| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $1600: In 2024 this band set a record with its 59th Top 40 album, a 1985 live performance featuring "Truckin"' the Grateful Dead |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $1200: This synonym for anytime is in the title of Shakira's first U.S. Top 40 hit whenever |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | NOT PERSIMMON $200: Mexico is one of the world's top producers of this fruit that's a standard sight in the neck of a Corona lime |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? $600: A midriff-baring top called a choli is worn under this women's outer garment a sari |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $1200: Frank Powolny took a 1943 photo of this actress with the "million-dollar legs" & it became a top World War II pin-up poster Grable |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $1000: This Top 10 title from 2001 precedes "I'll only fly away / I don't know where my soul is / I don't know where my home is" "I'm Like A Bird" |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HIP-POP $800: Willow Smith, daughter of Will, hit the Top 40 by doing this title quite repeatedly, "back & forth" "Whip My Hair" |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $200: In 1992 England's top soccer clubs broke away from their historic football league to form this elite entity the Premier League |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $1000: In the miniseries "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans", a top Swan is Naomi Watts as Babe, wife of this CBS honcho William S. Paley |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $1200: "Fire in the sky"! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig, Deep Purple wrote this Top 5 hit with a killer lick "Smoke On The Water" |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | I RAN $600: In 2011 this Jamaican sprinter was too fast for some school zones, hitting a top speed of 27.33 mph in a race Usain Bolt |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $1000: In "Oil!", Upton Sinclair writes, "Water and oil would spout up over the top of" this framework, "staining it... black" derrick |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | VEGETABLE STEW $800: The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful Carrot Top |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $1600: Warrant had a Top 10 hit with this song about a dessert (really), "put a smile on your face, ten miles wide" "Cherry Pie" |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $800: Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978 "Macho Man" |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | WE HAVE OXY, GIVE US THE MORON $1200: In "The Spy Who Dumped Me", Kate McKinnon's wild, over-the-top character is told she's "a little" this 4-letter word much |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $600: To make this traditional one-word Mexican breakfast, combine fried tortillas with salsa & top with queso fresco chilaquiles |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $2000: The top of Los Angeles City Hall was inspired by the look of this ancient wonder of Halicarnassus a mausoleum |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $600: In 1975, Junko Tabei was on top of the world when she became the first woman to reach the summit of this highest peak Mount Everest |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | GAME SHOW $200: There are 15 multiple-choice questions to answer to win the top prize on this game show; would you like to ask the host? Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | "OB"VIOUS RESPONSES $1600: This 4-sided style of column typically tapers towards the top & ends in a pyramid an obelisk |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | RIDE INTO... $1000: the Strait of Tiran & on into this gulf at the top of the Red Sea, part of the very Middle-East-centric Q-no-U atlas the Gulf of Aqaba |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $600: Writer of many a Christmas film, Anna White got down to business in 2021 with "Christmas" this 3-letter top job at a company CEO |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HOME ON THE RANGE $400: Let's give thanks to Kraft for making the Stove Top brand of this all year long stuffing |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $600: It was all about "Love" as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019 Michael Bublé |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | HIS 'DO $800: In the '90s Kid of Kid 'n Play rocked a high top this hairstyle that's shaved on the bottom & long on top a fade |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE $200: Have fun going to the top of this 630-foot monument, tallest in the U.S.; we looked east & saw the Mississippi River & Illinois the Gateway Arch |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | TYPING TEST $1600: In the top row, the third & fourth letters from the left spell this part of a hospital the ER |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $400: Made it to the top of 22,600-foot Ojos del Salado one of the highest peaks in this mountain range the Andes |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1500: At one point in 2022, six of her books were in the top ten on the New York Times' paperback fiction bestseller list Colleen Hoover |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $200: The top secret payload when this company first launched its Dragon space capsule in 2010? A wheel of cheese SpaceX |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $2000: "Top Gun" & "CSI" are just two of the projects of this last of Hollywood's mega producers Jerry Bruckheimer |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $100: It ain't no lie--*NSYNC had a top 10 hit in 2000 with this song (and we'd love for you to do the "talking puppet hand" motion) "Bye Bye Bye" |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND $400: These triangular glands that sit on top of the kidneys produce epinephrine the adrenal glands |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | HERALDRY $2,500 (Daily Double): The white at the top of the Canadian territorial coat of arms represents polar regions; the wavy blue line--this trade route the Northwest Passage |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | TRAVEL TEXAS $400: One of the top attractions in Texas is this city's River Walk, featuring boat rides, shopping & plenty of food & fun San Antonio |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1200: This low wall on the top of a castle may feature crenellation a parapet |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THE MEDI-VERSE $400: A blood pressure reading has two parts: the systolic or top number and this, the bottom number the diastolic |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1600: In Old Egypt, this cross shaped like a "T" with a loop at the top was a symbol of life an ankh |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $400: With California & this as the top 2 states, the U.S. leads all other countries in producing cow's milk Wisconsin |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $800: Juventus, a top pro team in this country, is affectionately known as "The Old Lady" Italy |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU $400: Finely chop raw, lean meat; add salt, pepper & herbs, top with a raw egg yolk & you're on your way to a dish of beef this tartare |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $800: In their 1979 Top 40 hit "Shattered", this group sang, "Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots"... shadoobie The Rolling Stones |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | 1990s HITMAKERS $1600: In 1994, this R&B group's "I'll Make Love To You" remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks Boyz II Men |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $400: In September 1930 former governor Alfred E. Smith laid the cornerstone for this building that would top off at 103 stories the Empire State Building |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man" |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $1000: An ex-contestant apparently did not enjoy becoming "America's Next Top Model", likening it to this college's "prison experiment" Stanford |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE SPORTING LIFE $1200: Named for the 3-decade president of its gov. body, this tourney's top prize was once called the Jules Rimet Trophy the (FIFA) World Cup |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1865 British explorer Edward Whymper led the first successful attempt to reach the top of this Alpine peak the Matterhorn |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | YOU'VE GOT SOME BAGGAGE $400: At a time when this type of big travel case often had a round top, Louis Vuitton's 1858 Trianon was the first boxy type a trunk |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $800: "Vacation, had to get away", sang this band in a 1982 Top 10 hit the Go-Go's |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $1000: How to re-educate violent people like Alex in this novel? "My top glazz-lids were pulled up & up & up & I could not shut my glazzies" A Clockwork Orange |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $600: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000
"Don't give up on your faith /
Love comes to those who believe it" Celine Dion |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $1600: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) Arguing that the far-flung Manhattan Project needed a central facility, Oppenheimer helped choose an isolated New Mexico location for this top-secret site, described as an ivory tower frontier boomtown Los Alamos |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CITY FOLK $1200: This "TODAY" co-anchor & legal correspondent received the top score on her Arizona bar exam in 2002 Savannah Guthrie |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | ANTIQUES $800: One of the top "Antiques Roadshow" finds, a jade bowl originally made for the person with this title was appraised at up to $600,000 emperor of China (the Chinese emperor) |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WESTMINSTER-WINNING DOG BREEDS $1000: Here is Wasabi, 2021's top dog & the fifth of this breed to claim the prize a Pekingese |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $400: In 2022 "The Light We Carry" carried its way to the top of the nonfiction bestseller list for this ex-first lady Michelle Obama |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HAIRY STYLES $400: Big in the '60s, a Beatle haircut is also called by this rhyming name a mop top |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LATE NIGHT TALKING $400: This host's Top Ten rejected "Jeopardy!" categories included "Things that Ooze", "Doorknob Lore" & "Moist Things" (David) Letterman |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | HAIRY STYLES $1000: Popular in the 1900s & 1910s, a bun on top of a pompadour was known as cottage this, after bread that looked similar loaf |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $200: This rock band tops the list with more than 183 million album sales, & that's all the clue you get The Beatles |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $400: The Eagles are No. 4 with 120 million album sales; this December 1976 release checks in with 26 million Hotel California |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | THIS & THAT $800: This Planters mascot is all class, with a monocle, spats & a top hat Mr. Peanut |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | RIAA TOP-SELLING ARTISTS $800: Syd Barrett was in this band when it sold its first of tens of millions of albums in 1967, but Dave Gilmour soon replaced him Pink Floyd |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CITY HAPPENINGS $1200: In 1815, on night 1 of his return from Elba, Napoleon landed at this then-village; in 2022, "Top Gun: Maverick" flew onscreen there Cannes |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POP INSTRUMENTALS $400: In January 2000 Kenny G blew into the Top 10 with a version of this New Year's favorite "Auld Lang Syne" |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $800: He fought the chimera and was on top of the world riding Pegasus, but rode him too high and fell to Earth Bellerophon |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $4,200 (Daily Double): Though Geneva is pretty low as Swiss cities go, a Cold War meeting there was the first one called this top-level type a summit |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | QUESTIONABLE MUSIC CHOICES $1600: Culture Club hit the top 10 for the first time with this musical question while making us cry with a killer chorus & reggae sound "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1852 this political party nominated war hero Gen. Winfield Scott, its last candidate for the top job, before disbanding the Whig Party |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $400: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) In what became known as the "game of the century", in 1956 this then-little-known 13-year-old announced his presence with a spectacular queen sacrifice to defeat one of America's top masters (Bobby) Fischer |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $1600: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) 2023 saw the end of an era as this longtime world champion opted not to defend his title, even though he remained by far the world's top-rated player Carlsen |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $2000: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) My book "Chess Queens" tells the story of the game's female pioneers, like this trio of stereotype-shattering sisters whose youngest, Judit, became both the world's youngest grandmaster & the first woman to be ranked among the world's top 10 players the Polgárs (the Polgár sisters) |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $2000: Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games Portal |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $400: Philosopher's Path in Kyoto is a top spot to see Sakura, this tree's blossoms, burst with color during their spring festival cherry |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | GRAB BAG $200: When this D.C. landmark opened in 1888, you could climb 898 steps to the top the Washington Monument |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | DIANE WARREN $400: (Diane Warren gives the clue.) One of the top films of the '90s was "Armageddon", which features my song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", the first No. 1 hit for this group
"And I don't wanna miss a thing" Aerosmith |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: South Carolina was a top producer of this plant that produces a blue dye; round cakes of it were often used as currency indigo |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER $800: The original "Top Gun" was set in part aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise where F-14s, known by this feline name, took off & landed a Tomcat |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | READY TO WEAR $800: Appropriately named, this straw hat with a flat top & a flat brim was a must-have at turn-of-the-century regattas a boater |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | TOP TO BOTTOM $200: You've hit this hard piece of nature "bottom" at your lowest point rock |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | TOP TO BOTTOM $400: You've scraped "the bottom of" this container at your lowest point the barrel |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | TOP TO BOTTOM $600: A New Yorker parody detailed the product liability lawsuit against this "top" company by "Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona" Acme |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | TOP TO BOTTOM $800: This word meaning situated beneath the Earth's surface also precedes "regions" about more, shall we say, sensitive body areas nether |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | TOP TO BOTTOM $1000: This 6-letter word refers to the zenith or farthest point, such as the point where the Moon is farthest from the Earth the apogee |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SLIDING INTO YOUR "D.M."s $200: "Don't be creepy" is one of the top rules when sliding into someone's DMs, DM standing for this a direct message |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | BASKETBALL GREATS $200: (I'm Candace Parker.) 2008 was a good year; I won my second Final Four MVP for leading Tennessee to the NCAA title & was recognized as the top women's college player with the trophy named for this inventor of the sport Naismith |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $800: Learning to count is fun with the antics of a dog, a lion & a tiger in this author's "Ten Apples Up On Top!" Dr. Seuss |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | GODS & MYTHS $800: This top god had an 8-legged horse named Sleipnir Odin |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $1200: Referencing a 1986 Top 5 hit by this band of hers, Susanna Hoffs tweeted, "Saturday is actually my fun day" The Bangles |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $400: In 1983 Prince drove into the Top 10 for the first time in this title conveyance "Little Red Corvette" |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $800: Try a lattice top for this dessert, long a symbol of America even though it originated elsewhere apple pie |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | LOOKS GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT $800: Yum! It's this dessert with a caramelized sugar top; can't wait to get to the custard below crème brûlée |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $200: A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building the U.S. Capitol |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $400: Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat William Penn |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $600: The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city Rio de Janeiro |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $1,000 (Daily Double): Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen harbor the Little Mermaid |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $1000: A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square Nelson |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TO THE MOUNTAINTOP! $200: Washington State Route 706 will take you to the national park for your climb to the 14,410-foot top of this Mount Rainier |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | POP MUSIC $2000: According to Billboard, the top holiday artist of 2022 was this a cappella group who have been singing together since 2011 Pentatonix |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | POP MUSICIANS $1600: This singer had a lot of fun helping fun.'s "We Are Young" to a top spot Janelle Monáe |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $400: The Off. of Minority Health says disease of this organ, the USA's top killer, takes 30% fewer Hispanics & 30% more Blacks than whites the heart |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | POST-GRADUATION $1000: A top music industry award gets its name from this old-time record player with a big horn a gramophone |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FIGHT SONGS $1600: Rachel Platten's "Fight Song" appeared on the 2014 "How the 'A' Stole Christmas" episode of this show & then became a Top 10 hit Pretty Little Liars |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | PUT IN YOUR ORDINAL $600: Someone who plays a supporting role is this fruit, like a straight man to a comedian second banana |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ROLE: MODEL $1200: The bar-hopping dancers in "Coyote Ugly" included this top model & future talk show host Tyra Banks |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $400: Homer Davenport, once a top cartoonist, depicted this president amid the now forgotten 1899 Embalmed Beef Scandal William McKinley |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $400: This 1985 Top 10 hit by The Power Station shares its name with a 1959 Marilyn Monroe film "Some Like It Hot" |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HEAD GEAR $1200: When this item was first worn, by John Hetherington in 1797, its height & luster made women faint the first top hat |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: Gavin Menzies' "1434" says a group from China visited this top Catholic & supplied knowledge that made the renaissance happen the pope |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | REPETITIVE MUSIC $1000: A few years before this band had its first Top 10 hit in 1983, it played a gig at a club called Barbarella's Duran Duran |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | COACH: BEARD $100: For beard inspiration, watch videos by this classic end-of-the-alphabet rock band; even its drummer's last name is Beard ZZ Top |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Released in 1982 & spawning 7 Top 10 singles, this Michael Jackson album became one of the bestselling albums of all time Thriller |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | PENINSULAS $1500: Djursland peninsula is the "wildest part of" this peninsular country that sticks out of the top of Germany Denmark |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | SPORTS TROPHIES $200: Major League Soccer's top scorer gets the Golden this piece of footwear Boot |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WHITES & COLORS $1000: Poland's flag is white on top, red on the bottom; the colors are flipped on the flag of this country & symbolize the Grimaldi family Monaco |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | JUST A LITTLE NUCLEAR PHYSICS $2000: Here's your quark menu! Which flavor would you like--up, down, top, bottom, charm or this? strange |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $600: This cartoon character was likely inspired by a reptile found alive inside a time capsule that was opened in 1928 Michigan J. Frog |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THE BOTTOM 10 $800: Not many could take "The Star Spangled Banner" into the Top 20 twice, but she did; however, "Whatchulookinat" only looked at 96 Whitney Houston |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THE BOTTOM 10 $1600: No stranger to the Top 10, this Jersey band could only take "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" to 97 in '93 Bon Jovi |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | MAGIC $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in New Jersey in 1956, this magician has "A Christmas Carol" in his top 10 books list, not the 1850 book he's named for David Copperfield |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | OF YOUR HEAD $400: Allergies, dry conditions & frequent sneezing are top causes of this sanguine event a bloody nose |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $600: IKEA's Bekväm is this type of ladder: self-supporting, with a top cap connecting the front & rear rails a stepladder |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | NO GOOD $1600: One of Time's "Top 10 Real-Life Mob Bosses", this 1980s Medellín cartel man was said to burn $2 million to stay warm when on the run Escobar |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $1200: 19th century Norwegian artist Peter Nicolai Arbo tried to forge a national identity with works like "The Wild Hunt" of this top god Odin |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | REMEMBERING OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN $800: Considered a little too sexy for some, this song worked out to be the top hit of the 1980s "Physical" |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | OUR DIVIDED NATION $200: Cross the Continental Divide twice on the top of the Rockies byway in this state Colorado |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: Feb. 14, its inventor's birthday, is the day to honor this ride on which lovers might not mind getting stuck at the top a Ferris wheel |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | UNDER THE "C" $400: The top of your tuxedo pants is hidden from view with style under this pleated accessory cummerbund |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | A PINEAPPLE $400: Let's flip things & enjoy some pineapple this cake, where you invert the dessert onto a plate so the fruit's on top upside-down cake |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | FURNITURE $400: The tambour is what gives this piece of furniture seen here its name a roll-top desk |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $400: "As It Was", a solo song by this Brit, took one direction to the top spot on the Hot 100 Styles |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | TOP OF THE MORNING! $200: A 1984 campaign ad for this man proclaimed it was "morning again in America" Reagan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | TOP OF THE MORNING! $400: Robin Williams' first Best Actor Oscar nomination came for his role in this 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | TOP OF THE MORNING! $600: Launched in 1831, this Down Under city's Morning Herald is still going strong Sydney |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | TOP OF THE MORNING! $800: Proverbially & colorfully, when this is seen "at morning, sailor take warning" red sky |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $300: Step right up, ladies & gents; from acrobats to clown cars, we've got it all inside this structure the big top |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | MISCELLANY $400: You'll be well over a mile high at the top of 714-foot Republic Plaza, this city's tallest building Denver |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD $200: The statue of this top Greek god at Olympia stood nearly 40 feet high & showed him seated on a gold- & jewel-encrusted throne Zeus |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $400: On the girls' side, this flower Rose |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $800: This name given to their son by the Schulz family of Minneapolis that November Charles |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $1200: Both Harry & this brother, soon to combine in a gift basket company David |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $1600: This name of the then-king of England George |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | BABY NAMES: TOP 25 OF 1922 $2000: This name of the then-first lady, Mrs. Harding Florence |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPINELESS CREATURES $1200: Several species of colorful, fast-flying butterflies are named for this top naval rank admiral |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ECOLOGY $800: It's good to be at the top of this 2-word term for the pecking order for grub in an ecological system the food chain |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | LIONS, TIGERS & BEARS $2,400 (Daily Double): The Leone d'oro, or the Golden Lion, is the top prize awarded at this Italian city's film festival, the world's oldest Venice |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $1600: An alternative to a convertible car was one with this type of rigid roof that could adapt to let in some sun a T-top |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TASTY PHRASES $400: A fitting finish for a sundae, this idiom means to make something good even better to put a cherry on top |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | ENTERTAIN "YOU" $400: In 1964 2 Beatles songs debuted in the U.S. Top 40 a week apart, "Please Please Me" & this song, yeah yeah yeah "She Loves You" |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | MOUNTAINS $1600: The Goûter Refuge offers a place to rest for climbers en route to the top of this mountain on the border between France & Italy Mont Blanc |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | "TOP" OF THE POPS $400: "Gimme All Your Lovin"' for this Texas trio inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 ZZ Top |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | "TOP" OF THE POPS $1600: According to AC/DC, it's this "if you wanna rock 'n' roll" "It's A Long Way To The Top" |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | "TOP" OF THE POPS $2000: I cry like a baby when I think that Alex Chilton, teenage singer of this band's 1967 hit "The Letter", passed away in 2010 The Box Tops |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | HEARING RED $1000: This country star, the son of a big league pitcher, hit the Top 40 in 2002 with "Red Rag Top" Tim McGraw |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $2000: This process reduces fat globules in milk into small particles that are evenly distributed, so the cream doesn't rise to the top homogenization |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SONG OF THE DAY $1000: Love & Kisses hit the Top 40 in 1978 with this title tune from a movie featuring Jeff Goldblum & Donna Summer "Thank God It's Friday" |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES $200: At 29,032 feet up, atop this highest mountain, you'll be on top of the world Mount Everest |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | MARINE BIOLOGY $800: A new theory says that as cetaceans evolved from land animals, the nostril moved to the top of the skull & became this orifice the blowhole |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HOME SWEET HOME RENOVATION $800: Out of the barn & into the kitchen for this type of big sink, installed just under the counter-top & a bit in front of cabinets below a farmhouse sink |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II $1200: This little light in a gas-powered appliance:
16-9-12-15-20 pilot |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | ENDS IN "ETTE" $800: Pennsylvania's top newspapers include the Philadelphia Inquirer & the Pittsburgh Post-this Gazette |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | TV PERSONALITIES $800: Knives up for Padma Lakshmi, who's hosted this Bravo cooking competition since 2006 Top Chef |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | LET'S GAMBLE $800: One step beyond an exacta is this type of wager in which you have to pick the top 3 horses in the exact order they finish a trifecta |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The president and his top advisors manage crises in the White House's John F. Kennedy Conference Room, best known as this the Situation room |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | THE NAPOLEONIC WARS $800: This country's Archduke Charles was one of the few Allied commanders able to go head-to-head with Napoleon's top generals Austria |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $400: This ex-general at No. 18 with "Union Yes" is back with "Renom"; "they tried to make me go to a 3rd nomination, I said no no no" Grant |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $1600: At No. 17, this Tennessee man has really got those "Reconstruction Blues" Andrew Johnson |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $2000: "Are You Better Off?" is a hit across the country for this prez who rounds out the Top 40 Reagan |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $600: In 1963 session musician Boots Randolph had a Top 40 hit with "Yakety" this Sax |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | R&B MUSIC $2000: In Dec. 2021 this "seasonal" singer was on 10 of the Top 25 R&B Hits, including "Bitter" with Cardi B & "Insane" Summer Walker |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: In 2020 Billboard named its "Greatest of All Time Latin Artists", with this late "Queen of Tejano" as the Top Female Artist Selena |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: This historically Black college in Atlanta consistently ranks among the top 10 women's colleges Spelman |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The highest spot from the center of the Earth is the top of Mount Chimborazo, near the equator in this nation Ecuador |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | BEER TODAY $200: Lager is beer made from bottom-fermenting strains of this; top-fermented types from Britain are ales yeast |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | IF YOU LIKED IT $200: Appropriately for the board, this singer was the People's Choice as the Top Animated Movie Star of 2019 for "The Lion King" Beyoncé |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BRIGHT LIGHTS $800: Dubbed the brightest light on Earth, the sky beam from the top of this Vegas casino can produce 40 billion candlepower Luxor |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SEISMIC ACTIVITY $400: An earthquake where one plate moves under another & pushes the top plate up may cause this wave that can reach around 500 miles per hour a tsunami |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | LEMON SQUEEZY $400: Whisk yolks in the top of a double boiler & slowly add clarified butter & lemon juice to make this, 1 of cuisine's "mother sauces" hollandaise |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $400: "You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack Yertle (the Turtle) |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FASHION $400: GQ says this "should be pleated & sit directly on top of the waistband of your trouser" a cummerbund |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | SUNDAY IN THE PARK $400: The record for consecutive kicks of this footbag by 2 people is well over 100,000; let's go to the park & try to top it hacky sack |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A DAY OF POP CULTURE $800: Season 12 of this show was on at the gym & I watched Gigi Goode sashay on the runway RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1000: "Waitress" has music & lyrics by this woman who had a Top 40 hit with "Brave" Sara Bareilles |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY $1600: Laying down the math laws, the commutative law is on the top & this law is on the bottom the associative law |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | THAT'S SHOW BIZ $1600: This woman hosts 2 different food-related shows: "Top Chef" & "Taste the Nation" Padma Lakshmi |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | DJs $800: This D.G. was No. 1 on DJ mag's Top 100 of 2021 David Guetta |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone the apex |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | POP CULTURE "EAST" & "WEST" $200: 2 New York City gangs sing & dance in this top-grossing film of 1961 West Side Story |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | CANNES $3,600 (Daily Double): Trees like those seen here on the Promenade de la Croisette inspired this name of Cannes' top prize, first awarded in 1955 the Palme d'Or |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The flag that Betsy Ross sewed for the new union of the colonies in 1777 had 13 stars in the top inner corner, the area called this the union |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Chicago to Minneapolis & Las Vegas to L.A. are top routes on this bus line that advises "Leave the driving to us" Greyhound |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $400: A young English girl wins a horse in a raffle, learns to ride it & ends up winning a top "national" race in this tale National Velvet |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $400: Making their Top 40 debut in 1991, this vocal group told us, "Motownphilly's back again, doin' a little East Coast swing" Boyz II Men |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $1000: One of Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 action & adventure movies is 1976's "Assault on" this unlucky police station Precinct 13 |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | A MEMBER OF THE BANDS $400: This top-hatted guitarist left Guns N' Roses & brandished a new musical weapon, Velvet Revolver Slash |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | FALLING $800: This word used of statues & dominoes starts with the part that falls first to topple |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT $800: "Cruisin'", in 1980 by this Motown legend Smokey Robinson |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | RAIN $1000: For big raindrops, this fatal-sounding top speed reached at equilibrium between gravity & air resistance can approach 25 mph terminal velocity |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS $2000: In 1968 Georgy Sviridov succeeded his mentor, this other "S" composer, in the top job in the Soviet musical bureaucracy Shostakovich |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $400: This rapper lived up to his name as "the Creator" of "Call Me If You Get Lost" Tyler, the Creator |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $800: This R&B w.o.m.a.n. was far from the "Back of My Mind" & close to the top of the chart H.E.R. |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $1000: "The Best of" this Canadian band, "Volume 1" included "Rockstar", "How You Remind Me" & 17 other songs Nickelback |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | FASHION $1000: A type of Greek robe gives us this word for the skirt-like addition to the top seen here a peplum |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | MUSIC STARS $1600: In 1995 this one-named singer rose to the top of the charts with "Kiss From A Rose" Seal |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | MUSIC STARS $2000: In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band The Bangles |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | ALLITEROCKERS $200: In 1987 this trio that fought for the right to party had the first rap album to top the Billboard charts the Beastie Boys |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | YACHT ROCK SAILS AGAIN $400: This ex-Commodore sailed to the top of the charts in 1983 with "All Night Long" (Lionel) Richie |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | GIRL GROUPS $1200: In 1967 Diana Ross got top billing in this group The Supremes |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SPLITTING HAIRS $400: Let the difference be known--a top knot is on top of the head but a "man" this is near the crown or back a bun |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SPLITTING HAIRS $1000: The Kid 'n Play cut called the hi-top this is more gradually blended in length than the military high & tight fade |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | HE HAD A HAT $600: This Marx Brother didn't talk in their films but did wear a top hat over his curls Harpo |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | FESTIVALS $800: The film festival in this major Dutch port bestows the Tiger Award as its top prize Rotterdam |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | "M"EDICINE $2000: A diamond-tipped wand is used in this polysyllabic procedure that removes the top layer of skin to treat sun damage microdermabrasion |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | SCIENCE $800: Rare on Earth except in signs, this gas with atomic number 10 is a top 10 element in abundance in the universe neon |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | A PHRASE OF TURN $1000: This word for a graceful turn is from French for "spinning top" pirouette |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | SERVING $1000: The number of people in a dining party is referred to using this 3-letter word, as in 6-this at table 15 top |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | CHAIR-ISH $1000: Perhaps the best-known Chippendale chairs have a top rail in the form of this Roman god's bow Cupid |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | THE "HIT" PARADE $400: Pat Benatar first punched her way onto the Billboard Top 10 with this 1980 song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | IN THEIR 60s $2000: Out of favor in the 1830s, in the '40s, Ingres was known as France's top painter with sitters like a baroness of this rich family the Rothschilds |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | "K"-POP $400: Top 40 songs by this rapper in 2019 included "Follow God", "On God" & "Use This Gospel" Kanye |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CARNIVAL TALK $1000: A G-top is for carnival people only, often after hours with the "G" standing for this activity gambling |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | CHANNEL $400: Where Whitesnake & ZZ Top once ruled, this channel now has "Revenge Prank" & "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" MTV |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | VENTRILOQUISM FOR DUMMIES $1000: Edgar Bergen's most famous dummy, this character was based on a newsboy but classed up with a monocle & top hat (Charlie) McCarthy |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS $1200: Barry Manilow took this song from "Cats" to the Top 40 "Memory" |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | PRIME NUMBERS $400: In "Better Off Dead", Rod Stewart sang, "I might have been" a holder of this U.K. top political office prime minister |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ACROSS THE USA $2000: Fittingly, it's from the top of Idaho's He Devil Mountain that this deepest river gorge in North America plunges 8000 feet Hells Canyon |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE $1000: At the top of the Triumphal Arch in the ballroom is a medallion with profiles of Queen Victoria & this man, her husband Albert |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | AROUND THE USA $4,400 (Daily Double): The purple seats near the top of Coors Field tell you you've reached this geographic designation mile high |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HILL & MOUNTAIN IDIOMS $200: Someone at the top is this monarch, the title of an animated sitcom king of the hill |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | SING "OUT" $400: In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes "my name" call out |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | AGREE, 2 DISAGREE $600: No people surveyed, top 1 answer on the board... this 4-letter word is a bitter rivalry between factions; pass or play? feud |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | IT'S LIGHT OUT $1000: How about some applause for this light-killing device that debuted in 1984, one of Time magazine's top 100 all-time gadgets the Clapper |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ODD HISTORY $800: Caligula declared himself a god & decreed that a bridge be built between his palace & the temple of this top Roman god Jupiter |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $600: Back in the day, there was some heavy lifting for the guy with this job, also Val Kilmer's nickname in "Top Gun" iceman |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | HAIR'S THE THING $2000: This 5-letter French word describes a coloring technique where the hair is typically darker on top & lighter towards the ends ombre |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | THE "DR" IS IN $400: This, this, this is a 4-sided spinning top marked with Hebrew letters a dreidel |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DRUNK HISTORY $2000: Before the Rothschilds bought it, Chateau this was one of 4 top-rated wineries in France's 1855 official ranking Lafite |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | CANADIANA $2000: Almost 100 billion tons of seawater comes & goes daily in this top vote getter in a CBC poll to determine the 7 Wonders of Canada Bay of Fundy |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $600: "Over the Top" is a memoir by JVN, short for this grooming expert on Netflix's "Queer Eye" Jonathan Van Ness |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $2000: 2010 was good for this man, he won a James Beard award for Craft, his restaurant, & an Emmy, for "Top Chef" on Bravo (Tom) Colicchio |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | BODY WORDS $1600: This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head patella |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | MUSICAL GENRES $200: Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" & Motörhead's "No Remorse" made Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of this genre (heavy) metal |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $200: Here's a twist--in 2019, the top name for boys was this, like Dickens' young Mr. Twist Oliver |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $400: Popular floral names include Rose, Lily & this one, like the flower seen here Daisy |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $600: While Freya is on the rise, this name shared by Blunt & Mortimer dropped a few notches Emily |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $800: "How sweet the sound" of this name meaning a divine favor or blessing Grace |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $1000: This boy's name popular in Wales belonged to Welsh national hero Glendower Owen |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | BARNS $800: In some barns, the ground floor is for animals & the top floor is named for this action where grain is separated from husks threshing |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | WHAT TO WEAR $800: Similar to a jumpsuit, a one-piece women's garment combining a short-sleeve top & loose shorts has this lively name a romper |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | TOO MUCH $1200: This idiom for an overacted performance comes from World War I soldiers charging up out of their trenches over the top |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | IN OTHER RECENT NEWS... $1200: In fall 2020 the 1st blood test became available for this top-10 U.S. cause of death; diagnosis by symptoms is tricky & brain scans costly Alzheimer's disease |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $200: "And the Lord came down upon" this place, "on the top of" it... "and Moses went up" Mount Sinai |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALL THE BOOZE $800: This brand offers a 3-step recipe:
1) put ice in a highball glass;
2) pour its Old No. 7 over ice;
3) top with Coke Jack Daniel's |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $200: With a January average of -53 F., Verkhoyansk in this 2.5 million-sq.-mile region is often ranked the world's coldest spot (Russian) Siberia |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $600: 3 of the world's 10 wettest spots are in this U.S. state Hawaii |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $800: This Japanese island is the world's 7th largest Honshu |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $1000: This mountain chain that extends some 1,500 miles from Morocco to Tunisia is the world's 7th longest the Atlas Mountains |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $400: Steak tartare, meaning served this way, presented with an egg yolk on top raw |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | FOSTERING "UNITY" $600: When you land on this space in Monopoly, you must take the top yellow card Community Chest |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $200: "Saving Private Ryan", 1998: this actor, not Private Ryan Tom Hanks |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $400: "The Godfather Part II", 1974: this actor who could have been nicknamed Fredo himself Alfredo James Pacino |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $800: "The Princess Bride", 1987: this leading man whose name was not Inigo Montoya Cary Elwes |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | TOP OF THE BILL $1000: "Enter the Dragon", 1973: this martial arts legend Bruce Lee |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS! $1200: (Glenn Close presents the clue.) I rank as number 7 on AFI's list of Top Villains, playing Alex Forrest in this 1987 thriller, but I prefer to think of her as a misunderstood woman, who is not going to be ignored Fatal Attraction |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | TV LOCALES $1200: The first season of "Narcos" tells the story of Pablo Escobar's rise to the top of the drug world in this country Colombia |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | NO. 1 LYRICS $1600: In Billboard's top single of 2018, this 2-word Drake title precedes "I can't do this on my own" "God's Plan" |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | GOOD DAY, SIR! $1600: Happy post-New Year! On January 7, 2011 this Hawaiian singer had his "Grenade" explode at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Bruno Mars |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | TERMS FROM HISTORY $1200: For nearly 700 years, the Bakufu was the government of this top military dictator of Japan a shogun |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | SPORTS TROPHIES & AWARDS $1000: The NHL's Vezina Trophy goes to the league's top player at this position goalie |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | "ROUND" THE WORLD $1000: Hotspots at the Battle of Gettysburg included Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard & Little this Round Top |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | HAMBURGERS $1600: Hamburg-born politician Helmut Schmidt held this top job from 1974 to 1982 chancellor |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | POP CULTURE $200: This group's album "Love Yourself: Tear" is the first by a K-pop act to top the Billboard 200 Albums chart BTS |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | ALPHABET ROCKERS & RAPPERS $1200: Destined to be last in any rock encyclopedia, this Texas trio showed off their "Legs" in the 1980s ZZ Top |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | SYMBOLS $800: The pyramid on the reverse of the $1 bill represents endurance & the eye at the top is the eye of this, also a state capital the Eye of Providence |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: Workers had to climb 700 stairs to the top & then be lowered by cables to work on this massive monument Mount Rushmore |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $1200: In the top 5 brightest stars, Arcturus is found in this constellation in the northern sky; oh, shake shake shake, shake your... Bootes |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | '80s HITS $1000: Taco had a top 5 hit covering this Irving Berlin song that says, "Why don't you go where fashion sits?" "Puttin' On The Ritz" |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $1200: Not the similarly named video app, this song made it to the top in 2010 for Ke$ha "TiK ToK" |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 SONG OF THE YEAR $1600: Wham! took the top spot in 1985 with "Careless Whisper"; 3 years later this singer had "Faith" George Michael |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This "dizzy" Hitchcock drama tops the AFI's list of the top mystery movies of all time Vertigo |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $400: "I Will Survive" indeed; in 2020, 40 years after her hit, this singer was back on top, winning a Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album Gloria Gaynor |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: With more than 100 million albums sold, this "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" singer is among the top-selling country artists of all time Shania Twain |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1200: This flowy top is in an anthropology book as "the most universal of civilized garments" & in Anthropologie stores sells for $95 a tunic |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ONCE-POPULAR FIRST NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "noble" (remember the Roman social class), this girls' name was top 5 in the U.S. in the 1940s Patricia |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: In Sept. 2018 this Singapore-born man had 3 books in the top 5 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list Kevin Kwan |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | SOUTH AMERICA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In existence only from 1819 to 1830, Simon Bolivar's Republic spanned the top of South America, incorporating what is now Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador and this nation, whose name echoes that of the republic Colombia |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | IT'S HYPHENATED $600: Long cycle times & mold can be issues with this type of washing machine, as opposed to the kind where clothes go in the top front-loading |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BILLBOARD TOP 40 $400: Madonna touched No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 "for the very first time" with this 1984 song "Like A Virgin" |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BILLBOARD TOP 40 $800: "Hey Ya!", by this duo, spent about 30 weeks in the Top 40 in 2003 & 2004 OutKast |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BILLBOARD TOP 40 $1600: ABBA had 14 songs on the Billboard chart, but only this disco-themed one made it to No. 1 "Dancing Queen" |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BILLBOARD TOP 40 $2000: "Weird Al" Yankovic made a foray into the Top 40 with this Michael Jackson parody "Eat It" |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | WORD DERIVATIONS $600: The name of this tusked marine mammal is probably from the Dutch & is also the name of the Netherlands' top class of submarine a walrus |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $800: This person who gives a "goodbye" speech is usually the top student in a graduating class the valedictorian |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | ROCK STARS $400: (Conan O'Brien presents the clue.) Forced to engage in a guitar battle with the virtuoso Jack Black, I cheated a smidge and employed this curly-haired, top-hatted legend, aka Saul Hudson Slash |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | CROSS EXAMINATION $1000: Egyptians used the crux ansata, a cross with a loop on top, better known by this 4-letter name an ankh |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | ACTIONS $200: After one of your checkers reaches your opponent's first row, do this to your piece to show it's now a king top it on the other piece |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | WORLD FLAGS $800: An exotic bird of paradise occupies the top half of Papua New Guinea's flag, with this constellation on the bottom the Southern Cross |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | THE OLD UNIVERSITY TRY $800: I wouldn't look for this university founded in 1875 by a Mormon leader on many lists of top 10 party schools BYU (Brigham Young) |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | COOL NEWS $600: In 2020 this sports league & its players association reached a deal that will pay top centers & point guards in excess of $500,000 a year the WNBA |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | LET THEM EAT CAKE $800: Pineapple is the main attraction in this kind of cake, inverted before serving so the glazed fruit goes from bottom to top a pineapple upside-down cake |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | LET THEM EAT CAKE $1000: Split a sweet Biscuit in half, fill & top it with softly whipped cream & sliced fruit--like strawberries--& you've got this a strawberry shortcake |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $600: Named Top New Artist in 2017, Zayn was formerly a member of this group that won the award in 2013 One Direction |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $1000: Among this band's many awards are Top Rock Artist 2014, 2018, 2019, & Top Rock Song for "Believer"
"My life, my love, my drive, it came from... pain! /
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer..." Imagine Dragons |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | HAIRSTYLES $400: Short on the top & sides & long in the back, this hairstyle might be better known than the fish with which it shares its name a mullet |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | NON-AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay were on top of the world after reaching the summit of this mountain Mount Everest |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BEVERAGES $200: A 250 milliliter can of this top-selling energy drink that "vitalizes body and mind" contains 80 mg of caffeine, less than a cup of coffee Red Bull |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME? $1600: In this craft, try the coil method, taking long strips of clay & coiling them on top of each other pottery |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIO ACTIVE $800: In the '60s the first 2 Top 40 Hits for this group had the word "Surfin"' in the title; No. 4, "Surfer" The Beach Boys |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | GOLD RUSH $200: This flour brand is named for the top prize that it won at an 1880 exhibition Gold Medal |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WANNA BET? $400: In 2016 a few happy bettors cashed in 5,000-1 tickets after Leicester City won the title in England's top league in this sport soccer |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | HIT & "RUN" $1600: In 1993 Soul Asylum rode this out-of-control transport into the Top 10 "Runaway Train" |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | WHOSE NO. 1 ALBUM $1000: In 2019, this boy band, back on top with "DNA" the Backstreet Boys |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | FAMOUS TEXANS $1200: This musical trio has been performing together for fifty years ZZ Top |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | ARCHITECTURE $600: Vital to holding up an arch is this block, top & center, that's placed last a keystone |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | FOOD $1000: To make a Pavlova dessert, start with a base of this beaten mixture, then top it with whipped cream & fruit meringue |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: Atlanta's top newspaper has this hyphenated name Journal-Constitution |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | BUDDHIST TEMPLES $600: 72 symbolic stupas encircle the top levels of the Borobudur Temple complex on this island, Indonesia's most populous Java |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER PUDDING $400: (Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) I've played King Lear, Hamlet, Oedipus, Pizarro; but perhaps my most challenging role, if you could believe it, was in this 1965 movie that for a while was the top-grossing film of all time The Sound of Music |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $400: Check out the clue while my DJ revolves it! This '90s rapper actually had a 2nd Top 40 hit: "Play That Funky Music"; still waitin' on 3 Vanilla Ice |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TV $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at Profiles in History in Calabasas, CA.) Yes, it's safe to look at the angels that adorn the top of the object of Indiana Jones's quest in this 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | DAVID MUIR COVERS THE WORLD $400: (David Muir delivers the clue.) In 2019 I traveled to Afghanistan to speak with the top U.S. commander General Scott Miller, who said that not just military might but a political settlement with this group might be a necessary part of any endgame in America's longest war the Taliban |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | SLIDING INTO YOUR CMs $400: This MSNBC host served as the top aide for House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the '80s Chris Matthews |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $1000: You can't get higher in the lower 48 than the top of this mountain in the Sierra Nevada Mount Whitney |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | BATTLE LOSERS $400: South Mountain: McClellan tops this top general (Robert E.) Lee |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A HAT TIP TO YOU $800: Abe Lincoln kept papers & speeches in this type of top hat he wore to Ford's Theatre the night he was shot stovepipe |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE WWE SLAMMY AWARDS $400: Doing the work of 2 1/2 men, this actor beat Tyson, Schwarzenegger & the Muppets to be Top Social Media Ambassador in 2012 Charlie Sheen |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $200: This Harper Lee classic topped the list & was the favorite book of 48 states as well To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $600: This author made the list at No. 24 with his epic "The Stand" Stephen King |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $800: Sci-fi entries on the list ranged from Frank Herbert's "Dune" to this much sillier Douglas Adams book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $1000: 7 of the top 10 books on the list were written by women, including this series by Diana Gabaldon Outlander |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | FIREBOATS OF BOSTON $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from inside a fireboat.) Marine One can achieve a top speed of 35 knots powered by four 825 horsepower engines of this type, named for a German inventor Diesel |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HIT TUNES $2000: Bryce Vine cracked the Mainstream Top 40 with this tune named for an ex-child star-turned-"Charlie's Angel" Drew Barrymore |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | RHYME TIME $400: This type of shirt bares the midriff a crop top |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | JEOPARDY! KEYWORDS, NOT! $800: This "Dairy State" is the USA's top milk producer, with lots coming from Tulare County in the Central Valley California |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $800: Ex-Lampooner Jim Downey not only wrote for "Saturday Night Live" longer than anybody else, he also created this perennial list read by David Letterman the Top 10 List |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: This word for a rope used to tie up a horse is also the name of a sleeveless top that has straps around the neck that leave the back bare halter |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | HAVE AN AGUILA! $800: Atlético Nacional & Independiente Medellín compete in Liga Águila, this country's top soccer league Colombia |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | MUSICAL LEGENDS $800: This country crossover star's Top 40 hits included "Rhinestone Cowboy" & "Wichita Lineman" Glen Campbell |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | WEIRD SPORTS STUFF $400: 2 ketchup bottles top the scoreboard of "The Big Ketchup Bottle", this home to the Pittsburgh Steelers Heinz Field |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MANY HANDS $400: The top hand symbolizes enlightenment, and the bottom, the world of appearances, in the Dhyana Mudra gesture of this religion Buddhism |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In April 1973 H.R. Haldeman & John Dean were among 4 top presidential aides forced out over this scandal Watergate |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $800: While running "Top Chef", this Indian-born woman wrote "The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs" Padma Lakshmi |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WINNIE-THE-POOH IN THE OED $200: Of course, Pooh is cited in the entry for this noun: "he sat down and took the top off his jar of" it honey |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WHISKEY BUSINESS $600: Forbes says India's Officer's Choice is the world's top-selling whiskey; America's is this Lynchburg libation Jack Daniel's |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | FESTIVALS $400: Given to the director of the best film, the Palme d'Or is the top prize at this festival Cannes |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1200: Learning to count was never more fun than with this author's "Ten Apples Up On top!" Dr. Seuss |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CISTERN CITIES $600: This tippy-top area of Athens employed wells & cisterns the Acropolis |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NEXT $400: Rolling Stones Top 40 hits:
"Heart of Stone",
"The Last Time",
this signature song, the band's first No. 1 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" ("Satisfaction" accepted) |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $800: This swimsuit model & body-positive activist is a judge on "America's Next Top Model" Ashley Graham |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | MUSIC I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH $400: In June 2018 "Random Access Memories" was one of 2 albums this helmet-headed duo had on the Dance/Electronic Top 25 Daft Punk |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | "GOOD" ENTERTAINMENT $2000: "Lucid Dreams" is a top 10 hit from this 2018 Juice Wrld album Goodbye and Good Riddance |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $200: This job title comes from akros, Greek for "highest" acrobat |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $600: People, not dogs, had this loud job of calling out attractions on the midway a barker |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $800: Desultor is an old term for someone who does this while 2 horses are running jump from one horse to the other |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $1000: Dangerous skills include fire-eating & this, requiring the ability to relax your esophageal sphincter sword swallowing |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | ALTAR EGOS $800: Donald Trump & Rosie O'Donnell were in attendance at the over-the-top 2002 wedding of David Gest to this Oscar winner (Liza) Minnelli |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POP CULTURE FOOD & DRINK $800: This nutty logo guy wears a top hat, monocle, gloves & spats Mr. Peanut |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | FAR FROM $2000: Because of the bulge from the Equator, the highest point above the Earth's center is the top of this mountain in Ecuador Mount Chimborazo |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $400: Without this wavy line on top of the "N", uña, "fingernail", becomes una, a form of "one" in Spanish a tilde |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $2000: Striking it rich in love, Colbie Caillat sings, "Feels like we're sittin' on top of" this "yeah, our love is" this a goldmine |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | SMOOTH SAILING IN SONG $1200: "Come Sail Away" was a '70s top 10 hit from this band with a name out of Greek mythology Styx |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | GREEK CUISINE $1000: This Greek favorite is sliced eggplant & ground lamb or beef; you can top it with bechamel moussaka |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $200: Every year, this best pal has been the most searched-for type of animal dog |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $400: The top movie searches of 2006 & 2016 were for this franchise with "The Last Stand" & "Apocalypse" installments X-Men |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $600: Each year the most searched-for author has been not a novelist but this man who penned "Letter from Birmingham Jail" MLK (Martin Luther King) |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $800: For 2016 & 2017 the most searched athlete was this Dublin-born MMA fighter Conor McGregor |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $1000: Since 2005 the Bible has been the most searched book & No. 2 has been this somewhat more recent sacred text the Koran |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) Here's the Little Round Top location of the 20th Maine regiment; out of ammo & exhausted, the 20th led a bayonet charge to secure Meade's left flank & saved the day during this battle Gettysburg |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $600: A painting that spent 60 years stored in this room at the top of a house was authenticated as a Van Gogh in 2013 an attic |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: Landless peasants did most of the farm work in this socioeconomic system with the nobility on top & the serfs below feudalism |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | TV FUNNY BUSINESS $400: Amy Schumer & Gabriel Iglesias are alumni of this NBC competition show Last Comic Standing |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FICTIONAL MEMOIRS $800: Will Ferrell "co-wrote" this anchorman's autobiography "Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life & Other Musings" Ron Burgundy |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | HATS INCREDIBLE $1000: "Pig" out & name this men's hat, flat on top with a crease around the crown's edge a porkpie hat |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $400: The life of the one & only Tookie de la Creme is detailed in "Modelland" by this host of "America's Next Top Model" Tyra Banks |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $200: 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the top-selling albums of all time, this band's "The Wall" Pink Floyd |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | THE DOCTORS $800: Dr. Joycelyn Elders wrote a memoir subtitled "From Sharecropper's Daughter to" this top U.S. medical job Surgeon General |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES $800: In 1984 this band scored a Top 10 with "New Moon On Monday"; now test your re-fle-fle-fle-flexes Duran Duran |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | WHAT A CIRCUS! $200: This name for the one in charge of the big top is also an appropriate title for Sauron the ringmaster |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2019 $600: Top 10 news topics of 2018 include this movement, known by a social media hashtag, leading to legal action for sexual assault #MeToo |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THE TOP 25 ROMANTIC COMEDIES $400: Of this 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone & Paul Rudd, Vanity Fair asks, "Has there ever been a better teen comedy? As if" Clueless |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THE TOP 25 ROMANTIC COMEDIES $600: Even the Oscars fell in love with this film, with wins for Cher, Olympia Dukakis & writer John Patrick Shanley Moonstruck |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THE TOP 25 ROMANTIC COMEDIES $800: The list kicks off at No. 25 with this film that revealed the joys of Nia Vardalos & the secret powers of Windex My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THE TOP 25 ROMANTIC COMEDIES $1000: VF called this 2001 film starring Audrey Tatou "French whimsy" Amélie |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | GLASSWARE $800: A snifter is narrow at the top to intensify the aroma of cognac & other types of this liquor brandy |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ROLLING A "7" $1200: Prussia & England came out on top of this 18th century conflict the 7 Years' War |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | TOP 10 TUNES $400: Cyndi Lauper told us, "When the working day is gone", this is the case girls just want to have fun |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | TOP 10 TUNES $800: In 2016 Mike Posner "took a pill in" this Spanish party island & woke up in the Top 10 Ibiza |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | TOP 10 TUNES $1200: "I gotta have" this song that went to No. 1 for George Michael "Faith" |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | TOP 10 TUNES $1600: "Don't Let Me Down" & "Closer" were Top 10 hits for this dance duo; "#SELFIE" only made it to No. 16 the Chainsmokers |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | TOP 10 TUNES $2000: Tom Jones first broke into the Top 10 in 1965 with this declaration of normalcy "It's Not Unusual" |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Simultaneous entertainment under the big top gave us this expression for something full of tumult a three-ring circus |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $1600: "American Sniper" is the top-grossing movie directed by an octogenarian, this man who's also an actor Clint Eastwood |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BILLY JOEL $600: This tender song was Billy's first U.S. Top 10 hit "Just The Way You Are" |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | BLACKJACK $600: Sure you can buy insurance if the dealer shows an ace on top, or you can do this & lose half your bet, no white flag needed surrender |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | TOP NON-SPORTS PROGRAMS OF ALL TIME $200: No. 1
(1983):
The last episode of this wartime sitcom M.A.S.H. |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | TOP NON-SPORTS PROGRAMS OF ALL TIME $400: No. 2
(1980):
An attempted killer's identity was revealed on this nighttime soap Dallas |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | TOP NON-SPORTS PROGRAMS OF ALL TIME $600: No. 3
(1977):
The eighth & final episode of this miniseries Roots |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | TOP NON-SPORTS PROGRAMS OF ALL TIME $800: No. 4 & No. 5
(1976):
The first & second parts of this movie originally released in 1939 Gone With the Wind |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | CRIMINOLOGY $1600: As with the savings & loan crisis, "collective" this 12-letter word is stealing funds from an institution by the top brass embezzlement |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | TAKING STOCK $400: The Nikkei Index tracks the top 225 stocks on this city's stock exchange Tokyo |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $400 (Daily Double): "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" (John) Donne |
| #7908, aired 2019-01-16 | APPROPRIATE NAMES $400: Igor Judge went into law & in 2013 retired as a high judge of England & Wales called lord this, much like the USA's top judge chief justice |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | ADJECTIVES $1600: No worries--it's just this 11-letter type of wound that affects the top layer of skin without penetrating deeper superficial |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | THE VOYAGE OF A BEAGLE $400: Snoopy once journeyed to the top of a great hill, leading this small friend's troop of scouts Woodstock |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS $400: 10 years after the original, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry joined Run-DMC on a new rendition of this Top 10 hit "Walk This Way" |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | TOP 40 COUNTDOWN $400: Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett kicked off happy hour with "It's" this time "Somewhere" Five O'Clock |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | TOP 40 COUNTDOWN $2000: In a 1997 hit the Wallflowers drove it home with this "One Headlight" |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS $2000: The soundtrack for this 2017 Hugh Jackman movie was in the top 10 for more than 30 weeks The Greatest Showman |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | U.S. NATIONAL LABORATORIES $1200: The top & bottom types of this particle were discovered in Fermilab in Illinois quarks |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | HIGHER EDUCATION $600: "The Book of Knowledge" is vied for by Carleton & Macalaster, called this state's top 2 liberal arts colleges Minnesota |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | GLOBAL MONSTERS $200: Typhon, a mythical beast with serpents for fingers, could only be defeated by this top Greek god Zeus |
| #7871, aired 2018-11-26 | PREDICTIONS BY 2030 $200: What could this "Hamilton" creator do to top himself by 2030? If anyone could pull off "Otis: The Man, the Elevator"... Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $400: This geographic circle is about 500 miles north of Stockholm the Arctic Circle |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $800: Unlike other species, the ribbon type of this animal crosses the ice by putting one flipper forward, then the other a seal |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | COSTS A LITTLE EXTRA $1000: In this type of medicine named for a helpful hotel employee, you pay a fee for personal attention on top of your insurance concierge |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $1600: A diary discovered in 1996 cast doubt on whether this American actually flew over the North Pole 70 years earlier Richard Byrd |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $2000: The Lapps of northern Scandinavia are AKA this, the name of their language the Sami |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | ON TOP OF THE WORLD $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1928 this Norwegian vanished while trying to rescue survivors of a Svalbard Archipelago crash (Roald) Amundsen |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | ROOM SERVICE $400: BYU has one of the USA's top programs for the type of dance named for this room a ballroom |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | HISTORIC TRIOS $400: In the early 20th c. the 3 top-of-the-White Star Line ocean liners were the Olympic, the Britannic & this doomed one the Titanic |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | SCHOOL UNIFORMS $600: Boys at England's Eton College are shown here in this type of hat they had to wear until the mid-1900s a top hat |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | MOUNTAINS $800: Molten rock that hardens but doesn't erupt forms this type of mountain, named for its rounded top a dome mountain |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE MINOR LEAGUES $600: The Lehigh Valley Ironpigs & the Tacoma Rainiers play at this top level of U.S. minor league baseball Triple A |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: Diabetics beware: the top-selling pop single of 1969 was this double-talk song from the Archies "Sugar, Sugar" |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $200: Start spreading the news--in the 2010s this name of a NYC borough was among the top 30 names for girls Brooklyn |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | I "NV" YOU $2000: Cumulonimbus clouds are often described as having a top shaped like this anvil |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | CONQUERED AFTER EVEREST $800: Heinrich Harrer, played on film by Brad Pitt, conquered Puncak Jaya, this "New" island's top peak New Guinea |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | SOCIAL MEDIA ABBREV. $800: When you want to bump a post up from obscurity, use "TTT" for this directional phrase to the top |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | EDUCATION $1000: Steel yourself:
This Pittsburgh university's Tepper School of Business has one of the top online MBA programs Carnegie Mellon |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | MOUNTAINS $1000: For the first time in 500 years, this volcanic mountain in the Philippines blew its top in 1991 Pinatubo |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | "TIME" FOR A TUNE $1600: In 2017 Jon Bellion hit the Top 20 with this downer "All Time Low" |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | BOOKS OF THE 1940s $1200: 3 of the top 10 nonfiction bestsellers of 1949 dealt with this Spanish-named rummy game canasta |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | COME UP TO THE LAB $400: In 1945 more than 5,000 people lived at the top secret lab in this town in New Mexico Los Alamos |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: In April 2018 Paul Ryan said he'd leave the House of Representatives & this top post there Speaker |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | PROFESSIONAL NICKNAMES $200: Once more, from the top--in the entertainment business, a hoofer is this job a dancer |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $200: Orson Welles, atop this ride in "The Third Man": "Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?" a Ferris wheel |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $400: If you've summited this "royal" kids' game, survey your subjects below as they try to knock you off King of the Hill |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $800: This mongoose relative, also called a suricate, emerges from its burrow, sits up tall & scans the horizon a meerkat |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $1000: In ballet versions of this Ravel piece, the ballerina dances high atop a large table surrounded by men Bolero |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | THE ABCs OF THE CIA $2000: Referring to the top CIA official in a foreign country, the COS is the chief of this station |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THAT'S PROPRIETARY, MA'AM $1200: This word is trademarked both for a "desk-top... card file" & for electronic use Rolodex |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: Our nation's top judicial body employs this professional fool Supreme Court jester |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | MONKEY, SEE? $600: A South American tamarin is called this top, for the plant fiber it looks like it has on its head cotton |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | THE FBI's 10 MOST WANTED LIST $200: When this man introduced the list in 1950, Thomas Holden was at the top (Edgar) Hoover |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | DAYTIME TV MEMORIES $1000: When this game show debuted in 1976, it was hosted by Chuck Barris & its top prize was $516.32 The Gong Show |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU $600: About half the states have elections for the top level of this branch of government the judiciary |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | SCIENCE STUFF $1600: The collapse of the top of a volcano's cone often forms this bowl-shaped depression in a volcano a caldera |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $800: Shaped like this fruit means tapered on top & round below; the Seckel has less of the classic shape than the Concorde pear |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $200: A kitchen fixture is in the name of this slang term for a tall, usually black silk top hat a stovepipe |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TOP TV SHOWS 1968 $400: "Julia" starred Diahann Carroll as a nurse & single mother, widowed when her husband died in this conflict the Vietnam War |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TOP TV SHOWS 1968 $800: Your answer, should you choose to say it, will be this series about a team of secret government agents led by Jim Phelps Mission: Impossible |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TOP TV SHOWS 1968 $1200: Produced as a sister show to "Petticoat Junction", this comedy centered on a city couple who move to a farm Green Acres |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TOP TV SHOWS 1968 $1600: Hit spinoffs from "The Andy Griffith Show" included "Mayberry RFD" & "Gomer Pyle", with this actor as the title U.S. Marine Jim Nabors |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PRINCE $1600: As a songwriter, Prince had the top 2 spots on the Billboard chart in 1986 when "Kiss" was No. 1 & this Bangles hit was 2 "Manic Monday" |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE OLD 3, 4 $2000: This term for full speed is the title of a BBC TV show about cars Top Gear |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | HISTORIC "P"LACES $2000: This volcano on Martinique blew its top in 1792, 1851, 1902 & 1929 Mount Pelée |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | MISCELLANEOUS $800: A song in "Oklahoma!" is this carriage "With The Fringe On Top" a surrey |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | HIP-HOP HOORAY! $800: Hooray for this hip-hopper who with "God's Plan" is the only act other than The Beatles with 20 Top 10 hits in one decade Drake |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | FER SURE, IT'S THE VALLEY, DUDE $200: You didn't need a jacket in the summer of 1996 in this California valley; 40 days saw temperatures top 120 degrees Death Valley |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | ON YOU $800: Your stratum corneum, or "horny layer", is the external part of this top skin layer the epidermis |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $2000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Back around World War I when you wanted to go fast, you put a big aircraft engine in a lightweight car; my 1915 Hispano-Souza uses the same kind of aircraft V8 as the S.P.A.D. flown by this race-car driver & top-scoring U.S. ace of World War I Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | STOCK MARKET INDEXES $600: This word for "stylish" rhymes with "fifty" in the name of a top stock index in India nifty |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | THE BRONTES $400: This title place created by Emily Bronte fittingly has nearby "stunted firs" & "gaunt thorns" on a "bleak hill-top" Wuthering Heights |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | MOVIE TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS $800: Israel re-titled this film "Love in the Skies" but we'd say Goose's experience in said skies was not as fun as Maverick's Top Gun |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $200: This top Norse god traded an eye to drink from Mimir's well & gain wisdom Odin |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | YOU KIDS & YOUR MUSIC THESE DAYS $200: "What About Us"? More like what about this "colorful" singer who hit the Top 40 with that tune in 2017 Pink |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $400: This Rodin sculpture was originally meant to be a seated portrait of Dante for the top of "The Gates of Hell" The Thinker |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | GIVE IT THE OLD COLLEGE "TRI" $800: Cover sponge cake with custard & jam, then top with whipped cream to make this English dessert trifle |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | ODD-TITLED TOP 40 HITS $400: Jim Stafford of "Spiders & Snakes" fame warned us in a 1975 hit that "Your Bulldog Drinks" this luxurious French wine Champagne |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | ODD-TITLED TOP 40 HITS $800: This sibling duo, Karen & Richard, were on top of the world with "Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft" The Carpenters |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | ODD-TITLED TOP 40 HITS $1200: In 2016 DNCE hit the charts wanting us to have this "By The Ocean" cake |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | ODD-TITLED TOP 40 HITS $1600: The bones of this rap group got the whole skeleton together for their first Top 40 hit, "Thuggish-Ruggish-Bone" Bone Thugs-N-Harmony |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | ODD-TITLED TOP 40 HITS $2000: This comedy duo had Top 40 hits like "Sister Mary Elephant" & "Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces" Cheech and Chong |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $2000: Members of The Cure wore kitty costumes in the video for this poppy tune, the band's first U.K. Top 10 hit "Love Cats" |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | FORESTS $800: The wind rustling through a forest of this tall grass has been named one of the top 100 sounds in Japan bamboo |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | HOME FURNISHINGS $800: Possibly derived from French, this short ornamental drapery hangs across the top of a window a valance |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | TOP SEEDS $200: As the picture proves, you don't need the luck of the Irish for this plant; just scatter the seed about clover |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | TOP SEEDS $400: This plant of genus Nicotiana has tiny seeds that use light to germinate so they can grow after top seeding tobacco |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | TOP SEEDS $800: The seeds of this edible plant, whether Butterhead or Burgundy Boston, are planted on top lettuce |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | TOP SEEDS $1000: Just place the seeds of this flower on top of your soil & they'll be sprouting in no time snapdragons |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | RATING SYSTEMS $800: The first person to have 2 restaurants earn this top Michelin rating was Eugenie Brazier three stars |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | MUSEUMS $1600: Frank Lloyd Wright intended visitors to this NYC museum that he designed to start at the top & spiral their way down the Guggenheim |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | MEDICATIONS $1600: Advair Diskus is a top-selling drug for this disease known by 4 initials COPD |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | JAY LENO'S GARAGE $1000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) With a top speed of more than 240 MPH, a central driving position & touches like an engine bay literally lined with heat-reflective gold, it's no surprise that this British company's F1 has been called the greatest car of the 20th century McLaren |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | WORD PUZZLES $1600: This time, it really matters high stakes |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | NEWSPAPERS $800: This famous 7-word motto appears in the top left corner of the New York Times' front page "All the news that's fit to print" |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $400: You know it would be true, you know I wouldn't be a liar, to say this band turned down $50K from Buick to use "Light My Fire" The Doors |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $800: This foursome was "Runnin' With The Devil" but runnin' without brown M&Ms, excluded in their concert contracts Van Halen |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $1200: For a track on "Quadrophenia", this band had to bribe a train driver to blow his whistle departing Waterloo station The Who |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $1600: Bob Geldof on the show-stopping performance by this band at Live Aid: "It was the perfect stage for Freddie" Queen |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $2000: At the 2017 Grammys, this hard rocking quartet of dudes went (Lady) Gaga to play "Moth Into Flame" Metallica |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | CRAYOLA COLORS $400: In 1996 the 100 billionth Crayola was molded in this color, the top prize at many a state fair blue ribbon |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | THE PRODUCERS $1600: "You be illin'" if you don't know that in 1986 Rick Rubin produced a Top 5 hit for this rap trio with "Walk This Way" Run-DMC |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | "YOU" TUNES $800: Tom Cruise sings... well...performs... this Righteous Brothers hit in "Top Gun"; now the clue is gone, gone, gone... "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $600: Top Hollywood agent Ari Gold was a character on this HBO series Entourage |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | LAX LUTHER $800: Luther mocked a friend who could only drink down to the top ring in a special wine mug, representing this, AKA the Decalogue the Ten Commandments |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: One of the top professional rodeos in the U.S. is the annual Snake River Stampede in Nampa in this state Idaho |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | BAND STANDS $1000: Run the Jewels, featuring El-P and this Atlanta activist, teamed with the New York Times for a Top 10 list of protest songs Killer Mike |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | THE BEST VOCABULARY $800: Your social standing could be described as this, the uppermost part of the cabinet or dresser top shelf (or top drawer) |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1200: The last veep to go on to win the top job was this one George H.W. Bush |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | HOLIDAY SONGS $400: This Adam Sandler favorite made the Top 40 twice & Neil Diamond did a version "The Chanukah Song" |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | I SING THE BODY $800: "Look but don't make your eyes strain", raps Cypress Hill in a Top 20 tune about going this insane in the brain |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | I SING THE BODY $1000: This Top 10 hit by Sam Hunt says, "Could drive it with my eyes closed, I know every curve like the back of my hand" "Body Like A Back Road" |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of north Africa.) From west to east across the top of north Africa, the first letters of the four highlighted countries spell out this word male |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | WET SCIENCE $1200: A halocline occurs when fresh water sits on top of salt water, the separation caused by the difference in this specific gravity (or density) |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | 5 EXES $1600: Seen here is this ex-top cop of Boston, Los Angeles & New York City--twice (Bill) Bratton |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | THE JOY OF SLUGS $200: Slug heads have 2 of this sensory organs similar to antennae, on the top for sight & on the bottom for smell & touch tentacles |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN $200: Huck? No; this last name of Huck, yes Finn |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN $600: Derived from a Scottish river, this name, like Sacha Baron Cohen's wife, Ms. Fisher Isla |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN $800: This name of a famous woman born in 1820; tell the nurse it's honoring her profession Florence |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | TOP BABY NAMES IN BRITAIN $1000: Spelled with an "O" or a "U", the name of this prophet Muhammad |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | TAKE A HIKE! $1000: REI offers 11-day hiking trips on the Lemosho route to the top of this highest African mountain Kilimanjaro |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | HISTORIANS' TERMS $800: Studying Lincoln is top-down history; focusing on soldiers & slaves is this, a term popularized by Prof. Jesse Lemisch bottom-up |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | NEVER HAVE I EVER $400: ...climbed to the top of the 275-foot General Sherman, a giant this type of tree located in the same-named national park a sequoia |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | CAUGHT $1000: Eli Cohen, who infiltrated the top ranks of Syria's military for this spy agency, was caught & hanged in 1965 Mossad |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | BOTANY $800: The ear is the female part of the corn plant & this group of silky strands at the top is the male organ the tassel |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "UR" THE TOP! $800: A 2016 report said that per capita, this country's citizens were the world's top eaters of beef Uruguay |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "UR" THE TOP! $1600: The peak of Mount Yamantau is the top of the southern section of this mountain range the Urals |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "UR" THE TOP! $2000: You're supremely suave & courteous, this adjective urbane |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: For a panoramic view of this European capital, take the funicular up to the top of Lycabettus Hill, its highest point Athens |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ROCK & ROLL! $800: Featured in the movie "Easy Rider", this song was Steppenwolf's first Top 40 hit "Born To Be Wild" |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ROCK & ROLL! $1000: Few were "better than" this man in 2015 when he hit the Top 10 Hot Rock Songs with "Budapest" (George) Ezra |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1000: This top prize of the Cannes Film Festival pays tribute to the city's coat of arms the Palme d'Or |
| #7590, aired 2017-09-15 | 2017 BILLBOARD HITS $1200: As of April 2017 "The Fame" by this woman who puts on a nifty Super Bowl show had spent 160 weeks on the Top Dance Album chart Lady Gaga |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | "LIKE" A SONG $200: The Steve Miller Band soared with this Top 10 hit way back in 1977 "Fly Like An Eagle" |
| #7587, aired 2017-09-12 | REALITY TV $1000: "ANTM" is short for this reality competition show America's Next Top Model |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | TV FOR THEE $400: This host's Top 10 list of "Least Popular Dr. Seuss Books" includes "If I Ran the Knicks" David Letterman |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $600: Everyone could see Thomas Dolby was poetry in motion with this 1983 Top 10 hit "She Blinded Me With Science" |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | STATELY SONGS $600: Head down South for this Top 10 hit that shares its name with a movie "Sweet Home Alabama" |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | HIDDEN GEMS $800: A top azalea breeder named Hans Hachmann came up with a flower in a gold one named for this gem topaz (in top azalea) |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | MAKES SENSE $1000: The title of this Christina Applegate sitcom referred to her amnesia Samantha Who |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | "CENTER"-TAINMENT $400: "2-Minute Drill" & "Top 10" are segments on this ESPN show SportsCenter |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME "AL" $1200: A horse not in the top 3 finishers is called this, just filling out the field an also-ran |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | CANDIDATE $1200: "Game Change" on HBO featured Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin & Ed Harris as this man at the top of the ticket John McCain |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE MANCUNIAN $2000: For actions in France during WWI, Manchester-born John Thomas was awarded this top British award for bravery the Victoria Cross |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | JAPANESE GEOGRAPHY $800: Goraiko is a term for seeing the sunrise from the top of this most popular tourist site in the country Mount Fuji |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | WINNING THROUGH ALLITERATION $400: President Bartlet won a different election as this show was Emmy's top drama series for 2003 The West Wing |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | FROM THE FRENCH $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the National World War I Museum.) With a two-man crew and a top speed of just 5 miles per hour, the Renault FT-17 revolutionized tank design with its ability to point its gun in any direction, thanks to this rotating top section, from the French for "tower" a turret |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | A ROCKY CATEGORY $1000: Be prepared to hear the Pride of the Southland marching band play "Rocky Top" more than once at games of this university Tennessee |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | GRADE THAT WORD $800: This type of building with triangular front & back walls & a long sloping roof gets top marks an A-frame |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TITLE ANIMALS $800: With 5 Oscars including Christopher Walken's, this 1978 Michael Cimino film shot to the top Deer Hunter |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THE CROWN $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an arch on the monitor.) In architecture, the crown is the top part of an arch, including this central wedge-shaped piece the keystone |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | FABULOUS FLORIDA $1000: In this panhandle city, a center of naval aviation, the top of the old lighthouse has great views of fly-bys Pensacola |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS $400: Take a chance on this 1978 Kenny Rogers album The Gambler |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE $1600: This western Mediterranean island, one of the smallest countries of Europe, is top 10 in world ship registration Malta |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | GERMAN SURNAMES $400: Just as Smith is common in the U.S., this name that means a smith is one of Germany's top 10 Schmidt |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | PIE-POURRI $1000: This crisscross top of a pie crust is often woven lattice |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE WORD IS FLAT $400: This type of crew cut is also an informal term for an aircraft carrier a flat-top |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET? $800: Glad you asked; it's a fountain pen from this "Alpine" company with an 18K gold nib & a diamond cap-top Montblanc |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | "I" TUNES $200: In 1962 Tony Bennett hit the Top 40 with this tune; he's sung it a few times since "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | IN BALTIMORE $600: "Made it, Ma!" With spectacular views of the city, it's this 4-word 27-story attraction Top of the World |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: May 3, 1986:
"A Top Soviet Aide Details Situation at Stricken Plant", this nuclear power station Chernobyl |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | SPY vs. SPY $800: In the 1940s & '50s top British agent Harold Philby, nicknamed this after a Kipling title boy, was really a KGB mole Kim |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ON TO GRAD SCHOOL $400: Initially, the 2017 U.S. News grad school rankings put this "Bay State" school at the top for engineering MIT |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $600: Nurse! Shawn Mendes needs the "needle & the thread" in this Top 10 hit "Stitches" |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | FANTASTIC BEASTS $800: The ravens Hugin & Munin gave this Norse top guy the scoop on far-flung developments Odin |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | WON'T YOU TAKE ME TO FUNKYTOWN? $1600: 1973's "Funky Stuff" was the first Top 40 hit of this funk-tastic band; "Jungle Boogie" was next Kool & the Gang |
| #7463, aired 2017-02-08 | DROPPIN' MAD BEETS $800: This classic Russian beet soup can be served hot or cold; top it with a dollop of sour cream borscht |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | EYE HEALTH $800: The traditional Snellen eye chart has this big letter at the top E |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | THE JEOPARDY! SORTING HAT $200: Well done! You've been selected to this major branch of the U.S. government whose top members are appointed for life the judicial branch |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me. Charleston |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE DRUMMER SINGS $800: "Beth", I hear you calling, but I hear Peter Criss singing that Top 10 hit for this group Kiss |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | GOVERNMENT & TV $800: On "The West Wing", John Spencer had this top advisory position in President Bartlet's administration Chief of Staff |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | PYRAMIDS $400: At 42.3 billion candlepower, the light beaming from the top of this Las Vegas pyramid is the strongest in the world Luxor |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | STRAIGHT OUTTA... $400: Inglewood, California: this model who hosted "America's Next Top Model" Tyra Banks |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | SONG OF "MYSELF" $600: Eric Carmen & Celine Dion had Top 10 hits with this lonely tune "All By Myself" |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL $200: The "new" version of this company's Beetle could keep up with Herbie, as its top speed was 125 mph-- punch buggy! Volkswagen |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL $400: If you buy the i8 from this Munich-based automaker, be prepared to say iPaid over $140,000 BMW |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL $600: This "intelligent" brand of vehicle may not have a lot of HP (89) but it does get a lot of MPG (39) a smart car |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL $800: The 4-door Panamera Turbo model of this car goes 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds; Carreras lumber along, taking over 4 Porsche |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL $1000: This company known for its 4-ring emblem makes the $163,000 R8 the Audi |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | DOVE $200: No. 1 in 1984, this Prince hit reaches the Top 10 again in 2016 soon after his death "When Doves Cry" |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | COAST $800: Wows like Cape Spear Lighthouse make the Avalon Peninsula on this Canadian island "National Geographic's" top coast Newfoundland |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PIECE $400: In 1880 the top piece of this boulder was reunited with tis base & the year "1620" was carved into it Plymouth Rock |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | TONY BENNETT $200: (Tony Bennett gives the clue.) In September 2014 I became the oldest artist, at age 88, to have the No. 1 album on the Billboard charts when "Cheek to Cheek", my duet album with this pop star, debuted at the top spot Lady Gaga |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | LANDMARKS $2000: 867 feet high from base to top, this Wyoming natural landmark is sacred to the Lakota Devils Tower |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | SWEET "T" $1000: This Latin American cake gets its name from the mixture of evaporated, condensed & whole milk that's poured on top tres leches |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $1000: This "Russian" orchestra directed by Paul O'Neill has had numerous Top 10 holiday albums including "The Lost Christmas Eve" the Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | "ROCK" IT TO ME $400: This Bill Haley classic topped the charts in 1955 & hit the Top 40 again in 1974 "Rock Around The Clock" |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | FROM "T" TO SHINING "T" $400: Chubby Checker reached the Top 40 5 times with songs about this dance the twist |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FRUITY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This type of crane has a bucketlike attachment at the top for carrying a worker a cherry picker |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES $400: For a stunning view of this Venezuelan capital, take the cable car up to the top of Pico el Ávila Caracas |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | AGRICULTURE $800: Growers of this nut, the top crop of California's San Joaquin Valley, had no "joy" in being blamed for using too much water almonds |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | REALITY TV SHOWS $2000: This supermodel is the creator of "America's Next Top Model" Tyra Banks |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | IN OUR STARS $400: You could say that this bright star is the top dog in Canis Major Sirius |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $2000: 3 creepy ladies say a guy'll be king, so he has to kill the top dog & order a hit on his pal in this play? That's. messed. up. Macbeth |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | YOU'RE THE TOP $200: With 27, this Major League Baseball team has won more World Series than any other the Yankees |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | YOU'RE THE TOP $800: Consumed by many each morning, this alkaloid is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world caffeine |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | YOU'RE THE TOP $1000: This Vegas edifice is the tallest tower in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River the Stratosphere |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | FORE! $800: This biennial cup has pitted Europe's top golfers against America's best since 1927 the Ryder Cup |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | FORE! $1000: With 5 wins in 27 tournaments, this American was the top-ranked men's golfer of 2015 Jordan Spieth |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | NUMERIC TERMS $2000: Well, that's the this amount of money "Question", the top prize on a quiz show when it debuted in 1955 $64,000 |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | A LOOK AT BOOKS $400: In 1932 Pearl Buck's "Sons" was a No. 3 bestseller; this other Buck book held the top spot The Good Earth |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | FORBIDDING WORDS $400: Sade had a top 10 song called "The Sweetest" this no-no "Taboo" |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | ENDLESSLY ROCKING $400: This "Sharp Dressed Man" trio formed in 1969, but it took a while before the beards developed their full grandeur ZZ Top |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | "C-U" $800: (Hi, I'm Al Roker.) You can expect heavy rain, lightning & thunder from this type of cloud that's recognized by its anvil-shaped top cumulonimbus |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | STATE FLOWERS $7,000 (Daily Double): Arizona's state flower is the white blossom found near the top of the stems & "arms" of this giant cactus the saguaro |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | TEASING $2000: You can buy a book of brainteasers at the website of this organization for the top 2% of intelligence test takers Mensa |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | NO. 2 ON THE CHARTS $400: Nat King Cole's "Ramblin' Rose" reached No. 2 in 1962 & this group's "Ramblin Man" just missed the top spot in 1973 the Allman Brothers |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | SAY IT IN SWEDISH $1200: Sweden's top rate of this, imkomstskatt, is 56% income tax |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | THEIR LAST TOP 10 POP HIT, SO FAR $2000: This girl group without their famous lead singer, "Stoned Love"
(1970) The Supremes |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME $400: This redheaded prop comedian has a long-term gig at the Luxor in Las Vegas Carrot Top |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | MY FIRST CAR $1600: Chris Evans, who in 2015 became host of this British auto-based TV show, drove a 1972 Mini 1000 as his first car Top Gear |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | BONE"S" $800: The top 7 ribs on each side attach to this bone in the center of your thorax the sternum |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | REALITY TV JUDGES $800: Tom Colicchio blogged "Why Stefan's dish was the worst" in a post called "Hog Hell" on this Bravo show's website Top Chef |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | EURO-MONARCHY $2000: This current monarchy's Bernadotte Dynasty derives from one of Napoleon's top military men Sweden |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | GOOD WORKOUT SONGS $800: This only Top 40 hit by Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It" |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | TRAVEL USA $800: You can visit a weather museum at the top of this New Hampshire peak, reachable via a cog railway Mt. Washington |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $800: Shepherd's pie has a traditional crust of this on top whipped potatoes |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | POP QUIZ $1600: This BBC music show debuted in 1964 playing all the hits for generations of music fans Top of the Pops |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | HITT"ING" THE TOP 40 $200: The title of this song by Drake refers to a late-night cellphone call "Hotline Bling" |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | HITT"ING" THE TOP 40 $600: This 1973 No. 1 hit by Roberta Flack won Grammys for Record of the Year & Song of the Year "Killing Me Softly With His Song" |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | HITT"ING" THE TOP 40 $800: Wise men know that this Elvis Song was inspired by the French melody "Plaisir d'amour" "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | HITT"ING" THE TOP 40 $1000: Appropriately, this CCR hit was on the soundtrack to "An American Werewolf in London" "Bad Moon Rising" |
| #7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1,400 (Daily Double): In this Roald Dahl work, the title edible eventually comes to rest on top of the Empire State Building James and the Giant Peach |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | "YES" "NO" "OR" "MAY" "BE" $400: In 1965 this Beatles song was No. 1 on Billboard's Top 40 for 4 weeks "Yesterday" |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR $800: In 2015 Maggie Doyne, who helped girls in Nepal, was the top honoree at this news network's annual tribute "Heroes" CNN |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | BOOK SONGS $800: This bespectacled singer made his Top 40 debut with "Everyday I Write The Book" Elvis Costello |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | THE MAN UPSTAIRS $200: Sanjay Shah paid $17 million cash for the top floor of the spiffy Chicago "Tower" bearing this mogul's name Trump |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | ROCK ME GENTLY $600: This duo's Top 40 debut was a No. 1 hit as they sang, "Just like me, they long to be close to you" the Carpenters |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | KEY $200: If you're shooting from the top of the key, you're trying to score in this sport basketball |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS $800: In 1871 John Maynard Woodworth became the first man appointed to this top U.S. medical post surgeon general |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | FICTION $200: This third installment of Stieg Larsson's "Girl" trilogy was the top-selling hardcover fiction book of 2010 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $400: Hillary Step, a 40-foot wall of rock & ice, greets climbers as they approach the summit of this mountain Everest |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $1200: Merapi, or "mountain of fire", is a sacred volcano on Java in this country Indonesia |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $1600: Mount Corno is the highest peak in this Italian range that stretches 870 miles north to south Apennines |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $2,000 (Daily Double): The real colossus of this Greek island is Mount Attavyros, its highest peak at 3,986 feet Rhodes |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $2000: Mount Caubvick, Labrador's highest peak, lies on the border with this province Quebec |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | ALPHABET SOUP $600: "F" is for this soup with a little cheesy goodness on top French onion soup |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | WHERE YOU BEEN? $800: On top of old Mt. Godwin Austen, now better known by this alphanumeric moniker K2 |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | POP MUSIC $1600: This singer-songwriter reached the Top 10 twice with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", in 1962 & 1976 Neil Sedaka |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $3,000 (Daily Double): Helvetica is this kind of typeface that by definition lacks the fine cross-strokes at the top & bottom of letters sans serif |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC WEDDING VOWS $200: I will always let you be the racecar or top hat when we play this game; I'm cool with being the thimble Monopoly |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2016 EDITION $1000: On the list of the world's richest people, Bill Gates is on top with this Mexican telecommunications mogul at No. 2 Carlos Slim |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | WHO READS $800: New York Times bestseller lists now track top sales in fiction & nonfiction by combining print & this type of book an e-book |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WISCONSIN $200: On the state seal a miner & a sailor support a shield on top of which is this animal badger |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1200: In this Top 10 hit from 1972, Alice Cooper exults over "No more pencils, no more books" "School's Out" |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1600: Brownsville Station's only Top 10 hit was a 1973 smash about doing this forbidden thing "in the boys room" smoking |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | TOP "TEN" $800: Once a teacher is granted this, it's hard to dismiss him tenure |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $600: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Wednesday you had to know compound words where each half could also have "dead" before it--there was airline, seahorse & this response to "top on official stationery" letterhead |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANK SINATRA $400: Start spreading the news--this Big Apple anthem was Frank's last Top 40 pop hit "New York, New York" |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | FAMILIAR BRANDS IN SONG $200: This deodorant aimed at girls is in the title of Nirvana's first Top 40 hit Teen Spirit |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $600: As it happened, the day before Thanksgiving 2005 the Times honored Ruth Siems, an inventor of this stuffing brand Stove Top Stuffing |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | SUTTER'S FORT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew makes candles at Sutter's Fort in Sacramento, CA.) Although John Sutter probably had a whale oil lamp, most of the lighting at the fort was provided by candles; occasionally, special candles were made from the lighter, less aromatic top layer of this cattle fat tallow |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $1200: The top of Nevada's Tikaboo Peak provides a vantage point for viewing this military "Area" Area 51 |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE AUSSIE INVASION $1600: In 1988 this group hit the Top 5 with both "Devil Inside" & "New Sensation" INXS |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | FOOD & DRINK $1,000 (Daily Double): Wine Spectator magazine named as its top wine of 2014 Dow's 2011 vintage this from the Douro Valley in Europe port |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK $400: New kid name on the block:
For 2013 this boat builder became the top U.S. baby boy name Noah |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS $1200: The Sagrada Familia built by Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi is this Spanish city's top tourist attraction Barcelona |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a mountain on the monitor.) Whether a climber takes a direct route or a scenic one, it takes the same amount of work to overcome gravity on the way to the top of the mountain because gravity is this type of force, a political antonym of "liberal" conservative |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | FICTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS $600: SD-6, a top-secret spy agency, recruited college student Sydney Bristow, "Alias" this actress Jennifer Garner |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | THAT'S SHOE BIZ! $200: Paul Sperry created this nonslip boat shoe in 1935; it's still a favorite on deck today Top-Siders |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | REORDERING THE NOTED PAIR $800: Time to give the climbing aspect top billing in this classic kids' game from Hasbro; the sliding part slides to the back end Ladders & Chutes |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | A "RUN" OF TOP 40 HITS $1200: Alt-rocker Ryan Adams doesn't like being mixed up with Bryan Adams, but has performed this hit of Bryan's in concert "Run To You" |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | A "RUN" OF TOP 40 HITS $1600: "This here's a story about Billy Joe & Bobbie Sue"; really, this here's a clue about this song by the Steve Miller Band "Take The Money And Run" |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | A "RUN" OF TOP 40 HITS $2000: In 1993 Soul Asylum "bought a ticket for" this title transport, "like a madman laughin' at the rain" "Runaway Train" |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS $200: If only there were some kind of way to search the Internet for this $174 billion tech company, No. 2 on the list Google |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS $600: The heck with the Surgeon General! This cigarette brand valued at $80 billion was tenth, "Man" Marlboro |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS $800: A 2015 CNN.com headline said the CEO of this restaurant chain, No. 9, "promises better food" McDonald's |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | TOP 10 GLOBAL BRANDS $1000: In 2015 this company, No. 7 on the list, put some of its $86 billion in value to work, buying AOL for $4.4 billion Verizon |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | ASIAN MOUNTAINS $400: Mount Kita-Dake, Japan's second-highest peak, is almost 2,000 feet lower than this top mountain Fuji |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: At the daily Page 1 meeting, 1 decision is the prime spot, top right; on 7/14/15 it was this E.U. country's new austerity deal Greece |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MOTOWN $1200: "Twistin' Postman" was the Marvelettes' Top 40 follow-up to this No. 1 recording "Please Mr. Postman" |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY $200: In 2014 this retailer beat Exxon Mobil for the second year in a row to claim the top spot Walmart |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | WATERGATE $1600: The scandal led to the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman & this ‑man, assistant to Nixon for domestic affairs (John) Ehrlichman |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $400: A 1983 article about a naval flight school was the genesis of this Tom Cruise hit Top Gun |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC! $400: Leave leftovers in the top section of the icebox too long & they can get this result caused by loss of surface moisture freezer burn |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | CHARLESTONS $800: You'll find Charleston at the top of this state's "Bootheel", near Cape Girardeau Missouri |
| #7104, aired 2015-07-02 | USS COD $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew bunks in the USS Cod in Cleveland, OH.) Living quarters on the Cod were cramped, with three crewmen taking turns sharing two bunks; the upper one I'm in, with extra headroom to accommodate the torpedo-loading hatch, was called this--a term for a top-floor, luxurious apartment a penthouse |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | THE DESOLATION OF SMOG $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Smog episodes in urban areas are intensified when normally low-lying, warm air moves on top of a cold layer, creating this weather condition that traps pollutants (thermal) inversion |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | A TOP 40 HIT 3 TIMES $800: "MacArthur Park":
Richard Harris in 1968, the Four Tops in 1971 & this disco diva in 1978 Donna Summer |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | A TOP 40 HIT 3 TIMES $1200: "Handy Man":
Jimmy Jones in 1960, Del Shannon in 1964 & this solo artist in 1977 James Taylor |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | A TOP 40 HIT 3 TIMES $1600: "Fever":
Little Willie John in 1956, The McCoys in 1965 & this lady in 1958 Peggy Lee |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | A TOP 40 HIT 3 TIMES $2000: "If I Were A Carpenter":
Bobby Darin in 1966, the Four Tops in 1968 & this married country duo in 1970 Johnny Cash & June Carter |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | WHAT WOMEN IN FILM WANT $200: In "Grand Hotel", Greta Garbo had this 5-word desire, No. 30 on AFI's list of top 100 movie quotes "I want to be alone" |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | HAIRMAGEDDON $1000: Because it'll act as a guide, the length on top determines the overall length in a cut that's this, like a shag layered |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | HOME ON THE RANGE $400: Let's give thanks to Kraft for making the Stove Top brand of this all year long stuffing |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from off the coast of Mangareva Island.) Mangareva Island was part of a volcano that blew its top & collapsed, allowing a lagoon to form in this central part of the volcano, Spanish for cauldron caldera |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | HALL OF RECORDS $800: "Sara Smile" was the first Top 10 hit for this duo Hall & Oates |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PUSSYCAT POT-PURREE $1200: This group's 2005 debut single "Don't Cha" was a Top 10 hit the Pussycat Dolls |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | BACK THEN NO ONE KNEW $800: ...that this is a roll of flesh that hangs over a waistband, not just part of a baked good a muffin top |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | AGRICULTURE $800: California's top cash crop is grapes; a close 2nd is this nut for which the state supplies 80% of world production almonds |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | PRESENTED IN 2D $600: An architect's face-on drawing of a building is an elevation; a top-down view is this simple 4-letter word a plan |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | ADVERTISING ICONS $600: A schoolkid won $5 for designing this top-hatted Planter's icon Mr. Peanut |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY $600: Cook up this classic dish with ground lamb or beef & don't forget the mashed potato crust on top shepherd's pie |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | MILITARY TV $800: Sort of "Top Gun" meets "Law & Order", this 1995-2005 show mixed legal, military & personal stories J.A.G. |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song "1999" |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | HISTORY $800: On Oct. 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop was the 1st of 10 top convicted Nazis to be executed in this city Nuremberg |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1600: In 2014 work on curved surfaces made Maryam Mirzakhani the 1st woman to get the Fields Medal, this field's top honor math |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | PUT ON YOUR DISCO SHOES $600: To everything there is a season: the first Top 40 hit for this "Queen of Disco" was "Love To Love You Baby" Donna Summer |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | THE MUSICAL '90s $800: In the 1990s this group spent an amazing 51 weeks at No. 1, beginning with "End of the Road", on top for 13 weeks Boyz II Men |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | THE MUSICAL '90s $2000: In 1998 this trio named for a toy reached the top of the charts with "Iris" for the "City of Angels" soundtrack the Goo Goo Dolls |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | LAWN CARE $200: Use the manure or fertilizer mixture called "top" this, even though it sounds like it goes on your salad "dressing" |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | THE GROUP OF DEATH $400: In 1999 Eddie Vedder & this band grunged out a Top 10 version of this '60s tearjerker "Last Kiss" Pearl Jam |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | I WANT TO ROCK & ROLL ALL NIGHT $200: In 1975 "Rock And Roll All Nite" became the first Top 40 hit for this band unafraid of a little stage makeup Kiss |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | RAGE FOR THE MACHINE $2000: Once endorsed by Andre Agassi, this company's Rebel camera was a Consumer Reports Top 10 electronics product of 2013 Canon |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | WOMEN'S CLOTHING $400: This spaghetti-strap top that may or may not end in "sole" has morphed from underwear to outerwear a camisole (or "cami") |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | NCAA CHAMPS $600: This man, "Coach K", led Duke to the top in 1991 & 1992 & don't worry, we won't make you spell his last name... today (Mike) Krzyzewski |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ICE DANCING $200: (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) Ice dancing was once a social sport in which top-hatted men parade on the ice with ladies in long dresses;
the skaters incorporated elements of ballroom dancing, like this elegant dance from Vienna the waltz |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | HIDDEN GEMS $1200: The astronomer carefully adjusted the top azimuth of his telescope made of this topaz (in top azimuth) |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In Hoffman vs. Streep, this film came out on top Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | TRANSLATE THE AUSTRALIAN, MATE $2000: A "Top Ender" is a resident of this territory the Northern Territory |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BUDS $200: After the death of his closest friend Hephaestion in 324 B.C., this Macedonian never re-filled his top cavalry post Alexander the Great |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $600: Charlie Bucket lost top billing when Roald Dahl's popular confectionery tale became this 1970s film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | OFFICIAL STATE SYMBOLS $1600: This Alaskan dog beat out the Siberian husky to be Alaska's top dog the Malamute |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2015 $200: The "Top 10 News Topics of 2014" included unrest in this Missouri suburb Ferguson |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $800: When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall "with his legs crossed, like a Turk" Humpty Dumpty |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | HOSPITALS $2000: For 2014-15 U.S. News & World Report ranked this Ohio facility as the nation's top cardiology & heart surgery hospital the Cleveland Clinic |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | 3 "E"s $200: Here's the church, here's this tall pointed tower on top the steeple |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | TOP 30 TO 40 HITS $400: Kazaam! In 1993 this NBA superstar hit for 35 (on the charts, not the court) with "(I Know I Got) Skillz" Shaquille O'Neal |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | TOP 30 TO 40 HITS $1200: This actress-singer "from the block" was 32nd-best in 2003 with "I'm Glad" Jennifer Lopez |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | TOP 30 TO 40 HITS $1600: In 1978 this Jeff Lynne group took "Mr. Blue Sky" to No. 35 ELO |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | TOP 30 TO 40 HITS $2000: After discovering "Your Body Is A Wonderland", this singer/guitarist made it to No. 33 with "Bigger Than My Body" in 2003 John Mayer |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | HERALDRY $800: The white at the top of a Canadian territorial coat of arms represents the polar regions; the wavy blue line, this trade route The Northwest Passage |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | IT'S A FACT $800: To get you into this 5-letter organization of smarties, your IQ has to be in the top 2% of the population Mensa |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | COACHING IN THE NFL $600: The AP said this alliteratively named Cowboys top man of the '90s ruled "with an iron fist and a helmet of hair" Jimmy Johnson |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | THE $1 BILL $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) At the top of each bill are the words "this note is..." this two-word phrase "...for all debts public and private" legal tender |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | 1980s MUSIC $400: This 1984 Madonna album spawned 4 Top 5 hits, including "Material Girl" Like a Virgin |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS $800: This Halle Berry film clawed its way to the top--er, bottom for 2004 Catwoman |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | UNLIKELY COUNTRY TOP 40 PERFORMERS $200: When I think of No. 1 country stars, I think of this guy, "Dirty Harry" himself, paired with Merle Haggard on "Bar Room Buddies" Clint Eastwood |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | UNLIKELY COUNTRY TOP 40 PERFORMERS $800: We hope you know this "Road" crooner of film crooned "Pistol Packin' Mama" with the Andrews Sisters in 1944 Bing Crosby |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | THE FUNNY PAPERS $400: This pet of Dilbert's "wrote" his "Top Secret Management Handbook" Dogbert |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | PANHANDLE STATES $600: Oklahoma's panhandle has the state's highest point, "Black" this type of flat-top formation of the Southwest mesa |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | THE 1920s $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2012 the top 1% of earners had their biggest share of U.S. household income since this year just before a crash 1928 |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | NAME THAT SONG $1200: Chuck Berry's first Top 40 hit was this one about a girl in a Coupe de Ville "Maybellene" |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | HI, TECH! $1,000 (Daily Double): No. 6 of Forbes' Top 7 Tech Trends That Will Dominate 2014: this type of "printing will begin to revolutionize production" 3-D printing |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PUERTO RICO $1200: In 2012 Alejandro Padilla was elected this, the island's top executive position, for a 4-year term governor |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS $800: The Palme d'Or is the top prize at this festival held on the French Riviera Cannes |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS $400: The opening theme to this movie about a Jew & a Christian racing at the Olympics was a No. 1 hit Chariots of Fire |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS $800: This smooth sax man first flew into the Top 40 in 1987 with "Songbird" Kenny G |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS $1200: "Axel F", by one-hit wonder Harold Faltermeyer, was featured in this 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TOP 40 INSTRUMENTALS $1600: No copping out--in 1985 Jan Hammer hammered home the No. 1 theme to this TV series Miami Vice |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $200: "Star Wars Theme":
Meco & this composer of the theme, both in 1977 John Williams |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 4-LETTER TV SHOW TITLES $400: Since 2009 dozens of songs from this TV show have made the Top 40 Glee |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $400: "California Girls":
The Beach Boys in 1965 & this lead singer of Van Halen in 1985 David Lee Roth |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $600: "Always On My Mind":
Willie Nelson in 1982 & this British synth-pop dance duo in 1988 Pet Shop Boys |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $800: "Emotion":
Samantha Sang in 1978 & this female R&B group in 2001 Destiny's Child |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | A TOP 10 HIT TWICE $1000: "Lady Marmalade":
LaBelle in 1975 & this lady with Lil' Kim, Maya & Pink in 2001 Christina Aguilera |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | AT THE MOVIES 10 YEARS AGO $200: This Michael Moore documentary about the war on terrorism took the top prize at Cannes in 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $2000: Bob Hope & Bing Crosby had cameos in this 1952 Cecil B. Demille film as spectators munching popcorn under the big top The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | ON A BILLBOARD CHART IN 2014 $400: As of Aug. 6, 2014 "Legend: The Best of" this man "and the Wailers" had spent 288 weeks on the Billboard top 200 albums chart Bob Marley |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | MOUNTAINS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) The Earth bulges in the middle, so the furthest point from the Earth's center is the top of Chimborazo in this South American country Ecuador |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | FOOD & DRINK $600: This drink is the main product of Tree Top Inc. of Selah, Washington apple juice |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | INTERNATIONAL TRADE $800: At more than $200 billion worth, France's top international trade partner is this neighboring country Germany |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | DONALD DUCK $400: A creation of the comic books, this rich old miser wears a red coat & a black silk top hat Scrooge McDuck |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WHO LET THE GODS OUT? $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Cambodia.) Now called Ta Reach, or "royal ancestor", & found in the main entrance shrine, a statue of this god to whom Angkor Wat was originally dedicated may have once been located in the central shrine at the very top Vishnu |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | NO. 1 SONGS $800: In 1973 this brother & sister duo were on top of the charts with "Top Of The World" The Carpenters |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | "V"OCABULARY $800: This ornamental drapery is hung across the top edge of a bed, table or canopy valance |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | MOUNTAIN BIKING $2000: Named the USA's top trail, the 26-mile McKenzie River Trail not far from Bend in this state has many a bend itself Oregon |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | HERE'S YOUR HAT $1600: A hat with this Spanish occupational name resembles the top of a bull's head, with 2 projections like horns matador (toreador accepted) |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | POTENT POTABLES $400: Varicella you don't want; valpolicella, one of this country's top red wines, you do Italy |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | CAIRO $2,000 (Daily Double): The Citadel, one of Cairo's top landmarks, is a 12th century fortress built by this Muslim warrior Saladin (Salah al-Din) |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | MOVIEMAKERS $800: Ridley's brother, this late director delivered lots of action from "Top Gun" to "Man on Fire" Tony Scott |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | ANGELS & DEMONS $800: At home games of the Los Angeles Angels, this top 20 hit by Train accompanies a tribute video of past players "Calling All Angels" |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | MOVIE TUNES $800: This song by Queen re-entered the Top 10 after it was featured in "Wayne's World" "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | THE 1950s $1000: Surprisingly, Dr. Joyce Brothers' knowledge of this sport earned her the top prize on "The $64,000 Question" boxing |
| #6857, aired 2014-06-10 | 1990s HITMAKERS $800: In 1994 this R&B group's
"I'll Make Love To You"
remained at the top of the charts for 14 straight weeks Boyz II Men |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN" $200: ...3, 2, 1 is an example of this; so is "American Top 40" a countdown |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | SPORTS TALK $400: In 1996 MLB expanded this area, moving one boundary from the top to the bottom of the batter's knees the strike zone |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | SPORTS TALK $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a racetrack diagram on a monitor.) At the start of a NASCAR race, the top cars line up according to their qualifying times; best time gets this 2-word spot, a term said to have originated in horse racing pole position |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | SCIENCE STUFF $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew makes a bubble top to a tub.) The soapy water over the tub expands because the dry ice in the bowl is undergoing this process, in which a solid is transformed directly into a gas sublimation |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | DIDN'T MAKE THE BILLBOARD TOP 40 $2000: At No. 76, this New Wave band with "I Melt With You" Modern English |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRANDS $400: This brand's "Light" is the USA's top-selling beer Bud |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | "ROUND" 'EM UP $2000: 2 crucial hills in the Battle of Gettysburg were "Big" & "Little" this Round Top |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | DISCOVER $400: Near the top of the "100 Top Stories of 2013" was the announcement that atmospheric levels of this gas topped 400 ppm CO2 (carbon dioxide) |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES $200: On the first list, in 1955, this word followed "U.S.", "Bethlehem" & "Republic" in the top 30 Steel |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES $600: In 1974 it was "Good Times" for this network, the top media company at No. 14 CBS |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES $800: In 1964 the top 10 had 4 oil companies, including this one named for a body of water Gulf |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | FASHION HISTORY $800: Chimney-pot is another name for this high silk top hat big in the 19th century a stove pipe |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $400: This trio of brothers dominated the charts in the late '70s but also had a hit in 1997 with "Alone" the Bee Gees |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $800: In 1987 this band of L.A. women hit No. 2 with "Hazy Shade Of Winter" the Bangles |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $1200: This Jersey band's first Top 40 hit was 1984's "Runaway"; "It's My Life" hit the chart in 2000 Bon Jovi |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $1600: Among this woman's 15 Top 40 hits are "Shadows Of The Night" & "We Belong" Pat Benatar |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | "B" IN THE TOP 40 $2000: In 2000 this group from the West Indies wondered "Who Let The Dogs Out" (repeatedly) the Baha Men |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $200: 1992:
This rockin' group with "Under The Bridge" The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in an open vehicle in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Though they rest 20 hours a day, the lion is the top of the African food chain; in Swahili, the word for lion is this simba |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $400: 1966:
This quartet had us "California Dreamin"' The Mamas & the Papas |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $800: 1987:
This female trio pushed onto the charts with "Push It" Salt-N-Pepa |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | TOP 40 DEBUTS $1000: 2009:
This single-named British gal was "Chasing Pavements" Adele |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | WELCOME TO NASHVILLE $400: Let's hear it for Nashville's top attraction, this show (& venue) "that made country music famous" the Grand Ole Opry |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | PLAYING BONNAROO $400: As Bonnaroo is a music festival in this state, in 2012 Phish delighted the crowd with the Volunteers anthem "Rocky Top" Tennessee |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | POTENT POTABLES $600: To prepare a brave bull, pour tequila in a glass & top with this coffee-flavored liqueur from Veracruz, Mexico Kahlúa |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | VIRGINIA IS FOR FIGHTERS $800: In 1794 this man who got top billing in a later exploration joined the Virginia militia to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion Lewis |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | DON'T SONGS $400: A 1956 No. 1 hit for Elvis & a Top 10 hit for Bobby Brown share this title "Don't Be Cruel" |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | COLLEGE TOWNS $200: Georgia's Bulldogs are top dogs in this city that was named for an ancient center of culture & learning Athens |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 $200: Get the Bronte beat with this title character's story, coming in at No. 1 Jane Eyre |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 $400: This vintage Vonnegut "meal" from 1973 ranks No. 3 Breakfast of Champions |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 $600: This first novel by Carson McCullers takes 35th place on the list The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 $800: No. 55 is this Alan Moore graphic novel of aging superheroes Watchmen |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | THE HARVARD BOOK STORE TOP 100 $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1855 volume of American poetry rounds out the Top 100 Leaves of Grass |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BUSINESS & THE MARKET $200: In 2008 Toyota ended this company's 77-year reign as the world's top automaker General Motors |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | THE TOP 40 A TO Z $200: A:
This magic word, the title of a No. 1 hit by the Steve Miller band "Abracadabra" |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | THE TOP 40 A TO Z $400: F:
You "gotta have" this, as George Michael sang "Faith" |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | THE TOP 40 A TO Z $600: H:
This hit by Train that gives '80s band Mr. Mister its due "Hey, Soul Sister" |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | THE TOP 40 A TO Z $800: X:
This song on which ELO & Olivia Newton-John collaborated "Xanadu" |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | THE TOP 40 A TO Z $1000: Z:
This song by The Cranberries that protested violence by the IRA, not the undead "Zombie" |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT $2000: Usain Bolt can run close to 28 mph, but this African resident may be the fastest creature on 2 legs, with a top speed of 45 the ostrich |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | HIGH MAINTENANCE $1200: It took a "difficult access team" of rappelers to assess earthquake damage to the top of this 555-foot D.C. landmark the Washington Monument |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | CADILLACS $1000: This top-of-the-line Caddie convertible was designed for the company's 1952 "golden" anniversary--si? the Eldorado |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | THIS & THAT $400: Currently the top 10 baby names for girls include Emma, Sophia Isabella & this; Ms. Newton-John was ahead of her time Olivia |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BUILDING $800: Dick Bowser designed the unique tram system that takes visitors to the top of this St. Louis landmark (Gateway) Arch |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | TV $200: Aspiring chefs on this Fox series endure the wrath of Gordon Ramsay for a chance to work at a top restaurant Hell's Kitchen |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | YOU FLOOR ME! $600: Derek Jeter lived for a decade in this type of top-floor pad in the Trump Tower a penthouse |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | "me"TUNES $1600: Back off! In 1981 The Police had proximity issues with this Top 10 hit "Don't Stand So Close To Me" |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | THOSE "R" THE TOP 10 HITS $800: The Stray Cats,
1982 "Rock This Town" |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GRAPE JAM $1000: In 1869 this dentist began making "unfermented wine" for communion; today his company is a top marketer of grape juice (Thomas) Welch |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $800: (Hi, I'm CCH Pounder.) My iPod's got soul--specifically, this "Godfather of Soul", & his 1968 Top 10 hit "Say It Loud--I'm Black And I'm Proud" James Brown |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | FARTHER LEFT THAN BARACK OBAMA $1200: This man lost his 1997 Parliament run, but today is the U.K.'s top dog David Cameron |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $2000: In 2013 this New Zealander directed the Sundance Channel's 7-part miniseries "Top of the Lake" Jane Campion |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | LANGUAGES IN THE USA $200: In 1993 KLAX-FM became the first station in this language to top L.A.'s radio ratings Spanish |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $1600: Clingmans Dome, Tennessee's highest peak, is also known as this, so sing a song when you're "on top of" it Old Smoky |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | HATS ALL, FOLKS $400: An opera hat is collapsible & made of dull silk, but you're puttin' on this tall hat, made of shiny silk with a narrow brim a top hat |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | HATS ALL, FOLKS $600: The lady wore this soft cap with a round top, "the kind you find in a secondhand store" a beret |
| #6685, aired 2013-10-11 | WET BAR GLOSSARY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a goblet of cognac.) This special goblet used to serve fine cognac narrows at the top to trap & enhance the aroma of the liquor a snifter |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $400: Richard Harris & others sang of this L.A. space "melting in the dark, all the sweet, green icing flowing down" MacArthur Park |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $800: It wasn't "Blue Velvet", but the song "The Days Of Sand & Shovels" also charted for this singer Bobby Vinton |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $1200: In a top 40 classic from 1966 this "king of the road" warned us that "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd" Roger Miller |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $1600: In 1967 "Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt)" charted for this "I'm Henry The Eighth I Am" band Herman's Hermits |
| #6683, aired 2013-10-09 | WEIRD TOP 40 HITS $2000: You'll be nibbling on bacon & chewing on cheese if you can name this beastly 1976 hit from the Captain & Tennille "Muskrat Love" |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | CASTLING $1200: This low wall at the top of the ramparts kept soldiers from falling off & protected against enemy fire parapets |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | DO YOU COMPUTE? $400: The top-selling computer imaging software is this program released in 1987 & its related elements from Adobe Photoshop |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | SAN ANTONIO $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from San Antonio, TX.) This area along the banks of the San Antonio is a top Texas tourist attraction as well as an inspiration to other cities trying to create green space the River Walk |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER $1000: The ascending this rises from the left ventricle of the heart almost to the top of the breastbone aorta |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | REALITY CHECKS $600: $516.32 was the top prize for contestants on this Chuck Barris "talent" show The Gong Show |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | ¡HOLA TEQUILA! $400: Top-shelf tequila is labeled "tequila 100% blue" this plant agave |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | PUSH & PULL $800: Having no opener for his beverage can at a picnic prompted Ernie Fraze to invent this in 1959 the pull top cap |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | LADIES IN DIS-TRESS $800: In 1955's "The Virgin Queen", this actress didn't lose her head but lost a lot off the top in the title role Bette Davis |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | ROCK & ROLL CALL $400: Drummer Frank Beard is the only member of this Texas trio who does not sport a flowing beard ZZ Top |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) On the second day, Union General Sickles unwisely advanced his troops. Lucky for the north, General Warren noticed the move & the Union quickly reoccupied the strategic hill called Little this (Little) Round Top |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | CAPE TOWN LADIES $1600: Cape Town-born Sybil Jason, who died in 2011, was a child star rival of this "Little Curly Top" 20th Century Fox star Shirley Temple |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | FEMALE WORLD LEADERS $1200: Once VP under president Oscar Arias Sanchez, Laura Chinchilla has the top job in this Central American country Costa Rica |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $5 (Daily Double): Bolt to the top of the class if you know an arbalest is another name for this medieval weapon crossbow |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | THE END "ZONE" $1200: "Ride in" to this top 10 hit from "Top Gun" "Danger Zone" |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $600: One of the official state songs of this western state was a top 10 hit for John Denver Colorado |
| #6595, aired 2013-04-26 | SINGLE NAMED SINGERS $1600: "But we're never gonna survive, unless" you name this singer who went "Crazy" on Billboard's Top 40 in 1991 Seal |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | LET'S GOLF! $600: By 1986 this "Golden Bear" had played in 100 major championships, with 45 top 3 finishes Jack Nicklaus |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | WHAT'S YOUR TECHNIQUE? $1600: The flowers are piled on top of each other in moribana, a style of this classical art of Japanese flower arranging Ikebana |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | RADIO, RADIO $400: Fayetteville's KXUA boasts that it plays no music that has been on this publication's Top 40 chart "in the last 50 years" Billboard |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | ON BASS & VOCALS $200: The first solo Top 40 hit for this ex-"Police"man was "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" Sting |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | IN A MUSICAL MOOD $800: This British band gave us "Creep", "High and Dry" & "Lotus Flower", one of Rolling Stone's Top 10 2011 singles Radiohead |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | MEMPHIS MUSIC HALL OF FAME $800: This trio recorded "Legs" & the rest of the 10-million-selling album "Eliminator " at Memphis' Ardent Studios ZZ Top |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | DRINKS $800: This brand of apple juice was named for where it was once thought the best fruit grew Tree Top |
| #6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $800: May 21, 2012:
This top-hatted Guns N' Roses guitarist was "Back From Cali" Slash |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | MOVIEMAKERS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew appears in a different top after passing through a set of doors.) The script supervisor's job is to spot errors in what's known as this consistent flow, like the mistake seen here continuity |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | 1990s MUSIC $800: This Gary, Indiana-born woman had 18 Top 40 hits in the '90s, including "Escapade" Janet Jackson |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | MONOLITHS $1200: Spectacular views of Copacabana & other beaches are offered at the top of this monolith AKA Pao de Acucar Sugarloaf |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012 $200: With its lineup of mighty superheroes, this was the most searched movie The Avengers |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012 $400: The most searched musician after Justin Bieber was this late "How Will I Know" singer Whitney Houston |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012 $600: Get on the dance floor & spell out for us this most searched charitable organization the YMCA |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012 $800: Not to judge but this competition was the most searched TV show of 2012 American Idol |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | CANARIES $400: This soulful Brit's album "21" was the top seller of 2011 & 2012 Adele |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | PLANE SPEAKING $800: This alert! Ground & flight are types of this flap on top of the wing that rises to reduce lift & increase drag the spoiler |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | ON THE DOWNLOAD $1200: One of 2011's top nonfiction Kindle downloads was "Inside" this: "The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion" Scientology |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | RELIGIONS $800: The Assemblies of God is the USA's top denomination in this movement associated with speaking in tongues Pentecostal |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $2,200 (Daily Double): Made it to the top of 22,600-foot Ojos del Salado, one of the highest peaks in this mountain range the Andes |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | FROM THE TOP $400: "Valse" by Arnold Bax for this almost 6-foot-high, 47-string instrument a harp |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | U.S. CITIES $400: In recent years this Texas capital has ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for young adults Austin |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | FROM THE TOP $1200: The clarinet concerto written at age 35 by this genius was his last purely instrumental work Mozart |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | FROM THE TOP $1600: Percy Grainger's 2-piano "Fantasy on" this composer's "Porgy and Bess" George Gershwin |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | FROM THE TOP $2000: The aria "Quando m'en vo" from this Puccini opera about lovers in poverty La bohème |
| #6531, aired 2013-01-28 | PENINSULAS $3,200 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Singapore.) I'm in Singapore, riding the world's largest observation wheel; from the top you can see parts of this peninsula that has Asia's southernmost mainland point the Malay Peninsula |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | AT THE WEBSITE OF THE CABINET DEPT. $200: On July 11, 2012 2 of the 3 "Top Issues" at this department's site were simply "Iraq" & "Afghanistan" the Defense Department |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | AT THE WEBSITE OF THE CABINET DEPT. $600: "Top Requests" of this department include "File a complaint against a trucking company" Transportation |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | SONGS FOR YOUR CAT $800: Woah, woah, woah, the cat can sing along to this, Tom Jones' second top 10 hit "What's New Pussycat?" |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $800: Top passwords stolen at a 2012 breach of this business resume site included "job", "career" & of course "link" LinkedIn |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | WARDROBE $2000: This collarless pullover shirt with a few buttons at the top was copied from English rowers a henley |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | 1920s NEWS FLASH! $200: News flash! This less-than-yappy pappy is sixth veep to be nation's top dog after chief takes deep sleep! Calvin Coolidge |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | SOUND THE TRUMPET $2000: In 1964 this legendary New Orleans trumpet player reached the Top 10 with "Java" Al Hirt |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | ALL OVER THE WORLD $1000: This country named for its latitude is the 43rd largest in Africa but in the continent's top 10 in oil production Equatorial Guinea |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | SOCK IT TO ME $200: This term for a teenage girl of the 1940s refers to ankle socks folded over at the top bobby socks |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | JUMP AROUND! JUMP AROUND! $400: This track & field event has a fully equipped bar-- it's set at around 7'6" for the top men the high jump |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT $1200: As his top admiral Suleiman hired the pirate Khayr ad-Din, known as this for his red beard, like a crusading emperor Barbarossa |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | POP QUIZ $800: "Fallin'", from 2001, was the first Top 40 hit for this singer & pianist Alicia Keys |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | POP QUIZ $2000: This band made its Top 40 debut in 1967 with "Happy Jack" The Who |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | BEER ME! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis.) In the mid-19th century, Americans drank mainly heavy, top-fermented ales; the new, lighter lagers pioneered by Adolphus Busch were made possible by the new, European, bottom-fermenting types of this ingredient yeast |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Placed on top of a pillar, a herm is a bust of this god for whom it's named Hermes |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | SONG BIRDS $800: In 1977 Steve Miller was in the top 10 with "Jet Airliner" & this other song about soaring "Fly Like An Eagle" |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | "THE" TV SHOW $400: In 2010 "Top Chef" broke this CBS program's 7-year Emmy-winning streak for best reality competition show The Amazing Race |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $2000: Abe Lincoln, when accused of deceitfulness: "If I had another" one of these, "do you think I'd wear this one?" a face |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS $200: The Snellen chart tests these body parts; the top line is 20/400 the eyes |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | TEACH ME A SONG $1600: This quartet hit the top 20 in 1970 with "Teach Your Children" Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | FIZZ ED $1200: Soda on top of ice cream makes an ice cream soda; put the ice cream on top & it's called this, like a root beer one float |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND $600: The survey "Asia's top 1,000 brands 2011" had this maker of the Zoom Hyperdunk shoe at No. 10 (ahem, at No. 1? Sony) Nike |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | SITE $400: This news website that lets you share "top news" sounds like it's trying to get to China the hard way Digg |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS $200: Tom Colicchio turned down the job of judge on this Bravo show 3 times before saying yes Top Chef |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | THE BEATLES: THE EARLY YEARS $200: "I think you'll understand" that the Beatles invaded America with this song, their first to top the U.S. charts "I Want To Hold Your Hand" |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | MUSEUMS $200: Exhibits at the Denmark museum devoted to this children's author include his top hat & letters to singer Jenny Lind Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | BILLBOARD'S TOP MONEY MAKERS OF 2011 $200: No. 1 with nearly $36 million was this young blonde country singer who still looks totally shocked after yet another award win (Taylor) Swift |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | BILLBOARD'S TOP MONEY MAKERS OF 2011 $600: When you make nearly $16 million like this New Jersey band, you're livin' on more than a prayer Bon Jovi |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | BILLBOARD'S TOP MONEY MAKERS OF 2011 $800: We like "The Sweetest Taboo" too, but were still surprised to see this 1-named singer at No. 6 Sade |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER $1600: (Sarah shows us a bubbly beverage inside a pub at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.) At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, you can visit Hog's Head pub for a mug of this sweet beverage with a frothy top butterbeer |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | BABY NAMES $600: We're not sure why but this name of a New York City borough recently ranked among the top 10 girl's names in Arkansas Brooklyn |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | MENTAL STATES $400: Have you no this? An embarrassed feeling that took Evelyn "Champagne" King into the top 10 in 1978 shame |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $200: If you roll a standard 6-sided die & a 2 comes up, this number is on the bottom 5 |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) An orphan is the first line of a paragraph on its own at the bottom of a page; this term is used for the last line of a paragraph alone at the top of a page a widow |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | PROTESTING TIPS & ETIQUETTE $800: Even under a romantic moon in an occupied park, don't approach an enticing stranger with ZZ Top's "Slip Inside My" this "Sleeping Bag" |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | JIMMY'S ON TOP $200: "Late Night with" this former "SNL" guy has won 3 primetime Emmys Jimmy Fallon |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | JIMMY'S ON TOP $400: In the '70s this left-handed tennis player was ranked No. 1 in the world for 160 consecutive weeks Jimmy Connors |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | JIMMY'S ON TOP $800: In 1985 this actor's wonderful life included getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USA's highest civilian honor Jimmy Stewart |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | JIMMY'S ON TOP $1000: This man who sang "You Can Get It If You Really Want" is a recipient of Jamaica's Order of Merit Jimmy Cliff |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | ROLLING STONE'S GREATEST GUITARISTS $400: I saw this top-ranked Beatle standing there at No. 11, & that's saying "Something" George Harrison |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | ROLLING STONE'S GREATEST GUITARISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Cream didn't quite rise to the top; this guitar!st floated up to No. 2 Eric Clapton |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | WHAT'S DOT? $600: Although Brian Hyland had 8 Top 40 hits, only this novelty song of 1960 topped the charts "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | YOU GO, GIRL! $400: In 1975 Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the top of this highest mountain Everest |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | THE BRITISH ARE COMING! $200: In 1964 this band had 19 Top 40 hits; not a bad year, lads the Beatles |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | KEEPING UP WITH THE CAROLINGIANS $400: The name Carolingian derives from the large number of family members who bore this name, still in the top 100 Charles |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | DAY SONGS $400: Prince wrote this song that was the Bangles' first Top 10 hit "Manic Monday" |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $200: The OED's most-used source is the Times of this capital city London |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $400: The Wycliffe version of this is cited more than 9,000 times the Bible |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $600: The 5th-most frequently quoted source is this compendium of knowledge that's been around since 1768 the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $1000: Begun in 1869, this periodical billed as "A Weekly Journal of Science" helps with entries from abiogenesis to zygote Nature |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $1,400 (Daily Double): William Shakespeare is second; this historical novelist with the same initials is third Sir Walter Scott |
| #6387, aired 2012-05-29 | "OW"! "OOF"! "ACK"! $800: A box top can act as this hyphenated 3-word phrase used to claim a rebate proof-of-purchase |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | 50 YEARS AGO--1962 $2000: Katherine Anne Porter sailed up the bestsellers list with this top novel of 1962 Ship of Fools |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | LYRICS OF THE TOP 40 SONG $400: 1973: "But if this ever-changing world in which we live in, makes you give in and cry, say..." "Live And Let Die" |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: nytimes.com links to reviews of the top 10 DVD rentals: this Brad Pitt film about "baseball in the digital age" hit No. 1 in 2012 Moneyball |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | MAY DAYS $400: On May 29, 1953, this New Zealander & his guide Tenzing became the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | CARS IN AMERICA $200: (Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) The Chevy Coach dates from around the time this became the world's largest car company; with cars like my favorite, the Corvette... it held that position until 2008, then filed for bankruptcy but now it's back on top GM (General Motors) |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | PLANT IT! $400: Fruit grows down from the top of the banana plant in clusters known for their shape by this anatomical name hands |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | INTERBRAND TOP 100 GLOBAL BRANDS $200: This soft drink company with over 3,500 beverages in its portfolio tops the world in brand value, as it has for the past 11 years Coca-Cola |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | INTERBRAND TOP 100 GLOBAL BRANDS $600: Interbrand calls shopping online through this retailer "one of the web's defining experiences" Amazon |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | INTERBRAND TOP 100 GLOBAL BRANDS $800: This French firm known for its handmade leather goods sits at No. 18 & is the world's most counterfeited fashion brand Louis Vuitton |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $600: This 3-letter onomatopoetic word can precede gun or top pop |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | MARINE BIOLOGY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows drawings of whale skulls on the screen.) Long ago, whale blowholes were here, but evolution streamlined cetacean breathing, moving the nostril up top, where it's still connected to this respiratory tube, & then to the lungs the trachea |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | ON THE RANGE $400: To prepare the globe type of this veggie, trim the thorny tips of its outer leaves & steam it on the stove top an artichoke |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | ON THE RANGE $800: The name of this dish of rice stirred in hot butter or oil before simmering on the range top comes from the Persian pilaf |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | HUNGER GAMES $400: An "All Stars" version of this Bravo cooking show brought back 18 contestants who'd almost won in past seasons Top Chef |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | HOLD EVERYTHING $200: If you're a pistol-packin' pardner, this leather holder open at the top is probably what you pack the pistol in a holster |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | A DAZZLING INTERNAL ORGAN SOLO $400: When folks say this is "growling", they're talking about peristaltic waves, which start at its top & move downward the stomach |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | I'VE GOT THE BREWS $400: The thickness of this top part of your draft beer is measured in fingers the head |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | I'VE GOT THE BREWS $800: This Mexican beer, the top-selling canned import in the U.S., is named for a town in Baja California Tecate |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | FOOD & DRINK FOR THOUGHT $1000: This pungent spice native to India's Malabar Coast is said to be the world's top-selling spice pepper |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | FITNESS $200: For boys to win the top Presidential Physical Fitness award, they have to run this distance in 6:06 a mile |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? $1200: The Webby Awards' top Internet moments for 2000-2009 include Twitter's role in this country's 2009 election protests Iran |
| #6293, aired 2012-01-18 | SPORTS SHORTS $400: This manager went out on top when he called it quits Oct. 31, 2011 La Russa |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THE SUPER BOWL'S TOP RUSHER $200: Super Bowl VIII:
This team's Larry Csonka the (Miami) Dolphins |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THE SUPER BOWL'S TOP RUSHER $400: Super Bowl XVIII:
Marcus Allen, with 191 yards for this L.A. team the Raiders |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THE SUPER BOWL'S TOP RUSHER $600: Super Bowl IX:
This immaculate Steeler Franco Harris |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THE SUPER BOWL'S TOP RUSHER $800: Super Bowl XXV:
Thurman Thomas, in a losing cause for this team that lost 3 other Super Bowls the (Buffalo) Bills |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | THE SUPER BOWL'S TOP RUSHER $1000: Super Bowl XXVIII:
This Cowboys Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | I THINK I LOVE SHOE $200: Tassel-top, chain & penny are variations of this shoe loafers |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | BILLIARDS $800: The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds slate |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | HIP HOP HOOPSTERS $200: On his modestly titled "K.O.B.E.", Kobe Bryant duetted with this top model & talk show host Tyra Banks |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | LET'S PLAY A SONG $800: Wait 'til you hear me belt out my version of this singer's 1967 top 10 hit "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" Aretha Franklin |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | LET'S PLAY A SONG $1200: Let's lip-synch "All Or Nothing", a 1990 top 5 hit by this rhyming-named duo from Germany Milli Vanilli |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1600: In old Egypt this cross shaped like a "T" with a loop at the top was a symbol of life the ankh |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | IS A DANGEROUS THING $2000: For every 3 climbers who make it to the top of this second-highest mountain, one dies trying K2 |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | COLOR MOVIES $400: Top ballerina Sarah Lane was Natalie Portman's dance double for this 2010 film Black Swan |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 20 FOR DUMMIES $200: "Parenting for Dummies" uses this toy as an analogy for consistency: "it spins until it wobbles, and then it falls down" a top |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR HEAD? $600: A stovepipe hat is an elongated type of this hat a top hat |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | DESIGNING WOMEN $1200: This designer seen here celebrates the exuberant, the embellished & the over-the-top Betsey Johnson |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | HEADS OR TAILS $400: This 2nd-largest land mammal has its eyes & ears on top of its head so it can keep track of things from underwater a hippopotamus |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | TOP OF THE LIST $400: U.S. News & World Report calls this New Haven school the best value college, even with tuition at over $38,000 a year Yale |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | TOP OF THE LIST $800: According to the Cat Fanciers' Assoc., the top breed of pedigreed cat is this feline with a Middle Eastern name Persian |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | TOP OF THE LIST $1200: Not only is Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta the world's busiest airport, this airline based there is the largest Delta |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | TOP OF THE LIST $1600: Not surprisingly, this taste sensation is rocking as Ben & Jerry's top-selling ice cream flavor Cherry Garcia |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | TOP OF THE LIST $2000: In 2011 this Nissan model was Consumer Reports' top pick for family sedan the Altima |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | COME TO OUR AIDE $2,600 (Daily Double): (Hi. I'm Chris Matthews.) Here's a tip for you: for 6 years, I was the top aide to this Democrat from Massachusetts when he was Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | EXPORTS $1200: Brazil was once the top producer of this sweet stuff--before the witches'-broom fungus attacked the trees cocoa (or chocolate) |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE PATRIOT LEAGUE $1600: Joshua Chamberlain held Little Round Top during this Civil War battle Gettysburg |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | I'M DATING MYSELF $200: I swear I saw Dag Hammarskjold in Times Square; he's the top man in this nearby organization the U.N. |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ALL HAT $2000: A type of top hat popular in the 19th century was named for this "Iron Duke" (the Duke of) Wellington |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | "DA" $800: Thank you, thank you very much for this song, Wayne Newton's first Top 40 hit "Danke Schoen" |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | RAY CHARLES $600: Mr. Charles had a top 70 hit with the title track to this movie that starred Mr. Poitier as Mr. Tibbs In the Heat of the Night |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $800: If you're under this, you're at the circus the big top |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | LOUIS, LOUIS $1200: This top leader of the Nation of Islam is an accomplished violinist & once worked as a Calypso singer Farrakhan |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | OUR TOP STORIES $400: Dateline Southwark:
30 pilgrims en route from Tabard Inn ultimately to this town in Kent Canterbury |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | OUR TOP STORIES $800: Dateline Hell:
This "lost archangel" laments loss of Paradise & plots revenge Satan |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | FOOD & DRINK BRANDS $800: For a box top & 25 cents, you could get a rag doll from this brand; the family included Uncle Mose & twins Diana & Wade Aunt Jemima |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | OUR TOP STORIES $1200: Dateline Georgia:
Sharecropper Jeeter Lester lives out his sad existence on this "road" Tobacco Road |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | OUR TOP STORIES $1600: Dateline London:
Orphan asks for additional serving of this 5-letter foodstuff gruel |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | OUR TOP STORIES $2000: Dateline "On the Road":
Sal & Dean beat-ing it to this West Coast town San Francisco |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Juliana Top, this country's highest point, was named for a Dutch Queen Suriname |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | COOKBOOKS $1000: "Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2" tells you how to make this chain's "Kookabura Wings" & "Shrimp on the Barbie" Outback Steakhouse |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | PINEAPPLES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a pineapple plantation.) Pineapples are the only widely eaten of the bromeliads, a family of 3,000 species; like others, they aren't grown from seed, but by planting the top leafy structure, called this a crown |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | YOU'RE THE TOP $400: In 1985 Reagan & Gorbachev met in Geneva in this type of diplomatic meeting a summit |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | YOU'RE THE TOP $1200: The point formed in the hairline in the middle of the forehead is a "widow's" this peak |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | YOU'RE THE TOP $2000: This TV-making brand got its start in 1918 making radio equipment in Chicago Zenith |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | SAY THAT 3 TIMES FAST! $400: This *NSYNC song hit the top 5 in 2000; see ya! "Bye Bye Bye" |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | PHILOSOPHERS $2000: After this lantern-carrying Greek's death, a marble dog was placed on top of his monument in Corinth Diogenes |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | THE DAN, PATRICK SHOW $600: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) I'm often confused with this Indy car driver who had 5 top 5 finishes in 2009, including 3rd at the Indy 500; it must be the hair Danica Patrick |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | THE DAN, PATRICK SHOW $1000: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) This decathlete got top billing over "Dave" in a '92 ad campaign but didn't make the Olympic team; 4 years later, he won gold Dan O'Brien |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE DOG WHISPERER $200: (Cesar Millan walks several large dogs) Notice that I walk ahead of the dogs; I am communicating that I'm the pack leader, the equivalent of this leader of a wild pack the alpha |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | ONE-WORD FILM TITLES $200: This 2009 film is the all-time top-grossing movie in the U.S. & the world Avatar |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | "S"HOES $1200: This brand's top-sider has been an American favorite since 1935 Sperry |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | HORTON HEARS A HOOSIER $400: From this Hoosier's "Top Ten New Words of 2010": Lohab & baconfetti (David) Letterman |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) A cupola is the top structure of a dome; when the windows or walls are opened to illuminate the dome interior, it's this type of cupola, sharing its name with a certain portable light a lantern |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: This N.C. peak, the highest east of the Mississippi, was named for the man who surveyed it, died on it & is buried at the top Mt. Mitchell |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | CHEVY CHASE ON SNL $200: (Chevy Chase delivers the clue from the set of Community.) On "Weekend Update", I announced "Our top story tonight: Generalissimo" this man "is still dead" Franco |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $200: It's 404 B.C. & here is our top story: Athens has been forced to accept a humiliating peace treaty with this city-state Sparta |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | TAKE A STAB $800: Lucy Liu looks great as a Yakuza leader, but gets a little off the top courtesy of "The Bride" in this movie Kill Bill |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | SCIENCE TERMS $400: Nutation is the bobbing motion of a spinning rigid body; this toy is the classic example a top |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS $200: Make your own version of Marie Callender's top-selling pie, this one with stiffly beaten egg whites a lemon meringue pie |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | KISS $1600: Kiss' first Top 10 single was a power ballad named for this 4-letter girl Beth |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | ALPHABET ROCKERS $200: These rappers remixed Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" into a Top 10 hit in 1986 Run–D.M.C. |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | WEDDINGS $200: It's customary to remove the top layer of this & keep it in the freezer until the first anniversary the wedding cake |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | WHAT TO WEAR? $1200: Also the name of a rope for leading cattle, this women's backless top has a strap that loops around the neck halter |
