| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | MICKEY'S MANTEL $1200: "The Wonderful World of Disney" won a Peabody Award in 1999 for this musical that had Kathy Bates as evil Miss Hannigan Annie |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $1600: An example of this, also called meiosis, is Kathy Bates' line as the Titanic sinks, "Now there's something you don't see every day" understatement |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | HER EMMY-WINNING ROLE $1200: This actress as Madame Delphine LaLaurie on "American Horror Story: Coven" Kathy Bates |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | MOVIE VILLAIN QUOTES $1200: Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates): "I'm your number one fan" Misery |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | TITANIC $800: Reba McEntire was first offered this unsinkable role; Kathy Bates eventually played her Molly Brown |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: Kathy Bates won Best Guest Actress in a Comedy when she took over Charlie Sheen's role in an episode of this series Two and a Half Men |
| #7522, aired 2017-05-02 | WRITERS ON FILM $800: Kathy Bates played this expat in "Midnight in Paris" Gertrude Stein |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | PLAY "M-E" $1600: On Broadway in 1982, Cher & Kathy Bates asked, do this, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean "Come Back to the Five and Dime" |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? $800: A "Psycho" character & the film actress who played psycho Annie Wilkes Norman & Kathy Bates |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | THE 2014 EMMYS $800: Jessica Lange & Kathy Bates took home awards for this third season of "American Horror Story" Coven |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $1200: In "Misery" this actress gives novelist James Caan the agony of da feet Kathy Bates |
| #6585, aired 2013-04-12 | ENTERTAINING FOOD & DRINK $800: Grill up this Kathy Bates movie based on a novel whose title continues "At The Whistle Stop Cafe" Fried Green Tomatoes |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $400: "I'd like a man to nibble on my ear", croons kimono-clad Kathy in this musical about an orphan Annie |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $800: "It's for the best", says Kathy to James Caan before she sledgehammers him in this movie Misery |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $1200: Kathy chugged tequila in a jacuzzi with Ruth Fisher on an episode of this dark HBO drama Six Feet Under |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $1600: Kathy is draped in a plastic wrap dress, & little else, in a scene from this movie based on a Fannie Flagg novel Fried Green Tomatoes |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | KATHY BATES GONE WILD $2000: Jack Nicholson was the lucky guy who shared a hot tub with an au naturel Kathy in this 2002 film About Schmidt |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | WHO'S THE TV BOSS? $1600: Cranky lawyer Harriet "Harry" Korn Kathy Bates |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $800: Uh oh... it's "Misery" when this actress checks into a "Psycho" lodging Kathy Bates Motel |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | MEET THE BROWNS $200: Debbie Reynolds & Kathy Bates both played this "unsinkable" woman on film Molly Brown |
| #5484, aired 2008-06-12 | YOU DON'T KNOW JACK NICHOLSON $1600: Jack went hot tubbing with Kathy Bates in the movie "About" this retiree Schmidt |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | A CINEMATIC FEAST $200: Jessica Tandy spins yarns to Kathy Bates in this tale named for an odd Southern treat Fried Green Tomatoes |
| #5156, aired 2007-01-29 | HISTORIC HBO $800: In "Warm Springs", Kathy Bates gives therapy to this politico seeking a miracle cure in 1920s Georgia FDR |
| #4830, aired 2005-09-16 | MY FEAR LADY $1600: As Annie Wilkes, Kathy Bates sets podiatry back about 1,000 years in this 1990 film Misery |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Bates,
Baker,
Najimy Kathy |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $400: This star of "Misery" & "Dolores Claiborne" has directed episodes of "NYPD Blue" & "Six Feet Under" Kathy Bates |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1990 for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | HISTORY IN MOVIES $400: Kathy Bates played the real-life "Unsinkable" Molly Brown in this Leonardo DiCaprio adventure Titanic |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | ROLE PLAYING $800: "Dolores Claiborne"
(1995) Kathy Bates |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | KATHY-GORY $200: She played Erica's cellmate on "All My Children" before she won an Oscar for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | MOVIE DEBUTS $300: "Taking Off" was her first film, but her film career really took off when she won an Oscar for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | THE EMMYS $600: Kathy Bates & Ray Walston picked up Emmys in 1996 for their work on this series cancelled in 1996 Picket Fences |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: Oscar winner Kathy Bates directed a 1996 episode of this detective series subtitled "Life On The Street" "Homicide" |
| #2756, aired 1996-09-02 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: She's played 2 Stephen King characters on film: Annie Wilkes in "Misery" & "Dolores Claiborne" (Kathy) Bates |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $600: She told James Caan, "I really am your number one fan" when she won an Oscar for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | CELEBRITIES $500: This Oscar-winning star of "Misery" once worked as a singing waitress in the Catskills Kathy Bates |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | STEPHEN KING FILMS $100: Kathy Bates is James Caan's No. 1 fan in this 1990 suspense tale Misery |
| #1929, aired 1993-01-14 | BOOKS ON AUDIOTAPE $300: "Misery" loves company, so this Oscar-winning actress, not J. Foster, reads "The Silence of the Lambs" Kathy Bates |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE 1990 OSCARS $400: We don't know if James Caan dared tell her to "break a leg", but she won for her role in "Misery" (Kathy) Bates |
