| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $400: Gene Autry's been gone for a while, but he was on the Billboard Hot 100 in late December 2023 with "Here Comes" this fellow Santa Claus |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $400: Lee Yoo-mi was a winner as Ji-yeong on this game show-set Netflix drama where second place definitely wasn't three grand Squid Game |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | HISTORICAL FIGURES $800: Rebelling peasants inspired by the Reformation were let down by this man's tract "against the murderous, thieving hordes of peasants" (Martin) Luther |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $1000: His confession to 2 murders & his good deeds help limit this 19th century Russian character's prison term to just 8 years Raskolnikov |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LIBRARIES $1200: The building of this country's José Martí National Library was funded by a tax on sugar Cuba |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $400: "Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | CHANNEL ORANGE $200: Does this creature seen here amuse you, it makes you laugh? Come to think of it, yeah, in a Pixar movie it did amuse me, quite a bit a clownfish |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | PARENTING $600: It contains 5 consecutive consonants & it's the safest way to cut the little ones' hotdogs lengthwise |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: A Scottish Terrier is the fitting mascot of this Pittsburgh school Carnegie Mellon |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | YOU CAN'T SPELL... $600: This word without "once", but I do not think it means what you think it means inconceivable |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $800: Menander, known for his comedic plays, wrote that "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is" this, "but a necessary" this an evil |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1200: The Achille Lauro was infamously beset by a group of these criminals hijackers |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $600: During World War II Frank Herbert served as a photographer in this U.S. Navy group that builds bases, airfields & bridges the Seabees |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $2000: 14 letters:
A sequence of fantastic & weird images, as seen perhaps in a dream or while hallucinating phantasmagoria |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $400: Put Kingman in your rear view, cruise I-40 & you'll be in Standin' on the Corner Park in this Arizona city in 3 hours Winslow |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | WORLD LITERATURE $11,400 (Daily Double): In this Hermann Hesse novel, Harry Haller reads a treatise about his dual inner self, caught between a man & a lupine creature Steppenwolf |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SHORT SHAKESPEARE $800: Prospero's daughter Miranda |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | RELIGIOUS RANKS & TITLES $5,000 (Daily Double): Familiar from Monty Python sketches, this word for an Anglican or Episcopal priest is from the Latin for "substitute" vicar |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $200: A ruminant races backwards & becomes this last name of actor Oliver & musician Lou Reed (from deer) |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $200: He received a total of 1,876 Electoral College votes for president, a likely unbreakable record FDR |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $800: "Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na na" Blink-182 |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $1000: "I got a woman, way over town, that's good to me, oh yeah. Say, I got a woman way over town that's good to me, oh yeah" Ray Charles |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $12,000 (Daily Double): This name of the first minor prophet in book order often comes before "can you see" in punny sermon titles Hosea |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | & 5 SIDES $400: Hal Prince co-produced this New York City-set musical that opened on Broadway on Sept. 26, 1957 West Side Story |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $1000: President Obama said his favorite character on "The Wire" was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams Omar (Little) |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is" Marcus Aurelius |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $400: For sheets, the Egyptian type of this feels real good, but the extra-long-staple kind is the best of the best cotton |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE TALLEST ONE $800: In the Ramones Joey |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | COCKTAILS $400: This cocktail traditionally served in a copper mug gets its "kick" from lime juice, ginger beer & oh yeah, vodka a Moscow mule |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $400: The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie Detroit |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $200: It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $1600: In an interview upon the release of this sequel, Margaret Atwood asked about Aunt Lydia, "How do you get to be such a person?" The Testaments |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $400: The British say someone is "sleeping" this 5-letter adjective if they're on the street for the night, or longer rough |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $800: Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:
"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | HANSEL CULTURE $400: In a model walk-off in "Zoolander", this actor, as Hansel, defeats Ben Stiller by doing something indescribable with his underwear Owen Wilson |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | HEAVY $400: "The head that wears" this might ache wearing the solid gold, nearly 5-pound St. Edward's one used in a 2023 ceremony the crown |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $400: Theobromine in this substance is toxic to dogs; the darker & more bitter kinds are more dangerous for the pooch chocolate |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TV $1000: "The Crossing" Washington |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $800: Asked if he knows what he's doing:
"Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times" Captain America |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $400: In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom Community |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder) |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $1200: Unemployment is supposed to fall as inflation rises & vice versa; under Pres. Ford, both rose & economists coined this word stagflation |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | 4-LETTER INTERJECTIONS $400: This interjection is the first thing Lil Jon says on Usher's hit of the same title Yeah! |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $200: Victor Hugo urged the preservation of medieval architecture & his writing led to the restoration of this building from 1844 Notre Dame |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $800: Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier M |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | THE ERRORS TOUR $600: Thank you on behalf of this group, but the 15 songs they cut on Jan. 1, 1962 in London did not pass Decca Records' audition... D'oh! The Beatles |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Teddy Roosevelt compared this artist's "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)" to the pattern on his bathroom rug Duchamp |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $600: This phrase precedes "more powerful than a locomotive!" in a 1941 cartoon where our hero fights "The Mad Scientist" faster than a speeding bullet |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $2000: A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man Gladiator |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | SCIENCE IS COOL $1500: Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn't melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this sublimation |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $800: In Ray Bradbury's tale "A Sound of Thunder", the crushing of this insect "effected" the future a butterfly |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE MISING LETER $600: Soverein G (sovereign) |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $400: Rihanna sang of this title treat, "can't wait to blow my candles out" birthday cake |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $800: Formed in Seattle, not Atlanta, The Presidents of the United States of America nevertheless desired "Millions Of" these Peaches |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $800: The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point Panama |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $800: Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978 "Macho Man" |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $800: In its Season 5 mid-season finale, Agent Hank Schrader discovered that his brother-in-law was actually the drug lord Heisenberg Breaking Bad |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $500: In 1972, this brand debuted Red Zinger and Sleepy Time; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _
_ E A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Celestial Seasonings |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In 2020 Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer & Martie Maguire dropped the first part of their trio's name & now go simply as this The Chicks |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $200: A stray cat is taken in and then set loose by Holly Golightly in this iconic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | "DIS"CONTINUED $400: In law, it's "a justice's nonconcurrence with a decision of the majority"; it's also the nickname of the collar worn by RBG dissent |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $400: A 2023 survey by the National Confectioners Association found 18% of folks eat the wide yellow end of this sweet first candy corn |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | COUNTRY OVERLAPS $2000: A Balkan "black mountain" country vaults over Serbia to meet the former Walachia & Moldavia Montenegromania |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Let's horse around on this far straightaway on an oval racecourse; it might also be a way to limber up your lumbar region the backstretch |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SPORTS TEAM HOMOPHONES $500: The individual loops that make up a chain, or
Minnesota's WNBA team the links/Lynx |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $600: As an April Fools' prank in 2023, Michael Che directed the audience at "SNL" to not laugh at this co-anchor's jokes Colin Jost |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $600: In Maine, the 4th Sunday of March is devoted to a celebration of this tree & its products the maple |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $800: In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned some frescoes for the ceiling of this place; took 5 years to paint, but yeah... worth it the Sistine Chapel |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $800: This man told a friend, "Palladio is the Bible", as he was something of a fanboy for the 16th century Italian architect Jefferson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BAYS $1600: In song, "The boys of the NYPD choir were singing" of this Irish place Galway Bay |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | MUSIC TERMS $2,200 (Daily Double): You can use the black notes on a keyboard to play this common 5-note scale the pentatonic scale |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $400: A series of articles in the L.A. Times about people dying in their sleep, perhaps during bad dreams, inspired this 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $600: The line in the script for this 1942 classic was "Here's good luck to you, kid", but Bogie made a slight adjustment Casablanca |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | TRAILER PARK $600: In a trailer for this animated feature from 1999, Satan is in bed with Saddam Hussein South Park: The Movie (South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut) |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $1000: This NASA mathematician of "Hidden Figures" fame is swept off her feet by this blond-mopped recent British leader Katherine Johnson & Boris Johnson |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $400: The Liberty Bell moves to a pavilion north of Independence Hall; Israeli commandos take on hijackers at Entebbe 1976 |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | AMPHIBIANS $800: Sirens are aquatic salamanders that can breathe through lungs as well as through these gills |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | 4 YOUR CONSIDERATION $800: For UFO fans, a close encounter of the 3rd kind is meeting aliens; this is one of the 4th kind getting captured by them (abduction) |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem renaissance the Great Depression |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $1500: "I don't need sunshine now to turn my skies to blue, I don't need anything but you" Annie |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A GREEN THUMB $600: As their name implies, schizocarps are fruits that do this when they become ripe part (split in two) |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $400: Henry VII,
Louis XIV,
Richard III Louis XIV |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $1600: Frederick III,
Nicholas II,
Wilhelm II Nicholas II |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | FAREWELL TO THE CHIEF $1,800 (Daily Double): August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California Harding |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $100: If you touch the metal edge of the cavity, you'll set off the buzzer & make Sam's nose light up! Operation |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | COLLEGE PRESS $900 (Daily Double): At the University of Maryland, David Simon edited the school newspaper; he set HBO's "The Wire" in this city Baltimore |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $1500: Can't find Slovenia on a map? Look for the shape of this animal, which it's widely said to resemble a chicken |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1500: "The Fishin' Hole" was written especially for this beloved sitcom, long before Ron Howard met the Fonz The Andy Griffith Show |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | SLINGING ARROWS $400: The cruel but cowardly King Joffrey liked the heft of a crossbow on this HBO drama Game of Thrones |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1600: In a song that was very close to her heart, Loretta Lynn sang, "Yeah, I'm proud to be" this a coal miner's daughter |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $400: This imposing American landmark is seen here as it looked in 1876 the Washington Monument |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A PAIN IN THE "R"s $1200: It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for rubella |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $4,000 (Daily Double): This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label" a syllabus |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $800: Police received multiple reports at 10 P.M. of a man running through town & tapping on windows in his nightgown "Wee Willie Winkie" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $1200: This Seattle band's 1991 debut album was titled "Ten" for the uniform number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock Pearl Jam |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $1600: In 1985 this Jefferson-less Grace Slick group had a No. 1 hit with "We Built This City" Starship |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $400: God, aided by cherubim, reaches out to this bored-looking guy; oh yeah, it's on a ceiling Adam |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $200: As early as 1901 this U.S. state was described as "The Mitten State" Michigan |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired."
Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $200: We stopped by the magnificent Cliffs of Moher on this Emerald Isle Ireland |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $400: Made it to the top of 22,600-foot Ojos del Salado one of the highest peaks in this mountain range the Andes |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $600: Took in the rugged scenery & the lemon festival along this country's Amalfi Coast Italy |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $800: Great snorkeling & diving in this large bay off Chittagong & Chennai the Bay of Bengal |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $800: "Give it away, give it away, give it away now, give it away, give it away, give it away now, awwww, aw yeah!" the Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $1000: Paid my respects at the Gandan Monastery in this capital city of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | ICONIC MAN-PERMS $100: This beloved painter started perming his hair in the '80s to save money on happy little haircuts (Bob) Ross |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $100: Fittingly, this number of the amendment that repealed prohibition is also the legal drinking age in the U.S. the 21st Amendment |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | MARRIAGE STORY $200: 1946:
"Julia McWilliams! What's cookin'?"
"I just got married"
"Tasty! To whom?"
"His last name is" this Child |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HEADQUARTERED IN $800: International Paper;
AutoZone;
FedEx;
Elvis Presley Enterprises Memphis |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HORSE, HOG, OR DOG $1500: The large black
&
the large white hog |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SEXY STUFF $400: "Warm" 4-letter word for a period of sexual receptiveness heat |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | FRANK GEHRY $1200: The Gehry-designed Nationale-Nederlanden building seen here is informally known as this film dancing pair Astaire & Rogers (Fred & Ginger) |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $400: "The lady is enamored of thee, verily, verily, verily" "She Loves You" |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $800: Due to fear of communism, in the 1950s this color was followed by "Legs" to make a new baseball team name Red |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $200: In 1804 a steam carriage was first put onto one of these; it could haul 70 men & 10 tons of iron for 10 miles railroad |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | DISNEY PARK SONGS $400: "It's a world of laughter, a world of tears..." It's a Small World |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $600: Dr. Thomas Welch is credited with making the first unfermented juice from this fruit a grape |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $1600: As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that! Ron Howard |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WHAT'S NEXT? $400: Apollo missions that landed on the Moon:
11, 12, this 14 |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | MUSIC TERMS $800: A direction to singers, the term "bouche fermée" literally means that your mouth should be this closed |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "POP" QUIZ, HOTSHOT $200: In 2013, cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio assumed this lofty title Pope |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $300: When he's not searching for the Lost Ark or the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones teaches this subject archaeology |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $300: Take a nail salon treatment, move its eye from the back to the front, & you get this model & longtime wife of David Bowie Iman |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $300: Say the name of Buffalo's NFL team three times, and you'll say the title of this Destiny's Child song "Bills, Bills, Bills" |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | PODCASTS $600 (Daily Double): "5-4" is a podcast that calls itself an "occasionally profane take on the ideological battles" of this federal body the Supreme Court |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $900: Take a southwestern Native American tribe, move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this breakfast chain IHOP |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | NONAGENARIANS $11,400 (Daily Double): Making comedy fans wait over 40 years for a sequel, this 97-year-old released "History of the World, Part II" in 2023 Mel Brooks |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $1000: Farfalle are these creatures, but please don't eat them butterflies |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | KICKIN' AZTEC $400: It was an honor to be sacrificed to the gods by having this organ, yollotl to the Aztecs, torn from your body your heart |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | CHANGE A LETTER $1200: It's to swindle or trick someone, like George C. Scott does in a 1967 film flim-flam |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $600: Our bandleader whistles while you work to name this composer heard here Beethoven |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WHO SAID THIS? $1000: In a 1775 speech he declared, "I know not what course others may take..." Patrick Henry |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | PRESIDENTS' EXECUTIVE ORDERS $1600: "Prohibiting certain transactions with respect to the Crimea region of Ukraine" Obama |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | DEMONYMS $500: It's how you might refer to a resident of Tirana, a capital city near the Adriatic coast--or to a resident of NY's state capital an Albanian |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | MOIST THINGS $400: In chapter I of "Bleak House" this is "everywhere... up the river... down the river... in the eyes & throats..." fog |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell" "Rocket Man" |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | I'M STILL STANDIN' $1600: In "Othello":
Iago,
Othello,
Desdemona Iago |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | LOONEY TUNES $800: In "Buccaneer Bunny", he calls himself the "blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em firstiest, doggone worstiest" Yosemite Sam |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $100: Seen here, this fried fairground favorite is named after the device used to drizzle batter into hot oil the funnel cake |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $200: "The Boot"
(It has more World Heritage sites than any other country) Italy |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $200: When she performed "Crazy For You" in the high school wrestling film "Vision Quest" this pop star was virtually unknown Madonna |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | AND THE STATE CAPITAL IS... $300: Pennsylvania:
Scranton,
Harrisburg,
Pittsburgh Harrisburg |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | SCIENTISTS' RHYME TIME $600: Danish physicist Niels' small openings in skin Bohr's pores |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: "The Land of Fire & Ice"
(Do its citizens really believe in elves? I guess we'll never gnome) Iceland |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WEIRD AL PARODIES $600: Encyclopedias & a case of Turtle Wax were among the prizes Al didn't win in this song & video that's near & dear to our hearts "I Lost On Jeopardy" |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $600: Yeehaw! Paniolos are Hawaii's equivalent of these workers, also the name of a Texas pro sport team cowboys |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FIX THE MALAPROP $200: Neptunium was discovered at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lavatory Laboratory |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FIX THE MALAPROP $1000: I read an essay comparing the ideas in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" to those in Camus' "The Myth of Syphilis" Sisyphus |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE -LOGUES ON $1000: "When I did him at this advantage take, an ass's noll I fixed on his head" Puck |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | WHITE HOUSE PETS $1200: This first daughter brought her Siamese cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang, to the White House Amy Carter |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | A TRIP TO MUMBAI $1600: A delicious street food item you can find in Mumbai is this 6-letter fried pastry filled with veggies a samosa |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ishmael & crew ready their harpoons in preparation to capture a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" star Moby-Dick Van Dyke |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | RECONSTRUCTION $800: This Bronx building has been called "The House that George Built"; it's next to where "The House that Ruth Built" once was Yankee Stadium |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | MAMMALS $400: The San Diego Zoo welcomed its first pair of these from Australia, Snugglepot & Cuddlepie, in 1925 a koala |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | "M"MMMM $800: This fancy culinary term refers to a mixture of diced carrots, onions & celery mirepoix |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $200: Types of these include http-only, session & zombie, but none of them go very well with a glass of cold milk a cookie |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $600: Not so great with peanut butter on a sandwich, Vaseline has been a brand of this since the 1870s petroleum jelly |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WELCOME TO MIAMI $800: The Brickell Section of town has one end of the Tamiami Trail; 264 miles away, the other end is, naturally, in this city Tampa |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | MESSIN' WITH TEXAS $600: This org. did not make Chuck Norris an honorary member until 2010, so could it have busted Chuck for impersonating an officer in the '90s? the Texas Rangers |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $600: 2 new faces on the list: this "basketball legend" at $1 billion & this "golf great" at a bit more LeBron & Tiger |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | "DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE" $1000: Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay" Baghdad |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1200: "The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb" Lee |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $100 (Daily Double): Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., running with a then-veep himself Nixon |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $400: When meeting this Dr. with a unique palate, "Do not reach through the bars... do not accept anything he attempts to hold out to you" Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The nickname of disease spreader Ms. Mallon gets a big break on Broadway in a show about a nanny for the Banks family Typhoid Mary Poppins |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $800: DE & .de Delaware & Germany |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $400: In 1903 this Central Amer. country signed a treaty giving the U.S. control of a zone; it adopted a red, white & blue starry flag in 1904 Panama |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | TV SHOWS $2000: As a teen, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase in this series about the trials & tribulations of being a teen My So-Called Life |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $400: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One of my club picks for 2023 is "Black Candle Women" by Diane Marie Brown, about four generations of women who live under one roof & have a big secret--a love curse relating to a Voodoo sorceress in this Southern city that links the story back to the 1950s New Orleans |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | ROMAN EMPERORS $800: As seen in the bust, Commodus was obsessed with this he-man of Greek myth, even dressing as him Hercules |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODELS $600: Lila, daughter of this supermodel, made her debut on the cover of British "Vogue" in 2022 Kate Moss |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $200: On Dec. 15, 1968 the Phila. Eagles were 2-11 as fans booed & hurled snowballs at a teen picked from the stands to play this jolly old soul Santa Claus |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $400: "Yeah, I kinda need to wash my truck but hell, I kinda don't care. I think old Alan Jackson said it best: It's" this:00 "somewhere" 5:00 |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $1200: Last name of Bronson, a teacher & abolitionist who lived in poverty until his daughter made it big in books in the 19th century Alcott |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | ART"S" $800: Melting clocks, yeah, yeah, we get it, but this art movement included poetry by Pierre Reverdy & was influenced by Bosch surrealism |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE! $600: It wouldn't be the '70s without this type of carpeting seen here; yeah, baby a shag rug |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | MUSICAL ACT ETYMOLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): Karen O said this name of her band comes from "a New York City... reaction to everything" the Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $400: Lovers of the game like Ken Burns & Bill "Spaceman" Lee have observed there's no this in baseball, but as of 2023 there is a clock |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE GRAMMAR POLICE $800: You know you got a dangling this? Yeah, I saw it when you wrote, "Landing on the Moon, the nation erupted in cheers" participle (or modifier) |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD WITH PADMA LAKSHMI $400: (Padma Lakshmi reads.) Indian dishes are generally accompanied by one or more of these relishes; on my website, I feature a recipe of one made with kumquat & ginger chutneys |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: The lead singer is seen here in 2022 when this band performed back home in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremonies Black Sabbath |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In English slang this German word is added after a skill or a topic to indicate someone with expertise Meister |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $2000: A small Canadian town filled with "skids, hockey players & Christians" Letterkenny |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | INVERTEBRATES $1600: A 2010 study suggested that the fluorescence of this arachnid is a way for it to detect & avoid ultraviolet light scorpion |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $800: It means fancy food & is literally French for "high cooking" haute cuisine |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted) |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | A NEW COAT $10,400 (Daily Double): This Scottish chemist invented a waterproof material that was used to make a raincoat that bears his name (Charles) MacIntosh |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TV $600: At the end of "Game of Thrones", this member of the Stark family becomes the ruler of Westeros Bran |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1200: In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men" the fat of the land |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $600: So much history in this city! The 16th century Red Fort, the Jami Masjid, or Friday Mosque, & oh yeah... the Taj Mahal Agra |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 ALBUM $1600: Beyoncé declares her fearless alter ego & puts a ring on things I Am... Sasha Fierce |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | A REAL BODY BUSY $800: Keepin' busy, this soft, fatty tissue inside your bones makes platelets & oh yeah, billions of new blood cells daily bone marrow |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | "A_B_C_D" $800: It's a longer way of saying vitamin C ascorbic acid |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This report, very important to boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space", is also a commercial broadcast for the audience's benefit TPSA |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | PRODUCE: WE HAVE NAMES $2000: An important Korean crop is the Napa type of this vegetable, used in a signature food of the peninsula cabbage |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | BRIT LIT $600: In "A Room with a View", the view isn't of England but of this country Italy |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $800: Hungry in Hungary? The Michelin guide says Arany Kaviár in this capital has "creative, ambitious cooking" & yeah, some good caviar Budapest |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | OLIVE YOU $1000: How about an appetizer of these popular Greek olives, with some feta cheese? Kalamata |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians Full House of Cards |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $1200: A CBS headline: "Every monk in Thai temple" got this clothing-related consequence "after testing positive for meth"; well... yeah defrocked |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: You'll find the Pompidou Centre not far from this big river the Seine |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | PAINT ME A PICTURE $4,400 (Daily Double): This 17th century masterpiece has been called "The Dutch Mona Lisa" the Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | ANCIENT VIPs $1200: Though better known as "The Father of History", some critics called him "The Father of Lies" Herodotus |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A DEADLY WEAPON $200: Cornelius Nepos could have pitched a Samuel Jackson film, these "on a boat", writing of Hannibal heaving them onto enemy ships snakes |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A DISASTER ARIA $400: "Lensky's Aria" from "Eugene Onegin" finds Lensky lamenting his fate after having agreed to this type of challenge a duel |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | APPLY THE RAINBOW COLOR $200: In song, "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, & everything you do, yeah, they were all" this yellow |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | COMPLETE THE PANGRAM $800: "We promptly judged" this old word "ivory buckles for the next prize" antique |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $200: In addition to Classic, it comes in Cherry & Georgia Peach flavors Coca-Cola |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | PURE POETRY $1200: "Poems" by her came out in 1844; months later, a poet named Robert wrote to say, "I love your verses with all my heart" (& yeah, you too) Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $800: (Erin Andrews of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) He was thrice Super Bowl MVP--yeah, you heard me, I said thrice, even winning one, despite only throwing for 157 yards & one TD; when it comes to this 49ers QB, you can't state things any better Montana |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $600: This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021 omicron |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | MUSHROOM STEW $1600: Named for a French nobleman, it's a preparation of chopped mushrooms & herbs that can be a filling or a topping a Duxelle |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $600: The classic sax line from this 1984 No. 1 hit by Wham! begins, Wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-wa-wa "Careless Whisper" |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $300: In the '80s we were "Head Over Heels" for this all-female group; they did, in fact, have the beat The Go-Go's |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WORLD HISTORY $9,800 (Daily Double): This dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644 was noted for its arts & culture including, of course, ceramics & porcelain vases Ming |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | MEDICATIONS $1000: Levodopa, which is converted to dopamine in the brain, is the most effective drug for this motor control disease Parkinson's |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | AS THE FRENCH SAY $1,000 (Daily Double): This 2-word phrase refers to one involved in shameful behavior, perhaps like Dennis the Menace enfant terrible |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | SELF-REFERENTIAL BEATLES $1200: "There's nothing you can know that isn't known", like adding "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" to the end of this song "All You Need Is Love" |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | BORN OR DIED IN 1923 $400: Died:
In Paris, at 91, this civil engineer famous for his tower Gustave Eiffel |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $200: The ideas of Édouard de Laboulaye, president of the French anti-slavery society, inspired this gift from France to America Liberty Enlightening the World (the Statue of Liberty) |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | TRIANGLES $600: You need a triangle for this action to set up billiard balls for the break shot racking |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | NYC SUBWAY STOPS $800: Head downtown on the 1, 2 or 3 train to hit this street, the "Ho" in SoHo, & note its pronunciation Houston (Street) |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | FAMOUS WOMEN $600: She was Czechoslovakia's top women's tennis player when she defected to the U.S. in 1975 Martina Navratilova |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT $800: This first lady of the Philippines was known as the "Steel Butterfly" (Imelda) Marcos |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $800: Its name goes back to its founding in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Qantas |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | 1990s VOCAB TEST $1600: A gesture often accompanied this 4-word anatomical phrase meaning "I'm not listening to you" talk to the hand |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $2000: He is described as "Prometheus who changed his mind"; now you say the first sentence of "Atlas Shrugged" (John) Galt |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | "P.J."s $1200: One legend says she reigned between Leo IV & Benedict III & was ousted from Rome after giving birth Pope Joan |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $600: This "feline" not only got "Freaky Deaky" with Tyga, she also told us to "Get Into It (Yuh)", so we did (yuh) Doja Cat |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $800: In 1954 DuMont had a sitcom with this title starring Gertrude Berg as Molly, not Wendi McLendon-Covey as Beverly The Goldbergs |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $200: Matthew 4 says Jesus fasted for this many days & nights in the wilderness, & he was hungry after; well, yeah! 40 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $800: We were surprised to get Pierre Laclede as a response instead of this French explorer with a big U.S. lake named for him Champlain |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE 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 |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $1600: This author wrote a dedication "To my dear Husband" though they never actually wed, as the "Husband" already had a wife (George) Eliot |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | RHYMES WITH A SNOW WHITE DWARF $2000: Make it this adjective that also means attractively & fashionably dressed snappy |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $2,800 (Daily Double): In this 2017 biopic Gary Oldman says, "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth" the Darkest Hour |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $1200: "I'm... classy, bougie, ratchet (yeah), sassy, moody, nasty (hey, hey, yeah), acting stupid, what's happening?" "Savage" |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | FILM FIGHT MARQUEE $800: 1978:
Bruce Lee
vs.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Game of Death |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | BAROQUE $600: This 17th century Italian painter & sculptor also wrote comedies & oh yeah, did some Vatican City architecture Bernini |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1802 Congress passed the act establishing the U.S. Military Academy at this site on the banks of the Hudson West Point |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $2000: In 2022 she was "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as Evelyn Wang Michelle Yeoh |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | GAME ON $100: A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game Scrabble |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | THE IN MEMORIAM SEGMENT 1922 $600: William Desmond Taylor, director slain in one of early Hollywood's great scandals, at a site that's now a this Dress for Less Ross |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | TV AS OF LATE $400: As Jim the Vampire, guest star Mark Hamill ordered "one human alcohol beer, please" on this comedy What We Do in the Shadows |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $300: (Ken delivers the clue.) Sometimes you become part of a show that's well into its history, like me & like this Muppet, who first appeared on "Sesame Street" in 1980 in the song "We Are All Monsters" Elmo |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | MUSICAL ALTER EGOS $400: Using this name, Donald Glover let us know, "Oh, if you want it, yeah, you can have it, oh oh oh, if you need it, oo, we can make it" Childish Gambino |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | DAM: NATION $200: Oroville, the nation's tallest at 770 feet & impounding the same-named lake the U.S. |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $500: Cologne, Germany is one of many historic cities along this great river of Western Europe the Rhine |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $1200: Bill Murray dresses up like the undead to "blend in" in this 2009 film; Woody Harrelson admits that he's a big fan Zombieland |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $1500: (Austin holds a small glass at his bar.) I don't mind you bending my ear like Joe the bartender in a Sinatra classic, & I'll make this title drink, but it's 2022 & I'm not gonna pour you "one more for the road" One for My Baby |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | ENTERTAIN "YOU" $400: In 1964 2 Beatles songs debuted in the U.S. Top 40 a week apart, "Please Please Me" & this song, yeah yeah yeah "She Loves You" |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $800: A 1969 Life cover showed Buzz Aldrin &, mirrored in Buzz' visor, this man who had taken the photo Neil Armstrong |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE LAW $1600: All states have implied consent laws, so applying for a driver's license means agreeing to let police test this your blood alcohol level |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | SYNONYMS $800: Note & beak are both 4-letter synonyms for this 4-letter word bill |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | LOCO FOR LOGOS $400: Makes sense that the B-R in the Baskin-Robbins logo incorporates this 2-digit number 31 |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: It's not exactly the same but for a quick, easy way to make this, combine mayo, garlic & lemon juice aioli |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES $800: Despite the various colors, the circles of this cereal favored by Toucan Sam were found to have the same flavor Froot Loops |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest Cyrillic |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | METALLIC EXPRESSIONS $1600: Fashion model Derek Zoolander gave this name to his trademark look; others include Ferrari & Le Tigre Blue Steel |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | LET'S GO BACK IN TIME MACHINE MOVIES $200: Yeah, baby! this groovy secret agent got back to the '70s in style in a customized Cadillac Eldorado Austin Powers |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | BLOOPERMAN $1000: While doing a take in "Rush Hour 2", this comic gets a real-life call from someone who asks to speak to Jackie Chan Chris Tucker |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SKELETON CREW $3,000 (Daily Double): This bone fits into the acetabulum, the cup-shaped cavity of the hip the femur |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | OUR BRAND'S ON THAT $1600: The 2600 "Video Computer System" for gaming, with a switch to select color or black-&-white TV Atari |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 8-letter word is made up of a prefix from Greek meaning "sharp" & another word that means someone of low intelligence an oxymoron |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $1000: "Are you famous?" asked the kid he rescued from a flipped car near his Malibu home; "Yeah, I'm a doctor"; how McDreamy! Patrick Dempsey |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MISCELLANY $1600: This Greek love goddess is the mom of Phobos & Deimos, "fear" & "terror", so yeah, thanks for that, mom Aphrodite |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $4,000 (Daily Double): 3 of Canada's 4 Atlantic provinces start with "N": Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, this one New Brunswick |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | OUT OF... $200: Any costs you have to fork over yourself, especially medical costs not covered by your health insurance plan out of pocket |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $1200: This "Derek" star tweeted atheists were fighting again "over who doesn't believe in any god the most... wait... that never happens" Ricky Gervais |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1200: They're the 2 bones of your forearm the radius & the ulna |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | ONLINE & TEXTING ABBREV. $2000: eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify explain it to me like I'm 5 |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | PARISH FROM THE EARTH $400: This parish has the same name as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's death St. Helena |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $800: Like her sister Parthenope who was named for Naples, this founder of modern nursing was named for the city of her birth (Florence) Nightingale |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | STATE QUARTERS $1000: Minnesota's quarter displays the years 1858 & 2005 & this other number greater than those 2 10,000 |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | "YA"S $1200: In a deal worth $5 billion, Apollo global management acquired this company from Verizon along with AOL Yahoo |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | THE LYIN' IN WINTER $400: In the Himalayas, you bet we saw the big creature of myth who got this anglicized name from a journalist in the '20s; no pics though the Abominable Snowman |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN? $400: In a 1993 film this actor asks Harvey Fierstein, playing his makeup artist brother, "Could you make me a woman?" Robin Williams |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $400: In 1931 I took an autogiro up to a record 18,415 feet; oh yeah, I wed George Putnam that year too, so y'know... busy Amelia Earhart |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | U.N. RESOLUTIONS $1200: A 1961 General Assembly resolution started the WFP, this anti-hunger "programme" that won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize the World Food Programme |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN? $1600: He got an Oscar nomination for playing soap star Dorothy Michaels Dustin Hoffman |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY & THE MOVIES $1600: Peter O'Toole played "the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum & Bailey" in this epic film set in the Mideast Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | LANDMARK OF THE CITY $200: The memorial seen here, this city Washington, D.C. |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | FICTIONAL PLANETS $400: Infant Kal-El's father & mother send their baby in a rocket away from this planet just as it is about to be destroyed Krypton |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $600: Howard Hill did the archery stunts, including splitting one arrow with another, for 1938's "The Adventures of" him Robin Hood |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ACTION MOVIE! $800: "Yes, Madam" is what we might say to this actress & is one of her Hong Kong action films Michelle Yeoh |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | HOW ARE WE EVEN RELATED? $800: Bridget &
Jane Fonda aunt & niece |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WHAT DID YOU LOSE? $600: Migration after a natural disaster helped make it the only southern state to lose a House seat in the 2010 reapportionment Louisiana |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $1200: Yayoi Kusama is known for immersive exhibits called this math term "Mirror Rooms"; they seem to go on & on infinity |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | JOHN F. KENNEDY $400: JFK, in a speech in Germany on June 26, 1963: "In the world of freedom, the proudest boast is" this 4-word phrase, in the native tongue Ich bin ein Berliner |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $600: The Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation in 2020 was "Good Omens", written by this Brit who also gave us "Coraline" (Neil) Gaiman |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $400: On a family sitcom set in suburbia, it was the last name of brothers Wally & Theodore, who was better known by a nickname Cleaver |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BE VERY QUIET $800: It's the quiet part of a storm; it's also the first syllable of a quiet song that is meant to induce sleep a lull |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | WORLD ISLANDS $800: Santa Cruz Island, home to Charles Darwin Research Station, belongs to this country Ecuador |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE $1000: The Backstreet Boys & this boy band joined forces to usher in 2011
"Yeah, you /
Got the right stuff /
Ha, baby, yeah /
You're the reason why I sing this song /
Come on, y'all! /
Here we go!" New Kids on the Block |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | WORD OF MOUTH $2000: It's that little fleshy cone that hangs down at the back of your mouth, & it's fun to say the uvula |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | OLD WORDS $200: Elflock was tangled this, perhaps mussed by mischievous sprites hair |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | TOOLS $600: Tin is one type of these metal cutters, also found in a list of what little boys are made of snips |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In 1956 Goldie Myerson changed her name & 13 years later became prime minister of this nation Israel |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | A DIFFERENT LOOK AT CHRISTMAS SONGS $1000: A police report would later reveal this title relative "had hoof prints on her forehead & incriminating Claus marks on her back" Grandma |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | SIDEKICKS $800: Shrek says of this sidekick's ability to talk, "Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick!" Donkey |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $800: On April 1, 1963 ABC premiered this soap opera & NBC launched a similar rival, "The Doctors" General Hospital |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $1000: The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battleground despite this mayor's promise of law & order Daley |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $1200: Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014 Sochi |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PRONOUNCE IT THE WAY WE WANT $1000: A serve-yourself food place becomes this hard-hitting word buffet |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $400: I can't put my finger on it; she's got a certain this, literally "I don't know what" in French je ne sais quoi |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $800: She's got this; also the first name of the woman seen here grace |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $1200: Wanting good things for all, she's often described as this, from the Latin for "well wishing" benevolent |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $1600: I'd describe her with this word that means enthralling or fascinating; an old definition of it is "taking prisoner" captivating |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YEAH, BABY, SHE'S GOT IT $2000: Practical & grounded, she's described in this 3-word way & when my head is in the clouds, she "brings me" there down to earth |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | OUT OF THE CRADLE $600: Soft silicate substance talc |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: "Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938" Broadcast |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $400: Many Australians celebrate this holiday in a homegrown way with a chocolate bilby; that's a marsupial Easter |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | LET'S TALK BUSINESS $800: If rate of yield fails to increase in proportion to investment beyond a certain point, you get these declining 2-word profits diminishing returns |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | WORLD CITIES $1600: In 1961 Stalingrad was renamed this, for the river on which it lies Volgograd |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $1600: Dwayne Johnson named a daughter this, also the first Black Disney princess Tiana |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $2,000 (Daily Double): A real-life drama: this Shakespeare contemporary was killed under mysterious circumstances May 30, 1593 Marlowe |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $400: Taiwan-born Jerry Yang co-created Jerry & David's Guide to the World Wide Web, which became this Internet giant! Yahoo! |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | A MORE PERFECT UNION $600: She's had one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon since 1988 Kyra Sedgwick |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: Demetrius is among the many, many casualties by the end & oh yeah... there's cannibalism! Titus Andronicus |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $800: "I think I'm gonna be sad; I think it's today, yeah; the girl that's driving me mad is going away" "Ticket To Ride" |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NAMES IN LITERATURE $1200: In "Gulliver's Travels", some of these greedy & violent humanoids have been tamed by the Houyhnhnms Yahoo(s) |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | INTERNET BUSINESSES $800: This search engine began as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Yahoo! |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | LET'S GET SERIOUS $800: More serious than a correction, in print journalism this 10-letter word is the act of "taking back" a story retraction |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | POP CULTURE $800: Seen here, Anya-Taylor Joy helped make this miniseries one of streaming TV's most successful The Queen's Gambit |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | SHADES OF GREEN $1200: Crayola has as green marker named for this reptile an iguana |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $400: In 2020 he had a No. 1 kids' picture book bestseller with "I Promise"... oh yeah, he also won an NBA title with the Lakers LeBron James |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $200: The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy Willy Wonka |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | NEVER ENOUGH $400: In 2020 the U.S. Mint established a task force over weak circulation of these; empty your old jars, America! pennies (coins) |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | IN-CAR-CERATED $800: On SR-91, also known as "Florida's" this toll road, it's 49 miles between exits, Yeehaw Junction to Kissimmee/St. Cloud the Florida Turnpike |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | TIGER $1000: Green Destiny is the name of a renowned sword in this film that starred Chow Yun-fat & Michelle Yeoh Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $600: Joaquin Phoenix to Scarlett Johansson: "Are you talking to anyone else right now...? --Yeah. --How many others? --8,316" Her |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | FORMER WEBSITES $200: Altavista was a groundbreaking one of these; then it was gobbled up by Yahoo! a search engine |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: In 1842 an act of Parliament outlawed child labor at these extraction sites (coal) mines |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | GUITARS & DRUMS $1000: Many a rock guitarist plays this classic Gibson guitar named for its legendary designer Les Paul |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $1000: The song "Poison Ivy" says, "You're gonna need an ocean of" this lotion calamine |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $800: (Tom Rodgers of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Camden Yards opened in 1992, masterly rehabilitating a warehouse of this historic railroad familiar to players of Monopoly The B&O Railroad |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | STEM $800: (Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Marissa Mayer studied AI tech at Stanford before designing the search interface for this company's home page; she'd go on to lead Yahoo! Google |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | A "KID" IN $400: This boy band began with a city-wide talent search in Boston the New Kids on the Block |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | MIXED BAG $1600: A new stamp in 2020 celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of this number amendment the 19th Amendment |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | PROS & CONS $800: Advancement by a society & an assembly of representatives progress & congress |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | GADGET $600: No more cords! These Pro earbuds from Apple are wireless, noise-cancelling & water resistant AirPod Pros |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | A REAL PRIZE $600: In 2015 malaria researcher Tu Youyou became the first winner of this prize since 1988 with no doctorate or medical degree the Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | MOVIE QUOTES $1600: "Here we go, Wilson! You don't have to worry about anything, I'll do all the paddling" Cast Away |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | A SERIOUSLY FLUFFY CATEGORY $400: As you can see, the Japanese type of this breakfast item is a bit fluffier than the Yank version a pancake |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | 2-WORD TV TITLES $1000: Nadia Vulvokov is caught in a time loop in this acclaimed Netflix series Russian Doll |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TREE OF A KIND $100 (Daily Double): Rainbow,
yellow gum,
Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | BEHIND THE VOICES $800: Frank Simms tried to sound like a mix of Barry White & David Lee Roth when saying "Oh yeah!" in ads for this drink brand Kool-Aid |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnold about four hours, ropeless and using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitan in this national park Yosemite |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | THE SISTERS SISTERS $600: Last name of the twins whose retail biz is a billion-dollar brand & oh yeah, they have a movie star sister the Olsens |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | NEW TO THE OED $800: This word for a content creator on a certain video-sharing site, such as Yuya (beauty) or Moriah Elizabeth (crafts) a YouTuber |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY $1200: The prostate medicine Finasteride was found to have this side effect, so it is now also used under the brand name Propecia hair growth |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY $1600: Stay seated when you donate blood & get up slowly--a common side effect is syncope, aka this fainting |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | DOCUSERIES $800: Part 5 of this CNN series about the royal family is titled "The Princess, the Prince and the Press" The Windsors |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | RESTAURANT RHYMES $2000: A 1950s dance party at a place the 18-wheeler drivers go a truck stop sock hop |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SAND PAINTING $2000: Australian Charles Conder took a lot from Impressionism like painting his works here, French for outdoors plein-air |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | ACM AWARDS $2000: New Female Vocalist of the Year for 2015, she literally sparkled at the awards in 2017 when she sang "Yeah Boy" Kelsea Ballerini |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | SOME QUARTER GIVEN $200: Georgia's 25-cent piece offers "Wisdom", "Justice", "Moderation" & oh yeah, this fruit, naturally a peach |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education" Scholastic |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | THE ARCHIES $800: Dad to 2 other star quarterbacks, he played most of his NFL career with the Saints Archie Manning |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | PLANT (ON) THE FLAG $200: One of the world's most recognizable, this nation's flag features a solitary maple leaf Canada |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | I'M YOUR NEW PERSONAL TRAINER! $800: Reclining hero pose! Into corpse pose! Oh yeah, you bet we're going heavy on this 4-letter discipline right now! yoga |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | MOVIE MONSTERS $2000: Based on a 1960 Hugo award-winning novel, this movie starred Casper van Dien & Denise Richards as soldiers fighting insect-like aliens Starship Troopers |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LYRICS OF TODAY $400: "Yeah, I'm gonna take my horse to" this title place, "I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more" "Old Town Road" |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LYRICS OF TODAY $800: She demanded, "Break up with your girlfriend, yeah, yeah, 'cause I'm bored" Ariana Grande |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | HEY, THAT'S FANCY! $200: A 6-course meal with this thermidor--tails with the meat removed, chopped & combined with a bechamel--yeah, that'll work! lobster |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | PAY UP $800: You'll need a million dollars plus to own a 918 Spyder from this manufacturer Porsche |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | SIPPIN' ON GIN &/OR JUICE $600: This drink with a man's full name has lemon juice, sugar, club soda, a cherry, an orange slice & oh yeah, gin a Tom Collins |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIO ACTIVE $400: This apathetic Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber title precedes "when I'm with my baby, yeah" "I Don't Care" |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | A NOVEL PASSAGE $800: "The report spread of a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm" Gulliver's Travels |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | ANAGRAMS OF LEAST $400: Yeah, he's fast, but can he hit? After all, "you can't" do this to "first base" steal |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | NEAT ANIMAL STUFF $1200: The German type of these, which many predict will survive Armageddon, are becoming nearly impossible to kill with chemicals cockroaches |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Aunt Chloe is married to the title character of this 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | A ROLE FOR THE DIRECTOR $1600: Director Sydney Pollack played Dustin Hoffman's exasperated agent in this 1982 comedy Tootsie |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | GOT A DeVITO $1000: The poster for this film Danny made with Schwarzenegger said, "Only their mother can tell them apart" Twins |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | NUMBER YOUR RESPONSE $800: One made by Colt starting in 1873 is Arizona's state firearm .45 |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | PHRASE HISTORY $800: 1970s Budget Director Bert Lance got people saying "If it ain't broke", this don't fix it |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | U.S. REPRESENTATIVES $400: Deb Haaland of the Laguna Pueblo & Sharice Davids of the Ho-chunk Nation are the first women of this group in Congress indigenous women |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | DISPUTED TERRITORIES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland, is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there & leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag & leaves bottles of aquavit Denmark |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee Courtney Love |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | "G"EOGRAPHY $400: Lambeau knows this 118-mile-long inlet that receives the waters of the Fox River Green Bay |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | THE GREATEST OF ALL MINDS $8,400 (Daily Double): This German developed calculus independent of another wise guy Leibniz |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | GREATEST OF ALL TIME TRAVELERS $200: In Stephen King's "11/22/63", Jake Epping travels back in time to prevent this event from ever happening the Kennedy assassination |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | TASTE THE RAINBOW $400: This brand of canned & frozen veggies offers steamcrisp corn niblets Green Giant |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | SURROUNDED! $1200: This peninsula: by the Yellow Sea, the Tsushima Strait & the Sea of Japan the Korean Peninsula |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PEACEFUL WORDS $600: In music, pianissimo means very this softly (*very quiet) |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) While Greece is the southernmost country of the Balkan Peninsula, the southernmost part of mainland Greece is this other peninsula where ancient Sparta was located the Peloponnesian |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK! $200: In November 2018 fights broke out at a Houston-area bank when one of these began doling out $100s instead of $10s an ATM |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | ENTREPRENHEIRS $600: Yeah yeah yeah, her dad is a musician of note but it was she who was VH1/Vogue Designer of the Year in 2000 Stella McCartney |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Aloha! These nuts are full of vitamins and fat macadamias |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $400: This 1818 novel has been adapted as a ballet with an experimentalist named Victor & the discovery of galvanism Frankenstein |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | IDIOMS DELIGHT $800: It's one of these elaborate presentations a dog and pony show |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | DELIVER THE LETTER $1000: It comes before "-value" to indicate the strength of evidence in some experiments, or before "-hacking" if data are manipulated P |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE EASTERN CONFERENCE $1000: His move to the NBA's Eastern Conference paid off as he led Toronto to the 2019 title & was named Finals MVP Leonard |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $400: Jack Skellington from Halloween Town tries to take over a holiday that's later in the year Christmas |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $800: During WWII 2 sisters join the first professional baseball league for women Own |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $1000: This funnyman got some respect going "Back to School" at Grand Lakes U., I tell ya Rodney Dangerfield |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | 2 LETTERS, SECOND IS K $1600: It was the former stock symbol of the company now listed as KODK EK |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | GEOGRAPHIC TRIOS $2000: India's Golden Triangle is Delhi, Jaipur, and this city that has, perhaps, the country's best known landmark Agra |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | CANADIAN TV SHOWS $800: After witnessing the death of her double, a hustler is drawn into a clone-spiracy on this drama Orphan Black |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | I GRANT YOU 5 FISHES $400: Sharing a name with a colorful bird, this fish can change its sex during its life, but talking?--not so much parrot |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | LETTER IMPERFECT $1200: The old East Coast accent like Katharine Hepburn's or William F. Buckley's was marked by dropping this letter R |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | MNEMONICS $800: It has atomic number 19, it's essential to life, but how to spell it? Oh yeah, "one tea, 2 sugars" potassium |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique a dad bod |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | N.Y. TV $400: Did the rich prep school kid kill that guy? For 20 years, cops like Jerry Orbach said, yeah, probably, on this NBC show Law & Order |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | A LIL RAP CATEGORY $800: He's known for "Turn Down for What" as well as Dave Chappelle's impression of him; Yeeeeeeah! How was mine? Close? Lil Jon |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | "GOLD" RECORDS $2000: Striking it rich in love, Colbie Caillat sings, "Feels like we're sittin' on top of" this "yeah, our love is" this a goldmine |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IT'S HARBOR DAY! $600: On Dec. 16, 1773 the locals decided to give this harbor an unusual bit of pollution, & the world would never be the same Boston Harbor |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $2,400 (Daily Double): Fungi & algae combo
(6) lichen |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: Much of Venezuela's oil has come from the basin of this lake, the country's largest Lake Maracaibo |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | BEATLES SONGS BY LYRIC $400: "And maybe I'll love you, beep beep mm beep beep yeah!" Baby, you can "Drive My Car" |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THE SPINACH ACQUISITION $800: Each day Berghoff's restaurant in Chicago makes a giant cauldron of delicious spinach in this form creamed spinach |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $1200: They rocked at the 2016 Awards in celebration of their farewell tour & the 35th anniversary of their biggest hit
"'Cause they got the beat, they got the beat, they got the beat, yeah, they got the beat..." the Go-Go's |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | ANIMAL ROCKS $400: A rock in Mongolia is named for its resemblance to one of these reptiles--oh yeah, I see the shell a turtle |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU! $400: Before his untimely death, he helped popularize martial arts movies Bruce Lee |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $200: On damnyouautothis.com: "Do you think Leonardo diva person will win an Oscar...Leonardo fixation...Lombardo DiCaprio" correct |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $400: Get the sensation when you click on the York peppermint patty link at this Pennsylvania-based company's site Hershey |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $600: On YouTube, a little girl asks for help after trying this Japanese version of horseradish for the first time wasabi |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $800: A dialysis section at the site for the AKF, or American this Fund, recommends a diet limiting potassium & sodium kidney |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | YEAH, WE SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $1000: In 2015 Funny or Die had a picture of a storefront sign of this tech chain; many letters were fritzed out but "adioS" remained Radio Shack |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ON PINS & NEEDLES $2000: It's a near-cylindrical bowling pin that can be set up on either end, & yeah, folks sure can get lit while playing a candlepin |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | LEGAL TERMS $600: Yeah, there was no intention to kill or do grievous bodily harm, so we'll plead to this "2", the negligent or involuntary type manslaughter |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Grammatically, the song title "You Are Loved By Her, Yeah Yeah Yeah" would be in this voice passive |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "Y" $1000: Brute in "Gulliver's Travels"
(5) a Yahoo |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | ERAS & AGES $800: --Hey, Dante!
--Yeah, Petrarch!
--It's almost 1300. Time to start this "rebirth" the Renaissance |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | FBI AGENT NON-DISQUALIFIERS $800: Outstanding these; at the New York Public Library, they're 25 cents a day for a book, $3 for a DVD late fees (or fines) |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | PLANT-ED EVIDENCE $1,800 (Daily Double): Ancient Egyptians got a lot of out of this water plant:
cloth, mats, sails & oh yeah, material on which to write papyrus |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | TAXONOMY $1200: Taxonomically, this variety of oak tree is Quercus alba a white oak |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | RECENT CINEMA $200: Joonas Suotamo stepped into Peter Mayhew's large, large shoes to play this hairy fella in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" Chewbacca |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | THAT SONG SOUNDS FAMILIAR $2000: The yodeling "yeah yeah" from this Canadian punk girl's "I'm With You" was used in "Cheers" by Rihanna (Avril) Lavigne |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | CRIMINOLOGY $400: U.S. v. Ash said suspects don't have the right to one of these during pretrial review of mug shots by witnesses an attorney |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | HERE COMES THE SONG TITLE! $200: "You made me feel, yeah, you made me feel shiny and new... hoo!" this way "Like a Virgin" |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOOD & DRINK $200: Oh, yeah! This non-carbonated beverage is Nebraska's state soft drink Kool-Aid |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | FAMILY TIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Ivan's repudiation of God looms large in this Dostoyevsky work The Brothers Karamazov |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | HUGS & KISSES $2000: The photo here was taken August 14, 1945, the day this was announced the end of World War II or V-J Day |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | WORDS FOR YOUR DOG $400: It was a verb meaning to grind into small bits before it was a noun for dog food pellets kibble |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | THE MEDICAL FILE OF ALEX TREBEK $800: I'm not one of the writers, but sure enough developed this wrist condition due to pressure on the median nerve carpal tunnel |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $1200: Wet cultivation of this crop marks the start of Japan's Yayoi Period rice |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | PATTERN RECOGNITION $800: If you like these little solid circles, visit the Tokyo Museum of Yayoi Kusama, the queen of them polka dots |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | BRICK BY BRICK $600: This Lionel Richie group sang, "She's a brick house, yeah, she's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon" The Commodores |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | THE T LEAVES $400: To speak something out impulsively scares off the T & turns into this word, to obscure by smearing blur |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $2000: In a Delibes ballet, Dr. Coppelius is a toymaker & the title character Coppelia is one of these doll |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | CELEBRITY POSSESSIVES $800: "Mission: Impossible" star's pleasure trip aboard a boat Tom's cruise |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic Mary Shelley |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | DESIGNER INITIALS $600: We love her, yeah, yeah, yeah:
S.M. Stella McCartney |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | JIVE TALKIN' $1000: Speaking in a roundabout way is this, from the Latin for around & speak circumlocution |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | DEEP LYRICS $2000: "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, yeah, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle wiggle, wiggle, yeah" LMFAO |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | THE FLIES OF THE LORD $1000: This prophet AKA Yesha'yahu says, "The Lord shall hiss for the fly" in the rivers of Egypt Isaiah |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | FOOD FRANCHISES $600: Oh yeah, I'll have a blast at this franchised drive-in that once promised "service at the speed of sound" Sonic |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Calormen--it's south of a more famous land C. S. Lewis |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TALKIN' FOOTBALL $200: Your choice: do or don't name this play in which the QB runs the ball & can choose to pitch it to another back option play |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TOTALLY METAL, DUDE $800: Of all metals, it has the greatest ductility & reflects heat rays the best, so yeah, it's a pretty valuable thing to have gold |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | ANIMALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the giant shipworm on the monitor.) The giant shipworm comes out of its shell, & the bacteria inside allow it to digest the sulfur compound in the mud around it; it's not actually a worm, but from this shelled phylum mollusk |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IT'S A LIVING $600: A specialized job in a police force, CSI stands for this, just like on TV crime scene investigator ("crime scene investigation" accepted) |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $200: Bawck! At the 2016 Natl. Bird Show, this made up Division 12! Bawck! At the 2016 Natl. Bird Show, this made up Division 12! a parrot |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $200: Over 5 feet long, one of these in Stirling, Scotland is claimed to be the personal weapon of 13th c. Scottish leader Wm. Wallace a sword |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CARD GAMES $600: This game similar to Go Fish was originally played with special cards featuring pictures of famous writers Authors |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1600: A russet harlequin has collapsed brown clown down |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $600: Yeah, if you could go ahead & tell me this movie where alumnus Gary Cole played Bill Lumbergh, that'd be great Office Space |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | FASHION: 1900 TO 1950 $1000: Get your knickers in a twist or really get 'em baggy like these numeric golfing pants of the '20s plus fours |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE $1600: Paul's first epistle to this Greek city's church says widows may remarry Corinth |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | OHIO $400: This NHL team's name celebrates Ohio's contribution to the winning side in the Civil War Blue Jackets |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | CANADIAN NATIONAL PARKS $400: Bottle of rum or not, British Columbia's Yoho National Park has amazing views of this mountain range the Rockies |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN IN THE PARK $200: A curse! a curse of a Babe, I say, was placed in 1920 upon the team calling this park home; 84 yrs. of futility, hence! Fenway Park |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | VIDEO GAMES $400: "The Dog Policeman" is the theme that lets you know it's time for this game--don't croak! Frogger |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S LIEBERMAN! $200: He was majority leader of the Connecticut Senate from 1975 to 1981 Joe Lieberman |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THAT'S MY JOB! $7,400 (Daily Double): Flueologist a chimney sweep |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $200: Oh yeah, Nietzsche & Freud come up in the "Guilt and Shame" philosophy course at this Rhode Island school Brown |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) Robert F. Kennedy wanted JFK buried under a simple wooden cross; that was overruled, but when he died, Robert, a World War II veteran of this same service as his brother Jack, got the humble monument he desired the Navy |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | ASIAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS $1600: This part-Korean singer who goes by a name & an initial fronts the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Karen O. |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | ALTERNATIVE FACTS $5,000 (Daily Double): The 18th c. had the phlogiston theory of combustion; Lavoisier subbed in the theory of this newly discovered gas oxygen |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | A 5-STAR SCHOOL LUNCH $800: Why, Lunchlady Doris, your version of this 2-word pricey boneless cut of beef from the tenderloin... mwah! filet mignon |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | WHAT '80s MOVIE IS THAT SONG FROM? $400: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life":
don't put it in the corner Dirty Dancing |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | WHAT '80s MOVIE IS THAT SONG FROM? $2000: "I'm Alright":
a Cinderella story Caddyshack |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | TV TITLE PARTNERS $200: "____ & Mindy" Mork |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | COMMON BONDS $400: Yahweh,
Elohim,
Allah gods |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | 5-"H" $800: Yeehaw! It's a type of lively square dance or a festive hootenanny where it might be performed a hoedown |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT $600: I'll put together 2 4-letter words & add the English accent for this Austin Powers catchphrase "Yeah, baby" |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | KILLER CARS $1200: In this movie, Clark Griswold must explain to an officer why there is a dogless leash tied to the back of the family car National Lampoon's Vacation |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | LET'S RAP, KIDS! $400: "They mad they ain't famous, they mad they still nameless... but we still hood famous, yeah, we still hood famous" Kanye West |
| #7470, aired 2017-02-17 | SOCIOLOGY $400: Of a third, half or two-thirds, the approximate fraction of American adults with at least a bachelor's degree a third |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | NEWS ON THE SCREEN $2000: In 2014 Katie Couric became global anchor of this email, search & news website Yahoo! |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | 1960s POP LYRICS $600: "Every other day of the week is fine, yeah, but whenever" this day "comes, you can find me cryin' all of the time" Monday, Monday |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $800: (Thorsten Kaye and Jacob Young give the clue as Ridge Forrester and Rick Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"I'm running this company now, not you."
"Ridge, you're just Iike this son of a river god who gazed longingly at his own reflection & died alone & unloved" Narcissus |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | BUSINESS $800: In 1999, this shark & a pal sold their broadcast.com to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion (Mark) Cuban |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | WHO FIRST SANG THOSE WORDS? $200: "Yeah I know that I let you down, is it too late to say I'm sorry now?" Justin Bieber |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | SCHOOLING YOU $200: Spanish:
It's how to say "river";
some are "Grande" rio |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | BORN IN THE '90s $400: You saw some wild moves & costumes if you caught her "Bangerz" tour Miley Cyrus |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $600 (Daily Double): A Wyoming peak was named for this man soon after his 1924 death; there are said to be 14 points on its ridges Woodrow Wilson |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | ADVERTISING $2,600 (Daily Double): One ad in the Clio Hall of Fame is the 1993 "got milk?" commercial named for this man born in 1756 Aaron Burr |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | LIKE A ROCK $1,000 (Daily Double): The object of a pursuit, such as a hunted animal quarry |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED $1200: Yeah, you could always charm Elizabeth I, but disobeying James I & attacking the Spanish in 1618? Bad move. You're fired Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $800: In 1524 this Italian made it to the mouth of the Cape Fear River; there was no bridge named for him there, though Verrazzano |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $1000: Saskatchewan Regina |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE $6,400 (Daily Double): Songs from this musical based on a 1968 film included "Haben Sie Gehoert Das Deutsche Band?" & "Where Did We Go Right?" The Producers |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HISTORIC OOPSIES $200: During WWII the British sent known Communist Klaus Fuchs to the U.S. to work on this; soon he introduced the USSR to a fat man the nuclear bomb (the atomic bomb) |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HORROR TV $1600: On "The Twilight Zone" episode "To Serve Man", the aliens' intentions are revealed, as "it's" this kind of book! a cookbook |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | U.S. COINS $600: This letter on U.S. coins indicates that the coin was minted in the "Mile High City" D |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | WHERE DO YOU WEAR IT? $400: Kid, as in a familiar expression on your hands |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | WORLD AIRPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Tenzing-Hillary airport in this country is 9,200 feet above sea level Nepal |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHO ORDERED THE MAMMAL? $5,200 (Daily Double): All the living examples of the order Proboscidea are these elephants |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | U.S. CODE TALKING $600: Title 2, Sec. 4901: "A person shall not serve as" one of these "of the Senate before he has attained the age of 16 years" a page |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | BEVERAGE BRANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): John McLaughlin created this brand of ginger ale in Toronto in 1904 Canada Dry |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | DRAW YOUR "GUN" $1000: This word for the upper edges of the sides of a boat isn't pronounced as it looks a gunwale |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | NICE LONG DANES $800: In 1012 Danish marauders under Thorkell the Tall seized England's Archbishop of this & brutally beat him with steak bones Canterbury |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | DIRTY BIRDS $1000: Yeah, baby! This "C" bird that produces guano, valued as fertilizer, is also called a shag the cormorant |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | NAME THE SPIN-OFF SOURCE $1200: "Snooki & JWoww" Jersey Shore |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE $800: You dilute a solution by watering it down; you do this to your pupils, 1 letter different, by making them expand dilate |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | JUST THE FACTS $600: The Carolina Panther who was the first NFL rookie to pass for over 4,000 yards Cam Newton |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1996:
"Shut up--just shut up. You had me at hello" Jerry Maguire |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY $1000: Marc Andreessen tweeted, "Marissa Mayer is a hero for taking on the challenge at" this.com! Yahoo |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | FINISH THE LITERARY LINE $400: "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to..." do and die |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | BESTSELLERS $400: When it was finally published in the U.S. in 1959, this D.H. Lawrence novel promptly became a bestseller Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | I'M INNOCENT $400: The word "legit" has lost these 5 letters I-M-A-T-E |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | THERE'S CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US $600: From 1947 to 1951, after graduating from Oxford, she worked as a research chemist before becoming a world leader Thatcher |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | ME & MY LITERARY ARROW $1200: In "The Inheritors" by William Golding, Lok is one of these humanoids, doomed after meeting bow-&-arrow-toting modern man a Neanderthal |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | GOOD WORKOUT SONGS $600: Get pumped with this DJ Snake & Lil Jon megahit "Turn Down For What" |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | TEXAS HISTORY $200: In 1901 Beaumont, Texas saw the birth of this industry at Spindletop & the fortunes of the state were changed forever oil & gas |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | NAMESAKES $400: (Hi, I'm Ginger Zee of Good Morning America.) My dad grew up in the Netherlands & learned English by watching this sitcom; I'm named for Ginger but I think I'm more of a Mary Ann Gilligan's Island |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | 2015 CONGRESS FOLK $200: The process was... interesting--yeah, that's the word--but in the end, this man became Speaker of the House in 2015 (Paul) Ryan |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: This mechanical device for lifting or hauling has a drum around which a cable is wound a winch |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | IT'S THE BERRIES $200: This berry flavors the part of Neapolitan ice cream that's left after the other 2 parts are eaten strawberry |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | NON-POTENT POTABLES $400: "Oh, yeahhh!" Artificially fruit-flavored & made from powder, it's the state soft drink of Nebraska Kool-Aid |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | GALLANTLY STREAMING TV $200: In 2015 Yahoo! began streaming this former NBC series about Jeff, Abed & their higher learning gang Community |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | AVENGERS IN OTHER ROLES $600: We won't shield you from the fact he played "Harvard Hottie" in "The Nanny Diaries" Chris Evans |
| #7215, aired 2016-01-15 | TURN ON YOUR T-V $800: In 1920 Gimbels in Philadelphia staged a parade of about 50 people on this holiday Thanksgiving |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WISCONSIN $200: On the state seal a miner & a sailor support a shield on top of which is this animal badger |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | UNUSUAL ANIMALS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) The flying snake can glide short distances by undulating to maintain balance as they come down & flattening the tiny plates called these on its skin scales |
| #7208, aired 2016-01-06 | WHAT'S THE "‑OLOGY"? $400: Professor Gerald Cohen, an expert on word origins, edits a learned journal called "Comments On" this etymology |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | WE 3 "ING"S $800: All beginning with "C", the 3 ways to win in rock, paper, scissors are crushing, covering, & this cutting |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | PALACES $3,000 (Daily Double): Ponder the tragic life of Crown Prince Rudolf in his lavish suite in this capital's Schonbrunn Palace Vienna |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | "IFY" SEE YOU AGAIN $1000: To pacify someone by appeasing his anger or anxiety mollify |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | PHOTOGRAPHY $300 (Daily Double): There's a camera part in this brand that turns a smartphoneful of vacation photos into a keepsake book Shutterfly |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | "IT" IS A SONG $2000: Snoop Dogg recorded a new version of this song in 2012 to promote Hot Pockets "Drop It Like It's Hot" |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES $400: He could put the bad guys in a trance with a swing of his pocket watch, which actually sounds pretty nifty Hypnotizer |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | FALLING OFF A LOG $1000: It's on the log, off the log, over & over, if you're this type of ant, whose name you can guess by what they're carrying leafcutter ant |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | FASHION $200: An obi is a broad one of these traditionally worn with a kimono a sash |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIPLES $1600: Ailey,
Cowell &
Bikel Alvin, Simon & Theodore |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | TEXTING ACRONYMS $1000: YOYO:
I'm out of here, so... you're on your own |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | FOOD & DRINK $1000: It's the "national" name for the coffee maker aka a plunger pot French press |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | SAME LETTER BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END $400: It's a storage place for water, dog reservoir |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG $1200: 1966:
"Last Train To Clarksville" The Monkees |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | TODAY'S TENNIS STARS $400: (I'm Andy Murray.) I'm the reigning Olympic singles tennis champion, winning gold at the games hosted by this city London |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $400: This "Father of Texas" has 2 Texas colleges named for him, one in Sherman & one in Nacogdoches Austin |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | OUR MISTAKE! $2,000 (Daily Double): Yeah, maybe our campaign staff shouldn't have advised this man to do a 1988 photo op atop an M1 tank Michael Dukakis |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | NAMES FOR YOUR DOG $400: If it's black & white, how about Tuxedo or this, the name of Nabisco's classic sandwich cookie Oreo |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | LIBRARIES $800: The 11,000-sq.-ft. library of Florida Polytechnic University, opened in 2014, is notable for having none of these books |
| #7099, aired 2015-06-25 | INDOOR & OUTDOOR CATS $3,000 (Daily Double): As of 2013 there were said to be about 300 left of the Iberian this, which would also like to buy a vowel, Pat a lynx |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | BASKETBALL: SCREEN & ROLE $2000: In a 1978 pilot, coach Ken Howard: "I'll be behind you every step of the way"; Kevin Hooks: "Yeah, like a" this title phrase a white shadow |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | SPOT THE IM‑PASTA $400: Manicotti,
mineola,
mostaccioli Mineola |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | HUMAN ENDEAVOR $5,000 (Daily Double): His 1753 work "Species Plantarum" provided binomial names for all known species of plants Carolus Linnaeus |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A VISIT WITH KATIE COURIC $400: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In January 2015 my associates at Yahoo! & I delivered real time analysis of this presidential speech that's mandated by Article II of the Constitution the State of the Union address |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | EXPLORATION $9,000 (Daily Double): Working for Russia, in 1696 the Cossack Vladimir Atlasov explored this peninsula the Kamchatka Peninsula |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FIX THE FAMOUS QUOTATION $800: "Luck is the barbecue of design" residue |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | POP CULTURE $1000: Emma Thompson introduced Hugh Laurie to this comedy partner, also the host of a British TV show called "QI" Stephen Fry |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BIBLE MVPs $800: Jesus loved him enough to raise him from the dead in John 11 Lazarus |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | "VO"CABULARY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the sound recording booth while femme fatale Kelly walks into frame in the studio.) Big in film noir, it's the sound technique we're using here
"I knew Kelly was trouble the minute she walked into the room." a voiceover |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song "1999" |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $2,000 (Daily Double): ...of U.S. presidents by first name Zachary Taylor |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | NEW ENDINGS FOR CLASSIC LIT $1000: "...and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes". Then again no maybe not I don't think so I said no Ulysses |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | ASIAN AMERICANS $800: Jerry Yang put an exclamation point on co-founding this web directory in 1994; these days, Jerry's worth about $2.2 billion Yahoo! |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | DON'T L ME $800: It's a color on Israel's flag white |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | LETTER-WORD $2000: Yeah, decided to go here, take courses in entrepreneurial finance & marketing strategy, graduate & make a few mil B-school |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LITER $1000: Is this an IQ test? Amazon sells a 1-liter bottle of this "vapor distilled" glaceau brand for $1.90--plus $8.99 shipping Smartwater |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $600: When we say someone let out a stream of Anglo-Saxon words, we usually mean he used this type of word cursing |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | MOVIE TAGLINES $200: 2003:
"There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one" Finding Nemo |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | MUSICAL SHE'S $600: "She's got it, yeah, baby, she's got it" "Venus" |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | QUEEN VICTORIA $800: Not always stuffy, Vicki saw this duo's "The Gondoliers" & beat time to the song "Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen" Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | TV TEACHERS $1000: You could say hola to Senor Chang, a Spanish teacher on this NBC sitcom that has since moved its campus to Yahoo! Community |
| #6996, aired 2015-02-02 | HARD ROCKERS $2000: "Girls, girls, girls... long legs & burgundy lips, girls, girls, girls... dancin' down on the Sunset Strip... girls, girls, girls" Motley Crue |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "D" BRIEFING $400: A bad way to get to the hospital:
DOA dead on arrival |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | I AM A MAN OF SCIENCE! $1,000 (Daily Double): He didn't carry a blue security blanket when he won a Chemistry Nobel for research on the nature of chemical bonds Linus Pauling |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $1200: Tomas Mosciatti of CNN Chile is known as the Chilean this long-time interviewer Larry King |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | OUT, -LET $800: A portion of veal turns into one share of the loot cutlet & cut |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $2,400 (Daily Double): Arkansas' Hot Springs average 143 degrees; presumably these Oklahoma springs are 69 degrees hotter Boiling Springs |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $400: The Rolling Stones:
"(But I Like It)" "It's Only Rock 'N' Roll" |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $800: 1961:
"W.S.S.", see the Jets soar West Side Story |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | STAR-STRUCK $2000: From the Latin for "nearest" comes the name of this star that's the closest to Earth (oh yeah, after the Sun) Proxima Centauri |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | NAME THE DECADE $1,000 (Daily Double): The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is created the 1930s |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | CHEMISTRY $1200: A base receives these subatomic particles; acids give them up protons (hydrogen ions accepted) |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | CELEBS $800: It's the first name that finishes a brotherly singing trio: Nick, Joe & him Kevin |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $400: The current vice president's last name B-I-D-E-N |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | VOCABULARY $2000: This 5-letter word for a brute was coined for "Gulliver's Travels"; now it's the name of a website Yahoo |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | CHICK LIT $600: It's the "fowl" moral of a fable about a milkmaid who spills her pail before she can sell it & realize her dreams don't count your chickens before they hatch |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | MEDIA $600: TV wasn't around for long before the joke started that it's a medium because it's neither rare nor this well done |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | TWITTER FEEDS $400: In 2011, after a 7-year breakup, this doll couple announced on Twitter that they were back together Ken & Barbie |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | TIME FOR A FLAT CIRCLE $200: Oahu's Mac 24/7 challenge? Eat 3 of these batter-fried items, maybe topped with blueberries, in 90 minutes; oh yeah, each is 14" a pancake |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | WORKING ON THE RAILROAD $1200: A go-devil is another word for one of these human-powered railroad trolleys handcars |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | "MAC" OR "P.C." $400: This vehicle is also called a "black & white" a police cruiser |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | COMPLETE THE LYRIC $1000: Paramore:
"Yeah, after all this time I'm still ____ ____" "into you" |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | "CC" ME $400: Want to go faster? Step on it! accelerate |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1895 he began sending & receiving wireless signals as far as 1.5 miles at his father's home near Bologna, Italy Marconi |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | HEADLINE NEWS $400: In January 1949 it was front-page news in the L.A. Times that this "Falls for Third Night, Tangling... Traffic" Snow |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | SYNONYMS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Apex" is from the Latin; this 4-letter synonym is from the Greek for "point" acme |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS $1000: OOUU Honolulu |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE HAIR APPARENT $1000: Yeah, baby! Let's do this 4-letter 'do, cut in slightly uneven, overlapping layers downward from the crown a shag |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | LAKES & RIVERS $10,200 (Daily Double): Sharing the name of a city, it's the largest lake entirely within a Canadian province Lake Winnipeg |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | MEDICAL TERMS $10,200 (Daily Double): Doctors use this 5-letter term for swelling or bloating in the body due to an excess build-up of fluid edema |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | COMMON BONDS $800: Egos,
the economy,
an air mattress get inflated |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The George W. Bush Presidential Library is on the campus of this university SMU (Southern Methodist) |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | MAKE YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $1200: The + our 9th president's last name + a "diplomatic" term for a correct method of medical treatment The Harrison Protocol |
| #6834, aired 2014-05-08 | INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS $800: For the naturalist who discussed his theory of evolution in "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" 400 (= CD) |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | ARMY BRATS $400: RG2 was stationed on Okinawa when this son & future football star was born R(obert) Griffin III |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | KNOW YOUR CAR $600: Changing out this gasket that's used to seal an engine block can improve overall engine performance the head gasket |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | THE 5 FAMILIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Original surname of the first & third prime ministers of India Nehru |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | STATE SCHOOLS $1,200 (Daily Double): This u. boasts "mesas to the west... the banks of the historic Rio Grande (&) the Sandia Mountains to the east" University of New Mexico |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | FOOD LABELING $400: The "% daily value" label for this element is based on a recommended maximum of 2,400 milligrams a day sodium |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | STATUES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's no fairy tale--in 2013 this beloved Danish statue celebrated her 100th birthday the Little Mermaid |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | WHAT A "GAL" $1000: This area, though culturally unified for thousands of years, is now politically divided between two countries Bengal |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $800: Jacket worn when transporting billys & nannys in a launch goat coat boat (or boat goat coat) |
| #6804, aired 2014-03-27 | SHAKESPEARE REWRITES THE BEATLES $400: "The lady is enamored of thee, verily, verily, verily" "She Loves You" |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | GIVE ME A SIGN $200: Check it out--the sign here indicates one of these is nearby a library |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Yeah, man, (the rug) really tied the room together" The Big Lebowski |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | SO SAD $400: In a 1988 hit, Poison lamented that "Every Rose Has" one of these thorn |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings Colombo |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: In the 19th century Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis "gave birth" to antisepsis in this medical field obstetrics |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | MOVIE MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: 2007:
"Good Morning Baltimore" &
"Welcome To The '60s" Hairspray |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | WHAT DO I STAND FOR? $3,000 (Daily Double): In BVI, including Tortola Islands |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Camden College is the setting for "The Rules of Attraction" by this 3-named chronicler of amoral youth Bret Easton Ellis |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | WEBSITES $200: You'll need an exclamation point to spell this website, America's largest e-mail provider Yahoo! |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: In 1863 he put out a book originally titled "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" Jules Verne |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | 1980s BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Drug-fueled debauchery in New York City takes up much of this Jay McInerney debut novel Bright Lights, Big City |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | RHYMING SONG TITLES $1600: Shirley Ellis:
"Shirley! Shirley Shirley bo birley, bonana fanna fo firley" "The Name Game" |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | HEAD FOR THE BORDERS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) It's bordered by nine countries, the most
for any African nation. It also has one of the continent's wordiest names Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | WORD PUZZLES $200: It takes your belongings to a new home a moving van |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in viewers' minds when Stanley Kubrick played the situation for laughs in this 1964 classic Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WHO PLAYED THE SNL CHARACTER? $1200: Linda Richman--"Talk amongst yourselves" Mike Myers |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: In 2013 the annual August tribute week to him in Memphis included a Graceland trivia tour Elvis |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | GOING EMILY POST‑AL $400: When a man & a woman are sharing one of these, the one who holds it is the one who's taller an umbrella |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $1200: (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) I founded DealBook, a Times Financial blog that covers stories like this company's aquisition of Tumblr, which we called "putting the exclamation point back in the company name" Yahoo! |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | WICKED $1000: Fiyero here--I've been the love interest of both Elphaba & Galinda for 10 years, since the show opened on Broadway in 2003, the night before this holiday (fitting for a show about 2 witches) Halloween |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | GAMBLING $1000: It's an automatic pass line loser if I get a 2, 3 or this total on my come out roll 12 |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | GEMS $400: This gem found in a shell is a symbol of the moon & of femininity a pearl |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | 16th CENTURY WRITING $800: With knee-slappers like "Is she a widow? I love her better therefore", "Ralph Roister Doister" is the oldest English one comedy |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | MOVIES $600: Laugh your booty off with the band of misfits from this movie (The) Pirates |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $1200: "Mouse" is the species of this character featured in video games, trading cards & TV shows Pikachu |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | SURVEY SAYS...! $600: A 2013 survey said unlike the CEO of Yahoo!, 65% believe working from home, aka this word, is productive telecommuting |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | U.S. RIVERS $400: Mount Vernon is on the banks of this river the Potomac |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | TEACH YOUR CHILDREN $1600: It's adding an extra turn in the wide triangular knot that gives this necktie style its royal name Windsor |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | WHAT A "FUN" TIME $1200: Use it to kill ringworm an antifungal |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: (Johnny Gilbert reads the clue.) "Hello! my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" The Princess Bride |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | I GOT MAD HIP-HOP SKILLZ $1200: In "Gold Digger": "Cutie the bomb, met her at a beauty salon, with a baby Louis Vuitton under her underarm" Kanye West |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | WEB MUSIC PARODIES $200: Yahoo!'s Sketchy Players sang of the grayer set with "We're Not Young", a parody of this band fun. |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $400: That's right, baby, in 1534 Suleiman the Magnificent conquered Iraq in leading this empire against Persia the Ottoman Empire |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $1000: Ohhh yeah... Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and" this examines environmental factors in history Steel |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | TERMS WITH GREEK LETTERS $1000: A boy crosses the Pacific in a lifeboat (oh yeah, with a tiger!) in this 2001 Yann Martel novel Life of Pi |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | I NEED A "BREAK" $1000: This proverb involving a breakfast dish means sometimes to create, you have to destroy you have to break an egg to get an omelet |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE... FAST! $2000: As the morning & evening star, this Mesoamerican deity was the symbol of death & resurrection
Q _ _ _ Z _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Quetzalcoatl |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | GIMME 5! $1200: The earth can be divided into 5 of these regions, including the north & south "temperate" ones climate zones |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | HIGH FANTASY $1,000 (Daily Double): Ned is told "When you play" this, the title of the book, "you win or you die" Game of Thrones |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | PRESIDENTIAL POOCHES $1,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Jefferson owned 2 briards that were a gift from this Frenchman LaFayette |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | ETIQUETTE $600: By setting your used knife & fork parallel on your plate, fork tines up you indicate that you're finished |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | GENETICS $1,800 (Daily Double): In 1986 the U.S. issued the first patent on a plant produced through genetic engineering, a hybrid of this grain corn |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $200: We stopped by the magnificent Cliffs of Moher on this Emerald Isle Ireland |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $600: Soaked up Australia's Gold Coast for the "Quicksilver Pro" that kicks off the world tour of this sport surfing |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $800: Great snorkeling in this large bay off Chittagong & Chennai the Bay of Bengal |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $1000: Paid my respects at the Gandan Monastery in this capital city of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | YEAH, WE WENT THERE $2,200 (Daily Double): Made it to the top of 22,600-foot Ojos del Salado, one of the highest peaks in this mountain range the Andes |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: The standard size of this bundle of cotton is 54-55 inches long & 20-21 inches wide a bale |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | POP $2000: In this Jeffrey Eugenides novel, the Lisbon girls' dad is forced to quit as a teacher because he can't control his kids The Virgin Suicides |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | ON THE MAGAZINE'S COVER $600: A women's mag--"The sex quiz you must take: find out what really turns you on... and feel lustier than ever before" Cosmo |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | THE NEAREST CANADIAN PROVINCE TO... $1600: Hallock,
Minnesota &
Cavalier,
North Dakota Manitoba |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | WORDS FOUND BEFORE BEAR $800: 4-letter word of disdain; when doubled, it's a verb meaning to dismiss pooh |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | DIRECTOR $400: Executives from Netflix & Bank of America are directors of this company; oh yeah, Bill Gates is still there Microsoft |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | COMPLETE DOME-INATION $2000: The structure seen here, in this city, is technically not a dome since it uses masts & cables for support London |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THEIR SOUL GRAMMY NOMINATION $400: Oh, yeah, baby...his "Theme From 'Shaft'" was nominated & won in 1971 (Isaac) Hayes |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MORTAL MATTERS $400: This word for "burial" is sometimes confused with a similar word for forced confinement inter |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | NAME THAT U.S. CURRENCY NOTE $400: The man on this note served as a lobbyist for the Illinois Central Railroad the $5 |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | NAME THAT U.S. CURRENCY NOTE $800: A man who served Tennessee in both the House & the Senate is on this note the $20 |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IN THE "MM"IDDLE $4,000 (Daily Double): Incendiary or provocative; arousing anger inflammatory |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | COMPLETELY BASSLESS $2000: This triple-talk band makes do with drums, guitar & the vocals of Karen O the Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| #6445, aired 2012-09-28 | "B"4 $400: In 1 Kings, Yahweh beats this god of the Canaanites in a contest to burn an offering Baal |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | WELCOME TO MY "FLAT" $800: This hairstyle can also refer to certain warships a flattop |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | LONG-RUNNING TV $600: This TV show traces its origins to 1992, when 2 Univ. of Colorado students made the animated short "Jesus vs. Frosty" South Park |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | WHEELS OF FORTUNE $800: James Bond would enjoy a One-77 from this 2-named company; it's yours for $1.9 million, but only 77 were made Aston Martin |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | LANDMARKS $800 (Daily Double): Here's a riddle: part of the beard of this great statue at Giza is now on display at the British Museum the Great Sphinx |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | ANGRY BIRDS $1200: Yeah, I'm the redheaded species of this bird. Oh, I damaged your lovely wooden home with my beak? Hmm, do I care? No the woodpecker |
| #6411, aired 2012-07-02 | OUR MUTUAL FIEND $800: On film this brutal captain was played by Charles Laughton & Trevor Howard--oh yeah, & Anthony Hopkins (Capt.) Bligh |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | A FRENCH TWIST $200: Does le vin rouge traditionally go with meat or fish? (Oh yeah...meat) red wine |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $1000: The senior frightener seen here, he showed many faces in his career Lon Chaney, Sr. |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | WEBSITES FROM A TO Z $600: F: Tag your pics on this photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo! Flickr |
| #6392, aired 2012-06-05 | HOME ALONE? $600: Chris & Stewie Meg |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | ALSO A BIRD $200: To take liquid down the throat swallow |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | "DAR" $2000: It's the Turkish strait seen here the Dardanelles |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | ADVERTISING MASCOTS & ICONS $200: Oh yeaaaaah! This brand with a wall-busting spokes-pitcher was originally known as Fruit Smack Kool-Aid |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | NOVELTY SONG LYRICS $1,500 (Daily Double): 1984:
"My hope of winning sank, 'cause I got the Daily Double now, and then my mind went blank" "I Lost On Jeopardy" |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | ROMAN THE BIBLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Cornelius, one of these Roman military officers, became one of the first converts to Christianity a centurion |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | YO-YO MA $1,000 (Daily Double): "Yearning of the Sword" is a Yo-Yo Ma cut on the soundtrack of this 2000 movie with Chow Yun-Fat & Michelle Yeoh Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 2010s TV $800: New Mexico drug kingpin Gus Fring lost a good deal of face on this drama Breaking Bad |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | WORD & PHRASE DECADES $600: Bummer, as in "Bummer, man" the '60s |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | ROLLING STONES LYRICS $800: "Oo, a storm is threat'nin', my very life today, if I don't get some shelter, oo yeah, I'm gonna fade away" "Gimme Shelter" |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Saginaw Bay on the east coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula is an inlet of this Great Lake Lake Huron |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | NAKED-ITY $200: Legend says this wife of the Lord of Coventry horsed around to say, "Read my lips. Reduce heavy taxes" Lady Godiva |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | VARIE-TEAS $400: This meal is found after Irish & English in the names of teas breakfast |
| #6285, aired 2012-01-06 | RIBS $400: In architecture a ribbed ceiling with arches is called one of these, like a room in a bank vaulted |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL INFORMATION $700 (Daily Double): He's the only Attorney General ever convicted of a felony John Mitchell |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | THAT SMELLS... LIKE A CELEBRITY! $200: Does this movie character's "Mojo" cologne make you hor--uh... smell good? Yeah, baby! Austin Powers |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | KENTUCKY KERNELS $400: Half of a deadly feud, this family lived primarily in Kentucky; their rivals, in West Virginia the McCoys |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | THE LAST $1200: The last of these sent by Western Union on Jan. 27, 2006 included birthday wishes & condolences a telegram |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | GERMAN CHANCELLORS SINCE WWII $800: Gerhard Schroder, Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, deployed German troops to this 250,000-square-mile Asian country Afghanistan |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | THE INTERNET $200: A new rule in this Yahoo sports fantasy game is the Mulligan, which allows you to drop your worst weekly score golf |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | GETTING DEFENSIVE $400: Featherweight Willie Pep was so brilliant on defense, he once won a round by deliberately not doing this punching |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | MONOGRAMS IN FASHION $1,200 (Daily Double): In 2010 she launched a children's line, yeah, yeah, yeah:
SM Stella McCartney |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | ODD WORDS $800: A nummular thing is shaped like one of these; if you know Latin, it makes cents a coin (a penny accepted) |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | I MARRIED THIS SPORTS STAR $1600: Ashley Judd,
in 2001 Dario Franchitti |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | LANGUAGES $18,000 (Daily Double): Although Dutch is the official language, Sranan Tongo is spoken by most people in this South American country Suriname |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $400: Putting a letter before the first name of a "Grease" actress fills the seats in La Paz Bolivia Newton-John |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The costume worn by this character may not seem to go with his title profession, but in his first scene he sings "Largo al factotum" & explains that he's also the apothecary, gardener & wig maker the Barber of Seville (Figaro) |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | TWINS $2,600 (Daily Double): These twins & recent first daughters were named for their grandmothers Barbara & Jenna |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | "GOOD", "BAD" & "UGLY" MOVIES $1200: Cameron Diaz doesn't care what child gets left behind in this 2011 comedy Bad Teacher |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE Is HAVE IT $1000: In 2008 Carl Icahn bought millions of shares in this Internet company with an exclamation point in its name Yahoo! |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $2000: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) One of the greatest coaches ever has got to be Phil Jackson; he's won 11 titles, something even Red Auerbach couldn't do
Yeah, Phil's a legend, no doubt about it, but I'll pick this college basketball wizard who won 10 men's NCAA titles from 1964 to 1975 (John) Wooden |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LITERATURE $1200: One reviewer called this recent Sara Gruen bestseller "so much more than a tale about a circus" Water for Elephants |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | LATE MAN $800: Morrie Yohai, 1920-2010, "sketched" out the idea for these puffy cheese-flavored snacks Cheez Doodles |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | LETTERMAN $400: This 19th century showman's first successful exhibit at the American Museum was the Feejee Mermaid (yeah, it was fake) P.T. Barnum |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | INDIAN GAMING $1200: Long before Jim Thorpe, Roger Williams wrote that Indians "have great meetings of" this game, "town against town" football |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | NAME THE YEAR $2000: Hawaii becomes our 50th state 1959 |
| #6187, aired 2011-07-05 | THIS & THAT $1000: It's a pipe carrying rain down off the roof of your house; there may be an itsy bitsy spider in it a (water)spout |
| #6183, aired 2011-06-29 | TURIN! TURIN! TURIN! $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1899 a group of investors founded this car company in Turin; its headquarters are still in the city today FIAT |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | ENTERPRISE $2,500 (Daily Double): This website was originally "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" Yahoo! |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? $1,500 (Daily Double): This Georgia native won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | JEOPARDY PLATFORMS $1000: Alliterative term for a feat done by 1920s barnstorming pilots; the man who did it first had less than a 2-year career wing walking |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YAHWEH $400: In the King James Bible, Yahweh, the personal name of God, is rendered as this Jehovah |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YAHWEH $800: In Exodus 6 Yahweh tells this man, "Say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord" Moses |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YAHWEH $1200: In Leviticus Yahweh tells the Israelites not to eat this mammal of the Suidae family--that's all, folks! swine (or pigs) |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YAHWEH $1600: In Judges 6 Gideon builds an altar & names it Yahweh-Shalom, "the Lord is" this peace |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | YAHWEH $5,000 (Daily Double): Exodus 3 says Yahweh is "the God of" Abraham, Isaac & this other patriarch Jacob |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | OPRAH'S FIRSTS $200: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) For a 2005 show on age-defying things for women, I had this part of my body "stabbed" with a special gun; I was told the 2 clicks would hurt "a little", yeah, right! ear |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | PEEVED VEEPS $800: Returning from Europe in 1812, he entered the U.S. under an assumed name, Adolphus Arnot; oh yeah, he shot a guy (Aaron) Burr |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | CELEBRITIES & RACING $200: (Alex reads from the cockpit of a race car at the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach, CA.) I'm not praying--I'm just psyching myself up for this Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race because I'm gonna face a field that includes this movie star who played the lead... the lead in "Speed" Keanu Reeves |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | MY MICHELLE $1200: In 2002, at age 12, she became the youngest golfer ever to qualify for an LPGA event Michelle Wie |
| #6064, aired 2011-01-13 | WEBSITES $400: Yodel Anecdotal is the name of this website's corporate blog Yahoo! |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $2000: "Growing Up Again", this TV star's memoir, is subtitled "Life, Loves, and oh yeah, Diabetes" Mary Tyler Moore |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | A HINT OF SPICE $1200: This spice resembles an onion seed (oh yeah, the hint--it shares its name with TV chef Lawson) nigella |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $2000: The name of this branch of pediatrics that deals with newborn infants literally means "newborn study" neonatal |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE ANHEUSER- BUSCH BREWERY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by a brew kettle.) One of the most important additions to the brew kettles are these blossoms that release the oil & resins that give the beer its great flavor hops |
| #6031, aired 2010-11-29 | SHAKESPEAREAN PORTMANTEAU $2000: Tragedy about a Roman general who cuts off his own hand & throws it into an old word for a spittoon Titus Andronicuspidor |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | I'M GONNA "MAKE" IT! $800: It sounds like a farm machine, but it's really a hard punch that renders an opponent unable to continue boxing a haymaker |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | DRINKS ARE ON ME! $600: I get hot & thirsty reading clues all day; this is a job for this drink & its pitch-pitcher's cry of "Oh yeah!" Kool-Aid |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $1200: A peasant might play his cards close to his jerkin, a type of this a vest |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THAT'S A RAP $2000: On "Love The Way You Lie", Eminem raps, "Now you get to watch her leave out the window/Guess that's why they call it" this window pane |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | GLENN CLOSE $800: (Glenn Close delivers the clue.) In 1996, I made what I thought was a simple request--"Catch those puppies!"--playing this Disney character Cruella de Vil |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Both Bennett Cerf & Herman Wouk were student editors of Jester, a humor magazine of this New York City university Columbia |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | AN OCEAN OF KNOWLEDGE $800: (Lindblad/National Geographic Underwater Specialist Lisa Trotter delivers the clue.) To survive the frigid waters, Antarctic fish have proteins that act as this type of compound, like the one used in car engines, inhibiting ice crystal growth in their bodies antifreeze |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | ELEMENTAL CLUES $12,400 (Daily Double): Pd:
A great place for live music palladium |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GET SOME CULTURE $400: The prehistoric Yayoi culture of Japan is named for a suburb of this city where its artifacts were first found Tokyo |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | "STANDING" ROOM ONLY $2000: When the British want you to rise, as for a judge, they say, "be" this, also referring to an honorable citizen upstanding |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,000 (Daily Double): The Betsy Ross House has long been the official site for Philadelphia's celebration of this June holiday Flag Day |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | STATE THE STATE OF THE GOVERNOR $400: David Paterson New York |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Rule of conduct by which 2004's "Alfie" lives Jude's law |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | BUSINESSWOMEN $1200: Carol Bartz made a deal for Microsoft to power the searches on this engine, where she's CEO Yahoo! |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $4,000 (Daily Double): For a German physicist, this unit of electric resistance whose symbol is seen here ohm |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | IF I WERE A RICH MAN... $1000: I wouldn't have paid this Dallas Mavericks owner & his pals $5.7 bil. for broadcast.com like Yahoo! did in '99; maybe 5.6 tops Mark Cuban |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | FROM T TO SHINING T $400: It gains you admission to the ballgame; Yeah, that's the... ticket |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $800: British Guiana Guyana |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | U.S. BIZ $400: New releases from this co. include the $185 Jordan winterized Spiz'ike men's shoe; yeah, I said Spiz'ike--what what Nike |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | WHO CARRIED THE STATE? $2,800 (Daily Double): Massachusetts,
1972 George McGovern |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | BOXING TERMS SANS BOXING $600: Hey, ya palooka, I got you a lawyer... yeah, he's also known by this "oral" term a mouthpiece |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? $1,000 (Daily Double): This chemical element has the lowest melting point of any metal & that's why it's liquid at room temperature mercury |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | NO WAY! IT'S NORWAY! $400: In 1814 the Norwegian parliament accepted this country's King Charles XIII to rule Norway as well Sweden |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | LETTERS IN TOMATOES $5,200 (Daily Double): Struck mightily, in the Bible smote |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | "ODE" TO JOY $800: To collapse inward, like a building being leveled in a controlled explosion implode |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | MR. BILL PLAYS THE BARD $800: "Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and--"
"Oh, no!" Romeo |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | COMPLETES THE OPERA TITLE $2000: Mascagni:
"Cavalleria ____" rusticana |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | YOU SAY POTATO $2000: More than a million died in the Irish Potato Famine that started in this 19th Century decade 1840s |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | "YA"HOO! $800: A Hebrew name for God Yahweh |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $600: Pertaining to marriage or the marriage ceremony nuptial |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | STREAKING $400: USC football's 34-game win streak from 2003 to 2006 set a record for this conference the PAC 10 |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | ARTS NEWS 2009 $400: Rocco Landesman, a producer of Broadway's "The Producers", was named to chair this federal arts organization the NEA |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | YOU KNOW HOW TO WHISTLE, DON'T YOU? $400: We ain't just whistlin' this tune here... oh, yeah. actually, we are Dixie |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $1000: Yeehaw! It's a boisterous social gathering featuring square dancing a hoedown |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HAMMER TIME $800: House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer" Tom DeLay |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | FORBES 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN 2009 $200: Give a shout out to Carol Bartz, CEO of this Internet company & the 12th most powerful woman on the list Yahoo! |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $600: One of his most famous heroes was an Ojibwa Indian who married Minnehaha Longfellow |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | & HOW $200: As Lauren Bacall advised, you just put your lips together & blow whistle |
| #5774, aired 2009-10-22 | OTHER PLANETS IN MOVIES $2000: "Forbidden Planet":
___ 4 (just like the first PC) Altair |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | GOTTA HAVE "PUL" $3,600 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "dust", it means to grind into dust pulverize |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | COLORFUL SONGS $1600: "Look at the stars look how they shine for you & everything you do, yeah, they were all..." "Yellow" |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | BUSINESS AS USUAL $1200: So as not to be gobbled up by Microsoft, Yahoo! offered a 20% stake to this company for Myspace News Corp. |
| #5743, aired 2009-07-22 | BAY O' WOLF $800: When David--yeah, the Dr. Pepper guy--gets bit on the English moors, he turns into the title monster in this 1981 film An American Werewolf in London |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | PARTS $200: "Annie Hall" quotes the joke "Boy, the food at this place is... terrible"--"Yeah I know, and such small" these portions |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | KIDS ON THE NET $800: At the website for the CDC, the Centers for this, kids can learn about diabetes & toxic chemicals Disease Control |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | KIDS ON THE NET $2000: On Yahoo! Kids, you can ask this knowledgeable guy all kinds of questions, like "What do Canadians eat?" Earl |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | YOU NEED A DRINK $600: A person used to be smashed onto a new boat as a sacrifice; this effervescent drink is less painful champagne |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL $1600: (Dr. Oz puts a small pitcher to one nostril.) Just as you practice hygiene in your mouth, I advocate keeping your sinuses healthy with this device used in Asia for centuries a neti pot |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | A WORLD OF MUSIC $2,400 (Daily Double): The 1990 album "Unison" marked the English language debut of this chanteuse from Quebec Céline Dion |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | MY BOLOGNA $1,000 (Daily Double): The airport in Bologna bears the name of this electrical engineer & inventor born near the city Guglielmo Marconi |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | ON THE "MA"P $400: It's the easternmost of Canada's Prairie Provinces Manitoba |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | "MILL"S $1200: Yeehaw! She choreographed the ballet "Rodeo" Agnes de Mille |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,600 (Daily Double): In December Mexico's festival Las Posadas commemorates these 2 people's search for shelter Mary & Joseph |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEBSITE WE WEAVE $400: Don't kill the messenger, download it at this search site with an exclamation point in its name Yahoo! |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ACTRESSES $1200: She voiced Princess Pea in "The Tale of Despereaux"; oh yeah, she was also Hermione in a few "Harry Potter"s Emma Watson |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $3,000 (Daily Double): After heading up 2 Cabinet departments, she represented North Carolina in the Senate from 2003 to 2009 (Elizabeth) Dole |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | JAMES JOYCE $1600: Joyce & his family spent World War I in this Swiss city Zurich |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | TECHNO LUST $400: This search site's browser called Chrome has an incognito mode for anonymous surfing Google |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES $200: No. 1: "Womanizer" from her "Circus" album scored this pop goddess her first chart topper in nearly a decade (Britney) Spears |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES $400: No. 9: She voiced Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda" & reportedly got $14 million from People magazine for baby pics Angelina Jolie |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES $600: No. 4: This 15-year-old's apology for her Vanity Fair shoot probably boosted Yahoo! searches Miley Cyrus |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES $800: No. 2: Drama cravers turned to Yahoo! after an "explosion" hurt this company's chairman, Vince McMahon World Wrestling Entertainment |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | TOP 10 YAHOO! SEARCHES $1000: No. 7: Last name Uzumaki, this manga graduate of the Ninja Academy has games, comics & legions of fans Naruto |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | HUD $400 (Daily Double): This onetime HUD secretary was also a Buffalo Bills QB, a N.Y. Congressman &--oh yeah--a 1996 VP candidate Jack Kemp |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | HIDING ON THE INTERNET $200: You'll hear this web search site's name yodeled if you click the exclamation mark on the home page Yahoo! |
| #5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WORLD WAR II $1200: He flew 58 combat missions, was shot down once, crashed twice &, oh, yeah, later became President George H.W. Bush |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | "MO" BETTER $200: God's name of Yahweh was first announced to this man Moses |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | "C" CREATURES $1,000 (Daily Double): This large flightless bird has a blue head & long, daggerlike nails on its toes a cassowary |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | BYPASS $5,000 (Daily Double): Made up of I-495 & I-95, it was conceived as a bypass called the Washington Circumferential Highway the Beltway |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | NEVER MIND THE FOLLICLES $1000: Yeah, baby, Austin Powers knows this 4-letter cut seen here a shag |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | WHAT A CONCEPT $2000: Yeah, right...
This type of stone, a mythical substance, was thought to turn base metals into gold the philosopher's stone |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a photo of a Dallas Cowboys player.) At the Pro Football Hall of Fame, you can try to catch 22, but this Cowboy was so explosive, he danced his way to the NFL's all-time rushing record Emmitt Smith |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | DEAR JOHN $400: In a popular children's song, "his name is my name too" John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | DR. ALEX' OLD-TIME FEEL-GOOD MEDICINE SHOW $1000: Step right up!
I got me an "L" of an ointment for the chronic lower back pain known as this 7-letter malady lumbago |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | THE NET WORKS $900 (Daily Double): This search site was named by its creators from a dictionary definition: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth" Yahoo! |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | IT WASN'T RATED R $1000: Meryl Streep's daughter is caught up in a musical version of "My Three Dads" in this film Mamma Mia! |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | I'LL GIVE YOU MY IMPRESSIONS $800: "Yeah, baby! Mike Myers has played me, a British spy, in 3 shagadelic movies" Austin Powers |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | LEADERS & LANDS $1600: President Nicolas Sarkozy France |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | HARRISON FORD $800: Ford played Philly cop John Book, who goes into hiding with the Amish, in this 1985 film Witness |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | BROADWAY SHOWS BY ROLES $1600: Professor Callahan,
Elle Woods Legally Blonde |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Generations of inbreeding doomed this dynasty in Spain as Charles II was both witless & childless Hapsburg |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $2,200 (Daily Double): Part I of this 1995 Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is called "Munchkinlanders" Wicked |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew tends bar in Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, VA.) Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern is the place where, in 1776, students from William & Mary met to form this Greek letter society, an emblem of high achievement Phi Beta Kappa |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | "O" YEAH! $200: This "stately" American musical was first performed in 1943 as "Away We Go!" Oklahoma! |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | "O" YEAH! $400: Money put in a collection plate at church offering |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | "O" YEAH! $600: A small structure away from a main dwelling that's used as a bathroom an outhouse |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | "O" YEAH! $800: A tapering stone pillar built as a monument an obelisk |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | "O" YEAH! $1000: To a Parisian, the number 11 onze |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | GO AHEAD, MAKE MY "DAY" $600: Also a Beatles title, it's someone who goes on an excursion in the morning & returns before bedtime, yeah a day tripper |
| #5489, aired 2008-06-19 | HERE'S THE STORY $600: A surgeon/sea captain sets sail on a quartet of voyages in this work; has some trouble with his Yahoo account Gulliver's Travels |
| #5476, aired 2008-06-02 | HIP-HOP & RAP $800: A TV show on E! chronicles the "Father Hood" of this rap star Snoop Dogg |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | HOW TOUCHING! $1,000 (Daily Double): It's good luck to touch a bronze statue of a turtle named Testudo at this East Coast school University of Maryland |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | ON WISCONSIN $1600: Hazlewood, the house where the Wisconsin state constitution was drafted, is in this city; oh yeah, & Lambeau Field, too Green Bay |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | PHYSICS $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew shows himself on the monitor, swiveling around in a chair with dumbbells in his hands, extending and contracting his arms.) When I draw my arms inward, my angular velocity increases because my angular mass decreases; the product of those two quantities is called angular this momentum |
| #5443, aired 2008-04-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew blows out a match and sticks it in a bottle.) The moisture in the air combines with particles of dust from the smoke to form this; Los Angeles is known for it smog |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | JEOPMARK CARDS FOR LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: Wishing this 1726 title guy bon voyage! Whether you meet people big or small, may your 4 trips make you say "Yahoo!" Gulliver |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | HELLO, DELI! $1200: Someone pass me this noodle pudding filled with raisins & nuts kugel |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | OF THE SEA & SHIPS $600: On a sailing ship, these can be buntlines, downhauls or sheets ropes |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | IKE SPEAKS $1,200 (Daily Double): Of this man's contributions to major White House decisions, Ike said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one" Nixon |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | "O"... $400: An exclamation to Yahweh or Odin, or a George Burns movie Oh, God! |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | AMERICAN LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Whitman poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln, it's the title that precedes "Our fearful trip is done" "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | WEB SLINGERS $1600: Use the "organizr" to help make your personal images public at this photo site that's now owned by Yahoo! Flickr |
| #5417, aired 2008-03-11 | QUOTES FROM BRUCE WILLIS MOVIES $1600: About saving the world, Bruce says, "Yeah, one more thing, uh, none of them wanna pay taxes again...ever" Armageddon |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | MAMMALS $1000: These monkeys with a religious name have several types of "habit", including brown & white-throated capuchin |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | "PANT"s $2,000 (Daily Double): Adjective meaning frivolously disrespectful or lacking in seriousness flippant |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Yeeeeeee-haaaa! Billy Idol knows this drink's got bourbon, triple sec, lemon juice, an egg white & an orange slice a Rebel Yell |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | CALIFORNIA ROLE $1000: L.A. P.I.
J.J. Gittes investigates the city's water management & other mysteries in this 1974 film Chinatown |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | NERDS RULE! $800: In college, Larry Page, co-founder & co-pres. of this Internet search company, built an inkjet printer out of Legos Google |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | HAM LIT $600: In a Dick King-Smith novel, Ace is the great-grandson of this "sheep-pig" Babe |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $2,000 (Daily Double): Its official state fossil is Chesapecten Jeffersonius Virginia |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: Few know that Truman had offered to be this for Ike in 1948 vice president |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | TARTS $800: The prophet Hosea married a Harlot named this; her last name probably wasn't Pyle Gomer |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | HOW I LOOK DURING MY SUMMER VACATIONS $1000: Oh yeah! The summer I sang in that barbershop quartet I had the 9-letter 'stache seen here handlebar |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | AN ART "C" CATEGORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This north central Italian city has a biennial sculpture exhibit, which we presume features works in marble Carrara |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | IT'S ON THE TIP OF MY TONGUE $800: Oh yeah, this car company... It makes the Explorer & the Excursion... I can't believe I'm blanking here... Ford |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | ANIMALS $800: Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative mastodon |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | YEAH, IT WAS THE '80s $200: She told us "Love Is A Battlefield" & in 1980 went to No. 9 with "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" Pat Benatar |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | YEAH, IT WAS THE '80s $400: In 1984 his "Let's Go Crazy" said "We are gathered here today 2 get through this thing called life" Prince |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | YEAH, IT WAS THE '80s $600: "Well, I talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it"; Lipps, Inc. asked, "Won't you take me to" here Funkytown |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | YEAH, IT WAS THE '80s $800: In 1981 Sheena Easton sang, "My baby takes" this, "he works from 9 till 5 & then he takes another home again" the morning train |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | YEAH, IT WAS THE '80s $1000: The Greg Kihn Band was singin' our song, crooning, "Our love's in" this, "baby" jeopardy |
| #5359, aired 2007-12-20 | GIFT GIVING $600: For Dad, yeah, we know it's the same old thing, but let's call it by its Spanish name: corbata, one of these a tie |
| #5355, aired 2007-12-14 | LET'S LEARN HEBREW $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives us a Hebrew lesson.) Hebrew letters can also indicate numbers; the word for 14 is yod-dalet, or 10 + 4; but 15 is 9 + 6 to avoid writing one of the many of these sacred names the names of God |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | TRANSPO-POURRI $600: In 2005 this state had more than twice as many registered automobiles as any other state California |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | LET'S MEAT FOR BREAKFAST $1000: Maybe I'll try the black pudding--that sounds a lot better than this sanguine synonym blood pudding |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | NATIONAL PARKS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Teton National Park, WY.) Over 250 miles of trails exist in Grand Teton, many built by this New Deal agency, whose initials were CCC the Civilian Conservation Corps |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | ALSO A TOOL $200: This drink consists of 2 ounces of vodka & 5 ounces of orange juice a screwdriver |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE BELOVED BRACHIOSAURUS $400: Referring to its long forelimbs, the name Brachiosaurus comes from the Greek for this "lizard" arm |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | JOHNNY GILBERT, ROCK GOD $200: "Feel the city breakin' & everybody shakin' & we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive ah ha ha ha, stayin' alive" the Bee Gees |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | JOHNNY GILBERT, ROCK GOD $800: "Oh oh oh, I wanna be free, to feel the way I feel, man! I feel like a woman!" Shania Twain |
| #5303, aired 2007-10-03 | IN THE NECK $400: In emergencies, this neck operation may be performed with a penknife & the empty shell of a pen a tracheotomy |
| #5294, aired 2007-09-20 | FASHION SENSE $200: Made of lace & ribbons over a framework, a commode was worn on top of this in the late 1600s head |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | THE BROWNINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Elizabeth returned to London a semi-invalid & spent the next 5 years confined to her room on this street Wimpole Street |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | WORLD FLAGS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads the clue.) Behind the coat of arms on Portugal's flag is a navigational tool; in 1816, it was also on the flag of this other land Brazil |
| #5284, aired 2007-07-26 | STORY SPOILERS $1,400 (Daily Double): Sherlock Holmes discovers a cane, then a family curse. Howling is heard. The culprit drowns on the moors The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU $1600: After selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion, this Dallas NBA team owner started HDNet Mark Cuban |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | THAT'S SO CLICHE! $1000: It means to relieve someone of a lot of money, or it's what you'd do with a stained silk dress take it to the cleaners |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | "GOO"GLE $200: What distinguished this Disney character from others in a 1932 cartoon was not his looks but his laugh Goofy |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | THE DENVER MINT $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Denver Mint.) Presses put designs on coins; a die called the hammer imprints the head side while one appropriately called this imprints the tail the anvil |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | MAKES THE HEART $2,000 (Daily Double): The mitral valve has 2 flaps & is also called this valve, just like a certain tooth a bicuspid |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | VATICAN CURIOSITIES $1600: Until the 1960s, a pope's death was confirmed by tapping him with a hammer made of this silver |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | VOICES, I HEAR VOICES... $400: As Shrek, this actor is told that his donkey talks, & says, "Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick" Mike Myers |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | HAIL TO THE VICTORS $4,000 (Daily Double): "V", this politician's middle initial, was for "Victor", not "Victory"; he ran 5 losing presidential campaigns Eugene V. Debs |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | I WANT MY "M" TV $800: An alien was sent to Earth to study humans in Boulder, Colorado on this sitcom Mork & Mindy |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | AMERICANA $800: (I'm master carpenter Norm Abram.) The 1st old house we renovated was a run-down Victorian in the Dorchester section of this city Boston |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | GOING EMILY POST-AL $200: If a woman is older or tends toward heavy, avoid wearing one of these to the beach, as it will be "a disaster" bikini |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | BEER COUNTRY OF ORIGIN $1000: Kingfisher is a world-renowned brew from this country of Asia India |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | JEFF $400: You might be a redneck if you know this comic worked at IBM for 5 years; yeah, those are better when he tells 'em (Jeff) Foxworthy |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | APOCALYPSE SOON? $600: "Testament" & "On the Beach" are films that deal with this type of apocalyptic scenario nuclear war (or nuclear holocaust) |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | NO. 1 ALBUMS OF THE '90s $600: This band's 1993 "In Utero" album vowed, "Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle" Nirvana |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | DESCRIPTIONS & DEFINITIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Animator Chuck Jones quotes Mark Twain on this: "a long... sorry-looking skeleton with a gray wolf-skin" coyote |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | STATE BIRDS $800: Kentucky:
This colorful songbird a cardinal |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "C" $2,000 (Daily Double): To urge, perhaps to drink certain sodas (4) coax |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | TOP OF THE CHARTS $600: Usher topped the 2004 Hot 100 chart for an amazing 12 weeks with "Yeah!" featuring Lil Jon & this rapper Ludacris |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | TEENS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $400: The CDC says that for teen drivers, this is the age with the highest crash risk 16 |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | NATIONAL NAMES $800: Kongeriket Norge translates to "Kingdom of" this Norway |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | YOU MUST BE FROM DALLAS $400: Born Patsy Anne McClenny, she's the Dallas-born beauty seen here--yeah, that's the ticket Morgan Fairchild |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $2000: In "Gulliver's Travels", Swift described this type of creature as "the most unteachable of all brutes" a Yahoo |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | SOUNDS SIMILAR $1200: Stephen King heroine Claiborne in a miserable state from the Latin for "pain" dolorous Dolores |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | JAMES BOND $1000: Author Ian Fleming wrote that James Bond looked a lot like this composer of "Stardust' Hoagy Carmichael |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: Costume designer Charles LeMaire had no trouble dressing the title character of this 1956 film The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | ELEMENTAL RHYME TIME $1600: Putrid aroma from a bluish-white metal zinc stink |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Orange" was dropped from a historic name, leaving this as the name of a current South African province Free State |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | 'TIL DEATH $400: In "The Enterprise Incident" episode of "Star Trek", he pretended to kill Kirk using the Vulcan Death Grip Mr. Spock |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | THE ILIAD, MACBETH OR THE HOBBIT $600: 3 witches prophesy in a thunderstorm Macbeth |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | METS, GIANTS, RANGERS & KNICKS $800: In 1973-74 this Zen-like Knick averaged a career-high 11.1 ppg; oh yeah, he's coached a little in Chicago & L.A., too Phil Jackson |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | SMITH $1600: A New York City Fire Department fireboat is named for this 1928 pres. candidate known as the "Happy Warrior" Al Smith |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | EUROPE'S GOT TALENT TOO $400 (Daily Double): Alberto Hidalgo & his happy feet can tap 734 times a minute while performing this Spanish dance the flamenco |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | ASK "Y" $1000: As head of this Internet company, Terry Semel has made more than $230 million in only 4 years Yahoo! |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800 (Daily Double): In the 1760s these 2 surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania Mason & Dixon |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The first one of these tombs was built about 2650 B.C. by Imhotep for King Zoser & rose about 200 feet using steps a pyramid (the pyramids accepted) |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | AROUND SWEDEN $400: A sort of museum of children's books, Junibacken re-creates the cottage of this beloved fictional Swedish girl Pippi Longstocking |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | THE KIDS LOVE THEIR MUSIC $800: A Coldplay song says, "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you... yeah they were all" this color yellow |
| #5059, aired 2006-09-14 | YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY I USE MY "WALK" $600: I'm... too sexy for this clue & I do my little turn on this narrow structure over a stage, yeah catwalk |
| #5046, aired 2006-07-17 | MOVIE TWINS $400: In "Twins" Arnold Schwarzenegger played a genius fluent in 12 languages; this actor played his con man twin Danny DeVito |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | I'M TOMMY LEE JONES! $2000: There was no corn in this disturbing 1994 biopic when I depicted a legendary baseball player Cobb |
| #5036, aired 2006-07-03 | NO. 1 U.S. BABY NAMES $800: So far, the fave name for girls in the 2000s is this; we're sure an etiquette expert would approve Emily |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | TUNNELS $800: Also a style of staircase, it's the type of tunnel built in B.C.'s Yoho National Park to solve the problem of a steep grade spiral |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | '80s MUSIC $600: Hurry up & name this Canadian power-rock trio with the 1981 album "Moving Pictures" Rush |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: The 2 founders of Yahoo! & the 2 founders of Google all attended this California school Stanford |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | 3 OF A KIND $1000: Sinhala,
Xhosa,
Novial languages |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | HORSE RACING $600 (Daily Double): In 1711 Queen Anne saw the potential for this racecourse; its royal enclosure still has a formal dress code Ascot |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | CALENDAR LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday Born on the Fourth of July |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | WHAT A GOOD IDEA! $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from St. Petersburg, Russia.) In laying the foundation for St. Petersburg's Alexander Column, it's said this potent potable was mixed with the mortar to keep it from freezing vodka |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The American poet Hilda Doolittle used this 2-letter pen name H.D. |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | SESAME STREET EATS $800: (This next clue is brought to you by the letter P.)
"Hey, Big Bird, isn't it true that good nutrition is one of the special themes on 'Sesame Street' this year?"
"Oh, yes, it is, & did you know that eggs are incredibly rich in this?"
[Alex opens the egg carton, to the eggs' delight.]
"Yayyy! Yayyy!"
"Quiet, you guys, quiet!" protein |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | LANDMARK'S THE SPOT $400: If you're nosing around the landmark seen here, we knows you knows you're in this state South Dakota |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | QUOTABLE CINEMA $200: 1939:
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" The Wizard of Oz |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | I MARRIED ELIZABETH TAYLOR $800: This actor married Ms. Taylor in 1975 (& was divorced from her in 1976) Richard Burton |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | LADY LOOKS LIKE A DUDE $1200: She won her first Oscar playing Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" Hilary Swank |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | EGGHEADS $500 (Daily Double): She went to the U. of Denver at 15 & got a Ph.D. there studying the USSR; she's now in the Cabinet Condoleezza Rice |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | NYPD TV $400: Detectives Diane Russell, Jill Kirkendall & Connie McDowell were on the job for this ABC drama NYPD Blue |
| #4958, aired 2006-03-15 | FAMILIAR SONGS $400: This title aerialist of a song that dates back to the 1860s has stolen the singer's girl away "The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze" |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | CHINESE HISTORY $1600: Wei Chung-Hsien dominated the court in the 1620s but couldn't start his own dynasty, as he was one of these a eunuch |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | -ISMS $400: Eponymous term meaning biased devotion to a group, it sometimes follows "male" when used by feminists chauvinism |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | WHAT'S ON YOUR HEAD? $1000: This hat named for its "north-of-the-border" wearers is worn in the U.S. by state policemen & forest rangers a Mountie hat |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | LET'S LOOK TO THE STARS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the first White Dwarf, a companion of this star also called Alpha Canis Majoris Sirius |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | SCI-FI/FANTASY HEROINES $2000: This actress, Rogue in the "X-Men" films, won an Oscar when she was 11 Anna Paquin |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Asian capital was built between 1912 & '29 & designed by the British architect Lutyens New Delhi |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $200: Yeah, baby! Meaning "magnificent", this Texas-sounding name comes with certain "Powers" Austin |
| #4931, aired 2006-02-06 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: On Sept. 2, 1864 this general sent a wire saying, "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won" Sherman |
| #4919, aired 2006-01-19 | STOCK SYMBOLS $200: It won't be hard to look it up:
YHOO Yahoo! |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | ONE-WOMAN SHOWS $800: Lorna Luft's "Songs My Mother Taught Me" is a tribute to this late entertainer Judy Garland |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | WORD LORE $3,400 (Daily Double): In legend, the Golem, a sort of robot, was created in this city where the word "robot" was later coined Prague |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | BY THE NUMBERS $600: Start your counting please/
It's this many syllables/
In standard haiku 17 |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | COMEDIC CATCHPHRASES $1000: "I'm a victim of soicumstance!" Curly of the Three Stooges |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier--hence the title a rose |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | CLIFFS NOTES: DRAMA $400: Willy: "I'm tired."
Howard: "Oh yeah? You're fired" Death of a Salesman |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | DR. PHIL, SHAKESPEAREAN COUNSELOR $600: After being your own severed hand on a platter, I think killing Tamora & her sons was a cry for help, General Titus Andronicus |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | BEATLYRICS $800: "Let me tell you how it will be,
There's one for you, 19 for me,
'Cos I'm" this guy,
"Yeah I'm" this guy the "Taxman" |
| #4855, aired 2005-10-21 | THE BOYS ARE BLUE $1200: This "Adonais" poet suffered from depression after several family tragedies Percy Shelley |
| #4854, aired 2005-10-20 | CHEESE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents in front of metal shelves stocked with cheese in Wisconsin.) This cheese making stage, also called ripening, can be as simple as keeping the cheese in a cooler until the flavors have matured aging |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $800: In this film a young Natalie Wood exclaims, "You're just a nice old man with whiskers, like my mother said!" Miracle on 34th Street |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION $4,000 (Daily Double): Also the title of a 2003 film, it's the famous work from around 1665 seen here The Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | HEY "YA" $200: More than 345 million individuals each month hit this website Yahoo! |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | HEY "YA" $800: "Barbaric" often precedes this word derived from Middle English meaning "harsh cry" yawp |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | GONE WITH THE WIND $2000: After a name change to the House Internal Security Committee, it was abolished in 1975 the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | LYRICALLY YOURS $1000: In this hit, "Feels so good when you know you're down, a super dope homeboy from the Oaktown... Stop. Hammer time" "U Can't Touch This" |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | PHYSICS $200 (Daily Double): Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second horsepower |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | THE TERRIBLE TWOS $400: 2 is a common age to begin this process, though your child & the diaper companies may want you to wait toilet training |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | SPORTSMEN $2000: (Hi, I'm Trent Green of the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL.) When the Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 1970, they were led by this quarterback Len Dawson |
| #4791, aired 2005-06-06 | IT AIN'T ME, BABE $200: I left Minnesota around the time I changed my name from Robert Allen Zimmerman to this (Bob) Dylan |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | SARGENT/YORK $800: Dick Sargent played this sitcom role from 1969 to 1972 Darrin Stephens |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | HAUTE COUTURE $1000: Haute handbags are the speciality of this woman who was born Judith Peto in Budapest Judith Leiber |
| #4782, aired 2005-05-24 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $3,400 (Daily Double): Prehistoric cave-dweller
(10) troglodyte |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | TIME FOR A "CON"TEST $1000: Though it possibly dates from the 16th century, the origin of this word for a punny riddle is a mystery in itself conundrum |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | GLENN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $2000: Glenn was the Marquise de Merteuil to John Malkovich's Vicomte de Valmont in this period film Dangerous Liaisons |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | UNGULATES $100 (Daily Double): Unlike the giraffe, which lives in the savannah, this smaller relative lives in the dense jungle the okapi |
| #4770, aired 2005-05-06 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: From Old French for "catch" or "entangle", it's to accuse a serving government official with an offense impeach |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | THE JIMMY $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1922 he was the first pilot to cross the U.S. in under 24 hours Jimmy Doolittle |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $3,600 (Daily Double): One movement of this famous set of symphonic sketches is called "Jeux de vagues" ("The Play of the Waves") La Mer |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY $200: "As the sea, my love is deep."
"Ditto!"
[Smooch]
"You shall be with him hence!"
"Ditto!"
"No--ooh! Ugh!"
"Yaah!"
"I die!"
"Ditto!"
[Kkk!] Romeo and Juliet |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $1,000 (Daily Double): William Parry was James Garfield in the originial production of this Sondheim musical Assassins |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | I SAW IT ON TV & I HAD TO HAVE IT $1200: Women went wild for red La Perla lingerie after Marcia Cross revelaed it under her fur coat on this series Desperate Housewives |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | THE REEL STORY $1000: M. Night Shyamalan wrote & directed this creepy Bruce Willis-Haley Joel Osment film The Sixth Sense |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | REPTILES $3,000 (Daily Double): For her acting abilities, not her appearance, Meryl Streep is often compared to this type of lizard a chameleon |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | ROBERTS RULE $400: Of his horse, this general lamented, "Traveller, my only companion, I may say my only pleasure" Robert E. Lee |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | JAZZ $1200: On his dad Duke's death in 1974, he took over the orchestra Mercer Ellington |
| #4725, aired 2005-03-04 | CANADA, "A"? $1000: Centered in Nova Scotia, it was the name applied by France to its Atlantic coastal possessions in North America Acadia |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BRIT LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The alternate title of "Twelfth Night" means roughly the same as the title of this other Shakespeare play As You Like It |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | 1970s ALBUM COVERS $600: 1973:
Against a black background, a prism bends a beam of light into a colorful spectrum Dark Side of the Moon |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | THE STONES $1,500 (Daily Double): The black type of this October birthstone is quite rare, & more valuable than the fire variety opal |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | 1970s TV $2000: Tom Bosley voiced Harry Boyle, the dad referred to in the title of this animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | CHERCHEZ LA FEMME $800: Barry Sullivan,
Barrie Chase,
Barry Humphries Barrie Chase |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | DOUBLE DOWN $200: This constitutional provision protects you from self-incrimination & double jeopardy the Fifth Amendment |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | PHILOSOPHY $1600: Ancient Greek philosopher from Samos whose school promoted pleasure & let women & slaves join, too Epicurus |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | RHYME TIME $2,000 (Daily Double): A calamity that befalls the Dutch seat of government a Hague plague |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | "Y"? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU! $400: This web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Yahoo! |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | OFFICIAL STATE FOOD & DRINK $800: With flavors like lemon-lime & black cherry, this official soft drink of Nebraska keeps the kids smiling Kool-Aid |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | NICK BEFORE NIGHT $800: This kid lives with his grandparents in a boarding house--where kids aren't allowed Arnold |
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
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"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Seveen Kannankara, a junior from Bergenfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Seveen was 15 at the time...
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
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"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
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"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
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"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
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"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
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"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Marisa Tam, an archives assistant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 27 player (2010-09-20).
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Jon Lovitz, an actor from the movie High School High
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"He's a two-time Emmy nominee and star of the Columbia TriStar...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
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"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Patrick Macaraeg, a software engineer from Largo, Florida
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Season 20 3-time champion: $83,002 + $1,000.
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Eric Barela, an educational researcher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 3-time champion: $68,802 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: EBarela
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
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"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
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"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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