| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | STATE HOLIDAYS $400: In Arizona & New Hampshire, Civil Rights Day coincides with this other January holiday Martin Luther King Day |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS $1200: This Georgia church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached bears the name of a memorial erected by Samuel in the Bible Ebenezer Baptist |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | ALLITERATIVE MOVIE TITLES $400: "Ride or Die" was the subtitle of the 2024 entry in this film series, featuring Martin Lawrence & Will Smith Bad Boys |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | VERY DEMURE, VERY MINDFUL $600: It often precedes a demure "bride" & also comes before "like a rose" in a Dean Martin song blushing |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $200: As you might guess, hall of fame goalie Martin Brodeur, known as "Satan's Wallpaper", played 21 years with this NHL team the Devils |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $1200: The Vatican Apostolic (formerly "Secret") Archives has the Jan. 3, 1521 document excommunicating this German Martin Luther |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | "M"INENT WRITERS $800: An actor, playwright, banjoist & much more, he called his autobiography "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life" Steve Martin |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | HATE-FUL QUOTES $400: Among the quotations engraved in the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial is "Hate cannot drive out hate, only" this "can do that" love |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | OCTOBER 31 $800: Tradition says Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on a Wittenberg church door in 1517, launching this religious revolution the Reformation |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $200: "A Storm of Swords" is the third book in a series by him George R.R. Martin |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | 6 BY 6 NAMES $1000: In 1517 he sent a letter to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz criticizing the sale of indulgences to free sinners from divine punishment Martin Luther |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1633, when New Netherland occupied part of New York state, ancestors of this 19th c. U.S. president settled in Rensselaer County Martin Van Buren |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | ASSASSINS $1200: In 1977 this assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from prison but was recaptured after 54 hours Ray |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $800: Dunno what he had in mind--Buffy? Fern? But in 1952, Martin Charteris asked her what regnal name she'd use; she said, "Mine" Elizabeth II |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | NATIONAL HISTORIC PARKS $1600: The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta includes MLK's birthplace & this church where he served as pastor the Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $800: Rodgers & Hammerstein won a Pulitzer Prize for this 1949 musical that starred Mary Martin as Nellie Forbush South Pacific |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | FILM FROM FICTION $1600: Loosely based on a Martin Amis novel, this film set just outside of Auschwitz won the Best Intl. Feature Oscar in 2024 The Zone of Interest |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | FILM-POURRI $400: David Oyelowo starred as him in the 2014 biopic "Selma" Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | FILM-POURRI $1200: Director Martin Scorsese said that Robert De Niro improvised this 4-word line in "Taxi Driver" you talkin' to me |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | KEY OR PEELE $800: In 2017 Keegan made his Broadway debut opposite Amy Schumer in "Meteor Shower", a comedy by this man, a "wild & crazy guy" himself once Steve Martin |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | TIME TO BUY SOME STUFF $1200: The Martin D18E guitar that this late frontman used on "MTV Unplugged" was bought in 2020 for $6 million Cobain |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | FOR YOU PAGE $400: He dedicated a 2000 book to Phyllis, "who made me put the dragons in" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $2,500 (Daily Double): Martin Van Buren's first order, March 7, 1837, commanded the surgeon general to accompany this ailing man headed home to Tennessee Andrew Jackson |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | BRITISH HISTORY $600: Pope Leo X gave this monarch the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521 for his written work against Martin Luther Henry VIII |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: His "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" takes place nearly a century before the events of "A Game of Thrones" Martin |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | "I" ON HISTORY $1000: Martin Luther protested against the system of these that could be purchased by church members indulgences |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In 1968, just 2 months prior to his own assassination, he attended the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. RFK |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | HISTORIC SHIPS $400: The 48-gun galleon San Martin was the flagship of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, who led this group against England in 1588 the Spanish Armada |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | HISTORIC DESCENDANTS $2000: A descendant of Martin Luther, this 19th century German mathematician & astronomer gave his name to the object seen here Möbius |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS $400: In 1967 Muhammad Ali sent a telegram to him at the Birmingham County Jail: "Hope that you are comfortable not suffering" Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | NOVELS $600: This Dickens title character comes from a venerable family, as "at least one Chuzzlewit came over with William the Conqueror" Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | NAMES IN FASHION $600: Learning to sew in Auschwitz, Martin Greenfield went on to dress presidents, Sinatra & this mobster who wore a 40-short Meyer Lansky |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $2000: Stephen King wrote the novel "11/22/63"; Michael Eric Dyson wrote a nonfiction book about this date that "Changed America" April 4, 1968 |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $200: On this show, Martin Short tells Steve Martin, no concertina: "You are scoring a murder mystery, not DJing a hobbit's wedding" Only Murders in the Building |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | OH, THOSE DUTCH! $800: A remnant of the Dutch colonial empire is the southern third of this Caribbean island, the non-French part Saint Martin |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | VIDEO GAMES $1600: George R.R. Martin helped with the lore for this sword & sorcery title that won a 2022 game of the year trophy Elden Ring |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $800: Big Ser, actually! This author wrote, "Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, thundered past them like an avalanche" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #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 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,300 (Daily Double): 19th c. liberation fighter José de San Martín got about as high in the military as possible, named this of the republic of Peru the generalissimo |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | KIDDY LIT $400: In 1987 illustrator Martin Handford began challenging readers to find a guy in a striped shirt & cap in this series of books Where's Waldo? |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? $2000: This band with songs like "1985" & "Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day", the "Phineas & Ferb" theme, riffed on a Steve Martin sketch for its name Bowling for Soup |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The Beatles were just one of many artists with whom this legendary English producer crafted hit after hit George Martin |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $600: In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style Greco-Roman wrestling |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $1000: In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie with a "throw-off" in this field event; Sheridan won with a spin of 127' 10 1/4" discus |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $400: St. Paul wrote his epistle to the Philippians from here, also a creative spot for Martin Luther King Jr. jail |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $400: Waking up in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", Steve realizes the hand of this late, great actor is not between 2 pillows (John) Candy |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $800: In 2021 Mr. Steve Martin co-created this Hulu series where New Yorkers are just droppin' like flies Only Murders in the Building |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $1200: This title Daryl Hannah character says to Steve, "You have a big nose! You have a beautiful, great, big, flesh-&-bone nose!" Roxanne |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $1600: OK, so it's complicated--in "It's Complicated", Steve's co-star was this man, also Steve's co-host for the Oscars Alec Baldwin |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | MR. STEVE MARTIN $2000: After Steve asks Lily Tomlin why she thinks she'll come back from the dead in this 1984 film, Lily replies, "Because I'm rich" All of Me |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $1000: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) Since they marched together, went to jail together & even had a pillow fight together right before Martin's death, MLK & this minister are referred to as the civil rights twins on the show Ralph Abernathy |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | MISCELLANY $1600: This British make of car that James Bond enjoyed driving was co-founded by Lionel Martin Aston Martin |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $600: In 1999 the Asian edition of Time ranked this pocket monster the second-best person of the year, behind Ricky Martin Pikachu |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $100: That's what I call range! Rodrigo Prieto was behind the lens for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" & this 2023 Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | EXISTENTIALISM $1200: In 1927 Martin Heidegger wrote about this "& Time"; Jean-Paul Sartre later pondered this same word "& Nothingness" Being |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE MAN, BANNED $8,200 (Daily Double): The 1521 Edict of Worms banned his writings & declared him a heretic Martin Luther |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' OCCUPATIONS $2000: Martin Dysart in "Equus" a psychiatrist |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | BLACK HISTORY YEAR $400: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C. 1963 |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $400: George R.R. Martin:
"A Dance with Dragons";
"A Storm of Swords";
"A Game of Thrones" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS $2000: 2020:
Detectives played by Will Smith & Martin Lawrence fight drug lords in Miami Bad Boys for Life |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | OKLAHOMA! $600: Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the tribal capital of this Native American nation Cherokee |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $800: She married Martin D. in 1954, 39 years before William J. appointed her to the Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $800: Capricorn is a goat who scales mountains, like this Capricorn who said in 1968, "I've been to the mountaintop" MLK (Martin Luther King) |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | "HOUSE" $2000: This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes a house martin |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $600: Theologian born in Saxony in 1483 + last name = this theologian born in Atlanta, GA in 1929 Martin Luther King |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $1000: Ralph Abernathy conducted his friend Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral service at this church Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $400: The 86th of these asked why the pope builds St. Peter's Basilica with the money of the poor & not his own the 95 Theses |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $400: Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller Jaws |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $1200: You'll be thanking every saint you can think of after hitting the runway of this Caribbean island with ties to Holland & France Saint Martin |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMETHING'S ROTTEN $800: Steve Martin & Michael Caine were these title conmen in a 1988 remake of a comedy starring David Niven & Marlon Brando Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $200: "& Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived & here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit
"I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now..." "...Baby One More Time" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $400: Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist
"I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter /
Dancing through the fire /
'Cause I am a..." Katy Perry |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $600: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000
"Don't give up on your faith /
Love comes to those who believe it" Celine Dion |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $1000: The finale of "& Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit
"Come on /
All those things I shouldn't do /
But you dance, dance, dance /
And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'" "Can't Stop The Feeling!" |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | MOMENTOUS DATES $1,000 (Daily Double): On January 3, 1521 the Catholic Church excommunicated this man Martin Luther |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $1200: Though only in his 30s, Martin Sheen suffered a near-fatal heart attack while making this Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ON BROADWAY $2000: This playwright seen on opening night of "The Cripple of Inishmaan" has more recently made a movie with a similar title Martin McDonagh |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $800: A fine cognac:
Monsieur Martin Rémy |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | TV THERAPISTS $1600: Dr. Linda Martin, therapist for this title guy, worked on a book about him called "Sympathy for the Devil" Lucifer |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | CAR STUFF $1000: This British automaker teamed up with its competitor Healey to produce classic '50s sports cars like the Sprite Austin |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $400: 1789, & Klaproth is fine / This element, found using his cranium / 238 is a type of it, folks / For Martin discovered... uranium |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $200: This civil rights leader said, "The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SLIDING INTO YOUR "D.M."s $800: The two celebrities seen here, one was a member of the Brat Pack & the other the Rat Pack Demi Moore & Dean Martin |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Brenda Walsh & Donna Martin join Dorit, Kyle & the other wealthy women on a Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: For his services in fighting this fleet, British explorer Martin Frobisher was knighted in 1588 the Spanish Armada |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | TV SHOW LINGO $2000: In the '60s this comedy mishmash from Dan Rowan & Dick Martin introduced bippy, as in "You bet your sweet..." Laugh-In |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA $600: Fans of these from Pennsylvania's C.F. Martin & Co. have included Muddy Waters, Hank Williams & Willie Nelson guitars |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | TV, YOU SAY! $400: As Oliver, Martin Short has a shocking revelation on this Hulu show:
"Rock icon Sting is a dog-poisoning murderer" Only Murders in the Building |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | POP MUSIC $1200: Ricky Martin had a hit with "Livin' La Vida Loca", while this British group topped the charts with "Viva La Vida" Coldplay |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: After posting his 95 Theses on the door of a castle church, this Reformation leader was branded a heretic Martin Luther |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | UNIONS $400: She was a voice student when she met Martin Luther King, a Boston theology student Coretta Scott King |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $1600: As the title of a John Cusack movie sums up, Martin Blank is a hitman going to his reunion in this Detroit suburb Grosse Pointe |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $1000: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) As co-host of the official podcast for HBO's "House of the Dragon", I shared my interview with this creator of Westeros who likened the struggle for the Iron Throne to Shakespeare tragedy (George R.R.) Martin |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | WORKING 9 2 5 $800: Tradition says Martin Luther posted this many theses to the door of a castle church in 1517 95 |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $1600: It's the "L" in the SCLC, the Atlanta-based agency co-created by Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | THE REAL REAL HOUSEWIVES OF... $200: ...Atlanta honor this leader by visiting his national historical park & touring the home where he was born in 1929 (Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $400: Martin Luther King never had a chance to meet this man who inspired him, but he did meet with his son Ramdas Gandhi |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $200: Atlanta is home to the national historical park devoted to this reverend & civil rights crusader Martin Luther King (Jr.) |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTS $400: Charlie & Emilio's dad, this actor/activist has been arrested 60+ times, including at a nuclear test site Martin Sheen |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | A SHORT CATEGORY $1600: Martin Short's 5-decade career includes a 2022 acting Emmy nomination as Oliver Putnam in this Hulu comedy Only Murders in the Building |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | HISTORY $800: The unanimous election of Martin V in 1417 led to the end of the reign of these alternate religious rulers the antipopes |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HISTORIC QUOTATIONS $1000: Martin Luther King said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward" this outcome justice |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $400: The 2021 Einstein Prize went to Clifford Martin Will & Saul Teukolsky for "contributions to observational tests of general" this relativity |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: In 1520 Martin Luther refused to retract 41 of his 95 Theses; he was later hit with this ecclesiastical censure excommunication |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $400: Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes George R.R. Martin |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Iconic 1950s movie "Rebel" who was a member of the Rat Pack James Dean Martin |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $400: In 2017, Keegan-Michael Key & this comic made their Broadway debuts in Steve Martin's "Meteor Showers" Amy Schumer |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $400: Feeling heat at Worms in 1521, he is said to have declared, "Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise" Martin Luther |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | TROPHY HUSBAND $800: When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money" Martin Scorsese |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $200: Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses Halloween (October 31st) |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $800: The title "Dean and Me" refers to Dean Martin & this other actor Jerry Lewis |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $1000: At first, "Martin Chuzzlewit" had poor sales, so Dickens added a section set in this country he'd just visited the United States |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THE DEVIL $600: Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur & Scott Stevens led this team to its first Stanley Cup in 1995 the New Jersey Devils |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sir Martin Evans shared a 2007 Nobel Prize for his discoveries with these undifferentiated biological units stem cells |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC CARS $1600: In "The Spy Who Loved Me", James Bond had esprit with this carmaker's Esprit--it converted into a submarine a Lotus |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC CARS $2000: Here's a real beauty from the 1960s, this hyphenated British make's 3000 an Austin-Healey |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | MOVIES WITH NARRATORS $400: 1979: Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) regrets he's still only in Saigon Apocalypse Now |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $800: The story of Martin de Porres, the 1st Black saint in the Americas, includes this skill, letting him hover before the altar levitation |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Near the Mass. Ave. T stop on the Orange Line is where this man lived in the 1950s getting his theology Ph.D. at Boston University Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $800: On film, Steve Martin was a "Dirty Rotten" one of these a scoundrel |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | THAT'S MY BOY! $400: He fathered
Emilio Estevez Martin Sheen |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $800: Martin the Warrior in the "Redwall" fantasy series is a heroic one of these rodents a mouse |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Steve Martin is alarmed that his daughter has gotten very big hair & is betrothed to Boris Karloff as a monster Father of the Bride of Frankenstein |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $800: Broadening his message from civil rights, on March 2, 1965 Martin Luther King made his first public statement against this the Vietnam War |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | MRS., MISS OR MR. $1000: Judith Martin began this etiquette column in 1978 "Miss Manners" |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | MOVIES"!" $600: Steve Martin, Chevy Chase & Martin Short, collectively; now turn your head & cough Three Amigos! |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | COLONEL KNOWLEDGE $800: Martin Mull played him in the movie based on the game Clue Colonel Mustard |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $1000: J.L.M.,
a cop on "Law & Order" & "The Flash" Jesse L. Martin |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | FANTASY FICTION $600: In George R.R. Martin's saga of Westeros, this blustery & bloody volume follows "A Game of Thrones" & "A Clash of Kings" A Storm of Swords |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | WHAT THE LETTER SAYS $1200: In 1964 he wrote from Mecca that he had prayed with white people whose belief in Allah had "removed the 'white' from their minds" Malcolm X |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BOOK PARTS, REIMAGINED $1000: At the March on Washington, A. Philip Randolph gave this for Martin Luther King the introduction |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $800: The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one Casino |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $400: Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from a jail in this city Birmingham |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $1600: Martin Luther & John Calvin both believed in this religious doctrine that life & salvation are already decided by God ahead of time predestination |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | KICKIN' IT $1000: Dean Martin sang, "How lucky can one guy be? I kissed her & she kissed me, like the fella once said, ain't that" this? a kick in the head |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY $2,000 (Daily Double): She appeared on Broadway in "Lute Song" with Yul Brynner & Mary Martin Nancy Davis (Reagan) |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $400: Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series ice & fire |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: The subtitle of "I Must Say" by this Canadian & "SNL" veteran is "My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend" Martin Short |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $1600: Martin Luther King Jr. attended this historically Black men's college in Atlanta Morehouse |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | IN THEIR EXPERT OPINION $400: Martin Luther reportedly said of this contemporary, "this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy" Copernicus |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: His national memorial in Washington, D.C. was unveiled in 2011 MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: In 1832 he missed Senate confirmation to be minister to the U.K. by one vote but he'd soon get Jackson's MVB vote as veep Martin Van Buren |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOTHERS OF INVENTION $1,000 (Daily Double): The wife of Martin Cooper, "Father of the Cellular Phone", Arlene Harris developed this cell phone brand for seniors Jitterbug |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | STRIPES $200: Trying to locate this title character in books by illustrator Martin Handford? Look for his 2-toned striped shirt & hat Waldo |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | THE HUGO AWARDS $400: Khal Drogo & Dany are mentioned in chapter one of the Best Novella in 1997, "Blood of the Dragon" by this man George R.R. Martin |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | DEADLY SINS, ELSEWHERE $800: U2 honored Martin Luther King, singing, "Free at last, they took your life, they could not take your" this pride |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | THE 4th CENTURY $400: In Gaul, St. Martin of Tours founded the first of these secluded places in western Europe a monastery |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | PAINTINGS $800: Lucas Cranach the Elder painted many portraits of this friend & Reformation leader, including the one seen here Martin Luther |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | A LECTURER $400: The audience at Martin Heidegger's 1924 lecture on "The Concept of" this may have had the concept that it moves slowly time |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN INSTRUCTOR $800: Martin Kove is best known for playing this type of Japanese-named instructor a sensei |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | MUSEUMS $2000: This motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated honors his legacy as part of the National Civil Rights Museum the Lorraine Motel |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | COMEDIANS' CATCHPHRASES $1200: "Well, excuuuuuse me!" Steve Martin |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, received a copy of this Oct. 31, 1517 document the 95 Theses of Martin Luther |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OCEAN: A GLOBAL ODYSSEY $800: A very brave cleaner shrimp gets a meal of parasites & dead skin from the mouth of one of these scary predators a moray |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $400: Mr. Payne, played by the funny Mr. Lawrence Martin |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THE BANDS THEY FRONTED $2000: As a teen:
Ricky Martin Menudo |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | YOUTHFUL POP STARS $800: This 17-year-old singer was appearing on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" when he released his album "Ricky" Ricky Nelson |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | & THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR GOES TO... $2000: Martin Landau, as this real-life actor in "Ed Wood" (Bela) Lugosi |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | RELIGION $200: The Christ child replaced St. Nicholas as the bringer of gifts as part of this movement led by Martin Luther Reformation |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | GENIUS: ARETHA $400: (Cynthia Erivo presents the clue.) Aretha was a passionate supporter of this man, a longtime family friend; in February 1968, he gave her a special award on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference & two months later, she sang at his memorial service MLK (Martin Luther King Jr.) |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | INSTRUMENTAL TO THE SONG $400: He plays piano on "Clocks"
(2002) Chris Martin |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $800: 2015: He continued "Livin' La Vida Loca" with the best Latin Pop Album, "A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Deluxe Edition)" Ricky Martin |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AFRICAN AMERICANS PRE-1860 $1200: The first African American to fight in this corps, John Martin helped capture 5 ships in a Revolutionary War attack the Marine Corps |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered Brink's |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $1000: In "A Feast of Crows" by George R.R. Martin, this family of Jaime & Cersei rules from the iron throne Lannister |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | FORE! NO, 5 GOLF MOVIES $2000: The 1953 golf comedy saw this man play "The Caddy" to his cool friend Dean Martin (Jerry) Lewis |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | THE CARS $600: For the 2016 James Bond movie "Spectre", this British automaker built a new model, the DB10, especially for the film Aston Martin |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AT FREDDY'S $1,000 (Daily Double): Frederick the Wise, ruler of Saxony, protected this controversial reformer at Wartburg Castle in 1521 (Martin) Luther |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1200: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas The Dying of the Light |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | CELEB NAME IN THE MIDDLE $1200: James
____ ____
Scorsese Dean Martin |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | 20th CENTURY TV $800: In 1980 Tom Hanks came aboard this ABC show as Rick Martin; hope he tipped Isaac the bartender well The Love Boat |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | "A" IS FOR WRITER $800: Last name of Kingsley, the creator of "Lucky Jim" in 1954, & his son Martin, who found "Success" in 1978 Amis |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | POP CULTURE $1000: Mobster & assassin Frank Sheeran is the title character of this 2019 Martin Scorsese mob epic The Irishman |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: The infamous Red Wedding takes place in this author's "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: These 4 words by which Martin Luther King's August 1963 speech is known come more than halfway through it I have a dream |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | A STUDENT OF TELEVISION $1000: In 1999 class was in session for Martin Starr, Linda Cardellini & Jason Segel in this rhymingly named NBC show Freaks and Geeks |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | SHAKE! $800: Historic handshakes include a 2012 one between Elizabeth II & Martin McGuinness, a member of this "Army" turned politician the IRA |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1840 this former president went to St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans to honor an event that occurred 25 years earlier Andrew Jackson |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ATLANTA: NEWS CLUES $200: (Jeff Hullinger from Atlanta's 11Alive presents the clue.) In December 1964, our news was focused on Oslo, Norway as Atlanta's own Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted this prestigious award on behalf of all those seeking a reign of freedom & a rule of justice the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ROLE IN COMMON $600: Peter Sellers &
Steve Martin Inspector Clouseau |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | LABORATORIES $2000: It's the stinky name for Lockheed Martin's advanced aeronautics lab that developed aircraft like the SR-71 Blackbird the Skunk Works |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $1600: Steve Martin & John Candy got a lot of comedic mileage after they ended up spooning in bed in this 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Alteration" by Kingsley Amis, this man became Pope Germanicus I in the 16th century so the Reformation never happened Martin Luther |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | HISTORIC COUPLES $400: About their cause, his wife Coretta said, "We had been thrust into the forefront of a movement to liberate oppressed people" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | FORTIFY YOURSELF $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1835 Mexican General Martin Perfecto de Cos fortified this mission in San Antonio, but soon had to surrender it the Alamo |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $1200: Rick Rossovich plays the handsome oaf for whom Steve Martin writes exquisite letters in this "Cyrano"-inspired movie Roxanne |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $600: Head to the Hispanic Society of America for a dazzling art collection, like Martín Gómez's 16th century retablo, also known as this type of piece an altarpiece |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | LITERARY KINGS $200: The death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a deadly chain reaction in a novel by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $400: Atlanta's Freedom Park features a sculpture of this iconic Baptist minister, his arm outstretched Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | DURING THE RENAISSANCE $1200: The sale of these reductions in punishment by the church troubled Martin Luther & influenced him to take action indulgences |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SKIPPER $800: In 1492 Martín & Vincente Pinzón commanded these 2 craft while Columbus captained the flagship the Niña & the Pinta |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | GETTING THE KEY TO THE CITY $200: In 2020 these 2 "Bad Boys for Life" got the key to Miami & were made honorary police officers Will Smith & Martin Lawrence |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | HYMNS $1000: From Martin Luther: "A mighty" this "is our God, a bulwark never failing" a fortress |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE $2000: In 2019 the Defense Dept. placed the largest order in its history, $34 billion to this 2-named co. for a batch of F-35 fighter planes Lockheed Martin |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | CELEBRITY EXES $200: This actress & husband Chris Martin of Coldplay called their split a "conscious uncoupling" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | THE RENAISSANCE $2000: Martin V, first pope of the Renaissance, was offered digs in this French city where the alternate papacy had been based, but said no Avignon |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | BILLS, BILLS, BILLS $800: In 2013 "Killing Jesus" by Martin Dugard & this pundit topped the bestseller list Bill O'Reilly |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Philosophers Buber & Heidegger Martin |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $800 (Daily Double): 1968: "I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | CAR "MA" $600: In 1914 a brand name was born when he raced cars up Aston Hill (Lionel) Martin |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | REPORT CARDS OF HISTORICAL FIGURES $200: Civics: Speaks with confidence, especially in 1963 on having "a dream deeply rooted in the American dream" Martin Luther King |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPORTS UPSETS $200: At the 2009 U.S. Open, Juan Martín del Potro knocked off this reigning world No. 1 Swiss player in 5 sets Federer |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $400: After nearly a decade of waiting, this author assures us "The Winds of Winter" is coming--there's an excerpt on his website George R.R. Martin |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $1600: He wrote part of 1809's "History of New York" while staying in what would later be Martin Van Buren's home, Lindenwald Washington Irving |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME $1600: VP Richard Johnson lived openly with a female slave--one reason this party dropped him from the 1840 ticket with Martin Van Buren the Democratic Party |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) One of the most memorable moments in Olympic history was when track stars Tommie Smith & John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute in Mexico City in this year of escalated racial tensions six months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | SECOND CITY ALUMNI $1600: She joined Second City Toronto in the 1970s as Gilda Radner's understudy & is still on TV with her SCTV pal Eugene Levy Catherine O'Hara |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $400: A civil rights leader: Jeffrey Wright in "Boycott" & Nelsan Ellis in "The Butler" Martin Luther King |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $600: Later to play U.S. President Bartlet, in 1974 he played the title deserter facing death in "The Execution of Private Slovik" (Martin) Sheen |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: The only land border between the Netherlands & France is on this 34-square-mile Caribbean island split between them Saint Martin |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: 2 aided by José de San Martín, Bernardo O'Higgins took control of this country after beating Spanish forces in 1817 Chile |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | EARLY ROLES $2000: That's Megan Fox dancing in a club in this Will Smith/ Martin Lawrence sequel Bad Boys II |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | HAVE AN ARTSY CHRISTMASTIME $2000: This composer's 1734 "Christmas Oratorio" uses as part of its text Martin Luther's Bible translation Johann Sebastian Bach |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WHEN TV WAS FREE $1200: It was as if Earth ceased its rotation when this CBS soap that had featured actors like Meg Ryan & Martin Sheen went off the air in 2010 As the World Turns |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | COMEDIANS ON AUDIBLE $1200: He says he was "Born Standing Up": I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining and four were spent in wild success Steve Martin |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRES $400: Smokey was named for Smokey Joe Martin, a member of this famed urban force for 46 years & a hero of the "Greenwich Volcano" blaze the New York Fire Department |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | THE WESTERN CONFERENCE $800: At the 1822 Guayaquil Conference, José de San Martín met this other South American liberator in western Ecuador (Simón) Bolívar |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON $2,000 (Daily Double): 10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" Let freedom ring |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | TV PETS $400: The standard by which all TV pets will forever be measured is this beloved Collie owned by young Timmy Martin Lassie |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | WHAT PREZ PRECEDED... $3,800 (Daily Double): Martin Van Buren, & you can take that to the bank Andrew Jackson |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | AUTOMATONS $1200: This 2011 Martin Scorsese movie is based on a Brian Selznick book about a boy who fixes an automaton with a secret message Hugo |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | PLAYER'S PIANO $600: At a 2009 "End of Decade Clearout Sale", this band's Chris Martin auctioned off 2 old pianos, one used on "Parachutes" Coldplay |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $1200: Robert Kennedy's April 4, 1968 speech in Indianapolis on the shocking death of this man is now enshrined forever Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | WHICH PRESIDENT? $7,000 (Daily Double): 7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | LITERARY LADIES $800: On Ursula Le Guin's passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century science fiction & fantasy |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | PARTS OF SPEECHES $800: MLK, 1963:
"They will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of..." their character |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | SECRETARIES OF WAR $1600: This Christmas plant with red leaves was named for Martin van Buren's Secretary of War a poinsettia |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $800: Valyrian,
Braavosi George R.R. Martin |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | FEMALE SINGERS MONONYMOUS $2000: Martin Luther King Jr. called this singer & activist "The Queen of American Folk Music" Odetta |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | HISTORICAL MUSEUMS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Museum of the American Revolution.) Figures bring to life some of the war's younger participants, like Joseph Plumb Martin, who first enlisted at 15 & described arriving at this Pennsylvania site in 1777 "to take up our winter quarters with no clothing, no provisions, and disheartened as need be" Valley Forge |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $200: Martin Truex Jr. of this racing circuit sped away with Best Driver NASCAR |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $1000: Director Paul Greengrass dramatizes the 2011 attacks that killed 77 in this nation in "22 July" Norway |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | WHAT HAPPENED? $2000: In 1673 these 2 French explorers were disappointed to find that the Mississippi River doesn't flow to the Pacific Marquette and Joliet |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $1600: The field of digging up human artifacts is occasionally spelled with an ash in the middle--these 2 letters mushed together an A and an E |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 1963 Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech at this Washington, D.C. landmark the Lincoln Memorial |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | KOWALSKI, FILM ANALYSIS $1600: Big nose & all, this funnyman helps a friend woo Roxanne Kowalski in a 1987 movie Steve Martin |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | FILL IN THEIR DATES $5,000 (Daily Double): Martin Luther King:
____ 15, 1929 -
April 4, 1968 January |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $400: John Mahoney came into our homes as Martin Crane, father of this sitcom title character Frasier |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | THEIR THIRD SPOUSE $1200: Martin Scorsese:
This actress & daughter of Ingrid Bergman Isabella Rossellini |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | 1990s SONGS $400: "Her skin's the color of mocha" in this Ricky Martin hit from 1999 "Livin' La Vida Loca" |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: In 1991 William Martin called this North Carolina evangelist a "Prophet With Honor" Billy Graham |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $200: "Fire & Blood" is a novel from this author, set centuries before the events in "Game of Thrones" (George) Martin |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $1600: The first time Steve Martin publicly showed his art collection was in 2001 at this Las Vegas hotel the Bellagio |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | HEY, "B.B." $600: The door at the castle church of Wittenberg once served as this; Martin Luther made use of it the bulletin board |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BEHIND THE SCENES $1000: The doc "Hearts of Darkness" has extended footage of Martin Sheen's unscripted hotel room breakdown from this film Apocalypse Now |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $600: Each year the most searched-for author has been not a novelist but this man who penned "Letter from Birmingham Jail" MLK (Martin Luther King) |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE $800: Inner Circle,
1987;
Martin Lawrence & Will Smith,
1995 "Bad Boys" |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | SHARING THE ISLAND $400: Saint Martin (or Sint Maarten):
France & this other one-time European colonial power the Netherlands |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $400: "'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | LETTER PERFECT $800: It comes before "22" in the name of a raptor produced by Lockheed Martin F |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | DIET LAND $5,000 (Daily Double): Traveling on foot, this reformer missed the Diet of Augsburg in 1518 but got a horse & wagon & made it to the one in Worms Martin Luther |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | HE WAS SENATOR & PRESIDENT $1000: This New Yorker & future president joined the Senate in 1821 & soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt Martin Van Buren |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | TV DOCTORS $1000: On public TV, an opinionated medico in a Cornish village isn't "Doc Ellingham" but "Doc" this first name (Doc) Martin |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NORMAN LEAR, THE FIRST 96 YEARS $2000: (Norman Lear delivers the clue.) Early in my career, I wrote material for comedy duos like this pair of stars, one a crooner & one a wacky future director Martin & Lewis |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | LAUGHING $800: The Festrunk brothers were the "Two Wild & Crazy Guys" played by this pair on "Saturday Night Live" Steve Martin & Dan Aykroyd |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MARCH ON! $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a march route on the monitor.) The official route of a 1963 march started at the Washington Monument & moved down either Constitution or Independence Avenue to see this Baptist minister speak Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | BUST A MOVIE $1600: Dean Martin & this longtime comedy partner starred in the 1956 romp "Hollywood or Bust" (Jerry) Lewis |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | RED ALL OVER $1600: This red silicate gem is the birthstone of Martin Luther King Jr. & of all thoroughbred horses a garnet |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $2000: Comedy time:
"Silver ____" with Pryor & Wilder;
"Blue ____" with Martin Lawrence streak |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | VISITING ATLANTA $200: His crypt, in a reflecting pool, is engraved, "Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | SOCIAL SCIENCE $2000: Political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called elections "the democratic" this type of Marxian "struggle" class struggle |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.) In February 1963, months before his "I Have A Dream" speech, he delivered an early version of the speech right here at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn to a packed congregation Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | LEGAL LATIN $3,000 (Daily Double): Vanished Nazi Martin Bormann was tried this way in absentia |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | AVIATION $400: It was a Sea Knight one of these that left Saigon with Ambassador Martin, ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam a helicopter |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | ELECTION 1968 $400: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue.) Despite fears for his safety, Robert F. Kennedy spoke as scheduled in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968 but instead of his prepared remarks, gave a shocked crowd this news Martin Luther King's assassination |
| #7834, aired 2018-10-04 | THE BODY PART IN THE FILM TITLE $800: Steve Martin's "The Man with Two ____" The Man with Two Brains |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: Westeros & Valyria George R.R. Martin |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $1000: Lockheed Martin adopted the name "Skunk Works" from a similar name for a backwoods still in this comic strip Li'l Abner |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | ONE-SYLLABLE CITIES $1000: A huge Reformation monument stands in this city where Martin Luther stood before the diet in 1521 Worms |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | COMPAN"EE"S $400: A 1995 merger added "Martin" to the name of this aerospace company Lockheed |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $400: In addition to the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", this wild & crazy guy writes novels like "The Pleasure of My Company" Steve Martin |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | THE 16th CENTURY $1200: Martin Luther was asked to recant his criticisms of this church at a diet convened in 1521 in this Rhine River city Worms |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | O'BOY $1000: Here's this ex-governor of Maryland debating Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries (Martin) O'Malley |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | 4, 4 $1000: In 1848 Martin Van Buren was the presidential candidate of this party that opposed slavery in western territories the Free Soil party |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | THE FBI's 10 MOST WANTED LIST $1,000 (Daily Double): The list was already full, but this man was specially added in April 1968 after a high-profile Memphis murder James Earl Ray |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | CONFUSING AUTHORS $1200: Subtract an "I" from the last name of the author of "Prime Witness" & you get this comedian & author of "Shopgirl" (Steve) Martin |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BORN & DIED $200: He was born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta; died with a dream in his heart in Memphis on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | THE REAL GAME OF THRONES $400: George R.R. Martin said the Wars of the Roses inspired "Game of Thrones"--the Lannisters & Starks fit these 2 families York and Lancaster |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | BROADWAY NAMES $400: Larry Hagman's mom, Mary Martin, said that of all her stage roles, this one was her favorite Peter Pan |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | MUSICAL KINGS $2000: This Rat Packer was the "King of Cool", the title of his greatest hits CD featuring "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" Dean Martin |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | SURPRISING MUSICIANS $600: Martin Luther was known to pluck a string or two on this instrument a lute |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DUAL CITIZENS $800: Spain overlooked its rules on dual citizenships with Ricky Martin & Benicio Del Toro, who are from this U.S. island Puerto Rico |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | ON TV $1600: On PBS, Benedict Cumberbatch's brilliant but wacky Sherlock is kept grounded by Dr. Watson, played by this actor (Martin) Freeman |
| #7729, aired 2018-03-29 | HIS PANIC $400: This president inherited Andrew Jackson's financial policies, which spurred on the stock world's "Panic of 1837" Martin Van Buren |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | THE RHYME OF SIR NEVILLE MARRINER $2000: Fans of Sir Neville habitually hearten/
to hear him with this band that mentions St. Martin the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | BY THE NUMBERS $1000: Martin Luther's posted number of theses 95 |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | A YEAR ENDING IN 8 $400: Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy are assassinated 1968 |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | MASTERCLASS $1000: Steve Martin explains how he found the voice of Ruprecht in this film with Michael Caine Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | SOUP $600: Tripe and calf's feet go into this spicy Mexican soup that shares its name with Ricky Martin's former band menudo |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | PRESIDENTIAL BURIAL PLACES $1000: Kinderhook, New York Martin Van Buren |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | JANUARY $200: The third Monday in January is a U.S. federal holiday honoring this man Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | "MORE" THAN A CATEGORY $600: Martin Luther King Jr. attended this historically black college in Atlanta Morehouse |
| #7651, aired 2017-12-11 | WHERE & WHEN $200: Martin Luther nails his theses to the door:
the country Germany |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | THE NFLer's MAIN POSITION $800: Thurman Thomas &
Curtis Martin running backs |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | "B" A SPORT $200: Martin Luther is said to have argued that 9 was the ideal number of pins for this bowling |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $2000: A casino heist was the focus of this film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. Ocean's 11 |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | CONTEMPORARIES $200: The last Mamluk sultan of Egypt was hanged in 1517, the same year he is said to have hung his 95 theses on a church door Martin Luther |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $1600: Martin Scorsese shares that this Aussie actress actually slapped Leo DiCaprio in her 1st "Wolf of Wall Street" audition Margot Robbie |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | CARVE OUT $200: Third-generation stone carver Nick Benson engraved the words on this man's D.C. memorial, which was dedicated in 2011 Martin Luther King, (Jr.) |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1,800 (Daily Double): This Alabama city's National Voting Rights Museum includes exhibits on Martin Luther King & Jesse Jackson Selma |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | STATELY SONGS $400: Naturally, Dierks Bentley sang of "Bourbon In" this state Kentucky |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | AN OO SOUND $600: A plaintiff, or a man who courts a woman a suitor |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | WHICH WITCH MOVIE? $800: Nicole Kidman,
2005 Bewitched |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $2000: All the French poets know it's an up-to-60-mph wind that blows in from the Rhone Valley the mistral |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | "IT'S" A MOVIE $1600: 2009:
Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin find things a bit difficult It's Complicated |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $600: Rahm Emanuel, George R.R. Martin & Seth Meyers found "direction" at this university Northwestern University |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | GERMAN HISTORY $800: Although inspired by the Reformation, the Peasants' War of 1524-1525 was condemned by this theologian Martin Luther |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | FAITH IN ENTERTAINMENT $800: This 2016 Martin Scorsese film follows 2 priests struggling to spread Catholicism in Japan Silence |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: In the 2005 memoir "Dean & Me", Dean is Dean Martin & me is he Jerry Lewis |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | FINGER-SNAPPING TUNES $400: Chris Martin & his mates in this band recorded the snappy tune "Miracles" for the "Unbroken" soundtrack Coldplay |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | THE WORLD OF TENNIS $2000: Homeland of Gabriela Sabatini & Juan Martin Del Potro Argentina |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On April 16, 1963 he wrote, "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here" Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | PIRATES' FAVORITE AUTHORS--"R"! $400: With "A Clash of Kings" & "A Storm of Swords", this author is a buccaneer favorite George R.R. Martin |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | THE BOOK OF VERBS $200: "____ the Rising Sun" by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard" Killing the Rising Sun |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $800: In "The Jerk" this comedian treats Bernadette Peters to "pizza in a cup" Steve Martin |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | THE 16th CENTURY $200: In 1521 in Worms he declared, "Here I stand; I can do no other" Martin Luther |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | ENDS WITH K $800: Lindenwald was Martin van Buren's 225-acre farm in this New York town Kinderhook |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WILL SMITH $1600: In this 1995 film as Det. Mike Lowrey, Will tells Martin Lawrence, "You drive almost slow enough to drive Miss Daisy" Bad Boys |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | IN BALTIMORE $1000: Elected mayor of Baltimore in 1999, this Democrat ran for president in 2016 but dropped out after Iowa Martin O'Malley |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | A FICTIONAL DEATH $400: This author said, "I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people"; he was far from finished with the shocking George R.R. Martin |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) "Our feet are tired, but our souls are rested", said Martin Luther King, & then soaked his feet in the bucket on display here after leading thousands on a 5-day, 54-mile freedom march from Selma to the steps of the Capitol in this city Montgomery |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | YES, MR. MOVIE PRESIDENT $600: Nigel Hawthorne's Martin Van Buren challenged a lower court's ruling in favor of Africans aboard this 1997 title ship Amistad |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | OSCAR HOSTS $600: In 1969 this "Wild & Crazy Guy" won an Emmy for co-writing "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (Steve) Martin |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | A TRIPLE FEATURE $800: The contestant seen here is demonstrating the salute from this 1986 Martin-Short-Chase comedy The Three Amigos |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | KEYBOARD CAT $600: He's the British group leader & keyboard player seen here Chris Martin |
| #7441, aired 2017-01-09 | AIRPORT $800: The runway is a little funky at Gustaf III Airport on this saintly Caribbean island St. Barts |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: His birth home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta is not far from Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he & his dad preached Martin Luther King |
| #7415, aired 2016-12-02 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $400: You'll find the Martin Luther King Jr. national historic site in this state capital Atlanta |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | CEOs $400: In 2016 ex-Turing CEO Martin Shkreli appeared before Congress to testify about price hikes in this industry the pharmaceutical industry |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CAPTAIN $600: Brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon captained these 2 ships for Columbus in 1492 the Niña and the Pinta |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | 21st CENTURY NEWS $1200: Martin Winterkorn resigned as the CEO of this car company in 2015 amid an EPA cheating scandal Volkswagen |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MISS-ING YOU $1600: Since 1978 Judith Martin has been doling out etiquette advice under this byline Miss Manners |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | JUNIOR LEAGUE $400: He skipped 9th & 12th grades & at age 15, entered Morehouse College, where he decided to become a minister Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | RELIGION $200: Martin Luther was the first great leader of this movement that changed Christianity the Reformation |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | HISTORIC PLACES $1600: Tradition says a door of the Schlosskirche, aka Castle Church, is the site where these were posted in 1517 Martin Luther's (95) theses |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | 5-LETTER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: In 2015 Steve Martin & Pete Seeger were inducted into the Hall of Fame for this instrument the banjo |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | ON BROADWAY $1200: "Bright Star" shines on Broadway with music by Edie Brickell & this "L.A. Story" funny man Steve Martin |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | WOMEN OF NOTE $2000: On Feb. 16, 1968 Martin Luther King gave this singer the Southern Christian Leadership award on her "Day" in Detroit Aretha Franklin |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MAN-AGRAMS $800: A 19th century president:
RUN VIBRANT AMEN Martin Van Buren |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $1600: His words "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope" are inscribed on his Washington, D.C. memorial Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN I DIED? $600: Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson |
| #7334, aired 2016-06-30 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $800: 16th century Protestant reformer:
"The Pope of Geneva" (John) Calvin |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | HISTORIC OOPSIES $600: In 1999 NASA used the metric system for the $125 million orbiter of this planet; Lockheed Martin did not... bye bye, orbiter Mars |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $2000: Bishop, patron of France & "The Glory of Gaul", St. Martin of this city Tours |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EMMY TIME $2000: In 1969 Steve Martin & Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne) won for writing these rhyming siblings' "Comedy Hour" the Smothers Brothers |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | BOOK 'EM $1000: Mrs. Gamp & Tom Pinch are characters in this author's "Martin Chuzzlewit" Dickens |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | STOCKS $2000: Times of conflict raise the prices of "war babies" like this defense & aerospace company, symbol LMT Lockheed Martin |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TAKE A LOOK AT THE MONITOR $2000: This transport for a big screen Bond could produce 286 horsepower Aston Martin |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | '90s MUSIC $400: In a 1999 hit Ricky Martin was "Livin"' this La Vida Loca |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | MODERATES $400: (I'm Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.) On November 6, 2015 I moderated the first in the South Democratic Candidates Forum, asking these 3 politicians how they'd fix the party's fortunes in the South Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders & Martin O'Malley |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | HISTORIC HANDSHAKES $800: In 2012, the Queen shook hands with Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, formerly a commander in this the IRA |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | HOLIDAYS $800: In 1999 New Hampshire was the last state to make this January event a paid state holiday Martin Luther King Day |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | THE DEDICATION $600: In "A Storm of Swords", he acknowledged "Phyllis, who made me put the dragons in" (George) Martin |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | SONG LYRICS $400: "I used to rule the world", sings Chris Martin on this No. 1 hit by Coldplay "Viva La Vida" |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | COMICS' BOOKS $1600: He wrote the comedic "Pure Drivel" as well as the novella "Shopgirl" Steve Martin |
| #7283, aired 2016-04-20 | CLEANING OUT MY ATTIC $1600: I wrote my own songs for about an hour on my Martin X series this instrument a guitar |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $3,000 (Daily Double): Born 26 years apart, these 2 heavyweights of the Protestant Reformation fit the category Martin Luther and John Calvin |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | THE 1880s $2000: Charles Martin Hall invented a cheap process for extracting aluminum from this ore bauxite |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $200: He shares a crypt with wife Coretta in Atlanta Martin Luther King (Jr.) |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | BEASTLY BOOK BLANKS $800: "A Feast for ____s" by George R.R. Martin Crows |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | A BILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE $1200: The son of a singing superstar from Spain, he got into the billion club with "Bailando" Enrique Iglesias |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | STARS' REAL NAMES $1000: Ramon Estevez, seen in "Apocalypse Now" Martin Sheen |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | ROCK ME GENTLY $200: Chris Martin has led this Brit band through such gently rocking hits as "Clocks" Coldplay |
| #7232, aired 2016-02-09 | A HISTORY LESSON $2000: No. 47 of these from 1517 reads, "Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will" the 95 Theses (of Martin Luther) |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | WHO SAID THAT? $2000: To Martin van Buren: "The bank, Mr. van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it" Andrew Jackson |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | SENIOR-ITIS $800: This "senior" pastor was born with the first name Michael but changed that to Martin & did the same for his son Martin Luther King |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Martin McDonagh moved from theater to film, using this Irish actor as his alter ego in "Seven Psychopaths" Colin Farrell |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | "EYE" WITNESS $1600: When this happens in a song lyric, "that's amore!" When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THAT'S THE SPIRIT $1000: Courvoisier &
Remy Martin cognac |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $600: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King with "grace and dignity" in this 2014 film that ends in 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama Selma |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC VENUES $2000: Handel & Mozart both performed at the London church called this saint in-the-fields, still a premiere concert venue St. Martin |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | BIG IDEAS $2000: Cosmologist Sir Martin Rees wrote, "Countless other universes may exist" & for that idea he uses this 10-letter word multiverse |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | FOUND IN GERMANY $400: Appropriately, a house where this theologian once lived in Wittenberg is now a Reformation museum Martin Luther |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $800: Van Buren's great-great-great-grandfather came to America from this country's Gelderland province the Netherlands |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $1200: In his 1837 inaugural address, Van Buren opposed the attempt of Congress to abolish this in D.C. slavery |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $1600: In 1836 Van Buren won the presidency over this Whig but lost to him in the 1840 rematch William Henry Harrison |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | MARTIN VAN BUREN $2000: Although Van Buren was the frontrunner in 1844, this dark horse won the Democratic party nomination James K. Polk |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | PRESIDENTS ON TV $200: He presided over "The West Wing" as President Jed Bartlet Martin Sheen |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | HE'S CHEVY CHASE $1200: Steve Martin was Lucky, Martin Short was Ned, Chevy was Dusty Bottoms, & together they were this title trio the Three Amigos |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | BREAKUP $400: She & husband of 10 years Chris Martin consciously uncoupled in 2014 Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | COLLECTORS $1600: Steve Martin has an impressive art collection that includes works by Seurat, Picasso & this "Nighthawks" artist (Edward) Hopper |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | SAME MOVIE & SONG TITLE $1200: Movie:
Will Smith & Martin Lawrence are cops;
song:
used as the theme to "Cops" Bad Boys |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | & THE HOLOGRAMS $1200: For fishermen, panther Martin makes holographic these that shimmer with light underwater lures |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | MUSICAL CHAIRS $1200: "We have created a fantastic service, and people just complain", said Martin Lorentzon, chairman of this streaming service Spotify |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | CONTEMPORARIES $200: Martin Luther went before the Diet of Worms in 1521, the same year Hernando Cortes conquered this empire the Aztecs |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | CELEBRITY COOKBOOKS $400: Tony Danza & his son offer up family recipes in "Don't Fill Up On" this Italian appetizer course antipasto |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | SCIENCE & GEOMETRY $800: The first electric light was an arc lamp with two rods of this element carbon |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | ISLE-DYLLIC PLACES $1200: 2 terriers were developed on this isle off Scotland's NW coast: the cairn & this one named for the isle the Isle of Skye |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | SHOW BIZ JOBS $400: For "All About Eve", Darryl F. Zanuck; for "Rubber Soul", George Martin producer |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | "HOUSE" $2000: This European songbird takes its name from its habit of building nests in the eaves of homes the house martin |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $800: Steve Martin gave us all a wacky history lesson about Egypt in this song "King Tut" |
| #7136, aired 2015-09-28 | A "COOL" CATEGORY $800: In this film Strother Martin tells Paul Newman, "What we've got here is failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | A "NON" CATEGORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1964 Martin Luther King said this "is the answer to the crucial political & moral questions of our time" nonviolence |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | COMEDIC TV PARTNERS $800: (Dan) Rowan (Dick) Martin |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | HISTORY, OLD & NEW $200: In 1924 Howard Carter & the Egyptian government fought over the mummy case of this boy king King Tut |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | A GLOBAL CATEGORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In central London, the British National Gallery of Art, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Charing Cross, &, of course, a famous column are found on this square Trafalgar Square |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | D.C.-AREA LANDMARKS $1000: The figure of this 20th century man is carved into the "Stone of Hope", which stands past the "Mountain of Despair" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | ROLE IN COMMON $1600: In the "Hobbit" movies, this actor is golden in taking over the part of Bilbo from Ian Holm Martin Freeman |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | MBA ALL-STARS $1600: Forbes called Columbia's Robert Stevens a "savior" of this high-flying company that makes the F-35 Lockheed Martin |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | I PLAYED HIM IN THE RECENT MOVIE $200: David Oyelowo:
This leader in "Selma" Martin Luther King |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | BRIT LIT $500 (Daily Double): Just because this Dickens novel has 2 consecutive "Z"s in the title doesn't mean you will fall asleep reading it The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | HEAVY $600: This novelist of Yukon adventure also wrote "Martin Eden", about a novelist who kills himself at the end Jack London |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $400: Andrea Martin was nominated for playing Frau Blucher in the stage version of this Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | PERFORMERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: "I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend"
(2014) (Martin) Short |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | THE OTHER ACTING BROTHER $400: Joe Estevez, who's appeared in more than 150 films, is the little brother of this "Acting President" Martin Sheen |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | ON THE GO $400: Britain's largest automotive work force builds this luxury brand's XF & XJ Jaguar |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | HERE BE DRAGONS $800: Drogon is a big mean dragon in this TV series from the mind of George R.R. Martin Game of Thrones |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $2000: Martin Landau won an Oscar for his "Ed Wood" portrayal of this movie actor Bela Lugosi |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: Martin Scorsese's first 3D film was this 2011 effort about an orphan boy who lives in a Paris train station Hugo |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | APRIL $600: In big trouble with the Catholic church, as his trial began in April 1521, he refused to recant his writings & teachings Martin Luther |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | DIE ANOTHER DAY $400: April 4, 1968
in Memphis Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 $800: By Jiminy! This actor attended his very first premiere on March 26, 1950 in Ontario, Canada Martin Short |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | THE 16th CENTURY $800: A 1531 writer gave this word a new meaning, saying Martin Luther was making this big kind of change to the whole world a reformation |
| #7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WHEN VILLAINS SING $400: In "Little Shop of Horrors", Steve Martin croons about his skills in this field dentistry |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | CELEBRITY NAME RECOGNITION $800: We "sez" that the middle of Martin Scorsese's last name is not "sayz" & that he directed this 1973 Harvey Keitel "road" movie Mean Streets |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $1000: This ex-president got the kinderhook on July 24, 1862 Martin Van Buren |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | BIOGRAPHY $200: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life & the civil rights movement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | TELEVISION POP QUIZ $200: Martin Crane Frasier |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: This TV series about a former NASA astronaut was based on Martin Cadin's novel "Cyborg" The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | HIT MEN $200: "Livin' La Vida Loca" Ricky Martin |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | SUPER BOWLERS $800: This 16th century reformer is said to have built a bowling lane for his kids when he wasn't busy nailing theses Martin Luther |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | ROBIN HOOD $400: "Robin and the 7 Hoods" retold the legend as a gangster story, with Dean Martin as Little John & this crooner as Robbo Sinatra |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | EARTHLY QUOTES $1200: This man in Memphis in 1968:
"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain" (Martin Luther) King |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | E.T.'s ON TV $1600: Its title character was planetary neighbor Uncle Martin, with the retractable antennae My Favorite Martian |
| #6953, aired 2014-12-03 | MAKING YOU WATCH TELEVISION $1600: Brothers Chris & Martin Kratt cleverly snuck their name into this show about their animal adventures Wild Kratts |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | ENTERTAINMENT $600: This Oscar-winning director is one of the executive producers of "Boardwalk Empire" Martin Scorsese |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | "J" MOVIES $800: 1979:
Steve Martin is "born a poor black child" The Jerk |
| #6934, aired 2014-11-06 | OF SPECIES $1000: As it rarely feeds
on water creatures,
Martes pennanti
or penance martin
makes more sense
than this name fisher cat |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $1600: "The Caddy" stars this duo as a golf pro & his caddy/manager; they duet on "That's Amore" & end up in show biz Dean Martin and (Jerry) Lewis |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY $800: This comedian's autobiography is titled "Born Standing Up"; well, excuse me! Steve Martin |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | THAT IS LIKE SO LATE 20th CENTURY $200: TV's "Martin" popularized "talk to" this body part the hand |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | LEAD SINGER OF THE BAND $400: Chris Martin Coldplay |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | THE 20th CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): On April 3, 1968 he said, "So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AUTHORS $800: This author of a fantasy series set in the land of Westeros was a conscientious objector during Vietnam (George) Martin |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | 2014 BESTSELLERS $800: It's the Martin Sixsmith biography of a 1950s Irish woman forced to give up her baby for adoption Philomena |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | WHY DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? $400: It's the website where Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin announced their separation goop.com |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | ONE SHORT OF AN EGOT $600: Martin Scorsese a Tony |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER $600: The state where Martin Luther King was born & the state where he married Coretta Scott Alabama & Georgia |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | MEMOIRS OF THE WORKING LIFE $1200: "Born Standing Up" is this man's story of bursting onto the comedy scene in the 1970s, white suit & all Steve Martin |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER... $1200: St. Louis' Martin Luther King Bridge & New Orleans' Huey P. Long Bridge the Mississippi |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | GOOD KNIGHT $400: "The Hedge Knight" is a graphic novel set in the same world as this author's "A Song of Ice and Fire" George R.R. Martin |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | "M"ENAGERIE $2000: Only the males of this swallow are purple; the females are a dull gray martin |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | STAGE WHISKERS $2000: With Ricky Martin as Che, it must be this play Evita |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | IN THE "ZONE" $1600: Martin Landau had 3 hours to find a hidden bomb in "The Jeopardy Room", a 1964 episode of this series The Twilight Zone |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | MOVIES' 2 MALE LEADS $1000: "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" Steve Martin & Michael Caine |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | CELEBRITY NAME CHANGES $400: Carlos Estevez became this man, man Charlie Sheen |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | HAPPY HOLIDAY! $200: In 2013 this federal holiday was also Inauguration Day Martin Luther King Day |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | NOEL, COWARD $400: Noel wasn't afraid of this NHL team because of its "diabolic" name--it's just that Martin Brodeur was scary good New Jersey Devils |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $600: Martin Luther King reached a peak with "Free at last! Free at last!" These 3 words, "we are free at last" Thank God Almighty |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $400: In the 1520s, this ex-priest was painted by his close friend, Lucas Cranach the Elder Martin Luther |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | THE PENTAGON $600: You can send a fan letter to the Pentagon to Martin Dempsey, chairman of this 7-member body the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #6841, aired 2014-05-19 | YOU BEST NOT MISS $1600: Lockheed-Martin says a satellite launching in 2014 as part of this system will be able to track objects within 3 feet GPS |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | "FOR"MATION $600: A hymn by Martin Luther begins, "A Mighty" this "is our God" Fortress |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BOOZE $400: This brand known for its XO Excellence champagne cognac is named for a French winegrower Rémy Martin |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | LITERARY TITLE FIRST NAMES $400: Mr. Chuzzlewit Martin |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | KINGS OF MUSIC $2000: With songs like "Moonshine Hollow", Jimmy Martin was "The King of" this unamplified music style Bluegrass |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: He was arrested in February of 1956 for organizing a bus boycott; his $500 fine was suspended on appeal Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | IMAGINE DRAGONS $1200: Drogon, Viserion & Rhaegal are 3 dragons with a mother; their true "father" is this author George R.R. Martin |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $1200: No, it isn't J.R. & Miss Ellie, but this actor & his mom, Broadway star Mary Martin Larry Hagman |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | LANGUAGES $400: Wanting to make it accessible, Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language German |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS $2,200 (Daily Double): Martin Klaproth discovered this element in 1789 & named it for a discovery of 1781 uranium |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | JOHN HUGHES MOVIES $200: "You're saying I could be stuck in Wichita?" asks Steve Martin in this film Planes, Trains and Automobiles |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | THE PREVIOUS WORLD LEADER $1600: Martin Van Buren succeeded him as president Andrew Jackson |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | MOVIES & POLITICS $200: He played the Chief of Staff for Michael Douglas' "American President" but got a promotion on "The West Wing" (Martin) Sheen |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $200: Justice & hope are forever enshrined in this man's Washington, D.C. memorial Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $2000: A religious leader: "Here I Stand" Martin Luther |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | POP QUIZ $600: He gave the world Emilio Estevez Martin Sheen |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | 1963 $400: On April 16, he began a letter, "My dear fellow clergymen, while confined here in the Birmingham City Jail..." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | WE PROTEST! $1600: Perhaps the most famous of all protests began when Martin Luther posted these on the Schlosskirche in 1517 the 95 Theses |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | TV PHYSICIAN $200: In 2013 TV shows on CBS & the BBC respectively, Lucy Liu & Martin Freeman played doctors with this surname Watson |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | ONE MORE ITEM $600: On the list of Canadian prime ministers, he comes after Jean Chretien & Paul Martin Stephen Harper |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Alabama-born widow of this man became the first woman to preach in St. Paul's Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | LIKE WE DID LAST SUMMER $200: On Aug. 28, 1963 in Washington D.C., Martin Luther King gave a speech later known by this 4-word name "I Have a Dream" |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ALL IN $600: At its core, this boozy clan was Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. the Rat Pack |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | '21 $5,000 (Daily Double): 1521:
The tenth pope of this name excommunicates Martin Luther with a papal bull Leo |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $1000: Show with Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery All My Children |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | LITERARY SELF-PORTRAITS $800: This author's 1909 title character Martin Eden is a sailor turned writer in San Francisco--reminds me of someone Jack London |
| #6670, aired 2013-09-20 | BESTSELLERS $800: George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series includes "A Storm of Swords" & "A Dance with" these creatures dragons |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | ON THEIR TOMBSTONES $1600: 1917 to 1995:
"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" Dean Martin |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | '60s SPEECHES $200: "I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. but...we, as a people, will get to the promised land" Martin Luther King |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | CELEBRITY PALS $600: Because these two pals are about to board, we're guessing that plane's heading to Vegas (Dean) Martin & (Frank) Sinatra |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON $1600: In 1648 the French & the Dutch agreed to share this "saintly" 34-square-mile island St. Martin |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | A BUNCH OF BOOKS $600: First book in a George R.R. Martin series:
"A ___ of ___s" A Game of Thrones |
| #6628, aired 2013-06-12 | THE REFORMATION $1200: The Reformation's greatest leaders were Martin Luther in Germany & this Geneva-based Frenchman Calvin |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | SAME ROLE, SAME FILM $1200: Ian Holm & Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins (2012) The Hobbit |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | COMEDY TEAMS? $1200: Coldplay's Chris & Boxer Lennox Martin and Lewis |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $400: 2007:
"The Departed" Martin Scorsese |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | GEORGE TOWN $1000: HBO's "Game of Thrones" is based on a bestselling series of books by this author George R.R. Martin |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | JACKIE ROBINSON $2000: In August 1963 Jackie & his family took part in this event capped by Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech the March on Washington |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE RICH MAN'S... $200: Drink is Remy Martin Black Pearl, a $24,000 bottle of this fine French brandy Cognac |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $400: Josiah Bartlet on "The West Wing" Martin Sheen |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IT WAS THE '60s $400: This Civil Rights leader convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on "Star Trek", citing her as a positive inspiration Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | EDICTS $400: The Edict of Worms was issued by the Holy Roman Emperor in 1521 to ban the writings of this man & label him a heretic (Martin) Luther |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $800: Well, excuuuse this actor for winning the 2009 Best Bluegrass Album for "The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo" Steve Martin |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 2004 Martin Torrijos, son of former dictator Omar Torrijos, was elected president of this Central American country Panama |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | BRITCOMS $1000: This abrasive "doc" with a blood phobia is out of place in a sleepy Cornish town Doc Martin |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: In addition to "A Feast of Crows", this novelist penned the short story collection "Songs the Dead Men Sing" George R.R. Martin |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | METALS $800: Clergyman William Gregor gets credit for the discovery, but it was chemist Martin Klaproth who named it for mythic giants titanium |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | IT'S MATTHEW PERRY $600: As Joe Quincy, Matthew Perry served at the pleasure of the president (Martin Sheen) on this NBC show The West Wing |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | "TIN" MEN $600: He earned the "Fifth Beatle" nickname by producing all of the Beatles' albums George Martin |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $400: In 2001:
The president of the United States on television Martin Sheen |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $2000: "Pastor and civil rights leader who was Martin Luther King's chief aide and closest associate" Ralph Abernathy |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PRESIDENT CLINTON'S HARLEM $1600: (President Clinton delivers the clue.) After Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Arthur Mitchell, the first black dancer in the New York City Ballet, opened this troupe in a garage on 152nd Street the Dance Theatre of Harlem |
| #6496, aired 2012-12-10 | LANDMARKS $3,400 (Daily Double): This Moscow green space gave Martin Cruz Smith a novel title Gorky Park |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | END OF THE LINE $1600: Martin Luther King Jr.: "He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the ____ ____" promised land |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $1200: In a kids' book by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle, this question follows "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" "What do you see?" |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | THE JUNIOR VARSITY $200: He became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | QUICK HISTORY $600: This reformer is depicted here in 16th century Wittenberg Martin Luther |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: Lockheed Martin is big in security & I.T. but is still better known for making these, like its C-5 airplanes |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WHO "R-U"? $400: The cube this Hungarian developed proved a useful tool for teaching algebraic group theory Rubik |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE HUDSON RIVER $400: Seen here is the original cell block of this institution on the banks of the Hudson Sing Sing |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS $600: Chicago's Grant Achatz used his kitchen discipline to beat back cancer of this, a horror for a chef the tongue |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE ENGLISH BEAT $800: ...this German Air Force in 1940's Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE HUDSON RIVER $1,200 (Daily Double): This Italian explorer reached the Hudson River in 1524, 85 years before Henry Hudson Verrazano |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $1,000 (Daily Double): Capricorn is a goat who scales mountains, like this Capricorn who said in 1968, "I've been to the mountaintop" Martin Luther King |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | THE TONY AWARDS $1600: 2 have won Tonys for playing the opposite sex: Mary Martin as Peter Pan & this actor as Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" Harvey Fierstein |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | YOU DESERVE A PRIZE $400 (Daily Double): In 2005 this sometime banjo player received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Steve Martin |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $200: The uniquely coiffed Ed Grimley, played by this man, had a bit of an unhealthy fixation about Pat Sajak, I must say Martin Short |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | WHEELS OF FORTUNE $600: It's a very right & proper $300,000 for a 2012 Ghost from this British carmaker Rolls-Royce |
| #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 |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $400: A national holiday observed each year on the third Monday of January honors this man--his actual birthday was Jan. 15, 1929 Martin Luther King |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | ARGENTINA $1200: Jose Hernandez wrote the epic poem "Martin Fierro", a tale about the life of these cowboys gauchos |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: This comedian's "Shopgirl" was turned into a 2005 film staring himself & Claire Danes Steve Martin |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | PEN NAMES $800: Comic book writer & guru Stanley Martin Lieber is better known by this "marvel-ous" pen name Stan Lee |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA $1,600 (Daily Double): (First Lady Michelle Obama presents the clue.) Speaking on opening night of the 2008 Democratic Convention, I noted that our meeting marked the 88th anniversary of women's suffrage & the 45th of this immortal & profoundly American speech "I Have a Dream" |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | WHOLE SALE $1000: Martin Luther was not amused by the sale of these absolutions from sin, from the Latin for "remission" indulgences |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $600: Alfred was the real first name of this man whose first of several stints managing the Yankees began in 1975 (Billy) Martin |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $400: The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site & CNN Center Atlanta |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | THEY'RE IN THE BAND $800: Will Champion &
Chris Martin Coldplay |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | PICTURE THE PREZ $1000: One-timer seen here John Adams |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $400: A memorial to this civil rights leader on the National Mall was dedicated in October 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | COMPLETE THE COMPANY NAME $800: Lockheed ____,
planes & stuff Martin |
| #6360, aired 2012-04-20 | MAN: RAY $600: He pleaded guilty in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., then later unsuccessfully asked for a trial James Earl Ray |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | I'VE GOT 2 TICKETS TO PARADISE $2000: This island is spelled with a double "A" if you're talking about the Dutch part, with beaches like Guana Bay Saint Martin |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | ROLE IN COMMON $400: Peter Sellers,
Alan Arkin,
Steve Martin
(a French policeman) (Jacques) Clouseau |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | NONFICTION $400: "Hellhound on His Trail" tells of "The Stalking of" this civil rights leader & "the International Hunt for His Assassin" Martin Luther King |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | AMERICAN FOOD $600: Benny & Clovis Martin are credited with creating this New Orleans version of a hero or sub sandwich back in the 1920s a po' boy |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | COMEDY DUOS $400: The duo of him & Jerry Lewis broke up after making the 1956 film "Hollywood or Bust" Dean Martin |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | MAY-DECEMBER MOVIES $1600: The "story" of this film has Steve Martin romancing Sarah Jessica Parker as a California girl named SanDeE* L.A. Story |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | MEMPHIS $600: Addressing Memphis sanitation workers on April 3, 1962, he said he'd "seen the promised land" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $1,200 (Daily Double): Spencer Tracy played the title role in this 1950 film with Liz Taylor as his affianced daughter Kay Father of the Bride |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | A BOOKISH CATEGORY $1600: In 2011 this author continued his fantasy series with the bestseller "A Dance with Dragons" George R. R. Martin |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | THEATER $2000: A play starring Samuel L. Jackson takes its title from a line in Martin Luther King's last speech, "I've been to" this summit the mountaintop |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $400: Excommunicated 4 months earlier, in April 1521 he was asked to recant his views at the Diet of Worms Martin Luther |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | MORE 4 YEARS $1200: This Dickens book about relatives Martin (good) & Jonas (bad) was published in 1844 Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES $400: Feel free to sing out this middle name of Martin Scorsese; it's the same as Pavarotti's first Luciano |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | IT'S A GROUP THING $1200: Shirley MacLaine was one of the few female members of this fabled group that also included Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra the Rat Pack |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | -OLOGIES $800: In 1512 Martin Luther earned the degree doctor of this theology |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | GOV. ABBREV. $200: In 2011 President Obama named general Martin Dempsey chairman of the JCS, this Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $400: Kids, I was in theology school in 1952 when I asked Mary Powell to set me up with a friend, who turned out to be Coretta Scott Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | THE ENTERTAINER $400: To funnyman Dick Martin, Dan Rowan was this type of partner providing the setup lines straight man |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE 2011 EMMYS $1000: This Best Director was a raging bull in an Emmy shop for his work on "Boardwalk Empire" (Martin) Scorsese |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200: In his acceptance speech, Pres. Obama quoted this 1964 American recipient saying, "Violence never brings permanent peace" (Martin Luther) King (Jr.) |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | FICTION $1600: The first book in George R.R. Martin's epic series "A Song of Ice and Fire" became this HBO series in 2011 Game of Thrones |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | AT 33 $600: He was 33 when he nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church Martin Luther |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | TRIAL PARTICIPANTS $600: In 1521 it was Charles V presiding & the Archbishop of Trier, John Eck, prosecuting this man Martin Luther |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WATER CARRIERS $1200: Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river a mighty stream |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $600: The CBC led the push for the establishment of this federal holiday, signed into law by President Reagan in 1983 Martin Luther King Day |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | THE CON FILM FESTIVAL $800: Michael Caine teamed up with this comic actor as the title con men in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" Steve Martin |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | PAPAL BULLS $800: Leo X's 1521 bull "Decet Romanum Pontificem" booted this guy out of the Catholic Church Martin Luther |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | EXPLORATION $400: Martin Frobisher was one of the first Englishmen to look for this supposed route that led from Europe to Asia the Northwest Passage |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | BANDS BY LEAD SINGER $800: Chris Martin Coldplay |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | TAKING NAMES $200: TV's West Wing resident Ramon Estevez Martin Sheen |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | CRAZY EIGHTS $2000: This "Little Magician" was our 8th president (Martin) van Buren |
| #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. |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $400: The British call this rainy day accessory a gamp, after a character in Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit" an umbrella |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | ACTUAL FBI FILES $400: His extensive file noted in 1964 that Mrs. Leonard Farber of White Plains contacted his Atlanta office Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | PRESIDENTIAL MONOGRAMS $800: MVB Martin Van Buren |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | MAD TV $1600: This "SCTV" veteran became the Mad Hatter for a 1999 TV movie of "Alice in Wonderland" Martin Short |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | HOW'S THE SCREENPLAY GOING, STEVE? $400: This star of "Roxanne" is also credited with the screenplay but he generously cites Edmond Rostand as his inspiration Steve Martin |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | COPPING OUT AT THE MOVIES $1600: Mais oui! In 2006 Monsieur Steve Martin played zis--I mean, this--bumbling detective Inspector Clouseau |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | BREAKING NEWS $3,600 (Daily Double): Senator Obama attended the 2006 groundbreaking for this man's memorial, 1/2 mile from Lincoln's Martin Luther King |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: An award for African-American authors & illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | OUR WATERY WORLD $400: The City of Worms, where Martin Luther refused to recant in 1521, is a port on this German river the Rhine |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | OPRAH GETS HISTORICAL $400: (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) I would have loved to have gone with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on a visit to the jail in this city where in 1963 he wrote one of his most eloquent statements of resistance without violence Birmingham |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | IN DEFENSE OF FRUITCAKE $400: In "Martin Chuzzlewit", this author called fruitcake "a geological homemade cake" Dickens |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date The Departed |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | NOTABLE NAMES $600 (Daily Double): At the Diet of Worms in 1521, he said, "I cannot and will not retract anything" Martin Luther |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | OTHER CIVIL WARS $200: In the Peasant's War, fought mainly in this country, Martin Luther wanted the rebels treated "like mad dogs" Germany |
| #6009, aired 2010-10-28 | TOM JONES $600: That must be one swingin' pad for "Amore": In the mid-'70s, Tom bought a Bel-Air mansion from this suave rat packer Dean Martin |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | I'M HENRY VIII, I AM $400: You might think I was an ally of this reformer, but in fact I was named "Defender of the Faith" for writing a 1521 attack on him Martin Luther |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | THE GOOD HUMOR MAN $1200: ...who hosted the premiere episode of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975 George Carlin |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | THE GOOD HUMOR MAN $2000: ...who's an avid art collector & wrote the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" Steve Martin |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | COLORFUL CREATURES $1000: Though it may look more blue, this is the name of the largest North American swallow. the purple martin |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | BILLY IDLE $400: Thanks to George, he had plenty of off time between his 5 stints as manager of the New York Yankees Billy Martin |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $2000: Lock Martin, a 7'7" doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast as the robot Gort in this 1951 sci-fi film The Day The Earth Stood Still |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $600: Mr. Jenkins has 3 nickels, 13 dimes & 54 pennies; he can't afford a 2009 Phantom from this car company Rolls-Royce |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | TWICE-TOLD TALES $800: "Bedtime Story", starring Brando & Niven as Riviera con men, came back as this Steve Martin-Michael Caine duet Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | "SOUTHERN" COMFORT $2000: Both Martin Luther King Jr. & his son have headed this organization, the SCLC the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $400: During this war Major Martin R. Delany became the U.S. Army's first black field officer Civil War |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) In 2009, the Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrated its 40th anniversary; Arthur Mitchell cofounded it in response to this April 1968 tragedy the assassination of Martin Luther King |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: Only 5'6", this 8th President was a mini-van Martin Van Buren |
| #5952, aired 2010-06-29 | OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $600: Director Martin Scorsese had a bit part as a stagehand in this bio of Jake La Motta Raging Bull |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ $400: Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 Lockheed |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | THE MOVIES $600: Martin Scorsese directed this 2010 film set at an isolated asylum for the criminally insane Shutter Island |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | IT'S IN ARGENTINA $200: The tomb of Jose de San Martin, who liberated Argentina from Spain, is in a cathedral in this capital Buenos Aires |
| #5948, aired 2010-06-23 | GREAT "B"-GINNINGS $600: The publication The Hill also lists the 50 most this; No. 1 for 2009 was hunky New Mexico representative Martin Heinrich beautiful people |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | WHO'S YOUR DADDY? $200: "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Martin Sheen |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | NO. 1 SONGS $600: Swedish producer Max Martin wrote this 1999 hit, the first title containing an ellipsis to top the Billboard Hot 100 "...Baby One More Time" |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | "LAST" CHANCE $600: The last 3 words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, they also appear in his epitaph "Free at last" |
| #5939, aired 2010-06-10 | JASON BORN $1600: This Jason born in London has played transporter Frank Martin in 3 films Jason Statham |
| #5925, aired 2010-05-21 | 1970s TV CASTS $2000: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether & Mark Shera; a Quinn Martin production Barnaby Jones |
| #5921, aired 2010-05-17 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In his memoir "Experience", he explores his relationship with his author-father Kingsley Martin Amis |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $200: These 2 men who played romantic rivals in "It's Complicated" were your hosts Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | MAD MAGAZINE $2000: In 1987 legendary cartoonist Don Martin left Mad & jumped to this rival magazine Cracked |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | LUTHER $400: Martin Luther contradicted Clement VI's "Unigentus Dei Filius", this 4-letter type of document a bull |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | LUTHER $800: Martin Luther spoke of Aristotle & this man of Ockham as "his teachers" William (of Ockham) |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $2000: This 1987 film finds Dennis Quaid as a shrunken test pilot mistakenly injected into Martin Short's body Innerspace |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY $400: This science & math titan moved to 35 St. Martin's Street in London in 1710, 44 years after his "Annus Mirabilis" Newton |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | THE ALLOYS $1600: Make your own artwork at London's church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields & its center for these rubbings brass |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | PICTURE THE PREZ $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the first president to be born an American citizen Martin Van Buren |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $1200: Martin Luther King's purpose in traveling to this city in March 1968 was to support striking sanitation workers Memphis |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $800: During the 1500s under his leadership, Geneva became a major center of Protestantism Calvin |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | NAME DROPPING AT THE MALL $1000: Refined casual clothes:
____ + Osa Martin |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | SOAP OPERAS $200: Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery plus 4 other last names is on this soap All My Children |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | HAPPY FEDERAL HOLIDAY! $400: This man's Jan. 15 birthday is honored each year with a holiday on the third Monday of the month Martin Luther King |
| #5808, aired 2009-12-09 | THE FUNNYMAN WHO PLAYED... $1200: George Banks, the "Father of the Bride" in the 1991 remake Steve Martin |
| #5806, aired 2009-12-07 | "C" IS FOR CATHOLIC $800: It denotes the Catholic revival & response to Martin Luther that began in the 16th century the Counter-Reformation |
| #5801, aired 2009-11-30 | I HAVE 5 KINGS $800: In 1955 this Atlanta-born man got a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University Martin Luther King |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | DETENTION $800: He is known for writing a 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" MLK, Jr. (Martin Luther King) |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | NONFICTION $400: In "Born Standing Up", this "wild & crazy guy" recalled selling guidebooks at Disneyland at age 10 Steve Martin |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | I WENT TO UCLA $1200: Here's an offer you can't refuse: name this co-writer & director of "The Godfather" Francis Ford Coppola |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER $1000: Number of theses Martin Luther posted on a church door in 1517 95 |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $400: He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence Martin Van Buren |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $800: Of a bird, a lizard or a fish, it's what a sand martin is a bird |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $1200: This Dickens title character tries to make his fortune in the United States Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $1600: This island northeast of Venezuela was taken by France in 1635 Martinique |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $2000: The patron saint of France, St. Martin of this city was famous for his charity & kindness Tours |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | DIRECT TO FILM $400: This director used insights from growing up in little Italy for his film "Mean Streets" (Martin) Scorsese |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | BACH'S CANTATAS $800: This religious leader wrote the text to "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (Martin) Luther |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | MOVIE REMAKES $400: From Spencer Tracy to Steve Martin:
"Father of the _____" Bride |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | DANCES WITH WOLVES $1600: Dad Martin said this Hollywood bad boy "was like Fred Astaire" dancing with new bride Denise Richards in 2002 Charlie Sheen |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $600: In 2009 this funnyman was back as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther 2" Steve Martin |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | FILL IN THE DICKENS TITLE $2000: "M.C." Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | HOBO A GO GO $800: This American writer drew upon his experiences as a hobo in books like "John Barleycorn" & "Martin Eden" Jack London |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1000: Unprepared for this man leading an army force over the Andes in 1817, the Spanish Empire lost Chile & Argentina José de San Martín |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | GETTING YOUR ACTOR TOGETHER $800: Uncredited as Agent 006 in Steve Martin's "Pink Panther", this Brit starred in "Duplicity" in 2009 Clive Owen |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1962 he said, "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | LOOK WHAT YOU'VE WON! $1200: For that term paper on the DNA of mice:
One of these in physiology or medicine, just like Sir Martin Evans a Nobel Prize |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | THEIR SIMILAR MOVIE TITLES $2000: "Three Amigos!", "Three Fugitives" Martin Short |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | SPHERES $200: One made by Martin Behaim in 1492 may have influenced Columbus to sail west to Asia a globe |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | I HEAR BANJOS $400: In 2009 this comic actor released a banjo album--"Ramblin' Guy" isn't one of the tracks Steve Martin |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | POPCORN COLONELS $400: It was Martin Mull's role in the 1985 movie "Clue" Colonel Mustard |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | I LED THAT CABINET DEPARTMENT $800: John Foster Dulles,
Martin Van Buren,
George Shultz Secretary of State |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | GIVE ME SOME DIRECTION $1200: In Austin, Texas its boundaries are Martin Luther King Blvd., IH-35, Town Lake & Lamar Blvd. downtown |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | SOME CALL IT BLASPHEMY $200: His thesis No. 77 says it's blasphemy that the cross on the papal arms is of equal power to Jesus' cross Martin Luther |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Coldplay singer known for portraying Jiminy Glick Chris Martin Short |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | MOVIE STUMPERS $4,000 (Daily Double): When the star wasn't available, his brother Joe Estevez was brought in to do voiceovers on this 1979 film Apocalypse Now |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | LESSER-KNOWN LINES $800: A speech by him included the line "In a sense, we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | STEVE WIN $400: This Steve won a WGA award for his adapted screenplay "Roxanne" Steve Martin |
| #5645, aired 2009-03-06 | CAR SHOW $2000: How very proper--the Vantage Roadster by this British company has an option to add an umbrella & holder Aston Martin |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Wild & crazy guy" who starred in "Shopgirl" & became U.S. president in 1837 Steve Martin Van Buren |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | RELIGIOUS MATTERS $200: This Protestant reformer had a debate at Leipzig with Johann Eck about the papacy in 1519 Martin Luther |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | FUNERAL OFFICIANTS $1000: Ralph Abernathy conducted his friend Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral service at this church Ebenezer Baptist Church |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | AN ELEMENT-AL CATEGORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Clap your hands for Martin Klaproth, who discovered uranium & this alphabetically last element zirconium |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | "IT" IS A 7-LETTER WORD $1000: Nickname of Andrew Jackson's informal "cabinet", which included Martin Van Buren the Kitchen Cabinet |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | YOU GO, GIRL! $1200: This witty woman who helped found the Screen Writers Guild left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. (Dorothy) Parker |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | TAKE THE LEAD $800: Martin Torrijos is a man with a plan & a canal in this country Panama |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | WHO WROTE IT? $200: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | NAME THE BOOK $200: "'He is a strange, half-savage creature of the jungle, Miss Porter'" Tarzan of the Apes |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | ADD A LETTER $800: After you take a beating, add a letter to it & I'll give you one of these tongue-lashings a berating |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | SCOTSMEN $1200: In the 1760s he improved upon the Newcomen steam engine by making a separate condenser, his first invention (James) Watt |
| #5560, aired 2008-11-07 | LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: This Indian civilization, probably the first in the Americas, lived in eastern Mexico from about 1200 to 400 B.C. the Olmec(s) |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $1200: His films fascinate, from "Mean Streets" to the mean streets in "Gangs of New York" (Martin) Scorsese |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | FRIENDS $400: Lucas Cranach was not yet Mayor of Wittenberg when this friend of his nailed the 95 Theses on the church door Martin Luther |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | TV VARIETY SHOWS $800: Everybody loves somebody, & everybody loved this singer's NBC variety series that ranked in the top 10 in '68 & '69 Dean Martin |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDY $1200: In 2 movies Martin Lawrence has impersonated tough granny Hattie Mae Pierce, better known as her Big Momma |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | SCOTT LAND $600: She met Martin Luther King while he was studying theology at Boston University Coretta Scott |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | FROM LETTERMAN'S TOP 10 LISTS $200: "Signs You're Watching A Bad" this guy "Movie":
"The Aston Martin won't start, so (he) drives a '95 Ford Focus" (James) Bond |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | BRING THE PAIN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Stanford University Pain Mgmt Ctr in Menlo Park, CA.) Dr. Martin Angst's lab at Stanford discovered a biological indicator of this condition--an agonizing pain from the longest nerve in the body the sciatic |
| #5510, aired 2008-07-18 | STAR WARS $400: Martin Sheen weighed in on his son Charlie's divorce from this actress by calling for a "cease-fire" Denise Richards |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | "M.L." $400: In 1521 an imperial diet at Worms declared him an outlaw Martin Luther |
| #5502, aired 2008-07-08 | WORLD HISTORY $2000: At the urging of this general now on the 5-peso note, Argentina declared its independence from Spain July 9, 1816 (Jose de) San Martin |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | DOWN ECUADOR WAY $800: In July 1822 the city of Guayaquil was the site of an historic meeting between Jose de San Martin & this liberation leader Simon Bolivar |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS SONG IS ABOUT YOU $800: U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)" is a tribute to this man who died in 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $1000: This novella by Steve Martin was turned into a 2005 film starring Martin & Claire Danes Shopgirl |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: He wrote "Bennie and the Jets" & the 2005 Supreme Court decision Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp. Elton John Roberts |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin Amis |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | THE VEEP $1000: He was the eighth U.S. Vice President & the eighth U.S. President Martin Van Buren |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | PERU $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a square in Lima, Peru.) It was here in Lima in 1821 that this Argentine general declared Peru's independence from Spain (Jose de San) Martin |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $1600: Martin Lawrence took this actress on a "College Road Trip" Raven |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $2000: Martin Scorcese decided to "Shine a Light" on this legendary rock group The Rolling Stones |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1200: Since becoming a federal holiday in 1983, the holiday honoring him has occurred on his birthday, Jan. 15, only 4 times Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | DIDN'T DIRECT IT $800: Martin Scorsese:
"Platoon",
"Cape Fear",
"The Last Temptation of Christ" Platoon |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | BACK IN '68 $400: When he was killed in 1968, he was planning a march of striking Memphis sanitation workers Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $200: Dean & Jerry Martin & Lewis |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | FAMOUS COMEDY TEAMS $600: Dan & Dick Rowan & Martin |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1600: From a misspelling of the words "all correct", it was later used by Democratic partisans of Martin Van Buren O.K. |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | MOVIE COMEDIES $1000: Michael Caine & Steve Martin teamed up as Lawrence & Freddy, a couple of these, the title of a 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT $1000: He practiced law in Kinderhook, New York (Martin) Van Buren |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | WE'RE NO. 1! $400: In 1999 he was "Livin' The Vida Loca", which hit numero uno after he checked into "General Hospital" Ricky Martin |
| #5397, aired 2008-02-12 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: In 1957 Martin Luther King helped establish this religious organization, the SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | APOCALYPSE NOW: THE CATEGORY $800: It's the country that Martin Sheen & his team must illegally enter in search of Col. Kurtz Cambodia |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | TOUGH TUNES $1200: In a Michael Martin Murphey song, this title horse "busted down its stall / in a blizzard he was lost" Wildfire |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES $200: (Ken Burns opens the category for us.) On January 8, 2001 the series "Jazz" premiered with a look at this birthplace of jazz, the USA's most cosmopolitan city at the turn of the 20th century New Orleans |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD $400: The M60 type of this weapon is air-cooled, gas-operated & fires about 600 rounds per minute a machine gun |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD $1000: Dirty Harry said it was "the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off" a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | THE VATICAN ONLINE $2000: Clicking on this alliterative link, you find out how the faithful can make their offerings via cash or credit card Peter's Pence |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $2000: Europe:
Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt Belgium |
| #5366, aired 2007-12-31 | ASSASSIN & VICTIM $800: James Earl Ray
(1968) Martin Luther King Junior |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | ROLE IN COMMON $800: Peter Sellers &
Steve Martin Inspector Clouseau |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: In the 19th century, literature about these Argentine cowboys was popular, with Jose Hernandez' "Martin Fierro" a classic gauchos |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $400: He ran for president 3 times but won only the first time Martin Van Buren |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $800: In 1505 this theologian abandoned his legal studies & entered a monastery; by 1507 he was a priest Martin Luther |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $1200: This automaker features the Vanquish S & V8 Vantage models...& really, 007, do be careful with them! Aston Martin |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | LAUGHIN' $1600: Of this Icelandic singer's Oscar dress, Steve Martin said, "I was going to wear my swan, but...they're so last year" Björk |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $1600: In 1933 he became chief of staff to Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess Martin Bormann |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | & MARTINS $2000: Chapter 25 of this Dickens novel has the line "He'd make a lovely corpse" Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $1200: (Hi, I'm Martin Short, and) I first introduced this pointy-haired nerd on SCTV; he later had his own cartoon series, & Pat Sajak was his big hero--but don't tell Alex Ed Grimley |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | ESPN ENTERTAINMENT $600: John Turturro played this oft-fired manager in the 2007 ESPN miniseries "The Bronx is Burning" Billy Martin |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | BABY GOT BACH $800: Bach grew up in Eisenach, the city where this reformer translated the New Testament at Wartburg Castle Martin Luther |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | FISH & SHIPS $600: On Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492, brothers Martin & Vicente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships Nina & Pinta |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $400: He was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta & died in Memphis April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | 1997 $1200: Full name, with Roman numeral, of the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1997 Martin Luther King III |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | MORGAN FREEMAN $1000: (Morgan gives the last clue.) John Quincy Adams & Martin Van Buren were characters in this 1997 film in which I starred with Djimon Hounsou Amistad |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $200: Steve Martin, Martin Short & Chevy Chase were the title characters of this 1986 comedy Three Amigos |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $400: In "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", Steve Martin told him, "Those aren't pillows!!!" John Candy |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $600: Steve Martin & Bonnie Hunt are the parents of an extremely large brood in this 2003 remake Cheaper by the Dozen |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | BOOK TITLES $800: Dickens: Let's see..."Martin Sweetledew"? No. "Martin Sweetleback"? No. I've got it... "Martin" this! Chuzzlewit |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $800: This 1987 comedy in which Steve played fire chief C.D. Bales was based on "Cyrano de Bergerac" Roxanne |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | STEVE MARTIN MOVIES $1000: Queen Latifah wreaks havoc on the life of strait-laced lawyer Steve Martin in this 2003 comedy Bringing Down the House |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1963 he spoke of his "dream" that his children would one day "not be judged by the color of their skin" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | THAT'S OUR LEADER! $1600: President Martin Torrijos Espino Panama |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $1000: "Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow... we're all precious in God's sight" Jesse Jackson |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | OH, CANADA $2000: Martin, not Brian, is the real first name of this man who was Canada's PM from 1984 to 1993 Mulroney |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LIVING LYRICS $200: Ricky Martin sang,"She's into superstitions, black cats and voodoo dolls", & no doubt she's livin' this La Vida Loca |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | GERMAN HISTORY $400: In 1521 he told the Diet of Worms, "Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen" Martin Luther |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar The Departed |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | EARLY AMERICA $400: In 1718 this Texas town was founded by Martin de Alarcon & Father Olivares & named for St. Anthony of Padua San Antonio |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $600: There being no VP, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 made Joseph Martin, who held this job, first in line to succeed Speaker of the House |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $800: (Hi, I'm Martin Short.) I won a 1999 Tony for Cy Coleman & this playwright's "Little Me"; I also received a Tony nomination for his "The Goodbye Girl" Neil Simon |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | FIVE ABOUT TENN. $200: The Coliseum is the home stadium of this pro football team the Tennessee Titans |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | FORBES' CARS FOR THE RICH $800: Investor Warren Buffett drives one of these "urban" car models from Lincoln a Town Car |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | COMMUNICATION $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates that he is a man of letters.) By looking at its first few letters, you'll see the Russian alphabet is based largely on this much more ancient alphabet Greek |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | TERMS OF ENGINEERMENT $800: When burned with oxygen, this gas, C2H2, burns so hot it can weld iron & cut steel acetylene |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | GIVE WAR AND PEACE A CHANCE $1000: Real life figures in "War and Peace" include this man who was the czar from 1801 to 1825 Czar Alexander I |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS $1600: Pico Bolivar in Merida Venezuela |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | WOULD YOU MURRAY ME? $400: On film he said, "A Cinderella story outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper & now about to become... Masters champion" Bill Murray |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | POETIC FIRST OR LAST WORD $800: First word of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" 'Twas |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | DIRECTOR"S" $800: "Goodfellas" & "The Age of Innocence" Martin Scorsese |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE $800: His 99-year prison term for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. ended with his death in 1998 James Earl Ray |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | BEFORE COMPUTERS $400: This functioned as a message or bulletin board, so Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on it church door |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | HE WAS IN THE TOP 40? $400: In 1978 this comedian & "the Toot Uncommons" dug up a No. 17 hit with "King Tut" Steve Martin |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | GEOGRAPHIC FILM & TV $1600: Appropriately (unfortunately), Steve Martin gets in his car to drive next door in this 1991 film L.A. Story |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1600: You can cook like this man who wrote "The Joy of Wokking" (Martin) Yan |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400: One of the two African Americans to win the prize, one in 1950, the other in 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. (& Ralph Bunche) |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | IT HAPPENED IN '07 $1200: 1507:
On the maps of Martin Waldseemuller, the New World is called this America |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | TV OF THE FUTURE $800: Moonbase Alpha was the lunar colony on the 1970s Martin Landau show "Space:" this year 1999 |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | FOR BETTER OR VERSE $400: This Lake Poet "wandered lonely as a cloud... when all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils" Wordsworth |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | GEORGIA ON MY MIND $600: In 1943 Georgia became the first state in the U.S. to allow these people the right to vote 18-year-olds |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | BODY PARTS BY PREFIX $1600: Chiro- hand |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | BODY PARTS BY PREFIX $2000: Phlebo- blood vessel (or vein) |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | CLASSIC TV COMEDY EPISODES $800: "Uncle Martin's Wisdom Tooth" My Favorite Martian |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | TOP 10 LISTS $800: The top 10 most populous countries in the world include China, India & this country with over 300 million the United States |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATS FREAK $1000: This Cleveland RB of the '50s & '60s led the NFL in rushing 8 times; the most times for any other back is 4 Jim Brown |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: Surrounded by family, this expatriate baroness & musical matriarch died in Vermont in 1987 Maria von Trapp |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATES FREAK $1600: The 3 states on Michigan's southern borders Indiana, Ohio, & Wisconsin |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | 1840 $600: This big Whig is elected president of the U.S. in November; he enjoyed the job for a short time Willam Henry Harrison |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | MOVIES $800: He played Jack Frost, who's trying to take over Christmas in "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" Martin Short |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | I WROTE THAT $400: "Nicholas Nickleby",
"Barnaby Rudge",
"Martin Chuzzlewit" Charles Dickens |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | CAT GOT YOUR MOVIE? $1000: 2006:
Steve Martin solves mysteries as a bumbling French detective in this film The Pink Panther |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | PRESIDENTIAL HITCHING POSTS $2000: Martin & Hannah Van Buren, on Feb. 21, 1807 New York |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $200: In 1964 Martin Luther King became the first African American named this magazine's "Man of the Year" Time |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD $600: A choice she made on Dec. 1, 1955 would lead to a Supreme Court ruling & Martin Luther King's rise to fame Rosa Parks |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | WHO'S YOUR DADDY? $400: Emilio Estevez Martin Sheen |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | NAME THE CENTURY $1600: Martin Luther is excommunicated the 16th century (1521) |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PRESIDENTIAL MONOGRAMS $600: MVB Martin Van Buren |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In July 1505 he was struck by lightning; as a result, he entered a monastery in Erfurt, Germany 15 days later Martin Luther |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | THE 5th BEATLE $200: This Beatles producer started out making comedy records with Peter Sellers (Sir) George Martin |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1000: Landau's milk boxes Martin's cartons |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT $200: Of 25,000, 250,000 or 1 million miles, the one closest to the length of the equator 25,000 miles |
| #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 |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $400: This percentage in the 2004 presidential election was 64%, up 4% from 2000--who says we're apathetic? voter turnout |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | STAR WARS $600: For "The Simple Life", Paris Hilton wanted Kimberly Stewart to replace this BFF with whom she was feuding Nicole Richie |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | BROAD WEIGH $800: Vantile Mack, the 257-pound "Giant Baby", & 628-pound Jane Campbell were seen at this showman's American Museum P.T. Barnum |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: Alaskans vote every 10 years on whether to hold one of these conventions, like the USA's in 1787 a Constitutional Convention |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | THE "END" $2000: Keep on schedule with the Hebrew, Muslim, Julian or Gregorian one of these a calendar |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | MALCOLM X IN THE MIDDLE $400: On 29, 39 or 49, the age at which Malcolm X died, the same as Martin Luther King, Jr. 39 |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | SAVANTS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", he wrote in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther King (Jr.) |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | STRAIGHT MEN $600: "My Friend Irma" was his 1949 film debut; he may have heard Jerry Lewis say, "Hey laaaaaaady!" a lot Dean Martin |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | CONTROVERSIAL SPORTS CELEBS $400: In the 1980s, this iron-fisted team owner hired, then fired, managers Billy Martin, Bob Lemon, Yogi Berra & Gene MIchael Steinbrenner |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | CRAFT $1600: With drying, drilling & maybe decorating, a gourd can be made into one of these, perhaps for a purple martin a birdhouse |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES $1,000 (Daily Double): He took his four sons with him to the White House; Martin Jr. even worked for Dad Martin Van Buren |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | I WANNA BE... $1600: ...like Martin Luther King & the Dalai Lama & be honored with this humanitarian prize given in Oslo the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #5065, aired 2006-09-22 | THE CANTERBURY TALES $1000: Chaucer tells of the Pardoner, a church official who sells these 11-letter things that made Martin Luther mad indulgences |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | PARENTS $1,600 (Daily Double): Maiden name of the mother of Martin Luther King III Scott |
| #5057, aired 2006-09-12 | HISTORICAL PAINTINGS $5,000 (Daily Double): Lucas Cranach the Elder was a close friend of this clergyman, whom he painted in the 1533 portrait seen here Martin Luther |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | MUSIC $2000: The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields claims to be the world's most recorded of these small orchestras chamber orchestras |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1000: This New Yorker was the first president born after America declared its independence Martin Van Buren |
| #5049, aired 2006-07-20 | POPE $800: Pope Leo X famously excommunicated this reformer in 1521 Martin Luther |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | MOVIE CATCH PHRASES $600: 1967:
"What we've got here is failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | POPE-POURRI $200: Of Abraham V, Martin V or John V, the one who was not a pope Abraham V |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BIO SUBJECTS $800: Michael Eric Dyson analyzes this real man, not just his image as mythic minister & leader, in "I May Not Get There with You" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | ODD JOBS $400: On the 1970 film "Woodstock" Martin Scorsese was an "A.D.", which stands for this an assistant director |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | AN "F" IN HISTORY $1000: This 13th president's wife Abigail loved books & began a library at the White House around 1850 (Millard) Fillmore |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | FICTIONAL MEN OF WAR $800: In this epic tale of men & war, Martin Sheen played Captain Benjamin Willard, a soldier sent on a assassination Apocalypse Now |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | CHRIS ROCKS $2000: Chris Martin, husband of Gwyneth Paltrow, fronts this British band Coldplay |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | THOSE ARE THE RULES $400: This West Point grad wrote up the authoritative parliamentary rules of order (Henry Martin) Robert |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | 1966 $800: August 5:
This man gets hit in the head by a rock while leading a civil rights march in Chicago Martin Luther King |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | ROD SERLING'S TWILIGHT ZONE $1600: Later to win an Oscar as Bela Lugosi, he played a man trying to defect to the West in 1964's "The Jeopardy Room" (Martin) Landau |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | ACTION FIGURES $1000: Ted Martin kept one of these fad items aloft with 63,326 consecutive kicks in just under 9 hours a Hacky Sack |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | LITERARY THRILLERS $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia.) A 1981 thriller by this author opens with the discovery of 3 faceless corpses here in the title setting, Moscow's Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | TV PERFORMERS BY ROLE $200: Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery Susan Lucci |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | THE AMERICAN DREAM $500 (Daily Double): Martin Luther King dreamed of "the table of" this, a crowning quality in "America, The Beautiful" brotherhood |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | SPORTS QUOTES $1000: On his NBA fines, Kenyon Martin, then of this "Garden State" team: "I lost almost $300,000. That's 2 cars" the New Jersey Nets |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $800: He's heard here in a speech the night of Martin Luther King's murder
"What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another." Robert F. Kennedy |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | WHERE'S MY CAR? $200: In a 1964 movie this character was driving an Aston Martin DB5; in a 1995 movie, a BMW Z3 James Bond |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | MOVIE TEENAGERS $1000: Hilary Duff was part of Steve Martin & Bonnie Hunt's big family in this 2003 comedy--& its 2005 sequel Cheaper by the Dozen |
| #4970, aired 2006-03-31 | GLUTTONY $800: Pope Martin IV ate himself to death with eels; this "Divine Comedy" poet placed him in purgatory Dante |
| #4969, aired 2006-03-30 | THE DEANS LIST $200: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras Dean Martin |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1848 this former president from New York ran for office again, this time on the Free-Soil ticket Martin Van Buren |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | THE 16th CENTURY $200: Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language German |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) In his Stride Toward Freedom, he organized many Civil Rights mass meetings held here at the 16th Street Baptist Church Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $400: History: This man wouldn't give props to the pope, so he got booted from the Church in January, 1521 Martin Luther |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | JR.'s & SR.'s $200: It's the first U.S. federal holiday of the year that honors a person Martin Luther King Day |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED $2000: Kinderhook,
New York (Martin) Van Buren |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | THE SWEET 16th CENTURY $400: Johann Eck debated this noted Protestant in 1519 & helped get him excommunicated in 1521 Martin Luther |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | POETS & POETRY $800: "Martin" is one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems" Joyce Kilmer |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | ADDICTED TO ADJECTIVES $2000: This adjective derives from the name of the author of "Martin Chuzzlewit" Dickensian |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $600: In 1822 this "Liberator" met with Jose de San Martin to strategize in Guayaquil Bolivar |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | THE KENNEDY CENTER $200: In 2005 the Kennedy Center awarded this "wild & crazy guy" the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Steve Martin |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME $1000: It's the year Martin Luther King declared at the Lincoln Memorial, "I have a dream" 1963 |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $400: Also an Oscar winner, he's won 4 Grammys for comedy albums, including one for "Reality... What a Concept" Robin Williams |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: Martin Crane on "Frasier", he won a 1986 Tony for featured actor in a drama for "The House of Blue Leaves" (John) Mahoney |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | DR. WHO... $1200: specializes in the systems such as the central & sympathetic, like branch founder Jean-Martin Charcot a neurologist |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: This Sinclair Lewis physician begins his practice in his wife's hometown, Wheatsylvania, North Dakota (Martin) Arrowsmith |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | PEOPLE $400: In 1996 he was "Livin' La Vida Loca" on Broadway, playing Marius in "Les Miz" Ricky Martin |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | OFF TO COLLEGE $1000: In 1944 he entered Atlanta's Morehouse College as a 15-year-old struggling with religions doubts Martin Luther King |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | I WAS HIS VEEP $1200: Martin Van Buren Andrew Jackson |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | THE HURRICANE $1000: Sacre Bleu! Hurricane Lenny flooded out the 1999 tourist season on this Dutch-French Caribbean island St. Martin (or St. Maarten) |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL $400: "You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door" L.A. Story |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL $800: "I can envision the day when the brains of brilliant men can be kept alive in the bodies of dumb people" The Man with Two Brains |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL $1,400 (Daily Double): "All dames are alike: they reach down your throat & they grab your heart, pull it out & they throw it on the floor" Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL $1600: "Wherever there is injustice, you will find us" The Three Amigos |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL $2000: "He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!" The Jerk |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | BORN FIRST $400: Stokely Carmichael,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Malcolm X Malcolm X |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $400: Grandmotherly drag is just the thing for FBI agent Martin Lawrence in this 2000 film Big Momma's House |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR $1000: Martin Luther believed this German magician & astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers Faust |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $800: On "Mission: Impossible" Martin Landau played Rollin Hand & this real-life wife was Cinnamon Carter Barbara Bain |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | QUOTATIONS $600: Ironically, on April 3, 1968 he said, "I've seen the promised land" & "I'm happy tonight... I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: Outfielder Mickey Rivers claimed, "me", this Yankees owner "& Billy (Martin) are two of a kind) George Steinbrenner |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | HEY, THAT'S "GREAT"! $1000: In 1417 Martin V was elected the sole pope, ending this division within the Catholic Church the Great Schism |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | AT THE MOVIES $1,700 (Daily Double): The name of this 1973 Martin Scorsese movie set in Little Italy can refer to any tough Urban area Mean Streets |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | '50s TV $600: She won a 1955 Emmy for playing the title role in the "Producers' Showcase" presentation of Peter Pan Mary Martin |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $400: 1977:
"Let's Get Small" Steve Martin |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | YOU'RE FIRED! $400: Bob Lemon, Gene Michael & Lou Piniella were each fired twice by him; we won't get into the Billy Martin saga George Steinbrenner |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $200: His first Broadway show was "Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory"; now he lives in the White House (at least on TV) (Martin) Sheen |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | ALL SAINTS $400: Patrons of France include Denis & this one who became Bishop of Tours around 370 St. Martin |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMERS $1600: Drummer Martin Chambers was inducted as part of this "Middle Of The Road" group The Pretenders |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1600: In the 1990s Christy Martin was probably the best-known woman in this sport boxing |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | THEIR FIRST SOLO HIT $200: "Livin' La Vida Loca"
(1999) Ricky Martin |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | PHILOSOPHERS $2000: This 20th century German wondered about the nature of being in works like "Being and Time" Martin Heidegger |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AND DOGGIE MAKES THREE $800: Martin, Frasier &... Eddie |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | AUTHORS' CHILDREN $2000: First name of novelist Kingsley Amis' son, also a noted novelist Martin |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | THE NEW YORKERS $5,200 (Daily Double): He was the first president born in New York Martin Van Buren |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | 2 ACTORS, SAME ROLE $1600: Ross Martin &
Kevin Kline Artemus Gordon |
| #4749, aired 2005-04-07 | "A.M"/"P.M." $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) Complete with tire shredder, this make of car was used by James Bond in "Goldfinger" an Aston Martin |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $400: 1970s:
"Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!!!" Steve Martin |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | THIRD WORLD $200: In 1983 Ronald Reagan signed the law making the third Monday of January this man's "day" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: 2000:
Benjamin Martin, a patriot in 1776 Mel Gibson |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | SMITH COLLEGE ALUMNAE $1000: Ann M. Martin (Smith, 1977) is the author of the book series about this "Club" The Baby-sitters Club |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | THE SPORTS PAGE $200: Yankee manager Billy Martin nearly came to blows in the dugout with this "Mr. October" slugger in 1977 Reggie Jackson |
| #4727, aired 2005-03-08 | CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS $800: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison & John Tyler were these number presidents 8, 9, & 10 |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | QUOTABLE OSCAR HOSTS $1600: 2003:
"It was so sweet backstage, you should see it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo" Steve Martin |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | RECENT CINEMA $1000: In "Shark Tale" this famous director provides the voice of Sykes, a puffer fish with eyebrows Martin Scorsese |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | JOSE CAN YOU SEE $400: The largest of the 4 modern countries Jose de San Martin helped liberate from European rule Argentina |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $400: Tad Martin,
Brooke English,
Erica Kane All My Children |
| #4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Producers told him he could direct "Taxi Driver" only if he got Robert De Niro to play the lead (Martin) Scorsese |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | HISTORIC WOMEN $600: Former nun Catherine von Bora bore him 6 kids; at least he didn't demand 95 (Martin) Luther |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | BY GEORGE, IT'S GEORGE! $800: This record producer was known as the "Fifth Beatle" George Martin |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks past a curbside restaurant with green, white, and red banners.) There's no shortage of good food in this ethnic-named neighborhood once home to Martin Scorcese Little Italy |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | SPELL-BOUND FOR BROADWAY $1,900 (Daily Double): Martin Dysart psychoanalyzes a boy who's been re-creating the centaur myth in this drama E-Q-U-U-S |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $400: In 1948 Dr. King was ordained a minister in this Christian denomination Baptist |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | POP CULTURE 2004 $800: Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin gave their yummy morsel born April 14 this name Apple |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $800: King donated the money he received for winning this international award in December 1964 to civil rights causes the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $1200: While at Crozer Theological Seminary, King studied the nonviolent philosophy of this Asian leader Gandhi |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $1600: Tragically, Dr. King was assassinated in 1968 while visiting this Tennessee city Memphis |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $2000: At this Washington, D.C. landmark in 1963, King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech Lincoln Memorial |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: Briefly in the '80s, this ice skater was married to Dean Martin's son Dorothy Hamill |
| #4629, aired 2004-10-21 | KIDS IN THE 1960s $400: ...heard him say on Aug. 28, 1963, "Even though we face the difficulties of... tomorrow, I still have a dream" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4625, aired 2004-10-15 | "D" FACTO $400: This member of the Rat Pack became a Vaudeville performer at age 3 Sammy Davis, Jr. |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | PRESIDENTS BY KIDS $1000: Abraham, Martin, John Martin Van Buren |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | THIS MOVIE IS "DEAD" $800: 1982:
Steve Martin innovatively interacts with clips from classic film noir movies Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | ANAGRAMMED WEST WING STARS $200: Hail to the chief:
ART MEN SHINE Martin Sheen |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | TOUGH LIT $400: In this Dickens novel, there are 2 Martins, grandfather & grandson Martin Chuzzlewit |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! $400: (Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4603, aired 2004-09-15 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This Sinclair Lewis doctor attempts to halt an epidemic on a West Indian island with his anti-bacterial serum Martin Arrowsmith |
| #4601, aired 2004-09-13 | MISHMASH $1200: At an estate sale, Carl Rice spent $60 on 2 of these by Martin Johnson Heade; they later sold for over $1 million paintings |
| #4599, aired 2004-09-09 | BOND, COMMON BOND $2000: Dean Martin,
William Clark,
Lamb Chop partners of someone named Lewis |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | BIRD HUNTING $600: At NYU, Martin Scorsese taught future filmmakers Spike Lee & Oliver Stone a martin |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $400: Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan & Cathy Rigby have all starred on Broadway in this male role Peter Pan |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | GERMAN HISTORY $1600: Though the uprising called the Peasants' War was partly based on this man's ideas, he came out against it in 1525 Martin Luther |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | PEOPLE $200: In 1964 he became the first African American to be named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" Dr. (Martin Luther) King (Jr.) |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: On August 17, this country honors the death of native son & freedom fighter Jose de San Martin Argentina |
| #4542, aired 2004-05-11 | OH, THAT MARIA! $2,000 (Daily Double): She's seen here on the right with Mary Martin, who played her on stage in "The Sound of Music" Maria von Trapp |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | MORE THINGS THAT HAPPENED $400: The League of Schmalkalden was formed in 1531 to defend this German's reformist church (Martin) Luther |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $400: Of the 30-year age gap between Frank Sinatra & this wife, Dean Martin quipped, "I've got scotch" that's older than her Mia Farrow |
| #4531, aired 2004-04-26 | SITCOM UNCLES $1000: Bill Bixby passed off Ray Walston as his Uncle Martin on this classic sitcom My Favorite Martian |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | IMMIGRANTS $2000: This Oscar-winning director's "America, America" is about fellow immigrants of Greek heritage Elia Kazan |
| #4523, aired 2004-04-14 | LATINO STARS $400: 2003's "Almas del Silencio" was the first new Spanish language album in 5 years from this "She Bangs" singer Ricky Martin |
| #4522, aired 2004-04-13 | PRESIDENTIAL COUPLES... NOT! $800: Like her sister, she doled out advice in the newspaper; he could have used some as the 8th president Abigail Van Buren & Martin Van Buren |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | SCREEN PLAYS $400: In the '60s, young Martin Sheen starred on Broadway & on film in "The Subject Was" these Roses |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | SCREEN PLAYS $800: John Osborne's 1961 play about this Protestant reformer became a 1974 film starring Stacy Keach Martin Luther |
| #4508, aired 2004-03-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $800: "The World's Greatest Gospel Singer", she sang at President Kennedy's inauguration & Martin Luther King's funeral Mahalia Jackson |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | CELEBRITIES' ORIGINAL NAMES $400: West Winger Ramon Estevez Martin Sheen |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | THE TRUTH $2000: St. Martin is one of these "Lesser" islands in the Caribbean Sea the Antilles |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Memphis, Tennessee) The National Civil Rights Museum is built on the site of the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King was assassinated in this year 1968 |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | PRESIDENTIAL NAME FACTS $800: He's the only president with a 2-word last name Martin Van Buren |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | U.S. HISTORY $800: August 28, 2003 marked the 40th anniversary of his famous speech heard here:
"My poor little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin..." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES $1200: December 5, 1782:
Kinderhook, New York Martin Van Buren |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | THE OLD NEGRO LEAGUES $2,500 (Daily Double): Martin "El Maestro" Dihigo was a Negro Leagues star from this baseball-mad island Cuba |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | ISLAND HOPPING $2,200 (Daily Double): France owns 61% of this West Indian island; the Netherlands, 39% St. Martin/St. Maarten |
| #4473, aired 2004-02-04 | FULL "MOON" $2000: This 1987 movie comedy begins with Dean Martin's 1953 hit "That's Amore" Moonstruck |
| #4470, aired 2004-01-30 | JAWS $600: (Cheryl) He played police chief Martin Brody in both "Jaws" & the first sequel Roy Scheider |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | ROCK MUSIC $800: In 1999 this Latin heartthrob won an MTV award for Best Pop Video for "Livin' La Vida Loca" Ricky Martin |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $600: 1964: An American clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | NOT QUITE BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Ed Grimley" actor you eat with strawberries & cream Martin Shortcake |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $1200: This field with integral & differential parts is "Made Easy" in a 1910 book recently revised by Martin Gardner calculus |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | QUOTES ABOUT 3 THINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Attributed to Martin Luther is "Who loves not these 3 things remains a fool his whole life long" wine, women and song |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | MARTIN LUTHER $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from Wittenberg, Germany.) The only achievement mentioned in Luther's epitaph is his doctorate in this subject from Wittenberg University theology |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | MARTIN LUTHER $800: Terrified by a storm, Luther swore he'd become one of these, & joined the Augustinian order a monk |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | MARTIN LUTHER $1200: In translating the Bible, Luther added "alone" after this word, believing that it, rather than works, saves us faith |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | MARTIN LUTHER $1600: In 1524 Luther published the "Achtliederbuch", this type of book often found in churches a hymnal |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | MARTIN LUTHER $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Wittenberg, Germany.) On the old wooden door that stood here, Martin Luther posted this numerical piece of writing & began the Reformation the 95 Theses |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | BEATLES REMAKES $1200: In George Martin's farewell album "In My Life", Jim Carrey does this song (Goo goo goo joob) "I Am the Walrus" |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | THE MOVIES $1600: Steve Martin was a lip-synch & dance man in this 1981 movie musical Pennies From Heaven |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $2000: "The Wittenberg Monk" Martin Luther |
| #4421, aired 2003-11-24 | ALBUMS $600: (Hey, this is Brad Paisley.) The title of my "Part II" CD was inspired by this movie Part II starring Steve Martin & my wife Kimberly Williams as his daughter Father of the Bride |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | TV TRANSPORTATION $400: Loaded with gadgets, The Wanderer was Robert Conrad & Ross Martin's private train on this show The Wild Wild West |
| #4405, aired 2003-10-31 | FACTORIES $2000: This famed Lockheed Martin plant in southern California is named for the bad smell on the original site the Skunkworks |
| #4404, aired 2003-10-30 | TV DETECTIVES $1000: In 1975 Tony Franciosa played this TV playboy detective played on film by Dean Martin Matt Helm |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | I'M HERE TO PLAY $400: On "Frasier" Martin once had to pretend he was gay on this romantic holiday Valentine's Day |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | THE GOOD BOOK $400: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible helped spread the "New High" version of this language German |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | MODERN-DAY QUOTES $200: In a recent interview with Martin Bashir he claimed, "I've had no plastic surgery on my face, just my nose" Michael Jackson |
| #4359, aired 2003-07-10 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin) In this 1990 Martin Scorsese-directed film based on the book "Wiseguy", Scorsese's mother plays Joe Pesci's mom Goodfellas |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | 1960s TV $400: The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate determined that at the end of the '60s, this variety series was TV's No. 1 show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Surf City" duo who teamed up with Jerry Lewis Jan and Dean Martin |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | 17th CENTURY NOTABLES $3,000 (Daily Double): Just months after publishing "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", he was tried for heresy Galileo |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | LET'S GET SMALL $400: The title of the category is the title of a famous album by this comedian Steve Martin |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | LET'S GET SMALL $1200: A small place of worship, it was originally the place French kings stored the capella or "cape" of St. Martin chapel |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | IT'S MY PARTY $2000: The slogan of this party that nominated Martin Van Buren in 1848 included "Free Speech, Free Labor, & Free Men" Free Soil Party |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | BUSINESS PAIRINGS $800: The last name of aviator Glenn, it comes afer Lockheed & before Marietta Martin |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | MUSEUMS $800: A museum at this theologian's Wittenberg home has a vast collection of Reformation history Martin Luther |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | LET'S HAVE A CONFERENCE $800: In 1968 Ralph Abernathy succeeded Martin Luther King as leader of this conference, abbreviated SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | 1957 $400: Having played a boy in "Peter Pan", she played a tomboy in "Annie Get Your Gun" in 1957 Mary Martin |
| #4323, aired 2003-05-21 | U.S. UNIVERSITIES $1200: The 1983 gala grand opening of this university's Thomas & Mack Center featured Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin UNLV (University of Nevada at Las Vegas) |
| #4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a 1969 film, Dean Martin's daughter Claudia & this star of "Adam-12" got "Ski Fever" Martin Milner |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMERS $1000: The non-performer inducted in 1999 was this producer who gave The Beatles their first recording contract George Martin |
| #4308, aired 2003-04-30 | AMERICAN DREAMS $200: His famous "I Have a Dream" speech ends, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $800: Martin Klaproth named this radioactive element that he discovered in 1789 for a planet discovered in 1781 uranium |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | BIRDS $1200: The largest North American species of the bird known as the martin is this "royal" one purple martin |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $800: (Oooooooklahoma! Where Sofia's standing on the set.) It's the term for raising or lowering scenery above the stage; it's also what Mary Martin did in "Peter Pan" fly |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $600: (Hi. I'm Paula Cale of Providence.) I originated the role of Suzanne in the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", written by this "wild & crazy guy" Steve Martin |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | CLASSIC COMIC CATCHPHRASES $200: "Well, excuuuuuse me!" Steve Martin |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Jerry Lewis' partner who occupied the White House from 1837 to 1841 Dean Martin Van Buren |
| #4292, aired 2003-04-08 | TV GUIDE $400: The 1981 issue seen here featured prime-time vixens Pamela Sue Martin, Morgan Fairchild & this "Knots Landing" star Donna Mills |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | NAME THE JAMES $800: ...who was convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. James Earl Ray |
| #4286, aired 2003-03-31 | TV CATCHPHRASES $400: "You bet your sweet bippy!" Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | ULTRA-LOUNGE $400: The "Cha-Cha de Amor" album features Yma Sumac singing the "Gopher Mambo" & this Rat Pack hunk crooning "Sway" Dean Martin |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | MOVIES BY THE NUMBERS $400: In this 1986 comedy Chevy Chase, Steve Martin & Martin Short are recruited to save a Mexican village from banditos the Three Amigos! |
| #4277, aired 2003-03-18 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Type of book, like Martin Gardner's edition of "Alice", that includes explanatory information as well as the text annotated |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | QUIPS $200: After being named host of the 2001 Oscar broadcast, this "Roxanne" star cracked, "If you can't win 'em, join 'em" Steve Martin |
| #4272, aired 2003-03-11 | STATE CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES $800: Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. Atlanta |
| #4265, aired 2003-02-28 | ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! $400: English & Spanish versions of the song "She Bangs" are on his 2000 CD "Sound Loaded" Ricky Martin |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | WRITERS' PLOTS $800: Saint Martin's Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales is where this poet wound up after drinking himself to death Dylan Thomas |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | GOING, GOING, GANDHI $1200: While at Crozier Theological Seminary in the 1950s, this black leader learned Gandhi's ideas of nonviolence Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4243, aired 2003-01-29 | A LITERARY TOUR $1200: See the gardens or ride the rides in this Moscow locale, the title setting for a Martin Cruz Smith novel Gorky Park |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $800: When robbed by Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in 1947, this Yankee went crazy -- he actually kicked the dirt Joe DiMaggio |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | TV POP QUIZ $400: Martin Crane Frasier |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1600: On the 4th of July in 1965, 2 years after "I Have a Dream", Martin Luther King preached on this "dream" the American dream |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: At the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, he gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | THE LIQUOR CABINET $400: Martell & Remy Martin are makers of this fine French brandy named for a town Cognac |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SPECIAL "K" $800: In 1968 this American leader prophetically shared, "I've looked over and I've seen the promised land" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | HANS UP! $2,800 (Daily Double): German poet Hans Sachs' most famous work, "The Nightingale of Wittenberg", was a defense of this religious figure Martin Luther |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $200: Steve Martin played hapless dad George Banks in this 1991 matrimonial comedy Father of the Bride |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $400: Mary Martin received a Tony Award for playing Maria in this 1959 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | WORMS $400: He told the Diet of Worms, "I do not accept the authority of popes and councils" Martin Luther |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | & AWAY WE GO $800: The name of a "hill climb" Lionel Martin raced in, he used it in the name of the auto company he later founded Aston |
| #4203, aired 2002-12-04 | MOVIE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1200: Mr. Helm, played by Mr. Martin (4) Matt |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | "MAN"LY MOVIES $1600: 1983:
Starring Steve Martin The Man with Two Brains |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $400: He posted his world-shaking commentaries on a German church door on October 31, 1517 Martin Luther |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | ____ OF THE ____ $1000: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett & Ionesco theatre of the absurd |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | STAIR-ING AT THE SCREEN $800: After getting a nice motherly stab, Martin Balsam careens backwards down the stairs in this Hitchcock classic Psycho |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL PYRAMID $400: The Toot Uncommons were listed as the back-up group on this Steve Martin hit "King Tut" |
| #4165, aired 2002-10-11 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $600: The "Kinderhook Fox" Martin Van Buren |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | OSCAR, GRAMMY OR BOTH $2000: Steve Martin Grammy |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | AMERICAN MOVIE REMAKES $2000: "Le Retour de Martin Guerre" Sommersby |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: In 1957 he co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference & became its first president Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #4132, aired 2002-07-16 | WHEELS $400: In 1964 James Bond was wheeling around in the DB5 model of this British sports car an Aston Martin |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | STEVE MARTIN $200: As Oscar host in 2001, Steve's gentle ribbing didn't seem to amuse this Best Actor winner Russell Crowe |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | STEVE MARTIN $400: Steve got a break in '68 when he was hired to write for these brothers' "Comedy Hour" the Smothers Brothers |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | STEVE MARTIN $600: It's the musical instrument with which Martin is most associated the banjo |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | STEVE MARTIN $800: The 2 adjectives for Steve's & Dan Aykroyd's pair of Czech playboys on "Saturday Night Live" wild & crazy |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | STEVE MARTIN $1000: Steve's book "Pure Drivel" consists of humor pieces written mostly for this Big Apple magazine The New Yorker |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1,200 (Daily Double): His wife's name, Hannah, was also spelled J-A-N-N-E-T-J-E, Dutch for Hannah Martin Van Buren |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY $600: An associate said of this "boss", "There's nothing more limited than a limited partner in the Yankees" Steinbrenner |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | MALTIN ON THE MOVIES $400: Steve Martin's first starring feature, Maltin describes it as "The misadventures of a terminally stupid man" The Jerk |
