| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $800 (Daily Double): This "Age" began in the 1930s with the advent of a new type of engine, though it didn't take off for a decade or so the Jet Age |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $400: Britain's Air Ministry ridiculed Frank Whittle's idea for this type of engine in the 1920s, but by the 1950s no one was laughing a jet engine |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | FOOD & DRINK HOMOPHONES $1000: An unpleasant high-pitched noise like from a jet engine a whine |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $1000: Proverbially, you "turn on" these devices in a jet engine when you really want to get moving fast the afterburners |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | AS DESCRIBED IN THE PATENT $800: 1946:
"Propulsion aircraft systems in which thrust is developed by...the expulsion of a stream of gas through a nozzle" a jet engine |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | JAY LENO'S GARAGE $800: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) The jet-engine 1963 Chrysler Turbine car was a tour de force of futuristic design & as a 14-year-old, I went to this 1964 New York City expedition of space-age technology specifically to see one the World's Fair |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | JETS $800: Jet engines & rockets both use jet propulsion; a jet engine takes in this element to burn fuel oxygen |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | JETS $1600: In 60 A.D. the scientist Hero of this city known for its lighthouse built a steam-powered jet engine--but not for flight Alexandria |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | OXYGEN $1200: The turboram type of this engine on certain planes mixes liquid oxygen with the fuel to support combustion a jet engine |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | SHARP (& FLAT) INSTRUMENTS $1600: (Kelly of The Clue Crew presents the clue.)The sound of this symbol of South African soccer can hit 127 decibels, louder than a jet engine; there were thousands at the 2010 FIFA World Cup vuvuzela |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | HELICOPTERS $800: Because they turn a propeller, copter engines are rated in these units rather than in lbs. of thrust like a jet engine horsepower |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | IT'S A DOGFIGHT $800: In 1950 a U.S. F-80 shot down a Soviet-made MiG-15 in the first dogfight between 2 aircraft propelled by this engine type a jet |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | LET'S BLOW $200: Fuel is streamed through a turbine with compressed air in this type of engine first patented in 1930 a jet engine |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | JUST PLANE FUN $400: On Sept. 6 1990, the White House received this new Air Force One, this 4-engine type of Boeing jet 747 |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $200: In the 1920s, Frank Whittle, who grew up making model airplanes, designed the first working engine of this type a jet engine |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | THE SCIENCE OF SOUND $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew presents from the NCPA at Mississippi)
To reduce jet engine noise, scientists study this type of air movement; it's also what your pilot might say you're about to hit, so buckle up turbulence |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | AVIATION $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew sits in front of the intake fan of a jet engine.) The jet engines of the 777 have up to 115,000 pounds of this, the physical force they generate to fight drag thrust |
| #4614, aired 2004-09-30 | SEARCH: ENGINES $400: This type of engine takes in air, compresses it, & thrusts it out the back jet |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | BMW $1200: (Cheryl) With test flights in the early 1940s, BMW pioneered this radical type of engine the jet engine |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | COOL YOUR JETS $800: Occuring at high altitudes, it's the jet engine by-product seen here vapor trail |
| #3253, aired 1998-10-28 | ____ AND ____ $800: One founder of this jet engine manufacturer was a cousin of the inventor of the cotton gin Pratt and Whitney |
| #2695, aired 1996-04-26 | TRANSPORTATION $800: The first flight of an aircraft powered by this type of engine occurred in 1939 in Germany jet engine |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | BUSINESS HISTORY $400: In 1971 the British government took over the former jet engine division of this car company Rolls Royce |
