| #9369, aired 2025-07-03 | DESCRIBING THE GOLDEN GLOBE BEST MOTION PICTURE WINNERS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2023:
TFW you watch home movies & realize your mom was having an affair the whole time The Fabelmans |
| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | FILM FRANCHISES $600: In the "Back to the Future" movies, he played the eccentric & wacky Doc Brown Christopher Lloyd |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | WELL DONE! $1000: Quentin Tarantino called "Blow Out", by this director, one of the greatest movies ever made Brian De Palma |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES BY CHARACTER $200: Fading TV star Rick Dalton Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES BY CHARACTER $400: Director & pilot Howard Hughes The Aviator |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES BY CHARACTER $600: Louis XIV & his secret twin brother The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES BY CHARACTER $800: Left for dead frontiersman Hugh Glass The Revenant |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES BY CHARACTER $1000: New York City Catholic school kid Jim Carroll The Basketball Diaries |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV $400: The LDS Church says this man was "egregiously mischaracterized" in the streaming tale of 19th century Utah "American Primeval" Brigham Young |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV $800: Peter Sarsgaard is Roone Arledge, but the footage of Jim McKay is real in "September 5" about a tragedy at this city's Olympics Munich |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV $1200: A 2024 movie about this Swiss hero stars Claes Bang, who, given his weapon of choice, should be Claes Twang William Tell |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV $1600: A U.S. military raid in Somalia goes horribly wrong in this 2001 film based on real events of 1993 Black Hawk Down |
| #9339, aired 2025-05-22 | HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV $2000: 2 recent TV projects have portrayed the 19th century empress of Austria Elisabeth, known by this repetitive name Sisi |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | JAMIE LEE CURTIS & HER MOVIES $200: (Here's the final clue, coming your way from Jamie Lee Curtis.) Here we go again! This summer Lindsay Lohan & I reprise our roles in the sequel to this 2003 film with a new multigenerational twist, since Lindsay's character is now a mom & I'm a grandmother Freaky Friday |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | JAMIE LEE CURTIS & HER MOVIES $400: (Jamie Lee Curtis delivers the clue.) I have to be honest: the reason I took the role in this 2019 comedy/whodunit was Daniel Craig--oh, okay, fine, & a great script, & an amazing ensemble cast Knives Out |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | JAMIE LEE CURTIS & HER MOVIES $600: (Back to Jamie Lee Curtis.) The very first character I played on film was Laurie Strode, who had one final showdown 44 years later with this masked monster in "Halloween Ends" (Michael) Myers |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | JAMIE LEE CURTIS & HER MOVIES $800: (Back to Jamie Lee.) In 2023 I was honored to win my first Oscar for "Everything Everywhere All at Once" & I of course paid tribute to my parents, these 2 Hollywood icons who were each Oscar-nominated during their careers Tony Curtis & (Janet) Leigh |
| #48, aired 2025-05-21 | JAMIE LEE CURTIS & HER MOVIES $1000: (Here's Jamie Lee.) A daring striptease, dangerous stunts & Arnold Schwarzenegger were among the reasons it was fun to play Helen Tasker in this action/comedy/thriller True Lies |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | A + (DIRECTOR'S NAME) + (WORD FOR A MOVIE) $800: One quirk of a famed filmmaker is calling most of his movies "a Spike Lee" this joint |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | A KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES $400: For this 2021 Dev Patel flick, the "Gawain" poet gets a "based on" credit The Green Knight |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | A KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES $800: Max von Sydow plays a knight home from the Crusades in this film in which he also employs a knight on a chessboard The Seventh Seal |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | A KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES $1200: "When there are no more dragons to slay, how will you make a living, knight?" asks Sean Connery of Dennis Quaid in this film Dragonheart |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | A KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES $1600: Ben Affleck & Matt Damon reunited to help write & star in this film based on true events, in which the honor of French knights is at stake The Last Duel |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | A KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES $2000: In "Excalibur" by this director, who is a knight himself, Patrick Stewart played Leondegrance & Paul Geoffrey was sir Perceval Boorman |
| #9334, aired 2025-05-15 | FIRST LINES OF HIT SONGS $1000: "I've never seen a diamond in the flesh, I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies" "Royals" |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | STATELY GEOGRAPHIC $400: Part of the Navajo reservation, this valley, familiar from Western movies, straddles the border of Arizona & Utah Monument Valley |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THE STUDIO SYSTEM $400: After pioneering sound films, this studio launched the gangster movie craze with movies like "Little Caesar" Warner Brothers |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | MOVIE GENRES $1200: Like buddy movies? Don't miss this sports-centric 1992 comedy that features some hot "Jeopardy!" action White Men Can't Jump |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $600: This alliterative phrase can refer to movies as a whole silver screen |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $200: "See what happens when Brad unboxes a gift from John Doe!" Se7en |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: "ABBA daddas? Find out the crazy reason why Amanda Seyfried has 3 fathers!" Mamma Mia! |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $600: "Fan outraged that Paul Sheldon killed off this character from famed romance series" Misery |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: "'They grow up so fast!' Dad filmed daughter Lorelei Linklater & Ellar Coltrane every year for 12 years" Boyhood |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $1000: "You'll never believe what Robert Redford said to Woody Harrelson about his wife!" Indecent Proposal |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | I LOVE YOU $600: Ever playing a love card, this channel gave us movies like "The Wedding Veil", "Where Your Heart Belongs" & oh yes, "Butlers in Love" Hallmark |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | MOVIES BY DECADE $200: "Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom" the 1980s |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | MOVIES BY DECADE $400: "Good Will Hunting" the 1990s |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | MOVIES BY DECADE $600: "Zootopia" the 2010s |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | MOVIES BY DECADE $800: "The Guns of Navarone" the 1960s |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | MOVIES BY DECADE $1000: "Sergeant York" the 1940s |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $400: This film finds John Travolta & Uma Thurman dancing to "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry Pulp Fiction |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $800: Playing Star-Lord, he serves Ronan the Accuser with an intergalactic dance-off Chris Pratt |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1200: As part of his "Big Adventure", Pee-wee hops on a bar & has a memorable dance to this classic song "Tequila" |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1600: Wearing a T-shirt that says "Vote for Pedro", this character kills it with his super sweet moves in a 2004 flick Napoleon Dynamite |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $2000: The Axe Gang in this Stephen Chow martial arts classic do a memorable little bit of dancing Kung Fu Hustle |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | SCIENTIFICALLY TITLED MOVIES $400: The title of this Matthew McConaughey film describes the space between the stars Interstellar |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | SCIENTIFICALLY TITLED MOVIES $800: A continental right-lateral strike-slip fault gives us the title of this Dwayne Johnson film San Andreas |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | SCIENTIFICALLY TITLED MOVIES $1200: This Aaron Eckhart film has the name of an "inner" & "outer" layer full of iron & nickel The Core |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | SCIENTIFICALLY TITLED MOVIES $1600: This 1985 Brat Pack movie was a real electric phenomenon St. Elmo's Fire |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | SCIENTIFICALLY TITLED MOVIES $2000: This 1997 sci-fi film with Laurence Fishburne shares its name with the boundary at the edge of a black hole Event Horizon |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | MOVIE TITLE ROLES $1000: A renowned New York playwright travels to California to write for the movies in this Coen brothers dark comedy Barton Fink |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $200: "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" ends with our hero revealing the existence of this kingdom of his Atlantis |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $400: This beloved bear gets a terrifying makeover in the 2023 horror film subtitled "Blood and Honey" (Winnie the) Pooh |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $600: In "The Brutalist" he plays Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr., initially not crazy about the work of architect Laszlo Toth Guy Pearce |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $800: As this character in "Dune: Part Two", Timothée Chalamet unites with the Fremen to help seek his revenge on his enemies Paul |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: Subtitled "A Mad Max Saga", this film is an origin story about a legendary fighter before she met the Road Warrior Furiosa |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $100: After a decades-long ban, Saudi Arabia re-opened movie theaters in 2018; the first film shown was this Chadwick Boseman flick Black Panther |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $200: Perhaps proving the film's title, Woody Harrelson's slam dunks in this 1992 movie were done on a slightly lowered hoop White Men Can't Jump |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $300: In this 1997 blockbuster, Tommy Lee Jones played a "galaxy defender" in Ray-Ban sunglasses Men in Black |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $400: Because he's a vegetarian, Kal Penn is actually eating veggie sliders in this 2004 comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $500: In this 2020 adaptation of an Anna Sewell novel, Kate Winslet provides the voice of the titular horse Black Beauty |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | MOVIES AT THE MALL $200: The mall cop Paul Blart, played by Kevin James, roamed around on this 2-wheeled vehicle that was discontinued in 2020 a Segway |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | MOVIES AT THE MALL $400: Parts of this 1995 film include the game show "Truth or Date", a Stan Lee appearance & Jay & Silent Bob Mallrats |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | MOVIES AT THE MALL $600: A little girl is dangled near a JCPenney in the "Wonder Woman" sequel set in this title year 1984 |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | MOVIES AT THE MALL $800: Survivors of the zombie apocalypse take refuge in a shopping mall in this 2004 remake directed by Zack Snyder Dawn of the Dead |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | MOVIES AT THE MALL $1000: Historic figures like Genghis Khan & Abraham Lincoln go wild in an '80s mall in this "Excellent" film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CLIMACTIC MOMENTS IN SPORTS MOVIES $200: After drinking some high-quality H2O, Bobby Boucher heaves a touchdown pass to defeat the Louisiana Cougars in the Bourbon Bowl The Waterboy |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CLIMACTIC MOMENTS IN SPORTS MOVIES $600: Imagining it's her strict British Indian family, Jess curves a free kick around a wall of defenders & scores the winning goal Bend It Like Beckham |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CLIMACTIC MOMENTS IN SPORTS MOVIES $800: Roy Hobbs hits a game-winning dinger into the right field lights, creating an impromptu fireworks show as he rounds the bases The Natural |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CLIMACTIC MOMENTS IN SPORTS MOVIES $1000: After crashing short of the finish line, the Jamaican team carries its bobsled the rest of the way, winning over the Olympic fans Cool Runnings |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CLIMACTIC MOMENTS IN SPORTS MOVIES $4,000 (Daily Double): Jimmy Chitwood buries a jumper from the top of the key to win the Hickory Huskers the Indiana state championship Hoosiers |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | CELEBRITIES $800: His memoir "From Under the Truck" chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in "Goonies" & "No Country for Old Men" Josh Brolin |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $200: This title golfer uses his unusual technique to defeat Shooter McGavin Happy Gilmore |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $400: "I'll make it", says H.S. basketballer Jimmy Chitwood about a shot to win the title in this film & spoiler (not really)--he does Hoosiers |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $600: In a 1979 sequel this "Master of Disaster" & "Count of Monte Fisto" goes down, & Rocky Balboa wins the crown Apollo Creed |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $800: In this film Kurt Russell's Herb Brooks leads the U.S. hockey team to an Olympic gold medal Miracle |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | MOVIES WITH CHAMPIONS $1000: Daniel LaRusso, played by him, won the 1985 All Valley Under-18 Karate Championship, but he was really mid-20s, so... "The Karate Man"? (Ralph) Macchio |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $400: Denzel Washington starred as the dad of a hoops phenom in "He Got Game", written & directed by this man Spike Lee |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $800: Sam Wood directed the Marx Brothers in "A Night at the Opera" & Gary Cooper as this ballplayer in "The Pride of the Yankees" Gehrig |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $1200: In a 1962 movie this singer/actor joins boxing trainer Charles Bronson & becomes "Kid Galahad" Elvis |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $1600: If you've seen the movie with Luke Perry as Lane Frost, you know this is the minimum ride time per the Professional Bull Riders 8 seconds |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $2000: In "American Underdog", Zachary Levi plays this man who went from stocking grocery shelves to star Rams quarterback (Kurt) Warner |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $200: Leaning into the trope, the "Terrifier" films have a killer character named Art the this Clown |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $400: "The Last Exorcism" & "Paranormal Activity" use this alliterative technique involving prerecorded events found footage |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $600: No stranger to horror, Ethan Hawke starred in the first film in this franchise about a lawless time in a future America The Purge |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $800: Director Ari Aster followed up "Hereditary" with another shocker: this film in which Florence Pugh goes Swedish Midsommar |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $1000: Before the horror of "Longlegs", Maika Monroe was on the run in this 2014 hit involving a sexually-transmitted curse It Follows |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $400: To celebrate the release of "Dune: Part Two", AMC concession stands sold these in the shape of a sandworm popcorn bucket |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $800: This 2006 film based on a Y.A. book by Thomas Rockwell has Billy "Wormboy" Forrester agreeing to ingest 10 squiggly wigglies How to Eat Fried Worms |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $1200: Worms called Graboids are on the hunt for some Kevin Bacon in this 1990 film Tremors |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $1600: A wormy pal named Maggot lives inside the head of the title character in this Tim Burton tale of man meets decaying flesh the Corpse Bride |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $2000: "Would you still love me if I was a worm?" takes on a whole new meaning in "Slither", the first film directed by this DC Studios CEO (James) Gunn |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $400: "The End" by The Doors plays; a jungle bursts into flames & fades into Captain Willard in Saigon Apocalypse Now |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $800: 1996:
Drew Barrymore talks on the phone to a mysterious voice while making popcorn Scream |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $1600: 2024:
After an egg yolk births a second yolk, Demi Moore's star on the Walk of Fame begins to age The Substance |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $2000: Animated Muses on a Grecian vase come to life & mention the title demigod before singing a gospel-tinged myth primer Hercules |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $5,000 (Daily Double): 1981:
The Paramount Pictures mountain fades into a Peruvian peak Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $1500: Inspector Clouseau, his role in the "Pink Panther" movies, has a variety of vowels; his own name just features E's Peter Sellers |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer Brutus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $800: Paul Mescal is the fighter Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe is this super-sized fighter in the original Maximus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1200: Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' "Quo Vadis" Nero |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well legion |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $2000: Who can forget Jack Palance as this invader whose army threatened Rome in the 5th century & in 1954's "Sign of the Pagan"? Attila the Hun |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $200: Start your engines:
"The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" Talladega Nights |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $400: Sea what happens:
"The Curse of the Black Pearl" Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $600: Rebels on the run: "Catching Fire" The Hunger Games |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $800: Institutionalized:
"Battle of the Smithsonian" Night at the Museum |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $1000: Could spell trouble:
"The Secrets of Dumbledore" Fantastic Beasts |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $400: "For Harry and Lloyd, every day is a no-brainer" Dumb and Dumber |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $800: A 2015 Marvel movie:
"Heroes don't get any bigger" Ant-Man |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $1200: 1979:
"In space no one can hear you scream" Alien |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $2000: From 1990:
"His story will touch you, even though he can't" Edward Scissorhands |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $7,600 (Daily Double): 2010:
"You don't get to 500 million friends without making 'a few enemies" The Social Network |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | TOM CRUISE MOVIES, IN SHORT $300: 1992:
Navy lawyer can handle the truth A Few Good Men |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | TOM CRUISE MOVIES, IN SHORT $600: 1988:
Brothers' road trip, with pit stops for Wapner Rain Man |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | TOM CRUISE MOVIES, IN SHORT $900: 1988:
Bartender gets all mixed up in New York & Jamaica Cocktail |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | TOM CRUISE MOVIES, IN SHORT $1200: 1983:
Pantless dancing & paid romancing Risky Business |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | TOM CRUISE MOVIES, IN SHORT $1500: 2002:
Cop framed for future crime Minority Report |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $400: Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these B-movies |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | "B" MOVIES $200: Feathered friends become foes & attack in this Hitchcock horror that starred Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor The Birds |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | "B" MOVIES $400: "Lads do football or boxing or wrestling, not friggin' ballet" is a line in this film Billy Elliot |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | "B" MOVIES $600: This 2022 fast-moving action film takes place aboard the imaginary Nippon Speed Line Bullet Train |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | "B" MOVIES $800: In a junkyard, a young woman discovers a battle-scarred & broken Autobot in this transformative action adventure Bumblebee |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | "B" MOVIES $1000: "The monster demands a mate" is a tagline for this 1935 sequel starring Elsa Lanchester Bride of Frankenstein |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | EMMY-WINNING TELEVISION MOVIES: REAL LIFE EDITION $400: The political drama "Recount" chronicled the tumultuous aftermath of the vote in Florida in this year 2000 |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | EMMY-WINNING TELEVISION MOVIES: REAL LIFE EDITION $800: Taking its title from one of his books, "The Gathering Storm" looked at this prime minister's life just before WWII Winston Churchill |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | EMMY-WINNING TELEVISION MOVIES: REAL LIFE EDITION $1200: The makers of 2023 winner "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" knew this Brit was right when he asked what kind of accordion to buy Daniel Radcliffe |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | EMMY-WINNING TELEVISION MOVIES: REAL LIFE EDITION $1600: "Girl meets cow" is how she described "Temple Grandin", in which she won an Emmy for playing the animal rights activist Claire Danes |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | EMMY-WINNING TELEVISION MOVIES: REAL LIFE EDITION $2,500 (Daily Double): This 1979 winner with an alliterative title tells of Michael Mullen, killed accidentally in Vietnam by his own side Friendly Fire |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | MOVIE CREATURES $2000: Partly from Greek for "stranger", this word is used by fans to describe the chestbursters & facehuggers from a film franchise xenomorph |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $2,000 (Daily Double): Greek for "art" originated part of the name of this process that made movies like "Gone with the Wind" glow Technicolor |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $800: Satisfied, &
a bean counter's word for movies & TV shows content & content |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SPEAKING REVERSIBLY $600: Sherlock Holmes' sister in 2 Netflix movies
&
without assistance Enola & alone |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | '90s MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $200: Agent J &
Agent K Men in Black |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | '90s MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $400: Dan Taylor,
Jenny Curran & "Bubba" Blue Forrest Gump |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | '90s MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $600: Competing booksellers Joe Fox & Kathleen Kelly You've Got Mail |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | '90s MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $800: Robin Williams as Peter Banning & Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell Hook |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | '90s MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $1000: Matthew Broderick as Steven Kovacs & Jim Carrey as a technician The Cable Guy |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | 6 BY 6 NAMES $600: This actress known for movies & British TV like "Fleabag" & "Broadchurch" is not related to fellow 6x6 thespian Ronald Olivia Colman |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | "I_I_I" $1200: Legacybox is a service that does this to your old photos & movies so you can store them in the cloud digitize |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $200: In 2017 this actor sunk his claws into the role of P.T. Barnum, "The Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $400: This 1967 movie about life in the theater gave us the immortal line "That's our Hitler!" The Producers |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $600: (Jason Reitman presents the clue.) I cast 21-year-old Gabriel LaBelle in "Saturday Night" to play this producer, who was 30 in 1975, to emphasize his young genius & demonstrate the generational divide between the old network executives & the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" Lorne Michaels |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $800: Robert Downey Jr. was, somewhat problematically, a dude playin' a dude disguised as another dude in this comedy Tropic Thunder |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | SHOW BIZ MOVIES $1000: Johnny Depp is dressed for success but doesn't quite have the talent to back it up as this 1994 title character/director Ed Wood |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GOING APE AT THE MOVIES $200: In 1933 King Kong's New York vacay ended abruptly after an excursion to this landmark the Empire State Building |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GOING APE AT THE MOVIES $400: How you doin'? This actor added to his "Friends" with "Ed", a 1996 film about a ballplaying chimp LeBlanc |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GOING APE AT THE MOVIES $600: Orangutan, Jerry! It was an orangutan, not a monkey! In 1996 this "Seinfeld" actor went ape after "Dunston Checks In" Alexander |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GOING APE AT THE MOVIES $800: In 1978 this actor put down his .44 Magnum to hang out with Clyde the orangutan in "Every Which Way But Loose" Clint Eastwood |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GOING APE AT THE MOVIES $1000: Louis Prima voiced King Louie the orangutan in this 1967 animated classic The Jungle Book |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | MOVIES VAMPED $400: As the title character in this film, Wesley Snipes' character rescues Karen Jenson, a hematologist Blade |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | MOVIES VAMPED $800: Other famous roles in this spoofy 2012 flick include Harriet Tubman, Jefferson Davis &, of course, Mary Todd Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | MOVIES VAMPED $1200: Kiefer Sutherland had to deal with meddling kids, including 2 Coreys, in this 1987 thriller The Lost Boys |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | MOVIES VAMPED $1600: This "Game of Thrones" actress accepted "The Invitation" in 2022 & found her new family as kind of batty Nathalie Emmanuel |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | MOVIES VAMPED $2000: In a 2004 film Hugh Jackman played the title vampire hunter with this last name; he headed to Transylvania Van Helsing |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: She made appearances in the movies "Rumble Fish" & "The Outsiders", both based on her novels Hinton |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | TREE PEOPLE? $800: After starring as Captain Kirk in the "Star Trek" movies reboot, he played Steve Trevor in "Wonder Woman" (Chris) Pine |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | LONDON CALLING $600: The lavish interior of London's Australia House, home to its embassy, was used as this bank in the "Harry Potter" movies Gringotts |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | OLD HOLLYWOOD POWER COUPLES $1600: Mrs. Robinson in the movies, she was Mrs. Mel Brooks for more than 40 years Bancroft |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $1200: "Nightmare Alley" is 2 movies set in a traveling carnival; change the L's to get this 1818 novel set in a crumbling mansion Nightmare Abbey |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | GRAPPLE SAUCE $200: He was already a popular pro wrestling star when he made the leap into movies like "The Scorpion King" & "Fast Five" Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: Builder of Egypt's first pyramid & later worshipped as a god of medicine; his name lives on in the "Mummy" movies Imhotep |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | STARS IN THE MAKING $400: In 2013, she was Hayley in an episode of "Days of Our Lives", but by 2022, she'd learned how to "Scream" in movies Jenna Ortega |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | GENRES $400: Entertainment Weekly calls this 1975 movie one of the best aquatic horror movies of all time Jaws |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $400: 1995, narration:
"I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar" Braveheart |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $800: 2010:
"I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the white swan" Black Swan |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $1200: 1985:
"Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School. Shermer, Illinois. 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon" The Breakfast Club |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $1600: 1986, narration:
"I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959" Stand By Me |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $3,000 (Daily Double): 1970:
"Be seated. Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country" Patton |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE $400: In this 2018 film, John Krasinski & his family are forced to use sign language to avoid being heard by blind creatures that hunt by sound A Quiet Place |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE $800: Brand recognition for FedEx skyrocketed after being featured in this 2000 Tom Hanks film Cast Away |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE $1200: Classical music compositions in this Stanley Kubrick film include "The Blue Danube" & "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE $1600: "There are no clean getaways" was a tagline for this 2011 Ryan Gosling film Drive |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE $2000: Utah's Bluejohn Canyon, where hiker Aron Ralston lost an arm, was used as a location for this movie about Aron 127 Hours |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | 2 FOR THE SHOW $800: Memorable B movies, which were the second ones of double features, include this Steve McQueen flick about a gelatinous menace The Blob |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | 2 FOR THE SHOW $1000: A special 2022 horror double feature paired "Pearl" & "X", both starring this fittingly named actress Mia Goth |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | DINO MOVIES $400: In a 1933 film he stops a dinosaur from having Fay Wray for lunch on Skull Island King Kong |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | DINO MOVIES $800: In "Jurassic Park" she played a paleobotanist who intimately learns about the diet of a Triceratops; if you know, you know (Laura) Dern |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | DINO MOVIES $1200: In this 2006 movie Ben Stiller is given instructions on how to handle the nocturnally animate dinosaur skeleton & other exhibits Night at the Museum |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | DINO MOVIES $1600: "Doubt" playwright John Patrick Shanley co-wrote this 1993 animated flick that has time-traveling dinosaurs at the Macy's Parade We're Back |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | DINO MOVIES $2000: In a 2008 adaptation of this Jules Verne novel set way, way down under, a dino chases after Brendan Fraser Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $400: From the Hail Mary to the cast lists of "High Noon" (a first name) & the last 2 "Ghostbusters" movies (a last name) grace |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | POP CULTURE LICENSE PLATES $400: The license plate ECTO-1 appears in movies featuring this title team the Ghostbusters |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $200: She Freaky Fridayed herself into Elizabeth Taylor's body for the Lifetime biopic "Liz & Dick" Lindsay Lohan |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $400: Steven Soderbergh was behind the camera to direct Michael Douglas as this man in "Behind the Candelabra" Liberace |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $600: She played women suffrage leader Alice Paul in HBO's "Iron Jawed Angels" Hilary Swank |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $800: Billy Crystal directed this numerically titled film in which Roger Maris tries to break a record 61* |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TV MOVIES $1000: A biopic about this late celebrity & star of "Romeo Must Die" was subtitled "The Princess of R&B" Aaliyah |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: This actor who starred in "Paper Moon" & "Barry Lyndon" passed away in 2023 (Ryan) O'Neal |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: He played a sinister preacher in "The Night of the Hunter" & a revenge-seeking ex-con in "Cape Fear" Robert Mitchum |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1200: At the end of "My Man Godfrey", this actress surprises her man Godfrey with matrimony (Carole) Lombard |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1600: Woody Strode was the title "Sergeant Rutledge" in a 1960 Western courtroom drama directed by this quintessential Western auteur (John) Ford |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | CLASSIC MOVIES $2000: Howard Hawks said a bush pilot & a dancer who fell in love helped inspire the story of this 1939 film Only Angels Have Wings |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENTS $800: In movies like "The Notebook", they're a cinematic technique; in PTSD patients, they're memories so vivid it's like reliving the event flashbacks |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $200: The title of this Billy Crystal-Meg Ryan film refers to 1977, driving from Chicago to New York together after college When Harry Met Sally... |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $400: In 2023 this book by Judy Blume finally became a movie, with Rachel McAdams as the title girl's mom Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $600: Steve Carell getting his chest waxed is comedy gold in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $800: The first DVD that Netflix mailed was this spirited film starring Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis as a deceased married couple Beetlejuice |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | THE MOVIES $1000: Elvis hangs loose in Honolulu after a stint in the Army in this 1961 film Blue Hawaii |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $400: Forgotten by his family, young Kevin watches the film "Angels with Filthy Souls" on VHS in this movie Home Alone |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $800: This actor is the star of "Last Action Hero" & plays Jack Slater in "Jack Slater IV", the movie within it Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1200: Gene Kelly dances up a storm in this musical about folks working on the film "The Dueling Cavalier" in the new talking pictures era Singin' in the Rain |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1600: A woman on death row is the focus of "Habeas Corpus", a project within this film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $2000: Fake previews for "Werewolf Women of the SS" & "Hobo with a Shotgun" are within this Tarantino-Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $400: In a 2017 film Chris Hemsworth says it's the hall "where the brave shall live forever" Valhalla |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $800: In a 1969 film Maria Callas starred as this tragic woman that the Greek hero Jason discards Medea |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1200: In "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", this serpent of myth harms many with its gaze a basilisk |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $1600: In "The Mummy Returns", this Egyptian god of the dead/cute li'l puppy takes the soul of Dwayne Johnson Anubis |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | MOVIES & MYTH $2000: In this Guillermo del Toro tale set in the 1940s, a faun believes a girl named Ofelia is a mythical princess Pan's Labyrinth |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: This writer's "test" on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as "The Rule" in a 1985 comic strip (Alison) Bechdel |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $800: After dozens of movies, this TV series took Robin Wright to a new level of stardom House of Cards |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $400: Norman Jewison directed the 1973 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $800: Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel "Erik Dorn" & then wrote for the movies with this director's "Spellbound" Hitchcock |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | DECADES $800: The "Dirty" these saw extreme weather, economic collapse & pre-code movies like "She Couldn't Say No" the Dirty Thirties |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $800: In "The Princess Diaries", Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country Genovia |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $400: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham & Jet Li are among the less than precious title mercenaries in this 2010 film The Expendables |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $800: "Pain don't hurt" is one of Patrick Swayze's iconic (?) lines from this 1989 cheese- & slugfest Road House |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $1200: Jann Mardenborough became a pro race car driver by using this racing simulation video game, also the 2023 biopic about him Gran Turismo |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $1600: This star-filled 1963 film featuring some epic Steve McQueen motorcycle scenes was (very) loosely based on a true story The Great Escape |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $2000: "El Mariachi", "Desperado" & "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" make up this director's "Mexico Trilogy" Rodriguez |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $400: "Dammit Janet" & "Over At The Frankenstein Place" are songs from this 1975 movie; can you sense my antici...pation? The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $800: 2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman" Shaft |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $1200: Reaching for a gun to take on Mongo, Sheriff Bart gets warned in this film: "No, no... if you shoot him, you'll just make him mad" Blazing Saddles |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet Bowie |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today" All the President's Men |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $1200: From 1994 to 2000, she made 3 "Scream" movies, but always came back to the Salinger house on "Party of Five" Neve Campbell |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $200: In "Why Him?" this "Breaking Bad" star does not understand the appeal of James Franco (but his daughter does) Cranston |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $400: Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott search for a jalopy while aliens look for the continuum transfunctioner in this film Dude, Where's My Car? |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $600: In this 1962 film former child star Bette Davis lives in a crumbling Hollywood mansion with her invalid sister What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $800: Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film Are We There Yet? |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | QUESTIONABLE MOVIES $1000: The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1600: To date, he's played newsman J. Jonah Jameson in five live-action "Spider-Man" movies J.K. Simmons |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $400: A young couple lost at sea miraculously piece an ocean liner together & head for Europe, where they separate as she gets engaged to another Titanic |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $800: A government worker flies to Iran with some folks & tries desperately against long odds to get them to a Canadian's house Argo |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1200: In 1954 a big new guy in town strolls around a world capital, rebuilding entire structures & repairing broken power stations Godzilla |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1600: 2 friends leave a Mexican paradise & make their separate ways into a Maine prison The Shawshank Redemption |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $2000: A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man Gladiator |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $200: In the 1980 film "Superman II", Margot Kidder as this newspaper reporter sends a foe down with a nice right cross Lois Lane |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $400: Bob Barker throws 8 solid left jabs before putting this title golfer in the water hazard with a big right Happy Gilmore |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $600: This Carl Weathers boxer is told, "Finish (that) bum, & let's go home"; he does not finish that bum Apollo Creed |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $800: Just after showing a fake I.D. that says "McLovin", Fogell gets sucker punched in a liquor store in this 2007 comedy Superbad |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $1000: Russell Crowe takes some punches in the ring & in life as Jim Braddock in this film the Cinderella Man |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $400: The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other The Hunger Games |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $800: The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered The Running Man |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1200: Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $2000: In "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", a woman has the choice of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon or Bachelor No. 3 on this classic show The Dating Game |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $400: (I'm Ellie Kemper.) Growing up, I wanted to be a nun due in part to my love of this 1965 movie about a young woman at an Austrian convent The Sound of Music |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $800: This writer & director said his Oscar-winning film might not exist if there was no "Candyman" Jordan Peele |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $1200: Taylor Swift named her cat Olivia Benson, after a character on this drama, one of her favorite TV shows Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $1600: Issa Rae said that this Lisa Bonet series, a spin-off from "The Cosby Show", made her want to go to college A Different World |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $2000: This creator of "Yellowstone" cited "Unforgiven" as a favorite for destroying our notion of a Western (Taylor) Sheridan |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $200: Rosario Dawson moves into the title domicile in this 2023 film based on a Disney attraction the Haunted Mansion |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $400: (I'm Shameik Moore.) As Miles Morales in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", I'm relaxing at home, unmasked, when I get a surprise visit from this spider-powered woman voiced by Hailee Steinfeld Gwen (Spider-Gwen) |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $600: A romance sparks between Ember, who is flamin' hot, & a guy named Wade, a drip (of water), in this 2023 Pixar film Elemental |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $800: She played Indy's goddaughter Helena in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" Phoebe Waller-Bridge |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: This Scorsese film is based on David Grann's nonfiction book about Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $200: "Kansas to Emerald City distance in miles, no traffic"; "red slippers from witch, curse?"; "winged monkeys unionized?" The Wizard of Oz |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $400: "Makeup that makes you look like a rock"; "Panem child labor laws"; "are these berries I found poisonous?" The Hunger Games |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $600: "Vegas flight for bachelorette but cheap"; "stomach hurts trying on dresses, why?"; "'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips lyrics" Bridesmaids |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $800: "How to get rid of fairy tale creatures in swamp", "can you cook waffles if you have hooves?", "donkey-dragon power couples" Shrek |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $1000: "Cabbie weekly salary"; "Charles Palantine campaign woman name" Taxi Driver |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | NEW TO THE OED $800: It means to dress up (& maybe perform) as a character from comic books, video games, movies etc. cosplay |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $1600: Director Carol Reed was nominated for an Oscar for this 1949 Cold War thriller set in Austria & starring Joseph Cotten The Third Man |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT $800: Later movies in the "Rocky" oeuvre include scenes in the restaurant Mr. Balboa opened & named for her Adrian |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $200: Doing his iconic "pizza strut", John Travolta scarfs down a double-decker slice in the opening credits of this film Saturday Night Fever |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $600: Half man, half pizza, this "Spaceballs" villain meets a tragic end when he eats himself Pizza the Hutt |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $800: Julia Roberts' star was on the rise after she played a waitress in this film set at a New England pizza parlor Mystic Pizza |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $1000: In "Home Alone", Kevin pays the pizza delivery guy & then plays audio of an old gangster delivering this memorable line "Keep the change, ya filthy animal" |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | HATS $400: Featured in the "Harry Potter" movies, this hat takes its name from its function at Hogwarts school a Sorting Hat |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SHE PLAYED YOU $200: Ellen Ripley:
Alien aficionado & fan of slim-fit coveralls Sigourney Weaver |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $100: This Oscar-winning filmmaker who played the Sundance Kid started the Sundance Institute to promote independent movies Robert Redford |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $200: 2003 film Richard Roeper deemed "one of the worst movies I've ever seen"; at least it didn't keep Ben & J.Lo from reuniting Gigli |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novels "Show Boat", "Cimarron" & "Giant" were all turned into memorable Hollywood movies Edna Ferber |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $2000: "Top Gun" & "CSI" are just two of the projects of this last of Hollywood's mega producers Jerry Bruckheimer |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | "BABY" MOVIES $400: Ruth Gordon played Mia Farrow's next-door neighbor in this scarefest Rosemary's Baby |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | "BABY" MOVIES $800: Hilary Swank stars as Maggie Fitzgerald Million Dollar Baby |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | "BABY" MOVIES $1200: Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn grapple with a pet leopard Bringing Up Baby |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | "BABY" MOVIES $1600: A wheelman for Atlanta bank robbers, Ansel Elgort plays a tinnitus-afflicted hero in this Edgar Wright flick Baby Driver |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | "BABY" MOVIES $2000: Ben Affleck directed this tale about the kidnapping of a little girl Gone Baby Gone |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $200: Rocky Balboa has begun training Adonis Johnson; will Adonis have the eye of the tiger? That's up next in sports Creed |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $400: A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness News starts now Knives Out |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $600: 2 musicians dressed like undertakers led police on a wild chase through Chicago. Their car, & many others, did not survive the trip The Blues Brothers |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $800: A young man from Mumbai won big on a game show tonight; the winning final answer? Aramis, from "The Three Musketeers"! Slumdog Millionaire |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES $1000: An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man's amazing blue eyes & "failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $1000: 16th century queen of Scotland + last name = this actress who plays Joon in 1993's "Benny & Joon" Mary Stuart Masterson |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $400: This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger" (Jamie) Foxx |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $400: A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet" Ophelia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $800: This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $1200: A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $1600: It's raining frogs (hallelujah!) in this 1999 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $2000: At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright Aeschylus |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CITY FOLK $1600: He directed "Home Alone" as well as the first 2 Harry Potter movies Chris Columbus |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | A EURO LEADER PASS $800: In 1986 prime minister Olof Palme of this country was assassinated while walking home from the movies with his wife Sweden |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MIDDLE "G" $800: Fancy name for a list of movies a particular actor or director has made a filmography |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $1600: Recent movies like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" & TV like "The Affair" credit this type of coordinator of romantic scenes an intimacy coordinator |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $400: This character drowning at Camp Crystal Lake leads to all kinds of murderous fallout in "Friday the 13th" Jason |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $800: This title girl from a 2018 movie came & gave without taking & they took her away from Nic Cage; big mistake--he's good with a chainsaw Mandy |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $1200: "Drag Me To Hell", directed by this horror heavyweight, focuses on a woman placed under the curse of the Lamia by a wicked witch Sam Raimi |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $1600: She stars in Fresh, which seems like a rom-com at first, but thanks to Sebastian Stan, she soon learns there's more on the menu Daisy Edgar Jones |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $2000: This Georges Franju classic about plastic surgery inspired a Billy Idol song & an Almodóvar film Eyes Without a Face |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $200: Anya Taylor-Joy voiced this character in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" Princess Peach |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $400: This screwball comedy involves Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & a pet leopard Bringing Up Baby |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $600: This Bill Murray "Ghostbusters" character has PhDs in parapsychology & psychology (Peter) Venkman |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $800: Robin Williams had a cameo as a mime class instructor in this film that Bobcat Goldthwait wrote, directed & starred in Shakes the Clown |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $1000: This 2000 film has a choreographer named Sparky demonstrating, "these are spirit fingers" Bring It On |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $400: 1979:
"The ____ Syndrome" China |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $800: 1978:
"The Boys from ____" Brazil |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $1200: 1987:
"Good Morning, ____" Vietnam |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $1600: "The Outlaw Josey ____" Wales |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | INTERNATIONAL MOVIES? $2000: "Salmon Fishing in the ____" Yemen |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: "No man is a failure who has friends" is just one of the lessons George Bailey learns in this Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: "I coulda had class, I could've been a contender", said Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role in this film On the Waterfront |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: This 1979 film about a small group of friends who cycle to victory was ranked by AFI as one of the most inspiring of all time Breaking Away |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice The Gold Rush |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: Having chipped his front tooth as a child, this comic actor removed the cap in "Dumb & Dumber" Jim Carrey |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: The last word in this 1974 Jack Nicholson movie is its title--"Forget it, Jake, it's" this place Chinatown |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: 1932's "I am a Fugitive from" this shackled-together group stirred outrage against that penal practice a chain gang |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We'll add they're the German judges in this movie) the Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | TOUGH MOVIE STUFF $1600: James Dean starred in only 3 films--these 3 Rebel Without a Cause, Giant & East of Eden |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: He's the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as "a cross between my mother & my aunt" Tyler Perry |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $400: Cary Elwes to Chris Sarandon: "I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon" The Princess Bride |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $800: Peter Lorre: "You despise me, don't you?" Humphrey Bogart: "If I gave you any thought, I probably would" Casablanca |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1200: From a '90s animated film: "You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat & only your fleas will mourn you!" Aladdin |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1600: Jamie Lee Curtis to Kevin Kline: "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people" A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $2000: Not a fan of Olivia Colman's makeup, Rachel Weisz says, "You look like a badger" The Favourite |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $400: 1942:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $800: 1933:
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast" King Kong |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1600: Spoken by Mark Wahlberg: "I am a star. I'm a star. I'm a star. I'm a star. I am a big bright shining star. That's right" Boogie Nights |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $2000: This "Dirty Harry" sequel whose title mentions Harry's gun: "A man's got to know his limitations" Magnum Force |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $800: A fancy word for movies is related to this Greek-derived word for "exhibiting motion" kinetic |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | ON THE "J.V." SQUAD $200: This Navy SEAL later went into the wrestling ring, movies & Minnesota politics Jesse Ventura |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $400: Naturally, it's the title song as Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra play old-time baseball players "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $800: "The Sound Of Silence" is heard in the opening of this 1967 film The Graduate |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $1200: This future "Masked Singer" competitor sang the theme from "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $1600: He crooned "Wicked Game", featured in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" Chris Isaak |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $2000: "Diamond Girl" is on the '70s-heavy soundtrack of this 2021 film with a title that describes an LP Licorice Pizza |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | BIOLOGY $1200: It's the thin, watery outer layer of an amoeba cell, or in the movies, ghost slime ectoplasm |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $200: "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" was the subtitle of a 2022 biopic of this late, great singer Whitney Houston |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $400: (I'm Simu Liu.) In a 2021 Marvel film, I play Shang-Chi, who helps his family as a master of this Chinese martial art, whose name translates as "skill" kung fu |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $600: He put on his best southern drawl as detective Benoit Blanc in "Knives Out" (Daniel) Craig |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Constance Wu.) In this 2018 film, I played Rachel Chu, who discovers all of a sudden that her boyfriend is super wealthy & one of Singapore's most eligible bachelors Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: This animated swashbuckler returned to the big screen in search of "The Last Wish" Puss in Boots |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $400: Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele Get Out |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800 (Daily Double): Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do Nosferatu |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800: In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time Elm Street |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $1200: The first Oscar in the new Makeup category went to Rick Baker in 1982 for turning David Naughton into one of these (in London) a werewolf |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $2000: This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy--& some other things Wicker Man |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $400: 1995 epic about a fight for freedom! Braveheart |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $800: Keira Knightley kicks it in this soccer film Bend It Like Beckham |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Frankie Laine sang the title tune of this Mel Brooks Western Blazing Saddles |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $1600: It was subtitled "The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance" Birdman |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | "B" MOVIES $2000: This Terry Gilliam fantasy features a futuristic bureaucracy Brazil |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $400: Starring Tom Hanks as a gay man with AIDS, this was the first major studio film to deal with that disease & the stigma it carried Philadelphia |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $800: This theme park announced an end to its orca programs after the release of "Blackfish", about Tilikum, who killed one of the trainers SeaWorld |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $1200: This 2006 Al Gore documentary was a wake-up call for many about how climate change is devastating our planet An Inconvenient Truth |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $1600: This 2014 film about voting marches in Alabama shined a light on the contributions of Black women to the civil rights movement Selma |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $2000: Amputee Harold Russell, who played a returning serviceman in this 1946 classic, was an inspiration to fellow World War II vets & the disabled The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE SINGER WHO PLAYED... $1600: Cinna in "The Hunger Games" movies Kravitz |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $200: "The Way of Water" is the subtitle of the long-awaited sequel to this James Cameron film set on Pandora Avatar |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $400: The 2022 film "Blonde" stars Ana de Armas as this film icon & recreates an iconic moment from "The Seven Year Itch" Marilyn Monroe |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $600: His powerful performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" won him a posthumous Supporting Actor Oscar (Heath) Ledger |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $800: "The Gold Rush", "The Kid" & "City Lights" are silent films that this comic legend wrote, directed & starred in (Charlie) Chaplin |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $1000: The title of this 2019 Korean film refers to the relationship of the destitute Kim family & the wealthy Park family Parasite |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: "All the Right Moves" starred a young Tom Cruise as a Pennsylvania high school kid desperate for a scholarship in this sport football |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: John Lindqvist's novel "Let the Right One In", about Eli, who is one of these creatures, was made into Swedish & American films a vampire |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $1200: Spike Lee broke into the front ranks of Hollywood directors with this 1989 film about racial tensions in Brooklyn Do the Right Thing |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $1600: It starred Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager & Ed Harris as John Glenn The Right Stuff |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES $2000: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore & Mark Ruffalo starred in this 2010 comedy about 2 children looking for their biological father The Kids Are All Right |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $800: His "The World According to Garp" & "The Cider House Rules" were both made into movies (John) Irving |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: He's the bumbling French detective in the Pink Panther movies Clouseau |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: The largest U.S. independent film festival, it showcases new talents & movies each January in Utah Sundance |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $200: "Quantum of Solace" finds this hero battling corporate environmental plundering around the world & in the Bolivian desert (James) Bond |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $400: 1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" starred this actor as Tom Joad Henry Fonda |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $600: This movie introduced the world to Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $800: In this classic film police detective Sidney Poitier investigates a murder in the racist town of Sparta, Mississippi In the Heat of the Night |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | OF MOVIES $1000: It's Emma vs. Steve as Billie Jean vs. Bobby on the big screen in this title tennis clash Battle of the Sexes |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: This veteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody" (Christopher) Lloyd |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $400: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Seen without makeup & mostly in closeups, French actress Maria Falconetti's performance in "The Passion of" this peasant girl turned martyr is considered one of the greatest of all time Joan of Arc |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $800: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Shot in Rome & Los Angeles at a cost of nearly $4 million, the 1925 version of this biblical epic with a great sea battle & chariot race was the most expensive silent movie ever made Ben-Hur |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1200: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Lon Chaney's face was so frightening in this Paris-set film that some moviegoers reportedly fainted when his mask was removed The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1600: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux dealt with racism in films like "Within Our Gates"; & in 1925's "Body and Soul", he introduced this actor & bass baritone later famous for his rendition of "Ol' Man River" (Paul) Robeson |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $2000: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Her slate of films for 1927 included "Wings", the first film to win Best Picture & "It", giving her the nickname "The It Girl" Clara Bow |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS $600: Found from Mexico to Peru, these orchids bear the name of a horrific figure from Eastern European history & the movies Dracula orchids |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $1000: "Hairspray" & "Cry-Baby" are both based on movies by this cult film director John Waters |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $400: Truffle hunter Nicolas Cage searches for his kidnapped foraging animal in this 2021 film with a 3-letter title Pig |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $800: Dr. Robotnik returns to menace Earth in the 2022 sequel starring this furry blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1200: Quentin Tarantino took home the Critics' Prize at the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival for this cops & robbers tale Reservoir Dogs |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1600: In this 1988 comedy, Kevin Kline enjoys chips & the unfortunate title creature, much to Michael Palin's dismay A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $2000: Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a rural southern woman suspected of murder in this 2022 film based on a bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $400: In "The Rise of Gru" Pierre Coffin dug in as the voice of these title creatures the Minions |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Like life, he, uh, found a way to return as Dr. Ian Malcolm in "Jurassic World Dominion" Jeff Goldblum |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RHYMER'S DELIGHT $1200: "Colorfully" authorize a personal or corporate location on the Internet to greenlight a website |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: This actor was killer (among killers) as Ladybug aboard a "Bullet Train" in 2022 Brad Pitt |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: "F9"
brought this Sung Kang character back from getting blown to bits in "Tokyo Drift"; #justiceforhim! Han |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: In 2022 she was "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as Evelyn Wang Michelle Yeoh |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $400: Once a desperate shaved-head Frenchwoman, things began to look up once I found out I was the heir to Genovia's throne Anne Hathaway |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $800: Going from the movies to Prime Video, he grew as a character, as Alan Ritchson is about 6'2" & Tom Cruise... is not Jack Reacher |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $800: Jack Lemmon played one half of this title pair in the movies; Jack Klugman played the other half on TV The Odd Couple |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Type of criminal seen here & often portrayed in heist movies a safecracker |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | YOUR ROLE $1000: Marty Kaan on "House of Lies" & Rhodey, also known as War Machine in the Avengers movies Don Cheadle |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $400: 908 S. Broadway in Los Angeles is where Harold Lloyd dangled from this in "Safety Last", one of the most famous movie stunts a clock |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $800: Sometimes forgotten among the many movies teaming this actor & Katharine Hepburn is the Elia Kazan frontier tale "The Sea of Grass" Spencer Tracy |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $1200: "Baby Face", with a rather unchaste Barbara Stanwyck, is a classic of the early '30s films called "Pre"-this set of restrictions Pre-Code |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $1600: This Nevada-set 1964 movie was Elvis' highest-grossing film Viva Las Vegas |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | OLD MOVIES $2000: In an Oscar winner, Piletti is the last name of Ernest Borgnine's butcher character; this first name is the title Marty |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $200: Yeah, baby! this groovy secret agent got back to the '70s in style in a customized Cadillac Eldorado Austin Powers |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $400: John Cusack returns to 1986 via this title device described by allmovie.com as "a magical Jacuzzi" Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $600: In the 1979 thriller "Time After Time", Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells on the hunt for this Victorian killer in the future Jack the Ripper |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $800: Superman used a phone booth to change clothes; these 2 title guys, to totally go back in time to ace a history report Bill & Ted |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $1000: The Omega 13 takes a spaceship's crew back 13 seconds in time to never give up, never surrender! in this 1999 film Galaxy Quest |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $400: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too Forrest Gump |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $800: The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel & film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash The English Patient |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1600: This Ridley Scott film based on Eric Jager's true story of medieval France saw Matt Damon tilting against Adam Driver The Last Duel |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" No Country for Old Men |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $1200: In 1995 "Streets Of" this won Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Male Rock Vocal & Best Song Written Specifically for Movies or TV Philadelphia |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $200: "The Babysitter Murders" became this 1978 film introducing Michael Myers Halloween |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $400: A masked killer known as Ghostface torments teens in this 1996 horror film & its 2022 outing Scream |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $600: Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of a song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" plays before the start of this 2021 scarefest the Candyman |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $800: In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $1000: The spawn of Satan is given this first name & is raised by an ambassador in "The Omen" Damien |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $200: 2013: Disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $400: 1979: Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) regrets he's still only in Saigon Apocalypse Now |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $600: 1990: Henry Hill says, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster" Goodfellas |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $800: 1986: Richard Dreyfuss remembers back to when he was Wil Wheaton Stand By Me |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $1000: 1950: A screenwriter doesn't let being dead stop him from narrating a Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $400: Spike Lee changed one letter in "Brooklyn" for this family tale Crooklyn |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $800: Young Eleanor Bergstein would win Catskills mambo contests, inspiring her script for this 1980s film Dirty Dancing |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $1200: Kenneth Branagh directed this 2021 film about "The Troubles" Belfast |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $1600: The scene at Burge's Drive-In in Modesto, California was one of George Lucas' inspirations for this 1973 film American Graffiti |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $2000: This press-shy director turned to his own past in "The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $400: Meryl Streep played President Orlean, ignoring the approach of a world-destroying comet in this 2021 comedy Don't Look Up |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $800: This 1964 Stanley Kubrick film yuks it up about nuclear war Dr. Strangelove |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $1200: "All About My Mother" & "Parallel Mothers" were directed by this Spaniard seen here Almodóvar |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $1600: Will Smith played dad to Venus & Serena Williams in this recent film with a royal title King Richard |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $2000: He directed the films "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" & "Mulholland Drive" David Lynch |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $200: Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep sang "SOS" on the soundtrack of this 2008 film Mamma Mia! |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $400: Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking, amphetamines & sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy Airplane! |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $600: Steve Martin, Chevy Chase & Martin Short, collectively; now turn your head & cough Three Amigos! |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $800: Tom Hanks wrote & directed this 1996 film about a band of one-hit wonders That Thing You Do! |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $1000: What the Dickens?! Mark Lester wanted a little more out of life in the title role of this 1968 film Oliver! |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: For movies, it's not just a first showing but a successful Mac-based editing program introduced by Adobe in 1991 premiere |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $200: Ellen DeGeneres voiced this character in "Finding Nemo" & its sequel Dory |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $400: "May the odds be ever in your favor" is a line from this 2012 post-apocalyptic film The Hunger Games |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $600: In "Mary Poppins Returns", this actress took on the role of the magical nanny Emily Blunt |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Denzel Washington & Viola Davis reprised their Tony-winning roles in the 2016 movie version of this play Fences |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: "Beavis & Butt-Head" creator Mike Judge wrote & directed this 1999 workplace comedy Office Space |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $400: This star of "Catwoman" accepted her Razzie Award for that movie in person, the first actress to do so Halle Berry |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $800: She was Gisele in "Fast & Furious" before she was "Wonder Woman" (Gal) Gadot |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $1200: "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" was this actor's first time on the big screen as southern matriarch Mabel Simmons Perry |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $1600: This reclusive star's last movie was 1941's "Two-Faced Woman", which came out when she was 36 Greta Garbo |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WOMAN MOVIES $2000: Emerald Fennell won an Oscar for writing this 2020 film in which Carey Mulligan seeks vengeance for a horrible crime Promising Young Woman |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $800: The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one Casino |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON $800: Lena Headey on the tube, Linda Hamilton in several movies Sarah Connor |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $800: Meryl Streep (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) & Robert Downey Jr. (over & over) have starred in movies with this element in the title iron |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $200: In the "Shrek" movies, it's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy Donkey |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $400: "Charlie Wilson's War" is about a Texas congressman's covert dealings to arm anti-soviet rebels fighting in this country Afghanistan |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $800: A monarch working to overcome his stammer is central to the plot of this Oscar winner The King's Speech |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1200: The title characters of this 2020 film set in the 1960s are an FBI informant & Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Judas and the Black Messiah |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1600: Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $2000: Andrew Garfield played pacifist & Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss in this movie set in part at the Battle of Okinawa Hacksaw Ridge |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | JUST "Z" MOVIE FOR YOU $400: Many movies have been made about this title swordsman, but in 1981, he was "The Gay Blade" Zorro |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $400: In "Wild", she plays Cheryl, who deals with personal tragedy by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (Reese) Witherspoon |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1200: As the "Stanley", Henry Stanley, in part of a 1939 movie title, Spencer Tracy explores Sub-Saharan Africa seeking this doctor David Livingstone |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1600: Kirk Douglas turns up in the 1982 Aussie Western "The Man from" this river Snowy River |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1942 film, a map shows a refugee path from Paris to Marseilles to Oran, then to this title place in North Africa Casablanca |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $2000: "1492: Conquest of Paradise" starred this French actor as Christopher Columbus out to find a new route to Asia Gérard Depardieu |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $400: Tyler: "I look around, I see a lot of new faces... which means a lot of you have been breaking the first 2 rules of" this Fight Club |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $800: 2010:
"Maestro, Odile's coda... show me your" this, "Nina" Black Swan |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $1200: Hugh Grant's opening narration: "If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that" this title "is all around" Love Actually |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $1600: Charlton Heston: This "is people!" Soylent Green |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | MOVIES THAT MENTION THEIR TITLES $2000: "This isn't your typical corporate espionage. You asked me for" this... "the seed... we plant in this man's mind will grow into an idea" Inception |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $1000: One of Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 action & adventure movies is 1976's "Assault on" this unlucky police station Precinct 13 |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | MOVIES BY ANTAGONIST $400: 1986:
Chicago-area high school dean of students Ed Rooney Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | MOVIES BY ANTAGONIST $800: 2009:
Nazi colonel Hans Landa Inglourious Basterds |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | MOVIES BY ANTAGONIST $1200: 2014:
Teacher for a conservatory jazz ensemble Terence Fletcher Whiplash |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | MOVIES BY ANTAGONIST $1600: 2015:
Despot of a post-apocalyptic wasteland Immortan Joe Mad Max: Fury Road |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | MOVIES BY ANTAGONIST $2000: 1999:
Creepy boss at Initech
Bill Lumbergh Office Space |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | CELEBRITY HOBBIES $600: Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art karate |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $200: 1986:
"I feel the need, the need for speed" Top Gun |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $400: 2013:
"Look at me. Look at me. I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $600: 1993: "It's like that movie... 'An Affair to Remember'... she's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building" Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $800: 1993:
"If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists" Jurassic Park |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: 2008:
"I know who I am! I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!" Tropic Thunder |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $200: 2020:
"What you can't see can hurt you" The Invisible Man |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $400: 2006: "Sit back. Relax. Enjoy the fright" Snakes on a Plane |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $600: 2018:
"Forty years ago, he came home. Now, he returns" Halloween |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $800: 2013:
"One night a year, all crime is legal" The Purge |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | TAGLINES OF SCARY MOVIES $1000: 1992:
"We dare you to say his name five times" Candyman |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $200: In "Remember the Titans", this actor is the coach of an integrated football team in 1971 (Denzel) Washington |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $400: Burt Reynolds starred as Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard"; this "SNL" alum, in the remake Sandler |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $600: Billy Dee Williams is his friend Gale Sayers & James Caan is the title dying football player in this TV movie Brian's Song |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $800: As a high school football star in a Pennsylvania steel town, this actor had "All the Right Moves" Cruise |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL MOVIES? $1000: The Marx Brothers took the field in this "equine" comedy about Huxley College's football team Horse Feathers |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $400: 35 years after this film, Harrison Ford reprised his role as Rick Deckard in a sequel set in 2049 Blade Runner |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $800: Ice Cube inherits this title business & grows into his role as a mainstay of the community in the sequels Barbershop |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz did plenty of swearing on the job when she was supposed to be instructing students in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $1600: A homeless teen becomes a star football player after he's taken in by Sandra Bullock in this film based on a true story The Blind Side |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | "B" MOVIES $2000: Charlize Theron played Megyn Kelly in this 2019 film about a group of women who take on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Bombshell |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman The Princess Bride |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller Psycho |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: Film in which De Niro as Travis Bickle asks, "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: In a 1967 film Charles Bronson & Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission The Dirty Dozen |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world Rashomon |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $400: Because the British have no White Castle restaurants there, they used the title this pair "Get the Munchies" instead Harold & Kumar |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $800: A Disneyland ride was the basis for this adventure film starring Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt Jungle Cruise |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $1200: An 8-time Oscar nominee, she could not be ignored as Nova Prime in "Guardians of the Galaxy" Glenn Close |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $1600: Knock knock! Oh hi, it's this creepy title monster who inhabits Amelia in a 2014 Australian film The Babadook |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $2000: In "Batman v Superman", Lauren Cohan & Diane Lane play moms with this first name, which turns out to be surprisingly crucial Martha |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $200: Paul McCartney said The Beatles wanted to be in a film, but wanted to make a good one--& did with this first film of theirs A Hard Day's Night |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $400: "The Hours & Times" fictionalizes a real trip that John Lennon took to Spain with this Beatles manager in 1963 Epstein |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $600: This director spent 3 years restoring footage & editing "The Beatles: Get Back", a 2021 docuseries Peter Jackson |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $800: This 2019 film has Himesh Patel waking up in an alternate universe where he is one of the few who remembers The Fab 4 Yesterday |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | BEATLES MOVIES & DOCS $1000: Seen here, this record producer interviewed Paul for the series "McCartney 3, 2, 1" Rick Rubin |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $400: 2018:
"Shallow", co-written by Lady Gaga A Star is Born |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: 2002:
"Lose Yourself" 8 Mile |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1200: 1987: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life", sung by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Dirty Dancing |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $1600: 1972: "The Morning After", from this disaster film The Poseidon Adventure |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: "Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938" Broadcast |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THE SHIRLEY BOOTH $1200: This Welsh singer sang the theme songs for 3 James Bond movies Bassey |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS $200: The Odorama process added smells to movies using this 3-word process that involves a card & your fingernail scratch and sniff |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | TV THEME LYRICS $1200: "It seems today that all you see is violence in movies & sex on TV" Family Guy |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $400: 1997:
Dirk Diggler,
Rollergirl,
Amber Waves Boogie Nights |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $800: 1970:
Hot Lips,
Trapper John,
Painless Waldowski M*A*S*H |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $1200: 1964: General
"Buck" Turgidson,
Colonel "Bat" Guano, Major "King" Kong Dr. Strangelove |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $1600: 1992:
Nice Guy Eddie,
Mr. Orange,
Mr. Brown Reservoir Dogs |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $2000: 1976:
Coach Buttermaker, Ogilvie,
Lupus The Bad News Bears |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning HBO (Home Box Office) |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $400: Young again, Rose ascends a ship's staircase to reunite with Jack in this 1997 film Titanic |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $800: "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" is a classic number in this musical with Gene Kelly in France An American in Paris |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $1200: This actor wanted to carry 120-lb. Butkus the dog up Philly's Museum of Art steps in 1976 but fearing "a terminal case of a hernia", did not Stallone |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $1600: "Home Alone" & atop the stairs, this child actor tells 2 burglars, "I'm up here, you morons! Come & get me" Macaulay Culkin |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | STAIRING AT MOVIES $2000: A baby in a carriage rolls down stairs during a gunfight at a Chicago train station in this film but Andy Garcia has things under control The Untouchables |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | A FORD FIESTA $1000: Born in Texas, this one-time Gucci fashion designer has also directed movies, & appeared on many magazine covers himself Tom Ford |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG $400: This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV Lassie |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $400: It's what "The Meg" is in the Jason Statham aquatic actioner a megalodon |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Anthony Ramos took over Lin-Manuel Miranda's singing bodega owner role in the film adaptation of this stage musical In the Heights |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote Venom |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $1600: This word/genre completes the title of a movie with Riz Ahmed as a drummer going deaf, "Sound of..." Metal |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: The 2020 film "Resistance" saw Jesse Eisenberg play this mime working for the French resistance Marcel Marceau |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CULT MOVIES $400: The wild musical fun of this cult classic features Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon & Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CULT MOVIES $800: A moody crime drama involving a robbery gone wrong, "The Drop" stars this TV mob boss in his final film Gandolfini |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CULT MOVIES $1200: An angry girlfriend, a mutant baby & a man with big hair all add up to "Eraserhead", this surreal director's first feature film Lynch |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CULT MOVIES $1600: Visions of a man in a strange rabbit suit convince Jake Gyllenhaal to commit dangerous crimes in this film Donnie Darko |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | CULT MOVIES $2000: "Tell Your Children" was an alternate title of this 1936 film that purports to show the dangers of using marijuana Reefer Madness |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | FROM TV TO FILM $1000: Futuristic assassin Aeon Flux, who started on an animated series on MTV, came to the movies played by this actress Charlize Theron |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS $200: Kids will love this cartoon bison whose name honors the actor who plays the movies' Hulk Mark Buffalo |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | TODAY I LEARNED $1000: This Vermont senator is not only 3rd in the succession line to the presidency, he was born blind in one eye & has been in 5 "Batman" movies Leahy |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES $400: 1931:
A strange potion divides a man's personality Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES $800: 1993:
Staying in touch with your kids after a divorce can literally be kind of a drag Mrs. Doubtfire |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES $1200: 2000:
An FBI agent goes undercover at a beauty pageant Miss Congeniality |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES $1600: 2005:
Married assassins are contracted to kill each other Mr. & Mrs. Smith |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES $2000: 1942:
A British woman & her family work together to survive at the outbreak of World War II Mrs. Miniver |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $200: This country's Ravla Khempur stands in as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" India |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $400: In "Lost in Translation" , Bill Murray meets Scarlett Johansson high above this city in the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $600: This iconic San Diego hotel was a setting for "Some Like It Hot" the Coronado |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $800: Macaulay Culkin cons his way into a room at the Plaza Hotel in this sequel Home Alone 2 |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $1000: The secluded mansion where android Alicia Vikander is held captive in this movie is really Norway's Juvet Landscape Hotel Ex Machina |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $200: "You've Got A Friend In Me" (the original & the sequels) Toy Story |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $400: "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" Cinderella |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $600: It features "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins Tarzan |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $800: Performed by Baloo in the original & in the remake: "The Bare Necessities" The Jungle Book |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS $1000: "Listen With Your Heart" & "Colors Of The Wind" Pocahontas |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $400: A golfer isn't in the swing of things, so a mystical caddy played by Will Smith helps out in "The Legend of" him Bagger Vance |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $800: In "Caddyshack", he says, "Cinderella story, outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper... about to become the Masters champion" Bill Murray |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1200: In 1930 he became golf's first winner of the grand slam; Jim Caviezel portrayed his "Stroke of Genius" in a 2004 film (Bobby) Jones |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1600: In "Tin Cup", this actor finally makes it over the water to take a memorable 12 on the final hole (Kevin) Costner |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $2000: The 1953 golf comedy saw this man play "The Caddy" to his cool friend Dean Martin (Jerry) Lewis |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $400: In 2017 there were plenty of robotic performances in "The Last Knight", a continuation of this action film series Transformers |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $800: Steve Carell voiced the main character & also his twin brother Dru, who was up to no good in this "3" Despicable Me |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $1200: It was more park & less rec for this actor who was back as Owen in "Jurassic World: "Fallen Kingdom" Chris Pratt |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $1600: Computer & TV screen images are made of these, the title of a 2015 movie about video game characters attacking Earth pixels |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $2000: (Hi, I'm Kevin Hart.) Voicing Snowball, I had an announcement to make in this 2016 animated film: "Death is coming to Brooklyn and it's got buck teeth and a cotton tail" The Secret Life of Pets |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $400: As Chili Palmer, this actor noted, "Rough business, this movie business... I may have to go back to loansharking" John Travolta |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $800: In 2020's "Mank", about the writing of "Citizen Kane", Amanda Seyfried plays this actress Marion Davies |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1200: As cops roll up mid-scene in this 1994 film about a director, Johnny Depp realizes, "We don't have a permit! Run!" Ed Wood |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $1600: In 1978 this mustachioed actor was the title character in "Hooper", billed as "The Greatest Stuntman Alive" Burt Reynolds |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $2000: A single-shot take that lasts about 8 minutes opens this 1992 film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $1600: This director of a superhero trilogy was honored for movies that thrill & challenge audiences (Christopher) Nolan |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $200: "The only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning", claimed this '85 pic Back to the Future |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $400: Quick advice: If a killer cyborg asks whether your name is Sarah Connor, like in this 1984 film... say nope! Sarah who? Not me The Terminator |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $600: Kevin Costner goes back to 1972 to talk a little baseball with Burt Lancaster in this film Field of Dreams |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $800: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" had this navigator finding a nuclear wessel called the Enterprise (Pavel) Chekov |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $1000: It was far from bogus when these 2 title guys--& their old pal, Death!--returned to "Face the Music" in 2020 Bill & Ted |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT? $800: Cortlandt Alley off Canal Street is often used as a location for movies & TV shows shot in this city New York |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $200: "Heeere's Johnny!" Well, not Johnny, but this actor who played Jack Torrance in "The Shining" in 1980 Jack Nicholson |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In "Guardians of the Galaxy", Vin Diesel employed numerous ways to express these 3 words of introduction "I am Groot" |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $600: This 1978 college comedy asked the immortal question, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!" Animal House |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Her, as the bride: "So, O-Ren... any more subordinates for me to kill?" Uma Thurman |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: Cinematographer Roger Deakins didn't say exactly how many shots were in this 2019 WWI film, but the longest was about 7 minutes 1917 |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $400: This Welshman played a serial killer on film & a man who built robots that killed people on "Westworld" Hopkins |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $800: This actor has been seen in a "Jeopardy!" audience at least twice--in "White Men Can't Jump" & watching Cliff on "Cheers" (Woody) Harrelson |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $1200: He won an Emmy guest starring on "Friends" in 2000, the year he was "Unbreakable" as David Dunn Bruce Willis |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $1600: A "Bombshell" as Gretchen Carlson, she hit the smaller screen as Grace Fraser in "The Undoing" (Nicole) Kidman |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $2000: Her real-life roles include Marcia Clark on "American Crime Story" & Tony Bradlee in "The Post" (Sarah) Paulson |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | ALSO A BATMAN VILLAIN $600: In the movies he sings "If I Only Had A Brain" Scarecrow |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $1000: Harvard banned filming of Hollywood movies after this Ryan O'Neal/Ali MacGraw tearjerker ruined trees with fake snow Love Story |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $1600: This Latin American icon who made a big splash in U.S. movies appeared with her tutti-frutti hat on a 2011 stamp Carmen Miranda |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Unhappy being called "Junior", Harrison Ford has a preference but dad Sean Connery says, "We named the dog" this Indiana |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $800: This 2016 movie is about a young African American named Chiron, whom we see as a young boy, as a teen & as a 20-something Moonlight |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: The Razzies drew first blood in nominating this man for worst actor for his performance in "Rambo: Last Blood" Stallone |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: As of 2021 the last film appearance of this movie "Angel" was in a 2014 version of "Annie" Cameron Diaz |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This 1988 movie that was, let's say, reminiscent of "E.T." found a second life as Paul Rudd's go-to clip on "Conan" Mac and Me |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | MOGUL "E" $400: This tech mogul's son David helped bankroll movies like "True Grit" & "World War Z" Ellison |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | SMALL MAMMALS $800: A fanged mammal from the age of the dinosaurs has been widely called a sabertooth this, like Scrat in the "Ice Age" movies a squirrel |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | LARGE & IN CHARGE $1600: This giant female lepidopteran has been terrorizing Japan in monster movies since 1961 Mothra |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $400: In 2019 the "Star Wars" saga came to a close with "Episode IX", the "Rise of" this name Skywalker |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $800: This killer doll slayed 'em in the 2019 remake of "Child's Play" Chucky |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $1200: In "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood", Margot Robbie portrayed this late actress Sharon Tate |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $1600: Josh Brolin & Sean Astin made their big screen debuts in this film about a group of misfits searching for pirate treasure The Goonies |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | MOVIES $2000: "M*A*S*H" & "The Player" were among the great movies directed by him Altman |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | "CRACK"LE $600: A witticism; you hear a lot of them from fast-talkin' dames in 1930s movies wisecracks |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | SUBURBS $400: Many John Hughes movies are set in the fictional Shermer, perhaps from Shermerville, now this city's suburb Northbrook Chicago |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: Renee Zellweger's original journal entry meets up with a film about Greg Heffley based on a popular children's book series Bridget Jones's Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: A 2020 adventure based on a Jack London classic gets, well, a lot weirder as a 1990 David Lynch film about Sailor Ripley The Call of the Wild at Heart |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1200: Hilary Swank's boxer starts a career in crime with Ansel Elgort's youthful master wheelman Million Dollar Baby Driver |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1600: A Cooper/Gaga saga goes Tom Cruise-ing into a 1989 film about a Vietnam vet A Star is Born on the Fourth of July |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: A 2014 movie with Peter Quill & his pals meets up with Tim Allen & his sci-fi TV cast to be a film we'd very much like to see Guardians of the Galaxy Quest |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $200: This "Little Tramp" of silent movies kept his title simple--"My Autobiography" Charlie Chaplin |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $200: In his review of "Legendary", Roger Ebert called it a "wrestling" version of one of these lacrimation-inducing movies a tearjerker |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $400: These 2 villains from slasher film series went "vs." each other in 2003 Freddy & Jason |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $600: This movie technique got its own feature film category at the Oscars in 2002 animation |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $800: It was the great decade for film noir, including classics like "Laura" & "Double Indemnity" the 1940s |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | TYPES OF MOVIES $1000: French name for a documentary style with handheld camera work & candid, authentic subject matter cinéma vérité |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $400: This 1950 Best Picture Oscar winner starring Bette Davis was based on "The Wisdom of Eve" All About Eve |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $800: This director based the film "Memento" on a short story by his brother Jonathan Nolan |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $1600: Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" became this Schwarzenegger sci-fi film Total Recall |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2000: "Traumnovelle", a 1920s story about a Doctor who goes to a very risque party, became this 1999 Kubrick movie with Tom Cruise Eyes Wide Shut |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Ward Greene's "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog" became this 1955 animated Disney film the Lady and the Tramp |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $200: In 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch voiced this Seussian title guy who wasn't as into Christmas as the Whos were the Grinch |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $400: Alastair Sim is among those who have played this Dickensian man but unlike Michael Caine, did so without Muppets Scrooge |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $600: Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $800: In this film Santa tells Buddy there are 30 Ray's Pizzas in NYC; "They all claim to be the original, but the real one's on 11th" Elf |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $1000: 2 memorable bits from this 1983 classic: the leg lamp & "You'll shoot your eye out!" A Christmas Story |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $200: Amy Schumer wrote & starred in this 2015 comedy whose title is slang for "complete mess" Trainwreck |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $400: This Hitchcock movie has the line "A boy's best friend is his mother" Psycho |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $600: (I'm Ryan Reynolds.) In my 2020 movie, "Free Guy", I play a bank teller who comes to realize that he's really an NPC, short for this kind of character in an open-world video game a non-player character |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $800: Taron Egerton played Elton John in this 2019 musical fantasy Rocketman |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $1000: Rachel McAdams bawls reading a breakup letter from Ryan Gosling in this all-around weepy movie The Notebook |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Chad Stahelski, stunt double for the character Neo in this 1999 film, went on to direct John Wick movies The Matrix |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Rose Byrne & Ellie Kemper are 2 of the title attendants in this 2011 matrimonial comedy Bridesmaids |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: The unionizing crusade of Crystal Lee Sutton inspired this film that won Sally Field an Oscar Norma Rae |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: One-word title of the 2020 Pixar movie about 2 brothers on an indomitable quest to spend one more day with their late father Onward |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This "dizzy" Hitchcock drama tops the AFI's list of the top mystery movies of all time Vertigo |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $400: A 1984 classic: Daniel-san LaRusso vs. Johnny Lawrence The Karate Kid |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $800: Black Mamba (aka The Bride) vs. Cottonmouth (aka O-Ren Ishii) Kill Bill |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $1200: From 1978: the T-Birds vs. the Scorpions Grease |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $1600: Globo Gym vs. Average Joes Dodgeball |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | MOVIES BY MATCHUP $2000: 1961: "Fast" Eddie Felson vs. Minnesota Fats The Hustler |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | MASKS $200: "Who Was That Masked Man?" is a book about this title character from radio, TV & movies the Lone Ranger |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $400: In 2019 Alfonso Cuarón won an Oscar for the black & white cinematography of this film about Mexico in the 1970s Roma |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $800: This 2011 Best Picture winner isn't completely silent, but it is a black & white movie The Artist |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1200: This Bruce Dern movie named for a Plains state was in B&W in the theaters but was shown in color on cable Nebraska |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $1600: This spooky director filmed his stop-motion animation film "Frankenweenie" in black & white to emulate classic monster movies Tim Burton |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 21st CENTURY BLACK & WHITE MOVIES $2000: As keepers of the title beacon, Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe really let the isolation get to them in this 2019 film The Lighthouse |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $400: Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle, a driver on the southern stock-car circuit, in this action flick Days of Thunder |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $800: Spoiler alert: at the end of this film, after surviving a break-up, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets a girl named Autumn 500 Days of Summer |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $1200: Al Pacino robs a bank & takes hostages in this 1975 film that sounds perfect for an August matinee Dog Day Afternoon |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $1600: She was a regular good luck charm as Jinx Johnson in "Die Another Day" Halle Berry |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE $2000: A quote from this 1951 sci-fi classic: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto" The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ELVI $1200: Film critic & public radio host Elvis Mitchell had his own interview show, "Under the Influence", on TCM, this channel Turner Classic Movies |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | SWEDEN LOWS--& HIGHS $2000: High: all 3 of the Oscars Sweden won for Best Foreign Language Film were for movies directed by this man (Ingmar) Bergman |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $800: She played Elizabeth Swann in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies Keira Knightley |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | BRITISH ACTRESSES $2000: Since the '80s, this funny lady has appeared in movies from "Educating Rita" to the "Harry Potter" and "Mamma Mia" films Julie Walters |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: Tobey Maguire: "With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift. My curse. Who am I? I'm..." Spider-Man |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $800: Morgan Freeman: "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope" The Shawshank Redemption |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $1200: Guy Pearce: "Now, where was I?" Memento |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $2000: Patricia Arquette: "Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis" True Romance |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $3,200 (Daily Double): Barnard Hughes: "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires" The Lost Boys |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | WHAT TO WEAR $600: This raincoat, just like Columbo & reporters in movies a trench coat |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | FORGETFUL SEQUELS $800: When this superhero "Returns" in a 2006 film, he must have spun the world backwards to erase movies No. 3 & 4, which were ignored Superman |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | CHOIR PRACTICE $200: Choral Director Magazine says in high school this Italian term "is all the rage", fueled by the "Pitch Perfect" movies a cappella |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $200: Named for the way it rolls around lonely streets in western movies, this plant was imported to the U.S. from Russia a tumbleweed |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | SECOND... $800: ...by release date in "Star Wars" movies The Empire Strikes Back |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $400: In the 1972 film "The Godfather", this actor as the title character is hit by 5 bullets but survives Marlon Brando |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $800: Michael Corleone, played by him, shoots down a rival mobster & a police captain Pacino |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $1200: In "The Godfather Part II", Fredo Corleone is shot after saying this Catholic prayer asking for the Virgin's help a Hail Mary |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $1600: As Sonny Corleone, this tough-guy actor is shot to pieces at a tollbooth (James) Caan |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | SHOOTING THE GODFATHER MOVIES $2000: As Jewish mobster Hyman Roth, this pioneer of method acting is shot at an airport in "The Godfather Part II" Lee Strasberg |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $800: Many Comic-Con attendees engage in this, dressing up as characters from anime, movies or TV cosplay |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $400: Alice Cooper breaks down the etymology of "Milwaukee" to Mike Myers in this 1992 film Wayne's World |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $800: "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of" this 1980 musical title duo "has been approved" The Blues Brothers |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $1200: 10 seconds, contestants! Will Forte tries to defuse a nuclear warhead as this 2010 title guy MacGruber |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $1600: Dan Aykroyd wants a green card in this 1993 film (but he's not really from France) Coneheads |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | FROM SNL TO THE MOVIES $2000: In a trailer for a 1995 movie as Stuart Smalley, he said, "My father grew up in the Great Depression... his mother's" (former Senator) Al Franken |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ENTERTAINMENT $2000: AFI's first "100 Greatest American Movies" list included this D.W. Griffith silent epic; on an updated list, it was gone Birth of a Nation |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $200: 2012:
"I volunteer as tribute!" The Hunger Games |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $400: 2010:
Spoken by Natalie Portman, "I was perfect" Black Swan |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $600: 2008:
"Why so serious?" Dark Knight |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $800: Sulley: "I can still hear her little voice"
Boo: (from down the hall) "Mike Wazowski!" Monsters, Inc. |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES $1000: 2005:
"Noooo, Kelly Clarkson!" The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Cameron Diaz sings & dances as the magical British nanny of Ben Stiller's desire There's Something About Mary Poppins |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: Edward Norton tries to convince his brother Edward Furlong not to hate or join up with mutants like Wolverine American History X Men |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka La La Land of the Lost |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs The Monuments Men in Black |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): A holiday classic where an angel gets his wings & Roberto Benigni gets an Oscar It's a Wonderful Life Is Beautiful |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7 [He presents from Queens, NY].) Philip Johnson designed the soaring towers of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in the futuristic Googie style which fit perfectly in this 1997 film that featured them Men in Black |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush Oliver Stone |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10 [She presents from Miami, FL].) Miami Beach's Carlyle Hotel was a setting for this 1996 comedy starring Robin Williams & Nathan Lane The Birdcage |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Robert Hadlock from KXAN [He presents from Austin, TX].) The state capitol appears in 1982's "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" which starred this late actor as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd Burt Reynolds |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Chris Tanaka from Cleveland 19.) In "A Christmas Story", the huge box marked "fra-jee-lay" (actually, that's "fragile") contains this alliterative 2-word award the leg lamp |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | I ALSO COMPOSE FILM MUSIC $1600: This man has composed music for some of the movies he's directed like "Flags of Our Fathers" & "Mystic River" Clint Eastwood |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | LIBRARIES $400: The Margaret Herrick Library of the Motion Picture Academy is home to more than 15,000 of these from 1910 to the present scripts or screenplays |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $200: Gory horror movies are not for these people who are easily nauseated squeamish |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | A MILLION BUCKS AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE $200: With a million bucks you could have seen 20 million movies at one of these early 1900s theaters, as the name told you a nickelodeon |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE "GOLD", "BERG"s $400: He wrote the screenplay for "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" & adapted his own novel "Marathon Man" for the movies William Goldman |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Yes, it's safe to look at the angels that adorn the top of the object of Indiana Jones's quest in this 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Collectors prize unique props from classic films, such as this table lamp from Rick's Café Americain, used in this 1942 drama Casablanca |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Here's the outfit James Gandolfini wore in the final scene at the diner of this Emmy-winning drama series before they cut to black The Sopranos |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) I can't believe I'm holding the lightsaber used by this man playing Luke Skywalker in 1977's "Star Wars"--it would be even cooler with the blue light and sound effects Mark Hamill |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) The ermine-trimmed velvet coronation robe from 1933's "Queen Christina" of Sweden was worn by this star of the silent screen who actually did speak in the film Greta Garbo |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $200: Ronald Reagan was in the 1940 biopic "Knute Rockne" this All American |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $400: This Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy about a father's desperate search for a Christmas toy might ring a bell Jingle All the Way |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $600: Diamonds & a winning lottery ticket, not $100 bills, are the goal in this 2002 action comedy All About the Benjamins |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $800: Annette Bening won a Golden Globe for her role in this 2010 film about children looking to connect with their sperm-donor dad The Kids Are All Right |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | "ALL" THE RIGHT MOVIES $1000: Robert Shaw was Henry VIII & Paul Scofield was Thomas More in this 1966 costume drama A Man for All Seasons |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $200: 2018 saw "The Last" of 6 of these comedy disaster TV movies on SYFY that combined saltwater carnivores & storms Sharknado |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $400: In 2006, the first "High School Musical" gave this actor his breakout role Zac Efron |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $600: Later to play U.S. President Bartlet, in 1974 he played the title deserter facing death in "The Execution of Private Slovik" (Martin) Sheen |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $800: One of Roger Moore's final films was this 2017 TV remake, but Adam Rayner, not Roger, played Simon Templar The Saint |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $1000: Based on the real life of a troubled fashion model, HBO's "Gia" made this actress a star (Angelina) Jolie |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | CRUSHIN' IT! $1000: In movies & on TV, crushers of these are often seen at junkyards; OverBuilt LLC makes one with 10' jaws & 159 tons of crushing power cars |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | CELEBRITY SUPERFANS $800: This director became almost as famous for taunting Reggie Miller at Knicks games as he was for making movies Spike Lee |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | MOVIE MONSTERS $400: This Oscar-winning director's 21st century monster movies include "Pacific Rim" & "Pan's Labyrinth" (Guillermo) del Toro |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $400: Forky joins Woody & the gang for the fourth outing in this animated series Toy Story |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $800: I always tear up at the line "A toast to my big brother, George. The richest man in town!" in this Jimmy Stewart film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $1200: A line from this Tarantino film: "We ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business" Inglourious Basterds |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $1600: Not only did she write & direct "Charlie's Angels", this comedic actress also has a co-starring role:
"I'm Bosley." (Elizabeth) Banks |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $2000: Hugh Jackman played this senator caught with Donna Rice during his 1988 presidential campaign in "The Front Runner" Gary Hart |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | BUGLE CALLS $400: Let's go, everyone! This bugle call often associated with the cavalry is being sounded! "Charge" |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | "SCHU" WHO $1600: This former costume designer directed the movies "Falling Down" & "Batman & Robin" (Joel) Schumacher |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $400: The only actor to perform in all the "Star Wars" movies is Anthony Daniels, who plays this character C-3PO |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | TECH STUFF $400: Vue from this company allows you to watch all sorts of TV & movies on your PlayStation Sony |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | "IO"-9 $1000: Referring to a standard of judgment, this word comes before an important "Collection" of classic movies Criterion |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | WHAT DO YOU LOVE? $400: Cinephile movies |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $200: Who else but this "SNL" alum, so near & dear to my heart, would go streaking through the quad at Harrison University in "Old School"? Will Ferrell |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $400: We sing the praises of Barden University & the Bellas from this 2012 film Pitch Perfect |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $600: Asked incredulously in this film, "You got into Harvard law?", Elle Woods replies, "What, like it's hard?" Legally Blonde |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $800: In 1998 this actor was "The Waterboy" for South Central Louisiana State until he became a tackling machine on the gridiron Adam Sandler |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $1000: This funnyman got some respect going "Back to School" at Grand Lakes U., I tell ya Rodney Dangerfield |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | LONDON'S BLUE PLAQUES $1600: A play & 2 movies were titled "The Barretts of" this street & that's where Elizabeth Barrett Browning's plaque is Wimpole Street |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $200: 2017 saw the 8th film in the "Saw" franchise, & 3 additional letters were needed for this, its title Jigsaw |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $400: This 1931 film had the tagline "A monster science created but could not destroy!" Frankenstein |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $600: Doris tries to play on this board alone (totally against the rules) & learns the "Origin of Evil" in a 2016 movie a Ouija board |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $800: In 1990 Christine Elise battled this homicidal doll; in 2019 it was Aubrey Plaza Chucky |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $1000: This Australian actress starred in the 2018 horror "Hereditary" about a family with dark secrets (Toni) Collette |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Before directing movies like "SE7EN", David Fincher directed this singer's videos for "Vogue" & "Express Yourself" Madonna |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $200: This film went on to earn 10 Oscars, including Best Actress for Vivien Leigh Gone with the Wind |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $400: Ray Bolger & Buddy Ebsen switched roles in this film; then the silver makeup made Ebsen ill, so in came Jack Haley The Wizard of Oz |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $600: Charles Laughton was head & shoulders above the rest in this Paris-set film; does it ring a bell? The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $800: Merle Oberon played Cathy in this adaptation of a famous novel Wuthering Heights |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $1000: In this film Joseph Paine wants a sen. who "can't ask any questions or talk out of turn"; Paine doesn't get what he asked for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $200: Arcade Fire performs the song "Baby Mine" during the end credits of this Tim Burton film based on a Disney cartoon Dumbo |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $400: Tyler Perry said this woman's "Family Funeral" would be the last time he plays the iconic character Madea |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $600: Don't let the sun go down on 2019 without seeing this biopic in which Jamie Bell plays Bernie Taupin Rocketman |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $800: Ryan Reynolds gave voice to the little yellow guy in "Pokémon Detective" him Pikachu |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $1000: In "The Upside", a remake of a French film, Kevin Hart cares for a quadriplegic man played by this actor Bryan Cranston |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $400: The 1857 search by Richard Burton & John Speke for the source of this river plays out in "Mountains of the Moon" Nile |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $800: After a plane crash in "Alive", a Rugby team stranded in these snow-swept peaks struggles to survive Andes |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $1200: A treasure map takes Kathleen Turner to Colombia & into the arms of Michael Douglas in this 1984 adventure Romancing the Stone |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $1600: 2017's "Queen of the Desert" is the story of Gertrude Bell, a British writer & explorer on this peninsula in the early 20th century Arabian Peninsula |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $2000: He played a cartographer in the 1995 film "The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain" Hugh Grant |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. $800: The slang term PDA is short for this, like smooching at the movies public displays of affection |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $200: In this 2005 movie the lemur King Julien sings, "I like to move it, move it" Madagascar |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $400: The only Oscar nomination for "The Lego Movie" was for this ridiculously catchy tune "Everything Is Awesome" |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $600: Shakira's "Try Everything" was a great choice for this film about an ideal animal world Zootopia |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $800: Also in the 1967 movie, "I Wan'na Be Like You" made the cut for Jon Favreau's recent version of this movie The Jungle Book |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $1000: "Origami Birds" & "Monkey's Story" are tunes in this 2016 movie that references a musical instrument Kubo and the Two Strings |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $800: Chris Hemsworth fought alongside this 2018 Sexiest Man who played Heimdall in all 3 "Thor" movies Idris Elba |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $200: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law plays this future headmaster of Hogwarts Dumbledore |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $400: This Supreme Court justice is the focus of the documentary "RBG" (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $600: The title of this film based on Angie Thomas' Y.A. novel is what Tupac said the "Thug" in "Thug Life" stands for The Hate U Give |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $800: "The Fools Who Dream" is the subtitle to "Audition", an Oscar-nominated song from this 2016 film La La Land |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $1000: The third & last film in this labyrinthine series is based on the novel "The Death Cure" The Maze Runner |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | STUFF ABOUT CELEBRITIES $2000: She played characters named Sophie in "Letters to Juliet" & the 2 "Mamma Mia!" movies Amanda Seyfried |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $400: This family of stars has included Lionel, John, Ethel & Drew the Barrymores |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $800: In 2019, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth suit up as part of this organization that protects the Earth from the scum of the universe the Men in Black |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $1200: He directed commercials & videos before helming "Se7en" & "Fight Club" David Fincher |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $1600: The 1932 film "White Zombie" starred this actor better known as a bloodsucker (Bela) Lugosi |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | THE MOVIES $2000: Title first name of novelist & Alzheimer's sufferer Murdoch, played by Judi Dench Iris |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $200: As this film opens, Richard Gere is lost on Hollywood Boulevard & stops to ask Julia Roberts for directions Pretty Woman |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $400: Interiors of Grant High School (OMG, totally in the Valley!) were used in this film with Alicia Silverstone as Cher Clueless |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $600: (L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti gives the clue.) The 6th Street Bridge, which we're rebuilding, was featured in many films, including "Terminator 2" & this 1950s-set film in which John Travolta had a big racing scene Grease |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $800: Canoga Park & Van Nuys High Schools subbed for the title institution in this film that had Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $1000: Los Angeles City Hall plays itself in this iconic film in which Jack Nicholson plays 1930s P.I. J.J. Gittes Chinatown |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | KEY "KEY" $1200: They were the silent slapstick lawmen in Mack Sennett movies the Keystone Cops |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | "O" THE PLACES YOU'LL GO $400: Have a magical time at this oldest British university where you can see filming locations from the "Harry Potter" movies Oxford |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $2000: In TV & movies, the shape of the screen is measured by this 2-word term--standard HDTV is 16:9 aspect ratio (or display ratio) |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | NOT THE MAMA! $400: In Marvel movies, Frigga is not the mother of this "Thor" villain, who's really a frost giant Loki |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $400: "Fist of Fury" & "The Way of the Dragon" are 2 movies starring this late legend Bruce Lee |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $400: "A girl...like another girl's guy & feels nobody cares about her birthday" Sixteen Candles |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $800: "An aspiring actress (&) a...jazz musician...are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes" La La Land |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $1200: 2 men, "on a mission from God, bomb around Chicago in an old police car, reuniting their hot band" The Blues Brothers |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $1600: "A therapist, a mathematician & working-class roughs vie for the soul of a janitor" Good Will Hunting |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $2000: "Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss & others meet their fates over the course of two days" Pulp Fiction |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! $400: Before his untimely death, he helped popularize martial arts movies Bruce Lee |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $800: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) With a deep, abiding love & knowledge of film, he was the very first host of Turner Classic Movies & made an impressive 62,851 appearances over 20+ years with the channel Robert Osborne |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $400: 2018's "Christopher Robin" had Jim Cummings as the voice of this bear & Tigger too (Winnie the) Pooh |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $800: There were no bears on the set of this film--the mama grizzly that attacked Leonardo DiCaprio was a CG effect The Revenant |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $1200: In a 2018 film this bear is framed for a crime & winds up in prison, where he makes marmalade sandwiches for the other prisoners Paddington |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $1600: Ted, Mark Wahlberg's foul-mouthed teddy bear that came to life, was voiced by this guy Seth MacFarlane |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $2000: Bill Murray voiced this bear in the 2016 version of "The Jungle Book" Baloo |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: It's the first rule of Fight Club you do not talk about Fight Club |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: Lake Wakatipu in this country was used as a backdrop in the "Lord of the Rings" movies New Zealand |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: Crime film that features Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow Bonnie and Clyde |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: This Dario Argento horror classic about a dance studio that's really a coven was remade in 2018 Suspiria |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: Here's this silent film comedy star in "Safety Last!" Harold Lloyd |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: In it, reporter Rosalind Russell tells Cary Grant, "I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up" His Girl Friday |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | NAME THE COMPOSER $2000: Of the song "Weird Science" & the music for the "Fifty Shades" movies Danny Elfman |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $400: Witch crushed to death. Victim's sister also killed. Killer sent to Kansas, not prison Wizard of Oz |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $800: A snow globe falls from a hand. Xanadu makes news. A sled goes into an incinerator Citizen Kane |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $1200: Cary Grant mistaken for a spy. He proposes between 2 giant heads. A train enters a tunnel North by Northwest |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $1600: A knife fight at an observatory. A cliffside drag race. A shooting at an observatory Rebel Without a Cause |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES $2000: A marshal gets married. A train arrives right on time. A bride shoots a man in the back High Noon |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $400: Kristen Wiig & Maya Rudolph get into it as Wilson Phillips performs "Hold On" at the wedding Bridesmaids |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $800: Hugh Grant comes to the rescue & helps young Nicholas Hoult kill it with a "Killing Me Softly" cover About a Boy |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1200: Tom Hanks, suddenly all grown up, croons "The Way We Were" to his mom Big |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1600: As Lili von Shtupp, Madeline Kahn appears to fall asleep singing Mel Brooks' "I'm Tired" Blazing Saddles |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $2000: Julia Roberts tricks Cameron Diaz into karaoking "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"; Cam laughs last My Best Friend's Wedding |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | AWARD ETYMOLOGY $400: The Razzie Awards for bad movies are short for "Golden" these raspberries |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $400: With George C. Scott as Rochester, a TV adaptation of this Bronte classic was filmed in part in Yorkshire Jane Eyre |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $800: Fresh from her role as Jan on this family sitcom, Eve Plumb starred in "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway" The Brady Bunch |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $1200: This bestselling book brought to TV the chilling story of Charles Manson & the murders his family committed Helter Skelter |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1971's "Duel", a pulse-pounding tale of a highway chase, made some think this young director had a future Steven Spielberg |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | 1970s TV MOVIES $2000: This star of "The Flying Nun" won an Emmy as "Sybil", a woman with multiple personalities Sally Field |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | BRAND OF "BROTHERS" $400: Theater owners Harry, Albert, Samuel & Jack decided to make their own movies as this company in 1913 the Warner Brothers |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | CROSSWORD CLUES "D" $600: ____ & confused, in the movies
(5) dazed |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $200: James Cromwell has made about 50 movies; we believe this is the only one in which he sings to a pig Babe |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $400: "Every con has its pros" was the tagline for this 2018 movie starring Sandra Bullock Ocean's 8 |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $800: For her part in a 2017 biopic, she learned to figure-skate Margot Robbie |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $1200: He played music instructor Terence Fletcher in "Whiplash" J.K. Simmons |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $1600: "The Phantom Menace" is "Star Wars: Episode I"; this film is about '50s fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock Phantom Thread |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THE MOVIES $2000: Joe Pesci's "But I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh?" is a from this film Goodfellas |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $800: He produced several hit movies in the 1930s and broke speed records, piloting airplanes of his own design Howard Hughes |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $400: Based on a true story, this 1993 film was the first directed by Steven Spielberg to receive an R rating Schindler's List |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $800: With dialogue in Aramaic & Latin, this 2004 film became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time The Passion of the Christ |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $1200: After losing a battle & having the MPAA slap an R on "Fahrenheit 9/11", this director told America's teens he'd sneak them in Michael Moore |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $1600: One of the first R-rated movies was 1968's "The Split" starring this former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | R-RATED MOVIES $2000: The first R-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar was this 1971 film about drug smugglers The French Connection |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $200: Donald Sutherland said he flashed his tush in this Belushi frat film after the director said it was just for the movie's dailies Animal House |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a journey on the monitor.) Leaving the West Coast, we retrace the movie journey of this 1981 adventure film character on his way to Nepal Indiana Jones |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $600: The website did(this "Avengers: Infinity War" villain)kill.me offered one of 2 results; good luck! Thanos |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $800: Earth's potential fate is not so excellent with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu in the 2008 remake of this 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MOVIES $1000: For "On the Waterfront", Elia Kazan originally cast this singer who Kazan said "spoke perfect Hobokenese" Frank Sinatra |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | TYLER, THE CREATOR $400: Mabel Simmons, AKA Madea, was created by this writer/actor for the stage & hit it big in the movies Tyler Perry |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | QUOTING THE MOVIES $400: 2015: "I gotta... grow 3 years worth of food... on a planet where nothing grows... luckily, I'm a botanist" The Martian |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | QUOTING THE MOVIES $800: A 2003 cartoon:
"All drains lead to the ocean" Finding Nemo |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | QUOTING THE MOVIES $1200: 2009:
"You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora" Avatar |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | QUOTING THE MOVIES $1600: 2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock:
"Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?" Gravity |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | QUOTING THE MOVIES $2000: 2017:
"I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus" Wonder Woman |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $200: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Disney's first grown-up comedy & Touchstone's first release, this movie gave a big boost to the careers of Tom Hanks & Daryl Hannah Splash |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $400: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) This film that spawned a slew of sequels introduced boogeyman Freddy Krueger A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $600: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Manipulative, but a real audience pleaser, this film about a teenager beset by bullies gave us the famous line "Wax on, wax off" Karate Kid |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $800: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In "Moscow on the Hudson" this funnyman was superb as a Russian musician who defects during a trip to New York City Robin Williams |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $1000: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Real life refugee Haing S. Ngor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a translator in this film set in war-torn Cambodia The Killing Fields |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | LONG MOVIES $400: In 1996 a Kenneth Branagh film fit this Shakespeare tragedy into just over 4 hours Hamlet |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | LONG MOVIES $800: A 2016 British film has this happening on a wall for 10 hours--the color is white, if you are wondering paint drying |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | CHRIS P. $200: In the movies, this actor has paid several visits to the final frontier Chris Pine |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $200: Heard at this event "honoring" Charlie Sheen:
"You're the black sheep of a family responsible for 3 'Mighty Ducks' movies" a (Comedy Central) roast |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $400: Bob Parr stays home taking care of the kids while Elastigirl is out saving the world in this 2018 sequel Incredibles 2 |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $800: A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar's Best Picture The Shape of Water |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $1200: Gloria Swanson utters the immortal line "I am big, it's the pictures that got small" in this classic film Sunset Boulevard |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $1600: "The Disaster Artist" chronicles Tommy Wiseau making this so-bad-it's-good film The Room |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $2000: A 12-year-old Jodie Foster played a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in this 1976 film Taxi Driver |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | THE WORST PICTURE RAZZIE $200: 2 numeric movies produced a tie in 2016: "Fifty Shades of Grey" & this not-so-great superhero quartet The Fantastic 4 |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | THIS CATEGORY IS "P.G." $800: The PG movies--well, PG-13--of this P.G. include "San Andreas" & "Cinderella Man" Paul Giamatti |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | SLAYER $400: Of the movies' Marion Crane Norman Bates |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | "TEN"TERTAINMENT $1600: This song by General Public is featured in the movies "Clueless" & "Weird Science" "Tenderness" |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $400: This man who played Idi Amin is alphabetically last on the Best Actor Oscar winner list Forest Whitaker |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $800: In a 2017 film Frances McDormand puts messages on "Three Billboards Outside" this town Ebbing, Missouri |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: Corey Haim & Corey Feldman co-starred in this 1987 film about vampires in California The Lost Boys |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $1600: He played P.T. Barnum in "The Greatest Showman" Hugh Jackman |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: The queen of diamonds is a trigger for brainwashed sleeper agent Raymond Shaw in this 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $200: Garth & the title guy host a public-access show from a basement in this 1992 comedy Wayne's World |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $400: Will Ferrell has starred in 2 movies as this TV "Anchorman" Ron Burgundy |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $600: I'm still mad as hell that this 1976 movie about the TV news business didn't win a Best Picture Oscar Network |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $800: "Good Night, and Good Luck." starred David Strathairn as this TV & radio man in conflict with Joe McCarthy (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TV MOVIES? $1000: Robert Redford directed this 1994 movie about scandal in 1950s television Quiz Show |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | GONE A YEAR ALREADY $800: He brought great cinema & great class to viewers for 23 years as a host on Turner Classic Movies Robert Osborne |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $400: 1939:
"What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett?" Gone With the Wind |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $800: 1946:
"I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $1200: 1999:
"People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden" Fight Club |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $1600: 1968:
"Hello, gorgeous" Funny Girl |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | MOVIES' OPENING LINES $2000: A 2010 remake:
"People did not give it credence that a young girl could leave home & go off...to avenge her father's blood" True Grit |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | POP CULTURE SQUIRRELS $400: Scrat is the nutty, acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel in this series of movies Ice Age |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $400: Directed by Patty Jenkins, this action film had one particularly amazing Amazon delivery Wonder Woman |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $800: Decapitation & the Jabberwocky are at least 2 things to be feared in this 2010 fantasy film Alice in Wonderland |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $1200: Kate Winslet & Justin Timberlake took a ride in 1950s Coney Island in this 2017 film Wonder Wheel |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $1600: In 2007 it was Mr. Magorium's title place of business the Wonder Emporium |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | MOVIES OF "WONDER" $2000: We were gobsmacked--that is almost the right word--by Julianne Moore's work in this 2017 drama about 2 deaf kids Wonderstruck |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | SPY STUFF $1200: It's not just in movies: D.C.'s International Spy Museum has these disguised as pens, lighters & from around 1950, a watch a camera |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $400: "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Mary Poppins |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $800: "Jai Ho" (2008), written by A.R. Rahman & Gulzar Slumdog Millionaire |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $1200: "(This title)... What A Feeling" (1983), written by Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara & Keith Forsey Flashdance |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $1600: "Glory" (2014), written by the guys we know as John Legend & Common Selma |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG $2000: "I'm Easy" (1975), written by Keith Carradine Nashville |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | "ZZ" MIDDLE $1000: Sailors in "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies have been known to shout this joyous exclamation huzzah |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $400: James Bond fails all over this film--doesn't save the girl, his house burns & the bad guy meets his goal to kill M & die Skyfall |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $800: Part of "Being" this actor included starring in 1990's "The Sheltering Sky" with Debra Winger John Malkovich |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $1200: Before heading off to "Brokeback Mountain", he played future NASA engineer Homer Hickam in "October Sky" (Jake) Gyllenhaal |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $1600: It's a rhyming nickname for a drone (t's watching us right now!), or a Helen Mirren film about them Eye in the Sky |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $2000: He had a healthy ego playing Peter Quill's dad in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" as well as a super-hero in "Sky High" Kurt Russell |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THE CELEBRITY OPINES $1000: This actress who played April in many "Sharknado" movies said, "I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist" Tara Reid |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $200: (RuPaul presents the clue.) "The Diary of a Mad Black Woman" introduced movie audiences to this character, whom Tyler Perry called "exactly the PG version of" his mother & aunt Madea |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $400: (RuPaul presents the clue.) In a twist, Nathan Lane's flamboyant character is out of drag & Gene Hackman's conservative senator is in drag at the end of this film based on "La Cage aux Folles" The Birdcage |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $600: (RuPaul presents the clue.) The makeup team won an Oscar for its work--4 1/2 hours each day--transforming Robin Williams into this character, whom he based on his real childhood nanny Mrs. Doubtfire |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $800: (RuPaul presents the clue.) Billy Wilder hired famed drag artist Barbette to teach Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to move like women for this 1959 film Some Like It Hot |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | A RuVIEW OF MOVIES $1000: (RuPaul presents the clue.) John Travolta requested that his Edna Turnblad character be made voluptuous like role models Sophia Loren & Elizabeth Taylor for this film set in 1960s Baltimore Hairspray |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $200: 2 teen rivals team up after one of the kids they're watching goes missing in 2016's "Adventures in" this babysitting |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $400: It featured Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay & some catchy tunes; 'nuff said High School Musical |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $600: This movie starring Demi Lovato & the Jonas Brothers was followed by a sequel subtitled "The Final Jam" Camp Rock |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $800: Zendaya & Bella Thorne are among 3 sets of pals who become foes & then pals again in this 2012 film Frenemies |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIES FLASHBACK $1000: In this St. Patrick's Day favorite written by our own Andrew Price, Kyle Johnson discovers he's half-leprechaun Luck of the Irish |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | "MAG"NA CUM LAUDE $1200: It can be a small dynamo used to generate high voltage or a mutant villain in the X-Men movies Magneto |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $200: Alicia Vikander plays this young woman who switches jobs from bicycle courier to tomb raider Lara Croft |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $400: In the film of the same name, James McAvoy as Barry, Dennis et al. has this type of personality split |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $600: Woody Harrelson as "The Colonel" leads the humans against the chimps in this movie War for the Planet of the Apes |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $800: In "Justice League" Jason Momoa pays this hero of Atlantis Aquaman |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: He won an Oscar in 2018 for playing troubled cop Jason Dixon in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" (Sam) Rockwell |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | ENTERTAINING ERAS $2000: A golden era of teen movies is sometimes named for this "Breakfast Club" director John Hughes |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $200: Singer June Carter Walk the Line |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $400: Harvard Law student Elle Woods Legally Blonde |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $600: Tracy Flick, who's running for student body president Election |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $800: Cheryl Strayed, based on her memoir Wild |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $1000: New York fashion designer Melanie Smooter, actually a Southern girl Sweet Home Alabama |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | RATING SYSTEMS $2000: The Little Man system for reviewing movies has been used by this Bay Area paper for years the San Francisco Chronicle |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $400: Steven Spielberg sank his teeth into this 1975 thriller, his first blockbuster Jaws |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $800: This not-at-all Christmasy film about demonic possession opened on December 26, 1973 The Exorcist |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $1200: In 1973, 43 years before they did it on HBO, robots roamed this title amusement park Westworld |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $1600: It's this 1974 Jack Nicholson L.A.-set mystery, Jake Chinatown |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | 1970s MOVIES $2000: Bette Midler earned an Oscar nomination for this 1979 film in which she played a Janis Joplin-like rock star The Rose |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | AT THE COMO PARK ZOO $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Como Park Zoo.) Contrary to what the movies portray, humans are rarely attacked by this giant water boa that thrives in the Amazon & Orinoco river basins & can grow up to 30 feet long an anaconda |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BILLY $800: This title kid danced out of the movies & onto Broadway in 2008 (Billy) Elliot |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | A STASH OF MUSTACHES $400: The 1912 story "The Zayat Kiss" introduced this sinister criminal portrayed in many movies since Fu Manchu |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: "About a Boy" & "Fever Pitch" are among his books that have been made into movies Nick Hornby |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $400: Kristen Wiig is Maya Rudolph's maid of honor Bridesmaids |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $800: From 1984--a Motor City policeman comes to the 90210 Beverly Hills Cop |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $1200: A washed-up superhero actor plots a stage comeback in this 2014 film Birdman |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $1600: Someone sinister is creating clones of Hitler The Boys from Brazil |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | "B" MOVIES $2000: In the 41st century, Jane Fonda fondly seeks out Durand Durand & his positronic ray Barbarella |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $800: Stan based this boss of Peter Parker on himself & wanted to play him in the movies (Jonah) Jameson |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | ENTERTAINING ORGANIZATIONS $2000: American Humane certifies movies & TV shows with this 4-word trademark in the end credits "No Animals Were Harmed" |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $200: In 2017 Abigail Breslin filled Jennifer Grey's dancing shoes as Baby in a TV remake of this film Dirty Dancing |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $400: "Confirmation", covering a major 1990s event, starred Wendell Pierce as this man Clarence Thomas |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $600: Laurence Fishburne led the first unit of African-American fighter pilots in this HBO movie named for them The Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $800: This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" Tom Selleck |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $1000: Farrah Fawcett starred in this 1980s TV movie as a woman who ends years of abuse by incinerating her ex-husband The Burning Bed |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $400: Rodent-fearing Winston Smith shuddered through this 2007 Pixar movie featuring the voice of Patton Oswalt Ratatouille |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $800: If Little Miss Muffet could give a negative Metacritic score to this 1990 John Goodman film, she would Arachnophobia |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1200: Olaf the Snowman confessed he found this 1962 David Lean epic "hard to watch" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $1600: Dorian Gray hated the first part of this 2008 Brad Pitt movie, but it grew on him over time The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $2000: The Wicked Witch of the West experiences mortal terror when viewing this Kevin Costner movie from 1995 Waterworld |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $200: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Will Ferrell is a delight in this 2003 film whose cast also includes old pros like Ed Asner & Bob Newhart Elf |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $400: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) I found the laughs mild & sparse in this reworking of "A Christmas Carol" starring Bill Murray as a vernal TV executive Scrooged |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $600: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Edmund Gwenn was the real deal as Kris Kringle, working as a department store Santa, in this delightful 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In the perennial favorite "A Christmas Story", Peter Billingsley plays this boy who wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun Ralphie |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $1000: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Bing Crosby introduced the timeless song "White Christmas" in this 1942 film about a hotel in the country Holiday Inn |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | CAMP DAVID $800: Among many movies this pres. & his wife viewed at Camp David were "The Princess Bride" & "Knute Rockne, All American" Reagan |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | TV REBOOTS & REVIVALS $800: Sidekicks Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo still watch bad movies, but with new host Jonah, on this series: "The Return" Mystery Science Theater 3000 |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | THINK PINK $400: Mais oui, in the "Pink Panther" movies, Peter Sellers bumbles through as this detective (Inspector) Clouseau |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | MOVIES BY OSCARS $200: 1997:
Original Screenplay, Matt Damon & Ben Affleck Good Will Hunting |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | MOVIES BY OSCARS $400: 2010:
Actor Colin Firth &
Director Tom Hooper The King's Speech |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | MOVIES BY OSCARS $600: 2002:
Supporting actress Catherine Zeta-Jones & Costume Design, Colleen Atwood Chicago |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | MOVIES BY OSCARS $800: 2013:
Cinematography, Emmanuel Lubezki &
Director Alfonso Cuaron Gravity |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | MOVIES BY OSCARS $1000: 1982:
Supporting actor Louis Gossett Jr.
& Song, "Up Where We Belong" An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $400: "Le Pistole Non Discutono", AKA "Bullets Don't Argue", is this type of low-budget western a spaghetti western |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $800: This alliterative term can refer to any type of olden furniture as well as a movie set in olden times a period piece |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $1200: 1970s genre of film depicting African Americans in unrealistic & often violent situations blaxploitation |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $1600: Films about male duos like Bill & Ted or Harold & Kumar aren't "pal movies" or "bro movies" but these a buddy movie |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $2000: The 1961 documentary "Chronicle of a Summer" is said to have originated this 2-word French-named style cinéma vérité |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Penny Singleton colored her hair to play this Chic Young comic-strip heroine in 28 movies Blondie |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $400: 2015:
Co-starring Tom Hardy & an angry bear The Revenant |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $800: 1976:
Co-starring Talia Shire Rocky |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $1200: 1954:
We don't need a clip, just the still; Jimmy Stewart doesn't move much Rear Window |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $1600: 1981:
Co-starring Karen Allen Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | "R" MOVIES $2000: 2009:
Starring Viggo Mortensen as "Man" & Kodi Smit-McPhee as "Boy" The Road |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | ALL ARE INVITED $200: All ages are allowed at movies rated G--the G is short for this general |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | DESIGNER INITIALS $1200: Longtime creative director of Gucci--he also directs movies:
T.F. Tom Ford |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $400: In this movie Steve Carell's inexperience is revealed to his buddies over a card game The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $800: Javier Bardem won an Oscar playing a hit man in this Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $1200: Sophia Loren turns up to tempt Walter Matthau in this even more cranky sequel Grumpier Old Men |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $1600: Will Ferrell is among those trying to get back his college spirit in this comedy Old School |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $2000: This quirky Korean revenge flick was remade by Spike Lee in 2013 Oldboy |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: Fans of this movie series can tour the London locales used in the filming, including the one seen here the Harry Potter movies |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $200: Kevin Kline was the gadget-loving 1860s government agent Artemus Gordon in this film based on a TV show Wild Wild West |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinpah. Lots of blood. This 1969 Western The Wild Bunch |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $600: An Elvis-obsessed Nicolas Cage takes up with Laura Dern in this 1990 David Lynch film Wild at Heart |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $800: Meryl Streep needed a lot more than one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon on the water in this movie The River Wild |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | "WILD" MOVIES $1000: Hushpuppy deals with some prehistoric creatures called aurochs in this 2012 drama set in the delta Beasts of the Southern Wild |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $400: This animated trio behind novelty songs, TV shows & movies consists of Alvin, Simon & Theodore the Chipmunks |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: (I'm Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies.) Dooley Wilson, who played Sam in this classic 1942 film, was actually a professional drummer & didn't know how to play the piano Casablanca |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $800: "You was my brother, Charley, you should've looked out for me", says Brando to Rod Steiger in this film On the Waterfront |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1200: Paul Newman starred in this 1977 hockey movie that had a goon player get deported to Canada, which refused to take him Slap Shot |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1600: The leg with Dustin Hoffman on this movie poster isn't Anne Bancroft's but that of Linda Gray, later Sue Ellen on "Dallas" The Graduate |
