| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | SECOND CITIES $200: The Castle of Good Hope dates to the 1660s in this city in South Africa Cape Town |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $200: For most, birthdays come once a year, except for those born on this date, who in a way, get older slower than the rest of us February 29th |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | PATIENCE $800: On July 4, 1795 Paul Revere & Sam Adams buried one of these; a 1652 shilling was in the contents dug up 220 years later a time capsule |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $400: Laze poolside on a yacht, enjoy the Gulf of Napoule, hit the Palais des Festivals for its film fest, re-laze at the yacht pool Cannes |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $400: In 1919, the Sierra Club installed cables for climbers to get to the views of this landmark at 8,800 feet above sea level Half Dome |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | TV MUSIC $800: Composer Bear McCreary used tremolo strings to evoke the horror of zombies for the theme of this show that debuted in 2010 The Walking Dead |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ANIMAL LIFE $1200: More than half of Mexico's population of this large kitty cat is found in the Yucatán region a jaguar |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $1200: Disembark at this city's stop on the Shinkansen, then find your way to the museum & monuments at Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $400: These twin TV actresses & entrepreneurs were born June 13, 1986 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $400: Trying to go to 1492 but ending up in 1429, Val watches this peasant girl set out for the siege of Orléans--& glory--on April 27 Joan of Arc |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $800: Val wanted to visit the Moorish city in Spain in the 1400s but one misspelled letter has him on this isle of spice & a 1983 U.S. invasion Grenada |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1200: Val's not at the 1922 discovery of Tut's tomb in this 4-word area but 100 later, sees Rüfüs Du Sol win a Grammy for "Alive" the Valley of the Kings |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1600: Not great with numbers, val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire 1666 |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $4,000 (Daily Double): A song often heard in Spanish-speaking countries at Christmastime is this "Sabanero", meaning "My Little Savannah Donkey" Burrito |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $600: Here is one of the oldest known photos of this real life hero & savior of hundreds; she was believed to be in her 40s at the time Tubman |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | BOATS $800: John Maxtone-Graham put the ship in scholarship in books on these posh boats like "Queen Mary 2: The Greatest" one "of Our Time" an ocean liner |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $1000: In 1776, she wrote to her husband, John, "Remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors" Abigail Adams |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $1200: An outbreak of a certain disease features in this 1985 novel by Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $400: These spies aren't tired; they function ordinarily in a population until activated for vital reasons at any time sleepers (sleeper agents) |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $600: "Now & then, I miss you, oh, now & then, I want you to be there for me", sang this band in a 2023 song written in the '70s The Beatles |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $800: This woman knew how to "Paint The Town Red" purrfectly in 2023 Doja Cat |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $2,000 (Daily Double): From a word involving respiration to get this word meaning healthy hale |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $2000: Most employment in the U.S. is this hyphenated type of agreement, meaning you can quit or be fired at any time at-will |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WHERE'D YOU "GO"? $2000: William Butler Yeats spent holidays with his grandparents in this town in western Ireland & was eventually buried there Sligo |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $200: Several of this author's works like "A Time to Kill" take place in Clanton, Mississippi John Grisham |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $200: In the 1960s, Freedomland in the Bronx was built to rival Disneyland as a history-focused one of these a theme park |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $400: Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook 2004 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $400: Kyle MacLachlan was the clean-cut FBI agent investigating a murder in the very strange title town of this series Twin Peaks |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $600: The Continental Congress met for the first time 1774 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | UNREAL ESTATE $600: Living in the town of Bayport on Barmet Bay, Frank & Joe are this pair of brothers who solve mysteries the Hardy Boys |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $1200: This 6-letter word means to go back in fictional time & rewrite the past of a character or narrative for a new work retcon |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $1200: In 1942 it was my kind of town--for the first controlled nuclear chain reaction Chicago |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Of this lyric poet's works, almost none have been found complete, one being the 28-line "Ode to Aphrodite" Sappho |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $2000: In 2004 Colin Powell called Fidel Castro one of these, a person or thing incongruously out of place in time an anachronism |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $400: Mary Pickersgill made the flag that was flying over this fort in 1814; it inspired a patriotic poem Fort McHenry |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $800: In 1876 lumberjacks nailed a U.S. flag to this alliterative type of pine, giving Flagstaff, Arizona its name a ponderosa pine |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 1950s this NL team temporarily changed its name so as not to be associated with communism the (Cincinnati) Reds |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1600: The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe the Holy Roman Empire |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $200: In July 2023 this company averted a strike by agreeing to a new deal with more than 300,000 Teamsters UPS |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORLD CITIES $400: More than 600,000 Argentinians live in this city near the shore of the Rio de the same name La Plata |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $1000: He wrote the little ditty, "God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why" (Ogden) Nash |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $2,800 (Daily Double): From "Hamlet", "This above all:" this phrase to thine own self be true |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $6,200 (Daily Double): Verdi's "Falstaff" is set in this town during the reign of Henry IV Windsor |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER $200: "I love Paris in the spring time", says one of the classic songs by this American composer Cole Porter |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | DAVID PLAYED $400: In 2007 David Beckham signed a $250 million contract to play for this MLS team the L.A. Galaxy |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $800: He lived until 1827 but his last time as soloist with an orchestra was in 1808, opening his 4th piano concerto with a gentle chord Beethoven |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1200: As the year 2001 neared, Lord Falconer was happy when Tony Blair put him in charge of the huge structure then called this the Millennium Dome |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | SPORTS $400: In 2024 this Iowa athlete sunk one of her trademark logo 3-pointers & set the all-time NCAA women's scoring record (Caitlin) Clark |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ON THE MAP $1600: On a peninsula of the same name, this town in southern Italy is known for limoncello & its great views of the Bay of Naples Sorrento |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $13,400 (Daily Double): Adam Smith called this system of semi-free labor that ended about 500 years before his time "barbarous" feudalism |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $400: A book of timetables for railways & steamers helped the protagonist make his less-than-3-month journey in this 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $800: In Cairo in 1978 he said, "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land" Sadat |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $1000: Charles M. Schwab was the 1st pres. of this Pennsylvania-based steel corp. founded in 1904 & one of the world's largest in its time Bethlehem Steel |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | '90s MOVIE FUN $1600: When time-traveling Bruce Willis is sent to the psychiatric ward in this 1995 movie, he meets Brad Pitt, who is really bananas 12 Monkeys |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $2000: In 1884 General Charles Gordon wrote that if help didn't come soon, "the town may fall", the town being this African city Khartoum |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $800: "In the droptop ride with you, I feel like Scarface", says SZA on this tune, winner of a Grammy in 2024 for Best R&B Song "Snooze" |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | BUS. ABBREV. $800: JIT:
The tournament? No! The inventory system! just-in-time |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $1000: French for "servant", in pro cycling it's a rider whose job is to help a team's leader win, not to win individually a domestique |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $200: Roy Wood Jr.: "If they can make a documentary about your time" in this post held by Spiro Agnew, you did the job "incorrectly" vice president |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PENALTIES & BONUSES $400: In the Gospel of John, the Pharisees told Jesus that this was the penalty for adultery; he told them to be cautious judging death by stoning |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Teleplaywright J.P. Miller first gave us these "Days" of an alcoholic couple, later a movie & then a Broadway musical in 2024 the Days of Wine and Roses |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $2000: In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, "Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | TRENDING $200: In 2024 a 40-ounce quencher tumbler from this company seemed harder to get than the same-named NHL trophy Stanley |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $200: It's the fitting name of Bob & Helen Parr's eldest son in "The Incredibles" Dash |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $600: This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan George of the Jungle |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THINKING ABOUT THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE $600: Ill-behaved Holy Roman Empire troops sacked Magdeburg in 1631 in this war that lasted for a certain time the Thirty Years' War |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $800: In 2008 Beyoncé joined her idol Tina Turner on this song, & they were "rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river" "Proud Mary" |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $800: In a 2008 film, the rotund character with this 2-letter name joins a tiger, crane, mantis, viper & monkey to defeat a snow leopard Po |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $1000: Voiced by John Mulaney in "Into the Spider-Verse", Spider Ham isn't called Peter Parker, but rather Peter this Peter Porker |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $1200: In 2024 Joni Mitchell performed at the Grammys for the very first time, singing this classic that begins, "Rows & floes of angel hair" "Both Sides, Now" |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $400: In the Sahara, avoid the deathstalker, an extremely dangerous & venomous variety of this arachnid a scorpion |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESSERT $600: These cakes were immortalized by Proust in his "Remembrance of Things Past" madeleines |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $800: In 1873 a team using camels became the first Europeans to cross this continent's Great Sandy Desert Australia |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $1200: In 2016, NASA began testing a new prototype rover & its life-detecting instruments in this South American desert the Atacama |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $2000: The brown hyena & the bat-eared fox both make their home in this largest desert of southern Africa the Kalahari |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $400: Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in "Casino Royale", then had him "Live" on in Jamaica in this next book Live and Let Die |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $600: At different times across more than 80 books, this quizzical simian "Takes a Train" & "Visits the Zoo" Curious George |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | ON THE NOSE $800: Since its U.S. debut "Day" in 2015, this colorfully named campaign to end child poverty has raised more than $421 million Red Nose Day |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $2000: Sb:
A title name from Shakespeare Timon (in AnTimony) |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | WHEATIES ATHLETES $200: When this team won Super Bowl XXXI, Wheaties produced a special 24-ounce regional box that was sold in Wisc. & parts of Minnesota the Green Bay Packers |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $2000: With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa DRC |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $600: In 1924 the NHL added its first U.S. team, this New England squad the Boston Bruins |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $800: The Indiana Pacers debuted in 1967 in this new big league; it's gone, but the team is still around the ABA |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $2000: Viggo Mortensen starred in "Eastern Promises" from this horror master, who then acted in Viggo's directorial debut "Falling" Cronenberg |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $200: 2 cities with this name in different states lie on the Missouri River Kansas City |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | "K"-TOWN $600: The largest city in Malaysia, it's just inland from the Strait of Malacca Kuala Lumpur |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $1000: In this 1963 musical a teen idol's fans sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true" Bye Bye Birdie |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $200: Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn't be the last time they tried that, either Crimea |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | FESTIVALS $200: Traditionally, the lights sent aloft in Taiwan's Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival are made from this paper rice paper |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1200: Best Supporting Actor, 2019, for "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Brad Pitt |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $12,200 (Daily Double): This town at the foot of Mont Blanc hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924 Chamonix |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | VIRTUO-SO GOOD $200: Berlioz mastered this 6-string instrument but said the sound of a dozen of them playing in unison "is almost absurd" the guitar |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | "H" IS FOR HISTORY $400: The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France is known as this the Hundred Days |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR $600: Fittingly given its name, the U.S. Navy began using this kind of time in 1920 & the Army in 1942 military time |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON $600: This publication that later Rockwell & rolled was named for being printed in time to make a weekend mail delivery in Philly The Saturday Evening Post |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | DIACRITICAL THINKING $1200: This mark under the C in soupçon (a little bit) softens that sound & makes things much classier than saying "soup-con" a cedilla |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | PROSE & CONGRESS $400: In "Life on the Run" Bill Bradley talks about his pre-Senate life playing on this NBA team the New York Knicks |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $800: Odds are you know this team led the NHL's Western Conference in points with 111 in the 2022-23 season the Golden Knights |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | THE KNIGHTLY NEWS $1200: This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION $2000: The Dawn spacecraft found a peak over 12 miles high when it reached this second-largest object in the asteroid belt (after Ceres) Vesta |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RESISTANCE IS FUTILE $200: When it's time for right hand red but your left foot's on green & a player is in your way, you're about to hit vinyl & lose this game Twister |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $800: Elie Wiesel's more than 180 lectures at the Y began in the mid-'60s, reporting on Jews unable to leave here the Soviet Union |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY $600: In 1979 Youppi! suited up for this MLB squad, prior to moving across town (& sports leagues) to the Canadiens the Montreal Expos |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | ISLANDS $400: The most populous island in the world, it's home to more than half of Indonesia's people Java |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OCCUPATIONS $800: More so than a nanny, this female employee concentrates on teaching the children in a home, not chaperoning a governess |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $800: She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth Nancy Kerrigan |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | 1924 $1200: Working on a deadline, George Gershwin composed this piece in just a few weeks' time Rhapsody in Blue |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $800: Classics from Thelonious Monk include "Straight, No Chaser" & "'Round" this time, when jazz musicians are just warming up Midnight |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | "O-U-R" SOMETHING $2000: France lost about 6,000 troops, England, less than 500, in the 1415 battle of this village Agincourt |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: I'm choosing something by Adele next time we go out to do this, "empty orchestra" in Japanese karaoke |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $1000: It's a shortened version of a word for info; in a web article, "Jennifer Lopez Drops" them on "Achieving Celebrity Status" deets |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NONFICTION $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1513 this Florentine civil servant knocked out a handbook for rulers of his time called "Il Principe" Machiavelli |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1600: In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids Nefertiti |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | "N"OWLEDGE $400: The town of Arad in this desert is a common stopover for visitors to the Dead Sea the Negev |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GETTING SEAL-Y $800: This elite military unit took part in a raid in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2, 2011 SEAL Team Six |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $800: In 2021 the first-ever NIL store opened in Lincoln Park, giving players on this "Fighting" team a cut of each jersey sold the Fighting Illini |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $200: Pete Davidson told Teen Vogue, "I was" this "in high school, but I always took it too far" class clown |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES $400: Here, a man holds this item fallen from the skies; call an expert in aerolithology, an old word for the study of them meteorites |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THE EMMYS $600: From 1983 to 1988 the Best Actress in a Drama Emmy went to either one or the other of the 2 stars of this female cop drama on CBS Cagney & Lacey |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | CLOTHES $400: Though the name sounds like you run slowly in them, these lounge pants have a slimmer fit than sweats & a cinched ankle joggers |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | TELEVISION $1000: In the miniseries "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans", a top Swan is Naomi Watts as Babe, wife of this CBS honcho William S. Paley |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LITERARY GROUPS $400: Poets like Bei Dao of the Misty School of Poetry were exiled from China following the 1989 protests in this Beijing square Tiananmen (Square) |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $200: The Mrs. W's (Whatsit, Who & Which) are guides through the universe in this Madeleine L'Engle classic A Wrinkle in Time |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $400: Caryl Chessman chose to defend himself in front of Charles Fricke, who did this more than any other Calif. judge ever & did it to Caryl too provide a death sentence |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | POP CULTURE DRAGONS $400: Stuff the Magic Dragon is the name of the mascot for the NBA team that plays home games in this city Orlando |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | CONDIMENTS $400: This paste of ground sesame seeds can be used in a variety of ways in Middle Eastern cuisine, including as an ingredient in hummus tahini |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 2020s & 1920s SLANG $800: This shortened word precedes "check" in a term used on social media for reviewing one's attire before hitting the town fit |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | JUDGES $800: In 1955 Texas judge Drummond W. Bartlett allowed this for the 1st time in a murder trial, & presumably combed his hair & adjusted his robe television cameras |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA $800: In the early hours of April 19, 1775, Capt. John Parker & his militia waited for the British at Buckman Tavern in this town Lexington |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $1000: A feminist cause around 1914 was childbirth in this time of day "sleep" so women wouldn't remember the pain later twilight (sleep) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $1200: Antarctic downslope winds, which can average nearly 50 mph, get their speed from this force, rather than the atmosphere gravity |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | BOOZY $200: When it comes to this potent potable, go for one labeled "100% blue agave" tequila |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $400: A Brussels museum has a "Landscape with the Fall of" him, later than the famous one, this time with Daedalus still up in the air Icarus |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $200: Stronger than dogs but hard to train, these animals took time off from Santa to pull sleds of mail in Alaska in the early 1900s reindeer |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $400: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham & Jet Li are among the less than precious title mercenaries in this 2010 film The Expendables |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: Its city of Pawtucket was founded in 1671, in time to come in for some burning during King Philip's War Rhode Island |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $600: George Calvert was instrumental in the founding of this colony in 1632 Maryland |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $1200: In this Cormac McCarthy novel John Grady Cole & his pal Rawlins are hired to tame some equines All the Pretty Horses |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ACTION MOVIES $2000: "El Mariachi", "Desperado" & "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" make up this director's "Mexico Trilogy" Rodriguez |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | HEAVY $200: Fully loaded, this ship launched in 1911 weighed, or displaced, more than 52,000 tons--no match for a monster iceberg the Titanic |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $400: In 2003 Kansas became the first state to replace a statue, swapping out Gov. George Washington Glick for this president Eisenhower |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | PLANT LORE $1600: Kids in the day smashed the horse type of these to try to break them in the hard-hitting game called Conkers chestnuts |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $400: Theobromine in this substance is toxic to dogs; the darker & more bitter kinds are more dangerous for the pooch chocolate |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $800: Drake remembers an ex who used to call him all the time but now is living her best life "running out of pages" in her passport "Hotline Bling" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $1600: Biz Markie finds out a girl named "Blah-Blah-Blah" is, in fact, having more than a platonic relationship with another man "Just A Friend" |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | POP CULTURE $800: He briefly played in the minors in Baltimore before the Red Sox & his 1914 rookie card recently sold for more than $7 million Babe Ruth |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | MISCELLANEOUS KNOWLEDGE $1200: More than 6,000 athletes from some 40 countries compete in these games, the Olympics of the Western Hemisphere the Pan American Games |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $1200: In 1994 U.S. diplomats got this country's deposed President Aristide reinstated just in time to head off an invasion Haiti |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $1600: In 1978 Julio Palmaz heard a talk about the problem of arteries re-closing after surgery & invented this tube to hold them open a stent |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $400: In 1547 this teen became the first crowned czar of Russia; later on, he had filicide to his name Ivan the Terrible |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | I RAN $400: In 1995 Emmitt Smith ran for 25 touchdowns for this team but was far from its Lone Star the Cowboys |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | LOW TECH $400: One book in the "Fold & Fly" series teaches how to make these; a 2007 M.I.A. song is named for them paper planes |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS $600: Prokofiev conducted the U.S. premiere of his own "classical" symphony (less redundant than it sounds) at this NYC hall in 1918 Carnegie |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS $800: The life of child emperor Puyi & his time in this "City" in Beijing is the subject of the film "The Last Emperor" the Forbidden City |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $800: The third Thursday in November is the Great American Smokeout, hosted by this organization for more than 40 years the American Cancer Society |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS $800: The first time audiences were taken on this "ride" was when Wagner conducted extracts from his "Ring" cycle in 1862 "Ride Of The Valkyries" |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $400: In 1986 it was "6 'N The Mornin"' for him in the studio but in 2000 it was "SVU" for him on TV Ice-T |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $400: In 1789 Congress hotly debated "a day of public" this for the new Constitution; a November day was eventually chosen Thanksgiving |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $400: Paul Newman uses more than luck & skill to get the 4 jacks that beat Robert Shaw in this 1973 movie about a big con The Sting |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $800: Some numbers: 3 years after taking 9 bullets, he had a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut with "Get Rich Or Die Tryin"' in 2003 50 Cent |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $1000: "Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987 Chuck D |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | AIRLINE LOGOS $200: This airline's kangaroo logo was first used in 1947; it has gotten considerably more stylized since then Qantas |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | HOMES $800: In 1890 Claude Monet bought a farmhouse in this French town on the Epte River Giverny |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $800: This "sweet" song was introduced in the '20s & so were the Harlem Globetrotters, who would later make it their theme "Sweet Georgia Brown" |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 2015 gravitational waves were first directly observed after this man predicted them a century earlier Einstein |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $200: (I'm Nate Burleson representing wideouts.) I set an NFL record with 3 punt returns of 90 yards or more; in 2023 speedy Kadarius Toney's 65-yard punt return broke a Super Bowl record & helped this team prevail the Chiefs |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $800: (J.J. Watt here speaking for the defensive linemen.) After leading the NFL in sacks a few times, I love to see 'em in the big games; in 1986, this team had a record-tying seven, including ones by Richard Dent & Dan "The Danimal" Hampton Da Bears |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SUPER BOWL STARS $1000: (I'm Bill Cowher.) In 2006, I coached a spunky Steelers squad to a Super Bowl win, the first win for Pittsburgh since this legendary coach won 4 titles beginning in 1975 Chuck Noll |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | SPORTS PROFESSORS $600: For years a star on the Red Army team, in 1989 Igor "The Professor" Larionov became one of the first Soviets to play in this league the NHL |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $600: They were first paired up in the RKO film "Flying Down to Rio"; "Top Hat" was a more successful venture for them & the studio Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LATER, DUDE $1600: This word used for wishing someone well on their upcoming journey sounds like it could be Thor's time in a sprint godspeed |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | HISTORICAL AMERICAN CURRENCY $400: This Native American's depiction on a $20 banknote in the 1860s was the first time a real woman was seen on American currency Pocahontas |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $600: 2022's Red Kettle campaign from this charity brought in more than $100 million, & its name should ring a bell the Salvation Army |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $1200: This director's tombstone at Westwood Memorial Park in L.A. reads, "I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect" Billy Wilder |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $2000: In this system used for precious metals, an ounce is heavier than a standard ounce, but a pound is lighter than a standard pound troy |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | WILL YOU STILL NEED "ME" $400: You'll find them in albondigas soup meatballs |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $800: F is this dance done in 4/4 time in a slow-quick-quick rhythm foxtrot |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I'M SO WAVY $800: This wavy hairstyle is named for the way the ridges of hair go around in a circle one time a 360 wave |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | MOUNTAIN HIGH $800: Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted in this nation in 1991 for the first time in 600 years, producing a column of ash more than 20 miles high the Philippines |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER $11,200 (Daily Double): She followed Gulzarilal Nanda in 1966 & Charan Singh in 1980 Indira Gandhi |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $1000: From the name of a town in County Wicklow, it's an Irish walking stick or cudgel a shillelagh |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | TECH TALK $1200: Seen here, is a more than 2,000-year-old one of these, also what you use to take notes in Kobo eReaders & ebooks a stylus |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS $800: (Robin Roberts presents the clue.) When the U.S. entered World War I, some Black Americans enlisted thinking it would better their station in life; at the same time, President Woodrow Wilson was a supporter of having the armed forces enforce these segregation laws bearing the name of a stereotypical minstrel character Jim Crow |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country Chile |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $600: In 1999 the Asian edition of Time ranked this pocket monster the second-best person of the year, behind Ricky Martin Pikachu |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: As an impact player for this Phoenix WNBA team, Brittney Griner led the league in blocks per game in 2021 & was second in scoring the Mercury |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $2000: A 2007 Chinese missile test to destroy one of these in orbit added more than 3,000 pieces of trackable debris an artificial satellite (a weather satellite) |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $3,800 (Daily Double): The riverboat in Frontierland at Disneyland is named for him Mark Twain |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | 2-3 ZONE $200: Billings & Albuquerque are in this time zone centered on the 105-degree west meridian Mountain |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | COACHING BASKETBALL $1000: Real first name Glenn, this man had the prescription for the Celtics in 2008, taking them to the championship Doc Rivers |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | HISTORIC BATTLES $2000: In 1862's Battle of Fredericksburg, Union troops crossed this long-named Virginia river, then may have wished they hadn't the Rappahannock River |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1200: He is the NBA's all-time leader in games played & an area often covered by one church & one priest a (Robert) Parish |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER $400: Hard to imagine them apart, but in 1957 Abbott & Costello did this, also a chemical process, to their partnership dissolve |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $800: In "Love in the Time of Cholera" by him, Florentino has thought of a love affair for 51 years, 9 months & 4 days, not that he's counting Gabriel García Márquez |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $600: This phrase precedes "more powerful than a locomotive!" in a 1941 cartoon where our hero fights "The Mad Scientist" faster than a speeding bullet |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $800: A government worker flies to Iran with some folks & tries desperately against long odds to get them to a Canadian's house Argo |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | GREEK CUISINE $800: This paper-thin pastry dough is used in such delights as tiropita, a feta cheese pie phyllo |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1200: In 1954 a big new guy in town strolls around a world capital, rebuilding entire structures & repairing broken power stations Godzilla |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. CITIES $2000: Most city founders have been gone a while, but the man for whom this Nevada casino town is named, passed away in 2023 Laughlin |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER $3,400 (Daily Double): Melatonin disruption plays a role in this time zone desynchronization jet lag |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $200: With its famed ball season in full swing, January is the perfect time to visit this Austrian capital, "the City of Waltzes" Vienna |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY $400 (Daily Double): Erik Messerschmidt shot the film "Mank" primarily in deep focus as a nod to this Orson Welles opus that pioneered the technique Citizen Kane |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $400: Every October hundreds of hot air balloons take flight in this New Mexico city at what's called "the most photographed event in the world" Albuquerque |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $500: Chemically speaking, they're molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive radicals |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $600: They're names for pointy implements used in sewing & for a feeling like you're getting pricked by them pins & needles |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $600: Get to Edinburgh in August for this festival billed as the "world's greatest platform for creative freedom" the Fringe Festival |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $800: Serious collectors take a June getaway to Basel in this country to attend its renowned art fair & stroll its cobblestone alleys Switzerland |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $1000: Dry season months like November are ideal for hiking "the Roof of Africa" at Simien National Park in this country on Africa's horn Ethiopia |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $200: In Norwegian, this local town's name means "luck", but for us, it sounds like it can literally freeze over Hel |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $1000: It was Ben Affleck's turn to be a math whiz when the books were cooking in this 2016 action film, & Ben did more than the title implies The Accountant |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHOSE WHAT $1600: In Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller, Clare Abshire, Henry DeTamble's beloved, is this title character the Time Traveler's Wife |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | EXISTENTIALISM $1200: In 1927 Martin Heidegger wrote about this "& Time"; Jean-Paul Sartre later pondered this same word "& Nothingness" Being |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $400: The producers of "Tak3n" had a very particular set of skills to get this man back for time 3 in the role of Bryan Mills Liam Neeson |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Unlike Vivaldi, Philip Glass left it up to the listener which time of year it was in his composition "The American" these Four Seasons |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $600: In 1900 the U.S. beat the Brits in the first match for this international team tennis "Cup" the Davis Cup |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $800: "Se7en" had this actor demanding, "what's in the box?!" & very much not liking what is in the box Brad Pitt |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2008 the Hindu American Foundation launched "Take Back" this practice that's much more than the physical postures of asana yoga |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1600: You might say this Oscar winner became a godfather in 2002 playing a movie director who (virtually) created "S1m0ne" Al Pacino |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $2000: In 2022 she played Gemma, a robotics engineer who brought "M3GAN" to life; maybe some "Girls" are more fun to hang out with Allison Williams |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $600: In 2023 this type of filing affecting housing was 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities eviction |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $600: More governors of New Jersey have resigned than of any other state--mostly for positive reasons like when he quit in 1913 to be president Wilson |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $800: The 1974 Senate race in N.H., with 220,000 votes cast, was won by 355, then after the first of these, by 10, then after another, by 2 recounts |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 1980s PRO WRESTLING $1000: Time to get rowdy, this wrestler who was from Canada, but had the right ancestry for the get up, hit the ring in a kilt Roddy Piper |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $1200: Temps de poisson, a jump in which the legs are together with crossed feet & back arched, means "time of" this animal fish |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | TV CLIFFHANGERS $1600: This Apple TV+ show employed a time jump to 2003 & the reveal that a NASA director was now in... Russia For All Mankind |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $200: Will Ferrell films: "Old School", "Anchorman", "Step Brothers" & this comedy set in the Big Apple & the North Pole Elf |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $500: In 1972, this brand debuted Red Zinger and Sleepy Time; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _
_ E A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Celestial Seasonings |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $600: Coolio: "I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like, on my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight" "Gangsta's Paradise" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $1000: Based in Eau Claire, WI, this port-a-potty company shares its name with the target where a skydiver lands Drop Zone |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler Hirohito |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $800: In 2019 memes sent hundreds into the desert to try to get a close encounter & "see them aliens" at this Nevada military facility Area 51 |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $400: In 2001 it merged with Time Warner AOL |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $400: In June 2002 this Lakers coach became the all-time leader in playoff victories by winning his 156th game Phil Jackson |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | NBA HISTORY $800: In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals Hakeem Olajuwon |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HAMMER TIME $400: Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house millions worldwide Habitat for Humanity |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | IAMB WOMAN $8,600 (Daily Double): The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $1000: Time to drink in this hearty reddish color... ohhhh yes... bold, with a hint of je ne sais quoi burgundy |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | TEX & THE CITY $200: Luke Short killed Jim Courtright in an 1887 duel in the streets of this Texas town, now half of the Dallas "Metroplex" Fort Worth |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $400: The Feds still issue bills of this denomination but in a much smaller quantity than the others $2 bill |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $600: In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time Philadelphia |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | DISASTER $200: The earthquake & ensuing fire that struck this U.S. city in 1906 had a 7.9 magnitude & claimed more than 3,000 lives San Francisco |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | COLLEGE PREP $200: University worker Nick Saban earns more than $11 million a year as the highest paid public employee in this state Alabama |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $400: These "drenched" fats are usually solid at room temperature & a diet high in them can raise cholesterol saturated |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $400: Skipjack is the most common species of this that you'll find canned in the United States tuna |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | DISASTER $800: The USA's deadliest maritime disaster killed more than 1,000 people when the steamboat Sultana sank on this river in 1865 the Mississippi |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This city in Alaska has hosted the Midnight Sun Festival for more than 40 years Fairbanks |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | DISASTER $1000: In 1988 a terrorist bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over this Scottish town Lockerbie |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1200: Selling more than 10 million copies each, her "Up!", "The Woman In Me" & "Come on Over" albums have all been certified diamond Shania Twain |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: 13 in 1972 when she had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", she continues to put out music, including her recent album, "Sweet Western Sound" Tanya Tucker |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | KITTY LIT $200: A stray cat is taken in and then set loose by Holly Golightly in this iconic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $200: Though it only has four, this Jamaican resort town's name is Spanish for eight rivers Ocho Rios |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMBER ONE HITS $800: In 2019, "Old Town Road" broke this Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men song's record for most weeks at #1 "One Sweet Day" |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $1000: Head north to Alaska, then keep heading north & you'll hit this northernmost point in the state Point Barrow |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $2000: In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", this author writes, "You are what you eat... & if this is true, then what we mostly are is corn" (Michael) Pollan |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR MAN ON THE FIELD $800: In 2023, Corey Seager won his 2nd World Series MVP award as this team became champions the Texas Rangers |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE $1600: In 1923, more than 30 years before the talking one, Cecil B. DeMille directed a silent version of this biblical epic The Ten Commandments |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $400: The most populous city in India, this capital of Maharashtra state is also home to the country's leading stock exchange Mumbai |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | PUT ON YOUR HELMET! $400: This team was the first in the NFL to put an emblem on a football helmet after halfback Fred Gehrke designed one with spiraling horns the Rams |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | LANGUAGES & THEIR FORMS $600: More than 20 languages spoken by indigenous people in Guatemala originated from this language Mayan |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | PAINT, BY NUMBERS $400: In 2015 "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)", his 1892 oil painting, sold for more than $200 million Gauguin |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | PAINT, BY NUMBERS $800: In 2011 a portrait of surrealist poet Paul Éluard by this Spaniard sold for more than $21 million Dalí |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $1600: In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $1600: Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man" the passenger pigeon |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | HISTORIC LASTS $2000: Rome put Carthage on the mat for the final time with the third of these wars in a campaign that lasted from 149 to 146 B.C. the Punic Wars |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $300: Don't call them U2!--Larry Mullen Jr. & Adam Clayton were absent; the Edge did a Tiny Desk Concert with this singer in 2023 Bono |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SPORTS TEAM HOMOPHONES $400: NHL team that left Hartford in 1997, or
Bob Marley's band the Whalers/Wailers |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | ONE BELLY BUTTON, TWO NIPPLES $500: Epiglottis, naris, testis:
it's the one a male has one of epiglottis |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $600: In 1975, both Angola and Mozambique gained their independence from this Iberian country Portugal |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $400: This Beatles song has a lot of levels, but it's "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes" rather than "a girl with colitis goes by" "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LONG TIME $800: Arising in Aquitaine in the 10th century, the Pax Dei, which translates as this, aimed to protect pilgrims & others from violence Peace of God |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | NATIVE AMERICANS $1000: Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high totem poles |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LONG TIME $1600: Humanism was an integral part of this period in Europe sometimes said to have ended with Rome's fall in 1527 the Renaissance |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LONG TIME $2000: Mao's Red Guards shut down schools & attacked thinkers during this decade-long period in China's history the Cultural Revolution |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $800: The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year 1620 |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | MOVIE SCORES $2000: (Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) An all-time great for me was Giorgio Moroder's haunting score for this 1978 Alan Parker drama about a prisoner in a hopeless situation in a Turkish jail the Midnight Express |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $800: Next time you prep deviled eggs in Tibet, remember they'll cook slower because this drops 1 degree F. for every 550' above sea level water's boiling point |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $1600: It precedes "favor" when you ingratiate yourself to one in authority, perhaps when you tote or lug something for them curry & carry |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | MEASUREMENT $1600: In 1979 the average price of gas at U.S. service stations passed this milestone for the first time a dollar a gallon |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 2023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $200: A field goal with 8 seconds left gave this team a 38-35 win over the Eagles in Super Bowl 57 Kansas City |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $400: Take in the beautiful blue agave fields near this town in Jalisco that gave its name to a potent potable Tequila |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 2023 SPORTS HIGHLIGHT REEL $400: For the first time, the U.S. women didn't reach the semifinals of this, getting knocked out by Sweden in the round of 16 the Women's World Cup |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | 12-LETTER SCIENCE WORDS $400: In physics it's the rate of change of velocity with respect to time, not necessarily an increase in speed acceleration |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BAYS $1200: A South Florida national park with this bay in its name is home to more than 500 species of reef fish Biscayne |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | REPORTING THE NEWS $1600: One of Time's "25 Most Influential Hispanics in the U.S.", he began anchoring "Noticiero Univision" at age 28 in 1986 Jorge Ramos |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Following this disaster in 2005, Tulane was forced to close for several months, the first time since the Civil War Hurricane Katrina |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $600: Failed to arrive in time for the light fog missed the mist |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $200: "Now when Jesus was born in" this town, "there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem" Bethlehem |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | '80s NO. 1 HITMAKERS $400: In 1984 she wanted to know, "What's Love Got To Do With It" Tina Turner |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $400: "She brought forth her firstborn son... and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them" at this place the inn |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | RIDE INTO... $400: this Arizona town from Dodge City as Wyatt Earp did to join his brothers in 1879 Tombstone |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | GOING SOFT $600: Often bigger than the objects of previous cuddleable crazes, these soft favorites were only launched in 2017 Squishmallows |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $800: She arrived in England from Virginia in June 1616, in time to take in a new masque by Ben Jonson Pocahontas |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | EUR"O"s $400: This town in Provence gave its name to a Dutch royal house Orange |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $800: Published in 1930, "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first mystery this teen detective solved Nancy Drew |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $2,500 (Daily Double): Before it meant any chain of islands, Archipelago was another name for this arm of the Mediterranean Sea the Aegean Sea |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS $800: This type of fork has a special leftmost tine for cutting the treat, maybe while standing a cake (a dessert fork) |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $1000: In his "First Vision", in New York State in 1820, he asked Jesus which church had the truth & Jesus said none of them Joseph Smith |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | QUITE A SITE $1000: Let's take a 2.1-million-year trip through time & examine exposed deposits in this gorge, the "cradle of mankind" Olduvai |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $400: Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina Maui |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | UNOFFICIAL TEAM NICKNAMES $1000: The Greatest Show on Turf:
The late '90s-early 2000s edition of this team, then in St. Louis the Rams |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NOT CHESS AGAIN! $400: If one of these moves 2 squares rather than one, it may be captured "en passant", in passing a pawn |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $400: They "bolt"ed into the NHL in 1992 the (Tampa Bay) Lightning |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $800: It's a whirlwind courtship for this actress who plays Captain Marvel & this cartoonist behind The Far Side Brie & Gary Larson |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | TENNIS-Y WILLIAMS $200: Venus & Serena grew up in this huge city's suburb of Compton, better known for rappers than groundstrokers L.A. |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $600: For telling the truth about a town's contaminated water supply in an Ibsen play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann becomes this title foe An Enemy of the People |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $400: One of these that streaked across the sky over Russia in February 2013, then exploded with the force of 30 nuclear bombs a meteor |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WESTERN TV SHOWS $1000: A Paramount+ series follows this Black lawman of the Wild West who in real life apprehended more than 3,000 outlaws, including his son Bass Reeves |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $1600: A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals a circuit judge |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $1600: James Oglethorpe went to Eton, did other stuff, then founded this colony in America Georgia |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $400: We'll give you more than 5 cents if you know this Alberta band hit No. 1 in 2001 with "How You Remind Me" Nickelback |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | F-STOP $400: A recurring theme in a musical or literary work a motif |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CIRCLE TIME $400: In target archery hitting this center circle garners you 10 points the bullseye |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | CIRCLE TIME $800: In the U.K., a sign with 3 arrows going around in a circle indicates one of these, also called a traffic circle a roundabout |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $600: In 1982, he set a modern record by stealing 130 bases; Hugh Nicol has the all-time record with 138 set in 1887 (Rickey) Henderson |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $1000: He said, "Nice guys finish last", and proved it; he took over the Cubs in 1966 & managed them to last place Leo Durocher |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | AMPHIBIANS $1600: Snakes have these on the outside of their skin, but caecilians, which resemble snakes, have them embedded in folds in the skin scales |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | LABOR UNIONS $2000: When several unions of these workers struck in 1970, troops had to replace federal employees for the first time postal employees |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | WATERY SONGS $400: In 1984 Prince "never meant 2 cause U any sorrow" with this colorful tune "Purple Rain" |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $800: A Connecticut town gave its name to this tick-borne disease that was first identified in the 1970s Lyme disease |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | WATERY SONGS $1000: The 2 title items in this Carpenters tune, No. 2 in '71, "always get me down" "Rainy Days And Mondays" |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DECIMALS $1200: Though not required, "trailing" these to the right of a decimal point are often used to show levels of accuracy zeros |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $200: After this Canadian pop star cut his signature swoop in 2011, locks of his hair sold on eBay for more than $40,000 Justin Bieber |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $400: Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $600: "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing":
He revealed that future editions of his memoir will not include Keanu Reeves Matthew Perry |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE $900: This NBA-championship-winning team was honored at the White House in 2023; Steph Curry called the visit "majestic" the Warriors |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $900: "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living" Les Misérables |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $1000: In "Home Alone", Kevin pays the pizza delivery guy & then plays audio of an old gangster delivering this memorable line "Keep the change, ya filthy animal" |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CHORUS LINES $6,000 (Daily Double): "I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America" West Side Story |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $400: "After thinking it over for some time", this purple crayon-toting tot went for "a walk in the moonlight" Harold |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FEEDBACK: SANDWICH $800: You can count on enjoying this ham, turkey & Swiss sandwich, dipped in an egg & milk mix & then fried, but must you dip it in jam? a Monte Cristo |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | LANDMARKS FOR SALE $1000: Sure, it's 1,815 feet tall, but its elevators can rise at 20 feet per second! You'll be home in Toronto in no time! the CN Tower |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $200: Like Ptolemy, about whom he wrote, Theon placed this body in the center of the cosmos the Earth |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $1000: Music is the most powerful connector says this Biden administration Secretary of State, seen performing "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Antony) Blinken |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $1200: In 2005 he urged Stanford's graduating class, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life" Steve Jobs |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $800: In 2015, this prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in "On the Town" Misty Copeland |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $1200: In 1989, he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier Rudolf Nureyev |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WOMEN & SPORTS $300: In ESPN's highest-rated tennis match ever, 4.8 million people watched this woman smash winners one last time in 2022 Serena Williams |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SHE PLAYED YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): Marge Gunderson:
Pregnant police chief & folksy small-town optimist Frances McDormand |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1200: Death by crucifixion has never been faced more cheerfully than in this comic troupe's sing-along, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" Monty Python |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Along with "wastin' time", add whistling to the list of things Otis Redding was doing in a 1968 hit about "Sittin"' here "On The Dock Of The Bay" |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $2000: Weighty Camaro tax a heavy Chevy levy |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $400: In Catholicism it's made by touching the forehead, the chest, the left shoulder & then the right the sign of the cross |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $1000: In his "Meditations" this stoic Roman emperor wrote, "Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity" Marcus Aurelius |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | CARTOON THEME SONGS $400: "They're the world's most fearsome fighting team... they're heroes in the half shell & they're green" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | CARTOON THEME SONGS $2000: "We're zany to the max, there's baloney in our slacks" Animaniacs |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $200: "Baby, you're much too fast", Prince complained in this tune "Little Red Corvette" |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | COMMUNICATION $400: This "fruity" smartphone was a big hit when it debuted in 2002... then came the iPhone & Android the BlackBerry |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $800: This president with only a little time at school called education "the most important subject which we... can be engaged in" Lincoln |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $1000: John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him man |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $1000: The Mozambique Channel the Indian Ocean |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A LITTLE "DEB"LL DO YA $200: In 1858 Douglas & Lincoln engaged in 7 of them about slavery debates |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | 1 MAN, 1 CAREER, 1 TEAM $1000: Steve Yzerman:
22 seasons in Hockeytown the Red Wings (of Detroit) |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT TERM $1600: In geologic time:
eon, era... periods |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $2000: Nobody was more skillful than him with a tool in his hand--his right hand, of course Dexterous |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | JAILHOUSE ROCK $200: Al Capone & Machine Gun Kelly did time on this rock in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $400: Born Frances Gumm, she made her singing debut at age 2 in her dad's theater & then went on to visit Oz Judy Garland |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POP MUSIC $600: In 1988 Tracy Chapman had a hit with this auto tune; 35 years later, Luke Combs' cover of it is a country hit "Fast Car" |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $800: This saint of Jesus' time celebrated on June 24 lived up to the ritual from his name St. John the Baptist |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $400: This university's Lexington-based cheer team is the winningest in UCA Division IA history, with 24 national titles; go Wildcats! Kentucky |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $500: A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | MOTHER GOOSE POLICE BLOTTER $800: Police received multiple reports at 10 P.M. of a man running through town & tapping on windows in his nightgown "Wee Willie Winkie" |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | U.S. "WORLD CAPITALS" $1200: If you like brats & getting barreled, head to Sheboygan in this state, the "world capital" of bratwurst & freshwater surfing Wisconsin |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | '90s MUSIC $400: After years as a backup singer, she hit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $800: A report said more than 225 billion of these annoying 4-letter texts were sent in 2022; the FCC is on it spam texts |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $200: In 1914 this automaker raised the minimum wage for his employees to $5 a day, more than twice the going rate Henry Ford |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $600: Charles & Henry were the first names of this pair of Englishmen who produced the Silver Ghost in 1907 Rolls Royce |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | SONGS IN MUSICALS $800: "Johnny's Mambo" &
"(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" Dirty Dancing |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | THE "A" TEAM $800: This nickname of a Texas school's teams comes from the "A" in "A&M" the Aggies |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN $1200: John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal in this town made him a martyr to the antislavery cause Harpers Ferry |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | ALBERT CAMUS $1200: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting of some of his works Algeria |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS $2000: In a painting by Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo de' Medici is portrayed as this poet & lyre player Orpheus |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | TO THE EXOPLANETS! $800: In 2013 Caltech scientists announced there are more than 100 billion planets in this alone--about one per star the Milky Way |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $2000: This band sang, "I don't practice Santeria" & also let us know "I love my dog", a tune on a "Best of" album in 2008 Sublime |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | GROWING PAINS $200: More common in women than men, these swollen & twisted veins can be a real pain in the leg varicose veins |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | SOUSED $2000: A town in Italy's Veneto region shares a name with this strong brandy made from the pomace of a wine press grappa |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | I'M ON THE CASE $1600: Peruse the appeal that successfully fought the $100 fine this Tenn. high school teacher got in 1925 for teaching evolution Scopes |
| #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 | COLORFULLY NAMED PEOPLE $300: Though she was in her 20s at the time, she was well cast as Baby, a Dirty Dancing baby Jennifer Grey |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | 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 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $1000: The U.S. hockey team wins Olympic gold,
Lin-Manuel Miranda is born 1980 |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $400: In even-numbered years of 2010, 2012 & 2014, Madison Bumgarner & Tim Lincecum pitched in as this team won the World Series the San Francisco Giants |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $1200: This team refused admission to a local tavern owner's billy goat in 1945, & the ensuing curse lasted until the 2016 World Series the Cubbies |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE WORLD SERIES $2000: In 1981 there were 3 World Series MVPs: Ron Cey, Steve Yeager & Pedro Guerrero, all of this team the Los Angeles Dodgers |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | FOUND IN ROY G. BIV $800: Due to fear of communism, in the 1950s this color was followed by "Legs" to make a new baseball team name Red |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $1600: The last time a U.S. third party finished ahead of a major party in a pres. election was in this year of Teddy's bully bid 1912 |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $800: Steve McCurry took a photo of an Afghan girl for this venerated magazine in 1984, then reunited with her 17 years later National Geographic |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $600: In this hit Lil Nas X mentions his "cowboy hat from Gucci" "Old Town Road" |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | FILL IN THE BLANK CANVAS $800: From 1912, more mechanical than nude: "Nude Descending a ____, No. 2" Staircase |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $1000: AKA "Mad Max 2" The Road Warrior |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $1600: He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1982 & 1986 & then it was on to the presidency--well, not quite Dukakis |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $2000: This stainless-steel car with gull-wing doors debuted in 1981; fewer than 10,000 were made a DeLorean |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $100: Time to make the... oh, never mind. This chain officially dropped "Donuts" from its name in 2019 Dunkin' |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $200: France caught a sick burn in 2003, when D.C. cafeterias dropped the name "French fries" and started serving these Freedom fries |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $800: This Safdie Brothers film was inspired by stories their father told them about working in New York City's Diamond District Uncut Gems |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SCULPTURES $1500: In the '60s, this pop art icon recreated cartons of Brillo pads, stacking them to evoke a cramped warehouse Andy Warhol |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | COUNTRIES THAT BORDER INDIA $700 (Daily Double): In 1967 India & this nation had a military clash along the border of Sikkim, then an Indian protectorate & today a state China |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | GO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT A HORSE $800: Passionate about horses, Elizabeth Taylor wins one in a town lottery in this 1944 classic National Velvet |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $2000: In 2021 the Met premiered its first opera by a Black composer, this jazz trumpeter 5 months younger than Wynton Marsalis Terence Blanchard |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $400: This university was formed around 1209 by people fleeing "town & gown" tensions in Oxford Cambridge University |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800: In his "Ballad of East and West", this Brit wrote, "East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet" Rudyard Kipling |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $200: Schoolteacher Justin Morgan lent his name to a breed of this animal developed in the U.S. in the 1800s a horse |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $600: Him, as Sean Parker in "The Social Network": "You don't even know what the thing is yet, how big it can get, how far it can go" Justin Timberlake |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $1000: Justin Henry earned an Oscar nomination as Dustin Hoffman's son in this film Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $400: Nietzsche named the wild, creative impulse for Dionysus & the orderly one for this sun god Apollo |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $800: Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration time |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $400: We suspect vodka lovers more than tea aficionados gravitate to this restaurant dating back to 1927 the Russian Tea Room |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A DAY AT THE RACES $400: In this type of race, a licensed horse owner may bet on the winner & then buy it a claiming race |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $1,000 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 Henry Hudson |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY $1200: This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with "a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down" Chantilly lace |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ON ANOTHER PLANET $200: This planet is often called Earth's evil twin because it's similar in size & density, but it's a hot toxic mess Venus |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $400: There's a cannon in the logo of this English soccer team nicknamed "The Gunners" Arsenal |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $400: A marker in Martinez, CA hails the town as the "birthplace of the martini"; it recommends 2/3 gin and 1/3 this vermouth |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $800: There might be no dopier word for "have sex with" than this 1-syllable verb ending in "K", likely meant to evoke bouncing boink (or bonk) |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $1000: Farfalle are these creatures, but please don't eat them butterflies |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $400: 1969:
Ed Kranepool,
Bud Harrelson &
Tom Seaver... what an amazin' team the (Miracle) Mets |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THIS GLAND IS YOUR GLAND $600: This gland in the front of the neck below the larynx makes calcitonin to deal with high levels of calcium in the blood the thyroid gland |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $800: 1975:
Fred Lynn,
Bernie Carbo &
Carlton Fisk, who will always wave it fair the Boston Red Sox |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $1200: 1994:
David Justice,
Greg Maddux &
Deion Sanders, moonlighting from the gridiron the Atlanta Braves |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $1600: 1906:
Charley O'Leary,
Pinky Lindsay & here's one who might help a bit... Ty Cobb the Detroit Tigers |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | IN THE BASEBALL TEAM'S LINEUP $2000: 2009:
2B Chase Utley,
SS Jimmy Rollins,
P Cole Hamels Philadelphia Phillies |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $800: "30 Rock" was far in her future when she suggested we go to Mutual Savings Bank Tina Fey |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WE WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK $800: Christmas comes early when this tune comes whistling in "Greensleeves" ("What Child Is This?") |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $1200: AKA Saloth Sar, he was a novice monk for a time in Cambodia before becoming infamous for "Killing Fields" Pol Pot |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | VOCABULARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Having all 5 vowels in alphabetical order, it means cleverly amusing, but it can also be snarky in tone facetious |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | SPOOKY LITERATURE $200: (Justin Long presents the clue.) To pass the time on a rainy day in Geneva, she & her husband & friends were telling each other ghost stories; she came up with "Frankenstein"--not bad for starting your first novel at age 18 (Mary) Shelley |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $200: Jennifer Aniston won one in September 2002; her then-husband Brad was nominated, but didn't win Emmy (M-E) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | GOT MILK? $800: This type of sugar that's less sweet than sucrose is found only in milk lactose |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | "L" ON EARTH $2000: It's "jar"ring to note that before sailing to America in 1620, the Pilgrims lived in this Dutch city for more than 10 years Leiden |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | STATE THE ITEM $200: You get your hole cards & then deal with the flop in this card game, but you're far from done Texas hold 'em |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SURELY YOU JOUST $1000: Most jousting was unregulated & illegal until given official sanction for the first time by this English king in 1194 A.D. Richard I (the Lionhearted) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $300: This company with a bumblebee-inspired name has the highest lifetime sales in "Shark" history; that's a lot of socks Bombas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $600: Boxing's greatest "J.Lo" of all time, he had a sports arena named after him in Detroit that was known locally as "the Joe" Joe Louis |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $600: Stars Hollow, Connecticut (Luke's has the best cup of joe in town) Gilmore Girls |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WINE BIZ $800: "Hangover" actor Bradley can clue you in that barrel makers for wineries go by this title Cooper |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FEELING GASSY $800: Unopened potato chip bags are made puffy by filling them with this gas, the most abundant one in our atmosphere nitrogen |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | LODGING $400: If you're looking at a long time in Tempe, try Studio 6, the extended-stay version of this chain Motel 6 |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $800: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $1000: Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances & pharmaceuticals essential |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1600: TAI, the French abbreviation for "international" this "time", was introduced in 1955 atomic time (Temps Atomique International) |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE VIRTUES $200: It's paired with liberty in the Pledge of Allegiance justice |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | THE GENE POOL $800: With Jules Munshin & Frank Sinatra, this hoofer was "On the Town" in 1949 (Gene) Kelly |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $800: Formosan rock macaques are only found in Japan & in the mountains & forests of this Asian island Taiwan |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | LOOK IN THE CABINET $4,200 (Daily Double): At the time of its establishment in 1849, this Cabinet department was also known as the Home Department the Department of the Interior |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | PLEASE BEAR WITH ME $600: Movie within a movie time! In "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent", Nic Cage & Pedro Pascal swoon over this Brit-based bear "2" Paddington |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1000: In 1927, he did not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney who may have gotten a 14-second long count Jack Dempsey |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | ANIMAL VERBS $2000: To hum, buzz or speak in a monotonous tone drone |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $100: Seen here, this fried fairground favorite is named after the device used to drizzle batter into hot oil the funnel cake |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $400: Richard Gere sweeps Debra Winger off her feet to the tune of "Up Where We Belong" in the final scene of this '80s tearjerker An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $600: In "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" she rocked a chainmail dress & she sang the film's power ballad "We Don't Need Another Hero" Tina Turner |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NO CAP $600: It's a domesticated woolly relative of the camel
_ L _ _ _ _ alpaca |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | SCIENTISTS' RHYME TIME $600: Danish physicist Niels' small openings in skin Bohr's pores |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $800: He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime Magic Johnson |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | WEAVE GOT SEWING CLUES $1600: In myth, this woman bought time by unweaving a burial shroud meant for her husband's father, Laertes Penelope |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1200: This tome was a collection of spells, charms & magical formulas for the deceased to use in the afterlife the Book of the Dead |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $800: Lyrics in this song include "these vagabond shoes are longing to stray" & "these little town blues are melting away" "New York, New York" |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE VIKINGS $800: Many Vikings wore pendants made in the form of Mjolnir, this symbol of Thor, to protect them from danger a hammer |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $800: With more than 300 million including water buffalo, this nation leads the world in cattle & many there hold them sacred India |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $2,000 (Daily Double): In February, 1945, FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at the Livadia Palace near this Black Sea resort Yalta |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $200: Punishable by fine or imprisonment of one year or less, they're much more common than felonies in many states misdemeanors |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | BRAD TO THE BONE $600: In 2017 this Brad's status was executive producer, rather than leading man, of "Brad's Status" Brad Pitt |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: Of Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney or Colin Clive, the one who played the title role in the 1931 film "Frankenstein" Colin Clive |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | A SOVIET UNION $1000: After the Communists came into power in 1917, this party of theirs ratified a "code of marriage, the family and guardianship" the Bolsheviks (Reds) |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | TRANSLATE THE BRITISHISM $400: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a pram" a baby carriage |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | WHO "AR" THEY? $1000: When her photos of unusual-looking people were shown at MoMA in 1965, a curator had to wipe viewers' spit off them daily Arbus |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INDIANA WANTS YOU $400: This pro sports team relocated in 1984 (in the middle of the night) & began playing in Indiana the Colts |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | FARMING PHRASES $800: A grassy feeding area is in this phrase for pushing someone into retirement putting them out to pasture |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | SCHOOL RHYME TIME $400: A guess about what they're serving in the cafeteria a lunch hunch |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? $400: Long ones are a proverbial sign of age, & to bishop, to file them down on a horse, is thought to be named after a practitioner of yore teeth |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | SCHOOL RHYME TIME $600: A mistake made by the person filling in for your regular teacher a sub flub |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | "C" IN LITERATURE $800: In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam Caleb |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1200: The town in his "Starry Night" is Saint-Rémy, where he was a patient in its mental hospital van Gogh |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | CHINESE FOOD $600: Sometimes called fensi, this thin pasta is made from mung beans & becomes transparent when soaked in water & cooked glass (cellophane) noodles |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $800: Juventus, a top pro team in this country, is affectionately known as "The Old Lady" Italy |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $1200: Mentioned more than 40 times in the Bible, they were a people of Asia Minor & Syria the Hittites |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $1600: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born" Waylon Jennings |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $200: "You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town" The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $1000: Named for the color of their uniforms, the All Blacks are New Zealand's national team in this, the national sport rugby |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | BACK IN THE DAY $2,200 (Daily Double): This U.S. agency began in 1961; its director Sargent Shriver said it had 15,000 volunteers in 50+ countries in less than 6 years the Peace Corps |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | FUN & GAMES $400: Black & white pieces in this game are often called stones, which you want to get back home & then "bear off" to win the game backgammon |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $800: In 2015 Lana Del Rey did croon this melancholy tune whose title refers to a farewell or final performance a "Swan Song" |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $1000: More than 460 actors & actresses have appeared in this play that originated as a request of the BBC for Queen Mary The Mousetrap |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $1000: Time to find out who's got the big mo, & this big Mo helps stimulate chemical reactions that get rid of sulfur in petroleum molybdenum |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $400: This novelist "was able to describe the attack on him" in 2022 "as he was speaking about the U.S. as a safe place for exiled writers" Salman Rushdie |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S "SEE" $600: "See" is right in the middle of this old-timey word meaning to beg or implore beseech |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $600: In other movie roles or as "The Queen of Wakanda, we believe in you because you believe in yourself" Angela Bassett |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $800: He "has been on the Supreme Court for 17 years. But in 2022, he cemented his legacy" Samuel Alito |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $800: In 1434 it supplanted Angkor Thom as the Khmer capital Phnom Penh |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $600: Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird "Piano Man" |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU $400: From the Latin for "middle", it's definitely smaller than large medium |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $400: On March 27 a 9.2 quake rocked this state's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of Mineral Creek Alaska |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU $1200: In the sequence 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 4 is this, like a highway strip median |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $200: Types of these include http-only, session & zombie, but none of them go very well with a glass of cold milk a cookie |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SCIENCE CLASS $200: In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body oxygen |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | KIN $800: Anderson Cooper descends from this shipping & railroad magnate who left a fortune of more than $100 million when he died in 1877 (Cornelius) Vanderbilt |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WELCOME TO MIAMI $800: The Brickell Section of town has one end of the Tamiami Trail; 264 miles away, the other end is, naturally, in this city Tampa |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $800: While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he'd get little nutrition from them drumsticks |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | REAL FAST $400: Sifan Hassan holds the women's world record in this track event: 4 minutes, 12.33 seconds a mile |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $600: Buchanan, in this state, is a beautiful storybook town per Matthew Ramsay of the band Old Dominion who grew up there Virginia |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $1600: Short on time but want to get in a good workout? Some people enjoy this form of exercise, HIIT for short, but don't overdo it high intensity interval training |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE BAR MITZVAH BOY $400: This Facebook founder had a "Star Wars" theme at Temple Beth Abraham in Tarrytown, New York Mark Zuckerberg |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | PLAY TIME $400: In Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", a conquistador imprisons Atahuallpa, emperor of this people the Inca |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | TRIPLE TIME $400: This organization was founded in Chicago by a group of motoring enthusiasts March 4, 1902 triple-A |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | TRIPLE TIME $600: Cointreau is a type of this liqueur essential in the making of a Cosmopolitan triple sec |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | TRIPLE TIME $800: As told in Genesis, these are the 3 sons of Noah Ham, Shem & Japheth |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $1200: "Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3, it's as easy to learn as your ABC", sang this group in 1983; someone should call them about that The Police |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | PLAY TIME $2000: In this "small" Lillian Hellman drama about greed & ambition, a southern family plots to make a fortune by fair means or foul The Little Foxes |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $800: Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite cold & heat |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $800: In 1986 reporter Geraldo Rivera opened a vault belonging to this Chi-Town criminal; what was found? Bupkis Al Capone |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | BRACE FOR LANDING $1600: Head over an 8,000-foot peak, navigate wind shear & then enjoy this Austrian city home to two Winter Olympics in 12 years Innsbruck |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | IN DENMARK $600: Den Gamle By, an open-air museum representing an early Danish town, is an attraction in Arhus on this peninsula the Jutland |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | RHYME THE TIME $800: To give up to another your foremost position in a race cede the lead |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1200: "The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb" Lee |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $100 (Daily Double): Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., running with a then-veep himself Nixon |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $200: Of NBA franchises by team name, not city, they won the championship in 2021 the Milwaukee Bucks |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $1200: "Ghost Stories", a graphic novel from Canadian Jeff Lemire is set in a town outside this city, across the river from Detroit Windsor |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | INTERNATIONAL BOOKS $2000: Milan Kundera's second novel, "Life Is Elsewhere" was not allowed to be published in this, his home country at the time Czechoslovakia |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | TRACK & FIELD $200: In 2021, after becoming the second woman to throw this more than 80 meters--about 262'--we bet Deanna Price was Thor the next day the hammer |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | ENDS IN "X" $2000: They're the pretty flowers seen here; picked them just for you phlox |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | EXPLORERS $2000: This American explorer returned to Antarctica in the 1930s & had to be rescued in 1934, suffering from frostbite Admiral (Richard) Byrd |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | JOHN LENNON $600: In 1972 John & Yoko released the album "Some Time in" this city where he'd spend most of the rest of his life New York (City) |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $800: "Vacation, had to get away", sang this band in a 1982 Top 10 hit the Go-Go's |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A DEEP DIVE INTO... $800: Movie history:
In 1939 Hollywood released 365 films, including all-time classics & this jungle hero "Finds a Son!" Tarzan |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A phrase about the return of bovines that means to wait a long time gets around to founding a house improvement chain in 1978 wait until the cows come Home Depot |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66 $1600: Visit the Mining Museum in Galena, Kansas, a small town that was big in mining this metal obtained from galena lead |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $200: In 1968 tuition was free for state residents at the U. of Cal., including this Bay Area flagship campus; it was $14,000 in 2023 Berkeley |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $400: It may get your Irish up to know in 1977 this Indiana private U. cost about $3,000 but tuition & fees now go for 62 grand Notre Dame |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $600: 1985 tuition was a bit over $7,000 at this Durham, North Carolina university; in 2024, the cost will be north of $63,000 Duke |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | 4 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y" $800: Intrusively inquisitive nosy |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $800: Tuition at this private univ. in Houston from its opening in 1912 to 1965? Deliciously free! Today... a bit more, at $57,000 Rice |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $1000: This Big Ten school kept things steady for in-state Indiana residents; general service tuition was $9,992 in 2012 & in '23 Purdue |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $1600: "Sankofa" features an American transported back in time at Cape Coast Castle near Accra in this West African country Ghana |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY $2,000 (Daily Double): FAANG:
Coined in 2017 by Jim Cramer to denote 5 top tech companies at the time Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix & Google |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her 1936 effort "We the Living" is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism Ayn Rand |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $400: (Emily Blunt presents the clue.) My character Kitty Oppenheimer's marriage to Robert was tempestuous, & in the 1950s controversy over her one-time involvement with this political party helped bring an end to her husband's career in government communism (Communist Party) |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | 3,3 $1000: This Scottish outlaw spent time in Newgate Prison but was pardoned before he was to be sent to Barbados Rob Roy |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | IN SYNDICATION $1200: It's a royal horse race! It's a neck scarf! It's both! Ascot |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | TV SHOWS $2000: As a teen, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase in this series about the trials & tribulations of being a teen My So-Called Life |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLIGHTSEEING ACROSS AMERICA $800: It's a chilly day in Chi-Town; look at all the ice on this body of water Lake Michigan |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | REVIVAL $1000: A 1949 article said the revival meetings of this male evangelist drew more than 20,000 people "in the big tent" (Billy) Graham |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | DOUBLE-VOWEL PLACES $1600: The lions & tigers are kept in a different part of Michigan than this city known as both "The Celery City" & "The Mall City" Kalamazoo |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CITY FOLK $800: This 2-time Oscar nominee who also plays Joyce Byers on "Stranger Things" was named for her hometown in Minnesota Winona Ryder |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | CARTOON CRITTERS $1000: Rainbow Dash is a daredevil Pegasus in this magical animated series My Little Pony |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | INTERNATIONAL SUPERMODELS $200: "With much gratitude for our time together, Tom & I have amicably finalized our divorce", she wrote in 2022 Bündchen |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $200: On Dec. 15, 1968 the Phila. Eagles were 2-11 as fans booed & hurled snowballs at a teen picked from the stands to play this jolly old soul Santa Claus |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $200: In 2002, he got 100% of the presidential vote of his country, but the next year, he was out of power for good Saddam Hussein |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $400: "Yeah, I kinda need to wash my truck but hell, I kinda don't care. I think old Alan Jackson said it best: It's" this:00 "somewhere" 5:00 |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $400: Hit the bricks for this theme park in Carlsbad that opened a New Castle Hotel on the premises in 2018 LEGOLAND |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: The first outbreaks of this deadly hemorrhagic disease occurred in Africa in 1976, killing more than 400 people Ebola |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | THE MAIN INGREDIENT $400: In the holiday favorite casserole whose recipe began appearing on Campbell's cream of mushroom soup in the 1960s green beans |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | NAMES IN HISTORY $800: This given name of Maimonides, Judaism's greatest medieval thinker, honors Judaism's greatest prophet Moses |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | RELIGION $400: Able to hold more than 800,000 worshippers, the al-Masjid al-Haram mosque is in this city Mecca |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | HAPPY JULY 4th! $600: The new 50-star U.S. flag was officially flown for the first time on July 4th in this year, 10 months after Hawaii statehood 1960 |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WESTMINSTER-WINNING DOG BREEDS $800: 1999 winner Kirby was this toy breed, French for "butterfly", & was then the oldest Best in Show dog at age 8 a Papillon |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | SCIENCE $1200: Of the 8 main blood types, this is the rarest in the U.S. & found in less than 1% of the population AB negative |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | SCIENCE $2000: It's the only dwarf planet that orbits the Sun closer than Neptune Ceres |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $600: These Missourians touched the Stanley Cup for the first time in 2019 after more than 50 years in the NHL the St. Louis Blues |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "NEG" BAIT $800: Beersheba is the chief town in this region with a name from Hebrew for "dry" Negev |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $5,000 (Daily Double): Finally touched with goodness, this literary character says, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future!" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | HISTORIC GREATS $400: This empress did not promulgate the 1773 papal bull suppressing Jesuits, allowing them to survive in Russia Catherine the Great |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NUMBERS IN THE NEWS $800: In 2023 France raised the retirement age to this, still younger than Social Security's longtime number until 1983 64 |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | HISTORIC GREATS $2000: Jews have warm fuzzy feelings for this "Great" Persian who released them from captivity in Babylonia Cyrus the Great |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $1200: In law it's possession of an estate for the duration of one's life; in New Jersey, it's the town Bruce Springsteen is from freehold |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PREFIXES $800: Before "B",
en-
often becomes em-,
as in this mortuary job embalmer |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | ANIMATED MOVIE CHARACTERS $1600: Cera, Littlefoot, Spike, Petrie & Ducky try to reunite with their families in this 1988 film set long, long ago The Land Before Time |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF? $600: Piano keys, once upon a time, both later mentioned in a song about racial equality ebony & ivory |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | METER MADE $200: In the 1930s, Carl Magee conceived these meters for the streets of Oklahoma city & an oil industry supply company made them parking meter |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | LOVELY RITA $600: A long-time headliner on the Strip, she was named Las Vegas' Comedian of the Year 9 years in a row Rita Rudner |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, "All morons hate it when you call them a moron" The Catcher in the Rye |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: A mouse named Mr. Jingles does some time in prison in this Stephen King book The Green Mile |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE! $800: In '72, this tennis-like Atari video game debuted & kids went crazy--such cool graphics! They'll never get better than that! Pong |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | 20th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $800: In 1912 Orillia, Ontario was one of the first towns to try this change, until even the mayor got to church an hour late Daylight Savings Time |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $800: "You're Dead" by '60s folk singer Norma Tanega is used as the theme song to this FX series What We Do in the Shadows |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $800: In "Wall", the first part of Ken Follett's "Edge of Eternity", this then-country's Stasi headquarters prove menacing East Germany |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $1200: In the "Twilight" saga, the Cullens avoid the Sun not because it would kill them but because this happens twinkle (sparkle) |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | DISCOVERY & INVENTION $400: In the 1950s Grace Hopper & her team created FLOW-MATIC, the first one of these to follow English commands a computer program |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LET'S STICK TOGETHER $600: After 27 years together with Erwin Bach, this singer must have found out what love had to do with it & the 2 tied the knot in 2013 Tina Turner |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $800: The Wonders broke into the big time in this 1996 film with the title song, written for real by the late, great Adam Schlesinger That Thing You Do! |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | ARCHITECTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In the 1690s he began designing the twin-domed Royal Hospital for seamen in London Sir Christopher Wren |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $200: After her daytime talk show ended, she spent some time on "The View", & in 2022 she made a cameo on the reboot of "A League of Their Own" (Rosie) O'Donnell |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $800: "Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars" Henry V |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | FINISH LAST $600: With apologies to our good fans in Ohio, this NFL team is the most recent to finish a season with 0 wins the (Cleveland) Browns |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | 3-LETTER WORDS ENDING IN X $600: To bewitch someone or cast a spell upon them is to do this hex |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | FINISH LAST $800: After a 10-72 last-place finish in the 2015-16 season, this team got the first overall draft pick & chose Ben Simmons the Philadelphia 76ers |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | DATING/APPS $600: I'm vegan & you ordered this app of dough-wrapped & baked cocktail sausages? Oh wow, look at the time...! pigs in a blanket |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | AMERICAN CAVES $1600: The Giant Dome & Twin Domes are quite a sight, & don't miss the Big Room when visiting this national park in New Mexico Carlsbad Caverns |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $200: Scotiabank Arena is the home of this city's basketball team, the talk of the town in 2019 Toronto |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $800: "You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out" Katy Perry |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $1000: In 1925 a joint U.S.-Canadian team became the first to summit this 20,000-foot-high mountain Mount Logan |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | THE YEAR OF THE HORSE $200: 1973:
He didn't run the United Nations, but he did run the Belmont in record time Secretariat |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | STAND-UP SPECIALS $800: In her 2019 "Not Normal" special she said, "I have more respect for strippers than women who go on 'The Bachelor'" (Wanda) Sykes |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | CORE VALUES $200: Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada & Mariano Rivera were the "Core 4" on this team, winning 4 titles in 5 years the Yankees |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | LIKE A STATUE $400: Taller than the original, a replica of this "Great" statue stands outside the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas the Sphinx |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This largest lake in Africa is home to more than 200 species of fish, including tilapia (Lake) Victoria |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | STATE HOLIDAYS $600: The first Tuesday in March is Town Meeting Day in Bennington, Montpelier & other communities across this state Vermont |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | RETRONYMS $800: Putting the retro in retronym, this time-telling wristwear uses pointers & hands an analog watch |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | A EURO LEADER PASS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Leaving", a 2008 tragicomedy by him, was his first play in more than 20 years & drew from his time as Czech Republic president Václav Havel |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | WITH THIS RING $2000: Around 1850, Richard Wagner began writing a poem called "The Death of" this heroic character in the "Ring" cycle Siegfried |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | CATCH OF THE DAY $200: Unlike its half-ton cousins with colors in their names, the stripe type of this game fish weighs no more than a few hundred pounds a marlin |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | YES, YOU CANAL $800: It's a tight squeeze getting by in this country's Corinth Canal, but seems like fun Greece |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $400: "Hey there, hi there, ho there!" was a greeting in the theme song for this TV club that began in 1955 the Mickey Mouse Club |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $600: Stephen Sondheim composed most of the score of "A Little Night Music" in 3/4 time, also known as this dance "time" waltz time |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | "G"EOGRAPHY $200: Staying in the theme of the category, Grady, Greene & Glascock are counties in this state Georgia |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy" The Giving Tree |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $1000: In 1985, the teammates seen here the Edmonton Oilers |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CITY HAPPENINGS $1200: In 1815, on night 1 of his return from Elba, Napoleon landed at this then-village; in 2022, "Top Gun: Maverick" flew onscreen there Cannes |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left faster than light |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $400: Formerly the all-time leading goal scorer in women's soccer, she retired as a player in 2004 Mia Hamm |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | GARDEN PARTY $800: They're named for their origin in Belgium & I grow them for their anti-inflammatory benefits & great taste when roasted Brussels sprouts |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIOPICS $400: In "The Greatest Showman", Hugh Jackman played this larger-than-life impresario P.T. Barnum |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | BIOPICS $600: She was I, Tonya (Harding) & Elizabeth I in "Mary Queen of Scots" (Margot) Robbie |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "A Wrinkle in Time", Meg's scientist dad likes to extend "Meg" into this nickname equal to 3.26 million light years a megaparsec |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $800: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) I am proud to have created this longest-running musical on Broadway; it opened in 1988 & after almost 14,000 performances, the chandelier dropped for the last time in 2023 The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN $1200: Seeing what's left of the Helvetia on a beach in Wales, be consoled that the crew had time to do this 2-word nautical action abandon ship |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | NUMERICAL LITERATURE $2000: A story of rich kids & their reckless, listless lives in 1980s Los Angeles, "Less than Zero" is by this author Bret Easton Ellis |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CZECH IT OUT! $400: Czech scientist Jan Purkyne discovered in 1823 that these could be used for identification--time to get gloves! fingerprints |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $400: In 1993 Gerald Perry became the first NFL player to sign with a new team as one of these under a new unrestricted system a free agent |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | TREES COMPANY $1000: "Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it" here the town |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POP INSTRUMENTALS $2000: In 1958 The Champs had a No. 1 hit with this sax-heavy tune whose only lyric is the title booze "Tequila" |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | RESEARCH $400: The service launched as this search engine company "Print" in 2004 now has more than 40 million titles of scanned books Google |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1200: Leaves town, suspected in Huck's murder; gets on a raft with the non-murdered Huck Jim |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: During the disco era in New York City, for the short time it was open from 1977 to 1980, this was the place to be Studio 54 |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | POLITICIANS $800: In 2014, this future Biden Cabinet member took time off from his mayor job to serve in Afghanistan with the U.S. Navy Reserve Buttigieg |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | MUSIC OF THE MONTH $800: In 2018, this singer along with her band the Machine released the soulful tune "June" Florence |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYBODY! $200: Pre-butterfly, a caterpillar wraps itself in a cocoon-like this & then digests itself, using enzymes to dissolve its tissues a chrysalis |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $200: In Pennsylvania you can visit the natl. cemetery in this town & see where Lincoln said a few memorable words on Nov. 19, 1863 Gettysburg |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | I AM "D.B." $400: In 2007 I selected the Los Angeles Galaxy as my team David Beckham |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $1000: In 1864 it became the northernmost state to see land action when about 25 Confederate soldiers raided the town of St. Albans Vermont |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $1200: Books by this historian include "Team of Rivals" & "Leadership in Turbulent Times" (Doris Kearns) Goodwin |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $600: In Super Bowl III this 15-win team with stars like John Mackey was favored by 18 over the Jets the Baltimore Colts |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS $1600: A historical park devoted to the whaling industry in this Massachusetts city features a museum & the schooner Ernestina New Bedford |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $200: In Dodie Smith's tale, Pongo & Missis are the parents of 15 puppies, but the 17 of them becomes this title number by the end 101 (Dalmatians) |
| #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 | A CENTURY OF TIME MAGAZINE COVERS $2000: Wartime cover subjects have included May 18, 1942's "Nimitz, Commander" here--a big place to be in charge of the Pacific |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | MEDICINE $3,000 (Daily Double): Blood pressure that's higher in the doctor's office than at home is referred to as this colorful type of hypertension white coat hypertension |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU CAN'T GO THERE $200: In 2017, a group of Kentucky politicians were the first civilians let into this bullion depository in more than 40 years Fort Knox |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "International" cocoa concoction for the unmarried Clue character portrayed by Colin Jost's wife Swiss Miss Scarlet Johansson |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $600: This "father of board games", whose company produced some of the all-time classics Milton Bradley |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $800: With a fruit at the end of its name, this city on the Bay of Bengal was a French possession even in the time of British India Pondicherry |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1924 the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary became this historically black college for women Spelman |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $1000: It's where Elizabeth II liked to go at holiday time; in the movie "Spencer", Kristen Stewart has a very unmerry Christmas there Sandringham |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: This dwelling place of the gods in Norse mythology consists of more than a dozen realms, including Thrudheim & Breidablik Asgard |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: This woman who had more than a casual relationship to the presidency was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 Nancy Reagan |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $800: A shout-out from "Best American" these literary works made Joyce Carol Oates abandon her Rice University PhD in favor of writing short stories |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANA $800: This building in Pelham, Mass. has been used for meetings since 1743; maybe you can fight it, unlike the city version Town Hall |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | PICKING UP THE CZECH $400: In 1968 a city & a season described this brief time of Czechoslovakian liberalization under Dubcek but the USSR said nyet to that the Prague Spring |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $400: On the Che trail in this country, the town of Vallegrande has the laundry room where Señor Guevara's body was washed Bolivia |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | PICKING UP THE CZECH $600: This Czech with an alliterative name had 766 NHL goals in a pro hockey career spanning more than 30 years Jaromir Jagr |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | GEMS $1000: Apache people associated this gemstone with the rainbow's end & thought it aided them in battle turquoise |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $1600: Just east of St. Petersburg, Russia is the lovely town of Shlisselburg on this river the Neva |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $2000: The first time the Copley Medal went to a non-Brit was in 1794, to this Italian of Pavia Alessandro Volta |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1000: To praise the unexpected viewing of "Never Gonna Give You Up" you saw in the pit you dug with the other soldiers extol Rickroll (in the) foxhole |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1000: The Majolikahaus is one of one of many Vienna buildings decorated in this style whose name is partly from German for "youth" Jugendstil |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SWEET 1616 $400: On March 25 this playwright made his will, which would be needed in less than a month William Shakespeare |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | THOSE BALLS HAVE "I"s $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to its volleyballs, this company has been making the official NFL football since 1941 Wilson |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $800 (Daily Double): In an Ian Fleming tale, the title vehicle makes these 4 sounds after it is started for the first time chitty chitty bang bang |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | "X" IN THE CITY $200: The battle of this town on April 19, 1775 marked the start of the Revolutionary War Lexington |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $600: This alliterative dish was popularized by Shigefumi Tachibe at Chaya Brasserie in Beverly Hills tuna tartare |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | ROCK"ER"S $1200: Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with her ex-husband in 1991, in 2021 she went in as a solo performer Tina Turner |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | HEAVEN ON EARTH $800: Given its name in the reign of Emperor Jiajing the Temple of Heaven in this capital once had stables for sacrificial animals Beijing |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $1200: In this 2006 film about uber-competitive magicians, Christian Bale has a twin & Hugh Jackman's been cloning himself the Prestige |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $1600: In "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood", this actress played by Margot Robbie gets a new ending, thanks in part to a flamethrower (Sharon) Tate |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $200: New hope in 1954: in a successful transplant of this, living donor Ronald Herrick gave one to his identical twin brother Richard a kidney |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $400: Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" has been published as "In Search of" this Lost Time |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: Twist & fold your fabric, bind it with rubber bands & then color with groovy pigments in this activity tie-dyeing |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $800: He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Pirandello |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $800: When one team in bridge takes all 13 tricks, the feat is known by this 2-word term grand slam |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $200: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) Contrasting with the music from the big action scenes, my theme "Tennessee" refers to the state Ben Affleck & Josh Hartnett come from in this war film Pearl Harbor |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: She taught school in Milwaukee before moving to what was then Palestine, then eventually becoming prime minister of Israel Golda Meir |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $400: (Hans Zimmer reads and plays.) For this epic I tried to use some international influences, as it opens in Germany, takes place partly in Morocco & the hero is known as "the Spaniard" Gladiator |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $800: (Hans Zimmer reads.) Listening to Ennio Morricone's majestic score as a kid while watching this Sergio Leone epic that featured Henry Fonda taking a villainous turn, I thought, "That's what I want to do" Once Upon a Time in the West |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS $800: He cheers for MLB's Reds in his own state as well as the Asheville, N.C. Tourists minor league team, which his family owns Mike DeWine |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | TO THE NINES $1,600 (Daily Double): Of the 9 current members of the U.S. Supreme Court, this one has been there the longest (Clarence) Thomas |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | PUTTING THE "MM" IN YUMMY $200: A 2022 article on these "ursine" candies noted their 100th anniversary & called them "a sweet, squishy source of joy" gummy bears |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DEFENDING THE TITLE $400: In 2016 the Golden State Warriors returned to the Finals for a 7-game rematch with this team, only to lose in the final moments the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $400: For 2 homicide cops, "The 9th Girl" in Tami Hoag's thriller is the year's ninth of these, a name for anonymous female decedents Jane Doe |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DEFENDING THE TITLE $600: In 1993 Joe Carter hit a walk-off, series-winning home run in game 6 as this team defended its championship in dramatic style the (Toronto) Blue Jays |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $800: Brewer's Hill in this city is home to historic buildings once used by Miller & Schlitz Milwaukee |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DEFENDING THE TITLE $800: This team's Stanley Cup Finals win in 2017 wasn't too different from the 2016 one: 6 games, with Sidney Crosby the MVP the (Pittsburgh) Penguins |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | DOG BREED RHYME TIME $800: A good-spirited herding dog developed in Great Britain a jolly collie |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | SCIENTISTS $2000: In the Galápagos, the currents control the seasons: the garúa is the time of this cold current named for a German scientist the Humboldt Current |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $400: April 23 is an annual celebration of a local hero in this Warwickshire town--& by the way, that middle word has 4 letters Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHATEVER FLOATS $800: In a Police song, Sting floats one of these; later, "a hundred billion" of them show up on his shore a message in a bottle |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $800: I love A.P. bio! Let's talk pancreas! An adult one has a million of these, named for the German doctor who noted them in 1869 islets of Langerhans |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $1000: "The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win Gonzaga |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $400: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) In what became known as the "game of the century", in 1956 this then-little-known 13-year-old announced his presence with a spectacular queen sacrifice to defeat one of America's top masters (Bobby) Fischer |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | TECH TALK $800: This operating system was developed in the 1960s & its "time" is the number of seconds elapsed since Jan. 1, 1970 UNIX |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $11,800 (Daily Double): A unique way to see wildlife in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is to take a sunset cruise on this river above Victoria Falls Zambezi |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $400: On St. Helena in 2022, Jonathan, one of these animals, moved slowly at his 190th birthday fete--but then again, he's always slow a tortoise |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): Just like Peyton Manning did, head west from this second state capital in the name of a Super Bowl champion team to this first Indianapolis & Denver |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | COMPANY HEADQUARTERS $1000: Puma & this rival are both based in the German town of Herzogenaurach Adidas |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | CLASSIC MOVIES $400: Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE $800: I was "the Great Pacificator" & in 1852 was the first man to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, then went back to Kentucky Henry Clay |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $800: A 1979 paper by Sandra Schecter argued that this interjection is a central part of Canadian identity eh |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $9,600 (Daily Double): Slang meaning undergoing the terrible agony of withdrawal from opiates like Oxycontin dopesick |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | ISLE BE "C"ING YOU $800: Popular tourist highlights on this Italian isle are the Blue Grotto & the Castiglione, a medieval castle Capri |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MNEMONIC POSSESSION $2000: Regarding a stroke, "FAST" means to check for drooping here, weakness in these & difficulty with this--then the "T" is for time face, arms & speech |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | TRAVEL USA $400: In spring head to this California theme park for its annual Boysenberry Festival Knott's Berry Farm |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | COUNTRY MUSIC $600: "Wide Open Spaces" by this band seen here sold more than 12 million albums in the United States The Chicks |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | COUNTRY MUSIC $1000: In 2023 she released the album "Queen of Me" & showed up at the Grammys in red hair & giant polka dots Shania Twain |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $400: In Exodus 15, "The horse of" this man "went in with his chariots... into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters... upon them" Pharaoh |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | MISSION: IMPASSABLE $600: A twist on the Cold War barrier that divided Europe, it was the Pittsburgh NFL team's defense in the 1970s the Steel Curtain |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | WELCOME TO THE U.S. HOUSE! $800: Representatives introduce bills by placing them in a wooden box called this, after the bin in which grain goes in a mill a hopper |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $1600: This inventor who struggled to cash in on his vulcanization of rubber did time in debtor's prison in Philadelphia, Boston & Paris Goodyear |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $2000: In 1898 this "Gift of the Magi" author spent time in the pokey for embezzlement of bank funds O. Henry |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $200: Steve Carlton in 1980 was the last pitcher to log more than 300 of these in a season, & arms have rested easier ever since innings |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE LAST BOOKS YOU'LL READ $800: This semi-autobiographical novel by Larry McMurtry is set in the small town of Thalia, Texas during the 1950s The Last Picture Show |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | SOME ELEMENTARY CLUES $800: Elements with atomic numbers above 92 are this type, meaning they come later in the periodic table than a certain radioactive one transuranium |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | LET'S GET VERTICAL $1000: This town in southwestern Colorado has a decades-old film festival & a ski area with a 4,000-foot vertical Telluride |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $2000: In 1966 Time magazine said this iconic street known for its fashion "illustrates the new swinging London" Carnaby Street |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $200: Phat Albert had drive in 1905 / His theory, sweeping the nation / Mass & energy speaking, confidence peaking / Voila, this equation E = mc2 |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $800: We have no pic of Margaret Mead / Sporting a blue feather boa / But things were great in 1928 / With "Coming of Age in"... Samoa |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $600: Here's this golf great; after sinking his putt in 1986, he would win the tournament for the sixth time Jack Nicklaus |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $600: A defense that involves claiming one knew nothing, saw nothing & heard nothing is named for this "Hogan's Heroes" character Sergeant Schultz |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $800: Lewis Fry Richardson proposed doing this with 64,000 computers (those were people then) & data from a world network of balloons forecasting the weather |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $1000: I cite 1963's him v. Wainwright--the 6th Amendment's right to counsel extends to felony defendants in state courts Gideon |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | EDITORS $2000: In 2016 a team of scientists at this La Jolla, California institute said they used gene editing to give sight to blind rodents the Salk Institute |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | GONE FISHIN' $200: At nearly 3 pounds a year per capita, salmon has passed this as the most commonly consumed fish in the U.S.; sorry, Charlie tuna |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $400: In 2003 the board of directors decided to jettison these 3 letters that preceded Time Warner AOL |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $200: Russian for "peace", this space station returned to Earth & pieced out in a controlled re-entry on March 23, 2001 Mir |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: After "launch", it's the precise period of time in which a spacecraft can be launched for it to be successful window |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $400: In 2021 Rolling Stone updated its Greatest Songs of All Time list; this Aretha Franklin hit, previously No. 5, now tops the list "Respect" |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $600: In 1977 this space probe 2 launched 2 weeks ahead of this space probe 1; by 1990, both had lived up to their name & were past Pluto Voyager |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $800: In 2021 90-year-old William Shatner boldly went aboard a spacecraft from this "colorful" company as the oldest person to fly in space Blue Origin |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $800: Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, Old Town in this capital of Ecuador is something to see, & now you can Quito |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $800: This 135-year-old magazine has helped fund more than 15,000 grants in its history; recipients include Richard Byrd & Jacques Cousteau National Geographic |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $1600: Being a teen in 1972 is a trip, man--mom won't buy me "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Crofts cuz they practice this 19th c. faith from Iran Baháʼí |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $1600: Britain's two-tone movement included multiracial bands like the English Beat & this ska group with the hit "Ghost Town" the Specials |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $200: A grand overall scheme & a stucco guy a master plan & a plaster man |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 ALBUM $800: A first from 2022: all 10 top spots in the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time Midnights (by Taylor Swift) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $400: For 20 years in every 248, it's further from the Sun than Pluto Neptune |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $200: A 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the heptathlon, she was named for Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie Joyner) Kersee |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $200: "When they were in the field", this guy "rose up against" this guy "his brother, and slew him"; ye shall name them both Cain & Abel |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $800: Born in 1958, baseball legend Rickey Henderson was named after this teen idol pop singer of the day Ricky Nelson |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | THE TOWER OF LONDON $1600: During the Wars of the Roses, the VIth king of this name was imprisoned, then murdered, in the tower in 1471 Henry |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $400: In 2023 the EPA blocked a proposed copper & gold mine in the Bristol Bay region of this state Alaska |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | JOHN C. REILLY $400: John was obsessed with this duo from an early age & played one of them in "Stan & Ollie" Laurel & Hardy |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: An old miner's trick to separate gold from minerals: mix with this liquid metal, put that inside a potato & toss in the fire mercury |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Wannabe music star Dewey Finn gets his prep students in tune at the Sunset Strip's Bourbon Room, so "Don't Stop Believin'" School of Rock of Ages |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1200: Home to the Miners, UT at El Paso's student newspaper is named this, like someone who explores an area for gold a Prospector |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1600: In this 1948 film set in Mexico, Walter Huston says he's mined all over the world & warns, "I know what gold does to men's souls" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $2000: Seen here, this box helps filter & sift heavier mineral deposits like gold from useless & boring regular dirt a sluice box |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | "D" TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Old West town, you can pay your respects to Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane Deadwood |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TIME TO DANCE $200: Step slow, slow, quick, quick to do this dance with a member of the family Canidae in its name the foxtrot |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $1600: The international airport in the town of Prestwick on the Firth of Clyde serves this larger city to its northeast Glasgow |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $2000: This African country's town of Lambaréné was the home of Albert Schweitzer Gabon |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | WHERE THE "H" IS THAT? $800: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is in this Missouri city Hannibal |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $2000: In 2023 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out Jerrod Carmichael |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | THE NEW CAPITAL $2000: In the 1990s this country moved its capital from Almaty to Akmola, which was renamed Astana & then briefly named Nur-Sultan Kazakhstan |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | READING MUSIC $200: Early in "My Love Story", this legend notes, "at this point in my life, I've spent far more time without Ike than with him" Tina Turner |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | LOCAL BOY $400: This actor who grew up in Massachusetts with Matt Damon called his own Boston accent on film "way better than Matt's" Ben Affleck |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | RHYME TIME $200: A thick seafood & vegetable soup in dry, pulverized form powder chowder |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $400: In 2021 this biggest rideshare provider recognized a union for the first time, of drivers who sit on the right in Britain Uber |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS $800: A mission could include a pueblo, a town & one of these, a fort for protection; San Francisco has one the Presidio |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FACE THE POLITICIAN $800: In 1983, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was introduced by this then-congressman & now senator Schumer |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | TV $600: Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli & Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya all checked in for season 2 of this limited series; one did not check out White Lotus |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MUSIC-"O"-LOGY $800: Our Facts on File Dictionary of Music says it is "a direction implying a faster speed than allegro", but has nothing for "chango" presto |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $800: Adopted by his uncle Justin I, Justinian acquired this 6-letter title in 525, & 2 years later, got the rank Augustus caesar |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $1200: Full of legal opinions, the "Digest" is part of Justinian's this, spelled with an "X" at the end in Latin Code |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | JUSTINIAN TIME $2000: Justinian built this landmark as a Christian church; it became a mosque, a museum & in 2020, a mosque again the Hagia Sophia |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | LET'S GUESS YOUR WAIT $600: After an 86-year drought without winning a World Series, this A.L. team has now won 4 of them in the last 19 years the Boston Red Sox |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | OK MILLENNIAL $1000: Born in Moore, Oklahoma in 1981, Randy Wayne starred as Bo's cousin Luke in the 2007 TV movie titled them: "The Beginning" The Dukes of Hazzard |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OTTO CLUB $1600: Some historians say the First this German word began when Otto the Great became emperor in 962 Reich |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: The biography "The Revolutionary" notes this Bostonian who wrote under pseudonyms like Populus & Candidus never went by Sam (Samuel) Adams |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $600: Seen here is a type of this, used for blood pressure a gauge |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: The 23 provinces of this South American country include Catamarca & Mendoza, home to the highest peak in the hemisphere Argentina |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Annalise Keating & Jessica Fletcher solve crimes or possibly cover them up & then tell about them in books How to Get Away with Murder, She Wrote |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2000: Of the chemical elements that begin with "C" cadmium |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME $800: Whiskey made in the middle of downtown Lexington or Louisville urban bourbon |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $1000: Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times shared a 1990 Pulitzer with his wife for reporting on the events in this Chinese plaza Tiananmen Square |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | HISTORIC CANADA $600: The only Canadian team to win the World Series, they did it back to back in the 1990s the Blue Jays |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LEFTOVERS $800: Oddly, there's an Alcatraz East Crime Museum in this town more famous as the home of Dollywood Pigeon Forge, Tennessee |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DOGGIE BAG $800: Introduced to them in Japan, Helen Keller is credited with bringing the first of these loyal guard dogs to the United States Akitas |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | LOST WITH THE TITANIC $2000: An incredibly ornate edition of this Omar Khayyam work bound with more than 1,000 jewels set in gold the Rubáiyát |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $200: This rock & roll legend passed away in 2020 Little Richard |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $400: In 1983 Prince drove into the Top 10 for the first time in this title conveyance "Little Red Corvette" |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $600: This country quartet has won 3 Grammys, including one in 2016 for "Girl Crush" Little Big Town |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | I GOT THE RECEIPTS $600: In 1989 Jerry Jones bought this NFL team for $140 million; a decent investment, as it's worth more than $7 billion today the Dallas Cowboys |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $1600: Mais oui, you can take a trip back in time to 1899 & survey his "Tahitian landscape" Gauguin |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $2000: In 2014 this nation said no to PM Fredrik Reinfeldt & Stefan Lofven, running for the Riksdag for the 1st time, got the job Sweden |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $200: Smells like
Teen ____
In The Sky Spirit |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | SCIENCE $800: Some confused 19th century guy named all the mammals in an order these shrews even though relatively few of them are arboreal tree shrews |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $200: Tina Fey said "Gravity" was about how this actor would rather float away & die in space than spend time with a woman his own age George Clooney |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | & THEN THERE'S MOD $1200: Mod style began in the late '50s; in the late '70s, its avatar was this band, led by Paul Weller The Jam |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | GOLDEN GIRLS $1600: Must be something in the water--this Olympian swimmer with 10 medals, including 7 gold, hails from Maryland like Michael Phelps Ledecky |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | & THEN THERE'S MOD $2000: Yves Saint Laurent got in the mod spirit with a dress inspired by this painter, who died in 1944 Piet Mondrian |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $400: "Turtles all the way down" is an apt description for how the turtle king rules Sala-ma-Sond for a time in this Dr. Seuss story Yertle the Turtle |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $1200: "The D is silent", says Jamie Foxx as the title character of this 2012 film Django Unchained |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THE SUPERLATIVE EARTH $400: With almost 40,000 people in less than a square mile, this little land on the Côte d'Azur is Earth's most densely populated country Monaco |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2019 a giant raft of this rock measuring more than 50 square miles was found floating in the Pacific near Tonga pumice |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $2,500 (Daily Double): The path to quick success, as in "Jones is on" it "to the top"; make the combo a verb & it means to speed up a process a fast track |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | TO THE TOWER! $1600: Tall twin towers in Kuala Lumpur bear the name of this gas company Petronas |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CONSECUTIVE LETTER WORD PAIRS $2000: Developing gradually in infants, it's the awareness that things still exist even when you can't see them object permanence |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A DEADLY WEAPON $200: Cornelius Nepos could have pitched a Samuel Jackson film, these "on a boat", writing of Hannibal heaving them onto enemy ships snakes |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | 5 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $600: Like New Orleans from St. Louis, it means closer to the mouth of a river than where you are now downstream |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1200: Seen here is a big sign for the longest place name in Europe, a 58-letter town in this country, starting with "Llanfair" Wales |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A RELIGIOUS SERVICE $1200: Everyone join in on "Have Thine Own Way, Lord", composed by Adelaide A. Pollard, in the book called the United Methodist this a hymnal |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $1600: In a 1977 film Snowman was Jerry Reed's CB handle, good buddy & this was Burt Reynolds', come back the Bandit |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $2000: Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn took on the CIA--& lost, big time--as the nicknamed title characters in this 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A REAL LONG SHOT $200: In game 3 of the 1970 NBA finals, Jerry West hit a 60-footer to force overtime against the Knicks--but this team still lost the Lakers |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | TREE-NAMED PLACES $6,000 (Daily Double): This town in the Mojave Desert is named for a plant that early settlers said reminded them of a biblical guy Joshua Tree |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | "M"USIC CLASS $1000: This Polish dance music in triple time originated in the 16th century & uses heel-tapping accents a mazurka |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | FANTASY SPORTS $1000: This author says in "Sirens of Titan" that the children of Mars "spent most of their time playing German batball" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | CATS: THE NON-MUSICAL $400: In 1878 this short-haired breed was imported into the U.S. from what is today Thailand, but not then Siamese |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | FINNISH HIM! $400: Saku Koivu, Tuukka Rask & Teemu Selänne all made their Finnish names in this team sport hockey |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | REJECTED AUTHORS $1200: This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955 Mame |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $2000: This 4-time 19th century prime minister & rival of Disraeli Gladstone |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY $3,000 (Daily Double): Associated with measurement, this first man made a lord for his scientific work (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | SCIENCE $800: There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis mosquitoes |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $1200: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city San Francisco |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AT "LAST" $400: "Last" is last but not least in this heavy material carried by ships to keep them stabilized ballast |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | MAKING MUSIC $800: (Questlove presents the clue.) This use of snippets from other artists' songs is a hip-hop tradition; in 2006 the Roots had a half hour to clear one from Radiohead before our album got shipped, so we got Jay-Z to find Thom Yorke at the gym a sample |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $2000: President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, then out of office & even in prison, he rebounded to win the office back in 2022 (Lula) da Silva |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $400: At her wedding to FDR in 1905, Eleanor was given away by this uncle, who happened to be president at the time Theodore Roosevelt |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $800: His second inaugural marked the first time African Americans had been included in the inaugural parade Lincoln |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | TV, YOU SAY! $1000: Darius, on this FX show: "I would say nice to meet you but I don't believe in time as a concept. So I'll just say we always met" Atlanta |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | COMIC INFLUENCES $400: (I'm Ego Nwodim.) Comedy heroes of mine include fellow "Saturday Night Live" stars Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler & this woman who became the show's first female head writer in 1999 Tina Fey |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | WORLD UNIVERSITIES $800: In 2018 a university in Paris named for the Curies became part of this university with a more than 750-year legacy the Sorbonne |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $1000: You can detect this novelist wrote, "Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people"' Dashiell Hammett |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | A HEAVENLY BODY IN MUSIC $2000: A Tori Kelly tune rhymes, "I've never been to heaven, but it doesn't seem that far, 'cause you're my" this North Star |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | IN THE COOKIE JAR $600: These "slender" chocolate-covered Girl Scout cookies have been found in America's cookie jars for more than 70 years Thin Mints |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LORD OF THE DINGS $2000: In "It's a Wonderful Life", little Zuzu Bailey says, "Every time a bell rings", this happens an angel gets his wings |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LITERARY LONDON $3,400 (Daily Double): This 1881 Mark Twain novel takes place in London's poorer areas as well as in some of its ritzier locales The Prince and the Pauper |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | CALL ME "CAT" $600: This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up "Cat's In The Cradle" |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $600: This knight's first line in "Henry IV, Part 1" is asking what time it is, which leads to 100 lines of banter & trash talk Falstaff |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | GOVERNORS $11,200 (Daily Double): The only governor elected in 2 states, he held office in Tennessee from 1827 to 1829 & then, of course, in Texas from 1859 to 1861 (Sam) Houston |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | BIOLOGY $400: When the luciferin in some organisms oxidizes, it causes them to do this glow (or light up) |
| #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 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $600: A then-record crowd at Pimlico watched & FDR delayed a conference to listen on radio as this underdog horse beat War Admiral in 1938 Seabiscuit |
| #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 | BIOLOGY $1200: It's the thin, watery outer layer of an amoeba cell, or in the movies, ghost slime ectoplasm |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THE LONG-AGO 20th CENTURY $400: This predecessor to the U.N. met for the first time in November 1920 the League of Nations |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | YOU, ROBOT $800: In his spare time, Bumblebee of Autobot fame likes to disguise himself as a Beetle from this carmaker Volkswagen |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2000: Colorado ski resort town in Eagle County Vail |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | RECENT COMMERCIALS $400: Due in part to its catchy tune, this company's "Have it your way" commercial entered meme status in 2022 Burger King |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | QUOTABLE TV SHOWS $1000: Dr. Alex Karev:
"You made me love you, you made me let you in & then you freakin' died in my arms" Grey's Anatomy |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $1000: In 1522 this "Magnificent" Ottoman man used more than 100,000 troops to besiege & finally capture Rhodes Suleiman the Magnificent |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | PIVOTAL WOMEN $1600: (Melinda French Gates presents the clue.) After inspiring millions to join a global climate strike in 2019, this Swedish activist was named "Time" magazine's Person of the Year Greta Thunberg |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | QUOTATIONS $400: In 1944 this teen wrote, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart" Anne Frank |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | DISNEY MENAGERIE $800: Introduced in "The Lion King", they're the pair seen here Timon & Pumbaa |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AROUND THE WORLD $1600: Mya Thein Tan, one of these towering shrines in Myanmar, is built to resemble Mount Meru, sacred to Buddhists a pagoda |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $400: In "The Mystery of the Ivory Charm", this teen sleuth & her friends uncover a stolen cache of jewels & thwart a kidnapping Nancy Drew |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | RANDOM STUFF $800: In mythology this twin sister of Apollo is a goddess of the hunt Artemis |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RE: UNION $400: At the time of its breakup in 1991, it was the world's largest country in area the Soviet Union |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Tchaikovsky got ahead of his contemporaries & used the then-new celesta in the music for this ballet, now a Christmas favorite Nutcracker |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | YOU'RE IN COLLEGE NOW $600: In college, to do this is to attend a course without doing the work, & it's much less scary than the IRS kind audit |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | RAPPERS $800: He's seen here actually in a hoodie around the time of "Doris", his major label debut album Earl Sweatshirt |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: He was born in 1756, created more than 600 works of music before his 36th birthday but never got to his 36th birthday Mozart |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Let's go Bach in time to the 1700s & these concertos with a German state name; No. 2 kicks a trumpet solo to new heights the Brandenburg Concertos |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOUTHERNERS $800: He passed for more than 57,000 yards for the Giants before joining his big brother in football commentary Eli Manning |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $800: Founded in 1984, this energy drink brand says it sold more than 11 billion cans in 2022 alone Red Bull |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $200: With her 2019 song "Bad Guy", at 17 years old this artist became the first born in the 21st century to have a No. 1 song Billie Eilish |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $400: On "Black Panther: The Album" in 2018, this rapper gazed at "All The Stars" with SZA Kendrick Lamar |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $600: Ariana Grande was on the Hot 100 in 2019, singing, "So, look what I got, look what you taught me, & for that I say" this grateful title "thank u, next" |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $800: "I wish I knew you wanted me", he sings in the 2022 smash "Bad Habit" Steve Lacy |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $1000: He rolled into 2019 with a hit tune featuring Drake rapping, "Young La Flame, he in sicko mode" Travis Scott |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | EIGHT IS ENOUGH $800: More than 40 million people live in the Dhaka Division, one of 8 in this Asian country Bangladesh |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FASHION $1000: Look for clothes & shoes in this vivid purplish red named for an Italian town; Pantone named it 2023's color of the year magenta |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | OLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): These Easterners were poised to invade Western Europe in 1241 when the death of their supreme leader called them back the Mongols |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $2000: The Herschel, an infrared telescope then the largest sent into space, was launched in 2009 by this Paris-HQed NASA counterpart the European Space Agency |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | WELCOME BACK! $200: In 2017 this Anaheim theme park stopped stamping the hands of exiting guests who wanted to return; now it takes photos Disneyland |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $2000: After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors The Walking Dead |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 2018 & '19 $800: In June 2018 Saudi Arabia lifted a longtime ban allowing women to legally do this for the first time since 1957 drive (automobiles) |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | SO, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO? $800: In 2022 you were on the U.S. team that made the first nuclear this reaction resulting in a net energy gain... congrats! fusion |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | POP CULTURE HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS $2000: In the reunion movie "10 Years", she played the girlfriend of her then-husband Jenna Dewan (formerly Jenna Dewan-Tatum) |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $400: As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department the Library of Congress |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $400: "Kirk" is a Scottish word for church, & Greyfriar's Kirk has stood for 400 years in this capital's Old Town Edinburgh |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1,800 (Daily Double): Differing by a letter, these 2 rivers both rise in Switzerland; one is about 830 miles long & the other, more than 500 the Rhône & Rhine |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | MEMOIRS OF GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: Trent Lott's memoir of his life in politics is aptly titled doing this, which might actually be easier with pets than with senators Herding Cats |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $2000: Bearing a name from Tlingit, this spruce species of the Pacific Northwest can be 200 feet tall & 15 feet in diameter a Sitka spruce |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | ALL WAYS $600: The kings of Queens, this team plays its home games at 41 Seaver Way in Flushing the Mets |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $4,000 (Daily Double): This Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel takes place in South America amid the outbreak of disease Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $400: Maybe the ghost hangs around the cells of this state's penitentiary in McAlester, where Tom did time Oklahoma |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $1200: This newspaperman didn't raise much Kane in losing runs for NYC mayor, state governor & then mayor again, all in a 4-year span Hearst |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BREST, BUDAPEST & BUCHAREST $200: More than 15% of the people in this nation live in Budapest Hungary |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | PARTY ON! $800: Combining a holiday & a month, it's the title of a Preston Sturges film, or a party theme illustrated here Christmas in July |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $3,000 (Daily Double): Singing about this comic who died in 1966:
"He didn't commit any crime, he just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time" Lenny Bruce |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $200: (Mike Pereira of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Cheeseheads ate it up after this quarterback threw for 304 yards & three touchdowns to lead Green Bay to a win in Super Bowl XLV (Aaron) Rodgers |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $1200: Legally, "in" this 10-letter word means forever & that's a mighty long time perpetuity |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $1600: "Cantos" man Ezra's drinks for everyone in the group! Pound's rounds |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | OCEAN LIFE $2000: Tuna are related to these streamlined sport fish that can come in varieties like the Atlantic, seen here an Atlantic mackerel |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | MUSIC FOR SHARKS $600: In this No. 1 hit, Bobby Darin sang, "Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear & it shows them pearly white" "Mack The Knife" |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | CHEMISTRY $1600: "D" is for this chemical process seen here in which a liquid is turned to a vapor then condensed back into a liquid distillation |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $1600: In this first lady's autobiography, she tells of the time after her husband's death when she became a U.N. delegate Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE $800: A Chicago building is named for this product, & to play on an old commercial, you're soaking it in Palmolive |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $200: Time to conjure up Book 6 in the series, where Harry Potter deals with this title person (as you probably know, it's Snape) Half-Blood Prince |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | NUTS TO YOU! $400: In the early 1900s not many had them roasting on an open fire after a blight nearly took out these trees in eastern N. America chestnuts |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ALSO AN NFL TEAM $600: A "Sacred College of" these meets in the Holy See Cardinals |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | ALSO AN NFL TEAM $800: Sautees in a pan, with a slight scorch browns |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $1,000 (Daily Double): Last name of Homer, a filmmaker himself as well as father of a creative son; in 2015 there was a retrospective of his work in Portland Groening |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $2000: This Cyclops traps Odysseus & his men in a cave to eat them, but is blinded when they make their escape Polyphemus |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | S-SS-ING THE SITUATION $2000: This 10-letter type of below-market "property" is more than just a fixer-upper, it could be in foreclosure distressed |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | MICHAEL, BOLTIN' $400: The combo of Drew Brees & speedy Michael Thomas of this team toasted NFL defenses beginning in 2016 the New Orleans Saints |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THAT'S A CRIME! $1000: It's time to document this signature crime; it's also called false making & in Montana, can earn a 10-year stretch forgery |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | DWIGHT EISENHOWER $800: In retirement, Ike enjoyed painting, golf & spending time with Mamie at their farm adjoining this military park & battlefield Gettysburg |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO THE END $1600: The play has had its climax, the characters are wrapping things up in this French-named segment--it's almost time to go home the dénouement |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IKE & PATTON $300: Ike & Patton met in 1919 & bonded over a shared interest in these then-new vehicles that would prove vital a few decades later a tank |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FORMIDABLE FANTASY $500: "Dragonfly in Amber" is the sequel to this novel about Claire Randall traveling through time in Scotland Outlander |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | SINGIN' IN THE RAIN $600: Here's a thoughtful offer from Rihanna: "Now that it's raining more than ever... you can stand under my" this umbrella |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $800: It's letter No. 3 in the Greek alphabet; the same-named "rays" hulked out Bruce Banner gamma |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $1200: cancer.gov says this blood disease occurs most often in adults over 55 but is also the most common cancer in kids younger than 15 leukemia |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $200: Next time you buy groceries, thank Margaret Knight, who in 1871 won a patent battle for her machine to make pre-folded these (paper) grocery bags |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | HODGEPODGE $600: A 2022 car chase in the U.K. ended with the driver producing a license from the "driving school" of this toy brick-themed theme park Legoland |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $400: Burning the U.S Capitol building in 1814, the British fueled the fire with 3,000 books from this institution, small at the time the Library of Congress |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | HEAD GEAR $1600: Now torturing fewer teens than in the past, reverse pull & cervical pull are 2 types of headgear used in this medical field orthodontics |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SCARY MOVIES $800: In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time Elm Street |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $800: In 1889 & 1890 Nellie Bly did this in 72 days, 8 fewer than in the title of a popular novel of the day travel around the world |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | TV TIME $200: The Duffer brothers couldn't resist a bike chase in season 1 of this TV series, derivative of "E.T." though it was Stranger Things |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | A DASH OF FASHION $600: Playing doctor, Matt Smith let us know this red felt hat that was popular in Turkey in the 1920s was also cool with time travelers a fez |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $200: In an '80s hit, "Her name is" this "& she dances on the sand": his name is Andy Hamilton, & he plays a sax solo on that tune Rio |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $400: This title man of a 1719 novel finds a "print of man's foot on the sand"; "fear of danger is... more terrifying than danger itself" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | THE "END"s OF THE EARTH $600: An Australian river got this name in 1770 after then-lieutenant James Cook repaired the same-named ship there Endeavour |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $800: In this 1954 novel, a tale of survival, the "littluns" build sandcastles; Roger & Maurice revel in "kicking them over" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LANGUAGES $1200: More than 50 million people in India & 15 million in Pakistan speak this 4-letter language Urdu |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | "G"EOGRAPHY $100: More than a mile deep in some places, it's the natural wonder seen here the Grand Canyon |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $200: Though the title mentions a different car part, Nicky Youre is in a convertible in the video for this hit song heard here
"You got me stuck on the thought of you /
You're making me feel brand new /
You're more than the sunshine in my eyes /
La da la da da, la da dai /
La da la da di dai..." "Sunroof" |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $500: These 2 psychology superstars & one-time collaborators are seen here at Clark University in 1909 before they quarreled Freud & Jung |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | THE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS $900: (Amy Schneider presents the clue.) In 2022, the Warriors captured their 4th NBA championship in 8 years, besting this team that had Jason Tatum & the ghosts of past champions the Boston Celtics |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW DO I GET THERE? $600: This river:
Head to southern Idaho & enjoy Twin Falls but don't try to jump it like Evel Knievel & Eddie Braun (Eddie did make it in 2016) the Snake River |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | CLASSICAL IS IN $800: In 1724 Bach composed more than 60 of these musical pieces that were meant to be sung, as opposed to a sonata cantatas |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CHESS PAINS $600: In 2008 Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk stormed out of a Chess Olympiad rather than submit to one of these tests a drug test |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | "SIDE" EFFECTS $1000: In 1957 athlete & future actor Bruce Dern left the Penn track team rather than shave these his sideburns |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $400: This aviation pioneer outlived his brother Wilbur by more than 35 years Orville Wright |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: In "The Tempest", Antonio says, "What's past is" this, also a word meaning preface prologue |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | I AM A CHAMPION! $200: Rod Laver is the only 2-time winner of all 4 major tennis singles titles in one year, a feat called this, like a big home run a grand slam |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $600: This northeast state got its name in the 1620s from a county in England where the scene was dull--time for something "new" New Hampshire |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | THE 1890s $200: In 1891 the ancient order of Hibernians marched up Fifth Avenue for the first time in their parade celebrating this holiday St. Patrick's Day |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | A COLLEGE / TOWN $600: The University of New Mexico, where classes began in 1892, before statehood Albuquerque |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | NEWSPAPER NAMES $1200: In Communist Russia Pravda translated to this, which may have been stretched from time to time truth |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $800: Having time to draw a cross of his own blood on the ground, Francisco Pizarro was killed in this city in 1541 Lima, Peru |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK $1200: This 4-letter tea drink made with tapioca pearls was created in 1980s Taiwan boba |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $1600: In what's known as the South Sea this of 1720, stock in a British company skyrocketed, then crashed, "bursting" investors' hopes a bubble |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $400: The claim to fame of Viking, Alberta is it grew the six Sutter brothers who combined to play almost 5,000 games in this league the NHL |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $600: In 2022 this team gave 73-year-old Dusty Baker his 1st championship as a manager; he's the oldest skipper to win a World Series the Astros |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | TATTOOS $800: Far from keeping them secret, in the 1930s many Americans got tattoos of these recently issued identifiers Social Security numbers |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $800: Sultan Mehmed V, seen here, was ruling this empire in 1914, but time would soon be running out for both the Ottoman Empire |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $800: Seymour in this state was the place John Mellencamp was talking about when he sang, "I was born in a small town" Indiana |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $1200: Sometimes not much changes in a town; Randall Wise was mayor of Niceville in this northwestern slab of Florida for 49 years the Panhandle |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $1600: For more than 150 years, traditional festivities have come to Antigonish in this province for the annual Highland Games Nova Scotia |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | ROYAL HISTORY $2000: The establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613 ended the Russian "Time of" these, a period of political & social crisis Troubles |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | CLASSIC ALBUMS $400: Released in 1982 & spawning 7 Top 10 singles, this Michael Jackson album became one of the bestselling albums of all time Thriller |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS? $400: I do like to time travel, & my keys may be in this year: I saw D-Day firsthand & went to the premiere of "Double Indemnity" 1944 |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $800: The woman who ran over my foot with a pram & put me in hospital will most decidedly hear from my solicitor, this person my attorney |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? $1600: I was miffed when the National Trust refused to list my gran's cottage in this district known for water & poets the Lake District |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | THE 50 STATES $500: Hells Canyon & Snake River sound daunting, but Sun Valley & its ski lodges in this state offer respite Idaho |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | WHAT IN THE WHIRLED... $200: Blindfold a child, spin him 'round 'til he's disoriented, then direct him to a diagram of Equus asinus in this game pin the tail on the donkey |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $1200: Originally self-published in 1970, this guide for job-hunters & career-changers has sold more than 10 million copies What Color is Your Parachute? |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | LEAD VOCALIST OF THE BAND $400: Eddie Vedder, this gem of a band Pearl Jam |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | POTPOURRI $800: Andrew Garfield played composer Jonathan Larson running out of time in this 2021 film Tick, Tick... Boom! |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $1200: In 2002, shortly after her time as Attorney General had come to an end, she ran for governor of Florida Janet Reno |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $2000: As Obama's A.G., he took on the issue of trying terrorists in civilian rather than military court; today he fights gerrymandering Eric Holder |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SPECIES IN PERIL $800: A 2018 survey found more than 1,000 mountain these in the DRC, Rwanda & Uganda--they're increasing but still endangered gorillas |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | SPECIES IN PERIL $1000: The population of Diceros bicornis, the black this, has rebounded to more than 5,000, but it's still critically endangered a rhinoceros |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | REMEMBER YOUR PHRASE-ING $5,600 (Daily Double): This phrase meaning something currently in fashion has its origins in a special ice cream offered for a certain span of time flavor of the month |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | LEGALLY SPEAKING $800: No prison time, but you will help your fellow man with 100 hours of this, begun as work assignments for traffic offenders in 1966 community service |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMYS $1600: Back to back in the 1970s:
Her "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" & "Killing Me Softly With His Song" Roberta Flack |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $800: In "Station" this, "of all of them there... that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later" Station Eleven |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE LIFE OF RILEY $4,000 (Daily Double): Congressman Riley Wilson wanted to be governor of Louisiana in 1928 but lost out to this larger-than-life man (Huey) Long |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | LET ME NOODLE ON THAT $500: This 3-letter Vietnamese dish is a flat rice noodle served in clear broth; you can slurp it year-round, any time of day phở |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $500: "He who has lost his mind & seeks to find it" is one rendition of the name of this hero whose story is darker in legends than in Longfellow Hiawatha |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $600: This chain of stores opened in 1979 & it seems like since then I've been trying to find an orange-aproned person to help me Home Depot |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS: A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & "got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them" a wardrobe |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: TIME mentioned "cruelty & enforced conformity" when summing up this novel with a "stonily silent narrator" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name Yerevan, Armenia |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WORLD THEATER: This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt Peer Gynt |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY: "The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year 1963 |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ON VACATION IN ITALY: About 30 miles from Florence, a little hill gives this tiny Tuscan town its name, familiar to American visitors Monticello |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | LANDMARKS: The distance between its 2 legs at ground level is 630 feet, making it as wide as it is tall the Gateway Arch |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LANDMARKS: Then 71, a reluctant Michelangelo took on the design of this building "only for the love of God and in honor of the Apostle" St. Peter's Basilica |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | BRAND NAMES: Originally called Fruit Scones, the name of this food brand introduced in 1964 was influenced by an art movement of that time Pop-Tarts |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | TELEVISION HISTORY: According to the BBC, this 1953 event "did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium" the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AWARD-WINNING ACTRESSES: Her 2019 Oscar win & 2021 Emmy win were both for portraying a British queen Olivia Colman |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS: In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman Antony & Cleopatra |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BUSINESS: Of the Big 4 U.S. airlines, the 4 that each have over 15% of the domestic market, it's the youngest Southwest |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea the North Sea |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NAME'S THE SAME: This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | DRIVING THE USA: It's the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage Texas |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | MUSIC MEN: Before creating this record label in 1959, its founder worked on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line Motown |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In "A Room of One’s Own", the "four famous names" are Austen, 2 Brontës & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf’s own time George Eliot |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California (John) Steinbeck |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FAMOUS SHIPS: This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years the Maine |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | OLYMPIC TEAMS: A city of about 2.5 million people, since 1984 for political reasons it has been in the name of an Olympic team Taipei |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORY & NATURE: In March 1519, these were again seen in mainland North America for the first time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them horses |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns" |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | LITERATURE: In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens" Ulysses |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green The Wizard of Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | LANDMARKS: For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure the Kaaba |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WORLD CITIES: This capital city founded in 1567 was where the founding statute of OPEC was adopted in 1961 Caracas |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM: In 303, to celebrate 20 years of his reign, the emperor Diocletian visited this city for the first time Rome |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES: She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | USA: Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown the Manhattan Bridge |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TEAM NAMES: An MLB team got this name in 1902 after some of its players defected to a new crosstown rival, leaving young replacements the (Chicago) Cubs |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | SYMBOLS: In math, it's a rotated V; in society, it's a feeling of some marginalized or underrepresented people less than |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: At one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, "the far west" Morocco |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | STATEHOOD: Congress relented in 1890 after this prospective state said it would wait 100 years rather than come in without the women Wyoming |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORD ORIGINS: Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now more commonly refers to strong emotion of any kind passion |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" witches |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | ENGLISH CITIES: William the Conqueror's son built a fortress on a key northern river in 1080, giving this city its name Newcastle (upon Tyne) |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Built of more than 18,000 metal parts & 2.5 million rivets, it was the world's tallest manmade structure from 1889 to 1930 the Eiffel Tower |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE: Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President's Garden at M.I.T. an apple tree |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | WORLD AIRPORTS: Africa's 2 busiest passenger airports are in these 2 countries; it's an 8-hour flight between them Egypt & South Africa |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | AGRICULTURE: Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest soybeans |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 1972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | TECHNOLOGY: Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated the telegraph |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | INVENTIONS: Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful Velcro |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | DISNEY CHARACTERS: In the source material from more than 3 centuries ago, her name was badr al-budur, "full moon of full moons" (Princess) Jasmine |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal" |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SINGERS: In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material Tony Bennett |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ART MUSEUMS: Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew the Guggenheim |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | POETRY: It contains the line "whereat In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, & to the eastern gate Led them direct" Paradise Lost |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call" Mother Teresa |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name Annie |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | EUROPEAN RIVERS: The flooding of this river in 1966 destroyed or damaged some 14,000 works of art, many of them priceless the Arno |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit" (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE 21st CENTURY: In 2009 this 11-year-old started posting on BBC's Urdu language website under the screen name Gul Makai Malala (Yousafzai) |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | SCIENTIFIC ETYMOLOGY: 2 of the 3 men for whom armalcolite, a dark gray mineral discovered in 1969, is named (2 of) (Neil) Armstrong, (Buzz) Aldrin or (Michael) Collins |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | COMEDY & SPORTS: These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" Where & When |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS: After being born this creature would bring the remains of its forebear to Heliopolis & put them on the altar of the sun god the phoenix |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | THE 50 STATES: Both in the Pacific, they are the 50 states' 2 biggest islands in area; one is about 40 degrees colder in winter than the other Hawaii & Kodiak |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | THE SUPREME COURT: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY: In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name Botany Bay |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: A national capital for less than 100 years, it's the westernmost capital in mainland Asia Ankara, Turkey |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus" The Gulag Archipelago |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | PAINTINGS: The New York Times noted "balls of orange-yellow light" & "the town off in the distance" from the artist's window in this piece Starry Night |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York) |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE OLYMPICS: The "City of Angels" hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first 52 |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BROADWAY ROLES: Of the more than 15 actors to play the lead in this musical, Howard McGillin holds the record with over 2,500 performances The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS: Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character Le Figaro |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SCIENCE FICTION: In a 1952 sci-fi story, a time traveler returning to the present finds a dead one of these insects on his shoe a butterfly |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | WORLD SURNAMES: In 2019, for the first time, this nation allowed for non-gendered last names with the suffix -bur Iceland |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | PLAYWRIGHTS: This late writer has had 10 plays on Broadway, most of them set in Pittsburgh like "Jitney", which premiered in 2017 August Wilson |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | CABLE NETWORKS: In March 1979 Tip O'Neill & then-Representative Al Gore were the first politicians to speak on this new cable channel C-SPAN |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | WOMEN & SCIENCE: Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it's from the Greek for "equal" & "place" isotope |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Once a residence of rulers of Austria, this city on the Danube less than 20 miles from Vienna became a national capital in 1993 Bratislava |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | COMEDY MOVIES: In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London's Harrods department store Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: One of the liberties listed in this: "No man shall be forced to perform more service for a knight's 'fee'... than is due from it" the Magna Carta |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | COUNTRY NAMES: 5 U.N. member countries have one-syllable names: Chad, Laos & these 3 in Europe Spain, France & Greece |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | AUTHORS: On this woman's passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her "a magician with language, who understood the power of words" Toni Morrison |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | NOTABLE BRITS: On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers" Notre-Dame |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | WORLD ELECTIONS: In 2014 this democratic nation broke the record for total turnout in a single election with more than 500 million voters India |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: An account of a deposed Duke of Genoa in a 1549 "History of Italy" is a presumed source for this play The Tempest |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: Jack Keil's team created this animal character rolled out in 1980, the year of the USA's highest recorded murder rate McGruff (the Crime Dog) |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS: From the title of a British-set comedy, it completes the final line "I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital..." The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | SCIENCE WORDS: In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo satellite |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | ASIAN GEOGRAPHY: This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species DMZ (the demilitarized zone between North & South Korea) |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Now in her 70s, this author splits her time between Paris & San Francisco, often writing 20 to 22 hours a day on an old typewriter Danielle Steel |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newbery Medal A Wrinkle in Time |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ORGANIZATIONS: Founded by students at William & Mary in 1776; its members include 17 U.S. Presidents, 41 Supreme Court Justices & more than 140 Nobel laureates Phi Beta Kappa |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | SCIENCE & INNOVATION: In her 20+ years working for this company, Audrey Sherman of Saint Paul has been granted more than 130 patents 3M |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called "Strange No. 3" was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 The Twilight Zone |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1947 she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee on how the film "Song of Russia" was Communist propaganda Ayn Rand |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES: A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty Japan & Russia |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS: By Hebrew word count, the longest book bears this name that led to a word for a long complaint or rant Jeremiah |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | ITALIAN INVENTORS: In a 1644 letter he wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air", which is what his invention measures Torricelli |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | RELIGION: This denomination takes its name from the day, as told in the New Testament, when the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles Pentecostalism |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | 1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer Rear Window |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | NATURAL GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES: Timely for 2018, in 1866 Mark Twain wrote of this landmark's "sputtering jets of fire" & "heat from Pele's furnaces" (Mount) Kilauea |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | TOYS & GAMES: Invented in 1974 as a model to teach 3-D problems, it became one of the bestselling toys of all time Rubik's Cube |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | HISTORIC SHIPS: 215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier the Carpathia |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | WOMEN ON TV: This character featured in a 1992 Time magazine cover story on "Hollywood & Politics" returned to television in 2018 Murphy Brown |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | NEW ENGLAND: Neighborhoods in this city include Federal Street, Gallows Hill & Witchcraft Heights Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEDICAL NEWS 2018: For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn't been a new case in 40 years smallpox |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany Spain |
| #8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S TIME: The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death Christopher Marlowe |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family Newman |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | JAZZ CLASSICS: In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington's home in Harlem "Take The "A" Train" |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | PHOTO SHARING: Publishing its first photo in 1889, today it has more than 4 billion likes & 100 million followers on Instagram National Geographic |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | INTERNATIONAL NEWS: In 2014 this 10,000-square-mile region moved its clocks forward 2 hours to Moscow Standard Time Crimea |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35 |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: 3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2 W and JFK |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | THE 19th CENTURY: In his autobiography, Buffalo Bill Cody remembered this venture as "a relay race against time" the Pony Express |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | CONTEMPORARY ART: After it was auctioned in 2018, a work by this artist was renamed "Love is in the Bin" Banksy |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | FAMOUS DOCTORS: Not an artist himself, he inspired the Surrealists but thought them "absolute cranks" until he met Dali in London in 1938 Sigmund Freud |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: When he died in Samoa in 1894 his obituary said, "He loved Samoa better than any other place, except Scotland" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | THE OLD WEST: On October 27, 1881 this town's local newspaper reported on "a day when blood flowed as water" Tombstone, Arizona |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | SHAKESPEARE: Aptly, Shakespeare used "moon" & "moonlight" more times in this play than in any other A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time Anna Karenina |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | CLASSIC FILMS: In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?" The Godfather |
| #7815, aired 2018-07-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him the Battle of Lexington |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: In one version Thetis killed 6 of her children in her attempts to make them immortal; this warrior was her seventh Achilles |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS: Hesiod said it fawns on all who enter "with actions of... tail & both ears", but when people try to exit it "eats them up" the hound of Hades (or Cerberus) |
| #7716, aired 2018-03-12 | FIRST LADY FACTS: In 1982, when Bess Truman died, she had been enrolled in this government program for about 17 years, longer than anyone else Medicare |
| #7715, aired 2018-03-09 | BIG BUSINESS: Bill Fernandez, who in 1971 introduced to each other the 2 founders of this California company, became its first full-time employee in 1977 Apple |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | AMERICANA: A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet" the Empire State Building |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | THE THEATER: In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre Our American Cousin |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | NOVELISTS: A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941 Virginia Woolf |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR: Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015 Angela Merkel |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | INVENTIONS: When Time magazine named it Invention of the Year in 2007, it was described as too slow, too big, pretty & touchy-feely the iPhone |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS: A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children Hannibal Hamlin |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | U.S. HISTORY: Only 4 men have been both VP & president & served in both houses of Congress; 2 of them shared this last name Johnson |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | AMERICANA: The tiny town of Cayce, Kentucky was the home & supplied the nickname of a man famous in this job an engineer |
| #7611, aired 2017-10-16 | BIG BUSINESS: In 2000 this company reported revenues of more than $100 billion; in 2001 it was bankrupt Enron |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | AMERICAN PLAYS: The latitude & longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire Our Town |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS: He said, "Never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another" Nelson Mandela |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | WOMEN AUTHORS: A 1936 New York Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages" Margaret Mitchell |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | PLACE NAMES: A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire Dartmouth |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: Often used to describe artists ahead of their time, it was also the name of a youth militia in WWII Vichy France avant-garde |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | MOVIE MUSIC: Since 1999 many Warner Bros. movies open with the studio's logo & a snippet of this song made famous in a 1942 film "As Time Goes By" |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FASHION HISTORY: These pants first became popular when Pratap Singh, a maharaja's son, visited Queen Victoria with his polo team in 1897 jodhpurs |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | U.S. LANDMARKS: In 1942 a Maryland area was named for the Tibetan paradise in "Lost Horizon" but in 1953 was renamed this, for a young boy Camp David |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | THE U.S.A.: The Empire State Building says that on a clear day you can see 5 states from the top: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut & these 2 Pennsylvania & Massachusetts |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it L. Frank Baum |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | 2016 U.S. OLYMPIANS: If this U.S. state was a country, it would have been in the top 10 in gold medals with 14--9 of them by 1 man & 1 woman Maryland |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | EARLY AMERICA: William Bradford wrote that this document was partly inspired by the "mutinous speeches" of some passengers the Mayflower Compact |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | FAMOUS NAMES: At a May 1989 ceremony in Cape Town, he received a bachelor of laws correspondence degree in absentia Nelson Mandela |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES: She once said that death "is no more than passing from one room into another" but "in that other room, I shall be able to see" Helen Keller |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | DANTE'S INFERNO: During the journey, Dante encounters Homer, Socrates & Cicero, who bide their time in the first circle, aka this limbo |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This 52-year-old went through a temporary growth spurt, growing 2 inches in less than a year, as revealed by a 2016 physical Scott Kelly |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000 Brigham Young |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | 19th CENTURY NONFICTION: A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called "more extraordinary" than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because "it is only a simply unvarnished tale" Twelve Years a Slave |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | COLLEGE TEAM SPORTS: The USA's first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages rowing |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped Jefferson Davis |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen" George McGovern |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | AUTHORS: She wrote in her journal in 1867 that a publisher "asked me to write a girls book. Said I'd try." Louisa May Alcott |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | U.S. MEMORIALS: Symbolic bookends, these 2 neighboring memorials mark the beginning & end of U.S. involvement in World War II the Arizona & the Missouri |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | CITY NAME ORIGINS: This city that's home to an NFL team is named for an 18th century British prime minister Pittsburgh |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1705 he wrote, "And, if it should then return, we shall have no reason to doubt but the rest must return too" (Edmond) Halley |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | AMERICAN ICONS: This WWII icon was created in a 1943 song that says, "That little frail can do more than a male can do" Rosie the Riveter |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS: A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters" Sue Grafton |
| #7272, aired 2016-04-05 | FOOD & DRINK: This cereal brand that's been with us since the 1920s teamed up with a brewer in 2015 to create a Hefeweizen Wheaties |
| #7266, aired 2016-03-28 | TEXTILES: In 1939 this new product was touted as being strong as steel, fine as a spider's web & more elastic than natural fibers nylon |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | 20th CENTURY INVENTIONS: In the 1950s physicist Louis Essen built the 1st practical one of these, noting that it wouldn't give you the time of day an atomic clock |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | GREAT BRITONS: A pair of shoes that he wore when making history in 1954 sold at auction in 2015 for more than $400,000 Roger Bannister |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | BABY GIRLS' NAMES: In 2014 it was No. 1 in Sweden &, thanks to an animated movie, in the top 300 for U.S. baby girls for the first time in decades Elsa |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | HISTORIC NAMES: The only time the pope & the U.S. president shared a name ended when both died in this year 1963 |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES: He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living" the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | EUROPEAN NOVELISTS: Alfred Dreyfus was among the thousands who marched through the streets of Paris in his 1902 funeral procession Émile Zola |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: The debate team at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire is named for this man who entered the academy in 1796 Daniel Webster |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Published for the first time in 2014, her "Pioneer Girl" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | HUMANITIES & HISTORY: Echoing the Morse code for V, in WWII the BBC's "V for Victory" campaign used this classical work as a theme Beethoven's Fifth Symphony |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This name made famous in a 17th century novel is derived from the Spanish for "sweet" Dulcinea |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | SPORTS RULES: The Syracuse owner created this in 1954 & it may have helped his team succeed the Lakers as champs the next year the 24-second shot clock |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | MASCOTS: For the first time in almost 100 years, this pro team has an official mascot, a bear named Clark the Chicago Cubs |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | BUSINESS: This social media company launched in October 2010; in 2012, with about a dozen employees & no revenue, it sold for $1 billion Instagram |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Incorporated in 1948, this company chose its name from the book of the Hebrew prophet Hosea El Al Airlines |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | THE SCULPTOR SPEAKS: "Chaste women remain fresher" was the reason he made a mother look barely older than her son Michelangelo |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Not in the 10 longest, this 1,560-mile river in a fertile basin flows by 29 cities of over 100,000 people the Ganges |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS: In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own" John Bartlett |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | SHAKESPEARE: After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other Italy |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | BEST ACTOR OSCARS: 1 of 2 performers to win 2 Best Actor Oscars for films that won Best Picture Marlon Brando or Dustin Hoffman |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians Mark Twain |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | TELEVISION: Set to the song "You've Got Time", a montage of real women who were incarcerated is in the opening credits of this series Orange Is the New Black |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | 21st CENTURY BOOKS: Set in the Great Depression, this 2006 novel has an epigraph from "Horton Hatches the Egg" Water for Elephants |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE: This capital city, which at 12,330 miles is farthest from Madrid, is named for a soldier who spent time in Madrid Wellington |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | INVENTIONS: This machine was invented in 1929; the government began buying them to help prevent any more in a series of Army Air Corps fatalities the flight simulator |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | BUSINESS: Today this company markets more than 100 times the number of products found in a slogan it used in 1896 H.J. Heinz |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It became a colony of the U.S. in 1898, a commonwealth in 1935 & an independent country in 1946 the Philippines |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | 2014 NEWSMAKERS: Both making news in June, these 2 Davids with similar last names are LeBron's new coach & Eric Cantor's conqueror David Blatt & David Brat |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | U.S. CITY FIRSTS: Among its firsts are underwater auto tunnel to a foreign country & corp. to net more than $1 billion in a single year Detroit |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury Clarence Darrow |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In May 1980 over 200 leaders from more than 120 countries attended his funeral in Belgrade Tito |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | AWARDS & HONORS: There were no winners for this award from 1939 through 1943; in 1944, it was won by the International Committee of the Red Cross the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | FAMOUS OBJECTS: In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item the Stone of Scone |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | SCIENCE & INDUSTRY: In 1891 this European said, "Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses" Alfred Nobel |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | FRUIT: It's the only commercially important edible fruit of the bromeliad family the pineapple |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | OPERA: In a bit of foreshadowing, the title character's dad has committed suicide before the action of this 1904 opera Madame Butterfly |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | 20th CENTURY PLAY TITLES: This play's title comes from the name of a Greek king said to have carved a statue of a woman & fallen in love with it Pygmalion |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | BRITISH NOVELS: Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him Lord of the Flies |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 movies in the last 30 years, one a drama & one a comedy, to win Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress The Silence of the Lambs or As Good as It Gets |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | NAMES ON THE MAP: Visited by Jacques Cartier in 1534, it was later renamed for Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent Prince Edward Island |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | MONARCHS: 2 teen Hashemite cousins officially took the thrones of their respective countries May 2, 1953:
Faisal of Iraq & him King Hussein of Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom) |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | U.S. STATES: Other than Q, these 2 letters appear the least in the names of states, each appearing only once J & Z |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | BASEBALL: Vine Line is the official magazine of this Major League Baseball team the Chicago Cubs |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | HISTORIC GROUPS: With fewer than 10 member cities in attendance, this association based in Lubeck held its last assembly in 1669 the Hanseatic League |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MUSIC MAKERS: Salisbury Cathedral's dean said this man, via his 2013 album, "is creating a huge awareness of" an historic document Jay-Z |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN: This crusader, in 1906: "More than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, & then to die without it seems so cruel" Susan B. Anthony |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BODIES OF WATER: More than 1/5 of all the world's people live in countries bordering this, the world's biggest bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | NOVEL TITLES: The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | LANDMARKS: From 1936 to 1987, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power helped operate this facility in another state Hoover Dam |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: Frederick Douglass said this man's "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine" John Brown |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | ISLANDS: In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island Sicily |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | WORLD POLITICS: When these 2 men swapped jobs in 2012, their country's media described the move as "castling" Putin & Medvedev |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | INVENTORS: In an 1854 demonstration, he said, "Cut the rope"; his invention kicked in, then he said, "All safe, gentlemen" Elisha Otis |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | COMEDIC ACTRESSES: She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION: Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing" Silent Spring |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | SHAKESPEARE: This 5-letter name appears 7 times in Shakespeare titles, more than any other name Henry |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | 16th CENTURY PEOPLE: This non-Brit said in 1532, "I advised (Henry VIII) that it would be better for him to take a concubine than to ruin his people" Martin Luther |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | 20th CENTURY ARTS: Pretending to be a tree is an exercise in a key textbook of this system that spread from Russia to Broadway & then to Hollywood method acting (the Stanislavski system) |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | NOBEL LAUREATES: The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award Myanmar |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | PLAY CHARACTERS: In Peter Roach's phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician" Henry Higgins |
| #6660, aired 2013-07-26 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS: The cover of the May 19, 1958 Time magazine called him "The Texan who conquered Russia" Van Cliburn |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS: 2013 marks the 100th running of this event, first won by Maurice Garin with a time of 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds the Tour de France |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | AUTHORS: He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | NATIONAL OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: This country has an area of only 275 square miles but has 4 official languages: English, Tamil, Chinese & Malay Singapore |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | TRANSPORTATION: Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had "done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" the bicycle |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | WORLD LEADERS: Since 1991 this country has had only 3 different presidents; the current one took over in 2012 for the second time Russia |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | THE UNITED NATIONS: Of nations in the World Almanac, 3 are not U.N. members: Taiwan, Vatican City & this European one that gained independence in 2008 Kosovo |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: One of the 2 years in which 3 men served as president of the United States 1841 or 1881 |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | CLASSIC JAZZ SONGS: The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for "Time Out", the album on which it first appeared "Take Five" |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: Recently in the news, this agency traces its origins to an 1803 act helping Portsmouth, N.H. after a fire FEMA |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | OLYMPIC HOST CITIES: When this city hosted the XIV Winter Olympics, it was located in a different nation than today Sarajevo |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: From 2008, it's the most recent film to win Best Picture & Best Song; the lyrics are in a foreign language Slumdog Millionaire |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: 2 of the 3 countries that are completely encircled by one other country (2 of) San Marino, Vatican City & Lesotho |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | COMPOSERS' BIRTHPLACES: The town where he was born in 1811 is now in far eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country Franz Liszt |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1886 he wrote, "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water" Mark Twain |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | ART & ACTIVISM: Though being added to much more slowly than 20 years ago, it's now 1.3 million sq. ft., too big to display in one place the AIDS quilt |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | BUSINESSMEN: Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink, Clank," this Think |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books Stieg Larsson |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune" |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | MATH MEN: In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another" (John) Venn |
| #6452, aired 2012-10-09 | STORES: These stores first launched in 2001 take in more money per sq. foot than any other U.S. retailer, almost doubling Tiffany's Apple stores |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | TV ANIMATION: This teen duo debuted in a 1992 animated short in which they played baseball with a frog Beavis & Butt-head |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE OSCARS: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s Ben-Hur |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country in the Americas has more than 125,000 miles of coastline, the most of any country in the world Canada |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | NOTABLE AMERICANS: In addition to his 1,093 U.S. patents, he held more than 1,200 patents awarded by other countries Thomas Alva Edison |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | POLITICAL LITERATURE: The key message to this title figure in an Italian work is "it is far safer to be feared than loved" The Prince |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | ENTREPRENEURS: In 1989 he said, "You can't just ask customers what they want... by the time you get it built, they'll want something new" Steve Jobs |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | EARLY FILMS OF OSCAR WINNERS: The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for Best Actor all appeared in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: Though shot in the chest, Teddy Roosevelt gave a 1912 speech saying, "it takes more than that to kill" one of these animals a bull moose |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | FICTIONAL PAIRS: These 2 men first meet after one of them tells a friend, Stamford, of needing new lodgings in London Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson |
| #6399, aired 2012-06-14 | U.S. TOP-SELLING ALBUMS: The bestselling album of all time by a female is a 20 million seller by this woman who started singing at age 8 in Ontario Shania Twain |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: When the future state of Iowa became part of the United States, this man was President Thomas Jefferson |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN...: The Jets beat the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | MUSEUMS: For 2010 & 2011, it's gotten more visitors than any other single museum in the U.S. the National Air & Space Museum |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | '70s BLOCKBUSTERS: A direction in this film: "Start with the tone... up a full tone. Down a major third. Now drop an octave. Up a perfect fifth" Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #6330, aired 2012-03-09 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: An entertainer born in 1888 whose original first name was Adolph was one of the best-known players of this instrument the harp |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE 1960s: On nominating this man in 1967, LBJ said "It is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man & the right place" Thurgood Marshall |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS: "No day shall erase you from the memory of time", from Virgil's "Aeneid", is inscribed on a wall at this memorial the 9/11 Memorial in New York City |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | U.S. STATES: This third-smallest state in area is home to the USA's third-oldest college Connecticut |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | MEDICAL DISCOVERIES: Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this insulin |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | ASTRONOMY: In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846 Neptune |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade Woodrow Wilson |
| #6273, aired 2011-12-21 | THE NFL: This team that joined the NFL in the mid-1970s is the only one whose name starts with the same 3 letters as its city's name the Seattle Seahawks |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | PLAYWRIGHTS: For a 1953 play, he spent time in Salem doing research at the courthouse & at the Witch House Arthur Miller |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | NOTABLE GROUPS: Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say the Algonquin Round Table |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | TOP OF THE POP CHARTS: In 1978 he replaced his brothers at No. 1, who then replaced him; one of the brothers was a writer on all 3 songs Andy Gibb |
| #6223, aired 2011-10-12 | ART & STATE CAPITALS: The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, home to the largest permanent collection of her works, is in this state capital Santa Fe |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | OSCAR NOMINATIONS: The only time 3 actors from the same movie were nominated for Best Actor was for this high seas film Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #6199, aired 2011-07-21 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: Time magazine first mentioned him in 1939, when his father sent him on a diplomatic errand from London to Glasgow John F. Kennedy |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | FAMOUS NAMES: The last time the University of Michigan retired a football number was in 1994, in honor of this center who graduated in 1935 Gerald Ford |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: His "remarks about the Confederacy... made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage" Rhett Butler |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | MEDICAL HISTORY: In December 1967 Louis Washkansky, a patient in this country claimed, "I am a new Frankenstein" South Africa |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | THE TITANIC: When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, its cargo included more than 7 million pieces of this, in some 3,400 sacks mail |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House Jimmy Carter |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BASEBALL GEOGRAPHY: After Alaska, it's the largest state in area without a Major League Baseball team Montana |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: The 2 Middle East prime ministers of the same country who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with another leader Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation the Netherlands |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author Mark Twain |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | SPORTS AWARDS: In the 4 major U.S. sports leagues, he's won more regular season MVP awards than any other player Wayne Gretzky |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS: In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, "No chaos damn it" Jackson Pollock |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | SPORTS: In 1744 the first mention of this now popular sport said, "Away flies the boy To the next... post And then home with joy" baseball |
| #6036, aired 2010-12-06 | THE BIBLE: This happens several times, as in I Kings 17 & Acts 20; the most famous time, it's done by Jesus in John 11 raising the dead |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | BRITISH WOMEN: It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia" Agatha Christie |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | DOCUMENTS: It says, "The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations" the Declaration of Independence |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | PRISONS: Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here the Tower of London |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years James Patterson |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | SPORTS & THE MEDIA: On February 8, 2010 the headline in a major newspaper in this city read, "Amen! After 43 Years, Our Prayers Are Answered" New Orleans |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | RIVERS: These 2 rivers, each more than 1,000 miles long, rise in the Armenian Plateau in Turkey the Tigris & the Euphrates |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | THE SUPER BOWL: As of 2010 it's the only current NFC team that has never played in the Super Bowl the Detroit Lions |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | AMERICANA: Made for only 19 years, it sold for $825 in 1908 & $360 in 1927 the Model T |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | MODERN MATERIALS: Introduced in the '70s to replace steel belting on high-speed tires, it's called stronger than steel & lighter than nylon Kevlar |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | U.S. MILITARY HISTORY: This general commanded the first official American force to fight on the European continent John Pershing |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to sing their praises: "They're both unique... the Quaker & the Greek" Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | PEDIATRICS: In 1943 Drs. Leo Kanner & Hans Asperger each used this word for the then-unnamed disorder they were studying autism |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | OPERA: The aria "Pour mon ame" by Donizetti includes 9 of these; a few tenors have earned the nickname "King of" them high Cs |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | WORDS IN THE BIBLE: In Genesis 2:24 these 2 words are what a man shall do to his parents & then to his wife; add a letter to 1 to get the other leave & cleave |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | U.S.A.: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903 Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | POLITICALLY CORRECT POP CULTURE: The violence goes on, but in 2006 Time Warner TV removed depictions of this activity from old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons smoking |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | LANDMARKS: Begun in 1174, it was finally stabilized in May 2008, after more than 700 years of slow movement the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for 8 Best Actor Oscars, including one for a 1961 film; his only win came for its 1986 sequel Paul Newman |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | THE 1960s: In 1962 the people of Perth, Australia saluted this American by turning their lights on & off at the same time John Glenn |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | ROSE BOWL HISTORY: The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one Pearl Harbor |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | FADS: It was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment & 100 million were sold worldwide in 1958 the hula hoop |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | PLANET EARTH: Despite its name, this ocean current outdoes any river; at maximum flow off the Carolinas, its flow is 3,500 times the Mississippi's the Gulf Stream |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: A state since the 1700s but not in the original 13, it ends with its own 2-letter postal abbreviation Kentucky |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA: 1 of the 2 1-word plays, winners in 2001 & 2005, which both became movies; if you have one, you want the other (1 of) Proof & Doubt |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | OLD NAMES IN THE NEWS: After running pyramid schemes & spending time in federal prison, he was deported back to Italy in 1934 Carlo Ponzi |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | 25 YEARS & COUNTING: In 2009 she was on a world tour at age 69; when "Jeopardy!" premiered in September 1984, she had the USA's No. 1 hit Tina Turner |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | FOOD: This cheese was created in 1892 by Emil Frey & named for a New York singing society whose members loved the cheese Liederkranz |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM: One of the 2 moons in our solar system larger than Mercury; one orbits Jupiter & one orbits Saturn Ganymede or Titan |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | WORDS IN PHYSICS: Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature expansion |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | 20th CENTURY POLITICS: On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address the Checkers Speech |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | SCIENCE TERMS: In medieval England, it meant the smallest unit of time, 1/376 of a minute; it didn't refer to matter until the 16th century atom |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president Chester Arthur |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | FRENCH CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1928 work repeats a theme, almost entirely in C major, in an unvarying rhythm & has a crescendo lasting 17 minutes Boléro (by Ravel) |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | WORLD RIVERS: With 4, more national capitals are located on this river than any other river in the world the Danube |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 1945 Mr. & Mrs. Shoen founded it after no one locally would rent them a trailer for their move from L.A. to Portland U-Haul |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | POP CULTURE: Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959 the dark side of the Moon |
| #5623, aired 2009-02-04 | 20th CENTURY FIRSTS: On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first sonic boom |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | CULINARY HISTORY: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne cherries jubilee |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | THE GRAMMYS: In 1959 the first Grammy for Album of the Year went to the soundtrack composed by Henry Mancini for this TV show Peter Gunn |
| #5565, aired 2008-11-14 | HIGHER EDUCATION: The 1st public one of these schools began in Illinois in 1901 for students who wanted to pursue higher education in their home area a community college (or junior college) |
| #5559, aired 2008-11-06 | WORLD CURRENCY: With inflation raging there at more than 2.2 million%, this nation issued $100 billion notes in 2008 Zimbabwe |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders Wilson |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the non-state U.S. territories, areas & districts, the only one that is larger in area than the smallest state Puerto Rico |
| #5545, aired 2008-10-17 | ORGANIZATIONS: The co-founder of this respected organization refused to appear on the cover of Time magazine, even with his back turned Alcoholics Anonymous |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINATIONS: One of the 2 male actors nominated in the '60s for playing more than one character in the same film (1 of) Peter Sellers or Lee Marvin |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | NBA LOGOS: The logo of this NBA team has a rowel on it the San Antonio Spurs |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | PLAYS: In a 16th century work, the feud between these 2 groups is described as an "ancient grudge" the Capulets & the Montagues |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | LINES FROM 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them" Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | POP SINGERS: Charting her 18th No. 1 single in April 2008, she now has more Billboard No. 1 pop hits than any other solo artist Mariah Carey |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | THE VATICAN: A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633 Galileo |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | 1970s HITS: In 1970 2 performers reached the Top 20 with this hit whose 6-word title was inspired by Boys Town "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | RECENT HISTORY: In 1986 & again in 2001, people power protests in this nation pushed out male presidents & replaced them with females the Philippines |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES: 4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state Massachusetts |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film Henry Fonda |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him Camp David |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The action in this film begins at 10:30 A.M. & plays out in almost-real time until 12:15 High Noon |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: In 1896 he said his mother had lost her childhood at 8; he "knew a time would come when I also must give up the games" J.M. Barrie |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5453, aired 2008-04-30 | BUSINESS: In 1952 Glen Bell was selling burgers; he then added these to the drive-in menu for 19¢, & the rest is history tacos |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | ASSASSINATIONS: For a short time, Diego Rivera was a suspect in the 1940 murder of this man Leon Trotsky |
| #5409, aired 2008-02-28 | THE NFL: It's the only NFL team to play its home games out-of-state in a stadium named for another team the New York Jets |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | NOTABLE NAMES: At his death in April 1955, his brain was preserved & his ashes scattered in the Delaware River Albert Einstein |
| #5395, aired 2008-02-08 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: This 1,980-mile river that starts in Canada is the longest in the Western Hemisphere that flows to the Pacific Ocean the Yukon River |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese Herbert Hoover |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | PRO SPORTS TEAM NAMES: It's the only NBA team name that uses a state nickname in place of a city or state the Golden State Warriors |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS: A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay) |
| #5295, aired 2007-09-21 | HISTORIC PURCHASES: The English received this teenager from the Burgundians in 1431 for the sum of 10,000 francs Joan of Arc |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD: This Swahili phrase has been said or sung more than 450,000 times in theatres all over the world hakuna matata |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | SCULPTORS: Charles Niehaus sculpted McKinley for Canton, Ohio; Farragut for Muskegon, Mich.; & a record 8 men in this collection Statuary Hall |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | LITERATURE: In 1852 his story "The Dandy Frightening the Squatter" appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper Mark Twain |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | CRIME TIME: The largest art theft in U.S. history was at 1:24 a.m. on this date in 1990, while Boston slumbered after partying March 18 |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION: It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd Condoleezza Rice |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country Liberia |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker |
| #5184, aired 2007-03-08 | GOING TO THE DOGS: Their name comes from their being bred to crouch in front of prey that the hunter then captured with a net setters |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | STATE CAPITALS: Located in the Central Time Zone, it's the largest city by population to have no MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL team Austin, Texas |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Elected president twice, he beat his 2 opponents by a combined Electoral College tally of 1,014-62 Ronald Reagan |
| #5160, aired 2007-02-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In part, using donated French tanks, he formed the U.S. Army's first tank training school in 1917 George Patton |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | PRO FOOTBALL: In 1947 this team chose not to be called the "Nickels" but instead paid homage to a Western hero the Buffalo Bills |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | HOLIDAY STUFF: In an 1850 essay Charles Dickens called it "that pretty German toy" a Christmas tree |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: This work says, "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven" Paradise Lost |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY: Originally known as the Missouri Rockets, they performed at the opening of an East Coast theatre in 1931 the Rockettes |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He first appeared in Kipling's 1892 story "In the Rukh" as an adult who now & then refers to his very odd childhood Mowgli |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | MOVIE VILLAINS: Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains Hannibal Lecter |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | TRANSPORTATION: The name of this airline established in 1948 means "skyward" El Al |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: In Act I he says, "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables" Hamlet |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | FILMS OF THE '60s: Peter O'Toole was Oscar-nominated for playing the same king in these 2 movies Becket & The Lion in Winter |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: Originally housed in a boarding house & then in the Capitol, today it occupies 3 buildings named for presidents the Library of Congress |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | SCIENTISTS: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | COMPOSING CONTEMPORARIES: One of 2 hyphenated composers who flourished in the 1870s, one with "The Maid of Pskov" & one with "Samson et Dalila" (1 of) Camille Saint-Saens & (Nicolai) Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MEMOIRS: Chapters in this 1937 memoir include "A Kikuyu Chief", "War-Time Safari" & "Old Knudsen" Out of Africa (by Isak Dinesen) |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | THEATRE 2005: The conduct of a priest arouses suspicion in this play that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley) |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | MEMORIALS: Opened in 2002 in Lower Manhattan, a memorial to this 1845-1849 tragedy used Kilkenny limestone the Great Potato Famine in Ireland |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: Chapter I of this book tells us: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood..." Angela's Ashes (by Frank McCourt) |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | ISLANDS: Despite landmines dating from 1982, penguins use these islands for mating grounds, being too light to set them off the Falkland Islands |
| #4950, aired 2006-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: This 1906 novel says, "Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no..." The Jungle |
| #4949, aired 2006-03-02 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: In the 20th century, 2 of the 3 men who served less than 1 year as VP before becoming president (2 of) Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman & Gerald Ford |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | FAMOUS PAINTERS: His twin daughters both married generals, & his portrait of one of his sons-in-law is seen here Jacques-Louis David |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | FORMER WORLD CAPITALS: In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city St. Petersburg |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | CONGRESS: The word for this job comes from a fox-hunting term for someone who keeps the hunting dogs from straying the whip |
| #4929, aired 2006-02-02 | CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS: This Englishwoman's name comes from the French for "badly suited to the purpose" Mrs. Malaprop |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | WAR & PEACE: In 1839 the first of several wars broke out over the trade of an extract from a flower of this family poppy |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: A 1958 coup in this city ended a monarchy; 10 years of political turmoil followed, then 35 years of dictatorship Baghdad |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | ANCIENT OBJECTS: In I Kings 8 there was nothing inside it except 2 tablets put there by Moses the Ark of the Covenant |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | NEWSMAKERS: In April 2005, during his first 2 days on the job, he received more than 56,000 e-mails Pope Benedict XVI |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES: The only time 3 African-American women were nominated for Oscars for work in the same movie was for this film The Color Purple |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | ANCIENT BIOGRAPHERS: Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures Plutarch |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | RIVERS: They're the two rivers meeting in the photo the Hudson River & the East River |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS: This play says "Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | 1940s MOVIES: This 1942 film gained greater distinction following a January 1943 meeting of Allied leaders in its title location Casablanca |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | WORLD CAPITALS: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker" Lima, Peru |
| #4869, aired 2005-11-10 | BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby" ringtones |
| #4865, aired 2005-11-04 | PRECIOUS METALS: The largest single accumulation of gold known, about $90 billion from several countries, is found in this U.S. state New York |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | AMERICANA: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a mail sorting counter at the post office.) In the '60s, to popularize a new system, the Post Office used ads of Ethel Merman singing this Disney movie tune "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" |
| #4840, aired 2005-09-30 | THE NOBEL PRIZES: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year 1914 |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | MILITARY TRADITIONS: At a military funeral, the American flag is folded this many times to resemble a Revolutionary War soldier's hat 13 |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond |
| #4821, aired 2005-07-18 | ARCHITECTS: He called himself "the man who introduced the glass box and then, 50 years later, broke it" Philip Johnson |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT: Now in his job over 17 years, he's the longest-serving pres. appointee other than Supreme Court members Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve) |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | WARTIME: The Victoria Cross is made from metal taken from enemy guns captured in this war the Crimean War |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | TERMS IN SCIENCE: Sky & Telescope magazine's contest to replace this term for a single event got 13,000 entries, but chose none the Big Bang |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | WORDS FROM LATIN: Some of the periods of time called this occurred in 304 A.D. (4 years), 1314 (2 years), 1958 (19 days), 1963 & 2005 interregnum |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker The customer is always right |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY: Much in the news of the world at the end of June 2004, it's the only English word to contain "GNT" consecutively sovereignty |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: In 2000 this writer, with more than 100 million copies of novels in print, had a new species of dinosaur named for him Michael Crichton |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: (Hi, I'm John McCain.) In presidential succession, the senator holding this position follows the VP & the Speaker of the House president pro tempore |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | THE ELEMENTS: By weight, this element makes up more of the human body than all the others combined oxygen |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | 18th CENTURY POETRY: 18th c. poem that says, "Forever cursed be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my favorite curl away!" "The Rape of the Lock" |
| #4692, aired 2005-01-18 | BRANDS: This brand's airtight seal, introduced in 1946, was patterned after the inverted rim of a paint can Tupperware |
| #4687, aired 2005-01-11 | ENGLISH ROYALTY: One of the 3 years in which 3 different kings reigned (1 of) 1936, 1483, or 1066 |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | MAGAZINES: Founded in 1821, it was named for its delivery time, the last mail delivery of the day The Saturday Evening Post |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | STATE MOTTOES: 2 of the 5 states whose mottoes aren't in English or Latin (2 of) Hawaii, Washington, Montana, Minnesota, or California |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | THE CABINET: He's been both the youngest & the oldest U.S. Secretary of Defense in history Donald Rumsfeld |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | POLITICAL WORDS & PHRASES: Teddy Roosevelt used this boxing phrase to announce his 1912 candidacy & said, "The fight is on & I'm stripped to the buff" (my) hat is in the ring |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | FILMS OF THE '70s: "The Babysitter Murders" was the working title for this 1978 thriller Halloween |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | MEN OF SCIENCE: "Somnium", an early work of science fiction, was written by this German & published posthumously in 1634 Johannes Kepler |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | FIRST LADIES: She survived the President by 39 years & was married to an archaeology professor at the time of her own death in 1947 Frances Folsom Cleveland |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | HISTORIC MEDIUMS: In the '20s the alleged spirit powers of Margery caused a rift between these 2 men, a magician & a writer Harry Houdini & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | WAR MOVIES: A controversial 1979 war film was based on a 1902 work by this author Joseph Conrad |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | COMIC BOOKS: In 2002 the Library of Congress had William B. Jones, Jr. speak on this 1941-1971 comic book series in its collection Classic Comics (or Classics Illustrated) |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | SHAKESPEARE: 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth & Richard III |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | SINGERS: Her recording career lasted just 8 years, starting in 1955 with "A Church, A Courtroom And Then Good-Bye" Patsy Cline |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | FOOD: Experts believe that 16th century Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974 |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Of the 8 members of the G-8 industrial nations, the one with the smallest population Canada |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | BOOK TITLES: "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this Song of Solomon |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits" Thomas Jefferson & John Adams |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | COMMUNICATIONS: In the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, etc.), the 2 that are title Shakespearean characters Romeo & Juliet |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | NFL TEAM NAMES: 2 of the 4 teams in the NFL with completely alliterative names (2 of) the Seattle Seahawks, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Buffalo Bills, & the Tennessee Titans |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | EXPLORATION: He wrote in his diary, "The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended" Robert Falcon Scott |
| #4543, aired 2004-05-12 | POP CULTURE: In 2004 a spokesman announced the "break-up" of this "couple" who had "dated" for 43 years Ken & Barbie |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: In the '50s, she taught English at Smith College, then worked as a secretary at a Boston psychiatric clinic Sylvia Plath |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | ITALIAN TOWNS: This small town in Tuscany was the birthplace of the man who painted the Mona Lisa Vinci |
| #4481, aired 2004-02-16 | JOBS: In this job, after the Senate confirms you, you sign your name at least 5 times, then pick one to be engraved U.S. Treasurer or U.S. Treasury Secretary |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | 19th CENTURY PHILOSOPHY: This 3-word quote, originally in German, comes soon after "We have killed him--you and I, all of us are his murderers" "God is dead" |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | FILM TITLES: This Charlie Chaplin film lent its name to a famous bookstore that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary City Lights |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | U.S. CITIES: While serving in the '60s & '70s as this city's last "censor", Richard J. Sinnott banned fewer than 10 things Boston |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | STATE CAPITALS: In 2000, 1 of only 3 state capitals that had a population of less than 20,000 (1 of) Augusta, Pierre or Montpelier |
| #4437, aired 2003-12-16 | THE OLYMPICS: This city that Napoleon gave to Bavaria in 1806 has hosted the Winter Olympics twice Innsbruck, Austria |
| #4416, aired 2003-11-17 | OLYMPIC SPORTS: Officially added as a medal event in 1996, it's one of the few team events where shoes are not worn beach volleyball |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | BALLET: In a 1935 ballet based on this mythical person, a dancer leaps toward the Sun, then crashes to the stage Icarus |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | THE INTERNET: It is named in honor of a Monty Python sketch that used the word more than 100 times in 2 1/2 minutes spam |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES: Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood" Mohandas Gandhi |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | MOVIES: A catering hall called Aphrodite's Palace is featured in this 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title character was based on a man who bravely served the Guides Regiment at the 1857 Siege of Delhi Gunga Din |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | U.S. STATE QUARTERS: The Alabama coin bears this person's name in English, & for the first time on a circulating U.S. coin, in Braille Helen Keller |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | FICTIONAL PLACES: Wilton, Connecticut, a quiet, affluent town near New York City, was the basis for this title town in a 1972 novel Stepford |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | THE BODY HUMAN: At about 63%, there are more atoms of this element than any other in your body hydrogen |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FRUIT: From Greek for "finger", the Arabs claim it has as many culinary & pharmaceutical uses as days in a year the date |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The only man named Time's Man of the Year 2 straight years, he shared the distinction with Kissinger in 1972 Richard M. Nixon |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | MUSICALS: The 2 longest-running musicals in Broadway history; Cameron Mackintosh produced both of them Cats & Les Miserables |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THE SECRET SERVICE: This 20th century U.S. president was the first to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service Theodore Roosevelt |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | MOUNTAINS: All of the mountains in the U.S. over 14,500 feet are in this state Alaska |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4275, aired 2003-03-14 | THE MOVIES: The DVD of this 1961 film includes "picture-in-picture commentary on how to make the trick shots" The Hustler |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | SUMMER OLYMPIC VENUES: The only time the host country failed to win a gold medal was at the Olympics held in this Western Hemisphere city Montreal (1976) |
| #4261, aired 2003-02-24 | THE 1960s: On September 26, 1960 these 2 men squared off in the studios of WBBM in Chicago John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | THE GLOBE: Of the more than a dozen countries through which the equator passes, this country stretches farthest south Brazil |
| #4231, aired 2003-01-13 | NUTRITION: By virtue of the great quantity eaten, this vegetable is the leading source of vitamin C in the American diet potato |
| #4207, aired 2002-12-10 | THE SPACE PROGRAM: In 1979 NASA officials received a fine for littering from a small town in this country Australia |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | ON THE CALENDAR: In 1974, to save energy, it began in January instead of April & ended on October 27 daylight saving time |
| #4143, aired 2002-09-11 | BASEBALL: It's the only team to win World Series titles in 3 different cities for which it played the Braves (Boston, Milwaukee & Atlanta) |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | SPORTS STARS: He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series Deion Sanders |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | TECHNOLOGY: After a demonstration of this, the April 8, 1927 New York Times said, "Commercial use in doubt" television |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | LANGUAGES: Besides English & Spanish, 2 of the 4 other languages in which the U.S. census 2000 questionnaires were printed (2 of) Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog & Korean |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | WORD HISTORIES: In old philosophy this 12-letter word referred to a fifth substance, superior to earth, air, fire or water quintessence |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | KNOWLEDGE BY THE NUMBERS: Number of males who served as British PM in the 1990s plus Oscars won by Tom Hanks plus protons in a helium nucleus 6 (2 + 2 + 2) |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS: One of its title studies is Sen. Edmund Ross' 1868 vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson Profiles in Courage |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE OSCARS: The 2 Best Picture nominees for 1983 that featured astronaut characters The Right Stuff & Terms of Endearment |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | FAMOUS SHIPS: In 1999 the wreck of this ship known for its historic 1912 rescue effort was discovered 120 miles off England the Carpathia |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Other than FDR, he's the only man to appear as President or VP on a major party ticket in 4 straight elections George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: 5 beekeepers near this Iowa city formed a honey co-op in 1921; they named it for the city, but later respelled it Sioux City |
| #4026, aired 2002-02-18 | TRANSPORTATION: In 2001 Germany began regular passenger service on one of these, named for a German, for the 1st time since 1937 zeppelin |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | THE CABINET: 1 of 2 Presidents, other than FDR, to have 4 or more Attorneys General during their terms in office (1 of) Richard Nixon or Ulysses S. Grant |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Other than FDR, he's the only Democrat to receive his party's nomination in 3 straight elections Grover Cleveland |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | FAMILIAR PHARASES: This 2-word term entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in June 1947 flying saucers |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | FICTIONAL PLACES: The creator of this Minnesota town says its name is Ojibwa for "Place where we waited all day for you in the rain" Lake Wobegon |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ANCIENT ROMANS: According to tradition, he was descended from the clan of the Pontii & killed himself in 39 A.D. Pontius Pilate |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | SPORTS MARKETING: Tiger Woods' 22-page booklet "The Making of a Champion" came free on one million boxes of this product Wheaties |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush |
| #3943, aired 2001-10-24 | SPORTS ON TV: The highest-rated sports program in TV history, other than a Super Bowl, took place on February 23, 1994, in this sport ladies' figure skating |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM NAMES: This team received its name after an 1890 incident in which it "stole" away an important player from another team Pittsburgh Pirates |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | FOOD & DRINK: A statue in the town of Epernay, France honors this blind French monk Dom Perignon (credited with inventing champagne) |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | IT'S ABOUT TIME: Scientists added an extra one of these to December 31, 1998, giving it 86,401; we hope you made good use of it a second |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | ON THE MAP: 2 of the 3 countries classified as extending across 2 continents (2 of) Turkey, Russia, or Egypt |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | FAMOUS PHRASES: This expression comes from a 1956 novel about Frank Skeffington's final run for mayor "the last hurrah" |
| #3903, aired 2001-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: Its roof has been variously described as sails, clam shells & a huddle of nuns in a high wind the Sydney Opera House |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | AFTER THE PRESIDENCY: This 20th century U.S. president lived the longest amount of time after his term as president: 31 years, 231 days Herbert Hoover (lived to age 90 in 1964) |
| #3870, aired 2001-06-01 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: In the 5 major U.S. pro team sports, it's the only team bearing the name of an insect the Charlotte Hornets |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | SATIRE: This then-living man was the main target of the mid-1960s play "MacBird!" Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | BUSINESS HISTORY: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people The British East India Company |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | THE CALENDAR: It's the second-shortest month in most of the U.S., beating out the third-shortest months by one hour April |
| #3812, aired 2001-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: Lucio Costa designed this new capital in 1957 to hold 500,000 people; today it has more than 3 times that number Brasilia, Brazil |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Founded as Pacific Aero Products in 1916, today this company is America's largest exporter, in total revenue Boeing |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | FAMOUS PLACES: It's the town where Francisco Marto, Jacinta Marto & their cousin became famous in 1917 Fatima, Portugal |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | FRENCH NOVELISTS: A relative of Henri Bergson's wife, he used Bergson's mystical concepts of time in his most famous work Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past) |
| #3785, aired 2001-02-02 | HISTORIC LISTS: Sylvester IV & Calixtus III are 2 of the nearly 40 men now placed on the list of these anti-popes |
| #3777, aired 2001-01-23 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time Richard M. Nixon |
| #3767, aired 2001-01-09 | FLAGS: On February 15, 1965 this country raised its new national flag for the first time on Parliament Hill Canada |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | LIFE SCIENCE: A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species Dolphins |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | TRAVEL: By population, it's the largest city on a Caribbean island, though you may not be allowed to go there Havana, Cuba |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | AMERICAN SPORTS: Called "Little Brother of War", it's the oldest team sport known to have been played in what's now the U.S. Lacrosse |
| #3720, aired 2000-11-03 | RICH & FAMOUS: "Worth" magazine says with 1.7 million ranchland acres in 5 states, this mogul is the USA's largest private landowner Ted Turner |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: His 2 acting Oscars have been awarded for playing a tough cop in 1971 & a brutal sheriff in 1992 Gene Hackman |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s Albert Einstein |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: The monument on his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y. is 12' high; in water depth that's 2 fathoms Mark Twain |
| #3675, aired 2000-07-21 | HISTORIC CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY: It includes 3 present Atlantic provinces, & in the 18th C. 4,000 inhabitants of it took a long trip southwest Acadia |
| #3674, aired 2000-07-20 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: Siegfried's funeral march was played when this man's coffin reached the train station in 1883 Richard Wagner |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | WORLD CAPITALS: Founded in 1840, this city is the world's southernmost national capital Wellington, New Zealand |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | WORLD CITIES: By the time it hosts the Summer Olympics in 2004, this city plans to have a car-free zone linking its ancient sites Athens |
| #3635, aired 2000-05-26 | BASEBALL HISTORY: Current name of the National League team that started out in the 1870s as the Boston Red Stockings Atlanta Braves |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | CLASSIC SITCOMS: This '70s character was given his last name because he talked ignorant nonsense Archie Bunker |
| #3594, aired 2000-03-30 | ACTRESSES: She's the granddaughter of an Oscar winner, the niece of a 2-time Oscar winner, & the daughter of a 1997 nominee Bridget Fonda |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | OPERA SINGERS: In 1999 Placido Domingo opened the Met for a record 18th time, breaking this man's record of 17 Enrico Caruso |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | FOOD & SPORTS: In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes Soccer |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | POLITICS: In 1999 the Bushes became the first brothers to serve as governor at the same time since these 2 brothers in 1971 Nelson & Winthrop Rockefeller |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | THE PLANETS: Containing less than 1% of the mass in the solar system, it's the second most massive object in it Jupiter |
| #3495, aired 1999-11-12 | HISTORIC QUOTES: One month prior to his hanging on December 2, 1859, he said that he had no design to "excite slaves to rebel" John Brown |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | OLYMPICS 2000: Name of the new Olympic event that will cover a total of 51.5 kilometers the triathlon |
| #3428, aired 1999-06-30 | PARADES: The theme of Richard Nixon's second inaugural parade, he thought he'd be in office to celebrate it the Bicentennial |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | ROMAN EMPERORS: The 2 Roman emperors during the time that Jesus Christ walked the Earth Augustus Caesar & Tiberius |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | U.S. INDUSTRIES: Around 1850 it used a fleet of over 700 ships; by 1930 this U.S. industry was practically defunct whaling |
| #3331, aired 1999-02-15 | WORLD CITIES: In May 1998 this metropolis of 7 million voted to start electing its mayor for the first time London |
| #3318, aired 1999-01-27 | VITAMINS & MINERALS: The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention says it's the nutrient Americans are most likely to be deficient in Iron (Iron-deficient anemia) |
| #3307, aired 1999-01-12 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: In its history this government body has had a total of 108 members, 106 of them men The Supreme Court |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | BALLET: Feeling the need for ballets about American life, this dancer choreographed his first ballet in 1944 Jerome Robbins |
| #3298, aired 1998-12-30 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: This Texas Democrat's funeral was attended by Truman, Eisenhower, JFK & LBJ Sam Rayburn |
| #3288, aired 1998-12-16 | THEATRICAL TERMS: Partly from Greek for "song", they began as plays with music, then acquired sensational plots melodramas |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | ORGANIZATIONS: Now with over a hundred chapters, the March of Dimes was first established by this president Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | BASEBALL TEAMS: In the early days, this baseball team was known as the Alleghenies Pittsburgh Pirates |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | THE SUPREME COURT: At the time of his 1902 nomination to the Supreme Court, he was Chief Justice of Massachusetts Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | PLAYS: Written in 1953 & set in the late 17th c., this play takes place about 16 miles northeast of where we are right now The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | LEGENDARY PEOPLE: He lived with his girlfriend, a fat priest & a 7-foot-tall archer Robin Hood |
| #3259, aired 1998-11-05 | FAMOUS HOTELS: Cartoons from The New Yorker line the hallways of this hotel where Harold Ross conceived the magazine the Algonquin Hotel |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | HALLOWEEN ON FILM: (Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess Harry Houdini |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | FAMOUS PEOPLE: In 1998 the govt. of Ontario was forced to pay them $2.8 million for exploiting them decades ago the Dionne Quintuplets |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | TELEVISION: It's the longest-running prime time sports show in the history of network television Monday Night Football |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WORDS: In 1973, TIME Magazine blended 2 words to coin this term they gave to Rex Humbard as a job title televangelist |
| #3225, aired 1998-09-18 | SPORTS HISTORY: He was president of France the first time France won soccer's World Cup Jacques Chirac |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | STATUES: In 1820 a man named Yorgos unearthed 3 statues: 2 of Hermes & one of Aphrodite, later renamed this Venus de Milo |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | WESTERNS: Created by Clarence E. Mulford, in books he was a crusty guy with a bad leg; in film, a romantic lead Hopalong Cassidy |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: This women's organization founded in 1890 was chartered by Congress in 1896 the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | OLYMPIC TEAMS: Formed in 1988 & subject of a 1993 film, this team had its first sponsor, Red Stripe Lager, for the Nagano games Jamaican Bobsled Team |
| #3181, aired 1998-06-01 | SHIPS: It was refloated, towed to Matauri Bay & sunk there Dec. 12, 1987, with full Maori ceremony The Rainbow Warrior (of Greenpeace) |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: 1 of the 2 women from the United States who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison or Pearl Buck |
| #3165, aired 1998-05-08 | GEOGRAPHY NEWS: On the initiative of Sen. Patrick Leahy, in 1998 it was designated the sixth Great Lake Lake Champlain |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | QUOTATIONS: In 1883 he wrote, "Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on Earth but the river" Mark Twain ("Life on the Mississippi") |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | ACTRESSES & ROLE: Kathy Bates played her in 1997; Debbie Reynolds played her in 1964 ("The Unsinkable") Molly Brown |
| #3118, aired 1998-03-04 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES: They got their name because the man who discovered them in 1895 had no idea what they were X-Rays (discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen) |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He launched his lecturing career in 1866 with a talk later titled "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands" Mark Twain |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | THE CARIBBEAN: This capital, founded by Columbus' brother, is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | ASIAN NATIONS: In population, it's the largest country that's not a member of the United Nations Taiwan (Republic of China) |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | FOREIGN AIRLINES: In terms of number of passengers, it's the busiest foreign carrier operating at LAX Mexicana Airlines |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | CANDY: Created in 1912, they were originally marketed with the slogan "For That Stormy Breath" Life Savers |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | HALLOWEEN: Mythical Halloween being in the title of the oft-repeated animated TV special that debuted October 27, 1966 the Great Pumpkin (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown) |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: You can view the Jungfrau Peak from the main street of this town between the Brienz & Thun Lakes Interlaken, Switzerland |
| #2998, aired 1997-09-17 | 1997 FILMS: At the end of this 1997 film, the dedication "For Carl" appears onscreen "Contact" |
| #2981, aired 1997-07-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: The Spaniards named it for the Virgin of the Fair Winds for bringing them safely across the Atlantic Buenos Aires |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES: The northernmost country in Africa, it's much smaller than the countries that border it Tunisia |
| #2938, aired 1997-05-14 | THE ELEMENTS: More than 95% of all known compounds contain this element hydrogen (or carbon) |
| #2925, aired 1997-04-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 2 of the 5 presidents in the 20th century who were former U.S. senators (2 of) Warren Harding, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | SPORTS: Last awarded in 1970, the Jules Rimet Cup was replaced by this trophy in 1974 The World Cup (of soccer) |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | NONFICTION: This reference set's 1768 first edition was published by "A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland" the Encyclopædia Britannica |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | ARTISTS: This artist sculpted the famous statuary group that stands in front of the town hall in Calais Auguste Rodin ("The Burghers of Calais") |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk |
| #2865, aired 1997-01-31 | THE CABINET: 1 of 2 women who served in the cabinet for a total of 6 or more years (1 of) Elizabeth Dole & Frances Perkins |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | AUTHORS: In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client John Grisham |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: In 1996 it formed a commonwealth with Sao Tome & Principe, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau & Brazil Portugal |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: French Catholic missionaries led by Father Edward F. Sorin founded this university in 1842 Notre Dame |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | 15th CENTURY MEN: In 1482 he told the Duke of Milan that he could "make armored wagons to carry artillery" Leonardo da Vinci |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ARTISTS: In 1914 his brother's remains were moved from Holland to Auvers, France & buried beside him Vincent Van Gogh |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare's 2 plays with "King" in the title & no numbers following King Lear & King John |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | CONGRESS: On Nov. 23, 1973 Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first member of Congress to do this while in office give birth |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | POLITICIANS: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor Sam Rayburn |
| #2585, aired 1995-11-24 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th c. who never had a house of Congress controlled by his party (1 of) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George Bush |
| #2575, aired 1995-11-10 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: James B. Stockdale was his vice-presidential running mate Ross Perot |
| #2563, aired 1995-10-25 | NATIVE AMERICANS: Indian tribes own more acreage in this state than in any other Arizona |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | FAMOUS NOVELS: The first of the 7 commandments in this 1945 novel is "Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy" Animal Farm |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | PRIMATES: A type of macaque, it's the only primate, other than man, found in Europe The Gibraltar Ape |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | SPORTS: There are more patents issued in relation to this sport than any other golf |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | NATURALISTS: Before his death in 1914 he studied forests in Russia, India & Australia, as well as the U.S. John Muir |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Other than in Germany, the U.S. has more military personnel stationed in this foreign country than in any other Japan |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | NOTORIOUS: Oscar Collazo, serving a life sentence for his assassination attempt on this president, was released in 1979 Harry Truman |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | THE SUPER BOWL: With 7 appearances, this team has played in more Super Bowls than any other the Dallas Cowboys |
| #2452, aired 1995-04-11 | WORLD CITIES: It's the capital of South Africa located in the geographic center of the country Bloemfontein |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | SCIENTISTS: In 1928 he published "Introduzione alla fisical atomica", a university physics textbook Enrico Fermi |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | MYSTERY FICTION: The title character in this 1932 detective story is a missing inventor, not the detective looking for him The Thin Man |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | THE 1980s: In 1989 a statue called "Goddess of Democracy" was erected in this square Tiananmen Square |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | BODIES OF WATER: When Jim Bridger discovered this body of water in 1824, he mistook it for an arm of the Pacific the Great Salt Lake |
| #2398, aired 1995-01-25 | AUTHORS: Once rejected as too far-fetched, his 1863 novel "Paris in the 20th Century" was published for the 1st time in 1994 Jules Verne |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | ETYMOLOGY: Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine a computer |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | FAMOUS SHIPS: It left Spithead, England December 23, 1787 & arrived in Tahiti October 26, 1788 the Bounty |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | VICE PRESIDENTS: This Republican was the first V.P. to succeed to the presidency and then win the office by election Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: In 1993 this American company received more U.S. patents than any other in the world IBM |
| #2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: With 5, she's won more Olympic gold medals than any other U.S. female athlete Bonnie Blair |
| #2305, aired 1994-09-16 | BODIES OF WATER: In the time of the Roman Republic, this river separated Cisalpine Gaul from Italy the Rubicon |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | LANDMARKS: This barrier is situated in the British Isles about 100 miles south of the Antonine Wall Hadrian's Wall |
| #2288, aired 1994-07-13 | SENATORS: As a child in 1938, this current senator cut the ribbon opening London's Children's Zoo (Edward) Ted Kennedy |
| #2279, aired 1994-06-30 | IN THE NEWS: In 1994 the Navy named a new class of cargo ships after this entertainer Bob Hope |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1921 he was appointed an advisor on Arab affairs to then British colonial minister Winston Churchill T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN: The name of this woman in mythology is Greek for "weaver" or "bobbin worker" Penelope |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In the line of succession to the British throne, she's Number 5, the female highest on the list Beatrice |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: This university was founded in 1870 at the urging of Rutherford B. Hayes Ohio State University |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: This company was founded in the 1930s to produce anti-glare products such as sunglasses Polaroid |
| #2215, aired 1994-04-01 | BUSINESS LEADERS: In 1986 he published his autobiography, "Pizza Tiger" Tom Monaghan |
| #2204, aired 1994-03-17 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: In November 1993 Disney announced plans to build a Disney's America Theme Park in this U.S. state Virginia |
| #2197, aired 1994-03-08 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: In 1993 she became the first American woman since Pearl Buck to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison |
| #2177, aired 1994-02-08 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1895 he founded the Wyoming town now considered the eastern entrance to Yellowstone Buffalo Bill Cody |
| #2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HISTORIC NAMES: The town in which he was born in 1870 was later renamed Ulyanovsk Vladimir Lenin |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | FAMOUS NAMES: This English innkeeper kept 40 horses ready for customers but gave them no choice in the one they got Hobson |
| #2139, aired 1993-12-16 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: She was Time magazine's Woman of the Year for 1953 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #2136, aired 1993-12-13 | TOYS & GAMES: This toy company with a theme park in Billund, Denmark plans to open parks near London & in the U.S. LEGO |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: 1 of 3 women who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1980s (1 of) Beth Henley (for Crimes of the Heart), Marsha Norman (for 'night, Mother) & Wendy Wasserstein (for The Heidi Chronicles) |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | THE CABINET: In the 1970s he held more Cabinet posts than anyone in U.S. history—4, including Attorney General Elliot Richardson |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | FAMOUS HOMES: The ticket office at this presidential home hands out dozens of $2 bills as change every day Monticello |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | TREATIES: These were 2 states involved in the 1929 Lateran Treaty Italy & the Vatican |
| #2072, aired 1993-09-14 | SCIENTISTS: In 1955 2 elements were named for these 2 Nobel Prize-winning scientists then recently deceased Albert Einstein & Enrico Fermi |
| #2071, aired 1993-09-13 | LAKES: 2 of this large lake's biggest gulfs are Emin Pasha in the southwest & Speke in the southeast Lake Victoria |
| #2058, aired 1993-07-14 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Based on a ballet, this 1944 musical begins at 6 A.M. in the Brooklyn Navy Yard "On the Town" |
| #2056, aired 1993-07-12 | PHILANTHROPY: At the time of his death in 1937, he had given over $500 million to charity John D. Rockefeller |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | THE 1950s: June 2, 1953 event telecast worldwide & filmed in Technicolor Queen Elizabeth II's coronation |
| #2022, aired 1993-05-25 | IN THE NEWS: In 1992 he opened his own Institute for Architecture near Regent's Park Prince Charles |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | NEWS OF THE '30s: In 1935 Ontario made this group wards of the crown the Dionne quintuplets |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | FAMOUS HOMES: There's a famous home on a piece of land called Walker's Point in this U.S. town Kennebunkport, Maine |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | ISLANDS: These islands about 400 miles from Cape Horn were named for a British treasurer of the Navy the Falklands |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | NEW ENGLAND: In Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall, the state of Vermont is represented by this patriot Ethan Allen |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | ODD JOBS: It was the profession of Lou Jacobs, the model for a 1966 postage stamp, who died in Sarasota in 1992 a clown |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | FAMOUS NAMES: The last of his 56 children, Mabel Sanborn, died in 1950 at age 87 Brigham Young |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | POETRY: William Blake called them "The Two Contrary States of the Human Soul" and wrote songs of them innocence & experience |
| #1847, aired 1992-09-22 | THE SOVIET UNION: After this hero's death in 1968, the town of Gzhatsk was renamed in his honor Yuri Gagarin |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | FILMS OF THE '40s: In the 1940s this star made 8 films with Bing Crosby, more than any other actress Dorothy Lamour |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | COMPOSERS: An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since George Frederick Handel |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | AMERICAN STORIES: Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | THE 1970s: These documents revealed the Truman admin. gave military aid to France in its war against the Viet Minh Pentagon Papers |
| #1771, aired 1992-04-20 | MONARCHS: After more than 40 years in exile, King Michael returned to this country in 1990 only to be expelled again Romania |
| #1751, aired 1992-03-23 | BRITISH RULERS: He was the first Hanoverian monarch born in England; his father was Frederick, Prince of Wales George III |
| #1747, aired 1992-03-17 | NOTORIOUS: No one was ever convicted of the double murder committed in this Massachusetts town on August 4, 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts |
| #1738, aired 1992-03-04 | U.S. STATES: 2 of only 3 U.S. states which have all straight-line boundaries (2 of) Colorado, Utah, & Wyoming |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | SPORTS: In the 1970s & 1980s over half the Little League World Series champions came from this island Taiwan |
| #1729, aired 1992-02-20 | ARTISTS: His 1979-1986 "Retrospectives & Reversals" reversed & juxtaposed images from his earlier work Andy Warhol |
| #1709, aired 1992-01-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In 1901 she published what has become the best-selling children's book of all time Beatrix Potter |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: These 2 brothers-in-law merged their soap- & candle-making businesses in 1837 Procter & Gamble |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the grandson of one president & the son-in-law of another David Eisenhower |
| #1671, aired 1991-12-02 | U.S. STATES: At the time of the first U.S. census, in 1790, this state was the most populous & the largest in area Virginia |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SCIENTISTS: In 1902, at age 23, he was appointed to a position in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland Albert Einstein |
| #1664, aired 1991-11-21 | U.S. CURRENCY: The Treasury prints more bills in these 2 denominations than any other $1 bills & $20 bills |
| #1604, aired 1991-07-18 | TELEVISION: She has won 8 Emmys, more than any other performer, the 1st for Best Female Singer in 1954 Dinah Shore |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | MUSICIANS: This famed musician disappeared on December 16, 1944 & was never found Glenn Miller |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | FAMOUS DANCERS: The only real-life couple Astaire & Rogers played in their 10 films together was this dance team Vernon & Irene Castle |
| #1579, aired 1991-06-13 | TELEVISION: This spin-off from "All in the Family" ran for more episodes than its parent show The Jeffersons |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: More than 100 years after his death, he was reburied with honors at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1913 John Paul Jones |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | WORD ORIGINS: The word "jot" comes from this Greek word, as back then I's & J's were the same iota |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Other than North America, it's the closest continent to South America Antarctica |
| #1546, aired 1991-04-29 | WORLD POPULATION: The World Bank estimates that by the year 2100, this country will have more people than China India |
| #1543, aired 1991-04-24 | ROYALTY: He was sixth in line to the Greek throne when he renounced his claim in 1947 Prince Philip |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS: This woman, elected president of Ireland in 1990, used a 1968 Simon & Garfunkel hit in her campaign Mary Robinson |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Upon his death in 1972, he became the 1st civil servant to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda J. Edgar Hoover |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of 2 men elected president while serving as a U.S. senator Warren G. Harding or John F. Kennedy |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | RIVERS: 1 of the 2 rivers longer than 1200 miles that begin in Canada & flow to the sea through part of the U.S. Yukon River or Columbia River |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | FAMOUS WOMEN: 1 of 2 women who made the Top 10 on Forbes' list of the highest-earning entertainers of 1989-90 (1 of) Madonna & Oprah Winfrey |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | THE 50 STATES: 3 of the 5 states which, along with part of Minnesota, were formed from the Northwest Territory (3 of) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio |
| #1430, aired 1990-11-16 | ISLANDS: It's the only inhabited U.S. territory south of the equator American Samoa |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other Tennessee |
| #1425, aired 1990-11-09 | U.S. POLITICS: This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other Chicago |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: John Adams was the great great grandson of this couple who came to America in 1620 John & Priscilla Alden |
| #1407, aired 1990-10-16 | MOVIE ACTRESSES: She was usually cast in exotic Asian roles before her huge success playing a detective's wife in 1934 Myrna Loy |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: In the 1890s this company introduced the pneumatic tire for cars; in 1948 the steel-belted radial tire Michelin |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | WORLD CITIES: Built between 1666 & 1667, the Castle of Good Hope is the oldest monument in this capital city Cape Town |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | THE BIBLE: "The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life" Samson |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: She wrote several books: the first, titled "20 Hrs. 40 Min.", was published in 1928 Amelia Earhart |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | MINERALS: These 2 nations lead the world in the production of gold South Africa & USSR |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country whose name begins with "A", but doesn't end with "A" Afghanistan |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | WORD ORIGINS: Word derived from the act of breaking up a failed Italian moneylender's market bench bankruptcy |
| #1281, aired 1990-03-12 | THE NOBEL PRIZE: The only peace prize awarded posthumously went to this man in 1961 Dag Hammarskjold (the secretary-general of the UN who was killed in the plane crash in Africa) |
| #1277, aired 1990-03-06 | PRESIDENTS: Black Jack was the riderless horse at the funerals of these 3 presidents JFK, LBJ & Eisenhower |
| #1271, aired 1990-02-26 | U.S. STATES: After Rhode Island & Delaware, it's the next smallest state in area Connecticut |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: Simultaneously on the covers of Time, Newsweek & S.I. in 1973, he was buried in 1989 in a 6' X 6' casket Secretariat |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | POLITICS: He was the last man holding the office of gov. when elected vice president of the U.S. Spiro Agnew (1968) |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was born in Connecticut in 1800 & hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859 John Brown |
| #1240, aired 1990-01-12 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: The Welch's Company has its corporate headquarters in this Mass. town Concord |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | THE OSCARS: Of Cecil B. De Mille's 70 films, only this non-Biblical one won "Best Picture" The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #1224, aired 1989-12-21 | AWARDS: More Congressional Medal of Honor winners have come from this war than any other the Civil War |
| #1218, aired 1989-12-13 | CONGRESS: Beginning with Theodore Sedgwick in 1799, 8 House Speakers have represented this state, more than any other Massachusetts |
| #1217, aired 1989-12-12 | WOMEN: In 1976 she became the 1st woman to serve as Chief of Protocol of the United States Shirley Temple Black |
| #1214, aired 1989-12-07 | THE MOVIES: The only film role Jimmy Cagney played twice; the 2nd time was in "The 7 Little Foys" George M. Cohan |
| #1210, aired 1989-12-01 | LANGUAGES: To have taken the 1st modern IQ test in 1905 you had to understand this language French (the Binet-Simon test) |
| #1206, aired 1989-11-27 | STATE CAPITALS: Genoa, Italy gave this state capital a 20' statue which was put in front of City Hall Columbus, Ohio |
| #1200, aired 1989-11-17 | U.S. HISTORY: The states admitted to the Union in the 20th century were Alaska, Hawaii & these 3 Arizona, New Mexico & Oklahoma |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | FILMS OF THE '50s: The 2 "High" films in which Grace Kelly starred High Noon (1952) & High Society (1955) |
| #1172, aired 1989-10-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: The story of this man who rented a house in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917 was made into a 1938 film Father Flanagan |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled "The Knitting Done" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #1124, aired 1989-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZES: 1 of 2 Black women who won Pulitzer Prizes for their fiction, 1 in 1983 & 1 in 1988 Alice Walker or Toni Morrison |
| #1065, aired 1989-03-31 | PLAYWRIGHTS: The son of an actor, he won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, more than any other playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #1001, aired 1989-01-02 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: "The Revenge of the Hound" was published in 1987 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this hero Sherlock Holmes |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | TELEVISION: It was on for 6 years, giving it the longest run of any animated TV show in prime time The Flintstones |
| #990, aired 1988-12-16 | ADVERTISING: 1 of the top 5 advertisers on network TV sports shows in 1987 was this Cabinet department the Department of Defense |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: By June 30, 1988 every U.S. residence should have received a gov't booklet w/this man's photo on the cover C. Everett Koop |
| #942, aired 1988-10-11 | 1988: In April the late Dr. Paul D. White became familiar to many people who saw his portrait on this A stamp |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | THE MOVIES: Under the system begun in 1968, the MPAA has assigned this rating to more films than any other R |
| #929, aired 1988-09-22 | MAGAZINES: In June 1988 he appeared on the covers of Time, People, Life & Sports Illustrated Mike Tyson |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Inspired by Cornell's new team colors, in 1898 it changed its orange & black labels to red & white Campbell's |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER: This African river carries more water than any in the world except the Amazon the Congo River |
| #879, aired 1988-06-02 | THE UNITED NATIONS: In 1971, it became the only country to be officially expelled from the United Nations Taiwan (also known as Nationalist China) |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: More than half the free world's commercial jetliners have been assembled in this U.S. state Washington |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | TIME: The total number of times in a day the 2 hands of a clock pass the number 1 26 |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | ISLANDS: This island of 5 million has 3 million fewer people now than it had 150 years ago Ireland |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | WORLD TRADE: Of all fresh fruits, the U.S. imports more of this one than any other bananas |
| #813, aired 1988-03-02 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: To serve U.S. tourists, there are 9 American consulates there, more than in any other country Mexico |
| #803, aired 1988-02-17 | WORLD CAPITALS: More European national capitals begin with this letter than any other, 7 in all B |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | POP MUSIC: Solo or in a duet or group, this artist has had more Billboard #1 hits than any other, 29 in all Paul McCartney |
| #789, aired 1988-01-28 | STATE CAPITALS: 1 of 2 letters that begins the names of 6 state capitals, more than any other C or S |
| #780, aired 1988-01-15 | PRESIDENTS: Of the 5 vowels, only these are the 1st letter of a president's last name A & E |
| #778, aired 1988-01-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: As the Constitutional bicentennial reminded us, the Constitution was signed on this date in 1787 September 17th |
| #773, aired 1988-01-06 | ASTRONOMY: Appropriate mythological name given the asteroid in our solar system that passes closest to the Sun Icarus |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: 2 of the 3 19th c. authors on whose stories the last 3 Tony Award winning musicals were based (2 of) Victor Hugo (Les Misérables), Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), & Mark Twain (Big River) |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: The 2 major cities you'd 'fly to, 1 in the USA, 1 in the USSR, to visit landmarks called "The Hermitage" Leningrad & Nashville |
| #768, aired 1987-12-30 | NATIONAL PARKS: In this national park just east of the town of Navajo, taking even a small "wood" chip is illegal Petrified Forest National Park |
| #762, aired 1987-12-22 | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The last time the Republicans had a majority in the House of Representatives was during this decade the 1950s |
| #745, aired 1987-11-27 | CONSTELLATIONS: 1 of the 2 constellations that are mother & daughter in mythology & are adjacent in the sky Cassiopeia & Andromeda |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS: This famed Sauk Indian had both a war and a pro sports team named for him Black Hawk |
| #718, aired 1987-10-21 | ELECTIONS: State that's gone Republican more times than any other in Presidential elections is this 1 in New England Vermont |
| #706, aired 1987-10-05 | ISLANDS: Most populous island in the U.S., it has more people than 41 of the 50 states Long Island |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | HORSES: William Russell bought over 400 horses for this business & branded them "XP" Pony Express |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | PRESIDENTS: President in office the longest under the 50-star U.S. flag Ronald Reagan |
| #676, aired 1987-07-13 | U.S. CITIES: Of the 10 largest cities in population in the U.S., only these 2 are less than 100 miles apart New York City & Philadelphia |
| #672, aired 1987-07-07 | GAMBLING: 3 of the 4 states with the highest lottery sales in dollars in calendar year 1986 (3 of) California, New York, Illinois & Pennsylvania |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | RELIGION: After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Benjamin Weir |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | SPECTATOR SPORTS: In 1951, 1952, 1959, & 1986, this team performed for an audience of 1, the pope the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | CODES OF HONOR: As bushido was to 16th century samurai, this was to 12th century knights chivalry |
| #616, aired 1987-04-20 | 1978: 1978 was 1st time since 1447 that this many men have been pope of the Roman Church in 1 year three |
| #613, aired 1987-04-15 | IN THE NEWS: FDR was named this 3 times, Ike, Truman & Churchill twice; but for 1966 it was the 25 & under generation Time Man of the Year |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | SPORTS: They are the only Major League Baseball team which prints their media guide in 2 languages Montreal Expos |
| #599, aired 1987-03-26 | BOARD GAMES: In Scrabble, the colors of the 2 squares that double & triple the word value pink & red |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | TIME: Only state entirely in the Pacific Time Zone that doesn't border on the Pacific Nevada |
| #572, aired 1987-02-17 | THE MOVIES: He has starred in 5 of the top 10 grossing films of all time Harrison Ford |
| #565, aired 1987-02-06 | LAKES & RIVERS: Alexandria, Herculaneum & Memphis can be found on banks of this 2348-mile-long river Mississippi |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth |
| #506, aired 1986-11-17 | AMERICAN MOUNTAINS: Of the more than 80 U.S. peaks over 14,000' that have names, most are in this state Colorado |
| #497, aired 1986-11-04 | ADVERTISING: In the U.S., more money is spent advertising in this medium than any other newspapers |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | TELEVISION: This mini-series & its sequel featured Ed Asner, Lorne Greene, Henry Fonda & Marlon Brando Roots |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | GAMES: The 4 corners on a Monopoly board are "Go", "Free Parking" & these 2 Jail & Go To Jail |
| #466, aired 1986-09-22 | POP MUSIC: "Singers" named in 1958 after Liberty Records engineer Ted Keep & execs Al Bennett & Simon Waronker the Chipmunks |
| #457, aired 1986-09-09 | U.S. STATES: Despite govt. predictions to the contrary, in 1985 this became the least populated U.S. state Wyoming |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | GAMBLING: Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985 blackjack |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | THE OLYMPICS: The games held in this city were the only ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere Melbourne |
| #393, aired 1986-03-12 | STATE CAPITALS: 2 of 4 state capitals with the word "city" in their name (2 of) Oklahoma City, Carson City, Salt Lake City or Jefferson City |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | AMERICAN STATISTICS: Highest birth rate in the U.S. is in this state, where almost 70% of the population has same religion Utah |
| #383, aired 1986-02-26 | TELEVISION: In fall of 1985, 5 of 8 prime time network series on Mondays had this word in their title and |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | U.S. CURRENCY: Besides "In God We Trust", the other word found on the face of all current U.S. coins Liberty |
| #358, aired 1986-01-22 | SPORTS: Only U.S. Major League Baseball team in which both city & team names are in a foreign language San Diego Padres |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | WEATHER: All states have recorded temperatures below zero (F.), except this one Hawaii |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | ELECTIONS: 2 of 6 states that cast only 3 electoral votes for president in 1984 (2 of) Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, and Delaware |
| #336, aired 1985-12-23 | THE FLAG: Per U.S. flag code, only place in U.S. where another flag may be legally flown higher than ours The United Nations |
| #314, aired 1985-11-21 | THE SUPREME COURT: This president appointed more Supreme Court justices than any other George Washington |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | THE OSCARS: In 1937 & '38, he became only man to win Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years Spencer Tracy |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | AGRICULTURE: Though a leader in wheat production, this country also imports more wheat than any other the USSR |
| #273, aired 1985-09-25 | IN THE NEWS: A mid-August 1980 strike in the Lenin Shipyard led to the formation of this now famous group Solidarity |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: Among the women prominent in this sport are Rachel McLish, Lori Bowen, & Cory Everson bodybuilding |
| #168, aired 1985-05-01 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This U.S. president made the cover of "Time" magazine 64 times, almost twice as much as anyone else Richard Nixon |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | FAIRY TALES: Worldwide, this fairy tale has been subject of 58 films, more than any other story Cinderella |
| #163, aired 1985-04-24 | ROYALTY: Queen Elizabeth II's father, he became this king when his brother abdicated the throne George VI |
| #143, aired 1985-03-27 | RIVERS: Second longest river in Europe, it flows through or borders eight countries, more than any other the Danube |
| #123, aired 1985-02-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: In less than 40 years, Karachi, Rawalpindi & Islamabad have all been its capital Pakistan |
| #122, aired 1985-02-26 | 20th CENTURY: In 1927, he was named "Time" magazine's first "Man of the Year" (Charles) Lindbergh |
| #63, aired 1984-12-05 | SHOW BUSINESS: Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character Sherlock Holmes |
| #62, aired 1984-12-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| #51, aired 1984-11-19 | SPORTS: Either of 2 current pro baseball team names that don't end in "S" (1 of) Chicago White Sox & Boston Red Sox |
| #45, aired 1984-11-09 | ROYALTY: This king became the Duke of Windsor after he abdicated Edward VIII |
| #37, aired 1984-10-30 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Members of this acting family starred in "Grand Hotel", the Dr. Kildare films & "E.T." the Barrymores |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus |
| #23, aired 1984-10-10 | DANCE: Introduced in 1650 at court of Louis XIV, it’s a slow, dignified dance done in 3/4 time the minuet |
| #18, aired 1984-10-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: In the 1860 election for his 1st term, more Americans voted against him than for him Abraham Lincoln |
| #12, aired 1984-09-25 | RIVERS: It carries more water than the longest rivers in Asia, Africa & No. America combined the Amazon |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | THE CALENDAR: Calendar date with which the 20th century began January 1, 1901 |
| #1, aired 1983-09-18 | U.S. LANDMARKS: This state boasts Mt. Rushmore South Dakota |
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Tomio Nishimura, a major in the United States Air Force from Highland, California
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Season 2 player (1986-05-06).
Tomio appeared on the show in uniform.
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
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"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
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\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
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"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
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"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
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Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
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"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
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"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Gabriela Gonzales, a senior from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
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Ben Bishop, a college student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
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"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
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Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
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"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
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Heidi Liu, a senior from Plymouth, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
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"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
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Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
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Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
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"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
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Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
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"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
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Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
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2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Scott Weiss, a computer science professor from Walkersville, Maryland
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Season 23 3-time champion: $61,001 + $2,000. Through a generous wager,...
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Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
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"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
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Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
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"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
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Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
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"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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John Shoe, a third and fourth grade teacher from Lakewood, Colorado
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"He teaches at a school for gifted children who choose their...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
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"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
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Ted Dudley, an airline pilot from Colchester, Vermont
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Season 23 1-time champion: $28,900 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Winddummy
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Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts
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"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
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Jared Hall, a graduate student in global policy studies from Austin, Texas
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2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29/30 6-time champion: $181,001...
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Ethan Brosowsky, an actor from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 1-time champion: $21,600 + $2,000. Ethan and his "pub...
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Emily Cloyd, a climate scientist originally from Troy, Michigan
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Season 26 player (2010-03-30). As detailed in a 2012-06-29 article in...
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Tanya Palmer, a media buyer from Kansas City
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Season 5 1-time champion: $10,199. No state was given in Tanya's...
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Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
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"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998 + $2,000.
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Victoria Groce, a musician originally from Decatur, Georgia
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament winner: $100,000 + advance to Jeopardy! Masters....
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Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
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Holly Owens, a student originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
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Kathy Lisiewicz, a project coordinator from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $16,200 + $1,000. Wife of Season 23...
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Katie Fitzgerald, a wealth management project analyst originally from New Rochelle, New York
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Season 21 2-time champion: $30,201 + $2,000.
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Holly Owens, a physician originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 23 2-time champion: $31,902 + $1,000. Season 22 player (2006-04-17)....
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Rosemary Travis, a retired patient advocate from Palm Coast, Florida
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Season 23 player (2007-06-28). Rosemary was also a 5-time champion on...
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Anders Martinson, a quality assurance engineer from Union City, California
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Season 23 1-time champion: $16,000 + $1,000.
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Kevin Finn, a university lecturer from Miami, Florida
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Season 25 player (2008-10-15). As an accommodation for a disability, Kevin...
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Padraic Scanlan, a Ph.D. student in history originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Season 29 1-time champion: $11,400 + $1,000.
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Lynn Hammerlund, a college librarian from Lake in the Hills, Illinois
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Season 28 1-time champion: $22,500 + $1,000.
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Dan Tran, a Ph.D. student in physics originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 31 1-time co-champion: $5,600 + $2,000.
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DJ Schepker, a Ph.D. student in business from Lenexa, Kansas
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Season 27 player (2010-09-23).
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Jen Maloney, an in-house security and web designer from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2007-10-02).
Husband's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: mefailenglish
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Lisa Peabody, a coffee shop manager and trainer from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 22 player (2006-01-20). In her contestant interview, Lisa said that...
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Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Tina Baybay-Bykov, an AP world history teacher from Orlando, Florida
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"Ballet used to keep her on her toes. Now it's her...
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Michael Gurshtein, a thin films engineer from Thornton, Colorado
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Season 28 1-time champion: $25,000 + $2,000. Michael pronounced his last...
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Tenaya Snider, a 10th grade English teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Jack Feerick, a freelance writer from Churchville, New York
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Season 25 3-time champion: $108,200 + $2,000.
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
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2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Sean Hansen, an assistant professor of management information systems originally from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 28 1-time champion: $30,001 + $1,000.
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Lucas Peterson, an actor originally from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 29 2-time champion: $33,900 + $1,000.
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Patrick Antle, a graduate student in chemistry from Billerica, Massachusetts
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Season 28 1-time champion: $22,800 + $1,000.
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Damian Yu, an executive compensation consultant originally from West Vancouver, Canada
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
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Aaron Cappocchi, a writer from Burbank, California
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Season 28 2-time champion: $56,101 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Amanda Wallwin, a creative project manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $19,000 + $1,000.
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Parker East, a performance artist from Tallahassee, Florida
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Season 29 1-time co-champion: $6,799 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: peast
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Jean Whitcomb, a teller supervisor from Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Season 24 1-time champion: $21,201 + $1,000.
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Sarah Fremgen, a microbiologist from Carrollton, Texas
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Season 30 2-time champion: $52,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced with a hard "G".
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Wayne Cherry, a graduate student from Houston, Texas
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Season 23 2-time champion: $41,801 + $2,000.
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Cindi Winstead, a homemaker and student from Villa Rica, Georgia
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Season 23 1-time champion: $14,999 + $1,000.
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Christian Haines, a Congressional special assistant from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jenica Jessen, a student and writer from Riverton, Utah
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Season 31 1-time co-champion: $19,200 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: JJessen
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Clark Floyd, an accountant from Savannah, Georgia
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Season 22 2-time champion: $36,400 + $2,000.
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Peter Rubin, a journalist from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 22 2-time champion: $27,400 + $2,000.
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Michael Cramer, a graduate student from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Season 22 1-time champion: $22,600 + $1,000.
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LeeAundra Temescu, a communications coach originally from Troy, Michigan
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Web site at thecontrarypublicspeaker.com.
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Chad Morgan, an engineer from Edwards, California
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Season 21 1-time champion: $13,999 + $1,000.
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Jeff Pandin, a history teacher from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 22 1-time champion: $18,000 + $2,000.
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Jarret Izzo, a musician from East Amherst, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $20,401 + $2,000.
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Ben Kesling, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 21 2-time champion: $24,600 + $1,000. According to the official...
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Sarah Johnson, a law clerk originally from Newport News, Virginia
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Season 21 1-time champion: $8,801 + $1,000.
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Clinton Reese, a student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 20 1-time champion: $39,000 + $2,000. Clinton's hometown was listed...
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Troy Senik, a newspaper columnist from Westlake Village, California
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Season 30 1-time champion: $28,700 + $2,000.
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Jen Noon, an editor from Woburn, Massachusetts
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Season 21 1-time champion: $19,103 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BostonJen73
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Elizabeth Williams, a business research librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 1-time champion: $12,800 + $1,000.
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Dennis Grace, an engineer from West Bloomfield, Michigan
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Season 21 1-time champion: $25,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: PanicInDetroit
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Pete DeBalli, an anesthesiologist from Titusville, Florida
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Season 21 1-time champion: $16,200 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: PDB3
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Brad Rodriguez, an assistant general manager of a minor league baseball team from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 27 player (2010-10-08).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: J!FAIL
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Dan Katz, an assistant professor of mathematics from Greensboro, North Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-06-09). Not to be confused with Season 6...
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Tom LaPorta, a web designer from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 26 3-time champion: $50,501 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: fattom23
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David Seminer, a neurologist from Sacramento, California
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Season 20 2-time champion: $52,601 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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Randall Johnson, an enologist from Seattle, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $18,400 + $1,000.
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Ian Silverman, a high school social studies teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 26 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000.
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Geoff Moore, a screenwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $55,201 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: GHMoore
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Keith Costigan, a teacher from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 1-time champion: $14,800 + $2,000.
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Todd Butler, a fourth grade teacher from Mansfield, Texas
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Season 24 2-time champion: $30,999 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: QuitoFan
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Tayonna Jones, a 12-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"She hopes to have her law degree by her 18th birthday...
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Linda Zell Randall, an attorney from Naples, Florida
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Season 24 1-time champion: $20,400 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: LZRandall
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Kevin Martin, an emergency room physician from Bowling Green, Ohio
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Season 24 1-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000.
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Kirk Jordan, a third grade teacher from Long Beach, California
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Season 24 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Brandi Chastain, a professional soccer player from the U.S. Olympic Women's Soccer Team
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"She scored the memorable winning goal for the U.S. women's soccer...
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Martin Budak, a project manager from Portland, Oregon
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Season 23 2-time champion: $44,802 + $1,000.
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Shawna Brandle, a Ph.D. candidate from Rockville Centre, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,600 + $1,000.
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Eileen Loechel, an operations manager from River Forest, Illinois
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Season 23 1-time champion: $19,800 + $2,000.
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Bonnie Clair, an attorney from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 22 2-time champion: $27,551 + $1,000.
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Elizabeth McKenna, a graduate student and cancer researcher originally from Queens, New York
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Season 24 1-time champion: $5,399 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Hicepan
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Elizabeth Randisi, an attorney from Webster, New York
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Season 22 1-time champion: $6,900 + $2,000.
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Bruce Brown, a substitute teacher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 22 1-time champion: $28,906 + $1,000.
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Lisa Voss, a library assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska
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Season 21 1-time champion: $14,000 + $2,000.
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Tim Abou-Sayed, a plastic surgeon from Manalapan, Florida
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Season 23 3-time champion: $49,402 + $1,000.
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Matt Caporaletti, an advertising account supervisor from Westwood, New Jersey
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Season 24 1-time champion: $2,900 + $1,000.
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Tawney Pearson, a teacher originally from Peoria, Illinois
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Season 22 player (2006-02-02).
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Marcus Jackson, a software engineer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 22 1-time champion: $13,999 + $1,000. Not to be confused...
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Craig Mobley, a switchboard manager from Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Season 22 2-time champion: $16,199 + $1,000.
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Ruth Dammel, a customer service supervisor from Perry, Iowa
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Season 23 1-time champion: $28,200 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: raliced
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
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\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
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\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Christie Whitman, a former governor from New Jersey
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"She was New Jersey's first woman governor, and later became administrator...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
|
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
|
"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
|
|
Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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|
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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|
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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|
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
|
|
Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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|
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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|
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
|
"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
|
|
Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
|
"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
|
|
David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
|
"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
|
|
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
|
"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
|
|
Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
|
|
Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
|
|
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
|
|
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
|
|
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
|
"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
|
|
Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
|
"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
|
|
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
|
|
Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
|
|
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|
"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
|
|
Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
|
"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
|
|
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
|
|
Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
|
|
Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
|
|
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
|
|
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
|
"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
|
|
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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|
Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
|
"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
|
|
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
|
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
|
"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
|
|
Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
|
|
Jamie Weiss, a law student from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He won the 1990 Teen Tournament. Today he's a law student....
|
|
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
|
|
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
|
|
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
|
|
Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
|
|
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
|
|
Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
|
2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
|
|
Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
|
|
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
|
\"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
|
|
Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "BOTS". Jeopardy!...
|
|
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
|
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
|
|
Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
|
2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
|
|
Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
|
"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
|
|
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
|
|
Melissa Luttmann, a freshman from Memphis, Tennessee
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
|
|
Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
|
|
Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
|
"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
|
|
April McManus, a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England
|
"A high school senior from Minnesota when she won the 1992...
|
|
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
|
David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
|
"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
|
|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
|
|
Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
|
|
Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
|
|
Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
|
"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
|
|
Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
|
|
Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
|
|
Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
|
"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
|
|
Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
|
|
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
|
"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
|
|
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
|
|
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
|
|
Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
|
"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
|
|
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
|
"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
|
|
Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
|
|
Andrew Van Duyn, a junior from Wheaton, Illinois
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
|
|
Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
|
"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
|
|
Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
|
"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
|
|
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
|
"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
|
|
Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
|
"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
|
|
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
|
|
Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
|
"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
|
|
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
|
|
Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
|
"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
|
|
Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
|
|
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
|
|
Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
|
|
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
|
|
Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
|
|
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
|
|
Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
|
|
Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
|
|
Craig Boge, a senior from Stanford University
|
2007 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. 21 at the time of...
|
|
Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
|
|
Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
|
|
Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
|
|
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
|
2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
|
|
Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
|
"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
|
|
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
|
|
Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
|
"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
|
|
Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
|
"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
|
|
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
|
|
Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
|
\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
|
|
Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
|
|
Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
|
\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
|
|
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
|
2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
|
|
Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
|
|
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
|
|
Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
|
2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
|
|
Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
|
|
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
|
|
Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
|
"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
|
|
Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
|
"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
|
|
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
|
|
Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
|
|
Gabriel Johnson, a senior from Teaneck, New Jersey
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
|
|
Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
|
"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
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2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
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"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
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"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
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"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
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"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Michael Braun, a high school junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
"He is the 2005 Teen Tournament champion. A high school junior...
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Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Russell Berris, a junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
|
"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
|
"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
|
"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
|
\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
|
"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant originally from Wichita, Kansas
|
"With her 5-time winnings from 2000, she traveled for a year,...
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Tom Nosek, an aerospace engineer from Torrance, California
|
"He won the 1993 Tournament of Champions and finished second in...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Anna Han, a sophomore from Penn State University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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Reggie Jackson, a former pro baseball player originally from Wyncote, Pennsylvania
|
"Twice a World Series MVP, his powerhouse hitting earned him the...
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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
|
"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
|
"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
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Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
|
2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Nicole Reimer, a junior from Columbus, Ohio
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
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Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
|
2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
|
"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Matt Zielenski, a research analyst originally from Broadview Heights, Ohio
|
"He became the Teen Tournament champ in 1995. Today he's a...
|
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Kurt Bray, a scientist from Oceanside, California
|
"A 5-time winner in 1994, he used some of his winnings...
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Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
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Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
|
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Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
|
"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
|
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Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
"A winner of 5 games in 1988, she has since become...
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|
Frank Amanat, an attorney from South Orange, New Jersey
|
Season 20 3-time champion: $55,900 + $1,000. Season 20 player (2003-11-03)....
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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
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|
Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
|
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
|
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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|
Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
|
2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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|
Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
|
|
Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
|
|
Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
|
|
Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
|
|
Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
|
|
Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
|
|
Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
|
|
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
|
"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
|
|
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
|
"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
|
|
Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California
|
2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Martina Navratilova, a former tennis pro and novelist originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia
|
"With 9, she's won more singles titles at Wimbledon than any...
|
|
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
|
|
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Frank Dillon, a part-time high school sports writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio
|
1987 Senior Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Frank won $1,000 on Jeopardy! on...
|
|
Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
|
|
Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
|
|
Marie McGraw, a senior at MIT from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
|
|
Brendan Graham, a soldier and a physician from San Antonio, Texas
|
Season 28 2-time champion: $46,602 + $1,000. Brendan appeared in uniform....
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Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois
|
2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
|
|
Brandon Welch, a senior from Grayson, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Caroline Jones, a senior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Myles Jeffrey, a senior from Seal Beach, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Becky Kralle, a senior from Runnemede, New Jersey
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
|
|
Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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|
Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
|
2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
|
|
Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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|
Røb Severson, a custodial facilitator from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 26 player (2009-11-17). Name pronounced like "ROB SEE-ver-sun". Røb wore...
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|
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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|
Christopher Chilton, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Holly Springs, North Carolina
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Christopher won $5,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
|
|
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
|
"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
|
|
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
|
|
Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
|
|
Aidan Mehigan, a sophomore from McLean, Virginia
|
2009 Teen Tournament second runner-up: $15,000. Name pronounced like "AY-den MEE-gan"....
|
|
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
|
|
Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
|
"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
|
|
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
|
|
Carolyn Cracraft, a grad student at the University of California-Berkeley from Berkeley, California
|
"She was a junior at the University of Chicago when she...
|
|
Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
|
|
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
|
|
Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
|
|
Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
|
|
Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
|
|
Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
|
"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
|
|
Haritha Sudanagunta, a junior from University of California-San Diego
|
2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
|
|
Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
|
|
Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
|
"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
|
|
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Lara Robillard, a policy analyst from Arlington, Virginia
|
"She used the winnings from her 5 shows in 1998 to...
|
|
David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
|
"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
|
|
Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Catherine Ramen, a database developer and writer from New York, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
|
|
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
|
2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
|
|
Charlie Rooney, a sophomore at Loyola University Chicago from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
|
|
Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona
|
2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
|
|
David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
|
|
Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
|
|
Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas
|
"He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
|
|
Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
|
|
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
|
"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
|
|
Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
|
|
Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
|
|
Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
|
"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
|
|
Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
|
|
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Bonnie Cao, a senior from Arcadia, California
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
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2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
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Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
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"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
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"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
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2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
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2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2022 Second Chance competition winner:...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
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"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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Isaac Patterson, a grocer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 28 player (2011-12-22).
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Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia
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"In the banking world, she checked credit scores. She's much happier...
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
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"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Drew Scheeler, a senior from Sandusky, Ohio
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Drew won $25,000 on Who Wants...
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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Tyler Vandenberg, a Marine officer currently serving in Stuttgart, Germany
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2023 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 37 2-time champion: $41,400...
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
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\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
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2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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John Anneken, a postdoctoral researcher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 29 3-time champion: $60,112 + $1,000. John appeared on The...
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
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"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press
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"The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
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Zia Choudhury, a senior from Paducah, Kentucky
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2008-A Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $18,000. 17 at the time of...
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Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
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Julia Collins, a 20-time Jeopardy! champion from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Ben Kroll, a Spanish teacher from Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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Season 23 player (2007-01-29). Ben's blog. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Sioux Stoeckle, an English professor from Blythe, California
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Season 22 player (2006-06-20).
Name pronounced like "SOO STO-kul".
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Amanda Trujillo, a junior from Carson, California
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Farah Zolghadr, a sophomore from Springfield, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
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Lynne Wexler, a librarian from Evanston, Illinois
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"She was the first 5-time champion in 1991. A librarian from...
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
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"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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Julie Meister, a mom from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 21 player (2005-06-02).
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Jerry Harvey, a freelance educator originally from California, Missouri
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Season 20 2-time champion: $70,002 + $1,000. KJL game 1. While...
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Lindsay Oxx, a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
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John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
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"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
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Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Kendra Chapman, a sophomore from Louisville, Kentucky
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
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"He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Brian Robin, a public relations executive from Lancaster, California
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Season 23 1-time champion: $8,599 + $2,000. Brian won $5,000 on...
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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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Jamie Weiss, a high school senior and winner of last year's Teen Tournament from Fairfax, Virginia
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"A high school senior and winner of last year's teen tournament,...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
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"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Rebecca Neese, a school office clerk from Rosemead, California
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Season 29 player (2012-12-07).
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
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"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Josh Danson, a marketing communications consultant from San Francisco, California
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Season 22 player (2005-11-30).
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William Lee, a software engineer from South San Francisco, California
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Season 22 2-time champion: $62,500 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
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"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
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"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
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Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
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"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Lionel Goldbart, a part-time newsstand clerk from Miami Beach, Florida
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1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000....
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Andrew Schwartz, an independent filmmaker from Miami, Florida
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Season 25 2-time champion: $31,988 + $1,000. Andrew played all of...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
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"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
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David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan
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Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
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Kristin Donegan, a senior at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Kristin was majoring in biological...
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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Emmey Harris, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
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2022 National College Championship semifinalist: $20,000. Emmey was majoring in history....
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Gus Guszkowski, a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
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2022 National College Championship quarterfinalist: $10,000. Gus was majoring in classics....
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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A.K. Subramanian, a high school history teacher from Villa Park, California
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Season 22 player (2006-07-04). A.K. also appeared on Weakest Link on...
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John Campbell, a romance novelist from Weymouth, Massachusetts
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Season 31 2-time champion: $35,400 + $2,000. John (middle initial P.)...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer consulting in renewable energy from Chatham, New Jersey
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"He is a chemical engineer who won the 2010 Tournament of...
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Steve Friedman, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 22 player (2006-05-31).
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Jamie Ball, an attorney from North Hills, California
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Season 21 player (2005-07-07).
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Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
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"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Maura Gatowski, a technology manager from Beverly Hills, Michigan
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Season 21 1-time champion: $6,200 + $2,000.
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Nathan Brownback, a research assistant from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-12-01).
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Cynthia Reedy, a science and French teacher from Norway, Maine
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Season 25 player (2009-05-19).
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James Rogers, a musician and computer programmer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 20 player (2004-04-22).
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Susan Durham, a gift shop manager from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 20 player (2004-04-22).
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Baltazar Pinedo, a bilingual language development specialist from Modesto, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $26,200 + $1,000.
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Cobra Becerra, a professor of landscape architecture from Whittier, California
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Season 23 player (2006-11-03).
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Janice Dooner Lynch, a homemaker from New York, New York
|
Season 20 1-time co-champion: $27,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: yankeefanjan
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Bruce Lin, a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 3-time champion: $54,599 + $2,000. On his first appearance,...
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Reda Chambers, a substitute teacher from Chandler, Arizona
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Season 22 player (2006-07-28).
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Steve Kaltenbaugh, a sailor originally from Columbia, Maryland
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Season 22 player (2005-09-19). Steve split $35,000 with Season 27 5-time...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
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"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
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"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington
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"Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
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Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
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Elisabeth Raab, a high school English teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"She teaches at a High School of the Future, where all...
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Suzanne Rorick, a stay-at-home mom from Stevenson Ranch, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,900 + $2,000.
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Monica Thieu, a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York
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• 2012 College Championship winner • 2013 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist...
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Chris O'Toole, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 29 player (2012-12-03). Identical twin sister of Season 27 1-time...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Robin Parry, a federal attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 23 1-time champion: $24,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: periwinkle
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Colleen Mahoney, a sophomore from East Hampton, Connecticut
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2001 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 15 at the time of...
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Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
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Seveen Kannankara, a junior from Bergenfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Seveen was 15 at the time...
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Misti Coronel, a senior from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
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2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
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Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California
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2019 All-Star Games captain of wildcard-match 3rd-place Team Buzzy: a share...
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
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"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Amanda Baber, a project assistant originally from Edmond, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $25,100 + $1,000. Amanda lived in Los...
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Shuyu Wang, a junior from Okemos, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Susan Bellenot, a senior from Lakeview Terrace, California
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
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Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Wilson York, a graduate student of history from Atlanta, Georgia
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Season 24 player (2007-09-12).
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Larry Cloud, a computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Matt Jackson, a grad student in computer science and public policy originally from Washington, D.C.
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Sarah Olson, a project coordinator from El Cerrito, California
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Season 30 2-time champion: $27,401 + $1,000.
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Liese Tamburrino, an international sales manager from Pahrump, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-07-21).
KJL game 36.
First name pronounced like "LEE-suh".
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Laura Amundson, a former criminal defense attorney from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 29 1-time champion: $20,395 + $2,000.
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Jillian Rebmann, a librarian from Peoria, Illinois
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Season 25 player (2008-11-25). Jillian is the mayor of a town...
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William Castañeda, a human resources professional from San Francisco, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $9,400 + $1,000.
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Joanna Mang, a nanny from San Diego, California
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Season 29 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: waterytart
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Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia
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2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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David Schuman, a communications and economics student originally from Ardsley, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $4,300 + $1,000.
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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Christian Ie, a senior from Renton, Washington
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "EE".
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Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia
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"She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
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Dane Petersen, a public relations and marketing manager from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-06-04).
KJL game 3.
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Lisa Kushida, an attorney originally from Duncanville, Texas
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Season 22 player (2006-06-13).
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Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
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Andrew Pau, an assistant professor from Amherst, Ohio
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2017 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 32 6-time champion: $170,202...
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Julie Reynolds, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 22 player (2005-12-26). Not to be confused with Season 29...
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Jim O'Malley, a retired police sergeant from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-07-07).
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Elliot Yates, an opera producer from New York, New York
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 4-time champion: $65,000...
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Michael Block, a student and winner of the 1988 Teen Tournament from Staten Island, New York
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1988 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. 1988 Teen Tournament winner: $25,000....
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Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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John Murray, an aspiring playwright from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Season 21 player (2004-11-05).
KJL game 67.
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Marcy Palino, a registered nurse from Shepherdstown, West Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-10-12). KJL game 55. Web site at http://www.snarky.org....
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Nancy Floyd, a statistician from Lexington, South Carolina
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Season 20 player (2004-04-29).
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Jack McPherson, a bookseller from Mount Ida, Arkansas
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Season 25 2-time champion: $31,200 + $1,000.
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Genevieve Sheehan, a private equity professional from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2009-10-08). First name pronounced like "JEN-uh-veev". Genevieve won...
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Lance Higgins, a data quality consultant from Medway, Massachusetts
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Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
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Lynn Stanton, a reporter and editor from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Season 20 player (2004-04-12).
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jeff Greenfield, a journalist from Newsstand: CNN & Time
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"He's CNN's senior analyst and the co-anchor of the weekly magazine...
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Andy Wyke, a dog walker originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 24 player (2007-11-23).
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Peter Pinnow, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $39,200 + $1,000.
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William Lee, a software engineer originally from Vero Beach, Florida
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Season 23 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Not to be confused...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Jackie Harrison, a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $66,602 + $2,000.
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John Lisiewicz, an assistant manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-05-18). Husband of Season 22 1-time champion Kathy...
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Leslie Rochlen, a professional organizer from Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Season 24 1-time champion: $29,750 + $1,000.
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Alison Beightol, a labor and delivery registered nurse from Lake City, Florida
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Season 22 player (2005-09-29).
Last name pronounced like "BECK-tall".
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Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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Joanne Platt, a waitress from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 24 2-time champion: $6,999 + $1,000. Won $16,000 on Who...
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Joann Chan, a senior from Richmond, Virginia
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1991 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Player on high school team in...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
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"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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Oscar Avila, a writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 21 player (2005-07-20).
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Jen Aprahamian, a computer science teacher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 30 player (2014-01-17). Jen appeared on The Chase on 2021-02-11...
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Emily Goodlander, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2014-01-15).
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Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science from Los Angeles, California
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
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Jerry Slowik, a writer from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 30 5-time champion: $121,800 + $1,000. No returning champion Hometown...
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Anthony Niblett, a law professor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 30 1-time champion: $19,601 + $2,000.
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Varun Shekhar, a graduate student in engineering and law from Northville, Michigan
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Season 30 2-time champion: $18,600 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: vs1
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Lloyd Sy, a graduate student in literature originally from Rockford, Illinois
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2024 Champions Wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 39 2-time champion: $53,578 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like \"SEE\".
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Kate Jovin, a social worker from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 34 1-time champion: $28,799 + $1,000.
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Kate Kwiatkowski, a psychiatrist from Champaign, Illinois
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Season 30 player (2013-10-10).
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Rohit Dewan, a financial analyst originally from Federal Way, Washington
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Season 30 player (2013-10-03).
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Jen Yoak, a latent print examiner from Centerville, Ohio
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Season 30 player (2013-09-17).
Last name pronounced like "YOHK".
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Peter Guekguezian, a Ph.D. student in linguistics from Fresno, California
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Season 33 3-time champion: $44,800 + $2,000.
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Chris Fleitas, a high school college prep counselor from San Francisco, California
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Season 28 2-time champion: $82,901 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "FLEE-tas".
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Meredith Robbins, a library media specialist from New York, New York
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Season 25 4-time champion: $48,700 + $2,000. Meredith was the alternate...
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Bing Huo, a mechanical engineer from Sunnyvale, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $15,801 + $2,000.
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Todd Covert, a bookkeeper from Valley Glen, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $58,402 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tcovert
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Christina Rodriguez, a claims processor from Carterville, Illinois
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Season 29 player (2013-04-24).
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Hans Reodica, a CPA from Navarre, Florida
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Season 29 player (2013-02-27).
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Sara Garnett, a graduate student of zoology originally from Okemos, Michigan
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Season 29 3-time champion: $75,403 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: ComingUpMilhouse
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Ian Pickus, a public radio producer from Rensselaer, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-04-29). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Picked Off...
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Sarah Curtis, a mechanical and electrical drafter from Oceanside, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $14,000 + $1,000.
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Beth Watkins, a graduate student of medieval studies from Savannah, Georgia
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Season 28 1-time champion: $37,200 + $1,000.
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Karen Gasperino, an administrative assistant from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-06-15).
KJL game 10.
First name pronounced like \"KAHR-en\".
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Ryan Fox, a graduate student in mathematics education from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,800 + $2,000.
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Glenn Fleishman, a technology journalist from Seattle, Washington
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Season 29 2-time champion: $28,398 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: glennfleishman
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Dennis Wright, a welder from Council Grove, Kansas
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Season 28 1-time champion: $25,200 + $1,000.
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Lisa Byatt, a technical writer from Amherst, New Hampshire
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Season 29 1-time champion: $26,800 + $1,000.
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Stu Weaver, a singer/songwriter from St. Augustine, Florida
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Season 28 player (2012-06-14).
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Diane Mezzanotte, an analyst for the federal government from Laurel, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-04-11).
Last name pronounced like "mez-zan-NOT-tee".
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Greg Lyon, a project manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2010-06-03). Partner of Season 29 player Patrick Mooney....
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Erik Dresner, an Internet marketer from Elmhurst, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $22,401 + $1,000. Erik appeared on Master...
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Laura Wallace, a remittance processing clerk from Portland, Oregon
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Season 25 player (2008-10-06).
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Jessamine Price, a graduate student in creative writing from Greenbelt, Maryland
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Season 28 3-time champion: $26,803 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "JESS-min".
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Adam Holquist, an environmental engineer from Erie, Pennsylvania
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Season 29 3-time champion: $76,299 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: kickerofelves
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Rich Carroll, an administrative traffic judge from Highlands Ranch, Colorado
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Season 20 player (2004-07-12).
KJL game 29.
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Mike Malaier, an attorney from Tacoma, Washington
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Season 29 1-time champion: $8,100 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "mah-LARE".
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Salvo Candela, a university administrator from New York, New York
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Season 29 3-time champion: $66,195 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: svocan
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Robert Chodola, a graduate student of education from Fallbrook, California
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Season 29 player (2013-01-29).
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Rachel Winer, a graduate student in teaching from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 2-time champion: $51,801 + $2,000.
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Tony Parkes, a square dance caller from contestant search in the Boston area
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Season 6 1-time champion: $18,401. The recording used to archive the...
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Jim Walke, a project manager from Greenville, South Carolina
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Season 29 player (2012-09-20).
Last name pronounced like "WALLK".
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Judy MacLeod Reardon, a music store manager from Canton, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-07-02).
KJL game 23.
Middle name pronounced like "mak-LOUD".
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Joan Blinn, a retired proofreader and editor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 29 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
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Stephanie Smith, a retired quality engineer and manager from Scarborough, Maine
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Season 22 player (2006-05-04). Not to be confused with Season 1...
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Jaime Alayon, a sophomore at the George Washington University from Miami, Florida
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2012 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Michele Myers Beuerlein, a research assistant from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 29 player (2013-01-04).
Last name pronounced approximately like "BUR-line".
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Rachel Liptak, a substitute teacher from Temecula, California
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Season 29 2-time champion: $48,002 + $2,000.
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Jay Peterson, an English professor from Howell, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $25,201 + $1,000.
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Liz Greenwood, a graduate student in economics originally from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania
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Season 28 1-time co-champion: $1,599 + $2,000.
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Bryan Givens, a history lecturer originally from Dallas, Texas
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Season 20 player (2004-06-24). KJL game 17. At the time of...
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Taylor Cope, a financial analyst from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 28 1-time champion: $28,000 + $2,000.
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Mary Anna Martell, a graduate student in library science from Waterford, Connecticut
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: mam418
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Mark Japinga, a legislative researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2014 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 4-time champion:...
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Franny Howes, a graduate student in rhetoric and writing from Blacksburg, Virginia
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Season 28 player (2011-10-06).
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Jen Ruth, a director of operations from Aurora, Colorado
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Season 29 player (2012-12-20).
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Rob Groves, a classics lecturer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 29 2-time champion: $41,701 + $2,000.
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Eli Edwards, a law student from Newark, California
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Season 25 player (2008-10-21).
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Kevin Moser, an attorney from Fort Wright, Kentucky
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Season 29 player (2012-12-18).
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Vaughn Winchell, a graduate student in mathematics from Columbia, Maryland
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2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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Chloe Horning, a graduate student in library and information science from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $14,000 + $2,000.
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Laura Novak, a family doctor from Akron, Ohio
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Season 25 1-time champion: $20,400 + $2,000.
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Monica Iyer, a law clerk from New York, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $32,200 + $2,000.
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Nicholas Campiz, a graduate student in geography from Gainesville, Florida
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Season 28 1-time co-champion: $12,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "CAMP-iz".
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Sri Narayanan, a pediatric resident from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Season 23 2-time champion: $60,000 + $1,000.
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Ursula Ellis, a librarian from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Season 23 player (2007-02-22).
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Guy Wilson, a football coach and tutor from Leesburg, Florida
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Season 30 player (2014-06-04).
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Evan Bick, a graduate student in psychology from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 31 player (2015-04-07). Evan won $70,000 of a $210,000 jackpot...
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Kevin Hozey, a history teacher from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 31 1-time champion: $27,601 + $2,000.
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Daria Labinsky, a librarian from Corrales, New Mexico
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Season 24 1-time champion: $22,100 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: festivarian
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Carrie Wright, a marketing specialist from Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Season 24 player (2008-04-18).
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Sven Sinclair, an economist and actuary from Burke, Virginia
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Season 24 1-time champion: $28,599 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user names: GnashEquilibrium, Gneq
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Rory Gillingham, an administrative assistant from Sacramento, California
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Season 24 player (2008-07-17).
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Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
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Gail Sneyers, an administrative assistant from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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Season 24 1-time champion: $15,200 + $2,000.
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Umiko Post, a stay-at-home mom from Peoria, Illinois
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Season 18 1-time champion: $11,800. First name pronounced like "yoo-MEE-ko". Umiko's...
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Peter Winkler, an editor from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 player (2008-07-14).
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Tim Mercure, a graduate student in mathematics from Washington, D.C.
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Season 32 1-time champion: $20,401 + $1,000.
Husband of Season 32 player Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg.
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Daniel Morgan, an attorney from Silver Creek, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-05-24).
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