Show:
WHICH CAME FIRST?
NOTABLE NAMES
MATH CLASS
MOM JUST DOESN'T GET IT
10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS
200
'The personal computer,
the light bulb,
the transistor radio'
the light bulb
200
'Like mother, like daughter: her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry'
Marie Curie
200
'It's the number of the current year rounded to the nearest thousand'
2000
200
'(Mom Cheryl of the Clue Crew tries to sound "hip" & "with it".) What is up, dawg? Don't I sound like this "American Idol" judge and Grammy-winning producer, dawg?'
Randy
200
'This wormlike creature is a butterfly or moth in the larval stage'
a caterpillar
400
'Tom Sawyer,
Harry Potter,
Nancy Drew'
Tom Sawyer
400
'Researchers say this man killed in 1865 might have been so tall and thin due to a rare condition called Marfan's syndrome'
Abraham Lincoln
400
'A foot & a half equals this many inches'
18
400
'(Mom Cheryl of the Clue Crew tries to be helpful. But she just isn't.) I'm sure my son, Alec, was grateful when I told him to pull up his pants so this pugilistic items wouldn't show & embarrass him'
boxers
400
'This small, heavy object, often made of glass, is designed to keep stuff from blowing off your desk'
a paperweight
600
'World War I,
the U.S. Civil War,
the War of 1812'
the War of 1812
600
'This great German composer of "Fur Elise" was born in Bonn in 1770'
Beethoven
600
'As a ratio, 7 is to 10 as this is to 30'
21
600
'(Oh-oh! Mom Cheryl is no Beyonce or Lucy Liu.) Hey ya! The rhymes are tight & I'm shaking it just like one of these in that OutKast song'
a Polaroid picture
600
'Doctors can look at blood cells under this magnifying instrument'
a microscope
800
'Hillary Clinton,
Dolley Madison,
Eleanor Roosevelt'
Dolley Madison
800
'This French military leader was a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War'
the Marquis de Lafayette
800
'If you get 12 questions right out of the 20 on your history test, you got this percent correct'
60
800
'(Mom Cheryl of the Clue Crew is left incredulous by fashion.) I can't believe my kids want clothes from this "Farm"--they're not the least bit chubby'
Phat Farm
800
'Ross Powers won the men's superpipe at the 2003 U.S. Open in this sport'
snowboarding
1000
'California statehood,
Texas statehood,
Massachusetts statehood'
Massachusetts statehood
1000
'In Islamic tradition, Bilqis is the name of Solomon's guest, the queen of this'
Sheba
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an inequality on the chalkboard.) For a set of odd numbers described thusly, they're the three possible values for n'
5, 7, & 9
1000
'(Mom Cheryl of the Clue Crew exhorts you to some juvenile fun.) Come on, let's hit the half pipe & do a few tail slides, like this guy who landed the first ever 900 at the X Games'
(Tony) Hawk
1000
'It's a list of the sources you used when writing a research paper'
a bibliography