| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | HALLELUJAH! $800: American music fans best know the band Blur for their song that starts with this shriek of triumph woo-hoo! |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SCIENTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Through her book "Silent Spring", Rachel Carson spurred interest in this field, the "EP" in the federal agency EPA environmental protection |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: It's the job of the "Extraordinary" Woo Young-woo, a streaming fave lawyer (an attorney) |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | ELECTION DAY $800: George Washington's campaign bought 160 gallons of booze to woo 391 voters on a 1758 Election Day in this colony Virginia |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $600: Woo-woo! All aboard these boots, known for their stovepipe calf engineer boots |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $2000: Chow Yun-fat starred in this Hong Kong director's action epic "Hard Boiled" John Woo |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE $1000: Donizetti:
"Lucia di ____" Lammermoor |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | LYRICS TO REMEMBER $800: This group in 2009:
"I gotta feeling (woo-hoo) that tonight's gonna be a good night... that tonight's gonna be a good, good night" The Black Eyed Peas |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | CHAPTERS IN THE NOVEL $1600: From 1989:
"Waverly Jong: Rules of the Game",
"Jing-mei Woo: A Pair of Tickets" The Joy Luck Club |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | TV HUSBANDS $400: Seen here, Ty Burrell was known to woo wife Claire in the guise of smooth Clive Bixby on this show Modern Family |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | THE KING OF TV $1000: On this Cartoon Network show, kidnapping Princess Bubblegum was one dastardly plan of the Ice King Adventure Time |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | LOVE, ACTUALLY $400: As a noun, it's the place where legal justice happens; as a verb, it means to woo your love, especially in the early stages to court |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | KOWALSKI, FILM ANALYSIS $1600: Big nose & all, this funnyman helps a friend woo Roxanne Kowalski in a 1987 movie Steven Martin |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $1200: The 1989 action film "The Killer" was a thrill ride from this Hong Kong director John Woo |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | YOU KIDS & YOUR MUSIC THESE DAYS $600: This band has gone nation wide singing, "Oo woo, I'm a rebel just for kicks now, I been feelin' it since 1966, now" Portugal. The Man |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | SHAKESPEARE, & I QUOTE $400: "You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo this wild-cat?" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #7694, aired 2018-02-08 | MOVIE vs. MOVIE $2000: Tom Hanks faces the Big Woo, the geographic feature that makes up the second part of the title of this film Joe Versus the Volcano |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | BROADWAY COMPOSERS $2000: Playing an early version of one of his songs from "Avenue Q" helped him woo future "Frozen" partner Kristen Anderson Robert Lopez |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | ISLANDS ON THE SCREEN $1000: In "Joe Versus the Volcano", Joe was this Oscar winner & the volcano was the Big Woo, on the island of Waponi Woo Tom Hanks |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | OLYMPIANS $800: On the final shot of a round at Rio 2016, Kim Woo-jin hit the innermost gold circle to set a world record in this sport archery |
| #7464, aired 2017-02-09 | LOVE $800: L'amour is the raison d'etre of this character who does "zee woo-ing" in cartoons like "For Scent-imental Reasons" Pepé le Pew |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | THE MAP OF SCIENCE $400: In 2005 Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk got a dog, Snuppy, the world's first pooch of this type cloned |
| #7077, aired 2015-05-26 | THE MOVIES $1200: To woo Ione Skye in this film, John Cusack memorably holds a boombox over his head, playing "In Your Eyes" Say Anything... |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | FBI DIRECTORS $1600: "Face/Off" John Woo |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | YOU'RE SO VAGUE $1000: Woo hoo! Damon Albarn's '90s band Blur |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | PLAY BALL MUSIC $1600: The Beastie Boys rhymed "I've got more action than my man John Woo" with "and I've got mad hits like" this hall of famer Rod Carew |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | HOCKEY TALK? $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives us the clue while performing the action described with Kelly.) It's two people... in a hostile confrontation... close together... & eye-to-eye, as described in the title of a 1997 John Woo movie face off |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | ARCHITECTURE $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange.) The six Corinthian columns of the New York Stock Exchange facade are among the reasons the building is considered a masterpiece of this architectural style that drew inspiration from Greek & Roman models neoclassic |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | CHINESE CINEMA $2000: Films like "The Killer" by this director helped establish the modern Hong Kong gangster film John Woo |
| #5953, aired 2010-06-30 | ALSO A GIRL'S NAME $400: It used to mean to woo or court; now it means take to court sue |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $200: A pet for my pet! This can spray its odoriferous musk accurately up to 12 feet; worry not! It'll stamp its feet to warn thee first a skunk |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $400: Drink (or eat) deep, my dear, for I have brought deep-fried this drink, "the real thing", from the state fair of Texas Coke |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $600: From this author's "The Jungle" I shall read lines like "On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood" Upton Sinclair |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $800: Tonight we sup on this animal's jowls, used to flavor stews as a southern delicacy; it's a motorcycle term, too, my love a hog |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO $1000: Indeed, I should've told you I had this "kissing disease" whose incubation period is 30-40 days; hey, where ya goin', baby?! mononucleosis |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | STAMPS $200: Woo hoo! In 2009 this animated family was chosen to grace stamps, though postage did go up to 44 cents (D'oh!) the Simpsons |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | I'M GETTING THE SHAKES(PEARE) $400: Bassanio gets some skin in the game & asks to borrow some money from his pal Antonio to woo a woman in this play The Merchant of Venice |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | TITLE WOMEN IN SONG $600: "Oo, you make my motor run, my motor run, gun it comin' off the line (this girl)... my my my i yi woo!" "My Sharona" |
| #5640, aired 2009-02-27 | SHAKESPEARE-POURRI $2000: "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed", explains Rosalind in this comedy As You Like It |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $800: With films like "A Better Tomorrow", John Woo brought attention to the cinema of this place where he grew up Hong Kong |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | FICTION SCIENCE $1200: Korea's Woo-Suk Hwang faked a 2004 breakthrough in getting these mighty medical things from cloned embryos stem cells |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | IT'S GOT GROOVE $800: "Oh, you make my motor run, my motor run", sang the Knack in this 1979 No. 1 hit, woo! "My Sharona" |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $800: Its official state drink is milk, but (woo-hoo!) it also has an official bourbon festival, in Bardstown Kentucky |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | SHAKESPEARE $1200: He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law's coffin, but she marries him anyway Richard III |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | ANAGRAMMED CANADIAN CITIES $400: Napoleon would feel defeated there:
WOO LATER Waterloo |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | MAN-AGRAMS $800: "Match Point"er of the cinema:
YELL AND WOO Woody Allen |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | 4-LETTER VERBS $800: "And when two lovers woo they still say 'I love you' on that you can" do this rely |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | LITERARY MOMMAS $400: Jing-mei Woo takes the place of her deceased mother Suyuan at the weekly mah-jongg games in this 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | "WOO" WOO! $200: It's the section of an orchestra that includes the flutes woodwinds |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | "WOO" WOO! $400: Chewbacca is the best known of these fictional creatures a Wookiee |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | "WOO" WOO! $600: A speaker designed for the reproduction of low-frequency sounds woofer |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | "WOO" WOO! $800: Adjective meaning close to fainting, perhaps from a blow to the head woozy |
| #5354, aired 2007-12-13 | "WOO" WOO! $1000: British book babe who hosted the Bloomsbury Group Virginia Woolf |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | IN THE NECK $200: Curly made his "woo woos" & "nyuk nyuks" in this hollow chamber also called the voice box the larynx |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | IN THE HEADLINES $1200: It turned out that Hwang Woo Suk, a scientist from this country, had not managed to clone human embryos as he said South Korea |
| #4890, aired 2005-12-09 | ENTERTAINING JOHNS $1200: This director's credits include "A Better Tomorrow", "Once a Thief" & "Windtalkers" John Woo |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY $800: "The king never shall sun that morrow see."
"Nay!"
[smack!]
"Aye!"
"The smell of blood! Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!"
"I will not yield, to kiss the ground! Nyuh-uh-uh."
"Tragic." Macbeth |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | LITERARY NARRATORS $400: Jing-Mei Woo & 6 other women
(1989) The Joy Luck Club |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | RHYME TIME $1000: Woo her with an expensive Chateau Petrus & a fine gigot d'agneau wine & dine |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | FITS HUGH $400: Hugh tried to woo Emma in this 1995 film based on a Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | CLASSIC COMIC CATCHPHRASES $600: "Woo woo woo woo woo woo!" Curly |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME $800: Jean-Claude starred as Chance Boudreaux in "Hard Target", this acclaimed Asian director's U.S. debut John Woo |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $6,400 (Daily Double): He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law's coffin, but she marries him anyway Richard III |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | JOE-POURRI $400: A song asks, "Where have you gone," this N.Y. Yankee, "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo" Joe DiMaggio |
| #3729, aired 2000-11-16 | LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION MOVIE! $1000: This man directed the action hits "Just Heroes" & "The Killer" in Hong Kong before directing "M:I-2" in the U.S. John Woo |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $400: This god came up from the underworld to woo Minthe, who wound up in edible form as mint Hades |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | JOHNNY GILBERT ROCKS! $300: This song was written for a 1967 film:
"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio /
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)" "Mrs. Robinson" |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | NAME THE DIRECTOR $500: "Broken Arrow",
"Hard-Boiled",
"Face/Off" John Woo |
| #3268, aired 1998-11-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ANAGRAMS $400: SIR LOWDOWN WOO Woodrow Wilson |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | HONG KONG CINEMA $400: This "Face/Off" director started the craze for Hong Kong gangster films with 1986's "A Better Tomorrow" John Woo |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD CINEMA $200: Hong Kong director John Woo's 1993 U.S. debut "Hard Target" starred this Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude van Damme |
| #3105, aired 1998-02-13 | LOOK WHO'S TALKING $300: Jing-Mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair & their mothers The Joy Luck Club |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | YOUNG STARS $1000: On Nickelodeon Irene Ng stars in "The Mystery Files Of" this teen detective Shelby Woo |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | THE 1990s $500: In December 1995 2 of this country's former presidents, Chun Doo Hwan & Roh Tae Woo, were indicted South Korea |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1989 bestselling novel, Suyuan Woo is the founder of this title women's group The Joy Luck Club |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Gremio asks him, "Will you woo this wild-cat?" Petruchio |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | MYTHOLOGY $400: In the legends of this country, a phoenix likes to roost in a woo-tung tree China |
| #2023, aired 1993-05-26 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The name of this piece of tableware is an old-fashioned synonym for neck, pet or woo spoon |
| #1904, aired 1992-12-10 | SONGS OF THE '60s $200: Question in "Mrs. Robinson" that precedes "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you (woo woo woo)" "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | MYTHOLOGY $300: Absent 20 years, he was thought dead so men headed to Ithaca to woo his wife, Penelope Odysseus |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | MOVIE SONGS $200: The 1931 Herman Hupfield song that goes, "And when two lovers woo, they still say, 'I love you' " "As Time Goes By" |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | SING-ALONG SONGS $300: Height of the girl described by "Could she love, could she woo? Could she, could she, could she coo?" five foot two |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | THE FAR EAST $800: "A new era for the common people" was the campaign slogan of Roh Tae Woo, president of this country South Korea |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | "WOO" WORDS $100: You might have read her novel "Orlando" if you're not afraid of her Virginia Woolf |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | "WOO" WORDS $200: Flutes, oboes & clarinets, for example woodwinds |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | "WOO" WORDS $300: Robert Redford portrayed him in "All The President's Men" (Bob) Woodward |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | "WOO" WORDS $400: A loudspeaker designed to reproduce low frequencies woofer |
| #957, aired 1988-11-01 | "WOO" WORDS $500: Dog trainer called "a cross between a drill sergeant & Dr. Doolittle", she passed away in July 1988 Barbara Woodhouse |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | "WOO" WORDS $800: Brothers Charles & Frank, they nickled & dimed their way through life the Woolworths |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | "WOO" WORDS $1000: The only first, middle or last name of a U.S. president that fits this category Woodrow Wilson |
| #609, aired 1987-04-09 | THE 3 STOOGES $300: How Curly ended poem, "Roses are red & how do you do drink 4 of these & ..." woo |
| #570, aired 1987-02-13 | GAMES $500: There is a penalty in this Oriental game for calling a false woo mah-jongg |
| #469, aired 1986-09-25 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: To woo, or the appropriate place to play tennis with Judge Wapner court |
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