| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $1200: Oscitant is an adjective that means doing this--& don't start, because I will too yawning |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Common in cases of ADHD & autism, "sensory" this is basically too much input overstimulation |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $800: Too tough for a first name, Western hero Paladin had a business card that said these 2 words, "will travel" Have gun |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $1600: The opposite of an iamb, this word for a pattern of stressed-unstressed as in the word "rabbit" is from Greek for "run" a trochee |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $800: This rhyming phrase that means going too quickly can lead to mistakes & loss haste makes waste |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $2000: To journey to another land &
an umbilicus travel & navel |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $400: In "Unbound", activist Tarana Burke tells of the birth of this movement & the power of saying those 2 small words Me Too |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $200: A small porch, or to bend down stoop |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $400: In French, it's un mal de dent a toothache |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $600: You can get one removed via dermabrasion a tattoo |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $800: Seaplanes float on them pontoons |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $1000: Seen here are these flower chains curving as intended festoons |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | 7-LETTER ANAGRAMS $1200: Using too many words & to watch verbose & observe |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | 7-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: It's not being too shy to have one's picture taken; it's the quality of being responsive to light photosensitivity |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | THE "OVER"/"UNDER" $3,200 (Daily Double): One of few words with the letter sequence "rwr", it means too excited or agitated overwrought |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | I'VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU $200: Tarana Burke actually coined this phrase more than a decade ago as a way to help survivors of sexual abuse me too |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $400: Pigeon pen a coop |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | YIDDISH WORDS $400: To kvetch is to do this, possibly because your knish is too dry to complain |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | SNIPPETS FROM MY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS $1000: I leave you with the 1653 words of this British statesman: "You have sat too long here... in the name of God, go!" Oliver Cromwell |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $800: Don't think too long about this word meaning "to think long" ponder |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you don't take something too literally, you take it "cum grano salis", or this with a grain of salt |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | WHO FIRST SANG THOSE WORDS? $200: "Yeah I know that I let you down, is it too late to say I'm sorry now?" Justin Bieber |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $200: To bend down on the small porch of the same name stoop |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $400: Originally this 2-word bird term meant a decoy; it came to mean an informer, ya lousy mug stool pigeon |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | QUOTES OF 2015 $600: 3 words completing George W. Bush's commencement speech line "C students, you too..." can be president |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $600: A noisy type of pet parrot of the Australasian region cockatoo |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $800: A cuspidor spittoon |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $1000: It's a boat used as a support for a temporary bridge over a river pontoon |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | "MARK" YOUR WORDS $1200: When reporting a conversation, the British use single ones where we use double ones quotation marks |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THAT WOMAN CAN SING! $1000: Her first two words in the movie "Funny Girl" were "Hello, gorgeous"; she can sing a little, too Barbra Streisand |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1200: AKA sudden-wealth syndrome, it's the condition caused by too much money & consumerism affluenza |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Common in cases of ADHD & autism, "sensory" this is basically too much input overstimulation |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | 8-LETTER WORDS $1200: In this type of composition, like Brahms' Opus 79, the "H" is silent a rhapsody |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $400: "I don't care too much for money, money can't" do this buy me love |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $400: You're too old for the single-piece type of underwear that Gerber trademarked under this name a onesie |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | RANDOM HOUSE DEFINES IT AS... $2,000 (Daily Double): (2 words)
"Goal achieved at too great a cost" Pyrrhic victory |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | ARMED FORCES RADIO WITH PAT SAJAK $200: Hosting "Dawn Buster" for AFVN during the war, I opened with these 3 words made famous by DJ Adrian Cronauer Good morning, Vietnam! |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | WORDS OF STEVIE WONDER $1200: "Like a fool, I went & stayed too long, now I'm wonderin' if your love's still strong, ooo, baby, here I am" these 3 things, "I'm yours" signed, sealed, delivered |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $1200: This term that goes back to a word for "boy" or "youth" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry infantry |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Swiss & Portuguese are 2 of these nationalities |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $200: To plunder, or the loot that was plundered pillage |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | GIVING A PUP TALK $400: Margaret Hamilton spoke the immortal movie line "I'll get you, my pretty, and" these 4 words "your little dog, too!" |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $800: We're leaving this place if you embarrass me by drinking too much bar (in embarass) |
| #6220, aired 2011-10-07 | NAME CALLING $400: You spend too much time watching TV; you're a sofa spud, or, in other words, this more popular term a couch potato |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS $200: "As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle--O Antony!--nay I will take thee too Cleopatra |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | WORDS IN SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES $1600: A fuss in Quito ado (in Ecuador) |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | "OD" WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): Thomas Edison developed a method to extract rubber from this yellow wildflower but it proved too expensive goldenrod |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: Joyce's "Ulysses" includes a version of this "sweet" proverb about using something up & still having it to enjoy "You can't have your cake and eat it, too" |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $200: Your words of advice are as powerful as when this man of myth warned his boy Icarus about flying too near the sun Daedalus |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Used chiefly in law, it means "in the matter of"; it's seen a lot in e-mails, too re |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: 2 words combine to make this old term used in radio communications to indicate agreement or compliance wilco |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: It preceded "MTV Raps" in the title of a TV show Yo! |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | IAMBIC WORDS $400: To get too big for something, as kids tend to do outgrow |
| #5684, aired 2009-04-30 | A CATEGORY OF FEW WORDS $2,700 (Daily Double): From the Latin concidere, "to cut up". I've already said too much concise |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | FURNITURE WORDS $200: Something up for debate is "on" it; someone who's had a few too many drinks can end up "under" it the table |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ODD WORDS $600: Too much time enjoying potent potables? You could end up with a katzenjammer, one of these a hangover |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: A stocking bag a sock sack |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | WAR OF WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): From the French for "to go out" comes this term for an aircraft mission sortie |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1989:
"Similar To One Supplication" "Like A Prayer" |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $800: David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words Glengarry Glen Ross |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | WORD PUZZLES $600: It's how I describe Johnny Gilbert when he starts telling jokes
FUNNY FUNNY
WORDS WORDS
WORDS WORDS too funny for words |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | A VARIETY OF WORDS $600: A large, deep vessel for holding liquids such as dye vat |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | REDUCED SHAKESPEARE $2000: Name this comedy:
"Your oaths."
"Not to see ladies."
[All] "Hup!"
[Gasps]
[All] "Love."
"We'll mark no words that wooers say for 12 months in the day."
[All] "Hmm!"
[All] "Oh!"
"That's too long for a play." Love's Labour's Lost |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1,200 (Daily Double): "Margaritas ante porcos" means this in Latin, not "Your aunt has had too many margaritas" pearls before swine |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | I LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE $600: Never trust a woman whose words are too flattering--like Goneril in this play King Lear |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | 16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $1200: Breathe into a paper bag to relax the muscles when suffering from this, breathing too fast & too deeply hyperventilation |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JON STEWART'S AMERICA $1000: 1885 "last words" from this president: "Bury me next to my wife. But nothing too fancy" Grant |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Scientists call planets that are neither too hot nor too cold to support life this, after a fairy tale girl Goldilocks |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: To try too hard when making up for a defect overcompensate |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | IN OTHER WORDS $300: An overabundance of chefs ruins one's soup stock too many cooks spoil the broth |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: It's what happens to film that's in the light too long or a celebrity who's in the limelight too long overexposure |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | THE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER $100 (Daily Double): "Good authors too, who once knew better words now only use" these, "writing prose, anything goes" 4-letter words |
| #3573, aired 2000-03-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN DYING WORDS $200: "O Antony! Nay, I will take thee too...what, should I stay--" Cleopatra |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | OBSCURE WORDS $600: If you're forswunk, you're this; & probably underpaid, too Overworked |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | IN OTHER WORDS... $200: Much more heat than can be adequately managed Too hot to handle |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | WORD WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): From French for a stencil -- something used over again -- it's a too oft-repeated phrase Cliche |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: It means to weaken a support; it could mean to take too little out of the ground Undermine |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: This word means "arrogant", though it could mean "catching too many grizzlies" Overbearing |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: In grammar the present one ends in -ing, while the past one usually ends in -ed or -en a participle |
| #2243, aired 1994-05-11 | U.S. HISTORY $900 (Daily Double): By 1900 about 80 million acres of farmland were distributed to settlers under this act the Homestead Act |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $300: People whose private lives become too public feel like they live in these guppy dwellings fishbowls |
| #1854, aired 1992-10-01 | HAMLET $1000: This friend hears Hamlet's "Alas, poor Yorick" speech & his last words too Horatio |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | SONGS OF THE '50s $400: Do this & "whisper in my ear, baby, words I want to hear, tell me, tell me that you love me too" "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" |
| #1601, aired 1991-07-15 | COLE PORTER LYRICS $400: "Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use" these words "writing prose, anything goes" four letter words |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | IN OTHER WORDS... $500: An orbiting tart pie in the sky |
| #763, aired 1987-12-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: Digestive malady you might get from eating too much pizza, popcorn & pickles heartburn, dyspepsia or gastritis |
| #657, aired 1987-06-16 | "IN" WORDS $600: What you become when you drink far too much intoxicated or inebriated |
| #657, aired 1987-06-16 | "IN" WORDS $800: What you might get when you eat far too much indigestion |
| #557, aired 1987-01-27 | IN OTHER WORDS... $100: An excess of culinary artistes ruins bouillon too many cooks spoil the broth (too many cooks spoil the soup) |
| #187, aired 1985-05-28 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: To thwart Reynolds wrap foil |
| #78, aired 1984-12-26 | DOUBLE M $300: French performer who's too good for words Marcel Marceau |
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