| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $400: With 2 million people & just north of North Macedonia, it may not be on every map of Europe Kosovo |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $1000: This strait between Asia & North America is named for a Danish explorer the Bering Strait |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $2000: The Blue Nile & the White Nile join together just north of this capital city Khartoum |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ON THE MAP $2000: Meaning "west" in Arabic, this term is used for the region that includes most of Africa North of the Sahara the Maghreb |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | FLAGS $800: The map on the United Nations flag is centered on this geographical feature the North Pole |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $800: At the S.E. tip of Italy, Santa Maria di Leuca has been called the "City Between Two Seas", the Ionian & this one to the north the Adriatic |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $1200: Polar bears and Arctic foxes are found along the shores of this arm of the North Atlantic Baffin Bay |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | METEOROLOGY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows storms on a map.) In the north Atlantic & northeast Pacific, "hurricane" is the regional term; in the northwest Pacific, it's "typhoon", but in the south Pacific & Indian Ocean, this word is used, from Greek for "circle" a cyclone |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Ohio River on the monitor.) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery north of the Ohio River, eventually making this major Ohio city a key first stop for many escaping slavery; it's now the home to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Cincinnati |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $400: After North Vietnamese troops captured it in 1975, it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City Saigon |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LINES ON THE MAP $800: Mauritania north of the Nouakchott-Nema line is mostly this geographic feature the Sahara desert |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | THE MAP OF CANADA $400: About 750,000 live on this Canadian island, the largest on the Pacific coast of North America Vancouver (Island) |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1700s, stretching from Labrador through Montreal and all the way down into what's now Louisiana, was the territory known as New this country New France |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The way cities around the world line up on lines of latitude can be surprising; for instance, Los Angeles, California lies only about two minutes north of this 3-letter Moroccan city Fez |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Starting at the Boston Common and making its way past the Boston Massacre site, the Old North church, over the Charles to Old Ironsides and ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this two-word path the Freedom Trail |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | THE GREAT LOOP $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Great Loop, the circumnavigation of eastern North America via lakes, rivers & intracoastal waterways, was popularized by a couple who made the trip after departing from this Florida spring break Mecca in a 40-foot trawler in 1994 Fort Lauderdale |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Starting south of San Antonio & ending in Abilene, Kansas, from 1867 to 1871, 1.5 million head of cattle headed north on this trail the Chisholm Trail |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TV MAPS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Allies lost the war, and a buffer zone splits North America, with the Japanese in the west & the Nazis in the east on this Amazon show based on a story by Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | JUDEAN HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Biblical Palestine was divided into two kingdoms--Israel in the north & Judea in the south, with this city that's still the main community of the Negev region as its southernmost town Beersheba |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a picture of a plane and a map of Australia on the monitor.) In Australia's remote areas, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has dozens of bases providing airborne care; the Alice Springs base serves nearly half a million square miles of this territory the Northern Territory |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After 527 A.D., when Justinian became emperor, the borders of this empire expanded during his reign further into North Africa & even Spain the Byzantine Empire |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Some scientists think the little ice age in Europe was because of a change in the jet stream, which was caused by the NAO, the North Atlantic this oscillation |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | ON THE GLOBE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From Nunavut to North Dakota, the 100th meridian runs through this Canadian province on its way to Texas Manitoba |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Billions of federal research & development funding goes to what is known as the research triangle, formed by these three universities all located within about 20 minutes of each other Duke, North Carolina State, and the University of North Carolina |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NORTH & SOUTH $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) If you fly due south from Belize, you'll pass over these two countries on your way to El Salvador Honduras & Guatemala |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NORTH & SOUTH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Head due north from Lida, Belarus & you'll pass through these three countries on your way to the Gulf of Finland Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | MOVERS & SHAKERS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From Baffin Bay, here is the 1908-1909 North Pole route, on which this man led a fellow American & four Inuit (Robert) Peary |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $800: It's the only state whose borders, like with Montana to the north & Colorado to the south, are 4 straight lines Wyoming |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Coral reefs grow best in warm water, so they're found mostly in tropical locales; one exception is this island, at 32 degrees north latitude, warmed by the Gulf Stream Bermuda |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a battle map on the monitor.) A June 25, 1876, battle map shows Sitting Bull's camp next to Major Reno's skirmish line, with the Indian encampment separated from Last Stand Hill to the north by this river Little Big Horn |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $3,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an illustration and a map on the monitor.) In the 1800s, the giant bison herds that roamed North America were hunted almost to extinction; fortunately, in 1902, the U.S. Army brought 21 buffalo to this national park where they now number in the thousands Yellowstone National Park |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | GEOLOGY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The continents were built around these large stable areas of very old crystalline rocks; the Laurentian, or Canadian one, extends for 3 million square miles across northern North America the Shield |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the morning of June 25th, 1950, forces in the north stormed across the 38th parallel, beginning this 3-year-long conflict the Korean War |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE MIDWEST $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Northwest Ordinance set Illinois' northern border here; when statehood was requested in 1817, an Illinois delegate had Congress move it 60 miles to the north to include a Lake Michigan port that would become this city Chicago |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | POINTY ON THE MAP $1600: You'll reach the Seychelles if you keep going north from this island country's Cap d'Ambre Madagascar |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | ON THE MAP $200: It's the longest river in the world that flows mainly from south to north the Nile |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | MINNE-CODA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Minnesota once stretched as far west as the Missouri River; when it became a state in 1858, its land area was pulled back to this river, that forms its entire border with North Dakota The Red River of the North |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) The North & South were clearly divided in 1888, when Republican Benjamin Harrison lost the popular vote but edged out this incumbent in the Electoral College Grover Cleveland |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PHOENICIA PHUN $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew explains a region on a map.) Generally speaking, Phoenicia was bounded on the north by the Eleutherus River, & on the south by this mountain in present-day Haifa in Israel Mount Carmel |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) Extending farther north than any other country in Africa, Tunisia is only about a hundred miles from this European island Sicily |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Warm water currents cool & sink in the North Atlantic, then are carried into the Indian & Pacific oceans along the system known as the global this 2-word term, like something you might find on an assembly line a conveyor belt |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Stretching from the Taurus Mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, with its heart between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, is this ancient region, home to the world's first cities Mesopotamia |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | EXPLORERS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1728, sailing from the Kamchatka Peninsula up along the Siberian coast & through the passage here, he proved that Asia & North America were separate continents (Vitus) Bering |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The northwest angle belongs to the U.S., although it doesn't look that way; it's the only part of the lower 48 that extends miles north of this parallel of latitude the 49th parallel |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | ANCIENT EGYPT $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Egypt on the monitor.) Egypt originally hugged the Nile River, but over the next 1,200 years, it gradually grew to cover an area reaching as far north as this river by the 1400s B.C. the Euphrates |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a map.) The Oregon Trail started at Independence, Missouri & crossed the Great Plains by following this river the North Platte River |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | EXPLORERS OF THE NEW WORLD $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1792, when George Vancouver sailed up the west coast of North America & surveyed & named the Puget Sound for a shipmate, he named this mountain on the mainland for a rear admiral friend Mt. Rainier |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | LAKES & RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the five Great Lakes, Superior is the farthest north; this one is the farthest south Lake Erie |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | YOU'RE ALL WET $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated map of the Atlantic on the monitor.) The fusion of the north & south equatorial currents along with water from the Gulf of Mexico form this warm current the Gulf Stream |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 12 weeks after discovering the New World, the Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the north coast of this large island on Christmas Day Hispanola |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | GETTING YOUR BERING $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of the North Pacific on the monitor.) In 1740, Bering set out from Okhotsk, Russia, sailing eastward to America; on his return, he sighted many of these Alaskan islands the Aleutians |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out an area on a map.) It's North America's largest Pacific Coast island; the major city of the same name is not on it, but separated from it by straits Vancouver |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1,600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a region on a map.) This region, whose name means it's at the foot of a mountain, is a plateau between the higher Appalachians & the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain Piedmont |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ON THE U.S. MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) These two states on either side of the 36'30 line of latitude look a bit like mirror images of each other Virginia & North Carolina |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $1600: (Kelly shows a map on the monitor.) In 1845, Ludwig Leichhardt completed a 3,000-mile journey, finding a route to the north coast & fertile pastures, exciting the people of this land Australia |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $400: Due to use of the magnetic type of this device in the Middle Ages, mapmakers started putting north at the top of maps a compass |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | ON THE MAP $300: 1 of the 5 largest countries in the world is highlighted here:
("north of the border") Canada |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $200: This North Carolina beach village with a 4-letter name really is all it's "quacked" up to be Duck |
| #2633, aired 1996-01-31 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $600: This island group in the north Atlantic makes up 2 Spanish provinces Canary Islands |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | "A" ON THE MAP $300: In area this north African country is the continent's second largest Algeria |
| #1881, aired 1992-11-09 | "T" ON THE MAP $500: This North African city was officially international until integrated into Morocco in 1956 Tangier |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $100: North Rhine-Westphalia is this country's most populous state West Germany |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $200: Encyclopedia Americana says it's "located in the Arctic Ocean & usually covered by ice" North Pole |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $300: North Head is a promontory on the entrance to Port Jackson, this Australian city's harbor Sydney |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $400: If a man in London went up to the district of Down, he'd be in this country Northern Ireland |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $500: North Cape in this country is considered the most northerly point in Europe Norway |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | EUROPE $800: On a map, it's the sea you see just south of the Norwegian Sea the North Sea |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $200: For 364 days a year, it's where the "you are here" arrow points on Santa Claus' map North Pole |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $400: State which contains the geographic center of our continent North Dakota |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $600: As far as we know, the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo is still there North Korea |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $800 (Daily Double): It has a mean depth of 90 meters & surrounds the Frisian Islands North Sea |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $1000: Its highest point is Mt. Sir James MacBrien, its lowest, sea level by the Arctic Ocean Northwest Territories |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $200: According to Barry Manilow, the Copacabana was "the hottest spot north of" there Havana |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $1000: When "Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92" he was headed there "North To Alaska" |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | NORTH AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): Direction you'd be traveling when going through the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic side northwesterly |
