#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | 6-LETTER DOUBLE G WORDS $400: To move a doorknob to & fro with short, quick jerks jiggle |
#8180, aired 2020-03-13 | S PLUS 3 LETTERS $800: To influence someone's opinion, or to move to & fro sway |
#7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WOMEN POETS $400: She began a poem, "I felt a funeral, in my brain, and mourners to and fro" Emily Dickinson |
#7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $400: Poe-etically, this type of bird carries messages to & fro on "Game of Thrones" a raven |
#6437, aired 2012-09-18 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1200: "From pillar to post", meaning "to and fro", has its origins in this court sport tennis |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "TO" & "FRO" $400: This injury from low temperatures can lead to gangrene frostbite |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "TO" & "FRO" $800: You'll hear this when someone scores a hit in fencing touché |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "TO" & "FRO" $1200: It's "An Irish Lullaby" me mother sang to me in Killarney "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "TO" & "FRO" $1600: Colloquial 5-letter title for a first-year college student frosh |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "TO" & "FRO" $2000: Mais oui, it's French for "cheese" fromage |
#5972, aired 2010-07-27 | HERE'S 2 "U" $400: This grandfather clock part moves to & fro by the action of gravity & acquired momentum pendulum |
#5166, aired 2007-02-12 | NAME THAT POET $800: "A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, that fro the tyme that he first bigan to riden out, he loved chivalrie" (Geoffrey) Chaucer |
#4414, aired 2003-11-13 | POETS & POETRY $1200: How sad for this poet that she "felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro" Emily Dickinson |
#4225, aired 2003-01-03 | HOMOPHONES $400: Moved to & fro, or leather finished with a soft nap swayed/suede |
#3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' SONGS $500: It's the question that precedes "do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow" "Do your ears hang low?" |
#2198, aired 1994-03-09 | POETRY $800: Her poem number 280 begins, "I felt a funeral, in my brain, and mourners to and fro" Dickinson |
#2175, aired 1994-02-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $300: Often paired with to, it means "away" or "back" fro |
#1745, aired 1992-03-13 | FIRST AID $1000: To stop the bleeding fro the foot, leg or thigh, you should apply pressure to a point above the artery the femoral artery |
#1296, aired 1990-04-02 | SCIENCE $200: A simple one of these consists of a small weight swinging to & fro on the end of a string Pendulum |