| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | DESERT FLORA & FAUNA $2000: This desert bush is named for its smell, similar to the tar once used to preserve the wood of telephone poles creosote |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high totem poles |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $400: It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime" a meridian |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $2000: A calotte is a skullcap & also means the circles used for the north & south poles on these globes |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | POLISH HISTORY $200: In June 1979 his second trip abroad in his new job was to his homeland & encouraged many Poles to defy the Communist regime Pope John Paul II |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGNETS! $400: Magnetic poles tend to wander, & for hundreds of years, Greenwich positioned magnetic this west of true this north |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGNETS! $800: It's your lucky day as you name this magnet; it's strong magnetic field between the poles is due to the close proximity a horseshoe |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | YOU CAN SET YOUR CALENDAR BY IT $800: Every 11 years or so the Sun goes through a solar cycle where these flip, affecting sunspot activity magnetic fields (magnetic poles) |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: What we call the "magnetic" this attracts the north magnetic poles of compass needles, so it's actually a south magnetic pole the magnetic north pole |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $400: The Haida of British Columbia are noted for these elaborate items totem poles |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | CHARTED $1000: His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances Mercator |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | "ANTI" UP $2000: Term for two points on Earth such as the poles or such as Spain & New Zealand antipodes |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE SHAPE OF YOU $1000: The Earth is generally considered to be this 6-letter type of spheroid, as it is flattened at the poles oblate |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | SCIENCE AROUND US $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Particles in a solar wind hit the Earth's magnetic shield and head for the Poles then interact with gases in our atmosphere to form this six-letter phenomenon aurora |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $800: In the 1860s the poles used in creating this communications link fell down when Buffalo used them as scratching posts the telegraph |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | GEOGRAPHICA $1600: You'll find each of these 2 geographic entities at 90 degrees latitude the North and South Pole |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | THE SUPERB OWL $400: Telephone poles are one housing option for elf owls in the U.S. Southwest; saguaro these are another cacti |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | SCIENCE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew picks up filings with a bar magnet.) On a bar magnet, the magnetic field is strongest at the two ends, which are called these, just like the opposite ends of the Earth poles |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | PLANET EARTH $1200: This field around Earth weakens before the 2 poles reverse, every 300,000 years or so the magnetic field |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | IN A STORM $1200: Quemado, N.M., known for electrical storms, is home to the art piece of 400 steel poles called this weather event field a lightning field |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE SUN $1200: Launched in 1990, the first spacecraft to fly over the Sun's poles had this Homeric (& Joycean) name Ulysses |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | EVERY YEAR $2000: On its 50,000-mile annual migration, the Arctic variety of this bird travels between the North & South Poles a tern |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE $1200: In 1683 it was the Poles to the rescue when Vienna was under attack from this other empire led by Mehmed IV the Ottomans |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | TRICKY ANIMALS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video and an animation on the monitor.) When confronted with prey, the electric eel can double the charge of its shock when it's positive this at the head & negative one at the tail come into proximity the poles |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE WORD IS FLAT $1000: "O" yes, this 6-letter word means flattened at the poles oblate |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | ROUTE '60-SOMETHING $2,000 (Daily Double): "The two poles of classical civilization" describes the 1960 Olympic torch relay from here to here Athens and Rome |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | TV SHOW OPENINGS $1200: A boy & his dad carry fishing poles as they leisurely walk along The Andy Griffith Show |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | GEOLOGY $1000: There are various North Poles; some scientists believe this one may move from Canada to Siberia within the next 50 years the magnetic North Pole |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | SCIENCE TERMS $2,000 (Daily Double): This imaginary line used to indicate 0 degrees longitude terminates at the North & South Poles the Prime Meridian |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | ANTHROPOLOGY $400: These, carved by natives in the Pacific Northwest, often included a genealogy but you need good eyes to see the top totem poles |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | SCIENCE MYSTERIES $1600: Earth's molten outer core has something to do with these "poles" reversing; that's about all we know the magnetic poles |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | ANTHROPOLOGY $400: Indians of the Pacific Northwest carved family & clan emblems & histories on these that were made of cedar totem poles |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | 18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $1200: This Swedish inventor of a temperature scale helped confirm that the Earth is a spheroid flat at the poles Celsius |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | HIGH MAINTENANCE $2000: Some like to work atop utility poles fixing these objects that reduce voltage so your home can use electricity transformers |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1600: What the Germans called Danzig, the Poles call this Gdansk |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | LIVING IN TENTS $400: 3 or 4 poles acted as the keystone of the conical framework of this much-used tent of the Plains Indians a teepee |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SCANDINAVIAN WORDS WE ALL USE $400: This word for a downhill zigzag ski race marked by poles or gates is from the Norwegian a slalom |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | SIT ON IT $1600: Vehicular name for an enclosed portable chair borne on poles & carried by 2 people a sedan chair |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | PHENOMENA $400: The dangerous thinning of this atmospheric layer is most pronounced over the poles the ozone layer |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | THE PLANETS $200: It's 11 times wider than Earth at the equator, but shorter than that through the poles Jupiter |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $1000: The Earth is this type of spheroid, meaning flattened at the poles oblate |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | PHYSICS $400: In a magnet flux lines converge at these points the poles |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE ATMOSPHERE $600: Rossby waves are formed when air from these 2 chilly spots heads for the equator the poles |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | SPACE MISSIONS $200: In 2008 the Phoenix Mars lander found ice on this region of the planet the poles |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | THE 20th CENTURY $400: When he reached the North Pole in May 1989, Robert Swan became the first to reach both poles in this manner on foot |
| #5805, aired 2009-12-04 | POLKA YOUR EYES OUT $2000: The Germans & the Poles claim the polka, but more than likely it was created in Bohemia in this present country the Czech Republic |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | ST. PAUL-Y GIRL $400: Former St. Paul teacher Ann Bancroft is the first woman to reach both these extremes by land the North and South Poles |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | "IND" THE KNOW $1000: Also a term in logic, it's the process by which a magnetic field is ordered into poles induction |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | HISTORIC AMERICA $400: A fine collection of Haida & Tlingit totem poles was toted to Sitka National Historic Park in this state Alaska |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | THE SCIENCE LAB $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a magnet to a lamp bulb.) When lit, the filament becomes a magnet; using another magnet, we can see it move, showing this type of electricity that reverses directions & continuously switches the filament's magnetic poles alternating current |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | FAMOUS NAMES $1600: This aptly named admiral claimed to be the first to fly over both the North & South Poles Richard Byrd |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | MAGNETO $800: Around 1904 this Norwegian explorer confirmed that the Earth's magnetic poles are not fixed Amundsen |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | WORLD MUSEUMS $800: Totem poles & Noh masks are at the Pitt Rivers Museum, given on condition that Oxford hire a lecturer on this -ology anthropology |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): Most acupuncture points relate to pathways along the body called these, like the ones connecting poles on a globe meridians |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | CITY OF THE DAY: RALEIGH $800: Raleigh boasts a statue of these 2 actors--with fishing poles--as they appeared on a beloved N.C.-set TV series Ron Howard & Andy Griffith |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES $2000: Also a Yul Brynner film, this Janacek piece came from a Gogol tale of a Cossack who revolts against the Poles Taras Bulba |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | CURRENT SENATOR RHYME TIME $1200: Elizabeth's fishing rods Dole's poles |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | "A" IN SCIENCE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Duke University in Durham, NC.) Vaulters can use hollow poles to save weight because this center line of a bent pole is neutral, taking little or no stress the axis |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew traces lines on a globe.) Two of these meet around the poles to form what's called a great circle around the Earth the meridians |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | CHEMISTRY $400: A dipole is a molecule in which this is opposite at the 2 poles charge |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | GEOMETRY $800: Because the Earth is flattened at the poles, it's this figure, having all its plane sections circle or ellipses a spheroid |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | SKI $400: In this type of skiing that includes moguls, shorter poles are used for maneuverability freestyle skiing |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | ISLAND HOPPING $800: Named for the wife of George III, this country's Queen Charlotte Islands are famed for spectacular totem poles Canada |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | TREES $1200: This 5-letter tree of the pine family mentioned often in a famous Monty Python sketch is used to make telephone poles the larch |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | THE CIA $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a keyboarded box in a museum exhibit in CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA.) This code machine, whose name is from the Greek for "to speak in riddles", was cracked by the Poles in 1939 the ENIGMA Machine |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish a gaff |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | THEY SOUND LIKE BEFORE & AFTERS $800: What hockey's the Great One uses to steady himself on the slopes Wayne Gretzky poles |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $400: 122 degrees must have melted the stripes off the barber poles in this Spanish city August 4, 1881 Seville |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $1200: In 2002 the Odyssey space probe determined ice lies just below the surface of this planet's poles Mars |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | THE TOTEM POLE VAULT $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Sitka Cultural Center.) The paints used to color totem poles are made by mixing natural pigment with the eggs of this fish, like the sockeye salmon |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | THE TOTEM POLE VAULT $800: "Crest" totem poles give the ancestry of a particular one of these subdivisions of a clan a family |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | THE TOTEM POLE VAULT $1600: Totem poles are traditionally carved in the red type of this wood, also used in chests, because of its durability cedar |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $5,000 (Daily Double): This field is measured in nanoteslas -- it's about 60,000 nanoteslas at the poles & 30,000 at the equator Earth's magnetic field |
| #4286, aired 2003-03-31 | UNUSUAL TRANSPORTATION $400: Traditionally 2 long poles with footrests, they're now available with straps & springs stilts |
| #4267, aired 2003-03-04 | LUMBERJACK TALK $800: They're poles on which logs are rolled; if you've "hit" them, you're in bad shape skids |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | EARTH DAY $400: Once every 24 hours the Earth spins around this imaginary line that connects the 2 poles axis |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | SPORTING GOODS $400: Young kids don't need them; for older skiers their grips should be at a level with arms bent & out-stretched poles |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | THE FLAGPOLE $400: Originally a flagpole was just a straight one of these cut, trimmed & treated a tree trunk |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | THE FLAGPOLE $1200: As they are so "attractive", you should do this to metal poles that are outside & over 25 feet tall ground them |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | THE FLAGPOLE $2000: In degrees, it's the usual inclination for wall-mounted outrigger poles, though some are set at 30 or 60 45 |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | "C" IN SCIENCE $2000: This Frenchman showed that the inverse square law applied to the forces between magnetic poles (Charles Augustin de) Coulomb |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $1600: The great circles drawn through the poles of the Earth are known as lines of these longitude |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | BEAR FOOT IN THE PARK $200: Because of the bears, Backcountry campsites in U.S. parks have poles or cables for you to hang this from your food |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | COWBOY TALK $100: This enclosure for horses or cattle was usually made of posts or poles; temporary ones were of rope corral |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | NORTHWESTERN INDIANS $200: These 50-foot-tall cedarwood creations have been called "The Hallmark of Northwest Coastal Art" Totem poles |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | MOTHER POLAND $500: Danzig is the German name for this port city of nearly 500,000 Poles Gdansk |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | PHYSICS $200: Like the Earth, a bar magnet has 2 of these where the magnetic field seems strongest Poles |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | IT'S A WEIRD WORLD $300: In Earth's history, this field has flipped over many times switching its north & south poles magnetic field |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | CURRENT AFFAIRS $200: On March 5, 1998 scientists announced that there was ice at both poles of this heavenly body Moon |
| #3194, aired 1998-06-18 | LET'S GO TO FLORIDA $500: The Wallendas' poles, rigging & costumes are on view at the Circus Museum in this Florida city Sarasota |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | THE TOTEM POLE $200: Totem poles were once raised as a part of the potlatch feast of tribes living on the coast of this ocean the Pacific |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | THE TOTEM POLE $400: Totem poles are traditionally carved in the fragrant wood of this tree also popular for chests cedar |
| #3047, aired 1997-11-25 | GENERAL SCIENCE $200: They're the 2 poles of a permanent bar magnet North & south |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | 1957 $1000: The first explorer to fly over both poles, he passed away in March Admiral Richard Byrd |
| #3002, aired 1997-09-23 | PLANTS & TREES $500 (Daily Double): The name of this climbing plant often found on poles is Greek for "lover of trees" philodendron |
| #2950, aired 1997-05-30 | OLD WEST DOGS $500: Developed by Plains Indians, this device consisted of a frame on 2 poles dragged by a dog Travois |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | BIRDS $200: In areas with few trees, the redheaded species of this bird is known to damage telephone & telegraph poles Woodpecker |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | EXPLORERS $1000: In 1904 this Norwegian discovered that the magnetic poles were not fixed positions Roald Amundsen |
| #2935, aired 1997-05-09 | TRANSPORTATION $400: It's a chair carried on poles by porters, or a car with 4 doors a sedan |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | BIRDS $300: These birds are so named because their long legs look like the poles circus performers walk on stilts |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THE EARTH $400: This force is stronger at the poles since they're closer to the center of the Earth than the equator gravity |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | POLES $200: Since his October 1978 election, he is infallible if he speaks ex cathedra Pope John Paul II |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | POLES $400 (Daily Double): She was born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw on November 7, 1867 Marie Curie |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | POLES $400: In December 1981 he was under arrest by the government; in 1990 he was elected president Lech Walesa |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | POLES $600: This astronomer addressed the Fifth Lateran Council's commission on calendar reform Copernicus |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | POLES $800: Born in Bialystok in 1906, he came to the U.S., where he created an oral polio vaccine Albert Sabin |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: Typically, this dwelling was made with 10 or more bison skins & 20 or more cedar poles Tepee |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | THE PLANETS $400: This planet has 2 "hot poles" that can reach 800° F. Mercury |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | BODIES OF WATER $600: The Poles call this river the Wisla the Vistula |
| #2476, aired 1995-05-15 | ANTHROPOLOGY $400: The carvings on these tall objects may show a Tlingit family history totem poles |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | TOWERS $300: According to Guinness, the Poles redubbed their world's tallest tower this after it fell in 1991 the world's longest tower |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | MUSEUMS $600: The rebuilding of the Castle Museum in this capital was financed by Poles from all over the world Warsaw |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | TRANSPORTATION $400: This device used by the Indians consisted of 2 poles, a net & a harness for hitching it to an animal travois |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | THE EARTH $400: Though round for the most part, the Earth is slightly flattened at these 2 extremes the poles |
| #2265, aired 1994-06-10 | COMMON BONDS $100: May,
North,
greased poles |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | THE EARTH $200: Term for the imaginary line connecting the North & South poles; the Earth spins around it the axis |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | POTPOURRI $300: Over 90% of Poles are followers of this church the Catholic church |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | PHYSICS $600: The 2 regions of a magnetic field where the forces appear strongest are called these, north & south poles |
| #2185, aired 1994-02-18 | DANCE $800: In the Tinikling dance of the Philippines, dancers hop between moving poles made of this plant bamboo |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | MUSEUMS $200: Tlingit totem poles are on exhibit at the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka in this state Alaska |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | AVIATION FIRSTS $400: Within a 4-year period, Richard E. Byrd became the 1st person to fly over these 2 extremes the North & South Poles |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | WORLD FACTS $100: The earliest Ancient Egyptian boats were propelled by these; paddles & oars came later poles |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | SPORTS $200: Skiers hold this equipment during many events, but not ski jumping poles |
| #1850, aired 1992-09-25 | BIRDS $100: This "red-headed" bird of the East & Midwest U.S. damages telephone poles in areas that lack trees a woodpecker |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | EARTH SCIENCE $400: A compass needle aligns itself with these 2 points on the Earth's surface the Magnetic North & South Poles |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | TRACK & FIELD $200: Dutch Warmerdam, the 1st man to vault over 15', in 1940, used poles made of this natural substance bamboo |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: The clan or family symbols Indians of the Northwest carve on poles totems |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | TV SHOW OPENINGS $100: A sheriff & his son carry their fishing poles to a lake The Andy Griffith Show |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | POLAND $200: Over 90% of Poles are followers of this religion, first adopted by Poland in 966 Roman Catholicism |
| #1286, aired 1990-03-19 | THE PLANETS $300: A thick cloud cover is one reason temperatures at its equator & poles are about the same Venus |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | SCIENCE $200: The 2 places on Earth that are at 90o latitude the North & South Poles |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | ALASKA $300: The Maritime Indians had no writing & used these posts to keep certain records totem poles |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $600: Ancestral symbols used by many cultures, they're carved into poles by American Indians totem poles (totems) |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | "POLE"s $300: 2 scientists having completely opposite views about magnets may be described as this at opposite poles (poles apart) |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | GEOLOGY $800: The velocity of the Earth's rotation at the equator is about 1,050 mph, while at the poles, it's nearly this zero |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | SCIENCE $400: With magnets, like poles do this to each other repel |
| #748, aired 1987-12-02 | HISTORICAL WOOD $400: Telephone poles with lines linking NYC to SF went up in 1915, during his administration Woodrow Wilson |
| #693, aired 1987-09-16 | SPORTS TRIVIA $200: Sport in which you might do a "gelandesprung", a jump made from a crouch using both poles skiing |
| #573, aired 1987-02-18 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Tribes which carve totem poles live in this part of the U.S. Pacific Northwest |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | THE EQUATOR $800: All points on the magnetic Equator are equidistant from these the magnetic poles |
| #391, aired 1986-03-10 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Usually made of skins & 2 poles, this crude vehicle was a real drag for Plains Indians a travois |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | POLAND $500: After 1572, the Poles used this method to select a king election |
| #137, aired 1985-03-19 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: What 2 opposite magnetic poles might feel for one another attraction |
| #126, aired 1985-03-04 | SCIENCE $400: In magnetism, like poles do this repel |
| #117, aired 1985-02-19 | FIRST AID $200: In an emergency, use 2 poles & a blanket to make one a stretcher |
| #103, aired 1985-01-30 | ADMIRALS $600: Appropriately named admiral who was 1st to fly over both poles Admiral Byrd |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: They symbolize family trees of N.W. Indians totem poles |
