#8937, aired 2023-09-26 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $800: Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease yellow fever |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $800: Some nations, including Kenya, require visitors to be vaccinated against this disease spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes yellow fever |
#8799, aired 2023-02-02 | NOBEL-WINNING SCIENTISTS $800: Max Theiler's 1951 prize was for discoveries that helped combat this "colorful" mosquito-borne tropical disease yellow fever |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | UNDER QUARANTINE $1200: A 1793 yellow fever epidemic struck this city, then the U.S. capital, forcing the government to evacuate to Germantown Philadelphia |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | CAUSE OF DEATH $1200: Cartoonist Thomas Nast, working as a diplomat in Ecuador: this fever yellow fever |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1600: This Army major & his 21 associates were recognized with congressional gold medals for their work on yellow fever Walter Reed |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | IT WAS ALL YELLOW $800: Yellow fever destroys liver cells, causing this yellowing of the skin & eyes jaundice |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE GOOD DOCTOR $400: Getting an M.D. at 17, he later joined the Army Medical Corps, where he figured out the cause of yellow fever (Walter) Reed |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME $1600: "I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear", begins 2000's "Fever 1793", about an epidemic of this disease yellow fever |
#7961, aired 2019-04-01 | CROSSWORD CLUES "Y" $400: It can precede fever, jacket & pages
(6) yellow |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE DRY TORTUGAS $800: Formerly called Sand Key, Hospital Key once was home to a hospital built to battle this colorful disease yellow fever |
#7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: In 1899 this man for whom a military medical center is named finished his work on typhoid & turned to yellow fever Walter Reed |
#7692, aired 2018-02-06 | MEDICINE $1000: The Dick test is a skin test of susceptibility to this colorful affliction common in children scarlet fever |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1200: Around 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the war, most to typhoid & this fever rather than combat yellow fever |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $600: His headstone at Arlington says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge yellow fever" Walter Reed |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | I AM CURIOUS ABOUT YELLOW $1200: Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for this lonely character, died at sea from yellow fever Robinson Crusoe |
#7349, aired 2016-07-21 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: Seen through a young girl's eyes, "Fever 1793" recounts the yellow fever epidemic that swept this Penn. city Philadelphia |
#7176, aired 2015-11-23 | YELLOW $600: Yellow fever can turn your eyes & skin yellow, AKA this 8-letter condition jaundice |
#7100, aired 2015-06-26 | REEDING $200: Walter Reed led the team that proved that yellow fever was spread by these creatures mosquitoes |
#7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THEY WERE ALL "YELLOW" $200: An infectious tropical ailment caused by an arbovirus & characterized by jaundice yellow fever |
#7020, aired 2015-03-06 | THE TVA $800: A mosquito-eradication program by the TVA eliminated this disease that had been endemic to a regional waterway malaria |
#6761, aired 2014-01-27 | I GOT A "FEVER" $800: Patients who recover from the toxic part of this mosquito-borne disease become immune to it yellow fever |
#6588, aired 2013-04-17 | WHAT ARE YA...YELLOW? $1600: Part of yellow fever is the buildup of yellow bile pigments in the skin, this condition jaundice |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | "Y"s UP! $1,500 (Daily Double): The saffron scourge is an old name for this infectious disease yellow fever |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | THE PANAMA CANAL $5,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Panama.) The labor of building the canal was made possible by the discovery that mosquitoes spread deadly diseases; screens, fumigations, & oiling standing water helped quickly eliminate this disease & drastically reduce malaria yellow fever |
#6271, aired 2011-12-19 | DOCTOR, LAWYER, NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER $1000: This doc imprisoned for his role in the assassination of Lincoln saved many prisoners & guards in a yellow fever epidemic (Dr. Samuel) Mudd |
#6080, aired 2011-02-04 | HAZARDS $1000: Hazard was the middle name of this Battle of Lake Erie hero; yellow fever was his fatal hazard 6 years later Oliver Hazard Perry |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | VIRAL VIDEO $400: There's a DVD of the PBS "American Experience" show "The Great Fever", about Walter Reed & this "colorful" viral disease yellow fever |
#5888, aired 2010-03-31 | THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $400: Yellow fever is primarily carried by the Aedes aegypti species of this bloodsucker the mosquito |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | YOU'VE GOT YELLOW FEVER $400: After Dolley Payne's first husband died of yellow fever in 1793, she married this man Madison |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | YOU'VE GOT YELLOW FEVER $800: Yellow fever is caused by one of these microorganisms that get transmitted by mosquito bites a virus |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | YOU'VE GOT YELLOW FEVER $1200: From the old French for "yellowness", this skin condition puts the yellow in yellow fever jaundice |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | YOU'VE GOT YELLOW FEVER $2,000 (Daily Double): Control of yellow fever greatly aided the completion of this large-scale Central American project in 1914 the Panama Canal |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | YOU'VE GOT YELLOW FEVER $2000: A Washington, D.C. hospital bears the name of this man who fought yellow fever in Cuba & discovered its cause Walter Reed |
#5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1000: During the war he headed a committee to investigate the spread of yellow fever in military camps Walter Reed |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | MEDICINE & HISTORY $800: Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this "colorful" disease yellow fever |
#5503, aired 2008-07-09 | INFECTIOUS DISEASES $400: Severe cases of this fever can cause jaundice, which gave the disease its name yellow fever |
#5479, aired 2008-06-05 | SIX FEET UNDER $1600: His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever" Walter Reed |
#5450, aired 2008-04-25 | YELLOW THERE! $400: As a human guinea pig, Jesse Lazear helped Walter Reed prove this was spread by mosquitoes yellow fever |
#5280, aired 2007-07-20 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: "Fever 1793" depicts a teen's struggle during the 1793 epidemic of this "colorful" fever in Philadelphia yellow fever |
#5136, aired 2007-01-01 | GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR FEMININE SIDE $200: The females of these insects suck the blood of humans & animals, transmitting diseases like yellow fever a mosquito |
#4921, aired 2006-01-23 | MEDICAL PIONEERS $800: In 1901 this army surgeon who later had a D.C. hospital named for him published "The Prevention of Yellow Fever" Walter Reed |
#4831, aired 2005-09-19 | "Y"s UP! $1200: The Rockefeller Foundation scientists who developed a vaccine for this "colorful" disease often caught it yellow fever |
#4801, aired 2005-06-20 | NOTABLE NAMES $600: It wasn't yellow fever but chronic appendicitis that killed this army surgeon in 1902 Walter Reed |
#4669, aired 2004-12-16 | DISASTER DIGEST $2000: The early 1800s: This "colorful" disease kills tens of thousands in southern Spain yellow fever |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "YELLOW" FEVER $200: The business section of the phone directory the yellow pages |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "YELLOW" FEVER $400: It's joined to the Yangtze by the Grand Canal the Yellow River |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "YELLOW" FEVER $600: Ground-nesting member of the Vespidae family seen here a yellowjacket |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "YELLOW" FEVER $800: It's used by a soccer referee to caution a player against further rough play a yellow card |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "YELLOW" FEVER $1000: Founded in 1935, this city lies on the shores of the Northwest Territories' Great Slave Lake Yellowknife |
#4554, aired 2004-05-27 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $200: Sadly, Army nurse Clara Maass died in 1901 after she volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito carrying this yellow fever |
#4430, aired 2003-12-05 | DISEASES $600: Oliver Hazard Perry died of this now-tamed "colorful" disease after a diplomatic mission in Venezuela yellow fever |
#4406, aired 2003-11-03 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF HEALTH & MEDICINE $1000: While he was the museum's fifth curator, this Army Major & surgeon discovered the cause of yellow fever Walter Reed |
#4232, aired 2003-01-14 | FIRST LADIES $1600: Her first husband John Todd & their infant son died during a yellow fever epidemic in 1793 Dolley Madison |
#4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Army doctor who discovered that yellow fever was transmitted by clarinets & bassoons Walter Reed instruments |
#4055, aired 2002-03-29 | FEVER $400: Severe cases of this fever can cause jaundice, which gave the disease its name yellow fever |
#3944, aired 2001-10-25 | POX, PLAGUE & PESTILENCE $300: Causing thousands of deaths, abnormally high temperatures in 1803 led to Spanish outbreaks of this colorful fever yellow fever |
#3908, aired 2001-09-05 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $300: One good thing to come out of the war was achieving the near eradication of this disease yellow fever |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | COLOR MY WORLD $500: Jaundice & liver degeneration mark the second stage of this viral disease yellow fever |
#3790, aired 2001-02-09 | 1900 $500: Probably slapping & cursing, Walter Reed identified this insect as the cause of yellow fever a mosquito |
#3518, aired 1999-12-15 | ENDS IN AN F SOUND $500 (Daily Double): Walter Reed's is "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever" Epitaph |
#3517, aired 1999-12-14 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: Some members of the genus Aedes of this insect transmit yellow fever Mosquito |
#3415, aired 1999-06-11 | HUMANITARIANS $1000: He began studying yellow fever in 1897, 3 years prior to being appointed to a commission to find its cause Walter Reed |
#3165, aired 1998-05-08 | ARMY MAJORS $600: This major's major achievement was proving that mosquitos transmit yellow fever Walter Reed |
#3078, aired 1998-01-07 | "P"OTPOURRI $300: From the name of a river, it's the "fever" that tends to afflict national politicians Potomac fever |
#2982, aired 1997-07-15 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1900 he became head of a U.S. Army commission in Havana to study yellow fever Walter Reed |
#2900, aired 1997-03-21 | MILITARY GOVERNORS $400: During Leonard Wood's 1899-1902 term as military governor of Cuba, this disease was brought under control Yellow fever |
#2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THE INSECT WORLD $300: The Aedes Aegypti type of this insect spreads yellow fever & dengue fever mosquito |
#2597, aired 1995-12-12 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1901 this U.S. Army surgeon wrote the report "The Prevention of Yellow Fever" (Walter) Reed |
#2463, aired 1995-04-26 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $600: Walter Reed's experiments confirmed Carlos Finlay's theory that mosquitoes spread this disease yellow fever |
#2368, aired 1994-12-14 | "G" WHIZ! $600: This yellow state flower of Nebraska & Kentucky generally doesn't cause hay fever as many believe goldenrod |
#2200, aired 1994-03-11 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: In 1900 he was appointed head of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission Walter Reed |
#1970, aired 1993-03-12 | LAST SURVIVORS $800: James L. Hanberry, who died in 1961, was the last of the soldiers who took part in this doctor's yellow fever experiment Walter Reed |
#1904, aired 1992-12-10 | INSECTS $200: Many of these insects in the genus Aedes are carriers of yellow fever a mosquito |
#1577, aired 1991-06-11 | EARLY AMERICA $400: One year after her first husband died of yellow fever, Dolley Payne Todd married him Madison |
#1535, aired 1991-04-12 | INSECTS $100: People get yellow fever from these disease carriers a mosquito |
#1500, aired 1991-02-22 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: A D.C. medical center is named for this man who helped conquer yellow fever (Walter) Reed |
#1499, aired 1991-02-21 | COLORS $500: A reddened tongue is one of the symptoms of this "colorful" fever caused by Streptococcus bacteria scarlet fever |
#1498, aired 1991-02-20 | DEM BUGS $100: This insect, whose name is Spanish for "little fly", carries malaria, encephalitis & yellow fever the mosquito |
#1320, aired 1990-05-04 | EPITAPHS $1000: His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever" Walter Reed |
#1280, aired 1990-03-09 | SICKNESS & HEALTH $200: This mosquito-borne disease can be treated with chloroquine, primaquine or quinine malaria |
#1198, aired 1989-11-15 | U.S. HISTORY $400: This disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquto was brought to America on slave ships yellow fever |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | 1901 $1000: He proved that yellow fever is caused by a virus & spread by mosquitoes Walter Reed |
#1117, aired 1989-06-13 | BIOLOGY $200: The female Anopheles mosquito spreads malaria, & the female Aedes mosquito, this fever yellow fever |
#1014, aired 1989-01-19 | FLOWERS & TREES $1000: Some mistakenly think this yellow flower, once proposed for U.S. nat'l flower, causes hay fever goldenrod |
#984, aired 1988-12-08 | FAMOUS DOCTORS $1000: U.S. Army doctor whose studies on yellow fever established that mosquitos carry the disease (Walter) Reed |
#775, aired 1988-01-08 | MEDICINE $200: Both malaria & yellow fever are transmitted by the "bite" of this type of insect mosquito |
#662, aired 1987-06-23 | FAMOUS WALTERS $800: In 1900, this U.S. Army medical officer proved yellow fever is spread by mosquito bites Walter Reed |
#652, aired 1987-06-09 | SCIENCE TRIVIA $600: Country to which William Gorgas was sent in 1904 to battle the yellow fever menace Panama |
#410, aired 1986-04-04 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: 2 shots most often required for foreign travel are yellow fever & this one for bad food & water cholera |
#289, aired 1985-10-17 | AILMENTS $100: Tropical disease named for the color its victims turn a shade of yellow fever |
#264, aired 1985-09-12 | MEDICINE $200: Walter Reed proved that yellow fever is transmitted by these mosquitoes |
#8, aired 1984-09-19 | COLORS $200: Conjunctivitis pink eye |