| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | ALASKAN CITIES $1000: This city in Southeast Alaska is home to a historic Russian Orthodox church, St. Michael's Cathedral Sitka |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $600: The 4 largest cities in the U.S. by area are all in Alaska: Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and this city, also the most populous Anchorage |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $2000: Bearing a name from Tlingit, this spruce species of the Pacific Northwest can be 200 feet tall & 15 feet in diameter a Sitka spruce |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $600: In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened Alaska |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE $600: South of Alaska, there's a Sitka one of these trees in Oregon that's 144 feet tall with a 93-foot crown spread a spruce |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE STATE THAT... $800: Has the Sitka spruce as its official state tree Alaska |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2,400 (Daily Double): At Sitka in 1804 the Tlingit lost a crucial battle to these invaders they called the Anooshee the Russians |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $200: Michael Chabon's novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" has this country collapsing in 1948 & refugees moving to Sitka, Alaska Israel |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TREE OF A KIND $600: Norway,
Serbian,
Sitka spruce |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | TREES $800: Alaska's state tree is this alliterative spruce that shares its name with an Alaskan city a Sitka spruce |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $1600: New Archangel, Alaska's name was "spruced" up in 1867 when it was changed to this Sitka |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a tree in Alaska.) Indians ate its bark & made its roots into hats; today, it's used for lumber, guitars, & gliders; no wonder the state tree, the Sitka type of this, is called the most valuable tree species in Alaska Sitka spruce |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) The great gray owl has acute hearing due in part to its enormous facial disk that acts like one of these receivers, trapping & concentrating sounds, allowing it to hear prey that's a foot beneath the snow antenna (a satellite accepted) |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) The bald eagle has made a remarkable recovery from the ravages of this now-banned pesticide, which caused affected birds to lay thin-shelled eggs, producing fewer young DDT |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) Peregrine falcons are not only fast, they also have great eyesight, which might be why the ancient Egyptians depicted this sky god as having the eye of a peregrine falcon, used as a motif to represent the all-seeing eye Horus |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | NORTH TO ALASKA $1200: This city on an island now better known for a type of grizzly bear was the capital of Russian Alaska Kodiak |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | I'M GONNA "SIT" $1600: This southeastern Alaskan town was once the territorial capital Sitka |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | STATES' FIRST NEWSPAPERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sitka Times
(1868) Alaska |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | HISTORIC AMERICA $400: A fine collection of Haida & Tlingit totem poles was toted to Sitka National Historic Park in this state Alaska |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | SOUTH PARK $400: National parks in the south of this state include Sitka and Glacier Bay Alaska |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $200: Sitka is the largest city in this state's Alexander Archipelago Alaska |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | THE "SIT"UATION ROOM $1000: This Alaskan city shares its name with a type of spruce Sitka |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | NATIONAL FORESTS $800: Trees in this state's Tongass National Forest include western hemlock, cedar, & sitka spruce Alaska |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | U.S. "S"ITIES $2000: Until 1867 it was the capital of Russian America Sitka |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE $400: Don Young from this state with 27 boroughs, including Sitka & North Slope Alaska |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Sarah admires art at the Bishop's House in Sitka, Alaska.) St. Innocent of Irkutsk is represented here in this type of image, traditional in the Eastern Church an icon |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Michael, pictured in The Bishop's House, holds this title, which was also what the Russians called Sitka Archangel |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | NATIVE AMERICAN ART $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Sitka Cultural Center in Alaska) The white man is depicted here on a totem pole commissioned for this 1976 event the Bicentennial |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | HISTORIC NOVELS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) This famed western writer turned way northwest to write his historical novel "Sitka" Louis L'Amour |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | RAPPIN' WITH THE RAPTORS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Raptor Center in Sitka, AK.) Someone counted, & a typical bald eagle has around 7,000 of these feathers |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | RAPPIN' WITH THE RAPTORS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Raptor Center in Sitka, AK.) This precious bird is one of the two indigenous species of eagle in the United States the golden eagle |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | RAPPIN' WITH THE RAPTORS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Raptor Center in Sitka, AK.) Also called duck hawks, these falcons can achieve speeds over 200 miles per hour when diving after their prey peregrine |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | THE TOTEM POLE VAULT $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Sitka Cultural Center.) The paints used to color totem poles are made by mixing natural pigment with the eggs of this fish, like the sockeye salmon |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | THE TOTEM POLE VAULT $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Sitka Cultural Center.) The straight beak indicates it'll be this common symbolic creature, also associated with a classic 1845 poem a raven |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ARCHIPELAGOS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Alaska.) From Sitka on Baranoff Island, you can see other islands in the archipelago named for this czar who sold Alaska Alexander |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | SALMON FISHING $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Sitka, Alaska) The main value of chum salmon is not in their flesh, but in these items they produce eggs |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | SALMON FISHING $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Sitka, Alaska) The three main types of Alaskan salmon fishing boats are trollers, gillnetters & these, which use a gigantic net seiners |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | PLANTS $400: Blue, Sitka & Engelmann are varieties of this conifer spruce |
| #4030, aired 2002-02-22 | "SIT" DOWN $2000: It's not the larch, it's the variety of spruce seen here Sitka |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | STATE TREES $1,000 (Daily Double): Its state tree is the Sitka spruce Alaska |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: Sitka
(1867-1900) Alaska |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | "SI" THE WORLD $800: When the U.S. bought Alaska in 1867, the transfer ceremony was held in this "si"ty Sitka |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | STATE TREES $100: The fact that its state tree is the Sitka Spruce should be firmly planted in your mind Alaska |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | U.S. STATES $1000: It has only 9 places with 5,000 or more people, including Kenai, Ketchikan & Sitka Alaska |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | FOREST PRODUCTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Pulp made from the Sitka variety of this tree makes good newsprint because of its whiteness spruce |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $400: In 1799 Alexsandr Baranov, first governor of this territory, founded Sitka Alaska |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | STATE EMBLEMS $200: Its state motto is "North to the Future"; its tree, the Sitka spruce Alaska |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS $1000: The first public newspaper in Alaska was established in 1868 in this Russian settlement Sitka |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | PLANTS & TREES $800: The Sitka, which can grow 200 feet high, is the largest species of this evergreen a spruce |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | MUSEUMS $200: Tlingit totem poles are on exhibit at the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka in this state Alaska |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | JEOPARDY! STATE NICKNAMES $400: Maine's nickname is the "Pine Tree State", so this might be called the "Sitka Spruce State" Alaska |
| #1993, aired 1993-04-14 | POTENT POTABLES $200: You need gin & yellow chartreuse to make this cocktail named for a state; you might sip it in Sitka an Alaska |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | HISTORIC SITES $100: This territory was formally transferred to the U.S. at Castle Hill in Sitka Alaska |
| #1517, aired 1991-03-19 | PARKS $1000: A park in this Alaskan city commemorates the Tlingit Indians' 1804 stand against Russian settlers Sitka |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | PUBLISHING $300: The first public newspaper in this state was the Sitka Times, published in 1868 Alaska |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | THE NEW WORLD $2000: This Russian capital of Alaska was originally called New Archangel Sitka |
| #980, aired 1988-12-02 | THE 50 STATES $300: In 1802 the Tlingit Indians massacred many of the Russian settlers in what is now this state Alaska |
| #723, aired 1987-10-28 | WORLD RELIGION $500: The Russian Orthodox Church had missionaries here since the 1790s, & a resident bishop for Sitka in 1841 Alaska |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | GEOGRAPHY $200: Sitka, former capital of Russian-America, sits in this state Alaska |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Under Russian rule, Sitka was its capital Alaska |
