| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | THE RITE STUFF $800: Sounding like a film festival that dates back to 1978, this rite of Plains Indians was a ritual to gain power from the supernatural sun dance |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $800: Alfred Thayer Mahan changed military thinking with his 1890 work on this type of power that he said had made Britain dominant sea power (the Navy) |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $1200: 13 letters:
An adjective meaning outside of the power of a court of law extrajudicial |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? $1600: A statuary store on Route 46 in New Jersey unwittingly bestowed its name on this power pop group Fountains of Wayne |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THINKING ABOUT THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE $1000: The 1648 peace of this region said "peace out" to a lot of the power of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III Westphalia |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | TRANSPORTATION $600: Rad Power & Aventon are popular brands of these e-bikes (electric bikes) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ADVERTISING SLOGANS $600: Power up with this brand that today says it's "still going!" Energizer |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | THE 1970s $400: Making it the world's 6th nuclear power, in 1974 this nation set off its first atomic test, dubbed "Operation Smiling Buddha" India |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $200: Dewalt's 20v Max XR lithium-ion cordless compact 1/2-inch is a lot of words but bottom line, it's a power type of this a drill |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 2019 FIFA named her Women's Player of the Year; in 2020 she proposed to girlfriend Sue Bird Megan Rapinoe |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $800: Working on one of these space station power providers, astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a tool bag & it floated away a solar panel |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1200: In 1954 a big new guy in town strolls around a world capital, rebuilding entire structures & repairing broken power stations Godzilla |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AGRICULTURE $1200: In 1915 International Harvester introduced its first one of these with an onboard engine to power the thresher the combine |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: Gogol is the author of works like "Dead Souls"; googol is 10 raised to this power 100 |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power Peter the Great |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power Marshall |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | BREAK-UPS $200: This power couple wed March 9, 1796; being the emperor of France has its perks: he nullified the marriage in 1809 Napoleon & Josephine |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS $800: A treaty signed at the 1815 congress of this city established a balance of power in Europe following the Napoleonic Wars Vienna |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | SPORTS TAKES $800: The NHL has a penalty for taking this to try to get your team a power play; the rules also call it "embellishment" a dive (flopping on purpose) |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | COLORS $600: In the 1780s the Dutch Patriot movement briefly forced the house of this color from power & declared carrots treasonous orange |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $600: Céline Dion,
Huey Lewis & the News
(don't need no credit card to ride this train) "The Power Of Love" |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $600: J.D. Power: "Even budget buyers have their standards, so as 2021 dawns", this "Grand" Dodge "is finally going to the last roundup" the Grand Caravan |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH $800: "How to get rid of fairy tale creatures in swamp", "can you cook waffles if you have hooves?", "donkey-dragon power couples" Shrek |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Name given U.S. Public Law 88-408, passed in 1964 giving LBJ the power to prevent further aggression the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): During an epidemic of this disease in 1796, Edward Jenner discovered the power of vaccines & used it to save lives smallpox |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $2000: In power in the 1720s & 1730s, this Etonian is considered England's first prime minister Walpole |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $1000: This "Fly By Night" power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in '74 (cue the drum solo) Rush |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | AEROSMITH $600: This Aerosmith power ballad says, "Sing with me, sing for the year, sing for the laughter, sing for the tear" "Dream On" |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $400: By dropping 2 letters in Osiris' name, you get this Greek goddess who shares her name with a flower Iris |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $800: I can't recall the last time that I saw one of these hyphenated perennials, from the Old French "ne m'oubliez mie" a forget-me-not |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $1200: This computing term for a series of peripherals connected to a computer sounds like a flower bracelet a daisy chain |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $2000: Type of "Wine" mentioned in the title of a 1957 Ray Bradbury novel dandelion |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $2,800 (Daily Double): Austria's national flower is this one that Rodgers & Hammerstein described as "small & white, clean & bright" edelweiss |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $600: At parents.com power outlet covers are listed among the "essentials" for this activity babyproofing |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $2000: After taking power in South Africa, this party apologized for the faulty timing of some bombs as it battled apartheid the ANC (African National Congress) |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): James Church chose this name for his product because the symbols of the god Vulcan represented power Arm & Hammer |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $200: Egyptian myth resembles "Rumpelstiltskin" when Isis learns the secret name of this sun god to equal his power Ra |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $1000: Hey, fulcrum lovers! At Columbus, Ohio's Center of Science & Industry, kids can lift a 2,437-lb. car using this bar a lever |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $400: Go through Marbury v. Madison to see how this Chief Justice established the power of judicial review (John) Marshall |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | HMMM, I WONDER $1000: Meaning "far movement", it's the strange power of moving things without touching them telekinesis |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $400: This man who seized power in his country in 1959 may have seen red when his sister Juanita sold her Miami pharmacy to CVS in 2006 Fidel Castro |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $2000: In this event that brought Mussolini to power, King Victor Emmanuel III refused to bring in the army to stop him his March on Rome |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $600: In "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" she rocked a chainmail dress & she sang the film's power ballad "We Don't Need Another Hero" Tina Turner |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $600: It doesn't have actual "power" to make you a lawyer, but this document does give you legal authority to act on another's behalf power of attorney |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $1000: After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship" the Bolsheviks (Reds) |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $2,200 (Daily Double): Though the majority of this country's population is Hutu, the Tutsi minority has historically held power there Burundi |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $2000: This French thinker's multi-volume "History of Sexuality" discusses power dynamics in society Michel Foucault |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $200: A mystery: "Langdon said... 'Well, folks, as you all know, I'm here tonight to talk about the power of symbols"' The Da Vinci Code |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $800: 1950s self-help, opening strong: "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!" (in all caps) "Have faith in your abilities!" The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $400: An uprising of industrial workers, the Poznan riots of 1956 brought Wladyslaw Gomulka back to power in this country Poland |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | LIKE AVERSION $800: It follows "the loyal" as the out-of-power political party the opposition |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | NAMES OF THE 1990s $2000: Bill Romanowski went from the 49ers to the Eagles & Broncos; this Ill. politician went from power in the U.S. House to prison Dan Rostenkowski |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | NEVADA $400: This construction on the Colorado River in the 1930s greatly aided the region's growth by providing cheap electrical power the Hoover Dam |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GIMME 5 $400: In basketball, the 5 basic positions are power forward, small forward, shooting guard, point guard & this one center |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sir Francis Bacon wrote, "ipsa scientia potestas est", often translated to this phrase knowledge is power |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | S-LESS, CHAPS $600: A human being, sans "S", takes power in Argentina as the name of husband & wife presidents person & Peron |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES $600: A physicist:
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything" Einstein |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES $800: An Asian Communist Party leader:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" Mao |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | YOU JUST MADE THAT STUFF UP $800: Kyber crystals, which are attuned to the Force, glow either blue or green & power these weapons lightsabers |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $400: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) As a judge for the Battle of the Bands, this singer had a cameo in "Back to the Future"; we noodled over the chorus to his hit "Power of Love" Huey Lewis |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $600: On June 16, 1966 activist Stokely Carmichael rallied a crowd with "we want" these 2 words Black power |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $400: Prince Adam of Eternia transforms into He-Man by raising his power sword & proclaiming, "By the power of" this castle Grayskull |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $200: A national monument in Singapore, the villa named for this man was his base while he planned to end China's last dynasty Sun Yat-sen |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $400: Alberto Fernández, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner & Néstor Kirchner are recent occupants of Quinta de Olivos in this city Buenos Aires |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $600: Being Andrew Carnegie's right hand helped him build a mansion with a staggering art collection at 5th Ave. & 70th St. Frick |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $800: This name of a Dutch governor in Brazil is remembered in his huis in the Hague where you can see some pretty great paintings Maurits |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $1000: It's where Elizabeth II liked to go at holiday time; in the movie "Spencer", Kristen Stewart has a very unmerry Christmas there Sandringham |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | HISTORY $2000: After ceding João Franco immense power, in 1908 King Carlos I was assassinated in this capital along with son Luís Filipe Lisbon |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $1200: A 2023 book is titled this 2-word aimless activity: "The Radical Power of Killing Time" Hanging Out |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $2000: Anthrax earlier seen to be afflicting cows is later weaponized against Benedict Cumberbatch in this 2021 Western The Power of the Dog |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GROWING UP X $400: Boasting 64 kb worth of pure computing power, this company's 64 personal computer went for $595 in '80s money Commodore |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $2000: Congress has this alliterative ability, allowing it to levy taxes & spend government monies the power of the purse |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER $200: Using this type of power, the engines of all 10 U.S. Nimitz-class carriers can go decades without refueling nuclear |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | , SAID THIS LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "I do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darcy" Elizabeth Bennet |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $1,200 (Daily Double): He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | HISTORY $800: After losing power, this dictator fled in the Alfa Romeo seen here; at least he bought local Mussolini |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REPTILES $800: Southeast Asia's tokay variety of this lizard has padded toes with impressive sticking power a gecko |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $1600: In 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco became PM, taking power in Spain from this man, but was assassinated 6 months later Franco |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES $800: A man awakens from a coma with the power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen King work The Dead Zone |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | POP CULTURE $2000: In this 2019 X-Men movie, Sophie Turner dealt with absolute power corrupting absolutely Dark Phoenix |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | THE WORLD OF MIDDLE-EARTH $400: This creepy guy calls the ring of power his "precious" Sméagol (Gollum) |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $2000: Political scientist Joseph Nye's term for international influence without wielding force soft power |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AUTOCRATS $1200: After his troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1989, this country's Nicolae Ceausescu was chased from power & executed Romania |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | ISLANDS OF THE FAR NORTH $1600: The High Arctic is home to October Revolution Island & this island, named for the party that seized power during that time Bolshevik (Island) |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | TV SHOW LINGO $1600: This substance powers spaceships on "Star Trek" dilithium (crystals) |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LET'S VISIT NICARAGUA $400: Current president Daniel Ortega was part of this revolutionary movement that took power in the 1970s the Sandinistas |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $200: 1,875 watts of electricity power the Revlon Frizz Fighter, one of these a hair dryer |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ART SUPPLIES $400: Looking to throw clay with an evenly rounded shape? You may want to invest in one of these, like the Brent Model B Power one a potter's wheel |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | SCIENCE CRITTERS $200: It's the animal in the name of the unit equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute a horse |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | TV SHOW TITLES IN SPANISH $800: "Belleza y poder", or "Beauty & Power", was what became of this fashion-set daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | EPONYMS $800: This Scottish inventor, who found uses for steam, gave his name to a unit of power James Watt |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN $1000: In 1994 trading on this first electronic stock exchange ceased for 34 minutes after a squirrel chewed through a power line NASDAQ |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $400: This 1985 Top 10 hit by The Power Station shares its name with a 1959 Marilyn Monroe film "Some Like It Hot" |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | NOTABLE NAMES $1200: In power from 1985-1991, this last leader of the Soviet Union passed away in 2022 at age 91 Gorbachev |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $600: In the 1830s Jeanne Villepreux-Power invented this glass receptacle to help her study the paper nautilus the aquarium |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | DANTE'S CIRCLES OF HELL, DEFINED $400: Second:
An intense desire; some do it "for power" lust |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THOMAS EDISON $200: Edison was good friends with this industrialist, who hoped to use Edison's nickel-iron batteries to power his cars Ford |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $200: Around 546 B.C. Pisistratus took power as tyrant of this city & ruled there for 2 decades Athens |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | DICTATORS & TYRANTS $600: He prepared his sons Uday & Qusay to succeed him in power, but they predeceased him in 2003 Saddam Hussein |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $400: Last names of Duncan & Alonzo, who paired up in 1910 with plans to make the world's first portable power tool Black+Decker |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $400: Since this country's royal house hasn't changed in nearly 2,700 years, we never bothered to learn its name--Yamato Japan |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $1200: Protected by camels, the first emperor of this dynasty that overthrew the Mongols is buried in Nanjing, near where the dynasty began the Ming |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $1600: William was a popular boys' name in this Dutch house, like of William III, king from 1849 to 1890 the House of Orange |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $2000: Karl of this house that ruled much of Central Europe for hundreds of years served in the European parliament in the 1990s Hapsburg |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE HOUSE OF POWER $3,000 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's Richard III mentions "the clouds that lour'd upon our house"--this ruling house with a white rose symbol York |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $600: The stock markets love this word that can mean, among other things, spend time on & give power to to invest |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE 18th CENTURY $200: She came to power in Russia in a 1762 coup against her husband, who was soon dead with the official cause as hemorrhoids Catherine the Great |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MEMOIRS $1000: "The Constitution does not confer upon Congress the power to interfere with slavery in the states" Buchanan |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | THE MOVIE'S TITLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES $200: Who ya gonna call in China? "Super Power Dare Die Team" the Ghostbusters |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $800: Anderson v. Dunn gave Congress the power to punish nonmembers for this offense; Steve Bannon faced it in 2022 contempt of Congress |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | MORE THAN ONE SILENT LETTER $1600: Often attributed to Francis Bacon is the saying this "is power" knowledge |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: In 1712, the capital of Russia was moved from Moscow to this port city; in 1918 after the Bolsheviks took power, it was moved back St. Petersburg |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $600: About Robert Moses & by Robert Caro, this 1,300-page tome is a must-have for bookshelf backgrounds during Zoom interviews The Power Broker |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $200: Term for an electric generator at a power plant or a hardworking doer at the office a dynamo |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | ELECTION DAY $600: In parliamentary democracies, a party in power can call for these "sudden" elections on a day in advance of the scheduled one a snap election |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | I BID $1200: In 2018 Vineyard Wind, based in this state, successfully bid $135 million for a lease on a wind power area off the coast Massachusetts |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | OCTOBERFEST $800: In October 1936 power from this massive project began turning on lights & radios in the Western United States the Hoover Dam |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $1000: A power-generating authority set up in 1933 serves the people of this valley in its name Tennessee Valley |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $1000: Going big on many levels, this title guy hung out with "The Masters of the Universe" & holding a sword, bellowed, "I have the power!" He-Man |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CEREAL MASCOTS $200: This mascot once had a spin-off cereal called Tiger Power Tony the Tiger |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | THE REST, AS THEY SAY... $600: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man can help you with the line "With great power comes" this great responsibility |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $300: These turn blue & become munchable for arcade hero Pac-Man after he eats a power pellet; scary! a ghost |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | FILM NOIR $2000: This 1947 noir starring Tyrone Power as a carnival con man was remade in 2021 by Guillermo del Toro Nightmare Alley |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | INFRASTRUCTURE $1200: You could call it Lunar Energy--Canada's Annapolis Power Station turns its turbines with these, controlled by the Moon tides |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1600: Grandson of Genghis' grandson Kublai Khan, Temür ruled China during this dynasty's power Mongol (Yuan) |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | GOING ON A POWER TRIP $200: This type of energy is sustainable but not yet renewable; it could be if we start getting the uranium from seawater nuclear |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | GOING ON A POWER TRIP $400: Let's dig up the fact that in 2021, this fossil fuel provided about 22% of U.S. electricity generation coal |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | GOING ON A POWER TRIP $600: Power source of the Stanley brothers' 1910 automobiles, per the name steam |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | GOING ON A POWER TRIP $800: The Energy Dept. says of this source, its "turbines don't produce atmospheric emissions that cause acid rain... or greenhouse gases" wind |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | GOING ON A POWER TRIP $1000: This dam with the most generation capacity of any U.S. power plant is about a 2-hour drive from Spokane Grand Coulee Dam |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT? $600: Better now that I've got these window coverings that sound like they simulate a power outage to stop all light from coming in blackout curtains |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | FRENCH PHRASES $1600: Full discretionary power or freedom, like being handed a blank paper carte blanche |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | BIOGRAPHIES $0: "The Passage of Power" covers 1958 to 1964 in Robert Caro's 4th volume on the life of this American Lyndon Johnson |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | SUCH GREAT CHEMISTRY $2000: The electrons in the outer shell of an atom are called this type of electron, from the Latin for "power" a valence |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: GME:
Power to the players GameStop |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Familiar with the procedure? Then you know this power tool that makes holes a drill |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $400: At the end of the 7th c., Paolo Lucio Anafesto became, by tradition, Venice's 1st doge, Venetian Italian for this European noble title a duke |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $800: Doge from 1192 to 1205, Enrico Dandolo was big on the 4th this Christian expedition, which doomed the Byzantine Empire Crusade |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $1200: After becoming doge in 1478, Giovanni Mocenigo achieved a brief peace with this Turkish empire, then put his feet up & relaxed the Ottoman Empire |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $1600: Trying to find his own corner of the sky, Agnello Parteciaco defied Venice's control by this man, Charlemagne's son Pepin |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $2000: A Verdi opera subject, Francesco Foscari warred with the leader of this city, not Prospero but Filippo Maria Visconti Milan |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $600: In the 1980s Chuck D began fighting the power in this hip-hop group with Flavor Flav, a man who always knew what time it was Public Enemy |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TRANSPLANTS $400: As the Nazis rose to power, this scientist decided in Dec. 1932 to leave Germany; he never returned after moving to Princeton Einstein |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PRESENTING JEOPCOIN! $800: We're clean crypto!--power for this, the computing by computers of new Jeopcoins, is from recycled glitter & doll hands mining |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FICTIONAL PLACES $400: In the world of this author, District 1 provided luxury items; District 5, power & electricity (Suzanne) Collins |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FRENCH KINGS NAMED LOUIS $400: Louis XVIII was king from 1814 to 1824, except for the interruption of the "Hundred Days" when this man attempted a return to power Napoleon |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | FRENCH KINGS NAMED LOUIS $1000: To build France into a leading European power, Louis XIII worked for 2 decades with this chief minister & clergyman Cardinal Richelieu |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | PREFIXED PAIRS $1000: Selling goods or services by phone & the power to move objects using only your mind telemarketing & telekinesis |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | LET'S GO TO THE AUTO SHOP $400: This numeric term refers to a system that can provide simultaneous power to a car's front & back tires four-wheel drive |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE 18th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): The 2 dynasties vying for power in the War of the Spanish Succession were the Habsburgs & this French one the Bourbons |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $800: 3-time winner Alex Ovechkin, a power player in a city full of 'em the Washington Capitals |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | DRAFTING THE CONSTITUTION $1000: At one point the House of Representatives got sole power of this, with no trial in the Senate impeachment |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $400: It ain't Christmas Eve without a certain 8 of these animals providing their power reindeer |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "Power, Privilege and the Post" Katharine Graham |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | "EM"POWER $400: Dubai & Abu Dhabi are this type of political territory emirate |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | "EM"POWER $800: This word is used to address the dignitary seen here eminence |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | "EM"POWER $1200: Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution says office holders cannot accept "any present," this, "office, or title" emolument |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $1200: Forged by the dwarfs Brokk & Eitri, this hammer is Thor's chief weapon & symbol of his power Mjölnir |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | "EM"POWER $1600: French gives us this word for the mouthpiece of a wind instrument embouchure |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | "EM"POWER $2000: It's the English name for the desert region known in Arabic as Rub' al-Khali the Empty Quarter |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WESTERNS $1000: 2021's "The Power of the Dog" stars Benedict Cumberbatch & was directed by this Oscar-winning woman from New Zealand Jane Campion |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $800: In 1960s San Francisco, flower power blossomed in the neighborhood named for these 2 streets Haight-Ashbury |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1992's "Aladdin", this villain weaves a spell so he can wed Jasmine & seize power Jafar |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $200: Giving dap began among soldiers in this war when the Black power salute was banned; some say the greeting stands for dignity & pride the Vietnam War |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE 1880s $2000: Its eruption on August 27, 1883 has been estimated to have released 10,000 times the power of an atomic bomb Krakatoa |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $2000: This fertile word is the "B" in FBR, a reactor that produces more nuclear fuel than it consumes while generating power breeder |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | "V"ERBS $400: As a noun, it's a piece of clothing; as a verb, it means to give power or control vest |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE HALL OF FAMER'S POSITION $600: "Power" players Karl Malone & Charles Barkley forwards |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 1600s $800: As chief minister from 1624 to 1642, this "Red Eminence" helped strengthen royal power in France (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | A DAY AT THE SORBONNE $800: If you need a power cable for your ordinateur portable, this 6-letter type of tech, let Madame Ivie know a laptop |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | RECENT NEWS $600: In 2021 this Canadian P.M. called a snap election; he held onto power but fell short of his goal of a majority government Trudeau |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | ANGLES $200: Due to its narrow beam, the Anglepoise lamp was popular during these, which in WWII Britain were deliberate, not power-company goofs blackouts |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $600: (Josh Clark reads the clue.) High-tech trains like one in Shanghai eliminate most friction & get up to impressive speeds by using high-power these to levitate over the rails magnets |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | UKRAINE DROPS $1600: Viktor Yushchenko, seen before & after dioxin poisoning, came to presidential power during this colorful revolution in 2005 the Orange Revolution |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $400: In "Unbound", activist Tarana Burke tells of the birth of this movement & the power of saying those 2 small words Me Too |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $1600: To help us be more productive, Charles Duhigg explores why we do what we do in "The Power of" this The Power of Habit |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SCI. ABBR. $5,000 (Daily Double): They are in power across the pond & elsewhere:
BTU British thermal units |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | FICTIONAL PLANETS $800: Etheria is the planet where this title cartoon "Princess of Power" fights the evil horde She-Ra |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS $1200: Whosoever holds the hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of this, discovered by a Swede in 1828 thorium |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | SOME RANDOM ELEMENTS $1600: This has the atomic number 94; the Cassini craft set off to Saturn with power provided by 73 pounds of this-238 plutonium |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | THE ENERGY BIZ $1200: In 2020 the U.S. added more energy capacity from this type of power than any other, with plans for more offshore wind |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC, PLEASE $800: Here's a traffic update from this icon: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" Bruce Springsteen |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | V"URB"s $800: To super-power an engine with a compressor turbocharge |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: In 1620 the 2nd Tokugawa shogun cemented his power by marrying his daughter off to the guy with this important title emperor |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | WINGS, BUT NO FLY $2000: In 1789 the French were divided over how much power to give this king, & the 2 sides came to be known as the left & right wings Louis XVI |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | "K" 9 $2,000 (Daily Double): One who uses political influence to put another in power a kingmaker |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FROM THE U.S. CITIZENSHIP TEST $600: This 3-word separation of power keeps each branch of government from gaining too much over the others checks and balances |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THAT'S QUITE A COUP $2000: In 1965 this one-named general put down a coup in Indonesia & then seized power for himself Suharto |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1200: Both used in the nuclear power industry, these first 2 transuranium elements are named for heavenly bodies neptunium & plutonium |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | PROF TALK $800: This word for a group of associated professors can also mean a natural power or ability faculty |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NEWS $400: On Feb. 1, 2021 the Myanmar military took power & a 1-year "state of" this was declared--& not surprisingly, soon extended emergency |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $200: Consolidated this inventor, your history in New York goes back almost 200 years, to before he was even born Edison |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $400: Pacific Gas & Electric, we hear you're going to do this with 10,000 miles of power lines to keep them from sparking wildfires bury them |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $800: Vistra, sorry to pick on you, but you had problems as this state where you're based froze in the dark in February 2021 Texas |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $1000: Knoxville Utilities Board, you get your power from this agency set up under the New Deal in 1933 the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | WORLD LEADERS LEAVE THE SCENE $1000: In February 2011, this world leader refused to step down from power; he was dead by October Gaddafi |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER COMPANIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Florida Power & Light, given your state's nickname it makes sense that you have 42 major plants for this type of energy solar |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | COMPUTER HISTORY $1600: In 1965 this American engineer first enunciated his famed "Law", predicting computing power would double every year (Gordon) Moore |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | BIOGRAPHIES $1000: "His Truth Is Marching On" tells about this late, great Georgia congressman & "the Power of Hope" John Lewis |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | THIS ONE GOES TO 2011 $1000: His decades of rule ended in Egypt, & though bedridden, he went on trial for crimes including abuse of power Mubarak |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TECHNOLOGY $800: Jetronic increased power & mileage in 1967 as the first workable electronic system for this auto process, sending the gas to the engine fuel injection |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | ARITHMETALK $400: In the expression 25, 2 is the base & 5 is this, the power to which 2 is raised the exponent |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | IF AT "FIRST" $6,600 (Daily Double): Primus inter pares is Latin for this, the member of a power-sharing group with a little more juice than the rest first among equals |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ABDICATION NATION $400: In the 11th century Shirakawa abdicated his title as emperor of this country, but somehow held onto his power Japan |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ARTISTS $400: They're the twice-married Mexican power couple seen here Kahlo & Rivera |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | A VISIT TO THE ISS $400: (Dr. Kate Rubins presents the clue.) Look up in the sky at dawn or dusk & you might be able to spot the ISS flying overhead; it's visible thanks to nearly an acre of the arrays that provide this type of power solar |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $200: This turtle, also the symbol of the University of Maryland, is at home both in water & on land a terrapin |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $400: The species seen here is named for its red these, although turtles don't have those organs like you & I do ears |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $600: To stop turtles from being bycatch, L.E.D. lights visible to turtles but not to fish have been put on these nets |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $800: These skin features of reptiles can be used to tell sea turtles apart; the green turtle has 2 prefrontal ones between its eyes scales |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $1000: The carapace of this sea turtle is softer than others, allowing it to dive deeper than 4,000 feet leatherback |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | IT'S LIGHT OUT $400: The electric industry uses the standard abbreviation POCBS, power outage caused by these rodents squirrels |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | COLORFUL VOCABULARY $1600: Preceding "eminence", it means someone who exercises power behind the scenes gray |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: This term for a leader without power comes from a part of a ship a figurehead |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | 5 NIGHTS $2000: Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad Gabriel |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | MUSICAL GENRES $200: Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" & Motörhead's "No Remorse" made Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of this genre (heavy) metal |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | THE 18th CENTURY $400: China kicked the Mongols out of Tibet to put the 7th of these in power; now, the relationship is more contentious with the 14th the Dalai Lama |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | NONFICTION $2000: He tackles Obama's legacy in "We Were Eight Years in Power" Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | THE CONSTITUTION $2,800 (Daily Double): The president has no pardon power in cases of this congressional proceeding impeachment |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1000: In the 600s B.C. Cypselus of Corinth seized power with this title related to a dino name, but was so popular he had no bodyguard tyrant |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | TIME TRAVELIN' MOVIES $200: "The only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning", claimed this '85 pic Back to the Future |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | RANKS & TITLES $2000: With great power, Peter Parker held the Royal navy title admiral of this from 1799 to 1811 fleet |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: Do you question this? One's power to make decisions & tell people what to do? authority |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | FEMALE AUTHORS & SOME MALE ONES, TOO $400: In this novel George Orwell wrote, "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it" 1984 |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HEAD FOR THE LIGHT $1000: This unit of light intensity is abbreviated FC footcandle |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | GUITARS & DRUMS $600: Music theory says that these combine at least 3 different notes, but the "power" type common in heavy guitar music uses just 2 chords |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | CONSTITUTIONAL CHECKUP $1200: The president has the power "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make" these agreements treaties |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | CONSTITUTIONAL CHECKUP $2000: Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress power to grant these "letters" that allow privately owned ships to be used as warships letters of marque |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | "OUT" AT FIRST $200: A loss of electrical power an outage |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | 1971: 50 YEARS AGO $2000: This general seized power in Uganda Idi Amin |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | ICONS OF TECHNOLOGY $200: The icon of this button has a one & a zero to show its binary nature a power switch |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | SPACED OUT $3,000 (Daily Double): Term for the first stage of a rocket; it refers to the extra power needed during liftoff a booster |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LEADERS $400: In 1963 he studied at Baghdad Law College; he then spent a few years in prison but was in power soon after Hussein |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: As reaffirmed by a 2011 referendum, Italy is the only G7 country that produces no electricity through this method nuclear power |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | TECHNOLOGY $200: (Reshma Saujani presents the clue.) Computer scientist Annie Easley wrote code that helped in the development of the first batteries used in this class of car that employs dual power systems hybrids |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: Founded around 1610, it once served as the seat of power for the Spanish empire north of the Rio Grande Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | SHAPELY SPEECH $400: An expansion of the West Wing in 1909 gave William Howard Taft this presidential room of power the Oval Office |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | '80s HITS $800: Rolling Stone's "20 Biggest ('80s) Songs of the Summer" had "The Power Of Love" by this group Huey Lewis and the News |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $1000: (William H. Macy presents the clue.) Rome's citizens must have rethought the whole one-man rule thing when this third emperor gleefully abused his power by making senators run beside his chariot & dissolving valuable pearls in his drinks Caligula |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $1000: In the 1070s this monarch who'd been in power only a short while ordered the building of the Tower of London William the Conqueror |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | "BING" POT $1000: Raising a number to the third power cubing |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | HER FIRST NO. 1 HIT $800: "The Power Of Love" (1994) Céline Dion |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | STREAMING SERVICE $400: The organization Save the Mekong opposes the building of dams to generate this type of power hydroelectric |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | ENERGY $400: The biggest hydroelectric power producer in the U.S. is Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam on this river the Columbia |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SPORTS IDIOMS $400: Done in certain races, passing this item to another means bestowing your power on someone else the baton |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | THE PRINCESS BRIDE $200: After this German princess wed Nicholas II in 1894, she pushed the czar to regain absolute power lost to reforms; baaaad move Alexandra |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | ALL THAT JAZZ LINGO $600: This plural word for skill in using an instrument comes from the power exhibited by a trumpeter, not a cut of pork chops |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | FEEL THE POWER! $400: In 2015 the Mylar type of these were the cause of about a third of the power outages in Los Angeles balloons |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | FEEL THE POWER! $800: A blackout is a complete loss of power; this is a partial reduction in power brownout |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | FEEL THE POWER! $1200: One of the best electrical insulators is simply this complete absence of materials a vacuum |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | FEEL THE POWER! $1600: California's Ivanpah plant focuses solar rays to heat tanks of water, spinning turbines with this 19th century type of power steam |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | FEEL THE POWER! $2000: The metal cage named for this 19th century English physicist can shield a device from outside electrical fields a Faraday cage |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | 2 $800: A fire at a London power station blacked out the much-anticipated 1964 launch of this TV channel BBC Two |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | HISTORY $2000: Her accession as ruler of Austria in 1740 touched off a war, but she stayed in power for 40 years Maria Theresa |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: Tobey Maguire: "With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift. My curse. Who am I? I'm..." Spider-Man |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | THE SULTANS $2000: In 1923 this man, real name Mustafa Kemal, came into power after Turkey's sultanate was abolished Atatürk |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $1200: A coup on 18 Brumaire established the consulate & brought this general to power Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | HISTORY OF HUNGARY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Budapest, Hungary in Memento Park.) The Republic of Councils monument --now mocked as "Sir, You Forgot Your Scarf!"--was meant to immortalize Hungary's first government by this party, which merged with the Social Democrats in 1919, just before taking power the Communists |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | GREATEST HITS FROM THE SUPREMES $400: In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall wrote, "The power to" do this 3-letter verb "involves the power to destroy" tax |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | I HAVE MY DOUBTS $1000: Some folks unsure of a higher power are this word from the Greek for "not known" agnostic |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $800: Shh! It's the 5-letter title of Susan Cain's book about "The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" Quiet |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | PHYSICS $6,600 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "heat" & "power", it's the branch of physics dealing with the flow of heat & energy thermodynamics |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | FACTS & FIGURES $1000: This European country gets about 3/4 of its electricity from nuclear power, the most of any country France |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | NONFICTION $200: "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro is a biography of Robert Moses, an official who guided the growth of this city for 4 decades New York |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES $400: Digging up redstone can help power all sorts of projects in this video game that also features creepers Minecraft |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | COLORFUL TERMINOLOGY $600: Not a full but a partial loss of electrical power a brownout |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $800: It's the bottom edge of a geometric figure, or a number that is raised to a power the base |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | TO THE POWER OF 10 $400: Do this by riding a surfboard with all your toes curled over the board's front edge hang ten |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | TO THE POWER OF 10 $800: This solid figure has 10 faces & a 10-letter name a decahedron |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | TO THE POWER OF 10 $1200: The Council of Ten helped run this Italian island republic from 1310 until it was overthrown by the French in 1797 Venice |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | TO THE POWER OF 10 $1600: The ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is fittingly titled, as that street is part of this "infernal" NYC neighborhood Hell's Kitchen |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | TO THE POWER OF 10 $2000: Fasting on the tenth of Tevet, the tenth month of the Jewish calendar, is done in memory of the siege of this city by Nebuchadnezzar Jerusalem |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | E-COLLEGE-Y $400: In 2019 this Cardinal school won the Pac-12 division of the EPA's University Challenge with 160 million kWh of green power Stanford |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FOUR $200: The 4 "strokes" of a four-stroke engine are intake, compression, power & this one to expel waste gas exhaust |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | "POWER" $200: My new Ferrari 488 GTB gets 660 of this unit used for measuring the strength of a car's engine horsepower |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | "POWER" $400: In ice hockey, when one team has a numerical advantage because of a penalty a power play |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | "POWER" $600: The company known as this man "& Associates" is a leader in consumer satisfaction research J.D. Power |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | "POWER" $800: This legal document gives one party the authority to act on behalf of the other power of attorney |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | "POWER" $1000: "Expect the Best and Get It" is a chapter in this bestseller by Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | & THEN WHAT HAPPENED? $2000: Mounted French knights massed in force at this 1415 battle site... & then learned the deadly power of English longbows Agincourt |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | LITERARY AWARDS $2000: The 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction went to Naomi Alderman for this sci-fi novel where women get shocking abilities The Power |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONGRESS $400: Congress has the power to grant this acquisition of citizenship for those not born in the United States naturalization |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | WATERFALLS $1600: Churchill Falls in this mainland area paired with Newfoundland generates about 1% of the world's hydroelectric power Labrador |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | MICRONESIA $1200: Micronesia was colonized by this European power in the 1880s, but after losing a war it sold the islands to Germany in 1899 Spain |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | ELECTRICITY $800: It's any device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy, not just when the power is out a generator |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | POLITICAL MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES $200: "The Power of In-Your-Face Politics" is part of the subtitle of "Let Me Finish" by this recent New Jersey governor Chris Christie |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | MAGIC IN LITERATURE $1200: To access power, mages in the "Malazan" series use & travel in these, just like the burrows where rabbits live warrens |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR $1600: Under the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus, this Nordic nation established itself as a major military power in the war Sweden |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | THAT'S POLITICS $1200: This avian term for an office holder of limited power dates back to the 18th century a lame duck |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | NIAGARA FALLS $400: The diversion of water above the falls for this type of power slows the rate of erosion hydroelectric |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $1600: Some say this 2-word power of personal choice is an illusion; C.S. Lewis said it "makes evil possible" but also goodness free will |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | HISTORY $1200: In 1976 a military junta seized power in Argentina not from Eva Peron but from this widow Isabel Perón |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FROM THE GREEK $800: An absolute ruler; in ancient Greece it was one who seized power illegally a tyrant |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PHARAOHS $600: Pharaohs were known to wear headdresses with a uraeus, a symbol of power in the form of this snake an asp |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | BATTLE & HUM $1200: Not big fans of Elvis or John Wayne, this rap group urged its audience to "Fight The Power" in 1989 Public Enemy |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $200: Give partially decayed plant matter called peat a few million years & it'll form this ignitable rock coal |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $400: 10 years ago, it cost about $50,000 to install a system to power your house using this energy; now, a 6-kw system could go for $14K solar |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $600: The Arizona-Nevada power plant at this 1,244'-long hydroelectric structure has a 2,080-megawatt capacity the Hoover Dam |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $800: At 97, John Goodenough is the oldest Nobel Prize winner, for work on these batteries with a hyphenated name in laptops & phones lithium-ion |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $1000: By 1880 the refining of around 90% of all U.S.-produced oil was controlled by this mega-company Standard Oil |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | CRUSHIN' IT! $1000: In movies & on TV, crushers of these are often seen at junkyards; OverBuilt LLC makes one with 10' jaws & 159 tons of crushing power cars |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | NAVAL HISTORY $400: Launched in 1959, the USS Long Beach was the world's first surface warship powered by this nuclear power |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | TIGER TALK $600: "Eye Of The Tiger" was a hit song for this band & the phrase has come to symbolize power & confidence Survivor |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | DICTATOR TOTS $1200: Currently in power, this "Great Comrade" was reportedly dubbed "Morning Star King" by his mom Kim Jong-un |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | FIREBOATS OF BOSTON $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Boston, MA.) At full power, using all five of its deck guns, the Marine One fireboat can throw 12,000 GPM, 450 feet at a fire, "GPM" standing for this gallons per minute |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1,000 (Daily Double): A 1945 telegram from Churchill to Truman mentioned Soviet power & "the descent of" this "between us and everything to the eastward" the Iron Curtain |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | RHYME TIME $200: Hippies advocated this nonviolent strategy to promote peace & love flower power |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL $600: Visigoth princes of Spain, are you sure it's a good idea to invite these people to help you take power? They have their own agenda the Moors |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | WOOD $1200: For easy woodcutting, strike up this 4-letter power saw that uses a continuously looping blade a band saw |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHERE DO YOU STAN? $1200: Mohammad Daud Khan took power in this country in a 1973 coup & lost it in a 1978 one; then the Soviets came Afghanistan |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $200: Fans of this show called it "The Jack Bauer Power Hour" 24 |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $400: Seen here with pink roses, these little white flowers symbolize innocence baby's breath |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $800: Van Gogh captured these huge flowers in their August bloom; the yellow background makes the work almost monochromatic sunflowers |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $1200: The oil made from this purple flower is used in perfumes and cosmetics lavender |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $1600: The poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" says, "All at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden" these flowers daffodils |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $2000: If only "Jeopardy!" had Smell-O-Vision, then you could really enjoy the star type of this fragrant flowering shrub jasmine |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | IT TAKES A VILLAIN $400: He says the movie line "You don't know the power of the dark side" Darth Vader |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | ONE-WORD RHYMES $1200: Magical or personal power; I've got mine working mojo |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | SHOUTED MOVIE QUOTES, SAID MATTER-OF-FACTLY $1000: 1973:
"The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you" The Exorcist |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MAKE LIGHT WORK $200: Around noon on some days, Germany gets close to half its power from this source solar power |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | BOOKS ABOUT CHINA $400: Published soon after he came to power, Robert Payne's 1950 study of this leader is subtitled "Ruler of Red China" Mao |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR $1000: This European power came in on the losing side late in the war & lost Florida as a result Spain |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | COUP COUP $800: In 1965 General Suharto brutally put down a coup in this country & soon seized power himself Indonesia |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $1200: He taught us "The Power of Myth" Joseph Campbell |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a real eye-opener Blink |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT $200: In 2019 Germany announced it would phase out power plants that use this fossil fuel coal |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | THE POWER OF THREE $400: The word trident comes from a Latin word meaning "having 3" these body parts teeth |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | THE POWER OF THREE $800: Replacing his brother Shemp, this actor joined the Three Stooges' lineup in the early 1930s Curly Howard |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | THE POWER OF THREE $1200: Putting $1 on Justify-Gronkowski-Hofburg at the 2018 Belmont won $229.74 in this bet as the horses finished in that order a trifecta |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | THE POWER OF THREE $1600: Adopted by the U.S. in 1793, it's the 3-word phrase for territorial waters; now most countries claim more the three mile limit |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | THE POWER OF THREE $2000: The Bill Evans Trio showed the power of jazz piano in albums like "Sunday at" this club named for its Greenwich Village location the Village Vanguard |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THE 1600s $200: In 1613 the Romanov family came to power in this country & ruled until 1917 Russia |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A GEM OF A TALE $2000: The purple Power Stone & the green Time Stone are just 2 of the 6 these Thanos searched for Infinity Stones |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | POP MUSIC $400: Ariana Grande sings, "When all is said & done, you will believe" this, a 2018 song that mixes spirituality & female power "God Is A Woman" |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | EXTRACURRICULAR $1200: Get your box or delta ones of these soaring--just be sure not to fly them over an airport or power lines kites (or drones) |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $800: This number is 10 to the power of a googol a googolplex |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $11,600 (Daily Double): This unit of explosive power is equivalent to detonating 2 billion pounds of TNT a megaton |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | SCIENCE $1200: You can't use a Carnot engine to power your car--it's an ideal one that loses no heat via this resisting force friction |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): On Sept. 1, 1969 King Idris suddenly became ex-royalty in this African country & a colonel took power Libya |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $800: In 2012 the Mo Ibrahim Foundation gave this South African archbishop a special award for "speaking truth to power" Desmond Tutu |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: Drink up, mes amis! In 1814 this dynasty returned to power in France the Bourbons |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | ADD A VOWEL $2000: To fuse metal using heat fires up a vowel to emerge as a word meaning to exercise power weld and wield |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | TIME FOR GYM $800: Some advice for this 4-letter class--don't stand on the bike pedals with a vertical spine; it reduces power & is bad on your knees spin class |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | BALLOONS $1600: An L.A. government agency says mylar helium balloons that fly free cause around 200 of these in the city every year power outages |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | 9...9 $600: 9-volt batteries were introduced to power these radios pressed to 1950s teenagers' ears transistor radios |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | POTENT PORTABLES $400: Sony's portable Bluetooth XB10 one of these boasts the "power of extra bass" a speaker |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | POTENT PORTABLES $600: iBose makes a portable charger with 4 of these that unfold to soak up some rays & power your electronics solar panels |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | WHEELY GOOD $1600: In a car's engine, this "shaft" converts the up-&-down motion of the pistons into rotational power for the wheels the crankshaft |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ENERGY $1600: A standard unit of measure of electric power, one is equal to one joule per second a watt |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | SOUNDS LIKE PIG LATIN $400: One hockey team has a temporary numerical advantage with an opposing player in the penalty box in this situation power play |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | STOUT $200: Season 7 had this animated TV dad go up to 300 pounds; his body ends up sealing a leak at the nuclear power plant Homer Simpson |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | "TOUCH"-Y, "FEEL"-Y $600: Kingly name for the power to make money out of anything one undertakes the Midas touch |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | SHARING THE ISLAND $400: Saint Martin (or Sint Maarten):
France & this other one-time European colonial power the Netherlands |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | TRIDENT TRUE $2000: The broken shaft of the trident on the flag of Barbados symbolizes independence from this colonial power Great Britain |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | THIS & THAT $200: You can go green & power up with these panels on the roof of your house, as well as your RV or boat solar panels |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | STEAMED PUNK $800: "Let fury have the hour, anger can be power", these Britpunks sang on the album "London Calling" The Clash |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LEADERS $2000: In 2003 Liberians were happy that life was blah as this brutal leader turned over power to Moses Blah (Charles) Taylor |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $400: This glorious sight is formed by the refractive dispersion of light through falling water droplets a rainbow |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $800: A substance like oil or grease used to reduce friction a lubricant |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $1200: It's the vocal range between tenor & bass baritone |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $1600: Important for energy production in the body, it's also called Vitamin B2 riboflavin |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $2000: If you're "under" this in a hospital, you're technically an outpatient though you may stay for days observation |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT CASES $1600: In 1998's Clinton v. City of New York, the Court nixed this kind of veto because it gave the president too much power a line-item veto |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $200: "There are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic" in this classic novel Dracula |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | GOVERNMENT $600: Under Article 1 of the Constitution, the U.S. House "shall have the sole power of" this against a federal official impeachment |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | WORLD LEADERS OF 2018 $1200: Part of the Sandinistas who took power in '79, Daniel Ortega led this country in the '80s & again starting in 2007 Nicaragua |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $400: In 1381 England had a revolt named for these lowly land workers; the same group rose up in Japan in 1428 peasants |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $800: After a financial collapse in 2008, the "Pots & Pans Revolution" brought down the govt. of this north Atlantic nation Iceland |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $1200: She became president in the Philippines after People Power pushed out Ferdinand Marcos (Corazon) Aquino |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $1600: Iulian Vlad, secret police chief in this country, helped bring about its tyrant's downfall in 1989 Romania |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $2000: During Arab Spring protests in this north African country, President Ben Ali resigned & fled, leading to free elections Tunisia |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS $600: An organized march on Rome in October 1922 brought this man & his Fascist Party to power Mussolini |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | ENGLISH ROYAL FIRSTS $200: In 1327 Edward II became the 1st king forced to take this action of formally giving up power, to the son who became Edward III abdicating |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | SIGH... POLI SCI $2000: In a competition, he might lift a car; in politics, it's a leader exercising absolute power a strongman |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THAT'S SOME STRONG LANGUAGE! $200: Adjective for a great-sized oak or Morphin Power Rangers mighty |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | SOME FILLER $1600: "___ corrupts, and absolute ___ corrupts absolutely" power |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Spiritual forces can be contained or released by nkisi n'kondi, or a power figure carved by these Bantu-speaking people whose name is on an African river and two African republics the Congolese (people of the Congo) |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | U.S. NATIONAL LABORATORIES $400: The Idaho National Laboratory is the site of the first power plant to produce electricity by this method in 1951 nuclear power |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | NOT FOR PROFIT $200: The NRDC fights for clean energy & against power plants that burn this solid hydrocarbon coal |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER $1600: The 1964 exhibit "Progressland" was sponsored by this giant power-&-more company General Electric |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BLANK NEWS $1000: Get your fill of business in the afternoon:
"Power ____" Power Lunch |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | I GOT "U" BABE $800: To unlawfully seize power from a ruler to usurp |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $1000: A result of this 1979 accident in Penn., the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations has made the industry safer Three Mile Island |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | "CHAIN" REACTION $1600: Here's a sculpture made using this power tool a chainsaw |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $2,000 (Daily Double): For warships, the iron age began at the same time as the age of this type of power steam |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | IN THEIR 90s $1200: His "Power of Positive Thinking" & "Positive Living" helped this minister & author live to the age of 95 (Norman Vincent) Peale |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S MARS $400: This type of storm causes major problems for the explorers when it blocks the sun & solar power a dust storm |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | HERSTORY $800: Jiang Qing was one-quarter of this "numerical" group that enjoyed a decade of power the Gang of Four |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: The world's more than 400 nuclear power plants use this process of splitting an atom in 2 to create energy fission |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | TO START WITH, GET "OUT" $400: A power failure an outage |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $2000: "Kingdom of Fear" traces this writer's life as a rebel including a run for Aspen sheriff on the Freak Power ticket Hunter S. Thompson |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | ONE GIANT LEAP $1200: In the 18th century Thomas Newcomen & James Watt developed this source of power steam |
| #7817, aired 2018-09-11 | GO FLY A KITE! $400: Kite Power Systems in the U.K. is developing the use of kites instead of turbines to provide this type of energy wind power |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | THE 16th CENTURY $1600: He ruled the Spanish empire at the height of its power Philip II |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: This national liberation front came to power in Nicaragua in 1979 & is ruling once again the Sandinistas |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | BY THE NUMBERS $800: Wang Hongwen & Yao Wenyuan were half of this group that became unpopular & lost power soon after Mao's death the Gang of Four |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: He followed up "Between the World and Me" with "We Were Eight Years in Power" Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): The photo from a 1967 march on the Pentagon demonstrates this rhyming slogan of the time flower power |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | MENTAL FITNESS BOOKSHELF $1600: "The Power of Positive Thinking", by this Protestant minister, made positive thinking a household term in the 1950s Norman Vincent Peale |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | "PO"POURRI $600: A ruler who wields great power, it's from the Latin for "power" a potentate |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | OUR FAVORITE SUFF-ICS $400: Aristotle's "Politics" says in this system, the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them democracy |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | REVOLUTION NOW! $600: "Power to the people!" was a slogan of this African-American revolutionary group co-founded by Huey Newton the Black Panthers |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: 2 vowels front this verb meaning "to remove from power" oust |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: This hyphenated leading brand in relaxation offers the Rowan Power-Recline XR Reclina-Rocker recliner La-Z-Boy |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | HAIL HYDRO $800: The power plant at this concrete landmark on the Colorado River can hold 2 million kilowatts the Hoover Dam |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | RETORTS $800: Asked about a run for mayor, Ed Davis, head of this department in L.A. in the 1970s, said, "And give up all my power?" the police department |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | AS YOU GO DOWN $400: He lost a power battle to fellow Communists & dealt with the wrong side of an ice axe in Mexico Leon Trotsky |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | YOU'LL UNDERSTAND IT BETTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Virgil's "omnia vincit amor" is this saying in English about the power of the heart love conquers all |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | AN APPELLATION FOR THE TEACHER $1600: Historian & professor Lord "Acton the Severe" is best remembered for the line that this "tends to corrupt" power |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | 10,000 MANIAC $200: 10,000 can be written as 10 to this power the 4th |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | MIDDLE T $1000: Answers, questions, in our half-hour /
Give me this 11-letter chant of magical power an incantation |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT $1200: Montesquieu wrote in favor of separation of powers & this system ensuring govt. branches are equal in power checks and balances |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $800: In New Zealand "Jacindamania" brought Jacinda Ardern to power in 2017 for this left-wing party (spelled with a "U") Labour |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | MUST COME TO AN "N" $1000: Sheer muscle power, sometimes contrasted with intelligence brawn |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $1000: Yoweri Museveni, in power in this East African land since 1986, says he planted bananas & has to stay to see them bear fruit Uganda |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | I'M KIND OF A "BIG" DEAL $1200: Contestants on this show vie for "Head of Household" & "Power of Veto" Big Brother |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $2000: This city in northern Italy, the country's industrial center, got Europe's first electric power plant in 1883 Milan |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | 2008 $1600: After almost 50 years in power, this Caribbean leader stepped down as president (Fidel) Castro |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | SUPERHEROES $2000: The power ring seen here is worn by this DC superhero Green Lantern |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | A "NIP" BEFORE BED $2000: This long word follows "minister" to designate a diplomat with full power to represent his government plenipotentiary |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | IT'S A DISASTER! $800: On April 26, 1986 a fireball blew off the steel & concrete lid of the reactor at this power station Chernobyl |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | NEW CAREERS! $800: The SEIA, the industries association for this type of power, says business is booming solar power |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | "BLACK" $800: It grew out of a small machine shop in Baltimore to become a leading maker of power tools & accessories Black and Decker |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | BUYING ALASKA $600: One reason Russia sold was fear of not being able to access Alaska after this 1850s war reduced its sea power the Crimean War |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | RITE $1000: This rite is a solo vigil by a Plains Indian boy to seek spiritual power & knowledge through an apparition a vision quest (or spirit quest) |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | TECHNOLOGY $1600: These plural units of computer processing power stand for floating-point operations per second FLOPS |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY $400: In the early 1500s this Italian wrote that there's no moral aspect to wielding power Machiavelli |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | THEY'RE "GREAT"! $2000: During his 1740-1786 reign, Prussia became a leading military power Frederick the Great |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | THE FEDERALIST PAPERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Federalist 74 said, "The dread of being accused of... connivance" would keep presidents from abusing this power pardon |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | A LONG ELEVATOR RIDE $400: When it opened in 1902, the Santa Justa lift elevator in Lisbon, Portugal uniquely used this type of power, like the Clermont steam power |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $800: Edison on this: "What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil & coal run out before we tackle that" the sun |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | EDISON: THE LIGHT & THE DARK $1000: To discredit the A.C. power system, Edison tried to make this tycoon's name synonymous with electrocution Westinghouse |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NOT WASTING TIME ON THE INTERNET $1200: Watch Susan Cain's TED Talk on "The Power of" these shy folks, then hit "shut down" & go meet people introverts |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | JAY LENO'S GARAGE $600: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Considered the most sophisticated & expensive steam car ever built, the Doble generates tremendous power; in fact in 1925 this aviator, movie mogul & original owner got it up to 132.5 miles per hour Howard Hughes |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MEALS $800: zagat.com lists "DC's Best for" this type of breakfast where business & political deals get done a power breakfast |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | NIKOLA TESLA $800: Several of Tesla's product designs were used to harness this natural landmark to power Buffalo, New York Niagara Falls |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | NIKOLA TESLA $1600: In 1891 Tesla invented this induction device that can transmit electric power without wires an induction coil (or the Tesla coil) |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SIKH $800: In the Second Sikh War of 1848 to 1849 this colonial power was the ultimate victor Great Britain |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | WE WISH YOU "A" MERRY CHRISTMAS! $1000: Merry gentlemen, it means away from the correct path, as in "to save us all from Satan's power when we were gone" this astray |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | SPORT'S STUFF $800: Butt-ending,
delayed offside,
power play hockey |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | CONGRESSIONAL POWERS $200: The Constitution specifically grants to Congress the power to pass bankruptcy laws & to punish these fake moneymakers counterfeiters |
| #7653, aired 2017-12-13 | CONGRESSIONAL POWERS $600: Congress has the power to subpoena, hold a witness in contempt & grant this freedom from prosecution immunity |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | RECENT KIDS' BOOKS $200: In the fantasy world of "Red Queen", a young peasant woman discovers she has the power to wield this, like Zeus lightning |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | WHERE & WHEN $400: The Wright Brothers first take off under power:
the year 1903 |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | ELECTRIC $200: In addition to moving earth, Caterpillar is a major supplier of these units to supply backup power to hospitals generators |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $800: To tour this dam's power plant, you have to take an elevator 530 feet down through the rock wall of Black Canyon the Hoover Dam |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "K"9 $800: A person who has the power to influence the selection of someone for higher office a kingmaker |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT, TOUGH GUY $1200: "In this country... when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women" Scarface |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TIME TO SAY GOODBYE $800: This Pennsylvania power plant has had only one partial reactor meltdown in 40+ years but will close in 2019 Three Mile Island |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $400: An assembly elected in July in this S. American nation has moved to consolidate power and rewrite the constitution Venezuela |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | POWER TO THE PAPAL $400: On Aug. 4, 2016 Pope Francis prayed in a little chapel in this little town, home to another famous Francis Assisi |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | POWER TO THE PAPAL $800: Ugo Boncompagni became the 13th pope of this name in 1572 & fixed the calendar 10 years later Gregory |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | POWER TO THE PAPAL $1200: Elected in 533, Mercurius, thinking the pope shouldn't have the name of a Roman god, became the first pope to do this change his name |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | POWER TO THE PAPAL $1600: A Vatican chapel is named for this pope, the fourth of his name; oddly, there was a fifth, but no more after that Sixtus |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | POWER TO THE PAPAL $2000: From the Latin for "messenger", it's a papal diplomat or representative nuncio |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Jets power propellers in this kind of plane, hence the "prop" at the end a turboprop |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | SPORTS ABBREV. $800: In hockey, PP is this situation in which a penalty gives one team more players than the other power play |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | THE REVOLUTION $400: In 2011 the spirit of revolt in the Arab world came to visit Muammar al-Qaddafi, in power in this country since 1969 Libya |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | LET'S STAY HOME $1200: Let's stay home & do cosplay; I'm the pink one of these superpowered teens who fight Elizabeth Banks in a 2017 movie the Power Rangers |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $200: Don't procrastinate,get your copy of Eckhart Tolle's spiritual self-help book "The Power of" this now |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $1000: This self-help guru penned bestsellers like "Your Erroneous Zones" and "The Power of Intention" (Wayne) Dyer |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | THE 21st CENTURY $2000: A 2011 tsunami caused a disaster at this Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | NONFICTION $1200: Charles Duhigg explored "Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" in "The Power of" this The Power of Habit |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOURCES OF POWER $200: The TVA's Paradise Fossil Plant in Kentucky coal |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOURCES OF POWER $400: The ancient Greek ship called the Penteconter--50 of them oars |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOURCES OF POWER $600: The Three Gorges facility in China water hydroelectric |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOURCES OF POWER $800: A barouche, mentioned by Jane Austen horses |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOURCES OF POWER $1000: NextEra in Tehachapi, California, "The Birthplace of" this kind of power wind power |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $800: A moderator of neutrons in nuclear power plants, deuterium oxide is also known by this "weighty" term heavy water |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | AWFUL WORLD LEADERS $400: Likely fraudulent 1924 Italian elections gave personal power to this fascist Mussolini |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | YOU'RE SO POSSESSIVE! $1,200 (Daily Double): On Aug. 3, 1980 Ronald Reagan said "I believe in" these & said the federal government had too much power states' rights |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE CROWN $1000: The Sahasrara is the crown one of these points of spiritual power in Hinduism a chakra |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | ELECTRICITY $400: Most generators on power networks use this type of current alternating current |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES $600: Gold & Heat are his & her fragrances from this music power couple Jay-Z & Beyoncé |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SOCIETY $1000: It's the small group at the top; C. Wright Mills said a "power" one really runs things in America the elite |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | POWER HITTERS $400: John J. Astor IV built the St. Regis, wrote a sci-fi novel & designed a turbine engine before his fatal trip on this ship the Titanic |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | POWER HITTERS $1200: Ted Turner took a $7 billion hit after this company merged with AOL in 2001 but rest easy; Ted's still doing okay Time Warner |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | POWER HITTERS $1600: In the 1920s & '30s this camera man gave away $75 million, which was more than half his fortune (George) Eastman |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | POWER HITTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her forbes.com profile says it all: "$2.9 billion... producer, entrepreneur, personality, philanthropist" Oprah Winfrey |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | POWER HITTERS $2000: @jack is the handle of this Twitter CEO (Jack) Dorsey |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: After the defeat at Leuctra in 371 B.C., Spartan power declined & this league went out of existence the Peloponnesian League |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ON THE BALLOT $200: No coups d'etat in Little Rock-- in 2016 this state voted to allow the governor to retain power while out of state Arkansas |
| #7493, aired 2017-03-22 | POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $2000: A collection of this German's thoughts was published soon after his death in 1900 as "The Will to Power" Nietzsche |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: May 3, 1986:
"A Top Soviet Aide Details Situation at Stricken Plant", this nuclear power station Chernobyl |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | THAT'S A MYTHTAKE! $1,800 (Daily Double): She angered Hera, who took away her power of speech, except for the ability to repeat the last words of another Echo |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $800: This commander's victory over Pompey in 48 B.C. at Pharsalus took him to the pinnacle of power Julius Caesar |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ANCIENT BATTLES $1200: 7,000 Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. broke the power this Greek city had enjoyed for a generation Sparta |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: "Bring Up the Bodies" is Hilary Mantel's sequel to this historical novel about the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell Wolf Hall |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | EASTERN RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY $1600: "The Classic of the Way & Its Power" is a guide to a spiritual & ethical life according to this Chinese philosophy Taoism |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | FLOWER POWER $400: Come to my pad & see my varieties of this flower, candidum & longiflorum, AKA Madonna & Easter lilies |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | FLOWER POWER $800: You may be familiar with this plant in a baked potato sense, but its purple flowers are quite appetizing in their own way chives |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | FLOWER POWER $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animation of sunflowers on the monitor.) Sunflower buds follow the course of the sun as it tracks through the sky, thanks to an internal clock giving them this kind of rhythm, just like humans circadian |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | FLOWER POWER $2,000 (Daily Double): Vanilla is a type of this flowering plant an orchid |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | FLOWER POWER $2000: From the Latin for "wolf", this tall, purplish flower was favored by Monty Python in a celebrated sketch a lupine |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | EYE HEALTH $2000: Near- or farsightedness is measured using this, the unit of lens power a diopter |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | VENICE $800: At the height of its naval power, Venice was known as the "Queen of" this sea the Adriatic |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $200: Later executed as a traitor, he took power in Norway in 1940 Vidkun Quisling |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $2000: The Milwaukee International Airport is named for this air power advocate who was later court-martialed General Billy Mitchell |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | STRAIGHT OUTTA... $1000: Western Springs, Illinois: this author of "The Corrections" & 2015's "Purity" (Jonathan) Franzen |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | THE CONSTITUTION $1000: Article II, Section 2: "The President... shall have Power, by and with the ____ and ____ of the Senate, to make Treaties" Advice and Consent |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | GEORGIA IN SONG $1600: Reba McEntire is among those who've sung about this title evening of murder injustice & power outage "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 2003 in Ohio, an overgrown tree touched a power line, causing this event that affected 50 million North Americans a blackout |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $200: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line"; a report on troops under fire in this country Iraq |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $400: In 2013 this agency's director John Brennan gave Jack Downey & Dick Fecteau the Distinguished Intelligence Cross the CIA |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $600: (I'm ABC News senior legal correspondent Sunny Hostin.) As a federal prosecutor, I received the Special Achievement Award from this U.S. Attorney General, the first woman to hold the job Janet Reno |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $800: The "Election Night" episode of this HBO show won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy in 2015 Veep |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $1000: Tobias Wolff & Sally Field have won the National Medal of Arts from this "National" government agency the National Endowment for the Arts |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $1000: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In 2015 the 20th edition of this Las Vegas gala doubled as my birthday party; with the same name as a Celine Dion love song, it has raised over $100 million in its history; wow! "The Power of Love" |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | TRUST THE SCIENCE $2000: Make this kind of "grab" & tell us it's the P in P=fv, f symbolizing force & v, speed power |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | BASKETBALL $1000: Karl Malone was one of the most dominant at this 2-word position power forward |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | THE QUEEN $800: She sponsored Columbus' voyages, bringing wealth & power to Spain Isabella of Castile |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | RENEWABLE ENERGY $800: 100-foot-tall towers grouped in "farms" are used to create this type of power wind |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | RENEWABLE ENERGY $1600: Hydroelectric power employs rushing water passing through these rotored machines that turn generators turbines |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | 5, 5 $800: All aboard this auto assembly consisting of the transmission & driveshaft that links the engine to axles the drive train (or power train) |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: Name given U.S. Public Law 88-408, passed in 1964 giving LBJ the power to prevent further aggression the Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The German model 1902 field Howitzer could hurl a 95-pound shell nearly 5 miles; because of their power & black smoke, the incoming rounds got this nickname among the allied troops after the hard-hitting African-American heavyweight champion of the era Jack Johnson |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | "TEN"-LETTER WORDS $1600: Shelley wrote, "To defy power which seems" this, meaning unlimited omnipotent |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $600: 1958: "Crisis in Algeria brought WWII hero back to power in France" de Gaulle |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | POLYSYLLABIC $1600: 6 syllables: "royal" state policy of extending power by territorial acquisition imperialism |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | MORE POWER TO THEM $800: The Juno spacecraft has set a record by traveling 413 million miles on this type of power--note the jumbo panels solar |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | MORE POWER TO THEM $1600: Researchers at Georgia Tech have actually powered a nanogenerator using this furry wheel runner a hamster |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | MORE POWER TO THEM $2000: In 1871 Zenobe Theophile Gramme, a real one himself, developed one of these that was the first industrial generator dynamo |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | MORE POWER TO THEM $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the source of power for the submarine U.S.S. Jimmy Carter nuclear |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | A SIZEABLE CATEGORY $800: The 3 Gorges Dam on this river in China is 1.5 miles wide & generates as much power as 18 nuclear plants the Yangtze |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | THE 1820s $2000: In 1827 the Curacao, owned by this country's navy, became the first ship to cross the Atlantic mainly using steam power the Netherlands |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the power of government to expropriate land for public use subject to reasonable compensation eminent domain |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | POLITICAL BOOKS $1000: His criticism of Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld in the 2015 bio "Destiny and Power" made news George H.W. Bush |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING $1600: As a young man the II king of this name was already calling for Belgium to be a colonial power--bad news for the Congo (King) Leopold (of Belgium) |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | THE CONSTITUTION $1000: Congress has power to "fix the standard of" these 2 items, which make up a classic "Jeopardy!" category weights & measures |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY $2000: Mechanical efficiency, a ratio of power output to input, is always less than a perfect 1 due to this resistive force friction |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: In 1960 a Gillette defined the power of one of these beams by how many razor blades it could burn through a laser |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | ROMAN AROUND $1,400 (Daily Double): On Dec. 7, 43 B.C. this orator lost the power of speech... permanently Cicero |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | THE LONG HOURS $400: Generating 90,000 gigawatt hours of power a year, this country's Itaipu Dam spans 4 miles over the Parana River Brazil |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | THE HAITI FILE $1600: Family that had absolute political power there from 1957 to 1986 the Duvaliers |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | THE HOT SEAT $800: This Russki's seat got hotter after the Cuban Missile Crisis, & he was out of power in 2 years Khrushchev |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | YOU AUTO KNOW $400: This feature that amplifies turning force makes parallel parking a lot easier power steering |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | YOUR FACE IS ON THE MONEY $800: This man who came to power in 1979 is on Iran's 100,000-rial note Ayatollah Khomeini |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ELECTRICITY $1200: The 2012 merger of Duke & Progress created the USA's largest of these "useful" entities providing electric power utilities |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: God compared the power of Job to this huge animal, kind of the land version of Leviathan a behemoth |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | "I.M." $800: This Filipina power broker reportedly said "Win or lose, we go shopping after the election" Imelda Marcos |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | INDIRECT QUOTES $200: "Absolute (work divided by time) corrupts absolutely" power |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | INVENTION & INNOVATION $1200: In 1895 the Westinghouse Company built a hydroelectric power station at this New York site Niagara Falls |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | THE FRENCH MISTAKE, VOILA! $600: In 1808 Napoleon put his brother in power in this country, booting King Ferdinand VII; the Peninsular War soon followed Spain |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | IT WAS 1916 $600: This company introduced its first power tools in 1916, a portable pistol-grip power drill & a portable air compressor Black & Decker |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | THE SUPREME COURT $2000: This chief justice wrote that Congress did not have the power to abolish slavery in the territory Roger Taney |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 $800: A "People Power" revolution in this country forced longtime leader Ferdinand Marcos into exile the Philippines |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | JAPANESE HISTORY $2000: Holding power for the majority of time since 1955, the dominant political party in Japan is this one, the LDP the Liberal Democratic Party |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | LIVING THE SPACED-OUT LIFE $1,200 (Daily Double): More than an acre of these provide power to the I.S.S. & also make it the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon solar panels |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | "BAM"! "POW!" $600: 2-word phrase for the elation of bossing others around power trip |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: This unit of power is equivalent to one joule per second a watt |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | ASK THE NEAREST HIPPIE $1000: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965? flower power |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES $1000: He has a unique power--everything he touches turns to rust Oxidizer |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | BAD NEWS $400: An April 26, 1986 test at this power station ended up producing a radioactive cloud more than 3,000 feet high Chernobyl |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | POWER TRANSMISSION $400: This type of current is generally preferred for long-distance power transmission A.C. (alternating current) |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | POWER TRANSMISSION $800: Megatron, Firestar or an electrical device that converts voltage a transformer |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | POWER TRANSMISSION $1200: Optical fibers carry light pulses using thin strands usually made of plastic or this silicate glass |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | POWER TRANSMISSION $1600: Pacific Gas & Electric touts its "smart" version of this electricity distribution network a grid |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | POWER TRANSMISSION $2000: The old-school way to transfer power is to use gears, friction & the like, letting this type of energy work for you mechanical (kinetic accepted) |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: After helping to bring Catherine the Great to power, this military leader & statesman became her lover Grigory Potemkin |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | ENERGY $4,000 (Daily Double): Washington leads all states by getting 76% of its electricity from this renewable method hydroelectric power |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | THAT'S HISTORY $200: Commoners rejoiced when the Parliament Act of 1911 took the power of absolute veto away from this house the House of Lords |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | "EX"CELLENT! $200: With the power of a million tornadoes, it's a description that overstates reality for effect exaggeration |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | THE BOOK OF NORMAN $1600: In addition to "The Power of Positive Thinking", he put out a spiritual leaflet called "Guideposts" Norman Vincent Peale |
| #7133, aired 2015-09-23 | RANDOM FACTS $200: (Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.) When a magician dies, a wand is sometimes broken at his funeral to symbolize his loss of magical power; the first broken wand ceremony was performed by the Society of American Magicians in 1926 at the memorial service for this famous escapologist (Harry) Houdini |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | THE DETERGENT SERIES $800: Belligerent:
Era is advertised as having 3x this-fighting power stain fighting |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | VERY INVENTIVE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1807 he wrote that his voyage to Albany & back "has been performed wholly by the power of the steam engine" Fulton |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | POP MUSIC $1200: Cat on "Sam & Cat", she had a Top 5 hit in 2014 with "Break Free" Ariana Grande |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | "BORN" TO BE A SONG $400: "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive" in this Springsteen classic "Born To Run" |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | ALSO ON A BIKE $1600: The place in which administrative power is centered seat |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | RETURN OF THE WOOD $400: A Con Ed electric safety brochure advises using a fiberglass or wooden one around power lines, never metal a ladder |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | SHADOW PLAY $1600: The fictional character of radio drama known as the Shadow had "the power to" do this to "men's minds" cloud |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | DESIGNER INITIALS $800: He gave women the power suit:
G.A. Giorgio Armani |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | "STA" WITH ME $2000: Lincoln said Henry Clay had "a power and influence, which belonged to no other" this of his age a statesman |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | PULLIN' INTO THE "BURG" $400: Now a state in east-central Germany, it was a "gate"way of dynastic power for the kingdom of Prussia Brandenburg |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | ENDS IN "O" $200: It's the presidential power to just say no the veto |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | SOFT ROCK $200: This French-Canadian woman topped the adult contemporary charts with "The Power Of Love" & "All By Myself" Céline Dion |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | PHILOSOPHY $400: Francis Bacon's "Meditationes Sacrae" includes the famous aphorism "Knowledge is" this power |
| #7071, aired 2015-05-18 | HOW SYMBOLIC $200: At this event, the monarch receives a scepter to symbolize her power a coronation |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $2000: In 1971, as head of the National Security Council, he said that power "is the great aphrodisiac" Kissinger |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | A. MILLER'S TALES $5,000 (Daily Double): Arthur Miller thought 1690s Salem was relevant to 1950s America when he wrote this play The Crucible |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FLOUR POWER $200: Whole wheat flour is also known as this type of "cracker" fame Graham |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FLOUR POWER $600: Gold Medal flour products include self-rising, unbleached & this one that sounds good for any type of baking all-purpose |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FLOUR POWER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew kneads and shows a time-elapse video on the monitor.) When wheat flour is mixed with water to make dough, the protein content is converted to this substance; it retains gas, which when heated, causes the bread to rise gluten |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | FLOUR POWER $1000: In Corsica, standard cornmeal is replaced by chestnut flour to make this mushy Italian treat polenta |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | YES, PRIME MINISTER $1200: Despite losing an election in 2010, he was in power in Iraq from 2006 through 2014 al-Maliki |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | APRIL $800: On April 11, 2002 this president of Venezuela was ousted in a coup d'etat; by April 14 he was back in power Hugo Chávez |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | COMPUTER ACTIONS $400: This 4-letter word is "warm" when the computer's power is already on, "cold" when it's off boot |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | PHILOSOPHY $400: This word's Greek etymology tells you it's a political system "without a ruling power" anarchy |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | THE SWEET 16 $600: Judicial review refers to a court's power to declare laws this unconstitutional |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $400: "Frying eggs from 93 million miles away--now that's power" says tva.com of this type of energy solar |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $600: 8 dams of the Cumberland River System, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of these, provide power to the TVA Engineers |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | HOW INNOVATIVE! $200: Duke University has developed a prototype for a cloak that grants this power, just like Harry Potter's invisibility |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | "UT" $2000: It can mean a punch with the fist or less direct power & influence clout |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | SONGS OF WINE & ROSES $800: In "Kiss From A Rose", he sang, "You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain" Seal |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | PARTS OF A PLANT $600: To keep the 600-degree water from boiling in a nuclear power plant, the reactor core is kept at 150 times atmospheric this pressure |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | 1977 $1600: Formerly purged Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng was restored to power & this quartet was expelled from the Communist Party the Gang of Four |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $400: A temporary loss of consciousness, or utter darkness caused by a massive power outage a blackout |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | FLOWER POWER $400: The first U.S. plant patent was issued in 1931 for New Dawn, a type of this thorny flower a rose |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | FLOWER POWER $800: This flower produces a latex in its seeds from which codeine is derived poppies |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | FLOWER POWER $1,400 (Daily Double): This "filler flower" often used in bridal bouquets comes in several varieties including New Love & Perfecta baby's breath |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | FLOWER POWER $1600: In 1878 Switzerland began protecting this flower, Leontopodium alpinum, in the wild Edelweiss |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | FLOWER POWER $2000: This flower has clusters of star-shaped blossoms, not clusters of sheep, as you may think phlox |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | GREEN SCENE $1600: Abbreviated PV, this type of solar power cell converts sunlight into electric energy photovoltaic |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | FACES IN HISTORY $800: This first Chief Justice affirmed the federal government's power over states John Jay |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | "IPO"s $400: Limitless in power, as god omnipotent |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | THE NATURE OF THINGS $800: Crabs fear this type of shrimp, whose name is also on a praying insect; its punch has the power of a .22-caliber bullet a mantis |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | FOILED $400: Cicero foiled Catiline's plot to seize power in this Roman state that preceded the Empire the Roman Republic |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | WORDS IN THE FIRST AMENDMENT $1600: The government & the rest of this power structure kept hippies down, man the establishment |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Long before global warming changed the focus of auto makers, the 1916 Owen Magnetic used both gas & electric power as one of the first of these combined-fuel vehicles a hybrid |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | IT'S U.N. ANIMUS $400: In 2009, in his first speech to the U.N. after 40 years in power, this North African threatened to tear the U.N. Charter Gaddafi |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | IT'S U.N. ANIMUS $600: In a 2008 U.N. speech, this Iranian called the U.S. a "bullying power" Ahmadinejad |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | TURN, TURN, TURN $1200: A heavy wheel on a revolving shaft that helps regulate an engine's power has this insect name the flywheel |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | TURN, TURN, TURN $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a tabletop engine with a hairdryer.) The force of wind rotates a central shaft to generate power in this type of engine that appropriately gets its name from Latin for "tornado" turbine |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | QUOTES OF NOTE $2000: Erich Fromm said, "The lust for" this "is not rooted in strength but in weakness" power |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN "GREY" $1600: In an expression from the French, it's someone wielding power behind the scenes the Grey Eminence |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ANTISOCIAL SCIENCE $800: A book in the "Law, Justice and Power" series is called "Showing" this synonym for "regret", as judges like you to do remorse |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA $2000: Most of the power players were representatives, but the first czar of this name came to speak for himself Alexander I of Russia |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $800: In one legend, Juno condemned this nymph, saying, "You shall still have the last word, but no power to speak first" Echo |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME $800: A sports page looks like a stock page, with a three-part stat, including this measure of power--total bases divided by at-bats slugging percentage |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | SONGS ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $1000: "Don't Shoot Me" &
"Fight The Power" Do the Right Thing |
| #6903, aired 2014-09-24 | ART ROCKERS $1600: A painting by Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley is titled this "Power"--he often has one painted on his face a star |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | ALL 5 VOWELS IN ONE WORD $800: To give a person official power to do something to authorize |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: The ability to set things on fire by psychic power pyrokinesis |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a portrait and a map on the monitor.) Huangdi won a great battle that consolidated his power among the tribes of the Huang He River, so it's fitting that he is referred to in English as the this emperor the Yellow Emperor |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | NONFICTION $2000: Chapter 1 of this classic book by Norman Vincent Peale is "Believe in Yourself" The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: The first Roman emperor born outside Italy, this slightly deaf & limping man took power in 41 A.D. Claudius |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $1000: Lord Acton famously said, this "tends to corrupt" power |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $200: A baseball officiator & a huge territory under sovereign power an umpire & an empire |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | INDIA $2000: In 1961 Indian forces invaded the territory of Goa & took it from this European power Portugal |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | ____ OF ____ $1000: A distribution of forces so no single nation is strong enough to dominate (& tip it) balance of power |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $2,200 (Daily Double): Her husband's assassination & a People Power Revolution made her president in 1986 (Corazon) Aquino |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | FOLKLORE $400: An urban legend says these hanging on power lines mark gang territory sneakers |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | SPIDER-MAN $600: The very first Spider-Man comic book story featured the line "With great power there must also come" this great responsibility |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | LEO, THE POPE $400: Leo I declared that papal power was granted by Jesus to this man alone & passed on to his successors (Saint) Peter |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $400: 1 1/2 million Cambodians perished under the rule of this Khmer Rouge leader who came to power in 1975 Pol Pot |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | REJECTED SUPERVILLAIN NAMES $400: Eerie noises as it changes cycles hint at the power of this appliance, perhaps with the Anyware Plus silverware basket dishwasher |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Inflation erodes this "power" of a given sum of money purchasing |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $200: A milk-giving bovine dairy cow |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $400: We love Dirk Taubert, M.D. & the other researchers who've reported in medical journals on the benefits of this sweet dark chocolate |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $600: If you were one of these stupid chicken sounds, you wouldn't be here dumb cluck |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $800: Italian for "from the head", it means to repeat a piece of music from the beginning da capo |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $1000: Once upon a time, theatergoers in this arcing row of seats were expected to wear formal clothes dress circle |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | CRAFTS $1000: The power sander is a good tool for making these that can later be treated with a product called sex wax a surfboard |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | THE LAST CENTURY $1600: The Nationalist Party, which came to power in China in the 1920s, was also called this, KMT for short the Kuomintang |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | HIP-HOPPERS $1600: Public Enemy named some "straight-up racist"s in their classic urging listeners to do this 3-word title "Fight The Power" |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | HARD TO DEFINE $400: stopTHIS.gov defines it as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among... children that involves a... power imbalance" bullying |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MISSING LINKS $1000: Flower
____
lifting power |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | RECENT MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "No one's ever been loved so much by the people. Don't waste that power" Lincoln |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EXPLOSIVE IMPLOSIONS $600: In 2006 a 500-foot tall cooling tower at this type of plant in Oregon was no longer 500 feet tall a nuclear power plant |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: From 1793 to 1794 the Committee of Public Safety ruled France with power in the hands of members of this "club" the Jacobins |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | THE 15th CENTURY $2,200 (Daily Double): Losing the battle of Grunwald in 1410 in Poland led to the end of the military power of these knights the Teutonic Knights |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE PAUPER $800: Hugo Chavez grew up poor in Sabaneta in this country but rose to power & fame Venezuela |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | POLITICAL BOOKS $400: "The Price of Power" is Seymour Hersh's take on this Secretary of State's years in the Nixon White House Kissinger |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | CAESAR $600: You can stand at the spot where in 69, after 7 months in power, Galba was killed in this area of temples & shops the Forum |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | "B" WHERE? $800: This city was headquarters of the opposition that drove Gaddafi from power Benghazi |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | I GUESTED ON LAW & ORDER $1600: The male half of the Hollywood power couple Filliam H. Muffman, he was Asst. U.S. Attorney John McCormack in 1990 William H. Macy |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | CALIFORNIA $800: Spanish for "devil", it precedes Canyon in the name of a plant supplying power to California's central coast Diablo |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $2000: Bamboozle, or intimidate by a display of power or importance buffalo |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | U.S. LAKES & RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1,240 miles long & rich in hydro power, it's the largest river by volume that flows from the U.S. into the Pacific Ocean the Columbia River |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | EX-WORLD LEADERS $600: In 2011 France extradited this man back to Panama, where he began serving time for crimes committed when in power (Manuel) Noriega |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: 7 letters, 3 syllables: the power to endure fatigue--show some! stamina |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | HOW'D THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? $1200: (Here's Mark Cuban.) In the late 1300s Giovanni made this family wealthy in the schmatte business; his son Cosimo began the rise to political power the Medicis |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS $400: As one of these snapped fences & power lines in its path, Carsten Peter was there to get the photo for an article tornado |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | REAL LITERARY PARODIES $1000: This parody of "Goodnight Moon" is a reminder to power down, especially a device kids love Goodnight iPad |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | JAPANESE HISTORY $400: This warrior class was excluded from power in the 1870s & its privileged status dissolved the Samurai |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | JAPANESE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1914 Japan joined the Allies & quickly seized this European power's islands in the Pacific Germany |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | A USEFUL CATEGORY $200: Called a "torch" in England, this device was invented around 1896 with the advent of a portable battery power source a flashlight |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A coin of emperor Yongle found in Kenya shows this Asian nation was trying to become an economic power 600 years ago China |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $2000: (With the last clue, here is Alex Zolbert.) Tokyo became Japan's capital in 1868 with the restoration of imperial power under the Emperor Meiji, ending the era of these rulers the Shoguns |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | THE CHARACTER'S NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED $2000: "Sister Christian., was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis" Sister Carrie |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) Sacred to the Vietnamese people are the dragon, symbolizing power & nobility, & the tortoise, which symbolizes these two things created by God in the beginning the Earth & Heaven |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | ON THE TUBE $800: Houseguests! The "Power of Veto" was introduced in Season 3 of this reality show that premiered in 2000 Big Brother |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1054 the "Great Schism" divided the power of the Catholic church between these 2 cities, in east & west Rome & Constantinople |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | IF EARLY INVENTORS USED KICKSTARTER $400: I will use the energy of Niagara Falls to carry power to Buffalo by 1896! C'mon, my coil worked! Trust me! (Nikola) Tesla |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | IT'S SECRET, DON'T TELL ANYONE $1600: In the Book of Judges, this anti-Israelite people found out the secret of Samson's power by bribing Delilah Philistines |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | DORM DEBATES $2000: A classic clash--determinism vs. this 2-word term for our supposed power of choice in behavior free will |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | "P"ROVERBS $600: This "corrupts"; "absolute" this "corrupts absolutely" power |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | PACK 12 $800: I solved our power problem by packing a dozen AAA Coppertop batteries from this brand Duracell |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | INNOVATION $2000: A new Antarctic base slides across ice on skis operated by this type of power that applies fluid mechanics hydraulic |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $800: Power failure? Illuminate your house with this Beethoven sonata in C sharp minor Moonlight Sonata |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID $400: Che Guevara described this type of warfare as "irregular... struggle against enemies of superior military power" guerilla warfare |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | CONSTITUTION USA WITH PETER SAGAL $1,200 (Daily Double): A New London, Connecticut,
fight over this --
government power
to take private property -- ended with land seized
and nothing built eminent domain |
| #6591, aired 2013-04-22 | "SAFE" $1600: This government commission, the CPSC, makes sure the cribs & power tools we buy won't kill us the Consumer Product Safety Commission |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3-word term for international equilibrium in which no single nation or alliance predominates balance of power |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | MEXICAN HISTORY $2000: "Don Fidel" Velazquez led the CTM, this type of group that worked with the PRI party to maintain each other's power a trade union |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | I LOVE THE CORE $800: Often used for research rather than power, the pool type of this has its core at the bottom of a pool of water nuclear reactor |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro took a look at Robert Moses, who did his brokering in this city New York City |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: He said, "I can make the march" & show "the world... that we have a power which Davis cannot resist" Sherman |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | MIAMI NICE $400: South Beach's Pelican Hotel has individual rooms called Power Flower, Big Bamboo & Me this, You Vain Tarzan |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | AMERICAN ANNUAL EVENTS $800: Not Texas but Ridgway, Penn. is home each February to a wood-carving competition using these power tools a chainsaw |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | ODE TO A TV SHOW $200: A civil war of Ewings / In desperate bids for power / But know ye, Bobby was ne'er dead! / He was only in the shower Dallas |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $800: On the medal stand, 200-meter bronze medalist John Carlos raised his fist in a black power salute in this year 1968 |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE 1200s $2000: In the 1250s the Mamluks seized power in Syria & this country Egypt |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE FUTURE $200: (Al Gore gives the clue.) World Power hangs in the balance as this nation surges forward; in 2010 it ended the USA's century-old standing as the No. 1 manufacturing nation China |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LITERARY TERMS $800: 9-letter subgenre of sci-fi whose name includes a 19th century form of mechanical power steampunk |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | THE 4 ELEMENTS $800: 2 million kilowatts can be generated by the power plant at this dam on Lake Mead Hoover |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | FROM THE GREEK $1000: The Greek for "leader of a people" gives us this word for a leader who gains power by arousing people's emotions a demagogue |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | HOW NOBEL OF THEM $1000: The IAEA, the International this Agency, shared the 2005 Peace Prize for its efforts to make nuclear power safe Atomic Energy |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | I AM YOUR LEADER $1000: My 2012 reelection means I can stay in power in Caracas until 2019--that would be 20 years on the job (Hugo) Chávez |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | ELECTRICITY $1600: Power stations put out big zaps, so these step-down devices reduce the current for use in homes & businesses transformers |
| #6533, aired 2013-01-30 | ELECTRICITY $3,000 (Daily Double): Canada's power is 60% from this source, like the water going over Churchill Falls hydroelectric |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $1200: It's a number placed as a superscript after an expression to indicate the power to which it is raised an exponent |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) Released after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela gave his first public speech from Cape Town's city hall; he began by leading the crowd in the chant "amandla ngawethu"--"power is ours"--the rallying cry of this party the ANC (African National Congress) |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | SNAP $2000: SNAP, the Sarawak National Party, vies for power in this peninsular country Malaysia |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | REAL POWER PLAYERS $200: During the 2011 Davis Cup, Ivo Karlovic of Croatia delivered one of these at 156 miles per hour a serve |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | REAL POWER PLAYERS $400: St. Louis' Busch Stadium used an oversized Band-Aid to cover the dent in an outfield sign made by a 1998 HR hit by him Mark McGwire |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | REAL POWER PLAYERS $600: An announcer once described this 1960s Bears linebacker as "Moby Dick in a goldfish bowl" Dick Butkus |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | REAL POWER PLAYERS $800: In 1979 NBA star Darryl Dawkins, aka "Chocolate" this, shattered 2 backboards with his dunks Thunder |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | REAL POWER PLAYERS $1000: With 69 knockouts, Roberto Duran earned the nickname "Manos de Piedra", meaning this Hands of Stone |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.) The Royal Palace grounds feature a statue of King Norodom, who in the late 1800s was compelled to first put his country under the control of this European power; of course, it was sculpted in that country France |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $1000: He's followed up his self-help bestseller "The Power of Now" with "A New Earth" (Eckhart) Tolle |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | AMERICAN POETRY $1200: "I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs", Louise Gluck wrote in this enchantress' "Power" Circe |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | POLITICAL MEMOIRS $2000: Working with presidents from Nixon to Clinton, this commentator wrote "Eyewitness to Power" (David) Gergen |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | CAPES OF ALL SHAPES $200: Dumbledore gave Harry Potter a cloak with this power as an anonymous Christmas gift invisibility |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | HOME SWEET MOTOR HOME $200: Unlike fixed homes, most motor homes power their lights with this type of current that's found in batteries direct current |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: Robert Walpole, in power from 1721 to 1742, is regarded as the first of these British heads of government prime minister |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | GREENE BOOKS $1600: "The Power and the ___" Glory |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | NUCLEAR ENERGY $5,000 (Daily Double): The U.S. leads the world in operating nuclear reactors with 104, followed by this European country with 58 France |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | GENERAL PRACTICE $2000: This outspoken U.S. general is proving his views here, holding a piece of a battleship sunk by air power Billy Mitchell |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $600: Climbing spurs are useful to these people who fix the transmission wires of phone & power companies linemen |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: On Nov. 20, 1969 the "Red Power" movement occupied this island in San Francisco Bay, holding it until June 11, 1971 Alcatraz |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | F.H. $600: Anointing & the laying on of hands are part of this method of curing illness using divine power faith healing |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $800: "Motion" is only part of this word for the power of moving; "Come on, baby, do" it locomotion |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | THE 1980s, QUICK! $2,200 (Daily Double): With U.S. help in 1983, Sir Paul Scoon returned to power in this island nation Grenada |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | D____A $800: Seat of power in Bangladesh Dhaka |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $2000: "Power, Pasta, and Politics" was this Brooklyn-born senator's account of his almost 20 years representing the Empire State Alfonse D'Amato |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | WILL POWER $400: In 1682 he founded the city of Philadelphia as a center of religious freedom (William) Penn |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | WILL POWER $800: He left Mississippi for Hollywood several times to work on screenplays including "The Big Sleep" (William) Faulkner |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | THE CIA $1000: Covert activities of the Directorate of Operations included ousting Premier Mosaddeq in 1953, restoring this man to power the Shah of Iran |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | WILL POWER $1200: E. B. White revised his "Elements of Style" (William) Strunk |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | WILL POWER $2000: In 1878 he renamed his Christian mission The Salvation Army William Booth |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | WILL POWER $5,000 (Daily Double): He was first in his law class at Stanford William Rehnquist |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | BREAKING NEWS $2000: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) In 2002 I broke the story of a peace plan--a return to June 1967 lines & a Palestinian state for a full peace between Israel & the Arab world--proposed by this now-king of Saudi Arabia King Abdullah |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | NEW DEAL PROGRAMS $1000: Headquartered in Knoxville, this agency created electric power & controlled floods in a 7-state area the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | BESTSELLERS $2000: In "Quiet", Susan Cain reveals "The power of" these shy people "in a world that can't stop talking" introverts |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | A VOWEL OF SILENCE $1000: Silent I:
This liquid precedes "up" when you add more power juice |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | SITCOM COUPLES $1600: Nickelodeon's animated magical power couple Cosmo & Wanda The Fairly OddParents |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | BIBLICAL SPEAKERS BUREAU $400: "Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?" Pontius Pilate |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | DEMOCRA "C" $200: They're paired with "balances" as the way our 3 branches of government share power checks |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | I'M ON THE CASE $400: Go through Marbury v. Madison to see how this Chief Justice established the power of judicial review (John) Marshall |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1600: This dashing "Captain Blood" star died in 1959 at the end of a week-long binge Errol Flynn |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | BLEAK HOUSE $400: Your house won't be bleak for long if it has a Rialto luxury lift power recliner from this hyphenated company La-Z-Boy |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | HEATED WORDS $200: It precedes
escape,
power &
extinguisher fire |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $800: An illegal wrestling move, or complete power over something a stranglehold |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WHERE YA OF? $4,000 (Daily Double): A power in Richard II's court, John of this was so-called for his birthplace of Ghent, not because he was skinny John of Gaunt |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | PRODUCT NAMES $2000: Power tools:
____ Cable Porter |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | HAUL $400: A purse seine is a huge one of these that takes many fishermen (or a power block) to haul out of the water a net |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | "BLOW" HARDS $2000: Using the power of breath to shape molten sand glassblowing |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | OTHER POWER PLAYERS $400: Sheryl Sandberg is the C.O.O. for this website born in a Harvard dorm; its users number over 10% of the world's people Facebook |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | OTHER POWER PLAYERS $800: Once this woman, now the Duchess of Cambridge, wears something (such as nude stockings), sales soar Kate Middleton |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | OTHER POWER PLAYERS $1200: (Warren Buffett reads the clue.) More than 90% of my wealth will eventually go to philanthropy; in 2006 I pledged $30.7 billion to this man's foundation to help make that happen the Gates Foundation |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | OTHER POWER PLAYERS $1600: In 1978 she hosted a Baltimore chat show called "People Are Talking"; her move to Chicago ended up working out Oprah Winfrey |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | OTHER POWER PLAYERS $2000: The purported subject of "The Devil Wears Prada", this Vogue editor went to the film's premiere wearing Prada Anna Wintour |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | "POWER" PLAYERS $400: It's what you exercise when you decide against having chocolate cake willpower |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | "POWER" PLAYERS $800: A device such as an electric drill & no, you can't borrow one of mine a power tool |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | "POWER" PLAYERS $1200: A John Lennon hit, or an anti-establishment slogan power to the people |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | "POWER" PLAYERS $1600: This 1973 act requires the president to consult with Congress about deploying troops abroad the War Powers Act |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | ACT LIKE A JOURNALIST $2000: As Kimberly Wells, she exposed wrongdoing at a nuclear power plant in "The China Syndrome" Jane Fonda |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | "POWER" PLAYERS $2000: Full name of the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 Francis Gary Powers |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | FOREIGN FOOD $400: This power-packed veggie is espinacas en espana spinach |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HOW SYMBOLIC $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The U.S. Air Force coat of arms depicts two symbols of airstriking power; a bald eagle & thunderbolts from this Roman god of the sky & heavens Jupiter |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | WHAT A CENTURY $200: Edison's first U.S. power station lights 10,000 lamps the 19th century |
| #6366, aired 2012-04-30 | TRANSPORTATION $600: It's a rotary-winged aircraft having one or more power-driven rotors on vertical axes a helicopter |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | SALESWOMEN $1200: KarenWare.com sells "Power Tools" apps for this computer operating system introduced in November 1985 Windows |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE 50 STATES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Boise, ID.) Idaho's state capitol is the only one that gets its power from the heat within the earth--this type of renewable energy in which Idaho is a leader geothermal energy |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | WHAT MAKES IT GO? $800: Disneyland's monorail runs on this type of power; let's have a parade! electricity |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | REVOLUTION $400: The power loom & steam engine helped fuel this "revolution" of economic & social changes starting around 1760 the Industrial Revolution |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | PHILOSOPHICAL METAPHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): In a work of political philosophy, Hobbes compared "The Great Power of" man's governor to this biblical beast leviathan |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | FILL IN THE QUOTE $800: Sexy completion of Henry Kissinger's "Power is the great..." aphrodisiac |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | SUPERHERO MOVIES $800: "In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight" begins the oath of this hero; beware his power! the Green Lantern |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | ORDINALLY SPEAKING $600: This term for an eerie power of perception is so called because it goes beyond sight, hearing & their 3 pals a sixth sense |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | I WANT MY "BABY" BACK, "BABY" BACK $800: At diapers.com power outlet covers are listed among the "essentials" for this activity babyproofing |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | GAME DESCRIPTIONS $1200: Clear the zone; stay out of the crease when trying to score on the power play hockey |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | HOW DO YOU... $600: Use the buttons & the strum bar, access star power by tilting the head, forget about how foolish you look play Guitar Hero |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | CENTERS OF POWER $400: The Kingston Fossil Power Plant in Tennessee burns 14,000 tons of this a day coal |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | CENTERS OF POWER $800: The Belwind Offshore Wind Farm, Bel for Belgium, is in this sea the North Sea |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | CENTERS OF POWER $1200: The DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center has over 90,000 solar these--aiieee! Turn it away! I'm going blind! panels |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | THIS... IS... HEGEMONY! $1600: In October 1919 he reorganized his political party, the Kuomintang, & was communism's rival for power in China Sun Yat-sen |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | CENTERS OF POWER $2000: One of the worst nuclear accidents in history took place in 2011 at this Japanese plant No. 1 Fukushima |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | CENTERS OF POWER $5,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from aboard the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls.) The huge hydroelectric potential of the falls led to a war of inventors; it was only settled when Westinghouse was given the right to build the A.C. generators that were designed & patented by this man Tesla |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | MATH $1200: The prefix "mega" denotes 10 to the 6th power; "giga", 10 to this power the ninth |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) These stations that could have shortened the Katrina nightmare by lowering water levels largely failed due to power loss; they're being stormproofed with backup generators pumping stations |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | HELP ME, FONDA $800: Jane Fonda helps Michael Douglas uncover hazards at a nuclear power plant in this 1979 blockbuster The China Syndrome |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ASSUME THE POSITION $800: Blake Griffin &
Karl Malone power forwards |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | THAWS $2,000 (Daily Double): A brief thaw in the icy chill of Soviet repression is named for this Russian leader who took power in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $400: The introduction of power-driven machinery in the early 1800s was a big factor in this process industrialization |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | STORAGE $800: At U.S. nuclear power plants, most spent fuel is stored in these, which cool them ponds (or pools) |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BRAIN GAMES $800: Your brain runs on only about 12 of these power units, using shortcuts to focus on what counts watts |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | BLUE RAYS $10,800 (Daily Double): The blue light in the pools of water in these power facilities is called Cerenkov radiation nuclear power plants |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | DRESS CASUAL $800: An effort at concealing facts by people in power, or a beach or pool garment such as a pareo a cover-up |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | DO YOU LIKE RUSSIAN HISTORY? $1200: Privatization in the 1990s gave power to the wealthy businessmen called these, from a term for government by the few oligarchs |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | ISN'T IT "GRAND"? $1600: Used for flood control & power production, it's been called the "8th Wonder of the World" the Grand Coulee Dam |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $400: The Power and the
___
Daze Glory |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | "W"HAT? $1200: Large or small, these simple turbines can generate power a waterwheel |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | DAM IT! $800: It supplies about 15% of Egypt's electric power the Aswan High Dam |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $800: This long-term Caribbean leader who came to power in 1959 is an accomplished ping-pong player Fidel Castro |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | AMERICANA $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by the Great Seal of the United States.) On the Great Seal of the United States, the power of war & peace are symbolized by what the eagle holds in its talons, thirteen arrows on one side & this, with thirteen leaves, on the other an olive branch |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | GOING GREEN $1000: Ocean Power Technologies & the U.S. Navy are testing a system off Oahu to generate power from these waves |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | 3 $200: The 3-tiered crown of this personage stands for spiritual power, temporal power & ecclesiastical power the pope |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | ROMAN NUMERAL LETTERS $1600: One of these on a telescope refers to a power of magnification X |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS $400: In 1920 he said that "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country" Lenin |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | A THOUSAND $2000: This thinker published the bestsellers "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" & "The Power of Myth" (Joseph) Campbell |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | NAME THE AUTHOR $200: "He wanted it because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger, you were invisible" Tolkien |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | BESTSELLERS OF THE 1950s $1000: This work by Norman Vincent Peale had us all feeling good in 1955 The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | FLIGHT SIMULATION $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in a flight simulator.) The simulator is on stilts & uses hydrolic power to create a very realistic version of this condition defined as the random fluctuations of a fluid such as air turbulence |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $400: The 1930s construction of this across Black Canyon brought thousands of workers (& power) to Vegas the Hoover Dam |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: I'm going to use my power of this to tell you it's from the Latin for "supplying a hint" suggestion |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | FLOWER POWER $200: These flowers are seen here in bloom at Itsukushima-jinja shrine cherry blossoms |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | FLOWER POWER $400: This lily blooms & dies within 24 hours & has a name that reflects its brief life a daylilly |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | FLOWER POWER $600: Seen here are the flowers of this plant that yields a cooking oil low in saturated fat canola |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | FLOWER POWER $800: The name of these herbaceous flowers is from the Latin for "wolflike" lupines |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | FLOWER POWER $1000: It sounds like herds of sheep, but it's the flowering plant seen here & common on the American prairies phlox |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | "NEW" IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Aldous Huxley later regretted not having put nuclear power in this futuristic novel Brave New World |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | IT'S A COUP D'ETAT $400: After his murder, the conspirators did not gain control, as power was passed on to the Second Triumvirate Julius Caesar |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | IT'S A COUP D'ETAT $1200: In 1921 Reza Pahlavi helped with a coup that eventually brought his son to power in this country Iran |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | SPORTS SPONSORSHIP $400: In 2010 this golfer rejected a s75 million, 5-year deal from Paddy Power, an Irish co.; yes, in 2010, & yes, he rejected it Tiger Woods |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | VIRGIN BERTHS $400: On March 15, 2006 the George H.W. Bush was launched as the 10th & final ship in the Nimitz class of these an aircraft carrier |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | THINKING GREEN $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us an engine compartment at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) Among Ford's future products is this environmentally-friendly update of the Ford Focus, with a lithium ion power train; it's known as the BEV, which stands for this battery electric vehicle |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | ANCIENT EGYPT $400: The Egyptians were the first known civilization to power boats using these, probably large leafy fronds on the bow sails |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE GALAPAGOS ENVIRONMENT $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Galapagos in Ecuador.) With its fragile ecosystem in danger from events like a 2001 oil tanker wreck, the Galapagos turned to energy sources like this; 3 turbines for it were installed in 2007 wind power |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | FOUNTAINS $400: The fountains in this French palace express the power of the king over nature Versailles |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | OUR 1st ANNUAL HISTORY AWARDS $800: Best 1483 Ruthless Power Grab:
This man, for his coup d'etat vs. Edward V & his execution of Lord Hastings Richard III |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | PO BOYS $400: This fashion designer who gave women the power suit was born in Piacenza, a city on the south bank of the Po River Giorgio Armani |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) The reactor is doing a green chemistry trick invented at Argonne--it's using plastic bags to create these, cylinders 50,000 times thinner than a hair, to increase the surface area & the power of batteries a nanotube |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: After revealing "The Secret", she gave us "The Power" Rhonda Byrne |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | KISS $1600: Kiss' first Top 10 single was a power ballad named for this 4-letter girl Beth |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | A REPORTER'S BASIC QUESTIONS $400: This word found on most lightbulbs is the unit of power equivalent to one joule per second a watt |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | LEGAL "E"s $367 (Daily Double): This 2-word phrase means the power to take private property for public use; it's OK as long as there is just compensation eminent domain |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | SURFIN' USB $400: USB technology is used to power these "happy" control devices also found in airplanes joysticks |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $1000: This "Fly By Night" power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in '74 (cue the drum solo) Rush |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE DIRECTOR $800: In the 1960s Hoover expanded his COINTELPRO plan to harass & disrupt this Southern extremist white power group the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | BIOPIC-NIC $400: 1983:
Meryl Streep as this nuclear power technician Silkwood |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This university in West Virginia is named for the Supreme Court Chief Justice who raised the court to a position of power Marshall |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | BE "APP"Y $2000: Russian word for a member of the ruling power, especially in a Communist country apparatchik |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | FRANCE, FRANCE REVOLUTION $1000: A royalist power grab in Paris was crushed by this young general in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | PHYSICS $1600: The term horsepower was first used by James Watt affer comparing the power of horses to the power of these steam engines |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | "POWER" LIFTING $200: The ability to refrain from eating that big slice of chocolate cake while on a diet willpower |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | "POWER" LIFTING $400: A nation with the ability to exert its influence worldwide; some say the U.S. is the only one now a superpower |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | "POWER" LIFTING $600: Popular business presentation program from Microsoft Power Point |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | "POWER" LIFTING $800: 2-word name for the heavy metal staple heard here; rock on! power chord |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | "POWER" LIFTING $1000: This document allows one person to act as the legal representative of another power of attorney |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: Cypselus of Corinth was this, a Greek term for one who takes power by force & rules oppressively a tyrant |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | TONIGHT--A WORLD PREMIER! $2000: Sometimes sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Hun Sen was first elected PM of this country in 1985 Cambodia |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the American Red Cross in New Orleans, LA.) The Red Cross recommends that your emergency kit include a radio; here's one with four power sources--namely batteries, A.C. power, solar power, & this old-fashioned method turning or cranking |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ASTRONOMERS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1609, using a weak 9-power telescope, he discovered that Venus has phases just like our moon Galileo |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MAYOR PLAYER $800: James Woods received an Emmy nomination for portraying this mayor, his rise to power & his response to 9/11 Giuliani |
| #6035, aired 2010-12-03 | HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY $400: She lent star power to a revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From The Bridge" Scarlett Johanssen |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | CELEBRITIES' KIDS' NAMES $1000: Rumer, Scout & Tallulah are the daughters of this former power couple who divorced in 2000 Bruce Willis and Demi Moore |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $600: Support from laborers called descamisados, "shirtless ones", brought him to power in Argentina in 1946 Juan Peron |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | WHEN YOU WISH UPON A CZAR $800: Coming to power in 1855, Alexander II realized this war wasn't going well & made peace in 1856 the Crimean war |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | OHIOANS $1600: Born in Bowersville, he had a bestselling book in 1952 with "The Power of Positive Thinking" Norman Vincent Peale |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1,600 (Daily Double): Epaminondas the Theban defeated this militaristic power in 371 B.C., sending it into decline Sparta |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | LENIN $2000: In 1917 Lenin used the slogan "all power to" these, from the Russian for "councils" the soviets |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | WANT TO RACE? $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Toyota Grand Prix.) The cars got more power due to the addition of this super device that forces air into the combustion chamber for a bigger bang & more horsepower a supercharger |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Chilean presidential palace.) The presidential palace in Santiago, Chile looks a lot more peaceful than on September 11, 1973, when it was attacked & this man was violently thrown from power (Salvador) Allende |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | BOOKS ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1600: Books about him include "One Man Alone" & "Arrogance of Power" Richard Nixon |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | SEARCH: ENGINES $800: This type of engine has two power sources hybrid |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | THERE'S A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD $600: 10 bucks should get you a replacement head for your Oral-B power this toothbrush |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | NO. 1 "LOVE" SONGS $200: Huey Lewis & Celine Dion both extolled love's potency with No. 1s titled this "The Power Of Love" |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $2000: This army aviator & air power advocate resigned from the service after his 1925 court-martial Billy Mitchell |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SEPTEMBER'S HERE ALREADY $1000: Remember the 25th is Mozambique's Armed Forces Day, commemorating the fight against this colonial power Portugal |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | THE THINGS YOU SAY! $1200: "Speak" this "to power", meaning tell the mighty what they don't want to hear, was coined in a 1955 Quaker pamphlet truth |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | THEY'RE LOOKING OUT FOR US $2000: NERC keeps the lights on by monitoring the bulk power system, made up of 3 vast networks called these power grids |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | DRINK LABELS $800: Edge, "the world's only maximum power cola", has these 2 initials of its parent cola on the label RC |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN $1000: "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power," this "is inevitable" war |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | SOUNDS LIKE A NEW POKEMON $400: Melodeon's only power is to give enjoyment: it's a reed one of these an instrument |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $600: Article I gives Congress the power to punish this crime of making phony money counterfeiting |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | KEEP ON TRUCKIN' $1000: Truckers know these have a range of about 25 miles in motor vehicles & federally limited power of 4 watts C.B. radios |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | BUSINESSWOMEN $1200: Carol Bartz made a deal for Microsoft to power the searches on this engine, where she's CEO Yahoo! |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ENDS IN "FF" $200: It follows powder, cream or power puff |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | IN AN EMERGENCY $1600: Darn it, car in the canal again? Do this while there's still power so the pressure will be equalized once you're underwater roll down the windows |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | 1T, 2T $2000: An Asian Buddhist temple, & a unit of power wat & watt |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COUSTEAU $200: One of Cousteau's dreams was to use this to help power a modern ship; he achieved it with the "Alcyone" & its turbo sail system wind |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | ALTHING $600: This position that has the country's real power (& the cabinet) is appointed by the president with the Althing's approval the prime minister |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | ALTHING $800: In 1874 the king of this nearby Scandinavian country vested the Althing with legislative power in internal affairs Denmark |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | "S"EVEN-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew puts a block of explosive into a bag.) Several blocks of explosive clumped together for extra power, as in demolition, are called this type of charge; they're often carried in briefcase-like bags satchel charges |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | ECO SUAVE $600: Turn your roof into a wind farm using new, more efficient ones of these rotor machines to generate power windmills (or turbines) |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | LEGISLATURES OF THE WORLD $200: This party has a sizable majority (614 of 614) in Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power the Communist Party |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1600: "Looking every inch a heavy-metal god, with a tangle of beard and power shoulder pads", Liam Neeson is Zeus in this 2010 flick Clash of the Titans |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | DECADES OF BESTSELLERS $600: "The Power of Positive Thinking"
& "Marjorie Morningstar" the 1950s |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | GRAY LIKE MY PERSONALITY $2000: In an expression from the French, someone wielding power behind the scenes is a "gray" this eminence |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $400: Things were good. Economy, strong. His country, at peace. But now Ken Starr was asking Reno for more power... (Bill) Clinton |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | "MON"-OTONY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a script and declaims.) In the name of all the gods & the power of all that is in me, I declare it's another name for a soliloquy a monologue |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $800: In 2008 this Texas oilman introduced a plan promoting oil alternatives such as natural gas & wind power (T. Boone) Pickens |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | "E" IN SCIENCE $1200: It's defined as the capacity or power to do work energy |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR $1,400 (Daily Double): William Lyons named this luxury car for its speed, sleekness & power Jaguar |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ASSEMBLY LINE $800: (Alex leans against a partly completed car at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) Here's something you definitely want to have in your home workshop--it's a power assist arm to do the heavy lifting; today it's being used to install over 100 pound instrument clusters; it also helps prevent job-related injuries like RSS, which is this kind of stress syndrome repetitive |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | TURTLES $800: Songs in their 1990 concert tour included "Pizza Power" & "Coming Out Of Our Shells" the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | POWER TO THE STUDENTS! $200: Trinchera was an organization formed at the University of Havana in 1959 in opposition to this new leader Fidel Castro |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | POWER TO THE STUDENTS! $400: In Great Britain the youth movement known as the CND is the "Campaign for Nuclear" this disarmament |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | POWER TO THE STUDENTS! $600: Led by Hans & Sophie Scholl, the White Rose was a group of student rebels fighting against fascism here in 1943 Germany |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | POWER TO THE STUDENTS! $800: A Beijing University student, Wu'er Kaixi was one of the main leaders during the bloody suppression at this location in 1989 Tiananmen Square |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | POWER TO THE STUDENTS! $1000: This fabric-named 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia began after police attacked a student demonstration the Velvet Revolution |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $400: The topics pages of nytimes.com say Texas leads the U.S. in producing power from this, especially out on the high plains wind |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | WORLD HOLIDAYS $600: This country has Bataan Day & People Power Day, commemorating the 1986 revolt the Philippines |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | THE PRISONER $800: Andrew Fastow, who cooked the books for this Houston-based power company, got 6 years ENRON |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NUCLEAR ENERGY $1600: Of the world's countries, this one in Europe gets the highest percentage of its power from nuclear energy France |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | TYPES OF... $1600: Power "I",
Spread offenses in football |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $3,000 (Daily Double): His brother Lucien was President of the Council of 500 in the legislature & helped him gain power Napoleon Bonaparte |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | CONVERSATIONS $2000: Conversations between Joseph Campbell & this journalist grew into the bestseller "The Power of Myth" Bill Moyers |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES $1000: (Alex reports from the National Archives.) The Constitution was signed by representatives of each of the 13 Colonies, except for this one, which opposed increasing federal power; because it was the last to ratify, it is now our 13th state Rhode Island |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $200: Tajikistan rocks! We just looked off one of these on the Vakhsh River; it's 300 meters tall & makes 3/4 of the country's power a dam |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | "U" COUNTRIES $800: This country's president Museveni, seen as a godsend after leaders like Idi Amin, has been in power since 1986 Uganda |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | VENICE $1200: Venice's commercial power was crushed when a land route to Asia lost value after this country found a sea route Portugal |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | IN BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY $400: "The fact of having or holding property in one's power" (it's not 9/10 of Black's, it's only 1 entry) possession |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | HEN TRICKS $2000: In this hyphenated Russian's opera "The Golden Cockerel", the magic bird has the power of clairvoyance Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | "TU" MUCH $800: On U.S. aircraft carriers, power comes from nuclear reactors & these steam-powered rotary engines turbines |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | A FULL HOUSE $800: A dimmer works by cutting power for an instant with each reversal of polarity in this type of electric current alternating current |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | HISTORIC TWITS $800: "Boss" Tweed's position at this NYC hall gave him the power to plunder millions in the 1800s Tammany Hall |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | STUFF I WANT $400: You can't beat a circular saw from this "man"ly brand of power tools from Sears Craftsman |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | ONE-NAMED PERSONALITIES $2000: In 2006 this "amazing" mentalist published the book "Mental Power is Real" Kreskin |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $1600: James Church chose this name for his product because the symbols of the god Vulcan represented power Arm & Hammer |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | TROUBLE $2000: When this family dynasty took power in Russia in 1613, the "Time of Troubles" came to an end Romanov |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GONE COUNTRY $1600: At the height of its power in the late 1800s, it occupied more than half of Germany, including the northern 2/3 Prussia |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | NAME THAT SPORT $1600: Icing,
power play,
blue line hockey |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | HISTORY & HERSTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): He got 34 patents for the telephone, but don't say Bell; he also got 389 for electric light & power Thomas Edison |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | LEAVE BRITTANY ALONE! $2000: In the 1970s Bretons fought off government attempts to build one of these in the Commune of Plogoff a nuclear power plant |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | IN THE BIBLE $800: In the Book of Judges, his Nazirite vows brought him great power but his passions brought his downfall Samson |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN FRANCE $1000: With the 1960 test of Gerboise Bleue, France became the fourth of these, joining the U.S., U.S.S.R. & U.K. a nuclear power |
| #5721, aired 2009-06-22 | LIGHTEN UP $400: Unit of power equal to 1 ampere flowing across a 1-volt potential difference (big definition, little word) a watt |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | PENNSYLVANIA $600: The site of the USA's worst accident at one of these facilities, Pennsylvania still has 5, including Peach Bottom a nuclear power plant |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | ISLANDS $800: Abundant geothermal power is a prominent natural resource of this island Iceland |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | O, CANADA $1200: In 2006 Stephen Harper led this political party to power the Conservative Party |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | ENERGY FROM EVERYWHERE $1600: This Toyota hybrid model introduced in 1997 was already green, but the Danes made one that runs on wind power the Prius |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $2000: Many a saint could tell you that thaumaturgy is the power to work these miracles |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | SCIENCE $800 (Daily Double): During an epidemic of this disease in 1796, Edward Jenner discovered the power of vaccines & used it to save lives smallpox |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | THE U.S. CONSTITUTION $800: This legislative body "shall have the sole power of impeachment" the House of Representatives |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | NUCLEAR ENERGY $800: This agency, the NRC, licenses all U.S. nuclear power plants & ensures that they operate safely the Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
| #5697, aired 2009-05-19 | IN THE BO-"D" $800: This large sheet of muscle provides most of the power that moves air in & out of the lungs the diaphragm |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | FUN WITH SCIENCE $400: In an annual contest in Oatman, Arizona, folks try to fry these on the sidewalk with solar power eggs |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $1600: This synonym for power or might has 7 consonants & only 1 vowel strength |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | WE SHALL REMAIN: GERONIMO $1200: Late in life, Geronimo got co-opted by the white power structure, even riding in this president's 1905 inaugural parade Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | THE KOREAN WAR $1200: The wartime leader of North Korea, he remained in power until his death in 1994 Kim Il-sung |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | SOME CALL IT BLASPHEMY $200: His thesis No. 77 says it's blasphemy that the cross on the papal arms is of equal power to Jesus' cross Martin Luther |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | LAKES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Niagara Falls.)
Niagara Falls gets is enormous power because the Niagara River's water is rushing between these 2 Great Lakes, which are only 36 miles apart but have a 300-foot difference in elevation Lakes Erie and Ontario |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE ZULU $400: In the 19th c. king Cetshwayo valiantly fought this European power that ultimately captured him Great Britain |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | MAYBE WE'LL INVADE BRITAIN! $1000: In 1667 Admiral de Ruyter of this European power led an expedition up the Medway River to within 20 miles of London Holland |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPORTMANTEAU! $400: Power-hungry Scot plus a type of alcohol used as auto fuel Macbethanol |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | FLOWER POWER $400: Its name comes from geranos, Greek for "crane"; its seed capsules look like a crane's bill a geranium |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | FLOWER POWER $800: In 1907 a pink one of these boutonniere flowers was chosen as the emblem of Mother's Day a carnation |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | FLOWER POWER $1600: The genus of this purplish flower is also a musical instrument Viola (or violet) |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | FLOWER POWER $2000: Saffron is derived from this flower the crocus |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | FLOWER POWER $3,800 (Daily Double): Japan's special day honoring this flower is also called the Festival of Happiness the chrysanthemum |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | CAPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2003, the 2 men seen here vied to wield power from this state capital Sacramento |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | GREEN LIVING $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside on the porch and the camera pans up.) The photovoltaic system on the roof provides shade & produces 75% of the home's power all from waves toward the violet end of this the light spectrum |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | GREEN LIVING $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew looks up at the lights.) The bulbs above generate less heat, can last ten years & use 1/10 the power of incandescent bulbs; they're known as LEDs, short for this light-emitting diodes |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | GENOME-ENCLATURE $2000: The true power behind DNA & genes, this can be messenger, transfer or ribosomal R(ibo) N(ucleic) A(cid) |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | PODGE-POURRI $1000: "Dynam" is a combining form meaning this 5-letter word that can precede drill, broker or brake power |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the USS John C. Stennis in San Diego, CA.) The circular shape of USS John C. Stennis's seal signifies its ability to circle the globe without refueling; its nuclear power gives it the speed of 30 of these, which would be about 800 miles a day knots |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY $1000: Paging Mr. Magus, this magician who offered to purchase the power of transmitting the Holy Spirit Simon |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: In the 17th c. each member of the Polish legislature had this power & could defeat any measure & end the session a veto |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | WE BLINDED YOU WITH SCIENCE $1200: Usually seen daily by most people, it produces 3.83 x 1026 watts of power in the form of light the sun |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | PUMP IT "UP" $1000: Lord Acton: "absolute power" does this "absolutely" corrupts |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | MERRY OLD SOUL $800: Say it loud--this Sex Machine had "Soul Power" in 1971 James Brown |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | NAME THAT CONFLICT'S CENTURY $600: The English Civil War that brought Cromwell to power the 17th |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Almighty or infinite in power, as god is omnipotent |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | "MO" BETTER $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew performs an experiment in mechanics.) Drop a matchbox, & it falls over, but open the box, & it stands, because the drawer sliding shut uses the stabilizing power of this, defined as mass times velocity momentum |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | THE "COO" CREW $400: A businessman of exceptional wealth & power a tycoon |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | HERE'S THE PISTOLS $200: We can just see English poet Robert toting this company's hi-power Mark III 9mm pistol Browning |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | CONDUCTORS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew powers a fan by putting one terminal into a beaker of saltwater.) Current that will power the fan is carried by ions rather than free electrons in the saltwater, which is one of these conducting liquids an electrolyte |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | CATCH THE "FLU" $800: The power to affect persons or events influence |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | ROYALTY $1600: This country was still involved in the 30 Years' War when Queen Christina came to power in 1644 Sweden |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | QUOTATIONS $1000: In McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, this Chief Justice wrote, "The power to tax involves to destroy" John Marshall |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | GOOD WORKS $800: An organization that is using the Internet's power to help young people change the world is called "Do" this Something |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $600: Get spacy earning the Girl Scout badge the "Power" of these orbiters Planets |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | LET'S THAI ONE ON $1200: Thailand was never ruled by a Western power & its name means "land of" this, also a Francis Scott Key phrase the land of the free |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $1600: Here's "The News": The "Power of Love" singer was an engineering major at Cornell Huey Lewis |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | THE 2008 TIME 100 $600: "His purchase of The Wall Street Journal puts a real power behind the press" Rupert Murdoch |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | THE 2008 TIME 100 $800: "Russia's iron-willed leader has rebuilt his country as a great power--and an irritant to the West" Putin |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | THE 2008 TIME 100 $1000: "How the firebrand Shi'ite cleric became a major power broker in the new Iraq" Muqtada al-Sadr |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $1600: Eleanor had not expected this movie star's 1953 performance in "John Brown's Body" to satisfy her as it did Tyrone Power |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | SPLENDOR $400: The First Book of Chronicles says, "Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and" this the glory |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | CZAR POWER $400: This last Romanov to rule Russia became the last czar when he was dethroned in 1917 Nicholas II |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | CZAR POWER $800: In the 1780s, when the divine right of royalty was questioned, she said, "I am an aristocrat. It is my profession" Catherine the Great |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | CZAR POWER $1200: 3 Russian czars were named Fyodor, which corresponds to this name in English Theodore |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | CZAR POWER $2,000 (Daily Double): At 43 years, the reign of this founder of the Russian navy was the longest of any czar Peter the Great |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | CZAR POWER $2000: The 1604 invasion against this czar by the False Dmitri & his Polish troops marked the start of the "Time of Troubles" Boris Godunov |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $600: Fort Peck Dam on this river in Montana provides irrigation & hydroelectric power for much of the region the Missouri |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | A BIT OF LIT $400: Shelley "penned" that this alpine peak "gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights" Mont Blanc |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | I'M LIBYAN $200: In 1969 this 27-year-old seized power in a coup d'etat in Libya Qadaffi |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | MOVIE TITLE NAMES $400: 2000:
Julia Roberts becomes a legal assistant & brings down a power company Erin Brockovich |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | SUMO $1200: (Cheryl reports again from ringside.) The object is to power your opponent out of the ring; punching & choking are not allowed and are called "kinjite", which means "forbidden" this body part hand |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | GEEK SQUAD $800: (A Geek demonstrates a non-traditional modem.) If your home can't be wired with Ethernet or use wireless devices, we can install this type of technology allowing networking using your traditional electrical outlets power-line networking |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | CONGRESS $2000: In the House, the Majority Leader is second in power to this person the Speaker of the House |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | "OUT" IS IN $1000: "Colorful" loss of electrical power as a result of overuse by consumers a blackout |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | WORLD UP! $2000: In 1980 Luis Garcia Meza took power in this landlocked S. Amer. country that's had more than 180 coups in its history Bolivia |
| #5474, aired 2008-05-29 | "IS" THAT SO? $400: This Egyptian goddess learned the secret name of Ra & thus acquired his power Isis |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | HEY, J.J.! $1600: In 2001 his change of political affiliation tipped the balance of power in the Senate Jim Jeffords |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUOTATIONS $400: Henry Kissinger said this "is the ultimate aphrodisiac" power |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | CHEER LEADERS $600: Kudos to Kofi Annan, who brokered Pres. Kibaki & Raila Odinga's power-sharing deal in this country Kenya |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | PEOPLE IN THE NEWS $600: In 2008 the committee cited "profound impact" & "poetic power" in giving him the first Pulitzer for a rock musician Bob Dylan |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | "P"EOPLE $2000: Born around 1550, this man also known as Wahunsonacock came to wield enormous power in what is now Va. Powhatan |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: A decorative item on a ship's prow, or a leader with a title but no power figurehead |
