| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $800: This actress starred in the Chaplinesque Indian film "Barfi!" before landing in "Quantico" in 2015 Priyanka Chopra Jonas |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $400: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | '80s & '90s R&B SONGS $800: 1994's "Creep" by this letter-perfect female trio sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick TLC |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $400: Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes George R.R. Martin |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | "M.R.", AYE! $1200: During World War II, Winston Churchill planned strategy in this aptly named space; you can still visit it the Map Room |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | E.R. $800: Prior to World War II, this German "Desert Fox" wrote a textbook called "Infantry Attacks" Erwin Rommel |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | E.R. $1600: In World War I, the 26 victories by this American fighter ace included 22 planes & 4 balloons Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | "R" TOWN $600: With a metro area of more than 13 million, this city is the world's biggest "R" town Rio de Janeiro |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: In 2019 David R. Malpass became the president of this global finance organization that's affiliated with the United Nations the World Bank |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | PLAYS $2,400 (Daily Double): In the Czech play "R.U.R.". which gave the world this word, one of them says, "Mankind is no more. Mankind gave us too little life" robot |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | JOURNALISTS $1200: Mary Marvin Breckenridge was the only woman among the World War II era correspondents known as this reporter's "Boys" Edward R. Murrow |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | JOURNALISTS $1600: (David Muir of ABC World News Tonight presents the clue.) In 2018, ABC's "World News Tonight" and I were proud to be named Best Newscast as recipients of the Radio-Television Digital News Association Award named for this legendary newsman (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM $1200: Seeing as how I'm no slouch on putting on a fancy costume, I felt right at home at a gathering of the whimsical folk who are into L.A.R.P. or LARP, short for "live action" this role-playing |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | "R.R." $800: World on Wheels is one of these places to go skating a roller rink |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $2000: In an R.E.M. classic these 10 words precede "(And I Feel Fine)" "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | "R" TOWN $400: We bet you know this Nevada city is nicknamed "The Biggest Little City in the World" Reno |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $800: This 19,340-foot African peak is said to be the highest "walkable" mountain in the world K-I-L-I-M-A-N-J-A-R-O |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $400: R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" is set in a dugout connected to one of these, which have come to symbolize the war a trench |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | THE MUSICAL "R"TIST $200: "Only Girl (In The World)" Rihanna |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | WE LOVE "R" MUSIC $1000: Janet Jackson sang, "People of the world today, are we looking for a better way of life? We are part of" this the Rhythm Nation |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | GOOD KNIGHT $400: "The Hedge Knight" is a graphic novel set in the same world as this author's "A Song of Ice and Fire" George R.R. Martin |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | WE "R" THE WORLD $400: One of Morocco's 4 imperial cities, it's located on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the wadi Bou Regreg Rabat |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | WE "R" THE WORLD $800: This country is partly on the Balkan Peninsula Romania |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | WE "R" THE WORLD $1200: It flows through Lake Constance on its way to the North Sea the Rhine |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | WE "R" THE WORLD $1600: In 1895 Oscar Wilde went to gaol in this town Reading |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | WE "R" THE WORLD $2000: This island, the birthplace of Virginia Dare, is part of Dare County Roanoke |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH $800: For a little R&R in T&T, this country, head to Pigeon Point, one of the world's 100 best beaches, according to CNN Trinidad and Tobago |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | WRAP MUSIC $400: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", this band sang in 1987 (& they felt fine) R.E.M. |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | THE BATTLESHIP U.S.S. IOWA $200: (Alex delivers the clue from the foredeck of the U.S.S. Iowa.) Shortly after it
was commissioned in 1943, F.D.R. came aboard the Iowa and traveled to Tehran
for an important meeting with these two other world leaders Stalin & Churchill |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | AXIS & ALLIES $200: These countries were the "Big 3" Allied powers of World War II U.S., Britain, and Russia (or U.S.S.R.) |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $400: During this war Major Martin R. Delany became the U.S. Army's first black field officer Civil War |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | SONG LYRICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", 2 of the 4 men with the initials "L.B." (2 of) Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs & Leonard Bernstein |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $400: The flag of this nation that no longer exists depicted a hammer, a sickle & a star the U.S.S.R. (the Soviet Union) |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | SERIOUS RADIO $2000: This nonprofit corp. abbreviated R.F.E. was created to oppose the USSR's isolating its citizens from world info Radio Free Europe |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $400: A dishonest or unprincipled man, or one of the X-Men a rogue |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $800: What the Brits call a Mackintosh isn't an apple but one of these a raincoat |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $1200: In the movies, it was Charles Foster Kane's cryptic final word Rosebud |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $1600: Its functions include insight, imagination & control of the left hand the right side of the brain |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a plant diagram on the monitor.) Similar to a root, it's the botanical term for a thick, horizontal underground stem from which shoots develop into new plants a rhizome |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | SIX MILLION-DOLLAR MEN $400: John N., of this R.I. university-endowing family, was known as "The World's Richest Baby" when his uncle died in 1900 the Brown family |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | EDWARD R. MURROW $1600: Murrow narrated this Oscar-winning 1956 film based on a Jules Verne work Around the World in 80 Days |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | IT'S ON "R" MAPS $800: "The Photo Capital of the World", this city in New York is also the birthplace of American Spiritualism Rochester |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Helsinki, Finland.) On November 30, 1939, the U.S.S.R. attacked Finland in what became known as this alliterative conflict--& got quite a fight the Winter War |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $1000: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this C-O-L-O-U-R |
| #4755, aired 2005-04-15 | "R" TOWN $800: Founded in the 13th century, this major Dutch port was heavily damaged by German bombing in World War II Rotterdam |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | J.R. $800: This American journalist was embedded in
Petrograd in 1917 during the "10 Days that Shook the World" John Reed |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | ROCK $2000: R.E.M. may have had millennial fears in this song that begins, "That's great it starts with an earthquake" "It's the End of the World as We Know It" |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | TOYS "R" THESE $300: Parker Bros. recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of this take-over-the-world board game Risk |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | IN A MINUTE $500: Under the slogan "Real Estate for the Real World", this company claims on average to buy or sell a home every minute Century 21 |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | FLOWERS $100: Encarta calls it the world's most popular & widely cultivated garden flower Rose |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | THE LIVING WORLD $600: When a maple tree loses its keys, it loses these Seeds |
| #3413, aired 1999-06-09 | TRIVIAL STEW $400: After winning Super Bowl XXI in 1987, Phil Simms pioneered the use of this reply when asked what he would do now "I'm Going to Disneyland!" |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | THE Y2K BUG $1000: A Time/CNN poll found only 9% of respondents believed Y2K was likely to bring this title subject of an R.E.M. song "It's the End of the World" |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | ANY PORT $2,000 (Daily Double): (Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston. This 16-ton piece of the hull of R.M.S. Titanic was raised from the floor of the north Atlantic in August of 1998.) The Titanic was still considered unsinkable when it sailed April 10, 1912 from this English port city Southampton |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: As its name indicates, Ecuador's lowland El Oriente lies on this side of the Andes Eastern |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This Czech writer of "R.U.R." wrote "The Insect Comedy" with his brother Josef Karel Capek |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | THE EMMYS $1000: 1989-90 Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Mark Goodson & this "Wide World of Sports" announcer Jim McKay |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | 1982 $500 (Daily Double): On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city Knoxville, Tennessee |
| #2667, aired 1996-03-19 | WORLD FLAGS $800: The "R" on its flag stands for republic, referendum & revolution, as well as the country's name Rwanda |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | AROUND THE WORLD $300: In Serbo-Croatian the name of this Italian port is spelled T-R-S-T; maybe you should buy a vowel Trieste |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | WORLD WAR I $200: Britain was drawn into the war when this Low Country was invaded August 4, 1914 Belgium |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | ARCHITECTS $200: Julia Morgan built one of the world's most lavish homes for W.R. Hearst at this site San Simeon |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | WORLD FLAGS $1000: The flag of this African country bears an "R" in its center Rwanda |
| #2153, aired 1994-01-05 | 1980s TV $200: On Nov. 21, 1980 the world discovered that Kristin Shepard shot this businessman J.R. Ewing |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | OLD RADIO $100: This CBS newsman began his World War II broadcasts with "This is London" (Edward R.) Murrow |
| #1393, aired 1990-09-26 | R.L. STEVENSON $800: Magill's Masterpieces of World Literature doesn't list this title alter ego as a main character Mr. Hyde |
| #1350, aired 1990-06-15 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: R.L. Stevenson's house is now the official office of the head of state of this country next to American Samoa Western Samoa |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: '69 R. Moore book made into a film that's subtitled "The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation" The French Connection |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | STARTS WITH "R" $200: This grain is the chief food of about half the people in the world rice |
| #1016, aired 1989-01-23 | WORLD WAR II $200: As an observer, this CBS correspondent flew 25 combat missions "Person to Person" Edward R. Murrow |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | "BLUE" MOVIES $600: Critic L. Maltin said R. Burton wasn't impressive playing this role, the world's most famous ladykiller Bluebeard |
| #705, aired 1987-10-02 | DALLAS $200: The question on lips all over the world during the summer of 1980 Who shot J.R.? |
| #580, aired 1987-02-27 | TRIVIAL WORLD RECORDS $200: R. & C. Cummins parented the only 5 different-aged siblings who all share this same calendar statistic birthday |
| #499, aired 1986-11-06 | 3rd WORLD CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): Baseball star R. Clemente died in plane crash on way to aid earthquake victims in this C. Amer. capital Managua |
| #475, aired 1986-10-03 | WINES $300: According to the wine institute, in 1984 this major power was world's 4th leading wine producer the U.S.S.R. |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | ALPHABET SOUP $600: Letter reversed in the name of what a giraffe calls "The World's Biggest Toystore" R |
| #42, aired 1984-11-06 | SPELLING $200: "Put them all together" & they're "a word that means the world to me" M-O-T-H-E-R |
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