#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | SPRINKLE, SPRINKLE $600: Often sprinkled on fresh fruit, this spice mix of chili, lime & salt is named for an archaeological site in Veracruz, Mexico Tajin |
#9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FLAT EARTH $400: Today lending its name to a salt flats region, this 20,000-square-mile ancient lake once covered a quarter of Utah Bonneville |
#9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FLAT EARTH $1000: The Coipasa & Uyuni Salt Flats are part of this "high plateau" region of Peru & Bolivia the Altiplano |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DEALING WITH TV REALITY $600: Jennifer Lawrence said she'd give her Oscar to Heather Gay, Monica Garcia & "The Real Housewives of" here for that season finale in '24 Salt Lake City |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | TRAIL $400: Now a National Historic Trail, it began in Nauvoo, Illinois & ended at the Great Salt Lake the Mormon Trail |
#9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NONFICTION $200: After taking on salt & cod, Mark Kurlansky peeled the many layers of this in a 2023 book an onion |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $2,800 (Daily Double): Taft talked of the building of this "controlled by Colonel Goethals & his fellow Army engineers" the Panama Canal |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $200: The "original" flavor of this century-old woven cracker brand has 3 ingredients: whole grain wheat, canola oil & sea salt Triscuit |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1500: Biggie Smalls: "It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! Magazine, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine" "Juicy" |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $200: In the Bible, this person "looked back... and she became a pillar of salt" Lot's wife |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $200: Weber State is near a "Great" lake in this state Utah |
#8990, aired 2023-12-08 | ORGAN RECITAL $400: The wood for the organ in this Salt Lake City edifice came from Utah's Pine Valley Mountains the Mormon Tabernacle |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | METRICKY PROBLEMS $1200: That grain of salt you're taking is just .0648 of this basic metric unit a gram |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $1200: 1 of the 3 zesty ingredients of the original Tabasco brand sauce (1 of) red pepper, salt or vinegar |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $800: This "colorful" gum-chewing girl has a golden ticket that gets her & her dad in to see Willy Wonka Violet Beauregarde |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | G-I TRACT $400: Celeb chef Giada De Laurentiis has a recipe for this dish that calls for salt, pepper, flour, an egg and 1 1/2 pounds of Russet potatoes gnocchi |
#8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $400: This cord can be saturated with inorganic salt solutions & dried prior to molding into candles the wick |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $800: The band Veruca Salt took its name from the spoiled rich girl in this Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU $400: Finely chop raw, lean meat; add salt, pepper & herbs, top with a raw egg yolk & you're on your way to a dish of beef this tartare |
#8925, aired 2023-07-28 | REAL FAST $1000: Driving jet-propelled cars, Craig Breedlove repeatedly broke the world land speed record at this Utah spot in the 1960s Bonneville (Salt) Flats |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THIS AMERICAN LAKE $400: A 2023 report said that without emergency measures, this "Great" lake in Utah "would likely disappear in the next five years" Great Salt Lake |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GEOLOGY $1200: Seen here, deposits at Badwater Basin of what is mostly this mineral leave polygon-shaped designs due to water evaporation salt (sodium chloride) |
#8903, aired 2023-06-28 | POLICY $600: The first SALT treaties limited the use of these, ABMs for short anti-ballistic missiles |
#8884, aired 2023-06-01 | 3 THINGS ABOUT THE CITY $200: Brigham Young's grave is there; at the foot of the Wasatch Range; somehow known for its jazz Salt Lake City |
#8874, aired 2023-05-18 | ON A VISIT TO THE STATE CAPITAL $400: The Beehive House & the Seagull Monument Salt Lake City |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $800: In 1848, crickets swarmed Salt Lake Valley's crops but these birds miraculously showed up, saving the day seagulls |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | SCIENCE $400: Table salt isn't made up of molecules but of lattices composed of ions of these 2 elements sodium & chlorine |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $1000: This, "Fat, Acid, Heat" by Samin Nosrat is subtitled "Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking" Salt |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | BAKER'S DOZEN $600: The overturned salt container in this Leonardo da Vinci painting of 13 men may symbolize betrayal The Last Supper |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A SALT $200: The gabelle, an unpopular salt tax, was a contributing spark to this upheaval & was repealed in the midst of it, in 1790 the French Revolution |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A SALT $400: It's the chemical formula for common table salt NaCl |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A SALT $600: Savvy cooks prefer this salt, not for religious purposes but because its coarse texture makes it easier to pinch & dispense kosher salt |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A SALT $800: The combination of ammonium carbonate & perfume sniffed as a stimulant to relieve fainting or headache goes by this 2-word term smelling salts |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A SALT $1000: This city about 150 miles west of Vienna takes its name from nearby salt mines that operated for many hundreds of years Salzburg |
#8826, aired 2023-03-13 | ADVERTISING ICONS $800: The first 3 female icons on the Madison Ave. Walk of Fame are the Morton Salt Girl, Miss Chiquita Banana & this insurance seller Flo |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | REUNION SHOWS $1000: A 2022 reunion of the Salt Lake City cast of this reality franchise found Jen Shah touching on some legal issues Real Housewives (of Salt Lake City) |
#8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $1000: ...Salt Lake City respectfully visit this landmark completed in 1867, home to its famous organ & choir the Mormon Tabernacle |
#8786, aired 2023-01-16 | CLICHÉS REPHRASE $200: Sodium chloride of our planet salt of the Earth |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | WE'VE GOT CHEMISTRY $300: Sodium chloride is the chemical name for this mineral commonly used for seasoning food salt |
#8777, aired 2023-01-03 | HERE'S LOOKING AT "U" $800: Here are ancestors of this tribe that let Salt Lake City college athletes use its name to build respect for its history & culture the Utes |
#8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $600: February 22 is national this day, but you don't have to wait--salt on the rim? a margarita |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | STREETS OF AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): This man made Salt Lake City's downtown streets wide so a wagon team could turn around without hitting sidewalks or using profanity Brigham Young |
#8727, aired 2022-10-25 | THE ELEMENTS $4,000 (Daily Double): A small amount of this element is sometimes added to table salt to make up for human deficiencies of it iodine |
#8712, aired 2022-10-04 | TOYING WITH YOU $800: Water, salt & flour mix in this, but Hasbro warns it "is not a food item" & "is not intended to be eaten" Play-Doh |
#8711, aired 2022-10-03 | WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $1200: In 1847 Brigham Young chose what would be this city as the place where Mormons would gather, then headed back to Nebraska Salt Lake City |
#8706, aired 2022-09-26 | POP MUSIC $1600: This rap group that "Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing" hit the charts with "Push It" & "Shoop" Salt-N-Pepa |
#8702, aired 2022-09-20 | THERE'S THE RUB $800: This phrase means to make something worse; I prefer iodized for my enemies to rub salt into wounds |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $600: Climbing,
salt,
star rock |
#8679, aired 2022-07-07 | "G"EOGRAPHY $800: About 1,700 square miles in area, it's the largest inland body of saline water in the Western Hemisphere the Great Salt Lake |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville Salt Lake City |
#8666, aired 2022-06-20 | CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS, COMMONLY $200: Sodium chloride, which you know better as "table" this salt |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $1600: In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah Bonneville |
#8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1200: Part of the name of this incendiary mixture comes from the acidic salt palmitate napalm |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | SALT & PEPPER $400: Coal soot during the Industrial Revolution caused the peppered species of this insect to quickly evolve to have darker wings a moth |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | SALT & PEPPER $800: This actress has played Pepper Potts on film since 2008 Gwyneth Paltrow |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | SALT & PEPPER $1200: He was arrested after leading the 1930 Salt March, which protested British rule Gandhi |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | SALT & PEPPER $1600: The Salt River is a tributary of this other 4-letter river in Arizona the Gila River |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | SALT & PEPPER $2000: In negotiations between the U.S. & the USSR, SALT stood for these talks Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: Saturn's moon Titan is thought to have a subsurface ocean as salty as this terrestrial "Salt Sea" the Dead Sea |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | BEVERAGES $400: It's the beverage most associated with Dad's & Hires root beer |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: In Salt Lake City check out a performance by the world-famous choir at this religious edifice & the famous giant organ too the Mormon Tabernacle |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $1600: This whiny girl wants a "boat exactly like Mr. Wonka's! And I want lots of Oompa-Loompas to row me about" Veruca Salt |
#8619, aired 2022-04-14 | BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Most translations say Lot's wife became one of these, but some use "column" or "statue" a pillar of salt |
#8614, aired 2022-04-07 | WORLD WAR II $200: Nazi loot found in a salt mine included precious artworks, items stolen from concentration camp victims & more than 8,000 bars of this gold |
#8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $200: Flying over Utah, you might get a glimpse of this body of water the Great Salt Lake |
#8600, aired 2022-03-18 | LEMON SQUEEZY $1000: Salt-preserved lemons can accompany this Moroccan stew made in an earthenware pot of the same name a tagine |
#8586, aired 2022-02-28 | THE PICKLE BARREL $400: A basic recipe for pickles calls for a brine of equal parts water & this acidic liquid, along with salt & seasonings vinegar |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: 2 1/2 hours south of Indianapolis is this town named for an ethnicity & for the salt deposits that deer & buffalo once enjoyed French Lick, Indiana |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THE W.H.O. SAYS... $1200: You can reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease & this, also called high blood pressure, by limiting your salt intake hypertension |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | SPICE UP YOUR LIFE $800: An ingredient in old bay seasoning is this type of salt with a crunchy vegetable in its name celery salt |
#8539, aired 2021-12-23 | SEASONINGS GREETINGS $800: This geographic name for the seasoning seen here is on shaky ground, as it actually comes from hills in Punjab Himalayan (pink) salt |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | SCIENCE $10,800 (Daily Double): It's the process of atoms acquiring a positive or negative charge, as when sodium & chlorine combine to make salt ionization |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: This country's largest salt lake is now called Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, reviving its aboriginal name Australia |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $4,000 (Daily Double): Temple Square in this state capital was designated a landmark in 1964 Salt Lake City |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | DARK MATTER $1600: You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust basalt |
#8493, aired 2021-10-20 | DRAFTS $800: Elvira Entwhistle was renamed Veruca Salt by this writer who, thankfully, also went with Mike Teavee over Herpes Trout (Roald) Dahl |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $1600: This fossilized resin has one of the lowest densities among gems & it will often float in salt water amber |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | THE EARTH $400: In haloclasty the weathering of a substance is caused by crystals of this salt |
#8473, aired 2021-09-22 | __R__M $2000: This city north of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad Orem |
#8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $800: Upon reaching this valley in July 1847, Brigham Young reportedly said, "This is the right place" Salt Lake Valley |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | NEXT IN LINE $1200: Salt Lake City,
Turin,
Vancouver... Sochi |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | IMPORTED FROM ITALY $1600: Barene are salt marshes in this lagoon where Barena honey is made the Venetian Lagoon |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | IT'S A MIRAGE $400: Mirages are a common sight in Namibia's Etosha Pan, a vast, dry plain mainly covered in this mineral salt |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | CLICHÉS $400: Bare-faced, bald-faced or bold-faced, you're one of these & I'm (another cliché) taking your words with a grain of salt a liar |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | GEOGRA-SEA, & ALSO LAKES $1,600 (Daily Double): Named for an 1830s explorer & linked to salt flats, this ancient lake hit a 5,000' in elevation & covered much of what is now Utah Lake Bonneville |
#8374, aired 2021-04-08 | A NOUN & ALSO A VERB $200: Spring or summer, & to sprinkle your steak with salt & pepper season |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | PICTURE THE MUSICAL ACT $400: Don't "Push It" with these ladies Salt-N-Pepa |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | SCIENCE GLOSSARY $1200: Pass the this, defined as a substance produced by the reaction of a base & an acid salt |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $600: When Carl Scheele discovered this element found in salt, he called it "dephlogisticated muriatic acid" chlorine |
#8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1200: Angelina Jolie is a CIA agent on the run after she's accused of being a Russian spy in this film Salt |
#8295, aired 2020-12-04 | MINING $200: In operation from 1910 to 1983, a mine under Detroit for this ice-melting stuff was reopened in 1998 salt |
#8283, aired 2020-11-18 | ONE-SUBJECT NONFICTION $800: In 2018 "Cod" & "Salt" author Mark Kurlansky tackled this liquid, letting us know donkey's is low-fat & goat's is high-protein milk |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BEVERAGE RHYME TIME $600: A salt-rimmed cocktail for a Spanish miss a margarita senorita (or senorita margarita) |
#8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $400: This Utah body of water is several times more saline than the oceans the Great Salt Lake |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TABLE TALK $800: It's the chemical formula for table salt NaCl |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | CONTROL "ALT" "DEL" $800: The Bonneville these smooth out nicely over 40 square miles salt flats |
#8215, aired 2020-05-01 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $600: He's the author of "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games"--the 2002 Salt Lake City games specifically Mitt Romney |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 18th century Prussian king & military genius who is a large body of water in northern Utah Frederick the Great Salt Lake |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | POSSESSIVE PHRASES $400: Tragically, this spouse of a biblical man looked back & became a pillar of salt Lot's wife |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: A remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville, it's the largest lake in the western United States the Great Salt Lake |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HISTORIC ELEMENTS & MINERALS $800: In 1931 Gandhi picked up some mud & referring to this in it, said, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire" salt |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | TIME ZONE CITIES $400: Salt Lake City, Utah Mountain |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | WORD ORIGINS $400: Latin for "salt" gives us this word for how much you get paid each week salary |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | TASTE THE RAINBOW $1200: Trace minerals give this seasoning from the Himalayas its namesake rosy hue pink salt |
#8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PILLARS OF THE EARTH $3,000 (Daily Double): A rock formation shaped like a pillar of salt near the Dead Sea is named for this biblical woman Lot's wife |
#8096, aired 2019-11-18 | BOND, IONIC BOND $800: Table salt is an ionic bonding of these 2 elements sodium & chlorine |
#8083, aired 2019-10-30 | COLLEGE TOWNS $600: This city that's home to Brigham Young University was originally known as Fort Utah Provo |
#8083, aired 2019-10-30 | ADVERTISING $800: The icon for this product has been around for over 100 years, but she doesn't look a day over 8 Morton Salt |
#8082, aired 2019-10-29 | IDIOMS DELIGHT $600: To view something with skepticism is to "take it with" this bit of sodium chloride a grain of salt |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | ENDS IN "X" $1600: 7-letter word for the Swedish specialty of raw salmon cured with salt, sugar & dill gravlax |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | PRE "SCH"OOL $1600: This dog breed with a wiry black or salt-&-pepper coat Schnauzer |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | ACTION MOVIE STARS $2000: This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise Angelina Jolie |
#8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $600: Get your choir on at the Latter-Day Saints Conference Center Salt Lake City |
#8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE RULES THEY JUST MADE UP $600: SALT stands for "state and" these "taxes" & there's now a $10,000 limit on deducting them on your IRS 1040 local taxes |
#8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 3-WORD CITY NAMES $400: This state capital is south of Ogden & north of Provo Salt Lake City |
#7991, aired 2019-05-13 | THING + BODY PART = CONDITION $800: One more reason to monitor this substance in your diet: it can build up & cause strawberry gallbladder cholesterol |
#7988, aired 2019-05-08 | THE ELEMENTS $800: The first 3 halogen or "salt-forming" elements on the periodic table are fluorine, this, bromine chlorine |
#7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $6,800 (Daily Double): Mark Kurlansky wrote a whole book on the history of this, "the only rock we eat" salt |
#7973, aired 2019-04-17 | TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY $1600: This Southwest city is rehabilitating the wetlands of the Tres Rios area (the Gila, the Salt & the Agua Fria) just to its west Phoenix |
#7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MUSIC "MAN" $1600: This song by Salt-n-Pepa says their fella has "a body like Arnold with a Denzel face" "Whatta Man" |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | BIBLICAL PAINTINGS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows "The Last Supper" on the monitor.) Bad-luck omens can be seen in Leonardo's "Last Supper"--not only are there 13 people present, but this apostle has spilled salt Judas |
#7968, aired 2019-04-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: This state celebrates July 24 as Pioneer Day, commemorating the passage of pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley Utah |
#7960, aired 2019-03-29 | AD SLOGANS $800: "When it rains, it pours" & it has for this salt brand Morton |
#7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MARCH ON! $1000: A 1930 march against a salt tax made its way to this sea on India's west coast, where marchers scooped up salt the Arabian Sea |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: The Great Salt Lake desert covers about 4,000 square miles in this state Utah |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | FROM THE FRENCH $1600: Now also meaning a nightclub or bar, this type of cafe lends its name to a salad made with salt pork & eggs bistro |
#7897, aired 2019-01-01 | CHARCUTERIE $200: Used to cure meat for sausages, a mix of sodium nitrite & sodium chloride is called pink this seasoning salt |
#7878, aired 2018-12-05 | OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS $400: Ebenezer Baptist Church on Jackson St. NE Atlanta |
#7853, aired 2018-10-31 | GIVE THEM SOME CANDY $200: Requiring 20 min. of pulling, the salt water type of this has been described as a candy & an upper body workout all in one taffy |
#7830, aired 2018-09-28 | MY WIFE $1200: Harriet Amelia Folsom, wife no. 25, according to the Salt Lake Tribune Brigham Young |
#7799, aired 2018-07-05 | RICK & MORTY $800: In the late 1800s, an era of tycoons, Joy Morton acquired a company & became the big man in this home product salt |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Promoting healthy eating & reducing salt consumption, the DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop this hypertension |
#7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $600 (Daily Double): Housing millions of records, the Family History Library in this city attracts genealogists from all over the world Salt Lake City |
#7782, aired 2018-06-12 | I NEED A DRINK $200: It's 5 o'clock somewhere & I'd like this cocktail made with tequila, Cointreau & lime juice; go easy on the salt a margarita |
#7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $800: The light blue patches are shallow water & salt ponds in this Middle Eastern body of water the Dead Sea |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | STOLEN ART RECOVERED $800: In 2006, three years after a theft, a Vienna museum got back its famous Benvenuto Cellini saliera, this item a salt cellar |
#7730, aired 2018-03-30 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $2000: They have a reservation in the Uintah Basin about 150 miles east of Salt Lake City the Utes |
#7728, aired 2018-03-28 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $800: Behind Gandhi is a throng of supporters in the symbolic march to the sea in 1930 to collect this salt |
#7717, aired 2018-03-13 | ACRONYMS MADE REDUNDANT $2000: SALT talks strategic arms limitation talks |
#7689, aired 2018-02-01 | GEOGRAPHY 101 $600: Seaside, Oregon marks the spot where members of the Lewis & Clark expedition boiled sea water to make 28 gallons of this salt |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $600: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The marine iguana is the world's only marine lizard; among its adaptations are special glands that allow it to sneeze out this compound that it ingests too much of when it dives in the ocean salt |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ETYMOLOGY $800: This type of seasoned sausage usually eaten cold & in slices takes its name from the Latin for "salt" salami |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $200: Like the lake it was named for, Salt Lake City originally had this adjective at the front of its name great |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $400: In 1982 the Univ. of Utah Hospital was where the first permanent artificial this organ was implanted heart |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $600: One of the 2 basketball stars from the 1990s to have statues outside the Utah Jazz' home arena Malone (or John Stockton) |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $800: Recalling a great moment in state history, bronze seagulls perch on a monument in this square named for a building Temple Square |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TO THE SALT LAKE CITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Just like the one in the Middle East, this Salt Lake City river empties into a very saline lake the Jordan River |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $400: To make someone already miserable feel even worse is to do this--ouch! add salt to the wound |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $800: Seen here, it's used to make sure animals get their vitamins & minerals a salt lick |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $1200: The first Chinese propellants used sulfur, charcoal & this, potassium nitrate saltpeter |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $1600: That rotten egg smell just south of Coachella, California is probably this body of water the Salton Sea |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | "SALT" $2000: From Italian for "jump into the mouth", it's a specialty with sliced veal & prosciutto saltimbocca |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | "F"OOD FOR THOUGHT $1000: Often confused with salt pork, it runs along the upper regions of a pig & is used to make lard & cracklings fatback |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | WET SCIENCE $1200: A halocline occurs when fresh water sits on top of salt water, the separation caused by the difference in this specific gravity (or density) |
#7640, aired 2017-11-24 | ALL "IZE" ON YOU $1000: Endemic goiter is reduced when you do this to salt iodize |
#7616, aired 2017-10-23 | SALT BAY $400: Bulls Bay near Francis Marion National Forest in this state is a source for Boutique Bay Salt South Carolina |
#7616, aired 2017-10-23 | SALT BAY $800: The Gulf of Cagliari in this Italian island northwest of Sicily has been a source of salt for centuries Sardinia |
#7616, aired 2017-10-23 | SALT BAY $1200: The Redwood City salt evaporation ponds seen here are just some of the many found in this Pacific bay San Francisco Bay |
#7616, aired 2017-10-23 | SALT BAY $2,000 (Daily Double): The term "bay salt", evaporated seawater, is from the Bay of Bourgneuf in this west-central France river valley the Loire |
#7616, aired 2017-10-23 | SALT BAY $2000: Salt from the Bay of Cadiz was used in ancient times to create garum, this type of sauce still vital to S.E. Asian cooking fish sauce |
#7615, aired 2017-10-20 | DYSPHEMISMS $1000: The use of these mines for prison labor could be the reason you go "back to" them in a drudge job the salt mines |
#7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BUTCHER $1200: For Thanksgiving our butcher is offering turkeys that have been "pre-" this, meaning soaked in a salt solution brined |
#7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE BUTCHER $1600: Kosher salt would be better called koshering salt; butchers use it to draw out this, which kosher meat can't have blood |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | U.S. BUILDINGS $400: Cue the choir! In 2007 this Salt Lake City building reopened after a 2-year renovation the Mormon Tabernacle |
#7588, aired 2017-09-13 | EAT IT! $800: For a quick version of this French sauce, mix together mayo, minced garlic, a little salt & lemon juice aioli |
#7585, aired 2017-07-28 | HELLO, SUCKER! $200: At the tequila bar, lick the salt off your hand, drink the shot, then suck on this the lemon (or lime) |
#7568, aired 2017-07-05 | IN THE OLYMPIC CITY $3,000 (Daily Double): Park yourself in this winter Olympic city at This is the Place Heritage Park & Pioneer Park Salt Lake City |
#7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you don't take something too literally, you take it "cum grano salis", or this with a grain of salt |
#7547, aired 2017-06-06 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: Smaller than a dash, it's the amount of salt that can be held between the thumb & the forefinger a pinch |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | HOUSEHOLD VOCABULARY $1000: Excuse my this type of "reach" to get the salt instead of asking you to pass it boardinghouse |
#7538, aired 2017-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC FORMATIONS $800: The remnants of an ancient lake, these U.S. salt flats are often used to set land speed records the Bonneville Salt Flats |
#7537, aired 2017-05-23 | COOKING TERMS $1000: To do this to herring or salmon, you must split, salt & smoke it kipper |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The Jordan River rises in Utah Lake & empties into this one the Great Salt Lake |
#7521, aired 2017-05-01 | DERBY $2000: Meriwether Lewis Clark created the Kentucky Derby to replicate the derby at this "salt"y site in England Epsom Downs |
#7494, aired 2017-03-23 | WHERE IS IT? $800: The Salt River Valley, AKA the Valley of the Sun:
this state capital Phoenix |
#7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EDIBLE EXPRESSIONS $2000: In Matthew 5:13 Jesus calls his disciples this salt of the earth |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | I'M A FOOD "E" $1000: For an appetizer, steam these green soybeans & top them with salt edamame |
#7471, aired 2017-02-20 | ALL IN A DAY'S WORK $200: First thing, this daily trip to the ol' salt mine, averaging about 30 minutes each way in the L.A. area a commute |
#7469, aired 2017-02-16 | NUTRITION $400: The World Health Organization suggests limiting this to no more than a teaspoon a day & using the iodized type salt |
#7459, aired 2017-02-02 | THIS, OR THAT $800: A seasoning, or a term for an old sailor, matey salt |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | MISSING LINKS $800: Kosher ____ of the earth salt |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | STATE CAPITAL EVENTS $400: In March 2016 you could catch an Easter concert by this group live in Salt Lake City or on closed-circuit simulcast the Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
#7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALLITERATION $800: Formed from the evaporation of ocean water, it's 98% sodium chloride & popular with chefs sea salt |
#7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Halite is the naturally occurring form of this mineral sodium chloride (or salt) |
#7369, aired 2016-09-29 | CITY HALL $200: In this Western state capital, the City Hall went up in 1894 & was controversial because it rivaled the Temple Salt Lake City |
#7369, aired 2016-09-29 | YOU CAN'T FIGHT $400: His first major nonviolent satyagraha action was protesting salt taxes imposed by the British Gandhi |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | VEGAS-SET TV SHOWS $2000: The cast of "The Surreal Life: Fame Games" included Pepa (but hold the salt), brigitte Nielsen & this "Mini-Me" actor (Verne) Troyer |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | 4-LETTER ENTERTAINMENT $2000: The part was written for a man, but Angelina Jolie was cast as the title CIA agent on the run in this 2010 film Salt |
#7343, aired 2016-07-13 | TEQUILA $200: Triple sec, lime juice, tequila & salt on the rim gives you this fiesta in a glass a margarita |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | SOME HARSH WORDS FOR YOU $1600: For the cynical part of you: basic taste sensations include sour, sweet, salt & this one bitter |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | RELIGIOUS LANDMARKS $400: Salt Lake City structure where you'll find an 11,000-pipe organ Tabernacle |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City, MO.) Containing a mixture of herbs & spices including salt, garlic & paprika, it's the two-word term for what goes on the ribs first dry rub |
#7313, aired 2016-06-01 | LEFTOVERS $800: Feta is also called pickled cheese, as it is cured & stored in this, a strong solution of water & salt used to preserve food brine |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | U.S. AIRPORT CODES $400: SLC serves this state capital Salt Lake City |
#7300, aired 2016-05-13 | OTHER GREAT LAKES $600: In Utah it receives the Jordan & Weber Rivers the Great Salt Lake |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE $400: In area, it's the largest inland saline body of water in North America the Great Salt Lake |
#7279, aired 2016-04-14 | 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR NOVELS $800: Augustus Gloop &
Veruca Salt Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | NARROW BODIES OF WATER $400: This strait prevents the sea it connects to from becoming a shrinking salt lake the Strait of Gibraltar |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | WHAT'S YOUR HURRY? $800: This man has a very good reason to be leavin' town fast in Genesis 19--his wife ends up a salt pillar of the community Lot |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | THE 1970s $1000: These 2 agreements signed by the U.S. & the USSR in 1972 & 1979 sought to curtail missiles armed with nuclear warheads the SALT agreements |
#7241, aired 2016-02-22 | LET'S HAVE DESERT $1600: This surface for speed demons is about 70 square miles on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert Bonneville Salt Flats |
#7222, aired 2016-01-26 | THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL $400: Salt Lake City,
Sacramento,
Salem Salem |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | TRUCKING $600: In the 1920s the Fruehauf Company introduced the refrigerated trailer using ice & this compound salt |
#7184, aired 2015-12-03 | CHEMISTRY $1200: The name of this group of elements that includes fluorine means "salt-producing" halogens |
#7155, aired 2015-10-23 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This remnant of Lake Bonneville is the second-largest lake by surface area entirely within the United States the Great Salt Lake |
#7155, aired 2015-10-23 | RHYME TIME $800: A safe place to store your sodium chloride a salt vault |
#7134, aired 2015-09-24 | AMERICAN LAKES $400: This type of shrimp named for its salty habitat has been called the most numerous inhabitant of the Great Salt Lake brine shrimp |
#7122, aired 2015-07-28 | A FISH IS STILL A FISH $200: Though guppies are freshwater fish, add this to their tank to help them build up a protective slime coat salt |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | BIBLE BELTS $800: In Genesis 19, this man's daughters ply him with wine; in their defense, they'd just seen mom morph into a salt lick Lot |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | "SALT" & "PEPPER" $400: "Back to" these means returning to work, whether you labor underground or not the salt mines |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | "SALT" & "PEPPER" $800: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus called his listeners this, meaning they were the best of society the salt of the earth |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | "SALT" & "PEPPER" $1200: A 1978 film featured Peter Frampton as Billy Shears & Billy Preston as this "military" title character Sgt. Pepper |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | GET PICKLED $200: Pickling brine is basically this sour liquid plus water & salt vinegar |
#7081, aired 2015-06-01 | 4-LETTER SCIENCE $2000: Specifically, it's any compound other than water formed by the reaction of an acid & a base salt |
#7071, aired 2015-05-18 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates by mixing in a beaker.) When vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, water & table salt are mixed with a starch, a chemical reaction occurs; the solution turns purple, indicating this element was present in the salt iodine |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | U.S. HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Utah celebrates the Days of '47 on July 24, the day on which Brigham Young reached this valley the Salt Lake Valley |
#7059, aired 2015-04-30 | ADVERTISING ICONS $3,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, a brainstorming session produced the little girl under an umbrella for this brand Morton's salt |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | 4-LETTER U.S. CITIES $2000: This neighbor of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad Orem |
#7030, aired 2015-03-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: September's World of Speed event at this Utah site features the world's fastest wheel-driven cars Bonneville Salt Flats |
#7017, aired 2015-03-03 | STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS $1000: Zions Bancorporation Salt Lake City |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $400: One of the bodies of salt water that cover the earth a sea |
#6990, aired 2015-01-23 | THE KIDS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT $2,000 (Daily Double): "Veruca Salt, the little brute, has just gone down the garbage chute", wrote this author (Roald) Dahl |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $400: As Turkey's Lake Van is this kind of lake, only one kind of fish lives in it; surprisingly, it's quite edible a salt lake (salt water accepted) |
#6978, aired 2015-01-07 | BIOLOGY $800: A halophyte is defined as a plant that thrives in soil with high levels of this salt |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | "CITY" CITIES $400: This state capital is about 10 miles southeast of a "Great" body of water Salt Lake City |
#6929, aired 2014-10-30 | LEGO ART $1200: Feel the salt spray of "Breaking Wave" by Hokusai, a 19th-century artist in this country Japan |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | "IN" THE DICTIONARY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) When salt & pepper are added to water & shaken, the salt seemingly disappears, while the pepper remains, because pepper is this 9-letter word in water insoluble |
#6900, aired 2014-09-19 | YOU GOT THE MINE, I GOT THE SHAFT $2000: The chapel of St. Anthony within the Wieliczka Salt Mine in this country held its first mass for miners in 1698 Poland |
#6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This light brown candy may take its name from the Arabic kurat al milh, meaning "ball of sweet salt" caramel |
#6896, aired 2014-09-15 | FLAT THINGS $400: Alkali flats, like the ones named for Mr. Bonneville, have very high concentrations of this, NaCl sodium chloride (salt) |
#6893, aired 2014-07-30 | WHAT DO YOU WANT ON YOUR PIZZA? $1000: The "true" type of this small, silvery & salt-cured fish comes only from the Mediterranean & nearby waters anchovy |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1,400 (Daily Double): Its Family History Library on NW Temple St. has over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records Salt Lake City |
#6878, aired 2014-07-09 | THE WEST $800: This state capital came into being in one day, on April 22, 1889, when 50,000 swarmed onto 2 million acres Oklahoma City |
#6866, aired 2014-06-23 | YOUR IDIOMS CONFUSE ME $400: It's the seasoning you take along with a statement you're skeptical of a pinch of salt (or a grain of salt) |
#6838, aired 2014-05-14 | THE CITY $600: When taking "a trip to" this Utah city, be sure to stop by its tabernacle, built before Salt Lake City's Bountiful |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $800: 1987:
This female trio pushed onto the charts with "Push It" Salt-N-Pepa |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | SAUCES $800: Tabasco sauce has been made on this Louisiana salt island since the 1860s Avery Island |
#6814, aired 2014-04-10 | AN ECO-CATEGORY $800: If your garden soil lacks magnesium, a green way to add it is to use magnesium sulfate, aka this salt named for a British town Epsom salt |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | FOOD LABELING $400: The "% daily value" label for this element is based on a recommended maximum of 2,400 milligrams a day sodium |
#6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) With Missouri as its starting point, the Great Plains, the Rockies & the present state capitals of Salt Lake City, Carson City & Sacramento were on the route of this 19th century service the Pony Express |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | STANDARD TIME DIFFERENCES $800: Noon. Lunchtime in NYC, but out West, only this good time for a snack in Salt Lake City 10:00 a.m. |
#6735, aired 2013-12-20 | IT'S SNOWING $1600: Salt Lake City Olympic mascots included Powder, a snowshoe one of these critters rabbit (or hare) |
#6734, aired 2013-12-19 | MAP QUEST $600: Antelope Island, oddly home to a herd of wild buffalo,
is the largest island
in this U.S. body of water Great Salt Lake |
#6730, aired 2013-12-13 | MARSH MADNESS $2000: New England's 20,000-acre Great Marsh is this type of marsh whose name reflects its irrigation by seawater a salt marsh |
#6727, aired 2013-12-10 | CONTROL $800: In terms of arms-control negotiations between the U.S. & the USSR, SALT was succeeded by this 5-letter acronym START |
#6714, aired 2013-11-21 | BROADWAY SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Missionaries Elder Cunningham & Elder Price, from Salt Lake City The Book of Mormon |
#6694, aired 2013-10-24 | FOODIE CALL $200: Foodies swear by the Himalayan pink type of this seasoning, said to be mined from the Himalayan foothills salt |
#6681, aired 2013-10-07 | LESS OF THE CELEB TO LOVE $1600: Adding more walking & losing sugar, salt & white flour helped this "Roger & Me" documentarian lose 70 pounds (Michael) Moore |
#6680, aired 2013-10-04 | 1967 $2,000 (Daily Double): In January LBJ proposed these "talks" to end the costly U.S.-Soviet weapons race SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) |
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 | WE PROTEST! $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A 1930 march against Britain's salt tax spanning 240 miles from an ashram at Sabarmati to the town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea was a nonviolent protest led by this man Gandhi |
#6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $1200: Called the Salt Sea in the Bible, this body of water lies in a deep fault called the Ghor the Dead Sea |
#6636, aired 2013-06-24 | D.I.Y. $400: To clean red wine out of a carpet, sprinkle on this common condiment for 15 minutes, then rinse with soap vinegar (or salt) |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM $800: This Salt Lake City-based online retailer features Mobile O, Club O Rewards & O.biz Overstock.com |
#6596, aired 2013-04-29 | A DISH BEST SERVED COLD $600: Scandinavian is a salt-cured type of this, aka smoked salmon lox |
#6572, aired 2013-03-26 | COMPACTS $1000: The U.S. & the Soviet Union signed treaties called SALT I & SALT II, the "SA" in SALT standing for these strategic arms |
#6569, aired 2013-03-21 | SOMEONE'S IN THE KITCHEN $1000: Carol Bernick created what became this brand as a salt-free seasoning blend Mrs. Dash |
#6563, aired 2013-03-13 | REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL $800: From Beehive House, built in the 1850s--somehow I expected it to be round Salt Lake City |
#6554, aired 2013-02-28 | CHEW, CHEW $800: It's said an ocean wave drenched a candy stand on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, giving rise to this chewy confection salt water taffy |
#6544, aired 2013-02-14 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $1000: Chechen Island--this salt lake the Caspian |
#6542, aired 2013-02-12 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $1600: The winter Olympic games were hosted by this U.S. city in February 2002 Salt Lake City |
#6535, aired 2013-02-01 | IT'S ELEMENTAL! $800: To cut down on salt in your diet, you need to cut down on this element sodium |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Evelyn Salt &
Lara Croft Angelina Jolie |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Orange you glad to know this city in Central New York supplied most of the salt needs of the U.S. until 1870 Syracuse |
#6494, aired 2012-12-06 | STAY AWAY FROM MEAT $1000: The Food Network says kosher salt is optional for a 1 lb. serving of this, Japanese for green soybeans edamame |
#6485, aired 2012-11-23 | USING YOUR JEOP-PS $600: (Sarah's voice reads the clue in a monotone fashion.) You have arrived at 50 West North Temple St. in Salt Lake City, home to this 3-word singing group the Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
#6484, aired 2012-11-22 | YOU'VE GOT MALI $2000: Caravans carry salt from Taoudenni to this fabled trading city to be exchanged for other goods Timbuktu |
#6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: The old Mormon town of St. Thomas, Nev. lies beneath this lake, & when the water is low, remnants can still be seen Lake Mead |
#6465, aired 2012-10-26 | GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES $800: State capital that's "the Mormon Metropolis" Salt Lake City |
#6442, aired 2012-09-25 | PHOENIX $400: The Salt River Valley, home to Phoenix as well as Mesa & Tempe, is nicknamed "The Valley of" this the Sun |
#6428, aired 2012-07-25 | FLORA OF CENTRAL AMERICA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica.) Mangroves are widely used in coastal reclamation; with their tolerance of salt water & arching roots that trap soil, they're ideal for helping shoreline resist this process, from Latin for "to gnaw" erosion |
#6409, aired 2012-06-28 | THIS & THAT $400: In 1935 Malcolm Campbell became the first man to drive over 300 mph on these Utah salt flats Bonneville flats |
#6349, aired 2012-04-05 | TIME ZONE CITIES $400: Salt Lake City, Utah Mountain Time Zone |
#6346, aired 2012-04-02 | HOME $400: One wife at a time stayed with him at Beehive House in Salt Lake City; many others lived next door at Lion's House Brigham Young |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $2000: This is the place Heritage Park Salt Lake City |
#6333, aired 2012-03-14 | LOOK OUT BELOW $200: A railroad causeway cuts this Utah lake in half, causing red algae to grow on one side & green algae on the other side the Great Salt Lake |
#6299, aired 2012-01-26 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea the Dead Sea |
#6270, aired 2011-12-16 | LAKE CITY $2000: Baku, Azerbaijan (a salt lake that's called a sea) the Caspian |
#6267, aired 2011-12-13 | MOVIE STAR FILMOGRAPHIES $1600: "A Mighty Heart" &
"Salt" (Angelina) Jolie |
#6261, aired 2011-12-05 | REMEMBER LAST DECEMBER? $1600: The Senate ratified an updated arms control treaty with Russia known as "New" this START |
#6242, aired 2011-11-08 | TURTLES & TORTOISES $400: As the sea turtle's kidneys can't handle all of this it absorbs from its environment, a gland has evolved to excrete it salt |
#6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GOOGLE ME THIS! $800: ...sports league & you'll find information on its teams, like Real Salt Lake & D.C. United Major League Soccer |
#6214, aired 2011-09-29 | EAT-YMOLOGY $1000: Originally traded as solid cakes, after granulation this substance was called sakkara, meaning grit or gravel sugar |
#6208, aired 2011-09-21 | FILL IN THE TOP 40 TITLE $600: Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue:
"Whatta ____" Man |
#6194, aired 2011-07-14 | "SO" WHAT! $1000: It's the 2-word chemical name for table salt; pass it around! sodium chloride |
#6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SWEET SPOTS $2000: Banana & teaberry are among more than 30 flavors of this old-fashioned sweet sold at Shriver's in Ocean City, New Jersey salt water taffy |
#6191, aired 2011-07-11 | KIDNAPPED $800: This 14-year-old was taken from her Salt Lake City home in June 2002 & found walking down a street 9 months later Elizabeth Smart |
#6188, aired 2011-07-06 | IT'S A SCIENTIFIC FACT $2000: Humans can drink sea water once it has been desalinated, meaning this has been removed salt |
#6150, aired 2011-05-13 | DETENTE-TION $800: This Detente treaty that aimed to curb nukes sounds like something you could add to your popcorn the SALT Treaty |
#6144, aired 2011-05-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet the Salt Lake |
#6141, aired 2011-05-02 | CORNERSTONES $400: As president of the Mormon church, he laid one of the cornerstones for the Salt Lake temple in 1853 Brigham Young |
#6107, aired 2011-03-15 | SALT $400: This element, symbol I, is added to table salt as a dietary supplement iodine |
#6107, aired 2011-03-15 | SALT $800: On average, this, which the ancient mariner saw lots of, is about 3% salt; a gallon contains about a quarter pound ocean water (sea water accepted) |
#6107, aired 2011-03-15 | SALT $1200: The Via Salaria, over which salt was carried from salt beds in Ostia, is one of the oldest roads in this country Italy |
#6107, aired 2011-03-15 | SALT $1600: "Architectural" term for an underground repository of salt with a rounded shape a salt dome |
#6107, aired 2011-03-15 | SALT $2000: Salt ranks at 2 1/2 --midway between gypsum & calcite-- on this scale that measures hardness the Mohs scale |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | FOOD & DRINK $800: In 2010 Wendy's introduced natural-cut these with the skins on, sprinkled with sea salt (french) fries |
#6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $5,000 (Daily Double): Meaning to be skeptical, to take something "with" this comes from an old Roman recipe for a poison antidote a grain of salt |
#6078, aired 2011-02-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS $800: It was in Emigration Canyon near Salt Lake City in 1847 that he told his followers, "This is the place" Brigham Young |
#6063, aired 2011-01-12 | WORDS BEFORE BALL $1600: As in ammonia, this type of compound reacts with an acid to form a salt a base |
#6054, aired 2010-12-30 | EGGS-QUISITE $2000: Whisk sugar, Marsala wine, egg yolks & salt until thick & creamy to make this custard-y Italian dessert zabaglione |
#6045, aired 2010-12-17 | LIQUIDS $800: It precedes "shrimp" in the name of a shrimp species that lives in the Great Salt Lake brine |
#6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LIVED BY THE SEA $400: It's no wonder Lot's wife was changed into a pillar of salt; she & Lot lived by this "sea" that's really a lake the Dead Sea |
#6041, aired 2010-12-13 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: Temple Square & the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Salt Lake City |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | AUSTRIAN HISTORY $400: For centuries the nearby Hallein mines made this city the center of regional salt trade Salzburg |
#6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE FRONTIER STOREKEEPER $400: Got plenty of sugar & this other essential seasoning to make country-cured ham salt |
#6035, aired 2010-12-03 | IN THE "O" ZONE $400: The seat of Weber county, this city is east of the Great Salt Lake Ogden |
#6034, aired 2010-12-02 | "LAX" $600: This Swedish specialty is raw salmon cured in a salt-sugar-dill mixture gravlax |
#6027, aired 2010-11-23 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shakes things up.) Adding rice to a saltshaker does two things: the rice knocks apart salt lumps during shaking, & this carbohydrate of the rice, C6H10O5, absorbs moisture, so the salt won't clump starch |
#6018, aired 2010-11-10 | LADY ANTEBELLUM $600: Women knew how to salt; this animal was the main source of meat, with slaves getting about 3 pounds a week the pig (pork accepted) |
#6010, aired 2010-10-29 | "BON" APPETIT $800: These salt flats are in Tooele county, Utah Bonneville Salt Flats |
#6009, aired 2010-10-28 | U.S. ISLANDS $2000: In 1843 John C. Fremont & Kit Carson visited what's now Fremont Island in this large body of water the Great Salt Lake |
#5986, aired 2010-09-27 | RECENT MOVIES $600: This title spy's first name was Edwin when Tom Cruise had the role originally; a casting change made it Evelyn Salt |
#5980, aired 2010-09-17 | YANKEE MAGAZINE $400: A 1983 article on this yankee-style soup says long ago it was made with salt pork, not clams chowder |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $400: Asparagus plants can tolerate this table condiment better than most, so it's sometimes used in beds for weed control salt |
#5936, aired 2010-06-07 | THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU'D FIND $400: ...the Wieliczka Salt Mine Poland |
#5932, aired 2010-06-01 | FOOD SCIENCE $200: To combat hypothyroidism, iodine was first added in the 1920s to this common seasoning salt |
#5931, aired 2010-05-31 | OR AN "AUDI" $1200: One of these in the LDS conference center in Salt Lake City seats 21,000 auditorium |
#5927, aired 2010-05-25 | DRINK VARIATIONS $600: If you don't put the salt into a salty dog, you've got the cocktail with this other canine name a greyhound |
#5927, aired 2010-05-25 | ELEMENTAL LATIN $2,000 (Daily Double): Natrium sodium |
#5921, aired 2010-05-17 | CHEMISTRY $1200: Bittern, a solution rich in bromines, is what's left after this is crystallized from seawater salt |
#5903, aired 2010-04-21 | X MARKS THE SPOT $2,000 (Daily Double): This city on the Salt River sits on the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert Phoenix |
#5888, aired 2010-03-31 | SWEET WORD OF YOUTH $600: It can mean "not experienced" or "without salt & pepper" unseasoned |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $400: Genesis 19 says that this man's wife "looked back from behind"... and she became a pillar of salt" Lot |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $800: One reason for building this waterway was to transport salt from deposits in Syracuse to the coast the Erie Canal |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $1200: Many chefs prefer this coarse-grained salt named for the fact that it was originally used to meet Jewish dietary rules kosher salt |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $1600: Bars of salt called amoles were once a basic currency of this country formerly known as Abyssinia Ethiopia |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | PASS THE SALT $2000: Popular with racers, they cover about 100 square miles in Utah, & in some places the salt is 6 feet thick Bonneville Salt Flats |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BARTENDING $400: Use the kosher type of this, not iodized, to rim glasses salt |
#5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BOND, ATOMIC BOND $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When sodium donates an electron to chlorine, it creates this type of stable bond that holds salt molecules together; the bond shares its name with an order of architecture an ionic bond |
#5868, aired 2010-03-03 | U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS $200: Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake Utah |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | WEIRD SCIENCE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates a simple science experiment.) Oops--our salt & pepper got mixed together; if I take a plastic spoon & rub it on wool, it picks up electrons & gets this kind of electrostatic charge, attracting the lighter pepper flakes a negative charge |
#5851, aired 2010-02-08 | GENERAL SCIENCE $1600: This 4-letter neutral compound is produced by the reaction of an acid & a base a salt |
#5822, aired 2009-12-29 | YOU'RE ALL WET $600: 3 streams, the Jordan, Bear & Weber, flow in, but there are no streams that empty this large U.S. lake the Great Salt Lake |
#5798, aired 2009-11-25 | AFRICAN LAKES $4,000 (Daily Double): Lake Shepard in this West African nation's Maryland County is unusual in that it is part freshwater, part salt water Liberia |
#5772, aired 2009-10-20 | POETRY TIME $1600: Shelley called time an "Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years... brackish with the salt of human" these tears |
#5770, aired 2009-10-16 | TASTES OF TOKYO $1600: Unagi is the freshwater type; anago is the salt-water variety, like the conger an eel |
#5766, aired 2009-10-12 | ORGAN RECITAL $400: The wood for the organ in this Salt Lake City edifice came from Utah's Parowan Mountains the Mormon Tabernacle |
#5760, aired 2009-10-02 | THE SUPREMES $400: It's the largest lake in Utah the Great Salt Lake |
#5740, aired 2009-07-17 | TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS $800: You can use a piece of string to pick up an ice cube if you first sprinkle the ice with this stuff, sodium chloride salt |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STUFF $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a sumo training stable in Tokyo, Japan.) Sumo wrestlers scatter this compound to purify the ring prior to each match salt |
#5715, aired 2009-06-12 | THE MIRACLE OF VINEGAR $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gets her polish on.) Taco sauce will remove the tarnish from a penny because of two ingredients--vinegar & the chloride ions from this compound table salt |
#5713, aired 2009-06-10 | TAILGATE CUISINE $800: Recipes vary for a Georgia Dawgs tailgate favorite, boiled these; the shells of some absorb more salt than others peanuts |
#5709, aired 2009-06-04 | NOT HARD AT ALL $200: Soft water is made soft by adding ions of this element that's abundant in seawater sodium |
#5695, aired 2009-05-15 | MISSING WORDS $200: If you're a castaway in dire need of salt, put seawater in a bowl and wait for the water to do this evaporate |
#5684, aired 2009-04-30 | AD WEAR $1,300 (Daily Double): The girl on this brand's label wears a yellow dress & stands under an umbrella Morton's Salt |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | AMERICANA $800: This capital's Frontier Days celebration has been held every year since 1897 Cheyenne, Wyoming |
#5664, aired 2009-04-02 | SU-SU-SUSHI-O $1000: Anago is the salt water type of this fish; unagi is the fresh water eel |
#5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE JOHN C. FREMONT EXPERIENCE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a map on the monitor.) The Great Salt Lake, the Humboldt River & Death Valley are all part of a desert region of internal drainage Fremont called the Great this the Great Basin |
#5644, aired 2009-03-05 | I'M IN SUCH A STATE! $600: The fact that some vehicles have gone more than 600 mph on its Bonneville Salt Flats amazes me Utah |
#5643, aired 2009-03-04 | "S"CIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a couple of pours.)
Like sand fitting into the spaces left by marbles, salt fills in the spaces between water molecules; the arrangement between two such substances is called this a solution |
#5643, aired 2009-03-04 | THE SMELL OF THE CROWD $1200: This pacifist led 100s on a 240-mile march to the sea, making salt from seawater to protest the salt acts Gandhi |
#5628, aired 2009-02-11 | ODDPODGE $800: In 408 A.D. the Visigoths attacked Rome & demanded 3,000 pounds of this spice, not salt, as part of the city's ransom pepper |
#5617, aired 2009-01-27 | A SALT $400: A block of salt given to cattle, or encrustations of salt animals feed on naturally a salt lick |
#5617, aired 2009-01-27 | A SALT $800: Found in mineral waters, these 5-letter salts are named for the English town where they were first prepared Epsom |
#5617, aired 2009-01-27 | A SALT $1200: In the typical ionic bonding found in table salt, sodium gives up one of these to chlorine electrons |
#5617, aired 2009-01-27 | A SALT $1,500 (Daily Double): Used in fireworks & gunpowder, potassium nitrate gets this other name from the Latin for "rock" saltpeter |
#5617, aired 2009-01-27 | A SALT $1600: As early as 1727 Johann Schulze discovered the light sensitivity of salts of this element but no images were made silver |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | POTENT POTABLES $400: A Salty Dog is made with gin or vodka & this tart juice (the salt frosts the rim of the glass) grapefruit |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | AN ELEMENT-AL CATEGORY $400: In combination with chlorine, this element makes up about 80% of the dissolved constituents of seawater sodium |
#5594, aired 2008-12-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Spoiled little Willy Wonka girl who relocates to Utah's capital Veruca Salt Lake City |
#5588, aired 2008-12-17 | MEET YOU IN THE MIDDLE $200: Iodized
____
lick salt |
#5575, aired 2008-11-28 | PRETZEL LOGIC $400: By definition, a "baldie" is a pretzel without this salt |
#5568, aired 2008-11-19 | A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO $1000: An old forest farmhouse in Salt Lake City is supposedly haunted by Ann Eliza Webb, this man's 19th wife Brigham Young |
#5567, aired 2008-11-18 | MSAs $800: Ogden & this city grew almost 25% between 1990 & 2000 Salt Lake City |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | POTTY MOUTH! $600: An estuary is where the salt & fresh types of this are mixed water |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Fur trader James Bridger was the first non-native to visit this saline lake the Great Salt Lake |
#5525, aired 2008-09-19 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: For centuries, this Austrian city, whose name means "castle of salt", was the center of Europe's salt trade Salzburg |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | MISCELLANY $400: Many schnauzers have coats described as looking like this pair of seasonings salt & pepper |
#5509, aired 2008-07-17 | COOKING $600: Hungarian goulash recipes measure salt & pepper in teaspoons or tablespoons, but this spice in cups paprika |
#5504, aired 2008-07-10 | PHRASES IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $800: Matthew 5:13 says that "ye are" this mineral phrase, meaning representative of the best of society salt of the earth |
#5500, aired 2008-07-04 | SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a chemical reaction.) A chemical reaction between food coloring & bleach, which contains this chemical, NaClO3, turns the colored liquid into a colorless compound sodium chlorate |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew puts salt & pepper in beakers of water.) The molecular structure of salt allows it to dissolve in water; the pepper will only disperse, creating this type of mixture, from the Latin for "hung up" a suspension |
#5488, aired 2008-06-18 | HOUSES OF THE HOLY $400: The Mormon Tabernacle Salt Lake City |
#5477, aired 2008-06-03 | THE "IZ" HAVE IT $1200: In countries where this type of salt is used, goiter virtually disappears iodized |
#5475, aired 2008-05-30 | CHEMISTRY $2000: Bromine & chlorine are in a group of elements better known by this name, from the Greek for "salt-forming" halogens |
#5464, aired 2008-05-15 | IT'S AN OLYMPIC YEAR $1600: It was the most recent year when the Olympics were held in the U.S. 2002 |
#5455, aired 2008-05-02 | WORD ORIGINS $400: Lettuce tell you the term "salad" comes from the French salade, meaning with this seasoning salt |
#5433, aired 2008-04-02 | MONOPOLY $600: In 1930 this man led a march to the sea to collect salt in protest of a monopoly by the govt. of India Gandhi |
#5416, aired 2008-03-10 | PASS THE CHOCOLATE $800: Fran's Chocolates of Seattle makes delectable caramels topped with the gray sea type of this salt |
#5395, aired 2008-02-08 | BORN & DIED $400: A religious leader born June 1, 1801 in Whitingham, Vermont; died Aug. 29, 1877 in Salt Lake City Brigham Young |
#5390, aired 2008-02-01 | THE DEEP BLUE SEA $600: Astrakhan, Russia is found nearest the shores of this large sea (which is really a salt lake) the Caspian Sea |
#5376, aired 2008-01-14 | WE MEAN BISMUTH $400: Based on a salt of bismuth, a pink liquid used to treat upset stomachs has had this name since 1919 Pepto-Bismol |
#5366, aired 2007-12-31 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: As a verb, it means to squeeze, like a baby's cheek; as a noun, a small quantity, like salt pinch |
#5361, aired 2007-12-24 | LET'S "ROCK"! $800: Naturally occurring sodium chloride, also known as halite rock salt |
#5333, aired 2007-11-14 | HEALTH MATTERS $200: To control high blood pressure, you should exercise, eat right & reduce this seasoning in your diet salt |
#5320, aired 2007-10-26 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: All 5 elements of the salt-producing halogen group end in these 3 letters (one element purifies drinking water) -I-N-E |
#5316, aired 2007-10-22 | "PRO" NOUNS $600: Popularly served with melon, it's paper-thin slices of ham that have been salt-cured & air-dried prosciutto |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 state capitals with "City" in their names that lie west of the Rocky Mountains Salt Lake City, Utah & Carson City, Nevada |
#5307, aired 2007-10-09 | NOT A VERB $800: Salt,
pepper,
sage sage |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | POLITICIANS $1000: This former Massachusetts governor was CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Mitt Romney |
#5279, aired 2007-07-19 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: While fleeing the destruction of Sodom, Lot's wife "looked back from behind him, and she became" this a pillar of salt |
#5275, aired 2007-07-13 | PLEISTOCENE STEALER $1000: Utah's Great Salt Lake is a remnant of this much larger Pleistocene lake that lent its name to some salt flats Bonneville |
#5275, aired 2007-07-13 | POP CULTURE: 1999 $2000: 8 years after their farewell concert, this duo reunited for a New Year's Eve show--sort of a "Girls Night Out" Naomi & Wynonna Judd |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | WINE $200: To quickly chill a bottle, add the rock type of this to ice & water, lowering the freezing point salt |
#5249, aired 2007-06-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City tabernacle |
#5249, aired 2007-06-07 | DUDE-ERONOMY $800: Grab your surfboard, rad boy! In Deuteronomy, this sea is referred to as the "salt sea" Dead Sea |
#5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: A sodium chloride auction a salt sale |
#5217, aired 2007-04-24 | OGDEN $400: Ogden is very close to this, the largest U.S. body of water between the Great Lakes and the Pacific the Great Salt Lake |
#5185, aired 2007-03-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Besh-ba-gowah Pueblo in Phoenix, AZ.) The people who built these structures in Arizona are known to us as Salado, the Spanish word for this nearby river Salt |
#5183, aired 2007-03-07 | KEEP THE FAITH $200: Since 1847 this religion has been based in Salt Lake City, Utah the Mormons |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | TAKE A WOK ON THE WILD SIDE $600: Despite their name, these pungent Chinese eggs are preserved in lime, ash & salt underground for about 100 days hundred-year-old eggs (or thousand-year-old eggs) |
#5176, aired 2007-02-26 | HERE'S WALDO $400: Named after the screenwriter of "Midnight Cowboy", the Waldo Salt award is given by this Park City, Utah film fest Sundance |
#5171, aired 2007-02-19 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: Genesis calls it "the salt sea" perhaps because its salinity reaches 4 times that of ocean water the Dead Sea |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | U.S.A. $200: The ski resorts Alta & Snowbird are within 30 miles of this capital of Utah Salt Lake City |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS $400: Newspaper in Tampa, Salt Lake City & Chicago share this name "Tribune" |
#5124, aired 2006-12-14 | INAPPROPRIATE TEAM NAMES $400: This NBA team name worked for New Orleans; they should now consider calling themselves the "Salt Lakers" Utah Jazz |
#5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ONE "L" $1200: A worthy, honest person is called this "of the earth" salt |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | HOW ABOUT A COCKTAIL? $1600: Beef bouillon & vodka are mixed together with salt & pepper to form this "beastly" cocktail a bullshot |
#5089, aired 2006-10-26 | HOW VERY PROPER $400: At a dinner party, this seasoning may be served in its own little "cellar", with an eensy-weensy spoon salt |
#5055, aired 2006-07-28 | THAT'S POLITICS $800: This man seen here holds the signed copy of SALT II, & gets biz-zay with Jimmy Carter Brezhnev |
#5043, aired 2006-07-12 | JUST ONE WORD... PLASTICS $400: The "V" in PVC, it's energy-efficient because it's made more of salt than petroleum vinyl |
#4988, aired 2006-04-26 | U.S. ISLANDS $800: Some islands in this Utah lake are waterfowl breeding grounds; Antelope Island is used for grazing cattle the Great Salt Lake |
#4977, aired 2006-04-11 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $400: This cord can be impregnated with inorganic salt solutions & dried prior to molding into candles the wick |
#4968, aired 2006-03-29 | MUSIC/TELEVISION $1600: Going from Salt-N-Pepa to Dr. Pepa, the musician was in the house counseling Janice Dickinson on this VH1 reality show The Surreal Life |
#4967, aired 2006-03-28 | CHEMISTRY $800: Bittern, a source of bromides & iodides, is the solution left after this has been crystallized from seawater salt |
#4943, aired 2006-02-22 | A SIDE OF BACON $200: This method of preserving bacon can be done by either the salt method or the smoke method curing |
#4943, aired 2006-02-22 | OUT WEST $500 (Daily Double): It's the USA's largest lake west of the Rockies the Great Salt Lake |
#4936, aired 2006-02-13 | HOW DO YOU... $400: Churn a sweet dairy mix in a container that's surrounded by frozen water & salt make ice cream |
#4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $1200: This 19th c. army officer initially named the Great Salt Lake for himself, but had to settle for some salt flats Bonneville |
#4923, aired 2006-01-25 | BOOZE $800: If you don't add the salt to a salty dog, you have this other "canine" cocktail a greyhound |
#4912, aired 2006-01-10 | FORMULA 1 $800: It's the common "table" substance whose formula is NaCl salt |
#4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $400: One of the world's largest pipe organs is found in the tabernacle in this state capital Salt Lake City |
#4879, aired 2005-11-24 | FOLK ETYMOLOGY $400: Formed by folk etymology from an Old French word, it's not a basement but a small holder for salt a cellar |
#4865, aired 2005-11-04 | GOVERNMENT WORK $800: As this type of "examiner", you'll determine if that combination scalpel & salt shaker is really a new invention a patent examiner |
#4854, aired 2005-10-20 | CHEESE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds a cylinder of cheese in Wisconsin.) Cheese is formed, warmed, & then preserved in this salt water solution; the salt flavors the cheese & protects its surface brine |
#4849, aired 2005-10-13 | LAKES & RIVERS $2000: This salt lake on the border of Asia & Europe is more than 4 times the size of Lake Superior the Caspian Sea |
#4842, aired 2005-10-04 | IT'S A "SIN" $1200: Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this Basin |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | DO YOU HAVE THE MUNCHIES? $1000: Yum! It's removed from a fish, pressed through a screen to remove membranes, put in brine, then packed with salt in a tin caviar |
#4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR $1,000 (Daily Double): Any old salt could tell you they're the 2 most abundant elements dissolved in seawater sodium & chlorine |
#4822, aired 2005-07-19 | "F" STOP $1000: Meat from the upper part of a side of pork, usually cured by salt fatback |
#4820, aired 2005-07-15 | AM I BLUE? $800: Virginia's Blue Law of the 1620s said that if you missed church on Sunday the penalty was a pound of this tobacco |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | SALT $200: In 1930 this Indian pacifist marched 200 miles to the sea to protest Britain's salt tax Gandhi |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | SALT $400: In 1914 the little girl with the umbrella began appearing on this company's salt packages Morton's |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | SALT $600: Throwing salt into the center of the ring to purify it is part of the ritual of this sport sumo wrestling |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | SALT $900 (Daily Double): In Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", an overturned salt cellar lies in front of him Judas |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | SALT $1000: Opened in 1825, it was known as the "ditch that salt built" because its main cargo was salt from Syracuse, N.Y. the Erie Canal |
#4785, aired 2005-05-27 | HAVE SOME LEFTOVERS! $400: The label on our leftover caviar says "malossol", which means it was prepared with just a little of this seasoning salt |
#4778, aired 2005-05-18 | CHEMISTRY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from beside a mummy from Cairo, Egypt.) To remove all the moisture from a body, natron, a variety of this, was applied both inside & outside the corpse salt |
#4754, aired 2005-04-14 | MOUSE PADS $1200: An endangered California mouse is named for the salt type of this damp area a marsh |
#4744, aired 2005-03-31 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The Salt Lake Valley was once a part of the basin of this ancient lake Lake Bonneville |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | "P" AN' "O"s $1600: A drink of raw egg, Worcestershire sauce, salt & pepper, taken as a hangover cure a prairie oyster |
#4725, aired 2005-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: 2 of the ores for this yellowish-green gas are rock salt & horn silver chlorine |
#4720, aired 2005-02-25 | FOREIGN 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Latin for "with", it precedes "grano salis" (grain of salt) as well as "laude" (praise or honor) cum |
#4715, aired 2005-02-18 | MAC $4,200 (Daily Double): Former British diplomat Donald MacLean died in this world capital in 1983 Moscow |
#4707, aired 2005-02-08 | ACADEMIC PENTATHLON $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out a chemical equation on a chalkboard.) Science:
A neutralization reaction which forms water & this compound salt |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | STRAIT TALK $600: This westernmost strait helps keep the Mediterranean Sea from becoming a shrinking salt lake the Strait of Gibraltar |
#4702, aired 2005-02-01 | BIBLICAL POLICE BLOTTER $800: Hey, we don't make the rules; this man's wife gazed back at Sodom against orders & was turned into a pillar of salt Lot |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | DOSE $2,000 (Daily Double): 1 gray is equal to the dose absorbed when one kilogram of matter absorbs one joule of ionizing this radiation |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | THE SCIENCE CATEGORY $2000: Jons Berzelius gave this name meaning "salt formers" to the elements iodine, bromine & chlorine halogens |
#4689, aired 2005-01-13 | DO YOU KNOW HOW FAST YOU WERE GOING? $800: In October of 1970, driver Gary Gabelich averaged 622.407 mph over 2 runs at this Utah plain the Bonneville Salt Flats |
#4676, aired 2004-12-27 | SCIENCE $2,200 (Daily Double): This amino acid is the sodium salt of glutamic acid monosodium glutamate (or MSG) |
#4648, aired 2004-11-17 | COOKING $800: If you put too much of this into a dish, drop in a peeled potato to absorb it salt |
#4647, aired 2004-11-16 | YOU HAVE TOO MUCH... $800: ...if you suffer from hypernatremia (put down the potato chips) sodium |
#4621, aired 2004-10-11 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: Simple Simon thought he could not fail to catch this because he had "a little salt to put upon his tail" a bird |
#4610, aired 2004-09-24 | U.S. LAKES $200: This lake in the Western U.S. has a specific gravity that is 10-22% higher than that of fresh water the Great Salt Lake |
#4595, aired 2004-07-23 | "ROCK"Y $1600: Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater rock salt |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | HOW 'BOUT A DRINK? $400: A margarita can be served in a salt-rimmed glass; a lemon drop, in a glass rimmed with this sugar |
#4576, aired 2004-06-28 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $800: In Salt Lake City take Main Street to this square to find the Mormon Tabernacle Temple Square |
#4574, aired 2004-06-24 | WEIRD & WONDERFUL GUINNESS RECORDS $800: Collectively the world's longest, these 10 body parts on Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City measured 261 in. her fingernails |
#4570, aired 2004-06-18 | BAKING 3s $400: 3 basic types of this ingredient are table, Kosher & sea salt |
#4546, aired 2004-05-17 | ARE YOU A FOOD"E"? $800: Escoffier says to leave them in their shells & soak them in a mixture of water, vinegar, salt & flour escargot |
#4535, aired 2004-04-30 | SEASONING GREETINGS $200: "Salary" comes from the Latin for "of" this seasoning salt |
#4535, aired 2004-04-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: After his wife became a pillar of salt, his daughters seduced him to preserve his seed Lot |
#4521, aired 2004-04-12 | YOU SELL IT, GIRL! $200: Thanks to artistic surgery, this company's girl doesn't look her age; she's 90 Morton Salt |
#4493, aired 2004-03-03 | LITERARY POP $600: The band Veruca Salt took its name from the spoiled rich girl in this Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
#4493, aired 2004-03-03 | RHYME TIME $800: Where to hide your sodium chloride salt vault |
#4490, aired 2004-02-27 | A MATTER OF TASTE $1200: 1 of the 3 zesty ingredients of the original Tabasco brand sauce (1 of 3) aged red peppers, Avery Island salt or vinegar |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This city dropped the word "Great" from its name in 1868, while it was still a territorial capital Salt Lake City |
#4485, aired 2004-02-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: On July 24, 1847 this Mormon leader & his party of 143 reached the Great Salt Lake Valley Brigham Young |
#4472, aired 2004-02-03 | ELEMENT"S" $800: Baking soda, salt & lye all contain this element sodium |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | DOUBLE Cs $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew cooks something up in the kitchen.) Before baking, sprinkle this Italian bread with olio, sale & rosmarino--oil, salt & rosemary focaccia |
#4467, aired 2004-01-27 | INNS $400: A restored mansion, the Brigham Street Inn is found in this state capital Salt Lake City |
#4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 state capitals with the word "City" in their names (2 of) Carson City, Jefferson City, Oklahoma City & Salt Lake City |
#4453, aired 2004-01-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 some considered this Salt Lake City native the best young quarterback in the country Steve Young |
#4453, aired 2004-01-07 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1600: We're told that the Mongols sowed the lands they conquered with this, to make them unfertile salt |
#4452, aired 2004-01-06 | RUSSIAN PAST $1200: In 1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signed an agreement to limit nuclear arms after a series of meetings called SALT, or this Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | CAN I BUY YOU A DRINK? $800: Traditionally, before you dip the rim of your Margarita glass in the salt, rub it with this lime'lemon juice |
#4413, aired 2003-11-12 | LIBRARIES $800: The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple St. in this state capital has archival info on more than 3 billion names Salt Lake City, Utah |
#4405, aired 2003-10-31 | MIND YOUR LATIN $800: Cum means "with", so cum grano salis means "with" this a grain of salt |
#4393, aired 2003-10-15 | UTAH $400: In August in Salt Lake City there's a festival for this Mideastern dance (& you thought Utahans were a staid bunch...) belly dancing |
#4393, aired 2003-10-15 | UTAH $1600: To demonstrate the acoustics in this Salt Lake City building, tour guides will drop a pin the Mormon Tabernacle |
#4376, aired 2003-09-22 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Saltier than any ocean, the Great Salt Lake is the largest lake in this western U.S. State Utah |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | LAKES $200: When Lake Bonneville evaporated thousands of years ago, it left tons of this on the flats salt |
#4352, aired 2003-07-01 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork & the Wieliczka Salt Mine Poland |
#4323, aired 2003-05-21 | MINERALS $400: Over half the use of this mineral in the U.S. is for spreading on roads & highways to melt ice & snow rock salt |
#4320, aired 2003-05-16 | BRAIN STRAIN $1000: Skid marks left by the out-of-control jet car Spirit of America at this location were over 5 miles long in 1965 Bonneville Salt Flats |
#4310, aired 2003-05-02 | PCH POUNDER $800: Lewis & Clark spent 7 weeks in Seaside, Oregon boiling sea water to get enough of this to preserve their return food salt |
#4290, aired 2003-04-04 | CLASSIC COFFEE TUNES $800: A Ruth Etting hit from the '20s, its second line is "You're the salt in my stew" "You're the Cream in my Coffee" |
#4288, aired 2003-04-02 | OUT OF AFRICA $1600: The Afar cut blocks of this from the Danakil Desert & used it as a currency salt |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | YOUR RESERVATION IS CONFIRMED $200: The Salt River & Gila River Reservations are in the metropolitan area of this state capital Phoenix |
#4276, aired 2003-03-17 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo) The manatee can live in both of these types of environments, or in a mixture of them called brackish salt & freshwater |
#4261, aired 2003-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Among its nicknames are "Zion" & "The New Jerusalem" Salt Lake City |
#4256, aired 2003-02-17 | THE ELEMENTS $1,500 (Daily Double): Mix it with hydrogen & it may explode; mix it with sodium & you get rock salt chlorine |
#4253, aired 2003-02-12 | METRICKY PROBLEMS $3,000 (Daily Double): That grain of salt you're taking is just .0648 of this basic metric unit gram |
#4250, aired 2003-02-07 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: The borders of 5 Utah counties lie within this lake The Great Salt Lake |
#4229, aired 2003-01-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Due to evaporation, the area of this largest Utah lake varies from year to year the Great Salt Lake |
#4201, aired 2002-12-02 | SODOM & GOMORRAH $1600: Although warned not to look back at the destruction, Lot's wife did & became this a pillar of salt |
#4193, aired 2002-11-20 | HELOISE'S BEAUTY HINTS $600: Add a half pound of the "sea" type of this to your bath water & you may feel like you're swimming in Utah salt |
#4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Possibly meaning "great salt water" or "on the big bay", it's the big bay that divides Maryland Chesapeake Bay |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | NOVEMBER 2001 $800: The November 19, 2001 ceremony seen here kicked off a series of events that ended in February 2002 in this city Salt Lake City (home of the Winter Olympics) |
#4150, aired 2002-09-20 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $2000: To prevent certain thyroid conditions compounds of this element are commonly added to table salt iodine |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL $2000: This element, Na, combines with chlorine to form ordinary table salt sodium |
#4134, aired 2002-07-18 | STATE CAPITALS $600: You can see & hear one of the world's largest pipe organs at the Mormon Tabernacle in this city Salt Lake City |
#4131, aired 2002-07-15 | MEASURING UP $800: The smallest unit of weight commonly used in the U.S., you can take it with one of salt grain |
#4129, aired 2002-07-11 | DEAD SEA $400: To the south of the sea, you'll find a formation of salt pillars named for this man's wife Lot |
#4129, aired 2002-07-11 | DEAD SEA $800: In addition to salt, the sea is a source of gypsum, bromine & potash, a compound of this element, K potassium |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | UTAH $600: The 300-, 500- & 600-mph land speed barriers were broken at the speedway located on these salt flats the Bonneville Salt Flats |
#4109, aired 2002-06-13 | B WHERE $2000: The Bonneville Salt Flats are in Utah; the Bonneville Dam is in this state Oregon |
#4098, aired 2002-05-29 | CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTS $400: To learn about different types of molecules, note that salt will do this in water but flour won't dissolve |
#4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $400: You shouldn't take these heat tablets named for a seasoning unless your physician recommends them salt tablets |
#4077, aired 2002-04-30 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK! $200: A margarita may be served with salt on the rim; a sidecar is served with this on the rim sugar |
#4058, aired 2002-04-03 | SHRIMP $400: Only brine shrimp & a few other tiny forms of life can live in this large lake in northwest Utah Salt Lake |
#4043, aired 2002-03-13 | IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $1200: Excluding the Great Lakes, one of the 3 largest lakes in area that are entirely within the U.S. (1 of) the Great Salt Lake or Lake Okeechobee & Lake Iliamna in Alaska |
#4020, aired 2002-02-08 | WINTER $400: Unfortunately, this chloride, commonly sprinkled on icy roads, corrodes car bodies sodium chloride (or rock salt) |
#3982, aired 2001-12-18 | U.S. CITIES $600 (Daily Double): It was laid out in 1847 in a grid pattern based on the 4 streets around Temple Square Salt Lake City, Utah |
#3967, aired 2001-11-27 | ALL ABOUT KAZAKHSTAN $800: Over 400 feet below sea level, Kazakhstan's lowest point is just east of this large landlocked salt lake the Caspian Sea |
#3962, aired 2001-11-20 | SCIENCE $200: What we call table salt is the most common compound of this element sodium |
#3961, aired 2001-11-19 | ALL SPORT $200: New Winter Olympic sports in Salt Lake City in 2002 will include a women's version of this sport that uses a 2-man sled a bobsled |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | RELIGION $100: The world headquarters for this religion is in Salt Lake City, Utah Mormon |
#3949, aired 2001-11-01 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $200: Sodium chloride, for example, & a park at the southern tip of Manhattan a salt & Battery |
#3924, aired 2001-09-27 | THAT'S SO CLICHE $500: To be skeptical is "to take it with a grain of" this seasoning salt |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | LITTLE ROCK $400: Rock flour, fine rock particles, shouldn't be confused on your table with halite, rock this rock salt |
#3914, aired 2001-09-13 | NAME DRINKS $100: There's something about this vodka, salt, tomato juice, tobasco, pepper, lemon juice & Worcestershire elixir a Bloody Mary |
#3907, aired 2001-09-04 | IN A FESTIVAL MOOD $400: This annual event in Park City, Utah gives out the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award the Sundance Film Festival |
#3900, aired 2001-07-13 | EMERIL'S TV DINNERS $200: Give Emeril some pork bely & kosher salt & he wont just "bring home" this meat, he'll make it himself bacon |
#3888, aired 2001-06-27 | WAY OUT WEST $400: Originally called Church Island, Antelope Island is the largest island in this lake the Great Salt Lake |
#3882, aired 2001-06-19 | TRAVEL FUN $400: Consider riding a narrow-gauge train into a salt mine at Bex in this country's Vaud canton Switzerland |
#3879, aired 2001-06-14 | JUNE SWOON $1,500 (Daily Double): The 2 men who signed the Salt II Treaty in Vienna on June 18, 1979 Leonid Brezhnev & Jimmy Carter |
#3872, aired 2001-06-05 | GREASY SPOON PHRASE BOOK $800: In a greasy spoon these paired seasonings are "Mike & Ike" Salt & pepper |
#3863, aired 2001-05-23 | BIBLICAL RHYME TIME $400: Pillar of salt's hubby's collapsible beds Lot's cots |
#3855, aired 2001-05-11 | CORPORATE SPORTS VENUES $200: Chicago's United Center & Salt Lake City's Delta Center are named for this type of business airlines |
#3846, aired 2001-04-30 | BE A SALAMI SWAMI $600: The word salami comes from the Latin word for this compound that's also known as sodium chloride salt |
#3807, aired 2001-03-06 | CHEMISTRY $400 (Daily Double): Sodium & this yellow-green gas are produced when salt is melted down & an electrical current is run through it Chlorine |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | THE COCKTAIL HOUR $1000: A margarita made with brandy & sugar instead of tequila & salt, or a motorcycle attachment sidecar |
#3785, aired 2001-02-02 | EARTH SCIENCE $100: An analysis of seawater shows that about 78% of the total solids are this one mineral salt (NaCl) |
#3757, aired 2000-12-26 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND $200: You'll find this "Great" 1,700-square-mile body of water in northwest Utah the Great Salt Lake |
#3749, aired 2000-12-14 | U.S. HISTORY $300: In 1972 the "T" in the newsmaking SALT stood for this, not "treaty" Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CHEERS $100: Tequila & lime juice go into this cocktail that's served in a salt-rimmed glass Margarita |
#3734, aired 2000-11-23 | TURKMENISTAN, THE COUNTRY $1000: Fresh water is tough to get; this large "sea" forming the western border is salt water the Caspian Sea |
#3719, aired 2000-11-02 | WORD ORIGINS $600: Lettuce tell you the term salad comes from the French salade, meaning with this seasoning salt |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $100: Jamaicans combine salt fish with ackee, a fruit introduced to the island as part of this captain's "bounty" William Bligh |
#3697, aired 2000-10-03 | GEOGRAPH"Y" $200: It's the largest city in Utah Salt Lake City |
#3690, aired 2000-09-22 | FOOD PHRASES $400: If you deserve your salary, you're "worth your" this, which is what "salarium" refers to in Latin Salt |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | JIM CLASS $500: In 1825 this fur trader & scout explored the Great Salt Lake area Jim Bridger |
#3673, aired 2000-07-19 | GENERAL SCIENCE $300: While compounds of this element are added to table salt, in its pure form it's quite poisonous Iodine |
#3670, aired 2000-07-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: Aristotle's prescription for women in this condition was to avoid too much salt & wine pregnant |
#3660, aired 2000-06-30 | AMERICANA $500: Want to see a 2,000-pound pillar of salt? Head for the New York State Museum in this city Albany |
#3656, aired 2000-06-26 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: To a chemist, ammonia is an example of one of these, not an acid or salt base |
#3656, aired 2000-06-26 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800: Salt water & thin syrup are called homogeneous mixtures, or these, the answers to your questions solutions |
#3651, aired 2000-06-19 | U.S.A. $100: Fillmore filled in as Utah's territorial capital until this city took over in 1856 Salt Lake City |
#3649, aired 2000-06-15 | U.S. "CITY"s $200: At Christmas, a dazzling light display lights up Temple Square in this city Salt Lake City |
#3644, aired 2000-06-08 | WHATCHA GOT COOKIN'? $400: Shrimp covered in a flour, baking powder, salt, water & egg mix then deep-fried in peanut oil; it's popular in Japan Tempura |
#3619, aired 2000-05-04 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $200: This state's largest lake may be 20 times as salty as any ocean Utah (Great Salt Lake) |
#3608, aired 2000-04-19 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Family History Library in this state capital houses the world's largest genealogical collection Salt Lake City |
#3607, aired 2000-04-18 | THE PASSOVER SEDER $200: The main meal begins with a hard-boiled one of these dipped into salt water egg |
#3578, aired 2000-03-08 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $300: Malossol on the label means this rich Russian "fishy" food is prepared with "little salt" Caviar |
#3568, aired 2000-02-23 | STATE PARKS $100: Utah's Antelope Island State Park in this lake is home to a buffalo herd the Great Salt Lake |
#3554, aired 2000-02-03 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: This Salt Lake City home of Brigham Young is named for the item placed atop the cupola on its roof Beehive House |
#3549, aired 2000-01-27 | NOVEL SETTINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): "East of Eden" tells us this valley was named "for the alkali which was white as salt" Salinas Valley |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | JANUARY 24 $600: On Jan. 24, 1999 this committee recommended expulsion of 6 members for taking bribes from Salt Lakers International Olympic Committee |
#3544, aired 2000-01-20 | COMING UP IN 2000 $100: The Summer Olympics will be held in this city Sydney, Australia |
#3530, aired 1999-12-31 | CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $200: Utah lake seasoning
(4) salt |
#3497, aired 1999-11-16 | POTPOURRI $800: The original "Calamity" in her life may have been her parents' death while settling Salt Lake City Calamity Jane |
#3491, aired 1999-11-08 | FAMILIAR MOLECULES $400: Chemical name of the salt produced when sodium hydroxide, NaOH, meets hydrochloric acid, HCl Sodium chloride (NaCl) |
#3489, aired 1999-11-04 | STATE CAPITALS $100: This Utah capital lies about 15 miles from the body of water for which it was named Salt Lake City |
#3483, aired 1999-10-27 | WATER $500: From Dutch for "salt", it's a term used of standing water with a salty, unpleasant taste Brackish |
#3462, aired 1999-09-28 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: For cooks, it's the amount of, say, salt, that can be held between the thumb & forefinger a pinch |
#3443, aired 1999-07-21 | FEELING POSSESSIVE $200: Columns of salt in the area of the Dead Sea are said to be this unlucky spouse of Abraham's nephew Lot's wife |
#3409, aired 1999-06-03 | GANGSTER'S DICTIONARY $500: Keep your head low... I just saw a "salt & pepper", one of these, go by a police car |
#3408, aired 1999-06-02 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $200: Brine flies & brine shrimp are the only creatures that thrive in this body of water near Utah's capital Great Salt Lake |
#3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ROCK $100: Halite is used as the "table" variety of this salt |
#3406, aired 1999-05-31 | SAY CHEESE! $200: His "Poor Richard's Almanac" says that "Cheese and salt meat should be sparingly eat" Benjamin Franklin |
#3386, aired 1999-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS $300: (Hi, I'm Kristi Yamaguchi) In 2002 the Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place in this state capital Salt Lake City |
#3382, aired 1999-04-27 | CHEMISTRY $1000: Bromine & chlorine are in a group of elements known by this name, from the Greek for "salt-forming" halogens |
#3348, aired 1999-03-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This Utah river named for a river in the Holy Land flows from freshwater Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake Jordan River |
#3319, aired 1999-01-28 | RHYME TIME $600: A place to store sodium chloride Salt vault |
#3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $200: Mormons make a bee-line for this city, the "Mormon's Mecca" Salt Lake City |
#3301, aired 1999-01-04 | HOTELS BY CITY $200: The Peery Hotel,
The Inn at Temple Square,
The Brigham Street Inn Salt Lake City |
#3272, aired 1998-11-24 | AFRICANS $400: Quarried from the desert, it's been used as currency by Ethiopians, presumably not in shakers salt |
#3265, aired 1998-11-13 | TASTE TREATS $400: If you like it hot, use this brand of sauce made with red peppers, vinegar & salt mined on Avery Island Tabasco |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | 1820s AMERICA $500: In late 1824 fur trapper & scout Jim Bridger became the first white man to see this lake in the west Great Salt Lake |
#3261, aired 1998-11-09 | MOUNTAINS $100: The Wasatch & Oquirrh Mountains surround this Utah capital Salt Lake City |
#3261, aired 1998-11-09 | OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $400: She looked back at Sodom & Gomorrah & "became a pillar of salt" Lot's wife |
#3258, aired 1998-11-04 | THE MORMONS $100: The highest-level church meetings take place in this city founded by Mormons on July 24, 1847 Salt Lake City |
#3250, aired 1998-10-23 | MINES, ALL MINES $600: Wieliezka, Poland is famous for these, also a metaphor for toil & drudgery Salt mines |
#3202, aired 1998-06-30 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $300: A skeptic takes things this way; the Latin phrase for it was "cum grano salis" "With a grain of salt" |
#3197, aired 1998-06-23 | THE 1970s $300: Name given to the U.S.-USSR weapons negotiations; the first ended in 1972, the second in 1979 SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) |
#3190, aired 1998-06-12 | LIBATIONS $800: Pour gin or vodka over ice in a salt-rimmed glass & add grapefruit juice to make this "canine" drink a salty dog |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WE GO $100: Just because Grandma collects these shakers doesn't mean there's too much sodium in her diet Salt shakers |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | HISTORIC NAMES $200: In 1930 he led a march to the sea to collect salt to protest a monopoly by the government of India Mahatma Gandhi |
#3174, aired 1998-05-21 | WE GOT GOOD CHEMISTRY $600: Brine is defined as water containing this in concentrated form Salt |
#3160, aired 1998-05-01 | LITERATURE $400: In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man "without much salt in his brain-pan" "Don Quixote" |
#3155, aired 1998-04-24 | WHAT'LL YA HAVE? $200: Juice of 1/2 lime
1/2 oz. triple sec
1 oz. tequila in a salt-rimmed glass Margarita |
#3154, aired 1998-04-23 | SEAFOOD DIET $400: Top quality caviar contains less than 5% of this additive Salt |
#3148, aired 1998-04-15 | WHERE ARE WE? $1000: Beehive House,
The Museum of Church History & Art,
This is the Place State Park Salt Lake City |
#3127, aired 1998-03-17 | THE ARTS $400: Benvenuto Cellini's most famous surviving work is a gold cellar for this seasoning salt |
#3125, aired 1998-03-13 | NOW YOU'RE COOKIN'! $300: To make angel parfaits, you need egg whites, salt, sugar, vanilla & the heavy type of this cream |
#3110, aired 1998-02-20 | U.S. AIRPORT DESIGNATIONS $100: SLC Salt Lake City |
#3091, aired 1998-01-26 | JUST LOGOS $300: ["When it rains, it pours"] Morton Salt |
#3079, aired 1998-01-08 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Lake Disappointment is a dry salt lake on the edge of this country's Gibson Desert Australia |
#3064, aired 1997-12-18 | IMPORTED CUISINE $200: To make this German-named dish, pound your veal cutlet, salt & pepper it, dip it in egg & bread crumbs & fry Wienerschnitzel |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $200: It's what the Morton Salt Girl is holding in her right hand Umbrella |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | FORMULAS $300: 11/2 ounces vodka, chilled tomato juice, salt & pepper & other spices to taste Bloody Mary |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $400: Term for the salt water of the sea, or a type of shrimp Brine |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $600: Some ancient civilizations used salt cakes as a form of this, as Indians used wampum Currency |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $800: Liquid sodium, made from salt, is used as this in some nuclear power plants Coolant |
#3061, aired 1997-12-15 | SALT $1000: Table salt is iodized to help prevent this condition in humans Hyperthyroidism or goiter |
#3053, aired 1997-12-03 | WORLD CITIES $400: The name of this Austrian city means "Salt Castle" Salzburg |
#3053, aired 1997-12-03 | PRESIDENTS ON THE MOVE $800: His travels included an 1875 trip to Salt Lake City; he later visited Mark Twain to do the book deal Ulysses S. Grant |
#3032, aired 1997-11-04 | TEEN CUISINE $400: Wetzel's tops these twisted treats with caramel & almond or sour cream & onion, as well as butter & salt pretzels |
#3028, aired 1997-10-29 | COMMON BONDS $800: Salt,
cheeks,
pennies things that are pinched |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | WORLD RELIGION $200: This oval building in Salt Lake City's Temple Square is famous for its choir Mormon Tabernacle |
#3017, aired 1997-10-14 | ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR $200: As indicated by its chemical name, the 2 main elements in table salt are chlorine & this Sodium |
#3002, aired 1997-09-23 | GIRL GROUPS $200: Sandy "Pepa" Denton's rap partner Cheryl Jones is nicknamed this "Salt" |
#3000, aired 1997-09-19 | FOREIGN CUISINE $400: Moroccan markets sell Hamed M' Rakad, which are these sour fruits pickled in salt & their own juice lemons |
#2982, aired 1997-07-15 | QUOTATIONS $200: On seeing the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, he said, "This is the place!" Brigham Young |
#2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: Produced when seawater evaporates, halite is a rock composed of this substance salt |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | LAKES $100: Although some streams flow into this Utah lake, none flow out The Great Salt Lake |
#2969, aired 1997-06-26 | U.S. CITIES $100: Principal streets in this Utah capital include North Temple, South Temple & West Temple Salt Lake City |
#2968, aired 1997-06-25 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $500: To remove an excess of this from soup add slices of raw potato to absorb it Salt |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | ROAD TRIP $200: Capitals on Interstate 80 include Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne & this one in Iowa Des Moines |
#2927, aired 1997-04-29 | SUPERSTITION $200: If you spill the salt, cancel the bad luck you're going to have by doing this throw the salt over your shoulder |
#2926, aired 1997-04-28 | TRAVEL BASICS $400: Fodor's suggests carrying this common seasoning if you think you'll encounter leeches salt |
#2923, aired 1997-04-23 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $400: It's another way to "add insult to injury" using a common seasoning "Rub salt in one's wound" |
#2911, aired 1997-04-07 | SONG LYRICS $400: Jimmy Buffett sang of "Wasting away in" this place "searching for my lost shaker of salt" "Margaritaville" |
#2908, aired 1997-04-02 | PROVERBS $100: This product changed the proverb "It never rains but it pours" to "When it rains it pours" Morton salt |
#2903, aired 1997-03-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: The automotive safety products division of this salt maker is one of the USA's leading air bag makers Morton (Thiokol) |
#2899, aired 1997-03-20 | U.S. CITIES $400: This Utah city originally had the word "great" in its name, like the body of water Salt Lake City |
#2894, aired 1997-03-13 | THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK $100: Fannie makes a relish from these dark red root vegetables, horseradish, lemon juice, sugar & salt Beets |
#2894, aired 1997-03-13 | THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK $500: Cleveland dressing contains oil, vinegar, sugar, salt, paprika & the "dry" type of this condiment Mustard |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $200: Because salt comes in this form, you could give it as a 15th anniversary gift; it's cheaper than Waterford Crystal |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Taking 40 years to build, the Mormon Temple was dedicated in this capital in 1893 Salt Lake City |
#2848, aired 1997-01-08 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $300: Popular in Armenia, tan is a beverage made from water, this cultured dairy product & salt yogurt |
#2842, aired 1996-12-31 | COUNTIES BY STATE $100: Sanpete,
San Juan,
Salt Lake Utah |
#2838, aired 1996-12-25 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: This salt company's "Umbrella Girl" is one of the most famous brand icons in the United States Morton |
#2836, aired 1996-12-23 | HERBS & SPICES $400: A mixture of this seed & salt is used in Bloody Marys & stuffings Celery |
#2825, aired 1996-12-06 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 Utah |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | AMERICANA $200: Now a social center, Lion House in Salt Lake City was the home of several of this man's wives Brigham Young |
#2804, aired 1996-11-07 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $200: Deedee Corradini, a non-Mormon divorcee, was elected this capital's first woman mayor in 1991 Salt Lake City |
#2780, aired 1996-10-04 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: The largest lake in the western U.S., it's fed by freshwater streams but has a heavy saline content the Great Salt Lake |
#2775, aired 1996-09-27 | COOKING TERMS $600: Self-rising flour is a combination of flour, salt & this ingredient baking powder |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: The lighting of Temple Square in this city signals the beginning of the Christmas season Salt Lake City |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | U.S. LAKES $200: It's estimated this Utah lake contains more than 4 billion metric tons of dissolved minerals the Great Salt Lake |
#2738, aired 1996-06-26 | THE ENVIRONMENT $300: Half of these in the U.S., including bogs, swamps & salt marshes, have been filled in wetlands |
#2731, aired 1996-06-17 | COOKING $300: Sugar or molasses may be added to this salt & water solution used in pickling brine |
#2722, aired 1996-06-04 | C'EST CHEESE! $100: A 1573 book said a perfect cheese should not be "like Lot's wife, all" this seasoning salt |
#2718, aired 1996-05-29 | STATE CAPITALS $100: This city is home to Ballet West & the Utah Symphony Orchestra Salt Lake City |
#2706, aired 1996-05-13 | DESERTS $600: These salt flats cover about 100 square miles of the Great Salt Lake Desert Bonneville |
#2683, aired 1996-04-10 | SCIENCE $100: It's the more common name for sodium chloride Salt |
#2683, aired 1996-04-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: This Arizona capital lies in the Salt River Valley & is bordered by mountains & the Sonoran desert Phoenix |
#2679, aired 1996-04-04 | FOOD $1000: The Bismarck type of this fish is made of fillets cured in vinegar, salt & onions Herring |
#2663, aired 1996-03-13 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): The Seagull Monument is a tourist site in this capital Salt Lake City |
#2657, aired 1996-03-05 | CHEMISTRY $400: The name of this gas, NH3, goes back to ancient Egypt, where it was part of the salt of Ammon Ammonia |
#2655, aired 1996-03-01 | FOOD ADDITIVES $200: 75% of your intake of this comes from processed & fast foods, so shaking on less doesn't help much salt |
#2655, aired 1996-03-01 | LIBRARIES $1000: The Family History Library at 35 N. West Temple Street in this state capital is the largest of its kind Salt Lake City |
#2649, aired 1996-02-22 | ROCKS & MINERALS $600: It's the chemical formula of halite NaCl |
#2640, aired 1996-02-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $100: It's "the city of the saints" as well as "the Mormon city" Salt Lake City |
#2637, aired 1996-02-06 | FRENCH CUISINE $400: These little fish are dusted with salt, quick-fried & marinated to make anchois Marines anchovies |
#2610, aired 1995-12-29 | SONGS $1000: "You're the cream in my coffee, you're" this "in my stew" the salt |
#2598, aired 1995-12-13 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $500: Mix salt & lemon juice or salt & this liquid to clean brass & copper vinegar |
#2594, aired 1995-12-07 | PLANTS & TREES $200: The sugar species of this tree is a fine ornamental tree but is intolerant of road salt maple |
#2592, aired 1995-12-05 | THE MUNCHIES $300: These brittle treats shaped into a loose knot are coated with coarse salt pretzels |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Basketball's Utah Jazz play their home games in this capital city Salt Lake City |
#2584, aired 1995-11-23 | GOURMET CUISINE $200: The word "malossol" on a caviar label means the roe is preserved with a minimum of this seasoning salt |
#2584, aired 1995-11-23 | POTENT POTABLES $400: For this cocktail, the rim of the glass is usually dipped in lime juice and salt a margarita |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Karagiye Depression, Kazakhstan's lowest point at 433' below sea level, lies near this salt lake the Caspian Sea |
#2550, aired 1995-10-06 | STARTS WITH "UM" $100: The Morton Salt Girl is holding one umbrella |
#2541, aired 1995-09-25 | AMERICAN LAKES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Lucin cutoff, built across this lake, provided a rail link between Lucin & Ogden the Great Salt Lake |
#2524, aired 1995-07-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1,200 (Daily Double): Noted for its salt deposits, the Kara-Bogaz-Gol Gulf in Turkmenistan is an arm of this sea the Caspian Sea |
#2515, aired 1995-07-07 | SPORTS $300: In 1991, after 12 seasons at the Salt Palace, this NBA team moved its home games to the Delta Center the Utah Jazz |
#2511, aired 1995-07-03 | DECORATIVE ARTS $200: Cellini's only major surviving work as a goldsmith is a magnificent container for this seasoning salt |
#2497, aired 1995-06-13 | MORE HINTS FROM HELOISE $200: Heloise stores the "loose" type of this face cosmetic in a salt or pepper shaker & shakes it out as needed (face) powder |
#2484, aired 1995-05-25 | FOOD & DRINK $300: Traditional recipes for Scotch shortbread call for only these 3 ingredients & a pinch of salt butter, flour and sugar |
#2481, aired 1995-05-22 | WORLD HISTORY $200: On March 12, 1930 he began the Salt March in defiance of British rule in India Gandhi |
#2479, aired 1995-05-18 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Utah Lake discharges into this large Utah lake via the Jordan River the Great Salt Lake |
#2476, aired 1995-05-15 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This Southwestern capital, not Salt Lake City, lies in the Salt River Valley Phoenix |
#2467, aired 1995-05-02 | 1995 GRAMMYS $500: They "spiced up" the awards with their performance & won for "None Of Your Business" Salt-N-Pepa |
#2465, aired 1995-04-28 | FOOD $200: The pickling type of this seasoning contains no additives, so it doesn't cloud the brine salt |
#2460, aired 1995-04-21 | THE SMITHS $200: In 1777 this economist was appointed Commissioner of Customs & of salt duties for Scotland Adam Smith |
#2460, aired 1995-04-21 | HEALTH & FITNESS $500: Most Americans consume far more of this element than 2,400 mg a day, the FDA's recommended maximum sodium |
#2427, aired 1995-03-07 | WORLD RELIGIONS $100: In 1993 this group celebrated the centennial of the completion of its temple in Salt Lake City the Mormons |
#2423, aired 1995-03-01 | DOGS $200: Many Schnauzers have coats that are described as the color of these 2 seasonings salt & pepper |
#2421, aired 1995-02-27 | ETIQUETTE $500: If this tiny bowl made to hold salt has no spoon, you may use the tip of a clean knife to serve yourself a saltcellar |
#2406, aired 1995-02-06 | ABBREVIATIONS $500: SALT, as in the SALT agreements to limit the production of nuclear weapons, stands for this Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (or Treaty) |
#2404, aired 1995-02-02 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $100: To reduce soot in a wood-burning fireplace, shake this seasoning on the logs salt |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $1000: Salt Sea, Sea of the Arabah & Eastern Sea are some Biblical names for this lake the Dead Sea |
#2382, aired 1995-01-03 | DRINK $300: The Good House-Keeping Cookbook suggests sprinkling cold buttermilk with salt & this "Hungarian" spice paprika |
#2375, aired 1994-12-23 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: This city's Deseret News was established by the Mormon Church in 1850 Salt Lake City |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | MODERN ART & ARTISTS $200: One of Robert Smithson's most famous works is the "Spiral Jetty" in this Utah lake Great Salt Lake |
#2359, aired 1994-12-01 | FOOD & DRINK $300: Serve oysters Rockefeller on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning so the shells won't topple over salt |
#2349, aired 1994-11-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Antelope Island in this Utah lake is used as a refuge for bison the Great Salt Lake |
#2343, aired 1994-11-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Deserts in this state include Sevier, Escalante & the Great Salt Lake Desert Utah |
#2336, aired 1994-10-31 | STATE CAPITALS $100: It's the only Utah city with a population exceeding 100,000 Salt Lake City |
#2326, aired 1994-10-17 | HISTORIC AMERICA $300: Old Deseret is a re-created 19th century pioneer community in this state capital Salt Lake City |
#2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $500: Fur trapper & scout Jim Bridger discovered this body of water in late 1824 the Great Salt Lake |
#2302, aired 1994-09-13 | FIRST AID $400: A pinch of this should be added to the water given to a victim of heat exhaustion salt |
#2293, aired 1994-07-20 | LAKES $200: Small islets in this largest Utah lake are nesting places for gulls & other birds the (Great) Salt Lake |
#2278, aired 1994-06-29 | STATE CAPITALS $100: It's nicknamed the "Mormon's Mecca" Salt Lake City |
#2274, aired 1994-06-23 | LAKES $100: Between 1963 & 1987, this Utah lake more than doubled in size from 1,000 to 2,500 square miles the Great Salt Lake |
#2268, aired 1994-06-15 | NEWSPAPERS $100: This Utah city's Tribune is the state's only morning newspaper Salt Lake City |
#2268, aired 1994-06-15 | FOODS OF THE WORLD $200: Herodotus said Egyptians used to eat small birds pickled in this strong salt & water solution brine |
#2259, aired 1994-06-02 | EXPLORERS $1000: In 1861 this discoverer of Lake Tanganyika wrote a book about Salt Lake City titled "City of the Saints" Sir Richard Burton |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | MUSEUMS $200: Museums in this Utah capital include the Wheeler Historic Farm & Beehive House Salt Lake City |
#2255, aired 1994-05-27 | LODGING $300: Built as a home in 1898, the Brigham Street Inn is an elegant bed and breakfast in this state capital Salt Lake City |
#2249, aired 1994-05-19 | U.S. CITIES $200: This capital is located on the Salt River in the central part of Arizona Phoenix |
#2247, aired 1994-05-17 | SEAS $1000: Fed by many freshwater streams like the Neva, Oder & Vistula, it has a low salt content & freezes easily the Baltic Sea |
#2246, aired 1994-05-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: July 24 is a state holiday in Utah commemorating the 1847 day on which he entered the Salt Lake Valley Brigham Young |
#2243, aired 1994-05-11 | THE BIBLE $200: It was the fate of Lot's wife for turning back to see the burning city of Sodom being turned into a pillar of salt |
#2236, aired 1994-05-02 | SCIENCE $100: Formulated NaCl it's the chemical name for common table salt sodium chloride |
#2230, aired 1994-04-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: The salinity of this Utah lake ranges roughly between 15% & 27% the Great Salt Lake |
#2222, aired 1994-04-12 | FOOD $400: The kosher & pickling types of this seasoning are not iodized salt |
#2217, aired 1994-04-05 | BREAD $1000: These thin, crisp French loaves are simply made with flour, salt, sugar, yeast & water a baguettes |
#2215, aired 1994-04-01 | VOCABULARY $100: This word for one's wages comes from the Latin word for salt salary |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | LAKES $100: The Bonneville Salt Flats in the northwestern part of this state is the former bed of Lake Bonneville Utah |
#2204, aired 1994-03-17 | NUTRITION $200: This element that may provoke hypertension makes up 40% of salt by weight sodium |
#2187, aired 1994-02-22 | BIOLOGY $1,500 (Daily Double): A halophyte is a plant that tolerates a high level of this in the soil salt |
#2153, aired 1994-01-05 | THE DEVIL $100: When it's spilt, some of this is thrown over the left shoulder into the face of the devil salt |
#2148, aired 1993-12-29 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: The Hebrew name of this lake is Yam Ha-Melah, or "Salt Sea" the Dead Sea |
#2130, aired 1993-12-03 | ANNUAL EVENTS $100: Christmas festivities in this Utah city begin with the lighting of Temple Square in November Salt Lake City |
#2121, aired 1993-11-22 | NUTRITION $600: Half a cup of cottage cheese has as much of this element linked to hypertension as 32 potato chips Sodium |
#2111, aired 1993-11-08 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $100: To make sauerkraut, ferment this vegetable with salt cabbage |
#2106, aired 1993-11-01 | FAMOUS HOMES $400: Beehive House in Salt Lake City, Utah Brigham Young |
#2101, aired 1993-10-25 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: In area, it's the USA's largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River the Great Salt Lake |
#2098, aired 1993-10-20 | CHEMISTRY $100: Minimum number of atoms in 1 molecule of a compound; for example, a molecule of table salt 2 |
#2093, aired 1993-10-13 | "C" FOOD $300: The seeds of this stalk vegetable are ground & blended with salt to make a popular seasoning celery |
#2087, aired 1993-10-05 | CLICHES $400: An honored guest at a dinner party is said "to sit above" this seasoning the salt |
#2079, aired 1993-09-23 | U.S. CITIES $300: Among the tourist sites in this city are Beehive House & the Seagull Monument in Temple Square Salt Lake City |
#2061, aired 1993-07-19 | IN THE KITCHEN $500: Old-fashioned hand-cranked ice cream machines use crystals of this to lower the ice's temperature (rock) salt |
#2060, aired 1993-07-16 | ECCENTRICITIES $300: C. Vanderbilt reportedly kept dishes of this common seasoning under his bed to scare away evil spirits salt |
#2057, aired 1993-07-13 | STATE CAPITALS $300: The Eagle Gate in this capital city was once the entrance to Brigham Young's estate Salt Lake City |
#2051, aired 1993-07-05 | GENERAL SCIENCE $100: A hydrate contains this compound weakly bound in its crystals water |
#2050, aired 1993-07-02 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: A halophyte is a plant that can tolerate a large amount of this substance in the soil salt |
#2044, aired 1993-06-24 | LAKES $1000: The Great Salt Lake, Utah's largest, is a remnant of this prehistoric lake Lake Bonneville |
#2030, aired 1993-06-04 | "GREAT" GEOGRAPHY $200: Industrial plants on its shores remove about 300,000 tons of NaCl a year the Great Salt Lake |
#2015, aired 1993-05-14 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: Any old salt can tell you epsomite is this color white |
#2015, aired 1993-05-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This sea is sometimes referred to as the "American Mediterranean" the Caribbean |
#2013, aired 1993-05-12 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: The name of this highly spiced sausage comes from the Latin word for "salt" salami |
#2000, aired 1993-04-23 | NATURE $200: Now classified as a salmon, this colorful trout becomes bluish in salt water & is then called a steelhead a rainbow trout |
#1999, aired 1993-04-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: Though fed by freshwater streams, this lake is saltier than the oceans the Great Salt Lake |
#1998, aired 1993-04-21 | LIBRARIES $100: One of the world's largest genealogical libraries is maintained by this church in Salt Lake City The Church of the Latter-day Saints |
#1984, aired 1993-04-01 | GENERAL SCIENCE $200: Scientists once tried to estimate the Earth's age by measuring the level of this substance in the ocean salt |
#1982, aired 1993-03-30 | FRENCH MENU $300: When this bird is baked in a salt crust, it's called poulet en croute de sel chicken |
#1978, aired 1993-03-24 | THE HUMAN BODY $600: 2 of the 4 kinds of taste buds in the tongue (2 of) salt, sweet, bitter, & sour |
#1955, aired 1993-02-19 | HODGEPODGE $1000: If you want to visit the Brigham Young University Earth Science Museum, you have to go to this city Provo (Utah) |
#1946, aired 1993-02-08 | AMERICANA $100: This domed building in Salt Lake City's Temple Square is world-famous for its choir the Mormon Tabernacle |
#1946, aired 1993-02-08 | NUTRITION $800: Excessive intake of this element causes fluid retention & may contribute to high blood pressure sodium |
#1945, aired 1993-02-05 | CHEMISTRY $800: Burn a piece of sodium in a flask filled with chlorine gas & the resulting white powder is this salt |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | THE CARIBBEAN $300: Ginger, Salt & Beef are among the islands with tasty names in this "chaste" British group the British Virgin Islands |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | BROADWAY LYRICS $100: "You're the cream in" this, "you're the salt in my stew" "my coffee" |
#1924, aired 1993-01-07 | PIONEER TRAILS $500: In the 1840s Brigham Young forged this trail from outside what is now Omaha to Salt Lake City the Mormon Trail |
#1917, aired 1992-12-29 | DANCE $200: The acclaimed dance company Ballet West originated at the University of Utah in this city Salt Lake City |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | ETIQUETTE $400: To serve salt from a saltcellar, a tiny one these utensils should be used a spoon |
#1910, aired 1992-12-18 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $400: You'll find the Camp David Accords & Copies of the SALT II treaty at his presidential library Carter |
#1900, aired 1992-12-04 | ABBREVIATIONS $400: In 1972 the U.S. & the USSR signed a treaty limiting deployment of these missiles abbreviated ABMs antiballistic missiles |
#1895, aired 1992-11-27 | THE BIBLE $100: Some Bibles say Lot's wife was turned into "a statue" made of this; others say it was "a pillar" salt |
#1894, aired 1992-11-26 | PEOPLE & PLACES $300: The people of Tibet flavor this steeped beverage with salt & yak butter tea |
#1886, aired 1992-11-16 | ANAGRAMS $100: The last seasoning to put on a dish Salt (Last) |
#1870, aired 1992-10-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: Several land speed records have been set on this barren saline plain in northwestern Utah the Bonneville Salt Flats |
#1859, aired 1992-10-08 | HOUSEHOLD TIPS $100: You can clean artificial flowers by shaking them in a bag with half a cup of this white seasoning salt |
#1844, aired 1992-09-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: Fillmore was the capital of Utah from 1851 until replaced by this city in 1856 Salt Lake City |
#1840, aired 1992-09-11 | SEASONINGS $200: Blocks of this are put out in fields for cows to lick salt |
#1827, aired 1992-07-07 | THE 1930s $1000: Gandhi was arrested after a 1930 march to break up the government's monopoly on this salt |
#1799, aired 1992-05-28 | GREAT THINGS $400: The marine life in this U.S. lake is pretty thin:
Colonial Algae & Brine Shrimp the Great Salt Lake |
#1795, aired 1992-05-22 | WIVES $200: In the Bible, Jesus cautioned his followers to "Remember" this man's "wife" who turned to salt Lot |
#1784, aired 1992-05-07 | THE ELEMENTS $200: Because it combines readily with other elements, it's only found in compounds like salt & tincal sodium |
#1783, aired 1992-05-06 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: A mineralogist could tell you epsomite tastes like this common seasoning salt |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | U.S. CITIES $100: A tourist attraction in this capital is the Seagull Monument in Temple Square Salt Lake City |
#1768, aired 1992-04-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: This largest Utah lake is a remnant of the ancient freshwater Lake Bonneville the Great Salt Lake |
#1739, aired 1992-03-05 | FIRST AID $400: A victim of heat exhaustion should drink fluid seasoned with a small amount of this salt |
#1737, aired 1992-03-03 | U.S. CITIES $100: This city is home to the Utah Symphony Orchestra & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Salt Lake City |
#1726, aired 1992-02-17 | ROCKS & MINERALS $400: The mineral halite is a naturally-occurring form of this (rock) salt |
#1718, aired 1992-02-05 | TREATIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Known by this acronym, the Soviet-U.S. accord signed July 31, 1991 was 9 years in the making START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) |
#1699, aired 1992-01-09 | SCULPTURE $200: Robert SMithson was best known for his "Spiral Jetty", running into this Utah body of water the Great Salt Lake |
#1696, aired 1992-01-06 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: Grab bodies of salt water seize seas |
#1663, aired 1991-11-20 | VOCABULARY $400: A grilse is a young one of these on its first return from salt to fresh waters a salmon |
#1646, aired 1991-10-28 | NATIONAL PARKS $200: More than 1/3 of this Florida park is under salt water the Everglades |
#1640, aired 1991-10-18 | THE HUMAN BODY $1000: Salt & water are extracted from the blood by tiny tubes called nephrons, found in these organs kidneys |
#1638, aired 1991-10-16 | UMBRELLAS $100: Its logo has a little girl holding a big umbrella & an open package of salt Morton Salt |
#1609, aired 1991-09-05 | OLD TESTAMENT $500: The King James version calls this the Salt Sea the Dead Sea |
#1607, aired 1991-09-03 | ROCKS AND MINERALS $300: If you have a "grain" of sense you know that brownstone is a type of this stone sandstone |
#1606, aired 1991-09-02 | SERVING SUGGESTIONS $100: Baked oysters are sometimes served on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning salt |
#1604, aired 1991-07-18 | SCIENCE & NATURE $100: Taste buds are usually divided into 4 types, salt, acid, bitter & this sweet |
#1591, aired 1991-07-01 | SPORTS $200: The Salt Palace is home to this NBA team the Utah Jazz |
#1578, aired 1991-06-12 | STATE CAPITALS $100: More than half of Utah's people live within 30 miles of this capital Salt Lake City |
#1546, aired 1991-04-29 | SAINTS $1,000 (Daily Double): St. Rupert went to the old Roman town of Juvavum in Austria, opened salt mines, & renamed it this Salzburg |
#1545, aired 1991-04-26 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This Siberian lake is the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia (Lake) Baikal |
#1544, aired 1991-04-25 | FOOD $500: A soul food dish called "Hoppin' John" contains salt pork, rice & these legumes black-eyed peas |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | LOT $200: When Lot's wife didn't heed the warning, she was turned into a pillar of this salt |
#1533, aired 1991-04-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: A January film festival & skiing attract visitors to Park City, a suburb of this state capital Salt Lake City |
#1519, aired 1991-03-21 | CLICHES $300: To rub this in a wound means to add insult to injury; ouch! salt |
#1498, aired 1991-02-20 | ISLANDS $400: Over 500 bison live in the Bison Refuge on Antelope Island in this Utah lake the Great Salt Lake |
#1492, aired 1991-02-12 | EARTH SCIENCE $200: The freezing point of seawater decreases as this increases salt content |
#1484, aired 1991-01-31 | NOT IN THE U.N. $800: Italy pays this non-UN member for the right to be its sole supplier of salt & tobacco San Marino |
#1482, aired 1991-01-29 | LAKES & RIVERS $100: The largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, it's fed by the Bear, Weber & Jordan Rivers the Great Salt Lake |
#1470, aired 1991-01-11 | SUPERSTITIONS $500: You'll bring bad luck upon yourself if you spill some salt & don't do this throw it over your (left) shoulder |
#1449, aired 1990-12-13 | THE EARTH $400: Desert plants are xerophytic, or drought-resistant, & halophytic, tolerant of this salt |
#1449, aired 1990-12-13 | MOTHER GOOSE $800: Simon thought he "could not fail" to catch this, "because he had a pinch of salt to put upon his tail" a bird |
#1431, aired 1990-11-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: By its translation, something taken cum grano salis is taken this way a grain of salt |
#1415, aired 1990-10-26 | FEATHERED FRIENDS $100: Marine birds & reptiles have a nasal gland that removes this from seawater salt |
#1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: This trail led from Nauvoo, Illinois to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah the Mormon Trail |
#1408, aired 1990-10-17 | IN OTHER WORDS... $300: Bekins & Allied Van Lines plus a salt container & a cocktail maker movers & shakers |
#1390, aired 1990-09-21 | MEDICINE $200: Cutting back on this food flavoring & preservative can help prevent hypertension salt |
#13, aired 1990-09-08 | NEWSPAPERS $1500: This capital city's 2 daily newspapers are The Deseret News & The Tribune Salt Lake City |
#11, aired 1990-08-25 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $500: Unlike glaciers, pack ice forms from this type of water salt (seawater) |
#1372, aired 1990-07-17 | WORD ORIGINS $200: The English word salary derives from the Latin "salarium", which was a payment of this seasoning to soldiers salt |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | U.S. CITIES $200: It was laid out according to Joseph Smith's plan for the city of Zion, with a temple in the center Salt Lake City |
#1366, aired 1990-07-09 | FOOD & DRINK $1000: The names salami & sausage both come from words referring to this ingredient salt |
#1318, aired 1990-05-02 | TECHNOLOGY $1000: This process removes salt from sea water, & in artificial kidneys, waste from the blood dialysis |
#1317, aired 1990-05-01 | BODIES OF WATER $100: The water in this large Utah lake is saltier than ocean water The Great Salt Lake |
#1309, aired 1990-04-19 | UTAH $300: Record speeds of more than 600 MPH have been reached at the International Speedway here Bonneville Salt Flats |
#1304, aired 1990-04-12 | 1890 $200: For the first time members of this religious group didn't win all the council seats in Salt Lake City the Mormons |
#1295, aired 1990-03-30 | SALADS $100: The word salad comes from Latin for this, because most Romans dressed their salads with little else Salt |
#1294, aired 1990-03-29 | FILE UNDER "T" $200: It's the name of a national monument in the Salt River Valley in Arizona, kimosabe Tonto National Monument |
#1282, aired 1990-03-13 | HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE $300: Anagram of "clan" that's a formula for salt NaCl |
#1274, aired 1990-03-01 | CITY FLAGS $500 (Daily Double): Its flag features a pioneer family, a covered wagon & 2 sea gulls Salt Lake City |
#1267, aired 1990-02-20 | THE EARTH $300: Basalt is an igneous rock & rock salt is this type sedimentary |
#1261, aired 1990-02-12 | LAKES & RIVERS $600: The brine shrimp, artemia, is abundant in this Utah lake Great Salt Lake |
#1255, aired 1990-02-02 | U.S. STATES $300: In 1947 British driver John Cobb was 1st to travel over 400 MPH on this state's salt beds Utah |
#1254, aired 1990-02-01 | SPORTS SHIFTS $100: The NBA's Jazz franchise spent 5 years in this city before moving to Salt Lake City in 1979 New Orleans |
#1239, aired 1990-01-11 | FOOD FACTS $100: To judge an egg's freshness, put it in salt water; if it's old it'll do this Float |
#1228, aired 1989-12-27 | "P"s & "Q"s $200: A very small measure of salt or snuff a pinch |
#1224, aired 1989-12-21 | SUPERSTITIONS $500: In da Vinci's "The Last Supper", Judas has done this which brings bad luck spilled the salt |
#1204, aired 1989-11-23 | ADS & COMMERCIALS $300: The little girl on the box of this seasoning wears a yellow dress that matches her shoes Morton Salt |
#1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BRIDGES $500: Virginia's 17.6 mile long bridge-tunnel complex takes U.S. Highway 13 across this body of salt water the Chesapeake Bay |
#1177, aired 1989-10-17 | HERBS & SPICES $200: Because it thrives near salt water, the Romans called it "rosmarinus", dew of the sea rosemary |
#1166, aired 1989-10-02 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $100: Brigham Young founded this city, & "this is the place" were he's buried, too Salt Lake City |
#1138, aired 1989-07-12 | "PAL"s $300: For some people, putting salt on popcorn is the only way to make it this palatable |
#1135, aired 1989-07-07 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: There's a salt lake on this island, Hawaii's 3rd largest Oahu |
#1125, aired 1989-06-23 | FOOD $200: This company's "Special Request" soups contain 1/3 less salt than its regular soups Campbell |
#1125, aired 1989-06-23 | LEFTOVERS $200: Heloise says that keeping a glass over your salt shaker will keep the salt from doing this from sticking to the top of the shaker (sticking) |
#1122, aired 1989-06-20 | VITAMINS & MINERALS $600: Doctors advise a restricted intake of this to help reduce blood pressure salt |
#1120, aired 1989-06-16 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: An amount held between the thumb & index finger, one can be "of salt" or "of snuff" a pinch |
#1106, aired 1989-05-29 | AUSTRIA $200: Mozart was born in this city whose name means "Castle of Salt" Salzburg |
#1058, aired 1989-03-22 | AUTOMOBILE NAMES $300: This Pontiac model was named for the salt flats where the company set 24-hr. endurance records in 1956 Bonneville |
#1044, aired 1989-03-02 | BODIES OF WATER $200: There are no fish in this "great" lake which geologists say evolved from Lake Bonneville the Great Salt Lake |
#1037, aired 1989-02-21 | ACTRESSES $200: She collects all kinds of Charlie McCarthy memorabilia, from cuff links & toys to salt & pepper shakers Candice Bergen |
#1032, aired 1989-02-14 | FISH $400: Take one of these fish, split it, salt it & smoke it, & you'll have a kipper a herring (*salmon) |
#1031, aired 1989-02-13 | TEENY THINGS $200: If you do something with skepticism, you "take it" with this tiny thing grain of salt |
#1029, aired 1989-02-09 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $200: You can add some of this to boiling water to keep your spaghetti from sticking oil (in boiling) |
#1026, aired 1989-02-06 | EDIBLE ANAGRAMS $100: Since olden days cooks have sprinkled this on food to make it last salt (from last) |
#1018, aired 1989-01-25 | EGGS $100: When hard boiling eggs, add a pinch of this to the water to keep the eggs from cracking salt |
#1008, aired 1989-01-11 | MEAT $300: "The Book of Apicius", a Roman cookbook, advises using this sweetener "to keep meats fresh without salt" honey |
#1006, aired 1989-01-09 | ART $200: Salt Lake City's "This is the place" monument was sculpted by his grandson Mahonri Young Brigham Young |
#1001, aired 1989-01-02 | FISH FACTS $100: Over 1/3 of all known salt water species live in the Pacific & Indian Oceans near reefs made of this coral |
#976, aired 1988-11-28 | HOMOPHONES $400: A vendor of halite, or the thing in which you store his product a salt seller/a salt cellar |
#964, aired 1988-11-10 | 1979 $100: Acronym used to refer to the treaty signed by Brezhnev & Carter in Vienna in June SALT II |
#959, aired 1988-11-03 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $300: Device which can be used to punch holes in a belt, unclog a salt shaker or make a perfect circle for pastry compass |
#955, aired 1988-10-28 | POTENT POTABLES $300: Alexis Lichine says it's "like liquid fire in the throat" when tossed down after licking salt tequila |
#955, aired 1988-10-28 | U.S.A. $400: 4 days after arriving in Salt Lake Valley, he marked the site for Salt Lake City's Temple Square Brigham Young |
#954, aired 1988-10-27 | SALT $200: Substances such as magnesium carbonate are added to table salt to stop it from doing this caking |
#954, aired 1988-10-27 | SALT $400: In his "Last Supper", Leonardo da Vinci depicted this man as having just spilled the salt Judas |
#954, aired 1988-10-27 | SALT $600: The need to transport salt from Syracuse, N.Y. was one of the main reasons this was built in the 1800s Erie Canal |
#954, aired 1988-10-27 | SALT $800: You can go soak your feet in hydrated MgS04, also called this after a town in England epsom salts |
#954, aired 1988-10-27 | SALT $1000: Name of the parent company whose salt uses the slogan "When It Rains It Pours" Morton |
#948, aired 1988-10-19 | ELECTRICITY $400: The original one made by Volta alternated silver & zinc plates separated by cloth soaked in salt solution a battery |
#946, aired 1988-10-17 | HISTORY $600: In 1930 he made the news when he broke the law making salt from seawater Mohandas Gandhi |
#945, aired 1988-10-14 | ICE CREAM $100: When setting up an ice cream maker, use table salt or this type which dissolves more slowly rock salt |
#940, aired 1988-10-07 | PICKLES $200: One study shows that pickle craving by pregnant women is the body saying it needs more of this salt |
#939, aired 1988-10-06 | FANCY FOODS $300: Served on meat, maitre d'hotel butter contains salt, pepper, parsley & this juice lemon juice |
#903, aired 1988-07-06 | IN THE NEWS $100: One of the only classes for homeless kids in the U.S. is taught by Marilyn Treshow in this Utah city Salt Lake City |
#887, aired 1988-06-14 | POLAND $600: Poland borders on this body of salt water the Baltic Sea |
#882, aired 1988-06-07 | BALLADS & FOLK SONGS $200: According to a folk song, "He lives with his 5 & 40 wives in the city of the Great Salt Lake" Brigham Young |
#872, aired 1988-05-24 | HAITI $300: A literacy drive uses the phrase "goute sel", Creole for a taste of this, which is used to awaken zombies salt |
#861, aired 1988-05-09 | PLANET EARTH $600: After water itself, it's the most abundant chemical compound in the ocean salt (sodium chloride) |
#855, aired 1988-04-29 | ULYSSES $600: Sowing his field with salt, Ulysses tried to get out of this war with an ancient section 8 Trojan War |
#842, aired 1988-04-12 | ETIQUETTE $600: Amy Vanderbilt says it's an insult to the cook if you do this to the food before tasting it put salt on it (salt or pepper, season it) |
#824, aired 1988-03-17 | "D" IN SCIENCE $200: The conversion of salt water into useable fresh water distillation (or desalination or desalinzation) |
#816, aired 1988-03-07 | HOW TO... $200: Heat to about 400°f, let it explode, then salt & butter it, if desired how to pop (prepare) popcorn |
#814, aired 1988-03-03 | TRIVIAL TOURISM $300: Appropriately, Grand Saline, Tex. sports the only house in America made entirely of blocks of this salt |
#808, aired 1988-02-24 | 4-WORD PHRASES $200: Descriptive of Morton's most famous product, or a really great guy, finest of his kind salt of the earth |
#795, aired 1988-02-05 | 7-LETTER CITIES $200: This city didn't rise from its ashes like its namesake, but from the Salt River Valley Phoenix |
#785, aired 1988-01-22 | BIRDS $500: Sea birds have special nasal glands that distill water & secrete this salt |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Once part of Lake Bonneville, this lake, fed by freshwater streams, is more saline than the ocean the Great Salt Lake |
#768, aired 1987-12-30 | ANAGRAMS $200: Some recipes ask you to add this common season last salt (from last) |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | HERBS & SPICES $400: From the Greek "selinon", it's small seeds are ground & mixed with salt for a seasoning celery |
#753, aired 1987-12-09 | 4-LETTER WORDS $300: Slang for an old sailor salt |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | UTAH $200: This river linking the Great Salt & Utah lakes is named for a river linking the Dead Sea & the Sea of Galillee the River Jordan |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | UTAH $400: Brigham Young's famous 4-word quote uttered when he first saw the Great Salt Lake Valley "This is the place" |
#716, aired 1987-10-19 | SCIENCE $100: Of fresh, brackish, or salt water, the 1 in which it's easiest to float salt water |
#704, aired 1987-10-01 | U.S. CITIES $100: This group not only founded Salt Lake City, but also Mesa, Arizona Mormons |
#697, aired 1987-09-22 | SCIENCE $400: Something described as "brackish" contains this substance salt |
#696, aired 1987-09-21 | FISH $100: All 2/3 of all known species of fish live in this kind of water salt water |
#665, aired 1987-06-26 | METALS $600: The element in common table salt that is technically a metal sodium |
#657, aired 1987-06-16 | FOOD & DRINK $300: From Italian for "salt", this type of sausage often uses meat that's seasoned with red wine salami |
#649, aired 1987-06-04 | THE 50 STATES $200: The Great Salt Lake is larger than either of these smallest 2 states Rhode Island & Delaware |
#643, aired 1987-05-27 | FLORIDA $100: If you smell salt in the air, it's because no part of Florida is over 60 miles from this water (or the ocean) |
#638, aired 1987-05-20 | NURSERY RHYMES $100: Among his many adventures, Simple Simon went to catch a bird by putting this on its tail salt |
#637, aired 1987-05-19 | BRIDGES $500: Virginia's 17 1/2 mile long bridge-tunnel complex takes U.S. Highway 13 across this body of salt water Chesapeake Bay |
#623, aired 1987-04-29 | BEACHES $400: It's why there's presently only 1 beach at Great Salt Lake Park lake has risen so much |
#609, aired 1987-04-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: This body of water contains an estimated 6 trillion lbs. of the mineral in its name the Great Salt Lake |
#603, aired 1987-04-01 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $300: Keep this drawing device handy, not just to make circles, but to unclog salt shaker holes a compass |
#590, aired 1987-03-13 | STATE CAPITALS $200: The population of this capital city is about 2/3 Mormon Salt Lake City, Utah |
#583, aired 1987-03-04 | COOKING $400: To test freshness of eggs, immerse them in a 12% solution of this mineral in water salt |
#577, aired 1987-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This Mormon-founded capital lies at the foot of the westernmost range of the Rocky Mountains Salt Lake City |
#572, aired 1987-02-17 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $600: Since 1924, a compound containing this has been added to table salt to prevent goiters iodine |
#569, aired 1987-02-12 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Of California's Salton Sea, Ariz.'s Salt River & Utah's Great Salt Lake, the 1 that doesn't have salt water Salt River |
#564, aired 1987-02-05 | BIBLICAL RESULTS $100: Looking back resulted in her becoming a pillar of the community - a salt pillar, that is Lot's wife |
#538, aired 1986-12-31 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $100: To remove mildew from perma press fabric, Heloise says soak article in salt & this citrus juice & lay it in the sun lemon juice |
#532, aired 1986-12-23 | LAKES & RIVERS $100: Because of their salt water, the Caspian & Aral, 1st & 4th largest lakes in the world, are called these Seas |
#522, aired 1986-12-09 | ADVERTISING $100: Morton Salt slogan illustrated by a little girl carrying an umbrella when it rains, it pours |
#522, aired 1986-12-09 | NEW TESTAMENT $200: Jesus told his disciples they were this kind of "salt" the salt of the earth |
#512, aired 1986-11-25 | STICKY STUFF $100: Production of this candy is a major pull for tourists in Atlantic City (salt water) taffy |
#507, aired 1986-11-18 | TRANSPORTATION $800: Shielded by a car, in 1941 Alf Letourner hit a speed over 108 mph on this bicycle |
#493, aired 1986-10-29 | BREAD $400: Normally equal to about 2% of flour weight, this compound is basically used to improve the flavor of bread salt |
#489, aired 1986-10-23 | 1979 $400: Though President Carter signed this treaty in June, the Senate never ratified it SALT II |
#479, aired 1986-10-09 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Now at a record level, this Utah body of water is larger than Delaware the Great Salt Lake |
#474, aired 1986-10-02 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: One of his most famous acts of civil disobedience was scooping up sea water to make salt Gandhi |
#457, aired 1986-09-09 | EXPLORERS $200: To win a bet, mountain man Jim Bridger rode dangerous rapids to discover this Utah lake the Great Salt Lake |
#445, aired 1986-05-23 | AUSTRIA $600: Birthplace of Mozart, this province takes its name from its famous old salt mines Salzburg |
#416, aired 1986-04-14 | UTAH $500: 100-square-mile region where speeding is allowed, but only when going for records the Bonneville Salt Flats |
#410, aired 1986-04-04 | RELIGION $100: "This is the place", he said upon reaching the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah Brigham Young |
#400, aired 1986-03-21 | NAMED FOR $100: The company formerly called "Alonzo Richmond, Agents for Onondaga Salt" now bears his name Morton |
#393, aired 1986-03-12 | THE EARTH $100: The amount of this substance in solution in the seas has been estimated at 56.000 million million tons salt |
#391, aired 1986-03-10 | OLD TESTAMENT $200: When she looked back at Sodom, Lot's wife was turned into this a pillar of salt |
#390, aired 1986-03-07 | POTENT POTABLES $200: To do this, lick salt off hand, quickly swallow shot of liquor, then suck on lime slice how to drink tequila |
#387, aired 1986-03-04 | CHEMISTRY $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 valuable industrial products produced by passing electricity through brine (1 of) hydrogen gas, chlorine gas or sodium hydroxide (lye or caustic soda) |
#386, aired 1986-03-03 | WILD WEST $100: The Mormon trail ran from Nauvoo, Illinois to this city Salt Lake City |
#386, aired 1986-03-03 | CONNECTICUT $400: King Charles II's charter defined Conn.'s boundaries as running west to this body of salt water the Pacific Ocean |
#385, aired 1986-02-28 | FOOD $200: In 1976,a pound of potato chips cost 200 times more than a pound of this related item potatoes |
#351, aired 1986-01-13 | MEDICAL MYTHS $500: Taking salt tablets in hot weather may do these renal organs harm the kidneys |
#344, aired 1986-01-02 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $1000: Daily dosage of this B vitamin equal to 1/100 of a salt grain will help cure pernicious anemia B12 |
#339, aired 1985-12-26 | ART $100: Judas has not only spilled salt but is 13th at the table in this da Vinci work "The Last Supper" |
#335, aired 1985-12-20 | METALS $300: In common table salt, this element is the metal sodium |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | VIRGIN ISLANDS $100: Explorer believed to have landed at Salt River Bay, St. Croix in 1493 Columbus |
#305, aired 1985-11-08 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: Name by which we better know the crystallized mineral halite (rock) salt |
#290, aired 1985-10-18 | ACRONYMS $200: When we discuss "SALT" with Russia, we don't mean Siberian mines, but this the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
#289, aired 1985-10-17 | "C" CITIES $500: After its destruction in the 3rd Punic war, the Romans sowed salt on its site Carthage |
#285, aired 1985-10-11 | FOOD & DRINK $200: The word “salary” comes from early Roman soldiers being paid with this prized seasoning salt |
#283, aired 1985-10-09 | CHEMISTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 substances formed when bases are combined with acids (1 of) water or a salt |
#276, aired 1985-09-30 | ENERGY $200: In 1806, brine well drillers in Virginia were mad when this came up with the salt water oil |
#184, aired 1985-05-23 | SUPERSTITIONS $200: After spilling this, you should throw some over your shoulder salt |
#174, aired 1985-05-09 | CHEMISTRY $600: The added "I" in table salt iodine |
#167, aired 1985-04-30 | IN THE OCEANS $400: Not salt, but this element is most abundant in sea water, & quite likely in your swimming pool, too chlorine |
#159, aired 1985-04-18 | POTENT POTABLES $400 (Daily Double): Liquor that this song's about:
"Jose Cuervo you are a friend of mine / I like to drink you with a little salt and lime / Did I kiss all the cowboys? / Did I shoot out the lights? / Did I dance on the bar? / Did I start a fight?" tequila |
#143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): The only U.S. state capital with 3 words Salt Lake City |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | EUROPE $400: Every European nation except Andorra & Albania signed this in Finland in 1975 the Helsinki Accord |
#121, aired 1985-02-25 | GEOGRAPHY $800: Largest inland body of salt water in the world the Caspian Sea |
#95, aired 1985-01-18 | FAIR "SHAKES" $1,200 (Daily Double): What Jimmy Buffet was searching for in this song:
"But there's booze in the blender / And soon it will render / That frozen concoction that helps me hang on / Wastin' away again in Margaritaville..." a lost shaker of salt |
#92, aired 1985-01-15 | TRIVIA $500: What Gandhi marched down to the sea to make against British order salt |
#48, aired 1984-11-14 | TRIVIA $200: Substance advertised by the slogan, "When it rains, it pours" Morton salt |
#43, aired 1984-11-07 | THE BIBLE $400: What Lot’s wife became when she looked back on Sodom a pillar of salt |
#41, aired 1984-11-05 | SUPERSTITIONS $400: After doing this, superstitious people throw some over their shoulder spilling salt |
#25, aired 1984-10-12 | LAKES & RIVERS $500: It’s the largest lake remaining from prehistoric Lake Bonneville the Great Salt Lake |
#20, aired 1984-10-05 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Located 15 miles from its namesake, it was founded by Brigham Young Salt Lake City |
#15, aired 1984-09-28 | THE HOME $300: Tuber that soaks up excess salt when added to your stew the potato |
#15, aired 1984-09-28 | POTENT POTABLES $400: A sprinkle of salt & slice of lime traditionally accompany it tequila |
#5, aired 1984-09-14 | CHEMISTRY $400: Common kitchen substance known chemically as sodium chloride salt |
#4, aired 1984-09-13 | STATE CAPITALS $600: 1 of 4 state capitals that end in word "City" (1 of) Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, Jefferson City, or Carson City |
#2, aired 1984-09-11 | STATE CAPITALS $500: The name shows its founder, Roger Williams, believed God led him there Providence |
#2, aired 1984-01-01 | SUPERSTITIONS $200: An omen of bad luck in Da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper" the spilt salt shaker (or 13 at the table) |