#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | 3-LETTER SPELLING BEE $600: Popular today, it's the greeting seen here that was developed by Black service members in Vietnam D-A-P |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1600: In the 100s A.D. this Alexandrian astronomer calculated a more precise value of pi, the equivalent of about 3.14167 Ptolemy |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | LETTER & WORD $1000: Violinist August Wilhelmj's arrangement of the 2nd movement of Bach's "Suite No. 3 in D major" is known as "Air On" this the G String |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $400: 3 legions were massacred in the 9 A.D. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; message to this empire:
Don't cross the Rhine! the Roman Empire |
#8946, aired 2023-10-09 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $2000: A classic logic puzzle from 1962 deals with the surnames of 3 train employees: the brakeman, the fireman & him the engineer |
#8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1000: This man "made a deal with Napoleon: how'd you like to sell a mile or 2 (or 3, or a hundred, or a thousand)"? (Thomas) Jefferson |
#8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, THE LINE $1200: Vanessa Carlton was nominated for 3 Grammys for her song that said, "You know I'd walk" this far to "just see you tonight" a thousand miles |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW $1000: We got the Beat! Here's the 120-foot scroll of paper that this writer used to type out 1957's "On the Road" in just 3 weeks Kerouac |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | HISTORY IN ART $2000: Some depictions show the 1st century A.D. Trung sisters riding elephants to launch a Vietnamese revolt against this 3-letter dynasty the Han Dynasty |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GOTTA KNOW YOUR SCIENCE $2000: The machine seen here is used to perform x-ray this, which helps create a 3-D molecular structure of a substance crystallography |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | FROM C TO D $200: In music it's 3 or more notes sounded together a chord |
#8709, aired 2022-09-29 | RELIGION $200: These 2 main branches of Islam separated before 1000 A.D.; one has about 1.3 billion followers to the other's 200 million Sunni & Shiite Islam |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $200: Charles Dickens began writing this ghostly tale in October 1843 & published it, of course, in December A Christmas Carol |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $400: Charles Darwin was just 22 when he boarded this ship to begin his 5-year round-the-world voyage the Beagle |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $600: In the 1980s Chuck D began fighting the power in this hip-hop group with Flavor Flav, a man who always knew what time it was Public Enemy |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $800: Charles Darwin acknowledged Herbert Spencer as the father of this 4-word phrase later used to describe natural selection survival of the fittest |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | CHUCK D, TIMES 3 $1000: At first, "Martin Chuzzlewit" had poor sales, so Dickens added a section set in this country he'd just visited the United States |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1000: We'd love to take one of the cars in its Royal Automobile Museum for a spin, maybe 3 hours north to another capital, Damascus Amman |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Besides Boston & D.C., they're the 3 largest cities by population in the megalopolis known as the BosWash Corridor New York City, Philadelphia & Baltimore |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $4,000 (Daily Double): 3 of Canada's 4 Atlantic provinces start with "N": Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, this one New Brunswick |
#8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $2000: This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism the Han dynasty |
#8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $800: D'Artagnan & the 3 Musketeers are up for adventure again in this 1850 work about a mysterious prisoner The Man in the Iron Mask |
#8579, aired 2022-02-17 | PLUS $200: At the University of Chicago & other schools, the grading system consists of 5 letters, 3 that can have + added & these 2 that can't A & F |
#8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BANK SHOTS $800: Saxo Bank is an online bank, but its headquarters designed by the Danish firm, 3XN, near this world capital are very 3-D Copenhagen |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $800: A quantum field theory describing the interactions of charged particles has this 3-letter abbrev. that also means "proved it!" Q.E.D. |
#8436, aired 2021-07-05 | PUT IN OSCILLATION $1600: This 3-D imaging technique used in medicine to visualize organs makes use of the oscillations of hydrogen atoms an MRI (magnetic resonance image) |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $400: A female who's partly divine a demigoddess |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $800: 2-word term for flawed, unsalable merchandise damaged goods |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $1200: If you've interfered in someone else's affairs, you've done this meddled |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $1600: The text of this document begins with "When" & ends with "honor" the Declaration of Independence |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | 3 "D" $2000: This breed of terrier was named for a character in a 19th century novel the Dandie Dinmont terrier |
#8386, aired 2021-04-26 | Q, NO U $1200: 3-letter abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "that which was meant to be shown" Q.E.D. |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | DURING THE JOHN ADAMS PRESIDENCY $200: Adams was sworn in as president at Congress Hall in this city; 3 years later the capital & Adams would move to D.C. Philadelphia |
#8354, aired 2021-03-11 | NBA LOGOS $400: This team's logo has 3 stars for D.C., Maryland & Virginia the Washington Wizards |
#8331, aired 2021-02-08 | NON-VOCABULARY $1600: Noninvasive medical procedures include CT scans, X-rays & this type of 3-D diagnostic viewing that earned a 2003 Nobel Prize MRI |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $200: A bear abode a den |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $400: Turn down the lights dim |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $600: A failure, like a movie at the box office or a shell that doesn't explode a dud |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $800: A turned-up noise din |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | 3-LETTER "D" WORDS $1000: A cutting or insulting remark a dig |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | 3 NAMES IN CLASSIC ROCK $2000: Blood, Sweat & Tears never tire-d of singing, "What goes up, must come down", this title object, "got to go 'round" a spinning wheel |
#8210, aired 2020-04-24 | SPY TERMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Anything related to espionage can be said to be this 3-word term, a translation of "de cape et d'épée" cloak & dagger |
#8204, aired 2020-04-16 | "H.D." $1000: 3,300 feet up in the Mojave, Yucca Valley, California is in this type of area & has a nature museum named for it a high desert |
#8177, aired 2020-03-10 | LET THERE BE LIGHT $400: Using just a few pieces of plastic cut from an old CD case, you can turn your smartphone into a projector of these 3-D images a hologram |
#8177, aired 2020-03-10 | THE END OF THE EMPEROR $1600: He died at his military headquarters in 180 A.D., 3 years after making Commodus his co-emperor Marcus Aurelius |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | INVENTIONS $1200: The robotic hand seen here was created thanks to the invention of this computer-aided process 3-D printing |
#8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMPOSTOR! $1600: Word of this emperor's death in 68 A.D. was slow getting around, as Rome was plagued by 3 impostors known "pseudos" Nero |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | 3/4 OF AN EGOT $400: This "Divine Miss M" could still really use an "O"--that'd be Oscar--as her 2 nominations did not lead to victory Bette Midler |
#8158, aired 2020-02-12 | DAYTONA 500 GRAND MARSHALS $600: In 2019, 5 years after recording 20.5 sacks & even 3 offensive TDs for the Houston Texans, this D.E. got his grand marshal on J.J. Watt |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | TRIOS $200: An early use of this Christian concept around 170 A.D. defines the 3 as God, His word & His wisdom the Trinity |
#8084, aired 2019-10-31 | HOBBIES $400: Assemblage art is sort of the 3-D version of this art of gluing paper or other materials to a background collage |
#8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WHISKEY BUSINESS $400: Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey, like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W., 3 times Irish whiskey |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $1200: On its 513th anniversary in 2019, this group in Vatican City donned new helmets that were made of PVC & 3-D printed the Swiss Guard |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | 3-WORD LITERARY TITLES $200: In this novel by Jack Kerouac, Sal Paradise says he'd "often dreamed of going west to see the country" On the Road |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | DOCTORS & LAWYERS $2000: Manhattan had 3 D.A.s in 68 years before Cyrus Jr., son of this 1970s Secretary of State, took over in 2010 (Cyrus) Vance |
#8018, aired 2019-06-19 | THE D.C. UNIVERSE $1200: Between 1825 & 1834 this frontiersman from Tennessee went 3-3 running for Congress; now, remember the Alamo Crockett |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $1600: In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away" over the hills |
#7918, aired 2019-01-30 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1200: Before adapting "A Few Good Men", Aaron Sorkin said not only had he never written one of these, he'd never read one a screenplay |
#7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $1600: In March 2018 this 3-star general advised the nation he'd no longer serve as national security advisor H.R. McMaster |
#7799, aired 2018-07-05 | MY "MAN"! $400: It's a 3-D representation of human form, dummy a mannequin |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: The D.O.E. found that 4 extra weeks added to this period in 2007 saved 0.5% of electricity per day, 1.3 billion KWH in total Daylight Savings Time |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | THE RAMBO CONNECTION $1200: Army engineers have developed a grenade launcher called Rambo mostly made by this futuristic process 3-D printing |
#7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $800: Multiply 2 of these integers, like 3 & 7, & you get a "semi" one, like 21 a prime number |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | IT'S A DISASTER! $600: The 79 A.D. eruption gets most of the headlines, but the Dec. 16, 1631 event at this volcano killed 3,000 & had dark sky for days Mount Vesuvius |
#7680, aired 2018-01-19 | SERIAL KILLERS $1200: Stephen King senselessly snuffed out this mouse in part 3 of "The Green Mile"... he'd be back Mr. Jingles |
#7671, aired 2018-01-08 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $800: (Alex presents the clue from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) Adopted in 1921, Canada's coat of arms bears the symbols of 4 of its founding nations: 3 lions for England, 1 lion for Scotland, the fleur-de-lis for France & the harp of Tara for this country Ireland |
#7661, aired 2017-12-25 | TITANIC $1200: A 3-D version of "Titanic" was released in this year for the 100th anniversary of the real Titanic disaster 2012 |
#7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1,000 (Daily Double): This 3-word motto is on D.C. license plates to protest its lack of voting rights; a 2016 proposal is start the motto "end" "Taxation Without Representation" |
#7501, aired 2017-04-03 | ON THE LISZT $2000: Marie, Countess d'Agoult bore Franz 3 illegitimate children: Daniel, Blandine & this one named for St. Cosmas Cosima |
#7490, aired 2017-03-17 | UNIVERSAL PICTURES $4,000 (Daily Double): Hubble images have helped scientists produce a 3-D map of this unseen stuff that makes up most of the universe's mass dark matter |
#7481, aired 2017-03-06 | "Z" STUFF $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) A 3-D printer was used to create a version of this old-timey animation device, where light interacts with the platform, making the subject come alive zoetrope |
#7478, aired 2017-03-01 | COLOR THAT FLAG! $800: Cote d'Ivoire & Ireland (3 colors) white, orange and green |
#7453, aired 2017-01-25 | THE WORLD AT WAR $1600: On Oct. 20, 1944 Douglas MacArthur fulfilled this 3-word promise he'd made to the Philippine people in 1942 "I shall return" |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | SCIENCE NEWS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some aquatic images on the monitor.) Using a multistep process that isolates dolphins sounds on specific objects, researchers have created a 3-D image that simulates how dolphins see a human using this process echolocation |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | MOTTOES $200: (I'm D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser.) The official motto of the District of Columbia translates to these 3 words that follow the word "and" in the Pledge of Allegiance justice for all |
#7415, aired 2016-12-02 | THE PACHEBEL CANON IN D $400: The Canon was written for 3 violins & continuo, the 17th c. version of this instrument of Sting, Flea & Paul McCartney the bass |
#7308, aired 2016-05-25 | TURN UP THE A_C $1600: 3-D,
4-H,
1-A
(e.g.) alphanumeric |
#7304, aired 2016-05-19 | MODERATES $400: (I'm Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.) On November 6, 2015 I moderated the first in the South Democratic Candidates Forum, asking these 3 politicians how they'd fix the party's fortunes in the South Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders & Martin O'Malley |
#7289, aired 2016-04-28 | 1948 $2000: At HUAC, Whittaker Chambers' Aug. 3 testimony named 9 ex-govt. officials, including this man who'd advised FDR at Yalta Alger Hiss |
#7242, aired 2016-02-23 | BRITTANY $800: Built in the Brittany shipyards of Saint Nazaire, this Cunard liner, QM2, has a planetarium & a 3-D cinema the Queen Mary 2 |
#7192, aired 2015-12-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS WITH 3 VOWELS $2000: A 3-pronged tip called a point d'arret was once attached to the tip of its blade to aid in producing touches an épée |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $400: (I'm Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank.) One of the main investment areas for my O'Leary Funds is blue-chip stocks that pay out these; why not get paid while you wait! dividends |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | PUNS $400: A chicken crossing the road, a duck flying, or a turkey swimming, is this 3-word phrase poultry in motion |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $800: To remove faded flowers from a plant to encourage further blooming deadhead |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $1200: It's the piece of equipment in use here, named for what's propelling it a paddle board |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $1600: A book parody of the Crawley family & their estate uses this word meaning "trampled upon" before "Abbey" in its title downtrodden |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $2000: This poem by Sylvia Plath says, "You stand at the blackboard... in the picture I have of you" "Daddy" |
#7129, aired 2015-09-17 | REPLICAS $400: Oak Ridge National Laboratory created a replica Shelby Cobra using this alphanumeric technology 3-D printing |
#7124, aired 2015-07-30 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, OH.) 19th-century doctors thought that the brain shrank & grew with use, leaving corresponding contours on the skull, which were read to determine a person's abilities and traits, using the 3-D bust as a reference guide in this pseudo-science phrenology |
#7117, aired 2015-07-21 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE $800: A classic logic puzzle from 1962 deals with the surnames of 3 train employees: the brakeman, the fireman & him the engineer |
#7084, aired 2015-06-04 | IN SO MANY WORDS $1600: 2 words:
"Silent Cal" Coolidge's reply to a woman who'd bet she could get him to say at least 3 words "You lose" |
#7049, aired 2015-04-16 | 2014 ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $1000: Vincent Price in one of the first successful 3-D movies, "House of" this Wax |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE NEW $100 BILL $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the $100 bill in motion on the monitor.) The 3-D security ribbon uses technology from Crane, the same stationery company that printed currency at the Liberty Mill for this patriot & engraver Paul Revere |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | "D" BRIEFING $1000: For 3 diseases at once:
DTP diphtheria, tetanus & pertussis |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $2000: In area this European coastal principality is about 3 times the size of the Mall in Washington, D.C. Monaco |
#6955, aired 2014-12-05 | HI, TECH! $1,000 (Daily Double): No. 6 of Forbes' Top 7 Tech Trends That Will Dominate 2014: this type of "printing will begin to revolutionize production" 3-D printing |
#6954, aired 2014-12-04 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1000: The first 3 letters in this study of animals is a place you'd find a lot of 'em zoology |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $400: Ectothermic, like reptiles (& murderers) cold-blooded |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $800: AAA encourages motorists to pick one of these sober people to get the others home a designated driver |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $1200: A supplement or appendix at the back of a book an addendum |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $1600: It's the 5-syllable adjective that describes the house seen here dilapidated |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | 3 "D" $2000: She was married to Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith & Erich Maria Remarque (Paulette) Goddard |
#6923, aired 2014-10-22 | EXPLORERS $1200: In 1661 priests Johann Grueber & Albert d'Orville became the first Europeans in 3 centuries to visit this Tibetan city Lhasa |
#6923, aired 2014-10-22 | FIRST LETTER Q, SECOND LETTER NOT U $1600: 3-letter term meaning "which was to be shown" Q.E.D. |
#6848, aired 2014-05-28 | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $2,300 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) The lab's 3-D visualization theater uses 33 digital projectors to study complex physical systems; for example, the asteroid impact that created the Chicxulub Crater on this peninsula, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs the Yucatán Peninsula |
#6846, aired 2014-05-26 | THE ATLANTIC $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1933 she wrote about what she'd look at if she had sight for 3 days: Rembrandts, Fifth Avenue, the face of her dog Helga... Helen Keller |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | TRUE "NORTH" $1200: This 1994 pact called for gradual tariff reduction for its 3 members--sorry, you can't use the short form of it! the North American Free Trade Agreement |
#6783, aired 2014-02-26 | TOY STORY $600: The Sawyer photo company invented this device that allows kids to see images in 3-D slide form a View-Master |
#6759, aired 2014-01-23 | SCANDAL $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1991 he went to prison on drug charges; 3 years later, he was reelected mayor of D.C. Marion Barry |
#6753, aired 2014-01-15 | 6-LETTER ANAGRAMS $600: A 3-D piece of art, perhaps in marble, &
the cunning or shrewd word you are when you respond statue & astute |
#6702, aired 2013-11-05 | PI $800: In the 100s A.D. this Alexandrian astronomer calculated a more precise value of pi, the equivalent of 3.14166 Ptolemy |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | JEOPARDY! IN 3-D $400: Cut or torn into small pieces, like some wheat for breakfast shredded |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | JEOPARDY! IN 3-D $800: Capable of having 2 opposite effects, like a proverbial type of sword double-edged |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | JEOPARDY! IN 3-D $1200: An arachnid of the order Opiliones a daddy longlegs |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | JEOPARDY! IN 3-D $1600: Aborigines place the end of this instrument in a hollow in the ground to add resonance a didgeridoo |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | JEOPARDY! IN 3-D $2000: It's the showy member of the Heath family seen here the rhododendron |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | WASHINGTON, NOT D.C. $2000: General W. passed 3 times through what's now Washington in this state's Litchfield County Connecticut |
#6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $200: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a Ph.D. in the civil branch of this engineering |
#6614, aired 2013-05-23 | FUN WITH SCIENCE $400: One method to show movies this way divides the image into red & blue parts that your brain combines 3-D |
#6605, aired 2013-05-10 | INNOVATION $800: This term from movie watching is also used for the "printing" of solid objects, as with the Makerbot Replicator 3-D |
#6597, aired 2013-04-30 | 3 "T"s $400: While not an M.D. this professional is trained to give eye exams & prescribe glasses an optometrist |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | 3-"D" $200: Eluded or evaded a question or blow dodged |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | 3-"D" $400: Sprinkled or coated with flour dredged |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | 3-"D" $600: Adjective for a clear night good for astronomers, or a Hollywood gala packed with celebs star-studded |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | 3-"D" $800: A ring worn by a bride or groom wedding band |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | 3-"D" $1000: Sitting with both your legs on the left side of the horse sidesaddle |
#6557, aired 2013-03-05 | FIRESTARTER $400: After 2/3 of Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero blamed this obscure new religious sect Christianity |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS $2000: A jail in this Seine River City is now known as the Tour Jeanne d'Arc Rouen |
#6537, aired 2013-02-05 | POP CULTURE $1200: Watch out for night monsters as you build your own 3-D online world using this game Minecraft |
#6488, aired 2012-11-28 | ITALIAN ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Caravaggio's "Deposition from the Cross" illustrates this technique that uses light & shadow to create 3-D effects; its name is from the Italian for "clear and dark" chiaroscuro |
#6480, aired 2012-11-16 | MOVIE TERMS $2000: D/N stands for this 3-word type of shot in which sunlight masquerades as moonlight day-for-night |
#6434, aired 2012-08-02 | WHAT KIND OF MOVIE? $800: The "Spy Kids" movies:
A synonym for "movement" action |
#6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PHOENICIA PHUN $1,500 (Daily Double): Until the 500s A.D., Africans near Carthage spoke this Phoenician dialect, also the name of 3 wars Punic |
#6398, aired 2012-06-13 | THE CRUSADES $1200: During a Crusade, a papal legate was asked how to I.D. heretics & replied, do this 3-word phrase; "God will know his own" "kill them all" |
#6325, aired 2012-03-02 | I GOT 3 LETTERS! $400: This 3-letter credential equal to a high school diploma, dating back to the 1940s G.E.D. |
#6325, aired 2012-03-02 | MEMPHIS $600: Addressing Memphis sanitation workers on April 3, 1962, he said he'd "seen the promised land" Martin Luther King, Jr. |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTIONS $400: This man won D.C. & (by 3,700 votes) Minnesota & that's it as Reagan won re-election Mondale |
#6285, aired 2012-01-06 | SNAKES... WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE SNAKES? $200: Holy jumpin' cats! Here's an African sand cat squaring off with a sand viper in this 3-million-square-mile sandpile the Sahara |
#6285, aired 2012-01-06 | FORM LETTERS $1000: These 3 letters refer to a Cabinet department & precede 30106 in a sample move in/move out inspection form H.U.D. |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $1600: Instead of showing up once a week for 13 weeks, he'd appear 3 or 4 nights in a row, & it was always very dramatic Miniseries |
#6198, aired 2011-07-20 | CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $600: Duane Chapman's new sidekick chasing down bad guys on this A&E show? 3 words: Dame. Judi. Dench Dog the Bounty Hunter |
#6197, aired 2011-07-19 | MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a piece of apparatus.) Massachusetts General is the only place where PET scanning & this imaging use one machine; the combination in 3-D images gives information faster in brain cancer patients, minimizing the time between detection & treatment MRI |
#6083, aired 2011-02-09 | NONCE WORDS $200: If the captain says the ship needs some swabification, you'd better find this 3-letter long-handled item a mop |
#6074, aired 2011-01-27 | TOYS & GAMES $1000: In 1938 William Gruber developed this 3-D viewer; it took off after he got the rights to use Disney characters View-Master |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $800: This "You can do it. We can help" chain got sued for $3 million; a man said he'd been stuck on a glue-coated toilet seat Home Depot |
#6009, aired 2010-10-28 | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES $2000: Dennis Quaid is running out of time trying to figure out who poisoned him D.O.A. |
#6002, aired 2010-10-19 | FIREFIGHTING $1000: Early NYC firemen were alerted with rattles--so you might have a 3-rattle fire where today we'd have this equivalent a 3-alarm fire |
#6001, aired 2010-10-18 | YOU TAKE A MILE $400: You might be MIA at MIA, this city's international airport; its concourse D is 1.3 miles long, end to end Miami |
#5970, aired 2010-07-23 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a patient undergoing a PET scan at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.) Brookhaven studies the human brain using PET scanning; as in CAT scanning, the "T" is for this method of 3-D imaging tomography |
#5946, aired 2010-06-21 | DRIVING SAFETY $1,600 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) To make the driving as realistic as possible, the simulator includes such features as 3-D sound--with noises of the road, the engine & the tires as well as that apparent change in pitch you just heard, named for this Austrian physicist Doppler |
#5937, aired 2010-06-08 | ART HEISTS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 she sued for the return of 3 paintings, claiming they'd been stolen from Alfred Stieglitz' gallery in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
#5923, aired 2010-05-19 | RIGHT BY THE NUMBERS $600: When it follows 3, this letter means having length, breadth & depth D |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN $400: By the time this Cleveland businessman retired in 1896, his company owned 3/4 of the USA's oil business (John D.) Rockefeller |
#5887, aired 2010-03-30 | FRANKENSTEIN $1000: This popmeister made the monster 3-D in 1973's "Flesh for Frankenstein" Andy Warhol |
#5876, aired 2010-03-15 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1000: The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system cuneiform |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | WOMEN'S GROUPS $200: Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. is part of a 3-building complex owned & operated by this lineage society the Daughters of the American Revolution |
#5867, aired 2010-03-02 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $400: 3 legions were massacred in the 9 A.D battle of the Teutoburg Forest; message to this empire: Don't cross the Rhine! the Roman Empire |
#5860, aired 2010-02-19 | THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue from the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) A Quincy, Massachusetts ship inspector was the likely source of this 3-word phrase which was seen everywhere, often accompanying a cartoon figure during World War II Kilroy was here |
#5838, aired 2010-01-20 | CELEBRITY BLOGS $600: His bloggings included "The 3 D's of real estate" & "Why I selected Dennis Rodman" for his TV show (Donald) Trump |
#5780, aired 2009-10-30 | SCIENCE $800: Polarized lenses are one method used in these items that make some movie theater experiences more exciting 3-D movies |
#5757, aired 2009-09-29 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: Jules Verne could not have imagined Brendan Fraser in 3-D in this action film Journey to the Center of the Earth |
#5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE DARK KNIGHT $2000: In this author's "Morte d'Arthur", Sir Bewmaynes beats 3 brothers: the Black Knight, the Red Knight & the Green Knight Sir Thomas Malory |
#5690, aired 2009-05-08 | MATHEM-ATTACK! $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an array of numbers enclosed in brackets on the monitor.) A set of numbers in rows & columns can be used in many ways--for example, to encrypt a code or create 3-D computer graphics; the set shares this name with a 1999 film a matrix |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | A VISIT TO BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a lab at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY.) Conditions milliseconds after this event are replicated on a microscopic scale by creating a superhot fireball in this 3-D camera the Big Bang |
#5628, aired 2009-02-11 | ODDPODGE $800: In 408 A.D. the Visigoths attacked Rome & demanded 3,000 pounds of this spice, not salt, as part of the city's ransom pepper |
#5605, aired 2009-01-09 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $3,500 (Daily Double): Headquartered in Atlanta, this agency, established in 1946, grew out of a U.S. anti-malaria program the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | A WORD ODDITY $6,000 (Daily Double): This Asian city is the only world capital whose name in English has 3 dotted letters in succession Beijing |
#5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: St. Paul wrote, "by one man" this "entered into the world",--that'd be yours, Adam sin |
#5516, aired 2008-09-08 | EXPRESS YOURSELF $800: A "sop to" this mythic canine is a conciliatory bribe; so you'd better bring 3 Cerberus |
#5504, aired 2008-07-10 | PHRASES IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1000: Not just for sick M.D.s, this 3-word proverb suggests Jesus should work miracles in his hometown as he did abroad "Physician, heal thyself!" |
#5493, aired 2008-06-25 | "D" IN SCIENCE $400: Children with this genetic disease have 3 No. 21 chromosomes instead of the usual 2 Down syndrome |
#5486, aired 2008-06-16 | SHAKESPEARE $2000: In "Macbeth", these 3 words immediately precede the line "and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" "Lay on, Macduff" |
#5436, aired 2008-04-07 | JEOPMARK CARDS FOR LITERARY CHARACTERS $1200: Sometimes 3's not enough of a crowd! Here's hoping for that promotion for this 1844 guy from Gascony! D'Artagnan |
#5427, aired 2008-03-25 | 3 LITTLE LETTERS $600: A high school equivalency diploma is referred to by these 3 letters G.E.D. |
#5403, aired 2008-02-20 | 3 CHEERS FOR CHEERLEADERS $2000: I'd "Walk the Line" back to Nashville to see this Oscar winner cheer at her alma mater, Harpeth Hall (Reese) Witherspoon |
#5401, aired 2008-02-18 | THEME PARK FUN $800: The Spider-Man ride is an amazing 3-D thrill at this movie-themed resort's Islands of Adventure in Orlando Universal Studios |
#5374, aired 2008-01-10 | AN ART "C" CATEGORY $2000: Here we see mastery of this technique from the Italian for "bright and dark", used to create a 3-D effect chiaroscuro |
#5371, aired 2008-01-07 | LEONARD MALTIN ON DISNEY $400: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) The craze inspired by this TV hero in the '50s took Walt by surprise; he'd killed him off at the Alamo in episode 3, so he had to film prequels in order to bring him back Davy Crockett |
#5361, aired 2007-12-24 | BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY $800: The annihilation of 3 legions at Teutoburger Wald in 9 A.D. made this German river the limit of Roman expansion the Rhine |
#5355, aired 2007-12-14 | LET'S LEARN HEBREW $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a Hebrew word on a monitor.) Hebrew is based on 3-letter roots; the equivalent of "S", "D", "R" gives us "sidrah", a Torah reading, "siddur", a prayer book, & this word for a special meal seder |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | PULP NURSERY RHYME $600: He'd "called for his pipe" & bowl. I knew his 3 fiddlers'd bolt at the sight of my .44. It was time to make my move Old King Cole |
#5343, aired 2007-11-28 | COMPUTER HISTORY $800: 1995 brought us the file format known as VRML, which enables 3-D graphics for the web; "VR" stands for this virtual reality |
#5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a 3-D view of rugged terrain on the monitor at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) In 2006, the Weather Channel program "Beyond the Forecast" detailed the search for 3 climbers & how weather hindered rescue efforts on this Oregon mountain Mt. Hood |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | COMING AT YOU IN 3-D $400: A famous presidential saying: "A house" this "against itself cannot stand" divided |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | COMING AT YOU IN 3-D $800: The person seen here is riding in this style sidesaddle |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | COMING AT YOU IN 3-D $1200: Term covering people 45 to 65 years old (I'd advise you to be very careful in your response, players) middle-aged |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | COMING AT YOU IN 3-D $1600: Impelled or prompted, as if by getting poked prodded |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | COMING AT YOU IN 3-D $2000: It's the instrument heard here a didgeridoo |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | IF I RAN THE ZOO... $1200: We'd have to get someone to talk up the crowd; this bovine 3-letter Tibeter grunts loud a yak |
#5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MOVIE MANIA $800: 1952's "Bwana Devil" was the first film released in this process & pitted man-eating lions vs. unlucky railway builders 3-D |
#5174, aired 2007-02-22 | BEANTOWN TV $400: We learned of 3 people who'd never been in Cliff Clavin's kitchen when he played "Jeopardy!" on this sitcom Cheers |
#5162, aired 2007-02-06 | MMM... CHOCOLATE! $600: This candy bar's trio is made up of Porthos, Athos & d'Artagnan; its website stated, "We do not use Aramis" 3 Musketeers |
#5123, aired 2006-12-13 | MORE TANGENTIAL ETRUSCAN POTPOURRI $1000: Etruscans never foresaw in 1875 he'd pen the novel "Roderick Hudson"; "Daisy Miller" would arrive 3 years later Henry James |
#5104, aired 2006-11-16 | DANCING PAINFULLY WITH THE STARS $600: Might be best not to bring up this fishy movie's sequels "3-D" & "The Revenge" when taking the floor Jaws |
#5096, aired 2006-11-06 | P TIMES 3 $800: A fun kind of this is a children's book with 3-D cutout artwork; a not-so-fun kind happens while Internet surfing a pop-up |
#5092, aired 2006-10-31 | RELAX, IT'S MY TREATY $1000: The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided his massive empire into 3 parts, but he didn't mind; he'd been dead about 30 years Charlemagne |
#5077, aired 2006-10-10 | "D"-VIDE $200: Hot dog! In the 1980s the mustard market splintered into 3 types: yellow, spicy brown & this one, like Grey Poupon Dijon |
#5070, aired 2006-09-29 | ANIMATION $1000: Unlike traditional 2-D animation, characters are modeled in 3 dimensions in this type, abbreviated CG computer generated |
#5056, aired 2006-09-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): 1/2 plus 1/3 plus 1/10 plus 1/15 1 |
#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) |
#4899, aired 2005-12-22 | I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL! $800: In Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", this character commits himself to 3 consecutive duels with Athos, Porthos & Aramis d'Artagnan |
#4879, aired 2005-11-24 | "D"-RIGEUR $1200: The Innocence Project works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted using this 3-letter type of evidence DNA |
#4845, aired 2005-10-07 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: An old saying or proverb, or a tool you'd find in the garage a saw |
#4823, aired 2005-07-20 | MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR $400: He disappeared after just 3 weeks at Fordham; years later, he'd make the Statue of Liberty follow suit David Copperfield |
#4821, aired 2005-07-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $400: Though the 79 A.D. eruption gets more press, in 1631 this volcano claimed at least 3,000 lives Vesuvius |
#4820, aired 2005-07-15 | DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Eisenhower Center in Abilene, KS.) Ike's worst loss was his 3-year-old son, buried here. He was named this, his mother's maiden name, but called "Icky" Doud |
#4791, aired 2005-06-06 | JUST LIKE A WOMAN $200: A freed slave's son, Publius Helvius Pertinax was this empire's ruler for nearly 3 months in 193 A.D. the Roman Empire |
#4784, aired 2005-05-26 | THAT'S WRITE! $800: This type of will is written in your own hand; it sounds like it's in 3-D holographic |
#4742, aired 2005-03-29 | TOYS AND GAMES $1000: At the 1939 World's Fair, the Sawyer family introduced this stereo slide scope that gives 3-D views the View-Master |
#4741, aired 2005-03-28 | THIRD WORLD $600: The third "Amityville Horror" & the third "Jaws" films were both filmed in this special process 3-D |
#4705, aired 2005-02-04 | PUNK'D $600: If you fail to give someone proper deference, you do this 3-letter word to them dis |
#4667, aired 2004-12-14 | MED. ABBREV. $400: 2 of the 3 illnesses for which a DPT vaccination provides immunity diphtheria & pertussis (or tetanus) |
#4625, aired 2004-10-15 | "D" FACTO $400: This member of the Rat Pack became a Vaudeville performer at age 3 Sammy Davis, Jr. |
#4621, aired 2004-10-11 | THE ADLER PLANETARIUM $800: In the dynamic gallery theater, visitors can experience a 3-D tour of this, our home galaxy the Milky Way |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | 3-D $400: It's said Nero did this "while Rome burned" in 64 A.D. fiddled |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | 3-D $800: An appendix to a book addendum |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | 3-D $1200: Removed mud & silt from the bottom of a river dredged |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | 3-D $1600: G'day! It's the aboriginal wind instrument seen here a didgeridoo |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | 3-D $2000: America took itself off this April 19, 1933 the gold standard |
#4545, aired 2004-05-14 | "D.C." $800: This epic poem by Dante is divided into 3 sections: the Inferno, the Purgatorio & the Paradiso the Divine Comedy |
#4484, aired 2004-02-19 | 3 LETTERS LONG $800: Between April & October, the hour of the day in Maine may be followed by these 3 letters E.D.T. |
#4441, aired 2003-12-22 | HEIR RAISING $2000: The 843 A.D. Treaty of Verdun divided this great Frankish king's empire among 3 grandsons Charlemagne |
#4417, aired 2003-11-18 | "T"3 $3,000 (Daily Double): While not an M.D., this person can still diagnose eye problems & prescribe glasses optometrist |
#4388, aired 2003-10-08 | A PAIR OF "I"s $600: In 79 A.D. it was 1 of the 3 cities burned by Vesuvius Pompeii |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | "D" TALKS $1200: This 3-word phrase was coined during the Cold War as a schoolchild's defense against a nuclear attack "Duck and Cover" |
#4262, aired 2003-02-25 | SPORTS LEFTIES $400: This "Marvelous" lefty boxer KO'd Thomas Hearns in a classic 3-round brawl Marvin Hagler |
#4238, aired 2003-01-22 | SPORTS NAME SPELLING $400: Dale, who drove car No. 3 E-A-R-N-H-A-R-D-T |
#4195, aired 2002-11-22 | '40s TECH $400: A primitive 3-D color version of this was demonstrated by John Logie Baird in 1941 television |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | REMAKES $400: In 2000 Hasbro gave this dot-gobbling '80s arcade star a new 3-D look for a PC game Pac-Man |
#4085, aired 2002-05-10 | PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew peruses a model train hobbyist's fantasy setup.) If train "A" leaves at 3:00 at 60 mph, & train "B" leaves at 5:00 at 90 mph, this equation, d=rt, tells you when B passes A distance equals rate times time |
#4083, aired 2002-05-08 | SHAKESPEARE $1600: In "Macbeth", these 3 words immediately precede the line "And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" Lay on, Macduff |
#3832, aired 2001-04-10 | MALTA BOUND $1000: In the first century A.D., this important Christian leader was shipwrecked on Malta for 3 months Paul |
#3830, aired 2001-04-06 | WORLD OF ANIMATION $400: Like George Pal's "Toons", director Ladislas Starevich was best known for animation using these 3-D figures Puppets |
#3826, aired 2001-04-02 | POP CULTURE $200: Radio producer Arch Oboler pioneered this film gimmick for 1952's "Bwana Devil" 3-D |
#3793, aired 2001-02-14 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $100: This country on the Mediterranean coast of France is about 3 times the size of the Mall in Washington, D.C. Monaco |
#3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $600: "The Magic Box" follows these 2 illusionists from war-torn Germany to Las Vegas, & all in 3-D Siegfried & Roy |
#3723, aired 2000-11-08 | THE WEST INDIES $600: Duarte Peak, the highest point in the West Indies, rises 10,417 feet in this nation that occupies 2/3 of Hispaniola Dominican Republic |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: He wrote 4 overtures to "Fidelio", the most popular being the "Leonore Overture No. 3" L.V. Beethoven |
#3699, aired 2000-10-05 | NEW VIDEO GAMES $200: 3-D crowds cheer on Mia Hamm in the SouthPeak Interactive game in this sport soccer |
#3687, aired 2000-09-19 | I THINK I MISSED THAT MOVIE $200: You needed these special glasses to watch the 1983 Amityville sequel which featured Meg Ryan 3-D glasses |
#3676, aired 2000-09-04 | TREES $400: In April 1999 a family of 3 of these rodents was "arrested" for attacking cherry trees in Washington, D.C. beavers |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-D $200: This is the way the ladies sometimes ride sidesaddle |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-D $400: It's the next federal holiday after Memorial Day Independence Day |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-D $600: This arachnid is also known as a harvestman daddy long legs |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-D $800: It's a supplement to a book addendum |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-D $1000: Wild Bill Hickok cashed his chips in this town Deadwood |
#3661, aired 2000-07-03 | DOCUMENTARIES $1000: Wim Wenders directed this acclaimed 1999 film about legendary Cuban musicians The Buena Vista Social Club |
#3660, aired 2000-06-30 | ...AND MAN CREATED WOMAN $300: This 3-D tomb-raiding woman has done commercials for the Sci-Fi Channel Lara Croft |
#3642, aired 2000-06-06 | DIVINATION $400: The 3 main oracle sites in Greece were Dodona, Delos & this other "D" location Delphi |
#3529, aired 1999-12-30 | WITH "EWE" $600: A stereoscope is a 3-D one Viewer |
#3492, aired 1999-11-09 | THE "REAL" WORLD $100: A simulated 3-D environment that a user can experience & manipulate as if it were physical virtual reality |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE $100: If you like 3-D action, you'll love the amazing adventures of this webslinger Spider-Man |
#3406, aired 1999-05-31 | "WHOLE"SOME $300: In a joking W.C. Fields epitaph, these 3 words precede "I'd rather be in Philadelphia" On the whole |
#3404, aired 1999-05-27 | AMERICANA $500: It was incorporated as a city May 3, 1802 with its mayor to be appointed by the president Washington, D.C. |
#3249, aired 1998-10-22 | HOLLYWOOD $400: The movie theater seen here was designed for this projection system of the '50s & '60s Cinerama (the Cinerama Dome) |
#3204, aired 1998-07-02 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $800: On TV's "Alice", if you changed your breakfast order you'd probably hear this from Flo "Kiss my Grits!" |
#3123, aired 1998-03-11 | "D" $400: Common 3-letter abbreviation for the Doctor of Philosophy degree Ph.D |
#3086, aired 1998-01-19 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Nobody knew it then, but the "high" period of this epoch ended with the sack of Rome in 1527 Renaissance |
#3064, aired 1997-12-18 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1000: Isaac Mizrahi appeared as himself on the May 6, 1997 3-D episode of this Michael J. Fox sitcom Spin City |
#3059, aired 1997-12-11 | SPY FICTION $500: You can name this author in 3 words..."The Icarus Agenda", "The Osterman Weekend", "The Matarese Circle" Robert Ludlum |
#3048, aired 1997-11-26 | THOSE DREADED STORY PROBLEMS $400: If Tom's picket fence used 3"-wide pickets, he'd need this many edge to edge to cover a 12' length 48 |
#3048, aired 1997-11-26 | THOSE DREADED STORY PROBLEMS $500: If a dieting 2-ton elephant lost 10 pounds a week for a year he'd weigh this much 3,480 pounds |
#3009, aired 1997-10-02 | TV STARS ON FILM $300: This creator of "Jeopardy!" appeared in the 1954 3-D horror film "Phantom Of The Rue Morgue" Merv Griffin |
#2963, aired 1997-06-18 | INVENTORS $800: Dennis Gabor won a 1971 Nobel Prize for his invention of this process to create 3-D images Holography |
#2941, aired 1997-05-19 | WHAT'S HOT $300: This company created the Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system Nintendo |
#2918, aired 1997-04-16 | MOVIE DEBUTS $200: This "Caroline In The City" star made her screen debut in 3-D, in "Jaws 3-D" Lea Thompson |
#2892, aired 1997-03-11 | SON OF SIMIAN CINEMA $400: This star of "The Miracle Worker" was carried off by an ape in the 3-D thriller "Gorilla at Large" Anne Bancroft |
#2866, aired 1997-02-03 | DISNEY WORLD AT 25 $500: He reprises his role as Prof. Wayne Szalinski in the 3-D Epcot film "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience" Rick Moranis |
#2861, aired 1997-01-27 | GOOD THINKING $300: After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera Edwin Land |
#2842, aired 1996-12-31 | FADS $500: Long before the View-Master, these handheld 3-D stereoscopes were popular from 1850 to 1910 Stereopticons |
#2733, aired 1996-06-19 | GIFTS $400: Italy donated 3,700 tons of marble for this D.C. performing arts complex that opened in 1971 the Kennedy Center |
#2665, aired 1996-03-15 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $500: They were based on 3 real people: Armand de Sillegue, Isaac de Portau & Henri d'Aramitz the Three Musketeers |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | "D.J."s $600: This actor received 3 Emmy nominations for his role as Dr. Richard Kimble on "The Fugitive" David Janssen |
#2545, aired 1995-09-29 | MOVIE DEBUTS $400: This "Unforgiven" star made his film debut as a lab technician in the 1955 3-D thriller "Revenge of the creature" Clint Eastwood |
#2378, aired 1994-12-28 | 1993 $600: On November 2 the Senate voted 94-6 to subpoena 3,000 pages of his diary Robert Packwood |
#2357, aired 1994-11-29 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $400: It was built in 16 months between 1941 & 1943, which works out to 3.2 months per side the Pentagon |
#2328, aired 1994-10-19 | INVENTORS $1000: In the 1940s he developed a 3-D motion picture process based on polarized light (Edwin) Land |
#2259, aired 1994-06-02 | TRIOS $500: In the Dumas novel, the 3 Musketeers are Athos, Porthos & this man Aramis |
#2188, aired 1994-02-23 | FAMOUS FALLS $1000: You'd need Jacob's Ladder to climb past this 3,212-foot Venezuelan waterfall Angel Falls |
#2127, aired 1993-11-30 | MATHEMATICS $600: A triangle with 3 equal sides is equilateral; 2 equal sides, isosceles; no two equal sides, this scalene |
#2097, aired 1993-10-19 | INVENTORS $500: Charles Wheatstone & Oliver Wendell Holmes invented forms of these 3-D picture viewers stereoscopes |
#2072, aired 1993-09-14 | OOPS! $500: We said this Michael Jackson 3-D film was in Fantasyland; it's actually in Tomorrowland Captain EO |
#2064, aired 1993-07-22 | MOUNTAINS $1,100 (Daily Double): State in which you'd find 3,290-foot Mount Oglethorpe Georgia |
#2044, aired 1993-06-24 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $800: In the 1940s this instant camera inventor developed a 3-D movie process based on polarized light (Edwin) Land |
#2012, aired 1993-05-11 | CALCULUS $600: You need calc. to take this earth measurement because it isn't a perfect sphere; if it were, you'd use (4/3) pi r3 volume |
#1954, aired 1993-02-18 | DISNEYLAND $400: Michael Jackson stars as the commander of a spaceship in this 3-D film featured in Fantasyland Captain EO |
#1941, aired 1993-02-01 | TOYS & GAMES $400: This stereoscopic toy with 3-D reels made its debut at the 1939 New York World's Fair a View-Master |
#1886, aired 1992-11-16 | ANAGRAMS $300: Soon after I'd risen, I heard the wailing of this siren (risen) |
#1855, aired 1992-10-02 | ARTISTS $1,500 (Daily Double): When this Impressionist & father of a filmmaker died December 3, 1919, he'd just finished a painting (Pierre-Auguste) Renoir |
#1829, aired 1992-07-09 | U.S. HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): Russell, Waddell & Majors, the men who started this service April 3, 1860, went bankrupt with it in 1861 the Pony Express |
#1706, aired 1992-01-20 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: To view the 1953 John Wayne movie "Hondo" the way it was meant to be seen you needed a pair of these 3-D glasses |
#1694, aired 1992-01-02 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: Dennis Gabor won the 1971 Physics Prize for his invention of this 3-D photographic process holography |
#1667, aired 1991-11-26 | "HOUSE"s $400: A vengeful Vincent Price displayed dead bodies in this 1953 3-D thriller House of Wax |
#1555, aired 1991-05-10 | MATHEMATICS $1000: In the 3-D Cartesian coordinate system, the designation of the axis that defines height z |
#1497, aired 1991-02-19 | PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Acoustic ones of these 3-D photos use sound waves instead of light waves as the energy source holograms |
#1432, aired 1990-11-20 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On May 3, 1802 it was incorporated as a city by an act of Congress Washington, D.C. |
#1427, aired 1990-11-13 | DESPOTS & DICTATORS $1000: It took a revolution in 1911 to unseat this Mexican pres. who'd held power for more than 3 decades Porfirio Díaz |
#1404, aired 1990-10-11 | ALL NUMBERS $100: It precedes D, Rs & ring circus 3 |
#1359, aired 1990-06-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: This city was incorporated May 3, 1802, its mayor to be appointed by the president Washington, D.C. |
#1331, aired 1990-05-21 | THE AUTO INDUSTRY $200: Built by Carl Benz in 1885, the first internal combustion car had this many wheels 3 |
#1319, aired 1990-05-03 | POLITICAL QUOTES $400: 1 of the 3 things which, according to John Fremont's 1856 G.O.P. campaign, should be free Soil, men & speech |
#1280, aired 1990-03-09 | FASHION HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): After 3,000 years of secrecy, this animal's eggs were smuggled out of China by 2 monks circa 552 A.D. the silkworm |
#1275, aired 1990-03-02 | WAX $500: Charles Buchinsky (later Bronson) can be seen in this 1953 Vincent Price 3-D film House of Wax |
#1271, aired 1990-02-26 | LEFTOVERS $800: Legally, a will written entirely in the handwriting of the one who makes it, not in 3-D Holographic |
#1222, aired 1989-12-19 | SPORTS $300: After winning 3 gold medals in swimming in 1924 & 1928, this Olympian advertised B.V.D. swimwear Johnny Weissmuller |
#1214, aired 1989-12-07 | U.S. CITIES $100: This city's tidal basin is ringed by some 3,000 Yoshino cherry trees donated by the mayor of Tokyo in 1912 Washington, D.C. |
#1182, aired 1989-10-24 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $100: Where you'd be if you dug a hole 3,958 miles deep the center of the Earth |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | LIGHT $600: Many credit cards now have these 3-D images on them to prevent counterfeiting of the cards holograms |
#1127, aired 1989-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $500 (Daily Double): January 22, 1989 event these people are prepared for: the half time show at the Super Bowl |
#1041, aired 1989-02-27 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Of the original 3 Musketeers, the 2 whose names begin with "A" Aramis & Athos |
#1030, aired 1989-02-10 | PRESIDENTS $200: During Taft's administration over 3,000 of these were imported from Japan to plant in Washington, D.C. cherry trees |
#1016, aired 1989-01-23 | ALPHABET SOUP $500: 3 letter abbreviation of the Latin phrase meaning "which was to be demonstrated" Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum) |
#1013, aired 1989-01-18 | THE 3 "B"s $2,000 (Daily Double): Famous student song on which Brahms based this section of the "Academic Festival Overture": "Gaudeamus Igitur" |
#999, aired 1988-12-29 | "R.D." $800: An example of this type of mathematical group that goes on indefinitely is 1⁄3 = .333333... repeating decimal |
#987, aired 1988-12-13 | CELEBRITY MARRIAGES $100: Marsha Mason said she'd only known this man for 3 weeks before she married him Neil Simon |
#962, aired 1988-11-08 | CAMERAS $200: A new video camera shoots in this process that requires special glasses to view 3-D |
#942, aired 1988-10-11 | TV STARS $200: A Los Angeles DJ jokingly said that to say this "Equalizer" star's name, you'd have to say "wood" 3 times Edward Woodward |
#803, aired 1988-02-17 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $500: 3 of the 4 states which have a "K" in their postal abbreviations Alaska (AK), Kansas (KS) & Kentucky (KY) |
#784, aired 1988-01-21 | "WISH"FUL SONG $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of The Beach Boys did backup vocals on this Chicago hit:
"And I'd like to change my life, and you know I would / Just to be with you tonight..." "Wishing You Were Here" |
#778, aired 1988-01-13 | ODD SPELLING $600: It's how that 3-part picture of a playmate in the middle of a British Playboy is spelled C-E-N-T-R-E-F-O-L-D |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | WESTERN FILMS $800: One of his most popular books, "Hondo", was made into a 3-D film starring John Wayne Louis L'Amour |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | TIME $3,000 (Daily Double): According to 1st line, time you'd hear the following being sung:
"We're drinking, my friend /
To the end /
Of a brief episode /
Make it one..." a quarter to 3:00 |
#721, aired 1987-10-26 | THE MOVIES $1000: Based on Somerset Maugham's "Rain", this Rita Hayworth movie was originally in 3-D Miss Sadie Thompson |
#662, aired 1987-06-23 | SWEET TALK $400: The last 3 words in "God Bless America", they'd be appropriate on a sampler "Home sweet home" |
#642, aired 1987-05-26 | FOLK MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): The 3 things "I'd hammer out", "If I had a hammer" danger, warning & love |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | SCIENCE $600: In 1834, Christian Thomsen divided early human history into these 3 ages Stone, Bronze, and Iron |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | PHONE NUMBERS $300: Across the country, it's the most common 3 digit number you'd dial for phone repair service 611 |
#570, aired 1987-02-13 | SHOW BIZ BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of the 4 founders of United Artists (3 of) Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin & D.W. Griffith |
#554, aired 1987-01-22 | LETTER PERFECT $400: The 1st of the 3 letters on button #3 of a touch-tone phone D |
#530, aired 1986-12-19 | ART $1000: Tho this movement begun by Picasso & Braque has a "3-D" name, it strove to make reality 2-dimensional the Cubist |
#506, aired 1986-11-17 | SINGING DUOS $600: Because members left, by last 3 albums this "group" was only D. Fagen, W. Becker, & session players Steely Dan |
#490, aired 1986-10-24 | PRESIDENTS $600: Told by a lady she'd bet she could get him to say 3 words, he supposedly replied, "You lose" Calvin Coolidge |
#484, aired 1986-10-16 | ZOOLOGY $100: To get this 3-toed animal to move faster, you might say, "Ai, wish you'd shake a leg!" a sloth |
#482, aired 1986-10-14 | ACTORS & ROLES $1000: Joan Crawford played this Somerset Maugham trollop before Hayworth, but Rita did it in 3-D Sadie Thompson |
#478, aired 1986-10-08 | SANTA CLAUS $1,000 (Daily Double): Santa's 3 reindeer whose names begin with the letter "D" Donner, Dancer and Dasher |
#466, aired 1986-09-22 | MUSEUMS $400: This Penn. city has a Civil War cyclorama & a museum on the life of Christ in 3-D & velvet paintings Gettysburg |
#444, aired 1986-05-22 | 1974 $500: On May 1, 1974, the minimum wage went from $1.60/hr. to this $2.00 |
#373, aired 1986-02-12 | NUTRITION $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 vitamins considered toxic if taken in excessive doses vitamin A (vitamin D or niacin) |
#343, aired 1986-01-01 | NUMBERS $500: When it's 12 noon in Washington state, it's this time in Washington, D.C. 3:00 PM |
#333, aired 1985-12-18 | THE '50s $100: You wore them to watch the "deepies" 3-D glasses |
#310, aired 1985-11-15 | PHYSICS $800: Invented in 1947 to improve electron microscope images, this science created a 3-D picture holography |
#154, aired 1985-04-11 | 1953 $300: Filmed in this process, "Bwana Devil" was 1st to promise "a lion in your lap & a lover in your arms" 3-D |
#148, aired 1985-04-03 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The 23rd Amendment, ratified in 1961, gave 3 electoral votes to this region Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia) |
#143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORLD CAPITALS $1,500 (Daily Double): The only U.S. state capital with 3 words Salt Lake City |
#114, aired 1985-02-14 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: In 3 different versions of "The 3 Musketeers", Don Ameche, Gene Kelly & Michael York played him D'Artagnan |
#18, aired 1984-10-03 | TRIOS $400: For a troika, you'd put this behind 3 horses a sleigh |
Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Aaron Thompson, an executive 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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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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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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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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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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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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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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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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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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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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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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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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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Richard Cordray, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Grove City, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
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\"He had just graduated from law school and was clerking for...
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Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science from Los Angeles, California
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
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Elaine Filadelfo, a data researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000.
Season 37 player (2021-06-18).
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Elaine Filadelfo, a consumer insights researcher from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Second Chance competition semifinalist: $3,000.
Season 37 player (2021-06-18).
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Will Dawson, a tour guide from Washington, D.C.
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Season 35 3-time champion: $70,601 + $1,000.
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Steve Hayes, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1986-10-24).
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Scott Cooper, an Army lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1986-12-23): an Emerson audio rack system.
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Kathie Hite, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Season 3 player (1987-07-20). Spelling of last name, occupation and hometown...
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John Podhoretz, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 3 5-time champion: $45,600....
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John Podhoretz, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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1987 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $1,000. Season 3 5-time champion: $45,600....
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Anand Kandaswamy, an economist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 34 3-time champion: $57,001 + $1,000.
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Kristin Hucek, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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2023 Champions Wildcard quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 37 3-time champion: $24,808 + $1,000.
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Joseph D'Hippolito, a freelance writer from Fullerton, California
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Season 8 3-time champion: $34,000.
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Peter Guekguezian, a Ph.D. student in linguistics from Fresno, California
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Season 33 3-time champion: $44,800 + $2,000.
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Ben Macrory, a law student originally from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 3-time champion: $40,402.
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Steve Latourette, a 3-D animator from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 15 1-time champion: $8,001.
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Michael Bilow, a Ph.D. student in computer science originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 3-time champion: $96,000...
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Neil Quarterman, a foreign service officer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 11 3-time champion: $40,803.
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Paul Carlson, a transit policy analyst from Washington, D.C.
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Season 12 3-time champion: $47,806.
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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Alexander Persaud, a Ph.D. student in economics originally from Dubuque, Iowa
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Season 31 3-time champion: $61,000 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "per-SAWD".
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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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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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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
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"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
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"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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Michael Daunt, an accountant from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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"In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tournament of Champions....
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Bill Cossen, a Ph.D. candidate in history originally from Lexington, South Carolina
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Season 31 3-time champion: $50,602 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: JeopardyBill
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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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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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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
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"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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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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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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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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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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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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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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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
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"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
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Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Risa Lapidow, a technical writer originally from Vermont
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Season 3 player (1987-07-14). At the time of her appearance, Risa...
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Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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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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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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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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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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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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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
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"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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