| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $200: Bob Welch's 27 wins in 1990 are the all-time record for the A's franchise in this city & sadly, may always be Oakland |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $400: In 1961 this team's Whitey Ford won 25 games in the regular season & 2 more as the World Series MVP the New York Yankees |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $600: Seen here with Pedro Martinez, 3-timer 25er Juan Marichal was the first baseball Hall of Famer from this country the Dominican Republic |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $800: In 1972 this lefty was a Phillie phanatic on the mound; he led the NL in wins (27), ERA (1.97) & strikeouts (310) Steve Carlton |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $1000: He won 25 games with the Miracle Mets in 1969 & surpassed 20 wins four times in the 1970s Seaver |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: A longtime member of FDR's cabinet, Cordell Hull won the award in 1945 & was known as the "father of" this international org. the United Nations |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: This politician shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about global warming Gore |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Before winning a Peace Prize in 1962, scientist & vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling won one in this category in 1954 chemistry |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel Prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone Frank Kellogg |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Soldier of Peace" is the subtitle of a biography of this general who helped Europe recover following World War II Marshall |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $200: Reese Witherspoon won for her work in "Walk the Line" playing this country music singer & songwriter June Carter Cash |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: 17 Best Actress nominations & 2 wins puts Meryl Streep in a class by herself, with her last win so far for playing this political leader Margaret Thatcher |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $600: The ayes had it for Jessica Chastain in 2022 for her Best Actress-winning role in this movie about TV evangelists The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: In 2002, Halle Berry made history taking the Best Actress award for her role as a grieving mother in this film Monster's Ball |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1997, picking up her first of 3 Oscars for Best Actress, she thanked her son Pedro & her husband Joel Frances McDormand |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $200: 1994:
"____ Fiction" Pulp |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $400: 1989:
"____, ____ and videotape" sex, lies |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $600: 2000:
"Dancer in the ____" Dark |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $800: 1993,
from Hong Kong: "Farewell My ____" Concubine |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $1000: 2013:
"____ Is the Warmest Color" Blue |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $200: 2008:
During the Iraq War, a bomb disposal expert puts his team on edge by taking needless risks The Hurt Locker |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $400: 1971:
A pair of NYPD detectives attempt to intercept a large drug shipment coming from Marseille The French Connection |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $500 (Daily Double): 1978:
Lifelong friends from a Pennsylvania steel town deal with the devastating effects of the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $600: 2020:
After losing everything, a van-dwelling woman travels the American West looking for work Nomadland |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $800: 1988:
A self-centered salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with the autistic brother he never knew existed Rain Man |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $200: 2002, 2004, 2005, etc.:
Tom Brady the Patriots |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $400: 2008 & 2012:
Eli Manning the New York Giants |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $600: 2000:
Kurt Warner the Rams |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $800: In 2014, beating the team he is currently on:
Russell Wilson the Seahawks |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS BY QUARTERBACK $1000: 1973 & 1974:
Bob Griese the (Miami) Dolphins |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: As a teen in Arizona he wrote & directed a sci-fi film called "Firelight", a precursor to "Close Encounters" Steven Spielberg |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Once upon a time at his Kickapoo High School in Missouri, he was on the student council & was also voted Best Dressed Brad Pitt |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: She knew acting was her calling after playing Lady Macbeth in a high school production Frances McDormand |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Here a few years away from serving in Vietnam, he used those experiences to shape some of his films like "Platoon" Oliver Stone |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: He could have been a contender for class clown & incorrigible, so much so that his father sent him away to military school (Marlon) Brando |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $400: In 2022 Lee Jung-jae made Emmy history winning as Lead Actor for a non-English show, this Korean one Squid Game |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $800: Jean Stapleton won 3 Emmys for playing Edith Bunker, Archie's wife on this '70s sitcom All in the Family |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $1200: Seen here, she won her first Emmy for playing Tanya on "The White Lotus" (Jennifer) Coolidge |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $1600: This series about a New York doctor in Cicely, Alaska beat out "L.A. Law", among others, to win Best Drama Series at the 1992 Emmys Northern Exposure |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $2000: Claire Danes has won for her role on "Homeland" & for her portrayal of this animal behaviorist & autism activist Temple Grandin |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $200: She's the only host of "The View" who can boast of being an Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: He & his daughter Corinne joined forces to host a musical game show called "Beat Shazam" Jamie Foxx |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $600: On "Alaska Daily", she plays a journalist who looks into the disappearance & murders of indigenous women (Hilary) Swank |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: In 2022, she took on the role of Dottie, matriarch of a country music dynasty on "Monarch" (Susan) Sarandon |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1000: Angelina Jolie's dad in real life, he played Liev Schreiber's dad on "Ray Donovan" Jon Voight |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: The last novel of 1998 winner Jose Saramago of Portugal portrayed this killer in Genesis as a rebel against god Cain |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This Dublin-born playwright got the nod in 1925 for works marked by idealism, humanity & stimulating satire George Bernard Shaw |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1988 winner Naguib Mahfouz set many of his works like "Palace of Desire" in this North African capital Cairo |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $12,400 (Daily Double): Greek author George Seferis, who won the award in 1963, wrote "Six Nights on" this hilltop the Acropolis |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $400: Mork from Ork Robin Williams |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $800: Godmother on "Fleabag" Olivia Colman |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $1200: Elliot Alderson on "Mr. Robot" Rami Malek |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $1600: Real-life crime boss Bumpy Johnson on "Godfather of Harlem" Forest Whitaker |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | OSCAR WINNERS' TV ROLES $2000: In full prosthetic makeup, convicted killer Pam Hupp in 2022's "The Thing About Pam" Renée Zellweger |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1989:
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th holder of this religious title Dalai Lama |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: 1999:
This medical organization founded in France Doctors Without Borders |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1997:
Jody Williams & the group she helped found, the International Campaign to Ban these weapons landmines |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 2015:
The National Dialogue Quartet, of this North African Arab Spring nation Tunisia |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1961:
This Swedish Secretary-General of the U.N., posthumously Dag Hammarskjöld |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $400: He won Best Song Score for "Purple Rain" Prince |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $800: Eminem won for the song "Lose Yourself" from this film 8 Mile |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $1200: This comedian was u'nique when she won Best Supporting Actress for "Precious" Mo'Nique |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $1600: One-named designer Renié won for Costume Design on this 1963 film about a one-named Egyptian lady Cleopatra |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ONE-NAMED OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Greek composer Vangelis ran away with his Oscar for this Olympics-centered film Chariots of Fire |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: Before Roger Ebert won the 1st Pulitzer for Movie Criticism, his paper-mate Ron Powers won the 1st as a critic of this medium television |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: Though these are traditionally unsigned, the Pulitzers usually name the recipient, like Buford Boone of the Tuscaloosa News editorials |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: A 2021 prize went to the Star Tribune, based in this city, for reporting on its police force, focus of national attention Minneapolis |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: Julia Keller won for her feature about the devastation of the town of Utica, Illinois in 10 seconds by one of these a tornado |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won for this beloved 1938 novel whose title refers to the age of a pet fawn The Yearling |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | REALITY SHOW WINNERS $200: Fantasia Barrino,
2004 American Idol |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | REALITY SHOW WINNERS $400: Jinkx Monsoon,
2013 RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | REALITY SHOW WINNERS $600: T-Pain,
2019 The Masked Singer |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | REALITY SHOW WINNERS $800: Christian Siriano,
2008 Project Runway |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | REALITY SHOW WINNERS $1000: Emmitt Smith,
2006 Dancing with the Stars |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS $400: Known to moviegoers as Gandalf the Grey, he's won several Olivier Awards, including one as Richard III Ian McKellen |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS $800: This actress, seen here, has received the most individual Olivier Awards--8 awards over 40 years Judi Dench |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS $1200: In 2010 Rachel Weisz & Ruth Wilson won for playing these 2 sisters in "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche & Stella |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS $1600: Dolores Umbridge in the "Harry Potter" films, Imelda Staunton has won several Oliviers, including as Mama Rose in this musical Gypsy |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS $2000: In 1979 Barry Humphries won for playing his alter ego, this saucy dame Dame Edna |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $200: 2020: It was a family affair for her & daughter Blue Ivy Carter, winning for the video "Brown Skin Girl" Beyoncé |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $400: 2008: Not in attendance, she dominated the evening, winning 5 awards Winehouse |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $600: 2011: This song gave it all to Adele--Record of the Year, Short Form Music Video & Song of the Year "Rolling In The Deep" |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $800: 2015: He continued "Livin' La Vida Loca" with the best Latin Pop Album, "A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Deluxe Edition)" Ricky Martin |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1000: 2019: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album went to this British singer/songwriter & The Imposters, not the Attractions Elvis Costello |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: The New Yorker's Barry Blitt won the 2020 prize in the category called this type of cartooning that expresses a point of view Editorial |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: "Our Town" won him the 1938 Drama Prize (Thornton) Wilder |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Here he is leaving the luncheon after accepting his 2018 Music Prize Kendrick Lamar |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Bruce Catton took the 1954 History Prize for his book titled "A Stillness at" this fateful place Appomattox |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The 2015 Biography Prize went to a study of Pope Pius XI's relations with this dictator down the street Mussolini |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $400: Cynthia Erivo won a Tony for playing Celie in this "colorful" musical The Color Purple |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $800: Bill Irwin & Tracy Letts both won Tonys for playing George in productions of this questioning Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $1200: This man's performance in "One Man, Two Guvnors" won him a Tony Award & a job hosting "The Late Late Show" on CBS James Corden |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $1600: She returned to the role of the Queen opposite many different prime ministers in "The Audience" Helen Mirren |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $2000: Jessica Lange added to her trophy case, winning a Tony in 2016 for this "Long" Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS $400: Alec Jeffreys won for his 1984 discovery of fingerprinting of this genetic material DNA |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS $800: Proving air is a composite substance, 1772 winner Joseph Priestley discovered the gases nitrogen, ammonia & this one he called "pure air" oxygen |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS $1200: In 1770 William Hamilton won for studying this Sicilian hotspot; later, Lord Nelson would study Hamilton's wife Etna |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS $1600: There was no resistance to this German receiving the medal in 1841 for his research into the laws of electric currents (Georg) Ohm |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | COPLEY MEDAL WINNERS $2000: He lent his name to a new boson & was honored in 2015 for his contributions to particle physics (Peter) Higgs |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $200: She thanked her "one and only love" Kevin Bacon when she won for "The Closer" Kyra Sedgwick |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $400: The truth is out there; this actress took the trophy in 1997 for her role on "The X-Files" Gillian Anderson |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $600: A 4-time nominee in the category as a nurse on "ER", she won twice as a lawyer on "The Good Wife" Julianna Margulies |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $800: Ring the palace! This actress took the award in 2018 for "The Crown" Claire Foy |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $1000: Patricia Wettig started the 1990s with back-to-back wins for her role on this drama about yuppie baby boomers Thirtysomething |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: New Zealand-born Russell Crowe received 3 straight Best Actor nominations, winning in 2001 for this film Gladiator |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Welsh-born man won a Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Fighter" Christian Bale |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Born in Vienna, he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Col. Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds" Christoph Waltz |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Though born in Sweden, she won an Oscar for her supporting role in 2015's "The Danish Girl" Alicia Vikander |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Jean Dujardin didn't have much to say in becoming the first Frenchman to win Best Actor, for this 2011 film The Artist |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2012 this play about Willy Loman won Best Revival despite totally giving away the ending in its title Death of a Salesman |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $800: Both parts of this "heavenly" Tony Kushner play proved to be the best of the year in 1993 & '94 Angels in America |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $1200: Perhaps Daveed Diggs should've won 2 Tonys for "Hamilton" instead of just one for playing both Thomas Jefferson & this Frenchman Lafayette |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2017 this actress won a Tony for Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes", but in 2018 she did not win a race for N.Y. governor Cynthia Nixon |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | ALL-TIME WINNERS $200: Margaret Court's 24 grand slam singles titles include 5 French Opens, 5 U.S. Opens, 11 Australian Opens & 3 of these Wimbledon |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | ALL-TIME WINNERS $400: In 2010 this "Pac Man" became the only boxer to win titles in 8 weight divisions Manny Pacquiao |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | ALL-TIME WINNERS $600: From 1956 to 1973 Henri Richard's name was engraved on this trophy 11 times, one for each time his team won the league title the Stanley Cup |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | ALL-TIME WINNERS $800: The NBA Finals MVP award is named for this man who won a record 11 NBA titles as a player Bill Russell |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | ALL-TIME WINNERS $1000: Michael Phelps' 13 individual Olympic golds include 6 in butterfly, 6 in medleys but just 1 in this race freestyle |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: It was Oscar's kind of town for 2002 Chicago |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" The Shape of Water |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Johnny Hooker got the help of "the greatest con artist of them all" as this 1973 pic stole away with the Oscar The Sting |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $4,000 (Daily Double): Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film 12 Years a Slave |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $200: Martin Truex Jr. of this racing circuit sped away with Best Driver NASCAR |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $400: Best Player in this league was a layup for Maya Moore of the Minnesota Lynx the WNBA |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $600: Born Alexandra, this gymnast was one of the "sister survivors" who won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award Aly Raisman |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $800: Alexander Ovechkin was 2018's Best Male Athlete for finally winning the Stanley Cup with this team the Washington Capitals |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $1000: Once the backup, this Eagles QB won Best Championship Performance for his work in Super Bowl 52 Nick Foles |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $200: She won back to back in 2008 & '09 for her role as high-stakes lawyer Patty Hewes on "Damages" Glenn Close |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $400: To win for 2015 Viola Davis really killed in her role as law professor Annalise Keating on this mystery How to Get Away with Murder |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $600: Her grim work of catching evildoers & comforting victims on "Law & Order: SVU" was rewarded with a 2006 Emmy Mariska Hargitay |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $800: For most of the 1980s Tyne & Sharon took turns winning the award for their work on this show Cagney & Lacey |
| #7962, aired 2019-04-02 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $1000: Cue the slo-mo, she was the title bionic woman Jaime Sommers & the 1977 winner Lindsay Wagner |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $200: After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow Michael Douglas |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $400: He won an Oscar for his turn as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" Gary Oldman |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $600: Mahershala Ali won an Oscar for this 2016 film that won Best Picture...eventually Moonlight |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $800: This lyricist named Oscar won 2, for Best Song in "Lady Be Good" & "State Fair" (Oscar) Hammerstein |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS $1000: For 1993 Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won 3 technical Oscars & this other film of his won Best Picture Schindler's List |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 2010 winner Liu Xiaobo was represented by an empty one of these, as he was in a Chinese prison a chair |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This sitting U.S. president won the 1919 prize for his efforts to make peace an part of international law Wilson |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 1947 winner the American Friends Service Committee is an arm of this religious group the Quakers |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Aung San Suu Kyi is the author of "Letters from" not Myanmar but this other name Burma |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2,800 (Daily Double): These people are the "R" in UNHCR, which gives them shelter & helps them find a new permanent home refugees |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $200: 1997:
University of Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $400: 1965:
Princeton basketball player (& future U.S. senator) Bill Bradley |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $600: 2008:
Female gymnast (& future "Dancing with the Stars" winner) Shawn Johnson |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $200: In 2017 winner "The Girl Who Drank the Moon", a village leaves babies as offerings to one of these, but not a wicked one a witch |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $400: A boy who tends llamas learns about his ancestors in Ann Nolan Clark's "Secret of" these mountains the Andes |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $600: "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" tells the tale of a young 18th c. sailor who masters & improves this science of guiding a ship navigation |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $800: Cornelia Meigs' 1934 winning bio "Invincible Louisa" is subtitled "The Story of the Author of" this other book Little Women |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1000: 1977's winner was the classic "Roll of Thunder," these 3 words hear my cry |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $200: Lifetime Achievement, 2016:
this satirical newspaper that had already won 27 Webbys The Onion |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $400: Breakout of the Year, 2006:
this pioneering social networking site that later got flattened by Facebook MySpace |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $600: Best Political Website, 2009: this one founded by an Athens-born woman The Huffington Post |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $800: Best User Experience, 2013: this site with 337 million blogs but no "E" Tumblr |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | WEBBY AWARD WINNERS $1000: Person of the Year, 2014:
this anonymous one-named man for Instagramming some of his outdoor art Banksy |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $200: 2016:
Damien Chazelle for this musical La La Land |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $400: 1995:
Ron Howard, who must have been over the Moon Apollo 13 |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $600: 2013:
Alfonso Cuaron, who must have been at least nearer to the Moon Gravity |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $800: 2009:
Kathryn Bigelow, who is the bomb The Hurt Locker |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $1000: 2010:
Tom Hooper, who then had to give a non-royal one The King's Speech |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $200: Patty Duke as her in 1962's "The Miracle Worker" Helen Keller |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: Her as the mother of the boy in "Boyhood" (Patricia) Arquette |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $600: This actress as the spicy Maria Elena in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (Penélope) Cruz |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: Melissa Leo as boxing mom Alice Ward in this film The Fighter |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan (a male role) in this Indonesia-set film The Year of Living Dangerously |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 2007 winner Richard Rogers & 1998's Renzo Piano teamed up to design the Pompidou Centre in this city Paris |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1966 Jorn Utzon quit the opera house project designed for this city but today, that's his legacy Sydney |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Philip Johnson, the prize's very first winner in 1979, designed the Glass House in New Canaan in this state Connecticut |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1992 Michael Ondaatje did a Fiennes job with this novel about a burned, unnamed man being cared for at WWII's end The English Patient |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: In 1993 it was a laughing matter when Roddy Doyle got Booker-ed for "Paddy Clarke" these 3 words Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: For Peace,
Mohamed El Baradei Africa |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: For Literature,
Pablo Neruda South America |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: For Peace,
Lester B. Pearson North America |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: For Medicine,
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Australia |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: For Peace,
Tenzin Gyatso Asia |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $400: 2009:
Kristen Stewart & him (Robert) Pattinson |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: In 2015 the photography staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won for capturing images of despair & anger in this city Ferguson (Missouri) |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $800: 2006:
Jake Gyllenhaal & him Heath Ledger |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: (I'm Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post.) As part of a New York Daily News team, I won a 1999 Pulitzer for an editorial series that helped rescue this historic Harlem theater from financial mismanagement that had threatened its survival the Apollo |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $1200: 2003:
Tobey Maguire & her (Kirsten) Dunst |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $1600: 1999:
Joseph Fiennes & her Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1600: The only U.S. president to win a Pulitzer is JFK, for this series of biographies Profiles in Courage |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $2000: 2005:
Rachel McAdams & him (Ryan) Gosling |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2000: Jennifer Egan won the 2011 Pulitzer for fiction for "A Visit from" this group the Goon Squad |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Washington Post shared a 2014 Pulitzer for revealing widespread secret surveillance by this govt. agency the NSA (National Security Agency) |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $400: A Moroccan bar Casablanca |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $800: A mental hospital in Oregon One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1200: The court of Emperor Josef II Amadeus |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $1600: A beach in Hawaii From Here to Eternity |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY SETTING $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm A Beautiful Mind |
| #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 |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $200: 2001:
As Max Bialystock in "The Producers" Nathan Lane |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $400: 1988:
As the Phantom in "Phantom of the Opera" Michael Crawford |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $600: 2014:
This 3-named actor as the 1-named Hedwig Neil Patrick Harris |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $800: 2003:
As Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray" Harvey Fierstein |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $1000: 1965:
As Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" Zero Mostel |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: Her trophy case is getting full: Oscars for "Blue Sky" & "Tootsie" plus 2 Emmys for "American Horror Story" Jessica Lange |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: Fresh from her Oscar win for "Boyhood", Patricia Arquette began solving crimes for the FBI on this show CSI: Cyber |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1200: This 2-time Oscar winner had a recurring role on "The Newsroom" & stars as Grace on Netflix' "Grace and Frankie" Jane Fonda |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1600: Helen Hunt was still on "Mad About You" when she won an Oscar opposite Jack Nicholson in this film As Good As It Gets |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $2000: Post-Oscar, Holly Hunter played Detective Grace Hanadarko, offered a chance at redemption on this TV series Saving Grace |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1200: She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1990, the same year as her husband Hume Cronyn Jessica Tandy |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1600: "It Happened One Night" in 1986 that this film director was awarded his medal Frank Capra |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $2000: This 1996 honoree won 3 Pulitzers for his plays, the first for "A Delicate Balance" in 1967 Edward Albee |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: (I'm David Barstow.) My Pulitzer-winning story about retired generals co-opted as analysts to sell the Iraq War was headlined this building's "Hidden Hand" the Pentagon |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $800: (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) As part of the Times staff, I won a Pulitzer Prize for our "iEconomy" series, which led to Apple improving working conditions for over 1 million people in this country China |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1000: (I'm Carolyn Ryan.) In 2009 I was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for breaking news coverage of this New York governor & his stunning fall from grace (Eliot) Spitzer |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: South African literature laureate Nadine Gordimer was part of the struggle against this policy of segregation apartheid |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: She was the first & the fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize (Marie) Curie |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1200: Dorothy Hodgkin won 1964's Chemistry prize for using these rays to study compounds X-rays |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | GRAMMY WINNERS $400: The leader in egg-shaped travel, she fed "The Fame Monster" to win 2010's Best Pop Vocal Album Lady Gaga |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | GRAMMY WINNERS $800: 2000's Best Dance Recording went to the Baha Men, for (repeatedly!) asking this musical question--did we ever find out? "Who Let The Dogs Out?" |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: To Kanye West's dismay, this man's "Morning Phase" was named Album of the Year in 2015 Beck |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1600: Kimbra & this man were 2012's Best Pop Duo; remember him? Or is he "Somebody That I Used To Know"? Gotye |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | GRAMMY WINNERS $2000: 2006's Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals went to Tony Bennett & this other music legend for "For Once In My Life" Stevie Wonder |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In Hoffman vs. Streep, this film came out on top Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Starting with "The Godfather", this actor was nominated for an acting Oscar 4 straight years Al Pacino |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1200: Heard in this 1977 winner:
"They did not take me in the army... I was a 4-P... in the event of war, I'm a hostage" Annie Hall |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: This actor turned down an Oscar for "Patton"; the producer accepted one George C. Scott |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | 1970s BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: The hero deals with heroin in this 1971 winner The French Connection |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS $400: Novel, 1988:
This Thomas Harris thriller that made readers bleat "Silence of the Lambs" |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS $800: 2003, Lifetime Achievement:
This woman who taught us a lot about vampires Anne Rice |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS $1200: 2012, Graphic Novel:
These "Hunts": "A Graphic History of the Burning Times" "Witch" |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS $2000: Novel, 1995:
"Zombie" by this prolific woman Joyce Carol Oates |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): 2012, Screenplay:
"The Cabin in the Woods" by Drew Goddard & this "Buffy" biggie Joss Whedon |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $200: 1994:
"____ Fiction" Pulp |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $400: 1989:
"____, ____, and videotape" sex, lies |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $600: 2000:
"Dancer in the ____" Dark |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $800: 1993, from China:
"Farewell My ____" Concubine |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | CANNE PALME D'OR WINNERS $1000: 2013:
"____ Is the Warmest Color" Blue |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $200: 1975:
Physicist & activist Andrei Sakharov the U.S.S.R. |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $400: 1971:
Chancellor Willy Brandt (be specific) West Germany |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $600: 1961:
U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold Sweden |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $1,000 (Daily Double): 2001:
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Ghana |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES $1000: 1998:
Political leaders John Hume & David Trimble Northern Ireland |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | THE WINNERS $200: This team was the winner of the first Super Bowl the (Green Bay) Packers |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | THE WINNERS $400: In 2013 Tony Hale won an Emmy as Gary Walsh, enabler to the politician Selina Meyer, on this HBO series Veep |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | THE WINNERS $600: With 22 & counting, this quartet has won more Grammys than any other rock group U2 |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | THE WINNERS $1000: With a glam rock feel, this production won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | THE WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): It was the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture The Godfather Part II |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: 1944:
Carleton Mabee, writing about this "American Leonardo", master of the dot & dash Morse |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $400: 1999:
A. Scott Berg, writing about this pilot;
1954:
the same pilot, writing about himself Charles Lindbergh |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $600: 1989:
Richard Ellmann, writing about this "earnest" Irish wit Oscar Wilde |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $800: 1933:
Allan Nevins, writing about this pres. (hint: Nevins won in non-consecutive years, for 1937's "Hamilton Fish") (Grover) Cleveland |
| #6958, aired 2014-12-10 | PULITZER WINNERS FOR BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY $1000: 1964:
Walter Jackson Bate, writing about this "Endymion" poet Keats |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $400: 1999's winner, Margaret Edson's "Wit", chronicles a female university professor's losing battle against this cancer |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $800: Mary Coyle Chase wrote this 1945 play involving an imaginary giant rabbit Harvey |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $1200: Zoe Akins won in 1935 for an adaptation of "The Old Maid" by this Pulitzer-winning female novelist of NYC (Edith) Wharton |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $1600: Beth Henley won in 1981 for this "heart"y play that centered on 3 maladjusted Mississippi sisters Crimes of the Heart |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | PULITZER PRIZE DRAMA WINNERS $2000: Ketti Frings won in 1958 for her adaptation of this Thomas Wolfe novel Look Homeward, Angel |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $400: 1964:
An existentialist (Jean-Paul) Sartre |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $800: 1936:
A U.S. playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $1200: 1953:
A former prime minister (Winston) Churchill |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $1600: 1993:
A Howard grad Toni Morrison |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS $2000: 1938:
The daughter
of missionaries seen
here Pearl Buck |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $200: (I'm Gretchen Morgenson.) Stories like "How Did They Value Stocks? Count The Absurd Ways" won me a 2002 Pulitzer for beat reporting. My beat is this street Wall Street |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: (I'm James Risen.) With my Times colleague Eric Lichtblau, I won a Pulitzer in 2006 for our disclosure of the Bush administration's use of domestic electronic eavesdropping without these legal documents issued by a judge a warrant |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $600: (I'm Amy Harmon.) I won my second Pulitzer in 2008 for a series about the new information that can be gleaned about a person's genetic profile with this kind of test which some people welcome & others prefer not to know a DNA test |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $800: (I'm Linda Greenhouse.) I won a 1998 Pulitzer for covering the Supreme Court with articles like "Why" this name of a failed nominee "Is Still a Verb in Politics 10 Years Later" Bork |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1000: (Andrea Elliott delivers the clue.) Chronicling the life of an immigrant in Brooklyn who is one of these Muslim leaders of a mosque earned me a 2007 Pulitzer Prize an imam |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $200: We wonder if it was a difficult decision to name this William Styron novel the 1980 hardcover fiction winner Sophie's Choice |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $400: (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Katherine Boo's reportage in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" captures life's inequalities in the slums of this Indian city & commerical center Mumbai |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $600: He had "The Right Stuff" to win for his book about Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard & others Tom Wolfe |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $800: "Master of the Senate", volume 3 in Robert Caro's massive bio of this man, covers the 1950s Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1000: He has won for "Sabbath's Theater" & "Goodbye, Columbus" Philip Roth |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1977:
"The Goodbye Girl" Richard Dreyfuss |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1985:
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" William Hurt |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian woman & the first woman of this faith to win the Nobel Peace Prize Islam |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement works to prevent desertification & this, the loss of trees deforestation |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: Jody Williams helped found the ICBL, the International Campaign to Ban these, winning her the prize in 1997 landmines |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-winners for 1976, were both born in this troubled city Belfast |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | FEMALE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Rigoberta Menchu kept her Nobel Prize in Mexico while in exile from her homeland, this Central American neighbor Guatemala |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $400: This "Back to the Future" star won the 2009 Best Spoken Word Album for "Always Looking Up" Michael J. Fox |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $800: Well, excuuuse this actor for winning the 2009 Best Bluegrass Album for "The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo" Steve Martin |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: He won 1980's Best Comedy Recording with "No Respect", I tell ya Rodney Dangerfield |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1600: 2009's Best Female Country Vocal went to her for "White Horse", where (shocker!) she goes off on an ex-boyfriend Taylor Swift |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | GRAMMY WINNERS $2000: At 1st I was afraid, I was petrified you wouldn't know Gloria Gaynor won the 1979 Best Disco Recording for this tune "I Will Survive" |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $200: 1976:
It's about Broadway itself & its hopefuls A Chorus Line |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $400: 2005:
A very silly tale of knights & coconuts Spamalot |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $600: 1952:
Anna Leonowens is one of the title pair The King and I |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $800: 1956:
It concerns baseball, darn it! Damn Yankees |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): 1949:
Based on a Shakespearean romantic comedy Kiss Me, Kate |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $200: In 2010:
As Sherlock Holmes on film Robert Downey, Jr. |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $400: In 2001:
The president of the United States on television Martin Sheen |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $600: In 2009:
Joker on film (Heath) Ledger |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $800: In 2009:
Sookie Stackhouse Anna Paquin |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $1000: 2011:
Chicago mayor Tom Kane Kelsey Grammer |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $400: A 2011 Pulitzer went to "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of" this disease cancer |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $800: "The Looming Tower" examines this terrorist group & "The Road To 9/11" al-Qaeda |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $1200: This astronomer nabbed the prize in 1978 for "The Dragons Of Eden" (Carl) Sagan |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $2000: Jonathan Weiner told "The Story of Evolution" in "The Beak of" this bird the finch |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): He won a Pulitzer for his nonfiction "The Armies of the Night" as well as for his fictional "The Executioner's Song" Norman Mailer |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $200: This Oscar winner for "Ordinary People" leads a team of thieves & hackers on TNT's "Leverage" (Timothy) Hutton |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: In the 1980s he & his daughter Holly hosted "Ripley's Believe It or Not", though we don't remember any one-armed push-ups Jack Palance |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $800: In 2012 this 2-time Oscar winner won a Golden Globe for her role on "American Horror Story" Jessica Lange |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1,000 (Daily Double): This Oscar-winning daughter of an Oscar-winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on "Smash" Anjelica Huston |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS $200: In 2012 underdogs & Madonna were in vogue at Super Bowl XLVI, where this team won 21-17 the New York Giants |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS $400: Drew Brees wore No. 9 when this team came marching in for a win in Super Bowl XLIV the New Orleans Saints |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS $600: Aaron Rodgers was muy macho as this team won the whole enchilada in 2011 the Green Bay Packers |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS $800: Ray Lewis & this team took care of business in 2001, winning 34-7 the Baltimore Ravens |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | SUPER BOWL WINNERS $1000: Hines Ward was MVP for this team in 2006 the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $200: More people know this name as a deformed French literary character than as the name of the Italian who won the 1959 prize Quasimodo |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $400: The Nobel folks said the tales of Patrick White "introduced" this continent "into literature" Australia |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $600: Carl Spitteler of this Alpine country was honored in "appreciation of his epic, 'Olympian Spring'" Switzerland |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $800: Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson was recognized for his poems, one of which became this song of Norway the national anthem |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | LESSER-KNOWN NOBEL PRIZE LIT WINNERS $1000: This country's Wislawa Szymborska, the 1996 winner for her poetry, died in 2012 Poland |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: 1979:
This Alabama bus rider (Rosa) Parks |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1968:
This member of the Rat Pack Sammy Davis, Jr. |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1200: 1976:
This big-league slugger Hank Aaron |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1600: 1983:
This brassy singer & activist who died in 2010 Lena Horne |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: 1990:
This governor of Virginia (Douglas) Wilder |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $400: A 2008 winner revealed the origins & dispersal of "The Hemingses of" this home Monticello |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $800: In his speech, this 2001 winner for "The Corrections" thanked another Jonathan, editor Jonathan Galassi Jonathan Franzen |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1200: She won in the children's paperback category for "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" Madeleine L'Engle |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1600: This film critic for the New Yorker won in 1974 for "Deeper into Movies", a collection of her reviews (Pauline) Kael |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $2000: Author Louis Sachar won for Young People's Lit & kids weren't the only ones who dug this novel about Stanley Yelnats Holes |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $400: In Season 11 she had the time of her life & the right moves to take the prize Jennifer Grey |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $800: In 2011 this Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver scored the win with his fancy moves Hines Ward |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $1200: A frontrunner from the beginning, this pussycat strutted her stuff to win Season 10 Nicole Scherzinger |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $1600: "She's got the look", she's got the co-host gig & she's also got the trophy from Season 7 Brooke Burke |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | DANCING WITH THE STARS WINNERS $2000: It's no myth--this champion speed skater took the gold in Season 4 Apolo Ohno |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $400: This actress won an Oscar for playing Loretta Lynn & did her own singing to boot Sissy Spacek |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $1200: He was acclaimed onstage as Hamlet in 1929 & onscreen as Arthur's butler in 1981 John Gielgud |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $2000: This David Cronenberg film won best makeup for transforming Jeff Goldblum into the title character The Fly |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | & OTHER '80s OSCAR WINNERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Male & female supporting Oscars went to Michael Caine & Dianne Wiest for this comedy Hannah and Her Sisters |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: She had us at "Cold Mountain" Renée Zellweger |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: No driving over a cliff for her in "The Accidental Tourist" Geena Davis |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1200: She won for "My Cousin Vinny" & has been nominated 2 other times, as well Marisa Tomei |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1600: She won for "Tootsie", a few years after not even being nominated for "King Kong" Jessica Lange |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $2000: She took home an Oscar for "From Here to Eternity" & later starred in one of TV's most wholesome sitcoms Donna Reed |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $200: This "E.T." director, a Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Steven Spielberg |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $400: This Brit, 2003's Best Actor in a TV Comedy Series for "The Office"; he'd later host the event (Ricky) Gervais |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $600: This India-set film, 2008's Best Motion Picture Drama Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $800: This man, for his supporting role in "The Fighter" Christian Bale |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $1000: This woman, 2007's Best Actress in a TV Comedy for "30 Rock" Tina Fey |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $400: In 1974 this beat poet for "The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971" (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $800: In 2001 for his novel "The Corrections"; it was also an Oprah selection Franzen |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1200: In 1952 for her nonfiction bestseller "The Sea Around Us" Rachel Carson |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1600: In 1960 for "Goodbye, Columbus" & in 1995 for "Sabbath's Theater" Philip Roth |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $2000: In 1974 for "Gravity's Rainbow" Thomas Pynchon |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $200: In 1961 Whitey Ford won 25 games for this American League team the Yankees |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $400: In 1956 Don Newcombe won 27 games for this National League team the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $600: Terrific! He racked up 25 wins for the Miraculous 1969 Mets Tom "Terrific" Seaver |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $800: The last Major League 30-game winner was Denny McLain, for this team in 1968 the Detroit Tigers |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | 25-GAME WINNERS $1000: In 1972 Steve Carlton was a 27-game winner for this team that won 59 the whole season the Philadelphia Phillies |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $200: 1923:
This agricultural chemist (George Washington) Carver |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: 1989:
This clergyman & political activist Jesse Jackson |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $600: 1959:
This member of jazz "nobility" Duke Ellington |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1939:
This gospel singer & opera soloist Marian Anderson |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1000: 1945:
This singer & star of the film "The Emperor Jones" Paul Robeson |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Frederick Banting was just 32 when he shared the Medicine Prize for discovering this hormone that treats diabetes insulin |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: In their early 30s, Betty Williams & Mairead Corrigan won the 1976 Peace Prize for trying to end strife in this U.K. country Northern Ireland |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1200: What a family! This husband-&-wife team were 44 & 36 when they won in 1903; their son-in-law & daughter won aged 35 & 38 the Curies (Pierre & Marie) |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1600: This 31-year-old won for the creation of quantum mechanics & not for his uncertainty principle Heisenberg |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | YOUNG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Konstantin Novoselov, 36, shared the 2010 Physics Prize for his work on graphene, a form of this element carbon |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: Riff & Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: In this 1977 Woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike Annie Hall |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus" It Happened One Night |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date The Departed |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Temperance groups & the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner The Lost Weekend |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | 2010 EMMY WINNERS $200: He outwitted, outplayed & outlasted Heidi Klum, among others, to take Best Reality Show Host Jeff Probst |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | 2010 EMMY WINNERS $400: We know you're all over Outstanding Sound Editing... this Fox drama's "4:00 am - 5:00 am" episode won; Beep! boop! Beep! boop! 24 |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | 2010 EMMY WINNERS $600: Jim Parsons enjoys Klingon Boggle as physicist Sheldon Cooper on this CBS sitcom; he also enjoys his new Emmy The Big Bang Theory |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | 2010 EMMY WINNERS $800: Know what Emmy voters like? Meth & murder! OK, not really, but they loved Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman on this AMC show Breaking Bad |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | 2010 EMMY WINNERS $1000: Claire Danes won for playing the title role in this HBO movie; Julia Ormond won for playing her mother Temple Grandin |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $400: Nobelist George Thomson is the son of J.J. Thomson, a Nobel Prize winner who discovered this negative particle electron |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $800: Ulf von Euler won in 1970; dad Hans von Euler-Chelpin won for his work on the role of enzymes in this process in sugar fermentation |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $1200: In 1915 William H, & William L. Bragg shared the prize for their analysis of the structure of crystals via this type of image x-ray |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $1600: Last name of father & son Niels & Aage, who both won the Nobel Prize in Physics; Aage was born the year his dad won Bohr |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARENT & CHILD NOBEL WINNERS $2000: Arthur Kornberg won for showing how DNA duplicates in bacteria; son Roger's work was on the conversion of DNA into this RNA |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $200: Bo knows that this Auburn running back & Heisman winner played MLB for 8 years, hitting 141 home runs Bo Jackson |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $400: On Jan. 1, 2006 this 1984 Heisman winner from Boston College executed the first drop kick in the NFL in 65 years (Doug) Flutie |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $600: Only 2 Heisman winners have played for Navy: Joe Bellino & this man, "Roger the Dodger" Roger Staubach |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $800: 4 schools have had back-to-back Heisman winners: Yale, Army, Ohio State & this one with Matt Leinart & Reggie Bush USC (University of Southern California) |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS $1000: The 2008 film "The Express" told the story of this 1961 Heisman trophy winner, the first African American to win the award (Ernie) Davis |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $200: He won in 1955 for his novel "The Long Goodbye" Raymond Chandler |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $400: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" got him the Edgar John le Carré |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $600: He won for his novel "The Day of the Jackal" & the short story "There Are No Snakes in Ireland" (Frederick) Forsyth |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $800: Writing about the world of horse racing, he's won for "Forfeit" & "Come to Grief" Dick Francis |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | EDGAR AWARD WINNERS $1000: He won in the Best Fact Crime category for such works as "Helter Skelter" & "Till Death Us Do Part" Bugliosi |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $400: 1988 for "Don't Worry Be Happy" Bobby McFerrin |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $800: 1994 for "All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: 2006 for "Not Ready to Make Nice" The Dixie Chicks |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $1600: 1982 for "Rosanna" Toto |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $2000: 2009 for "Use Somebody" Kings of Leon |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | PALME D'OR WINNERS $400: In 1964 Jacques Demy won with "Les parapluies" or these "de Cherbourg" umbrellas |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | PALME D'OR WINNERS $800: The top-grossing Palme D'or winner from 2000 to 2010 was this political 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | PALME D'OR WINNERS $1200: In 1993 Holly Hunter's performance helped this woman become the only female director to win the Palme d'Or Jane Campion |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | PALME D'OR WINNERS $1600: 1974's winner "The Conversation" is an homage to this 1967 winner by Michelangelo Antonioni Blow-Up |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | PALME D'OR WINNERS $2000: Nicolas Cage has an Elvis fixation in this 1990 Palme d'Or winner from David Lynch Wild at Heart |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1997 for biography:
This late author's "Angela's Ashes" (Frank) McCourt |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1945 for music:
This composer for his "Appalachian Spring" (Aaron) Copland |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 2006 for public service in covering Hurricane Katrina:
Mississippi's Sun-Herald & this New Orleans paper the Times-Picayune |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): 1978:
This late language lover for his New York Times commentary (William) Safire |
| #5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1940 for drama:
This playwright's "The Time of Your Life" William Saroyan |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: In 1991 this then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added another medal to his collection Colin Powell |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: In 1977 this author went back to his "Roots" & won the Spingarn Alex Haley |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1200: This 1946 winner was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 Thurgood Marshall |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1600: Born Marguerite Johnson, this poet won the medal in 1994 Maya Angelou |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: This civil rights leader won in 1963, the year of his murder; his wife Myrlie won in '98 (Medgar) Evers |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $200: Pacino's female pals Al's gals |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $400: Penn's pair of baby deer Sean's fawns |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $600: Actress Hilary's financial institutions Swank's banks |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $800: Dunaway's "no" votes Faye's nays |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | OSCAR WINNERS RHYME TIME $1000: Ms. Thompson's quandries Emma's dilemmas |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $400: 1934: "Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of" this classic Little Women |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1986: Her, "Plain and Tall" Sarah |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1200: 1972: "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of" this group NIMH |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1600: 1995: "Walk Two" of these celestial bodies Moons |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $2000: 1978: "Bridge to" this imaginary kingdom Terabithia |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $200: This Oscar winner for "The Piano" plays a feisty Oklahoma City police detective on TNT's "Saving Grace" Holly Hunter |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $400: Although he lost the supporting actor Oscar for "Cinderella Man", he won the Emmy vote for "John Adams" Paul Giamatti |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $600: This 5-time Oscar nominee played captain Monica Rawling for a season on "The Shield" Glenn Close |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $800: Executive producer of "Ugly Betty", she has also guest starred as Sofia Reyes Salma Hayek |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV $1000: "An Unmarried Woman" in the movies, she played Donald Sutherland's wife Letitia on "Dirty Sexy Money" Jill Clayburgh |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: Geneva-born Henri Dunant, a founder of this international organization, shared the first Peace Prize in 1901 the Red Cross |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1988 Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz is best known for tales of this African capital Cairo |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: 2 men received the 1909 Physics Prize for their work on wireless telegraphy: Karl Ferdinand Braun & this Italian Marconi |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: Willem Einthoven won for his galvanometer, better known as this device used to diagnose heart disease an electrocardiogram |
| #5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): When the 1973 peace prize was awarded to 2 men, Le Duc Tho declined but this man accepted Henry Kissinger |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? $200: This advertising drama was 2008's Outstanding Drama Series & we'll raise our martini glass if it wins again Mad Men |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? $400: This network won big in 2008 with projects like "Recount" & has 99 primetime nominations for 2009 HBO |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? $600: He left the sitcom world to earn the 2008 Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series & is nominated again in 2009 Bryan Cranston |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? $800: How sweet the sound of Best Reality-Competition Program for this show in 2008; let's see about 2009 The Amazing Race |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | EMMY REPEAT WINNERS? $1000: We'll see if Glenn Close can repeat her 2008 Emmy for her work on this program Damages |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $200: 1971:
As "Popeye" Doyle Gene Hackman |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1986:
As a slower "Fast Eddie" Felson Paul Newman |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $600: 1987:
As Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1952:
As Marshal Will Kane Gary Cooper |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1000: 2002:
As Wladyslaw Szpilman Adrien Brody |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $400: Singers honored in 1999: Odetta, Lydia Mendoza, & her--show her some R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Aretha Franklin |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $800: In 1990 she & husband Hume Cronyn both received medals Jessica Tandy |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1200: This African-American choreographer's dance foundation won in 2001 Alvin Ailey |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $1600: Among the 2008 honorees were Olivia de Havilland & this Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS WINNERS $2000: George Strait, Tommy Tune & this children's author of the Ramona Quimby books were honored in 2003 Beverly Cleary |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $400: This film's 8 Oscars included one for original song "Jai Ho" Slumdog Millionaire |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $800: She was named Best Supporting Actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" Penélope Cruz |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $1200: This comic's "Kids" must have been proud of his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Jerry Lewis |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $1600: This film with Keira Knightley as an 18th century aristocrat was honored for its costume design The Duchess |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | OSCAR WINNERS IN 2009 $2000: A documentary on this Frenchman's "little" feat of wirewalking between the Twin Towers won an Oscar Philippe Petit |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | HEISMAN WINNERS $200: Carson Palmer, Reggie Bush & Matt Leinart are a few of this school's recent winners the University of Southern California |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | HEISMAN WINNERS $400: Even though his team won the BCS Championship in 2009, this QB didn't win back-to-back Heismans Tim Tebow |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | HEISMAN WINNERS $600: Sam Bradford, the most recent winner of the Heisman, attended a university in this conference the Big 12 |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | HEISMAN WINNERS $800: In 2006 Troy Smith joined Eddie George & back-to-back winner Archie Griffin as winners from this school Ohio State |
| #5686, aired 2009-05-04 | HEISMAN WINNERS $1000: An award given for the best running back in college football is named for this 1948 Heisman winner from SMU Doak Walker |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital Sarajevo |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $800: (I'm Nicholas Kristof.) In 2006 I won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that raised public awareness of the genocide in this region of Sudan Darfur |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1200: Andrea Elliot won in 2007 for articles on a Brooklyn Muslim leader with this title, Arabic for "leader" Imam |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1600: (I'm Maureen Dowd.) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president (Kenneth) Starr |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $2000: Anthony Lewis won in 1963 for supreme court coverage & wrote this book about the Clarence Gideon case Gideon's Trumpet |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $200: This Dodger won the Cy Young Award in 1963, 1965 & 1966, then retired from baseball Sandy Koufax |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2008 Cliff Lee won the A.L. Cy Young for this team, just like C.C. Sabathia did the year before the Cleveland Indians |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $600: In 1969 the "Miracle Mets" won the World Series & this star pitcher, "Tom Terrific", won the Cy Young Award Tom Seaver |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $800: He won 7 Cy Young awards, more than any other pitcher, & he did it with 4 teams: the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Yankees & Astros Roger Clemens |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CY YOUNG AWARD WINNERS $1000: With a 31-6 record in 1968, this Detroit Tiger is the only Cy Young Award winner with more than 30 wins Denny McLain |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE WINNERS $400: After a marathon 1996 U.S. Open match, this American ace needed an I.V. drip Pete Sampras |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE WINNERS $800: He had four surgeries on his knees, but he still led his team to Super Bowl victory Joe Namath |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE WINNERS $1200: Sutures in this Red Sox pitcher's ankle gave way and turned his white sock red, but he still beat the Yanks in 2004 Curt Schilling |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE WINNERS $1600: Hobbled by a bad hamstring & bum knee, he homered to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series & limped around the bases Kirk Gibson |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | SORE WINNERS $2000: After limping off with a knee injury, he came back to inspire the New York Knicks to victory in the 1970 NBA Finals Willis Reed |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1953:
This British politician (Winston) Churchill |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $800: 1995:
This non-heat-packing seamus from Ireland Seamus Heaney |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: 1957:
This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague" Albert Camus |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1600: 1969:
This playwright: did they keep him waiting? Beckett |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: 1978:
This Yiddish tale-teller Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS $400: He escaped the 'N Sync-erator to earn Male Artist & Quadruple Threat of the Year at the 2007 MTV VMAs Justin Timberlake |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS $800: The Saturn Awards honor Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror & in 2003 they recognized this hobbit portrayer Elijah Wood |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS $1200: His TV wife Patricia Heaton had 2 Emmys for her role when he won his first in 2002 Ray Romano |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS $2000: Doing some bad things in "Michael Clayton" won her an Oscar Tilda Swinton |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | SHOW BIZ AWARD WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Voters lent him their ears & he won Song of the Year at the first Latin Grammys in 2000 Marc Anthony |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $200: 1971:
Male swimmer (Mark) Spitz |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $400: 2003:
Male swimmer
(Greater days lay ahead) Michael Phelps |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $600: 2001:
Chinese-American
figure skater Michelle Kwan |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $800: 1930:
Golfing Grand Slam winner Bobby Jones |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SULLIVAN AWARD WINNERS $1000: 2004:
Gymnast
(but not twin brother Morgan) Paul Hamm |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $400: 1923:
Lofting's lofty "Voyages of" this talkative physician Doctor Dolittle |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1940:
Daugherty's tale of this 18th century frontiersman Daniel Boone |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1200: 1961:
O'Dell's "Island of" these colorful creatures the Blue Dolphins |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $1600: 1944:
Esther Forbes' patriotic story of this young member of the Sons of Liberty Johnny Tremain |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS $2000: 1970:
This William Armstrong doggie tale of the Deep South Sounder |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $200: Garry Wills used a lot more than 272 words writing "Lincoln at" this place, which won him a 1993 Pulitzer Gettysburg |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $400: 2007's winner, "The Looming Tower" is subtitled this terrorist group "and the Road to 9/11" al-Qaeda |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $600: Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" centers on John Paul Vann & America's involvement in this event the Vietnam War |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $800: Herbert P. Bix won in 2001 with a book on this emperor "and the Making of Modern Japan" Hirohito |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $1000: William Warner's "Beautiful Swimmers" is an exploration of the Atlantic blue crab & this bay the Chesapeake |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: A controversial U.S. general Patton |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: A Hindu leader Gandhi |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: Collision Crash |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: An historic Scotsman's nickname Braveheart |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): A middle name in Latin Amadeus |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $400: Clarice Starling,
"Buffalo Bill" Silence of the Lambs |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $800: Major Strasser,
Victor Lazslo Casablanca |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Alain Charnier,
"Popeye" Doyle The French Connection |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Emperor Joseph II,
Antonio Salieri Amadeus |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS BY CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Molly Brown,
Jack Dawson Titanic |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $200: "The Producers"
(2001) Nathan Lane |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $400: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
(1995) Matthew Broderick |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $600: "Fiddler on the Roof"
(1965) Zero Mostel |
| #5348, aired 2007-12-05 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $800: "Camelot"
(1961) Richard Burton |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $400: John Ford directed this "verdant" 1941 winner about a Welsh mining family How Green Was My Valley |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $800: Greer Garson survives a Luftwaffe attack & the annual flower show as this title "Mrs." Mrs. Miniver |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $1200: Jimmy Stewart as Buttons the Clown upstages Charlton Heston in this 3-ring affair from 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $1600: Alcoholic Ray Milland is reminded that "One's too many and a hundred's not enough" in this film The Lost Weekend |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | OSCAR WINNERS OF YORE $2000: Gregory Peck gets the scoop on anti-semitism in this film adapted by Moss Hart Gentleman's Agreement |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | GRAMMY WINNERS $400: The acoustic album called "MTV" this "in New York" earned a Grammy for Nirvana Unplugged |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | GRAMMY WINNERS $800: Best New Artist winners include John Legend, Maroon 5 & this jazzy singer of "Don't Know Why" Norah Jones |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: In 2006 U2 won Album of the Year for "How to Dismantle" one of these an Atomic Bomb |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | GRAMMY WINNERS $1600: Grammy voters were fixated with this one-named Colombian hottie who won for "Fijacion Oral Vol. 1" Shakira |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | GRAMMY WINNERS $2000: Rage Against the Machine won for a song called this kind of "Radio" (the soldier, not the animal) Guerrilla |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $200: One of 4 musicals that won for Best Picture in the 1960s, it was based on a Charles Dickens novel Oliver! |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar The Departed |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $600: In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have" Unforgiven |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing & directing this 1995 Best Picture Braveheart |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1000: Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1980: "Regular Folks" Ordinary People |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1932: "Magnificent Inn" Grand Hotel |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1976: "A Single Colorado Mountain" Rocky |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: 1954: "Dockside" On the Waterfront |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1966: "One Bloke Year-Round" A Man For All Seasons |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2006 "The History Boys" won for Best Play & this other show with "Boys" in the title won for Best Musical Jersey Boys |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $800: (Hi, I'm Martin Short.) I won a 1999 Tony for Cy Coleman & this playwright's "Little Me"; I also received a Tony nomination for his "The Goodbye Girl" Neil Simon |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $1200: How about a Wolverine whistle for this actor who won a Tony for starring in "The Boy From Oz" (Hugh) Jackman |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $1600: (Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.) I won a Tony for my portrayal of an actor playing Petruchio in the 1999 revival of this classic Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | TONY AWARD WINNERS $2000: This "Sex and the City" co-star climbed into a "Rabbit Hole" to win the 2006 Tony for Best Leading Actress in a Play Cynthia Nixon |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | OBIE WINNERS $400: 1955-56: Chekhov's "Uncle ____" Vanya |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | OBIE WINNERS $800: 1962-63, based on Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors": "The Boys From _____" Syracuse |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | OBIE WINNERS $1200: 1989-90: Craig Lucas' "____ to a Kiss" Prelude |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $200: Eastwood's subtle verbal clues Clint's hints |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $400: Witherspoon's parts Reese's pieces |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $600: Nicholson's trousers Jack's slacks |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $800: Hilary's financial institutions Swank's banks |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1000: Landau's milk boxes Martin's cartons |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: William Laurence won a Prize in 1946 for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of this city, after Hiroshima Nagasaki |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: The Times won its first Pulitzer in 1918 for its coverage of this World War I |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: Max Frankel won a 1973 Prize for his reporting on President Nixon's trip to this country China |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1972 The Times won for meritorious public service for publishing these documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg the Pentagon Papers |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Wonder if he mentioned his 1979 win for his "Observer" column in his memoir "Growing Up"? Russell Baker |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS $200: 2005:
Voters like Brad Garrett, too Everybody Loves Raymond |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS $400: 1981:
Danny DeVito gets an Emmy dispatch Taxi |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS $600: 1990:
Legal practice makes perfect for Jimmy Smits L.A. Law |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS $800: 2001:
Bradley Whitford joshes around The West Wing |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SUPPORTING ACTOR EMMY WINNERS $1000: 1985:
John Larroquette's prosecutorial misconduct earns an Emmy Night Court |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $200 (Daily Double): Gertrude Lawrence won in 1952 for playing the title pronoun in this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King and I |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $400: Cyril Ritchard hooked a 1955 Tony for playing Captain Hook in this musical Peter Pan |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $800: Bloody Mary was the girl the Tonys loved in 1950, when Juanita Hall won for playing her in this musical South Pacific |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $1600: In 1953 Thomas Mitchell won for the musical "Hazel Flagg" & this future TV "Hazel" won for "Time of the Cuckoo" Shirley Booth |
| #4987, aired 2006-04-25 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $2000: This redhead won 4 Tonys in the '50s, for "Can-Can", "Damn Yankees", "New Girl in Town" & "Redhead" Gwen Verdon |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $400: Paquin's plantains Anna's bananas |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $800: Ms. Foster's rock & roll show equipment handlers Jodie's roadies |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1200: Gooding's instruments Cuba's tubas |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $1600: McDaniel's hamburgers Hattie's patties |
| #4886, aired 2005-12-05 | OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $2000: Dame Judi's ditches Dench's trenches |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $400: 1958:
B.P.,
Russia Boris Pasternak |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $800: 1946:
H.H.,
Switzerland Hermann Hesse |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $1200: 1957:
A.C.,
France Albert Camus |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $1600: 1971:
P.N.,
Chile Pablo Neruda |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $2000: 1938:
P.S.B.,
United States Pearl Buck |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $200: 2000:
A TV host & media personality Oprah Winfrey |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: 1956:
A baseball player Jackie Robinson |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $600: 1991:
A U.S. Army general & government official Colin Powell |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1989:
A minister, politician & civil rights leader Jesse Jackson |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1000: 1945:
An actor, singer, activist & football All-American Paul Robeson |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS $400: For "The Odd Couple"
(1965) Walter Matthau |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS $800: For "Cyrano de Bergerac"
(1947) Jose Ferrer |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS $1200: For "Mister Roberts"
(1948) Henry Fonda |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS $1600: For "A Man for All Seasons"
(1962) Paul Scofield |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR TONY WINNERS $2000: For "Amadeus"
(1981) Ian McKellen |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS $200: Matthew Broderick won for "How to Succeed in Business…" & also for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by this author Neil Simon |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS $400: This Oscar-less actress won Tonys for "The Real Thing", "Death and the Maiden" & "Sunset Boulevard" (Glenn) Close |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS $600: Seen here after his 1981 win for "The Pirates of Penzance", he also won for "On the 20th Century" (Kevin) Kline |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS $800: The playwright of "The Cocktail Party" also won best play for this poetic musical Cats by T.S. Eliot |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | MULTIPLE TONY WINNERS $1000: Her mom won a special Oscar & a Tony; she won 3 Tonys & an Oscar Liza Minnelli |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! $200: Things were grave indeed when Patricia Clarkson picked up an Emmy in 2002 for guest-starring on this HBO show Six Feet Under |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! $400: (Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! $600: Talk about a super Mario! He won more than 50 Indy car races before he retired in 1994 Mario Andretti |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! $800: (Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS Saturday Early Show.) You could say it was my "crowning" moment when I became the 1st classical violinist to win this national title Miss America |
| #4608, aired 2004-09-22 | THEY'RE ALL WINNERS! $1000: The epic in Stephen Vincent Benet's body of work that won him a 1929 Pulitzer John Brown's Body |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $200: 1996 was a good year for Fox as 2 of its shows won: "The X-Files" & this animated series The Simpsons |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $400: This show whose theme is heard here copped an award for 1981 Hill Street Blues |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $600: A tour she gave of her home in 1962 won a Peabody Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $800: The Program for Youth Award for 1960 went to this game show sponsored by GE College Bowl |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $1000: She produced & starred in 1974's Peabody Award-winning "Free to Be...You & Me" Marlo Thomas |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS $400: She's the winner in the behavior & deportment competition, or an offense less serious than a felony Miss Demeanor/misdemeanor |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS $800: You'll get a wrong number if you do this, one company's representative in the Antibacterial Soap Pageant misdial/Miss Dial |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS $1200: If you forgot where you put something, ask this woman who looks great with a Hawaiian garland on mislay/Miss Lei |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS $1600: She can win representing the 17th letter of the alphabet, or be a failed stroke in billiards Miss Q/miscue |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NEW BEAUTY CONTEST WINNERS $2000: Sadly, this woman who's in the best physical condition is considered an odd duck by the other contestants Miss Fit/misfit |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: Robert Engle & Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data Economics |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Of both Boer & English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature South Africa |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: Abriskosov, Ginzburg & Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity Physics |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize Iran |
| #4493, aired 2004-03-03 | 2003 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel Medicine |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: 1979: A nun like none other Mother Teresa |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: 1990:
A Communist party head Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $600: 1964: An American clergyman Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: 1978: An Israeli & an Egyptian Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat |
| #4450, aired 2004-01-02 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: 1961:
A U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $200: Ron Howard grabbed 2 Oscars in quick succession as director & producer of this film A Beautiful Mind |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $400: She said that she'll place her Oscar between her husband's 2 Oscars, "but a little further forward" Catherine Zeta-Jones (husband is Michael Douglas) |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $600: Some guys have all the luck: he not only won for Best Actor, he got to kiss his presenter, Halle Berry Adrien Brody |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $800: Accepting his honorary Oscar, this great Irish actor said, "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, my foot!" Peter O'Toole |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS $1000: When she won for her role in "Pollock", her first thank you was to Ed Harris, who played Pollock Marcia Gay Harden |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $400: A lawyer when he won in 1946, he went on to be the first African-American on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: Ernest E. Just won in 1915 for his work, including how these smallest units of life function in eggs cells |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1200: At its charter conference in 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune was a consultant for interracial affairs the United Nations |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $1600: 1976's award went to dancer Ailey; 1977's went to this rhyming author Alex Haley |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: This 1939 winner's debut at the Met in 1955 was the first for an African-American soloist Marian Anderson |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1994:
Tom Hanks for this modern parable Forrest Gump |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1944:
Bing Crosby for this religious experience Going My Way |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1934:
Clark Gable for this romantic comedy It Happened One Night |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1938:
Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama Boys Town |
| #4305, aired 2003-04-25 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1937:
Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure Captains Courageous |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: In 2000 Gao Xingjian became the first writer from this country to win the Nobel Prize for Literature China |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $700 (Daily Double): It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to figure out that he won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize Andrei Sakharov |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: He was teaching at the University of Chicago when he won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics Milton Friedman |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1200: In 1943 the Nobel assembly gave a dam, Henrik Dam, a prize for discovering this vitamin which aids in blood clotting vitamin K |
| #4242, aired 2003-01-28 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1600: Willard Libby won a Chemistry prize for his method of using this radioactive isotope to date fossils & other objects carbon-14/radiocarbon |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1964 for "My Fair Lady" Rex Harrison |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1989 for "My Left Foot" Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1968 for "Charly" Cliff Robertson |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1955 for "Marty" Ernest Borgnine |
| #4181, aired 2002-11-04 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1974 for "Harry and Tonto" Art Carney |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $400: 1975: His "Still Crazy After These Years" Paul Simon |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $800: 1995: This Alanis Morissette album Jagged Little Pill |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $1200: 2001: Various artists with this soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $1600: 1996: Her "Falling into You" Celine Dion |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS $2000: 2000: Their "Two Against Nature" Steely Dan |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WINNERS $200: The U.S. wasn't even in the finals for this award in 2000, the New Zealand from New Zealand beat Italy's Luna Rossa America's Cup |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WINNERS $400: Denise M. Quinones August from this commonwealth was crowned Miss Universe in 2001 Puerto Rico |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WINNERS $800: This coach's only 2 Super Bowl wins were at Super Bowls I & II (Vince) Lombardi |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WINNERS $1,000 (Daily Double): James Heckman & Daniel McFadden won the 2000 Nobel Prize in this category for a statistical analysis they did Economics |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WINNERS $1000: In a battle of Brits at the 1980 Olympics, Steve Ovett won the 800-meter gold but this man won the 1,500 Sebastian Coe |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $400: This South Bronx native now heading up the State Dept. earned a Purple Heart during his tour of Vietnam Colin Powell |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $800: A current senator from Massachusetts, this man earned a Silver Star, a Bronze Star & 3 Purple Hearts (John) Kerry |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $1200: Before winning a 1986 directing Oscar, he earned a Purple Heart & a Bronze Star Oliver Stone |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $1,600 (Daily Double): The first woman to win a Purple Heart, Lt. Annie Fox served at Hickam Field during the attack on this naval base Pearl Harbor |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | PURPLE HEART WINNERS $2000: Killed near Okinawa in 1945, this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart Ernie Pyle |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $400: 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $800: 1978 for "Coming Home" Jane Fonda |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1200: 1990 for "Misery" Kathy Bates |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1600: 1976 for "Network" Faye Dunaway |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1973 for "A Touch of Class" Glenda Jackson |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $200: This author's "Sophie's Choice" was the hardcover choice for 1980 William Styron |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $400: Mr. Sammler, Augie March & Herzog are title characters who've won this author 3 awards Saul Bellow |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $600: Category in which Philip Levine & Wallace Stevens each won twice Poetry |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $800: He had a long career: his "Wapshot Chronicle" won in 1958 & his "Stories" in 1981 John Cheever |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS $1000: "A Fable" was a winner for this author in 1955 William Faulkner |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s $200: Arthur Kennedy won for this play in 1949, like Brian Dennehy in another role 50 years later Death of a Salesman |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s $400: Jose Ferrer didn't win by a nose with this role in 1947, he tied with Fredric March Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s $600: For her role in "Happy Birthday", this first lady of the American theater picked up a Tony in the award's first year Helen Hayes |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s $800: Henry Fonda was so shipshape in this best play in 1948 that he won Best Actor Mister Roberts |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | TONY WINNERS OF THE '40s $1000: Agnes de Mille won in 1947 for choreographing this musical & maybe in 100 years she'll win again for it Brigadoon |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $100: He won his first Oscar for directing “Unforgiven” Clint Eastwood |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $200: She won for not saying much as Ada McGrath in “The Piano” Holly Hunter |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $300: Susan Sarandon won for “Dead Man Walking” & he won for “Leaving Las Vegas”, which could have had the same title Nicolas Cage |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $400: Some didn't applaud the honorary Oscar to this “Streetcar” director & HUAC witness (Elia) Kazan |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | '90s OSCAR WINNERS $500 (Daily Double): His 12 nominations for movies of the decade produced 1 win, Best Original Score for “Schindler's List” John Williams |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: In 1993 the prize was given jointly to F.W. de Klerk & this leader who succeeded him Nelson Mandela |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: Afraid that Poland would bar his return from Oslo, he received his 1983 prize in absentia Lech Walesa |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: An advocate for human rights, Rigoberta Menchu of this Central American country won the 1992 prize Guatemala |
| #3802, aired 2001-02-27 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2,500 (Daily Double): 1 of only 2 U.S. presidents to win the prize Teddy Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS $100: In 1999 Time won for Public Interest & this competitor won for News Reporting Newsweek |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS $200: It won for General Excellence in 1989, the year of its 25th anniversary swimsuit issue -- coincidence?! Sports Illustrated |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS $300: 1997's winner for Special Interests was this magazine from our nation's attic Smithsonian |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS $400: In 2000 it won for General Excellence, Public Interest & Fiction, not for its cartoons The New Yorker |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD WINNERS $500: This 1971 winner for Specialized Journalism was the subject of a 1973 song by Dr. Hook Rolling Stone |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $200: Born in India in 1913, she won her second Oscar for playing Blanche DuBois in 1951 Vivian Leigh |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $400: Aussie Geoffrey got quite a rush winning for this 1996 film Shine |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $600: Of the 2 women to win acting awards for 1961, she was the Italian Sophia Loren (for "Two Women") |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $800: Her last of 3 Oscar wins was for playing Greta Ohlsson in 1974's "Murder on the Orient Express" Ingrid Bergman |
| #3479, aired 1999-10-21 | FOREIGN-BORN OSCAR WINNERS $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1957 winner claimed he was born on Sakhalin Island, about 3,000 miles northeast of Siam Yul Brynner |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS $100: Francis Flaherty saved shipmates & lost his own life aboard the Oklahoma during this infamous 1941 attack Pearl Harbor |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS $200: During WWI Eddie Rickenbacker shot down 22 planes & 4 of these used for observation balloons |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS $300: Back in 1932 Donald Truesdale earned his medal during the Marines' campaign against Sandinistas in this country Nicaragua |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS $400: Veteran James Stockdale was the running mate of this wealthy third-party presidential candidate in 1992 H. Ross Perot |
| #3430, aired 1999-07-02 | MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS $500: Jacob Parrott, the first winner, was among the men who stole this "high-ranking" Confederate locomotive the General |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS $100: 1968 Richard Nixon |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS $200: 1960 John F. Kennedy |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS $300: 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS $400: 1976 Jimmy Carter |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WINNERS $500: 1808 James Madison |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY $100: Mikhail Gorbachev Peace |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY $200: Nadine Gordimer Literature |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY $300: Alexander Fleming Medicine |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY $400: Max Planck Physics |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | NOBEL WINNERS BY CATEGORY $500: Linus Pauling
(the first time) Chemistry |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $200: This "Funny Girl"'s first New York show, "Another Evening with Harry Stoones", closed after 1 performance Barbra Streisand |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $400: He played the psychiatrist in "Equus" before he played Hannibal Lecter, who needed a psychiatrist Anthony Hopkins |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $600: Mike Nichols saw him in a play called "Eh?" & offered him the starring role in "The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $800: She starred in "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean..." onstage & on film before she was "Moonstruck" Cher |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | OSCAR WINNERS ONSTAGE $1000: He cleaned houses before he co-starred in "Godspell" in London: what a "Reversal of Fortune" Jeremy Irons |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $200: Danny DeVito was an executive producer of this Quentin Tarantino film that won for 1994 Pulp Fiction |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $400: Occupation suffering the USA's highest homicide rate or title of the 1976 winner starring Robert De Niro Taxi Driver |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $600: This 1993 Holly Hunter film set in New Zealand tied with "Farewell My Concubine" The Piano |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $800: The colorized version of this 1949 film starring Orson Welles should use "Lime" green -- Harry Lime The Third Man |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | CANNES PALME D'OR WINNERS $1000: Herb Stempel, a contestant in "Quiz Show", may be able to tell you this film won for 1955 Marty |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: The 1960 Peace Prize went to Albert Luthuli, the first person from this continent to win it Africa |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: He became the first American to win the Literature Prize the year after his "Dodsworth" appeared Sinclair Lewis |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: This Vitamin C guru's "The Nature of the Chemical Bond" is one of the century's major scientific books Linus Pauling |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $800: Jules Bordet identified the bacillus responsible for this disease also called pertussis whooping cough |
| #2747, aired 1996-07-09 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Antony Hewish won the 1974 prize for discovering these stars that emit bursts of radiation pulsars |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: In this 1940 winner, Steinbeck alternates narrative with discussion of the problems of migrant workers The Grapes of Wrath |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: Will Durant shared a Pulitzer for "Rousseau and Revolution" with this woman, his wife Ariel |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: This American historian, born Barbara Wertheim in 1912, won 2 Pulitzers for general nonfiction Barbara Tuchman |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: James Michener won his only Pulitzer Prize for this, his first book of fiction Tales of the South Pacific |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: This Truman Secretary of State won for his autobiographical book "Present at the Creation" Dean Acheson |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $100: This "Wheel of Fortune" co-star was once 4th runner-up in the Miss Georgia Universe Pageant Vanna White |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $200: This talk show queen once reigned as Miss Black Nashville & Miss Black Tennessee Oprah Winfrey |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $300: She was crowned Miss World-U.S.A. in 1973; 2 years later she was TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $400: Peter Bogdanovich cast this former Miss Teenage Memphis in "The Last Picture Show" Cybill Shepherd |
| #2538, aired 1995-09-20 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $500: The 1st Miss America crowned on television, she later co-starred on the TV series "Barnaby Jones" Lee Meriwether |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $100: When she was Miss S.D., this "Entertainment Tonight" co-host was known as Mary Johanna Harum Mary Hart |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $200: This "Alfie" star's wife Shakira is a former Miss Guyana Michael Caine |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $300: Donny & Marie's niece Amy Osmond, America's Junior Miss 1994, represented this state in the pageant Utah |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $400: This actress who played Phyllis on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was a runner-up for Miss America in 1946 Cloris Leachman |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | BEAUTY QUEENS & PAGEANT WINNERS $500: This blonde co-host of "CBS This Morning" was a finalist in the 1973 Miss American Teenager Pageant Paula Zahn |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: He received the Literature Prize primarily for "The Winter of Our Discontent", not "The Grapes of Wrath" Steinbeck |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $400: Simon Kuznets won in this category in 1971 for his concept of using GNP to determine growth economics |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $600: Bark if you know that this Russian won the Physiology or Medicine Prize in 1904 for work on digestion Pavlov |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $1000: This West German leader who won the Peace Prize in 1971 died in 1992 Willy Brandt |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $2,800 (Daily Double): Seaborg & McMillan won the Chemistry Prize for discovering this element, named for the 9th planet plutonium |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $200: When he won in 1990, President Bush called him "a courageous force for peace in the world" Gorbachev |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $400: This U.S. president won the 1919 prize for advocating the League of Nations & world peace Woodrow Wilson |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $600: John Dunant won for organizing the convention here which set rules for treating war wounded Geneva |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $800: Better known for her Hull House, she won as President of the International League for Peace & Freedom Jane Addams |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $1000: This former Berlin mayor won for improving East-West relations & lived to see the wall fall Willy Brandt |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | AWARD-WINNERS $200: His "Lake Wobegon Days" album won a Grammy in 1988 for "Best Spoken Word Recording" Garrison Keillor |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | AWARD-WINNERS $400: A 1985 Peabody award was given to this presenter of the "Live Aid" concerts Bob Geldof |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | AWARD-WINNERS $600: These 2 creators of Yogi Bear & The Flintstones received the TV Governors award in 1988 (William) Hanna & (Joseph) Barbera |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | AWARD-WINNERS $800: The only American nominated for the "Best Actor" Oscar for 1983, he won it for "Tender Mercies" Robert Duvall |
| #1167, aired 1989-10-03 | AWARD-WINNERS $1000: In 1983 this actor won a Drama Desk award & a Tony for his performance in "Torch Song Trilogy" Harvey Fierstein |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | AWARD-WINNERS $200: The 1st woman to receive the Lowell Thomas Electronic Journalism Award was this "20/20" co-host Barbara Walters |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | AWARD-WINNERS $400: Well...God bless America; Reagan awarded this singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982 Kate Smith |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | AWARD-WINNERS $500 (Daily Double): She won the 1973 Grammy for "Record of the Year" with the following song: Roberta Flack |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | AWARD-WINNERS $600: She became the 1st woman to win an Emmy for hosting a game show, for her "Just Men" series in 1983 Betty White |
| #1165, aired 1989-09-29 | AWARD-WINNERS $1000: She won a 1986 Tony for her performance in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" Lily Tomlin |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: In 1943 he could have stopped by the Pulitzers on a snowy evening to pick up his 4th for poetry Robert Frost |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: He was awarded one Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden", not billions & billions Carl Sagan |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: He's still listed as the winner for fiction in 1926 even tho he turned down the prize for "Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This university was given a special citation in 1947 for a job well done in giving out Pulitzers Columbia |
| #1038, aired 1989-02-22 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Berke Breathed, who draws this strip, won the 1987 Pulitzer for Editorial Cartooning Bloom County |
