| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $400: An Olympic gold medal is required to be at least 92.5% this metal & plated with a minimum of 6 grams of gold silver |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $600: It's the alternate title of "Hans Brinker" The Silver Skates |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the type of photo seen here; what do we gotta do, put it on a silver plate for you a daguerreotype |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The Silver Pagoda & the Memorial Stupa to thousands of victims at the former Tuol Sleng Prison Phnom Penh |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $800: She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth Nancy Kerrigan |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $1000: In 1911 the Kenosha, Wisconsin Bijou advertised its new nitro this "for projecting motion pictures" on the silver screen |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALLOYS $2000: Lydia in Asia Minor was the chief source in the ancient world of this naturally occurring alloy made of gold & silver electrum |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $2000: The Green Witch turns into a snake to attack Prince Rilian in this Narnia book whose title refers to what Rilian sits in The Silver Chair |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $800: The "Educational Series" of silver certificates was issued in 1896; one featured Robert Fulton & this code guy Morse |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $400: Peter the Great introduced regular minting of this currency in silver & here he is, on one of his coins the ruble |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | "D.D." $400: Silver Star recipient Lloyd J. Austin III heads this U.S. government entity the Department of Defense |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SPORTS! $200: Early winners of this trophy include the Montreal Shamrocks, the Winnipeg Victorias & the Ottawa "Silver Seven" the Stanley Cup |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $600: Charles & Henry were the first names of this pair of Englishmen who produced the Silver Ghost in 1907 Rolls Royce |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ESPAÑOL $200: In Spanish, oro is gold & plata is this metal silver |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $600: The cloud type of this releases a substance such as silver iodide into clouds to increase the chance of rain cloud seeding |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | HEY! THAT'S NOT AN ELEMENT! $400: Gold,
silver,
bronze bronze |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | LATIN AMERICA $1600: This capital of Honduras on the Choluteca River has a population of 1.5 million & a name from Nahuatl said to mean "silver hill" Tegucigalpa |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CURRENCY $400: It's said this currency of India goes back to a silver coin introduced by Sher Shah in 1542 the rupee |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | PUEBLOS MÁGICOS $1600: "X" marks the spot of this cobblestoned town renowned as the "silver capital of the world" Taxco |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $2000: He uses his "silver hammer" to take out a quizzical Joan, an annoyed school teacher, & even the judge at his trial Maxwell |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $400: In 2022 this L.A. Angel with a cutthroat swing won his 9th Silver Slugger Award (Mike) Trout |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | I'VE GOT YOUR ATOMIC NUMBER $400: 47:
This metal tarnishes silver |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $600: According to Matthew, this man returns the silver given to him by the priests & they buy a potter's field to bury strangers in Judas |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: A word for booze has this 4-letter silver salmon inside of it coho |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | LOVELY RITA $800: Margarita Cansino was the real name of this silver screen star of the 1940s & '50s Rita Hayworth |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | GOING DUTCH $800: Mary Mapes Dodge won lasting fame for her 1865 novel about this Dutch boy & "the Silver Skates" Hans Brinker |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $200: A consoling aspect; "every cloud" is said to have one a silver lining |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $400: U.S. Army medic Monica Lin Brown was awarded one of these in 2008 for heroism under fire during the war in Afghanistan the Silver Star |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $600: A cosmic hero of the comics, this name can also refer to a senior citizen who regularly uses the Internet a silver surfer |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $800: This term for an older, dominant male gorilla comes from its gray or whitish hair a silverback |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | THE "SILVER" STATE $1000: This compound, AgNO3, is used in making photographic film & medically as an antiseptic silver nitrate |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1000: The first part of the name of this super-glam Tokyo shopping district means "silver" Ginza |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $1000: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) Glenn Close was a marvel to behold singing my song "As If We Never Said Goodbye", playing this silver screen legend in "Sunset Boulevard" Norma Desmond |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $1000: After silver was demonetized, the return of this coinage -ism became a populist cause of the late 1800s, even with protest songs bimetallism |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | STATE MOTTO TRANSLATIONS $600: The motto of Montana is oro y plata, these 2 desirables gold & silver |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A REAL LONG SHOT $600: Matt Stutzman, a 2012 silver medalist at these international games, set a longstanding record for hitting an archery target 930.4 feet the Paralympics |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $400: For this material brought from South Amer. in the 1700s, resilience is the quality of returning to its former shape after deformation rubber |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TV & MOVIE CITIES $1600: "How to Get Away with Murder",
"Silver Linings Playbook" Philadelphia |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ENERGY GLOSSARY $2000: CFLs, compact fluorescent lamps, light up by exciting atoms of this silver-colored element mercury |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | ON THEIR FAST FOOD MENU $1000: A 2-piece Pacific Cod Meal, including hushpuppies Long John Silver's |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: Contrarian Mary gets her garden growing with these 2 things & some pretty maids all in a row silver bells & cockle shells |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WORKING 9 2 5 $400: A silver wedding anniversary celebrates this many years of marriage 25 |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $600: After landing in Oz, Dorothy is dismayed to see this woman's lifeless feet "shod in silver shoes with pointed toes" the Wicked Witch of the East |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PUT IN A GOOD WORD $1000: Whether describing silver or the British pound, this 8-letter word really is great sterling |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | ELEMENTARY $400: This minable metallic element is found freely in argentite silver |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | SPELEMENTARY $1600: Silver +
nobelium +
sulfur +
titanium +
carbon agnostic (Ag No S Ti C) |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $400: Bracelets featuring butterflies inlaid with gems, circa 2500 B.C., are made from this metal, at that time, more precious than gold silver |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | METALLIC EXPRESSIONS $800: It can be a simple remedy for a difficult problem, or what's needed to kill a werewolf silver bullet |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $800: Phantom &
Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $200: This British monetary term dates back to around 775, when 240 coins were minted from this much weight in silver the pound |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $600: In 1897 Russia went to a gold standard in switching this monetary unit from silver to gold the ruble |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE $800: For actions in 2005 in Operation this country Freedom, Leigh Ann Hester became the first woman since WWII to earn a Silver Star Iraqi |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $600: Silver screen siren Gardner Ava |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | WHAT'S THAT SONG CALLED? $400: "Goddess on the mountain top, burning like a silver flame, the summit of beauty & love" "Venus" |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | PETS $2000: Silver, black & Dalmatian are types of this popular freshwater aquarium fish, also a female first name a molly |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST $800: Before starting her self-titled talk show, she sang for her supper & shared the silver screen with Justin Guarini Kelly Clarkson |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $800: This type of ornamentation is like lacework done with gold or silver filigree |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In "Treasure Island ", this character signs on as the ship's cook, but his signature dish is piracy Long John Silver |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $1000: At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $1000: "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | POP CULTURE PAIRS $2000: Here's looking at this Silver Screen royal couple Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS $400: The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not) baseball |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $1000: In heraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here argent |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY $800: The 4 interlocking silver rings in the logo of this brand symbolize the 1932 merger of 4 auto manufacturers Audi |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $1600: Bradley Cooper is a bipolar man looking to reconnect with his ex in this 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | HALF PAST $800: First used to stamp gold & silver, it now refers to anything of excellent quality hallmark |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | WHO'S UP FOR SOME SEAFOOD? $600: Pacific cod & Alaska pollock are on the menu at this chain whose symbol is seen here Long John Silver's |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Buenos Aires & Montevideo are situated on opposite sides of this "river of silver" estuary Rio de la Plata |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: Favoring free silver, in a rousing 1896 speech this orator & statesman said, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" William Jennings Bryan |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $200: Silver iodide is often used to produce condensation for "seeding" these clouds |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $400: In vein & placer deposits, gold often appears with fool's gold, also called this pyrite |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $600: When they're bars & ingots, gold & silver are called this, which sounds like a soup broth bullion |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $800: Gold is virtually indestructible, yet has this moldable quality, from the Latin for "to hammer" malleability |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $1000: Silver is valuable due to its brilliance, scarcity & resistance to this process, meaning it won't rust oxidation |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $2000: On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln" Henry Fonda |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: Zeus gave a silver bow made by the Cyclops to this daughter & goddess of the hunt Artemis |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | ISLANDS OF EUROPE $400: You'll find plenty of small silver herring off the shores of this second-largest Italian island Sardinia |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: Catholic tradition says this cup used for sacramental wine should be at least part gold or silver a chalice |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $400: Take a glass bottom boat ride in this Springs in Florida, or a short car ride to D.C. from this Spring in Maryland Silver |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $400: In a hopeful sense, a cloud is said to have one of these metallic features a silver lining |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE $1600: This "Treasure Island" bad guy was a former sidekick of Captain Flint, "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed" Long John Silver |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | 30 SOMETHING $200: In the Gospels, Judas Iscariot receives this payoff for betraying Jesus 30 pieces of silver |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $1600: This prolific author's "A Princess of Mars" transported itself to the silver screen as the more masculine "John Carter" Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | SCIENCE $200: Argentiferous means containing or producing this metal silver |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | '80s LADIES $800: At the 1988 Summer Olympics, she ran off with three gold medals & one silver "Flo-Jo" (Florence Griffith Joyner) |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | THE "DR" IS IN $2000: It's the name for the fancy silver ball seen here decorating a cupcake a dragée |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | SPORTS & SOCIETY $200: Some players are offended by this word for the person who bought a team; Commissioner Silver says the NBA isn't using it anymore owner |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In this novel by Edith Wharton, the title character & Mattie Silver crash their sled in the woods Ethan Frome |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | L-M-N $4,800 (Daily Double): Hammurabi's code specified this as a payment of one piece of silver to a former wife by her former husband alimony |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | "A" MATERIAL $2,000 (Daily Double): The cavity filling alloy called dental this is half mercury & half other metals such as silver amalgam |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $1000: "... And sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into" this country Egypt |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | GET OFF OF MY CLOUD $4,000 (Daily Double): Poet John Milton coined this "precious" term for the upside of a cloud a silver lining |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | STARS $2000: Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for this movie that deals with bipolar disorder Silver Linings Playbook |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | PLANET SHAMING $1000: Always covered by clouds of sulfuric acid. No silver linings Venus |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | BATTERY LIFE $200: In 2004 Sony produced the first silver oxide battery that was free of this element, & it's going down in thermometer use, too mercury |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $400: Robert Newton's 1950 performance as this rogue in "Treasure Island" is considered the source of the "pirate accent" Long John Silver |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | BOOKS BY CHAPTERS $400: "I Strike the Jolly Roger", "Silver's Embassy" Treasure Island |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: An 1849 act authorized the minting of double eagles, $20 coins made of this gold |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | HORSE & WRITER $400: This author was the non-headless horseman when he explored Oklahoma on a "stout silver-gray" in 1832 Irving |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | IT HAPPENS IN GENESIS $600: In Genesis 37 this dreamer is sold for 20 pieces of silver Joseph |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | TO PHRASE A COIN $2000: When this alliterative phrase offering to wager money against bakery treats first appeared, the coins were still silver dollars to doughnuts |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $800: From C.S. Lewis:
"La silla de la plata" The Silver Chair |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | HEAVY MEDALS $1600: 12 years after the Silver Star, this metal medal was established in 1944, retroactive to December 7, 1941 the Bronze Star |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | MINING $600: Mining this precious metal discovered there in 1865 made Belmont, Nevada a boomtown until the 1880s silver |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $800: This Stevenson classic is divided into 6 parts including "The Old Buccaneer" & "Captain Silver" Treasure Island |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | NUMBER, PLEASE $800: Blood money is a synonym for this many pieces of silver, Judas' payment for betraying Jesus 30 |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: Nate Silver is the editor in chief of this website FiveThirtyEight |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | CENTRAL AMERICA $1000: Tegucigalpa, the capital of this country, was founded in 1578 as a base for gold & silver mining operations Honduras |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | ODD PAIRS $800: Silver-haired host of "360" on CNN & "diminutive" car model from parent company BMW Anderson & Mini Cooper |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ELVI $2000: Elvis Stojko won his first Olympic medal, a silver in men's figure skating, at the 1994 Winter Games in this Norwegian city Lillehammer |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | SCIENTISTS $2000: During WWII this computer scientist & code breaker converted his money into silver & buried it; he never found his buried treasure (Alan) Turing |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TREE OF A KIND $200: Japanese,
silver,
sugar maples |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | DOUBLE "E" FOR THEE $2000: Delicate & intricate patterns of thin gold or silver wire used as decoration filigree |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | PLACES OF SUBSTANCE $1600: This alliterative Maryland place is named for the color of the mica flakes found in the local water Silver Spring |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THE NAVAJO $800: The Navajo are renowned for the "smithing" of this precious metal, an art likely brought from Mexico in the mid-1800s silver |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital Golden |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $2000: Best Actor: "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) & Best Supporting Actor: "American Hustle" (2013) Bradley Cooper |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | DJ, JAZZY $400: Horace Silver's tune about L.A. DJ Chuck Niles isn't "the hippest guy in Hollywood"--it uses this 3-letter jazz word for "guy" cat |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FROM THE SANSKRIT $1200: The name of this national monetary unit is from Sanskrit for "stamped silver" a rupee |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | DON QUIXOTE $800: Idioms abound in "Don Quixote", like "The haves & the have nots" & the rich being born with one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS $2000: An early quiz show, "Doctor I.Q.". gave these, perhaps the Morgan or Peace types, to audience members who answered correctly silver dollars |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | AMERICAN POETRY $200: A poem by Edgar Allan Poe mentions silver & golden these, jingling, tinkling, chiming bells |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WANNA BET? $1000: In 2018 this NBA commissioner said the league should get a cut of any legalized betting on it (Adam) Silver |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TREES GROW ON MONEY $1200: One of the earliest American coins, the 17th century Massachusetts pine tree shilling was minted from this precious metal silver |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WALKING $400: In 2008 this state made walking its official exercise; it's a 4-mile official exercise from Bethesda to Silver Spring Maryland |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: A silver lantern is given by the JFK Library with "The Profile in" this award to recipients who exemplify the spirit of JFK's book Courage |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MOTTOES $800: "Oro y plata" is a Spanish motto mentioning these 2 elements gold & silver |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD & LINE $1000: Jennifer Lawrence to Bradley Cooper in this film: "Calm down, crazy" Silver Linings Playbook |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | LET'S GET MARRIED! $800: In England this rhyme about wedding attire ends with "and a silver sixpence in your shoe" Something old, something new (*Something borrowed, something blue) |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $600: In a chemical reaction, sulfur combines with silver to create this dark coating tarnish |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: This 3-named leader of the Free Silver Movement served as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson William Jennings Bryan |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $400: In 1886 this appropriate First Lady's portrait began appearing on $1 silver certificates Martha Washington |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR $1200: This motto was added to the backs of $1 silver certificates in 1957 & to $1 Federal Reserve notes in 1964 In God We Trust |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $600: She betrays Samson for silver Delilah |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: As holder of this job in the 1970s, John Betjeman wrote verses honoring Elizabeth II's silver jubilee poet laureate |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | MOVING THE SAINTS $400: Swiped from the Holy Land, the reputed head of this decapitated saint is on display on a silver plate at Amiens Cathedral John the Baptist |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH? $600: Whether it's silver or bigleaf, Canada's national tree is this the maple |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | 6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES $2000: Silver in heraldry argent |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | I BEAT MERYL! $200: This "Silver Linings Playbook" actress said (accurately), "I beat Meryl" at the Golden Globes in 2013 Jennifer Lawrence |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | 1939: WHAT A YEAR IN MOVIES! $400: Ray Bolger & Buddy Ebsen switched roles in this film; then the silver makeup made Ebsen ill, so in came Jack Haley The Wizard of Oz |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | IN & AROUND ASIA $3,000 (Daily Double): Sights in this capital city include the lovely silver pagoda & the ghastly Tuol Sleng Museum Phnom Penh |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | VITAMINS $600: The Silver Women type of this Pfizer multivitamin brand has Vitamin D & calcium to promote bone health Centrum |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $800: The Swiss guy who shot the arrow--they played his overture for a western hero--that hero's horse...darn it, hi-yo what? Silver |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | TIME CAPSULE TIME $800: In 2015 Boston opened a 1795 capsule from Sam Adams & this guy, including a silver plate he's thought to have made Paul Revere |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | I WROTE IT $1600: "The Silver Chair", in which King Caspian is an old man C.S. Lewis |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PHRASE ORIGINS $400: "Speech is silver" begins a maxim; you are likely more familiar with this second part silence is golden |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONE-ACT PLAYS $400: "I ask the head of Jokanaan in a silver charger", says this title dancer in an Oscar Wilde one-act Salome |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BIBLICAL BADDIES $400: She tricked & weakened Samson & received thousands of pieces of silver from Philistine nobles Delilah |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | CINEMATIC OAKLAND $1600: Before "Silver Streak" & "Stir Crazy", this comic went to Oakland for "The Mack" Richard Pryor |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Seen in the training center & arena sequences in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", this silver combat bow was a signature weapon of this heroine Katniss |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FROM THE MERMAID'S LOCKER $2000: A bar of silver from a 17th century Spanish one of these treasure ships, such as the Atocha a galleon |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLERS $1000: In a 1952 book a craftsman fashions "The Silver" this title drinking vessel to house the Holy Grail chalice |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | POLITICIANS $1200: At the 1988 Democratic convention, this fellow Texan said George H.W. Bush was born with a silver foot in his mouth Ann Richards |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $200: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination in 1896 with his defense of free silver: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of" this metal gold |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | A TROPHY CATEGORY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.) Estimated to be worth $4 million, the Woodlawn Vase, representing victory in the Preakness, is a sterling silver piece dating back to 1860, designed by this New York City jeweler Tiffany's |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | CONNECTIQUETTE $800: New graduates from this New London academy give a silver dollar to the first person to salute them the Coast Guard Academy |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | CENTS OF A WOMAN $400: The Royal Mint showed great "Cents & Sensibility" with a 2-pound silver commemorative coin of this author Jane Austen |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: A quick solution to a difficult problem is this, the special item that can kill a werewolf a silver bullet |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES $800: In the 1810s, many state banks went bankrupt when the U.S. bank forced them to exchange these 2 metals for banknotes gold and silver |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $2000: Comedy time:
"Silver ____" with Pryor & Wilder;
"Blue ____" with Martin Lawrence streak |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | ELEMENTAL U.S. PLACES $400: Silver Spring, Maryland is a suburb of this city Washington, D.C. |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $2000: The name of this Tokyo district of expensive shops means "silver mint", as a mint stood there centuries ago Ginza |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ELEMENTAL $1000: Described as silver white, this precious metal, No. 78, is combined with iridium to make surgical pins platinum |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | UNUSUAL CHARACTERS $2000: Without much provocation, this Beatles title guy commits 3 murders with a silver hammer Maxwell |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | COLORFUL LANGUAGE $1600: It means "eloquent", not "having a precious metallic body part" silver-tongued |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HERE'S YOUR METAL $2,000 (Daily Double): This precious metal got its name from a Spanish word for "silver" platinum |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | A BIT O' BRIT LIT $1000: Arrr! He's the leader of the pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" Long John Silver |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | MORE COWBELL $1000: "Rock on, gold dust woman, take your silver spoon, dig your grave", sang this cowbell-employing band Fleetwood Mac |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $800: This general term for gold or silver bars kept in bulk is in the official name of Fort Knox Depository bullion |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NEW PHONE $1200: Whether or not it has a silver back, there's a good chance your phone has Corning's this ape "glass" for its screen Gorilla |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | DANISH FOOD & DRINK $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Torvehallerne Market in Copenhagen, Denmark.) Mayonnaise & mustard seed are among the marinades used when Danes are ready for this pickled fish, the silver of the sea herring |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: Grains of this metal on film react with a developing solution to create a black & white negative silver |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | DIMES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) The arrows around 1853 on the dime on the right show it contained less of this element, which was reduced that year due to a rise in its price silver |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Overconfident, British Gen. Howe went into this 1775 Boston battle with a servant carrying wine on a silver tray Bunker Hill |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | OLD NAMES FOR CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $800: Aurum is this object of many a conquistador's quest gold |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | FIELD TRIP $800: A valley in Jerusalem is said to be the location of the Field of Blood, bought with this man's rejected silver Judas Iscariot |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | THE OLD WEST $1600: The 1850s discovery of this "lode" named for a prospector set off a silver rush in Nevada the Comstock lode |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ELEMENTARY $1,800 (Daily Double): This precious metal boasts the highest thermal & electrical conductivity silver |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $1,500 (Daily Double): In Rossini's opera "La Gazza Ladra", a maid is accused of stealing silver, but the real thief turns out to be this title bird a magpie |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE SILVER MEDALISTS $400: In 1888 this president was down in his re-election bid 168-233, but 4 years later proved to be not out (Grover) Cleveland |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE SILVER MEDALISTS $800: In 1972 this Democrat won only D.C. & Massachusetts, losing his home state of South Dakota by 9 points McGovern |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE SILVER MEDALISTS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Here's the 1824 Electoral College map--Andrew Jackson got the most Electoral College votes with 99, but with the vote split 4 ways, no one had a majority, & the House elected this man as president Quincy Adams |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE SILVER MEDALISTS $2000: In 1856 this "Pathfinder" did not chart the correct course to the White House, losing 114-174 to Buchanan (John C.) Frémont |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE SILVER MEDALISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1864 Lincoln gave him a general beatdown, 212-21 (George) McClellan |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | DITLOIDS $400: Paid off Mr. Iscariot:
30 P O S 30 pieces of silver |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | 4 OF THE SAME VOWEL, ONE WORD $800: "The Silver Palate" one, first published in 1982, is still influential today a cookbook |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | OF DIMES $600: Since 1965 the U.S. dime has been made from an alloy of copper & nickel; pre-1965, they were made from this silver |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | AMERICAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: The title character of this Edith Wharton novel is in love with Mattie Silver, his wife's cousin Ethan Frome |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $5,600 (Daily Double): The first Spanish explorers in the region noticed silver ornaments worn by natives & this country's name was born Argentina |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TOTALLY METAL, DUDE $400: Hi-yo, "liquid silver"! Big producers of this element include Chile & Kyrgyzstan mercury |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE GOLD STANDARD $400: In 1821 Britain became the first adopter of the gold standard, dropping this metal from its bimetallic system silver |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $200: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards these each January the Golden Globes |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $400: Michael Phelps won only 3 of these in his Olympic career silver medals |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $600: Top Hollywood agent Ari Gold was a character on this HBO series Entourage |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $800: The Golden State Warriors have won 2 NBA titles led by this 2-time league MVP Curry |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $1000: This cosmic comic book hero travels through the universe on a board the Silver Surfer |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | A BARREL FULL OF COOPERS $800: This actor's first Oscar nomination was for his role in "Silver Linings Playbook" Bradley Cooper |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | LIFE IN 1977 $400: For the Queen's Silver Jubilee, several of these iconic London transports, the Routemasters, were painted silver the double-decker buses |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $200: Gymnast Viktor Lisitsky won 5 silver medals for this country, but no gold or bronze the USSR |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $400: In 2010 German Winter Olympian David Moeller injured himself doing this to his silver medal biting it |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $600: Michael Phelps first gold medal of his record 23 was at the 2004 Games in this city Athens |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $1000: At the first Olympics in 1896, winners received a silver medal & this natural symbol of peace an olive branch |
| #7658, aired 2017-12-20 | SILVER & GOLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games were inlaid with this gem jade |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | "ELECTRIC" DREAMS $2000: In 1976 Ric Silver created this line dance the electric slide |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | BEFORE THE EURO $400: Also the name of a silver coin in ancient times, this former Greek currency was broken down into lepta the drachma |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | GAME OF DRONES $2000: Nevada officials released silver iodide from drones in attempts to make rain via this process cloud seedings |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | COLORING BOOKS $2000: A chapter of "Hans Brinker, or" these is "What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam"... OK, slow down, it's a kids' book! the silver skates |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: For this 2014 Biblical epic, the director promised Russell Crowe no shots of him in the bow beside a giraffe Noah |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Penny Singleton colored her hair to play this Chic Young comic-strip heroine in 28 movies Blondie |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: Neill Blomkamp directed this 2009 sci-fi film in which aliens live in South Africa District 9 |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1600: Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" is one of hundreds of films with scores by this composer (Ennio) Morricone |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $2000: Monty Clift loves Liz Taylor, but Shelley Winters' bun in the oven overshadows matters in this 1951 tragedy A Place in the Sun |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | BACKING BANDS $1000: Bob Seger & this band the Silver Bullet Band |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $800: A boy asks Santa for a reindeer's silver bell in this classic by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | SONGS ON LIP SYNC BATTLE $1000: John Krasinski revealed his inner Tina Turner & a silver dress under his suit when he rolled down the river on this song "Proud Mary" |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | STATES BY COLORFUL LOCALES $200: Greenbelt &
Silver Spring Maryland |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | LET'S SET SOME BOUNDARIES $400: The Phoenicians put silver columns on this "rock" & on the African shore to mark the Mediterranean's safe boundary the Rock of Gibraltar |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | EXPLORERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1573 this future circumnavigator raided a mule train carrying Peruvian silver bullion in the isthmus of Panama Sir Francis Drake |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | MOVIE HAPPY ENDINGS $1000: 2012:
Dance routine gets barely passing grade, betting on football is rewarded Silver Linings Playbook |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $400: A tiny silver denarius coin from around 32 B.C. depicts both Mark Antony & her Cleopatra |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | HOW INVENTIVE $2000: In 1835 German chemist Justus von Liebig became the first to create a mirror by coating the back of glass with this metal silver |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Betrayal payment in Matthew 26 that's a term for the medium of film 30 pieces of silver screen |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | I RULED IN BRITAIN FOR 50+ YEARS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2017, Queen Elizabeth II marked 65 years on the throne; she's seen here during this year of her silver jubilee 1977 |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $1600: The Nazis awarded Japanese admiral Yamamoto this black & silver medal established in 1813 the Iron Cross |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | ECONOMICS $800: A downturn in the U.S. economy from 1836 to 1838 was partly caused by a lack of confidence in this common type of currency paper currency |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A LITTLE ENTITLED $400: Oliver Goldsmith once noted that a certain man was born with one of these in his mouth, another with a wooden ladle a silver spoon |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ENDS WITH A DOUBLE VOWEL $2000: Delicate ornamentation in gold or silver wire filigree |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | STATE NICKNAMES $400: "The Sagebrush State" &
"The Silver State" Nevada |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | "E"VALUATION $200: Jared sells a silver ring with this kind of lab-created gemstone for 40 bucks an emerald |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | SPORTS $400: (NBA Commissioner Adam Silver gives the clue.) In 2009 the NBA announced that the NBA Finals MVP Award would be named for this man who played on 11 NBA championship teams Bill Russell |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SPEAKING OF TONGUES $1000: This politician was known as the "silver-tongued orator of the Platte" William Jennings Bryan |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | THE JEAN POOL $2000: She's the legend of the silver screen seen here Jean Harlow |
| #7482, aired 2017-03-07 | AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS $600: Step back in time at Silver Dollar City, an 1880s-style theme park in this Missouri city famous for its entertainment Branson |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | COINS FROM EVERYWHERE $400: The Lydian Lion from 600 B.C. was made from electrum, an alloy of mainly these 2 precious metals gold & silver |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $800: For his efforts, the Sanhedrin paid him 30 pieces of silver Judas |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | URUGUAY $1600: This "silver" estuary off Uruguay saw WWII's first major naval battle; Germany's Graf Spee faced 3 British cruisers the Rio de la Plata |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABERNET $1600: To cleanse the palate after the filet & silver oak, it's this black currant sorbet, also found after "Creme de" cassis |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | ALLOYS $400: American Eagle gold bullion coins are an alloy of 91.67% gold, 3% silver & the rest is this metal, symbol Cu copper |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | ALLOYS $2,400 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "soften", it's any alloy of mercury & another metal, such as silver in dental fillings an amalgam |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | REQUIRED READING $200: Mary Mapes Dodge penned this guy, "Or, The Silver skates"; within her lifetime, the book appeared in more than 100 editions Hans Brinker |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NONFICTION $2000: This man known for his predictions wrote "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-- But Some Don't" Nate Silver |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: You'll want to hang onto your silver dollars in this hobby AKA numismatics coin collecting |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: In a Victoria Aveyard series, Mare Barrow is this "colorful" title character who fights the Silver Bloods the Red Queen |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $400: From 1792 to 1873 the U.S. issued silver 5-cent coins called not nickels but "half" these dimes |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $1,200 (Daily Double): A silver tetradrachm from the 300s B.C. features a "Great" portrait of him Alexander the Great |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $2000: Developed in the 1940s, cloud seeding produces rain by saturating clouds with dry ice & this compound, AgI silver iodide |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | 1866 $400: To replace the silver half-dime, Congress authorized this U.S. coin for the first time the nickel |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | 125 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL $1600: In 1906, Mark Twain presided at this great educator's Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary lecture Booker T. Washington |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | A CLOUDY CATEGORY $400: A 1920s musical urges never to be dismayed, but to "look for" this whenever "a cloud appears in the blue" a silver lining |
| #7366, aired 2016-09-26 | MORE POETRY, PLEASE $800: "'Nets of silver and gold have we', said Wynken, Blynken, and" him Nod |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | ANTIQUES $600: Change 1 letter in "silver" to get this antique serving tray that may be made of silver a salver |
| #7357, aired 2016-09-13 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: First State Heritage Park,
Silver Lake Dover |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 5-LETTER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: It must have been magic; a platinum one of these woodwinds with silver keys sold for $187,000 in 1986 a flute |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | TEQUILA $400: Unaged tequila bottled soon after distillation is called blanco ("white" or plata (this metal) silver |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | PERIODIC SPELLING $1600: Tungsten + silver =
an action by a happy dog wag |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | THE WRITE STUFF $800: A poem by him begins, "All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn" E.E. Cummings |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | NOVEL VOCABULARY $1600: Princess Betsy in "Anna Karenina" serves tea from one of these Russian-named silver urns a samovar |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | OLD NAMES FOR CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $800: Argentum silver |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | VICTORIAN VERSE $1200: "In silver armour", this Tennyson knight "saw the grail, the Holy Grail, descend upon the shrine" Galahad |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $1200: On Broadway in 1975, Billy Flynn was played by Jerry Orbach, but this show got into Gere on the silver screen in 2002 Chicago |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | LOUIS, LOUIS $200: With novels like "The Burning Hills" & "Silver Canyon", Louis L'Amour was a master of this fiction genre Western |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | PUT IT THERE! $1200: Expecting a crash? Put your money in this, a term for gold or silver by quantity in bars or ingots bullion |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | STABLE CHARACTERS $600: Naturally, a pure white horse with this name was cast as Armie Hammer's steed in the 2013 film "The Lone Ranger" Silver |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | SEEING STARS $1600: Full of stars, it's called "Silver River" by the Chinese the Milky Way |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | COINAGE $1200: In 2015 Palau issued a special silver coin called "Rainbow of the Sea" on which one of these gems was mounted a pearl |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | PARROT CULTURE $800: Arr! In this novel Long John Silver has a parrot called Cap'n Flint, named for a famous pirate Treasure Island |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam.) Hanoi's old quarter consists of 36 streets; Hang Ma specializes in papermaking, but I also stopped off at Hang Bac for some silver & Hang Bun for some noodles, as each street traditionally matches up with one of these organizations of craftsmen guilds |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIPLES $1200: Actor Michael of "Lost",
silver screen siren Veronica &
Hall of Fame Baltimore pitcher Jim Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | NICKNAMES FOR FEMINISTS $400: Named for Ms. Anthony, the "Susie B." introduced in 1979 was one of these a dollar coin (a silver dollar accepted) |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | CURSES $1200: After this actor's 1955 death driving his silver Porsche Spyder, parts of the car brought disaster to the owners James Dean |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | STATE SEALS $1,600 (Daily Double): Prominent on its seal is a silver miner & his team moving a carload of ore from a mountain Nevada |
| #7113, aired 2015-07-15 | SHOW YOUR METAL IN POP CULTURE $200: This surfer made his first appearance in 1966 in "Fantastic Four" No. 48 the Silver Surfer |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | LIVE "LONG" $800: This literary character has a parrot named Cap'n Flint Long John Silver |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | OLYMPIANS $800: Losing to a countryman, Yohan Blake of this nation won silver in both the 100 meters & 200 meters in 2012 Jamaica |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | SHADOW PLAY $400: Seen here, the Silver Shadow was a classic luxury offering from this company Rolls-Royce |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $1200: In the 1520s Sebastian Cabot named a South American river this, believing the nearby area had lots of silver Río de la Plata |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | METAL $200: Psalm 135 describes the idols of the heathen as not of God & merely made from these 2 metals silver & gold |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | SIERRA $200: The treasures of this chief mountain system in Mexico include silver & gold, mined there since the 16th century the Sierra Madres |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | THAT'S SWELL $600: U.S. skier Gus Kenworthy won silver in the 2014 Olympics in this Russian city & also adopted a family of stray dogs Sochi |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA, STACY OR GRACE $400: "By the Shores of Silver Lake" is one of the books in her "Little House" series Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | THE NEXT CHEMICAL ELEMENT ALPHABETICALLY $2,000 (Daily Double): After silicon silver |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | EXPECT THE SPANISH $400: The name of this Spanish gold coin comes from the Latin for "double"; it was worth 16 silver dollars a doubloon |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | COLORFUL ENTERTAINMENT $2000: The natural combination of dancing & the Philadelphia Eagles loomed large in this 2012 film Silver Linings Playbook |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $1600: (Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) The existence on Earth of heavy elements like gold, silver & iron confirms that our solar system was formed from the debris of one of these enormous cataclysmic explosions supernova |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TALKING DIRTY $1000: Discoloration formed when silver reacts with sulfur compounds in the air tarnish |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | _O_O $2000: This tasty salmon variety is also known as the silver salmon coho |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | THE ELEMENTS $800: Hail hydrargyrum, the Latin word meaning "liquid silver" that gives this element its chemical symbol mercury |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | HYBRIDS & BLENDS $1600: The alloy electrum is mostly gold with at least 20% of this metal silver |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $400: 1960:
Secretary steals substantial sum, showers, succumbs Psycho |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $800: 1941:
Scandal sheet skipper says single sled sentence Citizen Kane |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $1200: 1959:
Mob murder makes male musicians move, matronly makeover materializes Some Like it Hot |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $1600: 2011:
Mississippi maids mind menial mothering The Help |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | SUCCINCT SILVER SCREEN SUMMARIES $2000: 1948:
Gold-grubbing gringos get greedy The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | LEAVES $600: This Stevenson "sea-cook" had not "gone empty-handed"; he took a sack of coins to "help him on his... wanderings" Long John Silver |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | THOUGHTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER $800: (NBA Commissioner Adam Silver delivers the clue.) The NBA championship trophy is named after this former NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $800: She was lucky enough to win an Oscar (for "Silver Linings Playbook") but unlucky when she tripped on her way to the stage Jennifer Lawrence |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | THE UKRAINE STRAIN $2000: After the drama, Nancy Kerrigan won the 1994 figure skating Olympic silver medal; this Ukrainian won gold Oksana Baiul |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This metal more valuable than gold has a name that means "little silver" due to its appearance platinum |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | THRONE FOR A LOOP $2000: The silver throne seen here was a gift to this Swedish queen for her 1650 coronation Queen Christina |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | STATE MOTTOES $400: They're the 2 precious metals in Montana's motto "Oro y plata" gold & silver |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | COLORFUL BOOK TITLES $1200: "The Silver Chair" is one of the books in these "Chronicles" Narnia |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | DRAFT PICKS $200: Obviously avoiding the vampire demographic, a Silver Bullet aluminum pint is this brand Coors Light |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | "TAR" GET $400: It can mean to discolor your silver or damage your reputation tarnish |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | MEDIA $400: The 1727 discovery that light darkens silver salts was the basis of this medium that took another century to arrive photography |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | DESSERTS $200: AKA silver cake or snow-drift cake, this light cake uses lots of egg whites & no shortening angel food cake |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | AGES & ERAS $2,000 (Daily Double): While organizing antiquities at a museum, Christian Thomasen came up with these 3 "ages" to arrange the displays the Stone Age, the Bronze Age & the Iron Age |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | LONG WORD, SHORT DEFINITION $2000: 19th century pic using silver & iodine
(13) a daguerreotype |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | JOURNALISM CLICHES $800: If something is a quick fix to a difficult problem, it's one of these werewolf killers a silver bullet |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | SOUTH AMERICA $1200: The name of this country comes from the Latin for silver Argentina |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: In an image found in the Book of Proverbs, a persuasive talker is said to have this colorful organ a silver tongue |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LITERARY SHIPPING $2000: In "Treasure Island", Long John Silver & his crew attempt a mutiny on this island-named ship the Hispañola |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | NEVADA $400: From 1870 to 1893, after a gold & silver boom, this state capital was home to a U.S. mint Carson City |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: Each fall silver eels migrate to this "sea" within the North Atlantic to breed, some traveling across land the Sargasso Sea |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BOOZE $800: The fancy bee logo is
on this brand's silver tequila Patrón |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | THE OLD WEST $800: In the 1880s this Arizona town famed for its OK Corral mined what today would be $1/2 billion in silver Tombstone |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN POETRY $200: Countee Cullen:
"Some are teethed on a ____ spoon, with the stars strung for a rattle" silver |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | MOVIE SOURCE MATERIAL $1200: Gustav Hasford's Vietnam War novel "The Short Timers" shot up the silver screen as this Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket |
| #6801, aired 2014-03-24 | GRAIL MIX $1000: In a 1954 film Paul Newman is a sculptor who must cast the grail in precious metal--make it "The Silver" this, if you will Chalice |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | HISTORIC CARS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) On a fateful day in 1968, this presidential candidate took this Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud to address campaigners at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel after his primary win Robert Kennedy |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | MY NAME IS MY BRAND $2,800 (Daily Double): The copper products co. founded by this man in 1801 is still around today, but in Rome, New York, not Boston Paul Revere |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $400: Bank vaults beneath this Swiss city's Bahnhofstrasse are said to be crammed with gold & silver Zurich |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $400: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth" a silver spoon |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $800: In 1963 the first $1 Federal Reserve note was issued; until then, most $1 bills were these silver certificates |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $1200: Most silent films have not survived because film stock made of this volatile compound decomposes easily silver nitrate |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $1600: Kenny Davis of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team in this sport forbade his heirs from ever accepting a silver medal basketball |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | SILVER $2000: This rainmaking process was developed at GE & originally was done with dry ice or silver iodide cloud seeding |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | PERIODIC TABLE FOR 5 $800: Group 1B of the periodic table goes copper, silver, then this valuable metal gold |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | NAME THE ROLE $800: A pink lady: Adrienne Barbeau on the Great White Way, Stockard Channing on the silver screen Rizzo (in Grease) |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | A CHRISTMAS STORY $1000: In "The Polar Express", for the first gift of Christmas, a boy asks for one of these from Santa's sleigh a (silver sleigh) bell |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | "B" GOOD $1600: To brighten up a piece of silver; a public figure may do it to "his reputation" burnish |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | POTENT POE‑TABLES $400: "The Bells" features golden wedding bells & sledges with bells of this metal (might make a good Christmas carol) silver |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | DON'T SAY UM $1000: It reflects 95% of the light that strikes it, making it the most lustrous (shiny) of the metals silver |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, PA.) A quill box & shaker for sprinking sand over wet ink to speed drying are accessories of the silver ink stand used by the Declaration of Independence signers leading off with this Massachusetts man John Hancock |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | PRECIOUS PHRASES $400: Giving someone something that hasn't been earned is giving it to him on this serving tray a silver platter |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | A TREASURE TROVE $400: The wealth of gold & silver in its mountains earned it the nickname "The Treasure State" Montana |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $1200: A century-old Silver Ghost from this British car company sold for $7.1 million in 2012 Rolls Royce |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | HERE COMES 30! $800: The King James Bible recounts Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus for this payoff 30 pieces of silver |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | COINS OF OUR REALM $800: The first delivery of these coins was in Oct. 1794, in time for kindly uncles to hand them out as holiday gifts silver dollars |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | METALS $400: There's 1 mg of this metal per ton of seawater, but even at the 2012 peak of $1,792 an oz., it's not cost-effective to extract it gold |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | METALS $800: A silver-white precious metal used in jewelry, or the kind of "blonde" Jean Harlow was platinum |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | MOVIES BY COUPLE $1600: 2012:
depressed young widow Tiffany & recent mental patient & Philadelphia Eagles fan Pat Silver Linings Playbook |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | 15 MINUTES OF FAME $1000: In 2012 this man's FiveThirtyEight blog correctly predicted the election results in all 50 states Nate Silver |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | POCKET CHANGE $400: A silver denarius from 44 B.C. depicts this Roman & calls him "dictator for life"; his life ended soon after Julius Caesar |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | POCKET CHANGE $1000: The 30 pieces of silver given to Judas are thought to be these, which you can use in Israel today shekels |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | CNN TOURISM $1600: (Here's Alex Zolbert.) In 1612 Japan established a silver mint in this area, today Tokyo's most glamorous shopping district; in Japanese the name means "silver guild" Ginza |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | POP CULTURE $400: Some of the costumes she wore in her Oscar-winning role in "Silver Linings Playbook" went up for auction (Jennifer) Lawrence |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | CLASSIC NOVELS $200: It's the adventure tale in which you'll find Jim Hawkins & Long John Silver Treasure Island |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | FAST FOOD, FAST $1000: Was the Big Fish, now the premium Alaskan fish sandwich Burger King |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: Mary, Mary quite contrary had silver bells & these in her garden cockleshells |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Selling out early, this prospector who gave his name to a mother lode of silver ended up broke & took his own life (Henry) Comstock |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | LET IT "B" $2000: Spelled one way, it's a broth; spelled another, it's gold or silver in the form of bars or ingots bouillon (or bullion) |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | TRAITORS & TURNCOATS $800: "He cast down the pieces of silver in the temple" & then hanged himself Judas (Iscariot) |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | COLORFUL QUOTES $2000: e.e. cummings:
"All in ____ went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn" green |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | PINS & NEEDLES $1000: Gold & silver needles used in this medical practice were found in the tomb of Liu Sheng, who was buried in 113 B.C. acupuncture |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew observes a bear at Pavlof Harbor in Alaska.) Despite their name, brown bears can have black or brown fur, & the brown bear here has a conspicuous shoulder hump & silver-tinted fur, which gives it this name, meaning "gray," not "gruesome" grizzly |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | OLYMPIC FACT SHEET $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1952 Lis Hartel, a paralyzed entrant in this sport, won silver with help from a friend named Jubilee equestrian |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $200: With infinite gladness, Billy Corgan formed this band in 1988; happy anniversary The Smashing Pumpkins |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $400: 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of his stirring "Keep hope alive" speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention Jesse Jackson |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $600: 2013 marks the silver anniversary of this book subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" A Brief History of Time |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $800: Brr! this "creamery" opened its first store in Tempe in 1988 & calls every treat it serves a "creation" Cold Stone |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SILVER ANNIVERSARIES $1000: 2013 will mark the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the B-2, aka this plane, which was very visible on Nov. 22, 1988 Stealth Bomber |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | ETIQUETTE $200: Formerly, a servant answering the door would have a silver tray ready to receive this identifier from a visitor a calling card |
| #6535, aired 2013-02-01 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1000: Cobalt is a silver-white metal; this is a hard, dark volcanic rock, common in the earth's crust basalt |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | METALS $400: The Latin name of this precious metal is argentum silver |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE SILVER STATE $200: The millions who have visited Nevada to do this can thank assemblyman Phil Tobin, whose bill legalized it in 1931 gamble |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE SILVER STATE $400: Begun in 2009, a state mediation program aims to help homeowners avoid this event in which Nevada led the U.S. 2007-2011 foreclosure |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE SILVER STATE $600: Days before leaving office in 1861, this president signed the act creating the Territory of Nevada Buchanan |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE SILVER STATE $800: On June 29, 1994 Nevada reached a new high when the temperature reached 125° in this city on the Colorado River Laughlin |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE SILVER STATE $1000: It's off to this "Biggest Little City in the World", named for a general who died in the Civil War Reno |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.) Until the 1930s, the Silver Pagoda was used as a place where these people lived & studied monks |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | POETS & POETRY $1200: Poet Laureate John Betjeman's hymn on this 1977 royal milestone made newspapers invite readers to submit better ones the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | FILL IN THE FILM FRUIT $400: "Trading Places": "Here in N.Y. they trade everything: gold, silver...& of course, frozen concentrated ____ juice" orange juice |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | "TAR" & "FEATHER"s $2000: This Atlantic game fish is also called the silver king & grand écaille tarpon |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | FRENCH EPONYMS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1839 this Frenchman showed a way to create an image on a copper plate coated with silver; the process is named for him (Louis) Daguerre |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | KNOWEST THOU THE OLD TESTAMENT? $3,500 (Daily Double): This woman is promised "eleven hundred pieces of silver" if she can uncover the secret of a certain gentleman Delilah |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The silver & black football team is cast in the first Indiana Jones movie the Oakland Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | COMPOSERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) A silver rose is central to the action in "Der Rosenkavalier" by this composer Richard Strauss |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | WHAT'S CHASING YOU?! $1200: "Silver Bullet" a werewolf |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: John Drake's 2009 novel "Flint And Silver" was a prequel to this 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | I'VE GOT A 6-PACK $400: The light beer from this brand is known as "The Silver Bullet" Coors |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Black & white film is coated with light-sensitive halides of this metal suspended in a gelatinous compound silver |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | "BULL"! $1000: Gold or silver in block form bullion |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | HARD TIMES $1600: When land & farm prices collapsed in 1887, farmers demanded the unlimited, or "Free", coinage of this metal silver |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | MY SALAD DAYS $400: On the way home on Tuesdays, I stop at Long John Silver's & get a couple pounds of this cabbage salad coleslaw |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | A GRAY AREA $1000: As well as a shade of blond hair, this silver-like metal is a shade of gray platinum |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | LOOK AT ME $400: In presidential elections, this man won the silver three times William Jennings Bryan |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $1200: Sara Bareilles was "Gonna sell my car and go to" this Silver State city; "that's where dreams would be" Las Vegas |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | PAUL REVERE $3,000 (Daily Double): Revere also made glasses & surgical instruments, but his artistry in this material was the focus of his professional life silver |
| #6350, aired 2012-04-06 | HERALDRY $400: The heraldic colors "argent" & "or" get their names from these 2 precious metals silver & gold |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: This Ohio senator was busy in 1890, with his Silver Purchase Act as well as the more famous antitrust one (John) Sherman |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE? $2000: I'll be most Ag-reeable if you slip into a Frederick's of Hollywood sequin skirt temptress dress in this color silver |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | TRAVEL $1000: You can buy samples of this fossilized resin at a museum devoted to it in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic amber |
| #6284, aired 2012-01-05 | NICKEL & DIMED $1200: Before the 5-cent piece was nickel, it was silver & was, logically, called by this fractional name a half dime |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE 21st $1600: "The Lonely Silver Rain" was the 21st & last of this mystery author's novels featuring Travis McGee John D. MacDonald |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | ENDS IN DOUBLE E $200: A 25th anniversary is a "silver" this jubilee |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | "DA" $2,000 (Daily Double): He developed a new silver-based process for photography in the 1830s (Louis) Daguerre |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON $600: Stevenson's friend, poet W.E. Henley, was the model for this one-legged anti-hero of "Treasure Island" Long John Silver |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | SPECIAL "T"s $200: Patron silver is a premium type of this potent potable tequila |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | NURSERY RHYMES $800: Mary, Mary who grows silver bells in her garden is quite this, opposite in position or character contrary |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American estuary means "silver river" Río de la Plata |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | YOU'RE SO COLORFUL $1600: "Metallic" term for what you see when you see the bright side of a bad situation the silver lining |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | WATERFALLS $400: This natl. park's Ribbon Falls is also known as "Virgin's Tears", while its Silver Strand Falls is "Widow's Tears" Yosemite |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | ELEMENT, SPEL-EMENT $1200: Sulfur,
silver S Ag |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | THE ELEMENTS $400: Hg, its chemical symbol, is derived from the Latin hydrargyrum, "liquid silver" mercury |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $400: This son of Jacob & Rachel was sold by his brothers to the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver Joseph |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | BEATLES PEOPLE $600: "Bang bang" his "silver hammer came down upon her head" Maxwell's silver hammer |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $400: Hello, designers! This "Project Runway" man, aka the Silver Fox, is chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne (Tim) Gunn |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | DO TRY THIS AT HOME $600: Usually found effervescing on great-grandma's nightstand, this product can also be used to clean silver teapots denture clean |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | THE DOGS OF WAR $1600: For attacking a pillbox during the invasion of Sicily, Chips, seen here, got a Purple Heart & this precious medal for valor the Silver Star |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | PRE-1929 U.S. PAPER CURRENCY $200: In 1886 this first lady graced the $1 Silver Certificate, the first woman ever to appear on U.S. currency Martha Washington |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | PRE-1929 U.S. PAPER CURRENCY $600: In 1896 a $2 "Educational" Series Silver Certificate was issued featuring this steamboat designer Fulton |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | LITERATURE ALIASES $800 (Daily Double): AKA Barbecue, this character was also "The Sea Cook", another title for the novel in which he appeared Long John Silver |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | RACCOONS $1000: Raccoons' fur may be silver-tipped, like the fur that gives this North American animal its name the grizzly bear |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | TICKLE THE IVORIES $200: The Bible says this wise king's ships went to Tarshish to bring back "gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks" Solomon |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $200: Keep pieces of this in special flannel bags that are infused with particles of this to stop the pieces from tarnishing silver |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES $400: The Silver Cloud & The Silver Ghost are classic models from this alliterative luxury automaker Rolls-Royce |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINY $800: This board rider once battled a villain named Thanos whose goal was a lifeless universe The Silver Surfer |
| #6015, aired 2010-11-05 | COLORFUL QUOTES $1000: The musical "Sally" urged us to "always look for" this "and try to find the sunny side of life" a silver lining |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $1000: His custom-made King Silver Flair trumpet is part of the Smithsonian collection (Dizzy) Gillespie |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | THE GOSPELS $200: He cast down 30 pieces of silver in the temple "and departed, and went and hanged himself" Judas |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | HOME SWEET HOME $400: The house where she wrote "Silent Spring" is a National Historic Monument in Silver Spring, Maryland Rachel Carson |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | SECRET MENUS $1000: Ask this chain that's inspired by a fictional pirate for a "side of crumbs", & you'll get some fried batter bits Long John Silver's |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | ESCAPE $200: In 1814, before the British burned the White House, this woman escaped with silver & other valuables Dolley Madison |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | DAFFYNITIONS $400: An adjective meaning greedy, or what the owner of a Long John Silver's does selfish/sell fish |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | WORLD LEADERS $2000: It's prime minister Mr. Tuila'Epa, won a silver medal in archery at the 2007 South Pacific Games Samoa |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | IT'S RAINING $1600: To produce rain in drought-stricken areas, clouds are often "seeded" with AgI, an iodide of this element silver |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | ORES $400: This precious metal can be obtained from pure deposits & from ores such as argentite silver |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | SIR FRANCIS DRAKE $800: In 1573 Drake led a land raid on a mule train carrying Peruvian silver across this isthmus the Isthmus of Panama |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS $800: "Silver Streak" a train |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | FUN WITH WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): Its the New World country that takes its name from a Latin word for a metal Argentina |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | PRIMARY COLORS $800: In the election of 1892, the Populist Party supported "free" this mineral (also a color) silver |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | HOME OF THE BRAVE $400: The Silver Star the U.S. |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | U.S. COMMEMORATIVE COINS $1000: A silver dollar commemorating desegregation in education showed Central High in this city on the reverse Little Rock |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | THE ALLOYS $1200: 6-letter name of a silver-gray alloy popular for tankards pewter |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | DIRTY WORDS $600: On contact with sulfur, silver develops this discoloration, from the Middle French for "to dull" a tarnish |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | SIDEKICKS $600: Smee, a sidekick of this handicaptain, had a cutlass named "Johnny Corkscrew" Captain Hook |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | COLORS ON THE MAP $1600: A suburb of D.C.:
____ Spring, Maryland Silver |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | 47 $800: You deserve a medal if you know that this element, symbol Ag, is No. 47 on the periodic table silver |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | ...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON! $800: Ex-welterweight champ Carlos, or a golden-coated, silver-maned horse a palomino |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | 50 CENT $800: The USA's 1965 coinage act reduced the amount of this metal in half dollars from 90% to 40% silver |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | PRECIOUS SENTIMENTS $1600: Kris Kristofferson once sang of this type of "devil", also used to describe an eloquent orator silver-tongued |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: In 1873 metric weights were extended to silver coins; a half dollar weighed 12.5 grams & this, 6.25 grams a quarter |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GOOD AS GOLD $400: Dating to the 600s B.C., the first Western coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold & 20 percent this stuff silver |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | ON THE U.S. MAP $400: This "Silver State" has a state reptile, the desert tortoise Nevada |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | QUIZ BOWL $400: The "Silver Liberty Bowl", created by this man born in 1735, is in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Paul Revere |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | "P.M." $400: Gold, silver or platinum, for instance precious metal |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | THE COMEBACK KIDS $1200: A child with "Silver Spoons", he grew up to work on "NYPD Blue" & "24" Rick Schroder |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY $800: Platinum comes from the Spanish "platina", which refers to this other element silver |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | PLAYBOY COVER BOYS $1000: In February 1996 this silver-haired comic film actor was the cover boy, & don't call him Shirley Leslie Nielsen |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | COLORFUL BOOKS $2000: Laura Ingalls Wilder:
"By the Shores of ____ Lake" Silver |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | BAY O' WOLF $400: The title of this Stephen King movie also refers to a traditional projectile used against werewolves Silver Bullet |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BIBLE QUOTES BY BOOK $2000: "Then Peter said, silver & gold I have none... in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk" Acts |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | U.S. COINS $1600: A 2009 silver dollar honoring this Frenchman has the letters "BRL" in raised dots so it can be read by the blind Louis Braille |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | U.S. COINS $2000: When this motto first began appearing on gold & silver coins, it was left off the dime, which was too small "In God We Trust" |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | USE A GOOD "STOCK" $1600: Get a "lode" of this rich vein of gold & silver discovered in western Nevada in 1859 the Comstock Lode |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | JAMES BOND $200: A 1948 Olympic silver medalist in weightlifting, Harold Sakata played Oddjob, henchman to this title villain Goldfinger |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | IN THE BIBLE $1000: According to Deuteronomy 7:25, neither the silver nor gold of these shall be desired, for they are an abomination idols (or graven images) |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | ALAN $1600: Ron Silver played him, Claus von Bulow's lawyer, in "Reversal of Fortune" Alan Dershowitz |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | THE DALLAS COWBOYS $400: The blue-white-blue stripe on the team's silver helmets was changed to red-white-blue for this year 1976 |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | INDIE ROCK $1200: L.A.'s Silversun Pickups got their name from a store at the corner of Silver Lake Blvd. & this one with a famous "Strip" Sunset |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | LOOK WHAT YOU'VE WON! $400: For your third-place finish in the Olympic 200m butterfly, just a bit behind Michael Phelps:
One of these medals a bronze medal |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | A HORSE IS A HORSE $600: The Lone Ranger rode Silver & this companion of his rode a horse named Scout Tonto |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $200: Potato,
Swedish,
silver dollar pancakes |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | AMERICAN FEMALE FIGURE SKATERS $800: While racking up U.S. championships year after year, she settled for Olympic silver in 1998 & bronze in 2002 (Michelle) Kwan |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | BIBLICAL NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Silver,
Grey,
McCrea Joel |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | WITH LOVE $1000: For you, my sweet, a classic Silver Shadow II luxury car from this make of auto Rolls-Royce |
| #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 |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE PIG LATIN $2,000 (Daily Double): Due to the type of wine it produces, Silver Oak's punning motto is "Life is a" this, old chum cabernet |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME $600: The original of this trophy, a silver bowl, is on permanent display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto the Stanley Cup |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | ELEMENTARY SPELLING $1600: Bromine,
silver brag |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | PAINT YOUR WAGON $400: The Subaru Forester comes in colors like spark silver & sage this green |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | I'M SERVING "T" $200: Hope you like fish:
I'm serving the spotted, silver & speckled types of this--& I expect you to eat all of them trout |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | CONDUCTORS $400: The Lone Ranger could tell you this precious metal is the best conductor of electricity among metals silver |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS $400: This pirate leader came to life in an 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson tale Long John Silver |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | "G" WHIZ $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a dog show at Silver Bay Kennel Club.) Dog show judges know a good indicator of structure, temperament & condition is this pattern of movement that can be a walk, trot or gallop gait |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | ELEMENTAL PROBLEMS $1600: "A long time ____ in a galaxy far, far away" ago: silver & oxygen |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | JUST SAY RENO $400: Reno's rep as a capital of this began in 1906 when Laura Corey got one from Penn. steel magnate husband William a divorce |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | AFTER TRICK OR TREATING... $800: ...show your regional pride by saluting the 144th anniversary of this "Silver State" joining the Union Nevada |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $2000: In 2008 he hitched a ride on "The Pineapple Express" as Saul Silver & brushed up on his English lit as a UCLA grad James Franco |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | THE BELLS ARE RINGING $600: The Xmas song standard titled these "Bells" was introduced by Bob Hope in the 1951 movie "The Lemon Drop Kid" "Silver Bells" |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | HURRELL'S HOLLYWOOD $800: Joseph was the real first name of this deadpan daddy-o of the early silver screen Buster Keaton |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE $1200: In 1704 Peter the Great introduced the first regular minting of this currency in silver the ruble |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2001 the Netherlands issued its last coin in this currency in both gold & silver the guilder |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | LEAD $600: Lead ores such as galena are also the main mining sources of this precious metal often found with it silver |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $800: Appropriately, it's Nevada's state metal silver |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | ORSON $800: Arrrrr! In 1972 Orson Welles was back aboard ship as the evil Long John Silver in this tale Treasure Island |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | AT THE THEME PARK $600: A highlight of Silver Dollar City in Branson is a tour of Marvel Cave, the deepest cave in this state Missouri |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The "Peace Garden State" hits the silver screen as a young actress in "Charlotte's Web" North Dakota Fanning |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | WILL...OF...FORTUNE! $1000: This orator & Nebraska representative opposed the gold standard & urged the free coinage of silver William Jennings Bryan |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | MARINE LIFE $1600: The savory silver salmon with its bright red flesh is also known by this 4-letter name coho |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | STATE MOTTOES $200: Montana:
"Oro y plata",
translated as
"Gold and" this silver |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | SHIPS $1200: El Cazador was found 200 years after it sank with 400,000 of these monetary units worth of silver pesos |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | TV MOVIE BIOS $600: It was a battle of the sexes when Holly Hunter & Ron Silver played these opponents in "When Billie Beat Bobby" Billie Jean King & Bobby Riggs |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: A roomful of silver balloons that move with the air currents is a highlight of this pop artist's Pittsburgh museum Andy Warhol |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | MILITARY STUFF $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the LBJ Library & Museum in Austin, TX.) LBJ was the first congressman to enter active duty during WWII, & his library proudly displays the Silver Star given to him by this Pacific Theater commander (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | METAL $800: The ore pyrargyrite is associated with veins of this precious metal, symbol Ag silver |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | IT'S ELEMENTAL $400 (Daily Double): This element's symbol, Hg, comes from the Latin word hydrargyrum, meaning "liquid silver" mercury |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | RIGHT ON THE MONEY $400: The 2004 silver dollar honoring Thomas Edison was inscribed on the reverse side, "125th anniversary of" this invention the light bulb |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $200: 1960 film that says "Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all", especially for "the son who commits it" Psycho |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: Her 6-minute role as Queen Elizabeth in "Shakespeare in Love" was the shortest Oscar-winning role Judi Dench |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600: Chris O'Donnell was originally cast as her son in "Prince of Tides", but she chose her real son instead Barbra Streisand |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Anthony Hopkins said his voice for this movie role was "a combination of Truman Capote and Katharine Hepburn" Hannibal Lecter |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1000: Schwarzenegger is a Soviet cop teamed with James Belushi's Chicago cop in this action movie Red Heat |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | WHAT A FAMOUS HORSE RACE! $200: & away they go... This horse who was 1st on TV in 1949 leads early... Its masked jockey seems to be saying "Hi yo" something Silver |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | FILMS FROM COMIC BOOKS $800: The 2007 "Fantastic Four" sequel was subtitled "Rise of" this galactic traveler the Silver Surfer |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | MISSING LINKS $400: Hi-yo ___ wedding anniversary Silver |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | BEVERLY HILLS 90210 $600: (Alex: Let's go back to Tori.)
On the series finale of "90210", my character Donna finally married David Silver, played by this 3-named actor Brian Austin Green |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | TENNIS $200: The ladies' singles trophy for this event is a sterling silver tray called the Rosewater Dish Wimbledon |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | MONSTER MASH $400: Also known as a lycanthrope, this beastly monster can be killed by a silver bullet or other silver weapon a werewolf |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | GEMS & JEWELRY $1600: Squash blossom necklaces made by the Zuni Indians often feature this bluish-green gem set in silver turquoise |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | SPEL-EMENTS $1000: Hydrogen,
silver hag (H-Ag) |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | COLORS $800: In the original "Wizard of Oz" book & in the musical "Wicked", the slippers aren't "ruby" but this metallic color silver |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | HOW PRECIOUS! $800: A dollar dated 1804 made of this metal is now worth over a million dollars silver |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | THE SUMMER OLYMPICS $1000: In 2004 the USA's Bryan Clay, with 8,820 points, took the silver in this 10-event contest the decathlon |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | OH, BROTHER $200: In 1979 & 1980 brothers Nelson Bunker & William Herbert Hunt conspired to corner the market in this metal silver |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $400: This treacherous pirate in "Treasure Island" has a pet parrot named Captain Flint Long John Silver |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | THE BROWNINGS $1600: "Guess now who holds thee?--'Death', I said. But there, the silver answer rang--not death, but" this Love |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CATS $200: The Korat breed, from Thailand, is usually this color of some Olympic medals silver |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: The star on Nevada's flag is this metallic color because it represents Nevada's state mineral silver |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | ADDING INSULT $1000: Later a Texas governor, in 1988 she said George H.W. Bush was "born with a silver foot in his mouth" (Ann) Richards |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | THE DENVER MINT $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the Denver Mint.) Back when coins were made of gold & silver, putting ridges around them was done to prevent cutting off bits of metal, an act known by this grooming term shaving |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | VATICAN CURIOSITIES $1600: Until the 1960s, a pope's death was confirmed by tapping him with a hammer made of this silver |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | HAVE A "MENT" $1600: Poe wrote, "Hear the sledges with the bells--silver bells! What a world of" this "their melody foretells" merriment |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | THE HORSE $1000: From the Spanish, it's the term for a horse with a golden coat & a white or silver mane & tail palomino |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | MISSING BODY PARTS $800: The mutinous Long John Silver in "Treasure Island" a leg |
| #5196, aired 2007-03-26 | YOU'RE A SUPERHERO $2000: This guy is Radd, Norrin Radd, former herald of world-devouring Galactus, & better known by this name The Silver Surfer |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | JOB $600: Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla's ex-husband, once held the odd job of "Silver Stick in waiting to" this royal the Queen |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | THE ANCIENTS $800: In 55 B.C. Cicero published "On" this type of person who may be described as silver-tongued an orator |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | FRENCH HISTORY $1200: 18th century kings ran up debts of hundreds of millions of these--not as in books, but as in units of silver currency livres |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | JOHNS IN FILM $1600: Between his 1950 & 1954 portrayals of this pirate, Robert Newton found time to play Blackbeard Long John Silver |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | EXCELLENT ADVENTURE $200: At the end of this novel, Jim has "the voice of Captain Flint still ringing in" his "ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!'" Treasure Island |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | COLORS IN ITALIAN $5,200 (Daily Double): This metallic color is argento silver |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | SCREEN TEENS $800: Seen here, she had roles on "CSI" & "Profiler" before breaking out on the silver screen Evan Rachel Wood |
| #5150, aired 2007-01-19 | FAMOUS JEWISH ATHLETES $400: U.S. national figure skating champion Sasha Cohen took silver at the 2006 Winter Olympics in this city Torino |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | COLORFUL CHARACTERS $400: Also called the sea cook, he leads mutineers against Captain Smollet on board the Hispaniola Long John Silver |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | RUSSIAN LEADERS $600: Ivan the Terrible's mom introduced one of these showing a knight holding a spear called a kopye-- hence "kopeck" a coin |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: A silver jubilee honors this anniversary the 25th |
| #5125, aired 2006-12-15 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: In the Army, number of silver bars a captain has or silver stars a major general has 2 |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ONE "L" $400: A rhyme says, "make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other" this metal gold |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | HOW VERY PROPER $600: This metal is the traditional gift for a 25th anniversary, but a bottle of champagne is a nice alternative silver |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | COMPOUNDS IN ACTION $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside a science lab.) When hydrogen sulfide in the air reacts with silver, it creates a coating called silver sulfide, better known by this one word tarnish |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | JANE EYRE'S WEDDING REGISTRY $1200: A handsome set of silver is embossed with this letter, for the happy couple's last name R |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | COOKING CLASS $1000: For the silver dollar type of these breakfast treats, drop the batter onto the griddle 1 tbsp. at a time pancakes |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | JEWELRY $1000: This kind of pendant is a gold or silver case that opens to reveal a picture of a loved one a locket |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | 50 CENT $800: The 1964 JFK half dollar was 90% this transition metal, symbol Ag silver |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME! $400: Numismatics, man! In 2005 one of these dating from 1792 sold for $437,000--that's 43.7 million times its face value a penny |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | LET'S START A CLUB $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the manufacturing facilities of Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) At Ping, the first step of making golf irons is injecting hot wax into a mold of this malleable, silver-white metallic element aluminum |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | PUT ME IN COACH! $1,000 (Daily Double): 1920s buses from Safety Coach Lines of Muskegon, Mich. were known as these because of their color & sleekness greyhounds |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: "Born with" one of these "in one's mouth" is a reference to a high-end christening gift a silver spoon |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | SUPERHERO BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Judas' named biblical betrayal price was hanging ten & being confined to Earth by Galactus, the planet eater 30 pieces of Silver Surfer |
| #5020, aired 2006-06-09 | SING SING $200: The Beatles' 2-word musical exclamation used before "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" comes down on various heads bang bang |
| #5020, aired 2006-06-09 | OZ $1000: In L. Frank Baum's original book, this, not ruby, is the color of Dorothy's slippers silver |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | SHERMANS $5,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 important "Acts" written by U.S. Senator John Sherman in 1890 the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (or the Sherman Silver Purchase Act) |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | CHANGE THE WORLD $400: For collectors & investors, this country mints a maple leaf coin in gold & silver Canada |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports with some textiles from NC State University in Raleigh, NC.) North Carolina State University is developing shirts lined with transmitters made of this element, symbol Ag, that may one day monitor your vital signs silver |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | WHERE'S MY CAR? $1000: The precious metal that precedes "Ghost", "Dawn" & "Shadow" in the names of Rolls-Royce models Silver |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | NV $1000: In 1859 this "lode" of silver made Nevada's Virginia City one of the most famous Western mining towns the Comstock Lode |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT $400: Silver foil was being rationed, so production of these smoochable candies was halted during World War II Hershey's Kisses |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | WOMEN ATHLETES $400: This Californian known for her exquisitie artistry skated off with a silver medal at the 2006 Olympics Sasha Cohen |
| #4951, aired 2006-03-06 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $1000: In 1930 Congress authorized gold, silver & bronze medals for members of his Antarctic expedition Admiral Byrd |
| #4943, aired 2006-02-22 | WHERE THERE'S A WILLIAM $1000: After this man's speech at the National Convention in 1896, the Democrats came out pro-silver William Jennings Bryan |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | VERTEBRATES $600: When rainbow species of this migrate to the sea, their color changes to silver; they're then called steelheads trout |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS $2000: His "Bode" of work includes 2 Alpine skiing silver medals in 2002 Bode Miller |
| #4927, aired 2006-01-31 | UNFORGIVEN $400: In Matthew 27:5 he "cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself" Judas |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | GOVERNMENT AT YOUR SERVICE $1000: Its headquarters are in Silver Spring, Md., but it has forecast offices across the U.S. the National Weather Service |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | PRAWNOGRAPHY $400: The Muppet known as Pepe the Prawn did commercials for a restaurant chain named for this "Long" character Long John Silver |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | BY THE NUMBERS $200: Matthew 26:15:
"What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for" this 30 pieces of silver |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | "C" FOOD $600: It's also called silver salmon coho (salmon) |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | WHAT A (TV) CHARACTER! $2000: This news director of radio station WKRP in Cincinnati won the Silver Sow Award for Agricultural Reportage Les Nessman |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | A GREEN CATEGORY $2000: Her "Rilla of Ingleside" & "Pat of Silver Bush" were not as successful as her "Anne of Green Gables" Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $400: It was followed by the Iron Age the Bronze (Age) |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $800: Thin-sheeted gilded lettering gold leaf (or gold foil) |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $1200: The two biggest crowds at this Detroit-area stadium were for the Pope & Wrestlemania III the Silverdome |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $1600: Your 25th annual remembrance of your wedding the silver anniversary |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $2000: A lazy loafer, or someone who makes bullion a gold bricker |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | TO PHRASE A COIN $1200: This national park noted for its geysers was placed on a commemorative U.S. silver dollar in 1999 Yellowstone |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK $800: ___ & The Silver Bullet Band Bob Seger |
| #4851, aired 2005-10-17 | MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO $400: In the 1860s this precious metal was discovered at Owyhee, & today Idaho leads the U.S. in its production silver |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | ESPAÑOL $200: In Spanish, oro is gold & plata is this metal silver |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | KILLER BANDS $800: Bob Seger only needs to fear nefarious record execs, not werewolves, when this backup band is around The Silver Bullet Band |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | PAYING TRIBUTE $400: In 1004 the Chinese Song emperor pledged to pay the Khitan people 100,000 yearly oz. of silver & 200,000 bolts of this silk |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | CELEBRITY CRITTERS $1600: Silver was the Lone Ranger's horse & this was the name of Tonto's horse Scout |
| #4810, aired 2005-07-01 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In England his 1950 science fiction novel "The Martian Chronicles" was titled "The Silver Locusts" Bradbury |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | SYMPTOMS OF AFFLUENZA $200: You get the sweats thinking about this car company's Silver Shadow, Silver Cloud or Phantom model Rolls-Royce |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | CHURCHES $600: Relics at Rome's Santa Croce in Gerusalemme include thorns from the crown & a piece of this paid to Judas silver |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | CHEMISTRY $1600: Iron, cobalt & this silver-white next metal up on the periodic table share similar chemical properties nickel |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | WORLD COINS $400: Each year this country changes the design of its gold & silver panda coins, adding to their appeal China |
| #4775, aired 2005-05-13 | DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004 $800: He won the Silver & Bronze Stars while serving in Vietnam & led NATO forces against Yugoslavia Clark |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | INNER SPACE $1600: A storage room by the kitchen where china & silver are kept is his "pantry" the butler's pantry |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | CALIFUNIA $400: "Ready. Aim. Scream" is the slogan of this Buena Park theme park's Silver Bullet ride Knott's Berry Farm |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER $400: For silver, it's 1,762 degrees Fahrenheit the melting point |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER $800: Silver-107 & silver-109 are 2 naturally occurring these of silver isotopes |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER $1200: Light changes colorless silver ions into black silver atoms, leading to this technology in the 1830s photography |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER $1600: Silver is the best metal conductor of these 2 things heat & electricity |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER $2,800 (Daily Double): Silver is second only to gold in ductility & this, the ability to be hammered into thin sheets malleability |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | BRAND NAMES $800: Like its other vitamins, this brand's Silver for adults 50 & over is "Always complete. From A to zinc" Centrum |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: 2 of the ores for this yellowish-green gas are rock salt & horn silver chlorine |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | METALLICA $400: To buy this precious metal, visit Taxco, Mexico; it's the city's best-known product silver |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Louisiana's governor from 1928 to 1932 who was a one-legged pirate in "Treasure Island" Huey Long John Silver |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | GOOD CONDUCTORS $600: This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals silver |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | MAKE-UP TEST $1000: Hard Candy's Glitter Lash Freak type of this has shards of silver micro glitter mascara |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $400: It's a special ability, perhaps drawing or playing the piano, or a biblical measure of silver or gold a talent |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | SPORTS TROPHIES $500 (Daily Double): The Air Canada Silver Broom curling |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | AMERICANA $200: The theme park once known as Silver Dollar City got a makeover & in '86 was renamed this, in honor of a famous blonde Dollywood |
| #4670, aired 2004-12-17 | ALL THE GLITTERING PRIZES $200: Abbreviated the ABA, this national organization hands out annual "Silver Gavel" awards the American Bar Association |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | METALS $400: Sterling silver is not pure silver; it's actually an alloy consisting of 92.5% silver & 7.5% this metal copper |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 2002 Melissa Gilbert was reelected president of this guild formed by actors of the silver screen the Screen Actors Guild |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | IT'S ELEMENTAL $1,000 (Daily Double): Its symbol Hg comes from the Latin hydrargyrum, "watery silver" mercury |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | IT'S ELEMENTAL $1000: Oxides of this silver-white metallic element are used in pigments to give some ceramics a vivid blue color cobalt |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | THE HOLE TRUTH $1600: Silver Springs in northern Florida is one of the state's largest water-filled one of these holes a sinkhole |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | "LONG" JUMP $200: In "Treasure Island", he's originally hired as a cook Long John Silver |
| #4606, aired 2004-09-20 | NAMED FOR A FRENCH KING'S MISTRESS $800: An elegant silver pattern was named for Madame du Barry, famed for her liaison with this king Louis XV |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | POP CULTURE AMERICA $600: Object associated with the Lone Ranger & with Bob Seger's Band a silver bullet |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | PRO FOOTBALL $1000: (I’m Hall of Fame running back John Riggins.) In 1983 I rushed for a then record 24 TDs; the Redskins offensive line who opened holes for me had this nickname Hogs |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | PHOTOGRAPHY $6,000 (Daily Double): In the 1830s this Frenchman began producing photographs by exposing silver-coated copper plates Louis Daguerre |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: Geyser Gulch, the world's largest tree house, is one of the features at Silver Dollar City in this Missouri tourist mecca Branson |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | FOLLOW THE LEADER $200: Dating from around 300 B.C., the silver tetradrachma coin depicts this Macedonian leader Alexander the Great |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | KIDDY LIT $200: He created Long John Silver (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | YOU AUTO KNOW THIS $400: Every cloud has a silver lining, but not every driver has a Silver Cloud, launched by this co. in 1955 Rolls-Royce |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1600: This silver-tongued orator & publisher of "The Commoner" resigned as Secretary in 1915 (William Jennings) Bryan |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $2000: In 1842 this silver-tongued orator negotiated a treaty with Lord Ashburton which settled the Maine boundary dispute (Daniel) Webster |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | SPORTS TROPHIES $1600: The Larry O'Brien Trophy features a regulation size sterling silver one of these a basketball |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | MOTHER GOOSE $800: "Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and" these, "and pretty maids all in a row" cockle shells |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | ROCKY $1600: Argentite, made up partly of this metal, is found in veins of it silver |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | THE ELEMENTS $2000: The silver fillings used by dentists are about 50% this toxic metallic element mercury |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | COLORS $800: (Hi, I'm Charlie Garner of the NFL) These are the Oakland Raiders' 2 team colors; they strike fear in opponents silver & black |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | WORLD COINS $1200: In 1999 it issued its 1-oz. silver kookaburra coin with honor marks reproducing several U.S. state quarters Australia |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | HALIFAX ME $800: In use Monday-Friday 8-6, the yellow-capped ones are 5 hours max, green 2 hours, silver 1 hour & red 30 min. parking meters |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | NATIVE AMERICAN ART $800: In the 1850s, Atsidi Sani, "The Old Smith", fashioned the first Navajo artworks in this metal silver |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | NONFICTION $400: It's the eating implement on the cover of Adam Bellow's "In Praise of Nepotism" a silver spoon |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | ELEMENT"S" $400: The Comstock Lode on Mt. Davidson in western Nevada was the richest find of this element in the U.S. silver |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | NOTED BLACK AMERICANS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is holding an aluminum bat.) The first national winner of Hillerich & Bradsby's Silver Bat Award in 1949 was this Dodger second baseman Jackie Robinson |
| #4470, aired 2004-01-30 | CLUES PAST THEIR FRESHNESS DATE $200: Time's 1980 Man of the Year cover showed him in a western shirt, jeans & a tooled belt with silver buckle Ronald Reagan |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | METALS $200: Around 3000 B.C. it had 2/5 the value of gold, but in 2002 it had about 1/75 gold's value silver |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | PSALMS PSUMMARY $800: These silver & gold objects that some worship "have mouths, but they speak not: eyes...but they see not" idols |
| #4432, aired 2003-12-09 | THE ELEMENTS $800: Reflecting about 95% of the light falling upon it, it's the most lustrous of all metals silver |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | HERE'S A 20 $200: Pick up one of the new twenties that came out in 1849 & you'd be holding a coin with about an ounce of this gold |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | MOOLA MOOLA $400: The name of this monetary unit used in India comes from the Sanskrit for "stamped silver coin" rupee |
| #4410, aired 2003-11-07 | GOOD HORSEKEEPING $200: Silver & Scout were the horses of this fictional pair the Lone Ranger & Tonto |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | ALL THAT JAZZ $2000: In the mid-1950s pianist Horace Silver & this drummer founded the Jazz Messengers Art Blakey |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | UTAH $2000: In the 1870s silver brought folks in droves to this city; now it's the silver screen that's the draw each January Park City |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | THE TWENTIETH $400: A nation shares its name with this traditional 20th wedding anniversary present China |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | "S.B." $400: It's said that a werewolf can be killed with one of these silver bullet |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: In 2002 this "Big Fat" success became the highest-grossing film never to have a No. 1 weekend at the box office My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: This 1987 Danny DeVito-Richard Dreyfuss film about aluminum siding salesmen was set in 1963 Baltimore Tin Men |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin) In this 1990 Martin Scorsese-directed film based on the book "Wiseguy", Scorsese's mother plays Joe Pesci's mom Goodfellas |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1600: In this 2001 film, Kevin Spacey's character Prot insisted that he was from a planet 1,000 light years from Earth K-Pax |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | MR. JOHNSON $2000: Winning the silver medal in the decathlon in 1956, he came back to win the gold in 1960 Rafer Johnson |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE SILVER SCREEN $2000: Madonna was set to play violin teacher Roberta Guaspari in "Music of the Heart", but this lady got the role Meryl Streep |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | SHOW ME THE MONEY! $600: Add up one of each U.S. coin in general circulation & you get this amount of money $1.91 |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | SILVER $400: He received 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus Judas |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | SILVER $800: After this mother of discoveries in Nevada, the U.S. became for a time the world's leading silver producer Comstock Lode |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | SILVER $1200: From its Latin name, argentum, this is the chemical symbol for silver Ag |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | SILVER $1600: Between 1761 & 1797, he fashioned over 5,000 silver pieces, including the one seen here Paul Revere |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | SILVER $2000: Popular with coin collectors is this silver dollar minted originally from 1878 to 1921 & named for its designer Morgan silver dollar |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS $200: The Silver Star in Europa Park in Germany is billed as Europe's biggest & highest steel one of these a roller coaster |
| #4316, aired 2003-05-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1892 this party met in Omaha; its plank called for the secret ballot & the unlimited coinage of silver at a 16:1 ratio Populist Party |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | TEXTILES $1200: This brocaded fabric uses gold or silver metallic threads; Elvis had a famous gold tuxedo made of it lame |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | BRITISH ORDERS OF CHIVALRY $800: You get a silver medal, not a loofah, with the Order of this, which was revived in 1725 Order of the Bath |
| #4281, aired 2003-03-24 | PRECOLUMBIAN LIFE $1600: Silver & gold plates covered the walls of Coricancha, a temple in this Incan capital Cuzco |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Amsterdam.) Mary Mapes Dodge had never been to Holland when she wrote this 1865 tale set on Dutch canals "Hans Brinker" or "The Silver Skates" |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | YOU DESERVE A METAL $800: In 1965 President Johnson asked that this metal be eliminated in the minting of new dimes & quarters silver |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | ANCIENT ROME $400: Less valuable than the aureus, the denarius was a coin made of this silver |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1600: Long John Silver was the mutinous cook aboard this "Treasure Island" ship that shares its name with a Caribbean island Hispaniola |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY $1000: The Boy Scouts of America's highest award for service is "The Silver" one of these Plains animals Buffalo |
| #4246, aired 2003-02-03 | U.S. COINS $1000: A study done in 1978 found people hated this coin even before it was issued; it looked too much like a quarter the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin |
| #4232, aired 2003-01-14 | THE OLYMPICS $2000: Last name of twins Phil & Steve who won gold & silver in the slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics Mahre |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PROVERBS $800: "Speech is silver" but this "is golden" silence |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAMS $1200: If you "bleed silver & black", you may want to join the fan club of this West Coast NFL team Oakland Raiders |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | A SHAKESPEARE TOUR $400: A country:
"This precious stone set in the silver sea" England |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | SILVER $400: Werewolves take note: the light beer from this brewery is known as "The Silver Bullet" Coors |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | SILVER $800: The 1906 Silver Ghost seen here was the first model of this Rolls-Royce |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | SILVER $1200: Yo, it's the 4-letter nickname of the Vegas headlining comedian whose real name is Andrew Silverstein (Andrew) Dice (Clay) |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | SILVER $1600: This Western Hemisphere country is the world's largest producer of silver Mexico |
| #4221, aired 2002-12-30 | SILVER $2000: Topped by a silver eagle with a 15-inch wingspan, a large silver mace is the symbol of authority of this U.S. govt. body House of Representatives |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | MINE YOUR BUSINESS $600: George Hearst made a load of money investing in this richest silver strike in the U.S. Comstock Lode |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | ARGENTINA $2,000 (Daily Double): Both Argentina & the Rio de la Plata derive their names from the Latin word for this silver |
| #4207, aired 2002-12-10 | JEWEL $200: The Pinctada maxima, or silver-lip oyster, is the largest oyster capable of cultivating one of these pearl |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | CHEMICAL COMPOUND COMMERCIALS $400: Ever wished you could use just one product for photography & rainmaking? You can, with iodide of this metal! silver |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | GLASS CLASS $400: Many mirrors are made using a backing of AgNO3, a nitrate of this metal silver |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | IRIDIUM $7,000 (Daily Double): For use in jewelry & pen points, iridium is combined with this other silver-white metal platinum |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | NURSERY RHYME RAP $1000: He's the cat who's gone to sea, silver buckles on his knee (shut your mouth) but, I'm talking about... Bobby Shafto |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $200: Sulfur compounds in polluted air cause silver to do this tarnish |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $400: It sounds like a thousand million, but it's an overall term for gold considered in mass rather than in value bullion |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $800: Some newborns' eyes are treated with a mild solution of this chemical to prevent blindness silver nitrate |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $1,000 (Daily Double): The world's largest gold field is in the Witwatersrand region of this country South Africa |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | GOLD & SILVER $1000: On August 17, 1896 gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek, a tributary of this Yukon Territory river the Klondike |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | THE CHEMICAL WORLD $1600: Until the 1950s most motion picture film was made of this highly flammable material sometimes called celluloid cellulose nitrate |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | "UR" RIGHT $800: Some oxides of this silver-white element have been used to color glass & ceramics uranium |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | DON'T BE SUCH A HEDGEHOG $1200: The Intl. Hedgehog Society says the 38 accepted ones of these for show hedgehogs include silver & cinnamon colors |
| #4164, aired 2002-10-10 | CERTIFICATES $1000: As part of a 1930s act it was illegal for individuals to hold these from the Treasury; the restrictions were lifted in 1964 gold certificates |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Contrary to myth, Washington didn't throw one of these across the Potomac; there weren't any when he was young silver dollar |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | SUPERHEROES $800: The dude seen here is the "Silver" one of this type of athletes surfers |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | HELLO, NEWMAN $600: Newman's movie debut, "The Silver" this, also features Lorne Greene as St. Peter The Silver Chalice |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | THE BIBLE $800: Acts says Judas bought a plot of land & it only cost him this much 30 pieces (of silver) |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | DISCOVERY $800: In 1580 he brought back to England the silver, gold, jewels & 3 tons of cloves he got during his round-the-world trip Drake |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | STATE MOTTOES $600: The "Big Sky" State:
"Oro y Plata" ("Gold & Silver") Montana |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | TCHOTCHKES $400: You can get this receptacle, for mixing martini ingredients together, in sterling silver a shaker |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | OLD MONEY $400: 3,000 of these Hebrew coins in silver were equivalent to one silver talent shekels |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | THE ELEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Its symbol Hg comes from the Latin term hydrargyrum, meaning "watery silver" mercury |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTS $1000: By putting silver & aluminum together in a solution, you can remove tarnish, caused by this element with the symbol S sulfur |
| #4092, aired 2002-05-21 | "JU"NE $400: This Derby Day mint drink is best served in a silver cup a mint julep |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | DOLLAR $800: The word thaler, which became dollar, is from Joachimsthal, site of a mine for this metal silver |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | HOME SWEET HOME $800: Her Silver Spring, Maryland home where she wrote "Silent Spring", is now a national landmark Rachel Carson |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | THE 50 STATES $800: Ironically, this "Silver State" leads the nation in the production of gold Nevada |
| #4066, aired 2002-04-15 | CHEMISTRY $800: This Italian's dry cell battery of 1800 consisted of a stack of pairs of silver and zinc disks Alessandro Volta |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | ENDS IN "TH" $400: Meaning "metal worker", it follows black, silver & gun smith |
| #4064, aired 2002-04-11 | GIVE ME SOME CAVIAR! $2000: Sterling silver gives caviar a metalic taste; use a spoon made of this, also called nacre, instead mother-of-pearl |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | ELECTRICITY $800: Copper & silver are good ones: so are Esa-Pekka Salonen & Zubin Mehta conductors |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER $600: The 1878 Bland-Allison act let a limited number of these dollars be coined, creating "limping bimetallism" silver dollars |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | ALL BUSINESS $1000: Well shiver me timbers! This is the nation's largest fast food seafood chain Long John Silver's |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: Anthony Perkins played this role on film in 1960, 1983 & 1986 & in a made-for-TV movie Norman Bates |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Tom Jones sang the theme to this 1965 film which Sean Connery remade in 1983 as "Never Say Never Again" Thunderball |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: In "Cast Away" Tom Hanks' character paints a face on a volleyball & gives it this name Wilson |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1600: In "Some Like It Hot", Marilyn Monroe's character Sugar Kane played this stringed instrument the ukulele |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $2000: In "Mars Attacks!", the Martians were defeated by the playing of this country singer's 1952 hit "Indian Love Call" Slim Whitman |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $800: A current senator from Massachusetts, this man earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star & 3 Purple Hearts (John) Kerry |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | COLORS $2000: Ag silver |
| #4026, aired 2002-02-18 | ELEMENTAL LATIN $1200: Argentum silver |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | NURSERY RHYMES $1000: He's the nursery rhyme character who has "gone to sea" with "silver buckles on his knee" Bobby Shafto |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | GO FISH $1000: The savory silver salmon with its bright red flesh is also known by this 4-letter name coho |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | TREES COMPANY $200: The yellow or silver type of this tree has peeling, papery bark when it's young birch |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN $300: Let's give a hand (no, a leg) to this seafaring captain created in 1851 Captain Ahab |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | DOGS OF WAR $600: In WWII Chips earned a Silver Star & a Purple Heart after landing at Licata on this European island Sicily |
| #3939, aired 2001-10-18 | GIFF US ZE FORMULA! $200: Silver chloride:
___Cl Ag |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | GUN PARTS $300: The Beatles' Maxwell had a silver one hammer |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | IT HAPPENED IN SEPTEMBER $800: Seen here, this cowboy hero of the Old West made his TV debut Sept. 15, 1949 the Lone Ranger |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $800: 1865:
A Dutch boy whose sister wins "the silver skates" Hans Brinker |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | U.S. MONEY $300: Congress honored this slain U.S. senator from New York on a 1997 commemorative silver dollar Robert F. Kennedy |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $800: In the '20s & '30s this "Norwegian Doll" was the "Queen of the Ice" & a "Symphony on Silver Skates" Sonja Henie |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | GOOD DOG! $300: Wounded while flushing out a machine gun nest during WWII, Chips received the Silver Star for valor & this medal Purple Heart |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | MAY FLOWERS $800: Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With these May blossoms seen here silver bells |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | THE SILVER SCREEN $200: This Jim Carrey film & "Mission: Impossible 2" were the only 2 films to top $200 million at the box office in 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: Those who had cameos in 1984's "Gremlins" include Steven Spielberg, animator Chuck Jones & this 1950s movie robot Robby the Robot |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600: "Shadow of the Vampire" starring Willem Dafoe as actor Max Schreck was inspired by this 1922 German film Nosferatu |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: The trial of Esmeralda in the silent "Hunchback of Notre Dame" was directed by this star & makeup genius Lon Chaney |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1000: For this 1983 film, Horton Foote won an Oscar for his screenplay & Robert Duvall won for his performance Tender Mercies |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | LAW $500: Before "The Naked Gun" shot onto the silver screen, he played Det. Frank Drebin on TV in "Police Squad" (Leslie) Nielsen |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | ANN-A-GRAMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bush has a silver foot in his mouth (stop) same with W (stop) so how did he beat me as Texas governor (stop) Ann Richards |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $500: It's the alternate title of "Hans Brinker", the Mary Mapes Dodge tale of an impoverished Dutch boy "The Silver Skates" |
| #3846, aired 2001-04-30 | U.S. COINS $200: A few rare 1965 quarters were still made of this metal; the Mint switched to a clad coin that year silver |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: Argentite is an ore of this metal Silver |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | SCIENCE $200: Silver iodide & silver bromide are sensitive to this, hence their use in photography light |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | GENE WILDER $500: Gene's first movie pairing with Richard Pryor came in this 1976 comedy thriller about a murder plot on a train Silver Streak |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | LANCES $300: Lance Deal, this American record holder with a 270' 9" throw, won a silver medal in this track & field event in 1996 the hammer throw |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | A MESS O' MESOPOTAMIA $400: The use of this is believed to have originated in Mesopotamia over 3,700 years ago; it was in the form of silver rings Money |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE $100: Proverbial lining for a cloud silver |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE $200: Awake's "Nuance Veil" tan-faking makeup bronze |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE $300: A regular on "Growing Pains" Tracey Gold |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE $400: This was often found under the Lone Ranger silver |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | GOLD, SILVER OR BRONZE $500: Historic coast that's now part of Ghana Gold Coast |
| #3801, aired 2001-02-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Laura Ingalls Wilder's novel about growing up out west with Garrison Keillor's radio show Little House on the Prairie Home Companion |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | U.S. COINS $200: A limited edition silver dollar featured this black baseball pioneer & the inscription "Rookie of the Year 1947" Jackie Robinson |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | U.S. COINS $400: The mint produced silver coins for the U.S. & Iceland honoring the millennium of his discovery of the New World Leif Ericson |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | U.S. COINS $700 (Daily Double): To honor the bicentennial of this, a silver dollar featured an open book & the Jefferson Building Library of Congress |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | U.S. ARMED FORCES INSIGNIA $200: The stars of a 4-star Army general are this color Silver |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | CRAYOLA CRAYON COLORS $300: 2 of the first 3 metallic colors introduced Gold, silver &/or copper |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: "On a bright Dec. morning long ago, two thinly clad children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland" "Hans Brinker"/"The Silver Skates" |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST? $300: Cash in on a plateful of these small pancakes with a monetary name Silver dollar pancakes |
| #3763, aired 2001-01-03 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: They're considered the 3 precious metals Gold, silver & platinum |
| #3759, aired 2000-12-28 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $1000: In "Treasure Island", this one-legged pirate is always accompanied by his parrot, Cap'n Flint Long John Silver |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | TOP "ING"s $400: A bar of gold or silver bullion Ingot |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | THE SILVER STATE $100: Reportedly, this now booming Nevada city was once known to the railroad as Waterhole No. 25 Las Vegas |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | THE SILVER STATE $200: Flashing lights of this color are the universal sign of legal prostitution in Nevada's rural areas red |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | THE SILVER STATE $300: On Dec. 5, 1916 in Jarbidge Canyon, the last Nevada robbery of one of these conveyances took place Stagecoach |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | THE SILVER STATE $400: This decade wasn't all depressing -- gambling became legal in Nevada 1930s |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | THE SILVER STATE $500: In 1870 a Liberty silver dollar was the first coin struck with the mint mark "C.C." in this city Carson City |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE ARTS $400: Sam Wagstaff, a major collector of this visual art that uses silver, later turned to collecting silver photography |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $200: In this film Marlon Brando tells Rod Steiger, "You don't understand. I could've had class. I could've been a contender" On the Waterfront |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: She made her English-speaking debut in "Intermezzo", a 1939 film she had made in Swedish 3 years earlier Ingrid Bergman |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600: In "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle", he plays Fearless Leader, would-be conqueror of the world Robert De Niro |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: (Here comes film critic Roger Ebert) "This film ennobles filmmaking" is what I wrote of this death row drama starring Susan Sarandon Dead Man Walking |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1000: Leonard Maltin calls this 1987 Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman farce the "'Heaven's Gate' of movie comedies" Ishtar |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | THE "A"-TEAM $200: Both this country & the Rio de la Plata, its major river estuary, were named for silver Argentina |
| #3739, aired 2000-11-30 | CHEERS $500: This almond-flavored liqueur & creme de cacao are ingredients of a silver cloud cocktail Amaretto |
| #3717, aired 2000-10-31 | IT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN $300: It became a state Oct. 31, 1864, five years after people noticed it was "loded" with silver Nevada |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Developed in the 1830s, it's a photographic image made on a copper plate coated with polished silver a daguerreotype |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | '70s SONGS $1000: In 1970 this lead singer of Paul Revere & the Raiders went solo & had 2 hits, "Arizona" & "Silver Bird" Mark Lindsay |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $300: On the silver screen he's been bald as Ike, Othello & Morpheus Laurence Fishburne |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | MERE CASH $1000: China's basic currency unit, it began as a silver coin but now usually circulates as paper the yuan |
| #3682, aired 2000-09-12 | ANCIENT COINS $200: In 44 B.C. the senate of Rome wanted his head -- on all silver coins Julius Caesar |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $100: Not surprisingly it's Nevada's state metal Silver |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | JIM CLASS $100: 20 years after his death, this singer was portrayed by Val Kilmer on the silver screen Jim Morrison |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MOTHER GOOSE $400: "Bobby Shafto's gone to sea" with these "on his knee" silver buckles |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | SEE THE USA $300: The silver dollar seen here commemorates this, established in 1872: Yellowstone National Park |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | 1850s AMERICA $200: Gold was found in Colorado, silver in the Comstock & this new resource in a Titusville, Pennsylvania well Oil |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $500: Sebastian Cabot gave South America's Rio de la Plata its name thinking there were deposits of this nearby Silver |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | THE SOMEONE OF SOMEWHERE $500: Ben Franklin dubbed silver-tongued Robert R. Livingston this Roman orator "of America" Cicero |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | AT TIFFANY'S $400: For well over 150 years, the distinctive Tiffany shade of this color has been seen on Tiffany's boxes & bags Blue |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $400: For the abundance of the metal found there, this South American country's name is from the Latin for "silver" Argentina |
| #3630, aired 2000-05-19 | GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES $800: Brutus Jones shoots himself with a silver bullet in the opera based on this Eugene O'Neill play The Emperor Jones |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | FILE UNDER "B" $500: From the Latin for "projecting", it's a rich silk cloth with a raised pattern in gold or silver Brocade |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | BELLS $200: (Hi, I'm Catherine Bell) In a popular Christmas song, these bells ring; "Are you listening?" Sleigh bells |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: This title character's sister Gretel wins the silver skates (so why isn't the book named for her?) Hans Brinker |
| #3559, aired 2000-02-10 | WHAT THE ELEMENT $200: Old dimes, teapots & the Lone Ranger's bullets (which could have killed werewolves) are made of this metal Silver |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | SCIENCE CLASS $300 (Daily Double): The symbol of this element stands for stannum, which originally denoted an alloy of lead & silver Tin |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $100: They grow with the silver bells in Mary Mary's garden Cockleshells |
| #3548, aired 2000-01-26 | THE 1960s $200: The Coinage Act of 1965 eliminated this from dimes & quarters Silver |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | COLORADO $500: The mint in Denver made its last of these that were 90 percent silver in 1934 Silver dollars |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $300: In one form or another you can fork over this metal on the 5th or 25th anniversary Silver |
| #3537, aired 2000-01-11 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $500: This 10th anniversary present is present in the name of a 20th anniversary gift -- platinum Tin |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | QUEENS IN OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Mozart's sister-in-law was the first to play the Queen of the Night in this "instrumental" opera The Magic Flute |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NOVEL "T"s $300: Jim Hawkins spies on Long John Silver from an apple barrel in this Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | STATE FACTS $400: The name of this "Silver State" comes from the Spanish for "snow-covered" Nevada |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | HORSE & RIDER $100: Silver The Lone Ranger |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | THE GOOD LIFE $100: You're blessed with luck if you're born with this piece of flatware in your mouth Silver spoon |
| #3465, aired 1999-10-01 | ELEMENT NAMES $800: Silver is from an Anglo-Saxon word; this element's name is from the Spanish for "silver" platinum |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THE LIBERTY BELL $500: The bell consists of about 70% this metal, 25% tin & smaller amounts of zinc, lead & silver Copper |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $200: If you want to see Mel Brooks play "Hamlet", rent this 1983 film named for a "Hamlet" soliloquy To Be or Not to Be |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: Her performances in "Working Girl" & "Gorillas in the Mist" won her 2 Golden Globes in 1989 Sigourney Weaver |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: "Fire over England", Vivien Leigh's first film with this future husband, fueled their romance Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $900 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Kathy Kinney of The Drew Carey Show.) I was featured in this 1990 film about which Leonard Maltin said, "Fear of spiders is taken to extremes" Arachnophobia |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1000: Kathleen Turner auditioned for "Oliver's Story", the sequel to this film, but Candice Bergen was cast instead Love Story |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | 1900 $800: In February Dwight F. Davis donated a silver cup to this sport Tennis |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | "C" WHO SALUTES $200: If there's a silver eagle on your uniform, you hold this rank colonel |
| #3426, aired 1999-06-28 | BETTER KNOWN AS... $600: The silver screen's Ruth Elizabeth Davis Bette Davis |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | ALL THE TEA $800: This South American country produced 55,000 tons in 1997; tea there is "like silver" Argentina |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | THE SILVER SCREEN $100: Jay Silverheels played this pal of the Lone Ranger on film as well as TV Tonto |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | THE SILVER SCREEN $200: You should know that she played Batgirl in "Batman & Robin" -- unless you're "Clueless" Alicia Silverstone |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | THE SILVER SCREEN $300: Rent the 1978 film "Silver Bears" & you'll see this "Tonight Show" host playing a mafioso's son Jay Leno |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: The fact that this singing cowboy starred in "Silver Spurs" should "Trigger" your memory Roy Rogers |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | THE SILVER SCREEN $500 (Daily Double): This 1985 western starred 2 Kevins: Kline & Costner Silverado |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $300: "Speech is silver, but..." "Silence is golden" |
| #3384, aired 1999-04-29 | "C" IN HISTORY $800: Sir Wilfred Laurier, prime minister of this country from 1896 to 1911, was nicknamed "Silver-Tongued Laurier" Canada |
| #3376, aired 1999-04-19 | FIX THE PROVERB $100: Every clod has a liver shining Every cloud has a silver lining |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $500: Corniche & Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | WHO ARE YOU? $100: A Las Vegan may be called a Silver Stater, but this is the more common equivalent Nevadan |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | AS MOM SAYS... $300: Every cloud... has a silver lining |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | FLASHCARDS: THE ELEMENTS $500: Ag silver (argentum) |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | FAMOUS EX-TEENAGERS $400: As a teen on "Silver Spoons", he had a "Y" in his first name; as Danny Sorenson on "NYPD Blue", he doesn't Ricky Schroder |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | GREEK GODS $400: Fire god Hephaestus was also the god of these, like black‑ & silver‑, not like Jaclyn & Will smiths |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | FOREIGN CURRENCY $300: The name of this currency is from the Sanskrit for "coined silver" Rupee |
| #3308, aired 1999-01-13 | ON THE ROCKS $300: While limonite adds a yellowish tinge to marble, hematite adds this color red |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | METALS $600: Copper is the best low-cost conductor of electricity but this metal is the best conductor overall silver |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | FIRST LADIES $200: In her memoirs, Julia Grant talked about the black Friday when Fisk & Gould tried to corner the market in this gold |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | SMALL U.S. CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): A U.S. Mint was established in this capital to handle the Comstock Lode's silver output Carson City, Nevada |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $800: His first play, "The Silver Box", premiered in 1906, the same year he published Book I of "The Forsyte Saga" John Galsworthy |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | PAUL REVERE $400: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has an impressive collection of Revere's work in this metal silver |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $100: She was offered 1,100 pieces of silver from each Philistine lord for help in defeating Samson Delilah |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | REALLY OLD HISTORY $300: Early Lydian coins were made from electrum, an alloy of silver & this gold |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | '76 $200: In 1976 he appeared in "Car Wash" & "Silver Streak" & won a comedy album Grammy Richard Pryor |
| #3236, aired 1998-10-05 | CORPORATE HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1851 this Fifth Avenue store introduced sterling silver to the U.S. Tiffany's |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | SECOND PLACE $100: It's the second place award in an Olympic event Silver medal |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | SPORTS $400: In the 1997 Belmont Stakes, Touch Gold dashed this "charmed" horse's Triple Crown bid Silver Charm |
| #3188, aired 1998-06-10 | MICHELLE MA BELLE $200: She won the silver medal in ladies' figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics Michelle Kwan |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | PIG-OUT $200: In 1982 this Muppet was featured in her own "Great Lovers Of The Silver Screen" calendar Miss Piggy |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN BLACK $400: The film was based on a comic from this conglomerate whose aliens include the Silver Surfer Marvel |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | NAGANO '98 $400: Chris Thorpe & Gordy Shear went horizontal to win the USA's first silver medal in this event Luge |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | NAGANO '98 $800: Beaten out by Ilya Kulik, this Canadian left the building with a silver medal in figure skating Elvis Stojko |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | WHAT'S FOR BREAKFAST? $300: For a few bucks at IHOP, you can get a plate full of these "coin-sized" pancakes Silver dollar pancakes |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | FAST FOOD $1000: This chain of seafood shoppes is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, a long way from "Treasure Island" Long John Silver's |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | BEARING WORDS $1000: Don't cry for me argentiferous, it just means that something bears for this metal silver |
| #3103, aired 1998-02-11 | CURLING UP $800: In a "sweeping" 1968 change, the Scotch Cup gave way to the Silver this as the world championship trophy Broom |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | "FIELD" $1000: With the infamous 30 pieces of silver, the chief priests bought this "To bury strangers in" Potter's Field |
| #3073, aired 1997-12-31 | BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS $200: On the cover of "Walk On the Wild Side", this NBA star's name is much larger than co-author Michael Silver's Dennis Rodman |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | HAMMERS $500: Paul McCartney said this song "Epitomizes the downfalls in life" Maxwell's Silver Hammer |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | METALS $600: The pewter used to make bowls & tea services is at least 90% this metal tin |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE GOLD BUG $400: In 1995 Mel Fisher recovered silver & gold from a Spanish galleon sunk off the coast of this state in 1622 Florida |
| #3040, aired 1997-11-14 | OUT THERE SPORTS $100: At the 1996 Olympics, Italy won 2 gold & 2 silver medals in these boats originated by Eskimos kayaks |
| #3014, aired 1997-10-09 | STATE CAPITALS $500: Appropriately, the capitol building in this capital of the "Silver State" has a silver dome Carson City |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | BRITISH TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: The 1,000-ton Silver Sturgeon is the largest riverboat operating on this major river the Thames |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | 1966 $200: The U.S. Treasury discontinued this currency, though it made a comeback in 1976 the $2 bill |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | THE TROPHY CASE $600: A regulation size sterling silver football adorns the top of this Super Bowl trophy Lombardi Trophy |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | FAMOUS MOUNTS $100: Astride this steed the Lone Ranger led the fight for law & order in the early western United States Silver |
| #2991, aired 1997-09-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1890 this GOP senator from Ohio sponsored an antitrust act & the Silver Purchase Act John Sherman |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | ORES $300: Incorporated in 1875, Carson City served as a processing center primarily for this metal's ore Silver |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | U.S.A. $200: This "Silver State"'s longest river, the Humboldt, is named for explorer Baron Von Humboldt Nevada |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | AWARDS $200: A silver medal goes to totally blind men who score over 185 in this indoor sport bowling |
| #2966, aired 1997-06-23 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $200: Rua de Prata, the "Silver Street" of this Portuguese capital, is known for its fine jewelry stores Lisbon |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | NUMBER, PLEASE $100: Number of pieces of silver Judas received 30 |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | COLORADO $800: In 1873 solid silver bricks were laid in a pavement in Central City to welcome this visiting president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | AWARDS $600: In 1997 this "Fahrenheit 451" author received the Silver Award from the U.S. Nat'l Commission on Libraries Ray Bradbury |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | THE ELEMENTS $200: Around 3600 B.C. King Menes of Egypt set this precious metal's value at two-fifths that of gold Silver |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $200: Mykelti Williamson played Bubba Blue in this Oscar-winning 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | THE MEXICAN PESO $200: In 1931 the Mexican government took the pesos made of this metal out of circulation gold |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $400: Mercedes McCambridge performed the demonic dubbing in this 1973 film The Exorcist |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $600 (Daily Double): Ronald Reagan said this film most affected his life:
[video clue] Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $800: Alan Alda played Hawkeye on TV's "M*A*S*H"; this actor played him in the film Donald Sutherland |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1000: Based on a James A. Michener novel, this 1957 film earned Red Buttons & Miyoshi Umeki Oscars Sayonara |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Before closing in 1893, this Nevada city's mint made almost $50 million in silver dollars & other coins Carson City |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | OPTICS $200: Made of bronze in Biblical times, today they're often glass with a backing of a silver solution Mirrors |
| #2893, aired 1997-03-12 | ANIMALS $600: The silver dollar fish resembles this feared fish of the Amazon basin but is strictly herbivorous Piranha |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | ANNIVERSARY GIFTS $100: Gold is the traditional gift for a 50th anniversary; this metal is traditional for a 25th Silver |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | AMERICAN MONEY $100: D.C. building on the back of the $50 bill; its bicentennial was commemorated with a silver dollar in 1994 Capitol |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | CLASSIC SITCOMS $500: "Silver Spoons" ' Strattons & the ghoulish family on this '60s sitcom lived on Mockingbird Lane "The Munsters" |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | LANGUAGES $200: The dramas of Seneca & the histories of Tacitus belong to this language's silver age Latin |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Italians call this metal argento Silver |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | MAY 6 EVENTS $600: This leader of the Silver Bullet Band was born on May 6, 1945 in Michigan Bob Seger |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $300: See where Johnny Weissmuller swung as Tarzan on the Lost River Voyage at Silver Springs in this state Florida |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | TELEVISION $300: The silver for his bullets came from a mine owned by himself & his late brother The Lone Ranger |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | CHRISTMAS SONGS $500: "A Holly Jolly Christmas" & "Silver And Gold" came from this 1964 TV special featuring Burl Ives Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS $200: Near the end of this novel Long John Silver steals some of the booty & is never heard from again Treasure Island |
| #2807, aired 1996-11-12 | FIRST LADIES $300: "The World Almanac of First Ladies" says this "Silver Fox" loves mystery novels & tacos Barbara Bush |
| #2805, aired 1996-11-08 | U.S. STATES $300: It's "The Silver State" Nevada |
| #2804, aired 1996-11-07 | METALLIC STARS $500: He played lawyer Alan Dershowitz in "Reversal of Fortune" Ron Silver |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | THE JACKIE AUCTION $500: The decorator who bought this item for $48,875 said the first thing he measured with it was his sanity a tape measure |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This one-legged cook of the Hispaniola has a parrot named Cap'n Flint Long John Silver |
| #2784, aired 1996-10-10 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 1994, recovered from an assault, she took the silver in figure skating at the Winter Olympics Nancy Kerrigan |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | U.S. HISTORY $500: This third party of the 1890s called for free silver & government ownership of railroads the Populist (or People's) Party |
| #2746, aired 1996-07-08 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $100: In the book these are silver, but they still help Dorothy get home the slippers (the shoes) |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: In 1912 this famous Titanic survivor presented the captain of the Carpathia with a silver loving cup the Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SPORTS $400: With 6, this sport's Shirley Babashoff has more Olympic silver medals than any other athlete swimming |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | SCIENCE $800: The most lustrous of precious metals, it reflects about 95% of the light falling upon it Silver |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | POE-POURRI $200: Types of these mentioned by Poe in a poem include silver, wedding & alarum bells |
| #2685, aired 1996-04-12 | GEMS & JEWELRY $300: The waters north of Australia yield large silver-white ones of these Pearls |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $500: It's the chemical symbol for the element nicknamed "Liquid Silver" Hg |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | THE ELEMENTS $400: This western state is the USA's leading silver producer Nevada |
| #2657, aired 1996-03-05 | LITERATURE $200: This 1950 Ray Bradbury novel about life on Mars was titled "The Silver Locusts" in England The Martian Chronicles |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | JAPAN $300: The name of this famous Tokyo shopping & entertainment district means "silver mint" the Ginza |
| #2648, aired 1996-02-21 | THE OLYMPICS $800: This swimmer took a silver, a bronze & 2 golds at the 1968 games before his 7 gold medals in 1972 Mark Spitz |
| #2639, aired 1996-02-08 | HERALDRY $400: This fur worn by royalty is represented by black tails on a white or silver ground ermine |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | SPORTS $300: Sponsored by this brewery, the Silver Bullets, a women's pro baseball team, made its debut in 1994 Coors |
| #2633, aired 1996-01-31 | POTPOURRI $400: The garden of "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" includes these, along with cockleshells & pretty maids Silver Bells |
| #2631, aired 1996-01-29 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: In 1906 this auto firm introduced its Silver Ghost model Rolls-Royce |
| #2630, aired 1996-01-26 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: He's fair, fat & blond & went to sea with silver buckles at his knee Little Bobby Shafto |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | COLORS $500: Nevada's state colors are blue & this; it helps if you know the state nickname silver |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | ODDS & ENDS $400: A silver wedding anniversary celebrates this many years of marriage 25 |
| #2596, aired 1995-12-11 | VILLAINS $400: Hiding in an apple barrel, Jim Hawkins hears this one-legged pirate planning mutiny Long John Silver |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | SPORTS $400: This American man won 5 gold medals, a silver & a bronze in swimming at the 1988 Olympics Matt Biondi |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $600: This great Russian dancer had his body painted blue & silver for the 1912 ballet "Le Dieu Bleu" Nijinsky |
| #2570, aired 1995-11-03 | METALS $100: This reddish metal is second only to silver as a conductor of electricity copper |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | COINS $400: The first silver coin was the stater of Aegina, issued in this country around 650 B.C. Greece |
| #2555, aired 1995-10-13 | TREES $600: Sycamore & silver are types of this tree famous for its 3- or 5-lobed leaves a maple |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | THE OLYMPICS $500: In 1992 Yael Arad won this Middle Eastern country's first Olympic medal -- a silver in women's judo Israel |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | ECONOMICS $2,000 (Daily Double): Term for precious metals like gold or silver used in international transactions in bulk form bullion |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | STATE SYMBOLS $200: Not surprisingly, it's Nevada's state metal silver |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | THE OLYMPICS $400: At the 1984 L.A. games, she won a silver in the heptathlon & her brother Al, a gold in the triple jump Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
| #2525, aired 1995-07-21 | U.S. OLYMPIC HALL OF FAME $1,500 (Daily Double): Among the first group inducted in 1983 was this man who won 9 gold medals, a silver & a bronze Mark Spitz |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | THE OLD WEST $200: The largest nugget of this ever found in North America was discovered in Aspen, Colorado in 1894 silver |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | LAKES & RIVERS $1,400 (Daily Double): Sebastian Cabot named this South American river for the mineral deposits he thought were nearby the Rio de la Plata |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THE BIBLE $400: A standard unit of weight equal to about 1/2 ounce, or the silver coin of that weight shekel |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | FOOD $200: Small ones of these breakfast treats are popularly referred to as silver dollars pancakes |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | WORLD TOWNS $200: After 1717 Taxco, Mexico became a leading center in the production & use of this precious metal silver |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | FACTS & FIGURES $100: With 18, gymnast Larisa Latynina has won the most of these: 9 gold, 5 silver & 4 bronze Olympic medals |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | CLOTH & FABRIC $1000: It's a heavy silk cloth with a raised design, often in gold or silver brocade |
| #2411, aired 1995-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1934 Pres. Roosevelt nationalized this metal & set the purchase price at 50 cents per ounce silver |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THE ELEMENTS $800: NASA's space capsules were largely made out of this silver-white metallic element titanium |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | FRONTIER LIFE $200: George Jackson is credited with discovering this precious metal in the Rockies gold |
| #2397, aired 1995-01-24 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $200: During imperial times, one of these was a denarius; many were denarii silver coins |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Gretel Brinker, not her brother Hans, wins these title objects in a race silver skates |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $600: The anthem of this country led by Kim Jong Il is "Let Morning Shine On The Silver And Gold Of This Land" North Korea |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | GIFTS $100: Whether or not a baby is born with this kind of spoon in its mouth, it's a classic christening gift silver |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | WEREWOLF $500: The standard way to kill a werewolf is with one of these, the title of a Stephen King werewolf film a silver bullet |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | "SILVER" $100: Term describing an eloquent person, such as an orator silver-tongued |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | "SILVER" $200: This 2-word phrase, no longer on our currency, made bills redeemable in metal silver certificate |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | "SILVER" $300: Because his hair turned white prematurely, country singer Charlie Rich was given this nickname the Silver Fox |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | "SILVER" $400: This wingless household pest feeds on such starchy items as wallpaper & books a silverfish |
| #2326, aired 1994-10-17 | "SILVER" $500: The eyes of newborns are often treated with a solution of this chemical to prevent blindness silver nitrate |
| #2314, aired 1994-09-29 | MONEY $100: Argent, a French term for money, comes from a Latin word for this metal silver |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | AWARDS $200: Women directors of these are eligible for the Silver Baton Award symphony orchestras (or bands) |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | POLITICAL CONVENTIONS $800: The Silver Republicans met in July 1900 & picked this man, also the Democrats' choice for president William Jennings Bryan |
| #2297, aired 1994-09-06 | METALS $300: Some of this metal, eliminated from U.S. quarters & dimes in 1965, remained in half dollars until 1970 silver |
| #2290, aired 1994-07-15 | MEXICO $600: Mexico is the world's largest miner of this precious metal silver |
| #2276, aired 1994-06-27 | THEME PARKS $900 (Daily Double): At Silver Dollar City in Missouri, you can tour Marvel Cave, the largest cavern in these mountains the Ozarks |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | BRITISH MONEY $400: It was once a silver penny; now this word refers to British money of standard value sterling |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | JOBS ON THE WATER $200: The Aquamaids at this Winter Haven, Florida attraction are famous for their waterskiing prowess Cypress Gardens |
| #2258, aired 1994-06-01 | THE MOVIES $200: Actors who played this "Treasure Island" role include Wallace Beery, Robert Newton & Orson Welles Long John Silver |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | SPORTS $200: This sterling silver yachting trophy was designed by London's Robert Garrard Crown jewelers in 1848 the America's Cup |
| #2248, aired 1994-05-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The Comstock Lode was a lode of this metal silver |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The name of this river between Uruguay & Argentina means "river of silver" Rio de la Plata |
| #2231, aired 1994-04-25 | THE ELEMENTS $200: Aristotle referred to it as "liquid silver" mercury |
| #2224, aired 1994-04-14 | MUSEUMS $600: Several museums, including the Silver Museum, are in this Florence, Italy palace The Pitti Palace |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | THE LIBERTY BELL $800: This metal makes up about 2/3 of the bell; the other 1/3 consists mostly of tin & silver copper |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $300: The Seward Silver Salmon Derby is an annual summer event in this state Alaska |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | METALS $300: This precious metal has the highest known electrical & thermal conductivity of any metal silver |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | ITALIAN $400: This metallic color is argentato silver |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $400: This author of "Silent Spring" was born in the springtime in Springdale, Penn. & died in Silver Spring, Maryland Rachel Carson |
| #2199, aired 1994-03-10 | TOYS & GAMES $500: A 25th anniversary edition of this Ohio Art toy featured walnut & silver trim & jeweled drawing knobs the Etch-a-Sketch |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | METALS $200: In January 1980 this metal hit a high of $50.35 an ounce; in January 1993 it was less than $4.00 silver |
| #2150, aired 1993-12-31 | AWARDS $600: In 1929 this US Antarctic explorer was the recipient of the Boy Scouts' Silver Buffalo award (Richard) Byrd |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | COINS $400: To commemorate the murder of Julius Caesar, a silver denarius coin depicting this assassin was issued Brutus |
| #2140, aired 1993-12-17 | COINS $800: This Russian alloy coin, one-hundredth of a ruble, was once made of silver a kopeck |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | WEATHER $800: To produce rain, clouds are often seeded with crystals of this compound, formula Agl Silver iodide |
| #2109, aired 1993-11-04 | 1992 $200: This famous U.S. residence's bicentennial was commemorated with a silver coin the White House |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | POWDERS $400: The old-fashioned stuff used to shed some light on photographic subjects flash powder |
| #2093, aired 1993-10-13 | THE BELLS $400: Livingston & Evans who wrote the "Mr. Ed" theme wrote this Christmas song for a 1951 Bob Hope film "Silver Bells" |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: According to the Gospels, Judas betrayed Jesus for this many pieces of silver 30 |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | BANKING $800: Federal Reserve notes have been the government's only paper legal tender since it stopped issuing these certificates silver certificates |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | POP MUSIC $500: Since 1974 it's been Bob Seger's band Silver Bullets |
| #2075, aired 1993-09-17 | 1965 $200: Congress eliminated this metal from dimes & quarters & reduced it in half-dollars silver |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | WORLD FACTS $400: These 2 metals are mentioned in Montana's state motto silver & gold |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | POTENT POTABLES $400: Cocktails with "silver" in their names, such as Silver King & Silver Streak, usually contain this liquor gin |
| #2066, aired 1993-09-06 | FRENCH $100: If you're jewelry shopping, you may want to know that this precious metal is platine platinum |
| #2063, aired 1993-07-21 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: A British edition of his "Martian Chronicles" was called "The Silver Locusts" Ray Bradbury |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | SPORTS $400: After winning 3 gold medals & a silver at Seoul, this glamorous track star retired Florence Griffith Joyner |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $200: Matthew 27:5 says that he returned the thirty pieces of silver "And went and hanged himself" Judas |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1859 this vein of silver was discovered on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson in Nevada the Comstock Lode |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | GENERAL SCIENCE $500: Electrum is an alloy of these 2 precious metals gold & silver |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | SCULPTURE $800: Verrocchio's only surviving work in precious metal is a silver relief of "The Beheading of" this man John the Baptist |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | COUNTRY MUSIC $400: Because his hair turned prematurely white at age 21, he's known as the "Silver Fox" Charlie Rich |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | TRAVEL FLORIDA $400: Tourists get a "crystal" clear view of underwater life when they ride these boats in Silver Springs glass-bottomed boats |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: A wealthy baby is said to be born this way because apostle spoons were once popular christening gifts with a silver spoon in his mouth |
| #2027, aired 1993-06-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first coins minted by the U.S. government were half dimes made from the table silver of this president's wife Washington |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | MONEY SUPERSTITIONS $400: Turn over a silver coin in your pocket when you see this heavenly body & your wish will come true the Moon |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The storage of the government's gold & silver bullion is under the auspices of this agency the Bureau of the Mint |
| #2017, aired 1993-05-18 | HISTORIC NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): This Dutch governor of New Netherland had a wooden leg decorated with silver bands Peter Stuyvesant |
| #2000, aired 1993-04-23 | DENTISTRY $1000: Amalgam, a mixture primarily of these 2 metals, is often used for dental fillings silver & mercury |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | ETIQUETTE $400: Vogue's Book of Etiquette says a bride's silver should include at least 4 of these demitasse utensils spoons |
