| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: In South Asia, you might give your dhoti, seen here, to a dhoby, a person with this job laundry (washing clothes) |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $1000: 1890s job title of the German seen here
&
8-letter type of parrot seen here a chancellor & lorikeet |
| #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 |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SPORTY TALK $800: Someone who comes in to finish a job, or Joe Torre in the Cardinals lineup a cleanup man (a cleanup hitter) |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: In 1972 this British woman "initially" introduced Cordelia Gray in "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"; a follow-up came 10 years later P.D. James |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $200: In a job that does not seem short of perks, the king of this nation hands each Nobel laureate a diploma & a medal annually Sweden |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | SCIENCE STUFF $400: This iron-containing pigment in blood has a job to do: carry oxygen to tissue hemoglobin |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: If you know what a hungry Liz is, thank Jesse Sheidlower & colleagues in this job for the "Historical Dict. of American Slang" lexicographer |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In the Army it's an officer whose job is to provide clothing & sustenance to a body of troops a quartermaster |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | OCCUPATIONS $200: You'll weld & shape andirons, hinges & even special "shoes" in this job a farrier (or blacksmith) |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | OCCUPATIONS $600: Before embarking on a career in this job of installing window glass, note the Department of Labor says it has a high injury rate a glazier |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | OCCUPATIONS $800: In this exotic job one uses music & movement to entrance a cobra a snake charmer |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $200: Shotcut is free, open-source software for this sort of video professional an editor |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $400: It comes before saw & shears in the name of a gardening tool that cuts off undesired twigs & branches pruning |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $600: This word for a type of cut used by chefs is from French for round a rondelle |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $1000: Cutting fabric for hats is all part of the job for this worker whose name derives from an Italian city a milliner |
| #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 |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $400: Although it sounds like it has to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to the job held by Newsom & DeSantis gubernatorial |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $1600: "Will Gets a Job" &
"The Philadelphia Story" The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SCIENTISTS $300: A popular way of saying something is uncomplicated is to say it's not this field of Wernher von Braun rocket science |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $600: Writer of many a Christmas film, Anna White got down to business in 2021 with "Christmas" this 3-letter top job at a company CEO |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CAR"EER" OPPORTUNITIES $800: You need a good line of patter to do this job, heard in action here auctioneer |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | CANDLE CULTURE $200: Though no one on "Friends" knew what his job was, this character's first name suggests he could have been a candlemaker Chandler (Bing) |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THE "A" LIST $200: The word embassy comes from this job of working in an embassy ambassador |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $8,000 (Daily Double): Randhawa is the maiden name of this Republican, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $400: From the hours worked at a typical job, this term now refers to the job itself--just ask Sheena or Dolly 9 to 5 |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $400: This "Price is Right" host: "Hate your job? There's a support group for that--it's called everybody. They meet at a bar" (Drew) Carey |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | FAMOUS TV SPOILERS $100: The blogger is Dan Humphrey! Who's not even a girl! Gossip Girl |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INDIANA WANTS YOU $800: Indiana's 50th governor, he slashed state taxes & in 2017 moved on to a big job in Washington Pence |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $200: A water watchdog:
FEUDAL RIG a lifeguard |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $200: 1981's constitution set up a bicameral national assembly of these 2 familiar-sounding bodies, but members of each serve 5-year terms the Senate & the House of Representatives |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $400: Aka a bibliothecary:
BRAIN LAIR a librarian |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $600: A bid taker:
ROUTINE ACE an auctioneer |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $800: A capital expert:
STOIC OMEN an economist |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $1000: A postnatal practitioner:
INDICATE PAIR pediatrician |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $2000: Lawrence O'Brien was appointed to this government job by LBJ in 1965; in '75 Larry did a nifty crossover & got the NBA commissioner gig Postmaster General |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $200: A Jan. 11 report from Luther Terry in his capacity in this job said (finally), "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer" the Surgeon General |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $200: Forbes cited "investor fears about" him "adding yet another CEO job" after a $44 billion purchase; he fell to No. 2 on the list Elon Musk |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $200: This title guy is a fry cook under the sea SpongeBob SquarePants |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $400: For 11 years, this character was miserable as a women's shoe salesman on "Married... with Children" Al Bundy |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $600: Seen here, Barbara Feldon had this job in her most famous role a spy |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: It's the job of the "Extraordinary" Woo Young-woo, a streaming fave lawyer (an attorney) |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1000: On "Two and a Half Men", Charlie Harper was this specific type of ad writer a jingle writer |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: In a honeybee colony, the only job of these non-remote-controlled male bees is to mate with a queen drones |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PREFIXES $800: Before "B",
en-
often becomes em-,
as in this mortuary job embalmer |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 2001 $800: Closed 11 years earlier for a major straightening job, this European landmark reopened to tourists the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | RANDOM FACTS $1600: Pope Francis was selected for the big job by one of these special assemblies of the College of Cardinals a conclave |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S $1600: Had a cold, went out to buy veggies anyway; got pneumonia, died before 31st full day on the job (William) Henry Harrison |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $200: The task is this, meaning extraordinarily difficult? must be a job for a mythical Greek hero! Herculean |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | A LIFE IN SCIENCE $4,600 (Daily Double): His name is associated with work & this 19th C. British physicist had an occasional day job managing his family brewery Joule |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $600: A more attractive semi-aquatic weasel relative whose job is to make sure your bench press doesn't crush you a hotter otter spotter |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | COMMUNICATION $600: MLB's Matt Williams has moved just a few feet from his old playing position to this job that involves relaying signals to players third base coach |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | FROM THE FRENCH $1200: A recess in a wall, or any perfect job; it comes from a word for "nest" niche |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $2000: In 2021 this New Orleans pianist won an Oscar & released a new album while keeping his day job as Stephen Colbert's bandleader Jon Batiste |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ALL "IN" $400: We sometimes use this Latin word for "in the meantime" when someone takes a job on a temporary basis interim |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CONSONANT CRAVING $200: Household item that totally sucks at its job:
AUU a vacuum |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | PHRASING $600: All aboard this, an expression for an easy & lucrative job that begins with a turkey topper the gravy train |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | INSIDE JOB $200: The Lord tells Job, "Gird up thy" these "now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me" loins |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | INSIDE JOB $400: Job asks a friend whether this wild animal brays when he has grass the donkey (ass) |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | INSIDE JOB $800: In a Sholem Aleichem story, this beleaguered dairyman asks why God never let up on Job, "for even a moment" Tevye |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $200: In this job for the wealthy Kelly family, Godfrey Ford drove young Grace around & became a friend to her a chauffeur |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $600: It took 2 months, 133 ballots & a lot of negotiating for Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel Banks to land this job in 1856 Speaker of the House |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $600: In "Cold Pursuit", based on a Norwegian film, Liam Neeson gets revenge on bad guys using his job driving this big winter vehicle a snowplow |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | YOU DRIVE $800: A big heist needs someone to drive this--for the 1950 Boston Brink's job, it was Joseph Banfield a getaway car |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MY PREROGATIVE $1000: It's the pope's job to appoint these, including the diocesan kind a bishop |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GOOD "E" $1000: Also a type of apartment, it's the competent quality by which you carry out your job an efficiency |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | I LED WHAT CABINET DEPARTMENT? $1000: George Dern, doing good work on preparedness in the 1930s in a job that no longer exists Secretary of War |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Seaweed farmer is a major job on this Indonesian island & in "Ticket to Paradise", George Clooney's daughter falls for one Bali |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | WORD & WORDPLUS $400: To provide a ticket free of charge & at least moderately okay at a job comp & competent |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ON A STAMP $800: The "Skilled Hands for Independence" series saluted wheelwrights, leatherworkers, blacksmiths & this job of Betsy Ross a seamstress |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $200: February 1946:
After losing a vote for General Assembly president, Trygve Lie becomes the first man in this United Nations job Secretary-General |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: A 2018 USA Today headline: "Rex Tillerson was on the toilet when he was told he'd be fired" from this diplomatic Cabinet job secretary of state |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | ALL IN THE FAMILY $1600: Last name of the first prime minister of India; a child & grandchild also held the job Nehru |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | WORKERS OF THE WORLD $800: Job of Alexei Stakhanov, such a model for Soviet workers that a city & a word meaning "hard worker" bear his name a (coal) miner |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $200: In 2022 climate activists threw soup at "Sunflowers" by this artist, causing damage to the frame but not the glass-encased painting Van Gogh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $500 (Daily Double): Britannica says this Munch painting "can be seen as a symbol of modern spiritual anguish" but it reminds us of a loud "Home Alone" moment The Scream |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $600: A somewhat fancy wooden frame surrounds this Grant Wood picture of 2 people in front of a simple wooden frame house American Gothic |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $800: "Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 1" is so formal!
Please, call the 1870s painting by this more familial 2-word name Whistler's Mother |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | A TOTAL FRAME JOB $1000: "Girl with a Pearl Earring", a masterpiece by this Dutch painter, hangs in an ornate frame in a museum in The Hague Vermeer |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | START "OFF" $800: Who knows that this is the job of someone conducting a wedding? I do! officiant |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $600: Ben's discoveries led to the lightning rod & to the end of the electrocution of more than a hundred of these colleagues of Quasimodo bell ringers |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | AN "ARM" $1000: Originally denoting a mounted soldier, it's the job title of the person seen here in France a gendarme |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $400: In Edward Greenstein's 2019 translation, this biblical man who goes through a lot of troubles is "fed up" with God Job |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $400: You can binge "Man Against Crime", one of the first shows about someone in this job, preceding Mannix & Veronica Mars detective |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | DRIVING IN L.A. $800: This person who takes your keys may be a future star; Bill Paxton did that job at the Beverly Hills Hotel a valet |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | THAT '70s OR '80s SHOW $800: As Lou Grant, this actor told Mary Tyler Moore at a job interview, "You got spunk... I hate spunk!" Ed Asner |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $200: Filling in for someone who is known for doing a really good job? Well, idiomatically, you've got these "to fill" big shoes |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $200: King of the Franks *&* the Lombards, impressive... & first emperor of what would be the Holy Roman Empire? I see a team leader here Charlemagne |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | CONDUCTING THE HISTORIC JOB INTERVIEW $600: A Nobel Peace Prize, quite nice... ohhh, your country broke up on you in 1991 & your job ended; walk me through that Gorbachev |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | 3 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $400: Job of the person hired to renovate your house, perhaps after you find an architect contractor |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | BUT I HAVE THIS HISTORIC MEETING $800: In what's now the city of Sovetsk in 1807, Napoleon & the ruler in this job met on a raft so it wouldn't be on anyone's home turf the czar (Alexander I) |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $1000: The job of emperor of this country was long dominated by the Amhara, who also gave their name to a major language there Ethiopia |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $600: Filtering the entire contents of your blood as many as 40 times a day is the job of this pair of organs the kidneys |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $400: Might want to skip that interview for a job on a ranch if you've got equinophobia, a fear of these horses |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $1200: The job of unionizing migrant workers was a tall order, but he did it (Cesar) Chavez |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | THE "GIST" OF THE JOB $200: Melissa Constanzer is an on-air one of these experts for AccuWeather a meteorologist |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | THE "GIST" OF THE JOB $600: Sun-Tzu was a military one of these for the Chinese state of Wu strategist |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | THE "GIST" OF THE JOB $800: Issuing its first diploma in 1948, the program called graduate this specialist teaches how to grade diamonds a gemologist |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | THE "GIST" OF THE JOB $1000: Making NCAA tournament picks for basketball fans, Howie Schwab is considered this 14-letter expert a bracketologist |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | FASHION WITH BUZZY COHEN $900: (Buzzy Cohen delivers the clue.) Popular for both men & women, a closed shoe with a wide strap & a big buckle on the side is named for this religious job; since I'm twice as fashionable as most, I'm sporting the kind with a double strap a monk strap shoe |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $200: Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources ants |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $1000: Physicist Guy Carpenter is out of a job in "A Hole in Texas", based on the real cancellation of the Superconducting this machine Super Collider |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | DANGER! DANGER! $600: You can sleep all night & work all day, but Time magazine listed this outdoor job as the USA's most dangerous a lumberjack |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | ENDS IN "S-T-Y" $1600: It's the 11-letter medical term for a nose job rhinoplasty |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $2000: No more back-breaking farm labor for me; I've got this new job at the manor, curing hides & making leather a tanner |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | OCCUPATIONAL HOMONYMS $200: A job like a chauffeur, or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally a driver |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | BEASTLY ART $1600: The job of watching sheep is more famous, but this guy who watches cattle gets title billing in the Dutch work seen here a cow herder |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $200: One of these subterranean laborers was a groover a miner |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $600: If you were a nob Thatcher, you might make hats or these to cover the same area wigs |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $800: A Granger was one of these, especially the tenant type a farmer |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In Latin, this food preparation job is carnifex; in medieval England it also meant executioner a butcher |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | OLD JOB NAMES $1000: This nickname today for an unskilled golfer once meant a seller of cheap goods a duffer |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $400: David's Bridal has a selection of pillows for this wedding job, as well as an adorable little secure briefcase a ring bearer |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $800: It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world copywriting |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $800: Because he serves a man, Bertie Wooster, & not a household, P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves has this job title, not butler valet |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $400: "You stay in your place while I sit here and rule", says this turtle king, pulling a serious top 1% job on a poor turtle named Mack Yertle (the Turtle) |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | TOOLS OF THE TRADE $1600: This job requires mastering a special 22-button keyboard & spending time around lawyers & defendants a court reporter |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | IN RECENT NEWS $800: In 2021 Magdalena Andersson became the 1st female P.M. of this nation, quit after a few hours, then reclaimed the job days later Sweden |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $600: (Mina Kimes delivers the clue.) I graduated from Yale, a school that has produced NFL stars like Gary Fencik & two men who had this job running the major leagues, Fay Vincent & Bart Giamatti Commissioners of Baseball |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $600: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln grew frustrated with many of his commanders but with none more so than this general who did a brilliant job of readying the Union Army to fight but proved reluctant to commit it to battle George McClellan |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $1000: Marx considered religion "the opium of the people", which wouldn't have pleased his paternal grandfather, who had this job a rabbi |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | HOME ECONOMICS WITH TOPHER GRACE $1000: (Topher Grace delivers the clue.) Hey, you got a new job! Congrats! Now you're looking for an apartment & here's some free advice: 30% is the traditional max for your RTI ratio, "RTI" short for this rent-to-income |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $200: It can be a desk employee at a hotel, or a legal aide to a judge a clerk |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $400: Referring to a type popular in earlier centuries, a peruker was a maker of these wigs |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $600: At New York City's Guggenheim Museum, Naomi Beckwith holds this job, one who assembles & manages artistic collections a curator |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $800: DBA is short for database this, a job in which you run the database & of course, have privileges on it administration |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $1000: It means following the rules & is the usual word for an "officer" who makes sure you follow the rules, like about COVID compliance |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | THE STAGE MANAGER $1000: One job of a Broadway stage manager is rehearsing understudies for their big break; this understudy got hers in 1954 Shirley MacLaine |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $800: Born in 12 A.D.; executed the Praetorian Guard prefect who helped get him the top job; in 41, executed by Praetorian Guards Caligula |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH $800: In the play "Boeing-Boeing", a playboy juggles 3 fiancees, all with this job stewardess |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | JOB DESCRIPTION $200: Catwalking;
being "elite" like Cindy, Christy & Naomi;
not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day supermodel |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | JOB DESCRIPTION $400: Enjoyment growing by leaps & bounds;
jeté battu pas marché, tricks of the trade;
a specific terpsichorean a ballerina |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | JOB DESCRIPTION $600: Fluency in Latin & Italian, a must;
you own nothing yet also have your own hospital & bank;
only about 260 have had the gig the pope |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | JOB DESCRIPTION $800: By law, can't be a U.S. senator;
only needed quadrennially;
"faithless"? Can be fined or fired an elector |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE TURNS 75 $1000: The schemes of this wealthy, cackling character include offering George a job Potter |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $200: Decades of choices & wacky costumes on "Let's Make a Deal" began with Monty Hall as host; this guy got the job in 2009 Wayne Brady |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | MOVIE REWARDS $1000: At the end of a 2009 movie this title guy is offered his dream job but instead continues to protect shoppers at the West Orange Pavilion Paul Blart: Mall Cop |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $800: In 1951 the Conservative Party won a majority in Parliament & this man returned to the job of PM at the age of 76 Winston Churchill |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $2000: In the first movie allowed to shoot inside the U.N., Nicole Kidman had this title job, playing a character from Matobo The Interpreter |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | VERBS $800: Railway job meaning to skillfully make sure of a certain outcome to engineer |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT $800: He gets a new job with a Mancha, Mancha man who promises future land ownership, but things don't exactly work out Sancho Panza |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | YOU DON'T SUCCEED $400: In a 1998 floor speech, Bob Livingston stunned colleagues by saying he would not succeed Newt Gingrich in this job Speaker of the House |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | YOU DON'T SUCCEED $600: In 1978 Giovanni Benelli was said to be a favorite--twice--to be the successor in this job but did not have the votes pope |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $6,000 (Daily Double): Not a fan of rock music, he initially turned down the job of designing the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (I.M.) Pei |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FIRST DAY ON THE JOB $400: Getting used to the binoculars & keeping an eye out for rip currents are first-day tasks at this summer job a lifeguard |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FIRST DAY ON THE JOB $1200: New at this gig, Neil Gorsuch embraced life on the cafeteria committee & having to open the door when someone knocks a Supreme Court justice |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $200: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel The Devil Wears Prada |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | 15 MINUTES OR LESS $400: A skilled pro in this job that's done about once a year can take care of one Merino in 3 minutes a sheep shearer |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $400: In "Mary Poppins", a fittingly sooty Dick Van Dyke sings "Chim Chim Cher-ee", a song about this job a chimney sweep |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OLD JOBS $800: You used to be able to get a job as a pinsetter at one of these establishments a bowling alley |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL $200: You forced yourself to do a difficult job, so yes, you had to "bite" this projectile but no, not literally the bullet |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | TV-POURRI $1200: Shane Vendrell dies & Vic Mackey is, even worse, forced into a desk job on the finale of this FX drama The Shield |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | LANDMARKS $400: Recent research suggests segments of this British landmark were moved 150 miles from Wales--quite a job Stonehenge |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | MOTHER! $1000: Her son succeeded her as India's prime minister, a job that her dad once had as well Indira Gandhi |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | PHILHARMONIC CONVERGENCE $200: Arturo Toscanini, Marin Alsop & the L.A. Phil's own Gustavo Dudamel are famous for this job conductor |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | ALLITERATIVE JOBS $400: If your job involves a great deal of bureaucracy, you're one of these, colloquially a pencil pusher |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FICTIONAL PICKERS $400: This heroine's seduction by Alec d'Urberville begins a tailspin that leads to a job picking rutabagas Tess |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | "M.C." $600: In "The Italian Job" Mark Wahlberg drove this little car as part of a crime caper a Mini Cooper |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | OLD OCCUPATIONS $800: Oddly, the same person who performed minor surgeries once also had this job, joined with surgeon in the name of a guild a barber |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | WE "URGE" YOUR RESPONSE $400: This medical job is from the Greek for "working by hand" a surgeon |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | UNIFORMITY $800: Turnout gear that's NFPA-certified for this heroic job has 3 layers--an outer shell, a moisture barrier & a thermal liner firefighter |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | NAVY JOBS $1000: Whether a priest or a rabbi, you're an officer & have been given this 8-letter job title chaplain |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $2,400 (Daily Double): The name of this job that provides child care is a French phrase meaning "equal" an au pair |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | I LOVE A PARADE $600: This 2-word military-sounding job is the ceremonial head of a parade grand marshal |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | NIFTY NOVELS $600: In the title of a Seth Grahame-Smith parody novel, Abe Lincoln has this unusual title job added to his traditional duties vampire hunter |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | ATLANTA: NEWS CLUES $400: (Cheryl Preheim from Atlanta's 11Alive presents the clue.) In April 1970, our very own Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for this political office, a job he would win, & that would lead to even greater things in the years to come governor |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | "T-N-T" $1200: A friend & collaborator of Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden had this musical job a trombonist |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | PAGING DR. TV! $2000: Syrian refugee Dr. Bash Hamed got a job at a Toronto hospital after saving the life of one of its doctors on this NBC show Transplant |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | DOUBLE CONSONANT WORDS $1200: A period away from a job or school, perhaps every 7 years a sabbatical |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | OCCUPATIONS $200: 100 years ago, this job of connecting people looked as seen here a switchboard operator |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | OCCUPATIONS $600: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a sauceboat made by noted equestrian Paul Revere as part of this, his day job silversmith |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | POPES $1,000 (Daily Double): Before entering a seminary, Pope Francis once held a job as a bouncer in this capital city Buenos Aires |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | COMMUNICATION $800: France's Robert Coulondre, who had this job, presented a futile demarche, a diplomatic note, in Berlin Sept. 1, 1939 ambassador to Germany |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | 21st CENTURY TONY WINNERS $1200: This man's performance in "One Man, Two Guvnors" won him a Tony Award & a job hosting "The Late Late Show" on CBS James Corden |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $200: Frederick Muhlenberg was first to hold this congressional job & join the line of presidential succession (spoiler, Fred was never prez) Speaker of the House |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $600: An available job or hotel room a vacancy |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1870 Hiram Revels was almost blocked as the first African-American in this job because he hadn't been a citizen for 9 years a senator |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 1824 women walked off the job at a Rhode Island textile mill in what's considered America's first factory this a strike |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT? $200: In this job, a highway weigh station is called a "chicken coop" as you sit in a line hoping you don't exceed 80,000 pounds truck driving |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $200: Collective term for the workers on a ship or a television show a crew |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $600: A pilot is the person controlling an aircraft, or in the case of the book "Life on the Mississippi", one of these a steamboat |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $800: It's a medical practitioner who specializes in the treatment & prevention of diseases of the foot a podiatrist |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $400: Louise Fitzhugh:
"Harriet the ____" Spy |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $1200: John le Carre:
"The Night ____" Manager |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TV THEME SONG LYRICS $800: "So no one told you life was gonna be this way, your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A." Friends |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | I'LL TURN IT $800: A novel by David Leavitt is a real this; that's its title, about a job assisting a classical pianist a page turner |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | THE LIBRARIAN INVASIONS $400: Rupert Giles was watcher & trainer to the title character of this TV series--Sunnydale High librarian was more of a side job Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnold about four hours, ropeless and using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitan in this national park Yosemite |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $1000: From the Bible: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and" this upright |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES $800: A part-time job at this chain making Meatball Marinara & Veggie Delite sandwiches could put a few bucks in your pocket Subway |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | COLORFUL TERMINOLOGY $1000: More verdant paddocks, or something more promising, like a new job greener pastures |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GET A JOB! $400: Maybe you'd like to work on one of these, like for Carnival or Cunard; recent job listings include event crew & galley supervisor a cruise line (ship) |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GET A JOB! $800: Starbucks calls this job "the face of Starbucks" a barista |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GET A JOB! $1200: The person on the phone can hear you smile--that's advice given to people in this job, partly from the Greek for "far" telemarketers |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GET A JOB! $1600: Apothecary is an old-fashioned term for this job that requires a doctorate & a license a pharmacist |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | WHAT A CHARACTER $1600: Taking the job as Lord Chamberlain of Denmark was not very fortunate for this man, nor for his children Ophelia & Laertes Polonius |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GET A JOB! $2000: Maybe you want to become this type of 14-letter scientist like Neil deGrasse Tyson an astrophysicist |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STRAIGHT C'S $800: A person's usual job, or the seizure & control of territory by a foreign army occupation |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | THE 1990s $1000: In 1990 this Soviet president won the Nobel Peace Prize but a year later, he said peace out & quit his job Mikhail Gorbachev |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS $800: This device used by police & in job screening was co-invented by Leonarde Keeler, a model for Dick Tracy a lie detector (polygraph test) |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | X MARKS THE MIDDLE SPOT $400: Job of one who cleans up rich people's messes, like Ray Donovan a fixer |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUNNY JOB LOSS REASONS $200: My wife tried to get ahead in eyeglass manufacturing, but failed impressively by "making" this "of herself" a spectacle |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUNNY JOB LOSS REASONS $400: My cousin wanted to become a hairstylist, but didn't have the skill; she just couldn't do this 2-word idiom cut it |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUNNY JOB LOSS REASONS $600: My dad worked for the IRS for a while, but his nerves became shot--the job was "too" this 6-letter word taxing |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | THAT'S A GOOD CHOICE $800: To choose someone for the job; it can also mean to get a keg ready for a party to tap |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | RELIGIOUS IDIOMS $400: If you put up with a lot, you have "the patience of" this Old Testament man from the land of Uz Job |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | RHYME FIGHTER $800: After 8 years in the job in Dallas, Mike Rawlings said, "A mayor needs to" be this, bringing folks together a uniter |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $200: Michael B. Jordan in "Creed" a boxer |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $400: Margot Kidder in "Superman" a reporter |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | FROM THE LATIN $800: They're just the facts & doing "entry" of them is a job at the Bureau of Labor Statistics data |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $800: Harrison Ford, before becoming "The Fugitive" a doctor |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | MY JOB IN THE MOVIE $1000: Matt Damon at M.I.T. in "Good Will Hunting" a janitor |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | DAY JOB VU $800: In 2019 Rep. AOC went back to tending bar for a day to bring notice to this federal standard for workers getting tips: $2.13 an hour minimum wage |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | DAY JOB VU $1200: On Sept. 11, 2009, almost 9 months after an unusual landing, he was back in the cockpit for a flight from Charlotte to Atlanta Captain Sully |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | DAY JOB VU $1600: In 1973 Erich Segal, author of this weepy bestseller about a dying coed, quit teaching classics at Yale, but he returned in the '80s Love Story |
| #8157, aired 2020-02-11 | DAY JOB VU $2000: In '96 this ex-pres. of Poland returned to his electrician gig in Gdansk; his first day included a press conference & a vacation request Lech Walesa |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES $200: Adjective for a job of less than a standard number of hours a week part-time |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | STOP IT! $400: To fire from a job, or to attempt to kill Sarah Connor, onscreen terminate |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $600: Mark Twain was among those who worked as a devil, an apprentice in this profession printing |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $800: Proverbially, you have to pay this strolling musician who plays a small wind instrument the piper |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $1000: This term for a villain's minion may be from a Middle English word for horse handler henchman |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | SKATING INTO THE NHL $200: With 20, in 2018-19 Morgan Rielly led the NHL in goals by a player at this position where scoring isn't your first job a defenseman |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | OCCUPATION ETYMOLOGY $600: This British job originated with the word "bar" & meant one who was called to it a barrister |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1200: Harry Potter likes the passage in Job that reads, "I am a brother to dragons and a companion to" these birds an owl |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $2000: This word for something monstrous in size comes from the name of a powerful grass-eating beast in Job behemoth |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | PINK-POURRI $800: You want to receive this for a car, not for a job a pink slip |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | PATRIOT GAMES $1600: On a cold 1982 day Mark Henderson used a small John Deere to make the kicker's job easier in what became known as the this machine game snowplow |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | "HOLD" IT $1000: An official who continues in a job from one administration to another a holdover |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | EXPRESSIONS & IDIOMS $2000: This 2-word cooler-sounding way to say "second job" is the title of a book subtitled "From Idea to Income in 27 Days" Side Hustle |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | HOMOPHONES $600: A statement of admiration for another, or a "full" number of soldiers to do a job compliment/complement |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $400: Drowning is the most common death for those doing this, the most dangerous job in the U.S. as per a 2019 newspaper report fishing |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $200: In 2019 Conan O'Brien cut a half hour from his TBS show but kept this sidekick (Andy) Richter |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $400: For years, Petri Hawkins Byrd, working in this job, has handed documents to Judge Judy bailiff |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $600: The mother of this "Black-ish" actor is scorekeeper when he hosts "To Tell the Truth" Anthony Anderson |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $800: With this French-named front of the house job, Marino Monferrato keeps diners happy at "Hell's Kitchen" maître d' |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | A JOB IN TV $1000: Guillermo Rodriguez is much more than just a security guard on this late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD $1600: A longshoreman or a dockworker could tell you this word for the job of one who loads a ship a stevedore |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | "ISTA" ME! $400: Luckily for Starbucks, this server job is considered gender neutral in Italian a barista |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FOR WEDDINGS $600: Jessica Simpson's 1-year-old son Ace had this job at Mommy's wedding in 2014 ring bearer |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TEENS ON TV $200: During all his teenage years, Rico Rodriguez had a pretty good job as Manny Delgado on this ABC sitcom Modern Family |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | CAREER TRACK $800: In a nail salon the person in this job specializes in your tootsies a pedicurist |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | CAREER TRACK $1000: C.P.A. is the abbreviation for this job that can be a very taxing profession in April a certified public accountant |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PEACHY $1000: Also the name of a job, it's the popular peachy dessert seen here cobbler |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $600: People, not dogs, had this loud job of calling out attractions on the midway a barker |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | PRONOUN LOSS $200: Take "us" away from a movie theater job & you end up with this, another pronoun her |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | PRONOUN LOSS $1000: Take "she" away from a law enforcement job & you get this snappy sequence on a guitar a riff |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $400: Anything that excludes you from consideration for a job disqualification |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | MY CABINET JOB $20,000 (Daily Double): A few names, if one isn't enough:
Albert Fall (who very much did), James Watt, Sally Jewell Secretary of the Interior |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2,000 (Daily Double): He became U.S. Attorney General in 2019, 27 years after taking the job for the first time (William) Barr |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MOVIE & TV TERMS $800: Sounds fishy, but it's just the minimum pay approved by a union for a specific job scale |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | A "B"6 SHOT $2000: Job title of a college treasurer bursar |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN $400: In 2014 a group of Marks--Begich, Udall, Kirk, Pryor & Warner--made up 5% of the 100 public servants in this job U.S. senator |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Perhaps tired of his old office job, in 2018 he branched out as the director of "A Quiet Place" (John) Krasinski |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | THE DOCTORS $800: Dr. Joycelyn Elders wrote a memoir subtitled "From Sharecropper's Daughter to" this top U.S. medical job Surgeon General |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | RANKS & TITLES $800: This can be the title of a Hindu priest or the job description for a political commentator pundit |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: One-word job description of a broadcasting preacher, such as Oral Roberts televangelist |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: Rigoletto makes snide comments for a living, having this job in the Duke of Mantua's court jester |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | OXFORD $1000: 1st year law folks take courses in torts, contracts & trusts "to qualify as a solicitor or" this job pleading in higher courts a barrister |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $200: One doing this hotel desk job might procure guests some show tickets a concierge |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | SCRIBBLING SIBLINGS $800: Henry Fielding's sister Sarah wrote a 1749 novel with this title job of teaching & training young ladies a governess |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | GOVERNMENT $800: Also a federal Cabinet job, in most states this person certifies election results the Secretary of State |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | GOVERNMENT $1000: It's the grade-"A" job of those on the Rapid City, South Dakota city council an alderman |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $800: From 2006 to 2013 Showtime killed it with this show about a crime lab worker with a very different night job Dexter |
| #7900, aired 2019-01-04 | 19th CENTURY OCCUPATIONS $800: Women's hats were all the rage & it was this person's job to make & sell them a milliner |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALMOST PRESIDENT $3,800 (Daily Double): Because he held this job in 1973, Carl Albert would have been Pres. had Nixon resigned before a new veep was confirmed Speaker of the House |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | COMMUNICATION $4,600 (Daily Double): Bill Kelm, who popularized hand signals in this job, said, "That guy in a 25-cent bleacher seat" is entitled to know the call an umpire |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE FRENCH I TOOK $800: As a grown man, le garcon is someone doing this job the waiter |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | "Q"-PID $200: The skills or experience proving someone is ready for a particular job qualification |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | COOKERS $1000: A high-stress job can be described as this, the kitchen version of an autoclave a pressure cooker |
| #7870, aired 2018-11-23 | COSTS A LITTLE EXTRA $600: Job of Roberto Cavalli; it comes before "jeans" that are not to be worn while pitching hay designer |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $400: Sam Malone on "Cheers" & Luke Cage on "Jessica Jones" a bartender |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $800: Tom Kirkman, after he's the "Designated Survivor" president |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1200: Mike Brady on "The Brady Bunch" an architect |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1600: Bobby Axelrod on "Billions", running this type of financial enterprise a hedge fund |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $2000: Barry Berkman on "Barry"--both his big-money gig & the job he's pursing in class hit man and actor |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | "M" & EMMYS $800: She did a great job playing Mary Richards, winning 4 Emmys Mary Tyler Moore |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | THE FACEBOOK OF JOB $2000: P.M. Job if you have a good remedy for "sore" these skin eruptions, sole to scalp; scraping with a potsherd isn't doing much boils |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | THE FACEBOOK OF JOB $2,500 (Daily Double): Job added a "surprised" GIF when he posted the Lord's info that behemoth "can draw up" this river into its mouth Jordan |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | FIRST LADIES $1000: It was the occupation of Abigail Fillmore, the first First Lady to hold a paying job after marriage a schoolteacher |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | PROFESSIONAL NICKNAMES $200: Once more, from the top--in the entertainment business, a hoofer is this job a dancer |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | PROFESSIONAL NICKNAMES $600: The name of this squat & lovable dog with a "mask" can also mean a boxer (the job, not the dog) a pug |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | WEIRD WORDS $800: Up high at a circus, a funambulist has this job a high-wire walker |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | A LIGHT CATEGORY $2000: Poe's last story is about this job & the narrator is "thoroughly alone... Neptune, large as he is, is not... 'society'" a lighthouse keeper |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER $400: In 1896 this man offered Carver a job teaching at the Tuskegee Institute Booker T. Washington |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | YESTERCAREER $2000: Author/magistrate Henry Fielding professionalized this job when he started the Bow Street runners a policeman |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | IRA $800: If you leave your job, you can turn your 401(k) into this 8-letter type of IRA a rollover |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | THE ITALIAN JOB $400: Prete a priest |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | "CO"-OPERATIVE $1000: A university administrator is given a "co" & gets this newer, holier job deacon |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | SENDING AN ANAGRAM $600: Fancy term for a nose job:
PAIN SHORTLY rhinoplasty |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: You might fill one out to get a job an application |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | ETIQUETTE $600: In a traditional wedding recession, the bride & groom bat leadoff, then the flower girl & a young person with this job ringbearer |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: All toil & no play makes Jack this type of person who's addicted to his job a workaholic |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | "V"ERBS $400: To leave a job or a room, or to void a legal decision vacate |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | SHALL WE "DANCE"? $600: Civilian job of Madison Clark on "Fear the Walking Dead"; she might have career suggestions for teen zombies a guidance counselor |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | HI, MOM! $400: Georgia May Jagger uses her dad's pout in following her mom, Jerry Hall, into this job--the super type a model |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $2000: "A Journal of a Soul" was the testament of this man, who got a new job in Rome in 1958 Pope John XXIII |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $400: For years before his death in 1891, this master of the seagoing novel had a customs job on the river in Manhattan Melville |
| #7746, aired 2018-04-23 | HERE'S THE CUSTOMS MAN $800: Losing his New Orleans customs job freed up H.L. Hunley to make this type of vessel he named after himself a submarine |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | SUMMER JOB IDEAS $400: Try being a lifeguard like this man did long before his presidency in the 1980s Reagan |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | SUMMER JOB IDEAS $800: Taking this movie theater job is different today--the switch to digital means no messing with reels a projectionist |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | SUMMER JOB IDEAS $1600: Too hot & humid? Spend your days cruising in A/C for this delivery app Postmates |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | SUMMER JOB IDEAS $2000: Apply to be a counselor--I mean crew trainer--at NASA's space camp in this Alabama city Huntsville |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | DUMB CRIMINALS $400: Working this bar entrance job in Iowa City, a man got presented with his own stolen ID a bouncer |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $1600: The White House job called Chief this is a general manager of the building; Angella Reid was the first woman in the post Chief Usher |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | CAREER DAY $400: Good evening! Might I interest you in this job? It's from the French... bold, lovely... a steward specializing in wine a sommelier |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | CAREER DAY $600: This word follows "nurse" in a health care job specializing in childbirth midwife |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | CAREER DAY $1000: From the Latin for "iron", this worker was similar to a blacksmith & often did a shod-y job a ferrier |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CHARACTERS IN MYTH $800: After overthrowing the rulers of the universe, Zeus forces this one into a new job as punishment Atlas |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | COLLEGE HOOPS $600: Lonzo Ball, a star for this college team, didn't have far to travel for his pro job when the Lakers took him in the 2017 draft UCLA (Bruins) |
| #7673, aired 2018-01-10 | JOBFUSCATION $1200: If you start out your new job at the diner as a "bubble dancer", you've scored a gig as this a dishwasher |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | NIKOLA TESLA $400: Tesla emigrated to the US. in 1884 & soon began a contentious job working for this inventor Edison |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | IT'S HISTORICAL ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT $1200: This PM said a 1938 pact with Germany brought "peace for our time" (it didn't. Czech. soon got annexed, & he lost his job) (Neville) Chamberlain |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $800: A "tax"ing job, maybe at Ernst & Young CPA |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | IT'S A LIVING $600: A specialized job in a police force, CSI stands for this, just like on TV crime scene investigator ("crime scene investigation" accepted) |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | "SOCIAL" $800: Before literary fame, Alice Walker had this job with the New York City Welfare Department a social worker |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE $800: Scholars have identified monks with this job who wrote out the Book of Kells, but only know them as Hands A, B & C scribes |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | "INSTA"! $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the ceremonial process of placing a new official in a job installation (or instating) |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | WORKING WOMEN $1600: When she quietly refused to give up her bus seat, Rosa Parks was on her way home from her job as one of these a seamstress |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | OVERLAPS $2000: Frozen polar region of a planet filled out with your personal info when you're seeking a new job icecapplication |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: This type of training is for the specific skills needed for a particular job vocational |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON $1600: As Maleficent, this actress doesn't turn into a dragon to guard Aurora--she delegates that job to her crow Angelina Jolie |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | ROBOTS $1000: Robots don't need goggles to do this job of fusing metal to metal with an electrical charge sparking across a gap arc welding |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: After a 166-day confirmation process, she succeeded Eric Holder in a government job Loretta Lynch |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | DYSPHEMISMS $1000: The use of these mines for prison labor could be the reason you go "back to" them in a drudge job the salt mines |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | A KNIGHT $800: As well as being a knight, Sir Dagonet held this amusing other job at court a jester |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | EXPLORING THE WORLD $1000: (Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) The rule of thumb for explorers is to not approach wildlife too closely as they can become fearful & angry... but on a lucky day in this Scandinavian nation's Svalbard archipelago a small herd of walrus seemingly welcomed me Norway |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | OCCUPATIONS $400: You need a good line of patter to do this job, heard in action here auctioneer |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | OCCUPATIONS $600: Before embarking on a career in this job of installing window glass, note the Department of Labor says it has a high injury rate a glazier |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | OCCUPATIONS $800: In this exotic job one uses music & movement to entrance a hamadryad a snake charmer |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THAT'S MY JOB! $400: Mariner (the non-baseball playing variety) a sailor |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THAT'S MY JOB! $800: Milliner a hatmaker |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THAT'S MY JOB! $1200: Collier a coal miner |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THAT'S MY JOB! $1600: Warrener a rabbit keeper |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THAT'S MY JOB! $7,400 (Daily Double): Flueologist a chimney sweep |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE "STAR"S & "STRIPE"S $1000: If you're an L.A. County health career junior volunteer, you have this tasty job a candy striper |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | "J"EOPARDY! $800: One of these crimes that's "inside" has the help of someone who works at the place being robbed a job |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | HISTORIC INSULTS $1600: A Spanish phrase from a not-so-flattering face on money translates as uglier than Manuel de Falla, famous in this job composer |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $200: In the nursery rhyme, the one of the 3 men in a tub who doesn't work in a food-related job the candlestick maker |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | MAKES SENSE $600: On "New Girl" Zooey Deschanel gets Damon Wayans Jr.'s character a job as one of these at her school coach (gym teacher accepted) |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A REAL NUT JOB $200: Natives along the Amazon basin collect these, AKA para nuts, which are later used in soaps or as food Brazil nuts |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $400: You're having a party? Let me do this job & my 4-deck mixing skills will fill the dance floor DJ (or disc jockey) |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A REAL NUT JOB $400: marthastewart.com says to roast these nuts at 350 degrees in an oven; a song suggests "on an open fire" chestnuts |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A REAL NUT JOB $600: Workers at the Mauna Loa Corporation pack & sell these nuts on a street named for them macadamia nuts |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A REAL NUT JOB $800: Confectioners in the South are known to take pecans and turn them into this sweet treat that also starts with a "P" pralines |
| #7569, aired 2017-07-06 | A REAL NUT JOB $1000: Turkish workers are powering an eco-city by harnessing this gas, CH4, from the fermentation of pistachio shells methane |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | VEEP $1000: In 1841 many expected this VP to become a sort of acting president, but he moved into the White House & took the big job Tyler |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | JOBS TAKEN BY AUTOMATONS $200: In some hospitals, this job by a robot called PillPick pharmacist |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | JOBS TAKEN BY AUTOMATONS $1000: This hotel job, by a Hilton bot named Connie the concierge |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | DIFFERING BY ONE LETTER $600: A tube inserted into a blocked blood vessel & a period of time spent in a job a stent and a stint |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | ORIGINAL "SIN" $1000: This type of cushy job was once a church gig that didn't require the holder to tend to parishioners' spiritual needs a sinecure |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | ALSO A CLASSIC TV TITLE $800: Working an additional job Moonlighting |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | MORTAL MATTERS $200: It's the elected medical official whose job it is to investigate deaths not due to natural causes a coroner |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | KNOW THE NOSE $800: A nose job is the common name for this 11-letter medical procedure a rhinoplasty |
| #7528, aired 2017-05-10 | SAVING UP $800: An emergency fund sees you through losing your job; this weather-named fund is for onetime expenses like major car repairs a rainy day fund |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | GENIUS. $1000: Taking a job in 1902 as one of these clerks gave Albert the freedom to daydream and write the papers that changed our world the patent office |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES $600: A nice job title if you can get it; in 2016 Brunei was on its 29th a sultan |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | EQUAL $600: As an adjective, it means "unvarying"; as a noun, it's clothing worn by some people doing the same job uniform |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | SIMILAR WORDS $600: Quit your job, or stay on & put your John Hancock on a new contract resign & re-sign |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $1000: Margaret Dumont changed "man" to "woman", setting up the Marx Brothers' jokes as a master of this job straight man (or straight woman) |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | SPECIAL DOUBLE K $200: Job of keeping account ledgers of financial transactions a bookkeeper |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | NEEDS SOME WORK $400: Here's a 2003 image of a curator giving this statuesque stalwart a bit of a nose job (Michelangelo's) David |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | JACQUES COUSTEAU $2000: (Céline Cousteau presents.) The famous yellow submarine my grandfather used for photography & filmmaking is on display in front of the Oceanographic Museum of this principality where is served as director from 1957 to 1988 Monaco |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | ON THE BALLOT $1000: His name was after "McCain" in a 2002 campaign-finance reform act & on the ballot in 2016 to get his job back in Wisconsin (Russ) Feingold |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | QUITE A VOCABULARY $400: Vocation means a job; this word, 1 letter longer, means a hobby avocation |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | FANTASTIC BEASTS $600: Delphyne was a female dragon whose job it was to guard this person at Delphi the Oracle |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GET A JOB! $400: George Balanchine was a renowned one of these, a creator of dances choreographer |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GET A JOB! $800: You can use "person" instead of "boy" in this word for one who clears tables busboy |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GET A JOB! $1200: They get their name from where they might wait for the politicians whose votes they want to influence lobbyist |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GET A JOB! $1600: Put in a little O.T. studying & you could be one of these health professionals, an O.T. occupational therapist |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | GET A JOB! $2000: This profession takes its name from a Greek word meaning "chief builder" an architect |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1992 Michael Ondaatje did a Fiennes job with this novel about a burned, unnamed man being cared for at WWII's end The English Patient |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | DOUBLE O, 7 $400: Job description of a singer like Bing Crosby crooner |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: Mark Twain got the idea for his pen name from his time in this job a steamboat pilot |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $1200: Aristotle & Casanova both held this job AKA a bibliothecary a librarian |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $1600: This job didn't bug William S. Burroughs; he wrote a story about it in which a boss eats the arsenic for fun an exterminator |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $1000: In 2014 Anthony Hopkins was Methuselah, grandfather of this title man chosen by God for a big job Noah |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | JOB FAIR $400: With this job you get the sack before you start, & fill it with the Daily News or the Post a paperboy |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | JOB FAIR $2000: A typical homeowner's association has this position; Rosie Rios held it for the U.S. in 2016 treasurer |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | TOM & GERUND $800: Tom keeps getting fired from one job & landing a better one, a path called doing this upward falling (or failing) |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | THE SOVIET UNION $1,500 (Daily Double): Following the revolution Lenin gave him a job as commissar of nationalities but might have come to regret it Stalin |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $600: (I'm ABC News senior legal correspondent Sunny Hostin.) As a federal prosecutor, I received the Special Achievement Award from this U.S. Attorney General, the first woman to hold the job Janet Reno |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | THE POPES $800: He was the first pope to choose a double name but, sadly, only had 34 days on the job John Paul |
| #7413, aired 2016-11-30 | SPORTS EQUIPMENT $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) An NHL goalie wears a catch glove on one hand and this on the other; it's also a term describing the job of an NFL offensive lineman a blocker |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | NEVER PRESIDENT $800: She was a popular 20th century First Lady, & in a different era, might have eventually run for the job Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | CAREER DAY $1000: Despite the name, those in this job don't go door-to-door asking questions; they ascertain property boundaries a surveyor |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $200: In the old days of law enforcement, people might say, "There's a new shrieve in town" instead of this job sheriff |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $400: This worker who prepared tanned hides is a homophone of a modern word for a documents messenger a currier |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $600: In this job similar to a bard, you sang, played instruments & might have also recorded heroic deeds in song a minstrel |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | YE OLDE JOB FAIRE $1000: This word sounds like it applies to Noah, but it was a craftsman who made boxes or chests arkwright |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | DEPRESSING QUOTES $1200: It's famously said it's one of these "when a neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours" a recession |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | ANATOMICALLY TITLED LIT $400: A London bank job is at the heart of "The Red-Headed League", the second short story with this detective Sherlock Holmes |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | JOB, NOT JOB $600: We certainly appreciate a good scrivener, one of these a secretary (or writer) |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | JOB, NOT JOB $800: Q&A is what quiz shows serve up; QA usually stands for this job of making sure the product is up to snuff quality assurance |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | PICTURES THE WORD $400: Benny Goodman & Miles Davis had this job a bandleader |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $2000: We give a salute to this job, the chief steward of a great household majordomo |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | GETTING READY FOR THE OLYMPICS $2000: It's Thomas Bach's first Summer Games in this job; Jacques Rogge will be a tough act to follow head (or president) of the I.O.C. |
| #7322, aired 2016-06-14 | THE ENTERTAINER $1000: In "Being John Malkovich", John Cusack tells Catherine Keener he does this job in entertainment; she's unimpressed a puppeteer |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | THE OLD MAN & THE "C" $400: A grandson does this carrying job & doesn't mind shaving a few strokes off the old man's scorecard caddying (or caddie) |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: John Roberts' job that's a team of comic book superheroes Chief Justice League |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | SCIENCE UPDATE $200: A 2016 report says the world's food supply is in trouble with the decline of bees & others who do this important job pollinators |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | RANCHING AS IT WAS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from George Ranch Historical Park in Richmond, TX.) Vital to the ranch at the turn of the century was the town blacksmith, whose main job was to make and repair tools, wagons & household items, first by heating iron to over 1,000 degrees in a forage, then hammering & shaping it on this metal block an anvil |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | LITERARY MISCELLANIES $400: Anne Sexton & Karl Shapiro wrote for the Carleton Miscellany, symbolized by its imp who held this sooty job a chimney sweep |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS $1200: (Hi. I'm Mo Rocca.) I'm a frequent panelist on this weekly NPR news quiz show that includes the games Bluff the Listener & Not My Job Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: God compared the power of Job to this huge animal, kind of the land version of Leviathan a behemoth |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | I LOVE A SYMPHONY $1600: "Lamentation" is one movement of Leonard Bernstein's symphony named for this Biblical prophet Jeremiah |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $400: Rhyming adjective for a diverse group that gets a job done ragtag |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | POP QUIZ $2000: In 1930 he left the Boston Symphony to become conductor of the Boston Pops, a job he held for 49 years (Arthur) Fiedler |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | TIME OFF $1000: Considering that Dartmouth job? Remember, full-time faculty get this type of leave for 1 term after 9 terms of teaching a sabbatical |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | SINGLE S, DOUBLE S $200: A snack cake brand, or the job of a woman who seats you at a restaurant Hostess |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | "DO" $600: One of the greatest holders of this Venetian position was 85 & blind when he got the job a doge |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | IT'S A LIVING $400: Be like Mike--D'Antoni, that is--& you could have this sports job he's done in Phoenix & Los Angeles (NBA) coach |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | I NEED THE STRONG STUFF $600: Danny Strong wrote the movie starring Forest Whitaker as a man with this title White House job the butler |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Dr. Arnold delivers the clue.) Simulations are so realistic that in one scenario apparent respiratory distress helps team members learn to distinguish between an asthma attack & this allergen-induced condition in which blood pressure & oxygen levels drop, requiring emergency response anaphylactic shock |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $1200: F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 17 "Pat Hobby" stories about a down-&-out one of these writers, a job Scott knew well scriptwriter |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Porter on the train cars named for him was a good middle-class job, though you got called "George" whatever your name was (George) Pullman |
| #7192, aired 2015-12-15 | FIRST LINES $800: From the 1990s: "Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth..." Fight Club |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | WOMEN IN POLITICS $400: In 1974 Ella Grasso of Connecticut became the first woman elected to this job whose husband hadn't once held the job governor |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | MEDIEVAL JOB MART $400: You couldn't ditch work as a ditcher, part of the group that dug castle foundations & these defensive trenches a moat |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | MEDIEVAL JOB MART $800: This type of maid whose name comes from the Old French for "keeper of dishes" was a low-level worker a scullery maid |
| #7190, aired 2015-12-11 | MEDIEVAL JOB MART $3,000 (Daily Double): You started this job as a junior to a squire at 7 years of age; nice haircut! a page (boy) |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $400: If nose is your job title, you create these, perhaps for Guerlain perfumes (a scent accepted) |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Studies suggest that you can gain confidence before a job interview or be more successful at a work task by striking a pose for two minutes beforehand in imitation of Superman or this heroine, also known as Diana Prince Wonder Woman |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | DESPICABLE "ME" $200: She's just doing her alliterative job--it was you who parked too long a meter maid |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK $1000: In 2015 Christian Thielemann got the new job of music director at this festival, a shrine to Wagner the Bayreuth Festival |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | SPORTS IN LITERATURE $600: "Hot Money" by Dick Francis centers on Ian Pembroke, who does this sporting job a jockey |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | STARTS WITH "D" $1000: A clergy job ranking just below priest deacon |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | A SONG OF "ICE" & "FIRE" $1000: Job of one appointed to rule a country as the representative of a sovereign the viceroy |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | MAGAZINES $2000: 172-year-old British financial mag that's also a job The Economist |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: On January 20, 1801 he was nominated to be Chief Justice, a job he would retain for the next 34 years John Marshall |
| #7118, aired 2015-07-22 | JULES VERNE $1200: Though his mind was up in the clouds, in 1857 Verne began an earthbound job as one of these securities agents a stockbroker |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | MATERIAL $1000: A lowly British job of yore was the "rag and" this man; the rag was used in papermaking & this went into glue bone |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | "WORK" IT! $1200: Government benefits that require the recipient to perform a job workfare |
| #7079, aired 2015-05-28 | SUPERHERO DAY JOBS? $200: The Flash doesn't need a bike to excel at this message delivery job whose name comes from the French for "run" a courier |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | MOVIE PUNS $1600: In "Mr. Deeds" Adam Sandler asks how this job is going; the response is "It has its ups and downs" an elevator operator |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | NEWS ANCHORS $200: "The View" of her career in "20/20" hindsight shows she started as a news writer before her historic anchoring job Barbara Walters |
| #7060, aired 2015-05-01 | CARD TRICKS $800: Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh had an early job holding up these for a TV show cue cards |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | OCCUPATIONS $1600: Applying gel to pregnant ladies' tummies is part of the job of the technician with this 1-word job a sonographer |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | POLITICIANS $400: John Nance Garner held this job 1933-1941 & said it isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit" (or something else, in other sources) vice president |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | "UBE" JOB $400: A son of Jacob & a forefather of one of the tribes of Israel Reuben |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | "UBE" JOB $600: This adjective means relating to a state executive, not relating to peanuts gubernatorial |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | BOOK SYNOPSES $9,200 (Daily Double): Harvard Law grad Mitch McDeere takes a job with a mafia-connected law partnership The Firm |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | FAMILY MATTERS $800: Latin nepos, meaning a descendant, gave us this word for giving your descendant a job nepotism |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $400: The USA's average age for this job has been rising for 30 years, to 58.3 as of 2012--remember, it's Old MacDonald farmer |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $800: A Smithsonian online spotlight on this talent includes Robert Fulton & Isaac Singer an inventor |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $1200: This novelist of New York society lived & wrote from 1902 to 1912 in a house she also designed (Edith) Wharton |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $1600: Best Buy's Geek Squad has been called "the most famous" group doing this 2-word job that you can do from home tech support |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | A JOB WITH NO COMMUTE $2000: In 1982 automation eliminated this lonely job at Chatham on Cape Cod lighthouse keeper |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | JUST KIDDING $400: This "Price is Right" host: "Hate your job? There's a support group for that--it's called everybody. They meet at a bar" Drew Carey |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | TRANSLATE THE AUSTRALIAN, MATE $1200: Dave can't pick a job; first he was a "postie", now a "garbo", these 2 jobs a postman and a garbage man |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | 2 Ds & AN F! $800: Musical job preceding a type of beetle or crab fiddler |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $400: 2-word term for a crime committed by an employee of the victimized business inside job |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | SCOOPS $400: Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel "Scoop" is about how William Boot stumbles into success in this job a journalist |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | DOUBLE "O" $200: Lunar term for working a second job at night moonlighting |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | MAID, MARRYIN' $600: In a Christopher Marlowe poem, a "passionate" man with this job says, "Come live with me and be my love" a shepherd |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi. I'm Dr. Oz.) One of my favorite films is this 1967 movie with Sidney Poitier, who takes a teaching job in tough East End London To Sir, with Love |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | THE MOVIE MAN $1600: A fugitive takes the title job in the film within the film:
"The ____ Man" The Stunt Man |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | 1984 $800: In a first in Communist Poland, state agents were tried for killing Jerzy Popieluszko, a beloved man in this job Catholic priest |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: (George Stephanopoulos presents the clue.)
It's been said that Sam Seaborn on this TV drama was based on me, but actually, my job was a bit more like Josh Lyman's The West Wing |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | NSFW $800: No workers' comp for a worker who lost an eye sledgehammering this 3-holed sport sphere he found on a job site a bowling ball |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | RELIGIOUS & SECULAR HOMOPHONES $2000: A Bible book, or renowned orthopedic surgeon Frank Job / Jobe |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: Patrick Swayze gets a job as a bouncer at Vincent Price's unique museum Road House of Wax |
| #6906, aired 2014-09-29 | HIPPO CAMPUS $1600: Excitement in Bible class as we learn this creature that "drinketh up a river" in Job is thought to have been a hippo Behemoth |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | JOBS IN ART $2000: Horse painter George Stubbs sometimes added people--the guy shown here has this 5-letter horse-care job a groom |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | MY PRESENT GOVERNMENT JOB $400: Kathleen Sebelius, insuring America, one person at a time Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $600: ...thinks this actor did a fine job as Tom in the 1940 "Grapes of Wrath" movie Henry Fonda |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | THE SPANISH JOB $600: It adds up--a contador is one of these professionals an accountant |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | THE SPANISH JOB $800: An abogado advocates for you, because he is one of these a lawyer |
| #6873, aired 2014-07-02 | THE SPANISH JOB $1000: After what he did to the hedges, I might call my gardener a carnicero, one of these a butcher |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Popularized by a 1991 film, it's an educated but purposeless young person usually working in a dead-end job a slacker |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | MASTER CARD $800: In "Groundhog Day" Bill Murray has this job; that's why he comes to see the groundhog a weatherman |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | "BOARD" WALK $600: On "Downton Abbey" one footman's job is to stand by this piece of furniture that's often in a dining room a sideboard |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THAT'S MY JOB $200: Vintner a winemaker |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THAT'S MY JOB $400: Milliner a hatmaker |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THAT'S MY JOB $600: Terpsichorean a dancer |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THAT'S MY JOB $800: Apiculturist a beekeeper |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THAT'S MY JOB $1000: Metrist a poet |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | YOU HAD ONE JOB! $200: A fletcher aims to live up to his name origin by making these pointy objects arrows |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | YOU HAD ONE JOB! $400: A wainwright wrights these transports wagons |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | YOU HAD ONE JOB! $600: In the pages of Variety, a thrush is this a female singer |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | YOU HAD ONE JOB! $800: A funambulist balances work & play in this gig tightrope walking |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | YOU HAD ONE JOB! $1000: Latin for "hand" gave us this long word for a secretary an amanuensis |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | GOVT. MED. ABBREV. $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the acronym for the law that allows you to continue the coverage you had after you leave a job COBRA |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | 2001 $200: The new century put encyclopedia salesmen out of a job as January saw the arrival of this "free encyclopedia" Wikipedia |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | ADVERBS $400: The few non-LY adverbs include this one often found between "a job" & "done" well |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $400: This line follows "Mary had a little lamb" its fleece was white as snow |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $2,000 (Daily Double): This Robert Frost poem says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | THE ONE WHO KNOCKS $800: The N.Y. Daily News' review of "Glitter" told this singer, "Don't quit your day job"; the headline? "A Star Is Boring" Mariah Carey |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.)
"What was your most annoying job?"
"Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'" Chaucer |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | GUINNESS RECORDS 2014 $2000: Steve Sansweet, owner of a 300,000-item "Star Wars" collection, got a job at this company now part of Disney Lucasfilm |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | ENTERTAINERS $2000: In 2012 Forbes ran its first list of the highest-paid people in this job: $250,000-a-night man Tiesto led, with Skrillex No. 2 a disc jockey |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | OCCUPATIONS $800: This is a real job as well as the name of Purdue's mascot a boilermaker |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Geppetto's job woodcarver |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ETIQUETTE $400: When seeking a job, keep the cover letter to one page & this summary of your skills to one or 2 pages a résumé |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | THE ORIGINAL T-PAINE $800: A 1772 Paine work proposed a raise for excise officers, basically collectors of these--Paine's own job at the time taxes |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | FLYERS & FLYING $800: In 1933 this mogul took a job at American Airways as a co-pilot using the pseudonym Charles W. Howard Howard Hughes |
| #6740, aired 2013-12-27 | YOUR NAME IS PERFECT $200: L.A.'s Dallas Raines & New York's Amy Freeze have this job meteorologist |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | OCCUPATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "iron", this worker was similar to a blacksmith & often did a shod-y job a farrier |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | CAESAR $1000: In 85 Domitian gave himself a lifetime job as this--not stopping book publication but supervising Senate membership censor |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | A TIP O' THE "HUN" $800: It's a 2-word outlaw-capturing job for pay, dog a bounty hunter |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | BOTANY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The orchid here can be fertilized by only a few species of bees; luckily, nature manages to get the job done, producing this flavorful bean used in ice cream & baking vanilla |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | UNIFORMS $600: Employees working at Foot Locker dress in the uniform of someone in this other job a referee |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | MORE VOWELS $2000: Someone learning a new job--on a locomotive, it sounds like a trainee |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | ENTERTAINING OCCUPATIONS $1,800 (Daily Double): If you had this job in Japanese Bunraku theater, it was common to spend 15 years as a left arm operator a puppeteer |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | ANOTHER JACKSON 5 $200: In 1987 Lisa Jackson took a job with this govt. agency & oversaw Superfund industrial cleanup sites; in 2009 she became its leader the EPA |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | BETWEEN JOBS $400: In a Le Carre title it's the job after tailor & before spy soldier |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | TITLES & SUCH $400: In the U.S. "Esquire" is usually reserved for those in this job a lawyer |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | TITLES & SUCH $2000: After Haskell Wexler's name you might have seen ASC, the C for this movie job a cinematographer |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $400: Let's get you this govt. job... Wait! You're not 35 & you haven't lived in the U.S. at least 14 years, 2 of the 3 requirements president |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $800: Tim Cook took over for Steve Jobs as CEO of this tech company in 2011, but are you ready to step in... today?! Apple |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $1200: Think you can put on a few pounds & take over for Vince Wilfork, a 325-lb. defensive tackle for this Tom Brady-led team? Patriots |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $1600: Time to scrub in as a cardiothoracic surgeon, specializing in this organ along with the lungs heart |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | INTERESTED IN A JOB, KID? $2000: Crunch some numbers & go over deductions as a CPA, a certified public this accountant |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | AUTHORS $600: As a teenager in Missouri, he got a job as a writer on his brother's newspaper, the Hannibal Western Union Mark Twain |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ACTUAL POLICE BLOTTER REPORTS $400: "A deputy responded to a report of a vehicle stopping at mail boxes, it was" a guy with this job mailman |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $800: A hospital volunteer job, with accompanying uniform, for teenagers candy striper |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE $600: Jeff Feagles lasted until 44 at this job due to his skill in downing balls (554 of them) inside the 20 punter |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | GONE $2000: In the old days if someone held the job of a hostler, he was employed to tend these animals at an inn horses |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | I HAVE A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS $200: The act of parachuting into a forest fire gives this job its name smokejumper (or firejumper) |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | I HAVE A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS $600: Shut the door--I feel someone in this job, who converts designs into drawings and blueprints drafter |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | I HAVE A PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS $800: In this job, Scott Boras used his skills to get big bucks for A-Rod agent |
| #6621, aired 2013-06-03 | SEAN PENN $1600: Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, "all I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz & I'm fine" Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #6617, aired 2013-05-28 | YOU PAID FOR THIS AD $800: Navy ads once noted that "it's not just a job, it's" this an adventure |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | 15 MINUTES OF FAME $200: In 2010 Steven Slater was the man in this job who was fed up with passengers, took a beer & slid down an inflatable chute flight attendant |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | OLD JOBS $1000: A bygone job at least in most of the U.S., it's a tenant farmer who pays part of what he grows as rent a sharecropper |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | SCIENCE FICTION $1200: In 2010's "Blackout", people with this academic job are sent back from 2060 to do fieldwork in World War II history professors |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $1000: "What do you bring to the company?" My pet, a naked this... I have him with me today a mole rat |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: Her first job on the bench was as a judge in Maricopa County, Arizona in 1975; the Supreme Court came 6 years later Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | "BODY" LANGUAGE $800: Job of one whose body subs for a lead actor in a nude scene; I was Brad Pitt's... OK, who laughed?! a body double |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $600: Carel Fabritius, nice job on A View in Delft in this country; bummer about the powder explosion there that killed you the Netherlands |
| #6566, aired 2013-03-18 | PAN AM $400: In 1948 he quit his Pan Am pilot job & moved to L.A., where he used his aeronautical knowledge to create "Star Trek" (Gene) Roddenberry |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | DOUBLE N-DEMNITY $1600: This recent addition to English means a male whose job is child care a manny |
| #6563, aired 2013-03-13 | MOVIEMAKERS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew appears in a different top after passing through a set of doors.) The script supervisor's job is to spot errors in what's known as this consistent flow, like the mistake seen here continuity |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS $600: It's southeast of Amarillo; a person in this job passes the bull with a muleta; Olé! Matador |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB $400: Sam Malone,
Nick Miller a bartender |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | THE TV CHARACTER'S JOB $1600: Frank "Ponch" Poncherello,
Danny Reagan a cop (police officer) |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | ODDS & ENDS $800: goarmy.com has a section called "locate" this person whose job is to help you join up a recruiter |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | HOW NOBEL OF THEM $1,000 (Daily Double): He got his job at age 4; 49 years later, in 1989, he won a Nobel Peace Prize the Dalai Lama |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | WORK"ER"S $1000: At this job of making candy, Ted's a pro, though his job title starts with the opposite of "pro" confectioner |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | MAY "B" $400: Oh, Jeeves! It's the job title of a household's chief male servant a butler |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | EYE ON SPORTS $1000: On April 18, 1956 Ed Rommel became the first man with this job to wear eyeglasses during work (baseball) umpire |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | SOCIAL MEDIA $800: Top passwords stolen at a 2012 breach of this business resume site included "job", "career" & of course "link" LinkedIn |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | THANKS TO OUR "VET"s $200: 1940s job of the legendary Rosie a riveter |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $2000: A deceitful, planned operation is this 5-letter type of "job" a put-up |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | CONSERVATION $2,000 (Daily Double): Indonesia's largest lizard, it's protected from poachers, though we wish it could breathe fire to do the job itself a Komodo dragon |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $200: Send not to know for whom this tolls; a knoller tolled it for thee a bell |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $400: Hey, Don! Even mad men know a clerk who sold clothing & dry goods did this 6-letter job a draper |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $600: Like their brethren in West Virginia, colliers went down, down, down to work in this place a coal mine |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $800: There were wax & tallow subspecialties of this, a word meaning candlemaker chandler |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $1000: In the British army, a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant had this job, also the name of a comic book hero batman |
| #6497, aired 2012-12-11 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1600: A close pal or buddy; a political one often gets a plum job a crony |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. $1200: On August 1st, 2005, the President named this man to the job in a recess appointment (John) Bolton |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | USING YOUR JEOP-PS $600: (Sarah's voice reads the clue in a monotone fashion.) You have arrived at 50 West North Temple St. in Salt Lake City, home to this 3-word singing group the Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | GENERAL PRACTICE $400: In 1989 the first President Bush appointed him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; he had a different job with Bush 2 General Powell |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $200: When a surgeon calls, "Scalpel!" the person who hands it to him is a scrub one of these professionals a nurse |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $400: A Foxconn factory making iPads in this country has 240,000 workers & suicide prevention nets on the buildings China |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $600: Climbing spurs are useful to these people who fix the transmission wires of phone & power companies linemen |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $800: Often low on India's caste system, a chai wallah is one who makes this tea |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | IT'S A TOUGH JOB $1000: Roughnecking is tough, especially working on a semisubmersible one of these like the Deepwater Nautilus a drilling platform |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | NAME THAT BIBLE BOOK $1200: It has a 3-letter title in the King James version Job |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | ON THE JOB $200: Per his wife, Todd Palin is "a lifelong commercial" one of these on the seas a fisherman |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | ON THE JOB $600: If a glazier's coming to the White House, he's probably fixing one of the 147 of these a window |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | ON THE JOB $1000: The sartorius, our longest muscle, was named for being used in the cross-legged position of this type of worker a tailor |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | SLANG-UAGE $1600: All aboard this transport toting a topping for turkey--it means an easy, lucrative job the gravy train |
| #6448, aired 2012-10-03 | THE COURT OF ELIZABETH I $1600: Rodrigo Lopez, accused of being a poisoner & later executed, served the Queen in this job doctor |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | POLITICAL TERMS $1000: Folks in this job are called the "Boys on the Bus" after a book that documented the 1972 presidential campaign reporters |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $800: It's the job of someone charged with the maintenance of a golf course greenskeeper |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | "D" SCIENCE $1600: Fertilizing the queen is their only job a drone |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | CUTS LIKE A KNIFE $200: The official instrument of execution in France in 1792, it was still an option for the job until 1981 the guillotine |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | SHEEP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Tobruk Sheep Station in Australia.) A mythic figure in Australia is the person with this job of driving animals across vast distances; he was expected to move sheep 6 miles a day, which may not seem like much, until you try it drover |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: This verb from the Latin for "to be empty" means to leave a job or office, or the premises vacate |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | MEDICAL CONDITIONS $1600: Kidney failure means you need a transplant or to undergo this treatment that does a kidney's job dialysis |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | WHO WANTS TO BE A BILLIONAIRE? $200: Would you spend $90 million to keep your job? He did just that to claim a third term as NYC mayor Bloomberg |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $600: It was the occupation of Abigail Fillmore, the first wife of a president to hold a paying job after marriage a teacher |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | BRITISH DRAMA CHARACTER NAMES $400: In 1696 "The Relapse" featured characters like Sir Tunbelly Clumsy & Syringe, who has this job the doctor |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | A BIBLE BOOK FOR THEE $800: The Lord gave a guy the business in a big way; his days "are spent without hope" Job |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | THE 21st CENTURY $400: In 2009 C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger became a national hero after demonstrating his prowess at this job flying airplanes |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS $800 (Daily Double): In 1902 he got fired as a tutor, but family friend Marcel Grossman helped him get a job as a Swiss patent clerk Einstein |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | YOU'LL NEED INSURANCE $1000: Franz Kafka's day job was as a bureaucrat administering this type of compensation, like for accidents workmen's compensation |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | WANT ADS $1200: They're out there! We need you to go get 'em! Channel your inner Boba Fett or "Dog" Chapman in this 2-word job a bounty hunter |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | WANT ADS $2000: We have a primary need for this hyphenated job in our fancy French kitchen; only the head guy is your superior sous-chef |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | NAMETH THE BIBLE BOOK $2,600 (Daily Double): "They bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him" Job |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | SCULPTURE $800: In 1482 he asked the Duke of Milan for a job, saying, "I can further execute sculpture in marble, bronze or clay" da Vinci |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | WHAT'S UP, "ESSE"? $1600: Someone whose job is ironing clothes in a laundry a presser |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: To be fired from a job is "to get" this bladed tool the ax |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | RAILROADING 101 $1600: (Alex delivers the clue riding a train on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.) Around 1900, locomotives got so big, no fireman could keep up with this job, so a mechanical feeder was used, but I prefer to do it the old-fashioned way stoking |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | IS A DANGEROUS THING $400: OSHA says, "By many measures", this job using chain saws "is the most dangerous occupation in the United States" a logger |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $600: After his patience was tested, he was rewarded with a new family including 3 girls, Jemima, Kezia & Kerenhappuch Job |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The costume worn by this character may not seem to go with his title profession, but in his first scene he sings "Largo al factotum" & explains that he's also the apothecary, gardener & wig maker the Barber of Seville (Figaro) |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN $400: The day he left office after 10 years in 2007, he had a new job as a Mideast envoy (Tony) Blair |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | THE U.S. COAST GUARD $1200: One job of a USCG tender is inspecting & replacing buoys, fog signals, lights & other indicators, collectively called aids to this navigation |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO $400: Perry Mason an attorney |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO $800: Horatio Hornblower sailor (or officer) |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO $1200: Lew Archer a private investigator |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO $1600: Howard Roark an architect |
| #6207, aired 2011-09-20 | THIS IS A JOB FOR A HERO $2000: George Smiley the spy |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | GET A JOB! $200: A milliner makes & sells these; I believe the cloche is making a comeback hats |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | GET A JOB! $400: Take a note: a stenographer takes this in shorthand dictation |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | GET A JOB! $600: From the Greek for "to put off", an ecdysiast performs this tantalizing act a striptease |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | GET A JOB! $800: Hope you are a well-balanced person if you are a funambulist, this type of performer a tightrope walker |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | JOB DESCRIPTION $200: This doctor ministers to the health of your Maltese a veterinarian |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | JOB DESCRIPTION $400: A 6-letter waitress who brings burgers to your vehicle a carhop |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | JOB DESCRIPTION $600: Wal-Mart welcomer a greeter |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | JOB DESCRIPTION $800: The biblical Habakkuk was a "minor" one a prophet |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | "CHARM"ED, I'M SURE $1000: "Laborious" 4-word phrase for something that really gets the job done works like a charm |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | WHO'D YOU KILL TO GET THAT JOB? $600: I, this Roman emperor, may have been killed by my wife Agrippina in 54 A.D. so Nero could take over Claudius |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | WHO'D YOU KILL TO GET THAT JOB? $800: In 1040 Macbeth killed this king to take the throne of Scotland; there's a play in there somewhere... Duncan |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | "GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION $600: It's the rank just below (the very model of a modern) major general brigadier general |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | "GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION $800: The U.N.'s website says this job is "a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor" the Secretary-General |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | WEDDINGS $1000: That adorable 6-year-old niece is perfect for this job of scattering petals in the aisle a flower girl |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | JOB HUNTING $1600: In a 60-year-old man age really takes its toll on the body, no matter which sport he works in manager (in man age really) |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | JOB HUNTING $2000: Memories of Ms. Klausner include cups of tea cherished by her friends after class teacher (in tea cherished) |
| #6058, aired 2011-01-05 | IT'S TV, IT'S HBO $1000: Mary Lou got a new job in the 1998 finale of this Garry Shandling show--"Jeopardy!" contestant coordinator The Larry Sanders Show |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | JOB $400: In 1991 Bill Clinton was pulling down a salary of $35,000 a year in this job governor |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | JOB $1600: A jacket with gold braid & a "V" of buttons is named for this hotel fetcher & carrier a bellhop |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | JOB $2000: A seine may be part of the equipment in this job, the USA's most dangerous fishing |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | PORTUGUYS $200: Lisbon-born Pedro Juliao didn't last long on this Job; he was killed by a falling ceiling 8 months after becoming John XXI the pope |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | TAKE ME TO YOUR WORLD LEADER $1200: Get up, stand up, Governor General Patrick Linton Allen; they say he's a good mon for the job Jamaica |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | THE MAGIC DRAGON $2000: Peter MacNicol eventually gets this title job in a 1981 movie Dragonslayer |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | PRESIDENTIAL MAKEOVERS $200: V.P. for just 83 days before getting the top job, this chief exec goes for the ZZ Top--what a sharp dressed man Harry Truman |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | DRINKS ARE ON ME! $600: I get hot & thirsty reading clues all day; this is a job for this drink & its pitch-pitcher's cry of "Oh yeah!" Kool-Aid |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | MEDIEVAL JOBS $800: Surgery was one of the tasks in this job that we associate with taking a little off the top a barber |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | NICE "AB"s! $600: Heeeeey, this job title for the head of a monastery abbot |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | "TION" THE NONBELIEVERS $200: You fill one out to start the process of getting a job an application |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | "C-P-R" $1600: The person with this job adjusts body structures, like the spinal column a chiropractor |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO $1000: Demosthenes was much in demand in ancient Athens as a logographer, later this job of Ted Sorenson a speechwriter |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | VARIETY PACK $400: It's a slang term for a job for musicians, or a pronged spear used for fishing or catching frogs a gig |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | IF THE TV SERIES HAD A DOWNER ENDING $600: The one-armed man says, "It's about time I finished the job" & shoots Richard Kimble The Fugitive |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | THE BRADY BUNCH IN TODAY'S WORKFORCE $600: Peter, with his penchant for pork chops & apple sauce, was a natural for this job, like Sam a butcher |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | THE BRADY BUNCH IN TODAY'S WORKFORCE $1000: Remember the football incident? Today, Marcia specializes in performing this, the 11-letter term for a nose job rhinoplasty |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: "Monsieur LeCoq", about a Paris cop solving a mystery, is one of the earliest of this type of novel, also LeCoq's job detective |
| #5988, aired 2010-09-29 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $200: This 2-word term refers to someone whose tedious job requires a lot of writing & record-keeping a pencil pusher |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | THE SAME VOWEL, EVERY OTHER LETTER $800: A diamond salesman has this job a jeweler |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | CHESS PIECES $600: The piece that shares its name with a job in the Catholic church the bishop |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | JANET RENO'S DANCE PARTY $400: The real Janet Reno made a "Dance Party" appearance on Jan. 20, 2001, hours after she left this job Attorney General |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | RAY LaHOOD'S TRANSPO-LOOZA $1000: In announcing a program aimed at parents, Sec. LaHood said that one of these "cannot do its job if it's not used" the car seat (or the child safety seat) |
| #5971, aired 2010-07-26 | BIBLE WHO'S WHO $1200: The object of a wager between God & Satan; has a book named for him Job |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $600: No wonder Magnum had to borrow that Ferrari--the average annual wage for this job is $46,480 a private investigator |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | WAGES $800: Surgeons average a whopping $206,770 a year; these other cutters who covered the job in the Middle Ages, just $26,610 a barber |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | GEORGE WASHINGTON $1600: Before he was a military man & a president, George had this job, someone who maps out exact land boundaries a surveyor |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | SPEAKING FLUENT CANADIAN $1200: Not a cartoonist, he lost the P.M. job on May 22, 1979 but had it back by March 3, 1980 (Pierre) Trudeau |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | WORD PUZZLES $600: You might need it if you have a dangerous job life insurance |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | CLUES TO SECRET IDENTITIES $800: Spider-Man:
Follows "valet" in a job outside L.A. restaurants Parker |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | NOT GREAT WORK $2000: This adjective for a job badly done literally means "having loose footwear" slipshod |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $600: A change of job within a company that's not a promotion or demotion is this kind of side-to-side move lateral |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | SPORTS TALK $200: In baseball's American league, it's a player whose only job in the game is to bat for the pitcher as many times as needed the designated hitter |
| #5884, aired 2010-03-25 | I'M UNEMPLOYED $400: The website of the California DWC, the Division of Workers' this, has a link to "when I get hurt on the job" Compensation |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $1000: To join the group called his Daughters, girls must be between the ages of 10 & 20 & be related to a Master Mason Job's Daughters |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY... $6,000 (Daily Double): A main job of butterflies is this task whose name is derived from the Latin for "fine flour or dust" pollination |
| #5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $2000: The namesake of this brand of canned pasta was an Italian immigrant who got a job cooking at NYC's Plaza hotel Chef Boyardee |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ASSEMBLY LINE $200: (Alex looks over the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) I know it looks like a scene from a sci-fi film, but these robots are doing this important but hazardous job that helps keep some of the metal parts together welding |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ASSEMBLY LINE $800: (Alex leans against a partly completed car at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) Here's something you definitely want to have in your home workshop--it's a power assist arm to do the heavy lifting; today it's being used to install over 100 pound instrument clusters; it also helps prevent job-related injuries like RSS, which is this kind of stress syndrome repetitive |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | 21st CENTURY WOMEN $1000: She retired from a managerial job at Microsoft after marrying the boss & today she co-chairs their foundation Melinda Gates |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | NON-EDIBLE FRUIT TERMS $2000: This name of a fruit can also mean "highly desirable"; it's often found before "job" plum |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | THINGS WITH STINGS $1000: Xylocopa is this bee that chews holes in wood; it's named for a job that does more constructive wood work carpenter |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | A BEAUTIFUL MIND $400: Logician Saul Kripke said he refused a job offer from this Camb, Mass. Univ,: his mom wanted him to finish H.S. Harvard |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | I'VE GOT A COMPLAINT $1000: To file a federal job discrimination complaint, you can contact the EEOC, this government entity the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | IT'S A PROCESS $1200: This word follows "process" in the title of the person with the job of handing out summonses & subpoenas server |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | COMMERCIAL JINGLE LYRICS $1200: "They say a man should always dress for the job he wants, so why'm I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant" FreeCreditReport.com |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | A MIXED BAG $1000: He designed for Perry Ellis before designing under his own name:
CAR JOB SCAM Marc Jacobs |
| #5760, aired 2009-10-02 | COME SEE ABOUT "ME" $2000: This job of resolving disputes is one of U.S. News & World Report's 30 best careers for 2009 a mediator |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $1200: Day-O! This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe tallyman |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | YE OLDE JOBBE FAIRE $1600: If you want a job as a wainwright, you better know how to fix these wagons |
| #5754, aired 2009-09-24 | PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE HISTORY $1600: He could've said, "I'm sure Clement will do a good job --for an Oxford man" after Attlee beat him to become prime minister Churchill |
| #5748, aired 2009-09-16 | TROUBLE $1600: In the Old Testament, Eliphaz warns this patient guy that "man that is born of a woman is... full of trouble" Job |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | "GUN" SMOKE $400: A bird dog may lose its job if it's this, afraid of loud noises gun-shy |
| #5739, aired 2009-07-16 | BIBLE BASICS $1,500 (Daily Double): Appropriately, the name of this guy who suffered righteously comes from a Hebrew word meaning "persecuted" Job |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | GET OUTTA MY DREAMS $200: I get a faraway look in my eye when I think of holding this job, like Javier Perez de Cuellar & U Thant Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | ORDER IN THE SUPREME COURT $800: Going from a temp job to permanent employment, he's the only president who also served on the Supreme Court Taft |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | I'M FUNEMPLOYED $800: I'm working as this, the same job as Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat", & I get to organize all the social events a cruise director |
| #5729, aired 2009-07-02 | THE "DOG"S $1200: Someone put in charge to guard against theft, or just Cerberus' day job a watchdog |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WHAT'S YOUR FUNCTION? $200: In a beehive workers do all the work & these males have just one job: to mate with the queen drones |
| #5706, aired 2009-06-01 | HIDDEN AGENDA $600: A gendarme has this job in France police officer |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | ACTRESSES $1600: She didn't vamp it up & did a bella job as Em in "Adventureland" Kristen Stewart |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | WHAT'S ON TV? $800: Hey, Simon Baker plays this title crime solver on CBS; sure, he was a fraud in the past, but he gets the job done The Mentalist |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $400: A golf course worker who carries clubs & assists golfers a caddy |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $800: Not as superfluous as it sounds, it's a person with a nonspeaking background part in a movie an extra |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $1200: 11-letter word for one who acts for others in buying shares in a business or corporation a stockbroker |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $1600: A Japanese woman who plays classical Japanese music & performs traditional dances at private parties a geisha |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $2000: From the Latin for "goddess", it's a distinguished female opera singer a diva |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | 4 Es FOR THEE $400: Give me a "C" for this spectator-leading job at a pep rally! actually, give me the whole word! cheerleader |
| #5675, aired 2009-04-17 | JOE THE PLUMBER $200: Joe never goes on a job without his trusty this, aka a force cup or plumber's helper a plunger |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | "BUD" $1000: This person's job is to mediate between students & a university or between readers & a newspaper an ombudsman |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | JOURNALISTS $2000: This 2-word job of Tony Mauro sounds like he's a stenographer; he covers Scalia & friends for Legal Times court reporter |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | I'M LATIN INTOLERANT $800: Not that I care but...it means "for the time being"; you'll find it as part of a Senate job title pro tem |
| #5639, aired 2009-02-26 | BACK AT THE CBC $400: (Alex delivers the clue from back at the CBC.) From the Latin for "hearing", it's a short performance usually given when applying for a job; here's a clip of one of mine from the early 1960s
"And we've got John Livingston sitting somewhere in the Penetanguishene River up to his little rubber dinghy in scum as he watches the fish float down the river." an audition |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | GOVERNMENT ACRONYMS $200: The "E" in FEMA
(Do a heckuva job responding) emergency |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | WHAT AM I DOING IN NEW JERSEY? $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1910 this ex-Princeton Pres. was elected Governor of N.J. but served only 2 years before taking a new job Woodrow Wilson |
| #5614, aired 2009-01-22 | JOHNNY'S CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $1200: "So, no one told you life was gonna be this way, your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A." Friends |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | IT'S OK TO SAY IT BACKWARDS $400: A job, especially for a musician a gig |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | THE BIGGEST LOSER $200: Apparently, 15.7 million folks were fine with the job this president was doing; however, 22.8 million wanted a change with FDR (Herbert) Hoover |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | LIGHTNING YOUR LOAD $800: Roy Sullivan, who had this outdoorsy job, holds the Guinness record for being hit by lightning: 7 times a park ranger |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Like many CEOs, it's someone who spends close to every waking minute on the job a workaholic |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | DANCE FORMERS $400: Oh, the anguish! Ninette de Valois choreographed a 1931 work named for this biblical sufferer Job |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | 19th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $600: When the Paris stock exchange crashed in 1883, Paul Gauguin lost this day job, which changed his life a stockbroker |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | SOUNDS LIKE A GAME SHOW HOST $1000: He fought terrorism for Reagan, Clinton & Bush I, but accused Bush II of doing a terrible job Richard Clarke |
| #5477, aired 2008-06-03 | AT THE HOSPITAL $800: It's this person's job to knock you out in the O.R.
(without using a hammer) an anesthesiologist |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GET A JOB! $200: Day job of Michael Bloomberg & Antonio Villaraigosa a mayor |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GET A JOB! $400: For a ballet or a Broadway show, this person creates & arranges the dances a choreographer |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GET A JOB! $800: From the Greek for "to steer", it's a female employed in a home to teach children a governess |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GET A JOB! $1,000 (Daily Double): Lord, it's the occupation mentioned in the first line of the 23rd psalm shepherd |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GET A JOB! $1000: A chandler is someone who makes these illuminating items candles |
| #5450, aired 2008-04-25 | ATLAS $1200: Saying he needed a pad for his head, this hero tricked Atlas into reassuming his job of holding the heavens Hercules |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | MILKING COWS $200: I think I could do a better job of milking a cow than Nicole Richie & Paris Hilton did on this reality series in 2003 The Simple Life |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | FROM A TO Y $400: A monk may turn down your job offer due to a prior commitment in this type of monastery an abbey |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | WE PREDICT THE FUTURE! $200: On Jan. 20, 2009 this man will lose his $400,000-a-year (plus 50 grand in expenses) federal government job George W. Bush |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Left a good job in the city workin' for the man... whose fleece was white as snow", says this nursery rhyme rock song "Proud Mary Had A Little Lamb" |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: There's no business like shoe business if you're in this job; it's also a type of pie cobbler |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $200: CCR:
"Left a good job in the city..." "Proud Mary" |
| #5388, aired 2008-01-30 | THE "M.E."s $400: A coroner doesn't have to be a physician, unlike the person in this forensic job a medical examiner |
| #5349, aired 2007-12-06 | BUSH'S NICKNAMES $800: "Brownie" was Bush's famous nickname for the director of this from 2003 to 2005 FEMA |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $400: Well, goll-ly! He left his job & home in Mayberry to join the Marine Corps Gomer Pyle |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: The Times said in 2007 that August's ugly job market turn could be signaling one of these, the first since 2001 a recession |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | ODDS & ENDS $800: If you're a banderillero, your job is to taunt one of these a bull |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | STEIN TIME $400: In 1902 he took a job in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland; 19 years later, he won a Nobel prize Einstein |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | LET'S VISIT INDIA $1000: A job you might want to try in India is as a mahout, a keeper of these large animals elephants |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | THE "WASH" ROOM $400: An entry-level restaurant job or a labor-saving appliance that does the same thing a dishwasher |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEN OF LETTERS $800: In Richardson's epistolary novel, "Pamela" is a girl with this job resisting the advances of her mistress' son a serving maid |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PRESIDENTIAL HUMOR $2000: This "hope"ful president said the job is like running a cemetery: a "lot of people under you, but nobody's listening" Bill Clinton |
| #5258, aired 2007-06-20 | EVERYONE'S A CRITIC $400: In the "Republic", he criticized the job of painter as just a "creator of appearances...what he creates is untrue" Plato |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | MUSIC $1200: This string instrument got its name from its old job of playing along with other instruments low notes a double bass |
| #5233, aired 2007-05-16 | THAT'S "ODD" $800: A Bond villain knows it means to work at a series of unrelated, low-paying positions odd job |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | THEY'RE FROM USC $400: (Hi, I'm Leonard Maltin.) I teach film at USC, but I'm also the resident film buff on this syndicated TV show about show biz--a job I've held since 1982 Entertainment Tonight |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts $200: Send your resume in a 9x12 envelope, & remember, a first-class postage stamp is going up to this price in May 2007 41 cents |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts $400: On a job application, under "sex", don't write "okay" & don't overuse this first-person singular pronoun I |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts $600: Don't assume a woman interviewer is married; use this title that came into usage in the 1970s Ms. |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts $800: If you email your resume, make sure the attachment doesn't contain this infectious computer agent virus |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | GETTING A JOB DOs & DON'Ts $1000: On a cover letter don't be this, repetitive, from the Latin for "overflow"; you shouldn't, it's important not to redundant |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE HERMIT $800: Take pride in your hermitting choice; St. Celestine left this high-powered job to return to being a hermit & never looked back Pope |
| #5212, aired 2007-04-17 | OTHER WORKS BY HANDEL $800: It's the job of Acis, who woos Galatea in a Handel pastoral masque shepherd |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | JOB $400: A perfumer's job has this "anatomical" name, & one of them reportedly had his insured for $3 million a nose |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | JOB $800: Max McCalman is a maitre fromager--an expert on this--& he's written a "Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Best" cheese |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | JOB $1000: To become a tatter, you'll have to learn to make the delicate handmade type of this fabric lace |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | ORIGINAL PRANKSTA $400: On April 1, 1992 NPR reported that this disgraced U.S. president was running again for the job, prompting a flood of calls Nixon |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | ST. PATRICK'S DAY $600: In his 6 years as a slave, Patrick held this farm job, tending to his first flock shepherd |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | 1840 $600: This big Whig is elected president of the U.S. in November; he enjoyed the job for a short time Willam Henry Harrison |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | FINISH THE REALLY LOOSE RHYME $200: This man doesn't strike me as a guy whose life is fun-filled /
Especially since he lost his job; farewell to Mr.... Rumsfeld |
| #5168, aired 2007-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books in this classic by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | THE "PROM" $800: It's an advancement in rank or position; you'll definitely want to get one at your job a promotion |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | ALSO A PRO SPORTS TEAM $1600: Job title of Susan Collins, Carl Levin & Barack Obama Senators |
| #5155, aired 2007-01-26 | THIS CATEGORY IS FULL OF BEANS $1000: In 1981, this astronaut gave up his day job & became a painter of pictures like the one seen here Alan Bean |
| #5118, aired 2006-12-06 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Job of the man who oversees the movement of vessels in a port the harbormaster |
| #5117, aired 2006-12-05 | A NEW HAT $1200: Today a toque, a tall, close-fitting white hat, is mainly associated with this job a chef |
| #5111, aired 2006-11-27 | THE 5th BEATLE $400: After being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, this man got a job in a bakery & then became a civil servant Pete Best |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | STAN THE CONTRACTOR $800: Stan follows the unwritten contractor code: no matter the job, always say it'll take a fortnight, this long, to do two weeks (14 days) |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | WEBSITES $800: This online job search website has a section to meet its characters, including Swoop & 'Cruiter Monster (or monster.com) |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | FACES OF AMERICA $400: He instituted the ultimate top ten list as a part of his job J. Edgar Hoover |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ALL THE KING'S MEN $800: A little birdie told me in 1669 Charles II gave him the important architectural job of Surveyor of the King's Works Christopher Wren |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | TURN ME LEWIS $200: The father of John L. Lewis, first president of the CIO, had this job back in Wales a coal miner |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | JEOPORTMANTEAU! $400: Commander-in-chief plus a job with teeth presidentist |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $1600: Hebrew for "beasts", this "B" word for something huge derives from the name of a beast in the Book of Job behemoth |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | DRAMATISTS $1200: A year after he wrote "Candida", he became a drama critic for the Saturday Review, a job he held for 3 1/2 years Shaw |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | LOST ART $1000: In the 1972 book "Working", a man with this music-related job says computers can't replace the human ear--sorry, pal piano tuner |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | "-ICIAN" EXPEDITION $400: Job whose traditional obligations include kissing babies a politician |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | VICE PRESIDENT... THE SITCOM! $1,000 (Daily Double): In tonight's episode, "Take This Job & Shove It", he quits as a power line worker to attend the Univ. of Wyoming Cheney |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Hastert's job before joining the Dutch royal family & starting a Roman leader's fruit drink chain Speaker of the House of Orange Julius (Speaker of the House of Orange Julius Caesar accepted) |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PAINT JOB $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew dabs some red paint on a fresh canvas.) As it's water-based, this major type of artistic paint dries fast, so I have to get it right the first time acrylic |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THEY SAID IT IN 2005 $400: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" George Bush |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PAINT JOB $400: Gloss & semigloss are this type of paint, also a decorative baked-on coating enamel |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PAINT JOB $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew rolls some green paint over a canvas.) A type of paint that gives just a slight gloss is named for this slightly glossly product of the animal world eggshell |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | PAINT JOB $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a roughly-textured canvas.) Just as it sounds, this Italian term refers to laying on paint with a paste-like thickness impasto |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | BY THE NUMBERS $1000: In this job James K. Hahn made $181,317.79 more a year than his predecessor, Richard Riordan, who took $1 mayor of Los Angeles |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | EARLY AMERICA $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) The shipping of goods such as flour & wine, vital to cities like Portsmouth, depended on the skill of the men with this job of making barrels a cooper |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | "UNDER" $1200: Rip Torn originally had this job backing up the role of Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" & later got the role himself understudy |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | YOUR FRIENDLY MILITARY RECRUITER $800: Though this job of controlling the course comes from the Latin for "ship", you can be one for an Air Force plane a navigator |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | ANIMAL ADVERSARIES SPEAK $2000: "I'm doing my job guarding treasure when this king & Wiglaf protect a thief & come after me! It burns me up!" Beowulf |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | ELVIS FILM ROLES $200: 1964:
Race car driver Lucky Jackson, who gets a job as a waiter in a casino Viva Las Vegas |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | PLAYING DOCTOR $600: It's the fancy 11-letter term doctors use for a nose job, to sound smart & justify the 10 grand cost rhinoplasty |
| #4907, aired 2006-01-03 | HACKER CINEMA $1000: Seth Green invents an algorithm to change the color of traffic lights in this 2003 L.A. heist film The Italian Job |
| #4905, aired 2005-12-30 | "SPIN" CITY $400: The PR guy whose job it is to put bad news in the best possible light a spin doctor |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | BOBSLEDDING $1000: A 2-man bobsled team consists of a pilot & this job, also found on railroads a brakeman |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: Vice president from 1933 to 1941, he's best remembered for his acerbic quips about the job's worthlessness John Nance Garner |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | '70s POP CULTURE $1200: You could say this French Olympian went downhill as a ski instructor turned thief in the 1972 film "Snow Job" Jean-Claude Killy |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | ON THE JOB TRAINING $200: Job's troubles are the result of a conversation between these 2 speakers God & the Devil |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | ON THE JOB TRAINING $400: Job is covered in Harold Kushner's book "When" these "Happen to Good People" (a possible title for the Book of Job) Bad Things |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | COMPUTER TERMS $400: A spooler, a program that puts jobs in a queue to be done one at a time, is usually associated with this type of job printing |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | ON THE JOB TRAINING $700 (Daily Double): A line in Job, "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee", is the title of the epilogue to this 19th century novel Moby Dick |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | ON THE JOB TRAINING $1000: "Job's" this has become a proverbial expression for one who tells you your problems are your own fault comforter |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | AMAZING SPORTS RECORDS $2000: In this key job, preparing horses, Ben Jones brought a record 6 horses to the Kentucky Derby winner's circle trainer |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | STATE "NC" $1600: In the movie "Orange County", Lily Tomlin has this 2-word job & messes up Colin Hanks' transcripts a guidance counselor |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | OCCUPATIONS $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a paper spreadsheet.) In an old-fashioned ledger book, I'm keeping track of money coming in & going out like someone in this job an accountant |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | IN THE BIBLE $800: "Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" he asks in chapter 7 of his book Job |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | SPANISH $1,000 (Daily Double): A flamboyant & risky job, it's also a word that means "killer" matador |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | STARTS WITH A PRONOUN $400: In this job, at a wedding, you'll be called upon to ask, "Friend of the bride or groom?" usher |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | ROBERT BURNS $800: This was Burns' day job, hence the rustic touch to his poetry a farmer |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | THE JOB INTERVIEW $200: A weakness? I can be too much of this kind of "player" & not standup of the individual credit I deserve a team player |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | THE JOB INTERVIEW $400: I'm not only a go-getter but also this other alliterative term that means I don't need a push self-starter |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | THE JOB INTERVIEW $1000: I am a people person, but still keep an appropriate distance as this, from the Latin for "over" & "see" supervisor |
| #4765, aired 2005-04-29 | SIDESHOW CINEMA $1600: Tyrone Power descends to a job as a carnival geek in this 1947 release Nightmare Alley |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $800: In 2001 a S.F. Chronicle writer defended Pres. Bush's vacation by pointing out that W. has this type of job high pressure |
| #4757, aired 2005-04-19 | OCCUPATIONAL NAMES $400: This name of a "Sound of Music" actor has the same origin as the job of fixing pipes (Christopher) Plummer |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $200: A CCR title:
"Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | PLAYING THE BUFFOON $400: In a 1960 comedy, a bumbling Jerry Lewis has this title job at the Fontainebleau Hotel The Bellboy |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | G.I. JOE $400: 1967's female G.I. Jo(e), now worth thousands in mint condition, wasn't a warrior but had this caring job a nurse |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BEFORE & AFTER JOBS $400: He has the simple job of controlling a "Wizard of Oz" character with whip & chair the Cowardly Lion tamer |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES $400: "I don't think they chose me because... it was time for a black Miss America. They... thought I could do the job" (Vanessa) Williams |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | IT'S A JOB $200: Dark forearms from wearing a T-shirt are often called this rural occupation's "tan" farmer |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | IT'S A JOB $400: To face a lesser criminal charge, do this to "a plea" cop |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | IT'S A JOB $600: To falsify, like evidence, or deface, like a baseball doctor |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | IT'S A JOB $800: To arrange or contrive an outcome engineer |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | IT'S A JOB $1000: To attend to others' needs, religious or not minister |
| #4711, aired 2005-02-14 | A CUP OF KOFI $800: Kofi Annan's first job in the U.N. was in 1962 as an administrator & budget officer of this "organization" the World Health Organization |
| #4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CAREER DAY $600: A Latin word for "beasts of burden" gave us the name of this medical specialty, a dream job for animal lovers veterinarian |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | "A" IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: Romeo buys poison with which to kill himself from a minor character with this job title apothecary |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Dexter Pratt, a neighbor of Longfellow, had this job (& presumably, sinewy hands) blacksmith |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THEATRE TALK $1600: An actor changes costumes with a little help from this person whose job title is also the name of a piece of furniture a dresser |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | THEY PASSED $2,000 (Daily Double): Tired of wearing a leather jacket for his ABC-TV day job, he passed on the lead in the movie "Grease" Henry Winkler |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | BRITISH POETS LAUREATE $2000: John Masefield got the job with lines like "All I ask is" one of these "and a star to steer her by" a tall ship |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | SOUNDS LIKE A SIMPSONS CHARACTER $2000: No clowning on this job where you're responsible for administering the funds of, say, a philanthropy trustee |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | THROWING A GOOD BOOK AT YOU $200 (Daily Double): Out of the whirlwind, God tells him to "Gird up thy loins now like a man" in Chapter 40 of his book Job |
| #4659, aired 2004-12-02 | BEN FRANKLIN $600: This job Ben got in 1753 helped his business, as described here Postmaster |
| #4653, aired 2004-11-24 | NAMES FROM THE GERMAN $13,200 (Daily Double): In English it means "truthful"; in German it's "Frenchman" Frank |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | X GAMES $800: In Britain, if you need these well-placed friends to land a job, they'd be spelled with an X instead of the CT connections |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FIND A JOB, KID $400: Title occuptation of Figaro in a Rossini opera Barber |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FIND A JOB, KID $800: From the old English for "House Guard", it's the old term for a male flight attendant steward |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FIND A JOB, KID $1200: These two words, synonyms for insurers & morticians, both begin with "under" underwriters and undertakers |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FIND A JOB, KID $2000: Somebody whose job it is to control a fleet of vehicles like taxis by radio communication dispatcher |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FIND A JOB, KID $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this job comes from the Greek for "dance writing" choreographer |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | A WORLD OF BOOKS $1200: Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" (P.D.) James |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | COACH $200: In this baseball job your duties include needling A-Rod, waving runners home & handing out butt pats third-base coach |
| #4631, aired 2004-10-25 | LAW REVIEW $400: On "The Practice" Rebecca started at this job, not a lawyer but one authorized to use legal skills a paralegal |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | GET A JOB! $200: "Aim high" & get a job in this branch of the military & you might have to memorize their slogan "Aim High" the Air Force |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | GET A JOB! $400: Maybe you wanna be like Pat Sajak, Wink Martindale or Bob Barker & get this gig (hey, not so fast, kid!) a game show host |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | GET A JOB! $600: An occupation where you make or mend clothes might be this-made for you tailor |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | GET A JOB! $800: You may file a writ of habeas corpus for your client if you decide to go into this profession law |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | GET A JOB! $1000: You'll either be a sturdy fixer of leaky pipes or, maybe, a fixer of a company's news leaks if you wade into this job a plumber |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | HOCKEY $600: (Tie Domi and Alex Trebek pose together on the ice.) Any player who messes with me will deal with Tie Domi, who has this job--also the name of a "Dirty Harry" film enforcer |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | THE OLYMPICS $1000: The youngest competitor at the 1992 Barcelona games was an 11-year-old who did this job in a shell coxswain |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | BLOGS $1200: The Lycos blog posted a link to a job listing for an entertainment liaison in this newest Cabinet department Homeland Security |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | WEBSITES $800: At him online.com, visitors have hit a link to his golf club, applied for a job on his NBC show & basked in his excess Trump |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | SHAKESPEARE, THE SITCOM $800: Her new job as a marriage counselor drives hubby Othello a little crazy in "The Moor the Merrier" Desdemona |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | INDEPENDENT FILMS $800: Title job of Dante & Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film clerks |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | "DIAMOND"s IN THE ROUGH $2000: This lavish-living turn-of-the-century financier rose from a job as a bellhop Diamond Jim Brady |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Agatha Christie called a man in this job "the best husband... the older she gets, the more interested he is" an archaeologist |
| #4512, aired 2004-03-30 | I PITY THE FOOL $1600: This book of the Bible says, "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit" Proverbs |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | "SNOW" JOB $800: To make one of these, (1) Lie down face up in the snow with arms outstretched, & (2) Flap your arms & legs a snow angel |
| #4498, aired 2004-03-10 | "SNOW" JOB $1200: The epigraph of this Hemingway story says that the "frozen carcass of a leopard" lies on an African peak The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | ON THE JOB $400: A cobbler doesn't bake fruit pies, he mends these shoes |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | ON THE JOB $1200: One may press your suit at home or park your car at the restaurant a valet |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | ON THE JOB $2000: A hod carrier is the assistant to this, a 5-letter term for one who works mortaring bricks, tile & stone mason |
| #4451, aired 2004-01-05 | WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THE MOVIES? $400: Born in South Africa, this female star of "The Italian Job" was discovered in line at a Hollywood bank Charlize Theron |
| #4414, aired 2003-11-13 | SUMMER JOBS $400: The Red Cross website lists people trained for this summertime job who've become heroes as a result lifeguard |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | ABBR. $800: EOE in a job listing in the newspaper classifieds stands for this equal opportunity employer |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | ABBREVIATE IT! $800: MP can either be a Member of Parliament or this job in the Army military police |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | OCCUPATION HAZARDS $400: If this is you're job you'd be fired if this clue go t by you uncorected proofreader |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | OCCUPATION HAZARDS $600: In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar dental hygienist |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | OCCUPATION HAZARDS $1000: If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel pickler |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | TOUGH JOBS $200: To write the book "Newjack", Ted Conover spent a year in this job at Sing Sing corrections officer |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | TOUGH JOBS $600: A 2002 study found this job, perhaps on the Dogger Bank, is Britain's riskiest profession fisherman |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AWARDS $1200: The award seen here, named for a man killed on the job, is given for this type of work journalism |
| #4392, aired 2003-10-14 | BODY LANGUAGE $400: When Daily Variety reports that a studio's prexy has ankled, it means its president did this left the job |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | WINTER SPORTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Job of Wayne Maki, Dave Forbes & Tiger Williams, who each made news when charged with criminal assault hockey player |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | PIRATES $400: The main job of a pirate, "to take things by force", it's from a German word plunder |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | FEMININE TERMS $2,000 (Daily Double): With the Restoration, this feminine term became a permissible job in England in the 1660s actress |
| #4330, aired 2003-05-30 | THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA $1600: A type of adhesive tape is named for this job, the chief electrician on the set gaffer |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SOUNDS LIKE A TV DETECTIVE SHOW $200: Working at night in addition to your full-time day job Moonlighting |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | POWER TO THE PEOPLE $4,200 (Daily Double): If Bram had wanted to give up writing, he could have gotten this job of adding fuel to a ship's furnace stoker |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | GIRL SCOUT BADGES $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1926 a Girl Scout could earn a badge for this job, sung about on the 8th day of Christmas dairy maid ("eight maids-a-milking") |
| #4251, aired 2003-02-10 | DISNEY FILM VOICES $200: You could say it was a "snow job" when teenage Adriana Caselotti was picked to play this heroine of a 1937 film Snow White |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: If you needed a railway tunnel dug, you could call on this American folk hero -- it was his job John Henry |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | BIBLICAL ZOO $600: Yaanah in Hebrew, this big bird that lays a big egg pops up in Lamentations & Job ostrich |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | ROCKET MAN $600: His job as a test subject for space sickness on a 1985 shuttle flight got him dubbed "Barfin' Jake" in "Doonesbury" Senator Jake Garn |
| #4217, aired 2002-12-24 | HORSING AROUND $200: It makes a blacksmith's job much easier that this part of the horse has no nerves hoof |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's a notice of dismissal from a job pink slip |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | I GET NO KICK FROM CAMPAIGN $400: He was the first person to be runner-up in a U.S. Presidential election & then later win the job John Adams |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | OLD JOBS $2000: Change the first letter in "butler" to get this old job of selling provisions to soldiers a sutler |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | GET A JOB! $200: A cobbler is someone who fixes or makes these shoes |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | GET A JOB! $400: It's the 10-letter name for the job heard here in action auctioneer |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | GET A JOB! $600: It's the occupation of the vast majority of the 2.7 million members of the NEA teachers |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | GET A JOB! $800: Ironically, it was the occupation of the father & both grandfathers of Friedrich "God is dead" Nietzsche ministers |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | GET A JOB! $1000: A wainwright is someone who builds or fixes these transports wagons |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | TAKE THIS JOB $800: 6-letter word for a treasurer, especially at a university bursar |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | QUESTIONABLE DATES OF BIRTH $800: A 32-year-old actress pretending to be 19 got a job writing for this WB TV show about a college girl Felicity |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | TAKE THIS JOB $1000: A worker on a film knows P.A. usually stands for this, not Pennsylvania production assistant |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cincinnati.) Before ascending to the presidency, the only job Taft was voted into was as one of these in Ohio Superior Court judge |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | FROM THE GET "GO" $400: An employee who runs errands; it's a Grandy job to have gopher |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | MUSICAL NUMBERS $2000: This song by the Vogues begins, "Up every mornin' just to keep a job, I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob" "Five O'Clock World" |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | IT'S A FACT $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) This common last name comes from the job of the craftsman I'm with Smith |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | "J" WALKING $400: A short moment of time to make popcorn "pop" or to get a "lube" job jiffy |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1000: This heroine is "barely eighteen" when she seeks a new job as a governess (& finds one, with Mr. Rochester) Jane Eyre |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | A DAY TO REMEMBER $1200: This TV star began his most famous job October 1, 1962 & worked his last day on it May 22, 1992 Johnny Carson |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | MINNEAPOLIS $1000: In 2002 Eiji Oue left his job as director of one of these in Minneapolis, like Seiji Ozawa did in Boston a symphony |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE $400: Your job options include teacher & this related job of the heroines in "Jane Eyre" & "Vanity Fair" governess |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | ALL THE PRESIDENTS' MEN $2000: In 1989 he made a touchdown scoring the job of HUD Secretary (Jack) Kemp |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MONSTERS INC. $800: The Book of Job asks if this sea monster can be drawn out with a hook, or his tongue with a cord the Leviathan |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | ENDS IN "TH" $600: Something enormous in size, such as the land animal mentioned in the book of Job a behemoth |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | UP WORDS $400: An armed officer whose job is preventing air piracy is called an air marshal or this "marshal" a sky marshal |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | GET A JOB! $200: From the Latin for "beard", it's someone who might trim your beard a barber |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | GET A JOB! $400: (Sofia is wearing some protective headgear.) Also called an appearex, it's the occupation that requires the safety equipment I'm wearing a beekeeper |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | GET A JOB! $600: It's not someone who tends to the skin of cabs, it's someone who stuffs & mounts animals a taxidermist |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | GET A JOB! $800: It was the day job of James Herriott, the author of "All Creatures Great and Small" a veterinarian |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | GET A JOB! $1000: These public "officers" are certified to take depositions & certify documents a notary |
| #4029, aired 2002-02-21 | FRUIT $600: Extremely desirable, as a job or reward plum |
| #4024, aired 2002-02-14 | RECENT CINEMA $1600: As astronaut Leo Davidson in this film, Mark Wahlberg utters the line "Never send a monkey to do a man's job" Planet of the Apes |
| #4021, aired 2002-02-11 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: It's what you're actually doing if you're just out of school & "pounding the pavement" trying to find a job |
| #4019, aired 2002-02-07 | ABBREVIATIONS $1000: On a job application: DOB date of birth |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | O BROTHER $400: In 1961 his brother John got him a new job--Attorney General Robert Kennedy |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | ON THE JOB $1200: From the Latin for "doorkeeper", it's the common term for the general custodian of a building janitor |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | WHEN YOU'RE AN ADULT $400: As a natural-born citizen, when you're 35 you can run for this cush job now filled by number 43 the President |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | THAT ZANY SCREWBALL COMEDY $400: Heiress was a common job for screwball-comedy women like this actress in "It Happened One Night" Claudette Colbert |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $4,000 (Daily Double): Probably written by Jeremiah, this book is in the form of a 5-poem dirge Lamentations |
| #3907, aired 2001-09-04 | MORE POWER TO YOU $100: 2-word term for the job that takes you to homes to figure out how much people owe the power company a meter reader |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | FACES IN HISTORY $300: A senator before he was vice president, he ran for the top job a few years later Walter Mondale |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | GENESIS BASICS $1,000 (Daily Double): In Genesis 40 he takes a job as a dream interpreter Joseph |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL $1000: "Give us" these "and we will finish the job" The tools |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | IT'S A MYSTERY $300: Day job of the mystery-solving character Roger Dowling Priest |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $200: Employee relations manager is a job in this field abbreviated HR Human resources |
| #3813, aired 2001-03-14 | MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS $800: Abbreviation for a job that has replaced coroner in many areas; it might have its own award M.E. (Medical Examiner) |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | IT TAKES "TOO" $200: For most of his life, Larry Fine had a job as one of these Stooge |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $500: "I cannot offer you money, position or fame", he said when he offered George Washington Carver a job at Tuskegee Booker T. Washington |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | THAT'S SO CLICHE! $600: One who endures a severe & prolonged hardship has "the patience of" this Old Testament guy Job |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A FIREFIGHTER $500: In Anchorage, you must be certified as an EMT 1 or as this related job Paramedic |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 $200: "There was a man in the land of Uz..." Job |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | REPETITION AGAIN $800: How a dramatist is paid, or a job for a sports announcer Play-by-play |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1000: Seen here, this woman did quite a "smashing" job during her crusade against liquor: Carrie Nation |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | GET A JOB $200: He'll press a gentleman's suit, or "Park ya car, mister?" at a restaurant a valet |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | GET A JOB $400: Sounding like a guy who ranks medicines, it's someone who runs a museum a curator |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | GET A JOB $800: Back in the '60s, it was the name given the data entry clerk who worked with the item seen here a keypunch (or a punch card operator) |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | GET A JOB $1000: It's from the Greek for "word writer" -- just look it up in his book a lexicographer |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | GET A JOB $1,500 (Daily Double): Add an "N" to the name of an "Addams Family" character to get this "dead"ly job a mortician |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | GET A JOB ALREADY! $200: You can charge the neighbors 3 bucks simply to do this or $30 if you add detailing, light waxing & Armor-Alling wash the car |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | GET A JOB ALREADY! $400: From Middle English for "business" or "message", you can pick up some cash "running" these for busy people errands |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | GET A JOB ALREADY! $600: This occupation consists of perambulating with basenjis & schnauzers walking the dogs |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | GET A JOB ALREADY! $800: When she was 11, Courtney Darwin was one of these for the San Francisco Giants, not the Gotham City Superheroes bat girl |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | GET A JOB ALREADY! $1000: Medieval job choices for kids were limited, but there was this one of trainee & servant of a knight page |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | THAT 1870s SHOW $1000: Larry tries to get a job with this New York Tribune founder, who tells him to get out of his office & go west: Horace Greeley |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | JOHN HANCOCK $500: To tell the veritas, John did a lousy job as treasurer of this college, his alma mater Harvard |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | SONGS' OPENING LINES $200: Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #3618, aired 2000-05-03 | GREAT SCOTS! $300: This author was named chancellor of the U. of Edinburgh in 1930, a job he may have thought he'd never-never-land James M. Barrie |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SUM-MERS $500: In 1676, the year after discovering calculus, he began a 40-year-long job as court librarian in Hanover Gottfried Leibniz |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | 4-LETTER WORDS $300: By its name, it's what your title has to be to have a job in this "House": Lord |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | OBVIOUS ANSWERS $200: William Tyler Page, who wrote "The American's Creed" that the House adopted in 1918, had this job there in 1881 Page |
| #3570, aired 2000-02-25 | WORDS WE DON'T USE ENOUGH $300: A backstress is a woman with this job (you might "knead" one in your neighborhood) Baker |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | COME ON, LIT HAPPY $1000: A job as an astrology columnist helped pay the bills for this author of "The Dunwich Horror" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #3556, aired 2000-02-07 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $200: While he rarely appears in the Senate, it's his job to cast the deciding vote when there's a tie vice president |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | GET A JOB $100: By definition, this type of "cook" specializes in food that has to be prepared quickly Short order cook |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | GET A JOB $200: Usual term for the pianist at a solo vocal recital Accompanist |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | GET A JOB $300: The April week & day honoring these workers were first sponsored by Dictaphone Secretaries |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | GET A JOB $400: Term for one who agrees to perform a task; a "general" one puts up buildings Contractor |
| #3550, aired 2000-01-28 | GET A JOB $500: This worker always takes panes, & spends his days fitting them into windows Window glazier |
| #3522, aired 1999-12-21 | A SESSION WITH DR. JOYCE BROTHERS $300: (Dr. Joyce Brothers delivers the clue.) Hmm. You get to your job early, stay late, won't delegate & have no friends -- you may be this type of "holic" a workaholic |
| #3514, aired 1999-12-09 | WILD WEST TALK $600 (Daily Double): A stagecoach guard with this double-barreled job title often sat up front with the driver riding shotgun |
| #3494, aired 1999-11-11 | OLD EGYPT $1000: We know from people with this job that Prince Khaemwase, a son of Ramses II, had been one too archaeologist |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | TEENS IN LITERATURE $1000: 18-year-old Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago & gets a job in a shoe factory in this Theodore Dreiser novel "Sister Carrie" |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | STAR TREK: VOYAGER $300: (Hi, I'm Ethan Phillips.) Neelix was given this job so that we could save the power the food replicators required chef |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | GIVE ME AN "A"! $800: It's the job of designing buildings, from schools to stadiums Architecture |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | BRIAN THE BABY BOOMER $400: In the '80s, Brian took a job with this defense contractor whose name means "light from the gods" Raytheon |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: For musicians, it's a job Gig |
| #3452, aired 1999-09-14 | BLACK HERITAGE STAMPS $800: A. Philip Randolph unionized men in this job held by the men depicted on the stamp seen here: sleeping car porters |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | FICTIONAL SERVANTS $100: After losing her job at a bridal shop, this Fran Drescher character found work in the home of a widower The Nanny (Fran Fine) |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | "HOUSE" MUSIC $200: Graham Nash did a very, very, very fine job writing this Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song "Our House" |
| #3431, aired 1999-07-05 | WALLACES $1000: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company Wallace Stevens |
| #3426, aired 1999-06-28 | EX-MARINES $100: After his 1959 discharge, he moved to the Dallas area & got a fateful job at the Texas School Book Depository Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | GENERAL HOSPITAL $400: Without using a hammer, it's this person's job to knock you out in the O.R. anesthesiologist |
| #3419, aired 1999-06-17 | THE VOICE OF GOD $500: The Lord asked Satan if he had considered this servant, "A perfect and an upright man" Job |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | OH MAYAN GODS! $800: Kinich Ahau had a day job as sun god, but at night he roamed the underworld as this jungle cat Jaguar |
| #3409, aired 1999-06-03 | GANGSTER'S DICTIONARY $400: One day I might go legit & get a cush job as a "gumshoe", a private one of these a detective (or private eye) |
| #3403, aired 1999-05-26 | TOM JONES $300: Tom played -- who else? -- himself on the "Marge Gets a Job" episode of this animated TV series in 1992 The Simpsons |
| #3370, aired 1999-04-09 | COSMETICS & PERFUME $100: Attention, Earl Scheib: Paint Job is a brand of this kind of cosmetic, with colors resembling automobile paint Nail polish |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $100: "Super", when referring to a person who takes care of an apartment house, is short for this superintendent |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $200: One of the jobs of a deshi in Japan is to wash the places on these athletes that they can't reach themselves sumo wrestlers |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $400: Preceding "leader" it makes you head of a gang of thugs; before "master", head of a gang of circus acts ring |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Billy Warlock of General Hospital.) I started my career in Hollywood as a stunt double for Robin Williams on this TV series Mork & Mindy |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | JOB BANK $500: Elizabeth II doesn't do this herself; she has a hereditary grand almoner to do it for her contribute to charities |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | FAMOUS EX-TEENAGERS $300: At age 16, this current NBC anchorman had an after-school job as a radio announcer in Yankton, S.D. Tom Brokaw |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $500: A chucker-out isn't a polo player, it's this job in a bar Bouncer |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | WHEN IN SCOTLAND... $400: If you have this job, you're a flesher -- vegetarians need not apply Butcher |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | AMERICA SINCE 1900 $400: In 1971 the Senate turned over a new leaf & got its first females in this job, including Ellen McConnell pages |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: In 1892, a national alliance of men in this job formed the Populist Party farmers |
| #3278, aired 1998-12-02 | GROOVY TIMES $400: In '67 we did a psychedelic paint job on our "bus" from this German company & headed off to Frisco Volkswagen |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | FASHION STATEMENTS $500: "Shirt feature" term for a professional whose job generally doesn't involve manual labor White collar |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | FUN WITH WORDS $200: Phrase our writers used a lot before they started work here
JOB I'M JOB I'm between jobs |
| #3225, aired 1998-09-18 | DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK $400: Reportedly, when Dr. Spock took a job at this clinic, his wife loathed the Minnesota winters The Mayo Clinic |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | AUTHOR, AUTHOR $600: This "Animal Farm" author hated his job as a police officer in Burma George Orwell (Eric Blair) |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: In a criminal trial, it's this lawyer's job to try & prove the defendant guilty Prosecutor |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Short job for a musician Gig |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB $200: This TV actor heard here is not really known for his singing:
"Picture yourself... in a boat... on a river..." William Shatner |
| #3102, aired 1998-02-10 | DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB $400: He quit as the Beatles' bass player to become a painter in 1961 Stuart Sutcliffe |
| #3081, aired 1998-01-12 | COUNTRY SINGERS $200: This daughter of Johnny Cash had a desk job at Columbia Records before she became one of the label's stars Rosanne Cash |
| #3061, aired 1997-12-15 | FORMULAS $500: The Chinese did a bang-up job in discovering its formula as 75% saltpeter, 15% charcoal & 10% sulfur Gunpowder |
| #3060, aired 1997-12-12 | FOLKIES $400: In his hard youth, this Oklahoman who fathered Arlo & the Folk Revival had a job washing spittoons Woody Guthrie |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | SUNDAY MORNING TV $200: The Crystal Cathedral is the setting of this reverend's "Hour of Power" Robert Schuller |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | ROCK LYRICS $300: The CCR song about her begins, "Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day" "Proud Mary" |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | MARLON BRANDO FILMS $600: Brando made Matthew Broderick a job offer he couldn't refuse in this 1990 comedy The Freshman |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | U.S. HISTORY $300: After the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Virgil Earp lost his job as this city's marshall Tombstone |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | SMALL JOBS $100: This little Roman love god performs his matchmaking job with a bow & arrow Cupid |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | SMALL JOBS $750 (Daily Double): Describing his job, this Shakespearean sprite says, "I jest to Oberon and make him smile" Puck |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | TOM CRUISE FILMS $600: Despite her initial objection, Anne Rice conceded that Tom did a good job in this film "Interview With The Vampire" |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | MOST STRESSFUL JOBS $300: It's ranked as America's most stressful job; only one person at a time holds it President of the U.S. |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | MOST STRESSFUL JOBS $400: No. 7 is this job that's been held by a Cooper, a Shepard & a Schweickart astronaut |
| #2818, aired 1996-11-27 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $100: This "Messiah" composer's first job was as a church organist in Halle, Germany, at age 17 Georg Handel |
| #2803, aired 1996-11-06 | ANATOMIC TISSUES $400: A tissue is a group of like cells with a specific job; this liquid of white & red cells is an example blood |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | "WALK"s $300: Figuratively speaking, they're handed to an employee when he or she is dismissed from a job walking papers |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | SOCIOLOGY $400: It's the web of relationships between people; you may use it to get a job networking |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | COWBOY TALK $200: Cocinero was another term for the person who had this job; on the trail, he worked out of a wagon cook |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | BIBLICAL ZOO $400: The Behemoth mentioned in Job is considered to be this large river animal a hippopotamus |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | WEAPONS $200: Marvin Runyon said as of Aug. 1, 1995 any of these workers bringing a gun to the job would be fired postal workers |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | THE BIBLE $100: Man's first job was as a gardener, as God told him to dress & keep the garden of Eden Adam |
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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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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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $44,000. 1998 Tournament...
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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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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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
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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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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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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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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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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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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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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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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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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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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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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Harvey Becker, a writer from Venice, California
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1986 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 2 4-time champion: $55,400....
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
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"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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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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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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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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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Wes Pierce, a financial planner from Anaheim Hills, California
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Season 25 3-time champion: $47,199 + $2,000.
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Debra Messing, an Emmy-Award-winning actress from Will & Grace and The Mysteries of Laura
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"Known for her Emmy-Award-winning role on Will & Grace, she currently...
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Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Claudia Corriere, a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia
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Season 32 2-time champion: $29,000 + $2,000. Claudia won show #7195,...
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Vaughn West, a merchandising specialist from New York City
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Season 3 player (1987-07-06). Vaughn's full-time job was portraying Garfield the...
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Helaine Greenfeld, a government attorney from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 28 player (2011-10-28).
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Michael Bandiera, an attorney from Burbank, California
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Season 23 player (2007-03-15).
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Margaret Mitchell, a medical assistant from Amherst, New Hampshire
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Season 22 player (2006-01-25).
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