| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $1000: In "Oil!", Upton Sinclair writes, "Water and oil would spout up over the top of" this framework, "staining it... black" derrick |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $800: In 1973 West Germany set a speed limit of 62 mph on this due to the oil crisis; it was soon repealed the Autobahn |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it Guyana |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | OLIVE ME $400: Cold-pressed olive oil is naturally low in this & is classified by its ascending level of it acidity |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | OLIVE ME $800: Olive oil is high in this type of fat whose name tells you it has only one type of a certain bond per molecule monounsaturated |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $400: Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing vitamin E |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $1600: If your massage oil is scented, it may also be used for this, the use of fragrance to help with mood or behavior aromatherapy |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | EARTH SCIENCE $600: It's not just oil--Saudi Arabia has reserves of over 300 trillion cubic feet of this natural gas |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | THE HOME SPA $1000: Oil from this shrub with a Spanish name makes a good moisturizer; it's similar to our natural skin oil the jojoba |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | BACK IN THE DAY $800: Not a Super Bowl stadium, it was also called the Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal, & it took a toll on President Harding Teapot Dome |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $1000: "Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889" by James Ensor parades through this L.A. museum named for an oil magnate the Getty |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | LATIN AMERICA $1200: Venezuela's second-most populous city, it's the center of the nation's oil industry & bears the name of the nearby lake Maracaibo |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $400: Every March brings a holiday in Iran on the date in 1951 when the country nationalized this industry the oil industry |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $1200: This crop is the largest source of animal protein feed in the world & second in the vegetable oil race soybean(s) |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Anointing with oil; it used to be in the name of an "extreme" Catholic sacrament unction |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SMELL? $2000: It's Vicks VapoRub for cold relief, a combination of menthol, camphor & this strong-smelling tree oil eucalyptus |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | A LOOK AT SYMBOLS $400: If the light here appears on your dashboard, it's time to check this the oil |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | SKIN CARE FROM A TO Z WITH MICHAEL STRAHAN $600: (Michael Strahan presents the clue.) Sebum protects your skin--"J" is for this oil from another plant that balances your complexion by mimicking sebum, adding & decreasing production as needed, & honestly, it's just a fun word to say jojoba |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | CLEANUP $800: As of 2020 the bill for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was around $70 billion, most of it paid by this company BP |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | PRIMING THE PUMP $2000: The first fuel pump in the U.S. was installed in Fort Wayne in 1885; it supplied this oil used mainly for lamps kerosene |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | FRENCH PHRASES $1200: The kid isn't really escaping from the picture frame; it's this style, meant to fool the eye trompe-l'œil |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $1200: It's the elegant term for the process by which crude oil is distilled & purified into useful forms of petroleum refining |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $800: From Jurassic times, the Smackover Formation takes its name from an Arkansas town that had a 1920s boom due to this resource oil |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $1000: A 17th century British hangman lent his name first to a gallows & then to this oil well structure used to hoist pipes Derrick |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $1600: In the '70s & '80s,
Ewing Oil Dallas |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GEOLOGY $400: If a deposit of rock isn't permeable enough to produce oil & gas, this controversial method of injecting fluid can change it fracking |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL $600: Studying for that test until dawn, you "burned" this timely 2-word phrase but probably not for real, as it's not 1855 the (mid)night oil |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $800: First found in Nigeria in 1956, it's the nation's most important source of government revenue oil |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | FOOD LABELS & FABLES $1200: Often, this fungus isn't in the oil bearing its name; Gordon Ramsay called it one of the "most ridiculous" ingredients truffle |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $600: To prevent Marines from landing, in 1991 this country dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf Iraq |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $1200: It preceded "Horizon" in the name of a now-infamous oil rig Deepwater |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | YES WE "CAN" $400: While number 2 in the U.S., it's the number one vegetable oil used in Canada & Japan canola |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $800: Big oil & gas are the subject of a 2019 nonfiction bestseller by this TV personality
In fact, it could be argued, the oil business as we know it today was the invention of one particular American, John D. Rockefeller Rachel Maddow |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $400: From the French for "jumped", it means to fry food quickly in just a little fat or oil sauté |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TRANSPORTATION TERMS $200: It's inserted into the crankcase to check a car's oil level a dipstick |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | BUILDINGS $1600: Also a main building of an airport, it's an installation at a harbor where oil or gas is stored a terminal |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | GUT FEELING $600: Originally, the formula of this tummy soother was pepsin, zinc salts, oil of wintergreen, salol & a colorant to make it pink Pepto-Bismol |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $1200: That's the Exxon Baton Rouge in 1989 trying to capture oil from this tanker that ran aground--it would spill 11 million gallons the Exxon Valdez |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Dad loves his heavy new black skillet made of this type of "iron"; he seasons it with oil to keep it like new cast iron |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ENERGY $2000: This 5-letter type of rock contains organic matter so it can yield oil as well as natural gas from fracking shale |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | "C" IN COOKING $200: It's the alias of rapeseed oil canola oil |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $1200: George Clooney tries to kill, then tries to save Prince Nasir in this 2005 film about oil & greed Syriana |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | JOURNALISM $2000: Investigative journalist Ida Tarbell exposed this oil company in her 1904 "History" of it Standard Oil |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Famous ones include the Stanford prison one & the Millikan oil-drop one experiments |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | IT'S A DISASTER! $200: 1,100 miles of shoreline were polluted after 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in this large body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | THEY SAY IT KEEPS YOU SHARP $1000: Studies show less mental decline in followers of the diet named for this body of water fish, fruits, whole grains & olive oil the Mediterranean diet |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | ONOMATOPOEIA $400: Time to oil the hinged wooden entrance; it's doing this again creaking |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | THE WORLD FACTBOOK SAYS... $800: It "spent more than $5 billion to repair oil infrastructure damaged during 1990-91" Kuwait |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): Since it is lighter than water, the oil mainly in this organ prevents sharks from sinking the liver |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | "FR" $1000: It entered our vocabulary in 1953 when the Oil & Gas Journal called it "a new exploratory tool" fracking |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | "FEE", "FI", "FO", "FUM" $600: It's that Italian bread you're dipping into olive oil focaccia |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | OF INDUSTRY $1000: Before it was forcibly split into several companies, this Rockefeller petroleum co. was the USA's biggest Standard Oil |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | GASOLINE $400: This type of facility takes a 42-gallon barrel of crude oil & turns it into 19 gallons of gas a refinery |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE TV BUSINESS $200: That big mansion on "Dallas" was paid for by an oil company with this family name on it Ewing |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | PLANET EARTH $400: Burning coal & oil in the Industrial Age has produced this, atomic No. 6--mix it with oxygen & you get a greenhouse gas carbon |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | IT'S A PROCESS $400: Mucho methane is released from this process of injecting high-pressure fluid into underground rock to free gas & oil fracking |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | CONTAINERS $600: The amphora was a container used to hold this; in the "Odyssey", Telemachus asks for 12 amphorae full of it wine |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | BIG TIME RUSH $400: An oil boom using modern techniques in this prairie state has made it second in crude production in the U.S. behind Texas North Dakota |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: It was also known as the Elk Hills scandal, for an oil reserve in California the Teapot Dome scandal |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: In 2008 oil was over $147 per this unit; in 2015 it dropped to around a third of that a barrel |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product whale oil |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | NAME CALLING $800: If someone calls you this, it doesn't mean you're a metal rod used to check a car's oil level; it means you're a jerk! a dipstick |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THIS IS N-P-R $800: It's an oil-resistant synthetic rubber used as a coating neoprene |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: In the Catholic Church, it's a small vessel for holy water; in the kitchen, it holds a condiment such as vinegar or oil a cruet |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | THE CASPIAN SEA $2000: Large-scale oil production began in this Azerbaijani capital in 1872, making it a global center of the industry by 1900 Baku |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $200: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) You can make it from other herbs & nuts but this sauce traditionally calls for pine nuts & fresh basil, pureed with olive oil & garlic pesto |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $600: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) In my "A Good Appetite" column I shared that the trick to making this basic sauce & condiment at home is to add a little bit of water to the egg yolks before dripping in the oil; I find it makes for a stronger emulsion mayonnaise |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $200: The backwards movement of a gun after it's been fired recoil |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $400: Hard work; it precedes "and trouble" in the title of a book about witches toil |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $1000: Sounding like a cooking device, it refers to standard contract language boilerplate |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE "BLACK"LIST $1200: It's another name for oil--just ask Jed Clampett black gold |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | LIQUIDS $400: For Colavita to label this liquid "extra virgin", it must be collected from the first pressing olive oil |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS $2000: Shell Oil's parent company is headquartered in this country where it gets the "royal" treatment the Netherlands |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | HOW'D THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? $400: (Here with the first clue is Kevin O'Leary.) In 1914, J. Paul Getty came back from goofing around in Europe & got into this family business in Oklahoma; it made him the USA's richest man the oil business |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $1000: Roughnecking is tough, especially working on a semisubmersible one of these like the Deepwater Nautilus a drilling platform |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Talk about "big" this--Saudi Aramco is sitting on 260 billion barrels of it, 10 times more than Exxon Mobil oil |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | THE STOCK MARKET $2,400 (Daily Double): The world's fourth-largest public company according to Forbes, it is traded in Amsterdam Royal Dutch Shell (Shell Oil) |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | UP NORTH $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Svalbard, Norway.) The walrus has very little fur, so it relies on its thick skin & this subcutaneous layer of oil-rich fat as insulation from the cold blubber |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | 5 NOT ALL DEADLY "CIN"s $2000: It's a white, poisonous protein powder from the bean of the castor oil plant ricin |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | FATS & OILS $1200: AKA groundnut oil, it absorbs almost no flavor from food, so you can cook a variety of foods in it together peanut oil |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCOUNT TENT $800: It said "flame resistant", but a bit of this, aka paraffin oil, got on the tent & a spark lit it up like a Roman candle kerosene |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | LONG LIVE THE COMPANY $1,600 (Daily Double): This company started in 1833 selling mollusk exoskeletons; it switched to selling oil for lamps in the 1890s Shell |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | MILLION DOLLAR $400: 2010, not a good year for this U.K. oil co.; in Sept. the EPA fined it $15 million for Clean Air Act violations at a refinery BP |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | LOTS OF "OIL" $200: Proverbially, it's what you do to a child when you spare the rod spoil |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | WASHING DONE $1200: That stain on your jeans from helping Dad change the car's 10W-30 this-- it didn't come out the oil |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | MAY I QUOTE YOU ON THAT? $2000: In 2010 British Petroleum said it "seemed inconceivable" that this oil rig device, BP for short, could fail the blowout preventer |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | CINCO DE MAYO $800: Any way you slice it, mayonnaise is primarily raw these, vinegar & vegetable oil egg yolks |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | THEY GIVE US GAS $1600: Founded in the Lone Star State, it was the first oil company to market in what was then all 48 states Texaco |
| #6149, aired 2011-05-12 | IT'S "MAY"! $400: Stable emulsion of vinegar, oil, raw egg yolks & lemon juice; yum! mayonnaise |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | FRENCH FOOD TALK $2000: Popularly served on crackers, it's a spread made from capers, anchovies, olives, olive oil & lemon juice tapenade |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE GALAPAGOS ENVIRONMENT $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Galapagos in Ecuador.) With its fragile ecosystem in danger from events like a 2001 oil tanker wreck, the Galapagos turned to energy sources like this; 3 turbines for it were installed in 2007 wind power |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | I "GET" IT $1600: In 1984 Penzoil & Texaco both thought they had bought this company Getty Oil |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | A SEEDY CATEGORY $1000: You might say the black oil type of these is for the birds, since it's the most popular food used in feeders sunflower seeds |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | COUNTING DOWN TO "MIDNIGHT" $600: It's the "swift" '80s band that gave us "Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | DO TRY THIS AT HOME $400: Whether its virgin or extra virgin, store it in a dark place; light as well as heat can spoil it olive oil |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | ART $200: It can mean the closely woven durable cloth on which oil paintings are made or refer to the painting itself a canvas |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: The name of this garden is Hebrew for "oil press"; in ancient times it was the place where olives were pressed into oil Gethsemane |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST $400: A Senate report showed his govt., deposed in 2003, stole billions from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program (Saddam) Hussein |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ALL ABOUT ANTARCTICA $1000: (Tom Ritchie presents the clue from Antarctica.) Lifeless boats and rusted tanks that once held the precious oil are relics of Deception Island's past: from 1906 to 1931, it was a processing center for this brutal trade whaling |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | IRAQ'S PROVINCES $800: Basra, Thi-Qar & Missan tried to break away in 2004 & might have made a go of it, as they have 80% of Iraq's this beneath them oil |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Omani peninsula of Musandam juts into this strait, an important route for oil tankers the Strait of Hormuz |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | ECO SUAVE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew performs a science demonstration.) Hydrophobic sand doesn't absorb water because it's been treated with a compound of this element, Si; the sand does cling to oil, however, making it useful in cleaning up oil spills silicon |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | NO WAY! IT'S NORWAY! $1000: Norway rakes it in off this resource & has high hopes for more from the Goliat Field in the Barents Sea oil |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $400: Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing vitamin E |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $2000: If your massage oil is scented, it may also be used for this, the use of fragrance to help with mood or behavior aromatherapy |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $1000: To remove odor from shoes, add oil of this spice to a cotton ball & leave it in the shoes cloves |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: Fashioned from empty oil containers during WWII, it's Trinidad & Tobago's national instrument steel drum |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | IT'S NO WHITE $1,000 (Daily Double): Light goldenrod is also known by this name because it resembles the color of the seeds from which we get linseed oil flax |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | GEOGRAPHIC AMERICANISMS $200: Immortalized in "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett", it's what "Texas tea" is oil |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | ARTSY $400: The "Mona Lisa" isn't oil on canvas but oil on this wood |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | ONE IN A MILLION $200: The Hebrews got theirs from olives & used it for anointing the dead & for burning in lamps oil |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | "EEN" $2000: Scotland's third-largest city, it's known as the oil capital of Europe Aberdeen |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | T"OIL" $1200: The backward jerk of a gun when it's fired recoil |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | A ROUND OF GULF $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1989 over 11 million gallons of oil spilled into this sound in the Gulf of Alaska Prince William Sound |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | POISON IVY, OAK & SUMAC $800: The irritating oil urushiol is in this sticky liquid in the plant, but beware: it could have spread all over the sap |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | MIDDLE NAMES $800: Had a real standard when it came to oil:
Davison (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | STOCK IT TO ME! $1000: With the symbol HAL, it constructs oil wells, among other things... Halliburton |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a glass bottle used to hold vinegar or oil for salad dressing a cruet |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | IS IT "TEA" TIME YET? $1200: This slang synonym for oil is mentioned in the theme song to "The Beverly Hillbillies" Texas tea |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | "ARG"! $200: It's any ban imposed on commerce by edict; there was an oil one in the 1970s an embargo |
| #5331, aired 2007-11-12 | 2007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: It's an Italian appetizer of toasted bread, garlic & olive oil, often topped with chopped tomatoes B-R-U-S-C-H-E-T-T-A |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | OLIVE OIL $400: It's pure & delicious! The oil that's the cold-pressed result of the 1st pressing of olives is extra this virgin |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | ENERGY $2000: Abbreviated SPR, it's the emergency store of oil created by the U.S. government in 1977 strategic petroleum reserve |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | CHECK YOUR OIL $2000: Leading to the end of whale oil use, Abraham Gesner distilled a new fuel from coal in 1846 & named it this kerosene |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | COOKIN' UP CATFISH $200: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Taylor Grocery here in Mississippi fries catfish in oil made from this legume, widely grown in the South; it can be heated to high temperatures without smoking peanut |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | STATE SUPERLATIVES $600: It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state Texas |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: A unit of commerce, it's 42 gallons of crude oil a barrel |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | OIL IN THEM THAR STATES $1200: Champaign toasted the oil discovered in this state; now it's second in production for states east of the Mississippi Illinois |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | OIL IN THEM THAR STATES $1600: In the 1850s a prairie wheat state was known as "Bleeding" this; today, oil might make it "Gushing" this Kansas |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | BRAND "O" $400: A line of beauty products once was called "Oil of" this; now it's just this Olay |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | WORDS IN SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a science lab.) Because the structure of oil doesn't allow certain bonds, it's called this type of molecule, from words meaning "fear of water" hydrophobic |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | PAINT IT BLACK $200: It's the lucrative product referred to by the slang term "black gold" oil |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | LIQUIDS $600: The Quaker State Company was founded in 1931 in a Pennsylvania city named for this liquid oil |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | CLEANING UP $1600: In 1898 Caleb Johnson sold this soap named for 2 types of oil used to make it; later the co. merged with Colgate Palmolive |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | BON APPETIT $600: From the French for "jump", it means to cook food quickly & lightly in a little butter or oil sauté |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | THE HOME SPA $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew wipes some oil on her hand in a home spa.) Oil from this shrub with a Spanish name makes a good moisturizer; it's similar to our natural skin oil jojoba |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | A "WIN" WIN SITUATION $400: A plant also called checkerberry, or the oil made from it wintergreen |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | CONDIMENTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Greece's Naxos Island.) This 2-word description refers to oil made from the first pressing of the olive; it's considered the finest & the fruitiest extra virgin |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OLIVE ME $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew wanders through an ancient olive pressery on Naxos, Greece.) Cold-pressed olive oil is naturally low in this, & is classified by its ascending level of it acid |
| #4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OLIVE ME $600: Olive oil is high in this type of fat whose name tells you it has only one type of a certain bond per molecule monounsaturated fat |
| #4720, aired 2005-02-25 | WEST VIRGINIA $400: It's the last name of West Virginia's junior senator, whose great-granddad dabbled in the oil business Rockefeller |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | IT'S GREEK TO ME $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands by a stone wheel in Naxos, Greece.) Related for the English "to bear", "pherein" gave us the name of this traditional container to bear oil an amphora |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | NATURE $600 (Daily Double): It's the alliterative term for coal, oil & natural gas made from the remains of living organisms fossil fuels |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | OIL! $1200: The sudden release of oil from a well under pressure; it can also mean a lively party or lopsided victory a blow out |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | OIL! $2000: A World War II gasoline shortage made this product the basis of jet fuel, which it remains kerosene |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): It was in this state in the late 1800s that Standard Oil & National Cash Register rang up their first sales Ohio |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | READING RAINBOW $1000: In "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch", Elna Hicks starts to dig for potatoes & gets rich by striking this liquid oil |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | EARTH SCIENCE $600: It's not just oil--Saudi Arabia has reserves of over 200 trillion cubic feet of this natural gas |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | ON THE WATER $400: The Prestige, this type of ship, made news in 2002 when it sank off Spain an oil tanker |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CHEMISTRY COMMERCIALS $1200: When it's going to be a special night, dab on a little of an essential one of these, like patchouli oil |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | ALASKA $800: Before it was Alaska's capital, Juneau developed around the discovery of this resource Gold |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | TOUGH JOBS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in front of an oil rig in Oklahoma City) From his coarse appearance, it's a term for a person who works on an oil rig, other than a driller roughneck |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT'S NOT BRAIN SURGERY $400: If that leak from your car is green, it's probably coolant; if it's black & slippery, probably this oil |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's Provencal for garlic; in the name of a sauce, it's combined with oli, "oil" ai (as in aioli) |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | THE FINANCIAL PAGE $200: When the newspaper gives the price of this, it may be the light sweet crude type oil |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | HELOISE'S BEAUTY HINTS $800: This sandwich spread is Heloise's favorite oil treatment for the hair, but use it only on the ends mayonnaise |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | ARE YOU EATING RIGHT? $800: It's cooking food by immersing it in hot oil; it's a Scottish practice to do it to Mars bars deep-fat frying |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | TAKE IT "EZ" $1200: In 1989 this tanker caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history the Exxon Valdez |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | NOSE WORKS $1000: It's the term for the perfume or essential oil extract from flowers attar |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | DINAR $200: Kuwaitis don't have to shell out their dinars for medical care; profits from this export make it free for all oil |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | FIREFIGHTING $800: It was the colorful nickname of oil field firefighter Paul Adair "Red" |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESS LEADERS $200: In 1863 he, Maurice Clark & Samuel Andrews founded a Cleveland oil company: in 1870 it changed its named to Standard Oil John D. Rockefeller |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | NEGATIVE SCIENCE $800: The opposite of what's done to vegetable oil, it means to remove the element with atomic no. 1 dehydrogenate |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | EMERIL'S TV DINNERS $500: Emeril's momma taught him that this pungent bulb is a beautiful thing; he drizzles it with olive oil & roasts it garlic |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | FILL 'ER UP? $1000: In the '40s this gas company used the slogan "Best in the long run" (Get it? Long run) Marathon Oil |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: The westernmost of Canada's prairie provinces, it produces most of the country's crude oil & natural gas Alberta |
| #3823, aired 2001-03-28 | DESPERATE MEASURES $100: It holds 31 to 42 gallons of a liquid -- oil for example Barrel |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | FOOD FACTS $500: You can sell ice cream to these people if it's aqutaq, which they make from seal oil & caribou fat Eskimos |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | "OIL" IT $100: Exhausting labor Toil |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | "OIL" IT $200: To change from liquid to vapor Boil |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | "OIL" IT $300: A small, ornamental mat Doily |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | "OIL" IT $400: To prevent from being successful Spoil/foil |
| #3817, aired 2001-03-20 | "OIL" IT $500: To spring back upon firing Recoil |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | STRIKE! $200: When you "strike" this fuel, natural gas mixed in with it can expand & propel it upward through the drill bore Oil |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a glass bottle used to hold vinegar or oil for salad dressing a cruet |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | WHATCHA GOT COOKIN'? $400: Shrimp covered in a flour, baking powder, salt, water & egg mix then deep-fried in peanut oil; it's popular in Japan Tempura |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | THE INDIAN OCEAN $400: The most valuable mineral resource under the ocean, it's been found in the Bay of Bengal as well as the Persian Gulf oil |
| #3585, aired 2000-03-17 | CORN-UCOPIA $500: TV commercials for this brand of corn oil featured a Native American woman saying, "You call it corn, we call it maize" Mazola |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | IT'S WHAT WE DO $500: Dynegy, whose name comes from "dynamic energy", operates 17,000 miles of these to move oil & gas Pipelines |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $1000: In 1947 huge oil deposits were discovered in this city 175 miles north of Calgary; it's now Canada's oil capital Edmonton |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | STUCK ON YOU $200: Also available in a "Silly" type, it's a mix of powdered chalk & linseed oil used to seal glass panes into frames Putty |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | "F" TROOP $800: Looking for linseed oil? You'll find it in the seeds of this plant Flax |
| #3492, aired 1999-11-09 | FOREIGN AUTO PARTS $600: Fiat owner Rob never pulls out his own stecca dell'olio, this; he lets his mechanic Guido do it dipstick |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | FRUIT IN LATIN $600: The olea, it's famous for its oleum, "oil" olive |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | IT WAS THE '70s $1000: From the Spanish for "to hinder", one of these hindered U.S. motorists when Arab states imposed it on oil embargo |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | 1991 $200: The largest oil spill ever occured during this war (it was on purpose) The Persian Gulf War |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | ON THE ROCKS $200: Though it sounds like a reference to oil, it's the branch of geology that studies rock composition petrology |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | "OIL" $100: Petroleum as it comes to the surface is called this; that's why it has to be refined crude oil |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: He retired about 1896 but remained president of Standard Oil until it was dissolved in 1911 John D. Rockefeller |
| #2903, aired 1997-03-26 | SECOND-LARGEST U.S. CITIES $600: The "Oil Capital of the World", it's also Oklahoma's second-largest city Tulsa |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ENDS IN "ICK" $300: In your car's engine, it lets you know oil's well Dipstick |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | FAMOUS SHIPS $200: After striking a reef in 1989 it caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history Exxon Valdez |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | OMAN $100: It's the principle natural resource of Oman oil |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | POTPOURRI $1000: In this chemical process, a gas is added to an oil to change it to a solid hydrogenation |
| #2658, aired 1996-03-06 | CULINARY TERMS $1000: It's the classic French emulsion of egg yolks, seasonings & vinegar mixed with oil mayonnaise |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This Venezuelan lake has been dredged so transport ships can carry oil from it Lake Maracaibo |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Site of a massive oil spill in 1989, it was named for the third son of King George III Prince William Sound |
| #2499, aired 1995-06-15 | FOOD $100: To preserve this pesto herb, pack it in a clean jar, cover with olive oil & store in a cool place basil |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | FASHION $200: It's the descriptive name for a loose, oil-treated raincoat, usually in bright yellow a slicker |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | ENERGY SOURCES $200: Today a barrel of crude oil yields about 19 gallons of it gasoline |
| #2317, aired 1994-10-04 | LIQUIDS $200: For cooking it comes in regular & extra virgin varieties olive oil |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | FATS & OILS $1000: Olive oil is used to make this soap named for the region in Spain where it was first manufactured Castile soap |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | RHYME TIME $200: Heat Wesson till it bubbles boil oil |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | HISTORY $500: Juan Vincente Gomez was dictator of this South American country in 1918 when it first exploited its oil Venezuela |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | POWDERS $600: It's the dried powder that's mixed with oil to make paint pigment |
| #1983, aired 1993-03-31 | -OLOGIES $500: Although it sounds like it deals with oil, it's the study of rocks petrology |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | FATS & OILS $1000: This oil from flax is used in the making of paints & varnishes because it dries quidkly linseed oil |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | CORN $500: We get corn oil from this part of the kernel... but it's not contagious the germ |
| #1659, aired 1991-11-14 | OKLAHOMA $1000: Oklahoma's second-largest city, it's been called "The Oil Capital of the World" Tulsa |
| #1588, aired 1991-06-26 | ANTONYMS $200: Speaking of manners or oil, it's the opposite of refined crude |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AIN'T IT "GRAND" $500: In 1979 oil was discovered in this fishing ground off the coast of Newfoundland the Grand Banks |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | SOAP $500: It calls itself "the body bar with bath oil" Caress |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | ALASKA $500: The oil field at this Arctic Bay is the largest in North America Prudhoe Bay |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: In corporate income tax, it's the deduction allowed for exhaustible mineral deposits the oil depletion allowance |
| #9, aired 1990-08-11 | NON-POTENT POTABLES $1000: Named for the peer it was created for, this black tea is often flavored with oil of bergamot Earl Grey |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | SCIENCE $600: It's any material, like oil or graphite, put on a surface to lessen friction lubricant |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | IN THE NEWS $800: This oil company announced it is moving its hdqrs. from Rockefeller Center in NYC to Irving, Texas Exxon |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | BIRDS $600: This process usually includes taking oil from a gland at the base of the tail & applying it to the feathers Preening |
| #1266, aired 1990-02-19 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's the only state capital with an oil well on the statehouse grounds Oklahoma City |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: South America's largest lake is the one in Venezuela, known for it underwater oil deposits Lake Maracaibo |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | FOOD FACTS $400: Oil containing garlic can cause this type of food poisoning unless it's kept refrigerated Botulism |
| #1195, aired 1989-11-10 | LIBRARIES $400 (Daily Double): This D.C. Shakespeare library is named for the oil executive who founded it Folger Library |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | IN THE NEWS $500: When this tanker ran aground in 1989, it caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history the Exxon Valdez |
| #1127, aired 1989-06-27 | COSMETICS $300: According to their labels, both Vaseline & baby oil can be used to do this to eye make-up remove it |
| #1107, aired 1989-05-30 | THE EARTH $1000: Deposits of lime shells from protozoans form the primary ingredient of this sedimentary rock chalk (limestone) |
| #1056, aired 1989-03-20 | WORDS $200: It isn't a stirrer for your guacamole, it's a rod that measures the oil in your crankcase a dipstick |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FACTS & FIGURES $200: Sales of Avon's Skin-So-Soft bath oil doubled in 1988 people were using it to repel these insects |
| #1005, aired 1989-01-06 | U.S. CITIES $200: Home of the Cotton Bowl, this city was a major cotton market long before it became an oil center Dallas |
| #966, aired 1988-11-14 | COOKING $400: Be alert when you heat oil for frying, because once it reaches the point when it does this, it decomposes smokes |
| #919, aired 1988-09-08 | MAMMALS $300: Sad to relate, a blue whale usually yields about 120 barrels of this oil |
| #918, aired 1988-09-07 | GEOGRAPHY $300: It has oil fields in the east, holy cities in the west & the Rub al Khali Desert in the south Saudi Arabia |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | IN THE NEWS $400: This embattled oil company announced it may owe the IRS $6 1/2 billion in back taxes Texaco |
| #875, aired 1988-05-27 | IN THE NEWS $400: An oil spill on this Pennsylvania river on Jan. 2, 1980 forced thousands to melt snow for drinking water Monongahela |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $100: It's 42 gallons of oil, but only about 31 gallons of wine barrel |
| #837, aired 1988-04-05 | GAUGES $100: It's pulled out of the crankcase, wiped, reinserted, pulled out again, & then read dipstick |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | "MAY" DAY $400: It's egg yolks, oil, lemon juice & seasonings beaten together until thick mayonnaise |
| #456, aired 1986-09-08 | SAUCES $200: Made of beaten oil, egg yolks & vinegar, it's a sauce more common on salads than on meat mayonnaise |
| #431, aired 1986-05-05 | THEATER $400: Used to replace candles & oil lamps around 1850, now it means being the center of attention in the limelight |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | COOKING $200: Not just good for "curing" colds, it can be used instead of oil to stir-fry foods chicken soup |
| #285, aired 1985-10-11 | FOOD & DRINK $500: From Latin meaning “to fry”, it’s any object dipped in batter & fried in hot oil a fritter |
| #271, aired 1985-09-23 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $300: Though it changed its name from Standard Oil of New Jersey, it's still headquartered there Exxon |
| #173, aired 1985-05-08 | "BOOM"S $500: Clark Gable & Spencer Tracy struck it rich in the oil fields in this 1940 film Boomtown |
| #119, aired 1985-02-21 | FISHING $300: After use, rinse it in hot water, oil it & release the drag tension a fishing reel |
| #116, aired 1985-02-18 | DISASTERS $800: As it did in '30s Oklahoma, this blows in a "black blizzard" dust |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | FAMOUS QUOTES $300: J. Paul Getty supposedly said "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not" these rights oil rights (mineral rights) |
