| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 1884 Dow Jones created its first index consisting of 11 stocks, mainly railroads, but also this telegraph company--STOP. Western Union |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | HODGEPODGE $400: Before moving to the Vatican, Pope Francis was archbishop of this city of his birth Buenos Aires |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | HODGEPODGE $600: Someone who has nephophobia shouldn't have his head in these the clouds |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | HODGEPODGE $800: Roy Frowick, who began designing women's wear in the 1960s, dropped his first & last names & went by this middle name Halston |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | HODGEPODGE $1000: With the exception of Ceres, the 4 other recognized dwarf planets all lie in this "belt" beyond Neptune's orbit the Kuiper belt |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | HODGEPODGE $400: The earliest known flag of orange, white & green stripes to represent this country dates from 1848 Ireland |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | HODGEPODGE $800: Pope Siricius is remembered for a 4th c. edict requiring this practice for priests, among whom he was probably not popular celibacy |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Candy Lightner led a movement against this after it led to her daughter's death while walking to a church carnival drunk driving |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Scientifically Chironex fleckeri, the sea wasp is a deadly Pacific variety of this a jellyfish |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Founded as a British Colonial post in 1893, Entebbe, Uganda is located on the northwest shore of this body of water Lake Victoria |
| #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 |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 1986 Steve Jobs bought this animation studio for $5 million; in 2006 it was sold to Disney for $7.4 billion Pixar |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $400: 8,000 tons of iron were used to build this landmark completed in 1889 the Eiffel Tower |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $600: In 1898 Bayer began to bottle & market this now very illegal drug as a pain reliever & cough suppressant heroin |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $800: Check out the lightning show at Fuego, a volcano in this Central American nation bordered by Mexico & Belize Guatemala |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Developed along with this company that made the Land Cruiser, Japan's moon rover is nicknamed the lunar cruiser Toyota |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $200: A footstool can be called one of these, like a certain empire ottoman |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES $400: A bust of the brawl-loving Renaissance goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini graces the Ponte Vecchio in this city Florence |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $400: Let's not procrastinate because, according to a proverb, these 2 things "wait for no man" time & tide |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $600: An oda was a room in this type of house for women; an odalisque was a female slave or concubine in one a harem |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: Bell Labs is now part of this Finnish telecommunications company Nokia |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This 3-word Irish phrase basically means "Ireland forever" Erin go Bragh |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $400: In the wee hours of Jan. 7, 2023 he was elected Speaker of the House on the 15th ballot; he was voted out about 9 months later Kevin McCarthy |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $800: A Connecticut town gave its name to this tick-borne disease that was first identified in the 1970s Lyme disease |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $1200: A flexible spine allows this fastest dog breed to have all 4 feet off the ground at the same time when galloping a greyhound |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $1600: 1978 saw the deaths of 2 popes: Paul VI & then, less than 2 months later, this pope Pope John Paul I |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $2000: "Deep in my heart, I do believe" this folk song has been called the anthem of the civil rights movement "We Shall Overcome" |
| #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 |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | WEAVE GOT SEWING CLUES $400: Some really awesome quilts can be made in this manner, also an adjective for any sort of haphazard or hodgepodge way patchwork |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Peter Schoeffer, a former employee of this printer, testified against him during a 1455 lawsuit Gutenberg |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: The first outbreaks of this deadly hemorrhagic disease occurred in Africa in 1976, killing more than 400 people Ebola |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: The colonists balked at the taxes on newspapers & pamphlets imposed by this 1765 act & refused to pay the Stamp Act |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1000: French admiral Pierre Villeneuve was captured & lost about 20 of his 33 ships to the British in this 1805 battle Trafalgar |
| #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 |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: During World War II about 12,000 of these, German & Italian, were held in camps in Nebraska POWs (prisoners of war) |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Baa baa, Kara Koyunlu, i.e. these, have you any land? Yes, in 1410 our alliance conquered from Azerbaijan south to Baghdad black sheep |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: At the age of 10 in 1651, Tokugawa Ietsuna became the fourth of the Japanese rulers known by this title shogun |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1000: This king whom Robin Hood took on in stories was known as "Lackland" King John |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $4,200 (Daily Double): Though Geneva is pretty low as Swiss cities go, a Cold War meeting there was the first one called this top-level type a summit |
| #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 |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $200: Per the 1960 census, women's median age at this life event: 20.3 marriage |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $400: With no combustion engine, electric cars may have a frunk, a combo of these 2 words a front trunk |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $600: The traditional story of "Bonny Barbara Allan" is in this genre of folk poetry or song a ballad |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Awlad Ali are a desert tribe of this people; thought of as nomadic, they've undergone what sociologists call sedentarization the Bedouins |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $1000: I tell ya, it's gold! Gold! Gold is commonly found in veins of this silica mineral, the second-most common in Earth's crust quartz |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $200: The crimson flag of this Ivy League university features 3 books & the motto veritas Harvard |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 2022, fettuccine lovers gasped as a truck crashed, spilling this heavy cream sauce all over I-55 Alfredo |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $600: A 2022 car chase in the U.K. ended with the driver producing a license from the "driving school" of this toy brick-themed theme park Legoland |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $800: The barreleye fish can distinguish sunlight from prey that has this light-emitting quality bioluminescence |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: After the queen's death, the names of Prince William's children now end with "of" this place instead of Cambridge Wales |
| #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 |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $200: The center of this dense cosmic body is called a singularity a black hole |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 2021 Facebook rebranded itself with this 4-letter name & an infinity-shaped logo Meta |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: Pumpernickel can get its color from this thick brown syrup that comes from raw sugar molasses |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $800: To paint this June 1876 battle, artist Edgar Paxson interviewed some of the Native Americans who fought in it Little Bighorn |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1983 the league of Red Cross Societies added this other shape to its name to reflect its work in Muslim countries a crescent |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: In billiards, when it's too far a reach, you can use a mechanical one of these 6-letter tools to help make the shot a bridge |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | HODGEPODGE $800: At Starbucks, hot coffee comes in sizes from short, 8 ounces, to this, 20 ounces venti |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | HODGEPODGE $1200: In 2021, the U.S. Postal Service issued new stamps celebrating this holiday the Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | HODGEPODGE $1600: According to the AKC in 2020 this dog with a nationality in its name jumped to No. 2 in popularity, ahead of German shepherds the French bulldog |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Of the major airports that serve London, this one is the second-busiest Gatwick |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: Abyssinia is an old name for this African country Ethiopia |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: Among this president's stable of horses were Reb, Billy Button & Jeff Davis U.S. Grant |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: Seen here is the April 1961 first day of the trial of this man, one of the most important proceedings of the 20th century Adolf Eichmann |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $2000: An earthquake prior to the 15th century is believed to have toppled this ancient wonder of Halicarnassus the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $4,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Cranmer, who held this religious post from 1533 to 1556, was the first Protestant in the job the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| #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) |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HODGEPODGE $400: For an authentic look, a sporran is the pouch that's usually worn with this pleated skirt kilt |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HODGEPODGE $800: In 2022 this founder of Theranos was found guilty on 4 federal fraud charges (Elizabeth) Holmes |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Released in 2003, it's Apple's browser Safari |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HODGEPODGE $1600: These two men are seen here competing on the international stage in 1972 Fischer & Spassky |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | HODGEPODGE $2000: The world's largest monolith is in Australia's Northern Territory & has this Aboriginal name Uluru |
| #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 |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $200: In the 1970s East Germany came up with ketwurst inside a roll as an alternative to this American fare hot dog |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $400: This Jewish observance is also known as Pesach Passover |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $600: This word for a high-level teacher once simply meant a person who openly declares something a professor |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $800: This 2-letter abbreviation is alphabetically last among U.S. state postal codes WY |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The master one transmits pedal action to the wheels; a bad one may be the culprit if your brake goes right to the floor a cylinder |
| #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 |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | INTERNAL RHYME TIME $600: It can be a heterogeneous mixture of stuff or a category on your favorite quiz show hodgepodge |
| #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 |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $200: Alfred Vail, this guy's assistant & partner, improved on his code for telegraphy Morse |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: Magyar is another name for these people, many of whom reside in a country known as the "Land of Magyars" Hungarians |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $600: You may get allergy symptoms when you eat bananas or zucchini if you are allergic to this "weed" that causes hay fever ragweed |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $800: This flat Scottish cap usually has a pompom in the center a tam (tam o'shanter) |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This city is home to the University of Oklahoma & the National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman |
| #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 |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $200: Irony alert: owners of a Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky sued insurers for not covering damage done by this 4-letter word rain |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 1985 the Cubs' speedy Davey Lopes had 47 of these, failing only 4 times--not bad for a 40-year-old! stolen base |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $600: parents.com's "Key to Soothing Fussy Infants" is to mimic this place; "Swaddling... may trigger a calming reflex" the womb |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $800: Here's the Appennine Colossus, Giambologna's 16th century statue in this region of Italy that includes Pisa & Florence Tuscany |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Looking like they're sent from heaven, a translucent sea this can stay attached to a mate for four hours & still hunt prey together sea angel |
| #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 |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $200: This mythic guy used a gold-tipped arrow to inspire love; a lead-tipped one had the opposite reaction Cupid |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $400: The Ucayali river joins the Marañón to form this river whose length equals the distance from New York City to Rome the Amazon |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $600: Though income tax was temporarily abolished 10 years after this agency was born, it stuck around to collect other monies the IRS |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $800: This British physician helped establish a medical school but is much better remembered for compiling a thesaurus (Peter Mark) Roget |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This 5-letter word is a type of black tea; when preceded by orange, it's a reference to the leaves, not the flavor pekoe |
| #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 |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE SAME VOWEL, FRONT & BACK $2000: This 4-letter word means hodgepodge, which also has 2 O's olio |
| #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 |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | HODGEPODGE $400: He was the governor of California from 2003 to 2011 Schwarzenegger |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: In Europe moose are known as these, our word for a different big North American deer elk |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | HODGEPODGE $1200: From 2007 to 2019 Kunal Nayyar played Raj Koothrappali on this sitcom The Big Bang Theory |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Aphrodite gave this goddess a magic girdle that made her husband Zeus forget his worries about the Trojan War Hera |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Until 1957 this metal, symbol Be, was known as glucinium beryllium |
| #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 |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 1968 Congress passed the Fair this act, a word also in the name of a then 3-year-old cabinet department Housing |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $400: In the 2010s LoL, this multiplayer game, surpassed WoW as the world's most popular video game League of Legends |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $600: Don't struggle clumsily in naming this flatfish, be it European or starry flounder |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $800: About 98% of Iran's people are Muslims & about 90% belong to this branch of Islam, Iran's state religion Shiite |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The functions of a liver cell can be split into 5 major categories, one of which is changing fat & protein into this glucose |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: In 2002 Germany ditched this monetary unit, DM for short, for the euro the deutschmark |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: After this woman died, Clark of Lewis & Clark became the legal guardian of her children Lisette & Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Sacagawea |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1200: Robert Ford, who killed this outlaw in 1882, was himself murdered a decade later Jesse James |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1600: The Middle Ages is usually defined as the period between the fall of Rome & the fall of this Byzantine capital Constantinople |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $2000: Captured by the Persians, the magnificent Peacock Throne was built for this Mughal emperor who also built the Taj Mahal Shah Jahan |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $200: An early depiction of a demon holding this customary farm implement is on a thousand-year-old high cross in County Louth, Ireland a pitchfork |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $400: The current king of Spain is named after Philip V (died 1746) but is more commonly known by this Spanish version of his name Felipe |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $600: Latin term for a law that makes an act illegal though it was legal back when it was done ex post facto |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $800: These people lived up to their name when they sacked Rome in 455 A.D., tearing up the tiles of the Temple of Jupiter Vandals |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | HODGEPODGE $1000: His 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" argues for the "blank slate" view that all knowledge is from experience (John) Locke |
| #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 |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: It's the only play that Shakespeare set in Scotland Macbeth |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: Previously bought at a pawn shop, Cormac McCarthy's light blue Olivetti one of these sold at auction in 2009 for over $250,000 a typewriter |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: In "The Jungle Book", he's the "sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the "law of the jungle" Baloo |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $800: Best known for his "Leatherstocking Tales", he also wrote "The Pilot", one of America's first novels about the sea (James Fenimore) Cooper |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: Mary Ann Evans published her novels, including "Adam Bede", under this pen name (George) Eliot |
| #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 |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: Britannica notes that this Russian ruler "had young lovers up to the time of her unexpected death...at...67" Catherine the Great |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: The battle of this city that helped make Andrew Jackson a hero was actually fought after the War of 1812 ended New Orleans |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: Lasting 40 minutes, an 1896 battle between Britain & this island, now part of Tanzania, is considered to be the shortest war Zanzibar |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: On March 30, 1981 this Secretary of State & retired general told the press, "As of now, I am in control here, in the White House" (Alexander) Haig |
| #8097, aired 2019-11-19 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1,000 (Daily Double): A 1945 telegram from Churchill to Truman mentioned Soviet power & "the descent of" this "between us and everything to the eastward" the Iron Curtain |
| #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 |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $200: It has the largest egg of any living bird the ostrich |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $400: The guy for whom this popcorn brand is named began growing his own popping corn at age 12 Orville Redenbacher |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $600: In 1852 this object was brought down from a tower & placed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall the Liberty Bell |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $800: NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented this alliterative water gun that promises a drenching a Super Soaker |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | HODGEPODGE $1000: He used his antiseptic method for the first time operating on James Greenlees August 12, 1865 (Joseph) Lister |
| #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 |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | HODGEPODGE $200: The symbol seen here reminds us to do this recycle |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | HODGEPODGE $400: From the Spanish for "conqueror", the 16th century Spanish conquerors of Mexico & Peru were called these conquistadors |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: It's the small guitarlike instrument heard here a ukulele |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | HODGEPODGE $800: Trending with about 2,000 across the U.S., it's a venue in which you must solve puzzles to get out of a locked space escape rooms |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In the 2018, the FDA okayed generic ones for allergic reactions EpiPens |
| #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 |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $400: This automaker automakes the Focus ST Ford |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $800: It's the largest U.S. state in area that borders the Pacific Ocean Alaska |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $1200: It's the number of strings on a standard guitar six |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $1600: It's the heat needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water one degree Celsius a calorie |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This is a blank page at the beginning or end of a book, not a spot for bugs to gather on a plant a flyleaf |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $200: To pull off the title of this Jules Verne novel, you'd have to average about 13 miles an hour Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $400: No one can prove he had 12-year-old Edward V & a sibling killed in 1483, but he did become king; hmmm... King Richard III |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $600: In September 2013 this video game "V" carjacked $1 billion in sales in its first 3 days of release Grand Theft Auto V |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Kara & Laptev are 2 of the 7 seas of this ocean whose surface temperature hits a high of 29 degrees in July the Arctic Ocean |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The dolphinfish, also known by this double-talk name, can weigh in at 70 pounds of deliciousness the mahi-mahi |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | HODGEPODGE $400: In July 2011 Atlantis took the last flight by one of these a space shutle |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | HODGEPODGE $800: This Alabaman became the USA's 84th attorney general Sessions |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | HODGEPODGE $1200: In the tradition of chocolate chip cookie dough, a Ben & Jerry's ice cream has the alliterative name brownie this stuff batter |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | HODGEPODGE $1600: It's the main currency unit of India the rupee |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: In 1318 Edward Bruce, brother of this Scottish king, was killed fighting in Ireland Robert the Bruce |
| #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) |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $200: Don't be shy--of Disney's 7 dwarfs, he's alphabetically first Bashful |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $400: First discovered in 1937, the West Nile Virus is transmitted to humans by these mosquitos |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $600: ariannaonline.com preceded this website that launched in 2005 the Huffington Post |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Ministry of the Interior building in Havana bears a sculpture honoring this revolutionary Che Guevara |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Promoting healthy eating & reducing salt consumption, the DASH diet stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop this hypertension |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $200: A Florida mom invented one version of this twirling gizmo back in the 1990s; 20 years later, they became a craze a fidget spinner |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $400: Each November the president ceremonially pardons one or more of these birds a turkey |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $600: In 2012 this actress went from "Gossip Girl" to the girl who married Ryan Reynolds Blake Lively |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $800: Of Japan's 4 main islands, the one that doesn't end in U Hokkaido |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | HODGEPODGE $1000: From the 13th to the 15th centuries, this association of German cities dominated trade in northern Europe the Hanseatic League |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $400: Milkweed is being planted in the Midwest in an effort to preserve this "regal" insect a monarch butterfly |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: Franz Kafka's "The Trial" was originally written in this language German |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $1200: In 1972 the Pulsar was the first electronic commercial watch of this type; you pushed a button to see the time digital |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Dating back to the 19th century, it's a variation of volleyball where you catch the ball Newcomb ball |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Clinton's Secretary of Commerce and W's Secretary of Transportation, he was the first Asian-American Cabinet member Norman Mineta |
| #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 |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | HODGEPODGE $200: Flat feet are also referred to as fallen these arches |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | HODGEPODGE $400: There's a word for a Central European monarch in the name of this type of roll kaiser |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | HODGEPODGE $600: It was the "conservative" starting position played by the NHL's Brett Hull & Gordie Howe right wing |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | HODGEPODGE $800: Reed instruments like the clarinet & English horn belong to this family of orchestral instruments woodwinds |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 2017 Changi airport in this southeast Asian city-state was named the world's best airport for a 5th straight year Singapore |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $200: It's the person named in a will to administer the disposition of an estate, not to impose capital punishment an executor |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $400: Like Matthew, Luke includes these blessings such as "Blessed are ye that weep now; for ye shall laugh" the Beatitudes |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $600: One study said this alliterative act, putting the same chip back into the guacamole, really does transfer bacteria double dipping |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $800: In 1893 J.J. Hill finished the first transcontinental one of these built without government aid a railroad |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Around the time of the American revolution a "Brown Bess", weighing about 10 pounds, was this type of firearm a musket |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | HODGEPODGE $400: She's appeared on every cover of O magazine since it was launched in 2000 Oprah |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | HODGEPODGE $800: A muscular membranous sac, this internal organ stores and concentrates bile produced by the liver the gallbladder |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Rubber & duplicate are the 2 main types of the contract version of this card game bridge |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | HODGEPODGE $1600: You can become a master of molding & trim with this type of saw that resembles a hacksaw a coping saw |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Since her marriage to Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles uses the title Duchess of this place Cornwall |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: A poem in which the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase an acrostic |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: Originally the heroine of this novel was to be called Pansy O'Hara Gone With the Wind |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: This Henry Fielding hero, "one of the handsomest young fellows in the world", shares the name of a sex symbol singer Tom Jones |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $800: This Sinclair Lewis title became a word for someone narrow-minded who conforms readily to middle class values Babbitt |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: Dashiell Hammett dedicated "The Thin Man" to this fellow writer & longtime love Lillian Hellman |
| #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 |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HODGEPODGE $200: The Masai subspecies of this mammal can reach 19 feet tall the giraffe |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HODGEPODGE $400: Every 37 minutes this organization grants the request of a child with a life-threatening medical condition Make-A-Wish |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HODGEPODGE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an acronym on the monitor.) Named for the doctor who developed it, the Apgar score, given to newborn babies, is also an acronym for what is being assessed--appearance, pulse, grimace, activity & this vital sign respiration |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: It is said that you can get rid of bad energy & unwanted spirits in your home by smudging or burning this "wise" herb sage |
| #7385, aired 2016-10-21 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 2013 this 76-year-old former cosmonaut & first woman in space said she was ready for a one-way trip to Mars Valentina Tereshkova |
| #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 |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $200: World's poorest president Jose Mujica of this country legalized & distributed pot to disrupt drug dealers' revenue Uruguay |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $400: Mexico City has a memorial to the San Patricios, men mostly from this European island who fought the U.S. in the 1840s Ireland |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $600: Colombians sued Costa Ricans after they said this fictional character "drinks Costa Rican coffee" Juan Valdez |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $800: Within 3 days in 2002, this country saw a coup, the cancellation of its Constitution & Chavez' reinstatement Venezuela |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $1000: Oddly, each year Bolivia chooses a Miss Litoral beauty queen, symbolic of this, which it lost in 1884 a coastline |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $400: If nose is your job title, you create these, perhaps for Guerlain perfumes (a scent accepted) |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $800: Puppygate was a 2015 scandal that rocked these awards for science fiction authors the Hugo Awards |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $1200: This sea creature uses the snout that gives it its name to detect the electrical field of its prey a sawfish |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Originally, Brownies were the youngest Girl Scouts; now, these "flowery" girls are Daisies |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This term for the book that holds the prayers of a Catholic Mass sounds like it could be fired in war a missal |
| #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 |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HODGEPODGE $400: These red-dressed officials of the Catholic church are addressed as "Your Eminence" cardinals |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Masters is played at this par 72 golf course designed by Alister MacKenzie, with some help from Bobby Jones Augusta |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Chanel calls it "the now and forever fragrance" No. 5 |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HODGEPODGE $1600: The plot of this interlude by Rimsky-Korsakov: a prince turns into an insect & stings his villainous relatives "Flight Of The Bumblebee" |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This style of furniture was the first in England named after a cabinetmaker & not a monarch Chippendale |
| #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 |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | HODGEPODGE $200: Raise your hands for a man who goes by Krazy George; he claims to have introduced this at a 1981 baseball game the wave |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | HODGEPODGE $400: In much of the world, this part of the sheep is the choicest delicacy; in the U.S., it was a "Fear Factor" stunt the eyes |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | HODGEPODGE $600: In the 1980s this brand's 64 personal computer proudly claimed 64K of memory Commodore |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: While shooting "Troy", Brad Pitt injured this body part named for the character he was playing at the time Achilles tendon |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 2014 a man sued after he was flown to this West Indies isle & not the Spanish city whose name differs by one letter Grenada |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $400: Octothorp, number sign & hash mark are all aliases for this sign that's part of a hashtag a pound sign |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $800: Titles XVIII & XIX of the Social Security Act are these 2 health insurance programs Medicare & Medicaid |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $1200: This aircraft carrier named for the site of Cornwallis' surrender did not survive the Battle of Midway Yorktown |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | HODGEPODGE $2000: A Utah city was named for this Biblical land "Beyond the Jordan" Moab |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $400: The second sentence of this speech begins, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war" the Gettysburg Address |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $800: This middle name of Civil War general Sherman honored a Shawnee chief Tecumseh |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $1200: Camp Sumter was the formal name for this Georgia prison, the largest in the South Andersonville |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $1600: In August 1863 he & his guerrilla band irregularly attached to the Confederate army sacked Lawrence, Kansas William Quantrill |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $2000: The Battle of the Monitor & the Merrimack is also called the Battle of this Virginia channel Hampton Roads |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | HODGEPODGE $200: Animal Planet is on its 11th version of this annual feature with a different feel from the big football game the Puppy Bowl |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | HODGEPODGE $400: This cold soup is a puree of tomatoes & green peppers; in its homeland of Spain, cookbooks classify it as salad gazpacho |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | HODGEPODGE $600: The American Bar Association's ethical rules include protection of confidences under attorney-client this privilege |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | HODGEPODGE $800: This consortium of colleges traces its origins to a conference held at Vassar College in 1915 the Seven Sisters |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1798 Congress passed these 4 internal security laws aimed at immigrants & at curtailing the press the Alien and Sedition Acts |
| #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 |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | HODGEPODGE $200: A man sued this ex-Chicago Bull for $832 million for the discomfort the man felt over looking too much like the superstar Michael Jordan |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | HODGEPODGE $400: Because of events in this place, the Lord said, "Let us go down, and there confound their language" Babel |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | HODGEPODGE $600: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union" begins this part of the Constitution the Preamble |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: Hospital size is often ranked by number of these items; New York-Presbyterian has about 2,600 beds |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | HODGEPODGE $1000: I'm laying things N to N with this thin-layered puff pastry with cream filling a Napoleon |
| #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 |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $400: On South Africa's coat of arms, these paired elephant parts symbolize wisdom & strength tusks |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $800: In a 1930 film he said, "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I don't know" Groucho Marx |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $1200: About 100 years ago, a circus elephant named John L. Sullivan participated in this sport in an act with his trainer boxing |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $1600: This song from "Oklahoma!" tells us that "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye" "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning" |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $2000: This 4-armed son of Shiva & Parvati in Hinduism has a big-bellied human body with the head of an elephant Ganesh (or Ganesha) |
| #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 |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | HODGEPODGE $200: 1,742,400 square feet gets you this many acres (mule not included) 40 |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | HODGEPODGE $400: Translate from Esperanto: in January 2009 there was a new resident at the blanka domo, this place the White House |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: This small blonde Oklahoma-born dynamo has been "Wicked" on stage & full of "Glee" on television Kristin Chenoweth |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | HODGEPODGE $800: This woman of myth could've foreseen Agamemnon taking her to Mycenae as a slave, but no one would have believed her Cassandra |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This capital of Sierra Leone was founded as a home for liberated slaves Freetown |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $200: Seen here is a page printed in this language in the 15th century Hebrew |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $400: Echoing the size of some of its early audio products, the RX100 HD digital camera from this company fits in a pocket Sony |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $600: The 1880s cartoon
seen here shows the helpless Cherokee nation tied down like this Swift character Gulliver |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $800: Responding to criticism by calling the critic an illiterate moron is this kind of attack with a 2-word Latin name ad hominem |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The monolith that Aborigines call Uluru was named this by surveyor William Gosse Ayers Rock |
| #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 |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: This member of the Nixon & Ford Cabinets was born in Furth, Germany in 1923 Kissinger |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $400: In the 400s B.C. this Chinese philosopher went into exile for 12 years Confucius |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $800: The Ammonites held sway in this Mideast country in the 1200s B.C. & the capital is named for them Jordan |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1,000 (Daily Double): This roadway begun in 312 B.C. would eventually extend from Rome to the heel of Italy The Appian Way |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $1000: It was the peninsula fought over in the Peninsular War of 1808 to 1814 the Iberian Peninsula |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | HODGEPODGE $200: TrueBlue is this airline's rewards program JetBlue |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: Many of this country's diplomats were expelled after its Houla massacre in 2012 Syria |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | HODGEPODGE $600: Since 1924 this alliterative item has been used as a daily time signal by the BBC Big Ben |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | HODGEPODGE $800: Achilles' mom Thetis was the sea type of this minor deity a nymph |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The bacterial byproduct rapamycin, first found in this island's soil, may help Alzheimer patients Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $200: Steve Jobs sold his VW minibus & Steve Wozniak sold his calculator to get the money to form this company Apple |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $400: A national holiday observed each year on the third Monday of January honors this man--his actual birthday was Jan. 15, 1929 Martin Luther King |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $600: Flavors from this ice cream maker include Bonnaroo Buzz, Chunky Monkey & Chocolate Ben & Jerry's |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $800: In the sentence "Yo, check it, I left my CD on C-Dub's desk", "on" is this part of speech a preposition |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The second U.S. president born in Virginia, he enrolled at the College of William & Mary at age 16 Thomas Jefferson |
| #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 |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: Able to run more than 40 miles per hour, this bird is the fastest animal on 2 legs an ostrich |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $800: This place in New York Harbor is home to the American Family Immigration History Center Ellis Island |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $1200: It's traditional for paratroopers to yell this name of an Apache warrior when jumping from a plane Geronimo |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Peleg Wadsworth, a revolutionary war general & congressman, was the grandfather of this poet Longfellow |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $2000: This fairy brought a little magic into Pinocchio's life the Blue Fairy |
| #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 |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | INTERNAL RHYMES $400: A jumbled mixture; sometimes it's a "Jeopardy!" category hodgepodge |
| #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 |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: This goat constellation is the smallest of the zodiac Capricorn |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $800: A Buick was named for this New York City street that runs parallel to & between Fifth & Lexington Park Avenue |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Thomas Gore, a blind senator from Oklahoma, was the grandfather of this "Myra Breckinridge" author Gore Vidal |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Derived from Latin, it's the 10-letter term for the place where 2 or more rivers flow together confluence |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $2000: In Greek mythology dryads were nymphs who lived here forest |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | HODGEPODGE $200: The bright star Regulus represents the lion's foot in this constellation Leo |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | HODGEPODGE $400: Fischbacher & Horn are the last names of this pair made famous by their magical live performances with tigers Siegfried and Roy |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | HODGEPODGE $600: You might do the funky chicken or the fox trot at one of these endurance contests for couples a dance-a-thon (or a dance marathon) |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: This "insect" of a company calls itself the world's leading maker of construction & mining equipment Caterpillar |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This language has 3 main dialects: Connact, Munster & Ulster Gaelic (or Irish) |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | HODGEPODGE $200: It "makes the man" & "makes the pot boil"; love of it is also "the root of all evil" money |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | HODGEPODGE $400: A shiro-maku is a simple, white one of these robes worn by a Japanese bride at her wedding a kimono |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | HODGEPODGE $600: The 5th generation of this iPod included a built-in video camera, FM radio & a pedometer iPod Nano |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | HODGEPODGE $800: A specialty of New Orleans, a muffuletta is one of these a sandwich |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In Judaism, it's a scroll with verses from Deuteronomy inserted in a small case & attached to a doorpost a mezuzah |
| #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 |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | HODGEPODGE $400: Calgary & Medicine Hat are in this Canadian province Alberta |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | HODGEPODGE $800: International Nurses Day is May 12; in 2013 it'll coincide with this other big day for caregivers Mother's Day |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Since 2008 this insurance conglomerate has gotten $182 billion in government funds AIG |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | HODGEPODGE $1600: In February 1815 Napoleon snuck off this island with about 1,000 followers Elba |
| #6102, aired 2011-03-08 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Madagascar's pygmy mouse type of this grows about 8 inches long & weighs about 1 ounce lemurs |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 2009 Facebook overtook this rival to become the biggest social networking website Myspace |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $800: Jack Russell is a breed of this dog terriers |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Gotlandska, spoken on the island of Gotland, is a dialect of this language Swedish |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $1600: For the little ones, this shoe company makes All Star Dr. Seuss sneakers Converse |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $2000: It's the number of feet in a fathom 6 |
| #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 |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | HODGEPODGE $200: The Ten Commandments first appear in this book of the Bible Exodus |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | HODGEPODGE $400: Nixon beat this Democrat in the 1968 presidential election Hubert Humphrey |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | HODGEPODGE $600: He's the title guy in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" Quasimodo |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | HODGEPODGE $800: This sign of the zodiac follows Libra Scorpio |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Explorer & sailor Thor Heyerdahl was of this nationality Norwegian |
| #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 |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $200: Some say that the medieval tapestries about the hunting of this mythical beast symbolize the life of Christ the unicorn |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) If side a equals 3 & side B equals 4, it's the length of side C 5 |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $600: In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Littte Eva's first name is actually this, like the heroine of a Longfellow poem Evangeline |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $800: Aptly, a big, fluffy makeup brush is named for this form of Japanese theatre known for its distinctive heavy makeup kabuki theatre |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $1000: More than 1,000 islands make up the Alexander Archipelago in this U.S. state Alaska |
| #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 |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $200: Encyclopedia Britannica says this basic shape of roof is used "where the climate is arid" flat |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $400: In poker, 3 & 5 of hearts, 10 of clubs, jack of hearts, king of hearts is called a busted this a flush |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $600: Per the ingredients listed on the label, it provides the color in Coca-Cola caramel |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $800: In 1932 Yip Harburg was in Central Park trying to come up with a song lyric when a man asked, "Buddy, can you" do this spare a dime |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This Ohio doctor got a retrial for wife murder partly because a judge told a journalist he was "guilty as hell" Dr. Sam Sheppard |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: His "Travels" were interrupted when he was lashed down in Lilliput Gulliver |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1200: A wild mongoose who came into his office & sat on his shoulder inspired Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in "The Jungle Book" Rudyard Kipling |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1600: The 2008 novel "What Happened to Anna K." retells this Tolstoy tale in a modern setting Anna Karenina |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $2,000 (Daily Double): Flappers loved F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Flappers and Philosophers", published in this decade the '20s |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $2000: "Bless thy simplicity, Tess" is a line from this 1891 British novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #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 |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening a nightingale |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $400: You know this Lewis Carroll classic by a shortened name; its full title includes the word "Adventures" Alice in Wonderland |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $800: "A Separate Peace" tells of 2 preppies at the Devon School in this "Granite State" New Hampshire |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: "The Amber Spyglass" is the third book in the trilogy called "His Dark" these Materials |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $2,200 (Daily Double): Part I of this 1995 Gregory Maguire novel that inspired a musical is called "Munchkinlanders" Wicked |
| #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 |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HODGEPODGE $200: This "feline" variety of willow tree belongs to the same family as aspens & cottonwoods the pussy willow |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HODGEPODGE $400: Psychologist Otto Rank ranked this trauma as the No. 1 cause of neurosis birth |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HODGEPODGE $600: 10-letter word describing a woman's dress without arm coverings sleeveless |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HODGEPODGE $800: Augusto Pinochet, who ousted Salvador Allende in 1973, led the junta in this country until 1990 Chile |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1935 he invented a self-adhesive label, & even though he's gone, his name still sticks with us (R. Stanton) Avery |
| #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 |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | HODGEPODGE $200: 9 out of every 10 tomatoes grown in the U.S. come from this state California |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | HODGEPODGE $400: Telemarketers must search this registry every 31 days & drop those who are on it a do-not-call list |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | HODGEPODGE $600: Thin must be in for this country with the highest life expectancy in South America, nearly 77 years Chile |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | HODGEPODGE $800: In "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution", this literary character is treated by Sigmund Freud for drug addiction Sherlock Holmes |
| #5466, aired 2008-05-19 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Originally from Asia, the "walking" variety of this fish was introduced into Florida in the 1960s the catfish |
| #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" |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $200: On a flight from Oakland to Chicago on May 15, 1930, Ellen Church became the first woman to work as one of these a flight attendant |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $400: These mischievous supernatural creatures of Arab lore were made famous by "The 1,001 Nights"; make a wish! a genie |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $600: It's alphabetically last among the member countries of the United Nations Zimbabwe |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $800: The rock musical "Hair" features a chant of this Hindu sect founded in the U.S. in 1966 the Hare Krishna |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Yeeeeeee-haaaa! Billy Idol knows this drink's got bourbon, triple sec, lemon juice, an egg white & an orange slice a Rebel Yell |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $200: From 1909 until 1958, ears of wheat appeared on the back of this U.S. coin the penny |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $400: On our summer solstice, the sun at noon is directly over this "tropic" the Tropic of Cancer |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $600: Phoenix, Arizona is in this time zone Mountain |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $800: Name shared by a clay & straw brick home & a Photoshop maker adobe |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In photography, these lens attachments include polarizing, star & neutral density filters |
| #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 |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $200: This rap "clan" featuring Method Man & RZA took its name from a mythical martial arts sword The Wu-Tang Clan |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $400: Number of the latest U.S. Constitutional amendment to take effect 27 |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $600: 2-word name for the body of water these D.C. skaters are having fun on back in the day the Reflecting Pool |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew zaps some styrofoam peanuts with liquid from a test tube in the Jeopardy! science lab.) You might think styrofoam peanuts are hard to get rid of, but they can be dissolved using this solvent, the same one found in nail polish remover acetone |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Less secure than an heir apparent, one who's in line for a throne but could still be superseded is the "heir" this presumptive |
| #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 |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | HODGEPODGE $200: At a 2005 auction, paintings by Warhol & Renoir didn't sell, but 3 by Congo, one of these playful primates, did a chimp |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | HODGEPODGE $400: The "Citrus Obsession" version of this classic Mattel doll is scented to smell like a piece of fruit Barbie |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | HODGEPODGE $600: Hey, Bullwinkle! On Aug. 16, 2001, one of these large deer took a dip in a swimming pool near Spokane a moose |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | HODGEPODGE $800: It sounds rude, but this 5-letter word is the correct term for a ventriloquist's puppet a dummy |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | HODGEPODGE $1000: I was disappointed that Miss Pluto & Miss Venus weren't contestants in this international pageant run by Donald Trump Miss Universe |
| #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 |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $400: Familiar Inca name for the cat some Americans call the Florida panther puma |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $800: This Lillian Hellman play gets its title from a Bible verse The Little Foxes |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $1200: This New England state was the first admitted to the Union after the original 13 colonies Vermont |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $1600: Sites of prehistoric cave paintings include Altamira in Spain & this French cave famed for its Hall of Bulls Lascaux |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Terms used in this type of delicate needlework include "point de Venise" & "point d'Angleterre" lace |
| #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 |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $200: Get out your binoculars: 121 species of these have been spotted on the campus of Bennington birds |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $400: Grab your camera & major in Documentary Studies at CSF, the College of this New Mexico City Santa Fe |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $600: The devil you say! The logo seen here belongs to this university Arizona State |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $800: At Juilliard, not drama but this other "d"ivision requires students to take courses in anatomy & partnering dance |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $1000: Bryn Mawr is Welsh for "high hill", but Bryn Mawr isn't in Wales; it's in this U.S. state Pennsylvania |
| #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 |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | HODGEPODGE $200: He's Butt-Head's partner in the cartoon Beavis |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | HODGEPODGE $400: Using this trademarked type of "board" might get you some answers from beyond the Ouija Board |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | HODGEPODGE $600: These "of the cross" include Veronica wiping the face of Jesus stations of the cross |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | HODGEPODGE $800: Precedes "regal" in the name of a popular whisky Chivas Regal |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The second planet from the Sun Venus |
| #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 |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | HERBS & SPICES $1200: Also known as Jamaica pepper, it sounds like a hodgepodge of other flavorings allspice |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | HODGEPODGE $400: In 1992 Vermont became the first state to ban smoking in these places; it's not even allowed out in "the yard" prisons |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | HODGEPODGE $800: Dietary laws against butter & lard led Jewish cooks to use chicken fat, known by this sentimental name schmaltz (or grivinis) |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Munich's brewers came up with something special for the royal wedding of Prince Ludwig in this month in 1810 October |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | HODGEPODGE $1600: A quarrel that began with the fencing judging at the 1924 Olympics was settled by an actual one of these a duel |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | HODGEPODGE $2000: Before this Italian city's Palio, a race around the main square, it's lucky for a horse to leave droppings in church Siena |
| #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 |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $200: To begin this swimming stroke, rest your head on your arm, which is extended ahead with the palm turned downward the sidestroke |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays a card game with Sarah.) We've gone through the flop & turn cards of this geographic game; now it's time for the river card Texas hold 'em |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $600: On April 19, 1906 dynamiting to create a firebreak on Van Ness Ave. was tried to contain the blaze sweeping this city San Francisco |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $800: Steve McQueen knew it's French for "butterfly" papillon |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | HODGEPODGE, B'GOSH $1000: Photographer Robert Frank documented the people of the U.S. in a '50s book with this simple title The Americans |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | THIS SHOULD SOUND FAMILIAR $800: From the French for "rotten pot", it's any mixture of unrelated objects potpourri |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $200: Check it out: in 2000, 17-year-old M.I.T. freshman Elina Groverman was the U.S. women's co-champ in this board game chess |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $400: Many a college campus has an area called a quad, which is short for this quadrangle |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $600: This adjective for a second-year student is defined as "intellectually pretentious", "conceited" & "immature" sophomoric |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $800: At Cambridge, this "Lord" of poetry became a lifelong friend of John Cam Hobhouse, who later went to Greece with him Byron |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $1000: (Hi. I'm Keith Olberman.) I started when I was 16 and I graduated at 20 with a B.S. in communications at this Ivy League school in Ithaca Cornell |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $200: Don't slip on this one: some Africans eat matoke & drink waragi, both made from this fruit bananas |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $400: World Book says most of these are at least 7 inches long, have a knob on one end & are used to make scarves knitting needles |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $600: This often quiet Frenchman said Michael Jackson's Moonwalk was influenced by his own "Walking Against the Wind" Marcel Marceau |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $800: She gave Kenilworth Castle to Robert Dudley, who was (wink, wink) a "favorite" of hers Queen Elizabeth I |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | HODGEPODGE $1000: The Captain & Tennile would "love" this capital of Oman Muscat |
| #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 |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | HODGEPODGE $400: This adjective can be applied to writers like Shelley & Hugo as well as to a "getaway" for 2 Romantic |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | HODGEPODGE $800: The logo of the National Beagle Club doesn't show a beagle but this scared animal that beagles hunt a rabbit |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | HODGEPODGE $1200: Big Sandy isn't a feared bouncer, but a river that divides Kentucky from this "Mountain State" West Virginia |
