| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | FOOD TALK $400: This French term means to turn solid food into a paste or thick liquid, & you'll find a setting for it on many a blender purée |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | AS HEARD ON TV $600: Setting up this '80s title, "Do you know what people call this place? not St. Eligius..." St. Elsewhere |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $500: Setting sail in 1610, it's the ship Henry Hudson used to navigate what we now know as the Hudson strait and Hudson Bay the Discovery |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | FORKS, KNIVES, SPOONS $200: Forks, Washington is the setting for this saga that you can really sink your teeth into Twilight |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1500: Once the "logging capital of the world", this city in Washington State is now best known as the setting of the "Twilight" saga Forks |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $1200: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting of some of his works Algeria |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | LET'S PLAY SPORTSBALL $1000: In 1764 this storied Scottish golf club trimmed its Old Course from 22 holes to 18, setting a new standard St. Andrews |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | GREEK GEOGRAPHY $2,600 (Daily Double): The setting of plays like "Oedipus" & "Antigone", this Greek city shares its name with a capital city of Ancient Egypt Thebes |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $800: In "When Wendy Grew Up", James Barrie changed the name of a fictional setting to this double-talk one Never Never Land |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $400: Setting up a soup kitchen in Golden Gate Park, Anna Holshouser gave people hope & food after this 1906 event the San Francisco earthquake |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $400: A house overlooking Nagasaki Harbor is the setting of this opera Madama Butterfly |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $2000: Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games Portal |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1600: The Colosseum is the setting for the climax of George Bernard Shaw's play called him "and the Lion" Androcles |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $400: In 1687 Venetians besieging Athens hit this temple with a mortar, setting off gunpowder stored inside; it's never been the same the Parthenon |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $2000: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway Nebraska |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | HOME COMING $1200: The 8th Earl & Countess of Carnarvon live at Highclere Castle, also recognized as the title setting of this TV series Downton Abbey |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TECH TALK $200: Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting airplane mode |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $300: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) The Warriors helped usher in the NBA's 3-point era behind the accuracy of the Splash Brothers, Klay Thompson & this record-setting sharpshooter Steph Curry |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ACRONYMS $1200: When setting goals, be SMART--the S stands for this, so not vague & general specific |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | LAUNDRY DAY $1000: On a label, the bucket with one line under it means this alliterative setting for clothes that don't need ironing permanent press |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $6,400 (Daily Double): A small Jewish village in Russia, Anatevka is the setting for this musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $3,000 (Daily Double): Mais oui, calcium sulfate hemihydrate is a mouthful, so a fast-setting-after-drying gypsum product goes by these 3 words plaster of Paris |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $1000: Legal when done by the government, illegal when done by competitors, it's the artificial setting of an amount charged for goods price-fixing |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TV FACTOIDS $600: A teaching hospital in this city has been the setting for "Grey's Anatomy" for 18 seasons Seattle |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $200: This show is set in & around Rydell High School Grease |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $400: This show's "Cell Block Tango" is danced in Cook County Jail Chicago |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $600: This musical gets its dance on in 1962 Baltimore Hairspray |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $800: This favorite is right here in River City, Iowa The Music Man |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $1000: As of 2022, it's the longest-running current show with Northern Uganda as a setting The Book of Mormon |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | SITCOMS $800: Setting out for a 3-hour tour, it was the "fishy" boat on "Gilligan's Island" the Minnow |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $400: Litchfield Correctional Institution for Women Orange is the New Black |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $800: On season 2 of this anthology series, Briarcliff Manor mental asylum American Horror Story |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $1200: St. Bonaventure Hospital, where Dr. Shaun Murphy works The Good Doctor |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $1600: In the '70s & '80s,
Ewing Oil Dallas |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | TV SHOWS BY SETTING $2000: From 1993 to 2005, the 15th Precinct in Manhattan NYPD Blue |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THE 1720s $2000: Setting off from Kamchatka, this explorer sailed north through the strait that today bears his name Bering |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $200: In 2021, Shakespeare in the Park was back in this park with "Merry Wives", changing the Bard's setting to South Harlem Central Park |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ECONOMICS $2000: Related to a word meaning "setting on fire", they're defined simply as "perceived benefits that encourage certain behaviors" incentives |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE $400: This metallic element's name comes from Latin for the island of Cyprus, where it was mined copper |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE $800: It's the only elemental metal that's liquid at room temperature, which it can be used to measure mercury |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE $1200: This coinage metal, atomic number 28, was identified by a Swedish chemist in 1751 nickel |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE $1600: Its mass 1 isotope is also called protium hydrogen |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE $2000: Y? Y ask about this element with the symbol Y? Because it's used in structural ceramics, fluorescent lamps & simulated diamonds yttrium |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | 17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $2000: This mercantile "Company" defeated the Portuguese in India in 1612, setting up trade deals with the Mughals the East India Company |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $1000: The first tweet ever, "just setting up my twttr", was from this Twitter co-founder (Jack) Dorsey |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A CAREER IN TECH $200: (Sundar Pichai delivers the clue.) Setting ambitious goals will help you do great things; encouraged by co-founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin, even though I'd missed our goal of 50 million users of this browser 1 year, I surpassed our target of 111 million the next year Google Chrome |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $600: Monet was fond of setting up shop by this river & making impressions of the Palace of Westminster the Thames |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE CRUSADES $400: In 1099, 3 years after setting out, the first crusaders achieved their goal, the capture of this city Jerusalem |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $400: UPU:
"Universal" this "Union", setting the rules for international mail delivery Postal |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | READING THE DETECTIVES $600: 1948 Los Angeles is the setting for "Devil in a" this, the first novel featuring Easy Rawlins Blue Dress |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: As a child Johanna Spyri spent time in Graubunden in this country, a setting she would later use in "Heidi" Switzerland |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THIS CATEGORY HAS LEGS $800: Kinesiology expert Tom Stoffregen says most people get these & stop stumbling around the deck within 36 hours of setting sail sea legs |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | MYTHOLOGY $400: Hera honored her servant Argus by setting his eyes in the feathers of this, her sacred bird a peacock |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $400: Inspired by the author's hometown of Monroeville, Maycomb, Alabama is the setting for this 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1600: A bio of John Fogerty says this CCR signature song shifts "Northern Californian experiences to a southern setting" "Born On The Bayou" |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | ETYMOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): This term for your setting or environment is French for "middle place" milieu |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $400: The land of Oz, before & after Dorothy dropped in Wicked |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $800: A junkyard on the night of the Jellicle Ball Cats |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $1200: The small village of Anatevka in Russia Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $2000: Mushnik's skid row florists Little Shop of Horrors |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING $3,200 (Daily Double): In & around the royal palace in Bangkok in the 1860s The King and I |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | CHECKING IN TO THE MOVIES $600: This iconic San Diego hotel was a setting for "Some Like It Hot" the Coronado |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $400: When she wrote "Outlander", Diana Gabaldon hadn't been to this U.K. country, the book's main setting Scotland |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $200: To maximize their ability to hear insects, spectral tarsiers tug on their ears before setting out on this nightly activity hunting |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | DECEMBER 21 $800: Setting a precedent, in 1942 the Supreme Court ruled that a divorce granted in this western state was legal in North Carolina Nevada |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A DAY AT THE RACES $600: In 2012 the Maryland Racing Commission shaved 1 2/5 seconds off Secretariat's 1973 win, setting a new record for this Triple Crown race the Preakness |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $1000: Not taking risks, but calculating risks & setting premiums is the job of actuaries, who mostly work in this industry insurance |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | DAYTIME TV $1600: Pine Valley was the fictional setting for this longtime soap that often revolved around Erica Kane & her many husbands All My Children |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $800: Capeside was the setting of this series with James Van Der Beek in the title role Dawson's Creek |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | TV OF TODAY $1000: Hakeem Lyon & Thirsty Rawlings are characters on this Fox show that's setting records Empire |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush Oliver Stone |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10 [She presents from Miami, FL].) Miami Beach's Carlyle Hotel was a setting for this 1996 comedy starring Robin Williams & Nathan Lane The Birdcage |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | YOU BURNED MY FOOD! $200: The Greeks gave us saganaki, setting the sheep's milk type of this ablaze right at your table cheese |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $600: The good times roll in Bon Temps, Louisiana, the setting for this drama where some folks really vamped it up True Blood |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $1000: "The Burning", the debut film for Holly Hunter & Jason Alexander, was part of the flourishing horror-at-this-summer-setting genre summer camp |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $1000: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In the film "The Last Station" I play this Russian author caught between his worshipers & family; the title refers to the setting of my death scene Tolstoy |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THEY'RE BACK! $400: The reboot of this soapy series about the wealthy Carrington & Colby families changed the setting from Denver to Atlanta Dynasty |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | THEY'RE BACK! $800: This reboot made the divorced mom & her family Cuban American & moved the setting from Indianapolis to Los Angeles One Day at a Time |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE O $1200: Doc's, this type of billiards establishment, is an important setting in the novel "Native Son" poolroom |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $200: Act IV, scene i:
"A cavern and in the midst a boiling cauldron" Macbeth |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $400: Act III, scene i: "Before the Senate house; senators in session seen through open doors" Julius Caesar |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $600: Act I, scene ii:
"The island. The entrance of a cave" The Tempest |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Act II, scene i:
"Portia's house at Belmont" The Merchant of Venice |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | SETTING THE SCENE IN SHAKESPEARE $1000: A tragedy, act I, scene ii: "The Earl of Gloucester's castle" King Lear |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | DELIVER THE LETTER $800: The setting of an adjustable lens aperture is a this-stop f-stop |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | VEHICULAR ACTIVITY $200: There's a kind of plane in this word for traveling to exotic places & living a luxury lifestyle jet-setting |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WOMEN $600: In 1989 Fay Wray visited the Empire State Building, the setting of the climax of this 1933 film that had made her a star King Kong |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $800: The island of Pianosa is the setting of this classic by Joseph Heller Catch-22 |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | N.Y. TV $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In Manhattan in the '70s, a stretch of 42nd Street between 7th & 8th Avenues was known as this, the title & setting of a Maggie Gyllenhaal HBO show; note the "2" in 42nd Street The Deuce |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | COMPUTERS $1600: Setting the stage for the PC revolution, in 1975 he & a pal co-founded Microsoft Paul Allen |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in the Nyhavn area of this capital--it looks like a fairy tale setting, & fairy tales like "The Princess and the Pea" were written here Copenhagen |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $1200: Wragby Hall is a setting in this controversial novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | ANAGRAMMED TV TITLES $400: Setting records on Fox:
MERE PI Empire |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | HOTELS $1600: Agatha Christie stayed at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan & used it as a setting in this 1937 mystery Death on the Nile |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | CITIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI $2000: John Deere plowed into this Illinois city, setting up shop in 1848 & it remains the world headquarters Moline, Illinois |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | ONE T, DOUBLE T $400: French word for proper conduct in a social setting etiquette |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1200: Delia Owens used the marshes of North Carolina as the setting for her bestseller "Where" these, aka crayfish, "Sing" crawdads |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Manet painted the bar at this Paris music hall in part by setting up a fake one in his studio but with a real barmaid the Folies-Bergère |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $200: This dystopian novel opens in April in London, "chief city of Airstrip One" 1984 |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $400: In this classic Buck is shipped off to the Klondike to be trained as a sled dog Call of the Wild |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $800: Gustav von Aschenbach leaves Munich for Italy in this Thomas Mann novella whose title is a spoiler Death in Venice |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $1000: This title girl is sent to Trantridge to try to claim kinship with a rich family in a Thomas Hardy classic Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A CLASSIC SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this novel sets the scene:
it is Jan. 6, 1482 & church bells are ringing throughout Paris The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | MUSICAL & PLAY SETTINGS $2000: A back room & bar of Harry Hope's saloon is the setting for this Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $1600: Boston, not a Mideast country, was the setting for this series with Jill Hennessy as a crusading medical examiner Crossing Jordan |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) A building, its setting, and its furnishings were inextricably related for this architect, who designed the prairie-style room and all of its furniture, which is placed exactly as he intended it Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | FLAGS $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a flag on the monitor.) The flag shows the sun setting over wavy blue & white stripes that represent the Pacific Ocean, a reminder that this is Canada's westernmost province British Columbia |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | HISTORY $1000: Born in Italy, he helped prep the ships for Columbus' second & third voyagers before setting to sea himself Vespucci |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | GONNA PAINT THIS TOWN $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The distinctive Orthodox church in Vitebsk, the hometown of this artist, grounds the setting of the painting in realism, in contrast to the lovers who defy gravity & fly over the town Marc Chagall |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES $600: As a 1924 host, Paris was the setting for this film about runners Eric Liddell & Harold Abrahams Chariots of Fire |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $200: Setting one of these up on a tripod, Alan Bean inadvertently pointed it at the Sun & wrecked it a camera |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | GOING UNDERGROUND $800: A setting in "Les Miserables", they were described by Victor Hugo as "fetid, wild, fierce" the sewers |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | HAMLET $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Kronborg Castle in Denmark.) The legendary Danish hero Amleth inspired Shakespeare's "Tragedy of Hamlet", & the castle at Kronborg inspired this setting for nearly every scene of the play Elsinore |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | A SAGE'S ADVICE $2000: Many sages have said that if setting out to get this, dig 2 graves, one for yourself revenge |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | COLLUSION $1200: It was hats off & lawsuit on when NFL players sued the owners for $4 billion for setting a secret this 2-word term in 2010 a salary cap |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC $600: Shaw said Brahms' setting of this mass for the dead "is patiently borne only by the corpse" a requiem |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK $5,000 (Daily Double): This pastoral place is the setting for most of "As You Like It" the Forest of Arden |
| #7638, aired 2017-11-22 | POE FOLKS $800: Tiny "Hop-Frog" is one of these royal amusers who gets revenge upon an abusive king & his court by setting them all on fire a jester |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | DRAMATIC TV DRAMA! $800: This actor, setting things straight: "I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger" Bryan Cranston |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1900 the U.S. went on this standard, setting its price at $20.67 an ounce the gold standard |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | "HAT" BOX $800: Commercial setting where Rhode Island Reds might be born a hatchery |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | GRADE THAT WORD $1000: This setting that controls a camera lens aperture doesn't get a pass an F-stop |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SOCIETY $800: Some might need to flaunt a "symbol" of this, the position that a person occupies in a particular social setting a status symbol |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $1000: Margaret Dumont changed "man" to "woman", setting up the Marx Brothers' jokes as a master of this job straight man (or straight woman) |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $2000: (I'm Julie Nelson from Kare 11.) The Minnesota State Fair is the setting of the 1928 story "A Night at the Fair" by this author born in St. Paul Fitzgerald |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE SOAP? $1000: For 45 years the town of Llanview was the setting for this serial One Life to Live |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | 1895 $400: William G. Morgan invented this team sport that's played indoors by teams of 6 players volleyball |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | SWEET "T" $200: In 1998 this candy brand produced a record-setting 1,200-foot-long piece of licorice Twizzler |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "PEANUT", "BUTTER", "JELLY", "TIME" $600: In a table setting, it's placed on its own small plate above the forks a butter knife |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | ETIQUETTE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a place setting.) Set silverware on the table in the order of use--first course fork on the far left, the knife on the right, the spoon on the right of the knife, & utensils for this go horizontally above the plate dessert |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER $400: From a French word meaning "alone", it's a single diamond in a setting, be it a ring or a pendant a solitaire |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $400: A Moroccan bar Casablanca |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $800: A mental hospital in Oregon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1200: The court of Emperor Josef II Amadeus |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1600: A beach in Hawaii From Here to Eternity |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm A Beautiful Mind |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | 1999 $1,800 (Daily Double): Setting in motion a legal battle over digital music rights, this file-sharing service debuted Napster |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | OF BOOKS & BOATS $600: A storm sinks the freighter Tsimtsum, setting the title character adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in this novel Life of Pi |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | HOW NOVEL! $800: The setting for most of the fictional "Twilight" series is this real Washington city Forks |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | MUSICAL SETTINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Cook County jail in the 1920s is the setting for much of this show Chicago |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $200: "A plain near to a port in Denmark" is a setting in this play Hamlet |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | TAKE ME TO THE COMBAT PILOT $600 (Daily Double): Between 1941 & 1946, 992 pilots graduated from the training program in this Alabama city Tuskegee |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY $600: This Danish castle also called Kronborg is the setting for much of "Hamlet" Elsinore |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: This city in northern Italy known for its university is the setting for "The Taming of the Shrew" Padua |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | "ADD"/"DROP" $1600: A stage's rear curtain, or the setting for any event backdrop |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | RADIO $800: It's the act of setting a record on a turntable in position for immediate play to queue |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THE WEEKEND IN POP CULTURE $800: A Hamptons beach house is the setting for this 1989 film comedy in which Andrew McCarthy props up his dead boss Weekend at Bernie's |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in this largest township in Johannesburg, South Africa; once notorious for repression, now setting trends in fashion & art Soweto |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $800: The setting for literature's "Cannery Row", this California city also has a hep September jazz festival Monterey |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY $600: Fortune noted this co. "expects to spend $1.7 bil. to cover the cost of its record-setting number of recalls so far in 2014" GM |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | THERE'S "AIR" IN THE SOMETHING $1200: A single diamond in a setting solitaire |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX $600: At 4 feet tall & up to 100 pounds, this largest species of penguin, seen in a family setting, reigns over the others the emperor penguin |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LIVES OF THE SCIENTISTS $400: He tipped his scale in 1848, setting absolute zero at a brisk -460 degrees Fahrenheit Kelvin |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $600: A man can feel quite at home in a tropical setting by wearing one of these, also called a toquilla straw hat a Panama hat |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | THAT MOVIE TITLE IS LEGAL $1200: Rather than take a settlement, attorney Paul Newman goes to trial in this legal drama The Verdict |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | ON THE GO $800: When you're told to go to the back of this vehicle, it's a long way in the record-setting one in Dresden that seats 256 a bus |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $200: Nelson Algren grew up in this "Second City" & made it the setting of his second novel, "Never Come Morning" Chicago |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $400: "Porgy and Bess" wasn't produced in this city, its setting, until the city's tricentennial festivities in 1970 Charleston |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $600: Montauk, Long Island co-stars on this Showtime drama about a novelist, a waitress & their fling The Affair |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $800: This Robert E. Howard creation wreaks havoc in Cimmeria & is also called "the Cimmerian" Conan |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | THE SETTING, SON $1000: A 1946 film was titled after this London asylum, a synonym for lunacy; Boris Karloff is the sadistic head Bedlam |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | THERE'S NO STOPPING THEM $800: This poet who could not stop for death also noted, "We passed the fields of gazing grain--we passed the setting sun" (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | THAT'S QUITE A MOUTHFUL! $1200: A song that's durchkomponiert has a different musical setting for each one of these sections verses |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | HOSPITALS $1600: McLean Psychiatric in Massachusetts is the setting of Susanna Kaysen's memoir "Girl," this Interrupted |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | ALADDIN ON BROADWAY $2000: (Jafar reads with an evil laugh.) I am Jafar, a powerful sorcerer & grand vizier to the sultan of this mythical land, the setting of "Aladdin" Agrabah |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | ETIQUETTE $400: In a traditional table setting, this should be placed so that the blade faces the plate the knife |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | AUTHORS' MUSEUMS $600: Appropriately, a tower in Ireland that was a setting in "Ulysses" houses a museum devoted to this author (James) Joyce |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | BIBLE BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Last name of record-setting hurdler & San Francisco 49er Renaldo Nehemiah |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | QUIRKY NEWS $400: A game design professor played this classic Atari game on the side of a skyscraper in 2013, setting a world record Pong |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | LITERATURE $1000: 12th century England is the setting of Ken Follett's historical novel these "of the Earth" Pillars |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $2000: This Steve McQueen film was shot on the steep streets of San Francisco, an exhilarating setting for its extended car chase Bullitt |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | TV & MOVIE SCHOOLS $1200: We'll put you on double secret probation if you don't know Faber College was the setting for this comedy film Animal House |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | THAT '70s SHOW $800: Moonbase Alpha was the setting of this sci-fi series Space: 1999 |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ISLAND PRISONS $2000: A setting in "The Count of Monte Cristo", this island fortress in the Bay of Marseilles once housed thousands of Huguenots Château d'If |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $1200: Washington Irving admitted that when he wrote the story, he'd never been to these mountains, the tale's setting the Catskills |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Camden College is the setting for "The Rules of Attraction" by this 3-named chronicler of amoral youth Bret Easton Ellis |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | WRITERS IN PRISON $7,200 (Daily Double): He spent 30 days in jail for vagrancy in 1894 before heading to the Klondike, the setting for some of his best stories Jack London |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | T.P., YOUR HOUSE $400: Tom Petty, you had a house in Encino in this part of L.A. that's the setting of "Free Falling" the San Fernando Valley |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $600: In math, it's a rectangular array of numbers, not the setting for a dystopian 1999 sci-fi movie the matrix |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | GOING EMILY POST‑AL $200: The newest edition of "Emily Post's Etiquette" has the helpful table-setting reminder "FOrKS", the K & S being these knives & spoons |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | GEMS $2000: Princess Diana's engagement ring was this gem surrounded by 14 diamonds in a cluster setting a blue sapphire |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FIRE! $600: This general was blamed for the fire that destroyed Columbia, South Carolina, but he denied setting it & tried to put it out (William Tecumseh) Sherman |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | FEEL NOT-SO-GOOD MOVIES $800: 5 teens are sentenced to one day in a confined setting; Dad issues arise; buns are said to have been taped together The Breakfast Club |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | GUINNESS RECORDS $1200: In 2012 Felix Baumgartner dropped 24 miles making this type of alliterative tumble setting 5 world records a freefall |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AN UNFINISHED CATEG $600: Setting up your business, the first "L" in an LLC stands for... limited |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | "ATH" & YOU SHALL RECEIVE $1000: Town that's the setting for the ending of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" Bath |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | TV LOCALES $200: Caramoan is the latest exotic Pacific setting for this CBS reality show Survivor |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | NEWSWORTHY $400: In March 2011 the U.N. protected Libyan civilians by setting up this aerial exclusion zone a no-fly zone |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | ETIQUETTE $600: By setting your used knife & fork parallel on your plate, fork tines up you indicate that you're finished |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LITERARY TERMS $600: A word meaning "ideal" derived from a 1516 work gets a new first syllable & becomes this adjective for an awful setting dystopian |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | LET'S WRITE A SHORT STORY $200: Let's make London this, meaning where the story takes place the setting |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS $1600: 1949: I'm in Taiwan, setting up a government with other nationalist Chinese leaders Chiang Kai-shek |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | 1892 $800: The Homestead Strike at one of this tycoon's steel plants was broken, setting back the union movement Carnegie |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | THE BOX $1600: In 1974-'75 Dave Schultz of this Philadelphia team spent lots of time in the box, setting an NHL record with 472 penalty minutes the Flyers |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | THE LAST "DROP" $1600: Let me set the stage for you; it's the rear curtain of a stage setting a backdrop |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $200: This oldest delegate declared that a carved sun on Washington's chair was "a rising and not a setting sun" Benjamin Franklin |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | DON'T MESS WITH TAXES $800: In 1789 the First Congress passed a law setting up these, placed on goods imported into the United States a tariff |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | THE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL $400: The flag seen here in a less dramatic setting was waving over this fort on September 14, 1814 Fort McHenry |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | WHAT'S APENNINE $400: The Apennines produce this sculpture material & are one setting in the 1860 novel titled this "Faun" marble |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | 1960s BESTSELLERS $2000: The pope has died, setting off intrigue in the Vatican, in "The Shoes of" this the Fisherman |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" battle site is the setting for a 1980s ensemble cop drama Bunker Hill Street Blues |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards & establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed No Child Left Behind |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $400: The title of this musical about a white DJ & a black club singer in 1950s Tennessee is the city of its setting Memphis |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | THE STORY OF O. HENRY $2000: In 1910 O. Henry died in this "Bagdad on the Subway", the setting for many of his stories New York |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | THE JEOPARDY! TIME MACHINE $1600: Get ready to shout, "Mr. President, look out!" when the setting is for this city Sept. 6, 1901 Buffalo |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | THE LONELY ISLAND $2000: Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas was the setting for the fourth season of "Survivor" & for this author's "Typee" Herman Melville |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1950 play, a dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chests The Rose Tattoo |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Both acts of this Beckett play have the same simple setting: "A country road. A tree" Waiting for Godot |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICANS IN PARIS $200: Setting sail for the Paris Peace Conference in December 1918, he became the first sitting president to cross the Atlantic Woodrow Wilson |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $2000: This grim landmark is the setting for 1888's "The Yeomen of the Guard" & some of the fun takes place around the chopping block The Tower of London |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: Charles Gounod's mother thought he might become a priest, & one of his best-known works is this setting of a Catholic prayer Ave Maria |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | THE BROWNS $800: This record-setting athlete is a member of the halls of fame for college football, pro football & lacrosse, too Jim Brown |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | HANDHELD $1000: On "Star Trek" handheld devices included tricorders & these weapons with a "stun" setting phasers |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | CASTLES $400: Neuschwanstein Castle, often described as a magical setting, is found in this country Germany |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $1,600 (Daily Double): Eyepiece,
declination setting scale,
azimuth fine adjustment a telescope |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | "STOP" & "GO" $800: On a camera, it's the setting of an adjustable lens aperture indicated by a number, such as 1.4 or 11 an f-stop |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | FAMILY VALUES $800: After setting the standard in oil, the head of this family gave $80 million to the Univ. of Chicago by the time of his death (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | LITERARY ISLAND HOPPING $1200: Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica is the setting for this 1990 Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | TV WORKPLACES $200: All hail the Sunshine Cab Company, the setting of this sitcom Taxi |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | FIREFIGHTING $800: Red Adair mastered extinguishing oil & gas fires by setting off these to suck the oxygen from the blaze explosions |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $600 (Daily Double): The courtyard of Inverness is the setting for Act I, Scene vii of this masterpiece Macbeth |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | THAT HURTS! $1000: Clearing land by cutting trees down and then setting fire to them is called this "& burn" slash |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | SUPERMARKET SWEEP $800: By 1962 this brand "summited" & became the best-selling toothpaste in the U.S.--guess I won't be setting a trend if I buy some Crest |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | PLEASE BELIZE ME $1600: Belize's highest peak is known as this author's "Delight", for its resemblance to the setting of "The Lost World" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS $1200: The music for this ballet is great; ignore the critics who don't like children in leading roles & the Christmas setting The Nutcracker |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | A KISS IS STILL A KISS $600: A busy Tokyo street is the setting of a goodbye kiss between Bill Murray & her in a 2003 movie Scarlett Johansson |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PLAY FASTER! $800: At a setting of 70, you're in this tempo; Samuel Barber wrote one "for Strings" adagio |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PLAY FASTER! $1200: A metronome setting of 100 is this tempo that includes the author of "Inferno" andante |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: After basically setting Georgia on fire, he was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1869 to 1884 Sherman |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | UNREAL ESTATE $200: Bedford Falls is the setting of this classic 1946 Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | UNREAL ESTATE $800: Gopher Prairie is the imaginary setting of this Sinclair Lewis novel Main Street |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS $2000: Environment or setting milieu |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | THE U.S. BEFORE 1900 $1200: 15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed setting an end to the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson beat the British at this city New Orleans |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | THE LITERARY CHEERLEADER! $800: 2-4-6-8, this "Garp" man who also wrote "Setting Free the Bears" is really great! John Irving |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: A N.Y. production of his play "People Are Living There" moved the setting from his native South Africa to N.J. Athol Fugard |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | FICTION SCIENCE $2000: No one knows who planted this fossilized "man" in an English dig, setting the study of evolution back decades Piltdown Man |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION $1000: In 1948, after setting up his Indiana institute, he published "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #5588, aired 2008-12-17 | THOMAS JEFFERSON'S MONTICELLO $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Monticello in Virginia.) The name of Monticello refers to the home's geographical setting--it's Italian for "little" this hill (mountain) |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $600: The Pollitt Plantation in Mississippi is the setting of this Williams work Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | THE INTERNATIONAL BUTLER ACADEMY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits at a place setting at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.) Spoon handles for this course should all face to the right, forks to the left, & they are always positioned above the place setting dessert |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A trend-setting sports network with new hosts JC Chasez, Joey Fatone & Lance Bass ESPN SYNC |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1600: The 2008 novel "What Happened to Anna K." retells this Tolstoy tale in a modern setting Anna Karenina |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM $800: This Jamaican made history in Beijing by setting world records in the 100 & 200 meters (Usain) Bolt |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | BUSY AS A BEE $800: 4 Dutch builders were busy in Leeuwarden before setting a record by toppling 4,079,381 of these in 2006 dominoes |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $800: This beloved country is the setting of Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country" South Africa |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | LITERATURE $1000: The NYC murder of Mary Rogers inspired Poe, who changed the setting to Paris & created "The Mystery of" her Marie Roget |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $3,800 (Daily Double): A 16th century Japanese village is the main setting for this 1954 foreign film classic The Seven Samurai |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | OFFICIAL CANADIAN PROVINCE THINGS $400: British Columbia's flag shows the sun setting over wavy stripes, which symbolize this ocean the Pacific |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $8,400 (Daily Double): London physician creates new designer drug; has way too much fun; pays dearly Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $400: The musical "Les Mis" didn't debut on Broadway but in this city, its setting Paris |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY $800: Setting 5 on the 1935 model of this Sunbeam appliance was "Whipping Potatoes"; setting 6 was "Cream" Mixmaster |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | STAR TREK JARGON $200: The type-2 of this weapon had a max power setting of 16 & could be set to heat, disrupt or stun a phaser |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | UNREAL ESTATE $2000: Castle Richmond is the title setting of an 1860 work by this author of "Barchester Towers" (Anthony) Trollope |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | FAMOUS HUMANITARIANS $600: After WWII, this Boys Town founder served as a consultant in setting up youth programs in Korea & Japan Father Flanagan |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLIN $1600: Joyce made the city the setting for this 1914 story collection because it was "the centre of paralysis" Dubliners |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | '90s TV $3,000 (Daily Double): This sitcom debuted on Fox in August, 1998, 22 years after its setting That '70s Show |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $400: Joseph Heller used the Mediterranean island of Pianosa as the setting for this 1961 WWII novel Catch-22 |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | GOING EMILY POST-AL $1000: 10:30 or 11:00 PM is an appropriate time when setting one of these for your 13-year-old curfew |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | SMALL ISLANDS $400: In the 19th century, Italy tried to establish a penal colony on this small, barren island, the setting for a Dumas novel Monte Cristo |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | CONSUMER REPORTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew enlightens us from the Consumer Reports photography lab in Yonkers, NY.) To judge digital prints, Consumer Reports simulates the bluish color temperature of daylight with a setting of 5000 K, the "K" standing for this kelvin |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: Proteus & Valentine are "The Two Gentlemen of" this place, also the setting of "Romeo and Juliet" Verona |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | I'M SURPRISED $800: Captain Kirk often ordered phasers set on this non-lethal surprising setting stun |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $800: A Spanish prison is the setting for the play within this musical with the songs "Dulcinea" & "The Impossible Dream" Man Of La Mancha |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: Put out a proclamation! It's the act of setting people free emancipation |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS $200: Ma Li Hua went 303,621 for 303,628 single-handedly setting up & toppling these dominoes |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $800: Gao Xingjian's "Fugitives" used this 1989 massacre as its setting & was later banned by the Chinese government Tiananmen Square |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks atop a lush seaside hill.) I'm at this site in New York State bought by Congress for $11,085 in 1790 at the request of the Secretary of War West Point |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE $800: A setting in "As You Like It", it's also the name of an ancient wooded area near Shakespeare's home the Forest of Arden |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | STAGE ACTING $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew speaks on a living room stage setting.) By speaking to farther & farther points, I learn to do this with my voice, also something done at the back of a movie theater project |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | 2001: A SPORTS ODYSSEY $200: Number of home runs Barry Bonds hit in 2001, setting a Major League record 73 |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | M.D. TV $400: The 510th Evac Hospital in Vietnam was the setting for this medical drama China Beach |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | NO PLACE TO GO $2000: An infernal drawing room is the sole setting of this existential 1944 play No Exit |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | LITERARY THRILLERS $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia.) A 1981 thriller by this author opens with the discovery of 3 faceless corpses here in the title setting, Moscow's Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: In 1223 St. Francis of Assisi famously celebrated Christmas by setting up one of these displays in Greccio, Italy a crèche (or a nativity scene) |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: St. Louis' old one of these, seen here, was the setting for the first trial in the Dred Scott case a courthouse |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS $1600: In the table setting seen here, 50 is the atomic number & 118.7 is this the atomic weight |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | MOVIE "&" TV $800: The original setting for this 2002 animated Disney adventure was Kansas, not Hawaii Lilo & Stitch |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | LEWIS & CLARK $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a covered pile of crates in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Oregon.) A 5,000-sq.-ft. exhibit at the Columbia Gorge Museum shows the 30 tons of cargo Lewis & Clark took when setting out from this city in 1804 St. Louis |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | MOVIEMAKING $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a video camera.) Don't sweat this setting--in shooting a wide shot like an alien army approaching from a distance, just make it infinity focus |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | RHYMES WITH TEEN $400: A division of a play, or the play's setting a scene |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls a scenic walkway by a riverbank at Gorky Park.) Famous as the setting of a book & a movie, Gorky Park lies on the right bank of this river the Moscow River |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1985:
This 6-letter French word meaning setting or environment M-I-L-I-E-U |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | THE PRICE IS RIGHT $400: This man's then record-setting 70th home run ball sold for more than $3 million; he's now retired McGwire |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | HEY! TAKE MY PICTURE! $200: After setting numerous records, she announced her retirement at age 30 in 1999 Steffi Graf |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | TV FANS $200: In 1980 fans were trying to guess & bookies were setting odds on "Who Shot J.R.?" on this program Dallas |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: On June 3, 2001 "The Producers" won 12 of these awards, setting a new record a Tony |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | SPORTS LEGENDS $200: "The Great One", this record-setting center became coach of the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes in 2005 (Wayne) Gretzky |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | "M"USIC $1600: In 1723 Bach wrote a setting for this part of vespers, from the Latin for "to extol" Magnificat |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | A COLONEL OF KNOWLEDGE $800: The Las Vegas Hilton was the setting for this Elvis manager's memorial service Colonel Tom Parker |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | BALLET $200: The ballet "Les patineurs" focuses on this athletic pastime, with the dancers gliding by in wintry setting ice skating |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | A BALTIC CRUISE $1600: (In his very first clue on the show, Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Germany.) From its buildings & its setting, it makes sense that this North German city was originally called Liubice, or beautiful Lübeck |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | SHEER GENIUS! $400: In 1884 Ottmar Mergenthaler invented this machine that eliminated setting type by hand the linotype machine |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: In March 1995 she hung up her speed skates after setting her personal best in the 1,000-meter race Blair |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | A SPOT OF "T" $600: In 1998 a $15 million production of this opera was staged in its actual setting, the Forbidden City Turandot |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | NICKS & RANGERS $1600: Ranger 8 hit the moon at this location in 1965, setting up a milestone moment for mankind 4 years later the Sea of Tranquility |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1200: The setting for this Agatha Christie play is Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm Mousetrap |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $600 (Daily Double): Shubert Alley is the setting for both the opening & closing scenes of this smash hit that debuted in 2001 The Producers |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | EVERYTHING HAS A NAME $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.) As opposed to a dimmer switch, a simple two-setting light switch has this 6-letter name toggle |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | CANADIAN FLAGS $400: This province's flag depicts a setting sun over wavy blue stripes that symbolize the Pacific Ocean British Columbia |
| #4650, aired 2004-11-19 | BASKETBALL WITH COACH DIXON $800: (Coach Dixon diagrams the clue on the board.) As long as they're in man-to-man, keep going to this basic play which starts with setting a pick pick and roll |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The bestseller "The Rule of Four" was co-written by a graduate of this New Jersey school, also the book's setting Princeton |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | POLL VAULT $600: Voted the ugliest Las Vegas building in one poll, this tower resembles a diamond in a really tall setting the Stratosphere |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | LITERARY SETTINGS $800: This Danish seaport is the setting for Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Elsinore |
| #4544, aired 2004-05-13 | OH, THE THINGS I KNOW! $1200: The town of Derry is the setting of this author's "It" & "Insomnia" Stephen King |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): Madrid's Hotel Florida is the main setting for "The Fifth Column", a rare play by this American writer who loved Spain Ernest Hemingway |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | ALBERT CAMUS $600: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting for some of his works Algeria |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | YALE $1600: Yale tended the body by starting a med school in 1810, then turned to the soul by setting up this school in 1822 school of divinity |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | STORIED HOTELS $600: Fans of this author love to stay at Les Trois Couronnes in Switzerland, the setting for his "Daisy Miller" Henry James |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | BOXING $1600: By setting many of the rules still used today, the 8th Marquess of this turned boxing from fisticuffs into an art form Queensberry |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | VENICE, AT LAST $1600: Venice is the setting for Act I of this tragedy about a man who loved his wife "not wisely but too well" Othello |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Kentucky city that's the setting of a children's book in which Sam-I-Am pushes an unusual dish Bowling Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | CARD GAME NAMES $1000: Term for the setting seen here that fits the category solitaire |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | AIR FARE $2000: Company name on the record-setting XP-59 & the JetRanger III helicopter Bell |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | COMMITTEES $2000: Congress' largest standing committee is the one on these, setting funding for agencies & programs Appropriations |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $800: A waterfront dive known as Jimmy-the-Priest's inspired the setting of his play "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4315, aired 2003-05-09 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS $1600: Published in 1969, "Setting Free the Bears" was the first novel by this author John Irving |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | WATERFALLS $2,400 (Daily Double): Reichenbach Falls in the Swiss canton of Bern was the setting of this literary hero's reported demise Sherlock Holmes |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | DON'T BE AFRAID OF OPERA $1200: Gaza is the setting for a Biblical opera about Samson and this hussy Delilah |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | TEATIME $600: Popular in the South, it's made by setting cold water & teabags in a pitcher outside & leaving them to infuse sun tea |
| #4286, aired 2003-03-31 | PINS $800: In a gun, it strikes the cartridge, setting off the propelling charge firing pin |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VERBS $200: This automatic transmission setting can also mean to kiss in a secluded spot park |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | TUNES FROM REVUES $5,600 (Daily Double): This tune from 1929's "Hot Chocolates" is the title of a more recent Fats Waller musical Ain't Misbehavin' |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $1200: See the gardens or ride the rides in this Moscow locale, the title setting for a Martin Cruz Smith novel Gorky Park |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | MUD $1200: The phrase "His name is mud" predates Dr. Mudd's setting this assassin's leg, so it doesn't mean the doctor John Wilkes Booth |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | THE DIAMOND $400: Introduced in 1886, the diamond setting named for this New York City jewelry store has become a standard for solitaires Tiffany's |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME $2,000 (Daily Double): This term for the science of setting off fireworks is from the Greek for "fire craft" pyrotechnics |
| #4153, aired 2002-09-25 | ON THE LANDSCAPE $400: The point where a river splits into 2, or a part of a table setting fork |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1600: Harley College, the setting for Hawthorne's novel "Fanshawe", is based on this Maine college, his alma mater Bowdoin |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | "A" $1600: (Jimmy prepares to plant something.) I'm setting up to grow one of these plants avocado |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | LET'S GO TO FLORENCE $600: This fashion giant has made a lot of "G's" since setting up shop in Florence in 1921 Gucci |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew sits at a game table with tiles.) I'm setting up to play this popular tile game imported from China mah-jongg |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | 20th CENTURY BRITAIN $5,000 (Daily Double): On Oct. 31, 1956 British & French bombs destroyed much of this country's air force Egypt |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | A GAME OF CHESS $1600: (Cheryl is on the beach chessboard again.) When setting up to start a chess game, remember the rule: Queen on this her own color |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | LET'S GET READY TO TUMBLE $200: This common home appliance has a tumble setting dryer |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | HARVARD UNIVERSITY $800: Harvard Law School was the setting for much of this 1973 film for which John Houseman won an Oscar The Paper Chase |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | LOUISA MAY ALCOTT $400: (Sofia of the Clue crew presents from in front of Orchard House.) Orchard House, where Louisa's family lived from 1858 to 1877, was the setting for this 1868 classic Little Women |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | THE "N" ZONE $800: This land is the setting for a series of books beginning with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Narnia |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1936 production Orson Welles moved the setting of this play from the heath to Haiti Macbeth |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | ALONG COMES MARY $2000: 19th century Holland was the setting for "Hans Brinker", her novel for young adults Mary Mapes Dodge |
| #3981, aired 2001-12-17 | ADJECTIVES $1,000 (Daily Double): This adjective in the title of a Bronte novel describes the tumultuous atmosphere of the setting wuthering |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A rehabilitation center to ease prisoners back into society used as a novel setting by Nathaniel Hawthorne Halfway House of Seven Gables |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | WHAT'S THAT CALLED? $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew finishes chalking up his pool cue.) Keep track of this part of the table, where I'm suavely setting down my chalk the rail |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | GEMS & JEWELRY $100: Introduced in 1886, a classic 6-prong setting for engagement rings is named for this Manhattan jewelry store Tiffany's |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): An African safari is the setting for his famous story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Hemingway |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | TV PAST & PRESENT $200: County General Hospital provides the setting for this current NBC drama series ER |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | LET'S CELEBRATE! $200: French for "good journey", it's the kind of party thrown to celebrate setting off on a cruise Bon Voyage |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | JACKIE GLEASON $200: Jackie Gleason was born Feb. 26, 1916 in this NYC borough that was also the setting for "The Honeymooners" Brooklyn |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | THE DICKENS, YOU SAY $750 (Daily Double): Editors suggested a club of hunters for a series, but Dickens changed the setting to this club of eccentrics Pickwick Club (Pickwick Papers) |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | MANIA MANIA! $400: If you're thinking about setting the stage on fire right now, you have this "mania" (& please don't) pyromania |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | HOLLYWOOD $400: The man seen here didn't wear an undershirt in this 1934 film, setting a trend for decades It Happened One Night (Clark Gable) |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | LA LA $200: This region in south-central Spain is the setting for Cervantes' "Don Quixote" La Mancha |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $600: 10 down:
Phaser setting on "Star Trek"
(4) Stun |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | FIRST NOVELS $400: Not surprisingly, Ireland is the setting for this "Circle of Friends" author's first novel, "Light A Penny Candle" Maeve Binchy |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | LUCKY "SEVEN" $400: A 16th century Japanese village is the main setting for this 1954 foreign film classic The Seven Samurai |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | NUTTY TV $400: Walnut Grove, Minnesota was the setting for this drama of the American West Little House on the Prairie |
| #3690, aired 2000-09-22 | STEINBECK $200: John Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902 in this state, the setting of many of his tales California |
| #3657, aired 2000-06-27 | VIDEOGRAPHY $300: Camcorder setting whose name is from the Greek for "far light" telephoto |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | SOUTHERN LIT $200: This play's setting is "A two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3616, aired 2000-05-01 | LITERATURE $300: A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for "The Night of the Iguana", a play by this writer Tennessee Williams |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: A not very realistic Ceylon is the setting for Bizet's work about "fishers" for these gems Pearls |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | THE BARBARY WARS $300: This branch of the U.S. armed forces mentions the war's setting in its hymn Marine Corps |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $600: A house party in the country is the setting for this "Brave New World" author's first novel, "Crome Yellow" Aldous Huxley |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FUN WITH OPERA $800: A town called Roulettenburg is the setting for "The Gambler" by this "Peter and the Wolf" composer Sergei Prokofiev |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $800: "Our Town" setting for a "Sesame Street" monster Grover's Corners |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE $500: This setting where the characters go to see stars symbolized the uncaring universe Griffith Observatory |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | MAKING A PROPHET $600: Setting the stage for later revolts, the prophet Hung Hsiu-ch'uan led the Taiping Rebellion in this century 19th century |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | TV PIONEERS $400: This city was the Rocky Mountain setting of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" Colorado Springs |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | OPERA $400: This city on the Adriatic is the setting for "La Gioconda" Venice |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY $400: In "Henry VI, Part 1" it's a setting; in "Romeo and Juliet" it's a suitor for Juliet's hand Paris |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $500: The childhood home of Willa Cather, this colorfully named town inspired the setting for her 6 Nebraska novels Red Cloud |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | YOU'LL FIND IT IN SHAKESPEARE $500: The king's castle in this Danish seaport is the setting for most of "Hamlet" Elsinore/Helsingor |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | WOMEN OF THE WORLD $600: Muriel Spark was born in this capital city, the setting for her novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" Edinburgh |
| #3455, aired 1999-09-17 | DALLAS $100: The main setting for the show was this ranch just outside Dallas Southfork |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $800: The Italian Riviera east of Genoa is the Coast of the Rising Sun; west of Genoa it's the Coast of this Setting Sun |
| #3419, aired 1999-06-17 | THE VOICE OF GOD $300: Before setting a mark on him, the Lord promised, "Whoever slayeth" him, "vengeance shall be taken" sevenfold Cain |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $400: A ritzy New York hotel provides the setting for this program of 3 1-act comedies by Neil Simon Plaza Suite |
| #3416, aired 1999-06-14 | FLAGS $100: This Canadian province's flag shows the setting sun & wavy blue bars representing the Pacific Ocean British Columbia |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | SITCOMS CHANGE $500: In 1979 when its main setting moved to a bar, "All In The Family" took this new title Archie Bunker's Place |
| #3377, aired 1999-04-20 | LITERARY WEATHER $300: The Pacific Northwest is the setting for David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these Cedars |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | TOUGH FOOTBALL $600: On Nov. 8, 1970 this man helped the Saints beat the Lions by kicking a record-setting 63-yard field goal Tom Dempsey |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: On December 1, 1959, 12 nations signed a treaty setting aside this continent as a preserve for scientific research Antarctica |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | TV SHOW LOCALES $800: The "Green Acres" farm was located just outside of this town, the setting of "Petticoat Junction" Hooterville |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | SHAKESPEARE $400: "Umabatha", a Zulu version of this play, moves the setting from Scotland to Africa Macbeth |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $300: Roslyn, Washington represented Cicely, Alaska, the setting of this Rob Morrow series Northern Exposure |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | MOM'S THE WORD $400: In 1997, a 63-year-old California woman made headlines by setting this Guinness record the oldest age for becoming pregnant (for having a child) |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS $800: As the setting for "The Honeymooners", this area is SW Brooklyn could be called Kramdenhurst Bensonhurst |
| #3123, aired 1998-03-11 | KIDDY LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1992 children's book, seen here, is also the name of its island setting: Dinotopia |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | HOT WATER $200: If you never run out of hot water, you might lower the setting of this household device to save energy Water heater |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ART $600: The setting of this "American Gothic" artist's "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" looks like Iowa, not Boston Grant Wood |
| #3073, aired 1997-12-31 | COMMON BONDS $400: A place setting,
a baseball diamond,
the Earth's crust things made of/with plates |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH $200: Comic strip that occasionally includes the setting seen here: "B.C." |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: He described the setting of "Cannery Row" as "A poem, a stink...a habit, a nostalgia, a dream" John Steinbeck |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | SUNDAY MORNING TV $200: The Crystal Cathedral is the setting of this reverend's "Hour of Power" Robert Schuller |
| #3034, aired 1997-11-06 | SUPER ATHLETES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Reggie White.) In Super Bowl XXXI, I sacked this team's quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, 3 times, setting a Super Bowl record the New England Patriots |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | WHATCHA DOIN'? $300: Setting the timing after gapping the points & plugs tuning an automobile |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ____ IN THE ____ $200: In 1979 this TV sitcom got a new setting & a new title, "Archie Bunker's Place" "All In The Family" |
| #2986, aired 1997-09-01 | FILMS OF THE '90s $100: In a 1996 film Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes play these star-crossed lovers in a modern setting Romeo & Juliet |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $200: The Ritz-Carlton hotel in this Mass. capital is the setting for Moss Hart's comedy "Light Up the Sky" Boston |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | WORLD "C"ITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): The Coptic Museum in this city is noted for its collection of ancient Coptic textiles Cairo |
| #2935, aired 1997-05-09 | MUSEUMS $500: The setting for "Hamlet", Kronberg Castle in this Danish town now houses a maritime museum Helsingør |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | NOUNS OR VERBS $400: A jewelry setting, or to get on a horse Mount |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | NOTABLE NAMES $100: On his return to England in 1836, he began setting down his theory of evolution Charles Darwin |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | CONTEMPORARIES $1000: While Gutenberg was setting his type, a duke in this family was setting his sights on Milan Sforza |
| #2908, aired 1997-04-02 | JAPANESE BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: Setting out to make the world's smallest transistor radio, it marketed a pocket-size one in 1957 Sony |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | ART $400: Grime darkened the daytime setting of this artist's work, causing it to be misnamed "The Night Watch" Rembrandt |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: The elegant St. Gregory is the setting for this 1965 Arthur Hailey bestseller Hotel |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | CLASSIC NOVELS $600: Egdon Heath, a barren moor in Wessex, is the setting for his novel "The Return of the Native" Thomas Hardy |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Loch Katrine provides the setting for his narrative poem "The Lady of the Lake" (Sir Walter) Scott |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | INCARCERATED AUTHORS $400: Brendan Behan based the setting of "The Quare Fellow" on a prison in this capital where he'd done time Dublin |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | PLAYS $400: Grovers Corners, the setting for this Thornton Wilder play, was modeled on Peterborough, New Hampshire Our Town |
| #2689, aired 1996-04-18 | THE MOVIES $400: The world's tallest building, the Glass Tower in San Francisco, is the setting for this 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | LITERATURE $800: Floral Heights, a suburb of this fictional metropolis, is the setting for Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt" Zenith |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | WORLD HISTORY $500: In July 1901 Morocco signed an agreement with this European country, setting its frontier with Algeria France |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | ROOMS $400: Though it sounds like a place to sketch, it's a common setting for a play about polite society drawing room |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: On Feb. 4, 1861 the Confederacy began setting up its government in this city Montgomery, Alabama |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $600: This city is the setting for Margaret Truman's novel "Murder on Embassy Row" Washington |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Terms of Endearment" was his sixth novel with a Texas setting [Larry] McMurtry |
| #2555, aired 1995-10-13 | MUSEUMS $600: A Dublin museum devoted to this writer is housed in a tower used as a setting for his "Ulysses" James Joyce |
| #2552, aired 1995-10-10 | FICTION $1000: The Overlook Hotel in Colorado is the sinister setting for this Stephen King novel The Shining |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | SHAKESPEARE $200: In 1936 Orson Welles directed an all-Black cast in this play, setting it in Haiti, not in Scotland Macbeth |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | OPERA $200: A lodge picnic on Kittiwah Island is the setting for Act II, Scene 2 of this Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | FIRE $200: Gen. Sherman's troops occupied this city for about 2 months before setting it ablaze in November 1864 Atlanta |
| #2473, aired 1995-05-10 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $600: After this man's 1896 death, his relatives contested the will setting up his prize foundation Nobel |
| #2384, aired 1995-01-05 | INVENTIONS $100: A new Sony VCR sets this device for you by using a signal broadcast to it by local PBS stations the clock |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS $1,900 (Daily Double): Castle setting seen here; it's located on a sound that's the northern entrance to the Baltic Sea Elsinore (or Helsingør, or Kronborg) |
| #2328, aired 1994-10-19 | TELEVISION $200: The setting for this series was the Sunshine Cab Company Taxi |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $800: The Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico provides the setting for this Tennessee Williams play Night of the Iguana |
| #2301, aired 1994-09-12 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $400: Fort Courage was the setting for this series that starred Ken Berry as Capt. Wilton Parmenter F Troop |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: The Kit Kat Klub in Berlin is the setting for this musical, so... "Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome" Cabaret |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | THE DINNER TABLE $100: Item in a proper place setting that can be presented in a ring napkin |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | HISTORY $200: In 1244 Muslim mercenaries recaptured this holy city, setting off the Seventh Crusade Jerusalem |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | TV "ADVENTURES" $100: Sherwood Forest provided the setting for this 1950s series imported from Great Britain The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1000: This Frenchman was born in Algeria, the setting for his famous 1942 novel "The Stranger" Albert Camus |
| #2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HORROR NOVELS $600: The setting for this 1967 Ira Levin novel, a gloomy Manhattan apt. building, is based on one where he had lived Rosemary's Baby |
| #2134, aired 1993-12-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: The setting for this Joseph Heller novel is the imaginary island of Pianosa Catch-22 |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $100: The name of this continent may come from the word Ereb, meaning “land of the setting sun” Europe |
| #2014, aired 1993-05-13 | 1990 $100: On August 2 Iraqi troops invaded this country, setting off the Persian Gulf crisis Kuwait |
| #1899, aired 1992-12-03 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: For longer exposures, many cameras have a "T" setting, which stands for this time |
| #1898, aired 1992-12-02 | SHORT STORIES $300: This city is the setting for the stories in George Washington Cable's "Old Creole Days" New Orleans |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | DOUBLE TALK $500: This American Samoa port was the setting for Somerset Maugham's short story "Rain" Pago Pago |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | LAW $200: It's any act against the officers of a ship, not just setting them adrift in a rowboat mutiny |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | CHAIRS $400: An upholstered chair was named for this place, the "drowsy" setting of a Washington Irving story Sleepy Hollow |
| #1728, aired 1992-02-19 | PEOPLE $600: In 1991 he appeared on his 27th Academy Awards show, setting an all-time record Bob Hope |
| #1717, aired 1992-02-04 | AUTHORS $200: The Tabard Inn, setting of his most famous work, burned down in 1676 Chaucer |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | PLAY SETTINGS $400: This play has 1 setting: "the top floor of a warehouse and office building in Amsterdam The Diary of Anne Frank |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: The town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi is the setting for his play "Summer and Smoke" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | THE FUNNIES $300: Camp Swampy is the setting for this Mort Walker military strip Beetle Bailey |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: Several girls in this town began to behave strangely in 1692, setting off witchcraft hysteria Salem |
| #1658, aired 1991-11-13 | THE 14th CENTURY $600: Claiming the French throne, England's Edward III invaded the continent in 1337, setting off this war 100 Years War |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | DRAMA $600: He once worked in a real estate office, the setting of his "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet |
| #1574, aired 1991-06-06 | BIRTHPLACES $800: Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in this smallest Canadian province, the setting for her novel, "Anne of Green Gables" Prince Edward Island |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | PLAYS $200: The setting for Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day" is Kambawe, a fictional country on this continent Africa |
| #1561, aired 1991-05-20 | SHAKESPEARE $800: An orchard near Oliver's house is the 1st setting in this play; the forest of Arden turns up later As You Like It |
| #1554, aired 1991-05-09 | TV SITCOMS $200: The First Community Church of Philadelphia is the setting for this NBC sitcom Amen |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: He was born in Salinas, California, the setting for his "East of Eden" John Steinbeck |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | MYSTERIES $100: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari" Africa |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | 1933 $2,000 (Daily Double): Congress passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, setting the terms for this country's independence the Philippines |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: After setting up shop in Hollywood, he developed the first make-up for films Max Factor |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | EARLY ART $600: This art form of setting stones or glass into mortar was the main decorative art of the Byzantine Empire Mosaic |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: This city is the setting for Harold Pinter's plays "The Caretaker" & "The Homecoming" London |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: In a formal table setting, the water glass should be placed directly above this utensil Knife |
| #1267, aired 1990-02-20 | INSURANCE $500: Used in setting rates, the theory of this was developed by Blaise Pascal & Pierre de Fermat in the 1600s the theory of probability |
| #1252, aired 1990-01-30 | 1980s TELEVISION $100: Sugarbaker's, an Atlanta interior decorating firm, is the setting for this CBS sitcom Designing Women |
| #1252, aired 1990-01-30 | PLAY SETTINGS $400: This country is the setting for T. Williams' plays "Camino Real" & "The Night of the Iguana" Mexico |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | EDUCATION $7,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 the Supreme Court used this oft-quoted phrase to describe acceptable segregation separate but equal |
| #1234, aired 1990-01-04 | JAPAN $200: 6th c. Prince Shotoku called himself "emperor of the rising sun" & called the emperor of China this the emperor of the setting sun |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | WORD ORIGINS $400: A quick-setting gypsum cement named for the city where it was 1st made plaster of Paris |
| #1215, aired 1989-12-08 | CITY SEALS $500: This city's seal has depictions of an eagle, the state capitol building & the sun setting over the Rockies Denver |
| #1192, aired 1989-11-07 | PLAY SETTINGS $800: The setting of this William Inge play is " a street-corner restaurant in a small Kansas town" "Bus Stop" |
| #1192, aired 1989-11-07 | PLAY SETTINGS $1000: The alternate title of this mystery is "Angel Street", which is also the play's setting "Gaslight" |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | LITERARY ISLANDS $800: A coral island, probably in the South China Sea, was the setting for this book by William Golding "Lord of the Flies" |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: This state was the setting for Edna Ferber's novel "Ice Palace" Alaska |
| #1158, aired 1989-09-20 | DESIGN $400: A fork-type setting for diamonds introduced in 1886 by this NYC jewelry store is named for it Tiffany |
| #1135, aired 1989-07-07 | STAR TREK $500: It's the lowest setting on the hand phaser stun |
| #1132, aired 1989-07-04 | '80s TV $200: Series that replaced "Hawaii Five-O" in 1980-- same setting, same time, same channel Magnum P.I. |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | MUSICAL THEATER $2,800 (Daily Double): Country that's the setting of the following song:
"1, 2, 3 and 1, 2, 3 and 1, 2, 3 /
Shall we dance? /
1, 2, 3 and /
On a bright cloud of music /
Shall we fly?..." Siam (Thailand) |
| #1125, aired 1989-06-23 | JEWELRY $800: This popular diamond setting was introduced by Louis Comfort's father in 1870 tiffany |
| #1099, aired 1989-05-18 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: This country's 1930s civil war was the setting for Graham Greene's "The Confidential Agent" Spain |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | U.S. HISTORY $600: He led the expedition which discovered gold in the Black Hills, setting off a gold rush and the Sioux Wars Custer |
| #1089, aired 1989-05-04 | THE '30s $300: This play about Georgia sharecroppers began its record-setting Broadway run in 1933 "Tobacco Road" |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | NOVELS $800: This seagoing saga is the only one of Kipling's novels with an American setting Captains Courageous |
| #1082, aired 1989-04-25 | THE CIRCUS $1000: The workers who do the odd jobs around a circus, including setting up & taking down the tents the circus roustabouts |
| #1062, aired 1989-03-28 | SPAIN $1000: Setting of 3 popular operas, it's also home to Europe's largest gothic cathedral Seville |
| #1057, aired 1989-03-21 | SEE THE USA $500: Located at Church Street in Charleston this "Row" was the setting for a famous opera Catfish Row |
| #1044, aired 1989-03-02 | AUTHORS $1000: "Dragon Seed" author who wrote several novels with an American setting using the pen name John Sedges Pearl Buck |
| #1003, aired 1989-01-04 | CANADA $1000: Island that's the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's famous novel "Anne of Green Gables" Prince Edward Island |
| #979, aired 1988-12-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA $500: This Balkan country is the setting for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Greece |
| #976, aired 1988-11-28 | BONANZA $200: The setting for "Bonanza" was this city in Nevada Virginia City |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: In Britain, success is "setting the Thames on fire"; in the U.S., it's this parallel setting the world on fire |
| #972, aired 1988-11-22 | SOUTH AMERICA $2,800 (Daily Double): Country that's the setting for the following 1964 Top 10 hit:
"Tall and tan and young and lovely /
The girl from Ipanema goes walking and /
When she passes, each one she passes goes ah..." Brazil |
| #964, aired 1988-11-10 | 1979 $400: Amity Island was the setting for this 1975 film that topped 1979's TV ratings Jaws |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | THE CAROLINAS $200: This author, once stationed at Charleston as a sergeant major, used it as his setting for "The Gold Bug" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This "Golden Boy" author grew up in the Bronx & used it as his setting for "Awake & Sing" Clifford Odets |
| #950, aired 1988-10-21 | GERSHWIN $1,000 (Daily Double): To get the right atmosphere for "Porgy & Bess", Gershwin spent time in this state, the opera's setting South Carolina |
| #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 |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: At age 9, this Virginian moved to Nebraska, which she used as the setting for "O Pioneers!" Willa Cather |
| #918, aired 1988-09-07 | UNREAL ESTATE $1,500 (Daily Double): While the following 1968 hit was based on a true story, it had this fictional setting:
"Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there / And seven times he's asked me for a date / And Mrs. Taylor..." Harper Valley |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | TRACK & FIELD $400: He ran on the record-setting 440 USC relay team before running through airports for Hertz OJ Simpson |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | FICTION $1000: It's both the setting & the title of Dickens' classic about Little Nell The Old Curiosity Shop |
| #914, aired 1988-07-21 | FOOD FACTS $200: During the winemaking process, "setting the wine in cooperage" refers to this step putting in barrels |
| #912, aired 1988-07-19 | MOVIE TRIVIA $100: This country's Dingle Peninsula was the spectacular setting for "Ryan's Daughter" Ireland |
| #906, aired 1988-07-11 | HOTELS $300 (Daily Double): Hotel that was a main setting for the TV show with the following theme:
"It is run by Kate / Come and be her guest / At the junction / Petticoat Junction! / And that's Uncle Joe / He's a-movin' kind of slow / At the junction / Petticoat Junction!" the Shady Rest Hotel |
| #898, aired 1988-06-29 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: Someone setting up a ruse might throw this colorful fish at you red herring |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $800: Rome helped the Mamertines defend Messana setting off their 1st war with this city-state Carthage |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | WESTERNS $400: This legendary stock pen was a setting in "Law & Order", "Darling Clementine", & "Hour of the Gun" O.K. Corral |
| #886, aired 1988-06-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the setting for her 1930 novel "Cimarron" Edna Ferber |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | LITERARY JOHNS $200: John Steinbeck often used this, his native state, as the setting for his novels & stories California |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | SHAKESPEARE $800: This play's setting is simply described as "the island" The Tempest |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | UNREAL ESTATE $800: Concordia, smallest country in Europe, is the setting for his play "Romanoff & Juliet" Peter Ustinov |
| #832, aired 1988-03-29 | MOVIE TRIVIA $800: This European upheaval was the setting for Lillian Dish's classic silent film "Orphans of the Storm" the French Revolution |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | THE MOVIES $1000: Clarendon Court was setting for this Grace Kelly musical before it was Claus & Sunny von Bulow's home High Society |
| #822, aired 1988-03-15 | THE 20TH CENTURY $400: In 1914, his car company was praised as generous for setting a minimum wage of $5 a day Ford |
| #763, aired 1987-12-23 | SPANISH CITIES $100: Spanish setting for "Carmen", you can get a good barber there, too Seville |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $200: It's setting an airplane down with the 2 main wheels & the nose wheel touching simultaneously a three-point landing |
| #736, aired 1987-11-16 | HISTORICAL DRAMAS $400: This man's Viennese office is the setting for "A Far Country" Sigmund Freud |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | AMY VANDERBILT SAYS $200: At an informal lunch, the two basic utensils always used for a place setting a knife & a fork |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $500: He grew up in Harlem & used it as setting for his 1st novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" James Baldwin |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Legend says Archimedes saved his city, Syracuse, but setting attacking Roman ships afire after using these mirrors |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | GOLD $1000: Term for the setting of the price of gold, the 1st was done in September 1919 at $20.67 fixing (the fix) |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $100: Eaton Place's Bellamy House was the setting for this saga of servants & swells Upstairs, Downstairs |
| #600, aired 1987-03-27 | NAUTICAL TRIVIA $500: San Francisco's infamous harbor district, it was the setting & title of a 1975 William Shatner TV series Barbary Coast |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | TV SOLDIERS $200: This country was the setting for the 1956 series, "Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers" India |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | TRANSPORTATION $800: After record-setting flight to Paris, Lindbergh got back home from France this way by ship |
| #543, aired 1987-01-07 | ----------------------------- $400: This explorer's crew mutinied in 1611, setting him adrift in an arm of the bay bearing his name Henry Hudson |
| #514, aired 1986-11-27 | NURSERY RHYMES $200: In "Hey Diddle Diddle", they're the 2-piece place setting that apparently eloped the dish & the spoon |
| #510, aired 1986-11-21 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: Whether you like it or not, this forest is the main setting of "As You Like It" Forest of Arden |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | SPORTS GREATS $1000: It's said she lost 12 lbs. during her record-setting 1926 swim of the English Channel (Gertrude) Ederle |
| #503, aired 1986-11-12 | YARDS $600: In pubs, it's served in a big glass with a round bottom, so you have to down it without setting it down yard of ale |
| #455, aired 1986-06-06 | DRAMA $200: Setting in common to "The Country Girl", "The Dresser" & "Noises Off" the theatre (a theatrical production) |
| #447, aired 1986-05-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: U.S. state that has provided the setting for most of Eudora Welty's & William Faulkner's stories Mississippi |
| #446, aired 1986-05-26 | ARIZONA $400: Ft. Apache, Ariz., not Ft. Apache, the Bronx, was setting for this kid's TV Western about U.S. Cavalry The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin |
| #439, aired 1986-05-15 | GOLF $300: Setting the par for a hole is determined by 1 of these 2 factors the distance of the hole (or degree of difficulty) |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | MOVIE SETTINGS $400: In "Family Plot" Hitchcock revisited this city used as setting for "Vertigo" San Francisco |
| #387, aired 1986-03-04 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: "Yumi, Yumi, Yumi", not "Happy Talk", is national anthem of Vanuatu, setting for their "South Pacific" Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #375, aired 1986-02-14 | ROARING '20S $600: Setting 5 speed records in 1920 alone, sports writers dubbed this horse "Big Red" Man o' War |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | UNREAL ESTATE $100: This fictional setting of "The Edge of Night" shared its name with Jefferson's home Monticello |
| #365, aired 1986-01-31 | WHAT A "HOOT" $100: Town which was the setting for "Green Acres" Hooterville |
| #359, aired 1986-01-23 | SHAKESPEARE $800: After England, this country is the setting for the most Shakespeare plays Italy |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | MUSIC $2,200 (Daily Double): 1886 hit whose title came from remark by minstrel seeing kids setting fire in Old Town, La. "A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight" |
| #328, aired 1985-12-11 | LEFT & RIGHT $300: Of a water glass, wine glass, & butter plate, the one farthest right in the place setting a wine glass |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | 19TH CENTURY NOVELS $600: Henry James novel whose New York setting is its title Washington Square |
| #300, aired 1985-11-01 | LITERATURE $400: This author's "Main Street" has setting similar to one he grew up in, in Sauk Centre Sinclair Lewis |
| #269, aired 1985-09-19 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: This large resort island off the Yucatan Peninsula was setting for movie "Against All Odds" Cozumel |
| #108, aired 1985-02-06 | INVENTIONS $400: Among utensils in standard place setting, the most recently invented a fork |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | 1968 $100: South-of-the-border setting of the '68 Olympics Mexico City |
