| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $400: Montbéliarde cows are part of the herds in this nation's milk-loving la Gruyère region Switzerland |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $800: Known for healthy honey, the Greek isle Ikaria is this type of "colorful" place named for its population's longevity a blue zone |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $1200: Not far from the skyscrapers of this emirate metropolis is Camelicious, a company that provides camel milk, ghee & chocolate Dubai |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $2000: India, the leading milk producer in the world, gets almost half of it from this beast not considered cattle a water buffalo |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ON THE MAP $2000: This "Land", an unclaimed region of Antarctica, bears the name of the wife of an explorer Marie Byrd Land |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Simon Iturri Patiño was once Bolivia's rey del estaño, king of this metal in which the land is rich tin |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building is prohibited & nature flourishes a green belt |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land donated to start this ACC sports powerhouse was home to the estate of John C. Calhoun Clemson University |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $400: The Sandusky Register affirmed this as the law of the land with 1920's "court declares that dry amendment is constitutional" Prohibition |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: About the size of a billiard ball, the eye of this bird is the largest of any land animal an ostrich |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $200: A French horn's name is technically just "horn"-- & the modern version was born not in France, but in this land of Oktoberfest Germany |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $800: Further from land than anywhere else on Earth, a South Pacific spot is called Point this, after a fictional captain Nemo |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES $1600: This Middle East nation is the "land of the Aryans" Iran |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $400: This man came & went in the highest office in the land Hoover |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $800: A crater on the big island of Hawaii is said to be the home of this goddess, she, who devours the land Pele |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | CRITTERS $200: It's the world's tallest land animal whose young is known as a calf a giraffe |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? $800: What? You drove all the way from Duncansby Head to Land's End in this country? No wonder you're tired! the UK |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: "The Land of Fire & Ice"
(Do its citizens really believe in elves? I guess we'll never gnome) Iceland |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | STATELY DEMONYMS $400: Meaning "child of the land", a Kamaaina is a person from this state Hawaii |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): This poetic name for the land of Robert Burns is in the name of a Canadian province Scotia |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | OFFICIAL NICKNAMES $1000: Longtime president Nazarbayev decided this vast Central Asian country would be the "Land of the Great Steppe" Kazakhstan |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $800: Jerusalem's November 29 Street is named for the day in 1947 the U.N. voted to partition this British-controlled land Palestine |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | DIASPORA $600: A 19th c. migration from this land began the community of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, with a Patagonian form of their Celtic language Wales |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | COUNTRIES IN SHORT $400: A tourism slogan for this Middle East country is the "Land of Creation" Israel |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $1200: (Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding
/ Lilacs out of the dead land" enjambment |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | ARMY "ANT"s $200: This branch of the U.S. Army is its principal land combat force infantry |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $400: Canal get a witness? The isthmus of this is the only land bridge between the Asian & African continents the Suez |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $1200: For the centennial of its publication, Matthew Hollis' 2022 "Biography of a Poem" is about this culture-spanning one by T.S. Eliot The Waste Land |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $800: The Caribbean coast of this Central American country is indented by a gulf of the same name Honduras |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $1200: It borders Brazil & the South Atlantic Uruguay |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THIS LAND IS "UR" LAND $1600: It borders Brazil & the North Atlantic Suriname |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | THE WORLD OF MIDDLE-EARTH $200: This is the land where most Hobbits live in Middle-earth the Shire |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THE SUPERLATIVE EARTH $400: With almost 40,000 people in less than a square mile, this little land on the Côte d'Azur is Earth's most densely populated country Monaco |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $400: The Netherlands, meaning low-lying country, is also known as the land of these flowers tulips |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES $600: Norway is known as the land of the midnight sun & the land of these medieval marauders the Vikings |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $800: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame South Bend |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | THIS IS HOW I WIN $600: Be last off the Battle Bus & land by a quiet spot instead of the Citadel; have a wide range of weapons & a medkit; use headphones Fortnite |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $1000: This seemingly Utopian land is the title of an 1872 Samuel Butler work, which he "Revisited" in a 1901 sequel Erewhon |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | IN THE NATION'S CONSTITUTION $400: "On its land, Moses grew up, the light of God appeared, and the message descended on Mount Sinai" Egypt |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: 2/5 of this nation is made up of areas of land called polders that have been drained & reclaimed from the sea the Netherlands |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $1000: England's southwesternmost point is the tip of this peninsula in Cornwall Land's End |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FICTION'S FICTIONAL PLACES $400: In the illustration seen here, the title character is tied up on business in this land Lilliput |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FLYOVER COUNTRIES $1600: We hope you enjoyed your time in Iraq; now take in the Persian Gulf on our left as we cross this small emirate & land in Saudi Arabia Kuwait |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $400: The plateau of this disputed land is the major source of the rivers of South & East Asia Tibet |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PACIFIC ISLANDS $400: Vanuatu's Pentecost Island is widely believed to be the birthplace of this "land diving" sport in which a cord is tied to your feet bungee jumping |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $1200: Georgia's state flower is this people's rose; legend says one grew along the trail at each spot where their tears fell Cherokee |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | "GO"ING PLACES $1200: Southeastern Wyoming is the land o' this county that shares its name with an ancient home of the Hebrews Goshen |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $1000: This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | LANDMARK LEGISLATION $800: The 1862 act that provided money for land-grant colleges specified that they should teach mechanical arts & this agriculture |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $400: Seen here is a sample of the alphabet for the most popular American version of this shorthand |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | ALPHABET LAND $1000: The Cyrillic alphabet is used in the country called this; the "Inner" region uses one derived from Uighur Mongolia |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | THE ANCIENT MARINER $1000: Henry Allingham died aged 113 in 2009 as the last survivor of World War I's biggest naval clash, the battle of this Danish land the Battle of Jutland |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $800: Eliot: "April is the ____ ____ breeding lilacs out of the dead land" the cruelest month |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $1000: "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series ice & fire |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $2000: Engulfed by Bolivia, Argentina & Brazil, this country is nicknamed "the island surrounded by land" Paraguay |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $1000: This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America a California condor |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $1200: In song, "Some came from a land beyond the sea, from Boston and New York, but the boys who beat the Black and Tans, were the boys from" here County Cork |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $800: The mission of BLM, short for this, is "to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands" the Bureau of Land Management |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $800: Taiga, perhaps meaning "land of little sticks", is used for what's also called the boreal this environment the forest |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: The first great land battle of the Hundred Years' War was the 1346 battle of this village in northern France the Battle of Crécy |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | LET ME IN!! $400: In Russia "face control" is the job of these "elastic" workers in charge of the promised land behind the velvet rope bouncers |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY $1000: Prince Philip spent 15 years designing his hearse from this automotive brand; in 2021 it came into use Land Rover |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | THE LANDLOCKED NATION $1,000 (Daily Double): After WWI this Central European country broke away from a dual monarchy but lost about 2/3 of its land Hungary |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | EPIDEMIOLOGY $400: This 3-letter epidemiological organization is located in Atlanta on land provided by Emory University the CDC |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: Magyar is another name for these people, many of whom reside in a country known as the "Land of Magyars" Hungarians |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | PENINSULAS $400: In 1985 the Supreme Court said this 118-mile-long piece of land forming part of NYC is a peninsula Long Island |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | ANTON CHEKHOV $1600: Chekhov's last play is about a woman who must decide if she wants to allow houses to be built on this title plot of land The Cherry Orchard |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $200: This turtle, also the symbol of the University of Maryland, is at home both in water & on land a terrapin |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | BEACH-Y KEEN $1000: This alliterative phrase that mentions the land closest to the sea means that it's safe to proceed & have a great time the coast is clear |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | ODD STATE FACTS $200: An amendment to have court psychologists dress as wizards was jokingly proposed in this state; it is the "Land of Enchantment"... New Mexico |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | BEHIND THE SONG $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote this song because he was sick of hearing "God Bless America" "This Land Is Your Land" |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $1600: A "commitment to the land, the people, and the future of Israel" is the mission of this organization of Jewish women Hadassah |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | WELL VERSED IN POETRY $800: "The Waste Land" begins with the declaration that this "is the cruellest month" April |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | PLAY THAT FOLKY MUSIC $1200: 1940s folk supergroup the Almanac Singers included Pete Seeger & this other legend & writer of "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $800: Mills College, the first women's college west of the Rockies, is located in this Bay Area city Oakland |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | "LAND" FILL $1000: The Pomeranian Lakeland has more than 1,000 lakes in this country Poland |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | KING $200: "In the land of" these people, "the one-eyed man is king" the blind |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | QUICK BIBLE BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Tribes are counted, wander in the desert & reach the borders of the promised land Numbers |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BORDERS $1600: Manzhouli is a town on the border between China's region of Inner this this land, & as you see, Russia Mongolia |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | GLOVE $800: Right-handed participants in this hunting sport wear a leather glove on the left hand for the hawk to land on falconry |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $400: "This Land Is Your Land" does cover the country, "from" here "to the New York island" California |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | THE BOAT, ASHORE $800: Able to launch on land or sea, the first hovercrafts were made to travel this narrow arm of the Atlantic the English Channel |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $800: This choreographer of "La La Land" & "So You Think You Can Dance" has the same name as a "This Is Us" actress Mandy Moore |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | COMMON LATIN $400: "Firma" or not, this is the Latin word for "land" terra |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | FOXES $800: This species, also known as the common fox, is the most widely distributed carnivore on land the red fox |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | LOVE, ACTUALLY $800: You've cast this 11-letter spell on me; New Mexico is the "Land of" it enchantment |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | EUROPE $2000: This country on the Balkan Peninsula is nicknamed "Land of the Eagles" Albania |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $1000: From the Bible: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and" this upright |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: To wander through the land of the Caesars roam Rome |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $800: La Santa Sede is the local version of this official name of Vatican City the Holy See |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | LAND "HO"! $1200: Sapporo is the major city on this island Hokkaido |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | TRANSPORTATION $2,500 (Daily Double): The vehicle of choice on the Oregon Trail was this wagon with a type of flat land in its name a prairie schooner |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $400: A basin is a land area drained by a river; 2 basins can be separated by a ridge called this, like a continental one a divide |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $3,200 (Daily Double): This is a narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger land areas, like the one connecting North & South America an isthmus |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | COMPOSERS $1200: One of England's most beloved tunes is the one by Hubert Parry named for this faraway Mideast city [Listen.] Jerusalem |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | RECOGNIZING THE COUNTRY $1000: The expanse of Long Island to Georgia is about the size of this troubled Asian land Afghanistan |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE $800: O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land "O Little Town of Bethlehem" |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The only land border between the Netherlands & France is on this 34-square-mile Caribbean island split between them Saint Martin |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $400: The Domesday Book, a record of the value & ownership of land in 11th century England, was compiled by order of this king William the Conqueror |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES $1600: 1989:
"Jesus of ____" (not in the Holy Land) Montreal |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $800: Most people in this South American country speak an indigenous language called Guarani, also the name of its monetary unit Paraguay |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $1000: This country, with a tragic recent past, is the most densely populated on the African continent Rwanda |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | GOVERNMENT ABCs $1000: Much of the acreage controlled by this agency is in Alaska & the western states: BLM the Bureau of Land Management |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | MOVING THE SAINTS $400: Swiped from the Holy Land, the reputed head of this decapitated saint is on display on a silver plate at Amiens Cathedral John the Baptist |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES $1200: After one of its national symbols, this U.K. country is "The Land of the Leek" Wales |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | MINNESOTA...NICE $200: Though Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000" of these, the state's being modest as usual--about 12,000 is more accurate lakes |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: Down under Slovakia Hungary |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $800: "The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade" is chapter 3 of "Bridge to" this enchanted land Terabithia |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows Earth on a monitor.) A computer algorithm concluded the longest distance you can walk in a straight line on land is nearly 7,000 miles, from Fujin in China to a point near Sagres in this country Portugal |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $200: In "The Marvelous Land of Oz", he's the ruler of the Emerald City & is still full of straw the Scarecrow |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | LET'S GO TO THE MOVIES $800: "The Fools Who Dream" is the subtitle to "Audition", an Oscar-nominated song from this 2016 film La La Land |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "The Burial of the Dead" is the first of 5 sections that make up this T.S. Eliot poem "The Waste Land" |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | THEM'S THE RULES $1200: Per Monopoly rules, if you land on this space, you must pay the bank either $200 or 10% of your total worth Income Tax |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $2000: This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land" (William) Faulkner |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | ANCIENT AGRICULTURE $2000: Deuteronomy 8:8 promises a land not of milk & honey but of this salad dressing "and honey" olive oil |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | SPACE SCIENCE HISTORY $2000: In 1997 this spacecraft used airbags to land on Mars, then sent the Sojourner rover on its way Pathfinder |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | WINDMILLS $1000: England's "Windmill Land" is an area called Fylde on the west coast, with breezes courtesy of this sea the Irish Sea |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $200: More than 1,300' below sea level, the shore of this body of water is the Earth's lowest point on land the Dead Sea |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING $200: Between the Rockies & the Cascades is the Columbia one of these level areas of high land a plateau |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ENDS IN "ITE" $1000: Ruth, of the Old Testament, is this type of woman, after the land from which she came a Moabite |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | FLAGS $2000: The motto "Hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth" goes with the flag of this West Indies nation Jamaica |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | ALL ABOUT GERMANY $200: The name of Germany in German is this "land" Deutsch |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | THEME PARKS $1200: The Slinky Dog Dash Coaster coils through the new Disney World land named for this movie Toy Story |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | WORLD WAR I $2,000 (Daily Double): German forces gave units from this U.K. land the nickname "the ladies from hell" for their fighting spirit & uniforms Scotland |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ISLANDS $1600: Stewart Island, this country's third largest, is also called Rakiura, "The Land of Glowing Skies" New Zealand |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | ON THE ROOF $800: This 7-letter compound word is a spot on the roof to land your chopper helipad |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | RIVER WORDS $400: The land beside a river prone to flooding is called the "flood" type of this flat area a plain |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $1000: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) Portulaca, which is this type of plant named for its water-storing tissues, will turn a bright yellow in the rainy season, & the land iguanas that feast on this plant will eagerly approach visitors, if they happen to be wearing yellow succulents |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | TERMS IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This adjective meaning "Germanic" is the name of a medieval order of knights founded by Germans in the holy land Teutonic |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | "NEW" GEOGRAPHY $400: This state is the "Land of Enchantment" New Mexico |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $400: The name of this desert city that can hit 130° is used to mean anywhere remote Timbuktu |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $800: This remote "-land" is from the German for "land behind" hinterland |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $1200: This remote "-water" is an uncultured place out of the mainstream a backwater |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $400: Islamorada, the "Village of Islands" in Florida, is made up of 6 of the islands called these keys |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | LAND $1200: Those who value land as a possession include John Bergson in this Willa Cather novel named for western settlers O Pioneers! |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost point of land in the contiguous United States Maine |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $800: 2,300 miles SW of Hawaii, this territory that has "American" in its name is administered by the Interior Dept. (American) Samoa |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | YES, MAMMAL! $800: The Arctic species of this canine is Iceland's only native land mammal a fox |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | LEAGUES $5,000 (Daily Double): In the 19th century the Land League on this island sought to gain more rights from their British landlords Ireland |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $400: The name of this large sea comes from words for "middle of the land" M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N-E-A-N |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | DISNEYLAND: YESTERDAY & TODAY $600: Original attractions from 1955 that are still around include Autopia & this boat ride in Adventure Land the Jungle Cruise |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | ROAMIN' CATHOLICS $400: In 385 St. Jerome, a widow & a group of virgins went on a pilgrimage through this "land of the Philistines" Palestine |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | DOG BREEDS $400: In 1931 this Japanese breed was designated a national monument in its native land the Akita |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | NOW GET OUT! $200: "The Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies" is in this Bible book Exodus |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | MAMMAL PLANET $1600: Resembling the leopard, this New World cat is a great swimmer & can hunt in water, but prefers an ambush from land, disabling its prey with a bite from its powerful jaws a jaguar |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $2000: Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good land office |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $200: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) Muscle Beach is on the Venice Beach boardwalk; before he was California's governor from 2003 to 2011 he helped make the place famous, with his outdoor workouts Schwarzenegger |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | LA LA LAND $1000: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) In downtown LA & named for philanthropists Edythe & Eli this $140 million art museum uses a "veil-&-vault" concept; the fiber-reinforced concrete facade is the veil, with the vault within the Broad Museum |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $5,000 (Daily Double): Of the ratites, flightless land birds, this down under denizen is the smallest a kiwi |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AROUND THE JEOPARDY! LIBRARY $1000: The latest World Almanac keeps us up on changes like this new name with no "Republic" for the land where Prague is located Czechia |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | MAPS "R" US $800: In Italy, this strip of land is divided into western and eastern sections, depending on what side of Genoa you're on the Riviera |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $800: A land divided by Jordan, Egypt & Israel, or the seat of Anderson County, Texas Palestine |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1000: This peninsular country's only land border is with Saudi Arabia Qatar |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | QUOTH THE POET $1600: "One, if by land, and two, if by sea; and I on the opposite shore will be" Longfellow |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): Nineveh was a huge city of this land which, if the first 2 letters were removed, would spell a current Mideast country Assyria |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WAIT"ER" $400: 2-word term for what you're in when waiting in the sky past arrival time until your plane is allowed to land a holding pattern |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $200: Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling star in this charming musical whose title is "a quaint old name for Los Angeles" La La Land |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $400: Pierce Downer gave his name to Downers Grove, 21 miles west of the Loop in this state Illinois |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $1600: It took until the 21st century for Oregon to honor this Clark with a summit named Clark's Mountain William Clark |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THIS LAND IS MY LAND $2000: John E.'s Pond is on Block Island in this state, about 9 miles off the mainland Rhode Island |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | BIBLE BOOK 'EM $2,000 (Daily Double): "So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab" Deuteronomy |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | LITERATURE IN ACTION $600: Like Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a thriller with this title about a land inhabited by dinosaurs The Lost World |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | EVERY CLAIM YOU STAKE $1600: In the mid-19th century, Dumont d'Urville claimed Adelie Land, part of here, for the French Antarctica |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "C" THE WORLD $1600: About 1/4 of this Central American country's land has been set aside as protected area for the nation's diverse wildlife Costa Rica |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTER BACKS $1600: This 1862 act that granted 160-acre parcels of land is commemorated by a national monument & a quarter back the Homestead Act |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | THE KIDS ARE OFF TO COLLEGE $1000: Our daughter is at Montana State, this type of school established from acreage donated to states a land grant |
| #7382, aired 2016-10-18 | ROCK "ME" $1600: "When the night has come and the land is dark", I'll be okay if you do this "Stand By Me" |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The museum's Horizon Theater features a vivid recreation of the dangerous battle-scarred landscape between opposing lines known by this 3-word name no man's land |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $2000: This post-civil war bureau provided jobs, medical care & land to former slaves & destitute whites the Freedmen's Bureau |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $600: Britannica says in this Arabian Peninsula nation, "The sun is hot. It is worse when the wind blows; then it is like a furnace" Oman |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): The Musgrave Mountain Range is in this region that by some definitions, covers 80% of a continent the Outback |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | HUGE TRACTS "O" LAND $1000: The Shetland Islands are about 130 miles north of Scotland; this group of islands is just 20 miles north of the mainland the Orkneys |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | ANTHROPOLOGY $2000: This now-extinct language was named for a strip of land along the Adriatic in Croatia Dalmatian |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $400: Off Mindanao, the 34,580' deep trench named for this country is one of the deepest spots in all the oceans the Philippines |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $600: The sultan of this ex-British protectorate is said to be worth $20 billion, including 600 Rolls-Royces Brunei |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $1000: The main campus of the U. of the South Pacific is in Suva, the capital of this country since 1882 Fiji |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | CONSERVATIVE $400: This Cabinet dept. is responsible for conserving the country's land, water, minerals, fish & wildlife Interior |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | SPACECRAFT TYPES $1000: Like the Cassini around Saturn, this type of spacecraft by definition doesn't land, but circles a planet instead an orbital probe |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | HORNS YOU CAN'T PLAY $800: This fastest land mammal in the W. hemisphere is sometimes called an antelope, but they're not closely related a pronghorn |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | STATE SONG LYRICS $400: This state is "Birthplace of a mighty nation, keystone of the land" Pennsylvania |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | STATE SONG LYRICS $3,400 (Daily Double): Out west "Blessed from Heaven above, it's the land that we love, this is the place" Utah |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | SHARED INITIALS $2000: The original cyberpunk scribe & the tunesmith of "This Land Is Your Land" William Gibson & Woody Guthrie |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | OLD TESTAMENT PEEPS $400: Esther was the Jewish wife of the King of this land & saved the Jews there from annihilation Persia |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE $800: The Central American area seen here is this type of narrow strip of land joining two larger land masses an isthmus |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1890 this bureau of the government reported that the West was so settled that no frontier could be said to exist the Census (Bureau) |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ROARING '20s READER $2000: Unitarian minister Leon Birkhead served as an advisor to Sinclair Lewis while Lewis was writing this 1927 novel Elmer Gantry |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND $1000: Mariano Rivera,
Ruben Blades Panama |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | LAND OF ENCHANTMENT $400: "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis begins, "This is the story of an adventure that happened" here Narnia |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | LAND IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM $800: Gagarin Crater the Moon |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE "MAIN" LAND $2000: The Sun is near the middle of this section of astronomy's Hertzsprun-Russell diagram the main sequence |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | CUBAN FIVE $800: The name of this bay is a native word meaning "land among rivers", not "land of detainees" Guantanamo Bay |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $400: This Dutch city's name comes from "count's hedge", a name used when it was a private hunting area The Hague |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $800: This arid, treeless region of South Dakota is home to many rugged formations & fossil deposits the Badlands |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $1600: A chain of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina where the U.S.S. Monitor rests today the Outer Banks |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $2000: This huge desert in the southern end of Arabia is the largest area of contiguous sand in the world the Empty Quarter |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | "THE" LAND IS THE LAND $5,000 (Daily Double): Reflecting its precious resources, it was the colonial name for what is now Ghana the Gold Coast |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EASY SCIENCE $200: The name of this class of vertebrates is from the Greek for "double life", referring to life in water & on land amphibian |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $400: In the 500s B.C. the Jews were in the Babylonian this type of expulsion from one's land exile |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $1200: River buffalo are draft animals in this African land that has a river running 1,000 miles north through it Egypt |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Quadling Country is one of the 5 regions of this 2-letter land Oz |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | BEOWULF $1600: When one of these creatures ravages his land, the elderly Beowulf slays it but is mortally wounded a dragon |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $1200: The cathedral city of Cork is the second-largest city in this country Ireland |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | GILLIGAN'S "I"LAND $1600: Fittingly, the national soccer team of this African nation is known as the Elephants the Ivory Coast |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel, a character sets aside a small piece of land, the income of which is to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | ISLAND FACTS $1200: It's not a stretch that Kiritimati, with the largest land area of any atoll, is in this Pacific nation Kiribati |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO $800: The highest peak of this mountainous land is 9,600-foot Coma Pedrosa near the frontier with Catalonia Andorra |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $400: South of Morocco:
"Land of the Moors" Mauritania |
| #6976, aired 2015-01-05 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $600: Shiite central:
"Land of the Aryans" Iran |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | EARTHLY QUOTES $1600: Genesis 45:
"Ye shall eat" this "of the land" the fat |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $1000: "The Thunder Dragon":
This mountainous Central Asian country Bhutan |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PUERTO RICO $400: Puerto Rico's anthem says that when this man reached the island he exclaimed, "This is the beautiful land that I seek" Columbus |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $2000: The first coins of this ancient land, roughly modern Lebanon, were minted around the 400s B.C. Phoenicia |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | DRAWING THE "LINE" $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For much of its length, the 180th meridian of longitude is tracked by this line that varies where it diverges to avoid land the International Date Line |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $800: The Arctic type of this canine is the only native land mammal in Iceland a fox |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $10,000 (Daily Double): The fur of this largest weasel family land animal is used to trim parkas because it doesn't mat or freeze in the cold a wolverine |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $800: UBS is a bank based in this land, "The World's Piggy Bank" Switzerland |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | HISTORY, ON THE MOVE $2000: The isthmus that once allowed humans to migrate on foot from Asia to North America is called the "Bering" this 2-word term a land bridge |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE MIDWEST $2000: Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes Minnetonka |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES BEYOND THE GAMES $600: At the '88 Worlds, skater Kurt Browning was the first in competition to land a jump with this many revolutions 4 |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $400: This country's is with the United Kingdom Ireland |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | ITS ONLY LAND BORDER $2000: This country's is with Senegal The Gambia |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $1200: Chosen in 1957 when France ruled the land, Nouakchott is just off the Atlantic in this country Mauritania |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | LET'S AGREE ON A PRICE $800: "Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand", this actor rapped on "Thriller" Vincent Price |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | CENTRAL AMERICA $400: United Fruit, now this banana company, once owned half the private land in Honduras Chiquita |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | 5-LETTER MAMMALS $800: Europe's largest land mammal, the wisent, is also called this, like its American cousin a bison |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES $3,000 (Daily Double): While this Balkan country's national name means "land of eagles", the name we know it by is from the Latin for "white" Albania |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | MOUNT RUSHMORE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.) The four presidents chosen for Mount Rushmore symbolize the first 150 years of American history--Washington is the founding, Lincoln is preservation, Roosevelt is development, & Jefferson is expansion for his role in this 1803 land deal the Louisiana Purchase |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $1000: This Marvel Comics hero is a stranger in a strange land, but he did manage to fall in love with human model Beverly Switzler Howard the Duck |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | LAND OF THE "FREE" $1600: Moving independently, like Bob Dylan in the title of a 1963 album freewheeling |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | OBSERVATORIES $1600: Kitt Peak National Observatory, on land of the Tohono O'odham tribe in this state, operates 22 optical telescopes Arizona |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | KENYA WEST $1600: Some of Kenya's most fertile land is within this 4,000-mile-long "great" depression the Great Rift Valley |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | THE PALACE OF NATIONS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a sculpture of a chair with one leg broken near the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.) The broken chair near the Palace of Nations is a monument to the victims of this two-word weapon; their eradication was Princess Diana's goal land mines |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | FICTIONAL WITCHES $600: Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land Narnia |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | GREETINGS FROM THE NORTH POLE $1000: Kaffeklubben Island, which belongs to this larger Danish island, is the closest land to the North Pole Greenland |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | ETYMOLOGY $1200: This word that follows "land" in a term for a nautical newcomer is from the Middle English for "lazy lout" lubber |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $2000: Chiricahua Natl. Monument, native name "The Land of Standing-Up Rocks", is named for a tribe within this people Apaches |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | GEOGRAPHY 101 $400: Stretching for about 5,500 miles, the world's longest land mountain range is this South American one The Andes |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1958 Vivian Fuchs became the first to cross Antarctica by land; he was joined partway by this Everest conquerer Edmund Hillary |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | THE AMERICAS $800: Central America's smallest country, it's been called Cuscatlan, "Land of the Jewel" El Salvador |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | '60s SPEECHES $200: "I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. but...we, as a people, will get to the promised land" Martin Luther King |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Gold"& "The Eureka State" California |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: By the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the French & Indian War, Britain got the land east of this river the Mississippi |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | STUFF ABOUT STATES $800: This original 13er is the largest state in land area east of the Mississippi River Georgia |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | "C" BIRDS $1200: (Alex reports from atop a ship in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) It is said that early sailors would release these birds from a high perch aboard a sailing vessel in hopes that the birds would lead the ship to land a crow |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | HOME LAND $200: Alexanderplatz, seen here Germany |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | HOME LAND $400: The Kaaba Saudi Arabia |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | OUT WEST IN THE 1850s $800: "Land" ho! This Northern California city was founded in 1852 & named for the trees that grew there Oakland |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AROUND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE $400: This nation has the greatest amount of land territory within the Arctic circle Russia |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | THE QUEENS ENGLISH $1600: The Vander Ende-Onderdonk house is on a land grant from this Dutch Colonial governor (Peter) Stuyvesant |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: This Mallarme poem about a day in myth-land inspired a Debussy "Prelude" to it "The Afternoon of a Faun" |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: Welcoming freed slaves to the land of their ancestors, this country's name is from the Latin word for "free" Liberia |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | TILE LAND $200: The Roman pool at this publisher's California "Castle" is decorated from floor to ceiling with glass tiles (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | TILE LAND $400: The great pavement in front of the high altar at this London church uses a mosaic technique called Cosmati work Westminster Abbey |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE FUTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Al Gore gives the clue.) Population & economic growth threaten our natural resources; one example is the erosion of this, the upper 6 inches of farming land that provides 99% of human food topsoil |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | MYTHING IN ACTION $600 (Daily Double): Oh, the heartache! After the hero Aeneas left her, Dido the queen of this land took her own life Carthage |
| #6476, aired 2012-11-12 | HUMP DAY $800: This largest deer is also the tallest land mammal in North America, measuring about 6 feet to the shoulders a moose |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | QUOTH THE POET $800: "April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | ICE, ICE BABY $400: It's not a part of your freezer, it's a mass of floating ice attached to land; the Ross one is about the size of France an ice shelf |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | UP NORTH $2000: Before he went to the North Pole, Robert Peary explored this huge northern island, & a "land" there is named for him Greenland |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | THE 50 STATES $1200: West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost piece of land in the continental United States Maine |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | SCIENCE GRAB BAG $1200: In 2001 Near Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on one of these, Eros an asteroid |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $1000: The Monkees mention "status symbol land" & "creature comfort goals" in this hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: Canada has a sort of equivalent song to "This Land Is Your Land"; its chorus begins, "From" this British Columbia island Vancouver Island |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | THE 50 STATES $800: This state's natural land regions include the Klamath Mountains & the Columbia Plateau Oregon |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | LOST ____ $800: John McCain (on immigration): "America is still the land of ___" opportunity |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | QUEEN Bs $400: Bilqis is the Islamic name for the Biblical queen of this land who drops in on Solomon Sheba |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | VARIE-TEAS $2000: This strong tea is named for a place in the foothills of the Himalayas whose name means "land of the thunderbolt" Darjeeling |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | THE LAND $200: This country is "The Land of the Shamrock" Ireland |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | THE LAND $1000: The name of this state is from Choctaw & means it's the land of the "red people" Oklahoma |
| #6286, aired 2012-01-09 | THE SEA AROUND US $400: The song "This Land Is Your Land" mentions these waters, a warm ocean current flowing in the North Atlantic the Gulf Stream waters |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | LAND O' LAKERS $600: This L.A. arena, home to the Lakers & the site of 9 Grammy Awards, is named for an office-supply company the Staples Center |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | LAND O' LAKERS $800: The Nisei Week Festival is held every August in the section of Los Angeles known as "Little" this city Tokyo |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | NUMERIC PLACES $400: According to its license plates, Minnesota is the Land of these 10,000 Lakes |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | PHRASES OF DEATH $400: This agricultural plot of land is the last one you'll "buy" the farm |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | SEEING A BIT OF AMERICA $1000: One if by land & two if by sea--seen here is this Massachusetts landmark the Old North Church |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | GOOD MIGRATIONS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of southeast Africa, with Tanzania and the Indian Ocean labeled.) In Africa, the only place where vast animal migrations occur is in this large Tanzanian national park, where herds move in a circular route to find water & grazeable land Serengeti |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | REAL LANDS $600: The river sharing the name of this landlocked land in Central South America forms a seasonal swamp, the Pantanal Paraguay |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | THE HIGH LAND $800: Africa tops out in this country Tanzania |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | THE HIGH LAND $1600: Mount Aconcagua is the highest you can get on this continent South America |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | THE HIGH LAND $2000: Europe's high point is 18,510-foot Mount Elbrus in this country Russia |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THIS "LAND" IS YOUR LAND $800: At 15,200 feet, the Dufourspitze is its highest peak Switzerland |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | LUCY $1000: Lucy Pevensie is a character in the books & movies set in this fictional land Narnia |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THIS "LAND" IS YOUR LAND $1600: Before the euro, it used the punt Ireland |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THIS "LAND" IS YOUR LAND $2000: It occupies the western half of the Indochinese peninsula & the northern 2/3 of the Malay Peninsula Thailand |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When waves hit a beach at an angle, part of their energy is directed parallel to the land, generating a current called this; the "men" of the same name are dockworkers longshore currents |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | HOW CONTINENTAL! $400: This continent covers only about 5% of the earth's land area; deserts cover about 1/3 of the continent Australia |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1271, the Polos left Venice for China; when they couldn't find seaworthy ships in this town, that shared its name with a nearby strait, they continued their journey by land Hormuz |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | AMERICANA $1600: Woody Guthrie wrote this song that spans "from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters" "This Land Is Your Land" |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $400: Arabia is the world's largest one of these pieces of land nearly surrounded by water a peninsula |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | THE BALLET OF THE LAND $400: The Martha Graham Company first presented "Clytemnestra" on April 1, 1958 in this country the United States |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | LAND OF LANDSCAPES $800: This Rubens work is fittingly titled "Landscape in" this region, with which the artist is identified Flanders |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | IMAGINARY PLACES $400: He is marooned on Houyhnhnms Land, an island in the South Seas Gulliver |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | FROM HERE TO THERE $400: "This land is your land, this land is my land, from" here "to the New York island" from California |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | FROM HERE TO THERE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Great Britain on the monitor.) Proverbially, to walk Great Britain end to end, go from John o' Groats in Scotland to Land's End in this county Cornwall |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | NAUTICAL TERMS $400: This lookout platform is named for the bird that would be released to find the nearest land in bad weather the crow's nest |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MEASURING WHAT? $200: An acre is a measure of this of the sea floor as well as dry land area |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | LITERARY ISLAND HOPPING $2000: The novelization of a play says this "land" is "always more or less an island" Neverland |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | "P"RODUCE $800 (Daily Double): Augusta National Golf Club is on land once used to grow Belle & Thurber types of these peaches |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | TV SHOW ADDRESSES $1,800 (Daily Double): A 32-room, 14-bathroom mansion at 518 Crestview Drive in 90210 land The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $2000: (Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.) Though its title is a reference to the Land of Nod, this Steinbeck classic, a favorite of mine, is set in California's Salinas Valley East of Eden |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $3,000 (Daily Double): The final land battle of WWII was fought on this island in the Ryukyus in June 1945 Okinawa |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY $400: In 1912 this folk music legend had his 1st chance to say "This land is your land" (which he did not do, as he was a newborn) (Woody) Guthrie |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | LEGISLATURES OF THE WORLD $600 (Daily Double): This land's legislature is the State Great Hural, hural meaning a council of khans Mongolia |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | PROVERBIALLY SPEAKING $1000: "In the land of the blind", this hyphenated person "is king" the one-eyed man |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | NO WAY! IT'S NORWAY! $800: For its continuous daylight from mid-May through July, the far north of Norway is called "the Land of" this the Midnight Sun |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nickname for Alaska & Sweden about perpetual daylight becomes the father of modern China the Land of the Midnight Sun Yat-sen |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE SHIELD $1000: Hoplites, ancient warriors of Thebes & other parts of this land, got their name from a shield called the hoplon Greece |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | & I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS $400: Uh, Dad? I kinda crashed your Land Cruiser SUV made by this car co.; the 2009 model starts at nearly $65,000; I'm a little short Toyota |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | THE CONTINENT WHERE YOU'LL FIND... $1000: Ellsworth Land Antarctica |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | "LA" STORY $800: Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp novel about a lost world of dinosaurs The Land that Time Forgot |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | KING & COUNTRY $600: After the King's 1977 passing, this "Okie from Muskogee" had a hit with "From Graceland To The Promised Land" Merle Haggard |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | A DAY IN THE LIFE $1200: Aug. 29, 1946:
Files a patent for an instant camera Edwin Land |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $400: "The Fire Sermon" is Part III of this poet's "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | GALAPAGOS WILDLIFE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) Contending with cold water & hot land, the Galapagos penguin is the only species to occur north of this line, the midpoint of the Tropics the equator |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | CASTLING $200: No castle is complete without this deep trench that prevents access from the surrounding land a moat |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | T.S. ELIOT $400: "The Waste Land" gives us the line this "is the cruellest month" April |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | WORLD CAPITALS $7,200 (Daily Double): On a plane trip to this capital, you'd likely land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Jakarta |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FINLANDIA $1200: Finland has a small population of Sami, a once-nomadic people also called this; their "land" is way up north the Lapps |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | WHATEVER $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew repeatedly drops onto the table a springed apparatus that lands on four feet, like a cat.) Cats are able to land on their feet because their flexible spines allow them to rotate in midair without violating the principle of conservation of this angular quantity momentum |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | THIS "LAND" IS MY LAND $1200: They're the 2 U.S. states that fit the category Maryland & Rhode Island |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | THIS "LAND" IS MY LAND $2000: The colors of this country's flag, seen here, represent its snows & lakes Finland |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | GULLIBLE TRAVELS $1000: Antonio de Mendoza, viceroy of New Spain, sent Coronado to find the Seven Cities of this golden land; he didn't Cibola |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | FUN WITH DINOSAURS $1600: This 3-horned plant-eater's 10-foot-long head is said to be the largest ever possessed by a land animal a Triceratops |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP MOSES $2000: As the rest of the Jews entered the promised land, Moses died aged about 120 on this mount Mount Nebo |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A poetic numerical lantern request by Paul Revere morphs into a shelled animal like the loggerhead one if by land, two if by sea turtle |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THAT TITLE IS TAKEN $400: T.S. Eliot's poem title this "land" comes from Jessie L. Weston's "From Ritual to Romance" The Waste Land |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | THE "ANTI"-CATEGORY $800: A 1997 treaty banned this type of land mine, used against people rather than mechanized vehicles anti-personnel |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | CLIFF NOTES $800: A crash landing in the Himalayas sets the stage for this James Hilton tale of a fabled land Lost Horizon |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | RALLY TO THE CAUSE $400: It's to free this land invaded by China in 1950 Tibet |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | FASTER $400: Driving the Thrust SSC, Andy Green broke the land-speed record going 763 mph at Black Rock Desert in this state Nevada |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | I HEAR BANJOS $800: This banjo-heavy minstrel show favorite became the South's unofficial anthem during the Civil War "Dixie" |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $400: This Steinbeck novel title comes from Genesis; Cain went there, to the land of Nod, after the murder East of Eden |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | ST. PAUL-Y GIRL $400: Former St. Paul teacher Ann Bancroft is the first woman to reach both these extremes by land the North and South Poles |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NOVEL LIST $800: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress",
"Stranger in a Strange Land" Heinlein |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | FISH $3,000 (Daily Double): Thao, help me land this one! A 10-foot, 660-pound catfish unique to this longest river of southeast Asia the Mekong |
| #5646, aired 2009-03-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: The Princess Ragnhild Coast is part of this Antarctic land named for a Norwegian queen Queen Maud Land |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | THEME PARK FUN $200: Jungala is the newest land at the Busch Gardens park inspired by this continent Africa |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: "In Exile from the Land of Snows" is "The Definitive Account of" him & "Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest" the Dalai Lama |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | NATIONAL PARKS $400: This 18-mile-wide national park in Arizona is considered one of the world's finest examples of arid-land erosion the Grand Canyon |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | "OAK" LAND $1600: Samuel Woodworth wrote a beloved poem about "The Old" this object "which hung in the well" the oaken bucket |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | "OAK" LAND $2000: Connecticut has this specific tree on its state quarter the Charter Oak |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | HEAVY EQUIPMENT $800: Used in this industry, an excavator made by Krupp is the largest land vehicle ever created (strip) mining |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | PASS THE TURKEY $800: Turkey's longest land border is with this Arab neighbor to its south Syria |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | JUNIOR SAMPLES $1200: This philanthropist donated the land on which the U.N. headquarters was built in New York City John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1600: Until Moses had 'em hit the road, it was the land o' the Israelites in Egypt Goshen |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | DAYS OF CREATION $800: On the fourth day God created the greater & lesser lights to rule over these 2 things day & night |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR $800: (U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne delivers the clue.) The Interior Department is the steward for about 1/5 of the USA, including 262 million acres under the supervision of this bureau the Bureau of Land Management |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | GEOLOGIC TIME $2000: The supercontinent called this land was the southern part of the Paleozoic landmass Pangaea Gondwanaland |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | WHAT THE "H"? $600: Hopefully this cozy Kansas state song from around 1873 is about a dwelling on open land, not on a stove "Home On The Range" |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | SCOTT LAND $400: He was the fourth American in space, if you don't count the chimps Scott Carpenter |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the SEAL emblem at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) On the Navy SEAL emblem, the anchor, eagle & pistol stand for sea, air & land, & this weapon represents all 3, & is also the name fo the emblem itself a trident |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | I KNOW THAT SONG $800: Song that starts, "When the night has come / and the land is dark / and the moon is the only light we'll see" "Stand By Me" |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | TV LAND'S 100 GREATEST QUOTES $400: No. 58:
"Elizabeth, I'm coming" (Fred) Sanford |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | TV LAND'S 100 GREATEST QUOTES $1200: No. 24:
"De plane!
De plane!" Tattoo |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | CASING YOUR STATE $600: Don't go nuclear on us, but the federal government owns about 85% of this state's land Nevada |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | SCIENTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Augustin-Jean Fresnel used this treatment of light to make new lighthouse lenses; Edwin Land built a company on it polarization |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | CAT SKILLS $800: Eating almost 3,000 kilos of meat a year, this cat is the largest land mammal with an all-meat diet a tiger |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | ATLAS $800: In myth Atlas is said to be the first of 10 kings of this legendary land Atlantis |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE $1600: The rally cry of the Americans during the fight was "Millions for" this "but not one cent for tribute!" defense |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER $800: In words written for the "Pomp and Circumstance" march, Britain is the "land of hope and" this glory |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | NAME THE NOVEL $1000: 1961:
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger In A Strange Land |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ALL MY SONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Egypt is sometimes called the land of this fertile son of Noah Ham |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): The land of Canaan is described as "flowing with" these 2 items mentioned some 20 times in the Bible milk & honey |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | NO, I'M GOING TO THE ZOO $1200: Seen here is the desert variety of this, a word referring only to land-dwelling animals a tortoise |
| #5386, aired 2008-01-28 | SPANNING THE GLOBE $600: Made from fermented cabbage, radishes, red peppers & spices, kimchi is the national dish of this land Korea |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | O CANADA $800: Its name is the French form of the Algonquin word for "where the river narrows", a reference to the St. Lawrence Quebec |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | 1997 $2,000 (Daily Double): James Fenimore Cooper would like this spacecraft that became the first to land on Mars in over 20 years Pathfinder |
| #5315, aired 2007-10-19 | AMERICANA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1995 this "Land of Opportunity" got a new official nickname, "The Natural State" Arkansas |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | WORLD FLAGS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads the clue.) Behind the coat of arms on Portugal's flag is a navigational tool; in 1816, it was also on the flag of this other land Brazil |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | WHERE AM I? $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands before a giant enclosed water tank.) I'm in the 434-acre research park of this Texas school that's as proud of being a sea, space & land-grant university as it is of its Aggies teams Texas A&M |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | CONTINENTAL DRIFTING $2,500 (Daily Double): The equator stretches across more land mass on this continent than any other Africa |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | CANADIAN HISTORY $200: In 1778 James Cook became the first European to land on this island, the largest on Canada's west coast Vancouver Island |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | TV LAND'S TOP QUOTES $400: "Heeere's Johnny!" Ed McMahon |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | A LIFE OF "ESE" $2000: It's the element whose symbol is the postal abbreviation for the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" manganese |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | "T" TIME $1200: This "Land of the Hummingbird" is 20 miles from Trinidad Tobago |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | EYE ON ASIA $800: Some think the floor of what's now the Arafura Sea was once a land bridge between Asia & this continent Australia |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | WHERE ART THOU? $2000: Chillin' with the Israelites in the Land o' this, a section of lower Egypt where they lived as captives Goshen |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | WORDS IN AMERICA $400: You may note America is, according to Rev. Samuel Smith, the "land where my fathers" did this died |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | THE "PROM" $2000: This is a high point of land projecting beyond the line of the coast a promontory |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | FROM A TO Y $400: Washington Irving said this type of dollar is "that great object of universal devotion throughout our land" the almighty |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | UNITING THE STATES & CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): The "Land Of Enchantment" state hooks up with South Carolina's capital; enjoy... New Mexicolumbia |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: "The Lord is waiting to take your hand, shout" this, "c'mon get happy, we're going to the promised land" hallelujah |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | LAND ANIMALS $400: There's a regular & a pygmy type of this primate that makes sponges of leaves and termite "fishing rods" of sticks the chimpanzee |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | LAND ANIMALS $1600: Because of its defensive posture, the lizard seen here is named for this creature armadillo |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | LAND ANIMALS $2000: Du du this animal that you du so well kudu |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | ANIMATED MOVIES $1600: This 1988 film is seen thorugh the eyes of Littlefoot, a baby Brontosaurus The Land Before Time |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | TALES OF E.T.A. HOFFMANN $1600: In "The Golden Pot", Anselmus in Dresden is lured to this mythical land some believe was under the sea Atlantis |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | OEDIPUS $1600: Young Oedipus was abandoned & then adopted by the king of this land to which St. Paul wrote 2 epistles Corinth |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | PUT ME IN, COACH! $600: Coach, we need rebounds. I can lead us to the promised land like this Hall of Fame Rockets & Sixers center Moses Malone |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This state capital lies on a narrow strip of land between the Gastineau Channel & the slopes of 2 mountains Juneau, Alaska |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | ANCIENT TIMES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Nile in Egypt.) The mud deposited by the Nile made ancient Egypt "kemet", black land; the desert was "deshret", meaning this red land |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | GEOLOGY $1200: This "table" is the saturated area of bedrock; it tends to follow the contours of the land the water table |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | BABY YOU CAN MAKE MY CAR $800: What is the "Matrix"? Let's hop in this company's "Land Cruiser" & find out Toyota |
| #5006, aired 2006-05-22 | THE GOOD BOOK $400: Jeremiah asks, "Is there no balm in" this land? Gilead |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: Until 1974 much of the land in this capital belonged to Haile Selassie's family, members of the nobility & the National Church Addis Ababa |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | QUOTATIONS $2000: From Ft. Sill, Okla. he made the plea, "Arizona is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to... return" Geronimo |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | HERBS & SPICES $2000: Plants producing this spice in England came from a crocus bulb smuggled from the Holy Land in the 14th century saffron |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | YOU BOT IT $600: The humanoid robot Asimo performs some John Travolta dance moves in this Disneyland "land" Tomorrowland |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | GEOGRAPHIC HORSE RACE $1600: On the rail it's "Famished" from this Eur. country that lost 2/3 of its land after WWI but regained its independence Hungary |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | ON ROUTE 66 $800: When Armenian king Tigran II was defeated in 66 B.C., his land became part of this empire the Roman Empire |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | FANTASY NOVELS $2000: Roger Zelazny is known for the series of novels based on this land that shares its name with fossilized resin Amber |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $800: In January 1773 this British sea captain crossed the Antarctic Circle but never sighted land Captain Cook |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | WORLD AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Turgenev regarded this author of "The Cossacks" as the "great author of the Russian land" Tolstoy |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $2000: This capital was once the government seat of a British colony called Van Diemen's Land Hobart |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $2000: Part I of this Willa Cather novel is called "The Wild Land"; Part II is "Neighboring Fields" O Pioneers! |
| #4909, aired 2006-01-05 | LITERARY ROCK & ROLL $1200: He's the actor & director heard here singing a song inspired by "The Hobbit"
"In the middle of the earth, in the land of the shire /
Lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire /
With his long wooden pipe, his fuzzy, woolly toes /
He lives in a hobbit-hole and everybody knows him..." Leonard Nimoy |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | THE APPLE OF MY EYE $800: "Take off" & "land" information wirelessly with this Apple WiFi device Airport (Express) |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | CHICAGO $800: In 1890 this department store founder donated the land for the University of Chicago Marshall Field |
| #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 |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | I GOT 3 As, MOM! $2000: Any land of promise, it's the Biblical name of Palestine Canaan |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT $600: There's no free land from the BLM; this practice enshrined in an 1862 law was abolished in 1976 homesteading |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): Of the lower 48, this state has the most land under exclusive BLM jurisdiction, more than 75,000 square miles Nevada |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT $1000: The BLM administers Escalante National Monument, including "No Man's" this formation Mesa |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Australia is home to 2 egg-laying mammals, or monotremes: the spiny anteater & this one the platypus |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1200: Australia's tallest building is the 823-foot high Rialto Towers in this former capital Melbourne |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | MEET THE FOLKERS $200: His original lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" mention the relief office & people who stood hungry (Woody) Guthrie |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Old North Church.) On April 18, 1775 North Church sexton Robert Newman climbed into the steeple to use the code famously known by this 9-word phrase one if by land and two if by sea |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT STUFF $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Robie House in Chicago, IL.) Part of Robie House is called by this term for the front of a ship--the house looked to some like a ship set on land prow |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | ISTHMUS IN MAY $1600: The Karelian Isthmus is a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and this gulf the Gulf of Finland |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: This place of pirates & Lost Boys adds Alaska's nickname & is home to the leader of jazz' Solar Arkestra the Never Never Land of the Midnight Sun Ra |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | "M" PLACEMENT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from San Diego, CA with the U.S.S. Tarawa in the background.) As an amphibious assault ship, the Tarawa's main mission is to land up to 2,000 of these service members on shore & to sustain them there Marines |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | MY FANTASY WRITER TEAM $2000: Xanth is a land created by this writer, & if you say his first & last name you'll hear "Xanth" in the middle Piers Anthony |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | OFFICIAL ALASKAN STATE STUFF $400: Alaska's state land mammal is this antlered critter that can reach 7 feet tall & 2,000 pounds the moose |
| #4744, aired 2005-03-31 | OH, A WEISS GUY, EH? $400: A 3-time U.S. champion, Michael Weiss is the first American to land a quad toe loop in competition in this sport figure skating |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: 5-word "monthly" statement that begins "The Waste Land" April is the cruelest month |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | THE REEL WORLD $600 (Daily Double): The title of this 2002 film refers to Orthanc, which is in Isengard, & Barad-dur, in the dark land of Mordor (The Lord of the Rings:) The Two Towers |
| #4672, aired 2004-12-21 | "G" FORCE $800: Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost land in the world, is the northernmost tip of this island Greenland |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE LIBERTY BELL $400: The quote on the bell, "proclaim liberty throughout all the land", comes from this third book of the Bible Leviticus |
| #4656, aired 2004-11-29 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $1200: "The Tender Land" is a 1954 opera by this "Appalachian Spring" composer Copland |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ASIA $6,200 (Daily Double): If you plan to walk from Beijing to Ulan Bator, take lots of water, as you'll be crossing this land region the Gobi Desert |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | LAND O' LAKES $1200: About 116 square miles in area, Moosehead is the largest lake in this "Pine Tree State" Maine |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | FISHING FOR VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land large fish a gaff |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | MISHMASH $1600: Oaxaca is "the land of 7" of these rich sauces, including the negro & verde types molés |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | STATE NICKNAME FUN $600: A ride at the Albuquerque Int'l Balloon Fiesta might show you why New Mexico is the "land of" this Enchantment |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | PLAINS $600: This plain of Tanzania is the place in Africa where vast land migrations of animals still take place the Serengeti |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $600: The melody of its anthem, "Land der Berge, Land am Strome", was incorrectly attributed to Mozart Austria |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | GOBS OF GODS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii) This goddess, the woman who devours the land, is said to reside here in a crater on the Big Island Pele |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | THE STRANGER $1000: A Martian named Valentine Michael Smith is the main character in this man's "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert Heinlein |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Almost 70% of Denmark's land is on this peninsula; islands account for the rest Jutland |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | THEY EAT THAT? $2000: This spread that's from the Land Down Under & in the song "Down Under" is definitely an acquired taste Vegemite |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | TEENS IN BOOKS $1200: "This Vast Land" is the fictional diary of 19-year old George Shannon, a real member of this duo's corps of discovery Lewis & Clark |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | "B" PLUS $800: The cash or land someone left you in his will a bequest |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: You'd have a whale of a good time visiting this Massachusetts island whose name may mean "the faraway land" Nantucket |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | BELOVED POEMS $800: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!" soul |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | NOSE WEEK $200: The name of this large land creature is from the Greek for "nose-horned" rhinoceros |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $600: Greenland has the same national anthem ("Der er et Yndigt Land") as this country Denmark |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | BIBLICAL RHYME TIME $1600: Calamine & Jergens from the "land" where the Hebrews began the Exodus Goshen's lotions |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | "SOUTH"ERN SITES $1000: Because the Earth is an oblate ellipsoid, this location on land is closest to the center of the Earth the South Pole |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $3,600 (Daily Double): The Bureau of Land Management is part of this cabinet department Department of the Interior |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | ASIA $2000: This valley makes up about 40% of Lebanon's arable land Bekaa Valley |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | BRITISH LIT $1000: It's J.G. Ballard's saga of a British boy separated from his parents & interned in a Japanese prison camp during WWII Empire of the Sun |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | ON THE PHONE $1000: Dude, your mobile phone is, like, so bad; call me back on this alliterative term a land line |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi guaranteed the Maori rights to this country's land in return for British sovereignty New Zealand |
| #4264, aired 2003-02-27 | THE ARMED FORCES $2,000 (Daily Double): A Navy SEAL can tell you that SEAL is an acronym for these 3 words sea, air & land |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | EXPLORERS $800: Bartolomeu Dias, the 1st to land at the Cape of Good Hope, outfitted this man's ships for his 1497-99 India trip Vasco da Gama |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | RANKS & MEASURES $200: In the U.S. this document is the highest law in the land the Constitution |
| #4202, aired 2002-12-03 | MOUNTAINS $1000: According to the Bible, Moses saw the Promised Land from this mountain in Jordan's Pisgah Range Mount Nebo |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $400: With nearly 590,000 square miles of land, this state is about 487 times larger than Rhode Island Alaska |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | GRAB BAG $400: The name of this sea is Latin for "in the middle of land" Mediterranean |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | MAN, OH MAN! $400: The presidency of this man who's on a U.S. bill is marked by the Tripolitan War & a large land purchase Thomas Jefferson |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | OCEAN LIFE $400: The manatee is distantly related to this land mammal that also uses its snout to push food into its mouth elephant |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $2,000 (Daily Double): This poem is set "in the Acadian land, on the shores of the basin of Minas" Evangeline |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $1200: Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln", but the birthplace of Lincoln is this state just to the south Kentucky |
| #4141, aired 2002-09-09 | OH, HELL! $2000: In "Paradise Lost", this "Prince of Devils" is a chief lord of the land down under, second only to Satan Beelzebub |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | STATE MOTTOES $400: An archipelago:
"The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness" Hawaii |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | MILITARY MATTERS $1200: This peninsular Asian nation is the only place where the U.S. continues to deploy non-self-destructing land mines South Korea |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | OF THE FISHERMAN $600: No mistake, a gaff is a large one of these on a handle used to help land large fish a hook |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: The U.S. state known as the "Land of Shining Mountains" borders this country Canada (the state is Montana) |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | MILLION $1200: The "3 Million Bill" passed by Congress in 1847 appropriated $3 million for the purchase of land from this country Mexico |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | '60s TV $800: The crew of the Spindrift crashed on a strange world & found themselves in the "Land of" these the Giants |
| #4063, aired 2002-04-10 | GEOGRAPHIC "LAND"S $200: This state is divided into 2 parts by Chesapeake Bay & the Susquehanna river, which flows into it Maryland |
| #4063, aired 2002-04-10 | GEOGRAPHIC "LAND"S $800: The city of St. John's is the center of this Canadian province's only metropolitan area Newfoundland |
| #4063, aired 2002-04-10 | GEOGRAPHIC "LAND"S $1,200 (Daily Double): In this south African kingdom, the king's mother is in charge of national rituals Swaziland |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | IN A STRANGE LAND $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew wears a hat.) My hat is part of the national dress of this United Kingdom country Scotland |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | IN A STRANGE LAND $1200: Milan Kucan is the president of this former Yugoslav republic wedged between Croatia & Italy Slovenia |
| #4050, aired 2002-03-22 | IN A STRANGE LAND $2000: This landlocked country of Southern Africa is called the "Kingdom in the Sky" by its citizens Lesotho |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | FLIES $200: The largest land animal native to this continent is a small wingless fly Antarctica |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND $400: Punjabis are the largest group in this country just east of Afghanistan Pakistan |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND $2,000 (Daily Double): 1 of the 3 former Soviet republics where the Balts live Latvia (or Lithuania or Estonia) |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: The Cheshire version of this land measure is larger than the standard 45,360 square feet acre |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | "THOU" $800: Myriad means this number, so that means Minnesota is the land of a myriad of lakes ten thousand |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | U.S. STATES $600: Containing over 75 percent of the U.S. land over 10,000 feet, this is the state with the highest mean elevation Colorado |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SAILOR TALK $200: Can't handle life on board? Don't have your sea legs? The others may call you a land-this lubber |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: Cape York on Cape York Peninsula in this state is the Australian mainland's northern-most point Queensland |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | TAKE A GANDER AT UGANDA $800: The vast majority of this land of Uganda is drained by the headwaters of this large river the (White) Nile |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | LAND OF THE PYRAMIDS $800: Little is known of the builders of the pyramids of the sun & moon at Teutihuacan in this country Mexico |
| #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 |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is outside the U.N. building.) The land the U.N. complex is built on was donated by this wealthy businessman John D. Rockefeller |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $200: (Hi, I'm Elisabeth Filarski from Survivor.) If you watched "Survivor", you know that this sparsely settled interior is known by this 7-letter word the Outback |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $400: This island state is sometimes called the "Apple Isle" because it once produced most of Australia's apples Tasmania |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | THE LAND OF OZ $600: This constellation is depicted on Australia's flag Southern Cross |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE $100: "Sweet land of liberty"--this is the country where democracy originated Greece |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THEE $400: "Land of the Pilgrims' pride"--although this country is not named after the Thanksgiving bird Turkey |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | THE GOOD BOOK $400: Moses begged to "Go over and see the good land that is beyond" this river the River Jordan |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | JUST PLANE GEOMETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): The word geometry means to "measure" this the world, the earth (the land) |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $800: A little thorn bird told us that before she took up writing, she was a neurophysiologist (Colleen) McCullough |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: This character seen here is played by Barry Humphries Dame Edna (Everage) |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | EXPLORATION $200: Fridtjof Nansen didn't know if this was on land or in mid-ocean, but he really, really wanted to reach it the North Pole |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): The French called a land formation La Petite Roche, thus giving this capital its name Little Rock |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY $400: Cardiological term often used for the distance the vice president is "away" from the most powerful office in the land heartbeat |
| #3825, aired 2001-03-30 | BHUTAN OR BUST! $400: As evidenced here by its flag, Bhutan is known as the "Land of" this The dragon |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | GEOLOGY $400: Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one accounts for about 75% of all the exposed rocks on land Sedimentary |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND $100: The Golden Gate Bridge is found in this state California |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND $200: You'll find this "Great" 1,700-square-mile body of water in northwest Utah the Great Salt Lake |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND $300: Of the 4 presidents pictured here [rest of clue unavailable] ----------------------------------- |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND $400: Of Pittsburgh, Cleveland & Detroit, the city that's farthest east Pittsburgh |
| #3757, aired 2000-12-26 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND $500: This U.S. island of the north Pacific with a 4-letter name is only about 30 miles long & 8 miles wide Guam |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): Moses couldn't enter the promised land after striking this to produce water instead of speaking to it rock |
| #3701, aired 2000-10-09 | OCEANS $2,000 (Daily Double): This surface current is mentioned in the chorus of "This Land is Your Land" Gulfstream (waters) |
| #3693, aired 2000-09-27 | OF MANY "LAND"s $1000: One once spanned what is now the Bering Strait a land bridge |
| #3679, aired 2000-09-07 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: Claude Brown's best-known work is the 1965 autobiography "Manchild in" this place the Promised Land |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $800 (Daily Double): One of the 3 mottos that have been featured on regular Alaskan license plates "The Last Frontier", "The Great Land", or "North to the Future" |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | AMERICAN INVENTIONS $400: On Feb. 21, 1947 Edwin Land demonstrated one of these to the Optical Society of America Polaroid/instant camera |
| #3642, aired 2000-06-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $500: If you wear your DKNY to the DPRK, you'll be well dressed in this east Asian land North Korea |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | THE WRITS $800: Land can be transferred with a writ of this, which we guess is 9/10 of a writ of law possession |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $600: Citizens of this mountainous nation of the Balkans refer to it as Shqiperia or "Land of the Eagles" Albania |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | HORNS $300: All species of this large land creature, whose name is from the Greek for "nose-horned", are nearly extinct Rhinoceros |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | TOUGH STUFF $1000: Translated as “Land of the Kings”, this state is home to India’s nuclear test sites & the world’s largest camel fair Rajasthan |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | NOVEL SETTINGS $200: Mildendo, the metropolis of this land Gulliver traveled to, is surrounded by a wall just 2 1/2 feet high Lilliput |
| #3545, aired 2000-01-21 | BLAST OFF! $400: On April 14, 1981 this shuttle commanded by John Young was the first manned U.S. spacecraft to land on land Columbia |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: In a Chekhov play, Mme. Ranevsky is the owner of this title area of land "The Cherry Orchard" |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | HIPPOS $300: This part of a hippo's body is the largest of any land animal's the mouth |
| #3495, aired 1999-11-12 | BRITTANY $1000: The name of the Finistere region, which juts into the Atlantic, comes from Latin meaning this Land's end |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS! $300: The largest bird in the world, this one, seen here, is also the fastest on land Ostrich |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | NAME THE NOVEL $100: "And this is what ye have shipped for, men! To chase that white whale on both sides of land" Moby-Dick |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | "GRANT"s & "LEE"s $1000: The bill creating these colleges was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln land grant colleges |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $800: From Joseph to Moses, the Israelites lived in the Land o' this, a part of Egypt Goshen |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This 1803 land acquisition included area in what is now 13 of the 50 states the Louisiana Purchase |
| #3424, aired 1999-06-24 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $300: The Enchanted Circle is a scenic drive in this state, the "Land of Enchantment" New Mexico |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | CANDY LAND $400: Don't let it slip, but this "Crispy Crunchety Peanut Butter Candy Bar" from Nestle is a favorite of the Simpsons Butterfinger |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | CANDY LAND $600: Charlie says this licorice-flavored candy, around since 1893, is probably the oldest candy brand in the U.S. Good & Plenty |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | COSMOPOLITAN $300: The equator crosses more land in this South American nation than any other Brazil |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | RUSSIAN "T" ROOM $400: The taiga is the forest land of Russia & this is its nearly treeless northern belt Tundra |
| #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) |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS $400: The scrolls tell of life in the Holy Land during the time of the second of these, destroyed in 70 A.D. the Second Temple |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | BIG RIVER $1,000 (Daily Double): As Germany has the Rhineland, you'd expect this country to have the "Po-Land" Italy |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | 1776 $1,500 (Daily Double): This Scottish economist theorized that labor, not land, is the main source of wealth Adam Smith |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | LEIGH-ANNE TOURS L.A. $100: Leigh-Anne's favorite lunch, it's the specialty of this restaurant seen here hot dog |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | LANGUAGES $200: The Finnish national anthem, "Our Land", is "Maame" in Finnish & "Vart Land" in this other official language Swedish |
| #3221, aired 1998-09-14 | A PIECE OF CAKE $100: A traditional Jewish cake is made with this sweet treat, milk's partner in the Promised Land Honey |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE FICTIONAL LAND OF OZ $100: This paving material of the road to the Emerald City is in need of repairs Yellow brick |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE FICTIONAL LAND OF OZ $200: The "Wizard" of Oz is from Omaha, Nebraska, not far from this state where Dorothy lives Kansas |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE REAL LAND OF OZ $200: In Australian idiom a "station" is one of these places where sheep are often found Ranch |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE REAL LAND OF OZ $300: It's played on a field up to 200 yards long with 4 posts at each end Australian Rules Football |
| #3184, aired 1998-06-04 | THE FICTIONAL LAND OF OZ $400: Part of Oz is populated by breakable people made of this, also the name of a real country China |
| #3152, aired 1998-04-21 | LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $1,500 (Daily Double): "Santa Filomena", about this woman, states: "A lady with a lamp shall stand in the great history of the land" Florence Nightingale |
| #3119, aired 1998-03-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This country could call itself the land of 60,000 lakes including Puulavesi & Saimaa Finland |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | WE'RE MALAYSIA-BOUND $800: The states of Sarawak & Sabah on this island make up about 6% of Malaysia's land area Borneo |
| #3024, aired 1997-10-23 | UNREAL ESTATE $100: It's the land where the Emerald City is located Oz |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | FAMOUS 17th CENTURY NAMES $400: This Dutch explorer discovered & named Van Diemen's Land, an island now named for him Abel Tasman |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | EXPLORERS $500: His family friend Tyrker found vines & grapes in the new land, so he called the area Vinland Leif Ericson |
| #3004, aired 1997-09-25 | LAND FORMATIONS $400: From the Latin for "almost an island", Florida is one a peninsula |
| #2983, aired 1997-07-16 | ZOOLOGY $800: Standing about 4 1/2 feet tall, the Sumatran is the smallest species of this large, horned land mammal Rhinoceros |
| #2951, aired 1997-06-02 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $1000: The Incas called their area Tawantinsuyu, The Land of the 4 Quarters, with this Peruvian city as its center Cuzco |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | BIRDS $100: Able to run up to 40 MPH, this largest flightless bird is the world's fastest bird on land Ostrich |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | GEOGRAPHY $300 (Daily Double): The name of this country on Hispaniola is from an Indian word meaning "Land of Mountains" Haiti |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | SPORTS $300: In 1976 a yacht named "Midnight at the Oasis" set a speed record of 88.4 mph on this surface land (a dry lake bed) |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: This European grand duchy has 2 distinct land regions: the Ardennes & the Bon Pays Luxembourg |
| #2886, aired 1997-03-03 | HORSE HODGEPODGE $100: This tall bird is the only living land animal that has larger eyes than the horse Ostrich |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | U.S. AGENCIES $400: In 1940 the Bureau of Fisheries & the Bureau of Biological Survey merged & became this Fish and Wildlife Service |
| #2867, aired 1997-02-04 | ICELAND $400: The only land mammal native to Iceland is the Arctic type of this vulpine animal Fox |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | DOUBLE "P" WORDS $400: It "knocks but once" & Arkansas is the "Land Of" it Opportunity |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | OPERA $400: Douglas Moore's 1951 opera "Giants In" this is an adaptation of the novel by Ole E. Rolvaag The Earth |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | GOOD THINKING $300: After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera Edwin Land |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | PUERTO RICO $500: Puerto Rico is sometimes called the "Island Of" this; New Mexico is the "Land Of" it Enchantment |
| #2846, aired 1997-01-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: About 65% of the Philippines' total land area is divided between Luzon & this island Mindanao |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | THE 50 STATES $200: The name of this state is from an Aleut word meaning "Great Land" Alaska |
| #2830, aired 1996-12-13 | THE CABINET $800: The Bureau of Mines is part of this department Department of the Interior |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | U.S. STATES $300: It's known as "The Land Where the Tall Corn Grows" Iowa |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | ANIMALS $100: The largest of the seals is named for this largest land animal the elephant |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | CARNIVORES $200: Weighing up to 1700 pounds, the Alaskan brown species of this animal is the world's largest land carnivore a bear |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | CARNIVORES $400: Although confined mostly to Africa, this fastest land animal can also be found in Iran & Afghanistan the cheetah |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Iraklion is the chief port on this land, the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Crete |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The lowest land point on Earth is the shore of this body of water Dead Sea |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): The Judeo-Galilean Highlands are one of four major land divisions of this country Israel |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Iowa is nicknamed "The Land Between Two Rivers" because it lies between this mighty pair the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers |
| #2666, aired 1996-03-18 | STATE MOTTOES $400 (Daily Double): Word that's the motto of Texas & the title of the following:
"If you're ever in a jam, here I am. / If you ever need a pal, I'm your gal. / If you ever feel so happy, you'll land in jail." "Friendship" |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $400: The modern term for this area on the east coast of the Mediterranean is from the ancient "Land of the Philistines" Palestine |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ZOOLOGY $400: The Indian is the largest Asian species of this "nose-horned" land mammal the rhino |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | POETRY $800: This Eliot poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | AMERICANA $600: In 1923 this state adopted the nickname "The Wonder State"; in 1953 it became the "Land of Opportunity" Arkansas |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | WORLD RELIGIONS $800: Ching tu or "pure land" is one of the most influential forms of the Mahayana branch of this faith Buddhism |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: The largest land gorge is this one on the Colorado River Grand Canyon |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $500: Claudius took elephants when he invaded this island land in 43 A.D. Britain |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | OPERA $600: Set on a Midwest farm, "The Tender Land" is a 1954 opera by this composer of the ballet "Rodeo" Aaron Copland |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: The Baum Bugle is a newsletter published by devotees of this fictional land Oz |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | MAMMALS $200: Oddly, one of this largest land mammal's closest relatives is the small, rabbitlike hyrax the elephant |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | OCCUPATIONS $500: Often employed by the government, they establish land & water boundaries & compile data for mapmakers surveyors |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | STATES OF INDIA $800: The area of Uttar Pradesh is the land of the 2 great Indian epics, the Ramayana & this the Mahabharata |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | "L"s ON THE MAP $800: Much of what is now this country was once the kingdom of Lan Xang, or "Land of a Million Elephants" Laos |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | ANIMALS $400: The Galapagos Islands are home to 2 species of this large lizard: land & marine the iguana |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Lhasa is the capital & largest city of this land often called the "Roof of the World" Tibet |
| #2403, aired 1995-02-01 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: This Ithaca, New York school is the only private land-grant university Cornell |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $600: The anthem of this country led by Kim Jong Il is "Let Morning Shine On The Silver And Gold Of This Land" North Korea |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $600: The land of Nod is mentioned only once, as the place of his self-imposed exile Cain |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THE HOLY LAND $200: Though the Holy Land's borders are indistinct, its western edge is largely provided by this sea the Mediterranean |
| #2364, aired 1994-12-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: This country's most populous land region is Walachia, which borders the Danube River in the south Romania |
| #2361, aired 1994-12-05 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Only 1% of the land of this country between Russia & China is arable Mongolia |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $200: While Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln", this state is his birthplace Kentucky |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | LITERATURE $400: Part I of this Willa Cather novel is entitled "The Wild Land" O Pioneers! |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $1000: To land a female role in a soap opera, Michael Dorsey assumes this identity in "Tootsie" Dorothy Michaels |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | LEGENDS OF THE WORLD $600: In Norse myth Niflheim is a land of ice & Muspellsheim is a land of this fire |
| #2291, aired 1994-07-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: In its official language, this small Balkan country's name means "the land of the eagle" Albania |
| #2229, aired 1994-04-21 | WORLD FLAGS $100: First clue there is this flag Japan |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: The Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway offers enchanting views of this state, the "Land of Enchantment" New Mexico |
| #2209, aired 1994-03-24 | MICKEY'S TOONTOWN $100: Mickey's Toontown is the first all-new Land to open in this theme park in more than 20 years Disneyland |
| #2204, aired 1994-03-17 | MAMMALS $1000: This species of bear is the largest land carnivore the Kodiak |
| #2184, aired 1994-02-17 | ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): The island of Isabela constitutes more than half of the land area of this Ecuadorean archipelago the Galapagos Islands |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | NEW MEXICO $200: For its scenic beauty & rich history, New Mexico is nicknamed the "Land of" this Land of Enchantment |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | MAMMALS $3,000 (Daily Double): The 90-pound calf of this land mammal is sometimes born underwater the Hippo |
| #2112, aired 1993-11-09 | U.S.A. $200: In the 1870s there were "rushes into the South Dakota area for land & for this gold |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | LAND OF ____ $600: Norway & Alaska are each known as the "Land of" this the Midnight Sun |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | LAND OF ____ $1000: A nickname for Minnesota, or the source of Hamm's beer The Land of Sky Blue Waters |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | PHOTOGRAPHY $500: In 1888 he developed the first camera to use roll film (George) Eastman |
| #2084, aired 1993-09-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: A university in De Land, Florida is named for this 19th century maker of ten-gallon hats Stetson |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | JEOPARDY! STATE NICKNAMES $300: As Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln", this state could be the "Land of Jefferson" Virginia |
| #2051, aired 1993-07-05 | THE 50 STATES $600: This "Land of Enchantment" is the only state with English & Spanish as its official languages New Mexico |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | VOCABULARY $100: The name of this continent may come from the word Ereb, meaning “land of the setting sun” Europe |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | GEOGRAPHY $100: This sea whose name means "middle of land" is the world's largest inland sea the Mediterranean |
| #2007, aired 1993-05-04 | CONNECTIONS $300: The land bridge that connected Asia & North America is now covered by this strait the Bering Strait |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | HOOFED MAMMALS $200: Its mouth is the largest of any land mammal's the hippopotamus |
| #1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $300: The 1st paddle-wheeler built in half a century is the steamboat Mark Twain, found in this "land" Frontierland |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: It "is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land" April |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | DINOSAURS $200: Rex is the best-known species of this genus that includes the largest-ever land carnivore Tyrannosaurus |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | FOREIGN "LAND"s $1000: This northern European country's legislature is called the Eduskunta Finland |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: It's name is Persian for "Land of the Kurds" Kurdistan |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $300: Peary Land, one of the world's northernmost land regions, is a large, ice-free part of this island Greenland |
| #1853, aired 1992-09-30 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $500: After a dream, "Joseph took the young child & his mother & departed into" this land Egypt |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: This country's name is Urdu for "land of the pure" Pakistan |
| #1788, aired 1992-05-13 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: The ancient land of Nubia was located mostly in what is now this country, not far from Khartoum Sudan |
| #1774, aired 1992-04-23 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: This Spanish word was used to describe explorers such as Cortez who claimed land for Spain the conquistadors |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: This Rhode Island bay is named after the Indians who sold Roger Williams the land Narragansett |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | SOUTH AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): This windswept plateau whose name means "big feet" makes up over 1/4 of Argentina's land Patagonia |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | RIVERS $500: Punjab means "Land of the 5 Rivers", referring to the 5 rivers that empty into this one the Indus (River) |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Book 2 of this Leon Uris novel is titled "The Land is Mine" Exodus |
| #1720, aired 1992-02-07 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Bogota's airport is named for this fabled land the Spaniards were seeking El Dorado |
| #1719, aired 1992-02-06 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Edwin Land is the name behind Polaroid & he's the name behind Kodak George Eastman |
| #1719, aired 1992-02-06 | GEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Cape Dutch, it's a grassy African tract of land with few or no trees veldt |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | "RED", "WHITE" & "BLUE" $300: This New Mexico missile range is the largest all-land rocket testing range in the U.S. White Sands |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | LOS ANGELES $400: L.A.'s Century City district is built on land once part of this movie studio's back lot 20th Century |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | U.S. CITIES $200: The name of this West Central Indiana city is French for "high land" Terre Haute |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | LAFAYETTE $1000: The U.S. Congress granted him 11,520 acres of land in what is now this southern state Louisiana |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | 2—LETTER WORDS $100: Emerald City is the capital of this fictional land Oz |
| #1625, aired 1991-09-27 | "LAND" $400: In a photo finish, this inventor or the instant camera died in 1991 Edwin Land |
| #1624, aired 1991-09-26 | ISLANDS $200: The name of these South American islands is Spanish for "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $500: This rock, the most abundant on land, is a popular tombstone material granite |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | SOUTH DAKOTA $200: The land that is South Dakota was acquired by the U.S. in this 1803 deal the Louisiana Purchase |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | OLD TESTAMENT $300: "And the Lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out" him "upon the dry land" Jonah |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | IN THE DICTIONARY $300: This type of warfare is conducted by naval, air & land forces, not by toad as its name implies amphibious |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | WORLD FACTS $500: Known as the land of the thunder dragon, Bhutan is sandwiched between these 2 large countries India & China |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $500: Last name of brothers William & Richard, who led British land & sea forces respectively Howe |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | ROCK LYRICS $600 (Daily Double): It begins, "When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we'll see" "Stand By Me" |
| #1533, aired 1991-04-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: The site of Pawtucket is part of the land he purchased from the Narragansett Indians Roger Williams |
| #1522, aired 1991-03-26 | STATE TREES $1000: The pinon that bears edible nuts is the state tree of this "Land of Enchantment" New Mexico |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | U.S. STATES $200: Named for an Indian chief who helped the railroad get land, Pocatello is this state's 2nd-largest city Idaho |
| #1514, aired 1991-03-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: This region of Spain whose name is from the Arabic for "dry land" is dotted with windmills La Mancha |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | ISLANDS $200: No Man's Land, an island south of Martha's Vineyard, is the southernmost point of this state Massachusetts |
| #1496, aired 1991-02-18 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: 1/6 of the land in this U.S. national monument is below sea level Death Valley National Monument |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | THE BIBLE $400: This son of Adam built a city in the land of Nod & named it for his son Enoch Cain |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | BEAR FACTS $500: The largest living land carnivore, the Alaskan brown bear, is also known by this name Kodiak bear |
| #1437, aired 1990-11-27 | ISLANDS $200: Caribbean island whose name is from the Arawak Indian "xaymaca", meaning land of wood & water Jamaica |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | 8-LETTER STATES $500 (Daily Double): In this "Land of Opportunity", you might have an opportunity to see the Crater of Diamonds Arkansas |
| #1418, aired 1990-10-31 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" $400: The fastest-moving land snake is believed to be this venomous snake black mamba |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1000: The name of this neighbor to Mexico is Mayan from "land of many trees" Guatemala |
| #1412, aired 1990-10-23 | CANADA $1000: Because of Longfellow's poem, part of this province is nicknamed "Land of Evangeline" Nova Scotia |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: The title of this Erskine Caldwell novel refers to land whose income is supposed to go to the church God's Little Acre |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | U.S. TERRITORIES $200: Until 1979 a general of the U.S. Army governed this 10-mile wide strip of land the Panama Canal Zone |
| #5, aired 1990-07-14 | DESIGN $600: The Griffin originated as a design in this "land between two rivers" Mesopotamia |
| #1358, aired 1990-06-27 | GEOGRAPHY $100: Though only 146 square miles, this strip of land occupied by Israel since 1967 is often in the news Gaza Strip |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $300: Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost land in the world, is part of this island Greenland |
| #1308, aired 1990-04-18 | U.S. HISTORY $200: This cemetery on the Potomac is on land originally part of Martha Washington's estate Arlington National Cemetery |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $700 (Daily Double): "Dallas" actor heard here singing in a 1953 movie musical:
"Where is the light that's lit by land? Where is it now?" Howard Keel |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | HISTORY $200: The land the U.S. bought from Mexico in 1854 is known as his "Purchase" Gadsden |
| #1229, aired 1989-12-28 | ASTROLOGY $300: This sign is represented by an arachnid that may have been the 1st land animal Scorpio |
| #1180, aired 1989-10-20 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: A tiny wingless fly is the largest land animal native to this continent Antarctica |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The shore of this Israeli-Jordanian lake is the lowest point of land on Earth the Dead Sea |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | ASIA $200: The "stan" in Pakistan & Afghanistan is a Persian suffix meaning this land |
| #1131, aired 1989-07-03 | WEATHER $2,500 (Daily Double): Reason that Atlantic hurricanes usually last longer than Pacific hurricanes warmer water in the Atlantic |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Bermuda lies some 570 miles east of this U.S. state, the nearest point of land North Carolina |
| #1115, aired 1989-06-09 | ALASKA $400: This Alaskan variety of grizzly bear is one of the world's largest land carnivores Kodiak |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | THE MYSTERIOUS EAST $1000: While America is called the "Land of the Free", this nation's name means just that Thailand |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | GEOGRAPHIC WORLD RECORDS $100: The longest land gorge in the world is this one in Arizona Grand Canyon |
| #1091, aired 1989-05-08 | ANIMALS $100: The Bush species of this is the largest land mammal in the world an elephant |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | ARIZONA $1,300 (Daily Double): 27% of the land in Arizona is set aside for these, the highest percentage of any state Indian reservations |
| #1083, aired 1989-04-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: The A & M in Texas A & M & other land grant colleges stand for these two areas of study agriculture & mechanic arts |
| #1079, aired 1989-04-20 | THE BIBLE $700 (Daily Double): The "turtle" spoken of in "the voice of the turtle is heard in our land" refers to this bird a turtle dove |
| #1079, aired 1989-04-20 | TREES $1,500 (Daily Double): Type of tree mentioned in the chorus of the following song:
"As I went walking that ribbon of highway / I saw above me that endless skyway / I saw below me that golden valley..." a redwood |
| #1055, aired 1989-03-17 | 1889 $700 (Daily Double): 7 weeks after B. Harrison took office, the land rush officially began in what is now this state Oklahoma |
| #1050, aired 1989-03-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: A strip of land on the Mediterranean is named for this city where Samson brought down the house Gaza |
| #1033, aired 1989-02-15 | STATE NAMES $100: Literally, this Hoosier state is the "land of the Indians" Indiana |
| #1032, aired 1989-02-14 | SCI-FI MOVIES $1000: Kyle MacLachlan plays a futuristic Messiah in this 1986 film based on the novel by Frank Herbert Dune |
| #1026, aired 1989-02-06 | GUINNESS ANIMAL RECORDS $500: It's the slowest-moving land mammal, & its name is a synonym for laziness a sloth |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | MINNESOTA $200: The land that is now Minnesota became part of the U.S. as a result of this sale Louisiana Purchase |
| #1007, aired 1989-01-10 | WORLD HISTORY $400: During the 1917 revolution, this group's slogan was "Peace, Land & Bread" Bolsheviks |
| #992, aired 1988-12-20 | CALIFORNIA $400: At $35-45,000 per acre, the best grape growing land in this valley is the most expensive farm-land in the state Napa Valley |
| #965, aired 1988-11-11 | THE 50 STATES $200: All of the present District of Columbia is on land originally donated by this state Maryland |
| #964, aired 1988-11-10 | COLLEGES $800: This Ivy League school is the land grant college of New York State Cornell |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Of desert, swamp or forest, the type of land composing almost one third of the U.S. forest |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $300: The 2nd line of this beloved patriotic song is "land that I love" "God Bless America" |
| #922, aired 1988-09-13 | U.S. HISTORY $500: In 1681 this king gave William Penn almost all the land that is now Pennsylvania King Charles II |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | EUROPE $400: According to an old Dutch saying, "God created the world, but the Dutch" did this created Holland |
| #901, aired 1988-07-04 | LITERARY LOCATIONS $200: Everything is edible in the town of Bunbury, located in this land created by L. Frank Baum Oz |
| #879, aired 1988-06-02 | AIRPORTS $200: Though the planes land on paved runways, Lexington Kentucky's airport is named for this grass bluegrass |
| #872, aired 1988-05-24 | WORLD RELIGION $200: Lamaism is the form of Buddhism centered in this land Tibet |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: Funk & Wagnalls says the farthest east you'll find U.S desert land is in this state east of the Rockies Texas |
| #848, aired 1988-04-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Bombay, India is built on islands in this sea named for the land on its other shore Arabian Sea |
| #844, aired 1988-04-14 | U.S. HISTORY $200: The land rush in this territory began at noon April 22, 1889, but some started sooner Oklahoma |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | BODIES OF WATER $300: Latin for "in the middle of the land", this sea is almost entirely surrounded by land the Mediterranean |
| #824, aired 1988-03-17 | U.S. CITIES $400: The name of this Indiana city is French for "high land" Terre Haute |
| #806, aired 1988-02-22 | "COUNTRY" MUSIC $300: In the patriotic song, this title line precedes "Land of my birth", "grandest on earth" This is my country |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | NATIONAL NICKNAMES $300: The Land of Milk & Honey Palestine |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: After purchasing Manhattan for the Dutch, this man helped the Swedes buy land in what is now Delaware Peter Minuit |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | PREHISTORIC TIMES $200: Of land, sea, or air, the natural habitat of a trilobite sea |
| #783, aired 1988-01-20 | GOVERNMENT $600: The Bureau of Land Management is part of this Cabinet department the Department of Interior |
| #759, aired 1987-12-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: Of about 8, 11, or 16%, the % of U.S. land area that Alaska represents 16% |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | AFRICA $400: Of the 200 million acres of arable land in this largest African country, less than 15% is cultivated Sudan |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | AMERICAN REVOLUTION $1000: The last name of two brothers who, between 1776 and 1778, were in command of all British land and sea forces (William and Richard) Howe |
| #726, aired 1987-11-02 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1000: The legend of this lost land is related in Plato's "Timaeus" Atlantis |
| #719, aired 1987-10-22 | FAMOUS QUOTES $600 (Daily Double): Line from Scottish poet Robert Burns that's found in the following patriotic song:
"You’re a grand old flag /
You’re a high-flying flag /
And forever in peace may you wave /
You’re the emblem of /
The land I love /
The home of the free and the brave /
Every heart beats true /
‘Neath the red white and blue /
Where there’s never a boast or brag..." should auld acquaintance be forgot |
| #704, aired 1987-10-01 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $300: Some 20 times in the Bible, the land of Canaan is described as "flowing with" these milk & honey |
| #701, aired 1987-09-28 | ANTONYMS $600 (Daily Double): The famous lantern signal received by Paul Revere told him which of this antonym pair to expect land & sea (land & water) |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | EXPLORERS $400: Nikolai Przhevalsky is noted for the wild horses he found exploring this "Outer" Asian land Mongolia |
| #690, aired 1987-09-11 | CANADA $300: In terms of sheer land size, Canada ranks at this number among countries of the world 2nd |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | MISSISSIPPI $300: Over 55% of the land in Mississippi is covered by these forests |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | AMERICAN POETRY $600: "April is the cruelest month," begins "The Waste Land", his poem dedicated to Ezra Pound Thomas Eliot |
| #658, aired 1987-06-17 | U.S. STATES $900 (Daily Double): The 2 states mentioned in the chorus of "This Land is Your Land" California & New York |
| #647, aired 1987-06-02 | AMERICAN INDIANS $400: The land which became this NYC borough was obtained from the Canarsee Indians Brooklyn |
| #644, aired 1987-05-28 | U.S.A. $500: This "City o'Lakes", with 22 lakes inside city limits, is the largest in the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" Minneapolis |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | FOLK MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): The 3 things "I'd hammer out", "If I had a hammer" danger, warning & love |
| #642, aired 1987-05-26 | NORTH AFRICA $600: From French "Maures", it's name means "land of the Moors" Mauritania |
| #640, aired 1987-05-22 | ARTISTS $800: It was the native land of Marc Chagall Russia |
| #624, aired 1987-04-30 | FOOTBALL $100: In the U.S. a football field is a little larger than this common land measurement acre |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | SCIENCE $1000: The lithosphere & this together form the earth's surface hydrosphere |
| #620, aired 1987-04-24 | ANIMALS $100: An insect related to the housefly, but wingless, is the largest land animal native to this continent Antarctica |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | SAN FRANCISCO $100: San Francisco is accessible by land only from this direction the south |
| #606, aired 1987-04-06 | TRAINS $1000: 2% of the land in California is still owned by this railroad Southern Pacific |
| #605, aired 1987-04-03 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The number of continents whose land, masses lie primarily north of the Equator 4 |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | ISRAEL $200: While Israel is called "The land of milk & honey", World Book says this fruit is the major crop orange |
| #514, aired 1986-11-27 | MAMMALS $500: Among living land animals, this species is considered 2nd largest the rhinoceros |
| #509, aired 1986-11-20 | EXPLORERS $1000: This French explorer called the bleak coast of Labrador "the land God gave to Cain" Jacques Cartier |
| #482, aired 1986-10-14 | HOMOPHONES $800: Followed footprints through the forest, or a large expanse of land tracked/tract |
| #471, aired 1986-09-29 | U.S.A. $400: Of about 35, 50 or 75%, amount of U.S. population occupying the most densely settled 2.1% of the land 75 |
| #432, aired 1986-05-06 | WORLD HISTORY $400 (Daily Double): Now surrounded by the countries w/largest area & pop., this country once had the largest land empire ever Mongolia |
| #405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $500: They were only connected from 26,000-8000 B.C., which is why Am. human finds date back just 20,000 years the land bridge between North America and Asia |
| #404, aired 1986-03-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Called "greatest intellectual in land", this prolific Puritan penned 459 books, none of them "fleecy" Cotton Mather |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | ANIMAL TRIVIA $1,000 (Daily Double): The largest meat-eating land animals are native to this continent North America |
| #386, aired 1986-03-03 | FOOTBALL $300: Knute Rockne's native land Norway |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | "LAST" $1,000 (Daily Double): Unfortunately, this aptly titled 1975 song was 1st & only hit for Roger Whittaker:
There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine "The Last Farewell" |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | MINI-COUNTRIES $300: As co-sovereign of this Pyrenees land, the Bishop of Urgel, Spain is paid about $6.87 semi-annually Andorra |
| #369, aired 1986-02-06 | BRAZIL $100: Less than 1% of Brazil's land is devoted to producing this necessity of life food |
| #366, aired 1986-02-03 | U.S. LANDMARKS $200: The biblical quote "Proclaim liberty throughout the land" is inscribed upon it the Liberty Bell |
| #366, aired 1986-02-03 | THE CONTINENTS $500: Sometimes called "8th continent", it's collective name for some 200-300 thousand sq. land miles in the Pacific Oceania |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: It's the lowest land point in the entire Western Hemisphere Death Valley |
| #313, aired 1985-11-20 | NAVIGATION $400: Peter Pan's flight plan to Never-Never Land second star to the right and on till morning |
| #313, aired 1985-11-20 | THE CONTINENTS $1000: The continental drift theory says that all the continents once formed a giant land mass called this Pangaea |
| #287, aired 1985-10-15 | GEOGRAPHY $600: "Land's End" is the westernmost point of this country England |
| #177, aired 1985-05-14 | 1984 $1000: February 11, 1984 marked the 1st time a U.S. spacecraft had ever landed here Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) |
| #164, aired 1985-04-25 | WASHINGTON D.C. $400: Originally a 10 mile square, its present shape is due to having returned land to this state Virginia |
| #152, aired 1985-04-09 | THE FAR EAST $800: There's a government loudspeaker in every home in this land whose capital is Pyongyang North Korea |
| #126, aired 1985-03-04 | HISTORICAL TRIVIA $400: Some walk a mile, but Rodrigo de Jerez sailed the Atlantic in 1492 & became first European to do this smoke tobacco |
| #114, aired 1985-02-14 | U.S.A. $1000: This state's land is about 1/4 Indian reservations Arizona |
| #99, aired 1985-01-24 | EUROPE $600: Nickname for part of Norway where the Sun shines 24 hours a day the Land of the Midnight Sun |
| #92, aired 1985-01-15 | UNREAL ESTATE $800: Where one finds the Edgar Rice Burroughs land of Pellucidar at the Earth's core |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | FIRST LINES $1000: It is "the cruelest month" in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" April |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | SCIENCE $200: Land animal with the largest teeth the elephant |
