| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $2000: Aye, I did write "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" & many another bonny iambic work, & ye needn't call me sir! (Walter) Scott |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $1000: Oops, they left off your last name; that's okay, Mr. 10th President, everyone knows it's this Tyler |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $200: Born in Beatrice / Worshiped a girl named Florence / Oops, got that backwards Dante |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $800: Oops... on a stamp in 2010--& 3 billion stamps, eventually--the USPS used a replica in Vegas instead of this New York landmark the Statue of Liberty |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PERILS OF JOURNALISM $200: Boss has me writing "advance" these for what we call the morgue; CNN exposed some in 2003 for Dick Cheney & John Paul II--oops! obituaries |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $1200: In 1938 this prime minister abandoned British naval bases in Ireland & stood by as Italy took over Ethiopia... oops Chamberlain |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | NATURE $600: Oops! Here's this carnivorous plant of the Carolinas in action a venus fly trap |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $4,000 (Daily Double): The 1889 death of Archduke Rudolf, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, put this man next in line after Rudy's uncle; oops Franz Ferdinand |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | HORSE IDIOMS $1000: Oops, we've done this--arranging our 2 necessities, but in the wrong sequence put the cart before the horse |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | WASHINGTON SLIPPED HERE $1000: Oops! One of the burglars caught at the Watergate in 1972 was security chief of this committee, CREEP for short Committee to Re-elect the President |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | A NOVEL LOOK AT THE NOVEL $200: 1851:
Nantucket. Sea. Revenge. Madness. Oops. Adrift Moby-Dick |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: This Roman orator who wrote "On the Republic" orated a bit too much about getting rid of one of his new bosses... oops Cicero |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | POP $200: The hunky astronaut in this singer's 2000 "Oops!... I Did It Again" video became an orthopedic surgeon Britney Spears |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | TALKING FRONT OFFICE BASEBALL $600: Oops...Mets owners invested $500 mil.--a ballpark figure--with this man, whose Ponzi scheme struck out in 2008 Bernie Madoff |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $600: This bulky warrior boasts that he'll feed David's body to the birds; oops! Goliath |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | EXPENSIVE STUFF $400: Violins made by him can be pricey; one worth $2.6 million was -oops!--left on a train in 2016 but quickly recovered Stradivarius |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: Dr. Zhivago falls in love with this woman, but oops! They're both married Lara |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | INSURANCE $600: If an oops has you coming up minus a few fingers, check your policy for accidental death & this other "D" dismemberment |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | THE HODGEST OF PODGE $400: Oops! Coca-Cola vending machines in New Zealand mixed English & this language to say "Kia ora, mate", or "Hello, death" Maori |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | ACRONYMS $1200: Oops! Looks like somebody has gone AWOL, which is short for this absent without leave |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $400: A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L") illiteracy |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $800: A stamp had this big landmark; not the original in N.Y. Harbor, but the lady in front of Vegas' New York-New York casino the Statue of Liberty |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $1200: On the stamp seen here, Monaco "oops"ed by putting 5 fingers & a thumb, too, on this New Deal U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $1600: A 1932 Philippine stamp honored Pagsanjan Falls but showed Vernal Falls in this California national park Yosemite |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $2000: A 1968 Chinese stamp, "The Whole Country is Red", did not red out this island, & the authorities soon recalled it Taiwan |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $400: This fatal device in "The Green Mile" wasn't yet in use in Louisiana prisons in 1932, the year the story is set the electric chair |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $800: In H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" one of these occurs at a new moon rather than a full moon an eclipse |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $1600: In this story of 16th c. lookalikes Mark Twain had the locals watching "Punch & Judy" shows that began 100 years later The Prince and the Pauper |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's King John says, "The thunder of my" this big gun "shall be heard", 200 years before its invention a cannon |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | LITERARY OOPS! $2000: At the end of "Jurassic Park", the island is attacked by this country's military, abolished in the 1940s Costa Rica |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | YOU SHALL NOT PASS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Oops, you crammed for the multistate bar exam but this state with laws deriving from the Napoleonic code doesn't use it Louisiana |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THE CELEBRITY OPINES $400: Oops, this singer did it again:
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada" Britney Spears |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy (P.D.) James |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES $1600: The leg with Dustin Hoffman on this movie poster isn't Anne Bancroft's but that of Linda Gray, later Sue Ellen on "Dallas" The Graduate |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | 3-WORD BOOK SUMMARY $1,000 (Daily Double): 1878:
Vronsky.
Train.
Oops Anna Karenina |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | BELOW ZERO $400: Oops! I just wrote a check for $1,100 & my balance is only $522--I'm this far in the red $578 |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HISTORIC OOPSIES $800: In 1519 Montezuma let forces led by this Spanish explorer enter Tenochtitlan‑‑oops Cortés |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | HAIKU ABOUT THE POET $200: Born in Beatrice /
Worshiped a girl named Florence /
Oops, got that backwards Dante |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $400: Oops! An MI6 agent put his used camera (with undeleted pics of suspected Al-Qaeda agents) on this site; the winning bid--$31 eBay |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | LET'S DUKE IT OUT $4,000 (Daily Double): The Duke of Northumberland (1504-1553) arranged for his son to marry this unfortunate lady in 1553; oops Lady Jane Grey |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | ORGANIZATIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Utah institute is devoted to discovering & training new filmmakers, composers & theater artists Sundance |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | THUMP! $800: In 1964 a researcher wanted to count the rings of a bristlecone type of this tree, so he felled it & oops, it was 4,900 a pine tree |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | THE RECKONING $800: This mobster developed Vegas gambling (yay!); skimmed funds in building the Flamingo (oops); killed in '47 (eesh) Bugsy Siegel |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | BATTLE CREEK $200: An Old English poem records a 991 event in which a Saxon earl let a band of these warriors cross a stream--oops Vikings |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | DEEP CUTS $600: Off "Oops!... I Did It Again":
"Dear Diary",
"What U See (Is What U Get)" Britney Spears |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | SHOP CLASS $1000: Appropriately, this retailer opened its first store on the 21st of April, 1984--oops, that's for shopping class, not shop class Forever 21 |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | STOP! HEY, WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $1000: Oops! Is "Malpractice Lawsuit" the sequel to this Hasbro game? Operation |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SCI-, NO FI $400: In 2014 this physicist said oops, light may be able to escape black holes after all; forget what I said in 1974 (Stephen) Hawking |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | STARTS WITH DOUBLE O $800: It precedes "I did it again" in a song by Ms. Spears "Oops" |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | ACTUAL 911 CALLS $400: Oops! A burglar "butt-dialed" 911 in this "Sooner State", saying, "I got enough jewelry, we're good" Oklahoma |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | IT'S ELEMENTAL! $400: Oops--it looks like somebody spilled this element mercury |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $1000: Cap'n Crunch came out in 1963; by the end of the decade, Crunch Berries & this other flavor hit the shelves Peanut Butter (Crunch) |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | SCRATCHY $200: Scratching while playing pool generally means sinking this ball--oops the cue ball |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | A CLASSICAL MIXUP $1600: Oops! I had David Lee Roth singing lead for this Texas pianist who studied at Juilliard & shot to fame in the 1950s Van Cliburn |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | PLAYING THE PONIES $1600: Robert Shaw bets on Lucky Dan at 4-1 in this movie, but not to place--oops! The Sting |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | AS I RECALL $1200: Oops! DePuy Orthopedics had to recall defective implants for this 3-letter joint the hip |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | CEREAL LETTER DROP $1200: There's only one thing Toucan Sam can say after his brand loses a letter by mistake Froot Oops |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | READ YOUR BIBLE $800: In the Book of Mark, John the Baptist called this king an adulterer; oops! Herod |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | ROMANS $400: He took his own life after receiving a false report that Cleopatra was already dead--oops! Mark Antony |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | A QUIET EVENING AT HOME $1200: The sweater Mother's knitting is coming along nicely but oops, there in the sleeve is a "dropped" this a stitch |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | MUSICAL PRIME NUMBERS $400: Prince:
"2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's ____" 1999 |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | I AM A BAD, BAD SURGEON $400: In your body, the small this is about 22 feet long & the long 5, but after the procedure, about 3; oops the intestine |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | BREAKING THE PHONICS RULES $800: English words that end in "int" usually have a short "I" --oops, not this measurement a pint |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | MULTIPLE DIAGNOSES $1000: The fever clearly indicates mono--oops, colitis. No, TB. Of course, this bacterial ailment aka septic sore throat strep throat |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: In 1863 he was made a brigadier general at age 23 (yay!); 13 years later Little Bighorn (oops) Custer |
| #5853, aired 2010-02-10 | WEIRD SCIENCE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a simple science experiment.) Oops--our salt & pepper got mixed together; if I take a plastic spoon & rub it on wool, it picks up electrons & gets this kind of electrostatic charge, attracting the lighter pepper flakes a negative charge |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF THE FLIES $600 (Daily Double): The fruit fly named for this body of water was thought to be eradicated in the U.S. in 1930; oops Mediterranean |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | OOPS IN SPORTS $200: This longtime Green Bay Packer is the only QB to throw more than 300 career interceptions Brett Favre |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | OOPS IN SPORTS $400: The 2009 French Open women's final ended with a whimper, Dinara Safina's seventh of these serving mistakes a double fault |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | OOPS IN SPORTS $600: In 1968 Roberto de Vicenzo's signing of an incorrect scorecard knocked him from a playoff at this Augusta event the Masters |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | OOPS IN SPORTS $800: Honus Wagner made 825 of these in his career, including 60 in 1905; good thing he hit .363 that year errors |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | OOPS IN SPORTS $1000: On "Reading to Succeed" night, this NBA home team's fans got a poster of a player in a "Woves" (not a "Wolves") jersey Minnesota Timberwolves |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | A FEW OUNCES OF EZRA POUND $1,000 (Daily Double): In "A Moveable Feast", this writer said that Ezra Pound taught him "to distrust adjectives" Ernest Hemingway |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | IT'S TOO LATE $600: He waited for the ground to dry before sounding "charge" at Waterloo, giving the Prussians time to arrive--oops Napoleon |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | DON'T TAZE ME, BRO $2000: I didn't cook your burger at 140 degrees, & this bacteria (real first name Escherichia) is still there--oops! E. coli |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | NEW REALITY SHOWS? $1000: Oops! Rex finds out the hard way this body part's neocortex is nowhere near the groin in "I Wanna Be a Surgeon!" the brain |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | OPERA SLAYS ME $400: Oops! The daughter of this nasty mean czar is killed by accident in "The Maid of Pskov" Ivan the Terrible |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | LAST WILLS & TESTAMENTS $600: This Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 left a self-written 176-word will with no provisions for estate taxes; oops Warren Burger |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | MILITARY AIRCRAFT $1200: McDonnell's F-4 fighter used in the United States in the Vietnam War was known as this... oops... hey, where'd it go? the Phantom |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | "POP" CULTURE $400: Easy infield out in a baseball game a pop fly |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | TV DETECTIVES $600: Expecting cancellation, this Hawaiian eye was killed off in 1987 but oops! got renewed & resuscitated Magnum, P.I. |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | LET'S PLAY ODDBALL $400: In 2006 a Wyo. teen spilled gas on his pants committing this car crime, then (oops!) used a lighter to see how wet he got stealing gas (siphoning) |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | BRUTUS $1000: During the Roman Civil War, Brutus sided with this man but was later pardoned by Julius Caesar--Oops! Pompey |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | I'M NOT DEAD YET $600: Oops! A baseball announcer mourned the death of this actor when James Earl Ray died in 1998 James Earl Jones |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | WINE $800: Try my $3,000 1976 bottle from Romanee-Conti, the most famous estate in this area--oops, there goes the cork Burgundy |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | 2006 SPORTS LAUGHS $1200: Oops! Unable to find the tee shot he'd made on the 18th, Tom Kenney took a mulligan & later found his ball was here in the hole |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | ONE-WORD RHYMES $400: I've come to the ashram so this person can show me the unreality of material things--oops, I scratched his Mercedes guru |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: There's a hair-raising--oops!--hair-cutting scene in Saint-Saens' opera about Samson & her Delilah |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | STAN THE CONTRACTOR $1000: Oops! Stan's assistant damaged the bathroom floor while installing this sharp type of tub seen here a clawfoot tub |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | THAT'S POLITICS $200: In July 1804 in the same N.J. place where his son had died in a duel 3 years before, he did not take aim; oops (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | THE JEP-TONES WORLD TOUR 2006 $1000: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones Altamont |
| #4936, aired 2006-02-13 | JULIUS CAESAR $2000: Around 48 B.C. Caesar pardoned this man & later made him governor of Cisalpine Gaul; oops Brutus |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $400: On June 25, 1876 he decided to attack a group that included Crazy Horse; oops Custer |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $800: In 1989 the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 260,000 barrels of crude off this state; oops Alaska |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $1600: In 1812 his 600,000-man army entered Russia; about 30,000 limped home from Moscow; oops Napoleon |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $2000: In 1961 1,300 Cuban refugees invaded this "porcine" location, but without air cover; oops the Bay of Pigs |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Around 11:40 P.M. on April 14, 1912 it was traveling at about 21 knots, nearly its top speed; oops the Titanic |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE $1600: Buried with wife Marion in Florence--oops, with wife Florence in Marion Harding |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | ROCKS $1600: These alpine mountains in Italy are named for the magnesian limestone of which they're made the Dolomites |
| #4609, aired 2004-09-23 | WHAT A MYTHTAKE! $1000: Thinking it was a love potion, Deianira dipped a shirt meant for him in poisoned blood--oops! It killed him Hercules |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This future French leader's 1934 book "The Army of the Future" helped inspire the Blitzkrieg--oops! (Charles) de Gaulle |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | GREETINGS FROM AMERICA STAMPS $400: Oops! The first catalogue showing all 50 stamps accidentally had New York twice, leaving this neighbor out New Jersey |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | MATH CLASS $1200: When the Cardinals play baseball, these ordinal numbers are positions on the field first, second, & third |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | SPORTS $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew strolls down the lane at the Nat'l Bowling Stadium in Reno, NV--& screws up.) Oops--in bowling, it's the one place you don't wanna throw your ball the gutter |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | I'M GUS, I'LL BE YOUR KING OF SWEDEN $600: Oops, Gustav IV joined an 1805 coalition against this man & lost Swedish Pomerania to France Napoleon |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | TAKE IN ORDER $800: Oops, "I fall down, go" this boom |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | GET A ROOM! $600: Get 40 whacks--oops, we mean 40 winks--at the Mass. home of this accused ax murderess; it's a bed & breakfast Lizzie Borden |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | IT IS BRAIN SURGERY $800: You'll know the caudate nucleus because it's this color -- oops, so is much of the rest of the brain gray |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $200: In Oensingen, Switz. a repairman stranded on one of these (with no one saluting) had to be rescued by helicopter flagpole |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $400: In August 1998 a TV station in this largest Canadian city bought Howard Stern's show, then refused to air it Toronto |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $600: It's reported that a closed caption ID'd this Gulf War leader, commenting on Kosovo, as Gen. Schwarzenegger General Norman Schwartzkopf |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $800: Nickname for having your long distance service changed without asking; Cicero, Illinois' city hall experienced it slamming |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | OOPS! $1000: Quizzed by a fan club on his "Spenser" TV series, this author of the books got 5 answers wrong Robert Parker |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | FAIRY TALES $1000: Oops! Visiting this long-tressed gal, the prince is blinded in a fall Rapunzel |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | THE DARWIN AWARDS $800: Oops! After using gas to remove some stains, a man tried to cover the smell by lighting this, maybe at both ends a candle |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $200: Oops! The McCallister family leaves 8-year-old Kevin home alone when they go to Paris at Christmas in this 1990 comedy Home Alone |
| #4007, aired 2002-01-22 | ACRONYMS $200: Mine's 2517--oops!:
PIN personal identification number |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | NYC STREET FOODS $200: (Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment mustard |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | AL, HISTORY'S PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PAL $100: In 1871 Chicago, Al promises to retrieve this woman's lantern from a barn but he'll get to it in a minute; oops Mrs. O'Leary |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | THE 15th CENTURY $100: Burned at the stake in 1431, she was pronounced innocent by the Pope 25 years later (oops) Joan of Arc |
| #3882, aired 2001-06-19 | "TRAC" MEET $600: Oops! It's a newspaper's printed correction Retraction |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | SOLAR SYSTEM TOUR $600: Looks like we've got a green light, folks -- oops, it's just the clouds of methane around this third-largest planet Uranus |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $200: Right foot yellow, left hand blue (oops... excuse me) Twister |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | POP MUSIC $100: In May 2000 she released her second album, "Oops!...I Did It Again" Britney Spears |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: To put your foot in your mouth means "Oops!"; to put this "in it" means to shut up A sock |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | OPTIMISTS $200: On Oct. 25 of this year, the New York Journal headlined, "Experts Predict Rising Market"--oops 1929 |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | MUSICAL YOUTH $200: He's the youngest member of the group heard here
["MMMBop" plays] Zac |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS $200: 1 of the 2 in 1901 Queen Victoria or Edward VII |
| #3355, aired 1999-03-19 | MORE MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES $400: Oops! This famous "Heel" fell for Penthesilia the Amazon a little too late -- he'd already killed her Achilles |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Oops! When she won a Golden Globe for "Chicago Hope", she was in the ladies' room Christine Lahti |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | "OOPS" $100: Kellogg's makes "Froot" ones Loops |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | "OOPS" $200: Cries of a crane, or a cry when you drop something, butterfingers! whoops |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | "OOPS" $300: Soldiers trained to lead an attack are called shock these troops |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | "OOPS" $400: They keep a barrel's staves together hoops |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | "OOPS" $500: It's what Oliver Goldsmith's woman does "to conquer" stoops |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | MORE MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES $800: Oops! He looked back at Eurydice as he led her out of the underworld & lost her forever Orpheus |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | OOPS! $100: Trinity Broadcasting dropped his show after he appeared on the American Music Awards dressed this way: Pat Boone |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | OOPS! $200: 45,000 students' scores were raised on this test given 10/12/96 after a math question was found flawed SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | OOPS! $300: For an overdue bill of $214,500, a Philippine electric co. turned off power to this man's tomb in 1997 Ferdinand Marcos |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | OOPS! $400: Oxford, Miss. created a furor when it cut down a magnolia tree to erect a statue of this hometown author William Faulkner |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | OOPS! $500: American Family Publishers' letter to a Florida church said this addressee was in the running for $11,000,000 God |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | OOPS! $100: It shut down its webpage after Swedish hackers changed its name to the Central Stupidity Agency the CIA (the Central Intelligence Agency) |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | OOPS! $200: After the July 4, 1996 weekend off, workers on the L.A. subway had to do this to the tunnel digging machine dig it out (got stuck) |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | OOPS! $300: In 1991 this royal Englishwoman shocked Pakistani Muslims when she wore a knee-length dress into a mosque Princess Diana |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | OOPS! $400: This recent ad slogan didn't translate into Spanish; it literally meant "are you lactating?" got milk? |
| #2967, aired 1997-06-24 | OOPS! $500: Montblanc recalled 1000s of these after engraving Dumas Fils' signature on them instead of Dumas Pere's pens |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | OOPS! $100: In 1970 the Oregon Highway Division blew up a beached one of these mammals & damaged a car 1/4 mile away Whale |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | OOPS! $200: After a photo finish of this 1996 horse race, ABC went to commercial & missed the winner being announced Kentucky Derby |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | OOPS! $300: In 1542 Jacques Cartier returned to France with fool's gold & quartz, thinking them real gold & these gems Diamonds |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | OOPS! $400: A Casper, Wyoming game & fish display to stop this crime had 3 sets of trophy antlers stolen from it Poaching |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | OOPS! $500: An outcry led the Post Office to reconsider issuing a 1995 stamp showing this WWII event Dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | CONTINENTAL CONGRESSMEN $300: 2 of the 4 great documents of the Continental Congress; Roger Sherman was the only man to sign all 4 (2 of) Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Articles of Association & The Constitution |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | OOPS $100: Taco Bell's ad announcing it had bought this U.S. treasure shocked those who didn't realize the date: April 1, 1996 the Liberty Bell |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | OOPS $200: The 1996 World Almanac listed this as "president@whithouse.gov", leaving an "e" out of whitehouse the email address of the White House |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | OOPS $300: President Carter said the failed military rescue of these people in 1980 was an "incomplete success" the hostages in Tehran |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | OOPS $400: Denver thought of putting this new facility's number on milk cartons after it was left out of the white pages the Denver Airport |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | OOPS $500: The L.A. times switched the logos on these 2 advice columns 2/5/96; perhaps it's hard to tell them apart Dear Abby & Ann Landers |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | OOPS $100: Franz Reichalt, an amateur inventor of these, plunged to his death c. 1911 testing one from the Eiffel Tower a parachute |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | OOPS $200: The Dodgers forfeited a game Aug. 10, 1995 after fans threw these souvenirs on the field in a protest baseballs |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | OOPS $300: Trying this mode of transport in Alaska, Dr. Joyce Brothers fell & broke her nose a dog sled |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | OOPS $400: In 1995 Queen Elizabeth was hurt when a 2-lb. one of these dropped on her during a hunting trip a grouse |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | OOPS $500: Alleging mismanagement of the law firm, Leonard Jacoby sued this partner in October 1995 (Stephen) Meyers |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | OOPS! $100: Due to leakage, 3 billion gal. of this natural resource stored by the gov't in a cavern is being sold for a loss oil |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | OOPS! $200: During "Carmen" in 1995, tenor Fabio Armiliato was accidentally cut by one of these long-bladed weapons a sword |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | OOPS! $300: During "Tosca" in 1995, this accident happened to tenor Fabio Armiliato in the firing squad scene he was shot (in the foot) |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | OOPS! $400: Leaning on a crutch offstage after the 1st act of "Tosca", tenor Fabio Armiliato fell & broke this his leg |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | OOPS! $500: In July 1995 the RCMP & the Secret Service had to rescue this former U.S. president from a Canadian peat bog George Bush |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | CRIME & PUNISHMENT $400: Oops! One of these was found in 1920 on the farm of Senator Morris Sheppard, who wrote the 18th Amendment a still |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $100: We put the Mile High Greyhound Park in this Mile High City; it's actually in Commerce City Denver |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $200: We had this artist's mother hanging around the Louvre; she's now in the Musee d'Orsay Whistler |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $300: We forgot to add that this Baker St. detective's love for Irene Adler was not in the original stories Sherlock Holmes |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $400: There are several versions of this cartoon family's theme & we used the one where Jane, not Elroy, follows George the Jetsons |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $500: We said this Michael Jackson 3-D film was in Fantasyland; it's actually in Tomorrowland Captain EO |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This city is home of the Mile High Greyhound Park Denver |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $400: Michael Jackson stars as the commander of a spaceship in this 3-D film featured in Fantasyland Captain EO |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | TV THEME SONGS $200: She's the next character named in "The Jetsons" theme song after "Meet George Jetson" his wife, Jane |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $500: The Freer Gallery boasts a major collection of this artist's works, tho his "mother" hangs in the Louvre Whistler |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | FICTIONAL SENIORS $400: In this novel Hugh Conway finds out that the High Lama is about 250 years old Lost Horizon |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | ODDS & ENDS $400: Oops, a recent ad for Virginia Slims moved the 1906 earthquake & fire in this city to 1902 San Francisco |
| #1235, aired 1990-01-05 | COUPLES $1000: He directed his wife, Giulietta Masina in "Juliet of the Spirits" & "La Strada" Federico Fellini |
| #1136, aired 1989-07-10 | '40s SONGS $1,700 (Daily Double): Tho Larry Parks played him, Al Jolson was heard singing this song in "The Jolson Story"
"Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed,
We vowed our true love..." "The Anniversary Song" |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | OOPS! $100: A $16 million F-16 was destroyed when it hit a pair of these animals "hogging" the runway pigs |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | OOPS! $200: The 1st day these were put on Amtrak's Calif. trains, riders used them to tell spouses the train broke down (cellular) telephones |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | OOPS! $300: Instead of children's songs, a mislabelled "Lullaby Magic" tape featured this Jerry Garcia group Grateful Dead |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | OOPS! $400: Postal officials predicted by 1988 90% of 1st class mailers would be using these, but only 20% now do 9-digit zip codes |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | OOPS! $500: A '88 Cannes Film Festival juror sat with Nastassja Kinski thinking she was this star of "Blue Velvet" Isabella Rossellini |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | OOPS! $200: The largest crew NASA has sent into space on one of these craft isn't 7, as we said, but 8 a Space Shuttle |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | OOPS! $400: Mayor Joseph Steineger, Jr. "corrected" us after we called this city a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | OOPS! $800: We erred in saying this coach led the Dolphins & Colts to 7 Super Bowls, but his 6 times is still the record Don Shula |
| #882, aired 1988-06-07 | OOPS! $1000: We said it was Linda Gray's leg on "The Graduate" poster, but Mel Brooks called & said it was this star's Anne Bancroft |
| #783, aired 1988-01-20 | THE MOVIES $200: Linda Gray's leg, not Anne Bancroft's, was the one on poster for this Dustin Hoffman film The Graduate |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | SUBURBS $100: Kansas City, Kansas is a suburb of this city Kansas City, Missouri |
| #743, aired 1987-11-25 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: The greatest number of people NASA has put into space at one time 7 |
| #740, aired 1987-11-20 | FOOTBALL $600: This coach has led teams to the Super Bowl the most times--7--the Colts twice & the Dolphins 5 times Don Shula |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | OOPS! $100: On Good Friday 1986, the London Times published the right clues for this, but the wrong grid a crossword puzzle |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | OOPS! $200: On March 2, 1987, the National Weather Service mistakenly said Rockford, Ill. was demolished by one of these a tornado |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | OOPS! $300: After a misprint, Continental gave free airfare to 1st 100 in Worcester, Mass. who could spell this right Worcester, Mass. |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | OOPS! $400: When "Jeopardy!" said this city's "Globe-Democrat" was folding, it thrived; when we said it was okay, it folded St. Louis |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | OOPS! $500: Phil Collins his schedule to sing this song on the '85 Oscar telecast but was never asked to appear "Against All Odds (Look At Me Now)" |
| #549, aired 1987-01-15 | EUROPE $500: The 3 capital cities of Scandinavia Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | EASY MATH $400 (Daily Double): Sum of the digits in the title of the following song by Prince:
"Tryin' to run from the destruction / You know I didn't even care / 'Cause they say / 2000, zero-zero, party over, oops, out of time / So tonight, I'm gonna party like it's 1999" 28 |
| #369, aired 1986-02-06 | DOCTORS $200: Special name for physician who specializes in the use of x-rays a roentgenologist or a radiologist |
| #367, aired 1986-02-04 | WHAT'S "UP" DOC $400: The 20th letter of the Greek alphabet upsilon |
| #291, aired 1985-10-21 | CAMPFIRE SONGS $400 (Daily Double): In song "My Bonnie", amount of times "Bonnie" is mentioned in chorus 2 |
| #281, aired 1985-10-07 | HISTORIANS $200: Oops, a warrior killed in Book 5 of his "Iliad" is alive again in Book 13 Homer |
| #153, aired 1985-04-10 | STARTS WITH "OO" $100: Said when you make a faux pas oops |
