#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CLASSIC TV $400: Oh, Rob... Petrie & Sally Rogers & Alan Brady were all characters on this classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IMAGE $1200: MoMA describes this 1889 van Gogh painting as having a "churning sky" & a "quiet village below" Starry Night |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $400: After a long, unplanned but very restful nap away from the fam in an 1819 tale, he finds he just likes being single again Rip Van Winkle |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | ARTISTS ON FILM $400: The 2018 film "At Eternity's Gate" starred Willem Dafoe as this artist & Rupert Friend as his brother Theo van Gogh |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Van Gogh is among those who painted the parable of this "Good" guy who helped someone in need the Good Samaritan |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $200: In a letter from 1888 he included a sketch of his bedroom at Arles, the painting he was working on van Gogh |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $800: After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains the Catskills |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $200: "Can't you see me standing here, I've got my back against the record machine"; now leap in & name this hit, VH's only No. 1 "Jump" |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $400: Turns out his tongue had an eye for talent! This KISS bassist was an early Van Halen supporter, producing a demo for the band in 1976 Gene Simmons |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $600: Attributed to this original Van Halen frontman: "I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass" David Lee Roth |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $800: The purpose of Van Halen's rider saying no to the brown color of this candy was to ensure their complicated contract got read M&M's |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | VAN HALEN $1000: A "volcanic" rock event, the solo called this on VH's 1st album introduced Eddie's 2-handed guitar tapping to a stunned world "Eruption" |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $200: Van Morrison:
"____ Eyed Girl" Brown |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | STOP! $600: In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil Ludwig van Beethoven |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $1000: When he was 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH Wolfgang Van Halen |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $2000: Seen here are twins Pauline & Esther Friedman who doled out advice under the names Abigail Van Buren, aka Dear Abby, & her Ann Landers |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | ____ & ____ BUSINESS $1000: This jeweler bears the last names of a married couple, the son of a diamond broker & the daughter of a dealer in precious stones Van Cleef & Arpels |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $1600: Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73 Manson |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | DANCE REVOLUTION $1600: In 1975 Van McCoy had everyone lined up at the disco to do this dance the Hustle |
#8969, aired 2023-11-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: In 2018 Jaap van Zweden left the Dallas Symphony to become the maestro of this Big Apple band the New York Philharmonic |
#8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ART HEISTS $800: An early version of "The Potato Eaters" was among three of his paintings taken from a museum in Holland in 1988 van Gogh |
#19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
#8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WHAT'S NEXT? $1600: U.S. presidents:
Van Buren,
Harrison,
him John Tyler |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "Sunflowers and Swirly Stars" is the subtitle of a book about this artist van Gogh |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $200: Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river the Nile |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $400: I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament the Thames |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $600: Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river the Mississippi |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $800: Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris! the Euphrates |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $1000: Unlike Mr. Knievel, the van doesn't try to jump this river that forms part of the boundary between Idaho & Oregon the Snake River |
#8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $800: He was both the 8th vice president & the 8th president Van Buren |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1200: The town in his "Starry Night" is Saint-Rémy, where he was a patient in its mental hospital van Gogh |
#8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ishmael & crew ready their harpoons in preparation to capture a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" star Moby-Dick Van Dyke |
#8921, aired 2023-07-24 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $800: This-ing "the gnar" means skiing difficult terrain; this-ing on a guitar is what Eddie Van Halen did shredding (thrashing) |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | PAINTER SELFIES $200: Completed in 1888, his oil-on-canvas "Self-Portrait as a Painter" shows him with at least one of his ears van Gogh |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
#8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $1600: In "Bram Stoker's Dracula", Anthony Hopkins played this vampire-hunting professor Van Helsing |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $200: Its lead singer was known to "Jump" around while its virtuoso played an "Eruption" on his "Little Guitars" Van Halen |
#8881, aired 2023-05-29 | THE ROCKEFELLERS $1000: Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, & died during FDR's second term Van Buren |
#8879, aired 2023-05-25 | GALACTIC VACATIONS $400: This planet offers the Great Red Spot & its whirling clouds will make you think you're vacationing in a van Gogh painting Jupiter |
#16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $2000: These 2 sister cities in the U.S. & France are settings in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" & "Das Boot" New Rochelle, New York & La Rochelle, France |
#15, aired 2023-05-22 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $600: The symbolism in this artist's Arnolfini Portrait includes a dog, a symbol of fidelity van Eyck |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $400: Serving under Andrew Jackson, I gained the U.S. greater trading access; later I succeeded AJ as president Van Buren |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $1200: Chris Farley as Matt Foley, down by the river in a van |
#8857, aired 2023-04-25 | LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $2000: In response to a college admissions scandal, James Van Der Beek tweeted about this 1999 movie he starred in Varsity Blues |
#8854, aired 2023-04-20 | "P"OTPOURRI $1200: Like Michelangelo's famous sculpture, the van Gogh painting seen here is called this; it was donated to the Vatican in 1973 Pietà |
#8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $800: An elderly woman recognizes this now-old Washington Irving character & asks, "Where have you been these twenty long years?" Rip Van Winkle |
#8834, aired 2023-03-23 | ON THE "J.V." SQUAD $400: He played Dawson Leery on "Dawson's Creek" & his last name means "of the creek" James Van Der Beek |
#8834, aired 2023-03-23 | POST $600: John Rewald's book about this movement is subtitled "From van Gogh to Gauguin" Post-Impressionism |
#8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $800: Monkeys & rhinos were literally in the house & the game was afoot in this 1982 Caldecott Medal winner by Chris Van Allsburg Jumanji |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | U.S. MUSEUMS $600: One of the most famous paintings at LA's Getty Center Museum is this artist's "Irises" Vincent van Gogh |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | POTENT "P"OTABLES $1600: Bourbon fans go crazy for the sought-after whiskey named not for Rip but for Julian, better known by this fatherly nickname Pappy Van Winkle |
#8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $1,200 (Daily Double): ...New York enjoy this 1,046-foot Art Deco skyscraper designed by William Van Alen & built between 1928 & 1930 the Chrysler Building |
#8780, aired 2023-01-06 | THE PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE... $800: Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $200: In 2022 climate activists threw soup at "Sunflowers" by this artist, causing damage to the frame but not the glass-encased painting Van Gogh |
#8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $800: "Well, it's a marvelous night for" this Van Morrison song that features Collin Tilton's tasty flute playing & tenor sax, too "Moondance" |
#8765, aired 2022-12-16 | MUSIC ICONS $200: Valerie Bertinelli said of this rock icon that she loved him "more than I know how to explain. I loved his soul" Eddie Van Halen |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A COLORFUL SONG TITLE $800: "Do you remember when we used to sing" this Van Morrison classic? "Brown Eyed Girl" |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | U.S. CITIES $400: A suburb of Dallas, this city officially recognizes Rip Van Winkle's creator as its namesake Irving |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE EDWARDIAN ERA $400: Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine called this late guitarist "the Mozart of our generation" Eddie Van Halen |
#8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE ROCK BASSIST'S GROUP $800: Michael Anthony, who laid it down on "Runnin' With The Devil" Van Halen |
#8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: There's a period before this number that comes before "Special" in the name of Donnie Van Zant's high-caliber 1970s rock band 38 |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NOVEL NURSES $400: Several nurses figure in his novel "A Farewell to Arms", including Miss Van Campen Hemingway |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SHAVE & A HAIRCUT $800: The name of a Flemish painter graces this beard that can include clean-shaven cheeks Van Dyke |
#3, aired 2022-10-09 | 21 OR UNDER $1000: In a story written by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle drinks a magic liquor & then falls asleep for this many years 20 |
#8715, aired 2022-10-07 | PLAZA, SWEET! $1000: Chicago's AMA Plaza was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, last director of this German design school Bauhaus |
#8712, aired 2022-10-04 | SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM $4,900 (Daily Double): Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" & van Gogh's "The Starry Night":
this Manhattan museum MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
#8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: One report said that in December 1888, an injured van Gogh went to a brothel & said, "Guard this object carefully" his (left) ear |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | THINK FAST $400: For a 1982 film this title school home to "fast times" was played by Van Nuys high school & Canoga Park High School Ridgemont High |
#8695, aired 2022-07-29 | WATERCOLORS $2000: Van Gogh lived in the "Yellow House" with Gauguin in this French city, where his output included watercolors Arles |
#8682, aired 2022-07-12 | WHO'S IN THAT COMMERCIAL? $800: Born Robert Van Winkle, this '90s rapper is one of the famous Bobs in a Bob's Discount Furniture campaign Vanilla Ice |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ART LOVERS $800: "Undergrowth with Two Figures" from 1890 is one of the last works by this artist van Gogh |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $400: After winning an Olympic medal, she got congratulations from her rock-star dad who didn't even mention Don Juan van de Donkhoeve Jessica Springsteen |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE REALITY OF TV $200: Celebrities who boogied on this show in 2019 included Lamar Odom, Lauren Alaina & James Van Der Beek Dancing with the Stars |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $2000: Bada Bing owner
Silvio Dante Little Steven Van Zandt |
#8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FLAGS OF FORMER COUNTRIES $1600: General Dương Văn Minh was the last president of this former nation, whose flag is seen here South Vietnam |
#8614, aired 2022-04-07 | THE AWFUL SOUND OF MUSIC $1600: Henry van Dyke rhymed that the cry of the whippoorwill was "sad and" this; not a great compliment for your singing either shrill |
#8613, aired 2022-04-06 | TOMBSTONES $200: Ludolph van Ceulen, who calculated the value of this to 35 digits, asked for it to be engraved on his tombstone (it is) pi |
#8613, aired 2022-04-06 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: Twin sisters Pauline & Esther Friedman both saw success as these 2 pseudonymous newspaper advice columnists Ann Landers & Dear Abby (Abigail Van Buren) |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | FULL ARTS $800: His painting of a peasant woman of Nuenen peeling potatoes isn't nearly as famous as his "Potato Eaters" van Gogh |
#8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $1600: People were already doing this dance when Van McCoy wrote a song about it, helping to usher in the disco era "The Hustle" |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! $200: You could visit the Rijksmuseum & watch "Operation Night Watch" as it studies one of this man's masterworks with a stereomicroscope Rembrandt |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1832 he missed Senate confirmation to be minister to the U.K. by one vote but he'd soon get Jackson's MVB vote as veep Martin Van Buren |
#8565, aired 2022-01-28 | HOOK $2000: The fast ferry at Hoek van Holland, aka "The Hook", shuttles people to this big port city Rotterdam |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | YOU PLAYED YOURSELF $600: Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ILLUSTRATORS $400: N.C. Wyeth contributed illustrations to the story about this guy who slept for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT $200: "California Girls" in 1985, the year he left Van Halen David Lee Roth |
#8542, aired 2021-12-28 | STREETS OF AMERICA $400: Streets in his hometown of Portland include Van Houten & Flanders; he gave Milhouse & Ned those as surnames Groening |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PROTEST SONGS $1200: He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) |
#8519, aired 2021-11-25 | "COME" & "GO" $400: A Van Dyke is a type of this goatee |
#8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $2000: After getting 17 publisher rejections, Irving Stone hit it big in 1934 with this "bio-history" of van Gogh Lust for Life |
#8505, aired 2021-11-05 | I HELPED IN THE 17th CENTURY $1600: Microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek scoped out this type of organism whose name means "first animal" protozoa |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $600: Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man L. Frank Baum |
#8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SATELLITES $2000: Explorer 1 made the first scientific discovery by satellite when it detected this radiation belt in 1958 the Van Allen belt |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | DOCTOR IS NOT MY FIRST NAME $2000: M.D. & Ph.D., vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing Abraham |
#8483, aired 2021-10-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Mies van der Rohe headed the College of Architecture & designed its building at IIT, short for this Chicago school Illinois Institute of Technology |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THE BANDS THEY FRONTED $400: David Lee Roth Van Halen |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $1000: He won Caldecott Medals for "Jumanji" & "The Polar Express" Van Allsburg |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $800: This author created the characters Jonathan Harker & Dr. Van Helsing (Bram) Stoker |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $400: In "Mary Poppins", a fittingly sooty Dick Van Dyke sings "Chim Chim Cher-ee", a song about this job a chimney sweep |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890 Vincent van Gogh |
#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 |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BIBLICAL ART $2000: Van Dyck depicted Jesus crowned with thorns in this painting whose name means "behold the man" Ecce Homo |
#8414, aired 2021-06-03 | "E" SPORTS $400: Linda Cohn, Chris Berman & Scott Van Pelt are stars on its team ESPN |
#8406, aired 2021-05-24 | MUSIC FOR CHAMPIONS $600: "Poetic Champions Compose" is a 1987 album by this Irish rock & R&B legend who was knighted in 2016 Van Morrison |
#8398, aired 2021-05-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1853 this 14th president was not sworn in--he was affirmed on a Bible Franklin Pierce |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | WINDOWS & DOORS $1200: These skyscraper entrances invented by Theophilus Van Kannel act as air locks, preventing cold air from mixing with hot revolving doors |
#8385, aired 2021-04-23 | SKYSCRAPERS $2000: For the Seagram Building, his only NYC design, Mies van der Rohe contrasted the steel & glass with this 5-letter public area in stone the plaza |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | D PLUS $200: TV's Ms. Falco & music's Mr. Van Halen Edie & Eddie |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SNOOZE CLUES $400: The last thing he remembers on waking from a 20-year-long snooze is "a strange man with a keg of liquor" Rip Van Winkle |
#8379, aired 2021-04-15 | AUCTION $200: This artist's 1889 "Self-portrait without beard" went for $71.5 million at a Christie's auction van Gogh |
#8362, aired 2021-03-23 | SOLD AT AUCTION $800: In 1990, exactly 100 years after it was painted, this artist's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold for $82.5 million Vincent van Gogh |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1840 this former president went to St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans to honor an event that occurred 25 years earlier Andrew Jackson |
#8347, aired 2021-03-02 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $800: Kinderhook Van Buren |
#8345, aired 2021-02-26 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: Embedded with stones that glow in the dark, the Van Gogh Path in the Netherlands was inspired by this painting Starry Night |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1000: This man from Kinderhook served as secretary for Andrew Jackson Van Buren |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $800: Archaeologist Esther Van Deman's major work was titled "The Building of" these Roman waterways aqueducts |
#8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $200: The National Society of Colonial Dames in the state of New York manages Van Cortlandt House, the oldest home in this most N. borough the Bronx |
#8310, aired 2021-01-08 | ARTISTS IN EUROPE $1000: While visiting van Gogh at Arles, this painter did his own take on "The Night Café" and Madame Ginoux all in one Gauguin |
#8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $400: Online advice from United Van Lines & Bekins says to pack these in small boxes--they'll get heavy real fast books |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | GEOGRAPHY $2000: This nation's 81 provinces include Batman, Van & Hatay Turkey |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $200: This TV legend leaped from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" to her own title sitcom Mary Tyler Moore |
#8264, aired 2020-10-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Washington Irving's story about this nap-happy fella was first published in "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." Rip Van Winkle |
#8264, aired 2020-10-22 | CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $2000: Audrey Hepburn & Jean-Claude Van Damme Brussels |
#8256, aired 2020-10-12 | UNIVERSE $800: One of the smallest of these space peewees is van Maanen's Star at roughly 10,000 miles in diameter a dwarf star |
#8255, aired 2020-10-09 | TELEVISION $800: Capeside was the setting of this series with James Van Der Beek in the title role Dawson's Creek |
#8234, aired 2020-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale Rip Van Winkle |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | "ROCK" &/OR "ROLL" SONGS $400: Chuck Berry's impossible 1956 title request of Ludwig van while "rockin' in 2 by 2" "Roll Over Beethoven" |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SCHOOL SUPPLIES $600: Paul Van Cleef is credited with inventing this "cement" named for the latex it originally contained rubber cement |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | TV TRANSPORTS $1000: "If you have a problem, if no one else can help, & if you can find them, maybe you can hire" this group & its 1983 GMC van The A-Team |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $2000: Based on a 1960 Hugo award-winning novel, this movie starred Casper van Dien & Denise Richards as soldiers fighting insect-like aliens Starship Troopers |
#8193, aired 2020-04-01 | HUGH JACKMAN $800: In 2004 Hugh battled vampires, werewolves & other creatures as this title monster-hunting doctor created by Bram Stoker Van Helsing |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | CLASSIC ROCK & ROLL QUOTES $600: "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how good you looked", said this Van Halen frontman in 1984 David Lee Roth |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | TRANSPORTATION $800: Motorhomes come in three letter classes. Class "B" is also called a camper type of this a van |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | EXPLORERS $1000: The island of Van Diemen's land, a name associated with Australian penal colonies, was renamed in 1855 for this Dutch explorer (Abel) Tasman |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR $600: Valerie Bertinelli, in 1981 Eddie Van Halen |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ART SUBJECTS $1200: Teenaged ballerina Marie van Goethem was the model for his sculpture of the "Little Dancer" Degas |
#8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $1600: He wrote part of 1809's "History of New York" while staying in what would later be Martin Van Buren's home, Lindenwald Washington Irving |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME $1600: VP Richard Johnson lived openly with a female slave--one reason this party dropped him from the 1840 ticket with Martin Van Buren the Democratic Party |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SCI-POURRI $200: Using one of these he built himself, in 1674 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek gave the first accurate description of red blood cells a microscope |
#8139, aired 2020-01-16 | BLUE BY YOU $400: He chose a nice blue hat to cover the bandage over his ear for the 1889 painting seen here van Gogh |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | COMPOSERS $1200: One of England's most beloved tunes is the one by Hubert Parry named for this faraway Mideast city [Listen.] Jerusalem |
#8136, aired 2020-01-13 | STARCHITECTS $1600: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the big star of this "worldly" 20th century style that emphasized straight lines the International Style |
#3, aired 2020-01-08 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew show a painting on the monitor.) Van Gogh drew a famous portrait of this homeopathic physician, whom he called "sicker than I am"; Cezanne, also a friend, chose to paint a scene of his house at Auvers Dr. Gachet |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $800: A song called this fruit "Man" became a classic for Herbie Hancock & a movie title for Melvin Van Peebles Watermelon |
#1, aired 2020-01-07 | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $1200: (Kevin Hart delivers the clue.) There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glover taking over my avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man Van Allsburg |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $400: After taking a strange drink, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for this many years before waking up 20 |
#8109, aired 2019-12-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $400: You know the big heads on this Pacific island? Jo Anne van Tilburg has shown that they have bodies, if you just dig Easter Island |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | DOPPELHANGERS $1200: Han van Meegeren got in trouble after selling Vermeer forgeries to Nazis including this Luftwaffe bigwig (Hermann) Goering |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $2000: Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
#8074, aired 2019-10-17 | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $400: Dutch painter Maerten van Heemskerck, who spent several years in Rome, painted "Self-Portrait with" this behind him the Colosseum |
#8074, aired 2019-10-17 | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $2,000 (Daily Double): Here's this Flemish artist with his trademark beard van Dyck |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | FLOWER POWER $800: Van Gogh captured these huge flowers in their August bloom; the yellow background makes the work almost monochromatic sunflowers |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WHAT PREZ PRECEDED... $3,800 (Daily Double): Martin Van Buren, & you can take that to the bank Andrew Jackson |
#8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $200: He proposed to at least 3 women, including Eugenie Loyer in 1873, but this painter never wed on a "Starry Night"--or any other van Gogh |
#8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | GREEK & LATIN PREFIXES $400: Vincent van Gogh's brother knows this 4-letter combining form is built like a Greek "god" theo- |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | SECRETARIES OF WAR $1600: This Christmas plant with red leaves was named for Martin van Buren's Secretary of War a poinsettia |
#8032, aired 2019-07-09 | PICTURE IN PICTURE $7,000 (Daily Double): The Antwerp museum of this Flemish artist has a depiction of the collection of his friend Cornelis van der Geest Rubens |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $200: He launched a line of electric guitars called the EVH Wolfgang Eddie Van Halen |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $400: Dawson on "Dawson's Creek", he went on to solve crimes on "CSI: Cyber" (James) Van Der Beek |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $600: She's the bossy but beloved character seen here Lucy van Pelt |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $800: In "Double Impact" this action star played twins separated at birth; thankfully they both learned roundhouse kicks Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $2,000 (Daily Double): A music competition named for him has been called "the most prestigious classical piano contest in the world" Van Cliburn |
#7999, aired 2019-05-23 | LOS ANGELES IN THE MOVIES $800: Canoga Park & Van Nuys High Schools subbed for the title institution in this film that had Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $2000: This Frenchman, who inspired the Impressionists, painted some controversial works, & his fish were unorthodox too Édouard Manet |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | DANCING BACK TO DISCO $600: The complete lyrics of Van McCoy's song that had dancers on their feet: "Do it!" & this 3-word phrase do the hustle |
#7993, aired 2019-05-15 | TEACHERS IN SONG $200: This hard-rocking group "Got it bad. Got it bad. Got it bad". They're "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
#7982, aired 2019-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: In 1828 future president Van Buren quit the Senate, won the race to be gov. of this state, then quit that job within 12 weeks New York |
#7980, aired 2019-04-26 | PLAYERS ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $1000: 2013:
Wayne Rooney & Robin Van Persie were allied & Premier (League) players Manchester United |
#7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This Washington Irving character "fell asleep on the mountain...and every thing's changed--and I'm changed" Rip Van Winkle |
#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 |
#7958, aired 2019-03-27 | HE WAS SENATOR & PRESIDENT $1000: This New Yorker & future president joined the Senate in 1821 & soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt Martin Van Buren |
#7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $1600: Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh in this 1950s biopic Lust for Life |
#7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $2000: Willem Dafoe played Van Gogh in this 2018 film from artist/director Julian Schnabel At Eternity's Gate |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VAN GOGH $400: In 1889 while convalescing at an asylum near Saint-Rémy, France, Van Gogh painted this masterpiece Starry Night |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VAN GOGH $800: An autobiography of Van Gogh in the form of letters to his beloved brother was published as "Dear" him Theo |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VAN GOGH $1200: Influenced by Seurat, Van Gogh used this technique in some paintings, including this self-portrait pointillism |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VAN GOGH $1600: Van Gogh considered this painting of 5 peasants dining on a meager meal "the best thing I did" The Potato Eaters |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VAN GOGH $2000: In addition to sunflowers, Van Gogh was also fond of painting these flowers irises |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | OLYMPIANS FROM COUNTRIES THAT NO LONGER EXIST $400: 1964, judo:
Nguyen Van Binh of this country South Vietnam |
#7874, aired 2018-11-29 | THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000 (Carl) Reiner |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $2000: The house where this artist lived & worked from 1639 to 1658 is now a museum in Amsterdam Rembrandt |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: This giant of Flemish art was a mentor to Anthony Van Dyck, who did a 1621 portrait of the older master's wife Peter Paul Rubens |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | ENDS IN "U" $2000: In "Dracula" Van Helsing says, "You would in time...have become" this creature "as they call it in eastern Europe" Nosferatu |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | GONNA PAINT THIS TOWN $1000: In 1888 van Gogh gave us "Sunset: Wheat Fields Near" this French city on the Rhone Arles |
#7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FICTIONAL DOCTORS $1600: With the help of Jonathan Harker & others, this physician & metaphysician helps dispatch Dracula Van Helsing |
#7806, aired 2018-07-16 | 4, 4 $1000: In 1848 Martin Van Buren was the presidential candidate of this party that opposed slavery in western territories the Free Soil party |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | TV SHOW ENCYCLOPEDIAS & COMPANIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapter titles in the biography of this classic comedy include "Capri Pants" & "Stumbling" The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#7772, aired 2018-05-29 | A-1 ALPHANUMERICS 4U $1200: In 1988 this hard-rockin' band was alphanumerically yours with "OU812" Van Halen |
#7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SORTA BEFORE & AFTER $400: Action star known as "The Muscles from Brussels" who's a Broadway musical with the song "Whatever Lola Wants" Jean Claude Van Damn Yankees |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rent yourself a van in Yerevan, this country's capital, then shoot through Turkey to the Black Sea Armenia |
#7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SHORT STORIES $400: This Washington Irving character had a real booze problem--after getting blasted, he slept for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $800: People doing this dance at a nightclub in the 1970s inspired Van McCoy to write a song about it the hustle |
#7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ART $2,000 (Daily Double): He painted the yellow house that he had rented in Arles, hoping to establish a studio of the south with fellow artists van Gogh |
#7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE FICTION SECTION $800: Irving Stone's fictionalized biography of artist Vincent Van Gogh has this passionate 3-word title Lust for Life |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | HIS PANIC $400: This president inherited Andrew Jackson's financial policies, which spurred on the stock world's "Panic of 1837" Martin Van Buren |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A BLANK EXPRESSION $400: Associated with architect Mies van der Rohe:
"Less is ____" more |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | MY COUNTRY (OF BIRTH) $1000: Jean-Claude Van Damme Belgium |
#7724, aired 2018-03-22 | SING A SONG OF $1200: In "Song Of Home" this Belfast bluesman is sailing home from Maine, then sailing home from Spain--did he get lost? Van Morrison |
#7693, aired 2018-02-07 | "SECURITY" $600: Linus van Pelt's main accessory security blanket |
#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 |
#7683, aired 2018-01-24 | MISS NOMERS $1000: Everybody liked Vonda Van Dyke in 1964--she was the only woman to win this friendly title in addition to Miss America Miss Congeniality |
#7682, aired 2018-01-23 | CHARACTERS' FULL NAMES $1000: On "The Simpsons", it's the first name of young master Van Houten; his middle name is Mussolini Milhouse |
#7678, aired 2018-01-17 | PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES $1000: Kinderhook, New York Martin Van Buren |
#7672, aired 2018-01-09 | MUSICAL GUEST PERFORMERS $2000: Guests of this group whose name is a colorful cocktail include the von Trapps, Carol Channing & Mamie Van Doren Pink Martini |
#7669, aired 2018-01-04 | HELP! TV POLICE! $200: In 1991 S. Epatha Merkerson guested as Mrs. Winters on this NBC show; from 1993 to 2010, she starred as Anita Van Buren Law & Order |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "K"9 $1200: In this movie Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Thai martial arts to avenge his brother Kickboxer |
#7639, aired 2017-11-23 | FOR A SONG $1200: Roy Orbison recorded this song years before Van Halen's 1982 hit "Oh, Pretty Woman" |
#7636, aired 2017-11-20 | IN THE CITY $200: The Loop between Lake & Van Buren Chicago |
#7633, aired 2017-11-15 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $400: "Dutch" Ronald Reagan |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | ART $400: This 1889 van Gogh work depicts a crescent moon in a swirling sky, a church spire & a cypress tree The Starry Night |
#7631, aired 2017-11-13 | EARTH SCIENCE $2000: The inner of these 2 radiation belts is centered less than 6,000 miles above the Earth; the outer may extend to 36,000 miles the Van Allen belts |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | LITERATURE FOR THE YOUNG $800: A boy asks Santa for a reindeer's silver bell in this classic by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
#7618, aired 2017-10-25 | RADIO $1200: Sirius XM rocks out in the underground garage from this bandanna-ed Springsteen sideman Steven Van Zandt |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | PAINT BY NUMBERS $400: A still life by Van Gogh is often called "Vase with 15" these, though Vincent himself wrote there were 14 sunflowers |
#7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $1200: We hope you don't sleep through this Reginald de Koven folk opera based on an American story from 1820 Rip Van Winkle |
#7606, aired 2017-10-09 | CLASSICS ON AUDIBLE $1000: This Gothic novel has multiple narrators, including Alan Cumming as Dr. Seward
"The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at Liverpool Street was, 'Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her?'" Dracula |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ROCK & ROLL! $200: Rockin' & rollin & mic stand-twirlin' a bit too hard, David Lee Roth cut his nose fronting this band on Kimmel & got 14 stitches Van Halen |
#7594, aired 2017-09-21 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $200: Van Morrison:
"____ Eyed Girl" Brown |
#7581, aired 2017-07-24 | FAKE NEWS $1600: Arrested as a collaborator, Han Van Meegeren confessed he'd forged a "Vermeer" that he sold to this big fat Nazi Göring |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $800: He roomed with van Gogh in Arles, partly as a favor to van Gogh's brother Theo (Paul) Gauguin |
#7573, aired 2017-07-12 | TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR $800: Whether he got canned or he quit, as of '96, Sammy Hagar was no longer the voice of this band of 2 brothers Van Halen |
#7566, aired 2017-07-03 | MARY TYLER MOORE $400: Before she starred in her own self-titled show, Mary starred for 5 seasons in the sitcom named for this other icon Dick Van Dyke |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | PAINTINGS $600: His Wheatfield with Crows was painted in 1890, the last year of his life Van Gogh |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $800: Abigail "Dear Abby" Van Buren & this twin sister in the same line of work were born July 4, 1918 Ann Landers |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | THE "I.T." DEPARTMENT $1200: In the film "Double Impact", Jean-Claude Van Damme played these identical twins |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | TEXTBOOKS $400: Van Eyck's "Man in a Red Turban" is on the cover of the 7th edition of H.W. Janson's textbook on this subject art history |
#7525, aired 2017-05-05 | MODEL $2000: Van Gogh's portrait of this homeopath includes some foxglove, likely to be used medicinally Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet |
#7519, aired 2017-04-27 | A TV GUIDE $400: Kelly Overton on Syfy's "Van Helsing" can save the world-- her blood makes these human again vampires |
#7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: Played by Chris Farley, Matt Foley was a motivational speaker who lived "in a van" at this location down by the river |
#7503, aired 2017-04-05 | THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT $800: Nguyen Van Thieu (1967 to 1975) South Vietnam |
#7502, aired 2017-04-04 | TV NETWORK NEWS $2000: Until 2016 she was "On the Record" covering headlines on Fox News Greta Van Susteren |
#7497, aired 2017-03-28 | ENDS WITH K $800: Lindenwald was Martin van Buren's 225-acre farm in this New York town Kinderhook |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $600: "The Penitent" this woman is the subject of a painting by van Dyck Mary Magdalene |
#7476, aired 2017-02-27 | LEAD SINGERS FOR THE BAND $200: David Lee Roth,
Sammy Hagar,
Gary Cherone Van Halen |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | CITIES $800: In 1881 Vincent van Gogh moved to this Dutch city, home to the royal family The Hague |
#7459, aired 2017-02-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $400: In an 1819 tale this character awakens from a 2-decade nap to find his wife has passed on Rip Van Winkle |
#7456, aired 2017-01-30 | YES, MR. MOVIE PRESIDENT $600: Nigel Hawthorne's Martin Van Buren challenged a lower court's ruling in favor of Africans aboard this 1997 title ship Amistad |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | "A" FOR ART $1200: These served as a backdrop for the elevation of the Eucharist during Mass; the one at Ghent's cathedral is by Van Eyck an altarpiece |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: The name of this "Dracula" character who represents steadfastness calls to mind the castle of Elsinore Professor Van Helsing |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: A circa 1620 portrait of Cornelis van der Geest shows the pointy beard that bears this artist's name van Dyck |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | REPTILES $3,200 (Daily Double): This lizard was discovered in 1910 by Lt. Van Hensbroek on the Indonesian island for which it's named the Komodo dragon |
#7381, aired 2016-10-17 | LESSER-KNOWN GRAMMYS $2000: Maya Angelou won for spoken word in 1993 & '95; in 1994 it was him for "Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag" Henry Rollins |
#7374, aired 2016-10-06 | SPY FICTION $400: Robert Ludlum wrote the first 3 novels featuring this spy; the last 10 were written by Eric van Lustbader (Jason) Bourne |
#7373, aired 2016-10-05 | "Y" GEOGRAPHY? $800: A part of NYC's metro area, it was named for founder Adriaen van der Donck's nickname, which meant "young gentleman" Yonkers |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | SEEN FROM ABOVE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting and a video on the monitor.) Based on a work titled "Olive Trees" by this painter, crop artist Stan Herd's version is perhaps better viewed from an airplane (Vincent) van Gogh |
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
#7350, aired 2016-07-22 | YOU "DY" $600: Oh, Rob... the Petries were the family on this sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MAN-AGRAMS $800: A 19th century president:
RUN VIBRANT AMEN Martin Van Buren |
#7333, aired 2016-06-29 | LOST & FOUND $1600: Evangeline Lilly traded in the island to play Hope van Dyne opposite Paul Rudd in this Marvel movie Ant-Man |
#7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $200 (Daily Double): This Dutch man flew into his seat on March 4, 1821 but that wasn't his last stop, politically Van Buren |
#7313, aired 2016-06-01 | "CL"ASSICAL MUSIC $1600: This pianist became an American hero when he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 Van Cliburn |
#7303, aired 2016-05-18 | ART $1200: In 1987 his "Irises" sold at auction for a then-record $53.9 million Vincent van Gogh |
#7302, aired 2016-05-17 | I NEED $800: A bottle of 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle Kentucky straight this bourbon |
#7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) I'm at Sunnyside, near Sleepy Hollow, New York, home of this "Rip Van Winkle" author; he designed the home & grounds himself & wrote, "It is a beautiful spot, capable of being made a little paradise" Washington Irving |
#7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WORK WITH KIDS $1000: This band was hot for the charts in the 1980s with "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | AMY POEHLER IS AWESOME $1000: Who'd dare oppose figure skater Chazz Michael Michaels in this film? Amy Poehler, playing Fairchild Van Waldenberg Blades of Glory |
#7285, aired 2016-04-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: In 2016 it was announced that Jaap van Zweden, maestro of the Dallas Symphony, will lead this Big Apple band the New York Philharmonic |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | ALL THE LYRICS IN THE SONG $1600: In 1975 Van McCoy topped the charts demanding, "Do it! Do" this "quick" dance (repeatedly) the hustle |
#7277, aired 2016-04-12 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $800: He was both the eighth vice-president and the eighth president Van Buren |
#7271, aired 2016-04-04 | HE VARNISHED $1200: In 1890 he wrote that a study of his "Cypresses" could use a thick coat of varnish Van Gogh |
#7227, aired 2016-02-02 | WHO SAID THAT? $800: A 19th century painter: "Ah, if only all artists had enough to live on" van Gogh |
#7227, aired 2016-02-02 | WHO SAID THAT? $2000: To Martin van Buren: "The bank, Mr. van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it" Andrew Jackson |
#7220, aired 2016-01-22 | PRESIDENTS 101 $1000: The first born outside the original colonies, in 1809 Abraham Lincoln |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | MUSICAL NICKNAMES $400: This Van Halen lead singer is "Diamond Dave" David Lee Roth |
#7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $400: Van Morrison's music is often classified with American acts like the Righteous Brothers under "blue eyed" this soul |
#7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $800: Van's first solo single was the 1967 pop classic about this "girl" Brown Eyed Girl |
#7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $1200: Van filmed 3 2009 L.A. shows so this bedridden, ailing one of "Charlie's Angels", a big fan, could watch Farrah Fawcett |
#7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $1600: Van rose to prominence in this "Gloria"-ous band with a pronoun for a name Them |
#7199, aired 2015-12-24 | VAN THE MAN $2000: "It's a marvelous night for" this lunar frolic, the title of one of Van's albums Moondance |
#7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $800: Van Buren's great-great-great-grandfather came to America from this country's Gelderland province the Netherlands |
#7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $1200: In his 1837 inaugural address, Van Buren opposed the attempt of Congress to abolish this in D.C. slavery |
#7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $1600: In 1836 Van Buren won the presidency over this Whig but lost to him in the 1840 rematch William Henry Harrison |
#7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $2000: Although Van Buren was the frontrunner in 1844, this dark horse won the Democratic party nomination James K. Polk |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $200: Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Pipe and Bandaged ____" ear |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: "Tropic of Cancer", a book by him, chronicles an American expat named Henry Miller & his friends van Norden & Carl Henry Miller |
#7191, aired 2015-12-14 | SOMETHING TO READ $2000: Roddy Doyle's "Barrytown Trilogy" comprises "The Snapper", "The Van" & this novel about a rock band The Commitments |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS $600: "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", or "William of Nassau" the Netherlands |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | THE CALDECOTT MEDAL $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 1980s Chris Van Allsburg won 2 Caldecotts: for "Jumanji" & this story of a northbound train The Polar Express |
#7166, aired 2015-11-09 | SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $400: He dedicated the portrait seen here to Paul Gauguin van Gogh |
#7160, aired 2015-10-30 | MY MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Lee Harvey Oswald Gary Oldman |
#7136, aired 2015-09-28 | GRECIAN EARN $1200: Shipping heir Philip Niarchos inherited his dad's art, including "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear" by this man van Gogh |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $400: In 2011 he "Jump"ed to No. 8 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time Eddie Van Halen |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $800: He kicked butt in the movies "Until Death", "Wake of Death", "6 Bullets", I could go on... Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $1200: He's the founder of Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc. but he's better known for playing Tom Bradford on "Eight Is Enough" Dick Van Patten |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $1600: Anderson Cooper must have good jeans: his mom is this heiress & designer (Gloria) Vanderbilt |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | THE "VAN" POOL $2000: This singer's 2003 album "Dance with My Father" earned him four Grammys (Luther) Vandross |
#7106, aired 2015-07-06 | LEND ME YOUR EARS $800: Written by Eric Van Lusterbader but titled this man's "The Bourne Ascendency", the audiobook runs nearly 15 hours (Robert) Ludlum |
#7083, aired 2015-06-03 | COURSES AT CALTECH $600: The techies take a humanities break in "From Van Eyck to" this master painter of the Dutch golden age Rembrandt |
#7075, aired 2015-05-22 | GREEN BOOKS $400: A nature trail in Van Cortlandt Park is named for John Kieran, author of "A Natural History of" this metropolis New York |
#7040, aired 2015-04-03 | SELFIE OF THE ARTIST $800: He completed the self portrait here in August 1889, less than a year before his death van Gogh |
#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 |
#7025, aired 2015-03-13 | LAST NAMES OF FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: Van Pelt is the last name of these siblings in the Peanuts comic strip Linus & Lucy |
#7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE EMERALD AISLE $2000: The firm formed when he married Estelle Arpels created a 150-carat engraved emerald for the Shah's wife (Alfred) Van Cleef |
#7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $1000: This ex-president got the kinderhook on July 24, 1862 Martin Van Buren |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $400: Rob Petrie The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#6996, aired 2015-02-02 | HARD ROCKERS $400: "Can't you see me standin' here, I got my back against the record machine... ah, might as well jump (jump!)" Van Halen |
#6990, aired 2015-01-23 | WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST $2,000 (Daily Double): Enjoy the Van Gogh Museum & the Stock Exchange, founded in 1602 in this city... but don't stop for any red lights Amsterdam |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | FROM NAMES TO WORDS $2000: This style named for a painter is a goatee plus a wispy mustache a van Dyck |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $400: As Turkey's Lake Van is this kind of lake, only one kind of fish lives in it; surprisingly, it's quite edible a salt lake (salt water accepted) |
#6973, aired 2014-12-31 | 1980s MUSIC $1200: This group's album "5150" was its first with Sammy Hagar as its lead vocalist Van Halen |
#6959, aired 2014-12-11 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $600: Veronica Mars &
Jeannie Van Der Hooven Kristen Bell |
#6959, aired 2014-12-11 | STOCK SYMBOLS $1,000 (Daily Double): LVB, the former symbol for Steinway Musical Instruments, honored this man Ludwig van Beethoven |
#6959, aired 2014-12-11 | TO LIFE $1200: He's the subject of the novel & movie "Lust for Life" van Gogh |
#6956, aired 2014-12-08 | "DANCE" MUSIC $600: Van Morrison asked, "Can I just have one more" this "with you, my love?" moondance |
#6946, aired 2014-11-24 | THE MOVIE ROLE HE WAS BORN TO PLAY $1200: Really, who else but this guy could have played "JCVD" in 2008? Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#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 |
#6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ART MASTERPIECES $800: This 1889 painting shows a swirling sky with 11 magnified stars & a large orange-y moon over the town of Saint-Remy Starry Night (by van Gogh) |
#6910, aired 2014-10-03 | STAYIN' ALIVE $200: Jeanne Calment, who died age 122 in 1997, recalled meeting this artist in Arles as a teen, saying he was "dirty" Van Gogh |
#6908, aired 2014-10-01 | PAINTERS $400: For the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan Van Eyck painted 2 monumental nudes on the wings: this biblical couple Adam & Eve |
#6902, aired 2014-09-23 | CELEBRITY ORIGINS $400: (I'm Anderson Cooper.) Around 1650 my family began its American adventure when Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt emigrated to America from this country the Netherlands |
#6888, aired 2014-07-23 | JOBS IN ART $1600: He painted the 1889 portrait seen here in Arles--apparently, right as the mail came Vincent van Gogh |
#6887, aired 2014-07-22 | ON YOUTUBE $1600: Jean-Claude Van Damme impressed by doing a split on moving trucks in a vid for this Swedish car (& truck) company Volvo |
#6879, aired 2014-07-10 | NO CHASER $600: In 2013 Frederik Van Lierde won this Kailua-Kona event in 8:12:29 (& our own Kelly Miyahara did it in 14:03:33! Way to go, Kelly!) the Ironman |
#6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FURNITURE $1600: Mies Van Der Rohe designed tubular types of these & said it's almost harder than designing a building chairs |
#6866, aired 2014-06-23 | LITERARY POTENT POTABLES $600: After drinking the liquor supplied by odd-looking fellows, he "fell into a deep sleep" Rip Van Winkle |
#6865, aired 2014-06-20 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME! $800: This artist died near Paris on July 29, 1890, but you could say a part of him would always be in Arles Van Gogh |
#6851, aired 2014-06-02 | DIDN'T MAKE THE BILLBOARD TOP 40 $1600: At No. 84, "Runnin' With The Devil" by these rockers Van Halen |
#6850, aired 2014-05-30 | TWO OF A KIND $1200: These twins born July 4, 1918 both became advice columnists Anne Landers & Abigail Van Buren |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | DISCOVER $2000: In 1958, using data from a satellite, this physicist discovered 2 radiation belts encircling the Earth Van Allen |
#6835, aired 2014-05-09 | THE STARS WRITE $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1928, in 2009 Dick Van Patten published a book titled this "Is Not Enough" Eighty |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | WE'RE A NORTH AMERICAN BAND! $200: In 1973 Mammoth thought it cheaper to hire David Lee Roth as a singer than rent his P.A. system; Mammoth became this in '74 Van Halen |
#6824, aired 2014-04-24 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $1200: Jerry & Millie Helper The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#6808, aired 2014-04-02 | POP QUIZ $1600: This 2013 movie character is loosely based on 1960s folkie Dave Van Ronk Llewyn Davis |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | TEAM PLAYERS $400: Norm Van Lier,
Joakim Noah,
Scottie Pippen the (Chicago) Bulls |
#6797, aired 2014-03-18 | THE FRENCH $1000: In 2009, 2 art historians wrote it was this Paris-born painter who mutilated van Gogh's ear, with a sword, no less Gauguin |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $400: It's about a 30-minute walk from the Rembrandt House Museum to the Amsterdam museum named for this artist van Gogh |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $400: As a result of his 20-year slumber, Rip discovered that this "had grown a foot long!" his beard |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $800: This character is said to be "as much henpecked as his master" Rip's dog |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $1200: Washington Irving admitted that when he wrote the story, he'd never been to these mountains, the tale's setting the Catskills |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $2000: Rip was a descendant of the Van Winkles who served under this one-legged governor of New Netherland (Peter) Stuyvesant |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | RIP VAN WINKLE $8,000 (Daily Double): The strange men playing 9-pins were said to be this British captain & his crew, who would visit the area every 20 years (Henry) Hudson |
#6783, aired 2014-02-26 | LITERARY DOCTORS $1200: This Dutch physician is knowledgeable in vampire lore & leads the group that destroys Dracula Van Helsing |
#6777, aired 2014-02-18 | INSIDE ART $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Taking a closer look at the wall mirror behind the two figures in the 15th-century "Arnolfini Wedding" reveals 2 figures in the doorway; 1 may be this Flemish painter of the work (Jan) van Eyck |
#6776, aired 2014-02-17 | "U.S.", EH $400: The 2012 film in this franchise has Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme & an army of genetically enhanced warriors Universal Soldier |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | THE TOPIC IS MICROSCOPIC $2000: "The father of microscopy", he used a single-lens microscope in the 1700s to view tiny life forms (Anton Van) Leeuwenhoek |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | THE T IS SILENT $600: To jostle & push, or a 1975 No. 1 disco hit by Van McCoy hustle |
#6763, aired 2014-01-29 | THE PREVIOUS WORLD LEADER $1600: Martin Van Buren succeeded him as president Andrew Jackson |
#6761, aired 2014-01-27 | THE NAME OF THE ROSE $1200: This "Coal Miner's Daughter" has a rose named after her & her Grammy-winning album "Van Lear Rose" Loretta Lynn |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | SCANDAL $600: On film, Ralph Fiennes portrayed this real-life intellectual who was involved in a 1950s quiz show scandal Charles Van Doren |
#6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ART AT THE GETTY CENTER $400: (Alex presents the clue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.) After his self-mutilation & hospitalization, he entered an asylum in Saint-Remy in 1889, where he demonstrated the regenerative powers of the earth in his painting "Irises" van Gogh |
#6756, aired 2014-01-20 | WORD PUZZLES $200: It takes your belongings to a new home a moving van |
#6711, aired 2013-11-18 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $600: The Van de Graaff generator is a type of this, just like the Large Hadron Collider a particle accelerator |
#6706, aired 2013-11-11 | OLD PAINT $3,000 (Daily Double): Here is a 1640 self-portrait by this Flemish man; note the beard van Dyck |
#6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $200: Van Heflin was in "Shane" & "3:10 to Yuma"; this group gave us songs like "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
#6703, aired 2013-11-06 | MYSTERY FOLKS $600: "Immortal Beloved" is the only I.D. we have on the woman whom this 19th c. composer called "my angel, my all, my very self" Ludwig van Beethoven |
#6703, aired 2013-11-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Rhode Island school's Van Wickle Gates open twice a year -- inward for incoming freshman and outward for commencement Brown |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | ANTHONY HOPKINS MOVIES BY ROLE $400: Professor Van Helsing
(1992) Dracula |
#6677, aired 2013-10-01 | ANDREW JACKSON $800: This Jackson pick for minister to Great Britain was rejected by the Senate but later became Jackson's second veep Van Buren |
#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE UGLY $1000: In a 1966 film Clint Eastwood was "The Good", Lee Van Cleef was "The Bad" & this actor was "The Ugly" Eli Wallach |
#6664, aired 2013-08-01 | BOOKS' MISSING ADJECTIVES $400: Chris Van Allsburg's "The ____ Express" Polar |
#6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $1000: While living in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote plays to support himself Washington Irving |
#6646, aired 2013-07-08 | "UP" WORDS $200: The Supreme Court case Jones v. Van Zandt didn't overturn the Fugitive Slave Act but did this opposite uphold it |
#6641, aired 2013-07-01 | PAINTERS' MONOGRAMS $200: He made a fine post-impressionism on us: VVG van Gogh |
#6641, aired 2013-07-01 | NEXT IN ORDER $1600: Hail to the next chief:
Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler... Polk |
#6616, aired 2013-05-27 | CHARACTERS IN THE BROADWAY PLAY $800: Otto Frank & Mr. van Daan, who live in dark times The Diary of Anne Frank |
#6605, aired 2013-05-10 | THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS $400: Michael van Gerwen:
This "flighty" pub sport--get the point? darts |
#6605, aired 2013-05-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This sleepy Dutch-American character has a dog named Wolf & a daughter named Judith Rip Van Winkle |
#6586, aired 2013-04-15 | CAT SCAN $600: Turkish Coupe,
Turkish Sedan,
Turkish Van Turkish Van |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Under the Rip Van Winkle & Tappan Zee bridges in New York the Hudson River |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $200: Sept. 9, 2011:
This Eddie Vedder band was up "All Night" Pearl Jam |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | 1960s TELEVISION $2000: Carl Reiner won 3 Emmys for writing for this sitcom on which he occasionally played TV comedian Alan Brady The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#6552, aired 2013-02-26 | MAYORS OF NYC $400: 17th century mayor Cornelius van Steenwyck was born in this country--maybe in Haarlem the Netherlands |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | HEAVY METAL HEROES $400: With his work on songs like "Hot For Teacher", some rank him as the greatest heavy metal guitarist Eddie Van Halen |
#6532, aired 2013-01-29 | RECENT BOOKS $400: You must remember Eric van Lustbader's "The Bourne Imperative" is based on a character created by this man (Robert) Ludlum |
#6520, aired 2013-01-11 | BE SPECIFIC $400: Pappy van Winkle's Family Reserve isn't just "whisky"; it's Kentucky straight this bourbon |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | VAN GOGH $400: In an 1889 letter to this brother, Van Gogh said he hoped to "one day prove that I have not impoverished the family" Theo |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | VAN GOGH $800: Van Gogh's painting of these violet-colored flowers was begun within his first week at the Saint-Remy Asylum irises |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | VAN GOGH $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on a monitor.) Van Gogh's "The Yellow House" depicts the home where he stayed in Arles; the window on the left was Van Gogh's bedroom; the one on the right was the guest room where this artist stayed for 9 weeks in 1888 Paul Gauguin |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | VAN GOGH $1600: This plant on the table in "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" might indicate Van Gogh was being treated with digitalis foxglove |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | WHAT DEGREE DID THEY GET? $1600: 1935:
The first college degree of James Van Allen of "belt" fame Bachelor of Sciences |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | VAN GOGH $2000: Van Gogh wrote that this 1885 painting of 5 peasants having dinner "is the best of all my work" The Potato Eaters |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | THEIR ALBUM ROCKS! $800: "1984" (1984) Van Halen |
#6478, aired 2012-11-14 | TEACH ME A SONG $400: Playboy Playmate of the Year Lillian Muller played a teacher in this group's video for "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
#6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Museum Van Loon & the Heineken Experience Amsterdam (the Netherlands) |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $400: Later president, he was a New York senator from 1821 to 1828 Van Buren |
#6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE HUDSON RIVER $200: A cantilever bridge named for this Washington Irving sleeper stretches almost a mile across the Hudson at Catskill Rip Van Winkle |
#6449, aired 2012-10-04 | ROCKTOBER $800: On Oct. 20, 1977 Ronnie Van Zant & Steve Gaines of this Southern rock band died in a plane crash Lynyrd Skynyrd |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $200: Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river the Nile |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $400: I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament the Thames |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $600: Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river the Mississippi |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $800: Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris! the Euphrates |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $1000: Unlike Mr. Knievel, the van doesn't try to jump this river that forms part of the boundary between Idaho & Oregon the Snake |
#6440, aired 2012-09-21 | SINGERS "R" US $200: After leaving Van Halen, he had 4 Top 20 hits, including "Just Like Paradise" David Lee Roth |
#6439, aired 2012-09-20 | WORKS FOR ME $1600: I'm Gordon Ramsay, donkeys! Andi Van Willigan has this job on "Hell's Kitchen", the kitchen's No. 2 sous-chef |
#6437, aired 2012-09-18 | DUTCH COURAGE $400: Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard blew it up |
#6434, aired 2012-08-02 | TIME FOR VIDEO GAMES? $1200: In "Mystery Legends: Sleepy Hollow", players solve puzzles as this character searches for his noggin the Headless Horseman |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | AT THE BEACH $200: Van Hyning's cockle is a common one of these remnants found on the beach a shell |
#6416, aired 2012-07-09 | LIFE OF PI $1200: R.I.P. Ludolph van Ceulen, who calculated pi to 35 places & had the digits engraved on his this in 1610 his tombstone |
#6401, aired 2012-06-18 | EVERYONE'S AN ART CRITIC $400: An 1890 critique said "Sunflowers" is "powerful in color" but "the value of" his "other canvases... escapes us" van Gogh |
#6385, aired 2012-05-25 | SPELLING WITH THE STARS $800: The Doors & Patti Smith have both recorded the Van Morrison song shouting this gal's name G-L-O-R-I-A |
#6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $1000: Steven Van Zandt the guitar |
#6371, aired 2012-05-07 | "V"OCABULARY $2000: This facial feature is named for Flemish painter Anthony a van Dyck |
#6369, aired 2012-05-03 | PICTURE THE PREZ $1000: One-timer seen here John Adams |
#6362, aired 2012-04-24 | ALL ABOUT ARTISTS $800: During his life he may have sold only one painting , "The Red Vineyard", but in the 20th century his work sold for record amounts van Gogh |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | CITIES IN SONG LYRICS $2000: In a Van Morrison tune, "She's as sweet as" this kind of honey tupelo |
#6343, aired 2012-03-28 | A CLASSICAL MIXUP $1600: Oops! I had David Lee Roth singing lead for this Texas pianist who studied at Juilliard & shot to fame in the 1950s Van Cliburn |
#6340, aired 2012-03-23 | THE IMMORTALS $400: If he really was the historic figure he's linked with, this character introduced in an 1897 novel would be 581 Dracula |
#6339, aired 2012-03-22 | PORTRAITS $2000: Get in the van & name this Flemish artist whose portrait of 5 children of Charles I hangs in Windsor Castle van Dyck |
#6308, aired 2012-02-08 | ART & ARTISTS $800: This artist wrote his sister that "putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky" Vincent van Gogh |
#6303, aired 2012-02-01 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: Chris Van Allsburg won a Caldecott Medal for this modern classic about a Christmas train The Polar Express |
#6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $1600: This 1940 "Incident" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark tells the story of 3 men falsely accused & lynched for cattle rustling The Ox-Bow Incident |
#6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: After WWI he became director of the Grand Ducal art school in Weimar; in 1925 he moved the school to Dessau Walter Gropius |
#6283, aired 2012-01-04 | 19th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): In his diary, he wrote "My election as president... was not half so gratifying" as his later election to Congress in 1830 John Quincy Adams |
#6282, aired 2012-01-03 | PATENTS OF WELL-KNOWN FOLKS $600: This guitarist patented a device to permit total freedom of the player's hands... think David Lee Roth got a cut? (Eddie) Van Halen |
#6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE DREIDEL WILL ROCK $400: Adam Sandler sang that this Van Halen frontman "lights the menorah" David Lee Roth |
#6271, aired 2011-12-19 | "I" KNOW IT $600: Formerly aligned with Lacoste, this clothing brand is now a brand of Phillips-Van Heusen Izod |
#6269, aired 2011-12-15 | TV SHOW SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $1200: Parker Scavo,
Ana Solis,
Danielle Van de Kamp Desperate Housewives |
#6268, aired 2011-12-14 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $1200: (Hi, I'm Rebecca Lobo.) I love just about everything by this Northern Irish rocker, including "Gloria" & "Moondance" Van Morrison |
#6253, aired 2011-11-23 | OBSESSIONS $600: In 1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek's obsession with lenses paid off; he discovered these, from the Latin for "first animal" protozoa |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $2000: An international piano competition held every 4 years is named for this American who won a competition in Moscow in 1958 Van Cliburn |
#6227, aired 2011-10-18 | WHO'S THE TV BOSS? $1200: No-nonsense police Lt. Anita Van Buren S. Epatha Merkerson |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | ON A LAST-NAME BASIS $2000: 17th century Dutch master painter Rembrandt van Rijn |
#6224, aired 2011-10-13 | YOU SEE 'EM AT THE MUSEUM $800: This Madrid museum has Van Dyck's "Beatrice, Countess of Oxford" & "The Executions" by Goya the Prado |
#6219, aired 2011-10-06 | LUCY $800: In "Peanuts" the great passion of Lucy Van Pelt is her unrequited love for this boy Schroeder |
#6219, aired 2011-10-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $1200: This medal goes to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children; Chris Van Allsburg won for "Jumanji" the Caldecott |
#6218, aired 2011-10-05 | SONGS ABOUT GIRLS $800: Van Morrison wistfully recalled "Makin' love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you, my" this title female brown eyed girl |
#6212, aired 2011-09-27 | SHORT STORIES $6,000 (Daily Double): This Washington Irving character had "an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor" Rip Van Winkle |
#6181, aired 2011-06-27 | BIBLICAL ART $1200: During his stay at a mental asylum in Saint-Remy, van Gogh painted "The Raising of" this man Lazarus |
#6180, aired 2011-06-24 | SITCOM BY CHARACTERS $600: Hayden Fox,
Luther Van Dam Coach |
#6179, aired 2011-06-23 | GENERAL SCIENCE $800: In 1674 this Dutchman, using microscopes that he made, became the first to describe red blood cells van Leeuwenhoek |
#6172, aired 2011-06-14 | ART $2000: The clouds undulate in van Gogh's painting called "A Wheat Field with" these trees cypresses |
#6165, aired 2011-06-03 | THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO $400: This tourist haven on the waterfront of the city is roughly bounded by Kearney & Bay Streets & Van Ness Ave. Fisherman's Wharf |
#6164, aired 2011-06-02 | A BUNCH OF EDVARD MUNCH $1200: Munch's painting seen here has this title, just like an 1889 van Gogh masterpiece Starry Night |
#6161, aired 2011-05-30 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $800: Oddly, Eric van Lustbader has written more of the Jason Bourne novels than this original author did Robert Ludlum |
#6160, aired 2011-05-27 | THE SHANGHAI WORLD EXPO $800: Artwork brought to China for the expo included a van Gogh, a Gauguin & a self-portrait by this woman in the Mexico pavilion Frida Kahlo |
#6156, aired 2011-05-23 | CRAZY EIGHTS $2000: This "Little Magician" was our 8th president (Martin) van Buren |
#6155, aired 2011-05-20 | THE ROLE IN COMMON $800: James Earl Jones,
Denzel Washington,
Mario Van Peebles:
A Civil Rights activist Malcolm X |
#6152, aired 2011-05-17 | THE 2nd MILLENNIUM $400: The too-short 63-year lifespan of Rembrandt van Rijn was all in this century the 17th century |
#6151, aired 2011-05-16 | THAT'S "EASY" $1200: In Spanish this proverb translates to "faciles venida, faciles van" easy come, easy go |
#6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $400: This Dutchman died in July 1890; his brother Theo died 6 months later & was buried next to him Van Gogh |
#6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $800: This manager of Elvis was born Andreas Cornelius Van Kuijk in the Netherlands Col. Tom Parker |
#6145, aired 2011-05-06 | DUTCH BOYS $2000: This Delft painter might have used a camera obscura; his friend Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was a master lens maker Johannes Vermeer |
#6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In Dutch, this royal was known as Willem Hendrik, Prins van Oranje William of Orange |
#6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $2,000 (Daily Double): After a psy-ops team blasted Van Halen for 10 days at this general, hiding in Panama's Vatican Embassy, he said no mas (Manuel) Noriega |
#6137, aired 2011-04-26 | WHERE ART THOU? $800: Van Gogh's "The Starry Night": this Manhattan museum MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) |
#6126, aired 2011-04-11 | I'M NEXT! $1200: Presidents:
Van Buren,
Harrison... Tyler |
#6122, aired 2011-04-05 | OPRAH'S SURPRISES $800: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) In 2003 I surprised a New Orleans nanny named Fannie with some gifts, including a new van & it was that van that helped Fannie & her family escape this natural disaster Hurricane Katrina |
#6115, aired 2011-03-25 | PRESIDENTIAL MONOGRAMS $800: MVB Martin Van Buren |
#6112, aired 2011-03-22 | WORLD AUTHORS $800: A prize named for this country's Jacobus van Looy is given every 5 years for one who has excelled as a writer & a painter the Netherlands |
#6106, aired 2011-03-14 | DUMB CRIMINALS $600: In 2009 a thief broke into an NBC news van; in failing to steal a bolted-down camera, he hit this button by mistake record |
#6103, aired 2011-03-09 | WE RETITLE TV SHOWS $1200: "Lieutenant Van Buren"--the show should have been just about her Law & Order |
#6098, aired 2011-03-02 | BOTANY $400 (Daily Double): Varieties of this flower include Leen Van Der Mark, Orange Emperor & Apeldoorn the tulip |
#6092, aired 2011-02-22 | VAMPIRE DIARIES $600: Chapter XXIV of this novel opens with "Dr. Seward's phonograph diary, spoken by Van Helsing" Dracula |
#6089, aired 2011-02-17 | CHEMISTRY $600: Around 1630 Jan van Helmont discovered this gas given off by burning wood & called it gas sylvestre carbon dioxide |
#6076, aired 2011-01-31 | TREBEKS IN ART HISTORY $800: There's good old Adelberg Trebek, but this Dutchman just used al as a model for 1654's "Jan Six" Rembrandt |
#6073, aired 2011-01-26 | ART QUOTES $800: In 1888 he wrote to his brother Theo, "I cannot help it that my paintings do not sell" Van Gogh |
#6069, aired 2011-01-20 | SIBLINGS OF SONG $2000: Last name of brothers Eddie & Alex, who lent that name to a hard rock band in 1974 Van Halen |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS $400: Van Gogh the Netherlands |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | PLAYING HIMSELF $2000: As the 2008 film was called "JCVD", it would've been hard for anyone but this Belgian to play the title role Jean Claude van Damme |
#6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ASTRONOMERS $2000: His "belt" about 4.65 billion miles from the sun may contain more than 70,000 objects Gerard Kuiper |
#6036, aired 2010-12-06 | CHRIS & TELL $1600: The films "Zathura" & "Jumanji" are based on books by this Chris Chris Van Allsburg |
#6034, aired 2010-12-02 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Though not actually seen in that part of the sky, in Van Gogh's "Starry Night over the Rhone", you can clearly see this famous grouping, including Merak the Big Dipper |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: This character from an 1819 tale missed the American revolution; he was asleep Rip Van Winkle |
#6017, aired 2010-11-09 | ROOMMATES $800: While rooming with his brother Vincent van Gogh, he introduced Vincent to some Impressionist friends Theo van Gogh |
#6013, aired 2010-11-03 | CIRCUS HISTORY $800: Many circus historians credit Isaac van Amburgh with being the first to put his head in this dangerous place the lion's mouth |
#6008, aired 2010-10-27 | SITCOM MOMS $200: In the '60s Mary Tyler Moore played sitcom mom Laura Petrie on this series The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#5997, aired 2010-10-12 | HOME SWEET HOME $1000: In 1839, this president bought Lindenwald, the estate he would retire to, in Kinderhook Van Buren |
#5992, aired 2010-10-05 | ASTRONOMY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the Sun and Earth on the monitor.) On the sunward side of the Earth, these bands are compressed by solar winds; on the other side they can stretch farther the Van Allen belts |
#5985, aired 2010-09-24 | SONG HITS FOR 2 $200: The Kinks in 1964; Van Halen in 1978 "You Really Got Me" |
#5979, aired 2010-09-16 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $800: Black photographer James Van Der Zee chronicled life in this NYC section for more than a half century Harlem |
#5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LIVING IN NYC $1600: Architect William Van Alen put radiator caps on the 31st floor of this art deco landmark at 405 Lexington the Chrysler Building |
#5975, aired 2010-07-30 | UNREAL ESTATE $1200: It's the drowsy valley along the Hudson River where you'll find Katrina van Tassel Sleepy Hollow |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $400: During this war Major Martin R. Delany became the U.S. Army's first black field officer Civil War |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A CAPSULE CATEGORY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.) Russia filled this Resurs 500 space capsule with greetings to the American people & launched it in 1992 to commemorate this man's voyage Christopher Columbus |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | MUSEUMS $600: The Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site includes Booker T. Washington's home & a museum devoted to this peanut guy George Washington Carver |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | WATERCOLORS $800: The watercolor seen here depicts this world heritage site the Acropolis |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | THE WEST INDIES $800: Buck Island Reef Natl. Monument in this U.S. territory has an underwater trail where snorkelers can view the coral the Virgin Isles |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): William Dunlap, "the Father of American Drama", wrote a hit 1798 play about this British major who was hanged Major John André |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | MUSEUMS $1000: New York City has many museums, like Columbus Circle's MAD, the Museum of Arts & this Design |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | WATERCOLORS $1200: The watercolor seen here is a portrait of this artist Van Gogh |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | SITCOMS BY EPISODE $1200: "Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance" Everybody Hates Chris |
#5964, aired 2010-07-15 | POP MUSIC $600: At the 2009 Grammys, her "Still Unforgettable" won the award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Natalie Cole |
#5964, aired 2010-07-15 | OSCAR IN THEIR FILM DEBUTS $800: Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon" (1973) Tatum O'Neal |
#5964, aired 2010-07-15 | JONAH'S DRUTHERS $800: After having preached, Jonah is oddly irked that the city's people do this, from the Latin for "feel sorrow again" repent |
#5964, aired 2010-07-15 | IN WHICH CANADIAN PROVINCE? $2000: The Leacock Building at McGill University Quebec |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | TEX-ARCANA $400: Big Bend National Park is on a Big Bend of this river in western Texas the Rio Grande |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | KING KONG $600: Until he was ape-napped, King Kong was the undisputed king of this "bony" isle Skull Island |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | NUMBER WORD PLAY $1200: This multiple of 10 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order forty |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | TV SIDEKICKS $1200: Kato the Green Hornet |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | THE QUEEN $2,000 (Daily Double): To marry Elizabeth, Prince Philip had to renounce claims to this southern European country's crown Greece |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | TEX-ARCANA $2000: First called Isla Blanca, it was later renamed for a priest Padre Island |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | ASTRONOMICAL! $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) The perigee is the point of the Moon's orbit at which it's nearest to the Earth; similarly, this term is the point at which the orbiting object is closest to the Sun the perihelion |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | BLOOM COUNTY $1200: A festival celebrating these blossoms identified with the south is a yearly highlight in Columbia County, Arkansas magnolias |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | B.C. $2000: This "Great" Persian leader freed the Jews from their Babylonian captivity Cyrus the Great |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | BLOOM COUNTY $3,000 (Daily Double): Whether in Nome or Bethel, you'll always remember this hyphenated plant as Alaska's state flower the forget-me-not |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | ALL ABOUT ART $2000: In 1889, Van Gogh painted these title flowers irises |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: Only 5'6", this 8th President was a mini-van Martin Van Buren |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | NEAT, SHE $200: You'll find obsessive-compulsive Bree van de Kamp tidying up on this ABC show Desperate Housewives |
#5943, aired 2010-06-16 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: From the Flemish pronunciation of "chaos". Jan van Helmont coined this term for air that wasn't air gas |
#5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CATS & DOGS $2,500 (Daily Double): This Turkish cat was nearly extinct by the early 1960s; a Turkish zoo began a breeding program that saved them Angoras |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | 20 IS PLENTY $400: In a 19th century story, he sleeps for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
#5935, aired 2010-06-04 | SURVIVAL AT SEA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Richard Van Pham, who originally set sail from Long Beach, heading for Catalina got blown just a bit off course, & after four months, ended up near this country Costa Rica |
#5935, aired 2010-06-04 | CINEMA OF "BLOOD" $2000: Movie in which Jean-Claude Van Damme wins a secret martial arts tournament Bloodsport |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | THE NEWS $2000: In 2002 on Fox News she launched her show "On the Record" Greta Van Susteren |
#5927, aired 2010-05-25 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $400: In 1891 he held an auction of his paintings to finance his move to Tahiti Paul Gauguin |
#5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $400: Van Cliburn piano |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | TITLE ROLE PLAYING $2000: "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" (all 3, per favore) Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The world's largest collection of this post-impressionist's work is at the Amsterdam museum named for him Vincent van Gogh |
#5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PICTURE THE PREZ $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the first president to be born an American citizen Martin Van Buren |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NON-BEATLES ROCK BAND $800: Formed in 2008, Chickenfoot had Chad Smith of the Peppers, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony & this ex-Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar |
#5845, aired 2010-01-29 | HOLLYWOOD REMAKES $2,600 (Daily Double): This 1957 Glenn Ford-Van Heflin western was remade in 2007 3:10 to Yuma |
#5839, aired 2010-01-21 | BACKING BANDS $1600: This backing band includes saxophonist Clarence Clemons & guitarist Steve Van Zandt The E Street Band |
#5834, aired 2010-01-14 | THE LEGO ARTISTRY OF NATHAN SAWAYA $800: In August 2005, Nathan made a van Gogh of things with his Lego reproduction of this painting Starry Night |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | THE WHISKEY TRAIL $200: Old Rip Van Winkle is among the fine brands of this whiskey type made in Kentucky bourbon |
#5826, aired 2010-01-04 | TV's SUPPORTING CASTS $800: Amanda Righetti as Grace Van Pelt, a rookie member of the California Bureau of Investigation The Mentalist |
#5824, aired 2009-12-31 | ART HOUSE MOVIES $400: The brother of this artist is torn between art & business in the Robert Altman film "Vincent & Theo" Vincent van Gogh |
#5823, aired 2009-12-30 | THE PULITZER FOR BIOGRAPHY/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: 1939:
Carl Van Doren, writing about this founding father known for kite flying (Ben) Franklin |
#5817, aired 2009-12-22 | CURSES $1000: Norm Van Lier was so upset this NBA team didn't retire his No. 2, he put a hex on anyone who wore it; lucky it wasn't 23 the (Chicago) Bulls |
#5816, aired 2009-12-21 | RENAISSANCE ARTISTS $1600: This Flemish artist's brother Hubert may have contributed to the 12 panels of the "Ghent Altarpiece" Jan Van Eyck |
#5795, aired 2009-11-20 | COVER ME! $600: This Van Halen frontman re-did Louis Prima's "Just A Gigolo" in 1985 David Lee Roth |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $400: His 1888 work "The Sower" is in the collection of the Amsterdam museum named for him van Gogh |
#5778, aired 2009-10-28 | MUSIC'S MISSING PERSONS $800: Van Halen:
"____'s Cryin'" Jamie |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $400: One of his most famous paintings shows 11 magnified stars & an orange crescent moon in whorls of blue sky van Gogh |
#5768, aired 2009-10-14 | SPORTS SHORTS 2009 $600: The Lakers defeated this Stan van Gundy-coached team for the NBA title the Orlando Magic |
#5764, aired 2009-10-08 | DUTCH & FLEMISH PAINTERS $400: He painted his first major work, "The Potato Eaters", in 1885 while living with his parents in Nuenen Van Gogh |
#5764, aired 2009-10-08 | DUTCH & FLEMISH PAINTERS $1200: In 1632 Charles I gave this Dutch master known for his beard a house in London & a summer residence in Kent Van Dyck |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $400: He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence Martin Van Buren |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU $400: He flexed his muscles from Brussels in the 1994 film "Street Fighter": wham, bam, thank you... Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE MOON HITS $200: While promoting this title activity, Van Morrison added that it was "a fantabulous night to make romance" Moondance |
#5751, aired 2009-09-21 | ROCK STARS' BACKSTAGE NEEDS $400: Van Halen's 1982 tour contract called for these candies backstage but specified "absolutely no brown ones" M&M's |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | SURPRISE ME, TREBEK! $600: This Washington Irving short story character is surprised to learn he's been asleep for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $1000: In the opening credits of some episodes of this show, Rob Petrie trips over the ottoman in his living room The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#5722, aired 2009-06-23 | HERE'S SOMETHING RANDOM $200: Ear's to this Dutch painter, who tried to become a minister in the 1870s but failed theology exams Van Gogh |
#5722, aired 2009-06-23 | ISAAC HAYES $1200: In a 1985 episode of this show, Rick James helps Mr. T bust Isaac out of stir; that's a lot of gold chains for one van The A-Team |
#5720, aired 2009-06-19 | ROCK STARS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS $2000: This Van Halen singer:
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht... to pull up alongside it" David Lee Roth |
#5706, aired 2009-06-01 | ART $1200: Hard to tell, but Frans Hals is said to have used 27 different shades of this--look at the garb of "Adriaen Van Ostade" black |
#5704, aired 2009-05-28 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: The Mint issues 4 presidential dollar coins a year; 2008 brought us Monroe through him Van Buren |
#5699, aired 2009-05-21 | ART HEISTS $400: An early version of "The Potato Eaters" was among 3 of his paintings taken from a museum in Holland in 1988 van Gogh |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | FICTIONAL GAMES $1000: This novel by Chris Van Allsburg about a board game was made into a Robin Williams film Jumanji |
#5690, aired 2009-05-08 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders Washington Irving |
#5686, aired 2009-05-04 | ART $800: Seen in the painting here, this Dutch artist loved the color yellow van Gogh |
#5681, aired 2009-04-27 | DANCE REVOLUTION $1200: In 1975 Van McCoy had everyone lined up at the disco to do this dance The Hustle |
#5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $600: Philosopher Willard van Orman Quine said that this philosopher's "predicament is the human predicament" David Hume |
#5678, aired 2009-04-22 | IN BRUGES $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from Bruges, Belgium.) Come to Belgium for the work of the painters known as the Primitives of this culture & language; Van Eyck is among those represented in Bruges' museums Flemish |
#5676, aired 2009-04-20 | SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES 2009 $800: Jill Biden--
Nice pants; ask Laura Petrie Capri |
#5674, aired 2009-04-16 | I LED THAT CABINET DEPARTMENT $800: John Foster Dulles,
Martin Van Buren,
George Shultz Secretary of State |
#5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT IS THIS, SOME KIND OF JOKE? $1000: Steven Culp on this show (after being called Dr. Van de Kamp):
"Please, you're dating my wife. Call me Rex" Desperate Housewives |
#5670, aired 2009-04-10 | SCIENTISTS $1600: These radiation belts named for an American physicist are found in the earth's magnetosphere the Van Allen Belts |
#5663, aired 2009-04-01 | ART HISTORY $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a painting.) Van Eyck filled his Arnolfini portrait with symbolism; both the color green & the woman's pose to exaggerate her stomach are meant to indicate this, though, sadly, she never had any children fertility |
#5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $400: Renaissance artist:
Rembrandt,
Botticelli or
Van Gogh Botticelli |
#5647, aired 2009-03-10 | ARTISTS' CHOICE $1200: Surrealist:
Dali,
Delacroix or
Van Dyck Dali |
#5635, aired 2009-02-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Wild & crazy guy" who starred in "Shopgirl" & became U.S. president in 1837 Steve Martin Van Buren |
#5632, aired 2009-02-17 | ARTY FACTS $1600: 2 panels of the Ghent altarpiece by these brothers, Jan & Hubert, were stolen in 1934; only one has been recovered van Eyck |
#5631, aired 2009-02-16 | I PROBABLY COULDN'T PAINT THAT $400: "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe" is one of his best-known works Van Gogh |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | YOU GOTTA HAVE ART $1600: The Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck was court painter to this doomed English king & was knighted by him Charles I |
#5605, aired 2009-01-09 | STUPID WORD ORIGIN ANSWERS $600: One story says this word of approval comes from the initials of Van Buren's nickname of "Old Kinderhook" OK |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | THEY STILL MAKE THAT? $200: KTS Productions still makes these tapes perfect for your custom van--What? No Frampton? an 8-track |
#5598, aired 2008-12-31 | BALLET MUSIC $800: A Twyla Tharp ballet is danced to his Symphony No. 7 in A Major, known as his "Dance Symphony" Ludwig van Beethoven |
#5598, aired 2008-12-31 | "IT" IS A 7-LETTER WORD $1000: Nickname of Andrew Jackson's informal "cabinet", which included Martin Van Buren the Kitchen Cabinet |
#5589, aired 2008-12-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SURNAMES $400: Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren & this actress were collectively known as the 3 Ms Marilyn Monroe |
#5584, aired 2008-12-11 | TECUMSEH $1600: Richard Johnson, this 8th president's Veep, claimed to have killed Tecumseh & used it to his political advantage Van Buren |
#5578, aired 2008-12-03 | A CLOSER LOOK AT ART $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a famous painting on the monitor.) Notice the washbasin & the simple clothes hanging on the wall--this artist's painting is so intimate, it's been called a self-portrait; it's his bedroom in Arles Van Gogh |
#5572, aired 2008-11-25 | BIOPIC SUBJECTS $800: 1956:
"Lust for Life" Vincent van Gogh |
#5564, aired 2008-11-13 | ART $2000: Otto Van Veen--here's his "Lamentation"--taught this greatest northern Baroque painter--here's his Rubens |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | DANCE TO THE MUSIC $200: This band led by brothers Eddie & Alex hit with "Dancing In The Street" & "Dance The Night Away" Van Halen |
#5546, aired 2008-10-20 | OLD HOLLYWOOD $1000: Van Heflin died aged 60 in 1971; this Van from "The Caine Mutiny" turned 90 in 2006 Van Johnson |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | AT THE MUSEE D'ORSAY $200: The museum's got a "Starry Night" that he painted in Arles in 1888, not the more famous one done in Saint Remy in 1889 van Gogh |
#5526, aired 2008-09-22 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2000: This jar used to store an electric charge is credited to both E.G. von Kleist & Pieter van Musschenbroek a Leyden jar |
#5512, aired 2008-07-22 | HOP ON POP CULTURE $800: Mark Hamill played the oldest of Dick Van Patten's octet of kids in the pilot but not the series of this show Eight Is Enough |
#5504, aired 2008-07-10 | "C"LASSICAL MUSICIANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from Steinway & Sons in New York.) Steinway unveiled its 500,000th piano in a 1988 gala at Carnegie Hall featuring Steinway artists like this American pianist who has his own Fort Worth piano competition Van Cliburn |
#5496, aired 2008-06-30 | ABBREV. $600: A bus or van, for example:
HOV high-occupancy vehicle |
#5474, aired 2008-05-29 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: The "glass skyscraper" architect Ludwig Mies added this, his mother's surname, to his own van der Rohe |
#5471, aired 2008-05-26 | ART-PODGE $200: In 1889 he completed his "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe" Van Gogh |
#5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE VEEP $1000: He was the eighth U.S. Vice President & the eighth U.S. President Martin Van Buren |
#5455, aired 2008-05-02 | 1980s MUSIC $600: On the Michael Jackson hit "Beat It", this virtuoso lead guitarist played a solo Eddie Van Halen |
#5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BRITISH ROCKERS $800: Born in Belfast, he sang lead for the group Them before scoring hits on his own like "Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison |
#5443, aired 2008-04-16 | ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN $200: David Lee Roth,
Sammy Hagar,
David Lee Roth Van Halen |
#5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $400: Van Heflin, Gig Young & Robert Coote played Athos, Porthos & Aramis in this "novel" 1948 film The Three Musketeers |
#5432, aired 2008-04-01 | BLOOD $600: "The one name they all fear" was a tagline for this 2004 blockbuster that starred Hugh Jackman Van Helsing |
#5429, aired 2008-03-27 | CLINT EASTWOOD: A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD $800: The title trio of this movie classic are played by Clint, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
#5428, aired 2008-03-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1600: From a misspelling of the words "all correct", it was later used by Democratic partisans of Martin Van Buren O.K. |
#5426, aired 2008-03-24 | YOU CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER $200: In the 19th century, the Van Camp family started getting fat off the combination of pork & these beans |
#5426, aired 2008-03-24 | ONE OF THE 7 DEADLY SINS $600: Van Gogh's was "for life" according to Irving Stone lust |
#5425, aired 2008-03-21 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $1000: He practiced law in Kinderhook, New York (Martin) Van Buren |
#5407, aired 2008-02-26 | NAPOLEON $2000: Called the "Napoleon of the Piano", this Hungarian virtuoso played 1,000 concerts in less than 10 years Liszt |
#5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $800: Ludwig van Beethoven,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Johannes Brahms Bach |
#5399, aired 2008-02-14 | WHERE ART THOU? $800: Van Gogh learned to paint with oils while staying at The Hague in this country, his native land the Netherlands |
#5394, aired 2008-02-07 | THE MASTERS $600 (Daily Double): There's more of Venus to love in a 1615 painting by this Flemish master Rubens |
#5386, aired 2008-01-28 | NO. 1 ALBUMS $800: 1986 not only gave us Mr. Mister's "Welcome to the Real World" but this hard rockin' group's "5150" Van Halen |
#5384, aired 2008-01-24 | ROCK STARS SELL OUT $800: Van Halen's "Right Now" spearheaded the campaign for this "crystal" drink in the 1990s Pepsi |
#5370, aired 2008-01-04 | NOTHING SPECIFIC $400: In the 1970s, this character's normal rate for psychiatric help was 5 cents Lucy (van Pelt) |
#5364, aired 2007-12-27 | NO PROMISES, NO DEMANDS $400: No demands:
Moving company Global Van Lines offers "a free, no-obligation" one of these a quote (or estimate) |
#5356, aired 2007-12-17 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Monet & this fellow Impressionist often painted the same scene, like Monet's wife & son in 1874 Auguste Renoir |
#5353, aired 2007-12-12 | FILMS OF THE '90s $2000: As second-rate singer Sadie in "Georgia", she does an excruciating version of a Van Morrison song Jennifer Jason Leigh |
#5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $400: He ran for president 3 times but won only the first time Martin Van Buren |
#5349, aired 2007-12-06 | CONDUCTORS $1,200 (Daily Double): Willem Mengelberg & Eduard van Beinum have been chief conductors of this city's Concertgebouw Amsterdam |
#5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE EMMYS $800: Alan Brady would have been jealous when Carl Reiner won Emmys for writing & producing this series in the '60s The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#5346, aired 2007-12-03 | WHAT'S IN AN ARTIST'S NAME? $2000: Jerome Van Aken of "Garden of Earthly Delights" fame took this name in honor of his hometown, 'S-Hertogengosch Hieronymus Bosch |
#5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $1600: Gainsborough's portrait of Jonathan Buttall, known as this, was an homage to Anthony van Dyck The Blue Boy |
#5340, aired 2007-11-23 | 1960s TV $2000: In 1964 Mary Tyler Moore won her first Emmy, as this New Rochelle housewife Laura Petrie (on the Dick Van Dyke Show) |
#5333, aired 2007-11-14 | ASTRO QUIZ $2000: In 1958 this scientist found donut-shaped zones of charged particles high in the Earth's magnetic field (James) Van Allen |
#5331, aired 2007-11-12 | GIRLS OF SONG $200: Van Morrison, The Doors, U2 & Laura Branigan all sang about girls named this Gloria |
#5324, aired 2007-11-01 | JOHNNY GILBERT, ROCK GOD $600: "Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad, I'm hot for teacher... I got it bad, so bad, I'm hot for teacher" Van Halen |
#5322, aired 2007-10-30 | 17th CENTURY ART $400: Though he was Flemish, van Dyck is best known for the portraits he did in this British city in the 1630s London |
#5300, aired 2007-09-28 | MORGAN FREEMAN $1000: (Morgan gives the last clue.) John Quincy Adams & Martin Van Buren were characters in this 1997 film in which I starred with Djimon Hounsou Amistad |
#5293, aired 2007-09-19 | CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): This ex-CIA agent who's in search of his identity has appeared in 3 novels by Robert Ludlum & 2 by Eric Van Lustbader (Jason) Bourne |
#5290, aired 2007-09-14 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS $400: This "Wizard of Oz" author wrote books for girls under the pen name Mrs. Edith van Dyne L(yman) Frank Baum |
#5286, aired 2007-09-10 | HOW SWEDE IT IS! $400: Ingvar Kamprad founded this home-furnishing company in 1943 & once delivered its products by milk van IKEA |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | STUDENT & TEACHER $1,000 (Daily Double): Mozart & Haydn each taught this composer, briefly; maybe he just wouldn't listen (Ludwig van) Beethoven |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | YOUR PARENTS' MUSIC $1200: Of Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen or David Lee Roth, the one who was the lead singer for Van Halen David Lee Roth |
#5278, aired 2007-07-18 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: This gangly schoolmaster in "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" gives singing lessons to Katrina Van Tassel Ichabod Crane |
#5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $600: Images of this artist's work appear in the play written by & starring Leonard Nimoy as Theo Van Gogh |
#5254, aired 2007-06-14 | CELEBRITY PATENTS $1200: 2007 Rock Hall of Fame inductee who can dance the night away with his supporting device for string instruments Eddie Van Halen |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE CATS IN THE HATS $400: The guy seen here, William Van Alen, designed this in New York from 1928-1930 the Chrysler Building |
#5220, aired 2007-04-27 | "T" TIME $1600: In names of cat breeds, this nationality precedes "Angora" & "Van" Turkish |
#5218, aired 2007-04-25 | EARS TO YOU! $800: He threatened Gauguin with a razor the same night he cut off part of his own ear Van Gogh |
#5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Philip Johnson's Glass House may have been inspired by this German-born less-is-more man's Farnsworth House Mies van der Rohe |
#5192, aired 2007-03-20 | NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1984:
"Leap" "Jump" |
#5185, aired 2007-03-09 | ART WORKS $400: "Portrait of Pere Tanguy",
"Potato Eaters",
"Night Cafe" (Vincent) van Gogh |
#5185, aired 2007-03-09 | ART WORKS $600: "Danae",
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp",
"The Night Watch" Rembrandt (van Rijn) |
#5178, aired 2007-02-28 | MORE SONGS $800: A Van Morrison tune says "Well it's a marvelous night for" one of these, "with the stars up above in your eyes" a moondance |
#5171, aired 2007-02-19 | ONE-WORD RHYMES $600: Nicole Kidman is one; so was Lucille Ball & Vincent Van Gogh redhead |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | TV SHOW PEOPLE $400: Milhouse Van Houten,
Edna Krabappel,
Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon The Simpsons |
#5170, aired 2007-02-16 | PAINTERS $600: In 1889, he painted the self-portrait seen here; notice the bandaged ear Vincent van Gogh |
#5158, aired 2007-01-31 | PRESIDENTIAL HITCHING POSTS $2000: Martin & Hannah Van Buren, on Feb. 21, 1807 New York |
#5156, aired 2007-01-29 | SWEET NOTHINGS $1200: Van Morrison sings, "she's as sweet as" this, something you might find in a Mississippi apiary Tupelo honey |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $400: He painted "Starry Night" in 1889 while checked into an asylum in Saint Remy Van Gogh |
#5149, aired 2007-01-18 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE "UST" $1600: Just do this dance that was a hit song for Van McCoy back in 1975 Hustle |
#5145, aired 2007-01-12 | INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO WITH JAMES LIPTON $400: (James Lipton reads the clue.) The 19th century--more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings--yet you sold but one in your 37 years. Are you bitter? Van Gogh |
#5142, aired 2007-01-09 | FEEL THE "BURN" $1000: 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition winner Van Cliburn |
#5133, aired 2006-12-27 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $800: Detective Lennie Briscoe,
Lt. Anita Van Buren,
Dr. Emil Skoda Law & Order |
#5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PRESIDENTIAL MONOGRAMS $600: MVB Martin Van Buren |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): The largest lake in this South American country is a reservoir, W.J. Van Blommestein Lake Suriname |
#5089, aired 2006-10-26 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $400: Rip Van Winkle saw a group of odd-looking men playing this; the rolling of the balls sounded like thunder ninepins (bowling) |
#5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: In the early 1400s Robert Campin & Jan Van Eyck helped start the "Northern" one of these movements Renaissance |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | HU, WATT, WARE, NGUYEN & WYE $400: In the late 1960s the president & vice president of South Vietnam shared this name Nguyen |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | RELIGION IN ART $400: 1890's "Church at Auvers" is in the typical frenetic style of this artist (Vincent) van Gogh |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SYMBOLS IN ART $400: In a Maria Van Oosterwijck still life, a butterfly represents this, like that of Jesus on the third day resurrection |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SYMBOLS IN ART $800: Jan Van Eyck's "Arnolfini Marriage" portrait includes this animal, a symbol of fidelity a dog |
#5074, aired 2006-10-05 | PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES $1,000 (Daily Double): He took his four sons with him to the White House; Martin Jr. even worked for Dad Martin Van Buren |
#5064, aired 2006-09-21 | THEY WERE THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES $800: Is there anything on your body that was there the day you were born?; this "Dick Van Dyke" star: "The black bow" Rose Marie |
#5055, aired 2006-07-28 | THE BRETHREN $400: In boyhood, Alex of this family played guitar & Eddie was a drummer; later they switched Van Halen |
#5052, aired 2006-07-25 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1000: This New Yorker was the first president born after America declared its independence Martin Van Buren |
#5048, aired 2006-07-19 | RENAISSANCE PAINTERS $1200: Last name of Jan & Hubert, who appear to have collaborated on the "Ghent Altarpiece", a large 1432 painting Van Eyck |
#5044, aired 2006-07-13 | REMEMBERING THE '90s $1000: In 1990, 100 years after this artist's suicide, medical researchers said that he may have suffered from Meniere's disease van Gogh |
#5041, aired 2006-07-10 | TALKING TURKEY $400: Because Turkey's largest body of water, Lake Van, has this quality, its only animal life is a fish called the darekh salinity |
#5038, aired 2006-07-05 | CARE TO SEE MY ETCHINGS? $400: He created etchings of Paul Gachet, a doctor who in 1890 took him in & cared for him at Auvers van Gogh |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: This 13th president's wife Abigail loved books & began a library at the White House around 1850 (Millard) Fillmore |
#5032, aired 2006-06-27 | FRUIT $400: Tracy Chapman, Van Morrison & Bing Crosby each share a name with varieties of this fruit cherries |
#5020, aired 2006-06-09 | CITY OF THE DAY: MINNEAPOLIS $2000: The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden work seen here is by Coosje van Bruggen & this Swedish-born pop artist Claes Oldenburg |
#5016, aired 2006-06-05 | CALL ME IRVING $800: This author's lust for biography influenced him to pen works about Darwin & Van Gogh Irving Stone |
#5010, aired 2006-05-26 | PRESIDENTIAL FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: Canton, Ohio McKinley |
#5009, aired 2006-05-25 | THE VEEP $1000: He was the eighth U.S. vice president & the eighth U.S. president Van Buren |
#5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ARCHITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, he designed the Swiss Dormitory at Cite Universitaire in Paris Le Corbusier |
#5000, aired 2006-05-12 | HISTORICAL TEXT MESSAGING $200: 1989:
stk @ embassy.
u.s. blsting vh @ me.
:(
ttyl (Manuel) Noriega |
#4997, aired 2006-05-09 | TARZAN'S BOOK REVIEWS $400: Over year on bestseller list. Magic train. Christmas Eve. This Chris Van Allsburg book. Make Tarzan feel warm, fuzzy The Polar Express |
#4996, aired 2006-05-08 | NO. 1 ALBUMS $2000: (Note the year!)
1958:
His "Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1" Van Cliburn |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $800: 1956:
Kirk Douglas Vincent van Gogh |
#4991, aired 2006-05-01 | WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN... $1000: ...the Alamo was besieged by Mexican forces Andrew Jackson |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | TV INSPIRATIONS $2000: Creator Marc Cherry has said that Bree Van de Kamp on this series is based in part on his mom Desperate Housewives |
#4981, aired 2006-04-17 | MYSTERY HISTORY $800: It's the 2-word name for the van driven around by the kids on "Scooby Doo" the Mystery Machine |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | WEARABLE VOCABULARY $1600: For insulting me, you're going to get a "Van Allen" one of these in the chops belt |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | LET'S PLAY "TAG" $200: The personal identification badge worn by many convention-goers a nametag |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | MILITARY RHYME TIME $400: A verdant one of "The few, the proud..." a green Marine |
#4970, aired 2006-03-31 | MIDWAY ISLAND $400: In June 1969 President Nixon & this country's Nguyen Van Thieu met secretly in the Commanding Officer's house South Vietnam |
#4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LARCENY DELL'ARTE $400: 20 paintings by this man, including the one seen here, were stolen briefly from the Stedelijk Museum in 1991 Van Gogh |
#4966, aired 2006-03-27 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1848 this former president from New York ran for office again, this time on the Free-Soil ticket Martin Van Buren |
#4965, aired 2006-03-24 | AMERICANA $600: This Chicago cemetery is the final resting place of Mies van der Rohe, but not--despite its name--of Elvis Graceland |
#4956, aired 2006-03-13 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: He bellowed, "My name is Matt Foley, I'm 35, divorced, and I live in a van down by the river!" Chris Farley |
#4951, aired 2006-03-06 | "EVO"LUTION $400: Invented by Theophilus Van Kannel, these entrances save energy & equalize air pressure in skyscrapers revolving doors |
#4949, aired 2006-03-02 | POT LUCK $1600: He was on the cover of the February 11, 1957 Time magazine with the headline "Brains v. Dollars on T.V." Charles Van Doren |
#4945, aired 2006-02-24 | RAY CHARLES & FRIENDS $800: Ray Charles sang "Crazy Love" with this Belfast-born man who wrote the song Van Morrison |
#4944, aired 2006-02-23 | RHYME TIME $400: Advice guru Ms. Van Buren's striped cats Abby's tabbies |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | MARVELOUS MARVEL $400: This vampire hunter's compatriots are Quincy Harker & Rachel van Helsing Blade |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | TAKING FLIGHT $1200: The first woman to fly in a plane in the U.S., Mrs. Ralph Van Deman, had a man with this last name as a pilot Wright |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | "PH" DELIGHTS $400: To see Van Gogh's "Vase with 12 Sunflowers", head out to this American city's Museum of Art Philadelphia |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | CELEBRITY HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK $400: A cheerleader & 1980 graduate of Van Nuys High School; years later, she'd be "Idol"ized by millions Paula Abdul |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED $2000: Kinderhook,
New York (Martin) Van Buren |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | AUSSIE CAPITALS $2000: This capital was once the government seat of a British colony called Van Diemen's Land Hobart |
#4925, aired 2006-01-27 | SHORT STORIES $1,600 (Daily Double): In an 1819 tale, his daughter says about him, "It's been twenty years since he went away from home, with his gun" Rip Van Winkle |
#4915, aired 2006-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $200: Actor Joseph Jefferson was renowned for his portrayal of this snoozy Washington Irving character Rip Van Winkle |
#4913, aired 2006-01-11 | CLEVELAND ATHLETES $800: "Bullet Bob", this pitcher from Van Meter, Iowa, joined the Indians at age 17 in 1936 Bob Feller |
#4913, aired 2006-01-11 | THE KENNEDY CENTER $1000: This American pianist who took Moscow (& the world) by storm in 1958 received a Kennedy Center honor in 2001 Van Cliburn |
#4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BELLY UP TO THE BAROQUE $1200: This 17th century Antwerp painter's portrait of Charles I hunting is seen here Anthony van Dyck |
#4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $800: Australia's smallest state, this island used to be called Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
#4887, aired 2005-12-06 | GOING DUTCH $2000: Sister Wendy said the skull this Dutchman painted around 1626 seems to address us in some way Frans Hals |
#4887, aired 2005-12-06 | GOING DUTCH $4,200 (Daily Double): In 1677 this Dutchman described microscopic bodies as "little animals" Anton Van Leeuwenhoek |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1200: "Zathura" is from a book by Chris Van Allsburg, author of this "cool" story, later a Tom Hanks animated film The Polar Express |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | A CLOSE LOOK AT ART $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to paints & pigments.) "The clash of colors, like the different greens, express the terrible passions of humanity", wrote this artist Van Gogh |
#4861, aired 2005-10-31 | VAMPIRE SLAYERS $1200: Peter Cushing, Anthony Hopkins & Laurence Olivier have played this nemesis of Dracula Van Helsing |
#4859, aired 2005-10-27 | ARCHITECTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1929 he created the "Barcelona Chair", a chair of curved steel bands cantilevered to support cushions Mies van der Rohe |
#4854, aired 2005-10-20 | THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS $200: In 1987 this van Gogh work sold for $53.9 million, then a record price for a work of art Irises |
#4850, aired 2005-10-14 | GOSH DARN YANKEES $400: This 19th century New Yorker wrote of one guy who slept for 20 years & another who went around headless Washington Irving |
#4846, aired 2005-10-10 | WHERE WE WENT ON SUMMER VACATION $1000: …to New York City where we visited the Museum of Modern Art & saw this man's famous painting, "Starry Night" Vincent van Gogh |
#4845, aired 2005-10-07 | I WAS HIS VEEP $1200: Martin Van Buren Andrew Jackson |
#4842, aired 2005-10-04 | COMPANIES $1000: In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors Amway |
#4832, aired 2005-09-20 | LYRICALLY YOURS $600: In 1986, Sammy Hagar wailed, "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time" when he was this band's lead singer Van Halen |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD $200: This "colorful" 1967 Van Morrison song made the presidential cut "Brown Eyed Girl" |
#4823, aired 2005-07-20 | ANAGRAMS $800: It was the nationality of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, himself Flemish (for himself) |
#4818, aired 2005-07-13 | ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS $400 (Daily Double): Goodland, Kansas has an 80-foot easel with a reproduction of a van Gogh painting of what else but these sunflowers |
#4817, aired 2005-07-12 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In "Bourne Legacy", Eric van Lustbader brings this late author's Jason Bourne out of retirement again Robert Ludlum |
#4808, aired 2005-06-29 | WHO PLAYED 'EM $800: 2004:
Monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh) Jackman |
#4806, aired 2005-06-27 | THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES $800: He followed Jackson into the Presidency in 1836 & 12 years later ran as a third party candidate Van Buren |
#4797, aired 2005-06-14 | "VAN" $400: Here we are now, entertain us with this term for a state of freedom from pain, worry & the external world nirvana |
#4797, aired 2005-06-14 | "VAN" $800: It's an 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel Ivanhoe |
#4797, aired 2005-06-14 | "VAN" $1200: It can be a large covered vehicle or a group of merchants traveling together in a desert caravan |
#4797, aired 2005-06-14 | "VAN" $1600: Originally a French military term, it describes an artist who opposes accepted ways of doing things avant-garde |
#4797, aired 2005-06-14 | "VAN" $2000: The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union is headquartered in this Illinois city Evanston |
#4794, aired 2005-06-09 | ARTISTS $800: This 17th-century Flemish artist brought women to vivid life in paintings like the one seen here Rubens |
#4793, aired 2005-06-08 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: The first Whig to be elected president, he was also the first president to die in office William Henry Harrison |
#4789, aired 2005-06-02 | ARCHITECTS $600: Completed in 1930, this William Van Alen skyscraper in NYC is in the art deco style the Chrysler Building |
#4781, aired 2005-05-23 | SHEER GENIUS! $1000: Named for its American inventor, this electrostatic generator is used to accelerate particles a Van de Graaff generator |
#4776, aired 2005-05-16 | OF CHAMPIONS $400: Now an actor, in 1976 he was the European Professional Karate Assoc. middleweight champion Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#4776, aired 2005-05-16 | CLASSIC SITCOM EPISODES $2000: "The Secret Life of Buddy and Sally" The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#4773, aired 2005-05-11 | PAINTERS $800: He was going full throttle in Arles, France in 1888 & 1889, turning out more than 200 paintings Van Gogh |
#4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EUROPEAN ART $1,000 (Daily Double): This Flemish artist created a 15th-century portrait that’s spoofed in the opening of TV’s “Desperate Housewives” Jan van Eyck |
#4770, aired 2005-05-06 | PAINTERS' COLORS $1600: Van Gogh's 1888 this color "Peach Tree" pink |
#4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $5,200 (Daily Double): He was the first president born in New York Martin Van Buren |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | STARDUST $2000: The Oort cloud & its inner region, this belt, are thought to contain billions of comets the Kuiper belt |
#4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $600: On April 19, 1906 dynamiting to create a firebreak on Van Ness Ave. was tried to contain the blaze sweeping this city San Francisco |
#4749, aired 2005-04-07 | LIFE AFTER DEATH $400: Dependent on his brother Theo because he couldn't sell his work, this painter is now widely collected Van Gogh |
#4743, aired 2005-03-30 | I'VE GOT ESPN $400: (I'm Scott Van Pelt.) When this ESPN "Big Show" debuted September 7, 1979, fans were told, "You've gone to sports heaven" SportsCenter |
#4743, aired 2005-03-30 | I'VE GOT ESPN $1200: (Scott Van Pelt reads the clue.) You can relive memories like 1977 NBA final games on the channel launched under this name in 1997 ESPN Classic |
#4743, aired 2005-03-30 | I'VE GOT ESPN $2000: (Scott Van Pelt reads the clue.) When ESPN began here in Connecticut in 1979, most MLB highlights were of these 3 nearby teams; they could be taped off TV the Yankees, the Mets & the Red Sox |
#4740, aired 2005-03-25 | BE A POTATO HEAD $800: Famous for another spuddy image, he painted the potato-peeling peasant seen here Van Gogh |
#4730, aired 2005-03-11 | THAT'S MY ALBUM $2000: "OU812",
"Balance" Van Halen |
#4727, aired 2005-03-08 | BEATING AROUND THE "BUSH" $800: South African author Laurens Van Der Post called them the "first people of my native land" the Bushmen |
#4727, aired 2005-03-08 | CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS $800: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison & John Tyler were these number presidents 8, 9, & 10 |
#4724, aired 2005-03-03 | ART AT THE BARNES $400: (Alex reports from the Barnes Foundation.) While confined to a French sanitarium in Saint-Remy, this artist painted the Dutch landscape of Brabant in "Reminiscence of the North" Van Gogh |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | TEXT MESSAGING $800: Van Helsing writes to Mrs. Harker to send her "sad news of Miss Lucy Westerna's death" in this spooky novel Dracula |
#4702, aired 2005-02-01 | LINCOLN BLOGS $1,800 (Daily Double): Enjoyed my April 4 visit to this city about 90 miles from Washington; General Van Alen nags about how dangerous it was Richmond (Virginia) |
#4698, aired 2005-01-26 | AT THE ART MUSEUM $1,000 (Daily Double): The museum with the world's largest Van Gogh collection is in this European city Amsterdam |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | 7 DEADLY SINS $1600: Deadly sin mentioned in the title of Irving Stone's Van Gogh book lust |
#4687, aired 2005-01-11 | GUITAR PLAYER $1200: This guitarist with his own band is heard here playing lead on someone else's No. 1 hit Eddie Van Halen |
#4675, aired 2004-12-24 | SHORT STORY WRITERS $400: While in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author co-wrote plays with John Howard Payne Washington Irving |
#4669, aired 2004-12-16 | PIANISTS $2000: In 1958 this pianist was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City Van Cliburn |
#4666, aired 2004-12-13 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $600: He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Buddy Sorrell on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Morey Amsterdam |
#4663, aired 2004-12-08 | TV ON TV $800: "The Alan Brady Show" The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#4662, aired 2004-12-07 | NEWER FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: A cross between a Bing and a Van, the Rainier is a yellow type of this a cherry |
#4653, aired 2004-11-24 | ASTRONOMY $2000: Part of this astronomer's "belt" theory says small chunks of matter are the building blocks of planets Gerard Kuiper |
#4633, aired 2004-10-27 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: This island, a NYC Borough, is separated from New Jersey by 2 narrow channels: the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill Staten Island |
#4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $400: Elizabeth Van Lew pretended to be mentally ill but she was really working as a Union spy in this capital of Virginia Richmond |
#4625, aired 2004-10-15 | ACTRESSES $600: She vampired it up in "Underworld" & "Van Helsing" Kate Beckinsale |
#4624, aired 2004-10-14 | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS $1000: Abraham, Martin, John Martin Van Buren |
#4597, aired 2004-09-07 | BASEBALL: THE 1930s $2000: In June 1938 this Cincinnati Reds pitcher became the only man to pitch a no-hitter in 2 consecutive games Johnny Van Der Meer |
#4581, aired 2004-07-05 | WE'RE IN BUSINESS $800: This van lines company moved Ronald Reagan to Washington & Elvis into Graceland Allied Van Lines |
#4560, aired 2004-06-04 | AUTHORS $200: During the War of 1812 this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of naval commanders (Washington) Irving |
#4554, aired 2004-05-27 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $400: It was the profession of Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, teacher & father-in-law of Jan Steen artist (or painter) |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | PAINTERS $400: His "Potato Eaters" was inspired by the time he spent as a missionary in the coal-mining region of Belgium in his mid-20s Van Gogh |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | PAINTERS $2000: Last name of Flemish brothers Jan & Hubert, who both are credited with painting portions of the "Ghent Altarpiece" Van Eyck |
#4534, aired 2004-04-29 | RIMBAUD $2000: Paul Gauguin had a razor-wielding confrontation with Van Gogh; this poet named Paul shot Rimbaud in the arm Paul Verlaine |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | ON LOCATION $1200: If Neuschwanstein Castle looks familiar, you may have seen it in this Dick Van Dyke film about a magical car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
#4522, aired 2004-04-13 | PRESIDENTIAL COUPLES... NOT! $800: Like her sister, she doled out advice in the newspaper; he could have used some as the 8th president Abigail Van Buren & Martin Van Buren |
#4520, aired 2004-04-09 | SALLY $800: Sally Rogers was Rose Marie's role on this classic TV show The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#4516, aired 2004-04-05 | PEOPLE $800: In one cover story, this TV news personality discussed her new look Greta Van Susteren |
#4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: After winning the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, he got his own piano competition Van Cliburn |
#4503, aired 2004-03-17 | THE FINAL FRONTIER $2000: In 1964 4 Soviet crafts called Elektrons were sent up to measure this radiation belt the Van Allen Belt |
#4501, aired 2004-03-15 | HEAVY METAL BANDS $1200: "Runnin' with the Devil",
"Jump",
"Hot for Teacher" Van Halen |
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 | THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE $1200: Nguyen Van Thieu South Vietnam |
#4495, aired 2004-03-05 | I LIKE "U" $1200: In 1992 singer Van Morrison received an honorary degree from Northern Ireland's University of this Ulster |
#4488, aired 2004-02-25 | PRESIDENTIAL NAME FACTS $800: He's the only president with a 2-word last name Martin Van Buren |
#4487, aired 2004-02-24 | ROCK-Y $1200: 1984's "Jump" was the first No. 1 hit for this group that features brothers Alex & Eddie Van Halen |
#4484, aired 2004-02-19 | MUSIC CLASS $600: Due to his deafness, he last performed in public in 1814 (Ludwig Van) Beethoven |
#4481, aired 2004-02-16 | TV TEEN DRAMAS $200: Its last episode had James Van Der Beek's character, now 25, producing a TV teen drama based on his life Dawson's Creek |
#4475, aired 2004-02-06 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $1200: December 5, 1782:
Kinderhook, New York Martin Van Buren |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | ART $1200: The Van Eyck bros. weren't the 1st to use these paints, though sometimes credited with it; they date back much earlier oils |
#4464, aired 2004-01-22 | PEOPLE IN SONG $1600: Don McLean's musical tribute to this man begins, "Starry starry night" Vincent Van Gogh |
#4459, aired 2004-01-15 | AMERICAN POETS $2000: First name of the Pulitzer-winning poet whose son Charles was involved in the 1950s quiz show scandals Mark (Van Doren) |
#4457, aired 2004-01-13 | MOVIE VILLAINS $800: Of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", the one played by Lee Van Cleef the Bad |
#4451, aired 2004-01-05 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Morrison,
Cliburn,
Heflin Van |
#4444, aired 2003-12-25 | CINEMACABRE $800: This 1960 shocker was remade in 1998 by Gus Van Sant with Vince Vaughan as Norman Psycho |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | '90s MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: The cop who gets Van Goghed in this film has a name, Marvin Nash Reservoir Dogs |
#4410, aired 2003-11-07 | WHERE FOR ART? $800: Usual midtown museum home of the masterpiece seen here
[Van Gogh's Starry Night.] the Museum of Modern Art |
#4407, aired 2003-11-04 | TENNIS $2000: (Video of Sarah at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI.) Tennis Hall of Fame founder James Van Alen came up with this innovation, that prevents 19-17 sets the tiebreaker |
#4405, aired 2003-10-31 | TV TRANSPORTATION $800: '60s sitcom in which Jerry Van Dyke heard his late parent's voice coming from a 1928 automobile My Mother the Car |
#4399, aired 2003-10-23 | THE '60s MUSIC SCENE $600: In 1967 this former lead singer of Them launched his solo career with "Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison |
#4398, aired 2003-10-22 | OPERA $1000: At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced "Fidelio" (Ludwig van) Beethoven |
#4396, aired 2003-10-20 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: One of the smallest of these "white" diminutive stars is Van Maanen's Star at 7,800 miles in diameter white dwarf |
#4386, aired 2003-10-06 | PAINTINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is this artist's portrait of Dr. Gachet, who had treated him for depression van Gogh |
#4372, aired 2003-09-16 | '80s MUSIC $800: Bruce Springsteen sang on this 1985 anti-apartheid single, a project of his old pal Steve Van Zandt "Sun City" |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | PART: CHARLES $800: "Quiz Show" features Paul Scofield as Mark Van Doren & this actor as his son Charles Ralph Fiennes |
#4360, aired 2003-07-11 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1888 this painter suffered one of his first attacks of madness, while Paul Gauguin was visiting him Vincent Van Gogh |
#4358, aired 2003-07-09 | OLD AMERICAN THEATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Back in 1903 "Rip Van Winkle" turned up as a song in a musical based on this fairy tale Sleeping Beauty |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | EARLY AMERICANS $800: The last work of the creator of Rip Van Winkle was a 5-volume bio of this man, the author's namesake George Washington |
#4349, aired 2003-06-26 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $400: While Rip Van Winkle slept, this war took place around him Revolutionary War |
#4343, aired 2003-06-18 | 17th CENTURY NOTABLES $1600: He's the famous Flemish painter seen here (notice the beard) Anthony van Dyck |
#4342, aired 2003-06-17 | ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $800: "Irises"
(1889) Vincent Van Gogh |
#4337, aired 2003-06-10 | IT'S MY PARTY $2000: The slogan of this party that nominated Martin Van Buren in 1848 included "Free Speech, Free Labor, & Free Men" Free Soil Party |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | 100 YEARS OF FORD $600: If this ageless model of Ford van "is rockin', don't come a knockin'" Econoline |
#4336, aired 2003-06-09 | ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS $2000: The best-known piece of furniture designed by Mies van der Rohe is the chair named for this Spanish city Barcelona |
#4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $400: As he often said, Chris Farley's character Matt Foley lived in one of these down by the river van |
#4333, aired 2003-06-04 | MUSEUMS $200: The museum of this 19th C. Dutch-born painter is on an Amsterdam street named for 17th C. painter Paulus Potter Vincent Van Gogh |
#4332, aired 2003-06-03 | COMPOSERS $400: He's the tempestous genius seen here Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4325, aired 2003-05-23 | DOUBLE-"L" WORDS $200: Like Van Gogh, Martha Stewart is fond of this color & not just for a kitchen or bathroom yellow |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | LITERARY LINES $1000: This 1934 novel begins "Monsieur Van Gogh! It's time to wake up!" Lust for Life |
#4313, aired 2003-05-07 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: Peter Paul Rubens & Anthony Van Dyck helped make this city the center of the Flemish school of painting Antwerp, Belgium |
#4307, aired 2003-04-29 | THE THEATRE $600 (Daily Double): Now ear this: "Vincent in Brixton" is a play about this artist Vincent Van Gogh |
#4296, aired 2003-04-14 | THE ANTHONY QUINN FILM FESTIVAL $1600: Kirk Douglas was Vincent Van Gogh & Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin in this artsy 1956 big screener Lust for Life |
#4294, aired 2003-04-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Jerry Lewis' partner who occupied the White House from 1837 to 1841 Dean Martin Van Buren |
#4288, aired 2003-04-02 | PLAYING MUSICIANS $1600: 1994:
Gary Oldman as this "Immortal" genius Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This artist was about 25 when he painted the 1905 self-portrait seen here Picasso |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | ART & ARTISTS $800: He wrote to his brother Theo, "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day" van Gogh |
#4275, aired 2003-03-14 | ARTISTS IN FRANCE $1600: He was living in Auvers-sur-Oise when, despairing & lonely, he shot himself in 1890 Vincent Van Gogh |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | 1950s NEWS $800: In 1958 this piano virtuoso won first prize in the Tchaikovsky International competition in Moscow Van Cliburn |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | 1950s NEWS $1200: '50s game show contestant-turned-confessor seen here Charles Van Doren |
#4265, aired 2003-02-28 | ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! $600: (Alex: We'll get this clue from Jeff Probst) In 1982 Van Halen covered this signature Roy Orbison tune "Pretty Woman" |
#4262, aired 2003-02-25 | BALLET $800: In 1999 Ballet Pacifica premiered "Moonlight", performed to a sonata by this composer Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4260, aired 2003-02-21 | TV TRIVIA $800: On this series, Jerry Van Dyke's character Luther Van Dam wrote a successful book titled "Just Short of the Goal" Coach |
#4249, aired 2003-02-06 | PAINTERS $800: This 1889 Van Gogh work showing the evening sky was painted from memory in an asylum at Saint-Remy Starry Night |
#4243, aired 2003-01-29 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $1000: "Potato Eaters",
"Starry Night",
"Crows in the Wheatfields" Potato Eaters |
#4238, aired 2003-01-22 | WHAT A PEASANT SURPRISE $800: The third movement of his 1808 "Pastoral" Symphony is entitled "Merry Gathering of the Peasants" Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4233, aired 2003-01-15 | MISHEARD LYRICS $800: Van Halen:
"Padded Bra" "Panama" |
#4233, aired 2003-01-15 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1200: He swore in more men as president than anyone else -- 7, from Van Buren to Lincoln Roger Taney |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: With Philip Johnson, this German-American designed NYC's 38-story bronze-&-glass Seagram Building Mies van der Rohe |
#4193, aired 2002-11-20 | COLLEGE SPORTS $2000: In 1994 Amy Van Dyken set an NCAA record, 21.77 sec., in the shortest freestyle swimming distance, this many yards 50 |
#4177, aired 2002-10-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Van Gogh's 1889 painting of director George Romero's 1968 zombie film classic Starry Night of the Living Dead |
#4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck Wolf Larsen |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | ODDS & ENDS $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a maypole) Mayday was once a day of a festival celebrating these London workers; Dick Van Dyke played one in "Mary Poppins" chimney sweeps |
#4174, aired 2002-10-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1802 he wrote that "Anyone standing beside me could hear at a distance a flute that I could not hear" Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME $200: This Van Damme film shares its name with an overtime period of play added to a tied hockey game Sudden Death |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME $400: In 1987 Jean-Claude appeared uncredited in this jungle action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger & Jesse Ventura Predator |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME $600: It's Jean-Claude's rhyming nickname that reflects his capital city of birth "The Muscles from Brussels" |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME $800: Jean-Claude starred as Chance Boudreaux in "Hard Target", this acclaimed Asian director's U.S. debut John Woo |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME $1000: Jean-Claude played a police agent chasing time-traveling criminals in this 1994 sci-fi thriller Timecop |
#4165, aired 2002-10-11 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $600: The "Kinderhook Fox" Martin Van Buren |
#4158, aired 2002-10-02 | IT'S NOT ALEX TREBEK $400: It's not me in the picture seen here, it's a self-portrait of this famous artist Vincent van Gogh |
#4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ALSO AN AUTO $200: This Kate Mulgrew "Star Trek" show would've been very different if the crew traveled around space in the Chrysler van Star Trek: Voyager |
#4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1,200 (Daily Double): His wife's name, Hannah, was also spelled J-A-N-N-E-T-J-E, Dutch for Hannah Martin Van Buren |
#4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $800: Take our advice & name the columnists born in 1918 as Esther Pauline Friedman & Pauline Esther Friedman Abigail Van Buren & Ann Landers |
#4122, aired 2002-07-02 | FROM FRANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Famed Socialist Eugene V. Debs was named for 2 socially conscious French authors: Eugene Sue & this man Victor Hugo |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT $400: Egmont, Count of Lamoral was the subject of a Goethe tragedy with music by this great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4093, aired 2002-05-22 | ENTERTAINING CRITTERS $600: Featured in the Van Amburgh Circus of the 1850s, Hannibal was a giant one of these animals an elephant |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS $200: In 1889 he completed his "Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear And Pipe" Van Gogh |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $400: "The Little Magician", "Whiskey Van" Martin van Buren |
#4089, aired 2002-05-16 | CON-CENTRATION $800: Hans van Meegeren had a "brush" with success as one of the most famous ones of these of the 20th century art forger |
#4086, aired 2002-05-13 | ARCHITECTS $800: From his mother's surname, the "Glass Skyscraper" architect added van der Rohe to this name Mies |
#4084, aired 2002-05-09 | MASTERS $9,000 (Daily Double): Van Gogh & Kandinsky were in this modern art "show" named for the NYC military building where it was held in 1913 the Armory Show |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $2000: The places in space around the Earth where the magnetosphere is the densest are known as these belts Van Allen |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | BAD NEWS $1000: This painter said "Ear's to ya" when he attacked roommate Paul Gauguin in late 1888 Vincent Van Gogh |
#4059, aired 2002-04-04 | THE "GUN" RACK $800: In 2001 he quit as the coach of the New York Knicks Jeff Van Gundy |
#4058, aired 2002-04-03 | "KING" ME $200: After his 1999 accident, this author purchased & destroyed the van that nearly destroyed him Stephen King |
#4058, aired 2002-04-03 | EQUATIONS $1000: The Van del Waals equation describes this state of matter--the real, not the ideal type gas |
#4056, aired 2002-04-01 | OFF TO A GOOD START $400: This Washington Irving snoozer begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson..." "Rip Van Winkle" |
#4035, aired 2002-03-01 | TV SITCOMS $1000: In "It May Look Like a Walnut", an episode of this sitcom, Rob dreams about an alien who looks like Danny Thomas The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#4034, aired 2002-02-28 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2000: Van Gogh's "Irises" is one of the famous paintings at this L.A. museum that opened in a new location in 1997 John Paul Getty Museum |
#4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $2,000 (Daily Double): William Van Duzer Lawrence named a college for his wife, her Sarah Lawrence |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | GIVE THE ROLE TO GARY $1000: Film, 1994:
Ludwig van Beethoven Gary Oldman |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | LET'S PLAY THE FEUD $800: These twin sisters took some good advice & ended an 8-year feud as they battled for readers Ann Landers & Dear Abby (Abigail Van Buren) |
#4023, aired 2002-02-13 | MASS MEDIA $1000: Programs on this cable network include "Crossfire" & "The Point with Greta Van Susteren" CNN |
#4019, aired 2002-02-07 | CELEBRITIES $800 (Daily Double): Born in Hong Kong, he's called Asia's action film equivalent of Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, & Mel Gibson all in one Jackie Chan |
#4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $800: His Catskills-based story "Rip Van Winkle" was inspired by a popular folk tale Washington Irving |
#4005, aired 2002-01-18 | YARD SALE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shops at a yard sale.) Hey, $3 will get you a framed print of "Starry Night" by this painter van Gogh |
#3997, aired 2002-01-08 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $1200: Companies like United Van Lines & Bekins, & the "trembling" sect that's an offshoot of the Quakers movers & Shakers |
#3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ROBERT SCHUMANN $1000: Robert Schumann died age 46 in an asylum near Bonn, the city where this musical titan was born in 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3964, aired 2001-11-22 | ACCENT ON ENGLAND $400: A BBC review said as Bert in "Mary Poppins" he "speaks a form of Cockney unknown within 5,000 miles of Bow Bells" Dick Van Dyke |
#3960, aired 2001-11-16 | MOUNTAIN TIME $400: Rip Van Winkle took his 20-year snooze in these mountains of New York the Catskills |
#3939, aired 2001-10-18 | SAM HE IS $200: He replaced David Lee Roth as Van Halen's lead singer, at least for a while Sammy Hagar |
#3934, aired 2001-10-11 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $400: Van Buren's merchandise boxes Martin's cartons |
#3932, aired 2001-10-09 | FACTS ON FILE $800: Jan Van Riebeeck led the first European settlement of what would become this South African seaport Cape Town |
#3929, aired 2001-10-04 | HEAVY METAL $100: The greatest metal heroes aren't singers but these, like Randy Rhoads & Eddie Van Halen guitarists |
#3919, aired 2001-09-20 | WHAT'S UP, TV DOC? $200: After announcing he was hanging up his stethoscope as Dr. Sloan on "Diagnosis Murder", he took it back Dick Van Dyke |
#3910, aired 2001-09-07 | THE WRITINGS OF WOODY ALLEN $500: In "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists", this man writes to Theo that Gauguin is disturbed & drinks Lavoris Van Gogh |
#3910, aired 2001-09-07 | ARTISTS $600: This "Night Watch" artist painted portraits of himself throughout his lifetime Rembrandt |
#3886, aired 2001-06-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Former Van Halen lead singer who became a comic strip Viking Sammy Hagar the Horrible |
#3884, aired 2001-06-21 | PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST $200: One of his self-portraits is seen here Vincent Van Gogh |
#3880, aired 2001-06-15 | STATELY FIRST NAMES $200: This author created Ichabod Crane & Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving |
#3878, aired 2001-06-13 | BIG OLD ISLANDS $200: In 1856 those little devils on Van Diemen's Land changed its name to this Tasmania |
#3866, aired 2001-05-28 | ASIAN LIT $200: Nguyen Du's "Kim Van Kieu", adapted from a Chinese novel, is one of this country's best-loved poems Vietnam |
#3865, aired 2001-05-25 | HARD ROCK CAFE $300: On the Michael Jackson hit "Beat It" this virtuoso lead guitarist played a solo Eddie Van Halen |
#3863, aired 2001-05-23 | BEASTLY LITERATURE $100: Wolf, this Washington Irving character's dog, fails to recognize his master after a 20-year absence Rip Van Winkle |
#3861, aired 2001-05-21 | JEAN-WHAT? $200: Actor Van Damme Jean-Claude |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA $800: The orchestra's first concert at the Academy of Music, its home 1900-2001, featured this man's 1805 Fifth Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3852, aired 2001-05-08 | THE EARLY 1900s $100: Mayor Van Wyck broke ground for a tunnel to Grand Central Terminal for a subway serving this city New York City |
#3844, aired 2001-04-26 | TAKE A LETTER $600: His famous love letter began, "Though still in bed my thoughts go out to you, my immortal beloved" Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3815, aired 2001-03-16 | PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET $300: Through skillful negotiation, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren got the U.S. this trade status with Turkey Most favored nation |
#3806, aired 2001-03-05 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $100: In the '60s this phrase for something that reduces anxiety was popularized by Linus Van Pelt security blanket |
#3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $100: Hooray! Dan Castellaneta's wild 1-man stage show named for this artist doesn't have "a single ear reference" Vincent Van Gogh |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | ART & ARTISTS $200: "Red Vineyard at Arles" was possibly the only painting this Dutchman sold during his lifetime Vincent van Gogh |
#3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $200: In a 1999 ballet Roger Van Fleteren played Dr. Jekyll & Wes Chapman played this alter ego Mr. Hyde |
#3781, aired 2001-01-29 | "V" ARE NOT AFRAID $200: Seen here, he ran for president three times, but only won the first time in 1836 Martin Van Buren |
#3778, aired 2001-01-24 | "V.H." ONE $1000: Last name of the fictional Dutch professor who battled Dracula Van Helsing |
#3766, aired 2001-01-08 | FLOWERS $300: The Duc van Tol variety of this bulb flower rarely exceeds 6 inches in height Tulip |
#3754, aired 2000-12-21 | WISH YOU WERE HERE! $200: Dear Harry, finally made it to this city. Saw the Van Gogh Museum & the Anne Frank House--wish you were here! Amsterdam |
#3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $500: In this work, Van Gogh captured the misery of a family gathered around a table dining only on a plate of spuds "The Potato Eaters" |
#3745, aired 2000-12-08 | THE BRITISH INVASION $300: Born in Belfast, he sang lead for the group Them before scoring hits on his own like “Brown Eyed Girl” Van Morrison |
#3744, aired 2000-12-07 | PHYSICS $1000: Named for its inventor, this hair-raising generator seen here produces millions of volts Van de Graaff Generator |
#3743, aired 2000-12-06 | ENDS IN "OON" $800: Gene Kelly & Van Johnson discover a magical Scottish village in this film Brigadoon |
#3736, aired 2000-11-27 | SPACE EXPLORATION $500: In 1958 Explorer I discovered these radiation bands surrounding the Earth Van Allen Belts |
#3734, aired 2000-11-23 | INTERNATIONAL STARS $800: Jean-Claude Van Damme Belgium |
#3730, aired 2000-11-17 | 1812 $800 (Daily Double): He wrote his 7th & 8th Symphonies & that famous "Immortal Beloved" letter in 1812 Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3728, aired 2000-11-15 | ART HISTORY $200: He said he had no difficulty expressing sadness & extreme solitude in the work seen here Vincent Van Gogh |
#3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARTSY FILMS $200: He played Van Gogh in the 1956 film "Lust for Life" Kirk Douglas |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | GO GO GAUGUIN $200: This artist painted Gauguin's chair, seen here: Vincent Van Gogh |
#3712, aired 2000-10-24 | 4-LETTER WORD"SS" $400: As good old Ludwig Mies van der Rohe used to say, this "is more" less |
#3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NAME THE ARTIST $200: 1890:
"Starry Night" Vincent Van Gogh |
#3706, aired 2000-10-16 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This continent still has a Van Diemen Gulf, though Van Diemen's Land became Tasmania Australia |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | LITTLE-HEARD LAST NAMES $500: The 17th century's Rembrandt van Rijn |
#3688, aired 2000-09-20 | SHORT STORIES $400: An old woman asks this Washington Irving character, "Why, where have you been these twenty long years?" Rip Van Winkle |
#3684, aired 2000-09-14 | SISTER WENDY'S PICKS $1000: This artist painted Charles I in his glorious hauteur & ostentation, only with reverential appreciation Anthony van Dyck |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | CAR TREK $300: This TV canine & his human friends sought out the unknown in their van, The Mystery Machine Scooby-Doo |
#3675, aired 2000-07-21 | WACKY TV NEIGHBORS $1000: Millie & Jerry Helper The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CLINICALLY DEPRESSED $600: The same night he cut off his ear he had threatened Gauguin with a razor Vincent van Gogh |
#3659, aired 2000-06-29 | TV REDUX $600: A 1995 episode of "Mad About You" featured this actor as Alan Brady, his part on the old "Dick Van Dyke Show" Carl Reiner |
#3658, aired 2000-06-28 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $300: The 1815 death of his brother Caspar led to a long struggle for custody of Caspar's son Karl Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $200: Artist whose self-portrait is seen here: Vincent Van Gogh |
#3655, aired 2000-06-23 | THE SOPRANOS $500: Once rock & roll's Little Steven & Miami Steve, he plays Soprano lieutenant Silvio Dante Steven Van Zandt |
#3650, aired 2000-06-16 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Ex-fashion model Wendie Malick struts her stuff as ex-fashion model Nina Van Horn on this sitcom Just Shoot Me! |
#3639, aired 2000-06-01 | TO THE MAX $400: This Swedish actor who tried to expel demons in "The Exorcist" played the devil himself in "Needful Things" Max von Sydow |
#3637, aired 2000-05-30 | CLASSIC TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $100: Buddy Sorrell,
Sally Rogers,
Rob Petrie The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#3622, aired 2000-05-09 | YOUNG STARS $200: It doesn't take a Sherlock to know this "Dawson's Creek" star witnessed some "Disturbing Behavior" on film Katie Holmes |
#3614, aired 2000-04-27 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: Nicknamed "Little Magician" for his behind-the-scenes maneuvers, he followed "Old Hickory" into office Martin Van Buren |
#3610, aired 2000-04-21 | I GOT A CALDECOTT! $800: Remember, this 1982 Chris Van Allsburg winner is only a book; well, a game, too...a book & a game "Jumanji" |
#3603, aired 2000-04-12 | NAME THE ARTIST $600: "The Potato Eaters" Vincent Van Gogh |
#3602, aired 2000-04-11 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $500: This U.S. president was nicknamed "Matty" Martin Van Buren |
#3596, aired 2000-04-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $100: A combination of "Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrika" & "Die Stem Van Suid Afrika" South Africa |
#3580, aired 2000-03-10 | ODD FELLOWS $200: He comes upon some odd fellows playing ninepins, gets ripped on their liquor & falls asleep for 20 years Rip Van Winkle |
#3571, aired 2000-02-28 | 50 YEARS OF PEANUTS $200: Family name of siblings Lucy, Linus & Rerun Van Pelt |
#3571, aired 2000-02-28 | ARTISTS ON FILM $600: Anthony Quinn in "Lust for Life" Paul Gauguin |
#3568, aired 2000-02-23 | SNL CATCHPHRASES $500: "You'll be livin' in a van down by the river" Chris Farley |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $300: "The Bone Collector" star who penned "Rip Van Winkle" Denzel Washington Irving |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | PEN NAMES $600: Edith Van Dyne, who wrote a series of books about "Aunt Jane's Nieces", was actually this Oz author L. Frank Baum |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800 (Daily Double): Steve,
Abigail,
Martin Van Buren |
#3543, aired 2000-01-19 | FLEMISH & DUTCH MASTERS $400: Artist whose masterpiece is seen here:
("Night Cafe") Vincent Van Gogh |
#3543, aired 2000-01-19 | FLEMISH & DUTCH MASTERS $800: In 1632 this court painter to England's Charles I & Queen Henrietta Maria was knighted Anthony van Dyck |
#3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE INSTRUMENT PLAYED $600: Van Cliburn Piano |
#3537, aired 2000-01-11 | 1800 $200: His First Symphony debuted April 2 in Vienna; 8 to go... Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3533, aired 2000-01-05 | NOTABLE NAMES $200: Though totally deaf, in 1824 he insisted on conducting the premiere of his "Ninth Symphony" Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3528, aired 1999-12-29 | COLUMNISTS $600: (Hi, I'm Wendi Malick from "Just Shoot Me!") I played both of these columnists in a 1999 TV movie titled "Take My Advice" "Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren) & Ann Landers |
#3528, aired 1999-12-29 | SMALL SCREEN ADDRESSES $1000: 148 Bonnie Meadow Road, New Rochelle, N.Y. The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#3527, aired 1999-12-28 | THAT '70s SHOW $400: This family series with Dick Van Patten was based on columnist Tom Braden's autobiography Eight is Enough |
#3515, aired 1999-12-10 | RECORDS $400: Van Halen in 1984 & Kris Kross in 1992 each had a No. 1 hit with this 1-word title "Jump" |
#3510, aired 1999-12-03 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Game show contestant Charles Van Doren Ralph Fiennes |
#3509, aired 1999-12-02 | FILE UNDER "H" $400: In the '70s Van McCoy wanted you to "do" this dance The Hustle |
#3503, aired 1999-11-24 | FAMOUS ART $300: He painted the pretty flowers seen here: Vincent van Gogh |
#3503, aired 1999-11-24 | TV DETECTIVES $800: The prognosis is good that he will solve the case as Dr. Mark Sloan on "Diagnosis Murder" Dick Van Dyke |
#3501, aired 1999-11-22 | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY $1000: This great Flemish artist's "Adoration of the Magi" adorns King's College chapel Peter Paul Rubens |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | REMEMBER THE '80s? $500: In 1986 Chris Van Allsburg won the Caldecott Medal with his book about this "Express" "The Polar Express" |
#3479, aired 1999-10-21 | TV CHARACTERS' MAIDEN NAMES $400: "Oh, Rob!" This character was given 2 different maiden names, Meeker & Meehan Laura Petrie (from "The Dick Van Dyke Show") |
#3477, aired 1999-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $1000: December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York Martin Van Buren |
#3475, aired 1999-10-15 | 1970s LEADERS $1,400 (Daily Double): The fall of this city came April 30, 1975 when president Dong Van Minh surrendered it Saigon |
#3470, aired 1999-10-08 | THE MOVIES $300: It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Double Impact" Jean-Claude Van Damme |
#3469, aired 1999-10-07 | FILM FACTS $200: Dick Van Dyke played a dancing chimney sweep & an elderly banker in this 1964 Disney classic Mary Poppins |
#3455, aired 1999-09-17 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): Radiation belts that surround the Earth are named for this expert on cosmic rays James Van Allen |
#3450, aired 1999-09-10 | SCHOOL PICTURE DAY $400: Before he was "sent up the creek", he was part of the Cheshire Academy James Van Der Beek |
#3447, aired 1999-09-07 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: This German composer's 5th Symphony in C Minor has a famous opening Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3441, aired 1999-07-19 | ARTSY TYPES $1000: Change one letter in van Dyck to get the name of this master of 15th century Flemish art Jan van Eyck |
#3439, aired 1999-07-15 | 10 CDs FOR A PENNY $300: To round out my datebook, I got Prince's "1999" & this group's "1984", but not their "5150" Van Halen |
#3436, aired 1999-07-12 | SONGS $300: "It's a marvelous night for" this Van Morrison hit, "with the stars up above in your eyes" "Moondance" |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE WRITE STUFF $800: Pyewacket was the musical & mysterious cat in this supernatural play by John Van Druten Bell, Book and Candle |
#3420, aired 1999-06-18 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS $1000: 2 of 4 Whigs (2 of) W. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor & Fillmore |
#3419, aired 1999-06-17 | NEXT IN LINE, PLEASE $400: Monroe,
Adams,
Jackson... Van Buren |
#3418, aired 1999-06-16 | NEW YORK BUILDINGS $200: Its architect, William Van Allen, was "driven" to create the world's tallest building at that time Chrysler Building |
#3406, aired 1999-05-31 | THE HUDSON $100: A bridge named for this fictional snoozer crosses the Hudson at Catskill Rip Van Winkle |
#3404, aired 1999-05-27 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: Ichabod Crane & Brom Bones are rivals for the affections of Katrina Van Tassel in this story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
#3403, aired 1999-05-26 | PARISIANS $800: In the 1880s he introduced his brother & roommate, Vincent, to the Impressionists Theo Van Gogh |
#3400, aired 1999-05-21 | ART & ARTISTS $200: After a violent episode 2 years before his death, this Dutchman committed himself to an asylum but continued to paint Vincent Van Gogh |
#3399, aired 1999-05-20 | SHORT BIOS $400: Born in 1770, studied with Salieri, became totally deaf in 1819, died 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3390, aired 1999-05-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Grammy-winning ex-Menudo singing sensation who became the 8th U.S. president Ricky Martin Van Buren |
#3382, aired 1999-04-27 | ART & ARTISTS $200: In October 1888 this painter joined Van Gogh in Arles; he fled after that ugly ear incident Paul Gauguin |
#3382, aired 1999-04-27 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Jim,
Van,
Toni Morrison |
#3372, aired 1999-04-13 | MIDDLE NAME LEE $300: Since leaving Van Halen, he's released such solo albums as "Eat 'Em & Smile" & "Skyscraper" David Lee Roth |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | VANS $200: Columnist Abigail, who opposes smoking, or president Martin, who opposed the annexation of Texas Van Buren |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | VANS $400: Game show producers once quaked at the name of this 1950s Columbia University instructor Charles Van Doren |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | VANS $600: This "Moondance" singer was once married to a woman named Janet Planet Van Morrison |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | VANS $800: Last name of "Watermelon Man" director Melvin & his son, "New Jack City" director Mario Van Peebles |
#3369, aired 1999-04-08 | VANS $1000: She set an American record in 1996 by swimming the 50-meter freestyle in 24.87 seconds Amy Van Dyken |
#3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $1000: As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film Cold Turkey |
#3346, aired 1999-03-08 | FILM BIOGRAPHIES $400: "Lust for Life", starring Kirk Douglas, was based on Irving Stone's book about this Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh |
#3345, aired 1999-03-05 | TV THE KIDS LOVE $200: James Van Der Beek & Katie Holmes play residents of Capeside on this drama filled with teen angst Dawson's Creek |
#3344, aired 1999-03-04 | TASMANIAN TIDBITS $200: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land Abel Tasman |
#3338, aired 1999-02-24 | KIDDY LIT $600 (Daily Double): A boy rides a magical train to visit Santa on Christmas Eve in this story by Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express |
#3337, aired 1999-02-23 | WAR STARS $400: Casper Van Dien played one of the young gung ho warriors of the future in this 1997 release Starship Troopers |
#3321, aired 1999-02-01 | TELEVISION $800 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Regis Philbin.) On February 26, 1998, I was accused of killing Kathie Lee Gifford in an episode of this Dick Van Dyke series Diagnosis Murder |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Laurie Partridge,
Grace Van Owen Susan Dey |
#3312, aired 1999-01-19 | TWO TICKETS TO PITTSBURGH $200: Manny Sanguillen, John Candelaria & Andy Van Slyke are among the heroes who have performed here Three Rivers Stadium |
#3295, aired 1998-12-25 | FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): The widow Sarah Polk was linked for a while in the press to this bachelor president James Buchanan |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | VAN GOGH A-GO-GO $100 (Daily Double): It's the title of the early masterpiece seen here The Potato Eaters |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | VAN GOGH A-GO-GO $400: Van Gogh wrote, "The peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost", but this bloom "is somewhat my own" the sunflower |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | VAN GOGH A-GO-GO $600: His 1972 hit song "Vincent" was a tribute to Van Gogh Don McLean |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | VAN GOGH A-GO-GO $1000: One theory about the cause of Van Gogh's odd behavior is poisoning from this liqueur made from wormwood absinthe |
#3268, aired 1998-11-18 | MUSIC $400: This American pianist was in his 20s when he won the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in 1958 Van Cliburn |
#3259, aired 1998-11-05 | PROFESSIONS IN SONG $300: This Van Halen tune says, "Think of all the education that I missed" & "My homework was never...like this" "Hot For Teacher" |
#3246, aired 1998-10-19 | ARTSY FILMS $200: Tim Roth played the artist Van Gogh & Paul Rhys played his brother in this 1990 film Vincent and Theo |
#3244, aired 1998-10-15 | MARTIN SCORSESE, ACTOR $800: Scorsese played Van Gogh in a segment of this Japanese director's "Dreams" Akira Kurosawa |
#3242, aired 1998-10-13 | MUSIC & LITERATURE $100: "Rip-Rip" is a comic opera about this sleepy head who killed time in the Catskills Rip Van Winkle |
#3239, aired 1998-10-08 | THE ART WORLD $800: Anthony Van Dyck was an assistant to this Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens |
#3238, aired 1998-10-07 | 1970s TV $800: It was due to Diana Hyland's death that Dick Van Patten became a widower on this series Eight Is Enough |
#3232, aired 1998-09-29 | CBS TV AT 50 $400: In May 1998 the character Rob Petrie was digitally inserted into an episode of this Dick Van Dyke series Diagnosis Murder |
#3230, aired 1998-09-25 | HERE'S LOOKING AT ME $200: He went downhill between his 1887 "Self-Portrait With Gray Felt Hat" & his 1889 one "With Bandaged Ear" Vincent Van Gogh |
#3227, aired 1998-09-22 | SYMPHONIES $200: "Merry Gathering of the Peasants" is one movement of his 1808 "Pastoral" symphony Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3227, aired 1998-09-22 | PHONIES $500: Forger Hans Van Meegeren tried to increase the small number of works by this Dutch master, who died in 1675 Jan Vermeer |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $800: This actor directed himself & wife Trish Van Devere in the 1974 film "The Savage Is Loose" George C. Scott |
#3218, aired 1998-09-09 | WISE GUYS $400: Logician Willard Van Orman Quine is from Akron in this state--we wanted an excuse to say Willard Van Orman Quine Ohio |
#3213, aired 1998-07-15 | BY 2000 $300: British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies Ludwig van Beethoven |
#3213, aired 1998-07-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $900 (Daily Double): In 1832 this president declared, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me; but I will kill it" Andrew Jackson |
#3209, aired 1998-07-09 | DUMB TV $1000: He played Luther Van Dam, assistant to the coach on "Coach" Jerry Van Dyke |
#3207, aired 1998-07-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $100: Macedonian conqueror for whom Linus Van Pelt waits patiently on Halloween Alexander the Great Pumpkin |
#3203, aired 1998-07-01 | NO. 1 ALBUMS $300: "5150" Van Halen |
#3200, aired 1998-06-26 | THEIR NATIVE SOIL $200: Rembrandt van Rijn Holland (or the Netherlands) |
#3199, aired 1998-06-25 | DRUM SONG $400: This heavy metal band bears the last name of drummer Alex as well as his brother Eddie Van Halen |
#3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ANIMATION $500: Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Freddy, Daphne & Velma traveled around in a van with this name The Mystery Machine |
#3184, aired 1998-06-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: The name of this band, heard here, combines a type of recreational vehicle & a composer:
"Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling..." Camper Van Beethoven |
#3179, aired 1998-05-28 | '60s TV $800: As producer, Carl Reiner picked up an Emmy for this Outstanding Comedy Series of 1965-66 The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $400: He & his dog Wolf were hunting squirrels in the Catskills when he fell asleep Rip Van Winkle |
#3165, aired 1998-05-08 | ART HISTORY 101 $200: It's the event portrayed in a Jan van Eyck painting seen here a wedding |
#3165, aired 1998-05-08 | ART HISTORY 101 $800: Post-Impressionist whose work is seen here Paul Cezanne |