| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | PLUMBING $1200: The Energy Dept. lauds this type of water heater, aka "instantaneous", as it's more energy efficient than the storage kind a tankless water heater |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | PLUMBING $1600: This rhyming device helps suck water from basements or crawl spaces a sump pump |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $2000: India, the leading milk producer in the world, gets almost half of it from this beast not considered cattle a water buffalo |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $400: Warily circling as hunters freeze & swear, the pintail type of this water bird is one of the most difficult to lure with a decoy a duck |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $800: George Pataki's governorship 1995-2007 included environmental protection for this body of water, shared with Connecticut Long Island Sound |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT $1200: After a famous memoir, this poet found success with her collection "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" Maya Angelou |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $800: Varna & Burgas are leading Bulgarian ports on the western coast of this body of water the Black Sea |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $200: Naturally, the dark blue background of NATO's flag represents this body of water the Atlantic Ocean |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: This capital founded by Norseman Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 is heated by water piped in from nearby hot springs Reykjavik |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $400: Once a cask of drinking water on a ship's deck, today it refers to rumors or gossip scuttlebutt |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Lake Vänern, this Scandinavian country's largest lake, is part of the Gota Canal system Sweden |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Major ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Brest, France the Bay of Biscay |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | FILM COMPOSERS $1200: This Australian bard is also a cinematic composer with scores for "Blonde" & "Hell or High Water" (Nick) Cave |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Serpent's Mouth is a channel separating this island's southwestern coast from Venezuela Trinidad |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Winter temperatures along this 4-letter Siberian river that flows through Yakutsk can reach the 80s below zero the Lena |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This canal completed in 1893 divides the Peloponnese Peninsula from mainland Greece Corinth |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $1000: The title of this 2023 bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a theater company, not a body of water Tom Lake |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | AUTO PARTS 101 $600: The belt that drives your alternator, water pump & other important components is known by this snaky adjective serpentine |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $2000: Regular mail across the continent began with this stage line & antonymically communication went under water via the transatlantic cable the Overland Stage |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE LOCALS $2000: You'll be in hot water if you can't name this Mexican state where Hidrocálidos live Aguascalientes |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS $400: A major advantage of using hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity is that their only byproducts are heat & this water (water vapor) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FOOD & DRINK $400: A caffè Americano is this dark strong coffee diluted with hot water espresso |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SKY & SEA $1200: At the beach, beware of riptides, rip currents & this, which despite its name won't drag you offshore into deep water the undertow |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $1600: The New Horizons spacecraft discovered that the surface of this largest moon of Pluto was mostly dirty water ice Charon |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | NATURE $1600: Found in bodies of water & other moist environments, these single-celled algae have cell walls made of silica diatoms |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $600: As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto "Wine" to describe a scandal involving fake Bordeaux gate |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $400: This sport got ugly in 1956 as recently invaded Hungary beat the USSR in the "Blood in the Water" match water polo |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $800: The pastime of skimming flat stones across calm water also has this double avian name ducks & drakes |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $800: The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water" Nairobi |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country Nicaragua |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | WHERE IS THAT? $1600: 8 versions of Monet's "Water Lilies": this museum in Paris' Tuileries gardens the Orangerie |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED $1200: "Fire in the sky"! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig, Deep Purple wrote this Top 5 hit with a killer lick "Smoke On The Water" |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This strait narrows to about 50 miles between Asia & North America the Bering |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Called Östersjön in Swedish, this sea separates Scandinavia from the rest of Europe the Baltic |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas Argentina |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This deepest lake in Africa has a name that may come from Swahili words for "Sail" & "wilderness" Lake Tanganyika |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $6,800 (Daily Double): Extending for about 135 miles, the Yucatan Channel links these 2 smaller-than-an-ocean bodies of water the Gulf of Mexico & the Caribbean Sea |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $200: The New Testament's I Timothy says, "Drink no longer water, but use a little" of this "for thy stomach's sake" wine |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | CHEMISTRY TEST $200: The process of photosynthesis converts water & carbon dioxide into organic compounds & this gas oxygen |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE AIR THAT I BREATHE $1200: The main gas from an erupting volcano is this 2-word one that also forms clouds, but there's also less benign sulfur dioxide water vapor |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE $800: To bring in water from distant sources, the Romans were great builders of these structures, partly from the Latin for "water" aqueducts |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1200: This adjective can refer to feeling ill due to a lack of liquids, or food that's been preserved by having its water removed dehydrated |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | NUMERICALLY PREFIXED $400: Longer word for the temperature scale with 100 as the boiling point of water centigrade |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | THE "ICK" $1000: In "Oil!", Upton Sinclair writes, "Water and oil would spout up over the top of" this framework, "staining it... black" derrick |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AROUND THE ATLANTIC $400: 20 degrees east longitude is the arbitrarily chosen boundary between the Atlantic & this body of water the Indian Ocean |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $800: This Grumman & amphibious plane, essential to the defenders of Bataan, is not named for an amphibian, but for a water bird the Duck |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1600: 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 the English Channel |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $1000: Europe's longest river, the Volga flows more than 2,000 miles south into this large inland body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: On the water, it's about 1.15 miles per hour a knot |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | OCCUPATIONS $400: Plumbers take their job name from plumbum, this element in Latin & an early material for making water pipes lead |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $800: It's any of several types of plants including a water lily; it's also a yoga position lotus |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $1000: 100° spring water is no problem for the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish in this morbid Western U.S. national park Death Valley |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | AVIATION PIONEERS $400: John Moisant made the first flight across this body of water carrying a passenger & his cat, soon renamed Paris-London the English Channel |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $600: Campaigns called Take Back the Tap, aiming to reduce Americans' passion for this, say it's not specially safe & bad for the planet bottled water |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $200: This carbonated water is flavored with quinine tonic |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: You can enter this body of water via the Strait of Magellan or the Strait of Malacca the Pacific Ocean |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | THE FIST & THE FURIOUS MOVIES $400: Bob Barker throws 8 solid left jabs before putting this title golfer in the water hazard with a big right Happy Gilmore |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | ALLITERATIVE TERMS $1200: Enjoy your view of Cologne as we fly over this body of water the Rhine River |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $600: Finally, I've been holding it in forever; it's what the WC stands for on this port-a-potty water closet |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | DESERT FLORA & FAUNA $1200: This spiny shrub useful for aromatic firewood has been called the "devil with roots"; it hogs water, killing off nearby plants mesquite |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $400: This, used to filter food from water by certain whales, is a keratinized structure, much like hair or nails baleen |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $400: Daytona Beach,
Florida:
this ocean the Atlantic |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $800: Easton,
Maryland the Chesapeake Bay |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1200: Montreal,
Quebec the St. Lawrence River |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1600: Pierre,
South Dakota the Missouri |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $2000: Shelburne,
Vermont Lake Champlain |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $1000: Placed neck-deep in water that would recede as he tried to quench his thirst, this king gave his name to a word meaning tease Tantalus |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | DISASTER $400: BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered an explosion in 2010, resulting in a massive oil spill in this body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $1200: With information it means "to shorten"; in science, it's what happens when vapor turns into water condense |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $1600: This verb can be defined as extinguishing a flame or dipping someone in water douse |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $2000: This word for totally submerged has a huge body of water in the middle of it engulfed |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $600: A romance sparks between Ember, who is flamin' hot, & a guy named Wade, a drip (of water), in this 2023 Pixar film Elemental |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | PRESIDENTIAL DOGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Portie for short, it's the 3-word breed of the Obamas' beloved Sunny the Portuguese Water Dog |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | THE OCEAN $4,000 (Daily Double): A halocline is a zone of ocean water in which this measurement changes rapidly with depth salinity |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $400: This city of "Hamlet" is on the northeast tip of a Danish island just a few miles across the water from Sweden Elsinore |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $200: Gale Crater, found to have evidence of past water Mars |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $800: Next time you prep deviled eggs in Tibet, remember they'll cook slower because this drops 1 degree F. for every 550' above sea level water's boiling point |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $200: Around Tulum, visit the water-filled sinkholes called cenotes & explore the pre-Columbian ruins of this people the Mayans |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $600: This type of milk has had its water content reduced by 60%, giving a creamy taste when used in desserts evaporated milk |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CHICAGO $200: A big motorboat dyes the Chicago River & a smaller one churns the water to get it green in about 45 minutes to celebrate this annual event St. Patrick's Day |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Opened to Londoners in 2000, the Millennium Pedestrian Bridge is one of the newer ones to cross over this river the Thames |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Hindus consider it the most sacred river in India the Ganges |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Manama & Bushehr are on this body that was at the center of fighting in 1991 & again in the 2000s the Persian Gulf |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: More than 300 rivers & streams flow into this deep Russian lake, but only one flows out--the Angara Lake Baikal |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | NEW TO THE OED $2000: From meteorology, it's a long, narrow current of water-soaked air moving horizontally above the Earth an atmospheric river |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Passamaquoddy Bay between Maine & New Brunswick, Canada is an inlet of this bay famous for its high tides the Bay of Fundy |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $4,800 (Daily Double): Legend says the woman with this nickname crucially carried water at the Battle of Monmouth Molly Pitcher |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $400: It's the controlled application of water for agricultural purposes through manmade systems irrigation |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $800: This adjective for water safe to consume is from the Latin for "drink" potable |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $1200: Any smaller river or branch that's a feeder of a larger river or stream a tributary |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $1600: Using pressure & a membrane to remove particulates from seawater is called reverse osmosis, one method of this process desalinization |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $2000: Channels called these ways take water around a dam when the reservoir is full spillways |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $400: After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana Venice |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $600: For telling the truth about a town's contaminated water supply in an Ibsen play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann becomes this title foe An Enemy of the People |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $800: The Zuiderzee Flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history Amsterdam |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $1200: In 1887, 1931 & 1938 northern China was devastated by flooding of the Huang He, this colorful river Yellow |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $1600: A dam collapse in this state led to the deadly 1889 Johnstown Flood Pennsylvania |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SCIENCE $1000: When boiling water, energy absorbed that escapes as vapor is this type of heat, from Latin latere, "to hide" latent |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | AD-JECTIVES $2000: It's applied to juicy steaks or, botanically, to cacti & other water-retaining plants succulent |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HYDROLOGY $400: A structure such as the Pont du Gard, designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity an aqueduct |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HYDROLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): The gradual movement of water through porous openings in rock or soil, it's also a way to make coffee percolate (percolation) |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $400: 373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientist (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER $600: You're a Gemini? An astrologer might suggest a lover born under this water bearer sign for a really deep connection Aquarius |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $200: Careful! This washing machine cycle using cold water and low spin speed is suggested for lingerie & silk neckties delicate |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A GREEN THUMB $800: These flowers with a name partly from Greek for "water" can be blue or pink, depending on the acidity of the soil hydrangeas |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $800: As a cloth is wrung out in space, check the results of this property that makes water act like a stretched membrane surface tension |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | ISLANDS & PENINSULAS $3,000 (Daily Double): Vietnam & China both claim the Paracel islands, which include Rocky Island & Woody Island, in this body of water the South China Sea |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHAT THE "EFF"?! $200: A designation for certain washing machines designed to save water & energy, "HE" stands for "high" this efficiency |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | ALONG FOR THE RIDE $1500: In the tourist city of Hoi An, you can take a ride on a water buffalo; it's considered the symbol of this Asian country Vietnam |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $1600: Made from gypsum, this white powder mixed with water is used in sculpture to make molds & casts plaster of Paris |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 2B OR NOT 2B $800: A fun activity in "hot" water / a fun activity in fast-running rivers tubbing & tubing |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This lubricant's name means "Water Displacement, 40th formula" WD-40 |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $600: A son of Uranus, this Greek god was the personification of the water that surrounded the world Oceanus |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $400: Medics were dispatched to a local hillside where a man sustained head injuries fetching water with a female companion "Jack and Jill" |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | WHERE'S THAT? $600: From 1845 to 1847, Henry David Thoreau lived by this body of water Walden Pond |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | TO THE EXOPLANETS! $400: NASA has found Earthlike planets within a "habitable zone"--the area in a star system where this could exist in liquid form water |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | KISS MY GRITS! $1000: This "colorful" southern gravy is made from ham drippings, hot coffee & water red-eye (red gravy) |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | A FISH CALLED... $400: The "walking" type of this fish, the Clarias batrachus, can travel across land in search of water the walking catfish |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Under the Brooklyn Bridge the East River |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Bay Bridge in Maryland:
This bay the Chesapeake |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: Under the Petofi Bridge in Budapest:
This river the Danube |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Beneath the Rialto Bridge in Venice:
This busy waterway the Grand Canal |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1,000 (Daily Double): Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon:
This River the Tagus |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | THE QURAN $1500: One passage says that paradise flows with rivers of water, milk, honey, and this fermented libation, forbidden on earth wine |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $1200: The soft ones are made from high-water-content polymers like hydroxyethyl-methacrylate contact lenses |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | "L" ON EARTH $400: This state's largest inland body of water is the brackish Lake Pontchartrain Louisiana |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $900: Henry David Thoreau pondered why a bucket of water becomes this foul word "but frozen remains sweet forever" putrid |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $5,000 (Daily Double): From Latin for "barely connected", this solid white substance is water-insoluble & can precede "oil" paraffin |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | FOOD FOR THOUGHT $800: Deep-water fish like wild salmon are rich in omega-3 these, essential to brain function fatty acids |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $800: With more than 300 million including water buffalo, this nation leads the world in cattle & many there hold them sacred India |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALSO AN ANIMAL SOUND $400: This word follows Chesapeake, Hudson and Guantanamo in the names of bodies of water bay |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | THE HOME SPA $200: Cleopatra is said to have used rejuvenating products from this saline body of water in which the Jordan ends the Dead Sea |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | SCOTLAND $200: Built in the 13th century, Urquhart Castle is found on the shore of this--wait, did you guys see something in the water? Loch Ness |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | CHINESE FOOD $600: Sometimes called fensi, this thin pasta is made from mung beans & becomes transparent when soaked in water & cooked glass (cellophane) noodles |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $200: A water watchdog:
FEUDAL RIG a lifeguard |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | RESTAURANT HIJINKS $600: "Mine!" In 2018 an Aussie restaurant owner gave customers water pistols to keep these marine birds away at meals seagulls |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | MONET MONET $1600: Nice yard work, Claude! In Giverny, Monet created a pond of these flowering plants that inspired his last major set of paintings water lilies |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $400: Hey, Kenya dig it? / Started as a water hole / 4 million now there Nairobi |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The massive Lower Usuma Dam was completed in 1990 to bring drinking water to Abuja, about to become this nation's new capital Nigeria |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THE OED DESCRIBES THE ANIMAL $400: Of the carp family, "native to China... commonly kept in ponds, cold-water tanks, or... glass globes" goldfish |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GEOLOGY $800: This process is the weathering of particles as they're worn away & moved by wind or water erosion |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GEOLOGY $1200: Seen here, deposits at Badwater Basin of what is mostly this mineral leave polygon-shaped designs due to water evaporation salt (sodium chloride) |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | THE "LL" YOU SAY $1600: It's an artwork that immerses the viewer in an environment, such as Damien Hirst's "Earth, Air, Fire, Water" an installation |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $200: b.p.:
For water it's 212 degrees Fahrenheit boiling point |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | SHARK! $600: Whitetip & blacktip are species of these sharks named for the shallow-water structures where they live & hunt reefs |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLIGHTSEEING ACROSS AMERICA $800: It's a chilly day in Chi-Town; look at all the ice on this body of water Lake Michigan |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | I'VE GOT YOUR ATOMIC NUMBER $800: 19:
Coconut water has plenty of it, as does the Cavendish potassium |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $400: A small flowing body of water contains this, 500 sheets of paper a ream |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL $1600: Sebastian Cabot gave this body of water between Uruguay & Argentina its silvery name in the early 16th century the Rio de la Plata |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: This Swede initially had 0 degrees as the boiling point of water & 100 degrees for the melting point of snow on his temperature scale Celsius |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $400: In this Swiss city for Red Cross meetings check out the Jet d'Eau; it can shoot 7 tons of water about 450 feet high Geneva |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $2000: The world's longest bridge fountain at 3,740 feet, Seoul's Moonlight Rainbow shoots water recycled from this river below the Han |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GIMME 5 $1600: Roughly triangular & surrounded by water, it's the westernmost of New York City's 5 boroughs Staten Island |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | "AX" MARKS THE SPOT $2000: This salamander of Mexico takes its name from the Nahuatl for "water monster" an axolotl |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | WITH THIS RING $1600: A tradition began in 1000 A.D. when the leader in this Venetian post "wed" his city-state to the sea by tossing a ring into the water the Doge |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | A "MID" CATEGORY $400: It describes air heavy with water vapor humid |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | STRAIT UP $3,000 (Daily Double): Head strait up from Calais & you'll be in the body of water called this strait the Strait of Dover |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | INTERNAL ORGANS (& OTHER BODY PARTS) $200: To leap down into water; you "take" it when you make a quick decision a plunge |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CHEMISTRY $400: Water hardness is determined by the amount of minerals it contains, mostly carbonates of magnesium & this element calcium |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | CANNERY $600: A high-pressure machine is called this type of retort since it cooks fish in the cans with water vapor steam |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | WHAT'S ALL THIS? $2000: 5 sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" & "What the Thunder Said" "The Waste Land" |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $200: Rain water & bad bowling attempts end up in this the gutter |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | AVIATION $400: Taking off from Dover, in 1912 Harriet Quimby became the first woman to pilot a plane across this body of water the English Channel |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | AVIATION $600: This term for a small plane used for short connecting flights sounds like it flies over small pools of water a puddle jumper |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $1000: From Spanish, it's a water-carved gully found primarily in the U.S. Southwest an arroyo |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1200: Not jettisoned overboard on purpose, this term refers to any wreckage on the water's surface lost from a boat flotsam |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | SCIENTIFIC DEVICES & INSTRUMENTS $1200: Seen here is a Pelton wheel, an impulse type of this design for water a turbine |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $400: An inlet of the Caribbean Sea, this lake is actually a lagoon & considered by some to be South America's largest natural lake Maracaibo |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Alan Jackson showed off his waterskiing talents in the video for his song named for this river the Chattahoochee |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American lake from Latin for "truth" & "head" Lake Itasca (in Minnesota) |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Mentioned in the Bible, the King's Highway joined Syria to this gulf at the north of the Red Sea Gulf of Aqaba |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: It flows 2,300 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean the Ob River |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $1600: Made into a tasty 1992 film, it's Laura Esquivel's "Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies" Like Water for Chocolate |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GET "EM"! $2000: A body of water that juts into land, or a window recess shaped like one an embayment |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEERS $800: Lion Beer Australia says its beers are made from only 4 core ingredients--water, barley, malt & these hops |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $800: This Siberian lake contains about 20% of all the world's unfrozen fresh water Lake Baikal |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $400: Brothers Peter & Andrew were casting a net into this body of water when Jesus said, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" the Sea of Galilee |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $800: In 1809 John Molson linked Quebec & this city by water with the first Canadian steamboat Montreal |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | UNGULATES $1600: Arni is another word for this ungulate with a liquid in its 2-word name, tipping--& possibly breaking--the scales at over 2,500 pounds a water buffalo |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This "colorful" body of water touches the shores of Egypt & Eritrea the Red Sea |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $200: A desert bull may walk 50 miles a day to find food & water; he's guided by this, an elephant's proverbial strength memory |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | ____ & ____ $400: An idiom says that 2 people who don't get along "mix like" this pair of liquids oil & water |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | HOROSCOPES $600: It sounds like a water sign, but it's an air sign & those born under it, such as Abraham Lincoln, are intellectual & highly social Aquarius |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2000: The Hudson Strait & the Fury & Hecla Strait are bodies of water between this large island & the Canadian mainland Baffin Island |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $200: The vernal equinox now lies in this zodiac constellation Pisces |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $400: On encountering Tower Bridge, this new coaching hire says, "I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" Ted Lasso |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $400: "Mega size mega flavor", boasts the megabites version of this Pepperidge Farms snack cracker Goldfish |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $800: Lily Collins stars as this title Chicago marketing exec & by the way, she doesn't speak a lick of French Emily in Paris |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $800: In the alliterative Mattel game called this "Panic", players must avoid a feeding frenzy to claim victory Piranha Panic |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $1000: As Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (Salmon P.) Chase |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1200: On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years Fry |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1600: In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world Maisie Williams |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $2000: After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be" Jed Clampett |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $3,400 (Daily Double): They're the southernmost Major League baseball team the (Miami) Marlins |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | QUEEN VICTORIA GEOGRAPHY $400: Africa's Lake Victoria is home to a plethora of wildlife, including these "water horses" a hippopotamus |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $1600: Must be something in the water--this Olympian swimmer with 10 medals, including 7 gold, hails from Maryland like Michael Phelps Ledecky |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This alliterative Swiss body of water is also known as Lac des Quatre Cantons Lake Lucerne |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | "ODD"s & "END"s $1600: Absolutely soaked with water sodden |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $400: It's the liquid you "throw" on someone's plans or hopes to discourage them cold water |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: This water-borne epidemic disease killed Peter Tchaikovsky's mother & probably Peter himself cholera |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | A BABY $200: parents.com recommends using a washcloth & warm water vs. wipes to avoid baby getting this "rash" diaper rash |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $600: Outside, this tapered spike is formed by solid water; inside, one can be found on a Christmas tree an icicle |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | DISEASES $1600: Avril Lavigne's song "Head Above Water" & Meghan O'Rourke's book "The Invisible Kingdom" are by sufferers of this tick-borne disease Lyme disease |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $400: Eschewing the traditional barrel, skydivers began leaping from 14,000 feet over this international border landmark in 2021 Niagara Falls |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | BLOSSOM $400: Seen here, the Red Flare water this blooms at night as it floats on ponds a lily |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $800: Nine stone posts mark the footprint of Thoreau's 1840s cabin at this body of water Walden Pond |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $1200: Construction of this seaway to the Atlantic began in 1954 & used enough cement to build a 1,000-mile-long highway the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $2000: The name of this swamp on the Florida-Georgia line is said to derive from an indigenous word for "trembling earth" Okefenokee |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $4,200 (Daily Double): Switzerland claims about 134 square miles of this Alpine lake; France, about 90 Lake Geneva |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | SEA HERE $2000: More properly a lake, this Central Asian sea has shrunk dramatically, due to diversion of its water for irrigation the Aral Sea |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $200: This big-billed coastal native is featured on the flag of Louisiana a pelican |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | THAT'S D-MINUS WORK $400: The software that signals a printer leaves the letter D behind & becomes a body of water driver & river |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | IN THE SPORT $400: Best ball,
casual water,
closed face &--
the absolute worst--shank golf |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $400: Once a symbol of the Great Northern Wilderness, it's now happy in parks & municipal ponds a Canada goose |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $600: Also the name of a Marine Corps aircraft, this raptor is alternately known as a fish eagle an osprey |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | THAT'S D-MINUS WORK $800: Crushed up paper into a ball loses a D & means walked through water up to the knees wadded & waded |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $800: This species of African wading birds seen here shares its name with a similar-looking shark a hammerhead |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $1000: This bird of the genus Actitis gets its name from running along seashores making short, high-pitched noises the sandpiper |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $600: You can make this "milk" with a blender, water & a handful of nuts, or buy it from Silk or Blue Diamond almond milk |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE ELEMENTS $1200: Also used in medicine, this lightest of all metallic elements can float on water lithium |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $200: In the acronym HOMES, it's the "H" Huron |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $600: You'll find the United Arab Emirates at the south end of this body of water the Persian Gulf |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Under an agreement first drawn up in 1903, the U.S. maintains a strategically important naval base on this Cuban bay Guantanamo |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: In ancient times the Dardanelles Strait was called this & was associated with the story of Hero & Leander the Hellespont |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1,800 (Daily Double): Differing by a letter, these 2 rivers both rise in Switzerland; one is about 830 miles long & the other, more than 500 the Rhône & Rhine |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MYTH CONGENIALITY $1600: Frigga got an oath from fire, water, iron, you name it, to not hurt her son, this Norse god of light, but things got hairy anyway Balder |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SCIENCE $6,400 (Daily Double): Water boiling & turning into steam is an example of an isobaric process, meaning this remains constant pressure |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | THE CLASS MENAGERIE $400: For their somewhat ursine looks, the microscopic members of the class Eutardigrada are called water these bears |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LANDMARKS $800: Some 275 separate waterfalls form this spectacular South American landmark whose name means "great water" Iguazú Falls |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $1000: Included in a set of stamps celebrating American architecture was this Pennsylvania house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOTANY $1600: "X" is for this tissue in plants that provides support & moves water xylem |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $1200: Like coral reefs in tropical water, in northern seas the areas called these forests are home & refuge to a diverse array of life kelp forests |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY $800: Deuterium is also known as heavy this element hydrogen |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $400: Ike & Tina Turner were "rollin' on the river" with this song "Proud Mary" |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $800: Carly Simon wrote "Let The River Run" for this film starring Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford Working Girl |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $1200: This composer's "Water Music" from 1717 is heard here
[Orchestra plays Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major] Handel |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $1600: Linda Ronstadt sang of "going back someday" to this colorful body of water "Blue Bayou" |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $2000: This watery Henry Mancini composition was a huge hit for Andy Williams "Moon River" |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | OVERLAPS $1600: U.S. automobile racing organization that now includes the body of water where Jamaica is found NASCARibbean |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | 3.7 TRILLION FISH IN THE OCEAN $400: To live in frigid waters, the icefish has blood glycoproteins that function as this, also a product made by Valvoline antifreeze |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN $2000: The 2,000-mile Indus River flows from the Himalayas through Pakistan and pours into this sea, a water flow twice that of the Nile the Arabian Sea |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | 3 LETTERS, 2 MEANINGS $5,000 (Daily Double): A body of water, or a deep, drawn-out howl a bay |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | PURE BREAD $200: This word refers to both a type of bread & the starter used to make it, which is mostly flour & water sourdough |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | THE COLORS OF SCIENCE $400: Untreated wastewater from domestic uses like showers & sinks (but not toilets) is classed as this gray water |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $1600: I was miffed when the National Trust refused to list my gran's cottage in this district known for water & poets the Lake District |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | BREWS N' BOOZE $2,600 (Daily Double): Beer's 4 main ingredients are malt, yeast, water & these cones of a plant that help the drink keep its foamy head hops |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE MOVIES $200: "The Way of Water" is the subtitle of the long-awaited sequel to this James Cameron film set on Pandora Avatar |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | WE'VE GOT CHEMISTRY $600: Here's the diagram for the chemical structure of this substance water |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | A TRIP TO THE ISLANDS $800: An island called the Phantom Ship rises from the water inside a volcanic caldera in this Oregon national park Crater Lake |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN SELF-NAMES $1200: The Winnebago of this state replaced that name, referring to "stinking water", with Ho-Chunk, "people of the big voice" Wisconsin |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: A water pipe with a bowl & a flexible tube used for smoking a hookah |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | 6-LETTER VERBS $200: There are 3 Es in this verb meaning to come into view or rise from water emerge |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | YOUR ELEMENTAL HIT PARADE $800: Not great for use in water pipes, this element joins the parade at No. 82 lead |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AROUND ASIA $4,400 (Daily Double): The largest inland body of water in the world, it's named for an ancient people of Transcaucasia the Caspian Sea |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $400: On Dec. 16, 1773 this body of water sipped on 342 chests of tea formerly belonging to the British East India Company Boston Harbor |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1200: Light & water conditions cause amazing effects on Colombia's Caño Cristales River, called the "liquid" this 7-letter word rainbow |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Typhon, a monster with 100 heads, was the father of these 2 monsters:
a 9-headed water snake & 3-headed hellhound the Hydra & Cerberus |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $800: This phrase meaning someone is vulnerable to attack refers to something sharks are attracted to blood in the water |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1600: He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy" Jacques Cousteau |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | CHEMISTRY $800: A cup of instant coffee is a solution & adding water is this process, the opposite of concentration dilution |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $600: This piscine phrase describes someone lost in a new environment a fish out of water |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | OUTBREAKS $800: A 19th century pandemic of this water-borne disease began in the delta region of the Ganges River cholera |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $1600: This body of water, the lowest point on Earth, is part of a rift valley formed by lowering of the Earth's crust, not by erosion the Dead Sea |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: The title character in Antonin Dvořák's opera "Rusalka" is one of these water-dwelling creatures a nymph |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | "OO", BOOZE! $800: This premium vodka brand is made from French winter wheat & spring water Grey Goose |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | FIZZ-ICS $200: The competition was green with envy in 1908 when this brand of water won the Grand Prix des eaux minérales vente de l'année Perrier |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | FIZZ-ICS $800: FYI, the French pronunciation ends with "wah"; this sparkling water brand founded in Wisconsin, "oy" LaCroix |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | DOCTOR-ING UP LITERATURE $1000: This Elizabethan playwright's Dr. Faustus asks for his soul to turn into water & "fall into the ocean, ne'er to be found"; no deal Marlowe |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | OUR FLAG MEANS... $400: The white band on Nicaragua's flag represents the land; the 2 blue bands represent these bodies of water it borders the Caribbean & Pacific |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SIMPLY GORGES $1600: Water roars down 270 feet through Devil's Gorge, the highest of the cataracts that make up this spot on the Brazil-Argentina border Iguazú |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | SPORTS $200: It was said, "2/3 of the earth is covered by water, the other third is covered by Garry Maddox", specialist at this MLB position center field |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $400: In the first map of the new U.S.A. by an American, Pennsylvania doesn't have access to this lake which it got in a 1792 purchase Lake Erie |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Formed in Chihuahua, the Fuerte River of Mexico flows southwestward 180 miles into this gulf the Gulf of California |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This strait west of Malaysia is the shortest sea route from India to China the Strait of Malacca |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The Komandorski Islands are part of a 1,200-mile arc separating this sea from the Pacific Ocean to the south the Bering Sea |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The island nation of Sao Tome & Principe is found in this gulf near the equator the Gulf of Guinea |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM $1500: Along this country, the west edge of Scandinavia, the Gulf Stream carries 10 sverdrups of water--that's right, 10 sverdrups Norway |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | IN THAT NOVEL $800: A boy named for a French swimming pool spends 227 days on a different body of water Life of Pi |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN $300: The title number in "Singin' in the Rain" was shot in summer in Culver City when water was in high demand & this star was ill Gene Kelly |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | SOUTH AMERICA $600: This huge body of water by Venezuela's northwest coast is called an estuarine lake, as it mingles with the Caribbean Lake Maracaibo |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $400: In the first line of the novel "Jaws", it's how "The great fish moved... through the night water" silently |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE $300: The Tower of London had one of these defensive fortifications, originally filled with water from the Thames a moat |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1500: Don't fuggedabout this 16-mile-long body of water separating Brooklyn & Manhattan; Rikers Island is there the East River |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $1200: This narrow passage connects 2 big bodies of water a strait |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE SECOND CHAPTER $8,000 (Daily Double): Ralph says, "We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around" Lord of the Flies |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | WHY ARE MY PANTS WET? $400: This body of stored water, from French for "storehouse" , was starting to flood as I jogged past it a reservoir |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | WHY ARE MY PANTS WET? $800: I knelt next to one of these teeming-with-life small basins of water left by the receding ocean a tide pool |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | WHY ARE MY PANTS WET? $1200: From walking with my friend Ti-Maurice along 106-mile Lafourche, one of these slow-moving bodies of water a bayou |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $200: Captain Hook made prisoners do this, involving a board leading over the water; real-life pirates, not so much walk the plank |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | STEP UP TO THE PLATE $800: As tectonic plates collide, a plate can snap up, causing an earthquake; that force transfers to the water, creating one of these a tsunami |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $1600: Let's say hi to this tree of life that stores water & gives fruit in arid lands the baobab |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | U.S. DIPLOMACY $200: With the 1817 Rush-Bagot Pact, the U.S. & Britain agreed to remove their fleets from these bodies of water the Great Lakes |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | BARTENDING 101 $800: "Burning the ice", melting it all with hot water, happens at closing time or if this, hard to tell apart from ice, gets in the bin glass |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | TOYING WITH YOU $800: Water, salt & flour mix in this, but Hasbro warns it "is not a food item" & "is not intended to be eaten" Play-Doh |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | SHIPS & BOATS $800: In 1904 the Supreme Court said this type of boat is "a continuation of the highway from one side of the water... to the other" a ferry |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $2000: From 2017:
Elisa Esposito & the Amphibian Man The Shape of Water |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | "VERSE" $1000: Hydrostatic pressure is employed in this 2-word purification process that can be used to get drinking water from seawater reverse osmosis |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $200: Famous for its acrobatics as well as its songs, here's one of these whales breaching the water a humpback whale |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: This lake on the U.S.-Canadian border is the largest body of fresh water in the world Lake Superior |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $1200: (Austin has a clear drink in a glass at his bar.) I'm a bartender, not a fancy-schmancy mixologist; I like pouring beer, whiskey & drinks with their ingredients in their names, like this classic combo juniper-berry liquor & carbonated water infused with quinine a gin and tonic |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Scoresby Sound, home to the world's longest one of these narrow inlets, lies in Greenland, not Norway a fjord |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Divided from the Baltic Sea by the Muhu archipelago, this gulf bears the name of one of the 3 Baltic national capitals the Gulf of Riga |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The beauty of Lake Kachura in Pakistan has earned it this name, popularized by novelist James Hilton to mean "heaven on earth" Shangrila |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This sea of the Arctic Ocean is named for a British rear admiral who also devised a scale for measuring wind force Beaufort |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $7,000 (Daily Double): The Bay of Tangier makes up part of the western end of this strait the Strait of Gibraltar |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | STAY HEALTHY $1000: While it won't help you Wolverine-style, this water-soluble vitamin helps heal wounds & is needed to make collagen vitamin C |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | NON-NYE SCIENCE GUYS $400: Around 1800 William Nicholson & Anthony Carlisle used a voltaic pile to decompose water into these 2 elements hydrogen & oxygen |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | INFRASTRUCTURE $2000: You can count all 36 arches of Spain's Les Ferreres one of these water-carrying structures an aqueduct |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water Crayons |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: Russia's Lake Baikal is home to the only species of these pinnipeds that lives exclusively in fresh water seals |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | MODERN WESTERNS $800: He starred in the 2010 version of "True Grit" & also led the hunt for Chris Pine & Ben Foster in "Hell or High Water" Jeff Bridges |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | LETTUCE $600: Water can come before this 5-letter salad green or it can be by itself cress |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1000: Seen here, this lizard with a name from classical mythology, is known for its ability to run across water a basilisk |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | ALPHABETICALLY NEXT $1000: In AKC dog breeds:
Irish Terrier,
Irish Water Spaniel... Irish wolfhound |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | CANADIAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Founded by a royal charter, the company named for this body of water employed "voyageurs" who explored Canada by canoe Hudson Bay |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | LET'S GO FISHING $800: This word for a small float on a fishing line describes its up-&-down motion in the water a bob (a bobber) |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | CHEMISTRY $400: The lipids, which include fats & oils, are organic compounds that don't appreciably interact with this water |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | EATING & DRINKING PLACES $2,400 (Daily Double): Military types can have food & fun at one of these, also a term for something carried to drink water a canteen |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1600: As Jesus "walked by" this body of water, "he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers" the Sea of Galilee |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | EARTH $400: The Earth's longest river is the Nile, but this one carries the most water by volume the Amazon |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | SHORES $400: If you're vacationing in Gulf Shores, Alabama, you're enjoying beaches along this body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | "G"EOGRAPHY $800: About 1,700 square miles in area, it's the largest inland body of saline water in the Western Hemisphere the Great Salt Lake |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1600: This spiky piece of equipment is used to perforate your lawn to allow better penetration of water & nutrients an aerator |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A DIP IN THE BAY $3,500 (Daily Double): The Sunshine Skyway Bridge crosses this body of water, sheltered in part from the Gulf of Mexico by the Pinellas Peninsula Tampa Bay |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | DIET HARD WITH A VENGEANCE $600: To lower calories, choose types of this like albacore that's canned in water & not oil, which can add fat tuna |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $1200: Rubber-edged implement used to wipe water from all your car windows a squeegee |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES $1000: Covering over 140,000 square miles, it's the world's largest inland body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | HORSE IDIOMS $400: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't" do this make him (them) drink |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: It was once known as the Zaire, but now it's this & it still carries more water than any river except the Amazon Congo |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $400: After working dawn to dusk, it's time for some mead, an alcoholic concoction brewed from water & this sweet stuff honey |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $1600: Massawa & Assab are important port cities of Eritrea on the shores of this long body of water the Red Sea |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | EARTH SCIENCE $1600: In contrast to the lithosphere, or solid outer part of the Earth, this consists of all the Earth's water hydrosphere |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PUMP-POURRI $400: This rhymingly named device removes water from a pit that's the lowest point of a drainage system a sump pump |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PUMP-POURRI $1000: In 1854 one water pump on London's Broad Street caused an outbreak of this infectious disease of the small intestine cholera |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT $2000: A Wilson is a type of this scientific "chamber" in which charged particles are passed through water vapor a cloud chamber |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $1600: Story goes the patron saint of Wales, St. David, lived on nothing but water & these onion relatives leeks |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | "M" PATHS $400: A 4,700-mile cycling path from Cadiz through Athens to Cyprus is called this route, from the body of water it runs along the Mediterranean Route |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | USA $800: This body of water that separates Maryland's eastern & western shores is the largest estuary in the United States the Chesapeake Bay |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Churn & the Leach are among its headstreams in the Cotswolds the Thames |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan Lake Huron |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Conchos River, the longest in the state of Chihuahua, is a tributary of this one the Rio Grande |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Tanzania & Mozambique are on the eastern shore of this lake Lake Malawi |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): When not hampered by monsoons, the dhow was the traditional trading vessel of this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $200: Hot water springs called geysers take their name from a specific one in this country Iceland |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: This river flows under the Arlington Memorial Bridge the Potomac |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: In this U.S. state the Mackinac Bridge spans the straits of the same name Michigan |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: The bridge & train seen here are crossing this Thai river made famous by a 1952 novel & a 1957 movie the River Kwai |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Venezuela's Angostura Bridge crosses this vital river the Orinoco |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1000: Germany's Magdeburg Water Bridge helps boats cross this river that begins & ends with the same vowel the Elbe River |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | THE RAINFORESTS $600: Rainforests add water to our air via transpiration, part of this botanical process by which plants turn light into chemical energy photosynthesis |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | FROM THE GREEK FOR... $800: Water serpent--it's the creature of myth depicted here a Hydra |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SCIENCE $1200: Dangerous at high levels in water, hexavalent chromium is also called this activist & movie subject "metal" Erin Brockovich |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | THE AMERICAN RED CROSS $200: The Red Cross offers training to become a certified one of these who save people at pools & water parks a lifeguard |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $400: In 2012 Curiosity found an ancient streambed here Mars |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: Saturn's moon Titan is thought to have a subsurface ocean as salty as this terrestrial "Salt Sea" the Dead Sea |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1200: The ice on comets stays frozen beyond the solar system's "frost line", which lies close to the orbit of this 5th planet Jupiter |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: This U.S. telescope named for a German astronomer looked for extrasolar planets that might contain water Kepler |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2,200 (Daily Double): This dwarf planet is about 25% water, which could be handy for the goddess of crops it's named for Ceres |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS $1000: From the mistaken notion that they could bark, some North American salamanders are called water dogs or these a mud puppy |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | KEEPIN' UP WITH NASA $200: In 2016 NASA detected this key-to-life element in a comet's tail, suggesting that comets may have brought it to Earth carbon |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE ATMOSPHERE $1000: Some water gets into the atmosphere via this process in which water evaporates through the pores of plants transpiration |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1000: More than twice as populous as No. 2 Rapid City, this South Dakota city also has a water feature in its name Sioux Falls |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FUN WITH COOKING TERMS $1200: Veggies are scalded, then plunged into ice water when you do this, a word also meaning "make pale with fear" blanch |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | OUT IN THE OCEAN $800: These deep-sea vents, named for the magma-heated water they emit, are islands of life in the ocean floor hydrothermal vents |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | OUT IN THE OCEAN $1000: From Latin for "pool", it's a shallow, relatively calm body of water separated from the open ocean by a reef or barrier island a lagoon |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | I SEE YOU THERE! $600: Don't get too close to the edge at Norway's Pulpit Rock 2000 feet above one of these bodies of water a fjord |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | I SEE YOU THERE! $1000: Glad to see you're paying attention to the warning sign at this Canadian Bay known for its fast-moving water the Bay of Fundy |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | GEOLOGY $2000: This technology, GPR, lets geologists look beneath the surface at things like bedrock, soil layers & hidden water ground penetrating radar |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $200: In the 1990s Germany modified the Reinheitsgebot, a law dating to 1516 that said this could be made only of barley, hops & water beer |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | AMAZON PRIME $400: Let this alliterative Amazon water creature light up your night... & despite its name, it's a knifefish an electric eel |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | AMAZON PRIME $800: Seen floating on the Amazon is Victoria amazonica, the largest one of these; its pads can be six feet wide a water lily |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | THE ORIGIN TRAIL $400: These dogs were originally trained as water dogs & their name is related to the small pools of water they splashed in Poodles |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $200: Flying over Utah, you might get a glimpse of this body of water the Great Salt Lake |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This "stately" lake connects to Lake Huron via the Straits of Mackinac Lake Michigan |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $600: If you're sittin' on the dock of this 200-mile-long bay, you're either in Maryland or Virginia Chesapeake Bay |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Seneca & Cayuga are the largest of the 11 lakes in New York State collectively called these the Finger Lakes |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1000: As indicated by its name, this large lake formed by Denison Dam is shared by Texas & its neighbor to the north Texoma |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | DOGS $2000: The Australian breed seen here shares its name with an ominous Scottish water spirit a Kelpie |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A GATHERING OF ANIMALS, SPEAKING LATIN $2,400 (Daily Double): A herd or even better an obstinacy of this ox-like wading mammal, Bubalus bubalis, which can hit 2,600 pounds each a water buffalo |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL ENDINGS $800: This handsome youth pined away & died after falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water Narcissus |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $200: "Water" is one suggested original meaning for this first name of swimming's Mr. Lochte Ryan |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $800: Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things water |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CELEBRITY "M.D."s $400: Before trying to make water on Mars in "The Martian", this actor co-created water.org to provide it on Earth Matt Damon |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $200: The Chukchi & Laptev are among the seas in this ocean the Arctic |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $400: The Pacific's Yap Trench is this kind of trench that shares a name with a deep sea vessel submarine |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $600: As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & the bay it flows into Flushing |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $1000: The Humboldt Current is sometimes called this South American country's current the Peru Current (the Chilean) |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The Hollands Diep River flows into the Haring Estuary, which ultimately discharges into this sea the North Sea |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | GLOW-POURRI $2000: Because tonic water contains this drug, it will glow under certain conditions quinine |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $400: Before he painted these aquatic plants more than 250 times, Monet planted them himself water lilies |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | AB-WORK $1200: Add "AB" to a passageway for air or water & you get this people-stealing word abduct |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: Back in 1688 Norway regulated many sawmills to fight this problem; in 2016 it became the world's first country to ban it deforestation (clear-cutting) |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FRENCH COOKING TERMS $1000: Place your steak in a sealed bag in heated water & you're cooking like the pros via this "under vacuum" method sous vide |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ESPERANTO FILM FESTIVAL $800: "La Formo de Akvo" The Shape of Water |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EARTH SCIENCE $1000: The Latin for "water" gives us this word for a layer of rock that contains water an aquifer |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $1600: James K. Polk (the president who died the youngest aside from those assassinated): this water-borne disease cholera |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | THE PICKLE BARREL $400: A basic recipe for pickles calls for a brine of equal parts water & this acidic liquid, along with salt & seasonings vinegar |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: 2019's "The Water Dancer" is the first novel by this man better known for nonfiction Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $200: The name of this bewhiskered water dweller can also mean a person who uses a fake profile on social media a catfish |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Lake Victoria is the largest source of this African river the Nile |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Built in the early 1960s, the Bridge of the Americas spans this waterway the Panama Canal |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The title of this Laura Esquivel bestseller refers to a sweet recipe but also a state of passion or anger Like Water for Chocolate |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Miami is a port on this bay Biscayne Bay |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Surt is the main port on this Libyan gulf the Gulf of Sidra |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $6,200 (Daily Double): Formations like the Great Barrier Reef gave this body of water its name the Coral Sea |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | DON'T BE SO THIRSTY $600: A dark mustache on a BYU student may indicate she's been drinking this, the most popular beverage sold there after water chocolate milk |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | DON'T BE SO THIRSTY $1000: Rice is soaked in water to make this Mexican beverage & Vampire Weekend song title horchata |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble the pearl |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | ON ITS BORDER $1200: Kazakhstan & Iran:
This body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $400: It sounds like a computer game about an island, but in weather lore it's very fine water droplets at ground level mist |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | VIRTUE SIGNALING $800: Seen in a tarot card, mixing wine & water symbolized this, also a 19th c. movement away from excess in alcohol temperance |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1600: Big fluffy snowflakes result from relative humidity of over 100%, this condition of water in the atmosphere supersaturation |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | NAVAL CONFLICT $1,200 (Daily Double): On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the Maddox, a U.S. destroyer, in this body of water the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This Great Lake takes a little bite out of Indiana's northwest corner (Lake) Michigan |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: A 24-mile-long causeway across this lake connects New Orleans to the northern shore Lake Pontchartrain |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: This distinct-looking river forms much of the Texas-Oklahoma boundary the Red River |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: A lunar feature &
a liquid crater & water |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: Admiral David Farragut saw his greatest victory in the August 1864 Battle of this body of water Mobile Bay |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Cumberland River rises in this state, flows through a portion of Tennessee & then back into this state Kentucky |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $800: In Exodus the depths of this body of water "have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone" the Red Sea |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | COOKING WITH DAVID CHANG $600: (David Chang delivers the clue.) Here's something cool: after cutting up these green onions, put the scraps with the roots in water in a sunny place & in a matter of weeks, they should regrow scallions |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $600: He was big, he was blue & one story said his footprints filled with water & became Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, so to repeat... he was big Babe (the Blue Ox) |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | DOCTOR $2000: "En Folkefiende" is the original title of this Ibsen play in which Dr. Stockmann tries to alert a town to its contaminated water An Enemy of the People |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: That bold end-of-a-performance action is still very small compared to all the water it's in a mic drop in the bucket |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | THE MOVIE'S CAST $400: 2017:
Sally Hawkins,
Doug Jones, who probably got wet a lot The Shape of Water |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MY HERO OF ACADEMIA $800: Civil engineering professor Marc Edwards has exposed dangerous levels of this element in the drinking water of D.C. & Flint, Mich. lead |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SKIP CLASS $800: To survive outside of water, the fish called a mudskipper traps air in the chambers of these organs gills |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $800: Brighton Palace Pier can be found on this body of water sometimes called "La Manche" the English Channel |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $200: Prince Siegfried drowns himself in the title body of water in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Croatia's border rivers the Sava & Drava are both tributaries of this one the Danube |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $800: 20 miles wide at its narrowest, the Strait of Dover connects the English Channel to this body of water the North Sea |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: This vast Canadian lake attracts anglers but you're competing for the fish with the animals the lake is named for Great Bear Lake |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1903 Cuba gave the U.S. a lease on 45 square miles of land & water on this bay Guantanamo |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: An arm of the Mediterranean, this gulf indents Libya for about 275 miles the Gulf of Sidra |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | EXPLORERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bridges over New York Bay & Narragansett Bay are named for this explorer who sailed into both bodies of water in 1524 Verrazzano |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $800: A 1922 compact divided the water of this river between Upper Basin states like Utah & Lower Basin ones like California the Colorado |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PLATES, POTS & PANS $800: Though named for the strained liquid found after cooking bones in water, this pot can be used for pastas & seafood too a stockpot |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PLANT TERMINOLOGY $1600: Jade plants & cacti are both classified as this type of plant with thick, fleshy tissues adapted for water storage succulent |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STARS $3,000 (Daily Double): The largest constellation is this one represented as a water snake Hydra |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | "MAL" PRACTICE $600: I saw the hot-water bottle on the thermometer! You're not sick, you're doing this, pretending to be malingering |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: Part of this body of water lies between the Philippines & Vietnam: the South ____ ____ the South China Sea |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | PLANTS & ANIMALS $1600: These "hairy cattle" of high Asian elevation will eat snow to get water yaks |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | TWENTY QUESTIONS $1000: The 20th Century Limited was a luxury, overnight train between New York City & this major city, advertising a smooth, water-level route Chicago |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | CRUISIN' FOR A BOOZIN' $600: Make like an old British sailor & serve this, rum & water; Admiral Edward Vernon was nicknamed "Old" it grog |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | NEW ORLEANS: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Lee Zurik.) Holding the title of longest continuous bridge over water in the world, the 23-mile Causeway over this lake finds drivers losing sight of land Lake Pontchartrain |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | GO GET "EM" $2000: This Greek philosopher was the first to argue that all matter is made up of earth, air, fire & water Empedocles |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | WE 5 "KING"s $600: As its name implies, this type of bird seen here dives into water to feed a kingfisher |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SCIENCE VOCABULARY $1,200 (Daily Double): "Specific" this is the ratio of a substance's density to that of a standard substance, often water gravity |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | THE RULES OF THE GAME $600: In this Olympic sport, no splashing water in an opponent's face water polo |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | OFFICE, OURS $600: Shohei begins a water cooler discussion about this drama on Starz about pro wrestlers featuring Stephen Amell Heels |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: James McBride got the title of this bestseller from his mother, whom he once asked, "What color is God's spirit?" The Color of Water |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | SNAKES & RIVERS $800: Residents of Memphis had to watch out for water moccasins when this river flooded in 2011 the Mississippi |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ALSO IN YOUR BATHROOM $400: To drop down fast into water sink |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | EXOPLANETS $800: Wider for hotter stars, the habitable zone is the area around a star within which this can exist on a planet's surface (liquid) water |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $1,000 (Daily Double): When water is low, minerals leave a so-called bathtub ring in lakes like this manmade one in Utah & Arizona named for an explorer Lake Powell |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $1600: "Bourbon and" this refers to a drink made with pure, iron-free water branch |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $600: This body of water stretches from Suez, Egypt to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait the Red Sea |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | GEOGRAPHIC IDIOMS $1000: John Updike said writing criticism compared to fiction is like "hugging" this compared to sailing in open water the shore |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | LANDSCAPING $800: A guideline with a pond for these ornamental carp of the genus Cyprinus is 33 gallons of water per 1 inch of fish koi |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | POTENT ETYMOLOGY $400: This Irish whiskey's name includes structures that make their barley & the nearby river whose water is used in the spirit Bushmills |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES $1600: For decades, Singapore has complained about the price it pays to get fresh water from this country Malaysia |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2000: Receiving water from about 200 rivers, it's the largest lake in the Western Hemisphere Lake Superior |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $600: Grackles have used pebbles to raise water levels & access floating food, passing a test named for one of this man's fables Aesop |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | VERBI"AGE" $2000: To carry a boat overland from one body of water to another portage |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | POTPOURRI $600: A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this gaggle |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | 4,4 $600: Similar to seltzer, it's carbonated water used as a mixer club soda |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE! $1600: This fossilized resin has one of the lowest densities among gems & it will often float in salt water amber |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $400: Water moving at 9 feet per second is typical in this alliterative & sudden fast-moving event a flash flood |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | ROYALTY AROUND US $400: This Canadian province is completely surrounded by water Prince Edward Island |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | FURRY ROAD $1600: A kangaroo family member, the alliterative whiptail this likes to get its water from vegetation rather than drinking wallaby |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | WORLD OF WORDS $800: Once thought to have healing powers, the name of this traditional spirit of Scandinavia is from the Latin for "water of life" aquavit |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | WORLD OF WORDS $1600: In the beloved ballad "Waltzing Matilda", a "jolly swagman camped by" this, an Australian pool of water billabong |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2000: Still used today, the screw named for this ancient Greek helps move water from lower to higher ground Archimedes |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | LET'S VISIT MARS $2000: Mars' seasonal polar ice caps aren't frozen water but frozen this gas, the principal component of its atmosphere carbon dioxide |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1600: In cold weather, your breath is visible as mist if it cools to this point at which it is fully saturated with water vapor the condensation point (dew point) |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | IT'S A GAS $1000: NH3 is this strong-smelling gas; the cleaning fluid is it dissolved in water ammonia |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | STRUCTURAL IDIOMS $1000: This "aqueous" phrase means a problem is in the past & doesn't worry you anymore water under the bridge |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | CANALS $1600: One of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Suez Canal connects these 2 bodies of water the Mediterranean & the Red Sea |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | IDIOMS $2,000 (Daily Double): A jug does it; a sieve & an improbable story don't hold water |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CITY TRANSPORTATION $800: Vaporettos are water buses on the canals of this city Venice |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | OCEANOGRAPHIC TERMS $800: Measuring the warmth of the water off the western coast of South America, the ONI is the "Oceanic" this Spanish word "Index" Niño |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | SCIENCE $600: Tonic water contains a small amount of this alkaloid used in the treatment of malaria quinine |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $1200: Bartholomew in Arkansas & Louisiana is the longest this type of sluggish body of water, at over 350 miles bayou |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | TAKE A FEW LETTERS $1200: A 200-year anniversary provides the letters for this water source for a soldier or hiker canteen |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | OLD MILITARY ABBREV. $2000: To sailors in the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, PBR wasn't beer, but this 2-word vessel proceeding "river", many on the Mekong patrol boat |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | TURTLE POWER $200: This turtle, also the symbol of the University of Maryland, is at home both in water & on land a terrapin |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | ARABIA $400: Arabia is separated from Africa by this body of water along its west the Red Sea |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | BUTTE OF COURSE $1200: Providing millions of gallons a day, Big Butte Springs is the main water supply for the Medford region in this state Oregon |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | EXODUS TELLS US... $400: "God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of" this body of water the Red Sea |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | PARTS OF THE OCEANS $2000: Galveston Bay is an example of this type of body of water where saltwater meets fresh the estuary |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | HIGH $2000: The high pressure system known as the Siberian High is centered on this big Russian body of water Lake Baikal |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | YOU CAN'T $800: ...go boating in Owens Lake near the California-Nevada border; it dried up in the 1920s after its water was sent to this city Los Angeles |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | KEEP 'EM SEPARATED $1000: It's the laboratory process of passing a current through water to separate it into hydrogen & oxygen electrolysis |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | TV ANIMATION $800: Like Aang in a previous series, Korra is working on becoming a master one of these; she was already a pro at fire, earth & water airbender |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DRUNK HISTORY $400: Still in business today, Japan's Sudo Honke brewery has been turning rice & water into this since the 12th century sake |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $800: Sure, this Aussie mammal lays eggs like a bird, has a bill like a bird & dives under-water for 40 seconds, but flying? Nope! a platypus |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $1600: Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | LANDFORMS $600: Waves force water & air to spout through a rock fissure with this 8-letter name; here's one in Hawaii a blowhole |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $1600: In "Tin Cup", this actor finally makes it over the water to take a memorable 12 on the final hole (Kevin) Costner |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | OUT WEST IN THE U.S. $400: This 1,450-mile river is a major source of water for 40 million people in the Southwest the Colorado River |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Barcelona museum added glass to block toxic fumes from an Alexander Calder fountain that pumps not water but this liquid metal mercury |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | IN A BOTTLE $600: Sourced in the Alps, this brand of Italian mineral water refers to the shape of the bottles it has used since 1899 as "Vichy" Pellegrino |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | MUSIC HISTORY $5,500 (Daily Double): "The water took its victim's name", goes a Vampire Weekend song about this English explorer who was set adrift by his crew in Canada Henry Hudson |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): In Central America, thought to be from the name of a local leader & the Spanish word for water Nicaragua |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This largest lake in Africa is named for a British queen Victoria |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This body of water is centered on the North Pole the Arctic Ocean |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Catumbo lightning is a phenomenon regularly seen over this huge Venezuelan lake Lake Maracaibo |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: Saudi Arabia lies between the Red Sea & this 93,000-square-mile gulf the Gulf of Persia (the Persian Gulf) |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Accessible only by ferry, Vashon Island is in this body of water, between Seattle & Tacoma Puget Sound |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $2000: "Revelations", this man's signature dance piece, is set to African-American spirituals like "Wade in the Water" & "Sinner Man" Alvin Ailey |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | ADDITIVES $1600: The W.H.O. suggests face masks made with polypropylene, which has this water-repelling adjective that means "afraid of water" hydrophobic |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | LAKES OF EUROPE $800: This second-largest city of Russia gets a lot of its fresh water from nearby Lake Ladoga St. Petersburg |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | LATE $1000: Caused by a water mold, "late" this caused the Irish potato famine blight |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | MAKING FETCH HAPPEN $200: In nursery rhyme news, this pair were airlifted from a hill after one suffered a severe head injury fetching water Jack & Jill |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | OLYMPIC SPORTS EQUIPMENT $200: Goal,
swimsuit water polo |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | U.K. PLACES $400: Associated with a group of poets, this scenic area gets its name from multiple bodies of water including Derwent Water Lake District |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | BESTSELLERS $200: This bestselling novel by Laura Esquivel was published in Spanish as "Como agua para chocolate" Like Water for Chocolate |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | ZODIAC RHYME TIME $1000: Partly from Latin for "crime", a wicked & immoral water bearer a nefarious Aquarius |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $200: Hydrolysis uses water to destroy these that hold a compound together bonds |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $400: In 2020 NASA announced that its Sofia Observatory detected water in this heavenly body's Clavius crater the Moon |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $800: Sometimes water molecules contain deuterium or tritium, isotopes of this element hydrogen |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $1000: Water has low this "V" property, meaning it's quick to flow or change shape viscosity |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): In ROWPU, a system that purifies any water source, the "R" stands for "reverse" & the "O" stands for this process osmosis |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $200: As the proverb says, this is "thicker than water", normally by at least 3 to 4 times blood |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $400: Some people refer to this element as quicksilver mercury |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $600: Products from this brand include school glue, glow in the dark glue & pre-made slime called "Gue" Elmer's |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $800: Nearly 80 years later, this sunken battleship is still leaking oil in Pearl Harbor the USS Arizona |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $1000: While this substance is the chief source of natural rubber, the kind used in certain paints is synthetic latex |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $2000: Elisa & Giles live above the Orpheum Cinema in this 2017 del Toro Best Picture Oscar winner The Shape of Water |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | FROM C TO D $200: It describes a bubbly beverage like tonic water or soda carbonated |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $800: About every 90 minutes, you can count on this geyser erupting with 200-degree water Old Faithful |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: Mombasa is a major port city of Kenya on this body of water the Indian Ocean |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | YE OLDE SCIENCE $1200: The ancient Greeks believed all matter was composed of these 4 classical elements earth, air, fire & water |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | GEOGRAPHIC TOP 10s $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the world's third-largest body of water by surface area the Indian Ocean |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | 18th CENTURY STUFF $200: When the king of Great Britain wanted a barge party, Handel composed the orchestral suite called this "Water Music" |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | HARD SCIENCE $800: Nanofiltration is used to reduce hardness of this, caused by dissolved minerals like calcium & magnesium water |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SAVE OUR LANDMARKS! $400: In 2019, Italy's MOSE Project Seawall tried unsuccessfully to prevent aqua alta, or high water in this city Venice |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | ASIAN CITIES $800: Some of Kazakhstan's only water ports, Aktau & Kuryk are major shipping centers on this sea the Caspian Sea |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $1,000 (Daily Double): Bulgaria & Moldova belong to BSEC, the economic cooperation zone named for this body of water the Black Sea |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $400: Heat index is calculated using this, the measure of water vapor in the atmosphere humidity |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $800: This process of supplying agricultural land with water often can involve a system of canals or pipes irrigation |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | WET WORDS $2000: It's the 5-letter word for the lowest internal portion of a ship's hull where water collects the bilge |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DISSECTING THE LYRICS $2000: Warrant: "She's my" this dessert, "cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise", the surprise being its transformation from food to drink cherry pie |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | HEAD FOR THE LIGHT $800: It sounds like an overflowing of water from a river, but it's a light that covers a large area a floodlight |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $600: As an adjective, this word describes a reddish-brown horse; as a noun, a large body of water bay |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | THE LETTER OF THE LAWN $600: "D" is for lawns known as this "resistant"; fescues are good when there's not that much water drought |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | WESTERN U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Take the 580 from Reno to the 431 & you'll see the majesty that is this body of water Lake Tahoe |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | GEOGRA-SEA, & ALSO LAKES $200: This Chinese sea got its name from the color of its muddy banks & silty water the Yellow Sea |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | ACIDS $400: A key ingredient in salad dressings, this liquid is about 5% acetic acid, 95% water vinegar |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $600: "Buck did not read... or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not... for himself, but for every tide-water dog" The Call of the Wild |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE $400: Lavoisier said he never got Scheele's 1774 letter about discovering this component of water, but it was found in his papers oxygen |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: Virginia's largest river, the James empties into this body of water the Chesapeake Bay |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | APRIL FOOL! $1000: This inventor's reputation was high in 1878 when a newspaper said his new machine turned soil into cereal & water into wine Edison |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | KITCHEN MEASUREMENTS $600: At sea level, this is 212 degrees Fahrenheit, but it drops to 194 degrees at 10,000 feet the boiling point of water |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | PARK THEMES $600: Water from different oceans was part of the ceremonies when this ride with its own song opened at Disneyland in 1966 It's A Small World |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): "It was 'Din! Din! Din!"' as the regiment called for this water carrier Gunga Din |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | ASIA $1200: The strategic Strait of Hormuz leads from the Persian Gulf into this body of water to the south the Arabian Sea |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION $800: In Laughlin, Nevada water taxis will take you from one casino to the next along this river the Colorado River |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $400: The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Red Sea with this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $800: This adjective refers to the ability to soak up water or heat absorbent |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $800: The Bristol Channel separates the southern part of this U.K. country from England Wales |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1200: The mighty MacKenzie flows into this sea that's north of Alaska & Canada & part of the Arctic Ocean the Beaufort |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1600: Blommestein Lake is the largest reservoir in this South American nation Suriname |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE STAR OF OSCARS'S BEST PICTURE $2000: She was nominated for Best Actress for "The Shape of Water", in which she didn't have much dialogue but did get a singing scene Sally Hawkins |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $2000: This "large animal" lake is a center of skiing, fishing & more in California's San Bernardino National Forest Big Bear Lake |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | LAKES $800: Lake Mead has the capacity to store 35 billion cubic meters of water behind this landmark the Hoover Dam |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | LOSING U $800: An artificial water channel drops its "U" & turns into this perfect pie portion slice (from sluice) |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | LOSING U $2000: A device that dispenses water expels its "U", becoming this gem surface facet (from faucet) |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | AT THE END OF THE SCARY MOVIE $5,000 (Daily Double): "I used to hate the water"--"I can't imagine why" Jaws |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | WHAT A DIVE! $1,500 (Daily Double): Someone who profits, or a backwards somersault that lands feet first into the water a gainer (full gainer) |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ____ OF THE ____ $2000: A recreation area, this body of water that borders Minnesota, Manitoba & Ontario has more than 14,000 islands Lake of the Woods |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | REAL-LIFE CARTOON CHARACTERS $800: Mr. Peabody & Sherman find that this explorer's men have drunk too much water from the Fountain of Youth & turned into babies Ponce de León |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | IT'S ALL ONIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): When you chop them, onions make your eyes water because they contain compounds of this element also found in gunpowder sulfur |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | COLORFUL RIVERS $800: This headstream branch of the Nile that originates in Ethiopia is the source of almost 70% of its water the Blue Nile |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ENDS IN "B" $800: Verb meaning to examine thoroughly, or to connect a building's water pipes plumb |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | SCIENCE TIME $2000: The "water on the road" mirage is due to hotter air above the blacktop, causing this bending of light rays refraction |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | HOMOPHONES $800: To fire a .45, or a sloping channel for water shoot/chute |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | LONDON MONOPOLY GEOGRAPHY $400: Old Kent Road is the only London Monopoly location south of this body of water the Thames |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | LET'S TALK PLUMBING $800: That banging noise you hear when a pipe's water supply is turned off is called a water this, like a carpenter's banging tool a hammer |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $200: Just 50 miles separates the U.S. & Russia across this strait the Bering Strait |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $400: A Great Lake indeed, it stretches from Duluth to Ontario to Sault Ste. Marie Lake Superior |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $600: Appropriately, this 160-mile-long river in Canada flows past London; it passes Woodstock & Chatham as well the Thames |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $800: The northwest corner of the Indian Ocean is this grade-"A" sea the Arabian Sea |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $1000: Lakes Maggiore & Garda empty into tributaries of this 400-mile-long Italian river the Po |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | LOADS OF ROADS $800: Longer than a bridge, this is a road built above water a causeway |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | SNAP $1000: Dinner's a snap with this device, around for centuries; it traps steam to produce food above the boiling point of water a pressure cooker |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | THE BOAT, ASHORE $200: Used by U.S. Marines in World War II, the "Alligator" was an AAV, this type of assault vehicle capable of moving on land & water amphibious |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | MARITIME DISASTERS $400: On April 15, 1912 at approximately 2:20 A.M., it broke in half & 2 minutes later, plunged below the water's surface the Titanic |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE SAME VOWEL, FRONT & BACK $400: It's Spanish for "water" agua |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | BEVERAGES $400: Sir John Harmsworth bought a French mineral water spring & gave it this name, honoring the doctor who sold the property Perrier |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | SCIENCE "D"ICTIONARY $800: Term for the temperature at which water vapor in the air begins to condense & fall the dew point |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | AMERICAN NAMES $600: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie" is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman Maya Angelou |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | PLACES IN THE GOOD BOOK $200: Jesus walked on this body of water also called Kinnereth & Gennesaret the Sea of Galilee |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | SCIENCE CLASS $800: There's an aid to navigation inside this force that raises an object in water, equal to the weight of the water it displaces buoyancy |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | WORDS WITH "FER" ENDS $2000: A stratum of water-bearing rock aquifer |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | FICTIONAL BEINGS $1600: In "Peter Pan" some of these beings are jealous of Wendy & try to pull her into the water mermaids |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | TAEKWONDO $800: (Zee James presents the clue.) Kung fu master Bruce Lee advised students to be like this natural substance; taekwondo students learn to emulate it in the flowing movements of the form called Taegeuk Yook Jang water |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: To take the water out of something dehydrate |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $400: A spring of magical water makes this family "Everlasting" in a book that asks, "What if you could live forever?" Tuck |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: It cost the U.S. about $380 million to build this canal that opened to traffic in 1914 the Panama Canal |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This river is navigable from its mouth on the North Sea to a spot near Basel on the Swiss-German border the Rhine |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Back when it was known as the Hellespont, this strait was where the mythic lovers Hero & Leander perished the Dardanelles |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Blooms of the algae of Trichodesmium erythraeum give this body of water its color & perhaps its name the Red Sea |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooks this bay of the Atlantic Ocean Guanabara Bay |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Magic Kingdom south, it was once known as Jernigan but got a name change in 1857 & a Wet 'n Wild water park, a bit later Orlando |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | DOG IS MY COPILOT $1200: We know Vizslas are used to hunt water fowl & are in this American Kennel Club group, but the doggo here is really upping his fetch game Sporting |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | GADGET $600: No more cords! These Pro earbuds from Apple are wireless, noise-cancelling & water resistant AirPod Pros |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1200: This raptor flies over water to hunt, plunging in feet first to catch fish in its talons an osprey |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | BIOLOGY $2000: During this 13-letter process, plants lose water in the form of vapor escaping through their leaves transpiration |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS $2000: Sir Leonard Woolley thought that this 1 of the 7 Wonders was really a ziggurat with plants fed from water pumped from the Euphrates the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | PLANTS & FLOWERS $2,000 (Daily Double): The acidity of the soil can change the color of these flowers whose name is from the Greek for "water" hydrangeas |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | KEEPING IT 100 $200: For water, it's 100 degrees Celsius boiling point |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | THE ATMOSPHERE $400: Corridors of water vapor such as the Pineapple Express are called atmospheric these & carry more moisture than the Amazon rivers |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $600: A body of water with port facilities, or to give shelter to a fugitive harbor |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | ZOOLOGY $1200: It's the term for when a whale jumps out of the water, though scientists aren't sure why they do it breaching |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Sri Lanka's northernmost point, Point Pedro lies where Palk Strait meets this large bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $600: The people in John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" vacation "down at" this body of water, perhaps in Fort Morgan, Alabama the Gulf of Mexico |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $800: To reach this much larger sea from the Sea of Azov, you must sail through the Kerch Strait the Black Sea |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This mighty river rises in the Tibetan Plateau & empties into the South China Sea near Ho Chi Minh City the Mekong |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This 700-mile-long river formed part of the boundary between East Germany & West Germany the Elbe |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A WINDY CATEGORY $2000: A northeast wind called the bora causes rough water in the Gulf of Venice, an arm of this sea the Adriatic |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | SCIENCE ABBREV. $200: DHMO, or di-this monoxide, is a jocular way to say "water" hydrogen |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS $800: A 1963 treaty banned these tests "in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water" nuclear tests |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | REQUESTS $600: In 2015 a California state agency mandated that restaurants may not serve this unless the diner requests it a glass of water |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $200: The National one, located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, has a water capacity of more than 2.2 million gallons aquarium |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOLOGY $1000: If water or wind alters rock, it's called by this meteorological name; if that process moves the rock, that's erosion weathering |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BEVERAGE RHYME TIME $200: Evian or Dasani for one's female child daughter water |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | OXYMORONS $400: At the meeting, my big idea went over like one of these water-pipe-metal inflatables a lead balloon |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | SYMBOLS $400: The glyph that symbolizes this sign of the zodiac represents ripples of water Aquarius |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $600: A word meaning angry takes on an E to enjoy a honey & water alcoholic concoction mad & mead |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | U.S. ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A tourist spot, Maryland's Kent Island is the largest island in this body of water Chesapeake Bay |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Russian empress who covers 95,000 square miles of water as a North American quintet Catherine the Great Lakes |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $200: Talk about prime delivery! Each year, this river with depths up to 300' provides 20% of the fresh water entering the ocean the Amazon |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): Azerbaijan's Baku Archipelago lies within this huge body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | MOVIE SEQUELS $2000: Before he directed "Hellboy" & "The Shape of Water", he took on the Wesley Snipes sequel "Blade 2" (Guillermo) del Toro |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | ON ITS WESTERN BORDER $1600: Sri Lanka & Sumatra: this body of water the Indian Ocean |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | FILL IN THE ANIMAL MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Fletch": "Can I borrow your towel for a sec? My car just hit a ___ ___" a water buffalo |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $2,200 (Daily Double): In a Kurt Vonnegut novel, Bonnie, a cocktail waitress at the Holiday Inn, calls martinis this, the book's title breakfast of champions |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HYBRIDS $2000: This mythic creature is a serpent with a bird's body; the real lizard of the same name can walk on water a basilisk |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | AMERICAN SUPERLATIVES $200: At more than 1,000 feet above the water, the highest of these in the U.S. spans Royal Gorge in Colorado a bridge |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | EUROPE $800: Seen here is one of these protective barriers that keep much of the Netherlands from becoming inundated with water a dike |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | FEEL THE POWER! $1600: California's Ivanpah plant focuses solar rays to heat tanks of water, spinning turbines with this 19th century type of power steam |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | IT'S A FACT $400: This Utah body of water is several times more saline than the oceans the Great Salt Lake |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BEASTLY REVIEWS $800: Camels come in 2 main types, Bactrian & this variety, with both able to cross deserts with little or no water; 3 out of 5 stars a dromedary |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | GNAT GEO $400: 2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force the Mississippi River |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | GNAT GEO $2000: The destructive fruit fly Ceratitis capitata is better known as this, after a body of water the Mediterranean fruit fly |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | YOU SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHSTONE $800: Think water & semper fi as March marches in with this birthstone aquamarine |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Straits of Florida connect this body of water to the Atlantic Ocean the Gulf of Mexico |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The Cayman Islands are in this sea Caribbean Sea |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Named for an Englishman, it connects the Atlantic & the Pacific between Cape Horn & the South Shetland Islands Drake's Passage |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: In French it's known as Le Golfe de Gascogne the Bay of Biscay |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $5,000 (Daily Double): This river flows into Lake Constance, which borders Switzerland, Germany & Austria the Rhine |
| #8243, aired 2020-09-23 | ON THE GLOBE $400: The Libreria Acqua Alta or "High Water Bookshop" keeps its books in waterproof basins just in case this Italian city floods Venice |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | FOOD SCIENCE $1000: Mustard can act as one of these agents that allow oil & water to stay blended an emulsifier |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | PLACES OF SUBSTANCE $1600: This alliterative Maryland place is named for the color of the mica flakes found in the local water Silver Spring |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SAND PAINTING $400: Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla specialized in the sunny beaches of his home area Valencia on this body of water the Mediterranean |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THESE UNITED STATES $400: These slow, winding Louisianan bodies of water include Teche, which legend says was created from a giant snake bayous |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THESE UNITED STATES $800: Cobblestones are part of the charm of Wharf Street in this Maine city with a name that suggests it's water-adjacent Portland |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | GOOD "P.R." $1600: There are some famous landmarks along this body of water, as seen here the Potomac River |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | 1 WORD, 2 MEANINGS $2000: It's a 3-letter word for a water sprite of German folklore, or it can mean to put the kibosh on nix |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES $1200: Laura Esquivel's bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate" takes place in this country around the turn of the 20th century Mexico |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | GONE FISHING $600: Before fishing with "friends", you may want to do this to the water, dumping some ground-up fish in the water around you chum |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | FOUNTAINS $2000: For centuries, barrels of water from this Roman fountain at the Palazzo Poli were sent across the Tiber to the Vatican the Trevi Fountain |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | GOING ON VACATION $800: Chile has a beautiful "district" of mountains & water that shares its name with this similar one in north England the Lake District |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | COOL NEWS $400: M.I.T. researchers used a solar still, evaporation & condensation in this process to make ocean water drinkable desalinization |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | POEMS $400: In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" it was this, this "every where, nor any drop to drink" water |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MAGNET $800: You can magnetize a needle & place it on a cork in a bowl of water to make one of these a compass |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Iolaus helps his uncle Hercules slay this many-headed water monster the Hydra |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: The water droplets that sometimes form on the outside of a glass are an example of this process condensation |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $400: "So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water" this wine |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | OVERLAPPING WORD COMBOS $800: An explosive
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a large body of water = this old name for a city of India Bombay |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | SPORTS TALK $1600: Water polo players stay afloat with this kick that sounds like it could help to scramble an omelet the egg beater kick |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $2000: In this Sara Gruen novel, later a movie, Jacob & Marlena plan to flee the traveling circus they both work for Water for Elephants |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | FRENCH GEOGRAPHY $800: Literally meaning "the sleeve", La Manche is this body of water the English Channel |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | THE HIDDEN WORLD OF EMOJIS $1000: "WC" on blue is supposed to mean "water closet" but many use it to stand for this type of admiration woman crush |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | GARDEN SPOTS $2000: Check out the water lilies in Monet's garden in this French town that like "garden", starts with a "G" Giverny |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 18th century Prussian king & military genius who is a large body of water in northern Utah Frederick the Great Salt Lake |
| #8199, aired 2020-04-09 | RETURNS $200: In "The Two Towers" this wizard says, "Yes, I am white now...I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted" Gandalf |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $6,200 (Daily Double): Believed to be made of metallic hydrogen, not water, the largest ocean in the solar system is on this planet Jupiter |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | WHAT"EV"ER $400: According to its website, this water brand "starts as rain and snow in the peaks of the French Alps" Evian |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS $1200: For Israel: this body of water the Dead Sea |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS $1600: For Iraq & Saudi Arabia: this body of water the Persian Gulf |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | MAMMALS $1000: A desman is a type of this insectivore, but it hunts in water rather than by burrowing a mole |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FETE OFFENSIVE $1600: 30 years after the original concert, this reboot featured overpriced water & arson Woodstock |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | ENDS IN "ASH" $1000: The water bottles seen here were made from this eight-letter gourd a calabash |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | LIFE $1600: 5 feet long in humans, this part comes in near the end of digestion & performs the vital task of absorbing water & vitamins the large intestine |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $1600: A medical milestone came when Dr. John Snow traced an outbreak of this disease in Victorian London to a single water pump cholera |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | HAJJ-PODGE $800: Zamzam is a kind of this dispensed to thankful pilgrims during the hajj water |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HI, WELCOME TO 5 AUTHORS! $1000: As well as penning "Black Panther" comics for Marvel, this African-Amer. writer topped the bestseller list with "The Water Dancer" (Ta-Nehisi) Coates |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $200: A lake high on Mount Kenya shares its name with this main character in "The Lion King" Simba |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | GIVING OUT "IOUS" $400: Able to live both on land & under water amphibious |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $400: One of the highest rivers in the world, the Yarlung Tsangpo starts in this autonomous region of China Tibet |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $600: Scuba diving in lakes at high altitudes is more dangerous, as this 5-letter decompression sickness is worse the bends |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $800: A 425-mile river originating in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains is named for this fish known for its upriver journeys the salmon |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $1000: Tradition says that Zoroaster meditated for years at the lake at the summit of Mount Sabalan in this country Iran |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: 32 degrees is the freezing point for water on this temperature scale Fahrenheit |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | THE NOT-SO-VICIOUS CIRCLE $400: Adair, Iowa & Makanda, Illinois have put this cheerful symbol, big in the '70s, on their water towers a smiley face |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | LONDON BOROUGHS $800: 2 boroughs, Richmond & Kingston, are more properly followed by "upon" this body of water upon Thames |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Horn of Africa is bordered by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean & this body of water that gets its name from a seaport on the coast of Yemen the Gulf of Aden |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri the Mississippi |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Below New York City's George Washington Bridge the Hudson |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1,200 (Daily Double): Beneath the Ponte Sant'Angelo, commissioned by Hadrian the Tiber |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1600: Below the Newport Pell Bridge, featured on the Rhode Island state quarter Narragansett Bay |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $2000: Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon the Tagus |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WALKING $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1974 Dave Kunst became the first person verified to have done this (minus water)--a distance of 14,450 miles walk around the Earth |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | BOOTS $200: A verb meaning "to walk in water" is in this alternate name for a fisherman's rubber hip boots waders |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $1600: Russian for "self-boiler", these urns were traditionally used to heat water for tea & in 1989 were showcased on a series of stamps a samovar |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | IKEA NAMES $800: This item that you often need to buy at checkout for $1.50 is called Frakta a (shopping) bag |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | WAYS TO SAY GO AWAY! $1600: 2-word phrase also meaning "push the boat out into the water" shove off |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | NIAGARA FALLS $400: The diversion of water above the falls for this type of power slows the rate of erosion hydroelectric |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | COINAGE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew drops a coin in water.) Made of this lightweight metal, Japan's 1-yen coin weighs only a gram and can float on water aluminum |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | BORDER RIVERS $800: The Paz River separates Guatemala & El Salvador before flowing into this body of water the Pacific |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | BLANK-"ISH" $800: Estuaries & swamps have this type of water not quite as briny as the ocean brackish |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $400: This song by Otis Redding mentions "the Frisco Bay" & "Watchin' the tide roll away" "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $800: In 2016 this British woman had a hit with "Water Under The Bridge" Adele |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $1200: Joe Jonas of this 4-letter group described "Cake By The Ocean" as a party anthem DNCE |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $1600: This duo's biggest hit was 1970's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Simon and Garfunkel |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $2000: John Fogerty sounds like he crawled out of the swamp on CCR's song "Born On" this marshy inlet a Bayou |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | THE DASHBOARD LIGHT $400: The temperature of this liquid has gotten too high coolant (antifreeze) |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES $1000: The opera "Rusalka", about a water nymph who longs to be human, is partly based on this fairy tale by H.C. Andersen The Little Mermaid |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | UDDERLY MILK--OR NOT $1000: 60% of milk's water is removed & sugar is added before canning to get this double-adjective shelf-stable milk sweetened condensed milk |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | IT WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE $2000: You don't need to walk on water to get to this city's Miracle Garden Dubai |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $800: Spirits are also known as eau de vie or this Latin phrase that also means "water of life" aqua vitae |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHERE'S THE FLOWER? $400: Floating on ponds & pools, this 2-word beauty is the national flower of Bangladesh the water lily |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELTIES $600: Classic practical joke novelties include this one that sends liquid trickling down a drinker's chin a dribble glass |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | SURROUNDED! $1600: This body of water: by Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan & Russia the Caspian Sea |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $600: The Santa Lucia River provides much of the drinking water for this capital of Uruguay Montevideo |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | RIVERS $600: Here's this city's river of the same name decked out for St. Patty's Day. The dye powder is actually orange until it hits water the Chicago |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $200: The opening of this in 1869 provided direct water access between the Mediterranean & the Red Sea the Suez Canal |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Water begins to form on plants & cars at this "point", the temperature at which the atmosphere is saturated with water vapor dew |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | HOUSE & HOME $800: Benjamin Maughan invented one of these called the geyser; nowadays tankless ones have eradicated cold showers a hot water heater |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | SHARK-UTERIE $1600: Pores called ampullae of Lorenzini give sharks a sixth sense that helps detect currents of this in the water electricity |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | FROM G TO G $1000: A ration of rum mixed with water aboard an old Navy ship grog |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $400: Long Island Sound New York & Connecticut |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $800: Lake Tahoe Nevada & California |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | GET "IN" $1000: It's a simple method of adding flavor; when you put a tea bag in hot water, you're making one infusion |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $1200: Green Bay Wisconsin & Michigan |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $2000: The Savannah River Georgia & South Carolina |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $4,800 (Daily Double): Lake Powell--2 of the Four Corners states Utah & Arizona |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $200: Approximately 60 million square miles: this largest ocean the Pacific |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $400: More than 950,000 square miles: this sea that touches Africa & Asia, among others the Mediterranean |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $600: 5.4 million square miles: this ocean that touches the U.S., Canada & Russia, among others the Arctic |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $800: About 378,000 square miles: also called the East Sea, it borders Sakhalin Island the Sea of Japan |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 900,000 square miles: this sea that touches North America & Asia the Bering Sea |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $400: Thoreau's goal in writing about his time by this body of water was to "front only the essential facts of life" Walden |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | SO YUMMY THEY NAMED IT TWICE $800: A warm water fish, the dorado is also known by this Hawaiian name mahi-mahi |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | FIREBOATS OF BOSTON $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shoots water from a fireboat.) The foam thrown by the fireboats blankets the surface, cutting the fire off from the oxygen that feeds this chemical reaction combustion |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | MOUNTAINS OF ASIA $400: Rising to almost 13,000 feet, the Pontic Mountains of Northern Turkey bend along the southern shore of this body of water the Black Sea |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | PHYSICS $1600: Water seems to defy gravity in this "action": the molecules' adhesion to the walls of a tube is stronger than their cohesion capillary action |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | "X"s & "O"s $600: From the Greek for "wood", it's plant tissue that conveys water up from the roots xylem |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The coastline of the state of Western Australia is mainly on this ocean the Indian |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: From the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River flows into this body of water that's about 300 square miles & shrinking the Dead Sea |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Kiev is on this river that rhymes with "deeper" the Dnieper |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Loire & the Garonne rivers flow into this large bay that's noted for its rough waves & heavy storms the Bay of Biscay |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $8,000 (Daily Double): This sea is fairly straight on Italy's shores, but dented by coves & islands on the Balkan side the Adriatic Sea |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $200: Scorpio or Pisces, for example a water sign |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THIS LAND IS YOUR LANDLOCKED COUNTRY $200: About 40 miles of Central Vietnam separates this country from open water Laos |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $400: This was one of the sports Henry Winkler could do, so it's how Fonzie jumped the shark water skiing |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $600: Peppery salad vegetable watercress |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $800: Irish city famous for its crystal Waterford |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $1000: Type of plain in Spain from which the rain mainly drains to one main vein a watershed |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | A SHROOM WITH A VIEW $800: Don't be shell-shocked; despite the name of this mushroom, it doesn't grow under water oyster mushrooms |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | COASTLINES $800: This nation takes its name from the Latin Mare Erythraeum, meaning "Red Sea", the body of water the nation borders Eritrea |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHERE DO YOU STAN? $6,000 (Daily Double): Kazakhstan has 1,200 miles of coastline along this large inland body of water the Caspian Sea |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | I BLESS THE RAINS $1000: Though this weather system can cause terrible flooding, as in Gujarat in 2005, people depend on its rain for their water the monsoons |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" The Shape of Water |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | MAGIC & ILLUSION $1600: On April 5, 1999 this magician was "Buried Alive" in a plexiglass coffin under a 3-ton water tank & stayed for 7 days (David) Blaine |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | DRY CLEANING $200: Dry cleaning got its name because this is not a big part of the process; liquid chemicals are used water |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $800: This "is a rough sport because the players kick and wrestle or sometimes hold an opponent's head underwater" water polo |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LIFE ON MARS $2000: Keep your water supply handy--long, straight surface lines thought to be systems of these proved to be a 19th century myth canals |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Wisconsin city of "clear water" that has portrayed Temple Grandin & Shakespeare's Juliet Eau Claire Danes |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $800: NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented this alliterative water gun that promises a drenching a Super Soaker |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $400: Major ports on this lake include Mwanza & Entebbe Victoria |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | SOAP $400: This word for the foam formed by soap in water can also mean a state of being upset lather |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $800: This strait named for an explorer who passed through it in 1520 separates mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego Island the Strait of Magellan |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $1600: Term for a section of treacherous rapids on a river; the Nile's sixth one is a bit north of Khartoum cataracts |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | ANTIQUITY CUSTODY BATTLES $1600: This rhyming craft-supply chain got in hot water recently after purchasing artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq Hobby Lobby |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $2000: The longest river in this country, the Murray runs 1,570 miles Australia |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): A painting depicts this river that, in Switzerland, plummets over the Schaffhausen waterfall the Rhine |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | CLOCKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Athens' ancient Tower of the Winds measured time with a water clock when these weren't working--say, at night sundials |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | ITTY BITTY CITY $2000: Nevada City, Montana is one big historical museum; visit the area & you can learn this water-based skill & maybe get rich panning for gold |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHARK WEEK $800: The subcutaneous lateral line on this tiger shark senses these quivering motions in the water, perhaps from a struggling fish vibrations |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | MILK, THIS CATEGORY $1000: Milk that has had much of its water content removed is usually called this 10-letter type evaporated |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | GO, GO, GADGET... $200: LifeStraw is a drinking implement that acts as this, allowing you to drink from dubious water sources a purifier (or filter) |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $800: The mix of water & chemicals that made up Earth's oceans billions of years ago is often called this kind of "soup" primordial (or primeval) |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) School glue is made up of these long molecule chains, whose name is from the Greek for "many"--adding a water & borax solution helps link them, creating gooey kids' slime polymers |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | AMETHYST $800: This radiation helps silica-enriched water & iron crystalize as amethysts, so why isn't the Incredible Hulk purple? gamma rays |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | "BB" IN THE MIDDLE $200: A small stone, especially one made smooth by water a pebble |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $2,200 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) The Apollo missions brought back more than 800 pounds of moon rocks & showed that the dark, flat lunar areas known as seas are not water but this common volcanic rock that also makes up most of the oceanic crust here on Earth basalt |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | GEOGRAPHY $800: This strategic body of water is also called the Arabian Gulf the Persian Gulf |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | "V" IN SCIENCE $800: Xylem & phloem in plants are part of this system dealing with food & water transportation vascular |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THAT'S SO CLICHE $800: We're doing it, no matter what, "come hell or" this other condition high water |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | IT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE $400: Here's a circa 1500 rendering of the miracle at a wedding in this town, where Jesus turned water into wine Cana |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $600: Water on the knee is one challenge Operation |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | KITCHEN $400: Some say a colander is a larger type of this mesh utensil, but I don't think that holds water a sieve (or a strainer) |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | MEXICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: Mexico's Baja Peninsula is separated from the nation's mainland by this body of water Gulf of California |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | FAR FROM $400: You can't get much farther from ocean water than the west end of this desert on the Mongolia/China border the Gobi |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | WHAT HAPPENED? $400: In WWI, the British navy tried to spot & damage U-boats by training seagulls to seek out these sticking out of the water periscopes |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | FROM THE GERMAN $1200: Originally used to describe mineral water from Hesse, this word now just means carbonated water seltzer |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IT'S HARBOR DAY! $1000: Here's a view from this bridge named for the water below Sydney Harbor |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | PARASITIC PLANTS $400: A hemiparasite that makes food but steals water & nutrients, this plant is better known for Christmas kissing mistletoe |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WE BORDER GERMANY $600: This nation reclaimed about 1/3 of its land from the sea by pumping out water, making new areas called polders the Netherlands |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | REPLICAS $200: Here's a half-size version of this landmark, just outside Chicago, originally built to store water the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | SPACE "EX" $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows TRAPPIST-1 on the monitor.) 39 light-years from our sun, a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 has 7 Earth-size these whose orbits are seen here; JPL says 3 of them are firmly in the habitable zone where liquid water could most likely exist exoplanets |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | IN THE BACKYARD $400: How about a water feature, like a pond filled with these Japanese carp? koi |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | HEAVY SCIENCE $400: Made with deuterium, an isotope of this element, heavy water has the formula D2O hydrogen |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | HEAVY SCIENCE $1000: This planet is less dense than water--but it's still 95 times the mass of the Earth Saturn |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | IN THE BACKYARD $1200: A good choice for water-thrifty gardeners is Acacia cognata, also known as this, after a relative of the Addams family Cousin Itt |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | LET'S GO TO THAT SPORTS THING $800: In 2021 we'll go down to the water & check out the best-of-13 chase for this oldest international sports trophy the America's Cup |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FIRE & ICE $1600: Ice plants are a low-growing species of these plants with fleshy, thick tissues that store water succulents |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | V.I.P.! V.I.P.! $3,000 (Daily Double): 3 North American bodies of water--a strait, a bay & a river--are named for this English captain last seen in 1611 (Henry) Hudson |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | ADD A VOWEL $400: A body of water smaller than a lake adds a vowel to become a unit of weight a pond and a pound |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $1200: This spa town, a big name in bottled water, is on the French shore of Lake Geneva Evian |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): Abu Simbel is on the shore of this body of water that didn't exist before 1970 Lake Nasser |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | TICK...TICK...BOOM! $2000: Water pressure causes these antisubmarine weapons to explode at a preselected distance below the surface a depth charge |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $400: This "monstrous" Scottish lake contains an island that in the 15th century was home to a castle Loch Ness |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: Sri Lanka, India & Myanmar all border this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1200: It's the gulf seen here--that's Prince Edward Island near the south end the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1600: Built in the 1970s, a bridge over this strait connects the Asian & European sections of Istanbul the Bosporous |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: Much of Venezuela's oil has come from the basin of this lake, the country's largest Lake Maracaibo |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | THINGS TO DO OUTDOORS $800: Hit the water & paddle your own boat of this type with a palindromic name a kayak |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD $2000: Other workers drank ditch water & got ill; Chinese workers drank tea & became 90% of the workforce of this co. heading east from California the Central Pacific |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | BACK"PACK" $2000: Melting from one of these in the Sierra Nevada provides about 1/3 of California's water needs the snowpack |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | PUP CULTURE $1000: Newfoundlands rescued from a shipwreck off Maryland led to the retriever breed named for this body of water Chesapeake Bay |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 1930s SLANG $600: The 1930s were a time of poverty, & dog soup meant a glass of this water |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | TALKING DEAD $800: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water" & "Feb. 24th 1821" are writ on the tombstone of this tubercular poet (John) Keats |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | RHYMING PHRASES $1000: The plane seen here is called one of these due to its ability to collect water efficiently a super scooper |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PHRASE ORIGINS $1,800 (Daily Double): 19th c. exhibitions saw fire brigades competing either using water, or in one of these, now a term for a practice effort a dry run |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | RHYME TIME $800: A tin pot for cooking or boiling water a metal kettle |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | EMERGENCY GENERATOR $800: H2O plus principal small-town street plus a pause in work for coffee water main break |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | MOLLUSKS $2000: Once believed to sail on water using 2 enlarged arms as sails, they are named for the crew who sought the golden fleece the Argonauts |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | BEER $800: Because it contains this natural type of alcohol, an antimicrobial, beer can be safer to drink than suspect water ethanol |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | MUSIC FESTIVALS $1200: At the Montreux Jazz Festival, you might see smoke on the water of this Swiss lake's shoreline Lake Geneva |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $200: The Gulf of Taranto makes up the arch in this country's "boot" Italy |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Chesapeake Bay is natural; Druid Lake & all other lakes in this state are man-made Maryland |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Seen here is a marker at Cape Agulhas at the tip of this continent Africa |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Old unfaithful! Steamboat Geyser in this national park went 50 years without a major eruption & erupted 29 times in one year Yellowstone |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: Canada's Spotted Lake is found over the border from Washington in this province British Columbia |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | 18th CENTURY SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Next time you grab a soda, you can thank Joseph Priestley, who dissolved this gas in water in 1768, making it fizzy carbon dioxide |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $2000: This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land" (William) Faulkner |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | A VERY VERSATILE TOOL WORD $800: A fast swimmer can do this "sharply" through the water knife |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BESTSELLERS $600: Rosie is the seemingly untrainable circus elephant in this bestselling novel by Sara Gruen Water for Elephants |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | FROM THE MERMAID'S LOCKER $800: From a pirate ship, a tompion, a plug placed in the muzzle of one of these to protect it from water when loaded cannon |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | COLORFUL BANDS $800: A fire at a Frank Zappa concert inspired this band's song "Smoke On The Water" Deep Purple |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | A HOLE IN THE GROUND $1200: Water buildup on your cropland? Dig this alliterative waterway to let it flow elsewhere drainage ditch |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS $600: An Illinois senator from 1985 to 1997, he ran for president in 1988 but did not write "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Paul Simon |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | GEOGRAPH"EE" $1200: UNESCO says this Australian wonder is "of superlative natural beauty above and below the water" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | PLANT-ED EVIDENCE $1,800 (Daily Double): Ancient Egyptians got a lot of out of this water plant:
cloth, mats, sails & oh yeah, material on which to write papyrus |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | ELEMENTS $600: It weighs 21 times as much as an equal volume of water; a CD that sells 2 million units becomes double this platinum |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WORD HISTORY $200: Gaelic for "water of life" gave us this word for a drink you might have with a little water whiskey |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $800: AKA the aku, it's named for the way it launches itself out of the water a skipjack |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | ANIMAL TALK $800: Maybe you're a canvasback if you start a new activity & "take to it like" this duck to water |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | ANCIENT AGRICULTURE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an irrigation model on the diagram.) To irrigate farmland, the Persian empire built qanats, tunnels that tap into this underground source, from the Latin for "water-bearing" aquifer |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | DEPRESSION-ERA DINING $200: Many would combine hot water & this condiment to make tomato soup ketchup |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | USE YOUR B,R,A,I,N POWER $400: This glorious sight is formed by the refractive dispersion of light through falling water droplets a rainbow |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | LIQUIDS $2000: In 1943 Norwegian commandos & Allied bombs wrecked the Nazis' production of this A-bomb-making liquid at Rjukan heavy water |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1600: In 1915 the British military deceptively called a prototype a "water carrier", leading to this name tank |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | ODD-NAMED ANIMALS $1600: For their habit of walking on water, basilisk lizards are also named after him Jesus |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 2018 divers rescued 12 boys & one adult trapped by rising water inside a cave in this country Thailand |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | ISLANDS $1,600 (Daily Double): Larger than Maryland & lying near the equator, the world's largest island in fresh water is in this river the Amazon |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $400: A 1970s bestseller:
"The great fish moved silently through the night water" Jaws |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | PLANT THE FLAG $1000: A white one of these aquatic flowers floats on the flag of Macau a lotus |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | GEOGRAPH"E" $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a coastal body of water on the monitor.) Seen here is an example of this, a partly enclosed coastal body of water where river water mixes with sea water an estuary |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: Unrestricted intl. commercial navigation through this sea was affirmed by a Russian-Turkish treaty in 1829 the Black Sea |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $800: This largest Russian lake is home to the nerpa, a freshwater seal, & a 16-inch flatworm that hunts fish Lake Baikal |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: This river & the mountains with which it shares its name form a traditional border between Europe & Asia the Urals |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: Some of Russia's most important ports lie on this body of water named for another country the Gulf of Finland |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Tatar Strait separates the Russian mainland from this huge island that lies just north of Japan Sakhalin |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | EDIBLE HOMOPHONES $1000: It's what bilge water comes from a leak |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | EVERYONE INTO THE POOL! $800: Once known as water ballet, it became an Olympic sport in 1984 synchronized swimming |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | STEAMY SCIENCE $1600: Boiling water that turns into steam is undergoing this phase change from liquid to gas vaporization |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | STEAMY SCIENCE $10,800 (Daily Double): Earthquakes have lengthened the average interval between its famed eruptions of water & steam by about 30 minutes Old Faithful |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $400: A water hole called Enkare Nairobi, or "cold water", eventually became the capital of this country Kenya |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | WINDMILLS $200: Great Plains windmills were mainly used not for grinding meal but for pumping this life necessity up from the ground water |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $200: More than 1,300' below sea level, the shore of this body of water is the Earth's lowest point on land the Dead Sea |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $400: The Scandinavian peninsula is separated from the rest of continental Europe by this arm of the north Atlantic the Baltic Sea |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | ART & MYTHOLOGY $800: Seen here on an ancient water jug is a depiction of Hercules leading this three-headed dog Cerberus |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $800: This body of water could say to the nation of Bahrain, "We've got you completely surrounded" the Persian Gulf |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $1000: Victor Hugo once penned a travel guide to this river that forms part of France's border with Germany the Rhine |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Water for this European capital city was historically provided by the Marathon reservoir Athens |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | QUOTABLE POTABLES $400: In 1732 Thomas Fuller wrote, "We never know the worth of" this "till the well is dry" water |
| #7899, aired 2019-01-03 | THAT BOOK IS MAKING ME SICK $2000: The symptoms of infatuation & a water-borne illness overlap in this 1985 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | THE "CO"-CATEGORY $1600: Zico is a brand of this beverage coconut water |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | ON THE ROAD $2000: Magnolia Avenue will get you to this St. Augustine, Fla. archaeological park; tickets are $15, the spring water is free the Fountain of Youth |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | ABORIGINAL WORDS $2000: Now the name of a water sports clothing company, it's Australian for a stagnant backwater billabong |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $400: In this 1974 film Hollis Mulwray is partly based on William Mulholland, a real-life L.A. water engineer Chinatown |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | SOME FILLER $400: "You never miss the water till the ___ runs dry" the well |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: At low water levels, the 2 largest of the Boulder Islands in this 110-mile artificial Nevada lake are connected Lake Mead |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2,000 (Daily Double): Covering more than 700 square miles, this Florida lake gets its name from the Hitchiti for "big water" Lake Okeechobee |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This term for a quintet of bodies of water in North America is also used for a group in Africa the Great Lakes |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Around 1633 Rembrandt painted the Biblical scene "Storm on the Sea of" this Galilee |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Italy is surrounded by seas of the Mediterranean, including the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea & this one the Adriatic Sea |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This misleadingly named body of water is landlocked by Russia, Kazakhstan & 3 other nations the Caspian Sea |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Southern or Antarctic Ocean is narrowest at the 600-mile wide Drake Passage between these 2 continents Antarctica and South America |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | TREES $2000: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) These trees that provide shelter for many coast-dwelling animals have adapted with an open-air root system with lots of pores to capture the oxygen they don't get from the muddy water they grow in mangroves |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $800: In 1945 Grand Rapids became the first city to do this to its drinking water, revolutionizing dental care to fluoridate |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $1600: It's the heat needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water one degree Celsius a calorie |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | DE-CAP-ITATE 'EM! $400: Chop "cap" off a word meaning to overturn in water & you get this magnitude size |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | BE SAFE! $1000: Water doesn't have to be frigid to cause this 11-letter body condition; under 70 degrees can do it hypothermia |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FISHY SITUATION $800: This "body organ" fish breathes out of water using its swim bladder; if held underwater, some will drown a lungfish |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | CITIES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10.) Beautiful people, unique buildings, warm water & white sand epitomize this world-famous Florida neighborhood with a directional name South Beach |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC $400: Legendary drummer Hal Blaine used tire chains for percussion on this duo's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Simon and Garfunkel |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | RIVERS OF CALIFORNIA $800: This river provides about 60% of the water for SoCal, but is barely a trickle when it reaches the ocean the Colorado |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $800: Patsy Sherman invented this 3M protective stuff when a spill showed that a mixture repelled oil & water Scotchgard |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | MANY MOONS $1000: Neptune's moons include Nereid, Neso & this other "N" creature, also a water nymph Naiad |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $800: Oddly, linguists say New Orleans is now the best place to hear the accent called this NYC borough-ese, as in "berl the water" Brooklynese |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | RESORT $200: Maui's Grand Wailea resort has one of these with a 14-second, 3-story drop into a pool below a water slide |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | WHAT KILLED ME? $400: The Wicked Witch of the West water |
| #7867, aired 2018-11-20 | SCORPIOS $800: Scorpio is a water sign; no wonder this French artist created a water-lily pond at his home in Giverny Monet |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ELEMENTAL $200: This element's name is derived from the Greek for "water" & "born" hydrogen |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | ODD FUTURE $400: The University of Puerto Rico studies possibly habitable faraway planets; a key requirement is surface this substance water |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $800: Seen here is this London body of water on Lord Mayor's Day in the 1740s the Thames |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This river flows some 4,000 miles to its mouth in the Atlantic on the coast of Brazil the Amazon |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Cayman Trench, near Cuba, is the greatest depth of this sea the Caribbean Sea |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 giant rocks called the Pillars of Hercules mark the entrance to this strait Gibraltar |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Irrawaddy River flows into this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of this body of water that connects the Atlantic Ocean & the North Sea the English Channel |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The Mississippi River flows more than 2,300 miles before emptying into this large body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | IT WAS 10 MILES $200: A 10-mile-long aqueduct built by the Romans supplied Segovia, Spain with this resource for 2,000 years water |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CAVES $800: Caves eroded by water are most commonly found in this type of rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate limestone |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE... OR SENATE $800 (Daily Double): A representative from Idaho & also this medical professional, Mike Simpson introduced a resolution on water fluoridation a dentist |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ALMANAC 2019 $2000: (Cara Santa Maria presents the clue.) Giant tube worms in the Galapagos Rift thrive without sunlight, getting nutrients from these vents whose name comes from the Greek for "water" & "hot" hydrothermal vents |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | GIVE THEM SOME CANDY $200: Requiring 20 min. of pulling, the salt water type of this has been described as a candy & an upper body workout all in one taffy |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | BASEBALL-ADJACENT FACTS $1200: A headline about "switch-pitcher" Pat Venditte used this land & water word instead of "ambidextrous" amphibious |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VENOM $800: The venomous snake seen here is called the water type of this a water moccasin |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | AP BIOLOGY $800: This, the beginning of growth for a seed, requires 3 basic elements:
water, oxygen & the right temperature germination |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | ENDS IN AN F SOUND $600: A glass container with a wide opening for serving wine or water at meals a carafe |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | "PER"SPECTIVE ON SCIENCE $800: To a geologist it's the movement of water through rock; to a barista it's the movement of water through coffee grounds percolation |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | FRENCH ARTISTS $400: This painter of "Water Lilies" met Renoir when the 2 were students in the same painter's studio Monet |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | A LITTLE DRY $2000: Rhyming term for the type of fishing seen here, with the lure above the water so you can see all the action a dry fly |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | NO FILTER $1600: Without a dual-media filter, using fine sand & the anthracite type of this, you could have impurities in your water coal |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $800: Pin, hose, a pressurized tank filled with chemicals such as potassium bicarbonate or just water a fire extinguisher |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | "HOW"-"D" $1200: Low-flow these: good for the drought, not so good for water pressure showerheads |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | GETTING COORDINATED $1600: 50 degrees north latitude 0 degrees longitude lands you in this body of water, just north of Le Havre the English Channel |
| #7827, aired 2018-09-25 | THE UNSEEN $600: Water & lemon juice are a simple recipe for this junior spy specialty invisible ink |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $1000: (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) Portulaca, which is this type of plant named for its water-storing tissues, will turn a bright yellow in the rainy season, & the land iguanas that feast on this plant will eagerly approach visitors, if they happen to be wearing yellow succulents |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Of the only 35 or so known paintings by this Dutch master, the Met has 5, including "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", which was the first of his canvases to enter a public American collection Vermeer |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $400: In 2016 a state of emergency was declared over lead contamination in this Michigan city's water Flint |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | FILMMAKERS FROM MEXICO $600: Alfonso Arau directed the adaptation of his wife's novel "Como Agua Para Chocolate", this in English Like Water for Chocolate |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | DOUBLE ANIMAL NAMES $800: Belzoni, Mississippi has a museum & a festival devoted to this whiskered water dweller a catfish |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ANCIENT BRO-MANS $400: I understand the confusion--that ripped torso with the 6-pack is not me, but this Roman water god Neptune |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE MOVIES $800: A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar's Best Picture The Shape of Water |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | RIVERS $400: Rising in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, the Rio Grande flows 1,900 miles into this body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $200: Expressed as a percentage, it's all "relative" this, the water vapor in the air at any given time & temp humidity |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | THE OCTOPUS $200: Big enough to fight & eat sharks, the largest octopus is the giant one named for this largest body of water on Earth Pacific octopus |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | MOVIE MAGIC $400: In "Fantasia" this character gets swept up into a disaster when he puts a broom to work carrying water the Sorcerer's Apprentice (or Mickey Mouse) |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | GOOD GROOMING $600: The ASPCA says you can make this for your dog from baking soda & water toothpaste |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | UN-BELIEVABLE $800: In mythology, an undine is a water one of these female spirits from the Greek for "bride" nymph |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | 5, 5 $200: Some beginners use these, seen in the picture here water wings |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $400: Slightly less dangerous than the lit kind, the water version of this firework is launching here a bottle rocket |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | NOWHERE LAND $1200: This remote "-water" is an uncultured place out of the mainstream a backwater |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | SCIENCE STUFF $800: The medusa, the bell-shaped body of this tentacled sea drifter, can be made of up to 95% water a jellyfish |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | KUWAIT, KUWAIT $1000: Before desalination plants, Kuwaitis imported water or drew it from these wells named for a French province artesian wells |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | ADVERBS $1200: ODTs are pills that can be taken without water; DT is disintegrating tablets & O is for this adverb orally |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | THE REAL GAME OF THRONES $1600: "The Narrow Sea", next to Essos, is also a name for this real body of water as in the history work "Hold the Narrow Sea" the English Channel |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | FOUR LEGS GOOD $2000: This venomous lizard named for a body of water can be found in Saguaro National Park a gila monster |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Both sides of the Dardanelles Strait are in this country Turkey |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | IT'S TOTALLY TUBULAR $400: Besides using it to moisten turkey, you can also use this tube with a rubber bulb at one end to water high-hanging plants a baster |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Lake Ontario is 326' below Lake Erie, so serious water will fall at some point in this river connecting the 2 lakes the Niagara River |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: In 1974 this Idaho river seemed to scream, "Leap over me in a rocket!"; then "Nice try!" the Snake River |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: "If you ever go across the sea to Ireland", check out this bay on the west coast, immortalized in song Galway Bay |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The creation of this lake, AKA Lake Nubia, forced the removal of many Egyptian artifacts Lake Nasser |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | IDIOM ORIGINS $800: On the water you might find yourself between the devil, a seam in a ship, & this the deep blue sea |
| #7780, aired 2018-06-08 | POP CULTURE SQUIRRELS $600: Twiggy the squirrel is a cultural sensation for expertly doing this aquatic activity water-ski |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | BRAND AWARENESS $400: The German word for water, Wasser, gives us part of this petroleum jelly brand name Vaseline |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $600: Developed in Wisconsin & seen here, the American water this is a rare breed; there are only about 3,000 in the world the American water spaniel |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | A JOURNEY OF YOUR PIERS $200: Amazing sunsets can be enjoyed at Lithuania's Palanga Pier, which juts into this body of water the Baltic Sea |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | BLACK-&-WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE $800: Why bother with a color photo when the skin of this water mammal is grayish anyway? a manatee |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | HAIL HYDRO $1200: A swagman (a wanderer in search of work) jumps in a billabong (a water hole) to avoid capture in this Aussie song "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | HAIL HYDRO $1600: He rimed, "Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | HAIL HYDRO $2000: Seen here is an annual water gun & water balloon rumble, punningly called this kind of mob a splash mob |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | YOU SHALL NOT PASS! $600: I predict trouble in the combat water survival test, a requirement to join these U.S. "R"my special ops forces Army Rangers |
| #7774, aired 2018-05-31 | ON "MARS" $1200: "Their impure blood should water our fields" is a lyric from this 1792 composition "La Marseillaise" |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | RETORTS $800: Asked about a run for mayor, Ed Davis, head of this department in L.A. in the 1970s, said, "And give up all my power?" the police department |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | BEACH SEASON $400: Don't put a beached whale or dolphin back in the water; keep it wet, cool & shaded & don't cover this nostril the blowhole |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | NURSERY RHYME POLICE REPORT $400: First aid administered to this pair injured while tumbling down hill during water retrieval Jack and Jill |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | SCIENCE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) Dropping a penny into an already full glass of water doesn't cause it to spill because this elastic property at the rim contains the displaced volume surface tension |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | JEFF BRIDGES $800: As a Texas Ranger chasing bank robbers in this 2016 film, Jeff discovers the T-Bone Cafe & its very limited menu Hell or High Water |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1000: Water's edge forested by a variety of deciduous tree a beech beach |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | PLANT ILLNESSES $200: If gardeners overdo this, it deprives the roots of oxygen & can lead to root rot water |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents an image of bodies of water.) Eleven narrow bodies of water, including the two longest, Cayuga and Seneca, make up the "digits" of this geographic group the Finger Lakes |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | THE STARS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows constellations on the monitor.) A region of the sky is nicknamed the Sea for its water-themed constellations, which include the River, the Whale & this one, pouring out his water jug onto the Southern Fish Aquarius |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $200: This Great Lake is the greatest Superior |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $400: This river's delta covers more than 8,000 square miles the Nile |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $600: James Bay protrudes from the lower right of this larger body Hudson Bay |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $800: The light blue patches are shallow water & salt ponds in this Middle Eastern body of water the Dead Sea |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $1000: Images from 1977 & 2010 show the effects of water diversion on this, once the world's fourth-largest lake the Aral Sea |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on board the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, just yards from the spot where Captain "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on this river the Hudson |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | PLACES OF SPORT & AMUSEMENT $200: With 10 million gallons of water, the USA's largest one of these opened in Atlanta in 2005 an aquarium |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on this southeast Asian river that flows through or borders half a dozen countries & has just as many names, including Song Chau Doc the Mekong |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at Mystic Seaport, the nation's leading maritime museum, located on 19 acres in this New England state Connecticut |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Oregon city, named for the fur merchant who established a trading post here around 1811 Astoria |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Virginia city that's named for an English county; the 887-foot battleship Wisconsin is a small part of its enormous naval & harbor complex Norfolk |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | MUSEUMS $4,500 (Daily Double): Home to many Dutch masterpieces, it recently added an Asian pavilion that's surrounded by water the Rijksmuseum |
