| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | EMBRACE THE DARK SIDE $400: This term for a period of supposed stagnation beginning around 500 A.D. is based on a 14th century passage by Petrarch the Dark Ages |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | COMPLIMENTS TO THE WRITER $400: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" from this Mass. man was a "Leaves of Grass" blurb; so much for self-reliance, Walt Emerson |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ETYMOLOGIES $1000: There's a silent "P" at the beginning of this word that comes from the Greek for "pertaining to air" & is used of tires pneumatic |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | THE 14th CENTURY $10,600 (Daily Double): During the Great Schism beginning in 1378, Robert of Geneva reigned as Clement VII, this 8-letter type of guy antipope |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $800: Originally a single province, they became 2 distinct southern colonies after separating beginning in 1712 North & South Carolina |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: (I'm Bill Cowher.) In 2006, I coached a spunky Steelers squad to a Super Bowl win, the first win for Pittsburgh since this legendary coach won 4 titles beginning in 1975 Chuck Noll |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $800: Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier M |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE MISING LETER $800: Fennig (old coin) P (pfennig) |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $1000: A column on chesscafe.com designed to help a beginning player improve is alliteratively called this "nook" the Novice Nook |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: "The Bad Beginning", written under this pen name, is dedicated to the "unfortunate" Beatrice, "darling, dearest, dead" Lemony Snicket |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $400: Revelation contains the line "I am Alpha &" this, "the beginning & the end" Omega |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | 4 N LANGUAGE $400: Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song ninety-nine |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $400: This imposing American landmark is seen here as it looked in 1876 the Washington Monument |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $400: "Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back" "Hungry Heart" |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $1000: We provide you the best in classical whistling with this piece heard here Four Seasons |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | BRAD TO THE BONE $1000: Beginning in 1971, Brad Whitford played guitar for this band, but that dude does not look like a lady Aerosmith |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THAT CAN BE A GREEK LETTER $1,800 (Daily Double): Instead of the end, the beginning: this luxury watch brand traces its roots back to 1848 in the Swiss village La Chaux-de-Fonds Omega |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | KISS & TELL $2000: Beginning around 1908, this Romanian carved several versions of "The Kiss" from blocks of stone, including the one seen here Brâncuși |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY $400: Wolfgang Mozart, beginning to decompose in 1791 Vienna |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $1600: Beginning with 3 consonants, it's the word for a professional who is trained to draw blood a phlebotomist |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | RHYMING PHRASES $1200: This sanguine phrase refers to running violent, salacious material at the beginning of certain newscasts if it bleeds, it leads |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | OF FUELS $1000: Beginning in 2009 the European Union required road vehicles powered by this fuel to use only low-sulfur kinds diesel |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | 4, 4 $2000: "Saturday Night Live" is famous for beginning its shows with one of these, a scene that precedes the titles a cold open |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | COUNTRIES IN SHORT $600: This type of area that you might visit in the Caribbean country of Antigua & Barbuda "is just the beginning" the beach |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s $1000: The second of the French & Indian Wars, this one named for a royal woman was fought in North America beginning in 1702 Queen Anne's War |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $200: Beginning another word for a jack in a deck of playing cards K (knave) |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $200: This wedding tradition may have once had to do with sweeping away evil spirits & today symbolizes a new beginning jumping the broom |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | "R" NATURE $1600: Beginning with the name of a chess piece, it's a place where birds like herons & egrets breed & nest rookery |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $1000: Born in Moore, Oklahoma in 1981, Randy Wayne starred as Bo's cousin Luke in the 2007 TV movie titled them: "The Beginning" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $400: 1942:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $400: It's from the Latin for "beginning", or a letter like the L in Samuel L. Jackson an initial |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | PORTRAIT OF A LADY $200: Beginning in 1778, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun painted some 30 portraits of this queen, including the one seen here Marie Antoinette |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | MICHAEL, BOLTIN' $400: The combo of Drew Brees & speedy Michael Thomas of this team toasted NFL defenses beginning in 2016 the New Orleans Saints |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | AD VERBS & TAGLINES $400: Apple, beginning in the 1990s:
"____ different" Think |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $600: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) Beginning in 2015, the Warriors squared off in 4 straight NBA Finals, with LeBron & these Eastern Conference champs, winning 3 out of 4 the (Cleveland) Cavaliers |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $800: Not with its own holiday like the end has, the beginning of World War I is solemnly commemorated summer |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | WRITE FOOT $200: Beginning readers may learn about trick feet & sick feet in "The Foot Book" by this author whose real name was Theodor Geisel Dr. Seuss |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | RADIO, RADIO $800: Beginning in the 1930s, a station in this little grand duchy used huge transmitters to attract half of Europe's listeners Luxembourg |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CAR ACCESSORIES $800: A travel road kit is sweet, like the one from this beginning-of-the-phone-book organization that's been around since 1902 AAA |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $800: Shocking Americans and beginning the Space Race when it was launched October 4, 1957, it weighed about as much as Mickey Mantle Sputnik |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $800: "I am... the beginning and the ending"; there is serious omega Revelation |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $600: "In the beginning" are the first words of this Haydn oratorio about this act by God; here's a later tune The Creation |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $400: Agrarian reforms in this country beginning in 1915 involved the turnover of lands from haciendas to ejidos Mexico |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ORPHANS IN BOOKS $1200: At the beginning of this Bronte novel, this orphaned title character is sent to the Lowood Institution, where she is mistreated Jane Eyre |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $800: Zhou Enlai: both prime minister & foreign minister of the country with this new name from its beginning in 1949 the People's Republic of China |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | YES, YES, YES $2000: Beginning with an "I", this 11-letter word for an enthusiastic yes undoubtedly is related to the word "doubt" indubitably |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | BEVERAGES $1000: The name of this popular Chinese tea is less popularly spelled with a W-U at the beginning oolong |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $600: David smote Goliath with these 2 items, both of them beginning with the same letter a sling & a stone |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | CONTRACTIONS $1600: It's the 6-letter beginning to the classic bartender's question What'll |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | FAST FACT $200: These are the first 3 words in the first book of the King James Bible In the beginning |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | ICE CREAM FLAVORS? $1000: Beginning & ending with the same letter, it's a term for someone from a big city on Italy's West Coast Neapolitan |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | I LOVE YOU 3,000 $800: Beginning where the Lualaba & Luvua meet, this river flows almost 3,000 miles through West Central Africa to the Atlantic the Congo |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | LET'S HAVE A WATCH PARTY $1200: Let's watch "The Great British Baking Show" from the beginning, when this woman with a rhyming name was judge Mary Berry |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | POETRY $2000: Most of the poems in Ted Hughes' 1998 collection "Birthday Letters" are addressed to her, beginning with "Fulbright Scholars" Plath |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $1200: Tom Hanks' plane crashes & sinks at the start of this 2000 film, & that's just the beginning of his problems Cast Away |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $200: This beloved TV personality hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve across 5 decades, beginning in the 1970s
"Let me wish you Happy New Year, fellas. And you think it's wild out there, it's beginning to pour here in Times Square." Dick Clark |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | STREETS OF AMERICA $400: Streets in his hometown of Portland include Van Houten & Flanders; he gave Milhouse & Ned those as surnames Groening |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | THE 1920s $400: His 1926 funeral was attended by many mourners & a wand was ceremonially broken on his coffin, beginning an annual tradition Houdini |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | NO DA $1600: Play it again from the beginning but without "da" & you have this rank in organized crime capo (from da capo) |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR $800: Spelled beginning "uff" or "oof", this exclamation was brought by Norwegians to the Upper Midwest uff da |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | WORDS IN ELEMENTS $1600: Mn:
this Asian art form manga |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: Beginning & ending with the same letter, this word for the floor in front of the fireplace can also refer to your home hearth |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $200: When the U.N. was founded, Gladwyn Jebb of the U.K. did this job in an acting capacity from October 1945 through January 1946 Secretary-General |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $400: With about 240 athletes from 14 countries, the modern Olympics began in this year in Athens, Greece 1896 |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $600: This body first assembled Feb. 1, 1790, but John Jay had to postpone actual proceedings a day as not all the members had made it the Supreme Court |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $800: A short film by these brothers of workers leaving a factory is considered the world's first motion picture the Lumières |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $800: Beginning in the 1920s, it was high praise to be the cat's pajamas or this rhyming insect phrase the bee's knees |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | REALITY TV $800: He's made the rounds on reality TV beginning with "Queer Eye" & more recently, as a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race" Carson Kressley |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | TELEVISION HISTORY $800: This cable network was formed in 1972 to air uncut, commercial-free movies & subscribers paid extra for it from the beginning HBO (Home Box Office) |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $400: A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel The Maltese Falcon |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | ARITHMETALK $800: The counting numbers beginning 1, 2, 3... are also known as these alliterative "numbers" natural |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Featuring an all-Black cast, songs like "Ease On Down The Road" & the costumes seen here, this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys The Wiz |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $1000: In Proverbs 1:7, "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge "; in Proverbs 9:10, it's the beginning of this wisdom |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR $2000: Accusing the Templars of heresy, Philip IV of this country suppressed & destroyed the group beginning in 1307 France |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | SHADES OF GREEN $800: This branch of the U.S. military introduced olive drab green & khaki uniforms beginning in 1902 the Army |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | BRING IT "ON" $400: It means the beginning of, often in regards to an illness onset |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: Beginning around 1200 B.C. in what is today Mexico, this people built the 1st major pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica the Olmecs |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | AMERICAN MUSIC $1200: At the beginning of the 20th century, jazz flourished in Storyville, the red light district of this southern city New Orleans |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | CAR CULTURE $600: The millionth Cadillac built was this 1949 coupe just beginning its long history the DeVille |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BADJECTIVES $1200: Drop an "L" from the beginning of a word meaning "legal" to get this truly bad adjective awful |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | "OUT" AT FIRST $800: Let's get things straight from this, the very beginning of something the outset |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | FAREWELL TO THE AUTHOR $1200: Beginning 100 years after this author's death, a mysterious stranger visited annually leaving cognac & 3 roses at his Baltimore grave Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | OTHER WALKS OF FAME $800: Cesar Chavez & Harriet Tubman have plaques on "The Extra Mile", beginning near the White House at 15th St. & this avenue Pennsylvania |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE PRANCING PONY $200: At the beginning of her "Run The World (Girls)" video, she is riding a horse Beyoncé |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | "T.O.C." $2000: Beginning with its debut in 2006, this cycling race took riders through the Golden State the Tour of California |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE $400: "The Proposal" at the beginning of Jasmine Guillory's novel happens on the JumboTron of this Los Angeles baseball stadium Dodger Stadium |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | BABY $800: Baby is beginning to teethe as the front teeth also known as the central these start to come in incisor |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | SPECIFIC HOSPITAL $2000: Beginning in 1995 U.S. News ranked the heart program at this alliterative place in Ohio as No. 1 for 24 straight years the Cleveland Clinic |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $400: Published in this southern city beginning in 1856, the Daily Creole was the first African-American daily newspaper New Orleans |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $3,800 (Daily Double): The beginning of "A Room with a View" concerns a view of this Italian river the Arno |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | ENTERTAINMENT $600: "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone", is the subtitle of a restoration of this 1990 film, now with a new beginning & ending The Godfather Part III |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | ON MY READING LIST $1600: All of the novels in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series beginning with this 1965 novel Dune |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE $600: The Thirty Years' Peace, beginning in the 440s B.C., was between Sparta & the Delian League, led by this city Athens |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $800: At the beginning of this 2018 animated sequel, we see how the Parrs deal with the Underminer, whom we last saw in 2004 the Incredibles (2) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $1200: If this fabric item is "up", it's the beginning; plural, it's certainly the end a curtain |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | THIS IS LEOPARDY! $400: As you can see from the beginning of the leopard's name, this other cat gets some credit etymologically a lion |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | FOUNTAINS $800: Beginning in 1998, the fountains at this Las Vegas casino shoot 460 feet in the air & dance to various songs nightly the Bellagio |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $200: The ability to continue doing something for a long time, despite how difficult or unpleasant it may be endurance |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $400: It's the act of giving official & public support to someone or something endorse |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $600: To strive; the U.S. went British-style spelling this Space Shuttle's name endeavour |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $800: This type of medical examination uses a very small camera on a long thin tube to look at the body's interior an endoscopy |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $1000: A variety of chicory, this plant with curled leaves is cultivated as a salad green endive |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | STILL STANDING IN EUROPE $200: The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GREEK LETTERS $400: Revelation 1:8 states, "I am" these 2 Greek letters, "the beginning and the ending", which really covers things alpha & omega |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: Beginning in 1455, the Wars of the Roses pitted the house of Lancaster against this royal house for the English throne York |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BRITISH LIT $1600: At the beginning of a Virginia Woolf novel, it's where Mrs. Ramsay tells her son James he may go if the weather is fine to the lighthouse |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $200: Nearly 30 years passed between the end of Jerry Brown's 2nd term as governor of this state & the beginning of his 3rd one California |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $2,600 (Daily Double): This British style of architecture was ushered in beginning with the reign of Henry VII Tudor |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: At the beginning of "Bad Guy", you can hear this young star removing her Invisalign braces so she doesn't lisp as she sings Billie Eilish |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | IN SOVIET RUSSIA $1200: Beginning in 1954 this security agency of the Soviets began dealing harshly with enemies of the state the KGB |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT CHURCH? $200: Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity Israel |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $6,000 (Daily Double): Last name of British officer Henry, who invented a very destructive artillery shell at the beginning of the 19th century Shrapnel |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | HISTORY ON FILM $400: Watergate security guard Frank Wills played himself at the beginning of this 1976 film All the President's Men |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | DANCE AT THE WEDDING $400: Beginning as a Hasidic melody, "Hava Nagila" has become a tune for this best-known Israeli folk dance the hora |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE $2000: This title of a musical set in Newfoundland beginning on 9/11 is a local slang term for a person not from the Maritimes Come From Away |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | "RA", "RA", "SIS", "BOOM", "BA" $400: Nissin cup noodles, for example ramen |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | COLLEGE-POURRI $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.) Transferred from the Army to NASA at the beginning of the space race, JPL, or Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a division of this Pasadena-based science school Caltech |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | THEORIES $200: The steady-state theory in which the universe has no beginning or end lost ground to this one where everything went kablooey! the big bang |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $1000: After Walt published his first book of verse, this "Sage of Concord" wrote to him, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" Emerson |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | COUNTRY MUSIC $6,000 (Daily Double): (Ken Burns delivers the clue.) Before her untimely death, she saw her career take off beginning with her first No. 1 hit that she had been reluctant to record
"I fall to pieces /
Each time..." Patsy Cline |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE $800: Beginning in 1989 the solid rocket boosters in this NASA program carried radio transponders so they could be recovered & reused the Shuttle program |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $400: It's the word for a quotation at the beginning of a poem or other text an epigraph |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $200: "The Bad Beginning" is Book One in "A Series of" these unfortunate events |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | CONVERSE $800: Sure, we can chat, or we can add 4 letters to the beginning of chat & get this word that means the same chitchat |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $1200: At the beginning of the final book in this trilogy, we learn that "almost nothing remains of District 12" The Hunger Games |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | EPISTOLARY NOVELS $1200: Wallflower Charlie writes, "Dear friend" at the beginning of his entries in this Stephen Chbosky novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | THE ELEMENTS $1000: This element precedes carbonate in a compound used to treat gastric ulcers & is definitely some of your... bismuth (or calcium) |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WOMEN ON TV $1000: She played Dr. Izzie Stevens on "Grey's Anatomy", & beginning in 2018, she's set the bar high as Samantha Wheeler on "Suits" Katherine Heigl |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | FOR HUMANITY $200: Beginning in 1901 5 of these were given to those who "have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" Nobel Prizes |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | DOMAIN $200: At the beginning of the 13th century, this Mongol leader established a postal service to link his domains Genghis Khan |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | VOWEL-POURRI $200: Beginning with 4 vowels, Ueueteotl is one spelling for the fire god of these people the Aztecs |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $1000: Beginning in 1940 this comic hosted the Oscars the most times--18 Bob Hope |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | WRITERS WHO WENT TO JAIL $1200: Accused of harming women & children, this French nobleman was jailed for 12 years beginning in 1777 the Marquis de Sade |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE BOOK'S CENSORED EDITIONS $600: This Philip Pullman series beginning with "The Golden Compass" cut Lyra's more adult feelings from the U.S. version His Dark Materials |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In mythology, many tales deal with transformation; here, having fled from an amorous Apollo, this nymph begs her father to transform her & destroy her beauty--he turns her into a laurel tree, the change just beginning Daphne |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | USA $1600: Beginning with 99801, its zip codes are the highest of any state capital's Juneau, Alaska |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This is a blank page at the beginning or end of a book, not a spot for bugs to gather on a plant a flyleaf |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS $200: They look like holly but are actually berries of the Arabica species of this plant coffee |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS $1000: Tannenbaums? No--just Christmas tree worms that live in the calcium carbonate skeletons of these marine creatures coral |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | IT'S A DATE $3,400 (Daily Double): April 12, 1861:
Shooting starts here Fort Sumter |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | AP BIOLOGY $800: This, the beginning of growth for a seed, requires 3 basic elements:
water, oxygen & the right temperature germination |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2000: Amahl plays the same tune on his pipe at the beginning & end, before & after he meets this title group the night visitors |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $1000: This ruler of Narnia earned her colorful title by beginning the long winter, a 100-year period of snow & ice the White Witch |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $1000: The Choson dynasty beginning in 1392:
this unified country Korea |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | MEANWHILE... $1600: The Sumerians settled the city of Ur in the 3000s B.C., the beginning of this civilization's "long count" calendar the Maya |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: This capital on the island of Java is sometimes spelled with a "D" at the beginning Jakarta |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $800: On a PBS game show for kids, this title question was sung a cappella at the beginning of every episode--did they ever find her? "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | ELEMENTARY $600: Music:
Meter like 4/4 or 3/2 at the beginning of a piece is called this "signature" time |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THE B.G.s $1000: This Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence was as cute as a small clothing fastener Button Gwinnett |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: About 3% of Australia's population are these indigenous people, from the Latin for "from the beginning" Aborigines |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $200: Latin:
Nice abs! Ab extra means "from outside"; ab initio means "from" this the beginning |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $400: In this year our Civil War ended, South America was just beginning the War of the Triple Alliance 1865 |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE AT BOWERY FARMS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Bowery Farms in Kearny, NJ.) Bowery tends its crops with a proprietary automated operating system that monitors every step of the growing process, beginning with this first stage, from Latin for "to sprout" germination |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | 5-LETTER PALINDROMES $7,000 (Daily Double): Used operationally by the Brits beginning in 1935, it helped against German air attacks radar |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Wells preached & definitely practiced this 2-word phrase for ignoring the conventional constraints of marriage free love (or an open marriage) |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | DOG BREEDS $800: This breed is an English greyhound in miniature a whippet (or an Italian greyhound) |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | THE BRITISH INVASION $1000: She had a string of hits in the U.S. beginning with "I Only Want To Be With You" Dusty Springfield |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $1200: The title character of this 1928 Virginia Woolf novel is male in the beginning, but that doesn't last... Orlando |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | THE BOOK OF PALMS $800: The beginning of this Michener collection mentions the "coconut palms nodding gracefully" Tales of the South Pacific |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: At the beginning of Fredrik Backman's "A Man Called" this, we learn that he's 59, drives a Saab & also points at people Ove |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $4,800 (Daily Double): Olive you should know that this capital of the Greek department of Messenia is a major fruit market Kalamata |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | BOTANY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a plant bending toward light on the monitor.) Especially at the beginning at the of the life cycle, the bending of a plant towards a light source is known as this type of response, from the Greek for "light" and "turning" phototropism |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | COMPLETES THE OLD TESTAMENT QUOTE $200: "In the beginning God created the ____ and the ____" the heavens and the earth |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | BOOKS' FIRST LINES $400: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, & of having nothing to do" Alice in Wonderland |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO $1000: Hugo's last novel, "Ninety-Three" refers to 1793, the fourth year of the French Revolution & the beginning of this brutal period the Reign of Terror |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | THE 21st CENTURY $1200: This Wikileaks founder avoided extradition to Sweden by staying in the Ecuadorian embassy in London beginning in 2012 (Julian) Assange |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | KANSAS HISTORY $400: Kansas became the 34th U.S. state in this year that also saw the beginning of a war 1861 |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | KID LIT $600: At the beginning of "The Lightning Thief", this kid thinks his pre-algebra teacher turns into a monster Percy Jackson |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | COME TOGETHER $600: This meal served at the beginning of Passover celebrates the Israelites' liberation from bondage a seder |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM $600: Beginning in the 1850s, a machine like this one was used to put these holes between stamps for easier separation perforations |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $800: Made of gold & enamel, the hen egg was the first of some 50 creations he produced for the imperial family beginning in 1885 (Peter Carl) Fabergé |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL $400: The beginning of a capital, name-wise...Crosby? No. Stills? Nuh uh. That third guy? You bet! & that town loves music! Nashville |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: Gospel that begins, "In the beginning was the Word" John |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | NBA ROOKIES OF THE YEAR $400: 1998:
Tim Duncan beginning quite a career with this team the (San Antonio) Spurs |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | MacARTHUR GENIUS GRANT RECIPIENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Cosmology paid off for Matias Zaldarriaga, who went back to the beginning studying faint signatures of this event the Big Bang |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | STRAIGHT $1000: Adding these 5 letters to the beginning of "linear" gives you a word meaning "formed by straight lines" rectilinear |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | THE GREAT DEPRESSION $400: The beginning of the Great Depression is often dated to the stock market crash in this month of 1929 October |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $800: Imperial name for the dress style seen here, with a change in design beginning immediately below the bust empire waist |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "L"ITERATURE $400: In the 1855 preface to this collection of poems, Whitman said, "A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but ...a beginning" Leaves of Grass |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THROWING THE "BOOK" AT YOU $1200: A pair of events marking a beginning & a terminus bookends |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | JAPANESE HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Beginning the Edo period of Japanese history, Tokugawa Ieyasu took this leadership title in 1603 shogun |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | MATH MEN, MYTH MEN $600: We're 100/100ths sure that Simon Stevin introduced the concept of "decimal" these to Europe in 1585 fractions |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | LETTER WORDS $1000: The address & date at a letter's beginning, it's also a word for a ship's direction a heading |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | WINNER, WINNER $600: With a "Voice" like his, it's no wonder he was the CMA's Male Vocalist of the Year 5 years in a row beginning in 2010 Blake Shelton |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | YOUNG ADULT NOVELS $1000: This novel by Lois Lowry begins, "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" The Giver |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $400: (I'm Christa Dubill from 41 Action News.) Synonymous with Kansas City barbecue, Arthur Bryant's, one of the city's oldest & most iconic barbecue joints, has been a favorite of several president beginning with this Missouri native son (Harry) Truman |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | ANATOMY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The point called the funny bone is a sensitive spot on the pathway beginning in the spine, going through your shoulder, down your arm, to your ring & pinkie fingers, known as this nerve the ulnar nerve |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | THE SUPREME COURT $1600: He's seen here near the beginning & near the end of his time on the Court--the longest of any justice in history William O. Douglas |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | LET'S GDANSK $1200: During WWII the Gdansk shipyards built several dozen of these, beginning with No. 401, later sunk by a British depth charge a U-boat |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | OF COURSE $800: Adding these 3 letters to the beginning of "course" creates something that can be walked upon C-O-N |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | WOMEN IN CHARGE $1000: Beginning in 1997 Arizona had 3 consecutive women in charge: Jane Hull, Janet Napolitano & her Janice Brewer |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE $2000: Also beginning with "La" is this Russian lake, the largest entirely in Europe Lake Ladoga |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: The American Cancer Society now recommends women have this breast cancer screening yearly beginning at age 45 a mammogram |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE $800: "She was only beginning to realize... she was... on her way home to grandfather, and would see the mountains" Heidi |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE MISSPELLED WORD $200: At the begining of February, Elroy found it was feasible to maneuver his automobile in the rugged terrain beginning |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | WE 3 "ING"S $800: All beginning with "C", the 3 ways to win in rock, paper, scissors are crushing, covering, & this cutting |
| #7162, aired 2015-11-03 | SHORT STORIES $3,000 (Daily Double): This title critter nearly drowns at the beginning of his tale but ends up taking down Nag, a nasty cobra Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | TOM, TOM $400: At the beginning of "The Grapes of Wrath", he's just been released from state prison Tom Joad |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | SAME LETTER BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END $400: It's a storage place for water, dog reservoir |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | SAME LETTER BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END $1200: A perfume, or the basic, invariable nature of something essence |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $1000: The beginning of the Interstate Highway System was one of the stories told in his "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends" Dwight Eisenhower |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $400: American general who became a traitor & a great golfer, winning the Masters 4 times beginning in 1958 Benedict Arnold Palmer |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MOTOWN $400: The first American group to have 5 consecutive No. 1 hits was this one, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go" the Supremes |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Juneau had its beginning in 1880 when Richard Harris & Joe Juneau arrived in the area seeking this... what else? gold |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $400: As this play begins, "Savage whispers fill the theater... Salieri!... Salieri!... Salieri! " Amadeus |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $800: Act I, scene i of this Shakespeare play: a "noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter a ship-master and a boatswain" The Tempest |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $1600: In one stage adaptation, it's set in "the jury room of a New York court of law"--the time is 1954 Twelve Angry Men |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $2000: "Vivian Bearing walks on the empty stage pushing her IV pole. She is fifty, tall and very thin, barefoot, and completely bald" Wit |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $2,400 (Daily Double): Act I of this play opens in a small bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Mass., in the spring of 1692 The Crucible |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | KING JAMES BIBLE PHRASES $1600: Revelation 1:8: "I am" these 2 things, "the beginning and the ending" the Alpha & Omega |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | POP CULTURE MICE $400: Mickey's better half, she's been with him right from the beginning in 1928's "Steamboat Willie" Minnie (Mouse) |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | HER MOVIE $800: She & Spencer Tracy starred in 9 films together, beginning with "Woman of the Year" in 1942 Katharine Hepburn |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | HISTORIANS $400: This British prime minister's "The Second World War" consisted of 6 volumes, beginning with 1948's "The Gathering Storm" Churchill |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | HISTORIANS $800: Barbara Tuchman's first of 2 Pulitzer Prizes was for "The Guns of" this month, about the beginning of WWI August |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | SOFT ROCK $800: In the '80s this duo had a string of hits beginning with "Lost In Love" & "All Out Of Love" Air Supply |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FIX THE FAMOUS QUOTATION $200: "In the beginning God created the 7-Eleven and the earth" the heavens |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | "IN"QUISITION $1200: This 2010 movie title means the beginning of something Inception |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | TAX TIME $800: Beginning & ending with the same letter, this type of "tax asset" may be used for a company's future tax liability deferred |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | 2015 DATES ON THE CALENDAR $400: Patriot Day on this date includes a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time September 11th |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | THE MUSICAL '90s $800: In the 1990s this group spent an amazing 51 weeks at No. 1, beginning with "End of the Road", on top for 13 weeks Boyz II Men |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 $200: "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" Genesis |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: This collection of nearly 1,000 religious texts was discovered beginning in 1947 at Qumran the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | LORD BYRON $2000: Lord Byron got a bit childish & replaced the "W" at the beginning of this "Prelude" poet's name with a "T" William Wordsworth |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $1000: At the beginning of his "Adventures", this Saul Bellow character announces, "I am an American, Chicago born" Augie March |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | LEAVES $200: This Lewis Carroll feline "vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin" the Cheshire Cat |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE $2000: A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to this the subject |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C. the Iron Age |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | THE TV BUSINESS $800: TV advertisers' coveted age group is this 31-year span 18-49 |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FAIRY TALES $1,200 (Daily Double): At the beginning of the story, the title character of this 1837 Andersen fairy tale has no feet "The Little Mermaid" |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the morning of June 25th, 1950, forces in the north stormed across the 38th parallel, beginning this 3-year-long conflict the Korean War |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: The Middle Ages are traditionally defined as the period beginning with the 5th c. collapse of this empire the Roman Empire |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | MUST YOU BE GOING? $400: To this French Riviera city, oui! Hit the Promenade de la Croisette & catch a film or 5 Cannes |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | PLACES IN COLORADO $600: This brewery had a "golden" beginning in 1873 in the city of that name Coors |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $400: As the last line of "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart says, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of" one of these "a beautiful friendship" |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: Beginning in 1378, the Great Schism saw rival popes in Rome & this French city Avignon |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $200: This 10-yard deep football area turns some into dancing fools end zone |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $400: (Back of the) check, please! It also means to approve endorse |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $600: Here are our "terms": they're spoken words showing affection endearment |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $800: To provide a permanent fund to a college endow |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE "END" IS JUST THE BEGINNING $1000: Native to or naturally found in a specific place endemic |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | THE 5 FAMILIES $200: Beginning with Henry VII, this family ruled England from 1485 to 1603 the Tudors |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $800: Italian for "from the head", it means to repeat a piece of music from the beginning da capo |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $2000: The opening of the book of Genesis is echoed in this 6-word opening of the Gospel according to John "In the beginning was the word" |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT PERFORMS TODAY'S HITS $1000: "I'm beginning to feel like a rap god, rap god, all my people from the front to the back nod, back nod" Eminem |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | THIS SIDE "UP" $600: "Casablanca" begins with an order to do this to "all suspicious characters and search them" round up |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | OTHER ROLLING STONES $1600: Here's a surprise beginning--before rock & roll, this short story writer started a magazine called The Rolling Stone O. Henry |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | ONE LETTER ONLY $1600: A major blood group, or an interjection used at the beginning of "America the Beautiful" O |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | WORD PUZZLES $1000: On the calendar, it's a beginning, as well as an end turn of the century |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | OF SWINE $400: Beginning in the 1980s these small Vietnamese pigs were popular as pets pot-bellied pigs |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS $2000: These 2 neighboring beginning-of-the-alphabet countries both became part of the USSR in 1936 Azerbaijan and Armenia |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | ASSUME THE PREPOSITION $200: This preposition starts the text of the King James Bible In (the beginning) |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | 19th CENTURY BRIT LIT $400: He set many of his works, beginning with "Far From the Madding Crowd", in an area of England called Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | MOVIE ENDING LINE OF THE DECADE $400: 1940s:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $200: Appropriately, the name of this first book of the Bible means "origin" or "beginning" Genesis |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS $400: (With the first clue, here is Jim Bittermann.) The streets around Paris were boiling like a cauldron as the storming of the Bastille in this year marked the beginning of the French Revolution 1789 |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) Sacred to the Vietnamese people are the dragon, symbolizing power & nobility, & the tortoise, which symbolizes these two things created by God in the beginning the Earth & Heaven |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Bringing Soweto to the world's attention, a march beginning here at Naledi High School was one of the dramatic moments in the 1976 protests against the forced teaching of this language Afrikaans |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | THINGS MOTHER GAVE US $1000: A key that returns the cursor to the beginning of the line you're on Home |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | HERE'S THE BEGINNING $200: At the start of this C.S. Lewis book: "Once there were 4 children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | HERE'S THE BEGINNING $400: This 1997 bestseller begins, "The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house" Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | HERE'S THE BEGINNING $600: The father of 4 young girls is revealed to be off at war at the start of this 1868-69 novel Little Women |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | EARN YOUR LETTER $1600: English versions of John's Gospel begin with this letter I |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | DRUMMER FOR THE BAND $2000: Beginning in 1998, the heavily tattooed Travis Barker Blink-182 |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | IT HAPPENED IN THE 1200s $4,800 (Daily Double): This family gained sovereignty over Austria, beginning a dynasty that would last in Europe until 1918 the Hapsburgs |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END LETTER $400: R:
Holder of a city's drinking supply reservoir |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END LETTER $800: P:
A type of kids' book a pop-up |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END LETTER $1200: T:
A healing term, or a story outline of a film a treatment |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END LETTER $2000: U:
Swahili for independence uhuru |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END LETTER $3,500 (Daily Double): A:
The crop feed also called purple medic alfalfa |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | "AN" THE BEGINNING $400: An iron block on which metals are hammered into shapes; it also hammers roadrunner-chasing coyotes an anvil |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | "AN" THE BEGINNING $800: With the stress on the first syllable, a building add-on; on the second, to incorporate another country's territory an annex |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | "AN" THE BEGINNING $1200: A collection of writings by various authors, often from a specific period an anthology |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | "AN" THE BEGINNING $1600: The runner who goes last for a team in a relay race the anchor leg |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | "AN" THE BEGINNING $2000: A sometimes fatal allergic reaction to bee venom is this type of "shock" anaphylactic |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $800: At the beginning of a word, this other letter nearly always represents the "Z" sound X |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of each term, Supreme Court justices work one week, then get Monday off for this Columbus Day |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | FILM SCHOOL $2000: The strip at the beginning of a portion of film is called this--Academy is one type the leader |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | STAY AWAY FROM MEAT $400: This 5-letter term coined in 1944 is the beginning & end of "vegetarian" vegan |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $800: After reading this book, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote Walt Whitman, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" Leaves of Grass |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: Made by Wurlitzer beginning in the early 1900s, the "unit orchestra" was one of these instruments an organ |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | ON BASS & DRUMS $400: Beginning in 1977:
Timothy B. Schmit &
Don Henley the Eagles |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: Beginning in 1900 Sir Arthur Evans uncovered the Palace of Minos at Knossos on this island Crete |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | NOTABLE HUNGARIANS $800: Beginning with his first guidebook, "1936--On the Continent", he revolutionized the travel publishing industry (Eugene) Fodor |
| #6395, aired 2012-06-08 | PRESIDENTIAL ALUMS $1200: Though he didn't graduate, he attended the Kansas City School Of Law for 2 years beginning in 1923 Truman |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from St. Louis, MO.) Before beginning their expedition, Lewis & Clark waited in & around St. Louis for three months until they got word that this massive land transfer had been completed the Louisiana Purchase |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | 1, 2, 3, "GO" $200: I knew you 3 were going to be terrific contestants right from this, the beginning the get-go |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | IN THE "SPRING" TIME $1000: A beginning from which an enterprise is launched, it's also a summer Olympic diving event a springboard |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | ALSO A GIRL'S NAME $400: It just occurred to me that this can mean the beginning of daylight or the beginning of anything dawn |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | "GROUND" CONTROL $800: The ceremonial beginning of a construction project groundbreaking |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | MEMPHIS $400: One of the lions who roared at the beginning of this studio's movies lived at the Memphis Zoo until his death in 1944 MGM |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: Pick up a boxed set of the 7 Harry Potter novels beginning with "The Sorcerer's Stone" & ending with this one The Deathly Hallows |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | CENTRAL AMERICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica.) Macaws use their powerful beaks as a third foot when climbing trees & as a tool when opening nuts; inside their tongue is a little one of these structures that they use to dislodge nutmeat bone in their tongue (lever accepted) |
| #6306, aired 2012-02-06 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $400: Treble, bass & C are types of this symbol at the beginning of a score clefs |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | 4 N $400: Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song ninety-nine |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | AVIATION FIRSTS $400: Beginning in the 1910s, DELAG, the world's first airline, offered service in Germany aboard this type of airship a Zeppelin |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $1000: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction" Proverbs |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CHILDREN'S LIT $600: Chapter I of this Lewis Carroll book says, "the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist" Through the Looking Glass |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $1200: A frontrunner from the beginning, this pussycat strutted her stuff to win Season 10 Nicole Scherzinger |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | THAWS $200: In 2009 the President spoke of "a new beginning" with this nearby island nation Cuba |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Beginning northwest of Moscow & flowing 2,300 miles to the Caspian Sea, this river is the longest in Europe the Volga |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | SPORTS VENUES $2,400 (Daily Double): In the beginning this team iced the puck at the Border Cities Arena in Windsor, Ontario; then for 50 years at Olympia Stadium the Detroit Red Wings |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | 15 LETTERS OR MORE $800: Authors often place these notes of thanks & gratitude near the beginning of their books acknowledgements |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | MOVIE SEQUELS $2000: After "The Little Mermaid" came "The Little Mermaid:" her "Beginning" Ariel |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | IN THE BEGINNING $200: The Yale-Harvard athletic rivalry began in 1852 in this sport rowing |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | IN THE BEGINNING $400: Scientists have confirmed that HIV came from a similar virus in this African ape a chimpanzee |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | IN THE BEGINNING $600: Some scholars believe this punctuation mark comes from the Latin word Io, a shout of joy an exclamation point |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | IN THE BEGINNING $800: In 1939 a Montgomery Ward copywriter wrote this story that was handed out to children in the store for Xmas "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | IN THE BEGINNING $1000: Formed as a result of WWII, this think tank took its name from "Research and Development" (The) RAND (Corporation) |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | "KICK"ING $800: A beginning for the Raiders, or a finale for the Rockettes a kickoff |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In Dutch, this royal was known as Willem Hendrik, Prins van Oranje William of Orange |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: It's the first 3-syllable word in the text of the King James Bible beginning |
| #6134, aired 2011-04-21 | IN THE "MORNING" $800: The initial odds posted for horse races at the beginning of the day the morning line |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | AMERICAN RED CROSS HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands with a grey uniform on a mannequin at the American Red Cross.) Named for their dresses, gray lady volunteers provided hospitality services, especially to sick & wounded soldiers beginning in 1918 at this Washington, D.C. hospital Walter Reed |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE $200: Hume Cronyn is one of the 2 Supreme Court justices murdered at the beginning of this Julia Roberts film The Pelican Brief |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE BRITISH POET LAUREATE WRITES $400: For an 1858 royal wedding, Tennyson wrote extra verses for this song, beginning, "God bless our prince and bride" "God Save The Queen" |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | ROAM! $800: To go at a slow pace; put an "R" at the beginning & it means to roam aimlessly amble |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TO THE LETTER $1600: Speakers of Cockney are known for dropping this letter from the beginning of words H |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | THAT'S GREAT, PETER THE GREAT! $800: Beginning around 1700, Peter was great in the Great Northern War against this Scandinavian kingdom Sweden |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | FAR OUT FACTS $800: The limit of a cannonball's flight from shore once marked the beginning of this area that limited sovereignty international waters |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $3,000 (Daily Double): The end of World War I to the beginning of World War II in Europe 21 |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | A-B-C $400: This adjective describes the fear of small places or being closed in claustrophobic |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: This series of 8 Hogarth paintings, beginning with "The Heir", tells the story of a young man's path of vice & self-destruction A Rake's Progress |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | JULY $2000: July 622 marks the beginning of this calendar the Islamic calendar |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $800: This Roman fixer is a contractor's dream! The games may have stopped here in 523 A.D. but the fun for you is just beginning! the Colosseum |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | "V" DAY $800: It can be a decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book, or a short scene taken from that book vignette |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | IN THE BEGINNING $400: This day once usually fell every 4 years on March 4; now, it's Jan. 20 Inauguration Day |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | IN THE BEGINNING $600 (Daily Double): This 5-letter word is from the French & means "to make one's first appearance" debut |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | IN THE BEGINNING $800: The first play of a soccer or football game a kickoff |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | IN THE BEGINNING $1200: It's a 5-syllable formal ceremony for admission into an organization such as a college fraternity an initiation |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | IN THE BEGINNING $2000: On June 7, 2007 Bill Gates spoke at this graduation ceremony at Harvard commencement |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | HOMAGES TO STAR WARS $800: The beginning of this 1984 movie finds the title character poisoned at club Obi Wan in 1935 Shanghai Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | ZORBA, THE GREEK TUTOR $400: To begin, Zorba wants to teach you these 2 Greek letters, the beginning & the ending alpha & omega |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | THE '70s $400: This "Great" king ran the Danes out of his country in 878, beginning a period of peace in Wessex Alfred the Great |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $400: Richard Harris played this murderous character from Genesis in 1966's "The Bible: In the Beginning" Cain |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | MOVIE OBJECTS $600: At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert airplanes |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | MR. & MS. ROBOTO $1200: At the beginning of a 1999 sequel, this title hero discovers that his new wife Vanessa is actually a fembot Austin Powers |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | OH, THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD! $800: The "Beginning" of moving stage lights was a 1981 show in a Barcelona bullring on this band's "Abacab" tour Genesis |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | 50 CENT $1000: This statesman graced the 50-cent piece for 15 years beginning in 1948 Ben Franklin |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $2000: Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer Java Man Ray |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | JUST SAY NO $2000: In Morse code, beginning with dash dot & ending this way dash dash dash |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | I'M GOING "INN" $200: It's the third word in the first book of the Bible beginning |
| #5780, aired 2009-10-30 | THE SHAKESPEAREAN ROOM $1600: (Wolf Blitzer delivers the clue from the Shakespearean Room.) Tragedy at sea, as the King of Naples' ship sinks at the beginning of this play, Gonzalo was said to remain calm The Tempest |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: Not the beginning of a beautiful friendship, the Agadir Incident pitted Germany vs. France in this N. African country Morocco |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE MOON HITS $800: At the beginning of his hit TV show, Drew Carey sang about the "Moon Over" this Cleveland suburb Parma |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | RHYMELESS WORDS $1000: It's the zodiacal degree that marks the beginning of a house or a sign the cusp |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | CHARACTERS IN CASABLANCA $1600: First name of Claude Rains' Captain Renault; it sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship... Louis |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | GUINNESS RECORDS $1000: Records show that Guinness sent a bottle to every member of the British forces in this country for Christmas 1939 France |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | FUN WITH LETTERS $600: It's the single-letter movie role played by Judi Dench beginning with "GoldenEye" M |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | BIBLE BOOK HIGHLIGHTS $800: In the beginning was the word,
resurrection,
gospel but not synoptic John |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | GENESIS $200: The book of Genesis opens with these 3 words In the beginning |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE JOHN C. FREMONT EXPERIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Beginning in 1842 this frontiersman would be a frequent guide for Fremont on his expeditions Kit Carson |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | EUROPEAN POETS $800: In the early 14th century, he called his most famous work a "comedy" because of its sad beginning & happy ending Dante |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1000: In Proverbs this king writes, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge" Solomon |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | ROCKS & STONES $2000: Also beginning with C-A, it's the one-word name for the form of calcium carbonate seen here as Iceland's spar calcite |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a New Mexico amphitheater.) I'm at this New Mexico national park, where every night from April to October 300,000 to 400,000 hungry flying mammals delight the crowds with an amazing bat flight Carlsbad Caverns |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | GERMANIA $2000: This city on the Main River was where the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned beginning around 1356 Frankfurt |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | ANCIENT ROME $1600: He was the first Roman emperor, & his 40-year reign marked the beginning of the Pax Romana Augustus |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $8,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of World War I, this was the only independent nation in West Africa Liberia |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Beginning around 697 A.D., it was the title of the leader of the Venetian Republic doge |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: 2 of the 3 member nations of the Triple Alliance at the beginning of World War I Austria-Hungary & Germany (also Italy) |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | 2 TYPES OF CHINA $400: It's the animal of the Chinese year beginning in 2008 the rat |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | "B" PLUS $800: Beginning in the 1970s, more than 1 million of these Indochinese refugees fled the Communist regmes where they lived boat people |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BATTLES $200: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end & the start of Sparta's rise Athens |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | "I" OPENERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the right-hand column of the periodic table.) On the periodic table, the six gases in this column, beginning with helium & ending with radon, are described as this, because they don't readily react with other elements inert |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS! $400: "A boat of dirty and disreputable appearance" is floating on this river at the beginning of "Our Mutual Friend" the Thames |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | FROM "RAG"s $400: One who dawdles or falls behind a straggler |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | BRITISH SUCCESSION $600: The eldest son of Henry IV became king in 1413 Henry V |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AWARDS $800: The ALA presents an award named in honor of Theodore Geisel, aka this author, for beginning readers' books Dr. Seuss |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | 1940s TELEVISION $2000: Beginning in 1948, this long-time Miss America host had 2 game shows on the air: "Stop the Music" & "Break the Bank" Bert Parks |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | HAYDN $1000: Symphony No. 94 is called this for its unexpected loud chord shortly after the soft beginning of the 2nd movement the "Surprise Symphony" |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $800: Micro black holes are believed to have been formed by this primordial event at the beginning of the universe Big Bang |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Henriette, eldest child of this illustrator, was a portrait artist when brother Andrew was just beginning to draw N.C. Wyeth |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | LET'S LEARN HEBREW $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us a Hebrew lesson.) In Hebrew, prefixes can be used as prepositions; "reshit" means "beginning", & "b'reshit" means this familliar phrase in the beginning |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: In December 1946 he attacked the French at Tonkin, beginning a war that ended 8 years later Ho Chi Minh |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $800: Beginning around 1790 in NYC, Duncan Phyfe was a leader in the artful manufacturing of this furniture |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $2000: Beginning around 447 B.C., this sculptor supervised the making of the sculptures on the Parthenon Phidias |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | THE "PRE" GAME SHOW $800: A linguistic element added to the beginning of a word to give it a new meaning a prefix |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | OF PAIN $400: When these are less than 5 minutes apart & last about a minute, you're in labor, & the fun is just beginning contractions |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: On Feb. 8, 1904 Japanese ships attacked this country's fleet at Lushun, Manchuria, beginning a war Russia |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | THE TALES OF DUSTIN HOFFMAN $800: "Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap", says Dustin in this 1969 film Midnight Cowboy |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): Seen here, he was the earliest president ever to be photographed, & the first to have a middle name John Quincy Adams |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | RADCLIFFE GRADS $800: A 1973 degree in political science was just the beginning for this first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEGINNING & END $600: "From" this to this is an idiom meaning from the start of a meal (or something else) to the end from soup to nuts |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEGINNING & END $800: These titles of the 2 paintings seen here represent the beginning & end of Jesus' life "The Nativity" & "The Crucifixion" |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEGINNING & END $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) A porkchop plot, named for its shape, is used for planning space missions; the vertical & horizontal axes plot possible dates for these 2 flight events takeoff & landing (or launch & arrival) |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEGINNING & END $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris the Tour de France |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | THE GALEN CENTER $2,500 (Daily Double): Galen might have sworn an oath to this 5th century B.C. Greek man he considered the beginning of all medical learning Hippocrates |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $1200: From the Latin for "from the beginning", it's the noun used for the earliest known dwellers of a region aborigines |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | THE 3rd CENTURY B.C. $1000: Beginning more than 4 centuries of rule, this 3-letter dynasty is founded in China Han |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | THE KENNEDYS $600: Joseph Kennedy was appointed Ambassador to this country beginning in 1937 Great Britain |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: Beginning in the 1600s, the colony called New France was based around this river explored by Jacques Cartier St. Lawrence |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE $400: If you have severe pain beginning around the navel and moving to the right, get to the hospital before this ruptures appendix |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! $200: Speculators were blamed for the 1929 stock market crash that marked the beginning of this decade-long calamity the Great Depression |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | MONTHS $400: It's the only month for which the U.S. can have a President-elect from beginning to end December |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | ANCIENT TALK $400: In Hebrew this book of the Bible is Bereshith, the "resh" related to "rosh", meaning "beginning" Genesis |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | HISTORICAL PAINTINGS $400: This 1789 event was captured in the painting seen here the storming of the Bastille |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MUSIC $1600: Popular in 18th century opera, the Da Capo Aria had 2 sections & then the singer was supposed to do this return to the beginning (start over) |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | MOVIES' LAST LINES $400: 1942--
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | THE HENRY WHO... $1200: ...beginning in the 1950s was ambassador to the U.N., to South Vietnam & to West Germany Henry Cabot Lodge |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | A DAY IN JUNE $1000: June 28, 1969:
Riots at this Greenwich Village bar mark the beginning of the gay rights movement the Stonewall Inn |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Clause 39 in this document of 63 articles was the beginning of the principle of due process of law the Magna Carta |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | MOVIES THAT ARE ALL WET $800: Commercial fisherman George Clooney faces disaster in the North Atlantic in this fact-based 2000 film The Perfect Storm |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | TV NUMBERS $800: 714 was the number on the badge seen at the beginning & end of this show that debuted in 1951 Dragnet |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | THE AFRICAN EXPLORER $400: Before beginning his famous search, this Welsh-born journalist covered the Indian campaigns in the American West Stanley |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $2000: "The Doctor's Dilemma" dramatist
(4) Shaw |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | "N" THE BEGINNING $200: He's the rock 'n' roll guitar legend who infected us with 1977's "Cat Scratch Fever" Ted Nugent |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | "N" THE BEGINNING $400: In 1016 Olaf II Haraldsson effectively became its king & later its patron saint Norway |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | "N" THE BEGINNING $600: Nocturnal avian name of the F-117A fighter seen here the Nighthawk |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | "N" THE BEGINNING $800: Its "Image Awards" go to those who contribute positive images of people of color in film, TV & theater the NAACP |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | "N" THE BEGINNING $1000: In 612 B.C. rebel armies systematically burned & destroyed this ancient Assyrian capital Nineveh |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | SEEING RED $1000: Sinopia are the sketches in red an artist makes on a wall before beginning one of these painted murals frescos |
| #4936, aired 2006-02-13 | MUSIC VIDEOS $200: At the beginning of her 2005 "Boyfriend" video, she is being chased by the police Ashlee Simpson |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | "THE" BEGINNING $400: Roget is so synonmous with this term that his name is entry meaning it in the OED a thesaurus |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | "THE" BEGINNING $800: A form of government by priests who claim divine authority theocracy |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | "THE" BEGINNING $1200: A subject for a composition; I'll finish mine & get my master's degree any year now a thesis |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | "THE" BEGINNING $1600: From the Greek for "to attend", this adjective means curative; you might find answreing the clue to be quite... therapeutic |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | "THE" BEGINNING $2000: The first law of this states that energy in a system cannot be created or destroyed thermodynamics |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | EASILY IMITATED $600: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Humphrey Bogart |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | PARACHUTING WITH THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew prepares to jump from an aircraft at Fort Bragg, NC.) Beginning parachuters usually jump with a partner, referred to as this term from the Latin for "at length" tandem |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | NASCAR $1200: This color flag is used to signal the beginning of a NASCAR race & any restarts a green flag |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | SCARY MOVIES $400: Annie hitches a ride to Camp Crystal Lake at the beginning of this 1980 horror classic Friday the 13th |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | LET'S LEARN LATVIAN $600: Kino is this place where you might take a date on a Saturday night cinema |
| #4901, aired 2005-12-26 | MEN OF THE "C" $1600: He was crowned King of France in 987, beginning a dynasty Hugh Capet |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | AD HOCK $800: Beginning in 1982, this vacation chain claimed it was "The antidote for civilization" Club Med |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $2000: "Allahu" is the first word of Libya's anthem & this, meaning "great", is the second akbar |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $400: Google, Looksmart & Ask Jeeves are search ones engines |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $800: It's a tortilla rolled & stuffed with meat or cheese & served with a sauce spiced with chili an enchilada |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $1200: It can be a national flag displayed on a ship, or the rank of a sailor on that ship an ensign |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $1600: It's a territory belonging to one country but lying within another, such as Spain's Ceuta & Melilla in Morocco an enclave |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $2000: In Greek myth, Selene put this handsome youth to sleep forever because she couldn't bear to have him die Endymion |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! $800: A play rehearsal is interrupted by strangers at the beginning of his "Six Characters in Seach of an Author" Pirandello |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | BABY BOOKS $1600: A 4-room apartment at the Bramford becomes available at the beginning of this Ira Levin novel Rosemary's Baby |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | ABBA-SOLUTELY FABULOUS $600: It was the end for Napoleon but this song was the beginning for ABBA, marking its first foray into the Top 40 "Waterloo" |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU $600: From beginning to end, the Old Spanish Trail ran between Santa Fe & this West Coast city Los Angeles |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | ON OLD MAPS $1,500 (Daily Double): Part of this country was once Kievan Rus the Ukraine |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the beginning of the Freedom Trail.) The first strokes of the two-&-a-half mile Freedom Trail's line were painted in 1951 at this public park that dates back to the 1630s Boston Common |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | SHOWERS $800: At the beginning of the 1986 season of "Dallas", this character was seen taking a shower Bobby Ewing |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | THE LADIES OF ROCK $600: Beginning with "Vision Of Love" in 1990, she has written 14 No. 1 pop hits, more than any other female composer Mariah Carey |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | MARCH MADNESS $1600: March 28, 1854:
The U.K. & France declare war on Russia, beginning this war the Crimean War |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | THE INSECURITY COUNCIL $800: Beginning in the '20s, a series of this brand's ads showed victims of the dreaded halitosis Listerine |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | DREAD $1600: According to Psalm 111, "The fear of " this "is the beginning of wisdom" the Lord (God accepted) |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | "N" THE BEGINNING $400: On July 4, 1928 Jean Lussier crawled inside a 6-foot diameter rubber ball & passed over this landmark Niagara Falls |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | "N" THE BEGINNING $800: In 1931 the leading U.S. organization advocating this -ism changed its name to the American Sunbathing Assoc. nudism |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | "N" THE BEGINNING $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a vineyard.) In California, "Wine Country" often means this valley, that planted its first wine grapes around 1840 Napa |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | "N" THE BEGINNING $1600: With a population of about 210,000, Bergen is this country's second-most populous city Norway |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | "N" THE BEGINNING $2000: Latin for "None farther beyond", this 3-word phrase refers to the highest level of excellence ne plus ultra |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | ADD A LETTER $600: When this letter is added to flame it becomes a flaming dessert B (flambé) |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | ROCK BAND DRUMMERS $200: In the beginning of Phil Collins' career was a stint as the drummer of this band Genesis |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | TRIOS $400: Beginning an amazing run of about 200 comedy two-reelers, this trio made "Woman Haters" in 1934 the Three Stooges |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | OPPOSITES ATTRACT $800: An epilogue is found at the end of a book; this opposite term is a short section at the beginning of a book a prologue |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | GRAMMAR $800: "In", "out", "on", and "off" are 4 of these words usually used at the beginning of phrases prepositions |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | "KEY" WORDS $1000: In musical notation, it's the grouping of sharps & flats at the beginning of each staff the key signature |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | POLITICAL CARICATURES $1000: This governor probably had a bit more pull at the White House beginning in 2001 Jeb Bush (Governor of Florida) |
| #4700, aired 2005-01-28 | YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA $800: At the beginning of an 1893 opera, these little tykes are sent into the woods to pick strawberries Hansel & Gretel |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | H.H. $1000: At the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, this fictional character takes command of the Hotspur Horatio Hornblower |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | WRITE ON, GIRL! $200: Under the name of A.M. Barnard, this "Little Women" author published Gothic tales like "The Abbot's Ghost" Louisa May Alcott |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | U.S. CITY-SCAPE $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands outside the Cathedral of Learning.) Beginning in 1787, in a frontier log cabin, this university is now symbolized by the 42-story Cathedral of Learning the University of Pittsburgh |
| #4682, aired 2005-01-04 | THE STARS $600: Add an "A" to the beginning of this star (double the "P") & you get singing without instrumental accompaniment Capella (a cappella accepted) |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | EXTREME TAKEOVER $800: 1975:
Beginning an infamous & murderous 4-year period of rule, this group takes power in Cambodia the Khmer Rouge |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES $800: The name of this Jewish holy day means "beginning of the year" Rosh Hashanah |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: In 1291 leaders of 3 cantons signed the Perpetual Covenant, the beginning of what became this nation Switzerland |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | SPORTS STARS $1,400 (Daily Double): A 2003 USA Today survey of all time great NFL QBs revealed the top 4 all have first names beginning with this letter J (for Joe Montana, Joe Namath, John Elway, & Johnny Unitas) |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | ASTRONOMY $1200: Term for the astronomical event that heralds the beginning of summer the solstice |
| #4600, aired 2004-09-10 | RADIO $2000: The 2 words that followed “Lux” in a program beginning in 1936 that re-created plays & movies Radio Theater |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | "S" TOUGH $6,400 (Daily Double): The 2 Triple Crown-winning thoroughbreds of the 1970s who fit the category Secretariat & Seattle Slew |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | SOUNDS FISHY TO ME! $200: This feature on a shark's back acts as a stabilizer--& a warning to swimmers the dorsal fin |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | MUSICAL SETTINGS $1000: At the beginning of this show, it's 6 a.m. in the Brooklyn Navy Yard On the Town |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | SEEING THE FUTURE $800: At the beginning of a tarot card reading, the subject should do this with his left hand cut the cards |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | CINEMANIA $800: In the beginning of this film, peaceful apes confront a black monolith & turn deadly & carnivorous 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | COLOR $400: Damson, a shade of purple (& a heck of a plum), refers to this Syrian cty Damascus |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | KIDDY LIT $2000: "The Bad Beginning" & "The Wide Window" are part of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of" these Unfortunate Events |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: In Revelation 22:13, Jesus called himself these 2 Greek letters, "the beginning and the end, the first and the last" the Alpha & the Omega |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | THE THIRD WORD $400: In the King James Version of Genesis (In the) beginning |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Many date the beginning of the Modernist movement to the 1913 premiere of this Stravinsky work The Rite of Spring |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | TALKING RELIGION $2000: An apostle spreads his belief; this word with the same beginning means one who abandons it apostate |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In the beginning was this Barbara Kingsolver saga of a Southern missionary & his family in the Belgian Congo The Poisonwood Bible |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | YOU HAVE THE RITE $1000: This ceremony at which school or college degrees are conferred is from the Latin for "beginning" commencement |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | RELIGION $200: The Koran was revealed to him beginning one night on Mount Hira in 610 Mohammed |
| #4350, aired 2003-06-27 | AT THE MOVIES $400: Part 4 of this movie series recounts "The Beginning" of the Norman Bates saga Psycho |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | ONE WORD ONLY, PLEASE $2000: This was the single word the Hairy Old Man used to say at or near the beginning of every "Monty Python" episode "It's" |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 100 YEARS OF FORD $400: You might say "the rubber met the road" when Henry Ford first met this man, beginning their companies' long partnership Harvey Firestone |
| #4334, aired 2003-06-05 | "SPY" MOVIES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew skiing in Colorado) In a spectacular chase scene, 007 skis off of a cliff near the beginning of this 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | OLD EUROPE $1000: The ancient Roman holiday Regifugium celebrated "the flight of the king" & the beginning of this government the republic |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Transcendentalist poet-turned-British rock trio who sang "From the Beginning" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | MOTOWN $800: The Supremes had the most No. 1 hits of any U.S. group, beginning with this song in 1964: "Baby, baby..." "Where Did Our Love Go" |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | RAPS $1200: Popular in rap music almost from the beginning, it's the term for the DJ-produced musical effect heard here scratching |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | THE BIBLE $600: This 4th gospel writer begins his book with "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God..." John |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $1200: The program seen here covered this real monarch of ancient Egypt, subject of a 2002 blockbuster film
Only now, over a century after its discovery, are Egyptologists beginning to understand its significance the Scorpion King |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | HISTORIC DATES $1600: On July 28, 1914 Austria declared war on Serbia, marking the real beginning of this war World War I |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | MOVIE MUSICALS $400: Elsa Lanchester played Katie Nanna, the nanny who walks out on the Banks family at the beginning of this film Mary Poppins |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | LET'S PLAY CARDS $200: In poker, after shuffling, the dealer deals out the cards beginning with the person here to his left |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | ANIMAL QUOTES $600: "All right", said this animal: "and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail" Cheshire Cat |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | NAME THE YEAR $1000: Beginning a long dry decade, the Prohibition amendment took effect in this year 1920 |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | RECENT MOVIES $400: At the beginning of this sequel, Tommy Lee Jones is postal worker Kevin Brown, who has no memory of being Agent K Men in Black II |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | READING & 'RITING $800: "The Beginning" was the title of the 54th & final book in this sci-fi series by Katherine A. Applegate "Animorphs" |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | UNREAL ESTATE $800: At the beginning of a Bronte novel this heroine is living with her unpleasant relatives at Gateshead Hall Jane Eyre |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | HUMPHREY BOGART MOVIES $400: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | TURKEY $800: In 1853 the Turks declared war on this country, beginning the Crimean War Russia |
| #4113, aired 2002-06-19 | THIS ONE GOES TO 11 $1200: Beginning in 1833, this general served 11 different times as the president of Mexico Santa Anna |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | OF THE FISHERMAN $200: At the beginning of this classic TV show, a sheriff & his son carry their fishing rods down to a lake The Andy Griffith Show |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $400: These peptide hormones in the brain reduce the sensation of pain endorphins |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $800: 2-word term for the consumer, for whom a computer is ultimately designed an end user |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $1200: This Baja California port city is known as "Yellowtail Capital of the World" Ensenada |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $1600: The U.S. conducted nuclear tests on this atoll in the Marshall Islands from 1948 to 1958 Enewetak |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | "EN" THE BEGINNING $2000: John Keats wrote a poem about this handsome Greek whose youth was preserved by eternal sleep Endymion |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | BIG CITY LIFE $400: The beginning of this regulation of land & building use dates from a 1916 New York City ordinance zoning |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: Proverbs chapter 9 says that "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of" this wisdom |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $1600: At about 8,000 square miles, it's the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere beginning with "E" El Salvador |
| #4022, aired 2002-02-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: On April 12, 1861, Fort Johnson fired upon this fort, beginning the Civil War Fort Sumter |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: It's the prayer said at the beginning of a religious service invocation |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | VOWELS $2000: At the beginning of some last names it's used to indicate "grandson of" O |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | THE "N" ZONE $800: This land is the setting for a series of books beginning with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Narnia |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $400: In 553 missionaries smuggled silkworms out of this country, thus beginning the European silk industry China |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | WAR $200: On June 25, 1950 fighting broke out on the 38th Parallel, thus beginning this war the Korean War |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | THE BRITISH MUSEUM $1000: Jonathan Harker studies up on Transylvania in the British Museum library at the beginning of this novel Dracula |
| #3948, aired 2001-10-31 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Some of her books feature her alter ego Ariadne Oliver, creator of a fictional Finnish detective Agatha Christie |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THAT '70s SHOW $100: Beginning in 1978 it was the Barnes family versus the Ewings on this prime-time soap Dallas |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | SEASONAL STUFF $300: In ancient times this spooky autumn holiday of ours marked the beginning of winter Halloween |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 8, 1904 this country attacked Port Arthur, a Chinese port leased by the Russians, beginning a 19-month war Japan |
| #3872, aired 2001-06-05 | AMAZON $100: Beginning in Peru, the Amazon flows over 4,000 miles to this ocean Atlantic Ocean |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: At the beginning of 2000, Rickey Henderson had 1,334 career stolen bases, 396 more than this former Cardinal Lou Brock |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | IN THE "HOOD" $100: At the beginning of this TV show, the host put on a cardigan sweater & tennis shoes Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | MADAME $400: At the Sorbonne she studied philosophy & met Sartre, beginning a lifelong association with both Simone de Beauvoir |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 $100: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth" Genesis |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | ON THE "TIP" $200: (Hi, I'm Kym Hampton of the WNBA.) The jump ball at the beginning of a basketball game or period of play is known as this tip-off |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | ANDY WARHOL $200: Because he had the same thing for lunch every day for 20 years, Andy Warhol painted these, beginning in 1962 Campbell's Soup cans |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | "B"-'52s $400: This West Virginian won election to the House in 1952, beginning nearly 5 decades in Congress Robert Byrd |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | TURKEY LEFTOVERS $800: Beginning a program to modernize the nation, he set up the Republic of Turkey in 1923 Kemal Ataturk |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | 1970s ALBUMS $300: Beginning with 1970's "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!", this group had a Top 10 LP every year of the decade except 1979 The Rolling Stones |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $100: To breathe in, unlike Mr. Clinton Inhale |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $200: An alphabetical reference list Index |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $300: One life in a series of lives Incarnation |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $400: Like the Pope, not capable of error in matters of doctrine or dogma Infallible |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $500: "Picnic" won him a Pulitzer in 1953 William Inge |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | 19th CENTURY LIT $200: "Tevye the Dairyman", published beginning in 1894, inspired this Broadway & movie musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | THE ADAMS FAMILY $500: Beginning in the mid-1930s, this wilderness photographer served as a director of the Sierra Club Ansel Adams |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | QUOTATIONS $400: Revelation 1:8 says, "I am" this "And Omega, the beginning, and the ending, saith the Lord" Alpha |
| #3652, aired 2000-06-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: King Arthur's furniture listed at the beginning of a book Round table of contents |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | MOVIE TAG LINES $1,600 (Daily Double): 1999:
"Every saga has a beginning" Star Wars: The Phantom Menace |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | MATH VOCABULARY $800: Point (0,0) on a graph; or the beginning Origin |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Louise is just a little stripling at the beginning of this musical, but by the end, she's a burlesque queen Gypsy |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $100: On July 14, 1789 Camille Desmoulins incited a mob to storm this fortress, thus beginning the revolution the Bastille |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | BAD NEWS $400: On Sept. 1, 1939 citizens of this nation discovered their country had been invaded by the Nazis, beginning WWII Poland |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | "MED" SCHOOL $400: The prophet Muhammad's escape to this city in 622 A.D. marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar Medina |
| #3561, aired 2000-02-14 | SCARY MOVIE SEQUELS $800: In this series Part 4 was "The Final Chapter", but Part 5 was "A New Beginning" Friday the 13th |
| #3532, aired 2000-01-04 | CASABLANCA $300: It completes the film's last line, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of..." A beautiful friendship |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | CREATION STORIES $100: According to the gospel of St. John, in the beginning was this & it was God the Word |
| #3521, aired 1999-12-20 | LITERATURE $1000: At the beginning of Orwell's "Animal Farm", Major Snowball & Napoleon are pigs who live on this farm Manor Farm |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: In 1982 this series was retitled "Little House: A New Beginning" & Shannen Doherty joined the cast as Almanzo's niece Little House on the Prairie |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | FIRST THINGS FIRST $200: The first word of the first book of the King James Version of the Bible In (the beginning) |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: The AMA now advises women to have this breast cancer screening annually beginning at age 40 a mammogram |
| #3462, aired 1999-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Many mark the beginning of the French nation with the crowning of this king in 987 Hugh Capet |
| #3445, aired 1999-07-23 | THE FARMER IN THE DELL $300: The smallest creature in the rhyme; I'm beginning to smell one... Rat |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES $400: At the beginning of "The Tempest" he tells his daughter Miranda he was once the Duke of Milan Prospero |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | NAME THE MOVIE $200: 1942:
"Louis, I think this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #3429, aired 1999-07-01 | WAR STORIES $300: Paul Baumer is a raw 18-year-old recruit at the beginning of this Erich Maria Remarque novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | THE MOVIES $200: Near the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy falls into a pen full of these animals pigs |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | SISTER CITIES $400: This Moroccan city is a sister to Chicago; it might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, Louis Casablanca |
| #3371, aired 1999-04-12 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Beginning in the mountains of Queensland, the Darling River flows 1,700 miles as this continent's longest river Australia |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | THE BLACK SEA $800: Any 2 of the 4 large rivers beginning with the letter D that drain into the Black Sea (2 of) Danube, Dnieper, Dniester & Don |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $200: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'" "Huckleberry Finn" |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $400: "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name, there lived not long ago a gentleman" "Don Quixote" |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $600: 'When Mrs...Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse" "Stuart Little" |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $800: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed... into a gigantic insect" "Metamorphosis" (by Franz Kafka) |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | IN THE BEGINNING $1000: "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" "Stranger in a Strange Land" (by Robert Heinlein) |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | HERE COMES COLLEGE $300: This graduation ceremony is not the "beginning" of your college career, it's the end commencement |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | STAR WARS $500: The first 10 words on the screen at the beginning of the film "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away" |
| #3325, aired 1999-02-05 | FINISH THE LINE $800: Genesis 1:1:
"In the beginning...." God created heaven and Earth |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | HISTORIC FLORIDA $500: Beginning near Tampa Bay in 1539, this man led the first European exploration to see the Mississippi Hernando de Soto |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | "DAY"S OF WRATH $800: It was the beginning of the end for the Nazis on this "designated" day D-Day |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | "DOWN" THE HATCH $300: The New England Primer popularized the bedtime prayer beginning with this line "Now I lay me down to sleep..." |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | NAME THE YEAR $200: It was the beginning of a new "age" in this year when the picture seen here was taken 1945 |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $800: At the beginning of a Thomas Hardy novel, she is "a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience" Tess |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | GIRL GROUPS $800: They go for their ride at the beginning of act III in this Wagner opera named for them "(Ride of the) Valkyries" |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HISTORIES $800: Barbara Tuchman won her first Pulitzer for this history of the beginning of World War I "The Guns of August" |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | BLESS YOU $600: Term for Jesus' 8 statements beginning with "Blessed are the poor in spirit..." the Beatitudes |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | MOTOWN $100: Beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go", this group has 12 No. 1 hits, more than any act on the Motown label the Supremes |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | SPORTS SCORES $300: In volleyball, only the side who did this at the beginning of play can score a point serve |
| #3139, aired 1998-04-02 | "ICK"Y WORDS $300: Beginning in the early 1970s, we were urged to do this to our Bic lighters flick |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | EUROPEAN PAINTERS $400: He completed his paintings of "Mornings on the Seine" before beginning his "Water Lillies" Monet |
| #3128, aired 1998-03-18 | ALL EARS $400: According to folklore, if your ears are doing this, someone is talking about you burning |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | RAINY DAY FUN $1,200 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Chuck Woolery.) In this board game, the player who draws the tile nearest the beginning of the alphabet plays first Scrabble |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ENDS $200: In 1942 this PM said beating Rommel wasn't the beginning of the end but might be the end of the beginning Winston Churchill |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | CHAPTER ONE $100: "On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time", beginning his novel "The Deerslayer" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #3083, aired 1998-01-14 | THE RODEO $300: Bareback & saddle bronc riders start in this, with the clock beginning when they leave it Chute |
| #3080, aired 1998-01-09 | TV FACTS $200: Beginning in 1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports" captured "The thrill of victory" & this the agony of defeat |
| #3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ART $1000: Beginning in 1728, this British satirist painted a scene from "The Beggar's Opera" in several versions (William) Hogarth |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | GODS & GODDESSES $200: This 2-faced god presided over doors & beginnings, such as the beginning of the year Janus |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | WWII $600: Around 300,000 of these troops were called up beginning in 1940, more than doubling the size of the U.S. Army the National Guard |
| #3050, aired 1997-11-28 | THE 1960s $2,000 (Daily Double): On June 1, 1967, 4 days before the beginning of the 6-Day War, he was named defense minister of Israel Moshe Dayan |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | "END" AT THE BEGINNING $200: Unfortunately, leopards, Asian elephants & gray whales are on this animal list Endangered species list |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | "END" AT THE BEGINNING $400: A long, hard race, like a marathon, is meant to test this in an athlete Endurance |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | "END" AT THE BEGINNING $600: Honey, sweetheart & sugar are terms of this Endearment |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | "END" AT THE BEGINNING $800: Give a grant of money to support an institution Endowment |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | "END" AT THE BEGINNING $1000: The thyroid is one of these glands Endocrine |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | CHILDREN'S LIT $400: C.S. Lewis chronicled this fantasy world in 7 books, beginning with "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" Narnia |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | 1999 $200: The Chinese New Year in 1999 will mark the beginning of the year of this creature, Hef's favorite Rabbit |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: Mardi Gras comes at the end of the carnival season & the beginning of this 40-day period Lent |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $300 (Daily Double): Though written in 1906, her story of "The Sly Old Cat" wasn't published until 1971 Beatrix Potter |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: From the Latin word for "coming", it's the period beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Advent |
| #2880, aired 1997-02-21 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $300: These 2 books chronicle the monarchs of Israel & Judah, beginning with David & ending with Jehoiachin Kings I & II |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | SINGERS "R" US $500: She made 3 albums with the Stone Poneys before beginning a solo career Linda Ronstadt |
| #2871, aired 1997-02-10 | SPAIN $100: Beginning as a Moorish fortress that guarded Toledo to the south, it's now the capital Madrid |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | ANATOMY $100: Rhin-- or rhino-- at the beginning of a word indicates this body part is involved Nose |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | ISRAEL $200: The Tayelet, or Promenade, runs along the shores of this sea, beginning at Gordon Street in Tel Aviv The Mediterranean Sea |
| #2848, aired 1997-01-08 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $300: The book of Matthew gives a genealogy of Jesus beginning with this father of Isaac Abraham |
| #2781, aired 1996-10-07 | COMEDIANS $300: An earthquake flattened her sitcom bookstore at the beginning of the 1995-96 season Ellen DeGeneres |
| #2770, aired 1996-09-20 | LITERATURE $200: It begins, "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: The lighting of Temple Square in this city signals the beginning of the Christmas season Salt Lake City |
| #2758, aired 1996-09-04 | THE FAMILY JULES $600: His novels have inspired many movies, beginning with Georges Melies' "A Trip to the Moon" Jules Verne |
| #2757, aired 1996-09-03 | BIBLICAL FIRSTS $800 (Daily Double): Rachel is the first shepherdess mentioned & he's the first shepherd Abel |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | HOMOPHONES $400: A bunk on a ship, or the beginning of life berth / birth |
| #2714, aired 1996-05-23 | POTENT POTABLES $200: Andrew Usher & Company is credited with beginning the practice of blending this whiskey scotch |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $400: The October 1929 stock market crash, the beginning of the Great Depression, came 7 months into his term Hoover |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | BALLET $400: At the beginning of Nijinsky's ballet "Jeux", one of these balls bounces onstage from an unseen court tennis |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | FILMS OF THE '70s $100: At the beginning of this film, George C. Scott addresses his troops in front of a huge American flag "Patton" |
| #2619, aired 1996-01-11 | THE 16TH CENTURY $400: At the beginning of the century, Huayna Capac ruled this South American empire Incas |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THE 1750s $400: In 1751 he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly, beginning almost 40 years as a public official Benjamin Franklin |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: Hercule Poirot is at the dentist's office at the beginning of her novel "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" Agatha Christie |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: At the beginning of this musical, Jean Valjean is released on parole from a chain gang after 19 years Les Misérables |
| #2578, aired 1995-11-15 | SHORT STORIES $200: Just so you know, "The Beginning of the Armadillos" is one of his "Just So Stories" Rudyard Kipling |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | THE MOVIES $300: This actor played secret agent Harry Palmer in 3 films, beginning with "The Ipcress File" in 1965 Michael Caine |
| #2547, aired 1995-10-03 | MOVIE NOSTALGIA $200: Near the beginning of this 1939 classic, Dorothy falls into a pen full of pigs The Wizard of Oz |
| #2521, aired 1995-07-17 | THE 1960s $300: After orbiting the earth in 1962, he said, "Friendship 7 is just a beginning, a successful experiment" John Glenn |
| #2516, aired 1995-07-10 | FICTIONAL SENIORS $1,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of a Coleridge poem, this title character "stoppeth one of three" Ancient Mariner |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | WORLD HISTORY $200: In 220 this country's Han dynasty was overthrown, beginning the period of disunity China |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | WORLD RELIGIONS $600: This Jewish New Year celebration marks the beginning of the ten days of penitence Rosh Hashanah |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: A band is heard playing "John Brown's Body" at the beginning of his play "Mourning Becomes Electra" Eugene O'Neill |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | THE SUPREME COURT $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1917 the beginning of the court's term was changed from the 2nd to the 1st Monday in this month October |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | MONEY MATTERS $800: In 1994 the United States announced a redesign of its paper money, beginning with this denomination $100 |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | WORLD HISTORY $400: On Nov. 30, 1939 Russia invaded this neighbor, beginning the "Winter War" Finland |
| #2409, aired 1995-02-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: This private NYC university had its beginning in the schoolhouse vestry of Trinity Church in 1754 Columbia |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | THE BIBLE $200: According to Genesis 1:1, it's when "God created the heaven and the earth" "In the beginning" |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | DRAMA $200: At the beginning of the last act of this Thornton Wilder play, Emily has died in childbirth Our Town |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | WAR $300: At the time of Plymouth's founding in America, Europe was beginning this semi-long war the Thirty Years War |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THEATRE $800: Andrey Prozorov isn't onstage at the beginning of this Chekhov play, but his female siblings are Three Sisters |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $2,900 (Daily Double): At the beginning of this 1897 H.G. Wells novel, the title character is "wrapped up from head to foot" The Invisible Man |
| #2173, aired 1994-02-02 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The discovery of these beginning in 1947 yielded fragments of all the Old Testament books except Esther Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | CHRISTMAS SONGS $500: In 1951 this "Music Man" wrote "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" Meredith Willson |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | WEDDING CUSTOMS $400: Because it has no beginning & no end, it's a symbol of eternity the ring |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | ACT ONE, SCENE ONE $1,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of this 1890 Ibsen play, the title character has just returned from her honeymoon Hedda Gabler |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | IN THE BEGINNING $100: In the familiar cliche, it precedes "borrow or steal" beg |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | IN THE BEGINNING $200: During a baseball game, it's traditional to stand up & stretch in the middle of the seventh one inning |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | IN THE BEGINNING $300: In March 1992 this former Israeli prime minister died at age 78 Begin |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | IN THE BEGINNING $400: Family name of Spanish composer Joaquin & his writer daughter Anais Nin |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | IN THE BEGINNING $500: Old Tom is a sweet variety of this gin |
| #2030, aired 1993-06-04 | "GREAT" GEOGRAPHY $300: Fodor's says the No. 1 law for people viewing this Aussie landmark is "don't remove the coral" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #2018, aired 1993-05-19 | OPERA $1000: At the beginning of Mussorgsky's opera, this title character pretends he doesn't want to be Czar Boris Godunov |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | IN THE BEGINNING $100: Wrinkles in the fabric of space discovered in 1992 support this theory of how the universe was created the Big Bang |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | IN THE BEGINNING $200: It braces a runner's feet at the beginning of a race the starting block |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | IN THE BEGINNING $300: At the start of a game of pool, there are this many balls on the table 16 |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | IN THE BEGINNING $400: Depressing as it sounds, it's the stroke made by a conductor at the start of a measure the down beat |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | IN THE BEGINNING $500: Japan's Showa period began in 1926 with the accession of this emperor Hirohito |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | THE CANTERBURY TALES $400: At the beginning, the pilgrims meet in one of these & its owner suggests they tell the tales inn |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | THE BIBLE $300: The New Testament uses these 2 letters to describe God as the beginning & end of everything Alpha & Omegarock |
| #1996, aired 1993-04-19 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): At the beginning of this Jerzy Kosinski novel, Chance is watering flowers Being There |
| #1982, aired 1993-03-30 | HEAR, HEAR $100: One's heard at the beginning & end of a round in boxing a bell |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $200: She's 16 at the beginning of "Gone with the Wind" & has a 17" waist, "the smallest in three counties" Scarlett O'Hara |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $600: At the beginning of Daniel Defoe's novel, this title character is 19 & his father wants him to be a lawyer Robinson Crusoe |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Oscar Wilde wrote, "In married life" this "is company and two none" three |
| #1944, aired 1993-02-04 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: At the beginning of his novel "The Trial", Joseph K. is arrested Franz Kafka |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | THE BIBLE $200: At the beginning of the Gospel of John, John the Baptist twice calls him "The Lamb of God" Jesus |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | THE BIBLE $100: The Hebrew title of this book, "Bereshith", means "in the beginning" Genesis |
| #1926, aired 1993-01-11 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $200: Beginning with the show "Lady, Be Good!", the lyrics to nearly all his songs were written by his brother Ira George Gershwin |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | EPICS $600: Near the beginning of this epic, Grendel the Man-Eater is upset over the revels at the New Hall Beowulf |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: The meeting of this French National Assembly in 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution the Estates-General |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 6 successive elections beginning in 1928, Norman Thomas ran for president on this third party ticket the Socialist Party |
| #1872, aired 1992-10-27 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict the Crimean War |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | MUSICAL TERMS $300: The group of sharps & flats at the beginning of a musical staff is called the key one of these the signature |
| #1868, aired 1992-10-21 | LONDON $200: A statue of this mythical beast marks the beginning of Fleet Street, as Merv could tell you a griffin |
| #1861, aired 1992-10-12 | THE SUMMER OF '42 $1000: With Sevastopol captured, Ger. troops headed for this city beginning a 5-month battle in late Aug. Stalingrad |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | THE BIBLE $400: "In the beginning was the word" are the beginning words of this gospel John |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | BALLET $200: At the beginning of this Nijinsky ballet, a faun is playing his flute Afternoon of a Faun |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | MONTHS $600: The 11th of this month once marked the beginning of winter; now it commemorates the end of WWI November |
| #1787, aired 1992-05-12 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $200: His presidential program in the 1980s was called "A New Beginning" Ronald Reagan |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | GRAMMAR $600: This is the indefinite article used before words beginning with a silent H an |
| #1745, aired 1992-03-13 | THE BIBLE $600: Matthew gives the genealogy of Jesus beginning with this Old Testament patriarch Abraham |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | PLAY SETTINGS $200: At the beginning of this play, "It is night over the Keller homestead" The Miracle Worker |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | CONTEMPORARY NOVELS $200: At the beginning of this Larry McMurtry novel, the pigs are eating a rattlesnake Lonesome Dove |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: In 1986 president Reagan signed legislation moving this from the last to the 1st Sunday in April the beginning of Daylight Saving Time |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1,500 (Daily Double): Psalm 111 in the King James Version says, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of" this wisdom |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $400: At the beginning of "Richard III", Richard is the duke of this Gloucester |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | WORDS OF WISDOM $1000: Ancient Greek philosopher who said, "Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily" Epicurus |
| #1576, aired 1991-06-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Beginning in 1972, this city's residents could take the new BART to the new Transamerica Pyramid San Francisco |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $200: Aptly, they are the first three words of the Bible In the beginning |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | MONTHS $600: In Roman myth his blessing was asked for at the beginning of each month, not just the first Janus |
| #1561, aired 1991-05-20 | SHAKESPEARE $600: At the beginning of "Macbeth", this man is king of Scotland (King) Duncan |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | MUSIC $800: If there are no sharps or flats at the beginning of the score, you're playing in this key C |
| #1545, aired 1991-04-26 | DETECTIVE STORIES $200: Richard Austin Freeman created the inverted detective story in which this is revealed near the beginning the criminal |
| #1545, aired 1991-04-26 | DETECTIVE STORIES $300: At the beginning of "The Thin Man", this man is waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping Nick Charles |
| #1522, aired 1991-03-26 | HISTORY $1000: The 6-year Peace of Nicias, beginning in 421 B.C., divided the two parts of this Greek War the Peloponnesian War |
| #1464, aired 1991-01-03 | NOVELS $400: At the beginning of this Henryk Sienkiewicz novel, Petronius is recovering from one of Nero's feasts Quo Vadis |
| #1426, aired 1990-11-12 | KITTY LITERATURE $200: "It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin" the Cheshire Cat |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | EARLY CHRISTIANITY $400: By the beginning of the 7th century the bishop of this city was the Western world's spiritual leader Rome |
| #1384, aired 1990-09-13 | BALLET $200: At the beginning of the ballet "Checkmate", Love & Death are playing this game chess |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | MUSIC MEN $200: Bing Crosby called this black trumpeter "the beginning and end of music in America" Louis Armstrong |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | THE RENAISSANCE $200: In the beginning of the 17th C. the "." & the "x" were introduced as signs for this & both are still used today Multiplication |
| #1319, aired 1990-05-03 | LIBRARIES $1000: Paris library whose beginning may be traced back to the 1300s, making it one of the world's oldest Bibliotheque Nationale |
| #1238, aired 1990-01-10 | GENESIS $200: The book's Hebrew title is Bereshith, which translates to this, the book's 1st 3 words In the beginning |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | AVIATION $100: Beginning service from Key West to Havana in 1927, it's the USA's oldest international airline Pan American |
| #1201, aired 1989-11-20 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $400: The Gospel according to St. John begins, "In the beginning was" this the word |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | NOVELS $200: Jonathan Harker goes to the British Museum to do research on Transylvania at the beginning of this novel Dracula |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | NOVELS $1000: At the beginning of this 1900 novel, the title character, Caroline Meeber, has left home Sister Carrie |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | 5-LETTER WORDS $100: 1 of the 2 words beginning with "P" that describe a horse with irregular spots 1 of (pinto & paint) |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | CARS $100: In 1973 this motorcycle manufacturer created a splash in the U.S. with the Civic car Honda |
| #1120, aired 1989-06-16 | MOVIES $400: Near the beginning of this film, S. Greenstreet says he'd like to buy Rick's Café Americain Casablanca |
| #1055, aired 1989-03-17 | SPORTS TRIVIA $200: The "snowplow" is a beginning ice skater's way of doing this by skidding slowly with toes turned inward stopping |
| #1055, aired 1989-03-17 | MUSICAL TERMS $1000: If you come to "da capo" while playing a composition, you'd go back to this point in the music the beginning |
| #1039, aired 1989-02-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $400: She's Henry VIII's queen at the beginning of "Henry VIII", but later he divorces her Catherine of Aragon |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: The 12th day after Christmas, it originally marked the beginning of Carnival season Three Kings' Day (Epiphany) |
| #989, aired 1988-12-15 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $200: At the beginning of "The Maltese Falcon", he's ending an affair with his partner's wife (Sam) Spade |
| #978, aired 1988-11-30 | SPORTS $500: In soccer, this starts play at the beginning of a period or after a goal kick-off |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | "NEW" ON THE MAP $100: Of all U.S. states beginning with "New", this one is alphabetically 1st New Hampshire |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | ANIMALS $500: This tightly curled fur comes from newborn Karakul sheep Astrakhan (Persian lamb) |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | SOCCER $100: At the beginning of a game, the choice of goal & kickoff is decided by this a toss of a coin |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | "DARK" $500: In a commercial for this beer, Martin Mull advised, "Don't be afraid of the dark" Michelob |
| #942, aired 1988-10-11 | COLLEGES $300: From Latin "to initiate", it marks the end, not the beginning, of a college career Commencement |
| #916, aired 1988-09-05 | FICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): W. Irving wrote a "History of" this state "from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty" New York |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | WORLD WAR II $400: He said 1942 was "not even the beginning of the end but... perhaps the end of the beginning" Churchill |
| #876, aired 1988-05-30 | TV INITIALS $300: The "CC" that flashes on your screen at the beginning of a program indicates the show is this closed captioned (for the deaf or hearing impaired) |
| #874, aired 1988-05-26 | MUSIC THEORY $400: Of the beginning, middle, or end of a work, where you'd find a coda the end |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $500: Consisting of at least 400 islands, the Sulu Archipelago is part of this island country Philippines |
| #830, aired 1988-03-25 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $600: Most authorities recognize the beginning of this century as the start of the Baroque period the 17th century |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1843, the gov't moved this from Jan. 1 to July 1, & in 1976 to Oct. 1 the beginning of the (government) fiscal year |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | ANTONYMS $400: Antonyms, both beginning with "A", referring to conscious & unconscious states awake (or alert or aware) & asleep (or anesthetized) |
| #818, aired 1988-03-09 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS $100: At the beginning of "Play It Again, Sam", Woody is watching this Bogart classic Casablanca |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $200: From the Latin for "unknown", it means "in disguise" incognito |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $400: You'll find these between the canines in your mouth incisors |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $600: A spoken spell, such as "Double double toil & trouble; fire burn & cauldron bubble" incantation |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $800: A cozy alcove beside a fireplace, or the California wine you might drink there Inglenook |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | "IN" THE BEGINNING $1000: A daughter of the King of Spain, whether or not she's a baby infanta |
| #785, aired 1988-01-22 | BIG TOP $500: This, which can happen at the beginning or end of the show, is called the "spectacle" the (big) parade |
| #775, aired 1988-01-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $600: 1 of the 2 4-letter words beginning with "H" that mean the handle of a sword hilt (or haft) |
| #747, aired 1987-12-01 | FOX HUNTING $100: Shout that signals the beginning of the hunt tallyho! |
| #730, aired 1987-11-06 | QUESTIONABLE SONGS $200: Title question asked in the beginning, middle & 3 times at the end of a "King & I" song "Shall We Dance?" |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $500: In 1987, these 2 "days", both beginning with "F", fell on June 14 & June 21 Flag Day & Father's Day |
| #706, aired 1987-10-05 | PICASSO $1000: His "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", portrayed in angular array, marked beginning of this movement the Cubist movement |
| #674, aired 1987-07-09 | MAMMALS $300: The 3 continents, all beginning with "A", on which bears are not found naturally Antarctica, Australia & Africa |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | GEOGRAPHICAL SINGERS $200: Country band appropriately named since their "home's in Alabama" Alabama |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | 1986 $500 (Daily Double): The beginning & ending cities of the Great Peace March for global nuclear disarmament Los Angeles, California & Washington, D.C. |
| #615, aired 1987-04-17 | RELIGION $200: Mohammed's flight from this city marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar Mecca |
| #580, aired 1987-02-27 | SCARY MOVIES $800: Number of "Friday the 13th" movies that have come out after "The Final Chapter"...so far 2 |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | EASY OPERA $200: "Summertime" is a lullaby sung at the beginning of this Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess |
| #576, aired 1987-02-23 | KIDDIE LIT $500: "In the beginning...he had only 1 hat"; the other 499 came with time Bartholomew Cubbins |
| #569, aired 1987-02-12 | LANGUAGES $1000: Translation of this familiar sentence in Esperanto: "En la komenco Dio kreis la cielon kaj le teron" In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth |
| #559, aired 1987-01-29 | FIRST LINES $400: "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank..." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland accepted) |
| #544, aired 1987-01-08 | 1986 FILMS $300: Although Jason's dead when the film begins, "Friday the 13th, Part VI is subtitled this Jason Lives |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | FILM FACTS $600: "M*A*S*H", "Fahrenheit 451", & "The Magnificent Ambersons" have credits presented in this unusual way spoken (rather than written out) |
| #526, aired 1986-12-15 | THE CALENDAR $200: A month was originally calculated to be the time between these astronomical events full moons |
| #509, aired 1986-11-20 | TV BANDLEADERS $600: From the beginning in 1948 to the last show in 1971, he was Ed Sullivan's bandleader Ray Bloch |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | WORLD CITIES $600 (Daily Double): The 4 cities beginning with "M" that hosted the Summer Olympics in 1968, 1972, 1976 & 1980 Mexico City, Munich, Montreal and Moscow |
| #497, aired 1986-11-04 | MUSIC $400: It refers to the key & meter signals at the beginning of the composition, not Beethoven's autograph a signature |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | TV TOWNS $800 (Daily Double): The TV towns of Opie Taylor & Beaver Cleaver, both beginning with "May" Mayfield & Mayberry |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | RADIO $200: XTRA, like other radio stations beginning with the letter "X", broadcasts from this country w/X in its name Mexico |
| #455, aired 1986-06-06 | THE END $600: In "Alice in Wonderland", King of Hearts advises "begin at the beginning & go on to the end: then..." do this stop |
| #384, aired 1986-02-27 | MODERN HISTORY $200 (Daily Double): 4 of 6 countries that formed the Common Market in 1958 (4 of) France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands or Luxembourg |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | #1 SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Amazingly this immortal rocker didn't have a No. 1 hit until 1972, w/ following:
"We got the new alma mater /
We must do our alma mater /
When I was..." Chuck Berry |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | AMERICAN INDIANS $200: Imposing Duwamish Indian chief for whom Washington State's largest city was named Seattle |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | BROADWAY $2,200 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 Bacharach/D. Warwick hits from 1968 musical flop based on "The Apartment" "Promises, Promises" or "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: "It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail & ending with the grin" the Cheshire Cat |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | "PHIL" IT UP $400: In the beginning of his singing career was "Flaming Youth" then came "Genesis" Phil Collins |
| #324, aired 1985-12-05 | SUDDEN DEATH $500: The death of this pair was just the beginning of their life with Topper George & Marion Kirby |
| #315, aired 1985-11-22 | WATER $200: Of gas, liquid & solid, the densest state of water liquid |
| #310, aired 1985-11-15 | BRITISH TV $100: Each week when Roger Moore looked up at beginning of “The Saint” this appeared above his head halo |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | FIRST LINES $200: First 3 words of the Bible In the beginning |
| #301, aired 1985-11-04 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $200: To start from the beginning, or make a cake without a mix from scratch |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | STARTS WITH "A" $500 (Daily Double): Of 4 U.S states beginning with "A", the last alphabetically Arkansas |
| #266, aired 1985-09-16 | FRANCE $400: It extends along the Mediterranean beginning at Hyeres eastward to the Italian border the French Riviera |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Pharaoh Ikhnaton caused an uproar by allowing the worship of only this many gods 1 |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | FAMOUS QUOTES $400: According to Noel Coward, they "go out in the midday sun" mad dogs & Englishmen |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | HAMLET $500: He advises his son Laertes, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" Polonius |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | ODDS & ENDS $800: The Bessemer method is the oldest modern process for making this steel |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | TV NOSTALGIA $800: Crime show which ran 21 yrs. on radio, but only 1 year on TV, failing to "come on like" its name Gang Busters |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | FAMOUS QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): Phrase 1st used in 1461 to proclaim death of French king & arrival of his successor the king is dead, long live the king |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | FAMOUS QUOTES $1000: The first 7 words ever spoken over a telephone "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you" |
| #262, aired 1985-09-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: His riches didn't prevent this last king of Lydia from being subjugated by the Persians Croesus |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | TEXAS $100: Where in Texas "The stars at night are big & bright (clap, clap, clap, clap)..." "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" |
| #155, aired 1985-04-12 | GEOGRAPHY $200: All countries beginning with the letter "Z" are on this continent Africa |
| #146, aired 1985-04-01 | THE BIBLE $400: From Greek meaning "beginning", it's the 1st book of the Bible Genesis |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | BIRDS $100: What “a bird in the hand is worth” two in the bush |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | PRESIDENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 of the 5 presidents with last names beginning with "H" (4 of) Harrison, Harding, Hayes, Harrison, Hoover |
| #101, aired 1985-01-28 | MOVIES $200: Oryctolagus Cuniculus who was star of WB's 1958 Oscar-winning short Bugs Bunny |
| #98, aired 1985-01-23 | GRAMMAR $300: These are always written out as words when appearing at the beginning of a sentence numbers |
| #80, aired 1984-12-28 | LAST WORDS $200: Movie that ends with Rick predicting "the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | SPORTS $500: '50s middleweight champ some say was pound-for-pound the best boxer ever Sugar Ray Robinson |
| #12, aired 1984-09-25 | U.S. STATES $400: The only state beginning with "A" that does not end in "A" Arkansas |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $50: It scrapes the sky at 5th Avenue & 34th Street, New York City the Empire State Building |
