Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (705 results returned)

#9069, aired 2024-03-28HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $400: Put Kingman in your rear view, cruise I-40 & you'll be in Standin' on the Corner Park in this Arizona city in 3 hours Winslow
#9061, aired 2024-03-18ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: "The ride. The roar. The rally" is a motto for the annual motorcycle rally in this South Dakota city Sturgis
#9015, aired 2024-01-12AN "A" IN SCIENCE $200: The primary risk factor for mesothelioma, a rare cancer, is thought to be exposure to this tough fiber asbestos
#1, aired 2024-01-12HEAR ME ROAR $400: It's not just carnivores--the harts of the red type of this roar to drive rival males away deer
#1, aired 2024-01-12HEAR ME ROAR $800: The Kalolo-Lozi people call the roar & mist that the Zambezi River makes as it forms this "the smoke that thunders" Victoria Falls
#1, aired 2024-01-12HEAR ME ROAR $1200: Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?" "La Marseillaise"
#1, aired 2024-01-12HEAR ME ROAR $1600: Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954 Godzilla
#1, aired 2024-01-12HEAR ME ROAR $2000: Alphabetically first in Old Testament books comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion" Amos
#9012, aired 2024-01-093 OF THE SAME LETTER $600: Less common, or less well-done rarer
#8992, aired 2023-12-12AUTO RACING $400: It's the aquatic term for the rapid side-to-side movement a car's rear end can make while racing fishtailing
#8970, aired 2023-11-10GOLF $800: A rare old gold coin, or an even rarer 3 under par on a single hole a double eagle
#19, aired 2023-11-01HORSE, HOG, OR DOG $1500: The large black & the large white hog
#8953, aired 2023-10-18YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH $1600: This type of neck injury results from a sudden jerking of the head in one direction like from a rear-end collision whiplash
#8944, aired 2023-10-05I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $400: As a noun, it's your rear; as a preposition, it means toward the rear behind
#15, aired 2023-10-04BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $800: A rare pop song that features an oboe solo, this cryptic ballad by Seal became a smash hit after appearing in "Batman Forever" "Kiss From A Rose"
#8937, aired 2023-09-26NEXT STOP, VENUS $800: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the Sun, which Venus did in June 2012 the transit of Venus
#8924, aired 2023-07-27RETITLED MOVIE ADAPTATIONS $800: Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" became this Hitchcock film with Jimmy Stewart in the cast & in a cast Rear Window
#8917, aired 2023-07-18THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $400: Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist "I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter / Dancing through the fire / 'Cause I am a..." Katy Perry
#8914, aired 2023-07-13ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $800: This term for something impossibly rare predated the 1600s discovery of the real thing, Cygnus atratus, in Australia a black swan
#8905, aired 2023-06-30SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: Yes, yes, this rare lemur has been described as having the face of a possum, the teeth of a rat & the ears of a bat an aye-aye
#8903, aired 2023-06-28PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Delicate & rare like herself, a unicorn is among Laura Wingfield's prized collection in this Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie
#8889, aired 2023-06-08SILENT LETTER WORDS $1000: This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish lacquer
#7, aired 2023-05-12PRESENT COMPANY ACCEPTED $1000: Do you have the time? You would if you'd paid $1.1 million at Sotheby's for a rare Cheich watch by this jeweler from Paris Cartier
#4, aired 2023-05-09LIBRARIES $200: Harvard's Widener Library honors Harry Elkins Widener, whose rare works were donated after his death in this maritime disaster the Titanic
#8856, aired 2023-04-24THAT'S AN ANIMAL SOUND $600: Turning the title around in a cheeky way, a 1965 Broadway musical was called "The" this "of the Greasepaint--The Smell of the Crowd" the roar
#8852, aired 2023-04-18SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $600: Seen in rare footage of a herd crossing a river, the rarest Asian subspecies is the Borneo type, also known as this word that makes it sound tiny pygmy
#8849, aired 2023-04-13IN THE AIR TONIGHT $600: On rare occasions, these, perhaps from the Leonids, can break the sound barrier meteors
#8833, aired 2023-03-221963 $800: "She" made a rare visit to the U.S. from the Louvre & was displayed in Washington, D.C. & New York before her return trip the Mona Lisa
#8824, aired 2023-03-094-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: Major industrial river valley region of northwest Germany Ruhr
#8820, aired 2023-03-03THE LANTHANIDES OF MARCH $400: Lanthanides are all rare earth elements, with promethium the rarest--not found in nature & all its isotopes have this unstable property radioactivity
#8812, aired 2023-02-21THE ELEMENTS $400: Superman's home planet shares its name with this rare gas krypton
#8804, aired 2023-02-09CHEMISTRY $500 (Daily Double): Cerium & yttrium are 2 of these elements that despite their name, are abundant on our planet the rare earth elements
#12, aired 2023-01-264-LETTER ADJECTIVES $100: Uncommon, or steak with a cool red center rare
#8764, aired 2022-12-15TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $600: IKEA's Bekväm is this type of ladder: self-supporting, with a top cap connecting the front & rear rails a stepladder
#8763, aired 2022-12-14LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! $200: A rare packaging of a 1985 Nintendo video game featuring "Super" these "Bros." bounced to $114,000 in 2020 Mario Bros.
#8744, aired 2022-11-17HEAD FOR THE HILLS $200: In legend, the Lia Fáil, or "Stone of Destiny", atop the Hill of Tara in this nation would roar at the touch of a rightful king Ireland
#8744, aired 2022-11-17HISTORIC DATES $400: San Franciscans heard a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions" on April 18 of this year 1906
#8734, aired 2022-11-03A YEAR ENDING IN 2 $600: After capturing New Orleans, David Farragut is given the new rank of rear admiral 1862
#8731, aired 2022-10-31FROM EAR TO FRATERNITY $800: A military supply unit far from the action is in the "rear" this echelon
#8723, aired 2022-10-19ADJECTIVES $5,000 (Daily Double): A synonym for "absurd", it's from the Latin for "with the rear part first" preposterous
#8720, aired 2022-10-14THAT MOVIE'S GOT LEGS $600: At the end of this Hitchcock film, Jimmy Stewart has not one but 2 broken legs Rear Window
#8720, aired 2022-10-14AVANT-GARDE ART $800: Eduardo Kac's "Rara Avis" included a cage filled with these; a robotic one had a camera inside of it birds
#8716, aired 2022-10-10ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $400: Even more uncommon rarer
#3, aired 2022-10-09GO BLUE! $100: In 2020 a rare blue this was rescued from becoming dinner at the chain restaurant Red this, & sent to a zoo a lobster
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BODIES OF WATER $2000: This sea of the Arctic Ocean is named for a British rear admiral who also devised a scale for measuring wind force Beaufort
#8687, aired 2022-07-19INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS $2000: This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebok antelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas South Africa
#8680, aired 2022-07-08ROLE CALL $800: In this film, Jared Leto plays the title biochemist who tries to cure himself of a rare disease but infects himself with vampirism instead Morbius
#8679, aired 2022-07-07FROM THE SPEEDWAY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) In 2019, the Vegas Speedway was the site of aerodynamic testing, including a longer splitter, the front end equivalent to this rear piece; by increasing downforce, it reduces lift & maintains traction a spoiler
#8677, aired 2022-07-05ANIMAL SOUNDS? $600: "'Cause I am a champion... you're gonna hear me" do this, sang Katy Perry roar
#8671, aired 2022-06-27MORE THAN ONE MEANING $600: Very strict & hard-nosed, or a boat's rear end stern
#8667, aired 2022-06-21"M.R.", AYE! $800: Cooking to about 135 degrees gets your T-bone done this way medium rare
#8667, aired 2022-06-21TRANSPLANTS $1600: This artist who painted "Paris Through the Window" left Russia in his rear view in 1922 & went to see Paris through his window Marc Chagall
#8647, aired 2022-05-24RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES $800: "California" these birds "Are Very Rare, But 10% of Them Are Trashing" a house in Tehachapi condors
#8645, aired 2022-05-20DISEASES $1200: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare but fatal & transmissible brain disease closely related to this bovine affliction mad cow disease
#8635, aired 2022-05-06NEW TO THE OED $800: "To catch" this, meaning to accomplish something rare & remarkable lightning in a bottle
#8618, aired 2022-04-13AROUND THE USA $400: To see a rare stone beach on Washington Island, Wisconsin, you must brave Death's Door, a strait connecting Lake Michigan and this bay Green Bay
#8597, aired 2022-03-15THE ANCIENT MARINER $200: In his 70s, Sir John Ross sailed north to find his lost friend Sir John Franklin; he failed but got promoted to rear this rank admiral
#8596, aired 2022-03-14"SH"! $1200: Once considered a rare breed, this dog was originally used for hunting & guarding in China Shar-Pei
#15, aired 2022-02-18CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY $2,800 (Daily Double): Europium is one of these metals, though they're not as scarce as their name implies rare earth metals
#11, aired 2022-02-16POTPOURRI $400: Limited edition Oreos with designs of these fictional beings are selling for big bucks; the exceedingly rare Mew is highly coveted Pokémon
#8531, aired 2021-12-13CHEMISTRY $1200: "Earth" used to refer to certain oxides; hence this term for samarium & friends rare earth
#8521, aired 2021-11-29THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1200: A rare pink species of this land reptile lives around a volcano on Isabela Island in the Galápagos an iguana
#8521, aired 2021-11-29WHO'S YOUR "C-O"? $2000: This boss of a squadron once ranked just below a rear admiral a commodore
#8513, aired 2021-11-17SCIENCE $800: Rare on Earth except in signs, this gas with atomic number 10 is a top 10 element in abundance in the universe neon
#8511, aired 2021-11-15WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $800: As Dorothy walked through Oz, "now and then there came a deep" this sound "from some wild animal" a growl
#8509, aired 2021-11-11SERVING $200: In server-speak "still mooing" & "on the hoof" means a steak cooked this way rare
#8504, aired 2021-11-04"ANTI" UP $1600: It's one who studies ancient relics, or a type of bookstore dealing in old & rare volumes antiquarian
#8501, aired 2021-11-01ONCE UPON A NOVEMBER $1200: On Nov. 29, 1929 he commanded the first flight over the South Pole, for which he'd receive a promotion to rear admiral (Richard) Byrd
#8499, aired 2021-10-28THE VIKINGS $1200: Wagner knew about these female choosers of the slain in Viking myth; a rare pendant depicting one was found in 2012 a valkyrie
#8486, aired 2021-10-11RECENT MOVIES $1200: Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote Venom
#8476, aired 2021-09-27TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $1200: Scientists still don't fully understand this rare phenomenon that has reportedly even made its way inside of houses ball lightning
#8470, aired 2021-09-17THE COMMON DEFENSE $600: It may be a defense for dropping a fly ball, but judges say not for rear-ending another car; be prepared if driving west at 5 PM the Sun in your eyes
#8465, aired 2021-08-13HELEN, NOT OF TROY $800: In her unofficial anthem for the women's movement, she sang, "I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman" Reddy
#8450, aired 2021-07-23DOING THE SAFETY DANCE $400: Subaru provides beeps & visual cues on the rear camera screen & reverse automatic this to ensure you don't hit anything backing up braking
#8438, aired 2021-07-07THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF SUFFIX $400: This 3-letter suffix made the rare jump to being used as its own word, meaning "kind of" -ish
#8431, aired 2021-06-28THE CARS $1000: A status symbol of the time, some say this company's Bearcat put the "roar" in the Roaring Twenties Stutz
#8422, aired 2021-06-15THE STAGE $2000: In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it's worth & plans to steal it back American Buffalo
#8391, aired 2021-05-03ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: "The Last Olympian" is the last of the 5 books in his original Percy Jackson series Rick Riordan
#8387, aired 2021-04-27TIGER $200: Late Secretary of State George Shultz was said to have a tiger tattoo on his rear, a legacy of his days at this Ivy League university Princeton
#8376, aired 2021-04-12COUNTING ON TELEVISION $1200: Rita Moreno starred as Cuban-American grandma Lydia Riera on this reboot of a 1970s sitcom One Day at a Time
#8328, aired 2021-02-03"UN"-TERTAINMENT $1200: In this 2019 film Adam Sandler played NYC jeweler Howard Ratner, who came into possession of a rare opal Uncut Gems
#8315, aired 2021-01-15ALONG FOR THE RIDE $2000: A "rear column" of depraved upper-class twits tagged along with Henry Stanley to explore this river's basin in 1887 the Congo
#8307, aired 2021-01-05MAPS $600: The Peutinger Table, a rare ancient Roman map, is basically this type that Rand McNally is famous for, complete with mileage figures a road map
#8291, aired 2020-11-30THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1000: About 4 times larger than a honeybee, the rare Wallace's giant is native to this country's North Moluccas Islands Indonesia
#8275, aired 2020-11-06ONE-WORD SONG TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Though quoted, the songwriters of "Eye Of The Tiger" didn't get credit on this No. 1 hit by Katy Perry "Roar"
#8264, aired 2020-10-22CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $1600: Elements that are gases at room temperature include argon, neon, krypton & this rare "foreign" noble gas used in lighting xenon
#8262, aired 2020-10-20MILITARY MATTERS $400: Rear Adm. Isaac Kidd, the 1st U.S. Navy flag officer killed by foreign enemy action, was on the Arizona's bridge during this attack Pearl Harbor
#8223, aired 2020-05-27A HIT RECENTLY $800: Complemented by its lush video, "Rare" from this former TV wizard was a singular hit in the new decade Selena Gomez
#8216, aired 2020-05-18AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: These 2 Atlanta colleges were both founded soon after the Civil War & "Spelhouse" marriages between alums are not rare Morehouse & Spelman
#8206, aired 2020-04-20SPORTS TALK $2000: In archery it's the 4-letter word for the groove at the rear end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring nock
#8202, aired 2020-04-14FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES $800: In a 1976 Clive Cussler book, Dirk Pitt attempts to "Raise" this doomed liner to get the rare element byzanium the Titanic
#8191, aired 2020-03-30GREENS $200: A rare variety of beryl, this valuable gem gets its green from chromium emerald
#8169, aired 2020-02-27NATURE $800: Inhabiting the Amazon River Basin, the rare boto is also known as the pink this mammal dolphin
#8158, aired 2020-02-1221st CENTURY JAPAN $1200: In 2019 a rare papal visit to Japan included a speech against nuclear arms in this, the second city where an A-bomb was used in war Nagasaki
#2, aired 2020-01-07ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $1600: Frank Gehry not only designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall, but also this instrument at the rear of the stage the organ
#1, aired 2020-01-07DAVID MUIR COVERS THE WORLD $800: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2016 I got a rare look inside this controversial detention facility & watched through one-way glass as some of its remaining inmates engaged in the call to prayer Guantanamo Bay
#8128, aired 2020-01-01UNCOMMON $200: This 4-letter way you might like your steak is also a synonym for "uncommon" rare
#8123, aired 2019-12-259-LETTER WORDS $800: It means toward the rear & is also a polite word for the part you sit on posterior
#8120, aired 2019-12-20ALTERNATIVE SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN $800: In an old print ad, Santa says a gift bringing "pleasure to every home...is rare indeed. Such a gift, my friends, is Lucky Strike"--these cigarettes
#8119, aired 2019-12-19MAMMAL FACTS $400: They're eared seals that roar & (except the California type) have manes a sea lion
#8110, aired 2019-12-06CLOTHING $200: The tapering rear ends of a man's formal jacket are known as these tails
#8107, aired 2019-12-03ANIMAL MALADIES $400: It's rare, but some snakes exhibit ouroboros-like symptoms where they are compelled to eat their own this a tail
#8103, aired 2019-11-27HERE, KITTY $400: In the voice box, great cats like the lion & tiger have instead of the epihyal bone a special ligament letting them do this roar
#8094, aired 2019-11-14HOUSE PAINTING $1600: The house in the rear of this Brit's painting "A Bigger Splash" features, of course, a swimming pool (David) Hockney
#8079, aired 2019-10-24VEHICULAR ACTIVITY $400: Bump & rob (a driver rear-ends you, you stop & get out...) is a technique in this form of auto theft carjacking
#8074, aired 2019-10-17'60s POP CULTURE $1000: At the Oscars in 1969, there was a rare tie for Best Actress between Barbra Streisand & this other legend Katharine Hepburn
#8072, aired 2019-10-15OH OH, 3 O'S $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the Royal Navy rank just below Rear Admiral Commodore
#8045, aired 2019-07-26SHARK WEEK $1,000 (Daily Double): Shark Week divers encounter a rare sight--a bigeye type of this shark, named for a motion its tail makes as it whips its prey a thresher shark
#8044, aired 2019-07-253-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $800: Towards the rear of a ship aft
#8040, aired 2019-07-19THE APOLLO MISSIONS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) In 1975 an Apollo module was launched from Florida & this other craft from Kazakhstan for an orbital link-up that marked a rare period of detente in the space race Soyuz
#8008, aired 2019-06-05SKETCHERS $1000: Costume designer Edith Head created many sketches of this actress for Hitchcock's "Rear Window" Grace Kelly
#8005, aired 2019-05-315 "LASH"ES $200: This cervical spine injury often occurs in a rear-end auto collision whiplash
#7973, aired 2019-04-17BRAVING THE ELEMENTS $1600: Used to make lenses, lutetium is one of these "uncommmon" metals rare earth
#7967, aired 2019-04-09BEER $400: These bitter buds added for flavor belong to the Cannabaceae family, making them a cousin of marijuana hops
#7959, aired 2019-03-28MOVEABLE FEASTS? $200: These game-day cookouts are named for the rear door of a pickup truck tailgates
#7930, aired 2019-02-15THE WORLD ALMANAC 2019 $1000: On Nov. 11 expect a rare one of these events of Mercury--it'll pass between Earth & the Sun & be visible in silhouette a transit
#7892, aired 2018-12-25CAR TALK $400: Bumpers are at the front & rear of a car; these other protective parts are the frames over the wheels fenders
#7881, aired 2018-12-10WILL & GRACE $1600: In 2016 this rear admiral & "First Lady of Software" was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Grace Hopper
#7880, aired 2018-12-07HEELS $200: Your feet can roar in heels designed by this pop princess who had a No. 1 hit with "Roar" Katy Perry
#7821, aired 2018-09-17STATE SONGS $200: "The skyline piercing Providence, the state house dome so rare" Rhode Island
#7797, aired 2018-07-03NOBEL PRIZE KNOWLEDGE $400: 2 generations of Nobel winners in one family is rare; the Curies did it, as did these Danish physicists, Niels & Aage Bohr
#7779, aired 2018-06-07AMERICAN DOGS $600: Developed in Wisconsin & seen here, the American water this is a rare breed; there are only about 3,000 in the world the American water spaniel
#7770, aired 2018-05-25SIGNS & GESTURES $1000: In the U.S. soldiers perform the rifle type of this gesture by touching the gun behind its rear sight a salute
#7732, aired 2018-04-03OPPOSITES $800: It sounds harsh but the front of a ship is the bow & the rear is called this the stern
#7708, aired 2018-02-28WHERE "RU"? $1600: In this industrial German valley fought over in 2 world wars the Ruhr Valley
#7706, aired 2018-02-26ROCK, PAPER & SCISSORS $200: A rare example of Cleoptra's handwriting is on a document made from this plant; she wrote "make it happen" in Greek papyrus
#7705, aired 2018-02-23MAMMALS $400: The roar of this type of monkey can be heard 2 miles away, & also right here a howler monkey
#7683, aired 2018-01-24THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $400: This rare Indian cat is named for the activity it's engaging in here a fisher cat (or fishing)
#7678, aired 2018-01-17GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $400: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The rare Galápagos penguin--remember, we're close to the equator--thrives on the nutrient-rich, cold waters that well up from the depths of the ocean; thus, the warmer waters of this Spanish-named weather phenomenon can be disastrous to it El Niño
#7648, aired 2017-12-06YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR $200: In a No. 1 hit, she sings, "I got the eye of the tiger... 'cause I am a champion & you're gonna hear me roar" Katy Perry
#7648, aired 2017-12-06YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR $400: She asserts in a 2012 hit, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger... doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone" (Kelly) Clarkson
#7648, aired 2017-12-06YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR $600: In the '70s this No. 1 hit by Helen Reddy asked us to "hear me roar" "I Am Woman"
#7648, aired 2017-12-06YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR $800: At the Grammys in 2014, Sara Bareilles sang this song of hers with Carole King; the pair also sang King's "Beautiful" "Brave"
#7648, aired 2017-12-06YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ROAR $1000: Gloria Gaynor called her autobiography this, also the name of her signature song I Will Survive
#7625, aired 2017-11-03"R" MOVIES $1200: 1954: We don't need a clip, just the still; Jimmy Stewart doesn't move much Rear Window
#7611, aired 2017-10-16CAUGHT $1,000 (Daily Double): She was captured in 1430 while protecting her rear guard as they crossed the Oise River Joan of Arc
#7607, aired 2017-10-10ZOOLOGY $3,500 (Daily Double): On rare occasions this Arctic cetacean can grow 2 spiral tusks a narwhal
#7603, aired 2017-10-04DENTAL PROBLEMS $2000: Usually associated with dentures, this brand lived up to its name by "repair"ing the broken teeth of a rare white lion Fixodent
#7574, aired 2017-07-13WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $200: Even better than a no-hitter, it's the rare feat of pitching the whole game & not allowing a single baserunner a perfect game
#7572, aired 2017-07-11SHAKA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents in front of a monitor.) Shaka is credited with revolutionizing army tactics, by using a main force known as "the chest and two horns" that would circle around to the rear of the enemy in one of these maneuvers flanking
#7552, aired 2017-06-13BIG TEN SCHOOLS $800: The Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory & the Center for Paralysis Research are at this U. in West Lafayette Purdue
#7538, aired 2017-05-24AT THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM $1000: Here's one of the rare U.S. airmail stamps known as this inverted biplane because of a printing error a jenny
#7530, aired 2017-05-12THE CIVIL WAR $400: More famous for a Montana battle, he & his men kept Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union rear at Gettysburg Custer
#7523, aired 2017-05-03AYE, AYE, ADMIRAL $600: Years after he was booted from the Bounty, he achieved the ranks of rear & vice admiral (William) Bligh
#7508, aired 2017-04-12TRUE STORY $1000: Peter Matthiessen's memoir of hiking in the Himalayas has this title, also a rare feline of that region The Snow Leopard
#7507, aired 2017-04-11LIBRARIES $2000: This organization's Madison Avenue library has rare volumes like 1570's "De Canibus Britannicus" the American Kennel Club
#7506, aired 2017-04-10CAVES $600: Jewel Cave in this state's Black Hills is home to 9 species of bats, including the rare Townsend's big-eared South Dakota
#7505, aired 2017-04-07THE EXPLORERS CLUB $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Explorers Club in New York.) Using the Explorers Club globe, this Norwegian planned an expedition to show that South Americans could've settled Polynesia as early as 500 A.D.; on August 7, 1947, his balsa wood raft reached Raroia Atoll after 101 hazardous days at sea, proving his theory (Thor) Heyerdahl
#7437, aired 2017-01-03ALL THE SINGLES LADIES $400: She performed her hits "Rise" & "Roar" at the 2016 Democratic National Convention Katy Perry
#7433, aired 2016-12-28ANTE "BELL" UM $400: To roar like a bull to bellow
#7433, aired 2016-12-28ON SIRIUSXM RADIO $1000: Pull up a chair, grab a cup of joe & enjoy this channel's blend of rare & acoustic performances on 14 The Coffee House
#7428, aired 2016-12-21YOUR HEART $800: In the '90s rare heart-valve lesions were found in women taking this homophonic diet drug, which soon went bye-bye Fen-phen
#7425, aired 2016-12-16NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A rare, lucky specimen of genus Trifolium a four-leaf clover
#7414, aired 2016-12-01WE'VE GOT CHEMISTRY $1600: Though it's much more common in the Earth's crust than lead, say, cerium is known as this type of "earth" element rare earth
#7394, aired 2016-11-03I LIKE BIG BUCKS $2000: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I conducted a rare interview with Jack Ma, founder of this Chinese Internet company that made a big splash in 2014 by finishing its first day of trading with a market value of $231 billion dollars Alibaba
#7353, aired 2016-07-27BASEBALL $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.) Check out the incredibly rare 1909-11 T206 card of this "Flying Dutchman"; in 2013, one went at auction for $2.1 million Honus Wagner
#7336, aired 2016-07-04NASCAR TECHNOLOGY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Daytona Int'l Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL.) Also known as the blade, this strip of metal on the rear deck lid is designed to create down force on the rear of the car to increase traction, but it has to be angled just right so it doesn't hinder speed on the straightaways a spoiler
#7335, aired 2016-07-01MOVIE MISTAKES $1000: What a rare gift! In 2015 "The Boy Next Door" gave this actress a first edition of "The Iliad" Jennifer Lopez
#7324, aired 2016-06-16INDOORS $200: A record indoor crowd roar came in 2013 when the Sacramento Kings reached 126 of these sound units decibels
#7313, aired 2016-06-01THE 2015 IG NOBEL PRIZES $2000: Biology: for seeing when you attach a weighted stick to a chicken's rear, it walks like these "are thought to have walked" dinosaurs
#7306, aired 2016-05-23WHOOPS $400: R: We're sure Katy Perry could tell you it's from Old English for "bellow" roar
#7298, aired 2016-05-11DIVISION I SPORTS TEAMS $400: Its Nittany Lions roar their approval Penn State
#7267, aired 2016-03-29"B" & "B" $400: Pittsburgh rare steak, charred on the outside & rare in the middle, is sometimes called this--ow! black and blue
#7267, aired 2016-03-29LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1200: The Khoisan languages are rare in that they employ these sounds as consonants clicks
#7258, aired 2016-03-16I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $400: As a noun, it's your rear; as a preposition, it means toward the rear behind
#7255, aired 2016-03-11A BILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE $400: More than 1.1 billion heard this singer "Roar" Katy Perry
#7250, aired 2016-03-04YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: After the Revolutionary War, this "Father of the American Navy" served as a rear admiral in Russia's fleet John Paul Jones
#7232, aired 2016-02-09RECENT MUSIC $200: Some people thought her song "Roar" sounded an awful lot like "Brave" by Sara Bareilles Katy Perry
#7228, aired 2016-02-03"ADD"/"DROP" $1600: A stage's rear curtain, or the setting for any event backdrop
#7223, aired 2016-01-27SKILLFUL ADJECTIVES $800: From the Latin for "wise", it has the rare double-V savvy
#7218, aired 2016-01-20SCREAMS, SHOUTS $1200: Corey Taylor of metal band Slipknot provided the roar of an alien warlord on this Peter Capaldi show Doctor Who
#7209, aired 2016-01-07FLOWERY PROSE $4,000 (Daily Double): In an Alexandre Dumas novel, the town of Haarlem offers a prize to anyone who can grow a black one of these tulip
#7198, aired 2015-12-23FOUND IN GERMANY $800: An industrial region of Germany is named for this 146-mile "r"iver, a tributary of the Rhine the Ruhr
#7193, aired 2015-12-16PARROT CULTURE $2000: Benedick calls Beatrice a "rare parrot" for the way she teases & mocks him in this Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing
#7189, aired 2015-12-10MOVIE LIFE HACKS $1000: In "Rear Window" one of the apartment dwellers he spies on lets her dog out with a nifty pulley system Jimmy Stewart
#7172, aired 2015-11-17TOUGH BALLET $2000: (I'm Craig Salstein.) In a rare occurrence of crossover dance styles, ballet & tap fuse in Agnes de Mille's choreography for this cowboy ballet Rodeo
#7166, aired 2015-11-09SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $2,000 (Daily Double): Here is a rare self-portrait of this artist, who made quite an impression Mary Cassatt
#7160, aired 2015-10-30THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND $800: This brand known for smokehouse almonds named itself for a rare gem Blue Diamond almonds
#7153, aired 2015-10-21SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES $1000: Roar away: "WINE TEST" the twenties
#7149, aired 2015-10-15ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $400: Lucan dropped Jupiter & Juno in the "Pharsalia", the rare ancient epic without these beings gods
#7146, aired 2015-10-12YOU KNOW NOTHING $1000: This co. developed the rear-facing child seat with the help of the national Swedish council for road safety research Volvo
#7139, aired 2015-10-01ASIAN MOUNTAINS $1600: Declared a national park of this country in 1936 by Manuel Quezon, Mount Apo is home to a rare species of eagle the Philippines
#7125, aired 2015-07-314-LETTER VERBS $600: Helen Reddy sang, "I am woman, hear me" do this roar
#7106, aired 2015-07-06SUPERATHLETES $600: In a sport where 1-0 finals are not rare, this man scored his 1000th goal in Rio in 1969 Pelé
#7098, aired 2015-06-24I LEFT MY HEART $1200: ...in Rouen in 1199; hear it roar for the royal rest of me Richard the Lionheart
#7095, aired 2015-06-191-WORD SONG TITLES $400: Its lyrics include "I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire" "Roar"
#7093, aired 2015-06-17"TMI" $400: I'll have this steak medium rare, s'il vous plait filet mignon
#7065, aired 2015-05-08NASCAR $600: (I'm Joey Logano.) To designate these drivers on the track, NASCAR affixes a yellow stripe on the rear bumpers of their cars so veterans can be more cautious around them rookies
#7050, aired 2015-04-17AUTOMOTIVE ABBREVS. $800: DRL: Daytime these, which make the car more conspicuous to other drivers running lights
#7042, aired 2015-04-07AFTER & BEFORE $800: Another word for your rump, this word also means subsequent posterior
#7030, aired 2015-03-20"HAT"s ON! $400: A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open a hatchback
#7026, aired 2015-03-16GETTING HITCH-ED $1200: Binoculars plus broken leg equals big problems for the photo-journalist played by this actor in "Rear Window" James Stewart
#7010, aired 2015-02-20"GN" $400: In a Maurice Sendak book, the Wild Things roar their terrible roars & do this with their terrible teeth gnash
#7008, aired 2015-02-18DAVID MUIR REPORTING $800: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2013, right before nuclear talks, I gained rare access to this Mideast capital to report on the effects of sanctions imposed by the U.S. & its allies Tehran
#6969, aired 2014-12-25STAR-STRUCK $1600: The crew of the ISS captured a rare occurrence: the shadow near the Earth's horizon is actually a total one of these a solar eclipse
#6964, aired 2014-12-18HEAR ME ROAR $400: It's not just carnivores--the harts of the red type of this roar to drive rival males away deer
#6964, aired 2014-12-18HEAR ME ROAR $800: The Kalolo-Lozi people call the roar & mist that the Zambezi River makes as it forms this "the smoke that thunders" Victoria Falls
#6964, aired 2014-12-18HEAR ME ROAR $1200: Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?" "The Marseillaise"
#6964, aired 2014-12-18HEAR ME ROAR $2000: Alphabetically first in the Old Testament comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion" Amos
#6964, aired 2014-12-18HEAR ME ROAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954 Godzilla
#6945, aired 2014-11-21MEDIA $600: TV wasn't around for long before the joke started that it's a medium because it's neither rare nor this well done
#6934, aired 2014-11-06TRANSPORTATION $1600: The rear window auto brake lights mandated by the govt. in the '80s are nicknamed "Liddy lights" in her honor (Elizabeth) Dole
#6925, aired 2014-10-24COLLEGE TEAM NAMES $400: They roar for Penn State the Nittany Lions
#6925, aired 2014-10-24LIBRARIES $800: This D.C. school's Moorland-Spingarn Library includes rare works by Phillis Wheatley & Frederick Douglass Howard University
#6916, aired 2014-10-13POEMS $800: According to Longfellow, children love to see his "flaming forge, and hear the bellows roar" the village blacksmith
#6907, aired 2014-09-30SPACE STUFF $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a telescope image of Jupiter on the monitor.) A triple eclipse shows the shadows of 3 moons in a rare alignment across Jupiter's face: out here is Callisto, whose shadow is here; Ganymede's shadow is here; & the white circle is this moon & here's its shadow Io
#6905, aired 2014-09-264-LETTER OPPOSITES $800: Copious: a way to serve meat rare
#6899, aired 2014-09-18GEMS $200: A rare variety of ruby exhibits asterism, meaning that this shape is visible when the gem is seen in sunlight star
#6887, aired 2014-07-22KATY PERRY $200: In this video, Katy's jungle adventure includes taming a tiger & painting an elephant's nails "Roar"
#6865, aired 2014-06-20STARTS & ENDS WITH W $600: Get a load on this conveyance you lift from the rear a wheelbarrow
#6859, aired 2014-06-12NOEL, COWARD $1000: Noel freaks when it comes to Yb, this element; it's the most volatile rare-earth metal, & Noel can't stand volatility! ytterbium
#6847, aired 2014-05-27BARBARA WALTERS $800: After a rare 1977 interview with this leader of a Communist island, he made Barbara grilled cheese sandwiches Castro
#6822, aired 2014-04-22U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: Critical habitats for the rare North Pacific right whale have been designated in the Gulf of Alaska & this sea the Bering Sea
#6817, aired 2014-04-15MEDALS & DECORATIONS $600: In 1926 this rear admiral received the Medal of Honor for his "risk of life" flying over the North Pole Admiral Byrd
#6816, aired 2014-04-14GOOD LUCK CHARMS $1000: Many Catholic motorists hang a medal of this patron saint of travelers on the rear-view mirror St. Christopher
#6814, aired 2014-04-10PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $800: Named for the 2 British coins it resembled, this early bicycle had a large front wheel & a small rear wheel a penny-farthing
#6792, aired 2014-03-11WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $400: Looking at those teeth I'm glad to report that actual attacks on people by this fish are rare a piranha
#6788, aired 2014-03-05HOLIDAYS $200: 2013 brought the very rare coincidence of Thanksgiving & this religious holiday Hanukkah
#6783, aired 2014-02-26PIX-"R" $1000: Jimmy Stewart's defenestration in this Hitchcock movie breaks his other leg Rear Window
#6780, aired 2014-02-21JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS $600: "I got the eye of the tiger... dancing through the fire, 'cause I am a champion & you're gonna hear me roar" Katy Perry
#6780, aired 2014-02-21FIGURING OUT THE UNIVERSE $800: (Sarah gives the clue from the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.) One of Sanford's most ambitious experiments Is an effort to tell why all things on the universe exist; the search is for rare radioactive decay, & this metal--atomic number 29--is being reformed to shield the equipment copper
#6769, aired 2014-02-06RARE BREEDS $400: Fewer than 1,000 remain in the wild of the Ugandan or Rothschild's type of this animal that looks down on us a giraffe
#6769, aired 2014-02-06RARE BREEDS $800: Used by Native Americans of Washington & Oregon, the Cayuse breed of this has become rare a horse
#6769, aired 2014-02-06RARE BREEDS $1200: Breeding programs have rescued the once-rarest of bats, the Rodrigues type of this a fruit bat
#6769, aired 2014-02-06RARE BREEDS $1600: Zimbabwe's terrible economy spurred the poaching of the black type of this animal for its horns the rhinoceros
#6769, aired 2014-02-06RARE BREEDS $2000: The vaquita, the smallest of this order of mammals, is getting rarer; it's often caught in fishing nets cetaceans
#6765, aired 2014-01-31A "CY" OF RELIEF $1600: This large curved curtain or wall is usually placed or hung at the rear of a stage cyclorama
#6738, aired 2013-12-25HISTORY OF CARS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) Fred Astaire's elegant 1927 Rolls town car has many luxurious features, like a means of speaking to the chauffeur &, in the rear... a Louis Vuitton one of these, later a term for a car's built-in storage compartment a trunk
#6722, aired 2013-12-03STINKER $200: The rare hooded variety is one of about a dozen species of these stinkers in the mammal family Mephitidae a skunk
#6715, aired 2013-11-22EARTH BLANKS $1600: Lanthanum is one: ____-earth element rare
#6705, aired 2013-11-08PANTSLESS TV $1600: Under enemy sniper fire, this man (Gary Burghoff) lost the towel covering his rear flank on "M*A*S*H" Radar O'Reilly
#6650, aired 2013-07-12TIME'S 50 WORST CARS OF ALL TIME $600: This Soviet-bloc brand "had a rear-window defroster-- reportedly to keep your hands warm (as) you pushed it" the Yugo
#6650, aired 2013-07-12TIME'S 50 WORST CARS OF ALL TIME $1000: While "not particularly" a bad car, this Ford model "tended to erupt in flame in rear-end collisions" the Pinto
#6645, aired 2013-07-05IT'S A BIG WORLD $600: This "tyrant lizard" could take his 5-foot skull & rear up to a height of 18 feet Tyrannosaurus rex
#6629, aired 2013-06-13WAR OF WORDS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Under Alexander the Great, the first five ranks in this military formation whose name comes from the Greek for "finger" held spears facing forward, while the rear rows likely held them aloft a phalanx
#6624, aired 2013-06-06WATCH THOSE RATS & MICE $800: The mice Bernard & Bianca travel to save a rare eagle in the sequel titled "The Rescuers" here Down Under
#6617, aired 2013-05-28FISH $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is snorkeling in the water off Baja California, Mexico.) The black spots at the rear of the butterflyfish act as a decoy set of these organs. They trick predators into attacking the tail rather than the head, allowing the fish a better chance to get away. eyes
#6606, aired 2013-05-13YOU DID GOOD $2000: If "we had" this type of "time", it means good; in "the fierce lion gave out" this type of "roar", it means frightening terrific
#6550, aired 2013-02-22COATS OF ARMS $800: On Chile's coat of arms, that's a guemul, a rare Andean deer, facing this bird a condor
#6545, aired 2013-02-15AN IMPORTANT QUESTION $200: James Russell Lowell asked, "What is so rare as a day in" this month? June
#6543, aired 2013-02-13PLANE SPEAKING $600: Top floor, please, Otis! It's a hinged surface on a plane's rear stabilizer that controls pitch an elevator
#6540, aired 2013-02-08AFRICAN AMERICANS $1000: (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) In 1893 internal surgery was rare--most patients died of infection--but that year Dr. Daniel Hale Williams used antiseptic methods during one of the first successful open-heart surgeries suturing this sac around the heart the pericardium
#6531, aired 2013-01-28NOT JUST DESSERTS $600: In a car, it's the act of rotating the rear around the front wheels, leaving skidmarks & smoke doing donuts
#6530, aired 2013-01-25WHAT'S ON TV? $800: With a rare ability to remember, Marilu Henner consults on this show about a cop with the same knack Unforgettable
#6499, aired 2012-12-13GERMAN "E" $1600: This 5-letter word meaning "to eat" is also the name of the Ruhr region's main industrial city Essen
#6492, aired 2012-12-04PHOTOGRAPHERS $400: Mike Mitchell's rare photos of this group's first U.S. concert on February 11, 1964 were auctioned by Christie's in 2011 the Beatles
#6488, aired 2012-11-28WITH MAORI $400: Maori ceremonial cloaks called korowai are made with the feathers of a rare albino variety of this flightless bird a kiwi
#6483, aired 2012-11-21CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (Hi. I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) Hitchcock's genius is that he makes us voyeurs, like Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly in this 1954 thriller Rear Window
#6481, aired 2012-11-19JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $1200: In "Snow-Bound" Whittier was "content to let" this "roar in baffled rage at pane and door" the (north) wind
#6469, aired 2012-11-01LADY CEREBELLUM $1200: Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was instrumental in creating COBOL, a type of this a programming language
#6455, aired 2012-10-12THE LAST "DROP" $1600: Let me set the stage for you; it's the rear curtain of a stage setting a backdrop
#6442, aired 2012-09-25THESE PUNS ARE OFFAL $2000: Careful golfers always carry 2 pair of pants in case they get one of these rare things a hole in one
#6427, aired 2012-07-24ALBUM COVER ART $800: Among her photographs is the one on Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album showing the Boss' rear end Annie Leibovitz
#6424, aired 2012-07-19POPES' NAMES $2000: Roar if you know there have been XIII popes with this name, including the X, the last non-priest to be elected pope Leo
#6413, aired 2012-07-04HALLEY'S CATEGORY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) In 1677 Edmond Halley observed one of these rare astronomical events--the passage of a planet across the Sun's bright disk; in his case, it was Mercury a transit
#6403, aired 2012-06-20THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $1200: In a rare success, the League decided in 1921 that the Aland Islands belonged to this country, not Sweden Finland
#6394, aired 2012-06-07PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is a rare self-portrait of this American painter Mary Cassatt
#6366, aired 2012-04-30PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1200: Sounds (like the ocean's roar) are transmitted via the longitudinal type of these disturbances waves
#6357, aired 2012-04-17WHAT MAKES IT GO? $200: (Kelly of the Clue crew points at the rear area of a remote-control inflated shark toy floating around her.) Just like the real thing, our helium-filled shark is propelled by the side-to-side movement of this rear appendage, also called the caudal fin a tailfin
#6339, aired 2012-03-22HUNGER GAMES $600: "Ryori No Tetsujin" is the original title of this Japanese import Iron Chef
#6335, aired 2012-03-16IT'S A NOUN! IT'S A VERB! $400: It can be the back part of something, or can mean to bring up a child rear
#6305, aired 2012-02-03HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: A driver who's rear-ended may suffer this type of neck injury that jerks the head rapidly backward or forward whiplash
#6300, aired 2012-01-27FIRST IN WAR $1600: The first major use of these vehicles was at the 1917 Battle of Cambrai, leading to a rare breakthrough on the Western Front tanks
#6292, aired 2012-01-17STATE SONGS $600: "She has her Black Hills, and mines with gold so rare, and with her scenery, no other state can compare" South Dakota
#6291, aired 2012-01-16DR. MASSEUSE RHYMES $600: The innermost of the 3 in each rear / is a pain when I try to sit in a bus / it is amiss, now please do this / fix my gluteus... minimus
#6264, aired 2011-12-08THE ANNIE HALL OF FAME $1200: In 1991 she had her first museum exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, a rare honor for a living photographer Annie Leibovitz
#6227, aired 2011-10-18STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1000: As a verb, it means to oppose & defeat a plan or effort; as a noun, it's a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit thwart
#6213, aired 2011-09-28DAMN YANKEES $2,000 (Daily Double): By the end of 1862 this newly appointed rear admiral controlled the entire Gulf Coast except for Mobile David Farragut
#6211, aired 2011-09-26"PSYCH"! $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew moves a tin can across the table with his mind.) It's the rare ability that special effects will help me exhibit here psychokinesis
#6190, aired 2011-07-08I NEED SOME SPACE $1200: Colorful term for a second full moon in one month; something rare might happen "once in" it a blue moon
#6181, aired 2011-06-27MOVIE REMAKES $2000: This 2007 Shia LaBeouf film is a modern take on Hitchcock's "Rear Window" Disturbia
#6171, aired 2011-06-13MUSICAL FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: "The Roar of the ____, the Smell of the Crowd" Greasepaint
#6160, aired 2011-05-27"DROP" IT, BUSTER! $600: Painted cloth hanging at the rear of a stage backdrop
#6151, aired 2011-05-16THEY'RE NUTS IN CALIFORNIA $2000: Species of this tree whose seeds are edible nuts include the rare Torrey type of Southern California pine
#6142, aired 2011-05-03TAKE THE FIFTH $400: Don't be afraid to roar out this fifth sign of the zodiac Leo
#6138, aired 2011-04-27PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1200: Thin slabs of itacolumite, a rare kind of this "grainy" rock, can actually be bent or squeezed out of shape sandstone
#6132, aired 2011-04-19RABBIT $2000: The rare volcano rabbit lives around the lofty volcanoes that surround this North American capital Mexico City
#6102, aired 2011-03-08ABBREV. $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated car chase on the monitor.) A police cruiser's right front bumper nudges a fleeing suspect's left rear to induce a stop using the PIT maneuver, PIT short for this intervention technique pursuit
#6084, aired 2011-02-10NAUTICAL TERMS $800: The bow is the front part of a ship; this is the rear part the stern
#6084, aired 2011-02-10INCA HOOTS? $2000: A long-whiskered owlet was seen in Peru in 2007; it's so rare it has its own genus, Xenoglaux, meaning this "owl" foreign (or strange)
#6082, aired 2011-02-08"I" SAY $800: This 1972 feminist anthem was a No. 1 hit for Helen Reddy I Am Woman
#6080, aired 2011-02-04GOLF $800: A rare old gold coin, or an even rarer 3 under par on a single hole a double eagle
#6052, aired 2010-12-28"STOP" & "GO" $400: It's a brief appearance by a politician in a small town, traditionally on the rear platform of a train a whistle stop
#6011, aired 2010-11-01IT'S HYPHENATED $400: With 7, Nolan Ryan holds the record for having pitched the most of these rare games a no-hitter
#5983, aired 2010-09-22RHYMES WITH YELLOW $400: A deep shout or roar a bellow
#5983, aired 2010-09-22EXPLORERS OF THE NEW WORLD $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1792, when George Vancouver sailed up the west coast of North America & surveyed & named the Puget Sound for a shipmate, he named this mountain on the mainland for a rear admiral friend Mt. Rainier
#5976, aired 2010-09-13FEELS LIKE "FALL" $600: This comic tumble is literally onto your rear, because the word comes from slang for that part of your anatomy pratfall
#5930, aired 2010-05-28GETTING TICKED ON $400: A brown tick named for this pet has the rare ability to complete its life cycle indoors dog
#5916, aired 2010-05-10CARRIAGES $400: This 17th century carriage had a separate hooded seat at the rear & was named for the capital of Germany a Berlin carriage
#5916, aired 2010-05-10CARRIAGES $1600: Designed by & named for a British architect in 1834, this carriage featured an elevated rear driver's seat the Hansom carriage
#5867, aired 2010-03-02HEY THERE, MUSCLES $800: With a Latin name, this outermost muscle of the... ahem... rear helps with the extension of the thigh the gluteus maximus
#5863, aired 2010-02-24THE KISSING BOOTH $1200: In the Bible a rare instance of a man kissing a woman is when Jacob kissed her "and wept" Rachel
#5850, aired 2010-02-05NUCLEAR ENERGY $2000: This rare isotope of hydrogen is sometimes called H-3 tritium
#5848, aired 2010-02-03WORDS IN FEBRUARY $400: Extremely uncommon, or how I like my steak rare
#5844, aired 2010-01-28THE SONGS OF BRIAN WILSON $800: Wilson wrote, "I have watched you on the shore, standing by the ocean's roar, do you love me, do you" this lass "Surfer Girl"
#5830, aired 2010-01-08A TRIP TO CENTRAL AMERICA $600: Because it lives high up in the trees and can fly 35 mph, the scarlet type of this parrot is a rare sight a macaw
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MMM, STEAK $800: A steak with a cool to warm red center of 120 degrees F. has been cooked to this "unusual" level rare
#5810, aired 2009-12-11MMM, STEAK $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a meat cut diagram on the monitor.) An Old French term designating its position atop the rear haunch gives this popular cut its name (top) sirloin
#5796, aired 2009-11-23SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $200: This sound made by lions can carry 5 miles a roar
#5777, aired 2009-10-27THAT'S RARE $200: Except to break ties, this presiding officer of the House of Representatives rarely votes the Speaker of the House
#5777, aired 2009-10-27THAT'S RARE $400: This green gem is actually a rare variety of beryl emerald
#5777, aired 2009-10-27THAT'S RARE $600: Seen here, the rare tuatara of New Zealand is the only living member of an entire order of this animal class reptiles
#5777, aired 2009-10-27THAT'S RARE $800: These rare fungi are used in the diplomat sauce served over fish or shellfish truffles
#5777, aired 2009-10-27THAT'S RARE $1000: With permission, you can read rare books & manuscripts in the Sistine Hall at this library the Vatican Library
#5746, aired 2009-09-14PRACTICAL PARENTING $200: Don't even think of taking your newborn home until you have a rear-facing one of these firmly in place a car seat
#5744, aired 2009-07-23BATMAN TV VILLAINS $400: Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt & Lee Meriwether as this purr-fect villain (not all at the same time) Catwoman
#5737, aired 2009-07-14VACATION FUN $800: Discovery Cove in Orlando offers you the rare opportunity to swim with these mammals dolphins
#5725, aired 2009-06-26IT'S ASTRONOMICAL! $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) During a total solar eclipse, when the moon completely obscures the sun, you have a rare opportunity to see this outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere the corona
#5666, aired 2009-04-06CENTRAL PARK STATUES $1000: This Union general stands in Grand Army Plaza; a rear hoof of his horse is crushing a Georgia pine branch (William Tecumseh) Sherman
#5655, aired 2009-03-20HOW'S YOUR LATIN? $800: Literally "rare bird", it's used today to describe something very unusual rara avis
#5643, aired 2009-03-04THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $400: In 1964 Hal Prince produced this musical set in an east European shtetl; it ran for 3,242 performances Fiddler on the Roof
#5643, aired 2009-03-04THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $800: Dolly Parton wrote the music & lyrics for this show, Broadway-bound in 2009; what a way to make a livin'! 9 to 5
#5643, aired 2009-03-04THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $1200: He took home both a Tony & an Oscar for his role in "The King and I" (Yul) Brynner
#5643, aired 2009-03-04THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $1600: George Wendt played the Great White Way in 2008 as Edna Turnblad in this musical set in 1962 Hairspray
#5643, aired 2009-03-04THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $2000: On Broadway since 2001, this musical co-written by a guy named Bjorn (big hint!) is about a wedding on a tiny Greek island Mamma Mia!
#5638, aired 2009-02-25MIRRORS $600: The "Car Talk" guys recommend pulling up next to a line of parked cars to adjust this side view mirrors
#5637, aired 2009-02-24IN THE NAVY $800: It's the lowest rank of admiral in the U.S. navy rear admiral (lower half)
#5632, aired 2009-02-17ARTY FACTS $800: Toothy smiles were rare before Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun, who was famous for her portraits of this French queen Marie Antoinette
#5626, aired 2009-02-09TRANSPORTATION $400: Developed in the 1830s, this cab named for its inventor put the driver on an elevated seat in the rear a hansom
#5615, aired 2009-01-23"MAD" LOVE $800: A rare daguerreotype of this woman born in 1768 is seen here Dolley Madison
#5598, aired 2008-12-3119th CENTURY FICTION $3,000 (Daily Double): Arrius is told that this Jewish slave aboard the Roman ship Astroea is "our best rower" (Judah) Ben-Hur
#5589, aired 2008-12-18PLANET "EARTH" $600: Their hit songs include "Boogie Wonderland" Earth, Wind & Fire
#5583, aired 2008-12-10THIS & THAT $600: In 2007 a Canadian woman gave birth to this extremely rare type of quadruplets identical quadruplets
#5568, aired 2008-11-19"M" TV $1600: This Patricia Arquette show is somewhere between well done & rare Medium
#5567, aired 2008-11-18I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK $600: A New Jersey motorcycle rally is rhymingly called this "to the Shore" Roar
#5566, aired 2008-11-17YOU GIVE ME THE BLUES $800: As it's not a true albino, the rare white Bengal one of these felines has blue eyes tiger
#5558, aired 2008-11-05A WORD ODDITY $800: Look in the OED & you'll find "brrrr", with a rare 4 Rs: it's this one of the traditional 8 parts of speech interjection
#5541, aired 2008-10-13FAMOUS ELEPHANTS $1600: In 798 a rare white Asian elephant named Abul-Abbas was presented to this Holy Roman Emperor by the Caliph of Baghdad Charlemagne
#5517, aired 2008-09-09FOOD & DRINK PHRASES $600: The theater area nicknamed this often held the cheapest seats, usually those in the rear of the balcony the peanut gallery
#5508, aired 2008-07-16PUN-ISHMENT $600: 4-word bulletin put out by the police department after the tiny psychic escaped from custody small medium at large
#5499, aired 2008-07-03CORRESPONDENTS $1200: Kate Webb, a rare female Vietnam War reporter, was captured in this adjoining country & presumed dead, but got out Cambodia
#5497, aired 2008-07-01THE BRITISH ROYALS $1600: She resides in Gloucestershire with her second husband, Rear Admiral Timothy Laurence Princess Anne
#5482, aired 2008-06-10TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $1000: 1954: "The Caine Mutiny", "White Christmas", "Rear Window" White Christmas
#5473, aired 2008-05-28THE THUNDERBIRDS $800: (Sarah reports from the rear seat of a jet.) We won't go there today, but the Thunderbirds can reach ceilings of about 50,000 feet & fly 1500 miles per hour, roughly 2 on this scale Mach
#5470, aired 2008-05-23ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $400: Voyeur information, this actor spied on his neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" Jimmy Stewart
#5470, aired 2008-05-23PSYCH "O" $2000: This adjective refers to the rear lobe of the brain occipital
#5451, aired 2008-04-28WORLD HISTORY $1000: In 1923 France & Belgium occupied this German industrial region named for a Rhine tributary the Ruhr
#5439, aired 2008-04-10IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $1200: Rare except in "Jeopardy!" clues & nature films, this adjective means relating to or typical of bears ursine
#5418, aired 2008-03-12THE WALTZ $400: A dance in the 1786 opera "Una Cosa Rara" popularized this waltz style named for a city Viennese
#5417, aired 2008-03-11THAT WORD'S FOREIGN TO ME $400: Our navy has fleet, rear and vice types of this rank, from an Arabic word for "commander" admiral
#5401, aired 2008-02-18NAME THAT AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY $800: In 1788 this hero of the American Revolution accepted an offer to serve as a rear admiral in the Russian navy John Paul Jones
#5380, aired 2008-01-18HAYDN $200: Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, 25 miles east of this world capital to which he moved in 1740 Vienna
#5372, aired 2008-01-08STORY LINE $800: Judah hits a bigwig of Judea, meets Jesus, becomes a rower, wins a race, rescues family, meets Jesus Ben-Hur
#5356, aired 2007-12-17UNDER THE "C" $2000: This rare fish has been called a living fossil the coelacanth
#5352, aired 2007-12-111987 $200: This British prime minister won a rare third term in June Margaret Thatcher
#5348, aired 2007-12-05ZOOLOGY $200 (Daily Double): The rare white alligator, seen here, has a condition called leucism, meaning it lacks this skin pigment melanin
#5312, aired 2007-10-16NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $800: In 1954 this Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly starrer from Alfred Hitchcock didn't get a second glance Rear Window
#5311, aired 2007-10-15ETHIOPIAN CUISINE $400: Similar to steak tartare, kitfo is a cold ground beef dish that is served this way uncooked (or raw)
#5311, aired 2007-10-15ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY $400: Amsterdam Island in the Indian Ocean, 1,800 mi. from any cont., has a rare type of this wandering seabird the albatross
#5311, aired 2007-10-15POTPOURRI $600: Ranking just above a captain, not behind him, it's a U.S. Navy admiral with 1 star a rear admiral
#5277, aired 2007-07-17FLORA $1600: To keep them from drying out, orchids & other rare plants are potted in this moss found in bogs peat
#5266, aired 2007-07-02MUSCLE CARS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a '59 Chevrolet Biscayne, shown from the rear.) For the '59 Biscayne, Chevy introduced new features like cat's eye taillights & fins named for this mammal's wings bat
#5266, aired 2007-07-02MUSCLE CARS $800: The E-type by this British company was one of the first to offer independent rear suspension Jaguar
#5242, aired 2007-05-292006 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STORIES $400: National Geographic called the circumstances of his death over Batt Reef off Queensland "extremely rare" Steve Irwin
#5232, aired 2007-05-15CHINA PATTERNS $800: In 2004, a rare porcelain bowl from the time of this dynasty sold for almost $6 million Ming
#5196, aired 2007-03-26LEMME SEE THOSE "LIP"s $200: People within the umbra, or region without sunlight due to the moon's shadow, experience this rare event a total solar eclipse
#5193, aired 2007-03-21RARE BOGGLE WORDS $400: I see this plant-eating aquatic mammal from Florida a manatee
#5193, aired 2007-03-21RARE BOGGLE WORDS $800: It's this light fabric, originally used to wrap a certain food cheesecloth
#5193, aired 2007-03-21RARE BOGGLE WORDS $1200: That's right, you heard me! I found this item that addresses a lot of people a speaker
#5193, aired 2007-03-21RARE BOGGLE WORDS $1600: This type of gluttonous eater is going to rack me up the maximum 11 points a gourmand
#5193, aired 2007-03-21RARE BOGGLE WORDS $2000: It must be Christmas; there's this colorful plant a poinsettia
#5149, aired 2007-01-18GOOD SENSE $400: Many rifles have a front & a rear one sight
#5125, aired 2006-12-15UNUSUAL ANIMALS $200: In 2006 the Riverbanks Zoo in S.C. exhibited a rare white (but not albino) one of these crocodilians an alligator
#5117, aired 2006-12-05JON STEWART'S AMERICA $200: "This follow-up to 'The Articles of Confederation' is the rare sequel that's more bicameral than the original!" the Constitution
#5110, aired 2006-11-2410 MILLION ALBUMS! $800: This "Cracked" debut album from Hootie & the Blowfish has sold more than 16 million copies Cracked Rear View
#5101, aired 2006-11-13PLAYBILL $200: It's been reigning over Broadway since 1997--long may it roar The Lion King
#5076, aired 2006-10-09BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS $1000: A rare male victim of breast cancer, this actor who played John Shaft in 1971 gave the disease the "shaft" Richard Roundtree
#5066, aired 2006-09-25"I" TUNES $600: We first heard Helen Reddy roar a version of this No. 1 anthem in 1972 "I Am Woman"
#5046, aired 2006-07-17THE DICTIONARY $1200: Dictionaries use archaic for rare usages; this label refers to a sense of a word no longer in use, like "guess" for "aim" obsolete
#5041, aired 2006-07-10THE BRITISH MILITARY $200: Though lower-deck sailors were seldom made officers, Thomas Lyne rose to "rear" one of these admiral
#5040, aired 2006-07-07DOCTOR WHOM? $400: Before becoming a renowned pediatrician, he was a star rower at Yale & won gold in the 1924 Olympics Dr. (Benjamin) Spock
#5021, aired 2006-06-1211-LETTER WORDS $400: Proverbially, true actors love the roar of the crowd & the smell of this stage makeup greasepaint
#5020, aired 2006-06-09CREW CLUES $2000: 2 disciplines in rowing are sweeping, in which each rower pulls just one oar, & this, in which each rower uses 2 oars sculling
#5016, aired 2006-06-05LOST ART $800: Overshadowed by flowers, leis crafted with these, from creatures like the apapane, are now rare in Hawaii feathers
#4977, aired 2006-04-11CROCODILE ROCK $400: The American crocodile is very rare & can only be found naturally in the southern part of this state Florida
#4969, aired 2006-03-30THINGS FARMERS KNOW $600: A round type of this structure, with the silo inside it, was popular in the early 1900s; it's rare now a barn
#4958, aired 2006-03-15HONEST AL TREBEK'S USED CARS $400: Sure, in the '70s this car's gas tank exploded a bit when rear-ended but I prefer to think of the same-named bean the Pinto
#4954, aired 2006-03-09FILMS OF THE '50s $400: Jimmy Stewart has a broken leg when this film begins; at the end, his voyeurism gets him a second broken leg Rear Window (A Rear Window accepted)
#4934, aired 2006-02-09TODAY'S HOROSCOPE $200: (July 23 - Aug. 22) This fire sign is ready to roar! Leo
#4906, aired 2006-01-02DENMARK'S THE SPOT $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew enjoys a rare sunny day in Copenhagen, Denmark.) In 1951 as he was dreaming up his own park Walt Disney got some inspiration from a visit to this famed Copenhagen park Tivoli
#4886, aired 2005-12-05LIBRARIES $200: Indiana University's Lilly Library contains many rare books including his 1450s New Testament Gutenberg
#4882, aired 2005-11-29THE MIRACLE OF FLIGHT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew compares two paper airplanes.) In paper airplanes, bending the rear section of the wing up or down has the equivalent effect of this device that moves up & down in a jumbo jet's tail an elevator
#4867, aired 2005-11-08PANTHERS & BOBCATS $400: Taxonomists group cats into ones that roar & ones, including bobcats, that do this instead purr
#4861, aired 2005-10-31FIBERS $200: Mesothelioma is a rare cancer strongly linked to long-term exposure to this fibrous mineral asbestos
#4842, aired 2005-10-04HITCHCOCK $800: Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart The Man Who Knew Too Much
#4826, aired 2005-09-12POETIC LINES $400: Poe was referring to these when he wrote, "How they clang, and crash, and roar! What a horror they outpour" the bells
#4817, aired 2005-07-12NATIONAL ANTHEMS $200: "In Erin's cause, come woe or weal, 'mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, we'll chant a soldier's song" Ireland
#4791, aired 2005-06-06JUST LIKE A WOMAN $800: Also called Gakusei Ryori, or "student cuisine", this noodle dish was invented in 1958 by Momofuku Ando Top Ramen
#4785, aired 2005-05-27MIRRORS $600: Before the advent of this device in the 1911 Indy 500, passengers called riding mechanics watched for cars coming up behind a rear-view mirror
#4774, aired 2005-05-12BACK WORDS $1600: This triangular bone lies directly above the coccyx & joins with the hip bones to form the rear of the pelvis the sacrum
#4760, aired 2005-04-22HITCHCOCK MOVIE QUOTES $400: "A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window" Rear Window
#4757, aired 2005-04-19RODNEY DANGERFIELD $1200: In a rare dramatic turn, Rodney starred as an abusive father in this film about a murderous couple Natural Born Killers
#4746, aired 2005-04-04ROBERTS RULE $600: In 1911 in recognition of his Arctic exploration, Congress made him a rear admiral Peary
#4741, aired 2005-03-28IT'S GENETIC $400: The first year of this decade saw the first human gene therapy treatment, for a rare immune disorder the 1990s
#4739, aired 2005-03-24SYMBOLS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reviews some symbols on a chalkboard.) An adscript, which goes directly to the right of a letter, is more rare than these two types of characters named for their positions a subscript & a superscript
#4716, aired 2005-02-21EASY FOR YOU TO SAY $400: Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare hereditary skin condition in which the skin & eyes are damaged by these rays ultraviolet rays
#4715, aired 2005-02-18SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew unleashes a black lab in the training course.) The bark alert is one of the tests a dog must pass to be on a search team certified by this Department of Homeland Security agency "Search!" "Rrowr rrowr rrowr!" FEMA
#4712, aired 2005-02-15THE STONES $1,500 (Daily Double): The black type of this October birthstone is quite rare, & more valuable than the fire variety opal
#4706, aired 2005-02-07CATCH OF THE DAY $800: In one of the few times it's ever been seen, a rare megamouth variety of this fish recently washed ashore in Sumatra a shark
#4686, aired 2005-01-10PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $800: The LBJ Library sells CDs of the President's phone calls, like the following one with her LBJ: "...how we can carry on, if you give us a little strength." Woman: "But you know what I wanted to say to you about that letter? I know how rare a letter is in a president's handwriting." Jacqueline Kennedy
#4685, aired 2005-01-07ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION $400: For his flight over the South Pole on November 29, 1929, he was elevated to Rear Admiral by Congress Richard Byrd
#4670, aired 2004-12-17NEXT STOP, VENUS $1000: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the Sun that Venus did on June 8, 2004 a transit
#4669, aired 2004-12-16W.H.O. $800: On March 15, 2003 the W.H.O. issued a rare emergency travel advisory in response to this outbreak SARS
#4661, aired 2004-12-06QUOTH THE RAVEN? $800: Why not this defunct title for a commissioned naval officer above Captain & Rear Admiral; quoth the raven... Commodore
#4640, aired 2004-11-06ODD ANIMAL FACTS $800: These black & white Chinese "bears" don't usually roar like grizzly bears, but sort of bleat giant pandas
#4618, aired 2004-10-06GEOGRAPHY "B" $1000: This sea off the coast of North America is named for Rear Admiral Francis the Beaufort Sea
#4574, aired 2004-06-24"HAT" CHECK $800: A car with a hinged rear door a hatchback
#4570, aired 2004-06-18SOFT "C" $2000: The most abundant of the rare-earth metals, it has the chemical symbol Ce cerium
#4554, aired 2004-05-27ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Something very, very rare is "as scarce as" these chicken parts hen's teeth
#4543, aired 2004-05-12A EUROPEAN TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): Madrid's Hotel Florida is the main setting for "The Fifth Column", a rare play by this American writer who loved Spain Ernest Hemingway
#4539, aired 2004-05-06NOTABLE NAMES $400 (Daily Double): Researchers say this man killed in 1865 might have been so tall and thin due to a rare condition called Marfan's syndrome Abraham Lincoln
#4531, aired 2004-04-26LIBRARIES $800: The Morris, this type of library at the University of Virginia, has first editions of Coke & Blackstone law library
#4528, aired 2004-04-21MONTREAL EXPOSE $800: Each summer Montreal hosts a Juste Pour Rire Festival, called "Just for" these in English Laughs
#4520, aired 2004-04-09KIDS $400: For kids under 1 year old or less than 20 pounds, this should be rear-facing only child's seat
#4501, aired 2004-03-15SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $400: In 1901 Eugene Demarcay discovered Eu, this rare-earth metal that's named for a continent Europium
#4478, aired 2004-02-11RIVER COUNTRY $800: The Weser, The Rhine, The Rhur Germany
#4465, aired 2004-01-23BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $1200: This rear admiral rests beneath a granite globe, with a bronze star marking the North Pole (Robert) Peary
#4428, aired 2003-12-03THE CIVIL WAR $800: On August 5, 1864 this Rear Admiral attacked Forts Morgan & Gaines, which guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay Farragut
#4414, aired 2003-11-13HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Providence, Rhode Island) This rare Bible is the one John Elliot translated in the 1660s into this language, spoken by the Indians of Massachusetts Algonquian
#4412, aired 2003-11-11HERE COMES THE SUN $1600: The Maunder Minimum refers to the period from 1645 to 1715 when these dark areas on the sun were extremely rare sunspots
#4410, aired 2003-11-07SOLDIER OF MISFORTUNE $800: Sing a "song" for this nephew of Charlemagne, lost with the rear guard at the battle of Roncesvalles Roland
#4381, aired 2003-09-29"UP THE" $800: Come in last & you're said to do this, like a plastic surgeon does to a droopy bottom bring up the rear
#4316, aired 2003-05-12LIMERICKS $1000: This one's by Ogden Nash There was an old man of Calcutta, who coated his tonsils with butter, thus converting his snore, from a thunderous roar, to a soft oleaginous ____ mutter
#4314, aired 2003-05-08THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $1200: The 2 types of alligator are the American alligator & a rare variety that makes its home in this Asian country China
#4314, aired 2003-05-08THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $2000: Believed to bring good luck, the korat is a rare, short-haired breed of this animal from Thailand cat
#4308, aired 2003-04-30BRAIN SURGERY FOR DUMMIES $800: Pituitary surgery may be done by going in through this, the same way patients may have to pay the surgeon through the nose
#4307, aired 2003-04-29JUST MARRIED $600: In Venice, this professional needs a license to operate his boat, but not to sing to newlyweds a gondolier
#4300, aired 2003-04-18SHADES OF GREEN $1200: A rare variety of beryl valued as a gem emerald
#4283, aired 2003-03-26AYE AYE, CAPTAIN $800: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral David Farragut
#4265, aired 2003-02-28"Q" & A $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew on the ship Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio) Generally reserved for officers, it's the rear part of the upper level of an old sailing ship quarterdeck
#4251, aired 2003-02-104-LETTER VERBS $200: As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow & keep under surveillance tail
#4222, aired 2002-12-31TAKE THE KIDS! $800: Pinching pennies? The Lincoln Park Zoo in this Midwest city has something rare: free admission Chicago
#4193, aired 2002-11-20SINGERS $600: On July 30, 2002 he gave a rare live TV appearance, broadcast from Asbury Park, New Jersey on the "Today" show Bruce Springsteen
#4180, aired 2002-11-01RAY $1600: Also famous for playing a good guy, he played the murderer that Jimmy Stewart spies on in "Rear Window" Raymond Burr
#4174, aired 2002-10-24WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: The size of Belgium, this deep Russian lake is home to a rare variety of freshwater seal Lake Baikal
#4173, aired 2002-10-23"R"RRRRRRRRR $200: Sometimes it's necessary to do this, meaning to reload your computer's operating system reboot
#4173, aired 2002-10-23"R"RRRRRRRRR $400: 3 points on one throw in horseshoes ringer
#4173, aired 2002-10-23"R"RRRRRRRRR $600: The stems of these Asian palms are used to make wicker furniture rattan
#4173, aired 2002-10-23"R"RRRRRRRRR $800: In a memorable 1982 TV movie, Jean Stapleton played this first lady Eleanor Roosevelt
#4173, aired 2002-10-23"R"RRRRRRRRR $1000: Ionesco play that ends, "I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!" Rhinoceros
#4164, aired 2002-10-10AUTO RACING $400: It's the "aquatic" term for the rapid side to side movement a car's rear end can make while racing fishing
#4163, aired 2002-10-09THE THIRD CATEGORY $800: The rear third of this human organ is called the root; the rest is the body part that "wags" tongue
#4141, aired 2002-09-09IN THE NAVY $200: You may want to move to the back of the boat it you're this lowest rank of Admiral in the Navy a Rear Admiral
#4123, aired 2002-07-03THE HAYES CODE $400: John Michael Hayes wrote some of this director's finest films, including "Rear Window" & "To Catch a Thief" Hitchcock
#4113, aired 2002-06-19SPINAL TAP $800: The true ones of these bones attach to the breastbone in the front and the spine in the rear ribs
#4075, aired 2002-04-26MAKE MINE RARE $400: A forerunner of modern marsupials, the bettong is one of the rarest mamals on this continent Australia
#4075, aired 2002-04-26MAKE MINE RARE $800: Hawaii's state bird, the nene is a rare variety of this bird sometimes served at Christmas dinner a goose
#4075, aired 2002-04-26MAKE MINE RARE $1200: This brilliant gemstone is actually a rare variety of beryl the emerald
#4075, aired 2002-04-26MAKE MINE RARE $1600: Although rare due to disease, the American type of this tree is still the official tree of Massachusetts the elm
#4075, aired 2002-04-26MAKE MINE RARE $2,600 (Daily Double): Discovered in 1898, this rare element found by Marie & Pierre Curie was named for her country of birth polonium
#4067, aired 2002-04-16LIVIN' LATVIAN LARGE $200: During the Soviet Era, cars were rare in Latvia so teens got licenses for these bicycles
#4051, aired 2002-03-25PETER, PAUL OR MARY $800: On "The Simpsons" a man boasts of a rare copy of this daily comic strip legend advising a friend to commit suicide Mary Worth
#4038, aired 2002-03-06THE CIVIL WAR $800: Muzzle-loading rifles were partly replaced by weapons loaded at the rear of the barrel, called this the breach
#4029, aired 2002-02-21THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN $1600: In the Spokane language, Spokane may derive from "people of" this body, a rare sight in Washington winters the sun
#3996, aired 2002-01-07WAY TO GO $400: Used by the Inuit for thousands of years, it has a covered deck & an open cockpit in which the rower sits with his oar a kayak
#3991, aired 2001-12-31THEY PLAYED REAL PEOPLE $1200: Rusty Dennis, mother of Rocky, a child with a rare deformative disease (1985) Cher
#3990, aired 2001-12-28ANIMAL PLANET $2000: (Sofia & Sarah of the Clue Crew holding a creature.) This six-letter word for this rare alligator comes from the Latin for "white" albino
#3984, aired 2001-12-20A SEEDY CATEGORY $1200: The rare production of a seed without this process taking place is called apomixis pollination (or fertilization)
#3964, aired 2001-11-22LITERA-SEA $500: In a 1976 Clive Cussler novel, Dirk Pitt wants to raise this ship to recover a store of byzanium, a rare element the Titanic
#3959, aired 2001-11-15ISLANDS $600: This Ecuadorian island group's animal life includes a rare flightless cormorant & 2 species of iguana the Galápagos
#3919, aired 2001-09-20WE ARE THE WORLD $100: In 2001 this San Diego aquatic attraction was home to a rare sight, chambered nautilus eggs hatching Sea World
#3903, aired 2001-07-18THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $400: Shopkeepers aren't meeting when "introducing the shoemaker to the tailor" -- you've just done this to someone's rear kicked it
#3891, aired 2001-07-02C'EST MONTREAL $800: Montreal's "Juste pour rire" comedy festival held each July is known as this in English Just For Laughs
#3889, aired 2001-06-28COLOR MY WORLD $200: A possession costly to maintain, or a rare variety of pachyderm a white elephant
#3873, aired 2001-06-06MAMMALS $600: The rare maned type of this wild canine roams the Pampas the wolf
#3846, aired 2001-04-30U.S. COINS $200: A few rare 1965 quarters were still made of this metal; the Mint switched to a clad coin that year silver
#3845, aired 2001-04-27REMEMBER THE '90s $200: He told Oprah in 1993 that he had a rare skin disease & was in love with Brooke Shields Michael Jackson
#3818, aired 2001-03-21LIBRARIES $200: The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College in this state's Berkshire Hills has a 1787 copy of the Constitution Massachusetts
#3764, aired 2001-01-04EXPLORERS $400: La Salle, exploring Lake Ontario around 1670, heard the roar of this feature but didn't bother to go look Niagara Falls
#3720, aired 2000-11-03TROPICAL ISLANDS $400: Sepilok is a sanctuary on Borneo established primarily for these rare creatures orangutans
#3702, aired 2000-10-10QUILTING $1000: This term for a quilt using irregular scraps of material can refer to anything thrown together crazy
#3696, aired 2000-10-025-LETTER WORDS $400: The rear end of a ship, or an adjective describing a hard or strict teacher stern
#3689, aired 2000-09-21TIGER $200: Most tigers have yellow eyes, but the eyes of the rare white tiger are this color Blue
#3686, aired 2000-09-18FORD $300: Richard Nixon awarded former Marine & Navy man John Ford this rank Rear Admiral
#3676, aired 2000-09-04DESERT DWELLERS $500: A rare animal indeed is Ursus gobiensis, the Gobi this a bear
#3665, aired 2000-07-07THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS $1000: The official dog of this nation's army, the Briard was once rare because so many were lost in World War I France
#3664, aired 2000-07-06CAPITAL $100: Rainfall is rare in this capital of Peru Lima
#3653, aired 2000-06-21RHYME TIME $800: An oarsman who's not as quick as the rest slower rower
#3618, aired 2000-05-03WONDERERS OF THE WORLD $200: James Russell Lowell asked, "What is so rare as a day in" this month June
#3611, aired 2000-04-24THE BODY $100: The retina is the light-sensitive layer lining the inside rear of this organ Eye
#3610, aired 2000-04-21THE U.S. MINT $200: During WWII these were made of steel, but a rare 1943 copper one has sold for over $80,000 Penny
#3581, aired 2000-03-13OH WHAT A YEAR! $1,300 (Daily Double): George V dies, Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals, Spanish Civil War erupts 1936
#3579, aired 2000-03-09MODERN SPORTS EQUIPMENT $100: Seat, chain, front & rear derailleurs Bicycle
#3566, aired 2000-02-21SHINING ARMOR $500: The rerebrace & vambrace protected the rear & fore part of this Arm
#3553, aired 2000-02-02AT THE MOVIES $800: This 1948 film inspired by a real murder was Alfred Hitchcock's first movie in color Rope
#3529, aired 1999-12-30CALLING ALL CARS $400: The name of this rear-engined Chevy model brought out in 1959 was originally on an experimental Corvette Corvair
#3520, aired 1999-12-17"R"RRRRR! $200: It's the creature from which hats like the one seen here were originally made: Raccoon
#3520, aired 1999-12-17"R"RRRRR! $400: A man with the head of a hawk crowned with a solar disk represents this ancient Egyptian sun god Ra
#3520, aired 1999-12-17"R"RRRRR! $600: Frank Gorshin played him on the small screen, Jim Carrey on the big The Riddler
#3520, aired 1999-12-17"R"RRRRR! $800: It's a stream of particles or waves emitted as the result of nuclear decay Radiation
#3520, aired 1999-12-17"R"RRRRR! $1000: An 11-letter word meaning extreme conservative opponent of progress or liberalism Reactionary
#3492, aired 1999-11-09SPORTS RULES, MAN! $200: It's 60'6" from the pitcher's rubber to the rear of this Home plate
#3428, aired 1999-06-30"C" WHO SALUTES $700 (Daily Double): In 1841 Matthew Perry attained this rank, a flag officer just below rear admiral commodore
#3398, aired 1999-05-19FINISH THE LINE $500: Helen Reddy: "I am woman..." hear me roar
#3391, aired 1999-05-10THE IVY LEAGUE $100: Perhaps to match rival Harvard, this school has a Gutenberg Bible too, at the Beinecke Rare Book Library Yale
#3375, aired 1999-04-16CHARLEMAGNE $1000: Charlemagne lost his rear guard, led by this legendary nephew, at the Battle of Roncesvalles Roland (AKA Orlando)
#3373, aired 1999-04-14IN OTHER WORLDS $400: On Neptune, a rare occasion could be "once in an azure triton" or a "cerulean nereid" instead of this Blue moon
#3352, aired 1999-03-16WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: A German valley renowned for its coal deposits is named for this tributary of the Rhine the Ruhr
#3349, aired 1999-03-11ADMIRALS $100: 22 years after the April 28, 1789 mutiny, he was promoted to Rear Admiral William Bligh
#3303, aired 1999-01-06THE CAT $800: Like MGM's Leo the Lion, if you can do this you're considered one of the "big cats" roar
#3298, aired 1998-12-30WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $200: From the Latin for "towards the rear", it's your rear end derriere
#3281, aired 1998-12-07CAR TALK $500: A calculus major could tell you it's the part that uses gears to transfer power to the rear wheels Differential
#3277, aired 1998-12-011988 $1000: On March 16 this rear admiral was indicted for his role in the Iran/Contra affair John Poindexter
#3243, aired 1998-10-14BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $300: Something very rare is "as scarce as" these poultry features (that don't exist) hen's teeth
#3220, aired 1998-09-11"G" WHIZ! $500: Isak Dinesen compared these mammals to "rare, long-stemmed speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing" giraffes
#3193, aired 1998-06-17HITCHCOCK'S CATTLE $100: A good guy as Perry Mason, he played the bad guy Jimmy Stewart spied on in "Rear Window" Raymond Burr
#3170, aired 1998-05-15WILD THINGS $500: Bred in captivity, dozens of these rare "masked" weasels were introduced into the Wyoming wilderness in 1991 Ferrets
#3136, aired 1998-03-30VALLEYS $500: In 1997 thousands left this river valley in Germany & Poland to avoid extensive floods the Oder
#3126, aired 1998-03-16PLAY TIME $800: In this David Mamet play, Don Dubrow plans to steal a rare & valuable nickel American Buffalo
#3117, aired 1998-03-03CANADIAN POTPOURRI $300: This world-famous Montreal comedy festival is known in French as "Juste Pour Rire" "Just For Laughs"
#3105, aired 1998-02-13INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS $800: The name of his 1896 painting "No Te Aha Oe Riri" means "Why Are You Angry"? Paul Gauguin
#3094, aired 1998-01-29SOUNDING OFF $400: A hit 1965 musical was called this "of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd" The Roar
#3093, aired 1998-01-28PARTY FOOD & DRINK $500: The rare golden sterlet type of this fish roe delicacy was once reserved for czars & shahs Caviar
#3071, aired 1997-12-29IN THE DICTIONARY $200: Of befuddled, vagrant or having a fuzzy rear end, what bumfuzzled means befuddled
#3031, aired 1997-11-03KEEP ON TRUCKIN' $100: Term for a truck whose body tilts to discharge loads, like gravel, to the rear Dump truck
#3024, aired 1997-10-23THE MODEL T $500: The 1910 T featured a rear seat nicknamed for this relative acquired through marriage "Mother-In-Law Seat"
#3020, aired 1997-10-17"A" IN SEX EDUCATION $600: Rare in nature, monogamy is the rule with this sea bird, obviously misnamed "wandering" Albatross
#3000, aired 1997-09-19ANNIVERSARIES $400: 1997 is the 25th anniversary of this Helen Reddy hit; we can still hear it roar "I Am Woman"
#2997, aired 1997-09-16FAMOUS MOUNTS $2,000 (Daily Double): George Vancouver named this NW peak after a British rear admiral, not for the local weather Mount Rainier
#2980, aired 1997-07-11NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $200: A herd of rare native red deer inhabits this country's Killarney National Park Ireland
#2980, aired 1997-07-11NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $400: Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park was created as a refuge for bison & other animals, like this rare crane Whooping crane
#2972, aired 1997-07-012-LETTER WORDS $200: It precedes hill, roar, state & -to-date Up
#2970, aired 1997-06-27TRANSPORTATION $400: This 2-wheeled, 2-passenger 19th century London cab had an elevated driver's seat in the rear Hansom cab
#2969, aired 1997-06-26THE MOVIES $200: In this 1992 Susan Sarandon film, olive oil was used as a treatment for A.L.D., a rare nerve disease "Lorenzo's Oil"
#2959, aired 1997-06-12THE BODY WOMAN $200: Colorblindness is rare in women as they have 2 of these dominant gene-carrying chromosomes X
#2895, aired 1997-03-143-LETTER WORDS $400: Near or toward the rear of a ship Aft
#2867, aired 1997-02-04FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: In 1947 this rear admiral was officer-in-charge of the largest Antarctic expedition by a single country Richard Byrd
#2865, aired 1997-01-31ANIMALS $500: The largest & heaviest New World monkey, its characteristic roar can be heard for about 2 miles Howler Monkey
#2822, aired 1996-12-03LAKES & RIVERS $200 (Daily Double): Tributaries of this river include the Ruhr, Moselle & Neckar Rhine
#2818, aired 1996-11-27BIOGRAPHIES $100: "Rare Air" is a photo biography of this basketball star Michael Jordan
#2811, aired 1996-11-18RANKS & TITLES $300: Title for the president of a yacht club, or the rank just below a navy's rear admiral a commodore
#2805, aired 1996-11-08MUSIC '96 $400: This "Cracked Rear View" group won 2 Grammys, including Best New Artist Hootie & the Blowfish
#2802, aired 1996-11-05YANKEES $600: For forcing the surrender of New Orleans on April 25, 1862, he was promoted to rear admiral David Farragut
#2788, aired 1996-10-16TELEVISION $400: His TV characters included Dr. Johnny Fever, Sam Royer & Charlie Moore Howard Hesseman
#2738, aired 1996-06-26INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $500: Casu becciu, a rare cheese, is a specialty of this Italian island, the 2nd largest in the Mediterranean Sardinia
#2733, aired 1996-06-19THE WINE CELLAR $1000: Tokay Eszencia is a rare, expensive type of this country's esteemed Tokay wine Hungary
#2725, aired 1996-06-07POETS $200: This poet's row house in Camden, N.J. displays a rare first edition of his "Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman
#2719, aired 1996-05-30THE BIBLE $600: One of his rare mentions outside Genesis is in 1 Chronicles 1:1, where he begins a family tree Adam
#2709, aired 1996-05-16HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: 1963 was a rare instance of the Eastern & Western Christian observances of this movable feast coinciding Easter
#2689, aired 1996-04-18MUSIC $800: In 1951 a trombonist in The Herd taped a rare session with Charlie Parker & this band leader Woody Herman
#2640, aired 1996-02-09THE HEART $200: First performed in the 1960s, it was a rare operation until the introduction of the drug cyclosporine heart transplant
#2628, aired 1996-01-24'50s FILM FACTS $500: Jimmy Stewart spies on his neighbor Raymond Burr in this Hitchcock classic Rear Window
#2623, aired 1996-01-17THE ELEMENTS $800 (Daily Double): Marie Curie named this rare element for the country where she was born polonium
#2603, aired 1995-12-20EMPERORS & EMPRESSES $1,000 (Daily Double): He was a rear admiral in the Austrian navy before he became emperor of Mexico Maximilian
#2601, aired 1995-12-18THE CIRCUS $100: Legend says Isaac van Amburgh was the first to stick his head here—we hope he got a "roar" of applause a lion's mouth
#2591, aired 1995-12-04BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Something rare is "as scarce as" these nonexistent bird parts hen's teeth
#2578, aired 1995-11-15HERBS & SPICES $400: This spice, produced by the Piper nigrum plant, was once so rare it was used as currency black pepper
#2557, aired 1995-10-17EUROPEAN POTPOURRI $200: Known for its rare manuscripts, this British library is named for scholar-diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley the Bodleian
#2518, aired 1995-07-12HUMPHREY BOGART FILMS $1000: In a rare comedic role, he fell for a chauffeur's daughter played by Audrey Hepburn in this film Sabrina
#2510, aired 1995-06-301939 $400: Struck by a rare disease, he bid a tearful farewell to Yankee fans on July 4 Lou Gehrig
#2500, aired 1995-06-16ADMIRALS $200: He became a rear admiral more than 20 years after surviving the mutiny on the Bounty Bligh
#2500, aired 1995-06-16ADMIRALS $800: He was promoted to rear admiral 9 days after his victory in the Battle of Manila Bay Dewey
#2424, aired 1995-03-02ZOOLOGY $400: In rare instances, the male of this whale will grow 2 spiral tusks instead of 1 the narwhal
#2420, aired 1995-02-24ANIMALS $500: Known for its bugle-like call, this rare bird is North America's tallest at about 5 feet the whooping crane
#2417, aired 1995-02-21MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: Ishtar, a goddess of thunderstorms, is often depicted with this animal that has a thunderous roar the lion
#2410, aired 1995-02-10STRAIGHT "A"s $200: This 12-letter adjective describes a rare individual who can use both hands equally well ambidextrous
#2398, aired 1995-01-25FRONTIER LIFE $400: Because wood was rare on the Plains, this new item patented in 1873 made cheap fencing possible barbed wire
#2395, aired 1995-01-20POETRY $1000: In "The Raven" Poe laments the loss of a "rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name" this Lenore
#2393, aired 1995-01-18COLLECTORS $200: An antiquarian generally deals in old or rare ones of these books
#2376, aired 1994-12-26PLAYS $1000: This modern playwright's "American Buffalo" revolves around the sale of a rare buffalo nickel David Mamet
#2367, aired 1994-12-13NAUTICAL TERMS $300: The bow is the front part of a ship; this is the rear portion a stern
#2365, aired 1994-12-09BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ANIMALS $400: This company's lion was first heard to roar in the 1928 talkie "White Shadows in the South Seas" MGM
#2319, aired 1994-10-06RR CROSSING $100: It's the car that brings up the rear on a freight train a caboose
#2316, aired 1994-10-03THE CONGRESS $600: At the rear of the Sen. & House chambers, these gathering rooms were originally designed to hold coats the cloakrooms
#2306, aired 1994-09-19U.S. STATES $800: Though this tree is now rare due to a "Dutch" disease, it's still Massachusetts' state tree the elm
#2304, aired 1994-09-15U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: He may have suffered from Marfan's syndrome, a rare disorder featuring long, lanky arms & legs Abraham Lincoln
#2288, aired 1994-07-13MONTHS $400: James Russell Lowell asked, "And what is so rare as a day in" this month, "then if ever, come perfect days" June
#2251, aired 1994-05-23THE ARMED FORCES $1000: Until rear-admiral was created in 1862, this was the highest non-honorary U.S. Navy rank captain
#2231, aired 1994-04-25THE 1950s $200: In November 1955 rear admiral Richard E. Byrd was named to head the program concerning this continent Antarctica
#2229, aired 1994-04-21ASTRONOMY $200: Telescopes using a front lens to collect light are refracting; ones using a rear mirror are this type reflecting
#2191, aired 1994-02-28POETS & POETRY $600: In "The Vision of Sir Launfal", James Russell Lowell asked, "What is so rare as a day in" this month June
#2182, aired 1994-02-15GEOGRAPHY $1000: Among the tributaries of this European river are the Neckar, Moselle & Ruhr the Rhine
#2159, aired 1994-01-13GENERAL SCIENCE $500: Cerium, a rare earth metal, was named for this asterioid discovered 2 years before the element Ceres
#2151, aired 1994-01-03AROUND THE HOSPITAL $300: For deliveries go to this ward, not to the rear obstetrics (maternity)
#2136, aired 1993-12-13LITERATURE $400: In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, a rare beetle is used to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure "The Gold-Bug"
#2122, aired 1993-11-23NORSE MYTHOLOGY $600: In a rare act of kindness, this mischief maker helped Thor retrieve his stolen hammer Loki
#2100, aired 1993-10-22LERNER & LOEWE SONGS $400: "What a day this has been! What a rare mood I'm in! Why, it's almost like" this being in love
#2095, aired 1993-10-15MAMMALS $1000: The aye-aye & the indri are rare members of this primate group found on Madagascar lemurs
#2068, aired 1993-09-08LIBRARIES $300: This Illinois city's Newberry Library is world famous for its rare book & Indian culture collections Chicago
#2047, aired 1993-06-29IT'S EXTINCT $400: Steller's Sea Cow was a relative of this rare aquatic mammal found in Florida the manatee
#2002, aired 1993-04-27IRELAND $1,500 (Daily Double): The library at this college is home to many rare works, including the 8th century Book of Kells Trinity College (the University of Dublin)
#1998, aired 1993-04-21LEFTOVERS $800: In names of perfumes, this bright color precedes "Roor" or stands alone Red
#1997, aired 1993-04-20VOCABULARY $300: The Greek word for "new" gave us the name of this rare, inert gas neon
#1982, aired 1993-03-30FRENCH MENU $400: To get your meat cooked this way, ask for it saignant rare
#1982, aired 1993-03-30THE CIVIL WAR $800: Before this battle, David Farragut was a rear admiral; after it, a vice admiral Mobile Bay
#1976, aired 1993-03-22ASTROLOGY $100: People born under this sign love to be the center of attention; if you ignore them, they may "roar" Leo
#1962, aired 1993-03-02NURSERY RHYMES $100: "Oh, there's none so rare as can compare with" him "and his fiddlers three" Old King Cole
#1958, aired 1993-02-24RHYME TIME $100: A uncommon grizzly a rare bear
#1956, aired 1993-02-22SAINTS $1000: Until the 20th century this "rower" was the only archangel with a feast day on the Western calendar Michael
#1948, aired 1993-02-10LIBRARIES $200: This school in New Haven, Conn. is home to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale
#1927, aired 1993-01-12ACTS $500: This 1973 act protects rare wildlife habitat the Endangered Species Act
#1917, aired 1992-12-29WINE $100: Riesling wines are a specialty of this German river valley the Rhine
#1900, aired 1992-12-04LIBRARIES $600: This largest Alabama city's public library owns the Agee Collection of rare maps & atlases Birmingham
#1857, aired 1992-10-06WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The majority of Germany's coal production comes from the valley of this Rhine tributary the Ruhr valley
#1853, aired 1992-09-30DEM BONES $600: The calcaneus, the large bone in the rear of the foot, is more commonly called this the heel bone
#1846, aired 1992-09-21GENERAL SCIENCE $200: Pilots have reported seeing a rare form of this which strikes upward from a cloud rather than down lightning
#1835, aired 1992-07-171956 $100: The first of these rare birds ever born in captivity was hatched on May 29 — Whoopee! a whooping crane
#1796, aired 1992-05-25SONG LYRICS $300: "Mrs. Brown you've got" one of these; "girls as sharp as her are something rare" a lovely daughter
#1793, aired 1992-05-20PARROTS $400: The rare Kakapo parrot of New Zealand is distinct in being unable to do this fly
#1791, aired 1992-05-18"X", "Y", "Z" $300: In a famous poem, "It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!" Xanadu
#1784, aired 1992-05-07GERMANY $800: The Ruhr Valley accounts for most of Germany's production of this fuel resource coal
#1753, aired 1992-03-25PSALMS $400: These "young" animals "roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God" lions
#1740, aired 1992-03-06DANCE $600: The 1786 Opera "Una Cosa Rara" featured one of the first of these Viennese dances a waltz
#1698, aired 1992-01-08MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: Sometimes called a sea cow, this rare mammal is a close relative of the dugong a manatee
#1678, aired 1991-12-11PEOPLE $200: Asked what he was going to do after retiring in 1991, this justice said, "Sit on my rear end" Thurgood Marshall
#1667, aired 1991-11-26PHYSICAL SCIENCE $200: While it makes up more of the earth's crust than iron, its ore, bauxite, is rarer than iron ore aluminum
#1660, aired 1991-11-15FOOD $200: Dishes flavored or garnished with these rare costly fungi are referred to as "a la Perigourdine" Truffles
#1656, aired 1991-11-11MUSICALS $300: Completes the title of the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint ____" The Smell of the Crowd
#1636, aired 1991-10-14LIBRARIES $100: Rare books & manuscripts are housed in the Sistine Room of this 1600-year-old library the Vatican library
#1600, aired 1991-07-12FOOD $300: Diplomatic sauce, which is served with fish, contains these rare, expensive fungi truffles
#1570, aired 1991-05-314-LETTER WORDS $200: To raise on the hind legs like a horse, or to raise a child rear
#1550, aired 1991-05-034-LETTER WORDS $400: A female deer, or an adjective describing her rear legs hind
#1546, aired 1991-04-29HAVE A "HART" $400: Due to its high shoulders, this African antelope's back slopes to the rear a hartebeest
#1539, aired 1991-04-18BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: This rare Elizabethan playwright was imprisoned three times, once for killing an actor Ben Jonson
#1527, aired 1991-04-02MOVIE TRIVIA $500: Jimmy Stewart is confined to his apartment with a broken leg in this 1954 thriller Rear Window
#1489, aired 1991-02-07MEDICINE $400: Progeria, a rare genetic disorder, is marked by a person doing this prematurely aging
#1441, aired 1990-12-03FAMOUS LIONS $100: This MGM lion's roar was first heard in the 1928 film "White Shadows in the South Seas" Leo
#1421, aired 1990-11-05EUROPEAN RIVERS $800: This German tributary of the Rhine has lent its name to a major industrial region the Ruhr
#1415, aired 1990-10-26TRANSPORTATION $300: On a train, a tender car is attached to the rear of one of these the engine (locomotive)
#1406, aired 1990-10-15U.S. HISTORY $400: The first astronaut to become a Rear Admiral; he was also the first American in space Alan Shepard
#1393, aired 1990-09-26BIRDS $800 (Daily Double): Hawaii's state bird, the rare nene, is a member of this family the goose
#1363, aired 1990-07-04THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1000: The rare tuatara is the only living member of an entire order of this class of vertebrates reptiles
#1333, aired 1990-05-23NAME'S THE SAME $200: The actor who starred in "Rear Window", or the real name of actor Stewart Granger James Stewart
#1326, aired 1990-05-14MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: 2 types of this Italian plucked stringed instrument are the Neopolitan & the rarer Milanese Mandolin
#1301, aired 1990-04-09GEMS & JEWELRY $100: This brilliant green gem is actually a rare variety of beryl emerald
#1286, aired 1990-03-19LIBRARIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1889 a Braddock, PA library became the first in the U.S. constructed by this businessman Andrew Carnegie
#1279, aired 1990-03-08JEWELRY $300: Known for its malleability & white brilliance, this rare metal has been used in jewelry since the 19th c. platinum
#1254, aired 1990-02-01PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $500: Guinness says this star of "Rear Window" was Eisenhower's favorite actress Grace Kelly
#1233, aired 1990-01-034-LETTER WORDS $100: Poet James Lowell asked, "And what is so" this "as a day in June?" rare
#1220, aired 1989-12-15GEMS $800: This gemstone gets its beautiful deep blue color from a rare mineral called lazurite lapis lazuli
#1212, aired 1989-12-05THE NAVY $400: It's the lowest rank among admirals in the U.S. Navy a rear admiral
#1207, aired 1989-11-28FRUITS $500: This rare fruit is used in Jewish Feast of Tabernacles rites & its peel is used in fruitcakes citron
#1190, aired 1989-11-03POE $400: In this tale William Legrand & his servant Jupiter find a rare entomological specimen "The Gold Bug"
#1139, aired 1989-07-13SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: In a rare TV appearance, Olivier played this foolish, fond old king King Lear
#1127, aired 1989-06-27LEADING MEN $600: Rear admiral's son who played military roles in "M*A*S*H", "The Great Santini" & "Apocalypse Now" Robert Duvall
#1061, aired 1989-03-27ZOOS $300: This west coast zoo is the only zoo in the U.S. to have rare golden monkeys & monal pheasants from China San Diego Zoo
#1013, aired 1989-01-18THE OLYMPICS $200: In rowing, if a rower falls out of the boat, the crew can still win; if this person falls out, they can't coxswain
#994, aired 1988-12-22CRIME & PUNISHMENT $300: Moscow has declared it illegal for gangs to roar through the city at night on these vehicles motorcycles
#985, aired 1988-12-09FURNITURE $100: Some cheaper woods are stained black to resemble this rare & expensive furniture wood ebony
#981, aired 1988-12-05FAMOUS NAMES $400: This "Father of the American Navy" later became a Rear Admiral in the Russian Navy John Paul Jones
#979, aired 1988-12-01FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: Since chickens have no molars, incisors or cuspids, it means something extremely rare or hard to find rare as a hen's tooth
#953, aired 1988-10-26SINGING CELEBRITIES $300 (Daily Double): She was one of the most talked-about women of 1987: "Satan is a roaring lion / On Earth this very hour / We know he’s looking ‘round about for whom he may devour / But the Devil is defeated / The Victory’s yours today / So when he rears…" Tammy Faye Bakker
#881, aired 1988-06-06PHYSICAL SCIENCE $100: Superman might be interested to know this rare gas, atomic numger 36, is used in fluorescent lights krypton
#879, aired 1988-06-02TV GUIDE SAYS $100: "Frank steals a rare Colt .45 & lets Radar take the rap" M*A*S*H
#870, aired 1988-05-20ZOOLOGY $500: A cat's great night vision comes from light passing twice through this rear part of the eye retina
#840, aired 1988-04-08TRANSPORTATION $100: Astern, abaft, & aft all refer to this part of a ship back (rear)
#838, aired 1988-04-06HUMOROUS QUOTES $400: Ernie Kovacs described it as "a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done" television
#804, aired 1988-02-18"D" IN SCIENCE $600: In 1986, a rare celestial pair was discovered: a neutron star & 1 of these smaller "white" stars dwarf
#801, aired 1988-02-15BASKETBALL $400: Area under the basket next to the end line, or a rear entrance back door
#786, aired 1988-01-25CHILD CARE $300: It's rare for this manual dominance to appear before the age of two being right-handed (or left-handed)
#784, aired 1988-01-21FLOWERS $400: About 10% of all wildflowers in the U.S. are rare enough to be considered this endangered species
#780, aired 1988-01-15KINGS & QUEENS $300: The last king of this Scandanavian country was Frederick IX, a rear admiral who died in 1972 Denmark
#765, aired 1987-12-25TRANSPORTATION $400: This Ford model was once advertised as "A rare new species for bird watchers" Thunderbird
#762, aired 1987-12-22STARTS WITH "H" $400: Figuratively, it can rerer to a small person; literally, it's 1/16 of a gallon a half-pint
#758, aired 1987-12-16THE CIVIL WAR $800: His victories led to his being appointed 1st rear admiral , vice admiral & admiral in U.S. history Farragut
#741, aired 1987-11-23SPORTS EQUIPMENT $300: In the U.S., bicycles must be equipped with these safety features on the front, rear, & pedals reflector shields
#733, aired 1987-11-11PALINDROMES $200: Word that completes the palindromic phrase "Niagara o roar..." again
#718, aired 1987-10-21"CORN"Y WORDS $500 (Daily Double): Edible last name in the title of the following from "Li'l Abner": "When we fought the Yankees and annihilation was near / Who was there to lead the charge that took us safe to the rear? / Why it was..." Jubilation T. Cornpone
#695, aired 1987-09-18MUSIC PEOPLE $500 (Daily Double): Singer heard here, Alice Cooper called her "The Queen of Housewife Rock": "In the morning fun when no one will be drinking any more wine / I'll wake the sun..." Helen Reddy
#691, aired 1987-09-14BLUE JEANS $200: On the back of his 1984 album cover, he's wearing blue jeans with a red baseball cap in the right rear pocket Bruce Springsteen
#674, aired 1987-07-09MAMMALS $200: Not a true albino, the rare white tiger has eyes this color blue
#665, aired 1987-06-26METALS $800: It is on "record" that this rare precious metal is sometimes magnetic platinum
#662, aired 1987-06-23THE BRAIN $500: Sensations from the top rear two-thirds of it are carried to the brain by the lingual nerve the tongue
#640, aired 1987-05-22BIG BANDS $400: "Drums... must produce sounds, not just make noise", said this bandleader-drummer, a rare combination Gene Krupa
#631, aired 1987-05-11LUNCH COUNTER LINGO $500: If you "brand bossy", you're doing this frying a hamburger
#612, aired 1987-04-14GHOSTS $200: That "rare" person whose efforts to produce a ghost at a seance are "well done" medium
#598, aired 1987-03-25DIFFERENCES $400: When a car turns a corner, this mechanism allows one rear wheel to turn faster than the other the differential
#593, aired 1987-03-18TRANSPORTATION $200: The harsh Captain Ahab would use strictly this term to refer to the rear of a ship stern
#578, aired 1987-02-25BICYCLING $200: The 19th c. "police patrol tricycle" was equipped with a middle seat in the rear to convey these prisoners
#571, aired 1987-02-16CAR TALK $100: If you "boil the hides", it means your rear tires are producing this at the start of a drag race smoke
#567, aired 1987-02-10AUTOMOBILES $400: Suggesting they got 40 mpw (miles per wind), some owners of these affixed wind-up keys to rear engine "hood" Volkswagen Bugs
#565, aired 1987-02-06GIRLS IN SONG $200: In 1957, Buddy Holly told her, "I love you...with a love so rare & true" Peggy Sue
#562, aired 1987-02-03MEDICINE $400: Psittacosis, also called Ornithosis, is a rare pneumonia transmitted by these animals birds
#555, aired 1987-01-23DOGS $100: There is evidence of rare airborne transmission of this feared disease usually transmitted through bites rabies
#554, aired 1987-01-22LAKES & RIVERS $200: Of the Red River, Yellow Rier & Blue River, the one not a major river in Asia the Blue River
#538, aired 1986-12-31PLAYWRIGHTS $600: His epitaph calls him "rare", but his "Volpone" was well-done Ben Jonson
#536, aired 1986-12-29WINDOWS $200: It was Jimmy Stewart's viewpoint to a murder in 1954 Rear Window
#534, aired 1986-12-25LETTER PERFECT $500: To a chef this movie rating would denote far from well done R
#527, aired 1986-12-16"BACK" WORDS $1000: It's the wood at the rear of a hearth, or, more commonly, all those unperformed tasks a backlog
#514, aired 1986-11-27HITCHCOCK $400: Hitchcock hoped "Marnie" would mark this "Rear Window" star's return to the screen Grace Kelly
#492, aired 1986-10-28STATUE OF LIBERTY $300: Of full face, rear, or profile, the view of the statue from Manhattan profile
#491, aired 1986-10-27RHYME TIME $200: A minor automobile accident, often a rear-ender a fender-bender
#489, aired 1986-10-23POETIC QUOTES $200: Even though it has 30, Lowell asked, "What is so rare as a day in this month?" June
#487, aired 1986-10-21"BACK" WORDS $200: Though he may ride in the rear of a limousine, Muhammad Ali doesn't take this to anyone a back seat
#483, aired 1986-10-15ANIMALS $200: It's said you can hear lions do this from 10 miles away roar
#474, aired 1986-10-02THE MILITARY $1000: The lowest rank among admirals in the U.S. Navy rear admirals
#473, aired 1986-10-01PROTOCOL $800: The seat of honor in a limousine right hand rear seat
#469, aired 1986-09-251965 $400: A cheating scandal created "one heck of a roar" at this service academy the Air Force Academy
#448, aired 1986-05-28LUNCH COUNTER LINGO $100: "On the hoof" is meat done this way rare
#435, aired 1986-05-09CATS $500: The "great cats", like lions & tigers, are so called not because of size but because they can do this roar
#432, aired 1986-05-06AUTO RACING $400: This rear deck air deflector helps improve tire traction a spoiler
#427, aired 1986-04-29WORLD WAR I $200: Nobody wanted to be caught dead there, so area between forward & rear trenches was called this no man's land
#395, aired 1986-03-14BIRDS $800: The rare California condor belongs to the bird family commonly called this a vulture
#368, aired 1986-02-05WOMEN $600: Author Susan Brownmiller said when Hugh Hefner wears this on "his rear end, then we'll have equality" a bunny tail
#347, aired 1986-01-07DOUBLE “P”s $600: Breed of horse marked by dappled white area on the rear end Appaloosa
#335, aired 1985-12-20PARADES $200: In New York & Detroit, Santa pulls up the rear in parades on this holiday Thanksgiving
#324, aired 1985-12-05ROCK 'N ROLL $400: Robb Royer, James Griffin, & David Gates made a lot of "dough" as this 1970's group Bread
#309, aired 1985-11-1410-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): From German for “rear”, it's the region behind a coast or remote from other cities hinterland
#304, aired 1985-11-07FIRST LINES $5,000 (Daily Double): Proper title of the poem that begins, "'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house" "A Visit from Saint Nicholas"
#294, aired 1985-10-24POTPOURRI $200: Thought unsafe and taken off market, this troubled rear-engined Chevy is now a hot collector's item a Corvair
#265, aired 1985-09-13FICTIONAL HEROINES $800: In "The Raven", the angels named Poe's rare & radiant maiden this Lenore
#182, aired 1985-05-21SPORTS $300: An occupational hazard for soccer players is getting "banjoed", meaning being kicked here the groin
#155, aired 1985-04-12IN THE MIDDLE $200: It's in the middle of rare & well-done, or small & large medium
#116, aired 1985-02-18AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Congress created this rank in order to honor Farragut for his victory at New Orleans a rear admiral
#19, aired 1984-10-04HITCHCOCK $600: Before playing "Perry", he was killer James Stewart saw through the "Rear Window" Raymond Burr

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (9 results returned)

#8082, aired 2019-10-291950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer Rear Window
#7979, aired 2019-04-25THE ELEMENTS: Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia europium
#7250, aired 2016-03-04POP MUSIC MILESTONES: In 1972 this anthemic song became the first Billboard chart-topper by an Australian-born artist "I Am Woman"
#6633, aired 2013-06-19WAR NOVELS: Appropriately, the sound of musketry & artillery is described as "a crimson roar" in this story The Red Badge of Courage
#6262, aired 2011-12-06U.S. STRUCTURES: On December 6, 1884 this was capped with a 100-oz., 9-inch-high pyramid-shaped block of aluminum, a metal that was rare at the time the Washington Monument
#6250, aired 2011-11-18ACTOR-DIRECTORS: It's rare to get Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Actor for the same film; he is 1 of the 2 who did it twice (1 of) Clint Eastwood & Warren Beatty
#5010, aired 2006-05-2620th CENTURY WOMEN: In 1964, in a rare interview, she said, "All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama..." Harper Lee
#4050, aired 2002-03-22FROM THE LATIN: Derived from the Latin for "to walk", this word is often printed backwards to be seen in rear-view mirrors ambulance
#511, aired 1986-11-24MILITARY HISTORY: The famous "Damn the torpedoes" command was shouted by a rear admiral during this war the Civil War

Players (31 results returned)

Kim Rohrer, a web production manager from Ossining, New York Season 32 player (2016-04-08).
Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game "This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
Rick Rorapaugh, a customer service representative from Carlsbad, California Season 1 1-time champion: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "ROAR-uh-paw".
Bill Ruehr, a data administrator from Woodland Hills, California Season 12 player (1996-07-04).
Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil "With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland "She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut 2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
Ann Drourr, a rare bookseller from Mount Laurel, New Jersey Season 24 1-time champion: $31,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like to rhyme with "power".
Bethany Grenald, a rare books cataloguer from Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Season 24 player (2008-04-15).
Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University 2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas "This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York "She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California "He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia "Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands "When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room "Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California 2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University 2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show "Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
Billy Baxter, a grad student and 1992 College Tournament champion from Richmond, Virginia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. Eliminated from...
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1992 Tournament...
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland "He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
Billy Baxter, a senior from the College of William & Mary 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. Eliminated from...



Didn't find what you wanted? Try your J! Archive search using Google, Bing, or Yahoo!

The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.