#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1200: Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013 Fast & Furious (The Fast & the Furious) |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $200: In the 1980 film "Superman II", Margot Kidder as this newspaper reporter sends a foe down with a nice right cross Lois Lane |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $400: Bob Barker throws 8 solid left jabs before putting this title golfer in the water hazard with a big right Happy Gilmore |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $600: This Carl Weathers boxer is told, "Finish (that) bum, & let's go home"; he does not finish that bum Apollo Creed |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $800: Just after showing a fake I.D. that says "McLovin", Fogell gets sucker punched in a liquor store in this 2007 comedy Superbad |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $1000: Russell Crowe takes some punches in the ring & in life as Jim Braddock in this film the Cinderella Man |
#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PANTOMIME HORSE $800: The Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties & Screaming Sixties are names for these that occur south of the horse latitudes winds |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE MUSEUM OF FAILURE $100: This beverage brand "changed its classic recipe in 1985... consumers were furious... original formula was rapidly re-introduced" Coke (Coca-Cola) |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE 50 STATES $300: In "Field of Dreams" a question is asked, "Is this heaven?"--No, it's this Midwestern state also known as "the Corn State" Iowa |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | FIVE CHANCES $1600: In the '70s he & the Furious Five were just about the first hip-hop group; in 2007 they were the first in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Grandmaster Flash |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS $800: Tyrese Gibson has appeared as Roman Pearce, known for his banter & his driving, in this action film franchise The Fast and the Furious |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $600: Fast & Furious family man Mark Sinclair Vin Diesel |
#8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $1600: "Racer X", a 1998 article by Ken Li about illegal street-racing, inspired this high-octane film franchise The Fast and the Furious |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BOSH $1000: I'll be furious & will find it most injurious if your story turns out to be this, from the Latin for "illegitimate" spurious |
#1, aired 2022-02-08 | PARTS OF THE FRANCHISE $600: The spin-off "Hobbs & Shaw" The Fast and the Furious |
#8539, aired 2021-12-23 | FIRST AMONG SEQUELS $2000: Vin Diesel skipped this speedy 2003 sequel that tells you twice it's the second in the series 2 Fast 2 Furious |
#8519, aired 2021-11-25 | "COME" & "GO" $200: The home team was down by 10 in the 4th quarter but tied things up at the buzzer after mounting a furious one of these a comeback |
#8327, aired 2021-02-02 | OLD NEWSPAPERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A furious rivalry between NYC's World & Journal papers in the 1890s led to this term used for sensational news reporting yellow journalism |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THEY DIDN'T SURVIVE THE FILM $1000: Han gets blown up in this Japan-set 2006 installment of "The Fast & the Furious"--or does he? Tokyo Drift |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | LIQUOR IS QUICKER $1200: A drink called the Fast and Furious has rum, coconut rum & the blue type of this liqueur named for a Caribbean island Curacao |
#8017, aired 2019-06-18 | MR. DWAYNE JOHNSON $400: In the last 4 films in this speedy franchise, Dwayne has played Luke Hobbs Fast and Furious |
#7939, aired 2019-02-28 | YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR $400: Vince Lombardi was furious after these NFL champs lost a 1963 exhibition game to a team of college all-stars the Green Bay Packers |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | FOR ME & MY GAL GADOT $400: As Gisele, Gal ultimately proved mortal in the sixth installment of this high-octane franchise The Fast and the Furious |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ETYMOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This adjective meaning angry may come from the name of 3 avenging goddesses of ancient myth furious |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | BACKING BANDS $600: Grandmaster Flash & this quintet, reminiscent of a Vin Diesel sequel the Furious Five |
#7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Producers of "Furious 7" enlisted the aid of this late actor's brothers Caleb & Cody to fill in the gaps in production Paul Walker |
#7284, aired 2016-04-21 | MOVIES' VILLAINS $1600: In this 2015 edition of a franchise, Deckard Shaw, who gets a piece of The Rock Furious 7 |
#6977, aired 2015-01-06 | WATCH THE BIRDIE $600: Crane (voiced by David Cross) is one of the Furious Five in this 2008 martial arts film Kung Fu Panda |
#6475, aired 2012-11-09 | CIVICS $800: In June 2012 the president invoked this right over Operation Fast & Furious papers executive privilege |
#6040, aired 2010-12-10 | REAL NAMES OF CELEBS $800: The Chronicles of Mark Vincent led to a name change for this buff "Fast & Furious" movie star Vin Diesel |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $200: He fasted, furiously but nonviolently, in 1924, 1932, 1947 & 1948 Gandhi |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $400: In 2009 a Johannesburg TV producer staged a 30-day fast to protest cutbacks in this nation's broadcasting South Africa |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $600: Bobby Sands, an officer in this "Army", died in 1981 following a 66-day hunger strike at the Maze Prison near Belfast the Irish Republican Army |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $1000: In 1917 Alice Paul, arrested while agitating for this constitutional amendment, was force fed to end her hunger strike the 19th Amendment |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $1,600 (Daily Double): Lt. Colonel Thileepan of the Tamil Tigers starved himself to death in a 1987 hunger strike on this island Sri Lanka |
#5781, aired 2009-11-02 | THE MOVIE'S CHARACTERS $400: Brian O'Conner,
Johnny Tran,
Dominic Toretto
(it's the first movie) The Fast and the Furious |
#5639, aired 2009-02-26 | ANCIENT BOOKS $1000: Epictetus produced books of these ethical lectures; today the word means furious rants diatribes |
#5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ANGELINA JOLIE $400: Angelina voiced Tigress, one of the "Furious Five" in this 2008 movie Kung Fu Panda |
#5392, aired 2008-02-05 | FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' $1600: This deadpan comic said, "I installed a skylight in my apartment... The people who live above me are furious" Steven Wright |
#5270, aired 2007-07-06 | CELEB BEFORE & AFTER $800: This "Fast & The Furious" star had no trouble stepping into Chuck Norris' old TV role Paul Walker Texas Ranger |
#5226, aired 2007-05-07 | DIRECTOR"S" $2000: A USC grad:
"Boyz n the Hood" & "2 Fast 2 Furious" John Singleton |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | & THE FURIOUS $400: On "The Simpsons", this nuclear plant owner has a pet monkey named Furious George Montgomery Burns |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | & THE FURIOUS $800: Try this more-than-miffed politician seen here on for size; he had a really big shoe in 1960 Nikita Khrushchev |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | & THE FURIOUS $1600: In 1811 this lyric poet wrote "The Necessity of Atheism" & was expelled from Oxford, & boy, was his dad mad! Percy Shelley |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | & THE FURIOUS $2000: Polly Peachum's pop gets his knickers in a twist over her marriage to Macheath in this Brecht/Weill play The Threepenny Opera |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | & THE FURIOUS $4,000 (Daily Double): A handkerchief helps send this title guy of a tragedy over the edge, convincing him of his wife's infidelity Othello |
#5038, aired 2006-07-05 | MOVIE-MOBILES $2000: This 2001 Vin Diesel street-racing film popularized Honda "Tuners", personalized cars that are the new hot rods The Fast and the Furious |
#4874, aired 2005-11-17 | PIERCED NAVAL HISTORY $1200: On Aug. 2, 1917, E.H. Dunning became the first man to do this on a moving ship, HMS Furious land an airplane |
#4598, aired 2004-09-08 | THE VAST & THE FURIOUS $400: The shortest "war" in history, 45 minutes, occured in 1896 between Zanzibar & naval forces of this vast empire the British Empire |
#4598, aired 2004-09-08 | THE VAST & THE FURIOUS $800: This nation of 200 million has fought small independence movements like those in Aceh & East Timor Indonesia |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | RECENT CINEMA $800: Paul Walker returned to star in this sequel to "The Fast and the Furious" but Vin Diesel opted out 2 Fast 2 Furious |
#4375, aired 2003-09-19 | DA BRONX $1200: Formed in the Bronx in 1976, one of the first rap crews was this man & the Furious Five Grandmaster Flash |
#3960, aired 2001-11-16 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Vin Diesel can't drive 55 in this 2001 film that explored the underground world of L.A. street racing The Fast and the Furious |
#3785, aired 2001-02-02 | ELECTION 2000 $200: A joke had it that this Green Party nominee was furious at Al Gore for ruining his chance at the presidency Ralph Nader |
#3466, aired 1999-10-04 | WORDS WE DON'T USE ENOUGH $800: He invented the word frumious (a blend of "fuming" & "furious"); you'll find it in his nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" Lewis Carroll |
#2358, aired 1994-11-30 | 1909 $1000: This French premier stepped down after a furious July 20 debate in the Chamber of Deputies Georges Clemenceau |
#2246, aired 1994-05-16 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: To do something with furious intensity is to "go at it" with these 2 blacksmith tools hammer & tongs |
#868, aired 1988-05-18 | OH, SHAW! $1000: Shaw was reportedly furious & insulted at winning an Oscar for this film Pygmalion |