| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): A member of the House of Lords, Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley holds the title 9th this the Duke of Wellington |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $2000: Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college Wellesley |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $800: Back in the 1880s Wellesley College specified this type of leave from teaching should be spent in Europe, with 1/2-year pay a sabbatical |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE $800: Commencement address wisdom: "Be the heroine of your life, not the victim", said this writer & filmmaker at Wellesley in 1996 Nora Ephron |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $800: When this song written by an alumna is sung at Wellesley, it goes "and crown thy good with sisterhood" "America The Beautiful" |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | THEM DUKE BOYS! $800: As a young man Arthur Wellesley, best known as this duke, had gambling debts & trouble at school before his martial glory the Duke of Wellington |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS $600: It's about a 2-hour drive northeast from Wesleyan in Connecticut to this Seven Sisters college in Massachusetts Wellesley |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | POTPOURRI $1000: "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister" is the motto of this Seven Sisters college that's outside Boston Wellesley |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1735 James Oglethorpe invited this founder of Methodism to evangelize in Georgia John Wesley |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | NUMERIC TERMS $1200: Mount Holyoke & Wellesley are part of this group of women's colleges the Seven Sisters |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL? $800: To this college for women, same as Hillary Clinton Wellesley |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | LIBRARIES $800: The Clapp Library at Wellesley College has the love letters exchanged by these 2 English poets in 1845 & 1846 Barrett and Browning |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON $400: British hero Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, was born in 1769 not in Britain but on this nearby island Ireland |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | McCARTHYISM $2000: Kevin McCarthy's sister Mary wrote "The Group", which follows the lives of friends who went to this women's college Vassar |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | ARTHUR $400: British commander & statesman Arthur Wellesley was better known by this hereditary title the Duke of Wellington |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FORBES' MOST-EDUCATED SMALL TOWNS $800: No. 2:
This Boston suburb that's home to one of the Seven Sisters Wellesley |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | PLAYING THE PROFESSOR $400: This movie with Julia Roberts as a Wellesley art history professor has a painting in its title Mona Lisa Smile |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES $1200: (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In 2009, I gave the commencement address at Barnard College; in 1969 I gave the first ever student commencement at this other women's college Wellesley |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | WOMEN'S TUITION $1600: Hillary Clinton became a Democrat while attending this Massachusetts school Wellesley |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | WHEN YOU GO TO COLLEGE $600: Maybe you'll join this kind of impromptu comedy troupe, like Dead Serious at Wellesley improv |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $400: Then-last name of the current U.S. senator who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 Rodham |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | HISTORIC LONDON $1600: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of this, was known as a soldier but had an eye for art, as you can see at Apsley House Wellington |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: 2003:
Katherine Watson, an art history instructor at Wellesley in 1953 Julia Roberts |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | PEN NAMES $1200: In her youth, this Bronte sister wrote under the masculine alias Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley Charlotte Bronte |
| #4096, aired 2002-05-27 | DUELS $2000: In 1829 Arthur Wellesley, who sported this title, challenged Lord Winchelsea to a duel; both missed their targets Duke of Wellington |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | WORLD CAPITALS $1000: This New Zealand capital is named for Arthur Wellesley, a British duke Wellington |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | GOYA $600: One of Goya's few foreign patrons was Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of this Wellington |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | FIRST LADIES $100: In 1969 she graduated from Wellesley College where she was president of the student government Hillary Clinton |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | THEY WENT TO SCHOOL BACK EAST $600: Hillary Rodham
(B.A. '69) Wellesley |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | HILLARY & JACKIE $400: Jackie earned her B.A. from George Washington University & Hillary graduated from this college in 1969 Wellesley |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | COLLEGES, HITHER & YON $800: Of the schools known as the Seven Sisters, this one in Massachusetts is alphabetically last Wellesley |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | HORNBLOWER $400: In the first Hornblower novel, Horatio falls for Barbara Wellesley, sister of this duke Duke of Wellington |
| #2936, aired 1997-05-12 | WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE $500: This secretary of state majored in political science at Wellesley, graduating with honors in 1959 Madeleine Albright |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | THE 1800S $200: In 1814 Arthur Wellesley was created the first Duke of this Wellington |
| #2873, aired 1997-02-12 | HISTORIC BROTHERS $500: Richard Wellesley, governor-general of India, had to settle for marquess; brother Arthur won this title Duke of Wellington |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | LIBRARIES $1000: The Margaret Clapp Library at Wellesley College has all the love letters sent by this pair of poets Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #2600, aired 1995-12-15 | WOMEN $1000: Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote this patriotic poem in 1893, was a professor at Wellesley America the Beautiful |
| #2406, aired 1995-02-06 | 19th CENTURY EUROPE $600: After defeating the French at Oporto & Talavera in 1809, Arthur Wellesley was given this title Duke of Wellington |
| #2354, aired 1994-11-24 | FIRST LADIES $200: Surprisingly, she was head of the campus Young Republicans while a student at Wellesley in the 1960s Hillary Clinton |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | MOTHERHOOD $200: In a 1990 speech at Wellesley, this first lady said, "If you have children, they must come first" Barbara Bush |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | PRIME MINISTERS $400: This soldier & statesman who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo served as British PM from 1828-1830 the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) |
| #1826, aired 1992-07-06 | HODGEPODGE $1000: Lawyer Henry Durant founded this college for women on his estate near Boston in 1870 Wellesley |
| #1412, aired 1990-10-23 | FAMOUS ARTHURS $800: Actual name of Napoleon's nemesis, the Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley |
| #1, aired 1990-06-16 | FIRST LADIES $400: Barbara Bush & Raisa Gorbachev spoke at the 1990 commencement at this college Wellesley |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: 3 of the schools known as the 7 Sisters, a group considered the feminine version of the Ivy League (3 of) Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar & Wellesley |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: "Sister school" that's involved in investing $7 million to redevelop So. Hadley, Mass., where it's located Mount Holyoke |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | WOMEN'S COLLEGES $600: Henry F. Durant founded Wellesley on the grounds of his own country estate in this state Massachusetts |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC $1000: While an English professor at Wellesley, Katherine L. Bates wrote the words for this patriotic song "America the Beautiful" |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | COLLEGES $2,000 (Daily Double): 4 of the 7 colleges comprising the prestigious group known as "The Seven Sisters" (4 of) Vassar, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Holyoke, and Smith |
| #678, aired 1987-07-15 | COLLEGES $200: A legend at Wellesley is that winner of the annual spring hoop-rolling contest will be 1st to do this get married |
| #664, aired 1987-06-25 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: New Zealand's capital was named for Arthur Wellesley, the 1st man given this title (Duke of) Wellington |
| #643, aired 1987-05-27 | FAMOUS RIDERS $600: Though it's said his horse Copenhagen shied at sight of troops, he rode him to victory at Waterloo the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley) |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | WORLD CAPITALS $600: Named for Arthur Wellesley, it's the capital of New Zealand Wellington |
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Fariha Ali, an attorney from Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Season 32 player (2016-03-31).
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Beth Ford, a professor of African-American literature from Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2009-06-11).
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Suzanne Woods, a law student originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Season 7 player (1991-04-18).
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Laura Rigge, a junior at Wellesley College from Emmaus, Pennsylvania
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2013 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Brian Donahue, a research scientist originally from Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Season 9 2-time champion: $12,398.
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Wade Markel, an Army captain from Wellesley, Massachusetts
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Season 13 player (1996-12-09).
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Tom Walker, a lawyer from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 21 1-time champion: $23,201 + $2,000.
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