| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $800: This actor is the star of "Last Action Hero" & plays Jack Slater in "Jack Slater IV", the movie within it Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | KNEEL BEFORE ZED $2000: Compadrazgo, a ritual kinship system involving godparents, plays an important role for this people of Oaxaca the Zapotec |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Menander, known for his comedic plays, wrote that "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is" this, "but a necessary" this an evil |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This playwright created the memorable characters Laura Wingfield & Blanche DuBois (Tennessee) Williams |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: In the preface to "Major Barbara" he wrote, "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" Shaw |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: 1887's "Ivanov", an early work by this playwright, centers on a depressed young man who considers suicide Chekhov |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Teleplaywright J.P. Miller first gave us these "Days" of an alcoholic couple, later a movie & then a Broadway musical in 2024 the Days of Wine and Roses |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: As this Beth Henley play opens in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, one of the 3 Magrath sisters has recently shot her husband Crimes of the Heart |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $800: Oscar Wilde wrote 2 plays of "importance" but sadly, also a "Ballad" about this place of confinement Reading Gaol |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $800: New Yorkers see plays in Central Park; Londoners, at the Open Air Theatre in this park Regent's Park |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $400: In "Dumb Money", Paul Dano plays an investor who led a surge in value for this stock, & Anthony Ramos plays an employee there GameStop |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $800: Reneé Rapp plays Regina George, head of the Plastics, in this 2024 high school musical Mean Girls |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | POP CULTURE DRAGONS $400: Stuff the Magic Dragon is the name of the mascot for the NBA team that plays home games in this city Orlando |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $400: In "Diner", Daniel Stern plays an avid collector of these; when wife Ellen Barkin says, "Who cares" what's on the flip side?, uh-oh LPs (records) |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER $3,400 (Daily Double): Melatonin disruption plays a role in this time zone desynchronization jet lag |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $400: Henry Fonda plays a man who sits on one in the 1957 film "12 Angry Men" a jury |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $1000: His acclaimed "Pittsburgh Cycle" explores the Black experience in 10 plays, including "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" & "Fences" August Wilson |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $400: Matteo Bandello's short stories inspired a number of Shakespeare's plays, including this Verona-set tragedy Romeo and Juliet |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | HAUNTING LITERATURE $800: In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend Forrest Gump |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $800: It's a whirlwind courtship for this actress who plays Captain Marvel & this cartoonist behind The Far Side Brie & Gary Larson |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer George Michael Richards |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | WATERY SONGS $800: "I Go Swimming" appeared on the album this British singer plays live Peter Gabriel |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $100: The title character utters the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?":
J.C. Julius Caesar |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $200: A mischievous fairy named Puck just can't stop pranking people:
A.M.N.D. A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $300: The title ruler is the father of Goneril, Regan & Cordelia:
K.L. King Lear |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $400: It opens with the famous line, "If music be the food of love, play on":
T.N. Twelfth Night |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $500: Valentine & Proteus are the guys that form this titular pair:
T.T.G.O.V. The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $1000: In "Home Alone", Kevin pays the pizza delivery guy & then plays audio of an old gangster delivering this memorable line "Keep the change, ya filthy animal" |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $800: In this 1978 film Eve Arden plays the principal who threatens a cocky T-Bird with "banging erasers after school" Grease |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $500: Be the first player to go from "onesies" to "tensies" & you win the game jacks |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $2000: The element with atomic number 107 was named for this scientist played by Kenneth Branagh in "Oppenheimer" Niels Bohr |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | "BABY" MOVIES $1600: A wheelman for Atlanta bank robbers, Ansel Elgort plays a tinnitus-afflicted hero in this Edgar Wright flick Baby Driver |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1200: Dianne Wiest plays Peg Boggs in this 1990 film; Johnny Depp plays the title character who gets to cut peg's hair Edward Scissorhands |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $1000: 16th century queen of Scotland + last name = this actress who plays Joon in 1993's "Benny & Joon" Mary Stuart Masterson |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $400: James Earl Jones' father plays a mentor to Robert Redford's con artist character in this film The Sting |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $1000: On "Daredevil", Vincent D'Onofrio plays this foe who sounds like he'd be at home at a bowling alley Kingpin |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: Of Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney or Colin Clive, the one who played the title role in the 1931 film "Frankenstein" Colin Clive |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SUPER TROUPERS $1600: Paul Reubens & Maya Rudolph honed their skills with this group named for those in the cheap non-seats during Elizabethan plays The Groundlings |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | GREEK GEOGRAPHY $2,600 (Daily Double): The setting of plays like "Oedipus" & "Antigone", this Greek city shares its name with a capital city of Ancient Egypt Thebes |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | REAL FAST $600: In 2017 the Minnesota Twins' Byron Buxton zoomed around the bases in 13.85 seconds on one of these exciting plays in-the-park home run |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | PLAY TIME $800: Plays by Jean Anouilh include "Antigone", "Becket" & "The Lark", about this 15th century French heroine Joan of Arc |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CITY FOLK $800: This 2-time Oscar nominee who also plays Joyce Byers on "Stranger Things" was named for her hometown in Minnesota Winona Ryder |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Delicate & rare like herself, a unicorn is among Laura Wingfield's prized collection in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tracy Letts' play about a rundown food shop, its aging owner & his young African-American hire is called "Superior" these Donuts |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This gravelly voiced playwright & actor rose to fame in the 1980s with his "Torch Song Trilogy" Harvey Fierstein |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: "Three Tall Women" earned this playwright his third Pulitzer Prize Edward Albee |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Irish playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote in both English & French Samuel Beckett |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | TV CRIMINALS $1600: In "The Company You Keep", this actor seen here plays Charlie, a con man in love with a CIA agent Milo Ventimiglia |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $400: Shakespeare wrote 3 main types of plays: comedies, tragedies & these, like "Henry IV, Part 1" histories |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $800: Without the 1623 publication of Shakespeare's plays, today known by this name, half might have been lost forever First Folio |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | QUESTIONABLE MUSIC CHOICES $800: John Mulaney has an amazing story of selecting 21 plays on a diner's jukebox of this 1965 Tom Jones hit "What's New, Pussycat?" |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $800: He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Pirandello |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $200: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) Contrasting with the music from the big action scenes, my theme "Tennessee" refers to the state Ben Affleck & Josh Hartnett come from in this war film Pearl Harbor |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $400: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) For this epic I tried to use some international influences, as it opens in Germany, takes place partly in Morocco & the hero is known as "the Spaniard" Gladiator |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $600: Dribble the pet turtle plays a role in this 1972 young adult book of "Tales" Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $1600: Caitriona Balfe plays the out-of-place & out-of-time title character of this series based on Diana Gabaldon's books Outlander |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $1200: Trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah sometimes plays with a tilted bell just like this musician before him Dizzy Gillespie |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $400: Seen here, Iain Armitage plays the gifted & geeky title character on this sitcom, a prequel to "The Big Bang Theory" Young Sheldon |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TV DRAMA $600: Seen here, she plays the title aristocratic noblewoman in Amazon's Western "The English" Emily Blunt |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE PARENT COMPANY $1200: You could say this company plays around, with Play-Doh & Playskool Hasbro |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | TV MOMS $800: Carolyn Jones played this macabre TV mom in the 1960s; Catherine Zeta-Jones plays her on "Wednesday" Morticia Addams |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OTTO CLUB $1200: Hall of Famer Jim Otto started 210 consecutive games for the Raiders at this demanding position that begins offensive plays center |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1600: In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world Maisie Williams |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LIT-POURRI $800: "The Revenger's Tragedy" of 1607 is one of several plays on the theme of vengeance from this literary era named for King James I Jacobean |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $400: Dalí wrote a movie for this comedy group, including a scene where Chico plays the piano in a diving suit the Marx Brothers |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD $2000: Adrien Brody plays Dalí during one of Owen Wilson's magical French walks in this Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Prussian monarch military genius whose Jazz Age story plays out on Long Island Frederick the Great Gatsby |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film (Arthur) Miller |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | ALL WAYS $600: The kings of Queens, this team plays its home games at 41 Seaver Way in Flushing the Mets |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $600: Someone who plays a supporting role is this fruit, like a straight man to a comedian second banana |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $400: Just after his death in 2005, the Virginia Theatre on New York's 52nd Street was renamed for this man who wrote "Fences" August Wilson |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $800: He played the extremely long game with "Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy of plays with a total of 13 acts Eugene O'Neill |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $1200: This composer's "Water Music" from 1717 is heard here
[Orchestra plays Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major] Handel |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1200: After taking Rosencrantz & his pal to unexpected places in the '60s, this playwright visited "The Coast of Utopia" in 2002 Tom Stoppard |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $1600: The "son" never actually existed in this Albee play before dad commits a virtual "filicide" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $3,400 (Daily Double): We need your initial reaction to this 1988 David Henry Hwang play about a singer in the Beijing Opera with many secrets M. Butterfly |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | TAKING A GAMBLE WITH JAMES HOLZHAUER $1500: (James Holzhauer presents the clue.) In "Dr. No", Bond, James Bond, plays chemin de fer, a variant of this game we play in U.S. casinos, often for high stakes baccarat |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $200: In an '80s hit, "Her name is" this "& she dances on the sand": his name is Andy Hamilton, & he plays a sax solo on that tune Rio |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $1000: His plays like "Waiting for Godot" explore the meaninglessness of life & even a Nobel Prize didn't make him happy Samuel Beckett |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | HISTORICAL TV $400: On "Gaslit" Shea Whigham plays G. Gordon Liddy, wrapped up in this scandal of the 1970s Watergate |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $400: The title character & kids are murdered in John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi", considered one of the greatest plays of this type a tragedy |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $600: On "Alaska Daily", she plays a journalist who looks into the disappearance & murders of indigenous women (Hilary) Swank |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $200: "A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine" The Merchant of Venice |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $400: "She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $600: "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me" Macbeth |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $800: "As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" Julius Caesar |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | QUOTABLE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $1000: "How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $400: This sometimes terrifying toy often plays "Pop Goes The Weasel" a jack-in-the-box |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY! $800: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake plays a key role in "Perestroika", part 2 of this Tony Kushner work Angels in America |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $1600: The title subject of 2 Shakespeare plays, he was England's first king of the house of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $1000: On the Netflix show "Maid" Andie MacDowell plays the mom of this real-life actress daughter Margaret Qualley |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $2,800 (Daily Double): In this 2017 biopic Gary Oldman says, "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth" the Darkest Hour |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $1500: On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate Blackbeard |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | ON BROADWAY $2000: One of August Wilson's plays to explore the Black experience in America is called this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Paula Vogel re-imagined this Shakespeare wife in a work named for her & subtitled "A Play about a Handkerchief" Desdemona |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Lynn Nottage won her second Pulitzer for this play, named for what comes off the brows of the factory workers it portrays Sweat |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: From the time he was born in New York City on July 4, 1927, this playwright was "Broadway Bound" (Neil) Simon |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This playwright seen here has written several screenplays, including the most recent adaptation of "West Side Story" Tony Kushner |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $2000: Daisy Edgar-Jones plays a rural southern woman suspected of murder in this 2022 film based on a bestseller Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $200: Reese Witherspoon plays field reporter Bradley Jackson, who becomes Jennifer Aniston's co-anchor on this series The Morning Show |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $400: Dan Fogler plays Francis Ford Coppola in "The Offer", a streaming show about the making of this film The Godfather |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $800: "Austin Powers" director Jay Roach plays himself when this hit man-turned-actor lands a big audition Barry |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $200: Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, delegate to Congress from this territory; Theodore Roosevelt wouldn't learn to say his name Hawaii |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | FROM DAWN TO DUSK $1200: It's a coarse fabric used to make coats as well as bags duffel (denim) |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CREDITS $600: The plot of this film with Leonardo DiCaprio as a con artist & Tom Hanks as the FBI agent in pursuit plays out in the opening credits Catch Me If You Can |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: For plays like "The Homecoming" & "The Birthday Party" this dramatist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 Harold Pinter |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $1600: Many of Shakespeare's history plays were based on the "Lives" of this ancient Greek Plutarch |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In a 2021 movie version of a medieval tale, Dev Patel plays Sir Gawain, journeying to meet this title character the Green Knight |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: The allegory "Everyman" from the late 1400s is one of the best known of these "plays" that stressed salvation & personal virtues morality plays |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) In February 1983, Queen Elizabeth visited San Diego, stopping in Balboa Park to unveil a statue of William Shakespeare at this theater, named for the historic one in London where many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed the Globe |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $400: It's a coveted Shakespeare role for older actors, like Christopher Plummer on Broadway at age 74 King Lear |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $800: The first ancient Greek plays had just one actor, the protagonist, & a chorus; Aeschylus added a 2nd actor, called this the antagonist |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $1200: The profanity-laced Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross" takes place in this industry real estate sales |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $2,000 (Daily Double): The courtroom drama "Night of January 16th" by Ayn Rand needs exactly this many people to be selected from the audience 12 |
| #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 |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | ROLE CALL $800: In this film, Jared Leto plays the title biochemist who tries to cure himself of a rare disease but infects himself with vampirism instead Morbius |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $600: In the 1979 thriller "Time After Time", Malcolm McDowell plays H.G. Wells on the hunt for this Victorian killer in the future Jack the Ripper |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | WITH YOUR BEST "SHOT" $400: You'll know I'm a hoot after this sound heard here
[Accented snare drumbeat plays] a rimshot |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TV FACTOIDS $200: With a knack for predicting plays, he's been a success in the broadcast booth like he was behind center Tony Romo |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The 2012 Tony for Best Revival of a Play went to this Arthur Miller classic Death of a Salesman |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Courting controversy, this Norwegian's 1881 play "Ghosts" dealt openly with venereal disease & incest Ibsen |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Harold Pinter's adultery drama "Betrayal" is notable for unfolding in this unusual way in reverse or antichronological (backwards) |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: This Christopher Hampton play about immoral 18th century French seducers was based on a Pierre Laclos novel Les Liaisons dangereuses |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This actor/playwright won a Tony for "August: Osage County" & has been seen in "Homeland" & "Ford v Ferrari" Tracy Letts |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $600: Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of a song from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" plays before the start of this 2021 scarefest the Candyman |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | DRINK UP POP CULTURE $2000: In "Another Round", this actor plays one of a quartet of teachers in Copenhagen who tests a theory about drinking Mads Mikkelsen |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BALLPARK FUN $800: When a Texas Ranger hits a homer at home, the theme from this Robert Redford film plays, & it's not "The Way We Were" The Natural |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | AUNTIE $1600: Seen here, she plays Aunt Lydia on "The Handmaid's Tale" Ann Dowd |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $400: "Something wicked this way comes" Macbeth |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $800: "This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $1200: "I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss" Othello |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $2000: "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe" Richard III |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 4 "N" $1200: Adjective describing a game in the NCAA when a team from the Pac-12 plays a team from the Big Ten non-conference |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | SYMPHON"E"s $600: London's orchestra of the Age of this plays Bach & Mozart on vintage 18th century instruments Enlightenment |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR $1600: Seen here, this actor plays Geralt, the title figure of the show "The Witcher" (Henry) Cavill |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $400: One-word title of Wallace Thurman's play that opened at the Apollo in Feb. 1929, closed, but had a "Renaissance" later in the year Harlem |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CALL ME SOMETIME $600: She plays the owner of a cat cafe on the sitcom "Call Me Kat" Mayim Bialik |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $800: August Wilson got the title for his play about this singer from her song that became a dance craze, "The Black Bottom" Ma Rainey |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $1600: Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer for a satire on Congress called this, finishing the Shakespeare quote "A plague on..." Both Your Houses |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty" The Odd Couple |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $2000: Tony Kushner translated Brecht for a 2006 production with Meryl Streep in this maternal role Mother Courage |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | NAMES IN POP CULTURE $1600: Named after Rembrandt's son, Titus Welliver plays this TV cop with the same name as another painter Bosch |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $600: Tony Hale plays the rich benefactor who recruits a group of gifted orphans to take part in this "Mysterious" society The Mysterious Benedict Society |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | FIBERS & FABRICS $2000: Woolmark wants you to know that this 6-letter type of wool is soft & comfy & Andy Murray plays tennis wearing it merino |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE $2000: Veteran standup comic Deborah Vance on "Hacks", a role she plays "brilliantly" Jean Smart |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | TV MOMS $2000: This actress whose mom is a Motown legend plays mom Rainbow Johnson on "black-ish" Tracee Ellis Ross |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THE FUTURE'S NOT SO BRIGHT... $800: In the 2021 film "Dune", this single-named actress plays the single-named Chani, a Fremen fighter on bleak Arrakis Zendaya |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: This hormone first isolated in 1958 plays an important role in regulating sleep melatonin |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | AMERICAN FIVES $200: Of the 5 California MLB teams, the one that plays its home games the farthest south the Padres |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Olga, Masha & Irina are the title siblings in this Chekhov play Three Sisters |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Seen here is this playwright whose first theatrical success was the comedy of manners "Lady Windermere's Fan" Oscar Wilde |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Luigi Pirandello is best remembered for this numerical play from 1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: "Play" is in the title of this drama based in part on playwright Charles Fuller's time in the army & on "Billy Budd" A Soldier's Play |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: Seen here, she's the first woman to win 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, her first for "Ruined" &, in 2017, for "Sweat" Lynn Nottage |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $400: Ewan McGregor plays a grown-up Danny Torrance in "Doctor Sleep", the sequel to this 1980 classic The Shining |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | COMEDIANS' ROLES $1600: "B" is for this frank comedian who plays Frank Murphy on the animated hit "F Is for Family" Bill Burr |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: A Stratford-upon-Avon statue of the Bard is surrounded by four characters, including this young prince from the history plays Henry |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | THE STAGE MANAGER $800: Broadway actor Michael Barra plays a stage manager in this 2017 movie about P.T. Barnum The Greatest Showman |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $400: In "Wild", she plays Cheryl, who deals with personal tragedy by hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (Reese) Witherspoon |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $800: (James Brown presents the clue.) With time running out in an AFC title game in 1987, the Denver Broncos were trailing the Browns & pinned on their own 2-yard line when this quarterback led them 98 yards for a touchdown on a series of plays known simply as "The Drive" Elway |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $1200: Women's prison dramedy in which Rowan Atkinson plays a period royal Orange Is the New Blackadder |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" L. Frank Baum |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $400: Dame Sybil Thorndike was truly a lady made for burning: she played this saintly G.B. Shaw heroine more than 2,000 times on stage Joan of Arc |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $800: Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords Oslo |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $1600: In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk King John |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1934 December was an apt month for the Broadway opening of a play about this Penn. place where George Washington was tested Valley Forge |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | HISTORY PLAYS $2000: This creator of "The Crown" also depicts Elizabeth II onstage, as when she meets with her prime ministers in "The Audience" (Peter) Morgan |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | SIDEKICKS $1600: Yvonne Orji plays Issa Rae's best friend on this HBO series Insecure |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | HEY SHAKESPEARE, WHO SAID THAT? $800 (Daily Double): "'Tis not to make me jealous to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well" Othello |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $1600: First name of Mr. Youssef, who plays the title character in a Hulu series he also created Ramy |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | TV $400: Beanie Feldstein plays her in "Impeachment: American Crime Story" Lewinsky |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $1600: A Golden Retriever plays basketball & helps a boy rebound from a loss in this film Air Bud |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THE SHIRLEY BOOTH $400: Before the closing of the theaters in 1642, James Shirley wrote about 30 plays during the reign of this king Charles I |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SITCOMS $2000: She plays Dee on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", & is married to her co-star Rob McElhenney Kaitlin Olson |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS $400: "Romeo & Juliet", is one of the plays that take place in what's now this country Italy |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | MISMATCHED PAIRS $1000: Scientist known for his study of light & actress who plays Maeve on "Westworld" Isaac & Thandiwe Newton |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES $200: I dropped the summons, terrified. I was over 18. I had no undue hardship. Military duty? None! Doomed, I, for this 2-word civic task! jury duty |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES $400: I adjusted vertical & horizontal router antennas! Hit reset for 30 secs.! Called my ISP! Why?! Why was this rhyming necessity... dead?! wi-fi |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | FOUL PLAY $800: Lumberjacks wailed in 2016 when the NFL made this thigh-or-lower block illegal on run plays as well as pass a chop block |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SCARY EVERYDAY HALLOWEEN STORIES $800: ...& the mechanic said, "The planetary gearset in this car part is shot. It's gonna be $1,700... before labor!" transmission |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | HANDY ANDY $600: Jared Harris plays the title artist in the 1996 film "I Shot" him Andy Warhol |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | CELLO $200: This cellist founded a music collective called the Silkroad Ensemble, with whom he plays cello Yo-Yo Ma |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THE WEEKEND $600: On a fall Sunday, you can head to "Duuuval" County to check out QB & mane man Trevor Lawrence, who plays for this NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | REDUPLICATIVES $400: This kids' slang meaning extremely simple is in the 1940 movie "The Long Voyage Home", based on Eugene O'Neill's plays easy-peasy |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS $800: This Midwest NHL team that plays its home games at the United Center won the Stanley Cup in 2013 & 2015 (the Chicago) Blackhawks |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | ANTON CHEKHOV $2000: Several Chekhov plays were staged in the Moscow Art Theatre, founded by this man known for his acting "method" (Konstantin) Stanislavski |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $400: Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play "Machinal" explores how a woman can be driven to murder & end her days in this seat the electric chair |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | INSTRUMENTAL TO THE SONG $400: He plays piano on "Clocks"
(2002) Chris Martin |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $1200: A critic called Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" a "comedy of menace", punning on this phrase for plays about high society a comedy of manners |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $1600: In a Ben Jonson play Voltore ("vulture") hopes to inherit the fortune of this title character whose name means "fox" Volpone |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $2000: This person's "Play" by Charles Fuller about Sgt. Waters & Captain Davenport arrived on B'way in 2020, 38 years after winning a Pulitzer A Soldier's Play |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $2,400 (Daily Double): In the Czech play "R.U.R.". which gave the world this word, one of them says, "Mankind is no more. Mankind gave us too little life" robot |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS $200: Kids will love this cartoon bison whose name honors the actor who plays the movies' Hulk Mark Buffalo |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $800: A Grateful Dead song plays fast & loose with the story of this heroic train engineer who died in 1900 Casey Jones |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $400: O'shea Jackson Jr. plays Ice Cube (his dad)
(2015) "Outta" |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $400: Seen here, Tom Hiddleston plays this Marvel trickster who has transformed himself into Odin & Captain America Loki |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TOM FOOLERY $2000: In "Inception" he plays Eames, a forger trying to plant an idea in the target's subconscious Tom Hardy |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: "Our American Cousin" infamously plays at Ford's Theatre the 1860s |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GROUPS OF 12 $600: Pauly Shore plays a loser who becomes this spokesman for a group of 12 in "Jury Duty" the foreman |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | "A" VOWEL $200: A situation involving conflict, or a Pulitzer Prize category for plays drama |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEW TO THE OED $2000: The Henriad refers to 4 plays by this man Shakespeare |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | MOVIES ABOUT THE MOVIES $800: In 2020's "Mank", about the writing of "Citizen Kane", Amanda Seyfried plays this actress Marion Davies |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $3,400 (Daily Double): A very outside LB, this guy plays on an island; the son of a witch & a devil, he's a total beast out there! Caliban |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | MUSICAL THEATER $2000: The Senate Finance Committee is part of this 1936 Cole Porter musical whose title plays on the colors of the flag Red, Hot and Blue |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $400: In this dystopian tale, the title narrator plays Scrabble with a commander whose name we can assume is Fred The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: This frontiersman who lent his name to Nevada's capital plays a role in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (Kit) Carson |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | SHORT STORIES $800: Known for some dreariness in his plays, this Russian also gave us "A Dreary Story" of a dying professor of medicine in 1889 Chekhov |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | VICE $600: In this movie Paul Giamatti plays Miles, whose vice is wine, especially his prized 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc Sideways |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | POP CULTURE PRIESTS $2,200 (Daily Double): Ewan McGregor plays the Vatican's Camerlengo in this 2009 film based on a Dan Brown book Angels & Demons |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SUPPORTING TV CHARACTERS $1000: Harvey Guillen plays Guillermo, a familiar to a vampire living on Staten Island in this comedy What We Do in the Shadows |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE WHALES $1000: Apart from its pod, a young sperm whale plays hide-and-seek with a photographer in these weeds that give an Atlantic sea its name sargasso |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACTION FIGURES $1000: In between epic fights, this Toronto hero of comics fame plays in a band called Sex Bob-omb Scott Pilgrim |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | GUITARS & DRUMS $1000: Many a rock guitarist plays this classic Gibson guitar named for its legendary designer Les Paul |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | OVERLAPS $400: Tube for transporting petroleum that plays defense on the gridiron a pipelinebacker |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | ENGLISH DRAMA THAT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $6,000 (Daily Double): This period of the returned monarchy featured plays known for bawdiness, like "The Country Wife" Restoration |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | PARK THEMES $400: The carousel that's been in this Manhattan park since 1871 plays the song "Sidewalks Of New York" Central Park |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | STING $200: (Sting presents the clue.) In 2019, the music rights organization BMI honored this song I wrote for the most radio plays in its 14 million song catalog; remember, "I'll be watching you" "Every Breath You Take" |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PAGING DR. TV! $1600: Freddie Highmore plays Shaun Murphy, the title character on this series The Good Doctor |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | TV $1000: Rob Lowe plays firefighter/captain Owen Strand on "9-1-1:" this Lone Star |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE TITLE INSTRUMENT $2000: "The ____ Has Been Drinking (Not Me)" by Tom Waits--it's the instrument Tom plays Piano |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $1600: This acting legend plays the only character in 2013's "All Is Lost", about a solo sailor in big trouble on the high seas Robert Redford |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | HISTORIC TV $2,000 (Daily Double): John Lithgow is almost a foot taller than this prime minister he plays on "The Crown" Churchill |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $600: A redheaded country superstar plays a single mom of 3 Reba |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $1200: Rick Rossovich plays the handsome oaf for whom Steve Martin writes exquisite letters in this "Cyrano"-inspired movie Roxanne |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | INSANE CLOWN POSSE $1600: John Leguizamo plays a demon from hell who takes the slightly less creepy form of a clown in this 5-letter comic book movie Spawn |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | BODY LANGUAGE $1000: The second of Thornton Wilder's 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays mentions these 2 body parts skin & teeth |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | NET FLICKS $400: In "The Royal Tenenbaums", this actor plays a former tennis champ; his brother Owen plays a writer of westerns Luke Wilson |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1600: In 1955 Marty plays a Gibson ES-345 guitar, but that hadn't been made yet--maybe there was an extra trip in this 1985 pic Back to the Future |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | CHASE SCENES $800: He plays the nameless getaway driver in a Mustang who outduels a Chrysler in 2011's "Drive" Ryan Gosling |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $400: With an innocent bride & a scheming villain, 1860's "The Colleen Bawn" was this popular type of play with "drama" right in the word a melodrama |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $800: Guy ends his family line by picking this non-reproducing profession in "Guy Domville", a painful flop for playwright Henry James a priest |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $1200: Marie Duplessis, who died of this disease at age 23 in 1847, inspired Alexandre Dumas fils to write "La Dame aux Camelias" consumption (tuberculosis) |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $2000: His 1893 "A Woman of No Importance" has lines like "Never trust a woman who tells one her real age"; she "would tell one anything" Oscar Wilde |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Scandinavian's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", ends with an avalanche burying the 2 main characters Ibsen |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Mozart performed here at Schönbrunn Palace multiple times, starting at age 6; the palace orchestra still plays this 1786 nuptial opera of his The Marriage of Figaro |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | CELEBRITY CLASS OF 1980 $400: Before running "The Office", he starred in school plays like "How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying" Steve Carell |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $400: Zainab Jah plays this woman who tried to recruit supporters for John Brown; he called her "The General"
"I will come with all the bees I can hive, but once that date is set, do not change it, not for anything." (Harriet) Tubman |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $2000: Ethan Hawke plays John Brown, who hoped to liberate all enslaved people, & Oct. 16, 1859 raided the arsenal in this town
"I want them to know we just took over the nation's largest armory to free the enslaved people of this nation. That will be big news, I reckon." Harpers Ferry |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN $800: In "Young Mr." this man, Henry Fonda plays an up-&-coming Illinois attorney Lincoln |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $600: Freddie Highmore has directed episodes of this medical drama on which he plays the lead The Good Doctor |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $1000: On Amazon Prime's "Hunters", he plays Meyer Offerman, who leads an elite group of Nazi hunters Al Pacino |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | MOVIE THRILLERS $400: In "Marathon Man" Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these a dentist |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $400: In "Twelve Angry Men", the men make up this group a jury |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $800: Tracie Bennett was spot on as this legendary performer in "End of the Rainbow", set towards the end of her life Judy Garland |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $1600: This Wendy Wasserstein play focuses on 3 Jewish siblings: Sara, Gorgeous & Pfeni The Sisters Rosensweig |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bradley Cooper used no makeup or prosthetics in the role of John Merrick in a Broadway revival of this play The Elephant Man |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $2000: The musical "Hello, Dolly!" was based on this 1954 Thornton Wilder play that also featured Dolly Levi The Matchmaker |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | YOU GOTTA FIGHT! $800: No bones about it--this dominant UFC light heavyweight has a brother who plays linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals Jon "Bones" Jones |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $400: Stella could tell ya the action in "A Streetcar Named Desire" takes place in this city New Orleans |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The stage manager in this play tells us it's set in Grover's Corners & that it's May 7, 1901, just before dawn Our Town |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: "Raisin" is a musical version of this classic drama Raisin in the Sun |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: These are the last names of Felix & Oscar, the 2 mismatched roommates of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" Ungar & Madison |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: The 1980 Tony winner for Best Play, this drama was specially written for deaf actress Phyllis Frelich Children of a Lesser God |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: Not many actors do cranky as well as this man, who plays Norman on "The Kominsky Method" (Alan) Arkin |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building "Live And Let Die Hard" |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: Harrison Ford plays John Thornton, rescuer of sled dog Buck, in the 2020 adaptation of this Jack London novel The Call of the Wild |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | IT WAS ALL YELLOW $1000: In "Ant-Man", Corey Stoll plays Darren Cross, who assumes the identity of this nemesis the Yellowjacket |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Before his death in 2017, he wrote dozens of plays and was one of the most produced playwrights in America Sam Shepard |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | MOVIE & TV ROMANCES $2000: He played Rory Gilmore's boyfriend Jess; now he plays Mandy Moore's hubby Jack Pearson Milo Ventimiglia |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE DRAKE PASSAGE $200: "I know when" this Drake song plays, "that can only mean one thing" "Hotline Bling" |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $400: In "Pressure", a Scottish meteorologist makes the most important forecast of his life for this June 1944 event D-Day |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $800: Christine Lahti played this feminist icon in "Gloria: a Life" Gloria Steinem |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $1600: In "The True", Edie Falco played Polly Noonan, grandmother to this current junior New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $2000: A recent play about a young Vladimir Putin has this word for "rule by thieves" as its title kleptocracy |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | RECENT PLAYS FROM REAL LIFE $2,500 (Daily Double): The Public Theater's "Mother of the Maid" is about Isabelle, the mom of this martyr Joan of Arc |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: 1667's "Andromaque" is a play about a king who foolishly falls for an enemy woman captured in this ancient war the Trojan War |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A new bio says after the 1866 success of the poetic drama "Brand", this Norwegian trimmed his beard so his mouth was visible Ibsen |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This "Oleanna" playwright is seen here with his actress-daughter Zosia David Mamet |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: This American's play "The Zoo Story" was once staged in Regent's Park, near the menagerie Edward Albee |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: Bertram Cates is on trial for teaching evolution in this play inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925 Inherit the Wind |
| #8188, aired 2020-03-25 | INSTRUMENT MAKERS $1600: Hohner makes the Bob Dylan signature model of this instrument that Bob plays a harmonica |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | HOME DECOR BASICS $600: A recess in a wall often used to display sculpture, the term can also be used for the role an animal plays in nature a niche |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | FOE PAs $800: In "The Great Santini", this Oscar winner plays a macho dad who menaces his family Robert Duvall |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | POET-POURRI $200: Hailee Steinfeld plays this 19th century poet in an Apple TV+ series with lots of 21st century touches Emily Dickinson |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | 5 OF A KIND $1000: ["Flight Of The Bumblebee" plays]
That music was by one of "The Five" mighty Russian composers of the 19th century--this man with a hyphenated name Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | % $600: In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he's involved in on offense the Houston Rockets |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $800: Proverbially, you have to pay this strolling musician who plays a small wind instrument the piper |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | META-FOURS $800: Teresa of Ávila & Ignatius of Loyola appear in Gertrude Stein's libretto for the opera titled "Four" these "in 3 Acts" Saints |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | FROM O TO O $2000: Early Shakespeare poems & plays were sometimes printed in this format about 5x7 inches, smaller than a quarto octavo |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | WOMEN ON TV $1200: Chandra Wilson not only plays Dr. Bailey, on this ABC drama, she's also directed many episodes Grey's Anatomy |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A CINDERELLA STORY $800: In the 1998 film "Ever After", Dougray Scott plays this key role in the tale the Prince |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TV MOMS $800: Seen here, Wendi McLendon-Covey plays mom Beverly on this sitcom set in 1980-something The Goldbergs |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS $400: This "grinder of grain" wrote some good plays & the screenplay for "The Misfits" (Arthur) Miller |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $400: This "Cheers" actor plays Michael, designer of "The Good Place" Ted Danson |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $400: This Arthur Miller character makes his way "on a smile and a shoeshine" Willy Loman |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The role of Pale, in "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson, is a showcase for young actors--John Malkovich in 1987 & this man in 2019 (Adam) Driver |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: "Rug-cutting" 1984 Bruce Springsteen tune about Sophie Turner's title X-Men character who plays NBA hoops in Arizona "Dancing In The Dark" Phoenix Suns |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: In this Jason Miller drama, members of a high school basketball team celebrate the 20th anniversary of their state title That Championship Season |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: In 1933 his play "Ah, Wilderness!" opened in New York with George M. Cohan as one of the leads (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: Junk dealer Harry Brock hires a tutor to give his mistress Billie Dawn some culture & class in this play Born Yesterday |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $400: The only actor to perform in all the "Star Wars" movies is Anthony Daniels, who plays this character C-3PO |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | TV $1600: Seen here, he plays Abe Weissman, father of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Tony Shalhoub |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ONCE UPON A TIME... $800: Leonardo DiCaprio plays "Bounty Law" actor Rick Dalton in this director's "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Quentin Tarantino |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $2000: Brad Pitt plays Jesse James at what turns out to be the end of his life Ford |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $400: Heidi Schreck reaches back to her days debating civics as a 15-year-old in "What" this document "Means to Me" the Constitution |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $800: Laurie Metcalf & John Lithgow play the first couple in "Hillary & Clinton", set in this year Hillary first ran for president 2008 |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $1200: Set during The Troubles, "The Ferryman", which won the 2019 Tony for Best Play, takes place in this U.K. country Northern Ireland |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $1600: Billed as a sequel to this first Shakespeare tragedy, the comedy "Gary" takes place after the climactic bloody Roman feast Titus Andronicus |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | RECENT BROADWAY PLAYS $2000: Ethan Hawke broke more than 10 golf clubs wrecking the set nightly in a revival of this playwright's "True West" Sam Shepard |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | FESTIVALS $200: The Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada has been presenting the plays of this man since 1953 Shakespeare |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $400: Tyler Perry said this woman's "Family Funeral" would be the last time he plays the iconic character Madea |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | 2019 MOVIES $600: Don't let the sun go down on 2019 without seeing this biopic in which Jamie Bell plays Bernie Taupin Rocketman |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY $400: The 1857 search by Richard Burton & John Speke for the source of this river plays out in "Mountains of the Moon" Nile |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: As Act 1 of this Neil Simon play begins, we're told, "it is a warm summer night in Oscar Madison's apartment" The Odd Couple |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Alfred Uhry based the character of Hoke in this play on the black chauffeur of his childhood Driving Miss Daisy |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Tom Stoppard first came to Broadway with this play featuring 2 minor characters from "Hamlet" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Parisians knew Georges Feydeau as a master of this 5-letter type of comedic play like "Keep an Eye on Amélie!" farce |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In 1981 Elizabeth Taylor made her Broadway debut in a revival of this playwright's "The Little Foxes" (Lillian) Hellman |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE POWERS THAT BE $1000: Tom Powers plays the doomed hubby of scheming Barbara Stanwyck in this 1944 Billy Wilder classic Double Indemnity |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh August Wilson |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | A LABYRINTHINE CATEGORY $600: In "Labyrinth", she plays the worst babysitter ever--her baby bro is taken by David Bowie as the Goblin King Jennifer Connelly |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | NEW TV $2000: Cress Williams plays the titular African-American electrical superhero on this CW series Black Lightning |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $200: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law plays this future headmaster of Hogwarts Dumbledore |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TEENS ON TV $800: Hudson Yang plays Eddie Huang, part of the Taiwanese family on this ABC sitcom set in the 1990s Fresh Off the Boat |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TEENS ON TV $1000: Madison Hu plays Frankie & Olivia Rodrigo is Paige on this Disney Channel show with a "AA" rating Bizaardvark |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $400: Thomas Dekker's plays like "The Shoemaker's Holiday" portrayed daily life in this capital city London |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $800: Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" started a trend in plays about this need to get even; a character in it is even named that revenge |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONE ACTOR, MULTIPLE ROLES $800: Yael Grobglas plays 2 very different roles on this CW show that's set in Miami Jane the Virgin |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONE ACTOR, MULTIPLE ROLES $1200: In a sequel to this comedy, Amy Adams plays Amelia Earhart & later, a modern look-alike who meets Ben Stiller Night at the Museum |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | IN THE TV ROOM $600: Here's Peyton Elizabeth Lee, who plays the title character of this Disney Channel series Andi Mack |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | OLD BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles wrote 2 plays named for this complex & troubled King of Thebes Oedipus |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | N.Y. TV $800: He plays Detective Jake Peralta on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine Andy Samberg |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IF THEY MARRIED... $1200: Olympic gold medal skater Tara weds the actor who plays Jim from "The Office" & gets this long & rhyming hyphenated name Tara Lipinski-Krasinski |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | KOWALSKI, FILM ANALYSIS $800: In "Gravity", he plays Matt Kowalski, who leaves for a bit, but then it's as if he comes back again George Clooney |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $400: On this TV series Taylor Schilling plays the incarcerated Piper Chapman Orange is the New Black |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $1600: On "The Handmaid's Tale", Ann Dowd plays this imposing & authoritarian aunt Aunt Lydia |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $1000: Los Angeles City Hall plays itself in this iconic film in which Jack Nicholson plays 1930s P.I. J.J. Gittes Chinatown |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $3,600 (Daily Double): In Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", a disillusioned knight plays a game of chess with this opponent the Grim Reaper, or Death |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $1000: He plays hitman & wannabe actor Barry Berkman on HBO Bill Hader |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | IN THE ORCHESTRA $400: Called the player-coach of the orchestra, the concertmaster almost always plays this instrument the violin |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WOMEN ON TV $800: This Oscar-nominated actress plays a dedicated mom on "Speechless" Minnie Driver |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $200: The empress of this country plays the piano with her daughter Japan |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PLAYING VIDEO GAMES $1200: Dwayne Johnson plays a primatologist who cares for a big white gorilla in this 2018 video game adaptation Rampage |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONE-ACT PLAYS $400: "I ask the head of Jokanaan in a silver charger", says this title dancer in an Oscar Wilde one-act Salome |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONE-ACT PLAYS $800: This Irish playwright wrote "Endgame" in French as "Fin de Partie" (Samuel) Beckett |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONE-ACT PLAYS $1200: This Strindberg play was published in Swedish as "Froken Julie" Miss Julie |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONE-ACT PLAYS $2000: "I've been to the zoo", says Jerry in this play by Edward Albee Zoo Story |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONE-ACT PLAYS $8,615 (Daily Double): Conversations devolve into babbling in Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano", a prime example of the theatre of this the absurd |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRICKS OF THE MIND $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an Ebbinghaus illusion on the monitor.) In an Ebbinghaus illusion, the two circles in the centers of the groupings appear to be different sizes, but they're really the same--the spacing & size of the other circles plays on our sense of this, from the Latin for "to look closely" perception (or perspective) |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | CELEBRITY SIBLINGS $1600: The late David of "Kill Bill" & his brother Keith, who plays the president on "Madam Secretary" Carradine |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $600: Listing the plays in the order they were written, "The Riverside Shakespeare" follows "Henry VI, Part 2" with this Henry VI, Part 3 |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GO PLAY $800: This actor also had "The Right Stuff" to write plays such as "Fool for Love" (Sam) Shepard |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | IDIOMS DELIGHT $2000: In bridge, if the lead plays a heart, the others must as well; hence this idiom meaning "to do the same" follow suit |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" plays out its Cain & Abel parable in this California valley the Salinas Valley |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | TV REBOOTED $2000: Richard Dean Anderson was this problem-solving hero in the 1980s; Lucas Till plays him in the reboot MacGyver |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | SPORTS ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (Hi, I'm Eric Perkins from KARE11.) In the first regular-season NFL game at U.S. Bank Stadium, the Vikings beat this team that plays its home games the closest to Minneapolis the Green Bay Packers |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | STAMPS $2,000 (Daily Double): A musician plays a guitar, exemplifying the Delta blues, on the stamp honoring its 200th anniversary of statehood Mississippi |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $400: In "The Bible" John Huston, the film's director, also plays this ark-itecht Noah |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BEARD MAN $4,000 (Daily Double): This bearded guy was born in Colonus around 496 B.C. & wrote more than 120 plays, including "Ajax" & "Antigone" Sophocles |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS $1200: This Celtics point guard plays the title character in "Uncle Drew" & performs "Ridiculous" on its soundtrack Kyrie Irving |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE $400: Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, whose life changes on Christmas Eve in this movie classic It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $400: In 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street" Edmund Gwenn plays a character called this who claims to be the real Santa Kris Kringle |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | MY ROLE ON TV $400: On this NBC drama Megan Boone plays FBI agent Liz Keen, who may be Red Reddington's daughter Blacklist |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | TV TITLE CHARACTERS $200: He plays Tray, "The Last O.G." Tracy Morgan |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SHAKESPEARE GUYS $400: A comic sidekick who appears in 3 different plays; his death is mentioned in another Falstaff |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | PRIMETIME TV $1200: Seen here, Melissa Benoist plays the title heroine of this CW series Supergirl |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | POP CULTURE $1200: In the 2018 film "The Girl in the Spider's Web", this star of "The Crown" plays outcast hacker Lisbeth Salander Claire Foy |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | SOMETHING TO READ $2000: After a returning Civil War general is murdered by his wife, their children take revenge in this O'Neill trilogy of plays Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | EMILYS $600: Emily Robison Strayer plays banjo, guitar, dobro & bass for this country trio the Dixie Chicks |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2000: Amahl plays the same tune on his pipe at the beginning & end, before & after he meets this title group the night visitors |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | CARTOON FEMALES $200: Lisa Simpson takes moral stands on many an issue & also plays a mean one of these instruments a saxophone |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The working class characters in a 1957 John Osbourne play "Look Back" this title way at British society in anger |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A psychiatrist works to bring a young man back from the brink of madness in this beastly Peter Shaffer play Equus |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" takes place during interviews in this year, 3 years after Nixon's resignation 1977 |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this Noel Coward play, a man's life is upended by the jealous ghost of his first wife Blithe Spirit |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: You can see the second king of this name as a prince in "Braveheart", or see his downfall in a Christopher Marlowe play Edward |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | POP CULTURE ADAPTS SHAKESPEARE $1600: Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy & plays soccer at Illyria Prep in "She's the Man", loosely based on this comedy Twelfth Night |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | DIRECTOR CAMEOS $800: This onetime TV "meathead" turned film auteur plays a helicopter pilot in the film "Misery" Rob Reiner |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | FROM BOOK TO TV $2000: Aidan Turner plays this Winston Graham title hero fighting injustice in Cornwall on PBS's "Masterpiece" Poldark |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $400: In this 1981 film Jurgen Prochnow plays the captain of a WWII German submarine harassing Allied vessels Das Boot |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | EXTREME SPORTS? $400: In 2017 Forbes Magazine listed this NFL team that plays in Arlington as the world's most valuable at $4.8 billion the Dallas Cowboys |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | ON TV $800: This actor plays Chip, a dropout from French clown college, & his twin brother Dale on "Baskets" Zach Galifianakis |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | THE INTERJECTION SECTION $1200: After big plays, Yankees broadcaster Phil Rizzuto would often exclaim this 2-word beastly interjection holy cow |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | VISITORS FROM SPACE $400: In "Arrival", she plays Dr. Louise Banks, a linguist sent to communicate with some new neighbors Amy Adams |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | JEFF BRIDGES $1000: In 2006's "Stick It", Jeff plays a very grumpy coach of girls in this sport gymnastics |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | YOUR HUDDLED MASSES $800: In 2017 he went from running plays for the Cowboys to predicting 'em with uncanny accuracy in the CBS booth with Jim Nantz (Tony) Romo |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | THE SPITTING IMAGE $800: It's not surprising that Larry David not only plays this man on "Saturday Night Live", but is his distant relative Bernie Sanders |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $400: "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!" is a line from this play by Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $800: This author's murder mystery "The Mousetrap" has been performed in London for 65 straight years Agatha Christie |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $1200: Treplev shoots down the title bird in "The Seagull" by this Russian playwright (Anton) Chekhov |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $2000: The German play "Frühlings Erwachen" became this alt-rock musical in 2006 Spring Awakening |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $6,000 (Daily Double): This 5-letter Greek tragedy from Euripides is not a good choice for Mother's Day Medea |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | RECENT MOVIES $200: Alicia Vikander plays this young woman who switches jobs from bicycle courier to tomb raider Lara Croft |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $400: In "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", he plays gold-greedy Fed C. Dobbs, sweetheart Bogart |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KNOWLEDGE $1200: In 1970 the Supreme Court said proof "beyond" this "plays a vital role" in criminal procedure a reasonable doubt |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | ON TV $1200: This comedian plays Tig Bavaro, exploring family mystery & history in "One Mississippi" Tig Notaro |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for a musician who plays the cymbals, drums or xylophone percussionist |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | TELEVISION $1000: Freddie Highmore plays a surgeon with autism & savant syndrome on this ABC drama The Good Doctor |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | MOVIE TITLES GET RELIGION $1200: Christian Bale plays Moses in 2014's "Exodus:" these "and Kings" gods |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST "C" TV $600: Matt Smith plays a young Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on this Netflix series The Crown |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ON-SCREEN ROMANCES $2000: Zoe Kazan plays a girlfriend in a coma in this 2017 film co-starring & co-written by Kumail Nanjiani The Big Sick |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | THE HUMAN BODY $1600: Also called a thrombocyte, this component of blood plays a key role in forming blood clots platelets |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | OTHER WONDER WOMEN $1000: In the "X-Men" film universe, Sophie Turner played young Jean Grey, while she plays the grown-up Famke Janssen |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $800: This "Long" Eugene O'Neill play that premiered in 1956 ranks among the greatest plays of the past 100 years Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $1600: It's French for an innocent, unworldly young woman, or an actress who plays one an ingenue |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $1200: This Czech author's satirical plays like "Protest" used absurdist themes to denounce Communist rule Vaclav Havel |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $1600: This author of the absurdist plays "The Birthday Party" & "The Room" was awarded the Nobel Lit prize in 2005 Harold Pinter |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | RECENT TV ROLES $1000: He went from "Deadwood" to "American Gods", where he plays Mr. Wednesday Ian McShane |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Country Wife" is one of the bawdy plays named for this era when the English monarchy returned the Restoration |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | FREEZE FRAME $2000: 2 animated shows have been based on this Ezra Jack Keats kids' book in which Peter plays in the city's first snowfall The Snowy Day |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | THE BRITISH INVASION $200: This song from The Who's "Tommy" tells of a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who "sure plays a mean" arcade game "Pinball Wizard" |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | BROTHERS $800: In "Adaptation" this actor plays both Kaufman brothers Nicolas Cage |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $800: (Film critic Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In the perennial favorite "A Christmas Story", Peter Billingsley plays this boy who wants nothing more than a Red Ryder BB gun Ralphie |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | MISCELLANY $800: The board game has evolved into a video game that plays you in the 2017 "Welcome to the Jungle" sequel to this 1990s film Jumanji |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $600: On "The Middle" Atticus Shaffer plays this kid in the Heck family known to whisper into his shirt Brick Heck |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | MARVEL $600: In season 2 of Netflix's "Daredevil", Elodie Yung plays this fighting heroine who once had a movie of her own Elektra |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | "WORLD" OF ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Kate Beckinsale plays a vampire warrioress named Selene in this epic saga Underworld |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Before "The Mikado" & other librettos, he wrote serious plays on social themes like "Ought We to Visit Her?" Gilbert |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $400: In "Bubba Ho-Tep" Bruce Campbell plays this "king of rock & roll" who sets off to nab a mummy with a guy who thinks he's JFK Elvis |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | BANG THAT TAMBOURINE! $800: Seen here is Liam Gallagher with tambourine, perhaps the one he plays on this group's "Wonderwall" Oasis |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | FAMOUS LEFTIES $800: Though he's actually right-handed, this Spanish tennis champ plays with his left Rafa Nadal |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $600: This Golden Globe winner plays Rainbow Johnson, wife, mom & doctor on ABC's "Black-ish" Tracee Ellis Ross |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: He played Madea in many plays that he wrote & directed, beginning with 2000's "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" Tyler Perry |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | JUST JOSHING $1200: In "The Hunger Games" movies, Josh Hutcherson plays this tribute & love interest of Katniss Peeta |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE PLAYS OF JEAN RACINE $400: Based on real events in the 1630s, "Bajazet" is about an attempt to depose the sultan of this Turkish empire the Ottoman Empire |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE PLAYS OF JEAN RACINE $800: In the 1674 play "Iphigenie", this Greek king is asked to sacrifice the title character to get fair winds to sail to Troy Agamemnon |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE PLAYS OF JEAN RACINE $1200: "Berenice" is tragic, all right; its last word is "hélas", the French equivalent of this 4-letter English word alas |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE PLAYS OF JEAN RACINE $1600: Louis XIV was costumer & usher for the Racine play about this Jewish wife of a Persian king Esther |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE PLAYS OF JEAN RACINE $2000: In the 1669 play "Britannicus", this fifth Roman emperor kills his brother & rival Nero |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | CLASSICAL MUSIC AT THE BALLPARK $400: Spring is when baseball begins, so sit back & relax as our organist fittingly plays this Italian's "Spring" concert Vivaldi |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | WHY I DRINK $600: Because it's this day, the one named for the guy Chris Hemsworth plays in those Marvel movies Thursday |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $400: This title Neil Simon twosome is Felix Ungar & Oscar Madison The Odd Couple |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $800: Neil's play "The Good Doctor" was based on short stories by this Russian playwright Chekhov |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $1200: Willie Clark & Al Lewis are 2 grumpy old former vaudeville partners in this Neil Simon comedy The Sunshine Boys |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $1600: "Chapter Two" is Neil's semi-autobiographical play about his life with this actress he married in 1973 Marsha Mason |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | THE PLAYS OF NEIL SIMON $2000: Neil's days as a writer for the show hosted by this giant of '50s TV comedy inspired "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" Sid Caesar |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | TV DRAMAS $200: On "Elementary" Jonny Lee Miller plays Sherlock Holmes & Lucy Liu plays her Watson |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | TV DRAMAS $600: This actor plays Dr. Brenner on "Stranger Things" Matthew Modine |
| #7525, aired 2017-05-05 | CREATURES IN MOVIE TITLES $400: Mila Kunis plays a rival to ballerina Natalie Portman in this 2010 psychological thriller Black Swan |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $400: Owen Glendower bedeviled Henry IV on stage & in real life as a leader of rebel forces in this U.K. country Wales |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $600: In the play "Julius Caesar" & in real life, this man & Brutus led the assassination conspiracy Cassius |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $800: Sir James Tyrrell was a henchman of Richard III; in the play, he arranges the deaths of the 2 princes imprisoned here the Tower of London |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $1000: Dear friends, this king's army won a decisive battle in France in 1415 Henry V |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | KING ME $1000: This ineffectual 15th century king still got his name on not 1, not 2, but 3 Shakespeare plays Henry VI |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $1600: Found in the Southwest, the 9-banded type of this plays dead if captured, but if that fails, kicks like crazy armadillo |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $2000: Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this 1991 film starred Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix My Own Private Idaho |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | JACKET REQUIRED $200: 6-letter word for a men's jacket or Damian Lillard, who plays point guard in Portland a blazer |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 6 PLAYS $200: Before using 7, Mickey Mantle briefly wore No. 6 for this team the New York Yankees |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 6 PLAYS $600: Jake Muzzin wore No. 6 for this "regal" team of 2014 Stanley Cup champs the LA Kings |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 6 PLAYS $800: Ozzie Alonso escaped Cuba to play midfield wearing No. 6 for the Sounders of this MLS West Coast city Seattle |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 6 PLAYS $1000: Jay Cutler sports No. 6 for this venerable NFL team the Chicago Bears |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: A performance of the farce "Our American Cousin" by Tom Taylor was cut short due to this tragedy in 1865 the assassination of President Lincoln |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This Shakespeare comedy set in Illyria is said to have first been performed on January 6 Twelfth Night |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Tony Kushner won his second straight Best Play Tony Award for "Perestroika", part 2 of this play Angels in America |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: One of Bartok's last works was a concerto for this instrument that often plays second fiddle to the fiddle viola |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | RUNNING A HOTEL $600: Tom Hiddleston plays this title hotel functionary in the 2016 miniseries based on John le Carre's novel The Night Manager |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | ON TV NOW $2000: Corey Stoll plays a CDC doc trying to stop a viral outbreak on this FX series The Strain |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | MOVIE NUMBERS $800: Hai, Keanu plays Kai:
"____ Ronin" 47 |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: In this 2014 film Elle Fanning plays Aurora, put into a deep sleep by the title character who it turns out had her reasons Maleficent |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OCEANS $800: The town of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia plays hosts to many tide tourists visiting this nearby bay the Bay of Fundy |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $2000: Harvey Keitel plays an unnamed, unhinged cop with serious drug & gambling addictions in this film Bad Lieutenant |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN SHORTIES $1000: Think fast! Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays boast a hostess called Mistress this Mistress Quickly |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SCI-FI TV $1600: On Syfy's "The Expanse", Thomas Jane plays a detective on this asteroid, largest in our main asteroid belt Ceres |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | SCREEN TEST $1200: Michael Fassbender plays an "Apple" grower: the title Steve Jobs |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MTV $800: Tyler Posey plays Scott McCall, co-captain of the lacrosse team & part of a pack on this MTV series Teen Wolf |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $800: This 1990 film in which Meryl plays a substance-addicted actress was based on a book by Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE $800: Justin plays Napster founder Sean Parker in this movie about a start-up The Social Network |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $1200: In "Django Unchained", this Tarantino veteran plays a house slave almost as evil as his master Samuel L. Jackson |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE $400: A trick the desert plays on your eyes, or a French fighter jet a mirage |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $400: Nolan Gould plays a less than Mensa-esque Luke Dunphy on this sitcom but Nolan's 150 IQ made the grade Modern Family |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ENDLESSLY ROCKING $200: They've been rocking since 1970, though Steven Tyler no longer plays drums Aerosmith |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | DESCRIBING THE TV SHOW $1000: A TV show about a TV show; an ex-"Friends" star plays an ex-"Friends" star Episodes |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: He's the traveling salesman referred to in the title of Arthur Miller's play Willy Loman |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This playwright spent many years living in Italy & Germany before returning home to Norway a literary hero in 1891 (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This playwright of "The Misanthrope" is said to be the greatest of all writers of French comedy Molière |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Pirandello's "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore", known as this in English, invented "theater within the theater" Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield has raised 2 children by herself in this drama by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1200: This playwright/actor explores dysfunctional & barely functional families in plays like 2012's "Heartless" Sam Shepard |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | THE WRITE STUFF $600: Mark Twain didn't think Shakespeare wrote the famous plays, wondering why this 1616 document mentions no books his will |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $1000: Phone home--Milana Vayntrub plays the young & helpful Lily, a saleswoman for this company AT&T |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | ALL KINDS OF DRAMA $1200: Emphasizing violence & horror, Grand Guignol plays of the 19th century took their name from a theater in this city Paris |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | THE MOVIE ACTOR'S ROLE $400: In the Coen Brothers movie "Hail, Caesar!", this movie star plays a 1950s movie star who gets kidnapped George Clooney |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $400: Actors John Heminge & Henry Condell brought together Shakespeare's plays into this 1623 collection the First Folio |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THE POLITICS OF TV $600: Joshua Malina plays the Attorney General on this show that's technically set in D.C. but c'mon, it's in Shondaland Scandal |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | FATHERLY TV $1000: Corey Stoll plays Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, raising his son & fighting a vampire plague on this FX show The Strain |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | AUDRA McDONALD ON BROADWAY $1000: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) I shared the stage with Sean Combs & Phylicia Rashad in a 2004 revival of this Lorraine Hansberry drama A Raisin in the Sun |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sir Toby Belch is a character in this Shakespeare comedy with a 2-word, 2-vowel title Twelfth Night |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | I GIVE IT A 10 $1000: In a 2015 film Bryan Cranston plays this screenwriter who was blacklisted as a member of the Hollywood Ten Dalton Trumbo |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | DEATH... WHAT A CHARACTER! $2000: Max von Sydow plays chess against death in this Ingmar Bergman film The Seventh Seal |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | TIME OFF $400: In Middle English it was a beggar; today it's one who plays hooky or the officer who pursues him truant |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | COLLEGE-SET LITERATURE $1200: An errant throw by a Westish College baseball star plays a major role in Chad Harbach's "The Art of" this Fielding |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | ON NETFLIX $800: Krysten Ritter plays a different kind of Marvel heroine as this private eye with a painful past Jessica Jones |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | HOME WATCHING TV $800: On "Empire", Taraji P. Henson plays this ex-con ex-wife intent on getting her share Cookie |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | POP-POURRI $800: Melissa Benoist plays the charming title caped hero on this CBS series Supergirl |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | SENIOR-ITIS $2000: Around 1830 this pere wrote a series of historical plays like "Napoleon Bonaparte" Alexandre Dumas (Père) |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $400: A cycle of plays by Sophocles includes the dramas him "Rex" & him "at Colonus" Oedipus |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | MIXED BAG $2000: This writer of more than 80 plays was nicknamed "the father of Greek tragedy" Aeschylus |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS $800: When the Abbey Theatre opened on December 27, 1904, 2 of this poet-founder's plays were staged (William Butler) Yeats |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | ON THE LETTERHEAD $600: It's sports page shorthand for the MLB team that plays its home games in Phoenix the D-backs |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $800: Austin Stowell plays this pilot detained in the Soviet Union in "Bridge of Spies" Francis Gary Powers |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $2000: This 1996 honoree won 3 Pulitzers for his plays, the first for "A Delicate Balance" in 1967 Edward Albee |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | A LOT OF BUZZ $800: In this movie Corey Allen plays Buzz, who fatally races James Dean at the edge of a cliff Rebel Without a Cause |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | ACTING TV MILITARY $800: This onetime People magazine "Sexiest Man Alive" plays former sniper Leroy Gibbs on "NCIS" Mark Harmon |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | ADVERTISING ICONS $800: Jonathan Goldsmith plays this man in Dos Equis commercials the Most Interesting Man in the World |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | WELL-SEASONED BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare was hot & cold with these 2 plays that have seasons in the title A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale (A Winter's Tale accepted) |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS $200: "The band is out on the field!" in 1982 as California beat this rival with "The Play" Stanford |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS $400: In 2013 a 109-yard "Kick Six" kicked in a win for this school over rival Alabama Auburn |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS $600: Who dat? It's this team, running "Ambush", an onside kick to start Super Bowl 44's 2nd half the Saints |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS $800: In 2000 the "Music City Miracle" kickoff return won a playoff game for this team the (Tennessee) Titans |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | GREAT FOOTBALL PLAYS $1000: Cris Collinsworth, on this Giants wide receiver's insane play in 2014: "That may be the greatest catch I've ever seen!" (Odell) Beckham (Jr.) |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | PLAYING THEMSELVES $1000: This director plays himself in "Sunset Boulevard" & Norma's last line mentions him DeMille |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | QUOTATIONS BY THE NUMBER $2000: Shakespeare:
"And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being ____ ages" 7 |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | A REAL CHARACTER $1600: In the cartoon "Deduce, You Say", this character plays Dorlock Homes to Porky's Watkins Daffy Duck |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | D.C. TV $800: Emily Deschanel plays a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in D.C. on this Fox series Bones |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $600: (I'm NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger.) Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a yankee who breaks into big-time stock car racing in this 1990 film Days of Thunder |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | DOWNTOWN CABBIE $800: Sure, I can take you to this L.A. sports arena where Kobe plays; you know it doesn't sell office supplies, right? the Staples Center |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | ODD COMPETITIONS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays some hard rock riffs with no instrument.) I wonder if I'm good enough to enter the U.S. championships for this, held annually since 2003 air guitar |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | POP CULTURE $200: On the CW, Grant Gustin plays Barry Allen, transformed by lightning into this title superhero the Flash |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | POP CULTURE $1000: She plays Amy in the "Pitch Perfect" movies Rebel Wilson |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | ARE YOU GAME? $1000: Emily Post said nothing reveals a gentleman's true character more than how he plays this "tricky" card game bridge |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | GAME OF THRONES $1000: Back in the day, this actress, who plays Olenna Tyrell, was a Bond girl & Emma Peel on the Avengers Diana Rigg |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | FRENCH FILM REMAKES $800: In "Point of No Return", a remake of this 1990 French film, Bridget Fonda plays an assassin for the government La Femme Nikita |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This brunette plays "Community" college student Annie Edison Alison Brie |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | TV ROLES $400: She plays "Madam Secretary" of State Elizabeth McCord Téa Leoni |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | TV ROLES $1000: Alex O'Loughlin plays this iconic role on the reboot version of "Hawaii Five-O" Steve McGarrett |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | HAIL! $200: The U.S. Marine band plays "Ruffles & Flourishes" on drums & bugles before this presidential tune "Hail To The Chief" |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | TV DADS $1200: He plays a police commissioner & patriarch of the Reagan family on "Blue Bloods" Tom Selleck |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE IN ART $800: This comic character pictured in a lithograph appears in several Shakespeare plays Falstaff |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | MOVIE PUNS $800: The title of this 2000 Jackie Chan & Owen Wilson film plays on the title of a 1952 Gary Cooper movie Shanghai Noon |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | TV-"G" $800: Ben McKenzie plays rookie detective James Gordon on this Fox series Gotham |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | DEBUTING IN 1984 $1000: Justin Bieber was born in 1994; this "SNL" woman who plays Justin Bieber better than Justin Bieber was born in '84 Kate McKinnon |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | TEXAS RISING $400: Olivier Martinez plays this Mexican general who was first victorious but ultimately defeated in the Texas revolution Santa Anna |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | TV MOMS & DADS $1200: Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel & movie About a Boy |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | TV MOMS & DADS $1600: On Showtime this Oscar winner plays Ray Donovan's charismatic ex-con father, Mickey Jon Voight |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | THE 4 SEASONS-ISH $1600: Alliterative term for a repertory company's plays put on in June or July summer stock |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Performed on a bare stage, this Thornton Wilder play features a stage manager who serves as the narrator Our Town |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: On June 29, 1956 he married one of the stars of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Arthur Miller |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This Chicagoan known for earthy dialogue in plays like "Speed-the-Plow" was once an editor at Oui magazine David Mamet |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: O'dear, this Irish playwright had 5 plays rejected by the Abbey Theatre before "'The Shadow of a Gunman" was produced in 1923 Seán O'Casey |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: An alcoholic ex-football star named Brick battles his brother for his father's fortune in this 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | TV FEMMES FATALES $2000: Madeleine Stowe plays the wealthy Victoria Grayson, evil queen of the Hamptons, on this soapy series Revenge |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | SPORTS MOVIES $400: Parminder Nagra plays soccer for the Hounslow Harriers in this film Bend It Like Beckham |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | THE PRESIDENT'S PLEASURE $200: He not only plays the sax, he's composed a crossword puzzle for The New York Times Clinton |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | WHAT A TV DRAMA QUEEN! $800: Tea Leoni plays a former CIA analyst who joins the president's cabinet on this TV drama Madam Secretary |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | BRITISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth" are paired 1979 plays by this Bard-loving Brit Tom Stoppard |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $400: On this Showtime series Michael Sheen plays William Masters, pioneering sex researcher & partner of Virginia Johnson Masters of Sex |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $600: Eden Sher plays the middle child Sue Heck on this TV family comedy The Middle |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | AT THIS STAGE $1,200 (Daily Double): In Freudian theory, it's the first stage of human development & breast-feeding plays a big part the oral stage |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | AMERICANA $200: This TV show is celebrating its 25th season of bringing us the real-life fun & follies of our nation America's Funniest Home Videos |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | NON-BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN $1600: Tracee, daughter of this Supreme singer, plays Rainbow on the sitcom "Black-ish" Diana Ross |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $400: From Shakespeare: "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $800: "Maggie? Why are you so catty?" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $1600: From 1913: "I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady" Pygmalion |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $2000: "Sir Thomas More, is there anything you wish to say to me concerning the king's marriage with Queen Anne?" A Man for All Seasons |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Alan's always been such a gentle boy. He loves animals! Especially horses" Equus |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | PIZZA, BEER & BALLGAMES $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets ready to chow down on a slice at Gino's East Pizza in Chicago.) Nick Offerman, who plays this character on "Parks and Rec" (who knows a little something about meat), said that one slice of Gino's East stuffed sausage pizza is a bigger meal than an entire New York pie Ron Swanson |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | ALISON WONDERLAND $800: On this drama Alison Brie plays Trudy Campbell, whose dad helped her husband, Pete, get the Clearasil account Mad Men |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | WRITTEN BY $800: Of the 90 plays written by this ancient Greek, only 7 have survived intact, including the "Oresteia" Aeschylus |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | ____ & ____ $600: You boys played that first half like you didn't even know the plays! Let's go back to these 2 letters! "X"s & "O"s |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE WALLABY $1200: The Qantas Wallabies are a team that plays in the Australian league of this sport rugby |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | A CATEGORICAL DENIAL $800: To keep from occurring; football fans complain when their team plays this "defense" at the end of games prevent |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPORTS STARS $800: This brother of the Broncos' Peyton plays quarterback for the Giants Eli Manning |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | MEDIA $200: In 2011 Antonin Scalia wrote, "like...books, plays and movies," these games "communicate ideas" video games |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | PAINT BY YEARS $1200: 1658:
He plays with light in "The Milkmaid" (Johannes) Vermeer |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | TV $200: Kevin Spacey plays a manipulative politician on this series from Netflix House of Cards |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | UNUSUAL TV FIRST NAMES $2000: Katey Sagal plays her on "Sons of Anarchy" Gemma |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | ONLY ONE $1000: Is a novel by Oscar Wilde: "Lady Windermere's Fan", "The Picture Of Dorian Gray", "Salome" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | I'M SEXY $600: imdb.com says this TV "Mad Man" "usually plays intelligent, easy-going, and often handsome characters"--duh! Jon Hamm |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | THE FESTIVE CARIBBEAN $2000: The Shakespeare Mas in this "Spice Isle" country is a battle of wits using only lines from the Bard's plays Grenada |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EARS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Naturally, the flute plays a part in the opera overture heard here by this man Mozart |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | ORDINAL NUMBER PHRASES $1600: This term plays off France's designations for the nobility, the clergy & the common people the Fourth Estate |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL STADIUM NICKNAMES $200: This team plays its home games in "The House That Rockne Built" Notre Dame |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | THE PLAYS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $400: About this title character, the executioner says, "Her heart would not burn, my lord" Joan of Arc |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | THE PLAYS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $800: "Heartbreak House" is set in the Sussex home of Captain Shotover on the eve of this war World War I |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | THE PLAYS OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW $1200: This flower girl tells Henry Higgins, "Every girl has a right to be loved" Eliza Doolittle |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | CANADIANS ON TV $1600: Tatiana Maslany plays Sarah, Cosima, Alison & Rachel, all members of the Clone Club on this BBC America series Orphan Black |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | TV $1000: Rachel Bilson plays Dr. Zoe Hart on this Southern-fried show Hart of Dixie |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $200: Major divisions of plays, made up of scenes acts |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | I AM FROM ROMANIA $1600: A character named Berenger appears in plays by this Romanian-born man, including "The Killer" & "Rhinoceros" (Eugene) Ionescu |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $400: When this Tennessee Williams play debuted in 1947, the cast included Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter & Jessica Tandy Streetcar Named Desire |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $500 (Daily Double): This Wendy Wasserstein play follows the life of an art historian from high school through her 30s The Heidi Chronicles |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $800: The 2008 Pulitzer went to Tracy Letts for this month: "Osage County" August |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $1200: Jonathan Larson posthumously won a Pulitzer in 1996 for coming up with this Bohemian musical Rent |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS $2000: This dramatist won 3 Pulitzers in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | AS SEEN ON TV $1000: Don Cheadle plays management guru Marty Kaan on this Showtime series House of Lies |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MARKETING $400: Forget how it plays in Peoria; this Iowa capital is a player in test marketing Des Moines |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | TV TIME $2000: On "The Crazy Ones", she plays Robin Williams' daughter & business partner Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MASTER CARD $1600: Comedy in which John Candy plays Del, a master shower curtain ring salesman Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | SIMON SAYS $800: His brother Danny made him laugh; "He was a character... in at least nine or ten of my plays" Neil Simon |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | "I-O" $1600: An organizer & sponsor of public entertainments such as concerts or plays impresario |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | YOU LIKE KABUKI, NOH? $2000: The only noh instrument that plays melodies is the no-kan, one of these made of bamboo flute |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In "Gorboduc", one of England's earliest plays in this genre, Porrex kills his brother; then their mother kills him a tragedy |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Thomas Kyd helped establish the unrhyming form called this verse on the English stage blank verse |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: In John Lyly's 1595 play "The Woman in the Moon", shepherds ask Nature to create this first woman of Greek myth Pandora |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: This author of "Every Man in His Humour" was apparently out of humor when he stabbed a man to death in 1598 Ben Jonson |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | ELIZABETHAN PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: Ian McKellen calls this author's "Edward II" "perhaps the first drama ever written with a homosexual hero" Christopher Marlowe |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | ACTRESSES $1000: On "Downton Abbey", she plays the snappish Lady Mary Crawley Michelle Dockery |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | REIGN $600: (Adelaide Kane reads again.) Amy Brenneman plays my character's formidable mom, Marie de Guise, a Roman Catholic in Scotland at odds with the nobles of this faith in Scotland Protestants |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 2012 a revival of this play starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman won 2 Tony Awards Death of a Salesman |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: (Ben Brantley of The New York Times delivers the clue.) Zachary Quinto gave a benchmark performance as Tom Wingfield in such a thorough rejuvenation of this Tennessee Williams play that I hesitate to call it a revival The Glass Menagerie |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CREW $800: This canine crew plays team sports for North Carolina State the Wolfpack |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: The chorus in this play by Aristophanes takes the form of amphibians, hence the title The Frogs |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | RETRONYMS $1,200 (Daily Double): The arrival of SiriusXM means the good old dial in your Ford Falcon now plays this Earth-bound type of radio terrestrial |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | HAPPY $1200: Kurt Vonnegut also wrote plays, like his 1970 offering "Happy Birthday" this person Wanda June |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | WORLD OF MUSIC $400: A symbol of hope
to its people, an orchestra of mostly self-taught musicians in Kinshasa plays this composer Beethoven |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | TV CHARACTERS $2000: On BBC America, Idris Elba plays this brilliant but self-destructive detective Luther |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | AS THE TITLE CHARACTER'S WIFE $600: Kelsey Scott plays Anne, wife of Solomon Northup, a free black man who's enslaved for more than a decade in this film 12 Years a Slave |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | AS THE TITLE CHARACTER'S WIFE $800: This singer plays the Mrs. in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" Courtney Love |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $400: "Hoke, what I'm looking for is somebody to drive my mother around" Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $800: Referring to John Merrick:
"The most striking feature about him was his enormous head" The Elephant Man |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $1600: "Wait! One more look. Good-by, good-by world! Good-by, Grover's Corners" Our Town |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): From Act I of this play:
"She can't see!... Or hear. When I screamed she didn't blind; not an eyelash" The Miracle Worker |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | QUOTABLE PLAYS $2000: "Here's a paper written in his hand, a halting sonnet of his own pure brain, fashioned to Beatrice" Much Ado About Nothing |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOE PARTY $600: The Victrola plays the tunes in Joseph Moncure March's "The Wild Party", a poem from this decade the 1920s |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | MOVIE COMEDY $400: Director Mel Brooks plays 2 roles in this 1974 comedy: Governor William J. Le Petomane & an Indian chief Blazing Saddles |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | THINGS THAT ARE ROUND $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) In a tournament, if I play Jimmy, & Jimmy plays Kelly, & Kelly plays me, it's this kind of match arrangement round-robin |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $2000: On "L&O" Ty Burrell played a guy named Paul in 2000 & a guy named Herman in 2003; now he plays this doofy dad on "Modern Family" Phil |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | CANADIAN CLUB $400: Canadian Cobie Smulders plays Canadian Robin Scherbatsky (aka Robin Sparkles) on this sitcom How I Met Your Mother |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | ON THE MAP $400: A carillon in this city plays pieces specially composed by its native son Mozart Salzburg |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | TV, SELF-HELP ME! $1000: Bravo! for Ted Allen & Carson Kressley, 2 of the stars who dealt with food, fashion & other issues on this show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $1,800 (Daily Double): If you had this job in Japanese Bunraku theater, it was common to spend 15 years as a left arm operator a puppeteer |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $1000: While living in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote plays to support himself Washington Irving |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $200: This ex-brat packer who plays Chris Traeger on "Parks & Rec" is 49 but literally looks better than men half his age Rob Lowe |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | ROCK & ROLL CALL $800: Rick Savage plays bass in this band, whose name was initially spelled like a hard-of-hearing feline Def Leppard |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | SUMMER FUN $1000: The production of plays in summer by a repertory company; it's the title of a Judy Garland film summer stock |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | TV TIME $400: On a British series, Highclere Castle plays this title house Downton Abbey |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | TV TIME $800: Nick Offerman, seen here, plays Ron Swanson on this sitcom Parks & Recreation |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $600: When Alice plays this game, live flamingoes serve as mallets and hedgehogs as the balls. croquet |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | RADIO, RADIO $400: Fayetteville's KXUA boasts that it plays no music that has been on this publication's Top 40 chart "in the last 50 years" Billboard |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: His plays include "True West": his acting credits include "Crimes of the Heart" & "All the Pretty Horses" Sam Shepard |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | -E-I-E-I OH! $1200: A movie that plays shamelessly on your emotions has this maudlin quality sentimentalism |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | POP CULTURE $600: Ty Burrell plays Phil, goofy dad of the Dunphy clan, on this ABC sitcom Modern Family |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | DOCTOR! DOCTOR! $1000: On "The Mindy Project" she plays pop-culture-obsessed OB/GYN Mindy Lahiri Mindy Kaling |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ON BASS & VOCALS $600: He spews fire, he plays bass, he sings "Rock and Roll All Nite" for kiss Gene Simmons |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $400: Wild animals lie down at Tamino's feet when he plays the title instrument in Act I of this Mozart opera The Magic Flute |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | COMPASS POINT MOVIES $800: A giant mechanical spider plays a key role in this 1999 Will Smith movie set in the 19th Century Wild Wild West |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | TV VILLAINS $1200: Ellen Barkin plays a bigoted granny on this "new" NBC comedy The New Normal |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | "BABY" MOVIES $1200: Diane Keaton plays a yuppie who inherits an infant Baby Boom |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | I SAW THAT ON TV $2000: It's not a stretch to say Jake the Dog plays viola with his girlfriend Lady Rainicorn on this Cartoon Network show Adventure Time |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | L.A. TV $1200: Zooey Deschanel plays an adorkable character on this L.A.-set Fox show New Girl |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | SPORTS TALK $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Leaping almost upside-down to volley the ball overhead makes this reverse kick one of soccer's most exciting plays bicycle kick |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | WHAT'S ON TV? $2000: Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a mom who works at that kind of massage parlor on this steamy Lifetime series The Client List |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | ON CABLE $600: On HBO she plays "veep" Selina Meyer Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | SITCOMEDY $1000: As Rev. Jim on "Taxi", this actor plays piano flawlessly, stops & says, "I must have had music lessons" Christopher Lloyd |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | I THEE WED $800: This economic contraction... oh, wait, it's a wedding category... this begins when the organist plays the happy music the recessional |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | TEA TIME MOVIE $2000: In "Tea with Mussolini", Cher plays a character based on this American art patron who spent a lot of time in Italy Peggy Guggenheim |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | THE CRITICS SAY $1600: Drama critic George Nathan said that this 3-named Irishman "writes plays for the ages... the ages between 5 & 12" George Bernard Shaw |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1,000 (Daily Double): This Oscar-winning daughter of an Oscar-winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on "Smash" Anjelica Huston |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $800: Alliterative 2-word name for the 1623 volume of Shakespeare's collected plays the First Folio |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's 37 plays are traditionally classified into 3 groups: comedies, tragedies & these histories |
| #6416, aired 2012-07-09 | RACHEL $1200: She plays Rachel Berry, who uses every opportunity to propel herself to stardom on "Glee" Lea Michele |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $2000: Loretta Devine, one of the original "Dreamgirls" on Broadway, plays Dr. Webber's wife Adele on this medical drama Grey's Anatomy |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $1600: Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays Plutarch |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | IRON MAN $1600: Gotz with the iron hand, real-life hero of one of this "Faust" author's plays, had a hand shot off in battle Goethe |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | AMERICAN BALLET $400: The same ballerina plays both the mother & Mexican sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | SOUNDS LIKE A NOBLE GAS, MAN $400: Respond with "Glee" if you know this last name of actress Dianna, who plays Quinn Agron |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ANCIENT MOVIES $400: In "Year One" David Cross plays this character wanted for the murder of his brother Cain |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ANCIENT MOVIES $1600: The Rock plays an Akkadian assassin hell-bent on stopping the evil tyrant Memnon in this prequel to "The Mummy" The Scorpion King |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $200: A huge upset as he "prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone"; I can't believe what I just saw! David |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $400: He "stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind"; what a play! Moses |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $600: His "wisdom excelled... the wisdom of Egypt", which is why he's been coach of the year so many times Solomon |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $800: It's not the 1924 Notre Dame backfield, this is the real McCoy from Revelation 6, & that means the game is truly over the Four Horsemen |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $1000: What an amazing comeback! John 11 reported he "hath been dead 4 days", but now he's up & going back onto the field! Lazarus |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: Each autumn this state capital plays host to the World Dairy Expo Madison |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | VIRTUOSI $1200: Maurice Andre plays a special 4-valve version of this brass instrument the trumpet |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | ACT LIKE A JOURNALIST $1200: Al Pacino plays a "60 Minutes" producer working with tobacco company employee Russell Crowe in this movie The Insider |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HISTORICAL ENTERTAINMENT $600: In the film "Invictus" Morgan Freeman plays this world leader Nelson Mandela |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | 1, 2, 3, "GO" $1000: We hope you are mature enough for the rhythms of this dance
[Sexy Latin music plays] tango |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $400: A soprano plays the title bird in "The Nightingale", based on a tale by this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | BARD GAMES $400: In "The Tempest", Ferdinand plays this board game with Miranda, whom he plans to promote to queen chess |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | SHE'S SO COOL $400: She plays Alex Russo on "Wizards of Waverly Place" Selena Gomez |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | BARD GAMES $2000: In "Love's Labour's Lost", a character "plays at tables", an old term for this board game played with counters & dice backgammon |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | DUNN THAT $800: In the "Transformers" movies, Kevin Dunn as Ron Witwicky plays dad to this actor Shia LaBeouf |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE MOST POPULAR NETFLIX MOVIES $200: Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy in this feel-good film that became the most popular to get from Netflix The Blind Side |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | "THE" NOVEL $200: Roy Hobbs plays left field for the New York Knights in this first novel by Bernard Malamud The Natural |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | TV DRAMAS $400: Timothy Olyphant plays small-town marshal Raylan Givens on this FX drama Justified |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: "Anonymous" posits that this Earl of Oxford is the real author of Shakespeare's plays Edward de Vere |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $800 (Daily Double): This school plays its home football games at Franklin Field the University of Pennsylvania |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $1600: Dick's brother, Tom of this pair plays golf & is known to sink putts using a yo-yo the Smothers Brothers |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | CITY FOLK $400: He plays Will Turner in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies Orlando Bloom |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | FRENCH 101 $400: A naive or innocent girl or woman; in the theater, it's an actress who plays such roles an ingenue |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | RECENT MOVIES $200: "Jeopardy!" champ Thomas Horn plays the kid in "Extremely Loud and" this Incredibly Close |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: In "Immortals" Henry Cavill plays this Greek hero who fights King Hyperion Theseus |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | EASY "A" $800: Peyton Manning is a master of these plays called at the line of scrimmage audibles |
| #6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $600: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film Con Air |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | CHAMBER MUSIC $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands on stage as a string quartet plays the piece described in the clue at the Julliard School in New York.) Opus 33 No. 2 by Haydn, who created the modern string quartet, tricks you with multiple endings; he couldn't resist a good one of these, the nickname of the piece "The Joke" |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | MIDDLE INITIAL C. $400: In "Talladega Nights", he plays Cal Naughton Jr., friend & fellow racer of Ricky Bobby John C. Reilly |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | GROUP COUNTDOWN $200: In this sporting quintet, the center is considered No. 5 when diagramming plays a basketball team |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | ACTING THE PART $200: In a remake of "True Grit", Jeff Bridges plays Rooster Cogburn, a role first played onscreen by this legend John Wayne |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | ACTING THE PART $600: In the "National Treasure" movies, he plays archaeologist extraordinaire Ben Franklin Gates Nicolas Cage |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $2000: Piper Perabo plays a fledgling songwriter who serves up sass & drinks in this 2000 movie Coyote Ugly |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WOODS $1600: The boy in this Shel Silverstein book gathers the title character's leaves & plays "King of the Forest" The Giving Tree |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: His last play, "Finishing the Picture", was inspired by the making of Marilyn Monroe's last movie "The Misfits" Arthur Miller |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Both acts of this Beckett play have the same simple setting: "A country road. A tree" Waiting for Godot |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: In 1993 & 1994 the Tonys for Best Play went to parts 1 & 2 of his "Angels in America" (Tony) Kushner |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: "Man and Superman" was one of 3 plays he had on Broadway in the 1947-48 season (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: Her "Another Part of the Forest" tells the earlier history of the family featured in her "Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | JERSEY TV $1600: Steve Buscemi plays Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City in this HBO drama Boardwalk Empire |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THAT'S "RIGHT"! $400: He plays between the right tackle & the center, & he probably really needs his deodorant the right guard |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | RECESS $800: Many plays have this delay built into the middle so people can stretch their legs an intermission |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | CELEBS $800: On "Drake & Josh" she played Drake's little sister Megan; now she plays Carly Shay Miranda Cosgrove |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $2000: Dario Fo's plays include "Accidental Death of" this person of anti-government views an Anarchist |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | TV LAW FIRMS $400: Glenn Close plays the Hewes of Hewes & Assoc. on this drama Damages |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | WELL, IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE $2000: Last name of Daphne, who in addition to novels wrote plays like "September Tide" du Maurier |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | THEY'RE ON CABLE $400: He plays novelist Hank Moody, a New Yorker transplanted to L.A., on "Californication" David Duchovny |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $200: (Sarah reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The great soprano Deborah Voigt wears this costume in the Met's 2011 production of this Wagner opera, in which she plays the title role Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME $400: Yvonne Strahovski plays a CIA agent on this TV show about a geek turned spy Chuck |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | ME & MS. JONES $1600: Like Dylan Thomas, she is from Swansea & named her production company Milkwood after one of Thomas' plays Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | SIBLING SPORTS RIVALRIES $2000: Though Tiki retired from the NFL after the 2006 season, this twin brother, a cornerback, still plays for Tampa Bay Ronde Barber |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | ELDERS IN ENTERTAINMENT $1200: Steve Zahn plays Frank Heffley, the dad in this 2010 film Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | TV $400: Not a big stretch--he plays Charlie on "Two and a Half Men" Charlie Sheen |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | TV $800: Kaley Cuoco plays Sheldon & Leonard's cute neighbor Penny on this sitcom The Big Bang Theory |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | TV $1200: This actor plays Dan Humphrey, one of the not-so-privileged teenagers on "Gossip Girl" Penn Badgley |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | PERIOD MOVIES $2000: "Me and" this "Citizen Kane" director shows the great man when he was still directing plays Orson Welles |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | VI PACK $800: Shakespeare wrote not 1, not 2, but 3 plays about this guy Henry VI |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | VI PACK $1600: In "The King's Speech" Colin Firth plays this monarch who struggled with his stammer George VI |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | TV PERSONALITY MARRIAGES $1600: His wife Jennifer Carpenter plays his sister on "Dexter" Michael C. Hall |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $1,000 (Daily Double): He told the Warren Commission of a nightmare in which his film plays out until its violent end & he snaps awake Abraham Zapruder |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | I'M SO THEATRICAL $2000: His plays include "Caroline, or Change" & "Angels in America" Tony Kushner |
| #6063, aired 2011-01-12 | CANDIED CAMERA $1200: Jack Nicholson plays the president in this Tim Burton tale with a candy bar in its title Mars Attacks! |
| #6060, aired 2011-01-07 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $2000: Nathan Fillion plays a mystery novelist with this last name; he helps a female NYC police detective solve crimes Castle |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | 21st CENTURY ATHLETES $800: Seen here, he excelled on "Dancing with the Stars" & also plays a little football (Jason) Taylor |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | "STOP" & "GO" $1000: A highlight of this 1956 film is a rendition of "That Old Black Magic" by Marilyn Monroe, who plays Cherie, a saloon singer Bus Stop |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | MOVIE NAMES $2000: Josh Duhamel plays the title movie star:
"Win a Date with ____ ____!" Tad Hamilton |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | PLAY PENNERS $4,000 (Daily Double): This Irishman wrote 5 novels but none was successful; the over 50 plays during his career turned out better George Bernard Shaw |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | VIOLINISTS $800: Maxim Vengerov often plays an encore called "Balalaika" entirely in this plucky style pizzicato |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | YOU JANE $1200: ...who plays Jenna Maroney on "30 Rock" Jane Krakowski |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | CELEBRITY AUTHORS $2000: "The Gun Seller" is a spy spoof by this comedic Brit who plays a dramatic doctor on TV (Hugh) Laurie |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ISLAMIC CULTURE $1600: Ta'ziyah, Muslim passion plays, tend to show the martyrdom of members of this minority branch of Islam Shia |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | ADULT SWIM $1200: Rob Corddry plays creepy doctor/clown Blake Downs on this show where the object is to heal kids--the funny way Children's Hospital |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE ROLES $1600: In this movie based on a classic novel, Jackie Chan plays Passepartout, Phileas Fogg's travel companion Around the World in 80 Days |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | SITCOM MOMS $600: "Everybody Loves" this Emmy-winning actress who now plays mom Frankie on "The Middle" Patricia Heaton |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | PLAYMATES $800: Miss January Jones, seen here, plays Betty on this AMC advertising show Mad Men |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1600: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives the clue) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough private eye who sends his love Mary Astor up the river in this 1941 film The Maltese Falcon |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $2000: (Dana Delany gives the clue.) Humphrey Bogart plays a tough Hollywood writer who loses his last chance at love with Gloria Grahame in this 1950 film In a Lonely Place |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | SHOWTIME AT THE ACROPOLIS $800: Tragedians like Sophocles often premiered plays on the Acropolis at the theater of this god of wine and drama Bacchus |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | "SOUTHERN" COMFORT $400: This school's football team plays home games at the L.A. coliseum the University of Southern California |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GOING FOR "WARD" $1000: "Cavalcade" & "Conversation Piece" are 2 of his most popular plays Noël Coward |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | TV ADJECTIVES $1600: Ed O'Neill plays Julie Bowen's dad:
"____ Family" Modern |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | PRO SPORTS $800: This baseball team plays its home games in the Miami area's Sun Life stadium Marlins |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | I WANNA WATCH TV! $200: Miranda Cosgrove plays a teen webcaster on this show iCarly |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | RADIO DISNEY $200: "Party In The U.S.A." is by this singer who also plays a young lady named Hannah Miley Cyrus |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | LET'S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY $200: As you'd expect, their music plays 'round the clock in the lobby of the Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool The Beatles |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | THAT FILM'S A DISASTER $800: Keanu Reeves plays Klaatu, not Gort the robot The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | NEAT, SHE $1000: Jayma Mays plays a germophobic guidance counselor on this Fox series Glee |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | CHESS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows off his moves on the monitor.) In this classic chess opening, after white plays e4, to fight for the center, black plays c5 in this 8-letter defense named for a Mediterranean island the Sicilian defense |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | HELLO, NATHANIEL $1200: Jamie Foxx plays homeless musician Nathaniel Ayers in this 2009 film The Soloist |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | FILM"Z" $1600: 1983:
Woody Allen plays a human chameleon Zelig |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | McACTORS $1000: Ilya Kuryakin on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", he plays Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on "NCIS" David McCallum |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | LIFE WITH THE HOOD $600: 16th century plays by Anthony Munday call this woman Matilda Fitzwater Maid Marian |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THAT'S HANDY $400: U.S. code says that when this song plays, you put your hand over your heart the national anthem |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | TER"MA"NATORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with a novelty globe.) In the device that was invented by Tesla, the electrode in the center is releasing electrons through the gas-filled globe, producing ionized gas, which is known as this plasma |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS $800: Britannica says, "among his most-celebrated long plays is 'Anna Christie"' Eugene O'Neill |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DRAWN-OUT DRAMAS $2000: This work is made of 2 lengthy plays: "Millennium Approaches" won a Pulitzer & Tony; "Perestroika" only won a Tony Angels in America |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS $2000: The first use of this term in print was by Raymond Chandler; the second word plays on the word investigator a private eye |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | MR. BILL PLAYS THE BARD $400: "Hey, hey, I've got a new bill to sign!"
"But Senator Sluggo wants to make a cut."
"But why?"
"You'll get the point."
"Oh, ho! Et tu Sluggo!" Julius Caesar |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | MR. BILL PLAYS THE BARD $800: "Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and--"
"Oh, no!" Romeo |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | MR. BILL PLAYS THE BARD $1200: "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
"Here, have mine."
"Gee, but it's a little big."
"Giddyap."
"Ohh! oh!" Richard III |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | MR. BILL PLAYS THE BARD $1600: "Are you sure we can't settle this some other way?"
"Come on, Mr. Bill. Have at it now."
"Ooh! The rest is silence!" Hamlet |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | MR. BILL PLAYS THE BARD $2000: "That sure was a tough war."
"Let's sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings."
"But I don't know any."
"Then here's a new one."
"Oh, no!" Richard II |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | PLAY TIME $400: Plays about driving include Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" & this Alfred Uhry work Driving Miss Daisy |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | 20th CENTURY FOX HISTORY $800: In "History of the World, Part I" he plays a waiter at the Last Supper & asks if the diners want separate checks Mel Brooks |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | IT'S 2-LETTER TIME $600: In "Little Women" this tomboy wrote plays for her sisters to perform Jo |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | FLICK ARRR! $2000: In a 2004 film Steve the Pirate plays this title sport on Vince Vaughn's Average Joe's team Dodgeball |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | TURTLES $1600: Jerry Ferrara, seen here, plays Turtle on this HBO show Entourage |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: Bob Dylan often plays one of these, also called a mouth organ harmonica |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | FAMOUS AMOS $400: Samuel L. Jackson & Nicolas Cage team up in this 1993 comedy whose title plays off the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio series Amos & Andrew |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $200: This Oscar winner for "The Piano" plays a feisty Oklahoma City police detective on TNT's "Saving Grace" Holly Hunter |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ART HOUSE MOVIES $1600: Scarlett Johansson flashes some jewelry in this film in which she plays muse to Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #5819, aired 2009-12-24 | NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE $800: 2005:
"Who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle" Harold Pinter |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | GREAT DAMES $1200: This Helen was in 2004's "Raising Helen"; she plays queens pretty well, too (Helen) Mirren |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | GREAT DAMES $1600: This actress now portrays James Bond's M; she plays queens pretty well, too (Judi) Dench |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | FUNNY FOLKS $1600: In "Year One" this "Juno" co-star plays Oh (Michael) Cera |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | "TRICK" OR "TREAT" $1600: On this HBO show Gabriel Byrne plays a therapist with as many issues as his patients In Treatment |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $1600: Mel Gibson plays a veteran of the French & Indian War who wants no part in the war with Britain in this 2000 film The Patriot |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MICROSOFT $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew plays with a mouse on a computer at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.) One of the reasons Windows sold a million copies a month in the '90s was the GUI, short for this, which let users communicate with the computer via symbols & icons graphical user interface |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | PUBLISHING $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some folded sheets of paper.) In Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his plays were printed in quarto, folding a sheet twice to make four leaves; "Henry VI, Part 3" appeared in this format, folding three times to make eight leaves octavo |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $1200: She plays a romantically challenged TV producer in 2009's "The Ugly Truth" Katherine Heigl |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: Gore Vidal plays incumbent senator Brickley Paste, who's running against this title Tim Robbins guy Bob Roberts |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | MOVIE SYNOPSES $1000: 2003:
Buffalo, New York TV reporter Jim Carrey plays God Bruce Almighty |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: Perhaps you'd like to pick up his "Collected Plays: 1944-1961", which includes "The Crucible" & "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays a different kind of checkers.) I can knock the bottom checker out without knocking the stack over thanks to this property of matter that tends to keep things in place inertia |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Dwayne Johnson plays a cabbie protecting 2 kids in "Race to" this title place Witch Mountain |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | TALK LIKE "DIS" $400: A person who selects, plays & announces music at a club a disc jockey |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | TIM TIME $1600: He plays human lie detector Dr. Cal Lightman on the TV show "Lie to Me" Tim Roth |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | A SERIES OF FIELDS $600: This NFL squad plays its home games at Invesco Field at Mile High the Denver Broncos |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA $400: One of the 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won Pulitzers, in 1948 & 1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (or A Streetcar Named Desire) |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THINK OF ENGLAND $1200: Appropriately, the Royal Shakespeare Co. performs the man's plays in this town; Shottery is one mile west Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | FICTIONAL GAMES $600: Hawkeye plays double cranko, which involves poker & chess, on this TV show M*A*S*H |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $1200: I hear there's a heavenly body in "Icarus": it's the ballerina who plays this heavenly body the sun |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | WHAT'S ON TV? $400: Joshua Jackson plays the son of a mad scientist on this "X-Files"-esque Fox show Fringe |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | WHAT'S ON TV? $800: Hey, Simon Baker plays this title crime solver on CBS; sure, he was a fraud in the past, but he gets the job done The Mentalist |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $1600: A Japanese woman who plays classical Japanese music & performs traditional dances at private parties a geisha |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | ANGELS $1200: In the "Prophecy" series, Christopher Walken plays this familiar though vengeful angel Gabriel |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | I HEAR BANJOS $400: In 2009 this comic actor released a banjo album--"Ramblin' Guy" isn't one of the tracks Steve Martin |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | DUBLINERS $1200: Plays the therapist on "In Treatment" Gabriel Byrne |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | THE CELEBRITY BLING BIZ $400: Erica Kane would kill for the glamorous jewelry that this star who plays her sells on HSN Susan Lucci |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | POPCORN COLONELS $1000: Nick Nolte plays a colonel based on heroic Canadian Romeo Dallaire in this Africa-set 2004 film Hotel Rwanda |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | MOVIES ANY TIME $400: Jackie Chan plays Chon Wang, pronounced "John Wayne", in this film Shanghai Noon |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | A SALUTE TO SALLY FIELD $400: These days Sally plays Nora, matriarch of the Walker family on this ABC drama Brothers & Sisters |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | LEAN SCREEN $800: Early Lean films included adaptations of this man's plays "Brief Encounter" & "Blithe Spirit" Noel Coward |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Released in 1969, it's the musical tale of a "deaf, dumb & blind kid" who "sure plays a mean pinball" Tommy |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $1600: The Chester, Wakefield & York cycles are the major surviving collections of these popular religious dramas mystery plays |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | THEY SHOULD HAVE PLAYED VEGAS $600: Showgirls in green sleeves--& little else--will accompany this king as he plays his legendary hit "Greensleeves" Henry VIII |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1600: Some think Will Shakespeare was an illiterate rube & Edward de Vere, Earl of this, wrote the plays the Earl of Oxford |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Chikamatsu, who wrote more than 100 plays, is so revered he is known as this British bard "of Japan" Shakespeare |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This Brit called his comedy "Hay Fever" "One of the most difficult plays to perform that I have ever encountered" Noel Coward |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $1000: Jason Bateman plays P.R. exec Ray Embrey, whose life is saved by the title sardonic superhero in this 2008 film Hancock |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BELOVED FILMS $400: Brooms holding buckets march as an appropriate Paul Dukas piece plays in a segment of this classic film Fantasia |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | REAL TO REEL $800: In "Changeling" she plays a mom who takes on the LAPD after her son disappears & a different boy is returned to her Angelina Jolie |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | TV SERIES NARRATORS $1200: "Scrubs"
(He plays J.D.) Zach Braff |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: The Jeptones feature Murray Pariah on these; he plays the Roland VK-8 keyboard |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $1200: Emile Hirsch plays a college grad who journeys to Alaska (with dire consequences) in this 2007 film Into the Wild |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | SEND IN THE CLOWNS $800: In Cecil B. Demille's "The Greatest Show on Earth", he plays Buttons, a clown who was once a surgeon Jimmy Stewart |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | KIDS RULE PRIME TIME $600: On "Gossip Girl", Serena's life isn't serene; it's this, the last name of the actress who plays her lively |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | KIDS RULE PRIME TIME $800: Mark Indelicato plays the fashion-obsessed nephew of the title character on this show Ugly Betty |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | KIDS RULE PRIME TIME $1000: Andrea Bowen plays Teri Hatcher's levelheaded daughter on this show Desperate Housewives |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | AN HOUR OF TV $1200: This '80s teen actress plays a mom on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" Molly Ringwald |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with a skeleton.) The knee is the joint where the femur, the body's longest bone, meets this large shin bone the tibia |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE 2008 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FORTUNATE 50 $600: No. 7:
If this Yankee 3B plays out his contract, "he'll have earned $445 million in base salary alone" Alex Rodriguez |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | MILITARY MOVIES $800: 1970:
Rod Steiger plays Rod Steiger playing Napoleon in his most famous & last battle Waterloo |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | POPULATION-POURRI $3,500 (Daily Double): Of cities in titles of Shakespeare's plays, this Mediterranean capital has the highest population Athens |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Masi Oka plays a character with this first name on the TV show "Heroes" Hiro |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | WARREN BEATTY $800: Warren Beatty plays a disillusioned senator who falls for Halle Berry in this 1998 film Bulworth |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | HAND, SOLO $1200: Although an arrow needs 2 hands for proper propulsion, when a Brit plays "arrows", he's playing this game darts |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | TELEVISION $800: This perky actress plays Olive Snook, a waitress at the Pie Hole on "Pushing Daisies" Kristin Chenoweth |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | PARTS OF A SONG $800: Neil Geraldo plays a classic 30-second one on "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" a guitar solo |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GAMBLING $800: (Cheryl plays a new game.) The deck in this game, which originated with Asian immigrants, has a 53rd card: a joker, which can be used as a wild card pai gow |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | FACE THE MUSIC $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays notes on a guitar.) In music, it describes a tone raised a half step in pitch, like when I go from here to here a sharp |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: Coaches go gray from these plays that the players "hear" at the line of scrimmage rather than in the huddle audibles |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | SYMPHONY SPACE $1600: It's not just sports teams: the famed orchestra of Stokowski & Ormandy now plays in this city's Verizon Hall Philadelphia |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $1600: In a 1990 movie, Wayne Newton grapples with Andrew Dice Clay, who plays this title character Ford Fairlane |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $200: Ellen Pompeo plays one of the healers in training on this drama Grey's Anatomy |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | TELEVISION $1000: Jack Coleman, who plays the mysterious H.R.G. on this show, is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin Heroes |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $200: The New York Times wondered if the death of this actor, who plays the Joker, will make "The Dark Knight" darker Heath Ledger |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $400: Nytimes.com lauded Hamish Linklater, who plays Julia Louis-Dreyfus' brother Matthew on this sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | SITCOM CENTRAL $1000: She plays the amnesiac title character of "Samantha Who?" Christina Applegate |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | TEXAS $400: This major league baseball team plays its home games in Arlington, Texas the Rangers |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | ACTRESSES ON TV $1600: On "Brothers & Sisters", she plays right-wing TV pundit Kitty Walker Calista Flockhart |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof" Tennessee Williams |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Thornton Wilder, on more than one occasion, played the stage manager in this play of his Our Town |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: His autobiographical play "Chapter Two" dealt with the death of his first wife, Joan Neil Simon |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In this Wendy Wasserstein play, 3 Jewish sisters from Brooklyn meet up in London to celebrate a birthday The Sisters Rosensweig |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the Samuel Beckett play in which "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!" Waiting for Godot |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | THE MOVIES $400: (Drew Barrymore delivers the clue.) In my film "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays the "Jeopardy! Think Music" written by this creator of "Jeopardy!" Merv Griffin |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | BUNNY $800: Gap-toothed supermodel & onetime Playboy Bunny who now plays a publicist on "Nip/Tuck" Lauren Hutton |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE $3,000 (Daily Double): These 2 seasons are found in the titles of Shakespeare plays winter & summer |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | RUSSIAN AROUND $1200: In Russia, one of his most famous plays is known as "Dyadya Vanya" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THE TOP TEEN LIST $400: Miley Cyrus plays this TV teen Hannah Montana |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AT THE MOVIES $400: A mom in real life, she plays Grendel's mother in 2007's "Beowulf" Angelina Jolie |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | IT HAPPENS IN FEBRUARY $400: This pro sport plays its all-star Pro Bowl in February football (the NFL accepted) |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | UH-OH, OPERA $400: In the opera "Broken Strings", a soprano plays a fish & a tenor plays one of these proud fan-tailed birds a peacock |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS $400: Michelle plays Velma Von Tussle, mother of dance princess Amber, in this 2007 movie Hairspray |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS $2000: Michelle plays evil witch Lamia, bent on maintaining her unnatural youth, in this 2007 fantasy film Stardust |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SAN DIEGO? $200: San Diego stays classy with its Old Globe Theatre, built in 1935 to present abridged versions of his plays William Shakespeare |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | CRESCENT CITY ROLES $1600: In this movie, Bette Davis plays a southern belle who loses Henry Fonda when she wears a red dress to a ball Jezebel |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Novelist Edna Ferber collaborated with this playwright on 6 plays, including "Dinner at Eight" & "Stage Door" George S. Kaufman |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: A 1934 NYC taxi drivers' strike led him to write "Waiting for Lefty", the first of his plays to be produced Clifford Odets |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | THE BUCKET LIST $400: (Morgan Freeman continues.) A great view can be had from this peak the Tibetans call Chomolungma that plays a big part in "The Bucket List" story Mount Everest |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | WRITE ON, SOLDIER! $2000: This Grecian fought at Salamis & Marathon, & his 70 plays include the "Oresteia" & "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | CONDUCTORS $1600: On CDs with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman conducts & plays this the violin |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $1200: Shakespeare was part owner of Blackfriars Theatre in London & this other one where many of his plays premiered the Globe |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL $1600: "The Prime" of this female teacher in an Edinburgh school plays out in a 1961 Muriel Spark work Miss Jean Brodie |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "MARI" ME $200: Traditional Mexican dance band, or the music it plays mariachi |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | RECENT CINEMA $400: In "The Nanny Diaries" she plays Annie Braddock, a college student taking care of a rich family's kid Scarlett Johansson |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | HISTORICAL ROLES $1200: In "Time Bandits", Sean Connery plays this King of Mycenae who led the Greeks in the "Iliad" Agamemnon |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | HISTORICAL ROLES $1600: In this 1981 comedy "Part I", Mel Brooks plays Moses & Louis XVI History of the World |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: A character known as "Man in Chair" plays the LP of a 1928 musical & voila! it comes to life in this "sleepy" hit The Drowsy Chaperone |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | ANATOMY $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew plays with a skeleton.) The bones of the shoulder--the clavicle, the scapula & the humerus--form this type of joint, which is more susceptible to injury because it moves in multiple directions a ball and socket |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | PLAYS $200: You might need a learner's permit to watch Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize play "How I Learned to" do this Drive |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | PLAYS $400: "Moonlight and Magnolias" depicts the epic struggle to turn this novel into a 1939 film Gone With The Wind |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | PLAYS $600: The play "Spinning into Butter" explores political correctness at a small college in this "Green Mountain State" Vermont |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | PLAYS $800: Matthew Burnett turned this "Our Town" playwright's novel "Theophilus North" into a play that premiered in 2003 Thornton Wilder |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | PLAYS $1000: In 2006 New Yorkers awoke to find his 1935 play "Awake and Sing!" back on Broadway Clifford Odets |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $1000: For one game, minor league baseball's St. Paul Saints used these on top of the dugout to reenact big plays mimes |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | YOUNG ACTORS $1600: On a Nick show, Lil' JJ plays a 15-year-old known as "just" him Jordan |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | PBS $800: This inquisitive monkey's favorite food plays a part in the number game "Banana 411" on his PBS website Curious George |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | OPERAS TEENS LOVE $800: In a Menotti opera Madame Flora is a fake one of these psychics; Patricia Arquette plays a title one on TV a medium |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | NHL, NBA, NFL OR ALL 3 $1600: Plays its championship at a theoretically neutral site the NFL |
| #5281, aired 2007-07-23 | NOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $600: In 2001, an anonymous buyer paid more than $6 million for a 1623 "first folio" of this English author's plays (William) Shakespeare |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $2,600 (Daily Double): The body of songs a chanteuse is prepared to sing or of plays a company is prepared to put on a repertoire |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | A WORLD OF PLAYWRIGHTS $800: The troubled life of this Irish-born playwright has inspired several plays including The Judas Kiss and Gross Indecency (Oscar) Wilde |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | A WORLD OF PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This playwright grew up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, & he often sets his plays there Athol Fugard |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: This play that won the 1956 prize is set in the upper part of a building in Amsterdam The Diary Of Anne Frank |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $800: "We never had a losing season, boys; there's not many that can say that", says the coach in this Jason Miller play That Championship Season |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1200: In 2000 Donald Margulies won for serving us this meal "with friends" dinner |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1600: This partner of Lynn Fontanne got to star in "Idiot's Delight" after suggesting the idea for it to Robert Sherwood Alfred Lunt |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $2000: (Here's a friend of our show--Edward Albee.) In this play that won me my third Pulitzer Prize, all 3 of the title females are based on my adoptive mother Three Tall Women |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $400: This future pres.'s 1948 Senate race is the subject of the musical "The Winner", which premiered in Texas in 2007 Lyndon Johnson |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $800: Kevin Spacey starred in a 2006 British revival of this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2007 revival of this classic courtroom drama cast Christopher Plummer in the role inspired by Clarence Darrow Inherit the Wind |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1600: (Hi, I'm Sam Waterston.) I received my 1st Emmy nomination for the television version of this play; I played Tom & Katharine Hepburn played my mother, Amanda Wingfield The Glass Menagerie |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: Famed for playing Frasier's father, this actor came back to Broadway in 2007 in "Prelude to a Kiss" (John) Mahoney |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | ANCIENT GREEK WRITERS $1200: He wrote more than 120 plays, but only 7 complete ones survive, including "Oedipus Rex" & "Oedipus at Colonus" Sophocles |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $200: "BATCH ME" Macbeth |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $400: "HELL TOO" Othello |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $600: "REGAL KIN" King Lear |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): "CASUAL JURIES" Julius Caesar |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEARE PLAYS $1000: "IT RUNS A DISCOUNT" Titus Andronicus |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with beakers.) In a force-&-movement experiment, the reason the water doesn't fall out of the cup is because this force pushing up against the card is greater than the weight of the water air pressure |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BASIC SCIENCE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with his own beaker.) The cold of the ice causes the air in the balloon to do this, from the Latin for "to draw in" contract |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | REMEMBER THAT SONG? $800: His "In The Air Tonight" plays while Tom Cruise & Rebecca de Mornay ride the train in "Risky Business"--O Lord Phil Collins |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | A DREW BARRYMORE FILM FESTIVAL $400: (Drew delivers the clue.) In my new movie "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays my love interest; in "50 First Dates" & "The Wedding Singer", I was paired up with this funny actor Adam Sandler |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COLLEGE MOVIES $200: Matt Damon plays a janitor at M.I.T. who's really a math genius in this film Good Will Hunting |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | COLLEGE STADIUMS & ARENAS $200: Tulane's football team plays its home games off campus at this facility that has a 9.7-acre roof the Superdome |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with cool lab equipment.) Infrasonics detects & interprets sounds we can't hear, like those produced by this kind of event; infrasonics would have helped the Pompeiians an eruption |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $1600: In the 1580s this Spanish novelist reportedly wrote 20 to 30 plays, but only "The Traffic of Algiers" & "Numantia" survive Cervantes |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | TV ROLES $200: On "Two and a Half Men" he plays bachelor & ladies' man Charlie Harper Charlie Sheen |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ELLEN $400: On Thursday nights, she plays doctor; the title doctor of "Grey's Anatomy" Ellen Pompeo |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | "Q"ING UP $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays a game of chess.) By advancing to the eighth rank, my pawn has taken this self-promoting step queening |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | SAX & THE CITY $600: This animated kid is voiced by Yeardley Smith, but when she plays sax, you're hearing Terry Harrington Lisa Simpson |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | FOREIGN CINEMA $1600: Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop Breathless |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | KISS ME! $400: Perrault's version of this fairy tale where a kiss plays an important role was titled "La belle au bois dormant" Sleeping Beauty |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | MUSICAL LIT $400: In an 1870 work, this captain plays solemnly on his organ as his sub heads toward the maelstrom (Captain) Nemo |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | OMAHA'S HENRY DOORLY ZOO $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with a jaguar cub.) Whether black or not, jaguars are among the felines sometimes called by this general term, very similar to a genus name panther |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | FAMOUS YOUNG WOMEN $800: Save Hayden Panettiere, who plays an indestructible cheerleader on this NBC drama, save the world Heroes |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Laertes is Ophelia's brother in this end-all, be-all of Shakespeare's plays Hamlet |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | MOVIES $400: Ed Speleers plays the title farm boy-turned-dragon rider in this 2006 fantasy film Eragon |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | ENGLISHMEN $1600: "Mad dogs & Englishmen go out in the midday sun" is from a song by this man who also wrote plays like "Blithe Spirit" (Noel) Coward |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | FILM SCHOOL $1600: Harold Pinter wrote this movie in which Meryl Streep is both a 19th c. woman & the actress who plays her The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | FOOTBALL $200: Scrimmage plays start with the snap from the player in this position center |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | SPORTS VENUES $1000: This professional hockey team plays its home games at Joe Louis Arena the Detroit Red Wings |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | YOU GOT STYLE, HOMES $800: This style home seen by anyone who plays Monopoly was named by a Yale president travelling through the area a Cape Cod house |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $400: The end of this play finds Bialystock & Bloom in Sing Sing rehearsing for "Prisoners Of Love" The Producers |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $800: A Spanish prison is the setting for the play within this musical with the songs "Dulcinea" & "The Impossible Dream" Man Of La Mancha |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $1200: After a bad performance of the play within a play in this 1896 Chekhov work, Trepilov kills a bird The Seagull |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | FROM THE LATIN $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports while an Omaha zookeeper plays with her monkey.) This little fellow weighs about 10 pounds but could grow up to weigh over 250 pounds, making orangutans the largest animals described as this, from the Latin for "tree" arboreals |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $1600: Actors at Peter Quince's house go over "Pyramus & Thisbe" for Hippolyta & Theseus' wedding in this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $2000: Rupert Holmes adapted this unfinshed Dickens work into a 1985 play-within-a-play musical The Mystery Of Edwin Drood |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | ANIMALS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with a kitten.)
It's the two-word term for these animals that reflects their natural cold habitat in the mountains of Asia snow leopard |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | AROUND THE DRUM KIT $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays taps a drum.) These wires, stretched across the drum to vibrate against it, give the drum its name a snare |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | AROUND THE DRUM KIT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew plays with cymbals.) The snowshoe, a cymbal set on the floor, moved up a bit & became the low boy, which moved up some more & became this a high hat |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | IT'S "TEA" TIME $1000: One of the 2 plays with "tea" in their title that earned Tony Awards for their actors in 1954 (1 of) Teahouse of the August Moon & Tea and Sympathy |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | DRUNK ON SHAKESPEARE $400: A trip to AA might be in order for this gluttonous guy from the "Henry IV" plays & "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | JANE EYRE'S WEDDING REGISTRY $400: Jane needs sheet music for this instrument that Edward once told her she plays "not well" the pianoforte |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $400: This city's Abbey Theatre was famous for debuting the plays of Synge, O'Casey & Yeats Dublin |
| #5072, aired 2006-10-03 | THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $800: In this sport, Harry plays the position of seeker Quidditch |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Paul Bettany plays this author in the medieval-set "A Knight's Tale" Chaucer |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER $400: Benvolio,
Balthasar,
Mercutio Romeo & Juliet |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER $800: Hecate,
Caithness,
Donalbain Macbeth |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER $1200: Valtemand,
Osric,
Horatio Hamlet |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER $1600: Olivia,
Viola,
Sir Toby Belch Twelfth Night |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER $2000: Don Pedro,
Don John,
Dogberry Much Ado About Nothing |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | WHO WANTS TO BE A MOLIERE? $400: Moliere didn't play favorites; he wrote satirical plays called "The School for Husbands" & "The School for" these wives |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | FRUIT $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with her food, a peach.) For the hardness of the endocarp, which holds the single seed, drupes, like the peach, are also called this type of fruit stone fruit |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE HARDER THEY "FAL" $1000: This character appears in 3 different plays by Shakespeare & is referred to in a fourth Falstaff |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | ADAM SANDLER $600: In the new movie "Click", this "Deer Hunter" actor plays Morty; he also was The Continental on "SNL" many times Christopher Walken |
| #5024, aired 2006-06-15 | POP CULTURE $800: Patty Duke plays a pill-popping movie star in this trashy 1967 film based on a Jacqueline Susann novel The Valley of the Dolls |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | DRAMATISTS $1600: William Shakespeare acted in one of this "To Celia" poet's first plays, "Every Man in His Humour" (Ben) Jonson |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | GAMES $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew plays croquet.) In U.S. croquet, a ball that goes through all the wickets has this travelling name, especially if it's the red one a rover |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | HOLD ME CLOSER, TONY DANZA $2000: Tony gets heavenly help in this 1994 film in which he plays struggling A.L. pitcher Mel Clark Angels in the Outfield |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | THE MALE IS IN THE CZECH $400: One-act plays by this politician include 1975's "Audience" & 1978's "Protest" Havel |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The Federico Garcia Lorca play "Bodas de Sangre" is usually known in English as this "Wedding" Blood Wedding |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: He set his play "The Lady from the Sea" in a small town on a fjord Ibsen |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Sophocles' last play was entitled "Oedipus at" this village--coincidentally, Sophocles' birhplace Colonus |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: (Edward Albee delivers the clue.) The precarious equilibrium of a couple named Agnes & Tobias is central to this play I wrote in 1966 A Delicate Balance |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: Jason Miller ended his play "Barrymore's Ghost" with these 4 words, the last that Hamlet speaks in "Hamlet" The rest is silence |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MYTHOLOGY & ART $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays art professor, a slide of a famous work appearing behind her.) In Fragonard's "The Meeting", she steps out of Roman mythology to look down on the young lovers Venus |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | PSEUDO MOVIE RATINGS $600: On the HBO show bearing this character's name, Sacha Baron Cohen also plays the roles of Borat & Bruno Ali G |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | CALENDAR LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday Born on the Fourth of July |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | 1957 $200: September 24:
This team plays its last home game at Ebbets Field the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | THE NICKNAME GAME $400: U2's Dave Evans sings & plays guitar & keyboards under this "cutting" nickname "The Edge" |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | SHRIMPING $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with her food on a shrimp boat in Savannah, GA.) Shrimp typically swim backwards by flexing the tail & these aptly-named appendages on the abdomen swimmerets |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | FORBES 2005 TOP FICTIONAL RICH FOLKS $1200: This movie tippler played by Dudley Moore races cars & plays tennis, but he has weekends off & he's his own boss Arthur |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | YANKEE STADIUM $800: "Enter Sandman" plays at Yankee Stadium every time this closer, 1999's World Series MVP, takes the mound Mariano Rivera |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | ALL THAT JAZZ $1200: The album title "Satch Plays Fats" refers to these 2 musicians, one a trumpeter, the other a pianist Louis Armstrong & Fats Waller |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $800: In ancient Greek plays, this group of performers often served as a narrator & commented on the action the chorus |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TV TEENS $200: Kristin Kreuk plays her, Clark Kent's star-crossed love on "Smallville" Lana Lang |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | TV TEENS $600: This actor plays the sensitive but stubborn Ephram on "Everwood" Gregory Smith |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | I NEED AN M.D.! $1200: (I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber.) My "circle of friends" now includes this actress, who plays a diva named Carlotta in the film "The Phantom of the Opera" Minnie Driver |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | THE KENNEDY CENTER $600: The Kennedy Center presented a series of one-act plays as "Five by Tenn", a reference to this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | SOVIET MAN $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia while a memorable melody plays.) This composer of film & ballet scores was overshadowed when he died the same day as Stalin, March 5, 1953 Prokofiev |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES $400: This 2005 Nobel Laureate's 1st wife, Vivien Merchant, appeared in many of his plays, including "The Homecoming" Pinter |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | FOOTBALL $400: (I'm Kurt Warner of the NFL.) From 1995 to 1997 I played for the Iowa Barnstormers in this league that plays its games indoors the Arena Football League |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BEATLE WANNABES? $800: Imagine Thomas Lennon's success with this Comedy Central show he co-created in which he plays Lt. Dangle Reno 911! |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | BASS LINES $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays short on the bassline.) In 1973, this became Pink Floyd's first Top 40 hit "Money" |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | CHESS PAINS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays chess with Cheryl.) By moving my rook, I've given my opponent the nasty shock of discovered this check |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | BASKETBALL $400: (Hi. I'm Bill Walton.) In 1974 this team that now plays its home games in the Rose Garden made me the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft the Portland Trail Blazers |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | "M"USIC $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up an instrument having a keyboard.) The harmonica company, Hohner, trademarked the name for this instrument that plays single notes or chords the melodica |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | THE AUDIOVISUAL HOUR $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with his food.) A traditional sound effect is crushing cornflakes to get the sound of footsteps on these in autumn leaves |
| #4843, aired 2005-10-05 | A BOBBLEHEAD CATEGORY $200: The bobbleheaded character seen here plays a pivotal role in this horrific film series Hellraiser |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | THE THEATAH $400: The plays of Franz Grillparzer, called this country's greatest dramatist, include "Family Strife In Hapsburg" Austria |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | TV CHARACTERS $1000: Laura Innes plays this "ER" doc who's physically challenged & always challenging the other docs Dr. Kerry Weaver |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This former Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Cosmo Kramer George Michael Richards |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | TAM O'SHATNER $800: Shatner plays Boston attorney Denny Crane on this spinoff of "The Practice" Boston Legal |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SWEET CAROLINA $1200: When the NHL is up & running, this pro hockey team plays its home games in Raleigh the Carolina Hurricanes |
| #4802, aired 2005-06-21 | WORLD LITERATURE $1600: Jacobean who wrote the ghoulish & violent plays "The White Devil" & "The Duchess of Malfi" John Webster |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $800: Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a nurse with a curse in this 2004 film based on a Japanese one The Grudge |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' $800: Alison Bartlett, who plays Gina, a kindly vet on this PBS show, got overexposed with Steve Buscemi on "The Sopranos" Sesame Street |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | THIS SONG'S ALL WET! $1000: "I Go Swimming" appeared on the album this British singer "Plays Live" Peter Gabriel |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | THE SMART SET $1,000 (Daily Double): This ex-sailor published 3 early sea plays in the magazine, including "The Long Voyage Home" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | "O" BOY! $1600: His best known plays include "Waiting for Lefty" & "The Country Girl" (Clifford) Odets |
| #4768, aired 2005-05-04 | THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA $1600: "The Royal Family" & "You Can't Take It WIth You" are in a volume of plays credited to this man
"& Co." George S. Kaufman |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | MOVIE PORTRAYALS $800: In a 2005 film it's tough love for a high school basketball team when Samuel L. Jackson plays this coach Coach Carter |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: Life was a cabaret for this novelist who collaborated on 3 plays & a China travel book with W.H. Auden (Christopher) Isherwood |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | "LOVE" ON TELEVISION $200: Madylin Sweeten plays the daughter & her brothers play the twin sons on this sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays a card game with Sarah.) We've gone through the flop & turn cards of this geographic game; now it's time for the river card Texas hold 'em |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | LET'S ROCK! $400: In this movie Jack Black plays Dewey Finn, who tries to turn a prep class into a band School of Rock |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1600: This 1954 Terence Rattigan drama consists of 2 one-act plays: "Table by the Window" & "Table Number Seven" Separate Tables |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | SHE'S LOST CONTROL $2000: In this 2003 thriller, Halle Berry plays a psychologist who wakes up as a patient in a mental institution Gothika |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | A CATEGORY FROM SCRATCH $400: A scratch player in golf is one who plays without this a handicap |
