#9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $800: Let's toss around "Mrs. Frisby & the ____ of NIMH" Rats |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $200: The moral of his town & country mice fable is that a simple, peaceful life is better than riches with unease Aesop |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | BEASTLY LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: In a tale by Beatrix Potter, Tom Thumb & Hunca Munca are "two bad" these rodents mice |
#8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1600: Chapters in this debut novel by Zadie Smith include "Two Families", "Molars" & "Of Mice & Memory" White Teeth |
#8879, aired 2023-05-25 | CROSSWORD CLUES "V" $1600: Lice or mice
(6 letters) vermin |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
#8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $800: Something's awry in the phrase "The best-laid plans" of these 2 creatures mice & men |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $600: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) In 2022, I released my first children's book, called "Loud Mouse", about a mouse who finds her big voice; and in 2021, I co-starred with some mice playing Camila Cabello's stepmother in this movie Cinderella |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: These 2 migrant workers dream of owning a farm with rabbits in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", but things don't go as planned George & Lennie |
#8682, aired 2022-07-12 | IN DISPOSABLE $200: Despicable Little Bunny Foo Foo does this 3-letter action to the heads of all the little field mice bop |
#8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $400: This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute Of Mice and Men |
#8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2000: From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it" Pliny |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOCTOR $1600: This Steinbeck work that's set in Monterey is dedicated to Ed Ricketts, on whom the character of Doc is partly based Cannery Row |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $400: This classic centers on George Milton & Lennie Small, migrant workers in California Of Mice and Men |
#8532, aired 2021-12-14 | ALLITEROCKERS $800: He led a rockin' "Family" on such hits as "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin" Sly Stone |
#8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $800: This rabbit-loving character calls a woman "purty"; that relationship ends in an extremely awful way, as does his life Lennie |
#8426, aired 2021-06-21 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1200: To the phrase "Safe as" these little creatures, James Thurber added "under a cookstove" kittens |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills" Lennie |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN $200: "The best laid schemes of ____ & men" mice |
#8392, aired 2021-05-04 | THE WITCH IS DEAD $400: In a Roald Dahl book, the title witches get "smashed and bashed and chopped up" after being turned into these creatures mice |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $200: In 1934 this icon made his debut as a giant balloon in what was then called Macy's Santa Claus Parade Mickey Mouse |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $400: This "Simpsons" duo starred in "Candle in the Wound" & "It's a Wonderful Knife" Itchy & Scratchy |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $600: Geena Davis & Hugh Laurie were the adoptive parents of a mouse-like kid in this 1999 film Stuart Little |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $800: Singing "Here I come to save the day!" means this superhero cartoon rodent "is on the way" Mighty Mouse |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1937:
"De ratones y hombres" Of Mice and Men |
#8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
#8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $400: John Steinbeck lifted the title of this novel from "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" The Grapes of Wrath |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | RUN ON SENTENCES $400: It's said of this nursery rhyme trio, "see how they run!" three blind mice |
#8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $1200: Spoiler alert! Lennie Small doesn't live to see the end of this novel (& no rabbits were harmed in the making of the clue) Of Mice and Men |
#8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob Of Mice and Men |
#8111, aired 2019-12-09 | HAVE AN ARTSY CHRISTMASTIME $400: In this traditional holiday ballet, Clara defends the title object against the king of the mice The Nutcracker |
#8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES $800: The "Batracho-Myomachia", or "Battle of Frogs & Mice", is an ancient parody of this epic The Iliad |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $800: Lennie Small, George Milton Of Mice and Men |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | CAT IDIOMS $2000: Act assertively! "A cat in gloves" has this inability a cat in gloves catches no mice |
#7901, aired 2019-01-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Watch out, this trio! The farmer's wife is coming after your tails with a knife the three blind mice |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | EPONYMOUSE $600: Robert Burns' "best laid schemes" of this pair led to a Steinbeck title of mice and men |
#7815, aired 2018-07-27 | SOUNDS LIKE IT TO ME $400: Hearing this hyphenated sound "of tiny feet" means you have kids in the house, or mice pitter-patter |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $200: In this Steinbeck work, Lennie remembers what to do if anything goes wrong: "Hide in the brush an' wait for George" Of Mice and Men |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men" Robert Burns and John Steinbeck |
#7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $400: George, a farm laborer & Curley, son of a ranch owner Of Mice and Men |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This business handbook by Spencer Johnson has a question as its title & a parable about mice Who Moved My Cheese? |
#7609, aired 2017-10-12 | ALL THE "BEST" $600: According to Robert Burns, these schemes "gang aft agley" the best-laid plans of mice and men |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | LITERARY THREESOMES $400: Wielding a knife, the farmer's wife really lays into this nursery rhyme trio the three blind mice |
#7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $200: George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1937 novel about migrant laborers comes from a line in Robbie's poem "To a Mouse" Of Mice and Men |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE $1600: "Uh-uh. Jus' a dead mouse, George... Honest! I found it. I found it dead" is in this novel Of Mice and Men |
#7246, aired 2016-02-29 | OLD-TIME SCIENCE $1600: 17th c. scientists thought adding a soiled shirt to wheat can create mice--the theory of the spontaneous type of this generation |
#7243, aired 2016-02-24 | DISNEY ANIMATED SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $1000: 1950:
Gus & Jaq, mice Cinderella |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem Of Mice and Men |
#7180, aired 2015-11-27 | TYPES OF COMEDY $200: (Hi. I'm Neil Flynn of The Middle.) I go off script as a member of Beer Shark Mice, a group of comedians who get together to perform this type of extemporaneous live theater improv |
#7180, aired 2015-11-27 | DEVICES $800: Computer input & output devices, like mice & printers, are also known as computer these, referring to their outside placement peripherals |
#7148, aired 2015-10-14 | READING BY THE NUMBERS $1200: "Four Blind Mice" by this man is an Alex Cross thriller about a series of murders with strange links to the Vietnam War (James) Patterson |
#7108, aired 2015-07-08 | AN AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1200: Agatha adapted her 1947 radio story "Three Blind Mice" into this long-running stage play The Mousetrap |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $400: Mickey's better half, she's been with him right from the beginning in 1928's "Steamboat Willie" Minnie (Mouse) |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $800: This cartoon hero is famous for proclaiming, "Here I come to save the day" Mighty Mouse |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $1200: On PBS a mouse named Angelina seeks this rhyming artistic vocation ballerina |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $1600: A money-strapped duchy decides to declare war on the U.S. in the book & movie "The Mouse that" did this Roared |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $2000: Brian Burton has been part of Gnarls Barkley & "The Grey Album" under this name Danger Mouse |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | PENGUIN CLASSICS COVERS $800: Two migrant worker buddies Of Mice and Men |
#7044, aired 2015-04-09 | JUST A FEW LITTLE BUGS $800: This "pious" predator has been known to eat small frogs, mice & hummingbirds, as well as its own a praying mantis |
#6980, aired 2015-01-09 | GOOD MOUSE KEEPING $200: Lennie & George talk rabbits in this Depression-set Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
#6980, aired 2015-01-09 | GOOD MOUSE KEEPING $3,400 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "little mouse", these body parts are so named as their movements under the skin resemble mice muscles |
#6951, aired 2014-12-01 | NATURE $400: From the Latin for "gnawing", it's the order of mammals that includes mice & hamsters a rodent |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | READING LIST $800: Simple-minded Lennie loves rabbits in this Steinbeck book Of Mice and Men |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1937 short novel by Steinbeck:
Preposition Of |
#6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Burgess Meredith was George & Lon Chaney Jr. was Lennie in this drama, produced by comedy legend Hal Roach Of Mice and Men |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives us the clue from the horse-drawn carriage on the set of Cinderella in the Broadway Theatre in New York.) Cinderella makes her way to the ball in a carriage pulled by 4 white horses that used to be these creatures mice |
#6650, aired 2013-07-12 | ANIMAL CARE $200: Petsmart recommends these creatures, frozen, as the best diet for your snake mice |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | A BUNCH OF BOOKS $200: John Steinbeck, 1937:
"Of ___ and ___" Of Mice and Men |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $200: His role as a mischievous deckhand in "Steamboat Willie" launched his career Mickey Mouse |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $400: "Quiet Please!", starring this feline & mouse duo, won the 1945 Oscar for best cartoon short subject Tom & Jerry |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $600: Remy is a frustrated chef in this kitchen caper from Pixar Ratatouille |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $800: The mice Bernard & Bianca travel to save a rare eagle in the sequel titled "The Rescuers" here Down Under |
#6624, aired 2013-06-06 | WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $1000: This rat had his own movie in the sequel to "Willard", which featured a hit Michael Jackson tune Ben |
#6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $400: "When the cat's away, the mice will ____" play |
#6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CATS IN PROVERBS $1000: "A cat in ____ catches no mice" gloves |
#6581, aired 2013-04-08 | GRAPHIC NOVELS $200: In Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Jews are portrayed as mice & Nazis as these cats |
#6525, aired 2013-01-18 | HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $400: 3 mice. Sightless. Scared. & this lady "cut off their tails with a carving knife"; did you ever see such a sight in your life? the farmer's wife |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $400: This mouse part may be as long as the head & body, or much shorter--especially after an encounter with a farmer's wife tail |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $800: Mus musculus is this rhyming domestic creature house mouse |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $1,000 (Daily Double): Perhaps the smallest mouse is this one of sub-Saharan Africa, also a term for small peoples in the region pygmies |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $1600: This kind of mouse gets its name from cheek pouches in which it stores food pocket mouse |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $2000: The H in the illness HPS, which had a 2012 outbreak in Yosemite, is for this virus carried by the deer mouse Hantavirus |
#6407, aired 2012-06-26 | JOHN STEINBECK $2,000 (Daily Double): "Jody put out his bruised hand again, and..." this title animal "let his nose be rubbed" The Red Pony |
#6403, aired 2012-06-20 | COMPLETE THE ANIMAL PHRASE $400: "The best laid plans of ____ and men" mice |
#6327, aired 2012-03-06 | THE BOOK'S TITLE IN GERMAN $600: John Steinbeck's "Von Mausen und Menschen" Of Mice and Men |
#6269, aired 2011-12-15 | BURNS, BABY, BURNS $1,200 (Daily Double): Steinbeck took note when Burns wrote "the best laid schemes o" these two things "gang aft agley" "mice and men" |
#6257, aired 2011-11-29 | ODD WORDS $400: To decaudate is to do this, like the farmer's wife did to the 3 blind mice cut off tails |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | IN THE PINK $1000: Jack London wrote that one type of drinker "sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and" these creatures pink elephants |
#6199, aired 2011-07-21 | NOVEL QUOTES $1200: "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits" Of Mice and Men |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | KIDS' SONGS IN OTHER WORDS $600: "A Trio Of Vision-Impaired Rodents" "Three Blind Mice" |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | ANAGRAM ZOO $800: An ape:
MICE ZAP HEN chimpanzee |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | THOSE ANIMALS FRIGHTEN ME! $1600: Vermiphobia worms |
#6054, aired 2010-12-30 | BOOK BY CHARACTERS $1600: George Milton,
Lennie Small Of Mice and Men |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | ENTERTAIN ME! $2000: Madame Medusa & a pair of crocodiles torment the title mice in this Disney classic The Rescuers |
#5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED ON $1200: The tick species Ixodes dammini has as its favorite hosts white-footed mice & white-tailed these deer |
#5903, aired 2010-04-21 | DECADES OF BESTSELLERS $800: "The Yearling" &
"Of Mice and Men" the 1930s |
#5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE NOVEL'S FIRST DRAFT? $800: "With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select...Lennie!" George beamed. Now they could buy 200 rabbit farms! Of Mice and Men |
#5862, aired 2010-02-23 | EPIC CURIOUS $2000: This epic poet was satirized in ancient times with a mock epic called "Battle of the Frogs and the Mice" Homer |
#5848, aired 2010-02-03 | MAMMALS $200: Like mice, chipmunks belong to this order of mammals rodentia |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $800: Future geneticist J.B.S. Haldane began research in his teens on his sister's 300 of these rodents guinea pigs |
#5813, aired 2009-12-16 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $2000: This American ballet music composer also wrote the score for the film "Of Mice and Men" Aaron Copland |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE $800: "O.M.A.M." Of Mice and Men |
#5734, aired 2009-07-09 | ORIGINAL TITLES $1200: John Steinbeck first titled this story of George & Lennie "Something that Happened" Of Mice and Men |
#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 |
#5590, aired 2008-12-19 | COSMETIC PROCEDURE $400: What, no Rogaine? Cleopatra made a concoction of honey, burnt mice & bear grease as a cure for this baldness |
#5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $200: The farmer's spouse de-tails them:
3 B M three blind mice |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $400: In "Anchors Aweigh", not Tom but Gene Kelly was the man who cut a rug with this animated mouse Jerry |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $800: After men take away his mother, this Disney title character teams up with Timothy Mouse Dumbo |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $1200: Mr. Jingles, a pet mouse living on death row, is resurrected by John Coffey after being killed by a guard in this film The Green Mile |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $1600: Nehemiah Persoff voiced Papa Mousekewitz in this 1986 film An American Tail |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $2000: Nathan Lane & Lee Evans are 2 men who inherit a house plagued by a crafty rodent in this 1997 film MouseHunt |
#5439, aired 2008-04-10 | ON THE CUTTING EDGE $400: It was used by the farmer's wife to cut off the tails of the 3 blind mice a carving knife |
#5428, aired 2008-03-26 | A "LONE" $600: By the 1950s, scientists were able to do this to frogs; mice followed, in the '80s clone |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $200: He played sax in a jazz trio called The Three Blind Mice Clinton |
#5389, aired 2008-01-31 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $600: In the familiar proverb, it's when "the mice will play" when the cat's away |
#5340, aired 2007-11-23 | LITERATURE A LA SEUSS $400: George said, "No, Lennie, No! / I won't get you a guppy! / You think I've forgotten / what you did to that puppy?" Of Mice And Men |
#5318, aired 2007-10-24 | KIDDY LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): Tom Thumb & Hunca Munca are the title creatures in her "Tale of Two Bad Mice" Beatrix Potter |
#5316, aired 2007-10-22 | CLASSIC NOVEL SPOILERS $200: Itinerant workers George & Lennie dream of owning a ranch; Lennie accidentally kills a girl; George kills Lennie Of Mice and Men |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | ANAGRAMMED FOOD & DRINK $200: We all scream for it:
MICE CARE ice cream |
#5191, aired 2007-03-19 | NURSERY RHYME ER $600: Multiple traumas! The wife of a rural man had a carving knife... were these title rodents' tails packed in ice?! the Three Blind Mice |
#5145, aired 2007-01-12 | "O"PERA $800: George finds out Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket in this Carlisle Floyd opera based on a 1937 novel Of Mice And Men |
#5109, aired 2006-11-23 | SONGS IN THE CONCERT HALL $400: Here Mahler takes this normally cheery song & turns it into a funeral march "Frère Jacques" |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS $800: This feminist felt women were so excluded from health care research, even the experimental mice were male Gloria Steinem |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $200: On Nov. 18, 1928 this American icon made his film debut at NYC's Colony Theatre Mickey Mouse |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $400: This red-caped Terrytoons rodent has been saving the day on TV since 1955, with operatic flair Mighty Mouse |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $600: This "fastest mouse in all Mexico" has a cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez Speedy Gonzales |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $800: In 1975 Grape Ape & Mumbly teamed with this Hanna-Barbera cat & mouse duo but by December, the ape was out Tom & Jerry |
#5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CARTOON MICE $1000: First name of young Mr. Mousekewitz, voiced by Phillip Glasser in "An American Tail" Fievel |
#4992, aired 2006-05-02 | INSPIRED TITLES $800: The "best laid schemes" of Steinbeck borrowed a line by Robert Burns to title this short novel Of Mice and Men |
#4961, aired 2006-03-20 | CLOSING THE BOOK $3,000 (Daily Double): Steinbeck:
"And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?'" Of Mice and Men |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | THE OFFICE $400: "Minnie" say 5-foot-tall mice & ducks romp around the offices of this Burbank-based media company Disney |
#4890, aired 2005-12-09 | SMALL MAMMALS $800: The short-tailed species of this smallest land mammal produces a poison to kill mice shrew |
#4799, aired 2005-06-16 | TITLE FILM ANIMALS $800: 1977:
Bernard & Bianca, "The Rescuers" mice |
#4754, aired 2005-04-14 | MOUSE PADS $800: Like many mice, it's how genus Oxymycterus creates its refuge burrowing (or digging) |
#4745, aired 2005-04-01 | AMERICAN LIT $400: George & his simple-minded friend Lennie are this book's main characters Of Mice and Men |
#4714, aired 2005-02-17 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $600: Steinbeck:
"De Ratones y Hombres" Of Mice and Men |
#4710, aired 2005-02-11 | MODERN QUOTATIONS $1000: Deng Xiaoping said in a 1962 speech, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it" does this catches mice |
#4655, aired 2004-11-26 | FRAIDY CAT $200: Suriphobia, fear of these, may set a housewife screaming while standing on a kitchen chair mice |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | THESE WORDS ARE IN JEOPARDY! $1200: Quarry, like mice for owls prey |
#4637, aired 2004-11-03 | FOREIGN ANIMAL NOISES $1000: They say piv while stealing havarti & squitt squitt if they get into the provolone mice |
#4545, aired 2004-05-14 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $800: If you've got musophobia, you may yell "Eek!" on seeing one of these small animals mice |
#4501, aired 2004-03-15 | CINDERELLA $1200: In the classic version of the story, these animals become horses to take Cinderella to the ball the mice |
#4436, aired 2003-12-15 | KIDDY LIT $800: A Disney film was based on this 1959 Margery Sharp tale of Miss Bianca & the mice of the Prisoners' Aid Society The Rescuers |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Steinbeck classic in which Lennie & George are set adrift with Capt. Bligh in a sequel to "Mutiny on the Bounty" Of Mice and Men Against the Sea |
#4406, aired 2003-11-03 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: When Bill Clinton was a teenager, he played this instrument in a jazz combo called Three Blind Mice saxophone |
#4381, aired 2003-09-29 | THE MOUSE $400: Grasshopper mice are known to do this, like a coyote or a Ginsberg howl |
#4381, aired 2003-09-29 | THE MOUSE $600: Bambi might know that when deer mice get excited they do this with their feet, like his rabbit friend thump |
#4378, aired 2003-09-24 | PLURAL $400: The plural of house isn't hice, as you might think when you learn this rodent plural mice |
#4375, aired 2003-09-19 | TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $400: The moral of his town & country mice fable is that a simple, peaceful life is better than riches with unease Aesop |
#4186, aired 2002-11-11 | NURSERY RHYME RAP $600: This trio I don't know from Adam can't see the lady with a knife comin' at 'em Three Blind Mice |
#4171, aired 2002-10-21 | DON'T BE SUCH A HEDGEHOG $2000: Though hedgehogs' diet may include mice & snakes, they're still classified as part of this order Insectivores |
#4066, aired 2002-04-15 | A CHRISTIE MYSTERY $1000: Agatha Christie adapted her short radio play "Three Blind Mice" into this long-running play The Mousetrap |
#4055, aired 2002-03-29 | NURSERY RHYME AFTERMATHS $800: The SPCA has filed a lawsuit against this person who cut off the tails of 3 visually impaired mice the farmer's wife |
#3959, aired 2001-11-15 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $100: If you've got musophobia, the fear of these, we suggest avoiding Minnie & Mickey mice |
#3941, aired 2001-10-22 | FABULOUS FELINES $200: Ginger the cat sells groceries to mice who are "rather afraid of" her in a 1909 tale by this woman Beatrix Potter |
#3936, aired 2001-10-15 | TITLES TAKEN FROM SHAKESPEARE $800: "Richard III", Act 1, scene 1, line 1 by Steinbeck The Winter of Our Discontent |
#3924, aired 2001-09-27 | SAN DIEGO ZOO $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.) The great horned owl is classified as a bird of this; it goes after everything from mice to skunks a bird of prey |
#3917, aired 2001-09-18 | TRUSTY SIDEKICKS $500: Lennie, a lover of mice & rabbits George |
#3888, aired 2001-06-27 | ANIMALS $300: This civet relative not only kills cobras but mice, rats & poultry as well Mongoose |
#3884, aired 2001-06-21 | WE 3 $200: They ran after the farmer's wife, so she cut off their tails with a carving knife Three Blind Mice |
#3856, aired 2001-05-14 | COMIC & CARTOON CRITTERS $300: Pinky & the Brain Mice |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | CliffsNotes $300: 2 guys dream of owning a farm, one kills the boss' daughter-in-law, then his pal kills him "Of Mice and Men" |
#3820, aired 2001-03-23 | LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit "Of Mice and Men" |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | NAME THE NOVEL $300: 1937:
"Lennie spoke craftily, 'Tell me -- like you done before...about the rabbits.'" "Of Mice and Men" |
#3690, aired 2000-09-22 | STEINBECK $800: For the dramatic version of "Of Mice and Men", Steinbeck worked with this Hart-less playwright George S. Kaufman |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | MOVIE MICE $200: Mr. Jingles is a mouse on death row in this Stephen King tale The Green Mile |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | MOVIE MICE $400: He must have some connections--his segment in "Fantasia 2000" is the only one from the original film Mickey Mouse |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | MOVIE MICE $600: His Looney Tunes dialogue included lines like "Arriba, arriba. Andale! Andale!" Speedy Gonzales |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | MOVIE MICE $1000: A Greek chorus of mice sang & read the title cards of this 1995 classic Babe |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | MOVIE MICE $1,500 (Daily Double): In a 1986 film, this hero's father tells him "In America there are no cats" Fievel (An American Tail) |
#3628, aired 2000-05-17 | BOASTING $400: In a fairy tale, The Brave Little Tailor boasted he killed 7 with one blow! The town thought he meant men; he meant these Flies |
#3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): John played Lennie & Gary Sinise was George in a 1992 film adaptation of this Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men |
#3575, aired 2000-03-03 | COLOR TV $600: This title pair of laboratory mice continually & unsuccessfully try to take over the world Pinky and the Brain |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $1000: While a student at Hot Springs High, he played tenor sax in a jazz combo called Three Blind Mice Bill Clinton |
#3457, aired 1999-09-21 | 1998 DISCOVERIES $100: In 1998 biologists in Hawaii said they had cloned over 50 of these lab animals Mice |
#3447, aired 1999-09-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $600: Did you ever see such a thing in your life? The farmer's wife cut off their tails "with a carving knife" Three Blind Mice |
#3439, aired 1999-07-15 | NAME THE NOVEL $400: "Lennie held his closed hand away from George's direction. 'It's only a mouse, George'" Of Mice and Men |
#3422, aired 1999-06-22 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: Migrant ranch hands Lennie & George dream of buying a farm in this Steinbeck work "Of Mice and Men" |
#3365, aired 1999-04-02 | ANIMAL SONGS $100: A children's song in which rodents lose their tails, or a Ken Auletta book about CBS, NBC & ABC "Three Blind Mice" |
#3355, aired 1999-03-19 | FROM A TO Y $1000: Bobby Burns noted "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft" this agley |
#3308, aired 1999-01-13 | ODD WORDS $400: To decaudate is to do this, like an old farmer's wife did to a trio of blind mice chop off their tails |
#3291, aired 1998-12-21 | 20th CENTURY OPERA $800: Carlisle Floyd's opera based on this Steinbeck work has rodentia & homo sapiens in its title Of Mice And Men |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | OF MEN & MICE $100: Bob Beamon, Carl Lewis & the mouse family Zapodidae are all famous for this ability jumping |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | OF MEN & MICE $200: "Man" comes from the old English for "human being"; "Mouse" comes from "thief" in this ancient language of India Sanskrit |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | OF MEN & MICE $300: Humans are of the order primates; mice are of this order rodents |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | OF MEN & MICE $400: Until 1947 this marvelous man was the mighty mouth of Mickey Mouse Walt Disney |
#3288, aired 1998-12-16 | OF MEN & MICE $500: This smallest mouse of the Americas shares part of its name with a small people of Africa the pygmy mouse |
#3285, aired 1998-12-11 | ON ICE $100: Put this letter on "ice" & you get what Mickey & Minnie are M (mice) |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $1000: We suspect this creature wouldn't eat carob; it prefers frogs & mice cobra (carob) |
#3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: Number of nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie divided by number of nursery rhyme blind mice 8 (24/3) |
#3243, aired 1998-10-14 | POETRY $400: "The best laid schemes o' mice & men gang aft a-gley" Robert Burns |
#3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $1000: In "The Witches" Anjelica Huston was the grand high witch who wanted to turn children into these creatures mice |
#3164, aired 1998-05-07 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $100: Proverbially, it's what the mice do "when the cat's away" play |
#2989, aired 1997-09-04 | NAME THAT NOVEL $800: "Lennie said, 'I might jus' as well go away. George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits now.'" Of Mice and Men |
#2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $600: James Earl Jones appeared as Lennie in a 1974 revival of this play based on a Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men |
#2941, aired 1997-05-19 | RHYME TIME $300: Amiable rodents Nice mice |
#2927, aired 1997-04-29 | KITCHEN UTENSILS $300: Handy kitchen utensil used by the farmer's wife to perform a tailectomy on 3 blind mice carving knife |
#2888, aired 1997-03-05 | ANIMALS $200: The red panda eats this food, the main diet of the giant panda, but it also dines on mice & insects bamboo |
#2737, aired 1996-06-25 | CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $100: Mickey & Minnie (4) mice |
#2709, aired 1996-05-16 | AMERICA LITERATURE $600: In this Steinbeck work, dimwitted Lennie Small has a vision of his Aunt Clara Of Mice and Men |
#2697, aired 1996-04-30 | DRAMA $200: Agatha Christie based this drama on her own radio play "Three Blind Mice" The Mousetrap |
#2655, aired 1996-03-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: In "Of Mice and Men", he accidentally kills Curley's wife by breaking her neck Lennie (Small) |
#2643, aired 1996-02-14 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $100: His novels "East of Eden" & "Of Mice and Men" open with descriptions of the Salinas Valley Steinbeck |
#2610, aired 1995-12-29 | PROVERBS $200: "Poor Richard's Almanack" said this animal "in gloves catches no mice" a cat |
#2577, aired 1995-11-14 | INVENTIONS & DISCOVERIES $300: In July of 1995, leptin was in the news; it's a protein that caused some mice to do this lose weight |
#2527, aired 1995-09-05 | LITERATURE $800: Steinbeck novel in which Lennie Small wants to "live off the fatta the lan', an' have rabbits" Of Mice and Men |
#2464, aired 1995-04-27 | FAIRY TALES $200: Her footmen were once lizards & the horses that drew her coach were originally mice Cinderella |
#2397, aired 1995-01-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Ironically, Small is the last name of this "Of Mice and Men" character known for his strength Lennie |
#2395, aired 1995-01-20 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1000: This lyre-playing god of music is sometimes called Smintheus, which may mean he was also the god of mice Apollo |
#2315, aired 1994-09-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: "Did you ever see such a sight in your life, as" this trio three blind mice |
#2306, aired 1994-09-19 | ANIMAL PHRASES $200: It's when "the mice will play" when the cat is away |
#2185, aired 1994-02-18 | UNRELATED STUFF $100: According to the proverb, it's what happens when the cat's away the mice will play |
#2177, aired 1994-02-08 | JOHN STEINBECK $800: "Of Mice and Men" ends with George shooting this character to keep him from a lynch mob Lennie |
#2173, aired 1994-02-02 | GAME SHOWS $500: On this show, Boris Karloff admitted to Garry Moore that he was afraid of mice I've Got a Secret |
#2148, aired 1993-12-29 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The amoral Cathy Trask spends her wedding night with her husband's brother in this Steinbeck novel East of Eden |
#2133, aired 1993-12-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: George Milton & this strong but feeble- minded buddy are farm laborers in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" Lennie |
#2039, aired 1993-06-17 | LITERATURE $400: George S. Kaufman helped John Steinbeck turn this work about George & Lennie into a play Of Mice and Men |
#2028, aired 1993-06-02 | INSECTS $500: The Ency. of Insects calls them "the insect equivalent of rats and mice", as they live well with man cockroaches |
#1968, aired 1993-03-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: This Robert Burns poem contains the lines "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley" "To a Mouse" |
#1940, aired 1993-01-29 | MICE $100: This mouse made his film debut in the 1940 MGM cartoon "Puss Gets The Boot" Jerry |
#1940, aired 1993-01-29 | MICE $200: She wrote tales of "Johnny Town-Mouse", "Two Bad Mice" & "Mrs. Tittlemouse" (Beatrix) Potter |
#1940, aired 1993-01-29 | MICE $300: Ignatz Mouse was known for tossing these at Krazy Kat's head Bricks |
#1940, aired 1993-01-29 | MICE $400: She's the elegant white mouse in Margery Sharp's "The Rescuers" Miss Bianca |
#1940, aired 1993-01-29 | MICE $500: This E.B. White hero falls for Margalo, a bird Stuart Little |
#1926, aired 1993-01-11 | MAMMALS $400: As opposed to moving on all fours, these pocket mice hop on their hind legs to get around kangaroo mice (kangaroo rats) |
#1864, aired 1992-10-15 | CAUSTIC QUOTES $200: Oliver Herford called this pet "a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs & patronizes human beings" a cat |
#1779, aired 1992-04-30 | INSECTS $800: A giant species of this "hundred-legged" insect in the West Indies is fond of eating mice a centipede |
#1703, aired 1992-01-15 | PROVERBS $100: "When the cat's away" this happens the mice will play |
#1644, aired 1991-10-24 | RABBITS IN FILM $500: 1939 classic in which Lennie is excited at George's fantasy about operating a rabbit ranch Of Mice and Men |
#1556, aired 1991-05-13 | PHOBIAS $100: If you have musophobia, fear of these, we advise avoiding Disneyland mice |
#1529, aired 1991-04-04 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $200: "Of Mice and..." Men |
#1464, aired 1991-01-03 | KIDDIE LIT $500: She wrote about bad animals in "The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit" & "The Tale of 2 Bad Mice" Beatrix Potter |
#1462, aired 1991-01-01 | AMERICAN NOVELS $200: In "Of Mice & Men", George & Lenny are migrant workers in this state California |
#1431, aired 1990-11-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: In French, it's "Quand le chat n'est pas la, les souris dansent" When the cat's away, the mice will play |
#1393, aired 1990-09-26 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: "Did you ever see such a
sight in your life, as" this many "blind mice?" 3 |
#1388, aired 1990-09-19 | ANIMALS $100: While it feeds on many small animals, rats, mice, etc.; the mongoose is famous for killing these the cobra |
#6, aired 1990-07-21 | NURSERY RHYMES $400: Weapon the farmer's wife wielded in her attack on 3 blind mice carving knife |
#1362, aired 1990-07-03 | BIBLICAL LAW $400: In Leviticus 11 the Israelites were told not to do this to camels, mice & lizards, among others eat them |
#1359, aired 1990-06-28 | EDIBLE ANAGRAMS $500: If "mice race" around your kitchen, they might be looking for this to eat ice cream (from mice race) |
#1272, aired 1990-02-27 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $200: NYC is building nesting boxes for barn owls in some city parks because they like to eat these rodents mice (or rats) |
#1236, aired 1990-01-08 | WORLD LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): The last names of these Steinbeck characters are Small & Milton Lennie & George |
#1231, aired 1990-01-01 | KIDDIE LIT $300: Question posed in the poem "3 Blind Mice" Have (Did) you ever seen such a sight in your life as three blind mice |
#1207, aired 1989-11-28 | CINDERELLA $400: In the Disney film Cinderella's animal friends included 2 of these named Jaq & Gus the mice |
#1202, aired 1989-11-21 | 1930s BEST SELLERS $200: John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men" was his 1st best seller, this, his 2nd, was the No. 1 book of 1939 The Grapes of Wrath |
#1165, aired 1989-09-29 | FICTION $100: Lenny panics and accidentally kills Curley's wife while stroking her hair in this novel Of Mice and Men |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: "They all ran after the farmer's wife" three blind mice |
#1123, aired 1989-06-21 | COMIC BOOKS $100: With rodents as the lead characters, "Miami Vice" became this title for the comics Miami Mice |
#1059, aired 1989-03-23 | NOVELS $500 (Daily Double): Steinbeck novel whose title is found in the 1st line of Shakespeare's "Richard III" Now is the Winter of Our Discontent |
#1046, aired 1989-03-06 | THEATER $1,600 (Daily Double): This Agatha Christie play opens with the music of "3 Blind Mice" followed by a piercing scream The Mousetrap |
#1039, aired 1989-02-23 | NURSERY RHYMES $200: "The farmer's wife...cut off their tails with a carving knife" "Three Blind Mice" |
#1026, aired 1989-02-06 | BALLET $600: A hoard of mice is defeated by a Christmas present in this popular holiday ballet The Nutcracker |
#1021, aired 1989-01-30 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Lennie Small, migrant worker Of Mice and Men |
#1016, aired 1989-01-23 | MOVIE TRIVIA $400: Though "Never Cry Wolf" was produced by this studio, Charles M. Smith ate mice in it anyway Disney |
#1000, aired 1988-12-30 | MOTHER GOOSE $100: Type of knife used by the farmer's wife to cut off the tails of 3 blind mice carving knife |
#888, aired 1988-06-15 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $100: Most wounds to captive snakes are caused by these feed animals attacking the snake first mice or rats |
#813, aired 1988-03-02 | ROYAL RUMORS $300: This Egyptian reputedly used a mix of bear grease, horse's teeth, & burnt mice on her hair & eyelashes Cleopatra |
#793, aired 1988-02-03 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $300: Animals transformed into horses to pull Cinderella's pumpkin coach mice |
#712, aired 1987-10-13 | LITERATURE $100: In "Of Mice & Men", George was going to let him take care of the rabbits Lennie |
#688, aired 1987-09-09 | BEAUTY SECRETS $100: It's said 18th c. ladies wore special heavy nightcaps to keep these rodents from gnawing on their hairdos rats (mice) |
#615, aired 1987-04-17 | CHILDREN'S SONGS $100: Handicapped rodents mutilated by farmers wife "Three Blind Mice" |
#610, aired 1987-04-10 | MICE $100: Because this sense in mice is poor, they may enter a lighted room even if people are there sight |
#610, aired 1987-04-10 | MICE $200: In Aesop's fable, a mouse's sharp little teeth help one of these lion |
#610, aired 1987-04-10 | MICE $300: Young mice are weaned at 3 weeks, & most start doing this in their 6th week procreating |
#610, aired 1987-04-10 | MICE $400: Since house mice love to steal your food, it's appropriate that "mouse" comes from Sanskrit word for this thief |
#578, aired 1987-02-25 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: In "I saw a ship a-sailing", the sailors were white mice while the captain was this a duck |
#561, aired 1987-02-02 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $1000: Tho known for comedies like "Our Gang" shorts, his studio also produced 1939's "Of Mice & Men" Hal Roach |
#410, aired 1986-04-04 | LEFTOVERS $300: Leonard Maltin documents this industry's history in "Of Mice & Magic" cartoon animation |
#398, aired 1986-03-19 | FICTION $100: Motivated by kindness, George kills his slow-witted friend Lenny in this Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men |
#353, aired 1986-01-15 | VERMIN $400: At 3 a.m., June 21, 1985, Disney sent the exterminator into Fantasyland to rid it of these pests mice |
#340, aired 1985-12-27 | PROVERBS $100: When the cat's away, what the mice will do play |
#297, aired 1985-10-29 | ECONOMICS $200: Despite giveaways & mice, the government is still storing 768 million pounds of this food cheese |
#287, aired 1985-10-15 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: Most cats will do this "upon" most mice pounce |
#185, aired 1985-05-24 | WEAPONS $200: Weapon wielded by the farmer's wife on 3 blind mice a carving knife |
#148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $200: 1939 Steinbeck classic in which George tells Lenny about the rabbits Of Mice and Men |
#110, aired 1985-02-08 | LITERATURE $200: According to both Burns & Steinbeck, their best laid schemes "gang aft a-gley" mice and men |
#109, aired 1985-02-07 | LEGENDS $200: Gorgon who might have kept up her permanent wave by feeding it mice Medusa |
#63, aired 1984-12-05 | FOLK MUSIC $100: What the farmer's wife did to 3 unlucky mice cut off their tails with a carving knife |
#24, aired 1984-10-11 | FOR THE KIDS $100: Number in common to blind mice, bags of wool, & men in a tub 3 |