| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | -OLOGIES $2000: William James' 1890 "The Principles of" this is considered a classic in the field Psychology |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $2000: "The Turning" is a 2020 film adaptation of an 1898 supernatural story by this author Henry James |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DEWEY $3,000 (Daily Double): U.S. educator & psychologist John Dewey helped develop this philosophic branch associated with William James pragmatism |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s $600: A toast to William Horton, James Oglethorpe's right-hand man, who is credited with founding this colony's 1st brewery Georgia |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,000 (Daily Double): Alaska celebrates the last Monday in March as this onetime U.S. Secretary of State's day William Seward |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE III $800: This sportscaster, at home with golf, basketball & football has the given moniker James William III Jim Nantz |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: Briefly veep to 14th president Franklin Pierce, William Rufus DeVane King was roommates with this future 15th president (James) Buchanan |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BILL OF WRITES $2000: Known for art as well as poetry, this Londoner was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire for 50 guineas William Blake |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | PROSE BY BROS $800: Henry, "Roderick Hudson" in 1876; William, "Essays in Radical Empiricism", published posthumously in 1912 James |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | MONROE $200: At 16 James Monroe entered this college named for 2 royals but left after 2 years to fight in the revolution William & Mary |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | PHILOSOPHERS $2,800 (Daily Double): This double-first-name philosopher born in 1842 said that the value of a concept is in its practical consequences William James |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | AMERICAN THINKERS $1600: William James popularized this -ism that judges ideas by their usefulness, now a synonym for "practicality" pragmaticism |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LITERARY GROUPS $600: The Knickerbockers included William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper & this author who coined the term (Washington) Irving |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2,000 (Daily Double): He became U.S. Attorney General in 2019, 27 years after taking the job for the first time (William) Barr |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | JOURNALISTS $1200: Often called the first "war" one of these, Crimean war reporter William Howard Russell preferred "special" one correspondent |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | INVENTORS $800: In 1907 James Spangler invented a portable vacuum cleaner--then sold the rights to this man (William) Hoover |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | TEXTBOOKS $1600: In 1890 this brother of novelist Henry published his classic textbook "The Principles of Psychology" William James |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $400: The reader goes gently down this free flow of narrative impressions, a phrase popularized by William James stream of consciousness |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Diarist William Byrd portrayed life in this colony where he owned a large James River plantation Virginia |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $1,800 (Daily Double): This president from Ohio was assassinated in 1881; his widow moved to South Pasadena, dying in 1918 aged 85 James Garfield |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | THE REVOLUTION $800: England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 chased James II out & these 2 monarchs in William and Mary |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | I'VE GOT 3 NAMES $2000: William MacGillivray helped write "Ornithological Biography", the text that accompanied his "Birds of America" John James Audubon |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | -ISMS & -OLOGIES $2000: This -ism favored by psychologist William James takes the view that what is useful is what is best pragmatism |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | CRY ME A WORLD RIVER $1200: Winning the battle of Ireland's Boyne River in 1690 gave this "colorful" king a complete triumph over the deposed James II William of Orange |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | WILLIAM & MARY $200: Mary was born at St. James Palace in London; William was born in this city, now the seat of the Dutch government The Hague |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | WILLIAM & MARY $1000: This revolution of 1688 that ousted James II & brought William & Mary to the throne is aka the Bloodless Revolution the Glorious Revolution |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | TV CREATORS $600: Matthew Weiner said, "For me", this "Mad Man" "was a cross between James Garner & William Holden" Don Draper |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | LEONARD NIMOY $400: Pre-"Star Trek", Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, George Takei & James Doohan all appeared on this Rod Serling series The Twilight Zone |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | NEW YORK POLITICIANS $800: A philosophy of Republicans, or the party of Senator James L. Buckley & his brother, losing mayoral candidate William F. Buckley conservative |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $400: On July 14, 1881 he entered a dark room & asked in Spanish, "Who is it?"; Pat Garrett responded with 2 fatal shots William Bonney (or Billy the Kid) |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | JUST "MBLE" ALONG $800: He & William Procter married 2 sisters, & the rest is history (James) Gamble |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: The Glorious Revolution of 1688 ended the rule of King James II & brought this pair to the English throne William & Mary |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | & BE MARY $1600: Mary, daughter of England's James II, married this Dutch prince who became England's king William (of Orange) |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ALSO A 2-LETTER POSTAL ABBREVIATION $1000: William James Mayo got his in 1883 M.D. |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | I'M BURNIN' FOR YOU $1200: William Tyndale, who completed his English translation of this in 1525, was burned in Brussels in 1536 the New Testament |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: "Destiny of the Republic" is "A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President"--his lingering death James Garfield |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS $800: 1986: William Hurt as James Leeds, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf Children of a Lesser God |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | THE SUPREME COURT $2000: This plaintiff sued to get defendant James Madison to deliver the commission that would make him a judge in D.C. (William) Marbury |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | ROOMMATES $600: As a senator, this bachelor president roomed with future Vice President William King James Buchanan |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | FATHERLY NICKNAMES $1000: A Harvard prof, this brother of novelist Henry is known as the "father of American psychology" William James |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Late radio commentator Paul & James I's physician William Harvey |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | LIT MY FIRE $1600: This Irish poet's "Sailing to Byzantium" urges "sages... in God's holy fire" to be "singing masters of my soul" William Butler Yeats |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | FIRST NAMES $200: We Kidd you not, it's the first name of English pirates Dampier & Kidd William |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | CINCINNATI $400: In 1837 William Procter formed a business partnership in Cincinnati with this man, his brother-in-law (James) Gamble |
| #5707, aired 2009-06-02 | ANGRY MOMS OF FUTURE PRESIDENTS $600: The southern lad seen here might not grin when Mom calls him this & says, "Get your hands off that horse" James Earl Carter |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $2000: Dutch-born Protestant Prince William of Orange became king of England after this Catholic king was deposed & fled James II |
| #5528, aired 2008-09-24 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: This -ism of assessing ideas by their practical consequences is the title of a William James work pragmatism |
| #5478, aired 2008-06-04 | SAMURAI WARRIOR $800: Englishman William Adams, the first outsider to become a samurai, inspired this James Clavell bestseller Shōgun |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | FROM "RAG"s $1000: Philosophic theory promoted by William James in the early 1900s pragmatism |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | WE ARE YOUNG $1,500 (Daily Double): James Monroe's studies at this college were interrupted when he left to fight in the Revolutionary War William & Mary |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | FIRST NAMES $200: Wild Bill Hickok's real first name was James; this was Buffalo Bill Cody's William |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | WHICH PRESIDENT'S CABINET $2000: Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield,
Secretary of War William Howard Taft Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | RADCLIFFE GRADS $600: Before moving to Paris & meeting Alice, she studied psychology at Radcliffe under William James Gertrude Stein |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | AMERICAN POLITICAL IDOL $1,500 (Daily Double): The Whiskey Ring scandal & William Belknap, his Sec. of War, impeached? No wonder this Republican didn't get a third term! Ulysses Grant |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | ROYAL BRITANNIA $1200: Seen here, the second king of this name spent many years in French exile Charles |
| #5126, aired 2006-12-18 | PULITZER-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1000: This psychologist & his author brother Henry were each the subjects of prize-winning bios; one in 1936, the other in 1963 William James |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | NEW TABLOID DUOS $800: Stephen Colbert dubbed this acting duo Filliam H. Muffman Felicity Huffman & William H. Macy |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | ALMA MATER MATTERS $600: The USA's oldest college debating club is at this university where Aaron Burr & James Madison were members Princeton |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | NFL NICKNAMES $600: "The Refrigerator" William Perry |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | JAMES THURBER $1600: Thurber's first book, 1929's "Is Sex Necessary?", was co-written with this collaborator of William Strunk (E.B.) White |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $1,000 (Daily Double): William Parry was James Garfield in the originial production of this Sondheim musical Assassins |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | REIGN CHECK $800: This pair succeeded James II, the last Catholic king of Britain William & Mary |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | I PLAYED 'EM ON TV $200: Captian James T. Kirk, Boston lawyer Denny Crane William Shatner |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | EARLS GONE WILD $2000: Imprisoned for quarelling at the court of James II, the Earl of Devonshire asked this successor to take the throne William III |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | "P"EOPLE $400: He was James Gamble's brother-in-law & business partner (William) Procter |
| #4551, aired 2004-05-24 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: Usual adjective for the 1688 revolution that overthrew James II & placed William & Mary on the throne Glorious |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES $200: He boldly went where no man had gone before playing the role of heroic Captain James T. Kirk William Shatner |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | -OLOGIES $400: William James wished that "by treating" this discipline "like a natural science" it would help it to become one psychology |
| #4326, aired 2003-05-26 | BROTHERS IN BUSINESS $400: Ahem, we'd tell you they were William & Andrew, not Trade & Mark, but that would be name cough dropping Smith Brothers |
| #4280, aired 2003-03-21 | DEWEY $2000: U.S. educator & psychologist John Dewey helped develop this philosophic branch associated with William James pragmatism |
| #4271, aired 2003-03-10 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $400: William Safire's "Scandalmonger" exposes James Callender, who gossiped about this president & Sally Hemings Thomas Jefferson |
| #4220, aired 2002-12-27 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: His novels include "The Prairie", "The Pioneers", & "The Pathfinder" James Fenimore Cooper |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: William King, Pierce's VP, used to be the roommate of this bachelor president James Buchanan |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell "Studs" |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | MARINERS $400: William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition Captain James Cook |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $1600: Novelist Henry's brother, his works include "The Will to Believe and Other Essays..." William James |
| #4136, aired 2002-09-02 | LITERARY LINGO $400: The term "stream of" this first appeared in William James' 1890 textbook "The Principles of Psychology" consciousness |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: Cole Younger & Frank James accompanied this Colonel when he raided Lawrence, Kansas in 1863 William Quantrill |
| #3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: William Hodges journeyed to the south Pacific as an artist to this captain & painted the portrait of him seen here Captain James Cook |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | HE'S MY SECRETARY OF WAR $400: In 1812:
William Eustis James Madison |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | AKA $500: Also known as Wild Bill, Mr. Hickok's real first name was this, not William James (Butler Hickok) |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | THE 1830s $400: In 1837 William Procter formed a business partnership with this man in Cincinnati James Gamble |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | BROTHERS $400: Last name of British brothers William & James who began marketing their wrapped soap bars in 1885 Lever |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | MUSICAL NICKNAMES $300: William James Basie "Count" |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ENTERTAINING CANADIANS $200: Most know William Shatner is Canadian, but so is James Doohan, who played this "Star Trek" engineer Scotty |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | OLD RADIO CRIME FIGHTERS $200: On radio, William Conrad played this rugged Dodge City marshal; James Arness got the role on TV Matt Dillon |
| #3340, aired 1999-02-26 | PUT 'EM IN ORDER $600: Ulysses S. Grant,
William Howard Taft,
James A. Garfield Ulysses S. Grant,James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $400: It was anchorman Bill in this 1987 James L. Brooks film Broadcast News |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | CORPORATE HISTORIES $800: In the 1880s William & James, these brothers, started their soap business Lever Brothers |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ASSASSINATIONS $200: James Garfield died of a gunshot wound in September 1881, as did this president in September 1901 William McKinley |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | FICTIONAL GHOSTS $200: He wrote the ghost tale "The Turn of the Screw", while his brother William studied spiritualism Henry James |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | THE WRITE BROTHERS $1000: In this family, William wrote "Human Immortality" & his brother Henry "The Ambassadors" James |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | VIRGINIA GOVERNORS $400: In 1811 Virginia had 4 governors: John Tyler, George William Smith, Peyton Randolph & this fifth president James Monroe |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In his 1823 book "The Pioneers", Judge Temple was based on his father William James Fenimore Cooper |
| #2725, aired 1996-06-07 | POTPOURRI $300: While William Travis commanded the regulars at the Alamo, this man commanded the Texan Volunteers James Bowie |
| #2677, aired 1996-04-02 | NATURALISTS $400: He & William MacGillivray wrote "The Ornithological Biography" to go with his "Birds of America" John James Audubon |
| #2655, aired 1996-03-01 | FAMOUS DOCTORS $1000: This discoverer of blood circulation in mammals was physician to kings James I & Charles I William Harvey |
| #2641, aired 1996-02-12 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1973 Richard Helms, James Schlesinger & William Colby all served as director of this agency C.I.A. (Central Intelligence Agency) |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | POTPOURRI $300: Some say that Jesse James was with this man & his gang when they raided Lawrence, Kansas William Quantrill |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | EXPLORERS $600: William Bligh sailed with this explorer on his second voyage around the world Captain James Cook |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: It's the alma mater of Thomas Jefferson & James Monroe The College of William and Mary |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | WORLD HISTORY $2,900 (Daily Double): At the Congress of Vienna, William I of the Netherlands traded Nassau for this Duchy Luxembourg |
| #2417, aired 1995-02-21 | NICKNAMES $400: Nickname shared by OSS director William Joseph Donovan & frontier marshal James Butler Hickok "Wild Bill" |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY $400: William Harris Crawford served under James Madison & this successor James Monroe |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | ROYALTY $1000: The 2 monarchs who ruled England during Shakespeare's lifetime Elizabeth I & James I |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: James I of Aragon & William I of England were both nicknamed this the Conqueror |
| #1930, aired 1993-01-15 | "MY" TV $500: This series starring William Windom was based loosely on the life & writings of James Thurber My World ... and Welcome to It |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: In a trilogy by James T. Farrell, William Lonigan is better known by this nickname Studs |
| #1610, aired 1991-09-06 | SCIENCE $1000: This discoverer of the circulation of the blood was court physician to James I & Charles I (William) Harvey |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This Colorado capital was named for a governor of the Kansas Territory Denver |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | PSYCH 101 $400: William James said this was continuously flowing, a stream consciousness |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | NOVA SCOTIA $200: The charter King James gave sir William Alexander gave Nova Scotia its name, which is Latin for this New Scotland |
| #1553, aired 1991-05-08 | TELEVISION $400: This ABC western features The Kid, William Cody & James Hickok The Young Riders |
| #1507, aired 1991-03-05 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In a trio of novels by James T. Farrell, this is William Lonigan's nickname Studs |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | JOURNALISM $400: In the 1970s this conservative columnist shared his views in TV debates with Shana Alexander James J. Kilpatrick |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | RULERS $800: This Stuart king who was ousted by William & Mary went to Ireland where he lost the Battle of Boyne James II |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: His brother William was a famous American philosopher Henry James |
| #1142, aired 1989-07-18 | A.K.A. $600: He was born William Samuel Rosenberg; James Caan played him in "Funny Lady" Billy Rose |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | AUTHORS $400: Younger brother of philosopher William, he became a British subject a year before he died Henry James |
| #1053, aired 1989-03-15 | PSYCH 102 $1000: Psychologist William James said we think this way; James Joyce used it as a writing style stream of consciousness |
| #911, aired 1988-07-18 | WORLD HISTORY $300: In 1690, England's James II was defeated in an attempt to reclaim the throne from this royal pair William & Mary |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $400: Barry Goldwater said he chose this man as his running mate because "He drives Johnson nuts" William E. Miller |
| #699, aired 1987-09-24 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $1000: When pro- & anti-Van Buren delegates couldn't agree on a candidate, he became the "1st Dark Horse" (James) Polk |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In 1837, William Proctor & James Gamble started making soap & candles in this city Cincinnati |
| #592, aired 1987-03-17 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $600: She studied psychology with William James at Radcliffe before she founded the "Lost Generation" Gertrude Stein |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | RULERS $1000: In bloodless "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, James II of England fled, & they became joint sovereigns William III & Mary II |
| #538, aired 1986-12-31 | FAMOUS "JAMES"s $800: Novelist Henry's brother who, having given us "The Meaning of Truth" in 1909, in 1910, died William James |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: First name shared by Captains Hook & Kirk James |
| #492, aired 1986-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Though he wrote "The Europeans" & in 1915 became one, both he & brother William were born Americans Henry James |
| #421, aired 1986-04-21 | LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $1000: William Windom starred in this TV series based on the life & writings of James Thurber My World... and Welcome to It |
| #301, aired 1985-11-04 | PASSING THE "BUCK" $300: Though he lost bid for mayor of NYC, brother James served as U.S. senator from N.Y. state William Buckley |
| #161, aired 1985-04-22 | LITERATURE $800: He drew on his imagination for "The Portrait of a Lady" Henry James |
