| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $200: Nearly 5 million cubic yards of earth, stone & topsoil would be moved after construction of this began in 1858 Central Park |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | FOOD TALK $1600: These greenish flower buds are dried, pickled & used as garnish or seasoning capers |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1,000 (Daily Double): Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985 Kansas City & St. Louis |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FEELING JITTERY $10,000 (Daily Double): It describes someone weakened by nerves, & also the instrument here unstrung |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | MIND THE GAP $9,600 (Daily Double): Near where Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee meet, you'll find this pass named for a son of George II the Cumberland Gap |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | SKY & SEA $1200: At the beach, beware of riptides, rip currents & this, which despite its name won't drag you offshore into deep water the undertow |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $1,000 (Daily Double): Her last speech includes "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper... thy sovereign" Katherina |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $400: (Diane Warren presents the clue.) This song that Toni Braxton wasn't too keen to record became her signature hit & won her a Grammy "Un-Break My Heart" |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $800: In "Anna Christie" Greta Garbo requested this, "ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby" whiskey |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | SCIENCE STUFF $400: This iron-containing pigment in blood has a job to do: carry oxygen to tissue hemoglobin |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | OH, THE PLACES YOU "CAN" GO! $1000: This national monument in Arizona preserves hundreds of pre-Columbian cliff dwellings Canyon de Chelly |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | FAMOUS PAIRS $2,300 (Daily Double): Depending on whose journal you read, it was either in October or November of 1871 when they first met at Lake Tanganyika Henry Stanley & Livingstone |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The name of this Omaha university honors a man who built the transcontinental telegraph Creighton University |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $300: Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president (Bill) Clinton |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $600: If Mo Rocca was unblocking a chakra in Opa-locka, he'd be doing yoga in a city in this southeasternmost U.S. state Florida |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AGRICULTURE $2000: This former governor of Iowa served 8 years as Obama's secretary of agriculture & now has the same position under Biden Tom Vilsack |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | RHYME TIME $2000: A false taipan a fake snake |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | DR. SEUSS EN ESPAÑOL $500: "Un Pez, Dos Peces, Pez Rojo, Pez Azul" One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE ONE AND ONLY... $2,000 (Daily Double): UN member state whose name starts with "Y", this country on the Arabian Peninsula Yemen |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | ANAGRAMS $600: Meat un-greet:
GEAR NATIVE vegetarian |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $5,000 (Daily Double): Going in order on the periodic table, uranium and neptunium are followed by this element named for a dwarf planet plutonium |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FAIRY TALE ADAPTATIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Ash," based on this fairy-tale character, falls for a huntress & not a prince so she'll need more practical footwear Cinderella |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | CHILD PERFORMERS $1600: In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds Jerry Maguire |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $1200: A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author (Thomas) Mann |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $400: A government will sometimes grant this protection from extradition to a political refugee from another country asylum |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $800: This word for a final demand is in the title of the third Jason Bourne film an ultimatum |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $1200: It can be something especially desirable, or a dark reddish purple color plum |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $1600: In Germany this secondary school prepares one for higher education, not athletics a gymnasium |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | ADDEND"UM" $2000: Peat moss is dead moss at the bottom of a bog, while this moss is found still growing on the surface sphagnum moss |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 1997, picking up her first of 3 Oscars for Best Actress, she thanked her son Pedro & her husband Joel Frances McDormand |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | WHO'S THE MRS.? $1200: John Krasinski Emily Blunt |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $1000: The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name Iceberg Slim |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | MAKING WAVES $1600: The name of this sport combines snowboarding with something you just learn to go with flowboarding |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $4,000 (Daily Double): This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label" a syllabus |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Behind thick glass in the Gems & Minerals Hall of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tom's Baby is an 8-lb nugget of this gold |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ESPAÑOL $600: This pet is un perro a dog |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | VITAMINS & MINERALS $300: Un-poke that straw from your orange: turns out this vitamin won't actually prevent colds, though it may shorten them vitamin C |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HEADQUARTERED IN $400: Nordstrom;
Zillow;
Amazon;
Starbucks Seattle |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $500 (Daily Double): 1978:
Lifelong friends from a Pennsylvania steel town deal with the devastating effects of the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HAIL TO THE CHEF $1,100 (Daily Double): A distillery at this historic Virginia estate makes whiskey based on George Washington's own recipe Mount Vernon |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | UNDER THE HAMMER $1200: Sales topped a record $1.5 billion in 2022 when the gavel dropped on art owned by Paul Allen, the late co-founder of this tech giant Microsoft |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Treemonisha";
"Maple Leaf Rag";
"The Ragtime Dance";
"The Entertainer" Scott Joplin |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | ACCENTÉ $1600: This accented word follows "actor" & "artist" to mean failure in those dreams manqué |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WHAT'S NEXT? $1200: States, alphabetically: New Mexico,
New York,
this North Carolina |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WORLD WRITERS $1200: Bertolt Brecht fled Germany in 1933 & left the U.S. in 1947 after being required to testify before this committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | KICKIN' AZTEC $1000: The Aztecs founded 2 cities where Mexico City now stands: Tlatelolco & this one, their capital Tenochtitlan |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THOMAS AQUINAS, ADVICE COLUMNIST $1000: Dear Scared: No, your parish priest can't give you this, a release from secular punishment; go get it over with an indulgence |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BYGONE TECH $3,000 (Daily Double): Fuel injection has replaced this engine part whose name begins with a synonym for automobile carburetor |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: If you really think about it / It isn't so ridiculous / Knowing these are the first 5 words / In "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas the night before Christmas |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $2,000 (Daily Double): Though it's said to "gather no moss", this magazine featured Elisabeth Moss on its cover in 2010 Rolling Stone |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $800: He was left "alone in an un-inhabited island", but after 28 years, 2 months & 19 days, what world will this man return to now? Robinson Crusoe |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $3,000 (Daily Double): On Museumstraat, "The Night Watch" & "The Milkmaid" the Rijksmuseum |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE! $1600: The House Un-American Activities Committee inspired Hollywood to create one of these registers of disapproval a blacklist |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $1200: Gustav Kirchhoff showed that this travels at light speed, so a circuit connecting a motor to a switch will start the motor fast electric current |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $1,000 (Daily Double): (Matt Damon presents the clue.) Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear test site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death & resurrection, including the sonnet that begins, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" the Trinity test site |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $1000: "Un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine" is the French equivalent of this expression featuring a different big animal a bull in a china shop |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | ROMAN EMPERORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Hadrian had his wall & this cousin who immediately preceded him had his column Emperor Trajan |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $201 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil":
Go South! Savannah, Georgia |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | OPEN DOOR $600: In jubilee years, just a few every century, the pope opens the Porta Sancta or Holy Door at this Vatican site to pilgrims St. Peter's Basilica |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | A "MID" CATEGORY $800: This word means just a speck, a little bit, un poquito a smidgen |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: A sequel to the original classic, 2009's "Dracula the Un-Dead" was co-written by this author's great-grandnephew Dacre (Bram) Stoker |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POETIC SUBJECTS $400: "Maître corbeau, sur un arbre perché", begins a Jean de la Fontaine poem about this type of bird a crow (raven) |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | SHAKESPEARE & HIS WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): If you were part of this "earthy" group taking in a play at the Globe Theatre, you paid the lowest amount to stand in the pit & watch the groundlings |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: Besides painting many portraits of George Washington, he founded a museum in Philadelphia as much for science as for art Charles Wilson Peale |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | SPANISH & PORTUGUESE $1600: The first name of the jazz great seen here Esperanza (Spalding) |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $6,000 (Daily Double): Nora Ephron's novel about the end of a marriage bemoans "mysteries like... neuritis, neuralgia, acid indigestion &" this title condition heartburn |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $400: The man with a "Plan" that earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 & Eminem's name at birth George Marshall Mathers |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $1600: Recordings by this U.S. orchestra have won 64 Grammys, 24 of them under the leadership of Sir Georg Solti the Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | ORCHESTRAS $2,000 (Daily Double): Comedian-pianist Victor Borge was an honorary member of this country's Royal Orchestra, which goes back 575 years Denmark |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | FUNNY LADIES $2000: This comedian & podcaster has been called "one of the true masters of deadpan" (Tig) Notaro |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $2000: The Apollo 11 astronauts had to declare Moon rocks to this government service upon returning to Earth Customs |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $800: Joseph of this place took the crucified Jesus & placed his body in a "new tomb" Arimathea |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $2000: After the fall of Rome, this eastern branch of the Goths founded a kingdom in Italy led by Theodoric the Great in 493 the Ostrogoths |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | NON-VIDEO GAMES $1000: In using your 40-piece army, a good st--um, a good plan in this game is to save your miners for the endgame Stratego |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | THE UNITED NATIONS $1600: U.N. public information officer Omar Hernández' is among those who've gone from this student simulation to the real thing Model UN |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: As chair of a new commission, this former first lady helped draft the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2019 a giant raft of this rock measuring more than 50 square miles was found floating in the Pacific near Tonga pumice |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | 3 MEN $200: Formed around 60 B.C., the First Roman Triumvirate was made up of Crassus, Pompey & this guy Julius Caesar |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $3,000 (Daily Double): A letter that the pope sends around, it's from the Greek for "circle" encyclical |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Awlad Ali are a desert tribe of this people; thought of as nomadic, they've undergone what sociologists call sedentarization the Bedouins |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | "A"DJECTIVES $600: Greater than pH 7, it means capable of neutralizing an acid alkaline |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | WELCOME BACK! $1000: Still in quarantine after splashing down, the Apollo 11 astronauts were welcomed back by this president Nixon |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THE REST OF THE WORLD IN 2018 & '19 $600: Hopes of peace were raised when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un entered this buffer area to meet with South Korean Pres. Moon the DMZ |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | THE 20th CENTURY BY COUNTRY $1200: Tommie Smith & John Carlos peacefully demonstrate at the 1968 Summer Olympics Mexico |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | GETTING CLOSE TO SOMETHING $13,000 (Daily Double): Doctor Strange tells Tony Stark, "we're in" this "now", a term for the final stage of a chess contest; so are you an endgame |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | PSYCHOLOGY $400: The American Psychological Assoc. defines these 2 personality types as "inward & self-directed" & "outward & social-directed" introvert & extrovert |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | A SIGN OF SHAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, single mom Hester Prynne must wear a red "A" on her dress The Scarlet Letter |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | STARTS WITH A SILENT LETTER $200: The biting midge, or no-see-um, is one of these small, pesky flies whose "G" is a no-hear-um a gnat |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | I THANK YOU ALL $1000: Merritt Wever's Emmy speech for this Edie Falco medical show: "Thanks so much. Um, thank you so much! Um, I gotta go. Bye" Nurse Jackie |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FUN WITH 21 $400: Played since the early 1700s, the French card game vingt-et-un lives on as this casino game blackjack |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous Mary Shelley |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $200: Arthur Miller & Pete Seeger were among those investigated for being this, the "U" in HUAC Un-American |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $5,600 (Daily Double): Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary Ball Four |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY $10,000 (Daily Double): The 2006 Greentree Agreement, settling a fight by shifting a peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon, was brokered by this African (Kofi) Annan |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $800: Oft seen in writing on fact & fiction, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" includes "When the legend becomes fact," do this print the legend |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $500 (Daily Double): Daniel Stern began narrating this '60s-set show in 1988; Don Cheadle handled the task in the 2021 reboot The Wonder Years |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1802 Congress passed the act establishing the U.S. Military Academy at this site on the banks of the Hudson West Point |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | DANIEL RADCLIFFE COLLAGE $2000: (Daniel Radcliffe presents the clue.) Um, I'd basically only done one small part in a school play when, at age 10, I played the title character, as a boy, in a BBC adaptation of this Dickens novel, the author’s own favorite child; the part really was magical as it led to me being cast as Harry Potter David Copperfield |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | A GREEN PARTY $1000: A Kentucky college town & a Manhattan park share this sporty name Bowling Green |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | A LITTLE POETRY $13,000 (Daily Double): Poe used this 3-syllable word 11 times in "The Raven", including as the last word nevermore |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | SECOND CHANCE SONGS $1600: A Grammy winner by Toni Braxton implored an ex to do this to her heart un-break |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | YOU'RE IN A ROLE $1600: Amanda Waller, instrumental in putting together "The Suicide Squad" in 2021 Viola Davis |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | HISTORY QUIZ $700 (Daily Double): Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century Marco Polo |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $1000: This big long-haired breed is the official cat of the state in its name the Maine Coon |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Tropic of Capricorn passes through this Indian Ocean island nation about 300 mi. south of the capital, Antananarivo Madagascar |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HELP ME MOVE MY STUFF? $1000: Be careful with my pet this, the weasel family's largest member; he's omnivorous & likely polygamous but most of all, ferocious a wolverine |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | EXPLORERS $2000: Panama's currency is named for this explorer who crossed the isthmus & sighted the Pacific in 1513 Balboa |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | ISLE, 5 $800: The remote Isle Royale, just south of the U.S.-Canada border, is a national park in this Great Lake (Lake) Superior |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $2000: On August 20, 1741 this Dane sailed into the Gulf of Alaska (Vitus) Bering |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | THE BORN IDENTITY $1000: Carlos Estévez, from an acting family Charlie Sheen |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1200: The maitre d' at L'Idiot in "L.A. Story" & also giving a thoughtful performance in "X-Men" Sir Patrick Stewart |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $2000: Since no one had done this for 40 years, God told Joshua to get a knife & do it to the male Israelites circumcise |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A NOVEL DEATH $600: Did Bob Ewell fall on his own knife in this novel? Sheriff Heck Tate is fine with that explanation To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ANIMAL SOUNDS? $1000: From Latin, it means "for each" per |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $800: It's commonly known as a lie detector a polygraph |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ON PLANET POP CULTURE $400: In 2021 Saniyya Sidney was on the court of "King Richard" as this tennis superstar Venus Williams |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | 6 DRUGS $3,000 (Daily Double): Used to reduce the formation of clots, Coumadin is a brand of this, also called blood thinner an anticoagulant |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: A serf who could hide out in a town for this long, "un an et un jour" in French, became a free citizen a year and a day |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): A strange discovery on the Moon sets off a secret mission to a moon of Saturn in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | SKELETON CREW $3,000 (Daily Double): This bone fits into the acetabulum, the cup-shaped cavity of the hip the femur |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | OPERA $400: After this character learns her lover has married another, she commits seppuku using the same knife her father had used to kill himself Madame Butterfly |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): This reluctant prophet boarded a ship bound for Tarshish that was soon caught in a storm Jonah |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | TIMELY TALK $2000: An alcoholic beverage & flowers are in this phrase for a period of prosperity & happiness the days of wine & roses |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | COLORFUL ALBUMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kelly Clarkson's holiday album "Wrapped in Red" includes this colorful Elvis song about a sad noel "Blue Christmas" |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll have to wait to cross the Forbes Ave. bridge in this city; it collapsed in 2022 just before a presidential visit about infrastructure Pittsburgh |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | MIDDLE P $4,000 (Daily Double): 2 linked lines of verse a couplet |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $8,000 (Daily Double): To gently tease another person rib |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $800: The place where you arrive on shore after a long journey on a ship landfall |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A book title gave us this shorthand for totalitarianism 1984 |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CAN'T LOSE $800: In 2002 this Mideast world leader didn't sweat re-election, winning 11 million to 0, but by 2003, was an ex-president Saddam Hussein |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | TRIPLE THE DOUBLE LETTERS $1200: These 2 U.S. states border each other Mississippi & Tennessee |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $400: In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built" diamond |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A STATE CAPITOL IDEA $5,000 (Daily Double): Utah's Capitol is abuzz with 2 large sculptures of these structures, symbolizing the hard work done by the state's citizens beehives |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $600: In 2018 South Korea's Moon Jae-in & this North Korean leader pledged to formally end the war but it hasn't happened... yet Kim Jong-un |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | BETWEEN 10 & 20 $1000: Developed by chemist Willard Libby, this method named for an isotope is used to date fossils carbon-14 dating |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble the pearl |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $1600: Like everything else about him, this North Korean leader's birth year is somewhat of a mystery Kim Jong-un |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | HETERONYMS $1000: Joined a group to bargain for them, as the workers did, or without an electrical charge, like an atom unionized ["YOON-yun-ized"] & unionized ["un-EYE-un-ized"] |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | LOST $2,000 (Daily Double): John Dos Passos & Archibald MacLeish were among the 1920s writers known collectively as this the Lost Generation |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | GEOGRAPHY $1,600 (Daily Double): The Aleutians divide the Bering Sea from the Pacific, but are still part of the belt with this un-icy name the Ring of Fire |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | W.H.O. $400: As this group was forming in 1945, Brazil & China asked for a global health organization; the W.H.O. would show up in 1948 the UN |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | YOU'LL HAVE PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: In Israel, not Hawaii, the Hula Valley is where 3 tributaries join to form this river the Jordan |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | HISTORIC MEAN TWEETS $600: (Guillermo reads a mean tweet.)
@londonlady
Henry VIII, you selfish jackass, I'd rather lose my head like this second wife of yours than be married to you, too Anne Boleyn |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $400: In French, it's un mal de dent a toothache |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | ANTI-SYNONYMS $800: A competitor; put the word between "un" & "ed" & you're the best, with no equal rival |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. $2000: On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln" Henry Fonda |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | SHOW ME YOUR P-H-D $400: A son or daughter by marriage a stepchild |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $400: David Moishele is an aging wealthy merchant with problematic children in the 1892 play "The Yiddish" this Shakespeare tragedy King Lear |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $800: Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands Venus de Milo |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $400: Joseph Heller hell plus Jules Verne sea distance 20,022 |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $800: Science fiction for all ages: "Un raccourci dans le temps" A Wrinkle in Time |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | A 9-LETTER "N"OUN $2000: Seen here is the current version of the new castle that gives this Swiss city its name Neuchâtel |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | MONEY IDIOMS $400: This rhyming term refers to the output of a counterfeiter funny money |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | DEEPER CUTS ON THEIR ALBUMS $1600: The 2000 album "Return of Saturn" by this ska-pop band found "Magic's In The Makeup" No Doubt |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | LEGAL $1,800 (Daily Double): Let's get inventive & file one of these; the 3 types are utility, plant & design patent |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | IDIOMS MADE FANCY $200: All those things that enhance the buoyancy of your vessel whatever floats your boat |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | HISTORY $600: Overthrown by the U.S., this Panamanian dictator was convicted in Miami of federal drug & racketeering charges in 1992 Manuel Noriega |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | EPONYMOUS FOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): John Montagu, 11th Earl of this, has opened restaurants in the U.S. bearing his yummy hereditary title Sandwich |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | U.N. ANNIVERSARIES $1200: The 20th anniversary celebration of the statute creating the ICC, this agency, included a mock trial the International Criminal Court |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | U.K. PLACES $3,000 (Daily Double): Doing something redundant is like "carrying coals" to this city, formerly a coal-mining center Newcastle |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | ROCK BANDS $800: There "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" for this band with a name that includes a pachyderm Cage the Elephant |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1,000 (Daily Double): This first lady who turned 93 in 2020 Rosalynn Carter |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THEY UN-BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $800: Loss of sight due to burns has been reversed using amniotic tissue from this organ expelled when a woman gives birth a placenta |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THEY UN-BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $1200: Using an ultrasonic probe, Charles Kelman revolutionized surgery for this clouding of the lens cataract |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THEY UN-BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $1600: A 1950s patient who got grafts of this eye part had depth perception issues & thought he could touch ground from his window 60' up a cornea |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | THEY UN-BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE $2000: Bypassing the eye, blind subjects have been helped by stimulation of the area of the brain called the visual this the cortex |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | TERMS $1600: Magnetite is sometimes referred to as this "stone", also a word for someone or something people are attracted to a lodestone |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | TRUCE! $400: No countries signed the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War--only generals representing North Korea & this intl. organization the UN |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Hazel Scott briefly hosted her own TV show before this group, HUAC, set its sights on her the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $800: "Vernon Can Read!", the title of a memoir by this civil rights activist & advisor to Bill Clinton, was a quote from an old boss Vernon Jordan |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SACRED BOOKS $1200: The Granth scripture of Sikhism is considered a living one of these, a Hindi name for a spiritual teacher a guru |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Platt Amendment of 1901 became a treaty between the U.S. & this new country & even became part of its constitution Cuba |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $800 (Daily Double): 1968: "You know what they say, 'Human see, human do'" Planet of the Apes |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | HISTORY POTPOURRI $800: In late 1945 Indianapolis was considered as a site for this org. that held its first meeting (not in Indy) Jan. 10, 1946 the UN |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIM $1000: This world leader died in December 2011 Kim Jong-il |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | A GUSTY MOVE $200: Even the greatest golfers fear the notorious swirling wind at the 12th hole of this home course of The Masters Augusta |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | IN LATIN, PLEASE $400: "Hail Mary" ave Maria |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | SUBPOENAS $600: In 1947 screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, part of this numerical "Hollywood" group, was subpoenaed by the House Un-Amer. Activities Committee the Hollywood Ten |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $10,000 (Daily Double): After sighting one of these horned animals in Africa, we busted out a magnum of champagne gnu (in magnum) |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $400: This duet between Nat "King" Cole & Natalie Cole won Grammys for Song of the Year & Record of the Year "Unforgettable" |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $800: This comedy series starred Ellie Kemper as a young woman who escaped a doomsday cult led by Jon Hamm Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $1200: In this 2019 film Adam Sandler played NYC jeweler Howard Ratner, who came into possession of a rare opal Uncut Gems |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $1600: A young Jewish woman flees her ultra-conservative religious group in this Netflix miniseries Unorthodox |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $2000: As the name suggests, bands play acoustic sets on this MTV series Unplugged |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $1600: Mann up:
"La muerte en venecia" Death in Venice |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | ALL KINDS OF BARS $400: The bars are set about 6 feet apart & 8 & 5 1/2 feet above the floor in this female gymnastics event the uneven parallel bars |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | AROUND 1001 $400: Sergius II became patriarch of this Byzantine capital, claimed the title ecumenical patriarch & had un-ecumenical relations with Rome Constantinople |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | NORWEGIANS $1600: Incidentally, this man born in Bergen wrote the incidental music to "Peer Gynt" (Edvard) Grieg |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | PRIME $600: Batch number of a bestselling grease-cutting "Formula" created by Detroit scientists years ago 409 |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | ALL ROADS $400: On Australia's Great Ocean Road, you may get inspiration from the limestone towers known as this biblical dozen the (Twelve) Apostles |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | SMART ANSWERS $600: Preceded by "un", it means mysterious; we want the 5-letter version meaning clever canny |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $200: The National one, located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, has a water capacity of more than 2.2 million gallons aquarium |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $400: A TV P.I., or a large wine bottle a Magnum |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $600: It's the flowering plant seen here a geranium |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $800: In an old-fashioned grandfather clock, it swings back & forth regulating the time & causing the tick tock, tick tock a pendulum |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | BLANK "UM" $1000: This component of plaster of Paris is hydrous calcium sulfate gypsum |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | YOU MAKE MY HEART SING $600: In 2020 Dua Lipa sang "Break My Heart"; in 1996 she gave the impossible demand "Un-Break My Heart" Toni Braxton |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Brought to England from Holland, this liquor was sold in shops promising "Drunk for a penny. Dead drunk for twopence" gin |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): This religion that has Hindu & Islamic influences arose in the Punjab in the early 16th century Sikhism |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | UNIVERSE $5,000 (Daily Double): To find this zodiac constellation, look for Spica, its brightest star; it marks the sheaf of wheat the maiden holds Virgo |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | YESTERDAY $1,000 (Daily Double): Gerald Ford tried to tackle a big 1970s economic problem with the "WIN" program, or "Whip" this "Now" Inflation |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ELECTION ODDITIES $200: In 2014 this supreme leader of North Korea won 100% of the vote in his district Kim Jong-un |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $600: West Wing crisis center since 1961 the Situation Room |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | COLORFUL CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital Golden |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $800: To make a visible impression, like the one on Cain mark |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOOT SUITE $300 (Daily Double): There's a bassoon solo in the Rimsky-Korsakov suite named for this woman who told great stories Scheherazade |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | FANTASTICAL SUBSTANCES $2000: "The Core" & "Avatar" both use this term for their "un"possible material unobtainium |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | WEST COAST STATE HIGHER ED $1,300 (Daily Double): This school in Spokane uses the Jesuit motto ad majorem Dei gloriam, "For the greater glory of God" Gonzaga University |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | KIDS BOOKS EN ESPAÑOL $1000: By Ezra Jack Keats: "Un Día de Nieve" The Snowy Day |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | THIS PLANET $1,600 (Daily Double): ...is noted for a dark gap called the Cassini division Saturn |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: North Korea borders South Korea, China & this country whose leader met Kim Jong un for the first time at a 2019 summit Russia |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: These units of distance are in the title of un voyage extraordinaire by Jules Verne a league |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | WOMEN'S MEMOIRS $1,000 (Daily Double): "I Feel Bad About My Neck", about the travails of aging, is by this late, great writer & director of "You've Got Mail" Nora Ephron |
| #8152, aired 2020-02-04 | WHERE DOES IT HURT? $1,000 (Daily Double): Myalgia (these parts) muscles |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $1600: Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, "Be merciful and spare me"; Achilles kills him King Priam (or "Pree-um") |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | HISTORIC PLEAS $4,000 (Daily Double): Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home Nez Perce |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | A LITERARY NEW YEAR $3,000 (Daily Double): This character's January 1 diary entry counts Bloody Marys as food ("as contain Worcester sauce & tomatoes") Bridget Jones |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS $800: Just ask Kim Jong Un: in the '90s this wacky "Worm" led the NBA in rebounds per game 7 straight times Dennis Rodman |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $6,000 (Daily Double): Last name of British officer Henry, who invented a very destructive artillery shell at the beginning of the 19th century Shrapnel |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | QUOTES OF NOTE $1600: Dick Cheney, talking of this, something his daughter Mary went on to do: "I think freedom means freedom for everyone" gay marriage |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | DICTATOR TOTS $1200: Currently in power, this "Great Comrade" was reportedly dubbed "Morning Star King" by his mom Kim Jong-un |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $4,000 (Daily Double): An 8-letter Olympic game of horse dressage |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): This peninsula stretches south about 700 miles from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore the Malay Peninsula |
| #8081, aired 2019-10-28 | JUST GIVE US THE CANDY! $1000: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"; better get one of each of these just to be sure Mounds & Almond Joy |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | MUSEUM-PODGE $800: Wisconsin's National Railroad Museum has an exhibit on these porters: "from service to civil rights" Pullman car porters |
| #8052, aired 2019-09-17 | HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion (Mark) Twain |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | THE NON-ADVERB "-LY" WORD $400: A young female horse a filly |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $2000: In a movie Greg Kinnear played Robert Kearns, who fought Detroit over this drizzly day innovation of his intermittent windshield wipers |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "UN"CATEGORY $200: It's a one-word exclamation meaning "I give up!" "Uncle!" |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "UN"CATEGORY $400: This type of vote made George Washington president of the Constitutional Convention unanimous |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "UN"CATEGORY $600: At the sushi bar, freshwater eel goes by this Japanese name unagi |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "UN"CATEGORY $800: By definition, it's any mammal that has hooves ungulate |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "UN"CATEGORY $1000: To move in waves undulate |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FAKE GNUS $1200: Sharing its Afrikaans name with a big shoe company, this antelope seen here is definitely not a gnu a reebok |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | 3-WORD LITERARY TITLES $1000: Young Cedric charms his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, in this novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | THE NUCLEAR POWERS $2000: In 2018 this world leader used videos of nuclear missiles raining on Florida to help his fourth re-election bid Putin |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ACRONYMS & INITIALISMS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 2018 this dividing strip of land was the site of a historic meeting between Kim Jong Un & South Korea's president the DMZ |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $800: A razor slashes an eyeball in the avant-garde film "Un Chien Andalou", a co-production of Luis Bunuel & this surrealist Dalí |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ALUMNI $1000: He plays hitman & wannabe actor Barry Berkman on HBO Bill Hader |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $1600: Naturally, there's dance music in this Italian's 1859 opera "Un Ballo in Maschera", "A Masked Ball" Verdi |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $400: It's no child left behind when this marsupial mom is on the move opossum |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $800: Its popularity comes & goes but flooring made of this has been around since the 1860s linoleum |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $1200: Seen here is one of these easy-to-make, glass-enclosed miniature gardens a terrarium |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $1600: The anti-anxiety drug Diazepam was introduced in 1963 under this trade name Valium |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | BLANK "UM" $2000: The ruins of this school in Athens founded by Aristotle have recently opened to the public the Lyceum |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | THIS IS "MY" SONG $800: Toni Braxton topped the charts & won a Grammy for this song that pleads, "Say you'll love me again" "Un-Break My Heart" |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | GET "IN" $1000: The Declaration of Independence used "un-", but this word meaning "not transferable to another" is a synonym inalienable |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | HETERONYMS $1000: To coalesce & a grain-harvesting machine combine [cum-BINE] and combine [CAHM-bine] |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | ROALD DAHL $200: This character "can make marshmallows that taste of violets" Willy Wonka |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | LAW PRACTICE $3,000 (Daily Double): Marvin v. Marvin gave us this word for financial support between non-married folks post-relationship palimony |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE FRENCH I TOOK $400: This word for hello! is the title of several books on basic French, including one that gives you help from Louis L'Escargot bonjour |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | JACK THE RIPPER SUSPECTS $800 (Daily Double): This 19th c. author has been looked at; later writers pitted his creation against the Ripper in books like 2009's "Dust and Shadow" Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 1940s AMERICA $1600: Numerical name of the group from the West Coast that defied the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 the Hollywood Ten |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S TOUGH TO "UN"DO $400: Proverbially or practically, you can't do this to a bell unring |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S TOUGH TO "UN"DO $800: It's a lot easier to do this to an anagram than to an egg unscramble |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S TOUGH TO "UN"DO $1200: In 2016 the Huffington Post described a naked restaurant in London as "a sight you can't" this unsee |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S TOUGH TO "UN"DO $1600: Toni Braxton implored you to do this to "My Heart" unbreak |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THAT'S TOUGH TO "UN"DO $2000: To loosen the tension of an archer's bow; in the past tense it means nervous & panicky unstrung |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | UN-BUSINESS $200: 7-Up introduced this slogan in 1967 the Uncola |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | UN-BUSINESS $400: The brand Unapology, named because women say "sorry" too much, sells tubes of this cosmetic lipstick |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | UN-BUSINESS $600: This letter-perfect phone carrier announced its un-carrier plans with un-contracts T-Mobile |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | UN-BUSINESS $800: To highlight its grilled option, this fast food chain asked you to "taste the unfried side" KFC |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | UN-BUSINESS $1000: This clothing company's shirttails fall between the belt & the bottom of the zipper, so no need to stuff them in UNTUCKit |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | AT MY SAFETY SCHOOL $3,000 (Daily Double): A police training school is often called this; the LAPD one stresses firearm safety an academy |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | FRIENDS OFF THE COURT $800: Dennis Rodman once said of this world leader, "I don't condone what he does, but he's my friend" Kim Jong-un |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | PORTUGUESE PRIMER $600: A necessity on sunny days is um oleo de bronzear, which is this suntan lotion or sunscreen |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | THE T LEAVES $600: A type of wound that will be the death of you kills the T to be this synonym for ethical moral |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Female rapper with the album "The Naked Truth" who became the leader of North Korea in 2011 Lil' Kim Jong-Un |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | UN-BELIEVABLE $400: The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest level ever, 24.9%, during this 20th century decade the 1930s |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | UN-BELIEVABLE $800: In mythology, an undine is a water one of these female spirits from the Greek for "bride" nymph |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | UN-BELIEVABLE $1200: Part of his "Unfinished Symphony" became the "Song Of Love" in a Broadway show about him, "Blossom Time" Schubert |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | UN-BELIEVABLE $1600: Literary term for novel's narrator who turns out not to be telling the whole truth unreliable |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | UN-BELIEVABLE $2000: France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is beneath this Paris landmark the Arc de Triomphe |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | THE LOOK OF CULTURE $800: In this South American country, one body type for women is called "um corpo de violao", shaped like a guitar Brazil |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | POLITICS $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1913 James Hamilton Lewis became the first senator in this job of counting votes & rounding up members whip |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | WORLD LEADERS $400: Normally it would be a secret-type thing, but South Korea has announced it has a hit squad for this man Kim Jong-un |
| #7740, aired 2018-04-13 | INTERNAL RHYME TIME $2,400 (Daily Double): A boater in trouble needs to know this word to say over the radio mayday |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | OTHER MONA LISAS $1600: This French artist went Dada on Mona in the 1919 piece seen here (Marcel) Duchamp |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | 20th CENTURY FACTS $600: Infamous for its Communist hunting in the '50s, HUAC, short for this, became the Internal security Committee in 1969 the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | THE DONALD $1600: In "Singin' in the Rain", this song-&-dance man made us laugh with "Make 'Em Laugh" Donald O'Connor |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | "LIGHT" MUSIC $1000: Turn on this Neil Diamond song inspired by the movie "E.T." "Turn On Your Heartlight" |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $2000: "O" my, said viewers at the Salon of 1865 on seeing this very un-romanticized nude by Manet Olympia |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | A MIGHTY LONG-NAMED RIVER $1600: The Acquacheta river & its thunderous falls are described in Canto 16 of this medieval poem the Inferno |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | CHARGING BULL $9,800 (Daily Double): This city has a sharp right turn from Mercaderes Street onto Estafeta; easy for a running man, less for a bull Pamplona |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $200: It's what the "P" stands for in OPEC petroleum |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $400: Pit's partner in a Poe title the pendulum |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $600: Located in Buenos Aires, it's the type of building & museum seen here planetarium |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $800: The ancient city of Troy was also known by this Latin name, similar to a Homer title Ilium |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | BLANK "UM" $1000: In the classification of organisms, it comes between "class" and "kingdom" phylum |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | FIRST LADIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 2012 this man's wife was listed as comrade Ri Sol Ju, but that is thought to be a made-up name Kim Jong-Un |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | FROM A TO Y $400: All of a sudden abruptly |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | PROTESTANTISM $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1960 Geoffrey Fisher, the 99th man in this post, became the first modern one to visit the Vatican the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE CHANDLER $1,200 (Daily Double): Chandler wrote, "Down" these paths a detective "must go"; the phrase became a 1973 Scorsese film title mean streets |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | NFL TEAMS BY HALL OF FAMER $600: Running back Marcus Allen the Los Angeles Raiders |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | THE JOLLY ROGER $600: 1994's "North" left this late reviewer un-jolly: "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it" Roger Ebert |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): To mark a 1683 treaty, this tribe with a state-ly name gave William Penn a wampum belt of 18 strings of beads the Delaware |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | RHYME TIME $600: What the French call un haricot vert, we call this vegetable green bean |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | STRIKE! $1200: On John Lindsay's first day as NYC mayor, the workers of this system went on strike transport (or transit) |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | IN MY ELEMENT $800: This strong alkaline solution lye |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MYTHOLOGY $600: In Greek mythology rivers leading into this place include Cocytus, Phlegethon, Acheron & Styx Hades |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Each year on Easter, Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is host to a festival honoring these head coverings bonnets |
| #7508, aired 2017-04-12 | HOW DO YOU... $1,000 (Daily Double): Season tenderloin, apply mushroom duxelles, wrap meat in puff pastry, then bake How do you make beef Wellington? |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | THE ROYAL THEY $2,000 (Daily Double): 1894 to 1918:
____ II & ____ Nicholas and Alexandra |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | ART $7,500 (Daily Double): The name of this nihilistic art style of Marcel Duchamp was picked at random from a French-German dictionary Dadaism |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $1000: Margaret the Log Lady Twin Peaks |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SOUTH AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Due east of Suriname, it's formally un Departement d'outre-mer French Guiana |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | ALBUM COVERS $2000: David Bowie sports a makeup lightning bolt across his face Aladdin Sane |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | ESSAY TEST $800: This transcendentalist preached the ethics of "Self-Reliance" in an essay with that title (Ralph Waldo) Emerson |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | BIG ISLANDS $1200: It's the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea that's also an independent nation Cyprus |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | A TRIPLE FEATURE $400: It only took 2 years for "Trois hommes et un couffin", or "Three Men and a Cradle", to be remade as this in 1987 Three Men and a Baby |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | GEOGRAPHIC FOOD & DRINK $400: Maybe you've been to this city Lima |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $400: To roar like a bull to bellow |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $800: Ring to get this male hotel page to see to your needs the bellhop (or bellboy) |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $1200: It's also known as deadly nightshade belladonna |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $1600: Hyphenated French term for study of fine literature belles-lettres |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | ANTE "BELL" UM $2000: It's a paralysis of the muscles, typically on one side of the face a Bell's palsy |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | DIRECTED BUT DIDN'T STAR IN $2000: "Into the Wild" Sean Penn |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $2000: The number of U.S. states on the Pacific Ocean squared 25 |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | GEOGRAPHY $1200: On an alphabetical list of nations in English, this Balkan nation comes immediately before Burkina Faso Bulgaria |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | THE VOICE SONG CHOICES $2000: Her "Chandelier" Sia |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Like the tails of certain monkeys, a giraffe's tongue is said to be this, adapted for seizing & grasping prehensile |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | A STUDENT OF FILM $800: Imagine you're this 2008 film guy; you're an immortal vampire! Bella has caught your eye! But you're in high school... forever! Edward |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | THE QUOTABLE BROWNINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Elizabeth called this French novelist a "large-brained woman and large-hearted man" George Sand |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $800 (Daily Double): The heat is on Abednego & his friends when they show up in this book Daniel |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Michael Herr wrote in "Dispatches", "I think that" this place "was what we had instead of happy childhoods" Vietnam |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $2,000 (Daily Double): Euclid's "Elements" begins with a definition of this as "that which has no part" a point |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia Xerxes |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | 12-LETTER WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): This type of German spirit double appears in Dostoyevsky's novel "The Double" a doppelganger |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $1,600 (Daily Double): He's the hard-boiled detective who silently muses, "You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep" Philip Marlowe |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHO ORDERED THE MAMMAL? $5,200 (Daily Double): All the living examples of the order Proboscidea are these elephants |
| #7363, aired 2016-09-21 | "POLY" WANT $1000: In some shorebirds, the females exhibit this behavior, meaning having several male mates at once polyandry |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THINGS TO DO BEFORE $600: It's the "P" in PSAT, which high schoolers may want to take before the SAT preliminary |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THAT GAME OF THRONES GUY WITH THE BEARD $1000: This Emmy winner said, "Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice" Peter Dinklage |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | A SUMMER COLD $2000: M.K. could stand for mighty kold or this observatory that dealt with a very un-Hawaiian-like 24 degrees in July of 2011 Mauna Kea |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | ON BROADWAY $2000: "Long" after playwright Eugene O'Neill's death, this tale of family dysfunction returned to Broadway in 2016 Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | EXODUS $2000: Members of this faith arriving in Puritan Boston got an un-Friend-ly reception & a Mass. exodus (or worse) Quakers (or Catholicism) |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MAN-AGRAMS $800: A 19th century president:
RUN VIBRANT AMEN Martin Van Buren |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | ROADS SCHOLAR $3,000 (Daily Double): More than 15,000 feet up, the world's highest intl. paved road is the Karakoram Highway, shared by these 2 countries Pakistan & China |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | A PETITE DEJEUNER $800: This bite-size cereal from Kellogg's has flavors like frosted strawberry & maple brown sugar Mini-Wheats |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? $2000: Shakespeare dies James I |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | TIME FOR FRENCH $600: Moi need a break? Perhaps; I'll be back in un mois, this long a month |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | TIME FOR FRENCH $800: I hope "Jeopardy!" is still on after un siecle, this period of time a century |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | THE WINE SELLER $1200: Gallo introduced this, um, affordable wine in 1957, 2 years after Ford introduced the same-named 2-seater Thunderbird |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | THE 1820s $2,000 (Daily Double): Alexander Laing's triumph of finding this Mali trading post in 1826 was short-lived; he was murdered a month later Timbuktu |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | ASTRONOMY $800: One of the finest meteor showers each year is the one radiating from near Castor & Pollux in Dec. in this constellation Gemini |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAM NAME CHANGES $400: In 2014 these Charlotte NBA felines became the Hornets the Bobcats |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | NATIONAL PARKS $600: Evil-sounding park in southwestern South Dakota the Badlands |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | FROM THE FOREIGN $1600: You don't have to be part of it to know "intelligentsia" is from this language Russian |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | FROM THE FOREIGN $2,000 (Daily Double): This word for income is from the French for "return" revenue |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | LAW FIRMS $800: Try Falangetti & Weimortz for your criminal case-- they've both been on the other side as deputy these district attorneys |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: Careful with these 2 words: one means " unethical"; the other, with a "T", "living forever" immoral & immortal |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | SINGING $1,000 (Daily Double): The primo uomo is the lead male singer in an opera; this is the lead female singer prima donna |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: At the end of WWI the 2 major unions in this industry were the ACWA & the ILGWU garment workers |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | SOY $200: Soy un bombero, one of these emergency responders; call me if things get hot a fireman |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | SOY $400: Soy un enfermero; may I take your temperature? a nurse |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | SOY $600: Soy un perdedor, this person, as Beck sang a loser |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | ALL ABOUT NUMBERS $1200: Legal group of 23 persons charged with determining whether probable cause exists to believe someone committed a crime a grand jury |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | PREFIX IT FOR ME $800: -visor,
-natural super- |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $2000: This American naval hero wasn't killed in the Illinois city that bears his surname, but rather in a duel in Maryland Stephen Decatur |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ARCHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 1730s the "Chronicon Helveticum" expounded on the legend of this archer William Tell |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | BRIT SPEAK $800: What the Brits call a dispensing chemist, we call this profession a pharmacist |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | ____ OF THE ____ $1000: This body of water straddles the U.S.-Canada border where Ontario, Manitoba & Minnesota meet Lake of the Woods |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO $800 (Daily Double): "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of" this, an alliterative phrase private property |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | EXPRSSIONS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: Allow those you speak of to consume Gateau St. Honore let them eat cake |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | VERBS $600: Whether you add "un" to it or not, it means to separate or undo the threads of a piece of clothing ravel |
| #7182, aired 2015-12-01 | MAKEUP $1000: This line of loose powder makeup urges you to "Be original. Be natural. Be good" bareMinerals |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | WITHIN THE FICTIONAL PLANET $1200: A French number or article in the planet also called Arrakis un (or une) (in Dune) |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $1,400 (Daily Double): He relieves Captain De Vriess of his duty in "the Caine Mutiny" Captain Queeg |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | GEMS & JEWELRY $5,000 (Daily Double): This blue-green variety of beryl is routinely heated to make it bluer by removing the yellow color aquamarine |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | TRANSLATE THE FRENCH $800: A reporter should carry un stylo pen |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $400: On TLC Theresa Caputo, who claims to talk to dead people, is the "Long Island" this medium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $800: It's a retail store that sells a variety of items like the one at Disneyland that sells hats, pins, snacks, etc. an emporium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $1200: Beware that the pretty flower seen here yields this opium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $1600: A glass-enclosed sun room a solarium |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | BLANK "UM" $2000: These 2 metallic elements that start with "C" differ by only a letter cerium & cesium |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | "UN" ENDING $200: A repeat episode a rerun |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | "UN" ENDING $400: A Hemingway character says he "brought Anita around for a little spot of good clean" this fun |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | "UN" ENDING $600: The way it feels on your fingers gives this baked treat its name a sticky bun |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | "UN" ENDING $800: Shortened name used for the petty officer in charge of a ship's equipment a bosun |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | "UN" ENDING $1000: Originally referring to cloth or yarn made at one's residence, it now means "rustic" or "unsophisticated" homespun |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | SAME LETTER BEGINNING, MIDDLE & END $800: This word for a cost is often found before "account" expense |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | JESUS $3,400 (Daily Double): ...ascended into heaven from atop this peak 40 days after his resurrection the Mount of Olives |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AFTER GLOW $600: A massive surplus glut |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | "E"-READERS $2,000 (Daily Double): This novel by Sinclair Lewis caused an uproar for its satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion Elmer Gantry |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) Sometimes during surgery, the heart convulses, loses rhythm & stops pumping blood; Cleveland surgeon Claude Beck used cardiac massage & applied electrical current directly to the heart to reverse the phenomenon using this device; those techniques led him to develop CPR a defibrillator |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | MOVIE QUOTES $2000: From 1946:
"I'm givin' out wings!" It's a Wonderful Life |
| #7115, aired 2015-07-17 | WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? $1,600 (Daily Double): I'm this second sign of the zodiac, named for the kind of creature that terrorized Crete in Hercules' time Taurus (the bull) |
| #7109, aired 2015-07-09 | COLORFUL PLACES $800: In Chinese, these 2 bodies of water are the Huang He & the Huang Hai the Yellow River & the Yellow Sea |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | OUR MUSICAL PRESIDENTS $1000: Warren G. Harding played in a brass band in college & later organized a cornet band in Marion in this state Ohio |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | ARITHMETIC $1000: 4 1/2 x 1/5 equals this fraction 9/10 |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | HISTORIANS $1200: While living in exile in England in the late 1720s, this French philosopher wrote "An Essay Upon the Civil Wars in France" Voltaire |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK $400: It's "over" or "on" in the title of this Pierre Boulle WWII novel about a Japanese attempt to get a train route in Burma Bridge over the River Kwai (or Bridge on the River Kwai) |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | THE SOUTH PACIFIC $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the South Pacific.) These stone statues seen throughout the islands may represent deified ancestors in Tahitian mythology & are often placed outside of temples as protection tikis |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | MYTHOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): This Egyptian god's evil brother Set tricked him into lying down in a box that was thrown into the river Osiris |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | POP CULTURE $1000: Emma Thompson introduced Hugh Laurie to this comedy partner, also the host of a British TV show called "QI" Stephen Fry |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $1200: His dying words are "Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will" Brutus (or Brute) |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Found in North Africa, it gets its name from an ancient district that included 3 cities Tripoli |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | LAKES & RIVERS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Switzerland.) Europe's palace of nations, the UN's second biggest facility, stands in the 46 hectare Ariana Park with amazing views of this lake Lake Geneva |
| #7054, aired 2015-04-23 | SCIENCE TERMS IN FRENCH $400: With or without Monsieur Bunsen, "un bec", one of these, should get temperatures rising a burner |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY DICTIONARY $1,400 (Daily Double): This bird whose name also means "of prime importance" can precede "virtue" cardinal |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | OLDE ENGLISH $100 (Daily Double): Forsooth! In 1657 Parliament doth offer this man the title of king, but zounds! He doth say nay to donning a crown Oliver Cromwell |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | BOOKS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE? $4,000 (Daily Double): From MCMXV, "The ____ Steps" XXXIX |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | INTERRED IN THE PANTHEON IN PARIS $800: In 1809, 3 French counts were interred--but not their whole bodies, just these parts in urns their hearts |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | & PARTY EV-ER-Y DAY $200: Ex-Representative Eric Cantor Republican |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | WHO CARES ABOUT APATHY? $800: American Safety & Health Institute pairs this "un-" word meaning non-reactive with "& not breathing" in a scenario responsive (or unresponsive) |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $400: The "Hollywood Ten" were blacklisted in 1947 for refusing to testify before HUAC, this committee the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #7018, aired 2015-03-04 | TOOT YOUR "-ONE" $2000: A speaker of the native tongue in Chartres a Francophone |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT $600: From the Latin for "keeping awake", it's a member of a self-appointed law enforcement group vigilante |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2015 $800: This body "consists of 15 members, five with permanent seats" the UN Security Council |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | FRENCH DIP $400: While playing Marco Polo at the beach, I almost collided with un bateau, one of these a boat |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | OPPOSITES $800: The opposite of scarce, it starts with the first 2 letters of the alphabet abundant |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | SPANISH CLASS $800: I've got una computadora, a computer, un raton, a mouse & this, un teclado a keyboard |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | THE $1 BILL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows currency on the monitor.) On the front of each dollar are the signatures of the two people in these two similar-sounding jobs the Secretary of the Treasury & the Treasurer of the United States |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | A LITTLE SPICE $2000: One of the ingredients in Chinese five-spice powder is this spice seen here, named for its shape & for another spice star anise |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | CLAUSE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a sentence on the monitor.) In this sentence, "'I'm home,' he said", "he said" is a reporting clause, meaning it identifies this the speaker |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | NAME THE DECADE $1,000 (Daily Double): The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is created the 1930s |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $1000: One of these 2 "directional" schools is in Evanston, Illinois; the other, on Huntington Avenue in Boston Northwestern University & Northeastern University |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | BORDERING MISSOURI $2,000 (Daily Double): It has the smallest legislative branch in the nation, 49 senators Nebraska |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1895 he began sending & receiving wireless signals as far as 1.5 miles at his father's home near Bologna, Italy Marconi |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | "FIRST" $800: Your relationship to your mother's brother's daughter first cousin |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $1600: Jesucristo, o un episodio calido El Niño |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THAT WRITER KILLS ME! $1600: Little Nell Charles Dickens |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | MICHIGAN ODDS & ENDS $200: Appropriately, this type of public building in Grand Rapids is named after astronaut Roger B. Chaffee a planetarium |
| #6847, aired 2014-05-27 | VISA $3,400 (Daily Double): A visa to Saudi Arabia for this purpose only covers travel in the vicinities of Mecca, Medina & Jiddah the Hajj |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | ON WHAT ISLAND? $2000: Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Montreal Island |
| #6805, aired 2014-03-28 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of rights with which men are "endowed by their creator"; in the drafting, it changed from "in" to "un" unalienable |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | SILENT CONSONANT $2000: The rock species of this Arctic bird is also known as the snow chicken the ptarmigan |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | HISTORICAL TITLES $800: Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
1992-1996 Secretary-General (of the UN) |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $3,200 (Daily Double): 1929 William Faulkner title pair The Sound & the Fury |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | 1990s TV SHOWS $400: A young physician makes a new life for herself in the Old West Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | CONSIDER THAT A DIVORCE $800 (Daily Double): Their storybook royal romance produced 2 daughters but ended in 1996 Prince Andrew & Sarah Ferguson |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM $2,000 (Daily Double): Elephantine Island &
Kitchener's Island the Nile |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | HOLIDAYS $1000: It's believed that Imhotep helped create this calendar in which new year is usually September 11 the Coptic calendar |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | THAT MOVIE'S GENIUS $1200: An un-Gandhi-like Ben Kingsley takes a child chess prodigy under his wing in this 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $2,500 (Daily Double): His 1911 work "I and the Village" evokes the look of his Hasidic hometown Marc Chagall |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | LEADER OF THE "PACK" $200: Proverbially good things come in these small packages |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | PUT IT THERE $2,000 (Daily Double): TARP programs:
This Cabinet department Treasury |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | WHAT'S YOUR RANGE? $2000: K2 (it's what the "K" stands for) the Karakoram |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $400: We're not neutral about "Un ballo in maschera", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country Sweden |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | SURREALISM $1600: Surrealism popped up in '80s music as this band's song "Debaser" took off from Bunuel's film "Un chien andalou" the Pixies |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | GEOMETRY $1,400 (Daily Double): Johannes Kepler used this geometric figure to describe the orbits of the planets, with the Sun as a focus ellipse |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | AFRICAN RIVERS $700 (Daily Double): The Vanderkloof Dam on this "colorful" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa Orange River |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): Nothing's final, it's all in this, also the name for magnetic lines that run from pole to pole forming magnetic fields flux |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | SHOW BIZ STUPID ANSWERS $200: Julie Chen & Sara Gilbert give their view as 2 of the co-hosts of this talk show The Talk |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | DON'T SAY UM $200: At 3 letters, it has the shortest element name tin |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | DON'T SAY UM $400: Atomic number 10, this gas emits light if electricity is passed through it neon |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | DON'T SAY UM $800: The EPA says this gas seeping into homes causes 21,000 lung cancer deaths a year radon |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | DON'T SAY UM $1,000 (Daily Double): The Latin for this element gave us the word plumbing lead |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | DON'T SAY UM $1000: It reflects 95% of the light that strikes it, making it the most lustrous (shiny) of the metals silver |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | FRONT TO BACK, BACK TO FRONT $2,200 (Daily Double): Beastly home & Mideast currency lair & rial |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $2000: (I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book Harry Blackmun |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | THE 13 COLONIES $1200: In 1665 New Haven colony merged with this colony Connecticut |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): After this book was released in 1997, Mineko Iwasaki, on whom it was based, sued for defamation Memoirs of a Geisha |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS $2000: 1985:
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" William Hurt |
| #6681, aired 2013-10-07 | THEY WERE IN CHARGE 30 YEARS AGO $1200: North Korea Kim Il-sung |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS $7,000 (Daily Double): Once called Buffalo City, this Wild West Kansas town was named for the commander of the nearby fort Dodge City |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: This South American country is named for an Italian navigator (don't think too much) Colombia |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | ADDEND"UM" $400: A monthly payment for an insurance policy premium |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | ADDEND"UM" $800: This temporary state of mental confusion is often caused by fever or intoxication delirium |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | ADDEND"UM" $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Idaho.) Near the Sun Valley ski resort, this town of central Idaho is perhaps best known as the last home of Ernest Hemingway Ketchum |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | ADDEND"UM" $1600: A guitar pick plectrum |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | ADDEND"UM" $2000: Similar to a podium, it's an elevated platform for public speaking, from the Latin for "beak" rostrum |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | AMERICANA $5,000 (Daily Double): A cruise ship called The Spirit of Ethan Allen III provides narrated tours of this large scenic lake Lake Champlain |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $1000: There's a 76% chance of sun in this Colorado town that's Spanish for, um, "town" Pueblo |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | RECENT HISTORY $800: In April 2009 Croatia & Albania became the most recent additions to this alliance that includes the U.S. & the United Kingdom NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | WHAT'S ON TV? $400: Christina's got "The Voice"; Kelly Clarkson is on this singing competition where it takes 2 Duets |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | BANNED! $2,000 (Daily Double): With a large Catholic minority, Lebanon banned this 2003 novel that suggests Jesus was a dad The Da Vinci Code |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | DVD SPECIAL FEATURES $1,200 (Daily Double): "The Rising", "Comrades" & "Revolution parts 1 & 2" are special features of this Warren Beatty film Reds |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THE RENAISSANCE $2,000 (Daily Double): Artisans who produced this stringed, pear-shaped instrument included Frei & Unverdorben the lute |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1600: In 1950 Patty Berg helped found this organization & served as its first president LPGA |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | TOUR "DE" FRANCE $1600: A plan gone horribly wrong; un grand desastre debacle |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 friends are thrown into a fiery furnace Daniel |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | THE CHRISTMAS TREE $400: If there's blue in your decor, the Colorado blue type of this conifer might be a good tree choice a blue spruce |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $400: In China this person is carried over not just the threshold but also burning coals bride |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $800: On March 1 Bulgarians give each other an arrangement of red & white threads to herald the arrival of this spring |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $1200: In the U.S. the gin type of this game is popular; South Americans prefer loba or telefunken rummy |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $1600: The Makonde of Tanzania perform elaborate dances on these paired elevating items stilts |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES $2000: In Toronto, go to the Annandale Club for curling; in Dublin, to Croke Park for this similar-sounding sport hurling |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE OAKLAND "B"s $200: In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it's named for the Bay Bridge |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS, OH MY! $600: The 2 main ways lions mark their territory are by scent-marking & by doing this roaring |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | SYSTEMS OF THE BODY $1600: Composed of 8 glands, this system maintains internal balance by releasing hormones the endocrine system |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | LET'S HAVE A "BALL" $1600: Fungus that discharges a cloud of spores when mature a puffball |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE $2000: Francois Mitterrand became France's president in 1981; this Francois became president in 2012 François Hollande |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $5,000 (Daily Double): Of permanent UN Security Council members China |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | MUSEUMS $1,500 (Daily Double): Architect Pierre Cuypers designed this museum that houses Vermeer's "The Kitchen Maid" the Rijksmuseum (in Amsterdam) |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | KID RHYMES $200: To offer money for something at an auction bid |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GREAT BEGINNINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Following a crisis earlier in the decade, this cabinet department was created August 4, 1977 Energy Department |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | A FEW 4-LETTER CATEGORY $1600: As an adjective, it means stylish; as a noun, it's a prestigious award tony |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | ANTONYMS OF BIBLE BOOKS $400: "Conclusion" Genesis |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | JOHN STEINBECK $2,000 (Daily Double): "Jody put out his bruised hand again, and..." this title animal "let his nose be rubbed" The Red Pony |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SINGERS' SONGS FROM THE HEART $400: "Un-Break My Heart"
(1996) Toni Braxton |
| #6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This pope's "Journal of a Soul" from adolescence to the Vatican was published after he died in 1963 John XXIII |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: His "The Crucible" was produced in 1953; in 1956 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee Arthur Miller |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGED $2000: Forbes ranks this "skinny" 72-year-old Mexican telecom king as the world's richest person Carlos Slim |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | OED TOP SOURCES $1,400 (Daily Double): William Shakespeare is second; this historical novelist with the same initials is third Sir Walter Scott |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Da Vinci Code" was actually the second novel to feature symbologist Robert Langdon; this book was first Angels and Demons |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | PEOPLE $600: Kim Jong Un has succeeded his father as the leader of this country North Korea |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | METROPOLITAN OPERA $1200: "Carmen" Seville |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $400: Calvin Coolidge is reported to have said, "When a great many people are unable to find work", this "results" unemployment |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $800: Humpty Dumpty told Alice that "there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get" these "presents" unbirthday presents |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $1200: In 1875 William Ernest Henley wrote, "Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but" this unbowed |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $1,500 (Daily Double): Carl Gustav Jung said that this "is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good" the unconscious |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | QUOTE "UN"QUOTE $2000: Socrates said that this type of life "is not worth living" the unexamined life |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | AN "UN"CATEGORY $200: The husband of your mom's sister your uncle |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | AN "UN"CATEGORY $400: The Eighth Amendment protects citizens against this kind of punishment unusual |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | AN "UN"CATEGORY $600: A member of the Dalit caste in India, or Eliot Ness in Chicago the Untouchables |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | AN "UN"CATEGORY $800: Technically passed on, but still animate, like a zombie undead |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | AN "UN"CATEGORY $1000: The framework that serves as the support for the body of a car the undercarriage |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | INTERNATIONAL PLURAL-ISM $400: In Spanish:
Un año, dos... años |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | INTERNATIONAL PLURAL-ISM $2000: In French:
Un cheval, deux... chevaux |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | COLORFUL BOOKS $2,800 (Daily Double): Georgeanne Brennan wrote a cookbook that shares its title with this Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | HEY, MARTHA $2000: Stars like Bogie, seen here at a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing, were among Martha Holmes' subjects in 35 years snapping for this magazine Life |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $800: Ovis canadensis is this mountain dweller the bighorn sheep |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | QUEEN Bs $600: This king wasn't too lionish toward his Queen Berengaria; they had no kids & may never have... um... you know... King Richard the Lionhearted |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | '50s FICTION $1600: In this 1954 James Michener novel, a Japanese girl ends up saying "Goodbye" to her American soldier boy Sayonara |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | '50s FICTION $2,000 (Daily Double): His 1950 novel "Across the River and into the Trees" reflected a growing bitterness toward life Ernest Hemingway |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | FAST-FOOD FOREIGN MENU $1200: Mexican sizes for this chain's Blizzard are chico, mediano, grande y hasta un litro! Dairy Queen |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Cleveland Clinic.) Robin Williams thanked the Cleveland Clinic team for his heart surgery, saying, after getting a replacement one of these from a cow, "the grazing's been fun" a valve |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | ON DECK $4,200 (Daily Double): A type of walk, or an upper deck on a passenger ship where folks can stroll the promenade deck |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | TALKING ITALIAN $1000: A certain piece of hardware is una vite, so this hand tool used with it is un cacciavite a screwdriver |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | STOP THAT RACKET! $2000: Many traveling executives & rich families with kids go in for K&R insurance, short for this kidnapping & ransom |
| #6272, aired 2011-12-20 | HAVE A WONDERFUL WEDDING $800: A term for Frodo, or a young 'un at a wedding who participates in the ceremony by holding the bands ringbearer |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | THE COUNTRY'S NATIONAL HOLIDAY $400: November 19:
Saint Rainier's Day Monaco |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | THE WORLD PRESS $2,000 (Daily Double): Translate the name of Tulsa's leading newspaper into French & you have this Paris daily Le Monde |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | IT'S A "MAD" WORLD $3,000 (Daily Double): The volcanic soil of this Atlantic island helps give a distinctive rich flavor to the fortified wine named for it Madeira |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | "H"EALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) This occurs when the nucleus of a disk protrudes through the surrounding cell & puts pressure on a spinal nerve a herniated disk |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | WORD ORIGINS $3,000 (Daily Double): From the Italian for "of a cave", this adjective today refers to anything strange or ugly grotesque |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | THE LONELY ISLAND $400: This island--some 1,200 miles from the west coast of Africa--was used for Napoleon's final exile because of its remoteness St. Helena |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ASSUME THE POSITION $2000: He became King of England in 1399 after forcing his cousin Richard II from the throne Henry IV |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | ETHICS $10,000 (Daily Double): Monistic theories reduce the search for good to one thing, like pleasure in the case of this theory hedonism |
| #6239, aired 2011-11-03 | IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $5,000 (Daily Double): Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca lima beans |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | COME TO OUR AIDE $1600: In 1948 White House aide Lauchlin Currie told this committee he wasn't a Soviet spy; today we know he was the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $200: The 1935 Social Security Act established this type of insurance nationally unemployment |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $400: Not shortened, like Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary unabridged |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $600: To move gently up & down in a wavy pattern undulate |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $800: To remove a no-longer-wanted computer program from your hard drive uninstall |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | THAT'S "UN" CALLED FOR! $1000: There are even-toed & odd-toed orders of these hoofed mammals ungulates |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | REALLY HURT $3,800 (Daily Double): Rogaine won't repair this stress-induced pain also called a capillary fracture a hairline fracture |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FILE $1600: His "colorful" first case A Study in Scarlet |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | DAMN YANKEES $2,000 (Daily Double): By the end of 1862 this newly appointed rear admiral controlled the entire Gulf Coast except for Mobile David Farragut |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y $1000: The first "T" in GATT, they're taxes one nation puts on goods imported from another tariffs |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | ANIMAL ADJECTIVES $1200: Columbine a dove |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): A line in this 1954 novel reads, "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" Lord of the Flies |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $200: Avoid the sting as you tell us that un'ape is this insect the bee |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $400: If you're called un asino, you're either a fool, or this animal a donkey |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $800: Un cane is this; ready for walkies? a dog |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | NFL COACH OF THE YEAR $400: Da 1985 NFC choice was this coach of da Bears (Mike) Ditka |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: A stone marker on a grave, or an Old West Arizona town a tombstone |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | THE LIBERTY BELL RANG... $1200: on July 8, 1763 to give notice of the end of this war the French and Indian War |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | KELLOGG'S $1600: This word precedes the Big Red "K" in the name of a Kellogg's cereal Special |
| #6189, aired 2011-07-07 | 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a plot of land on which many different trees are grown for study or display an arboretum |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | WHAT DO U STAND FOR? $2000: In the committee known as HUAC Un-American |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | AMERICAN POETRY $1600: A 1965 poem by this poet is titled "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels" Allen Ginsberg |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | GOULASH $800: After a little trouble staying on the ballot, he was easily elected mayor of Chicago in 2011 (Rahm) Emanuel |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | & IN OTHER NEWS... $1200: In 1776 Timur Shah moved his capital from Kandahar to this present-day world capital Kabul |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | JUST CHUTE ME $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1797 Andre Garnerin became the first to use a parachute without a rigid frame when he jumped from one of these a hot air balloon |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES $800: "Five years ago, our college campuses were a battleground" Nixon |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | PARTS OF A WHOLE $800: Buoyancy compensator,
emergency regulator,
purge valve,
air tank scuba gear |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | Y'ALL FROM GEORGIA? $1,500 (Daily Double): This Georgia native won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | A LITTLE OF THE BUBBLY $200: One of its ad campaigns called it "The uncola. The un and only." 7 Up |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | FOREIGN FILM TITLES $2000: From Pedro Almodovar:
"Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios" Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | THE MAD TEA PARTY $1600: The Tea Party is leery of this intl. body, which it suspects of plots like trying to get people in Denver to bike more the UN |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | JEOPARDY PLATFORMS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Kangshung Face, the North Col & the Khumu Icefall are all parts of this dangerous place Mt. Everest |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE $800: Oh no, it's the cruel headmaster of Salem House, Mr. Creakle, & his peg leg buddy, Tungay--will this never end?! David Copperfield |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | ALL GODS' CHILDREN $400: This watery fella's kids included Orion & Polyphemus Poseidon |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | HERE COMES THE JUDGE $1000: Harry Morgan tries to keep the peace between Spencer Tracy & Fredric March in this blustery film from 1960 Inherit the Wind |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | BIRDIE $400: Seen here, & common in Hawaii, is the red-crested variety of this bird the cardinal |
| #6077, aired 2011-02-01 | SOMETHING "MORE" $1,000 (Daily Double): This U.S. city was founded in 1729 & named for Charles Calvert Baltimore |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | POTTER ROAST $400: So this brother of Flopsy was a real pet of yours; but didn't your cook say something about making Hasenpfeffer? Peter Rabbit |
| #6053, aired 2010-12-29 | U.S. FLAG ETIQUETTE $1000: In the U.S., this organization's flag may be flown above the Stars and Stripes only at its NYC headquarters the UN (the United Nations) |
| #6027, aired 2010-11-23 | BEER GOOGLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Google links to the site for this American beer that's sponsoring a LongShot American Homebrew Contest Samuel Adams |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | WORD ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): Murray Gell-Mann adopted this word for various hypothetical particles from "Finnegan's Wake" quarks |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | ARCHAEOLOGY $1,600 (Daily Double): Also called "foragers", these hyphenated early nomadic people depended on wild food sources hunter-gatherers |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THEM CROOKED VULTURES $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for the type of bird vultures are is from an old word meaning a toll collector scavenger |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: You might take due aspirina if you have un mal di capo, one of these a headache |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | COUNTRY CLUBS $4,000 (Daily Double): Members of this club formed in 1993 include Latvia, Lithuania & Luxembourg--sorry, Libya, you're not invited the European Union |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | THIS... WAS... JEOPARDY! $800 (Daily Double): On July 3, 1863 3 brigades of his division, 4,300 men, led a Gettysburg "charge", with disastrous results George Pickett |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | A WINE-WINE SITUATION $100 (Daily Double): As the name implies, chambre refers to wines served this way room temperature |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | COMMANDERS AT WAR $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) In June 1950, North Korea launched a surprise attack deep into South Korea; the tables turned in September, when MacArthur's UN forces made a surprise landing at this port city Inchon |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEGA-EVENTS $1200: In 1896 more than 2,000 were trampled in the stampede for free beer at the coronation of this doomed czar Nicholas II |
| #5965, aired 2010-07-16 | THE WEST INDIES $800: Buck Island Reef Natl. Monument in this U.S. territory has an underwater trail where snorkelers can view the coral the Virgin Isles |
| #5963, aired 2010-07-14 | NUMBER WORD PLAY $2000: This number, one of the first 20, uses only one vowel (4 times!) seventeen |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | VERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): To express one's own opinions, as if in a newspaper you ran editorialize |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Kiss & tell me the name of this Art Nouveau Austrian who painted the work seen here Gustav Klimt |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | COMPLETE THE MOVIE QUOTE $1600: "Fargo":
"And I guess that was your accomplice in the ____ ____" wood chipper |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | NEAT, SHE $400: This character on "Friends" is a "self-professed neat freak" Monica |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $800: British Guiana Guyana |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | IN THE FRENCH PANTRY $1000: I see un pamplemousse, this; I'll have half of it for petit dejeuner, breakfast grapefruit |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | FRANÇAIS TO ANGLAIS $800: This 7-letter car part is un silencieux a muffler |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s" Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE $4,000 (Daily Double): "Happy Mothers, Breastfed Babies" is the motto of this league whose name includes the Spanish for "milk" La Leche |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | 1910 $3,000 (Daily Double): Boutros Ghali, the first native-born prime minister of this country, was assassinated in February Egypt |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $1000: Supporting actress winner Mo'nique wore a gardenia in her hair in honor of this pioneering African-American actress Hattie McDaniel |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: Bar owner Sam Malone &
Dr. John Becker Ted Danson |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $600: Thomas Magnum &
Chief Jesse Stone Tom Selleck |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Charlie Salinger &
Jack Shephard Matthew Fox |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | MYTHTER & MYTHUS $600: Cupid & her Psyche |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | FASHION DESIGNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Giorgio Armani puts on fashion shows at his palazzo on Via Borgonuovo in this northern Italian city Milan |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | PLAY TIME $1200: The dialog for "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" was drawn from the hearings of this committee during the 1950s the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | ...DIES BY THE "S" WORD $2000: It's another Japanese word for hara-kiri seppuku |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $400: Harper Lee:
"Matar un Ruiseñor" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WRITTEN COMMUNICATION $3,000 (Daily Double): On June 27, 2007, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent these demanding documents to the White House subpoenas |
| #5810, aired 2009-12-11 | INGRID BERGMAN $1,400 (Daily Double): At Ingrid's funeral service, a lone violin played this song from a film she starred in "As Time Goes By" |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | FEMALE INVENTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Several of Beulah Henry's inventions dealt with this machine, like the protograph, which made 4 copies with no carbon paper a typewriter |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $400: From the Greek for "shape", it means to transform an image into something else by computer morph |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $800: In the scientific classification of animals, it's Chordata for a domesticated dog phylum |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $1200: The bar type is one common form of this chart graph |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $1600: Now meaning those who are hostile to the arts, in biblical times it was a people subdued by King David a Philistine |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | "PH"UN WORDS $2000: Because the Greek goddess Artemis was associated with the Moon, she was also called this, which means "light one" Phoebe |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | UN-OUTSOURCEABLE $400: This person, sometimes addressed as "garcon" a waiter |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | UN-OUTSOURCEABLE $800: These public safety workers who traditionally slide down a pole a fireman |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | UN-OUTSOURCEABLE $1200: This type of professional, who may teach on- or off-leash a dog trainer |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | UN-OUTSOURCEABLE $2000: An HVAC technician, HVAC standing for heating, this & air conditioning ventilation |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | UN-OUTSOURCEABLE $5,100 (Daily Double): This type of healer who adjusts & aligns you based on a system developed in 1895 a chiropractor |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | WHATEVER $800: This city named for a marquis was North Carolina's capital from 1789 to 1798 Fayetteville |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | "TEXT" ME $5,200 (Daily Double): This is an ostensible reason put forward to conceal a true purpose or object a pretext |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10,316 $1200: Let's convert! (From Roman, that is) MMM + MDIII equals this 4-digit number 4,503 |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | HOW MANY YEARS? $400: Triennial 3 |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | MOST POPULOUS CITY IN THE STATE $1200: Vermont Burlington |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | LIVRES EN FRANÇAIS $400: Dickens:
"Un chant de noel" A Christmas Carol |
| #5760, aired 2009-10-02 | MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS $600: Il est un 2-word term for "see ya around, dude"; en francais, s'il vous plait! au revoir |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | CHARITY $5,000 (Daily Double): It was founded in 1887 to coordinate 22 Denver charities the United Way |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | STATELY FORTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Fort Dix in this state is bordered by McGuire Air Force Base & Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst New Jersey |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | "RUSH"IA $2000: This plant is the source for Egyptian papyrus the bullrush |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | DIRECT TO FILM $1200: He started the "X-Men" series before flying over to "Superman Returns" Bryan Singer |
| #5740, aired 2009-07-17 | STORY TIME $200: Name of the Mother Goose thief represented here--what a son of a piper Tom |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | SCIENCE EN ESPAÑOL $1600: One of these small earthquakes that follows a larger one is un replica an aftershock |
| #5733, aired 2009-07-08 | SELF-CONTRADICTORY WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): A fastener to secure something; or it could be to bend, warp & give way suddenly with heat or pressure buckle |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | BRIDE & GLOOM $400: Um, awkward! Jane Eyre's wedding is halted when an attorney insists that this groom is already married Rochester |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2,000 (Daily Double): ...among the first 5 books of the Old Testament Deuteronomy |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | THE WRATH OF GRAPES $1600: Alcohol blocks this growth gland's creation of antidiuretic hormone, so drinkers do a lot of, um, diureting the pituitary gland |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | OUT IN THE STREET $1600: Bogie and Bacall are moseying over to protest hearings by the House committee on these in 1947 Un-American Activities |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | HEADLINES $2000: From the Sept. 16, 1961 N.Y. Times:
He "Dies in African Air Crash; Kennedy Going to U.N. in Succession Crisis" Dag Hammarskjold |
| #5699, aired 2009-05-21 | ART HEISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2001 his "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'" wandered off during a cocktail reception at the Jewish Museum in New York Chagall |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | FUNNY LADIES IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: Beatrice, Hero & her gentlewomen Margaret & Ursula Much Ado About Nothing |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $4,008 (Daily Double): After coming up with the Yellow Kid comic strip, Richard Outcault created this other colorful boy Buster Brown |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR BY FILM $600: "Shakespeare in Love" Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | AHD NEGATIVE PREFIXES $1000: Before ready (Ethelred knew this one) un- |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | BEHIND THE SEUSS-IC $1,500 (Daily Double): This book sells about 300,000 copies each year because so many people give it to college & high school graduates Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a money-printing press in Washington, D.C.) There might be $300 million in production at a given time in the building I'm in, the D.C. facility of this bureau The Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | THE WORLD COURT $1200: The court's deliberations are secret, or "in" this--not "on" this, which would mean very un-secret camera |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | RHYME TIME $800: The only tibia a lone bone |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | BODY LANGUAGE $2000: To tolerate or endure to stomach |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $600: "Band of Brothers" actor Wahlberg & Madame Curie Donny & Marie |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | POSH & BECKS $600: Beck sang, "Soy un perdedor, I'm a" this "baby, so why don't you kill me?" a loser |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | ALL ABOUT PRESIDENTS $1,200 (Daily Double): This "Big Bill" married the daughter of a former law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes William Howard Taft |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | MR. & MRS. MALAPROP $800: On "All in the Family", Edith Bunker referred not to V-E Day or V-J Day but this, um, relative VD Day |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | ALBUMS $800: The soundtrack to this 1986 Molly Ringwald film includes OMD's "If You Leave" & the title track by the Psychedelic Furs Pretty in Pink |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | SHATNER HAPPENS $1200: On his 1968 album "The Transformed Man", Bill...um... sings this Beatles classic, kaleidoscope eyes & all "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" |
| #5577, aired 2008-12-02 | 9-LETTER WORDS $600: A synonym for "ludicrous parody", it's also the bawdy type of entertainment seen here burlesque |
| #5572, aired 2008-11-25 | JUNIOR SAMPLES $1600: Edmund Jr. is the real name of this California pol known to some as "Governor Moonbeam" Jerry Brown |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | ASTRONOMERS $1600: Giordano Bruno suffered this punishment in 1600 for declaring the Sun the center of the Solar System he was burned at the stake |
| #5565, aired 2008-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): WIENER SHOE Eisenhower |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | FRENCH $1600: Un cheval is a horse; cheveux is this, as on one's tete hair |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | WHO WROTE IT? $600: "Le Comte de Monte Cristo", un roman passionant (Alexandre) Dumas |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE PRESIDENTS $1000: Through his pursuit of Alger Hiss & others, Richard Nixon gained national fame on this House committee HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | LET'S THAI ONE ON $1,000 (Daily Double): According to a 1921 Thai law, all albino ones of this mammal, an emblem of the monarchy, belong to the king white elephant |
| #5546, aired 2008-10-20 | WORDS THAT SOUND ODD WITHOUT PREFIXES $1600: "Un-" this 5-letter word describes crude behavior in high society; without "un-", it means showing sophistication couth |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | EXPLOSIVES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from an explosive test site at the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology.) Explosives deal effectively with rock; that's why this industry is the no. 1 U.S. civilian user of them, with West Virginia among the top consuming states coal mining |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN! $400: Afraid of blood? Snakes? Enclosed places? You have one of these intense irrational fears phobia |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN! $800: Ethics & logic are branches of this discipline philosophy |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN! $1200: It took nearly a hundred years, but women were finally admitted to this Greek letter society in 1875 Phi Beta Kappa |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN! $1600: It's the more common term for one who works as an apothecary a pharmacist |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | LET'S HAVE SOME "PH"UN! $2000: In the scientific classification of organisms, it comes between kingdom & class phylum |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | FOLK MUSIC $2000: In 1967 the D.A.R. refused to allow this daughter of a Mexican-American physicist to perform at Constitution Hall Joan Baez |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $2,400 (Daily Double): Georgia has an official state 'possum: this comic strip cutie who lives in the Okefenokee Swamp Pogo |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | AMERICANA $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the most performed songs in the U.S. after "Happy Birthday"; both were sung March 31, 2008 at Dodger Stadium the National Anthem & "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | CHINA & INDIA $2000: The Golden Shield, which restricts online viewing of controversial topics, is known as the "Great" this "of China" firewall |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | "NN"-DATED $600: Man-eater, when you're a man a cannibal |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | ANATOMY $2000: A large forehead doesn't indicate smartness; it indicates a large one of these bones that form the forehead the frontal bone |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | THE HENRY WHO... $1,000 (Daily Double): ...was set adrift with his son & 7 crewmen in 1611 Hudson |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.) One of Ford's biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship Mayaguez by this Asian country in 1975 Cambodia |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BIOPICS $1600: 2007's "Control" is the story of Ian Curtis, the troubled singer of this U.K. rock band Joy Division |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GAMBLING $600: (Cheryl & Sarah play poker; Cheryl reads the clue.) When I'm playing Texas Hold 'Em in this type of tournament & I like my cards, I move all my chips in no-limit poker |
| #5494, aired 2008-06-26 | WOMEN WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A graduate of Howard University, she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | MAKES SENSE $1,000 (Daily Double): In Spanish, this bird is un pajaro carpintero a woodpecker |
| #5486, aired 2008-06-16 | CELEBRITY BOOKS $400: This diet spokesperson tells all in her new book "Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound At A Time" Valerie Bertinelli |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES $600: A children's book pachyderm, or the nickname of Indian Mogul Emperor Zahir Un-Din Muhammad Babar |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | ANTONYMIC $1,000 (Daily Double): In law, there are these 2 main kinds of "nuisance" public & private |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME LETTER $600: A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane a polyp |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | LITERARY SEQUELS $2,500 (Daily Double): "Myron" was Gore Vidal's sequel to this novel Myra Breckinridge |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | VIRGINIA $1,500 (Daily Double): The state of Virginia was so named in her honor Elizabeth I |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | THE CALENDAR $800: 2 of the 4 months without a U.S. federal holiday (2 of) March, April, June & August |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NOMS DE PLUME $200: In French this graceful swimmer is un cygne a swan |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NOMS DE PLUME $800: This nocturnal bird of prey is un hibou an owl |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | POLICE & THIEVES $1,000 (Daily Double): This naval hero thought up his surname to hide from the British, who tried to arrest him as a pirate John Paul Jones |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | HORROR MOVIE SERIES BY CHARACTER $1000: Pinhead Hellraiser |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | THE NEXT NATION IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER $2000: Next after
Russia Rwanda |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE WORLD OF MR. BURNS $800: After a near-un-requested fission surplus, I said Homer "turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere" this Pennsylvania place Three Mile Island |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $2000: His masterpiece poem "Don Juan" is divided into cantos Byron |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $2000: Joe Dirt David Spade |
| #5411, aired 2008-03-03 | YOU ANIMAL $2,500 (Daily Double): Named for a fabric made in Baghdad, it's a cat with a striped or brindled coat a tabby |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | BORN FIRST $1000: Elizabeth I of England,
Louis XIV of France,
Nicholas II of Russia Elizabeth I of England |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | VWLLSS FLWRS $1000: RS
(2 responses, please) rose & iris |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | THE SECRET OF NYM $1600: Capitonyms like "job", "herb" & "august" change meaning & this when the first letter is capitalized pronunciation |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | GIVING YOU THE BIRD $2000: The gray type of this bird was introduced to North America in 1889; come on, get happy! the partridge |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $5,000 (Daily Double): The Fisk Jubilee Singers were coming for to carry this spiritual onto the Registry "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | EVERYDAY ITALIAN $1600: This quadruped is un cavallo a horse |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | LET'S GO CRUISING $3,000 (Daily Double): Orient Lines' historical cruise from Istanbul to Venice is named for these 2 seas the Aegean & the Adriatic |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | THEY WILL "UM" $400: Baseball referee an umpire |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | THEY WILL "UM" $800: Your navel was attached to it your umbilical cord |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | THEY WILL "UM" $1200: If someone is rude to you, you might "take" this feeling of displeasure umbrage |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | THEY WILL "UM" $1600: The Tiber runs through this hilly Italian region Umbria |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | THEY WILL "UM" $2000: The name of this diacritical symbol is from the German for "sound change" an umlaut |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | PRESIDENTIAL CREATIONS $600: Among his achievements was--was--um--oh, the creation of what's now the Office of Management & Budget in 1921 Harding |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | LIVRES EN FRANÇAIS $400: 1976:
"Entretien avec un vampire" Interview with the Vampire (Interview with a Vampire accepted) |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ARCHITECTURE $2000: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known by this name, called his houses "machines for living in" Le Corbusier |
| #5340, aired 2007-11-23 | DANIEL BOONE $1600: In his poem "Don Juan", this Englishman wrote 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone & his virile exploits Lord Byron |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: Dr. Frank N. Furter is dragged aboard a paddle steamer to sing "Ol' Man River" with Paul Robeson in this musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show Boat |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $2,400 (Daily Double): A boll weevil curled up like a baby a fetal beetle |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera Pagliacci |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | THEY COME IN THREES $600: The 3 members of ancient Rome's First Triumvirate in 60 B.C. were Crassus, Pompey & him Julius Caesar |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | CHILE DOGS $400: In Concepcion this large dog is called un gran danes a Great Dane |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | CHILE DOGS $800: Any lassie in Chile could tell you that this dog is un perro de pastor escoces a collie |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | CHILE DOGS $1200: In Santiago this dog unrivaled for its scenting powers is un sabueso a bloodhound |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | CHILE DOGS $1600: Play fetch with un perro perdiguero de oro, this fetching dog a golden retriever |
| #5307, aired 2007-10-09 | CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS $2000: One of the only 2 current U.S. territories visited by Columbus, who reached both in 1493 Puerto Rico (or the Virgin Islands) |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Laid out in 1874, the botanical gardens in this capital have an observatory with a statue of Tycho Brahe Copenhagen |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | POSSIBLE SAT VOCABULARY $2000: This adjective for a terrifying experience comes from a toothed farm implement used on plowed ground harrowing |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | LULLABIES THAT ROCK $800: This song is for parents who believe in bribery "Hush Little Baby (Don't You Cry)" |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | A WORLD OF PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Aeschylus' most "oresting" work may be this Greek trilogy about the house of Atreus The Orestia |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | MODERN SCIENTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): On March 16, 1961 NASA dedicated its space flight center to this man on the 35th anniversary of a major feat of his Robert Goddard |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | AFI'S 100 YEARS 100 MOVIES $2000: Big news--besides Tom Hanks' "Big", these are 2 of the 3 movies on the ballot with "big" in the title 2 of (The Big Chill, The Big Sleep, or The Big Parade) |
| #5241, aired 2007-05-28 | CHESS NUTS $200: Careful! In tournament play, once you do this, you have to move the piece touch it |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | CIRCUS TALK $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew watches people hanging around.) As the trapeze was invented in France, the catcher is sometimes called "porteur" & this person in a trick is called "voltigeur" the flyer |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | RHYME TIME $200: It's common slang for a huge 18-wheeler a big rig |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $400: Santa Rosa is a large, dark purple variety of this fruit a plum |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $800: Difficulty breathing through the nose may be a sign that this dividing wall of cartilage & bone is deviated a septum |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $1200: A synonym for an appendix to a book an addendum |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $1600: It was the huge white marble Wonder located at Halicarnassus the Mausoleum |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | ENDS WITH "UM" $2000: The Latin name for ancient Troy; it's also one of the hipbones Ilium |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | "HOD" PODGE $1600: The only U.S. state that fits the category Rhode Island |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | CONSUMER REPORTS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew enlightens us from the Consumer Reports photography lab in Yonkers, NY.) To judge digital prints, Consumer Reports simulates the bluish color temperature of daylight with a setting of 5000 K, the "K" standing for this kelvin |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: An interjection meaning "nonsense", it was often used by Ebenezer Scrooge (Bah) humbug |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | GLOBAL $1000: The history of this European country, whose flag is seen here, goes back 4,000 years Greece |
| #5178, aired 2007-02-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: Though not used technically, it's another term for the upper troposphere substratosphere |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | WINTER SPORTS $400: Types of jumps in this sport include the lutz, the salchow & the axel figure skating |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | MONTHLY NAME ORIGINS $1000: Named after the goddess of plant growth May |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | 2 FOR T $1600: This philosophy emphasizing the intuitive & spiritual above the empirical is associated with Emerson transcendentalism |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | MATT-ICULOUS $600: In 1951 General Matthew Ridgway replaced this man as U.N. Forces Commander-in-Chief in Korea (Gen. Douglas) MacArthur |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | WEEKEND IN NEW ENGLAND $2,000 (Daily Double): This highest peak in New Hampshire's presidential range occasionally can be seen from the Atlantic Ocean Mount Washington |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | DINOSAURS $1000: Also a type of modern bird, this word follows "ovi" & "Utah" in dinosaur names raptor |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | STAR WARS $800: Justin Timberlake won no fans by sniping that this 2006 American Idol "can't carry a tune in a bucket" Taylor Hicks |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | ALL KINDS OF MUSIC $400: A popular Christmas tune begins, "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath" this "last night" mistletoe |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | KID LIT $800 (Daily Double): In a Frances Hodgson Burnett tale, Mary Lennox tends to this title place & Colin grows stronger as it blooms the Secret Garden |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | NAMES YOU SHOULD KNOW $1,000 (Daily Double): Let's "Z" about this German-born publisher of the N.Y. Weekly Journal, acquitted of libel in 1735 (John Peter) Zenger |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ORGANIZATIONS $800: This group, MSF, was founded by French doctors & journalists--to bear witness as well as provide medical help Doctors Without Borders |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER $400: Benvolio,
Balthasar,
Mercutio Romeo & Juliet |
| #5050, aired 2006-07-21 | BLAME IT ON THE REIGN $3,000 (Daily Double): ...of this English monarch, who made a truce with Saladin, ceding him Jerusalem Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted) |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | FOOD FACTS $200: Osso bucco is the shank cut of this meat veal |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | ON ITS EASTERN BORDER $200: Haiti the Dominican Republic |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | HUMPHREY BOGART $800: In 1947 Bogie joined other actors in protesting the witch hunts conducted by this committee the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | THOSE FUNNY BRITS $1600: One of the 2 lead actresses in the hilariously un-P.C. britcom "Absolutely Fabulous" Jennifer Saunders (or Joanna Lumley) |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | "U" KNOW YOU KNOW $600: This organization is headquartered at 1st Ave. & 46th St. in NYC the UN |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): The Gironde, an estuary formed by a river confluence near Bordeaux, extends to this bay the Bay of Biscay |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $800: This serpent devourer was introduced into Jamaica to kill rats--didn't work; the rats simply climbed into trees the mongoose |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | HERBS & SPICES $2000: Plants producing this spice in England came from a crocus bulb smuggled from the Holy Land in the 14th century saffron |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | FOOD IN FRENCH $800: In French, this citrus fruit is un pamplemousse a grapefruit |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | FOOD IN FRENCH $2000: Un oeuf is an egg; this is an eggplant une aubergine |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | THE SECOND... $400: ...franchise to win the Super Bowl New York Jets |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | THE "UN" COUNTRIES $400: It's hard to ask a question about this European country without mentioning its Magyar ethnic group Hungary |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | THE "UN" COUNTRIES $800: This oil-rich country on the island of Borneo is ruled by a Sultan Brunei |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | THE "UN" COUNTRIES $1600: Abu Dhabi is the largest of the 7 states that make up this Persian Gulf nation the United Arab Emirates |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | THE "UN" COUNTRIES $2000: The Nile River begins in this country that borders Rwanda Burundi |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | THE "UN" COUNTRIES $2,200 (Daily Double): The May 1943 battle of this country ended the Axis hold on North Africa Tunisia |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1848 this former president from New York ran for office again, this time on the Free-Soil ticket Martin Van Buren |
| #4962, aired 2006-03-21 | EGGHEADS $500 (Daily Double): She went to the U. of Denver at 15 & got a Ph.D. there studying the USSR; she's now in the Cabinet Condoleezza Rice |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this type of fish seen here also means an elevated position a perch |
| #4953, aired 2006-03-08 | NFL HALL OF FAMERS BY NUMBER $1000: A fullback:
Miami Dolphins No. 39 Larry Csonka |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | COMMIES $2,900 (Daily Double): He left Vietnam for Europe in 1911 & was a founding member of the French Communist Party Ho Chi Minh |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | "BIO" $2000: Botanical adjective meaning long-lived, or a certain type of diet of beans & grains macrobiotic |
| #4928, aired 2006-02-01 | "B" IN FASHION $200: During the 1992 L.A. riots, one of these worn by Madonna in a video was stolen from Frederick's of Hollywood a bustier |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $400: The totality of all matter & energy in space the universe |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $800: A mortician or funeral director an undertaker |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1200: A freshman or a sophomore, when spoken of as "below" a senior or junior an underclassman |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1600: The first commercially available electronic computer UNIVAC |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "small claw", it's a generic term for a hoofed mammal ungulate |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: This British adventurer liked to go by the initials T.E. instead of his given names Thomas Edward T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | CLASSICAL CLASSICS $1600: Mozart's "Eine Kleine Gigue" is not as well known as this similarly-titled piece, Kochel 525 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | AMERICAN LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Caroline Meeber is the title character of this 1900 novel Sister Carrie |
| #4897, aired 2005-12-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $100 (Daily Double): "Salut, o terre d'esperance" begins "L'Abidjanaise", the anthem of this nation Ivory Coast |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | TV THEME SONG ENDINGS $600: "Those were the days" All in the Family |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | "F" IN ANATOMY $1,000 (Daily Double): They're also called oviducts Fallopian tubes |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Singin' in the Rain" star who once worked as an office temp Gene Kelly Girl (or Gene Kelly Services) |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | 'TIS TIME TO TESTIFY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1947 playwright Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe after testifying before this House committee the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | A SPANISH INQUISITION $400: 4-letter English translation of the Spanish un laberinto maze |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | STATE "NC" $2000: Before you turned 18, you were this, meaning you couldn't vote disenfranchised |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): The phrase "handwriting on the wall" goes back to this book of the Old Testament Daniel |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | ESPAÑOL $600: This pet is un perro a dog |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | STATE OF INTEREST $600: It's the only state that shares its border with only one other state Maine |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | KID LIT $1,400 (Daily Double): This young detective didn't have a cell phone & a hybrid car when she debuted 75 years ago, but she has 'em now Nancy Drew |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | HITCHCOCK $800: Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $5,500 (Daily Double): Located in a national park, it's about 1 1/2 miles long & rises 1,142 feet above the desert floor Ayers Rock |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | AND TWINS! $400: Born Nov. 25, 1981, they are the granddaughters of a president Jenna & Barbara Bush |
| #4837, aired 2005-09-27 | GONE WITH THE WIND $2000: After a name change to the House Internal Security Committee, it was abolished in 1975 the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $800: The USA's only Leonardo da Vinci painting resides at this museum at 4th & Constitution the National Gallery of Art |
| #4812, aired 2005-07-05 | SITCOMS $600: Miss DeFazio of sitcom Milwaukee Laverne |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | '80s FASHIONS $1000: A Sheryl Crow song says that Uncle Larry wears this brand of jacket "'cause he thinks it turns on all the ladies" Members Only |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | THE QUOTABLE BROWNINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): Elizabeth Barrett Browning called this French novelist "true genius, but true woman!" George Sand |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS $1200: Early morphing technology, as in a 1982 photo by Nancy Burson, combined this U.S. & this Soviet leader Reagan & Brezhnev |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | VERB FIRST NAMES $1000: To wade across a river Ford |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $2000: The pilgrims are off to the shrine of Thomas Becket, whom Chaucer calls the "Blisful" this (with an I where we put a Y) martyr |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | EXPERTISE OF AREAS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a blackboard.) It's the area of the right triangle seen here 525 |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | PRINCE $5,600 (Daily Double): The caravel was developed under the patronage of this man born in 1394 Prince Henry (the Navigator, of Portugal) |
| #4757, aired 2005-04-19 | ABBR. $4,000 (Daily Double): 4-letter abbreviation for the agency that investigates all the USA's civil aviation accidents the NTSB |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | PLAYING PRESIDENT $1,000 (Daily Double): William Parry was James Garfield in the originial production of this Sondheim musical Assassins |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | FROM THE FRENCH $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a hint or trace of something (sounds like of Campbell's) soupçon |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): This popular play by A.R. Gurney traces Andrew & Melissa's lifelong correspondence Love Letters |
| #4742, aired 2005-03-29 | THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID... $1,400 (Daily Double): "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate" John F. Kennedy |
| #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 |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | SYMBOLS $800: The long symbolic history of the pentacle includes representing Jesus' five of these wounds (or stigmata) |
| #4736, aired 2005-03-21 | -SKI $400: National Polish-American sports hall of famers include Ted Kluszewski, Pete Stemkowski & this former Eagles QB Ron Jaworski |
| #4734, aired 2005-03-17 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: Portia: "Then must the Jew be merciful"; Shylock: "On what compulsion must I?..."; Portia: this famous line The quality of mercy is not strain'd |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | YOU, RODIN $2,200 (Daily Double): The controversy surrounding your monument to this French author was a real "human comedy" (Honoré de) Balzac |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | 2-LETTER ABBREV. $600: Its logo is seen here the UN |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | WHY NOT? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds down a sheep on a farm.) Tiny scales on sheep's wool, unlike processed wool, are aligned in the same direction--that's why this doesn't happen when it rains shrinkage |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | EVERYTHING HAS A NAME $800: A person who talks a lot of hot air, or the air-filled chamber of a bagpipe a windbag |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | THE STONES $1,500 (Daily Double): The black type of this October birthstone is quite rare, & more valuable than the fire variety opal |
| #4710, aired 2005-02-11 | WORLD CAPITALS $5,400 (Daily Double): Emperor Menelik II established this city whose name means "new flower" Addis Ababa |
| #4708, aired 2005-02-09 | LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $6,000 (Daily Double): What "Requiem for a Nun" is to "Sanctuary"
(6) a sequel |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS $800: This egghead egg-splains that the beautiful cravat he's wearing was an un-birthday present Humpty Dumpty |
| #4704, aired 2005-02-03 | IT'S JUST A GAME $800: If Dick & Jane are playing tennis on the same side of the net, the game is called this mixed doubles |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | THE U.N. $1,000 (Daily Double): To date he's the only Asian to have served as Secretary-General of the United Nations U Thant |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | DO YOU KNOW HOW FAST YOU WERE GOING? $800: In October of 1970, driver Gary Gabelich averaged 622.407 mph over 2 runs at this Utah plain the Bonneville Salt Flats |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | THE OSCARS $1,800 (Daily Double): Her 2 acting Oscars for "The Sin of Madelon Claudet" & "Airport" were 39 years apart Helen Hayes |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE! $3,000 (Daily Double): "Vulcan", the U.S.A.'s largest cast-iron statue, is seen here, looking down on this Southern city Birmingham, Alabama |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | THE "K" TEAM $1600: This playwright's "Man Who Came to Dinner" character Sheridan Whiteside was such a plum role he even played it himself George S. Kaufman |
| #4642, aired 2004-11-09 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: The UN's WHO, World Health Org., deals with medicine; its WMO, short for this, deals with weather World Meteorological Organization |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | SPECIAL "K" $800: Meaning "tidy", this word often preceded by "un" is from Old English for combed kempt |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $400: Models of this British motorcycle include the Tiger, Bonneville & Daytona 600 a Triumph |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $800: This clear, watery, circulating fluid removes bacteria & certain proteins from tissues of the human body lymph |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $1200: Named for a god, it can simply be any touring car, or a light, 4-wheeled open carriage drawn by 2 horses a phaeton |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $2000: Written to an associate, it's the shortest of Paul's epistles Philemon |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $2,600 (Daily Double): From the Arabic for "successor", he's the secular & religious head of a Muslim state the caliph |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | BEER BRANDS $800: The name of this Mexican beer is Spanish for "crown" Corona |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: Confederate General Richard Taylor was the son of this U.S. President Zachary Taylor |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | ANIMALS $400 (Daily Double): Pythons are oviparous, meaning they do this lay eggs |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | STRONGMEN $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1995 this country's Franjo Tudjman signed a peace deal with the leaders of Serbia & Bosnia Croatia |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | KENNEDY FAMILY MEMBERS $400: Was the co-founder & editor of George magazine JFK Jr. |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | "CHA" $200: What you'll usually find behind the wheel of a limo a chauffeur |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | SOUNDS FISHY TO ME! $200 (Daily Double): The pigfish is a type of this fish named for a noise it makes when taken out of the water a grunt |
| #4578, aired 2004-06-30 | MILITARY TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $2000: Lt. Anderson,
Lt. Pruitt,
Major "Pappy" Boyington Baa Baa Black Sheep |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | WHAT AM I HAVING? $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Spain.) Por favor, un plato de chorizo--a plate of this, please sausage |
| #4550, aired 2004-05-21 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1952:
Marshal Will Kane Gary Cooper |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | MUSIC OF YESTERYEAR $1600: Based on a Cuban poem, this song begins, "Yo soy un hombre sincero" "Guantanamera" |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | VOCABULARY TEST $1600: It can mean to scrape the surface of the skin, or to feed out in the pasture graze |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | TRANSPORTATION $1000: Suspended from an overhead wire, it transports passengers up steep hills or across valleys cable car |
| #4477, aired 2004-02-10 | THE BODY HUMAN $2,600 (Daily Double): As opposed to ball-&-socket, your knee is this type of joint moving backwards & forwards hinge joint |
| #4457, aired 2004-01-13 | NO. 1 HITS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: (1996)
Toni Braxton:
"Put Back Together This Beating Organ Of Mine" "Un-Break My Heart" |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | CHAT ROOM LINGO $1,200 (Daily Double): In the chat room WOMBAT is an acronym for "waste of money" & these 2 things brains & time |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | HOLLYWOOD HODGEPODGE $2000: The "Hollywood Ten" was a group of individuals who refused to answer questions from this committee in 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #4380, aired 2003-09-26 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $400: It's the technical reason you can't take a photograph of a man with a wooden leg a wooden leg won't take a photograph |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $200: A 1937 ransom note for Charles Ross demanded $50,000 in 20s, 10s & 5s, bank-run, non-consecutive & this unmarked |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $400: "Barbra: An Actress Who Sings" calls itself this type of book unauthorized |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $600: Zombies are an example of this group of beings that shouldn't be walking around but are the undead |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $800: This company's No. 5 model was one of the most successful manual typewriters in history Underwood |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1000: In 1905 Freud cracked everyone up with "Jokes and Their Relation to" this the Unconscious |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | WHERE'D YA FIND THAT? $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1891 the then oldest known fossils of Homo Erectus found outside of Africa were discovered on this island Java |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | "PH"UN WITH WORDS $200: Type of game bird that's traditionally served "under glass" pheasant |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | "PH"UN WITH WORDS $400: It's a generic term for Xerox photocopy |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | "PH"UN WITH WORDS $600: When exposed to air, this chemical element can burst into flames, spontaneously phosphorus |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | "PH"UN WITH WORDS $800: In the classification of living organisms, it comes between class & kingdom phylum |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | "PH"UN WITH WORDS $1000: Luke was the "beloved" one & that's the gospel truth physician |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $200: "The Long 'Un" Abraham Lincoln |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | WISH YOU WERE HERE $400: The votive candles seen here are in this Gothic church located on the Île de la Cité Notre Dame |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | WISH YOU WERE HERE $600: Children's tales like "Pippi Longstocking" come to life at Junibacken in this capital of Sweden Stockholm |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | YOU SHOULD BE IN AN OPERA! $800: Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras & this Italian called; they're doing a "Four Tenors" tour, & you're number four!!!! Luciano Pavarotti |
| #4309, aired 2003-05-01 | THAT'S SO CLICHE! $1000: At the boring seance, I observed that this "is willing, but the flesh is weak" the spirit |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $400: Not whitened, like some flour & linen unbleached |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $800: This title of the film seen here is descriptive of one of its leading characters Unfaithful |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1200: Insurers underwriters |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1600: To zoologists, a goat, or a guanaco ungulate |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $2000: Famous (& rather insulting) adjective for England's King Ethelred II "the Unready" |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | HOLY ____ $1000: Last Supper chalice grail |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $1,500 (Daily Double): On Passover, it's traditional to set aside a special cup of wine for this prophet who went to heaven in a chariot of fire Elijah |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | SCIENCE $400: Sialia mexicana is the scientific name of the western bluebird: Sialia is the genus & mexicana tells you this the species |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | SOUTH OF THE U.S. $800: In a tropical tune, Kermit the Frog is this sea's "Amphibian" the Caribbean |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | SCIENCE $1000: This 5-letter word is the opposite of attract repel |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $600: Try to un"earth" a copy of "Imperial Woman", this American woman's 1956 novel about the last empress of China Pearl S. Buck |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | FOOD IN FRENCH $1600: A ham in the theater is un cabotin; ham on a sandwich is this jambon |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | ANAGRAMS $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll find 2 of them in the word "wolves" vowels/wolves |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | CLASSIC NICHOLSON MOVIE LINES $800: 1974:
"What makes you certain that your husband is, um, involved with someone?" Chinatown |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $400: The French call this popular musical "Un Violon sur le Toit" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | AMERICAN MOVIE REMAKES $800: "Trois Hommes et un Couffin" Three Men and a Baby |
| #4133, aired 2002-07-17 | WILSON'S 14 POINTS $1200: 6. Any foreign interference in this country's affairs would be un-bear-able Russia |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | BIRD VERBS $800: Figuratively, to prod someone into action goose |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | MOUNT RUSHMORE $800: The order in which the heads were completed; it was also the order in which the men served Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | FLY ME $800: This Donald was known for his DC, not Duck, line of commercial planes Douglas |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | SOUPS OF THE WORLD $2000: Ozoni Japan |
| #4102, aired 2002-06-04 | REAL ROMANTICS $800: The Hugo work whose title means "the wretched" is known worldwide by this French title Les Misérables |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ENDS IN "UX" $400: In the French language, it falls between un & trois deux |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | NAMES ON THE MAP $2000: This explorer gave his name to a sea & a huge Antarctic ice shelf Ross |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | THIS CATEGORY STINKS! $2,000 (Daily Double): The strong odor of this semi-aquatic rodent gives it its name the muskrat |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | HANDY TRAVEL PHRASES $800: At a store in El Salvador, you may ask, "Aceptara usted un cheque de viajero?", meaning this Do you accept traveler's checks? |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | USURPED IDEAS OF 3rd PARTIES $1000: The 18th Amendment, ratified in 1919, & a 3rd party that pushed it share this name Prohibition |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | BIRD PEOPLE $600: While dead of St. Patrick's cathedral in Dublin, he wrote "Gulliver's Travels" (Jonathan) Swift |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | SATAN $1600: Using this name in a Goethe work, Satan appears to Faust & offers him the world in return for his soul Mephistopheles |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | TRANSLATORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Lord Alfred Rouglas translated this Irish author's "Salome" from French to English Oscar Wilde |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | OATS $400: According to the song, these 2 animals eats oats; little lambs & kids eat ivy mares and does |
| #4042, aired 2002-03-12 | REVOLUTIONARY WORDS $400: Jefferson's first draft of this used the word "inalienable"; the final draft used "unalienable" the Declaration of Independence |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | 2000 NEWS $800: A coach ride past cheering throngs was part of her 100th birthday celebration August 4, 2000 the Queen Mother |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | THE DUSTIN HOFFMAN FILM FESTIVAL $1200: 1997:
"You want me to produce your war?" Wag the Dog |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | CARMEN $2000: In 1947 at age 17, this "bubbly" star made her opera debut in "Carmen" as the Spanish gypsy Frasquita Beverly Sills |
| #4041, aired 2002-03-11 | THE DUSTIN HOFFMAN FILM FESTIVAL $2,800 (Daily Double): 1970:
"I have a horse... and four wives" Little Big Man |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | CHAD & GERMANY $800: Of 200, 2,000 or 12,000, the approximate miles you would have to fly to get from Chad to Germany 2,000 |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | "AMERICAN" A $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 the House Committee on these became the Committee on Internal Security House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #4027, aired 2002-02-19 | SILENT G $5,000 (Daily Double): Defame or slander malign |
| #4016, aired 2002-02-04 | SPANISH CLASS $1200: Un estudiante sits at un escritorio, this a desk |
| #4016, aired 2002-02-04 | SPANISH CLASS $1600: This family member is un hermano a brother |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GRAMMYS $400: In 2001 this singer won for her "Both Sides Now" album; we loved her in the '60s Joni Mitchell |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | O BROTHER $1,000 (Daily Double): The term Semite is derived from this brother of Ham Shem |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | DAYS OF THE YEAR $800 (Daily Double): The day after this holiday is sometimes known as "Green Friday" Thanksgiving |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | VARIETY HEADLINES $800: Dreamworks' "Almost Famous" & this film were "Rock 'n" Romans" when they won Golden Globe Awards Gladiator |
| #4008, aired 2002-01-23 | STATUES $1,200 (Daily Double): A statue of these 2 fictional characters stands at the foot of Cardiff Hill in Hannibal, Missouri Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $6,000 (Daily Double): What couldn't he do? James K. Polk was the only U.S. president to have held this congressional title, 1835-1839 Speaker of the House |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | HEAD NORTH $600: The postal abbreviation for this Canadian political subdivision is NT Northwest Territories |
| #3990, aired 2001-12-28 | SHOE BUSINESS $2000: This shoe style was named for a girl in a comic strip Mary Janes |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | 'TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $400 (Daily Double): On Dec. 26, 1898 this woman scientist & her husband Pierre discovered radium Marie Curie |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | U.S. CITIES $800: General Cornwallis called this city a "hornet's nest", hence the name of its NBA team Charlotte |
| #3982, aired 2001-12-18 | THAT ZANY SCREWBALL COMEDY $1600: "His Girl Friday" was a whirlwind version of this Hecht-MacArthur newspaper play (The) Front Page |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | MULTIPLY $2,000 (Daily Double): To calculate a pitcher's ERA, divide earned runs by innings pitched & multiply by this 9 |
| #3977, aired 2001-12-11 | LANGUAGE BARRIERS $2000: In French un obstacle is this 10-letter word; the "speech" type is un defaut d'elocution impediment |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | 21 $800: Keyon Dooling is one of the big future hopes of this, um, other Los Angeles NBA team Los Angeles Clippers |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | "UM" $200: A close friend chum |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | "UM" $400: The sound-transmitting membrane in your hearing organ eardrum |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | "UM" $1000: A silvery-white metallic element with the atomic number 13 aluminum |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $3,000 (Daily Double): This absurdist who wrote "The Bald Soprano" said the 3 biggest influences on his work were Harpo, Chico & Groucho Ionesco |
| #3960, aired 2001-11-16 | EXPLORING: THE DARK SIDE $5 (Daily Double): Burke & Wills were the first to cross this continent south to north; they died on the way back Australia |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | MMM... YOU SMELL GREAT $200: Wow! Un amour de patou makes you smell like this flower "of the valley" a lily |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): This South American capital is home to the General Bernardo O'Higgins Military School Santiago |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | UCLA ALUMNI $500 (Daily Double): UCLA grad Ted Stevens helped get this state into the Union & has been its senator for over 30 years Alaska |
| #3942, aired 2001-10-23 | LET'S "C" WHAT YOU KNOW $400: In "Born Yesterday", Judy Holliday drops an "un" & tells boorish Broderick Crawford, "You're just not" this couth |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ART ATTACK $500: In 1999 an escaped mental patient in Amsterdam slashed this Spaniard's "Nude Woman in Front of the Garden" Pablo Picasso |
| #3924, aired 2001-09-27 | I GOT AN "A"! $600: It's a 4-letter synonym for water. as well as a shade of light greenish-blue aqua |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AROUND THE HOUSE $200: When going upstairs, play it safe & hold on to this handrail banister |
| #3923, aired 2001-09-26 | AROUND THE HOUSE $400: Let the sunshine in with this type of window that goes straight through your roof a skylight |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | BISMARCK $400: Logically, the only international gathering over which Bismarck presided was the 1878 Congress of this capital Berlin |
| #3915, aired 2001-09-14 | FAMOUS PAIRS $400: "Reunited" & "Shake Your Groove Thing" were big hits for this R&B pair Peaches & Herb |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | GIVE PEAS A CHANCE $500: Widely cultivated for their edible seeds, these peas are also called garbanzos chickpeas |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | WORD PUZZLES $300: When things are still undecided, they're here
theUPair up in the air |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | THE FRENCH CONNECTION $400: It's un parapluie; literally, "against the rain" an umbrella |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | THE FRENCH CONNECTION $500: Cagney showed disdain for Mae Clarke with this, un pamplemousse grapefruit |
| #3875, aired 2001-06-08 | FUN WITH COLORS $400: This card game is also called twenty-one or vingt-et-un blackjack |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | PEN NAMES $500 (Daily Double): Pen name of Aurore Dupin, whose "Un Hiver A Majerque" tells of nursing Chopin George Sand |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $600: To toot up means to get the crowd's attention with this object heard here Calliope |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | CURT $200: "Spy Who Loved Me" actor Curt Jurgens |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | MOVIE ROLES $600: He played a movie executive with a screenwriter problem in 1992's "The Player" Tim Robbins |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | PARTS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH $1000: It makes the red ink & furnishes blank paper to all the agencies the GPO (the Government Printing Office) |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! $300: This girl group gave us the '80s albums "Beauty and the Beat" & "Vacation" the Go-Go's |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | ART & ARTISTS $100: This Spanish surrealist collaborated on 2 films with Luis Bunuel, "Un Chien Andalou" & "L'Age D'Or" Salvador Dali |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | FOREIGN FILM TITLES $600: From Almodovar, "Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios" Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $100: It's the home stadium of the team that's won 25 World Series Yankee Stadium |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | CELEBRITIES $300: In 1994 she was "The Next Karate Kid"; in 2000 she was the next Oscar winner for Best Actress Hilary Swank |
| #3662, aired 2000-07-04 | LET'S HAVE A BALL $100: Sink it & you've scratched the cue ball |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | ARTHUR MILLER $800: Miller's 1956 testimony before this committee got him cited for contempt of Congress HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) |
| #3637, aired 2000-05-30 | MERRY YACHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of a 1997 opera named for this American woman is set on the yacht Christina Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | TACO BELL-UM $100: In 1999 a University of Kansas defensive end was arrested after trying to enter a Taco Bell through this window the drive-thru window |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | TACO BELL-UM $200: On April 1, 1996 Taco Bell pranked the country by announcing it had bought this historic treasure the Liberty Bell |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | TACO BELL-UM $300: Chalupas came in 3 flavor options: "Supreme", "Baja" & one named for this Southwestern city "Santa Fe" |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | TACO BELL-UM $400: Customer demand prompted Taco Bell to re-introduce this cross between an enchilada & a burrito the Enchirito |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | TACO BELL-UM $500: Taco Bell is 1 of 3 main parts of Tricon Global Restaurants, along with KFC & this chain Pizza Hut |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | OLD MOVIES $600: This un-zany Marx brother plays Groucho's secretary in "Duck Soup" & "Animal Crackers" Zeppo Marx |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Verdi's "Un Giorno Di Regno", translated as "King For" this long, got only 1 performance A day |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | ASSUME THE POSITION $1,000 (Daily Double): Insert 1 letter into the name of a comic book hero to get this cricket player batsman |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | VERB-OSITY $600: This 5-letter word can mean to disentangle or to separate threads, just like it would if you added "un" Ravel |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | HITS OF THE '90s $400: Toni Braxton asked her lover to do this to "my heart, say you'll love me again" un-break |
| #3523, aired 1999-12-22 | DEAR JEAN LETTERS $400: If you lived in Guam instead of Finland, would you have composed "Guamia" instead of "Finlandia"? Jean Sibelius |
| #3492, aired 1999-11-09 | NONPOTENT POTABLES $100: In 1999 this lemon-lime soda asked, "Are You an Un?" 7 Up |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $200: When I take off all my clothes, I'm this, just like a salad without its vinaigrette Undressed |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $400: Gangster-land, or Hades' domain Underworld |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $500 (Daily Double): Eve Harrington is probably the most famous one Understudy |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $600: It's the "U" in UFO Unidentified |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1000: King Ethelred's adjective "The Unready" |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $200: It's the "unspeakable" term for underwear such as teddies, thongs & Wonderbras unmentionables |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $400: It's the kind of bread in Exodus 12:15 unleavened |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $600: From the Latin for "small wave", it describes a sinuous, rippling wavelike motion undulation |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $800: Carl Jung often spoke of the "collective" one unconscious |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | THE "UN"CATEGORY $1000: This Percy Shelley work about a mythical fire-stealer opens in "a ravine of icy rocks" "Prometheus Unbound" |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Clement C. Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is more popularly known by this title "Twas' the Night Before Christmas" |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | ENDS IN "UM" $200: The Louvre or Prado, for example a museum |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | ENDS IN "UM" $400: Term for the minimum number of people required at a meeting to conduct business legally a quorum |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | ENDS IN "UM" $600: It's where you keep your guppies, gourami & mollies an aquarium |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | ENDS IN "UM" $800: This lightest metal is often used in the treatment of manic depression lithium |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | ENDS IN "UM" $1000: It's the point or support on which a lever pivots a fulcrum |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | THE U.N. $100 (Daily Double): Vatican City, Moldova & this country are the only European states which do not belong to the U.N. Switzerland |
| #3327, aired 1999-02-09 | FRENCH FILM REMAKES $1000: You can "blame" the plot of this 1984 Michael Caine film on 1977's "Un moment d'egarement" Blame it on Rio |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | REUNIONS $3,100 (Daily Double): (Hey, what's happening? I'm Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray. The answer is…) While touring in 1996, we played with Johnny Rotten & this group who had reunited the Sex Pistols |
| #3244, aired 1998-10-15 | MARTIN SCORSESE, ACTOR $600: In "Guilty By Suspicion" Scorsese played a director blacklisted for refusing to help this committee the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | THE "UN" CATEGORY $200: To knock a knight off his nag Unhorse |
| #3228, aired 1998-09-23 | THE "UN" CATEGORY $400: The Andrews Sisters sang, "Don't Sit" here "with anyone else but me" Under the apple tree |
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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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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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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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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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
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"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Chelsea He, a sophomore at Duke University from Raleigh, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HEE".
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
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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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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
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"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
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\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
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Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Catherine Carson, a fourth grade language arts, math, and social studies teacher from Washington, D.C.
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"She is new to teaching--she's in her second year. From Washington,...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
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"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Myles Jeffrey, a senior from Seal Beach, California
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Heidi Liu, a senior from Plymouth, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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Jelisa Castrodale, a sportswriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Season 27 1-time champion: $39,399 + $1,000.
Name pronounced like "jell-EES-ah KASS-tro-dale".
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
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"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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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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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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George Tsuji, a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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John Shoe, a third and fourth grade teacher from Lakewood, Colorado
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"He teaches at a school for gifted children who choose their...
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Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "BOTS". Jeopardy!...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
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"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
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Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
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2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
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Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
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2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
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Kermin Fleming, a student from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Lizz Mullowney, a senior from Crystal Lake, Illinois
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
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"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Marion Penning, a high school science and history teacher from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She teaches at a Maryland 'green' school that has a solar...
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Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois
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"Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee
|
"As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
|
"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
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"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
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Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York
|
"He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia
|
"In the banking world, she checked credit scores. She's much happier...
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Shelby Malone, a senior from Grayson, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: sleeping_stars
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
|
"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
|
"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Todd Faulkenberry, a junior from Moore, South Carolina
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
|
"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
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"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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Ryan Moore, a partner in a start-up company from Venice, California
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2001 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000.
Season 17 5-time champion: $39,800 + a Corvette.
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Andrew Garen, a project manager from Austin, Texas
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Sam Weaver, a sophomore at Bradley University from Pleasanton, California
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Sam was 20 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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Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
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2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
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Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
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"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
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"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
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Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
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"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
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"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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Elena Botella, an eleven-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"This future journalist loves to find answers, today, she'll have to...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Ashley Walker, a senior from Dartmouth College
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Fort Pierce, Florida. [No contestant...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
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"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
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Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Francesca Leibowitz, a fifth grade English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She teaches at a school that opened in 1854. From Brooklyn...
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Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California
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"All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
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"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
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"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
|
\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
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Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
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"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
|
"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
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"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching the...
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Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
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"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000.
JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
|
"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
|
"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
|
"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
|
"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
|
"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Lindsey Thiesfeld, a sophomore from Clarendon Hills, Illinois
|
2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Becky Kralle, a senior from Runnemede, New Jersey
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
|
"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Meredith Johnson, a senior from University of Minnesota
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities...
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Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
|
2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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|
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
|
"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
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|
Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
|
"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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|
Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Solomon Howard, a freshman from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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|
Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
|
"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
|
"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
|
|
Molly Rosenbusch, a night court clerk from Twin Lakes, Idaho
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $19,601 + $2,000.
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
|
"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
|
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Gillian Mabrey, an executive assistant from Alexandria, Virginia
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-15).
First name pronounced like "GILL-ee-un", not "JILL-ee-un".
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Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Keith Williams, a freshman at Middlebury College from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Braden Corkum, a 12-year-old from Niceville, Florida
|
"He likes making things, so he's going to be an inventor..."...
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Cate Heine, a 12-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"She's leaving her career path open, but wants to use the...
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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
|
"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
|
2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Dianisbeth Acquie, from Brooklyn, New York
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"This ballet, jazz, and tap dancing Girl Scout would like to...
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Ashley Grand, a freshman from Harvard University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
|
"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
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Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
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"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
|
"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998 + $2,000.
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|
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
|
"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Vicky Manos, a sophomore at St. John’s University from Levittown, New York
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Deborah Steinberger, an associate professor of French literature from University of Delaware in Newark
|
2021 Professors Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Representing the U.S., Deborah made the...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Mary Dishigrikyan, a school psychologist from North Hollywood, California
|
Season 39 player (2022-12-21).
Last name pronounced like "dish-uh-GREEK-ee-un".
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Robin Gilliam, a homemaker from Dallas, Texas
|
Season 12 player (1996-04-19).
Last name pronounced like \"GILL-um\".
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Martha Gehan, an office manager from New York City, New York
|
Season 11 1-time champion: $12,700. Last name prnounced \"GHEE-un\".
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Lori Bailey, a research center coordinator from Arvada, Colorado
|
Season 5 player (1989-03-15). Lori won $32,000 on Who Wants to...
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Pasquale Palumbo, a financial services professional from Hawthorne, New York
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $6,799 + $2,000.
Name pronounced like \"pass-KWAL-ay pal-UM-bo\".
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Pasquale Palumbo, a financial advisor from Hawthorne, New York
|
2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 1-time champion: $6,799 + $2,000.
Name pronounced like \"pass-KWAL-ay pal-UM-bo\".
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Mira Sorvino, an actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador born in New York, raised in New Jersey
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2023 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! semifinalist: $50,000 for the UN Trust Fund...
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Prabhu Balasubramanian, a product manager from Mountain View, California
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $9,199 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "bah-lah-soo-brah-MAHN-ee-un".
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Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
|
"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
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Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
|
"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
|
2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
|
"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
|
"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
|
"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
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|
Katie Houghton, a senior from Ewing, New Jersey
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HOW-ton".
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Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
|
"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
|
"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Kathryn Wendling, a high school social studies teacher from Farmington, Minnesota
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"Her high school newspaper predicted she would be on Jeopardy! From...
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Elissa Hoffman, a high school biology and anatomy & physiology teacher from Appleton, Wisconsin
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"She is in her lucky 13th year of teaching. From Appleton,...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
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"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
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"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Erin Hart, a junior from Benton Harbor, Michigan
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Cosi Audi, a junior from North Canton, Ohio
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Christian Ie, a senior from Renton, Washington
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "EE".
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Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona
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2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
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Jason Dizon, an attorney from Woodside, New York
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Season 24 3-time champion: $49,900 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Caroline Jones, a senior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
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"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina
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"And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
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Janelle Lambert, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
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Nick Philip, a junior from Plainfield, Indiana
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2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Anna Gohmann, a senior from Westlake Village, California
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Anna was 17 at the time...
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
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Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
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Seveen Kannankara, a junior from Bergenfield, New Jersey
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Seveen was 15 at the time...
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
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Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
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"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
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"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Heather Jarvis, an editor at the United Nations from Trinidad and Tobago and now in New York
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Season 31 1-time champion: $11,800 + $2,000.
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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
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2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
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Amanda Lahan, an account manager from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 player (2010-04-12).
Last name pronounced like "LAY-un".
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
|
"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
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"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Gabriel Johnson, a senior from Teaneck, New Jersey
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
|
"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
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"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
|
"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
|
2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Shuyu Wang, a junior from Okemos, Michigan
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Gitta Neufeld, a Judaic teacher trainer from Far Rockaway, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,300 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "GEE-ta...
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Ben Swartz, a senior from Manassas, Virginia
|
2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Russell Berris, a junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
2003 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
|
|
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
|
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
|
"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
|
|
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
|
|
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
|
2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
|
"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
|
"Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
|
Liz Maziarz, an English professor and mom from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "MAY-zee-ar".
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
|
"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
|
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
|
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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|
Marshall Flores, a senior from Arizona State University from Avondale, Arizona
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Anna Han, a sophomore from Penn State University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas
|
"This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Haritha Sudanagunta, a junior from University of California-San Diego
|
2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
|
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
|
|
Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
|
"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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|
Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
|
|
Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
|
"This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
|
|
Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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|
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
|
"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
|
"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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|
Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
|
"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
|
|
Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
|
"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
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|
Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
|
"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas
|
2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
|
"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
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|
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
|
"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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|
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Amanda Nowotny, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh from New Castle, Pennsylvania
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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|
Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
|
|
Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
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|
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Amory Jendrek, a freshman at Davidson College from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
|
|
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
Joe Kohake, from Florence, Kentucky
|
"Golf, piano, and euphonium lessons are just a few of his...
|
|
Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
|
|
William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington
|
"Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
|
|
Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
|
"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
|
|
Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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