#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $200: Poet Robert stops by the woods on a snowy evening to chomp on a synonym for chomp & develops this chilly condition frostbite |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $2,500 (Daily Double): An 1854 series of essays:
"Woods" Walden |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag moose |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $400: Also called Bigfoot, it's the Salish word for a huge, hairy man-monster said to inhabit Pacific Northwest woods Sasquatch |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $200: This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
#8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SHIPS $2000: A space shuttle was named for this ship seen here, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's first research vessel the Atlantis |
#8967, aired 2023-11-07 | YOU'RE GETTING VERY SLEEPY $1200: Robert Frost wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have" this obligation "and miles to go before I sleep" promises to keep |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | WOOD $1000: In German, this Strauss waltz is known as "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" "Tales From The Vienna Woods" |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $1000: This rebel son of David is killed by Joab & his men, cast into a pit in the woods & covered by a heap of stones Absalom |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $200: Johann Strauss Jr. wrote "Tales of" this city's woods; today, they're a UNESCO biosphere reserve Vienna |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $400: Also known as the Sea of Trees, Aokigahara Forest is at the base of this peak on Honshu (Mount) Fuji |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $600: Old tree cutting practices are being used in Lower Woods Reserve in the UK to bring back its population of these after-dark songbirds nightingales |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $800: Asia's swampy Sundarbans Forest is the world's largest continuous expanse of these trees mangroves |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | INTO THE WOODS $1000: A Commonwealth cemetery in Polygon Wood holds many dead of this WWI battle in Belgium that kind of rhymes with "me, bruh" Ypres |
#8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DEFENDING THE TITLE $200: Tiger Woods, the youngest ever to win this Georgia tournament in 1997, was still just 25 & 26 when he won again in 2001 & '02 the Masters |
#8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $1000: "No One Is Alone" from "Into the Woods" & "Being Alive" from "Company" are among this late great's most beloved songs Sondheim |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | HIT ALBUMS $1600: 2020's "Eternal Atake" was a smash for this rapper born Symere Woods Lil Uzi Vert |
#8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $1200: This Showtime series about soccer players lost in the woods ended season 1 with the main 4 as adults heading to their high school reunion Yellowjackets |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SPORTS COMPETITIONS $200: In 2022, a year after a bad car crash, Tiger Woods returned to the greens in Augusta to play in this tournament the Masters |
#8772, aired 2022-12-27 | FICTION $400: In Ruth Ware's thriller "The Woman in Cabin 10", the cabin isn't in the woods but on one of these a boat (cruise ship) |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT $400: Hybrid golf clubs are so named because they combine the qualities of these 2 traditional types of clubs woods & irons |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | TV CARTOON VILLAINS $800: In the late '90s "Hercules" animated series, James Woods reprised his role as this villain from the movie Hades |
#8742, aired 2022-11-15 | USA $1000: The northernmost point in the lower 48 is this 130-square-mile area on Minnesota's Lake of the Woods the Northwest Angle |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | SPORTS STARS $300: This golf great won his first Masters in 1997 at age 21 & 4 since then Tiger Woods |
#8738, aired 2022-11-09 | STANFORD ATHLETICS $200: (Haley Jones presents the clue.) In 2018, I signed my Stanford letter of intent on national TV; in 1993, it made news when this teenager, already playing PGA Tour events, declared he was going to Stanford Tiger Woods |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | BERNIE & BERNADETTE $200: In 1987 she originated one of her iconic roles as the witch in the Broadway production of "Into the Woods" Bernadette Peters |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $1000: A poster for this film claimed, "In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods..." The Blair Witch Project |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | AROUND THE HORN $1000: Washington Irving's 1835 "A Tour on the Prairies" describes one of these colorful novices who "knew nothing of the woods" a greenhorn |
#8681, aired 2022-07-11 | WOOD $1200: The black & sweet types of these fruit trees provide tight-grained woods prized by craftspeople cherry |
#8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $400: "Into the Woods" finds Rapunzel trampled & a giant plummeting to its death from one of these a beanstalk |
#8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $800: A '70s Smokey ad showed a fawn & little bunnies & said there are these "in the woods", an idiom meaning naive or innocent babes in the woods |
#8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $800: As the name implies, xylotherapy uses certain kinds of these for medical purposes woods |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $800: Here's Bernadette Peters rehearsing with Sondheim for her role as the witch in this fairy tale musical Into the Woods |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $1600: His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods" Thoreau |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $200: This story of a fawn is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC $1000: "Get back, hognose bat, better get back to the woods" honky cat |
#8504, aired 2021-11-04 | INSTITUTIONS $200: In 1985 a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found this vessel more than 12,000 feet underwater the Titanic |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | 1871--150 YEARS AGO $400: William Woods Holden of North Carolina became the USA's first governor removed from office via this process impeachment |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SEE, IT STARTS WITH "CL" $400: The early Renoir seen here is titled this type of space "in the Woods" Clearing |
#8445, aired 2021-07-16 | LITERARY SUBTITLES $600: First published in 1854, this nonfiction work has the subtitle "or Life in the Woods" Walden |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $1600: In this novel by Edith Wharton, the title character & Mattie Silver crash their sled in the woods Ethan Frome |
#8405, aired 2021-05-21 | STEPHEN KING TITLE REFERENCES $200: A makeshift graveyard in the woods near Ludlow, Maine pet sematary |
#8405, aired 2021-05-21 | SHE SANG IT IN A MOVIE $2000: 2014:
"Witch's Lament", written by Stephen Sondheim Meryl Streep |
#8391, aired 2021-05-03 | COMEDY CENTRAL $400: Harvard Law will be no problem for this movie's Elle Woods, who "once had to judge a tighty-whitey contest for Lambda Kappa Pi" Legally Blonde |
#8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ____ OF THE ____ $2000: A recreation area, this body of water that borders Minnesota, Manitoba & Ontario has more than 14,000 islands Lake of the Woods |
#8269, aired 2020-10-29 | ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $1600: He's taken us on "A Walk in the Woods" & given us "A Short History of Nearly Everything" Bill Bryson |
#8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $800: In a 2020 $20 mil. "Champions for Charity" golf match, Tiger Woods & this ex-NFL QB beat Phil Mickelson & Tom Brady Peyton Manning |
#8152, aired 2020-02-04 | IRRITABLE OWL SYNDROME $1000: When Winnie the Pooh & Piglet go to see Owl's tree house in this forest, the wind knocks the tree over the Hundred Acre Wood |
#8130, aired 2020-01-03 | ARMCHAIR EXPERT $800: Rustic-looking chairs made of natural woods are in this style named for an upstate N.Y. mountain range Adirondack |
#8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A CINDERELLA STORY $1200: Stephen Sondheim wove the story into the wider action of this fairy tale musical in 1987 Into the Woods |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | WORD-POURRI $400: Quebracho, one of the hardest woods, is from Spanish for "breaker" of this tool an ax |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1000: Don Woods, the first weatherman on KTUL, created Gusty, the official cartoon character of this tornado-prone state Oklahoma |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $600: Asked incredulously in this film, "You got into Harvard law?", Elle Woods replies, "What, like it's hard?" Legally Blonde |
#8058, aired 2019-09-25 | YOU DID IT! $600: In 2019, in an incredible comeback, he won his fifth Masters title & his first major since 2008 (Tiger) Woods |
#8049, aired 2019-09-12 | EVERYDAY FOOTBALL TERMS $200: A long walk through the woods a hike |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | LITERARY MINNESOTA $1000: Minnesotan Tim O'Brien wrote books like "Going After Cacciato" & "Lake of the Woods" about those who fought in this war the Vietnam War |
#7969, aired 2019-04-11 | EMERGENCY GENERATOR $2000: Got free of captivity plus area of India where Calcutta is plus golf's Mr. Woods escaped Bengal tiger |
#7950, aired 2019-03-15 | ON THE PGA TOUR $200: Out on an island in 2001, a downhill 60-foot triple-break putt at TPC Sawgrass' famed 17th was better than most for this superstar Tiger Woods |
#7890, aired 2018-12-21 | SLEIGHING SONGS $800: "Over the river and through the woods to" her "house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh" Grandmother's house |
#7855, aired 2018-11-02 | IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM... $200: At the Buick Invitational from 2005 to 2008, many were invited but no one was beating this golfer Tiger Woods |
#7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $400: Born in "a little house in the big woods" of Wisconsin in 1867, died in Missouri in 1957 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
#7822, aired 2018-09-18 | PSA MASCOTS $800: From one of this owl's songs:
"Never be a dirty bird; in the city or in the woods, help keep America looking good" Woodsy Owl |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | GET ME REWRITE! $800: As this Broadway musical was being translated to the big screen, Sondheim revealed that Rapunzel would not die Into the Woods |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | ECO-READER $1600: "A Walk in the Woods" is Bill Bryson's account of rediscovering America by hiking this east coast footpath the Appalachian Trail |
#7792, aired 2018-06-26 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2000: Characters in this Sondheim musical include a witch, a baker & Little Red Riding Hood Into the Woods |
#7769, aired 2018-05-24 | PLAY BILL $1600: For the TV movie "My Name is Bill W." James Woods won an Emmy playing a founder of this self-help organization Alcoholics Anonymous |
#7731, aired 2018-04-02 | REESE WITHERSPOON MOVIES $400: Harvard Law student Elle Woods Legally Blonde |
#7728, aired 2018-03-28 | LEAGUES $2000: "Defenders of soil, air, woods, waters & wildlife" is the compleat motto of the league named for this 17th c. Brit Izaak Walton |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1200: Dark woods on the peaks give Montenegro its name, meaning this black mountain |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | A WIEN-WIEN SITUATION $1600: Most Viennese streetcar lines will take you into the Wienerwald, these, for a little hiking, ja? the Vienna Woods |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $1600: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864 Henry David Thoreau |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | CROOKS & NANNIES $200: Elin Nordegren went from nannydom into marriage & then a $750 million divorce settlement from him Tiger Woods |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | LYRICS FROM BROADWAY $2000: "High in her tower, she sits by the hour, maintaining her hair" Into the Woods |
#7546, aired 2017-06-05 | STATE NAMES $1200: Pennsylvania's name is derived from William Penn's father & sylvania, which means of this woods |
#7540, aired 2017-05-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: It's not one of the Great Lakes but is Minnesota's northernmost, shared with Ontario & Manitoba Lake of the Woods |
#7508, aired 2017-04-12 | STATE THE NATIONAL MONUMENT $400: Muir Woods California |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $600: Both a 1999 film & its 2016 sequel feature found footage exploring this title figure in the Maryland woods The Blair Witch Project |
#7473, aired 2017-02-22 | POETS & POETRY $400: He penned the lines "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
#7453, aired 2017-01-25 | MOVIE MUSICAL ROLES $800: Meryl Streep landed a record 19th Oscar nomination for her role as the Witch in this musical Into the Woods |
#7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $400: He began an 1854 work, "When I wrote the following pages... I lived alone, in the woods" Thoreau |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | WHO FIRST SANG THOSE WORDS? $400: "Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet? Are we out of the woods yet?" Taylor Swift |
#7390, aired 2016-10-28 | FORE! $200: Despite the name, these clubs used for long shots, like the driver, are now usually made of metal or composite woods |
#7379, aired 2016-10-13 | PREPOSITIONAL IDIOMS $1200: Perhaps the Walden ones, they're what you're "out of" & relieved about it the woods |
#7378, aired 2016-10-12 | WINNER, WINNER $1000: He's won more Tony Awards than any other composer, including ones for "Company" & "Into the Woods" (Stephen) Sondheim |
#7359, aired 2016-09-15 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: "Little House in the Big Woods" was her first novel about her family's life in the late 1800s Laura Ingalls Wilder |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" & "The Pond in Winter" Walden; or, Life in the Woods |
#7273, aired 2016-04-06 | SPORT ABILITY $200: Shooting 18 under at the 2015 Masters, Jordan Spieth tied this man for the tourney's all-time scoring record Tiger Woods |
#7269, aired 2016-03-31 | THE COLLEGE/ATHLETE $200: John Elway, Kerri Strug & Tiger Woods had fun out west on the Farm Stanford |
#7266, aired 2016-03-28 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1200: Leona Woods was the only woman on Enrico Fermi's team, which produced the first controlled one of these in 1942 nuclear reaction, or nuclear explosion |
#7248, aired 2016-03-02 | WHAT'S YOUR MOVIE PROFESSION? $800: The non-brunette, non-redheaded Elle Woods a lawyer |
#7229, aired 2016-02-04 | HALF CALF $800: It can be one actor or 2 portraying the cow Milky White in this composer's musical "Into the Woods" (Stephen) Sondheim |
#7204, aired 2015-12-31 | ____ OF THE ____ $1000: This body of water straddles the U.S.-Canada border where Ontario, Manitoba & Minnesota meet Lake of the Woods |
#7182, aired 2015-12-01 | BREAKUP $200: In 2015 it was game over for him & Lindsey Vonn after nearly 3 years of dating Tiger Woods |
#7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $1000: The first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's series was "Little House in" this place with more shade than the prairie the Big Woods |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | JUST PASSING THROUGH $400: In 2015 Army officers Griest & Haver passed through Ga. woods & Fla. swamps & are the first women to become these rangers |
#7165, aired 2015-11-06 | NEW EDITION $600: Color photos of the title pond & woods were part of the 150th anniversary edition of this work by Thoreau Walden |
#7160, aired 2015-10-30 | MY MOVIE CHARACTERS $1200: Elle Woods,
Ginormica Reese Witherspoon |
#7132, aired 2015-09-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS $2000: The Winnipeg River rises in this U.S.-Canada lake & empties into Lake Winnipeg Lake of the Woods |
#7069, aired 2015-05-14 | STEPHEN SONDHEIM $800: "Into the Woods" made it to the big screen in 2014 starring this woman as the witch Meryl Streep |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $400: Thai on his mom's side, he shot a 48 for 9 holes... at age 3! 12 years later, he was U.S. Jr. Amateur champ Tiger Woods |
#7008, aired 2015-02-18 | OCEANOGRAPHY $1200: Research ships used by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in this state included Atlantis & Knorr Massachusetts |
#7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $400: "Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and baby Carrie left their little house in the big woods" for this title home Little House on the Prairie |
#7006, aired 2015-02-16 | BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): 2012, Screenplay:
"The Cabin in the Woods" by Drew Goddard & this "Buffy" biggie Joss Whedon |
#6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $800: This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | YO, JOHANN! $800: Among his more than 150 waltzes are "Tales from the Vienna Woods" & "Emperor Waltz" (Johann) Strauss |
#6923, aired 2014-10-22 | LIVING AT THE WATERGATE $400: Ironically, in 1969 Rose Mary Woods, this man's secretary, was the victim of one of the Watergate's first burglaries Richard Nixon |
#6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: A 1944 conference in this New Hampshire resort resulted in the creation of the IMF & the World Bank Bretton Woods |
#6912, aired 2014-10-07 | A VERY "GRAPHIC" CATEGORY $1200: 2014 is the 50th birthday of Alvin, a research vessel that has made 4,600 dives for Woods Hole this Institution Oceanographic |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | ATHLETES $200: In 2013 he finished first in official world golf ranking Tiger Woods |
#6872, aired 2014-07-01 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: On February 7, 1867 she was born in a little house in the big woods in Lake Pepin, Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | U.S. COLONY NAMES $2000: Pennsylvania comes from the Latin for this area "of Penn", "Penn" referring to William Penn's dad woods |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | BROADWAY TITLE NOUNS $1000: "Into the ____" Woods |
#6866, aired 2014-06-23 | YOUR IDIOMS CONFUSE ME $1200: Stop by next time you're in my this phrase with a body part & a forested area neck of the woods |
#6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: 14 guardian angels descend a ladder to protect this brother & sister in the woods Hansel & Gretel |
#6855, aired 2014-06-06 | HE'S SO MAN"LEY" $1000: This co-founder of the Eagles also founded the Walden Woods project & Thoreau Institute (Don) Henley |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us the landscape and wildlife at the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The wildebeest grazing maintains the grassland & helps keep woods from growing, making the animal a keystone species in this environment around us the savanna |
#6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $2,000 (Daily Double): This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | GETTING SCHOOLED ON TV $400: Meg & Chris Griffin are animated students at James Woods High on this FOX comedy Family Guy |
#6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MOVIES WITH STRUCTURE $800: 2012's "____ in the Woods" Cabin |
#6703, aired 2013-11-06 | LIT-TREE-TURE $400: Treebeard, created by this author, says, "Nobody cares for the woods as I care for them, not even elves nowadays" Tolkien |
#6685, aired 2013-10-11 | OH SO SERGIO $400: Tiger Woods & this golfer got in a public spat at the 2013 Players Championship Sergio Garcia |
#6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $400: We hope the Gingerbread People avoid the Molasses Swamp & make it to the Lollipop Woods in this board game Candy Land |
#6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WHO'S YOUR CADDIE? $600: Tiger Woods' ex-caddie Steve Williams helped this Australian win the 2013 Masters Adam Scott |
#6633, aired 2013-06-19 | BLANK VERSE $400: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have ___ to keep" promises |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | NOVELLAS $400: His novella "The Body" centers on 4 Maine youths who deal with death in the woods (Stephen) King |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | THE BALL $400: In 1997 Tiger Woods made the ball go where he wanted & became the youngest green jacket wearer here Augusta |
#6529, aired 2013-01-24 | EYE ON SPORTS $800: Saying he'd be considered legally blind without specs, this golfer got LASIK in 1999, then--natch--won the Disney Classic Tiger Woods |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | "G"EOGRAPHY $1200: I'm drawing a blank--just east of Detroit there's this city & its namesake "Farms", "Shores", "Woods" & "Park" Grosse Pointe |
#6480, aired 2012-11-16 | ACT I $600: Appropriately, the fairy tale musical "Into the Woods" begins with the narrator saying these 4 words "Once upon a time" |
#6450, aired 2012-10-05 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS $800: (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train electromagnetic |
#6443, aired 2012-09-26 | RANDOM HOUSE $800: There's a "Chapel in the Woods" for weddings at this Memphis landmark, just down the blvd. from the Heartbreak Hotel Graceland |
#6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PLAY THEM OFF $400: He roared back from 4 strokes down & beat Chris DiMarco in a one-hole playoff to win the 2005 Masters Tiger Woods |
#6383, aired 2012-05-23 | A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $1600: "My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near", says the frosty poem with this 7-word title "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | TRANSPORTATION $400: In "over the river and through the woods", "the horse knows the way to carry" this "through the white and drifted snow" the sleigh |
#6335, aired 2012-03-16 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $1200: (Hi, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) One of my favorite books is this kids' classic in which 5th graders Jess & Leslie create a secret kingdom in the woods Bridge to Terabithia |
#6252, aired 2011-11-22 | 2011 NEWS $200: He fell out of the top 50 world golf rankings for the first time since 1996 Tiger Woods |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WOODS $400: Created by this author, Mirkwood was originally called Greenwood until Sauron's shadow fell on it Tolkien |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WOODS $800: The boy & his dad must move off the title thoroughfare & duck into the woods for safety in this Cormac McCarthy novel The Road |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WOODS $1200: This "American Buffalo" playwright returned to nature with his 1977 play "The Woods" Mamet |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WOODS $1600: The boy in this Shel Silverstein book gathers the title character's leaves & plays "King of the Forest" The Giving Tree |
#6223, aired 2011-10-12 | WOODS $2000: When Macbeth heard this wood "began to move" upon him, he probably turned a whiter shade of pale Birnam Wood |
#6214, aired 2011-09-29 | "B"OOKS $4,000 (Daily Double): This children's classic is subtitled "A Life in the Woods" Bambi |
#6194, aired 2011-07-14 | LET'S BE ECONOMICAL $2000: In 1944 this British baron traveled to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where the IMF was created John Maynard Keynes |
#6171, aired 2011-06-13 | CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL $200: An innocent, unsuspecting person is said to be this "in the woods" a babe |
#6135, aired 2011-04-22 | POETIC TITLE VERBS $400: "____ by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Stopping |
#6133, aired 2011-04-20 | SPORTS SPONSORSHIP $400: In 2010 this golfer rejected a s75 million, 5-year deal from Paddy Power, an Irish co.; yes, in 2010, & yes, he rejected it Tiger Woods |
#6122, aired 2011-04-05 | ON BATTERED KNEE $400: This golfer had reconstructive knee surgery after winning the 2008 U.S. Open on one good leg Tiger Woods |
#6115, aired 2011-03-25 | ALL ONE SYLLABLE $600: "Young" one "in the woods", or a pig good with sheep Babe |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | IT'S ALL A MYTH $800: Pan, the god of woods & fields, flocks & shepherds, was part man, part this animal goat |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | U.S. BAYS $2000: This lake's Buffalo Bay is shared by the U.S. & Canada with the U.S. part lying in Minnesota's Northwest Angle Lake of the Woods |
#6043, aired 2010-12-15 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: In "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", he wrote that he had "promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" (Robert) Frost |
#6036, aired 2010-12-06 | MAYOR PLAYER $800: James Woods received an Emmy nomination for portraying this mayor, his rise to power & his response to 9/11 Giuliani |
#6031, aired 2010-11-29 | CELEBRITY MATCHES $400: On Oct. 5, 2004 he wed Elin Nordegren during a Barbados sunset; the divorce was finalized in Aug. 2010 Tiger Woods |
#5993, aired 2010-10-06 | ALL HAIL $200: Tiger Woods, George Patton, Shirley Temple Black California |
#5986, aired 2010-09-27 | DAFFYNITIONS $1200: Adjective meaning heightened emotionally, or where campers sleep in the woods intense/in tents |
#5951, aired 2010-06-28 | RHYMING FOLKS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the museum at Bethel Woods in New York.) This psychedelic suit was worn by this Woodstock emcee who told the crowd, "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000" Wavy Gravy |
#5940, aired 2010-06-11 | BRAND "O" $400: This brand of insect repellents includes Active & Deep Woods lines Off! |
#5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CLASSIC GAME COMING ATTRACTIONS $600: They came to explore a new land--one of lollipop woods & gingerbread men. This fall they'll curse their visit to... Candyland |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | 2001: A SPORTS ODYSSEY $400: When Mr. Woods won the Masters to hold all 4 major titles at once, it was dubbed not the Grand Slam but this the Tiger Slam |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This site was uninhabited woods when James Doty persuaded the Wisconsin legislature to put the capital there Madison |
#5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) For an exhibit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event, the museum constructed a replica of the Montreal hotel room used by this couple during their Bed-In for Peace John & Yoko |
#5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) If you can't make it here to upstate New York, go to woodstock.com to read bios of performers like this man who closed the festival with blistering versions of "The Star Spangled Banner" & "Hey Joe" Jimi Hendrix |
#5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) In the museum's theater, visitors can relax on beanbag chairs & watch festival highlights, such as the work of this Indian sitar master & friend of The Beatles Ravi Shankar |
#5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) The festival's iconic poster lists several acts who didn't end up playing, including these heavy metal forefathers who sang "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"--they ended up stuck at an airport Iron Butterfly |
#5804, aired 2009-12-03 | WOODSTOCK $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Museum at Bethel Woods, New York.) Woodstock opened with a performance by this African-American folk artist who was called back for so many encores, he ran out of material & had to improvise his now classic "Freedom" Richie Havens |
#5800, aired 2009-11-27 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the ____ though" village |
#5741, aired 2009-07-20 | CELEBRITY YEARBOOK SUPERLATIVES $400: In 1994 his California high school voted him "most likely to succeed"; you watch golf? Tiger Woods |
#5731, aired 2009-07-06 | POET-TREE $400: In 1923 he wrote, "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though" Robert Frost |
#5731, aired 2009-07-06 | POET-TREE $1200: "The woods decay, the woods decay and fall... and after many a summer dies the swan", wrote this lord in 1860 Tennyson |
#5726, aired 2009-06-29 | POISON IVY, OAK & SUMAC $200: 4-letter symptom that usually appears in 12-48 hours (also the type of decision you made to go into the woods) rash |
#5721, aired 2009-06-22 | SCHOOL MOTTOES $600: Amor omnia vincit, or this "conquers all", is on the seal of William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri love |
#5716, aired 2009-06-15 | PENNSYLVANIA $800: 60% of Pennsylvania is covered by this, which gives the state part of its name woods (or forests) |
#5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Poet who may lose a finger or toe to a bitter cold condition (after stopping by woods on a snowy evening) Robert Frostbite |
#5688, aired 2009-05-06 | NAMES IN THE NEWS $400: In February, 8 months after knee surgery, he was back teeing it up on the PGA Tour Tiger Woods |
#5678, aired 2009-04-22 | WHAT A CAST OF TV CHARACTERS! $1200: Horatio Caine,
Alexx Woods,
Frank Tripp CSI: Miami |
#5667, aired 2009-04-07 | CELEBRITIES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: Sports star: big cat forest Tiger Woods |
#5652, aired 2009-03-17 | SHOWS BY SHOW TUNES $1000: "Cinderella At The Grave",
"Giants In The Sky" Into the Woods |
#5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LANDS O' LAKES $600: Ownership of Lake of the Woods is split between these 2 countries Canada & the United States |
#5613, aired 2009-01-21 | IT'S NEVER TOO LATE $1200: Her first novel, "Little House in the Big Woods", didn't appear until she was 65 Laura Ingalls Wilder |
#5610, aired 2009-01-16 | POETRY IN MOTION $2,000 (Daily Double): "His house is in the village though; he will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow" Robert Frost |
#5580, aired 2008-12-05 | WOOD & WIND $2000: This Frost poem ends with "And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#5559, aired 2008-11-06 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $2000: Bari Woods' novel "Twins" became this 1988 film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role Dead Ringers |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE 2008 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FORTUNATE 50 $200: No. 1, $127.9 mil.:
He's made "close to $800 million in total earnings on and off the course over his 13-year career" Tiger Woods |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | BROADWAY SHOWS BY ROLES $1600: Professor Callahan,
Elle Woods Legally Blonde |
#5534, aired 2008-10-02 | STATES BY COUNTIES $1600: Lake of the Woods,
Red Lake,
Lake Minnesota |
#5523, aired 2008-09-17 | 19, 20, 21 & 22 $200: He was only 21 when he won the 1997 Masters golf tournament by 12 strokes, the biggest margin in its history Tiger Woods |
#5491, aired 2008-06-23 | SPORTS STUFF $400: Christina Aguilera, to this "animal" of a golfer: "Sorry, I don't know much about you. I don't follow tennis" Tiger Woods |
#5474, aired 2008-05-29 | "IS" THAT SO? $1600: The Beykoz Woods on the Asian side of this city are famous for their tea gardens Istanbul |
#5468, aired 2008-05-21 | THEY'RE SO ATHLETIC! $400: In 2007 he entered 16 PGA events & won a mere 7; obviously, his game needs some improvement Tiger Woods |
#5450, aired 2008-04-25 | U.S. COUNTIES $1,400 (Daily Double): Lake of the Woods County is this state's northernmost Minnesota |
#5410, aired 2008-02-29 | FOR SAX AND VIOLINS $600: In 1977 Phil Woods was smooth as silk playing a sax solo on this man's "Just The Way You Are" Billy Joel |
#5396, aired 2008-02-11 | CLIFFS NOTES $800: Massachusetts man spends 2 years living alone in a cabin in the woods; writes book Walden |
#5387, aired 2008-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $400: "The sweep of easy wind and downy flake" appears in the poem "Stopping by Woods on" this type of "Evening" Snowy |
#5377, aired 2008-01-15 | BORN FIRST $800: Tiger Woods,
Sergio Garcia,
Michelle Wie Tiger Woods |
#5376, aired 2008-01-14 | SON OF WOOD $1000: In German, this Strauss waltz is known as "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" Tales from the Vienna Woods |
#5372, aired 2008-01-08 | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE $400: In the musical "Legally Blonde", blonde ambition takes Elle Woods all the way to this university's law school Harvard |
#5371, aired 2008-01-07 | TV SHOWS BY CAST $1600: James Woods,
Sarah Carter,
Jeri Ryan Shark |
#5369, aired 2008-01-03 | MOVIE CHARACTERS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a mockup of a speeder bike.) The speeder bike is controlled by these steering vanes, so when this character cuts them with his lightsaber in Endor's woods, it loses control Luke Skywalker |
#5343, aired 2007-11-28 | AN AUGUSTA PERSONALITY $200: In 2005 he was 7 strokes down after round 1, but a miraculous 30-foot chip on 16 helped him win a 4th green jacket Tiger Woods |
#5342, aired 2007-11-27 | ACTING THE PART $800: It was her "Election" to play Tracy Flick & the "Legally Blonde" Elle Woods Reese Witherspoon |
#5321, aired 2007-10-29 | VAMPIRES $400: Depending on local customs, these, used to kill vampires, may be made of iron or local woods stakes |
#5310, aired 2007-10-12 | GOOD SPORTS $400: The dad of this 2006 British Open winner was the 1st African-American baseball player in the then-Big 7 conference Tiger Woods |
#5279, aired 2007-07-19 | SUMMERTIME $200: The insect repellent product Off! has a special formula for hikers who venture into the "Deep" these woods |
#5277, aired 2007-07-17 | SPORTS TEENS $400: He was 18 in 1994 when he won the first of his 3 U.S. Amateur Golf Championships Tiger Woods |
#5253, aired 2007-06-13 | YOU LOOK LIKE A GREEK GOD $400: He was god of woods & pastures & made a pipe now called by his name Pan |
#5228, aired 2007-05-09 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $400: He won golf's Vardon Trophy, for the lowest adjusted scoring average, from 1999 to 2003 & again in 2005 Tiger Woods |
#5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POETS & POETRY $800: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
#5215, aired 2007-04-20 | THE SPORTING LIFE $200: Probably by not hitting into his last name, he won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes, an all-time best Tiger Woods |
#5211, aired 2007-04-16 | BROADWAY ROLES $400: In 2002 this "Notes on a Scandal" dame went "Into the Woods" as Giant (well, her recorded voice did, anyway) Judi Dench |
#5182, aired 2007-03-06 | LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1903 Irish literary works included Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" & this poet's "In the Seven Woods" (William Butler) Yeats |
#5181, aired 2007-03-05 | FACT OR FICTION? $400: Tiger Woods, move over; this Asian leader claims to have shot 11 holes-in-one the first time he played golf Kim Jong-il |
#5169, aired 2007-02-15 | WORDS IN AMERICA $2000: "I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed" these hills |
#5156, aired 2007-01-29 | GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES $200: It's the instrument you can use to draw a circle (not to be confused with the one you use when lost in the woods) a compass |
#5143, aired 2007-01-10 | MARINE BIOLOGY $1000: This Massachusetts village is home to the Marine Biological Laboratory & an oceanographic institution founded in 1930 Woods Hole |
#5139, aired 2007-01-04 | LET'S GO CAMPING! $600: Be careful hiking through the woods & avoid brushing up against this itchy 3-leafed plant, Rhus radicans poison ivy |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | A "LITTLE" LIT $1200: In this 1935 novel Laura & her family leave the big woods & go west in a covered wagon Little House on the Prairie |
#5122, aired 2006-12-12 | COLLEGE SPORTS $200: In 1996 this Stanford golfer won the NCAA title; the following year, he won the Masters Tiger Woods |
#5095, aired 2006-11-03 | HANGIN' WITH MY GNOMIES $400: In the 1932 Disney short "Babes in the Woods", friendly gnomes save this brother & sister from an evil witch Hansel & Gretel |
#5093, aired 2006-11-01 | THE ECONOMY $1000: This organization, abbreviated IMF, was created in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference the International Monetary Fund |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | POP CULTURE QUOTES $400: A golfer of some repute, on whether his rep as a neat freak is deserved: "I make the bed in my hotel rooms" Tiger Woods |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $400: In 1989 James Woods & James Garner starred in “My Name is Bill W.”, about the origins of this group Alcoholics Anonymous |
#5054, aired 2006-07-27 | SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR $400: 1996 & 2000:
A golfer Tiger Woods |
#5054, aired 2006-07-27 | BEAR STUFF $1,000 (Daily Double): Subject of a 1930s novelty song; in 1993 9,750 bears & their owners attended one set up in New Zealand teddy bear's picnic |
#5054, aired 2006-07-27 | ALLITERATIVE FILL IN THE BLANK $2000: Frost:
"The woods are lovely, ___ and ___ / But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" dark & deep |
#4950, aired 2006-03-03 | HISTORIC NEW HAMPSHIRE $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Bretton Woods Mountain Resort in New Hampshire.) In 1944 the Washington Mountain Resort in Bretton Woods hosted the conference that set up these two major international financial institutions the International Monetary Fund & the World Bank |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | THEIR TEEN YEARS $800: He was 15 when he won the Optimist Int'l Junior Golf Tournament for the 6th time; he'd first won it at age 8 Tiger Woods |
#4937, aired 2006-02-14 | O PIONEERS! $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a pasture in Old World Wisconsin.)
In this "Little House" book that precedes "on the Prairie", Laura Ingalls Wilder described her earliest days in Wisconsin Little House in the Big Woods |
#4925, aired 2006-01-27 | NIKE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.) Nike has replicas of the Grand Slam trophies of this golfer, like the '97 Masters & the 2000 British Open Tiger Woods |
#4905, aired 2005-12-30 | POETIC FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Robert Frost:
"Stopping by woods on a snowy ____" evening |
#4900, aired 2005-12-23 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $1000: A nat'l monument near Mill Valley, Calif. named for this naturalist is known for its stand of ancient coast redwoods (John) Muir |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | LET'S GO GOLFING $800: Things Tiger Woods doesn't often miss are greens & this, the group of golfers who qualify for the next round the cut |
#4871, aired 2005-11-14 | SCARY MOVIES $200: This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods The Blair Witch Project |
#4850, aired 2005-10-14 | SPORTS STARS $400: Since 1997 this golfer has won the PGA twice, the Masters 4 times, the British Open twice & the U.S. Open twice Tiger Woods |
#4829, aired 2005-09-15 | CELEBRITY LOGOS $400: He's got drive & loves the green Tiger Woods |
#4795, aired 2005-06-10 | ESPN'S GREATEST SPORTS RECORDS $200: No. 1:
His wins in 4 straight major golf tournaments Tiger Woods |
#4781, aired 2005-05-23 | THE SMART SET $600: In 1919 The Smart Set ran his first paid story, "Babes in the Woods"; in 1922, the classic "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
#4775, aired 2005-05-13 | UNIVERSITIES BY ALUMNI $400: Chelsea Clinton,
Tiger Woods,
Dianne Feinstein Stanford |
#4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $800: "Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens" "Johnny B. Goode" |
#4743, aired 2005-03-30 | NAME THE JAMES $1200: The 2 Jameses who co-starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies "Promise" & "My Name Is Bill W" James Garner & James Woods |
#4741, aired 2005-03-28 | MINNESOTA $1000: The northernmost point in the contiguous 48 states lies on the northwest angle in this U.S.-Canadian lake Lake of the Woods |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA $800: At the beginning of an 1893 opera, these little tykes are sent into the woods to pick strawberries Hansel & Gretel |
#4694, aired 2005-01-20 | CITY $200: Born in this Austrian city, Maximilian Schell directed a film of "Tale from" its "Woods" Vienna |
#4671, aired 2004-12-20 | WORLD ATHLETES $400: In 2003 this Fijian-born golfer displaced Tiger Woods as No. 1 Vijay Singh |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | ADD TWO LETTERS $1600: Add two letters to this term for a small house in the woods & you get this piece of woodwork inside it cabin & cabinet |
#4653, aired 2004-11-24 | THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE $200: "Lion on the Links" is the subtitle of a biography of him Tiger Woods |
#4636, aired 2004-11-01 | TITLE WAVE $1600: Fifth graders Jess & Leslie create a secret kingdom in the woods in the kids' classic "Bridge to" this place Terabithia |
#4614, aired 2004-09-30 | OPERA $400: This 1893 opera based on a children's tale is set partly in the woods of Ilsenstein Hansel and Gretel |
#4609, aired 2004-09-23 | NEW HAMPSHIRE $1000: In 1944 this resort area in the White Mountains was the site of an important U.N. monetary conference Bretton Woods |
#4594, aired 2004-07-22 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: Born in Sebring, Ohio, she was the loyal secretary to Richard Nixon Rosemary Woods |
#4582, aired 2004-07-06 | GIVE ME AN "A"! $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Cod, MA.) In 1986, this vessel, named either for a chipmunk or Woods Hole scientist Alan Vine, reached the Titanic the Alvin |
#4533, aired 2004-04-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Paris Hilton & Tiger Woods were 2 of the people on the cover of this magazine's Dec. 15, 2003 issue People |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | SHIPS $2000: A space shuttle was named for this ship seen here, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's first vessel the Atlantis |
#4505, aired 2004-03-19 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $600: Hope you didn't "myth" this 1997 film, with James Woods as the voice of Hades & Rip Torn as Zeus Hercules |
#4496, aired 2004-03-08 | 4-LETTER WOODS $400: Ayan, also called Nigerian satinwood, has shown some resistance to these wood-eating insects termites |
#4496, aired 2004-03-08 | 4-LETTER WOODS $800: A hardwood, agba is used as a substitute for oak for church furniture & these burial items coffins |
#4496, aired 2004-03-08 | 4-LETTER WOODS $1200: This evergreen tree is valued for pitch, tar, resin & turpentine, as well as for its wood pine |
#4496, aired 2004-03-08 | 4-LETTER WOODS $1600: The trees that provide this wood favored by carvers in the Middle Ages are not the same-named citrus ones lime |
#4496, aired 2004-03-08 | 4-LETTER WOODS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) Gunpowder sparks on metal, so the decks of the Missouri are made of this 4-letter wood teak |
#4484, aired 2004-02-19 | SPORTS $1200: This sports star seen here is all grown up & announced his engagement in 2003 Tiger Woods |
#4469, aired 2004-01-29 | STATE YOUR NAME $400: The sylvania in Pennsylvania refers to these woods |
#4420, aired 2003-11-21 | MERYL STREEP $2000: In 1974 Meryl sang in "The Frogs", with music by this "Into the Woods" composer; it was performed in Yale's swimming pool Stephen Sondheim |
#4409, aired 2003-11-06 | CELEBRITY WINEMAKERS $1200: Find out about this golfer's wines at www.shark.com Greg Norman |
#4400, aired 2003-10-24 | IT'S TIME FOR SPORTS $800: This surprise 2003 British Open winner said that Tiger Woods has "this aroma about him" Ben Curtis |
#4374, aired 2003-09-18 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $1200: This 1854 series of essays on self-reliance was subtitled "Or, Life in the Woods" Walden |
#4373, aired 2003-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDIES $600: She returned as Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde" Reese Witherspoon |
#4370, aired 2003-09-12 | ROBERT FROST BITES $2000: "The woods are" these 3 things, "but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" lovely, dark & deep |
#4362, aired 2003-07-15 | VIENNA-RAMA $1,000 (Daily Double): The Wienerwald; Johann Strauss composed some "Tales of" them the Vienna Woods |
#4353, aired 2003-07-02 | BEASTLY NAMES $1600: The 2001 concept car The Bengal was named by Buick in honor of this man Tiger Woods |
#4350, aired 2003-06-27 | STICKS & STONES $400: Some of the best woods for making these billiard items are ebony, ash & rosewood cue sticks |
#4332, aired 2003-06-03 | POEM $1000: 1923 poem that reads:
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | LET'S HAVE A CONFERENCE $1000: 1944's Bretton Woods Conference resulted in the creation of the World Bank & this fund IMF (International Monetary Fund) |
#4308, aired 2003-04-30 | WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? $400: He's hanging out in the woods with a bunch of guys in tights; says they're his "Merry Men" -- He thinks he's... Robin Hood |
#4294, aired 2003-04-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Pen name of short story writer William Sydney Porter, who lived in the woods on the shores of Walden Pond O. Henry David Thoreau |
#4293, aired 2003-04-09 | THE "HOLE" THING $1600: A research vessel from this oceanographic institute on Cape Cod located the Titanic in 1985 Woods Hole |
#4267, aired 2003-03-04 | WOOD-POURRI $200: In March 2002 he became the first PGA player to win 3 different events 3 consecutive times Tiger Woods |
#4266, aired 2003-03-03 | GLAMOUR GIRLS OF SONG $600: The 2002 revival of the fairy tale musical "Into the Woods" starred this beautiful singer seen here Vanessa Williams |
#4257, aired 2003-02-18 | THAT GOOD OLD '60s ROCK & ROLL $1200: 3-letter nickname of Gladys Knight's cousin James Woods; it later inspired the name of her back-up group Pip |
#4241, aired 2003-01-27 | GOLF TALK $400: (Peter Jacobsen gives the clue) Keep the club head low through your swing when hitting these, a term for any wood other than the driver fairway woods |
#4233, aired 2003-01-15 | HAIR TODAY $800: If Robert Frost was sharpening his razor outside in December, he might be doing this "by Woods on a Snowy Evening" stropping |
#4227, aired 2003-01-07 | BROADWAY $400: The musical "Into the Woods" is based on several fairy tales, including the one about this boy and his beanstalk Jack |
#4199, aired 2002-11-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Sofia is taking a walk through the woods.) A goal of the Boy Scouts is to foster this 15-letter word through activities like fishing, hiking & canoeing outdoorsmanship |
#4198, aired 2002-11-27 | INTO THE WOODS $400: A toadstool is an inedible kind of this fungus a mushroom |
#4198, aired 2002-11-27 | INTO THE WOODS $800: Avoid this member of the cashew family by remembering the helpful rhyme "Leaves of three, let it be" poison ivy |
#4198, aired 2002-11-27 | INTO THE WOODS $1200: The name of this delicate fern may remind you of a lovely young woman's locks maidenhair |
#4198, aired 2002-11-27 | INTO THE WOODS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) From the Latin for "across" & "breathe" this evaporation from rain forest leaves helps to regulate rainfall transpiration |
#4198, aired 2002-11-27 | INTO THE WOODS $2000: Woody plants like conifers that reproduce by means of exposed seeds are classified as these gymnosperms |
#4168, aired 2002-10-16 | PRESIDENTIAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: Born in 1856, his 2 names mean "Dweller of a Place Near the Woods" & "Son of William" Woodrow Wilson |
#4160, aired 2002-10-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $600: 1854:
"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone in the woods..." "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | GUINNESS RECORDS $600: He holds the record for all-time career earnings on the U.S. PGA circuit (over $26 million from 1996 to 2001) Tiger Woods |
#4146, aired 2002-09-16 | KIDS IN BOOKS $600: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves & tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book" "The Jungle Book" |
#4050, aired 2002-03-22 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $800: In a Humperdinck opera, these kids sing happily of a little man in the woods before meeting the witch Hansel & Gretel |
#4041, aired 2002-03-11 | 2000 NEWS $600: This Fijian beat Tiger Woods by 6 strokes to win the 2000 Masters Vijay Singh |
#4025, aired 2002-02-15 | "I" AYE $200: (Sofia is on the links.) Basic golf clubs include woods, putters & these, which number 1 through 9 irons |
#4021, aired 2002-02-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: He's not only the first African-American to win the Masters, he's also the first Asian-American Tiger Woods |
#3959, aired 2001-11-15 | TURNING PRO $300: In 1996 Tiger Woods won this tournament for the third straight time, at Pumpkin Ridge, Oregon, then turned pro the U.S. Amateur Championship |
#3906, aired 2001-09-03 | TV THEME SONGS $400: "Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree" Davy Crockett |
#3898, aired 2001-07-11 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Star of "The Exorcist" who disappears from the Maryland woods in a scary 1999 film Linda Blair Witch Project |
#3867, aired 2001-05-29 | DESCRIBING THE SPORT $100: Hit tiny spheroid into woods, curse, hit into lake, curse, score round of 120, go to clubhouse for needed beer Golf |
#3858, aired 2001-05-16 | A SLEEPY CATEGORY $400: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
#3848, aired 2001-05-02 | SPORTS STARS $100: This 25-year-old golfer holds the tournament records for low scores at the Masters, U.S. Open & British Open Tiger Woods |
#3808, aired 2001-03-07 | I LOVE CANDY $200: It's a good ship for Shirley Temple, & a bad woods to get lost in while playing Candy Land Lollipop |
#3792, aired 2001-02-13 | SPEAKING ESPERANTO $400: Arbaro is this type of place as in Longfellow's "Jen la Arbaro Pratempa" Forest/woods |
#3787, aired 2001-02-06 | HEY, SPORT! $400: In Nov. 2000 Phil Mickelson caught this Tiger by the tail, winning the Tour Championship PGA tournament by 2 strokes Tiger Woods |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | TOYS ARE US $300: Nintendo's N64 lets you sample 5 PGA courses with a cyber version of this real golfer born in 1975 Tiger Woods |
#3743, aired 2000-12-06 | 20th CENTURY SPORTS $200: Only 2 men have won The Masters 2 years in a row: Nick Faldo & this man Jack Nicklaus |
#3734, aired 2000-11-23 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL $600: "Salvador" & "Citizen Cohn" star heard here as the voice of John Adams
"Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice..." James Woods |
#3717, aired 2000-10-31 | LIFE LINES $600: He wrote, "I went to the woods....to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life" Henry David Thoreau |
#3704, aired 2000-10-12 | FUR-BEARING CREATURES? $200: In 2000 he earned his stripes by becoming the first golfer since Ben Hogan to win 3 majors in 1 season Tiger Woods |
#3699, aired 2000-10-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: In professional golf, this "cat" is the No. 1 ranked player in the world Tiger Woods |
#3696, aired 2000-10-02 | KID LIT $500: After moving from "The Big Woods", Laura Ingalls Wilder set up her "Little House on" this area of the Old West the Prairie |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TIGER WOODS $200: Tiger must love Mickey Mouse: he went to school in Anaheim, California & lives in this Florida city Orlando |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TIGER WOODS $400: When Tiger became the youngest Masters winner, he broke this man's records for low 72-hole score & margin of victory Jack Nicklaus |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TIGER WOODS $600: In 2000 Tiger won the U.S. Open at this California course by a staggering 15 strokes Pebble Beach |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TIGER WOODS $800: Tiger was this California university's male freshman of the year in 1995 Stanford |
#3689, aired 2000-09-21 | TIGER WOODS $1000: In a thrilling playoff, Tiger beat this man at the 2000 PGA Championship Bob May |
#3685, aired 2000-09-15 | SPORTS 2000 $100: By winning the British Open, this 24-year-old became the youngest to win golf's career Grand Slam Tiger Woods |
#3681, aired 2000-09-11 | VIENNA $1000: This Vienna Woods village was the scene of the mysterious 1889 death of Crown Prince Rudolf Mayerling |
#3648, aired 2000-06-14 | POEM-POURRI $1000: In the following, Johnny Gilbert portrays Marlowe's "Passionate" one of these men "to His Love":
Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove, / That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields." shepherd |
#3626, aired 2000-05-15 | GOLFERS $500: In 2000 Tiger Woods' winning streak brought new attention to this man's record 11 straight wins in 1945 Byron Nelson |
#3609, aired 2000-04-20 | THE GOAT $1000: Nixon's personal secretary, she took the blame for an 18-minute gap on one of the Watergate tapes Rose Mary Woods |
#3604, aired 2000-04-13 | MOVIE REVIEWS $200: The Dayton Daily News said that this 1999 scarefest "does for the woods what 'Jaws' did for water" The Blair Witch Project |
#3579, aired 2000-03-09 | MUSIC $1000: His "Kinderlieder" (children's songs) are far less famous than his opera about 2 kids in the woods Engelbert Humperdinck |
#3569, aired 2000-02-24 | WORLD CELEBRITIES $100: South Korea's Se Ri Pak, a star in this sport, is sometimes called "Tigress Woods" Golf |
#3560, aired 2000-02-11 | U.S. STATE NAMES $200: Literally, this state's name means "Penn's Woods" Pennsylvania |
#3560, aired 2000-02-11 | DROPOUTS $500: In 1996, after winning his third U.S. Amateur title, he left Stanford to turn pro Tiger Woods |
#3534, aired 2000-01-06 | FORE! $100: In 1994 at age 18, he became the youngest golfer to win the U.S. Amateur Golf Tournament Tiger Woods |
#3489, aired 1999-11-04 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $300: On August 2, 1999 he outdueled David Duval in a televised golf shootout billed as the "Showdown at Sherwood" Tiger Woods |
#3482, aired 1999-10-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: This state's "Northwest Angle" lies in Lake of the Woods County north of the 49th parallel Minnesota |
#3450, aired 1999-09-10 | SCHOOL PICTURE DAY $200: You'll score a hole-in-one if you can identify this "A" student of Anaheim's Western High Tiger Woods |
#3387, aired 1999-05-04 | CLIFFS NOTES $200: Massachusetts man spends 2 years living alone in a cabin in the woods; writes book "Walden" |
#3356, aired 1999-03-22 | SPORTS STATS $100: In 1997, his first full year on the PGA Tour, he became the first to exceed $2 million in earnings for a season Tiger Woods |
#3337, aired 1999-02-23 | EVEN YOUNGER THAN YOU $200: As a 3-year-old in 1979, he broke 50 for 9 holes of golf Tiger Woods |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | BEING THOREAU $200: This book begins, "When I wrote the following pages... I lived alone in the woods, a mile from any neighbor..." Walden/Life In The Woods |
#3320, aired 1999-01-29 | COLLEGE SPORTS $500: John McEnroe, Janet Evans & Tiger Woods all competed for & then left this California school Stanford |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | A WOODLAND "P"ARADISE $100: In the woods, don't pet the crested variety of this rodent; its quills can be 14 inches long! porcupine |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | A WOODLAND "P"ARADISE $300: Look for one of these birds in a pear tree in the woods, just like in "The 12 Days Of Christmas" partridge |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | A WOODLAND "P"ARADISE $500: If you're picknicking in the woods of "The Lost World", one of these flying reptiles might decide to lunch on you! pterodactyl |
#3310, aired 1999-01-15 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $200: California's Muir Woods National Monument is known for its stand of this tree, Sequoia sempervirens Redwood |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | THE THEATER $200 (Daily Double): His most recent Tony Awards for best score were for "Passion" in 1994 & "Into the Woods" in 1988 Stephen Sondheim |
#3270, aired 1998-11-20 | POET-TREE $400: He wrote "Tree at My Window" a few years after "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Robert) Frost |
#3260, aired 1998-11-06 | SPORTS SUPERSTARS $100: This 22-year-old won the 1997 Masters golf tournament by 12 strokes, the biggest margin in its history Tiger Woods |
#3250, aired 1998-10-23 | KILLER MUSICALS $800: Fairy tale characters meet dire fates in this Stephen Sondheim musical; how "Grimm"! Into the Woods |
#3242, aired 1998-10-13 | LAKES & RIVERS $500: This lake in Manitoba, Ontario & Minnesota is a remnant of an extinct glacial lake Lake of the Woods |
#3235, aired 1998-10-02 | YOUNGER MEN $200: This waltz king brought us the "Tales From The Vienna Woods" Johann Strauss II (a.k.a. "The Younger") |
#3195, aired 1998-06-19 | “G” WHIZ! $100: Attention, Tiger Woods: Heloise hints that you can store these neatly by placing them in egg cartons golf balls |
#3184, aired 1998-06-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Breakfast cereal spokescat who's a Gr-r-reat! golfer Tony the Tiger Woods |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | THROUGH THE WOODS $100: "Don't sit under" this hardwood "tree with anyone else but me" Apple tree |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | THROUGH THE WOODS $200: It precedes alder & Hazel & you may ask if it's a good one or a bad one Witch |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | THROUGH THE WOODS $300: By the year 2000 a species of this tree that's resistant to that dreaded Dutch disease should be available American elm |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | THROUGH THE WOODS $400: This hardwood may not be cheap, but it is an anagram of cheap Peach |
#3178, aired 1998-05-27 | THROUGH THE WOODS $500: It's the hardwood used to make clarinets & some piano keys Ebony |
#3167, aired 1998-05-12 | OH, THE HUMANITIES! $400: This member of the Eagles won a National Humanities Medal for his work with the Walden Woods Project Don Henley |
#1, aired 1998-05-03 | ROOMIES $500: Tiger Woods once roomed with this man who in 1998 won the right to use a cart on the PGA Tour Casey Martin |
#3142, aired 1998-04-07 | THE FAB (18)50s $400: Subtitled "Or, Life in the Woods", this 1854 Thoreau book was 1 of 2 published in his lifetime Walden |
#3139, aired 1998-04-02 | GONE WITH THE WINDS $1000: Shelley wrote most of this poem on a windy day in the woods near Florence "Ode to the West Wind" |
#3104, aired 1998-02-12 | AN "I" $200: Tiger has woods & these in his golf bag irons |
#3089, aired 1998-01-22 | ROBERT FROST SAYS... $500 (Daily Double): "The woods are lovely, dark & deep, but I have promises to keep" is followed by this line, repeated "And miles to go before I sleep" |
#3044, aired 1997-11-20 | MANIMALS $200: In 1997 he broke Jack Nicklaus' 32-year-old Masters record of 17 under par Tiger Woods |
#3024, aired 1997-10-23 | SPORTS $100: On April 13, 1997 this 21-year-old golfer became the youngest to win the Masters Tiger Woods |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | INTO THE WOODS $100: As mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood helped create this wooded area Central Park |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | INTO THE WOODS $200: In this Iowan's 1929 painting "Woman With Plants", the woman is his mother Grant Wood |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | INTO THE WOODS $300: Leonard Wood lost the 1920 Republican nomination to this man who went on to win the presidency Warren G. Harding |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | INTO THE WOODS $400: She dubbed her system "Reading Dynamics" Evelyn Wood |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | INTO THE WOODS $500: Born Natasha Gurdin in 1938, she acted under this name Natalie Wood |
#3002, aired 1997-09-23 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $500: Robert Frost had to get out of the woods; "I have" this far "to go before I sleep", he wrote miles |
#2967, aired 1997-06-24 | WOMEN WRITERS $400: Her "Little House in the Big Woods" begins in Wisconsin Laura Ingalls Wilder |
#2924, aired 1997-04-24 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: This 1854 Thoreau work is subtitled "Or Life in the Woods" Walden |
#2886, aired 1997-03-03 | LESSER-KNOWN PROVERBS $400: "Fields have eyes and woods have" these; "walls have" them, too Ears |
#2886, aired 1997-03-03 | ATLANTA BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: This papermaker owns or controls 6.2 million acres of woods in the U.S. & Canada Georgia-Pacific |
#2866, aired 1997-02-03 | SPORTS $400: In his first 2 months on the pro golf tour in 1996, this 20-year-old won almost $800,000 Tiger Woods |
#2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HE WAS IN THAT? $200: James Woods played Barbra Streisand's college pal in this 1973 film that co-starred Robert Redford "The Way We Were" |
#2835, aired 1996-12-20 | SINGERS WHO ACT $500: In a 1992 film this curvaceous country singer gave James Woods some "Straight Talk" Dolly Parton |
#2810, aired 1996-11-15 | FAMOUS NAMES $600: In 1996 this 20-year-old African-American golfer won a record third consecutive U.S. Amateur title Tiger Woods |
#2800, aired 1996-11-01 | ECONOMICS $1000: John Maynard Keynes took part in the 1944 New Hampshire conference here that set up the IMF Bretton Woods |
#2798, aired 1996-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): From Rainy Lake to Lake of the Woods, the Rainy River provides this state's border with Canada Minnesota |
#2742, aired 1996-07-02 | U.S. LAKES $800: Lake of the Woods in Canada & this U.S. state is a remnant of Agassiz, an extinct glacial lake Minnesota |
#2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POETS $400: He wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" Robert Frost |
#2712, aired 1996-05-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Cinderella's prince & Rapunzel's prince sing about their "Agony" in this Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods |
#2707, aired 1996-05-14 | MODERN HISTORY $600: In 1985 researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute located the wreckage of this liner the Titanic |
#2656, aired 1996-03-04 | THE U.S. $1000: This northernmost lake of Minnesota is shared with Canada Lake of the Woods |
#2637, aired 1996-02-06 | POETRY $400: He wrote "Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Frost |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | SPORTS $100: In 1994 18-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest to win this sport's U.S. Amateur Tournament golf |
#2404, aired 1995-02-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1000: Lake of the Woods lies in Minnesota, Ontario & this other province Manitoba |
#2393, aired 1995-01-18 | COUNTIES $1,100 (Daily Double): Part of this state's Lake of the Woods County is north of the 49th parallel Minnesota |
#2343, aired 1994-11-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: American poet who published "Dust of Snow" & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in 1923 Robert Frost |
#2335, aired 1994-10-28 | FOUNDERS $1000: This Mass. Ocean Institute was founded in 1930 with money from the Rockefeller Foundation the Woods Hole Institute |
#2328, aired 1994-10-19 | THE 50 STATES $400: A map in front of this state's capitol depicts all of its counties, including Lake of the Woods Minnesota |
#2213, aired 1994-03-30 | MUSIC $800: In German this Strauss waltz is known as "Geschichten Aus dem Wienerwald" Tales from the Vienna Woods |
#2211, aired 1994-03-28 | QUOTATIONS $200: Frost wrote they're "lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep" the woods |
#2016, aired 1993-05-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: He composed "Tales from the Vienna Woods" while conductor of the Imperial Court balls in Vienna Johann Strauss, Jr. |
#2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AUTHORS $400: Her first novel was "Little House in the Big Woods", published in 1932 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder |
#1999, aired 1993-04-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: This state's Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods is the northernmost point in the USA except for Alaska Minnesota |
#1991, aired 1993-04-12 | OPERAS & OPERETTAS $800: This composer's opera "The Royal Children" also features a witch who lives in the woods Engelbert Humperdinck |
#1985, aired 1993-04-02 | POTPOURRI $300: Completes the title of the Strauss waltz "Tales from the..." the Vienna Woods |
#1978, aired 1993-03-24 | THE CIVIL WAR $500: West Woods, Dunker Church & Bloody Lane are landmarks of this extremely bloody Maryland battle Antietam |
#1968, aired 1993-03-10 | GOLF $300: Woods are numbered 1 through 5 & these clubs 1 through 9 irons |
#1950, aired 1993-02-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In July 1944 a conference in Bretton Woods, N.H. created 2 organizations: the World Bank & this Fund the International Monetary Fund |
#1890, aired 1992-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Fairy tales by the Grimms & others were adapted for this Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods |
#1888, aired 1992-11-18 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This Thoreau work is sub-titled "Life in the Woods" "Walden" |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | SCIENCE $400: One of the oldest marine biology laboratories is located at Woods Hole in this New England state Massachusetts |
#1678, aired 1991-12-11 | GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES $400: It was this relative who suggested that Hansel & Gretel be left alone in the woods the stepmother |
#1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SPRING $500: "Spring, Spring, Spring" is a song from this 1954 north woods musical based on "The Sobbin' Women" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
#1661, aired 1991-11-18 | POETS & POETRY $400: Robert Frost wrote, "he will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with" this snow |
#1661, aired 1991-11-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Plans for the World Bank & the IMF were drawn up in 1944 at Bretton Woods in this state New Hampshire |
#1610, aired 1991-09-06 | SHAKESPEARE $400: Act V of this play opens in the woods in front of Timon's cave Timon of Athens |
#1604, aired 1991-07-18 | ACTRESSES $500: James Woods took the photo on the cover of this late "Jezebel" star's book "This 'n That" Bette Davis |
#1594, aired 1991-07-04 | ROCK LYRICS $300: "Ooh! Who's that I see walkin' in these woods? Why it's" this fairy tale heroine Little Red Riding Hood |
#1572, aired 1991-06-04 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: His "Walden" is subtitled, "Or Life in the Woods" Thoreau |
#1563, aired 1991-05-22 | PENNSYLVANIA $800: The state's name means Penn's these woods (sylvania) |
#1556, aired 1991-05-13 | PHOBIAS $200: Robin hood wasn't dendrophobic, as he didn't mind living among these the woods (the trees) |
#1544, aired 1991-04-25 | SPORTS $100: In golf these are limited to a maximum of 14 including irons & woods the clubs |
#1542, aired 1991-04-23 | FOR THE KIDS $100: In titles of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, these 2 words precede "In the Big Woods" & "On the Prairie" Little House |
#1459, aired 1990-12-27 | COUNTIES $500: Much of this Minnesota county's area consists of the U.S.-Canadian lake of the same name Lake of the Woods |
#1442, aired 1990-12-04 | COUNTIES $500: Lake of the Woods County is this state's newest county, as well as its least populous Minnesota |
#1434, aired 1990-11-22 | THANKSGIVING $400: The poem "Thanksgiving Day" inspired a seasonal song titled with this opening line "Over the River and Through the Woods" |
#1424, aired 1990-11-08 | MUSICAL THEATER $800: As the witch, P. Rashad went "Into the Woods" on Broadway to sing this composer's ditties (Stephen) Sondheim |
#1415, aired 1990-10-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Woods north of San Francisco are named for this naturalist who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 John Muir |
#1400, aired 1990-10-05 | MUSICALS $800: Sondheim musical suggested by the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night" A Little Night Music |
#1383, aired 1990-09-12 | COMPOSERS $200: We're not telling tales when we tell you Johann Strauss composed the tales from these woods the Vienna Woods |
#1364, aired 1990-07-05 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $400: He wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished...to front only the essential facts of life" (Henry David) Thoreau |
#3, aired 1990-06-30 | LAKES $1000: A part of Minnesota, the northernmost point in the lower 48 states, juts into this U.S.-Canadian lake Lake of the Woods |
#1356, aired 1990-06-25 | PLAYS $200: In titles of plays, this word follows "Into the" & "A Walk in the" Woods |
#1346, aired 1990-06-11 | FAIRY TALES $300: In "Hansel & Gretel" it was this person who made their father abandon them in the woods the stepmother |
#1291, aired 1990-03-26 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: Poet who wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark & deep, but I have promises to keep..." Robert Frost |
#1178, aired 1989-10-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This "Onion Field" star said, "I'm the best friend you could ever have & the worst enemy" James Woods |
#1160, aired 1989-09-22 | SPORTS $500: Event based on a soldier riding, fighting with a sword & pistol, swimming a river & running thru the woods the modern pentathlon |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MYTHOLOGY $200: His favorite residence was the woods & mountains of Arcadia where he played his pipes Pan |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MYTHOLOGY $600: Classified between human & god, the dryads were these female spirits of the woods nymphs |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | MARCH $300 (Daily Double): On March 26, 1955 this "Ballad" hit No. 1 on the charts & stayed there for 5 weeks:
"Born on a mountain top in Tennessee /
Greenest state in the land of the free /
Raised in the woods so he knew ev'ry tree /
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three..." "Davy Crockett", "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" |
#1004, aired 1989-01-05 | POETRY $400: Robert Frost poem that begins "Whose woods these are I think I know" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#985, aired 1988-12-09 | FURNITURE $100: Some cheaper woods are stained black to resemble this rare & expensive furniture wood ebony |
#970, aired 1988-11-18 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: In April 1988, Phylicia Rashad took over Bernadette Peters' role as the witch in this Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods |
#948, aired 1988-10-19 | THEATER $1000: 1 of the 2 plays on Broadway in June 1988 with "Woods" in their titles Into the Woods (or A Walk in the Woods) |
#927, aired 1988-09-20 | PEOPLE $400: After saving them for 15 years, Loyd Woods used 1,400,000 of these to buy a new truck pennies |
#918, aired 1988-09-07 | FOLK SONGS $500: In "Over The River & Thru The Woods", it's what the horse knows the way to Grandmother's house |
#886, aired 1988-06-13 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Her 1st novel was "Little House in the Big Woods" Laura Ingalls (Wilder) |
#839, aired 1988-04-07 | VIENNA $300: We tell you no "tales" --"Wienerwald" is the German word for these the Vienna Woods |
#794, aired 1988-02-04 | 5-LETTER WOODS $200: In the office hierarchy, you might be low man on this type of pole totem |
#794, aired 1988-02-04 | 5-LETTER WOODS $400: One of the articles in a political platform, or a thick board used to build a platform plank |
#794, aired 1988-02-04 | 5-LETTER WOODS $600: One of these pieces is made of wood, while one of these Wrigley pieces is made of gum stick |
#794, aired 1988-02-04 | 5-LETTER WOODS $800: It can be poison or yma sumac |
#794, aired 1988-02-04 | 5-LETTER WOODS $1000: A narrow strip of wood forming part of a barrel; though not plural itself, it's from a plural of "staff" stave |
#694, aired 1987-09-17 | PSYCH 101 $800: Term for occasional but intense anxiety, it refers to the Greek god of woods panic |
#676, aired 1987-07-13 | TV IN FILM $300: In "Videodrome", James Woods inserts one of these into his stomach; we suggest you use a VCR a tape |
#648, aired 1987-06-03 | WEAPONS $600: Devilish weapon seen in Grant Woods' painting "American Gothic" a pitchfork |
#620, aired 1987-04-24 | LAKES & RIVERS $1,500 (Daily Double): Lake of the Woods separates northernmost point in the lower 48 states from the rest of this state Minnesota |
#607, aired 1987-04-07 | GRAY MATTERS $300: His career "Bud"ded as Princess & Kitten's brother "Father Knows Best" Bill Gray |
#607, aired 1987-04-07 | GRAY MATTERS $400: Though still alive at the time, Confederate raider John S. Mosby earned this nickname the "Gray Ghost" |
#607, aired 1987-04-07 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Excluding East Berlin, 2 of 3 capitals of East European Communist countries that begin with "B" (2 of) Bucharest, Budapest & Belgrade |
#607, aired 1987-04-07 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: For the past 3 years her cosmetic co. has topped the Savvy magazine list of businesses run by women Estée Lauder |
#607, aired 1987-04-07 | LANGUAGES $600: Israel's official languages are Hebrew & this Arabic |
#607, aired 1987-04-07 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $1000: A model of adult humor, this series had one episode about a thumbless alien & 1700 pounds of walnuts The Dick Van Dyke Show |
#522, aired 1986-12-09 | LAST LINES $400: In "Stopping by Woods..." Frost concluded "But I have promises to keep, & miles to go before" doing this before I sleep |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | THANKSGIVING $100: In poem "Thanksgiving Day, the way to Grandfather's house is "over the river & through" this the woods |
#513, aired 1986-11-26 | LITERARY WOOD $400: Among his poems are "Birches", "The Sound of the Trees", & "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost |
#497, aired 1986-11-04 | FIRST LINES $800: "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods" Walden |
#445, aired 1986-05-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $800: Complete with Mounties, the forest of Arden became Canada's north woods in S.D. Old Globe's version of this As You Like It |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: President Nixon's secretary who claimed responsibility for gap in White House tapes Rose Mary Woods |
#174, aired 1985-05-09 | FLOWERS & TREES $500: "Babe in the woods", or a young forest tree not over 4" in diameter sapling |
#153, aired 1985-04-10 | ACTORS & ROLES $600: Film in which Robert DeNiro & James Woods, of Italian & Irish ancestry, play Jewish gangsters Once Upon a Time in America |
#96, aired 1985-01-21 | NATURE $400: Tropical woods with at least 100 inches of precipitation annually rainforests |
#94, aired 1985-01-17 | ANIMALS $400: Endangered ape found only in Borneo & Sumatra, its name means "man of the woods" orangutan |
#58, aired 1984-11-28 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $400: Called the Schwarzwald, it's the deep dark woods of fairy tale fame the Black Forest |
#22, aired 1984-10-09 | FIRST NAME BASIS $500: Robert & Natalie & Elliott & Dyan Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice |