| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | BRO-POURRI $400: This company acquired the rights to the British board game Cluedo & renamed it Clue in 1949 the Parker Brothers |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AND THE ROLE ALMOST GOES TO... $800: Either Sharon Stone or Sarah Jessica Parker, not Jennifer Grey, might've been "Baby" Houseman in this 1987 film Dirty Dancing |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $400: "Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER $800: This Robert B. Parker detective, if that's your maroon MGB with whitewalls, your lights are on Spenser |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $400: Ray Parker Jr. wrote & performed the theme song to "Ghostbusters" that went to No. 1 on the charts & asked this musical question Who you gonna call? |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $2000: Billie Holiday & this sax player first linked up in 1934; soon enough they gave each other nicknames, Lady Day & Prez Lester Young |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $1000: Voiced by John Mulaney in "Into the Spider-Verse", Spider Ham isn't called Peter Parker, but rather Peter this Peter Porker |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $600: It was inevitable that Sarah Jessica Parker would put her name on bottled & canned versions of this cocktail a Cosmopolitan (Cosmo) |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $800: In the early hours of April 19, 1775, Capt. John Parker & his militia waited for the British at Buckman Tavern in this town Lexington |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $800: In Ellen Meister's "Dorothy Parker Drank Here", the plucky title scribe literally & wittily haunts the halls of this hotel the Algonquin |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $2000: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) An all-time great for me was Giorgio Moroder's haunting score for this 1978 Alan Parker drama about a prisoner in a hopeless situation in a Turkish jail the Midnight Express |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $600: Him, as Sean Parker in "The Social Network": "You don't even know what the thing is yet, how big it can get, how far it can go" Justin Timberlake |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | 'ROUND MIDNIGHT $1200: Her: "Drink & dance & laugh & lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (but, alas, we never do)" Dorothy Parker |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $400: In the 1920s & '30s this literary group that included Dorothy Parker met regularly for lunch at a NYC hotel the Algonquin Round Table |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | ACTIVISTS $2000: In addition to liquor, this hatchet-wielding woman born in 1846 also railed against tobacco & corsets Carrie Nation |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | THIRST $1200: In this book, the tiger Richard Parker was originally named Thirsty Life of Pi |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $400: Dorothy Parker contributed to the script for "Saboteur", a 1942 thriller by this director Alfred Hitchcock |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Richard Parker is actually a 450-pound Bengal tiger in this novel by Yann Martel Life of Pi |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: (I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps Miles Morales |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $2000: Judd Apatow's "This Is 40" features a reunion of this fierce British New Wave rocker & his legendary band The Rumour Graham Parker |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | "B" COOL $1200: There are 2 Bs in the name of this jazz style pioneered by Charlie Parker & other hepcats bebop |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This magazine contributor, short-story author & poet once said, "I can't write five words but that I change seven" Dorothy Parker |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | SAX EDUCATION $1600: This yardbird flew out of Kansas City to become one of jazz's greatest alto sax players Charlie Parker |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | BASKETBALL GREATS $200: (I'm Candace Parker.) 2008 was a good year; I won my second Final Four MVP for leading Tennessee to the NCAA title & was recognized as the top women's college player with the trophy named for this inventor of the sport Naismith |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $1200: "So Tyler and I are on top of the Parker-Morris Building with the gun stuck in my mouth, and we hear glass breaking" Fight Club |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SONGS FROM MOVIES $1200: This future "Masked Singer" competitor sang the theme from "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $800: Just one of the many witticisms from Dorothy Parker: "Brevity is the soul of" this, a fancy word for ladies' undergarments lingerie |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | POP CULTURE GOES TO MARS $2000: We saw this actress have the guns of Bonnie Parker & in a 1978 thriller, the "Eyes of Laura Mars" Faye Dunaway |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE SINGER WHO PLAYED... $800: Sean Parker in "The Social Network" Timberlake |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $1200: Just like magic, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy were back for this movie "2", 3 decades after the original Hocus Pocus |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $300: Australian writer K. Langloh Parker wrote of the brothers who became swans & then got feathers of this color from crows black |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM $600: 2022:
Tom Hanks as this manager of Elvis with a shadowy past Colonel Tom Parker |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | BRIEF LIVES $1,600 (Daily Double): Stole into existence in 1910; she was the first half of a noted couple; got lead poisoning via police in 1934 Bonnie Parker |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES $1000: Jennifer Jason Leigh was the title Mrs. in a movie about this writer & her "Vicious Circle" Dorothy Parker (Mrs. Parker) |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $2000: In 2022 Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker headlined this author's classic comedy "Plaza Suite" on Broadway Neil Simon |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $200: "South Park" star/ writer/producer/ director/creator Randolph Severn Parker III keeps it simple & goes by this first name Trey |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $400: This round table wit's poem "love song" says, "My own dear love, he is all my heart,--and I wish somebody'd shoot him" Dorothy Parker |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS $600: Peter Parker has worked as a photographer for this newspaper created long before Spider-Man was The Daily Bugle |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS $400: 17 & 20:
This British-raised actor who played Peter Parker again in a 2021 surprise Andrew Garfield |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR BLADES? $400: A dermatologic surgeon can use a No. 15 type of this small, light blade & a Bard-Parker handle a scalpel |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | 6 DEGREES OF SIR FRANCIS BACON $1,000 (Daily Double): Francis' dad was pals with Matthew Parker, who in this job from 1559 to 1575 gave the Anglican Church its distinct identity Archbishop of Canterbury |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | CURRENT SIGNIFICANT OTHERS $400: Of Matthew Broderick: as seen here Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham The Book of Mormon |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | JAZZ GREATS $400: This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him Charlie ("Bird") Parker |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | THE MANY MUSICS OF MARK RONSON $2000: (Mark Ronson delivers the clue.) There are lots of ways to make music & on my podcast I contrasted my passion for collaboration with the method of Kevin Parker of this 1-man Aussie band whose breakthrough album was even called "Lonerism" Tame Impala |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | GETTING YOUR LOOK TOGETHER $400: This company that sells prescription glasses was named for 2 Jack Kerouac characters Warby Parker |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOTORIOUS $400: Con man George Parker was notorious for "selling" NYC landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge & this man's tomb on West 122nd St. Grant |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $1200: In the U.S., this first name from "Gone with the Wind" is more often given to girls, but boy band & Broadway star Parker Angel has it Ashley |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $2000: Home to wits like Dorothy Parker, the Algonquin Round Table had this other shapely name the Vicious Circle |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $1200: Yann Martel named the tiger in "Life of Pi" after this shipwreck victim in Edgar Allan Poe's "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" Richard Parker |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | GAME STOP $800: The bank cannot go broke in this Parker Brothers game, so exhaustion may be the deciding factor Monopoly |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $800: This Sarah Jessica Parker character wrote the books "Menhattan" & "A Single Life" Carrie Bradshaw |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ESSAYS $4,000 (Daily Double): Nora Ephron wrote that she wanted to be her, "the only lady at the table. The woman who made her living by her wit" Dorothy Parker |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | RANKS & TITLES $2000: With great power, Peter Parker held the Royal navy title admiral of this from 1799 to 1811 fleet |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $600: In a 1933 collection by this New Yorker & New Yorker contributor, she seems to have coined "scaredy-cat" Dorothy Parker |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | MOVIE MAGIC $1200: This rhyming 1993 comedy featured Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy as a trio of witches Hocus Pocus |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | CELEBRITY NAMES IN COMMON $200: Jessica Parker &
Michelle Gellar Sarah |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $800: In 2019 this "Weeds" actress returned to Broadway in Adam Rapp's "The Sound Inside" Mary-Louise Parker |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | NEW TECHNOLOGY $800: NASA's Parker Probe is the fastest man-made thing ever--it will hit the speed of 430,000 mph en route to this heavenly body the Sun |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: Sean Parker co-founded this music file-sharing service that debuted in 1999 Napster |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOOT SUITE $1200: In the 1950s Chico O'Farrill's "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite" featured this "avian" saxophonist tootin' Charlie "Birdman" Parker |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | ALLITERATIVE ACTRESSES $2000: This one-time queen of the indies found herself lost in space in 2018 Parker Posey |
| #5, aired 2020-01-09 | TV GREEN THUMB $400: This TV comedy wasn't about pesky garden plants, but rather about Mary-Louise Parker's budding pot business Weeds |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS $600: The Marvel comic "Spider-Gwen" takes place in a universe where this girlfriend of Peter Parker gets the radioactive bite Gwen Stacy |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | IT'S CHARLIE! $800: Jazz great Charlie Parker got this nickname while playing with Jay McShann's band in the early 1940s Bird |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | FACE THE AUTHOR $2000: This regular contributor to "The New Yorker" was known for her quips, but her writing is often melancholy Dorothy Parker |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Omni Parker House in Boston MA.) Arriving on November 19, 1867 for a U.S. reading tour, this author practiced "A Christmas Carol" in front of the mirror here, now named for him (Charles) Dickens |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | MUSICIANS WHO ACT $2000: Playing Napster's Sean Parker in "The Social Network", this singer says, "Drop the 'The'. Just 'Facebook'. It's cleaner" Justin Timberlake |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Dorothy Parker wrote, "Tonstant weader fwowed up" in her 1928 review of the book "The House at" this place Pooh Corner |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBS $200: She's been caught in Peter Parker's web playing MJ in Marvel's Spider-Man flicks Zendaya |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | PAC-12 SCHOOLS $1600: Alums of this U.--former Liberian Pres. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & (bigger hint) Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" University of Colorado |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ADVERTISING $1000: In a 2019 Super Bowl ad, Sarah Jessica Parker's & Jeff Bridges' characters forego their usual drinks for this fancy Belgian beer Stella Artois |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | UNTRUE DETECTIVE $2,400 (Daily Double): Robert B. Parker wrote "Perchance to Dream" as a sequel to this novel featuring Philip Marlowe The Big Sleep |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes from WBZ. In 1856 the chef at the Parker House was said to have invented this 3-word dessert; despite the name, it's actually a 2-layer sponge cake Boston cream pie |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | CHARACTERS IN THE WORK $1600: Richard Parker, Orange Juice, Santosh Patel Life of Pi |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | INFAMOUS WOMEN $1200: Rhyming last names of the women seen here, both notorious in the early 1930s Barker and Parker |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | ACTION MOVIE STARS $1200: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe Tom Holland |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $1200: One Direction, Fitz & the Tantrums & Graham Parker & the Rumour have all recorded songs titled this "Fool's Gold" |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) The restaurant at the Parker House, specifically here at table 40, is one of a few places claiming to be where these two, a future President and First Lady, got engaged JFK and Jackie Kennedy |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Founded in 1855 and meeting on the last Saturday of the month at the Parker House, the Saturday Club included local literary giants like Whittier, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and this American scholar transcendentalist Emerson |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Working as a baker making Parker House rolls here at the hotel in 1912 was this future communist world leader Ho Chi Minh |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | THE PARKER HOUSE: A HOTEL IN HISTORY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Omni Parker House hotel.) Moving to Boston in 1941, he found work here as a busboy; busted for burglary, he'd convert to Islam in prison and emerged with this new name Malcolm X |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | 1919 $2,800 (Daily Double): This informal literary group that included Robert Benchley & Dorothy Parker began meeting for lunch in 1919 the Algonquin Round Table |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: John Parker was assigned to guard this man on April 14, 1865, but stepped out at intermission to go to a bar Abraham Lincoln |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | BRAND OF "BROTHERS" $800: In the late 19th century, George invited brothers Charles & Edward to join him in this board game company Parker Brothers |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $800: Collaborating with Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" fame created this show about missionaries The Book of Mormon |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | I WANNA SAX YOU UP $800: In the '40s this "Yardbird" & sax genius formed a quintet with some okay players like Max Roach & Miles Davis Charlie Parker |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | TV $1000: It was showtime when Mary-Louise Parker was a pot-selling widow on this series Weeds |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | COUNTRY, HIP-HOP & JAZZ $2000: Just out of high school in 1944, this "Kind of Blue" trumpeter sat in with a band that had Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker Miles Davis |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | CELEBRITIES' FASHION LINES $200: Wearing SJP, you can literally stand in her shoes Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | IT HAPPENED IN 2005 $400: Seen here, she had a low-key 2005 wedding to a real prince of a guy Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): She coined the term "Lost Generation" for expatriate writers like Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Frances on "Divorce" & Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | THIRD LETTER "X" $1200: Charlie Parker said, "Don't play" this, "let it play you" a saxophone |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | FAMOUS PAIRS' OTHER NAMES $800: Outlaws Parker & Barrow Bonnie and Clyde |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | SUPERHEROES $1600: Amber Grant, Cole Cooper & Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, have worked for the Daily Bugle as one of these a photographer |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | WOMEN POETS $800: Her 1967 New York Times obituary called her a "poet, critic, sardonic humorist and literary wit" Dorothy Parker |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE $800: "I lost my choo!" she said while running for the Staten Island Ferry on an episode of "Sex and the City" Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw) |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | SAY UNCLE! $400: Peter Parker Uncle Ben |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | AM I BLUE? $1200: Jamie Foxx seemed to get a charge out of playing this Peter Parker foe in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" Electro |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $400: Young Charlie Parker played in the band of Lawrence Keyes, who was nicknamed this, the number of piano keys 88 |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | STAN LEE $800: Stan based this boss of Peter Parker on himself & wanted to play him in the movies (Jonah) Jameson |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | STARS' INITIAL SHOWS $1600: Sarah Jessica Parker, 1982:
"S.P." Square Pegs |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE CHANDLER $2000: Chandler's "Poodle Springs" was completed by Robert B. Parker, creator of this private eye & his pal Hawk Spenser |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | LIBRA-RIANS $1600: In the film "The Birth of a Nation", Scorpio Nate Parker played this Libra, leader of a slave rebellion Nat Turner |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | I'M NO ACQUITTER $1200: In 1883 Judge Isaac Parker sentenced this female outlaw & her husband Sam to the federal pen for horse stealing Belle Starr |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | HISTORIC INSULTS $1200: Dorothy Parker once quipped that this multi-Oscar-winning actress' work ran "the gamut of emotions from A to B" Katharine Hepburn |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $400: Robert B.'s felt-tipped pens Parker's markers |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Since her marriage to Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles uses the title Duchess of this place Cornwall |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AN AVIAN CATEGORY $800: Saxophonist Charlie Parker was known as "Bird" or this longer version of the nickname Yardbird |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | FRIENDS OF DOROTHY $1200: Robert Benchley & Harold Ross were 2 of the friends she met for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel Dorothy Parker |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $2000: It's the oddly human name of the tiger character in "Life of Pi" Richard Parker |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1600: From Trey Parker & Matt Stone, it's described as "hilarious and irreverent" The Book of Mormon |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | QUOTATIONS $1200: Dorothy Parker suggested as her own epitaph "Excuse my" this dust |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SILENT "O" $1600: Robert Howard (a military hero) & Tom Parker (not) often had this before their names colonel |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | A PEEK AT THE PARANORMAL $400: Popular since the 19th century, spirit talking board were sold in 1966 in a Parker Brothers game version under this name Ouija boards |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE $800: Justin plays Napster founder Sean Parker in this movie about a start-up The Social Network |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | HOUSE OF CARDS $2000: Its name meaning "a thousand milestones", this French racing game was introduced in the U.S. by Parker Brothers Mille Bornes |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Known for her sharp wit, in the 1920s, she wrote articles for Vanity Fair & The New Yorker Dorothy Parker |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | ROLES $1000: J.D. Cahill,
Davy Crockett,
Hondo Lane John Wayne |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | NYC TV $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Lincoln Center in New York.) Sarah Jessica Parker actually swoons when Mikhail Baryshnikov tries to dance with her at Lincoln Center on an episode of this TV show Sex and the City |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | WHY DO I KNOW THAT NAME? $1200: She taught us about shoes & sex as Carrie Bradshaw Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | TOOTING YOUR OWN HORN $200: A Broadway nightclub, Birdland, was named for him; he performed on opening night in late 1949 Charlie Parker |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SLEUTHS & THEIR CREATORS $400: Jesse Stone &
Spenser (for hire) Robert Parker |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Dorothy Parker said, "Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply" these exercises "with words" calisthenics |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | ROLE & ROCK $2000: As Sean Parker in "The Social Network", he says, "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool"--a billion dollars (Justin) Timberlake |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | WHAT A CHARACTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite his name, the character Richard Parker in this recent bestseller isn't human--he's a tiger Life of Pi |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | MARY-LOUISE PARKER $1200: Mary-Louise won an Emmy for her role in this HBO movie written by Tony Kushner Angels in America |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | MARY-LOUISE PARKER $1600: What a dame! In "Red", this actress had to explain something to Mary-Louise: "I kill people, dear" Helen Mirren |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | MARY-LOUISE PARKER $2000: In 2007 Mary-Louise was Zee James, wife (& 1st cousin) of Jesse, played by him; Casey Affleck was "the coward Robert Ford" Brad Pitt |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | THEIR MAIN INSTRUMENT $200: Charlie "Bird" Parker the saxophone |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | POP CULTURE FROM BARTLETT'S $1,000 (Daily Double): Trey Parker & Matt Stone get credit for "Oh my God" followed by this 3-word catch phrase "They killed Kenny!" |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $600: Rock guitarist Buck;
shutterbug Parker Peter |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | MUSICAL CHAIRS $4,500 (Daily Double): This label home to many Chicago blues greats was named for brothers Leonard & Phil, not for a board game Chess |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | ARE YOU GAME? $200: Created to explain the single tax theory, this board game was first sold by Parker Brothers in 1935 Monopoly |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | AN ANTONYM OF... $1600: pleasant or easygoing;
Mrs. Parker had such a "Circle" vicious |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: Since Robert B. Parker's death, Ace Atkins has taken over writing the books about this detective for hire Spenser |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | 1-WORD SONG TITLES $1200: Ray Parker Jr. went to No. 1 with this movie song that answers a key question "Ghostbusters" |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE ARMED FORCES RESERVES $1200: The symbol of the 200,000 members of the Army Reserve is John Parker, one of these "quickly ready" folks at Lexington a Minuteman |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | NICE SHOES! $400: After playing a shoe-loving character, she started her own shoe line, SJP Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | & THE EMMY GOES TO... $200: this comedy in 2001:
Sarah Jessica Parker, producer Sex and the City |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | MEMORABLE METAPHORS $1600: In "Nocturne", this woman known for her table talk wrote, "Cover with ashes our love's cold crater"; always so cheery! Dorothy Parker |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Unfinished at his death, his "Silent Night: A Spenser Holiday Novel" was completed by his agent & published in 2013 (Robert) Parker |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | TEXAS, HOLD 'EM $400: His romance with Bonnie Parker was put on hold when he was jailed in Waco for burglary (Clyde) Barrow |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | IN TV'S SUPPORTING CAST $800: Trey Parker is busy on this show, playing Satan, Mr. Garrison, Starvin' Marvin & many others South Park |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $200: An FBI press release said that she also went by the names Mrs. Roy Thornton & Mrs. Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SHORT STORIES $2000: Her 1929 story "Big Blonde" is about an aging party girl named Hazel Morse Dorothy Parker |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MASTER CARD $2000: In a 1998 film, Trey Parker & Matt Stone are virtuosos at this sports hybrid BASEketball |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | TV IQ TEST $1000: Jameson Parker & Gerald McRaney were brothers in side arms as this title '80s duo Simon & Simon |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | SPIDER-MAN $400: Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen is played in the "Amazing Spider-Man" movies by this young actress Emma Stone |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | NBA FINALS MVPs $600: 2007:
He was the first European-born MVP Tony Parker |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | "HANG" FIVE $400: 2-word nickname of 19th century Arkansas arbiter Isaac Parker, who favored capital punishment the "Hanging Judge" |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | NOVELS BY QUOTE $600: A modern classic:
"My guess was that Richard Parker was on the floor of the lifeboat" Life of Pi |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | THE MOOSE OUT FRONT $800: Dorothy Parker & pals would know moose comes from a word meaning "twig eater" in the language of this Native people Algonquin |
| #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 |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | "P"OETS $400: "Enough Rope", the 1st collection by this Algonquin Round Table member, contained "Resume", her poem about suicide (Dorothy) Parker |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | THE QUOTABLE DOROTHY PARKER $400: Ms. Parker rhymed, "Men seldom make passes at" these girls who wear glasses |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | THE QUOTABLE DOROTHY PARKER $800: Clare Booth Luce stood aside for Dot, saying "Age before beauty", to which Parker said, "Pearls before" these swine |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BROADWAY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway.) Winner of nine Tonys, "The Book of Mormon" is the first Broadway show from these two creators of "South Park" Parker & Stone |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | QUOTED IN BARTLETT'S $1600: "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!"
(2 people) Trey Parker & Matt Stone |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS! $800: A posthumous collection of book reviews by this Algonquin wit was published in 1970 as "Constant Reader" Dorothy Parker |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | APRIL $1000: On April 9, 2005 Prince Charles married her Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | 3-NAMED ACTRESSES $1600: In 2012 she came out of the "Weeds" after being its star for all 8 seasons Mary Louise Parker |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | CARRIE $600: She's played the Manolo Blahnik-shod Carrie Bradshaw on TV & in film Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $1000: That's the young Sarah Jessica Parker as this optimistic little orphan girl Annie |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | TO YOUR HEALTH $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1978 Janet Parker, a worker at Birmingham Medical School, became the last person to die of this disease smallpox |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $600: Lines of latitude & longitude & a bumpier part defined by the Rockies form the borders of this Canadian province Alberta |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $800: You just said "uranium"--we need this number isotope, the only naturally occurring fissile material 235 |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | PRIVATE EYE Q $800: Here's our Kinsey Report:
This Sue Grafton private eye is ex-Santa Teresa P.D. Kinsey Millhone |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | THE KOREAN WAR $2000: A Security Council resolution issued when the war began demanded the Communists retreat to this parallel the 38th parallel |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | 2012 IN MEMORIAM $400: In May music fans mourned the death of Robin Gibb & this disco queen Donna Summer |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | MOVIE TAGLINES $600: 2009: "Some guys just can't handle Vegas" The Hangover |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | AMERICANA $1000: A little bird told us this Tennessee city that's home to Dollywood got its name from a river & an ironworks Pigeon Forge |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | THE "WARD" OF THE DAY $1200: It's the opposite of leeward windward |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS $1200: December 1913: I'm in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, 'cause I'm governor now! Viva la revolucion! Pancho Villa |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS $1600: 1949: I'm in Taiwan, setting up a government with other nationalist Chinese leaders Chiang Kai-shek |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | OUTLAWS $400: Robert LeRoy Parker was the real name of this outlaw & colleague of the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | NAME THE PARENT COMPANY $800: Milton Bradley games Hasbro |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $400: During her crime spree with Clyde, she sent samples of her poetry to newspapers Bonnie Parker |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | TALK OF THE TOWN $400: Dorothy Parker is said to have described it as "72 suburbs in search of a city" Los Angeles |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1200: When reviewing "Dawn" in the New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $400: In the 1920s & '30s this literary group that included Dorothy Parker met daily for lunch at a NYC hotel the Round Table at the Algonquin |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | SIBLINGS $1600: Last name of siblings George, Charles & Edward, who went into business together to sell board games Parker |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | CHAIN LETTER $200: From the French, it's a manservant or a car parker a valet |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone won the Tony for Best Book of a Musical for penning this show The Book of Mormon |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | HOLLYWOOD FAMILY VALUES $1200: Maybe Matthew Broderick kept calling & kept calling until this on-screen sis from "Ferris Bueller" (finally) dated him Jennifer Grey |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: In 1920 this "Round Table" wit was fired as drama critic for Vanity Fair: they said her reviews were too harsh Dorothy Parker |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | WHO PLAYED THE MRS.? $1200: Dorothy Parker in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | THE FIRST LETTER IS... $1600: Y:
An Army recruit, or a nickname of Charlie Parker yardbird |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | POETS & POETRY $800: This divorced Algonquin "News Item" poet & wit continued writing under her married name Dorothy Parker |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | I'M READY TO PLAY, TODAY $400: In 1934 Charles B. Darrow showed this board game to Parker Bros. executives, who rejected it due to 52 design errors Monopoly |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | ROYAL WOMEN $1600: Starting a weird circle, this royal daughter's first boyfriend was Andrew Parker Bowles Princess Anne |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | THE MARQUEE DE SAD $2000: Tommy Kirk, Fess Parker & some fine canine performers in this heart-tugging classic Old Yeller |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | AUTHORS WITH MASS. APPEAL $2000: In 2010 this mystery author whose characters include Jesse Stone died at his desk in Cambridge (Robert B.) Parker |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | MAY-DECEMBER MOVIES $1600: The "story" of this film has Steve Martin romancing Sarah Jessica Parker as a California girl named SanDeE* L.A. Story |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE 21st $1600: "The Lonely Silver Rain" was the 21st & last of this mystery author's novels featuring Travis McGee John D. MacDonald |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | TV SHOW SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $1200: Parker Scavo,
Ana Solis,
Danielle Van de Kamp Desperate Housewives |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | HIP HOP HOOPSTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This former hubby of Eva Longoria had some success in his native France with his hip hop album "TP" Tony Parker |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | SPLITSVILLE $400: Rumors of Tony Parker's infidelity swirled when this Desperate Housewife filed for divorce in 2010 Eva Longoria |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | TV OPENING CREDITS $400: Sarah Jessica Parker is splashed by a bus with her own picture on the side in the opening to this show Sex & The City |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | TIGERS BY THE TALE $1000: A tiger named Richard Parker shares a life raft with a boy in Yann Martel's "Life of" him Pi |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $800: This manager of Elvis was born Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk in the Netherlands Col. Tom Parker |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | AUTHORS IN HOLLYWOOD $400: We wonder if this witty gal wrote dialogue for "A Star Is Born" while sitting at a round table Dorothy Parker |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $1000: "'House Beautiful' is play lousy" Dorothy Parker |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | NONFICTION $2,127 (Daily Double): The New Yorker's 1959 review of this said in its brevity & clarity it is "unlike most such manuals, a book as well as a tool" The Elements of Style |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | KID IN PLAY $400: Leapin' lizards! Andrea McArdle & Sarah Jessica Parker have both played this title orphan Annie |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | TOYS & GAMES $400: These Massachusetts siblings began their empire in the 1880s with a game called Banking Parker Brothers |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $200: Sarah ____ Parker Jessica |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | CURIOUS $800: Spider-Man's alter ego Peter could be called this 2-word phrase meaning a busybody a nosy parker |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | NOT JUST AN AD WRITER $2000: He left advertising to get a Ph.D. with a thesis on detective novels & then created his own Shamus, Spenser (Robert B.) Parker |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | X-RATED $2000: Private eye Mickey Rourke works for Louis Cyphre in this grisly Alan Parker film originally rated X Angel Heart |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | ROOMMATES $1000: At Juilliard in the '40s, this "Bird" of a sax player roomed with trumpeter Miles Davis (Charlie) Parker |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | BASKETBALL $1000: Though he didn't play organized hoops until 9th grade, this Spurs center is a 3-time NBA Finals MVP Tim Duncan |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | UNFINISHED NOVELS $400: His "Poodle Springs", featuring Philip Marlowe, was completed by Robert B. Parker & published in 1989 Raymond Chandler |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | JERSEY GIRLS $800: This Algonquin wit was born in West End, N.J. in 1893 & was a drama critic for Vanity Fair by 1917 Dorothy Parker |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | REAL "PA"s $400: This actress is the mother of James Wilkie Broderick Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | LITERARY DEDICATIONS $400: E.E. Cummings "dedicated" his book "No Thanks" to the publishers who rejected it & to this woman who paid to print it his mother |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | CLUES TO SECRET IDENTITIES $800: Spider-Man:
Follows "valet" in a job outside L.A. restaurants Parker |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | WHO'S YOUR DADDY COMPANY $200: Play-Doh, Playskool Toys, Parker Bros. games Hasbro |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $1600: Charlie Parker saxophone |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | HYPHENATES $800: First names get hyphens too, as in this one of "Fried Green Tomatoes" & "Weeds" actress Parker Mary-Louise |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | GANGSTER RAP $800: Grew up poor in Texas / Wasn't rollin' in no Lexus / Ms. Parker was my matey / I was played by Warren Beatty Clyde Barrow |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE $400: "Sex and the City",
"Sex and the City"
(& "Did You Hear About the Morgans?") Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MY GIRLFRIEND $1000: In comic books, she's been Spider-Man's girlfriend & his wife Mary Jane Parker (or Mary Jane Watson) |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | FAMOUS SHAMUS $1000: Robert B. Parker introduced this one-named P.I. in 1974's "The Godwulf Manuscript" Spenser |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | BAD TIME CHARLIE $800: As a consequence of his drug & alcohol problems, this jazz pioneer was confined to a mental hospital in 1946 Charlie Parker |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | CELEBRITY CARDS $800: Matt Stone's writing & producing partner, he's the voice of Eric Cartman Trey Parker |
| #5803, aired 2009-12-02 | ALCOHOLICS UNANIMOUS $800: In 1929 this Algonquin wit's "Big Blonde", about an alcoholic serial mistress, won the O. Henry Award Dorothy Parker |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | HOLLYWOOD SQUARES $400: Uncool Sarah Jessica Parker & Amy Linker tried to fit in as freshmen in this early '80s sitcom Square Pegs |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BORN & DIED $200: Be-bopped into the world Aug. 29, 1920; found the joy of sax & flew away March 12, 1955 Charlie Parker |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | AGENTS & MANAGERS $800: Known as the Colonel, this showbiz manager built Elvis Presley into an international phenomenon Colonel Parker |
| #5791, aired 2009-11-16 | TV REVEILLE $1600: 1962:
Tim Conway as Ensign Charles Parker McHale's Navy |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | THE CON IS ON $800: Police had to remove buyers who were building toll barriers after George Parker sold this New York structure to them the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | IN THE NAVY $1600: In the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen, he ignored Admiral Parker's signal to disengage, putting a telescope to his blind eye Nelson |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | BETTER KNOWN AS $1000: Robert Parker took this outlaw alias from his mentor; his partner took his from a city where he was jailed Butch Cassidy |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | LITTLE WOMEN $400: While on the run in the 1930s, this 4'10" bank robber sent poetry & photos of her & Clyde to newspapers Bonnie Parker |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | PORT OF CALL $1000: This Australian port city was founded as a British penal colony in 1788 Sydney |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | NOT LITERALLY $400: No, if you're "literally climbing the walls" you'd be this boyfriend of Mary Jane Watson Spider-Man (or Peter Parker) |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | CHAMPIONS OF TOURNAMENTS $800: As world champ of this Parker Bros. game, Antonio Fernandez won $15,140, the total amount of "cash" in the game Monopoly |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WRITERS ON FILM $1000: "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" included Lili Taylor as this "Show Boat" author Edna Ferber |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | SELDOM IS HEARD $800: Completes Dorothy Parker's verdict "Men seldom make passes at..." girls who wear glasses |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | SEX & THE CITY $200: Female; born 1965; moved to NYC, 1977; starred as Carrie on some TV show, 1998-2004 Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | HIP REPLACEMENT $400: This "Sex and the City" star was replaced by teen singer Joss Stone in Gap ads, but she can do ads for us anytime Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | YOU GO, GIRL! $1200: This witty woman who helped found the Screen Writers Guild left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. (Dorothy) Parker |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | BIOPIC SUBJECTS $400: 1988:
"Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | LIVE IN TEXAS $1200: Ms. Parker was born in Rowena; this partner in crime was born on March 24, 1909 in Telico Clyde (Barrow) |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | ELVIS A TO Z $1000: "P" is for this manager who sold Elvis' entire music catalog to RCA in 1973 for about $5 million, far below its market value Colonel (Tom) Parker |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LODGE-PODGE $1200: A dinner roll is named this "House", for a Boston hotel Parker |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | THAR HE BLOWS! $400: On Sept. 29, 1947 the sax of this "Bird" sang in his Carnegie Hall debut (Charlie) Parker |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | ACTRESSES $400: Before "Sex and the City", she played SanDeE* in "L.A. Story" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $600: On April 9, 2005 England celebrated the happy nuptials of Prince Charles & this woman Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #5526, aired 2008-09-22 | SNOOP DOGG $1000: In 2006 it was Showtime for Snoop on this Mary-Louise Parker series Weeds |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | THIS IS YOUR WIFE! $600: Eva Longoria Tony Parker |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | REEL LIFE $2000: 1994:
Jennifer Jason Leigh as this Round Table wit (Dorothy) Parker |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $400: Crescent,
kaiser,
Parker House rolls |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | LET'S GO SHOPPING $400: You can buy a glass with a coonskin cap logo at the winery of this actor who wore a coonskin cap on TV Fess Parker |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | THEY SAID IT $1000: "Brevity is the soul of lingerie" is attributed to this "Round Table" wit Dorothy Parker |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | MELROSE PLACE $600: Prior to "According to Jim", she spent several seasons on "Melrose" as Alison Parker Courtney Thorne-Smith |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | CATCH HER $1200: She was born October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas; her two-year crime spree ended violently in 1934 Bonnie Parker |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | BOARD GAME HISTORY $200: In the 1950s Parker Brothers took a French game called "Conquest of the World" & turned it into this Risk |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | FASHION FUN $600: Attention, Mr. Big: this actress has been bitten by the fashion bug, so she has her own clothing line, called Bitten Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE HILLS $800: High peaks in this range of low mountains in South Dakota & Wyoming include Parker Peak & Custer Peak the Black Hills |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | JAZZ NICKNAMES $400: Charlie Parker Bird |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | "ALT"ERNATIVE $800: Spider-Man is this type of second self to Peter Parker an alter ego |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $1200: On his 1958 Christmas card, Elvis wore his Army uniform; this man, his manager, was dressed up like Santa Col. Parker |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | SARAH-DIPITY $400: When it's time for a little "sex and the city", spray on Lovely, the signature fragrance of this actress Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | NEW ROCK $2000: YouTube helped this Arizona band's cover of OutKast's "Hey Ya!" surge in popularity Obadiah Parker |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | CHERCHEZ LA FEMME $400: Parker Stevenson, Parker Posey, Parker Pyne Parker Posey |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | DOROTHY PARKER $200: Legend has it Clare Boothe Luce said, "Age before beauty" to Parker, whose reply was "Pearls before" this swine |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | DOROTHY PARKER $400: An attributed Dorothy quote: "One more" this "and I'll be under the host" a drink |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | DOROTHY PARKER $600: Informed that this taciturn president had died, Parker asked, "How can they tell?" (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | DOROTHY PARKER $800: "The only ism Hollywood believes in is" this, just about the worst thing of which a writer can be accused plagiarism |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | DOROTHY PARKER $1000: Dorothy rhymed, "Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles, and" this doubt |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | JOB $600: Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla's ex-husband, once held the odd job of "Silver Stick in waiting to" this royal the Queen |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | WRITERS AT REST $2000: Her epitaph "Excuse My Dust" is famous; fewer know that it's on a plaque at NAACP HQ, where her ashes are buried Dorothy Parker |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | FOR BETTER OR VERSE $1200: She wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention when gentlemen can see-- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency" Emily Dickinson |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | CLASSIC TV COMEDY EPISODES $1600: "The Seven Faces of Ensign Parker" McHale's Navy |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: Born Dorothy Rothschild, this noted wit began her literary career with a poem published in Vanity Fair Dorothy Parker |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $1000: Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him Charlie Parker |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | SAX $1600: Charlie Parker took the instrument to new heights playing this style of jazz he helped invent bebop |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | CRITICISM WITH STYLE $800: This Algonquin lady: "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | A YEAR TO REMEMBER $2000: Montreal holds an expo; we excuse Dorothy Parker's dust; Louis Armstrong hits with "What A Wonderful World" 1967 |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS $800: Last name of a businessman George, who bought the rights to a game called Monopoly in the 1930s Parker |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | LIKE A ROLLING STONE $800: Not Watts but this Charlie started the Bebop Revolution with his alto sax playing Charlie Parker |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | HE SAID, SHE SAID $800: One of her book reviews said, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force" Dorothy Parker |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NEW TABLOID DUOS $4,200 (Daily Double): Even today they get the royal treatment:
Charilla Charles & Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | THEY HATE L.A. $1000: An Oscar-nominated screenwriter in the 1930s, this witty woman called L.A. "a horror to me" Dorothy Parker |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | LET'S PLAY A GAME! $200: You can apologize (as the name says) when you send someone back to the start in this Parker Brothers board game Sorry! |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | MOVIES BEFORE & AFTER $400: Peter Parker spins a web of intrigue & help Denzel Washington protect Dakota Fanning Spider-Man on Fire |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $400: In 1904's election Alton B. Parker & 80-year-old running mate Henry Davis went down to defeat against this pres. Teddy Roosevelt |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | KICK THE CANNES $200: Forest Whitaker & Clint Eastwood both won awards in 1988 for bringing this "flighty" jazzman to life Charlie "Bird" Parker |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $800: Dorothy Parker quipped that "Brevity is the soul of" this sexywear lingerie |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | ALL THAT JAZZ $2,000 (Daily Double): This bop saxophonist's 1946 tune "Ornithology" became a jazz standard Charlie Parker |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | DOUBLE G WHIZ $1000: To overwhelm or bewilder, especially while playing a certain Parker Brothers word game boggle |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | LETTER, WE GET LETTER $400: A withering review by Dorothy Parker said Katharine Hepburn "ran the gamut of emotions from A to" this B |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $200: This woman slipped a .38 revolver to Clyde Barrow in his prison cell in 1930, leading to his escape Bonnie Parker |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This lake lies behind the Parker Dam on the border of Arizona & California Lake Havasu |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A COLONEL OF KNOWLEDGE $800: The Las Vegas Hilton was the setting for this Elvis manager's memorial service Colonel Tom Parker |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | WHAT'S ON TV, KIDS? $1000: George Gore & Parker McKenna Posey are 2 of the "kids" on this sitcom that stars Damon Wayans as their dad My Wife and Kids |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | DOT $800: "The only thing I didn't like about 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' was the play", said this Algonquin wit Dorothy Parker |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | HEY "YA" $1000: Slang word for a convict, or a Charlie Parker nickname yardbird |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | MY FEAR LADY $400: Things don't end well for Faye Dunaway as this 1967 title character Bonnie (Parker) |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | OH, WITTY WOMAN $1,100 (Daily Double): 1893-born wit who reportedly said, "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue" Dorothy Parker |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | '50s TV $400: In 1955, 4 versions of the theme to this Disney series hit the Top 20, including one by its star, Fess Parker Davy Crockett |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $800: The horn seen at Kansas City's American Jazz Museum belonged to this '40s & '50s musician who grew up in Kansas City Charlie Parker |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | ELVIS $800: Once elected dogcatcher of Tampa, this man, seen here, later contractually received 50% of Elvis' earnings (Tom) Parker |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $200: Parker Brothers prints about $50 billion of this game's "money" every year Monopoly |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | QUOTES $600: In 2005, shortly after announcing her engagement (after a 35-year affair), she said, "I'm just coming down to Earth" Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In a review for Esquire, Dorothy Parker highly praised this author & her "Haunting of Hill House" (Shirley) Jackson |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | THIS SHOULD SOUND FAMILIAR $400: Anything that gives you a solution to a mystery, or a Parker Brothers board game a clue |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | THIS SHOULD SOUND FAMILIAR $600: 5-letter term used to show feelings of regret, or a Parker Brothers board game; ooo... sorry |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | 23 SKIDOO $600: She was shot 23 times on May 23, 1934 Bonnie Parker |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | MASTER OF PUPPETS $800: This 2004 Matt Stone & Trey Parker film featured risque marionettes Team America(: World Police) |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | "FORE" $800: He won the best actor award at the 1988 Cannes film festival for his portrayal of Charlie Parker Forest Whitaker |
| #4681, aired 2005-01-03 | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION $1000: Sarah Jessica Parker was a nerdy teen hoping to be part of the "in" crowd at Weemawee High on this '80s sitcom Square Pegs |
| #4672, aired 2004-12-21 | SUPERHERO SECRET IDENTITY LAST NAMES $400: The brothers who produced the game Monopoly Parker |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODS $400: Dorothy Parker & Humphrey Bogart lived (separately) in this Hudson-bounded "Upper" area with a 3-word name the Upper West Side |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | ECONOMICS $400: Adam Smith thought these were conspiracies against the consumer, but don't tell that to Parker Brothers monopolies |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | I PLAYED 'EM ON TV $800: Stacey Colbert,
Dr. Sloan Parker,
Grace Adler Debra Messing |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | THAT'S SO RANDOM! $1000: (I'm Ashleigh Banfield.) "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", said this Algonquin Round Table member Dorothy Parker |
| #4639, aired 2004-11-05 | CREAM $600: Captain Parker's in Yarmouth is a 2-time winner of Boston Harborfest's competition in this creamy soup clam chowder |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | ENTER & DESIGN IN, PLEASE $1600: Introduced in 1941, Kenneth Parker's Parker 51, one of these, became a status symbol a pen |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: In "Honeymoon in Vegas", poker player James Caan wins a weekend with Nicolas Cage's girl, played by her Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #4609, aired 2004-09-23 | THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS $800: This Algonquin wit suggested "Excuse My Dust" as her own epitaph Dorothy Parker |
| #4606, aired 2004-09-20 | TV TITLE PAIRS $1200: Jameson Parker & Gerald McRaney Simon & Simon |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: 2002:
Mary Jane Watson, the girl of Peter Parker's dreams Kirsten Dunst |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | CRIME TIME $200: During crime sprees with Clyde Barrow, she took the time to mail samples of her poetry to local newspapers Bonnie Parker |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | 1995 $200: In January, Camilla Parker Bowles announced that she was getting a divorce, & this prince claimed that he wasn't Prince Charles |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $800: This "Sex and the City" actress starred in a 1996 revival of the Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | KANSAS CITY HERE WE COME $1000: This jazz alto sax player nicknamed "Bird" was born in Kansas City, Kansas & became famous playing jazz in Kansas City, Missouri Charlie Parker |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | THAT'S THE STORY OF MY LIFE $2000: An impresario:
"The Colonel" (Tom) Parker |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | PIANISTS $1600: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & this pianist with a "religious" name created the Bebop style of jazz in the 1940s Thelonious Monk |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | GET A ROOM! $1000: Get an in-room massage for your dog at the Santa Barbara resort owned by this actor, TV's Daniel Boone Fess Parker |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | EXPLORERS $2000: This Grand Canyon explorer wrote "Explorations of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries" in 1875 John Wesley Powell |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: The name of this witty writer precedes "and the Vicious Circle" in the title of a 1994 film Dorothy Parker |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | CELEBRITY WINEMAKERS $800: You can buy coonskin bottle toppers at the winery owned by this man, TV's Davy Crockett Fess Parker |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | SCIENCE PUNS $600: When you are "under" this, a manometer will measure it pressure |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $800: A device to spray your ferns & regrets the absence of mister & misses |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL TERMS OF SERVICE $1000: 1861-1865 Hannibal Hamlin |
| #4397, aired 2003-10-21 | WEAPONS OF THE OLD WEST $1200: In titles of John Langley's western novels, this numerical weapon precedes "Law", "Justice" & "Feud" Six-Gun |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | ALL THAT JAZZ $1600: Recordings by this bebop alto saxophonist include "Carvin' the Bird", "Yardbird Suite" & "Bird Feathers" Charlie Parker |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 2003 Spenser & Hawk returned in a novel called "Back Story" by this author Robert B. Parker |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | NEW CELEBRITY CONTESTANTS $400: Get ready for some Algonquin wit from this author, whose new collection is "Laments for the Living." Here's... Dorothy Parker |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | OLIVER STONE $600: Oliver Stone & Alan Parker co-wrote the screenplay for this Madonna musical Evita |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $800: Forest Whitaker played bop legend Charlie Parker in this 1988 biopic Bird |
| #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 |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | GIVE ME AN "H" $800: Dorothy Parker used this word, the science of growing fruits, flowers, etc., in a famous quip horticulture |
| #4313, aired 2003-05-07 | DANGER PUNS $1600: Referring to poet Arthur, Dorothy Parker said that Paul Verlaine "was always chasing" these Rimbauds |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | STAR TRACK $400: This star of "Sex and the City" is Mrs. Matthew Broderick Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC MAKERS $1200: As a boy, this master of bebop sax moved to Kansas City, Mo. (a jazz hotbed) from Kansas City, Kansas (not) (Charlie) Parker |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | MUSICAL NICKNAMES $2000: Charlie Parker Bird |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $1000: Graham Parker sang, "I get left in the cold 'cause I will search the world for" this deceiving stuff fool's gold |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THEY ALL PLAYED SINGERS $2000: In "Sugartime" Mary-Louise Parker played Phyllis of these singing sisters & romanced Sam Giancana the McGuire Sisters |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | ALIAS $400: Robert Leroy Parker used this famous alias when he rode with the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | SHORT STORIES $1200: Dorothy Parker wrote a story about Hazel Morse, the title "Big" one of these Blonde |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | '70s TV $600: In the '70s Shaun Cassidy & Parker Stevenson played these teen detectives the Hardy Boys |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: In a 2002 blockbuster, he played both Peter Parker & your friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man Tobey Maguire |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $1600: Mary-Louise Parker was awesome in this play that won David Auburn a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 Proof |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | "GIRL" MOVIES $1200: 1995:
Parker Posey "Party Girl" |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE $400: This Roundtable gal quipped, "Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt" Dorothy Parker |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | INSURANCE $400: Insurers deal with this, the probability of loss; it's also the name of a Parker Brothers game Risk |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | WRY $1000: The epitaph she suggested for herself: "Excuse my dust" Dorothy Parker |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $2000: This auto race card game with a French name has driven up sales for Parker Brothers since 1962 Mille Bornes |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | K.C. $800: Lester Young, Count Basie & Charlie Parker played the Kansas City style of this genre of music jazz |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | LET'S REVIEW $400: Dorothy Parker: "'Hummy' marks the first place in (his) 'House at Pooh Corner' at which tonstant weader fwowed up" A.A. Milne |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | THE MECHANICS SPEAK $400: Yeah, Mr. Barrow, Ms. Parker, I see your V-8 from this company needs bodywork, but I don't do bulletproofing Ford |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | MASS MEDIA $600: Peter Parker, aka this comic book hero. got his super powers after he was bit by a radioactive arachnid Spiderman |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | MONOPOLY $800: Monopoly was first produced by this company once run by siblings George & Charles Parker Brothers |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | THE ROLE PLAYED $600: George Montgomery,
Fess Parker,
John Wayne Davy Crockett |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: At first this "familial" company rejected Monopoly due to "52 design errors" Parker Brothers |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | CAMILLA $200: Camilla Parker Bowles was born Camilla Shand on July 17, 1947 in this world capital London |
| #3946, aired 2001-10-29 | THEY WERE FREEMASONS $100: In 1960 this acting legend & Freemason played another Freemason, Davy Crockett, in "The Alamo" John Wayne |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | CROSS-EXAMINING THE WITS $1000: You said of your shared office with Dorothy Parker, "One cubic foot less and it would have constituted adultery" Robert Benchley |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | FOR OLD CRIMES' SAKE $400: Bank robber Clyde Barrow died along with this woman in a 1930s police ambush Bonnie Parker |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | SURPRISE ME, TREBEK! $800: Completes the Dorothy Parker line, "Men seldom make passes at..." "girls who wear glasses" |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE QUOTES $200: Dorothy Parker:
"Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well" do this live |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: A big jazz fan, Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 film bio of Charlie Parker Bird |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | THE JOY OF SAX $400: Dizzy Gillespie & this alto sax man known as "Bird" helped popularize bebop in the '40s Charlie Parker |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | THE WOMEN OF BAYWATCH $400: As C.J. Parker, she's been in the opening credits with several variations of her name Pamela Anderson Lee |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $500: Dorothy Parker & Robert Benchley once traded quips at the famous "Round Table" at this hotel on West 44th Street the Algonquin |
| #3867, aired 2001-05-29 | CITIES BY HOTEL $500: Copley Square Hotel,
The Omni Parker House,
Back Bay Hilton Boston |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | TOYS "R" THESE $300: Parker Bros. recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of this take-over-the-world board game Risk |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | THE MOVIE STAR $200: Sarah Jessica Parker is among the movie stars who've declared they don't do this type of scene Nude scene |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | ALL THAT JAZZ $200: This saxman is seen here on a 1995 stamp tooting his own horn Charlie Parker |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | "C.B." $500: Bonnie Parker's partner in crime Clyde Barrow |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | BIG SCREEN BIOGRAPHIES $600: 1988:
Forest Whitaker Charlie Parker (in "Bird") |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | HAWAII $800: Yee-ha! You'll see Hawaiian cowboys known as Paniolo at this 225,000-acre cattle ranch Parker Ranch |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | LONG LIVE THE KING! $500: Once he became Elvis' manager (for up to a 50% fee), he never took on another client Colonel Tom Parker |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | PARKER BROTHERS & SISTERS $100: Sexy "City" dweller seen here: Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | PARKER BROTHERS & SISTERS $200: Her New Yorker book reviews were written as "Constant Reader" Dorothy Parker |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | PARKER BROTHERS & SISTERS $300: He managed Elvis Colonel Tom Parker |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | PARKER BROTHERS & SISTERS $400: In 1984 he hit No. 1 with "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | PARKER BROTHERS & SISTERS $500: The middle initial of this detective writer, Spenser's creator, stands for Brown Robert B. Parker |
| #3722, aired 2000-11-07 | ELECTION DAY $300: In 1980 Carter gave this "speech" at 9:50 P.M., the earliest since Alton B. Parker in 1904 Concession speech |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $200: Her TV roles include lifeguard C.J. Parker & "V.I.P." Vallery Irons; on film she was Barb Wire Pamela Anderson Lee |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | LOTS OF CHARACTER $400: In March 2000 the only way to get "Riding The Bullet", Stephen King's tale of Alan Parker, was by doing this Logging onto the Internet |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | FILM BIOS $800: "Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | WRITERS ON FILM $400: In 1994 Ferber & Fitzgerald also appeared when Jennifer Jason Leigh played this witty writer Dorothy Parker |
| #3621, aired 2000-05-08 | CELEBRITY ANCESTORS $200: On "20/20", Hugh Downs once did a segment on Fess Parker, who played this famous ancestor of Downs Davy Crockett |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | FAMOUS FEMALES $600: Known as "The Queen of Independent Films", she was named for model Suzy Parker Posey |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | AMERICAN SHORT STORIES $1000: Hazel Morse was her "Big Blonde" Dorothy Parker |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | 3-NAMED CELEBRITIES $300: In 1997 she married her "How to Succeed in Business..." co-star Matthew Broderick Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $600: She found out about "Sex And The City" in "L.A. Story" & "Honeymoon In Vegas" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | DANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): It's been said that this Tony-winning dancer, born in 1973, is to tap "what Charlie Parker is to jazz" Savion Glover |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | TV PIONEERS $200: Fess Parker played the title pioneer & Ed Ames his friend Mingo on this '60s series set in Kentucky Daniel Boone |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $500: In 1986 the first group of inductees included Elvis Presley & this founder of Sun Records Sam Phillips |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | '90s KIDS' NAMES $200: Ms. Parker of "Sex and the City" sports both of these top names for girls Sarah & Jessica |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $500: A quote attributed to this "Round Table" wit is "Brevity is the soul of lingerie" Dorothy Parker |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | WILD WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: Upset by her public image, this partner of Clyde said she wanted folks to know she didn't really smoke cigars Bonnie Parker |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | TEENS ON BROADWAY $100: In 1979, at age 13, Sarah Jessica Parker took over the title role of this "Little Orphan" Annie |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | JAZZ $200: In the title of the album "Diz 'N' Bird In Concert", Diz is Dizzy Gillespie & Bird is this saxophonist Charlie Parker |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | SIMPLY SIMON $100: This CBS private eye series starred Jameson Parker & Gerald McRaney Simon & Simon |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | SAVE THE PRINCE OF WALES $400: On January 28, 1999 Prince Charles made his first public appearance with this woman; it was at a party for her sister Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | LETTER PERFECT $200: Dorothy Parker snidely wrote that Katharine Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to this B |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $400: The ballet "For Bird, with Love" was Alvin Ailey's tribute to this jazz musician whose nickname was "Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | DISNEYANA $400: Several historic American figures have been portrayed by this actor, named a Disney legend in 1991 Fess Parker |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | 20th CENTURY LIT $1000: She edited "The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald" in 1945, & her own "Portable" collection in 1944 Dorothy Parker |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | TOUGH TV $800: Corin Nemec of "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" acted under this nickname when he was on "Webster" Corky |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | THE KING $800: An illegal Dutch immigrant, this man who was Elvis' manager was once the Tampa, Florida dogcatcher Colonel Tom Parker |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | AUTHORS' RHYME TIME $1000: Dorothy's felt-tipped pens Parker's markers |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | JAZZ NICKNAMES $200: Yardbird Charlie Parker |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: These 2 Texans, gunned down on May 23, 1934, weren't nearly as good-looking as Faye & Warren Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | ORIGINAL GANGSTERS $200: It all ended on May 23, 1934 for these two seen here Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | BOSTON TV $1000: This Robert Urich series about a Boston detective was based on books by Robert B. Parker Spenser: For Hire |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | "PARKER" HOUSE $400: In 1956 this versatile actor starred in "Davy Crockett And The River Pirates" Fess Parker |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | "PARKER" HOUSE $600: She was the "other woman" in Prince Charles & Princess Diana's divorce Camilla Parker Bowles |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | "PARKER" HOUSE $800: On FOX TV from '90 - '93, this title character couldn't "lose" Parker Lewis |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | "PARKER" HOUSE $1000: He directed vibrant films like "Midnight Express", "Pink Floyd -- The Wall" & "Evita" Alan Parker |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | JENNIFER & DAVID $400: In a 1994 film David Gow was Round Table wit Donald Ogden Stewart; she was Dorothy Parker Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | AUTHORS $1000: In 1997 he put his "Spenser" books on hold to introduce a new protagonist, Jesse Stone in "Night Passage" Robert Parker |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $100: His poem on teacher Parker Cleaveland is less well known than his "Paul Revere's Ride" Longfellow |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | BEWITCHING CINEMA $400: In "Hocus Pocus" Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy & she played sibling sorceresses Bette Midler |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | VILIFICATION $400: Dorothy Parker's comment on this actress, "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B", was a joke Katharine Hepburn |
| #3189, aired 1998-06-11 | TRAVEL TEXAS $300: In Parker, Texas you can tour the Southfork Ranch made famous by this TV series Dallas |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | TIM CONWAY FILMS $400: In 2 1960s movies based on this series, Tim reprised his TV role of Ensign Parker McHale's Navy |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | IT'S A BIRD! $100: Charlie "Bird" Parker was self-taught on this musical instrument he got from his mother at age 11 Saxophone |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | IT'S A BIRD! $300: Dizzy Gillespie, Parker & others developed this new style of jazz at Minton's Playhouse, a NYC nightclub Bebop |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | IT'S A BIRD! $400: This musical bird "study" by Parker was based on the chord progressions of "How High the Moon" "Ornithology" |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | IT'S A BIRD! $500: Due to Parker's prominence, this leading New York City jazz club was named for him Birdland |
| #3182, aired 1998-06-02 | HOW POETIC $500: Her Poem No. 1333 tells us: "A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king" Emily Dickinson |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | WHERE THE "H" ARE WE? $100: Parker Ranch,
Kilauea Volcano,
Monument to Captain Cook Hawaii |
| #3171, aired 1998-05-18 | SECRET IDENTITIES $300: Peter Parker Spider-Man |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | GIRL TALK $400: This Round Table wit required "Only 3 things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid" Dorothy Parker |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | FOREIGN EYE $1000: Inspector Charles Parker of Scotland Yard is the police contact of this Dorothy Sayers lord Lord Peter Wimsey |
| #3092, aired 1998-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $700 (Daily Double): "Perchance to Dream" with Philip Marlowe, is Robert B. Parker's sequel to this Raymond Chandler novel "The Big Sleep" |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | LADIES DANCING $400: She used to dance with the Cincinnati Ballet, as her husband Matthew Broderick could tell you Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | PAIRS $400: An April 1997 auction of Clyde Barrow's belongings raised money to fund moving his grave next to hers Bonnie Parker |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $400: Fess Parker & John Wayne have both played this king of the wild frontier Davy Crockett |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | TV THAT'S NOT AS GOOD FOR YOU $1000: C.D. Parker, a former Texas Ranger, owns a saloon frequented by this title character Walker, Texas Ranger |
| #3015, aired 1997-10-10 | FOOLISH PHRASEOLOGY $400: "Tonstant weader fwowed up", she wrote after finding "The House At Pooh Corner" hard to swallow Dorothy Parker |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | FRIENDS $400: Dizzy Gillespie, a close friend & bandmate of this bebop saxophonist, survived him by 38 years Charlie Parker |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | MEN BEHAVING BADLY $500 (Daily Double): [Video] Hi, I'm Rob Schneider. 2 outlaws who behaved badly were Robert Leroy Parker & Harry Longabaugh, better known as this pair Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | GAMES $300: Among this company's games are Boggle, Risk & Sorry Parker Brothers |
| #2954, aired 1997-06-05 | TV TITLE PAIRS $300: Jameson Parker & Gerald McRaney "Simon & Simon" |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | RECENT MOVIES $100: Alan Parker & Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay for this Madonna musical Evita |
| #2920, aired 1997-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $400: In 1996 Sarah Jessica Parker joined boyfriend Matthew Broderick in the cast of this hit musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $300: Dorothy Parker called her 1931 book of verse "Death and" these, 2 things Ben Franklin said were certainties Death and Taxes |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1931 issue of The New Yorker, she quipped, "Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer" Dorothy Parker |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: The Parker Duofold Red Jasper, one of these, features a nib split by hand a pen |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: In 1970 "Twister" inventor Reynolds Guyer created a 4" foam ball named this by Parker Bros. Nerf |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | NOTORIOUS $400: She wrote "The Story of Suicide Sal" as well as "The Story Of" herself "And Clyde" Bonnie Parker |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | TV & FILM SAXOPHONISTS $400: Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 biopic about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker "Bird" |
| #2820, aired 1996-11-29 | JAZZ $400: This trumpeter, who died in 1971, is regarded as the most influential jazz musician of all time Louis Armstrong |
| #2815, aired 1996-11-22 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $800: Round Table wit who noted, "Scratch a lover & find a foe" Dorothy Parker |
| #2802, aired 1996-11-05 | THE KING AND I $1000: Camilla Parker Bowles' great-grandmother Alice Keppel was a mistress of this king who reigned 1901-1910 Edward VII |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | CRIME TIME $200: His brother Buck Barrow helped him & Bonnie Parker rob a Minnesota bank May 16, 1933 Clyde Barrow |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | PASTRY $400: This Boston hotel that added the glaze to Boston Cream Pie is also known for its rolls Parker House |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | SALESMEN $300: Out-of-work salesman Charles Darrow made the sale of his life when he sold this game to Parker Brothers Monopoly |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | PEOPLE $1000: The furor over Prince Charles' relationship with her has been dubbed "Camillagate" Camilla Parker-Bowles |
| #2720, aired 1996-05-31 | KANSANS $200: This alto sax player nicknamed "Bird" was born in Kansas City, Kansas Charlie Parker |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | NOTORIOUS $400: He & Bonnie Parker killed about a dozen people in their 2-year crime spree Clyde Barrow |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $300: John Parker led this group against the British in the first battle of the war the minutemen |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | TELEVISION $100: Tim Conway played Ensign Parker on "McHale's Navy" & Courtney Thorne-Smith plays Alison Parker on this Melrose Place |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | MUSIC $800: In 1951 a trombonist in The Herd taped a rare session with Charlie Parker & this band leader Woody Herman |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $1000: "The Godwulf Manuscript" in 1974 was his first book about Boston policeman-turned-private eye Spenser Robert Parker |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | NEW YORK CITY $200 (Daily Double): This hotel, a meeting place of Dorothy Parker & Robert Benchley, is located at 59 W. 44th Street the Algonquin |
| #2664, aired 1996-03-14 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $500: It's the middle name of Sarah Parker, who went on a "Honeymoon in Vegas" Jessica |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | AMERICAN MUSIC $800: His full nickname was Yardbird, but he was also called Bird Charlie Parker |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $600: Round Table wit who coined the phrase "Brevity is the soul of lingerie" Dorothy Parker |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | PSEUDONYMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Under the pseudonym Constant Reader, she wrote book reviews for The New Yorker 1827-1933 Dorothy Parker |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | MOVIE DEBUTS $1000: She made her screen debut in "The Happening" in 1967 & "shot" to stardom as Bonnie Parker the same year Faye Dunaway |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: Dorothy Parker wrote some of the lyrics for this Leonard Bernstein musical based on a Voltaire novel Candide |
| #2498, aired 1995-06-14 | QUOTATIONS $300: Dorothy Parker said, "Men seldom" do this "at girls who wear glasses" make passes |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | INVENTIONS $1000: You needed an eyedropper to put the ink inside the fountain pen that he invented in 1884 (Lewis) Waterman |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $800: He named Spenser, his famous detective, after English poet Edmund Spenser Robert Parker |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | TABLE TENNIS $100: This common name for the game was once owned by Parker Brothers ping pong |
| #2381, aired 1995-01-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This Round Table wit collaborated with Elmer Rice on the 1924 play "Close Harmony" Dorothy Parker |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | THE 1930s $200: After initially rejecting it, Parker Brothers began to cash in on this board game in 1935 Monopoly |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | U.S. AUTHORS $400: A Philip Marlowe novel left unfinished at his death was later completed by Robert B. Parker Raymond Chandler |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | WOMEN POETS $200: The line "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" appeared in her poem "News Item" Dorothy Parker |
| #2334, aired 1994-10-27 | WOMEN AUTHORS $600: This woman who co-founded the Algonquin Round Table won an O. Henry Award for her story "Big Blonde" Dorothy Parker |
| #2237, aired 1994-05-03 | ROCK 'N' ROLL $500: Slim Jim Phantom of this "Rock This Town" group played Charlie Parker's drummer in the film "Bird" the Stray Cats |
| #2229, aired 1994-04-21 | QUOTES ABOUT AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): Alexander Woollcott called this Round Table wit a combination "of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth" Dorothy Parker |
| #2226, aired 1994-04-18 | RANCHES $1,000 (Daily Double): The 250,000-acre Parker Ranch in this state is one of the largest U.S. cattle ranches under single ownership Hawaii |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | FADS $300: In 1935 Americans bought 20,000 sets of this Parker Brothers game per week Monopoly |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | THE COMICS $300: This Brant Parker-Johnny Hart strip features a small monarch, a cowardly knight & a magician The Wizard of Id |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | POTPOURRI $400: In the 1950s this company introduced 2 of its most popular board games: Risk & Careers Parker Brothers |
| #2176, aired 1994-02-07 | CRIME TIME $100: He escaped from jail in early 1930 with help from his new girlfriend, Bonnie Parker Clyde Barrow |
| #2170, aired 1994-01-28 | LESSER KNOWN QUOTES $800: Among the epitaphs she suggested for herself were "Excuse my dust" & "This is on me" Dorothy Parker |
| #2127, aired 1993-11-30 | THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS $500: Her husband George was never part of her outlaw gang, but her four sons were Ma Barker |
| #2123, aired 1993-11-24 | HUMOROUS QUOTES $500: Told of this president's death in 1933, Dorothy Parker supposedly asked, "How can they tell?" Calvin Coolidge |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | NOTORIOUS $600: By 1896 Robert Leroy Parker was using this name in honor of his mentor, a cattle rustler Butch Cassidy |
| #2076, aired 1993-09-20 | POTPOURRI $500: A 1992 stamp honored this writer famous for her line about making "passes at girls who wear glasses" Dorothy Parker |
| #2041, aired 1993-06-21 | AUTHORS $800: It was Dorothy Parker's maiden name Rothschild |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | NOTORIOUS $500: It was the real last name of Butch Cassidy & Bonnie of Bonnie & Clyde Parker |
| #1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LEFTOVERS $600: Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 film bio of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker Bird |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | RECENT BOOKS $600: In "Pastime" by Robert B. Parker, this P.I. "For Hire" searches for a missing mother who's mixed up in a mob heist Spenser |
| #1912, aired 1992-12-22 | FOOD FACTS $100: These Parker House items were named for the Boston hotel that made them famous a roll |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Eleanor,
Jameson,
Fess Parker |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | JAZZ $1000: With Dizzy Gillespie, this "Bird" originated the bebop style of jazz Charlie Parker |
| #1846, aired 1992-09-21 | '60s TV $200: In the '50s he played Davy Crockett, in the '60s, Daniel Boone Fess Parker |
| #1780, aired 1992-05-01 | AUTHORS $400: Even after her divorce & remarriage, she continued to use the last name of her ex-husband Edwin P. Parker II Dorothy Parker |
| #1752, aired 1992-03-24 | KATHARINE HEPBURN $400: Dorothy Parker's famous pun of Kate's acting said she ran "The gamut of emotions from A to" this B |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | CRIMINAL NICKNAMES $100: The nicknames of old west outlaws Robert Leroy Parker & Harry Longbaugh Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #1722, aired 1992-02-11 | HERALDRY $200: A bar across the middle of a shield, or a Parker who played Davy Crockett fess |
| #1673, aired 1991-12-04 | BIBLICAL FILMS $200: "Alamo" star whose only line in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" was "Truly, this man was the son of God" John Wayne |
| #1645, aired 1991-10-25 | MUSIC $600: This jazz saxophonist wrote the pieces "Now's The Time" & "Yardbird Suite" Charlie Parker |
| #1621, aired 1991-09-23 | AUTHORS $500: Even after her divorce and remarriage, she continued to use the name of her ex-husband Edwin P. Parker II Dorothy Parker |
| #1618, aired 1991-09-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: Located on the island of Hawaii, it's one of the world's largest cattle ranches Parker Ranch |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | POTPOURRI $800: This jazz "Yardbird" was great at improvising on the alto sax Charlie Parker |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | RIVERS $200: This river's Parker Dam created Lake Havasu the Colorado River |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | NOTABLE DAVISES $200: This trumpeter studied at Juilliard & joined Charlie Parker's bebop band in 1945 Miles Davis |
| #1541, aired 1991-04-22 | POETRY $400: According to Dorothy Parker, "Men seldom" do this "at girls who wear glasses" make passes |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | HISTORY $1000: At the 1801, naval Battle of Copenhagen, Sir Hyde Parker was Britain's first-in-command & he was second Admiral Nelson |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Birdland, a jazz palace of the '50s, was named for this sax player who was nicknamed "Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #1518, aired 1991-03-20 | HISTORIC QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): Mass. town where patriot John Parker supposedly said, "If they mean to have a war let it begin here" Lexington |
| #1499, aired 1991-02-21 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Over the years this company has constructed 200 million little green houses for Monopoly Parker Brothers |
| #1493, aired 1991-02-13 | TOYS & GAMES $500: This Parker Bros. strategy game whose board is a map comes in the original & "Castle" versions Risk |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | FAMOUS QUOTES $800: American wit who said that "Puritanism was the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy" H.L. Mencken |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | WOMEN POETS $400: She wrote, "Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live." Dorothy Parker |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: "Stardust" is Robert B. Parker's 17th novel about this detective for hire Spenser |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | TECHNOLOGY $600: In 1894 George Parker patented his "Lucky Curve" feed for these Parker pens |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | BIOGRAPHIES $600: "You Might As Well Live" is a biography of this Round Table wit who used the line in one of her poems Dorothy Parker |
| #12, aired 1990-09-01 | THE OLD WEST $100 (Daily Double): Robert Leroy Parker used this alias in honor of a rustler he rode with as a teenager Butch Cassidy |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | HUMOROUS QUOTES $500: Paraphrasing Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker called it "the soul of lingerie" brevity |
| #1302, aired 1990-04-10 | AUTHORS $1000: A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called "Big Blonde" Dorothy Parker |
| #1300, aired 1990-04-06 | BOOKS OF THE '80S $600: Robert D. Parker's "Poodle Springs" is based on this author's unfinished Philip Marlowe novel Raymond Chandler |
| #1294, aired 1990-03-29 | NOTORIOUS $800: They were gunned down near Gibsland, Louisiana on May 23, 1934 Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow |
| #1285, aired 1990-03-16 | ODDS & ENDS $200: Popular during both world wars, this "fortune-telling" board is now made by Parker Brothers Ouija Board |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | GAMES $400: The "apologetic" name of Parker Brothers' "Slide Pursuit Game" Sorry! |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This novelist collaborated with Geo. S. Kaufman on such plays as "Dinner at Eight" & "Stage Door" Edna Ferber |
| #1228, aired 1989-12-27 | POTPOURRI $400: Parker & Hart write "The Wizard of Id", & this man wrote "The Ego & the Id" Sigmund Freud |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | QUOTES $500: Witty New Yorker who once called herself "the toast of 2 continents: Greenland & Australia" Dorothy Parker |
| #1106, aired 1989-05-29 | PEOPLE $300: Surprisingly, this man, Elvis' manager, was born in Holland, & his real name is Andreas van Kuijk Colonel Parker |
| #1081, aired 1989-04-24 | AMERICAN WRITERS $400: Someone once called her "a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack" Dorothy Parker |
| #1051, aired 1989-03-13 | WICKED WOMEN $200: Her husband was serving 99 years in prison for murder when she met Clyde Barrow Bonnie Parker |
| #1009, aired 1989-01-12 | CHOCOLATE $200: Neiman Marcus once offered a version of this Parker Bros. game made of chocolate Monopoly |
| #977, aired 1988-11-29 | NAME THE POET $200: "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" Dorothy Parker |
| #955, aired 1988-10-28 | QUOTES $200: According to Dorothy Parker, "Women and" these "never forget" elephants |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | NOSEY "PARKER"s $200: If you have a bloodhound's nose for detection, you might try their game of "Clue" the Parker Brothers |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | NOSEY "PARKER"s $400: As both Davy & Daniel, he stuck his nose in troubles between the settlers & Indians Fess Parker |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | NOSEY "PARKER"s $600: She followed her nose in robbing banks, till she blew it in 1934 Bonnie Parker |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | NOSEY "PARKER"s $800: As half of "Simon & Simon", he often got his nose put out of joint Jameson Parker |
| #939, aired 1988-10-06 | NOSEY "PARKER"s $1000: As a Hardy Boy on TV, he often nosed around in police business Parker Stevenson |
| #855, aired 1988-04-29 | ARKANSANS $200: Federal judge at Fort Smith in the late 1800s, Isaac Parker had this "swinging" nickname The Hanging Judge |
| #852, aired 1988-04-26 | U.S.CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): It was reportedly Dorothy Parker who called it "72 suburbs in search of a city" Los Angeles |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | ELVIS $500: Celebrity Register says this man, Elvis' manager, was once a successful promoter of patent medicines Colonel Tom Parker |
| #800, aired 1988-02-12 | THE D.C. SUMMIT $700 (Daily Double): Full page newspaper ads were taken out to remind you this was a Parker name of pen (the one they used in signing the treaty) |
| #756, aired 1987-12-14 | THE OLD WEST $400: Sentenced to jail for horse theft in 1883, she was Judge Isaac Parker's most famous case Belle Starr |
| #715, aired 1987-10-16 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: With Geo. S. Kauffman, this novelist co-wrote the plays "Stage Door" & "Dinner at Eight" Edna Ferber |
| #690, aired 1987-09-11 | TV $400: His crew included Gruber, Virgil, Tinker, Happy, Willy, Christopher & Ensign Parker (Lt. Cmdr.) McHale |
| #677, aired 1987-07-14 | QUOTES $300: Algonquin wit, she suggested for her epitaph, "Excuse my dust" Dorothy Parker |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | COMPLETE THE QUOTE $400: Dorothy Parker penned, "Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well..." live |
| #614, aired 1987-04-16 | '50'S TV $1000: 1 of the 7 series in the '50s whose title began "Life With..." Life With Father, Life With Buster Keaton, Life With Elizabeth, Life With Linkletter, Life With Luigi, Life With the Irwins, or Life With Snarky Parker |
| #577, aired 1987-02-24 | OUTLAWS $400: Aliases for Robert Leroy Parker & Harry Longbaugh which became title of a 1969 movie hit Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #498, aired 1986-11-05 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: After spotting this actor in the sci-fi film "Them!", Disney studios cast him as Davy Crockett Fess Parker |
| #394, aired 1986-03-13 | 1984 $400: He explained "It's hard to write a song where your main objective is to use the word Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | ALL THAT JAZZ $400: "Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: What a sole seller of a given commodity has, as with parker bros. & this game a monopoly |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: It can be piano, Parker House, or Chinese egg a roll |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | AWARDS $1000: Bill Keane, Brant Parker, & Jim Unger were winners of 1984 "Reubens" in this field cartooning |
| #368, aired 1986-02-05 | WOMEN $400: Her 1918 lunch with Robert Benchley at an Algonquin Hotel round table started a famous literary circle Dorothy Parker |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $300: When told this president died in 1933, acerbic Dorothy Parker asked, "How could they tell?" Calvin Coolidge |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | PROVERBS $300: Several, including Dorothy Parker, have said "It's what women & elephants never" do forget |
| #325, aired 1985-12-06 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $100: 15 weapons & 2000 rounds of ammo were in the car when she & Clyde Barrow were shot Bonnie Parker |
| #312, aired 1985-11-19 | WILD WEST $500: Nickname of judge Isaac Parker whose court was called “The Gates of Hell” hanging judge |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | QUOTES $200: Dorothy Parker said, "Men seldom make passes at girls who" do this wear glasses |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | PEOPLE $600: Now a real estate developer, this actor opened up territory as "Daniel Boone" Fess Parker |
| #169, aired 1985-05-02 | WOMEN WRITERS $1000: Short, dark creator of "Big Blonde", she was more famous for her wit around the Algonquin Round Table Dorothy Parker |
| #145, aired 1985-03-29 | PETS $100: L.A. student John Parker holds record for having swallowed 300 of these goldfish |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | GANGSTER MOVIES $200: Shelley Winters' "Bloody Mama" Ma Barker |
| #65, aired 1984-12-07 | TOYS & GAMES $100: Parker Bros, has made balls, boomerangs & ping pong paddles out of this soft material Nerf (or foam rubber) |
