this, this & this healthy, wealthy & wise
#8754, aired 2022-12-01EVERY MAN A KING $2000: Constantine I returned to the throne of this country in 1920 after King Alexander was bitten by a pet monkey & died Greece
#8752, aired 2022-11-29POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $800: After high school it was off to Harvard for this man, but he'd interrupt his education to serve in the Navy after World War II Bobby Kennedy
#8742, aired 2022-11-15NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $400: You can binge "Man Against Crime", one of the first shows about someone in this job, preceding Mannix & Veronica Mars detective
#8742, aired 2022-11-15TALKIN' ECON $4,000 (Daily Double): The birth of economics as its own discipline is often traced to a 1776 work by this man Adam Smith
#8, aired 2022-11-13SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $200: Cheerio! I'm Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run this distance in under 4 minutes, seen here on the same track 50 years later the mile
#8740, aired 2022-11-11ELEGIES $1600: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" is from this man's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Gray
#8740, aired 2022-11-11WORLD LEADERS $2000: Hats off to this man who was chancellor of West Germany & then of a unified Germany from 1990 to 1998 (Helmut) Kohl
#8739, aired 2022-11-10WE SPY $2000: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean & this man who defected to the USSR in 1963 all betrayed many secrets working in British intelligence Kim Philby
#8738, aired 2022-11-09SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $800: In "Macbeth", it's not healthy for this man to be in a scene with first, second & third murderers but at least his son Fleance escapes Banquo
#8738, aired 2022-11-09TRAVEL $1000: Eugene was the first name of this man, whose series of guides made travel feel accessible to mid-century Americans (Eugene) Fodor
#7, aired 2022-11-06EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $200: Drivers can thank Mary Anderson for creating an early form of this, moved by a handle from inside a streetcar to clear rain a windshield wiper
#7, aired 2022-11-06HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood
#8735, aired 2022-11-04CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS $600: A 4-man team called Wild Card 1 swept to victory at the 2022 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's championship of this curling
#8735, aired 2022-11-04ON BROADWAY $2000: One of August Wilson's plays to explore the Black experience in America is called this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner
#8734, aired 2022-11-03A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $2000: (Questlove presents the clue.) Working backward in an amazing career--played with Fab 5 Freddy, performed civil rights-themed music & pioneered bop with Bird & Diz, every drummer owes a debt to this man Max Roach
#6, aired 2022-10-30OUT OF THIS WORLD $3,600 (Daily Double): Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon; a few minutes later, this man became the second Buzz Aldrin
#8730, aired 2022-10-28MYTH-POURRI $400: The sun god & creator god of Egypt, he's said to have created man from his tears & was also big on instant retribution Ra
#8730, aired 2022-10-28MYTH-POURRI $1600: The man, the Greek myth, the legend, he used Medusa's head to rescue his mom & get King Polydectes seriously stoned Perseus
#8727, aired 2022-10-25A GREEN PARTY $200: Nathan "Nearest" Green is recognized as this Tennessee brand's first master distiller & taught the man it's named for how to make it Jack Daniel
#8726, aired 2022-10-24NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22 $2000: California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to this man guilty of a 1968 assassination Sirhan Sirhan
#5, aired 2022-10-23U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: A CNN headline said this man had taken "8,200 round-trip train rides" to Delaware Joe Biden
#8725, aired 2022-10-21FROM C TO D $1000: A man's overcoat & a sofa with rolled arms, as seen here, are named for the Earl of this Chesterfield
#8724, aired 2022-10-204-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $1000: In "Treasure Island" Captain Smollett tells the men they'll have this rum drink "served out for you to drink our health and luck" grog
#8724, aired 2022-10-20POETS & POETRY $2,569 (Daily Double): It begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world..." Paradise Lost
#4, aired 2022-10-16COLORFUL RESPONSES $600: It's a structure made of glass to grow plants, or what some fear man-made gases are turning our planet into a greenhouse
#4, aired 2022-10-16FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): This alliterative Colorado "Peak" is named for a man who tried & failed to climb it in 1806; guess that was an "or bust" Pikes Peak
#4, aired 2022-10-16HISTORIC HISTORY OF YESTERDAY: A LOOK BACK $2,000 (Daily Double): Catherine Parr became wife No. 6 to this man on July 12, 1543, & beating the odds, outlived him (but only by a year) Henry VIII
#8714, aired 2022-10-06U.S. DIPLOMACY $800: This man's 1909-1913 administration practiced "Dollar Diplomacy", trying to create stability abroad to help U.S. businesses Taft
#8713, aired 2022-10-05HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $600: This man built a big racecar in 1902, & hired bicyclist Barney Oldfield to drive it; together, they would race into history Henry Ford
#8713, aired 2022-10-05SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS $800: Horrors! "The Man in the Black Suit" threatens to eat a child in a prize-winning short story by this author, of course Stephen King
#2, aired 2022-10-02THAT PAINTS A PICTURE $1000: Is this surreal life? / Is this just fantasy? / Watching watches melt / In this man's "Persistence of Memory" Salvador Dalí
#2, aired 2022-10-02MYTHOLOGY $1200: Prometheus had the bright idea to steal this from the gods & give it to man; the gods had Pro's liver eaten by an eagle on the reg fire
#2, aired 2022-10-02MYTHOLOGY $1500: Competing with Athena to create the most useful gift for man, this god of the sea hit a stone with his trident & created the horse Poseidon
#8708, aired 2022-09-28HATCHET MAN $200: Legend says he dragged his axe behind him & created the Grand Canyon in the process (Paul) Bunyan
#1, aired 2022-09-25CATS & DOGS $400: From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this a tail
#8705, aired 2022-09-23TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $1,000 (Daily Double): This wealthy man of many interests designed & flew his own planes, circled Earth in a record 91+ hours in 1938 & owned an airline Howard Hughes
#8700, aired 2022-09-16HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $200: That Bible's not for the yard sale! It was printed around 1455 by this man & only 48 are known to survive; I think it might be valuable Gutenberg
#8697, aired 2022-09-13BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera
#8695, aired 2022-07-29JUST TAKE THE L $600: The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible label & Abel
#8694, aired 2022-07-28GO IVth & RULE $400: The man born Nicholas Breakspear ruled as Adrian IV, the only Englishman to ever hold this job pope
#8692, aired 2022-07-26SIRIUS-LY DEDICATED $600: You don't need a miracle to listen to Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill & Mickey of this jam band... you can just dial up their channel, man the Grateful Dead
#8692, aired 2022-07-26MIDDLE NAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Biblical middle name of the man said to be the richest person in the U.S. at his death in 1848 Jacob
#8690, aired 2022-07-22THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS $800: "I can kill a man, dismember his body, & be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend's feeling insecure..." Dexter
#8690, aired 2022-07-22BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1000: The Glastonbury thorn seen here reputedly grew from the staff of this man, also said to have brought the Grail to England Joseph of Arimathea
#8689, aired 2022-07-21CLOSING STATEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig... but already it was impossible to say which was which" Animal Farm
#8686, aired 2022-07-18THE WOUK MOB $400: In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails radio
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): At first the church didn't oppose this Polish man's ideas; the center of the universe was filthy, so better not to be there Copernicus
#8686, aired 2022-07-18GOOD HISTORY $1000: In 2020, these accords named for a biblical man raised to 6 the Arab nations with diplomatic ties to Israel the Abraham Accords
#8684, aired 2022-07-14LITERARY CASTLES $800: This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place Kafka
#8682, aired 2022-07-12THE LYIN' KING $1000: Troubadour Bertran said of this man who tried to steal the throne from crusading brother Richard, "No man may ever trust him" King John
#8681, aired 2022-07-11GEOGRAPHY FROM MACAU TO OGDEN $1600: 25 miles east of Vegas, this man-made lake was just 37% full in 2021, sparking energy concerns for the American Southwest Lake Mead
#8678, aired 2022-07-06THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $800: Ohio: This man, a Republican Speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015 & later, an advocate for marijuana legalization John Boehner
#8676, aired 2022-07-04THE POWER OF THE DOGE $1600: Trying to find his own corner of the sky, Agnello Parteciaco defied Venice's control by this man, Charlemagne's son Pepin
#8673, aired 2022-06-29LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1200: "A Man Called" this name is a 59-year-old curmudgeon who drives a Saab Ove
#8669, aired 2022-06-23PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death Forster
#8665, aired 2022-06-17SCI-FI CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy The Invisible Man
#8664, aired 2022-06-16ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man Barack Obama
#8658, aired 2022-06-08FRENCH KINGS NAMED LOUIS $400: Louis XVIII was king from 1814 to 1824, except for the interruption of the "Hundred Days" when this man attempted a return to power Napoleon
#8656, aired 2022-06-06ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: A curandero is one of these healers who communicate with supernatural forces for information & to attempt cures a medicine man (a witch doctor)
#8652, aired 2022-05-31MEDIEVAL TIMES $400: "Shooting at the butts" (man-made mounds of earth) was a popular way to practice this discipline archery
#8651, aired 2022-05-30STICK TO THE SCRIPTURE $1200: The people with Jesus when "he called" this man "out of his grave, and raised him from the dead" bore witness Lazarus
#8649, aired 2022-05-26ALLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR $800: The 19th century railroad sleeping car named for this man was a symbol of splendor equal to the finest hotel Pullman
#8633, aired 2022-05-04KEEPIN' UP WITH NASA $1000: The NASA program named for this sister of Apollo looks to land a woman (& a man) on the Moon by 2024 Artemis
#8632, aired 2022-05-03THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $600: Already a superhero onscreen as Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts, this man leapt out of a car to stop a mugging in 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch
#8632, aired 2022-05-03BIBLE BELTS $800: Talking to this much put-upon Old Testament guy, Zophar says, "The bow of steel shall strike" the wicked man Job
#8631, aired 2022-05-02FAMOUS NAMES $1600: Relating to Chinese/ Russian relations, 1923's Sun-Joffe Manifesto was presented by Adolf Joffe & this man Sun Yat-sen
#8621, aired 2022-04-18WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1937 this man took control of the Falange Española, soon to be the nation's only legal political party Franco
#8620, aired 2022-04-15HANDLE WITH AIR $1000: The National Air & Space Museum is home to the Bell X-1 this man used in 1947 to fly faster than the speed of sound (Chuck) Yeager
#8613, aired 2022-04-06TOMBSTONES $1000: South Georgia Island off Antarctica is home to the gravestone of this man who explored the region in his ship the Endurance (Ernest) Shackleton
#8613, aired 2022-04-06IN YOUR PREFACE $2000: This 16th century man's preface to the history of the Reformation in Scotland deems some clergy members "bloody wolves" (John) Knox
#8610, aired 2022-04-01THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $600: Shout-out to the man who told a barista at this business his name was Marc with a "C" & posted a pic of his cup... for "Cark" Starbucks
#8608, aired 2022-03-30JOIN THE CROWD $800: Love was in the air among the 600,000 on this isle in 1970 to see Hendrix & The Who in what's been called the British Woodstock the Isle of Wight
#8602, aired 2022-03-22THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $800: A messenger & an intermediary between the gods & man, the Etruscan god, Turms, was equivalent to this Greek god Hermes
#8599, aired 2022-03-17HISTORY QUICK TAKES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1642 Mongols deposed Tibet's ruling dynasty & gave rule to the man with this title the Dalai Lama
#8596, aired 2022-03-14A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE $400: In 1848 Fillmore wrote to this man who had chosen him for VP, saying I know you never heard of me before the convention Taylor
#8594, aired 2022-03-10BOOZE IN BOOKS $400: In Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana", these were "frozen so stiffly" they were "drunk in tiny drops to avoid a sinus-pain" a daiquiri
#8593, aired 2022-03-09LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $1,400 (Daily Double): She is promised to Robert Canler, but the man also called Lord Greystoke asks, "If you were free, would you marry me?" Yep! in a later book Jane (Porter)
#8593, aired 2022-03-09SO THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE $1600: Perhaps thinking it would be fun to run a newspaper, this man took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1887 Hearst
#8591, aired 2022-03-07MOUNTAINS $200: According to a Japanese proverb, "He who climbs" this mountain "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool" Mount Fuji
#8591, aired 2022-03-07THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN $400: The ratio of an object's velocity to the velocity of sound in the same medium is named for this physicist Mach
#8591, aired 2022-03-07THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN $3,500 (Daily Double): Before moving to Gemini & Taurus, the summer solstice used to be in this constellation, hence the name of a geographic line Cancer
#8590, aired 2022-03-04THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $800: D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner The Man in the Iron Mask
#8588, aired 2022-03-02THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $800: 1999's "Eyes Wide Shut" was his last effort; sadly, he did not make it to 2001 Stanley Kubrick
#8586, aired 2022-02-28BACKING BANDS $1200: The Tennessee Three, the longtime backers for this man, famously went to prison with him in 1968 Cash
#8585, aired 2022-02-25A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $200: In addition to a shade of red, it can refer to a holy man, a bird or a number cardinal
#17, aired 2022-02-22& NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT $200: A nephrologist said it was not "a harmful condition" after a Brazilian man was found to have 3 of these organs instead of 2 kidneys
#17, aired 2022-02-22LYRICS TO REMEMBER $1200: DJ Khaled & this man: "Cops pullin' up like I'm givin' drugs out, nah, nah, I'm a popstar, not a doctor" Drake
#8581, aired 2022-02-21ENDS WITH "OUT"! $400: According to an idiom, it's what the guy on the right is the odd man out
#8579, aired 2022-02-17ABRAHAM LINCOLN $800: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army Frederick Douglass
#8579, aired 2022-02-17THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $1600: Bradley Cooper is a bipolar man looking to reconnect with his ex in this 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook
#14, aired 2022-02-17TV FINALES $1600: As this show wrapped up in 2021, Sam, a young man on the autism spectrum, finally made it to see the penguins Atypical
#9, aired 2022-02-15I DO DECLARE $400: The Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen served as the preamble to this country's 1791 constitution France
#8576, aired 2022-02-14CLASSIC NOVELS $600: In this Ralph Ellison novel, the protagonist hides in a manhole to escape a Harlem riot Invisible Man
#8576, aired 2022-02-14JOHNNY GILBERT READS LYRICS FROM THE HEART $1200: "Life was a willow & it bent right to your wind (oh)... I'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that's my man" Taylor Swift
#8, aired 2022-02-11THE MANY MUSICS OF MARK RONSON $2000: (Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) There are lots of ways to make music & on my podcast I contrasted my passion for collaboration with the method of Kevin Parker of this 1-man Aussie band whose breakthrough album was even called "Lonerism" Tame Impala
#7, aired 2022-02-11HORROR FILMS $1600: "Drag Me to Hell" is a spine-tingling entry from this director of "The Evil Dead" & "Spider-Man" (Sam) Raimi
#8574, aired 2022-02-10WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): In 1814 this man later to be president helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams
#5, aired 2022-02-10U.S. STAMPS $1600: The picket fence in the background alludes to a play title by this man honored on the stamp seen here (August) Wilson
#8572, aired 2022-02-08HIS BIG PAINT SALE $800: In 2015 the Dutch government pledged $90 million to bring home 2 works by this local 17th century man who needed but one name Rembrandt
#8571, aired 2022-02-07PHOTOGRAPHERS $1600: Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. looked a little different in May 1865 in a photo credited to this man Brady
#8569, aired 2022-02-03LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $1200: When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing Abraham
#8569, aired 2022-02-03THE MUSIC "MAN" $1600: He topped the charts 3 times in the '70s; "Copacabana" only went to No. 8 Barry Manilow
#8559, aired 2022-01-20INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1200: After treating Czar Nicholas & Alexandra's son, this holy man warned that their son's fate was linked to him Rasputin
#8559, aired 2022-01-20INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $5,000 (Daily Double): After dying in this fortress, the man in the iron mask was laid to rest under the name "Marchioly" the Bastille
#8557, aired 2022-01-18ESCAPIST LITERATURE $2000: The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
#8556, aired 2022-01-17ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CHARACTERS $200: In addition to all the evil & crime, this man had time to write the book "The Dynamics of an Asteroid" Moriarty
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $800: One of Millard Fillmore's few marks on world history was in 1852 when he put this man in charge of a naval expedition to Japan (Matthew) Perry
#8553, aired 2022-01-12IRON MAN $400: From 1955 to 1962 Glenn Hall started an NHL record 502 consecutive games at this position, playing some of it on his knees goalkeeper
#8553, aired 2022-01-12ROYAL WOMEN $800: In 2021 Princess Mako of this country gave up her royal status to marry the man she loved, a commoner Japan
#8550, aired 2022-01-07IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $600: On May 1, 1971 this service had its 1st run from N.Y. to Philly, just after midnight; really, at that time, it should have been to Georgia Amtrak
#8550, aired 2022-01-07IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN $1000: On July 2, 1979 the U.S. Mint elected to release a coin honoring this woman; nearly 758 million were made that year Susan B. Anthony
#8548, aired 2022-01-05A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW $200: On Sept. 23, 2001 Drew Bledsoe of the Patriots was injured & this man became first-string QB; Drew's playing time then decreased a bit Tom Brady
#8548, aired 2022-01-05MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED $600: 1895 was a big year for this man; he defended his thesis on magnetism & was drawn to wed Marie Sklodowska, also a towering intellect Curie
#8542, aired 2021-12-28MY GOVERNMENT JOB $1200: "Law & Order" man Fred Dalton Thompson, from 1994 to 2003 U.S. senator
#8540, aired 2021-12-24SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $800: This man who gave his name to a scale of earthquake strength was an avid nudist & Trekkie Richter
#8536, aired 2021-12-20O HOLY KNIGHT $400: Angelo Tancredi was the first knight to join the order of this man of Assisi & was singing to him when he died Francis
#8535, aired 2021-12-17THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $600 (Daily Double): One eye, one arm but all man to Lady Hamilton, in 1799 this naval hero disobeyed an order to leave Naples (& the lady) Horatio Nelson
#8534, aired 2021-12-16PROTEST SONGS $1200: He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt)
#8532, aired 2021-12-14AN AD JUNKED $600: The last TV ad for cigarettes to play in the U.S., for Virginia Slims, aired January 1, 1971 on this man's late night talk show (Johnny) Carson
#8530, aired 2021-12-10FAMOUS PROFESSORS $1200: This man, who rose to fame in the 1950s, taught poetry at Brooklyn College from 1986 to 1997 (Allen) Ginsberg
#8525, aired 2021-12-03EPONYMS $400: William Somers, who built an observation wheel on the Atlantic City boardwalk, thought the Somers Wheel was copied by this man Ferris
#8525, aired 2021-12-03PUT UP YOUR DUKES $2000: In 1717 this German-born man became resident composer to James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, & composed 11 "Chandos Anthems" Handel
#8524, aired 2021-12-02FICTION $200: In "A Christmas Carol", this man's ghost is the first of 4 to appear to Scrooge Marley
#8524, aired 2021-12-02IT'S TOO CROWDED $200: 800,000 people gathered in a field in Krakow to watch the televised Vatican funeral for this man in 2005 Pope John Paul II
#8524, aired 2021-12-02FROM THE GREEK $2000: You get an "A" if you know that this 5-letter word from Greek refers to God's love for man & Christians' love for others agape
#8520, aired 2021-11-26FESTIVALS $400: In Islam, the Eid al-Adha, or festival of sacrifice, remembers this man's willingness to sacrifice his son Abraham
#8513, aired 2021-11-171985 IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: John Parr climbed the highest mountain & crossed the wildest sea to hit No. 1 with this movie tune "(Man In Motion)" "St. Elmo's Fire"
#8511, aired 2021-11-15ELABORATING ON THE HITCHCOCK TITLE $1200: Jimmy Stewart, a tourist in Morocco who didn't ask to find out about murder & secrets The Man Who Knew Too Much
#8506, aired 2021-11-08THE CITY HAS FALLEN $3,000 (Daily Double): Caracas to this man's forces, Aug. 6, 1813 Simón Bolívar
#8501, aired 2021-11-01THE MAN'S PEN NAME $200: "I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue" Ben Franklin
#8501, aired 2021-11-01THE MAN'S PEN NAME $400: Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name Lewis Carroll
#8501, aired 2021-11-01KANSAS CITY: NEWS CLUES $400: (Hi, I'm Pat McGonigle.) Hollywood came to Kansas City to film a biopic starring Gary Sinise as this man; locations included Lee's Summit & of course, Independence Truman
#8497, aired 2021-10-26THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $800: In 1951 the Conservative Party won a majority in Parliament & this man returned to the job of PM at the age of 76 Winston Churchill
#8497, aired 2021-10-26SONGS TO JINGLES $1000: This song from "South Pacific" was used by Clairol, only "man" is replaced with "gray" "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"
#8495, aired 2021-10-22PUZZLES & GAMES $800: A worldwide craze for these puzzles began after a New Zealand man invented a computer program to generate the number grids Sudoku
#8495, aired 2021-10-22META"FOR"S $2000: Erasmus referred to Thomas More as "omnium horarum homo", this play title A Man for All Seasons
#8491, aired 2021-10-18BIRD BRAINS $600: Grackles have used pebbles to raise water levels & access floating food, passing a test named for one of this man's fables Aesop
#8487, aired 2021-10-12EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: In medieval politics the Ghibellines supported the emperor; the Guelphs were loyal to the man with this title the Pope
#8487, aired 2021-10-12& PLAYING TRIANGLE $1000: In Pascal's triangle, any two numbers add up to the number below & between them; adding diagonally yields this man's sequence Fibonacci
#8486, aired 2021-10-11POTPOURRI $1000: Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the songs in "Jesus Christ Superstar"; this man wrote the lyrics Rice
#8483, aired 2021-10-06GET A HOBBY $600: Time to ketchup on some gardening & grow a 6.8-pound this like a U.K. man did in 2020, using a pair of sheer tights to keep it suspended tomato (tomahto)
#8482, aired 2021-10-05CULT MOVIES $1200: An angry girlfriend, a mutant baby & a man with big hair all add up to "Eraserhead", this surreal director's first feature film Lynch
#8482, aired 2021-10-05CULT MOVIES $1600: Visions of a man in a strange rabbit suit convince Jake Gyllenhaal to commit dangerous crimes in this film Donnie Darko
#8480, aired 2021-10-01ALLITERATION $2000: A folktale tells of a hungry man who convinces people he can make a tasty pot of this, then gets them to add actual food stone soup
#8479, aired 2021-09-30THE WEEKEND $600: On a fall Sunday, you can head to "Duuuval" County to check out QB & mane man Trevor Lawrence, who plays for this NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars
#8475, aired 2021-09-24NOVELS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought" Frankenstein
#8473, aired 2021-09-22NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $400: (Hi, I'm Lee Goldberg.) Literally stepping up to home plate after a grim medical diagnosis, on July 4, 1939, this Yankee said the following--"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” (Lou) Gehrig
#8471, aired 2021-09-20ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $1000: In 2020 the job of White House Chief of Staff changed M&Ms, from this man to Mark Meadows Mick Mulvaney
#8469, aired 2021-09-16MUHAMMAD ALI $1000: (Hana Ali presents the clue.) A man of strong beliefs, in 1967, my father was stripped of his title for refusing Army service during the Vietnam War; four years later, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that he had been wrongfully denied this two-word classification as someone morally opposed to war conscientious objector
#8467, aired 2021-09-14CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $2000: It took 15 years to finish Panama City's Biomuseo, designed by this L.A. man; the nearby canal took 5 less, but he didn't design that (Frank) Gehry
#8466, aired 2021-09-13NO MAN $600: On April 28, 1789 Fletcher Christian & crew said no to this captain's tough love, sending him off in a boat (Captain) Bligh
#8466, aired 2021-09-13NO 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
#8466, aired 2021-09-13& THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $1200: This man, as Juan in "Moonlight" (Mahershala) Ali
#8464, aired 2021-08-12RIDDLE ME THIS $1000: This Puccini princess of Peking vows to marry a man who can answer her 3 riddles; anyone who fails must die! Turandot
#8463, aired 2021-08-11DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS $800: "Stepdad" was part of this Michigan man's "Music to Be Murdered By" Eminem
#8462, aired 2021-08-10INAUGURATING A PRESIDENT $2,200 (Daily Double): This man flubbed some of the words while administering the oath to Barack Obama, so they did it all again a day later (John) Roberts
#8460, aired 2021-08-06ASH TREE $800: Ash trees are home to more than 500 species of these symbiotic organisms, including old man's beard lichen
#8458, aired 2021-08-04HOWDY, SHERIFF $1200: As a sheriff, this man found Billy the Kid twice & killed him once; he'd later get a sweet new gig thanks to Lew Wallace (Pat) Garrett
#8457, aired 2021-08-03GENIUS: ARETHA $1000: (Cynthia Erivo presents the clue.) Aretha hit superstardom after teaming with legendary producer Jerry Wexler to record such classics as "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You" for this record label with an oceanic name Atlantic (Records)
#8456, aired 2021-08-02AT HOME $2000: I'll relax to some patriotic jazz with the 2021 album "The Democracy! Suite" from this man's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra septet Wynton Marsalis
#8451, aired 2021-07-26OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $400: When she won for "Tootsie", Jessica Lange said she felt real lucky to have this man "as my leading lady" Hoffman
#8450, aired 2021-07-23JIMMY CARTER $400: When this man died in 2021 Jimmy said, "Fritz used his political skill and personal integrity to transform the vice presidency" Mondale
#8449, aired 2021-07-22IT'S A TRAP! $800: In Greek myth Minos used the labyrinth designed by this man to imprison him & his son Icarus; the 2 escaped, at a price Daedalus
#8445, aired 2021-07-16LITERARY SUBTITLES $800: This novel's "The Modern Prometheus" refers to the Titan who created man out of clay Frankenstein
#8444, aired 2021-07-15THOMAS PAINE $2000: Paine defended the French Revolution in this work that was a response to Edmund Burke's hostile "Reflections" the Rights of Man
#8442, aired 2021-07-13OVER BUDGET $1600: The 1858 $250,000 budget for the Old New York County Courthouse climbed to $12 million, much going into the pocket of this man Tweed
#8441, aired 2021-07-12GAMER'S DELIGHT $400: (J.D. Witherspoon presents the clue.) Toru Iwatani wanted to make a game about eating, & after seeing a pizza with a slice missing, he created this 1980 classic filled with fruit & ghosts Pac-Man
#8437, aired 2021-07-06ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME NICKNAMES $800: Smokey Robinson said this "Let's Get It On" singer's Motown nickname was "Dad" because he "used to walk like an old man" Marvin Gaye
#8434, aired 2021-07-01BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes.) Local hero Pete Frates, the man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge, helped raise awareness & millions of dollars to fight this disease that claimed Lou Gehrig's life & sadly his own at 34 ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
#8434, aired 2021-07-01NONFICTION $800: "The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making Yemen
#8432, aired 2021-06-29FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $2000: The 1953 golf comedy saw this man play "The Caddy" to his cool friend Dean Martin (Jerry) Lewis
#8432, aired 2021-06-29LIT-POURRI $2000: The Pen/Faulkner Award, for American fiction, has twice gone to this man--for "Billy Bathgate" & "The March" E.L. Doctorow
#8429, aired 2021-06-24REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $200: In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere Nelson Mandela
#8426, aired 2021-06-21QUITE A PARADOX $1600: "No one does wrong voluntarily" is one of the paradoxes this man attributed to Socrates Plato
#8425, aired 2021-06-18BIBLICAL ART $400: For the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted "The Fall of Man" & "The Expulsion from" this place the Garden of Eden
#8425, aired 2021-06-18DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $1200: This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law" (David) Lynch
#8423, aired 2021-06-16DESERT ISLAND READS $3,000 (Daily Double): The term Robinsonade refers to a castaway story that emulates the 18th century works of this man Defoe
#8421, aired 2021-06-14THAT'S HEAVY, MAN $200: She's 111'1" tall heel to head & her copper alone weighs 31 tons the Statue of Liberty
#8419, aired 2021-06-10MATCH $600: In 2016 "Match Game" was brought back to TV with this man as the host Alec Baldwin
#8419, aired 2021-06-10FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: "Revelations", this man's signature dance piece, is set to African-American spirituals like "Wade in the Water" & "Sinner Man" Alvin Ailey
#8416, aired 2021-06-07HISTORY BEFORE 1738 $400: From 1229 to 1241 Ogodei expanded the Mongol Empire as the son & successor of this man Genghis Khan
#8414, aired 2021-06-03PLAYING PRESIDENT $800: It was plane to see this man had some in-flight issues as president James Marshall in "Air Force One" Harrison Ford
#8413, aired 2021-06-02NEW TO THE OED $2000: The Henriad refers to 4 plays by this man Shakespeare
#8412, aired 2021-06-01AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $800: As a young man, he wrote action novels under the name John Lange, but would go on to write of re-created dinosaurs Michael Crichton
#8412, aired 2021-06-01WORDS OF WISDOM $1600: This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man sapiens
#8412, aired 2021-06-01SCIENTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): I look at the world & I notice it's turning--thanks to this man who studied at the University of Krakow in the 1490s Nicolaus Copernicus
#8411, aired 2021-05-31HATS IN BOOKS $800: This colorfully dressed guy took Curious George from a life in the jungle to one in the city the Man in the Yellow Hat
#8410, aired 2021-05-28THAT'S GARBAGE! $1000: "The Pilgrim's Progress" gave us the man with this rake, determined to keep working away in the filth a muck rake
#8408, aired 2021-05-26FICTIONAL GAME SHOWS $1600: In this 1987 film Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to survive a public execution game show The Running Man
#8399, aired 2021-05-13THE DAILY TRIPLE $600: Similar to a shortstop, the third man is a fielding position in this sport cricket
#8398, aired 2021-05-12BIRDS OF PRAY $1,000 (Daily Double): The guru Granth Sahib of this faith uses birds like the flamingo & crane to draw parallels between man & the divine Sikhism
#8396, aired 2021-05-10I'LL FIGHT YOU! $400: In addition to knocking out Michael Spinks in the ring, this man knocked out several dinosaurs in a cartoon Mike Tyson
#8396, aired 2021-05-10SHORT STORIES $1600: This African American who sometimes lived in France wrote a 1965 collection called "Going to Meet the Man" James Baldwin
#8395, aired 2021-05-07LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $2000: Let's take a long, "constant" look at this man's law that states the greater the distance to a galaxy, the faster it recedes (Edwin) Hubble
#8394, aired 2021-05-061920s GOOD READS $2000: Hercule Poirot must solve "The Murder of" this man found stabbed to death in his study Roger Ackroyd
#8394, aired 2021-05-06SAINTLY NAMED $2,700 (Daily Double): Used to treat depression, this plant is named for the man who baptized Jesus St. John's wort
#8389, aired 2021-04-29CHARACTER-TITLED NOVELS $1600: Husband Alexei is the odd man out in this novel that ends with a terrible way to catch a train Anna Karenina
#8386, aired 2021-04-26RADIO ON THE TV $2000: This man of 1,000 voices played "Brockmire", who in Season 3 made it back to a Major League broadcast booth Hank Azaria
#8383, aired 2021-04-21FROM PAGE TO STAGE $800: Ron Chernow's biography of this man was adapted into a 2015 Broadway musical Alexander Hamilton
#8383, aired 2021-04-21AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In 19th c. New York politics, a repeater was a man hired to do this several times in a day, shaving to change his identity vote
#8383, aired 2021-04-21AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Although his Supreme Court case changed the way police talked to suspects, this Arizona man was retried & sent to prison in 1967 (Ernesto) Miranda
#8383, aired 2021-04-21FROM PAGE TO STAGE $1600: This musical has a frame story: an imprisoned Miguel de Cervantes tells his fellow prisoners a story Man of La Mancha
#8382, aired 2021-04-20QUOTATION: MARK'S $800: This TV personality, sports team owner &, apparently, lucky man: "To be a billionaire, you got to get lucky" Mark Cuban
#8381, aired 2021-04-19ANCIENT CITIES $800: The ruined city of Vaishali in northeast India is said to be the place where this man preached his last sermon the Buddha
#8381, aired 2021-04-19MIXIN' WITH NIXON $1000: In 1971, Nixon appointed this man to the Supreme Court, 15 years later he was Chief Justice Rehnquist
#8379, aired 2021-04-15BURNED BOOKS $400: This man's wife was so disturbed by the first draft of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" that it was burned, forcing him to rewrite it Robert Louis Stevenson
#8379, aired 2021-04-15THE PRESIDENT'S AIRPORT $1000: Generally speaking, Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport was renamed in 2014 to honor this man Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike)
#8375, aired 2021-04-09MUSICAL GODFATHERS $400: In addition to "The Prince of Darkness", this Black Sabbath man has been called "The Godfather of Heavy Metal" Ozzy Osbourne
#8371, aired 2021-04-05FORTUNE FAVORS THE BALD $200: We're used to seeing this great man in his later balder years, but here's a side by side comparison with his younger self (Mahatma) Gandhi
#8366, aired 2021-03-29DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $800: Adams considered the greatest act of his presidency to be the 1801 appointment of this man as chief justice Marshall
#8366, aired 2021-03-29FIVE SUMMONER'S TALES $1600: The Inquisition summoned Galileo to Rome for promoting the heliocentric ideas of this man Copernicus
#8366, aired 2021-03-29GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,600 (Daily Double): As tires weren't colored black until 1912, Bibendum, the now-123-year-old mascot of this company, is white Michelin
#8365, aired 2021-03-26FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1600: In 1881, some 30,000 mourners turned out in St. Petersburg for the funeral of this man, one of the greatest writers of all time Dostoevsky
#8362, aired 2021-03-23HAVE A DRINK AT... $200: A New Orleans bar is named for this man whom the owner wanted to shelter after helping him escape from St. Helena Napoleon
#8361, aired 2021-03-22MacGUFFIN $800: In a "Pirates of the Caribbean" flick, Davy Jones put his heart in this title MacGuffin & everyone wants to know where it's buried Dead Man's Chest
#8359, aired 2021-03-18PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this man who was born there around 1028 William the Conqueror
#8358, aired 2021-03-17HOPEFUL HISTORY $1000: Starting in 1901, this steel man's philanthropic efforts distributed about $350 million to help schools, libraries & others Carnegie
#8352, aired 2021-03-09YOU LOSE! $400: In Illinois in 1858 he lost his race for U.S. Senate to a man who painted him as a radical who believed in racial equality Abraham Lincoln
#8350, aired 2021-03-05BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $1200: The first robbery attributed to this man & his gang of outlaws took place in Liberty, Missouri in 1866 Jesse James
#8330, aired 2021-02-05FROM THE GRIDIRON TO TV $600: Later known as a TV dad, this man seen here once signed with the Steelers as an undrafted rookie Ed O'Neill
#8329, aired 2021-02-04MAN'S PLAIN $400: Henry Oxnard gave his name to a Calif. city & its plain; he wanted to name them Zachari, Greek for this product derived from beets sugar
#8323, aired 2021-01-27BLUE'S CLUES $800: Paint drums & body paint are integral to this theater troupe formed in the late 1980s the Blue Man Group
#8318, aired 2021-01-20MEN OF MYTH $1200: While married to Menelaus, Helen was abducted by this man, & much trouble ensued Paris
#8317, aired 2021-01-19TESTING, TESTING $2000: No ink blots seen here on the photo of this man, who lends his name to a form of clinical psychological testing Rorschach
#8316, aired 2021-01-18HISTORICAL MARKERS $1,000 (Daily Double): A marker near Port Royal, Virginia identifies the site of the Garrett farm & barn, where this man met his end April 26, 1865 John Wilkes Booth
#8314, aired 2021-01-14THE BEST OF TIMES $400: Monarchos in 2001 & this horse in 1973, still the record holder, are the only horses to run the Kentucky Derby in under 2 minutes Secretariat
#8314, aired 2021-01-14LET'S GO TO THE ARCHIVES $2000: The Vassiliev Notebooks of information from Soviet archives show that yes, this NYC-born man executed in 1953 was an atom spy Rosenberg
#8311, aired 2021-01-11IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $600: Watch what you consume according to this; in German it's a pun, "Man ist was man isst" You are what you eat
#8309, aired 2021-01-07BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $1200: A 2002 stamp paid tribute to a true renaissance man--this Harlem Renaissance poet (Langston) Hughes
#8307, aired 2021-01-05HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $400: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin died in 2013 as the last survivor of the failed 1944 plot to kill this man Hitler
#8307, aired 2021-01-05NORWEGIANS $1600: Incidentally, this man born in Bergen wrote the incidental music to "Peer Gynt" (Edvard) Grieg
#8302, aired 2020-12-15AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, PA.) According to affidavits from Betsy Ross's relatives, this famous man came into her shop in 1776 to ask Betsy to make a new flag for our nation George Washington
#8302, aired 2020-12-15THE WHISKER REBELLION $1200: Facial hair in the White House has fallen from favor; the last president to sport some was this man who left office in 1913 Taft
#8301, aired 2020-12-14INVENTED LANGUAGES $2000: Not only did this man create a "Utopia", he also created a language & alphabet for its inhabitants to speak (Thomas) More
#8286, aired 2020-11-23RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE $200: Just before his death, Lenin wrote of his wish to remove this man from the secretary generalship but that didn't work Stalin
#8286, aired 2020-11-23ASTRONAUTS $800: A series of 2-man missions, this project saw Ed White get 20 minutes of serious me time as the first American to walk in space Gemini
#8286, aired 2020-11-23COINS $2000: A gold coin is named for this man who was president of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900 Paul Kruger
#8285, aired 2020-11-2020th CENTURY POP CULTURE $2000: According to Billboard, this sax man was the No. 1 instrumentalist of the 1990s Kenny G
#8280, aired 2020-11-13CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: Sirhan Sirhan, for the 1968 assassination of this man: the death sentence, commuted to life in prison RFK (Robert Kennedy)
#8280, aired 2020-11-1337 IS HEAVEN $1000: According to legend, on his journey of conquest in 218 B.C. this man brought 37 elephants with him Hannibal
#8280, aired 2020-11-13CRIME & PUNISHMENT $1200: Nathuram Godse, who murdered this man in 1948 as he headed to a prayer meeting: death by hanging Gandhi
#8279, aired 2020-11-12HOW ARTSY $800: It is rumored that in 1508 Raphael & Bramante pushed for this man to paint a Vatican ceiling, hoping he would fail Michelangelo
#8277, aired 2020-11-10GETTING THE KEY TO THE CITY $800: While running for president in 1952, this man got the key to his birth city of Denison, Texas Eisenhower
#8277, aired 2020-11-10OXYMORONS $1600: That person seems to do everything himself--he's this type of solo musical combo a one-man-band
#8276, aired 2020-11-09A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $800: In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs Cleopatra
#8276, aired 2020-11-09HISTORIC NAMES $2000: Prior to David Cameron, the last British PM named David was this man who led his country during WWI David Lloyd George
#8261, aired 2020-10-19INSIDE "MAN" $2000: To reverse a previous military order countermand
#8260, aired 2020-10-16I'M JUST THE "GO" BETWEEN $800: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" de-gendered the famed opening, changing "man" to "one" in this line To boldly go where no man (no one) has gone before
#8259, aired 2020-10-15ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 2020 $600: We'd listen to "Blinding Lights", a chart-topper by this man, any day the Weeknd
#8253, aired 2020-10-07THE LIBRARIAN INVASIONS $800: Given her first name, this heroine of "The Music Man" was destined to be a librarian Marian
#8252, aired 2020-10-06WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton
#8248, aired 2020-09-30ALL MY TROUBLES $1000: Ah, man, I got to replace this device that mixes air with fuel to generate combustion in my truck's engine the carburetor
#8246, aired 2020-09-28MOVIN' ON "UP" $1000: From the Bible: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and" this upright
#8242, aired 2020-09-22YOU GOTTA FIGHT! $400: In 2011, this man went 12 rounds to beat Juan Manuel Márquez, got 28 stitches, then hit the House of Blues to sing "La Bamba" Manny Pacquiao
#8241, aired 2020-09-21NEW TECHNOLOGY $800: NASA's Parker Probe is the fastest man-made thing ever--it will hit the speed of 430,000 mph en route to this heavenly body the Sun
#8241, aired 2020-09-21THE TEMPLETON PRIZE $800: The 2013 prize went to this Cape Town man whose teachings combine Anglicanism with the concept of ubuntu, meaning humanity & kindness Archbishop Desmond Tutu
#8240, aired 2020-09-18NORSEMEN $800: In 2000 the U.S. & Iceland each issued a coin to honor the 1000 A.D. discovery of the New World by this man Leif Erikson
#8240, aired 2020-09-18"ISM"s $1,000 (Daily Double): Term for the ideas, theories & methods named for the man seen here Marxism
#8232, aired 2020-06-09CANSPLAINING $400: OK, here's what you have to realize about "The Wizard of Oz": the Tin Man tells Dorothy to use a can of this to help him move again oil
#8230, aired 2020-06-05JUST DESERTS $400: Home to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert is in the northwest part of this state Nevada
#8225, aired 2020-05-29RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF $800: Early in a Pasternak novel, this title man stands "in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital" Doctor Zhivago
#8223, aired 2020-05-27THE RENAISSANCE $3,800 (Daily Double): Erasmus was the "Prince of" this -ism that uses classical learning to gain knowledge of man's nature Humanism
#8219, aired 2020-05-21STORY OF MYTH $200: In the labor of the man-eating horses of King Diomedes, this hero fed Diomedes to the horses Hercules
#8219, aired 2020-05-21SOLD! AT SOTHEBY'S $2000: The first sculpture on the auction block ever to sell for over $100 million was "Walking Man 1" by this Swiss-born sculptor Giacometti
#8213, aired 2020-04-29THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $800: This Olympian goddess of wisdom was big in agriculture, too, teaching man how to yoke oxen Athena
#8213, aired 2020-04-29WE'D LIKE TO MAKE A CORRECTION $1000: Time's early version of "The 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College" included this "Brideshead Revisited" author, "who was a man" Evelyn Waugh
#8213, aired 2020-04-29PREQUELS $1200: "Age of Resistance", a TV prequel to "The Dark Crystal", was produced by Lisa, daughter of this man who directed the original film Jim Henson
#8208, aired 2020-04-22A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE $600: Creepy! In order to get closer to Lolita, this man with a double-talk name marries her mother Charlotte Haze Humbert Humbert
#8207, aired 2020-04-21ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! $400: After descending the ladder of the lunar module, this second man to walk on the Moon stated the obvious: "Beautiful view!" Buzz Aldrin
#8207, aired 2020-04-21ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! $600: In 2019, a six-man team endured huge frigid waves to row 600 miles across this passage between South America and Antarctica named for an explorer the Drake Passage
#8207, aired 2020-04-21JAMES TAYLOR: HIS LIFE & MUSIC $2000: (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2020 I released a new album, "American Standard", putting my take on some of the songs & show tunes I grew up listening to like "Ol' Man River" from this musical Show Boat
#8206, aired 2020-04-20SPORTS TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crews presents by a display monitor.) Tennis players shouldn't linger in this area between the service line and the baseline where returns are hard to hit; it shares its name with an area between trenches that World War I soldiers also wanted to avoid no man's land
#8205, aired 2020-04-17GREEK, WEAK $1000: Suitors to Penelope struggle to string this man's bow, & it gets worse for them after that Odysseus
#8201, aired 2020-04-13WHAT A CHARACTER $400: AKA Padfoot, this man didn't let taking the fall for Peter Pettigrew get in the way of being a good godfather to Harry Potter Sirius Black
#8200, aired 2020-04-10DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $400: The Canadian government has promised to never try to find out the name of the young man buried in Ottawa's version of this memorial the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
#8195, aired 2020-04-03THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $1000: Hammy's law 137 says if a man & wife have kids & he leaves, he has to pay this; now U.S. CFR Title 45 sets guidelines for it child support
#8194, aired 2020-04-02FAMOUS NAMES $600: British cartoonist James Gillray's depiction of this man helped give rise to the idea that he was short Napoleon
#8192, aired 2020-03-31BASEBALL LINGO $600: This term for a player who rarely misses a game was applied to Joe McGinnity, a former foundry worker, & later Cal Ripken Jr. an iron man
#8192, aired 2020-03-31MISSING PIECES $800: Events in the Ancient Olympic pentathlon: running, discus, long jump, javelin & this man-to-man contest wrestling
#8191, aired 2020-03-3020th CENTURY BOOKS $1600: The prologue to this Ralph Ellison novel says, "People refuse to see me" Invisible Man
#8190, aired 2020-03-27IT'S A STRIKE $1000: An 1892 strike at this man's Homestead Steel Mill outside Pittsburgh led to a deadly confrontation between workers & strikebreakers Andrew Carnegie
#8189, aired 2020-03-26LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? $1200: Swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 & run 26.2 to finish one of these; hmm...that may be a good time for some more than others an Iron Man triathlon (triathlon)
#8189, aired 2020-03-26ANGELS $4,000 (Daily Double): Mormons believe the angel Moroni appeared to this man & revealed to him where to find the golden plates Joseph Smith
#8185, aired 2020-03-20HISTORIC NAMES $2000: In 1488, not da Gama or Magellan, but this Portuguese man led the first European voyage to round the tip of South Africa Bartolomeu Dias
#8182, aired 2020-03-17CHARACTERS IN MOBY-DICK $1200: There once was a man from this Massachusetts port who signs up Ishmael & the others to the whaling voyage Nantucket
#8181, aired 2020-03-16CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: ( Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp with KENS 5. [She presents from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.]) The Witte Museum has an extra-small horse-drawn carriage given by P.T. Barnum to this man when he was 26 inches tall; he got the larger one after he'd grown to 40 inches Tom Thumb
#8172, aired 2020-03-03IMPOSTOR! $400: Known by many names, con man Victor Lustig invited Parisian scrap metal moguls to bid on this, which he said was being torn down the Eiffel Tower
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $1600: Once known as Upper Peru, it changed its name upon independence in 1825 to honor the man who helped liberate it Bolivia
#8164, aired 2020-02-20LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $800: Seen here, 19th century's Spanish general Pablo Morillo was sent to South America to finish off this man but had to make peace with him (Simon) Bolivar
#8161, aired 2020-02-17BEARD MAN $200: A Guinness World Record, Hans Langseth's over 17-foot-long beard was eventually cut & donated to this D.C. institution the Smithsonian
#8161, aired 2020-02-17BEARD MAN $400: In 1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell of New York sent a letter urging him to "let your whiskers grow", & he did! Lincoln
#8159, aired 2020-02-13CAST OF THE TV SHOW $200: On NBC... oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer This Is Us
#8156, aired 2020-02-10COUNTRY DROP A LETTER $800: Subtract a letter from a 4-letter African country & you get this man who behaves badly, especially to women a cad (from Chad)
#8156, aired 2020-02-10SATURN $1200: In 1610 this man was the first to observe Saturn through a telescope Galileo
#8154, aired 2020-02-06THE NEW SCHOOL $1000: Established in Fairfax to fill a need for higher ed in Northern Va., it's named for a man who helped shape the Constitution George Mason
#8153, aired 2020-02-05SHOW TUNE RHYMES $400: In "The Music Man" there were "copper bottom tympani in horse platoons... double bell euphoniums & big" these instruments bassoons
#8150, aired 2020-01-31HISTORIC PLEAS $2000: He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year Charles Guiteau
#8147, aired 2020-01-28OFF TO THE LANDMARK $800: UNESCO described this landmark, built in memory of a man's wife, as "the jewel of Muslim art in India" the Taj Mahal
#8146, aired 2020-01-27PHRASE HISTORY $400: A 1918 song title said this "Is Hard To Find" A Good Man
#8145, aired 2020-01-241984 $1000: Prince Charles came to give Brunei independence as an Islamic one of these, based on the title of the man to Charles's right a sultan (sultanate)
#8143, aired 2020-01-22POUND! SAND! $800: As an editor in London, Ezra Pound helped to publish this man's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James) Joyce
#8142, aired 2020-01-21CHECK OUT THE CRITTER $200: Get me pictures of the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama, a lizard that looks like this Marvel superhero created in 1962 Spider-Man
#8142, aired 2020-01-21GRAVESITE OFFERINGS $400: Guitar picks are taped to this man's grave, inscribed "1942-1970", in Greenwood Memorial Park near Seattle Jimi Hendrix
#8141, aired 2020-01-20NIAGARA FALLS $200: 22-year-old Steven Trotter was the youngest man to go over the falls in one of these & survive; BTW, the stunt is illegal a barrel
#8137, aired 2020-01-14LET'S GET MARRIED! $400: Emily Post says the person with this title "offers the first toast to the bride & groom at the reception" the best man
#8137, aired 2020-01-14THE 11th CENTURY $800: In 1040 Scottish King Duncan I was slain in battle & this man known to readers of Shakespeare succeeded him Macbeth
#7, aired 2020-01-14THE BACHELOR $400: When fiancee Ann Coleman died soon after breaking off their engagement in 1819, this man returned to politics & never married (James) Buchanan
#7, aired 2020-01-14THE BACHELOR $600: This man was a bachelor during his 3 terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989 Ed Koch
#7, aired 2020-01-14THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $1200: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) My heroes include this man killed in 1770 who's been lauded as "the first to defy, the first to die" & "the first to pour out his blood as a precious libation on the altar of a people's rights" Crispus Attucks
#6, aired 2020-01-09JANUARY IN HISTORY $800: The January 1870 cartoon "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" was this man's first use of a donkey to symbolize Democrats Nast
#6, aired 2020-01-09IT COMES THIRD $1200: Beethoven was going to dedicate his 3rd symphony to Napoleon; instead he called it this, for "the memory of a great man" Eroica
#5, aired 2020-01-09COMEDIANS $400: Played by this man, salesman-manager David Brent returned in 2016, trying to get his rock band off the ground Ricky Gervais
#5, aired 2020-01-09A MILLION BUCKS AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE $600: In 1957 a million bucks would have paid for a helluva baseball team; this man, No. 24 for the Giants, made $50,000 Willie Mays
#8133, aired 2020-01-081995 $600: This gathering with a numerical and alliterative name drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, D.C. the Million Man March
#4, aired 2020-01-08AUDIBLE $400: He simply titled his 2019 memoir "Me" I knew that Taron Egerton was the right man to play me when I heard him sing "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" -- he managed to get through it without threatening to murder anyone or screaming about Engelbert Humperdinck Elton John
#4, aired 2020-01-08MOZART $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Mozart Residence in Salzburg, Austria.) Young Mozart dedicated the work "Dream of Scipio" to his Salzburg patron Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, a strict man guided by this "bright" intellectual movement of the times the Enlightenment
#8132, aired 2020-01-07THINK IT WILL WORK? $1200: No: this man's 1890s magnetic iron ore separator--he probably chalked up its failure to perspiration Thomas Edison
#2, aired 2020-01-07NOT AN ARMCHAIR EXPERT $800: (Dax Shepard delivers the clue.) William Maples was an expert in forensic anthropology, working on the bodies of the Romanovs, the Elephant Man & this U.S. president whose mysterious death in 1850 turned out to be less from arsenic & more from too many cherries (Zachary) Taylor
#2, aired 2020-01-07LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $2000: When he wasn't scoring TV's "Peanuts" specials, this man recorded favorites like "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" (Vince) Guaraldi
#1, aired 2020-01-07CHEMISTS $1600: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) The Russian Academy of Sciences rejected this great man's 1880 nomination for membership--maybe because of his progressive political leanings, & maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his first wife Mendeleev
#1, aired 2020-01-07BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to an "Iberian" jellyfish relative, now heroic in Don Cheadle's supersuit Sonnets from the Portuguese man o' War Machine
#8129, aired 2020-01-02CREATURES OF THE DEEP? $2000: Born Emmanuel Radnitsky, this artist, whose work is seen here, was a contributor to the Surrealist & Dada Movement Man Ray
#8126, aired 2019-12-30BEHIND THE LITERATURE $800: Many think Daniel Webster's summation at a murder trial inspired this man to write "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe
#8121, aired 2019-12-23FBI HEADQUARTERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.) After much internal debate over the wisdom of giving in to terrorists, in 1995, the FBI allowed publication of this criminal's long rambling manifesto. The move paid off when the man's brother recognized his writing and alerted authorities the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski)
#8117, aired 2019-12-17FINAL RESTING PLACES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Grant's Tomb in New York City.) The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, once New York City's most popular attraction, was partly inspired by the tomb of this other 19th century man who was both a great general and a head of state Napoleon Bonaparte
#8113, aired 2019-12-11THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $600: ...Maine / who made shoes to fight off the rain / his catalog mailed / & clothing detailed / outdoors would be his domain L.L. Bean
#8113, aired 2019-12-11THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $800: ...Iran / who ruled with too firm a hand / according to text / Khomeini was next / he was no longer the king of his land the Shah
#8113, aired 2019-12-11ITALIAN AUTHORS $1200: "It is safer to be feared than loved", opines Machiavelli in "The Prince", dedicated to this man (Lorenzo de') Medici
#8112, aired 2019-12-10AMERICAN HISTORY $600: This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C. (John) Quincy Adams
#8111, aired 2019-12-09PEEK A CHOO-CHOO $800: The London-to-Edinburgh locomotive known as "The Flying" this "Man", was Britain's first, clocked at 100 miles per hour Scotsman
#8111, aired 2019-12-09NINE TALES $1,500 (Daily Double): In a classic tale General Zaroff explains that Cape buffalo is not "The Most Dangerous Game" to hunt; this is man (us)
#8111, aired 2019-12-09ELECTED TWICE TO THE ROCK HALL OF FAME $1600: Man, "Some Guys Have All The Luck"! This singer went in solo in '94 & went in again as one of the Faces in 2012 Rod Stewart
#8110, aired 2019-12-06RETIRED NUMBERS IN SPORTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Seattle Seahawks retired this number to honor the extra player, the fans 12
#8107, aired 2019-12-03CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: Foreshadowing later events, a man is crushed to death beneath the wheels of a train early on in this 1878 classic Anna Karenina
#8106, aired 2019-12-02TV PEOPLE $1000: The alla prima art technique allowed this man who passed away in 1995 to complete a painting in 30 minutes on PBS Bob Ross
#8105, aired 2019-11-29KEEPING UP WITH THE KENNEDYS $400: His dad was the "Lion of the Senate" & this man Jr. served in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019 Ted Kennedy, Jr.
#8103, aired 2019-11-27JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE $1600: Injured at Petersburg in this state in 1864, Joshua Chamberlain became the last man to die of Civil War wounds--in 1914 Virginia
#8099, aired 2019-11-2120th CENTURY HISTORY $800: The 381-day bus boycott in this city was triggered by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man Montgomery
#8099, aired 2019-11-21OF THE THIRD KIND $2000: In July 2019, around a big anniversary, there was renewed interest in this 88-year-old often called the "Third Man" (astronaut) Michael Collins
#8096, aired 2019-11-18A MAN OF THE CLOTH $800: Before he controlled New York City, this boss served a single term in Congress from 1853 to 1855 (Boss) Tweed
#8096, aired 2019-11-18HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS $1200: Open to the public, this man's castle features a fountain with ancient sculptures of the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet (William Randolph) Hearst
#8093, aired 2019-11-13FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: In 1858 this man patented a new type of reusable jar with a screw-cap lid & partnered with glassblowers to produce them (John Landis) Mason
#8093, aired 2019-11-13THE MOVIES $800: I always tear up at the line "A toast to my big brother, George. The richest man in town!" in this Jimmy Stewart film It's a Wonderful Life
#8092, aired 2019-11-12VISIONARIES $400: The visions in the Book of Revelation, like a 7-headed beast, are credited to a man with this name, maybe the apostle John
#8092, aired 2019-11-12VISIONARIES $9,066 (Daily Double): In 312, before the Battle of Milvian Bridge, this man had a dramatic vision of a cross of light & went on to win the battle Constantine
#8090, aired 2019-11-08CLASSIC ROCK GUITARISTS $2000: Money, it's a hit! In 2019 this Pink Floyd man got $21 million for his guitars at auction & donated the money to fight climate change David Gilmour
#8088, aired 2019-11-06THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $800: In 2018 this R&B singer lived up to his (stage) name, becoming an EGOT, the first African-American man to do so John Legend
#8087, aired 2019-11-05ALL-TIME WINNERS $400: In 2010 this "Pac Man" became the only boxer to win titles in 8 weight divisions Manny Pacquiao
#8087, aired 2019-11-05BEFORE & LAUGHTER $800: Biblical first man's donation to make his mate that ultimately turns into a term for a joke Adam's rib tickler (Adam's ribbing)
#8086, aired 2019-11-04TO THE STARS $800: In 1960 NASA made this German-born man the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center Wernher von Braun
#8086, aired 2019-11-04TO THE STARS $1200: Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan man in space, was not an astronaut but this similar kind of spaceman a cosmonaut
#8083, aired 2019-10-30CUBA LIBRO $200: The Gulf Stream runs close to Cuba & in this Hemingway novel Santiago fishes in it The Old Man and the Sea
#8083, aired 2019-10-30CUBA LIBRO $400: In a Graham Greene novel, James Wormold is recruited by British Secret Service to be "Our Man in" this city Havana
#8077, aired 2019-10-22BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $1000: A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister Disraeli
#8076, aired 2019-10-21GAME OF CLONES $800: This man returned to the "Star Wars" universe in animated form, voicing Mace Windu in "The Clone Wars" Samuel L. Jackson
#8076, aired 2019-10-21AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man (Andrew) Johnson
#8073, aired 2019-10-16OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $1000: This funnyman got some respect going "Back to School" at Grand Lakes U., I tell ya Rodney Dangerfield
#8073, aired 2019-10-16WHAT PREZ PRECEDED... $1000: Franklin Pierce--a man whose first name is a good bet not to repeat as a presidential one in the near future Millard Fillmore
#8071, aired 2019-10-14THE MANY BUILDINGS OF I.M. PEI $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of I.M. Pei's early designs to be built were at an airport & a presidential library both honoring this man (John F.) Kennedy
#8070, aired 2019-10-11PLAYER'S PIANO $1000: It took Yamaha 4 years to build the "Million Dollar Piano" this man used for more than 200 shows at Caesars Palace Elton John
#8066, aired 2019-10-07VIDEO GAME-POURRI $1000: Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn't rhyme with the others Clyde
#8065, aired 2019-10-04FEAT OF (HENRY) CLAY $1600: According to Andrew Jackson, Clay's "corrupt bargain" was the sec. of state job for helping make this man president John Quincy Adams
#8064, aired 2019-10-03YOUNG MAN $600: In 1628 28-year-old Oliver Cromwell was elected to this, which probably came to regret letting him in Parliament
#8064, aired 2019-10-03YOUNG MAN $1000: Admitted to the bar in 1800, Richard Rush was only 33 when President Madison appointed him this in 1814 Attorney General
#8064, aired 2019-10-03FUN FACTS $1200: An Arizona man urged bored teens to go outside & do this & it went viral; in Spanglish, it's called #basurachallenge to clean up trash
#8061, aired 2019-09-30I BEAT MERYL! $800: No Oscar for Meryl because this other actress' role in "Dead Man Walking" was second to nun Susan Sarandon
#8060, aired 2019-09-27CABLE TELEVISION $600: FX's "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" followed up with the story of this man's assassination (Gianni) Versace
#8058, aired 2019-09-25SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $400: This man tells Esau that he must "swear to me this day" to sell his birthright Jacob
#8058, aired 2019-09-25SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $1200: Denying Jesus for the third time, he "began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak" Peter
#8052, aired 2019-09-17HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion (Mark) Twain
#8052, aired 2019-09-17NEVER TO RETURN $2000: In December 1949 this man who had led China for 20 years left the mainland forever Chiang Kai-shek
#8051, aired 2019-09-16POTPOURRI $2000: 46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man Fibonacci
#8045, aired 2019-07-26TURNING TO SPORTS $1000: Fox Sports: This Utah Jazz man, aka the Mailman, "may be the first human to be even more chiseled than his own statue" Karl Malone
#8041, aired 2019-07-22FOR WEDDINGS $200: In civil ceremonies, the best man & maid of honor may be replaced by 2 of these, required by law to sign the marriage license witnesses
#8041, aired 2019-07-22A FUNERAL ORATION $400: In a 1968 eulogy his brother Ted called him "a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it" Robert Kennedy
#8040, aired 2019-07-19IF I WERE A TIBETAN MAN $400: When Godan Khan sent an army of these people to invade in 1240, Sakya Pandita met him & cured him of disease the Mongols
#8040, aired 2019-07-19IF I WERE A TIBETAN MAN $800: To help create a Tibetan alphabet, around 600 A.D. King Songtsen Gampo sent scholars to India to study this language Sanskrit
#8037, aired 2019-07-16IN THE AIR $400: In Genesis this man is told to take "fowls...of the air" by sevens Noah
#8036, aired 2019-07-15SUPREME COURT CLERKS $800: This man was clerk to Warren Burger before becoming independent counsel from 1994 to 1999 (Kenneth) Starr
#8028, aired 2019-07-03THE GOLDEN HOARD $200: "Open sesame" are the magic words that this man used to take gold from 40 thieves Ali Baba
#8027, aired 2019-07-02PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $1000: Patrick Swayze & Keanu Reeves brought the sexy to this surfing/bank heist movie Point Break
#8026, aired 2019-07-01VILE QUOTES $1200: An 18th c. quote says, "A man who could make so vile" this 3-letter play on words "would not scruple to pick a pocket" a pun
#8026, aired 2019-07-01ACTION MOVIE STARS $1200: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe Tom Holland
#8025, aired 2019-06-28HANGOUTS $800: In the '80s, teen gamers hung in arcades to see ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky & Clyde chase this guy around a maze Pac-Man
#8023, aired 2019-06-26LEGENDARY! $800: Would you trust your dad to shoot an apple off your head using a bow & arrow? The son of this 14th century Swiss man had to William Tell
#8022, aired 2019-06-25PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972 J. Edgar Hoover
#8022, aired 2019-06-25IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $1000: This man was thrown to the hungry lions in a sealed den, but in the morning he was miraculously unscathed Daniel
#8019, aired 2019-06-20BOOKS OF MYSTERY $2000: One of the first detective stories was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by this man, also known to rhyme a phrase or 2 Edgar Allan Poe
#8015, aired 2019-06-14TRUTH OR DARE $2000: In 1587 Virginia Dare came to the New World in utero in an expedition sponsored by this man Sir Walter Raleigh
#8012, aired 2019-06-11"DOO", "DOO", "DOO", "DOO", "DOO", "DOO" $1000: In the 1970s Wall Street wise man Henry Kaufman earned this medical nickname for his bearish forecasts Dr. Doom
#8012, aired 2019-06-11WHAT HAPPENED? $1600: George Washington ordered excerpts from this man's "The American Crisis" to be read to the troops Thomas Paine
#8006, aired 2019-06-03SOVIETS NOT BORN IN RUSSIA $1200: This man is born in Riga, Latvia in 1898--cut to him directing "Battleship Potemkin" less than 30 years later Eisenstein
#8003, aired 2019-05-29LOUD & CLEAR $200: It's too loud, man--it's this word that begins with a word meaning "unable to hear" deafening
#8003, aired 2019-05-29LOUD & CLEAR $800: You must be a necromancer! Your cacophony is doing this, a noisy idiom that refers to a man in Genesis raising Cain
#8002, aired 2019-05-28IN THE BACKYARD $800: The distaff counterpart to a man cave is this backyard haven with an alliterative name a she shed
#8000, aired 2019-05-24IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1200: "No man can" these 3 words; "either he will hate the one, & love the other; or else he will hold to the one, & despise the other" serve two masters
#7999, aired 2019-05-23MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $400: It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha
#7995, aired 2019-05-17AND A BOOK $600: Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", about a man who heads to Tahiti to paint, is based on the life of this man Paul Gauguin
#7994, aired 2019-05-16TEXT $600: Under sharia law, a man can do this to his wife by notifying her 3 times; in 2009 a Saudi man made news by doing so via text divorce
#7990, aired 2019-05-10TRYING TIMES $1600: In 1882 the jury took only an hour to declare Charles Guiteau guilty of killing this man Garfield
#7987, aired 2019-05-07SITCOMEDY $400: This Jim Parsons character said, "Howard, you know me to be a very smart man. Don't you think if I were wrong, I'd know it?" Sheldon Cooper
#7985, aired 2019-05-03CLASSIC LITERATURE $800: This tale by Robert Louis Stevenson says, "I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
#7980, aired 2019-04-26CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $600: A S.C. man said this experience "cooks you from the inside out like being in a microwave" & says it's happened to him 11 times being struck by lightning
#7977, aired 2019-04-23SOLID BLACK $2000: The 1760 novel "Tristram Shandy" devotes a black page to the passing of this man with the same name as Hamlet's jester Yorick
#7975, aired 2019-04-19AMERICAN HISTORY $600: A 1975 N.Y. Daily News headline after this man opposed a federal bailout: him "To City: Drop Dead" (Gerald) Ford
#7974, aired 2019-04-18GREEK & ROMAN LIT $1600: The title of Petronius' work portraying Roman hedonism adds "-icon" to this half-man mythical creature a satyr
#7973, aired 2019-04-17MUSIC "MAN" $1200: Johnny Cash wrote this song to explain his sartorial choices "Man In Black"
#7973, aired 2019-04-17MUSIC "MAN" $25,000 (Daily Double): Tammy Wynette said she spent 15 minutes writing this song about devotion & a lifetime defending it "Stand By Your Man"
#7972, aired 2019-04-16THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Franklin Institute.) In his lightning rods, Ben Franklin advocated a pointed tip to channel charge into the ground; this man, who became king in 1760 thought blunt ends were better--it wouldn't be their last dispute George III
#7967, aired 2019-04-09AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States George Washington
#7967, aired 2019-04-09AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: As a young man Frederick Douglass heard if he learned to do this "it would forever unfit him to be a slave"--so he did read and write
#7964, aired 2019-04-04DON'T TREAD ON MEME $800: When Tom Holland as him said, "I don't feel so good" in "Infinity War", half the meme community sprang to life Spider-Man
#7963, aired 2019-04-03FOR HUMANITY $400: This Scot believed a "man who dies rich dies disgraced" & devoted himself to philanthropy after selling his steel company (Andrew) Carnegie
#7956, aired 2019-03-251960s AMERICA $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1964 D.C. residents were allowed to vote for president for the first time, going 85% for this man Lyndon Johnson
#7954, aired 2019-03-21MYTH-POURRI $400: Pan Gu, in myth the 1st Chinese man, cracks a giant one of these from inside & holds up the sky to protect the earth an egg
#7950, aired 2019-03-15ON THE PGA TOUR $1000: Check out the $10 million putt that won the 2016 FedEx Cup bonus for this man, also known as Wee Mac Rory McIlroy
#7946, aired 2019-03-11CHANNEL SURFING $400: In 2012 Richard Branson became the oldest man to kitesurf across this channel the English
#7945, aired 2019-03-08ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1,000 (Daily Double): This man says, "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him", but he's not being quite truthful Mark Antony
#7943, aired 2019-03-0619th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: In 1899 this man for whom a military medical center is named finished his work on typhoid & turned to yellow fever Walter Reed
#7942, aired 2019-03-05POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES $2000: Time to get your grunge on with this band whose tunes include "Man In The Box", "Rooster" & "Would?" Alice in Chains
#7940, aired 2019-03-01INVENTORS $800: In 1907 James Spangler invented a portable vacuum cleaner--then sold the rights to this man (William) Hoover
#7940, aired 2019-03-01REFERENCE WORKS $2000: This French Enlightenment man was the mind behind the Encyclopedie & edited it from 1747 to 1772 (Denis) Diderot
#7931, aired 2019-02-18STILL I RISE $1200: According to Ben Franklin, "Early to bed & early to rise, makes a man" these 3 positive things healthy, wealthy and wise
#7928, aired 2019-02-13THE EISNER AWARDS $1600: In 2003 & 2012 Best Continuing Series went to this blind "man without fear" Daredevil
#7927, aired 2019-02-12FAMOUS "N"AMES $1200: Name but don't touch this man, hired to head the Chicago Prohibition Bureau in 1929 (Eliot) Ness
#7925, aired 2019-02-08DROP IT $400: Drop "it" from a numeral to get this verb meaning to understand, man dig
#7924, aired 2019-02-07A MAN OF CONSTANT $3,000 (Daily Double): Max Planck's constant is the ratio of the energy of this smallest unit of radiation to its frequency--what a leap! a quantum
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FAR OUT, MAN $600: While on your way to the galactic center, you have more than 18 quintillion planets to explore in this game No Man's Sky
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FAR OUT, MAN $1000: This Longfellow poem takes you away to Acadia, to a "distant, secluded...little village of Grand Pre" Evangeline
#7920, aired 2019-02-01BILLY JOEL $200: An L.A. bar gig in the '70s inspired Billy to write this song "Piano Man"
#7917, aired 2019-01-29AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $200: Accepting renomination in 2012, Pres. Obama said "Al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat &" this man "is dead" Osama bin Laden
#7916, aired 2019-01-28GODS & GODDESSES $400: Half-man, half-goat, all musician; this Greek fertility god was said to be a son of Hermes Pan
#7915, aired 2019-01-25A BOWL OF "SUP" $400: Mike Lodish was the first man to play in 6 of these football games the Super Bowl
#7914, aired 2019-01-24POTENT POE TALES $400: "The Pit and the Pendulum" finds a man sentenced to death by this tribunal in Toledo the Inquisition
#7910, aired 2019-01-18BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $600: An organized march on Rome in October 1922 brought this man & his Fascist Party to power Mussolini
#7909, aired 2019-01-17BEARD MAN $400: In 1959 this new Latin American leader toured the U.S. but refused to shave his beard as his New York PR firm had advised Castro
#7909, aired 2019-01-17BEARD MAN $1600: In July bring your beard to this Florida island for its Hemingway Days & you might win a look-alike contest Key West
#7908, aired 2019-01-16CIVIL WAR POETRY $2000: The subtitle to Herman Melville's poem about this man is "Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville" Stonewall Jackson
#7905, aired 2019-01-11GOING "DUTCH" $600: In 1935 this man thought hey, let's kill Thomas Dewey; fearing backlash, crime bosses added bullets to his restaurant order Dutch Schultz
#7901, aired 2019-01-07REJECTED SUPERHEROES $200: He was rejected on the grounds that he couldn't stop telling everybody he was sorry the Apologizer
#7901, aired 2019-01-07EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: This man from Mains not only invented printing from movable type but also a special ink that adhered to the type Gutenberg
#7901, aired 2019-01-07NURSERY RHYMES $800: Talk about mother-in-law trouble: on the way to this town, I met a man with 7 wives St. Ives
#7899, aired 2019-01-03AMERICAN HISTORY $200: John Parker was assigned to guard this man on April 14, 1865, but stepped out at intermission to go to a bar Abraham Lincoln
#7899, aired 2019-01-03AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Alexander Hamilton Jr. got justice for his dad when Eliza Jumel hired him to handle her divorce from this man Aaron Burr
#7899, aired 2019-01-03EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS $1600: Bob Dylan said singing his own "All Along The Watchtower" feels like a tribute to this man who did an amazing cover (Jimi) Hendrix
#7897, aired 2019-01-01COOL CRITTERS $800: In 2007 the last words Alex, an African grey this, said to his person were "You be good ...I love you"; man, is it dusty in here? a parrot
#7894, aired 2018-12-27ALMOST PRESIDENT $800: This man's wife prevented him from resigning despite a stroke, leaving veep Thomas Marshall to only dream Woodrow Wilson
#7892, aired 2018-12-2513-LETTER PHRASES $2000: In a saying about self-reliance, these 5 words precede "& you feed him for a day" give a man a fish
#7880, aired 2018-12-07ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $400: Bill Clinton teamed with this man who's sold 350 mil. books to write the 2018 thriller "The President is Missing" (James) Patterson
#7880, aired 2018-12-07IT'S JUST GRASS, MAN $800: I reckon you don't officially have to put Kentucky in front of this all-acoustic music style of Ricky Skaggs & others bluegrass
#7879, aired 2018-12-06MAN OF THE CENTURY $600: Konstantin Chernenko came to fame the 20th century
#7877, aired 2018-12-0420th CENTURY LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1990 this man succeeded in "rank" to the office of British prime minister (John) Major
#7871, aired 2018-11-26PREDICTIONS BY 2030 $200: What could this "Hamilton" creator do to top himself by 2030? If anyone could pull off "Otis: The Man, the Elevator"... Lin-Manuel Miranda
#7867, aired 2018-11-20SCORPIOS $600: U.S. presidents who were Scorpios include Warren G. Harding & this man who served from 1901 to 1909 Teddy Roosevelt
#7855, aired 2018-11-02IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM... $600: From 2005 to 2008 & again from 2010 to 2014, no man was beating this Spaniard for the French Open men's singles title (Rafael) Nadal
#7849, aired 2018-10-25CONQUISTADORS $1600: Maybe the 1st black African in the New World, Juan Garrido pillaged in Mexico before going to Florida with this man Ponce de León
#7842, aired 2018-10-16BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In "Moby Dick" a man named Elijah warns this character not to sail on Ahab's boat Ishmael
#7842, aired 2018-10-16ANTHROPOLOGY $2000: Hides & hay were used to replicate the super-comfy shoes of Ötzi, the 5,000-year-old mummy known by this nickname the Iceman
#7841, aired 2018-10-15A JOB IN TELEVISION $2000: Barry Berkman on "Barry"--both his big-money gig & the job he's pursing in class hit man and actor
#7838, aired 2018-10-10JACK & THE FIEND STALK $800: A man trying to blow up the Red October sub from within does not fare well against this Tom Clancy hero Jack Ryan
#7836, aired 2018-10-08BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A psychiatrist works to bring a young man back from the brink of madness in this beastly Peter Shaffer play Equus
#7836, aired 2018-10-08MOVIE MUSIC $2000: The director of "The Third Man" was entranced by a local playing this instrument & hired him to compose the score the zither
#7834, aired 2018-10-04FIDDLER $800: In "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", the devil bows his head & lays a golden fiddle at the feet of this man Johnny
#7834, aired 2018-10-04ELECTION 1968 $1200: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue.) TV, which hurt Richard Nixon in 1960, helped him in 1968 thanks to the skills of this man who went on to run Fox News (Roger) Ailes
#7832, aired 2018-10-02OCTOBER OBSERVANCES $400: In tribute to this man, the U.N. declared his birthday, October 2, International Day of Non-Violence (Mohandas) Gandhi
#7829, aired 2018-09-27POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $1600: Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy & plays soccer at Illyria Prep in "She's the Man", loosely based on this comedy Twelfth Night
#7826, aired 2018-09-24FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE $200: urbandictionary.com has harsh words for the hairdo called a "man" this, "used by hipsters" a bun
#7825, aired 2018-09-21ONE GIANT LEAP $400: Raise a toast to this man for his 19th century discoveries in microbiology & for saving the French wine industry Pasteur
#7818, aired 2018-09-12FANTASY & PARANORMAL LIT $400: Andre Norton asked us to gaze into this magical man's "Mirror" that reflected the realm of King Arthur Merlin
#7818, aired 2018-09-12MALI $1600: In 2018 a Malian migrant to Paris saved a boy on a balcony & became this superhero "of the 18th arrondissement" Spider-Man
#7817, aired 2018-09-11NUMERICAL CINEMA $1000: A man is sent back in time to try to prevent a plague 12 Monkeys
#7808, aired 2018-07-18NOVELS $600: In addition to the tales of his fabled detective, this man penned "The White Company", an adventure of the Middle Ages Arthur Conan Doyle
#7807, aired 2018-07-17CITING PRECEDENT $200: As a result of the 1966 case of this man v. Arizona, suspects in custody must be told of their right to remain silent (Ernesto) Miranda
#7806, aired 2018-07-16BIRTHDAY PARTY $800: Happy 200th in 2018 to this man who was born in slavery but didn't stay in it; not knowing the date, he chose Feb. 14 (Frederick) Douglass
#7805, aired 2018-07-13OUT IN LEFT FIELD $800: From 1941 to 1963 Stan "The Man" Musial patrolled left in this city's Sportsman's Park & Busch Stadium St. Louis
#7804, aired 2018-07-12ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL $2000: In 1903 Bell sailed for Europe & brought back to Washington the body of this man for burial in his institution James Smithson
#7799, aired 2018-07-05MY "MAN"! $1200: It's your destiny to know this 8-letter word means "to show plainly" manifest
#7799, aired 2018-07-05MY "MAN"! $1600: A royal command, or one from a superior court to a lower one a mandate
#7799, aired 2018-07-05MY "MAN"! $2000: It conveys air & fuel from the carburetor to the cylinders a manifold
#7797, aired 2018-07-03THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: Rich enough to be almost a one-man central bank, he got his middle initial P. from the Pierponts, who helped found Yale (J.P.) Morgan
#7794, aired 2018-06-28DAYTIME TV MEMORIES $600: A hot TV moment of 2005 saw this man jumping on Oprah's couch to proclaim his love for his betrothed Tom Cruise
#7791, aired 2018-06-25THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $800: In 1780 Sir Henry Clinton refused to give up this man in return for the captured John Andre Benedict Arnold
#7790, aired 2018-06-22POETS & POETRY $400: Ezra Pound said "Death of the Hired Man" was this poet at his best, daring to write "in the natural speech of New England" (Robert) Frost
#7789, aired 2018-06-21THE MALE MAN $1000: This Roman orator should have been quieter--a quip suggesting that Octavian be disposed of led to his demise Cicero
#7789, aired 2018-06-21THE MALE MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2017 Alabama elected its first Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1992--this man, who beat Roy Moore Doug Jones
#7787, aired 2018-06-19FRANK SINATRA $1000: Frank won an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & got a 2nd acting nomination for this film about drug addiction The Man with the Golden Arm
#7785, aired 2018-06-15INVENTIONS $800: In addition to his machine gun, this Civil War-era man also invented a steam plow (Richard) Gatling
#7784, aired 2018-06-14MAN CAVES $400: A great place to go spelunking is the limestone caverns in Montana named for this pair of expeditioners Lewis and Clark
#7784, aired 2018-06-14MAN CAVES $800: Caverns in Indiana bear the name & the bones of this trailblazer's brother Squire, who was laid to rest there in 1815 (Daniel) Boone
#7784, aired 2018-06-14MAN CAVES $1600: This ancient playwright's cave on Salamis is believed to be where he wrote tragedies like "Trojan Women" Euripides
#7784, aired 2018-06-14POLAR EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the South Pole on the monitor.) Here is Amundsen's route to and from the South Pole, & here is the 1911-1912 route from Cape Evans led by this man--on the return trip, he met his end just 11 miles from shelter (Robert Falcon) Scott
#7784, aired 2018-06-14MAN CAVES $2000: A cave on Mount Carmel is named for this prophet who may have lived & hid there before whirlwinding up to heaven Elijah
#7782, aired 2018-06-12TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $200: John Irving's "The World According to" him begins with his mom arrested "in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater" Garp
#7782, aired 2018-06-12NEW WORLD SYMPHONY $2000: It was estimated that it could take 585 billion years to explore all the planets in this PlayStation video game No Man's Sky
#7782, aired 2018-06-12FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN $2000: This -ism that represents the common folk against the elites was applied to both the Trump & Sanders 2016 runs populism
#7780, aired 2018-06-08TONGUE-TWISTER PROTAGONISTS $600: A man with this first name also applied to a male turkey (he threw Tim three thumbtacks) Tom
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THE THIRD MAN $200: "As a tribute to his... versatile poetry" in 1903, Bjornstjerne Bjornson became man No. 3 to win this prize the Nobel Prize for Literature
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THE THIRD MAN $400: In 1985 Murray Haydon became the third man to get a permanent artificial one; Haydon lasted 16 months with it a heart
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THE THIRD MAN $600: On May 23, 1956 Swiss climber Ernst Schmied became the third man to do this summit Everest
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THE THIRD MAN $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a model of space flight on the monitor.) In a 15-minute trip from Cape Canaveral to the Atlantic Ocean on July 21, 1961, Liberty Bell 7 reached a height of 118 miles and traveled 303 miles carrying this alliteratively named astronaut, making him the third man in space Gus Grissom
#7773, aired 2018-05-30SWISSTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Celtic Helvetii tried to move from Switzerland to Gaul but this man, then Roman governor, barred them in 58 B.C. Julius Caesar
#7771, aired 2018-05-28SWINGERS OF SPORTS $400: Untamable, this "Golden Bear" was the first man to win all 4 of golf's major titles at least twice Jack Nicklaus
#7767, aired 2018-05-22ILLINOIS AT 200 $1,200 (Daily Double): This official slogan of Illinois honors a man who moved there at age 21 the land of Lincoln
#7766, aired 2018-05-21AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPORTS FIRSTS $2000: The first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl was this man who led the Colts to victory in 2007 (Tony) Dungy
#7763, aired 2018-05-16ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $1000: The book "Man's Search for Meaning" says that he who has this word to live can bear almost any "how" the why
#7761, aired 2018-05-14LEAN ON ME $400: A Moscow statue depicts this man leaning on a block whose inscription translates to "Workers of the world, unite!" Karl Marx
#7761, aired 2018-05-14LEAN ON ME $800: This guy leans against "The Big Man", sax legend Clarence Clemons, on the cover of "Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen
#7760, aired 2018-05-11FIELD TRIP $800: A valley in Jerusalem is said to be the location of the Field of Blood, bought with this man's rejected silver Judas Iscariot
#7755, aired 2018-05-04A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH $400: Following Jesus' example, Paul brings back to life a man who fell out of a window in this New Testament book Acts
#7751, aired 2018-04-30JAPAN-POURRI $2000: These pieces made to attach a purse or box to a man's sash became prized works of art netsukes
#7750, aired 2018-04-27LONGTIME RULERS $400: Moscow, how was your 51 years? Terrible, with this man as the city's Grand Prince from 1533 to 1584 Ivan (the Terrible)
#7746, aired 2018-04-23HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $800: Losing his New Orleans customs job freed up H.L. Hunley to make this type of vessel he named after himself a submarine
#7745, aired 2018-04-20ELITE ATHLETES $600: "Gronk" is all fans need to identify this man who set the Patriots' career touchdown record at age 27 Rob Gronkowski
#7740, aired 2018-04-13THE OCEANS $800: In the 1520s this man captained the first European expedition to cross the Pacific Ocean Magellan
#7736, aired 2018-04-09SAVES $400: From 1976 to 2012 a Relief Man award from this antacid brand was coveted by MLB closers Rolaids
#7727, aired 2018-03-27BUYING ALASKA $400: The purchase was derisively called this man's "Folly", after the Secretary of State who led the effort to buy Alaska (William) Seward
#7726, aired 2018-03-26AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY $1600: This man's political rise began when he was just 30 & the people of Nebraska elected him to Congress William Jennings Bryan
#7721, aired 2018-03-19WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY $1200: In 1833 William Fraser Tolmie became the first white man to attempt to climb this summit Rainier
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale
#7717, aired 2018-03-13LITERARY GEOGRAPHY $200: Reel in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" to know the land-based parts take place on this island Cuba
#7716, aired 2018-03-12STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $800: Pam Anderson's trips to London's Ecuadorian embassy had People magazine asking if she was dating this man (Julian) Assange
#7711, aired 2018-03-05A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $400: In 1994 he took a basketball time out to hit .202 for the Birmingham Barons Michael Jordan
#7711, aired 2018-03-05A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $800: After 3 seasons & a .220 average for the Blue Jays, Danny Ainge moved to this NBA team's back court, then its front office the Celtics
#7710, aired 2018-03-02MY TV DADS $800: In "Two and a Half Men", he was just Duckie playing Alan Harper, dad to the half-man (Jon) Cryer
#7709, aired 2018-03-01SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the French Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeney disguises himself as this hero to rescue the wrongly jailed the Scarlet Pimpernel
#7708, aired 2018-02-28BOOKS TO BROADWAY $800: The N.Y. Times review of the play of this man's "1984" included a trigger warning for the intense torture scenes (George) Orwell
#7708, aired 2018-02-28RACKET BUSTERS $800: Before he ran for president, this man worked to curb organized crime & prosecuted several powerful mobsters Thomas Dewey
#7708, aired 2018-02-28BOOKS TO BROADWAY $2000: Turning this man's "Ragtime" into a musical won Terrence McNally the Tony for Best Book (E.L.) Doctorow
#7698, aired 2018-02-14EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $400: Attempts to profit off this man's X-rays led to the tragic death of Edison's assistant Clarence Dally Röntgen
#7698, aired 2018-02-14MAN BOOKER $600: Roger Bannister & John Landy are runners to watch in Jason Beck's book titled "The Miracle" this mile
#7698, aired 2018-02-14EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $600: Edison stiffed this man to the tune of $50,000 & told him, "When you become...American, you will appreciate an American joke" Tesla
#7696, aired 2018-02-12DUMB CRIMINALS $600: At a hockey game, a Fargo man with a .314 B.A.C. crashed into the boards driving this, yelling for AC/DC to perform a Zamboni
#7696, aired 2018-02-12C.C. & ME $2000: Here is Herbert Hoover with this man, the vice-president whom Hoover largely ignored Charles Curtis
#7695, aired 2018-02-09CRIME $200: Jack McCoy offers you a deal for pleading guilty to Man 1; Man is short for this manslaughter
#7693, aired 2018-02-07THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Staten Island Ferry.) When it's split in 2 by the bad guys in the blockbuster "Spiderman: Homecoming", it's up to the teen webslinger & this other superhero to hold the ship together Iron Man
#7693, aired 2018-02-07AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: The town of Hadleyburg Mark Twain
#7693, aired 2018-02-07THE HAROLD $1600: In 1987, we said "Goodnight, My Someone" to this actor, known for playing Harold Hill in "The Music Man" (Robert) Preston
#7690, aired 2018-02-02STRINGING YOU ALONG $200: A man who is dominated by his wife or mother is said to be "tied to her" these, perhaps in the kitchen apron strings
#7690, aired 2018-02-02JOIN THE TV CLUB $800: Darla was known to cause strife in the "He-man Woman Haters club" during this show The Little Rascals
#7689, aired 2018-02-01INTRODUCTION TO FILM $200: 1962: "Introducing Peter O'Toole" Lawrence of Arabia
#7687, aired 2018-01-30NOT TO BE CONFUSED $800: Flip the names: one wrote "An Essay on Man"; the other was a Holy See-er during the 100s Alexander Pope & Pope Alexander
#7683, aired 2018-01-24SPORTS UPSETS $1000: On Aug. 13, 1919 a 100-1 shot came in as this horse lost his only race to the fittingly named Upset Man o' War
#7683, aired 2018-01-24SOUNDS LIKE MY FIRST MARRIAGE $2,500 (Daily Double): Before she was Martha Washington, she was married to a man with this last name Custis
#7677, aired 2018-01-16ANCIENT TIMES $400: Still in use, China's "Grand" one of these man-made waterways may date back to the 300s B.C. a canal
#7670, aired 2018-01-05TAKE ME "DOWN" $200: 15,406... 15,405... 15,404... man, this is going to take a while a countdown
#7670, aired 2018-01-05AM I BLUE? $1200: Jamie Foxx seemed to get a charge out of playing this Peter Parker foe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" Electro
#7670, aired 2018-01-05BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): Violent sexuality in this man's life & works before & during the French Revolution led to him being jailed for many years the Marquis de Sade
#7668, aired 2018-01-03CHIEF JUSTICES $1200: This man who led 2 branches of govt. in one way or another resigned in 1930 due to ill health & was dead a month later Taft
#7667, aired 2018-01-02SHORT STORIES $200: In an 1863 tale Philip Nolan wishes to never hear of the U.S. again & becomes "The Man Without" this a country
#7665, aired 2017-12-29STAN LEE $200: (Stan Lee presents the clue.) In a Reddit Ask Me Anything I revealed that the superhero I would most like to be is this one, because he's rich, handsome, glamorous, the women love him & he's got boats & planes & an iron costume--man! Tony Stark
#7663, aired 2017-12-27KILLING GARY OLDMAN $600: It is far from a spoiler to say this man played by Gary Oldman in "JFK" does not live to see the end of the film Lee Harvey Oswald
#7658, aired 2017-12-20JOY TO THE WORLD $200: A year before the Lumiere bros.' first film, this man's Kinetoscope put moving pictures on a screen during a vaudeville show Thomas Edison
#7658, aired 2017-12-20JOY TO THE WORLD $1000: Following World War II, this man's leadership spurred the recovery of a continent and blocked the spread of Communism (General George) Marshall
#7657, aired 2017-12-19FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 2012 this man's wife was listed as comrade Ri Sol Ju, but that is thought to be a made-up name Kim Jong-Un
#7654, aired 2017-12-14EXILED! $800: The man holding this title has said that the 15th & next to hold it could be discovered in exile the Dalai Lama
#7644, aired 2017-11-30NEW ENGLAND $600: In 2003, after years of erosion, this state's iconic Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to the ground New Hampshire
#7644, aired 2017-11-30BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN $800: After his 1906 death, the Chicago Board of Trade shut down to remember this merchant Marshall Field
#7642, aired 2017-11-28LITERATURE $400: Drop "the" from an H.G. Wells title to get the name of this 1952 novel narrated by a nameless young black man Invisible Man
#7642, aired 2017-11-28FRENCH HISTORY $800: In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first man to fly a plane over this European waterway the English Channel
#7641, aired 2017-11-27RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN $200: The U.S. went to the polls for one of these on Nov. 8, 2016 a general election
#7641, aired 2017-11-27RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN $400: A 96-mph-throwing Cleveland Indian had to work on his control "before he kills somebody" in this 1989 movie Major League
#7639, aired 2017-11-23POLITICAL QUOTES $800: In May 2017 this man soon to be fired said he was "mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election" James Comey
#7638, aired 2017-11-22THE AGE OF TREASON $1,200 (Daily Double): 17 when convicted of treason in the death of this man, Vaso Cubrilovic went on to be Yugoslavia's Minister of Forests Duke Franz Ferdinand
#7638, aired 2017-11-22THE AGE OF TREASON $2000: The last man hanged for treason in England was "Lord Haw Haw", who used this as his "weapon" to help the Nazis the radio
#7637, aired 2017-11-2120/20 AT 40 $200: (David Muir of 20/20 presents the clue.) In 2015 I had the honor of moderating a town hall with this man before his first visit to the U.S.; he asked Americans to pray for him Pope Francis
#7636, aired 2017-11-20PRISONS $800: This prison is in the title of Johnny Cash's song that says, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" Folsom
#7635, aired 2017-11-17EPONYMS $10,400 (Daily Double): These slips of the tongue that bear a man's name include "It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride" a Spoonerism
#7632, aired 2017-11-14DOCUMENTARIES $1200: The title "Citizenfour" refers to an email alias used by this man who revealed NSA secrets (Edward) Snowden
#7629, aired 2017-11-09A SHOWER OF SCHOPENHAUER $1200: Since 1911 the Schopenhauer Society in this German city "am Main" has been dedicated to the man & his works Frankfurt
#7629, aired 2017-11-09A SHOWER OF SCHOPENHAUER $1600: In college, Schopenhauer transferred from medicine to the humanities, studying this "Critique" man (Immanuel) Kant
#7627, aired 2017-11-07SWIPE WRITE $400: After he proposes, Elizabeth Bennet tells him he is "the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry" Mr. Darcy
#7624, aired 2017-11-02LET'S EXPLORE $200: An Explorers Club member, this 2nd man to stand on the moon lent his name to a space exploration award given by the club Buzz Aldrin
#7624, aired 2017-11-02WHERE'D YOU DISAPPEAR TO? $800: The FBI did not believe the old Giants stadium to be the final resting place of this union man, unseen since July 30, 1975 Jimmy Hoffa
#7623, aired 2017-11-01KEVIN $1600: Before his 21-year NBA career, this big man (then big kid) led his high school team to the Chicago city title in 1995 Kevin Garnett
#7622, aired 2017-10-31ART $1600: Though he appears more to be smiling, the man in the Franz Hals painting is portrayed as this cavalier The Laughing Cavalier
#7622, aired 2017-10-31NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEES $2,600 (Daily Double): Many attempts to get this man the award for creating the Boy Scouts were unsuccessful (Lord Baden-)Powell
#7621, aired 2017-10-30"ANT", MAN $400: Radiator liquid to fight those cold winter nights antifreeze
#7621, aired 2017-10-30"ANT", MAN $600: Grammatically, in "Sal hit a ball so hard that he knocked the cover off it", Sal is this to he, as is ball to it antecedent
#7621, aired 2017-10-30"ANT", MAN $1000: Opposition to withdrawing state support from a church; take a deep breath & slowly say all 28 letters antidisestablishmentarianism
#7618, aired 2017-10-25PROTESTANTISM $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1960 Geoffrey Fisher, the 99th man in this post, became the first modern one to visit the Vatican the Archbishop of Canterbury
#7615, aired 2017-10-20FROM PAGE TO MULTIPLEX $1600: Based on Stephen King, this 2017 film has Idris Elba as the gunslinger, in pursuit of Matthew McConaughey's Man in Black The Dark Tower
#7612, aired 2017-10-17ANCIENT WISDOM $2000: This Roman poet's "Georgics" tells us, "Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things" Virgil
#7611, aired 2017-10-16BIOPICS OF BRITS $400: "Nowhere Boy" recounts the early life of this man whose new friend Paul wants to form a band with him John Lennon
#7609, aired 2017-10-12OUT-OF-DATE TV TITLES $800: When the very male Todd joined this show, Will Forte ceased to be exactly the title character The Last Man on Earth
#7606, aired 2017-10-09BOND BOMBSHELLS $2000: Diana Rigg ran out of all the time in the world after becoming Mrs. Bond to this man in his 1-shot role as Mr. Bond George Lazenby
#7602, aired 2017-10-03LITERA-CHURCH $1000: The title of this play set in 1170 comes to fruition when a priest defies the king Murder in the Cathedral
#7601, aired 2017-10-02HISPANIC AMERICANS $400: In 1962 this man co-founded the Natl. Farm Workers Assoc. to help workers earn more than sub-poverty-level wages Cesar Chavez
#7599, aired 2017-09-28COUNTY SEATS $800: The Stickley Museum in Onondaga County, NY. has an outsize chair made for this Tibetan holy man to sit in cross-legged the Dalai Lama
#7598, aired 2017-09-27TV PRIVATE DETECTIVES $400: The man, the mustache, the legend...this character, P.I. was a CBS mainstay from 1980 to 1988 Magnum, P.I.
#7596, aired 2017-09-25THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO $200: In "The Last Day of a Condemned Man," a prisoner wakes up every morning knowing each day could lead to this instrument of doom the guillotine
#7594, aired 2017-09-21NOT THEIR FIRST RODEO $1600: Head to Jindabyne in this country for its annual Man from Snow River Rodeo Australia
#7590, aired 2017-09-15GOVERNMENT FOLKS WITH 2 FIRST NAMES? $800 (Daily Double): After becoming the literal man who fell to Earth in 1962, he rose to serve Ohio in the Senate from 1974 to 1999 John Glenn
#7589, aired 2017-09-14THE ORIENT EXPRESS $1200: When Georges Nagelmackers saw this man's sleeper cars, he realized he could create a train to span a continent George Pullman
#7586, aired 2017-09-11SELF-HELP BOOKS $600: "Quantum Healing" & other books by this New Delhi-born man aim to put you on the path to wellness Deepak Chopra
#7584, aired 2017-07-27LET'S ALL GO TO THE LIBRARY $400: Burned by the Brits in 1814, the Library of Congress was rebuilt with the purchase of 6,487 books from this man (Thomas) Jefferson
#7584, aired 2017-07-27THE BRIDGE & TUNNEL CROWD $400: Tour de France champ Chris Froome is the first man to cycle from England to France via this; it took 55 minutes the Chunnel
#7583, aired 2017-07-26BRITANNICA BYLINES $2000: Who better than this holy man to write the entry on South Africa's 1995 Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Desmond Tutu
#7578, aired 2017-07-19TELL ME "Y" $1200: This term for an obsequiously agreeable fellow dates to the 1910s a yes man
#7577, aired 2017-07-18THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $800: This lawyer from a 1960 novel doesn't want his son Jem to think "courage is a man with a gun in his hand" Atticus Finch
#7577, aired 2017-07-18THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $1600: The imprisoned Abbe Faria, mentor to this Dumas character, regrets instilling in him "the desire for revenge" the count of Monte Cristo (or Edmond Dantès)
#7574, aired 2017-07-13"M"PORTANT PAINTERS $1200: (Alex presents the clue from the Norton Simon Museum.) Very few artists were as expressive in the use of colors as this man, whose "Odalisque with a Tambourine" was inspired by a trip to Morocco (Henri) Matisse
#7573, aired 2017-07-12BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $800: This Mike Myers man had "one simple request, & that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads" Dr. Evil
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE PRESIDENTIAL VERSE OF RICHARD ARMOUR $200: This man "was a tall man, a lanky six-feet-four. he had to duck a little when coming through a door" Abraham Lincoln
#7571, aired 2017-07-10THE PRESIDENTIAL VERSE OF RICHARD ARMOUR $2,000 (Daily Double): "After comparison with Benjamin Harrison it was good to have" this man "all over" Grover Cleveland
#7569, aired 2017-07-06VISUAL ART $200: Here's a thinker--in 1864 he submitted his first sculpture to the Paris salon, "Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose" Rodin
#7568, aired 2017-07-05STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The thoroughbred racehorse Man O' War lost only one race: a 1919 upset to a horse named this Upset
#7566, aired 2017-07-03MARVEL MOVIE MAGIC $400: In the new film "Spider-Man: Homecoming", the web-slinger is trying to prove he's worthy of joining this group the Avengers
#7565, aired 2017-06-30POLITICAL CONVENTIONS $600: To secure the 1976 Republican nomination, incumbent Gerald Ford had to win a floor fight with this man Ronald Reagan
#7562, aired 2017-06-27POKEY, MAN, GO $500 (Daily Double): After a victory at Acre in 1191, he was imprisoned in Austria on his way home to England & ransomed for 150,000 marks Richard the Lionheart
#7562, aired 2017-06-27POKEY, MAN, GO $800: The longtime prisoner known as this, sent to the Bastille in 1698, actually used black velvet to hide his face the Man in the Iron Mask
#7562, aired 2017-06-27POKEY, MAN, GO $1200: As one of this "numbered" group, John Howard Lawson went to the pokey in 1948 & was then blacklisted the Hollywood Ten
#7562, aired 2017-06-27POKEY, MAN, GO $1600: After getting in trouble with the Church of England in 1661, this pilgrim progressed to jail, where he wrote a lot (John) Bunyan
#7561, aired 2017-06-26INSTRUMENTAL SONG TITLES $1600: "Hey" this person, "play a song for me; I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man
#7558, aired 2017-06-21LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: Dashiell Hammett dedicated "The Thin Man" to this fellow writer & longtime love Lillian Hellman
#7556, aired 2017-06-19WHO THEY SERVED $400: (I'm Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post.) In 2001 I served as a policy adviser on this man's successful campaign for mayor of New York, but in a 2016 editorial, I urged him not to mount a third-party run for the presidency (Michael) Bloomberg
#7555, aired 2017-06-16VEEP $200: This Indiana man: "1 word sums up probably the responsibility of any Vice President, & that 1 word is 'to be prepared'" Dan Quayle
#7555, aired 2017-06-161971's COSMO GIRL'S GUIDE TO THE NEW ETIQUETTE $400: Not tonight! In 25 "Thoughtful Things to Do for a Man in the Bedroom: "Never mention your backache or" this "after 7:30 PM" a headache
#7555, aired 2017-06-161971's COSMO GIRL'S GUIDE TO THE NEW ETIQUETTE $600: "Things That are Tacky": forgetting to buy your man vermouth, stamps & this item such as barbasol or foamy shaving cream
#7555, aired 2017-06-16THE CONDEMNED MAN $800: Later declared innocent, in 1895, this man, unjustly convicted of treason, was shipped off to Devil's Island Dreyfus
#7553, aired 2017-06-14CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: He needed oil to move his parts, but what the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" really sought was this a heart
#7552, aired 2017-06-13OTHER GREEK LETTER MALES? $400: In contrast to the alpha male, Urban Dictionary calls him "an unremarkable, careful man" beta (male)
#7551, aired 2017-06-12"BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: On this song from "Channel Orange", Frank Ocean sings to a cab driver of his unrequited love for a man "Bad Religion"
#7549, aired 2017-06-08PREQUELS & SEQUELS $1600: In Stephen King's sequel to "The Shining", Danny Torrance grows up & fights evil as this title medical man Doctor Sleep
#7548, aired 2017-06-07THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.) On March 2, 1962, five Philadelphia Warriors combined to score 69 points; the sixth, this man, who wore this jersey that night, added another 100 Wilt Chamberlain
#7548, aired 2017-06-07THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.) I wear a size 10 shoe; the largest shoe in the hall of fame, a size 23, belonged to this man who broke into the NBA with Orlando in 1992 Shaquille O'Neal
#7544, aired 2017-06-01BIBLE STUDY $200: God chose this most righteous man & his family to survive the events of Genesis 7 Noah
#7542, aired 2017-05-30SEOUL MAN & WOMAN $400: Ordained in 1973 & promoted to his metropolitan see in 2012, Andrew Yeom Soo-Jong is Seoul's this archbishop
#7542, aired 2017-05-30FROM THE FRENCH $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the National World War I Museum.) With a two-man crew and a top speed of just 5 miles per hour, the Renault FT-17 revolutionized tank design with its ability to point its gun in any direction, thanks to this rotating top section, from the French for "tower" a turret
#7539, aired 2017-05-25BARBRA STREISAND DUETS $400: Who better to duet with Barbra on "New York State Of Mind" than this piano man Billy Joel
#7538, aired 2017-05-24HEART SURGERY WITH DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue.) As director of a center for integrative medicine, I appreciate a pioneer of integrated medicine, the African-American surgeon Daniel Hale Williams, who in 1893 sutured a man's pericardium, becoming one of the first Americans to perform this then-risky type of surgery open-heart surgery
#7536, aired 2017-05-2219th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): This man said that Massachusetts electing him to the House pleased him more than winning the presidency John Quincy Adams
#7535, aired 2017-05-19THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1600: This man was recruited to portray Harvey Milk Sean Penn
#7532, aired 2017-05-16THEATRE $2000: In "Six Degrees of Separation", a young black man named Paul claims to be this actor's son Sidney Poitier
#7519, aired 2017-04-27FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " was based on a story by this Jazz Age man Fitzgerald
#7518, aired 2017-04-26DEBUSSY CAT $2000: Man, the title character in this 1894 prelude is a half-man, half-goat creature of myth--crazy! Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
#7516, aired 2017-04-24STATES & LICENSE PLATES $1600: Driving straight from Rockford to Carbondale, most of the plates you see will have this man's face in the center Abraham Lincoln
#7514, aired 2017-04-20MASTERS OF DISGUISE $2000: Fighting in Blackburn's Ford & the Peninsular Campaign, Sarah Edmonds dressed as a man to fight in this war the Civil War
#7512, aired 2017-04-18BASEBALL $800: Babe Ruth was the first to wear No. 3 for the Yankees; this man was their first No. 4 Lou Gehrig
#7508, aired 2017-04-12DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN $400: Unhappy with Tennessee politics in 1835, he said, "You may all go to hell & I will go to Texas", but that did not turn out well (Davy) Crockett
#7508, aired 2017-04-12DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN $800: On July 12, 2016 moving vans were outside 10 Downing Street, as this man was headed to a new address (David) Cameron
#7508, aired 2017-04-12DAVE'S NOT HERE, MAN $2000: In 1998 this NPR humorist moved to Paris to try to learn French; hilarity ensued (Dave) Sedaris
#7505, aired 2017-04-07ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $1000: Margaret Dumont changed "man" to "woman", setting up the Marx Brothers' jokes as a master of this job straight man (or straight woman)
#7502, aired 2017-04-04CHEESY ANAGRAMS $600: Just grate: SPEAR MAN Parmesan
#7499, aired 2017-03-30A VISIT TO THE CIA $200: (Alex reports from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, VA.) The Director's Gallery in the headquarters building contains portraits of every man who has led the CIA, including this one, who also served as president of the United States George H.W. Bush
#7499, aired 2017-03-30A VISIT TO THE CIA $600: (Alex reports from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, VA.) Intelligence derived mockups, like this one, were used to great effect in 2011 in a CIA-directed mission to this man's residence in Pakistan Osama bin Laden
#7499, aired 2017-03-30NEEDS SOME WORK $2000: A Spanish woman tried to restore this type of depiction of Jesus, Latin for "behold the man" ecce homo
#7497, aired 2017-03-28PICK YOUR POISON $1000: Used to murder ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko: plutonium, polonium, potassium polonium
#7497, aired 2017-03-28MacARTHUR GENIUS GRANT RECIPIENTS $1600: The "test" named for this 2014 genius: does a movie have at least 2 women talking to each other & not about a man? (Alison) Bechdel
#7494, aired 2017-03-23ON THE BALLOT $400: It was almost every man for a kingfish in 1928-- he won a whopping 96% of the vote to be Louisiana's governor Huey Long
#7492, aired 2017-03-21PRETTY COLORS $400: From 1992 to 2000 David Joyner was the man inside this purple dinosaur suit Barney
#7491, aired 2017-03-20PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $800: Although he didn't create the phrase "Go West, young man", he did say, "Go to the great West" Horace Greeley
#7489, aired 2017-03-16ENTERTAINMENT "MORE" OR "LESS" $1200: Based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel, this 1987 movie features the actors who played Iron Man & Ultron Less Than Zero
#7489, aired 2017-03-16CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a 1719 novel it is the name given to a man who is rescued from a band of cannibals Friday
#7486, aired 2017-03-13OPEN THE PODCAST DOORS, HAL $800: Guests ranging from Julie Andrews to Dwight Gooden to Anthony Weiner are on "Here's the Thing", hosted by this "30 Rock" man Alec Baldwin
#7484, aired 2017-03-09NIXON'S ENEMIES LIST $2000: Several senators took up spots, including Walter Mondale, William Proxmire & this man from Maine Edmund Muskie
#7481, aired 2017-03-06STRINGING YOU ALONG $800: According to Homer, Penelope agreed to marry the one who could string this man's huge bow Odysseus
#7480, aired 2017-03-031960s SLANG $1600: Your "treads" were your shoes; insert 1 letter to get these, your clothes, man threads
#7477, aired 2017-02-28ANCIENT BATTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Defeat at the 207 B.C. Battle of the Metaurus River ended this man's efforts to conquer Italy Hannibal
#7474, aired 2017-02-23StubHub SUBCULTURES $400: StubHub sells tickets to this "incendiary" Nevada festival that bills itself as "a city in the desert" Burning Man
#7473, aired 2017-02-22LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES $2000: This 1998 adaptation had Porthos wanting to replace French king Leo with non-French king Leo The Man in the Iron Mask
#7471, aired 2017-02-20ART & ARTISTS $800: The Henry Moore sundial seen here, "Man Enters the Cosmos", greets visitors to this city's Adler Planetarium Chicago
#7470, aired 2017-02-17AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: If you're only going to publish one novel in your lifetime, make it worth it, like this man did with "Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison
#7464, aired 2017-02-09MAN VS. BEAST $200: Since the dawn of camping, man has tried to keep food from this beast; a product called the Ursack says it's the answer bears
#7464, aired 2017-02-09MAN VS. BEAST $400: In 1763 an early one of these, from the Latin for "plague", was made from tobacco to kill aphids a pesticide
#7464, aired 2017-02-09MAN VS. BEAST $1,000 (Daily Double): In a Hawthorne story, a witch makes one of these to protect her corn, then brings him to life a scarecrow
#7463, aired 2017-02-08TV MOVIES $800: This Oscar-winning actor brought the man & the music to life as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" Michael Douglas
#7461, aired 2017-02-06NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence" Malcolm X
#7458, aired 2017-02-01GOOD FELLERS $2,500 (Daily Double): In a 1900 work his tree cutting is stuck mid-chop & he asks for someone to "oil my joints" the Tin Man
#7457, aired 2017-01-31NO MAN $400: This word for a person making negative statements sounds like it refers to a horse a naysayer
#7457, aired 2017-01-31JOHN DONNE $2000: The "No man is an island" passage continues, "Never send to know" this, later a book title for whom the bell tolls
#7447, aired 2017-01-17SOMETHING TO READ $600: This man's "Morte d'Arthur"; you're into 15th century English prose, right? (Thomas) Malory
#7445, aired 2017-01-13ON TV NOW $1600: The title of this Will Forte sitcom turns out to be a lie The Last Man on Earth
#7443, aired 2017-01-11LETTERS FROM WRITERS $1000: To Frank Lloyd Wright: "I would like to tell you now that Howard Roark represents my conception of man as God" Ayn Rand
#7441, aired 2017-01-09NOISE $800: In 2013 the 12th man helped CenturyLink Field hit 137.6 decibels in this city; eardrums start to rupture at 150 Seattle
#7439, aired 2017-01-05A VISIT WITH RITA MORENO $2000: (Rita Moreno presents the clue.) On Broadway I've had audiences rolling in the aisles with this man's dialogue in "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" & "The Odd Couple" Neil Simon
#7434, aired 2016-12-29"L"ITERATURE $400: In the 1855 preface to this collection of poems, Whitman said, "A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but ...a beginning" Leaves of Grass
#7433, aired 2016-12-28U.S. HISTORY $800: Thomas Jefferson appointed this man, his personal secretary, to lead an expedition to try to find the N.W. Passage (Meriwether) Lewis
#7432, aired 2016-12-27WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: On Oct. 9, 1986 in London Michael Crawford first donned the mask to play this role the Phantom of the Opera
#7432, aired 2016-12-27WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1600: V, the freedom fighter in "V for Vendetta", wears a white plastic mask said to represent this historical conspirator Guy Fawkes
#7431, aired 2016-12-26MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $800: The SEC's 2013 Co-Defensive Player of the Year, he became the first openly gay man to be drafted into the NFL Michael Sam
#7427, aired 2016-12-207-LETTER VERBS $1600: To walk or strut with defiance, man that guy's got some serious... swagger
#7422, aired 2016-12-13BOOKS OF THE 1930s $1200: The title of this book that spawned several movies didn't refer to its detective hero but to lanky Clyde Wynant The Thin Man
#7421, aired 2016-12-12BASKETBALL $600: In the NBA an award is given to the best of these ordinal players, usually the first off the bench the sixth man
#7419, aired 2016-12-08THAT'S COLD, MAN $1000: To coagulate or curdle, it also means to change from a fluid state to a solid one by cooling congeal
#7418, aired 2016-12-07THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $400: To visit the room in Petersen House where this man died, you can use the ticket you bought to tour Ford's Theatre Lincoln
#7417, aired 2016-12-06CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Juliana Mazza with 22 News.) Many beloved characters from children's literature are features in a Springfield sculpture garden dedicated to Dr. Seuss, the pen name of this man (Theodor) Geisel
#7417, aired 2016-12-06A BARRAGE OF BOOKS $1000: This Frenchman's novel "Nausea" is about a man coming to terms with the meaning or meaninglessness of existence Jean-Paul Sartre
#7416, aired 2016-12-05WHO "AR" THEY? $400: The action of a helix is central to this man's 2,000-year-old concept, still utilized today Archimedes
#7414, aired 2016-12-01CRIMINAL CHOICES $1000: Want it in 20s? In 2008 a Texas man was charged with this fraudulent act after trying to cash a check for $360 billion forgery
#7413, aired 2016-11-30THE ERIE CANAL $2000: New York governor from 1817 to 1823, this man with a familiar political last name led the effort to fund & build the canal DeWitt Clinton
#7404, aired 2016-11-17MOVIE VILLAINS $800: This masked man tells Bruce Wayne, "When Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die" Bane
#7399, aired 2016-11-10AMERICAN SYMBOLS $600: Dating back to the War of 1812, this symbol is usually depicted as a bearded man wearing red, white & blue Uncle Sam
#7395, aired 2016-11-04U.S. MOUNTAINS $600 (Daily Double): A Wyoming peak was named for this man soon after his 1924 death; there are said to be 14 points on its ridges Woodrow Wilson
#7395, aired 2016-11-04"READY" WHEN YOU ARE $6,500 (Daily Double): In the year 1000 England's king was this man who sounds ill-prepared Ethelred the Unready
#7394, aired 2016-11-03SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1000: After being banished, Rosalind runs off to the Forest of Arden dressed like a man in this play As You Like It
#7394, aired 2016-11-03I LIKE BIG BUCKS $1200: This ex-Microsoft man has fun with his billions, owning 3 pro sports teams & giving away $2 billion to charity (Paul) Allen
#7389, aired 2016-10-27THE "BLIND" SPOT $1200: With your eyes covered, try to catch & identify other players in this game blind man's bluff
#7389, aired 2016-10-27APOCALYPSE NOW $2000: Will Smith is the last man on Earth you'd expect to star in this 2007 film dealing with a vampiric plague I Am Legend
#7388, aired 2016-10-26MILITARY MEMORIES $800: Octavian sank the forces of this man 8 ways to Sunday to win the 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium Marc Antony
#7388, aired 2016-10-26JUNIOR LEAGUE $1200: In 2011 ESPN decided, nope, we're not ready for this man to sing the opening of "Monday Night Football" anymore Hank Williams, Jr.
#7387, aired 2016-10-25JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE $600: Justin says this man with a similar name who co-produced "FutureSex/LoveSounds" is like a brother to him Timbaland
#7385, aired 2016-10-21HISTORIC OOPSIES $200: During WWII the British sent known Communist Klaus Fuchs to the U.S. to work on this; soon he introduced the USSR to a fat man the nuclear bomb (the atomic bomb)
#7385, aired 2016-10-21A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH $1200: A man must come to terms with his own impending end in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by this Russian Tolstoy
#7385, aired 2016-10-21HORROR TV $1600: On "The Twilight Zone" episode "To Serve Man", the aliens' intentions are revealed, as "it's" this kind of book! a cookbook
#7384, aired 2016-10-20CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation Abraham
#7383, aired 2016-10-19FINAL RESTING PLACES $600: His headstone at Arlington says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge yellow fever" Walter Reed
#7383, aired 2016-10-19CROSSED OFF WALTZ $1200: Mastery of the bop waltz stylings from this piano-playing jazz "holy man" has been attained--on to the next Thelonious Monk
#7378, aired 2016-10-12@_FloridaMan $400: Fla. man "Ordered to Stay Away From Animals After Throwing Live" this state reptile "Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window" an alligator
#7378, aired 2016-10-12@_FloridaMan $600: On this wrestler & his lawsuit against Gawker--"Florida Man Shows up to Court in 'Formal Bandana'" Hulk Hogan
#7378, aired 2016-10-12IN CONCLUSION $600: The last man to visit here was Eugene Cernan in 1972 the Moon
#7371, aired 2016-10-03NOTORIOUS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) You need more people than there are in the world to keep it going forever, so eventually, there are no new investors to add funds & you get the devastating collapse of the pyramid scheme, named for this Italian man (Charles) Ponzi
#7367, aired 2016-09-27PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $200: In 2015 this Brit scored the winning goal as the first athlete to be chosen David Beckham
#7367, aired 2016-09-27PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $600: Sadly, this first non-entertainer to be named died in a 1999 plane crash John F. Kennedy, Jr.
#7366, aired 2016-09-26THE SINGING "B" $400: They flew to the top of the charts in 1965 with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" The Byrds
#7366, aired 2016-09-26INVENTION & INNOVATION $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) Spiked teeth pull cotton fibers through a metal plate with slots, built too small to permit seeds to pass through in the 1794 invention of this man Eli Whitney
#7364, aired 2016-09-22IT'S RAINING MENSA $1200: Mensa man Markus Persson sold this create-a-world-out-of-blocks computer game to Microsoft for $2.5 billion Minecraft
#7364, aired 2016-09-22INQUISITIVE WRITERS $2,600 (Daily Double): R.L. Stevenson wrote, “I had gone to bed” this man, “I had awakened” this other man. “How was this to be explained?” Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
#7363, aired 2016-09-21RELATIVE POP CULTURE $1600: Peter Davison, the 5th man to play the iconic sci-fi role on this show, became father-in-law to David Tennant, the 10th Doctor Who
#7358, aired 2016-09-14FOLKS OF SCIENCE $800: This Missouri man who loved to work for peanuts also developed a type of synthetic marble made from wood shavings George Washington Carver
#7355, aired 2016-07-29WORKING WITH A BEATLE $2000: On Thanksgiving 1974, John joined this man at Madison Square Garden to perform "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" Elton John
#7353, aired 2016-07-27BASEBALL $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.) In San Diego on August 4, 2007, Barry Bonds hit this ball 382 feet to tie the all-time home run record of this man, technically Hank Aaron
#7353, aired 2016-07-27DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $400: The real Boone favored beaver hats, not these alliterative items, which he is said to have thought uncivilized coonskin caps
#7353, aired 2016-07-27DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $800: Born in 1734, Daniel was turned down when he volunteered to serve in this conflict at the age of 78 the War of 1812
#7353, aired 2016-07-27DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $1600: In 1775 Boone bought his family to this settlement that still bears his name Boonesborough
#7352, aired 2016-07-26THE AMAZING SPACE-MAN $1600: Astronaut Wally Schirra did a TV commercial for Actifed, this kind of drug that he used during one of his space flights a sinus decongestant
#7352, aired 2016-07-26THE AMAZING SPACE-MAN $3,800 (Daily Double): U.S. astronaut candidates must complete training in ISS systems & this language likely to come in handy up there Russian
#7350, aired 2016-07-22POISONOUS PLANTS $600: This highly poisonous plant of Europe of the parsley family was used to do in an ancient method man hemlock
#7348, aired 2016-07-20MEN OF NOTE $400: From 1957 to 1975 this man who turned Jackie K into Jackie O ran Olympic Airways Ari Onassis
#7348, aired 2016-07-20THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1600: In 1796 Samuel Miles became the first elector to switch his vote, voting for Thomas Jefferson instead of this man John Adams
#7347, aired 2016-07-19ADAPTATIONS 5 $400: Winston Groom's book was the basis of this film about a man running through history, & that's all I have to say about that Forrest Gump
#7346, aired 2016-07-18MUSIC FROM THE 2000s $1000: "Stand Up" in 2005 was the 4th No. 1 studio album in a row by the band named for this S. Afr.-born man; they're big live too The Dave Matthews Band
#7342, aired 2016-07-12MILITARY MEN? $800: "It was 20 years ago today", this man "taught the band to play" Sgt. Pepper
#7342, aired 2016-07-12THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $3,400 (Daily Double): The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize went to this man, "Africa's peace bishop" (Desmond) Tutu
#7341, aired 2016-07-11KIND OF A GREY AREA $400: The ghostly "Grey Man" of Pawleys Island, S.C., appears to warn residents of these approaching storms hurricanes
#7340, aired 2016-07-08SNL CRACKS US UP $600: Norm MacDonald created "Celeb. Jeo.!" to get his impression of this man on "SNL" & yes, Turd Ferguson is a funny name Burt Reynolds
#7333, aired 2016-06-29THE GOLD BURGLARS $400: In the role of Satipo, he's the gold-thieving actor seen here, trying to relieve Indiana Jones of his booty Alfred Molina
#7333, aired 2016-06-29LOST & FOUND $1600: Evangeline Lilly traded in the island to play Hope van Dyne opposite Paul Rudd in this Marvel movie Ant-Man
#7330, aired 2016-06-24DOUBLE "A" $800: An idolatrous creation as described in the Book of Exodus was pleasing to this biblical man Aaron
#7328, aired 2016-06-22OPERA $2000: (Alex reads from the Metropolitan Opera.) American composer John Adams broke new ground by using a recent event as the subject for an opera, this title man's historic 1972 visit to China Nixon
#7325, aired 2016-06-17BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Black Rock, Nevada annual festival that's used as a football strategy where one player matches up with another Burning Man-to-Man
#7321, aired 2016-06-13WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $400: In 2015 Harry Reid said, "I think" this man "should be able to succeed me" as leader of the Senate Democrats (Chuck) Schumer
#7321, aired 2016-06-13YOU USED TO BE "BIG" $1200: Mid 2000s TV show about multiple family man Bill Henrickson Big Love
#7320, aired 2016-06-10"OO" IN THE MIDDLE, SORRY $2000: Profession of J.P.F. Blanchard, the first man to see Philadelphia from the air a balloonist
#7319, aired 2016-06-09BEVERLY HILLS $400: Perhaps because he never met a man he didn't like, he was liked enough to be Beverly Hills' first honorary mayor Will Rogers
#7318, aired 2016-06-08GREAT SCOTS $1,400 (Daily Double): It's largely thanks to this man, born in Scotland in 1838, that we have Sequoia National Park John Muir
#7315, aired 2016-06-03THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING $800: James II was converted to this faith before he became king; as a result, he was converted into an ex-king Catholicism
#7315, aired 2016-06-03THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING $1600: As a young man the II king of this name was already calling for Belgium to be a colonial power--bad news for the Congo (King) Leopold (of Belgium)
#7308, aired 2016-05-25THE OLD MAN & THE "C" $800: It's finally time to open that 1964 Pomerol, so he'll need this implement a corkscrew
#7306, aired 2016-05-23SCULPTORS $800: To create his Stone Mountain sculpture, he had to devise a magic lantern to project a sketch onto the mountain Gutzon Borglum
#7306, aired 2016-05-23ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? $800: This 11th century man aka "the Lucky" converted his mom to Christianity; then mom built the first church in Greenland Leif Erikson
#7306, aired 2016-05-23AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Things went south, not west, for this presidential candidate in 1872; he lost to Ulysses Grant & died three weeks after the election Horace Greeley
#7302, aired 2016-05-17MEN OF STEEL $400: A 20th century Soviet leader adopted this name that means "man of steel" Stalin
#7301, aired 2016-05-16THE CORRECTIONS $1600: On Nov. 3, 1948 the Chicago Daily Tribune made a slight error on the front page--this man did not defeat Truman Dewey
#7300, aired 2016-05-13AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The title character in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" moves from the Deep South to this New York City district Harlem
#7297, aired 2016-05-102016 STAMPS $600: Stand & deliver the name of this man honored on a stamp & in film for teaching calculus to his inner-city students Jaime Escalante
#7297, aired 2016-05-10IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR $800: In 1976 this man beat Gerald Ford to win the White House Jimmy Carter
#7289, aired 2016-04-281948 $2000: At HUAC, Whittaker Chambers' Aug. 3 testimony named 9 ex-govt. officials, including this man who'd advised FDR at Yalta Alger Hiss
#7288, aired 2016-04-27THUS SAYETH THE LORD $1600: To Joshua: "Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every ____ a man" tribe
#7287, aired 2016-04-26THE BROAD $800: Artists want us to think about familiar images like this man, who has described the flag as seen, but not looked at (Jasper) Johns
#7286, aired 2016-04-25SCIENCE UPDATE $1000: Kennewick Man, an 8,500-year-old discovery in this western state, is indeed related to Native Americans, who claim him Washington
#7285, aired 2016-04-22YOUR FACE IS ON THE MONEY $800: This man who came to power in 1979 is on Iran's 100,000-rial note Ayatollah Khomeini
#7285, aired 2016-04-22BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $1200: In Genesis 32 this man gives his angry brother goats, camels & donkeys in an attempt to calm him Jacob
#7283, aired 2016-04-20THE WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) "Pirates of the Caribbean" props include the dead man's chest, Jack's compass, & a medallion of stolen Aztec gold cursed due to the greed of this Spanish conquistador Cortés
#7282, aired 2016-04-19TAKE ME TO THE COMBAT PILOT $400: Hermann Goring eventually succeeded the man known by this colorful nickname as commander of fighter wing I the Red Baron
#7282, aired 2016-04-19THE STATE'S RICHEST MAN $400: Pierre Omidyar, founder of this company, put in a bid of $8.1 billion to lead in Hawaii eBay
#7282, aired 2016-04-19TAKE ME TO THE COMBAT PILOT $800: 66 combat missions in Korea, Ph.D. in astronautics from M.I.T., 2nd man on the Moon; nice resume, this guy! Buzz Aldrin
#7282, aired 2016-04-19TAKE ME TO THE COMBAT PILOT $2000: The first U.S. man to orbit Earth, he took down his share of MiGs during 90 combat missions in Korea John Glenn
#7280, aired 2016-04-15TV SHOWS BASED ON MOVIES $2000: A man can use all of his brain due to a drug called NZT in this series based on the Bradley Cooper film of the same name Limitless
#7279, aired 2016-04-14ELEMENTS OF SONG $1600: America: "Oz never did give nothing to" this man "that he didn't, didn't already have" the Tin Man

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (357 results returned)

#9060, aired 2024-03-15HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones
#9046, aired 2024-02-26ART HISTORY: The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style Raphael
#9043, aired 2024-02-2119th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp
#9030, aired 2024-02-02ARMY TECHNOLOGY: Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands Black Hawk helicopters
#9018, aired 2024-01-1719th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument
#9004, aired 2023-12-28THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS: In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman Antony & Cleopatra
#9000, aired 2023-12-22THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill
#8999, aired 2023-12-21FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking
#8990, aired 2023-12-08ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge
#8976, aired 2023-11-20U.S. PRESIDENTS: 7 U.S. presidents were born in the state of Ohio, beginning with this man who entered West Point in 1839 Ulysses Grant
#8974, aired 2023-11-16POETS: 1793 reports of the killing of Hector Munro by a wild animal in India may have inspired one of this man's best-known poems William Blake
#8968, aired 2023-11-08EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook
#8933, aired 2023-09-2020th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer
#8917, aired 2023-07-18MAN-MADE OBJECTS: Around since 1998, it's now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second the International Space Station (the ISS)
#8902, aired 2023-06-2719th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling
#20, aired 2023-05-24LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory
#17, aired 2023-05-23REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur
#8872, aired 2023-05-16AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus
#8822, aired 2023-03-07NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget
#8821, aired 2023-03-06U.S. HISTORY: An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland Dr. Samuel Mudd
#9, aired 2023-01-0520th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown
#4, aired 2022-10-16ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man
#8720, aired 2022-10-14AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne
#8717, aired 2022-10-11FAMOUS SHIPS: Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died the Bismarck
#8651, aired 2022-05-30IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier
#8642, aired 2022-05-17LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac
#8640, aired 2022-05-13STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia
#8625, aired 2022-04-22HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III
#8599, aired 2022-03-17NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring
#8590, aired 2022-03-04LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote
#8575, aired 2022-02-11INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov
#8573, aired 2022-02-09AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego
#8568, aired 2022-02-02RECENT TV: The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant" (Garry) Kasparov
#8557, aired 2022-01-18AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD: France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673 the Molière Award
#8550, aired 2022-01-0720th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl
#8535, aired 2021-12-17FRENCH ARTISTS: The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method" (Georges) Seurat
#8528, aired 2021-12-0820th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi
#8524, aired 2021-12-02JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer
#8510, aired 2021-11-12CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard
#8497, aired 2021-10-26AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill
#8488, aired 2021-10-13SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra
#8470, aired 2021-09-1719th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson
#8461, aired 2021-08-09BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan
#8459, aired 2021-08-051930s AMERICA: Unpopular at the time, the man for whom it is named wasn't invited to the September 30, 1935 dedication of this landmark Hoover Dam
#8418, aired 2021-06-091960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding
#8401, aired 2021-05-17ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco
#8398, aired 2021-05-12WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age
#8391, aired 2021-05-0319th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley
#8367, aired 2021-03-30AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth
#8339, aired 2021-02-1819th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan
#8320, aired 2021-01-22STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook
#8287, aired 2020-11-24HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: One of the liberties listed in this: "No man shall be forced to perform more service for a knight's 'fee'... than is due from it" the Magna Carta
#8281, aired 2020-11-1618th CENTURY AMERICANS: One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants" Benjamin Franklin
#8251, aired 2020-10-05FAMOUS AMERICANS: Will Smith & Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at this man's 2016 funeral Muhammad Ali
#8210, aired 2020-04-24MEN & MACHINES: John Moore-Brabazon, the first pilot licensed by England, had learned about engines working for this man, first half of a famous pair (Charles) Rolls
#8205, aired 2020-04-17HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne
#2, aired 2020-01-07ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker
#8111, aired 2019-12-09VICE PRESIDENTS: George H.W. Bush in 1988 was the first sitting vice president to be elected to the top job since this man 152 years before Martin Van Buren
#8073, aired 2019-10-16WORLD LEADERS: This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called "the Red Sun" Mao Zedong (Mao)
#8019, aired 2019-06-2018th CENTURY AMERICANS: "Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man Benjamin Franklin
#8007, aired 2019-06-04WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany Spain
#7997, aired 2019-05-21POETRY & THE MOVIES: Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars Glory
#7940, aired 2019-03-01PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEARS: Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office 1952
#7910, aired 2019-01-18TV PERSONALITIES: In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show Regis Philbin
#7878, aired 2018-12-05NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder
#7852, aired 2018-10-30TODAY'S INNOVATORS: The Ballbarrow was an early invention by this British man who's had greater success with sophisticated household devices James Dyson
#7846, aired 2018-10-22PLACES IN THE NEWS: In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned Mar-a-Lago
#7826, aired 2018-09-24BRITISH ROYALTY: In Sept. 2017 Prince Charles became the longest-serving Prince of Wales, passing the man who became this king Edward VII
#7814, aired 2018-07-26FAMOUS NAMES: Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Billy Graham
#7806, aired 2018-07-16EXPLORERS: In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, "You shall see another sea" Vasco Núñez de Balboa
#7787, aired 2018-06-1920th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey
#7777, aired 2018-06-05FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot
#7752, aired 2018-05-01FASHION BRANDS: Translated from Roman numerals, "55" appears in luggage & watch product names from a company founded by this man Louis Vuitton
#7731, aired 2018-04-02U.S. GOVERNMENT: The portrait here hangs in the building of this Cabinet department & depicts a man who once ran it the Department of Justice
#7701, aired 2018-02-19THE SUPREME COURT: In the 1966 case of this man, Earl Warren wrote of eliminating "evils in the interrogation process" Ernesto Miranda
#7687, aired 2018-01-30LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character Stephen Dedalus
#7659, aired 2017-12-21ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials Dos Equis
#7649, aired 2017-12-07TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR: Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015 Angela Merkel
#7633, aired 2017-11-15HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain
#7623, aired 2017-11-01THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino
#7618, aired 2017-10-25AMERICANA: The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job an engineer
#7596, aired 2017-09-25BRITISH POETS: The statue of a sailor seen here in Watchet, England is based on a famous poem by this man Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#7589, aired 2017-09-14BUSINESSMEN: The corporation of this British man got its name from his early inexperience in business Richard Branson
#7588, aired 2017-09-13ANCIENT HISTORY: Battles at Trebbia & Trasimene were among the victories of this man who was born in Africa & died near the Black Sea Hannibal
#7583, aired 2017-07-26NOVELS: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film The Old Man and the Sea
#7554, aired 2017-06-15RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne
#7547, aired 2017-06-06THE OSCARS: This man received 2 honorary Oscars in his career, & the actor who played him on film received a 1992 nomination for the role Charlie Chaplin
#7541, aired 2017-05-2919th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist" Lewis Carroll
#7527, aired 2017-05-09FAMOUS TEACHERS: W.J. Bryan gave the keynote speech at this man's high school graduation in 1919; 6 years later their paths would cross again John Scopes
#7473, aired 2017-02-22PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS: Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded" 1864
#7435, aired 2016-12-30OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS: The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man John Nash
#7405, aired 2016-11-18SCIENCE & MATH VOCABULARY: These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point vertex & vortex
#7402, aired 2016-11-15MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus
#7318, aired 2016-06-08STATE CAPITALS: This Midwestern capital was named for a man who was born in what is now Turkey over 2,000 years ago St. Paul
#7304, aired 2016-05-19THE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE: In 2013 President Obama was sworn in on 2 Bibles--one was Lincoln’s & one belonged to this man who died 103 years after Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr.
#7235, aired 2016-02-12THE U.S. SENATE: During his Senate service, which lasted from 1973 to January 2009, this man cast 12,810 votes Joe Biden
#7234, aired 2016-02-11NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account Edward Snowden
#7230, aired 2016-02-05U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford
#7202, aired 2015-12-29FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins
#7173, aired 2015-11-18SPACE EXPLORATION: The first man to travel into space began his journey on that fateful day in what is today this country Kazakhstan
#7170, aired 2015-11-13GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth Pandora
#7162, aired 2015-11-0320th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: In 1915 he dropped bomb-shaped cardboard leaflets on Seattle to promote military aviation Boeing
#7142, aired 2015-10-06EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse
#7129, aired 2015-09-17CONTEMPORARIES: On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail Louis Daguerre
#7116, aired 2015-07-20POETRY: Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot
#7098, aired 2015-06-24WORLD LEADERS IN THE NEWS: In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994 F.W. de Klerk
#7082, aired 2015-06-02INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau
#7067, aired 2015-05-12BUSINESS: These 2 American businessmen are seen here in early 20th century photos Harley & Davidson
#7052, aired 2015-04-21BODIES OF WATER: The Finnish call it Itameri & the Germans call it Ostsee the Baltic Sea
#7005, aired 2015-02-13HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP: Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611 Henry Hudson
#6990, aired 2015-01-23RIVERS: This North American river first sailed by Europeans in 1534 is named for a man who was martyred in Rome in the 3rd century the St. Lawrence River
#6958, aired 2014-12-10U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man in the 20th century to hold all 4 federally elected offices: congressman, senator, vice president & president Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
#6914, aired 2014-10-09HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington
#6883, aired 2014-07-1620 YEARS AGO IN ENTERTAINMENT: In 1994 this comedian starred in a No. 1 sitcom, the No. 1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller Tim Allen
#6836, aired 2014-05-1219th CENTURY POEMS: Written about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, a Kipling poem said, "Take up" this now-controversial phrase the White Man's burden
#6824, aired 2014-04-24DIARIES & JOURNALS: This archaeologist's diary for November 26, 1922 mentions 2 "ebony-black effigies of a king, gold sandalled" Howard Carter
#6820, aired 2014-04-18CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up" Rhett Butler
#6808, aired 2014-04-02MONARCHS: In 2005 the Kul Sharif Mosque of Tatarstan was reopened 453 years after it was destroyed by this man Ivan the Terrible
#6781, aired 2014-02-2419th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown
#6779, aired 2014-02-20AUTHORS: On his death in 1862 a Massachusetts paper said, "No man ever lived closer to nature, and reported her secrets more eloquently" Thoreau
#6773, aired 2014-02-12BIBLE CHARACTERS: "Take care of him", says the man called this in Luke 10 after giving money to an innkeeper the Good Samaritan
#6747, aired 2014-01-07THE TITANIC: A member of Parliament said, "Those who have been saved have been saved through one man", this Italian Marconi
#6742, aired 2013-12-3119th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous" (Aaron) Burr
#6714, aired 2013-11-21U.S. PRESIDENTS: The second man to become president who was never elected to the job, he twice ran for the position unsuccessfully Millard Fillmore
#6708, aired 2013-11-13MYTHOLOGY: Rich with electrum, the Turkish river Pactolus is where this legendary man was said to have washed off his curse King Midas
#6663, aired 2013-07-31THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation
#6585, aired 2013-04-12PHYSICISTS: On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone the Nobel Prize
#6552, aired 2013-02-2619th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881
#6540, aired 2013-02-08U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA
#6538, aired 2013-02-06FAMOUS ASIANS: When this diplomat met the singer Psy in 2012, he said, "Until 2 days ago... I was the most famous Korean in the world" Ban Ki-moon
#6517, aired 2013-01-08PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Record holder for the longest time lived after leaving office Jimmy Carter
#6478, aired 2012-11-14U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield
#6459, aired 2012-10-18PLACE NAMES: From 1953 until 1990 Chemnitz, Germany was named for this man Karl Marx
#6375, aired 2012-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY: When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President Thomas Jefferson
#6370, aired 2012-05-04THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold
#6324, aired 2012-03-01SCIENTISTS: In 1711 Newton led the Royal Society in London & his greatest rival led the Academy of Sciences in this capital city Berlin
#6322, aired 2012-02-28THE 1960s: On nominating this man in 1967, LBJ said "It is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man & the right place" Thurgood Marshall
#6320, aired 2012-02-24LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES: Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
#6293, aired 2012-01-18FATHERS & SONS: The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria Daedalus
#6285, aired 2012-01-06ANCIENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES: The Hebrew word for this Biblical unit of measurement is Ammah, aptly meaning "elbow" or "forearm" a cubit
#6263, aired 2011-12-07SPORTING EVENTS: The cup presented since 1887 to the man who wins this is inscribed "single handed champion of the world" Wimbledon (the men's singles championship)
#6247, aired 2011-11-1519th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde
#6243, aired 2011-11-09FRENCH HISTORY: She said, "I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people" Charlotte Corday
#6242, aired 2011-11-0818th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift
#6159, aired 2011-05-2619th CENTURY MUSIC: Lyrics to an 1868 tune by this man began, "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht, Mit Rosen Bedacht" Johannes Brahms
#6151, aired 2011-05-16COLLEGE: From the Latin for "free", this 2-word term for a type of college refers to the old belief of what a free man should be taught liberal arts
#6133, aired 2011-04-20HISTORIC AMERICANS: Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here Matthew Perry
#6096, aired 2011-02-28BRANDS: Jack Odell gave his child a tiny vehicle to bring to school inside one of these items, & a toy brand name was born a matchbox
#6047, aired 2010-12-21THE 19th CENTURY: Thomas Huxley & Samuel Wilberforce were among the Oxford Museum speakers debating this theory June 30, 1860 evolution
#6023, aired 2010-11-17PHRASES: In ancient Rome it was a post where racers changed direction; since 1836 it's meant a moment change occurs turning point
#6020, aired 2010-11-12DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence
#6005, aired 2010-10-22THE OSCARS: Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Original Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s Matt Damon
#6002, aired 2010-10-19HOLIDAY HISTORY: Cuba removed Christmas from its list of national holidays in 1969 & restored it in 1997 in anticipation of a visit by this man Pope John Paul II
#5993, aired 2010-10-062010 SCIENCE NEWS: The IUPAC named an element for this man born in 1473 to "highlight the link between astronomy and... nuclear chemistry" Copernicus
#5971, aired 2010-07-26LITERARY BRAWLS: At Key West in 1936, Wallace Stevens broke his hand punching this man, who responded by knocking Stevens down Ernest Hemingway
#5948, aired 2010-06-23HISTORIC DATES: The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 took place exactly 5 years after the related death of this man Archduke Franz Ferdinand
#5933, aired 2010-06-02HISTORICAL PHRASES: Before it meant a space between opposing armies, it referred to an execution site outside the walls of London no man's land
#5922, aired 2010-05-18ROMAN EMPERORS: In 59 A.D. Agrippina wrote to this man, her son, "Tell me why I should plot against your life?"--she was killed anyway Nero
#5921, aired 2010-05-1720th CENTURY THINKERS: Refusing to imprison this man for demonstrating during the 1960s, de Gaulle said, "One does not arrest Voltaire" Jean-Paul Sartre
#5917, aired 2010-05-11WORDS IN THE BIBLE: In Genesis 2:24 these 2 words are what a man shall do to his parents & then to his wife; add a letter to 1 to get the other leave & cleave
#5907, aired 2010-04-27CANADIAN HISTORY: A river is named for this man born in Scotland in 1764, the first European known to have crossed Canada Alexander Mackenzie
#5892, aired 2010-04-06THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: The coelacanth & the ivory-billed woodpecker are sometimes referred to as this biblical man "species" Lazarus
#5851, aired 2010-02-08RANKS & TITLES: Owain Glyndwr, who died circa 1416, was the last native of his country to claim this title Prince of Wales
#5786, aired 2009-11-09THE OLD TESTAMENT: This man was given the armor, helmet & sword of the first king of Israel, but refused to use them David
#5765, aired 2009-10-09THE U.S. SENATE: This man, only the third man to serve his state in the U.S. Senate, left the body in 2009 Ted Stevens
#5749, aired 2009-09-17FAMOUS ACTORS: Ironically, he lost the leading role in the 1960 play "The Best Man" because he didn't look presidential Ronald Reagan
#5722, aired 2009-06-23LEADING MEN: Up for producing, directing, acting & writing for 1978 & 1981, he's the only man to twice get 4 Oscar nominations for one film Warren Beatty
#5700, aired 2009-05-2220th CENTURY POLITICS: On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address the Checkers Speech
#5625, aired 2009-02-06MUSIC LEGENDS: His 2003 People magazine obituary was headlined "Fade to Black" Johnny Cash
#5595, aired 2008-12-26HISTORIC NAMES: A recent biography of this 13th century man is subtitled "From Venice to Xanadu" Marco Polo
#5566, aired 2008-11-1719th CENTURY POLITICS: When the GOP convened in 1888, he became the 1st black man to earn a vote for president at a major party convention Frederick Douglass
#5553, aired 2008-10-292008: Though not elected to the position, a man from this state became the 1st blind governor & the 4th black governor in the U.S. New York
#5537, aired 2008-10-07EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken Jules Verne
#5505, aired 2008-07-11BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs
#5499, aired 2008-07-03U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn't get to enjoy the victory for long William Henry Harrison
#5462, aired 2008-05-13CIVIL WAR-ERA FICTION: A Northerner whose sympathies exiled him to the Confederacy, Bermuda & Canada inspired this 1863 tale The Man Without A Country
#5393, aired 2008-02-06WORLD AUTHORS: In 1898 he wrote, "As for the persons I have accused... they are... embodiments of social malfeasance" Émile Zola
#5391, aired 2008-02-04BRITISH ACTORS: The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor Rex Harrison
#5390, aired 2008-02-01COMMUNICATION: A government website says it's "a complete, complex language... said to be the 4th most commonly used" in the U.S. American Sign Language
#5380, aired 2008-01-18BIBLICAL NAMES: The name of this rebellious young man of the Old Testament can be translated from the Hebrew as "father of peace" Absalom
#5369, aired 2008-01-03AVIATION HISTORY: He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh
#5361, aired 2007-12-24SPACE MEN: He was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, & the only World War II veteran Alan Shepard
#5330, aired 2007-11-09HISTORIC ARCHITECTS: He designed S.C.'s State Capitol, burned during the Civil War; his most famous building had burned during the War of 1812 James Hoban
#5305, aired 2007-10-05SPORTS BUSINESS: In 1993 this man said, "What Phil & Nike have done is turn me into a dream" Michael Jordan
#5257, aired 2007-06-19HISTORIC NAMES: This man's return to the U.S. in 1824, 47 years after his first trip here, added splendor to James Monroe's presidential term Marquis de Lafayette
#5213, aired 2007-04-18A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus
#5210, aired 2007-04-13HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Decreed by Congress in 1989, National Tap Dance Day falls on the May 25th birthday of this man born in 1878 Bill Robinson
#5197, aired 2007-03-27ART HISTORY: Carel Fabritius, whose self-portrait is seen here, is considered this man's greatest pupil Rembrandt
#5192, aired 2007-03-20OLYMPIC HISTORY: This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" the marathon
#5173, aired 2007-02-21EXPLORERS: In 1616, after Hudson died, this man became the 1st European to reach Ellesmere Island; an island & bay are named for him (William) Baffin
#5127, aired 2006-12-19THE ACADEMY AWARDS: When this man won, Richard Dreyfuss said goodbye to being the youngest ever to win the Best Actor Oscar Adrien Brody
#5118, aired 2006-12-06FAMOUS NEW YORKERS: In 1905 he said, "It is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money... for the good of my fellow man" John D. Rockefeller
#5109, aired 2006-11-231970s TELEVISION: Bruce Peterson, a NASA test pilot, helped inspire this series; the crash he survived was seen in the show's opening credits The Six Million Dollar Man
#5101, aired 2006-11-13THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: In the 1958 edition, this man penned the article on ventriloquism Edgar Bergen
#5090, aired 2006-10-27NAMES ON THE MAP: 2 new place names on the map in 1924, both honoring the same man, were Ulyanovsk & this Leningrad
#5076, aired 2006-10-09MEMORIALS: When completed, the South Dakota memorial to this man will include a 44-foot tall feather on his 87-foot tall head Crazy Horse (the Oglala chief)
#5022, aired 2006-06-13LITERARY QUOTES: "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway)
#4941, aired 2006-02-20WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin
#4938, aired 2006-02-15LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty
#4935, aired 2006-02-10AMERICANA: Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man Abraham Lincoln
#4916, aired 2006-01-16ANCIENT OBJECTS: In I Kings 8 there was nothing inside it except 2 tablets put there by Moses the Ark of the Covenant
#4897, aired 2005-12-20AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: This man who died in 1984 remarked, "We're not in the hamburger business, we're in show business" Ray Kroc
#4891, aired 2005-12-1219th CENTURY LIT: This work says, "Man is not truly one, but truly two... I learned to recognize the... primitive duality of man" Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
#4887, aired 2005-12-06NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII
#4875, aired 2005-11-18WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru
#4861, aired 2005-10-3120th CENTURY REPUBLICANS: Never president, he was the youngest man ever to receive the Republican presidential nomination (Thomas) Dewey
#4831, aired 2005-09-19RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar
#4826, aired 2005-09-12BROADWAY MUSICALS: "No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question" is from this show Man of La Mancha
#4799, aired 2005-06-16HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Tired of his fragile wares being smashed in transit, this man born in 1730 advocated British turnpike building Wedgwood
#4795, aired 2005-06-10PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon
#4758, aired 2005-04-20LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: This real man inspired a 1719 novel character & a poem that says, "I am monarch of all I survey" Alexander Selkirk
#4744, aired 2005-03-31ENGLISH LIT: This 17th century poetic follow-up begins, "I who ere while the happy garden sung, by one man's disobedience lost..." Paradise Regained
#4689, aired 2005-01-13FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades George Tenet (former head of the CIA)
#4658, aired 2004-12-01THE 18th CENTURY: In 1790 the HMS Pandora sailed thousands of miles specifically to bring back this man, but failed Fletcher Christian
#4657, aired 2004-11-30BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block
#4632, aired 2004-10-26AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien
#4626, aired 2004-10-18FAMOUS FIRSTS: In 1876 this man became the first person not to get a busy signal on the other end of a phone line Alexander Graham Bell
#4613, aired 2004-09-2919th CENTURY NAMES: Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865 John Wilkes Booth
#4604, aired 2004-09-16AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway
#4595, aired 2004-07-23SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III
#4567, aired 2004-06-15CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein
#4515, aired 2004-04-02GEORGE WASHINGTON: In 1798 George wrote to John Greenwood, a man in this profession, "I am...ready to pay what ever you may charge me" dentist
#4509, aired 2004-03-25INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Yale Repertory Theatre) During apartheid, this man chose to premiere several of his plays, including "A Place with the Pigs", here at Yale Athol Fugard
#4501, aired 2004-03-15THE 1960s: Used most infamously in 1963, a .38-caliber Colt Cobra handgun belonging to this man sold in 1991 for $220,000 Jack Ruby
#4485, aired 2004-02-20ITALIAN TOWNS: This small town in Tuscany was the birthplace of the man who painted the Mona Lisa Vinci
#4471, aired 2004-02-02BASEBALL HISTORY: On August 10th, 2003, Rafael Furcal of the Braves became only the 12th man in MLB history to perform this single-handedly a triple play
#4459, aired 2004-01-15POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: This man's successful 2001 campaign was the most expensive non-presidential campaign in history Michael Bloomberg
#4457, aired 2004-01-13DEADLY FIRSTS: The first man to die as the result of one of these accidents was Lt. Thomas Selfridge on Sept. 17, 1908 an airplane crash
#4456, aired 2004-01-12AMERICAN WRITERS: In 1936 the San Francisco News sent this man to investigate living conditions among migrant workers John Steinbeck
#4383, aired 2003-10-01PHRASE ORIGINS: The sinking of the HMS Birkenhead in February 1852 gave rise to this gallant 4-word naval tradition women and children first
#4255, aired 2003-02-14FAMOUS AMERICANS: James Fenimore Cooper based the character of Natty Bumppo on this man who was born in 1734 Daniel Boone
#4244, aired 2003-01-30FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character Madame Butterfly
#4203, aired 2002-12-04THE WHITE HOUSE: In February 2000 the White House Press Briefing Room was named in this man's honor James Brady
#4191, aired 2002-11-18THE PRESIDENCY: He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment Gerald Ford
#4160, aired 2002-10-04U.S. PRESIDENTS: A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency James A. Garfield
#4135, aired 2002-07-19FAMOUS AMERICANS: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer John Adams
#4122, aired 2002-07-021980s BUSINESS: In his job since 1984, this man has been called "the Prince who awakened Sleeping Beauty" Michael Eisner
#4087, aired 2002-05-14VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson
#4069, aired 2002-04-18PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Other than FDR, he's the only man to appear as President or VP on a major party ticket in 4 straight elections George Herbert Walker Bush
#4049, aired 2002-03-21ASIAN CITIES: The name of this Afghan city is a local variation of the name of the man who conquered the region in 329 B.C. Kandahar
#4048, aired 2002-03-20FAMOUS AMERICANS: The most requested photo in the history of the National Archives is of the 1970 meeting of these 2 men Richard Nixon & Elvis Presley
#4045, aired 2002-03-15FAMILIAR PHRASES: The phrase "to turn a blind eye" is said to have been inspired by a 19th century naval incident involving this man Admiral Lord Nelson
#4012, aired 2002-01-29FAMOUS AMERICANS: The international airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan is named for this man who moved to the city from Nebraska as a child Gerald Ford
#4006, aired 2002-01-21PEOPLE ON THE MAP: Tourist spots in the Asian city named for this man include Notre Dame Cathedral & Reunification Hall Ho Chi Minh
#3994, aired 2002-01-03FAMILIAR PHARASES: This 2-word term entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in June 1947 flying saucers
#3962, aired 2001-11-20CITY NAME ORIGINS: In 1517 the Portuguese modified the name of a port city of western Ceylon in honor of this man Christopher Columbus
#3926, aired 2001-10-01WORLD LEADERS: In April 2001 Kevin Costner screened his film "Thirteen Days" for this man, a key player in the events portrayed Fidel Castro
#3909, aired 2001-09-06HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis
#3857, aired 2001-05-15AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
#3856, aired 2001-05-14MILITARY HISTORY: This man commanded the last organized military force to invade the lower 48 states Pancho Villa
#3835, aired 2001-04-13THE SUPREME COURT: Charles Evans Hughes was appointed to the court by this man whom he later succeeded as Chief Justice William Howard Taft
#3828, aired 2001-04-04HISTORIC PEOPLE: A copper statue of this hero of the 1960s welcomes visitors to Star City near Moscow Yuri Gagarin (first man in space)
#3827, aired 2001-04-03SATIRE: This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!" Lyndon B. Johnson
#3790, aired 2001-02-09CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb"
#3782, aired 2001-01-30WORLD LEADERS: From 1964 to 1982 this man was leader of a nation with nuclear weapons Leonid Brezhnev (of the Soviet Union)
#3779, aired 2001-01-25SCIENTISTS: Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th" Charles Darwin
#3772, aired 2001-01-16BUSINESS BIGGIES: In the 1890s he established steamer lines on the Great Lakes to control the transport of iron to Pittsburgh Andrew Carnegie
#3754, aired 2000-12-21PLANTS & FLOWERS: Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night" Poinsettia
#3687, aired 2000-09-19FAMOUS NAMES: The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s Albert Einstein
#3681, aired 2000-09-11AUTHORS: In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers Ernest Hemingway
#3674, aired 2000-07-20CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: Siegfried's funeral march was played when this man's coffin reached the train station in 1883 Richard Wagner
#3667, aired 2000-07-11THE PULITZER PRIZES: Theodore H. White, the first general nonfiction winner, won for an account of this man's election to the U.S. presidency John F. Kennedy ("The Making of the President, 1960")
#3658, aired 2000-06-28THE PULITZER PRIZES: The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies Roger Ebert
#3642, aired 2000-06-06NEW CLASSICAL MUSIC: In 1999 in Norfolk, the Virginia Symphony premiered Steve Heitzeg's "Aqua", an homage to this man Jacques Cousteau
#3626, aired 2000-05-1519th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Known to many as The Colossus, this man was elected to the Cape Colony Assembly in 1881 Cecil Rhodes
#3615, aired 2000-04-28SPORTS CHAMPIONS: Winning in 1965 & 1966, he was the first man to win the Masters golf tournament in 2 consecutive years Jack Nicklaus
#3552, aired 2000-02-01HISTORIC NAMES: To honor his work, this man's daughter took the name Maria Celeste when she became a nun in 1616 Galileo
#3549, aired 2000-01-27MEDIEVAL FIRSTS: In the Middle Ages, this man introduced fireworks to western Europe Marco Polo
#3479, aired 1999-10-21EXPLORERS: On hearing of the discovery of George Mallory's body, this man told reporters he still thinks he was first Sir Edmund Hillary
#3478, aired 1999-10-2020th CENTURY NEWSMAKERS: Due to police irregularities, this man's Arizona conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966 Ernesto Miranda
#3477, aired 1999-10-19HISTORIC FIRSTS: Stopped by a cop on a bike, in 1896 Walter Arnold was the first man in England to receive a fine for this Speeding
#3462, aired 1999-09-28FAMOUS NAMES: In April 1999 Paul Simon took center field for the dedication of a monument to this man Joe DiMaggio
#3450, aired 1999-09-10FUN WITH NUMBERS: Number of degrees the minute hand on a standard clock travels in one hour 360
#3446, aired 1999-09-06FAMOUS AMERICANS: On July 20, 1999 it was 30 years since this man said, "Houston... the Eagle has landed" Neil Armstrong
#3430, aired 1999-07-02U.S. GOVERNMENT: William Wirt was attorney general for over 11 years, a record; this attorney general is second, with 6 years Janet Reno
#3401, aired 1999-05-24VICTORY CELEBRATIONS: This man received the first & only New York City ticker-tape parade ever given to a classical musician Van Cliburn
#3340, aired 1999-02-26THE TITANIC: This man whose invention was used to call for help held a ticket for the voyage but changed his plans Guglielmo Marconi
#3255, aired 1998-10-30HALLOWEEN ON FILM: (Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess Harry Houdini
#3200, aired 1998-06-26HISTORIC AMERICANS: He's the only individual to be named Time magazine's Man of the Year 3 times Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#3175, aired 1998-05-22SONGWRITERS: It was once said of this man who lived to be 101: He "has no place in American music. He is American music" Irving Berlin
#3134, aired 1998-03-26U.S. PRESIDENTS: Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second Ulysses S. Grant
#3115, aired 1998-02-27TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES: The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval" Rod Serling
#3100, aired 1998-02-06U.S. CITIES: This historic city was named for the Bishop of Hippo on whose feast day the area was first sighted St. Augustine, Florida
#3093, aired 1998-01-28GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Ariadne got the ball of twine that she gave to Theseus from this man before his flight from Crete Daedalus
#2906, aired 1997-03-31SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk
#2880, aired 1997-02-21BRITISH STATESMEN: In a 1940 eulogy of this man, Churchill spoke of his "Love of peace... toil for peace... strife for peace" Neville Chamberlain
#2866, aired 1997-02-03DEMOCRATS: Bill Clinton is the first Democrat since this man to be elected president twice Franklin Delano Roosevelt
#2778, aired 1996-10-02ACTOR-DIRECTORS: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut Kevin Costner
#2770, aired 1996-09-20SENATORS: Former man in space & future man in space both elected to the Senate in 1974 John Glenn & Jake Garn
#2751, aired 1996-07-15RULERS: Last name of the last man to sit in power on the Peacock Throne (Shah Reza) Pahlavi (of Iran)
#2663, aired 1996-03-13OPERA: He conducted the world premieres of "Pagliacci", "La Boheme" & "The Girl of the Golden West" Arturo Toscanini
#2652, aired 1996-02-27FAMOUS FAMILIES: The 1st man named this was a violinist, the 2nd, an actor & the 3rd, CEO at Times Mirror Magazines Efrem Zimbalist
#2617, aired 1996-01-09ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne
#2586, aired 1995-11-27PEOPLE: According to Forbes, with an estimated worth of $12.9 billion, he's now the richest man in the world Bill Gates
#2561, aired 1995-10-23FAMOUS NAMES: As British ambassador to Turkey he was allowed to take away "any pieces of stone with old inscriptions" (Lord) Elgin
#2532, aired 1995-09-12FAMOUS SPEECHES: Last word of a 1775 speech that includes "Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in illusions of hope" death
#2527, aired 1995-09-05FAMOUS NAMES: Licensing rights to the likeness of this man born in Germany in 1879 belong to Jerusalem's Hebrew University Albert Einstein
#2520, aired 1995-07-14NOVEL CHARACTERS: The next-to-last line spoken by this man is "I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't" Rhett Butler
#2514, aired 1995-07-06FAMOUS PLAYS: Play that includes, "I was so mean as to kill this bird today... soon I shall kill myself in the same way" The Seagull
#2473, aired 1995-05-10POLITICS 1995: 1 of 2 Republican senators who cast votes against the balanced budget amendment on March 2, 1995 (1 of) Mark Hatfield or Senator Dole
#2470, aired 1995-05-05SCULPTURE: "The shot heard round the world" is carved in the base of this Daniel Chester French statue The Minute Man
#2383, aired 1995-01-04UNIVERSITIES: The golden spike removed after the May 10, 1869 ceremony is now at this university Stanford
#2312, aired 1994-09-27BOTANY: In 1872 he introduced seedless grape cuttings to California William Thompson
#2304, aired 1994-09-151994: James Gregory, a former Robben Island warden, was an invited guest at this May 10, 1994 event the inauguration of Nelson Mandela
#2292, aired 1994-07-1919th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence said he probably did "more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man" James Fenimore Cooper
#2244, aired 1994-05-12ALPHABETICALLY FIRST: Among the men who have walked on the Moon, his last name is alphabetically first (Buzz) Aldrin
#2168, aired 1994-01-26FAMOUS NAMES: Eisenhower said on his 1955 death that no other man contributed so much to the growth of 20th c. knowledge Albert Einstein
#2052, aired 1993-07-06PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison
#2015, aired 1993-05-14ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal
#2002, aired 1993-04-27U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last unmarried man elected president Grover Cleveland
#1959, aired 1993-02-2519th CENTURY AMERICA: The execution of this man & his followers in 1859 is believed to be the only one for treason against a state John Brown
#1953, aired 1993-02-17IN THE NEWS: Tennessee governor Ned McWherter chose Harlan Mathews to fill this man's Senate seat until 1994 Al Gore
#1919, aired 1992-12-31GOVERNORS: This governor sent in the militia after the 1919 Boston police strike was under control (Calvin) Coolidge
#1918, aired 1992-12-30FAMOUS NAMES: Volume 1 of the New Book of Knowledge Ency. has an article on this man written by Danny Kaye Hans Christian Andersen
#1890, aired 1992-11-20PRESIDENTS' HOMES: The exterior of the governor's mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president Andrew Jackson
#1827, aired 1992-07-071991: Time's 1991 Man of the Year, he made viewers around the world "instant witnesses to history" Ted Turner
#1789, aired 1992-05-14RELIGIOUS LEADERS: Gan-den Trup-pa, a monk, scholar & author, was the first man to be given this title the Dalai Lama
#1771, aired 1992-04-20MONARCHS: After more than 40 years in exile, King Michael returned to this country in 1990 only to be expelled again Romania
#1595, aired 1991-07-05SHAKESPEARE: In "Hamlet", this character says, "The apparel oft proclaims the man" Polonius
#1588, aired 1991-06-26U.S. GOVERNMENT: Of all the independent agencies of the U.S. government, this one has the most employees the Postal Service (the Post Office)
#1585, aired 1991-06-21AMERICAN POLITICS: He was the only man to preside over both the House & the Senate on the same day, March 4, 1933 John Nance Garner
#1544, aired 1991-04-25PRESIDENTS: The last president to enter office with his party controlling both houses of Congress Jimmy Carter
#1512, aired 1991-03-12U.S. GOVERNMENT: In 1977 James Schlesinger became the first man appointed to this post Secretary of Energy
#1443, aired 1990-12-05MAN IN SPACE: He was the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon Alan Shepard
#1427, aired 1990-11-13WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947 Pakistan & India
#1424, aired 1990-11-08WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina
#1419, aired 1990-11-01HISTORIC NAMES: John Adams was the great great grandson of this couple who came to America in 1620 John & Priscilla Alden
#1407, aired 1990-10-16MOVIE ACTRESSES: She was usually cast in exotic Asian roles before her huge success playing a detective's wife in 1934 Myrna Loy
#1381, aired 1990-09-10AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: Helen Keller dedicated "The Story of My Life" to this man who "taught the deaf to speak" Alexander Graham Bell
#1281, aired 1990-03-12THE NOBEL PRIZE: The only peace prize awarded posthumously went to this man in 1961 Dag Hammarskjold (the secretary-general of the UN who was killed in the plane crash in Africa)
#1255, aired 1990-02-02POLITICS: He was the last man holding the office of gov. when elected vice president of the U.S. Spiro Agnew (1968)
#1198, aired 1989-11-15VICE PRESIDENTS: At 39 he was the youngest man to take the office of vice president Richard Nixon (in 1953)
#1125, aired 1989-06-23MAN IN SPACE: On May 25, 1973 it took the crew in an Apollo capsule 9 tries to dock with this craft Skylab
#1108, aired 1989-05-31BEST SELLERS: The title of this 1970 best seller referred to brothers Rudolph & Thomas Jordache Rich Man, Poor Man
#1102, aired 1989-05-23LITERATURE: It's where Philip Nolan asked to be buried at sea
#1083, aired 1989-04-26HOLLYWOOD: Cowboy star who has 5 stars on Hollywood's Walk of Fame--1 each for film, TV, recording, theater & radio Gene Autry
#991, aired 1988-12-19BEST SELLERS: In 1964, 5 of the top 10 nonfiction best sellers were by or about this man John F. Kennedy
#968, aired 1988-11-16MAN IN SPACE: 3 months after John Glenn, he became the second American to orbit the Earth (Malcolm) Scott Carpenter
#953, aired 1988-10-26RELIGION: Almost struck by lightning in 1505, this young man vowed to become a monk & did soon after Martin Luther
#948, aired 1988-10-19NAMES IN THE NEWS: By June 30, 1988 every U.S. residence should have received a gov't booklet w/this man's photo on the cover C. Everett Koop
#895, aired 1988-06-2420th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: Johnny Carson became permanent host of "The Tonight Show" when this man was U.S. president John Kennedy
#888, aired 1988-06-15THE BIBLE: In Chapter 1, Verse 1, authorship of the book of Proverbs is attributed to this man Solomon
#846, aired 1988-04-18MAN IN SPACE: The names of the 1st two Space Shuttle orbiters actually launched into space Columbia & Challenger
#723, aired 1987-10-28COMEDIANS: To win a bet with Frankie Laine, this man composed 350 songs in just 1 week Steve Allen
#669, aired 1987-07-02THE BIBLE: Man of Gath whose height was six cubits & a span Goliath (Raphah or Lahmi)
#661, aired 1987-06-22RELIGION: After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Benjamin Weir
#649, aired 1987-06-04FAMOUS AMERICANS: Renaissance man, "he seized the lighting from heaven & the scepter from tyrants" Ben Franklin
#561, aired 1987-02-02ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth
#508, aired 1986-11-19MAN IN SPACE: Now seen as a TV spokesman, he was only astronaut to orbit Earth in Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo craft Wally Schirra
#396, aired 1986-03-17MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise
#388, aired 1986-03-05ART: The 2 geometric shapes containing da Vinci's famous "Vitruvian Man" circle & square
#296, aired 1985-10-28THE OSCARS: In 1937 & '38, he became only man to win Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years Spencer Tracy
#280, aired 1985-10-04BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state Delaware
#279, aired 1985-10-03WORLD POLITICS: Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying Nikita Khrushchev
#30, aired 1984-10-19ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus

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