Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (1000 results returned) (search results maxed out)

#9068, aired 2024-03-27PORTS OF CALL $600: Many cruising to the Western Caribbean will set sail from this Texas city, the largest U.S. cruise port outside of Florida Galveston
#9064, aired 2024-03-21CLASSIC TV $800: The classic overture heard here became the theme song for this Western series The Lone Ranger
#9058, aired 2024-03-13THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $400: Months on the Islamic calendar traditionally begin when this type of moon is sighted in the western sky the crescent moon
#9057, aired 2024-03-12THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $800: Odds are you know this team led the NHL's Western Conference in points with 111 in the 2022-23 season the Golden Knights
#9057, aired 2024-03-12STARTS WITH "P" $1600: It's a line of steep bluffs like the cliffs along part of the western shore of the Hudson River a palisade
#9051, aired 2024-03-04LANGUAGES $2000: Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized Basque
#9043, aired 2024-02-21AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: This alliterative author of Western novels wrote several Hopalong Cassidy books under the pen name Tex Burns Louis L'Amour
#9039, aired 2024-02-15MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE $1200: More than 6,000 athletes from some 40 countries compete in these games, the Olympics of the Western Hemisphere the Pan American Games
#9038, aired 2024-02-14ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $1000: Irish playwright J.M. Synge wrote of this "of the Western World" Playboy
#9030, aired 2024-02-02A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $1000: Founded in 1851 stop this company dominated the telegraph biz in the early 1900s stop but the telephone changed things stop Western Union
#9030, aired 2024-02-02EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $1200: Get a kick out of some kicks at the Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market in this Western city Seattle
#9029, aired 2024-02-01BONDS OF COMMONALITY $400: Slippery Rock, Case Western Reserve, Austin Peay universities
#9027, aired 2024-01-30HOT 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
#9025, aired 2024-01-26WHAT'S IN A NAME $4,500 (Daily Double): The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain Lusitania
#25, aired 2024-01-16KURT RUSSELL FILMS $300: Rumor has it that Russell was secretly directing the 1993 western "Tombstone" while portraying this legendary lawman Wyatt Earp
#9016, aired 2024-01-15WORLD HISTORY $400: Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power Peter the Great
#9015, aired 2024-01-12ANAGRAMS $400: A Western Hemisphere nation: REGAIN TAN Argentina
#9013, aired 2024-01-10CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES & TV SHOWS $2000: This creator of "Yellowstone" cited "Unforgiven" as a favorite for destroying our notion of a Western (Taylor) Sheridan
#9012, aired 2024-01-09"F" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: This state capital is near the western edge of the Inner Bluegrass Region Frankfort
#9012, aired 2024-01-09WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: 13 in 1972 when she had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", she continues to put out music, including her recent album, "Sweet Western Sound" Tanya Tucker
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $200: Beth Dutton kidnaps a Catholic priest to marry Rip Wheeler on this TV series set in Montana Yellowstone
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $400: In 1966 this man stepped down from hosting the Western "Death Valley Days" to focus on his campaign for governor (Ronald) Reagan
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $600: This actor has been on the right side of the law as Seth Bullock in "Deadwood" & Raylan Givens in "Justified" Timothy Olyphant
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $800: According to good ol' Hoss Cartwright on this show, "Anything will taste good when you're hungry enough" Bonanza
#8993, aired 2023-12-13WESTERN TV SHOWS $1000: A Paramount+ series follows this Black lawman of the Wild West who in real life apprehended more than 3,000 outlaws, including his son Bass Reeves
#8980, aired 2023-11-24IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $600: Like dogs, cockatiels like to nibble on this untanned leather, also the title of an old TV Western rawhide
#8978, aired 2023-11-22BELGIUM $2000: In WWI the second battle of this western Belgian cit"Y" saw some of the earliest use of deadly poison gas Ypres
#8952, aired 2023-10-17THE MOUNTAIN WEST $400: Mount Whitney in this western range is the highest peak in the lower 48 states the Sierra Nevada
#8952, aired 2023-10-17THE MOUNTAIN WEST $2000: The highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, in the western part of the range, is Mount Toubkal in this monarchy Morocco
#8947, aired 2023-10-10LODGING $800: What some say the movie "Stagecoach" is, or a hotel chain with more than 4,000 hotels best Western
#8927, aired 2023-09-12AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $2,400 (Daily Double): Western port city / It's named for a president / '90s Civil War Monrovia
#8922, aired 2023-07-25THIS AMERICAN LAKE $1200: The name of this freshwater lake shared by 2 western states is from a Washoe word for "lake"; hope you win big at Harrah's too Tahoe
#8915, aired 2023-07-14A TOUCH OF GREY $800: Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company Western Union
#8914, aired 2023-07-13LIVE CAMS $1000: You can see people praying day & night at this holy site that was a part of a structure surrounding the Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
#8912, aired 2023-07-11IN HIGH PLACES $800: It ranks as the highest mountain peak in both the Southern & Western Hemispheres Aconcagua
#8903, aired 2023-06-28GEOGRAPHY "B" $400: Rising in the Western Rockies, the Fraser is the only major river lying entirely within this Canadian province British Columbia
#8903, aired 2023-06-28GEOGRAPHY "B" $1600: Fishing is an important industry in this 86,000-square-mile inlet of the Atlantic off Western Europe the Bay of Biscay
#8902, aired 2023-06-27AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES $600: Ernie the this flightless bird is the beloved mascot of Western Australia's Edith Cowan University an emu
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $200: On New Mexico's Arizona
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $400: On New Hampshire's Vermont
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $600: On Georgia's Alabama
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $800: On North Dakota's Montana
#8896, aired 2023-06-19ON THE STATE'S LONGEST WESTERN BORDER $1000: On Ark--on that of Arkansas Oklahoma
#8881, aired 2023-05-29THE GULF OF MEXICO $800: The western end of this island forms a partial divider between the Gulf & the Caribbean Sea Cuba
#8881, aired 2023-05-29YES, OUI $1000: Bai in Bilbao & the Western Pyrenees Basque
#8881, aired 2023-05-29THE GULF OF MEXICO $2000: In 1559 a Spanish expedition settled for about 2 years at what is today this city near the western end of Florida's Panhandle Pensacola
#8880, aired 2023-05-26THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $2000: Goes up the Congo; hears about "the horror"; questions western civilization Charlie Marlow
#8878, aired 2023-05-24THANKS A MILLION $600: He wrote, directed & starred in the comedy Western "A Million Ways to Die in the West" Seth MacFarlane
#8876, aired 2023-05-22ART IMITATING LIFE $1000: This sculptor & painter of Western life took on Yankee football with the 1890 painting "Touchdown Yale vs. Princeton" Frederic Remington
#8873, aired 2023-05-17JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1600: Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this Nudie
#8872, aired 2023-05-16TWISTS $2000: Anthrax earlier seen to be afflicting cows is later weaponized against Benedict Cumberbatch in this 2021 Western The Power of the Dog
#9, aired 2023-05-15ART & ARTISTS $200: From the 16th century, Sofonisba Anguissola here records herself painting this classic subject of Western art Madonna & child
#9, aired 2023-05-15THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: Known for the coffee grown on their slopes, these mountains contain Jamaica's highest point the Blue Mountains
#9, aired 2023-05-15THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: This Arizona city with its red rock landscape is considered a spiritual mecca that inspires & heals Sedona
#9, aired 2023-05-15THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $600: The Inuit make up most of the population of this Canadian territory that was created in 1999 Nunavut
#9, aired 2023-05-15THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern part of this island Hispaniola
#9, aired 2023-05-15THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: Located on a river of the same name, it's the South American natural wonder seen here Iguazú Falls
#8867, aired 2023-05-09BURT BACHARACH $400: This 1969 Western about a pair of Old West outlaws won Burt 2 Oscars Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
#8865, aired 2023-05-05"OH", YES! $800: This leading seaport & industrial center is found on the western shore of Tokyo Bay Yokohama
#8864, aired 2023-05-0421st CENTURY FILMS $400: The 2022 film version of this antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque received 9 Oscar nominations All Quiet on the Western Front
#8859, aired 2023-04-27TV DRAMA $600: Seen here, she plays the title aristocratic noblewoman in Amazon's Western "The English" Emily Blunt
#8856, aired 2023-04-24AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: 3 of South Africa's 9 provinces, making up more than half the country's area, are called Eastern, Western & Northern this Cape
#8843, aired 2023-04-05THE LAST BATTLE $400: The last Western Hemisphere action of the Spanish-American War wasn't on Cuba but on this island Puerto Rico
#8841, aired 2023-04-03HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $400: The Western shirt created by Jack A. Weil of Rockmount Ranch Wear snaps
#8838, aired 2023-03-29AUTOCRATS $2000: Omar al-Bashir is currently awaiting trial for atrocities in this region of Western Sudan Darfur
#8837, aired 2023-03-28TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $800: Too tough for a first name, Western hero Paladin had a business card that said these 2 words, "will travel" Have gun
#8837, aired 2023-03-28TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $2000: Tough cowboy Curly in "City Slickers", this Western actor took a turn on TV as Bronk Jack Palance
#8834, aired 2023-03-23THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $1200: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city San Francisco
#8831, aired 2023-03-20UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $2000: UNESCO referred to the duduk as Armenia's equivalent of this Western reed instrument an oboe
#8830, aired 2023-03-17IRISH AUTHORS $400: Showing the Irish warts & all, J.M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" caused riots in this capital in 1907 Dublin
#8821, aired 2023-03-06SEA HERE $400: The Amundsen Sea lies along the western side of this continent Antarctica
#8815, aired 2023-02-24WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: It's the world's second-longest river, but the longest in the Western Hemisphere the Amazon
#8814, aired 2023-02-23OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols
#8808, aired 2023-02-15I HAVE AN IDEA $7,000 (Daily Double): S.D. state historian Doane Robinson's original idea for what became this was carvings of Western heroes, including Native Americans Mount Rushmore
#8807, aired 2023-02-14COME ON GET HOPPY $800: A predominantly western U.S. steakhouse chain, or one who seizes somebody else's land for mineral rights Claim Jumper
#8807, aired 2023-02-14THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $1600: Don't forget Tom & all those who fled the Dust Bowl on this highway Steinbeck called "The Great Western Road" Route 66
#8805, aired 2023-02-10WESTERN EUROPE $400: The Temple of La Sagrada Família has been growing tower by tower since 1882 when construction started in this Spanish city Barcelona
#8805, aired 2023-02-10WESTERN EUROPE $800: It borders Austria & the North Sea Germany
#8805, aired 2023-02-10WESTERN EUROPE $1200: This 600-mile river of Central France is lined with picturesque chateaus the Loire
#8805, aired 2023-02-10WESTERN EUROPE $1600: The treasure chamber of this little Alpine land includes Faberge eggs & Moon rocks Liechtenstein
#8805, aired 2023-02-10WESTERN EUROPE $2000: The vibrantly painted buildings of Norway's Bryggen Wharf commemorate its days as a hub for this Baltic trading organization the Hanseatic League
#13, aired 2023-02-02GOING UNDERGROUND $4,300 (Daily Double): In 1900 an estimated 5 billion of these, not actual canines, lived in underground "towns" in the western United States prairie dogs
#8797, aired 2023-01-31THEY WROTE THE MOVIE $1600: David Webb Peoples wrote the script for this Western with Clint Eastwood as a killer-turned-farmer-turned-killer Unforgiven
#8794, aired 2023-01-26"B" MOVIES $1200: Frankie Laine sang the title tune of this Mel Brooks Western Blazing Saddles
#8794, aired 2023-01-26VENOMOUS CREATURES $2000: Deriving its name from a country in Western Africa, this viper can weigh about 20 pounds & has the longest fangs of any snake a Gaboon viper
#8790, aired 2023-01-20SOUND $400: Cockburn Sound off the coast of Western Australia is an inlet of this ocean the Indian Ocean
#11, aired 2023-01-19THOMAS EDISON $600: In the 1860s Edison worked as a roving operator of this communication device for companies like Western Union a telegraph
#8787, aired 2023-01-17A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great
#8777, aired 2023-01-03THE GOOD, OLD, U.S. OF A. $400: From c. 1640 & built using dovetailing, the USA's oldest of these 2-word symbols of hardy pioneer life is in western New Jersey a log cabin
#8772, aired 2022-12-27FLYOVER COUNTRIES $800: We've got the wind behind us as we cruise east out of Bosnia & Herzegovina to fly over this country on Romania's western border Serbia
#8771, aired 2022-12-26APPS & WEBSITES $400: It's not your grandma's Western Union (stop) it's "a new era of messaging" (stop) are you getting the idea (we'll stop) Telegram
#8770, aired 2022-12-23LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $1000: "When ____ last in the dooryard bloom'd, and the great star early droop'd in the western sky" lilacs
#8767, aired 2022-12-20THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT $600: In the movie version of this World War I novel, Paul Bäumer is shot reaching for a butterfly on the battlefield All Quiet on the Western Front
#8762, aired 2022-12-134 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL $600: 47 years after the OK Corral, his pallbearers in L.A. included silent movie Western star Tom Mix & a former mayor of Tombstone (Wyatt) Earp
#8759, aired 2022-12-08"U" IN HISTORY $600: In 1369 the V pope of this name tried to pull off a union of the Eastern & western Christian churches Urban
#8755, aired 2022-12-02MICRO FISH $400: About an inch in length, the pygmy sunfish, seen here, & named for this coast, is found is Western Florida the Gulf Coast
#8753, aired 2022-11-30SOMETHING TO READ $400: In 1953 dime Western magazine paid Elmore Leonard $90 for a short story called "Three-Ten to" this place Yuma
#8741, aired 2022-11-14FROM "D" TO "O" $800: Room 222 at the Strater Hotel in this Colorado city was where Louis L'Amour wrote many of his Western novels Durango
#8741, aired 2022-11-14YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $1200: The Compromise of 1850 admitted this Western state to the Union, with slavery banned there California
#8738, aired 2022-11-09INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE $400: Dario Argento & Bernardo Bertolucci worked on "C'era una volta il West", this "tasty" type of Western a Spaghetti Western
#8737, aired 2022-11-08MOVIE QUOTES $800: Oft seen in writing on fact & fiction, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" includes "When the legend becomes fact," do this print the legend
#8729, aired 2022-10-27OCTOBERFEST $800: In October 1936 power from this massive project began turning on lights & radios in the Western United States the Hoover Dam
#8724, aired 2022-10-20HISTORICAL WEAR $4,699 (Daily Double): In 1921 he ditched Western suits for a shawl & a loincloth called a dhoti (Mahatma) Gandhi
#2, aired 2022-10-02THIS INFORMATION $500: Cologne, Germany is one of many historic cities along this great river of Western Europe the Rhine
#8710, aired 2022-09-30BODIES 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 2022-09-29U.S. COUNTIES $400: Hampshire County once covered the whole western half of what's now this state, New Hampshire's southern neighbor Massachusetts
#8708, aired 2022-09-28MATERIAL $1000: Dogs like to chew this untanned material, also the title of an old Clint Eastwood TV Western rawhide
#1, aired 2022-09-25THE WILD WEST $300: Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie a stagecoach
#8703, aired 2022-09-21MODERN WESTERNS $1200: "1883" is a prequel to this "colorful" modern TV Western about the Dutton family Yellowstone
#8703, aired 2022-09-21MODERN WESTERNS $2000: In this neo-Western film, Anton Chigurh asks the killer query, "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?" No Country for Old Men
#8698, aired 2022-09-14AFRICA $1600: Adopted in 1960, the national anthem of this country of western Africa is "L'Abidjanaise" the Ivory Coast
#8687, aired 2022-07-19"LOCK" $600: The western species of this tree has distinctive short, flat needles a hemlock
#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
#8674, aired 2022-06-30"STAN" COUNTRIES $600 (Daily Double): Iran is on the western border of this country; the Arabian Sea, on its southern Pakistan
#8672, aired 2022-06-28ARCHAEOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: The classical age often refers to the time of these 2 ancient Western civilizations Greece & Rome
#8665, aired 2022-06-17HISTORIC ALLIANCES $800: The Eight-Nation Alliance was formed to protect Western interests in this Asian nation during a 1900 uprising against foreigners China
#8654, aired 2022-06-02USA $800: This body of water that separates Maryland's eastern & western shores is the largest estuary in the United States the Chesapeake Bay
#8649, aired 2022-05-26HISTORIA ESPAÑOLA $1600: Almost 500 years of the Spanish empire ended in 1975 with withdrawal from the not so far off area called Spanish, now Western, this Sahara
#8646, aired 2022-05-23TV $2000: This TV Western set in Dodge City, Kansas ran for 20 years, from 1955 to 1975 Gunsmoke
#8641, aired 2022-05-16A HORSE WITH A NAME $1000: In "War Horse", the novel & film, he's the brave equine forced to fight on the Western Front during World War I Joey
#8640, aired 2022-05-13TREATIES $400: Numerous "unequal treaties" were forced on this country by Western powers in the wake of the Opium Wars China
#8640, aired 2022-05-13TAYLOR'S VERSION $400: "Yellowstone" creator Taylor Sheridan's version of Western history is seen in "1883" with this singer as Margaret Dutton (Faith) Hill
#8639, aired 2022-05-12THE 1960s $1200: In the Six-Day War, Israeli forces took East Jerusalem from this country, restoring Jewish access to the Western Wall Jordan
#8638, aired 2022-05-11AMERICAN HISTORY $200: The 1783 Treaty of Paris set the western boundary of the new United States in the middle of this river the Mississippi
#8628, aired 2022-04-27MISCELLANY $2000: That's no humpback whale you're hearing--it's the singing dog breed in Papua on the western side of this in Indonesia New Guinea
#8615, aired 2022-04-08DONE THAT $1000: In 1889 this Western U.S. state's constitution was the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women Wyoming
#8613, aired 2022-04-06WESTERNS $200: In Italian this Clint Eastwood western was called "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
#8613, aired 2022-04-06WESTERNS $600: Seen here, he played Rufus Buck, just out of prison & ready to collide with an old rival in the 2021 Western "The Harder They Fall" Idris Elba
#8612, aired 2022-04-05DOGS $1200: The great woofer seen here is named for this mountain range in Western Europe the Pyrenees
#8612, aired 2022-04-05WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: Ticos are residents of this "rich" country of the Western Hemisphere Costa Rica
#8607, aired 2022-03-29IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $800: What's known as this "Brotherhood" was formed in Egypt in 1928 with a goal of spurning Western influences the Muslim Brotherhood
#8606, aired 2022-03-28CROSBY $1000: Floyd Crosby was the cinematographer of this classic Gary Cooper Western about a confrontation at midday High Noon
#8602, aired 2022-03-22NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS $400: This religious word precedes Pioneer Trail in the name of a rugged route; note the western endpoint Mormon
#8591, aired 2022-03-07TOWERS $2000: One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site the Great Mosque in Mecca
#8588, aired 2022-03-02ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $600: As the Coriolis force moves counterclockwise, afternoon brings a sea breeze called the Fremantle Doctor to this Western Australia capital Perth
#8579, aired 2022-02-17ANIMALS OF NOTE $1200: The western lowland gorilla with this repetitive name, known for using sign language, died at age 46 in 2018 Koko
#11, aired 2022-02-16THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Anthony Kenny of "A New History of Western Philosophy" also covered it in books on Descartes, Wittgenstein & this 13th century saint Thomas Aquinas
#8570, aired 2022-02-04UKRAINE DROPS $2000: The western end of this "A"-for-effort sea off Ukraine is called the "Putrid Sea" for its nasty-smelling marshes the Sea of Azov
#8564, aired 2022-01-27MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1600: Kirk Douglas turns up in the 1982 Aussie Western "The Man from" this river Snowy River
#8556, aired 2022-01-17THE LAKE SHOW $600: Known for its tourist resorts, Lake Tahoe is a high elevation lake in these mountains of the western United States the Sierra Nevadas
#8554, aired 2022-01-13ROM-DRAMS $200: Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal nearly broke each other's noses filming a kiss in this Western Brokeback Mountain
#8554, aired 2022-01-13MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD $800: A high mountain chain in Croatia is called the "Dinaric" these, like a range of western Europe Alps
#8541, aired 2021-12-27THE 4th CENTURY $400: In Gaul, St. Martin of Tours founded the first of these secluded places in western Europe a monastery
#8541, aired 2021-12-27GEOGRAPHY $800: Though others recognize the nation of Western Sahara, this kingdom of North Africa considers it part of its territory Morocco
#8534, aired 2021-12-16CLASSIC MOVIES $1000: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world Rashomon
#8522, aired 2021-11-30"BLACK" ON THE MAP $400: Sacred territory for the Western Sioux, this region lies between the Belle Fourche & Cheyenne Rivers the Black Hills
#8507, aired 2021-11-09POTPOURRI $600: The 1921 book "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" sets 13 as the number of members in this group a coven
#8505, aired 2021-11-05STATES & SYMBOLS $2000: Jesse Quinn Thornton came to this western state via trail & devised its motto, "She flies with her own wings" Oregon
#8493, aired 2021-10-20THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: 3,212-foot-high Angel Falls, in the southeast of this country, was unknown to the outside world until the 1930s Venezuela
#8493, aired 2021-10-20THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Residents of this volcanic British island territory in the Caribbean call themselves Monstratians Montserrat
#8493, aired 2021-10-20THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Georgetown is the chief port & capital of this South American country Guyana
#8493, aired 2021-10-20THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2000: Receiving water from about 200 rivers, it's the largest lake in the Western Hemisphere Lake Superior
#8493, aired 2021-10-20THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $8,000 (Daily Double): For 647 miles, this westernmost of Canada's 3 territories shares a straight-line border with Alaska the Yukon
#8485, aired 2021-10-08WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $400: Vermont is north of the western part of this state Massachusetts
#8478, aired 2021-09-29MONKEY $400: The bellow of this Western Hemisphere dweller is described as deafening, so we're seeing the monkey, not hearing it howler
#8476, aired 2021-09-27TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $2000: In 1985 this western state saw record low & high temperatures: -69 degrees at Peter Sinks & 117 in St. George Utah
#8467, aired 2021-09-14THE WILD WEST $800: Get the feel of the West at Old Trail Town in this Wyoming city, developed by & named for a Western hero Cody
#8460, aired 2021-08-06OCEANOGRAPHIC 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
#8460, aired 2021-08-06NOVELS SINCE 1900 $1000: Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front
#8457, aired 2021-08-03AUSTRALIAN HISTORY $400: In the 1890s this was discovered in Western Australia; what a rush! gold
#8456, aired 2021-08-02THE STATE I REP IN THE SENATE $800: Ben Sasse, of the western Midwest Nebraska
#8445, aired 2021-07-16HIGH $1200: Hey, drifter, you should know that this western third of Kansas is an elevated plateau the High Plains
#8445, aired 2021-07-166-LETTER THE BETTER $2000: This end-of-the-alphabet word is a warm, soft western breeze zephyr
#8441, aired 2021-07-12OLD TV THEME SONGS $1600: "Keep movin' movin' movin', though they're disapprovin', keep them dogies movin"', this Western Rawhide
#8438, aired 2021-07-07NOT TO BE CONFUSED $2000: Cinnamon is a spice; this was the first Western to win an Oscar for best picture, back in 1931 Cimarron
#8438, aired 2021-07-07WALL-TO-WALL $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the only remaining structure of the Second Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall (the Wailing Wall)
#8432, aired 2021-06-29MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: This nation of the western part of the Balkan Peninsula sits opposite Italy on the Strait of Otranto Albania
#8427, aired 2021-06-22YOU GIVE ME FEMA $800: FEMA declared major disasters due to wildfires in these 2 neighboring western states about a month apart in 2020 Oregon & California
#8424, aired 2021-06-17NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: This large lake on Vermont's western border bears the name of the first Frenchman to explore the area Champlain
#8420, aired 2021-06-11GHOST $1600: Near its western border with Algeria, this large African country is home to Idinen, a fortress that's said to be haunted Libya
#8418, aired 2021-06-09NATIONAL FLOWERS $400: Turkey's national flower is this one also prominently associated with a Western European country the tulip
#8415, aired 2021-06-04MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY $800: Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map South Africa
#8414, aired 2021-06-03AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $800: A memorial in this Moroccan city remembers the U.S. Western Naval Task Force, not Rick helping Ilsa & Victor escape Casablanca
#8412, aired 2021-06-01PERU $800: One of the oldest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it was the capital of the Inca Empire when the Spanish arrived Cuzco
#8410, aired 2021-05-28GEOGRAPHY $400: The largest of the Mariana Islands, this U.S. territory is in the western Pacific Ocean Guam
#8408, aired 2021-05-26IT'S A MIRAGE $1600: The name of this city that's home to Western Michigan University may be from a Potawatomi word for "mirage" Kalamazoo
#8404, aired 2021-05-20GERMAN AUTHORS $1600: In the 1930s the Nazis burned the books of this "All Quiet on the Western Front" author & took away his citizenship (Erich Maria) Remarque
#8403, aired 2021-05-19THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1000: This fault running down East Africa divides in Zambia, the western arm becoming the Luangwa Valley the Great Rift
#8393, aired 2021-05-05NON-ALEXANDER HAMILTON $400: Canada's port city of Hamilton is at the western end of this very provincial lake Lake Ontario
#8387, aired 2021-04-27LET'S VISIT THE CITY $800: Check out Cottlesloe Beach & have a g'day in this capital of Western Australia Perth
#8385, aired 2021-04-23MUSIC SCALES $800: This 5-note scale pops up pretty much everywhere in Western popular music a pentatonic scale
#8377, aired 2021-04-13WESTERN U.S. CITIES $200: Despite what Ron Burgundy says, this city is named for a Spanish monk San Diego
#8377, aired 2021-04-13WESTERN U.S. CITIES $400: Named for the founder of the American Fur Company, this Oregon city has deepwater port facilities Astoria
#8377, aired 2021-04-13WESTERN U.S. CITIES $800: Known for its Narrows Bridge, this city is on Puget Sound's Commencement Bay Tacoma
#8377, aired 2021-04-13WESTERN U.S. CITIES $1000: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West is in this city, a resort suburb of Phoenix Scottsdale
#8377, aired 2021-04-13WESTERN 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
#8373, aired 2021-04-07THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE $600: This range was considered the western border of the Louisiana Purchase the Rocky Mountains
#8372, aired 2021-04-06A SWAMPY SITUATION $400: Vasyugan Mire is found in the western plains of this large Russian region known for extreme cold Siberia
#8369, aired 2021-04-01U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: This hilly region of western Massachusetts is home to the Tanglewood Music & Jacob's Pillow dance festivals the Berkshires
#8359, aired 2021-03-18MOUNTAIN $1600: This 1,500-mile-long mountain range stretches along Africa's Maghrib, the western arm of the Arab world the Atlas
#8354, aired 2021-03-11NBA LOGOS $800: This western team's 2018-19 logo had crossed pickaxes the Denver Nuggets
#8330, aired 2021-02-05ISLANDS $800: The first arrivals on this Western European island were Stone Age hunter-fishers in areas such as Antrim & Down Ireland
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Though large & powerful, this South American empire flourished for only about 100 years until the Spanish conquered it in 1532 Inca
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Bonners Ferry, north of Coeur d'Alene, calls itself this state's "most friendly town" Idaho
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: In 2019 throngs of people turned out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this country's Sandinista revolution Nicaragua
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: The name of these islands off the southern tip of South America means "land of fire" Tierra del Fuego
#8327, aired 2021-02-02THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $4,000 (Daily Double): This "C" in the ABC Islands of the Caribbean has the oldest continuously inhabited Jewish community in the Americas Curaçao
#8321, aired 2021-01-25MUSICAL THEATER $400: "Let's go on with the show!"--Irving Berlin stepped in to write the music for this western-set musical when Jerome Kern died Annie Get Your Gun
#8321, aired 2021-01-25MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: Led from these 2 cities, the Western & eastern branches of Christianity were split apart by the "Great Schism" of 1054 Rome & Constantinople
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $800: Active from 1848 to 1854, this minor but influential political party opposed the spread of slavery into the western USA Free Soil
#8312, aired 2021-01-12A CATEGORY FOR FREE $1000: The port of Freetown is the largest city & capital of this nation of western Africa Sierra Leone
#8310, aired 2021-01-08CROSS WORLD CLUES $1200: It's on the western cote d'Afrique (4, 1'6) Côte d'Ivoire
#8306, aired 2021-01-04DECEMBER 21 $800: Setting a precedent, in 1942 the Supreme Court ruled that a divorce granted in this western state was legal in North Carolina Nevada
#8294, aired 2020-12-03NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Second only to New York City in population, this western port is the "Nickel City" Buffalo
#8292, aired 2020-12-01AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The famed canals shine for the Light Festival held in winter in this city of Western Europe Amsterdam
#8291, aired 2020-11-30AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $600: Western scribe Pearl Grey Zane
#8278, aired 2020-11-11HE SCORES! $400: Elmer Bernstein's "magnificent" theme to this 1960 Western was also played over the end credits of the 2016 remake The Magnificent Seven
#8266, aired 2020-10-26ON ITS WESTERN BORDER $400: Arizona: this nearly 1,400-mile-long waterway the Colorado River
#8266, aired 2020-10-26ON ITS WESTERN BORDER $800: Tunisia: this country that itself has a western neighbor in Morocco Algeria
#8266, aired 2020-10-26ON ITS WESTERN BORDER $1200: Germany: this country's provinces Gelderland & Groningen the Netherlands
#8266, aired 2020-10-26ON ITS WESTERN BORDER $1600: Sri Lanka & Sumatra: this body of water the Indian Ocean
#8266, aired 2020-10-26ON ITS WESTERN BORDER $2000: Northwest Territories: this other Canadian territory the Yukon
#8265, aired 2020-10-23ANAGRAMS, HOW NOVEL! $800: About young German soldiers: "NO FRET STREWN QUAIL TELETHON" All Quiet on the Western Front
#8252, aired 2020-10-061990s BEST PICTURE BY TAGLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man" Unforgiven
#8248, aired 2020-09-30SEEMED SO FAR AWAY $1000: The Mekong River forms much of the western border of this country highlighted here Laos
#8246, aired 2020-09-28U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: Cicero & Oak Park are western suburbs of this Midwestern metropolis Chicago
#8243, aired 2020-09-23AROUND THE USA $200: 14,060-foot Mount Bierstadt is a good place to start climbing the "Fourteeners" of this western range the Rockies
#8237, aired 2020-09-15KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The Persian Empire fell to him in the 330s B.C., then Western Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, on into India; not bad for a guy barely over 30 Alexander the Great
#8232, aired 2020-06-09THE PLAIN TRUTH $2000: The Russian Plain extends from the country's western border to these mountains that run 1,550 miles from north to south the Urals
#8228, aired 2020-06-03POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? $200: 1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes" (Margaret) Thatcher
#8227, aired 2020-06-02BIRDS OF PREY $600: The largest bird of prey is this Western Hemisphere vulture that can fly 18,000 feet high & weigh 30 pounds the condor
#8223, aired 2020-05-27GEOGRAPHY $800: This major river runs all the way across northern Italy from the western frontier with France to the Adriatic in the east Po
#8218, aired 2020-05-20LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Visit the art deco building in NYC where Erich Maria Remarque, author of this antiwar novel about WWI, lived until his death All Quiet on the Western Front
#8211, aired 2020-04-27POTPOURRI $200: Named for the way it rolls around lonely streets in western movies, this plant was imported to the U.S. from Russia a tumbleweed
#8210, aired 2020-04-2420th CENTURY AUTHORS $1600: Known primarily for his crime novels, he started out writing western tales like "Hombre" & "3:10 to Yuma" Elmore Leonard
#8203, aired 2020-04-15THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS $600: For much of its length, this ridge between western- & eastern-flowing river systems follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains the Continental Ridge (Continental Divide)
#8197, aired 2020-04-07OK BOOMER $800: Born in 1952 in Western Penn., John Kasich did OK in politics in this state, becoming a congressman & governor Ohio
#8190, aired 2020-03-27STATE CAPITALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is in the capital of this western state California
#8184, aired 2020-03-19LAKES & RIVERS $400: A remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville, it's the largest lake in the western United States the Great Salt Lake
#8182, aired 2020-03-17& THEN WHAT HAPPENED? $1200: In 1876 telegraph co. Western Union said this had too many problems... & then within 2 years was trying to get into the business the telephone
#8179, aired 2020-03-12A CASE OF THE BENDS $400: Drake Park in Bend in this western state isn't named for a duck, though the ducks are popular there Oregon
#8178, aired 2020-03-11GOLD RUSH $600: The Ohio River begins at the western tip of the "Golden Triangle" in this city Pittsburgh
#8172, aired 2020-03-03GEOLOGY $2000: In western Kenya 60'-wide cracks have appeared where this geological "valley" is opening up the Great Rift Valley
#8152, aired 2020-02-04MONUMENTAL TELEVISION $600: This Kansas "City" that attracts western-loving tourists has a life-size statue of Marshal Dillon from "Gunsmoke" Dodge City
#8150, aired 2020-01-31LITERARY FESTIVALS $1200: Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job cowboy
#8146, aired 2020-01-27AROUND THE WORLD $2000: "B" aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions the Bosporus
#8144, aired 2020-01-23GET YOUR "B.A." DEGREE $2000: An island group of the Western Pacific held by Germany until WWI, it bears the name of a German Chancellor Bismarck Archipelago
#8, aired 2020-01-14ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $400: This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real Gower Gulch
#1, aired 2020-01-07CHEMISTS $1200: (Bryan Cranston delivers the clue.) Many folks weren't happy with the Nobel committee's decision to give the 1918 Chemistry Prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber, as he had also overseen Germany's production & use of this on World War I's western front mustard gas (or poison gas)
#8129, aired 2020-01-02WHERE'S THE FLOWER? $800: With blooms lasting only about a day, hibiscus has 7 known species native to this western state Hawaii
#8127, aired 2019-12-31WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Dittrick Medical History Center.) I'm at the Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University in this Midwest city that has become one of the world's leading centers for medical treatment and research Cleveland
#8123, aired 2019-12-25HISTORY $800: Not just the title of a Dustin Hoffman western epic, it's the name of Crazy Horse's lieutenant at the Little Bighorn Little Big Man
#8123, aired 2019-12-25GOING OUT OF BUSINESS $1600: Western Air Express & Transcontinental Air Transport formed what would be this company in 1930, but it got absorbed by Am. Airlines in 2001 TWA (Trans World)
#8121, aired 2019-12-23CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS $1000: In the 2019 Western Conference Final this Warrior not named Steph or Klay led both teams in rebounds, assists, steals & blocks Draymond Green
#8115, aired 2019-12-13BY POPE-ULAR DEMAND $1200: After 1378 rival popes in Rome & Avignon excommunicated each other during the Great Western this 6-letter term Schism
#8111, aired 2019-12-09PEEK A CHOO-CHOO $1000: A famed landscape painter, this Brit depicted the Great Western Railway in 1844 with his usual dramatic atmosphere (J.M.W.) Turner
#8105, aired 2019-11-29THE OLD WEST $1200: The Umayyads had one of these entities that stretched to the western shores of Africa; in 2014 ISIS also claimed one a caliphate
#8105, aired 2019-11-29THE OLD WEST $2000: "Swan River Mania" brought settlers to what's now "Western" this in 1829 Western Australia
#8098, aired 2019-11-20PLUNDER WOMAN $2000: Sayyida al-Hurra, 16th century pirate queen of the Western Mediterranean, was one of these French-named pirates of the Barbary Coast corsairs
#8095, aired 2019-11-15MOUNTAINS OF ASIA $800: Reaching almost 15,000 feet, the Zagros Mountains stretch along the western border of this nation Iran
#8094, aired 2019-11-14A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $600: The German army sent him to the Western Front & in 1929 he published a novel about it (Erich Maria) Remarque
#8094, aired 2019-11-14BEASTLY NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: In the heart of the "Silicon Forest", Beaverton is a suburb of this Western U.S. metropolis Portland
#8093, aired 2019-11-13TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $1600: The tropic passes through Western Australia, Queensland & this territory in between them the Northern Territory
#8090, aired 2019-11-08BODIES OF WATER $400: The coastline of the state of Western Australia is mainly on this ocean the Indian
#8086, aired 2019-11-04SAY YES TO THE CHESS $200: In standard western chess sets, this piece is topped with a cross a king
#8086, aired 2019-11-04HARDPODGE $1600: Its inventors, the Dopyera brothers, gave part of their name to this popular country and western instrument with a resonating disc a Dobro
#8080, aired 2019-10-25THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $400: Attended by 46 delegations, the San Francisco Conference of 1945 gave birth to this international organization the United Nations
#8080, aired 2019-10-25THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $800: At the 1822 Guayaquil Conference, José Francisco de San Martín met this other South American liberator in western Ecuador ‎(Simón) Bolivar
#8080, aired 2019-10-25THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $1200: South by Southwest is an annual festival in this Texas city Austin, Texas
#8080, aired 2019-10-25THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $1600: The 1920 Conference of San Remo along Italy's western Riviera decided the fate of this empire's former territories the Ottoman Empire
#8080, aired 2019-10-25THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $2000: The 2018 emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference featured this Washington gov. who's trying to stop climate change (Jay) Inslee
#8078, aired 2019-10-23GOVERNMENT ABCs $1000: Much of the acreage controlled by this agency is in Alaska & the western states: BLM the Bureau of Land Management
#8068, aired 2019-10-09CLASSIC TELEVISION $1200: The Ponderosa was the name of the Nevada ranch where Ben Cartwright & his sons lived on this western Bonanza
#8064, aired 2019-10-03FOOTWEAR $1000: Last name of Tony, the Italian-American cobbler who began making army boots before moving on to western boots Tony Lama
#8062, aired 2019-10-01NOT-SO-SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES $600: Having a bit of experience with the western genre, he was dubbed "Rawhide" Ronald Reagan
#8051, aired 2019-09-16MYTHS & LEGENDS $1600: For his 11th labor Hercules nabs some golden apples from the garden of these nymphs at the western edge of the world the Hesperides
#8050, aired 2019-09-13THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $800: Music Score winner Dimitri Tiomkin, for this Cooper-Kelly western: "Thank you very much. Thank you"; now give us the time of day! High Noon
#8049, aired 2019-09-12CISTERN CITIES $1000: This western U.S. city, fire-prone since the Shades Hotel burned in 1849, still has around 200 buried cisterns San Francisco
#8048, aired 2019-09-11THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $2000: Until 1855 this Western Hemisphere capital city was known as Bytown Ottawa
#8035, aired 2019-07-12DESERT-POURRI $7,400 (Daily Double): This sea is the western border of the Arabian Desert the Red Sea
#8034, aired 2019-07-11THE WALL $600: A rabbinic belief is that the divine presence never departs from this wall in Jerusalem the Western Wall
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru the Inca
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico the Rockies
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: This Native American stick & ball game is Canada's official national summer sport lacrosse
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola Haiti
#8017, aired 2019-06-18THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2,000 (Daily Double): Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator São Paulo
#8003, aired 2019-05-29A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $800: The Swiss guy who shot the arrow--they played his overture for a western hero--that hero's horse...darn it, hi-yo what? Silver
#7998, aired 2019-05-22WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $400: Zephyr is a western this, or the god of it wind
#7998, aired 2019-05-22MUSICAL STATE SYMBOLS $1000: Bob Wills pioneered the country style called western this & Texas made it its state music western swing
#7992, aired 2019-05-14CANADIANA $600: 25,000 volunteers helped out with the 2010 Winter Olympics hosted by this western city Vancouver
#7970, aired 2019-04-12CLASSIC FILM $2000: In the U.S. Sergio Leone's spaghetti western "Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo" has this title The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
#7970, aired 2019-04-12MOOLAH $11,914 (Daily Double): The mint in this western city produces about half of U.S. coinage & is the USA's second-largest gold depository Denver
#7968, aired 2019-04-10MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN $800: In 1854 Navy officer Matthew Perry negotiated the first modern treaty between a Western nation & this country Japan
#7962, aired 2019-04-02THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: Helping us balance our checkbooks, Leonardo of Pisa introduced this, sifr in Arabic, to Western math in 1202 the zero
#7959, aired 2019-03-28THE WESTERN U.S. $200: 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete went into this dam in the western United States the Hoover Dam
#7959, aired 2019-03-28FILM DIRECTORS $200: John Wayne spends years looking for his niece in this western often called director John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers
#7959, aired 2019-03-28THE WESTERN U.S. $400: A Montana memorial to the Native American participants of this battle was dedicated on June 25, 2003 Little Bighorn
#7959, aired 2019-03-28THE WESTERN U.S. $600: If you're "standin' on a corner in" this city in Arizona, head 20 miles west to see a 550'-deep meteor crater Winslow
#7959, aired 2019-03-28THE WESTERN U.S. $800: In 2013 the govt. officially said this "numeric" military facility in Nevada existed, but aliens...not yet. Not...yet Area 51
#7959, aired 2019-03-28THE WESTERN U.S. $1000: A monument marks the spot where this "colorful" 2-word object was driven into the ground on May 10, 1869 in Utah the golden spike
#7956, aired 2019-03-25-"GRAM"S $2,100 (Daily Double): In 1959 Western Union began this service that included sweets with the message candygram
#7951, aired 2019-03-18TRIDENT TRUE $800: Not just Western gods, but this Hindu god who consorts with Shakti wields a trident, the sacred trisula Shiva
#7945, aired 2019-03-08THE HUMANITIES $1600: This Spanish title of Goya's "The Snowstorm" is the name of a western U.S. state Nevada
#7940, aired 2019-03-01TV $200: In 1959 there were more than 25 shows in this genre on TV, including "Rawhide" a western
#7938, aired 2019-02-27INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES $5,000 (Daily Double): The self-proclaimed Saharan Arab Democratic Republic disputes the territory of Western Sahara with this nation Morocco
#7937, aired 2019-02-26LAKES & RIVERS $1600: The Amazon River begins not in Brazil but with headwaters in this western South American country Peru
#7922, aired 2019-02-05HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $200: Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; Alaska is called "the last" one frontier
#7907, aired 2019-01-15"WEST" WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): Perth is the capital of this foreign state Western Australia
#7901, aired 2019-01-07PAGAN LORE $600: Called the last pagans of Europe, the Mari people practice their faith in groves along this principal river of western Russia the Volga
#7888, aired 2018-12-19LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: This lake with the name of Manitoba's capital was a location for the submarine movie "K-19: The Widowmaker" Winnipeg
#7888, aired 2018-12-19LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Discovered by the French in 1634, the Straits of Mackinac separate these 2 Great Lakes Michigan and Huron
#7888, aired 2018-12-19LAKES 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 2018-12-19LAKES 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
#7888, aired 2018-12-19LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2000: In 2000 ruins of an ancient pre-Incan temple were found at the bottom of this very high altitude lake Titicaca
#7887, aired 2018-12-18HOORAY FOR BOLLYWOOD! $400: Full of gunfights & bandits, the Bollywood classic "Sholay" is called not a "spaghetti" but a "curry" one of these a western
#7886, aired 2018-12-17EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES $400: This "Queen of the Danube" is found where the hills of western Hungary meet the nation's eastern plains Budapest
#7884, aired 2018-12-13A SCIENCE BOOK $400: "Full Rip 9.0" examines the signs & possibilities of the next big one of these in the western United States an earthquake
#7884, aired 2018-12-13OTHER LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $800: Lasting from 1955 to 1975, this TV western slung 635 episodes Gunsmoke
#7870, aired 2018-11-23ROARING '20s READER $800: "We are at rest five miles behind the front", begins this 1929 Remarque novel All Quiet on the Western Front
#7868, aired 2018-11-215 SAINT'S DAYS $1600: June 3 is the feast of Clotilda, queen of this Germanic people who gave their name to Germany's big western neighbor the Franks
#7860, aired 2018-11-09MOUNTAINS $2000: A rugged 1,500-mile range in western Siberia, these mountains form a traditional boundary between Europe & Asia the Urals
#7855, aired 2018-11-02TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY $2,000 (Daily Double): Before it was a Sam Peckinpah film title, it was a real Western gang, including Butch & Sundance the Wild Bunch
#7854, aired 2018-11-01WRITERS' OTHER GIGS $1200: He gave up a dental practice to write Western novels like "Riders of the Purple Sage" Zane Grey
#7846, aired 2018-10-22HERSTORY $1000: The first woman elected to Congress, Jeannette Rankin reps this western state in Statuary Hall Montana
#7822, aired 2018-09-18NEON $800: This western U.S. city has a museum featuring a "neon boneyard", an outdoor exhibit of old signs dating back to the 1930s Las Vegas
#7821, aired 2018-09-17STATE SONGS $1,200 (Daily Double): "In its fair western home, may the columbine bloom til our great mountain rivers run dry" Colorado
#7808, aired 2018-07-18"NEW" GEOGRAPHY $800: The western half of this island comprises Papua & West Papua New Guinea
#7807, aired 2018-07-17THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: The ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu is perched above the Urubamba River valley in this nation Peru
#7807, aired 2018-07-17THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Spewing more than 500 million tons of ash into the sky, Mount St. Helens erupted in this state in 1980 Washington
#7807, aired 2018-07-17THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800 (Daily Double): This quiet cove of southwest Cuba came to sudden world attention in the spring of 1961 the Bay of Pigs
#7807, aired 2018-07-17THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the Western Hemisphere on the monitor.) The Western Hemisphere's two largest islands are Greenland, which is the world's largest, & this island, 200 miles away Baffin Island
#7807, aired 2018-07-17THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: The lowest spot in South America is in this country that's also home to the continent's highest point Argentina
#7806, aired 2018-07-164, 4 $1000: In 1848 Martin Van Buren was the presidential candidate of this party that opposed slavery in western territories the Free Soil party
#7801, aired 2018-07-09THROW 'EM IN THE "BRIG" $800: It's the first name of the western U.S. leader seen here Brigham Young
#7800, aired 2018-07-06U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: It isn't just for skiers; Sun Valley in this western state also has some great trails for mountain bikers Idaho
#7789, aired 2018-06-21MATH-FREE WORD PROBLEMS $600: Sal hits .382 & Mal hits .392, so both lose the 1994 batting title to Tony Gwynn, who hit .394 for this western team the (San Diego) Padres
#7775, aired 2018-06-01THAT RAISES A RED FLAG $400: Tenn., Miss. & this state on their western borders are true red states--that color is their flags' main background Arkansas
#7774, aired 2018-05-31LAND $1200: Those who value land as a possession include John Bergson in this Willa Cather novel named for western settlers O Pioneers!
#7772, aired 2018-05-29OKLAHOMA HISTORY $400: The Compromise of 1850 separated this strip of land from Texas & it later became the western part of Oklahoma the panhandle
#7770, aired 2018-05-25BALKAN NATIONS $400: Since the breakup of Yugoslavia, Slovenia has integrated with Western Europe & joined this military alliance in 2004 NATO
#7757, aired 2018-05-08MUSICAL KINGS $400: Before he was the king of rock & roll, this performer was the king of western bop Elvis
#7753, aired 2018-05-02FLIPPING CHANNELS $1200: On MeTV, it's this Steve McQueen western that shares its title with a Bon Jovi song Wanted Dead or Alive
#7749, aired 2018-04-26CHEESY MASHUPS $400: A smoked Italian cheese becomes a masked lawman in a TV western provolone Ranger
#7746, aired 2018-04-235-LETTER LANDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The CIA World Factbook calls it "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere" Haiti
#7744, aired 2018-04-19GETTING HISTORICAL $600: Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; it was in the title of an early biography of Wyatt Earp the frontier
#7743, aired 2018-04-18"R" TOWN $1200: Once known as Pile O' Bones, in 1882 this western Canadian city was renamed in honor of Queen Victoria Regina, Saskatchewan
#7740, aired 2018-04-13SCIENCE LAB $1200: A leading lab technique, Western blot helps us identify specific sequences in these chains of amino acids proteins
#7732, aired 2018-04-03THAT ENCYCLOPEDIA $1600: Case Western Reserve University publishes the encyclopedia of this Midwest city's history Cleveland
#7730, aired 2018-03-30PLAYING THE PALLADIUM $500 (Daily Double): Known for mining, especially of copper, this western state has the USA's only palladium mine Montana
#7729, aired 2018-03-29WESTERN NOVELS $400: Gaylord DuBois wrote the first novel about this masked lawman, published in 1936 the Lone Ranger
#7729, aired 2018-03-29WESTERN NOVELS $800: Clifton Adams specialized in rip-roaring Westerns like "Law of" this mechanism that you really press more than pull Law of the Trigger
#7729, aired 2018-03-29WESTERN NOVELS $1200: This Thomas Berger Western about a white boy brought up by the Cheyenne became a Dustin Hoffman movie Little Big Man
#7729, aired 2018-03-29WESTERN NOVELS $1600: A thinking person's Western, "The Ox-Bow Incident" explored the aftermath of one of these acts of mob violence a lynching
#7729, aired 2018-03-29WESTERN NOVELS $2000: This prolific author wrote more than 50 Westerns, including "The Last of the Plainsmen" & "Trail Driver" Zane Grey
#7725, aired 2018-03-23DESERT WILDLIFE $3,000 (Daily Double): When ticks bite the Western fence lizard, the lizard's blood kills the bacteria in the ticks that cause this disease Lyme disease
#7724, aired 2018-03-22ON THE BOARD GAME $1000: Western Australia, Kamchatka Risk
#7720, aired 2018-03-16MOUNTAINS $400: Austria's western, central & southern mountainous regions are in the eastern part of these European mountains the Alps
#7720, aired 2018-03-16MOUNTAINS $1600: Williamstown & Pittsfield are communities in these mountains of western Massachusetts the Berkshires
#7713, aired 2018-03-07THEY'RE "GREAT"! $400: In 1697 he toured western Europe incognito under the name Sgt. Mikhaylov Peter the Great
#7712, aired 2018-03-06DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTIONAL UNIVERSITY $800: See the map? You'll find this school off I-94 in Kalamazoo, over near the left edge of the state Western Michigan
#7701, aired 2018-02-19TABLE TENNIS, ANYONE? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a paddle grip.) To employ the Western or standard grip, keep the thumb on one side & fingers on the other, pointing down, as though you were giving it this greeting the handshake
#7700, aired 2018-02-16AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: To protest taxes, Shays' Rebellion included a 1787 attack on the federal arsenal in this city in western Massachusetts Springfield
#7696, aired 2018-02-12WORLD WAR I LITERATURE $800: "The Road Back" was Erich Maria Remarque's sequel to this novel All Quiet on the Western Front
#7687, aired 2018-01-30EVERY YEAR $400: The convention of these Writers of America takes place on the frontier & gives the Lariat Award Western Writers of America
#7683, aired 2018-01-24BALLET $600: A cowgirl rides a bucking bronco in scene 1 of this Western ballet Rodeo
#7675, aired 2018-01-12OREGON $400: Oregon's only venomous indigenous reptile is the western this, seen here a rattlesnake
#7664, aired 2017-12-28ONLY THE LONELY $400: "The Loneliest Place in North America" is Stannard Lighthouse, sitting on a rock in this western Great Lake Lake Superior
#7660, aired 2017-12-22I KNOW THAT PERFORMER'S FACE $2000: Memorable roles of the late Powers Boothe included Vice President Noah Daniels on "24" and Curly Bill Brocius in this 1993 western Tombstone
#7651, aired 2017-12-11TV WATERING HOLES $1600: Miss Kitty poured suds at the Long Branch Saloon on this long-running western Gunsmoke
#7643, aired 2017-11-29BUILDING, ROMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Over 2,000 years after it was built, the Bridge of Alcantara in western Spain still crosses this river the Tagus
#7635, aired 2017-11-17TYPES OF MOVIES $400: "Le Pistole Non Discutono", AKA "Bullets Don't Argue", is this type of low-budget western a spaghetti western
#7615, aired 2017-10-20FROM PAGE TO MULTIPLEX $2000: The 1963 western "Hud" was based on "Horseman, Pass By", his first novel Larry McMurtry
#7611, aired 2017-10-16NON -IA COUNTRIES $1200: This Pacific island group lost the "Western" from its name in 1997 Samoa
#7604, aired 2017-10-05MAPS "R" US $800: In Italy, this strip of land is divided into western and eastern sections, depending on what side of Genoa you're on the Riviera
#7601, aired 2017-10-02HISTORY OF MEDICINE WITH DR. OZ $400: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Realizing those who'd had cowpox didn't contract smallpox, Edward Jenner saw causality & took material from the arm of a dairy maid who had cowpox, making the first of these recorded in Western medicine an inoculation (or a vaccine)
#7588, aired 2017-09-13"WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinpah. Lots of blood. This 1969 Western The Wild Bunch
#7587, aired 2017-09-1220th CENTURY NOVELS $600: Paul Baumer hopes to come out of World War I alive in this anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
#7584, aired 2017-07-27THE BRIDGE & TUNNEL CROWD $1200: The McClure Tunnel in Santa Monica marks the western terminus of the 10 freeway, which transitions to this highway, the PCH the Pacific Coast Highway
#7581, aired 2017-07-24EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The Rhine River forms the southern & western borders of this large wooded region the Black Forest
#7574, aired 2017-07-13IT'S IOWA-ADJACENT $1600: Wahoo! You'll find that city along with Ogallala & Fairbury in this state that dominates Iowa's western border Nebraska
#7558, aired 2017-06-21AROUND THE ADRIATIC $400: The Adriatic Sea separates the Italian peninsula from the western part of this peninsula the Balkan
#7557, aired 2017-06-20RETURN TO THE MOVIES $1000: The 1954 western "River of No Return" saw Robert Mitchum team up with this sultry screen goddess Marilyn Monroe
#7553, aired 2017-06-14STYLES OF COUNTRY MUSIC $400: Elvis Presley pioneered this hybrid style; even the name is a hybrid word rockabilly
#7553, aired 2017-06-141817 $800: The tomb of the mighty pharaoh Seti I was discovered in this valley in western Thebes the Valley of the Kings
#7551, aired 2017-06-12THE SPORTING LIFE $600: After a loss to the Warriors in the 2016 Western finals, this Thunder stud didn't beat 'em, he joined 'em (Kevin) Durant
#7551, aired 2017-06-12"BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $1,200 (Daily Double): Leonard Maltin calls it "the quintessential spaghetti Western" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
#7538, aired 2017-05-24GEOGRAPHIC FORMATIONS $400: Most of Norway's western coastline is made up of these steep narrow inlets created by glacial erosion fjords
#7535, aired 2017-05-19THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $1200: In his umpteenth Western, he was Rooster Cogburn John Wayne
#7533, aired 2017-05-17THE MAP OF CANADA $800: This gulf named for the Norwegian who explored the area between 1903 & 1906 is at the western end of the NW Passage the Amundsen Gulf
#7521, aired 2017-05-01SOME "ME" TIME $1200: Name shared by a western U.S. lake & an anthropologist Mead
#7517, aired 2017-04-25THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH $1000: This California city on a river of the same name grew rapidly during the rush & became the western end of the Pony Express Sacramento
#7517, aired 2017-04-25COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $1600: Harvey Korman had a villainous turn as Hedley Lamarr in this Mel Brooks Western Blazing Saddles
#7515, aired 2017-04-21IT'S ALL SAM-ANTICS $2000: The last project he directed before his 1984 death wasn't another western, but a music video for Julian Lennon Sam Peckinpah
#7505, aired 2017-04-075-"H" $2000: A major coastal region of western Saudi Arabia, it contains Mecca & Medina the Hejaz
#7504, aired 2017-04-06MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE $1600: This western Mediterranean island, one of the smallest countries of Europe, is top 10 in world ship registration Malta
#7497, aired 2017-03-28PLAY TIME $1200: Riots accompanied performances of the 1907 John Millington Synge work called this "of the Western World" Playboy of the Western World
#7488, aired 2017-03-15WE'VE GOT COMPANY $1000: This company STOP sent its last telegram STOP on Jan. 27, 2006 FULL STOP Western Union
#7480, aired 2017-03-03PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $200: In 1981 he hosted a barbecue for Seabees who helped renovate his Rancho del Cielo into the Western White House Reagan
#7479, aired 2017-03-02ZOO-TOPIA $800: The Bronx Zoo features a 6.5-acre habitat for species found in the Congo basin including Western Lowland these gorillas
#7462, aired 2017-02-07IN THE FIRST PLACE $2,000 (Daily Double): This area in the title of perhaps the most famous WWI novel saw the war's first major gas attack on April 22, 1915 the western front
#7458, aired 2017-02-01CAPE FEAR $2000: Meaning "father of danger" in Arabic, Cape Abu Khatar is a reef-lined stretch of coast of this western territory the Western Sahara
#7453, aired 2017-01-25THE WORLD AT WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) In July 1943, this U.S. general's Seventh Army swept through western Sicily, then turned east to help Montgomery's British Eighth Patton
#7452, aired 2017-01-24"ESTER" PARADE $2000: An English town with a famous cathedral, or a famous American maker of Western rifles Winchester
#7449, aired 2017-01-19ON THE LAOS $400: For most of the 19th century, Laos was dominated by this Western neighbor Thailand
#7449, aired 2017-01-19STRAIGHT OUTTA... $1000: Western Springs, Illinois: this author of "The Corrections" & 2015's "Purity" (Jonathan) Franzen
#7448, aired 2017-01-18AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: In 1984 a Presidential Medal of Freedom went to this author of "Hondo" & dozens of other Western novels Louis L'Amour
#7435, aired 2016-12-30DOVE $1,000 (Daily Double): 1997's "Comanche Moon" was the last published of the 4 novels in this Western series Lonesome Dove
#7432, aired 2016-12-27WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $1200: This masked man first "led the fight for law and order in the early Western United States" in 1933 on WXYZ in Detroit the Lone Ranger
#7431, aired 2016-12-26GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES $400: The lowest point in both the western & southern hemispheres is Laguna del Carbon in this nation's Patagonia region Argentina
#7427, aired 2016-12-20BIRDS OF A FEATHER $200: Western screech, snowy, elf owls
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN MOVIES $400: For this 2010 film, Jeff Bridges wore a patch over his right eye; in the original, John Wayne wore it over the left True Grit
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN MOVIES $800: The Buffalo herd in this 1990 Kevin Costner film numbered 3,500 & it took 8 days to film the hunt & stampede Dances with Wolves
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN MOVIES $1200: This hard-drinking friend of Wild Bill Hickok has been played on film by Jean Arthur, Yvonne de Carlo & Doris Day Calamity Jane
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN MOVIES $1600: It's the classic film in which Alan Ladd rides off as Brandon de Wilde yells for him to "come back" Shane
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN MOVIES $2000: Audie Murphy played Tom Destry in 1954's "Destry"; oddly, this film with Jimmy Stewart in the role came 15 years earlier Destry Rides Again
#7424, aired 2016-12-15MOVING JOURNALISM $1000: United Airlines has both the Eastern & Western halves of the globe covered with this on-board magazine that has a plural title Hemispheres
#7424, aired 2016-12-15TO LIVE & DIE IN L.A. $1200: Western movie stars Tom Mix & William S. Hart were at the funeral of this lawman who died in L.A. age 80 in 1929 Wyatt Earp
#7423, aired 2016-12-14DON'T HATE THE PLAYA $400: Playa is Spanish for beach & also means a dry lake bed, like the one where Burning Man is held in this Western state Nevada
#7421, aired 2016-12-12LANDMARKS $3,000 (Daily Double): A place of prayer for Jewish people, it's all that remains of the Second Temple of Jerusalem the Western Wall
#7418, aired 2016-12-07THE GREAT LOOP $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) On the western portion of the trip, loopers cruise several stately rivers including the Mississippi, the Tennessee & this one between Cairo & Paducah the Ohio
#7403, aired 2016-11-16LET'S GO TO TOGO $200: We're going to the western part of this continent Africa
#7400, aired 2016-11-11WHICH CONTINENT? $200: Is the birthplace of Western civilization Europe
#7397, aired 2016-11-08CLEVELAND $2000: This university formed by a 1967 merger has a new Frank Gehry building for its management school Case Western Reserve
#7394, aired 2016-11-03COMMUNICATION IS KEY $800: This company was founded in 1851 to build a telegraph line from Buffalo to St. Louis Western Union
#7393, aired 2016-11-02TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS $1600: This modern-day Western on FX was based on Elmore Leonard's novels "Pronto" & "Riding the Rap" as well as on a short story Justified
#7385, aired 2016-10-21THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION $200: BEL, in Western Europe Belgium
#7369, aired 2016-09-29CITY HALL $200: In this Western state capital, the City Hall went up in 1894 & was controversial because it rivaled the Temple Salt Lake City
#7368, aired 2016-09-28THIS & THAT $1600: The historic Germanic people known as the Goths can be divided into the Ostrogoths & this western branch the Visigoths
#7363, aired 2016-09-21STORIES OF THE WAR $400: "All Quiet on the Western Front" & "Parade's End" World War I
#7351, aired 2016-07-257-LETTER WORDS $1000: Term for a violent cyclone in the Western Pacific a typhoon
#7341, aired 2016-07-11KIND OF A GREY AREA $1200: His western novels include the gold-mining tale "The Border Legion" Zane Grey
#7340, aired 2016-07-08STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN $400: Lying chiefly in Cali, this national park boasts the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere--282' below sea level Death Valley
#7334, aired 2016-06-30WHERE AM I? $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at Powell's Books, a 68,000-square-foot mecca for readers in this Western U.S. city Portland, Oregon
#7314, aired 2016-06-02TV MAPS $800: The map on this Lorne Greene Western displayed Virginia City & Reno before bursting into flame Bonanza
#7305, aired 2016-05-20BRIDGES $2000: One of the highest bridges in the world is the Royal Gorge Bridge in this Western state Colorado
#7303, aired 2016-05-18LOUIS, LOUIS $200: With novels like "The Burning Hills" & "Silver Canyon", Louis L'Amour was a master of this fiction genre Western
#7303, aired 2016-05-18WHAT'S "NEW"? $400: Collective term for the Western Hemisphere after Columbus' voyages the New World
#7303, aired 2016-05-18STATE FACTS $1000: This Western state is last in population with around 580,000 Wyoming
#7286, aired 2016-04-25SCIENCE UPDATE $1000: Kennewick Man, an 8,500-year-old discovery in this western state, is indeed related to Native Americans, who claim him Washington
#7284, aired 2016-04-21NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a waterfront.) In 1673, Frenchmen Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette traveled from Chicago to Green Bay, mapping this Great Lake's western shore Lake Michigan
#7277, aired 2016-04-12KNOT THE TIE $1000: This Western tie is named for its resemblance to a certain weapon bolo
#7241, aired 2016-02-22LET'S HAVE DESERT $1600: This surface for speed demons is about 70 square miles on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert Bonneville Salt Flats
#7229, aired 2016-02-04WALL-TO-WALL $1200: The men in the photo are praying before this wall the Western Wall
#7226, aired 2016-02-01COUNTRIES' PROVINCES $200: KwaZulu-Natal & Western Cape South Africa
#7225, aired 2016-01-29THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: The area of this capital of Peru stretches over 1,500 square miles Lima
#7225, aired 2016-01-29THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially said that bad weather & poor navigation were to blame for any loss of transports in the area between Miami, Puerto Rico & this island Bermuda
#7225, aired 2016-01-29THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: "Canada's Breadbasket", this province is sandwiched between Alberta & Manitoba, eh? Saskatchewan
#7225, aired 2016-01-29THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: Rivers emptying into this gulf include the Sonora & Colorado the Gulf of California
#7225, aired 2016-01-29THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2000: It's believed that Lake Nicaragua & this city-named lake to the northwest once formed part of a Pacific Ocean bay Managua
#7222, aired 2016-01-26RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: The 2-word name of this terrorist group founded in Nigeria has been translated as "Western education is forbidden" Boko Haram
#7221, aired 2016-01-25"AT" THE MOVIES $800: Burt Lancaster was Wyatt Earp & Dennis Hopper was Billy Clanton in this 1957 Western Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
#7221, aired 2016-01-25TREATIES $2000: Opening China to Western trade, 1842's Treaty of Nanjing ended this war that sounds like it had sleepy soldiers the Opium War
#7209, aired 2016-01-07TRAINS $1600: The Indian Pacific's route between Sydney & this capital of Western Australia has a record 297 miles of straight track Perth
#7195, aired 2015-12-18MINNEAPOLIS $1600: Drive your toy truck to this 12-mile-long lake in the western suburbs Minnetonka
#7184, aired 2015-12-03STATES' LOWEST POINTS $400: Minnesota: On the western shore of this lake Lake Superior
#7184, aired 2015-12-03OLD '97s $400: Well, that's just great! In 1697 this czar began a tour of Western Europe seeking allies against the Ottoman Empire Peter the Great
#7161, aired 2015-11-02MOVIE HEAVEN $1600: This western directed by Michael Cimino became shorthand for a costly, self-indulgent flop Heaven's Gate
#7160, aired 2015-10-30WE ADMINISTER! $1200: Western Sahara, until 1976 Spain
#7159, aired 2015-10-29BAD NEWS $600: A 7.4 quake in Istanbul in 1999 did lead to better relations with this western border country that gave support Bulgaria
#7158, aired 2015-10-28NEO GEO $800: This Pacific island nation dropped the "Western" from its name & it's now just "the Independent State of" it Samoa
#7149, aired 2015-10-15"ON" TV $1600: This AMC Western is about railroads & revenge Hell on Wheels
#7147, aired 2015-10-13FLOWERS $2000: In the 1550s the Viennese ambassador to the Ottoman empire introduced these bulb flowers to the Western world tulips
#7145, aired 2015-10-09WAR NOVELS $5,000 (Daily Double): Paul Baumer is an idealistic enlistee until he sees the horrors of war firsthand in this 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front
#7138, aired 2015-09-30LITERARY CRIME WATCH $800: This 1966 book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas" In Cold Blood
#7137, aired 2015-09-29YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 125th ANNIVERSARY $800: Waterfalls, like the 2,000 foot Sentinel Falls, remind you you're in the mountains, the western slopes of this California range the Sierra Nevada
#7132, aired 2015-09-22REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $200: On September 7 each year, this Western Hemisphere nation celebrates its independence from Portugal Brazil
#7130, aired 2015-09-18THE ____ OF ____ $400: This 389,000-square-mile body of water laps at the western shores of Honshu the Sea of Japan
#7125, aired 2015-07-31OLD TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE $1200: A Western: "Kitty's Love Affair" Gunsmoke
#7122, aired 2015-07-28YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS $400: The population of this country, the western third of Hispaniola, is almost entirely descended from African slaves Haiti
#7116, aired 2015-07-20ACTRESSES' EMMYS $1600: Margo Martindale snagged an Emmy for playing criminal matriarch Mags Bennett on this modern-day Western Justified
#7114, aired 2015-07-16STATE OF THE OLD WESTERN $200: "The Jayhawkers" Kansas
#7114, aired 2015-07-16STATE OF THE OLD WESTERN $400: "Little Big Horn" Montana
#7114, aired 2015-07-16STATE OF THE OLD WESTERN $600: "Deadwood '76" South Dakota
#7114, aired 2015-07-16STATE OF THE OLD WESTERN $800: "Bells of Capistrano" California
#7110, aired 2015-07-10COLLEGE PEOPLE $800: In 1967 philanthropist Leonard Case's Institute of Technology united with this Cleveland school Western Reserve
#7108, aired 2015-07-08IT SHOULDA BEEN A CONTENDER $1000: 1956: Give this classic John Ford/John Wayne western a nomination? That'll be the day! The Searchers
#7105, aired 2015-07-03CAR TUNES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a convertible with Sarah in the driver's seat at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Natalie Cole's hit song about a classic automobile, like the 1962 model we're in, was written by this New Jersey man who had a few hits of his own Bruce Springsteen
#7097, aired 2015-06-23ALPHANUMERICS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) While many cars carry a standard V8 engine, the 1932 all-aluminum Peerless would blow them off the road by generating nearly 175 horsepower with this giant of an engine a V16
#7096, aired 2015-06-22OLD JERSEY, NEW JERSEY $800: Situated between southern England & western France, Jersey is the largest & southernmost of these islands the Channel Islands
#7088, aired 2015-06-10WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $400: The Hondo River provides much of the border between Mexico & this small Central American nation Belize
#7088, aired 2015-06-10WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $1200: In the 1520s Sebastian Cabot named a South American river this, believing the nearby area had lots of silver Río de la Plata
#7088, aired 2015-06-10WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $1600: Rising near Tennessee pass in the Colorado Rockies, it flows southeasterly for more than 1,400 miles the Arkansas River
#7088, aired 2015-06-10WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $2000: The Winnipeg River rises in this U.S.-Canada lake & empties into Lake Winnipeg Lake of the Woods
#7088, aired 2015-06-10WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $2,700 (Daily Double): Its many tributaries include the Great Miami & Wabash Rivers the Ohio
#7086, aired 2015-06-08HEAVY $200: After seeing his friends killed off 1 by 1, a German soldier meets the same fate in this Erich Maria Remarque novel All Quiet on the Western Front
#7085, aired 2015-06-05BRANDS OF JEANS $400: Appropriately, this brand of Western jeans sponsors the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Wrangler
#7084, aired 2015-06-04GEOGRAPH-"E" $1200: Scottsbluff & Fort Robinson are in this western extension of Nebraska the panhandle
#7081, aired 2015-06-01CANADIAN CITIES $1600: An intersection in this provincial capital is the original western terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway Victoria, British Columbia
#7076, aired 2015-05-25TV-"G" $400: James Arness played a marshal on this long-running Western Gunsmoke
#7075, aired 2015-05-22WORLD WAR I $2000: In early 1918 this French general was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front General Foch
#7068, aired 2015-05-13MOROCCAN HISTORY $2000: Morocco has battled over Western Sahara & its wealth of phosphates, used as this growth aid fertilizer
#7053, aired 2015-04-22NEW TO THE OED $800: This numerical type of "problem" that might be found in the U.S. or Western Europe but not in India first-world problem
#7049, aired 2015-04-162014 ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $600: "Rio Bravo", a Howard Hawks Western starring this tough guy as sheriff John T. Chance (John) Wayne
#7046, aired 2015-04-13COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS $800: Western Tunisia adjacent Algeria
#7045, aired 2015-04-10HERE COMES THE SUN $400: Led by stars like Kevin Johnson & Tom Chambers, this NBA team has won 2 Western Conference titles the Phoenix Suns
#7039, aired 2015-04-02COMPANIES $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) As far back as the early 20th century, you could access your inner hog by riding early motorcycle models like this 1919 one from this U.S. company Harley-Davidson
#7033, aired 2015-03-25ANTS $800: When you buy one of these, it will most likely be filled with Western Harvester ants because they are great tunnelers an ant farm
#7023, aired 2015-03-11THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: This 50-mile waterway stretches from Limon Bay on the Caribbean to the Bridge of the Americas the Panama Canal
#7023, aired 2015-03-11THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Tahquanemon Falls in this state's upper peninsula is the USA's second-largest waterfall east of the Mississippi Michigan
#7023, aired 2015-03-11THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $600: This country's highest peak, Pico de Orizaba, is also known as Citlaltepetl, or "star mountain" Mexico
#7023, aired 2015-03-11THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Fuegians are residents of this rugged South American region Tierra del Fuego
#7023, aired 2015-03-11THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: The French islands of Saint Pierre & this neighbor lie just off the eastern end of Canada Miquelon
#7022, aired 2015-03-10ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $1200: Robert Abplanalp, a buddy who lent Nixon the money for the "Western White House", made a fortune with this type of spray can aerosol
#7021, aired 2015-03-09WHAT A COUNTRY! $1200: This Western Hemisphere country is the largest nation in area whose capital city's name begins with the same letter Brazil
#7015, aired 2015-02-27LUCKY 7 $1200: Charles Bronson & Steve McQueen were 2 of this title western-film heptad The Magnificent Seven
#7010, aired 2015-02-20LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $400: A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A. Vancouver
#7007, aired 2015-02-17COLD WORLD OUT THERE $1000: Located in Lewis and Clark County, Rogers Pass in this large western state chilled out at -70 on Jan. 20, 1954 Montana
#7007, aired 2015-02-17SINGERS ON POSTAGE STAMPS $1200: Hank Williams & this "I Fall to Pieces" singer were featured in a 1993 Country & Western series Patsy Cline
#7006, aired 2015-02-16AVIATION $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.) This amazing single-seat fighter with an alphanumeric name saw action in World War II, the Korean War & other conflicts & was not phased out of some nations' Air Forces until the 1980s the P-51
#6992, aired 2015-01-27ISLAND FACTS $800: Found in the Caribbean, it's the most populous island country in the western hemisphere Cuba
#6988, aired 2015-01-211865 AMERICA $400: On July 21, 1865 this "wild" gunslinger & Dave Tutt engaged in what is regarded as the first true western showdown Bill Hickok
#6985, aired 2015-01-16COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: "Western" was attached to the name of this Pacific island nation when it gained independence in 1962 Samoa
#6979, aired 2015-01-08THAT'S NO LADY $800: Marion Morrison's first screen appearance using this name was in the 1930 Western "The Big Trail" John Wayne
#6978, aired 2015-01-07"BAD" CALL $1600: Timothy Leary wrote that "The Western world has been on" one of these a bad trip
#6971, aired 2014-12-29MEET THE DAKOTAS! $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Deadwood, SD.) I'm standing in this historic Deadwood Cemetery, named for the Jerusalem hill on which Solomon built his temple; western legends Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane were laid to rest here Mount Moriah
#6963, aired 2014-12-17HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Long before global warming changed the focus of auto makers, the 1916 Owen Magnetic used both gas & electric power as one of the first of these combined-fuel vehicles a hybrid
#6963, aired 2014-12-17HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) To showcase its strength & durability, this 1964 Thunderbird was one of a handful of cars made with bodies of this alliterative alloy stainless steel
#6963, aired 2014-12-17HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Valued by some estimates at over $1 million, the 1967 365 California by this Italian company saw only 14 of its original design ever made Ferrari
#6963, aired 2014-12-17HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Though most of the problems were worked out by the 1964 version, the Chevy Corvair was one of the main cars covered unfavorably in this man's book "Unsafe at Any Speed" (Ralph) Nader
#6963, aired 2014-12-17HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) There's no mistaking the sleek design lines of a classic, 1981 DeLorean; fewer than 10,000 were ever made, & all featured its unique doors with this unusual name gull-wing doors
#6960, aired 2014-12-12QUOTES FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ $200: The Wizard tells Dorothy that he's from this state, "Born and bred in the heart of the Western wilderness" Kansas
#6953, aired 2014-12-03CALIFORNIA $200: The oldest art museum in the western U.S., the Crocker Art Museum, opened in this state capital in 1885 Sacramento
#6949, aired 2014-11-27WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? $200: The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs State
#6932, aired 2014-11-04WORDS THAT START WITH CONJUNCTIONS $1600: It's the range with the highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere Andes
#6930, aired 2014-10-31IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $1200: In 1854 this Naval officer (not the actor) opened Japan to Western trade & diplomacy (Matthew) Perry
#6928, aired 2014-10-29MALTIN ON MOVIES $400: (Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) During the plodding first hour of this elephantine western, I kept wondering why make the legendary title hero into a doofus & his noble Indian friend into a wisecracking Greek chorus The Lone Ranger
#6925, aired 2014-10-24GEOGRAPHUN $1600: (Sarah points to a map) Though it's 3,000 miles wide, China has only one time zone. At 2,500 miles wide, Australia has three, and the one used in this state Is the same one for all of China. Western Australia
#6924, aired 2014-10-23ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a riverbank in Alaska.) The most common tree in the forests of southern Alaska is the western hemlock, a tree of this type that's named for its seed-bearing structure & includes the world's tallest & one of the smallest trees coniferous
#6921, aired 2014-10-20THE BALKANS $1200: There was an ancient kingdom of this name; its western part is today a country of the same name bordering Greece Macedonia
#6914, aired 2014-10-09JEFF $1000: From 1983 to 2013 Jeff Bingaman served as a U.S. senator from this western state New Mexico
#6913, aired 2014-10-08GRAVE NEW WORLD $1600: The tombstone seen here isn't in Tombstone, Arizona, but in Glenwood Springs in this Western state Colorado
#6907, aired 2014-09-30LIGHTHOUSES $1600: The Jeddah Light in western Saudi Arabia towers 430 feet over this body of water the Red Sea
#6903, aired 2014-09-24FORESTS $1000: The Dixie National Forest is not in the Deep South but in this western state, between St. George & Teasdale Utah
#6902, aired 2014-09-23CELEBRITY ORIGINS $800: (I'm Cesar Millan.) My teachers in canine psychology were dogs on my grandfather's farm in Sinaloa, a state in western Mexico, bordering this sea the Sea of Cortez
#6896, aired 2014-09-15"C" TO "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's distilled from white wine & is named for a city in western France cognac
#6892, aired 2014-07-29GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $1200: In 2006 a graphic novel was created in order to boost interest in what would become this 2011 sci-fi western with Daniel Craig Cowboys & Aliens
#6882, aired 2014-07-15LET'S GO TO ALASKA $1,800 (Daily Double): This western peninsula is home to the world's largest maar, or volcanic crater lake the Seward peninsula
#6879, aired 2014-07-10ANIMALS ALL AROUND $400: The western lowland type of this can sometimes be found in the mist gorilla
#6877, aired 2014-07-08SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $400: The western pygmy blue type of this insect has a wingspan of 3/8 of an inch a butterfly
#6876, aired 2014-07-07BURGS $400: This city was founded in 1703 by a czar who hoped to make it a "Window on the West", bringing in Western culture St. Petersburg
#6872, aired 2014-07-01"P"LACES $1200: The Swann valley outside this Western Australian city is home to dozens of vineyards Perth
#6856, aired 2014-06-09NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1600: Lassiter is the hero of the Zane Grey Western "Riders of" this the Purple Sage
#6839, aired 2014-05-15U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: This Rockies Ridge splits the waters of the Western U.S. into westward & eastward flowing the Continental Divide
#6838, aired 2014-05-14WORLD LITERATURE $2000: In 1907 the performance of this John Millington Synge play set off riots in Dublin Playboy of the Western World
#6837, aired 2014-05-13STATE FACTS $2000: The highest point in Massachusetts is in these western hills the Berkshires
#6832, aired 2014-05-06FEATURING FLAGS $2000: A black one of these birds is featured on the flag of Western Australia a swan
#6832, aired 2014-05-06YUCKY HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): As in the Western "Flesh & the Spur", Indians used staking people to these as a torture--or at least white settlers said so anthills
#6825, aired 2014-04-25ELEVATION DESTINATION $400: A symbolic 1,776 feet tall, the office tower called "One" this is the tallest in the western hemisphere World Trade Center
#6821, aired 2014-04-21LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $2000: What a barbarian! In 450 he demanded the Roman emperor's sister as his wife & 1/2 of the Western Empire as dowry Attila the Hun
#6816, aired 2014-04-14KINGS OF MUSIC $1600: Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing" & country's bob wills was the "King of" this type of "Swing" Western
#6809, aired 2014-04-03OUR OLD PAL WATSON $200: In 1974 this Stanford grad won his first pro tournament, the Western Open Tom Watson
#6799, aired 2014-03-20THE ONE WHO KNOCKS $600: The Atlantic said "around the hour-and-a-half mark", this masked-man Western makes the "fateful decision not to end" The Lone Ranger
#6791, aired 2014-03-10DIALECTS $2000: A main dialect of Japanese is Kansai-ben, spoken in Osaka & Kyoto in the western part of this island Honshu
#6784, aired 2014-02-27BENIN THERE $600: Vodun, still the faith of many in Benin, came from the area to the western hemisphere, where we call it this voodoo
#6784, aired 2014-02-27STATE BIRDS $2000: Both Montana & Nebraska have the western type of this bird meadowlark
#6781, aired 2014-02-24OSCAR BEST PICTURE PARTIAL MARQUEES $5,000 (Daily Double): The third Best-Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front
#6776, aired 2014-02-17COLLEGE TOWNS $800: A shortened version of the name of trapper Etienne Provost is on a college town in this Western state Utah
#6734, aired 2013-12-19LITERARY LANDMARKS $1600: Louis L'Amour wrote many of his western novels in room 222 of the Strater hotel in Durango in this state Colorado
#6730, aired 2013-12-1360 YEARS OF THE TV STATION $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1953, KLAS became the first TV station in this Western state Nevada
#6712, aired 2013-11-19STAND BY YOUR STAN $400: Until the 2000s, cities like Herat & Kandahar in this country were not often seen in Western news Afghanistan
#6696, aired 2013-10-2820th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES $600: "All Quiet on the Western Front" & "This Side of Paradise" the '20s
#6688, aired 2013-10-16AUTHORS' NAMES $800: Before this author of western novels dropped the first name Pearl, he made a lovely shade for tile flooring (Zane) Grey
#6687, aired 2013-10-15HATS ALL, FOLKS $200: Hey there, cowboy... western hats from this brand include the Royal Flush & Boss of the Plains in black Stetson
#6670, aired 2013-09-20HOW'D THEY MAKE THEIR MONEY? $800: (Here's Laurie Griner.) You need dough to start an Ivy League school; Yale sold diamonds, Harvard owned real estate & Ezra Cornell built this most famous telegraph company Western Union
#6664, aired 2013-08-01IT HAPPENED ON AUGUST 1 $400: This western state was a mile high when it gained statehood on Aug. 1, 1876 Colorado
#6663, aired 2013-07-31AUTHORS $600: As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain
#6660, aired 2013-07-26JAPANESE HISTORY $2000: From the 1630s to 1850s, this port on Kyushu served as Japan's only window to the Western World Nagasaki
#6658, aired 2013-07-24COASTAL U.S. STATES $400: Of the 3 coastal western states in the lower 48, its coast is the shortest at 157 miles Washington
#6653, aired 2013-07-17VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) A popular scene symbolizing love & fidelity features a male & female one of these mythical birds, known in Western myth to rise from ashes a phoenix
#6643, aired 2013-07-03LITERARY MOUNTAIN CLIMBING $800: In "To the Far Blue Mountains", this prolific western author continued his tales of the pioneering Sackett family Louis L'Amour
#6634, aired 2013-06-20AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS $2000: This capital of Western Australia is famous for the black swans along the Swan River Perth
#6628, aired 2013-06-12AROUND THE WORLD $2000: In Australia, Northern Territory is directly east of this 2-word state Western Australia
#6624, aired 2013-06-06LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $800: The name didn't die with the telegraph: WU Western Union
#6624, aired 2013-06-06BODIES OF WATER $2000: This serene-sounding river of western Canada is named for the site of a territorial settlement between Indians Peace River
#6621, aired 2013-06-03OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $600: One of the official state songs of this western state was a top 10 hit for John Denver Colorado
#6618, aired 2013-05-29THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) $400: On Oct. 24, 1861 Western Union completed this coast-to-coast line the telegraph line
#6608, aired 2013-05-15SOWETO $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) The epicenter of South Africa's long struggle for equality, Soweto takes its name from the first two letters of these three words--its location & designation within Johannesburg South West Township
#6602, aired 2013-05-07YOU SEE "L.A." $200: The largely Spanish-speaking lands of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States Latin America
#6596, aired 2013-04-29MOVIE MAKEOVERS $600: Dustin Hoffman was aged to 121 for this 1970 western Little Big Man
#6594, aired 2013-04-25GREEN WITH NON-ENVY $800: You get an "A" if you know the green this is the largest snake in the Western Hemisphere; it may be 30 feet long anaconda
#6591, aired 2013-04-22SHARED COLLEGE SPORTS NICKNAMES $600: Western Michigan & Boise State the Broncos
#6578, aired 2013-04-03QUICK PRESIDENTIAL STOPS $1600: The monument here honors the first presidential visit to Canada--Warren Harding's day in this western city a week before he died Vancouver
#6571, aired 2013-03-25ONLY IN MONTHS WITH AN R $1200: In western Christianity, All Saint's Day is observed on the first of this month November
#6571, aired 2013-03-251960s TELEVISION $1200: This NBC western starring Lorne Greene was the No. 1 series for 3 straight seasons in the mid-1960s Bonanza
#6558, aired 2013-03-06KNOW YOUR AREA CODES $800: 313 will call up this Great Lakes state's eastern edge; 616, its western Michigan
#6555, aired 2013-03-01THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... $400: Is described by World Book as "a small country where western civilization started about 2,500 years ago" Greece
#6549, aired 2013-02-21DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $1200: A gangster saga, not a spaghetti western: "Once Upon a Time in America" Sergio Leone
#6539, aired 2013-02-07ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,400 (Daily Double): In this futuristic but not Orwellian novel, Mustapha Mond was called "the Resident Controller for Western Europe" Brave New World
#6534, aired 2013-01-31INDIA $1200: India's western state of Goa was a colony of this small Iberian country until 1961 Portugal
#6528, aired 2013-01-23BANNED! $400: One of the first books banned by the Nazis was this 1929 antiwar novel made into a 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front
#6526, aired 2013-01-21MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES $1200: A population of 81 million makes this nation No. 16, & No. 1 in western Europe Germany
#6524, aired 2013-01-17MAURITANIA & MOROCCO $2000: The phosphate-rich area called Western this lies between Mauritania & Morocco; both have claimed it Sahara
#6521, aired 2013-01-14MUDDY WATERS $1000: Averaging 5 feet deep, Mud Lake is one of the less shiny jewels of this western "gem state" Idaho
#6514, aired 2013-01-03CEMETERIES $2000: On May 5, 1878 Alice Chambers was the last person buried in this Dodge City, Kansas cemetery Boot Hill
#6507, aired 2012-12-25U.S. MOUNTAINS $1600: (Alex gives the clue from the tracks of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) On our trip on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, we're about to go through the U.S.A.'s first gateway to the west - a passage in the Allegheny Mountains, which are part of this longer chain Appalachians
#6502, aired 2012-12-18EAT PREY $600: Don't tread on this venomous predator seen here a (western) rattlesnake
#6494, aired 2012-12-06MOVIE MONEY $800: This 1964 Sergio Leone film starring Clint Eastwood introduced the spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars
#6487, aired 2012-11-27LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS, OH MY! $1200: Ex-Lions lineman Alex Karras KO'ed a horse with one punch in this comedy/Western film Blazing Saddles
#6473, aired 2012-11-07HORSE & CARRIAGE $800: The Conestoga & this vehicle, seen here, were instrumental in the western expansion of the United States covered wagons
#6472, aired 2012-11-06LITERARY AWARDS $400: Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre Western
#6470, aired 2012-11-02GEORGIAS ON MY MIND $1200: The Georgia Strait separates this 290-mile-long island from Canada's western mainland Vancouver
#6456, aired 2012-10-15IN A ROW $1200: Archaeologists discovered 19 rows of stones extending below this alliterative holy landmark in Jerusalem the Western Wall (or the Wailing Wall)
#6452, aired 2012-10-09GOIN' COUNTRY $1200: This country whose name comes from a word meaning "land of mountains" covers the western third of Hispaniola Haiti
#6450, aired 2012-10-05"C_N_N" $400: Kings is an example of this western land formation; De Chelly is another canyon
#6440, aired 2012-09-21IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA $800: (Alex delivers the clue from a train station at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Before trains, when you went from town to town, you had to reset your watch; this made a mess of railroad schedules, until a railroad executive came up with the great idea of the 24 of these that are still in use today around the world time zones
#6427, aired 2012-07-24ARGENTINA $1600: In 1974 not Evita but this widow of Juan Peron became the first female president in the western hemisphere Isabel
#6424, aired 2012-07-19BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This Capote book begins, "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area" In Cold Blood
#6420, aired 2012-07-13IT'S THE TRUTH $600: Of the 6 states of Australia, the largest by area is this "directional" one Western Australia
#6415, aired 2012-07-06CITY MUSEUMS $2000: Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland (Ohio)
#6412, aired 2012-07-03FACE THE NATION $400: It's where western civilization began Greece
#6412, aired 2012-07-03TRANSPORTATION $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Water and fuel for the train are carried in this car just behind the locomotive. It has a gentle-sounding name; think of an early Elvis Presley hit song a tender car
#6401, aired 2012-06-18A HARRISON FORD FIESTA $200: Harrison Ford joined forces with Daniel Craig in this 2011 western/sci-fi mashup Cowboys & Aliens
#6397, aired 2012-06-12WHAT'S FOR DESERT? $2000: Australia's western Outback consists mostly of 3 deserts: the Gibson, the Great Sandy & the Great this Victoria
#6375, aired 2012-05-11"B" WHERE? $400: We've come to Western Europe to see this country Belgium
#6373, aired 2012-05-09HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $1200: In 2003 fighting erupted in this western region of Sudan, with Arab militia committing genocide against non-Arab farmers Darfur
#6371, aired 2012-05-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Ports on this gulf include Tampa & Tampico the Gulf of Mexico
#6371, aired 2012-05-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Jamaica & Grenada are part of this island chain that got its name because Columbus didn't know where he was the West Indies
#6371, aired 2012-05-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: Canada has a sort of equivalent song to "This Land Is Your Land"; its chorus begins, "From" this British Columbia island Vancouver Island
#6371, aired 2012-05-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1600: (Here's Kelly) Punta Gallinas, South America's northernmost point, lies on the Guajira Peninsula, which is shared by these two nations Colombia & Venezuela
#6371, aired 2012-05-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2000: Lake Itasca, considered the main source of the Mississippi River, is in this state Minnesota
#6370, aired 2012-05-04KNOW YOUR STATE BORDERS! $1000: A majority of Wyoming's western border is with this state Idaho
#6369, aired 2012-05-03BEASTLY BUSINESS $200: The western spotted variety of this animal does a handstand before it sprays its enemies a skunk
#6356, aired 2012-04-16GREAT DEPRESSIONS $1,800 (Daily Double): Part of the Great Basin, the Carson Sink is in this western U.S. state Nevada
#6355, aired 2012-04-13CANADA'S MARITIME PROVINCES $800: Like a certain western U.S. state, Prince Edward Island is famed for growing these, as in the field seen here potatoes
#6347, aired 2012-04-03PROPOSED STATES $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Western United States.) In 1849, 47 years before Utah statehood, parts of nine future states were encompassed by this proposed state, whose name meant "honeybee" Deseret
#6342, aired 2012-03-27ADLER-TIZING $1000: With Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler edited a 54-volume series called "Great Books of" this, "GBWW" for short Great Books of the Western World
#6340, aired 2012-03-23AUTHORS WITH MASS. APPEAL $400: An 1860s poem that begins "Because I could not stop for death" is by this woman from western Massachusetts Emily Dickinson
#6315, aired 2012-02-17I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1600: Adjective meaning time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire ancient
#6310, aired 2012-02-10POETIC CHARACTERS $400: e.e. cummings began a poem this Western bison hunter & showman is "defunct" Buffalo Bill
#6303, aired 2012-02-01IT'S A WATERY WORLD $2000: This channel is named for the country on its western edge the Mozambique Channel (the Channel of Mozambique accepted)
#6302, aired 2012-01-31GANG OF FORE $1600: This "Super Mex" was struck by lightning at the 1975 Western Open but recovered & won the 1984 PGA Championship Lee Trevino
#6300, aired 2012-01-27FIRST IN WAR $1600: The first major use of these vehicles was at the 1917 Battle of Cambrai, leading to a rare breakthrough on the Western Front tanks
#6299, aired 2012-01-26FAMOUS FIRSTS $1000: On July 28, 1933 Western Union operator Lucille Lipps delivered the first one of these to Rudy Vallee on his birthday a singing telegram
#6298, aired 2012-01-25BIRD BOOKS $400: Larry McMurtry won a Pulitzer for this Western Lonesome Dove
#6276, aired 2011-12-26THE LAST $1200: The last of these sent by Western Union on Jan. 27, 2006 included birthday wishes & condolences a telegram
#6273, aired 2011-12-21HIGHEST-RATED TV SERIES OF THE SEASON $800: 1957-58 & the next 3 seasons: This Western set in Dodge City Gunsmoke
#6269, aired 2011-12-15DIALECTS $1000: Cebuano is widely spoken in Cebu, Western Leyte & parts of Mindanao in this country The Philippines
#6268, aired 2011-12-14"G", LOOK AT THAT $600: Indian culture is stronger in this Western Hemisphere nation than in its neighbors Guatemala
#6255, aired 2011-11-25RAILROADING 101 $1600: (Alex delivers the clue riding a train on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Around 1900, locomotives got so big, no fireman could keep up with this job, so a mechanical feeder was used, but I prefer to do it the old-fashioned way stoking
#6255, aired 2011-11-25RAILROADING 101 $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from aboard a train on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) The engine's working a little harder now because we're going up a 2.8% one of these; you'd call it a slope or an incline; railroaders call it this a grade
#6252, aired 2011-11-22TURKEY DAY $4,000 (Daily Double): This Western European country with a 3-million-strong Turkish minority is one of Turkey's main trading partners Germany
#6251, aired 2011-11-21AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.) The arrival of foxes in Western Australia in the 1920s was bad news for the quokka, a type of this kangaroo relative a wallaby
#6237, aired 2011-11-01HANDGUNS $200: Head to the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum to see this woman's pair of gold-plated six shooters Annie Oakley
#6234, aired 2011-10-27THE "BEST" OF EVERYTHING $800: With more than 4,000 hotels, this chain claims to be the world's largest Best Western
#6232, aired 2011-10-25NICE "BUN"s $600: Western ranch hands often live in this 9-letter cabin or dormitory bunkhouse
#6230, aired 2011-10-21INTERNATIONAL RHYME TIME $2000: A barrel of wine from a group of people living in the Western Pyrenees of Spain & France a Basque cask
#6227, aired 2011-10-18WORLD GEOGRAPHY $5,200 (Daily Double): The name of this large port city on Western Europe's Schelde River literally means "at the wharf" Antwerp
#6226, aired 2011-10-17COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $1600: Ben Affleck moved west & attended this Los Angeles college whose name means "western" Occidental
#6222, aired 2011-10-11THE MOUNTAIN WEST $400: Mount Whitney in this Western range is the highest peak in the lower 48 states the Sierra Nevadas
#6222, aired 2011-10-11THE MOUNTAIN WEST $2000: The highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, in the western part of the range, is Mount Toubkal in this monarchy Morocco
#6219, aired 2011-10-06THIS "LAND" IS YOUR LAND $2000: It occupies the western half of the Indochinese peninsula & the northern 2/3 of the Malay Peninsula Thailand
#6215, aired 2011-09-30LANDMARKS $1000: This, the only remaining town gate of Berlin, is at the western end of the avenue Unter den Linden the Brandenburg Gate
#6212, aired 2011-09-27CHANNEL SURFING $400: Its western entrance lies between Land's End, U.K. & Ushant, France the English Channel
#6209, aired 2011-09-22WAR STORIES $1200: "All Quiet on the Western Front" World War I
#6203, aired 2011-07-27FUNERAL PLOTS $1600: Jimmy Stewart returns to the town of Shinbone for John Wayne's funeral & sets the record straight in this manly western The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
#6192, aired 2011-07-12& "LOW" THING $1000: A variety of gorilla that can be eastern or western lowland gorillas
#6184, aired 2011-06-30THE CON FILM FESTIVAL $1200: Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster are card-playing cons in this western based on a TV series Maverick
#6182, aired 2011-06-28LAKES & RIVERS $1200: The western half of Lake Balkhash in this largest "stan" is freshwater; the eastern half is saltwater Kazakhstan
#6181, aired 2011-06-27MOVIE REMAKES $400: Matt Damon took on Glen Campbell's Texas Ranger role in the remake of this western True Grit
#6178, aired 2011-06-22NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a large clay figure in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) A popular figure in the Southwest, Mudhead is the cultural & spiritual deity specific to this family of Indians whose Western tribes include the Hopi & the Zuni the Pueblo Indians
#6174, aired 2011-06-16THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) It's easy to see why Stage 15 here at Sony Studios, the largest soundstage in the Western hemisphere, was used to film hits like "Men in Black" I & II, the "Spider Man" films, & this 1939 magical classic MGM musical The Wizard of Oz
#6174, aired 2011-06-16LEGISLATIVE LEGACIES $10,000 (Daily Double): Galusha Grow was the father of this 1862 law giving Western land to anyone who'd settle & improve it the Homestead Act
#6172, aired 2011-06-14OTHER STATUES OF LIBERTY $800: The statue seen here is in this Western city that wants to liberate your cash Las Vegas
#6170, aired 2011-06-10OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: The Western hemlock, Washington's state tree, is this type, also found in the state's official nickname evergreen
#6162, aired 2011-05-31YES, WE HAVE NO ARMY $1000: The United States is responsible for the defense of these "little" federated states in the western Pacific Micronesia
#6161, aired 2011-05-30A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" was originally published in this language German
#6161, aired 2011-05-30PENNSYLVANIA DREAMIN' $800: The western tip of this city's Golden Triangle--where the Ohio River begins--is called the point Pittsburgh
#6159, aired 2011-05-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun the Yucatan
#6159, aired 2011-05-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International Tobago
#6159, aired 2011-05-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935 Angel Falls
#6159, aired 2011-05-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda Lake Mojave
#6159, aired 2011-05-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1,500 (Daily Double): A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine Havana
#6158, aired 2011-05-25"POT"s & "PAN"s $1200: This Olympics-like sports event for Western Hemisphere countries was first held in Argentina in 1951 the Panamerican Games
#6158, aired 2011-05-25SHADES OF ZANE GREY $2000: Selling over 13 million books in his lifetime, Zane Grey is best remembered for this colorful 1912 western The Riders of the Purple Sage
#6157, aired 2011-05-24THE 1860s $200: In April 1866 this company absorbed U.S. Telegraph, giving it a complete monopoly in the United States Western Union
#6153, aired 2011-05-18MOVIE DEMISES $400: In this 2010 Coen Brothers Western, Hailee Steinfeld as young Mattie finally catches up with Josh Brolin True Grit
#6125, aired 2011-04-086 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): Paul Baumer, a young German soldier Erich Maria Remarque
#6118, aired 2011-03-30BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $400: (Alex stands at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) The Western Wall is the only remnant of a retaining wall that was built to support the Temple Mount; now tradition says this mount was Moriah, the site where this patriarch prepared to sacrifice his son Abraham
#6109, aired 2011-03-17OR THE HIGHWAY $2000: The eastern end of U.S. 30 is in Atlantic City; the western end is in Astoria, a continent away in this state Oregon
#6091, aired 2011-02-21MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: The Japanese hichiriki is a type of this Western double-reed woodwind instrument the oboe
#6089, aired 2011-02-17HISTORY $800: The martial artists who fought against Western control of China from 1898 to 1900 were known as these the Boxers
#6087, aired 2011-02-15HEDGEHOG-PODGE $400: Some hedgehogs enter periods of torpor; the Western European species spends the winter in this dormant condition hibernation
#6083, aired 2011-02-09"HAWK" EYES $2000: This New Jersey town across from Manhattan is the western portal to the Lincoln Tunnel Weehawken
#6077, aired 2011-02-01A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL... ERIE! $600: Part of the plan: To put the canal's western end at this city on Lake Erie Buffalo
#6072, aired 2011-01-25NICE TO MEAT YOU $1000: A western N.Y. city knows cuts of this humped cattle family member are lower in fat & cholesterol than most cuts of beef buffalo
#6068, aired 2011-01-19LIVE IN TEXAS $600: From 2001 to 2009 this town was home to "the Western White House" Crawford
#6042, aired 2010-12-14LANGUAGES $200: Yupik is a native language spoken by about 15,000 in Siberia & the western part of this state Alaska
#6014, aired 2010-11-04PROSE $1600: This 1929 novel follows 4 German youths into WWI; the silence is permanent for 3 of them All Quiet on the Western Front
#6012, aired 2010-11-02WELCOME TO MY COUNTRY $1600: Feel welcome but be cautious in this country that has Iran on its western border & India on its eastern one Pakistan
#6011, aired 2010-11-01"NEW" GEOGRAPHY $2000: The western half of this large island is a province of Indonesia New Guinea
#5997, aired 2010-10-12"DOLLAR"S & "CENT"S $400: Clint Eastwood starred in this 1964 Spaghetti Western & its sequel, "For a Few Dollars More" A Fistful of Dollars
#5988, aired 2010-09-29SACRED TO THIS RELIGION $800: The Western Wall Judaism
#5979, aired 2010-09-16GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $400: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases softball
#5974, aired 2010-07-29TWICE-TOLD TALES $2000: You know who I really like? Me! Howard Hawks remade his own "Rio Bravo" as this golden Western just 8 years later El Dorado
#5963, aired 2010-07-14TEX-ARCANA $400: Big Bend National Park is on a Big Bend of this river in western Texas the Rio Grande
#5959, aired 2010-07-0810-12 YEARS $1200: After Hidalgo's rebellion in 1810, this western hemisphere country fought 11 years for independence Mexico
#5958, aired 2010-07-07THAT'S HISTORY, KIDS! $1000: September 14, 1847: General Winfield Scott captures this western hemisphere capital city Mexico City
#5954, aired 2010-07-01PLEASE BELIZE ME $1200: Belize has been involved for decades in border disputes with this western neighbor Guatemala
#5950, aired 2010-06-25NAME THAT SPORTS CONFERENCE $1000: Boise State, Fresno State the Western Athletic Conference
#5947, aired 2010-06-22COOKIE MONSTER REVIEW NOVEL $2000: Me devour books by this creator of modern western novel; 1915 work "Lone Star Ranger" psychologically compelling (Zane) Grey
#5942, aired 2010-06-15YOU GOTTA REPRESENT $1200: The cauldron & wand are symbols of this modern Western religion that follows witchcraft Wicca
#5932, aired 2010-06-01THE BOSS $600: The boss isn't so tech-savvy; he just said to send a telegram using this company, which sent its last one on Jan. 27, 2006 Western Union
#5930, aired 2010-05-28WHERE AM I? $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a Spanish-architecture courtyard.) I'm in this Peruvian city, once the capital of an empire, & one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the western hemisphere Cuzco
#5928, aired 2010-05-26WORDS ON THE QWERTY ROW $400: Silence! I need this on the set & the Western Front, please! quiet
#5927, aired 2010-05-25THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) It's about equally far from the eastern as the western border & from the northern border as the southern coast to this second-largest Burmese city Mandalay
#5925, aired 2010-05-21GERMAN LITERATURE $400: Karl May has been called the German Louis L'Amour for works like "Old Surehand" in this genre Western
#5925, aired 2010-05-21GERMAN LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): During World War I he fought on the Western Front & was wounded several times; he later wrote a 1929 novel about it Erich Maria Remarque
#5924, aired 2010-05-20U.S. LAKES & RIVERS $1600: At 618 feet, Seneca Lake is the deepest of this group of long & narrow lakes in Western New York the Finger Lakes
#5923, aired 2010-05-19HIDDEN STATES $2000: If you're under 18, put a helmet on when you ride a motorcycle in this Western state Utah (in put a helmet)
#5916, aired 2010-05-10INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $2000: Known as NAM, it was founded in 1961 by nations that wanted to stand apart from the Eastern & Western blocs the Non-Aligned Movement
#5912, aired 2010-05-04THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: Colorado's Front Range is the eastern edge of these mountains the Rockies
#5912, aired 2010-05-04THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: The tourist haven of St. Barthelemy, aka St. Bart's, is a little piece of France in this sea the Caribbean Sea
#5912, aired 2010-05-04THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $600: The water kamudi is another name for this giant constricting snake of South America the anaconda
#5912, aired 2010-05-04THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Canada's Ungava Peninsula is on the east side of this immense bay the Hudson Bay
#5912, aired 2010-05-04THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: U.Va. is in Charlottesville; UBA, founded in 1821, is in this South American city the University of Buenos Aires
#5911, aired 2010-05-03NO WAY! IT'S NORWAY! $600: Norway occupies the western side of this peninsula the Scandinavian Peninsula
#5908, aired 2010-04-28AROUND THE WORLD $800: Surprisingly, this mountainous Western European country didn't fully grant women the right to vote until 1971 Switzerland
#5898, aired 2010-04-14"INGO" $1000: A group of western African peoples, or a 1975 movie co-starring Ken Norton Mandingo
#5886, aired 2010-03-29AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Longtime house speaker Sam Rayburn owned "The Scalp", a statue by this Western artist Remington
#5873, aired 2010-03-10JERUSALEM'S NOBLE SANCTUARY $800: (Alex Trebek reports from outside a Jerusalem landmark.) From the western courtyard at al-Aqsa, you get a good view of Silsila & Fakhriyya, two of these structures from which Muslims traditionally are called to prayer minarets
#5871, aired 2010-03-08FOOD AKA $200: Whether one of these is called Denver or Western, it's made with green pepper, onion & ham an omelet
#5871, aired 2010-03-08WEST SIDE STORY $400: Much of Peter Schneider's book "The Wall Jumper" takes place in the western section of this city Berlin
#5868, aired 2010-03-03THE '70s $800: In 476 Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus & this half of the Roman Empire fell the Western Empire
#5866, aired 2010-03-013 OF A KIND $400: "The Searchers", "The Shootist", "The Quiet Man" John Wayne movies
#5854, aired 2010-02-11THE FICTION FILE $400: This genre of novel is traced back to 1902's "The Virginian", set mainly in Wyoming the western
#5852, aired 2010-02-09SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: This desert covers much of western Botswana the Kalahari
#5852, aired 2010-02-09SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: After gold was discovered in 1890 in the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie mines, this capital of Western Australia grew rapidly Perth
#5851, aired 2010-02-08THE BIG 10 $600: In L.A., the western tip of Interstate 10 is called this "freeway", after the beach community it passes through Santa Monica
#5847, aired 2010-02-02EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Connecting the western Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean is this narrow passage of water the Straits of Gibraltar
#5845, aired 2010-01-29HOLLYWOOD REMAKES $2,600 (Daily Double): This 1957 Glenn Ford-Van Heflin western was remade in 2007 3:10 to Yuma
#5837, aired 2010-01-19YES, DEER $1000: It's the Western Alaskan deer family member seen here caribou
#5808, aired 2009-12-09GOOD AS GOLD $400: Dating to the 600s B.C., the first Western coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold & 20 percent this stuff silver
#5796, aired 2009-11-23A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL $400: (Alex reports from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) In Jewish circles, the Wailing Wall became known as the Western Wall after this 1967 war & the reunification of Jerusalem the Six-Day War
#5794, aired 2009-11-19CLOTHES OFF OUR BACK $800: The dress called cheongsam, which blends traditional Chinese & Western styles, is also called this, like a Chinese dialect Mandarin
#5793, aired 2009-11-18I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? $1000: This "Top Chef" host raised pulses with a finger-licking assault on a Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger Padma Lakshmi
#5792, aired 2009-11-17FINLANDIA $800: Finland forms a symbolic N. border between Eastern & Western Europe: to the east is Russia; to the west, these 2 nations Norway & Sweden
#5772, aired 2009-10-20WORLD CITIES $800: Seen here is the modern skyline of this city, one of the first Chinese ports to open to Western trade Shanghai
#5769, aired 2009-10-15TV SOLE DADS $1200: The movie "Tin Men" said this classic TV Western was about "a 50-year-old father with three 47-year-old sons" Bonanza
#5769, aired 2009-10-15BIG BOTTOM $2000: In 2008, over 65 years after it was sunk, HMAS Sydney was found 11/2 miles down in this ocean off Western Australia the Indian Ocean
#5761, aired 2009-10-05SEA YA $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier in the Netherlands.) Projects like the Maeslant Storm Surge Barrier with its 800-foot doors prevent inundation of the Western or Low Netherlands by this sea the North Sea
#5753, aired 2009-09-23"WESTERN" $400: Today a financial services leader, in 1851 it began as the New York & Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company Western Union
#5753, aired 2009-09-23"WESTERN" $800: What some say "High Noon" is, or the company that runs Las Vegas' Parkview Inn Best Western
#5753, aired 2009-09-23"WESTERN" $1200: Things were not "All Quiet" here when Gen. Ludendorff attacked near Saint-Quentin, France in Aug. 1914 the Western Front
#5753, aired 2009-09-23"WESTERN" $1600: Apia is the capital of the South Pacific island monarchy formerly called this Western Samoa
#5753, aired 2009-09-23"WESTERN" $2000: At the end of a play by John Millington Synge, the barmaid Pegeen laments, "I've lost the only playboy of" this the Western World
#5751, aired 2009-09-211861 YEARBOOK: MOST LIKELY TO SECEDE $3,000 (Daily Double): On May 23 this state (its western part had doubts) Virginia
#5735, aired 2009-07-10BALLET $600: In "Western Symphony", dance hall girls & cowboys cavort to classic tunes like this "River Valley" "Red River Valley"
#5733, aired 2009-07-08GET INTO MY CZAR $400: In the 1550s this awful guy had no beef with the Stroganov family, who sponsored western Siberia's conquest Ivan the Terrible
#5732, aired 2009-07-07USE A GOOD "STOCK" $1600: Get a "lode" of this rich vein of gold & silver discovered in western Nevada in 1859 the Comstock Lode
#5730, aired 2009-07-03DON'T GO THERE $800: An Ebola outbreak in the Western Kasai Province & rising crime in Kinshasa: don't go to this country the Congo
#5726, aired 2009-06-29SHAKESPEARE WITH A TWIST $1600: A novice nun switches places with a saloon girl in "Desperate Measures", a musical Western based on this play Measure for Measure
#5720, aired 2009-06-19U.S. CITIES $800: This city near San Francisco grew when it became the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad Oakland
#5716, aired 2009-06-15PENNSYLVANIA $4,200 (Daily Double): This city in the western part of the state has a maritime museum Erie
#5709, aired 2009-06-04NOT HARD AT ALL $800: Western red this is a soft wood, popular for decks, as seen here cedar
#5708, aired 2009-06-03ON BOARD GAME BOARDS $400: Areas called Greenland, Western Europe, Alaska Risk
#5701, aired 2009-05-25THE HUMAN ANIMAL $800: On behalf of Western intelligence, Col. Oleg Penkovsky was one of these inside the USSR a mole
#5693, aired 2009-05-13KINGS OF LEON $400: Leon is in western Spain, & its kings also ruled much of this country that wasn't independent until around 1140 Portugal
#5689, aired 2009-05-07PEAKS & VALLEYS $1200: Chile has a central valley, bordered by the Western Cordillera of this range the Andes
#5674, aired 2009-04-16THE COLD WAR $800: Declaring it permanently neutral, Western & Soviet forces withdrew in 1955 from this German-speaking nation Austria
#5666, aired 2009-04-06AMERICAN LIT $1600: Time put his violent western tale "Blood Meridian" on a list of the 100 best novels since 1923 Cormac McCarthy
#5662, aired 2009-03-31IN THE STATE CAPITAL $400: Spending a day in this Western city? Try to "cram" in a trip to the Crocker Art Museum Sacramento
#5660, aired 2009-03-27MOUNTAINS $200: The name of this Alp, the highest in Western Europe, means "white mountain" Mont Blanc
#5657, aired 2009-03-24TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $1600: In western Africa: Yamoussoukro Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast)
#5652, aired 2009-03-17THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN $400: The butte rises from the western plain like a stick of this on a plate butter (in butte rises)
#5648, aired 2009-03-11THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC $200: On May 1 in the western U.S. this is estimated to be 6:13 A.M.; by month's end it will be 5:44 sunrise
#5633, aired 2009-02-18EAST & WEST $1000: It's the state immediately to the west of South Australia Western Australia
#5628, aired 2009-02-11WHAT A COUNTRY! $2000: This African country shares its name with the 550-square-mile lake on its western border Chad
#5626, aired 2009-02-09BELOVED FILMS $800: "Come back", calls young Joey to the title hero played by Alan Ladd in this 1953 Western Shane
#5621, aired 2009-02-02SERENITY NOW! $600: It described "The Western Front" in a 1929 novel title All Quiet
#5620, aired 2009-01-30ON CAMPUS $600: Western hats off to you if you know this Florida university was founded in 1883 in the city of DeLand Stetson University
#5613, aired 2009-01-21BOOK REVIEWS BY TARZAN $800: This 1856 Flaubert novel introduce new element of realism in western literature; Tarzan shocked by title woman immorality Madame Bovary
#5604, aired 2009-01-0819th CENTURY AMERICA $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1822 he opened the western branch of his American Fur Company in St. Louis John Jacob Astor
#5599, aired 2009-01-01OCCUPATIONAL WEAR $200: Occupational adjective for a western shirt or western boots cowboy
#5598, aired 2008-12-31ROCKS & STONES $400: Balanced Rock is a sandstone mass in the Garden of the Gods in this Western state Colorado
#5590, aired 2008-12-19OPERATIONS $400: On June 26, 1948 the U.S. began flying tons of supplies into the western sector of this city in Operation Vittles Berlin
#5590, aired 2008-12-19REPTILES $400: This non-venomous constrictor is the longest snake in the Western Hemisphere an anaconda
#5585, aired 2008-12-12HEALTH MATTERS $400: Lyme disease is an inflammatory disorder caused by the bite of infected Western black-legged & deer these a tick
#5570, aired 2008-11-21HEROD'S LOST TOMB $1600: To gain his own people's respect, Herod rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem, including this sacred site that's still there the Western Wall
#5568, aired 2008-11-19THE HILLS $1200: Cleeve Cloud is the highest point in the Cotswolds, the hills in the western part of this country England
#5563, aired 2008-11-12I'M SO HOT $800: There's a yearly festival for this piquant chicken dish in the western New York city that gave the dish its name Buffalo wings
#5548, aired 2008-10-22LET'S THAI ONE ON $1200: Thailand was never ruled by a Western power & its name means "land of" this, also a Francis Scott Key phrase the land of the free
#5547, aired 2008-10-21"M": A NATION $0 (Daily Double): This nation comprises more than 2,000 small islands in the western Pacific Ocean Micronesia
#5535, aired 2008-10-03MILITARY MOVIES $400: 1930: World War I trench warfare seen from the German perspective All Quiet On The Western Front
#5521, aired 2008-09-15WHERE YA BEEN? $400: Climbing Mount Aconcagua in this Western Hemisphere mountain range the Andes
#5515, aired 2008-07-25CZAR POWER $2,000 (Daily Double): At 43 years, the reign of this founder of the Russian navy was the longest of any czar Peter the Great
#5514, aired 2008-07-24DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $200: The Arabic name of this Muslim nation in northwest Africa means "The Western Kingdom" Morocco
#5512, aired 2008-07-22RINGING THE OPENING BELL AT THE NYSE $200: Oct. 4, 2006 STOP This company's president & CEO Christina Gold rings opening bell STOP Western Union
#5496, aired 2008-06-30THOSE DARN EQUESTRIANS $1200: Smaller than the Western type, the equestrian item seen here goes by this national term an English saddle
#5486, aired 2008-06-16OH "BOY" $1000: The audience booed & threw potatoes at the stage when this Synge play was performed in NYC in 1911 The Playboy of the Western World
#5483, aired 2008-06-11BEVERAGES $1000: A New York company makes a line of flavored tea that shares its name with this Western state Arizona
#5474, aired 2008-05-29LITERARY LOCALES $600: In an Erich Maria Remarque novel, "the army report confined itself to a single sentence" --this, the book's title All Quiet on the Western Front
#5474, aired 2008-05-29THE 20th CENTURY $1000: Charter 77 was smuggled out of this country in 1977 & published in Western newspapers Czechoslovakia
#5474, aired 2008-05-29WHAT "A" COUNTRY! $1200: It's located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea at the southeast extremity of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains Azerbaijan
#5470, aired 2008-05-23AUSTRALIA $400: Like the highest peak in Western Europe, the highest peak in Australia is in a chain with this name the Alps
#5470, aired 2008-05-23FAMILY PLOT $2000: 1985's "Jubal Sackett" was this prolific Western author's last novel about the Sackett family Louis L'Amour
#5468, aired 2008-05-21THEY'RE SO ATHLETIC! $1600: We're sure Kobe was thrilled when this 7'1", 325 lb. ex-teammate was traded back to the Western Conf. to the Suns in '08 Shaquille O'Neal
#5459, aired 2008-05-08MUSICAL STYLES $200: "Western" used to be a part of this musical style's name "I've been running from the law / Living in flashing lights / I've been..." country
#5456, aired 2008-05-05ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: At the end of this Henry Fielding novel, the title character marries Squire Western's daughter Sophia Tom Jones
#5455, aired 2008-05-02GEOGRAPHY $400: 1 of the 2 Australian states with "Australia" in their names South Australia (or Western Australia)
#5452, aired 2008-04-29THE GOOD OLD, OLD DAYS $800: Around 480 B.C. this North African city-state controlled most of the western Mediterranean Carthage
#5445, aired 2008-04-18BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $800: This 1989 CBS Western was the highest-rated miniseries in 5 years Lonesome Dove
#5440, aired 2008-04-11ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1200: This Western author grew up listening to tales of his great-grandfather, who was scalped by the Sioux Louis L'Amour
#5439, aired 2008-04-10'60s TV $400: In 1961 this Western expanded to an hour; half-hour reruns began airing under the title "Marshal Dillon" Gunsmoke
#5435, aired 2008-04-04FASHION $400: This Western-type tie made with a cord & a sliding clasp is also called a shoelace tie a bolo
#5429, aired 2008-03-27CLINT EASTWOOD: A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD $1200: For 7 years, Clint played Rowdy Yates on this long-running TV western that helped launch his career Rawhide
#5426, aired 2008-03-24COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a map of the Western Mediterranean on the monitor.) From Vatican City, the world's smallest independent country, travel about 280 miles northwest & you'll reach this second-smallest country at less than 1 square mile in size Monaco
#5417, aired 2008-03-11BATTLE STATIONS $400: Assuring the dominance of western culture, his forces routed the Persians at Gaugamela in 331 B.C. Alexander the Great
#5406, aired 2008-02-25CHICK FLICKS $800: Kate Hepburn teamed up with this title marshal to track down her father's killer in a 1975 Western Rooster Cogburn
#5400, aired 2008-02-15AROUND THE WORLD $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew points out a region on a map.) Violence in this region of Western Sudan has spilled over into Chad & has led to worldwide humanitarian appeals Darfur
#5391, aired 2008-02-04COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Part of the Sun Belt Athletic Conference, Western Kentucky University is in this "colorful" 2-word city Bowling Green
#5383, aired 2008-01-23THE EPA P3 EXPO $1600: (Sarah reporting from the EPA P3 Expo in Washington, D.C.) You might not think of turning manure into a resource, but a team from Western Washington University did; it's powering a hybrid engine using this bio-gas: CH4 methane
#5379, aired 2008-01-17"GREEN" GEOGRAPHY $1200: They extend from Canada through Vermont into western Massachusetts Green Mountains
#5377, aired 2008-01-15NOVELS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Erich Maria Remarque's WW1 classic about a silent veranda All Quiet on the Western Front Porch
#5372, aired 2008-01-08U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1200: Ranchers formed the territory of Cimarron in 1887; it lasted until 1890 when it became this state's western panhandle Oklahoma
#5369, aired 2008-01-03NATURE STUDY $400: The western sword species of this spore-bearing plant is found in the redwood forests of the Pacific coast a fern
#5366, aired 2007-12-31MY DREAM HOUSE $600: This is it: the classic L shape & low-pitched gable roof of this house named for a Western dwelling a ranch house
#5365, aired 2007-12-28WHAT A REVOLTIN' DEVELOPMENT! $800 (Daily Double): This 1794 insurrection in Western Penn. was caused by farmers who refused to pay the taxes on their corn liquor the Whiskey Rebellion
#5364, aired 2007-12-27WE STAND $200: The Western Lowland type of this animal is seen here in the Congo trying to look like a tough guy a gorilla
#5342, aired 2007-11-27I RESIGN! $600: In 1869 he resigned his Western Union operator's job to devote more time to his inventions Thomas Edison
#5324, aired 2007-11-01WORDS AGAINST WAR $400: In this Remarque novel, Paul Baumer spends the night seeking forgiveness from a soldier he killed All Quiet on the Western Front
#5317, aired 2007-10-23IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY $800: You've "aced" the category if you know that Albania lies on the Western border of this country Macedonia
#5306, aired 2007-10-08BODIES OF WATER $1200: Tidal ranges in this ocean vary from 38 feet to 2 feet just south of Perth, Western Australia the Indian Ocean
#5300, aired 2007-09-28STATE BORDERS $400: You probably know what's on North Dakota's southern border; on its western border is this state Montana
#5279, aired 2007-07-19LANGUAGE LAB $400: Most languages of Western Europe get their words for "read" & "write" from this language's legere & scribere Latin
#5278, aired 2007-07-18HOW WAS SCHOOL TODAY? $200: We learned about these caravans of prairie schooners that rolled over Western trails, & I wish I could have been aboard wagon trains
#5266, aired 2007-07-02COUNTRY TIME $800 (Daily Double): Popular newspapers in this Western Hemisphere nation include The Isthmian & The Bocas Breeze Panama
#5265, aired 2007-06-29I'M INTO WORLD "P"s $1000: In 1975 Murdoch University opened in this state capital of Western Australia Perth
#5246, aired 2007-06-04I WANT MY "M" TV $200: Before he was Rockford, James Garner was this wisecracking Western card shark Maverick
#5243, aired 2007-05-30STATE SUPERLATIVES $200: A valley at 282 feet below sea level in this state is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere California
#5232, aired 2007-05-15RELIGIOUS MATTERS $600: Jews from many nations come to Jerusalem to pray at this, all that remains of the Holy Temple the Wailing Wall (or Western Wall)
#5225, aired 2007-05-04WHIRLED CAPITALS $400: In Western Europe: RUBS LESS Brussels
#5205, aired 2007-04-06MASSACHUSETTS $1600: This Western Mass. college, the state's oldest after Harvard, is a traditional rival of Amherst Williams
#5190, aired 2007-03-16PARADES $1000: A temperance union parade is used for cover by escaping bank robbers in this Peckinpah classic The Wild Bunch
#5182, aired 2007-03-06SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $2000: A western state: "Snow Covered" Nevada
#5173, aired 2007-02-21BEFORE & AFTER $400: Film legend who became an 1823 edict against European intervention in the Western Hemisphere the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine
#5161, aired 2007-02-05NOVEL SYNOPSES $1000: Paul & friends join the German army in WWI. The Kaiser visits the front. Paul is killed All Quiet on the Western Front
#5160, aired 2007-02-02"LET"S END THIS $400: A Denver or western one of these includes minced onions, minced green peppers & diced ham an omelet
#5160, aired 2007-02-02ISLAND HOPPING $600: At about 43,000 square miles, it's the largest independent island nation in the western hemisphere Cuba
#5150, aired 2007-01-19THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS $600: Enhancing business ventures, the first money transfers by telegraph were done by this company in 1871 Western Union
#5149, aired 2007-01-18STATE SONG LYRICS $1000: "In its fair Western home, may the columbine bloom till our great mountain rivers run dry" Colorado
#5143, aired 2007-01-10GOOD LUCK $2000: The Chinese good luck symbol fu is traditionally sent on this day, which in 2006 was Jan. 29 on the Western calendar the New Year
#5130, aired 2006-12-22POTENT POTABLES $1000: This "avian" vodka brand is "created in the... Cognac region of western France under the... eye of the maitre de chai" Grey Goose
#5128, aired 2006-12-20BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: He introduced the Sackett family in his 1960 Western novel "The Daybreakers" Louis L'Amour
#5112, aired 2006-11-28THE POLITICS OF BEFORE & AFTER $800: Any Western New York NFL player who's actually the first 10 amendments to the Constitution a Buffalo Bill of Rights
#5102, aired 2006-11-14A VARIETY OF WORDS $1200: An "oater" is specifically this genre of film a Western
#5096, aired 2006-11-06EDISON'S PATENTS $800: In the 1870s Edison battled Western Union over the patent on the quadruplex type of this device the telegraph
#5095, aired 2006-11-03GIMME AN "H" $200: The western hemisphere country with French as an official language that fits the category Haiti
#5095, aired 2006-11-03HAIRY IT $800: There are 3 kinds of this animal: western lowland, eastern lowland & mountain a gorilla
#5092, aired 2006-10-31OLD MAN RIVER $200: A western U.S. river, or Kurt Russell's eyepatch-wearing anti-hero in 2 John Carpenter flicks Snake
#5089, aired 2006-10-26RODENTS $600: In the U.S. there are 2 genera of this rodent: Geomys, or Eastern pocket, & Thomomys, or Western pocket a gopher
#5089, aired 2006-10-26COLLEGE COLLAGE $6,200 (Daily Double): In 1865 a university in Ithaca, N.Y. was established by & named for this founder of Western Union (Ezra) Cornell
#5067, aired 2006-09-26OF THE WESTERN WORLD $400: Members of the Somoza family ruled this Central American country for 38 of the 42 years between 1937 & 1979 Nicaragua
#5067, aired 2006-09-26OF THE WESTERN WORLD $800: In the 1840s fur trader Robert Campbell of this company became the first white person to explore the Yukon region the Hudson's Bay Company
#5067, aired 2006-09-26OF THE WESTERN WORLD $1600: Of the Western Hemisphere countries with both an Atlantic & a Pacific coast, it's the smallest in area Costa Rica
#5067, aired 2006-09-26OF THE WESTERN WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): This city of 20 million is the westernmost capital city in the Americas Mexico City
#5067, aired 2006-09-26OF THE WESTERN WORLD $2000: This former name of Suriname reflected its status as a colony of the Netherlands Dutch Guiana
#5064, aired 2006-09-21WHERE AM I? $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the parking lot of a shopping area.) I'm in this Western resort area whose 2-word name refers to an early trapper & to its geography as a high valley Jackson Hole
#5063, aired 2006-09-20SOMEWHERE $200: Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan (the National Museum of Western Art) is located in this Asian capital Tokyo
#5059, aired 2006-09-14IT BORDERS ONLY ONE OTHER COUNTRY $400: This Western hemisphere country is the world's largest nation to border only one other Canada
#5053, aired 2006-07-26WORLD LEADERS $400: He transformed his country into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere Fidel Castro
#5052, aired 2006-07-25LEFTOVERS $600: The Ohara Museum was this nation's--not Ireland's--first museum of modern Western art Japan
#5049, aired 2006-07-20TED'S HUES $5,200 (Daily Double): Ted was in Ankara when he learned this bluish hue's name was derived from a Western Asian republic turquoise
#5027, aired 2006-06-20AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: We're sure the Berkshires are a chain of hills centered in the western part of this state Massachusetts
#5026, aired 2006-06-19PAINT IT BLACK $600: The Black Hills are an isolated, eroded mountain region in the western part of this state South Dakota
#5026, aired 2006-06-19PAINT IT BLACK $1000: This river forms the southern & western borders of Germany's Black Forest region the Rhine
#5025, aired 2006-06-16HITS THE "FAN" $2000: This rhyming term refers to both a Chinese gambling game & a Western card game fantan
#5020, aired 2006-06-09CRITTERS OF THE AMAZON $1600: The Western Hemisphere's largest snake, it may live about 28 years--about a year a foot an anaconda
#5018, aired 2006-06-07A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN UNION $200: The 2006 New York Times headline on Western Union's last telegram used this word, telegrams' version of a period stop
#5018, aired 2006-06-07A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN UNION $400: Like the railroad would in 1869, the telegraph went transcontinental by linking up in this state, in 1861 Utah
#5018, aired 2006-06-07A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN UNION $600: In 1866 Western Union had the "heart" to introduce the first of these stock-price reporting devices a ticker
#5018, aired 2006-06-07A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN UNION $800: Western Union introduced the first of these deferred-payment instruments in 1914; it was made of metal a credit card (or charge card)
#5018, aired 2006-06-07A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN UNION $1000: In 1964 Western Union began using these high-frequency beams transcontinentally to replace land lines microwaves
#5009, aired 2006-05-25ON COLONIAL MAPS $400: Occupied by Morocco, the area now called "Western" this was formerly "Spanish" this Sahara
#5003, aired 2006-05-17ENDS IN "TH" $1200: This Minnesota city is the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway Duluth
#4984, aired 2006-04-20GATES $200: The Jaffa Gate is the western entrance to this city's Old City Jerusalem
#4977, aired 2006-04-11TAKE A HIKE $400: The Otter Trail on the coast of this country's Western Cape Province may be booked up a year ahead South Africa
#4973, aired 2006-04-05GOOD GOLLY MALAWI! $200: In contrast to Western cultures, most Central Malawians determine their descent through this family member the mother
#4972, aired 2006-04-04GETTING ATTACHED $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from horseback in Grand Teton Nat'l Park, Wyoming.) On the Western saddle, a cowboy can attach his lariat to the high one of these parts, also called the horn a pommel
#4970, aired 2006-03-31NV $1000: In 1859 this "lode" of silver made Nevada's Virginia City one of the most famous Western mining towns the Comstock Lode
#4966, aired 2006-03-27FILL IN THE LITERARY TITLE $2000: "T.P.O.T.W.W." by John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World
#4960, aired 2006-03-17COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: In 1937 this Malibu, Calif. university was established by & named for the founder of Western Auto Supply Company Pepperdine
#4951, aired 2006-03-06small countries $8,917 (Daily Double): The Rhine River provides the western border of this principality Liechtenstein
#4949, aired 2006-03-02THE VALLEY $800: At 282 feet below sea level, a spot in this valley is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere Death Valley
#4929, aired 2006-02-02THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM $400: The Chicago & North Western's hospital car, Joseph Lister, was designed to take patients to this Minn. hospital the Mayo Clinic
#4929, aired 2006-02-02THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM $800: From the Ahnapee & Western, the museum has this type of car whose name once referred to the galley of a ship a caboose
#4921, aired 2006-01-23TEXAS $400: Texas' King Ranch developed the Santa Gertrudis, the Western Hemisphere's first new breed of this cattle
#4921, aired 2006-01-23RIGHT ON "Q" $1200: It's a Western Hemisphere national capital city of 1.4 million people Quito
#4916, aired 2006-01-16OF THE END $1600: In 2001 Russia announced that it was closing its eavesdropping station on this Western Hemisphere island Cuba
#4915, aired 2006-01-13OLD HAMPSHIRE $200 (Daily Double): Winchester, the county seat of Hampshire, was the capital of this Western Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England Wessex
#4915, aired 2006-01-13IN A MUSICAL MOOD $400: It's the 1946 Western that shares its name with the song heard here My Darling Clementine
#4911, aired 2006-01-09STATE CAPITALS $600: In 1860 & 1861 Pony Express riders carried the mail from St. Joseph, Mo. ending in this Western capital Sacramento
#4910, aired 2006-01-06TURKMENISTAN, MY LOVE $1600: This economically important body of water forms Turkmenistan's western border the Caspian
#4908, aired 2006-01-04EARLY AMERICA $800: In 1676 New Jersey was divided in 2, the western part controlled by members of this "friendly" religious group the Quakers
#4904, aired 2005-12-29NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $800: This Western Hemisphere nation of about 31 million has 10 provinces Canada
#4900, aired 2005-12-2320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $600: Swiss-educated & staunchly pro-Western, he ruled his Middle Eastern country from 1941 until his ouster in 1979 the Shah of Iran
#4894, aired 2005-12-15MY FAVORITE FILMS $600: Paul Newman played a white man raised by Apaches in this '67 Western--& you'll notice that "man" is your big clue Hombre
#4882, aired 2005-11-29PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SAMOA $400: Eastern Samoa is "American Samoa"; Western Samoa won its independence from this island country in 1962 New Zealand
#4878, aired 2005-11-23HIDDEN INSTRUMENTS $600: Barabas soon learned this Western instrument was like nothing he had ever seen before bassoon (in barabas soon)
#4877, aired 2005-11-22SOFT "G" $400: A type of film, like Western or gangster, having similar elements of plot & character genre
#4871, aired 2005-11-14SCARY MOVIES $1000: A cross of horror & western, "The Devil's Rejects" was written & directed by this shock rocker Rob Zombie
#4864, aired 2005-11-03GERMAN RIVERS $200: A major waterway of western Germany, the Weser river flows 273 miles to this sea the North Sea
#4864, aired 2005-11-03BASIC TRAIN-ING $1600: The California State Railroad Museum is in this city once at the western end of the Transcontinental RR Sacramento
#4863, aired 2005-11-02NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $600: Nicodemus in this "Jayhawk State" is the only remaining Western town founded by black Americans after Reconstruction Kansas
#4857, aired 2005-10-25WORLD CAPITALS $400: By population, it's the largest capital in the Western Hemisphere Mexico City
#4855, aired 2005-10-21OTHER STARS & STRIPES $400: The stripes are for the 11 signers of its declaration of independence; the star means it's a Western-style African state Liberia
#4848, aired 2005-10-12GOING GLOBAL $1600: Much of the western part of this country is covered by the Great Sandy & Great Victoria Deserts Australia
#4844, aired 2005-10-06TONY MONTANA $1000: This city, home to the University of Montana, is the "Gateway to the Cultural Corridors of Western Montana" Missoula
#4839, aired 2005-09-29"OX" MARKS THE SPOT $2000: Popular Western United States perennial seen here phlox
#4833, aired 2005-09-21STATE THE ITEM $400: About 250 of these 2-named Western U.S. vultures survive in the world, most in captivity California condors
#4830, aired 2005-09-16BEST "WESTERN" $400: Eggs, diced ham, green pepper & onion a Western Omelet
#4830, aired 2005-09-16BEST "WESTERN" $800: One of the original 11 companies listed when the New York Stock Exchange was created in 1884 Western Union
#4830, aired 2005-09-16BEST "WESTERN" $1200: Its capital is Perth Western Australia
#4830, aired 2005-09-16BEST "WESTERN" $1600: It's directly below the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem the Western Wall
#4830, aired 2005-09-16BEST "WESTERN" $2000: It's the state bird of Kansas & Nebraska Western Meadowlark
#4828, aired 2005-09-14UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $2000: In 1958 Gregory Peck took on Burl Ives over water rights in the Old West in this oater The Big Country
#4818, aired 2005-07-13STUFF $1000: An 8,000-piece collection of this fencing material is featured at Oklahoma's Natl. Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum barbed wire
#4813, aired 2005-07-06CELEBRITY CRITTERS $2000: Ruth was the faithful mule owned by the fiesty Festus on this TV western Gunsmoke
#4796, aired 2005-06-13THE INDIAN OCEAN $800: On May 20, 1498, he arrived at India's Malabar Coast, completing the first voyage from Western Europe to India Vasco da Gama
#4793, aired 2005-06-08"WEST" SIDE STORY $800: Shelley called this "thou breath of Autumn's being" the West Wind
#4789, aired 2005-06-02SARGENT/YORK $2000: You'll be "rollin', rollin', rollin'" if you know York guested on this TV western in 1961 Rawhide
#4760, aired 2005-04-22METEOROLOGY $600: While western Oregon & Wash. are wet, this mountain range functions as a "rain shadow" for the eastern part the Cascades
#4757, aired 2005-04-19MOO-VIN' OUT $600: In the theme song of this classic TV Western, Frankie Laine sang, "Head 'em up, move 'em on" Rawhide
#4747, aired 2005-04-05SWEET VIRGINIA $200: Once a famous mining community, this Western Nevada town is now chiefly an attraction for tourists Virginia City
#4732, aired 2005-03-15THE STATE OF EDUCATION $1600: Bowling Green State University, Case Western Reserve University Ohio
#4722, aired 2005-03-01GO JUMP IN A GREAT LAKE! $200: On Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in this largest lake in the Western Hemisphere Superior
#4721, aired 2005-02-28THE "B.G."s $1000: Site of Western Kentucky University Bowling Green
#4715, aired 2005-02-18P.C. $1600: It became a national capital in the Western Hemisphere in 1903 Panama City
#4711, aired 2005-02-14COUNTRY DISTINCTIONS $400: This Western Hemisphere country has the most Spanish speakers of any country in the world Mexico
#4707, aired 2005-02-08PENINSULAS $800: The Seward Peninsula is on the western part of this state Alaska
#4693, aired 2005-01-19U.S. CITIES $1000: An A to Z list of Ohio cities might run from Aberdeen to this birthplace of a famous western author Zanesville
#4691, aired 2005-01-17WORKING WITHOUT ANNETTE $200: Before teaming with Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon appeared in this 1960 John Wayne western (not as Davy) The Alamo
#4682, aired 2005-01-04IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $2,500 (Daily Double): This country in the Western Hemisphere didn't exist until 1903 when it seceded from its larger neighbor Panama
#4681, aired 2005-01-03NAME THAT WESTERN $400: 1969: "Kid, there's something I ought to tell you. I never shot anybody before" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
#4681, aired 2005-01-03NAME THAT WESTERN $800: 1991: "Hi, Curly. Killed anyone today?" City Slickers
#4681, aired 2005-01-03NAME THAT WESTERN $1200: 1952: "The public doesn't give a damn about integrity. A town that won't defend itself deserves no help" High Noon
#4681, aired 2005-01-03NAME THAT WESTERN $1600: 1992: "I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned" Unforgiven
#4673, aired 2004-12-22NATIONAL FORESTS $800: Trees in this state's Tongass National Forest include western hemlock, cedar, & sitka spruce Alaska
#4672, aired 2004-12-21THE CIVIL WAR $800: This 1,600-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War's eastern & western theaters the Appalachians
#4669, aired 2004-12-16WHAT'S COOKING, COWBOY? $600: From genus prosopis, this western wood that started a cooking craze gives off a tangy smoke mesquite
#4663, aired 2004-12-08RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $1200: The names of this highest mountain in Western Europe & this highest mountain in the Pacific both mean "White Mountain" Mont Blanc and Mauna Kea
#4658, aired 2004-12-01DECEMBER 1st $800: 1822: Dom Pedro is crowned emperor of this Western Hemisphere nation Brazil
#4637, aired 2004-11-03STUPID ANSWERS $200: This large Swiss city is on the western end of Lake Geneva Geneva
#4633, aired 2004-10-27U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: The western part of this state's panhandle is the high plains, or llano estacado, "staked plains" Texas
#4625, aired 2004-10-15OCEANIA $200: When this nation gained independence in 1962, it had "Western" in its name Samoa
#4625, aired 2004-10-15RANCH DRESSING $400: A slang term for a cemetery in a Western town came from a gunfighter's wish to die with these on boots
#4621, aired 2004-10-11THE ADLER PLANETARIUM $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the dome of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.) The first modern planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, the Adler, opened in 1930, about the time of this planet's discovery Pluto
#4615, aired 2004-10-01FIVE EASY PEACES $2000: Negotations in a Duchy in what is now Western Germany led to the naming of this 1648 peace Westphalia
#4610, aired 2004-09-24U.S. LAKES $200: This lake in the Western U.S. has a specific gravity that is 10-22% higher than that of fresh water the Great Salt Lake
#4608, aired 2004-09-22MOVIE MUSICALS $1600: In this musical Western, Clint Eastwood sings "I Still See Elisa" & "I Talk To The Trees" Paint Your Wagon
#4603, aired 2004-09-15AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels Louis L'Amour
#4590, aired 2004-07-16WHIRLED CAPITALS $600: In the Western Hemisphere: AT A TOW Ottawa
#4588, aired 2004-07-14LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $800: Erich Maria Remarque was working as a sportswriter in Germany when he wrote this novel about WWI All Quiet on the Western Front
#4588, aired 2004-07-14LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $1200: This bestselling Western author's 1920s novels included "The Call of the Canyon" & "The Mysterious Rider" Zane Grey
#4578, aired 2004-06-30BLACK & WHITE TV $600: For years "Gunsmoke" & this Western about folks headin' west were the No. 1 & 2 shows on TV Wagon Train
#4566, aired 2004-06-14HITHER & YON $1,800 (Daily Double): For the first time since the ice age, this country has been joined to Western Europe by a 10-mile bridge to Malmo Sweden
#4558, aired 2004-06-02COUNTRY TIME $400: Nepal's western, eastern & southern boundaries are with this country India
#4525, aired 2004-04-16____ OF ____ $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Spain) The Alcazar appears in this El Greco work of around 1600, one of the great landscapes of Western art "View of Toledo"
#4510, aired 2004-03-26FOOD & DRINK BRANDS $2000: The name of this brand of hard candies was meant to suggest a friendly Western company Jolly Rancher
#4509, aired 2004-03-25THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: The name of this religion predominant in Haiti is an African-derived word for "god" or "spirit" Voodoo
#4509, aired 2004-03-25THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: This small Mexican state's "saucy" name is Indian for "damp earth", not "hot pepper" Tabasco
#4509, aired 2004-03-25THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Argentines call residents of this port city "Portenos", which means "people of the port" Buenos Aires
#4509, aired 2004-03-25THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1,000 (Daily Double): Canada's southernmost point lies on Middle Island in this Great Lake Erie
#4509, aired 2004-03-25THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: The West Indian island of Aruba is a self-governing part of this European country the Netherlands
#4504, aired 2004-03-18AMERICANA $800: The Western Meadowlark is one busy bird; it's the state bird of Kansas & of this state just north of Kansas Nebraska
#4500, aired 2004-03-12LITERARY TRANSLATIONS $400: An antiwar novel: "Im Westen nichts Neues" All Quiet on the Western Front
#4488, aired 2004-02-25EPHEN STEPHEN $2,000 (Daily Double): He was such a great poet that his unfinished "Western Star" won him a Pulitzer (his second) in 1944 Stephen Vincent Benet
#4478, aired 2004-02-11PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $800: In 1999 this Los Angeles hockey team moved its home arena from the Great Western Forum to the Staples Center the L.A. Kings
#4472, aired 2004-02-03ELEMENT"S" $400: The Comstock Lode on Mt. Davidson in western Nevada was the richest find of this element in the U.S. silver
#4472, aired 2004-02-03THINGS THAT HAPPENED $1,000 (Daily Double): It was under this czar that Russia went on the Julian calendar used in the West; he liked Western stuff Peter the Great
#4472, aired 2004-02-03NAMES IN STATES $2000: German actress & drama coach Hagen who's been hangin' around a Western state Uta (from "Utah")
#4470, aired 2004-01-30CLUES PAST THEIR FRESHNESS DATE $200: Time's 1980 Man of the Year cover showed him in a western shirt, jeans & a tooled belt with silver buckle Ronald Reagan
#4469, aired 2004-01-29COMPLETES THE FILM TITLE $400: 1930: "All Quiet..." on the Western Front
#4462, aired 2004-01-20LAKES & RIVERS $1000: After the Yukon, it's the longest river in the Western Hemisphere to "roll on" into the Pacific the Columbia
#4460, aired 2004-01-16BESTSELLERS BY DECADE $1000: "Elmer Gantry" & "All Quiet on the Western Front" the 1920s
#4455, aired 2004-01-09THE GENE POOL $1200: The movie star who founded L.A.'s Museum of Western Heritage Gene Autry
#4452, aired 2004-01-06RUSSIAN PAST $800: In 1703 this city on the Neva River became Russia's first built in imitation of western European cities St. Petersburg
#4452, aired 2004-01-06HISTORIC NOVELS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) This famed western writer turned way northwest to write his historical novel "Sitka" Louis L'Amour
#4443, aired 2003-12-24WHAM! $1200: In 1985 Wham! became the first western pop group to perform live in this Asian country China
#4425, aired 2003-11-28PAPERBACK WRITER $1000: This crime novelist wrote the 1961 paperback Western classic "Hombre" Elmore Leonard
#4420, aired 2003-11-21THE INTERNET $600: Western musician Wylie Gustafson yodels the name of this company at the end of its commercials Yahoo!
#4420, aired 2003-11-21HABITATS $2000: These rodents of the genus Cynomys are named for their western U.S. habitat prairie dogs
#4419, aired 2003-11-20THE CIVIL WAR $400: This state was in the Confederacy, but its western region remained loyal to the Union & formed a new state in 1863 Virginia
#4413, aired 2003-11-12SHARED TEAM NICKNAMES $800: Michigan State & Case Western Reserve University the Spartans
#4410, aired 2003-11-07GOOD HORSEKEEPING $1000: A name for any untamed western horse, or a 1959-60 TV Western starring Ty Hardin bronco
#4406, aired 2003-11-03UNION MEN & WOMEN $800: Anson Stager, General Superintendant of this company, was made head of the U.S. Military Telegraph Corps Western Union
#4397, aired 2003-10-21WEAPONS OF THE OLD WEST $1200: In titles of John Langley's western novels, this numerical weapon precedes "Law", "Justice" & "Feud" Six-Gun
#4389, aired 2003-10-09LODGING $800: What some say the movie "Stagecoach" is, or "The World's Largest Hotel Chain", with more than 4,000 hotels Best Western
#4378, aired 2003-09-24BALLET $800: The famous 1938 ballet about a western outlaw is named for this "kid", not the Sundance Kid Billy the Kid
#4376, aired 2003-09-22BODIES OF WATER $400: Saltier than any ocean, the Great Salt Lake is the largest lake in this western U.S. State Utah
#4367, aired 2003-09-09ISLANDS OF THE WEST INDIES $2000: This country has been independent since 1804, making it the 2nd-oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere Haiti
#4355, aired 2003-07-04FROM THE SPANISH $800: Typical of the foothills of the Western United States, it's the type of high growth seen here chaparral
#4350, aired 2003-06-2718th CENTURY NOVELS $1600: This foundling marries Sophia Western at the end of a 1749 Henry Fielding novel Tom Jones
#4349, aired 2003-06-26AREAS OF THE U.S. $2000: These rugged, uninhabitable areas are in northwest Nebraska & the western Dakotas the Badlands
#4344, aired 2003-06-19AUTHORS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Western novelist Francis Harte's middle name Bret
#4335, aired 2003-06-06MY PLACE? $1000: A western camper pitches a tent; a central Asian nomad pitches this yurt
#4310, aired 2003-05-02THE "WEST" WING $1000: Dash or dot off a note to Ezra Cornell, founder of this telegraph company Western Union
#4310, aired 2003-05-02PCH POUNDER $2,000 (Daily Double): Casa Pacifica in San Clemente was the western White House of this U.S. president Richard Nixon
#4294, aired 2003-04-10POTPOURRI $1000: Western state whose 2-letter postal abbreviation sounds like a deadly sin Nevada (NV/envy)
#4293, aired 2003-04-09FUN WITH COUNTRY NAMES $400: They're the 2 western European island countries whose names differ by only one letter Iceland & Ireland
#4289, aired 2003-04-03BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Eloquent pacifist World War I film about German boys in the trenches All Quiet on the Western Front
#4288, aired 2003-04-02OUT OF AFRICA $400: To attract females during the Worso Festival, Wodaabe men do this, like the Western grebe dance
#4279, aired 2003-03-20DELAWARE-FORE ART THOU $1,000 (Daily Double): This pair surveyed Delaware's western border in the 1760s Mason & Dixon
#4276, aired 2003-03-17IRISH WRITERS $2000: His plays include "In the Shadow of the Glen", "Riders to the Sea" & "Playboy of the Western World", his masterpiece John Millington Synge
#4274, aired 2003-03-13A GENRE-OUS HELPING $400: "Ride the High Country" with Joel McCrea & Randolph Scott is a classic in this film genre western
#4270, aired 2003-03-07COMING UP ROSES $1600: This title character of "The Western World" knows this other name of the Cheerio rose Playboy rose
#4266, aired 2003-03-03N.E.W.S. $600: Of northern, eastern, western or southern, what the Aurora Australis lights are southern
#4266, aired 2003-03-03TV TIDBITS $800: Future James Bond Roger Moore played Beau, an English cousin of this James Garner western hero Maverick
#4261, aired 2003-02-24SANDWICHES $1600: Similar to the omelet, it's eggs scrambled with ham, onion & green pepper, but served between slices of bread Western/Denver sandwich
#4257, aired 2003-02-18NATIONAL THINGS $1200: This Western lake, a national recreation area, was created in the 1930s Lake Mead
#4250, aired 2003-02-07RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $800: On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on this Asian city on the Ota River in western Honshu Hiroshima

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (75 results returned)

#8985, aired 2023-12-01BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake
#4, aired 2023-05-09WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti
#8829, aired 2023-03-161980s MOVIES: A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s" Raiders of the Lost Ark
#8660, aired 2022-06-10THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Brazil stretches 2,700 miles from the Atlantic in the east to Serra do Divisor National Park on the border with this country in the west Peru
#8621, aired 2022-04-18WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights)
#8605, aired 2022-03-25U.S. CITY NAMES: Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water Atlanta, Georgia
#13, aired 2022-02-17WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES: In 1882, when these 2 countries' border was settled, a minister in the southern one quit in protest out of loyalty to Central America Mexico & Guatemala
#8533, aired 2021-12-15AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour North Dakota
#8527, aired 2021-12-07OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: This term once used for western North Africa is still used today in the name of a primate from that region Barbary
#8318, aired 2021-01-20THE WESTERN U.S.: About 100 miles apart, they were made state capitals 10 years apart in 1854 & 1864 & both grew rapidly due to precious metals Sacramento & Carson City
#8189, aired 2020-03-26WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The Yucatan Peninsula is shared by these 3 countries Mexico, Guatemala & Belize
#8159, aired 2020-02-13INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE: There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country Argentina
#8147, aired 2020-01-28WORLD CAPITALS: Sharing its name with another ancient city on the sea, this African capital is called "Bride of the Mediterranean" Tripoli
#8139, aired 2020-01-16WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: It's the easternmost capital city in Central America Panama City
#8010, aired 2019-06-07CANADIAN CITIES: City Hall in this Western provincial capital is on Victoria Avenue near the corner of Albert Street Regina
#7934, aired 2019-02-21AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: The 7-letter names of these western- & easternmost mainland countries begin with the same letter Senegal & Somalia
#7902, aired 2019-01-081950s TRAVEL: In March 1958 Hilton opened a hotel in this Western Hemisphere capital but 2 1/2 years later was out of business there Havana
#7825, aired 2018-09-21COLOR ETYMOLOGY: This word for a gem & a shade of blue derives from the name of a Eurasian country from which gems came to Western Europe turquoise
#7620, aired 2017-10-27THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: The Mopan River flows about 20 miles from the capital of this country Belize
#7425, aired 2016-12-16WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 Central American nations that border only one ocean Belize & El Salvador
#7419, aired 2016-12-08PRINTING: The 3 major Western typefaces are Gothic, Roman & this one first used in an entire book in 1501 for a work by Virgil italics
#7343, aired 2016-07-13THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Discovered in 1535, this island group on the equator got perhaps its most famous visitor exactly 300 years later the Galapagos Islands
#7252, aired 2016-03-08THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: 2 U.S. state capitals & 2 major Panamanian ports are named after this European Christopher Columbus
#7215, aired 2016-01-15WESTERN HEMISPHERE FLAGS: This country whose name contains a religious order founded in the 1200s has a Bible on its flag the Dominican Republic
#7119, aired 2015-07-23COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: The mission of this Western university founded in 1875 is "to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life" Brigham Young University
#7113, aired 2015-07-15LANDMARKS: On the completion of this in 1937, its chief engineer wrote, "At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun" the Golden Gate Bridge
#6644, aired 2013-07-04SAINTS ON THE MAP: In population, it's the largest U.S. city with the same Spanish name as a current Western Hemisphere capital San Jose
#6599, aired 2013-05-02ISLAND COUNTRIES: No longer "western", this 1-word nation has moved to the west side of the Intl. Date Line to join Asia & Australia Samoa
#6559, aired 2013-03-07THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: One of the 2 Central American countries never under military rule in the last 50 years Costa Rica or Belize
#6225, aired 2011-10-14THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This nation lost its direct access to the Pacific around 1880 but retains a navy that patrols its rivers & a large lake Bolivia
#6126, aired 2011-04-11GEOGRAPHIC ADJECTIVES: Of the nations with adjectives in their common names, only this Western Hemisphere one bears the name of a religious order the Dominican Republic
#5981, aired 2010-09-20THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories Bermuda
#5848, aired 2010-02-03OLYMPIC VENUES: At above 7,000 feet, this Western Hemisphere city had the highest altitude ever of a Summer Olympics host city Mexico City
#5767, aired 2009-10-13AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: It's a landlocked nation in Western Africa & its name is "locked" within the name of a nation on Africa's east coast Mali (in Somalia)
#5590, aired 2008-12-19THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country's largest lake shares its name with the country; its second-largest lake has the same name as its capital Nicaragua
#5395, aired 2008-02-08NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: This 1,980-mile river that starts in Canada is the longest in the Western Hemisphere that flows to the Pacific Ocean the Yukon River
#5140, aired 2007-01-05PRO FOOTBALL: In 1947 this team chose not to be called the "Nickels" but instead paid homage to a Western hero the Buffalo Bills
#5128, aired 2006-12-20TECHNOLOGY: A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006 a telegram
#5119, aired 2006-12-07WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic
#5038, aired 2006-07-05WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 outlets of the Gulf of Mexico, a strait & a channel, bear the names of these 2 land areas Florida & the Yucatán peninsula
#4923, aired 2006-01-25WORD ORIGINS: This word that has come to mean "sudden prosperity" means "good weather" in Spanish bonanza
#4710, aired 2005-02-111930s MOVIES: This film that originally hit the big screen in 1930 was re-released soon after the German invasion of Poland All Quiet on the Western Front
#4642, aired 2004-11-09THEATRICAL PREMIERES: The "Playboy Riots" took place in this world capital in 1907 following a theatrical premiere Dublin
#4622, aired 2004-10-12WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2nd-smallest independent country in area in the Western Hemisphere; in the '80s it was invaded by the 2nd largest Grenada
#4536, aired 2004-05-03THE WESTERN U.S.: 2 popular places for swimming in this national park are in Firehole Canyon & at Boiling River Yellowstone
#4270, aired 2003-03-07SUMMER OLYMPIC VENUES: The only time the host country failed to win a gold medal was at the Olympics held in this Western Hemisphere city Montreal (1976)
#4263, aired 2003-02-26THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Of the Central American countries, it has the highest percentage of people of African descent Belize
#4229, aired 2003-01-09WORLD CAPITALS: 1 of the 3 national capitals in the Western Hemisphere that have "City" in their English names (1 of 3) Guatemala City, Mexico City or Panama City
#3962, aired 2001-11-20CITY NAME ORIGINS: In 1517 the Portuguese modified the name of a port city of western Ceylon in honor of this man Christopher Columbus
#3795, aired 2001-02-16THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Written in 1904, "Himno Istmeno" is the national anthem of this country that won its independence a year earlier Panama
#3722, aired 2000-11-07THE MOVIES: The night before their first mass jump in 1940, paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a Western about this man Geronimo
#3698, aired 2000-10-04WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It's the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country Canada
#3549, aired 2000-01-27MEDIEVAL FIRSTS: In the Middle Ages, this man introduced fireworks to western Europe Marco Polo
#3418, aired 1999-06-16FAMOUS WOMEN: During WWI this American showed off her talents in a play called "The Western Girl" Annie Oakley
#3415, aired 1999-06-11ART: This technique, from Latin for "to look through", began in Western painting in works like the one seen here Perspective
#3111, aired 1998-02-23THE CARIBBEAN: This capital, founded by Columbus' brother, is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
#3029, aired 1997-10-30THE WESTERN U.S.: This city's official seal depicts a phoenix & a motto in Spanish: "Gold in Peace -- Iron in War" San Francisco
#2858, aired 1997-01-22THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country won independence from Spain in 1821 & from France in 1867 Mexico
#2845, aired 1997-01-03THE WESTERN U.S.: This state capital rose from the ruins of a Hohokam Indian settlement Phoenix, Arizona
#2336, aired 1994-10-31THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Excluding the U.S. Canada, these 2 countries share the longest continuous border in the world, nearly 3,300 miles Chile & Argentina
#2286, aired 1994-07-11WORLD GEOGRAPHY: 2 of the 3 countries in the Western Hemisphere that have a "Z" in their names (2 of) Venezuela, Brazil & Belize
#2275, aired 1994-06-24LAST LINES: A J.M. Synge play ends, "Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only" one of these Playboy of the Western World
#1965, aired 1993-03-05WORLD CITIES: In population, it ranks second to Mexico City as the largest city in the Western Hemisphere São Paulo, Brazil
#1412, aired 1990-10-23ANIMALS: The Columbian white-tailed deer isn't native to Colombia but to these 2 U.S. states Oregon & Washington
#1060, aired 1989-03-24WESTERN HEMISPHERE: When it broke away from France in 1804, it became the 2nd independent country in the New World Haiti
#1010, aired 1989-01-13THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Originally called Vera Cruz, this country was renamed for a type of tree Brazil
#821, aired 1988-03-14ANAGRAMS: Star of many Westerns, his name can be an anagram of "OLD WEST ACTION" Clint Eastwood
#781, aired 1988-01-18THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This mountain was formerly called Bolshaya, Russian for "large" or "great" Mt. McKinley
#715, aired 1987-10-16ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 "Best Picture" Oscar winners to contain North, South, East or West in its title (1 of) All Quiet on the Western Front or West Side Story
#537, aired 1986-12-30INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: 1 of only 2 Western Hemisphere nations that are members of OPEC Venezuela or Ecuador
#526, aired 1986-12-15THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This western hemisphere country consists of 31 "United States" & a Federal District Mexico
#162, aired 1985-04-23EDUCATION: The first university in the Western Hemisphere was founded in 1553 in this Latin American capital Mexico City
#149, aired 1985-04-04THE OSCARS: This 1969 film was the last time the Best Actor Oscar was awarded for a western True Grit
#145, aired 1985-03-29WORLD HISTORY: It's the oldest independent country in the Western Hemisphere the United States of America
#16, aired 1984-10-01WORLD CITIES: It's the most populous city in the Western Hemisphere Mexico City

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Anne Raybon, a teacher's assistant and school bus driver from Asheville, North Carolina Season 28 player (2012-04-09).
Erin Haramoto, a lab instructor from Sunderland, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2008-11-26).
Fran Frederick, a school counselor and member of the Air National Guard from West Springfield, Massachusetts Season 28 player (2012-06-05). Fran was a sergeant in the Air...
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Brian Mueller, an office administrator from Fountain City, Wisconsin Season 28 player (2012-07-13). JBoard user name: bgm
Linda Krisak, a sophomore from Case Western Reserve University 1989 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $7,500. Linda died 2009-06-21 at the...
Dave Sabath, a senior at Wisconsin-Madison from Western Springs, Illinois 2000-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of...
Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections "His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
Debbie Chuba, a high school guidance counselor from Johnstown, Pennsylvania Season 22 player (2005-12-20).
Brad Nehring, a copywriter from Federal Way, Washington Season 31 1-time champion: $16,001 + $2,000.
Omar Shokeir, a pathologist from Bellingham, Washington Season 21 player (2005-06-13).
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India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York "She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
Stefanie Small, a geriatric social worker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 26 player (2010-06-28).
Suzanne Reeve, a graduate student and research assistant from Redmond, Washington Season 21 player (2005-01-14).
Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
Kollin Min, an attorney from Seattle, Washington Season 21 player (2004-09-10). KJL game 43.
Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California "This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
Kirby Nelson, a foreign service officer originally from Eatonville, Washington Season 26 player (2010-03-08). Kirby flew all the way from Lima,...
Ted Skotnicki, a college professor from Niagara Falls, New York Season 25 player (2009-03-03).
Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania 2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Anthony Resnick, a law student originally from Butler, Pennsylvania Season 25 player (2009-04-20).
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Mariann Cook Andrews, an outreach specialist from Tumwater, Washington Season 26 1-time champion: $23,400 + $1,000. First name pronounced like the name "Mary Ann".
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Martin Hughes, a sociology professor from Indiana, Pennsylvania Season 23 1-time champion: $21,601 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name: doc marten
Barbara Pfouts, a writer from Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania Season 26 player (2009-11-20). Last name pronounced like "FOWTS". Jeopardy! Message...
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