| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $6,200 (Daily Double): Verdi's "Falstaff" is set in this town during the reign of Henry IV Windsor |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $400: Falstaff's first line in this non-history play is "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $400: Ecclesiastes 8: Do this & this & "be merry" eat & drink |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $400: In "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", we want you to bring us some of this dessert that looks more like a cake figgy pudding |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | PITHY QUOTES $200: Scrooge's 2-word response to "A merry Christmas, Uncle!" "Bah! Humbug!" |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $400: The cheerful tune you're hearing is this composer's overture to "H.M.S. Pinafore" Sullivan |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $800: The Liberty Bell March by John Philip Sousa became this comedy troupe's theme song Monty Python |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $1200: This ode by Friedrich von Schiller is set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy" |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $1600: This composer also known for ballets composed a merry waltz for his opera "Eugene Onegin" Tchaikovsky |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $6,000 (Daily Double): This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones Chopin |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Also a holiday album by Il Volo, it's how to wish someone merry Christmas in Italian Buon Natale |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $400: Master Ford & Master Page are characters in this Shakespeare comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $400: A golden age of literature is named for this queen who saw Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" & "Merry Wives" first run Elizabeth I |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH $2000: Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men Little John |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $400: An opera named for this character is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $200: An amusement park ride in which horsies & tigers revolve about a fixed point in the center a merry-go-round |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $800: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" is from this book of wise writings Proverbs |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | SYNONYMS $1200: Words for a comic entertainer at a royal court include fool, buffoon, merry-andrew & this 6-letter word jester |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | JUST TAKE THE L $800: Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way carousel & carouse |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $400: Friedrich Schiller was feeling pretty merry when he wrote this "Ode", "An Die Freude" in his native language "Ode To Joy" |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $400: Merry-go-round riders are subject to this force meaning "center seeking"--not centrifugal, which isn't really a force centripetal |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $800: In a painting by Charles Thévenin, Parisians celebrate the anniversary of the Revolution on this date in 1790 July 14th |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $1200: At the end of the "Odyssey", suitors are vanquished, a family is reunited & the wine is poured on this island Ithaca |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $1600: After Helena & Diana get some celebratory closure for their worries, well, this Shakespeare title says it all All’s Well That Ends Well |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $2000: Wagner's opera about this title man ends with grail & spear reunited, & smiles all around Parsifal |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $400: Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text Merry Christmas |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $200: In 2021, Shakespeare in the Park was back in this park with "Merry Wives", changing the Bard's setting to South Harlem Central Park |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | THIS PARTY IS LIT $800: This Dickens character excitedly watches his younger, better self make merry at Mr. Fezziwig's ball (Ebenezer) Scrooge |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $800: Ecclesiastes 10 informs us "A feast is made for laughter &" this beverage "maketh merry" wine |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | METAPHORS $800: Meaning achieving great success, grabbing this was originally a way to get a free ride on a merry-go-round the brass ring |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | SHAKESPEARE, YOU'RE DRUNK $400: "The gentleman had drunk himself out of his five sentences" is in the first scene of this play, getting "merry" from the start The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EDUCATION FIRSTS $400: Friedrich Froebel started the first of these schools in Germany in 1837 & started the day with merry songs kindergarten |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | ALLITERATION $1200: To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold" make merry |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $800: "Singin' and Swingin and "Gettin' Merry like Christmas" is the title of her third autobiography Maya Angelou |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE CHOSEN FEW $1600: Ken Kesey led a close-knit group called the "Merry" these Pranksters |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE DAILY TRIPLE $400: Unafraid to get his merry on, Old King Cole called for his bowl & then these musicians fiddlers three |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $800: Tom Wolfe wrote of the adventures of this author & the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Ken Kesey |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | HAVE A DRINK AT... $400: This merry old soul of children's rhyme presides from a mural over the bar named for him at the St. Regis in New York City Old King Cole |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | PIRATE FLAGS $200: It's the "merry" 2-word name for the skull & crossbones flag the Jolly Roger |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY $800: A group of homeless people begin the not so merry "Christmas Bells" in this Jonathan Larson musical Rent |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $400: We wish you a merry isthmus as we travel from Las Tablas to Los Pozos in this Central American country Panama |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $1200: The Grisettes performing this high-kicking dance in act III is a highlight of "The Merry Widow" the can-can |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WORD PUZZLES $400: Hold on and take a spin on this merry-go-round |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHSTONE $400: This type of beryl for the merry month of May will leave you green with envy an emerald |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | RETURNS $2,000 (Daily Double): After he returns in Luke 15, his dad says, "Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry" the prodigal son |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ANIMAL PHRASES $400: Pistol tells Falstaff in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "The world's mine" this, "which I with sword will open" an oyster |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KNICKKNACK $1200: Your nursery rhyme character figurines are adorable, especially this "merry old soul" Old King Cole |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | YOU BURNED MY FOOD! $800: We wish you a merry Christmas pudding, AKA this, a dish of dried fruit, suet & cognac, set afire before serving--now bring us some! figgy pudding (*plum pudding) |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Act II, scene i:
"Portia's house at Belmont" The Merchant of Venice |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Ben Bailey with Local 4.) You'll actually go south to Canada if you take your merry wife onto the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit & this city Windsor (Ontario) |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | IT'S HYPHENATED $200: It's a synonym for carousel merry-go-round |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | YOUNG LOVE $800: In a Shakespeare play, Anne Page secretly marries Fenton, making her one of this place's merry wives Windsor |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | TEXT $200: Sent in December 1992, the first text message was just these 2 seasonally appropriate words merry Christmas |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Tellest thou me of black and blue?" says Falstaff in this comedy; "I was beaten myself into all the colors of the rainbow" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $600: In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford & Mistress Page Falstaff |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $1000: In "Much Ado About Nothing", she & Benedick carry on a "merry war" Beatrice |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | FOUND IN TRANSLATION $1000: Franz Lehar's operetta "Die Lustige Witwe" The Merry Widow |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | ALLITERATION $400: You can wish someone "Merry Christmas" or be more general & say this; either way, you're being nice! happy holidays |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $400: Verdi's "Falstaff" takes place in this town, where the title character has his eye on some merry wives Windsor |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | MARRIED LITERATURE $800: Trying to get into their purses & skirts, Falstaff writes love letters to 2 married women in this play; the plan backfires The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | I READ YOU LOUD & CLEAR! $600: "'It's a wonderful knocker!--here's the turkey, hallo! Whoop! How are you! Merry Christmas!'" Dickens |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $400: Naturally, Act V, Scene ii of this play is set in Windsor Park Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! $200: To another place, like "In A Manger", title-wise away |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! $400: In the English lyrics of "Adeste Fideles", "O come let us" this word meaning to love adore |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! $600: Clothing or garments, donned with the "fa la la"-ing & so forth apparel |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! $800: It's Latin for "hail", Maria ave |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! $1000: Merry gentlemen, it means away from the correct path, as in "to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone" this astray |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | WATERWORKS $800: Some kids in Africa use playpumps, these hyphenated items AKA roundabouts that pump clean water for extra fun merry-go-rounds |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | SCHOOLED! $800: Before getting cuckoo with his Merry Pranksters, this alliterative author walked like a duck at the Univ. of Oregon Ken Kesey |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | CONFUCIUS SAID $1000: "Eating coarse ____ and drinking water...we may be merry; but ill-gotten wealth" is "a wandering cloud" rice |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Norwegian this holiday greeting is god jul Merry Christmas |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! $600: Merry Christmas! On Christmas Eve 1979, the Russians invaded this country Afghanistan |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | CIRCUS PERFORMERS $600: Big-shoed Pickelherring was a favorite German one of these merry-makers from days of yore a clown |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | OBVIOUS BROADWAY $200: This show's "Six Merry Murderesses" do the "Cell Block Tango" in Chicago's Cook County Jail
"They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming all along..." Chicago |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | OPERATIC ADJECTIVES $800: Lehar's title refers to Hanna:
"The ____ Widow" Merry |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | A SHAKESPEARE"M" CATEGORY $200: Title adjective describing the wives of Windsor merry |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | OPERA $1200: (Alex reads from the Metropolitan Opera.) Although he was Hungarian, Franz Lehée set his operetta, "The Merry Widow", in this city in 1905; one of the settings is the Art-Nouveau restaurant Maxim's Paris |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | BROADWAY $800: "Chain Gang" is a merry number in the 2010 musical about the horrific experience of these Alabama "Boys" the Scottsboro Boys |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: You might be "happy as" this bird whose name also means a merry, carefree adventure a lark |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | DOVER EXPOSURE $800: The 1670 Treaty of Dover was a pact between Louis XIV & this "Merry Monarch" Charles II |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING $200: The merry month of maggio is this May |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | "BUTTER" ME UP $1200: Merry music makers of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Iron Butterfly |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | NURSERY RHYME FOLKS $1000: That merry old soul Old King Cole called for these 2 things & his fiddlers 3 his pipe & his bowl |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | "M" IS FOR SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Frank Ford is a jealous husband while George Page is a trusting one in this play The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | DAY OF THE DEAD $800: Dec. 11, 1965:
The Dead join this "Cuckoo" author & his Merry Pranksters for an event called an Acid Test (Ken) Kesey |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | SWEET STUFF $800: It's the dessert mentioned in "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" & we won't leave until we get some! figgy pudding |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES $2000: Act I, scene i of this play is set before Master Page's house; the title tells you where the house is The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | HISTORICAL ROMANCES $1600: This "merry monarch" was merry indeed; he had numerous mistresses, including actress Nell Gwynn Charles II |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | SMALL STUFF $800: A book about this "merry old soul" is the smallest book in the Library of Congress; it's smaller than a comma Old King Cole |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $400: On Nov. 20, 2014 Elizabeth II & this man celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary Prince Philip |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $800: She wived it merrily with George V & got a big luxury liner named for her Queen Mary |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $1,200 (Daily Double): Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Albert in 1923, 13 years before he got this new name King George VI |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $1200: Welcome to the family! As a gift for her 1986 wedding, Sarah Ferguson got the title Duchess of this York |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $2000: In 1955 this princess renounced the divorced RAF hero she loved; in 1960 she married the future Earl of Snowden Princess Margaret |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | ROBIN HOOD $600: Here's this actor who played Robin Hood making merry with one of his men during a break in filming Errol Flynn |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY $400: This musical about a boy born to dance features a catchy protest number, "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher" Billy Elliot |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY $600: In 1989 "Meet Me in St. Louis" came to Broadway along with this Yuletide tune introduced by Judy Garland in the movie "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK $1200: "Good tidings we bring to you and your kin" "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | FEEL-GOOD MOVIES $1200: 1952, starring Lana Turner:
"The ___ Widow" merry |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | WHEN? IN '64 $600: This author gained notice--how could he not--leading a group called "The Merry Pranksters" on a wild cross-country bus trip Ken Kesey |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | WORD PROBLEM PROBLEMS $800: Sue reads 22 pages an hour; how many pages of "Merry Christmas, Alex Cross" by this man can Sue read until the movie opens? (James) Patterson |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CREW $200: This happy crew is first named in the 1450 ballad "Robin Hood and the Monk" the Merry Men |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | HANDLING SOME T-N-T $1000: British term for a merry-go-round; sounds like fair play a turnabout |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | HAPPY $800: Though married, Mistress Page & Mistress Ford are wooed by this character in "The Merry Wives of Windsor " Falstaff |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | MOVIE MUSICALS BY SONGS $2000: 1944:
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" &
"The Boy Next Door" Meet Me in St. Louis |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | A SLAYING SONG TONIGHT $1200: Merry Clayton was called to the studio in curlers to sing, "rape, murder, it's just a shot away" on this Stones tune "Gimme Shelter" |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | MERRY CHRIS $200: Chris Parnell & Andy Samberg rapped their love of Google maps & the Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia on this show Saturday Night Live |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | MERRY CHRIS $400: Gun control? No, bullet control, said this comic: "If a bullet costs $5,000, there'll be no more innocent bystanders" Chris Rock |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | MERRY CHRIS $600: In this film Chris Tucker asks Jackie Chan, "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?!" Rush Hour |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | MERRY CHRIS $800: Told that Spinal Tap's album cover is sexist, Nigel, played by this actor, asks, "What's wrong with being sexy?" Christopher Guest |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | MERRY CHRIS $1000: As Jim on "Taxi", he asked, "What does a yellow light mean?" (Slow down!) "OK. What... does... a... yellow... light... mean?" Christopher Lloyd |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | "MERRY" $400: Here's the spin: it's also known as a carousel merry-go-round |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | "MERRY" $800: In a nursery rhyme Old King Cole was one of these merry old soul |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | CHRISTMAS $1200: Neil Papworth approved & sent the first one of these in December 1992, typing, "Merry Christmas" text message |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | "MERRY" $1200: A comedy in 5 acts, it centers on the romantic misadventures of Falstaff The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | "MERRY" $1600: After Oliver Cromwell, it's not difficult to understand this nickname of England's King Charles II The Merry Monarch |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | "MERRY" $2000: This good-time phrase is what the rich fool says in a New Testament parable eat, drink and be merry |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | A "MAD" CATEGORY $1600: One example is William Byrd's "This Sweet And Merry Month Of May" in praise of Elizabeth I a madrigal |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | UNDERWEAR $1000: A garment that combines a bra & a girdle is called a merry this, like a Lehar opera a merry widow |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | OYSTER STEW $600: Comedy in which Pistol says to Falstaff, "why then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1600: In Luke, a father celebrates the safe return of an errant son by killing this; "Let us eat, and be merry" the fatted calf |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT $400: A Merry Irishman pairs Kahlua with Tullamore Dew, an Irish type of this whiskey |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM $1200: He reported on Ken Kesey's travels with the Merry Pranksters in "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" Tom Wolfe |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | LET'S GO CAROLING $800: In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge scares a caroler singing this song; so much for "comfort and joy" "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | CROSBY $200: Each December Bing Crosby makes our days merry & bright with this song that charted for him 6 different times "White Christmas" |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $400: He says, "Merry Christmas! ...What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | I'M GETTING EMOTIONAL HERE $400: Drink prices are reduced & snacks may be free during this "merry" time at a bar happy hour |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES $800: Eat, drink & be merry: F&W Food & Wine |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: In a Shakespeare play, Mistress Page & Mistress Ford The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | THE RING CYCLE $800: If you grab the brass ring physically, not metaphorically, you are on this carnival ride a merry-go-round (or carousel) |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | OPERA CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Franz Lehar opera, Hanna Glawari, who recently lost her banker-husband, is this title character The Merry Widow |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | I CAN "BE" $600: The AKC says this breed is a "sturdy hunting dog" & has "a merry personality" a beagle |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | HOBBITS' OTHER ROLES $400: Dominic Monaghan (Merry) found the part of Charlie on this ABC drama Lost |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | YULE TUBE $800: Santa & company crash on an island & meet the island's penguins:
"Merry ____" Madagascar |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THAT'S "RIGHT"! $1600: In "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", Little John is fingered as one of these chief assistants a right-hand man |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $400: The smallest book in the collection, 1/25 of an inch square, tells the story of this "merry old soul" in a nursery rhyme Old King Cole |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | NURSERY RHYMES $200: He "was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he" Old King Cole |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | HAPPY $800: Adjective describing Ken Kesey's pranksters merry |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $400: The outdoorsy home of British Merry Men becomes the new pad for a "Last King of Scotland" winner Sherwood Forest Whitaker |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS $400: While writing "Little Women", she served as editor of a juvenile magazine, "Merry's Museum" Alcott |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $400: The cheerful tune you're hearing is this composer's overture to "H.M.S. Pinafore" Sullivan |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $800: This ode by Friedrich von Schiller is set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony "Ode To Joy" |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $1200: This composer also known for ballets composed a merry waltz for his opera "Eugene Onegin" Tchaikovsky |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $2000: Johann Strauss Sr. wrote a merry one of these military-style pieces in honor of Field Marshal Radetzky a march |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones Chopin |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $800: "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from her "Merry Christmas" CD was the first holiday song to sell 1 million downloads Mariah Carey |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $1000: This brother-sister duo's 1978 million-selling LP "Christmas Portrait" featured "Merry Christmas, Darling" the Carpenters |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | ANIMATED PUZZLES $800: The earliest-known
American one was noted in 1799 merry-go-round |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | VILLAINS SPEAK $1600: Robin Hood, now that my brother king Richard is away, you & your merry men will see sadder days under my rule King John |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS $2000: What a farce:
"Sir John in Love" & several called "Falstaff" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | LIFE WITH THE HOOD $200: Some stories say that this member of Robin Hood's merry men was 7 feet tall Little John |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS $800: This 1843 character says, "every idiot... with 'Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | I'M FEELIN' HAPPY! $1200: In titles, it precedes "Adventures of Robin Hood" & "Wives of Windsor" Merry |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | BAD TIME CHARLIE $200: Christmas 1977 wasn't very merry for this silent film star who died that day Charlie Chaplin |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | "M" & "M" $1000: England's King Charles II was known by this "jovial" nickname "the Merry Monarch" |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | RHYMES WITH A MUPPET $800: Type of pudding mentioned in "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" figgy |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THAT'S A PUZZLER $1600: This happened to Mistress Ford in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" beaten black and blue |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHAKESPEARE QUOTES $1000: "I am that merry wanderer of the night, I jest to Oberon, and make him smile" A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Dutch this holiday greeting is "Vrolijk Kerstfeest" Merry Christmas |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | FUNNY LADIES IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: Those joyful schemers mistress Alice Ford & mistress Margaret Page The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | TRA-LA! IT'S MAY! $400: For centuries, May Day merriments have featured this outlaw who led a band of merry men Robin Hood |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $400: This gluttonous guy shows up in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" & both parts of "Henry IV" Falstaff |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | RULE BRITANNIA $600: A "merry monarch" indeed, he was thought to have at least 13 mistresses, including actress Nell Gwyn Charles II |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $400: I heard it through the grapevine that this singer had a hit with "Let's Get It On" Marvin Gaye |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $800: Say it loud--this Sex Machine had "Soul Power" in 1971 James Brown |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $1600: Was it just my imagination that "Just My Imagination" was a No. 1 hit for this band? The Temptations |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $2000: You'll be mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out by naming this "Brick House" band The Commodores |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $3,000 (Daily Double): This band took its name from the 3 elements in founder Maurice White's astrological chart Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | PUBLIC DOMAIN SONGS GO HEAVY METAL $400: Ah, Christmas.
A time to relax.
Reflect.
& headbang! (to this song heard here) "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: The title of this comedy refers to Mistress Ford & Mistress Page The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #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 |
| #5537, aired 2008-10-07 | A MOTHER GOOSE PICTORIAL $1000: This title guy requested the items shown here Old King Cole |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | FUN WITH OPERA $800: "Merry Wives" make mischief in the Verdi opera named for this fat Shakespearean funster Falstaff |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | MOTHER GOOSE $200: Some speculate that this "merry old soul" of nursery rhyme fame was based on a real king of 3rd century Britain Old King Cole |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | SHAKEN-UP SHAKESPEARE $2000: Yee-haw! Colonel John Falstaff goes a-wooing in "Lone Star Love", a musical that moves this comedy to Texas The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | STREET-WISE $400: Drink & be merry on this "boozy" street in the French Quarter that extends from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue Bourbon Street |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE $800: Henry Porter's "Two Angry Women of Abingdon" may have influenced this "Merry" Shakespeare play The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | FUN WITH OPERA $1200: In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket Falstaff |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | THEME PARK FUN $600: Kennywood's version of this classic ride features a lion & tiger as well as the usual horses a carousel (or a merry-go-round) |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | HISTORIC AMOURS $1000: The Duchess of Portsmouth was the least popular mistress of this "Merry Monarch" (& that was quite a contest) Charles II |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | THE BARD WRITES $7,000 (Daily Double): When Mistress Page receives a love letter from Falstaff in this play, she asks, "How shall I be revenged on him?" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | SEASON'S EATINGS $800: The song "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" says, "Oh, bring us" this dessert "and a cup of good cheer" figgy pudding |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | BRITSPEAK $800: It's the British word for a merry-go-round or a traffic circle roundabout |
| #5296, aired 2007-09-24 | SOPRANOS $1200: June Bronhill's greatest success was in the title role of Lehar's operetta "The Merry" this Widow |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | "IDI" I MEAN $400: In "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" these come in "comfort" & "joy" varieties tidings |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THE SUPREME COURTSHIP $1600: This "Much Ado" pair's relationship, "a kind of merry war", matures when he defends her defamed cousin Beatrice & Benedick |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE $3,000 (Daily Double): "T.M.W.O.W." The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | WE'RE HERE TO "WIN" $400: If you're playing Florizel, you're in this late Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | OPERA $2000: In opera, that "dum-dee-dee-dee-dum" every time the merry carpenter shows up is called one of these a leitmotif (a motif accepted) |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | DRUNK ON SHAKESPEARE $400: A trip to AA might be in order for this gluttonous guy from the "Henry IV" plays & "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #5020, aired 2006-06-09 | ANDERSONVILLE $1000: After the death of Drew Pearson, this journalist took over his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column Jack Anderson |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | HISTORIC AMOURS $1200: He may have sired several of Lady Castlemaine's children; no wonder he was "The Merry Monarch" Charles II |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | LIFE IN THE FAST LANE $5,000 (Daily Double): Considered the world's fastest ball game, its name comes from Basque words meaning "merry festival" jai alai |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | SNOW BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS $600: A man runs through the snowy streets of Bedford Falls shouting, "Merry Christmas!" in this 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life |
| #4869, aired 2005-11-10 | PITHY QUOTES $400: Scrooge's 2-word response to "A merry Christmas, Uncle!" "Bah, Humbug" |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | KICKIN' BRASS $800: Grab this merry-go-round term for wealth or success as a goal or prize the brass ring |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1600: Judy Garland sang "The Trolley Song" & "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in this hit musical Meet Me In St. Louis |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $1600: Hurry up & name this character who makes bawdy puns during a Latin lesson in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Mistress Quickly |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from horseback.) Shakespeare used this word in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to catch someone's notice; I use it to stop my horse whoa (ho also accepted) |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | KEN YOU DIG IT? $1600: That merry prankster author who took us all inside the cuckoo's nest Ken Kesey |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | COLE MINING $400: Nursery rhyme monarch who was a merry old soul Old King Cole |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S SMALL PARTS $400: Nym, a minor character, is a follower of this stout fellow in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | ROYAL SCANDALS $1600: Called "The Merry Monarch", this English king had 14 children by mistresses, but failed to sire a legal heir Charles II |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | THE WORLD OF WORDS $400: Myrige, an old English word for "pheasant", evolved into this adjective that precedes Christmas merry |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | I NEED BACKUP $1200: Merry Clayton's stylings on "Gimme Shelter" are just "A Kiss Away" from perfection on this 1969 Stones album Let it Bleed |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | ROYAL HOUSES $1000: This Shakespeare play sounds like it’s about the better halves of George V & George VI The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | FAMOUS QUOTATIONS $1200: This Dickens guy says, "Every idiot who" says, "Merry Christmas... should be boiled with his own pudding" Scrooge |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: A year before "Little Women" was published, she became editor of a juvenile magazine called Merry's Museum (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | NURSERY RHYME TIME $400: Merry old king's food-serving containers Cole's bowls |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | OPERA TITLE CHARACTERS $800: Some merry wives dress up like fairies in Verdi's 1893 opera named for this Shakespearean character Falstaff |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $800: Title adjective Shakespeare used to describe Mistresses Ford & Page merry |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL $800: "Good tidings we bring to you and your kin, we wish you good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year" "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? $400: He's hanging out in the woods with a bunch of guys in tights; says they're his "Merry Men" -- He thinks he's... Robin Hood |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | SHAKESPEARE $800 (Daily Double): The basic situation of this play resembles the Elizabethan ballad "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife" Taming of the Shrew |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | MAKING THE BAND $400: It's the alliterative name of Robin Hood's legendary band of outlaws Merry Men |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | WHAT A PEASANT SURPRISE $800: The third movement of his 1808 "Pastoral" Symphony is entitled "Merry Gathering of the Peasants" Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | POLITICALLY CORRECT MUSICALS? $2000: Domestic abuser Billy Bigelow reforms & builds a family therapy theme park around that merry-go-round Carousel |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | MUSIC $400: Alas, my love, this famous English tune is mentioned twice in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" "Greensleeves" |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | FICTION $400: "Murder Most Merry" is an anthology of mysteries set on this holiday Christmas |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | WHERE ART $800: Sing a merry barcarole & head to this Las Vegas casino's museum jointly run by the Guggenheim & the Hermitage Venetian |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | VARIETY HEADLINES $1000: This Mel Gibson comedy had a merry Christmas with "Mel's Belles Pinch 'Grinch'" What Women Want |
| #4003, aired 2002-01-16 | JACKS OR BETTER $1000: Upon this columnist's death Jack Anderson took over his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column Drew Pearson |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | LET'S GO A-CAROLING $200: "We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas and" this a happy new year |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | JEFF PROBST IN AFRICA $800: (Jeff Probst in Africa.) You can tell he's an African elephant because he has these, like little pitchers big ears |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | SWAN LAKE $5,000 (Daily Double): The director of this theater hired Tchaikovsky to score the ballet, then called "The Lake of the Swan" Bolshoi |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: England's King Charles II was given this jovial sobriquet, maybe because he had at least 13 mistresses Merry Monarch |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | PUDDING $800: It's the traditional type of pudding demanded in "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" Figgy pudding |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | LITERARY LOCALES $500: The high-spirited mistresses Ford & Page are the title married women of this place in a Shakespeare play Windsor |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | A DATE WITH DISASTER $1000: It was not a merry Christmas for this man on December 25, 1989; his own security forces killed him Nicolae Ceausescu |
| #3932, aired 2001-10-09 | HAVE FUN $200: Ecclesiastes says, "A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink and to be" this merry |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $800: According to Proverbs, "A merry" one of these "doeth good like a medicine" heart |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | MOVIE SONGS $500: "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
(1944) Meet Me In St. Louis |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | FUN WITH OPERA $500: In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket Falstaff |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $500: This "happy" 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar features a famous waltz of the same name "The Merry Widow" |
| #3803, aired 2001-02-28 | SHAKESPEARE, THEIR CONTEMPORARY $600: Henry Porter's "Two Angry Women of Abingdon" may have influenced this "merry" Shakespeare play "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | RHYME TIME $400: A holiday song says, "Have" this type of "Christmas, it's the best time of the year" holly jolly |
| #3791, aired 2001-02-12 | OPERA $800: Verdi's "Falstaff" is based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays & this Shakespeare comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | SCANDALOUS WOMEN $800: The power-hungry Duchess of Portsmouth may have been the most disliked mistress of this "Merry Monarch" Charles II |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | NUTTY TV $300: The first of the "Peanuts" specials, it originally aired on December 9, 1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $800: In 1855 Joshua Stoddard patented this musical instrument often associated with circuses & merry-go-rounds Calliope |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | HAPPY TALK $400: Title adjective for mistresses Ford & Page, Shakespeare's "Wives of Windsor" Merry |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $200: He added a sleeping basket to the presidential yacht, the U.S.S. Potomac, for his dog Fala Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $400: This multimillionaire used to sail with dad Malcolm on the family yacht, The Highlander Steve Forbes |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $800: In June 1999 Michael Douglas & this Welsh beauty were spotted, as a London paper put it, canoodling on his yacht Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of a 1997 opera named for this American woman is set on the yacht Christina Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $1000: In 1988 Gary Hart had a merry time with Donna Rice aboard this yacht Monkey Business |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: This poet called her 1976 memoir "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas" Maya Angelou |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | BOOKS OF THE MONTHS $600: After "From Here to Eternity", he wrote about riots in Paris in "The Merry Month of May" James Jones |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | SECOND LADIES' FIRST NAMES $800: Merry Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller (the second one) Happy |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | THE PLOT THICKENS $800: A 1683 plot targeted this "Merry Monarch" of England because of his pro-Catholic policies Charles II |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $400: Ferenc Molnar's Hungarian drama "Liliom" inspired this "merry-go-round" of a musical that debuted in 1945 Carousel |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES $1000: The story goes, Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love so Shakespeare quickly wrote this comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | "T" TIME $1000: Merry prankster Eulenspiegel Till |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | "OLD" GLORY $100: A nursery rhyme's "merry old soul" Old King Cole |
| #3397, aired 1999-05-18 | PLAYING AGAINST TYPE $200: She was merry poppin' out of her shirt in "S.O.B.", a film directed by her husband Julie Andrews |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | HISTORIC AMOURS $400: Actress Nell Gwyn was the lover of Lord Buckhurst before she caught the eye of this "Merry Monarch" King Charles II |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | JAI ALAI $1000: Jai alai means "merry festival" in the language of this ethnic group of Spain Basques |
| #3376, aired 1999-04-19 | FIX THE PROVERB $200: Bleat, stink & be hairy Eat, drink & be merry |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | THE RED-NOSED $400: This bearded standup comedian is billed as "The Lovable Lush" Foster Brooks |
| #3290, aired 1998-12-18 | ROYAL NAME'S THE SAME $800: Unlike England's "Merry Monarch" Charles II, this country's Charles II was "El Hechizado", The Bewitched Spain |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | MUSIC $400: Shakespeare mentioned this folk tune attributed to Henry VIII in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" "Greensleeves" |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | SNOW WHITE'S UNKNOWN DWARFS $600: An exuberant dwarf, or one of Ken Kesey's "pranksters" Merry |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | WHAT'S THAT BIRD DOING? $400: This bird seen here gets its name by running along the beach uttering merry cries Sandpiper |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | SYMPHONIES $200: "Merry Gathering of the Peasants" is one movement of his 1808 "Pastoral" symphony Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #3204, aired 1998-07-02 | SHAKESPEARE $400: "Friendly Shakespeare" calls this comedy about gleeful spouses "an Elizabethan I Love Lucy" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | SCOOPS $1000: Among scoops by this "Washington Merry-Go-Round" columnist were facts leading to the censure of Sen. Thomas Dodd Jack Anderson |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | FORD & CHEVY $200: For Ford, it was "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" in 1966; for Chevy, "The Groove Tube" in 1974 their first movies |
| #3144, aired 1998-04-09 | MORE SHAKESPEARE: GET USED TO IT $800: Mistress Ford & Mistress Page are the saucy spouses who trick & torment Falstaff in this comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | GOING CUCKOO $200: Edmund Spenser called "The Merry Cuckoo" the "messenger of" this season Spring |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS.... $1000: "We were very tired, we were very merry -- we had gone back and forth all night on" this conveyance the ferry |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar features the "Merry Widow Waltz" The Merry Widow |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | NONSENSE WORDS $100: When Scrooge's nephew says, "A Merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!", Scrooge replies, "Bah!" this Humbug |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK $400: Judy Garland debuted "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in this 1944 film set at the 1904 World's Fair Meet Me in St. Louis |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | CHRISTMAS CUISINE $200: In "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", carolers demand a "figgy" one & won't go until they get some pudding |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | SHAKE YOUR BOOTY $600: The name of this "merry" pirate flag may have come from the title "Ali Raja", "King of the Sea" the Jolly Roger |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | SHAKESPEARE $700 (Daily Double): Some scholars think this bawdy comedy was based on a ballad, "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife..." The Taming of the Shrew |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: Death plays a merry dance on the violin in this Frenchman's "Danse macabre" Camille Saint-Saens |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | CHRISTMAS $300: In the U.S. we say "Merry Christmas"; in Italy, "Buon Natale" & in Mexico, this "Feliz Navidad" |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $300: Based on biblical quotes, the 3 things you should do "because tomorrow we die" eat, drink and be merry |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: Head for Fargo in this state to celebrate Merry Prairie Christmas North Dakota |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $600: Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem about this German figure's "Merry Pranks" Till Eulenspiegel |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | OPERAS & OPERETTAS $800: Baron Zeta wants the wealthy Hanna Glawari to marry Count Danilo in this "merriest" of operettas The Merry Widow |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | MOTHER GOOSE $100: He "was a merry old soul" Old King Cole |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | COLUMNISTS $800: During WWII this "Washington Merry-Go-Round" columnist was a reporter for The Stars and Stripes Jack Anderson |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES $800: In this comedy Anne Page & some boys dress up like fairies to pinch Falstaff & burn him with tapers The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #2578, aired 1995-11-15 | MOVIE DEBUTS $200: He debuted in "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round" in 1966, 27 years before he became a movie "Fugitive" Harrison Ford |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $100: Merry month
(3) May |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $800: "Merry Monarch" portrayed by Vincent Price in "Hudson's Bay" & Cedric Hardwicke in "Nell Gwyn" Charles II |
| #2468, aired 1995-05-03 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: An organization promoting the preservation of these publishes the quarterly Merry-Go-Roundup carousels |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: "Buon Natale!" is the Italian equivalent of this English greeting usually heard in December Merry Christmas |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: His novel "Ivanhoe" opens "In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the River Don" Sir Walter Scott |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | FASHION $1000: A wide-brimmed hat of the early 1900s was named for this Franz Lehar operetta with a "happy" title The Merry Widow |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: She edited a children's magazine called Merry's Museum before she published "Little Women" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | CHRISTMAS CAROLS $400: "God rest you merry, gentlemen, let nothing you" this dismay |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | FAMOUS PAIRS $100: Famous pair that sent Columbus on his merry way in 1492 Ferdinand & Isabella |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: The Dutch version of this holiday greeting is Vrolijk Kerstfeest Merry Christmas |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | SHAKESPEARE $600: In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this rotund & ribald rogue has a page named Robin Falstaff |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | SHAKESPEARE $600: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is only about 10% this kind of verse blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | OPERA $800: Verdi's last opera, it was based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | THE BIBLE $400: "A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be" this merry |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: A continuous track on which luggage is placed at the airport, or a merry-go-round carousel |
| #2164, aired 1994-01-20 | DUTCH TREAT $500: It was the profession of Frans Hals, whose merry works include "The Laughing Cavalier" a painter |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | CHRISTMAS CAROLS $300: "God rest ye merry, gentlemen" brings you tidings of these 2 things comfort & joy |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: He was "a merry old soul" Old King Cole |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | MOVIE SONGS $400: "Have yourself" one of these, "let your heart be light" a merry little Christmas |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRAWN $300: A Big Bad one in song saved miners, a Little one in Sherwood Forest was a Merry Man John |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): A tavern hostess gives an account of Sir John Falstaff's death in this play Henry V |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | AWARDS $800: Actress Pat Carroll played this male role in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" & won a Helen Hayes award Falstaff |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | LITERATURE $1000: In English this German peasant known for his merry pranks is called Tyll Owlglass Till Eulenspiegel |
| #1985, aired 1993-04-02 | SHAKESPEARE $800: Falstaff's last line in this comedy is "When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | OPERETTAS $700 (Daily Double): The German title of this Lehar operetta is "Die Lustige Witwe" The Merry Widow |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | SHAKESPEARE $800: Legend says "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was inspired by this queen's wish to see Falstaff in love Queen Elizabeth I |
| #1915, aired 1992-12-25 | CHRISTMAS $100: Designed by John C. Horsley in 1843, the first Christmas card wished the receiver Merry Christmas & this Happy New Year |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Robin Hood had one of Merry Men, Les Brown had one of renown a band |
| #1898, aired 1992-12-02 | MONTHS $200: In a 1598 poem Richard Barnfield called it "the merry month" May |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | TV GUIDE SAYS $300: "In Spain, Kelly and Scott are led a merry chase by Agent Double-O Cross (Peter Lawford)" "I, Spy" |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | "OLD" $100: In the Mother Goose rhyme, he "was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he" Old King Cole |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | GEORGE V $200: After George changed this, the Kaiser joked he was going to see "The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" his last name (the family name) |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | SHAKESPEARE $300: In this play, Falstaff disguises himself as a Windsor stag, "the fattest... i' the forest" Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $1,500 (Daily Double): At the end of this comedy, Rosalind says, "When I make curtsy, bid me farewell" As You Like It |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | SHAKESPEARE $200: His 1st line in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is "Now, Master Shallow; you'll complain of me to the king?" Falstaff |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $500: The flamboyant King Charles II of England earned himself this jovial nickname the Merry Monarch |
| #1616, aired 1991-09-16 | OPERA $600: This Verdi opera is based on Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor" & "Henry IV" Falstaff |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | MONTHS $200: England's Charles II, the merry monarch, was born in this merry, merry month May |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | FICTIONAL CLERGY $600: In "Ivanhoe" he was Robin Hood's "brother" & carried a lot of weight in the band of Merry Men Friar Tuck |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS $1000: Its 1st scene unfolds in front of Page's house; Slender & Shallow are complaining about Falstaff The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #1469, aired 1991-01-10 | SHAKESPEAREAN SERVANTS $200: Of Rugby, Hockey, or Cricket, the one who's a servant in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Rugby |
| #1433, aired 1990-11-21 | POTPOURRI $500: This game is of Basque origin, and its name comes from Basque for "merry festival" jai alai |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | BRITISH ROYALTY $1,000 (Daily Double): He had at least 13 illegitimate children--a "Merry Monarch" indeed Charles II |
| #1408, aired 1990-10-17 | SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Much Ado About Nothing", Leonato says, "There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick &" her Beatrice |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | BIOLOGY $800: On a lump of food's merry trip through the digestive tract, the next place it goes after the stomach the small intestine |
| #1381, aired 1990-09-10 | SHAKESPEARE $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this comedy refers to Mistress Ford & Mistress Page The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | ART WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS $600 (Daily Double): A tiger, not a horse, fetched $35,200 in 1986, the highest price ever for a piece from 1 of these a carousel (or a merry-go-round) |
| #1305, aired 1990-04-13 | BRITISH ROYALTY $800: "The Merry Monarch"'s father, he was beheaded in 1649 Charles I |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | WORDS $300: It can be a merry adventure, a harmless prank or a bird a lark |
| #1226, aired 1989-12-25 | CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS $200: Signs in Spanish-speaking homes wish this, as Jose Feliciano could tell you Feliz Navidad |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): Vaughan Williams' opera "Sir John in Love" is based on this Shakespeare play The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: Writer whose "merry pranks" are detailed in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" Ken Kesey |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | COMPOSERS $1000: "Merry Widow" composer whose career was encouraged by Antonin Dvorak Franz Lehar |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | "C" HERE $200: It can be a group riding exhibition performed to music or a merry-go-round carousel |
| #1150, aired 1989-09-08 | BRITISH ROYALTY $1000: "The Merry Monarch" whose reign was known as the Restoration Era Charles II |
| #1141, aired 1989-07-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA $600: Queen Elizabeth reportedly requested a play about Sir John Falstaff in love, & the bard wrote this The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #1050, aired 1989-03-10 | POTENT POTABLES $300: The Bible says, "Money answereth all things," while this "maketh merry" wine |
| #1033, aired 1989-02-15 | MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS $100: "Merry-Go-Round" Carousel |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | SHAKESPEARE $500: Characters in this comedy include Shallow, Simple, Slender & Falstaff The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #988, aired 1988-12-14 | AUTOMOBILES $100: "Come away with me, Lucille, in my merry" one of these Oldsmobile |
| #944, aired 1988-10-13 | LITERATURE $100: In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge 1st says "Humbug" when his nephew Fred does this wishing him a "Merry Christmas!" |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS $600: Mozart's rival Salieri wrote an opera about this comic character from "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Though he had over a dozen children, this "merry monarch" was succeed by his brother, James II Charles II |
| #802, aired 1988-02-16 | LEADERS $100: Will Scarlet was among this outlawed leader's "Merry Men" Robin Hood |
| #788, aired 1988-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS $800: This comedy was the basis for "Sir John in Love" & "Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | "WISH"FUL SONG $200: Carol in which singers demand "some figgy pudding & a cup of good cheer" "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" |
| #776, aired 1988-01-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: Shakespearean play featuring Falstaff & some "happy homemakers" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | FOREIGN PHRASES $200: "Mele Kalikimaka" in Hawaiian, it's this holiday greeting in English Merry Christmas |
| #740, aired 1987-11-20 | OPERA $1000: In this operetta, Prince Orlovsky calls champagne "the king of all wines" Die Fledermaus |
| #737, aired 1987-11-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES $600: "Sir John, to Master Brook you yet shall hold your word, for he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | "M"OVIES $1,500 (Daily Double): Movie classic in which Judy Garland sang, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" Meet Me in St. Louis |
| #689, aired 1987-09-10 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Play in which Mistress Page says "Wives may be merry, & yet honest too" The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | THE BIBLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Ecclesiastes says "A man hath no better thing under the sun than to" do these 3 "hedonistic" things eat, drink, & be merry |
| #603, aired 1987-04-01 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: Instrument named for the muse of epic poetry, though you'd never find her riding a merry-go-round a calliope |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | UNDERWEAR $400 (Daily Double): [audio --- music]
You might be arrested dancing to this wearing only the same-named undergarment Merry Widow |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | AUTOMOBILES $400: In a tune from 1905, this car was "merry" an Olsmobile |
| #445, aired 1986-05-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $400: Today, when not in London, it's where Prince Philip & his "merry wife" live Windsor |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | ROBIN HOOD $400: Little John's name before joining the Merry Men John Little |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | OPERA $600: English title of Franz Lehar's most famous operetta, "Die Lustige Witwe" The Merry Widow |
| #270, aired 1985-09-20 | FICTION $100: He & his band of "merry men" appear in "Ivanhoe" Robin Hood |
| #265, aired 1985-09-13 | TUNES FOR TOTS $400: Disney film in which "a very merry unbirthday" was celebrated Alice in Wonderland |
| #153, aired 1985-04-10 | PHILOSOPHY $200: "Consume, imbibe & swing" is another way of stating this hedonistic philosophy eat, drink & be merry |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | ROYALTY $200: "Merry old soul" with "fiddlers 3" Old King Cole |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | LEGENDS $400: The muse of epic poetry, or merry-go-round organs Calliope |
| #102, aired 1985-01-29 | SPORTS $400: Basque for "merry festival", it uses a cesta & pelota on a 3-walled court jai alai |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | "NICK" NAMES $200: You can call me "merry" or you can call me "hairy" but you doesn't have to call me "Santa" Saint Nicholas (or Saint Nick) |
