| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | THE SUNDAY SCARIES $200: It's Sun., Oct. 27, 1929 & brokers are freaking out; the 28th will be this "colorful" day on Wall Street... like 12.8% down historic Black Monday |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ORDINAL PHRASES $800: Addressing the audience directly in a play is an example of doing this breaking the fourth wall |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $1200: For interpreting the handwriting on the wall, he was clothed "with scarlet" & given "a chain of gold about his neck" Daniel |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $1000: Seen here, but not heard from 2015 to 2021, he learned "F is for Family" & if you don't know him, "I'm gonna put you through a wall" (Bill) Burr |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1600: This Back to Africa promoter was an icon depicted on Chicago's now destroyed Wall of Respect, designed by BAM artists (Marcus) Garvey |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $800: These vertical pieces of wood, usually 2x4s, form the framework of an interior wall a stud |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | MIND THE GAP $400: The Gap stores hit Wall Street in 1976 with an IPO, short for this, of $18 an initial public offering |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $800: Before he was infamous, Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many '60s hits the Wall of Sound |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $400: Frankie Muniz would often break the 4th wall as a precocious middle schooler on this show Malcolm in the Middle |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | PLACES TO VISIT $1600: The Bab Agnaou is one of the gates in the wall around the medina of this Moroccan city Marrakesh |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | OH, "MY" WORD! $1600: It's the muscular center layer of your heart wall, & you don't want it infarcted the myocardium |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | SAFE MODE $200: If you're a rich guy in an old movie, such as "Gilda", you keep your important papers in a wall safe behind this a painting |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Well-preserved sections of it run about 5,500 miles from Mount Hu near Dandong to Jiayu Pass in the Gansu province the Great Wall of China |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LAYERS $2000: This "wall" that protects your internal organs has 9 layers, including muscles & connective tissue called fascia the abdominal wall |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder) |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $200: Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989" the Berlin Wall |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NICKNAMES $600: Stockbroker Jordan Belfort's nickname, it's the title of Scorsese's 2013 biopic of him "The Wolf of Wall Street" |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | OLD YORK, OLD YORK $800: The Sixth, a York-based Roman legion, was big in the making of the wall begun in 122 A.D. on the orders of this emperor Hadrian |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $1000: Theon seems to have lived at the same time that this Roman emperor was building his famous wall Hadrian |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $1600: At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Reagan gave "Mr. Gorbachev" this 4-word challenge tear down this wall |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | 4 N LANGUAGE $400: Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song ninety-nine |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BUILDING TERMS $400: As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall a turret |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | WHERE'S THAT? $400: Parts of this landmark are 35-feet high the Great Wall of China |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | STREET SMARTS $800: The N.Y. Times won a Pulitzer in 2002 for covering this street, also in the name of another winning paper that year Wall Street |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $500: Genghis Khan had a breakthrough when he "broke through" this fortified Asian structure that was built over 2000 years the Great Wall of China |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $400: This racket sport named for what the soft rubber balls do when hit against a wall is popular in Bermuda squash |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $800: The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons; how many have read this woman's poem "The New Colossus" on the pedestal wall? Emma Lazarus |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | CRAFTSMANSHIP $800: Sailors, who need to know their knots, helped spread this knot-based craft that makes lovely wall hangings macramé |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $300: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry a levee |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $200: Number of Jay-Z' title "Problems", or "Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" 99 |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1200: This low wall on the top of a castle may feature crenellation a parapet |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $800: Doing this before bed can help you sleep better; try the bridge or legs up the wall poses yoga |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $1000: An arras is a curtain or wall hanging; in "Hamlet", this old man hides behind one & is stabbed through it Polonius |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FROM THE HEADLINES $200: The Washington Post, November 10, 1989: "East Germany opens" this "and borders" the Berlin Wall |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | LIVE CAMS $1000: You can see people praying day & night at this holy site that was a part of a structure surrounding the Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | ROMAN EMPERORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Hadrian had his wall & this cousin who immediately preceded him had his column Emperor Trajan |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | STITCH INCOMING $1600: Uh oh! You have a weakness in your abdominal wall in your groin area... you'll need surgery to fix an inguinal one of these a hernia |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $200: This type of wall hanging, popular in the Middle Ages, takes its name from a word meaning "carpet" a tapestry |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | AT THE FARMERS MARKET $1000: I didn't know people still did this craft but I saw someone creating a wall hanging macrame |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $400: This title robot watches parts of "Hello, Dolly!" on an earth devoid of human life WALL-E |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $400: In 1859 Henry Bursill published a book showing how to use your hands to make these on the wall, including the bunny & goat shadow puppets |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $800: In "Wall", the first part of Ken Follett's "Edge of Eternity", this then-country's Stasi headquarters prove menacing East Germany |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $1200: In his book "Stardust", there is a hamlet named Wall & Tristran sets out on a journey through the only hole in that wall Neil Gaiman |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $2,500 (Daily Double): Alistair Moffat's nonfiction book on this structure is called "Rome's Greatest Frontier" Hadrian's Wall |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a strong beam used in construction from wall to wall to support a ceiling a joist |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: It's the widening of an artery due to a weakness in the wall, which can lead to a hemorrhagic stroke an aneurysm |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | "G"EOGRAPHY $400: Ecuador once ran a penal colony whose prisoners were made to build a "wall of tears" on rocky Isabela Island in this island group the Galápagos |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: Make a designer finish for a wall by pressing small stones into this material & you've got depreter stucco (plaster) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CENTURY NOTES $13,200 (Daily Double): 3rd century: the first written reference to this Blue Man Group of present Scotland has them attacking Hadrian's Wall Picts |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $400: In a Grimm Brothers' tale, an evil queen looks at her wall & says these 2 words, asking, "Who in this land is fairest of all?" Mirror, mirror |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | PODCASTS $400: "Your Money Briefing" & "Tech News Briefing" are podcasts offered through this newspaper that gives you the business the Wall Street Journal |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MASTERS OF LIT $600: A 1987 bestseller by him says on Wall Street Sherman McCoy & a few others had become "masters of the universe" (Tom) Wolfe |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WAY BACK IN THE 1900s $400: At the Mob Museum in Vegas, you can see a bullet-ridden wall salvaged from this 1929 event in Chicago the St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | FROM THE FRENCH $1200: A recess in a wall, or any perfect job; it comes from a word for "nest" niche |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | NOLAD SON OF AFRAL, BIBLICAL OB/GYN $600: I have a picture of this baby on my office wall; in Luke 1, we brought his mother Elizabeth to full term, 34 verses John the Baptist |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $200: On May 17, 1792, 24 brokers signed an agreement under a tree on this street, leading to the formation of the N.Y. Stock Exchange Wall Street |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $400: In these German brothers' "The Frog Prince", it's the princess flinging the frog against a wall that turns him into a prince Grimm |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SHARPS & FLATS $800: In Joshua 6 "the people heard the sound of the trumpet... the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into" this city Jericho |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS $800: A mission could include a pueblo, a town & one of these, a fort for protection; San Francisco has one the Presidio |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $800: The lasting legacy of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent includes the wall around the Old City of this world capital Jerusalem |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CONSECUTIVE LETTER WORD PAIRS $1600: Dating back to ancient times, these tall mobile constructions were rolled up against wall defenses to launch an attack siege towers |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | OUT & ABOUT THE UNIVERSE $200: The largest known structure in the universe is a group of galaxies, the Hercules-Corona Borealis this, also a long thing in Asia a Great Wall |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | A BUSINESS, MAJOR $1000: In 2020 Lululemon spent $500 million to buy this fitness company whose wall-mounted device streams exercise classes Mirror |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | YOU, ROBOT $1200: WALL-E's robot girlfriend had this palindromic name EVE |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | A GOVERNMENT OFFICE $600: The Wall of Honor at the Office of Personnel Management honors five employees of this service that delivers for you the Postal Service |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | POST-GRADUATION $800: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall is sculpted from this durable rock granite |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $400: A line from the screenplay for the Oliver Stone film "Wall Street" says that this "is good!" greed |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | A LOOK AT SYMBOLS $2000: On a floor plan you're looking at this kind of door that slides into the wall & basically vanishes when it's opened a pocket door |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | STREET SMARTS $400: This New York street is named for a barrier the Dutch built in the 1650s to repel an expected English invasion Wall Street |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | 4th & GOAL $800: Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them behave more realistically a wall |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $200: It ended with the Berlin Wall coming down & the Soviet Union breaking apart the Cold War |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $600: We keep it 100s (A.D.) as we talk about this landmark that ran 70+ miles from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WHAT A STEAL! $800: On Aug. 29, 1900 this Butch & Sundance gang hit a Union Pacific train in Wyoming & yes, used too much dynamite on a safe the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang (the Wild Bunch) |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS $2000: Alliterative Wall Street "lizard" who insists that greed is good Gordon Gekko |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $1200: On Jan. 1, 1802 he wrote of "building a wall of separation between church & state" Jefferson |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | ONLY HALF THE BATTLE $400: At Hastings, Harold's infantry held their own until they unwisely advanced, breaking the "wall" of these protective items shields |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | READY FOR MY NUDE SCENE $300: This actor said that he had no nude double for "The Wolf of Wall Street": "All the flopping around... was all me" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: Charles H. Dow (as in Dow Jones) co-founded this business daily back in 1889 The Wall Street Journal |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE TEMPLES IN JERUSALEM $400: This remaining section of the Second Temple complex stands as a place of prayer & remembrance today the Wailing Wall |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $200: Once, the USA's largest Black-owned business was North Carolina Mutual Life on Durham's Parrish Street, also called "Black" this street Wall Street |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $400: In the 200s B.C., the first Qin emperor ordered existing defensive structures to be linked, helping to create this Great Wall of China |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | COMEDY ATLAS $500: The hungry i in North Beach in this California city helped begin the tradition of a red brick wall behind the comic San Francisco |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BETTER MOMENTS IN HISTORY $1000: On Nov. 9 of this year, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, the German Walter Cronkite, declared, "The gates of the wall are wide open" 1989 |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: Winston Churchill gave the speech that mentioned this ideological barrier that separated Eastern Europe the Iron Curtain |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $1000: When Butch & Sundance & their Wild Bunch gang hid in the Wyoming spot seen here, they were part of this gang named for it the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | LET'S BUILD A HOUSE $800: You can buy a finder to locate these vertical interior pieces of wall framing, which is helpful when hanging your Picasso studs |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: Now a way to get out of something, it was originally a window in a castle wall for archers to shoot through loophole |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | AIR TRAVEL $600: Named for the wall in front of them, these have less storage space but nobody to recline in your face the bulkhead |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $200: 2013: Disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In a vision on the wall of her room, St. Clare witnessed a mass & so today is the patron saint of this modern invention television |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua Jericho |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY $600: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these import duties... anyone? Anyone? By about... anyone? 20%, rattling Wall Street badly tariffs |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | ON THE WALL $200: A large, concave one of these on your wall will make your room look bigger a mirror |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | ON THE WALL $400: Perfect for your bedroom, this item is thought to provide protection through the night a dream catcher |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | ON THE WALL $600: Got some fresh plaster on your walls? Try painting one of these murals Correggio was famous for a fresco |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | ON THE WALL $800: Types of this wall adornment include verdure, beauvais & millefleur tapestries |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | ON THE WALL $1000: Used first for candles, this 6-letter fixture seen here really brightens up the place a sconce |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $1600: In "Too Big to Fail", he played Fed chair Ben Bernanke; on "Billions", he's a U.S. attorney going after Wall Street corruption Paul Giamatti |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $1200: In the Six-Day War, Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country, restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall Jordan |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | LANDMARKS $400: A national trail in England stretches 84 miles from Newcastle to the Solway Firth along the line of this great fortification Hadrian's Wall |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $3,000 (Daily Double): It was Leonardo da Vinci's patron Ludovico Sforza who commissioned this work painted on the wall of a monastery in Milan The Last Supper |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE $400: Jackson Pollock's first wall-sized painting was fittingly titled this, from a word meaning "wall" Mural |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | ANCIENT WARFARE $1200: The ancient sambuca was not a liqueur but a ladder latched from a ship to a wall to enter a city in this kind of warfare siege |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | TOWERS $2000: One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site the Great Mosque in Mecca |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | FEELING SHEEPISH $800: Trumpets of rams' horns, looking shofar-like, bring down the wall of this city in the King James Bible Jericho |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | NAUTICAL LINGO $1600: A wall or partition that separates compartments on a vessel a bulkhead |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $400: Dalal Street in Mumbai is to India what this street is to the U.S.; dalal means "a broker" Wall Street |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES $200: The Occupy Wall Street movement used this term for the wealthiest part of the population the One Percent |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A list of team members &
something you might hang on your dorm wall roster & poster |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | GETTING YOUR LOOK TOGETHER $600: This "Off the Wall" brand of skate shoes began in 1966 Vans |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THAT'S QUITE A DORM ROOM $400: I know you're not getting along with your roommate, but did you have to re-create this 27-mile barrier built in Aug. 1961? the Berlin Wall |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $400: Prince tune that turns into a sudsy song that you sing on a long car ride "1999 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This expression, inspired by an event in the Book of Daniel, illustrated here, means "an effort is doomed to fail" the writing is on the wall |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | DEADLY SINS, ELSEWHERE $400: In "Wall Street", Michael Douglas informed us that this, "for lack of a better word, is good" greed |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | POETIC OBJECTS $1200: "Mending Wall", by Robert Frost contains the line "Good" these "make good neighbors" fences |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19something $400: On August 12, 1961 Walter Ulbricht, leader of the East German Communist Party, ordered this to be created; it went up overnight the Berlin Wall |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | LANDSCAPING $1000: This material, meaning "rocks that came straight from where they were found" makes a rustic-looking wall fieldstone |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $400: For heaven's sake, Tommy Tutone; my number's 867-5309; I'm this girl with the "number on the wall", so just call already Jenny |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $1600: She got the feel of her Brooklyn accent in "The Wolf of Wall Street" by waving her nails around as if they were still wet from a manicure Margot Robbie |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | MOVIE TITLES THROUGH PICTURES $1600: Let's get down to business--it's the 2013 film broken down here The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER $1600: Used as filling in a defensive wall near Mount Olympus, a 2,200-year-old statue of this queen & goddess was found in 2006 Hera |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $800: Built in England in the 2nd century by Romans, it measured some 70 miles & became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 Hadrian's Wall |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | HOMOPHONES $2,600 (Daily Double): A sculpted decoration on a wall near the ceiling & the act of keeping prices or wages at a fixed level frieze/freeze |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | THE CELL $400: In plant cells, the permeable plasma membrane is surrounded by a sturdier cell this, which helps prevent wilting wall (the cell wall) |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | TIME FOR SECONDS $800: Around 19 B.C. King Herod expanded the second of these & built a retaining wall that still stands today temple |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | 3 LETTERS, 2 SYLLABLES $400: The wall seen here is covered in it ivy |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2011: 10 YEARS AGO $10,000 (Daily Double): Zuccotti Park in New York City's Financial District was the birthplace of this movement against economic inequality Occupy Wall Street |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $400: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the Volkskammer, or "peoples' chamber", led to the construction of this barrier the Berlin Wall |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $800: At the eastern end of the Great Wall of China, the Tiger Mountain section gives tourists a glimpse into this country North Korea |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $1200: Sycamore Gap is pretty as a picture, breaking up the tableau of this British wall named for a Roman Hadrian's Wall |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $2000: The site seen here is known as Great this, a name that replaced Rhodesia Zimbabwe |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WALL-TO-WALL $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the only remaining structure of the Second Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall (the Wailing Wall) |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | KABUL STONES $400: Built for protection around 1,500 years ago, Kabul's "Great" this runs atop a mountain that towers over the city a wall |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | A NON-ALCOHOLIC CATEGORY $600: Fra Angelico created many of these plaster wall paintings, but none were done using hazelnut liqueur a fresco |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC $400: Kathleen Hanna wrote "Smells Like" this on a wall & Kurt Cobain used it in a song title not knowing it was a deodorant brand Teen Spirit |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $600: Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | "AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC $200: It's a small recess in a wall or room an alcove |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | LANDMARKS $600: In its own country, it's known as Wan-li Chang cheng the Great Wall of China |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: Adjective for carpeting that covers the entire floor wall-to-wall |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: "Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered" Dorian Gray |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | U.S. HISTORY $400: A dynamite-filled wagon exploded in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on this NYC street in 1920 Wall Street |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | A PALACE IN HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Bergl's wall art in the ground floor suite furnished for this Hapsburg queen in the 1770s was meant to merge with the real landscape outside Maria Theresa |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s $600: "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good" Wall Street |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WAILS $1600: It's a tradition to leave notes with wishes & prayers in the cracks of this Jerusalem landmark the Wailing Wall |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | EUROPE $400: From 1961 to 1989 this capital city was divided by a wall Berlin |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN EMMY $400: "Wall Street" & "Behind the Candelabra" Michael Douglas |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SNAKES & LADDERS $600: The use of ladders to scale a defensive wall is called this, also the name of a Cadillac SUV escalade |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | THAT'S SO 2019 $800: A January bill ended a 35-day U.S. federal government shutdown without funding for this, over which the shutdown began the border wall |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | HOW NOW, DOW JONES COMPANY? $400: This company makes Scotch Wall-Safe tape 3M |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | THE 20th CENTURY $600: On May 31, 1921 a white mob began attacking what was called "Black Wall Street" in this Oklahoma city Tulsa |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | I RAN (SO FAR AWAY) $200: Many runners "hit the wall" at the infamous Heartbreak Hill on mile 20 of this Beantown race the Boston Marathon |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | '80s HITS $200: "Another Brick In The Wall" from this group was a No. 1 hit in 1980 Pink Floyd |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $1600: Judy McCoy is wed to a Wall Street "Master of the Universe" in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by him (Tom) Wolfe |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $400: Fort Bourtange in the Netherlands is this celestial type; an attacker who gets close to one wall is exposed to fire from another a star fort |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: World Book says this "protected China from minor attacks but provided little defense against a major invasion" the Great Wall |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $1000: A stone wall in "Stardust" by this author has a 6-foot gap, with guards posted on each side Neil Gaiman |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | NEWSPAPERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Newspaper newspaper on the wall, this London one was originally founded in 1903, for women one & all the Mirror |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | TRADING PLACES $200: Its location at 18 Broad Street near Wall Street was designated a national historic landmark in 1978 the New York Stock Exchange |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | HAVE A CHAIR $400: Time to kick back & settle into one of these easy chairs; La-Z-Boy offers a Ruby Wall one a recliner |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | "ALL" THAT $200: Robert Frost wrote about "Mending" one a wall |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | HISTORICAL FACTS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Here's the extent of this landmark the Ming Dynasty began paying for in the late 1300s; it held off minor attacks, but major ones were problematic the Great Wall of China |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE... $800: At the 2008 Olympics he won his 7th gold by a fingertip, beating Milorad Cavic to the wall in the 100m butterfly by .01 of a second Michael Phelps |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $400: President Reagan urged, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down" this, & you can see part of it at the Reagan Library the (Berlin) Wall |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DYE ANOTHER DAY $800: "Sweet Thursday" is the name of a book by John Steinbeck, very different from this nickname for October 24, 1929 on Wall Street Black Thursday |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | YOUR HEART'S CONTENT $600: The dividing wall between your heart's left & right sides is called this, also the term for the dividing wall in your nose the septum |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $400: These flowers, especially red ones, were Renoir's favorite ones to paint, like in his "Bouquet" of them roses |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Floral imagery abounds in paintings of the Madonna and Child; white lilies represent the Madonna's purity and red carnations often foreshadow this event in Matthew 27:35 the Crucifixion |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $1600: The last paintings by this "Luncheon on the Grass" artist were of the flowers friends brought to his sickbed in 1883 Manet |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $2000: Before his more geometric style of intersecting lines, this Dutchman dabbled in Fauvism, painting a red amaryllis Mondrian |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | FLOWERS ON THE WALL $3,000 (Daily Double): This woman said, "I'll paint what I see--what the flower is to me, but -I'll paint it big" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | ON THE GLOBE $800: Notes left at this holy site are collected twice a year & buried at the Mount of Olives the Wailing Wall |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | TUNNELS $600: Dixia Cheng, a sprawling network of tunnels in Beijing, is aka the "Underground" this other landmark Great Wall |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $2000: 1950 winner "The Wall" by John Hersey is about an escape from the ghetto of 400,000 Jews set up by the Nazis in this capital Warsaw |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | HOME IMPROVEMENT ON TV $200: Hmm...an open concept will work, so let's knock down that wall with Drew & Jonathan, the "Property" these Brothers |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Dive in to this, the tile on the wall behind a kitchen countertop backsplash |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ANAGRAMS $1000: Food partly from Old French for "cabbage":
WALL OF CURIE cauliflower |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | CHANNEL THAT ABBREV. $1000: With "Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street": FBN FOX Business |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | SPORTS MASCOTS $200: This team's mascot Wally the Green Monster is named for the team's famous left field wall the Boston Red Sox |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | GIVE US A DATE $200: 1929: Dressed like cops, Capone gang members line up Bugs Moran's guys against a wall & take them out in a "Massacre" February 14th |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $1600: This structure fell on November 9, 1989, symbolically bringing an end to the political division between East & West the Berlin Wall |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ROADS SCHOLAR $400: Home to the N.Y. Stock Exchange, in the 1650s this road marked a defensive boundary of the city then known as New Amsterdam Wall Street |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $2000: Decorative molding along the top of a wall or building a cornice |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | FILM ANALYSIS $2,000 (Daily Double): A Raquel Welch poster does a lot more than just hang on the wall in Andy Dufresne's prison cell Shawshank Redemption |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | HOME DECOR BASICS $600: A recess in a wall often used to display sculpture, the term can also be used for the role an animal plays in nature a niche |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | HOME DECOR BASICS $1000: The spiraling design known as this work seen here on a wall adds elegance to furniture, too scrollwork |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | THE COLD WAR $400: Checkpoint Charlie was a heavily guarded crossing on this symbolic & physical barrier the Berlin Wall |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Near the famous wall, a D.C. memorial to women's service in this war was unveiled on Veterans Day 1993 the Vietnam War |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WALLS & BRIDGES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Here's the national trail, where you can take the 84-mile coast-to-coast walk and explore Roman forts along the World Heritage site of this historic landmark Hadrian's Wall |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | WALLS & BRIDGES $3,000 (Daily Double): European visitors gave a 60'-high landmark this alliterative name after seeing mournful vigils of pious Jews the Wailing Wall |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $2000: Bregenz, Austria is known for the artistry of its floating stages, like the great wall as the backdrop of this Puccini opera Turandot |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $1000: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today The Art of War |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $200: In 2007 Rupert Murdoch bought this newspaper that was started by Charles Dow in the 19th century the Wall Street Journal |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | % $400: The occupy Wall Street movement helped popularize the populist phrase "We are the" this the 99% |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE $1200: In a Shelley work this fire bringer is not happy to be nailed to a "wall of eagle-baffling mountain" Prometheus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ROCK OPERAS $1600: Pink Floyd is the band & the main character in this 1979 rock opera The Wall |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE TOTALLY RAD 1980s $1000: I'm so sure I had, like, so many pieces on my wall of the work of this '80s artist, a lot like the one seen here (Patrick) Nagel |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $800: The 100s are my time, so I'm gonna put my name on a wall that runs from Wallsend-on-Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway Hadrian |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $200: At the 9/11 Memorial Museum, you can see part of a retaining wall and a column now covered with mementos from this complex the World Trade Center |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | COOKING VERBS $600: Some Frigidaire wall ovens beep when this early-stage recipe instruction is finished & the food can go in pre-heating |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | MODERN ACTIVISM $400: Amnesty International wants more communities to accept refugees, asking for a longer table, not a taller this structure a wall |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WHO WROTE IT? $400: The poem "Mending Wall" Robert Frost |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | PLUNDER WOMAN $1600: 18th century pirate Rachel Wall went ashore & met her downfall for this type of "robbery"--she took a bonnet on a Boston public road highway |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: 2011 NYC protest movement composed of the Jets or Sharks & Mao's elite quartet Occupy Wall Street Gang of Four |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | "H"ISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This defensive barrier was in use until almost the end of the Roman rule of Britain Hadrian's Wall |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS? $200: 11 Wall Street, New York, New York the New York Stock Exchange |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | TV MORNING SHOWS $400: The road in the title of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" is this one & they cover the day there from the opening bell Wall Street |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | FERDINAND $600: Judge Ferdinand Pecora led a 1933 Wall Street investigation & later served on this newly created federal commission SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $200: A section of it runs for some 5,500 miles from Liaoning province to Gansu the Great Wall of China |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $400: It was originally made of barbed wire on the night of August 12-13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $600: A rabbinic belief is that the divine presence never departs from this wall in Jerusalem the Western Wall |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $800: Sacsayhuaman is a walled fortress near Cuzco, ancient capital of this empire the Inca |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $1,200 (Daily Double): A book about Frank Calvert & Heinrich Schliemann is called "Finding the Walls of" this city Troy |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | INTERNATIONAL PARKS $1600: Badaling National Forest Park contains the most visited section of all the miles of this edifice the Great Wall of China |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | DON'T RUSH ME! $1000: This 10-letter verb means to diminish a vehicle's speed, especially with that brick wall ahead decelerate |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | "DOO", "DOO", "DOO", "DOO", "DOO", "DOO" $1000: In the 1970s Wall Street wise man Henry Kaufman earned this medical nickname for his bearish forecasts Dr. Doom |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | LITERATURE $200: Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of" this street of finance Wall Street |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 4-LETTER FILL IN THE BLANK $200: "The handwriting is on the ____" the wall |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLICHES $600: This type of message predicting disaster comes from the book of Daniel the writing's on the wall |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD $1600: The nostrils are the openings of the nasal cavities, which are separated by a wall of cartilage called this a septum |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Germany observes November 9 to remember the fall of this the Berlin Wall |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | OLD TIMES $1600: Also known for its vase, this dynasty lasting 276 years built the best-preserved sections of China's Great Wall Ming |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $400: "'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $800: As the name indicates, this word for the tiling behind the stove is to protect the wall from liquids a backsplash |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | INSIDE, THE "OC" $200: This kind of door slides in & out of a wall a pocket door |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | IT'S CHINA, JAKE $1200: The national anthem asks, "Let us amount our flesh & blood towards our new" this long structure the Great Wall |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $200: 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of one of the top-selling albums of all time, this band's "The Wall" Pink Floyd |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $400: A 1990 charity performance of the album was held in this fitting city, to celebrate an event of 8 months prior Berlin |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $600: In a No. 1 hit from "The Wall", a children's chorus sings, "we don't need no" this education |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $800: "The Wall" is based on the tribulations of this bass player & sometime vocalist, the album's primary writer (Roger) Waters |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $1000: A popular album track says, "There is no pain, you are receding...I have become" this title "Comfortably Numb" |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $800: "Drop" everything & give us this name for the portion of a roof that extends out over a supporting wall an eaves |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | THAT CAN MEAN 2 THINGS $400: To weary with tedious repetition, or to drill a hole in a wall bore |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $200: After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow Michael Douglas |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | ART & ARTISTS $400: Diego Rivera was best known for creating these large wall paintings that depicted Mexican life murals |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | POETRY IN MOTION $1000: His "Mending Wall" says, "And on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again" (Robert) Frost |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | POTENT POE TALES $3,600 (Daily Double): This Poe story's title is realized as the narrator flees the "House" as it cracks & is torn asunder "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) Intricate tile mosaics decorate the 14th century Iranian Mihrab, a niche in the wall in the mosque that indicates the direction of this city, which Muslims face when praying Mecca |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I GOT! $400: A nice one of these, cash in addition to your salary; on Wall Street in 2017 they averaged $184,000 a bonus |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DAFFYNITIONS $400: "A pup for your Porsche" (or a wall-to-wall floor covering) carpet |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | THINGS TO TAKE WITH YOU ON VACATION $1000: For Uganda & Oman, pack an adapter, as their standard wall socket voltage is this, twice what it is stateside 240 |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $200: A waste-collecting robot helps save Earth in this Pixar film Wall-E |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ON THE WALL $200: A special black paint from Rust-Oleum will turn any wall into one of these writing slates a chalkboard |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ON THE WALL $400: This alliterative cork wall item got its necessary accessory the push pin in 1900 thanks to inventor Edwin Moore a bulletin board |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ON THE WALL $600: Just like Jabba, you can have this hero frozen in carbonite on your wall with a mural decal from fathead.com Han Solo |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ON THE WALL $800: A wall that supports the weight of the roof & floors above it is called this a load-bearing wall |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | ON THE WALL $1000: The walls of Paris' Musee de Cluny feature the 6 panels of "The Lady & the Unicorn", a series of these tapestries |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ALL ENCOMPASSING WORDS $2000: Dealing with a tough situation, or an upper layer of a brick wall the coping |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | ROMAN EMPERORS $800: Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of the Antonine this about 100 miles north of Hadrian's a wall |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | LONG MOVIES $800: A 2016 British film has this happening on a wall for 10 hours--the color is white, if you are wondering paint drying |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | MODERN HEALTH $800: (Travis Stork presents the clue.) Chronic bending of the spine to look at a phone can cause the painful syndrome known as "text" this; to help treat & prevent it, stand up with your back flat against a wall & perform the "snow angel" exercise text neck |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | BRICK BY BRICK $400: A construction method called hang-tu was used for this landmark partition that's partly made with clay bricks the Great Wall of China |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HISTORY WILL NOTE $200: An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the East German Volkskammer led to the start of building this land-mark that night the Berlin Wall |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | OUT IN LEFT FIELD $600: A 37-foot wall with this nickname looms over left field in Fenway Park the Green Monster |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | ANCIENT ROME $1,200 (Daily Double): A 19th century historian wrongly thought the emperor Severus built this divider Hadrian's Wall |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Financier James Fisk, "The Barnum of" this NYC street, was shot to death by a business & love rival Wall Street |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | DOMAIN EXTENSIONS MATTER $800: this.gov is an agency that polices Wall Street; this.org takes you to a college sports organization SEC |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | WHAT A YEAR! $200: The Berlin Wall came down 1989 |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | I NEED A VACATION! $1000: My feet hurt; there's no way I'm walking the entire length of this from Mount Hu to Jiayu Pass the Great Wall of China |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | STOCK MARKET INDEXES $200: This company puts out an industrial average & also publishes the Wall Street Journal Dow Jones |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $200: Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" ends with the phrase "Good fences make good" these neighbors |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | 21st CENTURY OPERAS $400: Julien Bilodeau adapted Pink Floyd's 1979 album into the 2017 opera "Another Brick in" this the Wall |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | GREED, OH! $200: CNBC's David Faber wrote "And Then the Roof Caved In: How" this street's "Greed & Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees" Wall Street |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THE HOOPS DU JOUR $400: John Wall & Chris Paul play this 2-word position, the quarterback of the offense point guard |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | NEW CAREERS! $2000: The Wall Street Journal says this field of making sure your company follows rules & regs is red-hot compliance |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NEWSPAPERS $800: This financial paper tore the lid off Teapot Dome with the 1922 headline "Sinclair Consolidated in Big Oil Deal with U.S." The Wall Street Journal |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | CHINESE EMPERORS $400: In the 200s B.C. Emperor Zheng connected a number of fortresses into what became this single system the Great Wall of China |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | MAILING IT IN $200: If a friend is building a wall or a whole house, mail him this basic piece of material, standard size 3 5/8 & 2 1/4 x 8 inches a brick |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE TV CHARACTER IS HAVING A MOMENT $200: I was ready to run through a wall when Coach Taylor gave the "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" speech on this show Friday Night Lights |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | ART & RELIGION $2000: Here's the writing on the wall--Rembrandt painted Belshazzar's feast from chapter 5 of this Biblical book Daniel |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | FITNESS ABBREV. $600: Done against a wall or freestanding, an HSPU is a handstand one of these a handstand push-up |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | THE QUOTABLE WILL ROGERS $800: "The country is bigger than" this financial center--"if they don't believe it, show 'em the map" Wall Street |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | A BANNER YEAR $1200: Celebrants stand on a crumbling wall in this year 1989 |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 120s A.D. the Romans built this structure that extended from Solway Firth to the River Tyne Hadrian's Wall |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | LETHAL WEAPON $200: In 1978 the U.S. military stopped using this, which can produce a 2,000-degree wall of fire a flamethrower |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN $1600: Dating back to the 1600s B.C., this long fortification used smoke mounds to send military communications the Great Wall of China |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? $200: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Reagan |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF $200: (Robert Siegel reads the clue.) One memento I've kept is a framed chip of this; I was rushed to the scene in November 1989 to cover its stunning fall the Berlin Wall |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ____ING ON POETRY $800: "Something there is that doesn't love a ____" wall |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $800: To tour this dam's power plant, you have to take an elevator 530 feet down through the rock wall of Black Canyon the Hoover Dam |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY $200: The third of these expeditions got testy when Leopold of Austria refused to work on a wall & Richard I kicked him a Crusade |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | BUILDING, ROMAN $1200: Everyone knows about this emperor's wall in Britain, but he also built a library in Athens Hadrian |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | 1970s ALBUMS $400: "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" of his 1979 "Off the Wall" album Michael Jackson |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | FAIRY TALES $200: In the Grimms' version, this creature becomes a prince not from a kiss but when he's thrown against the wall frog |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $1600: Martin Scorsese shares that this Aussie actress actually slapped Leo DiCaprio in her 1st "Wolf of Wall Street" audition Margot Robbie |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | IT'S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL $1200: Barbie's 2-story home called the "Hello" this residence has a framed picture of a bicycle on the wall the Hello Dreamhouse |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | ANCIENT COINS $800: At this jewel-adorned site in Jerusalem, Jesus praised the widow who gave her last 2 mites, bronze coins the temple |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | "MENT" GARNISH $2000: A wall to hold back water; you can walk along the famous London one seen here embankment |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IN THE NEWS: 2017 $400: Ahead of International Women's Day, a statue of a fearless girl was put in this district as a pledge to hire more women Wall Street |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT $800: First a gavel, then a gong, now one of these is sounded each day at 4 P.M. to close trading at 11 Wall Street a bell |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | THEIR GAME SHOW HOST GIGS $1600: Known for broadcasting and podcasting, in 2016 he started hosting "The Wall" Chris Hardwick |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Roman-installed monarch stretching from Liaoning province to Jiayu Pass Herod the Great Wall of China |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | WHEN THE WALLS FELL $800: "For 28 years, (people) could not even approach it", a man said in 2009 but 20 years ago, "people danced on it" the Berlin Wall |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | WHEN THE WALLS FELL $1600: This country's Wall of Tammishe runs from the Elburz mountains to the Caspian Sea, which now covers part of the wall Iran |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG PERFORMERS $1200: "Writing's On The Wall" from "Spectre" (2015) Sam Smith |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | VISUAL ART $1000: With the panels open, his "Garden of Earthly Delights" takes up over 12 feet of wall space at the Prado (Hieronymus) Bosch |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE $400: It's the triangular section of a wall at the end of a pitched roof; your house might have 7 gables |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | MOVIEMAKING $800: In "Trading Places" Eddie Murphy broke this 2-word "barrier" by turning to camera, deadpan, when told something obvious the fourth wall |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | QUOTH THE POET $2,200 (Daily Double): "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out" Robert Frost |
| #7542, aired 2017-05-30 | OCCUPATIONS IN THE NEWS $3,000 (Daily Double): In September 2011 lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park became Ground Zero for this movement Occupy Wall Street |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | NEWSPAPERS $400: It grew out of a newsletter first published in 1883 that covered the day's business & financial news The Wall Street Journal |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ROMAN BRITAIN $400: He built a wall to separate "Romans from the barbarians"; no word if he wanted the barbarians to pay for it Hadrian |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | IT'S ALL SAM-ANTICS $800: In 1962 with his brother James, he opened the first of his discount stores in Rogers, Arkansas Sam Walton |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $800: Worshippers show love for the Torah by touching it with the prayer type of this, which they then kiss a shawl |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | TURKISH DELIGHTS $200: Iznik, in Anatolia, is historically a center of production of these ceramic wall & floor coverings tile |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | WHERE ART THOU? $1000: At Austin, Minnesota's Museum of this Hormel product, featuring a wall of more than 3,000 cans Spam |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | NEEDS SOME WORK $800: Over the centuries this 5,500-mile barrier has undergone various repairs, like the recent one near Mount Hu the Great Wall of China |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | FOOTWEAR $400: "Off the wall" is the slogan of this brand known for its skate shoes Vans |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE $2000: His jealous rivals should have seen the handwriting on the wall when the lions failed to eat him Daniel |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | LEONARDO DiCAPRIO MOVIES $1200: This 2013 movie had Margot Robbie keeping businessman Leo at foot's length The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | "FR" $600: The one seen here appears on the wall of a basilica in Italy a fresco |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | ANALYS"S" $800: Term for financial instruments such as stocks; you might be an analyst of them on Wall Street securities |
| #7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND $800: I'm this, like a wall that's had wet gypsum applied plastered |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | '80s NO. 1 ALBUMS $1200: 1980:
This Pink Floyd offering The Wall |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | A BATEMAN $600: Christian Bale played Patrick Bateman, Wall Street hotshot 7 serial killer, in this film American Psycho |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | FILE UNDER "L" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's built into a fortress wall to shoot through; the tax code has a different type a loophole |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | THIS IS "WAR"! $400: This strip of dirt lets an outfield know he's approaching the wall the warning track |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | COMPANY "B" $1600: The company named for him began by selling computer terminals to Wall Street (Michael) Bloomberg |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $400: We're off to see this team's John Wall, an NBA Cares Community Assist Award winner for his work aiding homeless kids the Wizards |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | PIECE $800: Artifacts embedded in the first floor wall of Chicago's Tribune Tower include a piece of this barrier that crumbled in 1989 the Berlin Wall |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES $800: Though Fritz Todt built this Nazi line, also known as the West Wall, it wasn't the Todt Line, but was named for this Wagnerian hero Siegfried |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | LANDMARKS $3,000 (Daily Double): A place of prayer for Jewish people, it's all that remains of the Second Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | HOLIDAY ALBUMS $800: Rolling Stone calls this "Wall Of Sound" producer's "A Christmas Gift for You" the best Christmas album of all time Phil Spector |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $400: The mortar used to bind the stones of this 5,500-mile-long structure was made with rice flour the Great Wall of China |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1889 until early in the Great Depression, this newspaper rarely reported beyond business & economic news The Wall Street Journal |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | PLAY BALL! $600: You need just a ball & a wall to play this sport with a body part in its name handball |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Intonaco is the final, smooth coat of plaster spread onto a wall in the buon', or true, type of this painting technique fresco |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | A SPANISH INQUISITION $1000: ¿Quien paga por el muro? Who pays for the wall? |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | FURNITURE $2000: By itself, it's a TV cabinet, but it's also a type of table meant to sit against a wall the console table |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | MUSIC FOR THE DENTIST'S CHAIR $800: Good news: "I have become comfortably numb", just as this band's song from "The Wall" says Pink Floyd |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | A REAL BUSY BODY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates a stretch.) Support yourself on a wall, tighten your stomach muscles & gently lift your heel up & back to stretch these large muscles that cover the front & sides of the thigh quadriceps |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | SHE'S A REAL SAINT! $1200: When St. Clare was unable to attend mass, the ceremony became visible on her wall--today she's the patron of this device the television |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: In a story of 19th century Wall Street, this title clerk famously replies, "I would prefer not to" Bartleby, the scrivener |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | ART TERMS $200: The west side of the Berlin Wall was a fine place for this type of art that gets its name from the Latin for "wall" a mural |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | JUST MISSED THE TITANIC $800: This banker, the "Napoleon of Wall Street", booked passage & had his own private suite onboard but stayed in France J.P. Morgan |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | TALKING "POINT"S $400: There was one of these called "Charlie" in Berlin before the wall came down a checkpoint |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | JUST THE FACTS $800: This historic NYC street where you'll find Deutsche Bank's U.S. headquarters Wall Street |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES $200: In 1934 this A.L. park got a new left field wall; in 1947 that wall was painted green to match the rest of the park Fenway |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | "ON" THE MIDDLE $600: A wall bracket for a light a sconce |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | WORK WITH KIDS $600: "Teachers, leave them kids alone", says this band's song "Another Brick In The Wall" Pink Floyd |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | WORLD LANDMARKS $400: Worshippers at this Jerusalem holy site insert bits of paper containing written prayers into its cracks the Wailing Wall |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | ANIMATED MOVIE SONGS $800: This Pixar film opens with the song "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from "Hello, Dolly!" Wall-E |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | LET'S GO ONLINE $400: Time to get down to business on wsj.com, this publication's website The Wall Street Journal |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | ENGINEERING FEATS $1600: In the 14th century the Ming dynasty extended it 16 miles to Laolongtou, where it meets the Pacific Ocean the Great Wall of China |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY $800: A pun on one of China's claims to fame, this is the nickname for China's Internet barriers the Great Firewall |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $400: The Whitney Peak Hotel in Reno is home to America's tallest one of these walls--race you to the top a rock-climbing wall |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $800: Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point in this wall the Berlin Wall |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $1200: The men in the photo are praying before this wall the Western Wall |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $1600: Inscribed with more than 58,000 names, this D.C. memorial is sometimes referred to as "The Wall" the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $3,600 (Daily Double): A national trail in England follows the line of this historic wall from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway Hadrian's Wall |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | REACH FOR THE TOP $400: Hillary Step, a 40-foot wall of rock & ice, greets climbers as they approach the summit of this mountain Everest |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | WHO READS $2000: U.S. investors pore over The Wall Street Journal; in London they mainline this daily paper begun in 1884 the Financial Times |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | SISTINE CHAPEL $800: The north wall features scenes from the life of Jesus; the south wall depicts events from this Exodus man's life Moses |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | REMEMBER THE '80s? $1600: As this "Wall Street" corporate raider, Michael Douglas taught us that greed is good Gordon Gekko |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | TERM OF ART $800: This chilly-sounding term is used for horizontal sections of sculpture on a wall a frieze |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $2,400 (Daily Double): This newspaper's 1889 first issue promised "to get the news, to publish it instantly, whether bull or bear" The Wall Street Journal |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $200: The Great Mosque of Mecca,
the Great Pyramid of Cheops,
the Great Wall of China the Great Pyramid |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | HE WAS THE POPE... $400: When the Berlin Wall came down John Paul II |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | PAINTING & SCULPTURE $400: After this portrait was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, mourners lined up to see the blank space on the wall the Mona Lisa |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II $800: In 1962 Peter Fechter's pleas for aid went unanswered after he was shot while trying to climb over this the Berlin Wall |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | BUILDING TERMS $400: As seen here, it's a small tower that rises up from a castle wall a turret |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | NICKNAMES $600: Stockbroker Jordan Belfort's nickname, it's the title of Scorsese's 2013 biopic of him "The Wolf of Wall Street" |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | A "NON" CATEGORY $600: An interior wall that supports only its own weight is said to be this 10-letter type non-bearing |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | WHAT A CLICHÉ! $2,600 (Daily Double): It's obvious, I've seen this message mentioned in Daniel 5, so I can't say I wasn't warned the writing on the wall |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | PRESIDENTS' SPEECHES: ONE WORD OFF $200: Reagan:
"Mr. T, open this gate! Mr. T, tear down this wall!" Gorbachev |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | COLD SCIENCE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a testing facility at NASA Glenn Research Ctr in Cleveland, OH.) To simulate the temperatures in space, a cold wall inside the testing chamber uses this substance, LN, that can cause frostbite on contact liquid nitrogen |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | SUPPORTING ROLES $1200: Donnie Azoff in "The Wolf of Wall Street" Jonah Hill |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | IT'S A PALINDROME $2000: Cover the wall of your living room again repaper |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | PROSPER $600: Au! This 2-named Wall Street firm said that in 2014 it "advised on... transactions valued at more than $1 trillion" Goldman Sachs |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | ROMANS $1200: Wall, I'll be! This emperor completed the Temple of Zeus in Athens, begun more than 600 years before Hadrian |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIBLE "B" BOYS $1,400 (Daily Double): This Babylonian is slain the same night as his feast at which Daniel reads the writing on the wall Belshazzar |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Wall St. & heading to Washington D.C., a lawyer never has to go outside, as D.C.'s Union Station connects directly to this regulatory commission on F Street the SEC |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | GRIME & PUNISHMENT $800: The wall is finished--now to clean the enamel paint off your brushes, use this resinous pine tree extract turpentine |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) The deluxe 14 incher!--used for this hopeful activity, like at Big Thunder nearby in the 1890s gold prospecting |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) A few of South Dakota's most recognizable animals!--you could have your own one of these prairie dog colonies, that early explorers called by this name of human settlements towns |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from outside Wall Drug in South Dakota.) A stuffed replica of this fabled creature that seems part hare, part deer!--I think I just saw one! a jackalope |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) All-natural soap made right here in South Dakota with Salvia officinalis, this native aromatic herb that wise men know grows wild on the prairie sage |
| #7075, aired 2015-05-22 | SOUVENIRS OF SOUTH DAKOTA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Wall Drug in South Dakota.) Book ends made of agate, the state gemstone!--it's a banded type of this common silica mineral quartz |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY $800: Before a scene Matthew beats his chest to relax; an all-business DiCaprio asks him to do it on-screen in this 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | "ALL" RIGHT, "ALL" RIGHT, "ALL" RIGHT $1000: Actors "break" this by addressing an audience directly from the stage during a play the fourth wall |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | CHARLIE $200: A small museum devoted to the history of this barrier is located at Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse the Berlin Wall |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | PRESENTED IN 2D $400: In wiring schematics, the symbol shown here is one of these, maybe on a wall to break the circuit a switch |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | ON THE WALL $200: Divided into 20 sections, it's often made of cork; take a shot! a dartboard |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | ON THE WALL $400: In the 1920s this Mexican artist painted his "Creation" mural for the Bolivar Auditorium (Diego) Rivera |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | ON THE WALL $600: The name for this light holder is etymologically related to the word abscond a sconce |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | ON THE WALL $800: Fido knows Cassius Coolidge is credited with painting the first of these, like the one called "A Bold Bluff" Dogs Playing Poker |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | ON THE WALL $1000: In fresco painting intonaco is the final coating of this lime-y substance spread on a wall plaster |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $800: Sydney Carton let his last words reverberate. Powerful stuff, he thought. Then he parkoured up the wall, to freedom! A Tale of Two Cities |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | INTERIOR DESIGN $800: Using urethane for this molding at the juncture of wall & ceiling will allow you to use adhesive instead of nails crown molding |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $600: Though we link this alliterative 2-word action to Native Americans, China used them as a defensive system at the Great Wall smoke signals |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM $400: (Alex reports from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.) As The New York Times said, imagine if 9/11 had been followed by Super Storm Sandy; well, that's what would've happened if not for the slurry wall, anchored in bedrock in the 1960s to prevent the waters of this river from seeping into the foundation of the towers the Hudson River |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | ROMAN EMPERORS $800: The Antonine Wall in Scotland was built by Antoninus Pius, adopted son of this emperor Hadrian |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: The name of this muscular membranous wall comes from the Greek for "through" & "fence" diaphragm |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $800: When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall "with his legs crossed, like a Turk" Humpty Dumpty |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $800: For Butch Cassidy, Hole in the Wall in Wyoming was one of these a hideout |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | LATIN IN PLANT NAMES $600: Muralis means growing on this part of a building the wall |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1600: Tom Wolfe wrote about the fall of Wall Street master of the universe Sherman McCoy in this, his first novel Bonfire of the Vanities |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: The amount of wall between 2 of these is called an interfenestration windows |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | PLATINUM BANDS $400: "The Wall" by this group is certified 23 times platinum Pink Floyd |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: "Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good" is a line from this 1987 film Wall Street |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | THE 18th CENTURY $2000: On May 17, 1792 an agreement was signed outside of 68 this street that would establish the N.Y. Stock & Exchange Board Wall Street |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | COME SAIL AWAY $800: A partition wall that divides a ship's interior into compartments bulkhead |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE BIBLE FROM B TO Z $2000: U:
The handwriting on the wall was "Mene, mene, tekel", this word upharsin |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | FROM THE SPANISH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a short brick wall in Santa Fe, NM.) Requiring weeks for the bricks to dry, this method of building, that got its name from the Spanish, is common in arid climates like New Mexico adobe |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $600: Located between 85th & 96th, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir is found in this landmark Central Park |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | SHORT STORIES $400: In a Herman Melville story, this scrivener works for a Wall Street lawyer Bartleby |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago Board of Trade.) CNBC reporter Rick Santelli's 5-minute outburst from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade in 2009 attacking government bailouts is credited with sparking this political movement the Tea Party |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | 31 FLAVORS $800: A wall-sized work by this man titled "One: Number 31, 1950" is at MOMA in New York City (Jackson) Pollock |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | JOBS IN ART $400: "Detroit Industry", a series of these wall paintings by Diego Rivera, has workers from doctors to auto assemblers murals |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $1600: "A Mighty Heart" was the story of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for this newspaper who was killed in Pakistan The Wall Street Journal |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH THIS GUY $200: There's an automated external defibrillator on the wall; use it to get this organ back in rhythm the heart |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $400 (Daily Double): A folk tale tells of Meng Jiangnu, who searches for her husband along this public works project the Great Wall of China |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | ASIAN CITIES $2000: The old part of this Yemeni capital is surrounded by a 30-foot high wall Sana'a |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | THE PENTAGON $800: The 9/11 Memorial includes a wall rising from 3" to 71", representing these of the 184 who died at the Pentagon that day ages |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $200: Initially a barbed wire barrier, it began going up August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | "I-O" $1200: A relationship between 2 values; Wall Streeters talk about the "P/E" one ratio |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $200: Number of Jay Z' title "Problems", or "Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" 99 |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | NBA NICKNAMES $800: The Great Wall Yao Ming |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE CREW $400: Type of crew that follows "Hole-in-the-Wall" & "Purple" gang |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $400: In 2009 this hedge-fund manager pleaded guilty to 11 felonies in one of the biggest swindles in Wall Street history Bernie Madoff |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | THE 2nd CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): This Roman emperor visited Britain in 122 A.D. & had some ideas for military construction Hadrian |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | BIBLICAL ART $1,000 (Daily Double): The Rembrandt painting seen here depicts a story from this Old Testament book Daniel |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | SPEECH! $800: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) As vice president this man gave a speech to West Berliners just days after construction of the wall began, pledging protection of access to the city LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $5,400 (Daily Double): A recess in a wall, or a situation suited to a person; we hope you've found yours niche |
| #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 |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS $200: This "beastly" embrace is a Wall Street term for a takeover bid with a share price so high, the board can't refuse a bear hug |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | A "CY" OF RELIEF $1600: This large curved curtain or wall is usually placed or hung at the rear of a stage cyclorama |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An emperor's visit to Britain in 122 A.D. led to the building of this defensive barrier that remained effective for almost 300 years Hadrian's Wall |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | LOST & FOUND $400: In August 2011 an unknown 62-mile-long section of this landmark was discovered in the Gobi Desert the Great Wall of China |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | WINDOW QUOTES $800: 2 Corinthians says this apostle escaped Damascus: "through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall" St. Paul |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | ANAGRAMS $1000: A small, out-of-the-way restaurant:
LOW ETHANE HILL hole in the wall |
| #6732, aired 2013-12-17 | 1939 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $400: Your winner? This period piece, which used a large wall left over from "King Kong" to help film the burning of Atlanta Gone with the Wind |
| #6731, aired 2013-12-16 | THINGS THAT ARE ROUND $1000: On Wall Street an order of under 100 shares is an "odd" one of these; 100 shares or a multiple is a "round" one a lot |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | NATIONALITEASE $800: A lot of wall writing right here in the United States? American graffiti |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | WE PROTEST! $400: Protesting injustice made this New York City movement get pretty "in tents"--pun intended Occupy Wall Street |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | TOMB SERVICE $600: This wall-building emperor's cylindrical tomb in Rome later served as a fortress & is now a museum Hadrian |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | U.S. LANDMARKS $400: A mural depicting the Angel of Truth freeing a slave is on the south wall of this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TEACH THE RHYME $800: An exposed gap in a wall during a battle breach |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $1000: In calculus, it's what the notation df/dx represents; don't try to be original derivative (differentiation accepted) |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): At the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, President Reagan gave "Mr. Gorbachev" this 4-word challenge "Tear down this wall" |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ON THE WALL $400: ...of Madonna's house are works by this woman who died in Coyoacan 4 years before Madonna was born Frida Kahlo |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ON THE WALL $800: ...of the Prado is a Tiepolo showing Mary stomping a serpent, representing this event's freedom from original sin the Immaculate Conception |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | ON THE WALL $1,200 (Daily Double): ...of this museum is a portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna as a child (1712-13) by Ivan Nikitin the Hermitage Museum |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $200: (I'm Gretchen Morgenson.) Stories like "How Did They Value Stocks? Count The Absurd Ways" won me a 2002 Pulitzer for beat reporting. My beat is this street Wall Street |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $400: It's said Gilbert was inspired to write the libretto to this opera after a Japanese sword fell off the wall of his study Mikado |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | "F"ILM TERMINOLOGY $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew acts out the clue with Jimmy's help.) A character who stops addressing the others in the story & addresses the camera directly is said to be breaking this barrier the fourth wall |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | CASTLING $1200: This low wall at the top of the ramparts kept soldiers from falling off & protected against enemy fire parapets |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | MAGAZINES $400: The 2013 "Body Issue" of this TV network's "The Magazine" featured John Wall & Courtney Force ESPN |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | IF ONLY I COULD TELL THEM $800: It's 1989, so don't risk your life crossing this German city's wall to freedom; it's coming down in months Berlin |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | U.S. STAMPS $400: The "send a hello" stamps feature heroes from Pixar films, including this title robot Wall-E |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Natural barriers like rivers, mountain ridges, even ditches and moats make up one quarter of the length of this landmark The Great Wall of China |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | WORDS OF STEVIE WONDER $800: "Very" this, "writing's on the wall, very" this, "ladder's 'bout to fall" superstitious |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | 99 $400: "We are the 99%" is a slogan of this movement that came to Wall Street in 2011 Occupy |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: A pilaster is one of these with a capital & base like free-standing ones, but rectangular & set into a wall a column |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS $400: The scrolls were discovered in 1947 & offered for sale in a June 1, 1954 ad in this financial paper; they sold for $250,000 The Wall Street Journal |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | NEWSPAPERS $200 (Daily Double): The "ticker" was announced in the Feb. 26, 1897 issue of this publication The Wall Street Journal |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | CURTAINS $600: At Framlingham, a medieval one of these, the outer or curtain wall stands 44 feet high & 8 feet thick a castle |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | MOVIE COUPLES $400: The title robot of this animated film falls in love with EVE, a sleek recon robot WALL-E |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | WORLD ATHLETES $600: In 2013 the marriage of Scottish auto racer Dario Franchitti & this actress spun out & hit the wall Ashley Judd |
| #6601, aired 2013-05-06 | THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID $1200: Che sent many men to execution by this & reportedly spoke of it as the "pedagogy of the wall" by firing squad |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | EDIBLE RHYME TIME $600: An ornamental recess in a wall for a savory egg dish, perhaps the Lorraine kind a quiche niche |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | COUNTRY ROADS $200: Home of Mumbai's stock exchange, Dalal Street is India's answer to this New York City thoroughfare Wall Street |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | CONSTELLATION TRANSLATION $800: Horologium, maybe on the wall a clock |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | FOUND IN GERMANY $800: This former Berlin Wall checkpoint, where you can see instruments of escape used by East Germans Checkpoint Charlie |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | STARTS WITH A PIECE OF CLOTHING $400: A place on a wall to receive a plug a socket |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CELEBRITIES LOVE TV $800: (I'm CNBC reporter David Faber.) I enjoy getting a look at commerce far from Wall Street on this drama from David Simon about Baltimore's inner city drug trade The Wire |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | LINES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the American Red Cross in New Orleans Louisiana.) The Southeast Louisiana chapter of the Red Cross was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The height of the tile trim on the Memorial Wall denotes this the floodline (waterline) |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $400: Jonathan Swift wrote that Mildendo, a city in this land, was surrounded by a wall 30 inches high Lilliput |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $400: Robert Lebron's painting of this New York City thoroughfare shares its title with an Oliver Stone film Wall Street |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LANDMARKS $400: Winding around 5,500 miles across deserts, mountains & plateaus, it was mostly built during the Ming dynasty the Great Wall of China |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $2000: In this Old Testament book, the handwriting on the wall read, "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" the Book of Daniel |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | HISTORY IS HAPPENING $400: Check out the November 1989 destruction of this European landmark the Berlin Wall |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SURPRISE! I GOT YOU A LANDMARK! $800: This landmark, which took awhile to wrap, goes back to the Qin Dynasty the Great Wall of China |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | NEWSPAPERS $800: Daniel Hertzberg & James B. Stewart of this paper shared a 1988 Pulitzer for their stories about insider trading The Wall Street Journal |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | SPEED WRITING $1200: Upset at the sight of this structure, John le Carre wrote "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" in 5 weeks the Berlin Wall |
| #6505, aired 2012-12-21 | SKYSCRAPER CITY $200: The Trump building at 40 Wall St. New York City |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | ROAD SHOW $400: This New York City street is where the transaction is Wall Street |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BEHIND BARS $400: In the early 1900s the wall of the penitentiary in this Georgia capital was the USA's largest concrete mass Atlanta |
| #6494, aired 2012-12-06 | MOVIE MONEY $600: Oliver Stone's follow-up to "Wall Street" had this subtitle Money Never Sleeps |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | "FOUR" LETTER WORDS $800: 2-word theater term for the imaginary item that separates the actors from the audience the fourth wall |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | ANCIENT JERUSALEM $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us the model of ancient Jerusalem at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.) Still standing today, the walls of Jerusalem's Old City existed in the 1st century; they were destroyed along with the temple, but rebuilt by this Emperor, better known for a wall in Britain Hadrian |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | TEACH ME A SONG $2000: A Pink Floyd song says, "Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another" one of these brick in the wall |
| #6470, aired 2012-11-02 | PYRAMIDS $200: The pyramid built for Cestius around 12 B.C. still stands as part of the Aurelian Wall in this city Rome |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | DO NOT PASS "O" $600: A wall painting on wet plaster a fresco |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | TASTE $600: Why yes, it is an authentic Gobelin one of these woven wall hangings (imitations are so tawdry) tapestry |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE FORMER EASTERN BLOC $1200: Many former East Germans are still said to suffer from Mauer im Kopf, this type of structure "in the head" a wall |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | IN A ROW $1200: Archaeologists discovered 19 rows of stones extending below this alliterative holy landmark in Jerusalem the Western Wall (or the Wailing Wall) |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | BASEBALL STADIUMS $400: In 2003 274 seats were added above its "Green Monster" wall Fenway |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HIDING PLACES $200: Built into a wall to store clothes, this small room is great for a game of hide & seek a closet |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | STREET SMARTS $400: The N.Y. Times won a Pulitzer in 2002 for covering this street, also in the name of another winning paper that year Wall Street |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES $800: 2008:
Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class WALL-E |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: Gen. Beauregard wrote that Gen. Bee actually said, "Look at" this man's "brigade! It stands there like a stone wall" "Stonewall" Jackson |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | EVERYONE'S AN ART CRITIC $3,000 (Daily Double): "Multi-mages of Marilyn are now... dated...where does that leave" his "art? on the wall, is the unfortunate answer" (Andy) Warhol |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | ROMAN THE ROADS $2000: The Stanegate, a Roman road in the north of England, paralleled the route of this defensive wall Hadrian's Wall |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the Robert Frost poem that says, "Good fences make good neighbors" "Mending Wall" |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | SOUNDS LIKE 2 LETTERS $400: Wall-climber seen here ivy |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | AT THE MALL $400: It's not "off the wall" to want a pair of this brand's original slip-on skate shoes Vans |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $1200: This animated title robot goes about collecting trash in the year 2700 & is a sucker for musicals WALL-E |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $200: This synonym for "newspaper" is in the names of newspapers like Albuquerque's &, of course, Wall Street's journal |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | ADVERTISING MASCOTS & ICONS $200: Oh yeaaaaah! This brand with a wall-busting spokes-pitcher was originally known as Fruit Smack Kool-Aid |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS $2000: Ice water is free & coffee is 5 cents at Wall Drug in the town of Wall in this state South Dakota |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | ARCHITECTURAL TERMS $400: A mihrab, a prayer niche in the wall of a mosque, faces this holy city Mecca |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | ALSO A GIRL'S NAME $1000: It's a type of expansion bolt used to hang heavy objects on a hollow wall molly |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | OTHER WONDERS OF THE WORLD $200: This barrier's name in Chinese, Wanli Ch'ang Ch'eng, says that it's 10,000 li in length, or about 3,000 miles The Great Wall |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | ROCK DOCUMENTARIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Title of Roger Waters' 1990 concert documentary filmed in Berlin The Wall |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | YAY, PHYSICS! $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a book against the wall.) Abbreviated "N", it's the ordinary term for the perpendicular force I'm exerting on the book to keep it in contact with the wall normal |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | GRAD GIFT IDEAS $1000: "Boy With a Pipe" by this alliteratively named Spaniard, which sold for $104 mil. in 2004, would look great on your wall Pablo Picasso |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | ALBUMS $600: This group saw the writing on the wall in 1975 with "Physical Graffiti" Led Zeppelin |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | 4 N $400: Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song ninety-nine |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | ORDINALLY SPEAKING $400: It's the imaginary barrier separating the audience from the performers on stage during a play the fourth wall |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | ____ THE ____ $400: This expression meaning opposite one's basic temperament refers to the direction of fibers in wood against the grain |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE 1890s $1000: On June 2, 1899 Butch Cassidy & this gang, also a 1969 movie title, robbed their first train near Wilcox, Wyoming the Wild Bunch |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | WORLD OF WONDERS $1000: 12-20 feet high to keep the barbarians at bay, it ran 73 miles from Wallsend in the east to Bowness in the west Hadrian's Wall |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | OBSTACLE COURSES $400: Humboldt University International:
This now-fallen German obstacle "and European Integration" the Berlin Wall |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $800: The most destructive part of a hurricane is the "wall" surrounding this central area of the storm the eye |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | 2011 NEWS $400: Starting Sept. 17, part of Lower Manhattan was occupied 24/7 by the protest group "Occupy" this Wall Street |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: In a deceptive Greek "equine" of an ancient war lies a bloodsucking winged insect content to be an unseen observer a Trojan Horse-fly on the wall |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | BALLET $800: This wooden rail attached to the wall of a ballet studio is used by the dancers for support during exercises a barre |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | NEWSPAPER HISTORY $400: In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average officially appeared in print for the first time in this newspaper The Wall Street Journal |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | I SAW IT ON TV $400: I saw this come tumbling down November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | WHAT'S NEW IN ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The earliest known records of this Native American people's syllabary were found carved in a cave wall the Cherokee |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | MAGIC $1200: This magician's feats include walking through the Great Wall of China David Copperfield |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | ACTING HURT $800: In the 2011 TV movie "Too Big to Fail", William Hurt played this GOP Treasury Chief who helped bail out Wall Street (Henry) Paulson |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | ARCHITECTURE $1200: Yes, Clark, a pediment is a type of this triangular section of wall a gable |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | A STICKY SITUATION $600: In one of his bits, David Letterman stuck to a wall by wearing a suit made of this fastening material Velcro |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LANDMARKS $600: A 5,500-mile-long section of it runs from Mount Hu near Dandong to a spot in Gansu Province the Great Wall of China |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $1600: This French thinker & author of "No Exit" had an ocular condition & was called "short, ugly, wall-eyed" by Life magazine (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | THE STYLE OF ELEMENTS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a wall clock with symbols of the elements instead of numbers.) The Chem Time Clock helps chemistry students learn the periodic table by using elements' symbols in place of numbers; it's 1:35, or these two elements hydrogen & nitrogen |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | NAME THE SPORT $400: Complete requirements: wall, fist, rubber sphere handball |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "WALL" $200: Vodka, orange juice & Galliano go into the cocktail called Harvey this wallbanger |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "WALL" $400: The quokka is another name for the short-tailed scrub species of this marsupial a wallaby |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "WALL" $600: A type of sweet onion is named for this Washington city Walla Walla |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "WALL" $800: Don't be shy; name this plant seen here the wallflower |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | "WALL" $1000: This type of game fish is named for an ocular feature the walleye |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | MICHAEL DOUGLAS MOVIE ROLES $1200: 2010: Greedy Gordon Gekko (full title, please) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $2000: In 2011 the Dealbook feature reported on this Wall St. bank's failed plan to let U.S. clients invest early in Facebook Goldman Sachs |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | SCHWARZENEGGER $800: The few lines that Arnold mouthed in "Conan the Barbarian" were written by John Milius & this "Wall Street" director Oliver Stone |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $400: (Alex stands at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) The Western Wall is the only remnant of a retaining wall that was built to support the Temple Mount; now tradition says this mount was Moriah, the site where this patriarch prepared to sacrifice his son Abraham |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | YAD VASHEM $1200: (Alex walks in front of the Wall of Remembrance in Yad Vashem, Israel.) Both the valiant uprising against the Nazis & the final deportation are depicted here in the Wall of Remembrance to this city's ghetto, which at one time held more than 400,000 people in just 1.3 square miles Warsaw |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | WHAT THE "ECK" $1000: Wall-climbing house lizard a gecko |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the clue crew gives the clue from Newseum in Washington, DC.) Now sitting harmlessly in the Newseum, this guard tower was once used to shoot down those trying to cross this barrier between communism & freedom the Berlin Wall |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | FAMILIAR SAYINGS $800: Even a broken one of these on your wall is right twice a day clock |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | FINAL FRONTIERS $200: It's Michelangelo's fresco on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, depicting the saved & the damned The Last Judgment |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | SI, PARLO ITALIANO $400: It's spray-painted words on a wall graffiti |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | UNUSUAL COUNTRY MUSIC LYRICS $600: Workin' on Wall Street / Sure takes its toll / But a ski trip to this country's Davos or Gstaad / Is good for the soul Switzerland |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 2010 20th ANNIVERSARIES $400: October brought the 20th anniversary of this, celebrated each year on Tag der Deutschen Einheit German Unification |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THAT'S A RAP $400: "I'm stayin' up all night hopin', hittin' my head against the wall", this "Animal" gal raps on "Your Love Is My Drug" Ke$ha |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 6,000 $800: In 1991 a 6,000-pound segment of this was put on display at the Reagan Library the Berlin Wall |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | SACRED TO THIS RELIGION $800: The Western Wall Judaism |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | SCULPTORS $400: This Cubist's sheet metal & wire "Guitar" from 1912-13 was made to hang on a wall like a painting Picasso |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: As Aldous Snow, Russell Brand sang & taught us all in this 2010 pic: "When the world slips you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall" Get Him to the Greek |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | BUT WHAT AM EYE? $600: This makes up the innermost layer of the wall of the eyeball & has 120 million rods & 6 million cones the retina |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | AMPHIBIANS $800: In salamanders named for a lack of these internal organs, a tiny pulmonary artery runs in the body wall lungs |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $800: The Statue of Liberty weighs 225 tons; how many have read this woman's poem "The New Colossus" on the pedestal wall? (Emma) Lazarus |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEGA-EVENTS $400: The Cold War was effectively over on Nov. 9, 1989 when large jubilant crowds tore down this symbol of world division the Berlin Wall |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: On July 21, 1861 Gen. Barnard Bee said, "There is Jackson, standing like" one of these & a nickname was born a stone wall (Stonewall) |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | "HOLE"-Y $800: This nearly inaccessible canyon in Wyoming was one of Butch Cassidy & his gang's main hideouts the Hole in the Wall |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | ON THE PHONE $1200: An old time phone might be a wall set or this type of set named for a 4-letter horizontal surface a desk set |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | JONES-ING $1200: In 1882 he & Edward D. Jones formed a company that delivered news bulletins to Wall Street financial houses (Charles) Dow |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN $200: After a 1976 gig in Memphis, Bruce scaled the wall of this music icon's home & was busted by a security guard Elvis Presley |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | PROPHET REPORT $800: He was called in by Belshazzar to interpret the handwriting on the wall Daniel |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | BIB-LICKAL EVENTS $1600: God tells this king through Elijah that dogs will "lick thy blood" & "eat Jezebel by the Wall of Jezreel" Ahab |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | NEW ORLEANS & KATRINA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) The largest design build civil works project in the history of the Army Corps of Engineers, a giant flood wall is technically called this type of barrier, as it protects against hurricane-driven water levels a surge barrier (a storm surge barrier accepted) |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | GREAT WORK $400: The work of Jose Clemente Orozco brought fresco into the 20th century as a medium for these vast wall paintings a mural |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | 1910 $1200: This Wall Street figure closed the year at 81.36 the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | OFF THE ____ $200: A Michael Jackson album title is "Off" this the Wall |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | WEBSITE NAME ABBREVIATIONS $1000: Take stock of your stocks:
wsj.com Wall Street Journal |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | RUPERT MURDOCH, OWNER OF A LOT OF STUFF $400: Rupe paid $5.6 bil. & said how now, Dow Jones, a deal that included this business paper founded in the 1880s The Wall Street Journal |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | THEY LEFT THEIR MARK AT GRAUMAN'S CHINESE $400: This little robot left its wheelmarks instead of footprints R2-D2 |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | JOKING MATTERS $400: Mitch Hedberg: "The depressing thing about" this Chris Evert sport is "no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall" tennis |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | LINENS & THINGS $600: From the Greek for heavy fabric, it's the type of thick wall covering seen here a tapestry |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | WHERE'S RALPH WALDO? $400: Emerson feels transcendent when he learns parts of this landmark are 35 feet high the Great Wall of China |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | WEST SIDE STORY $400: Much of Peter Schneider's book "The Wall Jumper" takes place in the western section of this city Berlin |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WRITTEN COMMUNICATION $2000: In a "Post No Bills" sign on a wall, bills is short for these, promoting upcoming events handbills |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $200: In 1497 da Vinci created this scene on a wall of a monastery dining room The Last Supper |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THEIR FIRST NO. 1 POP HIT $200: "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)"
(1980) Pink Floyd |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | AROUND THE HOUSE $600: Also called a breast wall, this type of wall is built to resist lateral pressure & to hold back soil a retaining wall |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | AROUND THE HOUSE $800: It's the wooden finishing strip at the bottom of an interior wall where it meets the floor a floor molding |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $400: Exhibits at this museum in 2009 included "Woodstock: the 40th anniversary" & a Michael Jackson memorial wall the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | ROMAN EMPERORS $400: This Emperor's wall was completed around 126 A.D. Hadrian |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | "OO" WHO? $1000: Her writing includes a Wall Street Journal column & the books "On Speaking Well" & "Patriotic Grace" Peggy Noonan |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | SPORTS TERMS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew jumps to it.) While flatfooted, reach your arm up & make a mark, then hop as high as you can & mark the wall at your apex; the difference between the two numbers is this sporting ability your vertical leap |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | HEALTH & BEAUTY $600: 2-word alliterative term for a surgical tightening of the abdominal wall & removing excess fat & skin a tummy tuck |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | "ARD" STUFF $1000: An explosive device used to break down a wall; you might be "hoisted with your own" if you're unlucky a petard |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | "W" $2000: It's a decorative wood paneling on the lower portion of a wall wainscot |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | IN PLAIN SIGHT $400: No wonder it's so long--it was built over 2 millennia across northern China & southern Mongolia the Great Wall of China |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $400: "Arise, Ye Who Refuse To Be Slaves; With Our Very Flesh And Blood Let Us Build Our New Great Wall" China |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a castle wall on the monitor.) The name of this defensive wall comes from words meaning "protect" & "chest"; it's still used as a protective barrier on bridges & balconies a parapet |
| #5796, aired 2009-11-23 | A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL $400: (Alex reports from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) In Jewish circles, the Wailing Wall became known as the Western Wall after this 1967 war & the reunification of Jerusalem the Six-Day War |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | WHAT ARE YOU DOING? $1000: Giving a room visual interest with this trim aka a dado rail; it protects plaster walls from the item in its name a chair rail |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | WEBSITES $600: Did Chris Hughes write on Mark Zuckerberg's wall & send a friend request when they started this website? Facebook |
| #5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Italian for "fresh", this type of wall painting has paint fusing with plaster fresco |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | ABBREV. $1600: OTC,
on Wall Street over-the-counter |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | ABRAHAM $1,800 (Daily Double): Muslims believe that Abraham helped build this building in Mecca thousands of years ago the Kaaba |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | ALTERNATE LITERARY TOMBSTONES $800: 1874-1963:
I will always be "North of Boston" near a "Mending Wall" (Robert) Frost |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | HELLO, WALLS $200: In Joshua 6:20 "The wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into" this city Jericho |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | HELLO, WALLS $600: The John Lennon wall seen here is in this Czech capital Prague |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | HELLO, WALLS $1000: A biographer said he "was the first to build a wall, 80 miles long, to separate the Romans from the Barbarians" Hadrian |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | HELLO, WALLS $2,500 (Daily Double): It was first erected on the night of Aug. 12-13, 1961, the result of a governmental decree the Berlin Wall |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $800: The winning scribe is announced at a fancy do on this New York City street more associated with finance than art Wall Street |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | PET PROJECTS $200: When we first meet this title character in a 2008 Pixar film, his only friend is his pet, cockroach, Hal WALL•E |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $400: The NYC borough that includes Wall Street M-A-N-H-A-T-T-A-N |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: A Robert Frost poem begins, "Something there is that doesn't love" this structure a wall |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $400: To the Chinese, it's a boat; on Wall Street, it's a bond with a low rating junk |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WALL TO WALL-E's $400: Tenders of an apiary beekeepers |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WALL TO WALL-E's $1200: Title for Billy Graham, Jesse Jackson or Sun Myung Moon Reverend |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WALL TO WALL-E's $1600: 8-letter synonym for "anytime" whenever |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WALL TO WALL-E's $2,000 (Daily Double): Georgia did it in January 1861; Venezuela did it in 1829 secede |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | WALL TO WALL-E's $2000: Surname of Christopher Hewett's TV housekeeper character, or a popular Polish vodka Belvedere |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $200: Some Joan Miro paintings are on the wall in this Spanish seaport where Miro was born in 1893 Barcelona |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $400: Oui, oui! Miro created a ceramic wall for the UNESCO building in this city in 1958 Paris |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $600: The huge mural that Miro painted for a hotel in this southwest Ohio city in 1947 is now owned by the city's art museum Cincinnati |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $800: Many of Miro's works have adorned the walls of this Manhattan museum known by a 4-letter acronym MOMA |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $1000: Miro's 1949 "Women and Bird in the Moonlight" is on the wall of the "modern" branch of this London gallery the Tate |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WOEFUL WALL STREET $400: This Houston energy company was delisted from the NYSE in 2002; later many of its execs pleaded the Fifth Enron |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WOEFUL WALL STREET $800: In 2008, the "Big 3" CEOs of this industry agreed to work for $1 a year if their companies got hefty bailouts the auto industry |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WOEFUL WALL STREET $1200: Usually illegal, this profitable type of trading is done by people who have access to privileged information insider |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WOEFUL WALL STREET $1600: The U.S. is capping compensation for execs with firms getting big taxpayer help at this not-so-measly amount $500,000 |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | WOEFUL WALL STREET $2000: He agreed to pay $600 million in fines after creating the junk bond market in the 1980s (Michael) Milken |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $400: The Nazarenes of 19th c. Germany wore biblical clothes & hairstyles & aimed to revive this wall painting method fresco |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | 20th CENTURY NEWS $600: In 1989 Chris Gueffroy became the last person to be shot & killed while trying to cross this structure the Berlin Wall |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | CHECK THE NEWSPAPER $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1889 Dow Jones changed the name of its daily business newsletter to this The Wall Street Journal |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | IT'S NOT SO $200: Though 4,500 miles long, it's not visible from space, as its materials are similar in color to the surrounding soil the Great Wall of China |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | SCANDALOUS NURSERY RHYMES $200: Perhaps too much eggnog threw off this character's equilibrium when he had a great fall off a wall Humpty Dumpty |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | PREFIXED WORDS $1200: This word isn't about wall paintings but the sports of students within a school intramural |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | MOVIE TAGLINES $2000: 2008:
"Heroes aren't born. They're built" Iron Man |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | ARCHITECTURAL WORDS (& HINTS) $600: Stone laid on top of a wall from which an arch springs (it's also a season) summer |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | COMEDY TONIGHT $800: In 2008 David Letterman said it was so cold, this accused Wall St. Ponzi scheme operator looks forward to Hell (Bernard) Madoff |
| #5637, aired 2009-02-24 | HAVE A HEART WITH DR. OZ $800: (Dr. Oz delivers the clue, again holding a squishy human heart.) The sinoatrial node on the back wall of the right atrium, here, sends out electrical signals to regulate the heartbeat & is also known as this, like a mechanical device implanted to do the same thing a pacemaker |
| #5621, aired 2009-02-02 | SKY HIGH $200: The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street New York City |
| #5611, aired 2009-01-19 | THE DARK SIDE OF COMMERCIAL MASCOTS $200: To our knowledge, this company's "Pitcher Man" has never offered to help rebuild a wall he destroyed Kool-Aid |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | THE LAST SUPPER $1000: Leonardo's "The Last Supper" is painted on the wall of a monastery in this northern Italian city Milan |
| #5604, aired 2009-01-08 | GEORGES THE BELGIAN WAFFLER $1200: Georges likes the great wall & this man's 200-mile "line" from the Swiss border to a point near the Belgian Frontier Maginot |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this the Great Wall |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | YOUR 5-CLUE NEWSCAST $800: In business:
the 158-year-old Wall Street firm named for these brothers went belly-up in September 2008 Lehman Brothers |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | MOVIE MUSICALS $200: The title robot of this 2008 animated film learns about human emotion by watching a video of the 1969 film "Hello, Dolly!" WALL-E |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | "B-U-T" FULL $800: A solid structure built against a wall to support it; some are "flying" buttresses |
| #5587, aired 2008-12-16 | DINOSAURS $800: In 2001 Chinese scientists said a group of these made by dinosaurs included one 1 1/2 yards long a footprint |
| #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 |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | LET ME MIX YOU A METAPHOR $1000: I was on a wild goose chase when I "hit" this, which marathoners do around mile 20 the wall |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | HEROD'S LOST TOMB $1600: To gain his own people's respect, Herod rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem, including this sacred site that's still there the Western Wall |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | FAR-OUT CINEMA $400: This lonely title character from a 2008 film is fixated on EVE, an "extraterrestrial vegetation evaluator" WALL·E |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | DAYS OF RECREATION $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew moves some mah-jongg tiles on top of some others.) To start playing mah-jongg, the player who is the East Wind rolls the dice to determine who has the honor of opening this aptly named structure the wall |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | HALLOWEEN: TRICK OR TREAT $1000: On Oct. 31, 1938 this Wall Street institution treated investors to a 15-point protection plan the New York Stock Exchange |
| #5550, aired 2008-10-24 | MAKE IT WORK! $800: Charlie Sheen hears "Greed... is good" in this film, which came out just after the 1987 stock market crash Wall Street |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | JEOPARDY! DITLOIDS $400: Hop-happy song:
99 B O B O T W "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | THE 2008 TIME 100 $600: "His purchase of The Wall Street Journal puts a real power behind the press" Rupert Murdoch |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: Construction continued on this fortification up to the Ming Dynasty the Great Wall of China |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | MOUNT VERNON $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates a pair of wall hangings at Mount Vernon, VA.) As a symbol of liberty, Washington displayed the key to this political prison, a gift from Lafayette, who had ordered its demolition the Bastille |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | COME UP TO THE LAB $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shines a flashlight through a prism and the beam is redirected onto a different wall.) The prism refraction experiment that I'm reenacting was first conducted in a laboratory by this man in 1666 Isaac Newton |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | CHINA & INDIA $2000: The Golden Shield, which restricts online viewing of controversial topics, is known as the "Great" this "of China" firewall |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | REUNIONS $200: In 1989 the fall of a wall reunited this world capital after 28 years Berlin |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | 25 $1000: It averages a height of 25 feet for its length of more than 1,500 miles the Great Wall of China |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG $1600: (Kelly and Jon of the Clue Crew are both a bit stuck in Williamsburg, VA.) In Colonial times, pig stealers were exposed to public derision at the pillory & those, a term that reminds us of Wall Street stocks |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | EDGAR ALLAN POE-POURRI $800: Spoiler alert! "The Cask of" this potent potable tells of a man sealing his enemy up behind a wall... alive! Amontillado |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $600: An egg that Alice buys grows larger & larger & eventually becomes this wall-sitter Humpty Dumpty |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | I'M WALKIN' HERE! $400: ...& I'll be walking for a while, as this structure is more than 3,700 miles long and ends in the Gobi Desert the Great Wall of China |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | "EAST" $400: Egon Krenz was briefly the head of this country during the fall of the Berlin Wall East Germany |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: An organism's ecological role in the community, or a recess in the wall for a statue niche |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | SUE GRAFTON'S ALPHABET MYSTERIES $1600: Rebound like a bullet off a wall:
"R Is For..." Ricochet |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | PAPERS $400: In 1889 Charles Dow & Edward Jones founded this business daily the Wall Street Journal |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Robert Frost ended this poem about a barrier with the line "good fences make good neighbors" "Mending Wall" |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | ACTOR'S RESUME $400: "Wall Street",
"Fatal Attraction",
"You, Me and Dupree" Michael Douglas |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | "RA", "RA", "SIS", "BOOM", "BA" $600: Its altar wall once displayed Perugino's "Nativity" the Sistine Chapel |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOM! $4,800 (Daily Double): It describes a small, out-of-the-way place, or an aperture in Hadrian's famous structure a hole in the wall |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | ANTIBIOTICS $600: Cefamandole is used to treat this inflammation of a membrane of the abdominal wall caused by a ruptured appendix peritonitis |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | NEWSPAPERS $2000: The staff of this paper won a 1999 Pulitzer for coverage of Russia's financial crisis The Wall Street Journal |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | "W"ORDPLAY $800: This important thoroughfare runs from Trinity Church to the East River Wall Street |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BALLS $1600: In racquetball, the ball must strike the front wall before hitting this the ground (or the floor) |
| #5396, aired 2008-02-11 | THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD $400: You can't really see it from the Moon, but it is the longest of the 7 the Great Wall of China |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $400: Pink Floyd (Part 2):
"We don't need no education..."
(5 words) "Another Brick In The Wall" |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: This low wall around the edge of a castle roof was designed to protect soldiers from falling off a parapet |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | TRANSPORTATION $600: During the Cold War, 2 different families escaped over the Berlin Wall using these lighter-than-air vehicles hot air balloons |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | WORKING ON MY CLASSIC CAR $800: Also a device on the wall of your home, this valve either stops or allows coolant through the engine a thermostat |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | WHAT A DICTATOR $200: As the dictator of this country from 1950 to 1971, Walter Ulbricht oversaw the construction of a famous wall East Germany |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | ON BROADWAY $400: Many of this Jonathan Larson musical's famous fans have gone backstage to add their names to a long graffiti wall Rent |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $600: Into the 1840s, sanitation on Wall Street was handled by thousands of these porcine wanderers pigs |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | THE BUCKET LIST $800: (Morgan Freeman reads another clue.) 1 of the amazing sights visited in "The Bucket List" is this fortification stretching from Gansu to Hebei the Great Wall of China |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | KANSAS CITY, KANSAS HERE WE COME $800: The Wall Street Journal reports that KCK is undergoing this, also a type of medieval festival held there each fall a renaissance |
| #5350, aired 2007-12-07 | ANAGRAMMED ANIMALS $400: A marsupial:
BY A WALL a wallaby |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE ARTS $400: The Gobelins factory of France was famous for these wall hangings & began manufacturing them around 1600 tapestries |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | THE COMICS $2000: Creator Jim Unger joked that the syndication of this panel in East Germany brought down the Berlin Wall Herman |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | COVER YOUR "BASE"s $200: The wooden skirting at the bottom of an interior wall a baseboard |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | THE STORY SFORZA $800: While working for Ludovico Sforza, he knocked out "The Last Supper" on the wall of a local church da Vinci |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | CALIFORNIA HERE I COME! $1200: The falls that bear the name of this national park plunge 2,425 feet down a rock wall Yosemite |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | USA TODAY'S TOP 25 MEMORABLE QUOTES $200: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | I BEG YOUR PARDON $400: The Wall Street Journal wanted an immediate pardon for him after his perjury conviction in the Valerie Plame case Scooter Libby |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | MAY THE FOREST BE WITH YOU $1200: This nation has planted billions of trees called the "green great wall" to fend off desertification China |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE HISTORY GAME $800: It's going back, back... & it's over this 73-mile-long wall built in the 120s A.D.; "the Emperor" has done it again! Hadrian's Wall |
| #5297, aired 2007-09-25 | THE "B"IBLE $2000: It's at his feast that Daniel interprets the writing on the wall Belshazzar |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THEATRE GHOSTS $400: The man in this drab color who haunts the Drury Lane Theatre may the ghost of a man found bricked up in a wall there gray |
| #5289, aired 2007-09-13 | POP ON A CD $1200: "The Writing's on the Wall", "Survivor" Destiny's Child |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | STUDENT & TEACHER $200: His teacher Ghirlandaio frescoed the Sistine Chapel's north wall; he frescoed the ceiling Michelangelo (Buonarroti) |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | CITYSCAPE $1000: In 2007 Greeks in this capital city started tearing down the wall separating their sector from the Turks' Nicosia |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | BIBLE BOOK SHORTHAND $800: Writing on the wall breaks up party Daniel |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | ROCKERS BANNED IN THE USSR $800: This "Another Brick In The Wall" band was blacklisted for "distortion of Soviet foreign policy" Pink Floyd |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | "H"E MAN $800: This wall builder became the Ward of Trajan & followed him as Roman Emperor Hadrian |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | "RU" SURE? $800: One of PBS' highest-rated programs was "Wall $treet Week", a show this man hosted for 32 years (Louis) Rukeyser |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | "F"INE ART $800: Michelangelo used this method of wall painting for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel frescoes |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | EUROPEAN ARTISTS $1600: His "School of Athens" covers one wall of the Stanza Della Segnatura, a room in the pope's private quarters Raphael |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $600: Jews from many nations come to Jerusalem to pray at this, all that remains of the Holy Temple the Wailing Wall (or Western Wall) |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POTPOURRI $600: If you stare at a bright red dot & then at a white wall, you'll see an afterimage of the same dot in this color green |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $800: Difficulty breathing through the nose may be a sign that this dividing wall of cartilage & bone is deviated a septum |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | TRAVELING ABROAD $1000: Take firth things firth; the Antonine Wall was built across Scotland from the Firth of Clyde to this firth the Firth of Forth |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | WILLIAM FAULKNER $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi.) On the wall is Faulkner's handwritten plot outline for this 1954 novel set during World War I; its title is a type of story Fable |
| #5214, aired 2007-04-19 | NAME THAT CLASSIC $600: "They found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | EYE ON ASIA $200: Its national anthem includes the line "With our flesh and blood, let us build our new great wall" China |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | NAME THAT POET $400: "Then Sally and I saw them run down the hall. We saw those two Things bump their kites on the wall" Dr. Seuss |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $600 (Daily Double): The city of Mildendo on this island is encompassed by a wall 2 1/2 feet high Lilliput |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | ODE TO THE WEST WING $200: 'Twas 1909 when William Taft was first to haul / His bulk into thy hallowed space & see thy curving wall Oval Office |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | SHAM ROCKS $1000: To stop graffiti on the real thing, visitors can now sign a fake replica of this in the Juyongguan section the Great Wall of China |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | QUOTATIONS $1200: O. Henry gave us "busy as" this type of "man ... pasting on wall-paper" a one-armed man |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | MURDERS & ACQUISITIONS $400: The USA's first of these robberies, netting $245,000, was on Wall Street in 1831 a bank robbery |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | 2 FOR T $400: A famous one of these embroidered wall hangings bears the name of the French town of Bayeux a tapestry |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | THE SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER WHO SAID... $800: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead" Henry V |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): This British poet wrote, "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive" Robert Browning |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | 10 MILLION ALBUMS! $200: This band didn't hit "The Wall" at 10 million; they're over 23, now Pink Floyd |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | FUHGETTABOUDIT $400: Trying to locate this country just to the east of the old Berlin Wall on a map? Fuhgettaboudit! It's gone East Germany |
| #5091, aired 2006-10-30 | THE BODY HUMAN $1000: The sticky alkaline mucus on your stomach's wall is there to protect it from this corrosive acid hydrochloric acid |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | PUT OUT THE CHINA $1000: In Chinese, Wanli Changcheng is the name of this formidable construction the Great Wall of China |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | RELIGION IN ART $1000: In the 19th century, Gustav Bauernfeind depicted Jerusalem, including this location the Wailing Wall |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | "Y" END IT? $800: An elevated platform projecting from the wall of a building, or seats high in a theater a balcony |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | CIVIL WAR TIMES $600: At Bull Run, General Bee referred to Thomas Jackson by saying, "There stands Jackson like" one of these a stone wall |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | 1970s ROCK $1000: This 1977 Pink Floyd album was inspired by a George Orwell novel Animals |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YEARS $200: Wall Street laid an egg in October of this Roaring '20s year when the stock market crashed '29 |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MOTHER RUSSIA $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is our girl in Moscow, Russia.) From 1953 to 1961, Lenin shared his tomb with this leader who was then moved to his present resting place in the Kremlin wall Stalin |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $1000: The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem was a retaining wall this "Great" king had built to shore up the temple platform Herod the Great |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THE BIG BOARD $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the NY Stock Exchange floor.) In 1996 when Wall Street loved high tech, Lucent Technologies set a New York Stock Exchange $3 billion record for one of these an IPO |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | MOSCOW KNOW-HOW $9,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Moscow, Russia.) Luminaries whose ashes are interred at the Kremlin Wall include this U.S. journalist portrayed in the movie "Reds" (John) Reed |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | DON'T YOU THINK? $400: An old joke, off his saying: a note on a wall reads, "'God is dead'"--this man.
Below it: This man "'is dead'--God" Nietzsche |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $200: Guinness says Peter Broeker owns more than 8,000 bottles of this--hope they're on a wall & he sings about them beer |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | TALES $800: A Winston Groom sequel sees this title man involved in the Iran-Contra affair & the fall of the Berlin Wall Forrest Gump |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | THE CORONER STORE $1600: Looking like a bubble on a hose, this aortic dilatation caused by a weakening of the vessel wall led to the death an aneurysm |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | MARCO POLO $400: Some argued that Polo never went to China; he did omit mentioning this landmark some measure at 4,000 miles long the Great Wall of China |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | THINGS ARCHITECTS SHOULD KNOW $200: 4-letter term for an upright piece of wood or steel forming the inner frame of a wall a stud |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | YANKEE STADIUM $400: History ain't what it used to be: 2 No. 8's are on Yankee Stadium's retired Nos. wall, Bill Dickey's & this malaprop-master's Yogi Berra |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | A MICHAEL DOUGLAS FILM FESTIVAL $400: 1987:
"It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation" Wall Street |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | SEEING RED $1000: Sinopia are the sketches in red an artist makes on a wall before beginning one of these painted murals frescos |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | BIOLOGY $1600: Microorganisms called euglena have a flexible pellicle, or membrane, in place of a rigid one of these a cell wall |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Robert Frost ended his "Mending Wall" with this famous phrase about barriers fences make good neighbors |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | SPORTS PAGE CLICHÉS $1200: The phrase about your back being here has been used in sports & by Earl Haig in a more serious situation in WWI against the wall |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | STREET-WISE TV $2000: Let's get down to business & name this PBS series that Louis Rukeyser began hosting in 1970 Wall Street Week |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | BALTIC AVENUE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Visby, Sweden.) Like Vienna, the Hanseatic town of Visby built this encircling type of wall in the 1200s; Visby's is still here a ring wall |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | RHYME TIME $200: Any pigment on the wall so faded you can barely see it faint paint |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | MEANS OF TRANSMISSION $1200: In the book of Daniel, "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" handwriting on the wall |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | PODCAST INCORPORATED $400: A morning stock report is podcast by this Dow Jones-owned national newspaper The Wall Street Journal |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | NAME THAT ROMAN EMPEROR $400: 117-138 A.D.:
Had his own "wall" of fame Hadrian |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | ART TERMS $400: Originally a term for a full-size sketch ready for transfer to a canvas or wall, it now refers to any humorous drawing a cartoon |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | ENDS WITH "ICE" $2000: It can be a mass of snow or a molding between the top of a wall & a ceiling a cornice |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): The phrase "handwriting on the wall" goes back to this book of the Old Testament Daniel |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | HOW TO INVEST YOUR ALLOWANCE $800: Buy shares of this in a company; there's an exchange for them on Wall St. stock |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | ALL OF OUR "STONE" $200: You'll find this legendary object in a castle wall near Cork, Ireland & by the way, you're so suave & good-looking the Blarney Stone |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | WHEN YOU GET THE MONEY $200: His NYC holdings alone have included the Plaza Hotel, a "World Tower" & 40 Wall Street Donald Trump |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: An angiogram may reveal one of these bulges in the wall of a blood vessel an aneurysm |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | BEST "WESTERN" $1600: It's directly below the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem the Western Wall |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | JOURNALISTS $600: "A Mighty Heart" is a 2003 biography of this slain Wall Street Journal reporter by his widow, Mariane (Daniel) Pearl |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: This 1897 title character crawls down the wall of his castle face down, with his cloak spreading out like wings Dracula |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | CLUB HOPPIN' $800: Perhaps because of its wall of fire, Rumjungle in this "Bay" hotel has been called "the hottest club in Vegas" Mandalay Bay |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $2000: These 4 words were the handwriting Belshazzar saw on the wall of his palace Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | QUOTES! $400: On June 12, 1987 Ronald Reagan told Mr. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" the Berlin Wall |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | ROMANS $800: Emperor Antonius Pius extended the Empire's frontier into Scotland & built a new wall to replace this Hadrian's Wall |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS $600: (Hello, I'm Peggy Noonan.) I write a weekly column for opinionjournal.com, which is the editorial website of this business-oriented newspaper The Wall Street Journal |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | CORN $2000: A main constituent of corn husks & stalks is this tough cell wall material that's made into fibers like rayon cellulose |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | HEY, THAT'S "GREAT"! $200: Stretching over 4,000 miles, it's been called the largest engineering & building project ever made by man the Great Wall of China |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1200: The Phoenicians built a wall over 20 miles in circumference around this ancient north African city Carthage |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | INFIELD OF DREAMS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the University of Pittsburgh, site of Forbes Field.) Over this wall in 1960, this Pirate second baseman hit the first World Series-ending home run Bill Mazeroski |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: "Open That Bottle Night" was created by the Wall Street Journal's columnists on this subject wine |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | THE IG NOBEL PRIZES $600: In 1991 this "Titan of Wall Street and Father of the Junk Bond, to whom the world is indebted" won for economics Michael Milken |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | FILL IN THE TITLE $1000: Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
"The ____ Wall-Paper" Yellow |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | AN ATTRACTIVE PREPOSITION $600: It can precede "the curve", "the times", or in a Smithereens song, "The Wall of Sleep" behind |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | ON THE MAP $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.) When shown near Yulin & Hanzhong, the symbol seen here indicates this world landmark the Great Wall of China |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | INNER SPACE $800: (Hi, I'm Paige Davis, host of TLC's Trading Spaces.) Tips for doing this to your space include hanging mirrors, washing a wall with light & laying down area rugs making it look larger |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | THAT'S CREDIBLE! $1200: Each wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, created by her, is about 250 feet long & the 2 meet at an angle of 125° Maya Lin |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | CONTEMPORARY ART $400: Basquiat got attention, not detention, for this type of wall writing in "Hollywood Africans" graffiti |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE NEWSPAPER $800: This paper rises each morning from its headquarters at Calvert & Centre Streets The Baltimore Sun |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | DAYS OF THE WEEK $1600: Oct. 24, 1929 on Wall Street Black Thursday |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 1970s ALBUM COVERS $1000: 1978:
Billy Joel leans against an alley wall holding a trumpet 52nd Street |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | ACTUAL MLB ANNOUNCER QUOTES $800: "Winfield goes back... He hits his head on the wall & it rolls off! It's rolling" to here, the usual position of Robbie Alomar second base |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | PITTSBURGH $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside a brick ivy-covered wall.) Pittsburgh has preserved the outfield wall from this historic ballpark, where Honus Wagner & Willie Stargell roamed Forbes Field |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | CITY $400: It was originally built on 7 hills & enclosed by the Servian Wall Rome |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | THE 1980s $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Berlin, Germany.) The most visible symbol of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall was torn down by the citizens of Berlin in this year 1989 |
| #4688, aired 2005-01-12 | THE "RAM"s $800: A fortified embankment often topped by a protective wall a rampart |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST $800: Renzo Piano's Potsdamer Platz Project included a musical theatre near where this infamous structure stood the Berlin Wall |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | CROSSWORDS $1200: 2004 puzzle themes in this daily paper included "Financial Trouble" & "Buy, Buy, Baby" The Wall Street Journal |
| #4671, aired 2004-12-20 | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands outside the Robie House in Chicago, IL with a view featuring a broad roof overhang.) Steel beams let Wright build a daring example of this type of roof that extends beyond its supporting wall a cantilever |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $200: In 1792 the NYSE was established when businessmen came to an agreement under a buttonwood tree on this street Wall Street |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | "B" BRAVE $600: 192 people were killed trying to cross this infamous barrier the Berlin Wall |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | NASA PRODUCTS $400: For NASA, Black & Decker developed this type of tool to let astronauts work on the moon without needing a wall socket cordless |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | "RE"RUNS $1200: Split-face concrete blocks & geo-grid reinforcement are used to build this wall at the edge of a terrace a retaining wall |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | U.S. STAMPS $1,400 (Daily Double): Part of the "Celebrate the Century" series, the stamp seen here honored the first observance of this in the 1970s Earth Day |
| #4617, aired 2004-10-05 | A BYZANTINE CATEGORY $400: At over 4 miles in length, a wall built in the 400s kept this capital safe for a thousand years Constantinople |
| #4609, aired 2004-09-23 | WHAT A MYTHTAKE! $400: If only Remus hadn't jumped over a wall on the Palatine hill; that may be why this sibling killed him Romulus |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | AROUND THE CELL $1000: If you mark off each day on the wall, & you serve exactly 40% of a 5-year sentence, you end up with this many marks 730 (or 731) |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | RHYME TIME $400: In "Through the Looking Glass" he tells Alice there's no chance he'd ever fall off his wall Humpty Dumpty |
| #4591, aired 2004-07-19 | LOOK OUT! $1000: A herd of these animals, Loxodonta africana, is stampeding your way in a wall of gray elephants |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $400: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright created this wall-less shed used to shelter an automobile in the 1930s a carport |
| #4559, aired 2004-06-03 | COMMUNICATIONS $1200: To communicate by doing this, you can speak lyrics over a beat, or tap a code on the wall of your jail cell rap |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | THE INC. SPOTS $400: You'll find the Bank of New York Company, Inc. at 1 this street Wall Street |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | BRITISH HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Ancient Romans built this across Britain from the mouth of the Tyne River to Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | CABLE TALK $600: His "Wall Street" series airs on Fridays on CNBC & then repeats on numerous PBS stations on the weekend Louis Rukeyser |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | BEARING WITNESS $1000: "At Home in the World" is this Wall St. Journal reporter's book published after his death in Pakistan Daniel Pearl |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | "B" PREPARED $400: (Hi, I'm Chris Matthews) Working for the San Francisco Examiner in November 1989 I reported on the historic fall of this structure the Berlin Wall |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | FIELDS OF SCIENCE $1200: General term for the type of field that physicists deal with, or that acts like an invisible wall on "Star Trek" force field |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | BEST-SELLING U.S. NEWSPAPERS $400: The No. 1 financial paper in the country, it's No. 2 overall with 1.8 million sold daily The Wall Street Journal |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | SCANDALOUS STORY HEADLINES $200: "Police Arrest" this egg boy "After Drunken 'Jackass' Copycat Falling-Off-Wall Stunt!" Humpty Dumpty |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | MBAs RULE! $400: After earning his MBA in 1966, he went to work on Wall Street; today he's in charge of the entire city Michael Bloomberg |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | COLORFUL ROCK $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) In 1990 at the site of the Berlin Wall an all-star version of "The Wall" was presented by Roger Waters of this band Pink Floyd |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD LEADERS $1,200 (Daily Double): That Great Wall thing didn't work; this warrior's forces crossed it & went on to sack Peking in 1215 Genghis Khan |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BUILD UP $400: Any wall providing the main support to a floor or the roof is called a structural wall or this a load-bearing wall |
| #4467, aired 2004-01-27 | AT THE BALLPARK $2000: The left-field wall of Miami's Pro Player Stadium is called the "Teal" this Monster |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK WAS IT? $2000: October 19, 1987, a "Black" day for Wall Street Monday |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $1200: This low wall on the top of a castle may feature crenellation parapet/battlement |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BALLET $400: Center practice is done without the support of this wall-lining object the bar |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | HOLEY $1600: This famous hideout used by Butch Cassidy lent its name to his outlaw gang the Hole in the Wall |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | BERLIN IS IN! $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Berlin Wall) In Berlin in 1963, this American said, "Democracy is not perfect, but we never had to put a wall up to keep people in" John F. Kennedy |
| #4444, aired 2003-12-25 | CRAFTSMANSHIP $400: Sailors who need to know their knots helped spread this knot-based craft that makes lovely wall hangings macramé |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | IDIOMS $800: Don't get trapped in one of these, illustrated here by Charlie Brown a vicious circle |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | COME WHAT MAY $1200: In May 2002 this paper put up on e-Bay some of its "Dot Heads", the portraits it uses on its front page The Wall Street Journal |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | PLACES TO GO $1000: Built around 122 A.D., this wall was the northern defensive boundary of Roman Britain Hadrian's Wall |
| #4389, aired 2003-10-09 | "STREET"s $200: America's second-largest daily newspaper, it's published in New York City & 4 regional editions The Wall Street Journal |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a 3-4-5 right triangle on a blackboard.) Builders check for square by measuring 3 feet along one wall, 4 feet along another; this man from Samos says the two points should be 5 feet apart Pythagoras |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | WALL STREET $200: Originally the rolls of paper on which stock info was printed, it's come to mean the flow of prices on electronic boards ticker tape |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | WALL STREET $400: A gambling term, it now refers to stocks with a long history of sustained earnings & uninterrupted dividends blue chips |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | WALL STREET $600: This "deep" 3-letter nickname refers to an area of the exchange where a particular stock is traded the pit |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | WALL STREET $800: This term refers to the amount of money that must be deposited when borrowing toward purchasing securities margin |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | WALL STREET $1000: Using a bull as its symbol, it's one of the world's largest managers of financial assets Merrill Lynch |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | I'VE GOT THAT ALBUM! $1200: 1979:
"Comfortably Numb",
"Another Brick In The Wall",
"Is There Anybody Out There?" The Wall |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | DISCOVERY CHANNEL UNSOLVED HISTORY $400: "Unsolved History" reconstructs what this Texas site once looked like
"Today, you find a row of tourist shops, but in 1836, the west wall ran 530 feet with a row of barracks for the troops." the Alamo |
| #4367, aired 2003-09-09 | ROAD MOVIES $600: Michael Douglas won an Oscar for assuring us that "Greed... is good" in this 1987 film Wall Street |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | "M"MMMMM GOOD! $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew does some show and tell.) 17th century thinker Athanasius Kircher is credited with inventing this device that projected pictures onto a wall magic lantern |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SOAP WORLD $1000: Danielle Julian created the "Great Amber Wall of Soap", seen here, with 7,500 of this brand's cleansing bars Neutrogena |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | METAPHORS $400: This 3-word phrase meaning "crazy" or "way out there" could also describe Humpty Dumpty off the wall |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1600: The Berlin Wall came down George H.W. Bush (1989) |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | WALL STREET TALK $400: On July 20, 1999 the opening bell was rung off of Wall Street; way off, it was on one of these in San Francisco cable car |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | WALL STREET TALK $800: In an alligator spread in the options market, these of the broker are so big they eat all your profit commissions |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | WALL STREET TALK $1600: It can be a sharp, short price decline that interrupts a persistent upward trend, or a fluid for typos correction |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | WALL STREET TALK $2,000 (Daily Double): Dow Jones has 3 big stock averages: transportation, utility & this industrial |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | WALL STREET TALK $2000: The P/E of GE or any company is this ratio price to earnings ratio |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "Mending Wall" is one of the best-known poems in his collection "North of Boston" Robert Frost |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Although the NYSE is considered to be on this street, its main building is actually located on Broad Street Wall Street |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | GUINNESS RECORDS $2000: Alan Whitworth figures when he's done in 2007, his sketch of this fortification in England will be 73 miles long Hadrian's Wall |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A TOUR OF THE REAGAN LIBRARY $200: (Jimmy of the clue Crew presents from the Ronald Reagan Library.) On June 12, 1987, in Berlin, Ronald Reagan demanded of this man, "Tear down this wall." Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | TRADING SPACES $800: Muriel Siebert was the first woman to hold a seat on this Wall Street body founded in 1792 the New York Stock Exchange |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $1200: Oliver Stone dedicated this 1987 film to his late father, who had been a stockbroker Wall Street |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $800: Furnisher of financial data on Wall St.:
S&P Standard & Poor's |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | WALLS OF FAME $200: Shi Huangdi of the Qin Dynasty started this wall in the 200s B.C. Great Wall of China |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | WALLS OF FAME $400: The lifetime of this miles-long wall was 1961 to 1989 Berlin Wall |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | WALLS OF FAME $600: The Life of Moses by Botticelli is on the south wall of this Italian room but the ceiling gets more P.R. the Sistine Chapel |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | WALLS OF FAME $800: Yaz knows "The Green Monster", the left field wall in this Major League venue, is 37 feet high Fenway Park |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | WALLS OF FAME $1000: There was a small fort every mile of this 73-mile-long English wall Hadrian's Wall |
| #4288, aired 2003-04-02 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) I'm using a sensor to find one of these behind the wall; that'll be a secure spot to nail up a picture stud |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | ON THE COVER OF TIME $400: One-year-old cover subject seen here in 1962 the Berlin Wall |
| #4278, aired 2003-03-19 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $1000: Theon seems to have lived at the same time that this Roman emperor was building his famous wall Hadrian |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | CZECH REPUBLIC HISTORY $1600: In 1999 the city of Usti Nad Labem tried to wall off these residents AKA the Romany, but had to take the wall down Gypsies |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | LANDMARKS $400: This Chinese defensive barrier is built mostly of rubble, though some sections are of tamped earth, brick or masonry The Great Wall of China |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | ATHLETES' RHYME TIME $1000: Gannon's wall recesses Rich's niches |
| #4225, aired 2003-01-03 | "W"HO, "W"HAT OR "W"HERE $200: A sight of lamentation, it's believed to have been part of the Second Temple the Wailing Wall |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | PICTURE THIS $600: In 1907 the Wall Street Journal declared Percival Lowell's photo of its "canals" proof of intelligent life Mars |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | FROM A TO ALMOST Z $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew looks at a picture of Alex on the wall.) Hmmm, that picture is offending my aesthetic sensibilities; it's slightly this, but I'll fix it askew (awry accepted) |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | HEADING FOR HOME $800: There are solid & cored varieties of these fired clay materials you'll need to wall in you backyard bricks |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | HEADING FOR HOME $1200: Bobvila.com says that for a 19th century look, you can add these decorative wood strips to the bottom of a wall moldings |
| #4208, aired 2002-12-11 | NEBUCHADNEZZAR $1,000 (Daily Double): Nebuchadnezzar was followed as king by this man who saw the handwriting on the wall Belshazzar |
| #4201, aired 2002-12-02 | SODOM & GOMORRAH $800: Someone scribbled "Sodoma Gomorra" on a Pompeii wall prior to the eruption of this in 79 A.D. Mt. Vesuvius |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | NURSERY RHYME RAP $400: My homeboy Humpty ain't into crack, 'cept when he falls from this right on his back the wall |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | BIBLICAL CITIES $200: The priests blew their trumpets, Joshua's people shouted, & this city's "wall fell down flat" Jericho |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | BIBLICAL CITIES $1000: The apostle Paul escaped his enemies in this Syrian city by being lowered over a wall in a basket Damascus |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $1000: It's a newspaper like the one for Wall Street or a magazine like the one for ladies' homes journal |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: If you start with 99 bottles of beer on the wall, it's the first prime number you'll be left with after some fall 97 |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | ACRONYMS $2000: On Wall Street, EBITDA stands for these before interest, taxes, depreciation & amortization earnings |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | MARCO POLO $200: Oddly, Marco spent 17 years in this country, yet his book doesn't mention tea, chopsticks or the Great Wall China |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | CHINESE DYNASTIES $400: The Sui dynasty refortified this major construction project mainly built under the Ch'ins Great Wall of China |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | HOMEMAKING $800: Properly speaking, a piece of carpet that isn't wall-to-wall is called this, also a slang term for a toupee a rug |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | AROUND THE ROOM $600: A long horizontal piece of wood attached to the wall for storage; people talk about a product's "life" on it a shelf |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | THE FLAGPOLE $2000: In degrees, it's the usual inclination for wall-mounted outrigger poles, though some are set at 30 or 60 45 |
| #4123, aired 2002-07-03 | THE FIRTH OF FORTH $1600: These people built the Antoine Wall from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde around 142 A.D. the Romans |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | BASKETBALL RULES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in front of a brick wall.) A player's not going
to get very far if he commits the infraction I'm signaling traveling |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | BASKETBALL RULES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in front of a brick wall.) In a game, if neither team has control of the ball, the ref may signal this jump ball |
| #4104, aired 2002-06-06 | THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE $800: Perhaps out mending the wall, this American poet said, "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired" Frost |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | HUMPTY DUMPTY $200: Humpty Dumpty's perch a wall |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | JERUSALEM $800: Jews pray at the Wailing Wall, a part of the Second Temple renovated by this king & later destroyed King Herod |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $2000: NHL goalie nicknames include Nikolai Khabibulin's "Bulin Wall" & this Maple Leaf player's "Cujo" Curtis Joseph |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | LET A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRIA $200: Umbrian painter Perugino helped decorate this (he got to do a wall fresco; Michelangelo did the ceiling) the Sistine Chapel |
| #4077, aired 2002-04-30 | ODDS & ENDS $800: In 1989 Chris Gueffroy became the last person to die climbing this; he was trying to reach West Germany the Berlin Wall |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | LITERARY LUSHES $1600: A tipsy Fortunato is just another brick in Montresor's wall in this 1846 Poe short story "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $400: After 28 years, it came down on November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $800: It can be a plant with fragrant colorful flowers or a shy person unnoticed at a social event a wallflower |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $1200: Based in Budapest, this Swedish diplomat worked to protect Hungarian Jews during World War II Raoul Wallenberg |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $1600: In the 1980s this band was on "Mexican Radio" Wall of Voodoo |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $2000: He wrote & performed the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Fats) Waller |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | LEFTOVERS $800: This Roman emperor's wife Sabina wasn't put on his wall, she was put on a coin in 128 A.D. Hadrian |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | NURSERY RHYME AFTERMATHS $200: He settled with the insurance company when he fell apart after toppling from a neighbor's wall Humpty Dumpty |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | "ICK"Y WORDS $800: In 1980 Pink Floyd spent 4 weeks at the top of the charts with "Another" one of these "In The Wall" a Brick |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | "GREAT" HISTORY $200: This long defensive barrier was designated a World Heritage site in 1987 the Great Wall of China |
| #4031, aired 2002-02-25 | "FLYING" $1600: An external wall support often used in Gothic cathedrals a flying buttress |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $400: In a nursery rhyme, he tumbled from a wall with dire consequences Humpty-Dumpty |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | PEOPLE $600: The Wall Street Journal has called this "Nightline" host the "pre-eminent TV interviewer in America" Ted Koppel |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: Some 2,400 years ago, workers began building the Great Wall in this country China |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | "B" ON THE LOOKOUT $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew climbs a rock-climbing wall.) As a noun, it's a large rock; as a rock-climbing verb, it means to take an easy route close to the ground boulder |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $1200: It's also called Wanli Changcheng, meaning it's 10,000 li long the Great Wall of China |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: This Roman emperor known for his "Wall" rebuilt the Pantheon between 118 & 128 A.D. Hadrian |
| #3952, aired 2001-11-06 | SONG LYRICS $300: Donna Summer:
"Dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall" "Hot Stuff" |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew climbs the rock climbing wall at the California Science Center.) A climber who shouts "Give!" to his belayer is asking for more of this--give! line |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | IN THE MARCH 28, 2000 NEWSPAPER $400: In entertainment, he was free to go to "Wall Street" or "Spin City" for that matter; his probation ended Charlie Sheen |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | PARTNERS $600: On Wall Street:
Charles Merrill, Edmund Lynch, Edward Pierce, Charles Fenner &... Winthrop Smith |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | PAST TENSE $100: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall" sat |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | PICK "NIC" $600 (Daily Double): Similar in function to the Berlin Wall, the Green Line divides this Mediterranean island city Nicosia |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | CHINA PATTERNS $100: Ruins of this run from Bo Hai, a gulf of the Yellow Sea, to the Gansu province in the west The Great Wall |
| #3871, aired 2001-06-04 | WHAT A TOOL $300: Dovetail,
dry wall,
pull,
hack Saws |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $100: The New York Stock Exchange has been called the heart of this street (we can hear the ticker ticking) Wall Street |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $1000: This Robert Frost poem ends with the line "Good fences make good neighbors" "Mending Wall" |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | RADIO-LOGY $1000: This song by Wall of Voodoo says, "I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana, I'd take requests on the telephone" "Mexican Radio" |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | GAMING $500: Caesars Palace historians tell us this game with numbers marked on a ticket helped fund the Great Wall of China keno (lottery accepted) |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | DEM BONES $400: A bone called the vomer makes up much of this dividing wall in your nose Septum |
| #3816, aired 2001-03-19 | 5-LETTER WORDS $500: An organism's ecological role in the community, or a recess in the wall for a statue Niche |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $100: "A Killing on" this "Street: An Investment Mystery" is part financial advice & part whodunit Wall Street |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | WORD PUZZLES $300: Where some firing squads take place:
----------------------------------
UP THE
---------WALL Up against the wall |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400: In 1987 he declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Ronald Reagan |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | WHAT'S THE QUESTION? $200: In "Snow White", it follows the line, "Magic Mirror on the wall..." Who is the fairest of them all? |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILL IN THE SHAKESPEARE $400: "Once more unto" this, "dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!" the breach |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | "H"ISTORIC PEOPLE $500 (Daily Double): A cousin of Trajan, this Roman emperor built a 2nd century protective wall across Britain Hadrian |
| #3720, aired 2000-11-03 | CHEF SALAD $600: This celeb has published his "Own Cookbook" & "The Hole in the Wall Gang Cookbook" Paul Newman |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | PLACES TO LIVE $400: 2 residences with a common wall are called "semi" this Detached |
| #3702, aired 2000-10-10 | ____ & ____ $400: This brand whose name means "spotlessly clean" began as a glue-based wall cleaner Spic & Span |
| #3690, aired 2000-09-22 | IN A PIG'S EYE! $300: This light-sensitive tissue makes up the innermost layer of the wall of a pig's eyeball Retina |
| #3670, aired 2000-07-14 | CELEBS $300: In his act this magician has walked through the Great Wall of China & made the Statue of Liberty disappear David Copperfield |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES $1000: This 73-mile-long heritage site was built back in 122 A.D. to keep northern invaders out of England Hadrian's Wall |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | COMPLETES THE MAJOR PAPER $200: Louisville Courier-____,
Wall Street ____ Journal |
| #3646, aired 2000-06-12 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: Buried in 1953, this leader was moved in 1961 to a less prestigious grave along the Kremlin wall Josef Stalin |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | 1989 $100: On November 10, 1989 it was attacked with hammers, chisels, picks & graffiti Berlin Wall |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $400: (Hi, I'm Francesco Quinn of The Young And The Restless.) I played Rhah the drug king in this Oliver Stone film that won the 1986 Best Picture Oscar Platoon |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | CAPITOL RECORDS $200: In early 2000 this legendary band released "Is Anybody Out There? The Wall Live" Pink Floyd |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | WOMEN $1000: This "Backlash" author won a Pulitzer for a story she wrote while at the Wall Street Journal Susan Faludi |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: This "White Christmas" songwriter divided a European city until 1989 Irving Berlin Wall |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: Her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall", was published in 1948, the same year as her short story "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | SCIENCE $200: It can be fatty matter on the wall of an artery, or a buildup of matter on a tooth Plaque |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | NEWSPAPERS $100: In 1889 Charles Dow & Edward Jones founded this business daily The Wall Street Journal |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $500: Year featured in the episode of "Year By Year" seen here:
(Berlin Wall erected) 1961 |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | ENDS IN "I" $200: Writings on a wall Graffiti |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | MAKING A PROPHET $1000: The prophet Daniel understood "the writing on the wall" & told this king the bad news Belshazzar |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | 12-LETTER WORDS $300: A penetration of the enemy's wall, or a great scientific advance Breakthrough |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | NOVEL SETTINGS $200: Mildendo, the metropolis of this land Gulliver traveled to, is surrounded by a wall just 2 1/2 feet high Lilliput |
| #3543, aired 2000-01-19 | HOME $400: On Oct. 19, 1999 this home & life improvement guru made a bundle after her IPO hit Wall Street Martha Stewart |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $300: This producer famous for his "Wall of Sound" was inducted in 1989 Phil Spector |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | NAME THE MOVIE $200: 1937:
"Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $800: He won as producer for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" & as Best Actor for "Wall Street" 12 years later Michael Douglas |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: On October 3 Germans remember this 1990 event that many thought would take much longer Reunification |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "W" $1000: Place to "take stock"
(4,6) Wall Street |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | MOVIE QUOTES $100: 1987:
"Greed...is good!
Greed is right!
Greed works!" Wall Street |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | POWER DINING $500: Perhaps your caricature is on the wall in this Theatre District landmark at 234 West 44th St. Sardi's |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $600: The names of over 500,000 immigrants appear on a wall of honor at the Immigration Museum on this island Ellis Island |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | HOW POETIC! $600: Robert Frost's poem that begins, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" "Mending Wall" |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | 2000 CALENDARS $100: Amcal has a wall calendar featuring ads & slogans from this Atlanta-based soft drink company Coca-Cola |
| #3466, aired 1999-10-04 | "V"OCABULARY $300: Mirror, mirror on the wall, it's a dressing table for putting on makeup & all Vanity |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $300: The trumpets sounded, Joshua's people shouted & this city's "wall fell down flat" Jericho |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: He received his famous nickname when General Bee told his men to look at him "standing like a stone wall" Stonewall Jackson |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THAT'S "GREAT" $200: A small part of its 4,000-mile link is seen here Great Wall of China |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | SOCIAL STUDIES $100: 3 of the 6 biggest U.S. newspapers are this city's Wall Street Journal, Daily News & the Times New York City |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | REALLY GRIMM FAIRY TALES $200: Mirror, mirror on the wall, she's the fairest of them all (so the Queen tries to poison her) Snow White |
| #3435, aired 1999-07-09 | EGAD! MORE POET-TREE! $600: "My apple tree will never get across and eat the cones under his pines", he wrote in "Mending Wall" Robert Frost |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $400: Hadrian's Wall,
the Wailing Wall,
the Berlin Wall the Wailing Wall |
| #3407, aired 1999-06-01 | IN CHINA $200: The initial phase of this large barrier along the frontier was completed around 204 B.C. Great Wall of China |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | DORIS' DAY $100: Each morning Doris logs onto wsj.com, the interactive edition of this newspaper, to check her stocks The Wall Street Journal |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: This ancient north African city-state was protected by a high wall about 23 miles in length Carthage |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | FUTILE PHRASES $400: If your dream is truly impossible, you're just beating this against the wall Your head |
| #3382, aired 1999-04-27 | IVAN $800: In a 1985 book he called arbitrage "Wall Street's best kept money-making secret" Ivan Boesky |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Jerusalem temple site where you can buy a copy of a leading financial newspaper Wailing Wall Street Journal |
| #3378, aired 1999-04-21 | JAI ALAI $200: The cancha or walled court of jai alai can have no more than this many walls 3 |
| #3376, aired 1999-04-19 | WHAT "A" COUNTRY! $200: This country is planting a "green wall" to try to stop the encroachment of the Sahara Algeria |
| #3364, aired 1999-04-01 | LITERATURE $400: Poet who wrote, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out" Robert Frost |
| #3358, aired 1999-03-24 | BRITISH BANDS & SINGERS $400: In 1990 Roger Waters of this group gave a performance of "The Wall" at the former site of the Berlin Wall Pink Floyd |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX $200: A fertilized egg embeds itself in the wall of this organ, also called the womb Uterus |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | INTERIORS $1000: A synonym for "feast" is found in the name of this upholstered bench usually placed along a wall banquette |
| #3338, aired 1999-02-24 | CLIMB IT $200: "El Cap" is what climbers call this over 3,000-foot wall of rock in Yosemite El Capitan |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | "MASTER"s $300: Tom Wolfe used the name of these toy characters to describe Wall Street hotshots "Masters Of The Universe" |
| #3334, aired 1999-02-18 | NAME THE POET $1000: "That's my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive. I call that piece a wonder, now" Robert Browning |
| #3332, aired 1999-02-16 | THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS $300: In 1954 a Syrian Orthodox bishop sold 4 scrolls through an ad in this financial daily paper The Wall Street Journal |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | WHAT A YEAR! $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of General Hospital.) In this year, ABC gave "G.H." a shot on TV, "He's So Fine" shot up to No. 1 & JFK visited the Berlin Wall 1963 |
| #3314, aired 1999-01-21 | NAME THE ROCKERS $200: "Another Brick In The Wall" Pink Floyd |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | IT'S JASON'S BAR MITZVAH $500: Jason settled for his parents' temple but wanted to celebrate at this site on the Temple Mount the Wailing Wall (or Western Wall) |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | BLASTS FROM THE PAST $500: Remants of this historic British fortification are seen here: Hadrian's Wall |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY... $800: You might be just "banging your head against the wall" when you "flog a dead" one of these Horse |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | NAME THE YEAR $200: It all began crashing down in this year (the Berlin Wall) 1989 |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | LIZARDS $300: This noisy lizard's name sounds like the slimy Michael Douglas character in the movie "Wall Street" a gecko |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | "PARKER" HOUSE $1000: He directed vibrant films like "Midnight Express", "Pink Floyd -- The Wall" & "Evita" Alan Parker |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $300: The Lord told Ahab, "The dogs shall eat" her "by the wall of Jezreel" Jezebel |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $100: To go next to your piece of the Berlin Wall, you can buy a lump of coal from this ship that sank in 1912 Titanic |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | THE STAND $100: Most newspaper stands carry this financial daily paper published by Dow Jones & Co. Inc. the Wall Street Journal |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | ARCHITECT TALK $1000: This word for a projecting feature atop a wall is from the Italian for "crow", which might perch there cornice |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | CNN $600: City where the footage seen here was shot in 1989: Berlin |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | ALEXANDER HAMILTON $600: As a NYC lawyer in the 1780s, Hamilton lived on this street associated with the stock market Wall Street |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | BIBLICAL GUYS $200: Belshazzar's wise men couldn't explain the handwriting on the wall, but he could Daniel |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | WALL PAINTERS $200: This "dripper", who painted on the floor, was a student of Missouri muralist Thomas Hart Benton Jackson Pollock |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | WALL PAINTERS $400: At age 4 in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was already drawing on the walls Diego Rivera |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | WALL PAINTERS $600: In 1892 the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago hired this woman impressionist to paint a mural Mary Cassatt |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | WALL PAINTERS $800: This "Third of May" artist covered the walls of his country house in grotesque paintings Francisco Goya |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | WALL PAINTERS $1,100 (Daily Double): Stuart Davis' mural for this room in Rockefeller Center was titled "Mural (Men Without Women)" The men's room (bathroom) |
| #3183, aired 1998-06-03 | STREET SMARTS $200: It's synonymous with the stock market Wall Street |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WE GO $300: On Grandma's wall there's a picture of this president from his Navy days on a PT boat John F. Kennedy |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | FEELING LUCKY? $400: Pitch one of these for points or hang one on the wall with the points up for luck Horseshoe |
