Sample Questions

Here’s a small selection of Drew’s Clues questions from years past.

TOYS & GAMES: Lizzie, Henry, Homer, and Harry were the original names of the characters in what tabletop game, introduced by Milton Bradley in 1978?

BIRDS: What bird, whose scientific name is mimus polyglottos, is the state bird of five Southern U.S. states? Despite a well known work that associates it with the state, Alabama is not one of them.

“F” IN GEOGRAPHY: What Atlantic archipelago is the subject of ongoing sovereignty disputes between Argentina and the United Kingdom?

TRANSPORTATION: The 19th century bicycle with a large front wheel and a much smaller rear wheel is most commonly called what, a name derived from British units of currency? 

BEFORE & AFTER: An annoying 90s song by three brothers from Oklahoma is about an annoying 90s game that orders players to press buttons and twist cranks

TOILETS: What award-winning director has helmed several memorably disgusting toilet scenes, including a scene set in the “worst toilet in Scotland” and another involving an outhouse cesspit in India?

BAD DECISIONS: At the one-yard line with seconds on the clock, what NFL head coach made the spectacularly bad decision to call a pass play rather than hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch during Super Bowl 49?

BONES: Taking inspiration from the Beatles, what name was given to a famous partial Australopithecus skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974?

SLANG: The slang terms “haxor” and “suxxor” are part of what Internet dialect, which originated within bulletin board systems in the 1980s? 

FOOD & DRINK: Though the term “sweet breads” could refer to babka and cinnamon rolls, it is also the culinary name for two specific parts of a calf or lamb. Name one.