| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | FIVE FACTS $800: Straight out of sci-fi, the pharyngeal jaws on this type of eel enable it to eat prey whole a moray eel |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $200: Van Heflin was in "Shane" & "3:10 to Yuma"; this group gave us songs like "Hot For Teacher" Van Halen |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Ram Jam is a '70s rock group & the trademark move Mickey Rourke's character performed in this 2008 film The Wrestler |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: Kelly Clarkson was an "American Idol"; in 2002 Kelly Clark went all the way to Olympic gold in this snowboarding event the half-pipe |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Tippecanoe was an 1811 battle; she starred in "Marnie" & "The Birds" Tippi Hedren |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Frankie Muniz played agent Cody Banks; Diablo Cody wrote the screenplay of this 2007 film about a pregnant teen Juno |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $200: Borax is a cleaning agent; this movie title guy journeys to "the U.S. and A." with his producer Azamat Bagatov Borat |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Riboflavin is vitamin B2; this member of Public Enemy was born William Drayton Flavor Flav |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: Finland's pres. is Tarja Halonen; Taraji P. Henson was Queenie, the adoptive mom in "The Curious Case of" him Benjamin Button |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Burning Man is an arts festival; the Running Man is a dance, as seen in his video for "U Can't Touch This" MC Hammer |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: "La Strada" is an Oscar-winning film; he played Ponch on "CHiPs" Erik Estrada |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $200: Legoland is an amusement park: Legolas is the character he played in "The Lord of the Rings" Orlando Bloom |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: We all know Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Deavere Smith was National Security Adviser Nancy McNally on this White House drama The West Wing |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: An infraction is a breach, as of rules: a myocardial this is a heart atfack an infarction |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Coco Chanel was a fashion designer: Coco Channel is a strait off North Andaman Island in this S. Asian bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Jell-O is a jiggly dessert: this priming material that has a glue base is used to prepare a canvas for paint gesso |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Peter Fonda was in "Ulee's Gold"; "Fool's Gold" stars this daughter of Goldie Hawn Kate Hudson |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $800: "First Blood" was a Rambo movie; this 2007 film had Daniel Day-Lewis searching for oil There Will Be Blood |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: Ian McKellen was Gandalf in "LOTR"; Ian McEwan wrote the novel on which this 2007 Keira Knightley film was based Atonement |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: "North Country" starred Charlize Theron; "No Country for Old Men" featured this Spaniard as a relentless killer Javier Bardem |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $2000: Everyone knows the "Chronicles of Narnia"; this 2008 film "Chronicles" the Grace family stumbling onto a world of fairies The Spiderwick Chronicles |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Galaga is an arcade game; Gallagher smashes this fruit, Citrullus lanatus, with the Sledge-O-Matic watermelon |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Theodore Dreiser wrote "An American Tragedy"; Philip Roth, "The Great American" this Novel |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: If you're vulpine, you're like a fox; if you're lying on your back with your face upward, you're in this position supine |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: Tarantino is a director; this is a rapid, whirling dance named for an Italian city tarantella |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $2000: The Coriolis effect is caused by the Earth's rotation; this is a Shakespeare play about Caius Marcius Coriolanus |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Noah's Ark survived the flood in Genesis; she's the "Maid of Orleans" Joan of Arc |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Herman Wouk gave us the WWII-set "Winds of War"; Rat & Mole hole up with Mr. Badger in this 1908 book Wind in the Willows |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: The "Oresteia" is a trilogy by Aeschylus; this is a Swedish glass factory Orrefors |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: William Dean Howells wrote "The Rise of Silas Lapham"; this actor was "MacGyver" on '80s TV Richard Dean Anderson |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $2000: Taco Bell is a fast food franchise; this composer's "Canon in D" is popular at weddings Pachelbel |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Fresco is an art technique; Fresca is a product of this soft drink company Coca-Cola |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: The Aare is a tributary of the Rhine; this organization for people 50 & older has "the power to make it better" the AARP |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: James Bond drove a BMW Z3 in "GoldenEye"; vitamin B3 is also called this niacin |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: Cingular is a wireless company; Singulair treats this condition, though it doesn't replace fast-acting inhalers asthma |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $2000: Toni Morrison wrote "The Bluest Eye"; this mopey Brit wrote "A Pair of Blue Eyes" Thomas Hardy |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $200: "Three Junes" is a novel by Julia Glass; this Chekhov play centers on the Prozorov family Three Sisters |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Agatha Christie:
"Death On The Nile";
Thomas Mann:
"Death In" this city Venice |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $600: "Brick House" is by the Commodores; this Dickens novel tells of the interminable suit of Jarndyce & Jarndyce Bleak House |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $800: "A Room of One's Own" is a feminist essay by Virginia Woolf; this E.M. Forster work tells of Lucy, on vacation in Italy A Room With a View |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | GET YOUR LITERARY FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Ivan Turgenev wrote "A Month in the Country"; Alan Paton wrote this story of a South African pastor & his son Cry, the Beloved Country |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $200: The minneola is the best-known variety of the tangelo; Minnehaha is his best gal in a Longfellow poem Hiawatha |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Marmaduke is a comic-strip dog; this is a preserve usually made from Seville oranges marmalade |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: Cirrhosis is a liver disease; the name of this chronic skin disorder is from the Greek for "to have the itch" psoriasis |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Ernesto Miranda's case gave us the rights read to a suspect; Carmen Miranda sang the aptly titled "The Lady In" this "Hat" The Tutti-Frutti |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $2,000 (Daily Double): Carlsberg is a Danish brewery; this Swiss-style cheese from Norway has a similar name Jarlsberg |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $200: Ramen is a noodle; the Ramayana is an epic poem of India composed in this ancient language Sanskrit |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: "Everwood" is the WB family drama; this is the *&%$#*!@ HBO Old West drama Deadwood |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $600: Byron Nelson won the PGA championship in 1945; this Nelson helped win the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797 Admiral Nelson |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: A gazelle is a graceful animal; this 1841 ballet has been called "the 'Hamlet' of the dance" Giselle |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Fort Dix is an Army Reserve training center; this Dix was a social reformer in the 1840s Dorothea Dix |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Tim Robbins wrote & starred in "Bob Roberts"; Tom Robbins wrote "Even" these "Get the Blues" Cowgirls |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Maz Azaria created the fashion line BCBG; Hilly Krystal founded this NYC underground music club CBGB |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: The Book of Kells dates from about 800 A.D.; "The Story of My Life", which dates from 1902, is the book of her Helen Keller |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: Harvard is a school; this is a mild cheese once known as Danish tilsit Havarti |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $2000: Bilirubin is a bile pigment; Robert Rubin was Secretary of this, 1995-1999 the Treasury |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: A steenbok is a grassland antelope; this is the man who wrote "Tortilla Flat" John Steinbeck |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Elder is a species of tree; eider is a species of this duck |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection; this was the '80s TV show hosted by Deney Terrio Dance Fever |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: Baskin-Robbins creates fancy ice cream treats; he created the ballet "Fancy Free" Jerome Robbins |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $2000: Topaz is a yellow stone; this is the U.S. national park with the highest waterfall Yosemite |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $400: Accra is the capital of Ghana; Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, is southeast of this capital of India New Delhi |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Saxifrage is used in rock gardens; this plant's root was the original root in root beer Sassafras |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1200: Nathaniel Macon was a leader of the House in 1806; Nathaniel Bacon led one of these named for him in 1676 an insurrection (rebellion) |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: Stengel managed the Dodgers & the Yankees; this man wrote "The Red and the Black" Stendhal |
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