| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI $200: This protective job has given big brains time to think: Edward Snowden (at a research center), Bill James (a pork & beans cannery) security guards |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI $400: An old line says an unpopular politician "couldn't get elected" to this job, now with the upgraded name animal control officer dog catcher |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI $600: In "Middlemarch" wealthy & powerful Mr. Bulstrode has this occupation, also a job in the game Monopoly banker |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI $800: Each the main character of their own 2024 TV series, "Renegade Nell" & Dick Turpin are these robbers of the road in olde England highwaymen |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI $1000: Smith is the USA's most common occupational surname; second is this, a job that's literally a grind Miller |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | POTPOURRI $200: The 1792 Apportionment Act gave each state one of these for every 33,000 people; New Hampshire got 4, Virginia 19 a congressional representative |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | POTPOURRI $400: This hardware store "is the place" that has more than 5,000 worldwide locations Ace |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | POTPOURRI $600: This techno-thriller author's works served as the inspiration for video games like "Splinter Cell" & "Rainbow Six" Clancy |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | POTPOURRI $800: Some of the world's best snorkeling can be found at spots like Sharm El-Sheikh on this colorful sea the Red Sea |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: A 2016 study found that birds' brains are denser in these nerve cells than the brains of primates are neurons |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | MODERN POTPOURRI $400: Choose letters wisely on this New York Times game that feted its 1,000th puzzle by lighting up the Empire State Building Wordle |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | MODERN POTPOURRI $800: K is for this brand that offers k-rounds coffee pods Keurig |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | MODERN POTPOURRI $1200: Be careful--a fake Windows update could be this, named for the fee you'll have to pay hackers ransomware |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | MODERN POTPOURRI $1600: In 2009 Patrick O. Brown took a sabbatical from Stanford & began work on what would become this brand of plant-based burgers Impossible |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | MODERN POTPOURRI $2000: Blockchain technology was intended to keep transactions this, meaning no individual has control, all do a decentralized system |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | SANDWICH POTPOURRI $200: A 2022 M.I.T. study examined the physics behind the process of twisting these sandwich cookies apart Oreos |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | SANDWICH POTPOURRI $400: This state's first English language newspaper was the Sandwich Island Gazette & Journal of Commerce, which dates back to 1836 Hawaii |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | SANDWICH POTPOURRI $600: 1970 film in which Jack Nicholson, in order to get toast, requests a chicken salad sandwich, "Hold the chicken, bring me the toast" Five Easy Pieces |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | SANDWICH POTPOURRI $800: A wearable one of these advertising items includes 2 panels with straps to place it over the shoulders a sandwich board |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | SANDWICH POTPOURRI $1000: Incorporated in 1639, Sandwich is the oldest town on this cape in southeastern Massachusetts (Cape) Cod |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the bovine term for when an iceberg breaks off from a glacier calving |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | POTPOURRI $800: This fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel shows not the physical molding of a body but God passing on the divine spark The Creation of Adam |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | POTPOURRI $1200: In the 1990s the wreck of this ship of Blackbeard's was found off the coast of North Carolina Queen Anne's Revenge |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | POTPOURRI $1600: The rabbit-eared bandicoot also goes by this 5-letter name, mate a bilby |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | POTPOURRI $2000: The "Roman Carnival" overture of 1844 is one of this Frenchman's enduring works Hector Berlioz |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $200: As early as 1901 this U.S. state was described as "The Mitten State" Michigan |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $400: The case of this enslaved man v. Sandford is often called the worst Supreme Court decision ever Dred Scott |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $600: It's the M in mRNA messenger |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $800: This mythic watchdog of the underworld had snakes growing from its back Cerberus |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: Fretum Herculeum is the Latin name of this strait the Strait of Gibraltar |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $400: Fuego, Nitro & Blue Heat are flavors of these rolled corn tortilla chips Takis |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $800: Travel guides dubbed the area seen here this color coast; the name of the color comes from the country it's in the Turquoise Coast |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $1200: This word meaning to raise anchor has nothing to do with how heavy it is; it's from old Saxon for to lift or carry weigh |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $1600: This doozy of a car won the 1924, '25 & '27 Indy 500s a Duesenberg |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | POTPOURRI $2000: It's the Hebrew name for the prayer shawl seen here a tallit |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $400: Nolan Bushnell covered a lot of ground, founding both Atari & this kids' pizza place chain with a rodent mascot Chuck E. Cheese |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $800: Pour one out for "Mr." this, gone too soon in 2001; it was first named Peppo but Dr Pepper's lawyers had issues with that Mr. Pibb |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $1200: Apparently still learning to duck, tight end Cam McCormick of this Pac-12 school got a 9th year of eligibility in 2022 (the University of) Oregon |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $1600: Feb. 2, 2020 provided a numeric form of this across the world, something that last occurred 912 years ago & will happen again in 98 a palindrome |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $2000: In 2022, the Juno spacecraft got the magnificent infrared shot seen here of this moon of Jupiter aglow with volcanoes Io |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $200: The battle of this elevated spot took place in June 1775 after the Yanks fortified it, threatening the British position Bunker Hill |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $400: During the Galveston hurricane of 1900, Isaac Cline had this job & lost much of his reputation as well as his wife in the storm meteorologist |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $600: A 1756 incident saw numerous Europeans die in this dungeon in India the Black Hole of Calcutta |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $800: In the 1650s this French king danced in ballets, some of which lasted for 12 hours Louis XIV |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $1,200 (Daily Double): He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $200: Wham-O first sold this in 1957 as a "Pluto Platter" a Frisbee |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $400: Home to up to 20,000 people, this city had a catastrophically bad day in 79 A.D. Pompeii |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $600: This Nintendo game console first got moving in 2006 the Wii |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $800: Native Hawaiian women adapted a long, loose garment introduced by missionaries into this long, loose dress a muumuu |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL POTPOURRI $1000: Waukesha & West Allis are in the metro area of this Midwestern city Milwaukee |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | LAST BUT NOT LEAST $1200: This plant of the mint family is used to make potpourri & herbal medicines lavender |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $200: This brand of little breath mints was launched in 1969 Tic Tacs |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $400: Toss across is basically this pencil-&-paper game but with bean bags tic-tac-toe |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $600: This social media platform was originally called musical.ly TikTok |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $800: Andrew Garfield played composer Jonathan Larson running out of time in this 2021 film Tick, Tick... Boom! |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: Rudyard Kipling described him as "a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail" Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | I'S IN THE BACK $400: Cloves, cinnamon & dried berries can make a scent-sational one of these mixtures potpourri |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $400: Because its hundreds of "seeds" are on the outside, this "berry" isn't considered a true berry a strawberry |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $800: Don't get mad & blow this part of many machines--a flat ring used to tightly seal a joint gasket |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $1200: Inky, Blinky, Pinky & Clyde are the ghosts in this classic video game Pac-Man |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $1600: The name of this London airport goes back to Anglo-Saxon words meaning "goat farm" Gatwick |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $2000: Seen here is this famous madam, an official mistress of Louis XV & a patron of the arts Madame de Pompadour |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $200: Marketed as smaller & lighter than a pack of gum, the Shuffle version of this device was introduced in January 2005 an iPod |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $400: Columbia University alumnus Howard Dietz was inspired by his school's lion mascot to create the mascot for this movie studio MGM |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $600: Park City's High West Distillery was founded in 2006, becoming the first legal distillery in this state since 1870 Utah |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $800: Until 2011 this country in northeastern Africa was the continent's biggest in area Sudan |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $1000: Sadly, the heath hen went extinct in 1932, but we still have its relative, the prairie this, known for its courtship displays a chicken (grouse) |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $200: The 200 little dots on the outside of this shortcake favorite are called achenes; each one is a tiny fruit with a seed inside strawberries |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $400: Seen here, this type of pipe is an accessory of Frosty the Snowman a corncob pipe |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $600: Its largest tributary is the Snake River the Columbia River |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $800: Greek gives us this word for the ritual also called communion or the Lord's Supper eucharist |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | POTPOURRI $1000: Sailing from Portugal in July 1497, this explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope & reached Mombasa in April of the next year Vasco da Gama |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $200: In 1603 the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu was awarded this title, recognizing him as "barbarian-quelling generalissimo" shogun |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $400: Seen here is a depiction of Clovis, King of the Franks, undergoing this initiation in Reims; hundreds of his men would follow suit baptism |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $600: This first permanent English settlement in America was named for a king across the pond Jamestown |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: His life came to an end in 1805 after being hit by enemy fire on the deck of his flagship, the HMS Victory Horatio Nelson |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1000: Commemorating the lifting of a siege on this city, a bronze colossus was built in the harbor in the 3rd century B.C. Rhodes |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $400: Limited edition Oreos with designs of these fictional beings are selling for big bucks; the exceedingly rare Mew is highly coveted Pokémon |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $800: This company's "Imagine Cup" allows students around the world to compete in technology-based competitions Microsoft |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: George Takei cheekily said of a trip this man made in 2021, "He's boldly going where other people have gone before" William Shatner |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: Aroostook Valley Country Club has a golf course in this Canadian province, but a stray shot may fly into Maine New Brunswick |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: 2 words that don't go well together, imperfectly embalmed, applied to this lord protector of England in 1658 (Oliver) Cromwell |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $400: Jewelers make these fasteners in all kinds of styles; here's a bracelet with a snake one a clasp |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $800: The Hawaiian name of this fish means "strong strong" mahi-mahi |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $1200: Arizona's state flower is the blossom of this cactus a saguaro |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $1600: Martin Luther King Jr. attended this historically Black men's college in Atlanta Morehouse |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POTPOURRI $2000: Seen here is this German couple, both of whom were composers; she was a piano prodigy the (Robert & Clara) Schumanns |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $200: ... for my this, be it t-, guayabera or flannel; so sexy it hurts my shirt |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $400: ...for your this, which we can only assume is a choice of Know-Nothing, Likud or Bull Moose (a political) party |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $600: ... for this northern Italian city & fashion capital, site of Sforzesco Castle Milan |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $800: ... for this animal "Who Walks Through Walls" in a Robert A. Heinlein title a cat |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | I'M TOO SEXY: A LYRICAL POTPOURRI $1000: ... for this island nation whose largest freshwater lake is the 260-square-mile Biwa Japan |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $200: After his wife had a terrifying jump with an automatically deploying parachute, Floyd Smith invented this manual release a rip cord |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $400: Many Australians celebrate this holiday in a homegrown way with a chocolate bilby; that's a marsupial Easter |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $600: The 1921 book "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" sets 13 as the number of members in this group a coven |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $800: Extremely cold & difficult to store, this gas is prone to shortages, like one in 2019 that made life tough for Party City stores helium |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: When MLB pitcher Jim Gott faced batter Tim Teufel, in German it was a confrontation of these 2 beings God & the Devil |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $400: The Risorgimento was the 19th century movement to unify this country Italy |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $800: One of Asia's first European-Native treaties was made in 1565 in the Philippines; drops of this mixed in wine sealed the deal blood |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1200: Sultan Yusuf I, responsible for the decoration of this palace in Granada, was assassinated in a mosque at age 36 the Alhambra |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1600: They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring perestroika & glasnost |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $2,500 (Daily Double): Also known as Deutscher Orden, this order of knights went to the Holy Land during the Third Crusade the Teutonic Knights |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | POTPOURRI $200: The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this hypertext |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | POTPOURRI $400: In the Disney film he's alphabetically last of Snow White's seven dwarfs Sneezy |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | POTPOURRI $600: A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this gaggle |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | POTPOURRI $800: This appetizer has flowered on the Outback Steakhouse menu since 1988--it accounts for 1 in 4 apps ordered there the Bloomin' Onion |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | POTPOURRI $1000: Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the songs in "Jesus Christ Superstar"; this man wrote the lyrics Rice |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | POTPOURRI $200: 6/6 is the metric equivalent of this fraction for normal visual acuity 20/20 |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | POTPOURRI $400: In the 1980s, Carmela Vitale of Long Island patented an early version of the item seen here, known as a, this food saver pizza |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | POTPOURRI $600: The country of Tuvalu gets nearly 10% of its gross national income licensing this Internet domain extension .tv |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | POTPOURRI $800: W.S. Gilbert said the short stature of the trio of actresses seen here suggested the "Three Little Maids" song in this operetta The Mikado |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | POTPOURRI $1000: "How to Spot a Liar" by Pamela Meyer is one of the most popular of the talks that are this nonprofit's specialty TED |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $400: In the 1950s these candy dispensers were adorned with heads; they've now been adorned with almost 2,000 different ones PEZ dispensers |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $800: The mythical story of Prometheus points to a real medical fact: this organ's ability to regenerate itself the liver |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $1200: (Brad Keselowski presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Brad Keselowski; the pit crew guy hauling a 20-pound piece of equipment to help change my four tires is called this, also the last name of an X-Men actor a jackman |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $1600: A cloak called the scapular is worn by this order of monks established by a papal bull in 1216 Dominicans (Dominican Order) |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $2000: To keyboard players a "smear" is this finger-sweeping action, from a word meaning to slide glissando |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $400: A 2018 book about Benedict Arnold is titled this, a clothing term for him & his ilk Turncoat |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $800: In late 1945 Indianapolis was considered as a site for this org. that held its first meeting (not in Indy) Jan. 10, 1946 the UN |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $1200: The Ming bought horses on a huge scale from these previous rulers (it's hard to breed horses in China's selenium-poor soil) the Mongols |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $1600: In 2015 Congress authorized payments of $4.44 million to each of these people, $10,000 for each day of their captivity the Iran hostages |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $4,500 (Daily Double): What is usually called the Ancien Regime came to an end in this year 1789 |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $400: This word for a biblical narrative about the life of Jesus Christ means "good story" a gospel |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $800: When talking about bears in Spanish, this color is pardo; about sugar, moreno brown |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $1200: In a classic song, these cowboy boot accessories "Jingle Jangle Jingle" spurs |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $1600: In 1981 nearly 12,000 of these federal employees were permanently grounded after they walked off the job air traffic controllers |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | POTPOURRI $2000: This city that's just south of Turin in Italy's Piedmont region is known for its sparkling wine Asti |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | POTPOURRI $200: Germany hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics; these 2 countries who soon allied with Germany were slated to host in 1940 & 1944 Italy & Japan |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | POTPOURRI $400: Foxtrot, mascot of the United Nations World Food Program, is very happy the organization won this 2020 honor a Nobel Peace Prize |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | POTPOURRI $600: Kenyan engineer Roy Allela invented gloves that turn this into audible speech sign language |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | POTPOURRI $800: It's a post-coup military governing body; one in Bolivia in 1970 lasted just 1 day before it was overthrown in turn a junta |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1852, George Stokes's study of the mineral seen here inspired him to coin this word for a type of photoluminescence fluorescence |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $200: The zodiac constellation Leo represents the Nemean lion, slain by him Hercules |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $400: The mascot of this movie studio, began roaring in 1928 MGM |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $600: Leo Rosten brought readers "The New Joys of" this language, including words like kvell & kvetch Yiddish |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $800: LEO can be an abbreviation for this type of officer law enforcement officer |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LEO POTPOURRI-O $1000: Giovanni, the second son of Lorenzo of this family, was just shy of 40 upon becoming Pope Leo X the Medicis |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $200: This Real Housewife of Atlanta is married to Greg Leakes NeNe Leakes |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $400: A song by Silento mentions the whip & this other dance the nae nae |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $600: This Hawaiian goose has half-webbed feet for walking on rough lava rock the nene |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $800: This nostalgia group sang "Blue Moon" & "Tears On My Pillow" on the soundtrack of the movie "Grease" Sha Na Na |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | POTPOURRI $1000: In the title of a No. 1 hit by Steam, these 4 words precede "kiss him goodbye" na na hey hey |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | POTPOURRI $200: In 2010 the Air Force Research Lab built one of the world's fastest computers using more than 1,700 of these Sony game systems Playstation |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | POTPOURRI $400: This nail-filing powder is traditionally crushed corundum, whether or not it's on a "board" emery |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | POTPOURRI $600: This man whose first name means "brave lion" designed a lion automaton in the 16th century Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1932 Brazil's Olympic team had to sell bags of this crop while sailing to Los Angeles in order to pay for the trip coffee |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: HBO's "John Adams" depicted an actual administration of this sticky 2-part punishment tarring & feathering |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $400: Housed at the Smithsonian, this sparkling object is said to be cursed the Hope Diamond |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $800: The Lady Buddha Statue towers over the city of Da Nang in this country Vietnam |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $1200: That's Fidel Castro on the left in 1959, sharing a laugh with this guerilla leader, his second in command Guevara |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $1600: Germany's Stuttgart City Library has been described as having the feel of this Dutch artist's mind-bending works (M.C.) Escher |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | A POTPOURRI OF PICTURES $2000: From Greek meaning "bearer on both sides", it's the name of the ancient two-handled vessel seen here an amphora |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $200: Named for the way it rolls around lonely streets in western movies, this plant was imported to the U.S. from Russia a tumbleweed |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $400: This type of whale here has a point; and it's ivory a narwhal |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $600: Businessman Charles Schwab, novelist John Irving & lawyer David Boies all have this reading disorder dyslexia |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $800: 15% of a U.S. ton is this many pounds 300 |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | POTPOURRI $1000: Check out this two-word boat item as it goes soaring through the air; I like the cut of yours a flying jib |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $200: Batman: The Ride at Six Flags Great America was the world's first inverted, outside-looping one of these rides a roller coaster |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $400: At the Grammys from the Staples Center in 2020, Alicia Keys said, "We are... heartbroken in The House That" this Laker "Built" Kobe Bryant |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $600: This tiny 4-letter green plant covers forest floors; what's called this on the north side of trees is often actually algae moss |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $800: The female of this animal named for an Australian island gives birth to 20-40 joeys but only 4 survive a Tasmanian devil |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | POTPOURRI $1000: President Carter's executive orders 12127 & 12148 set up this agency that's ready for disaster FEMA |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: Often seen in our category titles, this word literally means "rotten pot" potpourri |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | POTPOURRI $400: This 19th century service used mochilas, especially designed saddlebags with mail pouches the Pony Express |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | POTPOURRI $800: This English car company makes a luxury SUV, the Cullinan, which weighs almost 6,000 pounds & costs more than $300,000 Rolls Royce |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | POTPOURRI $1200: Perfect for the orchestra is the mushroom seen here, known as the black this trumpet |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | POTPOURRI $1600: Dandies of the 1820s called this single eyeglass a quizzing glass a monocle |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | POTPOURRI $2000: This app that specializes in 15-second videos gets its name from the sound of a clock TikTok |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $400: Arlington has the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier; the Brits have the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, found in this building's nave Westminster Abbey |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $800: When she said she was leaving "Star Trek", MLK asked her to stay, saying, "through you, we see ourselves and what can be" Nichelle Nichols |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $1200: In the 1920s several elderly men who had worked digging the Big Bend railroad tunnel remembered this hero as a real person John Henry |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $1600: The world's first of these began as a way for Cambridge U. computer scientists to know if the coffeepot in another room was full a webcam |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $2000: This mother of Alexander the Great was in the cult of Dionysus & liked to sleep with snakes Olympias |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $200: When this board game launched in 1981, it came with 6,000 questions Trivial Pursuit |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $400: This line begins the nursery rhyme that also says, "Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king?" Sing a song of sixpence |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $600: This 15-nation U.N. body is charged with the maintenance of international peace the Security Council |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $800: Spirits are also known as eau de vie or this Latin phrase that also means "water of life" aqua vitae |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $1000: Back in 1917 the president of Argentina announced an Oct. 12 holiday called not Columbus Day but this "Dia" Dia de la Raza |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | RHYME TIME $1000: "Jeopardy! " categories include Potpourri & this 10-letter synonym for "potpourri" Hodgepodge |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $400: Chemists say roasting is the key factor driving bitter taste in this beverage; wake up & smell it! coffee |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $800: One who appears on a document transferring the title to realty may be "a friend in" this deed |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $1200: You can climb the Hangayn Mountains in this country that's sandwiched between China & Russia Mongolia |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $1600: This Boston store's "Basement" was famous for its 1-day wedding gown sale dubbed the "Running of the Brides" Filene's |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $2000: This little metal piece at the front of a gun barrel acts as a sight; marksmen "draw" it when they line up a target a bead |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $400: In the first issue of his own comic, the Caped Crusader goes up against this "Clown Prince of Crime" the Joker |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $800: Luke 11:4 says, "lead us not into" this, "but deliver us from evil" temptation |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: Lying at the junction of the Bow & Elbow Rivers, this Alberta city was Canada's first to host the Winter Olympics Calgary |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: In 1953 a fisherman paralleled "The Old Man and the Sea" by bringing in a 1,560-pound black one of these a marlin |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: 46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man Fibonacci |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | POTPOURRI $400: A misheard word may have led Charles Perrault to make this character's shoes verre, "of glass", not vair, "of fur' Cinderella |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | POTPOURRI $800: It's the only letter that doesn't appear in the name of a U.S. state Q |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: Greek for "beyond" & "heavy" gives us this name for a chamber used to treat pressure-related conditions like the bends hyperbaric |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: This tuberous vegetable isn't named for the city in Israel but for the Italian word for "sunflower", girasole a Jerusalem artichoke |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: Though it's the softest commercial wood, it's defined botanically as a hardwood balsa wood |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | POTPOURRI $400: This country, an enclave in Italy, is smaller than the National Mall in Washington, D.C. the Vatican |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | POTPOURRI $800: It was first offered as a fountain beverage at Jacobs' Pharmacy in Atlanta in 1886 Coca-Cola |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | POTPOURRI $1200: This animal, a proverbial symbol of grace, also has pure speed: it can run about 50 mph a (Grant's) gazelle |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | POTPOURRI $1600: The name of this 2-hulled boat is from the Tamil for "tied wood" catamaran |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | POTPOURRI $2000: On Nov. 12, 1833 these meteor showers were seen across all of North America, sparking a serious study of meteor showers the Leonids |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $200: In TV commercials Reba McEntire served as this brand's first female Colonel Sanders KFC |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $400: "Rabbit of Seville" & "Rabbitson Crusoe" are cartoons both featuring this character Bugs Bunny |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $600: The stems of the shiitake type of this are extremely tough; remove them & use them to flavor sauces mushroom |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $800: On June 30, 1987 80 million of these dollar coins took flight across Canada for the first time loonies |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $1000: Maine's state flower is actually a cone from this tree a pine |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $200: The cheese-filled receptacle seen here is called this pot fondue |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $400: This city was established as the capital of the territory of Florida in 1824 Tallahassee |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $600: A painting that spent 60 years stored in this room at the top of a house was authenticated as a Van Gogh in 2013 an attic |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $800: A study found over half of moms admit to this -ism, being more proud of or closer to 1 adult child than another favoritism |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: The most recent impeachment of a president was in 1998 based on a report by this man (Kenneth) Starr |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | PARIS POTPOURRI $400: Rive Gauche & Rive Droite are the left & right banks of this Paris river the Seine |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | PARIS POTPOURRI $800: In Shakespeare her parents want her to marry Paris, a nobleman & kinsman of the prince of Verona Juliet |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | PARIS POTPOURRI $1200: For 5 seasons, she & BFF Nicole Richie starred on the reality series "The Simple Life" Paris Hilton |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | PARIS POTPOURRI $1600: Used for casts & molds, plaster of Paris is made from this soft mineral gypsum |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | PARIS POTPOURRI $2000: In Greek mythology Paris is the son of this king of Troy Priam |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: This late '60s music & art fair in Bethel, New York lent its name to a Charles Schulz character Woodstock |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: Diabetics beware: the top-selling pop single of 1969 was this double-talk song from the Archies "Sugar, Sugar" |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Rickenbacker Guitars in Santa Ana, California.) The Beatles were so identified with Rickenbacker guitars that many fans thought the company was British; in the '60s, the Southern California factory received dozens of letters address to this city in the north of England Liverpool |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $800: "We can't go on together" into the '70s, Elvis--your last No. 1 hit was this 1969 song "Suspicious Minds" |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | '60s MUSIC POTPOURRI $1000: Mind-expanding drugs influenced the name of this style of rock performed by the Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane psychedelic rock |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $400: Generous donors pay for college for almost every graduate from public schools in Kalamazoo in this state Michigan |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Later D.W. Griffith's D.P., Billy Bitzer worked for Hearst on the first film camera team to cover a war, this one the Spanish-American War |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $1200: Ancient Olympians were nude, including in this sport introduced in 708 B.C. that has a move called the flying mare wrestling |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $1600: Once, Royal Navy captains would call "panic stations" as a prelude to this other 2-word command abandon ship |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | POTPOURRI $2000: bankrate.com says a free one of these kitchen items on opening an account was once so common it was proverbial a toaster |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | POTPOURRI $200: In 2017 New Jersey eliminated the cash type of this for most defendants bail |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | POTPOURRI $400: It was Ford's second big seller, starting with the 1928 model year the Model A |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | POTPOURRI $600: The Catholic revival that began in the mid-1500s is also called the Counter-this the Counter-Reformation |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | POTPOURRI $800: This 7-word "Seinfeld" catchphrase follows "We're not gay!" "Not that there's anything wrong with that!" |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | POTPOURRI $1000: Begun as an alternative to SMS messaging & now part of Facebook, it helps a billion people keep in touch WhatsApp (or Messenger) |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | POTPOURRI $200: This Microsoft program was originally called Presenter PowerPoint |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the traditional liquor you add to make a coffee Alexander brandy |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | POTPOURRI $600: Of joy, anger, thanks or begging, it's the usual tone of the piece of writing called a screed anger |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | POTPOURRI $800: 1970s TV writer Fred Fox Jr. asks about this phrase, "Then why did the show stay on the air for six more seasons?" jumping the shark |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: This alliterative quality is the reason that, as they say, once you learn to ride a bike, you'll never forget muscle memory |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | POTPOURRI $200: The skunk ape is Florida's version of this legendary humanoid Bigfoot |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | POTPOURRI $400: This type of ship follows "prairie" in the name of a kind of 19th century wagon schooner |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | POTPOURRI $600: It's the type of end-blown flute heard here a recorder |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | POTPOURRI $800: This other term for the Holy Communion comes from the Greek for "grateful" the Eucharist |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | POTPOURRI $1000: "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister" is the motto of this Seven Sisters college that's outside Boston Wellesley |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $400: Jimmy Garoppolo had to start at QB to begin the 2016 NFL season because this other Patriot was suspended (Tom) Brady |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $800: This hairstyle got its name from its popularity among rowers, especially in the Ivy League a crew cut |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $1200: According to "Forbes", in 2016, the status for this Facebook C.O.O. was "7th most powerful woman in the world" (Sheryl) Sandberg |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $1600: Shaped like a bow tie, this pasta has a name that means "butterflies" in Italian farfalle |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $2000: When Columbus reached this alliterative body of water, his crew "saw much weed...& judged themselves to be near land" the Sargasso Sea |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | POTPOURRI $400: AKA ascorbic acid, this vitamin helps form collagen in bones & aids in the absorption of iron Vitamin C |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | POTPOURRI $800: Food for thought: formerly called an institute, this Houston school was redesignated as a university in 1960 Rice |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | POTPOURRI $1200: This vodka drink with lime juice, triple sec & cranberry juice is at home all over the world a cosmopolitan |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | POTPOURRI $1600: The osetra is a type of this caviar fish sturgeon |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | POTPOURRI $2000: The 421 B.C. Peace of Nicias was a break in this decades-long war the Peloponnesian War |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | POTPOURRI, FROM US TO YOU $200: It's the first name of the "Little" 4-year-old granddaughter who became the face of a snack cake co. in 1960 Little Debbie |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | POTPOURRI, FROM US TO YOU $400: Lorelei was said to sing her siren song from a cliff above this river in Germany, between Mainz & Koblenz the Rhine |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | POTPOURRI, FROM US TO YOU $600: This title big guy hung out with the Hendersons in a 1987 movie Harry |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | POTPOURRI, FROM US TO YOU $800: It's the second L in the acronym LOL, meaning "how funny" loud |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | POTPOURRI, FROM US TO YOU $1000: High-water, stretch & ditto are kinds of this jeans (or pants or marks) |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | WORD ORIGINS $800: From a word for "apple", it's a bag of aromatic substances placed in a dresser drawer pomander |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: This writer of "Uncle Vanya" was the grandson of an ex-serf who had purchased his freedom Chekhov |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.) Lake Geneva has long been a place of literary pilgrimage; this writer called it "blue as the heavens" when she lived here with her poet husband, who almost drowned one night on the lake & did drown in Italy a few years later Mary Shelley |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1200: Gore Vidal feuded with Norman Mailer but admitted that this first Mailer book was the big one among World War II novels The Naked and the Dead |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1600: Here's a portrait of this author as a young woman; perhaps it was painted in middle March George Eliot |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $2000: Piscator teaches his friend Venator to bait a hook & catch fish in this 17th century classic The Compleat Angler |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | POTPOURRI $200: Lift your spirits with potpourri that contains these leaves, a mainstay of koalas eucalyptus |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | POTPOURRI $400: These berries that flavor gin are also a nice addition to potpourri juniper berries |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | POTPOURRI $600: There's something soothing about the scent of these flowers that are popularly used in sachets lavender |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | POTPOURRI $800: Lemon & this herb of remembrance create a wonderful fragrance when simmered on the stove rosemary |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | POTPOURRI $1000: These dried flowers are often used to add color to the mix pansies |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $200: In this sport, a googly is a bowled ball that breaks in an unexpected direction cricket |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $400: The Sumerians used this system of writing cuneiform |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $600: French slang for "friend", this Chevy muscle car can go from 0 to 60 in 5.9 seconds Camaro |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $800: This gap that's near where Kentucky, Virginia & Tennessee meet is named for a son of George II Cumberland |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $1000: Chapter 5 of "Weather for Dummies" covers cloud names & is punningly titled "Getting" this type of cloud cirrus |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | EAGLE POTPOURRI $400: Position of outstretched arms & legs spread eagle |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | EAGLE POTPOURRI $800: This patriotic character has taken it upon himself to be the moral compass & censor for his Muppet troop Sam the Eagle |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | EAGLE POTPOURRI $1200: This city's Eagle has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Kansas Wichita |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | EAGLE POTPOURRI $1600: For 2 years Barack Obama attended this Eagle Rock, California college called "Oxy" for short Occidental |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | EAGLE POTPOURRI $2000: Altair is the brightest star in this constellation known as "the Eagle" Aquila |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | POTPOURRI $400: The Romans considered the sun a god & gave him this 3-letter name Sol |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | POTPOURRI $800: Apple's website says you can ask this entity to find the best sushi place or show you the constellation Orion Siri |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | POTPOURRI $1200: With his daughter Lucy, this British physicist authored a kids' book called "George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt" Stephen Hawking |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | POTPOURRI $1600: A long work by Ezra Pound is titled "The" these; he completed 117 of them Cantos |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | POTPOURRI $2000: He may not look like it here, but the surname of this four-time British prime minister begins with a happy word William Gladstone |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | FOOT POTPOURRI $400: This brand is named for a real doctor, the grandson of a cobbler who got his medical degree in 1904 Dr. Scholl's |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | FOOT POTPOURRI $800: The Salish language gives us this other name for Bigfoot Sasquatch |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | FOOT POTPOURRI $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) Wearing flat shoes like flip-flops can lead to a lack of arch support and a stabbing pain in the heel caused by inflammation of the thick band of tissue along the bottom of the foot, a condition known as this fasciitis plantar fasciitis |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | FOOT POTPOURRI $1600: To do this soccer kick, you throw both feet in the air & kick the airborne ball toward the goal behind you bicycle kick |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $200: An electric device, the hydrostat detects the presence of this water |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $400: One of Aesop's fables is about "the dog in" this hay holder a manger |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Studies suggest that you can gain confidence before a job interview or be more successful at a work task by striking a pose for two minutes beforehand in imitation of Superman or this heroine, also known as Diana Prince Wonder Woman |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $800: One species of this fish is Hippocampus abdominalis seahorse |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $1000: Collective name for several Philadelphia suburbs, for their former position along the Pennsylvania RR Main Line |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $200: Ernie is one of the spokeselves for this snack brand Keebler |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $400: Around 1880 John Milne invented a horizontal pendulum type of this instrument that records tremors a seismograph |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $600: This king of Ancient Egypt's 19th dynasty was known for his extensive building programs Ramses |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $800: This alphanumeric group got its start in 1902 with either the Tomato Club or the Corn Growing Club 4-H |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | POTPOURRI $1000: In the early 1800s Sequoyah created a syllabary of this Native American language Cherokee |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1747 Jacques Daviel became the first to treat cataracts by safely removing this clouded eye part the lens |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | POTPOURRI $800: Gem-quality term for the items peeking out from the peas pearl onions |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | POTPOURRI $1200: At the first international exhibition of this weird ‑ism, Dylan Thomas offered visitors boiled string Surrealism |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | POTPOURRI $1600: Who are the Houthis? They're Shiite rebels who've booted the president of this Arabian Peninsula country Yemen |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | POTPOURRI $2000: Workers in this New Deal agency, the CCC, planted more than 2 billion trees in the 20th century to help fight erosion the Civilian Conservation Corps |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $800: You'll find an old name for a Chinese city in the name of this breed Pekingese |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $1200: Now, our writers are messing with me--Xiuhtecuhtli, Mictlantecuhtli & Xochiquetzal were gods of this civilization the Aztecs |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $1600: This Democrat's U.S. Senate service, from 1959 to 2010, was the longest in history (Robert C.) Byrd |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | POTPOURRI $2000: A surprise 2014 bestseller was Thomas Piketty's 700-page tome about income inequality, this "in the 21st Century" Capital |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | POTPOURRI $400: This word meaning to raise anchor has nothing to do with how heavy it is; it's from Old Saxon for to lift or carry weigh |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | POTPOURRI $800: It's the Hebrew name for the prayer shawl seen here a tallit |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | POTPOURRI $1200: This doozy of a car won the 1924, '25 & '27 Indy 500s a Duesenberg |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | POTPOURRI $1600: Travel guides dub the area seen here this color coast; the name of the color comes from the country it's in turquoise |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | POTPOURRI $2000: Item 1 in the Mayo Clinic's online instructions for dealing with a victim of this is "Look first. Don't touch" electrocution |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $200: It's spoken by lawyers to alert the court to improper evidence or procedure an objection |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $400: Stevie Nicks sang about the white-winged this, & here it is a dove |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $600: Located between 85th & 96th, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir is found in this landmark Central Park |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $800: In one legend, Juno condemned this nymph, saying, "You shall still have the last word, but no power to speak first" Echo |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $1000: "The Lost Colony" that landed on this island in 1587 had about 17 women, 9 kids & 90 men Roanoke |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | POTPOURRI $200: Running back Jackson or actress Derek Bo |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | POTPOURRI $400: When functioning properly, "all systems are" this, meaning ready go |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | POTPOURRI $600: It flows 405 miles to the Adriatic the Po |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | POTPOURRI $800: In a Kipling work, it comes between "Just" & "Stories" So |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | POTPOURRI $1000: The innermost of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons Io |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $200: After some changes were made, King John accepted this document on June 19, 1215 the Magna Carta |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $400: Vlad III (that's the impaler) built the fortress of this Romanian city to try to hold back the Turks Bucharest |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $600: A great builder, this pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty sealed peace by marrying a Hittite princess Ramses (the Great) |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $800: After the British slave trade ended, this mammal product became the most important export from West Central Africa ivory |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $1000: This European banking dynasty was founded by a man named Mayer Amschel Rothschild |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | A POTPOURRI OF WORDS $200: A group of scouts or soldiers troop |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | A POTPOURRI OF WORDS $400: To grimace with a sullen expression & an extended lower lip pout |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | A POTPOURRI OF WORDS $600: To rip a plant all the way out of the ground uproot |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | A POTPOURRI OF WORDS $800: An after-dinner wine of the Iberian Peninsula port |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | A POTPOURRI OF WORDS $1000: An apple or orange seed pip |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | POTPOURRI $200: In an old rhyme, this gospel quartet "bless the bed that I lie on" Matthew, Mark, Luke and John |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the cozy 4-letter name of Barnes & Noble's tablet Nook |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | POTPOURRI $600: Hatha & bikram are 2 types of this discipline yoga |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | POTPOURRI $800: This fish with a directional name is found in the Great Lakes northern pike |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: Fittingly, President Obama chose Sally Jewell, CEO & president of REI, to head this cabinet department Interior |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $200: Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of this microblogging site, sent its first message March 21, 2006 Twitter |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a formula on the monitor.) The old rule was to multiply this pet's age by 7 to get its age in human years; today, there's an updated formula that depends on what kind of breed, but it often comes out to be about the same dogs |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $600: This deodorant that's "strong enough for a man, made for a woman" was introduced in 1956 Secret |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $800: He used Bag End, the name of his Aunt Jane's farm in Worcestershire, for the home of some of his characters Tolkien |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $1000: A Northerner who opposed the Union cause in the Civil War was called this, after a snake that strikes without warning a Copperhead |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | WOLF POTPOURRI $200: In mythology, a she-wolf suckled these 2 brothers, the founders of Rome Romulus & Remus |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | WOLF POTPOURRI $400: Irish-American Denis Leary loves these huge Irish dogs, though one "scarfed down the headlights on an ATV" a wolfhound |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | WOLF POTPOURRI $600: This "junior" actor played the title role in 1941's "The Wolf Man" Lon Chaney Jr. |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | WOLF POTPOURRI $800: The Russian title of this Prokofiev composition is "Petya i Volk" Peter and the Wolf |
| #6782, aired 2014-02-25 | WOLF POTPOURRI $1000: Like their mammal counterparts, wolf species of this arthropod often live in burrows & hunt prey spiders |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $400: John McCain says he has to translate this friend & fellow senator's Southern accent into English Lindsey Graham |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 4 great rivers of Africa are the Niger, the Nile, the Zambezi & this one that lends its name to 2 countries in its basin the Congo |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $1200: A century-old Silver Ghost from this British car company sold for $7.1 million in 2012 Rolls Royce |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $1600: Like the one in your nose, this dividing membrane between 2 halves takes its name from the Latin for "fence" septum |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $2000: In 2013 Detroit became the largest U.S. city ever to take this undesirable step declaring bankruptcy |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | POTPOURRI $200: The line highlighted here Is at this number of degrees longitude. zero |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | POTPOURRI $400: This Honda minivan has a Homeric name the Odyssey |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | POTPOURRI $600: These dogs represent the teams of both Northeastern University & UConn huskies |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | POTPOURRI $800: You know from trips to the ATM that Andrew Jackson is on the front of the $20; this building is on the back the White House |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | POTPOURRI $1000: This Brit wrote the book on economics: 1936's "The General Theory Of Employment, Interest & Money" (John Maynard) Keynes |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | POTPOURRI $400: The AD100 is an annual list of the best in design from this magazine Architectural Digest |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | POTPOURRI $800: Bill Moggridge set the standard with his design for this: a clamshell case with a hinged lid that folded over a keyboard a laptop computer |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | POTPOURRI $1200: This Greek olive gets its name from the Greek city of its (& Yanni's) birth Kalamata |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | POTPOURRI $1600: In 2012 Xi Jinping succeeded this man as head of China's Communist Party Hu Jintao |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | POTPOURRI $2000: Sealy uses this 2-letter symbol on the NYSE, perhaps to represent a user of one of its mattresses ZZ |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $200: Let's turn the lights low & give thanks to this man who also gave the world the first industrial research lab Edison |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $400: That's right, baby, in 1534 Suleiman the Magnificent conquered Iraq in leading this empire against Persia the Ottoman Empire |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $600: Let's mix business with pleasure... this alphanumeric co. is known for Scotch tape, but its first product was sandpaper 3M |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $800: He was Harding's first confirmed Supreme Court justice, & at 300-plus pounds, that was a lot more to love Taft |
| #6596, aired 2013-04-29 | THE SEXIEST POTPOURRI EVER $1000: Ohhh yeah... Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and" this examines environmental factors in history Steel |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | POTPOURRI $200: According to the nursery rhyme, it's when "the cradle will rock" when the wind blows |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | POTPOURRI $400: This type of foot seen in medieval images of the devil may have come from the god Pan a cloven foot |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | POTPOURRI $600: In 2012 this model & "Project Runway" host launched her Truly Scrumptious collection for Babies R Us Heidi Klum |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | POTPOURRI $800: This London theatre was razed in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed it down the Globe |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | POTPOURRI $1000: More U.S. presidents have died on this month & day (in different years) than any other July 4th |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | UMBRELLA POTPOURRI $200: This umbrella-wielding Batman foe made his comic book debut in 1941 in Detective Comics No. 58 the Penguin |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | UMBRELLA POTPOURRI $400: The sun is out,
so the light umbrellas carried here are known by this word parasol |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | UMBRELLA POTPOURRI $600: In 2007 her "Umbrella" was named MTV's Monster Single of the Year Rihanna |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | UMBRELLA POTPOURRI $800: In 2011, his last full year as French president, he got a Kevlar-coated umbrella as part of his protection Nicolas Sarkozy |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | UMBRELLA POTPOURRI $1000: This insurance company lost its umbrella logo when it merged with Citicorp in 1998 but later purchased it back Travelers |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | POTPOURRI $400: Large specimens of this marsupial can leap over barriers 6 feet high kangaroos |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | POTPOURRI $800: One of the N.Y. Times' headlines on this landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision was "Cardinals Shocked" Roe v. Wade |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | POTPOURRI $1200: Because of the way he became president, John Tyler's opponents nicknamed him "His" this "Accidency" |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | POTPOURRI $1600: In 2011 bell ringers for this charity started accepting digital donations to its red kettle the Salvation Army |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | COMPLETE DOME-INATION $2000: The structure seen here, in this city, is technically not a dome since it uses masts & cables for support London |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | POTPOURRI $2000: After Elizabeth's death in 1603, the crown passed to King James, the first of this royal house to rule England Stuart |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $200: If you roll a standard 6-sided die & a 2 comes up, this number is on the bottom 5 |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $400: Conchita the mule is always at the side of this man who represents Colombian coffee growers Juan Valdez |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $600: The suits in this deck of cards include wands, pentacles & cups tarot cards |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $800: Monroe's model 8130 one of these can display up to 12 digits & perform square roots a calculator |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) An orphan is the first line of a paragraph on its own at the bottom of a page; this term is used for the last line of a paragraph alone at the top of a page a widow |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $200: This synonym for "newspaper" is in the names of newspapers like Albuquerque's &, of course, Wall Street's journal |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $400: A coonskin cap is also called this, after a frontiersman who served in Congress Davy Crockett |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $600: This champagne is named for a monk who worked in the cellars of the Benedictine Hautvillers abbey Dom Perignon |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $800: Both a religious & social event, a quinceañera celebrates a girl's passage to adulthood at this age 15 |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | POTPOURRI $1000: This King of the Belgians was born on April 8, 1875 in Brussels, presumably not in a can Albert |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $400: Egypt's mount Katrina is the highest peak on this peninsula the Sinai |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $800: In the 1880s Camille Claudel was a pupil & then more of this sculptor Rodin |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $1200: In 1804 Andrew Jackson bought the Hermitage, his home & refuge in this state Tennessee |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $1600: Byzantine empress Irene promoted the use of this type of symbol & battled the -oclasts icon |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | POTPOURRI $2000: In 1993 the Library of Congress made Rita Dove the first African American to hold this position a poet laureate |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | POTPOURRI $200: If you know the correct procedure, you "know" this, also a tool the drill |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | POTPOURRI $400: "Shaping a Life", "Building a Home" & "Creating a World" are on the U.S. postage stamp promoting awareness of this adoption |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | POTPOURRI $600: The pillow type of this delicate fabric isn't made to sleep on; the pillow is the pad that holds the pattern lace |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | POTPOURRI $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) Can you make out the three letters in the logo that looks like a man holding a stick? It stands for this musical entity, whose web site ends in "co.uk" the London Symphony Orchestra |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | POTPOURRI $1000: Michael Dukakis attended this Quaker-founded college in Pennsylvania Swarthmore College |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $200: Spend a night in the hotel destroyed every April named for this type of dwelling an igloo |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $400: He was 11 days shy of 90 when he announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010 (John Paul) Stevens |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $600: Snakes have no arms or legs but can have 600 of these bones in their flexible spines vertebrae |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $800: These accessories got longer throughout the Victorian Age & reached the elbow by the 1880s gloves |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: To combat scurvy on his voyages, Captain Cook used this briny shredded cabbage as well as lime juice sauerkraut |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WORLD POTPOURRI $200: In 1993 The New York Times Company paid $1.1 billion to acquire the Globe, a newspaper in this city Boston |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WORLD POTPOURRI $400: As everyone belongs to everyone, mother & father are forbidden terms in this 1932 Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WORLD POTPOURRI $600: I'm enjoying the Street View feature of this service introduced in 2005--hey, who parked in my driveway? Google Earth |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WORLD POTPOURRI $800: In 1999 50,000 people protested in Seattle against this international business group the World Trade Organization (WTO) |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | WORLD POTPOURRI $1000: Dr. Bob Pierce started this organization to help kids orphaned in the Korean War; today it helps kids all over the globe World Vision |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | POTPOURRI $200: A verbal prompt for an actor a cue |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | POTPOURRI $400: From the Latin for "tail", it's what the Brits stand in to get in to see a movie a queue |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | POTPOURRI $600: The actress seen here, a star in Hong Kong & then on American TV, goes by this 1-letter last name Q. |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | POTPOURRI $800: It's a rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship a crew |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | POTPOURRI $1000: Royal Botanical Gardens of southwest London the Kew Gardens |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $200: "Our actors", says Prospero, "were all spirits, and Are melted into" this, "into thin" this air |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $400: This artist created the melting 1931 work seen here Dalí |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $600: Add melted cheese & chile peppers to tortilla chips & you get this Mexican-American appetizer nachos |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $800: In 1979 equipment & human failures led to a partial meltdown of the No. 2 reactor at this U.S. site Three Mile Island |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $1000: Melting copper & zinc together is the traditional recipe for this alloy used since Neolithic times brass |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | POTPOURRI $400: Craig Ferguson is a proud Glaswegian--a native of this city Glasgow |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | POTPOURRI $800: Sheet retailers try to impress you with this number, 300 or 600 or even 1,500 thread count |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | POTPOURRI $1200: The Crooked House seen here was completed in 2003 in Sopot in this country; the language over the door is a big clue Poland |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | POTPOURRI $1600: Alfalfa has a long one of these primary roots; on older plants it can go down 50 feet a taproot |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | POTPOURRI $2000: It's the illustration facing the title page of a book the frontispiece |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | POTPOURRI $200: Though it has 3 initials in its name, this telecom giant gets only one for its stock symbol--"T" AT&T |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | POTPOURRI $400: In 2010 it became the first Scandinavian band to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ABBA |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | POTPOURRI $600: This first permanent English settlement in America was named for a British king Jamestown |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | POTPOURRI $800: In the 1960s flight attendants from this U.S. airline wore Gay '90s & Russian Cossack costumes Alaska Airlines |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: Barry Manilow was born in Brooklyn; Michael Dukakis was born in this Massachusetts town Brookline |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | POTPOURRI $200: In 1993 the FCC required analog TVs sold in the U.S. to display this to help the deaf & the non-English speaking closed captions |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | POTPOURRI $400: By definition, it's what you do at an ingress enter |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | POTPOURRI $600: Timbo the elephant lived at Shambala, the retreat of this former Hitchcock movie actress, & liked when she fed him Clorets Tippi Hedren |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | POTPOURRI $800: If Simon LeBon had stomach acid going up his esophagus & causing heartburn, he'd be suffering this acid reflux |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: 8-letter term for a jug of Pooh's favorite stuff, or for the wax structure that a queen bee builds to store her nectar honeypot |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | POTPOURRI $200: Dark drinks like scotch have lots, vodka less, of impurities called congeners, a culprit in this nasty condition a hangover |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | POTPOURRI $400: Norris McWhirter, track announcer at the first sub-4-minute mile, began compiling this book the same year the Guinness Book of World Records |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | POTPOURRI $600: Scary--in 1991 the N.Y. Supreme Court ruled that a home buyer could void the sale as he hadn't known the house was this haunted |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | POTPOURRI $800: A century-old painting of these animals playing poker was one of a pair that fetched $590,400 at a 2005 auction dogs |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | POTPOURRI $1000: Schopenhauer wrote that to do this "is to halve your rights and double your duties"; so he never did to marry |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | POTPOURRI (REALLY) $200: Yankee Scents of New England makes a red, white & blue potpourri named for this holiday Independence Day (the 4th of July) |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | POTPOURRI (REALLY) $400: Eli Whitney probably knew that many potpourris use the fruit of this plant of the genus Gossypium cotton |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | POTPOURRI (REALLY) $600: Potpourri is often used to fill these small scented packets with a French name sachets |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | POTPOURRI (REALLY) $800: Though they can irritate skin, the red hot fruits of this edible plant, Capsicum annuum, are found in some potpourris jalapeño (Cayenne accepted) |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | POTPOURRI (REALLY) $1000: The Royal Botanic Gardens at this London estate has a research collection of more than 700 types of potpourri Kew Gardens |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | POTPOURRI $200: Dentist who helped out the Earps at the O.K. Corral Doc Holliday |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | POTPOURRI $400: Astrologically, January begins with this sign & ends with Aquarius Capricorn |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | POTPOURRI $600: This system was introduced in U.S. autos in 1978 to help keep control when stopping antilock brakes (ABS) |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | POTPOURRI $800: This type of horse race began as a contest toward a church tower the steeplechase |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | POTPOURRI $1000: Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Nazi invasion of this nation Russia |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | POTPOURRI $400: Music from Paul Dukas accompanies a section of this 1940 film, as the powerful wizard summons spirits Fantasia |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | POTPOURRI $800: A statue of a gal holding one of these bugs in Enterprise, Ala. praises it for pushing the town to try new crops a boll weevil |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | POTPOURRI $1200: Eddie Murphy took the cake when this tubular snack looked for the "nuttiest celebrity laugh" in 1999 Ho Hos |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | POTPOURRI $1600: This island nation may have been named for 3 peaks on one island & something smoked by natives on the other Trinidad & Tobago |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | POTPOURRI $2000: This title guy's pal says, "That... hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so, that he will sure run mad" Romeo |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | SMELLS TERRIFIC $800: A fragrant mixture of flower petals & spices, it's from the French for "rotten pot" potpourri |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $400: Damocloids aren't astronaut curse words; they're an unusual type of these with elliptical orbits asteroids |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $800: It's the official language of Kiribati English |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $1200: The Mikimoto system for grading these rates the highest quality as AAA pearls |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $1600: His first trial for taking the Pentagon Papers ended in a mistrial; in the second, charges were dismissed Daniel Ellsberg |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $2000: "The Seven" is a hip-hop musical based on Aeschylus' "Seven Against" this city Thebes |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | 9-LETTER POTPOURRI $400: You won't see Edyta Sliwinska performing this, done by Southwest Indians in August to bring precipitation a rain dance |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | POTPOURRI $400: While Agnus Dei refers to Christ, it actually means "lamb of" this God |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | POTPOURRI $800: Would Cary with this last name have seemed as suave if he'd gained fame as Archibald Leach? Grant |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: It's the syllable used for the third tone of any major diatonic scale Mi |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: The moon has a Sea of Tranquility & a Sea of this, a synonym of tranquility Serenity |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: This word that means bravery or valor comes from the Latin for "heart" courage |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $200: There are only 12 letters in the alphabet of these American islands Hawaii |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew tries to sell you a cell from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) The W44S multimedia phone combines Sony's multimedia, like digital TV, with the phone technology of Ericsson, based in this country Sweden |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $600: This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford, & a lodger the House of the Seven Gables |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $800: This developer of the first practical helicopter built & flew the first 4-engine aircraft in 1913 Sikorsky |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: Chitin is the main component in this supportive outer covering of lobsters & insects the exoskeleton |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | POTPOURRI $400: In the American colonies in the 1770s, the British East India Company had a monopoly on the sale of this beverage tea |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | POTPOURRI $800: "Taste the rainbow" of fruit flavors with this candy brand Skittles |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | POTPOURRI $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue while playing the bass.) In music, it describes a tone lowered a half-step in pitch, like when I go from here to here flat |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | POTPOURRI $1600: Flaneur is a French term for this kind of lazy person, also a type of shoe a loafer |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | POTPOURRI $2000: This famous 19th c. clipper ship shares its name with a brand of scotch Cutty Sark |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, bestows memorial scholarships named for this woman (Amelia) Earhart |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $800: On Feb. 19 2008 this longtime leader announced he'd give up his presidency (Fidel) Castro |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The Virgin Islands celebrate Thanksgiving in October to give thanks to the end of this weather "season" hurricane season |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Many Indian foods are accompanied by these popular relishes of spices & fruits often made from mangoes chutneys |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Many of this country's postage stamps reproduce paintings in Prince Hans-Adam's art collection Liechtenstein |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $200: A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta a daisy |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $400: Contrary to its name, this yellow mustard brand introduced in 1904 is American French's |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $600: Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they'll use it in their nests lint |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $800: She was born Martha Jane Canary in Missouri; the original "calamity" in her life may have been her parents' death Calamity Jane |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | POTPOURRI $1000: A G.I. Joe introduced in 2000 is supposed to be one of these Native Americans who were code talkers in WWII Navajo |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $200: In 1903 the first pack of this brand carried the line "for educational color work" Crayola |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1899 this pair started their research with a biplane flown like a kite the Wright Brothers |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $600: Title of the chief of the DOJ the Attorney General |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $800: Used in martial arts, this hand weapon, 2 sticks joined by a cord or chain, is also called karate sticks nunchaku (or numchucks) |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a diagram on the monitor.) Instead of running around the curve, save strides & run this straight line that touches the curve, from the Latin for "to touch" a tangent |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | POTPOURRI $200: On the way to becoming the name it is today, "Covent Garden" lost this letter N |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the large river that runs through Albuquerque & Brownsville Rio Grande |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | POTPOURRI $600: Its chemical symbol is Sn tin (stannous) |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | POTPOURRI $800: This British archaeologist's last dig (the one they put him in) was at Putney Vale Cemetery in 1939, not in Egypt Howard Carter |
| #5441, aired 2008-04-14 | POTPOURRI $1000: The Hanukkah song "Maoz Tzur" shares its English title with this Christian hymn that "clefts for me" "Rock Of Ages" |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | POTPOURRI $400: The name of this language, in the language itself, is "Igpay Atinlay" Pig Latin |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | POTPOURRI $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew performs an experiment.) Some clay, a very sharp pencil & a horseshoe magnet will make a simple one of these devices--you don't even need a needle a compass |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | POTPOURRI $1200: Since 1910, the color that borders the covers of "National Geographic" yellow |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | POTPOURRI $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a phrase on the monitor.) In proofreading, a mark like the red one here indicates that the writer should do this with the words switch them (or transpose them) |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | POTPOURRI $2000: 14-letter word for cooperation between 2 partners, leading to smoother political sailing bipartisanship |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | POSTAL POTPOURRI $200: In 1661 Britain's Henry Bishop introduced this, showing only day & month, to monitor lazy letter carriers a postmark |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | POSTAL POTPOURRI $400: Canadian postal codes use the format letter-number-letter number-letter-number; his is H0H 0H0 Santa Claus |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | POSTAL POTPOURRI $600: In the '90s the Postal Service launched a program aptly named do this to breast cancer stamp out |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | POSTAL POTPOURRI $800: Deltiologists specialize in this collectible & may "wish you were here" at their meetings postcards |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | POSTAL POTPOURRI $1000: It's what you send to Grandma in Guatemala with the USPS' Dinero Seguro system a money order |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | POTPOURRI $200: Wahine, a magazine devoted to women in this sport, wiped out in 2001 surfing |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | POTPOURRI $400: Raul Rodriguez is a famed designer of these, & he's often seen riding on one on January 1st with his pet macaw float |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | POTPOURRI $600: This ancient Hebrew measure equal to about 2 quarts sounds like a synonym for "taxi" cab |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | POTPOURRI $800: In Britain, it's a pullover sweater; in America, it's a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse jumper |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: Toronto's coat of arms boasts an artist's depiction of 3 rivers flowing into this body of water Lake Ontario |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $400: This form of ancient transport is mentioned in the Beach Boys' hit "Fun, Fun, Fun" chariot |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $800: By the 400s B.C. the Greeks had perfected 3 orders of architecture: Ionic, Corinthian & this oldest one Doric |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a picture of the Greek alphabet.) When the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet is spelled in English it's 2 letters long & this quantity in Roman numerals eleven |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $1600: Some Roman villas used a hypocaust system to provide central this heating |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the number of cells in your average dinoflagellate one |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | POTPOURRI $1200: (Jeff Probst reports from China.) The Chinese province of Jiangxi has been famous for centuries for this ceramic, whose name is derived from the Latin for "pig" porcelain |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | POTPOURRI $1600: On an alphabetical list of U.S. states, this 43rd state comes immediately after the 50th state Idaho |
| #5333, aired 2007-11-14 | POTPOURRI $2000: Ponce de Leon's tomb is in this capital city San Juan |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | BIBLICAL ABOMINATIONS $600: Potpourri is not mentioned, but this burning perfume is an abomination according to Isaiah 1:13 incense |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $200: In a song from Meredith Willson's "The Music Man", this many trombones "led the big parade" 76 |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $400: Using a 200-year-old technique, a V.A. hospital in Long Beach, Calif. has utilized these fly larvae to treat patients maggots |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $600: Ranking just above a captain, not behind him, it's a U.S. Navy admiral with 1 star a rear admiral |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1989 Pope John Paul II added these 2 automobile-related acts to the official list of Catholic sins speeding & drunken driving |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $1000: For one game, minor league baseball's St. Paul Saints used these on top of the dugout to reenact big plays mimes |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | POTPOURRI $200: Technically, a carpet is fixed to the floor but one of these lies free a rug |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | POTPOURRI $400: Andrassy is the luxury shopping street of this capital of Hungary Budapest |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | POTPOURRI $600: It's not just Dijon; Meaux also is known for this condiment mustard |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | POTPOURRI $800: Jazzman Bucky Pizzarelli uses a 7-string one of these a guitar |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: The Royal Tyrrell Museum of this -ology has 35 complete dinosaur skeletons paleontology |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the country closest to the wreck of the Titanic Canada |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | POTPOURRI $800: The flat-topped table mountain overlooking Cape Town is often under its own cloud cover, aptly called this Table Cloth |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: In 2003 Portland coach Maurice Cheeks got an "assist" before the game when a 13-year-old girl forgot these the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: Ronald Reagan was partly deaf in his right ear because this happened to close to it on a movie set a gunshot |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: 1950s Bulgarian leader Vulko Chervenkov, who followed the Soviet model, was known as "Little" this dictator Stalin |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POTPOURRI $200: Shelley & Eliot would be happy to know that April is the national month for this form of writing poetry |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POTPOURRI $400: The cotton gin worked by removing these small, pesky items from the cotton seeds |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POTPOURRI $600: If you stare at a bright red dot & then at a white wall, you'll see an afterimage of the same dot in this color green |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POTPOURRI $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from UC Santa Cruz.) A membership program here at a UC Santa Cruz aquarium is named for the sea type of this creature--not to be confused with the banana type, the university's mascot slug |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | POTPOURRI $1000: Disgraced soldiers once left the military with percussion playing--hence this modern idiom to be drummed out |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | "C" POTPOURRI $400: A document establishing an organization, or a type of specialized flight a charter |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | "C" POTPOURRI $800: The company called Jennifer these doesn't sell sports cars but sofa beds Convertibles |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | "C" POTPOURRI $1200: A parliamentary motion to test support for the government is a vote of this; if the gov't loses, a vote of "no" this confidence |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | "C" POTPOURRI $1600: Ian Fleming wrote, "Once is happenstance, twice is" this. "The third time it's enemy action" coincidence |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | "C" POTPOURRI $2000: A barrow is a pig that's had certain involuntary surgery; a gelding is the equivalent horse, & this is the rooster a capon |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $400: As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm's Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia's Day costumes the Nobel Prize |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $800: These 2 words preceded "England Inne" in the name of a romantic getaway in Stowe, Vermont Ye Olde |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $1200: First 2 words of Variety's headline about rural audiences rejecting rural movies, preceding "Hick Pix" Sticks Nix |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $1600: This newsman's long career has included driving Marguerite Oswald to see her son in custody on Nov. 22, 1963 Bob Schieffer |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $2000: In "Gulliver's Travels", Swift described this type of creature as "the most unteachable of all brutes" a Yahoo |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MORE TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $200: Etruscan civilization had gone past tense by the 453 A.D. wedding-night death of this Hun leader Attila |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MORE TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $400: On July 26, 2004, this non-Etruscan couple, seen here, recreated a classic political convention moment Al and Tipper Gore |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MORE TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $600: An Etruscan might say Samson had trichomania, a fascination with this, but as the group no longer exists, maybe not hair |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MORE TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $800: "Fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox" (but not Etruscan kids) "love" these Armour Hot Dogs |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MORE TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $1000: Etruscans never foresaw in 1875 he'd pen the novel "Roderick Hudson"; "Daisy Miller" would arrive 3 years later Henry James |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | POTPOURRI $200: (Alex stands with Elmo on Sesame Street.) 2005 was the 100th anniversary of Gennaro Lombardi starting one of these restaurants
(Elmo: One of Elmo's favorite foods!) a pizzeria |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | POTPOURRI $400: A popular kids' book tells "The True Story of" this trio of oinkers--from the wolf's perspective the Three Little Pigs |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | POTPOURRI $600: If you're a "Junior" member of this organization, think outside the box to earn your Cookie Biz badge the Girl Scouts |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | POTPOURRI $800: These "proud" birds also knwn as peafowl like to fly up into trees at night to roost peacocks |
| #5073, aired 2006-10-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: When you read about these warrior women in Greek mythology, notice that they don't have ".com" after their names the Amazons |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | TREE POTPOURRI $200: Dendrochronologists study the climate of the past mainly by examining these in trees trunk rings |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | TREE POTPOURRI $400: This symbol of Maine stands tall & green on the state's flag a pine tree |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | TREE POTPOURRI $600: Acer saccharum is the sugar type of this tree the maple |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | TREE POTPOURRI $800: From his birthplace, Elvis may have known that Nyssa is the botanical name for this tree the tupelo |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | TREE POTPOURRI $1000: This Aussie song mentions "a jolly swagman" "under the shade of a coolibah tree" "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | THE JEP-TONES WORLD TOUR 2006 $800: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is Green Day |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $200: In what could be the first-ever eviction, they got the heave-ho for taking an unauthorized meal break in Genesis 3 Adam & Eve |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $400: Donald Trump's rather unique hairstyle has been called a "pompad-over", a combination of pompadour & this a comb-over |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $600: In May 1998 the Supreme Court gave 24.2 acres of this island to New Jersey & 3.3 acres of it to New York Ellis Island |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1946 he won California's 12th district seat, in part by implying Democrat Jerry Voorhis had Communist ties Richard Nixon |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $1000: In 1984 this food co. had a Vt.-only stock offering at $10.50 per share; Unilever bought the co. in 2000 for $43.60 per share Ben & Jerry's |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $200: Guinness says Peter Broeker owns more than 8,000 bottles of this--hope they're on a wall & he sings about them beer |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $400: A song from "Gigi" celebrates "The Night They Invented" this bubbly beverage champagne |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $600: The popular liqueur known as "sloe" this is made from the fruit of the blackthorn gin |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $800: Stay at Woodland Plantation if you love this genteel liqueur; it has been depicted on the liqueur's label since 1934 Southern Comfort |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | POTENT POTABLE POTPOURRI $1000: This fermented honey-&-water beverage was a favorite of Chaucer's miller & of the god Thor mead |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | TEEN POTPOURRI $200: 3 teens were on the Team USA that won gold in August 2005 at the 26th World Championships of Twirling these batons |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | TEEN POTPOURRI $400: In New Hampshire (& many other states), you must be at least this age to marry without parental consent 18 |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | TEEN POTPOURRI $600: She turned 13 on Feb. 27, 1993--one month after her father became president Chelsea Clinton |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | TEEN POTPOURRI $800: This national org. is now divided into 4 different age groups; Studio 2B is for females between 11 & 17 the Girl Scouts |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | TEEN POTPOURRI $1000: This national literary magazine written for teens by teens has a writing fluid in its name Teen Ink |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | HELLO, POTPOURRI $200: The Carnegie one at 7th & 55th in N.Y.C., or Jerry's famous one on Ventura Blvd. in Studio City; hello... deli |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | HELLO, POTPOURRI $400: Last name of "Jungle Doctor of Laos" Thomas, or "Breaking Away" actor Paul; hello... Dooley |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | HELLO, POTPOURRI $600: Dandridge Payne Todd are names sandwiched between the better-known 1st and last ones of this 1st lady; hello... Dolley Madison |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | HELLO, POTPOURRI $800: Named after a 17th century draper, it's any small, ornamental mat, as of lace; hello... doily |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | HELLO, POTPOURRI $1000: One of the smallest species of this warm-blooded cetacean is the buffeo; hello... dolphin |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | POTPOURRI $400: The flag of Chile has just one of these, 49 fewer than the U.S. flag a star |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | POTPOURRI $800: Python & Scorpion aren't merely animals, they're 2 of these rides at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay roller coasters |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | POTPOURRI $1200: Of Ketchupseed, Mustardseed or Onionseed, the one who's a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mustardseed |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | POTPOURRI $1600: This apparatus that female gymnasts compete on is just 4 inches wide, so don't lose your equilibrium the balance beam |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | POTPOURRI $2000: If you have any Na, you've got sodium; if you have any Ne, you've got this gas neon |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | POTPOURRI $200: The pitcher looks in for this, he doesn't like what he sees... he's shaking it off... the sign |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | POTPOURRI $400: This martial art is said to have been inspired by the slow, sinuous movements of a snake tai chi |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | POTPOURRI $600: This type of dance shares its name with something you might serve with chips salsa |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | POTPOURRI $800: They're the band that gave us the dance floor favorite heard here The Village People |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | POTPOURRI $1000: It's the pro football infraction indicated here offsides |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $200: Since they peaked 2,500 years ago, you won't find many Etruscans catching jazz in this city's Preservation Hall New Orleans |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $400: Historians differ on how Etruscans would have felt about this Mother Goose guy, "Born on a Monday... buried on Sunday" Solomon Grundy |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $600: No Etruscan could know that 25,000 Southern casualties occured during this July 1-3, 1863 battle Gettysburg |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $800: Etruscans don't know he famously said, "I don't give 'em hell; I just tell the truth and they think it's hell" Harry Truman |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $1000: Etruscans would have loved this playwright who went from the U. of Michigan to the U. of Marilyn (Monroe) Arthur Miller |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | POTPOURRI $200: U-Haul claims to be the largest installer of these permanent devices that'll keep your trailer attached hitches |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | POTPOURRI $400: Lou Jacobs clowned around for this circus for 60 years, 1925 to 1985 Ringling Brothers |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | POTPOURRI $600: In Churchill's saying, "He who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart... He who is not a conservative at 40 has..." this no head |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | POTPOURRI $800: Workers using radium to make these glow at an Orange, N.J. factory had resulting health problems watch faces (or watch dials) |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | POTPOURRI $1000: The extreme right-hand door of St. Peter's is only opened in this type of year, which comes next in 2025 a Holy Year |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $400: The Sugar Act of 1764 taxed American importation of this liquid at 3 cents a gallon molasses |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $800: In 1785 Edmund Cartwright patented a "new invented machine for weaving", known today as a power this a loom |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $1200: Kant's question "Was ist Aufklarung?" translates as "What is" this, another term for the Age of Reason Enlightenment |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $1600: It's been reported that this was the term for the "gangs" that forced men into military service press gangs |
| #4779, aired 2005-05-19 | 18th CENTURY POTPOURRI $2000: The 1761 execution of Father Malagrida was part of the suppression of this religious group the Jesuits |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CNN 25: POTPOURRI $200: (Hi, I'm Christiane Amanpour of CNN.) Millions of people have come here to Vatican City to this basilica to present their final respects to Pope John Paul II St. Peter's |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CNN 25: POTPOURRI $400: The man seen here was largely responsible for this hotly anticipated film, the top box office hit of 1999 Star Wars: Episode I |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CNN 25: POTPOURRI $600: The activist seen here testified before the Senate in favor of research using the embryonic type of these stem cells |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CNN 25: POTPOURRI $800: She made news in 1988 when she became the first woman to head a modern Muslim nation Benazir Bhutto |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | CNN 25: POTPOURRI $1000: The measure at issue here was ratified by 35 states, this many short of the number it needed 3 |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | THIS SHOULD SOUND FAMILIAR $800: From the French for "rotten pot", it's any mixture of unrelated objects potpourri |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $400: Even the Duchess of Windsor is included on Royalty Row at the Royal London Wax Museum in this B.C. capital Victoria |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $800: Visit the graves of Mozart's wife & father at this city's St. Sebastian cemetery--but you won't find Mozart with them Salzburg |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $1200: Since 1981 Queen Beatrix has lived at Huis Ten Bosch palace in this "court"ly city The Hague |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $1600: The name of this capital of Senegal comes from a Wolof word for the tamarind tree Dakar |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands with a mariachi band in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.) Add 3 letters to "guitar" to get the name of this bass guitar used in Mexican music guitarron |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | POTPOURRI $200: The Acme Thunderer is one of these used by many sports referees a whistle |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | POTPOURRI $400: The potage this Biblical character sold his birthright for was made from lentils Esau |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | POTPOURRI $600: North Dakota's state song is "North Dakota Hymn"; this state uses "The Old North State" North Carolina |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | POTPOURRI $800: His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes Dionysus |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | POTPOURRI $1000: Located about 8,500 feet up in the Andes is this judicial capital of Bolivia Sucre |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $400: Ahoy! This symbol of a cereal is the commander of the S.S. Guppy Cap'n Crunch |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $800: Denmark's Gorm dynasty began with Gorm; next was Harald Bluetooth, then Sven Fork-this facial feature a beard |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $1200: When Billy Batson said this word, he got the wisdom of Solomon & the speed of Mercury Shazam |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks a dog at Yale University.) Handsome Dan is No. 15 in the line of Yale mascots, including one who was cared for by this man, later Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State Cyrus Vance |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | POTPOURRI $2000: In 1937 Fred Noonan disappeared along with this person Amelia Earhart |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | SCIENCE POTPOURRI $400: A large group of stars is called a cluster & a large cluster is called this a galaxy |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | SCIENCE POTPOURRI $800: Founded in 1889 as St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, today it's known as this the Mayo Clinic |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | SCIENCE POTPOURRI $1200: Gerty Theresa Cori won a Nobel Prize for finding an enzyme that helps the body turn this into sugar starch |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | SCIENCE POTPOURRI $1600: In aerodynamics it's the vertical force acting on a plane due to flow of air over its airfoils lift |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | SCIENCE POTPOURRI $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew burns one in from Volcanoes National
Park, Hawaii.) Volcanic fumes can be hazardous to your health: they contain sulfuric acid, glass particles & this, HCl hydrochloric acid |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | '60s POTPOURRI $200: This "Funny Girl" was just 19 when she made her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" in 1962 Streisand |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | '60s POTPOURRI $400: Sleep-eze mogul (& movie fan) Allen Parkinson founded this state's Movieland Wax Museum in 1962 California |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | '60s POTPOURRI $600: In 1969 this Surrealist created the logo for Chupa Chups, a Spanish brand of lollipops Dalí |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | '60s POTPOURRI $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks through a TV room times three at Graceland in Memphis, TN.) Elvis probably got the idea to put 3 TVs in a row from this president, who was famous for watching 3 news shows at once Johnson |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | '60s POTPOURRI $1000: Claude Brown called his autobiographical 1965 novel about growing up in Harlem "Manchild in" this place The Promised Land |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $400: Some think this Irving Berlin song should replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem -- it's easier to sing "God Bless America" |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $800: Politicians often complain about having to make appearances on this "unappetizing poultry" circuit the "rubber chicken" circuit |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $1200: There are Blue & White branches of this African river the Nile |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $1600: VP Garret Hobart cast the deciding vote against independence for these formerly Spanish Pacific islands the Philippines |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $2000: The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com the Bureau of Engraving (and Printing) |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POTPOURRI $200: In 2001 Sweden & the U.S. honored this award's 100th anniversary with a set of postage stamps the Nobel Prize |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POTPOURRI $400: Select Comfort Corporation makes these with adjustable firmness mattresses |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POTPOURRI $600: On an NHL rink, it's the color of the center line red |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POTPOURRI $800: In 2003 a nationwide Free Slurpee Day was on this date July 11 |
| #4506, aired 2004-03-22 | POTPOURRI $1000: This flower got its name from the belief that bees got a sweet substance out of it honeysuckle |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | POTPOURRI $200: Damon Runyon mentions gefilte fish in this 1932 collection of tales Guys and Dolls |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | POTPOURRI $400: The British Home Office's crime computer was named the "Home Office Large Major Enquiry System" after him Sherlock Holmes |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | POTPOURRI $600: A belief that they increased the content of something in milk provided the name of these yellow flowers buttercups |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | POTPOURRI $800: (Video of Jeff Probst in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil.) Until about 1910, the economy of the Amazon depended on the other black gold, this resource, derived from latex. rubber |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | POTPOURRI $1000: The Little Entente was a 1920s alliance of Romania, Yugoslavia & this country that's since split in 2 Czechoslovakia |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | POTPOURRI $400: (Sofia gives the clue from a football field in New Haven, Connecticut.) Yale fans first sang "Boola Boola" at a football game in 1900, when Yale beat this team 28-0 Harvard |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | POTPOURRI $800: Excluding the state quarter, they're the 2 current pieces of money with the likeness of Abraham Lincoln the penny & the 5-dollar bill |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | POTPOURRI $1200: In 1947, to go along with its motorcycles, this company introduced its classic black leather jacket Harley-Davidson |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | POTPOURRI $1600: Elizabeth Bennet in this novel was reportedly Jane Austen's favorite of all her heroines Pride and Prejudice |
| #4413, aired 2003-11-12 | POTPOURRI $2000: The Sultanate of Brunei occupies the northern coast of this island Borneo |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | POTPOURRI $200: A first name for girls, it's also a burger without the bun Patty |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | POTPOURRI $400: It's our equivalent of a German U-boat submarine |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | POTPOURRI $600: Forever, or a fragrance by Calvin Klein Eternity |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | POTPOURRI $800: It's what the "Z" stands for in ZIP code Zone (Zone Improvement Program) |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | POTPOURRI $1000: Without this "effect", the average temperature on Earth would be about 0 degrees greenhouse effect |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | TREE POTPOURRI $400: In the theme song for "George of the Jungle", George is warned to do this watch out for that tree |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | TREE POTPOURRI $800: This fictional character lives in a tree that has the name "Sanders" above the door in gold letters Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | TREE POTPOURRI $1200: This 1987 U2 album contained 2 No. 1 hits: "With or Without You" & "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "The Joshua Tree" |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | TREE POTPOURRI $1600: In Greek mythology, she was transformed into a laurel tree by her father to protect her from Apollo's advances Daphne |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | TREE POTPOURRI $2000: This 1943 Betty Smith novel told the story of Francie Nolan, a child living in NYC's slums "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | POTPOURRI $200: Most candy is made by crystallizing this sugar |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | POTPOURRI $400: This drink has been traced back to the Ethiopian province of Keffa or Kaffa (maybe the source of its name, too) coffee |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | POTPOURRI $600: Pindar tells of one of these races in which 40 teams were entered & only one finished a chariot race |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | POTPOURRI $800: This daily chronicler of the fashion industry launched "W", a bi-weekly, in 1972 Women's Wear Daily |
| #4294, aired 2003-04-10 | POTPOURRI $1000: Western state whose 2-letter postal abbreviation sounds like a deadly sin Nevada (NV/envy) |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | POTPOURRI $200: First name of director Marshall, Garry's sister Penny |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | POTPOURRI $400: Edison proposed using sheets of this metal, used with cadmium in a battery, as a substitute for paper in books nickel |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | POTPOURRI $600: Things that are commonplace are a this "a dozen" dime |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | POTPOURRI $800: This "master" takes care of clothing & providing sustenance for a body of troops quartermaster |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | POTPOURRI $1000: Founded in L.A. in 1965, this rent-a-car agency was acquired by Chrysler in 1990 Dollar Rent-a-Car |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | POTPOURRI $400: In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling exclamation mark |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | POTPOURRI $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from a skating rink in New York City) This famed NYC complex is home to NBC, Radio City Music Hall &, of course, the skating rink Rockefeller Center |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | POTPOURRI $1200: Perhaps Mel Gibson knows that cereology is the study of these, which seem to make the rounds overnight crop circles |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | POTPOURRI $1600: Think about it -- Helianthus is the scientific name of this rather large flower sunflower |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | POTPOURRI $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a ski slope in Colorado) My snowshoes are keeping me from sinking by distributing this over a wide area weight |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $200: It calls itself America's best-selling brand of school uniforms; to us it sounds like breakfast -- pass the syrup French Toast |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $400: In 1789 King Louis asked, "Is it a revolt?" & a duke said, no it was one of these -- the French one revolution |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $600: In May 1922 in Washington, D.C. President Harding unveiled a statue of this man by Daniel Chester French Abraham Lincoln |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $800: In a 2003 straight-to-video sequel, this "3rd Rock" co-star takes on the role of Inspector Gadget French Stewart |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | FRENCH CLASS: POTPOURRI $1000: In use from 1852 to 1946, this notorious French prison settlement was located off French Guiana Devil's Island |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | POTPOURRI $200: What you do to an envelope, or the mammal that could balance an envelope on its nose seal |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | POTPOURRI $400: (Sofia delivers the clue from Salem, Massachusetts.) In the era of the witch trials a male witch was called this, a far cry from L. Frank Baum wizard |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | POTPOURRI $600: Before Jimmy Smits nailed perps on "NYPD Blue", he got killed by one as Don Johnson's partner in this '80s show's 1st episode Miami Vice |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | POTPOURRI $800: [Jimmy] It's another name for the hourglass from the material it often contained sandglass |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | POTPOURRI $1000: "Most of those are probably not my vote and that may be enough to give the margin to Mr. Gore", said this "Reform"er Pat Buchanan |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $200: Wow! This man bought Manhattan with trinkets worth about 60 guilders, usually quoted as $24 (Peter) Minuit |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $400: The jird is a common (& rather cute) type of this hamster relative a gerbil |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $600: This bejeweled N.Y. financier was so famous for overeating that one restaurateur called him "my 25 best customers" "Diamond" Jim Brady |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $800: If you've read "The Flame Trees of Thika" (or if you saw the miniseries) you know that Thika is in this country Kenya |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $1000: She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950, for her poetry Gwendolyn Brooks |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $200: (Cheryl is in the Big Apple, and the clue's text is provided as the tunnel is way too loud.) NYC has been depositing old subway cars in the waters off Delaware to create an artificial one of these reef |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $400: It's the specific word for a person between 90 & 100 years old nonagenarian |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.) It's the technical name for the breeding, training & use of animals like Jezebel seen here falconry |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $800: The title of the ballet "All I Need to Know" is a quotation from this poet's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Keats |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $1000: This explorer was the governor of the Louisiana territory when he died mysteriously at a Tennessee inn in 1809 Meriwether Lewis |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $200: This decoration's origins may go back to Medieval Europe, where it was the main prop in a play about Adam & Eve a Christmas tree |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The Christmas tune I'm about to sing is based on this song that may have been written by Henry VIII:
"What child is this, who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping?" "Greensleeves" |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $600: This kind of calendar used to count the days until Christmas often has a treat behind each window an Advent calendar |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) It's the familiar Latin title of the following song:
"O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant / O come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem" "Adeste Fideles" |
| #3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $1000: This "Our Town" playwright wrote the libretto for the opera "The Long Christmas Dinner", based on his own play (Thornton) Wilder |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | DO YOU SMELL SOMETHING? $200: Often a "Jeopardy!" category, it's a fragrant mixture of dried flower petals & spices Potpourri |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | POTPOURRI $100: Oxford graduate Hugh Grant played a student at this other British university in the coming-of-age film "Maurice" Cambridge |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | POTPOURRI $200: Traditionally, the ballet "Suite en Blanc" is performed without scenery, in costumes of this color White |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | POTPOURRI $300: Puerto Ricans eat mofongo, a mashed plantain dish that gets its strong flavor from cloves of this Garlic |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | POTPOURRI $400: It's the official language of Bahrain Arabic |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | POTPOURRI $500: This 19th C. Norwegian wrote incidental music for Bjornstjerne Bjornson's play "Sigurd Jorsalfar" Edvard Grieg |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | RHYME TIME $800: A synonym for potpourri or miscellany hodgepodge |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | POTPOURRI $100: If you have a cat, make sure to clean out this box regularly litterbox |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | POTPOURRI $200: Devil's food & angel food are types of this dessert cake |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | POTPOURRI $300: Double-dribbling & shooting air balls are undesirable activities in this sport basketball |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | POTPOURRI $400: Financially, you want to avoid this color ink -- that means a deficit red |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | POTPOURRI $500: From the Latin for "put in place of", it's the kind of teacher who may get a hard time from your class substitute |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $200: A German tax collector developed this dog breed to have protection while on his rounds: a Doberman pinscher |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $400: Suitable for early-evening parties, it's the "beverage" dress seen here: a cocktail dress |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $600: Classified by taste, one of the two main varieties of the nut seen here: bitter almond (or sweet almond) |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $800: A great view of Earth is achieved during this activity seen here: a spacewalk (or extra-vehicular activity) |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $1000: This English-speaking country whose flag is seen here south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea: Jamaica |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | TV POTPOURRI $100: Ryan's Hope & Duffy's Tavern were bars in this city New York |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | TV POTPOURRI $200: In 1970 it alternated weeks with "CBS Reports" on Tuesdays; it's since moved to Sundays 60 Minutes |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | TV POTPOURRI $300: On this sitcom Chicago cop Carl Winslow's pet peeve was his neighbor Steve Family Matters |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | TV POTPOURRI $400: (Hi, I'm Lauralee Bell from "The Young and the Restless") This actor was a relative unknown when he played George Curtis on "Y&R"; now he's Luke Spencer on General Hospital Anthony Geary |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | TV POTPOURRI $500: Former footballer Fred Dryer tackled the lead role in this Cannell classic in 1984 Hunter |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | POTPOURRI $100: A truly terrified person is said to be "shaking in" this footgear Their boots/shoes |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | POTPOURRI $200: Cirque du Soleil performs its dazzling "Alegria" show at the Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi in this state Mississippi |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | POTPOURRI $300: Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they'll use it in their nests Lint |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | POTPOURRI $400: Aviatrix is a feminine form of this noun Aviator |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | POTPOURRI $500: The 1999 Tony for Scenic Design went to "Not About Nightingales" by this late Southern playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $100: The items seen here are designed for use on this natural surface: snow (snowshoes) |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $200: Body part that lends its name to the household fastener seen here: eyes |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $300: It's the boulevard where you'll see this object & hundreds of others just like it:
(Alex Trebek's star on the "Walk of Fame") Hollywood Boulevard |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $400: It's the capital city of the nation that shares its name with the type of object seen here:
(china plate) Beijing/Peking |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | VIDEO POTPOURRI $500: It's the "indecisive" type of lizard seen here: chameleon |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | POTPOURRI $200: Contrary to its name, this yellow mustard brand introduced in 1904 is American French's |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | POTPOURRI $400: Ask a speaker of Sanskrit "What's the matr?" & he'll translate it as this relative mother |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | POTPOURRI $600: An old adage says that the only part of a pig which can't be eaten is this squeal |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1977 women wanted Farrah's feathered hairdo; the previous year they wanted this skater's wedge Dorothy Hamill |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | POTPOURRI $1000: The 2 Best Musical Tony winners with the longest titles are "How to Succeed..." in 1962 & this one in 1963 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | POTPOURRI $200: It's a space for whales to breathe through, either in their heads or in ice above them Blowhole |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | POTPOURRI $400: In a term for a genial, sociable person, it follows "Hail Fellow" "Well Met" |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | POTPOURRI $600: Spacy song heard here: "Blue Moon" |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | POTPOURRI $800: A decisive victory or change, perhaps made with a "new broom" Clean sweep |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | POTPOURRI $1000: Situation seen here: if it's black's move, it results in a draw Stalemate |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | POTPOURRI $200: A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta Daisy |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | POTPOURRI $400: (Hi, I'm Vanna White at Christian Dior in New York City.) This actress was wearing a Dior gown when she won her first Oscar for "BUtterfield 8" Elizabeth Taylor |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | POTPOURRI $600: If your computer has this kind of "base", you should know it's the plural of "datum" data |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | POTPOURRI $800: The original "Calamity" in her life may have been her parents' death while settling Salt Lake City Calamity Jane |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: His Ninth Symphony includes the "Ode to Joy"; his opera "Fidelio" includes "O Nameless Joy" Beethoven |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | BUTTERFLY POTPOURRI $100: A properly stocked first aid kit should have some of the butterfly type of these Bandages |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | BUTTERFLY POTPOURRI $200: Illegal logging in Mexico is endangering the lives of these "royal" butterflies that summer in Canada Monarch butterflies |
| #3472, aired 1999-10-12 | BUTTERFLY POTPOURRI $300: This "Ever After" star has a butterfly tattoo just below her navel Drew Barrymore |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | POTPOURRI $100: 22 Jermyn Street, The Savoy & The Covent Garden are all hotels in this city London |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | POTPOURRI $200: Miss Piggy knows this Muppeteer's original last name was Oznowicz Frank Oz |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | POTPOURRI $300: "Common Sense" guy who wrote, "Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, in defense of our liberty tree" Thomas Paine |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | POTPOURRI $400: Male sea spiders carry the eggs on a special pair of these until they hatch Legs |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | POTPOURRI $500: These bivalves are the main ingredient in the French dish moules mariniere Mussels |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | POTPOURRI $200: The 2 basic types of saddles are English & this type preferred by cowboys Western |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | POTPOURRI $400: This chess piece that usually looks like part of a castle is sometimes called a castle Rook |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | POTPOURRI $600: Specifically, this 12-letter word describes a person between 90 & 100 years old Nonagenarian |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | POTPOURRI $800: This Creole concoction of meat & seafood is so good Hank Williams wrote a song about it in 1952 "Jambalaya" |
| #3375, aired 1999-04-16 | POTPOURRI $1000: Goto is the surname of the young Osaka-born violinist known by this single name Midori |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CROATIAN POTPOURRI $200: Toni Kukoc of Croatia gained fame in the U.S. in this sport Basketball |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CROATIAN POTPOURRI $300 (Daily Double): Rijeka, Split & Dubrovnik are Croatian ports on this sea Adriatic Sea |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CROATIAN POTPOURRI $400: Croatia is located in the northwestern portion of this peninsula Balkan Peninsula |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CROATIAN POTPOURRI $600: A popular dish in Croatia is a veal cutlet concoction named for this capital city Zagreb |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | CROATIAN POTPOURRI $1000: Serbian in heritage but born in Croatia, he invented the first practical A.C. generator Nikola Tesla |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | POETRY POTPOURRI $100: He married Minnehaha, the "Loveliest of Dacotah Women" Hiawatha |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | POETRY POTPOURRI $200: Milton work that begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree..." "Paradise Lost" |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | POETRY POTPOURRI $300: An 8-line stanza, it's usually the first 8 lines in an Italian sonnet Octave |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | POETRY POTPOURRI $400: Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, he idealized his boss as a knight in "The Faerie Queene" Edmund Spenser |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | POETRY POTPOURRI $500: She described her nervous breakdown in her 1960 poetry collection "To Bedlam and Part Way Back" Anne Sexton |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OLYMPIC POTPOURRI $100: En Garde! Women have competed in this Olympic sport since 1924 Fencing |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OLYMPIC POTPOURRI $200: U.S. soccer star Mia Hamm led her team to Olympic gold despite straining this the same day Kerri Strug did Ankle |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OLYMPIC POTPOURRI $300: Of fire-eating, live pigeon-shooting or water buffalo polo, the one that was a 1900 Olympic event Live pigeon-shooting |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OLYMPIC POTPOURRI $400: The name of this equestrian event is French for "training"; it doesn't refer to a garment Dressage |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OLYMPIC POTPOURRI $800 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Mark McEwen.) I reported on the '92 W. Olympics in Albertville, France & the '94 W. Olympics hosted by this Scandinavian city Lillehammer, Norway |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | POTPOURRI $200: The portrait on the U.S. $5 bill is from a photograph taken at this man's studio Mathew Brady |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | POTPOURRI $400: A device named for this woman drove around Mars Sojourner Truth |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | POTPOURRI $600: In this sport a long basket called a cesta is worn on one hand jai alai |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | POTPOURRI $800: December 1997 saw the 2 millionth one of these in California: "THINICE" Vanity/personalized license plate |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | POTPOURRI $1000: Washington thought of this general, in him "The spark of daring might flame into rashness" Mad Anthony Wayne |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $200: The Christmas tree seen here stood tall in this city in 1995 (it's next to a 555-foot tall obelisk) Washington, D.C. |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $400: Tradition names this trio as Gaspar, Melchior & Balthazar Three Wise Men (Magi) |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $600: On Christmas Eve 1968, Borman, Lovell & Anders became the first men to circle this object the Moon |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $800: Dylan Thomas' "Child" had his title Christmas here Wales |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | A CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $1,000 (Daily Double): In "A Christmas Carol", it's the name of Scrooge's late business partner Jacob Marley |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $100: To go next to your piece of the Berlin Wall, you can buy a lump of coal from this ship that sank in 1912 Titanic |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $200: In World War I, the women who had this job were known as "Hello Girls" Telephone operators |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $300: Before taking the Russian throne in 1762, she changed her name, her language & her religion Catherine the Great |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $400: Alessandro Alessandroni was the performer who added this to the music in "A Fistful of Dollars" Whistling |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | POTPOURRI $500: Though he wrote about 40 plays in all, only 11, including "Clouds" & "Frogs", survive intact Aristophanes |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | POTPOURRI $100: Country in which you'd find the Book of Kells Ireland |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | POTPOURRI $200: In 1943 the Supreme Court said that those whose religious beliefs prohibit it don't have to recite this Pledge of Allegiance |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | POTPOURRI $300: Colorless, flammable hydrocarbon found in gasoline; you should have its number Octane |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | POTPOURRI $400: Manly men know it's the main androgen Testosterone |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | POTPOURRI $500: Deneb is the brightest star in this constellation whose name means swan Cygnus |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: A song from the '60s told us "A Taste Of" this "is much sweeter than wine" honey |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: Patriotic song whose fourth verse contains the line "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust' " "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $800: The giraffe, an upright type of this keyboard instrument, was shaped somewhat like a giraffe's neck piano |
| #3220, aired 1998-09-11 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1772 he composed his Symphony No. 17 in G Minor, K-129 Wolfgang A. Mozart |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | POTPOURRI $100: Related to the fear of falling, climacophobia is the fear of climbing these stairs |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | POTPOURRI $200: Givenchy, Armani & Nicole Miller have chic shops on this street synonymous with the ad industry Madison Avenue |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | POTPOURRI $300: Heloise cleans this bowl by pouring in cola that has gone flat & letting it soak for an hour toilet bowl |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | POTPOURRI $400: Spanish for "sauce", this chip dip may be so spicy it'll make you want to dance salsa |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | POTPOURRI $500: He became clerk of the Pennsylvania assembly in 1736 Ben Franklin |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | LOCUST POTPOURRI $200: Some locusts make noise by rubbing their legs on these to vibrate them Wings |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | LOCUST POTPOURRI $400: Natives in Guyana make canoes out of this part of the locust tree Bark |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | LOCUST POTPOURRI $600: The singer heard here, she was born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee: Dolly Parton |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | POTPOURRI $100: On maps, this rodent's name precedes creek, falls, island, &, of course, dam Beaver |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | POTPOURRI $200: Belomancy is a form of divination in which these are drawn at random from a quiver or other container Arrows |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | POTPOURRI $300: Some foreign X-ray scanners may ruin rolls of this, so keep them in a special lead-lined bag Film |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | POTPOURRI $400: The Kennedy Center's grand foyer is lit with 18 of these crystal items; they each weigh a ton Chandeliers |
| #3166, aired 1998-05-11 | POTPOURRI $500: Dedicated in 1910, the capitol building in this Kentucky city was designed to resemble the U.S. capitol Frankfort |
| #3153, aired 1998-04-22 | GEE, YOUR HOUSE SMELLS NICE $400: A mixture of fragrant flowers & leaves in a bowl, its name is French for "rotten pot" Potpourri |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $100: This composer of the Hallelulah Chorus also wrote the Hallelujah Concerto Handel |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: "Anatomical" term for the part of a string instrument where you'll find the fingerboard the neck |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $300: On sheet music, ff stands for this Italian word that means "very loud" fortissimo |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: This famous group, heard here, was founded 500 years ago, in 1498: the Vienna Boys' Choir |
| #3151, aired 1998-04-20 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $500: Beethoven called it "Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia", but we know it by this "lunar" name the "Moonlight Sonata" |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: This Barry Manilow hit is subtitled "At The Copa" "Copacabana" |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: Invented in recent years, boobams are percussion instruments often made from this woody grass Bamboo |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $600: Ska & rock steady were predecessors of this style that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s Reggae |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $800: From a Spanish word meaning "Of Malaga", it's a Spanish folk tune native to Malaga Malaguena |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $3,000 (Daily Double): Despite its name, this British band heard here was a trio: "Hold me now..." The Thompson Twins |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | CANADIAN POTPOURRI $100: If you studied Latin, you'll know that Nova Scotia's name is Latin for this New Scotland |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | CANADIAN POTPOURRI $200: Afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel is a treasured tradition in this "regal" British Columbia city Victoria |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | CANADIAN POTPOURRI $300: This world-famous Montreal comedy festival is known in French as "Juste Pour Rire" "Just For Laughs" |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | CANADIAN POTPOURRI $400: Wawa is Ojibwa for this wild bird & the town of Wawa, Ontario, a migration stop, boasts a giant statue of one (Canada) Goose |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | CANADIAN POTPOURRI $500: When the province of Saskatchewan was created in 1905, this city became its capital Regina |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | WORLD POTPOURRI $200: Rathaus Schoneberg in this capital is the place where JFK made a famous speech on June 26, 1963 Berlin |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | WORLD POTPOURRI $400: This Moroccan city for which a hat is named is noted for its tin-glazed earthenware Fez |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | WORLD POTPOURRI $600: Many Newar people, who are known for their artistic skills, live in this country's Katmandu Valley Nepal |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | WORLD POTPOURRI $800: There's a branch of the University of Cairo in this capital of Sudan Khartoum |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | WORLD POTPOURRI $1000: Early inhabitants of this eel-shaped Caribbean island called it Malliouhana Anguilla |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $100: On average, the icy layer on top of this snow-covered continent is 7,000 feet thick Antarctica |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $200: The railroads in Honduras were built mainly to transport this fruit that has a lot of ap"peel" bananas |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $300: It's no sham: Aer Lingus is this country's national airline Ireland |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $400: This island known for giant statues is also called Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua, "The Navel of the World" Easter Island |
| #3070, aired 1997-12-26 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $500: The Ivory Coast is next to this African country once known as the Gold Coast Ghana |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BURMA POTPOURRI $200: Some road signs for this product read:
Are your whiskers/
When you wake/
Tougher than/
A 2-bit steak? Burma Shave |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BURMA POTPOURRI $400: In the '30s the Burma Road was built to move supplies from Burma into this country China |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BURMA POTPOURRI $600: In the 1934 book "Burmese Days", this "Animal Farm" author told of his days in the Indian Imperial Police George Orwell (Eric Blair) |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BURMA POTPOURRI $800: This advisor to Burma's first premier, U Nu, later became a U.N. Secretary-General U Thant |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | BURMA POTPOURRI $1000: When Burma became Myanmar in 1989, this city became Yangon Rangoon |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $200: In "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Sir Gawain is this king's nephew & feasts with him at Camelot King Arthur |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $400: This fictional place was known as Sansculottia until a man named Utopos gave it a new name Utopia |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $600: The meter for his poem "The Song of Hiawatha" was inspired by the great Finnish epic "Kalevala" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $800: The narrator of his 1983 novel "Ancient Evenings" is reborn as a harem master & a grave robber Norman Mailer |
| #3051, aired 1997-12-01 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1000: This Mississippi-born novelist published his 2nd & last book of poems, "A Green Bough", in 1933 William Faulkner |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | SUN POTPOURRI $100: It describes a fried egg with the yolk on top Sunny side up |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | SUN POTPOURRI $200: Its official name, "Nihon", means "Land Of The Rising Sun" Japan |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | SUN POTPOURRI $300: Shamash, Mithras, Sol & Ra Sun gods |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | SUN POTPOURRI $400: The Earth's northern & southern lights result in part from the effects of these solar prominences solar flares |
| #3007, aired 1997-09-30 | SUN POTPOURRI $500: Around 1610 Galileo determined the sun's rotational rate by watching these dark areas shift position Sunspots |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | POTPOURRI $100: This Asian country leads the world in the production of rice & pears China |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | POTPOURRI $200: A synonym for the British PM, this London street was named for a Secretary of the Treasury commission Downing Street |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | POTPOURRI $300: It means to soak meat like beef or chicken to flavor, tenderize or preserve it Marinate |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | POTPOURRI $400: On October 10, 1995 he retained his world chess title by defeating India's Viswanathan Anand Garry Kasparov |
| #2979, aired 1997-07-10 | POTPOURRI $500: This basic ingredient of glass can be derived from sand, flint or quartz Silica |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | RESTAURANT POTPOURRI $200: At Epcot, the Garden Grill Restaurant does this, giving diners a "moving" view of the ride below rotate/revolve |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | RESTAURANT POTPOURRI $400: The name of this Belgian capital's La Quincaillerie means "The Hardware Store", & it used to be one Brussels |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | RESTAURANT POTPOURRI $600: Name shared by a fish restaurant in New York City's East Village & a sign of the zodiac Pisces |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | RESTAURANT POTPOURRI $800: Planet Hollywood's Chicken Crunch is coated with a batter made from this "nautical" cereal Captain Crunch |
| #2972, aired 1997-07-01 | RESTAURANT POTPOURRI $1000: This star of the film "Gigi" owns La Lucarne Aux Chouettes, a restaurant & inn, in her native France Leslie Caron |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $200: Heloise suggests filling this in your car with potpourri; it smells nice & keeps others from using it Ashtray |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | TEA POTPOURRI $100: At least 3 complete sets of this Boston silversmith's tea sets are known to survive Paul Revere |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | TEA POTPOURRI $200: The 3 main kinds of tea are green, oolong & this "dark", fully fermented one Black tea |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | TEA POTPOURRI $300: In 1952 this company introduced its "Flo-Thru" tea bag Lipton |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | TEA POTPOURRI $400: In 1827 theine was discovered in tea; it was later proven identical to this coffee stimulant Caffeine |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | TEA POTPOURRI $500: The city of Kandy is the economic focus of this country's tea-producing Central Highlands Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | POTPOURRI $100: In 1219 the Order of the Dannebrog was established; in 1671 this European country revived it Denmark |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | POTPOURRI $200: This Greek god killed Python, the serpent that guarded a shrine on the slopes of Mount Parnassus Apollo |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | POTPOURRI $300: Handsome Dan, this Ivy League university's first bulldog mascot, now resides in a glass case, stuffed Yale |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | POTPOURRI $400: This monkey named for an arachnid is noted for its long, slender limbs & great agility Spider monkey |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | POTPOURRI $500: St. Jerome prepared this Latin version of the Bible at the end of the 4th century Vulgate Bible |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | ANGEL POTPOURRI $100: In "Hamlet" Horatio's 4 words preceding "and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" "Good night, sweet prince" |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | ANGEL POTPOURRI $200: Levels of the angelic hierarchy are called these, like groups of singers on Earth choirs |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | ANGEL POTPOURRI $300: Title question asked by a song from "The Heights" that hit the heights on the charts in 1992 "How Do You Talk To An Angel?" |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | ANGEL POTPOURRI $400: In the 1650s Rembrandt painted this biblical person "Wrestling with the Angel" Jacob |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | ANGEL POTPOURRI $500: She played Roma Downey's angel boss on "Touched by an Angel" Della Reese |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | POTPOURRI $200: Grown in the northeast U.S., the round white or Katahdin type of this tuber is excellent for boiling Potato |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | POTPOURRI $400: This computer maker's NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC Apple |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | POTPOURRI $600: Huitzilopochtli was the war & sun god of this civilization Aztecs |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | POTPOURRI $800: This president's 1961 farewell address warned of the influence of "The Military-Industrial Complex" Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| #2953, aired 1997-06-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: With a fan that circulates hot air, this type of oven cooks 25% faster than conventional ovens Convection oven |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $100: The name of this religion of Haiti is derived from a Dahomean word for "spirit" voodoo |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $200: Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on this "Beautiful Blue" river Danube |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $300: The concept of Tapu---sacredness---is sacred to these indigenous people of New Zealand Maori |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $400: It's the seductive ballroom dance most associated with Buenos Aires tango |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $500: Kiunguja, which is spoken in Zanzibar, is a dialect of this African Bantu language Swahili |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | POTPOURRI $200: Ganymede & Callisto are the largest moons of this largest planet Jupiter |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | POTPOURRI $400: The dromedary type of this mammal has 1 hump; the Bactrian has 2 Camel |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | POTPOURRI $600: This airline was founded in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd. Qantas |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | POTPOURRI $800: In 1783 these brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon to Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette the Montgolfier brothers |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | POTPOURRI $1000: In mythology Laius & Oedipus both reigned over this Greek city Thebes |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $100: The origins of this company can be traced back to the production of a car called the Dat in 1911 Nissan/Datsun |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $200: Ash Wednesday is a movable feast falling this many days, excluding Sundays, before Easter 40 |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $300: In 1950 this former first lady won the second Four Freedoms Award Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $400: The National Air & Space Museum's planetarium is named for this German-American physicist Albert Einstein |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $500: Snaketown on the Gila River in this state is the best-studied village of the Hohokam culture Arizona |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $100: "Poems by 2 Brothers" features poems by 3 Tennyson brothers: Charles, Frederick & him Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $200: In Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle", the turtle is this kind of bird, not a reptile Turtledove |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $300: Dorothy Parker called her 1931 book of verse "Death and" these, 2 things Ben Franklin said were certainties Death and Taxes |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $400: The 1816 sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" was the first mature poem by this ode poet John Keats |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $500: This Lake Poet wasn't widely appreciated by critics until he published "The River Duddon" in 1820 William Wordsworth |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | WEDDING POTPOURRI $100: Hindu priests toss this into a fire during the ceremony as an offering; we toss it at departing couples Rice |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | WEDDING POTPOURRI $200: The person in this post makes the first toast Best man |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | WEDDING POTPOURRI $300: Tradition says this guest will be the next woman to marry The one that catches the bouquet |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | WEDDING POTPOURRI $400: Meteorologically speaking, it completes the old English saying "Blest be the bride that..." The sun shines on |
| #2891, aired 1997-03-10 | WEDDING POTPOURRI $500: In a Jewish wedding it serves as a reminder of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem Breaking of the glass |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | JUNGLE POTPOURRI $200: This weapon used for hacking through the jungle growth is also called a panga a machete |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | JUNGLE POTPOURRI $400: This comic "Lion King" pair have their own CD-ROM called "Jungle Games" Timon & Pumbaa |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | JUNGLE POTPOURRI $600: In addition to starring as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, he also played Jungle Jim Johnny Weissmuller |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | JUNGLE POTPOURRI $800: 90 years after "The Jungle" exposed this industry, Pres. Clinton said inspectors work the same old way meatpacking |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | JUNGLE POTPOURRI $1000: Kinshasa in this country was home to the 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" Zaire |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | POTPOURRI $200: Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, this one may have overlooked the Ishtar Gate in Babylon the Hanging Gardens |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1996 student L'Kisha Brantley earned some extra "dough" by selling 3,520 boxes of these Girl Scout cookies |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | POTPOURRI $600: The Latin proverb "In vino veritas" translates to this in wine there is truth |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Soledad Seanez, widow of this Mexican revolutionary, passed away in 1996; she was 100 Pancho Villa |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | POTPOURRI $1000: John Barleycorn is the personification of liquor & he is the personification of England John Bull |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | POTPOURRI $100: The Bacardi factory in Puerto Rico can make 100,000 gallons of this liquor a day rum |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | POTPOURRI $200: Oyster plant, a root vegetable is also known as this biblical baby "-on-a-raft" or "-in-the-bulrushes" Moses |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | POTPOURRI $300: A twilled fabric often used to cover pillows, or what a clock is doing when it's working properly ticking |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1996 this "vampire" cereal from General Mills added swirled ghost marshmallows Count Chocula |
| #2877, aired 1997-02-18 | POTPOURRI $500: Lenox makes a set of thimbles shaped like these structures, including the one at Cape Hatteras lighthouses |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $200: He probably studied the classics, but Ben Jonson implied he had "small Latin and less" this language Greek |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $400: Peter Brook's unusual 1970 production of this comedy featured Oberon & Puck on trapezes "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $600: In "The Merchant of Venice", his daughter Jessica elopes with Bassanio's friend Lorenzo Shylock |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $1,000 (Daily Double): Laertes' last line in this play is "Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me!" "Hamlet" |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN POTPOURRI $1000: "Umabatha", a Zulu production of this "bewitching" tragedy, appeared in London in 1972 "Macbeth" |
| #2849, aired 1997-01-09 | POTPOURRI $800: Arthur Mitchell & Karel Shook co-founded the Dance Theatre of this place Harlem |
| #2849, aired 1997-01-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: He was 4 1/2 years old when he became Sweden's crown prince in 1950; now he's king of Sweden Carl Gustav XVI |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | POTPOURRI $100: It was the 1990 date of the last official U.S. census; no fooling April 1 |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | POTPOURRI $200: One of these was added to 1992 at 7:59:59 P.M. EDT June 30 a second |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | POTPOURRI $300: The 4-H clubs are an extension service of this U.S. Cabinet department the Department of Agriculture |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | POTPOURRI $400: The YMCA found his indoor versions of soccer & rugby too violent, so he invented basketball James Naismith |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | POTPOURRI $500: 1 of the 2 cities whose Bee is among the top 100 U.S. newspapers in circulation Sacramento (or Fresno) |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $200: Often abbreviated cresc., it's the opposite of diminuendo Crescendo |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $400: Mussorgsky & Glinka composed music for this dance that originated among the Mazurs of eastern Europe Mazurka |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $600: A naughty child's toys rebel against him in this "Bolero" composer's opera "L'Enfant et Les Sortileges" Maurice Ravel |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $800: In 1892 this Finn married Aino Jarnefelt, sister of the Finnish-born composer Armas Jarnefelt Jean Sibelius |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | MUSIC POTPOURRI $1000: Last name shared by Swedish composer Bo & Swedish sopranos Christine & Birgit Nilsson |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | POTPOURRI $200: Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG the heart |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1032 this Venetian official gave up most of his authority but remained commander of the army & navy the Doge |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | POTPOURRI $600: This is Mississippi's state tree--its flower is the state flower the magnolia |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | POTPOURRI $800: A thin sheet of fine wood applied over cheaper material for decoration veneer |
| #2826, aired 1996-12-09 | POTPOURRI $1000: Some historians consider this first "dark horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln Polk |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FLORAL POTPOURRI $200: Tulips are classified by their size, flower characteristics, & when they do this Bloom |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FLORAL POTPOURRI $400: This plant, the silent preacher, changes sex during its life, perhaps going from a Jack to a Jill Jack-in-the-Pulpit |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FLORAL POTPOURRI $600: Though they contain this flower's name, the cape, corn, marsh & pot types aren't related to it marigold |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FLORAL POTPOURRI $800: Try to remember, it's also called scorpion grass since its coiled stalk resembles a scorpion's tail forget-me-not |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | FLORAL POTPOURRI $1000: Every year the Dykes Medal goes to the best example of this bearded flower Iris |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | POTPOURRI $600: At the 1996 burial of Larry LaPrise, this song's author, we guess they put his right foot in, put his right foot out... the Hokey Pokey |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | POTPOURRI $800: He joined the Boston Symphony as a violinist in 1915 & began conducting in the '20s Arthur Fiedler |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | POTPOURRI $1000: New ones of these in 1996 include 847 for Illinois & 330 for Ohio area codes |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POTPOURRI $200: In Haitian folk belief, it's a soulless corpse reanimated by a voodoo priest or bocor a zombie |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POTPOURRI $400: Guinea pigs are used to diagnose this disease because of their low resistance to the tubercle bacillus tuberculosis |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POTPOURRI $600: At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she withdrew from the heptathlon but won a bronze for the long jump Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POTPOURRI $800: He wrote, "As Gregor Samsa awoke... He found himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (Franz) Kafka |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | POTPOURRI $1000: In literature, restoration refers to the period after the return of this king to England's throne in 1660 Charles II |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | POTPOURRI $200: Suede originally referred to a type of glove from this country Sweden |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | POTPOURRI $400: In 1990 a 7-ton bronze statue of this Russian leader was removed from a public square in Bucharest Lenin |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | POTPOURRI $600: It's the fraternity abbreviated PBK Phi Beta Kappa |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | POTPOURRI $800: This sacred wading bird was once identified with the Egyptian god Thoth the ibis |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | POTPOURRI $1000: Grown in California, the calimyrna is a greenish variety of this fruit a fig |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | POTPOURRI $200: Meaning loathsome, this adjective is used to describe a particular Himalayan "snowman" abominable |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | POTPOURRI $400: Sculpted by Phidias, this ancient wonder rose 40 feet with skin made of ivory the statue of Zeus at Olympia |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | POTPOURRI $600: MRI, which stands for this, cannot be used on patients with pacemakers or artificial metal joints magnetic resonance imaging |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | POTPOURRI $800: Commonly used title of clergyman Mason Weems, known for his 1800 biography of George Washington Parson |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | POTPOURRI $1000: This country's pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair was designed by Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer Brazil |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $100: Known for his patriotic songs, this composer died in 1942, the year of Cagney's Oscar-winning portrayal of him George M. Cohan |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $200: This family had a 70-room mansion in Newport & a chateau, the Biltmore, in North Carolina the Vanderbilts |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $300: In the 1930s Harold Ickes said this Louisiana senator "is suffering from halitosis of the intellect" Huey Long |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $400: In 1898 his New York Journal offered a $50,000 reward for detection of the "Maine Outrage" perpetrator (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $500: He was "The Sage of Baltimore" (H.L.) Mencken |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | POTPOURRI $100: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in this Massachusetts capital is housed at Fenway Court Boston |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | POTPOURRI $200: This digestive juice in the stomach contains an enzyme called pepsin gastric juice |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | POTPOURRI $300: In 1953 this "Li'l Abner" creator hosted the CBS game show "Anyone Can Win" Al Capp |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | POTPOURRI $400: Cassia is a popular type of this reddish-brown spice cinnamon |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | POTPOURRI $500: German term for a short musical passage that identifies people or things when they appear in an opera leitmotif |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | POTPOURRI $200: This march king died March 6, 1932 John Philip Sousa |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | POTPOURRI $400: The airport formerly known as Idlewild is now named for this man John F. Kennedy |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | POTPOURRI $600: On a chronological list of popes, he's last Pope John Paul II |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | POTPOURRI $800: John Lennon's son Sean has this "Rocket Man" for a godfather Elton John |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: If John Chapman, better known as this, lived today, he might keep track of his plantings on a Macintosh Johnny Appleseed |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POTPOURRI $100: Pliny the Elder wrote that Sergius Orata established the first artificial beds for these mollusks oysters |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POTPOURRI $200: He's the Quaker for whom the Quaker State was named (William) Penn |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POTPOURRI $300: While William Travis commanded the regulars at the Alamo, this man commanded the Texan Volunteers James Bowie |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POTPOURRI $400: The name of this system used by racetracks is from the French for "betting among ourselves" parimutuel |
