| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $4,800 (Daily Double): In June, take in the "white nights" of this city; after 19 hours of daylight, bridges across the Neva are raised at night so boats pass St. Petersburg |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THE QUESTION? $800: Used for 2 decades on Monday nights, a reworked version of "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" asked this question Are you ready for some football? |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $800: On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree Sinbad |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $2000: One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him the Angel of Death |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $800: In "The Thousand & One Nights", this sailor man swears off travel after his seventh voyage Sinbad |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $600: "One Of These Nights", I'll tell you this band did "Pretty Maids All In A Row", but "I Can't Tell You Why" the Eagles |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $1000: John in "Talladega Nights": "If you smell a delicious crispy smell after the race, it's not your tailpipe, it's" this catchphrase (a little bit of) Shake 'n Bake |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $200: Over 2 nights, the first Democratic one in June 2019 had 20 candidates a debate |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | YOU'RE GONNA SING $800: Pat Benatar was "running with" these in an iconic song from the 1980s; baby, take her hand, "it'll be all right" the shadows of the night |
| #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 |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SOUNDS LIKE A BUG $800: The name of this radio storytelling project evokes summer nights spinning yarns under a porch light The Moth |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | CHRISTMAS & HANUKKAH $800: While we talk about the 12 days of Christmas, Hanukkah is celebrated over 8 nights, with lighted candles in this candelabra a menorah |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $12,400 (Daily Double): Greek author George Seferis, who won the award in 1963, wrote "Six Nights on" this hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $1200: In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 of these spins in a row a pirouette |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Matthew 4 says Jesus fasted for this many days & nights in the wilderness, & he was hungry after; well, yeah! 40 |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | CLASSIC TV $1200: With its iconic performances, his "really big show" on Sunday nights had a huge impact on American culture & careers Ed Sullivan |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU $100: At 9:00 P.M. on weekend nights you can see why the bridge in Da Nang, Vietnam has the name of this creature of myth the Dragon Bridge |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | CELEBRITIES $600: He went from the Funky Bunch to A-list Hollywood actor, starring in such films as "Boogie Nights" & "The Fighter" Mark Wahlberg |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | NEW HARLEQUIN ROMANCES IN 2022 $200: "Forbidden Nights in" this capital of Catalonia Barcelona |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL CANYON $1200: Stars flocked to the 1970s football & poker nights at the "Kirkwood Casino", the home of this late Eagles singer Glenn Frey |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $600: This "Thousand and One Nights" character gave his name to a type of paraffin lamp Aladdin |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021
"Sometimes, all I think about is you /
Late nights in the middle of June /
Heat waves been fakin' me out /
Heat waves been fakin' me out..." Glass Animals |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $400: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) After fleeing slavery in Maryland, she began returning to help others, planning escapes for Saturday nights because wanted notices could not be sent out on Sundays, giving her groups a one-day head start (Harriet) Tubman |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $400: Playing this title character in "Wild Nights with Emily", Molly Shannon recites "I Can Wade Grief" Dickinson |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $400: 1997:
Dirk Diggler,
Rollergirl,
Amber Waves Boogie Nights |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | BIBLE NUMBERS $1200: After fasting for this many days & nights, Jesus was tempted by Satan who challenged him to turn stones into bread 40 |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SPIN CYCLE $800: In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 in a row of these pirouettes |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS $400: Scheherazade is the storyteller in this collection of folk tales the 1001 Arabian Nights |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY OPENING NUMBERS $400: "Arabian Nights" Aladdin |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $400: Some NCAA basketball teams begin their journey with "Midnight" this; reminds me of March... Madness |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $800: Also called Freedom's Eve, Watch Night is a celebration of this edict issued on January 1, 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $1200: One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival Cannes |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $1600: Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name Twelfth Night |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $2000: Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad Gabriel |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Central Florida NBA team used by Prince Husain in "One Thousand & One Nights" the Orlando Magic carpet |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES $800: Him as adult film star Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights" (Mark) Wahlberg |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOOT SUITE $300 (Daily Double): There's a bassoon solo in the Rimsky-Korsakov suite named for this woman who told great stories Scheherazade |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $200: Its second act features a magic carpet, "A Whole New World" & a reprise of "Arabian Nights" Aladdin |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | TV DRAMA $600: "La Reina del Sur", one of these Latin soap operas, ran 5 nights a week on Telemundo a telenovela |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $400: In Glen Cook's "Black Company" series, Soulcatcher flies around on one of these, just like in the "Thousand and One Nights" a magic carpet |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | SHORT STORY SYLLABUS $400: A Dostoyevsky story is titled these, the daylit evenings of St. Petersburg in summertime "White Nights" |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $1000: The UCB is this "Brigade" that does improv shows 7 nights a week Upright Citizens Brigade |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | NEWSPEOPLE $400: Sunday nights on "60 Minutes" & New Year's Eve in Times Square are two places you might spot him Anderson Cooper |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | OLD BOOKS $400: The "Arabian Nights" tales include one about Prince Husain, who flies around on a magical one of these carpet |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? $400: She spins the tales of "One Thousand and One Nights" for her husband, King Shahryar Scheherazade |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Seen as obscene, Richard Burton's 1885 version of this book of Mideast fables was published with major cuts The Arabian Nights |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS $2000: Little Bill & Amber Waves, adults in adult film Boogie Nights |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ROOM SERVICE $1200: Not every dad designs an Arabian nights mural for this kiddie fun room, but Frank Lloyd Wright did a playroom |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PIECES OF 8 $800: Hebrew for "candlestick", its candles are lit for 8 nights during Hanukkah a menorah |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | TV WITH HIGH RATINGS $800: This 1939 wartime epic was first shown on TV in 1976 to a 47 rating for each of 2 successive nights Gone With the Wind |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | NONFICTION $800: Her "Blue Nights" tells of coping with the death of her daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Joan Didion |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $400: In one of the Arabian Nights' most famous stories, a clever fisherman traps one of these in a bottle a genie |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $800: To avoid execution in the morning, the king's new wife Scheherazade tells this many stories, each ending with a cliffhanger 1,001 |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $1600: These 2 words reveal the entrance to a hidden cave full of riches in "Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves" open sesame |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $2000: When he's an old man, this sailor tells a young porter 7 tales about his 7 marvelous adventures Sinbad |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Several of the stories are set in this city, capital of the Muslim world in 8th century & still a capital today Baghdad |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST "C" TV $800: The WB had 2 "bewitching" shows on its 2001 sched.:
"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" & this one on Thursday nights Charmed |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: She sang "Summer Nights" with Travolta before becoming an author of legal thrillers & "Calico Joe" Olivia Newton-John Grisham |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | I KNOW THAT PERFORMER'S FACE $1600: Before playing Kent on "Veep", Gary Cole put a live cougar in his son Ricky Bobby's car in this film Talladega Nights |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | ASIAN CULTURE $400: This classic story collection that developed over several centuries includes the tales of Aladdin & Ali Baba The Arabian Nights |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | "ANT", MAN $400: Radiator liquid to fight those cold winter nights antifreeze |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $800: On summer nights watch the flashes of the lightning bugs, better known as these fireflies |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "Arabian Nights" & "Friend Like Me" Aladdin |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | FAMILIAR ACTING FACES $800: Lately dealing with "Code Black" on TV, the always busy Luis Guzman was on the big screen in this 1997 drama about Dirk Diggler Boogie Nights |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SOAP? $800: One of the first successful primetime serials, it aired 2 nights a week & was based on a Grace Metalious novel Peyton Place |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TALES $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 9th century Arabic tale tells us it spanned about 2 3/4 years One Thousand and One Nights |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | BROADWAY $1600: Robert Morse won a Tony in 1990 for this 3-letter play, a look at 2 nights in the life of writer Capote Tru |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SEASONAL SONGS $400: From the movie "Grease":
"____ Nights" Summer |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS $600: Burt was Oscar-nominated for his role as an adult filmmaker in this 1997 movie Boogie Nights |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE MOVIE ACTOR'S ROLE $800: Wait until the kids are asleep before watching Heather Graham play Rollergirl in this 1997 flick Boogie Nights |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $400: Right in chapter 1 of his book, he spent 3 days & nights in the belly of "a great fish" Jonah |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | MY WIFE! $800: Mavis Nicholson, who got used to late nights Jay Leno |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | ALL ABOUT NUMBERS $1600: The story of "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" is part of this numerically named collection The 1,001 Nights |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | NOVELISTS $200: Once in hiding, he began a book tour in 2015 for his novel "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights" (Salman) Rushdie |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | THAT ONE SONG $600: "One Of These Nights" is on their "Greatest Hits" the Eagles |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | SAME MOVIE & SONG TITLE $2000: Movie:
featuring Dirk Diggler; song:
disco hit by Heatwave Boogie Nights |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHOLE LOTTA LOVE BOAT $400: On Saturday nights from 1980 to 1984, da boat! da boat! was paired with this other ABC hit Fantasy Island |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | SPORTS MOVIES $800: Jane Lynch is mom to Will Ferrell in this comedy with drive Talladega Nights |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE CITY OF... $1000: White Nights, in Russia St. Petersburg |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $400: (Aladdin emerges from a beaded curtain to deliver the clue.) "Arabian Nights", the title of Aladdin's opening number, refers to the folk tale collection also known as this many "Nights" the thousand and one |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1200: Nicholas Sparks has set many novels, including "Safe Haven" & "Nights in Rodanthe", in this, his home state North Carolina |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | THE NATURE OF THINGS $1600: Catatumbo lighting can flash 40,000 times up to 300 nights a year over Lake Maracaibo in this country Venezuela |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | NIGHTS ON BROADWAY $200: 2010 saw the first Broadway revival of this play about Helen Keller & her teacher Annie Sullivan The Miracle Worker |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | NIGHTS ON BROADWAY $400: Jessie Mueller won a 2014 Tony for her portrayal of this "Tapestry" singer in the musical "Beautiful" Carole King |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | NIGHTS ON BROADWAY $800: This musical that returned to NYC in 2013 tells of Charlemagne's son, on a quest to find his true calling in life Pippin |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | NIGHTS ON BROADWAY $1000: A con man claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier in this play that opened on Broadway in 1990 Six Degrees Of Separation |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | NIGHTS ON BROADWAY $1,400 (Daily Double): Mandy Patinkin was the first to play artist Georges Seurat when this musical opened in 1984 Sunday In The Park With George |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FAIRY TALES $200: In "The Arabian Nights" this son of a tailor uses a magic lamp to win the hand of a princess Aladdin |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | TEEN CHOICE $400: Number of nights in a fortnight 14 |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | DETROIT ROCK CITY $1200: Seen in the '80s, he sang of Hollywood Nights & Katmandu, but was born in a Detroit suburb Bob Seger |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | THEY LEFT US IN THE LAST YEAR $200: The lovelorn Scotty in "Boogie Nights" was one of this actor's many memorable roles Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | BLACK & WHITE & READ $200: Dostoyevsky's short story "White Nights" is a romance set in this capital under the czars St. Petersburg |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $2000: One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him the Angel of Death |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $2000: With Harrison Ford & Anne Heche:
"_____ Days _____ Nights" 6 Days, 7 Nights |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $1600: He made his feature film debut in 1977's "The Turning Point" & followed it up with a starring role in "White Nights" Baryshnikov |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | WILL FERRELL MOVIES BY QUOTE $800: "I love seeing some French guy break my track record while I got my arm wrapped up like a frickin' Gordita" Talladega Nights |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | THE "WILD" & "CRAZY" $1600: "Long Nights" is an Eddie Vedder song in this Sean Penn film about a young man trying to find himself in Alaska Into the Wild |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $800: "The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" Talladega Nights |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE LANE! THE LANE! $1600: In 2008 Diane Lane spent some "Nights in Rodanthe" with Paul, played by this leading man Richard Gere |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONGS $1000: "Some Nights" &
"We Are Young" fun. |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | "SIN" FULL $400: "Arabian Nights" guy Sinbad |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | FIRST MUSIC, THEN A MOVIE $800: 1977: Heatwave
1997: With Heather Graham as Rollergirl Boogie Nights |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | I LOVE PARIS $600: Parisians look forward to times when museums & galleries stay open until dawn, called nuits blanches, literally this white nights |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | NONFICTION $1600: She covered the aftermath of her husband's death in "The Year of Magical Thinking" & of her daughter's in "Blue Nights" Joan Didion |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | NIGHT QUILL $200: In the 1880s explorer Sir Richard Burton prepared a 16-volume English translation of these tales the Arabian Nights |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | THE EVOLUTION OF "M"USIC $200: This '60s "Nights in White Satin" band has another color in its name Moody Blues |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | MIDDLE INITIAL C. $400: In "Talladega Nights", he plays Cal Naughton Jr., friend & fellow racer of Ricky Bobby John C. Reilly |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In a 1975 crossover hit, Freddy Fender put this word before his "Days" & "Nights" Wasted |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $1600: Instead of showing up once a week for 13 weeks, he'd appear 3 or 4 nights in a row, & it was always very dramatic Miniseries |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | A THOUSAND $800: Numeric title for an Arabian folktale collection that originated in the 9th century 1,001 Nights |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $200: Ali Baba takes his son to the cave & teaches him this 2-word password open sesame |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $400: An African magician claiming to be this boy's uncle traps him in a cave: a genie gets him out Aladdin |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $600: This sailor's first voyage begins, "My father left me a considerable estate" Sinbad |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $800: Prince Houssain buys this transportation device at a bazaar for 40 purses of gold a magic carpet |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $3,000 (Daily Double): To prevent her execution, this daughter of a vizier tells the king a story a night for 1,001 nights Scheherazade |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | BROADWAY BILLYS $1200: In 2010 this Broadway dancing title tot was played by Liam Redhead (& 3 other boys, on different nights) Billy Elliot |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | NUMBERS $400: "The Arabian Nights" are "tales from" this number of nights 1,001 |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | A MURDER INVESTIGATION $1000: (Kyra Sedgwick delivers the clue.) Getting confessions, Brenda's specialty, will be easier now that the Supreme Court has ruled that any response to interrogation means you've waived your rights under this 1966 decision the Miranda decision |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | MUSIC OF THE NIGHT $800: In 1982 this soft pop duo from Australia found that "Even the nights are better" Air Supply |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | SAUDI ARABIA $800: This British explorer made a secret trip to Mecca in 1853 & also "acted" as translator of the "Arabian Nights" (Richard Francis) Burton |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE LEGO ARTISTRY OF NATHAN SAWAYA $800: In August 2005, Nathan made a van Gogh of things with his Lego reproduction of this painting Starry Night |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New York with a bell ringer.) A familiar sight on New York City streets is the holiday appeal of this organization that each year provides 3 million meals & 900,000 nights of lodging to those in need the Salvation Army |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | NIGHTS $200: In 2009 this actor spent a second "Night at the Museum" as Larry Daley Ben Stiller |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | NIGHTS $400: He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for "Saturday Night Fever" John Travolta |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | NIGHTS $600: M. Night Shyamalan had a cameo as Dr. Hill in this 1999 film where a young boy chatted up dead folks The Sixth Sense |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | NIGHTS $800: This 1964 Beatles film was made for $500,000 & shot in a little over 6 weeks (they were working like dogs!) A Hard Day's Night |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | NIGHTS $1000: David Strathairn, as him: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Good night, and good luck" (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THE TEENS $800: Number of nights in a fortnight 14 |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | TOP 40 MATH $1600: Murray Head's nights "In Bangkok" minus Brewer & Shipley's tokes "Over The Line" 0 |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $400: With its economy ailing, in 2008 this country offered $559 packages including air & 3 nights at a Reykjavik hotel Iceland |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | ELVIS COSTELLO $1000: Shocking! Ricky Bobby sees Elvis & Mos Def at a rival racer's house in this film Talladega Nights |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | TV VARIETY SHOWS $600: This newspaper columnist's CBS variety show aired on Sunday nights for 23 straight years Ed Sullivan |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | SOUNDS LIKE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Movie in which Dirk Diggler has a big surprise for the rest of the guys after being drafted into King Arthur's crew Boogie Nights of the Round Table |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $2000: Longer autumn nights let the ground cool, producing condensation & the "ground" type of this fog |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $400: These mischievous supernatural creatures of Arab lore were made famous by "The 1,001 Nights"; make a wish! a genie |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $2000: "Dear Lord... we thank you... for this bountiful harvest... my 2 beautiful sons, Walker & Texas Ranger..." Talladega Nights (The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | "ONE" WORLD $800: Numerical name for Scheherazade's tales One Thousand and One Nights |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | "BAD" HABITS $200: According to one legend, Oman was the home of this "Thousand and One Nights" sailor Sinbad |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ELLEN $400: On Thursday nights, she plays doctor; the title doctor of "Grey's Anatomy" Ellen Pompeo |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BEER COUNTRY OF ORIGIN $400: A cold Dos Equis or 2 might help get you through some of the hot nights in this country where it originated Mexico |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | CAN I GET YOUR LITERARY NUMBER? $2000: T.E. Lawrence wrote that this book has "No lessons for the world... it is filled with trivial things" Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | THE POETRY OF LOVE $800: Not often thought of as wild, she wrote, "Wild nights! Were I with thee, wild nights should be our luxury!" Emily Dickinson |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | "C" PLUS $400: This 2-word women's wear item from the Middle Ages led to more low-key Saturday nights--wink wink, say no more a chastity belt |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | COLORFUL PHRASES $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from St. Petersburg, Russia.) We're in St. Petersburg, Russia in June--the time when a lack of total darkness gives evenings this name white nights |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | YOU MOVE, TO FAST $200: Move to this mountain if you want to be like Moses, who fasted there for 40 days & nights Mount Sinai |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $400: One April night in 1912 Titanic passenger Henry Harper lay in bed & saw this scrape past his cabin window an iceberg |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $800: He's heard here in a speech the night of Martin Luther King's murder
"What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another." Robert F. Kennedy |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $1200: After his ballet troupe's Toronto performance on June 29, 1974, he didn't get on the KGB bus Baryshnikov |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $1600: Hitler massacred the leadership of the SA, his own paramilitary group, on June 30, 1934, "The Night of the Long" these Knives |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $2000: After the Last Supper & a little hymn singing, Jesus went to this Jerusalem site to pray Gethsemane |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | EVERY TIM, DIRK OR GARY $1000: Mark Wahlberg was impressive in every sense of the word playing Eddie Adams & this alter ego in "Boogie Nights" Dirk Diggler |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S. $1200: Hard to miss this 300-lb. Chief, known for walking the 3 mi. between his home & the court most mornings & nights Taft |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | SMALLVILLE $400: This Wyoming town, pop. 15, was named for a wish-making boy in "The Arabian Nights" Aladdin |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | I NEED AN M.D.! $2000: On an '80s TV series, Blair Brown showed us "The Days and Nights of" this character Molly Dodd |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | SINGERS ALSO KNOWN AS $2000: "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" was a hit for this Tex-Mex singer whose real name is Baldemar Huerta Freddy Fender |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | SAY THE "MAGIC" WORDS $400: According to the "Arabian Nights", Prince Houssain's could fly a magic carpet |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | PHILOSOPHERS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Gershwin song says, "My nights were sour, spent with" this gloomy German philosopher Schopenhauer |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: In a 2002 film Josh Hartnett vows to stay celibate for this title length of time 40 Days and 40 Nights |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BALLET $800: Concubines & a eunuch are featured in the exotic ballet named for this "Arabian Nights" tale-spinner Scheherezade |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | THAT'S MY ALBUM $1600: "One of These Nights",
"Hell Freezes Over" The Eagles |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | ALLISON JANNEY WAS IN THAT? $600: Yep, that was Allison as Anne Heche's boss in this Harrison Ford film about a week in the tropics Six Days, Seven Nights |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | WOMEN WRITERS $1200: Her 1997 bestseller "violin" might keep you up nights; not the playing of it, the reading of it Anne Rice |
| #4638, aired 2004-11-04 | TOP OF THE CHARTS, MA! $2000: This Eagles song promises, "Somebody's gonna hurt someone before the night is through" "Heartache Tonight" |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | OPERA $400: Peter Cornelius' opera "The Barber of Baghdad" was based on a tale in this collection Arabian Nights |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | COMPOSERS $1600: His 1888 symphonic suite "Scheherazade" was based on the tales of the "Arabian Nights" Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | NOVEL WEDDINGS $1200: 2 nights before her wedding to Mr. Rochester, a ghastly figure appears in her room & rips up her wedding veil Jane Eyre |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | GIVE "A" $400: A tale from "The Arabian Nights" tells the story of this person who releases a genie Aladdin |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | THE L.A. COLISEUM $600: In October 1989 280,000 in 4 nights saw this band with an appetite for destruction open for the Rolling Stones Guns N' Roses |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | STORY COLLECTIONS $800: The history of Ali Baba & the history of Sinbad the Sailor were told by her over many, many nights Scheherazade |
| #4382, aired 2003-09-30 | THE WHICH BLAIR PROJECT $1200: She starred in "The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd" & "Continental Divide" Blair Brown |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: He "was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" Jonah |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $600: This comic voiced 3 characters in the animated Hanukkah movie "Eight Crazy Nights" Adam Sandler |
| #4267, aired 2003-03-04 | THURSDAY NIGHT TV $800: This actor faced a lifetime's worth of emergencies on Thursday nights as "ER" doc Mark Greene Anthony Edwards |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | SCIENCE CLASS $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park) Autumn leaves turn golden red as shorter days & cooler nights cause the breakdown of this green pigment chlorophyll |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | LAS VEGAS $1600: You'll find Sinbad's Palace inside this hotel with a 1001 Nights theme that opened anew in 2000 Aladdin |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $200: He picked up the transparent fruit of different colors on the way back from getting the wonderful lamp Aladdin |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $400: After a horrible first voyage he had planned to stay in Baghdad, but wound up making 6 more Sinbad |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $600: The mounted men Ali Baba saw & figured were thieves, numbered this many 40 |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $800: "The Arabian Nights Entertainments" is also known by this numerical name "One Thousand and One Nights" |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $1000: The genie that the fisherman released had been bottled up by this king, the son of David Solomon |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | BIBLICAL NUMBERS $200: Genesis 7:12 tells us that it rained for this many days & nights on Noah 40 |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | TRANSLATORS $800: In the 1880s Sir Richard Burton must have stayed up late translating this noted group of tales into English The Arabian Nights |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS $400: Steingrimur Thorsteinsson translated "The Arabian Nights" into this language spoken in Rekjavik Icelandic |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: This tale from the Arabian Nights is subtitled "or, the Wonderful Lamp" "Aladdin" |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | YOU MAKE ME CRY $2000: 1989's "Harlem Nights" featured this former talk show host as the "Crying Man" Arsenio Hall |
| #3978, aired 2001-12-12 | ROCK "E" $400: In titles it preceded Eddie Money's "Nights" & Richard Marx's "Summer Nights" Endless |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | WHAT ARE "YOU" DOING? $200: "So many nights I'd sit by my window" thinking of this Debby Boone song "You Light Up My Life" |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | REAL AUDIO $500: "Summer Nights" helped this soundtrack dominate the No. 1 spot during the summer of 1978 Grease |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW $100: As this man "Was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the son of man be...in...the Earth" Jonah |
| #3856, aired 2001-05-14 | YASIR $200: It's "The Loneliest Number" of nights Arafat will reportedly sleep in a house before moving on 1 |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | MISC. $500: James Plimpton is credited with inventing these in 1863; they were worn by Heather Graham in "Boogie Nights" roller skates |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NIGHTS TO REMEMBER $100: The music of the night filled the Majestic Theatre Jan. 26, 1988 as this show opened on Broadway The Phantom of the Opera |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NIGHTS TO REMEMBER $200: In 1862 black Confederate pilot Robert Smalls slipped out of this South Carolina harbor to join the Union Charleston |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NIGHTS TO REMEMBER $300: A 1993 Knott's Berry Farm event attracted over 17,000, bringing these all-night dance parties out from underground rave parties |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NIGHTS TO REMEMBER $400: The Eiffel Tower is seen here inaugurating this date New Year's Eve 2000 |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NIGHTS TO REMEMBER $500: On the night of July 9, 1943 the Allies began their landing on this Italian island Sicily |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: The "Arabian Nights" tales include the adventures of this sailor & his 7 voyages Sinbad |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | MOVIE ROLES $400: This actress spent "Six Days, Seven Nights" on an island with Harrison Ford Anne Heche |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | 2 $200: In 1997 this TV show with 2 2s in its title went to 2 nights a week 20/20 |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | THE MUSICAL FABRIC STORE $600: This "nocturnal" Moody Blues song was a Top 10 hit in 1972 "Nights In White Satin" |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | BOATING WITH NOAH $400: The length of the rainstorm 40 days and 40 nights |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | SID & MARTY KROFFT TV $300 (Daily Double): In 1978 this Scottish band hosted the Krofft Superstar Hour on S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y nights the Bay City Rollers |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Her books include "I Lost It At The Movies" & "5001 Nights At The Movies" Pauline Kael |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | RITUALS $600: In celebration of Chanukah, candles are lit for this many nights 8 |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | "MM" BOP $400: "Tell me more" about this song from "Grease" "Summer Nights" |
| #3514, aired 1999-12-09 | KIDDY LIT $200: One version has this creature turning back into a prince after sleeping with the girl for 3 nights (no smooching) "The Frog Prince" |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | SUITE $200: We could listen to the 1888 suite named for this tale-spinner for "1001 Nights" Scheherazade |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | CLASSIC POP GROUPS $500: "Nights In White Satin" appeared on their 1968 LP "Days of Future Passed" 4 years before the reissue hit the Top 10 The Moody Blues |
| #3381, aired 1999-04-26 | BAN THAT BOOK! $1000: "The Canterbury Tales" & "The Arabian Nights" were banned for decades from U.S. mails under this 1873 law Comstock Law |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $600: "Nights of Cabiria",
"Amarcord",
"La Strada" Federico Fellini |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | SUITE TALK $100: Manuel de Falla wrote a suite called "Nights in the Gardens of" this Iberian country Spain |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $100: One tale tells of a place where these pachyderms go to die & the ivory lies around for the taking elephants |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $300: This character is the hero of several tales & of the movie seen here Sinbad |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $400: A fisherman tricks one of these creatures into letting itself be trapped in a bottle genie |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $500: The tales of the Arabian Nights are told to the king by this woman, his wife Scheherazade |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $1000: In this 1989 film, Eddie Murphy was the adopted son of a 1930s nightclub owner played by Richard Pryor Harlem Nights |
| #3210, aired 1998-07-10 | GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE $1000: In 1793, George spent several nights at a home on Germantown Avenue in this city Philadelphia |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | FUN THINGS TO DO $300: On Saturdays in the summer, this Calif. city's Wild Animal Park stays open late to celebrate "African Nights" San Diego |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | ARABIAN NIGHTS $100: This guy wasn't the first to rub his magic lamp, his mother was Aladdin |
| #3145, aired 1998-04-10 | THE PASSOVER SEDER $400: It's the first of the 4 questions asked by the youngest person present Why is this night different from all other nights? |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | DANCE MAGAZINE AWARDS $3,000 (Daily Double): 1978 winner seen here in a 1985 film: Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | ACTORS $400: Rap star & underwear model who played porn star Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights" Mark Wahlberg |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | DOUBLE D WORDS $300: His story in the Arabian Nights has the alternate title "Or The Wonderful Lamp" Aladdin |
| #3046, aired 1997-11-24 | PSYCHOLOGY $200: From 1896 to 1899 Freud might have spent some sleepless nights writing "The Interpretation Of" these Dreams |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | '60s TV $500: Only 2 CBS shows remained on Sunday nights for the entire decade: "Lassie" & this variety show "The Ed Sullivan Show" (old "Toast Of The Town") |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | LANGUAGES $200: Sir Richard Burton translated “The Thousand And One Nights” from this language Arabic |
| #2899, aired 1997-03-20 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $1000: Each movement in this 1888 suite by Rimsky-Korsakov is based on a tale spun to enthrall a sultan Scheherazade |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Number of "Arabian Nights" 1001 |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | 1977 $200: Airing over 8 nights in January, it was the most watched miniseries in TV history Roots |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $3,000 (Daily Double): Holiday on which you'd hear the following:
"Why is this night different from all the other nights?" Passover |
| #2823, aired 1996-12-04 | BY THE SEASHORE $500: In California this fish spawns on the beach the first few nights after the highest tides of the month Grunion |
| #2813, aired 1996-11-20 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: He's the king of the fairies in medieval legend as well as in "A Midsummer Nights' Dream" Oberon |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | TELEVISION $300: The fall '95 network season featured these 2 shows with "Murder" in their titles on Thursday nights Murder, She Wrote & Murder One |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: This classic story collection includes "The Tales of Sinbad", "Aladdin" & "Ali Baba" "Arabian Nights" |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BALLET DANCERS ON FILM $800: He played a defecting Russian ballet star in "White Nights" & a KGB agent in "Company Business" Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | LITERATURE $400: In the "Thousand and One Nights", Scheherazade tells the story of this poor Chinese boy & his magic lamp Aladdin |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | LESSER KNOWN NAMES $400: The court of Harun ar-Rashid is described in this multi-multi-part story collection 1001 Nights |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | NATURE $200: On summer nights in Austin, Texas swarms of these mammals emerge from under the Congress Ave. Bridge to feed bats |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | TELEVISION $500: On Tuesday nights ABC advises "viewer discretion" before this Steven Bochco cop show NYPD Blue |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA 2 $200: In the 1966-67 season, this Adam West superhero series aired 2 nights a week Batman |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | SOAP OPERA HISTORY $200: Once Snapper on "The Young & the Restless", he's a lifeguard on "Baywatch" days & a P.I. on "Baywatch Nights" David Hasselhoff |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | THE DUMONT NETWORK $800: On Tuesday nights 1952-55 his talks on "Life is Worth Living" competed against Milton Berle Bishop Sheen |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | COLORFUL BOOKS $300: In it, Billie Holiday said she didn't like singing the same song the same way two nights in a row "Lady Sings the Blues" |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | POP MUSIC $500: This group's hit "Nights in White Satin" appeared on the album "Days of Future Passed" The Moody Blues |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $600: Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on "The Arabian Nights" is named for this storyteller Scheherazade |
| #2468, aired 1995-05-03 | HODGEPODGE $100: Genesis 7:12 tells us, "and the rain was upon the earth" this many "days and" this many "nights" forty |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | 20th CENTURY OPERAS $600: "Marouf, cobbler of Cairo" is based on a story in this collection of old tales the Arabian Nights |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FRANK SINATRA FILMS $400: Sinatra debuted in 1941's "Las Vegas Nights" singing "I'll Never Smile Again" with this man's orchestra Tommy Dorsey |
| #2422, aired 1995-02-28 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: She's the beautiful teller of tales in "The Thousand and One Nights" Scheherazade |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | SONG LYRICS $100: "When I was seventeen it was" this type of year "for small town girls and soft summer nights" a very good year |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE BIBLE $100: The Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up this man who spent 3 days & nights inside it Jonah |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | SITCOM CHARACTERS $200: "The Days and Nights of" this divorcee moved from NBC to the Lifetime Network in 1989 Molly Dodd |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | FADS & FASHIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): A fad in the '50s was this style of music, an example of which is heard here:
"Down the way /
Where the nights are gay /
And the sun shines daily on the mountaintop /
I took a trip on a sailing ship /
And when I reached Jamaica I made a stop /
But I'm sad to say /
I'm on my way /
Won't be back for many a day /
My heart is down..." calypso |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | FOOD $200: On Monday nights in New Orleans, many sit down to a traditional dish of red beans & this rice |
| #2148, aired 1993-12-29 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES $800: This actress & author co-wrote the song "I Wish You Peace" for the Eagles album "One of these Nights" Patti Davis |
| #2115, aired 1993-11-12 | INTERNATIONAL STARS $500: This daughter of a Swedish actress & an Italian director starred in "White Nights" & "Blue Velvet" Isabella Rossellini |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | AROUND THE HOUSE $300: Square, flat & with legs that fold, it's brought out on poker nights & to handle holiday overflows card table |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Barber of Bagdad" is based on "The Tale of the Tailor" in this collection of stories The Arabian Nights |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: He spent 3 days & 3 nights in the belly of a great fish Jonah |
| #1957, aired 1993-02-23 | FAMOUS SAILORS $100: Most collections of "The Arabian Nights" include the tale of this "sailor" Sinbad |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: This early 20th C. invention by Willis Carrier helps you keep a cool head on hot summer nights air conditioner |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | NUMBERS $300: Scheherazade should hold the Guinness record for story-telling; she spun tales for this many nights 1001 |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | CURRENT SITCOMS $300: On "Love and War", Jay Thomas wants this former "L.A. Law" star to warm up his nights Susan Dey |
| #1874, aired 1992-10-29 | GASES $400: The sun spends its days & nights converting this gas into helium hydrogen |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | POP MUSIC $400: In 1978 John Travolta & this singer teamed for 2 Top 5 hits, "You're the One that I Want" & "Summer Nights" Olivia Newton-John |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $600: Ravel & Rimsky-Korsakov based works on this "Arabian Nights" storyteller Scheherazade |
| #1846, aired 1992-09-21 | '60s TV $500: During the 1966-67 season, "Peyton Place" & this other prime time show were on 2 nights a week Batman |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $300: In "The Thousand and One Nights" she is the new bride of Shahriar Scheherazade |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: A Chinese proverb states, "The nights are for" these "and the days are for fulfilling" them dreams |
| #1709, aired 1992-01-23 | WORLD CAPITALS $400: Many of the "Arabian Nights" tales are set in this city, now the capital of Iraq Baghdad |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | ACTRESSES $1000: Esquire called this star of "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" "The Thinking Man's Bombshell" Blair Brown |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | FOOD $800: This light, currant-studded, rum-soaked yeast cake was named after an Arabian Nights character Baba au rhum |
| #1628, aired 1991-10-02 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: In an Arabian Nights tale, the slave of the ring releases him from a cave the magician has shut him in Aladdin |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | NO. 1 HITS $400: 1 of 2 No. 1 pop chart hits for Glen Campbell "Rhinestone Cowboy" or "Southern Nights" |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $100: This "Arabian Nights" sailor encounters a cyclops on his third voyage Sinbad |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | 1960s TV $400: This ABC prime-time serial aired 3 nights a week from June 1965 to August 1966 Peyton Place |
| #1440, aired 1990-11-30 | SONGS OF THE '60s $400: In 1963, Sam Cooke sang about "Another" one of these nights Saturday |
| #1402, aired 1990-10-09 | FICTION $200: The alternate title of "The Arabian Nights Entertainment" include this number 1,001 |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | BOB HOPE $200: It precedes "Of sunburns at the shore, nights in Singapore..." "Thanks For The Memory" |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | PLAYS $400: Robert Morse stars in "Tru", a comedic look at 2 nights in the life of this man Truman Capote |
| #1347, aired 1990-06-12 | LITERARY OCCUPATIONS $600: In the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", Sinbad was a sailor & he was a poor woodcutter Ali Baba |
| #1331, aired 1990-05-21 | ROCK GROUPS $300: This group's "Nights In White Satin" appeared on an album 5 yrs. before the single hit No. 2 in 1972 The Moody Blues |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: Scheherazade told her husband stories for this many nights before he decided to let her live 1,001 |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | COMPOSERS $200: Berlioz neglected his medical studies in this capital, preferring to spend his nights at the opera Paris |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | PERFUME $600 (Daily Double): This singer's new perfume is called "Only" & he might dedicate it by singing the following:
"To all the girls who cared for me, and filled my nights with ecstasy..." Julio Iglesias |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1000: The killing of the god of sunlight by this Norse god of mischief caused long winter nights Loki |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | WORLD LITERATURE $200: In "1001 Arabian Nights" Sinbad the Sailor took this many voyages 7 |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | OXFORD UNIVERSITY $800: He was expelled from Oxford but nevertheless learned 25 languages & translated "The Arabian Nights" Sir Richard Burton |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | SINGERS $600 (Daily Double): He had a No. 1 hit with the following from the film "White Nights":
"Say you, say me, say it for always..." Lionel Richie |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | NAME'S THE SAME $200: Newsmagazine seen Friday nights on ABC, or an ophthalmologist's term for normal vision 20/20 |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | MOVIE TRIVIA $600: Choreographer Twyla Tharp collaborated with this ballet star on his dances for "White Nights" Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | COUNTRY CROONERS $200: The 7th son of a 7th son, he spent many "Southern Nights" in Delight, Ark. where he grew up Glen Campbell |
| #1070, aired 1989-04-07 | "BAD" PEOPLE $200: In some versions, this "Arabian Nights" sailor tells his story to a character named Hindbad Sinbad |
| #1040, aired 1989-02-24 | ALL NUMBERS $200: Number of days -- or nights -- in a fortnight 14 |
| #1008, aired 1989-01-11 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: Featured in "The Arabian Nights", a Roc is this type of legendary creature a bird |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | SCIENCE $400: Working in this field of science kept Edwin Hubble up nights astronomy |
| #943, aired 1988-10-12 | ACTORS & ROLES $1,500 (Daily Double): Singer heard here, he played the mayor of Milagro in "The Milagro Beanfield War":
"Wasted days and wasted nights /
I have left for you behind..." Freddy Fender |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $500: Poe wrote "The Thousand-and-Second Tale of" this "Arabian Nights" character Scheherazade |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $100: Set in China, the tale of this lucky lad is subtitled "The Wonderful Lamp" Aladdin |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $200: In a quest for the rarest object, Prince Houssain found one of these that could fly a flying carpet |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $300: Until he married Scheherazade, the king was doing this to his wives the day after the wedding killing them |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $400: The alternate title of "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" the 1,000 and One Nights |
| #910, aired 1988-07-15 | THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $500: Only subscribers of the Kamashastra Society received the 1st edition of his 10 vol. translation Richard Burton |
| #867, aired 1988-05-17 | OPERA $800: Knighted Metropolitan Opera impressario who titled his memoirs "5,000 Nights at the Opera" Sir Rudolf Bing |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $300: It's "down the way where the nights are gay & the sun shines daily on the mountaintop" Jamaica |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: To keep her husband from killing her, she told him the tales of the "Arabian Nights" Scheherazade |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In the "Arabian Nights" tales, Prince Houssain had 1 that could transport him anywhere he desired magic carpet |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | SINGERS & DANCERS $400: For this dancer who starred in it, "White Nights" had elements of autobiography Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #650, aired 1987-06-05 | "WHITE" $500 (Daily Double): Title of this song, which hit Top 10 nearly 5 years after its 1st album appearance:
"And I love you /
Yes I love you /
Oh, how I love you..." "Nights In White Satin" |
| #625, aired 1987-05-01 | PREACHERS $400: In the '50's, he was on TV Tuesday nights, opposite Milton Berle Bishop Fulton Sheen |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | DISNEYLAND $100: Between the parade & the fireworks she flies over Fantasyland summer nights at about 9:30 P.M. Tinker Bell |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $200: Fabled city of Arabian Nights' caliph Harun-al-Rashid where Israelis bombed nuclear reactor in 1981 Baghdad |
| #539, aired 1987-01-01 | WORLD LEADERS $400: The Reagans told Barbara Walters they do this "once or twice a week...on Friday or Saturday nights" Watch a movie |
| #530, aired 1986-12-19 | WORLD WAR II $500 (Daily Double): World War II battleship that's the title subject of this song:
"For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people 'Put every ship a-sail
'Cause somewhere on that ocean...'" the Bismarck |
| #527, aired 1986-12-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: A doctor sat up 3 nights in Dunsinane Castle to observe her sleepwalking Lady Macbeth |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | HOLLYWOOD QUEENS $500: Carol Channing was the White Queen & Ann Jillian the Red in the TV movie of this classic Alice in Wonderland |
| #524, aired 1986-12-11 | THE TONIGHT SHOW $800: When Steve Allen cut back to 3 nights, this TV comic, cigar in hand, took the other 2 Ernie Kovacs |
| #512, aired 1986-11-25 | OPERA $1000: General manager of the Met from 1950-72, his biography is titled "5000 Nights at the Opera" Rudolf Bing |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | MOVIE PAIRS $300: They were "tapped" to star in 1985's "White Nights" Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #435, aired 1986-05-09 | KIDDIE LIT $500: The Tale of Sinbad the Sailor is part of this ancient multi-part maxi-series the 1001 Arabian Nights |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | SINGERS & SONGS $400: They like to spend "Nights In White Satin" The Moody Blues |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | MUSICAL NIGHTS $100: For Bobby Vee in 1963. the night had this many eyes a thousand |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | MUSICAL NIGHTS $200: It's what Phil Collins wanted in 1985 "One More Night" |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | MUSICAL NIGHTS $300: "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" was only top-40 hit for this protege of Carol Burnett Vicki Lawrence |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | MUSICAL NIGHTS $400: In 1975, the Bee Gees were "blaming it all on" these the "Nights On Broadway" |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | MUSICAL NIGHTS $500: Song title used by both Cole Porter & Dion & the Belmonts "In The Still Of The Night" |
| #398, aired 1986-03-19 | MOVIES $100: In this 1980 film, John Travolta had "hard hat days & honky tonk nights" Urban Cowboy |
| #381, aired 1986-02-24 | MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $500: In 1977, Glen Campbell asked, "Have you ever felt" these, y'all "Southern Nights" |
| #303, aired 1985-11-06 | "FRED" $1,000 (Daily Double): Also known as Baldemar Huerta, this country singer is perhaps best known for "Wasted Days & Wasted Nights" Freddie Fender |
| #280, aired 1985-10-04 | SCIENCE $400: Days & nights are always 12 hours long there the equator |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | 1885 $400: Explorer Richard Burton published his translation of these 1,001 tales The Arabian Nights |
| #85, aired 1985-01-04 | TIMELY LITERATURE $400: Number of nights story teller Scheherazade kept it up 1,001 |
| #16, aired 1984-10-01 | TELEVISION $500: Paul Anka's been collecting royalties for this for over 5,700 nights the Tonight Show theme |
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