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the Marines 6x $533 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1986 According to their hymn, they fight "to keep our honor clean"

J $800 2008 In 1805 they crossed 600 miles of desert to raise the American flag over a foreign fort

J $1,000 DD 2010 The precision of spinning rifles in leather-gloved hands exemplifies this military branch's Silent Drill Platoon

the Soviet Union 5x $440 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1986 The Order of Lenin is this country's highest decoration

J $500 1987 Country which, by far, suffered the most casualties in WWII

DJ $400 2008 Deployed in 1955, the MiG-19 was this nation's first supersonic jet fighter

the Purple Heart 5x 60.0% stumper $500 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $300 1991 In 1932 the U.S. War Department revived this decoration first established by George Washington

J $600 2006 After Sept. 11, the Defense of Freedom Medal was created, the civilian counterpart to this military medal

J $400 2010 In May 1783 Elijah Churchill & William Brown became the first recipients of this medal established by George Washington

Pearl Harbor 5x $700 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2020 Rear Adm. Isaac Kidd, the 1st U.S. Navy flag officer killed by foreign enemy action, was on the Arizona's bridge during this attack

J $500 1990 Base that's headquarters to the U.S. Pacific Fleet

J $1,000 2025 The Department of Defense did some streamlining in 2010, merging Hickam Air Force Base in Oahu with this naval base

the Victoria Cross 5x 60.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 1986 A Briton who displays initials "V.C." after his name has received this medal

J $800 2014 Britain's George Cross can go to civilians; this cross given for valor is only for military personnel

DJ $1,000 1996 This decoration for heroism, instituted in 1856, is Great Britain's highest honor

second lieutenant 5x 40.0% stumper $640 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $400 2018 Yes, sir! A 2 striper is one of these naval officers

J $600 2023 A 3-star general is also known as this type & somewhat surprisingly, outranks a major one

J $600 2002 If you're this lowest grade of army lieutenant, there's no where to go but up

lance corporal 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2015 E-4 in the Army; an adjective referring to physical punishment

J $1,000 2011 Painful punishment practice

J $400 1991 In the Marines it's the rank just above private first class & just below corporal

a Bowie knife 5x $320 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 2000 Sources say this knife wasn't invented by Alamo hero Jim, but by his brother, Rezin

J $600 2006 This heavy 19th century sheath knife was named for a Texas frontiersman killed at the Alamo

J $400 2004 This large knife bears the name of a man who died at the Alamo

West Point 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1987 973 dress white garrison caps were tossed in the air at this Hudson River site May 28, 1986

J $600 2022 Dating back to the start of the 1800s, the U.S. Military Academy at this site was also essentially America's 1st school of engineering

DJ $400 2013 Upon graduation from the academy at this location on the Hudson River, students are commissioned as second lieutenants

the Coast Guard 4x $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 Service branch now responsible for all major icebreaking for U.S. armed forces

J $600 2002 This Armed Forces branch normally operates under the D.O.T., but in wartime it operates under the Navy

J $100 1986 The smallest service branch of the U.S. military

Spain 4x 25.0% stumper $350 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1991 The Order of Isabella the Catholic

J $500 DD 1993 In August 1992 the medal whose reverse is seenherewas presented in this country

J $400 2022 George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" offered a firsthand glimpse of the chaos of this country's Civil War

Sandhurst 4x 25.0% stumper $1,025 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 1996 Britain's Royal Military Academy is also known as this from its location

J $1,000 2008 To begin his training as an army officer, Prince William entered this British military academy in 2006

DJ $1,000 1988 British equivalent of America's West Point

Napoleon 4x $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1991 The St. Helena Medal, first granted by France in 1857, bears a portrait of this general

J $400 2004 The St. Helena Medal, for French soldiers & sailors who took part in the wars between 1792 & 1815, bears his likeness

DJ $400 2002 1815's Congress of Vienna was interrupted by the escape of this famous military leader

China 4x 33.3% stumper $433 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $100 1993 In 1882 the emperor of this country established the Order of the Double Dragon for foreigners

J $800 2007 The Long March Missile

FJ 1985 Maintaining the world's largest army, this country has about 3½ million troops on active duty

a torpedo 4x $550 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1986 Chief weapon carried by a PT boat, it's the "T" in PT

J $800 2023 During World War II U-boats improved these weapons from the G7a model, which left a trail of bubbles as it headed for its prey

J $400 1995 It's a weapon carried by a submarine, or another name for a submarine sandwich

the Civil War 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 1995 Fifth column, meaning traitors within a country, dates from this 1930s civil war

J $200 2020 An artillery piece called the "Swamp Angel", which shelled Charleston

J $200 1991 The Grand Army of the Republic, a society of veterans of this war, closed up shop in 1956

a whip 4x $300 avg J:4

J $300 1987 Snappy nickname for congressional party leaders' assistants

J $100 1994 It's the weapon a non- dairy dessert topping lover might find "cool"

J $400 1999 Anthony Hopkins said he got so good with this weapon doing "Zorro" he could snap a twig off a tree with it

a sword 4x $350 avg J:4

J $200 2004 When George Washington was sworn in on April 30, 1789, he was wearing one of these weapons

J $400 2020 Cutlass, falchion

J $400 1989 Weapon that King Dionysius hung by a thread over a courtier of ancient Syracuse

a mace 4x $625 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 1985 A heavy club of yore or an eye-stinging spray of today

J $800 2006 If attacked, use this petrified tear gas spray, then the same-named armor-breaking weapon

J $500 1992 A medieval spiked club, or a modern compound of chemicals which you can use to fend off an attacker

a trident 4x $1,650 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 1992 This spear's name is from the Latin for "three-toothed"

J $800 2025 (Chris Pratt presents the clue.) Though SEAL team members jokingly call their gold pin "The Budweiser", they're proud of thesymbolcomposed of an eagle, an anchor, a pistol & this 3-pronged spear, its official name

J $5,000 DD 2008 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the SEAL emblem at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) On the Navy SEALemblem, the anchor, eagle & pistol stand for sea, air & land, & this weapon represents all 3, & is also the name fo the emblem itself

a tank 4x 25.0% stumper $2,300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1989 1959 was the 1st model year for the M60, one of these weighing 48 tons

J $500 1991 The U.S. Army pays $1.8 million for each M1 Abrams, which is this, & $3,300 for decoy copies

DJ $7,800 DD 2004 A British weapon during WWI had a cover name of "water-closet for Russia", which became water-this, then just this

a bola 4x 50.0% stumper $825 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1988 It's the thrown weapon most identified with the Gauchos

J $500 1995 South American weapon of 2 stones attached at the ends of a cord that's hurled at a target

DJ $1,600 2003 Used to entangle a cow's legs, gauchos make good use of this weapon of strong cords with weighted ends

an admiral 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2024 If a ship is flying the flag seen here, an officer is aboard of this high rank

J $400 2011 U.S. special operations commander Eric T. Olson is the first SEAL to achieve 4-star status as one of these

J $200 2006 Though lower-deck sailors were seldom made officers, Thomas Lyne rose to "rear" one of these

a tomahawk 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2006 St. Rene Goupil was martyred in 1642 with this hand-axe for making the sign of the cross over a Mohawk child

DJ $600 1984 A hatchet, it's said, but not proven, Indians buried it for peace

J $1,000 2004 Its name goes back to an Algonquin word for "an instrument to cut (it) off"

a hydrogen bomb 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2004 Einsteinium was discovered in 1952 in the debris produced by one of these

DJ $2,000 DD 1986 Weapon mentioned in the following Tom Lehrersong:"How then Indonesia claimed that they / Were gonna get one any day / South Africa wants two, that's right / One for the Black and one for the White / Who's next?"

J $400 2005 In the largest man-made explosion in history, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton one of these in 1961

Royal Air Force 4x 25.0% stumper $600 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $400 1988 Churchill said, "Never...was so much owed by so many to so few"

J $600 2008 Became its own branch under the National Security Act of 1947

J $1,000 2008 About 1 out of every 5 members is an officer

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the Philippines 3 tanks 3 Russia 3 Pershing 3 Mexico 3 MacArthur 3 Lebanon 3 John Paul Jones 3 Japan 3 helicopters 3 Hannibal 3 gunpowder 3 Germany 3 Ethiopia 3 Eisenhower 3 dagger 3 captain 3 brass knuckles 3 Artillery 3 Argentina 3 a crossbow 3 a boomerang 3 "Anchors Aweigh" 3 World War II 3 the Korean War 3 the Congressional Medal of Honor 3 Schwarzkopf 3 lion 3 grenades 3 George Patton 3 George Marshall 3 general 3 Erwin Rommel 3 a Rear Admiral 3 a platoon 3 a Bronze Star 3 a bayonet 3 Winchester 2 Virginia Military Institute 2 Ulysses S. Grant 2 Top Gun 2 the Vatican 2 the Space Force 2 the Navy 2 the Marine Corps 2 the Iron Cross 2 the Green Berets 2 the Crimean War 2 the Bay of Pigs 2 the Army Corps of Engineers 2 Switzerland 2 Sudan 2 Spear 2 slings & arrows 2 Sergeant York 2 Queen Elizabeth II 2 private 2 North Korea 2 North Carolina 2 Mustang 2 Moshe Dayan 2 Monaco 2 McClellan 2 major 2 Luftwaffe 2 lance 2 kilts 2 Julius Caesar 2 Italy 2 Israel 2 Genghis Khan 2 extraction 2 ensign 2 division 2 Denmark 2 Cuba 2 cannons 2 bombs 2 Belgium 2 Australia 2 attention 2 arrows 2 arrow 2 an ax 2 an aircraft carrier 2 Amundsen 2 AK-47 2 Afghanistan 2 Admiral Byrd 2 a Swiss Army knife 2 a submarine 2 a shillelagh 2 a rocket 2 a knife 2 a howitzer 2 a hand grenade 2 a grenade 2 a catapult 2 a bow 2 Norfolk, Virginia 2 the U.S. Naval Academy 2 the U.S. Army 2 the Texas Air National Guard 2 the Navy SEALs 2 the Seabees 2 the scimitar 2 the propeller 2 the Netherlands 2 Mexican War 2 the M16 2 the Legion of Honor 2 Seoul, Korea 2 John F. Kennedy 2

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