| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ACTING UP AT JUILLIARD $800: Group 1 included David Ogden Stiers, Patti LuPone & him, far from stupid as an Oscar winner for "A Fish Called Wanda" (Kevin) Kline |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | FAMOUS FINNS $800: While still a student, Linus Torvalds created this computer operating system & it's not quite a stupid answer Linux |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In Hollywood, it's the major street 2 blocks north of Sunset Boulevard Hollywood Boulevard |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: A 2009 study recommended treating heroin addicts with diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient in this heroin |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This lubricant's name means "Water Displacement, 40th formula" WD-40 |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: If today is Jan. 14, 1952, this show is premiering on NBC the Today show |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: China's Song Dynasty was noted for its contributions to the tz'u, a form of this a song |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $200: "Fight" this "with fire" fire |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $400: An American proverb says, "Money begets" this money |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $600: You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place" place for everything |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $800: "Nothing" does this "like success" succeeds |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | STUPID PROVERBS $1000: We're due for this proverb:
"Give credit where credit is" this due |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISHISM $800: Shirley Manson of Rubbish sang songs like "Stupid Girl" & "Push It" Garbage |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MAKEOVERS $1600: In "Crazy, Stupid, Love", Ryan Gosling helps this actor with a sartorial transformation Steve Carell |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | READING MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in "Dancing with Myself" by this ever-sneering singer include "Drunken, Stupid, & Naked" Billy Idol |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1600: Jamie Lee Curtis to Kevin Kline: "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people" A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | "PLAIN" & "SIMPLE" $1200: As an acronym from around 1960, KISS stands for this instruction that includes an insult at no extra charge keep it simple, stupid |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $400: In a William Steig tale, a knight says to this title ogre, "Magician's mercury, plumber's lead, I smite your stupid, scabby head" Shrek |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $2000: "Little more speed,
little more rope,
little more wind,
little more hope,
gotta get this stupid kite to fly" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $300: Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything Robin Hood |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | JOHNNY GILBERT SAYS THE NO. 1 HITS $1200: "I'm... classy, bougie, ratchet (yeah), sassy, moody, nasty (hey, hey, yeah), acting stupid, what's happening?" "Savage" |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE QUOTABLE MOVIE $1200: "McLovin? What kind of a stupid name is that, Fogell?" Superbad |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $400: Tami Taylor, on this Texas-set drama: "It's part of my job to make sure that you don't grow up stupid. It's bad for the world" Friday Night Lights |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $800: In this film about a bachelor party gone wrong, Ed Helms tells Zach Galifianakis, "You are literally too stupid to insult" The Hangover |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $2000: "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!" Jamie Lee Curtis tells Kevin Kline in this piscatory 1988 comedy A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | BACKING BANDS $800: Not exactly a stupid answer, this group originally known as the Hawks took some of "The Weight" off Dylan in the 1960s The Band |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $200: In the "Shrek" movies, it's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy Donkey |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In this 1997 film Jack Nicholson asks a group of psychiatric patients, "What if this is as good as it gets?" As Good as It Gets |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $600: It's the eponymous title of the 1988 collection of early hits by R.E.M. on I.R.S. Records Eponymous |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $800: Before co-starring in "Get Out", Allison Williams played one of the girls on this HBO series Girls |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Redd Foxx of TV's "Sanford and Son" had the real name John this Sanford |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Combining hip-hop & street jazz, the Brooklynettes are the dance team for this NBA squad the Brooklyn Nets |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: What we call the "magnetic" this attracts the north magnetic poles of compass needles, so it's actually a south magnetic pole the magnetic north pole |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Hammacher Schlemmer sells a $9,500 gyroscopic one of these swaying items a hammock |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Man o' War's first defeat came in 1919 at Saratoga in an upset by this horse Upset |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The flag that Betsy Ross sewed for the new union of the colonies in 1777 had 13 stars in the top inner corner, the area called this the union |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $200: St. Louis, Missouri's sister cities include this city in Senegal St. Louis |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $400: To get from Edinburgh to Gothenburg, go north & east across this sea the North Sea |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $600: Indigenous Nicaraguans call this lake Cocibolca; the Spanish called it Mar Dulce, both names meaning "sweet sea" Lake Nicaragua |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $800: This port on the Gulf of Tadjoura is the biggest city in Djibouti Djibouti |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | GEOGRAPHIC STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This port on the Gulf of Mexico was founded by Captain Hardy & is co-seat with Biloxi of Harrison County Gulfport |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD $200: Humiliated by saying something stupid? You've got this "on your face" egg |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.) This scientist's will provided the funds that established the Smithsonian Institution; his crypt is here in the Smithsonian Castle & the institution he endowed has grown around him, exceeding anything he could have envisioned Smithson |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $400: Humphry Davy suggested magnium for this element's name so it wouldn't be confused with manganese magnesium |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $600: In Italian, "erta" is a lookout--the phrase "all'erta", meaning on the lookout, led to this 5-letter term for a warning alert |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $800: This is the Latin way of saying the Greek phrase "theos ek mechanes" Deus ex Machina |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero created this in 1846 by mixing glycerol with sulfuric & nitric acid nitroglycerin |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The Sahara Desert derives its name from an Arabic word meaning this desert |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Born John Rogers Stephens, in 2018 he released his first holiday album, "A Legendary Christmas" John Legend |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: The ocean that surrounds Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere goes by these 2 alternate names the Antarctic & the Southern Ocean |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: In summer 2019 singles looking for love hooked up on the island of Fiji for season 1 of this series based on a British show Love Island |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: A 2016 Forever stamp marked the 250th anniversary of the repeal of this act the Stamp Act |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $1200: In 1873 the first European expedition crossed the Great this Desert (almost a stupid answer) the Great Sandy Desert |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES $1200: Successful bachelor Jacob Palmer, helping newly separated Steve Carell re-enter the dating scene Crazy, Stupid, Love |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $400: The movie "Forrest Gump" gave us this 5-word adage Stupid is as stupid does |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $600: A Lockheed aviation engineer is often credited with coining this principle abbreviated KISS Keep it simple, stupid |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $800: Ryan Gosling takes Steve Carell in hand when Steve's marriage unravels in this 2011 film Crazy, Stupid, Love |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | "STUPID" $1000: In "National Lampoon's Animal House", Dean Wormer tells Flounder, this 4-word state "is no way to go through life, son" Fat, drunk, and stupid |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $200: Shortly after "imbalance" in the dictionary is this noun denoting one who is stupid & inane an imbecile |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $400: It was also called a fool's cap a dunce cap |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $600: Archie Bunker called Edith this, also an ornamental typographical character dingbat |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $800: Synonyms for this one-word rhyme include lamebrain, dodo, yo-yo & dum-dum nitwit |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | LITERALLY STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Lucy was quite fond of deriding Charlie Brown with this 9-letter term for a less-than-intelligent person blockhead |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This weekly mag took the time to put newsmaking people like Selena Gomez & Kate Upton on its Nov. 20, 2017 cover People |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: One of the band's 4 faces, Keith Moon was the man who drummed for this quartet that had a hit with "Squeeze Box" The Who |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: To give a break to those who fight conflagrations, this strip of cleared land helps stem the spread of a prairie fire a firebreak |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Bordering Angola & Botswana, what is now Namibia was administered by this South African country until 1990 South Africa |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: On the periodic table of elements, which ranks as a great scientific tool, horizontal rows are also called these periods |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: One of his memorable lines in "A Fish Called Wanda" is "Don't call me stupid" Kevin Kline |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: In 1897 he entered the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid but found the classes stupid; he did okay on his own Picasso |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | RECENT EVENTS $1000: Singing "I'm not your toy, you stupid boy", Israel's Netta won this contest, edging out an entry from Cyprus Eurovision |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA $200: (Hi, I'm Sarah French from NBC Charlotte.) 1996's "Indomitable Spirit" project featured statues of 6 22'-long panthers outside Bank of America Stadium in North Carolina, home to this NFL team the Carolina Panthers |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Liz Cho from ABC7.) Ulysses S. Grant was interred here in his New York City tomb in 1897; years later, Groucho Marx made a famous running gag out of this question Who's buried in Grant's Tomb? |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Rob Fukuzaki from ABC7.) At the first major football game played in this stadium, USC rose up & bowled over Penn State 14-3 the Rose Bowl |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Jennifer Gilbert from Fox45.) The horse racing bet where you pick the winners of the first six races is called this a Pick Six |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (I'm Melissa Magee from 6ABC.) Besides using her sewing skills to make a living, Betsy Ross also made musket cartridges for this army formed by the Continental Congress in 1775 the Continental Army |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | FROM THE DUTCH $1000: It can mean a stupid person, an opiate drug or information, as in "the straight..." dope |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 1982 Tony Randall hosted these awards at the Imperial Theater the Tonys |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: Carrie Fisher auditioned for "Star Wars" & this horror film at the same time--the 2 directors were in the same room Carrie |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $600: Dancers come from all over the world to compete in front of Jennifer Lopez & Derek Hough on this NBC show World of Dance |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $800: Queen Latifah reunites with girls she went to college with on a crazy trip down to New Orleans in this film Girls Trip |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In a commercial for this mobile game, Arnold Schwarzenegger yells, "Must strike back!" Mobile Strike |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The Declaration of Independence & the Constitution were both signed in this Philadelphia hall Independence Hall |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: What the British call a jumper we call this type of sweater that you pull over your head a pullover |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: DJ Tanner-Fuller's household includes her 3 sons, her best friend Kimmy & her sister Stephanie on this Netflix series Fuller House |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: It is the title of Stephen King's novel about the creepy clown Pennywise It |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: "La Vie Boheme" is a song from "Rent", which was based on this Puccini opera La Boheme |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | THE THING'S THE PLAY $800: The title object of this 1959 Pinter play is a small freight elevator, not a stupid server The Dumb Waiter |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | IT'S IN INTERJECTION $1600: This term for a stupid person sounds like someone from a Greek isle a cretin |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | SCHOOLS ON SCREENS $400: Dean Wormer says, "Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, son" before kicking Kent out of Faber College in this film Animal House |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Lego Systems, Inc.) Here's Lightning McQueen, the hotshot rookie racecar and protagonist of this 2006 Disney animated blockbuster Cars |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This Beyonce visual album's title comes from Jay Z' grandma, shown saying, "I was served lemons, but I made lemonade" Lemonade |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: (Hi, I'm Louis C.K.) I won a 2014 Emmy for writing the "So Did the Fat Lady" episode of this FX series of mine Louie |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: In "King Of The Road", Roger Miller sang, "I'm a man of" these "by no means" means |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The thoroughbred racehorse Man O' War lost only one race: a 1919 upset to a horse named this Upset |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The girls on this cable series include Hannah Horvath, Marnie Michaels & Shoshanna Shapiro Girls |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, Texas.) Noted for its long horns that can span 7 feet or more, this is the official state large mammal of Texas the longhorn |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born near a small Tuscan hill town called this Vinci |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Part of this group's mission is to "promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future" Greenpeace |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Entertainer Marvin Hamlisch won a 1974 Grammy for this instrumental hit from the movie "The Sting" "The Entertainer" |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This photo-sharing app gets its name from combining parts of the words "instant" & "telegram" Instagram |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This university's admissions office is in Crouse-Hinds Hall in Syracuse, New York Syracuse (University) |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Launched in 2000, this lifestyle magazine from Time, Inc. helps keep life real simple Real Simple |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This centrally located African country is again a republic since elections were held in 2015 the Central African Republic |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Joseph Medicine Crow, the last war chief of this Montana tribe, died in 2016 at age 102 the Crow tribe |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | WORDS WITH FRIENDS $200: This word for a stupid or gullible person contains a "chum" of yours chump |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $200: If you master the history of the credit card, you'll discover the first purchase with this was at a Sears in 1985 a Discover Card |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $400: You'd be a wise old owl if you knew that the Scripps spelling bee has one of these creatures on its logo a bee |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $600: Heading on a holiday, Doc? Why not check out the grave of this Wild West legend; it's got a star, a horse & a bell on it Belle Starr |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $800: Michael Dawson & Richard Alpert are men who've loved & lost as characters on this show & are mad as hell about it Lost |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $1000: An amazon of revenue comes to this co. that's before Apple in the alphabet & passed Apple in 2016 as the most valuable Alphabet |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This waterfall is on the Iguacu River at the border of Argentina & Brazil the Iguaçu waterfall |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: "Tropic of Cancer", a book by him, chronicles an American expat named Henry Miller & his friends van Norden & Carl Henry Miller |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Launched in 1990, this weekly magazine from Time Inc. covers all aspects of the entertainment industry Entertainment Weekly |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The major powers of Europe were involved in this war that lasted the 7 years between 1756 & 1763 the Seven Years' War |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Nickname of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, meant to evoke an earlier era of classical music the "Classical Symphony" |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Singer P!nk is a cover girl for this brand of makeup CoverGirl |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: What was British Guiana is now called this Guyana |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Dribeck's Light was the forerunner to this light German beer Beck's |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Geneva & Lausanne are the largest cities on this lake also known as Genfersee & Lac Leman Lake Geneva |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This drawbridge that spans the Thames River adjoins the Tower of London Tower Bridge |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the egg of a louse; add "wit" to it & you get a stupid person a nit |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $200: This 2002 film was an adaptation of Susan Orlean's book "The Orchid Thief" Adaptation |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 & again in 1999, Prince had a Top 40 hit with this song "1999" |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $600: When he's rapping, Oscar winner Lonnie Lynn is more commonly known by this one-word name Common |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $800: "A Captain's Duty", a memoir by Richard Phillips, was the basis for this 2013 movie Captain Phillips |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Their country music hits include "My Home's In Alabama" & "Tennessee River" Alabama |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $200: In the movie "Ratatatouille", Remy is one of these a rat |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $400: On this Showtime series Michael Sheen plays William Masters, pioneering sex researcher & partner of Virginia Johnson Masters of Sex |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $600: Eden Sher plays the middle child Sue Heck on this TV family comedy The Middle |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $800: Sydney Glazier & Jack Grossberg were the producers of this 1968 film The Producers |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $1000: A parody of soap operas, this controversial sitcom focused on 2 families: the Campbells & the Tates Soap |
| #7008, aired 2015-02-18 | NAME CALLING $400: Do something dangerously stupid & I'm liable to call you this, also a Johnny Knoxville movie franchise a jackass |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | KIDDY LIT TITLE WORDS $1000: "The ____ Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" Stinky |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | "NINE" LETTER WORDS $1200: That's stupid! Unintelligent! Foolish! asinine |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: This Democratic strategist with a Southern drawl & gleaming skull is credited with the line "It's the economy, stupid" James Carville |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: You must be at least 21 to play at Luxor Las Vegas' 38 tables for this game 21 |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: "Red Carpet" & "Just Like Us" are weekly features of this magazine Us (Weekly) |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: The Rhine River flows north from Switzerland into Germany & through the Netherlands before emptying into this sea the North Sea |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Tragedy befalls Roberta Alden when she ends up pregnant & dead in this novel, an American classic An American Tragedy |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This son of Gutzon Borglum put the finishing touches on Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln & Teddy Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore Lincoln Borglum |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Grammatically, in "When Al headbutted a lamppost, he got a concussion", "Al" is this of "he", & Al is stupid the antecedent |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | SLANG $1200: Described by urbandictionary.com as "carpe diem for stupid people", YOLO is actually short for this you only live once |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | "D.C." POWER $600: If you were one of these stupid chicken sounds, you wouldn't be here dumb cluck |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $200: Julie Chen & Sara Gilbert give their view as 2 of the co-hosts of this talk show The Talk |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Tennessee.) Nashville's Bluebird Cafe is featured on this TV drama, starring Connie Britton & Hayden Panettiere Nashville |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $600: "The Cleveland Show", which follows a guy named Cleveland Brown & his family, was spun off from this series Family Guy |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $800: This film popular at Christmas was based on more than one story by Jean Shepherd A Christmas Story |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In 1933 Will Rogers & Janet Gaynor starred in a non-musical version of this film set at the Iowa state fair State Fair |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | TOUGH STUPID ANSWERS $1600: It's absurd, but I'll get irrational if you don't know that a surd is one of these numbers an irrational number |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | TOUGH STUPID ANSWERS $2000: If you want to go to this country that was once part of the Gold Coast, fly into Lome Togo |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This musical takes place in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776 1776 |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This unit of measure is the distance a burst of light travels in one year, about 5.8 trillion miles a light-year |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near this tiny town in Toscana Vinci |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Jomo Kenyatta was the first prime minister, then first president of this country Kenya |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Among the holdings of this British museum are the Elgin Marbles & the Rosetta Stone the British Museum |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | SLANGUAGE $1600: By itself, it's a stupid person; before "change" it denotes a pitifully small amount of money chump |
| #6636, aired 2013-06-24 | WHOSE LATE NIGHT SKIT $200: "Stupid pet tricks" David Letterman |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It was established by an act of Congress in 1800 as a reference library for Congress the Library of Congress |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Wes Moore wrote the bestseller "The Other" him: "One Name, Two Fates" Wes Moore |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: A top 10 hit by Wang Chung says, "Everybody have fun tonight, everybody" these 2 words "tonight" wang chung |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This university is located in Hyde Park, on the south side of Chicago the University of Chicago |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: It's a sheet or sponge cake spread with jelly & whipped cream & rolled up a jelly roll |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | THE "WILD" & "CRAZY" $800: Tough love from Ryan Gosling helps Steve Carell get over Julianne Moore in this rom-com Crazy, Stupid Love |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | RHYME TIME $400: Dumb god of love stupid Cupid |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS $200: Luxembourg National Museum is located in the historic center of this city Luxembourg |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS $400: Bissau is the capital of this African country that borders Guinea Guinea-Bissau |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS $600: The name of this river goes back to a Native American name meaning "river of yellow stones" the Yellowstone River |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS $800: Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of this island & about 600 nearby islands New Guinea |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS $1000: It was a 1980s confederation of Senegal & the Gambia Senegambia |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | GUINNESS RECORDS $600: Gildan activewear made a Bunyan-esque one of these that was 281' long & 180' wide--it did not say "I'm with stupid" a t-shirt |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | STUPID FOOD ANSWERS $200: The limequat is a cross between a kumquat & this lemon-shaped fruit the lime |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | STUPID FOOD ANSWERS $400: It's the fruit of the coconut palm tree the coconut |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | STUPID FOOD ANSWERS $600: It's a hot dog on a stick that's dipped in cornbread batter & deep fried a corn dog |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | STUPID FOOD ANSWERS $800: The blacker the color of these berries, the riper & sweeter the fruit blackberries |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | STUPID FOOD ANSWERS $1000: The Linzer torte, a tart usually filled with raspberry jam, is named for this Austrian city Linz |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $200: Melissa McCarthy was a scene-stealer as one of the bridesmaids in this raunchy chick flick Bridesmaids |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $400: In "Jurassic Park", Richard Attenborough has created a dinosaur-filled animal preserve called this Jurassic Park |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $600: This film with a one-word title is based on the play "God of Carnage" Carnage |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $800: A dolphin loses its tail in a crab trap in this family film based on a real dolphin named Winter Dolphin Tale |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | STUPID ANSWERS: MOVIES $1000: The third film in the "Shrek" series has this 3-word title Shrek the Third |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | LAUGH LINES $1000: Emma Stone in "Crazy Stupid Love" on seeing this actor shirtless: "It's like you're photoshopped" Ryan Gosling |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | KISSING $400: In a novel he says, "None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this... your precious Charles... or your stupid Ashley" Rhett Butler |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the highest mountain in Kenya Mt. Kenya |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1984 this novel first published 35 years earlier was on the bestsellers list 1984 |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In this classic game from Milton Bradley, you have to connect 4 of your pieces in a row to win Connect Four |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Bakers have been using this brand of chocolate in their recipes since 1780 baker's chocolate |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Carvings of a horse, star & bell appear on the headstone of this Wild West "Bandit Queen" Belle Starr |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | '90s FILM QUOTES $200: "Mama says stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | MARK TWAIN NEVER SAID... $600: "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all" this doubt |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: On the west, Central Park is bounded by this street Central Park West |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This building in our national capital was originally designed by Dr. William Thornton the Capitol |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This was first imprinted in black on individual M&Ms in 1950 (the letter) M |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The second verse of this classic American song begins, "O beautiful for pilgrim feet" "America The Beautiful" |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The Mosquito Indians are a majority population of this coastal region of Honduras & Nicaragua the Mosquito Coast |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $200: As a woman's "sons grow up, she selects them as lovers" was D.H. Lawrence's synopsis of this novel Sons and Lovers |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $400: An epidemic of the bubonic plague overwhelms a city in this 1947 novel by Albert Camus The Plague |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $600: It's the one-word title of Scott Turow's 2010 sequel to "Presumed Innocent" Innocent |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $800: Helen Huntingdon takes the name Graham when she goes into hiding at this home in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" Wildfell Hall |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $1000: One night Wilkie Collins saw a woman in flowing white robes, inspiring the opening of this novel The Woman in White |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | GODLY RHYME TIME $400: Dumb little Roman love god a stupid Cupid |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $200: Of this, the Constitution says the pres. "shall from time to time give to... Congress Information on the State of the Union" the State of the Union address |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $400: This service determines, assesses & collects internal revenue in the United States the Internal Revenue Service |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $600: 8 small windows are located at the 500-foot level of this Washington monument the Washington Monument |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $800: Even though it's in Arlington, Va., the address for this building is 1400 Defense Pentagon, Washington D.C. 20301 the Pentagon |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This cabinet department is responsible for housing needs & the improvement & development of urban areas Housing and Urban Development |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | LA CATEGORIE JEOPARDY! $200: Les reponses idiots STUPID ANSWERS |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | MILTON $1200: "No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born" in this 4-letter condition "free" |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This Stephen King novel says, "There was a clown in the stormdrain ... it was a clown, like in the circus or on TV" "It" |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1542 this daughter of Mary of Guise became the Queen of the Scots Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: President John Tyler was the son of Mary Armistead & this governor John Tyler |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Chevron's red & blue logo is this heraldic shape, meant to convey rank & service a chevron |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In Dutch, this royal was known as Willem Hendrik, Prins van Oranje William of Orange |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In Hollywood, it's the major street 2 blocks north of Sunset Boulevard Hollywood Boulevard |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: A 2009 study recommended treating heroin addicts with diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient in this heroin |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This lubricant's name means "water displacement, 40th attempt" WD-40 |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: If today is Jan. 14, 1952, this show is premiering on NBC the Today show |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: China's Song Dynasty was noted for its contributions to the tz'u, a form of this a song |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Irene Cara catapulted to fame after starring in this 1980 film Fame |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: 1975's "Killer Queen" was the first Top 40 pop hit for this group Queen |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Dolores Del Rio was one of the stars of the 1933 musical "Flying Down to" here Rio |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Hopefully you know it's the TV sitcom that starred Faith Ford & Kelly Ripa as sisters Hope and Faith |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In August 2009 country duo Brooks & this guy announced that they were done (Ronnie) Dunn |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It was the phase of the moon on Nov. 16, 2009, the date the movie "New Moon" premiered the new moon |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Canada's Swan River empties into this lake Swan Lake |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Captain William Mynors named this island in the Indian Ocean on Christmas Day, 1643 Christmas Island |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: You can form your own rock band & tour the world with this 2007 video game from MTV games Rock Band |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In the web address of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, it comes just before "dot gov" DOT (Dept. of Transportation) |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $400: Yvette Sanchez Fuentes is the head of this program that got its start in 1965 to help kids out of poverty Head Start |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $800: It's the term for a period of service, like a senator's 6 years term |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $1200: Kalpen Modi, who works for the Obama admin. doing outreach to Asian Americans, is better known to moviegoers as this Kal Penn |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $1600: The Ohio House of Representatives makes state law in this building the State House |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS $2000: In this post James Clapper serves under Secretary of Defense Gates, who turns to him for intelligence the Undersecretary of Defense (for Intelligence) |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $200: Mark Twain first told of Tom Sawyer's adventures in this 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $400: It was the top-selling fiction book of 1986 It |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $600: This sequel to "Love Story" tells of Oliver's life in the years following Jenny's death Oliver's Story |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $800: It was the second book in Lawrence Sanders' "Deadly Sins" novel series The Second Deadly Sin |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LITERARY STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This Mary McCarthy classic tells of the lives, loves & aspirations of a group of 8 Vassar graduates The Group |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | NAME THE JAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): ...who, for the 1992 election, coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid" James Carville |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This NFL team once thought about naming themselves the Chicago Cubs; they now bear a more mature name the Bears |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up some dolls at FAO Schwarz in New York.) Though beauty is in the eye of the beholder, some of these ugly dolls have three eyes, some have fangs, & some have big ears Uglydolls |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1200: Sometimes you have to peel cheese off this shovel-like implement used to place pizza in & out of an oven peel |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1600: Like the one in London, this D.C. gallery, an arm of the Smithsonian, is full of portraits of national heroes the National Portrait Gallery |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $2000: Congressman Carl Vinson was lucky to have a massive aircraft carrier & this peak in Antarctica named for him Vinson Massif |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: You use these broad noodles to make lasagna lasagna noodles |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This type of bed covering gets its name from an Old French word, cuilte a quilt |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Just before serving this Chinese soup, drop some beaten egg into it egg drop soup |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This rapper was born Tramar Dillard in Opa-locka, Florida Flo Rida |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This book by Malcolm Gladwell is about the choices that are made in the blink of an eye Blink |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION $200: Even if you spill it, don't cry over die Milch, this milk |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION $400: These, like Donder & Blitzen, are das Rentier reindeer |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION $600: The ceremony called a bar mitzvah in English is this in German a Bar Mitzvah |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION $800: Ein Museum fur moderne Kunst is this specific type of place a museum of modern art |
| #5759, aired 2009-10-01 | STUPID ANSWERS: GERMAN EDITION $1000: Take a guess:
Blut ist dicker als Wasser is this familial proverb blood is thicker than water |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed Independence Hall |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The powerful Italian leader Mussolini was called "Il Duce", which means this the leader |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This tributary of the Oka River flows past the city of Moscow the Moscow River |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: 1844 was a good year for him; he received a patent for his vulcanized rubber process Goodyear |
| #5746, aired 2009-09-14 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Leonardo da Vinci was born near this small Tuscan town in 1519 Vinci |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sandeman Winery in Portugal.) In Portugal corks are made from this variety of oak tree cork |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Prune producers know to do this to plum trees each year to maintain vigorous fruiting wood prune them |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Grand Central Terminal, New York.) When the 2-year restoration was unveiled in 1998, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said that this has truly been put back into the Grand Central Terminal Grand |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $1600: Hofstadter's law is formulated as "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account..." this Hofstadter's law |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $2000: Giambologna's Fontana di Nettuno, seen here, is a monument in this Italian city Bologna |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | "STUPID" ANSWERS $400: Sometimes called the K.I.S.S. principle, it's also the title of a Judge Judy book keep it simple, stupid |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | "STUPID" ANSWERS $800: There may be stupid answers, but proverbially, there are no these stupid questions |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | "STUPID" ANSWERS $1200: A 2006 photo shows politician John Howard next to a man wearing a T-shirt with this motto; the arrow points to Howard I'm with Stupid |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | "STUPID" ANSWERS $2000: 1967 No. 1 hit for Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid" |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | "STUPID" ANSWERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Famous 4-word advice from James Carville in the 1992 campaign It's the economy, stupid |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE BRITISH EDITION $200: A reservoir called the Queen's Basin once graced this simple green park, formerly Upper St. James's Park Green Park |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE BRITISH EDITION $400: The Garden Tower at the Tower of London was the scene of some bloody goings-on, so now it's known as this the Bloody Tower |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE BRITISH EDITION $600: Battle Abbey, built on the spot where King Harold died in the Battle of Hastings, isn't in Hastings but in this town Battle |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE BRITISH EDITION $800: Originally built in 1156 & rebuilt in 1420, this inn on Mermaid Street in Rye is one of the oldest & loveliest in England the Mermaid Inn |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE BRITISH EDITION $1000: In 1987 Her Royal Highness Princess Anne was given a new title: the Princess this Princess Royal |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $200: Developed to treat sunburn, this cream got its name after a customer said it knocks eczema out Noxzema |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $400: Style that got its name from 1925's Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs art deco |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $600: Philosopher Willard van Orman Quine said that this philosopher's "predicament is the human predicament" David Hume |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $800: This kind of material has superconductivity, which means it has no electrical resistance at very low temperatures a superconductor |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This acronym refers to a family with a single income, 2 children & an oppressive mortgage SITCOM |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $200: Cheers to you if you will grace us with the name of this sitcom that cast Debbie Reynolds & Blythe Danner as moms Will & Grace |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $400: This TV show that deals with a Miami CSI team has characters named Sgt. James Doakes, Dexter Morgan & Rita Bennett Dexter |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $600: A line from this book: "Spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, & the early mornings are strangely silent" Silent Spring |
| #5662, aired 2009-03-31 | TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $800: In an ESPN ad, Danica Patrick's race car is towed from a designated space as this ex-"SportsCenter" anchor looks on Dan Patrick |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | VIDEO GAMES $1000: This game's Japanese designer thought his proposed English title meant "stupid ape"; nope, but Nintendo used it Donkey Kong |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHIC ANSWERS $200: It was once called the Union of South Africa South Africa |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHIC ANSWERS $400: This seaport is the capital of Djibouti Djibouti |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHIC ANSWERS $600: This sea lies to the north of Belgium, the Netherlands & Germany the North Sea |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHIC ANSWERS $800: The Arabian Sea lies between India on the east & this peninsula on the west the Arabian peninsula |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHIC ANSWERS $1000: Kansas City is at the confluence of the Missouri River & this river the Kansas River |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | STUPID WORD ORIGIN ANSWERS $200: Cool it! The German "eis" gives us this word ice |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | STUPID WORD ORIGIN ANSWERS $400: The Middle French "jaquet" provided this covering a jacket |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | STUPID WORD ORIGIN ANSWERS $600: One story says this word of approval comes from the initials of Van Buren's nickname of "Old Kinderhook" OK |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | STUPID WORD ORIGIN ANSWERS $800: Feeling lucky? This 5-letter word comes from the Old English "seofon" seven |
| #5605, aired 2009-01-09 | STUPID WORD ORIGIN ANSWERS $1000: The white fruit of the plant Solanum melongema resembled an egg, & this name stuck for the purple fruit too eggplant |
| #5569, aired 2008-11-20 | TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS $800: (Harry Shearer reads the clue as Mr. Burns.) I had 1,000 monkeys at 1,000 type-writers; I could only pen, "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times", like this novel's start... stupid monkey! A Tale of Two Cities |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Geraldine Brooks' book about an illuminated Jewish volume is called "People of the" this Book |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This magazine has been a popular source of science & technology news since its inception in 1872 Popular Science |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: The government admin. was created in 1971 to ensure occupational health & safety standards OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The title of the national anthem of Laos, "Pheng Xat Lao", means this in English "National Anthem of Laos" |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Masi Oka plays a character with this first name on the TV show "Heroes" Hiro |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of this island New Guinea |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The Statue of Liberty towers 305 feet from foundation to torch above this island Liberty Island |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists includes Robbie Robertson of the band called this The Band |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: It's the young of a fish, whether you bake, broil or fry it fry |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: It's the last name of New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal champion Malcolm Champion |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This waltz is the state song of Missouri "The Missouri Waltz" |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: In 1985 Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premiered on Broadway at this theater the Neil Simon Theatre |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $1200: The logo of this brand depicts an arm holding a hammer Arm & Hammer |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $1600: Completes the title of the 1993 Roddy Doyle book "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha..." Ha |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $2000: The Prozorov sisters Olga, Masha & Irina are 3 of the characters in this play The Three Sisters |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Founded in 1929, this New York museum is dedicated to modern art The Museum of Modern Art |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Carvings of a bell & a star are featured on her gravestone in Porum, Oklahoma Belle Starr |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 1976 Marcel Marceau had the only spoken line in this otherwise silent movie Silent Movie |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Physician Robert Graves first identified this disease in 1835 Graves' Disease |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Since 1970 the General Synod has governed this church of England the Anglican Church (aka the Church of England) |
| #5385, aired 2008-01-25 | THE WHITE STRIPES $1000: This daughter of a crooner didn't do something stupid when she sang the theme to "You Only Live Twice" Nancy Sinatra |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Geneva is the capital of this Swiss canton Geneva |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy in the "Shrek" movies Donkey |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: 26 nations united to draw up a Jan. 1, 1942 declaration that led the way for the creation of this in 1945 United Nations |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Robert Urich played Las Vegas P.I. Dan Tanna on this series Vega$ |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Young lawyer Mitch McDeere realizes that the mafia controls his law firm in this novel The Firm |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | PORK & MINDY $1200: On vacation, Mindy saw a '95 film about this title porker, known in Taiwan as "I am not Stupid, I have Something to Say" Babe |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The Old Milwaukee brewing company is headquartered in this city Milwaukee |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This state is named after Thomas West, whose title was Baron De La Warr Delaware |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This Washington D.C. monument stands near the Potomac, about halfway between the Capitol & the Lincoln Memorial the Washington Monument |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This river forms the southern borders of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois the Ohio |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Founded in 1911, this Connecticut college is in the town of New London Connecticut College |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | STUPID SHOW BIZ ANSWERS $200: It's the role Danny Bonaduce played on "The Partridge Family" Danny |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | STUPID SHOW BIZ ANSWERS $400: Mike Myers flexed his powers to play Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell in this 1998 film 54 |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | STUPID SHOW BIZ ANSWERS $600: Andrea McArdle, who starred in a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" in 2006, first became famous playing this role Annie |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | STUPID SHOW BIZ ANSWERS $800: Greer Garson became the Mrs. of actor Richard Ney after he played her son Vin Miniver in this 1942 film Mrs. Miniver |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | STUPID SHOW BIZ ANSWERS $1000: It was the title of the last big-screen remake of "Beau Geste", released in 1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | HARD STUPID ANSWERS $400: Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & this pink-clad singer sang "Lady Marmalade" at the 2002 Grammys Pink |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | HARD STUPID ANSWERS $800: Joe Theismann changed the pronunciation of his name in college while trying to merit one of these a Heisman |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | HARD STUPID ANSWERS $1200: Mirage crowds love this new Cirque du Soleil show that features re-mastered Beatles tunes Love |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | HARD STUPID ANSWERS $1600: In this director's film, Pres. Bush can be seen saying into a mike, "This is an impressive crowd: the Haves, & the Have-Mores" Michael Moore |
| #5215, aired 2007-04-20 | HARD STUPID ANSWERS $2000: Most of the action in this 2005 movie takes place in Basin City Sin City |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The name of the Sahara Desert is from the Arabic for this desert |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The name of the Gobi Desert is Mongolian for this desert |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This novel begins, " Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition..." Emma |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The gorilla is a member of the ape superfamily & is this genus & species--2 words Gorilla gorilla |
| #5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew catches a medicine ball in the Herbert Hoover Library.) President Hoover made his staff play a combination of volleyball & tennis using a medicine ball; in 1931 a New York Times reporter dubbed the game Hooverball |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the state song of the beautiful State of Ohio "Beautiful Ohio" |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the state song of the beautiful state of Nebraska "Beautiful Nebraska" |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Macy's Warehouse.) In 2006, this cable channel's float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade depicted the history of New York The History Channel |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This capital city of Luxembourg lies on a plateau into which the Alzette & Petrusse rivers flow Luxembourg |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This Stephen Sondheim musical that graced Broadway in 1994 was based on the Italian film "Passione d'amore" Passion |
| #5197, aired 2007-03-27 | FRANK SINATRA $800: Frank's last No. 1 hit was 1967's "Somethin' Stupid", a duet with her Nancy Sinatra |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the one-word title of the state song of Alabama "Alabama" |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The first line of this Ralph Ellison novel is "I am an invisible man" Invisible Man |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: The name of this brand is an amalgam of "dance" and "skin" Danskin |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This track from "Abbey Road" says "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" "The End" |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Frank Lloyd Wright had 6 kids, including his eldest son, who practiced as an architect under this name Lloyd Wright |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The Great Hall in Russia's Catherine Palace is adorned with a painting called "The Allegory of" this country Russia |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Iowa State Fair.) Will Rogers, Jeanne Crain & Pat Boone starred in different versions of this film about a family's adventures at the Iowa State Fair State Fair |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Actor Byron Barr changed his name to this after playing a man named Gig Young in the 1942 film "The Gay Sisters" Gig Young |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Every Friday, the Carillon in Duke University's chapel rings out the song "Dear Old" this Duke |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The number of legs on one of the monopods in the "Narnia" books 1 |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SMART STUPID ANSWERS $200: He formed United Artists with Griffith, Pickford & Fairbanks & in 1915 lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest Charles Chaplin |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SMART STUPID ANSWERS $400: He played himself in 1942's "Pride of the Yankees" & also in "Over the Fence", "Perfect Control" & "Slide, Babe, Slide" Babe Ruth |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SMART STUPID ANSWERS $600: I love the French name of this lingerie line being produced by actress Jaime Pressly J'Aime |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SMART STUPID ANSWERS $800: In 1778 he wrote, "Sense of pain is the first symptom of recovery in profound stupefactions" Thomas Paine |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | SMART STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In 2004 this company unleashed its legal aces on 17-year-old Mike Rowe in a phonetic dispute over a domain name Microsoft |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $400: This museum was founded by Amy, Eleanor & Sarah Hewitt, granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper Cooper-Hewitt |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) I've just made my entrance on the set of this Broadway musical that opens with the song, "No One Mourns The Wicked" Wicked |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $1200: JFK often stayed at this hotel at 76th & Madison, & Bobby Short entertained there for decades in its Cafe Carlyle The Hotel Carlyle |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $1600: (Jimmy, Cheryl, & Sarah of the Clue Crew walk into a New York restaurant.) We're getting ready to have a fabulous meal here at this world-famous New York restaurant at 21 West 52nd St. 21 |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $2000: When this acting couple lived on West 22nd St. in Chelsea, they nicknamed their home the Torn Page Rip Torn & Geraldine Page |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: A round tower opened in Copenhagen in 1642 as an observatory has this name in English the Round Tower |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Sparkling wine sold under the name Champagne must come from this region in Northeast France Champagne |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This is a day to honor all saints All Saints' Day |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: It takes an hour for each man in this theatrical group to apply blue greasepaint to his head before shows the Blue Man Group |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This town on the York River was the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War Yorktown |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | QUOTHE THE FILM $400: This 1978 comedy's Dean Wormer:
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son" Animal House |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This novel ends, "Before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans!" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a waterfront.) This New England city got its name in the 1650s because its citizens said, "We're at the river's mouth, and our port is as good as any" Portsmouth |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 1501 Venetian printers began using the moveable type of this to print music moveable type |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from on horseback.) The most famous stud farm for this breed of horse is in the region of Najd, Saudi Arabia an Arabian |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Hyphenated last name of sculptor Raymond, the brother of artists Marcel Duchamp & Jacques Villon Duchamp-Villon |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the 1-word name of the Ben & Jerry's flavor described as "vanilla ice cream with vanilla bean specks" Vanilla |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Duke University Primate Center.) Technicians of the Duke University Primate Center say the animals go bananas over grapes & this fruit of the genus Musa bananas |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: After Dec. 11, 2005 this show was movin' out of Broadway's Richard Rogers Theatre Movin' Out |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Henry Adams won a Pulitzer for "The Education of Henry Adams"; this man won for "The Americanization of Edward Bok" Edward Bok |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The American poet Hilda Doolittle used this 2-letter pen name H.D. |
| #4936, aired 2006-02-13 | MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $400: Hong Kong titled the second movie about this creature "I May Be A Pig, But I Am Not Stupid" Babe |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: You can read a variety of articles all about all aspects of show business in this trade paper established in 1905 Variety |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands underneath a fountain in St. Petersburg, Russia.) Be careful of the umbrella fountain here in Peterov--if you step under it, this will happen you'll get wet (it will rain accepted) |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This Conrad work ends, "The... waterway... seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness" Heart of Darkness |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of an old log cabin in the Wyoming mountains.) Towering over Jackson Hole, Wyoming at a lofty 13,766 feet is this mountain, the largest in the Grand Teton range Grand Teton |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The scientific name of this striped carnivore is Hyaena hyaena striped hyena |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | UNTIL WE MEAT AGAIN $200: From the Old French for "upper loin", it's an expensive cut of beef from the upper loin sirloin |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: L.A.'s Pink's hot dog stand has many fans, incl. this often pink-haired singer, who, by the way, isn't the owner Pink |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks the stage of the Majestic Theatre in New York.) In the musical "The Phantom of the Opera", the Phantom writes one of these, called "Don Juan Triumphant" an opera |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This Hugo Boss perfume scented with freesia & vanilla comes in a distinctive deep red bottle Deep Red |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This gemstone is basically an onyx with alternating bands of sard & other minerals sardonyx |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The town that became Orlando, Florida was founded in 1850 by Aaron Jernigan & was given this 1-word name Jernigan |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Completes the title of a guide Heidi Murkoff co-wrote for expectant mothers "What To Expect When You're..." expecting |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Endocrinology deals with the function & secretion of these glands the endocrine glands |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: A cation is a positively charged one of these; an anion is a negatively charged one an ion |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This American cyclist criticized Lance Armstrong in the July 15, 2004 issue of the French newspaper Le Monde (Greg) LeMond |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, wrote the nonfiction classic "The Education of" him Henry Adams |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | ACCORDING TO JIM $800: "Bartlett's" credits him with "It's the economy, stupid" James Carville |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 2001 this fruit became the official blue berry of North Carolina the blueberry |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Oddly, this piece of furniture was never built for the throne room at Neuschwanstein Castle the throne |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This Las Vegas hotel ceased to be a landmark when it was demolished on November 7, 1995 the Landmark (Hotel) |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: One side of Willemstad, Curacao is called Punda & the other side is Otrabanda, which means this other side |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: There are a number of Chanel fragrances, including this one that immortalizes her birthday, August 19 Chanel No. 19 |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 2002 Melissa Gilbert was reelected president of this guild formed by actors of the silver screen the Screen Actors Guild |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The flag of the Organization of American States has 35 different ones of these on it flags |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: The great-grandson of a slave, he was the first black mayor of Washington, D.C. Walter Washington |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The very farthest west you can drive in the Florida Keys is to this island Key West |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: (Cheryl and Sofia of the Clue Crew shoot some skeet.) "Pull!" You should know the name of the person who releases the target in trap shooting the puller |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This large Swiss city is on the western end of Lake Geneva Geneva |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Surely you know this was the first name of author Evelyn Waugh's first wife Evelyn |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 2004 publisher David Carey announced that more Californians than New Yorkers subscribed to this magazine The New Yorker |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: (Hi, I'm Ari Fleischer.) Now named for James Brady, this room in the White House is where the briefing of the press takes place the briefing room |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: In 2004 Whistling Straits in Wisconsin hosted this PGA championship the PGA Championship |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: "Sidney Sheldon's Windmills of the Gods" was a 1988 TV movie based on his book Sidney Sheldon |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Traditionally, use 2 oz. gin, 5 oz. tonic water & 1 lime wedge to make this drink a gin and tonic |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Ozzy Osbourne was a no-show at this festival's Auburn, Washington stop July 12, 2003 Ozzfest |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: It seems like all things under the sun are considered on this radio program with Robert Siegel All Things Considered |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Beer lovers rejoiced when he invented Pasteurization in 1864 Louis Pasteur |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | 3-LETTER PALINDROMES $2000: He's the gross & stupid king or "Roi" in an 1896 avant-garde work by Alfred Jarry Ubu |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | GOING DEEP $1200: "I'd rather be rich than stupid" is one of these musings by Jack Handey of "SNL" Deep Thoughts |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $200: Of $3.75, $5.15 or $7.25, the current federal minimum hourly wage $5.15 |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $400: The value of all goods & services produced within a country during a year makes up this, the GDP the gross domestic product |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $600: Created in 1914, this agency issues cease & desist orders against firms engaging in unlawful practices the Federal Trade Commission |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $800: Its past chairmen have included Thomas McCabe, Arthur Burns & Paul Volcker the Federal Reserve |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $1000: The full title of Adam Smith's monumental 1776 work is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this the Wealth of Nations |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Arthur Wynne created this; the first puzzle appeared Dec. 21, 1913 with the name "Word-Cross" the crossword puzzle |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The word origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, comes from words meaning this paper folding |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Althing, the name of Iceland's parliament, means this parliament |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Paris Hilton & Tiger Woods were 2 of the people on the cover of this magazine's Dec. 15, 2003 issue People |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: The first line of this novel by Virginia Woolf is "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself" Mrs. Dalloway |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $2000: Nicole Kidman teamed up with British pop star Robbie Williams on a 2001 version of this Frank & Nancy Sinatra duet "Something Stupid" |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: A doctor scrubs in for surgery wearing these scrubs |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The name of this fruit comes from the fact that it grows in grapelike clusters grapefruit |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: (Alex narrates the video clue.) Frisbee playing started on New Haven Green when students tossed around pie plates from this bakery the Frisbie Bakery |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Glen Bell founded this taco chain in 1962 Taco Bell |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This city in Iowa is at the confluence of the Big Sioux & Missouri Rivers Sioux City |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This current U.S. coin, a cupro-nickel composition, is 25% nickel a nickel |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The "C" in NASCAR stands for this car |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In October 2003, police in Monroe Township, Penn. looked for a cat burglar who stole these from a local shelter cats |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: According to the New Book of Knowledge, the panhandle of Texas is located next to this part of Oklahoma the panhandle |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Each year this magazine sponsors a geographic-based bee for kids National Geographic |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: On June 4, 2002 the New York Times ran the obituary for Albin Krebs, 73, who wrote these from 1969 to 1989 obituaries |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: (I'm Jeff Probst in Panama) The Pearl Islands are in this gulf, off the coast of Panama the Gulf of Panama |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 2003 top model Tyra Banks conducted a search for "America's Next" one of these Top Model |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: David James Elliott of "JAG" might know it's the monogram of our 20th president JAG (James A. Garfield) |
| #4459, aired 2004-01-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: 1939 film in which Bette Davis said, "That's our victory -- our victory over the dark" Dark Victory |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Lopp Motors in this city in Kansas has been selling Chryslers & Dodges there since 1973 Dodge City |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In 1983 some considered this Salt Lake City native the best young quarterback in the country Steve Young |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Invented in the late '50s, it's a functional circuit formed when diodes, transistors, etc. are integrated integrated circuit |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: In New York City Eighth Avenue becomes this street as it runs along the west edge of Central Park Central Park West |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in Stratford-upon-Avon, England) Although only its foundations remain today, in 1597 Shakespeare bought a new place in Stratford called this New Place |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | '80s SONGS $600: A 1984 song by this group is heard here
"War, war is stupid and people are stupid /
And love means nothing in some strange quarters..." Culture Club |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | LATE NIGHT TV $200: If you want to get on his "Late Show", have Rover start practicing a stupid pet trick David Letterman |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM! $200: Meaning "to quiet down", it derives from the practice of stuffing a stocking into a gramophone to control volume put a sock in it |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The scientific name of this Andean animal is Lama glama llama |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the third-largest city in Kansas Kansas City |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This rockabilly trio had a 1983 hit with "Stray Cat Strut" the Stray Cats |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Composer Benjamin Britten was born November 22, 1913 at Lowestoft on this island Great Britain |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from up in the Goodyear Blimp.) It's a majestic sight as the water breaks over this barrier located below us the breakwater |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the first verb in the Pledge of Allegiance pledge |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The name of the Gobi, a vast desert of central Asia, means this in Mongolian desert |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Charlie & Donald Kaufman got an Oscar nomination for their adaptation of "The Orchid Thief" into this film Adaptation. |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: I'm Charley Pride, It's the title of my 10th album "Charley Pride's 10th Album" |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: It's the state song of the state of Maine "The State of Maine Song" |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | THE CANINE FILM FESTIVAL $400: This 2000 film with Eugene Levy & Christopher Guest spoofed the stupid human tricks at a major dog show Best in Show |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: The Villa Park Orchards Association is the last remaining packer of these in Orange, California oranges |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: The website of Alcoholics Anonymous asks the media's help in keeping its members this anonymous |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: Common name for the final chorus, heard here, in Handel's "Messiah" the "Amen Chorus" |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from a ski slope in Colorado.) Even if it's autumn, I don't think the green ever leaves the Lodgepole pine, this type of tree evergreen |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Indians who made arrows of branches broken from trees gave this Oklahoma city its name Broken Arrow |
| #4258, aired 2003-02-19 | THE CINEMA $400: In this 1994 film Sally Field tells Tom Hanks, "Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Florence Nightingale was born in this Italian city in 1820 Florence |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Shortly after birth, the placenta, also called this, is expelled from the uterus afterbirth |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: "What can you say about a 25-year-old girl?" is the first line of this love story by Erich Segal Love Story |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Kodiak Island is the habitat of this type of bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi Kodiak bear |
| #4239, aired 2003-01-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Extra atoms of this element are pumped into unsaturated oil to make hydrogenated fat hydrogen |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | "D" TIME $600: This current slang term for something excellent can also mean illegal substances or a stupid person dope |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This character is the narrator of the classic Charlotte Bronte novel "Jane Eyre" Jane Eyre |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Her 2000 debut album was titled "Who is Jill Scott?" Jill Scott |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst.) Parts of this 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio movie were filmed nearby on the beach of Thailand's Phi Phi Island The Beach |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The flag of this union of European countries has a circle of 12 gold stars on a field of blue European Union |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This stone is so named because it was first made in the city of Strasbourg, on the Rhine River rhinestone |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $200: "Fight" this "with fire" fire |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $400: You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place" everything |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $600: "Nothing" does this "like success" succeeds |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $800: We're due for this proverb: "Give credit where credit is" this due |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | STUPID PROVERBS $1000: "There are none so" this "as those who will not see" blind |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | AMERICAN WRITING $1200: "Stupid White Man" is a 2002 rant from this "TV Nation" host Michael Moore |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: At the 2004 Olympics, this event's course will run from Marathon to Athens Marathon |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: First name of Leif Eriksson's father Erik |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: If you split 12 eggs into 2 equal groups, you'll have a total of this many eggs 12 |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The Dornford Yates mystery "She Fell Among Thieves" was the first presentation of this PBS series Mystery! |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Frankfurt is the main city on this German river Main |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $200: This feel-good film starred Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a major league rookie at age 35 The Rookie |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $400: Kevin Costner was the bodyguard assigned to Whitney Houston in this 1992 romance The Bodyguard |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $600: Mel Gibson tries to find out what women want in this romantic comedy What Women Want |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $800: Robert De Niro played Stanley & Jane Fonda was Iris in this 1990 film Stanley & Iris |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $1000: Edward Burns wrote, directed & starred in this 1995 film about 3 brothers: Jack, Barry & Patrick McMullen The Brothers McMullen |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ROCKIN' STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the band that had a hit with "Up on Cripple Creek" The Band |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ROCKIN' STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the nickname of the Beatles album that has a stark white cover "The White Album" |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ROCKIN' STUPID ANSWERS $600: In a 1978 song, this group asked, "Who Are You?" The Who |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ROCKIN' STUPID ANSWERS $800: A song by this group says, "Everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight" Wang Chung |
| #4142, aired 2002-09-10 | ROCKIN' STUPID ANSWERS $1000: This double album by Kiss was certified platinum Double Platinum |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This common loon is Minnesota's state bird common loon |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In Abbott & Costello's classic baseball bit, it's who's on first Who |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: This old-fashioned cocktail is made with bourbon, bitters & sugar old-fashioned |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: This scary movie spoof from 2000 was written by Shawn & Marlon Wayans & directed by brother Keenen Scary Movie |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Francis Pastorius, a German lawyer, founded this town that's now a part of Philadelphia Germantown |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | MALTIN ON THE MOVIES $400: Steve Martin's first starring feature, Maltin describes it as "The misadventures of a terminally stupid man" The Jerk |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $200: Oops! The McCallister family leaves 8-year-old Kevin home alone when they go to Paris at Christmas in this 1990 comedy Home Alone |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $400: Dustin Hoffman is the graduate who's seduced by a middle aged woman in this 1967 classic The Graduate |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $600: John Cusack & Kate Beckinsale meet serendiptously & dine at NYC's Serendipity Cafe in this 2001 romance Serendipity |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $800: Tom Berenger & Willem Dafoe lead Charlie Sheen's platoon in this Vietnam drama Platoon |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $1000: Dudley Moore thought Bo Derek was a perfect "10" in this 1979 romp 10 |
| #4002, aired 2002-01-15 | BANK ON IT $800: Stupid answer: ONE Bank One |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from an amusement park next to a Ferris wheel.) Last name of the engineer who built the first Ferris wheel George Ferris |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the capital city of Panama Panama City |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: In 1936 Henry & Edsel Ford established this foundation the Ford Foundation |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Completes the joke "He's so fat, when he sits around the house..." he sits around the house |
| #3976, aired 2001-12-10 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from inside a fancy hotel lobby.) It's the name of the 1968 Neil Simon play that takes place in a suite here at the Plaza Plaza Suite |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | ENTERTAINMENT NEWS $1000: I pity the lymphoma that was stupid enough to take on this "A-Team" star; he beat it, he beat it good Mr. T |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: He played the title role in the movie "Being John Malkovich" John Malkovich |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the band whose farewell concert was chronicled in the documentary "The Last Waltz" The Band |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Physician Robert Graves first identified this disease in 1835 Graves' Disease |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Carvings of a bell and a star are found on her gravestone in Porum, Oklahoma Belle Starr |
| #3901, aired 2001-07-16 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: He's the illustrator whose work appears on the flag stamp seen here (James Montgomery) Flagg |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | IN OTHER WORDS $200: It's impossible to instruct elderly canines in modern skills you can't teach an old dog a new trick |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | THE JOY OF SAX $100: David Sandborn doesn't do "Stupid Sax Tricks" when he sits in with Paul & the band on this man's show David Letterman |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | Y TO K $400: A stupid one of these Tibetan creatures would be an "oxymoron" Yak |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | WHAT'S "NU" $400: Meaning "stupid", it's how Moe referred to Larry or Curly numbskull |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | "...OD" WORDS $200: A lump of dirt, or a dull, stupid person Clod |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: This nickname of Delaware refers to the fact that it was the first state to ratify the Constitution "The First State" |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: On 7/11/2000 this company announced the opening of its 20,000th store, a new one in Tokyo 7-Eleven |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: In 1976 Marcel Marceau had the only spoken line in this otherwise silent movie Silent Movie |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Author Ralph Ellison was born in this Oklahoma city in 1914 Oklahoma City |
| #3805, aired 2001-03-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: This 1984 Mario Puzo novel was based on the life of the Sicilian bandit-hero Salvatore Giuliano "The Sicilian" |
| #3734, aired 2000-11-23 | ACRONYMS $200: Acronymically, "KISS" means "Keep it" this way, "stupid" simple |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Number of letters on your standard 8-sided stop sign 4 |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In May 2000 Time Inc. ended this magazine's life as a monthly Life |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Meaning "The last but two", it's the antepenultimate word here Antepenultimate |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: A judge at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, this actor thanked the organization for naming the festival after him James Caan |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Pert, famous for its 2-in-1 shampoo & conditioner, introduced these 2 new products in early 2000 Shampoo & conditioner |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Founded in 1929, this New York museum is dedicated to modern art the Museum of Modern Art |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: It's the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution that mentions religion the First Amendment |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Since 1970, the general synod has governed this church of England the Church of England (the Anglican Church) |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: On June 5, 2000 Air Canada began nonstop service from this California city to Ontario, Canada Ontario, California |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: In the U.S. this society sponsors the National Geography Bee the National Geographic Society |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: It's the collective 2-word name for the extinct bears who lived in caves 1,000,000 years ago cave bears |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: This Englishman born August 19, 1939 was the drummer in "Ginger Baker's Air Force" Ginger Baker |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: It's the name given the nearly 1-week-long military conflict between Israel & several Arab neighbors in 1967 Six-Day War |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: 3-letter word that begins the titles of all 3 Best Picture winners of 1930, 1949 & 1950 All |
| #3653, aired 2000-06-21 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: This great Hindu hero's story is told in the "Ramayana" Rama |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: In 1567 Pope Pius V issued a papal bull against the fighting of these Bulls |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | COASTAL COMMUNITIES $100: Incorporated in 1901, there's no place like this Alaskan city on Norton Sound Nome |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Family of trees on which you'd find pine cones Pine trees |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Bangui is the capital of this central African republic Central African Republic |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In the binary number system, this number would be 01 1 |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: In 1851 this yacht won the trophy that was to become the America's Cup the America |
| #3562, aired 2000-02-15 | COMPUTER CLASSES $400: A stupid or inept internet user can be called this 3-digit number that means "File Not Found" 404 |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Founded in 1907, it's the oldest university in the state of Hawaii University of Hawaii |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 1917 Scottish immigrant Bertie Charles Forbes began publishing a journal & gave it this name Forbes magazine |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Voltaire described this European political entity as not holy, nor Roman, nor an empire Holy Roman Empire |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Collective name given the Confederate raiders led by John Hunt Morgan against Union troops in 1862-63 Morgan's Raiders |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: (Hi, I'm Jason Williams of the New Jersey Nets) In 1999 this flashy Sacramento Kings guard was second in voting for NBA Rookie of the Year Jason Williams |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | TV STUPID ANSWERS $100: From 1959 to 1963 John Smith & Robert Fuller starred in this western set in Laramie, Wyoming Laramie |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | TV STUPID ANSWERS $200: After only 6 months on the air "Match Game '73" changed its name to this Match Game '74 |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | TV STUPID ANSWERS $300: In a 1999 episode of "It's Like, You Know", Jennifer Grey's father Joel guest-starred in this role Her father |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | TV STUPID ANSWERS $400: Debuting in 1992, Bob Newhart's third sitcom had this one-word title Bob |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | TV STUPID ANSWERS $500: "Entertainment Tonight" debuted in 1981, making this the first new Steven Spielberg-directed film it could cover E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! $200: A classic line from this 1994 movie is "Mama says stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | ANIMAL WORDS $800: It describes a scheme so reckless & stupid, only a rabbit wouldn't know better Harebrained |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Group that had the 1983 hit "In A Big Country" Big Country |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Italian leader Benito Mussolini called himself "Il Duce" which means this "The Leader" |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Writer Ruth McKenney's sister Eileen was the inspiration for this play My Sister Eileen |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Chimachogori, the garb of some Korean women, includes a skirt, the chima, & a jacket called this Chogori |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Street crime was up in Liverpool, England in May 1998 as criminals stole one of these worth $16,000 Street |
| #3287, aired 1998-12-15 | HAS "MY" $200: A Democratic campaign catchphrase in 1992 was "It's" this, "stupid" The economy |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Baker's calls itself "America's premier" chocolate for this baking |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Matt Damon played this character in the film "Good Will Hunting" Will Hunting |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: While ABC aired this event on March 23, 1998, FOX countered with a fight night hosted by Oscar De La Hoya the Oscars |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It's the real name of the boulevard in Las Vegas known as "The Strip" Las Vegas Boulevard |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460 to a noble family from this Spanish province León |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | "C" OF LOVE $100: The title of a 1958 Connie Francis song calls this love god "stupid" Cupid |
| #3165, aired 1998-05-08 | COLLEGE SLANG $100: Oil-checking device that's used as slang for a stupid person dipstick |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Seventeen magazine says if you can't afford to buy a Stairmaster & your house has these, use them Stairs |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Name of the hotel & office complex where the Watergate break-in occurred Watergate |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Jesse Jackson Jr. has a masters degree in this from the Chicago Theological Seminary Theology |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: 2 Civil War forts were built on this western island of the Florida Keys Key West |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: It's the cry of the chachalaca bird of South America Chachalaca |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | "LO" MEN $600: In "The Maltese Falcon", he calls Sydney Greenstreet "You bloated idiot! You stupid fathead!" Peter Lorre |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | GIRL TALK $400: This Round Table wit required "Only 3 things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid" Dorothy Parker |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Top Model magazine says this stroke in swimming is ideal exercise for the breasts the breaststroke |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 1989 the town of Fort Madison, Iowa celebrated the completion of a wood replica of this historic structure Fort Madison |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Look at the monitor & identify this ship seen here the Monitor |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar features the "Merry Widow Waltz" The Merry Widow |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: In June 1997 this Chicago department store marshalled its forces for a "Field Days Sale" Marshall Field |
| #3066, aired 1997-12-22 | SONGS OF THE '60s $500: "Somethin' Stupid" was a 1967 duet sung by this father & daughter Frank & Nancy Sinatra |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | MORE STUPID ANSWERS $100: The American Heritage Dictionary defines this word as "one who digs graves" Gravedigger |
| #3045, aired 1997-11-21 | MORE STUPID ANSWERS $200: Queensland & New South Wales cover eastern Australia & this state covers western Australia Western Australia |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | ODD WORDS $400: Though a lummox is a stupid person, this word with one more letter would confuse anyone flummox |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: In 1968-69 Liechtenstein issued a series of stamps honoring prominent collectors of these Stamps |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Network on which you'd see David Duchovny play Fox Mulder & Matthew Fox play Charlie Salinger FOX |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | SAY "WH"? $300: It makes the sound heard here: Whippoorwill |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: The first 2 words of the French version of the Canadian national anthem "O, Canada" |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: After Mexico, it's the most populous country whose official language is Spanish Spain |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: In 1981 this 9-letter word was added to the state flag of Wisconsin Wisconsin |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | RHYME TIME $500: An all-important bet a major wager |
| #2556, aired 1995-10-16 | ANAGRAMS $500: It's what the teacher accused her pupil of being cheater (from teacher) |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | BIRDS $400: These "stupid" birds were discovered by the Portuguese around 1507 & were extinct by around 1800 the dodo bird |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | ZOOLOGY $800: This extinct bird's name came from a Portuguese word for "stupid" dodo |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | ELVES & SPRITES $400: Now meaning a stupid or awkward lout, it originally was an elf's child an oaf |
| #2009, aired 1993-05-06 | CELEBRITY ASTROLOGY $200: This Aries might give you a list of the "Top 10" reasons why he loves stupid pet tricks David Letterman |
| #1748, aired 1992-03-18 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: Around 1800 the last of these "stupid" birds died on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean dodos |
| #1725, aired 1992-02-14 | PUPPETS $100: "Stupid" name of the puppets often seen on ventriloquists' knees the dummies |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | ANCIENT GREEK SCIENCE $800: Around 280 B.C. Aristarchus figured this out about our solar system but people thought the idea stupid the planets revolve around the sun |
| #1581, aired 1991-06-17 | ANAGRAMS $400: It would be stupid to bury one of these corundums a ruby (from bury) |
| #1559, aired 1991-05-16 | CHEMISTRY $300: It's the mass per unit volume of a given substance, not how stupid it is density |
| #1471, aired 1991-01-14 | WORD ORIGINS $600: Mutt, meaning a mongrel dog or a stupid person, is a shortened form of this word muttonhead |
| #1278, aired 1990-03-07 | VOCABULARY $400: Fiddleheads aren't stupid violinists; they're the young fronds of these, & some people eat them ferns |
| #1139, aired 1989-07-13 | IN THE DICTIONARY $100: A Portuguese word for "silly" or "stupid" inspired the name of this extinct flightless bird the dodo |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | COMEDIANS $100: If you want to be on his show, ask Fido to bone up on a stupid pet trick David Letterman |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | STUPID "HEAD"s $100: Mike Stivic, according to Archie Bunker Meathead |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | STUPID "HEAD"s $200: In the comics, the last name of this Riverdale teen is Jones Jughead |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | STUPID "HEAD"s $300: A New England or Manhattan oaf who's gone from soup to nuts chowderhead |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | STUPID "HEAD"s $400: Paul Winchell had a hand in this Smiff Knucklehead |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | STUPID "HEAD"s $500: It's from the Dutch for "numbskull" dunderhead |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | PEOPLE $200: Also known for Stupid Human Tricks, he got Ted Koppel to balance a dog biscuit on his nose David Letterman |
| #879, aired 1988-06-02 | TV GUIDE SAYS $300: "Scheduled: Stupid Pet Tricks" Late Night with David Letterman |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | SONGS $300: In spite of the title, teaming up for this 1967 song was a smart move for Frank & Nancy "Something Stupid" |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS $600: This lunar term, title of a James Bond movie, actually means a silly or stupid person Moonraker |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $100: This city on the Kankakee River is the seat of Kankakee County, Illinois Kankakee |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $200: The town where the Battle of Hastings was fought was given this commemorative name Battle |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $300: The main campus of the University of Mississippi is in this Mississippi town University, Mississippi |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $400: When Urundi was granted its independence, it was renamed this Burundi |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $500: Site of London's zoo, it was laid out as a park when George IV was prince regent Regent Park |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $100: The capital of Kuwait Kuwait City |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $200: The southernmost country in Africa South Africa |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $300: When Quebec was called "Lower Canada", Ontario was called this Upper Canada |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $400: This nation used to be called Sukothai, meaning "dawn of happiness" Thailand |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | STUPID GEOGRAPHY $500: Sea named for the 1st European to reach Tasmania Tasman Sea |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: She played Shirley MacLaine in "Out on a Limb" Shirley MacLaine |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: According to World Book, it was the cattle brand used by Conrad Kohrs CK |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: The 2 pieces of equipment you'll need to play stickball on the streets of New York a stick & a ball |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: In "Charlotte's Web", it's what Charlotte is a spider |
| #668, aired 1987-07-01 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: To promote a new line of these at L.A. Auto Show, Mitsubishi used Vanity, Vanna White, & Dale Evans vans |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Of the 6 Day War, the 30 Years' War, & the 100 Years' War, one which lasted the longest the 100 Years' War |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Air France is not the national airline of this country Great Britain |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $400 (Daily Double): Exact title of the following, it's not the same as the Gershwin tune: "It's summertime summertime sum sum summertime / Summertime summertime sum sum summertime..." "Summertime, Summertime" |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Color of the lettering in the credits of the 1985 Spielberg film starring Whoopi Goldberg The Color Purple |
| #651, aired 1987-06-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Recently, 1,000,000 Cheerios boxes each contained this premium which cost General Mills $1 each a dollar bill |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Since 1578, this city has been the home to the Shroud of Turin Turin |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In "The Dictionary of the Old West" it's defined as raw hide rawhide |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: In 1986, this Procter & Gamble cleansing powder offered a free Halley's Comet guide Comet cleanser |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Town in S.D. that put up 9' statue of Fr. Pierre Jean de Smet, who died in 1873 & never visited the town De Smet |
| #607, aired 1987-04-07 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: It initially got its name from being the second Karakoram peak to be measured K2 |
| #569, aired 1987-02-12 | BRITISH SUCCESSION $300: Henry IV was the last 14th c. king of England; this man was 1st to become king in the 15th c. Henry V |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Famous father of Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Elder |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Morning star Joan Lunden appropriately called her 1986 book "Good Morning, I'm" this Joan Lunden |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Animals that are often classified by shape of their feet & beaks birds |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: When the Metropolitan rejected her art collection, Gertrude Whitney founded this museum the Whitney Museum |
| #558, aired 1987-01-28 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: New Zealand's anthems are "God Save The Queen" & "God Defend" this New Zealand |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | TV COPS $300: He once described his series "Bronk" as "Stupid" - believe it or not Jack Palance |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Bermuda Rolfe, daughter of John Rolfe of Va., was the 1st English girl born on this island Bermuda |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Unlike during the 2nd, U.S. auto production didn't stop during this world war the First World War |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Peanuts are not related to nuts, but to these peas |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Often seen in movies being chased by a train, it's a small open railroad car operated by hand a hand car |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Begun in 1829, it was the 1st encyclopedia published in America the Encyclopedia Americana |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Wyoming's only university the University of Wyoming |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Voltaire said it was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire" the Holy Roman Empire |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Much larger town located just south of Porcupine, Ontario, Canada South Porcupine |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Reason men do not tend to marry their widows' sisters they're dead |
| #531, aired 1986-12-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: In 1956, TV's "The Ford Show" was sponsored by Ford Motor Co. & starred this country singer Tennessee Ernie Ford |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Robin Williams introduced him at '86 Oscars as chairman of "the accounting firm of F., Murray & Abraham" F. Murray Abraham |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: State which lies across the Mississippi River from Arkansas & Louisiana Mississippi |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: By far, this state is the birthplace of the most Kentucky Derby winners Kentucky |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: It was The Rivingtons' follow-up to their '62 hit "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" "Mama-Oom-Mow-Mow" |
| #513, aired 1986-11-26 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: A Denny's ad offering shrimp special thru June 30th added a sticker "holding it over" to this date June 30th |
| #488, aired 1986-10-22 | DAVID LETTERMAN $300: A spin-off of this semi-regular segment was "Stupid Human Tricks" Stupid Pet Tricks |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $100 (Daily Double): Title of the following:
"Manah manah / Do do do do do / Manah manah / Do do do do / Manah manah / Do do do do do de do do do do do do do do do..." "Manah Manah" |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: As Canada is divided into provinces, the U.S. is divided into these states |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In Disney's "Mickey's Christmas Carol", this comic book character played Scrooge Scrooge McDuck |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: While the men's basketball team of Northland College is the Lumberjacks, the women's is called this the Lumberjills |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Guinness Book of World Records lists it as the top-selling copyrighted book in publishing history Guinness Book of World Records |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Extremely small tropical fish discovered in 1866 by the Rev. R.J. Lechmere Guppy a guppy |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: On Sverdlov Square in Moscow, it's the home theater of the Bolshoi Ballet the Bolshoi Theatre |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Largest city & capital of Luxembourg Luxembourg City |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | "S.S." $400: For Frank & Nancy Sinatra in 1967, saying "I love you" was this something stupid |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Word in the title of "Flashdance... What A Feeling" not used in the song lyrics Flashdance |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: After careful research, the magazine "Monthly Detroit" has changed its name to this Detroit Monthly |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: It was invented in 1911 by Hans Geiger the Geiger counter |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: Number of different basic shapes in a box of Post Alpha-Bits 26 |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: In 1842, Richard Owen coined this word for “dinosaur” dinosaur |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Whole number equidistant from 5 & 7 6 |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: While Bugs was “introduced” in “Porky’s Hare Hunt”, Daffy was introduced in this cartoon "Porky’s Duck Hunt" |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | GOLDEN OLDIES $100: Mythological figure Connie Francis called "Stupid" Cupid |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: Middle East country whose capital is Kuwait Kuwait |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: NBC's "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" was 1st broadcast this way in 1961 in color |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: The radio show "Hear It Now" became this when adapted for television See It Now |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: Of a pound of bricks, a pound of feathers, or a pound of iron, the 1 which weighs the most none of them (they all weigh exactly the same) |
| #361, aired 1986-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Until beaten by United 25 years ago, this airline was #1 in America American Airlines |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | ACRONYMS $800: Meaning of graphic designers' axiom "KISS" keep it simple, stupid |
| #325, aired 1985-12-06 | STUPID ANSWERS $100: President the Hoover Dam is named after President Hoover |
| #325, aired 1985-12-06 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: "Act" anagrams to this animal which used to be a kitten cat |
| #325, aired 1985-12-06 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: Along with an arrow, it's the symbol on the traffic sign that indicates a stop sign ahead octagon (outline of a stop sign) |
| #325, aired 1985-12-06 | STUPID ANSWERS $400: This group's 1st big U.S. hit was "In A Big Country" Big Country |
| #325, aired 1985-12-06 | STUPID ANSWERS $500: Word emblazoned in large letters in the center of the seal of Huntsville, Alabama Seal |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | DROPPIN' THE G $200: 1967 hit sung by Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid" |
| #278, aired 1985-10-02 | TRIVIA $300: The only 1 of the 7 dwarfs without a beard, though he was probably too stupid to notice Dopey |
