| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | CHANNEL ORANGE $800: Jim Brown, Joyce Carol Oates & Joe Biden are Orange men & women of renown as alums of this college in New York Syracuse |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MUSIC TERMS $600: A barcarole is a type of song originally sung by or in imitation of these Venetian boatmen gondola men (gondoliers) |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $200: Germany defeated Serbia in the final of the 2023 FIBA World Cup for men's national teams in this sport basketball |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: WWII field marshal Harold Alexander led the extrication of 340,000 men at this location in 1940 & was the last man off the beach Dunkirk |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $1200: The Swedish title of the first book about this heroine translates as "men who hate women" Lisbeth Salander |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $200: In a job that does not seem short of perks, the king of this nation hands each Nobel laureate a diploma & a medal annually Sweden |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $600: A 1920 sovereign ordinance of this nation had the future Rainier III receive his mother's family name of Grimaldi Monaco |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $800: Ivan the Terrible's murder of his son in 1581 led to this family's dynasty that began in 1613 & would have the last czarring role the Romanovs |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $1000: In his royal.uk bio: "mentally unfit to rule during the last decade of his reign"; "most attractive of the Hanoverian monarchs" George III |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $6,000 (Daily Double): An armored glove, or a double file of armed men you'd rather not have to "run" a gauntlet |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: This division in men's professional boxing has an upper limit of 126 pounds featherweight |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: In 1953 these 2 men teamed up to sell 31 flavors of ice cream Baskin & Robbins |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2000: The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach" Einstein |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $1000: A lovesick nurseryman, a women's music fest & a retreat for rich men are in the 5th of his "Tales of the City" (Armistead) Maupin |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $200: '90s Texas governor Richards who once quipped, "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any" Ann |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $100: He appeared in every episode of "M*A*S*H"; he also directed its last episode in 1983 Alan Alda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $500: They're all A's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: actor Alan Arkin, singer Antonio Aguilar and this "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 2023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $600: He won 3 of 4 men's Grand Slam singles titles, but lost at Wimbledon to young Carlos Alcaraz Djokovic |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $1000: Many men have lightened their billfolds by carrying this; JFK's was gold with an image of St. Christopher a money clip |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $1000: It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film Three Wise Men and a Baby |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $200: These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist Petri |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $400: 373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientist (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $600: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes Ptolemy (Aristotle) |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $800: Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet Saturn |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1000: Introduced in 1855, his process using blasts of air to remove impurities made the mass production of steel possible Bessemer |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | I WANT MY "M" TV $100: Ad executive Draper Daniels was the inspiration for the name of this drama's lead character, Don Draper Mad Men |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $400: Some might say Polyphemus, one of these giants, was rude in eating Odysseus' men, so Odie blinded him Cyclops |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $2,600 (Daily Double): On July 24, 1969 the USS Hornet was in the Pacific waiting for this group of men the astronauts on Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins) |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $400: In the 1870s this French chemist demonstrated that anthrax was caused by a particular bacillus Louis Pasteur |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $600: In 1667 the U.K.'s Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to attend a meeting at this science society the Royal Society |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $800: In the 1930s this California transplant posthumously received plant patents No. 12-16 Luther Burbank |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $1000: The "Hans"-on work of this biochemist born in 1900 unraveled the mystery of the citric acid cycle Hans Krebs |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $200: In 1804 a steam carriage was first put onto one of these; it could haul 70 men & 10 tons of iron for 10 miles railroad |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | ISMs $200: The belief in the need to secure rights & opportunities for women equal to those of men feminism |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $1600: In 1786 this German immigrant founded his fur business that would make him one of the richest men in America John Jacob Astor |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND $200: Enlargement of this walnut-size gland found only in males is common in men over 50 the prostate |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $800: Jimmy once a pro/ Alas, war calls men away/ Nine gals beats no gals... A League of Their Own |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NOT SO RECENT SCIENCE $200: Lavoisier was one of the men on the committee that came up with this measurement system in the 1790s the metric system |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The men upon the floor were going about their work. Neither squeals of hogs nor tears of visitors made any difference to them" Upton Sinclair |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $2000: "In the actions of all men... where there is no impartial arbiter, one must consider the final result" Machiavelli |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $400: Enchantress who made Odysseus' men pig-headed Circe |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | TRY "TRI" AGAIN $2000: A group of 3 men collectively responsible for the administration of ancient Rome triumvirate |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $400: Hi, my name is (what?) My name is (who?) My name is this Detroit rapper who has his own hip-hop channel Eminem (Slim Shady) |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $800: He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime Magic Johnson |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1200: Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1600: Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 Dewey |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $2000: Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom & Ed White Roger Chaffee |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $1200: Comic book supervillain Cameron Hodge is an arch-foe of this group of mutant superheroes the X-Men |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: This poem about 600 men / Righteously stirred the denizens / A scene from a war / In 1854 / Is anyone up for some Tennyson? "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | FASHION HISTORY $800: Although this company's name was trademarked in 1871, its logo didn't appear on men's underwear until many decades later Fruit of the Loom |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $600: Even though it anagrams to "vote loser", it's the surname of two men who were elected U.S. president Roosevelt |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover Ayn Rand |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OSCARS $800: These two men won for their original screenplay of "Fargo" the Coen brothers |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $800: Frank Stella made a splash in 1959 with paintings of this kind of stripe, better known on men's suits pinstripes |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $1600: In 1994, this R&B group's "I'll Make Love To You" remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks Boyz II Men |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $800: The first mission of this post-Mercury NASA program launched on April 8, uncrewed; soon, 2 men would fly in each mission Gemini |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | MESSIN' WITH TEXAS $800: At least 1,800 men took on about 180 at this landmark in February & March of 1836, with predictable results the Alamo |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $800: Andrew Jackson called this French pirate "one of the ablest men" in the Battle of New Orleans Jean Lafitte |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $200: In 1995 Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot one of these & in 1999 the first to command a mission aboard one Space Shuttle |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $600: Recorded aboard the ISS, Chris Hadfield's zero-g version of this Bowie song has gotten 52 million+ views on YouTube "Space Oddity" |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $400: The name of Shakespeare's acting troupe, the King's Men, honored this benefactor James I |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $1000: This rebel son of David is killed by Joab & his men, cast into a pit in the woods & covered by a heap of stones Absalom |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $200: In the Rebecca Riots of the 1840s, Welsh men dressed as women attacked the gates that levied these charges for using public roads a toll |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1000: On "Two and a Half Men", Charlie Harper was this specific type of ad writer a jingle writer |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $1000: U.S. servicemen attacked young Latino men in 1943 Los Angeles riots named for this rhyming style of attire zoot suit |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | NEVADA $800: In the 1840s John Fremont & his men explored Nevada & marveled at the beautiful sight of this lake on the California border Lake Tahoe |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | ANIMAL ROCK $1200: In the title of their 2000 hit, the Baha Men wanted to know this "Who Let The Dogs Out" |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE ROCKEFELLERS $200: One of the world's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in this business oil |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POETIC SUBJECTS $200: Stephen Crane wrote, "Fast rode" one of these men, "ever waving an eager sword, 'to save my lady!"' a knight |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | QUOTES $400: Rejecting an offer of freedom from P.W. Botha, he said, "Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts" Mandela |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | QUOTES $2000: In "Walden" Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of" this quiet desperation |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $400: About 30,000 men were of military age in this new state during the Civil War--20,000 "Jayhawkers" signed up for Union duty Kansas |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $600: Similar to the men's group, it's the "timely" nickname of Prudence Wright's inspiring all-female Revolutionary War militia Minutewomen |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $800: In 1673 these 2 men, one a missionary, sought the mouth of the Mississippi but turned back at Arkansas Marquette & Joliet |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERY $1600: This Paris-trained artist's painting of the marketplace back home in Vitebsk is okay, but John Byrne's "X-Men" art? Perfection Chagall |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $1000: "The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win Gonzaga |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $400: Brothers Peter & Andrew were casting a net into this body of water when Jesus said, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" the Sea of Galilee |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $800: The jawbone of an ass is an unusual choice for a weapon, but this guy "slew a thousand men" with one in Judges 15 Samson |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1600: In this 1948 film set in Mexico, Walter Huston says he's mined all over the world & warns, "I know what gold does to men's souls" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: Perhaps you learned to type with the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the" this "of the party" aid |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | BAKER'S DOZEN $600: The overturned salt container in this Leonardo da Vinci painting of 13 men may symbolize betrayal The Last Supper |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | TWO SHOES $800: The men's brogues seen here can be described this way, also the title of a Carl Perkins classic blue suede shoes |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | POLITICS TALK $800: Type of post-election election that involved the two men here in December 2022 a runoff |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | ANCIENT VIPs $2000: One of Plato's 7 wise men of Greece, this statesman who reformed Athens' laws laid the foundations for democracy Solon |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | QUOTH THE TITLE $1200: Philip Pullman quoted Milton, "Unless the almighty maker them ordain" these "to create more worlds" His Dark Materials |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $200: Formed around 60 B.C., the First Roman Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey & this guy Julius Caesar |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $1600: "Temple of Low Men" by Crowded House is one of hundreds of albums on which Bob Clearmountain did this, tastily combining tracks mixing |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | STUDY: GUIDES $800: Want guide to write good? "The Elements of Style", your go-to, by these 2 men (currently rolling in graves they in) Strunk & White |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | QUOTABLE TV SHOWS $800: "Advertising is based on one thing:
Happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car" Mad Men |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the long run, you'll know General Miltiades lost only around 200 men & the Persians, 6,400, in the 5th century B.C. Battle of this Marathon |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH $2000: Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men Little John |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $800: Colorful nickname of Manfred von Richthofen, credited with 80 victories over Allied aircraft between 1916 & 1918 the Red Baron |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $1200: "Stormin' Norman", this commander of U.S. forces wanted to "destroy the Republican guard" in Desert Storm Schwarzkopf |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $1600: This general went from being called "Young Napoleon of the West" in 1861 to getting the sack from Lincoln the next year George McClellan |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | PARDON ME $1600: This pirate & his men received a pardon from James Madison after aiding in the Battle of New Orleans Lafitte |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $600: Guess you couldn't be a gladiator judge if you were one of the Roman men who cut this off to avoid military service a thumb |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1600: In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl" The Children of Men |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1200: Servers brought 1950s businesspeople a trio of drinks over the course of this type of "lunch", which was of course deductible a three-martini lunch |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $200: Greg Ham rocked the flute as Men at Work topped the charts singing "I come from a land" here Down Under |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $600: In a remake:
"All of the women are always busy & perfect & smiling, & all of the men are always happy" The Stepford Wives |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | TRUE GRIME $400: It can precede "of the earth", but a "Men in Black" tagline was "protecting the Earth from the" this "of the universe" scum |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $1200: After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, "General, I have no division" (George) Pickett |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $200: In a Dumas novel, this hero plots his revenge on the men who put him in prison for a crime he did not commit The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes) |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $800: 1986:
"The first casualty of war is innocence" Platoon |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $400: Called "kings" in a Christmas carol, these visitors to the young Jesus brought a trio of gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh the magi (or the wise men) |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS $1000: The U. of Denver won the 2022 NCAA men's hockey championship alliteratively called this, ahead of Minnesota State, Minnesota & Michigan the Frozen Four |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $800: (Questlove presents the clue.) Names like Boyz II Men, Teddy Pendergrass & my dad's band Lee Andrews & The Hearts, are a part of this city's heritage of vocal music & are found on its Music Alliances Walk of Fame Philadelphia |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $1200: Possessive title of Louisa May Alcott's sequel to "Little Men" Jo's Boys |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | LAW SLAW $800: Schenck v. U.S. addressed if sending antiwar pamphlets to drafted men in the midst of war was protected by this amendment the First Amendment |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $800: Something's awry in the phrase "The best-laid plans" of these 2 creatures mice & men |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $400: Known as the little blue pill, it's been suggested audaciously that some men might use it for recreation, not procreation Viagra |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $1500: There are men, women & planets in the title of this John Gray bestseller about relationships Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | GREAT AMERICAN PAIRS $600: A bestseller of 1814 was the "History of the Expedition Under the Command of" these 2 men Lewis and Clark |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: These 2 migrant workers dream of owning a farm with rabbits in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", but things don't go as planned George & Lennie |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | TENNIS ACES $600: Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played the Australian Open |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $200: Capone's guys dress like cops & kill Bugs Moran's men in a garage February |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $3,200 (Daily Double): This Robert Penn Warren novel chronicles the rags-to-riches story of politician Willie Stark All the King's Men |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | THE LYIN' KING $200: The False Dmitrys were 3 men who tried to rule Russia by pretending to be sons of this brutal czar Ivan the Terrible |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Shadow of Vesuvius" tells of these 2 men of antiquity, uncle & nephew known as the Elder & the Younger Pliny the Elder & Younger |
| #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 |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $800: More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him Ohm |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $1000: Rossini called this Prussian-born composer "our little Mozart of the Champs-Élysées" Jacques Offenbach |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | PARTNERS IN RHYME $3,000 (Daily Double): Aiding Coleridge in creating this poem, Wordsworth wrote he "suggested the navigation of the ship by the dead men" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $400: Frank in "Men in Black" & "Men in Black II" a pug |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | '80s & '90s NONFICTION $1000: In 1992 John Gray published this out-of-this-world guide to understanding the opposite sex Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS $400: Cal State Northridge's Matty is short for one of these men in the arena; he doesn't have a sword anymore Matador |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS $800: UNLV's teams are the Rebels, but one of these sea creatures has been used as a mascot in honor of a former men's basketball coach a shark |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $400: One of the crimes for which this French saint was sentenced to death in 1431: dressing in men's clothes Joan of Arc |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE SCIENTIST WHO... $400: ...teamed with James Watson & wrote "Of Molecules & Men" Francis Crick |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $800: It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world copywriting |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $400: This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute Of Mice and Men |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $800: The creator of the Franciscan order was born in this city in the late 12th century Assisi |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $1600: On his ship La Dauphine, he explored New York harbor & is honored with a structure spanning it Verrazzano |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $2,000 (Daily Double): This director is seen here with Marcello Mastroianni who often played an onscreen version of the filmmaker Federico Fellini |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $2000: Seen here is an electroscope capacitor from this physicist born in 1745 who always went with the current Alessandro Volta |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | BACKING BANDS $1600: Despite the name, this group that backed up Frank Zappa was made up of men, not moms the Mothers of Invention |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $400: Seen here is a depiction of Clovis, King of the Franks, undergoing this initiation in Reims; hundreds of his men would follow suit baptism |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $200: After a trip to Egypt, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme captured men being attentive inside one of these structures a mosque |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $400: This "Junior" oil heir who gave the U.N. the money to buy land for its HQ will always be a center of attention in New York City Rockefeller |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1200: In the 1970s this future Secretary of State was a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (John) Kerry |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1600: Multitasking in 1794, he negotiated a treaty with Britain while also serving as the first Chief Justice of the United States (John) Jay |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $600: (Mina Kimes delivers the clue.) I graduated from Yale, a school that has produced NFL stars like Gary Fencik & two men who had this job running the major leagues, Fay Vincent & Bart Giamatti Commissioners of Baseball |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Luigi Pirandello is best remembered for this numerical play from 1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOCTOR $1600: This Steinbeck work that's set in Monterey is dedicated to Ed Ricketts, on whom the character of Doc is partly based Cannery Row |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $800: A major part of medieval Japanese art was portraits of these men, hung in temples--the portraits were--& venerated Buddhist monks |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $400: Think back, & remember a time when Don Draper made a beautiful & poignant pitch about Kodak's Carousel on this drama Mad Men |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STATE CAPITAL HISTORY $1000: Explorer Hernando de Soto & his men spent the winter of 1539-40 at what is today this southern capital Tallahassee |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $400: Considered by some an incarnation of Allah, Wallace Fard, founder of the Nation of this, disappeared in 1934 Islam |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1200: After treating Czar Nicholas & Alexandra's son, this holy man warned that their son's fate was linked to him Rasputin |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1600: After publishing his 1555 book of prophecies, he did horoscopes for Catherine de Medici's children Nostradamus |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $2000: This newspaperman & author of "The Devil's Dictionary" met a mysterious fate after going to Mexico in 1913 Ambrose Bierce |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $5,000 (Daily Double): After dying in this fortress, the man in the iron mask was laid to rest under the name "Marchioly" the Bastille |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $400: This classic centers on George Milton & Lennie Small, migrant workers in California Of Mice and Men |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE $1600: Many anti-Missouri men had been active in this faded party & were accused by opponents of using the issue to make a comeback the Federalists |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $1600: Set in 2021, this P.D. James novel centers on an outbreak of mass infertility in a world descending into chaos Children of Men |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $400: Chaim Potok's classic "The Chosen" tells of 2 Jewish young men growing up in the Williamsburg area of this borough Brooklyn |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN... $800: New York Yankee, Elston Howard was also one of the first to model for this men's magazine now known by just 2 letters GQ |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $6,000 (Daily Double): In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world (Sir Francis) Drake |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SHORT POEMS $1200: Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a heartbreaking 32 words called "We Real Cool" about young men in this kind of "hall" pool |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $400: Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch" & "A Lion Among Men" are sequels to this book that inspired a musical Wicked |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | PROFESSIONS $1000: There's a word for a quick race in the middle of this purveyor of men's furnishings a haberdasher |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | COLLEGE SPORTS $200: In 2021 LSU's men's team claimed the outdoor track & field NCAA title, aided by Terrance Laird's time of 10.05 in this event the 100 meter |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2000: This 1946 novel based on the life of Huey Long won the Pulitzer Prize & the movie won the Best Picture Oscar All the King's Men |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $800: This rabbit-loving character calls a woman "purty"; that relationship ends in an extremely awful way, as does his life Lennie |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $800: Anton Chigurh is the implacable, coin-tossing hitman in this Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $400: A large, arid plateau in Central Spain, La Mancha was made famous in a 17th century novel by this man Cervantes |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $800: 14th c. Cardinal Gil Alvarez Carrillo de Albornoz paved the way for this institution to return from Avignon to Rome the papacy |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $1200: In the 1570s Domenikos Theotokopoulos moved to Toledo, where he was better known by this nickname El Greco |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $1600: Nobody expected the 1507 appointment of Francisco Jimenez, archbishop of Toledo, as "Grand" this Inquisitor |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $2000: In the 2010 World Cup final, Andres Iniesta scored the goal to defeat this country that beat Spain in 1648 for its independence the Netherlands |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | FINISH THE LINE $1000: John F. Kennedy: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men..." to do nothing |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" tells of this man who left the NFL for the Army & was killed in Afghanistan (Pat) Tillman |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | SO YOU JUST BOWLED A STRIKE $800: As with meeting the queen of England, men may bow & women may do this to their bowling league teammates curtsy |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $800: Not in a driveway but in an arena, a shot by Karlis "Batman" Lasmanis gave Latvia the 1st men's gold in this form of basketball 3 versus 3 (3 on 3) |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | DEM BONES $800: Men do not have more of these bones than women, but some people have extra cervical ones near the collar bone ribs |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: This conquistador & his men reached the coast of Florida in 1539 & the Mississippi River 2 years later De Soto |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE CHOSEN FEW $1200: Latin for "with a key" gives us this select group of holy men responsible for picking a new pope conclave |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | RELIGION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The largest in Europe, the Great Synagogue of Budapest can seat 3,000 people; traditionally, the men sit downstairs while the women are in the balcony, a universal practice in this branch of Judaism Orthodox |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | IT'S LIGHT OUT $1,500 (Daily Double): Hypnos was the Greek god of sleep; he was Hypnos' son who brought men their dreams, & maybe a way out of the Matrix as well Morpheus |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WORKING OUT: THE DETAILS $600: Sun's out, guns out! Men's Health listed chin-ups & hammer curls as 2 of the 10 best exercises to build this muscle biceps |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | CHAPTER OF THE 19th CENTURY NOVEL $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Siege of La Rochelle" & "Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword" The Three Musketeers |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered Brink's |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1600: In a bit of payback for all the female roles taken by men, in 1899, this French actress played Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $2000: Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men castrati |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MOBITUARIES WITH MO ROCCA $1000: (Mo Rocca presents the clue.) This English dandy with an alliterative name, was an influencer of men's fashion in the 1800s, counting Lord Byron among his fans; today his name is an old-fashioned term for a fashion plate Beau Brummell |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES $1200: Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men Alan Harper |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $800: In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men" Tarzan |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $2000: 4 men on a canoe trip in this James Dickey novel fight to survive the wild Cahulawassee River & scary locals Deliverance |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills" Lennie |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $1200: (Brad Keselowski presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Brad Keselowski; the pit crew guy hauling a 20-pound piece of equipment to help change my four tires is called this, also the last name of an X-Men actor a jackman |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN $200: "The best laid schemes of ____ & men" mice |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | THE COLONIAL WORLD $1000: Robert Clive led this company that had a quarter million men army; so, the Clive Museum benefitted with lots of Mughal artifacts the East India Company |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEWER HISTORY BOOKS $1000: "Sicily '43" sees the Allied invasion of the island through the eyes of men like Patton & this British field marshal (Bernard) Montgomery |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $1000: In 2003 Jimmy Carter painted himself holding the hands of these 2 men at the 1978 Camp David Accords Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | BRITS IN BOATS $400: After being cast adrift by the rebellious crew of the Bounty, this captain & his men eventually made it to Indonesia Captain Bligh |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1200: Of Sac & Fox descent, he won the 1912 men's Olympic pentathlon & decathlon Jim Thorpe |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BILL OF WRITES $400: A sonnet of his ends, "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" Shakespeare |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | FORTUNE FAVORS THE BALD $800: No. 2 on GQ's "100 Most Powerful Bald Men in the World", he "imparted wisdom... to millions of faithful devotees & Richard Gere" the Dalai Lama |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | SPACE-Y SAYINGS $200: "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from" here, like the title of John Gray's book Venus |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | CHRISTIAN GLOSSARY $800: The ancient statement of faith called these men's creed begins, "I believe in God, the Father almighty" the Apostles' Creed |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $800: Mr. Peabody & Sherman find that this explorer's men have drunk too much water from the Fountain of Youth & turned into babies Ponce de León |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $200: In 1934 this icon made his debut as a giant balloon in what was then called Macy's Santa Claus Parade Mickey Mouse |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $400: This "Simpsons" duo starred in "Candle in the Wound" & "It's a Wonderful Knife" Itchy & Scratchy |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $600: Geena Davis & Hugh Laurie were the adoptive parents of a mouse-like kid in this 1999 film Stuart Little |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $800: Singing "Here I come to save the day!" means this superhero cartoon rodent "is on the way" Mighty Mouse |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $1200: The first robbery attributed to this man & his gang of outlaws took place in Liberty, Missouri in 1866 Jesse James |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2005 4 thieves at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport made off with $118 million worth of these, bound for Antwerp diamonds |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | THE KING OF TV $1,000 (Daily Double): Jared Harris' George VI gave up the ghost & the title object on this streaming show The Crown |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | MAKING & REMAKING ROBIN HOOD $1200: Instead of Friar Tuck, this director played Rabbi Tuckman in his parody called "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" Mel Brooks |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | ROMAN TIMES $600: Suetonius reported that some men faked their deaths to get out of performances by this emperor who was singing, not fiddling Nero |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | WHAT HAPPENS IN CHAPTER 1? $400: An Oklahoma opening; dust obscures the stars, & the corn, it ain't growin' well; "the men sat still--thinking--figuring" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | "A" IS FOR ASTRONOMICAL $400: 2 impact craters in the Sea of Tranquility are named for these 2 men Aldrin & Armstrong |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $400: At the end of "Logan", Laura turns the cross on Wolverine's grave to make it into one of these letters an "X" |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $400: This supreme musician was the son of a muse, & I'm no lyre Orpheus |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $800: The villainous Procrustes stretched or dismembered victims to make them fit onto his iron this a bed |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $1200: While married to Menelaus, Helen was abducted by this man, & much trouble ensued Paris |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $1600: After killing his mom for betraying his dad, Orestes is pursued by these vengeful goddesses aka the Erinyes the Furies |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $2000: In the "Iliad" this mighty warrior drags the body of Hector behind his chariot Achilles |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $2,000 (Daily Double): From 1937:
"De ratones y hombres" Of Mice and Men |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | IT'S A LONG STORY $200: In this trilogy Frodo Baggins forms a fellowship with 3 other hobbits, an elf, a dwarf, a wizard & 2 men Lord of the Rings |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | MYTHOLOGY $400: After Polyphemus, one of these 1-eyed giants, ate some of Odysseus' men, the survivors blinded him a Cyclops |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OF THE LAW $2,800 (Daily Double): 6 weeks after the U.S. entered WWI came the act known by this alliterative phrase requiring men to register to join the military Selective Service |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUDIO DRAMAS $1200: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"--this radio title character aka Lamont Cranston knew The Shadow |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | ALLUSIVE TITLES $400: John Steinbeck lifted the title of this novel from "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WARM WORDS $1200: In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tosses 3 men into this alliterative "furnace" fiery |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $1600: Thomas More wrote that "pilgrimage: bad" is one of these punishable beliefs for which he had 6 men burned heresy |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | SCIENCE TV $1200: "How It's Made" shows the manufacture of items from pipe organs to masks for these men in the nets goalies |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $1000: The 3 formal vows taken by men & women of the church are chastity, obedience & this poverty |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | A "DIAMOND" $1200: "Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charms in the end", Marilyn sang in this jewel of a song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest and a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, he also tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958 Edmund Hillary |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | BESTSELLERS $1000: In the '90s this newsman had a nonfiction bestseller with "The Greatest Generation" about the men & women of WWII Tom Brokaw |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | NONFICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): Later a major motion picture, it was Sebastian Junger's "True Story of Men Against the Sea" The Perfect Storm |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | DOCUSERIES $1000: This sprawling hip-hop "Clan" is profiled in the Showtime series "Of Mics & Men" the Wu-Tang Clan |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | THE APOSTLES $2000: As depicted here, Jesus told Peter and this brother, another fisherman, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men" Andrew |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | YO HO HO $200: From "Treasure Island" comes the refrain "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho" & one of these a bottle of rum |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HATS ALL, FOLKS $600: In "The Roman Hat Mystery", which introduced Ellery Queen, a missing one of these tall formal men's hats holds the key to a murder a top hat |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $2000: "The Lord spake unto" him, "saying, take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man...out of the midst of Jordan" Joshua |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 18th century men often wore a gooseberry--a large, frizzled one of these a wig |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | JUNIORS & SENIORS $2000: Charles Conrad Jr. & Richard Gordon Jr. were the 2 men aboard the 11th mission of this 2-man NASA program Gemini |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | POSSESSIVE PHRASES $1000: This 1974 account of political chicanery in 1972 became a 1976 quadruple Oscar winner All the President's Men |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | THE MASTERS (OF ART) $400: The first great engraver was the 1440s "Master of the Playing Cards", which had 5 of these (flowers, wild men, birds, beasts, deer) suits |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FOUR $600: Of the 4 men carved on Mount Rushmore, he's the one not born in the original 13 Colonies Lincoln |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | FEMALE SUPERHEROES $600: A member of the X-Men, Ororo Munroe is this weather-controlling mutant Storm |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $400: Charles Richard Drew organized the first of these alliterative plasma storage programs a blood bank |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $1600: A medical milestone came when Dr. John Snow traced an outbreak of this disease in Victorian London to a single water pump cholera |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.) There was room for two men--Frank Borman and James Lovell in the capsule used for their 2-week-long 1965 orbital mission in this program the Gemini program |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | FOOTBALL $1000: Careful if playing Green Bay--Aaron Rodgers loves to catch defenses in this foul too many men on the field |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $200: Looking to improve the "spiritual condition of young men", this club was founded in London in 1844 the YMCA |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $400: Some of the oldest of these men's groups in the U.S. started at Union College in the mid-1800s fraternities |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $600: When I attended, my alma mater the University of Ottawa was also this type of institution preparing young men for the priesthood a seminary |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $800: With striped vests, straw hats & great harmonies, the Dapper Dans roam Disneyland as this type of foursome a barbershop quartet |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | NAMES OF THE 1920s $5,000 (Daily Double): These 2 Italian-born men were executed on August 23, 1927, still maintaining their innocence Sacco & Vanzetti |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | MACHO CHEESE $800: The history of the fragrant cheese known as stinking bishop dates back to the Cistercian order of these men monks |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ONLY THE GOOD CHARACTERS DIE YOUNG $1200: Spoiler alert! Lennie Small doesn't live to see the end of this novel (& no rabbits were harmed in the making of the clue) Of Mice and Men |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | & FINALLY... $800: Of the 56 men to do this, Thomas McKean of Delaware was the last, sometime between 1777 & 1781 sign the Declaration of Independence |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $1000: This men's hat of the Napoleonic era has a name meaning "two-horned" a bicorne |
| #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 |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2020 $600: The results are in for the 2019 NCAA men's basketball championship: Texas Tech lost in overtime to this school's Cavaliers Virginia |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $1200: C: Giacomo was the first name of this 18th century man whose "History of My Life" recounts his many amores Casanova |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $1600: D: this German died in 1900, a quarter century before his firm merged with that of Karl Benz Daimler |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | I MISSED THE START OF THAT NURSERY RHYME $400: "...three men in a tub" "Rub-a-dub-dub" |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | BROADWAY $800: "The Inheritance" reimagines this novelist's "Howards End" with 3 generations of gay men in 21st century New York City Forster |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | 1995 $600: This gathering with a numerical and alliterative name drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, D.C. the Million Man March |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $1600: Shared last name of the two men seen here, New York's Archbishop & one of the city's sports team owners (Timothy & James) Dolan |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE SPHERE OF SCIENCE $2000: On Aug. 15, 1934 this craft with "sphere" in its name took 2 men 3,028 feet underwater, a record that stood for 15 years a Bathysphere |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob Of Mice and Men |
| #8120, aired 2019-12-20 | STUFF $800: The powder for these, worn by 18th c. men, was made of ground starch & scented with lavender; a 1795 tax ended the style a wig |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | I'M DYIN' UP HERE! $400: The men of this Spaniard's 1521 expedition described Aztec human sacrifices atop the pyramids Cortez |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $200: The helpful Wesley Snipes: "You ever play" this game? "Let me give you a word of advice--always bet on black" roulette |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $400: This numerical term for someone or something superfluous comes from an additional tire once part of carriages a fifth wheel |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $800: In this Pierre Boulle novel, chimps & gorillas rule & men live like beasts Planet of the Apes |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $800: "Wheel of Fortune" debuted in 1975 with Susan Stafford, not Vanna White, turning letters, & this man, not Pat Sajak, as host Chuck Woolery |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $920 (Daily Double): "An America in which all seniors live nourished lives with indep. & dignity" is the vision of this charity with a rhyming name Meals on Wheels |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS $400: Doing the work of 2 1/2 men, this actor beat Tyson, Schwarzenegger & the Muppets to be Top Social Media Ambassador in 2012 Charlie Sheen |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $1000: Very rich men Larry Page & Sergey Brin head up this parent company of Google Alphabet |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $400: Watergate security guard Frank Wills played himself at the beginning of this 1976 film All the President's Men |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents using a map of Mexico.) On April 22, 1519, he landed in Veracruz with 500 men and would reach Tenochtitlan later that year in his conquest of Mexico Cortés |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $400: Teenaged Michelangelo sculpted the "Battle of" these horse/men hybrids Centaurs |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | EUROPEAN JOBS $400: The voga alla veneta technique of getting from place to place was made famous by men in this job gondoliers |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $800: Lennie Small, George Milton Of Mice and Men |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $400: Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball title by the anemic score of 46-33 in 1939, long before this 1985 innovation shot clock |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $600: In an 1856 essay, Walt wrote, "You young men!...You are either to abolish" this, "or it will abolish you" slavery |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PSYCHOLOGY $1200: G. Stanley Hall, the 19th C. founder of child psychology, said, "men grow old because they stop" doing this, not the other way around playing |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $800: Lena, one of TV's "Girls", & Dashiell, who wrote about hard-boiled men Dunhammett |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | JULIANNE MOORE DOESN'T SEE THE END OF THE FILM $2000: Ms. Moore's car ride came to a very sudden end in this film set in 2027 about a world ravaged by infertility Children of Men |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) On its way to the Moon & back in 1969, Apollo 11 carried a piece of wood from a craft employed by these two men for another famous flight 66 years earlier the Wright brothers |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NEW GROUP NAMES OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $800: A Bojack of these horse/men who tried to kidnap Lapith women after getting drunk at a wedding centaurs |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $600: This rhyming term for an important person comes from the high hairpieces men of distinction once wore a bigwig |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FASHION DON'TS $1000: It's the redundant pair of accessories that men are advised not to wear together--don't tell "Office Space"'s Bill Lumbergh suspenders and a belt |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $200: I know the men in black haunted Mulder on this TV show--I played one of them! The X-Files |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $400: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black a ninja |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $600: Josh Brolin played a younger version of this actor in "Men in Black 3" Tommy Lee Jones |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $1000: This Oscar-winning actor is all sorts of bad as the man in black in "The Dark Tower", based on the Stephen King novels Matthew McConaughey |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | THE FIFA MEN'S WORLD CUP $800: Only 4 European teams competed in the first World Cup; the rest didn't want to travel all the way to this capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | MEN OF SCIENCE $400: Gregor Mendel is referred to as the father of this field, the science of heredity genetics |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | MEN OF SCIENCE $800: This developer of the periodic table of elements had his beard trimmed annually & maybe for his visits with the czar Mendeleev |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: He referred to his pupils Antonio Nardi, Raffaello Magiotti & Evangelista Torricelli as his Roman triumvirate Galileo |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: The "system" named for this Greek astronomer puts the Earth at the center of the universe Ptolemy |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $2000: One of the 7 wise men of Greece, his code of laws formed the foundation of Athens' democracy Solon |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: His headstone in Germany reads "Physiker" with the dates 1901-1976; it does not say, "He lies here...somewhere" Heisenberg |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $5,200 (Daily Double): In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation" Socrates |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $2000: "Foe" by J.M. Coetzee depicts the final days of these 2 men as seen by a woman shipwrecked with the pair (Robinson) Crusoe and Friday |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | DEBATE CLUB $200: In their 5th debate Abraham Lincoln & Stephen Douglas argued whether this document's "all men" included African Americans the Declaration of Independence |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) The 400,000 men & women buried at Arlington include 2 U.S. presidents, John F. Kennedy & this man, who was also chief justice Taft |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONLY HALF SHOWED UP $2000: Half the jurors bailed on our production of a Reginald Rose play; guess we'll retitle it this Six Angry Men |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | COLLEGE BOUND $1000: Around the turn of the 20th century, this historically black all-men's school was called Atlanta Baptist College Morehouse |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEERKAT MANNERS $600: A meerkat scans for predators in this posture, a term for a guard against surprise attack, and also a type of big robot "X-Men" foe sentinel |
| #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 |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | MEMORABLE MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: Grouchy Lemmon & Matthau lived up to the title of this 1993 movie Grumpy Old Men |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | NUMERIC PHRASES $400: "12 good men & true" is an idiom describing one of these a jury |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) The birthplace & former home of 2 U.S. presidents, Adams National Historical Park is in this Massachusetts town that shares a name with the younger of the two men Quincy |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $400: This name of Romanian prince Vlad, who impaled his enemies, comes from the Latin word for "dragon" Dracula |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $1200: You could call Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, by this title, also the name of a popular video game series prince of Persia |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $9,812 (Daily Double): In the mid-19th century, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg helped restore this Austrian line to prominence Habsburg |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | COLORFUL SHAKESPEARE $400: In Sonnet 17, Shakespeare fears that his writings might turn to this color with age & "be scorn'd like old men of less truth" yellow |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | "C" WHO SALUTES $1200: Last name of the American brothers George Rogers & William, both military men & explorers Clark |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: In Nabokov's "Pale Fire", revolutionaries plan to kill an exiled king with this name, the same as the leader of the X-Men Charles Xavier |
| #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 |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | A THURBER CARNIVAL OF QUOTATIONS $800: "Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy" this desperation |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $400: The top movie searches of 2006 & 2016 were for this franchise with "The Last Stand" & "Apocalypse" installments X-Men |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $400: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) Tonight, for the opening o the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal will reunite with director Rob Reiner for a screening of this romantic comedy that wondered if men & women would really be friends When Harry Met Sally... |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | CLOTHING $400: A tip for men trying on this Scottish garment: make sure the front of it falls between your legs when you sit a kilt |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | DOCTOR $400: This Greek's oath says doctors should avoid "seduction of women or men" Hippocrates |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TO BE ELF-EVIDENT $400: The ghosts of men are no biggie for this Tolkien elf, but a Balrog?! The ancient fire monster freaks him out Legolas |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TV $600: This creator of "Mad Men" brought us 2018's "The Romanoffs" Matthew Weiner |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: The Declaration of these proclaimed, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" rights of man |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | COUNTRY FACTS $800: 2013 saw the first meeting of Lionel Messi & Pope Francis, perhaps the 2 most famous men from this country Argentina |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | HISTORIC FAMILIES $600: It's been estimate that one in 200 men are direct descendants of this Mongol ruler & grandfather of Kublai Genghis Khan |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | THE ANCIENT ROMAN ARMY $2,000 (Daily Double): These leaders of groups of 100 men were divided from senior to junior grades centurions |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1200: Before adapting "A Few Good Men", Aaron Sorkin said not only had he never written one of these, he'd never read one a screenplay |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | NONFICTION $600: "The Gatekeepers" examines how the men with this title, like Rahm Emanuel & Dick Cheney, define every presidency chief of staff |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | THE HODGEST OF PODGE $1000: Briefly at Atlanta U., Mary Spivey wound up as the last living female graduate of this college, getting her degree in 1933 Morehouse College |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1200: Before he joined the First Order as Kylo Ren, this actor was one of the good guys, enlisting as a Marine (Adam) Driver |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | COMIC "ON" $800: An X-Men foe shares this name with a big bad guy from "The Lord of the Rings" Sauron |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | THE HUNTER $1200: The family business of the men seen here was originally based on selling these hunting items duck calls |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | YOUR BLESSINGS $1000: In this faith men of the Melchizedek priesthood, which was restored to Earth in 1829, bless a new baby Mormon |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | TOP 40 COUNTDOWN $800: Boyz II Men topped the charts in 1997 with these "of loneliness" "4 Seasons of Loneliness" |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | SEND LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY $800: Last names of the 2 men who partnered up in Springfield, Mass. to make "tip-up" revolvers in the 1850s Smith & Wesson |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | OLYMPIANS FROM COUNTRIES THAT NO LONGER EXIST $2000: 1952, men's marathon:
Emil Zatopek of this country that's now divided in two Czechoslovakia |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S SOME GIFT! $1000: The 3 wise men who visited Jesus brought gifts of gold, frankincense & this myrrh |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $2000: This first name shared by several popes & 3 Russian emperors comes from the Greek for "defender of men" Alexander |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN $1000: The declaration asserted that as women accused of crimes were tried only by men, they never got a jury of these their peers |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | EPONYMOUSE $600: Robert Burns' "best laid schemes" of this pair led to a Steinbeck title of mice and men |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $2000: The Hall inducted this co-creator of "Big Bang Theory" & "Two and a Half Men" (Chuck) Lorre |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | THIS & THAT $200: A classic of men's formal wear, this dinner jacket was named for a New York country club that opened in 1886 a tuxedo |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $400: A trio of bachelors cares for a foundling left on their doorstep Three Men and a Baby |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | US OPEN 50 YEARS $400: In 1973 Ms. Court & Mr. Newcombe got $25,000 each as the U.S. Open was the first of this quartet of titles to equalize men's & women's prizes the Grand Slam |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $1000: In ballet versions of this Ravel piece, the ballerina dances high atop a large table surrounded by men Bolero |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | ENTITLED $800: Men who serve missions in the Mormon church do not have to be of an advanced age to earn this title elder |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME $200: A kid's life is in your hands as you play as any one of a dozen jurors; the action is all in one room; sway opinions as No. 8 12 Angry Men |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | SWITCH TO A COMPETING BRAND $1000: "There is a Purex in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" Tide |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | DEATH OF A SALESMAN $1200: This actor, who played the lead in a "Salesman" revival, said he saw it reduce many suit-wearing grown-up men to tears Brian Dennehy |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | NOT IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $800: Are they not men? Then why aren't these New Wave pioneers from nearby Akron in the Hall? Devo |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | YOUR STYLE $1000: In Paris it's a men's shirt; in New York it's a type of dress, loose-cut & short a chemise |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | HISTORIC "P"LACES $800: From 1790 to 1808 the location of the wanted men who had settled this Pacific island was unknown to the world Pitcairn Island |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SOCIOLOGY $1600: Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them veterans |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $200: Setting one of these up on a tripod, Alan Bean inadvertently pointed it at the Sun & wrecked it a camera |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | IT'S ONLY AN ALLUSION $400: A revelatory realization, it's applied to the presentation of the infant Jesus to the 3 wise men epiphany |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $400: In his later years, this author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was a recluse (J.D.) Salinger |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $1600: The vignettes in his poem "The Waste Land" are linked by the legend of the search for the holy grail T.S. Eliot |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $200: In this Steinbeck work, Lennie remembers what to do if anything goes wrong: "Hide in the brush an' wait for George" Of Mice and Men |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | IN A STORM $2000: The film "The Finest Hours" tells of a Coast Guard rescue of 32 men in one of these directional storms off Cape Cod a nor'easter |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | THIS IS NOT A DRILL (OR IS IT?) $800: The Lafayette Escadrille in World War I was made up of men who operated these airplanes |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $400: "All" of these 2 groups "couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again" the king's horses and king's men |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1200: "____ Men and a Baby" times "____ Degrees of Separation" 18 |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PIRATES! $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1815 James Madison pardoned him & his men (Jean) Lafitte |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | OLD TESTA-MEN $400: He "and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden" Adam |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | OLD TESTA-MEN $800: "No razor shall come on his head... he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines" Samson |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | LOVE ACTUARILY $800: A U. of Miami study found married men survived the longest with this most common male gland cancer prostate cancer |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | OLD TESTA-MEN $2000: In 2 Samuel King David repeats the name of this slain son; Faulkner was listening Absalom |
| #7691, aired 2018-02-05 | OLD TESTA-MEN $2,200 (Daily Double): "And God said unto" him, "the end of all flesh is come before me...and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth" Noah |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $2000: At the 2017 Grammys, this hard rocking quartet of dudes went (Lady) Gaga to play "Moth Into Flame" Metallica |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | GANGSTERS $400: Dion O'Banion ran his gang empire out of a Chicago flower shop...until 3 of this rival's men came by for "flowers" in 1924 (Al) Capone |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $800: Long before "Sliders" or "Fringe" hit TV screens, Wells talked about these universes in "Men Like Gods" parallel universes |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS $1600: This Georgia facility was designed for 10,000 men but held as many as 32,000 by the end of the Civil War Andersonville |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $800: Last name of Susan Eloise, who in "Tex" created McCormick brothers Tex & Mason S.E. Hinton |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $1200: The title character of this 1928 Virginia Woolf novel is male in the beginning, but that doesn't last... Orlando |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $1600: Ayn Rand is the architect of this architect at the center of "The Fountainhead" (Howard) Roark |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | IT'S RAINING "MEN" $400: A regulated course of action, like that of a diet a regimen |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | JANUARY $800: Every year on this date U.S. Christians celebrate Epiphany, a holy day commemorating the arrival of the 3 wise men January 6 |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men" Robert Burns and John Steinbeck |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | COLLEGE HOOPS $800: In 2014 both the men's & women's teams from this university located in the small town of Storrs won basketball titles UConn |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1798 he told his men, "From the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you" Napoleon |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | AM I BLUE? $800: Played by Karen Gillan & Michael Rooker, respectively, Nebula & Yondu in this Marvel series have a bluish tinge Guardians of the Galaxy |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $2000: Any self-respecting buccaneer knows there are this many "men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" 15 |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? $400: A feminist:
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry" Gloria Steinem |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In old New England a regular use of the village green was training this body of men mentioned in the Second Amendment the militia |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $1,000 (Daily Double): The Stage Manager says, "Doc Gibbs died in 1930", but a minute later the doc is chatting away in this play Our Town |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $1200: The spirits of Heisenberg & this Danish mentor remember the A-bomb in the play "Copenhagen" Niels Bohr |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $1600: Residents of this fictional town tell their story from the grave in Edgar Lee Masters' "Anthology" Spoon River |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $2000: The dead Leon, son of Kilgore Trout, recounts this author's 1985 "Galapagos" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $400: George, a farm laborer & Curley, son of a ranch owner Of Mice and Men |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: Kathy Bates won Best Guest Actress in a Comedy when she took over Charlie Sheen's role in an episode of this series Two and a Half Men |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | UNTOLD TV STORIES $200: (Sarah shows the letter shin on the monitor.) Leonard Nimoy explained that the Vulcan salute was inspired by a time in his past when the men at his temple made a similar sign in the shape of the letter shin in this alphabet Hebrew |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | SCIENCE FICTION $2000: The cover of this Isaac Asimov novel claimed, "Four men and one woman journey into the living body of a man" Fantastic Voyage |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | CHAIR FORCE $1200: This leather armchair bears the name of the type of the men's organizations that used them a club chair |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON $800: While fighting aliens as part of this Marvel mutant group, Kitty Pryde finds a dragon she names Lockheed the X-Men |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | STATE OF THE UNION HEADQUARTERS $1000: North Bergen, New Jersey:
The International Association of these "men" who work on the docks longshoremen |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $800 (Daily Double): The subtitle of this numerical book by Eliot Asinof is "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" Eight Men Out |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $200: Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $400: Edward Morgan (E.M.) Forster |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | ALL THE "BEST" $600: According to Robert Burns, these schemes "gang aft agley" the best-laid plans of mice and men |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy (P.D.) James |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $800: Sci-fi author James Graham (J.G.) Ballard |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1000: Kids' author Pamela Lyndon (P.L.) Travers |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "B"USINESS $1000: Henry Luce said, "There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read" these pages of assets & liabilities balance sheet |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | MEN IN HATS $200: People spent a lot of time on his couch Freud |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | MEN IN HATS $800: Oh, tell us the name of this Italian operatic composer (Giuseppe) Verdi |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | STRAIGHT FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2000: Daniel 3:23:
"And these three men...fell down bound into the midst of the burning ____ ____" fiery furnace |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1600: Ta-sunko-witko is the Sioux name of this Oglala chief who joined with Sitting Bull to defeat Custer & his men Crazy Horse |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $200: In the nursery rhyme, the one of the 3 men in a tub who doesn't work in a food-related job the candlestick maker |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | SPORTS $800: This "A-Rod" of tennis was 2003 U.S. Men's Open champ Andy Roddick |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | WOODY $1200: One of his earliest TV characters married Kelly Gaines, daughter of one of Boston's richest men Woody Harrelson |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Graves' disease results in the thyroid's over-production of these & strikes women more often than men hormones |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: This inflammatory digestive disease was named after one of the 3 men who published a paper on it in the 1930s Crohn's disease |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | NOT IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $800: Morrissey & the rest of these charming men have been eligible since 2008, but what difference does it make? The Smiths |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY $400: In 1971's "Fight of the Century", these two men slugged it out Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | YOU'RE FIRED FROM THE MOVIE! $1200: As he's called "The Human Torch", Johnny Storm of this title group is kinda perfect for the category the Fantastic Four |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BIBLICAL PAIRS $1200: In 2 Kings a chariot of fire appears to these 2 men whose names both start with the same 3 letters Elijah and Elisha |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: The Apsaras on a temple were beings who did this to entertain gods and men; apsara is a traditional type of the art in Cambodia dance |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | OCCUPATIONS IN NEWS $1000: A 2014 award from the GTC, the Guild of Television these "men", went to a BBC newsman for dramatic footage of Syrian children cameramen |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | LITERATURE $200: George & Lennie have dreams of living off the fat of the land in this Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES $400: 23 is one of the sporty men's fragrances from this sports legend who wore that number Michael Jordan |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $800: While Teddy Roosevelt did indeed saddle up in Cuba, most of this group of men under his charge fought on foot the Rough Riders |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: Several of his books have been filmed, including "No Country for Old Men" (Cormac) McCarthy |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SPEAKING OF TONGUES $600: This Kiss bass player once published a men's lifestyle magazine called Tongue Gene Simmons |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HIDDEN GENIUS $800: A great many men delved into the mysteries of genetics before this pea brain did Mendel (in men delved) |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | SO "UGE" $800: These winter sportsmen lay it down at speeds of more than 80 mph luge men |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | -GATES $1600: Bob Woodward & this reporter gave their account of their Watergate investigation in "All the President's Men" Bernstein |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1200: Lewis Hine's 1932 book "Men at Work" documented in photographs the construction of this NYC building in 1930 the Empire State Building |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | WHAT'S THEIR SPORT? $1000: Hoosier Team Pineapple, 2016 men's champs of the PVL, the "Premier" this "League" volleyball |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $400: On the roof of a New York theater in July 1907, this impresario staged the first of his spectacular "Follies" Ziegfeld |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a picture on the monitor.) On May 27, 1943, his plane went down in the Pacific, & after surviving a 2,000 mile trip on a raft & weighing less than 100 pounds, this bombardier was captured by Japanese forces on July 13th Louis Zamperini |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $1200: Home movies of JFK's assassination were taken by Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore &, famously, him Zapruder |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $1600: This Mexican revolutionary was a champion of agrarianism Zapata |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $2000: This printer's 1735 court victory was the first major win for freedom of the press in the American colonies John Peter Zenger |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | PRETTY COLORS $600: This Ivy League school began as a Baptist institution for men & later adopted the name of its benefactor Brown University |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | IN BALTIMORE $800: In 1893 a $500,000 endowment was raised to help admit women on the same terms as men to this School of Medicine Johns Hopkins |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EDIBLE EXPRESSIONS $2000: In Matthew 5:13 Jesus calls his disciples this salt of the earth |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $800: A 131-foot statue of this conqueror looms over the steppe east of Ulan Bator Genghis Khan |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $1600: Xanadu you know that Shizu was the temple name of this man born in 1215? Kublai Khan |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $1200: In this author's "The Portrait of a Lady", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go... poorly Henry James |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BISHOP $200: Bridget Bishop was the first of 13 women, 7 men & 2 dogs put to death during the hysteria in this town in 1692 Salem |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HBO, GO! $800: (I'm Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.) "Mad Men" was doubly rewarding for me; long before the show was made, my script was read by David Chase, who then put me on the staff of this HBO drama The Sopranos |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | THRILLER & SUSPENSE NOVELS $600: The original Swedish title of this book, the first of a trilogy, was "Men Who Hate Women" The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $200: A statue of this "Green Mountain boy" in the U.S. Capitol represents the state of Vermont Ethan Allen |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $400: In 1997, Vernon Baker became one of only 7 African Americans & the only one living to receive this award for valor in World War II the Congressional Medal of Honor |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $800: More than a million people attended his 1885 funeral in NYC & in 1897 a million attended the dedication of his tomb Ulysses S. Grant |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | FROM "S" TO "W" $1600: This old radio character knew "what evil lurks in the hearts of men" the Shadow |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | TOWARD "MEN" $400: Part of the body where you'll find your 6-pack (or your spare tire) abdomen |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | TOWARD "MEN" $1600: Unit used to measure an amount of light a lumen |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | CHEMISTRY $800: Women process alcohol more slowly than men because their stomachs have less ADH, one of these catalysts an enzyme |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TALES $2000: Men are just beasts--or is that beasts are just men?--in this 1896 H.G. Wells tale about the world's worst vet The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | REPRESENTIN' $800: This state has 1 representative in Congress; it has also sent a grand total of 4 men to fill that seat Alaska |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | 1960s COMPUTING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) Developed by MIT, the guidance computer for this NASA program that got the first men to the moon and back again had only 72 kilobytes of memory the Apollo program |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1937 novel about migrant laborers comes from a line in Robbie's poem "To a Mouse" Of Mice and Men |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: The placement of men's wigs to block their vision might be the literal origin of this cliche about deception to pull the wool over your eyes |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $600: We're 100/100ths sure that Simon Stevin introduced the concept of "decimal" these to Europe in 1585 fractions |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $800: The ancient Greek Hipparchus pioneered this branch of math, from ancient Greek for "triangle" & "measure" trigonometry |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | PAPER TOWNS $1200: Part of Middle-earth, Dale was a prosperous town until this dragon killed many men & scared off the rest Smaug |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | FORE! $1000: With 5 wins in 27 tournaments, this American was the top-ranked men's golfer of 2015 Jordan Spieth |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $800: Characters on this series included Sally Draper & office manager Joan Holloway Mad Men |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $400: The title of this book continues "and What Alice Found There" Through the Looking Glass |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $1200: The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page Finnegans Wake |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Michael Herr wrote in "Dispatches", "I think that" this place "was what we had instead of happy childhoods" Vietnam |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $800: Completes the line from "Treasure Island", "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, and..." a bottle of rum |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: In 1863 he published the article "Men of Color, to Arms!", urging black enlistment in the army Frederick Douglass |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | A REAL BUSY BODY $200: Men's Fitness says 4 sets of 25 reps of reverse crunches, with 2 minutes rest, will help you get some "ripped" these muscles, bro abdominal muscles |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum was built as a monument to the men and women who served in the war; in 1926, in front of a crowd of 150,000, this president broke his notorious silence to dedicate the memorial Calvin Coolidge |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YELL IT LIKE IT IS $800: Don't forget--it was the 3-word battle cry used by Sam Houston's men at the Battle of San Jacinto, won in just 18 minutes "Remember the Alamo" |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | STATE OF THE TV SHOW $600: "Northern Exposure" & "Men in Trees" Alaska |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $200: The Showa period in Japan ended with this emperor's death in 1989 Hirohito |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $400: From 1957 to 1975 this man who turned Jackie K into Jackie O ran Olympic Airways Ari Onassis |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $600: In 1953 he had the right stuff when he set a world record by flying 1,650 mph in an X-1A rocket plane Chuck Yeager |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $800: Delaware's name is derived from the 12th Baron de la Warr, who was governor of this colony from 1609 to 1618 Virginia |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $1000: Known as "Mr. Republican", this son of William Howard Taft lacked both the mustache & the presidency Robert Taft |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE $1600: "Uh-uh. Jus' a dead mouse, George... Honest! I found it. I found it dead" is in this novel Of Mice and Men |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $2000: We give a salute to this job, the chief steward of a great household majordomo |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $5,000 (Daily Double): Looks like many brave officers are here! This Kipling tale is subtitled "A Story of the Grand Banks" Captains Courageous |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | CATCH THESE MEN $1000: Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a hole near this city, his hometown Tikrit |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | AND I QUOTE $4,000 (Daily Double): At the Scopes trial, he said of his agnosticism, "I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure" Darrow |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800: A group of mid-20th century British writers were these "Young Men"--it's not "Jolly" Angry |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $200: More prominent in men, it's a thyroid cartilage projection of the larynx the Adam's apple |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: The Order of the Thistle is the highest honor given to men & women of this U.K. country Scotland |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $400: In 1894 a throng of unemployed men known as "Coxey's Army" marched to this city to demand jobs & public spending Washington, D.C. |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | "YOUNG" MEN & WOMEN $400: Back in 1908 one of his ex-wives wrote the expose "Life in Mormon Bondage" Brigham Young |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $800: The exploits of this Union general earned him the nicknames "Mad Tom" & "The Great Marcher" William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $1200: The subtitle of a biography of this Russian mystic asks, "Holy Man or Mad Monk?" Rasputin |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $2000: Overspending & eccentric behavior got this king of Bavaria deposed in 1886 Mad King Ludwig |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $200: This man of steel made his heroic debut in Action Comics #1 in 1938 Superman |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $400: A 20th century Soviet leader adopted this name that means "man of steel" Stalin |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $600: Winners of 6 NFL titles, this city's team was founded by Art Rooney in 1933 the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $800: Sir Henry Bessemer improved steel making by pumping air into this metal to remove impurities iron |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLES $800: The country due southwest of Uzbekistan is named for these "men" Turkmen |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THUS SAYETH THE LORD $1600: To Joshua:
"Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every ____ a man" tribe |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | 'TIS "OF THE" MOVIE $1000: Fraternity men Robert Carradine & Anthony Edwards led Lambda Lambda Lambda's fight against Alpha Beta in this '84 pic Revenge of the Nerds |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | MY COUNTRY $1000: Men of letters Jorge Luis Borges & Manuel Puig Argentina |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | YOU NEED FOOD TO GROW ON $400: Men's Health says get bigger by eating pineapple to boost the pituitary gland's production of this, abbrev. HGH human growth hormone |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | EURO-MONARCHY $2000: This current monarchy's Bernadotte Dynasty derives from one of Napoleon's top military men Sweden |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | SPORT ABILITY $1000: In world team tennis in the 1970s, this 6-time Wimbledon singles champ was one of the first women to coach pro men Billie Jean King |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | INDIRECT QUOTES $800: "The (quantitative measure of inertia) of men lead lives of quiet desperation" mass |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | CLOTHES $400: A cutaway was a part of men's dress for this time of day, which is why it's also called that time of day's coat morning |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | A GRIP ON IT $600: As key grip on this AMC series from 2007 to 2015, Pat O'Mara helped light up 1960s Manhattan Mad Men |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | CITY NICKNAMES $400: Agadir, Morocco is "the City of Blue Men", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals camels |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | STREET SMARTS $1000: 1,800 men live at 1300 Metropolitan in this city in Kansas, though not by choice; they don't get out of the house much Leavenworth |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Undergraduate education was an option, but this Baltimore school started mostly as a graduate school for men in 1876 Johns Hopkins |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: (Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) My office in the West Wing of the White House has portraits of these 2 men, the first 2 vice presidents of the United States John Adams & Tom Jefferson |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $800: 5 men listed on a headstone at Granary Burying Ground were victims of this tragic March 5, 1770 event the Boston Massacre |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | NONFICTION $1600: 4-word title of the 1974 bestseller about 2 journalists' investigation of the Watergate break-in All the President's Men |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "CON" MEN $600: First name of Mr. Nast, who in 1909 began a publishing empire that today includes W, GQ, Vanity Fair & more Condé |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 62,000 men in parallel corps columns covered up to 15 miles a day on their way to Savannah in this general's march to the sea Sherman |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | AIR QUOTES $1000: Her poem "Lady Lazarus" ends, "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air" Sylvia Plath |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | THE ANNALS OF FASHION $400: A fob pocket near the waistband of men's pants was originally designed to hold this item a watch |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | EMMY: THE MEN $400: It was mob rule for him as one of "The Sopranos" in 2003 James Gandolfini |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | GRAB BAG $1600: John Paul Stevens defended this 1973 landmark ruling as "an integral part of... the basic equality of men and women" Roe v. Wade |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem Of Mice and Men |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | MEASURING WHAT? $1000: If you buy a 15-34 men's dress shirt, the numbers are the sizes of these the neck & sleeve |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $1600: This body of military men becomes one of the fallen when an "E" goes on the end corps |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL $400: In this film Tom Hanks as Captain Miller tells his men, "Keep the sand out of your weapons... I'll see you on the beach" Saving Private Ryan |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: This Athenian who introduced a more humane law code was considered one of the "7 Wise Men of Greece" Solon |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP $800: Ad-Rock of this group acts in the movie "While We're Young" & says in it, "We're old men" The Beastie Boys |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | FLOWERS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flower in Tahiti.) Traditionally, Tahitian men and women wear the Tiare Tahiti, a type of this shrub flower, behind the left ear if they're happily in love, the right ear if they're still looking for that someone special the gardenia |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | DOCUMENTARY FILMS $2000: The "Paradise Lost" trilogy is about the men known as this "3", accused of murder in Arkansas, not Tennessee West Memphis |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $800: In 2007 Hindu holy men protested the filth in this river; a scientist said it "had turned the color of Coca-Cola" the Ganges |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $600: The Vikings of Europe were also known by this name Norsemen |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $800: Seen here, it's the part of a flower that produces pollen the stamen |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | LIT BLITZ $400: In 2015 Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" starred as Heidi Holland in a Broadway revival of this Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | WE 3 $200: In a nursery rhyme, "rub-a-dub-dub" we're the 3 men in a tub the butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | CLOTHING MODERNE $800: Forever 21 has slim-fit jeans for men & uses this synonym of slim for body-hugging women's jeans skinny |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | THE MONGOLS $2,000 (Daily Double): In both 1274 & 1281 thousands of Mongol ships & men were destroyed by typhoons while invading this island country Japan |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $1600: In one stage adaptation, it's set in "the jury room of a New York court of law"--the time is 1954 Twelve Angry Men |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | SHADOW PLAY $1600: The fictional character of radio drama known as the Shadow had "the power to" do this to "men's minds" cloud |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | COUNTRY MEN $1600: The sons of a man who died in 1953 still rule this Mideast country he founded Saudi Arabia |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | COUNTRY MEN $4,000 (Daily Double): First name of the man for whom Zimbabwe was formerly named Cecil |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | ROLE IN COMMON $800: Michael Fassbender is simply magnetic playing the younger version of this actor in the "X-Men" movies Ian McKellen |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | USS COD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands topside on the USS Cod in Cleveland, OH.) On her last patrol, the Cod rescued the men of a Dutch submarine stranded on a mid-ocean reef; to keep the Dutch boat out of enemy hands, the crew used torpedoes & on-deck guns to do this, meaning to intentionally sink a friendly ship to scuttle |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $1,000 (Daily Double): His Basketball HOF bio says in 1921 he "hobbled into a Converse Chicago sales office complaining of sore feet" Chuck Taylor |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $1000: Nathan was the first name of this man who patterned his "Original" Desert Boot after 8th Army footwear Nathan Clark |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | PENGUIN CLASSICS COVERS $800: Two migrant worker buddies Of Mice and Men |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1853 Sir Richard Burton became one of the few non-Muslim men of the time to visit these 2 "M" cities Mecca & Medina |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | SPORTS AWARDS $600: The Naismith Trophy is given to the men's & women's college players of the year in this sport basketball |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | MYTHOLOGY $400: Norse goddesses called norns include 3 who decide men's fates, each in charge of one of these 3 aspects of time past, present, future |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | TV MOVIES $1200: In 1997 Jack Lemmon & George C. Scott led a stellar cast in a remake of this jury drama 12 Angry Men |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $800: One of these on the front lines was typically 6 to 8 feet deep & wide enough for 2 men to pass a trench |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) All-natural soap made right here in South Dakota with Salvia officinalis, this native aromatic herb that wise men know grows wild on the prairie sage |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | LEADER OF THE PACK $400: In 1911 Roald Amundsen led 4 men, 4 sleds & 52 dogs to this spot that's far south but not warm the South Pole |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | DIE FLEDERMAUS $800: The part of Prince Orlofsky is usually played by a woman in men's garb singing in this "middle" range mezzo-soprano |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The stone village of Orongo was the site of a yearly trial where young men scaled down a cliff and swam through shark-infested waters to retrieve the egg of a sooty one of these birds a tern |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | WHAT MEN WANT $400: It was a woman who wrote that "A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of" this a wife |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | WHAT MEN WANT $1200: This author of "Madame Bovary" wrote, "My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits" (Gustave) Flaubert |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | THE NEXT JAMES BOND? $1600: The rumors won't go away that this star of "The Knick" & "Children of Men" might be Bond Clive Owen |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | THE MUSICAL '90s $800: In the 1990s this group spent an amazing 51 weeks at No. 1, beginning with "End of the Road", on top for 13 weeks Boyz II Men |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | "-EY" MAN $800: An "old" one of these men is conservative & dull by nature a fogey |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS $200: In 1982 fashion designer Guy Laroche introduced Drakkar Noir, this type of men's product cologne |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | HOLLYWOOD IS DESTRUCTIVE $800: In this 2006 Clive Owen film, years of infertility have left human society in chaos Children of Men |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $1200: In 2013 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Robert Vaughn played Juror No. 9 in a new version of this courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $400: Nixon had 2 Secretaries of State: William P. Rogers & this man, who kept the post after Ford took over Kissinger |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $800: He wasn't a friendly ghost, but Nixon's head of Health, Education & Welfare & also Reagan's Sec. of Defense Caspar Weinberger |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $1200: Robert Abplanalp, a buddy who lent Nixon the money for the "Western White House", made a fortune with this type of spray can aerosol |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $1600: This member of the administration was the first man of Greek descent to serve as governor of an American state Spiro Agnew |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $2000: This man was a Secretary of the Treasury & also of Labor for Nixon; he later was Secretary of State for Reagan George Shultz |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ICE DANCING $200: (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) Ice dancing was once a social sport in which top-hatted men parade on the ice with ladies in long dresses;
the skaters incorporated elements of ballroom dancing, like this elegant dance from Vienna the waltz |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $1600: (Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) The justices' private dining room has portraits of these 2 early 19th century men, a reminder of the case that gave the Supreme Court authority to declare a law unconstitutional Marbury & Madison |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Sebastian Junger told "a true story of men against the sea" in this bestseller The Perfect Storm |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | NON-BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN $400: eonline's list of "Hottest Ginger Men" noted this royal was "basically a walking fairy tale" Prince Harry |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $600: This future "Men in Black" agent spent much of the '70s emoting as Dr. Mark Toland on "One Life to Live" Tommy Lee Jones |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | 1977 $1200: In one of his first acts as president, Jimmy Carter pardoned this group of men draft dodgers |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | GOOD MOUSE KEEPING $200: Lennie & George talk rabbits in this Depression-set Steinbeck tale Of Mice and Men |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | GOOD MOUSE KEEPING $600: "The Mouse, the Bird & the Sausage" is one of the tales collected by these men in an 1812 work the Brothers Grimm |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | FASHION $1200: Quarrelsome or not, men used to wear these shoe coverings that buttoned at the sides & secured under the foot spats |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | A LONG TIME AGO $400: Lycurgus, lawgiver of this militaristic city-state, thought having more than one garment made men effeminate Sparta |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | ROBIN HOOD $600: Here's this actor who played Robin Hood making merry with one of his men during a break in filming Errol Flynn |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | FOILED $200: 3 Virginia men convicted in 2004 of supporting holy war overseas practiced using this messy gun game paintball |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | ENDS IN "X" $400: CK One from Calvin Klein is this type of fragrance aimed at both men & women unisex |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1200: "By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake" (George Bernard) Shaw (in Pygmalion) |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | "DANCE" MUSIC $800: A 2010 episode of "Glee" featured Artie's fantasy of a song & dance number at the mall to this Men Without Hats hit "The Safety Dance" |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MOVIES $600: The latest movie about these mutants is "Days of Future Past"; what does that even mean? X-Men |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | THE 19th CENTURY $2000: Active during the Civil War, he spoke of an "obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers" Mathew Brady |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $200: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few", he said about the RAF in 1940 Churchill |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $400: The admen at J. Walter Thompson came up with the slogan these 4 words. "The Marines" "The Few. The Proud." |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $600: Completes the words in the King James Version of Matthew's gospel, "For many are called, but..." few are chosen |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $800: In a sci-fi film these 2 men (well, a man & a 1/2 man) combine to say "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" Kirk and Spock |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $1000: In Shakespeare this phrase follows "We few, we happy few, we..." band of brothers |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | CINEMA ZOO $1600: 2009, starring George Clooney (1 of 2) Fantastic Mr. Fox or Men Who Stare At Goats |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | TV SHOW PLOT POINTS $200: Charlie took Alan & Jake into his Malibu home & dated a ballet teacher (&, apparently, much of Malibu) Two and a Half Men |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | CROSSWORD CLUES "X" $1200: Founder of the extra-ability X-Men
(6) (Charles) Xavier |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | COMPLETE THE LYRIC $400: Of Monsters & Men: "There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back /
Tell her that I miss our ____ ____" "little talks" |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | SUMMER OLYMPIC SPORTS $800: The 4 x 400 meters is the longest track race of this type for both men & women a relay |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | YOU'RE ON THE LIST $400: There are 9 of them, 6 men & 3 women; there have been 112 in U.S. history Supreme Court justices |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | READING LIST $800: Simple-minded Lennie loves rabbits in this Steinbeck book Of Mice and Men |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | EXPLORERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Antarctica.) The U.S. maintains 3 year-round research stations in Antarctica--Palmer, McMurdo, & 1 named for these 2 men, whose race to the pole made them legends Amundsen & Scott |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $800: Judges 15: he "said, with the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | NOOSE MEN $400: Accused by his in-laws of this, John Willard was found guilty & hanged in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts witchcraft |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | NOOSE MEN $2000: This commander of the Japanese military attempted suicide after WWII; he was nursed back to health & then hanged (Hideki) Tojo |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | 1990s HITMAKERS $800: In 1994 this R&B group's
"I'll Make Love To You"
remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks Boyz II Men |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE RODIN MUSEUM $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.) In 1347 the English king Edward III agreed to lift an almost year-long siege of a French port city if 6 townsmen would sacrifice themselves; in this sculpture, Rodin shows the emotion of each of the men as they trudge to their death The Burghers of Calais |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | SUPER-HEAR-O $2000: Paul McCartney & Wings sang of Titanium Man & this helmeted foe of the X-Men aka Erik Lehnsherr Magneto |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1937 short novel by Steinbeck:
Preposition Of |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | CHESS DRAMA $1000: Cosmo selected this 22-year-old Norwegian, the new world champ, as one of its Sexiest Men of 2013 Magnus Carlsen |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | FOLKLORE $200: Blind men examining different parts of this big animal thought it was a pillar, fan, broom, spear... an elephant |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $400: 1 1/2 million Cambodians perished under the rule of this Khmer Rouge leader who came to power in 1975 Pol Pot |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $800: In the 1990s divers off the Carolina coast found the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by this pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $1200: Shaka, who built an empire of this southern African people, didn't need to learn from Vlad about impaling his enemies the Zulu Empire |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $1600: In 38 A.D. this "little boot" emperor executed the Praetorian Guard prefect to whose support he owed his accession Caligula |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $2000: What a barbarian! In 450 he demanded the Roman emperor's sister as his wife & 1/2 of the Western Empire as dowry Attila the Hun |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | MADDEN COVER MEN $200: In 2001 the first player to appear, after 11 years of Madden himself, was Eddie George of this Nashville team the Tennessee Titans |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE STAFF OF LIFE $400: Hank Walker captured these two men sharing a reflective moment in a Los Angeles hotel suite in 1960 RFK & JFK |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of rights with which men are "endowed by their creator"; in the drafting, it changed from "in" to "un" unalienable |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $400: In 2009 this hedge-fund manager pleaded guilty to 11 felonies in one of the biggest swindles in Wall Street history Bernie Madoff |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $800: Oh, so close--the ball was under the middle this, a "game" that was a specialty of Old West con man Soapy Smith the shell |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $2000: Often preying on seniors, this type of phone-sales scam operation shares its name with part of a ship a boilerroom scam |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | TV CHARACTER ALIASES $1000: On "Mad Men", the name of this Jon Hamm character was actually an alias used by Dick Whitman Don Draper |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | ALBUM COVERS $2000: Pink Floyd:
2 men, one of whom is on fire, shaking hands Wish You Were Here |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | VIRGINIA IS FOR FIGHTERS $1200: On May 28, 1754 men under the command of this notable Virginian fired the first shots of the French & Indian War Washington |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | CELEBRITY VETERANS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Among the men who flew in the Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II was this Cool Hand Luke; color blindness in his famous blue eyes kept him from becoming a pilot, but not from flying in the Pacific as a tail gunner Paul Newman |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | BRAVE $200: Our nation's highest military decoration for bravery since 1861, it was originally only awarded to enlisted men the Medal of Honor |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State Rhode Island |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | LETTER MEN $1000: "Best Of My Love" & "Victim Of Love" co-writer
J.D. ____ Souther |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | NONFICTION $200: Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter & Trudy Cooper are 3 of a title group: the "club" of these men's wives astronauts' wives |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | VALLEY FORGE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) At Valley Forge, both Washington & his men were indebted to this French marquis who used his own money to clothe soldiers & help defeat a plot to remove Washington from command Lafayette |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | THE LADY OF SHALLOTS $400: Even real men will eat Martha Stewart's shallot-mushroom version of this egg dish, down to the crust quiche |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | WHEN PIGS FRY $600: Who knew? Men's Health listed these puffy snacks made of fried pigskin as one "junk food that's good for you" pork rinds |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Each December 5th near Lucerne, hundreds of Swiss men don huge, candlelit, cardboard mitres, reminding us that St. Nicholas was one of these Catholic officials a bishop |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | THE CONFEDERACY $600: To supply the army with enough men, the Confederate congress passed this type of law ahead of the Union in 1862 draft law |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: Burgess Meredith was George & Lon Chaney Jr. was Lennie in this drama, produced by comedy legend Hal Roach Of Mice and Men |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | PARTS OF THE CITY $2000: You'll see men in suits looking up stock prices in the Melbourne or New Orleans CBD, short for this Central Business District |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | WRAP MUSIC $1600: In 1992 Boyz II Men reached the "End Of" this, & it took them to No. 1 "The Road" |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | STATE SHAPES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. Central Atlantic states on the monitor.) These 2 men are famous for surveying Maryland's northern border, which became a symbolic dividing line, but they also laid out the state's eastern border with Delaware Mason & Dixon |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | THAT AUTHOR'S MIXED UP! $800: Far from the "Twilight" of her career:
EERIEST MEN HYPE Stephenie Meyer |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | I'M HOLDING A PAIR $200: These 2 men clash in 1 Samuel 17 in a game of rock, sword, spear; rock beats sword & spear David & Goliath |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WORLD HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): On August 26, 1789 France's National Assembly approved this "declaration" that proclaimed, "men are born and remain free" the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | NOTED PERSONALITIES IN THE WORLD ALMANAC $1200: "Abolitionist who led murder of 5 proslavery men; hanged" John Brown |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | T.P., YOUR HOUSE $1000: Tony Parker, your house in this state contained an autographed MJ jersey until one of your security men swiped it Texas |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1200: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) This film about a "Southern fried demagogue and his lurid downfall" featured several miscast actors including Sean Penn "stepping into one of Broderick Crawford's blowhard roles" All the King's Men |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | MANNED SPACE FLIGHT $800: The monument seen here at pad 14 at Cape Canaveral honors the men of this program the Mercury program (the Mercury seven accepted) |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | PLANT THE FLAG $1600: The flag of this Central American country shows a mahogany tree & 2 men; the Union Jack was removed Belize |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $400: In the 1280s this Venetian served as an official for Kublai Khan in the city of Yangzhou Marco Polo |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $3,200 (Daily Double): Al-Razi gave the first description of acquired immunitv in a discussion of this disease that disfigured & killed smallpox |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | A CLASH OF SYMBOLS $800: The shield of Mars & the mirror of Venus are symbols for these, often known to clash men and women |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | COMIC BOOK WOMEN $1200: A descendent of an ancient line of sorceresses, she can control the weather & has led the X-Men on occasion Storm |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FIELD OF DREAMS $1000: Elias Howe said a dream of men holding spears with holes in the points was a key to his invention of this device a sewing machine |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $400: This Robert Ludlum mystery man first appears floating in the Mediterranean & suffering from amnesia (Jason) Bourne |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $800: In "The House Without a Key" readers said aloha to Charlie Chan, a detective on this island city's police force Honolulu |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1600: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is a refugee from Germany's World War I invasion of this country Belgium |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $2000: In "From Russia with Love", Bond & babe board a famous westbound train in this Eastern city Istanbul |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | MOVIE ENDING LINE OF THE DECADE $4,000 (Daily Double): 1950s:
"I now pronounce you men & wives" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | "GRAND" SLAM $1000: As part of their education, young men of fortune used to visit Europe's major sights on a trip known as this the grand tour |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | COINS OF OUR REALM $1200: From 1913 to 1938 it featured a composite picture, possibly of men named Iron Tail, Two Moons & John Big Tree the buffalo or Indian head nickel |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | CROSSING THE PARTY LINE $400: Democrat Edwin Stanton served as Secretary of War under these 2 men, & his removal caused an impeachment Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $800: This Spielberg film recounts how in 1839 captive men on a slave ship freed themselves & killed most of the crew Amistad |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | UNDERWEAR $400: The names of 2 different types of underwear are combined in this longer style of men's underwear boxer briefs |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | OF SPRINGS $1000: In Greek myth Cadmus sowed the teeth of this creature, & they sprang up as armed men a dragon |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | DIARIES & JOURNALS $8,000 (Daily Double): In January 1770 this explorer wrote, "Natives brought... the heads of the men they had lately kill'd" Captain Cook |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $800: "I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union", wrote this Virginian Robert E. Lee |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $800: The logo of this line of men's toiletries is seen here Old Spice |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $1200: Known for his "Charge" at Gettysburg, he was relieved of his command days prior to Appomattox Pickett |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $1600: In the spring of 1862, this naval hero & his fleet captured New Orleans Farragut |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $2000: Perhaps appropriately, the HQ of this general was called a "combination barroom and brothel" Joe Hooker |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | A BUNCH OF BOOKS $200: John Steinbeck, 1937:
"Of ___ and ___" Of Mice and Men |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | OF CALAIS $600: The burghers of Calais were 6 men who offered themselves as hostages to get the English to lift this in 1347 the Siege of Calais |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | SEAN PENN $2000: Sean played Willie Stark in the 2006 remake of this political film All the King's Men |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | MEN AT WORK $400: In 1975 this jeans & perfume maven was not yet 35 when he made the Coty Hall of Fame Calvin Klein |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | "MEN" AT WORK $1200: Technically, this French phrase means "household of 3"... technically ménàge a trois |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | MEN AT WORK $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1921 the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the U. of Copenhagen instituted this man as director Niels Bohr |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | "MEN" AT WORK $1600: A high-IQ group, or the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church Mensa |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $600: 56 times this North Carolinian has been rated by Gallup as one of the 10 most admired men in the world Billy Graham |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | ALL THE SINGLE LADIES $400: She was the first woman to be given the British Order of Merit; she healed men but didn't marry 'em (Florence) Nightingale |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $400: In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a "Murder at" this D.C. library the Library of Congress |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID $1200: Che sent many men to execution by this & reportedly spoke of it as the "pedagogy of the wall" by firing squad |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | ANCIENT BABYLON $1200: 26 of his laws concerned regulations for professional men such as physicians & boatbuilders Hammurabi |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | MOVIE GUNS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a large prop gun.) Sure to inspire fear, the big blue light gun was deftly wielded by Agent J in the 2002 sequel to this sci-fi flick Men in Black |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | 1993: 20 YEARS AGO IN FILM $400: Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau were a pair of disagreeable codgers in this comedy Grumpy Old Men |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | PONCE DE LEON & FLORIDA $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us the map of Ponce de Leon's continuing voyage past the south end of Florida.) On June 21st, 1513 Ponce de Leon's ships arrived in this small island group where his men, needing food, caught the large turtles that gave the islands their name the Dry Tortugas |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On May 2, 1863 Stonewall Jackson led his men on a 12-mile march to get into position for an attack on the unsuspecting federal troops. Lee remained behind for a frontal assault. This battle is considered Lee's greatest victory Battle of Chancellorsville |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | THE HITTITES $400: The Hittite military redesigned these vehicles so they could carry 3 men instead of 2 chariots |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CELEBRITIES LOVE TV $200: (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Just like a lot of people, I'm watching this AMC show created by Matthew Weiner, who writes great characters like Betty Draper & Roger Sterling Mad Men |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: The tricorn, a 3-cornered one of these for men, was introduced around 1690 & soon all Colonial dandies had one hat |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $2000: 3 men were falsely accused of cattle rustling & hanged in an "incident" near Bridger's Wells, Nevada in this 1940 novel The Ox-Bow Incident |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | "B" NICE $800: Robert Burns wrote that the men of Ayr were honest & the lasses were this bonnie |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | WE'VE HIT BOTTOM $400: We're going out! Put on your top hat & these, the divided bottom parts of a men's formal jacket tails |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | AISLE OF MAN $200: The aisle of man in the drugstore may have Nair's men's line, which removes this while you shower hair |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | AISLE OF MAN $600: Esquire says Kyoku for Men's sake-infused this is "like the old-fashioned stuff you'd spread on with a brush" shaving cream |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $18,000 (Daily Double): In Reginald Rose's play "Twelve Angry Men", the men are all members of one of these a jury |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: In addition to "A Feast of Crows", this novelist penned the short story collection "Songs the Dead Men Sing" George R.R. Martin |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | ENDINGS ON TV $1200: Transport that ended the life of Charlie Harper of "Two and a Half Men" a subway train |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | MOVIE TAGLINES $400: 1997: "Protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe!" Men in Black |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MEN'S HAIRSTYLES $200: What you're seeing is the hairstyle created when 500,000 of these pass through your body volts |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MEN'S HAIRSTYLES $400: Don't wig out--this monarch from 1643 to 1715 had dozens of wig makers working for him Louis XIV |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MEN'S HAIRSTYLES $600: In a painting by Matthias Stom, this biblical figure is in the process of becoming dis-tressed Samson |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MEN'S HAIRSTYLES $800: In 1786, Gilbert Stuart painted Chief Joseph Brant, who was--go figure--head of this tribe Mohawk |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MEN'S HAIRSTYLES $1000: The hairdo of this comic-strip prince has gone in and out of fashion Prince Valiant |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | "TIN" MEN $200: He served in the KGB before becoming president & then prime minister of Russia Putin |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | "TIN" MEN $600: He earned the "Fifth Beatle" nickname by producing all of the Beatles' albums George Martin |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | "TIN" MEN $800: In 1836 he was defeated by Sam Houston for the presidency of the Republic of Texas Austin |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | "TIN" MEN $1000: This Italian painter depicted the "Adoration of the Golden Calf" seen here Tintoretto |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $600: Q: Why is that guy so slow to ask me out?
A: This title of a Greg Behrendt-Liz Tuccillo book He's Just Not That Into You |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | "OF" MEN $400: Robin Hood's implacable foe the Sheriff of Nottingham |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | "OF" MEN $800: There's no truth to the rumor that this saintly Society of Jesus founder was "iggy" to his friends Ignatius of Loyola |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | "OF" MEN $1200: Title Shakespearean misanthrope & cave-dweller Timon of Athens |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | "OF" MEN $1600: No ordinary Joe, he buried Jesus' body in his own tomb Joseph of Arimathea |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | "OF" MEN $2000: This Dutchman landed in England November 5, 1688 William of Orange |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $2000: This third wife of Emperor Claudius "mess"ed around with a lot of men & tried to get one on the throne, but it didn't work Messalina |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | COLLEGE BASKETBALL $400: In one of college basketball's biggest upsets, Villanova beat this Patrick Ewing-led D.C. school for the 1985 men's title Georgetown |
| #6486, aired 2012-11-26 | THE BOOK OF NUMBERS $1200: Eliot Asinof bestseller about the 1919 Black Sox scandal Eight Men Out |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | MAGAZINES $600: The name of this men's magazine is a synonym for "adage" Maxim |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | WEAK END $3,000 (Daily Double): Slate called the last scene of this 2007 Oscar winner based on Cormac McCarthy's novel "a tacked on chunk of meaning" No Country for Old Men |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | SMELL $800: The Paris Hilton men collection includes this type of scent named for a German city cologne |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | TV CHARACTERS $400: Charlie Harper--uh, make that Walden Schmidt--accounts for 40% of this show's title total Two and a Half Men |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | I THEE WED $400: Traditionally the groom throws this, often made of blue satin, at single men; catch it & you're next at the altar! a garter |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $400: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Frederick Banting, an orthopedic surgeon, went into research & won a Nobel Prize for his work extracting insulin from the pancreas, the first effective treatment for this disorder diabetes |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $800: Working for NYC's Health Dept., Dr. Sara Josephine Baker helped track down Mary Mallon, a carrier of this infectious disease typhoid |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $1200: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Dr. Dorothy Andersen named this disease, CF for short, & also helped create a test to diagnose it cystic fibrosis |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Her work as an obstetrical nurse for poor women made her an advocate of birth control, a term she coined Margaret Sanger |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2000: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) This South African performed the first kidney transplant in his homeland in 1959 & in 1967 performed the first ever human heart transplant, catapulting him to worldwide fame (Dr. Christiaan) Barnard |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES $1600: "The Adventure of" these men seen in a cipher from the story "the Dancing Men" |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | "M"ISCELLANY $1600: The term for a single one of the wise men who visited Jesus, it's also the title of a John Fowles novel Magus |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $4,200 (Daily Double): One of the epithets that followed her name was Epistrophia, "she who turns men to love" Aphrodite |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Two American Presidents" is a dual biography of these 2 men who served at the same time in the 1860s Davis & Lincoln |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $2000: After a performance, ballerinas curtsy; men perform a small one of these equivalent gestures a bow |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | BIBLICAL WIFERY $2000: In the last book of the Old Testament, this prophet chastises the men of Israel for taking foreign wives Malachi |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | EARLY AMERICA $200: Seeing a lack of these deterring French men from settling in Louisiana, the government tried to ship some in women |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | MAD MEN $400: Crowned at Reims in October 1380, this country's Charles the Mad suffered 44 bouts of insanity during his reign France |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | MAD MEN $800: In the '80s growing broadcast empires had help from "the mad monk of deregulation", Mark Fowler of this commission the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | MAD MEN $2000: This country's Ibrahim the Mad had hundreds of the women in his harem drowned in the Bosporus Turkey |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | LAST SURVIVORS $1600: The last survivor of this battle wasn't one of Santa Anna's men but 1-year-old Alejo Perez Jr., who lived until 1918 (the Battle of) the Alamo |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | 30 ROCK $600: This star of "TGS" had a novelty song, "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah": "Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves" Tracy Morgan (or Tracy Jordan) |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $400: 1990: Scott Hamilton men's figure skating |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $600: 2008: Karch Kiraly men's volleyball |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | JOHN STEINBECK $2,000 (Daily Double): "Jody put out his bruised hand again, and..." this title animal "let his nose be rubbed" The Red Pony |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Helping to spread Hinduism in the U.S., Paramahansa Yogananda penned an "Autobiography of" one of these holy men a Yogi |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | COMPLETE THE ANIMAL PHRASE $400: "The best laid plans of ____ and men" mice |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $800: During the League's history, 3 men had this hyphenated title: Eric Drummond, Joseph Avenol & Sean Lester secretary-general |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $200: "Bartlett's" has the Albanian proverb "it takes more than a hood and sad eyes to make" one of these religious men a monk |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO $600: For men of Cyprus, 2 years of this type of service military |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | SCENTSATIONAL! $1000: This classic men's cologne from Geoffrey Beene comes in a pouch of the same-named material Grey Flannel |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Ft. Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, ND.) The expedition spent their first winter with the Mandan Tribe here in North Dakota, where they met this Shoshone guide; "A woman with a party of men is a token of peace", Clark would later write Sacagawea |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | POLITICAL CINEMA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic premiered here at Constitution Hall
"It's just the blood and bone and sinew of this democracy that some great men handed down to the human race, that's all!" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | MAY DAYS $400: On May 29, 1953, this New Zealander & his guide Tenzing became the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Vasco da Gama once lost about 100 out of 160 men to this disease caused by a lack of vitamin C scurvy |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SWEET STUFF $600: A heavily ornamented style of architecture is named for this, often used to make "men" & "houses" gingerbread |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | MEN $200: The drilling of the Big Bend tunnel through the Alleghenies in the 1870s may have led to the tale of this folk hero John Henry |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | MEN $600: "The Real America" is one of several books by this commentator, who's been seen on TV & heard on radio Glenn Beck |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | MEN $800: "A Passion for Nature" is a 2008 biography of this man, shown here on the left, out-bearded by John Burroughs John Muir |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | MAGAZINES $400: It's said that the devil is in these, also the name of a men's magazine from Conde Nast Details |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE MOST POPULAR NETFLIX MOVIES $800: The popularity of this Coen Brothers film has nothing to do with Javier Bardem's bowl cut as killer Anton Chigurh No Country for Old Men |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | REVOLUTION $1000: In 1775 he led 1,100 men on an invasion of Canada, so really he ticked off 3 countries during the revolution Benedict Arnold |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | TALE SHIPS $2000: Men on the ship the Nellie listen to Marlow tell the story of an African journey in this work Heart of Darkness |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | A SHOWER OF APRIL $1000: On April 12, 1862 Union spy James Andrews led a group of men in seizing this locomotive in Georgia The General |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | QUOTATIONS $200: On June 26, 1963 he declared, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin" John F. Kennedy |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $1000: Teddy Roosevelt called the sound of these early machine guns "the only sound I ever heard my men cheer in battle" Gatling guns |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | ZOOLOGY $2000: The 2-inch-long golden poison dart one of these has enough venom to kill 10 men a frog |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | THE BOOK'S TITLE IN GERMAN $600: John Steinbeck's "Von Mausen und Menschen" Of Mice and Men |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | FILL IN THE QUOTE $1,000 (Daily Double): Completes Gloria Steinem's line "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to..." marry |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $200: Citrus fruit belonging to one of the "Grumpy Old Men" Jack's lemons |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1200: In 2011 this director & star of the "Madea" movies topped Forbes' list of the highest-paid men in entertainment Tyler Perry |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $1600: This 1940 "Incident" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark tells the story of 3 men falsely accused & lynched for cattle rustling The Ox-Bow Incident |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $800: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner Air Force One |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | MISCELLAN"IUM" $400: Not just women but men over 50 also need at least 1,200 mg of this bone-building element daily calcium |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | MEDAL OF FREEDOM ATHLETES $600: Only African American to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon Arthur Ashe |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | HISTORY $1200: In 1281 a sudden typhoon saved Japan from this Mongol's invasion force of 150,000 men Kublai Khan |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | QUOTATIONS $800: From "Walden": "the mass of men lead lives of quiet" this desperation |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $400: On James Lind's advice, in 1795 the British navy began issuing daily rations of lemon juice to prevent this disease scurvy |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1895 he began replacing hypnosis as a form of therapy with free association Sigmund Freud |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the human circulatory system on the monitor.) The theory that blood circulates from the heart through the body's arteries & back to the heart through the veins was first explained by this Englishman in 1616 (William) Harvey |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Gingerbread men & handmade ornaments are but a few of the items offered at the holiday market at this famous circle named for an Italian explorer Columbus Circle |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | "HAB" A CLUE $1200: Generic term for a seller of men's clothes haberdasher |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | MINER CLASSICS $1200: "Marching Men" by Sherwood Anderson recounts the tribulations of coal miners in this eastern state Pennsylvania |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $5,000 (Daily Double): I once wrote that without seeing it, men are led to "advance the interest of the society" by this anatomical agent an invisible hand |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGIC MEN $1200: The fool &
the Dukes of Cornwall & Albany King Lear |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL $600: In a 1940 speech in the House of Commons, "Men will still say: 'This was their ____ hour'" finest |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $400: On a scale of 1 to 10, his "Earthquakes" article for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was a 10 Richter |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $800: Tragically, in 1864, his nitroglycerin factory blew up, killing several people, including his younger brother Emil Nobel |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: In the 1700s this Italian discovered that electricity could make a dead frog's muscles contract Luigi Galvani |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): An institute of physical sciences at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist (Niels) Bohr |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: According to his law, electric current is equal to the ratio of the voltage to the resistance (Georg) Ohm |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION $400: In the 1540s Coronado & his men were amazed at the great number of this native fowl with "great hanging chins" the turkey |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $2000: In the South, this 7-letter word is a title of respect prefixed to the name of distinguished elderly men colonel |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE LAND OF THE BIBLE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in the Jordan River in Israel.) In the Book of Joshua, as soon as the men carrying this holy object set foot here in the Jordan River, it dried up, allowing them to cross the Ark of the Covenant |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $2000: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) One of the greatest coaches ever has got to be Phil Jackson; he's won 11 titles, something even Red Auerbach couldn't do
Yeah, Phil's a legend, no doubt about it, but I'll pick this college basketball wizard who won 10 men's NCAA titles from 1964 to 1975 (John) Wooden |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When waves hit a beach at an angle, part of their energy is directed parallel to the land, generating a current called this; the "men" of the same name are dockworkers longshore currents |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | SURFING THE OED $800: Misandry is "hatred of" these men |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | TOSSED SALAD $800: The number of righteous men in each generation according to Jewish legend, or the highest number in roulette 36 |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | NOVEL QUOTES $1200: "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits" Of Mice and Men |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | LESLIE NIELSEN MOVIES $1200: One of Saskatchewan-born Leslie's last starring roles was in 2002's "Men with Brooms", about this sport curling |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | THE COLOR PURPLE $200: Only 3 men received this military decoration during the Revolutionary War; 2 of the badges still exist the Purple Heart |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | ON MY DOG'S iPOD $1000: My dog loves the upbeat chorus of this Grammy-winning song by the Baha Men "Who Let The Dogs Out" |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | 3 $600: This secretary in Ronald Reagan's cabinet shares his name with one of the 3 men in a tub (James) Baker |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) It's easy to see why Stage 15 here at Sony Studios, the largest soundstage in the Western hemisphere, was used to film hits like "Men in Black" I & II, the "Spider Man" films, & this 1939 magical classic MGM musical The Wizard of Oz |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1600: It's what 2(x+y) equals if x is the number of "Angry Men" in a 1957 film & y is the "Kings" in a George Clooney movie 30 |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stand on a naval dock.) I'm here on San Diego Bay at the Naval Amphibious Base that bears the name of this Spanish explorer, whose men discovered the Grand Canyon (Francisco Vasquez de) Coronado |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | WAR STUFF $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lafitte Nat'l Historical Park in New Orleans, LA.) Jean Lafitte changed from pirate to patriot when he & his men sailed out of these bayous in the national historical park named for him to aid the U.S. during this war the War of 1812 |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $800: One night in this Asian city makes a hard man humble, & with 38,850 people per sq. mile in its Sam Peng district, that's a lot of men Bangkok |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE $400: Traditional forms of greeting the Queen: "For men... a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small" one of these bows curtsy |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | "A" IS FOR AUTHOR $200: ...of "Little Men" (Louisa May) Alcott |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $800: The title of the 1905 artwork seen here is this type of fop, a word also found after "fine and" dandy |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $1200: To see men in pink tights, check out Trockadero, a troupe performing parodies of these ballet |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $1600: Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County in this state, is known for making inmates wear pink Arizona |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $2000: Of the men's Chess Olympiad, 18 out of 20 times from 1952 to 1990--why did we break up a good thing? Soviet Union |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | GET SMART $800: A study of 3,500 Japanese men's brains found those who did this in moderation aged better than those who didn't drank alcohol |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | "B" WEAR $600: Formal functions are sometimes called these 2-word affairs, referring to a piece of men's clothing black tie |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $200: In a 1901 sci fi romance, Wells told a tale of "the first men in" this heavenly body, where they meet the Selenites the Moon |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Returning from their 1804 through 1805 expedition, these two men split up: one sought a shortcut from the mountains to the Missouri; the other explored the Yellowstone River Lewis & Clark |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF YOUR UNION? $800: The men & women assembling Mustangs & Malibus the United Auto Workers |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | 4-LETTER "S" WORDS $200: At 6'8" & 740 lbs. Emanuel Yarbrough was one of the heaviest men in the amateur division of this sport sumo |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | THE 16th CENTURY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the 27,000 men who left La Coruna in July 1588, more than half perished in voyage in battles of this 2-word military group the Spanish Armada |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | TV PERSONALITY MARRIAGES $1200: After 7 months of marriage, Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" & Fred Armisen of this late night staple separated SNL (Saturday Night Live) |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $400: History-loving Edgar Lawrence... (E.L.) Doctorow |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $400: The outdoorsy home of British Merry Men becomes the new pad for a "Last King of Scotland" winner Sherwood Forest Whitaker |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): The fantastic James Matthew... (J.M.) Barrie |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1200: The very British Pelham Grenville... (P.G.) Wodehouse |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1600: Young people's author Susan Eloise... (S.E.) Hinton |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $2000: The adventurous Cecil Scott... (it's not Lewis) (C.S.) Forester |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $200: 100,000 people of this city turned out for the 1849 funeral of beloved bandleader Johann Strauss Sr. Vienna |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $400: "King of the Waltz" Johann Strauss Jr. wrote in other dance forms too, like the "Tritsch-Tratsch" this the polka |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $600: In 1908 Oscar Strauss turned this playwright's "Arms and the Man" into the operetta "The Chocolate Soldier" (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $800: Richard Strauss used double basses for Jokanaan's beheading in the opera about this princess Salomé |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $1000: Horn virtuoso Franz Strauss was consulted by Wagner in devising this hero's horn call Siegfried |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | RESCUE ME $400: An uplifting story of 2002 was the rescue of nine men trapped for three days in one of these in Pennsylvania a coal mine |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | IT'S REIGNING MEN $800: He walked out on his country's production of Oliver (Cromwell) but came back to be proclaimed king in May 1660 Charles II |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | IT'S REIGNING MEN $1000: Known for victory costing more than its worth, he was king of Macedonia, lost the throne, got it back, then got killed Pyrrhus |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | BOOK BY CHARACTERS $1600: George Milton,
Lennie Small Of Mice and Men |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | FLY ME WITH BALLOONS $800: In 1978, 3 men set a record flight duration of 137 hours in The Double Eagle II balloon, which used this gas helium |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | APOCRYPHA NOW $1600: The "Song of the Three Young Men" finds the trio tossed into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of this land Babylon |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a sculpture.) Washington holds a wampum belt in this work honoring the Oneida who traveled 400 miles in the winter of 1777-78 to bring food to the starving men at this site Valley Forge |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | AMERICAN POETRY $1200: In "The Courtship of Miles Standish", Longfellow wrote, "Youngest of all was he of the men who came in" this ship the Mayflower |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | LITERARY ISLAND HOPPING $1600: Alistair MacLean wrote of this German-controlled Greek island & the men sent to destroy a gun battery there Navarone |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: At the Sea of Galilee, Jesus told Andrew & this brother to follow him & "I will make you to become fishers of men" Peter |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | FASHION TRENDS $200: In the '50s, the ducktail style of this was popular for men the haircut |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | PASS THE "URK"-Y $600: The intro to radio's "The Shadow" told us that evil does this in the hearts of men lurk |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | BOOK OPPOSITES $600: 1946:
"None of the Queen's Gals" All The King's Men |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $400: These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist a Petri dish |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $800: 373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientist Kelvin |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes Aristotle |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: With his book & TV show named this, Carl Sagan popularized astronomy for bil--thousands, at least Cosmos |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: Introduced in 1856, his process, using blasts of air to remove impurities, made the mass production of steel possible Henry Bessemer |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THE MUSES $1,200 (Daily Double): Clio is the muse of this & is often depicted with a scroll, perhaps to record the deeds of men through the ages history |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $400: In a Gallup poll of the most admired people of the 20th century, this evangelist ranked seventh (Billy) Graham |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $1000: His custom-made King Silver Flair trumpet is part of the Smithsonian collection (Dizzy) Gillespie |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | WELCOME TO INDIA $2,000 (Daily Double): A group of vigilante women who beat up corrupt & abusive men calls itself the pink this garment gang sari |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | ONLY YESTERDAY $1000: This R&B quartet's version of "Yesterday" is on their 1994 album "II" Boyz II Men |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | THIS... WAS... JEOPARDY! $800 (Daily Double): On July 3, 1863 3 brigades of his division, 4,300 men, led a Gettysburg "charge", with disastrous results George Pickett |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS $1000: In this collection of essays, James Madison wrote, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary" The Federalist Papers |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS $200: Benozzo Gozzoli made a unique landscape the backdrop for the biblical journey of this trio the three wise men (or the three magi) |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | SUIT UP! $400: A suit of executive cut is for men who are a little more, how shall I say... well, you tell me heavy |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | SPORTS QUOTES $1000: This golfer told a men's magazine he doesn't go to the gym because "they won't let me smoke in there" John Daly |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIES $1000: 2009:
Lyn Cassady, part of an experimental U.S. Army unit that uses psychic powers The Men Who Stare at Goats |
| #5964, aired 2010-07-15 | JONAH'S DRUTHERS $200: Aboard ship in a storm, the men "cast" these items of chance; Jonah's came up, but he'd rather it didn't lots |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | VILLAINS SPEAK $1600: Robin Hood, now that my brother king Richard is away, you & your merry men will see sadder days under my rule King John |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: It's the 4-letter name of the pleated skirt worn by men in Scotland a kilt |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $400: This 1989 Oscar nominee was based on the W.P. Kinsella book "Shoeless Joe" Field of Dreams |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $600: "The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | SUPER $1600: Cutlery was the chosen weapon of the Blue Raja, played by Hank Azaria in this 1999 superfilm spoof Mystery Men |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $400: This unit of thermodynamic temperature for British physicist William Thomson:
K kelvin |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $1200: For a French physicist, this unit of radioactivity:
Ci curie |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $1600: For a British physicist, this unit of energy:
J joule |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $2000: For a French mathematician, this unit of pressure:
Pa pascal |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $4,000 (Daily Double): For a German physicist, this unit of electric resistance whose symbol is seen here ohm |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | SPORTS STARS' MEMOIRS & BIOS $1000: "Where Men Win Glory" is "The Odyssey of" this man who quit the NFL to enlist in the U.S. Army, with fatal results (Pat) Tillman |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | MILITARY FIRSTS $600: On Oct. 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop became the first of 10 condemned men hanged in this city for war crimes Nuremberg |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CLASSIC GAME COMING ATTRACTIONS $600: They came to explore a new land--one of lollipop woods & gingerbread men. This fall they'll curse their visit to... Candyland |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | AS TIME GOES BY $1000: In a 19th century bestseller of men & the sea, Richard Henry Dana Jr. told of living this many "Years Before the Mast" Two |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | SONG LYRICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", 2 of the 4 men with the initials "L.B." (2 of) Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs & Leonard Bernstein |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $1000: (I'm New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.) The title of my book "Are Men Necessary?", exploring the implications of feminism, puts a twist on "Is Sex Necessary?", by E.B. White & this humorist James Thurber |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | LIFE WITH THE HOOD $200: Some stories say that this member of Robin Hood's merry men was 7 feet tall Little John |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s" Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | GET A WHIFF OF THIS $800: Do you want to smell like this brand, maker of men's & women's fragrances as well as that pocket knife? Swiss Army |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE $1600: Celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2010, this nonpartisan political org. is open to men as well the League of Women Voters |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | HOMOPHONES $2000: Sterile, like some women, or a member of the lowest grade of nobility, like some men barren/baron |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | SINNERS $400: Genesis 13 tells us that "the men of" this city "were wicked and sinners" Sodom |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | DECADES OF BESTSELLERS $800: "The Yearling" &
"Of Mice and Men" the 1930s |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $600: 1948:
Prospector Fred C. Dobbs really digs Mexico while facing bandits & greed The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $400: "Feeding your Baby and Child" was the 1955 follow-up to his more famous 1946 book (Benjamin) Spock |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $800: Before his rivalry with Jonas Salk, he developed a vaccine for dengue fever while in the army during WWII (Albert) Sabin |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | THE NOVEL'S FIRST DRAFT? $800: "With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Chicago Bears select...Lennie!" George beamed. Now they could buy 200 rabbit farms! Of Mice and Men |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1200: He once said, "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned" Christiaan Barnard |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1600: In 1616 he began lecturing on the circulation of blood; his book on the subject didn't come out until 1628 (William) Harvey |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $2000: Last name of clinic founders Karl & William, whose writings helped mold attitudes toward mental illness Menninger |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | POLITICAL LINGO $800: An 1868 definition of this term: "men traveling with little luggage and less character" to profit from the situation a carpetbagger |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | FASHION DESIGNERS $400: Alexis Mabille uses this essential part of men's formal wear as a trademark, putting it on models' chests & ankles a bow-tie |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | WORLD LEADERS $1600: Since 1971 Syria has been ruled by men of this last name, father & son Assad |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS $800: Yakov Springer, a weightlifting coach, was one of 10 men murdered on September 6, 1972 in this city Munich |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $200: David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $400: Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy (P.D.) James |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE DIEDS OF MARCH $800: Crispus Attucks, an African American, was one of 5 men killed in this Beantown event March 5, 1770 the Boston Massacre |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $1000: Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Edward Morgan (E.M.) Forster |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | GOD BLESS NEBRASKA $400: In 1950 Omaha became the home of this sport's men's college championship baseball |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | HODGE PODGE $1200: Comic book supervillain Cameron Hodge is an arch-foe of this group of mutant superheroes the X-Men |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $400: In Nov. 2009 Eagles tight end Brent Celek celebrated a TD by striking the pose of this rum ad man; the NFL was not amused Captain Morgan |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $800: The spokescharacter for this cereal is the skipper of the Guppy Cap'n Crunch |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $1600: A maitre d' named Frank Brown posed for the portrait seen on boxes of this rice Uncle Ben |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $2000: The namesake of this brand of canned pasta was an Italian immigrant who got a job cooking at NYC's Plaza hotel Chef Boyardee |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $400: In 1986 Dr. Alec Jeffreys became the first scientist to use this to identify suspected criminals DNA |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $800: Albert Hoffman, who died aged 102 in 2008, was best known for synthesizing this 3-letter hallucinogen LSD |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard discovered the best liquid fuel was a combination of gasoline and this, aka LOx liquid oxygen |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | DIRECT TV $1200: Pamela Fryman directed "A Lungful of Alan", an episode of this sitcom that co-stars Jon Cryer Two and a Half Men |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: The flask that this British scientist invented in the 1890s was a predecessor of the Thermos James Dewar |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: The first mention of this scientist's theoretical cat was in 1935's "The Present Situation in Quantum Physics" Schrödinger |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: (I'm author and journalist Helene Cooper.) In 1847 a government based on that of the U.S. was established by free black men & former slaves in the West African nation they called this Liberia |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $1000: (Alex stands in front of an exhibit at the Newseum.) The exhibit "G-men and Journalists" contains the very first ledger in which this list was kept; it began when a reporter asked the FBI, "Who are the toughest guys you're looking for?" the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NEW TESTAMENT PLACES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) This boat from the early Christian era is the type that Peter & Andrew may have been in when Jesus said, "Follow me and I will make you" these fishers of men |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NEW TESTAMENT PLACES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) Here in the garden of Gethsemane, this disciple, accompanied by a group of armed men, approached Jesus & said, "Hail, master", then kissed him Judas |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $800: In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime Woolworth's |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF DISCIPLINE $1600: Indiana University has the nation's first Ph.D. program in these studies that cover men's & women's roles gender studies |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | FACTS & FIGURES $800: Since 1970 the number of U.S. men aged 25-34 still living here has increased from 10% to 15% at home |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $1200: This Belgian's "Mysteries Of The Horizon" shows 3 men in bowler hats; a sliver of moon hangs above each of them Magritte |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | THE FIRST CHRISTMAS: LUKE REPORTING $800: We've got expert analysis of the heavenly host's words "and on Earth" this & "good will toward men" peace |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | HAVE PUN WILL TRAVEL $1000: Seeing several men impersonate Nixon's Secy. of State made me echo an old song & say, "I wonder who's" doing this Kissinger now |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | LITERARY "EL" MEN $400: First name of Sinclair Lewis' title character Gantry Elmer |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINS $1000: This "attractive" mutant & X-Men enemy spent his early teen years in a Nazi death camp Magneto |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | LITERARY "EL" MEN $1200: Surname of authors Ralph & Harlan Ellison |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | LITERARY "EL" MEN $1,400 (Daily Double): Cousins Fredric Dannay & Manfred B. Lee used this pseudonum as authors & as the name of their popular detective Ellery Queen |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | LITERARY "EL" MEN $2000: The "Master of Rivendell", he founded the Last Homely House, which Frodo & Bilbo visited Elrond |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $2000: This American ballet music composer also wrote the score for the film "Of Mice and Men" Aaron Copland |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | BIBLE "R"OSTER $2000: One of the 7 archangels, he's not a painter, but rather presides over the spirits of men in the afterlife Raphael |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $800: "Sons Of The Gael! Men Of The Pale! The Long Watched Day Is Breaking" Ireland |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $1000: "Mr. Smooth" was in L.A. on July 20, 2009 "as his alter ego, 1960s ad exec Don Draper, on the set of 'Mad Men'" Jon Hamm |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | PATRON $800: Ludovico Sforza, a patron of men like Leonardo, gave this northern Italian city Europe's grandest court Milan |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: For men in France, it means "born with the name of" né |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION MOVIE $1600: "X-Men Origins" was the story of this title superhero's beginnings Wolverine |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | THE U.S. ARMY $1600: In 1863 the U.S. government passed the first of these laws compelling young men to sign up for service in the Army draft laws (or conscription laws) |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | BODY BASICS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The Adam's apple, which is larger in men than in women, is a protuberance of the thyroid cartilage that supports this passageway, sometimes called the voice box the larynx |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $200: The "Best (and Worst!) of 2008" issue had "My Year of Surprises"; she "Talks About Marriage, Men and 'Marley & Me'" Jennifer Aniston |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Spain in August 1492, Columbus & his 90 men briefly stopped in these islands that had only recently become a Spanish possession the Canary Islands |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | THE BOOK OF JOHN $2000: He followed up "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" with "Children Are from Heaven" John Gray |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE $800: "O.M.A.M." Of Mice and Men |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $600: Every room of Charlie's Malibu bachelor pad has been invaded by his brother Alan & Alan's son Jake on this sitcom Two and a Half Men |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WHAT A DECADE IN THE U.S. $1200: 2 of the 4 men who were president in the 1920s; they each must have said "vo dee oh do" at least once (2 of) Coolidge, Hoover, Wilson & Harding |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | CLASSIC LIT $400: "Paradise Lost" calls him "The goodliest man of men since born his sons" Adam |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | BIBLE BASICS $1200: Jesus gave his apostle Simon this name, from the Greek for "rock", & made him a "fisher of men" Peter |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | ORIGINAL TITLES $1200: John Steinbeck first titled this story of George & Lennie "Something that Happened" Of Mice and Men |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | LACE $500 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Bruges Lace Center in Belgium.) Handmade lace was dealt a near deathblow by these 2 revolutions--one a bloody revolt ending the fashion of lace for men, & one that led to machine-made lace the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THAT TITLE IS TAKEN $2000: This Cormac McCarthy title comes from a Yeats poem about a senior citizen's hope to transmute himself into art No Country for Old Men |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | OLD HAT $1200: At Colonial Williamsburg, men wear this type of cocked hat whose name tells you it's tacked up on 3 sides three-cornered hat (tricorne) |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | JAPANESE CULTURE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a geisha in Kyoto, Japan.) Geisha & maiko used kimonos to accentuate what was the most desirable area for Japanese men--the unaji, or back of the neck, known as this in English the nape |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | WHAT A KNOCKOUT! $400: Her 2008 marriage to Jay-Z made millions of single men sad (like you guys really had a chance!) Beyoncé |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | CLASSIC MOVIE SPECIAL EFFECTS $2000: 1984:
Men ride giant worms & attack the forces of the Emperor Dune |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | TRA-LA! IT'S MAY! $400: For centuries, May Day merriments have featured this outlaw who led a band of merry men Robin Hood |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | DEMONS $1200: (I'm Vincent Kartheiser of Mad Men.) The ruthless leader Commodus believed he was this god, the son of Zeus, & showed off his physical strength by fighting & dressing as a gladiator Hercules |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | FICTIONAL MUNCHIES $400: Cram is a biscuit-like food made by the men of Esgaroth in this author's fantasy world Tolkien |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | ALEX ROCKS IN CONCERT $800: Throwing under-garments on stage is fine; I just wish they weren't men's briefs like this Michael Jordan-endorsed brand Hanes |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | THE OZONE LAYER $800: In 1995 the Nobel Prize in this field went to 3 men for their studies of the formation & decomposition of the ozone layer chemistry |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this Robert Penn Warren novel comes from a nursery rhyme All the King's Men |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The times headlined its 2007 review of this series' first episode "smoking, drinking, cheating and selling" Mad Men |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | WORDS FROM PLACES $200: This type of formal clothing for men is named for a town in New York a tuxedo |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $400: Rediscovered c. 1900, the work of this Austrian monk was thought irrelevant to evolutionary theory (Gregor) Mendel |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $800: This journalist said no one "has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses" (H.L.) Mencken |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $1200: This composer of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" won 2 Pulitzers for his work (Gian Carlo) Menotti |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $1600: This physician saw the benefit of a group practice after visiting the Mayo Clinic; he later started a clinic in Kansas Menninger |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | GOOD O'MEN $200: Tip O'Neill was the man of the House of Representatives, holding this post from 1977 to 1986 Speaker |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | GOOD O'MEN $1000: A work titled "The Bush" helped make Bernard O'Dowd a major poet of this country Australia |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | NO. 1 HITMAKERS OF THE '90s $400: 1997:
"Men In Black" Will Smith |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | AT THE BUFFET $400: I noticed the Lorraine type of this eggy dish, but I didn't see any real men eating it quiche |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | PAINTINGS $400: Raphael must have used up a lot of red paint for his portrait of Pope Leo X with 2 of these men cardinals |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $400: This state capital is about 85 miles northeast of San Francisco Sacramento |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $800: Much of this nation's northern border with Saudi Arabia is undefined, as it lies in the desert Yemen |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $1200: In a children's tale, this city of Germany is known for its band of animal musicians Bremen |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.) Memorial Union Terrace at University of Wisconsin-Madison is right on this lake, whose name comes from a Siouan word Mendota |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $2000: An Australian gold mining town shares this name with former Aussie prime minister Robert Menzies |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | THE JOURNEY OF LIFE $1200: 3-letter term for a young man, or the British culture of hard-partying young men a lad |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | CAPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2003, the 2 men seen here vied to wield power from this state capital Sacramento |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | CAN YOU AD? $800: (I'm Elisabeth Moss. I play copywriter Peggy Olson on Mad Men.) This woman was a copywriter for an ad agency before being named editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | GONE WITH THE WIND: THE NOVEL $2000: The first 2 men mentioned by name in the novel are these twins, recently expelled from the Univ. of Georgia the Tarleton twins |
| #5628, aired 2009-02-11 | THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND $200: Enlargement of this walnut-size gland found only in males is common in men over 50 the prostate |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $400: In 1581 this world-circumnavigating sailor was made the mayor of Plymouth, England Sir Francis Drake |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $800: Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth man to hold this title, died mysteriously in 1706 the Dalai Lama |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $1200: This man who lost the 1948 presidential election was referred to as "the little man on the wedding cake" (Thomas) Dewey |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $1600: This U.S. mayor who died in 1976 was called the "last of the big-city bosses" (Richard) Daley |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | "D" MEN OF HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The topic of the paper he gave to the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society in 1794 was color blindness John Dalton |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: This Ray Bradbury collection of linked short stories includes "The Earth Men" & "The Moon Be Still As Bright" The Martian Chronicles |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WHATCHA DUNE? $800: In 1991 the house of this French designer began marketing Dune, a women's perfume; a men's cologne followed in 1997 Christian Dior |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $400: Some might say Polyphemus of this race was rude in eating Odysseus' men, so Odie blinded him Cyclops |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | THE HOLY "C" $200: Pharaoh & his men pursued the children of Israel into the Red Sea aboard these horse-drawn vehicles chariots |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | OCCUPATIONAL WEAR $800: A type of bulky knit sweater originated in Ireland with men in this line of work fishermen |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR $1200: One of the 4 of all the president's men convicted by a federal court Jan. 1, 1975 (1 of) John Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, or Robert Mardian |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | THE SPORTS BAR $1600: For men, the bar has a minimum length of 8 feet, 6.25 inches & weight of 1.75 pounds in this field event the javelin |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayeux Cathedral in France.) "Istimirant Stella", meaning "these men wonder at the star", refers to this, visible in England in April 1066 & regarded as an ill omen Halley's Comet |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | NEWS OF THE WEIRD $1000: 2 men were busted in Traverse City in this state; they'd told a gas station worker 2 hours earlier that they'd soon rob him Michigan |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $1000: In the 1930s Harlan F. Stone & Owen J. Roberts were 2 of the group called this many "old men" 9 |
