| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | MORE THAN 2 I's $800: With 4, it leads the pack in the multiple I category in words in the Pledge of Allegiance indivisible |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | STAR WORDS $1200: This noun is a measure of a size in Earth talk, but in star talk it's a measure of the brightness of a star magnitude |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | STAR WORDS $2000: The stage that makes up most of a star's existence, it's the two-word classification for stars undergoing nuclear fusion the main sequence |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $1000: A wagon, especially one without sides, used to haul heavy loads a dray |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | STATE MOTTOES $600: Kentucky's motto, "United We Stand" followed by these 3 words, has a lengthy history dating as far back as Aesop Divided We Fall |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $1000: Rolling Stone gave us an oral history of this song by extreme, "1991's iconic ballad"; now hold me close, don't ev-ah let me go "More Than Words" |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Containing an archaic word for a wagon, it's just your basic builder of wagons a wainwright |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's another word for pharmacist apothecary |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $600: The 1847 storming of Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City inspired these first 5 words of the Marine Corps' famous hymn From the halls of Montezuma |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $800: It's not trivial knowledge that trivia comes from a word meaning a spot where 3 of these meet road |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $1000: It once meant a light, fast ship but has come to mean one that's old & worn-out & possibly dismantled a hulk |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: The PV in HPV; there's a vaccine for that papillomavirus |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: From the Latin for "conversation", it's an informal or regional expression like "bodacious" a colloquialism |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Let's take a pregnant pause for this term of 3 months trimester |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: Found in Motrin, it's derived from propionic acid ibuprofen |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: You could "transcend blockchain barriers" at 2023's Icon Hyperbuild, this type of event for computer programmers a hackathon |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $3,600 (Daily Double): This verb can mean to create through skill, or to construct a lie or forgery fabricate |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $400: It's any long, eventful journey, but it doesn't have to last 10 years an odyssey |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $200: Its magnetic field is 20 times stronger than Earth's Jupiter |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $600: From the Latin for "close by", it's the placement of different elements side by side juxtaposition |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: From the Latin for "ask", it's the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect interrogation |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the type of photo seen here; what do we gotta do, put it on a silver plate for you a daguerreotype |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This "-ism" describes the ongoing habit of judging foreign groups by the standards of one's own culture ethnocentrism |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $1000: This state's flag bears the words "Battle Born", referring to it becoming a state during the Civil War Nevada |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars", it's said that his last words were "What an artist dies with me!" Nero |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 2-WORD POP CULTURE $200: In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book don't panic |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $600: This equine term refers to an old veteran such as a politician or soldier who's served a long time & has a lot of experience a war horse |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $1000: Asked by Herod what she wanted, the daughter of Herodias replied, "Give me here John Baptist's head in" one of these platters a charger |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $800: A set of enzymes from a cow's stomach lining becomes this, slang for what might buy you a plate of fish & chips tenner (from rennet) |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $400: It's an adjective meaning of or related to one's birth natal |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $1000: The seeds of this tropical tree yield a yellowish-red dye that's used as a food coloring, especially for cheese & margarine annatto |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: For hair color, it can describe Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner, or it can be an iconic series of Ferrari models a Testarossa |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $800: With 58.33% of the letters in "introductory", it's a pipe to carry wiring or a person to carry information between 2 others conduit |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $1000: From the French, it's the sport of running, jumping & climbing around & over urban obstacles parkour |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $1200: According to an old joke, it's what you call the person who graduates last in their medical school class Doctor |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's what you're doing when you're speaking aloud to no one else in particular on stage soliloquizing |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's another name for a bachelor's degree a baccalaureate |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you register a domain name solely with the intention of selling it for profit, sit down, you're this type of intruder a cybersquatter |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $800: Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god a bacchanal |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $1200: You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots a kerfuffle |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $200: It's said there are "three sides to every story: yours, mine" & this the truth |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $400: The spinal column, or firmness of character backbone |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $800: Great material comfort, or anything you enjoy but don't need a luxury |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $1000: Hideous, or the style of art seen here grotesque |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was one a prohibitionist |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "beauty", it's an adjective meaning having great beauty pulchritudinous |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1000: This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain" Pusan |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $3,200 (Daily Double): "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $800: There's a fruit inside this word meaning "marked with small patches" such as "of sunlight" dappled |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1200: There's lunch meat nestled in this cloth used for polishing a chamois |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1600: The English word for unagi is inside this old pirate torture where you got dragged by ropes under the ship keelhauling |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today" All the President's Men |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $400: John Greenleaf Whittier noted, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 words it might have been |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $1000: Let's hurry around the city to find this same-named part of an old-fashioned skirt a bustle |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $800: The little hat worn by French words like hôtel & hôpital is called this a circumflex |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: This division in men's professional boxing has an upper limit of 126 pounds featherweight |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In the Army it's an officer whose job is to provide clothing & sustenance to a body of troops a quartermaster |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's part of the full name of JFK, but not of LGA International |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $200: Dewalt's 20v Max XR lithium-ion cordless compact 1/2-inch is a lot of words but bottom line, it's a power type of this a drill |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $400: There's a shell-less mollusk at the start of this word meaning slow & lazy sluggish |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $200: The official formal one for a U.S. Marine is known as "dress blues" uniform |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $400: It's a Peruvian city, old bean Lima |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Though it's in the Bovidae family, the musk variety of this is grouped with goats & sheep, not cattle the ox |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's Latin for "bone" os |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $1,800 (Daily Double): Thug Passion, a cocktail that's one part Alizé & one part Cristal, is referenced on this rapper's 1996 album "All Eyez On Me" Tupac Shakur |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $800: As a verb it means "to become angry"; as a noun, it's a hair on a brush or a pig bristle |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $1500: They're "F" words, but not the bad kind; they refer to a region's native plant & animal life flora & fauna |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: To take a very small amount, as of psychedelics, perhaps to boost one's mood, rather than to get high microdosing |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $400: It's a time-stamped document that outlines a buyer's obligation to a seller--a bill, if you will an invoice |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $800: The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point Panama |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $600: It's the "P" in the automotive acronym PRNDL park |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg" Tannhäuser |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $800: Though it sounds like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub brouhaha |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | LETTER PERFECT $800: This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F in English words, it's often silent L (for the lek) |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name flibbertigibbet |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a place where skins & hides of animals are treated to make leather a tannery |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: It's the less-than-enthusiastic sound delivered here a raspberry |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: They say this, the spirit & manners of knighthood, "is not dead", so it's okay to be courteous chivalry |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: A term for a medieval philosopher like Thomas Aquinas, or a large children's book publisher scholastic |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $1200: With information it means "to shorten"; in science, it's what happens when vapor turns into water condense |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Let's horse around on this far straightaway on an oval racecourse; it might also be a way to limber up your lumbar region the backstretch |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Keep up! The son of your brother's child is this relationship to you, old-timer great nephew (grandnephew) |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's--sob!--an 11-letter word for weeping, or the secretion of tears lacrimation |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1500: Though evidence suggests she never uttered the words, Truth's famous 1851 speech is known by the title "Ain't I a..." this Woman |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects an earmark |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $400: It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime" a meridian |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $800: On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane a tropical storm |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $400: In physics it's the rate of change of velocity with respect to time, not necessarily an increase in speed acceleration |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $800: This layer of the Earth's atmosphere lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere the stratosphere |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $400: Once used to mean lust, it's now a 2-syllable synonym for indigestion heartburn |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: It's the station at the end of a transport line, like Grand Central terminal |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $800: "Blow of mercy" in French, it's a finishing blow at the end of combat a coup de grâce |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $1000: On televisions it refers to clarity of visual detail; legally, it's a verdict or final decision a resolution |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | DOUBLE Y-ed $400: From Greek words for "true" & "study", it's the study of the origin & development of words etymology |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $800: You can be like Daenerys & actually learn about 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo Dothraki |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $400: Derived from the Arabic sawahil, meaning "of the coast", it's a language on the African continent Swahili |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $800: From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment ecology |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $1000: While crossing the George Washington Bridge from N.J., drivers are greeted by a sign with these 4 words (it's been waiting for you) Welcome to New York |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's a gust (in Augusta) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1600: This tree in Tennessee's ash (in Nashville) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1,800 (Daily Double): This noodle in California's ramen (in Sacramento) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $2000: This Roman poet in Rhode Island's Ovid (from Providence) |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | Y_O_Y $1200: To tell a friend that something is really his bag, say "it's right up" these 2 words your alley |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: "O Captain! My Captain!", its words full of grief / Whitman's lament to this commander in chief Lincoln |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: From the French for "kind", it's a distinctive category of literature like comedy or horror genre |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $800: The use of only a few words to convey meaning, it's said to be "the soul of wit" brevity |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $1000: "Pathetic" or not, it's a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning a fallacy |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GREENS $200: Joe Raposo wrote the words & music, but this character first sang, "It's Not Easy Being Green" Kermit the Frog |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $800: 8-letter adjective meaning similar to a fake doctor or to a duck's call (26 points) quackish |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: A symbol of life in Egypt, it's also known as an ansate cross an ankh |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically" to grok |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $600: This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task to botch |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $800: 1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland" fracking |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $1000: That's a load of this, a short "riding" whip crop |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $400: Austin Powers may be pop culture's greatest champion of this randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel shag |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $1000: We can thank "Jersey Shore" for the popularity of this hookup verb--which certainly evokes compression, if not romance smush |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: A pig's digs a sty |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: Anonymous John's last name Doe |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $200: While "pandemic" was the word for 2020, 2021 was more optimistic with this entry, thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, and others vaccine |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $600: The lady seen here is a representation of this selection for 2018 justice |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1944 Ingrid Bergman film popularized this 11-letter word of 2022, an act of psychological manipulation gaslighting |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $200: Cleopatra's cobra plus a command to stop gives us this road surface asphalt (asp + halt) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $400: "We seceded where others failed" is the motto of the Conch Republic, formed for 1 minute by these Florida islands the Keys |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | SWORDS $1200: With the same name as the raised part at the front of a saddle, it's the round knob at the end of a sword's hilt pommel |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MIRROR WORDS $400: A navigator's charts & unwanted inbox messages spam & maps |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $200: It's zero in tennis, the last name of a Beach Boy & all you need love |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $600: The United Nation's IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on this phrase Climate Change |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $200: 1997.
Five words: state championship clinched by dog Air Bud |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $300: The title of 2020 documentary "The Last Dance" comes from words emblazoned on the front of this team's 1997-98 playbook the Chicago Bulls |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1957:
"A Feline Sporting a Bowler"; it's cute either way The Cat in the Hat |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for a movie's director of photography; Conrad Hall was a great one a cinematographer |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Described in 3 of the gospels, it's the term for Jesus' change in appearance to divine form up on a mountain transfiguration |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the phenomenon exhibited here in waves on the California coast, caused by light-emitting organisms bioluminescence |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: From French & Latin for "nimble finger", it's a fancy name for a sleight of hand magician a prestidigitator |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $200: Sounds gruesome, but it's actually a person who recruits candidates for top-level jobs a headhunter |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $800: It's the controversial cost-saving practice of subcontracting services once done in-house to a third party outsourcing |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $1000: It's the 2-word Latin phrase meaning a particular way of doing something, work-wise or criminally related modus operandi |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: One who's used as the tool of another, or Moe Howard the stooge |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a broom's natural partner dustpan |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the place where horses are saddled before a race, or an enclosed space where they're exercised a paddock |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $1000: Regarding blood pressure, these 2 words that end with the same 6 letters refer to how the heart muscles relax & contract systolic & diastolic |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you take yoga in the U.S., many a teacher will end class with this, a respectful Sanskrit term & gesture namaste |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's Spanish for "everybody", but it literally translates to "all the world" todo el mundo |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1200: Inside a domesticated fowl is this word of disgust; it's paired with "the" in Gen Z slang for a dating turnoff the ick |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: As a verb it means to try to persuade someone; as a noun, it's simply the mandible jawbone |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a payment given by a feudal vassal to a lord, or a type of band such as Oasish a tribute |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Zeno's "arrow" is an example of this philosophical statement, from the Greek for "contrary to expectation" a paradox |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's an oxymoronic portmanteau for a good buddy that you also sorta hate frenemy |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 12-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): An unlucky incident; in British law, it's a verdict of accidental death not due to crime or negligence misadventure |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $200: Aesop knows it's a short narrative often making an edifying point a fable |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $400: It's what someone who buys & resells stolen goods is called a fence |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $600: It's a person with a habit of texting, "OMG! Sorry I can't make it! I forgot I have a thing. We should totally hang out soon though" a flake |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): It's a genus of tree that can be grown as a houseplant such as the fiddle-leaf fig Ficus |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A marketplace or square, Rome's Navona one is famous a piazza |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Also a holiday album by Il Volo, it's how to wish someone merry Christmas in Italian Buon Natale |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's the English equivalent of "a caval donato non si guarda in bocca", you ungrateful thing! don't look a gift horse in the mouth |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $2000: These 3 words complete the title of Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of..."; be one of them now highly effective people |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | 3-, 4- OR 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Before singing "He's my brother", The Hollies noted that "He ain't" this heavy |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $400: It's a type of backpack a knapsack |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a strong beam used in construction from wall to wall to support a ceiling a joist |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $200: It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur pterodactyl |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $600: Kim Kardashian's 4th kid, or a sacred song Psalm |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | SILENT LETTER WORDS $800: The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977 gnarly |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $800: It sounds like a place where chimps & gorillas are kept, but as you can see, it's not an apiary |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $1600: If something sounds false, it's said to strain this quality, from the Latin for "believe" credulity |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of a government that oversees the application of laws the judiciary |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "A Wrinkle in Time", Meg's scientist dad likes to extend "Meg" into this nickname equal to 3.26 million light years a megaparsec |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: Type of complete breakdown that's in the name of a bee colony disorder a collapse |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $800: Also in the title of a classic Miles Davis track, it's a person who likes to mooch complimentary food & drink a freeloader |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1600: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" free will |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the basic form most taxpayers use to report income & file their return a 1040 |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $400: In ancient Athens, it was a class of informers; today, it's a total suck-up sycophant |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $800: It's the S in S.L.E., the most common type of lupus, an autoimmune disease systemic |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $1000: "Hella good fugues, Nicky", or words to that effect, was Tchaikovsky's response when this young composer sent him some works Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1200: The seat of Onondaga County, it's on the south end of Onondaga lake Syracuse |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $400: From the French for "wine taster", it's a term for a connoisseur of fine food & drink a gourmet |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $800: Derived from Spanish but sounding a bit French, it's a wire used to strangle someone, or the act itself garrote |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Last 4 words of our national anthem, as sung by an animated kitchen appliance & his german-style Pillsbury product home of the brave little toaster strudel |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1200: Weird, it's abstract but it's also a chicken--it's this, from words for "Life" & "shape", maybe by Jean Arp or Anish Kapoor biomorphic sculpture |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1200: Not jettisoned overboard on purpose, this term refers to any wreckage on the water's surface lost from a boat flotsam |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Originally a jar, this idiom referring to complicating issues is named for the wife of Epimetheus Pandora's box |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: One can be between a rock & a hard place or similarly, between this pair of foes faced by Odysseus Charybdis & Scylla |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: It's totally tubular & produces patterns like those seen here kaleidoscope |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient incandescent |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the formal term for a mapmaker cartographer |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin & Greek for "flow", it's the medical specialty for conditions of the joints & connective tissues like arthritis rheumatology |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you please, it's German for "please" bitte |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's German for "pleasant & cozy", like the atmosphere in a good beer hall gemütlich |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: A tall white chef's hat has this 5-letter name that can be followed by "blanche", if you want to be fancy toque |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2000: It's the French name for the shelving seen here an étagère |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $400: License & this piece of paper proving it's your vehicle, please registration |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $800: In mortgage lending, it's the "A" in ARM adjustable |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $1600: In statistics it's the tendency for 2 values to change in sync; as often said, it's "not causation" correlation |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $2000: It's the forgiveness of sin granted by the sacrament of penance absolution |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $400: In Mexico to laze around is "echar la hueva", literally to toss this food item egg |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $800: In the Netherlands "So it's like that!" is "O, op die fiets", "On that" this transport the Dutch love bicycle |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $2000: Ronald Reagan adapted the Russian saying "Doveryai, no proveryai" into this 3-word maxim about nuclear weapons deals trust but verify |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $1000: Navarre,
celibacy!
Rosaline?
Re-plan! Love's Labour's Lost |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The act of taking over someone else's computer with the goal of affecting social or political change is this portmanteau word hacktivism |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's a pair of Zs in this word for a type of musical entertainment presented between opera acts intermezzo |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | MAGAZINES IN OTHER WORDS $400: "She":
Always in fashion, & en Français, s'il vous plaît! Elle |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MIND YOUR GRAMMAR $600: A Big Red "S.F." on a term paper stands for this, a sequence of words lacking subject, verb or both a sentence fragment |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $800: In German, it's Dienstag; in Latin, it's Dies Martis; in English, it's this Tuesday |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: This symbol of Australia ranks as the world's second-tallest bird the emu |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $1000: Rihanna's girl songs include "Selfish Girl", "A Girl Like Me", & signaling a new edgy image, "Good Girl..." these 2 words "Gone Bad" |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 11-letter accessory worn here a neckerchief |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $800: An aspect or phase of something, it's also any of the small, polished sides on a cut diamond a facet |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In its simplest form it's a sheet of paper folded in half to make 2 leaves or 4 pages; Shakespeare's had a lot more a folio |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $400: A 1952 song inserted "the" into this character's name, but the Forest Service insists it's just two words Smokey Bear |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's used when something is repeated "to the point of sickness" ad nauseam |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Meaning "course of one's life", it's more extensive than a resumé & emphasizes academic achievements a curriculum vitae |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Hey, friend! It's been so long, it's been one of these, the longest division of geologic time an eon |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | SCIENCE INITIALS & ACRONYMS $1600: Of the 3 words that combine to make LORAN, it's last, admiral navigation |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $1600: The opposite of an iamb, this word for a pattern of stressed-unstressed as in the word "rabbit" is from Greek for "run" a trochee |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $2000: From Greek for "sound", it's the term for the smallest meaningful unit of spoken sound; English has just over 40 a phoneme |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $3,000 (Daily Double): A letter that the pope sends around, it's from the Greek for "circle" encyclical |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname Slava |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing" feng shui |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $200: "Whatever our souls are made of, (Heathcliff's) and mine are the same" in this novel; with Linton, not so much Wuthering Heights |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $1000: You can detect this novelist wrote, "Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people"' Dashiell Hammett |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $400: From the Latin for "rage", it's a surge of violent anger fury |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a channel for conveying away smoke or gas produced by a fire or heater a flue |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | "F"OUR LETTER WORDS $2000: In fashion, it's an ornamental braided coat fastener a frog |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a book collector or just a lover of books bibliophile |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: One of Abraham Lincoln's nicknames was "The Great" this Emancipator |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $500 (Daily Double): These are Richard III's "beastly" last 5 words my kingdom for a horse |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $400: It's from the Latin for "beginning", or a letter like the L in Samuel L. Jackson an initial |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LET'S GET DIRTY $800: "The Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television" was a routine by this late, great humorist George Carlin |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $1200: It's the first of a product before copies are made; KFC used it to describe their "first" recipe original |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1600: From the French, this word referring to a commotion or uproar sounds like there's laughing at the end of it a brouhaha |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders arachnophobia |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law jurisprudence |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | "WORLD" $1,000 (Daily Double): These 5 words complete the Robert Browning "God's in his heaven--" all's right with the world |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $1600: One who gives advice; it's also a term of address used by judges to lawyers counsel (counselor) |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: Used as a Jewish greeting, it's the Hebrew word for "peace" shalom |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $2000: It's Latin for the period of tranquility that lasted from the reigns of Augustus to Marcus Aurelius the Pax Romana |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $5,000 (Daily Double): From a Latin word meaning "to come to a stop", it's an agreement to stop fighting & was in the original name of Veterans Day armistice |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $1500: When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear a red hat |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $3,000 (Daily Double): It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96 old age |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the feature that populates online forms with your birthdate, phone number etc. when you put in your name autofill |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put an "S" in front of a 3-pronged spear to get this word meaning annoyingly assertive strident |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $400: This term for a region of sediment deposited at a river's mouth shares its name with a Greek letter delta |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $1600: These treelike fibers usually carry nerve impulses to a neuron's cell body dendrites |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CLICHES $1600: Lake Superior State U.'s 2022 overused "banished words" include this phrase that follows an embarrassing query really about oneself asking for a friend |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: He's a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger's Glass family; at one point, it's spelled as 2 words like "perceive extra" see more (Seymour Glass) |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife covet |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $600: When singing "America The Beautiful", you end with these 5 words from sea to shining sea |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a small, secret group of plotters & can also mean their conspiracy a cabal |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $400: It's an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over Jesus' body & is made up of 2 Greek letters pieta (pi & eta) |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: In biology, it's a thin outer layer of a cell; osmosis is the passage of a fluid through a semipermeable one a membrane |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $1000: During World War I you didn't want to get lost in this area between opposing trenches no man's land |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $400: A wizard's magic rod Washington & North Dakota |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $400: Cymbals make this 5-letter sound, also a meeting on a battlefield a clash |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $800: Etymologically related to the word scrimmage is this type of small battle between 2 armies a scrum (a skirmish) |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A reporter from the U.S. encounters the crime syndicate known by this Japanese name in TV's "Tokyo Vice" yakuza |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $1200: The Latin for "vengeance" gives us this feud-al word vendetta |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $1600: Being "at" this, also the name of a type of turtle, means you're fighting with someone loggerheads |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $2000: A centuries-old fair held in a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of melee donnybrook |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | "GIVE" OR "TAKE" $400: In other words, to remove freedoms; it actually means to be impertinent or go beyond what's allowed take liberties |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | SLANG $800: A blend of 2 words & first used in the '90s, it means to calm down, take it easy chillax |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: Yes, Dan, there are 2 "P"s in the middle of this word for the snazzily attired dapper |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The boss, the head guy; it's what a Kansas City Chief player becomes in Spanish media jefe |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $600: The title of a 2020 bilingual Black Eyed Peas song, it means an attractive woman, whether she's a mother or not "Mamacita" |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $800: This versatile & filling food is as common in El Salvador as the taco is elsewhere pupusas |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Professional description of Edgar Degas in one way & Jay Pharoah in another impressionist |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $1500: This command means the dog should be on the owner's left side, no more than about 6 inches away heel |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): As an adjective, it means "like a dog"; as a noun, it's a type of tooth canine |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $600: It's this phrase that says if something isn't done immediately, it won't ever happen; in related news, "my love won't wait" It's now or never |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $1000: As an adverb, it means without hesitation, as in "I'll get it to you" this way; as a noun, it's a long part of a closed racecourse straightaway |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: There's a certain braveness to this black bird the raven (in braveness) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: We're amazed by this sea eagle's cleverness erne (in cleverness) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a "Q" in this word referring to any nickname a sobriquet |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $1600: Let's say hi to this tree of life that stores water & gives fruit in arid lands the baobab |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $2000: Here's a gaggle of this 4-letter Hawaiian goose a nene |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The "R" in RSVP stands for "repondez", while the last 3 letters stand for this, French for "if you please" s'il vous plait |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $400: The musical score that accompanies a film the soundtrack |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $600: In New York City, it's illegal for passenger vehicles to do this; delivery trucks may, but without blocking a bicycle lane double-park |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $800: Another word for a frying pan skillet |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $1000: Legal when done by the government, illegal when done by competitors, it's the artificial setting of an amount charged for goods price-fixing |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $1200: To extract metal from ore with heat smelt |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $1600: The name of this wrinkly dog is Chinese for "sand fur" Shar Pei |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $2000: A one-masted sailboat a sloop |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A synonym for a magical creature like a pixie, it can also refer to a mischievous person an imp (elf) |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $800: A brief period, or an item straight from the horse's mouth a bit |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $600: "In the beginning" are the first words of this Haydn oratorio about this act by God; here's a later tune The Creation |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: George Takei's 2-word catchphrase oh my |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $200: From Spanish, it's a small donkey used as a pack animal burro |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: It's a group of women with a common interest & maybe some traveling pants a sisterhood |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: As seen here, it's a fun way to work out kickboxing |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Originally referring to a type of barrier, it's another name for some of the toll roads on the East Coast a turnpike |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: Derived from German, it's a strong passion for traveling & seeing the world wanderlust |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $800: In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil Gulliver's Travels |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $400: This branch of the U.S. government makes the laws legislative |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Another word for the draft, it's mandatory enrollment in the military conscription |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "nonsense" begins with the name of a son of Odin balderdash |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | ROMANCE LANGUAGES $800: In 2008 this European country's parliament passed an act officially adopting Brazilian spellings of hundreds of words Portugal |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $200: Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come" these 2 opposites rain & shine |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Alliterative phrase meaning to drive a fact into someone's consciousness to hammer home |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $1600: It's the 7-letter word for the arrangement of atoms in a crystal a lattice |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: Here's a puppy of this hybrid type--what a cutie Goldendoodle |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's not an operation on a tiny area, it's one using a magnifying instrument microsurgery |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: New York City's Hayden, for one planetarium |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: It's the process of verifying yourself in order to use a computer system; some might require "2 factor" authentication |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $400: Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text Merry Christmas |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $400: Brits spell this 4-letter word meaning warm & snug with an "S", Yanks with a "Z" cozy |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $800: It usually means unattractive, but can also mean comfortable, like one's place of residence homely |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $1200: According to a 1697 play, it's what music can do to a savage breast soothe |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $800: If back in the day IBM made a jumbo machine that was your company's only computer, it was known as this 9-letter type a mainframe |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | 9-, 10-, & 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: From German & Yiddish, it's the act of offering unsolicited advice to someone who's playing a game kibbitzing |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $800: Here's a typical departure from this type of facility in Lower Manhattan a heliport |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables retroactive continuity |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $1000: Ready to hit the spa? Then let's head to the town it's named for in the Ardennes in this European country Belgium |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | 5-LETTER "W"s $1000: Roger, I heard your radio message & I'll use this combination of 2 words to indicate I'll do what you asked wilco |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $1000: The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982 Key West |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area jurisdiction |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $400: Dictionaries tell us that as a noun, it's a simpleton; as a hip-hop adjective, it's great or impressive dope |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: Of course, there's a pumpkin spice version of this icy cold blended beverage from Starbucks a Frappuccino |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1200: Slightly different from accounting, it's the work of those that track & record money transactions bookkeeping |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $2000: To climb a rope or pole using one's hands & legs the shin |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $8,000 (Daily Double): To gently tease another person rib |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: For movies, it's not just a first showing but a successful Mac-based editing program introduced by Adobe in 1991 premiere |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1600: Today's kids must wonder how to tear the online editions of newspapers into strips for this craft papier-mâché |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $200: It's a book of maps an atlas |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: Thick & sweet & prepared from fruit puree like mango or guava, it's a drink fit for the gods nectar |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1000: Taken from Roman mythology, it's another name for a drunken orgy bacchanalia |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IN MOM'S FREE TIME $1000: In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations in this house we believe |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $2000: Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin as told to |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $1000: It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship the poop |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): The coastal town of Manchester, Massachusetts had these 3 words added to its name in 1989 by-the-Sea |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $400: Greek words for "gold" & "flower" give us the name of this flower for November that's also associated with Japan's royal family a chrysanthemum |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a tooth on a gear or on a rim of a wheel cog |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To regret a choice, perhaps not learning it's also French for "street" rue |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | THE BODY POLITIC $2000: This name of Iceland's parliament comes from words meaning "whole assembly" the Althing |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Literally "good word", it's a witty remark; en français, S'il vous plait! bon mot |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name uhuru |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The Brits use this word to refer to a layoff; elsewhere, it's needless repetition of words redundancy |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $1000: 3-word phrase meaning no smarter or unaware, as in "I borrowed his astrolabe when he wasn't looking & he's" this none the wiser |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PUTTING THE CARBS $600: It's not surprising there are plenty of carbs in the Post cereal called "Honey" these 3 words Bunches of Oats |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $1200: Canada's nickname has these 2 words before "North" Great White |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | RELIGION $1200: In the King James version of the Lord's Prayer, they're the 4 words that follow "Our father which art in heaven" hallowed be thy name |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: From Greek for "a general view", it's a brief summary of a book in a few paragraphs synopsis |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: ...in the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels) E, I |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One who puts down in words the story of another's life biographer |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's one of these on Wabash Avenue spanning the Chicago River; don't try to cross when it's up drawbridge |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: 10-letter word for background music written to accompany a play, like Bizet's for 1872's "L'Arlesienne" incidental |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | GAME TIME $2000: Named for the CEO's dog, it's the company behind such games as Farmville & words with friends Zynga |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | SCIENCE $1600: From words meaning "container" & "to mold", it's the semifluid region within a living cell excluding the nucleus cytoplasm |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $800: Among AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time:
"E.T. ..." phone home |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $1600: 2 hours for this work where Jonathan Swift satirically suggests cooking Irish babies; it's "a modest" 3,400 words, 1,700 an hour A Modest Proposal |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $400: From the Latin for "fall off", it's the process by which radioactive radium emits radiation decay |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $800: When "pen-" comes before this word it means next to last; without it, it's last ultimate |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $800: Norway's Austfonna one is not doing great, contributing to rising sea levels icecap |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1200: 9-letter word for an attorney's closing argument to a jury to get their point across summation |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1600: Often found before "of hostilities", this word has a double "S" within it cessation |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare used this word before "thee to a summer's day" compare |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $200: (Josh Clark reads the clue.) Sure, some birds can mimic speech, but Puck, this type of bird, like the one we're showing, knew more than 1,500 words, & that's a mouthful a parakeet |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1600: As an adjective, it means "former"; as a sports verb, it's to shoot when a pass reaches you without pausing one-time |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $200: In Amanda Yates Garcia's book "Initiated: Memoir of" one of these, she weaves a spell, telling of her magical life a Witch |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $600: Ray Nagin, former mayor of this city, released a memoir titled "Katrina's Secrets" New Orleans |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $400: In French, it's un mal de dent a toothache |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $800: Taiga, perhaps meaning "land of little sticks", is used for what's also called the boreal this environment the forest |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the container & specialty sporting good seen here a quiver |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the term for the number written below the line in a fraction; you may have heard of the "lowest common" one denominator |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): Something that is exactly what you would expect is this 4-word golfing phrase; it's actually 72 at Augusta national par for the course |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: Luxembourg's official name includes the words grand this duchy |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Alphabetically, it's the first chemical element with a 5-letter name argon |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $200: Literally, to offer a body part in assistance; it's a motto of scouting lend a hand |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Putting together this pair from a fable is a way of saying it's better to go slow & steady the tortoise & the hare |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $400: It's a classic sandwich you might get at a deli, though not a kosher deli ham on rye |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $1000: Samuel Butler's 19th century translation of the "Iliad" includes this phrase for "to die" more associated with the Old West bite the dust |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $200: It's from the Arabic for "embalmed body", like one in ancient Thebes a mummy |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $600: Originally a part of Middle Eastern folklore, it's a demon, seen in its favorite haunt a ghoul |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $800: From Arabic for "notification", it's a tax paid on imported goods tariff |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: This Japanese martial art aims to turn an attacker's strength & momentum against him aikido |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FEMALE NAME WORDS $1200: As a verb, this first name of Tony Stark's lady love means to ask a rapid series of questions Pepper |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | A PREFIX MENU $600: Arabic for "the", it's been incorporated into many math & science words al |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | SPEAK LIKE A FRENCH CANADIAN $2000: "Je suis tired" is an example of this, a portmanteau of the French words for Canada's 2 official languages Franglais |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $200: Elflock was tangled this, perhaps mussed by mischievous sprites hair |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $800: A gossip was one of these, a sponsor at a child's baptism a godparent |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | YOU STUBBED YOUR TOE ON LIVE TV $800: 2 words that completed Red Skelton's signoff, "Good night and..." God bless |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Borrowed from Yiddish, it's the helping of food being added here a schmear |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning, leads to a self-contradictory conclusion a paradox |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the punning first name of comic strip reporter Mr. Fillmore Mallard |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | MIRROR IMAGE WORDS $400: A burglar's booty & a screwdriver or hammer loot & tool |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: It's a term for someone who cuts & polishes precious gems lapidary |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | FOSSIL WORDS $800: Once meaning to go, this 4-letter verb now mostly appears before phrases like "one's way" wend |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: This word meaning "harmful" is also the name of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis maleficent |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: From Greek for "to show through", it's used to describe a delicate, translucent fabric, perhaps a bridal veil diaphanous |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: How words are put together to form phrases & sentences, it's from the Greek for "arrange together" syntax |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $200: Proverbially, "It's a marathon, not a" this sprint |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | IN OTHER WORDS...RUN! $800: It's a word for a lightning stroke or a fastening aid a bolt |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Severe scolding named for a Macedonian king a philippic |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BROADWAY IS BACK $800: Kristin Chenoweth welcomed the audience at the reopening of "Wicked" with these 5 words, a line from "The Wizard of Oz" There's no place like home |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This German exclamation means "health" gesundheit |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: French for "good journey", it's what you wish someone before they set off on a trip bon voyage |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Let's give thanks in Japanese, this word arigato |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $1600: "Bourbon and" this refers to a drink made with pure, iron-free water branch |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the third note in the major scale of the sol-fa set of singing syllables mi |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the garment being worn here a gi |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An early settler of a territory, or a U.S. space probe that was launched in 1958 a pioneer |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Knock knock--who's there? It's this noisy type of ghost a poltergeist |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer sarsaparilla |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: It's Latin for "we do not know" & now an English noun meaning someone who doesn't know much ignoramus |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: Alpha's Greek letter opposite that means the last in a sequence omega |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $800: The final part of a musical piece, it was used as a title for Led Zeppelin's final album of studio recordings coda |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPOKEN WORDS IN CLASSIC SONGS $1600: Phil Rizzuto's call: "Squeeze play, it's gonna be close... here's the play at the plate, holy cow, I think he's gonna make it!" Meat Loaf |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPOKEN WORDS IN CLASSIC SONGS $2000: "Stumblin' on my feet, shufflin' through the street, asking people... 'What's the matter whichoo, boy?'" The Rolling Stones |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $400: Let's catch a ride with this German word that uses an umlaut & can mean "upon" or "beyond" über |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1600: They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring perestroika & glasnost |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: Here's an old-fashioned pair of these for a winter activity snowshoes |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: This "Wizard of Oz" character says the only thing he's afraid of is "a lighted match" the Scarecrow |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS $200: From the Persian for "market", it's a marketplace in a Middle Eastern country a bazaar |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | INTERPLANETARY WORDS $400: Tin-glazed is a type of this pottery that reminds us of the clay it's made from earthenware |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS $800: This 4-letter British adjective means affectedly dainty or quaint twee |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | TOUGH VOCABULARY $2000: A hillside cable railway; in the novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh", it's one of a character's favorite words funicular |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $3,800 (Daily Double): Similar to a seminar, this small conference derives its name from Greek words meaning "to drink together" symposium |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | HISTORIC WOMEN $400: This first lady's last words, in 1818: "Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. & John, it will not be long" Abigail Adams |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | MY INTEREST $600: From words meaning "earth" & "hide", it's the pastime involving searching for hidden goods using GPS geocaching |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | LITERARY TERMS $800: Juliet's "Good night, good night!" is followed by these 5 words that include an oxymoron Parting is such sweet sorrow |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | 7-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: It's not being too shy to have one's picture taken; it's the quality of being responsive to light photosensitivity |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | 7-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: A gross this is a misrepresentation of an event as less complex than it really is oversimplification |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1000: Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the 1897 reply to young Virginia O'Hanlon that's known by these 7 words Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: It gets its name because it's said to combine the flavors of cinnamon, clove & nutmeg allspice |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | GRAB BAG $400: Found in a 1927 Girl Scout handbook, the first official recipe for this marshmallow campfire treat had it as 2 words s'mores |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Portugal's national dish is salted this fish cod |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: The British use this booze to mean "strange" rum |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $200: They're the 5 words that "makes jack a dull boy" all work and no play |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course yaw |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto Sic |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South" a Col |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $200: Spelled differently from the Italian city it is derived from, it's a "meaty" nonsense word baloney |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $800: Seen here, it is the logo for this candy treat whose name also means "nonsense" Poppycock |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | NONSENSE WORDS $1000: Originally it referred to the slop used as food for pigs; now it's a term for a meaningless sentiment hogwash |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Hamlet's first choice be |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $400: It's the geographic area above the circle of latitude at 66 1/2 degrees north the Arctic Circle |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $600: Meaning briskly cold, it's also a frozen dessert from Wendy's a Frosty |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | REJECTED ELEMENT NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): William Ramsey's son suggested novum for this noble gas, but William wanted a Greek name & called it this neon |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $1200: Done to prolong breathing & blood flow until medical help arrives, it's the "R" in CPR resuscitation |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It sounds like part of a wheel, but it's a jump in ice skating with one & a half or more turns in the air an axel |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE $2000: Likely from Portuguese words meaning "wine" & "garlic", it's a spicy hot Indian curry vindaloo |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired an understatement |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | 7-LETTER WORDS $2000: An airplane's maximum altitude in sustained flight a ceiling |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $600: It's one direction of a crossword answer down |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $1000: A manufacturing facility, or a person in the audience who's there to help a performer a plant |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | "AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC $200: It's a small recess in a wall or room an alcove |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | "AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC $400: It's from Arabic for "calendar" & the first one printed in America was "for New England for the year 1639" an almanac |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | "AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC $600: It will neutralize an acid & it's from Arabic for "the ashes" alkaline |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: "All" these body parts means the entire crew & if it's a meeting, everyone is expected to come hands |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | ASIAN LITERATURE & DRAMA $800: 1913 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote the words & music to this country's national anthem India |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness savvy |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward debunk |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The first use of "ingenue" in English described this not-quite-ingenue in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" Becky Sharp |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $200: The zloty, divided into 100 groszy, is Poland's unit of this currency |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $800: Take the creature seen here, add one letter, & you have this word meaning "clever" shrewd |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | WORDS OF WISDOM $2000: It's "A" 6-letter noun meaning deftness, often in business acumen |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: If you take someone into your this, you are trusting them not to reveal what's been said confidence |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman compatriot |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | SHEEP $200: In a children's rhyme, these 4 words precede "Have you any wool?" Baa, baa, black sheep (Black sheep, black sheep) |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a part of speech that expresses emotion & is capable of standing alone, like wow! Or oh! an interjection |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MOVIE RULES $2000: In "Scream", one of Randy's rules of surviving a horror film is to never say these 4 words--you won't return I'll be right back |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $3,800 (Daily Double): Combine 2 words in the New York Times' slogan & get the name of this light, pulpy paper it comes on newsprint |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ORDER IN THE COURT $1200: Willfully disobey a judge's order & you're in this, 3 words you don't want to hear contempt of court |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $400: It's a conjunction used to introduce a choice between 2 alternatives either |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: A region of the Earth's outer atmosphere containing a high concentration of free electrons the ionosphere |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: Do you question this? One's power to make decisions & tell people what to do? authority |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: The keffiyeh is worn by Arabs on this body part; it's believed the red-&-white check ones began as a Marxist symbol the head |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A song of farewell to Italy's capital is titled this word, "Roma" Arrivederci |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: Reduction of the body's ability to fight infection; it happens with HIV & can be done deliberately before a transplant immunosuppression |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: Related to a word for that little voice telling you right & wrong, it's the quality of being thorough & scrupulous conscientiousness |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $1600: From the Latin for "wash away", it's a word for the flood in the Old Testament a deluge |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $2000: It's the 5-letter word for the lowest internal portion of a ship's hull where water collects the bilge |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's an umbrella-shaped mushroom a toadstool |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: These 4 words by which Martin Luther King's August 1963 speech is known come more than halfway through it I have a dream |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | PLACES IN TEXAS $800: This word for a perfect human society is from words meaning "no place", but it's a real place west of San Antonio Utopia |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the scientific study of language & how it works linguistics |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: From the Latin for "grow to maturity", it's the period in which a child develops into an adult adolescence |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: Often competitive, it's lifting weights & exercising to display one's physique bodybuilding |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1600: From a Sanskrit word for "to sprinkle", it's a clarified butter used in south Asian cooking ghee |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $2000: It's information regarding the characteristics of a particular advertising target audience like age, sex, income, etc. demographics |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $400: As seen here, Uncle Sam is a real stand-up guy, standing tall on these stilts |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $800: A burial cloth, or to conceal shroud |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1200: Depending how it's spelled, it can be a small perfumed pouch or to walk with a strut sachet/sashay |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $1600: This member of the Greyhound family seen here is one of the oldest dog breeds saluki |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | "S"IX-LETTER WORDS $2000: This word borrowed from German means to ski straight downhill at high speed schuss |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $200: In an 1872 work, Alexandre Dumas used the French version of this word meaning an advocate for women's rights feminist |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $400: This world-conquering musical act's name is short for Korean words that mean "bulletproof Boy Scouts" BTS |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | HARD-HITTING WORDS $800: It's thought that the verb "trounce" is etymologically similar to this wooden club a truncheon |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just before landing, it's when the pilot lines up the plane with the runway approach |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: From optometry, it's the condition of not looking forward in time to anticipate what might happen shortsightedness |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: With a name that spans oceans, this global hotel brand includes London's Park Lane & the Willard in Washington, D.C. Intercontinental |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: 3 words become one in this .com, "the world's largest, free social fundraising platform" GoFundMe |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: With lovely crystals inside, it's Iowa's state rock a geode |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: Under anonymous is listed the helpful typing pangram "The quick brown fox..." these 5 words jumps over the lazy dog |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | DOUBLE-VOWEL WORDS $1000: Ending in double E, it's loose rock, & be careful not to slip on it scree |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | "S" WORDS $400: It's a ceremonial staff carried by a monarch as a symbol of authority a scepter |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | "S" WORDS $800: This synthetic fabric is named for a marine predator sharkskin |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | "S" WORDS $1200: This Italian title meaning "Mr." is rhymed with "that's amore" signore |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | "S" WORDS $1600: Fibrous tissue in the body that can connect muscle to bone sinew |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | "S" WORDS $2000: This instrument popular in the 18th century is basically a small harpsichord a spinet |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | WORDS BORROWED FROM JAPANESE $200: This word is from Japanese for "harbor wave", & it's a biiiiig one tsunami |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $1600: If it's got to be about the stars & stripes, how about "The Stars & Stripes Forever" or George M. Cohan's "You're A" these 3 words Grand Old Flag |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | 4-LETTER "F" WORDS $1200: It's an unweaned deer a fawn |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | 6-LETTER WORDS $600: It sounds kind of trash-y, but it's a governmental excursion on the public's dime junket |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | CODE WORDS $600: California's building code says this is "a primarily vertical structure containing one or more flues" a chimney |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | CODE WORDS $800: The Air Force Academy's code of this quality says, "We will not lie, steal or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does" the honor code |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The book "The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter" says "That's all she wrote" refers to these breakup letters Dear John letters |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | WORDS WITH "FER" ENDS $1200: It's always good to keep this strongbox full coffer |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the U.S., it's the anniversary to be celebrated in 2076 a tricentennial |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Really throwing her voice around, Darci Lynne won "America's Got Talent" performing as one of these ventriloquist |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's Latin for "road" or "way" via |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a customary code of proper behavior or formalities in society etiquette |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) $400: A German legend says this flower's name is derived from a drowning knight's words to his love, "Vergiss mein nicht" forget-me-not |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This shortened word precedes "league" or "team" when it's a local sports league for fun rather than money rec |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: To Chaucer it was the belly; now it's the gaping mouth of a hungry creature maw |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: It's the GI in GI tract gastrointestinal |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: A break or gap, like the boundary between the earth's crust & mantle called the Mohorovicic this discontinuity |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $400: It's a long, eventful journey or ordeal; a mythological one took 10 years an odyssey |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $800: Meaning to become bone, this verb is used for ideas that have become fixed ossify |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1200: This raptor flies over water to hunt, plunging in feet first to catch fish in its talons an osprey |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1600: Numbering about 175,000, these upper Midwesterners are one of the largest native peoples north of Mexico Ojibway |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $2000: From Latin for "shaded", it means non-transparency in an image opacity |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: This word for a misused word comes from the name of a meddling aunt in Richard Sheridan's "The Rivals" malapropism |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: An eponym is a word derived from a person's name; this is a word for a person from a particular place, like Muscovite demonym |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $400: Chekhov's "The Seagull" opens with a man asking an unhappy woman, "Why do you always wear" this color black |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $2000: "A screaming comes across the sky", begins this 1973 Thomas Pynchon novel Gravity's Rainbow |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $200: It describes someone who's irritable due to lack of food hangry |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $600: It's a non-alcoholic mixed drink like a nojito or a cuddles on the beach a mocktail |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | SEZ YOU, SHAKESPEARE! $600: "The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit. I cannot live to hear the news from England" (& a few words later, he's correct) Hamlet |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $800: It's the 11-letter name for the mixed dog breed seen here Labradoodle |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $1000: When referring to England's 2 oldest universities, use this blended word Oxbridge |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1200: Burial place & brush's partner tomb & comb |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $800: CBS News called the emptying of East Coast states before Hurricane Floyd "the biggest peacetime" this "in U.S. history" evacuation |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the act of a country taking state control of what had been a privately owned industry nationalization |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | WORDS IN THE SONG $400: "I just met you & this is crazy, but here's my number" "Call Me Maybe" |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | WORDS IN THE SONG $2000: "It's a black fly in your Chardonnay" "Ironic" |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $2000: It's a Scottish pudding, laddie, if ye like yer pudding wi' meat! haggis |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the perch you proverbially "rule" when you have total control the roost |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: An Italian grandmother gives this command when it's time to eat mangia |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: Used to clean clothes or to make music, it's the old-timey object seen here a washboard |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: It's the designation of 4 U.S. states including Penn. & Mass. despite not having ties to the United Kingdom a commonwealth |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: It's a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts a tenderfoot |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): An old term for a jailer, in real estate it's a house that's move-in ready a turnkey |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A person in their 70s a septuagenarian |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WORDS THAT ARE IN COMPREHENSIBLE $600: A fire's smoldering remains embers |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $2000: In the mnemonic "God's Excellent Love Never Dies", the first 2 words stand for these 2 Bible books Genesis & Exodus |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: This yellowish brown is an eye color option on California driver's licenses hazel |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the instrument heard here, playing--if we may say so ourselves--a pretty nifty tune a kazoo |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Time to do this, recite a verb's inflected forms--I am, you are, she is, we are... conjugate |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the name of the game being played here Go |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $800: This OK Corral survivor: "That nothing's so sacred as honor, and nothing so loyal as love!" Wyatt Earp |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $1200: If this fabric item is "up", it's the beginning; plural, it's certainly the end a curtain |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Fiberglass this in the attic helps regulate your home's temperature insulation |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: A recurring verb for the Daleks on "Doctor Who"; it's something you do to household pests exterminate |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's really not that unattractive, but it is the name of the hybrid citrus fruit seen here an Ugli |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the theatrical technique of suggesting emotions without words, using only gesture & movement mime |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's someone who sells hot tips at the racetrack, or a verb meaning "to praise highly" a tout |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | WORD WORDS $800: It's a dramatic monologue or speech made to oneself a soliloquy |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a state of diminished consciousness, especially under hypnosis trance |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | "YOU" IDIOM! $400: One's body is composed of what one ingests, in other words you are what you eat |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a candy-filled party animal a piñata |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | 6-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Used to indicate whether a substance is acidic or basic, this compound is obtained from lichens litmus |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | SENTENCING $1000: The arrangement of words to make a sentence meaningful; in programming, it's the arrangement of characters so a computer cooperates syntax |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "false step" in French, it's a socially embarrassing act or remark a faux pas |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $1,600 (Daily Double): "He who pays the piper holds the reins" is an example of this, incorrectly fusing 2 symbolic comparisons a mixed metaphor |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | "THAN" WORDS $600: It's handy to put facilities for this gasoline additive right in fields of the Midwestern corn it's made from ethanol |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | TRANSCENDENTAL WORDS $1600: Mother-of-pearl! It's AKA mother-of-pearl! nacre |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $400: This verb means to satisfy, especially one's thirst slake |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH $1000: This geography term meaning a bend or a curve in a coastline sounds like sinking your teeth into something bight |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | A CONTAINER FULL OF WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "box", it's an underground reservoir for collecting rainwater a cistern |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | USE YOUR WORDS $400: There's an amphibian in this 8-letter verb that means to jump over leapfrog |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $600: "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy... for the time is at hand" is in this Bible book Revelation |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1200: It's a joke, especially a witty or timely one (15 points) a quip |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A carnivore's quest & a menacing declaration meat & threat |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $400: Said of a room that's open & well-ventilated airy |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The nutrient fluid that circulates through a plant; it's also slang for a fool sap |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a large metal pan used in Chinese cooking wok |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: On "Game of Thrones", Peter Dinklage's character was called this word, which means a mischievous child imp |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | LITERARY TERMS $600: From Greek words for "first" & "actor", it's the main character in a story protagonist |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POP CULTURE $1600: Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run is one of the attractions at the Disneyland area called Star Wars: these 2 words Galaxy's Edge |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: That's right, friend, it's an enemy a foe |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: To put on an article of clothing; it's also a male first name don |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Before it's trimmed, this evergreen tree, popular in landscape gardening, has striking red decor a yew |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS TO FEAR $400: The Hollywood Reporter's obituary for director Wes Craven called him the "Master of" this film genre Horror |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS TO FEAR $1000: From the Greek for "fear", it's an extreme, irrational fear, but don't panic! a phobia |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | OLD HISTORY $1600: Mark my words, the triumvirate that succeeded Julius Caesar's was Lepidus, Octavian & this friend of Caesar Marc Antony |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: The ninth sign of the zodiac, it's represented by a centaur Sagittarius |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the act of raising someone to the position of a god to be worshipped idolization |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | LATIN PHRASES $1600: Julius Caesar summed up his victory in a 47 B.C. campaign with these 3 Latin words Veni, vidi, vici |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1000: French for "carriage entrance", it's the type of drop-off area seen here porte cochère |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | WORDS IN PLAIN SIGHT $200: Dude, where's your girlfriend? You're going to the party this way? Oh, deer! stag |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | WORDS IN PLAIN SIGHT $800: An unfavorable situation, or to promise, perhaps one's troth plight |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | & FINALLY... $400: Gene Cernan's final words before leaving this place in 1972, per Walter Cunningham: "Let's get this mother out of here" the Moon |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a circular representation of relative percentages making up a whole a pie chart |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS $2000: Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard a clavier |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | I WRITE A SYMPHONY $1200: Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 is named for this Jewish prayer for the dead & uses its words Kaddish |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | WRITER'S TOOLBOX $1000: It's the omission of one or more words in a sentence & the marks, such as 3 dots, to represent it an ellipses |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: HMS Victory was this type of command vessel for Lord Horatio Nelson a flagship |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones farsightedness |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the term for repetitive echoing reverberation |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: From the name of Rome's top god, it means "full of good cheer" jovial |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1000: From the name of the Greek goddess of vengeance, it's a longstanding rival or enemy nemesis |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a group of witches a coven |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: It's a system of sending messages using flags (1946) semaphore |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: French word for cherry that's also a shade of red (1926) cerise |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | BACKRONYMS $2000: Named for a child kidnapped in 1996, an Amber Alert is short for "America's Missing: Broadcast" these 2 words Emergency Response |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the adjective used to describe a work only partially based on the writer's life semiautobiographical |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $800: EEG for short, it's a record of some of the brain's activity an electroencephalogram |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | 20-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a gathering of protesters to express opposition to the aims of another group of protesters a counterdemonstration |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | SOFT WORDS $1000: In Poe's "The Raven", her whispered name is heard in the darkness Lenore |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In 2012 the French govt. ended official use of this word for an unmarried woman, deemed sexist since there's no male equivalent mademoiselle |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | UNCOMMON $600: "Monty Python's Flying Circus" often encouraged us with "And now for something..." these 2 words completely different |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | THEATER TERMINOLOGY $2000: From ancient words meaning "before the stage" comes this arch found in a theater proscenium |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $800: In this play Sir Toby belches out Shakespeare's only use of "implacable" Twelfth Night |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $1600: This character complains to Antony about Cleopatra's "contestation" Octavius |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | WORDS SHAKESPEARE ONLY USED ONCE $2000: In this character's fight with Hermia in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", she utters the bard's only use of "bashfulness" Helena |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: "S" is for "soft" in the name of this easily carved rock. It's basically talc soapstone |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $200: Yum-yum; here's this eggy dish that's a specialty of France quiche |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: The N.Y. Times said of this 1947 book, the words & the pictures "combine to lull and reassure when bedtime and darkness come" Goodnight Moon |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: A magician's conjuring rod a wand |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $600: It's No. 1 of the 10 objects a bowler takes aim at kingpin (headpin) |
| #8107, aired 2019-12-03 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $800: An official rebuke; short of expulsion, the U.S. House may discipline a member with a reprimand or this censure |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: From words meaning "life" & "difference" , it's the term for the range of species in a given environment biodiversity |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $2000: Similar to illiterate, it's the word for one unable to handle basic mathematics innumerate |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: In 2018 a $10 million Houston mansion made news as the USA's most expensive property in this unfortunate status foreclosure |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $2000: "V" aware it's the job of one who makes flags vexillographer |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: Having a dish of zoodles? That's strips of this, cut to resemble pasta zucchini |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | I'VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU $600: Got milk? Maybe you shouldn't if you're this & have trouble digesting the sugar that's found in it lactose intolerant |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $800: You've got 2 sets of double Z's in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality pizzazz |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $1000: It's stone flooring of marble or granite set in concrete and polished to a smooth surface terrazzo |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: It's a word that tells people you're in a group; in the Bible those who said "sib" instead of "shib" were slaughtered a shibboleth |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a fact that this word means a collection of facts & figures to be processed in some way data |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: This waterfowl breeds by lakes in the northern U.S. & Canada loon |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $200: It's found in an idiom with "No... ands, or buts" ifs |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" $400: One of Santa's helpers, or a Keebler baker elf |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $400: It's the word for a quotation at the beginning of a poem or other text an epigraph |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $400: Make sure the caps lock key isn't on when entering a password that's this hyphenated adjective case-sensitive |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | COMPUTER "D"s $800: A pair of 4-letter words are in this action that moves a file, like putting a photo of an ex into the recycle bin drag and drop |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $400: "Giving aid and comfort" to America's enemies is part of the Constitution's definition of this crime of betrayal treason |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $1000: The Latin for "to come together" gives us this word for the building where a religious community lives a convent |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: It's a synonym for adulterous, as in an affair extramarital |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS $800: Meaning "little book", it's the words of an opera libretto |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | DANES $600: Comedian Victor Borge's inflationary words turn this phrase into "You look twoderful threenight" you look wonderful tonight |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: Collective term for the style of furnishings of a home's interior decor |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Worn in public by some Muslim women, it's a long, loose garment covering the body from head to feet a burka |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a shallow bay; there's one of Benin the bight |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: 2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape force quit |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique a dad bod |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1,000 (Daily Double): Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day" circadian |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1200: The days-in-each-month mnemonic that starts with these 4 words has been traced back to 1425 30 days hath September |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT $2000: The item seen here--as a verb, it can mean to help lift someone's spirits buoy |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The word embellishment, as of a story, has 2 L's; this synonym has 2 G's exaggeration |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | MEASURING YOUR WORDS $1600: It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion a second |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: "Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal ox |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $1600: In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away" over the hills |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $800: On the Shannon River there's an Irish town that's given its name to this verse of renown Limerick |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: Look at a map of the contiguous U.S. & you'll see that this 16-letter superlative adjective applies to Maine northeasternmost |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This term for a cure-all bears the name of a daughter of Asclepius panacea |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | "O-U" WORDS $1200: It's the stabilizing float attached to the canoe seen here outrigger |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ICONIC PAINTINGS $1200: This Belgian's 1929 painting "The Treachery of Images" has a pipe & the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe", or "This is not a pipe" (René) Magritte |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | WORDS FROM ITALIAN $400: A man's singing or speaking voice in a register that's artificially much higher than normal falsetto |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: Pigeon pen a coop |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $800: A witch's brew potion |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $1200: There's no knocking this gasoline rating number octane |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | WUTZ MISPELED $1000: I have an abhorrence of the appearence of misspelled words; let's have no recurrence appearance |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: For a standup comic, it's an overlubricated member of the audience who keeps interrupting a heckler |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS $800: French term for a woman's male escort beau |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | -"GRAM"S $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows Koko on the monitor.) A few apes have shown some skill at language--the gorilla Koko used sign language to communicate, while Konzi the bonobo became a whiz with these graphic symbols that represent words lexigrams |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the propensity for asking a lot of questions, whether out of curiosity or nosiness inquisitiveness |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $600: One definition of this trait involves a man who kills his parents & then begs the mercy of the court as he's an orphan chutzpah |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $400: For 23 points, it's the day on which the sun crosses the celestial equator equinox |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Your significant other is your "main" this. & that's worth 25 points squeeze |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: It's worth 23, it's from Yiddish meaning "dirt" or "filth" & you'e got a little on your shoe schmutz |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | ALL "THUMB"S $400: This kind of "sketch" can be a snapshot in words a thumbnail |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | ALL "THUMB"S $2000: In "Macbeth" these 6 words precede "something wicked this way comes" "by the pricking of my thumbs" |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In German if it's Dienstag, it must be this Tuesday |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In Latin if something is happening "januis clausis", it's happening here behind closed doors |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THAT'S A MOUTHFUL! $2000: Horace's phrase for "words a foot & a half long" gives us this adjective meaning "given to using long words" sesquipedalian |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a fancy word for rain, snow or sleet precipitation |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's named for its composition of smaller bits of wood particleboard |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | NEWER WORDS $400: It's what parents of little ones do to their homes with items like outlet covers babyproof |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | NEWER WORDS $800: Of a brassiere, a baseball cap or a belt, it's what a snapback is, saluted by Old Dominion in a country hit a baseball cap |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | NEWER WORDS $4,800 (Daily Double): As a "Machine" it's an archive of taken-down web pages; as part of an SUV, it's the third row of seats the wayback |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | POP CULTURE PORTMANTEAUS $400: The name of this Pokemon, Ash's best buddy, is a blend of Japanese words for a mouse sound & something sparkly Pikachu |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser was reissued nearly a century after it was published to add back 40,000 words Sister Carrie |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | ALLITERATION $1000: In other words, a Native American's calumet peace pipe |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | ABORIGINAL WORDS $400: It's a curved piece of wood usually 2 to 3 feet long boomerang |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | ABORIGINAL WORDS $2000: Now the name of a water sports clothing company, it's Australian for a stagnant backwater billabong |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: 1992 is the OED's first citation for this word meaning so-so; it described "Melrose Place" meh |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | WORDS OF COMFORT $400: This triple rhyme phrase could describe a content flea in a type of floor covering snug as a bug in a rug (a snug bug rug accepted) |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | WORDS OF SCIENCE $200: It's a substance capable of reacting with an acid to form salts a base |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | WORDS OF SCIENCE $400: From the Latin for "full of commotion", it's a violent flow of air like that which a plane might encounter turbulence |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | WORDS OF SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): In physics, it's a substance that technically can be gas or liquid & that conforms to the shape of the vessel holding it a fluid |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: Difficult & the stuff that's kneaded to make bread dough and tough |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | IMPOSSIBLE WORDS $800: "As crooked as a dog's hind leg", for example a simile |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | IMPOSSIBLE WORDS $2000: Border land for Homer & Ovid in Dante's circles Limbo |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | WORDS FOR YOUR DOG $200: A coveted award for those who exhibit their dogs, "B.I.S." stands for this accolade best in show |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | WORDS FOR YOUR DOG $600: This term is used to describe a dog's coat, like the one seen here, that has a texture similar to strands of metal wire-haired |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | WORDS FOR YOUR DOG $800: A dog command, it's also the anatomical name for the end of a loaf of bread heel |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORDS USING ALL 5 VOWELS $1600: The initial stage of a new building's construction, or an adjective for something never done before groundbreaking |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: In the sport of fencing, it's the term for a sudden thrusting attack forward a lunge |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ALL ENCOMPASSING WORDS $800: As a noun, it's a porous sea creature; as a verb, it means to mooch off others sponge |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a story that teaches a moral, like the one about "The Tortoise and the Hare" a fable |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $600: It's located between your hip & your knee the femur |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the official language of Iran; versions of it are spoken in Afghanistan & Tajikistan Farsi |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $400: 16 letters:
Adjective for a novel based on the author's life, like Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" autobiographical |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | INTERJECTIONS $600: Often used mockingly, it's 2 rhyming words synonymous with turning on the tears boo hoo |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | WRITER'S CHEAT SHEET $800: New York Times guidelines say with a long quote, it's "usually wise to" do this, restate it in different words paraphrase |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | YOU'VE GOT CLASS $2000: Let's muscle in some biology with this muscle in the upper arm; its name comes from Latin words for "2" & "head" a bicep |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Often building suspense, it's the device of hinting at coming events, as when a doomed character's plant dies foreshadowing |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WORDS WITH A "WAY" $2,800 (Daily Double): It's the oldest committee of the U.S. Congress Ways and Means |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $200: This folk & rock troubadour's gems include the 1965 lyric "He not busy being born is busy dying" (Bob) Dylan |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $800: Max Ehrmann's much-reprinted "Desiderata" says, "With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still" this kind of world a beautiful world |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: From the Latin for "seed plot", it's a conference or college course to learn about a narrow subject a seminar |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: It's the term for the municipality where you were born & raised hometown |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: The stuff you'll gradually learn about a movie or TV character's prior life; flashbacks can fill it in a backstory |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE "BEST" WORDS $400: An 1821 poem called "the faithful dog" man's best friend |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Here's a plate of these for your next party pigs in a blanket |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE "BEST" WORDS $1200: Completes the line from a show tune:
"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are..." a girl's best friend |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE "BEST" WORDS $2000: It's the title of a 1972 David Halberstam book on the U.S. military failure in Vietnam The Best and the Brightest |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's also called a seismic sea wave a tsunami |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | poetry $1600: adjective for the brand of poetry kits created by dave kapell when he moved words at random to try to beat writer's block magnetic |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HELP ME WITH THE TITLE $600: These 2 title words describe Sarah, who travels to the prairie to be a farmer's wife plain and tall |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison stockade |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the type of vehicle seen here a rickshaw |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | POETS & POETRY $800: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" begins with these 5 words once upon a midnight dreary |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | SIMILAR WORDS $200: With one T, it's the roof of the mouth; with 2, it's a board for mixing paints a palate/palette |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | SIMILAR WORDS $400: As opposed to the reverse, it's the front or heads side of a coin the obverse |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | GET ME REWRITE! $200: Thanks to Eisenhower's urging, these 2 words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 under God |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | LANGUAGE $1600: (Kelly shows two French words on the monitor.) In French words like garçon & français, this diacritical mark goes under the "C" to soften it to an "S" sound, not a "K" sound a cedilla |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $400: Financial assistance from your parents is facetiously called a loan from "the bank of" these 2 Mom & Dad |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $800: This type of networking is sometimes shortened to P2P peer-to-peer |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $1200: These awards given annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences were awarded an OED entry the Webby Awards |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $2000: The OED notes that "a major epidemic" of this mosquito-borne disease "began in Brazil in early 2015" Zika |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $2,200 (Daily Double): The name of these yellow & black study guides is used to suggest "a superficial grounding but no real insight" CliffsNotes |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | PARTING WORDS $1200: This other word for a butcher's knife has a word for "divide" in it a cleaver |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $200: Soup's on! This thick Italian one with vegetables, beans & bits of pasta minestrone |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $400: It's the Naval Academy's equivalent of a West Point cadet a midshipman |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $600: It's a little fancier name for a bartender a mixologist |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $800: Newton's Third Law is often given as "for every action..." these 7 words there is an equal and opposite reaction |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | 10-LETTER "M" WORDS $1000: Medically speaking it's another term for a TIA, or transient ischemic attack a ministroke |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $2000: In an R.E.M. classic these 10 words precede "(And I Feel Fine)" "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "OO"DLES OF WORDS $2000: Let's hear it for this king mackerel relative that the Hawaiians call ono the wahoo |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1000: Heard here is a bit of Bach's "Toccata and" this "in D Minor" fugue |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $800: E:
It's a closed, oval-shaped curve an ellipse |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | BOATING WORDS $600: Perhaps from Spanish for "to pitch", it's when a boat turns on its side or completely tips over capsize |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | 25 YEARS AGO: 1993 $600: These 3 words follow "Whoomp!" in Tag Team's monster hit song of 1993 there it is |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | 3 P's, PPPLEASE $1200: 2-word grammar term for words like fallen or sung past participle |
| #7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the simple bouquet seen here a posy |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $200: A hypodermic instrument to inject fluids into the body a syringe |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $400: Use this tube & enjoy a view of the threadfin butterfly & other reef fish a snorkel |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $600: It's a malicious computer program that gathers info about a user & then transmits it to an outside entity spyware |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $800: A long-handled pan used for frying food a skillet |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $1000: A cancerous growth of the soft tissues, usually appearing at first as a painless swelling a sarcoma |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | PSYCHOLOGY $2,400 (Daily Double): It's genetics or upbringing in this classic debate of 2 words with the same second syllable nature versus nurture |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $800: There's no "nudity" in the King James Bible, but this 3-syllable synonym appears 32 times just in Leviticus nakedness |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $1200: This city gets lots of play, from Joshua 10 through Revelation 21 Jerusalem |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: It's the buzzword for providing TMI on social media oversharing |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The range or territory of a sheriff's authority jurisdiction |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | IN SO MANY WORDS $400: 5 words:
Prepositional phrase that immediately follows "what so proudly we hailed" at the twilight's last gleaming |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | IN SO MANY WORDS $1600: 2 words:
Beneath the Lincoln memorial on the back of a U.S. currency note five dollars |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | IN SO MANY WORDS $2000: 1 word:
Harvard's Latin motto Veritas |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | WORDS FROM SWAHILI $1600: This game's name comes from a Swahili word meaning "to build"; oddly, the exact opposite happens in gameplay Jenga |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: All toil & no play makes Jack this type of person who's addicted to his job a workaholic |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ODD WORDS $1600: A vestige of something; when pluralized, it's the sediment left over in wine or coffee dreg |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BORROWED WORDS $2000: From the German, it's a vending machine or a restaurant full of them in New York City of yore an automat |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $400: Stephen King's "Christine" is the first novel to use "shut your" this pastry orifice piehole |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $800: Fittingly for some readers, the OED's first citation for "boredom" is this author's "Bleak House" Dickens |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1955 novel is responsible for popularizing the word "nymphet" Lolita |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: Proverbially, you do this to one's feathers to provoke anger ruffle |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the provider of nourishment seen here carhop |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $400: You can't make s'mores without this confection a marshmallow |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $1600: It's another name for the esophagus the gullet |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | HOUSE PARTY $800: From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment ecology |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | WORDS OF COMMUNICATION $400: A preacher's Scripture-based oration, or a negative term for a long, tedious speech a sermon |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | WORDS OF COMMUNICATION $800: To speak in an informal way; it's also an online "room" chat |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | WORDS OF COMMUNICATION $1200: This breathy type of "campaign" spreads rumors in an organized way to destroy someone's reputation a whisper campaign |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Famous ones include the Stanford prison one & the Millikan oil-drop one experiments |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $200: It's a swimming stroke as well as a type of wrestling, skiing & skating freestyle |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $1000: In math, it's the set of real numbers; in "Star Trek", the space-time one got messed with quite a bit a continuum |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Solo for a soprano an aria |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $400: A single sheet of window glass a pane |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $600: Kilauea output lava |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Venison & rabbit are this kind of meat game |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: Lignite, for example coal |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $200: 3 Z's go into this word for energetic sparkle some people have pizazz |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS $400: It's British for potato chip & American for bracing or invigorating weather crisp |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the large-scale removal of trees from a wooded area, often with detrimental effect deforestation |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | MYSTERIOUS WORDS $2000: O say can you "C" this puzzling word that may involve puns? Oh, it's a... a conundrum |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE AT BOWERY FARMS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Bowery Farms in Kearny, NJ.) It's projected that by 2050 two-thirds of Earth's population will live in cities far from traditional food sources; indoor vertical farming brings fresh produce to urban areas with this soil-free growing process, from Greek words meaning "water" & "labor" hydroponics |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FUN WITH BACKWARDS WORDS $600: Baseball star Anthony Garciaparra goes by this middle name, his dad's name backwards Nomar |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: A midwife is a medical worker who's there for the birth; this is a supportive counselor before, during & after it a doula |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1000: Used to create little channels in the wood, it's the tool seen here--keep it away from your eye a gouge |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $800: Don't think too long about this word meaning "to think long" ponder |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | MOVIE WORDS $400: An actor playing a role vastly different from other roles he's known for is "cast against" this type |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | MOVIE WORDS $800: It's the "circular" term for redoing dialogue of a low sound quality looping |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WEIRD WORDS $400: From Old Norse, a gowpen is the hollow that's formed when you put the 2 of these together to form a bowl your hands |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | NOTEWORTHY NONFICTION $800: These 5 words complete the title of David Reuben's 1970 bestseller "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex..." but were afraid to ask |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $800: In Shakespeare, Richard III's last line is "A horse! A horse!" These 5 words! my kingdom for a horse |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: To kill the pathogenic microorganisms in milk using this process, it's necessary to heat it to at least 145°F pasteurization |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Like layers of rock, it's the hierarchical division of society according to rank, caste or class stratification |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | RANDOM WORDS $800: As a verb it means to wander off from a course; as a noun, it's a homeless animal a stray |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's a word from the French for a bullet's redirection after an impact a ricochet |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): "Homely Boop" Ugly Betty |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $200: Appropriately, it's the novel in which Wells coined the phrase "time traveller" The Time Machine |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Wells preached & definitely practiced this 2-word phrase for ignoring the conventional constraints of marriage free love (or an open marriage) |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the deadly species seen here, notorious since ancient times an asp |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Hebrew for "to life" or "to your health", it's used as a toast L'chaim |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | SOUP $1000: The full name of this French soup includes the words "crème" and "glacée", telling you it's an iced cream (but not ice cream) soup vichyssoise |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ETYMOLOGY $1200: This herbivore's name is from Greek words meaning "nose" & "horn" a rhinoceros |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: To clip an animal's ears, or to trim a photo crop |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a small whirlpool an eddy |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 4-letter name for the mammal seen here orca |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the job of the player in the foreground placekicker |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS $200: Vigor's proverbial partner vim |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: The Oakland A's won the World Series in 1972, '73 & '74, completing what we now call this a threepeat |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1600: It's an approximate prediction without solid facts or figures a guesstimate |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's another name for a solarium a sunroom |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | DOUBLE "O" 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's slang for a police informant a stoolie |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SIKH $2000: The Sanskrit words amrta, "nectar of immortality", & saras, "pool", give us this name for Sikhism's holy city Amritsar |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the Italian word for a city square, like St. Mark's piazza |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | COKE SLOGANS THROUGH THE YEARS $1000: 1969:
These 4 words, also heard in a jingle "It's the real thing" |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $400: It's observing a potential military opponent to assess his position & strengths reconnaissance |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: You'll follow anyone's lead because you're young & this adjective meaning easily influenced impressionable |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: This restoration to health is the specialty of the V.A.'s polytrauma centers rehabilitation |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | I'M AMEN-ABLE TO THAT $2000: The 1737 "New England Primer" included the children's prayer that begins with these 7 words "Now I lay me down to sleep" |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the old-timey mustache seen here a handlebar |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: Got milk? One of Wisconsin's nicknames is "America's" this Dairyland |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of astronomy that studies the origin & structure of the universe cosmology |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS $1600: It's what Emma Lazarus called the Statue of Liberty in her poem for it the Mother of Exiles |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE "MOTHER" OF ALL WORDS $2000: The H110MX-S is this product from Foxconn a motherboard |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | WORDS FROM THE GREEK $200: Perhaps Wile E. Coyote knows it's from the Greek for "highest point" acme |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | WORDS FROM THE GREEK $400: Take a long look; it's the type of photo seen here a panorama |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | WORDS FROM THE GREEK $600: A synonym for predicament, it's made up of 2 words that together mean "two propositions" dilemma |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | TRUUUE $800: "My Own Words" is her first book since joining the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | "HOME" LINES $200: These 5 words follow "be it ever so humble" "there's no place like home" |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's grape science, especially with regard to winemaking viniculture |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $1,200 (Daily Double): It's the 9-letter name of the creature who is said to leave behind footprints measuring 24" long & 8" wide Sasquatch |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | DR. JOHNSON'S ALPHABET $400: It "unhappily prevails in so many of our words that it produces in the ear of a foreigner a continued sibilation" S |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $400: It's an adjective describing the shape seen here hexagonal |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: It sounds like a meal's last course, but this word is usually paired with "just" to describe karmic retribution deserts |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2000: It means to go by a leisurely, indirect route & is usually found before "one's way" wend |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a slang synonym for zero, or a brand of lighter zippo |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the French name for the type of shoe seen here, carved from a single block of wood sabot |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | BORROWED WORDS $1200: It's the French term for the type of dance performed by the Sugar Plum Fairy & the Prince in "The Nutcracker" pas de deux |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the compound word for the garment seen here--note the buttons a shirtdress |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: The positioning of a horn player's lips & tongue on the mouthpiece, it's from the French for "mouth" embouchure |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | IN OTHER WORDS, DEAD $1200: "Traded to" these, Mike Trout's baseball team Angels |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | IN OTHER WORDS, DEAD $2000: The Monty Python shop customer says, "This is a late parrot... it's rung down the curtain & joined" this singing group joined the choir invisible |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1000: 1977's winner was the classic "Roll of Thunder," these 3 words hear my cry |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: The condition swimmer's knee is mainly caused by the unusual kick of this specialty breaststroke |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | CARVE OUT $200: Third-generation stone carver Nick Benson engraved the words on this man's D.C. memorial, which was dedicated in 2011 Martin Luther King, (Jr.) |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 3-letter name for the action seen here dap |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: We have great expectations you'll know it's a spot on dice pip |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $200: Connecticut's rules for this group of 12 say don't look up any words you hear in court in a dictionary a jury |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It was once a Westinghouse washing machine trademark; now it's a place where quarters are like gold laundromat |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: To summarize another person's statement in new words, shorter & clearer paraphrase |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the veal preparation seen here--mangia scaloppine |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: A type of fever that's a complication of malaria, or a security firm founded by Erik Prince blackwater |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: In 1948 the winning word was this medical branch that deals with the treatment & prevention of mental illness P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-Y |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: In 1981 Paige Pipkin buried the competition with this word for an ancient stone coffin S-A-R-C-O-P-H-A-G-U-S |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: It's the barrier seen here on a diamond backstop |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | OMAR'S COMIN'! $400: Wise words from Omar Little on this Baltimore-set HBO show: "You come at the king, you best not miss" The Wire |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $800: Compare's proverbial partner contrast |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | WORDS OF OPPOSITION $1600: In Hegel's thought history proceeds in a 3-phase pattern with this "A" word as the middle one antithesis |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | DELI-CACIES $1000: This favorite that's eaten as a cookie gets its name from German words for "almond" & "bread" Mandelbrot |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | IT'S IN INTERJECTION $400: To repeat a lesson's words from memory for the teacher recite |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | "CROSS"WORDS $400: It's the sport seen here--remember the category title cross-country skiing |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | "CROSS"WORDS $1600: Medically speaking, it's the testing of the compatibility of the blood of a donor & recipient a crossmatch |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1200: There's a little mammalian insectivore in this word meaning "sharp in judgment" shrewd |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1600: From Latin for "touch", it's sensitivity & skill in dealing with others tact |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $800: The period of a film's creation after all the footage is shot & it's being readied for release postproduction |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a large increase in a species' numbers leading to a depletion of available resources overpopulation |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Similar to hallucinations, it's a phantastic sequence of haphazard imagery as seen in dreams or fever phantasmagoria |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: A quality of only judging something by the way it looks & not by what it's made of superficiality |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | BAWLERS $400: A bawling player in "A League of Their Own" causes Tom Hanks to say these 5 oft-quoted words about America's pastime there's no crying in baseball |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | DOUBLE "P" WORDS $200: Rivaling the goldfish as the most popular aquarium pet, it's native to Venezuela & adjacent islands the guppy |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: On January 15, 2017 Frankie Valli took the stage to say a few words at the end of this musical's 11-year run on Broadway Jersey Boys |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | DOUBLE "P" WORDS $1000: Meaning the reestablishment of cordial relations between 2 nations, it's from the French for "bring together" rapprochement |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $400: In 1929's "The Karnival Kid", "Hot dogs!" were the first words ever uttered onscreen by this rodent Mickey Mouse |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "split", it's a long narrow crevice made by the splitting of a rock or the Earth a fissure |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the 7-letter word for the underground reservoir seen here a cistern |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | "F" WORDS $400: It's the part of the fiddle indicated here the fingerboard |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $1200: From ice hockey we get this numerical term for the space between the goalie's legs five-hole |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | ANAGRAM OF A STATE $2000: In 2 words it's what the Supreme Court said about the presidential race Dec. 12, 2000 no Gore (anagram of Oregon) |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Mayors have declared Chicago & S.F. to be these, which won't help the feds enforce immigration law sanctuary cities |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: 2 body parts are joined in this expression & gesture meaning "oh no!" facepalming |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | WORDS IN CONTINENTS $2000: It's number 50 on the periodic table tin |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Teddy Roosevelt took this term from "Pilgrim's Progress" to refer to one who digs up scandal about famous people muckraker |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $400: One who makes ice cream sodas, whether he's rude or not a jerk |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | "J" WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Change the first letter in a problem for a car tire to get this, a point in time when a decision has to be made juncture |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WOOD WORDS $800: When paired with "up", it means to make trim & neat, such as one's appearance spruce |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | "S" WORDS $200: Musical style of the 1930s heard here & popular for dancing swing |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | "S" WORDS $400: Ingmar Bergman could tell you the seventh one is opened in Revelation 8:1 seal |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | "S" WORDS $600: It's the text division indicated here subheading |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | "S" WORDS $800: From the Italian for "square", it's the basic administrative unit of the Air Force a squadron |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | "S" WORDS $1000: This type of tuna that can reach 3 feet in length and tip the scales at 50 pounds gains its name from its leaping ability the skipjack |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: This type of belt worn by gunmen has little slots to hold extra ammunition a bandolier |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: You get an "A" if you know it's the "A" in F=MA acceleration |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: Slice into a pluot & you'll find it's made up of these 2 words plum and apricot |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: It's a composite of 2 old, posh British universities Oxbridge |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $1600: This late author's mother, Sally Wallace, invented words like "greebles" that he used in his books David Foster Wallace |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's Down Under slang for Australia itself Oz |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the bottom of a sleeve a cuff |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: The baker's one is actually 13 dozen |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: Domino's Pizza ads once wanted you to rhymingly do this to the noid avoid |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: A grouping of something; there's a "very large" one watching the skies in New Mexico an array |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: NSFW for short, it's found on emails you'd maybe prefer people not send you not suitable for work |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This acronym precedes "Blog" in the name of Tom Goldstein's blog on the work of Breyer, Alito & their pals SCOTUS |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | AUTO-MATIC WORDS $400: Hyundai drivers know it's a unique pattern of one's speech an accent |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | AUTO-MATIC WORDS $800: It means "pertaining to a city" & it's not the Honda Urban civic |
| #7491, aired 2017-03-20 | AUTO-MATIC WORDS $1000: You can't dodge the fact that it's a venomous snake --& a Dodge the Viper |
| #7487, aired 2017-03-14 | THAT'S A MYTHTAKE! $1,800 (Daily Double): She angered Hera, who took away her power of speech, except for the ability to repeat the last words of another Echo |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | OCEANIA! $2000: This region's name comes from Greek words for "black" & "island"; it'll be esia to respond if you know Greek Melanesia |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SWEAR WORDS $800: "____ ____ ____ and hope to die", a character promises in Elie Wiesel's "Twilight" cross my heart |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SWEAR WORDS $2000: As a noun, it's a document empowering law enforcement; as a verb, it means to promise warrant |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | COLLEGE MAJORS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Before the time of actor Jude pre-law |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: One's partner in crime an accomplice |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $200: A set of words complete in itself, or a criminal's punishment sentence |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | 6-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a meeting of political party leaders prior to a general election; Iowa held one February 1, 2016 a caucus |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: The name of these breeches was inspired by Washington Irving's 1809 work "A History of New York" knickerbockers |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | WORDS FOR TRAVELERS $800: It's Spanish for "tourist" & can also mean a traveler's intestinal discomfort turista |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | THE MIND $400: As 2 words, it's what a light bulb will finally do; as one word, it's extreme stress & emotional fatigue burnout |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | THE MIND $1200: Greek words meaning "difficult speech" give us this reading disorder that affects about 15% of the U.S. population dyslexia |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | Y_O_Y $1200: To tell a friend that something is really his bag, say "it's right up" these 2 words your alley |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: When it comes to paying, you this animal "up"; when it comes to hair, it's quite a "tail" pony |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Beastie Boys could tell you "brass" this animal refers to weather that's really cold brass monkey |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a presentation of the complete set of inflected forms of a verb conjugation |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: Peter Lely's 17-century portraits from the English court were noted for daring in this part of the ladies' costume décolletage |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): A dinner in appreciation & remembrance of one's past service or achievements a testimonial |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | WORDS OF PEACE $1200: Often found after "wedded", it's etymologically related to "blithe" bliss |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In math it's a synonym for "times" by |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: When I say, "We'll be right back", it's the next thing viewers see an ad |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the game seen here Go |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BLENDED WORDS $800: It's any alcohol-free version of a mixed adult beverage a mocktail |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: The United Kingdom's Wight or Man isle |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the gusto with which all the reindeer shouted, "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, you'll go down in history" glee |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $200: It's a hairy tropical spider that gets its name from an Italian seaport a tarantula |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $600: A Hungarian town spelled K-O-C-S gave us this word for a class of travel or for a vehicle for travel coach |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PLACES THAT BECAME WORDS $800: Named for a town in China, it's a glossy fabric, typically silk, used to make fine garments like pajamas satin |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $400: Hyphenated term for a contest that's really no contest one-sided |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A rare, lucky specimen of genus Trifolium a four-leaf clover |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | THE OSCAR WINNER'S MOVIE $800: For 2011:
Man of few words Jean Dujardin The Artist |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | 5 "L"ETTER WORDS $1200: It's a long rope used to catch horses & cattle a lasso |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS $800: The USA bonded with Latin America through 1961's AFP, this for Progress Alliance |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS $1200: In a 1941 U.S.-U.K. deal, it follows "Atlantic"; it's also found before "school" charter |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $1600: Latin for "light", it's a measure of illumination lux |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | TOUGH 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: A gambling establishment's cut on your losing bet, or excessive interest on what you owe vig |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1-CONSONANT WORDS $400: Oho! It's an opera solo an aria |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1-CONSONANT WORDS $800: A bird of prey's nest an aerie |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "PEANUT", "BUTTER", "JELLY", "TIME" $800: This candy made of caramelized sugar & a legume is easily broken-- but that's the point! peanut brittle |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Like the tails of certain monkeys, a giraffe's tongue is said to be this, adapted for seizing & grasping prehensile |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | WHO FIRST SANG THOSE WORDS? $600: "I'm so sick of that same old love, my body's had enough" Selena Gomez |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | WHO FIRST SANG THOSE WORDS? $800: "And they say she's in the Class A team, stuck in her daydream, been this way since 18" Ed Sheeran |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Don’t confuse these 2 words--one’s a substance that counteracts a poison & the other, a short amusing story antidote & anecdote |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $400: From the Greek for "treasury", it's a book that contains lists of words that have similar meanings thesaurus |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $2000: An alphabetical index of the principal words of a book; Strong's is a well-known one of the Bible a concordance |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the beach favorite being played here paddleball |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | FOX(X) NEWS $2000: In 2016 this ex-president of Mexico had a few choice words about a certain candidate for U.S. president Vicente Fox |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | THAT'S AWFUL GRIMM $400: The final words in "The Death of the Little" this, a female domestic fowl-- "and then everyone was dead" the hen |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | BRIT BITS $2000: These 2 words follow "New" in the name of Oliver Cromwell's force that defeated the Royalists in the English Civil War Model Army |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $200: If you think of something to add after you've finished a letter, put it in one of these, abbreviated P.S. postscript |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $1000: The address & date at a letter's beginning, it's also a word for a ship's direction a heading |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: From the German, it's pleasure at someone's misfortune, combining words meaning "harm" & "joy" Schadenfreude |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): When a professor has this adjective after his name, it means he's retired but retains an honorary title & often, free parking emeritus |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | DOUBLE Y-ed $400: From the Greek for "true study", it's the study of the origin & development of words etymology |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: From the Greek for "human being", it's the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects anthropomorphism |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | LANGUAGE LAB $1,800 (Daily Double): From words meaning "through" & "speak", it's a regional form of a language often with its own words dialect |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | "L"8 WORDS $400: It's the fetching dog seen here a Labrador |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $600: It's the usual adjective for a library book that's not been returned on time overdue |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $800: Just like former House Majority Leader Tom's last name, you could have been beset by one of these delay |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | LATE WORDS $1000: A restaurant worker who's falling behind is said to be "in" these garden annoyances the weeds |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | "L"8 WORDS $2000: It's the word for the type of musician seen here a lutenist |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the act of bending the knee in worship genuflecting |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): This type of German spirit double appears in Dostoyevsky's novel "The Double" a doppelganger |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | TALKIN' TRASH $1600: Trashy "R" words include refuse & this one that often precedes "heap" rubbish |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | MY OLD "PAL"S $1000: Millard Fillmore's famous last words were "the nourishment is" this, agreeable to the taste palatable |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $1000: The business center of "The Big Island", it's also the gateway to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hilo |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | FORBIDDING WORDS $1200: It's not forbidden to tell you that it's the German word for "forbidden" that has entered the English language verboten |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | FORBIDDING WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1807 act placed restrictions on imports to the U.S. from Great Britain the Embargo Act |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | "TEN"-LETTER WORDS $800: In the U.S. Army, a first this ranks just below captain lieutenant |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1000: Cheek makeup that's also a French color & to dig out roughly rouge and gouge |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | HYBRID WORDS $600: The Greek for "tribe" & the Latin for "kill" gave us this crime that's investigated by the International Criminal Court genocide |
