| Angling necessity that's a high-flying track & field event |
fishing pole vault |
200 |
December 17, 2021 |
| Protective glove used to handle hot items on the stove that was the 2012 Republican nominee for president |
oven Mitt Romney |
400 |
December 17, 2021 |
| A frankfurter within Canis Major |
hot Dog Star |
600 |
December 17, 2021 |
| Experimental James Joyce novel requested from the hotel front desk to rouse you from sleep in the morning |
<i>Finnegans Wake</i>-up call |
800 |
December 17, 2021 |
| Billionaire superhero & inventor of a miniature Arc Reactor/jellyfish relative of the gulf stream |
Iron Man of war |
1000 |
December 17, 2021 |
| Russian empress who covers 95,000 square miles of water as a North American quintet |
Catherine the Great Lakes |
200 |
November 3, 2020 |
| Central Florida NBA team used by Prince Husain in "One Thousand & One Nights" |
the Orlando Magic carpet |
400 |
November 3, 2020 |
| Symbol on the Israeli flag that sang "Let's Dance" |
Star of David Bowie |
600 |
November 3, 2020 |
| Spielberg movie about an effort to save a World War II soldier who's also a 12-medal-winning U.S. Olympic swimmer |
<i>Saving Private Ryan</i> Lochte |
800 |
November 3, 2020 |
| An NPR station's push for donations has this window for motorists at Burger King |
pledge drive-thru |
1000 |
November 3, 2020 |
| Giant bell in the London clock tower that published "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
Big Ben Franklin |
200 |
November 29, 2019 |
| Golf short game practice area served up in the title of a Dr. Seuss book |
a putting Green Eggs and Ham |
400 |
November 29, 2019 |
| Grinning enigmatic acquaintance of Alice in Wonderland seen in cross section by doctors |
the Cheshire Cat scan |
600 |
November 29, 2019 |
| If they used a well-known brand of kosher hot dogs instead of bats, the Dodgers & Phillies would be in this baseball group |
the Hebrew National League |
800 |
November 29, 2019 |
| Condition of being unable to think of anything to pen for a long time that becomes a neighborhood celebration |
a writer\'s block party |
1000 |
November 29, 2019 |
| Cabinet department established in 2002 that becomes a bedding item carried by a kid for reassurance |
Department of Homeland Security blanket |
200 |
April 5, 2017 |
| NYC nickname that refers to the most special person ever |
Big Apple of my eye |
400 |
April 5, 2017 |
| The atom bomb partner of Little Boy become a fabric-related term for a clergyman |
Fat Man of the cloth |
600 |
April 5, 2017 |
| Luxury auto from the Ford Motor Company that also served as Washington's fighting force |
Lincoln Continental Army |
800 |
April 5, 2017 |
| A "Little House" actress & sister of Sara gets operatic merging with a 19th century show-writing duo |
Melissa Gilbert and Sullivan |
1000 |
April 5, 2017 |
| A vodka & tomato juice drink turns into a Texas-based cosmetics giant |
Bloody Mary Kay |
200 |
July 27, 2010 |
| "Tainted Love" band's pocket communicator |
Soft Cell phone |
400 |
July 27, 2010 |
| Bonus work in school that nets you a piece of plastic from Visa |
extra credit card |
600 |
July 27, 2010 |
| This leader of the Autobots' factors are itself & one |
Optimus Prime number |
800 |
July 27, 2010 |
| Any carbonated beverage that's "all around the mulberry bush" |
soda Pop Goes the Weasel |
1000 |
July 27, 2010 |
| Al Gore's environmental film that's a drug administered to get a subject to spill the beans in interrogation |
An Inconvenient Truth serum |
200 |
March 25, 2009 |
| Star of 2008's "Incredible Hulk" who is a software program that gives spyware protection |
Edward Norton AntiVirus |
400 |
March 25, 2009 |
| Houston Rockets center who ruled over China from 1368 to 1644 |
Yao Ming Dynasty |
600 |
March 25, 2009 |
| Coldplay singer known for portraying Jiminy Glick |
Chris Martin Short |
800 |
March 25, 2009 |
| Jack London story about the dog Buck who joins a Nick cartoon about Eliza, who can talk to animals |
<i>The Call of the Wild Thornberrys</i> |
1000 |
March 25, 2009 |
| "Smiling" da Vinci work that doubles as Bart's sister |
Mona Lisa Simpson |
200 |
March 15, 2007 |
| "Ravenous" Duran Duran hit about CNN's "Situation Room" host |
"Hungry Like The Wolf Blitzer" |
400 |
March 15, 2007 |
| Resigning as Chief Justice in 1795, he pined for Daisy Buchanan |
John Jay Gatsby |
600 |
March 15, 2007 |
| People who live in trailers or RVs might demand this right to self-government |
mobile home rule |
800 |
March 15, 2007 |
| It was over an "Old Country Store" that the plane made this rotation on its longitudinal axis |
Cracker Barrel roll |
1000 |
March 15, 2007 |
| "Thin" piece of disputed Israeli-Palestinian land involved in a clothes-shedding card game |
Gaza Strip Poker |
200 |
February 21, 2007 |
| Film legend who became an 1823 edict against European intervention in the Western Hemisphere |
the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine |
400 |
February 21, 2007 |
| "Bouncy" 1965 Beatles album that took over for Don Cornelius as host of a dance show |
<i>Rubber Soul Train</i> |
600 |
February 21, 2007 |
| 1935 "lunar" Florida song that turned into an '80s Florida cop show |
"Moon Over Miami Vice" |
1000 |
February 21, 2007 |
| Robert E. Lee's "right arm" general who sang "ABC" with a singing group |
Stonewall Jackson 5 |
|
February 21, 2007 |
| Kerouac classic that's Wile E. Coyote's nemsis |
<i>On the Road Runner</i> |
200 |
January 10, 2007 |
| Environmental group founded by John Muir that's a fizzy water |
the Sierra Club soda |
400 |
January 10, 2007 |
| TV channel-changer that must have power over every aspect of its surroundings |
remote control freak |
600 |
January 10, 2007 |
| Dylan song "with no direction home" that's an edible crustacean |
like a rolling stone crab |
800 |
January 10, 2007 |
| Botticelli painting in which Serena's sister is brought forth on a shell |
the birth of Venus Williams |
1000 |
January 10, 2007 |
| Nutty candy bar-eating group of women in an Amy Tan novel |
the Almond Joy Luck Club |
200 |
September 25, 2006 |
| Southern California Spanish mission town that became a first lady & a first mom |
Santa Barbara Bush |
400 |
September 25, 2006 |
| Old cat & mouse team who throw chairs at each other on a daytime talk show |
the Tom and Jerry Springer Show |
600 |
September 25, 2006 |
| Famous tobacco heiress in a Gene Chandler hit song |
Doris Duke of Earl |
800 |
September 25, 2006 |
| Former "SNL" comedienne who is a musical about the demon barber of Fleet Street |
Julia Sweeney Todd |
1000 |
September 25, 2006 |
| Ordinary viral infection of the nose & throat that symbolized the conflict between the U.S. & Russia |
the common cold war |
200 |
November 29, 2005 |
| "Singin' in the Rain" star who once worked as an office temp |
Gene Kelly Girl (or Gene Kelly Services) |
400 |
November 29, 2005 |
| Long Russian novel smoked to prevent fighting between Native American tribes |
<i>War and Peace Pipe</i> |
600 |
November 29, 2005 |
| Aaron Burr dueling victim who closely advised Jimmy Carter |
Alexander Hamilton Jordan |
800 |
November 29, 2005 |
| Popular American dancer of 1920s Paris who arrives with one more loaf of bread than the usual 12 |
Josephine Baker\'s Dozen |
1000 |
November 29, 2005 |
| Mild white California cheese that terrorized England in 1888 |
Monterey Jack the Ripper |
200 |
March 10, 2004 |
| "Fatal Attraction" star who is a 1977 Spielberg film about UFOs |
Glenn Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
400 |
March 10, 2004 |
| The lead singer of Hole who's a 1964 Beatles song that says, "I'll always be true" |
Courtney Love Me Do |
600 |
March 10, 2004 |
| Victor Hugo's novel of a bellringer named Barry Humphries who performs in drag, possums |
<i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame Edna</i> |
800 |
March 10, 2004 |
| Sitcom in which Scott Baio is a nanny who rides into the Valley of Death with the 600 |
<i>Charles in Charge of the Light Brigade</i> |
1000 |
March 10, 2004 |
| 1995 film in which actor Beau's brother has a love affair in Iowa with Meryl Streep |
Jeff Bridges of Madison County |
200 |
October 20, 2003 |
| Perhaps Salome danced to "Crocodile Rock" when demanding the head of this singer & voice in the wilderness |
Elton John the Baptist |
400 |
October 20, 2003 |
| Mr. Romano's sitcom featuring the hard-boiled writer of "The Big Sleep" |
Everybody Loves Raymond Chandler |
600 |
October 20, 2003 |
| Star of TV's "The Dead Zone" who checks students' passes if they're en route to the loo during classtime |
Anthony Michael Hall monitor |
800 |
October 20, 2003 |
| Hong Kong action star of "The Replacement Killers" who's the English name for the day before Lent |
Chow Yun-Fat Tuesday |
1000 |
October 20, 2003 |
| "Paradise Lost" poet considered by some to be TV's 1st male comedy star |
John Milton Berle |
100 |
June 15, 2000 |
| San Antonio Spurs "Admiral" marooned by Daniel Defoe |
David Robinson Crusoe |
200 |
June 15, 2000 |
| 14th U.S. president who changed careers & became a big-screen James Bond |
Franklin Pierce Brosnan |
300 |
June 15, 2000 |
| Orbiting Buckeye senator with a "Fatal Attraction" for Michael Douglas |
John Glenn Close |
400 |
June 15, 2000 |
| "Pulp Fiction" star who might have his royale drip all over a canvas as an artist in the late 1940s |
Samuel L. Jackson Pollock |
500 |
June 15, 2000 |
| Cotton gin inventor who needed a big screen "Bodyguard" |
Eli Whitney Houston |
100 |
February 18, 2000 |
| Female "Party of Five" star who's "Mm! Mm! Good" |
Neve Campbell Soup |
200 |
February 18, 2000 |
| "The Bone Collector" star who penned "Rip Van Winkle" |
Denzel Washington Irving |
300 |
February 18, 2000 |
| "Gilligan" actor's football team that won back-to-back Super Bowls in '98 & '99 |
Bob Denver Broncos |
400 |
February 18, 2000 |
| A Watchtower distributor's relocation service provided by U.S. marshals |
Jehovah\'s Witness Protection Program |
500 |
February 18, 2000 |
| He called for his fiddlers three to help him compose "Night and Day" |
Old King Cole Porter |
100 |
December 10, 1999 |
| "Spin City" star who knows "The Truth is Out There" |
Michael J. Fox Mulder |
200 |
December 10, 1999 |
| "North By Northwest" star who painted "American Gothic" |
Cary Grant Wood |
300 |
December 10, 1999 |
| "Piano Man" who pounded out the folktales of Uncle Remus |
Billy Joel Chandler Harris |
400 |
December 10, 1999 |
| Popular Saint-Exupery character waiting around to become king of England |
The Little Prince of Wales |
500 |
December 10, 1999 |
| The buck stops with this president who wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" |
Harry S. Truman Capote |
100 |
November 29, 1999 |
| George Washington's Virginia estate that co-chaired Clinton's transition team |
Mount Vernon Jordan |
200 |
November 29, 1999 |
| The "Jerry Maguire" star who automatically maintains your vehicle's speed |
Tom Cruise control |
100 |
January 26, 1999 |
| The brand of reclining chair that never made it past tenderfoot |
La-Z-Boy Scout |
200 |
January 26, 1999 |
| Ointment for an arthritic but festive "City Of Light" |
Ben-Gay Paris |
300 |
January 26, 1999 |
| This '40s Latin actress in a tutti frutti hat is made aware of her constitutional protections when arrested |
Carmen Miranda rights |
400 |
January 26, 1999 |
| Movie biography about Shirley Muldowney that starred Pat & Vanna |
"Heart Like A Wheel Of Fortune" |
500 |
January 26, 1999 |
| Paul Reubens persona who penned "Moby Dick" |
Pee-Wee Herman Melville |
100 |
January 7, 1999 |
| Monticello's master who formed a band with Grace Slick |
Thomas Jefferson Starship/Airplane |
200 |
January 7, 1999 |
| Turn of the century suffragette who killed Janet Leigh in the shower |
Susan B. Anthony Perkins |
300 |
January 7, 1999 |
| "X" filmmaker who saved Chrysler from becoming an ex-company |
Spike Lee Iacocca |
400 |
January 7, 1999 |
| Miss Marple creator once married to Billy Joel |
Agatha Christie Brinkley |
500 |
January 7, 1999 |
| Macedonian conqueror for whom Linus Van Pelt waits patiently on Halloween |
Alexander the Great Pumpkin |
100 |
July 7, 1998 |
| This character might cluck, "The 11 herbs & spices are falling! The 11 herbs & spices are falling!" |
Kentucky Fried Chicken Little |
200 |
July 7, 1998 |
| Robbie, Chip & Ernie Douglas' favorite D.H. Lawrence novel |
<i>My Three Sons and Lovers</i> |
300 |
July 7, 1998 |
| The one-time flying nun who lands on a magical baseball diamond on your farm |
Sally Field of Dreams |
100 |
April 6, 1998 |
| Vampire Lestat creator who's a "San Francisco treat" |
Anne Rice-A-Roni |
200 |
April 6, 1998 |
| Disaffected group born after 1965 who are investigated by Mulder & Scully |
the Generation X-Files |
300 |
April 6, 1998 |
| The lead singer of the Miracles who was stranded on a desert island |
Smokey Robinson Crusoe |
400 |
April 6, 1998 |
| A Baskin-Robbins treat used for top secret discussion on "Get Smart" |
Ice Cream Cone of Silence |
500 |
April 6, 1998 |
| Much-married CNN talk show host who took a shine to Fay Wray |
Larry King Kong |
100 |
February 4, 1998 |
| Breakfast dish with Hollandaise prepared by a traitor |
Eggs Benedict Arnold |
200 |
February 4, 1998 |
| The Sultan of Swat makes it to the Supreme Court |
Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
300 |
February 4, 1998 |
| A hardbound copy of Margaret Mitchell's book is thrown through the front window of your car |
<i>Gone With the Windshield</i> |
400 |
February 4, 1998 |
| Hemorrhoid remedy for an old Baltimore Sun essayist |
Preparation H.L. Mencken |
500 |
February 4, 1998 |
| A.A. Milne boy who stole from the rich to give to the poor |
Christopher Robin Hood |
100 |
December 3, 1997 |
| Popular sax-playing war action figure |
Kenny G.I. Joe |
200 |
December 3, 1997 |
| Instructor's favorite "West End Girls" group |
Teacher\'s Pet Shop Boys |
300 |
December 3, 1997 |
| Exclamation point who played Luke Skywalker |
Punctuation Mark Hamill |
400 |
December 3, 1997 |
| Dogpatch resident who claims to have invented baseball |
Li\'l Abner Doubleday |
500 |
December 3, 1997 |
| "Superstition" singer that builds strong bodies 12 ways |
Stevie Wonder Bread |
100 |
September 4, 1997 |
| Outdoor magazine that says "You like me....you really like me" |
"Sally Field And Stream" |
200 |
September 4, 1997 |
| Walt Whitman poem about Mr. Green Jeans' buddy |
"O Captain! My Captain Kangaroo" |
300 |
September 4, 1997 |
| Daily newspaper of the group founded by Mary Baker Eddy's Komodo dragon |
<i>The Christian Science Monitor Lizard</i> |
400 |
September 4, 1997 |
| "Atlas Shrugged" atlas maker |
Ayn Rand McNally |
500 |
September 4, 1997 |
| Maid of Orleans with a monument at the end of the Champs Elysees |
the Joan of Arc de Triomphe |
100 |
April 1, 1997 |
| Jerry Garcia's ancient Biblical texts from Qumran |
the Grateful Dead Sea Scrolls |
200 |
April 1, 1997 |