| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | NOBEL PRIZES $1200: 2 scientists shared the 2023 Medicine Prize for enabling development of this type of COVID vaccine made by Pfizer & Moderna mRNA |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Doing this lifesaving procedure to the beat of "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees can help keep a proper rate CPR |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: As seen in the X-ray, the patient has this sideways curvature of the spine that's often diagnosed in adolescence scoliosis |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver inflammation that has 5 main viruses labeled A-E hepatitis |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In this early stage of periodontal disease, your gums may become swollen & bleed gingivitis |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Most recover fully from this syndrome, GBS for short, that affects the peripheral nervous system & is named for 2 French Drs. Guillain-Barré |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $800: Nuclear medicine is a subspecialty of this field that involves the use of X-rays to diagnose & treat disease radiology |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $1200: Palliative medicine goes hand in hand with this type of end-of-life care, providing comfort to both the patient & their family hospice |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: This duo that figured out a double-stranded structure shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine with Maurice Wilkins Watson & Crick |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $300: A "prep race" for the Kentucky Derby, the Withers Stakes fittingly shares its name with the highest point on this animal's back a horse |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $600: Sometimes called a "paunch", a cow's rumen is the largest chamber of this digestive organ; the vet's paunch is his own business a stomach |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $900: Believe it or not, many adult cats suffer from this condition, which makes them unable to digest milk lactose intolerance |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: It's an infectious disease affecting livestock--or the heavy metal band guitarist Scott Ian named after it Anthrax |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1500: If your pooch leaves doggie daycare with a scratchy throat, have him checked for canine infectious tracheobronchitis, better known as this kennel cough |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $400: Joseph Lister pioneered antiseptic medicine with the carbolic type of this, today called phenol acid |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $1600: The AMA says, "physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today house calls |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $2000: Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875 Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | MEDITATION $800: Time magazine once called this meditation guru "the poet prophet of alternative medicine" Deepak Chopra |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's grand-daughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $800: Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease yellow fever |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1200: In 1996, Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life Yeltsin |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1600: Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite lice |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $2000: This Flemish anatomist served as court physician to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & then to his son, Spain's Philip II Vesalius |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $400: It's often said that this is "the best medicine"--it's fun to share, adds joy to life & it relieves stress laughter |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | "CC" ME $2000: In medicine it's the complete or partial obstruction of a blood vessel, especially an artery occlusion |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A DEEP DIVE INTO... $1200: Medicine:
Angiotensin is the "A" in this acronym whose "inhibitors" are widely prescribed for heart problems ACE inhibitors |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $400: The "R" in the MMR vaccine, it's the medical name for German measles rubella |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $800: Both Graves' & Hashimoto's disease are disorders that primarily affect this gland the thyroid |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $1200: Since it regenerates, a part of this hepatic organ can be transplanted from a living donor & grow to normal size the liver |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $1600: Beginning with 3 consonants, it's the word for a professional who is trained to draw blood a phlebotomist |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $2000: The norovirus is a common cause of this 15-letter inflammation of the stomach lining & intestines gastroenteritis |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $400: Most of us do this several times a day, but it's also the most common tuberculosis symptom coughing |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $800: Vitamin B12 shots may be needed if you have the pernicious type of this disease where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin anemia |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $1600: Your largest salivary glands, they get swollen in cases of mumps the parotid glands |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $2000: In "Shutter Island", set in 1954, psychiatrist Ben Kingsley has hopes for this anti-psychotic the FDA approved that year Thorazine |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | MEDICINE $4,800 (Daily Double): This word has multiple meanings, as in: I was ____ to a cardiologist because I had ____ pain in my teeth from my heart issues referred |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Lupus is this type of disease in which the body attacks healthy tissues & organs autoimmune |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Some dieters attempt to enter ketosis, in which fat starts getting burned instead of this sugar in the blood glucose |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This type of nasal irrigation device seen here is generally safe when cleaned & handled properly a neti pot |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: It's the widening of an artery due to a weakness in the wall, which can lead to a hemorrhagic stroke an aneurysm |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: ECT is short for this brain stimulation therapy used to treat severe depression & bipolar disorder electroconvulsive therapy |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $400: It's what the 2 "M"s stand for in the MMR vaccine measles & mumps |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $800: Special cooling caps used during chemotherapy treatments are designed to prevent this balding (hair loss) |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $1600: Wet & dry are 2 types of this age-related eye disorder that causes gradual loss of central vision macular degeneration |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $2000: In an early surgical procedure called this, a hole was drilled into the skull to release pressure or evil spirits trephination |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): Blood pressure that's higher in the doctor's office than at home is referred to as this colorful type of hypertension white coat hypertension |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine Blackwell |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | THAT'S AN ANIMAL SOUND $200: Bottle stoppers & wild cherry cough medicine are procured from this part of a tree the bark |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $200: A slogan of this brand's eye drops was "gets the red out" Visine |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $400: While regular strength aspirin is 325 mg, low dose is commonly this strength, like the ones from Bayer & St. Joseph 81 milligrams |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $600: Named for a key ingredient derived from a succulent, this type of gel is used especially to soothe sunburns aloe vera |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $1000: Weird sleep activities aside, the name of this drug for insomnia might suggest you'll have a "good morning" Ambien |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $1,600 (Daily Double): Acidophilus tablets are sold as this type of supplement that increases friendly bacteria in the gut a probiotic |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SPORTS MEDICINE $400: To promote healing, some players receive PRP injections, short for "platelet-rich" this plasma |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SPORTS MEDICINE $800: Lateral epicondylitis is better known as this, which despite its name, isn't limited to guys like Novak Djokovic tennis elbow |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SPORTS MEDICINE $1200: Medial tibial stress syndrome is the medical term for this, perhaps caused by increasing the duration or intensity of a run shin splints |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SPORTS MEDICINE $1600: In 1974 this Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher had ligament surgery & the operation subsequently bore his name Tommy John |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SPORTS MEDICINE $2000: A doctor in the French army lent his name to this part of the foot which athletes are often injuring the Lisfranc joint |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Unfortunately, the winter of 2022-23 brought many parents of little ones new awareness of RSV, respiratory syncytial this virus |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The 1953 medical journal article that named this syndrome says patients have generally accepted a week of discomfort each month premenstrual syndrome |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Von Willebrand disease interrupts this process, so victims suffer from abnormal bleeding clotting |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Orange juice is an antiscorbutic, meaning it prevents this disease scurvy |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: This water-borne epidemic disease killed Peter Tchaikovsky's mother & probably Peter himself cholera |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Physical therapist & kinesiotherapist are 2 careers within this field that specializes in athletic injuries sports medicine |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Though it's actually named for a person, you can still get this type of food poisoning from the fish that's in its name salmonella |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This device delivers an electrical shock to correct an abnormal heartbeat in cases of cardiac arrest a defibrillator |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: As of July 2022 help is only a short phone call away with this 3-digit number to the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 988 |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Obesity has been linked to OSA, or obstructive this disorder, where breathing is disrupted while slumbering sleep apnea |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: Also used in medicine, this lightest of all metallic elements can float on water lithium |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | UNDER STUDY $1500: Nephrology is the branch of medicine that deals with these paired organs the kidneys |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | MEDICATIONS $200: The WHO's essential medicines list has 3 non-opioids for pain: acetaminophen, ibuprofen & this medicine cabinet veteran aspirin |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | ELEMENTAL RESPONSES $1600: This herb that was used as a medicine by Native Americans is often paired with echinacea in herbal supplements goldenseal |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | THE WORLD OF PATENT MODELS $600: Jacob Gulden patented a device for filling several bottles of this at once; his name is still on America's oldest brand mustard |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Singultus is the medical term for this spasm of the diaphragm; boo! a hiccup |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: If left untreated, a detached one of these membranes at the back of the eye can lead to blindness a retina |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: One reason you're not supposed to eat raw cookie dough is that the eggs may have the enterica type of this bacteria salmonella |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A recombinant zoster vaccine is given in 2 doses starting at age 50 to prevent this painful disease shingles |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: This pain along the path of a certain nerve can radiate from the hip down the leg, but at least it tends to be only on one side sciatica |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | GOING THROUGH SOME CYCLES $500: In 1953 sir Hans Krebs got this big prize for describing the cycle by which living cells obtain energy the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $1600: We were going for Hippocrates & a contestant came up with this 5-letter ancient who greatly influenced medieval medicine Galen |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: An ectopic pregnancy, from the Greek for "displaced", is called a tubal pregnancy when it occurs here inside the Fallopian tubes |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Greek for "to breathe hard" gives us the name for this ailment common in children asthma |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: PVCs are premature ventricular contractions, a common type of this, the medical term for any irregular heartbeat an arrhythmia |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: A colonoscopy can diagnose cancer as well as this condition where pockets develop in the sides of the colon diverticulitis |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Named for a French physician, this disorder of the inner ear can cause vertigo & hearing loss Ménière's disease |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST $1000: (Shankar Vedantam presents the clue.) I interviewed neuroscientist Sophie Scott, who studies the science of laughter, truly the best medicine, because it releases serotonin & this other neural transmitter that can create a sense of euphoria dopamine |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | WHERE ON EARTH? $2000: Lake Louise & the city of Medicine Hat: this Canadian province Alberta |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $200: You've gotta have heart to specialize in this branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of heart ailments cardiology |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $400: This field of medicine is so named because the goal is to avoid injury & disease by promoting health & well-being preventive |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $800: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" is from this book of wise writings Proverbs |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In 1955 13-year-old Susie asked her dad about an easier way to treat her asthma; dad ran Riker Labs & presto! the metered dose this device an inhaler |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Type I of this disorder once called manic depression has manic episodes of at least a week & depressive episodes of twice that long bipolar disorder |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: By age 75, half of white Americans have this eye condition that can feel like looking through a fogged-up window cataracts |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: The most common form of this ailment is the plaque type, named for the patches it forms on the skin psoriasis |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Pregnant women need 600 mcg of this B9 vitamin daily to help prevent birth defects like spina bifida folic acid |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: A curandero is one of these healers who communicate with supernatural forces for information & to attempt cures a medicine man (a witch doctor) |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $2,000 (Daily Double): Add "S" to the end of a word meaning pertaining to old age to get this branch of medicine that focuses on the elderly geriatrics |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $200: In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs antibiotics |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $400: The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this diabetic |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $600: Iatrogenic is the term for a medical problem caused by the act of one of these, with maybe a lawsuit as a consequence a doctor |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $800: A patient is often put on a ventilator in a procedure called endotracheal
this -ation intubation |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | MEDICINE $1000: Thomas Hodgkin's paper on "morbid appearances of the absorbent glands & spleen" described this type of cancer Hodgkin's lymphoma |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BRANDS $1600: This "headache expert" brand offers the first over-the-counter medicine approved by the FDA to treat migraine symptoms Excedrin |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | TIME FOR YOUR MEDICINE $400: The Latin for "write before" gives us this type of medicine that requires special permission a prescription |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | TIME FOR YOUR MEDICINE $800: Your medicine could come in this form, like something astronauts fly around in capsule |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | TIME FOR YOUR MEDICINE $1200: Edward Jenner ended up giving us this term for a preventative medicine in a 1798 treatise on smallpox vaccine |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | TIME FOR YOUR MEDICINE $1600: This term for your medicine also refers to redress in a legal sense a remedy |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | TIME FOR YOUR MEDICINE $5,000 (Daily Double): 4-letter word for a boring person or a slow administration of a liquid like a saline solution drip |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $400: In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body blood |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1200: They're the 2 bones of your forearm the radius & the ulna |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1600: This single-celled protozoan moves by means of cilia & is oblong in shape; its name is from Greek for "oblong" paramecium |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $2000: This third largest of Neptune's known moons is named in honor of the numerous daughters of a Greek sea god Nereid |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $5,400 (Daily Double): This force that resists motion through air can be thought of as the aerodynamic version of friction drag |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | LIBRARIES $4,000 (Daily Double): The National Library of Medicine is maintained by the National Institutes of Health in this unincorporated Maryland community Bethesda |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | OLD SCHOOL $600: Known for its work in medicine, this university dates back to 1876 & was originally in downtown Baltimore Johns Hopkins |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 6-LETTER ADVERBS $400: Often found on prescriptions, P.O. means a medicine should be taken this way orally |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Medicine Bow & Bighorn are U.S. ranges in these mountains that extend for more than 3,000 miles across North America the Rockies |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN AD JUNKED $200: An ad for cold medicine showing a partially bare Mickey Rooney was pulled before it aired during this February 2005 event the Super Bowl |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $2000: He covers people who create change with fresh thinking: about baseball in "Moneyball"; about medicine in 2021's "The Premonition" Michael Lewis |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $800: These bloodsucking worms have been used in medicine to treat everything from gout to whooping cough leeches |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1761 Claude Bourgelat, who wrote "Sur la médecine des chevaux", set up the first school for this profession a veterinarian |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $1600: It might ring a bell that 33 people nominated this Russian for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901; he won it in 1904 (Ivan) Pavlov |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $600: The Rod of Asclepius represents medicine & the Bowl of Hygeia, his daughter, represents this medicine-dispensing profession pharmacy |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $400: Augustin Fresnel's work in optical concentration was crucial in improving the effectiveness of these coastal buildings lighthouses |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $800: Sir Humphry Davy named this compound laughing gas & was addicted to it nitrous oxide |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1200: The bill of the kingfisher was the inspiration for the front of these Japanese high-speed trains bullet |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1600: In cold weather, your breath is visible as mist if it cools to this point at which it is fully saturated with water vapor the condensation point (dew point) |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $2000: A tremor of the thumb can be a sign of this neurological disorder that bears the last name of a British doctor Parkinson's |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING $6,000 (Daily Double): She studied medicine at Johns Hopkins before moving to Paris in 1903 & drove an ambulance for the French in World War I (Gertrude) Stein |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | AMERICAN RIVERS $1200: This word comes before "Bow" in a Wyoming river & before "Lodge" in a Kansas river Medicine |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | MED SCHOOL $1000: As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine osteopathic doctors |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | BORDERING THE USA $800: Montana's Wild Horse port of entry sees you through to this Canadian province on your way to Medicine Hat, eh? Alberta |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | PUT IN OSCILLATION $1600: This 3-D imaging technique used in medicine to visualize organs makes use of the oscillations of hydrogen atoms an MRI (magnetic resonance image) |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | CANADIANA $800: Hog cholera prompted the founding of North America's oldest of these colleges, at the University of Guelph in Ontario veterinary medicine |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $1000: Our favorite Greek god of medicine, take your place in the sky as Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer Aesculapius |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | SOME GOOD NEWS $800: A therapy dog named Moose got an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine from this school based in Blacksburg Virginia Tech |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $800: Known for some dreariness in his plays, this Russian also gave us "A Dreary Story" of a dying professor of medicine in 1889 Chekhov |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $400: By definition it's a drug that relieves pain, induces sleep & is mostly derived from opium a narcotic |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $800: Myopia is another name for this nearsightedness |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $1200: RNA & DNA are the 2 main types of these complex molecules found in all living cells nucleic acids |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $1600: It's the meteorological term for a rain cloud a nimbus |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Repeat kidney stones probably call for a visit to this type of kidney doctor a nephrologist |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | MEDICINE $400: A combination of lime juice & the Sun can cause a painful skin rash nicknamed this tequila cocktail dermatitis margarita |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | MEDICINE $800: The periosteum is a membrane of connective tissue that surrounds these body parts bones |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | MEDICINE $1200: The PDL, the periodontal this connective tissue, helps keep your teeth in place--& yes, you can sprain it a ligament |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | MEDICINE $1600: The first place nutrients go after they are absorbed by the small intestine is this largest gland in the body the liver |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): As its name indicates, this heart valve regulates blood flow to the lungs, if it's damaged, the heart gets stressed the pulmonary valve |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | MEGALITHS $2000: These avian-named people of Montana have origin myths for large sacred medicine wheels, like the one in the Bighorn Mountains the Crow |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $200: James Howe created this 4-letter brand to treat his wife's indigestion Tums |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $400: If you are allergic to aspirin, you may also be allergic to this active ingredient in MOTRIN IB ibuprofen |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $600: This, aka peppermint camphor, is a key ingredient in IcyHot & Biofreeze menthol |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $800: The "D" in Claritin-D stands for this, which is what pseudoephedrine is decongestant |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $1000: The song "Poison Ivy" says, "You're gonna need an ocean of" this lotion calamine |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | ALMOST RHYMES WITH PURPLE $800: The use of plants & plant extracts to maintain & improve health is called this type of medicine herbal |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $600: In 2015 malaria researcher Tu Youyou became the first winner of this prize since 1988 with no doctorate or medical degree the Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $400: The N.Y. Botanical Garden defines it as "a nonwoody plant"; many, like bergamot & marjoram, are useful for food or medicine an herb |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | VERB HOMOPHONES $200: A dog command, or to make someone feel better via medicine heel/heal |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Wheezing is a common symptom of this lung disorder; a global initiative brings awareness of it annually on the first Tuesday in May asthma |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Motrin is a brand of this nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug used to treat fever & muscle aches ibuprofen |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Estrogen alone or along with progesterone is what menopausal women get as this therapy, HRT for short hormone replacement therapy |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): The bone marrow doesn't produce enough blood cells in the aplastic type of this disease anemia |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Whether you get a DT vaccine or a TD vaccine, you are being protected from tetanus & this infectious disease diphtheria |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | I'M POSTING THAT ON TELEGRAM $600: In 1964 he wired MLK offering to "dispatch some of our brothers" to give the KKK "a taste of its own medicine" Malcolm X |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m at the Children’s Hospital of this state, the primary training site for pediatric students of the Baylor College of Medicine Texas |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY $1200: The prostate medicine Finasteride was found to have this side effect, so it is now also used under the brand name Propecia hair growth |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY $400: Woof! & meow! & maybe even ribbit? This Ivy League U. in upstate New York awarded the nation's first doctorate of veterinary medicine Cornell |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $800: Elizabeth Blackwell made history in 1849 when she became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a degree in this medicine |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | MAGAZINES $400: Dr. Hook & the Medicine show had a hit song about wanting to be on the cover of this music magazine Rolling Stone |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The FDA says the 8 most common allergenic foods include eggs, soybeans & of course, these legumes peanuts |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: From a Greek word for "people", it describes a disease that affects many people at one time a pandemic |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) If you can't see the numbers 3 and 45, within the circles, it could be a sign of the most common form of colorblindness, the inability to tell the difference between red and green, caused by an abnormality in these cells in the retina cones |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Weight, family history & high blood pressure are all contributing factors to the type 2 type of this diabetes |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the 10-letter term for an irregular heartbeat, whether the beat is too fast, too slow or erratic arrhythmia |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $400: Charles Richard Drew organized the first of these alliterative plasma storage programs a blood bank |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $800: Dr. Dean Ornish is known for treating heart patients by limiting fat & cholesterol & managing this mental aspect stress |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $1200: Barry Marshall won a 2005 Nobel Prize for proving that peptic these are an infectious bacterial disease ulcers |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $1600: A medical milestone came when Dr. John Snow traced an outbreak of this disease in Victorian London to a single water pump cholera |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $4,200 (Daily Double): A 2019 surgery on a 60-year-old woman revealed a nearly 50-year-old mitral valve that this South African man had implanted Dr. Christiaan Barnard |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $400: It's a painful bony protrusion at the base of the big toe a bunion |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $800: This eating disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by purging bulimia |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $1200: COPD is often a combination of emphysema & this chronic inflammation in the lungs bronchitis |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $1600: This type of delivery means that the baby is born feet or tushie first instead of head first breech |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | "B" IN MEDICINE $2000: Wound infection & improperly canned food are common causes of this poisoning by a toxin botulism |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | BEARD MAN $600: By the time he died, still unshaven in 1923, his discovery, the X-ray, was an essential tool of medicine Roentgen |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | STATES' BIG EMPLOYERS $1000: The hospital system of this university known for its school of medicine employs 31,000 Marylanders Johns Hopkins |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | THE 11th CENTURY $1200: The Arabic-language "Canon of Medicine" recommends willow oil for head pain--willow, genus Salix, as in this common medicine of today aspirin |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE GOOD DOCTOR $3,800 (Daily Double): A vizier to Djoser, this Egyptian was one of the few mortals to be completely deified & was worshipped as the god of medicine Imhotep |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $400: Peritonitis, an inflammation of the lining of the abdominal cavity, is one possible complication if this organ bursts the appendix |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $800: Giving oxygen by mask during sleep is one treatment for this sleep disorder apnea |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $1200: British physician William Withey Gull gave this 2-word name to an eating disorder anorexia nervosa |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $1600: Insufficient blood flow is the cause of this type of chest pain with a Latin name angina |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | AN "A" IN MEDICINE $2000: Swelling of the throat can be part of this severe & potentially life-threatening allergic reaction anaphylactic shock |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | MEDICAL IDIOMS $400: Someone being treated the way he has treated others is "getting" this (taste of) their own medicine |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | WORD-POURRI $1200: This word for a sycophant comes from medicine shows where assistants would pretend to eat amphibians & then be cured a toady |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | GREEK ISLES $800: A statue in a museum on island of Cos depicts this native son & "father of medicine" Hippocrates |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: What was once called "baby" this drug is now known as "low-dose" this drug & given to adults to prevent blood clots aspirin |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In the early 1900s Drs. Black & McKay discovered that this compound stains teeth brown but also helps them resist decay fluoride |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Your diet does not affect the pH levels of your blood, which is a standard alkaline 7.4 or so, regulated by these organs kidneys |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: This yellow-green liquid that aids digestion is stored in the gallbladder bile |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Sufferers of TMJ disorder know that TMJ is a joint connecting the skull & this jaw |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | LET'S HAVE A BALL $1000: Babe Ruth worked out--yes he did!--with one of these a medicine ball |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | GET HIM TO THE ANCIENT GREEK $400: The 60 or so works bearing the name of this "Father of Medicine" likely weren't written by him, nor was his oath Hippocrates |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | 5 NOBEL TRUTHS $1200: Alfred Nobel wrote that one of the prizes should reward discovery "in the domain of" this "or medicine" physiology |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: In "A Study in Scarlet", he tells us "in the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London" (Dr.) Watson |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Texas Beeworks in Austin, Texas.) In ancient Greece, this father of medicine recommended honey as a cure for everything, from thirst & pain to fevers & ulcers Hippocrates |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1000: A 1951 work on this person in societies of northern Asia says he is "magician and medicine man... priest, mystic and poet" a shaman |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | MERCURY $200: Since the early 2000s, many states have banned mercury-in-glass these, once a staple of the family medicine cabinet a thermometer |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | TV DOCTORS $600: Jane Seymour played this title medicine woman practicing her craft in a frontier town Dr. Quinn |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEHIND BARS $800: This brand of bitters was originally made in Venezuela as a medicine Angostura |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | THE DOCTORS $400: In the 1500s Swiss physician Paracelsus established that this science of the elements was central to medicine chemistry |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | IN THE "MI"DDLE $1000: This branch of medicine studies the causes, distribution & control of disease in populations epidemiology |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE $400: The revolutionary 1543 work "Fabrica" gave its author, Vesalius, the title "Father of Modern" this field anatomy |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE $800: Plato referred to this Greek physician as "The Asclepiad of Cos" Hippocrates |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE $1200: When this doctor published his anti-choking maneuver in 1974, he admitted it had only been tested on dogs Heimlich |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE $1600: Air is forced in & out of the body in tank respirators, also known as these, part of polio treatment in the 1940s & '50s an iron lung |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE $2000: German physician Paul Langerhans made important discoveries studying this organ in rabbits the pancreas |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | SCHOOL WITHIN A SCHOOL $1600: The Pritzker School of Medicine the University of Chicago |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | TREES $3,000 (Daily Double): This is the better-known Genus & species name of the maidenhair tree, used in Chinese medicine to boost memory Gingko biloba |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | INITIAL INITIALS $1600: A doctor whose "MD" is followed by "ABIM" is board-certified in this "IM" & can check you out all over internal medicine |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | COSTS A LITTLE EXTRA $1000: In this type of medicine named for a helpful hotel employee, you pay a fee for personal attention on top of your insurance concierge |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The CDC says a buildup of this gas in the home can't be seen or smelled but it can kill, so make sure you have a working detector carbon monoxide |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: The American Dental Association recommends doing this with an interdental cleaner at least once a day flossing |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: People who experience life-threatening events may develop PTSD, short for this post-traumatic stress disorder |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1,400 (Daily Double): Another name for this bacterial disease is lockjaw, one of its symptoms tetanus |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: A fall on an outstretched hand may fracture the scaphoid, one of these wrist bones the carpals |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $400: According to its initials, you take the MCAT if you're pursuing a career in this medicine |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $800: George II died at 76 in 1760, so maybe medicine improved by the time this great-great-granddaughter lived to be 81 Victoria |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: An estimated 1 in 5 Americans suffer from these, be it to certain pollens, drugs or food allergies |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: It's what the "H" stands for in the disorder abbreviated ADHD hyperactivity |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This type of headache is caused by pressure in the spaces behind your cheekbones & nose a sinus headache |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: In the U.S. basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of this skin cancer |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Cold sores, which may or may not be triggered by a cold, are caused by this 2-word virus herpes simplex virus |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $1600: A subspecialty of internal medicine, it deals with conditions that affect the lungs & respiratory tract pulmonology |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES $1000: From Rodale, a healthy lifestyle magazine covering nutrition, medicine & exercise:
P Prevention |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | MEDICATIONS $1200: Because it blocks the effects of a naturally occurring chemical, Benadryl is termed this type of medicine an antihistamine |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | VOCABULARY $800: Latin medeor, "to heal", gives us this word for a cure remedy |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEDICINE $200: The National Cancer Institute says this decrease or disappearance of symptoms may be partial or complete remission |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEDICINE $400: In 1816 French physician Rene Laennec fashioned the first one of these instruments from a hollow wooden tube a stethoscope |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEDICINE $600: A contusion is a fancy name for one of these, from Old English for "to crush" a bruise |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEDICINE $800: From the Latin, this 4-letter hospital code word means "immediately" stat |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEDICINE $1000: The Dick test is a skin test of susceptibility to this colorful affliction common in children scarlet fever |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | NICKNAMES FOR NATIVES $1000: A Hatter is a resident of this Alberta city Medicine Hat |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | STILL PHOTOGRAPHY $800: Andrew Taylor Still founded this type of medicine that stresses the relation between skeletal health and organ function osteopathy |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | A SHOWER OF SCHOPENHAUER $1600: In college, Schopenhauer transferred from medicine to the humanities, studying this "Critique" man (Immanuel) Kant |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | PROFESSORS $3,000 (Daily Double): A practicing physician, he became professor of botany as well as medicine at the University of Uppsala in 1741 Linnaeus |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Realizing those who'd had cowpox didn't contract smallpox, Edward Jenner saw causality & took material from the arm of a dairy maid who had cowpox, making the first of these recorded in Western medicine an inoculation (or a vaccine) |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Alexander Fleming happened to leave a Petri dish of staphylococci sitting around & found the bacteria had been killed by mold thus leading to the discovery of this antibiotic that has saved millions of lives penicillin |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $1200: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Believing that bacteria caused infection & death, this British surgeon performed an 1877 operation under controlled antiseptic conditions, revolutionizing medicine (Joseph) Lister |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $1600: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Hippocrates thought the body was ruled by blood, phlegm, yellow & black bile, each associated with a season & with one of the 4 elements... health depended on a balance of the 4 liquids known as these humors |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $2000: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Many patients died from the first blood transplants of the 17th century, but the ABO blood system of 1901 & this one from 1940 named for a species of monkey have made them routine medical procedures rhesus |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | BY DEGREES $600: If you want your patients to be of the 4-legged variety, get a DVM degree, short for this Doctor of Veterinary Medicine |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Loss of this type of vision, from the Greek for "circumference", can be an early sign of glaucoma peripheral |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Lyme disease is transmitted to humans by the bite of these infected creatures ticks |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: The machine that performs this process is also known as an artificial kidney dialysis |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Resting hand tremors & slowed movement called bradykinesia are early signs of this neurological disease Parkinson's disease |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: (Kelly shows a joint on the monitor.) Around joints, small fluid-filled sacs reduce friction, but trauma or arthritis can cause this inflammation, leading to pain and limiting range of motion bursitis |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | "ECO" FRIENDLY $200: It's the branch of medicine that deals with women's health & diseases affecting the reproductive system gynecology |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | TV ROLES $200: This Brat Packer brings his knowledge of combat medicine to Angels Memorial as Colonel Ethan Willis on "Code Black" Rob Lowe |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | WORDS IN CONTINENTS $1600: A medicine, or the key note of a musical composition a tonic |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Early-onset this most common form of dementia usually begins in one's 40s or 50s Alzheimer's |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Research suggests that doing this before bed, especially hatha or nidra, may help you sleep better yoga |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Because it spreads to other organs, the most serious form of skin cancer is this deadly 8-letter type melanoma |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) Glaucoma can result from a buildup of clear fluid in the eye, which creates high pressure & destroys this nerve that connects the eye to the brain the optic nerve |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Chronic acid reflux is also known by this 4-letter acronym GERD |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This branch of medicine deals with diseases of such glands as the thyroid & pancreas endocrinology |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | HEART 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 |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $400: Henry VIII's wife No. 3 & "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" Jane Seymour |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | GIMME SHELTER $1600: A wooden building such as a Native American medicine one a lodge |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | CATCH THE QUECHUA WORD $600: The Quechua word for "bark" gives us the name of this malaria medicine obtained from the bark of a tree quinine |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | CONSTELLATIONS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an astronomical diagram on the monitor.) Though it reaches into the zodiac, the constellation Ophiuchus is not one of the traditional zodiac signs; with a name meaning "serpent holder", it represents this son of Apollo, the Greek god of medicine, who is often depicted holding a serpent Asclepius |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | IN BALTIMORE $800: In 1893 a $500,000 endowment was raised to help admit women on the same terms as men to this School of Medicine Johns Hopkins |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Adult this is defined as having a body mass index of 30.0 or higher obesity |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The CDC says this alliterative condition is "the main reason that children miss school and adults miss work" the common cold |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: A doctor may perform the needle type of this procedure to determine if a lump is a cyst, a benign tumor or cancer biopsy |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: There was outrage over Mylan's steep price boost for this autoinjector used for treating anaphylaxis EpiPen |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) An arrhythmia is any abnormal heart rhythm; when it's too slow, less than 60 beats per minute, it's called bradycardia; when it's too fast, more than 100 beats per minute, it's called this, from the Greek for "swift" & "heart" tachycardia |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: The "local" variety is used on a limited area of the body; the "general" type involves the loss of consciousness anesthesia |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: (I'm Dr. Jen Arnold.) In 2015 the U.N. reported the good news that improvements in care over the last 25 years have led to a nearly 50% worldwide drop in this type of mortality, from Latin for "new born" neonatal |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: From the Latin for "slide back", it's the return of a disease after an apparent recovery a relapse |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In 1900 Karl Landsteiner developed a system for classifying blood into these 3 major letter groups A, B, and O |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: In 1753 Naval surgeon James Lind published a study showing that citrus fruit prevented this disease scurvy |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | "MIS"QUOTES $600: Chekhov wrote that he had "two professions.... Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my" this mistress |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | ALLITERATIVE 2-WORD TERMS $2000: Alliterative synonym for a shaman a medicine man |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | M.D.s $400: Larissa in Thessaly was home to this "Father of Medicine" Hippocrates |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: If you want to vent this lymphatic organ, you'll find out that it filters old red blood cells out of the bloodstream the spleen |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Diverticulitis is common in the U.S., where diets are low in this, AKA roughage fiber |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) The spine bends forward as the thoracic vertebrae become compressed in a condition called kyphosis, more commonly known as a Dowager's hump, a symptom of this disease of thinning bones osteoporosis |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Those who suffer from carpal tunnel or arthritis may get a shot of this 9-letter steroid to reduce inflammation cortisone |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,200 (Daily Double): Daltonism is a type of this, a problem with cone receptors color blindness |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Heartburn is also called acid this reflux |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Tuberculosis was once known as this because of the way it ate away at the patient the wasting disease (or consumption) |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Sarah shows an anatomical illustration on the monitor.) In people younger than 50, a gray or white ring around the iris of the eye caused by deposits of lipids can be a sign of high cholesterol & these, named for their three molecules of fatty acids triglycerides |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: This circular structure in the ear contains tiny hairs called cilia; if the cilia are inefficient, it can cause tinnitus the cochlea |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: A keloid, a raised scar resulting from an abnormal healing response, is caused by an excess buildup of this protein collagen |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | 16th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $1600: This author became a monk but broke his vows to study medicine & pen his masterpiece "Gargantua and Pantagruel" Rabelais |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $2000: This woman who's part Chippewa has written "Love Medicine", "The Plague of Doves" & "The Round House" Louise Erdrich |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: One of the leading causes of school absenteeism is this respiratory disease that often arises from allergies asthma |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: From the Greek for "half skull", it may progress through 4 stages: prodrome, aura, headache & postdrome a migraine |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: In this disease, proteins called beta-amyloid & tau damage nerve cells in the brain, causing memory loss Alzheimer's disease |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: A tympanoplasty is a surgical procedure to repair a hole in this the eardrum |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of a vein on the monitor.) Healthy blood has plenty of red blood cells to carry oxygen to body tissues; if the number of cells is reduced, causing weakness and fatigue, it may an indication of this condition, from the Greek for "want of blood" anemia |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: For Medicine,
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Australia |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | CARRIE-OKE $2000: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's "Carry Me, Carrie" & "Cover Of The Rolling Stone" were penned by this poet & author Shel Silverstein |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Joseph Medicine Crow, the last war chief of this Montana tribe, died in 2016 at age 102 the Crow tribe |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: If you're having a heart attack, a 325-mg tab of this is smart, says the Mayo Clinic--less damage due to blood clotting an aspirin |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Weight-bearing exercise & a calcium-rich diet can help prevent this bone thinning disease osteoporosis |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: (I'm New York Times investigative reporter Dr. Sheri Fink.) In a 2014 series called "The Ebola Ward", I chronicled the disease's outbreak from an American clinic in this country with strong historic links to the U.S. Liberia |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A study published in 2014 showed that this "sunshine vitamin" can reduce the pain some fibromyalgia patients suffer vitamin D |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: In a blepharoplasty, a surgeon may remove excess skin, fat & muscle to repair these droopy body parts eyelids |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE 2015 IG NOBEL PRIZES $1600: Medicine: studying "the biomedical benefits or... consequences of intense" this activity, aka osculation kissing |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | MY "BAD" $800: This Robert Palmer hit is subtitled "Doctor, Doctor" "Bad Case Of Loving You" |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | NONFICTION $1200: A recent bestseller tells of "The Immortal Life of" this woman & how her HeLa cells became invaluable to medicine Henrietta Lacks |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $800: Robert Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Medicine Prize "for the development of" this type of "fertilization " in vitro |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from UC Davis Veterinary Hospital.) Researchers at UC Davis are making great strides in regenerative medicine & in the treatment of various injuries and diseases using these--not the controversial kind from embryos, but from bone marrow & fat tissue stem cells |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $800: Dogs should never eat these Hawaiian nuts, as they contain a toxin that can affect the nervous system Macadamia nuts |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from UC Davis Veterinary Hospital.) In 1990, the hospital established the first facility in the country to provide this service for pets that uses an artificial kidney to remove waste from the blood dialysis |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1600: Animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans are called zoonoses & include psittacosis, also called this fever parrot fever |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2000: This "Incredible" vet has his own TV series on Nat Geo Wild that follows his practice in Central Michigan's farm country Dr. Jan Pol |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | SPACECRAFT TYPES $400: This term for vehicles like those used in the Mercury program sounds like a small dose of medicine a capsule |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | "I.M." $600: If a doctor specializes in "IM", this is his field internal medicine |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a medical animation on the monitor.) A major cause of heart attacks & strokes, atherosclerosis is a narrowing of the arteries caused by a buildup of this combination of fatty substances, cholesterol & calcium on the artery walls plaque |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: The American Cancer Society now recommends women have this breast cancer screening yearly beginning at age 45 a mammogram |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows two medical illustrations on the monitor.) At birth, most babies are set to come out head-first; however, 3 to 4 percent present with their feet or buttocks against the cervix in this position & may need a C-section delivery breech |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: The most common cause of vision loss in people over 55 is age-related this, AMD for short macular degeneration |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: In 2009 the FDA approved this HPV vaccine for boys & young men as well as girls Gardasil |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | U.S. LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The National Library of Medicine is located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in this Maryland town Bethesda |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | TAKE YOUR MEDS $400: It's a medicine taken to neutralize a specific poison & the hero usually finds it just in time an antidote (an anti-toxin accepted) |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | TAKE YOUR MEDS $1200: The heart medicine digitalis comes from this flower that sounds like a vixen accessory foxglove |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: This synonym for "choice" can precede "energy" & "medicine" alternative |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | COIF MEDICINE $200: It may smell weird but the apple cider type of this culinary item can soften your tresses & give them shine vinegar |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | COIF MEDICINE $400: Sodium bicarbonate, aka this, added to shampoo makes for a deep cleanse baking soda |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | COIF MEDICINE $600: When your blond hair goes green after a dip in a pool with too much of this, a club soda rinse can help chlorine |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | COIF MEDICINE $800: The time-saving breakthrough of 2-in-1 products combined shampoo & this in one hair elixir conditioner |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | COIF MEDICINE $1000: Pyrithione zinc is key to this flake-fighting Procter & Gamble product introduced in 1961 Head & Shoulders |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $400: (Dr. Arnold delivers the clue.) Able to replicate an operating room, emergency room & more, Texas Children's Hospital's Simulation Center provides an ideal environment for risk-free training in obstetrics & this branch of medicine that deals with the care of children pediatrics |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MEDICINE $200: Latin for "poison", it's a submicroscopic agent infecting living organisms & causing disease virus |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MEDICINE $400: In this "effect" people are given inert substances & seem to improve placebo |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MEDICINE $600: Named for an American surgeon, McBurney's incision is a cut in the lower right abdomen used when removing this the appendix |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MEDICINE $800: The Weber hearing test is conducted by striking this instrument & placing it on the head a tuning fork |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MEDICINE $1000: Your oil-secreting sebaceous glands can produce their own type of this, a 4-letter abdominal sac a cyst |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $400: This technique to achieve a tranquil mental state without drugs may be "transcendental" meditation |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $800: Acupressure relies on pressure at specific body meridian points to control qi, the flow of this energy |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $1200: A type of therapy is named for this field that surrounds the body & is visible as light aura |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $1600: The royal family were big supporters of the RLH hospital, the H for this type of diluted medicine practice homeopathic |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1600: A wretched medicine bottle a vile vial |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | MORTAL MATTERS $2000: There's a dispute over the where-abouts of this Hunkpapa Sioux medicine man--Fort Yates, N.D. or Mobridge, S.D. Sitting Bull |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) One of the most important procedures students learn in the U.C. Davis Veterinary Hospital is how to perform these two birth control surgeries, depending on if the animal is male or female spaying & neutering |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) As seen in the "before" & "after" photos, dogs benefit from eye surgery to restore vision loss caused by this clouding of the lenses cataracts |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) The state-of-the-art linear accelerator with real-time imaging is designed to treat cancer more quickly by delivering precise doses of this to destroy abnormal cells radiation |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) The hospital has its own blood bank & a program for local dogs to give blood; dogs with type DEA 1.1 negative are considered this, their blood type suitable for any recipient a universal donor |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Veterinary Hospital at UC Davis, CA.) With a fistulated cow, students literally have a window into the beginnings of the digestive process & what happens to food & nutrients in this first chamber of the stomach the rumen |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | "HOUSE" $1600: The AMA says, "Physicians making" these "may sound like fabled history", but they have a place in medicine today house visits |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2000: This Maryland physician hadn't practiced medicine primarily for years when he set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg (Dr. Samuel) Mudd |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | RANDOM FACTS $800: The only Nobel Prize whose name includes 2 fields is named this or Medicine Physiology |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Mexican Hat is in Utah & Medicine Hat is in this Canadian province Alberta |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | MINOR GODS & GODDESSES $800: A snake entwined around a staff is the symbol of Asclepius, god of this medicine |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | HISTORY SINCE 1950 $600: More than 1,000 rebels captured during this 1961 invasion of Cuba were later freed in exchange for food & medicine Bay of Pigs |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | MOVING FORWARD IN SCIENCE $800: In medicine, depressants are the opposite of these, which include adrenaline & caffeine stimulants |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | MED SCHOOLS $800: Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is named for this author who despite his pen name did not practice Dr. Seuss |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OBESITY IN AMERICA $1000: It's a branch of medicine that deals with the control & treatment of obesity bariatrics |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $400: You could say that this drug used to treat angina is dynamite! (Or close to) nitroglycerin |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $800: It's the branch of pediatric medicine that specializes in the care of newborn babies up to 4 weeks of age neonatology |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates by stirring a powder into a beaker of liquid.) When stomach acid, represented here, backs up into the esophagus, it causes heartburn; taking an antacid, which is a base, does this to some of the acid, relieving the symptoms neutralize |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $1600: Causing itching & rashes, most jewelry allergies are a reaction to this metallic element nickel |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | SCIENCE "N" MEDICINE $2000: Each of the kidneys is made up of about 1 million of these filtering units nephrons |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | PREFIXES & ROOTS $1200: In medicine myo- refers to one of these body parts muscle |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Every year, Gino's hosts Match Day, when students at the Feinberg School of Medicine at this nearby Big Ten university find out where their residencies will be Northwestern |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | -OLOGIES $1200: This branch of medicine focuses on the preparation, uses & effects of drugs pharmacology |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Myasthenia gravis is a disease that affects nerves & voluntary these, like the ones that control chewing & swallowing muscles |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: You can only get the D type of this liver infection if you already have the B type hepatitis |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Celiac disease involves an intolerance to this protein combination found in grains gluten |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: This, high blood pressure, contributes to the hardening of the arteries & damages the heart hypertension |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: The insipidus type of this endocrine disorder can affect the kidneys or the pituitary; the mellitus type is more common diabetes |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | OCCUPATIONAL LAST NAMES $2000: Before writing "The Vicar of Wakefield", this 18th century author studied medicine in Leyden Oliver Goldsmith |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Ketosis occurs when this sugar is unavailable as a source of energy, causing the body to use fats instead glucose |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) When you're fighting an infection, you may notice the glands get swollen, as the ones in the neck do with strep throat. They belong to this system that helps provide immunity the lymphatic system |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1911 a Swiss psychiatrist coined this term for a withdrawal into one's inner world in patients with schizophrenia autism |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: In 2013 a Lasker Award, one of medicine's great honors, went to developers of this type of implant that helps the deaf a cochlear implant |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: First isolated in 1910, this chemical released by the immune system can cause itching & swelling in an allergic reaction histamine |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | THE DOONESBURY GROUP $1600: An ex-ambassador, this character opened the Baby Doc College of Offshore Medicine & the Nothing but Orphans Nonprofit Uncle Duke |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | YOU WISH YOU'D READ THE SCARLET LETTER $400: The evil Roger Chillingworth practices this profession making use of herbs & roots doctor |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | FATHERLY NICKNAMES $400: Born around 2,475 years ago, he's the "Father of Medicine" Hippocrates |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | MEDICINE $200: In the 1730s, Stephen Hales first measured this by using a crude manometer; he stuck a tube in a horse's artery blood pressure |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | MEDICINE $400: The first society of chiropody was founded in 1895; today, the medical specialty is better known by this term podiatry |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | MEDICINE $600: During a tonsillectomy, the surgeon may also remove this mass of lymphoid tissue behind the nose the adenoids |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | MEDICINE $800: In this 3-initial stress test, you walk on a treadmill while hooked up to a heart machine an EKG |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | MEDICINE $1000: Often found in areas with large deer populations, this bacterial inflammatory disease was first identified in 1975 Lyme disease |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | HOSPITALS $1600: A mural in the Harvey Morse auditorium of this L.A. medical center honors Jewish contributions to medicine Cedars-Sinai |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | AVOIDING THE CLICHÉ $1000: One savory sample from one's personal prescription a taste of one's own medicine |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | BETWEEN $800: For the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine, his name comes between that of co-winners Francis Crick & Maurice Wilkins (James) Watson |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $600: An 1811 medical lexicon defines it as a "medicine adapted more to please than benefit the patient" a placebo |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | INNOVATION $800: (Al Gore delivers the clue from his office.) A change with thrilling implications for medicine & sobering ones for human autonomy is the life science revolution that has made this individual profile of your DNA available for 4 figures & dropping a genome |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICANS $800: Originally meaning a shaman or medicine man, it now refers to a Native American council or meeting powwow |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | 1990s TV SHOWS $400: A young physician makes a new life for herself in the Old West Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | SHARP THINGS $400: Medicine in the "Star Trek" world involves a "laser" one of these surgical instruments a scalpel |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | ALL OVER $400: Devils Tower National Monument & Medicine Bow National Forest are in this state Wyoming |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LOST & FOUND $800: This branch of medicine deals with supplying artificial parts to replace lost limbs prosthetics |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $400: In 2012 scientists announced that injection of human embryonic these in the inner ears of deaf gerbils restored hearing stem cells |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $800: Around 3 out of 5 organ transplants in the United States involve this organ the kidney |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $1200: In 1910 physician James Herrick became the first to identify this blood disease that affects many African Americans sickle-cell anemia |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $2000: Epidemic parotitis is another name for this common childhood disease mumps |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this anti-inflammatory comes from the longer version, isobutylphenyl propionic acid ibuprofen |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | THE "DUCE" YOU SAY $200: Holmes, how do you know Watson's practicing medicine again? "I" do this, derive by a process of reasoning deduce |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | LIBRARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD began with the collection Dr. Joseph Lovell, this official Surgeon General |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | ALLITERATION $800: This type of Native American healer might try to chase bad spirits out of a patient a medicine man |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | STATE THE STATE UNIVERSITY $800: This university's college of medicine is located at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Penn State |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MEDICINE $400: The sensation that a dark curtain is being pulled across the eye can indicate that this has become detached the retina |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MEDICINE $800: A condition commonly called Dowager's Hump is part of the bone-thinning effects of this disease osteoporosis |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MEDICINE $1200: This medical therapy is necessary to eliminate wastes & maintain fluid balance in cases of kidney failure dialysis |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MEDICINE $1600: Myelin, a substance that protects & coats nerve fibers, becomes swollen & inflamed in this 2-word autoimmune disease multiple schlorosis |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MEDICINE $2000: The word for this disease comes from the same Latin root as "rage" rabies |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | PICK UP THE HOMOPHONE $2000: An old bowed musical instrument, or a small glass container for medicine viol/vial |
| #6674, aired 2013-09-26 | & FEEL ALL RIGHT $400: (I’m Dr. Oz.) Trouble sleeping? Check your over-the-counter pain medicine; to help constrict swollen blood vessels, it may contain this alkaloid compound, which could keep you awake caffeine |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | CONTAIN YOURSELF $400: This small container for medicine lent its name to a type of hat popularized by Jackie Kennedy a pillbox |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Introducing kids to the rewarding experience of working in a community garden or cooking a healthy meal with their family instills a deeper appreciation for the food they eat & is part of Let's Move, an initiative I launched to combat this childhood medical issue obesity |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In the U.S. hepatitis C is the main reason for this delicate operation first done successfully in 1967 liver transplant |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | TAGLINES $600: "The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, fever, so you can rest medicine" NyQuil |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: The OED defines it as "to administer to oneself a drug or (perceived) remedy (sometimes... alcohol)" self-medicate |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: This medical specialist also takes care of your hair & nails dermatologist |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Shoulder or knee pain may be this -itis, inflammation of the sac that reduces bone friction bursitis |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | ANTI UP $2000: In medicine an anticlotting agent may also be called this "anti-" word an anticoagulant |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID $800: "I began my career" in this field; "I came into close contact with poverty... with the inability to treat a child" medicine |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS $800: The Banff Crag & Canyon &
The Medicine Hat News Alberta |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: The Karolinska Institute just outside this capital awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Stockholm |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | DOCTOR! DOCTOR! $400: I wouldn't have minded getting a checkup from this frontier doctor played by Jane Seymour Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1000: Parasitologist Sir Patrick Manson founded this field of medicine named for a particular climate tropical |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): The last work of this recorder of Paris nightlife was "An Examination at the Faculty of Medicine" in 1901 (Toulouse-)Lautrec |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | THE 12th CENTURY $1600: One of the first books on this branch of medicine also practiced by barbers advocated molten lard surgery |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | ON THE BROADWAY DINER MENU $400: If you're trying to make the "medicine go down" in Disney's "Mary Poppins", you'll need this title sweet a spoonful of sugar |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | IT'S "OVER"! $800: It's the hyphenated term for medicine that can be sold without a doctor's prescription over-the-counter |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | LADY CEREBELLUM $2000: Barbara McClintock's discovery of "jumping" these won her a 1983 Nobel Prize for Medicine genes |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $400: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Frederick Banting, an orthopedic surgeon, went into research & won a Nobel Prize for his work extracting insulin from the pancreas, the first effective treatment for this disorder diabetes |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $800: Working for NYC's Health Dept., Dr. Sara Josephine Baker helped track down Mary Mallon, a carrier of this infectious disease typhoid |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $1200: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Dr. Dorothy Andersen named this disease, CF for short, & also helped create a test to diagnose it cystic fibrosis |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Her work as an obstetrical nurse for poor women made her an advocate of birth control, a term she coined Margaret Sanger |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2000: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) This South African performed the first kidney transplant in his homeland in 1959 & in 1967 performed the first ever human heart transplant, catapulting him to worldwide fame (Dr. Christiaan) Barnard |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | IRON MAN $1200: Wrestling champ & medicine ball inventor William Muldoon shared this nickname with the winner at Waterloo the "Iron Duke" |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $400: D.V.M., a doctor of this medicine veterinary medicine |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Chew on this: humans have 12 of these teeth with broad biting surfaces adapted for grinding molars |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In 1995 the FDA approved a vaccine for this kids' disease of skin outbreaks caused by the varicella-zoster virus chicken pox |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Per its label, the topical medicine Vicks VapoRub aims to suppress this cold symptom a cough |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: This organ is shaped like a "J" & generally holds a little over 1 quart a stomach |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Vasco da Gama once lost about 100 out of 160 men to this disease caused by a lack of vitamin C scurvy |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: "Destiny of the Republic" is "A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President"--his lingering death James Garfield |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | MEDICINE $400: A burr hole is made in the skull to remove one of these, also called a thrombus, in the brain a clot |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | MEDICINE $800: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) These sociopathic cells shown here invading into the liver are named after the Greek word for "crab" cancer |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | MEDICINE $1200: Half of people over 60 experience diverticulosis; luckily, few get this more serious inflamed version diverticulitis |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | MEDICINE $1600: Irritation around tendons can make the finger curl first with difficulty, then all at once: this type of firing "finger" a trigger finger |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | MEDICINE $2000: In melanosis, the skin is discolored black; this is the term for blue discoloration cyanosis |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE 20th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $600: Medicine: finding that this breathing disorder "can be treated with a roller-coaster ride"; Advair is more traditional asthma |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $2000: In medicine, it's the 4-letter term for the craving or ingestion of such non-food items as dirt, chalk or paint chips pica |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | HOLD EVERYTHING $400: A small, enclosed shell that can hold medicine or objects for a future "time" a capsule |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | ITALIAN DRESSING $400: Yes, Giorgio! This designer studied medicine before he put out his first men's wear collection in 1974 Armani |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: A driver who's rear-ended may suffer this type of neck injury that jerks the head rapidly backward or forward whiplash |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by one of these arachnids a tick |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: To raise awareness about a chronic viral liver disease, July 28, 2011 was observed as the first World this Day Hepatitis |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: An M.I.T. study found that adults with this reading disability also have a harder time recognizing voices dyslexia |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Some people are head over heels, relieving back pain by stretching their spine in this type of upside-down therapy inversion therapy |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | MISCELLAN"IUM" $800: For many centuries this drug derived from a poppy was the main painkiller used in medicine opium |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $400: On James Lind's advice, in 1795 the British navy began issuing daily rations of lemon juice to prevent this disease scurvy |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $800: Edward Jenner came up with the first successful vaccine, one that prevented this deadly disease smallpox |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1895 he began replacing hypnosis as a form of therapy with free association Sigmund Freud |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $1600: "Penicillin Man" is a book about this bacteriologist & his discovery (Alexander) Fleming |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the human circulatory system on the monitor.) The theory that blood circulates from the heart through the body's arteries & back to the heart through the veins was first explained by this Englishman in 1616 (William) Harvey |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $400: This "maneuver" is the method of choice to use when a person is choking the Heimlich |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $800: The body produces many of these, including prolactin & insulin hormones |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1200: This 8-letter word for a collection of blood, usually clotted, comes from words for "blood" & "tumor" hematoma |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) This occurs when the nucleus of a disk protrudes through the surrounding cell & puts pressure on a spinal nerve a herniated disk |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $5,200 (Daily Double): A transplant rejection problem, GVH, stands for graft versus this host |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | HERBAL MEDICINE $400: This bog fruit is traditionally used to prevent urinary tract infections cranberries |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | HERBAL MEDICINE $800: Raw cloves of this may slow the development of heart disease (& ward off vampires) garlic |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | HERBAL MEDICINE $1200: A 1982 study showed that this spice, Zingiber officinale, controlled nausea better than Dramamine ginger |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | HERBAL MEDICINE $1600: Hoodia, sold as an appetite suppressant, is used to reduce hunger by the native San of this S. Africa desert the Kalahari |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | HERBAL MEDICINE $2000: For centuries, herbalists have used this wort to treat depression St. John's wort |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | 2 Vs, PLEASE $2000: Last name of the 1904 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, dog Pavlov |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | ABBREV. $600: D.O. can stand for doctor of this, using manipulative therapy as well as conventional medicine osteopathy |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | "SH"! $1600: Some Native Americans believe these medicine men have contact with the spirit world shaman |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | IN THE PINK $600: This product says it's "the only leading medicine that relieves five stomach problems" Pepto-Bismol |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | NOBEL PRIZE CATEGORIES BY WINNER $400: Sir Alexander Fleming,
1945 Medicine |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | VERY NON-BREAKING NEWS $800: This Greek "Father of Medicine" could not heal himself, dying around 377 B.C.; he was buried at Larissa in Thessaly Hippocrates |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | EXPLORERS $2,800 (Daily Double): After studying medicine in the 1830s, this explorer & missionary hoped to be sent to China but ended up in Africa instead Dr. (David) Livingstone |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $200: It's an allergy to the pollen of certain plants, like ragweed hay fever |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $400: It's the medical term for high blood pressure hypertension |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $600: (Here's Jimmy.) Collectively, the biceps femoris, semitendinosus & semimembranosus muscles are called this, which flexes & rotates the hip & knee joints the hamstring muscles |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $800: Anemia can be caused by red blood cells that are deficient in this pigment hemoglobin |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1000: It's the surgical removal of the uterus hysterectomy |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | ANIMA"L"S $400: These bloodsuckers have been put to use in medicine leeches |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | TAKING STOCK $600: This retailer, WAG, has good medicine Walgreens |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the aged geriatrics |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | THE ENVIRONMENT $600: As you know from the movie "Medicine Man", the rain forests hold essential plants for treating this disease cancer |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | WHAT'S GOING "ON"? $1000: The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis & treatment of malignant tumors oncology |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | OFFBEAT MUSEUMS $200: A museum at Temple University's School of Podiatric Medicine has some 900 pairs of these in its collection shoes |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | WE RETITLE TV SHOWS $2000: "Drs. Weaver, Lockhart & Rasgotra, Medicine Women of Chicago" ER |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | HODGEPODGE $400: Calgary & Medicine Hat are in this Canadian province Alberta |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Frederick Banting was just 32 when he shared the Medicine Prize for discovering this hormone that treats diabetes insulin |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | TAKING STOCK, SYMBOLICALLY $1000: You probably have something made by this company, PFE, in your medicine cabinet Pfizer |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | "I"s IN THE PRIZE $800: The only Nobel Prize that has 2 names is this "or medicine" physiology |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | REAL NAMES OF CELEBS $200: The former Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, also the ex-"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", goes by this name Jane Seymour |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $400: As Franklin D. Roosevelt's blood pressure was 300/190, he suffered from this 1-word condition hypertension |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $800: In 1905 German scientist Alfred Einhorn created this first injectable local anesthetic used in dentistry novocaine |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $1200: Micro-Trach is an oxygen delivery system developed by this physician known for his "maneuver" (Henry) Heimlich |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $1600: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) By surgically interrupting the electrical impulses that are causing an abnormal rhythm, the maze procedure is designed to threat this type of heart arrhythmia abbreviated "A.F." atrial fibrillation |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $2000: The name of this branch of pediatrics that deals with newborn infants literally means "newborn study" neonatal |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE FRONTIER STOREKEEPER $2000: Totally morphine-free , it's Sutton's Ague Drops, one of these cures that sounds like it's government protected a patent medicine |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | ACADEMIC DEGREES $400: A dentist may have a D.M.D., Doctor of Dental Medicine, or a D.D.S., Doctor of Dental this Surgery (Science accepted) |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $400: "There's no place like" this type of treatment that uses natural tinctures to heal the body homeopathic |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $800: This type of "suggestion" is a form of self-hypnotherapy autosuggestion |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $1200: "Negative" this therapy tries to cleanse the body using negatively charged particles ionic |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $1600: "Finger pressure" in Japanese, this type of massage deals with 12 major meridians shiatsu |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE $2000: Both acupressure & acupuncture work with this Chinese energy chi |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $600: In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the U.S. to earn a degree in this medicine |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | LIBRARIES $1600: This Maryland community is home to the National Library of Medicine & the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Norovirus is associated with gastroenteritis, sometimes called this type of "flu" stomach flu |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In ordinary English it means "better"; to a doctor, it means "located higher up on the body" superior |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: A technique called the relaxation response opens up blood vessels, easing a systolic type of this 1-word condition hypertension |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: 21 million Americans have this disease of the endocrine system & 6 million of them don't know it diabetes |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a patient undergoing a PET scan at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.) Brookhaven studies the human brain using PET scanning; as in CAT scanning, the "T" is for this method of 3-D imaging tomography |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: The written note from a doctor to a pharmacist telling what medicine you need P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TAKE YOUR MEDICINE $400: Visine makes drops for when these are red or irritated the eye |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TAKE YOUR MEDICINE $800: Before giving you a shot, the nurse will usually swab your arm with this; you might use the rubbing type at home alcohol |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TAKE YOUR MEDICINE $1200: Some inhalers come with chambers that slow down delivery of the medication so you take more of it into these organs your lungs |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TAKE YOUR MEDICINE $1600: Grape Splash & Bubble Gum Yum are flavors of "Children's" this, which Mom might alternate with Motrin Tylenol |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | TAKE YOUR MEDICINE $2000: In 2009 the vaccine against H1N1 flu was delivered either by shot or this way nasal spray |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | T-N-C $1600: From the Latin for "dyeing", it's a medicine used in small amounts, consisting of an extract in solution tincture |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $200: "Laughter is the best" this medicine |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | BRITS & AUSSIES ON TV $400: In the 1990s she played Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Jane Seymour |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | STATES BY CITIES & TOWNS $600: Medicine Lodge,
Sublette,
Leavenworth Kansas |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $200: It's the "nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, sleep better to feel better medicine" NyQuil |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | THE 19th FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE $400: A 2009 veterinary medicine prize was given for showing cows who have names give more of this than nameless ones milk |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | FACTS ABOUT AUTHORS $2000: This "Enemy of the People" playwright worked as a druggist's assistant before college & began to study medicine Henrik Ibsen |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $400: "Feeding your Baby and Child" was the 1955 follow-up to his more famous 1946 book (Benjamin) Spock |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $800: Before his rivalry with Jonas Salk, he developed a vaccine for dengue fever while in the army during WWII (Albert) Sabin |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1200: He once said, "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned" Christiaan Barnard |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1600: In 1616 he began lecturing on the circulation of blood; his book on the subject didn't come out until 1628 (William) Harvey |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $2000: Last name of clinic founders Karl & William, whose writings helped mold attitudes toward mental illness Menninger |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES $1000: The fever clearly indicates mono--oops, colitis. No, TB. Of course, this bacterial ailment aka septic sore throat strep throat |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | "O" NOUNS $400: It's the branch of medicine that deals with pregnancy & childbirth obstetrics |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | OFF TO GRAD SCHOOL $2000: "Hold" this last name of the medical family who put on a clinic & established a graduate school of medicine in 1915 Mayo |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | CLASS "E" $2000: Often paired with public health, it's the branch of medicine that deals with outbreaks of infectious diseases epidemiology |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | EMINENT VICTORIANS $800: This inventor of antiseptic surgery helped found the British Institute of Preventive Medicine (Joseph) Lister |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | CODES $1600: 1968's Nobel Prize in Medicine was for "interpretation of" this "code and its function in protein synthesis" the genetic code |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | HAND ME A BOTTLE $1000: 4-letter name for a small glass bottle used to hold medicine a vial |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | RENAISSANCE FAIR LADY $1200: It's not "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", it's this wife of Henry VIII in a Renaissance portrait by Hans Holbein Jane Seymour |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MEDICINE $200: The Chinese discovered that this practice using needles could work as an anesthetic acupuncture |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MEDICINE $400: The traditional Snellen chart used to measure this contains only the letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T & Z eyesight |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MEDICINE $600: Today these bloodsucking creatures are sometimes used by physicians to treat hematomas leeches |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MEDICINE $1000: In 2003 scientists announced the completion of this program that sequenced human DNA the Human Genome Project |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | MEDICINE $1,800 (Daily Double): In the 1870s germs of this disease of cattle became the first microorganism identified as a cause of illness anthrax |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Formerly known as insulin dependent, type 1 of this disease accounts for only 5-10% of all cases of the disease diabetes |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Extreme cold can bring on hypothermia & this condition, when areas of skin & underlying tissue freeze frostbite |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: A lumbar puncture, used to diagnose things like meningitis, is also called this a spinal tap |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: One of the things the MMR vaccine protects against is this viral infection that causes swelling of the salivary glands mumps |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: A.L.S., the most common form of motor neuron disease, is also named for him Lou Gehrig |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Bacteria in the mouth produce an acid that eats away at this outer part of the tooth & causes cavities enamel |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" deals with this 365-body-point technique acupuncture |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Conjunctivitis, an inflammation caused by bacteria or a virus, is also known by this colorful name pink eye |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: This type of dr. specializes in the kidneys, bladder & ureters, as well as the male reproductive organs a urologist |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Types of this surgical gripping device include gingival, hemostatic & Goldblatt clamps |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz scrubs in for surgery.) Two angles of this type combine to form a right angle, just like massage & yoga combine with surgery to create this form of medicine complementary |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $800: You gotta have heart with this branch of medicine whose foundation was laid in 1628 by William Harvey cardiology |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | LOOK WHAT YOU'VE WON! $1200: For that term paper on the DNA of mice:
One of these in physiology or medicine, just like Sir Martin Evans a Nobel Prize |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO $2000: Geronimo was inspired by the Dreamer, one of these visionary healers or shamans, who was killed in 1881 a medicine man |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | ARTHUR-IAN AUTHORS $1200: In 1890 he gave up practicing medicine for full-time writing; in 1902, he was knighted (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WALK INTO A "BAR" $600: An 11-letter acid derivative used in medicine as a sedative a barbiturate |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Women should have this test regularly to screen for cervical cancer the Pap test |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A 2008 Toronto study found that doctors are more likely to recommend replacing this joint in men the knee |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates some spines.) Normally, the spine is pretty straight from the neck to the tailbone; in this condition the spine curves in an "S" or a "C" shape & may require surgery scoliosis |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: This diagnostic procedure uses ultrasound to image the heart; a "stress" one is done after some form of exercise an echocardiogram |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): It's estimated that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. have this disability whose name is partly from the Greek for "self" autism |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | MEDICINE SHOW $200: Breathe Right strips alleviate this sleeping noise, but became huge when Jerry Rice used them on the field snoring |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | MEDICINE SHOW $400: The bronchodilator Albuterol helps relieve this condition, from the Greek for "panting" asthma |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | MEDICINE SHOW $600: Nexium fights acid reflux, which also goes by this name, though it has nothing to do with the organ heartburn |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | MEDICINE SHOW $800: Atorvastatin is the generic name of this cholesterol drug from Pfizer Lipitor |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | MEDICINE SHOW $1000: This medicine is sold under the brand names Feverall & Tylenol acetaminophen |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | PROPHET SHARING $200: Before he was a prophet, Smohalla gained fame as one of these alliterative Native American healers a medicine man |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | HAPPY 200th, LINCOLN & DARWIN $200: Born in Shrewsbury Feb. 12, 1809, Charles Darwin was sent at 16 to study medicine in this Scottish city Edinburgh |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | MEDICINE THROUGH THE YEARS $400: In China this practice, zhen ke, dates back 4,000 years; today it's mostly used there for surgical analgesia acupuncture |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | MEDICINE THROUGH THE YEARS $800: In 1842 Crawford Long first used anesthetic in surgery, allowing his patient to sniff this gas, C4H10O ether |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | MEDICINE THROUGH THE YEARS $1200: First mentioned in Genesis, it's the only surgical procedure clearly described in the Bible circumcision |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | MEDICINE THROUGH THE YEARS $1600: Early Egyptian physicians diagnosed & inspected patients by palpation, examination by this sense touch |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | MEDICINE THROUGH THE YEARS $2000: 19th c. physician William Little first described this disorder caused by brain injury before or soon after birth cerebral palsy |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | HOOK, LINE & SINKER $200: In 1973 Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show expressed a desire to be on "the cover of" this magazine Rolling Stone |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $200: Muscles inflamed?
Joints in pain?
Dr. Alex' Youth Elixir clears away the ol' rheumatiz, or osteo- this (& it ain't "porosis"!) arthritis |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $400: Make your mucous membranes merry & mirthful! Enjoy Dr. Alex' Cure-All to fight these, be they duodenal or gastric ulcers |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $600: Ate too much MSG or feelin' a megrim, or one of these, comin' on? Beta-blocker, shmeta-blocker! Try Dr. Alex' Head Cream! migraine |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $800: For this inherited trait in men, sure, you can use Propecia--or my amazing new "Trebektophan" baldness |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $1000: Step right up!
I got me an "L" of an ointment for the chronic lower back pain known as this 7-letter malady lumbago |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $1000: The chief of medicine at Mass. General is on this company's board, so he can keep an eye on the Lipitor & Xanax Pfizer |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | YOU JUST HAVE TO "ASK" $600: Johnny, hand me this, my small flat glass bottle that holds my "medicine" my flask |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $400: When Queen Victoria's granddaughter married into the Russian royal house, this blood disease went with her hemophilia |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $800: Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease yellow fever |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $1200: In 1996 Michael DeBakey advised this Russian to have a bypass, prolonging his presidency & life Yeltsin |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $2000: Napoleon's invasion of Russia was partly doomed by epidemic typhus, primarily carried by bacteria on this parasite lice |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Generations of inbreeding doomed this dynasty in Spain as Charles II was both witless & childless Hapsburg |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | "FOR" WORDS $1600: Medical jurisprudence is another name for this branch of medicine forensic |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | CLOTHES-MINDED $1000: He studied medicine & served in the Italian army before becoming a clothing designer & opening his Emporio shops (Giorgio) Armani |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: This branch of medicine is devoted to the care & diseases of the elderly geriatrics |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MEDICINE $400: Rene Laennec invented this to save a young woman from the shock of a man listening directly to her chest a stethoscope |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MEDICINE $800: In this type of illness, the physical ailment (such as peptic ulcers) is real, but the cause is believed mental a psychosomatic |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MEDICINE $1,200 (Daily Double): The "mellitus" in the full name of this disease comes from the Latin for "honey-sweet" diabetes |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MEDICINE $1600: In 1906 a German doctor first presented his findings about this memory-loss disease that's now named for him Alzheimer's |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MEDICINE $2000: The original Hippocratic oath mentioned Asclepius & this son of Zeus who was called "the physician" Apollo |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | "OO", SORRY! $400: Mary Poppins told us that this "of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way" a spoonful |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $1600: Edward Everett Horton played a medicine man named Roaring Chicken on this goofy cavalry sitcom F-Troop |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | NOBEL $600: Nobel's will established his namesake prizes for chemistry, physics, medicine & physiology, literature & this peace |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | AT THE PHARMACY $1000: "Rally with Sally (Field) for bone health" & ask your doctor about this once-monthly medicine for osteoporosis Boniva |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Before he was a writer, Conan Doyle worked in this profession, like Watson medicine |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $800: In 1955 he was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for "great achievement in field of medicine" Jonas Salk |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $400: In 1968 a federal court found this author & pediatrician guilty of violating the Selective Service Act Dr. Spock |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $800: In 1659 Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi discovered that the lungs were made up of these tiny air sacs alveoli |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1796 he inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with material from a cowpox pustule from Sarah Nelmes Jenner |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $1200: This German bacteriologist developed a test for syphilis & an inoculation for tetanus Wasserman |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $2000: In 1889 Susan la Flesche Picotte, a member of this Nebraska tribe, became the first Native American female doctor Omaha |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | MISSING BODY PARTS $200: This assassin's 3rd, 4th & 5th vertebrae aren't in a Baltimore cemetery; they're at the National Museum of Health & Medicine John Wilkes Booth |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: This assoc. spread CPR by starting a program in 1960 to sell doctors on closed rather than open chest massage the American Heart Association |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In 1964 doctors at Ole Miss gave a man a heart transplant from a close relative--this closely related species a chimp |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: American trypanosomiasis is also called Chagas' disease; the African version is known as this "sickness" sleeping sickness |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In Guillain-Barre syndrome patients, these lose their myelin sheaths, so impulses slow down or stop nerves |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Doctors use a central line to puts lots of fluid into a large vein, such as the one in the head & neck the jugular |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | MEDICAL SCHOOL $1600: Washington University School of Medicine is the birthplace of this scanner similar to a CAT scanner. It was first to reveal brain function PET |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | MEDICAL SCHOOL $2000: My son the obstetrician went to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at the Univ. named for a Jewish academy Yeshiva |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE $200: The oldest operating V.A. hospital opened in this first post-Civil War year in Maine 1866 |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE $400: One mission of Paralyzed Veterans of America is research on SCI, short for this "injury" spinal cord |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE $600: Civil War field medicine created many veterans addicted to this class of drug that includes morphine opiates |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE $800: Reliving trauma, avoiding reminders of it & general irritability are the 3 main symptoms of PTSD, short for this post traumatic stress disorder |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE $1000: Among diseases associated with exposure to Vietnam-era Agent Orange is this lymph disease named for a Dr. Hodgkin's disease |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS $1000: A doctor, Representative Laszlo Surjan of this country has also taught medicine Hungary |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Statin drugs like Lipitor are used to lower the bad type of this cholesterol |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: There are viral & bacterial types of this, the inflammation of the membranes covering the brain & spinal cord meningitis |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: Lateral epicondylitis is the medical term for this chronic sports injury that affects the arm tennis elbow |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): A sign of this infection from the virus that also causes chicken pox is a blistering rash preceded by severe pain shingles |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: The name of this fluid that contains white blood cells comes from the Latin for "water" lymph |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | YOU ARE SO FOXY! $2000: The foxglove plant is the main source of this medicine used as a stimulant in damaged heart tissue digitalis |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | VIRTUAL MEDICINE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the surgery simulation room at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.) Doctors get invaluable training on the Human Patient Simulator at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of this medical school founded in 1782 Harvard |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | VIRTUAL MEDICINE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew observes a procedure on a simulated patient at the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation & Skills Center in Boston, MA.) Inserting a chest tube provides drainage to treat the buildup called empyema, sometimes the result of this lung infection pneumonia (tuberculosis accepted) |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | VIRTUAL MEDICINE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a doctor inserting a large syringe into a simulated abdomen.) This gas that's eliminated during respiration is what gets pumped into the abdomen to expand it & give surgeons room to work carbon dioxide |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | VIRTUAL MEDICINE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation & Skills Center in Boston, MA.) To ensure the passage of oxygen to the lungs, a tube is placed into this airway with care taken not to hit the esophagus behind it the trachea |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | VIRTUAL MEDICINE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a long, thin tube at the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation & Skills Center in Boston, MA.) This fiber-optic viewing scope has revolutionized diagnosis & surgery, as a tiny incision in the abdomen replaces one several inches long the laparoscope |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | "TRIC"s $200: The branch of medicine concerned with the conditions & diseases of the aged geriatrics |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | 19th CENTURY MEDICINE $200: In 1885 the first successful vaccine for this was tested on a boy who had been bitten by a dog rabies |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | 19th CENTURY MEDICINE $400: In 1852 George Cammann gave physicians a version of this instrument that they could listen to with both ears a stethoscope |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | 19th CENTURY MEDICINE $600: The invention of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 by Hermann von Helmholtz aided inspection of this body part the eye |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | 19th CENTURY MEDICINE $800: In 1865 Joseph Lister began using carbolic acid as this, from the Latin for "against putrefaction" an antiseptic |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | 19th CENTURY MEDICINE $1000: This German's discovery of x-rays in 1895 had visible effects in diagnosing medical problems Roentgen |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $400: It's a network of nerves, like the solar one plexus |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $800: Nephrology is a medical specialty concerned with these organs kidneys |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $1200: The hip is this type of 3-word joint ball and socket |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $1600: These 5 bones make up the palm of the hand metacarpals |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $2,800 (Daily Double): It's also called the auditory tube, & when it's blocked, an earache can result eustachian tube |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: A measured quantity of medicine, it's also a homophone of a Spanish numeral a dose |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $2000: Branch of medicine for the skin
(11) dermatology |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | MEDICINE $400: This inflammation of the voice box is a broadcaster's nightmare laryngitis |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | MEDICINE $800: Tired? Pale? You may have this condition meaning "want of blood" & usually caused by an iron deficiency anemia |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | MEDICINE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) Named because it connects the sclera & the cornea, this membrane covers the white of the eyeball; its inflammation is common the conjunctiva |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): This adjective can mean "suffering from excess secretion in the liver" or just "cranky" bilious |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | MEDICINE $2000: A spinal tap is done to obtain this, abbreviated "CSF" cerebrospinal fluid |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | "I.M." ING $800: This specialty deals with the diagnosis & nonsurgical treatment of organ systems internal medicine |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | 1970s ROCK $2000: Their 1973 hit about "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'" landed them on the March 29th cover of Rolling Stone Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | ONE-NAMED TV CHARACTERS $800: You are about to enter the world of forensic medicine with this boat-dwelling coroner played by Jack Klugman Quincy |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | IN YOUR CABINET $200: It's the "nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold... medicine" NyQuil |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | THE GALEN CENTER $800: Galen studied medicine at Pergamum, Smyrna & this Egyptian city famous for a library & a lighthouse Alexandria |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | TV IS SO DRAMATIC $200: Meredith had a near-death experience & Izzie decided to practice medicine again on this show Grey's Anatomy |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | TV IS SO DRAMATIC $800: A Vicodin-addicted doctor faked cancer to get experimental medicine on this show House |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | HOW ABOUT MED SCHOOL? $200: This branch of medicine is devoted to the care of children & the treatment of their diseases pediatrics |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew catches a medicine ball in the Herbert Hoover Library.) President Hoover made his staff play a combination of volleyball & tennis using a medicine ball; in 1931 a New York Times reporter dubbed the game Hooverball |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | BEVERAGES $400: In 1892 Asa Candler remarketed a medicine as this soft drink, & the rest is history Coke (or Coca-Cola) |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | MEDICAL DEVICES $400: Asthma medicine can be delivered by inhaler or by nebulizer, which turns it into this form a mist (or a spray; a gas accepted) |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | MEDICINE $400: A McBurney's incision is made in the lower right abdomen by a surgeon about to remove this the appendix |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | MEDICINE $800: Popularly called JAMA, this medical publication has been published continuously since 1883 The Journal of the American Medical Association |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | MEDICINE $1200: In the 400s B.C. this Greek wrote, "Into whatever houses I enter I will go into them for the benefit of the sick" Hippocrates |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | MEDICINE $1600: Robert Koch, in 1876, was the first to identify the bacterium causing a specific disease, this disease of cattle & man anthrax |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | MEDICINE $2000: The name of this instrument used to see within the stomach & intestines is from the Latin for "see within" endoscope |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | YOU GOT SOME SPLEENING TO DO $1600: In olden medicine & psychology, the spleen was said to produce the melancholy humor, a fluid of this color black |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | GIMME AN "F" $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew limbers up in the gym.) In 1998 the American College of Sports Medicine said a complete program must develop cardio & muscular fitness, & this, improved by stretching flexibility |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $400: To help the baby's nervous system develop, pregnant women need lots of the B vitamin known as this acid folic |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $800: Seen here is one of the original tubes used by Roentgen at the time of his discovery of these X-rays |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): Far away from Lyme, the lone star type of this parasite carries ehrlichiosis, a bacterial infection tick |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $1200: De Quervain disease, affecting a tendon at this joint, is found in those with repetitive jobs, as on assembly lines wrist |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | MEDICINE $2000: In 2005 a French team performed the first of these procedures--some fear the recipient will look just like the donor face transplant |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | "WINTER" WONDERLAND $1000: This plant, Gaultheria procumbens, produces an oil used in medicine & as a flavoring wintergreen |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $400: Atherosclerosis is better known by this 4-word phrase hardening of the arteries |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $800: Hay fever is caused by antibodies reacting with inhaled pollen, causing the release of this histamines |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1,400 (Daily Double): It's the branch of medicine that studes blood & blood-forming tissues hematology |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $1600: Slipped & ruptured are synonyms for this when it precedes "disk" herniated |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $2000: The name of this leg muscle is also a verb that means "to render powerless" hamstring |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $400: This branch of medicine deals with women during pregnancy & labor & after childbirth obstetrics |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | DOCTOR! $2000: We don't just presume, we know that he studied theology & medicine in Glasgow in the 1830s (Dr.) Livingstone |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | I WAS ON JEOPARDY! $2000: From 1993 to 1998 the "Jeopardy!" player seen here played this "pioneering" TV character Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | Rx $400: OS means "oculus sinister", which isn’t a bad thing, it just means your medicine is to go in your left this eye |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE $200: 400s B.C.:
This Greek "father of medicine" bases medicine on observation & reasoning Hippocrates |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE $400: 1590:
Dutch lens grinder Zacharias Janssen invents a type of this optical research instrument a microscope |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE $600: 1948:
Johns Hopkins scientists find that this antihistamine alleviates motion sickness dramamine |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE $800: 1952:
Paul Zoll develops the first of these cardiac aids that help control an irregular heartbeat a pacemaker |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE $1000: 1844:
During a tooth extraction, Dr. Horace Wells makes the first use of this gas as an anesthetic nitrous oxide (laughing gas) |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | "PAR" FOR THE COURSE $2000: This 16th century Swiss alchemist opined that "medicine is not only a science; it is also an art" Paracelsus |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $1600: The subject of a 1995 animated movie, this sled dog led the team that brought medicine to save Nome in 1925 Balto |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $400: Cupping stimulates acupuncture points by applying suction through a glass jar, creating a partial one of these a vacuum |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $800: Acupuncture needles, now steel & as thin as a hair, were once made of the woody stem of this giant grass bamboo |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): Most acupuncture points relate to pathways along the body called these, like the ones connecting poles on a globe meridians |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $1600: Research shows that acupuncture increases brain production of these hormones, natural painkillers endorphins |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $2000: Once in weight-loss products, ma huang is the Chinese name for this herbal stimulant used to treat asthma ephedra |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | SCI. ABBREV. $400: On a prescription the abbreviation b.i.d. indicates you should take your medicine this often twice a day |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | MEDICINE IN LAYMAN'S TERMS $400: Hypertension high blood pressure |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | MEDICINE IN LAYMAN'S TERMS $800: Rubella German measles |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | MEDICINE IN LAYMAN'S TERMS $1200: Pollinosis hay fever |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | MEDICINE IN LAYMAN'S TERMS $1600: Varicella chicken pox |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | MEDICINE IN LAYMAN'S TERMS $2000: Pertussis whooping cough |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the North Carolina State Veterinary School.) As with human patients, metal is kept away from this diagnostic machine, so be careful with collars & bells an MRI |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $800: Navicular disease usually refers to lameness in this animal's foreleg a horse |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the North Carolina State Veterinary School.) X-rays can detect hip dysplasia common in large dogs in which the ball of this bone is loose in its socket the femur |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1600: When a fish has trouble with the "swim" type of this sac, doctors can attach a new one to keep it floating upright a bladder |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the North Carolina State Veterinary School.) The owner of a recipient cat must adopt the donor cat when North Carolina State University performs this veterinary procedure used in some cases of feline nephritis a kidney transplant |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME $200: This branch of medicine is from the Greek for "mind cure" psychiatry |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | OCCUPATIONS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a chemistry lab.) The mortar & pestle, once used to grind materials to make medicine, are still the symbol of this profession a pharmacist |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: A tear in this light-receptive layer at the back of the eye can cause it to detach from the underlying tissue the retina |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A lack of iodine in the diet can cause a goiter, which is an enlargement of this gland that's just below the larynx a thyroid |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: An angiogram may reveal one of these bulges in the wall of a blood vessel an aneurysm |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the top secret Jeopardy! science lab.) It's the 11-letter adjective for this type of medical application; the first approved use was for motion sickness transdermal |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: In a severe case, this lateral curvature of the spine can cause a 90-degree displacement of the pelvis scoliosis |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | CALL ME CHARLES $1200: The National Museum of Health & Medicine performed the autopsies on James Garfield & this assassin Charles Guiteau |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | MEN OF SCIENCE $600: The director of St. Petersburg's Institute of Experimental Medicine until his 1936 death; his name ring a bell? (Ivan) Pavlov |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | MEDICINE $200: Of cowpox, cat scratch fever, or kangarosis, the one you can't get kangarosis |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | MEDICINE $400: A few almonds might help a headache; they contain salicylic acid, found in this drug synthesized in 1853 aspirin |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | MEDICINE $600: A doctor in her first year out of med school; when you add "ist" you get a specialist an intern (internist accepted) |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | MEDICINE $800: In an ancient Indian treatise, Susruta noted the relationship between mosquitos & this "bad air" disease malaria |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | MEDICINE $1000: 19th century physiologist Claude Bernard found how this organ converts sugar to glycogen & stores it the liver |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | 3-LETTER THE BETTER $200: You take your llama to one when it's sick a vet (doc accepted) |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | THESPIAN-"O" $2000: She went from playing doctor in "Medicine Man" to playing one again on "The Sopranos" (Lorraine) Bracco |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Under Jean Chretien, in 2001 this country became the first to legalize marijuana for medical use Canada |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: 9-letter term for a body part, like the sinoatrial node, that is a regulator of bodily rhythm a pacemaker |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: "The Hot Zone", a medical thriller, tells the true story of an outbreak of this virus near Washington, D.C. Ebola |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Factor VIII is a protein in the blood that helps it do this clot |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: The name of these pain suppressors is short for endogenous morphines endorphins |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | CABLE NETWORKING $800: This network for women prescribes "Strong Medicine" Lifetime |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | IN A WORD $1000: Take your medicine & tell us the name of this once powerful family of Florence, Italy Medici (in medicine) |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | "E" GADS! $2000: A cure-all, or a sweetened solution of water & alcohol to help make the medicine go down an elixir |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | FEMINISM $1,000 (Daily Double): The profession of Mary Prance in Henry James' 1886 "The Bostonians", it was about 1/5 female in Boston at the time a physician (or medicine or a doctor) |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MEDICINE $200: Because it disproportionately affects childless women, it was once known as the "Nun's Disease" breast cancer |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MEDICINE $400: On Sept. 30, 2004 this popular arthritis drug was withdrawn due to concerns about its effect on heart health Vioxx |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MEDICINE $600: This itchy ailment is also called atopic dermatitis eczema |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MEDICINE $800: Its fair-skinned, non-indigenous population gave this country of 20 million the world's highest skin cancer rate Australia |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MEDICINE $1000: Doctors use this word, from the Latin for "convenient", for infections striking a weak immune system opportunistic |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | GREAT CONDUCTORS $3,500 (Daily Double): He studied medicine at St. Xavier's College in India before becoming a conductor Zubin Mehta |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | FIX THE PROVERB $1600: The best is laughter medicine Laughter is the best medicine |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | BRIGHT IDEAS $400: In 1948 scientists at Bristol-Meyers "buffered" this medicine for the first time aspirin |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $200: The stomach is found in what's called this "cavity" abdominal |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $400: The thyroid gland straddles this tube also known as the windpipe the trachea |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from an old-time pharmacy.) Polio, which forced young victims to wear braces like this, was once often referred to by this two-word name infantile paralysis |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRIT LIT $800: Of a future land, a patent medicine, or an alien visitor, what H.G. Wells' "Tono-Bungay" is patent medicine |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): These bones in the foot correspond to the carpal & metacarpal bones in the hand the tarsals and the metatarsals |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | ANATOMY & MEDICINE $1000: The spinal cord passes through a large opening in this bone at the back of the skull the occipital |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | ECONOMICS $800: In economics, it's the actual using of a good or service; in medicine, it's tuberculosis consumption |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER $800: Frederick Banting Medicine |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | NOBEL CATEGORIES BY WINNER $2000: Peter Agre & Roderick MacKinnon (C'mon, it was just last year...) Chemistry |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | GET A DEGREE $800: You go to the DMV to get your driver's license; you go to a D.V.M. because she's a licensed doctor of this veterinary medicine |
| #4644, aired 2004-11-11 | "DEEP" DISH $600: Seen here, he was an endocrinologist before promoting Ayur Veda, an ancient form of holistic medicine Deepak Chopra |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: The UN's WHO, World Health Org., deals with medicine; its WMO, short for this, deals with weather World Meteorological Organization |
| #4606, aired 2004-09-20 | ADD A "PIN"CH $200: This leafy green vegetable originated in Southwest Asia & was considered a medicine by Persians spinach |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | CLASSIC GAMES $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays a game with Sofia.) Eight years of studying medicine have prepared me to perform delicate surgery on Cavity Sam in this game--scalpel!
Bzzzt! Operation |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | WORD "PLA"Y $800: A "medicine" prescribed simply for the mental relief of a patient a placebo |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THAT'S MY SCHOOL! $1,700 (Daily Double): We wonder if his famous sandals are required footwear at the Chicago school of podiatric medicine named for him Dr. Scholl |
| #4568, aired 2004-06-16 | PETER $1200: After retiring from medicine in 1840, he began work on his thesaurus in London Peter Roget |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $800: Hippocrates called this "the most distinguished of all the arts" but "by far the least esteemed" medicine |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | -IST A JOB $800: In medicine there are surgical & radiation types of this cancer specialist an oncologist |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | THE UNITED STATES OF ADVERTISING $200: This "advanced medicine for pain" was the first nonprescription brand of ibuprofen in the U.S. Advil |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | TV TITLE ROLES $1200: Jane Seymour
1993-98 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE? $800: By this alternative medicine's methods a quartz-powered watch should aid in carpal-tunnel syndrome relief; well, maybe crystal healing |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | PROVINCE TOWNS $1000: Vulcan,
Medicine Hat,
Red Deer Alberta |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | MEDICINE $400: A Pseudofolliculitis barbae is an "ingrown" one of these a hair |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | MEDICINE $800: Adding these charged particles to the air is supposed to reduce blood pressure & relieve headaches negative ions |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | MEDICINE $1200: Symbolized Ba, this element is put in your body, one way or another, to be seen on X-rays barium |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | MEDICINE $1600: Yes, she developed a scoring system in 1952 to aid in determining a newborn's health Virginia Apgar |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | MEDICINE $2000: Nitroglycerin is an example of this type of drug that widens blood vessels vasodilator |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | -OLOGIES $1000: One of the fields in which a Nobel Prize is given is medicine or this physiology |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel Medicine |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | TV SHOW OPENING NARRATIONS $1000: "Name: Richard Kimble. Profession: Doctor of Medicine. Destination: Death Row..." The Fugitive |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | NAMES IN MEDICINE $400: The Duffy blood group system was discovered while treating a sufferer of this hereditary condition hemophilia |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | NAMES IN MEDICINE $800: Lymphomas are divided into his "Disease" & non-his Hodgkin |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | NAMES IN MEDICINE $1600: First name of the man for whom the bacteria Listeria are named Joseph (Lister) |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | NAMES IN MEDICINE $2000: The palsy that paralyzes facial muscles on one side was named for this anatomist (Sir Charles) Bell |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | NAMES IN MEDICINE $3,900 (Daily Double): Theodor Escherich gave his name (or just his initial) to this bacillus that causes internal distress E. coli |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | COUNTRIES BY NEWSPAPERS $600: The Medicine Hat News & The Labradorian Canada |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | MEDICINE $400: Of the wrist, neck or back of the knee, it's where you put your fingers to feel the carotid pulse neck |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | MEDICINE $800: A form of this explosive is often used to treat angina nitroglycerin |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | MEDICINE $1200: In the news in 2003, SARS is short for this Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): The process in which these are formed in bone marrow is called leukopoiesis white blood cells |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | MEDICINE $2000: You would think the best antipruritic drugs to help relieve or prevent this are probably made from scratch itching |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | MEDICINE $400: The Hippocratic Oath begins, "I swear by" this son of Zeus "the physician and Aesculapius..." Apollo |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | MEDICINE $800: From the Greek for "itch", it's a "heartbreaking" skin disease characterized by reddish patches psoriasis |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | MEDICINE $1200: The 1905 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Robert Koch for his discoveries in relation to this lung disease tuberculosis |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | MEDICINE $1600: In 1785 Dr. William Withering documented the first medicinal use of this plant from which digitalis is derived foxglove |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | MEDICINE $2000: This Baylor physician who pioneered coronary bypass techniques was the first to repair an aneurysm Michael DeBakey |
| #4444, aired 2003-12-25 | "M" & "M"s $800: A shaman or witch doctor a magic man (or medicine man) |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | "E" $800: Found in the medicine cabinet, it has a small rubber bulb on top of a glass tube with a tapered open end eyedropper |
| #4441, aired 2003-12-22 | GRENADA $800: You can study this at St. George's University, like the nearly 650 American students rescued by the 1983 invasion medicine |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | HY-ER EDUCATION $1000: This German physician introduced "animal magnetism", now called hypnosis, to medicine Franz Mesmer |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: At the museum you can see the spinal column of this 19th century presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Open a drawer in the museum & you can peruse the gallstones of this 20th century U.S. President & General Eisenhower |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: The museum houses a large collection of these, including one used by Robert Hooke to observe cells microscopes |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A cabinet at the museum contains the skeleton of Able, one of these animals that went into space in 1959 a (rhesus) monkey |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: While he was the museum's fifth curator, this Army Major & surgeon discovered the cause of yellow fever Walter Reed |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | CABLE TV $1600: (Hi, I'm Billy Ray Cyrus.) In 2001 I began practicing medicine in the Big Apple on this Pax TV drama Doc |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $200: Joseph Lister pioneered antiseptic medicine with the carbolic type of this, today called phenol acid |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $400: Rather than a single disease, it's a general term for lung diseases involving inflammation pneumonia |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $800: This extinct flying reptile's name is from the Greek for "finger wing" pterodactyl |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1200: It's any type of severe mental illness characterized by hallucinations & delusions psychosis |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere Ptolemy |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $2000: This subatomic particle, which has no electric charge, consists of a quark & an antiquark psi particle |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | LIBRARIES $400 (Daily Double): In 1836 the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland began as this army official's library Surgeon General of the United States |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | MEDICINE $400: An otoscope has a small funnel-shaped attachment that is used to peer into this organ ear |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | MEDICINE $800: In 1844 dentist Horace Wells used this anesthetic on himself to pull a tooth; he then began using it on patients nitrous oxide |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | MEDICINE $1200: E. Donnall Thomas shared the Nobel Prize for the first transplant of this bone substance between 2 people who weren't twins marrow |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | MEDICINE $1600: An EKG is an electrocardiogram; an EEG, this electroencephalogram |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | MEDICINE $2000: One of the goals of this "Project" is to identify the sequence of the chemical base pairs that make up our DNA Human Genome Project |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | MEDICINE MEN $200: 1980 Nobel Prize winner Paul Berg figured out how to "splice" these genes |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | MEDICINE MEN $400: Galen said this was produced in the liver & ebbed & flowed like the tide in the body; Harvey proved that was absurd blood |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | MEDICINE MEN $600: Brown & Goldstein found that people with few LDL receptors have high levels of this artery clogger cholesterol |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | MEDICINE MEN $800: Norman Shumway designed a procedure for this; Christiaan Barnard performed one on Dec. 3, 1967 heart transplant |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | MEDICINE MEN $1,800 (Daily Double): In the 1950s Ian Donald adapted this machine, used to detect cracks in machine parts, into a fetus observer ultrasound |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: This other name for German measles refers to the length of time the rash typically lasts three-day measles |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Sadly, about one in 100 adolescent girls suffers from either bulimia or this related eating disorder anorexia |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Pravachol & Lipitor are 2 of the most effective drugs being used to lower this cholesterol |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Pardon my language, but it's what a sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Former Texas governor Ann Richards still campaigns, but now it's against this debilitating bone disease osteoporosis |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | AN ANCIENT LIFETIME AGO $200: The top choice for sweetening food or medicine, the Hymettus type from Attica was famous honey |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | GLOBAL WORMING $400: Hirudinea medicinalis is a species of this bloodsucking worm used in medicine leech |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $2000: Called the first female M.D. in modern times, she helped found the London School of Medicine for Women in 1875 Elizabeth Blackwell |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | PUBLICATIONS $1000: Published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, its roots go back to 1812 New England Journal of Medicine |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | BABYSITTING TIPS $800: If little Cindy gets into the medicine cabinet, you can reach the closest of these centers at 800-222-1222 poison control centers |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: More than 1 million Americans have Type 1, or the juvenile form of this insulin-dependent disease diabetes |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Anxiety, stress & lack of food can all trigger one of these severe headaches, from the Greek for "half skull" migraine |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Colorado) Dress warmly to prevent a fallen body temperature below 95 degrees Fahrenheit - the definition of this condition hypothermia |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Somnambulism is the medical term for this; snap out of it! sleepwalking |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: The flu, which occurs most often in winter, is short for this influenza |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $200: For 100 years people have relied on this pretty pink liquid for indigestion & upset stomach Pepto-Bismol |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $400: Psst! This Procter & Gamble product is the No. 1 selling antiperspirant & deodorant for women Secret |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $600: ReNU, a multi-purpose solution from Bausch & Lomb, cleans, rinses & disinfects these contact lenses |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $1000: Many people have turned to this natural substance, combined with chondroitin, to help repair damaged joints glucosamine |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $3,400 (Daily Double): This skin cream got its name after one satisfied customer exclaimed, "You knocked my eczema" Noxzema |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | MEDICINE $200: He worked on an anti-influenza vaccine in the 1940s which led to an inactivated polio vaccine in 1952 Dr. Jonas Salk |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | MEDICINE $400: He founded a clinic with his 2 sons & was active in organizing the Minnesota Territory in the 1850s & 1860s William Mayo |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | MEDICINE $600: Use of this test developed by a Greek-born U.S. physician has reduced the death rate from cancer of the cervix Pap smear |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | MEDICINE $800: Legionnaire's disease, a severe form of this disease, can be passed through water-cooled air conditioning pneumonia |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | MEDICINE $1000: This infection of the intestines is caused by a bacterium called Salmonella typhi typhoid fever |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1904 Nobel winner was director of the physiology dept. at the Institute of Experimental Medicine Ivan Pavlov |
| #4211, aired 2002-12-16 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: Among lesser-known body parts at the museum, see the leg Gen. Daniel Sickles lost at this July 1863 battle Gettysburg |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: This powerful drug, also known as speed, was first used in medicine as a nasal decongestant methamphetamine |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MEDICINE $200: Profession in which you'd find a nightingale, Florence Nightingale nursing |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MEDICINE $400: During acid reflux, acid from here goes up into the esophagus stomach |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MEDICINE $800: The peptic ones of these are usually broken down into gastric & duodenal types ulcers |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MEDICINE $1000: Chemical found in nearly all your body's tissues; pollens may cause cells to release it histamine |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Each of these organs is lined with a membrane called a pleura; hence, pleurisy lungs |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | MEDICINE $200: Cheilitis is the cracking & dryness of these; Chap Stick may give you relief lips |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | MEDICINE $400: The parotid glands, the largest glands you have that produce this, are what swell when you have mumps saliva |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | MEDICINE $600: Pertussis & tuberculosis are caused by bacteria; measles & rubella are caused by these viruses |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | MEDICINE $800: Hail, hail, the basal ganglia are here in this organ the brain |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | MEDICINE $1000: During a CABG operation, to bypass these arteries, incisions are made in a leg to get at a vein coronary arteries |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $2000: "Medicine Man",
"Die Hard",
"The Last Action Hero" John McTiernan |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | INDONESIA $1200: Most of the world's supply of this medicine comes from Indonesia's cinchona trees quinine |
| #4155, aired 2002-09-27 | BRAND NAMES $200: It's a "Nighttime, Sniffling, Sneezing, Coughing, Aching, Stuffy Head" medicine NyQuil |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | SEASON FINALES $800: On the season finale of this show in 1996, a wounded sully had to deliver Mike's baby Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MEDICINE $400: The term rheumatism is often used for this, particularly the rheumatoid type arthritis |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MEDICINE $800: Iritis & scleritis are inflammations of parts of this the eye |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MEDICINE $1200: (Here's Cheryl.) You're seeing this type of image of me, useful in medical and security fields, as it can detect heat and movement infrared |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MEDICINE $1600: In the Type I or "juvenile" form of this disease, the insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas are destroyed diabetes |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "to puff up", this lung disease involves the alveoli puffing up & ruptuing emphysema |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | "OO", SORRY! $200: Mary Poppins told us that this amount "of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way" spoonful |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | ALONG I-80 $600: This city on I-80 is home to the University of Osteopathic Medicine & more Iowans than anywhere else Des Moines |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | DOCTORS $400: The earliest known bio of this "father of medicine" was written around 100 A.D. by Soranus, a Greek doctor Hippocrates |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | ARMS $800: Curare, originally used as a poison on these weapons, is now used in medicine arrows (or darts or spears) |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: In 1770 this New York university became the first institute in the colonies to confer a Doctor of Medicine degree Columbia |
| #4020, aired 2002-02-08 | GOING TO THE DOGS $600: The trek of this real-life title dog who delivered medicine inspired the Iditarod & an animated movie Balto |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | A GOOD READ $1600: In this magical book, young Omri receives an old medicine chest that brings his toys to life The Indian in the Cupboard |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | LEGENDS $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is in Central Park.) In 1925, Balto braved the blizzard to deliver medicine for a diphtheria epidemic in what is now this U.S. state Alaska |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $200: D.V.M. doctor of veterinary medicine |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: The politics in Prague turn Tomas from medicine to washing windows in this conundrum from Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $200: For chapped lips try this brand of petroleum jelly; for dry skin try the Intensive Care lotion Vaseline |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $400: The type of this kept in your medicine chest is usually 70% isopropyl or ethyl alcohol |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $600: It's the more common name for acetylsalicylic acid (& it's easier to pronounce) aspirin |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $800: Isotretinoin, used to treat severe acne, is better known by this trademark name Accutane |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | IN THE MEDICINE CHEST $1000: If you tend to nick yourself shaving, keep one of these "pencils" on hand to stop the bleeding a styptic stick |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' SONGS $200: According to the song title, it "helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way" a spoonful of sugar |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $800: According to Proverbs, "A merry" one of these "doeth good like a medicine" heart |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | WONDER DRUGS $800: The arthritis medicine lodine is an NSAID, a non-steroidal anti-this drug inflammatory |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | STOP THE "PRES"! $200: A written order for medicine prescription |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | THE 4th $1000: The 4th Nobel Prize winner for Physiology/Medicine, this Russian won in 1904 for work in the physiology of digestion Pavlov |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | MEDICAL EDUCATION $1000: The board whose symbol is seen here certifies specialists in this form of medicine: emergency medicine |
| #3862, aired 2001-05-22 | NUTS! $500: The New England Journal of Medicine reports this nut, including the English or Persian type, can help your heart Walnut |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: Drake tells Trent he, like this book's Homer Wells, was taught medicine in an orphanage "The Cider House Rules" |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | CLOTHES-MINDED $800: He studied medicine & served in the Italian army before becoming a clothing designer & opening his Emporio shops Giorgio Armani |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS $200: In medicine, T&A isn't so sexy; it stands for this operation "& adenoidectomy" Tonsillectomy |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | THE ELEMENTS $600 (Daily Double): It was used as a cleanser, bleach & medicine before it was used in gunpowder Sulphur |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $100: Hepatitis & cirrhosis are diseases of this organ Liver |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: The tympanic membrane is another name for this body part Eardrum |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $300: When the intestine bulges into the groin muscles, it's the inguinal type of this Hernia |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: A deficiency of vitamin D is a common cause of this disease that causes bone deformities like bowed legs rickets |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: Alexia is word blindness; this is a reading disability in which letters are reversed &/or transposed Dyslexia |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | THE WORLD IN 1901 $400: Emil von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine with a serum against this "d"isease, a common killer Diphtheria |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | TOOTHPASTE TALK $400: What you have to do to shoot that tube on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet Aim |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | 10-LETTER WORDS $300: This branch of medicine deals with the diseases & functions of the heart Cardiology |
| #3727, aired 2000-11-14 | I'M NOT REALLY A SCIENTIST $200: In "Medicine Man" Sean Connery finds a cure for this but then loses it -- don't you hate when that happens? Cancer |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | MEDICAL ABBREV. $400: Field of medicine that delivers:
OB obstetrics |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | CHRISTIAN ROCK $1000: This gum resin, a gift of the Magi, is also a record label that released "Jesus Saves" & "Strong Medicine" myrrh |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | THE SMALL SCREEN $400: Michaela is the full first name of this title character made famous by Jane Seymour Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TIGER $100: Sadly for the tiger, these features on its face are thought in Chinese medicine to cure toothaches Whiskers |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | MEDICINE $200: A doctor may use a hematocrit test to measure the volume of these cells red blood cells |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | MEDICINE $400: In 1989 researchers identified the abnormal gene on chromosome 7 that causes CF, this disease cystic fibrosis |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | MEDICINE $600: Inoculations can be cutaneous, subcutaneous, intramuscular or this way, meaning into a vein intravenous |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | MEDICINE $1000: Before discovering penicillin, he discovered lysozyme, an antibacterial agent in tears & saliva Sir Alexander Fleming |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | SCIENCE $600: Don't worry about exploding when using this heart medicine -- it's too diluted Nitroglycerin |
| #3597, aired 2000-04-04 | IN THE W.C. $600: King Gillette's invention led to medicine cabinets equipped with slots to dispose of these razor blades |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | VETERINARIANS $400: In the U.S., to become a veterinarian, you'll need this 4-year professional degree DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine) |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | VETERINARIANS $500: The Center for Veterinary Medicine, which regulates drugs given to animals, is a part of this federal agency FDA (Food and Drug Administration) |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | MEDICINE $100: In almost a blink of an eye, a blepharoplasty operation can remove excess skin from these Eyelids |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | MEDICINE $200: Anosmia is the loss of this sense; you get it if your olfactory bulb stops working Smell |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | MEDICINE $300: Paresthesia is the term for when you "feel" these sewing items Pins & needles |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | MEDICINE $400: For this, the book "Skin Deep" recommends such treatments as witch hazel or a cool bath Sunburn |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | MEDICINE $500: A condition that features involuntary tics, it's part of Sydenham's & Huntington's diseases Chorea |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $100: On Dec. 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human transplantation of this organ Heart |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $200: In 1961 U.S. physicians began using his oral polio vaccine Dr. Albert Sabin |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $300: In 1940 Landsteiner, Levine & Weiner discovered this blood factor in rhesus monkeys Rh factor |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $500: "Eight Weeks to Optimum Health" is a bestseller by this alternative medicine man seen here: Dr. Andrew Weil |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $600 (Daily Double): In 1966 Chinese scientists synthesized this hormone normally made in the islets of Langerhans Insulin |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | TV PIONEERS $400: This city was the Rocky Mountain setting of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" Colorado Springs |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | NOBEL PRIZE MEDALS $600: A sick girl's thirst is about to be quenched in the image on this medal Medicine |
| #3542, aired 2000-01-18 | WHAT'S UP, DOC? $800: A president of Baylor's School of Medicine, he pioneered the development of the artificial heart Michael DeBakey |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | PLAYING DOCTOR $200: In 1998 Eric Stoltz joined the cast of this medical drama as a surgeon with a background in Eastern medicine Chicago Hope |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | DENTISTRY $200: As recorded in the Ebers Papyrus, dentistry as part of medicine began in this civilization around 3700 B.C. Egypt |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $100: Now hear this! One of the most common causes of hearing loss is a buildup of this substance earwax |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Of forceps, biceps, or triceps, the one that's a surgical instrument forceps |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $300: Like lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is transmitted by one of these arachnids a tick |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The AMA now advises women to have this breast cancer screening annually beginning at age 40 a mammogram |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: It's estimated that 1 in 12 African-Americans has the trait for this blood disease sickle cell anemia |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | SLOGANEERING $500: Relax, this brand of medicine is "Recommended by Dr. Mom" Robitussin |
| #3444, aired 1999-07-22 | WILLIE NELSON, THESPIAN $200: Willie laid down the law as legendary marshal Elias Burch on episodes of this frontier medical series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | OLD MEDICINE TERMS $100: Ague is an outdated term for this tropical disease spread by mosquitos Malaria |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | OLD MEDICINE TERMS $200: This name for tuberculosis referred to the wasting away of the patient Consumption |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | OLD MEDICINE TERMS $300: Julius Caesar probably suffered from attacks of this, which Shakespeare calls "falling-sickness" epilepsy |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | OLD MEDICINE TERMS $400: Grippe refers to a contagious disease characterized by feverishness, especially this one Influenza |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | OLD MEDICINE TERMS $500: Visible exhalations of gas or steam, or an old term for depression or hypochondria Vapors |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THE SHORT VERSION $1000: In medicine:
HIV human immunodeficiency virus |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | FOREIGN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: The Karolinska Institute is a Swedish medical college that picks the physiology or medicine winners of these prizes Nobel Prizes |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | IVAN $500 (Daily Double): Before the revolution, he was appointed director of the physiology dept. at the Inst. of Experimental Medicine Ivan Pavlov |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | THE FATHERS OF... $600: "The Father of Medicine" Hippocrates |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | SPORTS MEDICINE $100: The "stress" type is a hairline break caused by overuse Fracture |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | SPORTS MEDICINE $200: In tendinitis & bursitis, -itis denotes this Inflammation |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | SPORTS MEDICINE $300: A tear to the ACL, or anterior cruciate one of these in the knee, has brought many athletes to their knees Ligament |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | SPORTS MEDICINE $400: They're the muscles that flex the knee; pigs probably don't injure theirs as often as humans do Hamstrings |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | SPORTS MEDICINE $500: To pro athletes, a "scope" may be short for this type of device to view the interior of a joint cavity Arthroscope |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | SUGAR $500: In medicine, "blood sugar" refers to levels of this monosaccharide Glucose |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY $300: Alexander Fleming Medicine |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | TV SHOW LOCALES $1000: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman moved from this northeastern city to Colorado Springs, Colorado Boston |
| #3287, aired 1998-12-15 | COMMON BONDS $200: Moose,
medicine,
Henry Cabot Lodges |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $200: This symbol on a prescription is thought to represent the Latin word "recipe" Rx |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $400: Today, most commercial varieties of this antibiotic are produced by the mold p. chrysogenum Penicillin |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $800: In 1543 this Flemish anatomist published his "On The Structure of the Human Body" Andreas Vesalius |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2-word name of this disorder comes from Greek & Latin words meaning "without appetite" & "nervous" Anorexia Nervosa |
| #3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $1000: In the 2nd century, this Greek showed that arteries carry blood, not air as had been thought Galen |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "A" $200: In this province, Medicine Hat, as well as Calgary, hold annual stampedes Alberta |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | MURDER, SHE WROTE $600: In this "little" Lillian Hellman play, Regina withholds Horace's medicine & coldly watches him die "The Little Foxes" |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | TAKE IT OFF! TAKE IT OFF! $200: When CBS took this show off its schedule for 1998, it angered its viewers & its star Jane Seymour "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | PLAY "BALL" $600: A "prescription" for exercise is to toss this large, weighty, solid object from person to person Medicine ball |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $100: The "R" in the MMR vaccine stands for this Rubella |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: New studies have found artemether as effective as quinine in treating this disease Malaria |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $300: Nicknamed the "kissing disease", it's commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus Mononucleosis |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: In WWII Charles Drew persuaded blood banks to store this instead of whole blood; it keeps longer Plasma |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $500: The virus that causes this kids' disease can cause shingles in later life Chicken pox |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: In the U.S. this sex accounts for over 90% of the cases of gout Male |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Dr. Belding Scribner developed a shunt to allow long-term use of this kidney substitute Dialysis |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: A group of synthetic drugs are "anti" this chemical produced during an allergic reaction Histamine |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: The pineal gland also makes this popular hormone used to remedy sleep disorder & jet lag Melatonin |
| #3216, aired 1998-09-07 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Visual aids with concave lenses correct this defect in which light rays meet before they hit the retina Nearsightedness/Myopia |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | MEDICAL HISTORY $500: This symbol of the physician is derived from the wand of Aesculapius, the god of medicine Caduceus |
| #3185, aired 1998-06-05 | HOW'S THE WEATHER UP THERE? $1,000 (Daily Double): It lags behind a stroke of lightning at a rate of about 5 seconds per mile thunder |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS... IN 1800 $800: This "classy" Swede wrote, "To live by medicine is to live horribly" (Carolus) Linnaeus |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | SPORTS MEDICINE $200: Specialists say it's the joint most likely to suffer a major sports injury knee |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | SPORTS MEDICINE $400: C21 H28 O5 isn't a football play but the formula for this hormone injected to treat inflammation cortisone |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | SPORTS MEDICINE $600: An abrasion for scraping a hard surface is also called by the name of this fruit strawberry |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | SPORTS MEDICINE $800: A contusion of the iliac crest, AKA a "hip", one of these, is treated with ice &, above all, rest pointer |
| #3090, aired 1998-01-23 | SPORTS MEDICINE $1000: In 1974 torn tissue in pitcher Tommy John's left arm was replaced with a tendon from this part of his body his right arm |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: This title of an Algonquian medicine man now refers to popular tribal gatherings Pow-wow |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: Studies suggest oat bran is about as effective as the drug Colestipol at reducing blood levels of this Cholesterol |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Strains of this respiratory viral infection are named for their places of origin, like Asia & Hong Kong Flu |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: "Bee" careful: strawberries & shellfish may cause an allergic person's skin to break out in these Hives |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: Researchers have traced a cause of retinitis pigmentosa to one of these on the X chromosome Gene |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: Older people are more susceptible to this condition defined as a drop in body temperature to below 95 degrees F. Hypothermia |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $200: President Clinton's torn tendon in this joint represents a common sports injury of middle age knee |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: A drug modeled on snake venom may halve heart attacks among patients with this chest pain angina |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Kwashiorkor, meaning "Deposed from the breast", is a deficiency disease treated with the dried type of this milk |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: In Weber's Test of Hearing, one of these vibrating instruments is placed on the forehead tuning fork |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: This inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain can be epidemic meningitis |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: This New York City university's school of medicine was founded in 1767 Columbia |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $1000: The Royal Caroline Institute in Stockholm awards the Nobel Prize in this category Medicine |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $400: It's the branch of medicine concerned with kids pediatrics |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | MEDICINE $200: Hemophilia is a hereditary condition in which this coagulates extremely slowly Blood |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | MEDICINE $400: In the early 1930s surgeon Alexis Carrel & this American aviator invented a mechanical heart Charles Lindbergh |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | MEDICINE $600: From the Greek for "against life", these substances kill or inhibit the growth of infectious organisms Antibiotics |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | MEDICINE $800: This medical specialty is also known as chiropody Podiatry |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | MEDICINE $1000: Information about the medical problems of those wearing this metal tag can be accessed 24 hours a day MedicAlert |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | MEDIEVAL WOMEN $200: A treatise on this feminine area of medicine from around the year 1000 is attributed to Trotula Gynecology |
