| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $200: Chapters in this book include "The Departure of Boromir" & "Shelob's Lair" The Two Towers |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | EUROPEAN VACATION $600: Check out the medieval towers that dot the skyline of San Gimignano near Sienna in this region of Italy Tuscany |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | TECHNOLOGY $1200: With about 800 trees, the eco-friendly towers in this city in Northern Italy are known as Bosco Verticale Milan |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | TO THE FORT! $800: Built during World War II to protect England from the Germans, towers known as Maunsell Forts still stand in this river's estuary the Thames |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | EPONYMOUS TELEVISION $600: "The Germans" is an episode of this British comedy about running a hotel Fawlty Towers |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | TO THE TOWER! $1600: Tall twin towers in Kuala Lumpur bear the name of this gas company Petronas |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CONSECUTIVE LETTER WORD PAIRS $1600: Dating back to ancient times, these tall mobile constructions were rolled up against wall defenses to launch an attack siege towers |
| #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 |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $1200: Castells, or human towers, are created by amateur groups at festivals in this Spanish region that includes Barcelona & Tarragona Catalonia |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $2000: The jazz festival named for these L.A. towers built by Simon Rodia has been grooving annually since 1976 the Watts Towers |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | SAY WHAT? $1600: It's the word of incomprehension invariably used by the character Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" qué |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | COMMUNICATIONS $2000: Towers & hilltop stations with pivoting arms were used to send messages in this system, from Greek for "sign bearing" semaphore |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | POETS & POETRY $200: Joy Harjo's "When the World as We Knew It Ended" refers to this date when "two towers... went down, swallowed by a fire dragon" 9/11 |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | DOCUMENTARIES $400: "Man on Wire" takes a look at Philippe Petit's daring & illegal tightrope walk in 1974 between the towers of this complex the World Trade Center |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $400: The Elizabeth Tower in London houses this large bell Big Ben |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $800: About 1,200 feet, the Fernsehturm TV Tower in this capital was built in the 1960s to showcase the socialist system Berlin |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $1200: Constructed in 1348, the 220-foot Galata Tower in this city overlooks the Golden Horn Istanbul |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $1600: Once part of the defenses of the city of Lisbon, the 16th century Belém Tower was built on the north bank of this river the Tagus |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $2000: One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site the Great Mosque in Mecca |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $200: Seen here, the Ulm Minster is home to the tallest of these church towers with a spire at the top a steeple |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $800: The 1,500-foot Petronas Towers are linked via a skybridge between floors 41 & 42 in this Malaysian city Kuala Lumpur |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | LOOK AT THAT MOUNTAIN! $1000: Head to this Alberta national park to see the fortress-like towers of Castle Mountain Banff |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $1000: The tallest of these structures towers 870 feet over the Great Mosque of Algiers minaret |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | KABUL STONES $400: Built for protection around 1,500 years ago, Kabul's "Great" this runs atop a mountain that towers over the city a wall |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PAINTING, NOT THE ART KIND $800: You can make good money if you're up for climbing 600-foot towers of this bridge over the Hudson to keep it looking good the George Washington Bridge |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $400: It's the alliterative volume in "The Lord of the Rings" The Two Towers |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | ALL ROADS $400: On Australia's Great Ocean Road, you may get inspiration from the limestone towers known as this biblical dozen the (Twelve) Apostles |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | BRIDGES $200: The world's longest suspension bridge got a couple of feet longer during construction as this 1995 event in Japan shifted its towers an earthquake |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | GEOGRAPHY $1600: Home of the Dalai Lama until he fled the Chinese occupation in 1959, Potala Palace towers over this city Lhasa |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | BUILDINGS $2000: Found in Kuala Lumpur, this pair of skyscrapers were the world's tallest buildings from 1996 to 2004 the Petronas Towers |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $800: The Lady Buddha Statue towers over the city of Da Nang in this country Vietnam |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $2000: New towers are changing the skyline of Amman, capital of this country Jordan |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | RETURNS $200: In "The Two Towers" this wizard says, "Yes, I am white now...I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted" Gandalf |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | CAST IT $1600: "Fawlty Towers": Basil Fawlty John Cleese |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE $400: Adair, Iowa & Makanda, Illinois have put this cheerful symbol, big in the '70s, on their water towers a smiley face |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7 [He presents from Queens, NY].) Philip Johnson designed the soaring towers of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in the futuristic Googie style which fit perfectly in this 1997 film that featured them Men in Black |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE NON-OPERATING THEATER $1200: This comedian hopes to turn his Branson, Missouri theater into Yakov Towers, a senior community (Yakov) Smirnoff |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BUILDINGS $1600: A skybridge at the 41st story, about halfway up, connects the 2 buildings of this Malaysian marvel Petronas Towers |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | WHICH TALL CHIEF? $1600: Milo Đukanović, of this former Yugoslav republic named for its mountainousness, towers over other leaders Montenegro |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LAUGHING $1600: Manuel, Polly & of course, Basil were denizens of this wacky British TV establishment Fawlty Towers |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $1000: The skyline of this German city is dominated by the towers of its Gothic cathedral Cologne |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $400: New York City's Twin Towers were briefly the tallest in the world until this U.S. building surpassed them in 1973 the Sears Tower |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1200: L.A.'s oldest jazz festival is held annually near these 100-foot towers bearing the name of an L.A. area the Watts Towers |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | CITY FLAGS $2000: The two City Hall towers combine to make the letter "T" on the flag of this metropolis Toronto |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship on the monitor.) At over 1,500 feet in length, the Seawise Giant measured taller than the Petronas Towers if it were placed on end, truly befitting of this type of craft, the "super" this supertanker |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | SKYSCRAPER CITY $1000: The Petronas Twin Towers Kuala Lumpur |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER $400: Far from any mosque, one of these prayer towers rises above the Hari River in remote central Afghanistan a minaret |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | CHECK IN TO THE POP CULTURE HOTEL $1000: I'm glad I never stayed at the hotel of Donald Sinclair, on whom John Cleese based Basil in this show Fawlty Towers |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING $400: Bastions are semicircular towers projecting from the walls of these medieval strongholds castles |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $400: (I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7.) I'm in Flushing Meadows in Queens & the towers behind me were part of the New York State pavilion at this 1964 celebration the World's Fair |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AN EDIFICE COMPLEX $400: This Southeast Asian country boasts the Petronas Towers 1 & 2, 1,483 feet each Malaysia |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | U.S. BUILDINGS $200: Towers in this Las Vegas casino include Octavius & Forum Caesars Palace |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | RADIO, RADIO $400: Mariners used to rely on radio beacons in these towers but now satellite positioning is used instead lighthouses |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | TV WORKPLACES $600: "Fawlty Towers" a hotel |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | LANDMARK'S THE SPOT $400: With its high onion domes, St. Basil's cathedral towers over this capital city Moscow |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | LANDMARK'S THE SPOT $1600: Over 200 feet tall, the Koutoubia one of these mosque towers can help you find your way in Marrakesh a minaret |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | CATHOLIC GEOGRAPHY $400: A structure called the Vatican Obelisk towers over this square St. Peter's |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | GLOBETROTTING $800: A surreal sight of Dali, China is a triangle of these Buddhist towers, the tallest over 200 feet pagodas |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $2000: The floor plan of each of these towers in Kuala Lumpur forms an 8-pointed star inspired by Islamic patterns the Petronas Towers |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | RENEWABLE ENERGY $800: 100-foot-tall towers grouped in "farms" are used to create this type of power wind |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: This worker builds or maintains high structures such as church towers or smokestacks steeplejack |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $1000: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Between 1921 & 1955 Italian immigrant Simon Rodia constructed a collection of 17 structures he called Nuestro Pueblo or "Our Town"; today, it's a National Historic Landmark known as this the Watts Towers |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | "BEN" THERE $2000: At 4,406 feet, this Scottish peak towers over the rest of the British isles Ben Nevis |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | GET INTO SHAPES $800: The 5 impressive towers of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple are shaped like the buds of this sacred water lily a lotus |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $800: "The Happiest Hotel on Earth"--book a room or themed suite in its Adventure, Fantasy or Frontier towers the Disneyland Hotel |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $800: A the time of the revolution, it had 8 towers & was surrounded by a moat more than 80 feet wide the Bastille |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | 2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING $1200: A chapter in this fantasy volume is titled "The Taming of Smeagol" The Two Towers |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | "K"APITAL CITIES $1000: This capital has the Petronas Towers, twin structures that are among the world's highest Kuala Lumpur |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | ARCHITECTS $400: Architect Bertrand Goldberg changed this city's skyline with the twin towers of Marina City on State Street Chicago |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | RELIGION $600: The azan, the Islamic call to prayer, is typically made from one of these mosque towers a minaret |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | ZIGGURATS $400: Dating back 5,000 years, ziggurats were temple towers of Mesopotamia built in the "step" style of this shape pyramid |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | OF THE GAME $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a game.) This stacking game, similar to Jenga, uses bidding and odd-shaped pieces, to build increasingly precarious towers Bandu |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE NEW $100 BILL $1600: To help those with visual impairments, a gold 100 on the back of the bill towers over this Penn. building Independence Hall |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $200: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) The first artifacts museum visitors see are these architectural elements that were the signature of the World Trade Center towers; they are now known by the same name as this symbol of Poseidon tridents |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $400: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) As The New York Times said, imagine if 9/11 had been followed by Super Storm Sandy; well, that's what would've happened if not for the slurry wall, anchored in bedrock in the 1960s to prevent the waters of this river from seeping into the foundation of the towers the Hudson River |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE TITAN MISSILE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona.) Though we may think of them as towers for storing grain, they're also underground structures where missiles are housed; Titan was protected by a 750-ton door a silo |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $200: "The Two Towers" The Fellowship of the Ring |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $1600: The Jeddah Light in western Saudi Arabia towers 430 feet over this body of water the Red Sea |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | STATE OF THE ART $1600: Watts Towers California |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | FOOTPRINTS $600: Now part of a memorial, their footprints are seen below the World Trade Center towers |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | BRAVE $400: Mychal Judge, a 68-year-old chaplain to this department, went into the falling towers on 9/11 NYFD |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Andrew Sachs, who played a Spaniard among Brits on "Fawlty Towers", reads this 1859 "tale" of a Brit among the French A Tale of Two Cities |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS $2000: The flag seen here stands for this republic; the towers are on Mount Titano in the Italian Apennines San Marino |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | PANTSLESS TV $2000: In view of guests, a pantsless Basil jumps on Manuel in one episode of this classic Britcom Fawlty Towers |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | HIGH $600: Constructed in only 2 years, it towers 984 feet over the Parc du Champ de Mars the Eiffel Tower |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | VERTICAL LANDMARKS $2,200 (Daily Double): The 2 towers of this bridge completed in 1937 are 746 feet high & 4,200 feet apart: that's about 4/5 of a mile the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | ASIAN RELIGION $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bayon Temple in Cambodia.) The faces carved on the towers that crown Angkor Thom's Bayon Temple may represent Lokesvara, one of these enlightened beings who choose to stay on earth Bodhisattva |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOWERS $200: Genesis 11:3 says the people who built this structure had brick for stone & slime for mortar The Tower of Babel |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOWERS $400: Like Pisa, Edam in this country boasts a Leaning Tower; its carillon dates from 1561 the Netherlands |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOWERS $600: This largest Alberta city has a very nice tower, though it's only about a third the height of the one in Toronto Calgary |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOWERS $800: The Memorial Jose Marti, a 358-foot marble tower in the Plaza de la Revolucion, is the highest point in this world capital Havana |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOWERS $1000: In 2009 its name was changed to the Willis Tower the Sears Tower |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | CNN TOURISM $400: (Here is CNN correspondent
Ivan Watson.) Tradition holds an architect misheard a request for towers made of gold, or "altin", as "alti", or 6--so Istanbul's Blue Mosque was built with 6 of these minarets |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | NOTRE DAME $800: The 2 main towers are connected by the Grand Gallery, which could be called the Grand Gallery of these "G" beasts gargoyles |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | SKYSCRAPERS $1000: Formerly the world's tallest skyscrapers, the Petronas Towers rise high in this Asian capital city Kuala Lumpur |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ANCIENT ANGKOR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Angkor Wat in Cambodia.) Approaching Angkor Wat from the west, we can clearly see its magnificent towers that represent the peaks of Mount Meru, the divine home of this Hindu preserver god to whom it was originally dedicated Vishnu |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | MONOLITHS $400: Chile's Towers Of Paine are 3 granite monoliths shaped primarily by these during an ice age glaciers |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | HOW DOES SUNDAY MORNING SOUND? $1200: In Rome, if you're climbing these steps on Sunday, you'll hear from the twin towers of Trinita Dei Monti above them the Spanish Steps |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $400 (Daily Double): From about 60 miles away, Mount Fuji towers over this capital city Tokyo |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | INSIDE SHAKESPEARE $800: We "play for" these, the large, strong towers in the centers of castles keeps |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1200: Here are World Trade Center towers that overlook the Persian Gulf & Manama in this country Bahrain |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | SKYSCRAPER CITY $200: Moana Pacific, East & West Towers Honolulu |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | LAND O' LAKERS $1000: Simon Rodia built the folk art towers named for this South L.A. community between 1921 & 1954 Watts |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $2,400 (Daily Double): "Helm's Deep" & "The Taming of Smeagol" are chapters in this "Two"-titled book The Two Towers |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | IN THE "HOUSE" $400: John Zenor was a longtime keeper of one of these towers at Yaquina Head on the Oregon Coast a lighthouse |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $5,000 (Daily Double): Cupolas are small domes, but can be pointy instead of dome-shaped when found on these mosque towers minarets |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & GROUND ZERO $800: The new complex on the site will be six office towers, three of them designed by winners of this 32-year-old architecture prize the Pritzker Prize |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | BRITCOMS $1600: Basil & Sybil ran this title place with a little help from Manuel the waiter & his pet rat Fawlty Towers |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | DOCUMENTARIES $800: 2008's "Man on Wire" chronicled Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk across this NYC landmark the Twin Towers (or the World Trade Center) |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | TALL U.S. BUILDINGS $200: The U.S. Steel Tower towers 841 feet above this steel-making city Pittsburgh |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | THE SAME VOWEL, EVERY OTHER LETTER $1,000 (Daily Double): This type of cloud forms in puffs, mounds or towers on a flat base cumulus |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | I KNOW UR $4,000 (Daily Double): Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C. a ziggurat |
| #5979, aired 2010-09-16 | THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS $1200: Treebeard rallies the Ents & goes after Saruman's forces in this second film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy The Two Towers |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LITERARY MATH $800: Christie's "Little Indians" minus Tolkien's "Towers" 8 |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | DO TELL THE HOTEL $1000: Episodes of this British sitcom included "The Hotel Inspectors" & "Basil the Rat" Fawlty Towers |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | TOWERS $200: Seen here are the world's first leaning high-rise buildings--Puerto de Europa in this country Spain |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | TOWERS $400: Societe Generale bank has built towers in the La Defense section of this city Paris |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | TOWERS $600: To stop suburban flight, elevator operators' & janitors' unions developed the Marina City Towers in this Midwest city Chicago |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | TOWERS $800: The Renoir Towers rise over the Rio de la Plata in this South American country Argentina |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | TOWERS $1000: Seen here are the world headquarters towers (nicknamed "Debit" & "Credit") for this bank in Frankfurt Deutsche Bank |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | MOONS $2000: Titan towers as this planet's main moon Saturn |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $2000: A documentary on this Frenchman's "little" feat of wirewalking between the Twin Towers won an Oscar Philippe Petit |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | COATS OF ARMS $800: The region of Transylvania is represented on this nation's coat of arms by an eagle & 7 towers Romania |
| #5622, aired 2009-02-03 | IT'S AN L.A. THING $1000: Originally called "Nuestro Pueblo" by the artist, it's the L.A. landmark seen here the Watts Towers |
| #5565, aired 2008-11-14 | A VOYAGE THROUGH EUROPE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from France at Mont-Saint-Michel.) The distinctive silhouette of France's Mont-Saint-Michel was an inspiration for the design of Minas Tirith in this blockbuster 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | NOVEL ALLITERATION $400: A Tolkien trilogy includes "The Two" these Towers |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The Statue of Liberty towers 305 feet from foundation to torch above this island Liberty Island |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | LANDMARKS $200: Towers built in & along the walls of this fortress include Beklemishev, Peter & Tsar the Kremlin |
| #5406, aired 2008-02-25 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: This Muslim temple typically has one or more towers called minarets a mosque |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | IN ST. LOUIS $400: Completed in 1965, it towers 630 feet over St. Louis the (Gateway) Arch |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | UNREAL ESTATE $2000: Castle Richmond is the title setting of an 1860 work by this author of "Barchester Towers" (Anthony) Trollope |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | EUROPE $800: The Alhambra towers above this southern Spanish city Granada |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THE TWINS $800: The tallest twin towers in the world, the Petronas Towers are located in this capital of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | WORDS $1000: The name of these small towers often seen on castles comes from Old French for "small towers" turrets |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | TURRETS SYNDROME $400: The walls of Avila, with 88 towers, were built in the 11th C. by Christians fighting these people the Muslims (or Moors) |
| #5228, aired 2007-05-09 | TURRETS SYNDROME $1200: The numerically designed Castel del Monte in Italy has 8 towers around a courtyard of this shape an octagon |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | HAIKU GOES COUNTRY! $2000: Mount Elgon towers / Idi meanie mighty, whoa! / Into Africa Uganda |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | AFRICAN CITIES $600: Crosby, Stills & Nash could tell you that the 220-foot-high Kutubiyyah Mosque towers over this Moroccan city Marrakesh |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | ABOUT BUILDINGS $800: They're the slender towers that are part of a mosque & from which Muslims are called to prayer the minarets |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on an Irish seashore at a Martello tower in Dublin, Ireland.) Martello towers were built by the British in the early 19th century to defend against an invasion by this man Napoleon |
| #5024, aired 2006-06-15 | CITY OF THE DAY: DETROIT $2000: The name of this group of towers that dominates the skyline was also the name of a 1970s effort to renew Detroit the Renaissance Center |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In China, most of these Buddhist towers have 8 sides & an odd number of stories pagodas |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | THE VALLEY $1600: The monolith known as "El Capitan" towers over 3,500 feet above this valley Yosemite |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | AROUND THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT $1000: In the photo here, everything is working normally as these two towers do their job the cooling towers |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | EUROPEAN CITIES $800: The best-known landmark in this German city known for its perfume is its cathedral with 2 towers rising over 500 feet Cologne |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | FICTIONAL BATTLES & WARS $800: The battle of Helm's Deep figures in this second book of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy The Two Towers |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1200: Australia's tallest building is the 823-foot high Rialto Towers in this former capital Melbourne |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | TV SHOW ADDRESSES $800: Apartment No. 1901, Elliot Bay Towers, Seattle was home to this befuddled radio headshrinker Frasier Crane |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | CAN YOU DIGIT? $400: Number of stories on each of the 1,483-foot-high Petronas towers, or of keys on a standard piano keyboard 88 |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | THE REEL WORLD $600 (Daily Double): The title of this 2002 film refers to Orthanc, which is in Isengard, & Barad-dur, in the dark land of Mordor (The Lord of the Rings:) The Two Towers |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | YOU'RE "GOLDEN", BABY $200: The USA's tallest bridge towers are the 746-foot steel peaks of this structure the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | TALL BUILDINGS $1200: You might expect decor by Michelangelo at the over 500-foot towers with this name in Dallas & Detroit Renaissance |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | STATES' HIGH POINTS $2000: Wheeler Peak tops off New Mexico & Guadalupe Peak towers over this state Texas |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | I NEED MY "SPACE" $200: It
towers
605 feet
over
Seattle the Space Needle |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Munich, Germany.) This automaker's Munich office building consists of four 22-story towers representing a four-cylinder engine BMW |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES $1000: "Basil the Rat" Fawlty Towers |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | IT'S A GROUP THING $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Barcelona, Spain.) The Temple de la Sagrada Familia will one day have 12 bell towers representing this Biblical group the Apostles |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | TV ROLL CALL $1600: Basil,
Sybil,
Polly,
Manuel Fawlty Towers |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | WHERE AM I? $1600: (Video of Sarah.) I'm in this L.A. area that gave its name to the towers behind me Watts |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | CITIES' TALLEST BUILDINGS $2000: Asian capital that's home to the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | MOVIE TAGLINES $800: 2002:
"The War of the Ring has begun" The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| #4253, aired 2003-02-12 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $1200: It's the second volume of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy "The Two Towers" |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS $400: Isbank, "Turkey's Bank", began in a 2-story building in Ankara & is now in 3 towers in this city Istanbul |
| #4192, aired 2002-11-19 | LITERARY BROTHERS $2000: Thomas Trollope wrote many books, but he's less famous than this brother who wrote "Barchester Towers" Anthony Trollope |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | TOWERS $200: The descendants of Noah erected it on the plain of Shinar Tower of Babel |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | TOWERS $400: Near the top of this wrought-iron French tower is a suite of rooms once used by its builder Eiffel Tower |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | TOWERS $800: This Chicago building's skydeck elevator can travel to the 103rd floor in a quick 70 seconds Sears Tower |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | TOWERS $1000: Guinness Records' Ross McWhirter said that if an earthquake struck Toronto, it would be the last building standing CN Tower |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | TOWERS $2,000 (Daily Double): By the time its first 3 stories were completed, this 180-foot building had already begun to sink into the soil Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | MONTY PYTHON $400: After "Monty Python", he wrote & starred in the TV cult classic "Fawlty Towers" John Cleese |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $2000: John Cleese ran the title hotel with help from Manuel & Polly on this popular British TV import Fawlty Towers |
| #4038, aired 2002-03-06 | RELIGIOUS PLACES $800: The famous porcelain one of these Buddhist towers used to stand in Nanjing a Pagoda |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $1000: In books by Garth Nix, the only place that gets sun is a castle city with this title number of towers 7 |
| #3966, aired 2001-11-26 | GOOD TOMES $800: "Byzantine Honeymoon", "The Towers of Trebizond" & "Midnight Express" all take place in this country Turkey |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALTIMORE $100: Begun in 1815, America's first large-scale monument to this man towers above Mount Vernon Place George Washington |
| #3937, aired 2001-10-16 | ARCHITECTURAL STYLES $800: The Byzantine style, mixing east & west, featured domes & these tall towers attached to mosques minarets |
| #3927, aired 2001-10-02 | AUTHOR COUNTDOWN $400: "The Two Towers"
(1954, book 2 of a trilogy) J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1000: A skyway connects the world's tallest building, the Petronas Towers in this Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | 4 SCORE $1000: "The Jewel in the Crown", "The Day of the Scorpion", "The Towers of Silence" & "A Division of Spoils" form this The Raj Quartet |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | TALL BUILDINGS $100: In 1977 George Willig was fined $1.10, a penny a story, for climbing one of these NYC towers World Trade Center |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PLAY STATION $800: He wrote, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Christopher Marlowe |
| #3569, aired 2000-02-24 | WORLD CELEBRITIES $200: French high-wire artist Philippe Petit is known for his 1974 walk between the towers of this NYC landmark World Trade Center |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | LITERARY TRILOGIES $200: Trilogy consisting of "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers" & "The Return of the King" "Lord of the Rings" |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | ROOFS $800: The roof of the Sydney Opera House has towers that were meant to resemble these Sails |
| #3524, aired 1999-12-23 | THE LOST "WORLD" $200: This NYC complex is noted for its huge twin towers of 110 stories each World Trade Center |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The largest known one of these Mesopotamian temple towers is at Chogha Zabil in Iran Ziggurats |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | THE BIBLE $400: These structures mentioned included those of Penuel, Eder, Hananel & of course, of Babel Towers |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | TOWERS $200: In 1971 the Shah put up the Shahyad Towers in this city; the tower has been renamed Tehran |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | TOWERS $400: They took L.A. tile setter Simon Rodia over 30 years to create Watts Towers |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | TOWERS $600: At 1,815 feet, it gives Toronto some of the clearest TV reception in North America the CN Tower |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | TOWERS $800: This Chicago media company's Gothic tower doesn't quite put the Sears Tower in the shade the Tribune Company |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | TOWERS $1000: The White Tower, a remnant of Ottoman rule, is a highlight of this second-largest Greek city Thessalonika |
| #3289, aired 1998-12-17 | NYC IN THE '70s $400: On August 7, 1974 Philippe Petit traveled via this between the towers of the World Trade Center a tightrope (or highwire) |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | GREAT BRITS $200: About 5' 5" in real life, he towers nearly 17 feet above his column in Trafalgar Square Lord Nelson |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | "C" THE WORLD $100: This Australian capital's tallest landmark, Telecom Tower, towers 600' atop Black Mountain Canberra |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | TRANSPORTATION $400: Air in this tunnel between NYC & Jersey City comes from giant fans in 4 10-story towers the Holland Tunnel |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | BRITISH TV $200: Only 12 episodes were made of this series starring John Cleese as a Torquay hotelier "Fawlty Towers" |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | TOWERS $100: Smoke inundated this NYC complex' towers after a bomb exploded in its garage, February 26, 1993 World Trade Center |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | TOWERS $200: The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma was designed by this great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | TOWERS $300: The towers of Angkor Wat in this country symbolize the peaks of mythical Mount Meru Cambodia/Kampuchea |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | TOWERS $400: A lamp in her tower was the guiding light for Leander in his swim across the Hellespont Hero |
| #2831, aired 1996-12-16 | TOWERS $500: In 1906 this natural formation in Wyoming was made the first U.S. national monument Devils Tower |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | U.S. SKYSCRAPERS $500: NationsBank Corporate Center towers 871 feet over this city, North Carolina's largest Charlotte |
| #2676, aired 1996-04-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Including the statue, Nelson's Column towers 185 feet above this London square Trafalgar Square |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | "A" IN HISTORY $500: During the French occupation of Spain, some of the towers of this Moorish palace were blown up the Alhanbra |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | STARTS WITH "Z" $400: The Tower of Babel is believed to have been one of these pyramidlike towers a ziggurat |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | TOWERS $100: In 1994 a group in Singapore built a 72'1" tower out of 334,628 of these toy bricks Legos |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | TOWERS $200: It's actually a group of towers including the White, Wakefield & Bloody towers the Tower of London |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | TOWERS $300: According to Guinness, the Poles redubbed their world's tallest tower this after it fell in 1991 the world's longest tower |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | TOWERS $400: Construction of this was halted when it was found the soil was too soft; it was finished in the 14th c. the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | TOWERS $500: Robert Delaunay combined bits of Fauvism, Cubism & Futurism in a series of paintings of this tower the Eiffel Tower |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $500: The Turkish style of these Islamic prayer towers is slender, pencil-shaped & girded with balconies minaret |
| #2365, aired 1994-12-09 | FRENCH DISCOVERIES $400: With his invention of the open-jet wind tunnel, he "towers" over other inventors (Gustave) Eiffel |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | COMEDIANS $400: After performing on "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he starred in "Fawlty Towers" John Cleese |
| #2294, aired 1994-07-21 | FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE $200: A feng-huo-t'ai is one of the beacon towers along this very long structure the Great Wall of China |
| #2275, aired 1994-06-24 | COMEDIANS $300: After the end of the Monty Python TV show, he co-wrote & starred in "Fawlty Towers" John Cleese |
| #2236, aired 1994-05-02 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: The Sheraton Hotel & Towers in this South American capital offers a “tango special” package Buenos Aires |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | STATE CAPITALS $300: This Texas city is known for its "artificial moonlight", mercury vapor street lamps atop iron towers Austin |
| #2186, aired 1994-02-21 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Great English architect who designed the majestic west towers of Westminster Abbey Christopher Wren |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | ARCHITECTURE $300: When the Turks turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque, they added 4 of these towers to its exterior minarets |
| #2120, aired 1993-11-19 | ARCHITECTURE $400: In north Africa, these towers from which Muslims are called to prayer are rectangular in plan Minarets |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ART $200: Self-taught sculptor Simon Rodia spent 3 decades on this city's Watt Towers Los Angeles |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | WORLD'S FAIRS $800: The 25-story Sunsphere from the 1982 fair still towers over this Tennessee city Knoxville |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: One of the great shopping centers in this Venezuelan capital is the Simon Bolivar Center with its twin towers Caracas |
| #1918, aired 1992-12-30 | LONDON $400: The cross on the massive dome of this cathedral towers 365 feet above the ground St. Paul's Cathedral |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | STATE CAPITALS $100: The 40-story TCBY Towers office building in this city is Arkansas' tallest building Little Rock |
| #1864, aired 1992-10-15 | MOSCOW $1000: Each of the 9 towers of this Red Square cathedral is different in color & design St. Basil's |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | BRIDGES $400: At 746 feet in height, the tallest bridge towers in the world belong to this California bridge Golden Gate Bridge |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | FAMOUS TOWERS $100: Begun in 1174 by Bonnano Pisano, this bell tower deviates 17 feet from the perpendicular Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | FAMOUS TOWERS $200: The name of this biblical tower means "Gate of God" Tower of Babel |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | FAMOUS TOWERS $300: This building on Wacker Drive in Chicago is served by 103 elevators & 18 escalators the Sears Tower |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | FAMOUS TOWERS $400: Until 1929 this 985-foot-tall wrought-iron landmark was the world's tallest man-made structure Eiffel Tower |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | FAMOUS TOWERS $500: Its 18 acres include Tower Green, the White Tower & the Waterloo Barracks Tower of London |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | LOS ANGELES $200: Simon Rodia spent 33 years building 3 web-like towers in this section of South Central L.A. Watts |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Poet A. Vacquerie said of this author, "The towers of Notre Dame formed the H of his name" Victor Hugo |
| #1568, aired 1991-05-29 | FILE UNDER "Z" $1000: The Tower of Babel may have been one of these temple towers a ziggurat |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ARCHITECTURE $200: In China, most of these sacred towers have 8 sides & 3 to 15 stories pagodas |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In title of books by Trollope & Tolkien, this word follows "Barchester" & "The Two" Towers |
| #1510, aired 1991-03-08 | THE KREMLIN $200: Imperial eagles used to top the towers but they were replaced by these big red symbols stars |
| #1435, aired 1990-11-23 | THE TOWER OF LONDON $200: The unlucky number of towers on the inner wall 13 |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | FAMOUS QUOTES $200: According to Marlowe, her face "burnt the topless towers of Ilium" Helen of Troy |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | TV GUIDE SAYS $300: "Basil is caught in a compromising situation with a hotel guest" Fawlty Towers |
| #1301, aired 1990-04-09 | POTPOURRI $500: This Sinclair Lewis novel opens with "The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist..." Babbitt |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | WORLD HISTORY $600: Water from the Euphrates was mechanically lifted high up to irrigate its trees, shrubs & flowers the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | BIRDS $400: Named for one of its favorite places to nest, this owl also lives in trees, towers & old hawk nests the barn owl |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BRIDGES $100: At 746 feet, the 2 steel towers of this San Francisco bridge are the world's tallest the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #1122, aired 1989-06-20 | ITALY $200: This city actually has several leaning towers Pisa |
| #1080, aired 1989-04-21 | LOS ANGELES $500: Community where you'd go to see the tile & sea shell covered towers built by Simon Rodia Watts |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | MODERN LITERATURE $400: Part II of this fantasy trilogy is entitled "The Two Towers" The Lord of the Rings |
| #929, aired 1988-09-22 | BRITISH TRIVIA $500: It's reported the building shown in the opening of this John Cleese series is being made into a real hotel Fawlty Towers |
| #867, aired 1988-05-17 | RELIGION $200: Though some have several, most mosques have at least 1 of these towers to call people to prayer a minaret |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | HERBS & SPICES $600: It's sometimes referred to as "sweet", but not when referring to the owner of Fawlty Towers basil |
| #697, aired 1987-09-22 | LONDON $200: Blackfriars, Westminster & London, falling down, for example bridges |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | FAMOUS RALPHS $600: He's half of the Houston Rockets' "Twin Towers" Ralph Sampson |
| #637, aired 1987-05-19 | BRIDGES $200: While this San Francisco bridge isn't world's longest, it has the tallest towers Golden Gate Bridge |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $400: Born John Cheese, he was the big cheese on "Fawlty Towers" John Cleese |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | STATUE OF LIBERTY $200: Since he designed the interior structure, the statue could be called one of this famed Frenchman's towers (Gustave) Eiffel |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | ODD JOBS $400: From person who repaired church spires, it's any workman who climbs tall towers a steeplejack |
| #364, aired 1986-01-30 | LANDMARKS $300: Its 2 bridge towers, tallest in the world, are painted orange, not gold the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | RUSSIA $200: St. Basil's church towers over this Moscow plaza Red Square |
| #149, aired 1985-04-04 | NEW YORK CITY $400: These Twin Towers are large enough to require two separate ZIP codes the World Trade Center |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Simon Rodia built these fairy-tale structures in a South L.A. ghetto the Watts towers |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | SCULPTURE $400: A gold statue of Prometheus towers over the ice rink of this N.Y.C. landmark Rockefeller Center |
