| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $400: "Right from" this, meaning from the start, is occasionally corrupted to mention a type of lizard the get-go |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $800: Something that you can't get past is stuck here, a word for a part of bird anatomy your craw |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $1200: Joe's no sidekick--he has this "syndrome" or "energy", thinking himself the most important person in any situation main character |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $1600: Lake Pontchartrain's storm surge is controlled by the Seabrook Complex of these; proverbially, if you open them, mayhem breaks loose the floodgates |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $2000: This phrase meaning "completely" includes 2 key parts of a tree; Sojourner Truth spoke of wanting slavery destroyed that way root and branch |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $200: Archie's pal Forsythe P. Jones III goes by this unflattering name Jughead |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $400: Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea Captain Crunch |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $600: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character Sideshow Bob |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $800: On "Gotham" Robin Lord Taylor walked the walk as this villain, aka Oswald Cobblepot The Penguin |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $1000: Please, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs is so formal! Just call the character this the Wizard of Oz |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $400: This author & Pulitzer Prize winner's best-known work is subtitled "The Saga of An American Family" Alex Haley |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $800: The first Latino senator from California, Alex Padilla grew up in this L.A. area with a Spanish name the San Fernando Valley |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1200: This Moscow-born captain of the Washington Capitals is seen with the only man ahead of him--for now--in career NHL goals Ovechkin |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: WWII field marshal Harold Alexander led the extrication of 340,000 men at this location in 1940 & was the last man off the beach Dunkirk |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $2000: Alexandra of Denmark, who married Queen Victoria's oldest son, is seen during the record 38 years she spent holding this title Princess of Wales |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $400: The Hawaiians who developed this dance to honor gods or chiefs never thought there'd be a special Aulani version hula |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $800: The name tells you this is the country to visit in order to perfect your funk carioca Brazil |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $1200: Emerging from Pashtun tribes, the attan is the national dance of this country & involves encircling a drummer Afghanistan |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $1600: A sirtaki features in the movie about this life-loving Greek, who teaches the proper Brit Basil to dance it on the beach Zorba |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $2000: English Morris dancing has a form named for this area of rolling hills & lovely towns like Tetbury & Tewkesbury the Cotswolds |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Booted out of Iceland, set foot in Vinland:
L.E. Leif Erikson |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: P.M. of Israel in the 1970s:
G.M. Golda Meir |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Pseudonym of an intrepid early 20th century newspaperwoman:
N.B. Nellie Bly |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Slid into being Russia's P.M. from 2012-2020:
D.M. Dmitry Medvedev |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: 5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H. Catherine Howard |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $400: She's a Fugees singer, solo artist & not too high incline (Lauryn) Hill |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $800: She's an actress, comedian & public square Plaza |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1200: He is the NBA's all-time leader in games played & an area often covered by one church & one priest a (Robert) Parish |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $2000: He's a "Mamma Mia!" maybe papa & a narrow inlet of the sea in the British isles a firth (Colin Firth) |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $200: Now with more than 200 titles, the "Who Was?" series started with 4 bios, one of this female Native American interpreter Sacagawea |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $400: "The Whydah" is the tale of the first authenticated pirate ship recovered; it sank off this New England cape Cape Cod |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $600: A 2005 book tells the chilling saga of this group that included 90% of German kids by 1939 the Hitler Youth |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $800: "You" do this is an old insult on the ball field; now it's the 4-word title of softball star Jennie Finch's book teaching self-belief Throw Like a Girl |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $1000: Indigenous wisdom is passed on to the TikTok generation in "Braiding", this plant, made into baskets in the South for centuries sweetgrass |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $200: Crop scientist M.S. Swaminathan helped end famine in this country & was known as the father of its green revolution India |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $400: Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to take this woman's seat in the U.S. Senate after her death at age 90 Dianne Feinstein |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $600: Ernie Barnes' 1976 painting "The Sugar Shack" was used in the credits of this dyn-o-mite '70s sitcom Good Times |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $800: CUT is the Beverly Hills steakhouse of this celebrity chef seen here Wolfgang Puck |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | PEOPLE $1000: She first gained fame for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial; more recently she designed New York City's Museum of Chinese in America Maya Lin |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $400: Last name of the husband & wife with an atomic weight of 247 Curie |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $800: There is just the value of this clue, no prize, for knowing this man for whom element 102 was named Nobel |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1200: Johan Gadolin wonders will you still need him, will you still feed him now that he's element number this 64 |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $2000: The element with atomic number 107 was named for this scientist played by Kenneth Branagh in "Oppenheimer" Niels Bohr |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $100: This Oscar-winning filmmaker who played the Sundance Kid started the Sundance Institute to promote independent movies Robert Redford |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $200: Writer Mike White created the role of Dewey Finn, played by him in the film "School of Rock" Jack Black |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $300: Though she was in her 20s at the time, she was well cast as Baby, a Dirty Dancing baby Jennifer Grey |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $400: By some accounts, a character from "Reservoir Dogs" was the inspiration for this stage name of singer Alecia Moore Pink |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $500: Once a clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, she replaced him in 2022 Justice (Ketanji) Brown (Jackson) |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $300: The Hass variety of this food traces its lineage back to a single tree planted by postman Rudolph Hass in the 1920s an avocado |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Featuring fried chicken pieces in a sweet sauce, this Chinese takeout favorite is named after a 19th century military leader General Tso's chicken |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1,500 (Daily Double): Named after a Russian ballerina, this meringue-based dessert is nicknamed "Pav" in Australia Pavlova |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1500: A famed veal dish including shrimp & crab meat is named after this crooner, who might have asked for it to be made "My Way" Sinatra |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $400: This grouchy librettist won a 1950 Pulitzer for his work on "South Pacific" Oscar Hammerstein |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $800: 22nd & 24th POTUS Grover Cleveland |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $1200: The first player in the National League to be MVP two years in a row, he's known as Mr. Cub Ernie Banks |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $2000: Nickname of I. Lewis Libby who grew up to be Vice President Cheney's powerful chief of staff Scooter |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $2,500 (Daily Double): This patron saint of Mediterranean sailors lent his name to a phenomenon seen during storms St. Elmo |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | PEOPLE WHO KNEAD PEOPLE $200: Effleurage is a smooth, 2-handed stroke used in this "national" type of massage Swedish |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $400: 9 wire arches called wickets are used in this backyard game croquet |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | PEOPLE WHO KNEAD PEOPLE $400: Focusing on stimulating this part of the body, Eunice Ingham developed the concept of reflexology the foot |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | PEOPLE WHO KNEAD PEOPLE $600: The name of this type of massage from Japan means "finger-pressure" shiatsu |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $800: Dating back 50 years, "Maze War" & "Spasim" were some of the first of this type of video game, abbreviated FPS first person shooter |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | PEOPLE WHO KNEAD PEOPLE $800: 2-word term for the type of massage that targets muscle layers further below the skin than usual deep tissue |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | PEOPLE WHO KNEAD PEOPLE $1000: On-site massage is also called this type, which comes from the Latin for "body" & can mean "relating to a large company" corporate |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $1200: The classic game Reversi is aka this game, like a Shakespearean title character Othello |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $1600: In Scrabble, these 2 letter tiles are the most lucrative, each worth 10 points Q & Z |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $2000: In chess there are this many possible opening first moves for white 20 |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | PLAY PEOPLE $400: A seducing rake in 1675's "The Country Wife" is named this, like Little Jack in the corner Horner |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | PLAY PEOPLE $800: He based Prince Paul, who says witty things like "It is so exhausting not to talk", on his Irish college tutor Oscar Wilde |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | PLAY PEOPLE $1200: Queen Hecuba has a lot to say in Euripides' play about the suffering women of this city defeated by the Greeks Troy |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | PLAY PEOPLE $1600: Julie Christie & Amanda Donohoe have played the alluring Yelena, who shakes things up in this playwright's "Uncle Vanya" Chekhov |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | PLAY PEOPLE $2000: "Angels in America" has characters both heavenly, such as the angel, & earthly, like the vision of this woman executed in 1953 (Ethel) Rosenberg |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $200: A 19th century man named Preserved Fish was an early broker for what became NYSE for short the New York Stock Exchange |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $400: In 2022 this L.A. Angel with a cutthroat swing won his 9th Silver Slugger Award (Mike) Trout |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $600: It was a "bust" for this explorer in 1806 when he decided not to scale the peak that was later named for him Pike |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $800: Seen here, she became the first woman elected as mayor of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $1000: An "American Masters" documentary on this photographer is subtitled "Prophet of the Avant-Garde" Man Ray |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" Billy the Kid Rock |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century Miley Cyrus McCormick |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Director Ron's actress daughter who took the Spruce Goose on a little jaunt in 1947 Bryce (Dallas) Howard Hughes |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film Elmore Leonard Nimoy |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $400: A monthly person herself, Louisa May Alcott gave her characters Jo & Meg this last name March |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $800: Aubrey Plaza, getting married as this character on "Parks & Rec": "I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Is that cool?" April Ludgate |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $1600: This was revealed as Offred's real name on TV's "The Handmaid's Tale", but not in the novel June |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $2000: "Married", an 1884 collection of stories by this Swede, got him prosecuted for blasphemy August Strindberg |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED $3,800 (Daily Double): The first woman to chair the U.K. Conservative Party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016 Theresa May |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $400: In command of the Bonhomme Richard, he said, "I have not yet begun to fight" John Paul Jones |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $800: Stop the presses! Here's a picture of this newspaper publisher (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: Books by this historian include "Team of Rivals" & "Leadership in Turbulent Times" (Doris Kearns) Goodwin |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1600: The evolutionary theory known as punctuated equilibrium was developed by this paleontologist (Stephen Jay) Gould |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: Besides painting many portraits of George Washington, he founded a museum in Philadelphia as much for science as for art Charles Wilson Peale |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This woman who had more than a casual relationship to the presidency was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 Nancy Reagan |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: This man won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent struggle for free trade unions & human rights in Poland Walesa |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1200: In 1780, this earl won big against Horatio Gates in South Carolina; we can't talk of what happened about a year later at Yorktown Cornwallis |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: Seen here this Lakota leader who resisted U.S. government incursions in search of gold, got his name from a site in the sky, also seen here Red Cloud |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Like John Harvard & John Marshall, this John who founded Methodism has an American university named for him Wesley |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $200: In 1952, before Jonas Salk's vaccine for this became available, the number of U.S. cases surged to 57,000; by 1962, it was 910 polio |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $400: Holy K.I.T.T.! The ex-wife of this '80s TV star wound up marrying a man named Michael (E.) Knight Hasselhoff |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $600: This 1st female Sec. of State:
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, & now that I have it, I am not going to be silent" Albright |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $800: In his 1889 essay "The Gospel of Wealth", this Penn. steel man urged the well-off to use their money to help the less fortunate Carnegie |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $1000: In 2019 Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with this rival country Eritrea |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $200: Chingachgook is a chief of this native people in James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" the Mohicans |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $600 (Daily Double): Neighbor & narrator Nick Carraway doesn't mind some loud parties in this American classic The Great Gatsby |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $600: In this novel Winston Smith finally gets in line with the party & learns to think like everyone else 1984 |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: In an 1862 work, this orphan girl is rescued & adopted by Jean Valjean Cosette |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1000: Roberta takes her last boat ride with Clyde in this novel by Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $200: Australian soldiers began calling their New Zealand counterparts by this "avian" name during World War I Kiwis |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $400: If you're a Cypriot, you're from an island in this sea Mediterranean |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $600: It's someone from the island where Honolulu is, & the yearbook of the Punahou School, which Barack Obama attended Oahuan |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Boricua is a word for a person from this island or of its heritage; Lin-Manuel Miranda is a proud Boricua Puerto Rico |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $1000: Increasingly intermarried with ethnic Japanese, the Ainu are the indigenous people of this northernmost main island Hokkaido |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: This late musician lends his name to the airport in Liverpool John Lennon |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Mother Teresa Airport doesn't serve Calcutta but Tirana, the capital of this nation Albania |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1200: If Jomo Kenyatta Airport is your destination, you're headed for this major city of East Africa that it serves Nairobi |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: This city's airport bears the name of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, one of the first pilots to fly from the U.S. to Australia Sydney |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $2000: Located near Tel Aviv, Israel's largest & busiest airport is named for him, Israel's first prime minister Ben-Gurion |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | HOTELS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $200: 3 palazzi make up the Hotel Danieli in this city, with great views of the Grand Canal Venice |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | HOTELS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: This first name of businessman Davenport, as in Spokane's Davenport Hotel, is also on a crab salad that the hotel sells a lot of Louis (Louie) |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | HOTELS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: Marlon Brando fell for this Polynesian island during a 1960s shoot & today The Brando is a luxury resort on a nearby atoll Tahiti |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | HOTELS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: The mansion of 19th c. rail tycoon Mark Hopkins was the highest point in this city; the Mark Hopkins Hotel is now on the site San Francisco |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | HOTELS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1000: One of the oldest hotels in Kenya bears the name of this explorer whose most famous discovery was another explorer Stanley |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $200: On "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", Ellie Kemper put her ex-St. Louis high school teacher, this star here, to work as a cult leader Jon Hamm |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $400: Before doing it all backwards & in high heels with Fred Astaire, this dancing legend kicked things off in Independence Ginger Rogers |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $600: Born in Kansas City, this actor checked into, & got an Oscar nomination for, "The Hotel Rwanda" Don Cheadle |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $800: As this actress was born in Springfield, it was natural for her to lend her voice to "The Simpsons" in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" Kathleen Turner |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SHOW ME MISSOURI SHOW BIZ PEOPLE $1000: This director from St. Louis wrote all three "Guardians of the Galaxy" volumes, so he's likely typed "I am Groot" more than once (James) Gunn |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $200: This alternative rocker from Detroit mispronounced "Salvation Army" as a kid, leading to the title "Seven Nation Army" (Jack) White |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $400: This great defender & multiple NBA Championship winner has also done a Subway footlong commercial (Draymond) Green |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $600: This actress appeared with Patrick Swayze in "Red Dawn" & "Dirty Dancing" Grey |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $800: This country superstar's hits include "A Better Man" & "Killin' Time" Clint Black |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | COLORFUL PEOPLE $1000: With her sister Savannah, this actress & onetime love of Jude Law started the fashion line Twenty8Twelve Sienna Miller |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: When this Houston U. opened in 1912, its founder was dead via chloroform (his killers having failed with mercury pills) Rice University |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This university was chartered in 1821 after a bequest from Montreal merchant James, not "Slippin' Jimmy" of "Better Call Saul" fame McGill (University) |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: "Hairy" last name of Medford, Massachusetts' Charles, benefactor of a university there Tufts |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: In 1927, the year after the woman it's named for had died, this college became officially affiliated with Vassar Sarah Lawrence |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $4,000 (Daily Double): This D.C. university is named for the educator who opened a school for deaf students in 1817 Gallaudet |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $200: This North Carolina capital was named in honor of a noted explorer in 1792 Raleigh |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: Named for Mahatma, Gandhinagar is home to 300,000 & the capital of Gujarat State in this country India |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa George III |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: In 1954 a New Jersey township voted to reject "Nixon" & renamed itself after this inventor Edison |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1000: Shahr means "city" & after 1979's Iranian revolution, a place was redubbed this last name "Shahr" to honor the new leader Khomeini |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Sir Walter Raleigh, nice photo of you with this woman--must be from before you impregnated her lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton Queen Elizabeth I |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: Not surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson's setup at this home is in front of a lot of books; he estimated he had 9,000+ in 1814 Monticello |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Ponce de Leon has a very elegant map of this peninsula on which he landed April 2, 1513; too bad it shows it as an island Florida |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Looks like this composer has pictures of his kids: Catharina, Wilhelm, Carl, Leopold, Elisabeth, Gottfried, Regina... Bach |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: OK Einstein, we see your Nobel Prize specifically for studying this effect, direct conversion of light energy into current the photoelectric effect |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $400: Elected to Congress in 1830, he wrote, "My election as President of the United States was not half so gratifying" John Quincy Adams |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $800: Many students learn the history of African Americans from John Hope Franklin's antonym-titled history "From ____ to ____" From Slavery to Freedom |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: She's the first Black woman on the Supreme Court & the first justice to have been a federal public defender Justice (Ketanji Brown) Jackson |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1600: 2022 is the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the British composer of beloved works like this bird "Ascending" Lark |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: This 3-named naturalist came up with the natural selection theory around the same time as Darwin, spurring Darwin to go public Alfred Russel Wallace |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $400: This apostle got his famous nickname from refusing to believe in Jesus' resurrection without physical evidence (Doubting) Thomas |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $800: Zipporah was the daughter of Jethro the Midianite & the wife of him, a big name in the Book of Exodus Moses |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1200: The elder daughter of Laban, she bore Jacob 7 children, including Dinah Leah |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1600: A trio of good friends of Daniel in Babylon were Abednego, Shadrach & him Meshach |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $2000: In custody on a charge of murder, he was chosen by the crowd over Jesus & freed by Pontius Pilate Barabbas |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $200: He got stoned:
HAG TOIL Goliath |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $400: Old-timer:
HEALTH MUSE Methuselah |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $600: Big cats did no harm:
NAILED Daniel |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $800: Baptist parent:
BAIL THESE Elisabeth |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $1000: A Roman governor:
TAILPIPE SNOUT Pontius Pilate |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $400: Workers United represents the first unionized freestanding one of these, per a 2021 vote by 27 Buffalo, N.Y. baristas a Starbucks |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $800: In 1937 Walter Reuther of this union gained fame via photos of him being beaten up passing out leaflets at a Ford plant the (United) Autoworkers Union (UAW) |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $1200: The job of unionizing migrant workers was a tall order, but he did it (Cesar) Chavez |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $2000: Comic actor Francis Wilson was serious about the rights of his profession as the first president of Actors' this Actors' Equity Association |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $5,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Teachers' Union head Randi Weingarten seconded the nomination when Liz Shuler became this federation's first female pres. the AFL-CIO |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $300: He wrote about growing up in South Africa in "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $600: Her book projects include "Why Not Me?" & "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" Mindy Kaling |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $900: Seen here, she wrote "Dear Girls", a series of letters to her daughters Ali Wong |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: Her memoir "The Bedwetter" was adapted into a stage musical with songs co-written by Adam Schlesinger Sarah Silverman |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1500: This funny guy seen here included poetry inside his book "Egghead" Bo Burnham |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $400: Some of the Yagua of the Amazon basin still use this weapon for hunting a blow dart |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: This 8-letter word can refer to a person from a Balkan country or from New York's capital an Albanian |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1200: The Flemings of northern Belgium take their name from this region Flanders |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1600: As the name is now considered derogatory, the Lapps of northern Europe should be referred to by this 4-letter name Sami |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: King Goodwill Zwelithini, who passed away in 2021, led this Bantu-speaking people of South Africa for 50 years the Zulu |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: "Hunger Games" actress who helped in a Middle Eastern revolt against the Ottoman Empire Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Iconic 1950s movie "Rebel" who was a member of the Rat Pack James Dean Martin |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: "Karma Chameleon" singer who turned down an Oscar for his performance in "Patton" Boy George C. Scott |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Los Angeles Clippers all-star forward who composed the music for "West Side Story" Kawhi Leonard Bernstein |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: "Good Vibrations" songwriter who also had a No. 1 R&B hit with "In The Midnight Hour" Brian Wilson Pickett |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: Nikki Giovanni's poem about this civil rights heroine ends, "In not being able to stand it. She sat back down" Rosa Parks |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $1200: John Alden woos Priscilla on behalf of a friend in Longfellow's "The Courtship of" this man (Miles) Standish |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $2000: Belinda is the young woman whose "shining ringlets" are scandalously removed in this Alexander Pope poem The Rape of the Lock |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $2,400 (Daily Double): His poem "America" says, "Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister" Allen Ginsberg |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $800: Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things water |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $1200: This English chemist analyzed Ancient Egyptian pigments but is remembered for funding an American institution James Smithson |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $2000: 19th c. Scottish chemist Thomas Graham is known for his namesake law on the rate of this dissemination of gases diffusion |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | CHEMICAL PEOPLE $2,100 (Daily Double): Danish chemist Henrik Dam named this vitamin for its aid in coagulation, a word spelled differently in Denmark K |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $1200: In 1705 he wrote, "I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758" Halley |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $1600: No longer a "Hidden Figure", in 2015, this mathematician & NASA pioneer received the Medal of Freedom Katherine Johnson |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $2000: Sir Isaac Newton had a famous dispute with this German philosopher & mathematician over who invented calculus first Gottfried Leibniz |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $400: To his brother Orion, Mark Twain wrote of & employed a "new-fangled" one of these made by Remington a typewriter |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $800: After introducing rude Charlotte Braun into his comic strip, he let one reader know by letter she wouldn't be around for long Charles Schulz |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $1600: "Never doubt the faithfullest heart", he wrote to his "Immortal Beloved" in an 1812 note Beethoven |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $2000: Georgia O'Keeffe wrote often to this photographer whom she called "Dearest Duck" Alfred Stieglitz |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This Irish poet's great love Maud Gonne addressed him in letters as "My dear Willie" William Butler Yeats |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $400: Describing one of her diamond jubilee celebrations in 1897, she said, "No one ever, I believe, has met with such an ovation" Queen Victoria |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $800: Like her sister Parthenope who was named for Naples, this founder of modern nursing was named for the city of her birth (Florence) Nightingale |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $1600: It's the last name of Sir William, who discovered a planet, & his sister Caroline, the first woman to discover a comet Herschel |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $2000: This Swiss man was the "father of analytic psychology" (Carl) Jung |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): On her death in 2005, this civil rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rosa Parks |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $400: Katniss thinks this man, leader of the Capitol, smells like blood & roses President Snow |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: Things turn out badly for Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because of this medical pro Nurse Ratched |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1200: This slimy villain of "David Copperfield" gets his comeuppance as seen in the illustration here Uriah Heep |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $2000: This character tells Paul Sheldon, "You're going to use this typewriter to write a new novel! Your best novel! 'Misery's Return!"' Annie Wilkes |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | BAD PEOPLE IN BOOKS $5,200 (Daily Double): Smallpox is but one of the retributions suffered by the villainous Madame de Merteuil in this 1782 French novel Dangerous Liaisons |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $400: This comedian, seen here, provided some life lessons in "I Can't Make This Up" Hart |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $800: Mike Birbiglia detailed his somnambulism in do this "with Me"; one event led to Mike hurling himself out a hotel window Sleepwalk |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: The subtitle of "I Must Say" by this Canadian & "SNL" veteran is "My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend" Martin Short |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1600: This co-creator & star of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" wrote "I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are" (Rachel) Bloom |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $2000: Eric Idle's "sortabiography" is titled this, the upbeat, whistling song Eric wrote that ends "Life of Brian" Always Look on the Bright Side of Life |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: In 1959 she became president of India's Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later Indira Gandhi |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro Sally Ride |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: Westminster Abbey's Coronation Chair included this 336-pound symbol in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England the Stone of Scone |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In 2010 the remains of this "father of modern astronomy" were reburied in Poland with full Catholic honors Copernicus |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This Frenchman discovered Prince Edward Island in 1534 & gets credit for naming Canada; you can set your fancy watch by that Cartier |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $400: The film named for this type of early 20th century feminist featured Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst suffragette |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $800: Joseph Fiennes played the bard as a young playwright struggling to establish himself in this 1998 film Shakespeare in Love |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $1200: In this film Gary Oldman played the punk rock bassist for the Sex Pistols, who lived fast & died young Sid and Nancy |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $1600: This actor played Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist", a film about a Jewish musician struggling to survive in the Warsaw ghetto (Adrien) Brody |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $2000: Leo DiCaprio took to the skies as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" with this actress playing Katharine Hepburn Cate Blanchett |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: In 1773 an ex-officer of the Don Cossacks led a rebellion against this empress; in 1775 the ex-officer was headless Catherine the Great |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: In 1956 Goldie Myerson changed her name & 13 years later became prime minister of this nation Israel |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: Truly "The People's Princess", Diana crusaded against these weapons of war & after her death, 160-plus nations agreed to ban them land mines |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: The Tehran tomb of this man is a pilgrimage site, such as on the 40th anniversary of his 1979 return from exile Khomeini |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): Gold found on his land in 1848 ruined this California man; people destroyed his property looking for more & by 1852 he was bankrupt Sutter |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $200: This actress & bestselling author was the first female head writer of the show (Tina) Fey |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $400: Yes, this "Weekend Update" co-anchor is named for the revolutionary Che |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $600: "The ears aren't quite as big", said President Obama of this SNLer who regularly portrayed him Fred Armisen |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $800: Back in 1975 this late comedian hosted the very first "Saturday Night Live" (George) Carlin |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PEOPLE $1000: Her character Mary Catherine Gallagher was based on her own Catholic school experience Molly Shannon |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $200: In 1937 this future U.S. commander in chief made his film debut in "Love is on the Air" Ronald Reagan |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $400: His assassination sparked a war to end all wars (Franz) Ferdinand |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $600: One of the greatest songs he's written is "Send In The Clowns" from "A Little Night Music" Sondheim |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $800: Born with an artistic heritage, she's found beauty in designing jewelry & creating a signature perfume Picasso |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $1000: In 2020 the job of White House Chief of Staff changed M&Ms, from this man to Mark Meadows Mick Mulvaney |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE PEOPLE $200: The Khoekhoe people of southern Africa speak this type of language named for a sound made by swiftly lowering the tip of the tongue click |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE PEOPLE $400: The Tamil people can be found in India & on this island nation across the Palk Strait from India Sri Lanka |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE PEOPLE $600: Nimiipuu is the correct name for the people the French gave this name, mistakenly believing them to have nose piercings Nez Perce |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE PEOPLE $800: The Hawaiian people are thought to descend from 2 waves of migration, from the Marquesas & this largest of the Society Islands Tahiti |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE PEOPLE $1000: Seen here in traditional dress is a family of this idigenous people of Hokkaido Ainu |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $200: In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere Nelson Mandela |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $400: As this title pair, Newman & Redford did leap off a Colorado cliff... onto a mattress a few feet below Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $600: Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie The Wolf of Wall Street |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $800: He has the same birthday--January 17--as Andy Kaufman, whom he portrayed in "Man on the Moon" Jim Carrey |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $1,000 (Daily Double): Played by Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Fifth Estate", he called the film "a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks" Julian Assange |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE $400: The GPO insists you call people from this state "Hoosiers" Indiana |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE $800: Wyoming adds these 3 letters to get the word for a resident, who now sounds like a mineral Wyomingite |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE $1200: This word for someone from New Haven or New Britain rhymes with "butter" Connecticutter |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE $2000: Residents of this state are to be called this state "Residents" to differentiate from the native population Hawaii |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE $2,600 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 states whose final "S" becomes an "N" to describe their residents (2 of ) Texas, Kansas & Arkansas |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $200: The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy Willy Wonka |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $600: "Last Sacrifice" was the finale of Richelle Mead's series about special young people attending this school the Vampire Academy |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates Hans Brinker |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Chapters in this work include "The Mock Turtle's Story" & "The Lobster Quadrille" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $1000: Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute" Speak |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: These 4 words by which Martin Luther King's August 1963 speech is known come more than halfway through it I have a dream |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: A third century BC event from this general's life is depicted here Hannibal |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $1600: This former New York governor serving in Lincoln's cabinet survived an attempt on his life the night the president was shot (William) Seward |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $2000: Banished from Massachusetts in 1635 over the issue of separation of church & state, he founded Rhode Island Roger Williams |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): Florence Nightingale pioneered modern nursing while tending to wounded soldiers during this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: At Hogwarts she's deputy headmistress as well as the transfiguration professor Professor McGonagall |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: In "Twilight", Bella moves to this Washington town & meets the mysterious Edward Cullen Forks |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1200: In the Percy Jackson book series, his half brother Tyson is one of these mythical creatures Cyclops |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1600: In "The Lord of the Rings", this fellow hobbit is Frodo's best friend & gardener Sam |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $2000: The story of a spirited adopted girl growing up in Canada, "Anne of Green Gables" is by this author Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: Hernando Cortes took this Aztec emperor prisoner around 1519 Montezuma II |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: He founded Tuskegee University in 1881 & in 1940 was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: She spent 2 years in exile in London before returning to Pakistan & winning a historic election Bhutto |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this man who was born there around 1028 William the Conqueror |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: A chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota, he fled with his people to Canada in 1877 rather than surrender to the U.S. government Sitting Bull |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | PEOPLE & PLACES $400: In the 19th century Wilhelm Bleek took Ntu, meaning "man", & created this word for a 100-million-strong linguistic group Bantu |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: The people of the Sentinel Islands, west of Thailand at the south edge of this bay, resist contact & enforce that with arrows the Bay of Bengal |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1600: Aboriginal people & Torres Strait Islanders are sometimes called First Nations or the First these people Australians |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: Elaborate headgear & parasols are part of the temple processions in this strongly Hindu island of Indonesia Bali |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | PEOPLE & PLACES $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the French word for an inhabitant of Canada's largest province by area Québécois |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $200: Dorothy,
Aunt Em The Wizard of Oz |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $400: Stephen Dedalus,
Molly Bloom Ulysses |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $800: Ponyboy Curtis,
Johnny Cade,
Cherry Valance The Outsiders |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $1000: Lucie Manette,
Madame Defarge A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $2,200 (Daily Double): John Yossarian &
Milo Minderbinder Catch-22 |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | AUTOMAKER FOR THE PEOPLE $200: Charge down the road in its Charger Dodge |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | AUTOMAKER FOR THE PEOPLE $400: Someone will call 911 if you go too fast in its Macan GTS Porsche |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | AUTOMAKER FOR THE PEOPLE $600: In 2017 you could get its V90 during its King of Sweden Day sales event Volvo |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | AUTOMAKER FOR THE PEOPLE $800: This German company makes the A3 sedan Audi |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $400: John Luther & Macavity the Cat are among the roles of this British actor Idris Elba |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $800: She was in 13 consecutive S.I. swimsuit issues & despite her name, does not speak with a brogue Kathy Ireland |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $1200: Insular first name of merchant Field & running back Faulk Marshall |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $1600: Anne Clark is the original name of this Grammy-winning singer St. Vincent |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | ISLAND PEOPLE $2000: In novels like "American Psycho" & "Glamorama", he's the chronicler of people with more money than is good for them (Bret Easton) Ellis |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | "Mc"PEOPLE $400: On Sept. 6, 1901 he was shot at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo & died 8 days later McKinley |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | "Mc"PEOPLE $800: Once known as the bad boy of tennis, today he's a respected commentator, both here and abroad (John) McEnroe |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | "Mc"PEOPLE $1200: In February 2020 the Duchess of Cambridge paid tribute to this designer on the 10th anniversary of his death, wearing one of his outfits Alexander McQueen |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | "Mc"PEOPLE $1600: She's best remembered by sci-fi readers for her "Pern" novels, many written with son Todd Anne McCaffrey |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | "Mc"PEOPLE $2000: After his 1960s gig as Secretary of Defense, he became president of the World Bank Robert McNamara |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $200: Even in high school, it was clear he'd join his dad's business, the U.S. Navy; he also served 30-plus years in the Senate (John) McCain |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $400: This future vice president got a good Catholic education at Delaware's Archmere Academy, class of 1961 Joe Biden |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $600: Here's this Brooklyn-born legal eagle years before joining the Supremes (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $800: This senator, originally from Alabama but serving Kentucky, overcame childhood polio Mitch McConnell |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT $1000: When this Kentucky man was in high school, his dad was in Congress; nice bow tie, senator (Rand) Paul |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $400: Alexander the Great was born in the city of Pella in this kingdom in 356 B.C. Macedonia |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $800: Consort of the doomed Russian Czar Nicholas II, Alexandra was the granddaughter of this British queen Victoria |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1200: In the 1970s Alexander Haig was supreme commander of this transatlantic alliance ready to fend off the USSR NATO |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $1600: Before he wrote "Roots", Alex Haley helped write the life story of this black nationalist leader Malcolm X |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | PEOPLE NAMED ALEX $2000: Lincoln & this Confederate V.P. met in February 1865 & unsuccessfully talked about trying to end the war Alexander Stephens |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $400: She was Columbia Law School's first female tenured professor & the Supreme Court's second female justice Ginsburg |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $800: This Facebook bigwig wrote "Option B" about life after the sudden death of her husband (Sheryl) Sandberg |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $1200: (Alex Trebek presents from the Harvard Lampoon Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.) As editor of the "Harvard Lampoon" in the 1970s he had the last word; today he hosts "The Last Word" on MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $1600: Katia Beauchamp & Hayley Barna are the co-founders of this monthly beauty subscription service Birchbox |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PEOPLE $2000: This Brit, seen here, invented a little thing called the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $400: In an HBO miniseries, Paul Giamatti was president & accounted for as this title guy born in the 1700s John Adams |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $800: This former Disney child star is seen here around the time he rolled as the King of Rock in the TV movie "Elvis" Kurt Russell |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $1200: In the series "Da Vinci's Demons" Leonardo capers about in this capital of Tuscany Florence |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $1600: On this series Jonathan Rhys Meyers was a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII The Tudors |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV $2000: Robin Weigert played this alcoholic Old West frontierswoman on "Deadwood" Calamity Jane |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $400: In a 2019 film Renee Zellweger channeled this legendary actress near the end of her life, performing in London Judy Garland |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $800: (Christopher Plummer presents the clue.) I had faced questions years before from the notoriously tough interviewer, which helped me play him on film in "The Insider" Mike Wallace |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $1200: Armie Hammer played both Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss in this 2010 film The Social Network |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $1600: (Bryan Cranston presents the clue.) I tried to capture the contradictions of this blacklisted onetime communist who also loved being the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood (Dalton) Trumbo |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | PLAYING REAL PEOPLE $2000: (Ryan Reynolds presents the clue.) In the 2015 film "Woman in Gold", I played Randy Schoenberg, the lawyer who finally got the Austrian government to return Nazi-looted art to the relatives of Adele Bloch-Bauer whose portrait was painted by this Austrian known for his use of gold leaf (Gustav) Klimt |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $200: A boxer: played by Terrence Howard in "King of the World" & Darius McCrary in "Don King: Only in America" Muhammad Ali |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $400: A civil rights leader: Jeffrey Wright in "Boycott" & Nelsan Ellis in "The Butler" Martin Luther King |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $600: An entrepreneur: Anthony Michael Hall in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" & Steve Sires in "The Social Network" Bill Gates |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $800: A martial artist: Philip Ng in "Birth of the Dragon" & Mike Moh in "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Bruce Lee |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $1000: A rock star: Aaron Taylor-Johnson in "Nowhere Boy" & Ian Hart in "Backbeat" John Lennon |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $400: Check out the clue while my DJ revolves it! This '90s rapper actually had a 2nd Top 40 hit: "Play That Funky Music"; still waitin' on 3 Vanilla Ice |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $800: In 1987, 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall played Harry, who hung with the Hendersons, & this film title guy who was not as friendly with Arnold Predator |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $1200: Her post-"Friends" career includes the role of actress Valerie Cherish, trying to make "the comeback" happen Lisa Kudrow |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $1600: Feeling regenerated in "Doctor Who", this actress confessed, "Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman" (Jodie) Whittaker |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | POP CULTURE PEOPLE $2000: "Pretty Baby, You Look So Heavenly" is a chapter title in "Face It", the 2019 memoir by this singing star Debbie Harry |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $800: This actor's diary & pistol are at Ford's Theatre John Wilkes Booth |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: This Irish dramatist wrote, "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1600: This Justice who died age 99 in 2019, is seen around 1975, the year he joined the Supreme Court John Paul Stevens |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This inventor was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society & succeeded his father-in-law as its president in 1898 Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $400: In a 2015 cover story for Vanity Fair, she revealed her new identity & talked about her gender transition Caitlyn Jenner |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $800: Steven Spielberg called this composer "the single most significant contributor" to his "success as a filmmaker" John Williams |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $1200: In 2005 this British graffiti artist installed his own works on the walls of museums in N.Y. & London Banksy |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $1600: Shared last name of the two men seen here, New York's Archbishop & one of the city's sports team owners (Timothy & James) Dolan |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | PEOPLE $2000: Upon the death of Daniel Inouye, this Vermont Democrat, in office since 1975, became the longest-serving U.S. Senator (Patrick) Leahy |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $200: Jenna Bush Hager has a big wine glass to fill replacing Kathie Lee Gifford as co-host of this show's 4th hour TODAY show |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $400: On "Dead to Me", Linda Cardellini befriends this "Married...with Children" actress at a grief support group Christina Applegate |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $600: This children's character played by Bob Keeshan wasn't Australian; he was named for the large pouches in his coat Captain Kangaroo |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $800: As a series creator and actor, he has cast himself as the righteous Jesse Gemstone as well as the crass Kenny Powers Danny McBride |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | TV PEOPLE $1000: The alla prima art technique allowed this man who passed away in 1995 to complete a painting in 30 minutes on PBS Bob Ross |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $400: From his 1952 parole to his 1964 hajj, Malcolm Little went by this name Malcolm X |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $800: Kat Von D rose to TV fame on "Miami Ink" & "L.A. Ink" in this profession a tattoo artist |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $1200: This British pop singer revealed she survived a stroke at 18 & "there's no real reason for the J" Jessie J |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $1600: In the '80s she was New York City club kid Lisa E; she grew up to be the lead actress in "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce" Edelstein |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $2000: In 2014 the Queen signed her first tweet "Elizabeth R.", the R. short for this Latin word Regina |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $400: The biography about "Lady" her tells of coppersmiths, plasterers & her unveiling in 1886 Lady Liberty |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $800: "Lonesome George" tells the story of a loooong-lived one of these on the Galapagos isle of Pinta a tortoise |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $1200: A kids' book about this Giza figure is subtitled "The Pharaoh's Eternal Guardian" the Sphinx |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $1600: Susan Orlean's book about him tells how he became a '20s film star, though his dark coat was difficult to light Rin Tin Tin |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $2000: "Biography of a Germ" focuses on the bacterium that causes this tick-borne disease identified in the 1970s Lyme disease |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $200: In "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", Ryan Reynolds fights with this other "Sexiest Man Alive" Hugh Jackman |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $400: Sexiest Men Channing Tatum & Matthew McConaughey stripped the competition in this 2012 film Magic Mike |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $600: In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", Jude Law is Dumbledore & this guy is the title villain Johnny Depp |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $800: Chris Hemsworth fought alongside this 2018 Sexiest Man who played Heimdall in all 3 "Thor" movies Idris Elba |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE MOVIE TEAM-UPS $1000: Patrick Swayze & Keanu Reeves brought the sexy to this surfing/bank heist movie Point Break |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T (Henry) Ford |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: This future presidential assassin made his acting debut in an 1855 Baltimore staging of "Richard III" John Wilkes Booth |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis Lindbergh |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972 J. Edgar Hoover |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times Brigham Young |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: In 1429 she led her troops at Orleans, driving the English back across the Loire River Joan of Arc |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Morton Sobell, who got 30 years when tried as a spy along with this couple, died in 2018 at age 101 the Rosenbergs |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: On Nov. 5, 1862 the President ordered this "Little Mac" to go, relieving him from command of the Army of the Potomac McClellan |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A biography told of "The Prophet Outcast:" this October Revolution man & eventual Russian exile, "1929-1940" (Leon) Trotsky |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $5,000 (Daily Double): As Chief Justice he presided over the Roe v. Wade & Pentagon Papers cases Warren Burger |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $400: Israel offered this physicist the presidency in 1952; feeling he didn't have the personality for the job, he declined Einstein |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $800: In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier Joe McCarthy |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $1200: William M. Gaines wasn't worried when he launched this irreverent humor magazine in 1952 Mad |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $1600: Born in New York, she moved with her family to Greece & was back for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Norma in 1956 Maria Callas |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $11,381 (Daily Double): In 1954 he ran unoppposed for president of Cuba (Fulgencio) Batista |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $200: Some of this promoter's boxing extravaganzas included the Thrilla in Manila & the Rumble in the Jungle Don King |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $400: In 2013 this NSA contract employee leaked classified documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald Edward Snowden |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $600: This prime minister of Canada is the son of a longtime prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $800: In 2012 the Mo Ibrahim Foundation gave this South African archbishop a special award for "speaking truth to power" Desmond Tutu |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PEOPLE $1000: Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm her as Secretary of Education in 2017 (Betsy) DeVos |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $400: Port Said on the Suez Canal is named for Muhammad Said Pasha, the khedive of this country Egypt |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $800: What's now the Iraqi town of Sadr City was previously named for this tyrant Saddam Hussein |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $1200: This country's beautiful island of Santorini gets its name from the martyr Saint Irene Greece |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): The Karen neighborhood of Nairobi was once the home of this author Isak Dinesen, or Karen Blixen |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $2000: Bolivia & this city, its capital, are both named for men known as liberators Sucre |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | IRISH PEOPLE? $400: This Irish marksman sounds like the rebound of a bullet off as surface Rick O'Shea |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | IRISH PEOPLE? $800: This Irish musician tuned up just like an oldtime jukebox requiring 5 cents a play Nick O'Lodeon |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | IRISH PEOPLE? $1200: Catherine was her birth name & she wielded a whip with a specific number of cords Cat O'Nine-Tails |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | IRISH PEOPLE? $1600: It's the popular tropical houseplant seen here, as well as the possible name of an Irishman Phil O'Dendron |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | IRISH PEOPLE? $2000: I was in tears after watching another sensational emotional work by this imaginary Irish playwright Mel O'Drama |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: In 1899 this man for whom a military medical center is named finished his work on typhoid & turned to yellow fever Walter Reed |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: At the first modern Olympics in 1896, Spyridon Louis won the epic running race for Greece the marathon |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: This man who made mail-order mighty met Alvah Roebuck in 1887 when Alvah answered an ad for a watchmaker (Richard) Sears |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $2000: This novelist-turned-politician was a favorite of Queen Victoria's & twice served as her prime minister Disraeli |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This Maine senator who became Lincoln's veep was named for an uncle who was named for a Carthaginian general Hannibal Hamlin |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $400: In 1381 England had a revolt named for these lowly land workers; the same group rose up in Japan in 1428 peasants |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $800: After a financial collapse in 2008, the "Pots & Pans Revolution" brought down the govt. of this north Atlantic nation Iceland |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $1200: She became president in the Philippines after People Power pushed out Ferdinand Marcos (Corazon) Aquino |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $1600: Iulian Vlad, secret police chief in this country, helped bring about its tyrant's downfall in 1989 Romania |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | PEOPLE POWER $2000: During Arab Spring protests in this north African country, President Ben Ali resigned & fled, leading to free elections Tunisia |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $200: She was First Lady from 1989 to 1993 Barbara Bush |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $400: From 1934 to 1971 this noted photographer was a director of the Sierra Club Ansel Adams |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $600: Prior to March 6, 1964, Muhammad Ali had this name Cassius Clay |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $800: He produced several hit movies in the 1930s and broke speed records, piloting airplanes of his own design Howard Hughes |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1778 he was made President of the Continental Congress; in 1789, he was made Chief Justice of the United States John Jay |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1200: Murder victim Mary Rogers had her name Frenchified as this character in an Edgar Allan Poe mystery Marie Rogêt |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1600: Daniel Boone was a basis for this character in the "Leatherstocking Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper Natty Bumppo |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $2000: Don Armado in "Love's Labour's Lost" may have been based on this soldier poet of Shakespeare's time Sir Walter Raleigh |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $400: Racecar driver Lewis Hamilton paid tribute to her on the 20th anniv. of her death, in a poem called "England's Rose" Princess Diana |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $800: Keats' poem about him includes the lines "Honour to Maid Marian, and to all the Sherwood-clan!" Robin Hood |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $1200: In a Robert Browning poem, he got rid of the rats! That "fought the dogs and killed the cats" the Pied Piper |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $1600: In St. Martinville, Louisiana, not in a forest primeval, is a statue of this Acadian heroine, separated from her beloved Evangeline |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $400: In a 2008 updating, this fairy tale girl escapes her tower & uses her long hair like a lasso to fight evildoers Rapunzel |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $800: In a book series by Rick Riordan, this main character joins the Olympians & also attends a summer camp for demigods Percy Jackson |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1200: Orlando teen Finn & his friends are the heroes of this Ridley Pearson series that ends with "The Insider" Kingdom Keepers |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $1600: Georgia Nicolson, the teenage Bridget Jones, has many diary entries about this, British for kissing or making out snogging |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $2000: "The Boy" & his dad "The Man" navigate a terrible world in this novel by Cormac McCarthy The Road |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $400: On this man's passing in 2018, Jimmy Carter said, "He shaped the spiritual lives of tens of millions of people worldwide" (Billy) Graham |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $800: This document leaker was one of the runners-up to Pope Francis for Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2013 (Edward) Snowden |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $1200: Formerly married to Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki co-founded this DNA testing company with a number in its name 23andMe |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $1600: In 2017 this Brit announced he was launching Virgin Voyages, a cruise line for adults only Branson |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2016 Carla Hayden became the first woman & first African-American in this D.C. post & naturally was sworn in on a book the Librarian of Congress |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $200: Fidel Castro gets an earful from this writer & fellow Cuba resident Ernest Hemingway |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $400: I really doubt a fight could break out between these two men the Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $600: Picasso shows love for his fellow Pablo, this poet Neruda |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $800: This president, on the right, & fellow Ohioan Harvey Firestone wait while Edison naps away Harding |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $1000: These two men, an actor-director & a writer, have a nice chat, perhaps about their last names being homophones Orson Welles and H.G. Wells |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $400: In the 1700s he developed the first practical mercury thermometer & the temperature scale that bears his name Fahrenheit |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $800: Cn is the symbol for an artificially produced radioactive element named for this astronomer Copernicus |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $1200: In 1948 in Africa she made her first big discovery--the partial skull of an ancestor of both apes & early humans Mary Leakey |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $400: The 750,000 people of Bhutan live in these mountains, which include the 24,800-foot Gangkar Puensum the Himalayas |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $800: Winter sports & duty-free shopping lure 8 million tourists a year to this 76,000-strong nation of the Pyrenees Andorra |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $1200: Suriname's citizens converse in Taki-Taki Creole, English & this official language Dutch |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $1600: The small African nation of Djibouti has a strategic location on this sea the Red Sea |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This European country has about 33,000 people; the country that completely surrounds it has about 60 million San Marino |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Chicago Bulls legend & longtime comedy partner of Keegan-Michael Key Michael Jordan Peele |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Voice of Mr. Incredible who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. De Klerk Craig T. Nelson Mandela |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Sophocles drama about the king of Thebes becoming CEO of Exxon Mobil & Secretary of State Oedipus Rex Tillerson |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Female rapper with the album "The Naked Truth" who became the leader of North Korea in 2011 Lil' Kim Jong-Un |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Star of the "Hunger Games" films who wrote Beat poetry & founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Jennifer Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | PEOPLE OF THE WORLD $200: Native Hawaiians are part of this ethnic group whose name means "many islands" Polynesian |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | PEOPLE OF THE WORLD $400: Javanese are the largest ethnic group of this nation Indonesia |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | PEOPLE OF THE WORLD $800: The homeland of the Basques is this border-straddling mountain range the Pyrenees |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | PEOPLE OF THE WORLD $1000: The Pashtun mostly call these 2 countries home; you'll find over 30 million of them there Pakistan and Afghanistan |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | PEOPLE OF THE WORLD $1,200 (Daily Double): Afrikaners were once called by this name meaning "farmer" Boer |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $200: John Irving's "The World According to" him begins with his mom arrested "in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater" Garp |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $400: This author's "Vampire Lestat" introduces himself & says, "I'm immortal. More or less" Anne Rice |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $600: Rachel Cohn & David Levithan compiled the "Infinite Playlist" of these 2 in 2006 Nick and Norah |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $800: A cargo ship out of India loaded with zoo animals doesn't make its final port in this Yann Martel novel The Life of Pi |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | TITLE PEOPLE: HOW NOVEL! $1000: In a Henry James novel, "What" this girl "Knew" includes that her new stepmother & stepfather are having an affair Maisie |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $400: In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $800: This lawyer who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" was later a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet" Francis Scott Key |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1,500 (Daily Double): He's the architect seen here with his plans for a mile-high skyscraper that was never built Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1600: Just days after the Scopes monkey trial ended, this statesman who assisted the prosecution died William Jennings Bryan |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: "The Queen of Suspense", she's written more than 35 bestsellers since the '70s, including "Daddy's Little Girl" Mary Higgins Clark |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $400: He is the last to stab Julius Caesar Brutus |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $800: Ariel is this magician's assistant Prospero |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $1600: In "The Merchant of Venice", she gives the "quality of mercy" speech Portia |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): He calls himself "his Moorship's ancient" Iago |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHAKESPEARE'S PEOPLE $2000: He is told, "If I be waspish best beware my sting" Petruchio |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $200: A man from Germany's largest port city is called this--hold the bun a Hamburger |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $400: The folks seen here are taking part in a musical competition in this country Scotland |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $600: Most of this country's people are Khmer & speak the Khmer language Cambodia |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $800: About 3% of Australia's population are these indigenous people, from the Latin for "from the beginning" Aborigines |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1000: This 3-letter people of China make up the world's largest ethnic group Han |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $400: In 2000 John Paul II came to Capernaum & prayed at the spot where this apostle & first pope is said to have lived Peter |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $1,200 (Daily Double): After the crucifixion Joseph of this city went to Pilate & asked for the body of Jesus Arimathea |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $1200: Paul wrote to the Romans from Corinth; to the Corinthians from Ephesus; &, closing the circle, to them from Rome Ephesians |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $1600: As recounted in 1 Kings & 2 Chronicles, the queen of this realm converted to Judaism Sheba |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: It's the city where a reluctant Jonah was sent to preach Nineveh |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $200: If you are in Wroclaw in this country, you might observe the airport named for Copernicus Poland |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: Ajaccio on this French island has named its airport for Napoleon Corsica |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Venice's airport is named for this Italian traveler Marco Polo |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Cities in Greece & Macedonia both have airports named for this man Alexander |
| #7697, aired 2018-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1000: Konrad Adenauer Airport serves this city where Konrad worked as chancellor of West Germany Bonn |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $200: He was just a candidate for president when William Dickey renamed an Alaska mountain for him McKinley |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: A chap named Peter got his name on this tallest mountain in Washington state Rainier |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: Aoraki is another name for Mount Cook on this country's South Island New Zealand |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: The name of this Oregon mountain honors a British admiral Mount Hood |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1000: The presidential range in the White Mountains, mainly in this state, has peaks named for Washington, Jefferson & Adams New Hampshire |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE $400: He's the classical music-obsessed tyke in "Peanuts" Schroeder |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE $800: Cooper is the last name of this Archie Comics blonde Betty |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE $1200: Before Popeye, she had a boyfriend named Ham Gravy Olive Oyl |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE $1600: Marvel has revived this first black superhero in mainstream comics Black Panther |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE $2000: It was the home of Milo & of Bill the cat Bloom County |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | REAL PEOPLE ON QUARTERS $400: A quarter honors his national historic site in Washington, D.C., & on the back is the man himself Frederick Douglass |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | REAL PEOPLE ON QUARTERS $800: Of the 2 brothers, only Wilbur can be seen clearly in the photo on which this state's quarter was based North Carolina |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | REAL PEOPLE ON QUARTERS $1200: This Rough Rider is seen astride a horse on the 2016 quarter for the North Dakota national park named for him Theodore Roosevelt |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | REAL PEOPLE ON QUARTERS $1600: As the victor in this battle, Oliver Hazard Perry is seen on the quarter for the Ohio memorial that bears his name the Battle of Lake Erie |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | REAL PEOPLE ON QUARTERS $2000: Hail this Caesar who signed the Declaration of Independence on behalf of Delaware & is on the state quarter Caesar Rodney |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $400: This former Soviet leader profiled Putin & said Russia's problems can't "be solved without a change in...government" (Mikhail) Gorbachev |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $800: Russell Crowe wrote the article on this "Saturday Night Live" star who owns all of who she is Leslie Jones |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $1200: Rahm Emanuel writes about this ex-Trump White House Chief of Staff--both started on day one for their president (Reince) Priebus |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $1600: Martin Scorsese shares that this Aussie actress actually slapped Leo DiCaprio in her 1st "Wolf of Wall Street" audition Margot Robbie |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE 2017 $2000: Ex-president of Colombia Cesar Gaviria warns this country's pres. Rodrigo Duterte the war on drugs is "unwinnable" the Philippines |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $400: On the morning of April 15, 1865 Dr. Samuel Mudd set this man's broken leg John Wilkes Booth |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $800: This super-nurse & her supply wagons gave aid to Union casualties & Confederate prisoners Clara Barton |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: This preacher, the brother of author Harriet, gave an oration at the raising of the flag over Fort Sumter at war's end Henry Ward Beecher |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: Asked why the Confederates lost Gettysburg, he "charge"d, "The Yankees had something to do with it" (George) Pickett |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $8,000 (Daily Double): In 1861 this future general received a commission in the Army from his brother John, a senator known for his anti-trust act William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE $400: In New Zealand institutions known as wananga offer university-level programs mainly to students of this ethnicity the Maori |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE $800: Bilbao is the Spanish center of this Pyrenees culture, as you can taste in restaurants like Zortziko Basque |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE $1200: They live in central Russia & Kazakhstan & sound like a deposit on your teeth the Tatars |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE $1600: It's the U.S. state with the largest Somali community Minnesota |
| #7591, aired 2017-09-18 | WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE $2000: This country's German-speaking community in eastern Wallonia has wide autonomy Belgium |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $400: "But there is no joy in Mudville--" this guy "has struck out" Mighty Casey |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships.... sweet" her, "make me immortal with a kiss" Helen |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $1600: From a T.S. Eliot poem: "In the room the women come and go talking of" this Italian master Michelangelo |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Longfellow referred to him as the "Tuscan that wanderest through the realms of gloom" Dante |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $2000: "And" he, "one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head" Richard Cory |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: Meniere's disease is a disorder of this body part affecting balance, & linked to a surplus of fluid the inner ear |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: It can include a compulsion to utter obscenities & was named for a French doctor who called it "maladie des tics" Tourette's |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Graves' disease results in the thyroid's over-production of these & strikes women more often than men hormones |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: This inflammatory digestive disease was named after one of the 3 men who published a paper on it in the 1930s Crohn's disease |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2,500 (Daily Double): In Wilson's disease, this metallic element collects in tissues & can be detected by a brownish ring around the cornea copper |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $400: In January of 2017, he celebrated his 20th anniversary in NBC's Studio 1A (Matt) Lauer |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $800: Abigail "Dear Abby" Van Buren & this twin sister in the same line of work were born July 4, 1918 Ann Landers |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $1200: Jefferson & Beauregard are the full first & middle names of this man who joined the Cabinet in 2017 (Jeff) Sessions |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $1600: Nicknamed "The Pickle Dealer", this explorer who lent his name to continents first supplied ships with pickled goods Vespucci |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | PEOPLE-POURRI $2000: In 1959 Archbishop Makarios was elected the first president of this Mediterranean country Cyprus |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $400: In this song Elton John sings, "Goodbye Norma Jean, though I never knew you at all" "Candle In The Wind" |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $800: "Hush that fuss/everybody move to the back of the bus" goes an OutKast song that caused this woman to bring a lawsuit Rosa Parks |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $1200: "You say you want a revolution...but if you go carrying pictures of" him, "you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" Chairman Mao |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $1600: Her cover of "I'm Every Woman" mentions Chaka Khan, who originally did the song Whitney Houston |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | REAL PEOPLE IN SONG $2000: The Beastie Boys rhymed "tom foolery" with the name of this host of "Scrabble" & "Love Connection" Chuck Woolery |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $400: Alchemist & physician Johann Dippel is said to have inspired this character created by Mary Shelley Dr. Frankenstein |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $1200: Hunter S. Thompson wrote a 1967 nonfiction work about this motorcycle gang the Hells Angels |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $1600: The archetype of the hard-boiled detective, Sam Spade was created by this author & featured in "The Maltese Falcon" Dashiell Hammett |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): This sea captain "with a crucifixion in his face" seeks revenge, but not on a person Captain Ahab |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | PEOPLE ON THE PAGE $2000: In a Hemingway story, this title character's "Short Happy Life" is over when he's shot by his wife during a safari "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $400: Owen Glendower bedeviled Henry IV on stage & in real life as a leader of rebel forces in this U.K. country Wales |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $600: In the play "Julius Caesar" & in real life, this man & Brutus led the assassination conspiracy Cassius |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $800: Sir James Tyrrell was a henchman of Richard III; in the play, he arranges the deaths of the 2 princes imprisoned here the Tower of London |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | REAL-LIFE PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS $1000: Dear friends, this king's army won a decisive battle in France in 1415 Henry V |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | PLANETARY PEOPLE & THINGS $400: This element & its compounds have been used in antiseptics & to treat syphilis mercury |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | PLANETARY PEOPLE & THINGS $800: This singer headlined the 2014 Super Bowl halftime Bruno Mars |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | PLANETARY PEOPLE & THINGS $1200: 11-letter word for pottery of hardened clay earthenware |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | PLANETARY PEOPLE & THINGS $1600: With no dad issues because he had no dad, he was the sky in Greek myth Uranus |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | PLANETARY PEOPLE & THINGS $2000: This cremation services company was incorporated in 1985 the Neptune Society |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: "Some pig" is one of the lifesaving slogans woven by a spider in this work Charlotte's Web |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: At Hogwarts Harry Potter is "sorted" into this house Gryffindor |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: Before the euro, this royal children's book character appeared on the French 50-franc note the Little Prince |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: This lonely old woodcarver carves himself a whittle boy named Pinocchio Geppetto |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | LITERATURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: In a Katherine Paterson classic, an elder twin is taunted with this title, "but Esau have I hated" Jacob Have I Loved |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $200: Later executed as a traitor, he took power in Norway in 1940 Vidkun Quisling |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $400: It's the year the "Q" man seen here was elected vice-president of the United States 1988 |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $600: In 2009 Mary Quant helped launch a Royal Mail stamp series that included this revealing 1960s item she designed the miniskirt |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $800: In 1956 director Jose Quintero staged the first Broadway production of this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | Q PEOPLE $1000: In the 1st century Roman teacher Quintilian wrote a key work on this art of persuasive speaking rhetoric |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $400: In 2013 Google commemorated his 85th birthday with a doodle featuring characters from "Where the Wild Things Are" (Maurice) Sendak |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $800: Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to compose a work for ballet with a Spanish flavor & he did--"Bolero" (Maurice) Ravel |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $1200: Maurice Lucas of the 1970s Portland Trail Blazers inspired this teammate to name his son Luke Bill Walton |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $1600: Sadly, shining star Maurice White, who founded this R&B group, passed away in 2016 Earth, Wind & Fire |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $2000: Maurice Evans played this wise simian "Dr." in "Planet of the Apes" Dr. Zaius |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $400: Big boo-boo in Genesis 25 as this man "sold his birthright unto Jacob", his twin brother Esau |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $800 (Daily Double): The heat is on Abednego & his friends when they show up in this book Daniel |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $1200: This kinswoman to the Virgin Mary & mother of John the Baptist is mentioned only in Luke Elizabeth |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $1600: Goliath makes his presence known in the first book of this man Samuel |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $2000: The Book of John is where you'll find this Pharisee's discourse with Jesus Nicodemus |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE $200: 60 would be from this continent Asia |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE $400: 33 would be of this religion Christianity |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE $600: 75 would be users of this communication device a cell phone |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE $800: 7 would have completed study at this type of institution a university |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | IF THE WORLD WERE 100 PEOPLE $1000: 17 would be this 10-letter term signifying the lack of 2 skills illiterate |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $200: In 2015 this Brit scored the winning goal as the first athlete to be chosen David Beckham |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $400: All right, all right, all right; for the 20th anniversary celebration in 2005, he was the Sexiest Man Alive Matthew McConaughey |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $600: Sadly, this first non-entertainer to be named died in a 1999 plane crash John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $800: In 1993 with Cindy Crawford, he was half of the Sexiest Couple Alive; 6 years later, he was the Sexiest Man Richard Gere |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $1000: 2012 was a big year for him: "21 Jump Street", "Magic Mike" & Sexiest Man Alive Channing Tatum |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $200: Not just theoretically, this sitcom actually won favorite TV show & favorite network TV comedy The Big Bang Theory |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $400: Flip your chair around & tell us that this NBC reality show won for favorite competition TV show The Voice |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $600: Stana Katic & Nathan Fillion both were lauded for their work on this network crime drama Castle |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $800: Best Premium Cable TV Show went to this Showtime stalwart whose main character split time between Berlin & Beirut Homeland |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | 2016 PEOPLE'S CHOICE TV WINNERS $1000: This "royal" Fox series sounds like a horror show but took home the prize for New TV Comedy Scream Queens |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $200: The worse speller of a famous duo, in November 1805 he wrote in his journal, "Ocian in view! O! the joy" William Clark |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: Seen here is an illustration of "The Frog Prince" in this duo's 1812 collection the Brothers Grimm |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $600: A former slave, Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in what's now this Caribbean nation in 1806 Haiti |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: Puttering about with peas, this monk laid the foundation for modern genetics (Gregor) Mendel |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $1000: On a roll, this king of Prussia became the first kaiser of Germany in 1871 Wilhelm (I) |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Shortly before his execution, this abolitionist wrote in a letter that he was "content to die for God's eternal truth" John Brown |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: For this notorious Hun, the honeymoon was over before it began; he died in 453 A.D. on his wedding night Attila the Hun |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: In 1994 Yitzhak Rabin & this king approved a treaty formally ending 46 years of war between Israel & Jordan King Hussein |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A golden age of culture, the Age of him in Greece lasted from about 460 B.C. to 430 B.C. Pericles |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $400: This celebutante starred in & was the exec producer of "The Hottie & the Nottie" Paris Hilton |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $800: In the mid-1980s she had 7 consecutive No. 1 hits, starting with "Saving All My Love For You" Whitney Houston |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $1200: It wasn't until she was in her 20s that this red-headed actress watched her dad on "Happy Days" Bryce Dallas Howard |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $1600: This daughter of an Alaska governor is named for the Connecticut city that's home to ESPN Bristol Palin |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $2000: This Oscar winner directed "The Firm", "Out of Africa" & "Tootsie", in which he also acted Sydney Pollack |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: Painting Dr. Tulp, which means "Dr. Tulip", was one of this artist's first big jobs in Amsterdam Rembrandt |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: A Japanese woman named Okuni began this theater for the common people in 1603 kabuki |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: Catholic ruler Ferdinand II's persecution of Protestants in Bohemia in 1618 sparked this long European war the Thirty Years' War |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: With a nose for science, around 1650 this French author wrote tales about imaginary journeys to the Moon & Sun (Cyrano) de Bergerac |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE $2000: Made famous in a Longfellow poem, in 1621 this man was named military leader of Plymouth Colony Myles Standish |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THIS IS MY PEOPLE $400: Nanook, real name Allakariallak the Inuit |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THIS IS MY PEOPLE $800: WWII code talker John Brown Jr. the Navajo |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THIS IS MY PEOPLE $1200: Crazy Horse the Sioux |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THIS IS MY PEOPLE $2000: 33 high-steel workers killed in the 1907 Quebec Bridge collapse Mohawk |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THIS IS MY PEOPLE $11,000 (Daily Double): Cochise & Geronimo the Apache |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | INTERESTING PEOPLE $400: Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants hit a career total 868 of these home runs |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | INTERESTING PEOPLE $800: Fossil hunter Mary Anning is considered one of the early stars of this 12-letter scientific field paleontology |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | INTERESTING PEOPLE $1200: Brazilian diplomat Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas issued visas to help Jews escape this WWII French regime Vichy France |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | INTERESTING PEOPLE $1600: Born in China in the 13th century, Rabban Bar Sauma traveled to Europe & is called the "Reverse" of this Venetian Marco Polo |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | INTERESTING PEOPLE $2000: Czech double agent Karl Koecher made news in the 1980s for infiltrating this organization that hired him the CIA |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $400: In 1994 Johnny Depp played this B- or maybe Z-movie director Ed Wood |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $800: Austin Stowell plays this pilot detained in the Soviet Union in "Bridge of Spies" Francis Gary Powers |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $1200: "Nixon" could only be this Welshman Anthony Hopkins |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $1600: He was "Hoffa" in 1992 Jack Nicholson |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | PLAYING REEL PEOPLE $2000: In a 2005 movie Gretchen Mol played "The Notorious" this sex symbol Bettie Page |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | PEOPLE $400: In April 2015 this person revealed in a TV interview that for all intents & purposes, "I am a woman" Jenner |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | PEOPLE $800: This leader is widely known in Israel as "Bibi" Netanyahu |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | PEOPLE $1200: Known as the "Junk Bond King" of the 1980s, today he devotes much of his time to philanthropic causes (Michael) Milken |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | PEOPLE $1600: This 2014 Nobel laureate: "I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because... it is the story of many girls" Malala Yousafzai |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | PEOPLE $2000: In 2014 this former princess by marriage celebrated the 40th anniversary of her iconic wrap dress Diane von Furstenberg |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $200: Justice Ginsburg;
late screenwriter Prawer Jhabvala Ruth |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $400: Pastor Osteen;
one of film's Coen brothers Joel |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $600: Rock guitarist Buck;
shutterbug Parker Peter |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $800: The real Mr. Law;
the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | PEOPLE WITH BIBLE BOOK NAMES $1000: Nicaraguan President Ortega;
conductor Barenboim Daniel |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $200: Being Chechen has not always been easy in this large country where most of them live Russia |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $400: ISIS persecutes members of the Mideast's Yazidi sect, who say they are descended only from this man, not his mate Adam |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $600: The Nazis hounded Jehovah's Witnesses in part for refusing to participate in universal this, introduced in 1935 military service |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $800: The phrase "ethnic cleansing" gained currency in 1991 when done to Balkan groups like Muslims in this 2-named state Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $1000: France is not always nice to this ethnic group that included the great French jazzman Django Reinhardt Roma (or Gypsy) |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $400: Christoph Scheiner said sunspots were satellites; this Italian armed with a telescope said, uh, no Galileo |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $800: In 1603 Francis Bacon wrote a treatise supporting the union of these 2 kingdoms, an idea King James liked England & Scotland |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $1200: A 2004 book collected these by Antonin Scalia, opinions where he was in the minority dissenting opinions (or dissents) |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $1600: Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter & moved on to this "geometric" mobile payment company Square |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | SMART PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): The "test" of A.I. named for him is whether a computer can make a person think it's a person Alan Turing |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $400: This Shakespeare prince asks if a ghost he sees is a "spirit of health or goblin damn'd" Hamlet |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $800: Evil forces in this 1977 novel covet young Danny's precognitive powers The Shining |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $1200: Marvel's motorcycle stuntman Johnny Blaze, who's kind of a hothead Ghost Rider |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $1600: Hoping to save his old partner from a similar fate, this spectre appears in chains in an 1843 work Jacob Marley |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | DEAD PEOPLE $2000: A governess sees the ghosts of 2 former servants in this novella by Henry James The Turn of the Screw |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $400: This "Father of Texas" has 2 Texas colleges named for him, one in Sherman & one in Nacogdoches Austin |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $800: In 1967 philanthropist Leonard Case's Institute of Technology united with this Cleveland school Western Reserve |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $1200: Founded in 1867 & later attended by Thurgood Marshall, it was named for the first head of the Freedmen's Bureau Howard |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $1600: Bishop James Bayley named this Catholic school in South Orange, N.J. for his aunt, the first American-born saint Seton Hall |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | COLLEGE PEOPLE $2000: This school was named for the Muncie, Indiana jar company founders who donated the land Ball State |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $400: The 1st century Book of Jubilees lists this man's wife as Emzara; hope she could swim! Noah |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $800: The Bible doesn't name her, but Josephus gives us this name for Herod's dancing stepdaughter Salome |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $1200: Traditional Ethiopian lore names this royal female friend of Solomon as Makeda the Queen of Sheba |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $1600: The Babylonian Talmud identifies this patriarch's mother as Amthlai Bath Khrubu Abraham |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | UNNAMED BIBLE PEOPLE NAMED $2000: The Gospel of Nicodemus names the thieves crucified with Jesus: him & Gestas Dismas |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $200: NFL fans know this fella touched down as Paul Tagliabue's successor in 2006 Roger Goodell |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $400: This advertising icon closed up shop in 2011 when GM sent him into retirement Mr. Goodwrench |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $600: In 1993 he became the 1st game show producer inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Mark Goodson |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $800: As Walter in "The Big Lebowski", he definitely didn't roll on Shabbos (John) Goodman |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $1000: We have "Big Love" for this "Once Upon a Time" actress who uses an unusual spelling for her first name Ginnifer Goodwin |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: This H.B. Stowe character was partially based on josiah Henson, a slave who escaped the south to Canada Uncle Tom |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: Tom Blankenship, the son of the town drunkard in Hannibal, was the inspiration for this classic character Huckleberry Finn |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $2000: Self-destructive poet Delmore Schwartz was the model for this title gift-giver in a Saul Bellow book Humboldt |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $200: This funny family includes Damon, Marlon, Shawn & Keenen the Wayans |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $400: In 2014, Spike hosted an all-star comedy tribute to this beloved comedian pictured here Don Rickles |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $600: Though she came around, Barbara Walters said she initially hated this funny lady's "Baba Wawa" impression Gilda Radner |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $800: She's done HBO specials & had her own late-night talk show, & in 2014, she was a mentor on "Last Comic Standing" Wanda Sykes |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FUNNY PEOPLE $1000: She does a lot of improvising as the rather abrasive Fiona Wallice on "Web Therapy" Lisa Kudrow |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: Larry David's neighbor Kenny Kramer inspired the character who lived in apartment 5B on this sitcom Seinfeld |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: (George Stephanopoulos presents the clue.)
It's been said that Sam Seaborn on this TV drama was based on me, but actually, my job was a bit more like Josh Lyman's The West Wing |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1200: The Dude who abides in this film was based on film producer Jeff Dowd The Big Lebowski |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1600: Newscaster Mort Crim, who wasn't happy about pairing with Jessica Savitch, inspired this comedic movie character Ron Burgundy |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $2000: This 1930s cartoon character wasn't based on just any flapper-- specifically on singer Helen Kane Betty Boop |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $400: She was born Sophie Frederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst in Prussia in 1729; go east, young girl! Catherine the Great |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $800: Piscine nickname of the 1974 A.L. Cy Young award winner (yes, he had whiskers) "Catfish" Hunter |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $1200: She found "Big Trouble in Little China" before her days on "Sex & the City" Kim Cattrall |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $1600: This ancient Roman wrote poems in praise of the lady he called Lesbia & on the death of her sparrow Catullus |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | "CAT" PEOPLE $2000: Much of our knowledge of 19th-century Native Americans comes from paintings & drawings by him George Catlin |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $200: In a 16th-century work, the ruler of this empire is receiving tributes the Aztec Empire |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $400: In the 1520s, this ex-priest was painted by his close friend, Lucas Cranach the Elder Martin Luther |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her country Elizabeth I |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $800: As well as painting
entertainers, Andy Warhol portrayed leaders, like this man Chairman Mao |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $1,800 (Daily Double): A book of psalms
from the 13th century
shows the 12th-century murder of this man Becket |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | NATIONAL PEOPLE? $200: Last name of Huck & of Crowded House singer Neil Finn |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | NATIONAL PEOPLE? $400: Body contact in hockey, maybe slamming someone into the boards check/Czech |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | NATIONAL PEOPLE? $600: It comes before "free" to mean making a clean getaway Scot |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | NATIONAL PEOPLE? $800: The "Seinfeld" holiday Festivus employed one of these instead of a tree a Pole |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | NATIONAL PEOPLE? $1000: Verb meaning to condescend to grant deign/Dane |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $200: Before becoming royalty, she was a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico Princess Diana |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: He was arrested in February of 1956 for organizing a bus boycott; his $500 fine was suspended on appeal Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $600: North Korea's press said this leader played his very 1st round of golf in 1994 & did okay--a nifty 38 under, with 5 aces Kim Jong-il |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: In 1964 this Russian-Jewish painter made a stained-glass window for New York's U.N. building Marc Chagall |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $1000: After her 1978 death, it was revealed that this ex-prime minister of Israel had leukemia for 12 years Golda Meir |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE $200: In 2001 this radio pundit told his "Dittoheads" that he was deaf in his left ear & only had about 20% hearing in his right Rush Limbaugh |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE $400: At the wedding of this founder of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., a grain of rice thrown for luck punctured her eardrum (Juliette Gordon) Low |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE $600: Sam Seaborn on "The West Wing", this ex-Brat Pack actor became deaf in his right ear at age 1 Rob Lowe |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE $800: In 1988 I. King Jordan became president of this university after students led a "deaf president now" campaign Gallaudet |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | HEARING-IMPAIRED PEOPLE $1000: Late in life, in the 1820s, this Spaniard made some of his gloomiest art in Quinta del Sordo, "The Deaf Man's House" Goya |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $400: 007 faced Javier Bardem as Silva in this adventure Skyfall |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $800: Masked villain in "The Dark Knight Rises" Bane |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $1200: Film featuring bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz Django Unchained |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $1600: Richard Griffiths, who played this relative of Harry Potter, died in 2013 Vernon Dursley |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $2000: Samuel L. Jackson has played this agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE $1200: Established in 1960, the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center helped stimulate the growth of this Alabama city Huntsville |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE $1600: The site of a World's Fair, this city serves as a gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park Knoxville |
| #6717, aired 2013-11-26 | THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE $2000: This city that's home to the main campus of the U. of Arkansas was occupied by Union troops during the Civil War Fayetteville |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $200: Welsch is the last name of this title 11-year-old girl spy Harriet |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $400: John Bemelmans Marciano, grandson of the creator of this girl, wrote her "and the Old House in Paris" Madeline |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $600: "I Am Number" this isn't Brett Favre's memoir but young adult sci fi about the Loric children Four |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $800: Her popular books for young people include "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great" Judy Blume |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: Meaning "differing", it's Veronica Roth's first book about Beatrice Prior's rebellious choices Divergent |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PEOPLE $200: People noted, "They were partying like it was 1999 at... Carnegie Hall for a concert celebrating the music of" him Prince |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PEOPLE $400: People named this movie star & goop.com provider the "World's Most Beautiful Woman" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PEOPLE $600: Unimpressed with Season 5's start of this Edie Falco medical drama, people said, "Stick out your tongue and say blah" Nurse Jackie |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PEOPLE $800: Her "shocking confession": Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen, may have fathered her son Ronan Mia Farrow |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | PEOPLE $1000: In 2013 people reported "the new YouTube sensation" was "doing" this dance; "R.I.P. Gangnam Style!" the Harlem Shake |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $400: Known for his Gettysburg "Charge", after the War he sold insurance in Richmond (George) Pickett |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $800: It was at a victory that this CSA Gen. reportedly said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it" (Robert E.) Lee |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: Julia Ward Howe wrote this "Hymn", the semi-official song of the Union Army, after visiting an army camp near Washington, D.C. "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: After the War, this Union general known for his whiskers was elected Governor of Rhode Island 3 times (Ambrose) Burnside |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $2000: A former slave, she was appointed to the National Freedman's Relief Association in 1864; in your face, Tubman! Sojourner Truth |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $400: Completed in 1883, this bridge over the East River was built at a cost of $15 million (but I'll sell it to you for a cool 10) the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $800: The programs of this mayor of NYC from 1934 to 1945 included slum clearance & airport construction La Guardia |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $1200: James & Franklin, sons of this First Lady & native New Yorker, both served in the House of Representatives Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $1600: He was born Henry McCarty in New York City; some 22 years later, Pat Garrett put an end to him Billy the Kid |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $2000: 38 miles long & 3 miles wide at its broadest point, Seneca is the largest of this "body part" group of lakes the Finger Lakes |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $200: This Philistine said, "Give me a man, that we may fight together"; only David answered the call Goliath |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $400: This disciple "went unto the chief priests, to betray" Jesus Judas |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $600: This king's "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt" King Solomon |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1000: Once a persecutor of Christians, Saul changed his name to this after his conversion Paul |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Before this strong guy's birth, an angel came to his mother saying, "No razor shall come on his head" Samson |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $400: World population hit 1 billion in this early 19th Century year that Thomas Jefferson was re-elected president 1804 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $800: There were now 2 billion of us in this roaring year that Lindy flew into history 1927 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $1200: World population hit 3 billion in this year that Rome hosted the Summer Olympics 1960 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $1600: This year of Nixon's resignation saw the dawn of a world of 4 billion 1974 |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | BILLIONS OF PEOPLE $7,000 (Daily Double): 5 billion Earthlings were on the globe in this 1980s year when the stock market crashed on "Black Monday" 1987 |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: This South American country is named for an Italian navigator (don't think too much) Colombia |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This South American country that became independent in 1825 is named for its liberator Bolivia |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: This country on the Rhine River is named for an Austrian prince; his descendants still rule the country Liechtenstein |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: This Indian Ocean island is named after a former governor, Maurice of Nassau Mauritius |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: A British territory, this island group about 700 miles east of the Carolinas is named for its discoverer Bermuda |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU $200: You're ready for the final ascent of K2, but where are your canisters of this third-most abundant element in the universe? oxygen |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU $400: You're heading home to watch the big game, but this honeycombed tank at the front of your engine is overheating! radiator |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU $600: Today's the big audition, but you've come down with this inflammation of the voice box! laryngitis |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU $800: Your vintage T-shirt of this Black Francis - Kim Deal band shrank 3 sizes in the wash! the Pixies |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU $1000: You're ready for the giant annual August food fight in Bunol, Spain that uses these but just found out you're allergic! tomatoes |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $400: In 1900 he introduced the Brownie camera, intended for use by children & sold for one dollar (George) Eastman |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $800: He played Pardner in 1969's "Paint Your Wagon"; go ahead, make my day... name him Clint Eastwood |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $1200: Known for his "Search & Destroy" policy, he directed U.S. Forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 (General William) Westmoreland |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $1600: In 1939 this man founded his aircraft company, which would acquire the Grumman Corporation in '94 Northrop |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | DIRECTIONAL PEOPLE $2000: This "Joan of Arc" poet & Coleridge contemporary was from Bristol, England, not a certain paht of Baw-ston Robert Southey |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $400: This Oscar-winning actor played Jack Byrnes, the overprotective father, in all 3 of the Fockers films (Robert) De Niro |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $800: In 1541 this Spanish explorer & his men reached Arkansas, still looking for gold Hernando de Soto |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1200: This director of "The Ten Commandments" was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cecil DeMille |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1600: In the 1950s this American heart surgeon pioneered aneurysm repair (Michael) DeBakey |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $2000: Most of this French author's 250 short stories, including "Ball of Fat", were written in the 1880s Guy de Maupassant |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $200: "Back After Baby!" In 2012, this singer & mom to Blue Ivy was hailed as the "world's most beautiful woman" Beyoncé |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $400: This "Pretty Woman" has been named the prettiest 4 times, most recently in 2010 Julia Roberts |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $600: In 1990 this "Fabulous Baker Boys" girl graced the cover of the first "most beautiful" issue Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $800: Storm in the "X-Men" movies, she reigned as the cover girl in 2003 Halle Berry |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | PEOPLE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVER GIRLS $1000: She was probably "Up All Night" after making the cover of the 2009 issue Christina Applegate |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: A British physician first described this disease in 1817 in "An Essay on Shaking Palsy" Parkinson's disease |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Dr. Hashimoto examined tissue samples & goiters to discover the disease now named for him that affects this gland thyroid |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: Cushing's disease is caused by a tumor of this gland that sits on the underside of the brain the pituitary |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $2000: About 1 in 25 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of this disease named for a British physician & an American neurologist Tay-Sachs disease |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): The section of lymph node seen here, is showing this uncommon cancer of the lymphatic system Hodgkin's disease |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $200: Anonymous London killer of 1888 Jack the Ripper |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $400: In Matthew 3 he heralds the coming of Jesus John the Baptist |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $600: He'd killed numerous men by the time he died around age 20 in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $800: Bobby Darin is among those who've sung this tune about the blade-wielding Macheath Mac the Knife |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | ___ THE ___ PEOPLE $1000: This PBS Kids construction whiz & his "Can-Do Crew" entertain kids in 45 languages Bob the Builder |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | FUNNY THINGS PEOPLE SAY $400: "There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright", said this Welsh poet (who often wasn't) Dylan Thomas |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | FUNNY THINGS PEOPLE SAY $800: Gossips agree with Amanda Lear's line "I hate to spread" these, "but what else can one do with them?" rumors |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | FUNNY THINGS PEOPLE SAY $1200: This quintessential NYC filmmaker: "Some guy hit my fender & I told him, 'Be fruitful & multiply', but not in those words" (Woody) Allen |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | FUNNY THINGS PEOPLE SAY $1600: Charles de Gaulle asked, "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of" this food? cheese |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | FUNNY THINGS PEOPLE SAY $2000: "We expected a better play", said a heckler in 1927 to this witty Brit about "Sirocco"; said he: "I expected better manners" (Noël) Coward |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PEOPLE ARE READING... $200: "An American Son", by this senator whose parents left Cuba in the 1950s Marco Rubio |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PEOPLE ARE READING... $400: If they bought it before it was pulled, this Jonah Lehrer book on creativity whose title is also a John Lennon song Imagine |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PEOPLE ARE READING... $600: "The Price of Politics", the latest by this tireless reporter on the White House & Capitol Hill Bob Woodward |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PEOPLE ARE READING... $800: "Wherever I Wind Up" by R.A. Dickey, who unlike most baseball players has mastered both written English & this weird pitch the knuckleball |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PEOPLE ARE READING... $1000: "Get Jiro!", a graphic novel by this host of "No Reservations"; Jiro is a sushi chef known to decapitate diners Anthony Bourdain |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: Dennis O'Kelly owned Eclipse, one of these, & won a bet that Eclipse would beat the field by 240 yards a racehorse |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: Robert Walpole, in power from 1721 to 1742, is regarded as the first of these British heads of government prime minister |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: She disliked living in New York City; living in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797 suited her a bit better Martha Washington |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: This Russian's achievements included the founding of cities Peter the Great |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | 18th CENTURY PEOPLE $2000: In 1781 he "critique"d Leibniz' idea that the mind can grasp truths about entities like God Immanuel Kant |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | ALLITERATION FOR THE PEOPLE $400: Spanish superstar,
cultivated cubism
glorious "guitar" Pablo Picasso |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | ALLITERATION FOR THE PEOPLE $800: Dublin dude,
nifty novelist,
famous Finnigans James Joyce |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | ALLITERATION FOR THE PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Missouri miscreant,
bank bandit,
Ford finished Jesse James |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | ALLITERATION FOR THE PEOPLE $1200: Austrian Archduke,
awful assassination,
didn't duck Franz Ferdinand |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | ALLITERATION FOR THE PEOPLE $2000: Magnificent mime,
silent sort,
"Bip" bopped Marcel Marceau |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | 2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION $200: Basketball's Steve Nash, football's Larry Little guard |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | 2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION $400: Hockey's Bobby Hull, basketball's Dennis Rodman forward |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | 2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION $600: Hockey's Patrick Roy, soccer's Hope Solo goalie |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | 2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION $800: Baseball's Mariano Rivera, TV's Kyra Sedgwick (by the show's title) closer |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | 2 PEOPLE, SAME POSITION $1000: Baseball's Ozzie Guillen, Dunder Mifflin boss Andy Bernard on "The Office" manager |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | PEOPLE OF FAITH $200: In their youth Rick Santorum & Antonin Scalia each served as this, helping a priest celebrate mass an altar boy |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | PEOPLE OF FAITH $400: In this major branch of Islam, an Ayatollah is an important teacher or leader Shiite |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | PEOPLE OF FAITH $600: The Gideons say these last an average of 6 years Bibles |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | PEOPLE OF FAITH $800: In a synagogue this person also called a hazzan leads the congregation in chanting & singing the cantor |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | PEOPLE OF FAITH $1000: Another term for a heathen, originally it meant a follower of ancient religions a pagan |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $200: Nicknamed "Missy the Missile", this 2012 swimming gold medalist has size 13 feet & a 6-foot 4-inch wingspan Missy Franklin |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $400: On Jan. 22, 1989 this 49ers receiver set a Super Bowl record with 215 yards Jerry Rice |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $600: She beat Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" exhibition tennis match Billie Jean King |
| #6446, aired 2012-10-01 | SPORTS PEOPLE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) His account of a shot at the 2012 Masters says all he did was keep it under a tree, make it rise, then hook about 40 yards--just another example of what this man calls "Bubba Golf" Bubba Watson |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | PEOPLE WITH BRADY KID NAMES $400: Known as The Shark, he was the first PGA Tour player to surpass $10 million in earnings Greg Norman |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | PEOPLE WITH BRADY KID NAMES $800: He founded the Black Panther Party with Huey Newton in 1966 Bobby Seale |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | PEOPLE WITH BRADY KID NAMES $1200: His father was the first anchor of a nightly news program in Canada; he came south & anchored at ABC Peter Jennings |
| #6413, aired 2012-07-04 | PEOPLE WITH BRADY KID NAMES $1600: She & Christopher Darden headed up the prosecution team in the O.J. murder case Marcia Clark |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PEOPLE $200: With "prayers and blessings", he sent his first tweet in 2011, announcing the launch of an online Vatican news portal Benedict XVI |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PEOPLE $400: In Feb. 2012 New Jersey's governor ordered flags be flown half-staff during the funeral of this Newark-born singer Whitney Houston |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PEOPLE $600: Kim Jong Un has succeeded his father as the leader of this country North Korea |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PEOPLE $800: On his 2011 passing Apple said, "The world is immeasurably better because of" him Steve Jobs |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PEOPLE $1000: This fashion designer created dresses worn in the movie "Bride Wars" and in the TV series "Gossip Girl". Vera Wang |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $200: "Cavalleria rusticana" takes place on this large Italian island Sicily |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $400: A soprano plays the title bird in "The Nightingale", based on a tale by this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $600: "Azora" concerns the romantic entanglements of a daughter of this Aztec emperor Montezuma |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $800: The title character of Bellini's "Norma" is one of these British pagan priest(esse)s a Druidess |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $1000: "Belisario" takes place in this eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the west the Byzantine Empire |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $400: "The angel of the Lord appeared unto him" in a burning bush Moses |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $800: The book of Mark reports that this tax collector & first gospel writer was the son of Alphaeus Matthew |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1200: His brothers dipped his coat in goat's blood to make his father Jacob believe animals had devoured him Joseph |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $2000: The gospels cite the prophet Isaiah calling this New Testament figure a voice "that crieth in the wilderness" John the Baptist |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $2,200 (Daily Double): This shepherd became King Saul's personal musician & armor bearer David |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $200: Shakespeare based these 2 characters on a certain Miss Cappelletti & a Mr. Montecchi Romeo & Juliet |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $400: This detective was partly based on Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell Sherlock Holmes |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $600: The character of Natty Bumppo in "The Leatherstocking Tales" was based on this frontiersman Daniel Boone |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: Victor Hugo based this fugitive on Eugene Vidocq, a convict turned businessman & private detective Jean Valjean |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1000: Joel Chandler Harris based this storyteller on a former slave he had met in Georgia Uncle Remus |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | PEOPLE $200: In July 2011 this former First Lady passed away in Rancho Mirage, California at the age of 93 Betty Ford |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | PEOPLE $400: In 2011 this fashion designer's Double RL Ranch hosted the wedding of his son to a presidential niece Ralph Lauren |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | PEOPLE $600: At Comic-Con 2011, Adam West, Burt Ward & Julie Newmar reunited for a panel on this TV series Batman |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | PEOPLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Once second in line to the British throne, today he's fourth Andrew |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | PEOPLE $1000: This husband of Gabrielle Giffords piloted the final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour Mark Kelly |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS $400: In "Gatsby's Girl" Caroline Preston fictionalized the romance of Ginevra King & this writer during his Princeton days F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS $800: The title of Nancy Horan's historical novel "Loving Frank" refers to this creator of Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS $1200: The title of Jerry Stahl's "I, Fatty" refers to this comedian who narrates it Fatty Arbuckle |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS $2000: Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for "Wolf Hall", told from the perspective of this advisor to Henry VIII Thomas Cromwell |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS $4,000 (Daily Double): The novel "The Paris Wife" is narrated by Hadley Richardson, this writer's first wife (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | PAPAL PEOPLE $200: 2005:
XVI Benedict |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | PAPAL PEOPLE $400: 1914:
XV Benedict |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | PAPAL PEOPLE $600: In the same year:
I & II John Paul |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | PAPAL PEOPLE $800: 1958:
XXIII John |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | PAPAL PEOPLE $1000: 1963:
VI Paul |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $200: In "All the President's Men", Hal Holbrook played the secret informant dubbed this Deep Throat |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $400: In a 1996 movie it was "The People vs." this Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $600: This 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film told the story of Chinese ruler Pu Yi The Last Emperor |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $800: In "Moneyball" Brad Pitt played this Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | REAL PEOPLE ON FILM $1000: Josephine Baker & Cole Porter are portrayed in this 2011 Woody Allen movie Midnight in Paris |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $200: Part I of a 1726 book is "A Voyage to" this place, home to human creatures "not six inches high" Lilliput |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $400: These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans Oompa Loompas |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $600: L. Frank Baum's Oz books include these underground folk, spelled without the silent "G" Nomes |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $800: Say "a prayer for" this tiny boy who kills his pal's mom with a foul ball Owen Meany |
| #6238, aired 2011-11-02 | LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT $1000: Tyrion's last name in "A Game of Thrones" Lannister |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | A "TON" OF PEOPLE $200: In 2004 the most valuable guitar, this rocker's Stratocaster "Blackie", sold for $959,500 at auction (Eric) Clapton |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | A "TON" OF PEOPLE $400: In the 1991 remake of "Father of the Bride", she played the mother of the bride Diane Keaton |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | A "TON" OF PEOPLE $600: He's the voice of country music seen here Blake Shelton |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | A "TON" OF PEOPLE $800: After his death in 1974, his son Mercer took over his band Duke Ellington |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | A "TON" OF PEOPLE $1000: His "Boyz N the Hood" earned him the first-ever best director Oscar nomination for an African American John Singleton |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $200: For his role in "Jerry Maguire", the American Comedy Awards named him Funniest Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $400: Named for Benjamin Franklin, this businessman opened the Akron Rubber Works in March 1871 B.F. Goodrich |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $600: It just isn't Sunday morning without this CBS newscaster (Charles) Osgood |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $800: In 1934 this jazz clarinetist formed his first big band, featuring drummer Gene Krupa & Bunny Berigan on trumpet Benny Goodman |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | "GOOD" PEOPLE $1000: In 1995 she won a Pulitzer Prize for History for "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt" Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $200: In 2011 he was no longer the world's richest person--only because he gave $28 billion to his foundation (Bill) Gates |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $400: The bulk of the holdings of No. 10, Christy Walton, the world's richest woman, are in this company Walmart |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $600: This Omahan, third on the list, said, "The asset I most value, aside from health, is... friends" Warren Buffett |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $800: Big in conservative politics, Charles & David are brothers with this last name & are ranked 18 & 19 Koch |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $1000: $23.3 billion gets Sheldon Adelson to No. 16; his $1.9 billion Palazzo resort opened in this city in 2007 Las Vegas |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $400: At his second inaugural address in 1793, he made no mention of his dogs Sweet Lips, Drunkard & Tipsy Washington |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $800: This long-term Caribbean leader who came to power in 1959 is an accomplished ping-pong player Fidel Castro |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $1200: At the St. Louis exposition of 1904, this Apache leader signed & sold autographs Geronimo |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $1600: This French thinker & author of "No Exit" had an ocular condition & was called "short, ugly, wall-eyed" by Life magazine (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | MINOR FACTS ABOUT MAJOR PEOPLE $2000: As a prince, this Prussian embraced the arts & music; as king following his father, Frederick William, he waged war Frederick the Great |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | PEOPLE WHO MATTERED $400: Artist William Golden designed the eye that serves as this network's trademark CBS |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | PEOPLE WHO MATTERED $800: Dying in 2010 at the age of 90, Fred Morrison was credited with inventing this, initially called the Pluto Platter the frisbee |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | PEOPLE WHO MATTERED $1200: Justin Kaplan, winner of a Pulitzer, was the editor of the 17th edition of this book of quotations Bartlett's |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | PEOPLE WHO MATTERED $1600: Wayne Clough is the 12th secretary of this complex that includes the National Zoo the Smithsonian |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | PEOPLE WHO MATTERED $2000: On April 5, 1841 Fletcher Webster, chief clerk of the state Dept., told this nightshirt-clad man, you're now president Tyler |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $400: (Alex stands at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) The Western Wall is the only remnant of a retaining wall that was built to support the Temple Mount; now tradition says this mount was Moriah, the site where this patriarch prepared to sacrifice his son Abraham |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the bank of the Jordan River in Israel.) As depicted in art, after parting the River Jordan with his cloak, this biblical prophet followed a chariot of fire into Heaven Elijah |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $1600: It was the wealthiest Greek city in Paul's time; he founded a church there & wrote 2 letters to its Christians Corinth |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a church in Galilee in northern Israel.) This Italian Franciscan church is dedicated to these 9 assertions Jesus made nearby about the blessed the Beatitudes |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES $5,000 (Daily Double): Ezra was the leader of the Jews who returned from this land, by whose waters they had sat down & wept Babylon |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | & OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE $400: Kenyan actor Deep Roy played all of these helpers in Tim Burton's "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" the Ooompa Loompas |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | & OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE $800: Dwarves join Donkey to dance & sing "I'm A Believer" in this 2001 animated film Shrek |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | & OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE $1200: In this 1981 Terry Gilliam film, the title little guys have stolen a temporal-travel map from the Supreme Being Time Bandits |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | & OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE $1600: Trumpkin, played by Peter Dinklage, is a dwarf loyal to Caspian in this film series (The Chronicles of) Narnia |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | & OTHER LITTLE PEOPLE $2000: Frank, played by Peter Dinklage, has unwelcome news about the deceased in this 2010 comedy Death at a Funeral |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | COLLEGES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: This university has campuses in Utah & Hawaii Brigham Young |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | COLLEGES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: D.C.'s Columbian University got this new name in 1904 George Washington University |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | COLLEGES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1200: This Tulsa school was named for the evangelist seen here Oral Roberts University |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | COLLEGES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: One of the Claremont Colleges says, "Our name is" this (Harvey this), "and we're proud of it" Mudd |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | COLLEGES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $2000: This private liberal arts college in Bronxville, N.Y. was named for the wife of its founding donor Sarah Lawrence |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $200: The Lord told him, "Come thou and all thy house unto the ark" Noah |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $400: This son of Jacob & Rachel was sold by his brothers to the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver Joseph |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $600: This first gospel writer had a feast at his house for his fellow tax collectors with Jesus as the honored guest Matthew |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $800: This patient man's name may mean "persecuted one" or "repentant one" Job |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $1000: After Jesus' resurrection, this fisherman was the first disciple to whom Jesus chose to appear Simon Peter |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | BEATLES PEOPLE $200: "And anytime you feel the pain, hey" this guy "refrain, don't carry the world upon your shoulders" Jude |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | BEATLES PEOPLE $400: This title gal, "children at your feet, wonder how you manage to make ends meet" Lady Madonna |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | BEATLES PEOPLE $600: "Bang bang" his "silver hammer came down upon her head" Maxwell's silver hammer |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | BEATLES PEOPLE $800: She "died in the church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came" Eleanor Rigby |
| #6087, aired 2011-02-15 | BEATLES PEOPLE $1000: "So I sing a song of love" this woman, also the name of John's mother Julia |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | LITTLE PEOPLE $400: This wild man's hits include "Long Tall Sally" & "Rip It Up" Little Richard |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | LITTLE PEOPLE $800: Grady Little, who managed this star-crossed MLB franchise, was let go in 2003, the year before they broke "The Curse" the (Boston) Red Sox |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | LITTLE PEOPLE $1200: His website calls him "the greatest impersonator of all time" Rich Little |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | LITTLE PEOPLE $1600: Lil Jon is one of the progenitors of this hip hop style that's said to get its name from a blending of "crazy" & "drunk" crunk |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | LITTLE PEOPLE $2000: She hit No. 1 with "The Loco-Motion" in 1962 Little Eva |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | PEOPLE & PLACES $400: 5-letter word for the leader of an African (as well as an Indian) tribe, like the moro-naba of Ouagadougou a chief |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1200: The Circassians are among the many peoples of this region, Kavkaz in Russian the Caucasus |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | PEOPLE & PLACES $1600: The Lao Loum live in the lowlands; the Lao Theung, on the slopes; Lao Soung means people of here mountain tops |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: For at least the sixth time, the Al-Houthis are revolting along this country's northern border with Saudi Arabia Yemen |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: Ironically, this 18th century device bears the name of a French doctor who opposed the death penalty the guillotine |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: This wheel was made for an 1893 expo by an engineer who specialized in steel structures the Ferris wheel |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1200: Now a floating hotel, this ship made her maiden voyage in May 1936 the Queen Mary |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: A lab in Livermore, California is named for this inventor of the cyclotron Ernest Lawrence |
| #6019, aired 2010-11-11 | NAMED FOR PEOPLE $2000: The 3 Senate office buildings are named for Senators Philip Hart, Richard Russell & Everett this Senator Everett Dirksen |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: During WWI the U.S. government confiscated the assets of this German aspirin company & sold off the name Bayer |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: The name of this toy company that began by selling frames & doll furniture is a combination of the owners' names Mattel |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: In 2002 the company named for this moviemaker spun off its THX division George Lucas |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: In 1917 the son of an Illinois bookseller joined with a New York store & started this company Barnes & Noble |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2,700 (Daily Double): A New York bank was named for this Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln (Salmon P.) Chase |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | NURSERY RHYME PEOPLE $200: This shepherdess "took her little crook" to find her flock Little Bo Peep |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | NURSERY RHYME PEOPLE $400: Peter, Peter put his wife in one of these "and there he kept her very well" a pumpkin shell |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | NURSERY RHYME PEOPLE $600: She went to the baker to buy her dog some bread, "when she came back the dog was dead!" Old Mother Hubbard |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | NURSERY RHYME PEOPLE $800: This married woman "could eat no lean" Mrs. Jack Sprat |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | NURSERY RHYME PEOPLE $1000: This little girl "sat among the cinders warming her ten little toes," but her mom came along & whipped her Polly Flinders |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | PEOPLE FROM PENNSYLVANIA $400: Now vice president of the U.S., he was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1942 Joe Biden |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | PEOPLE FROM PENNSYLVANIA $800: As a teen in Philly, this "Hancock" star began rapping under the name the Fresh Prince Will Smith |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | PEOPLE FROM PENNSYLVANIA $1600: This "Little Women" author was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 but grew up in Massachusetts Louisa May Alcott |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | PEOPLE FROM PENNSYLVANIA $2,000 (Daily Double): Not Willy Wonka but this man built a chocolate factory in the Pennsylvania town that was renamed for him (Milton) Hershey |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | PEOPLE FROM PENNSYLVANIA $2000: A sweater worn by this TV host who had his own "Neighborhood" for kids on PBS is displayed at the Smithsonian Mr. Rogers |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE $400: Worth $53.5 billion, Carlos Slim, owner of Telmex, became the first person from this country to top the Forbes list Mexico |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE $800: His net worth jumped by $13 billion, but he slipped to No. 2 in part because of his charitable donations (Bill) Gates |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE $1200: Last year's No. 2, this Nebraskan dropped to No. 3 with a mere $47 billion Warren Buffett |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE $1600: "Spider-Man" mogul Isaac Perlmutter made the list after making $400 million selling this comic company to Disney Marvel |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE $2,800 (Daily Double): The appropriately named Li Ka-shing is the richest man from this island territory that changed hands in 1997 Hong Kong |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | PEOPLE $200: In April 2010 People reported this daughter of Tom Cruise is turning 4 with a style all her own Suri |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | PEOPLE $400: The magazine loves those "mid-life moms", like this actress who's "Pretty in Pink... and blue!" Molly Ringwald |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | PEOPLE $600: A 2010 story informed us that Mike Sorrentino aka the Situation, is loving his new fame as part of this show Jersey Shore |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | PEOPLE $800: A 2000 issue had Caroline Kennedy on the cover with the line "Profile in" this Courage |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | PEOPLE $1000: We believe the only Canadian political wife to make the cover was this one linked in the '70s to players like Mick Jagger Margaret Trudeau |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: This man considered a prophet by many was born in Sharon, Vermont in 1805 Joseph Smith |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $800: A cracker is named for this 19th century man who advocated cold showers, hard mattresses & unsifted flour (Reverend) Graham |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: An alliance began in 1851 when Susan B. Anthony met this 3-named woman in Seneca Falls Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $1600: This hero was a sailor before joining the cause of Italian unity in the 1830s & trading blue & white for red Garibaldi |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $2000: Montreal's Olympic Stadium is on a street named for this baron who revived the Olympics in the 1890s Pierre de Coubertin |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $200: "Nobody doesn't like" this food corporation of which Brenda Barnes became CEO in 2005 Sara Lee |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $400: Thank you Akio Morita, who didn't take over the family sake biz but co-founded this electronics giant instead Sony |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $600: In 1985 this Aussie-born mogul became a U.S. citizen to meet requirements for owning TV stations (Rupert) Murdoch |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $800: In 2008 this Texas oilman introduced a plan promoting oil alternatives such as natural gas & wind power (T. Boone) Pickens |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | BUSINESS PEOPLE $1000: In 1901 this Hartford-born man financed the creation of U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar company J.P. Morgan |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | FOOD NAMED FOR PEOPLE $400: This lettuce is named for the horticulturist, not the garment that protects babies from spills Bibb |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | FOOD NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: This fettucine dish became famous when Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks crowned the chef the King of the Noodles fettucine Alfredo |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | FOOD NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1200: In the late 1800s a doctor created this ground steak, which he said was a prescription for good health Salisbury |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | FOOD NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: Escoffier created & named an exceedingly thin & dry toast for this Australian opera singer (Nellie) Melba |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | FOOD NAMED FOR PEOPLE $5,000 (Daily Double): This raw, thinly sliced beef is named for a Renaissance painter whose red colors were deep & rich Carpaccio |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | FUNNY PEOPLE $400: Born in Vancouver, he's brought his curly hair & rubber face to "Funny People" as well as to "Superbad" Seth Rogen |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | FUNNY PEOPLE $800: She won a 2009 Emmy for her impression of a certain Vice Presidential candidate Tina Fey |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: In 2002 she was friends with "The Hot Chick"; in 2008 she was "The House Bunny" (Anna) Faris |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | FUNNY PEOPLE $1600: This "Report"er tried without success to get on the ballot for South Carolina's 2008 Presidential Primary Stephen Colbert |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | FUNNY PEOPLE $2000: Jimmy Kimmel's real-life on & off girlfriend, she played a grumpy girlfriend in "School Of Rock" Sarah Silverman |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PEOPLE STYLE WATCH $200: Sienna Miller made the winner's circle in a metallic gown by this designer, YSL for short Yves Saint Laurent |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PEOPLE STYLE WATCH $400: People noted this color of royalty; Vanessa Hudgens rocked it in a Dior dress & Brian Atwood shoes purple |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PEOPLE STYLE WATCH $600: People gave a first look at Nicole Richie's signature maternity line for a store called "A Pea in the" this Pod |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PEOPLE STYLE WATCH $1000: Feeling fierce? Try an animal print dress by Dolce & this designer partner Gabbana |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | PEOPLE BOOKS $400: In "Home Game", Michael Lewis' flaws "amuse more than irritate", like changing only 7 of his son's first 600 of these diapers |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | PEOPLE BOOKS $800: Want an "endearing memoir-with-recipes"? Try Giulia Melucci's "I loved, I lost, I made" this popular pasta spaghetti |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | PEOPLE BOOKS $1200: Clarissa Cruz called Jennifer Weiner's novel "engaging"; She & Jen must be BFFs, short for these (also the title) best friends forever |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | PEOPLE BOOKS $1600: A review of "South of Broad" says Pat Conroy's "first novel in 14 years begins where he left off:" this So. Carolina city Charleston |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | PEOPLE BOOKS $3,300 (Daily Double): "Not Harry but the next best thing" said People of this woman's "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" J.K. Rowling |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $200: "While Angie and the kids hung in L.A.", he was promoting "Inglourious Basterds" in Germany Brad Pitt |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $400: In 2009, "dressed in Laker purple", this sunglasses-wearing "avid fan... watched the Lakers beat the... Magic 100-75" Jack Nicholson |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $600: This man "(A.K.A. Tony Stark) takes five atop the... Randy's Donuts sign while filming... 'Iron Man 2'" Robert Downey Jr. |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $800: In Malibu, this actor relived "a Jeff Spicoli moment during a surfing session at Zuma Beach" Sean Penn |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $1000: "Mr. Smooth" was in L.A. on July 20, 2009 "as his alter ego, 1960s ad exec Don Draper, on the set of 'Mad Men'" Jon Hamm |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $200: The "Best (and Worst!) of 2008" issue had "My Year of Surprises"; she "Talks About Marriage, Men and 'Marley & Me'" Jennifer Aniston |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | LISTEN TO THE FLOWER PEOPLE $400: A Dutch flower seller once told me that daffodils & tulips are most often grown from these, not seeds bulbs |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $400: May 25, 2009: This reality show couple--"We might split up"; July 6: "(Him) to (her): get a lawyer" Jon & Kate |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $600: In 2008, "A Decade After Revealing His Parkinson's", this movie & sitcom "Star Talks About How He and His Family Cope" Michael J. Fox |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $800: On March 31, 2008 it was "Twin Bliss! Intimate Photos at Home" with her, "Marc Anthony and Max and Emme" Jennifer Lopez |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | ON THE COVER OF PEOPLE $1000: December 17, 2007: "Stop Calling Me Fat!"; this "Ghost Whisperer" "Urges Women to 'Put on a Bikini and Stay Strong'" Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | LISTEN TO THE FLOWER PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): My Latin teacher often reminded me that the name of this month comes from a Latin word meaning "'when flower buds open" April |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE $400: This female daytime TV icon is "the only person to appear on this list every year since it began" Oprah Winfrey |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE $800: "The non-stop crisis has made his job the toughest any Treasury Secretary has faced in generations" Tim Geithner |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE $1200: T. Boone Pickens wrote the essay on this cable news pioneer, who did the same for T. Boone Ted Turner |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE $1600: This woman was "the first Chancellor who grew up in the old East Germany" Merkel |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE $2000: Chuck Yeager wrote the entry for this pilot who gained instant fame for his heroic actions on January 15, 2009 Sullenberger |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $200: In "The Ballad Of" these 2, they were getting "married in Gibraltar"; you know it ain't easy John and Yoko (Ono) |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $400: "In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass and in his pocket is a portrait of" this gal; go figure Queen Elizabeth |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $600: In "Revolution" "if you go carrying pictures of" this guy "you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" Chairman Mao |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $800: From 1964 to 1976 Mr. Wilson & Mr. Heath, mentioned in "Taxman", held this post in England prime minister |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | REAL PEOPLE IN BEATLES SONGS $1000: "Man, you should have seen them kicking" this American poet in "I Am The Walrus" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $400: He won in 1995 & 2000, & he'll probably win next year 'cause he's cute as a "Button" Brad Pitt |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $800: He took the 1997 & 2006 titles, proving once again that the life of this "Michael Clayton" guy isn't that bad George Clooney |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $1200: This movie "Pirate" plundered the 2003 crown Johnny Depp |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $1600: It was no "Mission: Impossible" for him to be 1990's chosen one Tom Cruise |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | PEOPLE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $2000: "You gave an aging suburban dad the ego-boost of a lifetime", said this man, "Bourne" to be chosen in 2007 Matt Damon |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $400: This New Orleans trumpeter blew some of the first great jazz solos with his Hot Five & Hot Seven combos Louis Armstrong |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $800: This Food Network chef who runs Savannah's Lady & Sons has been in her own kitchen plenty, but never in mine (Paula) Deen |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $1200: Born in 1912, this rocketry genius joined the German Society for Space Travel around 1930 Wernher Von Braun |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $1600: This 1st century saint associated with lost causes is also known as Thaddaeus St. Jude |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | 5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $2000: Beating out better-known contenders, she was named Senator from New York in 2009 Kirsten Gillibrand |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: A merchant's 1919 bequest for music education resulted in this NYC academy's graduate school the Juilliard School |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This religious leader bought a building from the Univ. of Deseret, founded a school & named it for himself Brigham Young |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: N.C.'s Trinity College changed its name to this after a tobacco family that gave the school millions Duke |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: It's no surprise that a New Hampshire university is named for this 14th president Franklin Pierce |
