#9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $400: In 2024 in Capalaba, Australia, this type of machine was out of order as a toddler crawled in for direct access to the Hello Kittys a claw machine |
#9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $7,600 (Daily Double): The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east the Gulf of Aqaba |
#9031, aired 2024-02-05 | NOTHING BUT MAMMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): These Pacific pinnipeds get their name from the roars they emit while defending their harems sea lions |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | SHOES! $200: El Paso-based Tony Lama is a legendary maker of these, like the Jinglebob & the Rowel cowboy boots |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | PREFIXED PAIRS $600: The scientific study of populations & a government by the people demographics & democracy |
#8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A wine bottle topper & the curse of the drinking classes, according to Wilde cork & work |
#8572, aired 2022-02-08 | THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS $400: Precisionists was another name for these very serious Christians who basically ran 17th century New England Puritans |
#8396, aired 2021-05-10 | LATIN OVERLAPPIN' $800: "I think, therefore I am" on Indonesia's second-largest island by area cogito, ergo Sumatra |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | COMPLETE THE AD SLOGAN $200: Loreal:
Because you're
____ it worth |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | CITY NICKNAMES $600: The resilient Porto, Portugal is called the "Cidade Invicta", or this city the Invincible City |
#8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $400: Oscar Wilde once quipped that this other Irish wit "has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends" George Bernard Shaw |
#8165, aired 2020-02-21 | & FINALLY... $400: Gene Cernan's final words before leaving this place in 1972, per Walter Cunningham: "Let's get this mother out of here" the Moon |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A pass that helps another player score & the guy playing a low-toned string instrument assist and bassist |
#7349, aired 2016-07-21 | THE LETTER OF THE LAW $400: B:
Handgun violence prevention act passed in 1993 Brady (Law) |
#7283, aired 2016-04-20 | CLEANING OUT MY ATTIC $4,500 (Daily Double): Wow! I remember this year of the headline seen here as if it were yesterday 1974 |
#7105, aired 2015-07-03 | HETERONYMS $800: A written agreement & to shrink in size contract [KAHN-tract] & contract [kin-TRACT] |
#6508, aired 2012-12-26 | A BUNCH OF IDIOMS $800: It's the same either way with this idiom six of one, half dozen of another |
#6340, aired 2012-03-23 | WORD & PHRASE DECADES $400: Hooverville the '30s |
#5671, aired 2009-04-13 | SAM ADAMS $200: Samuel Adams & U.S. President John Adams were related in this way second cousins |
#5542, aired 2008-10-14 | WHICH U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENT? $400: The National Park Service Department of Interior |
#5435, aired 2008-04-04 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: The president of Gallaudet helped found the AAPD, American Association of People with these Disabilities |
#5370, aired 2008-01-04 | PULP FICTION $800: Frederick Schiller Faust wasn't a big name in this genre, but his pen name of Max Brand was Westerns |
#5305, aired 2007-10-05 | TOASTS BY LANGUAGE $400: Na zdorovia Russian |
#4403, aired 2003-10-29 | IN OTHER WORDS... $1000: Traverse the indicated spanning structure upon arrival we'll cross that bridge when we get to it |
#4392, aired 2003-10-14 | MISHEARD LYRICS $800: Sly & the Family Stone:
"It's A Family Of Bears" "It's A Family Affair" |
#4213, aired 2002-12-18 | THE VIRTUES $1000: This virtue is also a name of a Rhode Island island & of prim, cautious women Prudence |
#4188, aired 2002-11-13 | ___OH___ $1200: Last name of father & son Nobel Prize physicists Niels & Aage Bohr |
#3971, aired 2001-12-03 | CHEESY COUNTRIES $200: Monterey Jack United States |
#3963, aired 2001-11-21 | CAMEL LOT $500: 2 of the 4 members of the camel family that live in South America (2 of 4) alpacas, guanacos, llamas & vicunas |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | AS MOM SAYS... $200: Don't cross your eyes or... They'll stay that way |
#3449, aired 1999-09-09 | U.S. POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $800: AR Arkansas |
#3429, aired 1999-07-01 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $400: "Towering" P.T. Barnum talent seen here General Tom Thumb |
#3276, aired 1998-11-30 | SEEING RED AT THE MOVIES $800: An innocent Tom Hanks is targeted by the CIA in this comedy The Man with One Red Shoe |
#3216, aired 1998-09-07 | COMMON BONDS $300: A prisoner,
a trap,
a leak things that get sprung |
#2846, aired 1997-01-06 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: The EPA determines whether drinking water contains more lead than 15 ppb, ppb standing for this parts per billion |
#2628, aired 1996-01-24 | "BEFORE" & "AFTER" $100: B.C. Before Christ |
#2611, aired 1996-01-01 | LEFTOVERS $100: As the old saying goes, "What's sauce for the goose" is this sauce for the gander |
#2543, aired 1995-09-27 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: The 2 northern extensions of the Red Sea are the Gulf of Aqaba & this gulf Gulf of Suez |
#2519, aired 1995-07-13 | CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY $300 (Daily Double): Like the Pleiades, the Hyades were sisters who were transformed into these stars |
#2361, aired 1994-12-05 | GUINNESS RECORDS $300: In terms of personnel, China currently has the largest army & this country has the largest navy The United States |
#2143, aired 1993-12-22 | QUOTATIONS $600: These 2 words complete the Charles Colton line "When you have nothing to say...." "Say nothing" |
#2063, aired 1993-07-21 | CELEBRITY COMMON BONDS $100: Frank Langella,
Christopher Lee,
Bela Lugosi they all played Dracula |
#2063, aired 1993-07-21 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $600: Completes Churchill's line about the RAF "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed..." by so many to so few |
#1871, aired 1992-10-26 | U.S. STATES $200: Hawaii's state seal features a shield flanked by the goddess of liberty & this king King Kamehameha |
#1345, aired 1990-06-08 | COMPLETES THE PLAY TITLE $200: "Sexual Perversity in..." Chicago |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: Pet Clark song title that actually means "Don't spend the night in the underpass" "Don't Sleep in the Subway" |
#920, aired 1988-09-09 | IN OTHER WORDS... $100: Allow former occurences to remain former occurences let bygones be bygones |
#713, aired 1987-10-14 | "HOUSE"s $300: New York madam Polly Adler titled her memoirs this A House is Not a Home |
#568, aired 1987-02-11 | ETIQUETTE $300: It's when you can properly stop signing the "Jr." after your name after your father passes away |
#552, aired 1987-01-20 | U.S. HISTORY $600: Edward Lee Howard recently became the 1st "Company" man in U.S. history to do this the first to defect to the Soviet Union |
#539, aired 1987-01-01 | MARCH $100: On the ides of March in 1919. this veterans' group was founded in Paris, not the U.S. American Legion |
#440, aired 1986-05-16 | SYMBOLS $400: If your calendar shows the moon's phases, the new moon will appear this way a blackened circle |
#412, aired 1986-04-08 | DOLLS $400: In ancient Egypt, dolls were buried with adult males to serve as these in the afterlife concubines (their spouse or sex partners) |
#340, aired 1985-12-27 | HISTORY $600: Within 1, the year in which number of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam reached peak, 543,400 1969 |