| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | CULTURE, POPULARLY $400: Gene Autry's been gone for a while, but he was on the Billboard Hot 100 in late December 2023 with "Here Comes" this fellow Santa Claus |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $200: In an 1862 work he is chained by the neck & taken to a prison in Toulon after stealing some bread Jean Valjean |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $400: The ghost of Hamlet's father tells Hamlet he was murdered, "murder most" this, "as in the best it is" foul |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $800: In this Donn Pearce novel, later turned into a Paul Newman film, the title convict bets society red he can eat 50 eggs Cool Hand Luke |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $1000: Winning an Emmy for being one of "Two & a Half Men" as Alan Harper must have been just Duckie for him Jon Cryer |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $1200: For interpreting the handwriting on the wall, he was clothed "with scarlet" & given "a chain of gold about his neck" Daniel |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BIBLICAL GARB $1600: John the Baptist wore a garment made of the hair of this animal while in the wilderness & eating "locusts and wild honey" camel hair |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | OUR FLOUNDERING FATHERS $1200: Pre-"Give me liberty or give me death", he ran a failing store for his dad, didn't make it as a tobacco farmer & his house burned down Henry |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | BOATS $200: In 1956 Malcom McLean revolutionized shipping when he launched Ideal X, a ship with 50+ of these large boxes containers |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $800: Jeff Fischer got the role he was born to play: Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's hubby & pal to a talking fish & an alien on this TBS cartoon American Dad! |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: Famous for his redistricting plan while governor, he became vice president in 1813 & died in office a year later (Elbridge) Gerry |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $1000: Seen here, but not heard from 2015 to 2021, he learned "F is for Family" & if you don't know him, "I'm gonna put you through a wall" (Bill) Burr |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking Dublin |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $2000: During his reign over Rome, he had a coin minted with the depictions of his 3 sisters:
Drusilla, Livilla & Agrippina Caligula |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | '70s TV DRAMA $2000: Before he enjoyed his lollipops as Kojak, this actor got an Oscar nom for playing a prisoner in "Birdman of Alcatraz" Telly Savalas |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | DAVID PLAYED $800: This 40-year-old slugger retired after a 2016 season in which he hit .315, with 38 home runs & 127 RBIs Ortiz |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $800: He lived until 1827 but his last time as soloist with an orchestra was in 1808, opening his 4th piano concerto with a gentle chord Beethoven |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $400: In a memorandum to his fleet off Cádiz in 1805, he wrote, "Nothing is sure in a sea fight" Nelson |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | HISTORICAL QUOTES $800: In Cairo in 1978 he said, "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land" Sadat |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $800: Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year (John) Deere |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $2000: Known for his black & white photos, he was a consultant for the film "Funny Face" & Fred Astaire's character was based on him Avedon |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $200: A British delegate refused to sit for a painting of the 1782 talks ending this; John Quincy Adams said it's OK, he's ugly anyway the Revolutionary War |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Plutarch quoted this Greek philosopher as saying he was not "an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world" Socrates |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | AS HEARD ON TV $800: On this ABC show Junior Johnson said he was called "a less cool Steve Urkel" & was "like if Drake never left 'Degrassi"' black-ish |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $2000: In 66 A.D. he took part in the Jewish revolt against Rome; later, he worked for the Romans writing the history of it Josephus |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar's army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his "Sevastopol Sketches" Tolstoy |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1,800 (Daily Double): As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground Dresden |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $2000: After he caught a body in 1606, this artist fled Rome & took his chiaroscuro skills to Malta Caravaggio |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | MUSIC COLLABS $400: He had a collab with Miles Davis called "Can I Play With U?", included on a "Sign o' the Times" reissue Prince |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | ARCHITECTS $1200: He saw himself as a trimtab, a small but powerful rudder, for humanity, & his tombstone says, "'Call me Trimtab'-Bucky" Fuller |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | DURING JAMES BUCHANAN'S PRESIDENCY $5,000 (Daily Double): On December 2, 1859 he rode to the gallows on his coffin & remarked, "This is a beautiful country" John Brown |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1600: As a Boston lawyer, he was known as the "people's attorney"; he went on to become the first Jewish Supreme Court justice Brandeis |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE GRAMMYS' GREAT MOMENTS $400: In 1988 he gave an iconic performance of "Man In The Mirror" backed by a gospel choir Michael Jackson |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, BY THE NUMBERS $200: He received a total of 1,876 Electoral College votes for president, a likely unbreakable record FDR |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE LOCALS $1200: B.R. Ambedkar was a leader of the people called Untouchables, Dalits or SC, short for "Scheduled" this; he urged them to move to cities Castes |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1600: In Rabelais' "Gargantua", a drinker demands that an empty cup be filled because of this scientific principle nature abhors a vacuum |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $800: Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? Monty Hall |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | VIOLENT ART $1600: Napoleon's go-to guy, he also sort of directed a horror pic, an oil of Marat in the bath in 1793 done soon after the killing David |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: A former chairman of CNN, he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk Isaacson |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $200: At the Golden Globes in 2024, he said, "This is a nice moment for me", when he won for "Succession" Kieran Culkin |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little |
| #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 |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! $800: This actor could have been a contender for the busiest 1946--he was in at least 4 shows, including "Candida" as Eugene Brando |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | GETTING HISTORICAL $800: Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave Commodore Matthew Perry |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | WAITS $600: He had a Top 20 hit singing, "You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the hardest part" Tom Petty |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE! $600: Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream" Bottom |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | POETS & POETRY $2000: John Donne used the stuck-up sounding similes called metaphysical these, as when he compared lovers' souls to the 2 legs of a compass conceits |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $200: Love:
This Greek goddess of beauty had a thang goin' on with Adonis, but sadly, he got boar-ed Aphrodite |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $400: By the 1910s he had adopted a last name derived from the Russian for steel Stalin |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $400: This president was gifted with a 1,400-pound block of cheese; on Feb. 22, 1837 he threw a party for the public to chow down Jackson |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | "LIKE"NESS $1200: In 2002 Tony Curtis toured in a stage version of this film comedy in which he co-starred years earlier Some Like It Hot |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THE EMMYS $200: He won a 1974 Emmy for his role in "M*A*S*H"; he'd also win for writing & directing that series Alan Alda |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THE EMMYS $400: He's got a 50% success rate, winning 4 out of 8 nominations for playing the same supporting role (Peter) Dinklage |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: Alex Trebek said he worked behind one of these, from the Latin for "to read" a lectern |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: Knighted in 1947, in 1970 he became the first actor to be named a baron Lord Laurence Olivier |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES $200: He pointed out that his father might not have been served at a U.S. restaurant less than 60 years earlier Barack Obama |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $400: After a long, unplanned but very restful nap away from the fam in an 1819 tale, he finds he just likes being single again Rip Van Winkle |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ALL THINGS DISNEY $200: Naturally, he was the first animated character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Mickey |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ITALIAN AMERICANS $800: As director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, he became a fixture on TV during the COVID pandemic Fauci |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $800: Genesis 28:11 relates how he used a stone pillow Jacob |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School" the Hudson River School |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $2000: Frank helps Cora kill her hubby but is wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit in this James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $1000: It's the line in "Treasure Island" that precedes & follows "drink and the devil had done for the rest" yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: He was just a shepherd when he was asked to judge which of 3 goddesses was the most beautiful Paris |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | SAFE MODE $1000: A guard posted to say, "Who goes there?" to possible intruders; here he is as the logo of a safe company founded in 1930 Sentry |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? $1200: Inventor Dan Klitsner said he was working on a zany remote control for kids when he came up with this '90s hit toy Bop It |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $400: To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) Paradise Lost |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $600: Billboard said he is "often cited as hip-hop's goat behind the boards... a lead rapper on... 1988's 'Straight Outta Compton"' Dr. Dre |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $800: Some numbers: 3 years after taking 9 bullets, he had a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut with "Get Rich Or Die Tryin"' in 2003 50 Cent |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $1200: In "Dandelion Wine" he was not a "Ray" of sunshine, saying, "some people turn sad awfully young... no special reason" Bradbury |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $400: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) A 1964 speech delivered by Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam, stated his Black nationalist philosophy, & he spoke of the ballot or this deadly word bullet |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $800: Pete Townshend admits that he "made a huge leap into the absurd" when he decided this title album guy "would play pinball" Tommy |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $1200: Dave Davies of this British band claims he cut the speaker cone of his amp with a razor blade to get a distorted sound on "You Really Got Me" The Kinks |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $400: His dad was the prime minister when he was born in Ottawa in 1971 Justin Trudeau |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | WORLD LEADER BIRTHPLACES $800: Born in Amiens, he won a second term in 2022 Macron |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $800: A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance" Frankenstein |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: From Judges 6, "The spirit of the Lord came upon" this man, "and he blew a trumpet" Gideon |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AT THE TINY DESK CONCERT $1200: The "T" on the 2014 performance of this future winner on "The Masked Singer" is that he sang "Buy U A Drank" sans Auto-Tune T-Pain |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $200: In a letter from 1888 he included a sketch of his bedroom at Arles, the painting he was working on van Gogh |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ETCH & SKETCH $400: He reproduced his etching of "Black Lion Wharf" in a famous painting of his own mother Whistler |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I'M SO WAVY $400: A man called Krazy George Henderson claims he introduced the wave during a 1981 A.L. playoff game for this Bay Area team the Oakland A's |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM! $800: One of the Kids in the Hall, Mark McKinney had the memorable ability to do this devastating action to strangers at a distance crush their heads |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | ARTFUL ROGERS $1600: This artful Cowboys quarterback didn't break into the NFL until he was 27 due to a 4-year commitment with the U.S. Navy Roger Staubach |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $400: In an Iroquois tale a girl runs off with a handsome Chad only to find out he is one of these ssslithery creatures a snake |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | MYTH AROUND & FIND OUT $2000: In Egyptian myth Seth went all Edgar Allan Poe on this bro of his & put him in a coffin while he was still alive Osiris |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1200: He is the NBA's all-time leader in games played & an area often covered by one church & one priest a (Robert) Parish |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $1600: He's a comedian, Comedy Store comedy club royalty & the land edge of a body of water (Pauly) Shore |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $1600: Walking through a Budapest park, he had the idea that became the basis for alternating current & began drawing in the dirt with a stick Nikola Tesla |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | PEOPLE WHO ARE PLACES $2000: He's a "Mamma Mia!" maybe papa & a narrow inlet of the sea in the British isles a firth (Colin Firth) |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $2000: Kary Mullis had to pull off the road when he got his Nobel-winning idea to copy DNA via PCR or polymerase this process a chain reaction |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $200: This title British woman imagines her mum telling her to have a fling with "Mark Darcy over the turkey curry, won't you? He's very rich" Bridget Jones |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | THE ERRORS TOUR $400: In myth, he fell for the ol' "just hold that for me for a sec" trick when Hercules got him to retake his spot of holding the heavens Atlas |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | THE ERRORS TOUR $800: Examples of this oopsy with -ism or without include "chicken pops", "he took her for granite" & "decapitated coffee" a malapropism |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $800: In "Love in the Time of Cholera" by him, Florentino has thought of a love affair for 51 years, 9 months & 4 days, not that he's counting Gabriel García Márquez |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ONE-TERM PRESIDENTS $2000: Not wanting to admit Texas as a slave state helped this man get the Kinderhook, though he also pandered to the pro-slavery vote Van Buren |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $200: If Mo Rocca was munching on a latke in Osaka, he'd be enjoying a potato pancake in a city in this country Japan |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $200: This "5th Symphony" composer was quite particular about his morning coffee; he used exactly 60 beans to ensure a proper cup of joe Beethoven |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $500: In the early 1920s, he brought the angst of "The Scream" to a series of night sky paintings, some featuring his own shadow Edvard Munch |
| #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 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $900: Ozzy said his world stood still the first time he heard this Led Zeppelin tune that lends its title to a film by Richard Linklater "Dazed And Confused" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA $1000: If Mo Rocca blurted "Boomshakalaka" during "Ninotchka", he'd be reacting excitedly to a 1939 movie starring this Swedish film legend Greta Garbo |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $2000: On trial for selling a work by this Delft master to the Nazis, a Dutch artist avoided a death sentence by proving he'd forged it Vermeer |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE PAST, PRESENTLY $200: Defending a pardon he granted, this president told a congressional committee he wanted "to change our national focus" Gerald Ford |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | VEGETABLE STEW $800: The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful Carrot Top |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $2000: Kendrick Lamar quoted a folk saying when he sang, "The blacker the berry", then this result the sweeter the juice |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $2000: Thomas Hardy rhymed war is odd: "You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to" this fractional coin half a crown |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $400: Kurt Russell's Santa is the gift that keeps on giving! He even speaks a fake language called "Elvish" in this holiday romp The Christmas Chronicles |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MY "SON", THE PRESIDENT $1600: For refusing to shine the boots of a British officer as a child, he got a saber across the face Jackson |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | IAMB WOMAN $2000: Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'" Emma Lazarus |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $3,000 (Daily Double): He got the nod in 1953 as a senator from California; he rode again in 1960 Richard Nixon |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $200: "Maybe I'm Amazed" he solo-recorded his 1970 solo debut mainly at his house in St. John's Wood; OK, maybe I'm not--he was a Beatle McCartney |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $600: In 1989, he "Let Love Rule" as basically a one-man band on that debut album, and he's been "Sittin' On Top Of The World" ever since Lenny Kravitz |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | ONE-MAN BAND $1000: When he was 15, he went out on tour with his dad, a guitar god; later he recorded solo for Mammoth WVH Wolfgang Van Halen |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | YOU GET NOTHING! YOU LOSE! $1000: Placed neck-deep in water that would recede as he tried to quench his thirst, this king gave his name to a word meaning tease Tantalus |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: He was a newspaperman for the Chicago Daily Globe before penning "An American Tragedy" Dreiser |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS $2000: His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel Prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone Frank Kellogg |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $100: He appeared in every episode of "M*A*S*H"; he also directed its last episode in 1983 Alan Alda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $600: In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a "West Side Story" Bernstein |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | NYMING -NYMS $800: A cryptonym is a secret name or code word; this 1960s Vietnamese leader had several, including Agent 19 Ho Chi Minh |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: Also known as Catamitus, he was a beautiful boy carried away by an eagle for purposes uncertain Ganymede |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) Two books that I often recommend & that inspired me to write for teens are "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson & one by Walter Dean Myers; Steve is on trial for murder, but is he really this, the title of the book? a monster |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $600: This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man Josh O'Connor |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THE CHARLES III KIND $1000: Charles helped design the traditional look of Poundbury in this duchy of his that shares its name with a southwest England county Cornwall |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AUTO BIOGRAPHIES $100: You can call me a holy roller, since I'm customized to drive this official as he greets crowds the Pope |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SCIENTISTS $300: A popular way of saying something is uncomplicated is to say it's not this field of Wernher von Braun rocket science |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $900: He sang hits like "Watermelon Sugar" for his Tiny Desk Concert; he also calls his sweater a "jumper" (aw, how British) Harry Styles |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $1500: For a Tiny Desk Concert he did with Sting, this "It Wasn't Me" singer proudly sang "I'm a Jamaican in New York" Shaggy |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor Casterbridge |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | NBA NICKNAMES $200: He knew how to operate on a basketball court, so it makes sense that Julius Erving had this medical nickname Dr. J |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $600: He read "Anna Karenina" aboard a boat while chasing 3 thieves down a river in the Dakota Territory Teddy Roosevelt |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | PRESIDENTS NOT PRESIDENTING $800: This man told a friend, "Palladio is the Bible", as he was something of a fanboy for the 16th century Italian architect Jefferson |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | BIBLE QUOTES $2000: Genesis 37: "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children... and he made him" this showy item a coat of many colors |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | '80s NO. 1 HITMAKERS $1600: He was on a Rick roll with his chart-toppers "Never Gonna Give You Up" & "Together Forever" Rick Astley |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: Christopher Nolan said he got inspired to make "Oppenheimer" after this "Twilight" star gifted him a book of Oppie's speeches (Robert) Pattinson |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CONTEMPORARIES $1600: In 1794 Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped the execution of this man marked a return to moderation in the French Revolution Robespierre |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A REAL SOB STORY $400: In a 1594 play he tells his brother Marcus Andronicus that a woman's tears are like "honey-dew upon a gather'd lily" Titus Andronicus |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $400: St. Catherine of Siena had many visions of Jesus; in one he removed this from her body & in another, replaced it with his own heart |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $600: The line in the script for this 1942 classic was "Here's good luck to you, kid", but Bogie made a slight adjustment Casablanca |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $1000: In his "First Vision", in New York State in 1820, he asked Jesus which church had the truth & Jesus said none of them Joseph Smith |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | KING'S CROSSING $200: In a late 18th century National Convention vote he could not afford to lose, this French king was condemned to death, 387 to 334 Louis XVI |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $400: He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl" James Brown |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $1200: He said he knew "slave-holders" would not give up their slaves "till they felt a big stick about their heads" John Brown |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $400: He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball" Fleming |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | STICKY STUFF $800: This brand was conceived in the 1940s by a Swiss engineer after he examined sticky burrs on his dog Velcro |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $800: As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne Prince William |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $600: In 1982, he set a modern record by stealing 130 bases; Hugh Nicol has the all-time record with 138 set in 1887 (Rickey) Henderson |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $800: Before he passed away in 2012, this general who led the Persian Gulf War went "stormin'" to a Mensa membership Schwarzkopf |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | GREEK ALPHABET PUZZLERS $1200: Around 1960, it was a state-of-the-art music system a hi-phi |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | DURING LOU GEHRIG'S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK $1600: In 1928 he won the general election for Louisiana governor using the slogan "Every man a king, but no one wears a crown" (Huey) Long |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS $300: "Spare":
On a trip to the North Pole, he got frostbite on his royal "todger" Prince Harry |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $300: According to the carol, it's what "my true love gave to me" on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn't regifting 3 French hens |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | PIZZA AT THE MOVIES $600: Half man, half pizza, this "Spaceballs" villain meets a tragic end when he eats himself Pizza the Hutt |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | "OO"! "OO"! I KNOW! $600: Kevin Bacon once said that when he attends a wedding, he bribes the DJ to not play this song from a 1984 movie he starred in "Footloose" |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $600: This Black Sabbath song says, "He was turned to steel in the great magnetic field" "Iron Man" |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FLAGS $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road Black Flag |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | HIS 'DO $200: The name of this cut is also the sound of electric clippers; in 2012 Robert Pattinson made news when he got one a buzz cut |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $1,000 (Daily Double): This Latin word, still used today, originally meant "he pledged"; today, it's a sworn written statement affidavit |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $1000: As he may have had peniaphobia, a fear of poverty, he was in the counting-house counting all his money the king |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $800: Following the 1992 L.A. riots, he asked, "Can we all get along?" Rodney King |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $400: In 1990, he & choreographer Mark Morris founded a touring company called the White Oak Dance Project Baryshnikov |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $800: "He's had a thump over the head with" this biblical strongman's "jawbone" Samson |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $1200: "He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus) bears |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHAT THE "EFF"?! $200: A designation for certain washing machines designed to save water & energy, "HE" stands for "high" this efficiency |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | CANDLE CULTURE $200: Though no one on "Friends" knew what his job was, this character's first name suggests he could have been a candlemaker Chandler (Bing) |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | SUPREME COURTSHIP $1200: In 1929 he wed Vivien Burey, who died in 1955, a year after he argued Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $600: One of these "in the cloud" was God's sign to Noah that he would never again flood the Earth a rainbow |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | TIPS FROM THE ANCIENTS $600: Simple machine of which Archimedes said that with the right place to stand he could move the world a lever |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | I'D LIKE A DRINK $800: This cocktail of whiskey, sweet vermouth & a cherry sounds like Peter Minuit paid $24 for it & at a fancy bar, he might a Manhattan |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | COACH $800: They may have tried to win one for the Gipper, but Notre Dame won a lot for this coach, too: he went 105-12-5 Knute Rockne |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | CARTOON THEME SONGS $800: "Here he comes... he's a demon on wheels" Speed Racer |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | BIBLICAL ZOO $1,000 (Daily Double): After crossing this, Miriam led a chorus of "the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea" the Red Sea |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | 18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $1200: In 1785, 16 years after his patent for an improved steam engine, he developed a fuel-efficient furnace James Watt |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | BELGIUM $1200: 2 wins in the Tour of Flanders are among the record 525 in this sport by national hero Eddy "the Cannibal" Merckx bicycle racing |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $800: He had a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" Billy Ocean |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS $1200: In Rome his name meant simply "good"; to us it implies that he gave a little something extra Bonus |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $600: "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire" "I'm On Fire" |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $800: If a British farmer has 22 sheep & all but 9 die in a tragic shearing incident, this is how many he has left 9 |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SPRINGSTEEN LYRICS $800: "I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school he could throw that speedball by you..." "Glory Days" |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister because he's dead |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: This type of cymbal seen here can be operated with a foot pedal or struck with a drumstick a hi-hat |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | WHAT THE DICKENS! $1000: He takes Charles Darnay's place at the scaffold in "A Tale of Two Cities" Sydney Carton |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | LET'S TAKE A BATH $600: The idea for "Lohengrin" came to this composer while he was taking a spa bath Wagner |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $2000: So you know he's still venerated as a saint & looks out for ferry workers... whaddya want? A medal? St. Christopher |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $100: His first kiss with future ex Kim Kardashian was in a 2021 "SNL" sketch--& he was dressed as Aladdin Pete Davidson |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $200: This Cincinnati baseball great once said he'd "walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play"; now he's banned for life Pete Rose |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $300: Depending on whom you ask, he is either a guitarist for The Who, or the writer of the "CSI" theme songs, or both Pete Townshend |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $500: A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $800: This handsome crooner revealed that after a bad breakup, he wrote "Somebody's Crying" inside a closet at a party Chris Isaak |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | SOUND THE TRUMPET $400: On July 8, 1922 he played a New Orleans jazz funeral & took a train north to become a world-famous trumpeter Armstrong |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $1000: Before "Project Runway" & his own fashion line, he was a child actor, born Karl Anderson Jr. Michael Kors |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $400: Before "Harry Met Sally", he worked as a substitute teacher on Long Island Billy Crystal |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS $1000: Before he was a "Police" man, he was a teacher named Gordon Sumner Sting |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | TAXES $600: In January 2012, this GOP candidate said he was "proud of the fact I pay a lot of taxes" Mitt Romney |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | CALL OUT THE BOB SQUAD $400: Known for playing a TV lawyer, he got buff & turned action-movie star for 2021's "Nobody" Odenkirk |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | A "LA" CARTE $1600: In 1682 he led the first European expedition to follow the Mississippi to its mouth La Salle |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $800: 1983 "was a very good year" for this entertainer; that's when he was honored Frank Sinatra |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Title for Sir Francis Drake, due to a specific feat he accomplished in 1580 a circumnavigator |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PENINSULAS $600: In a 1951 address, President Truman had this peninsula in mind when he declared, "We are trying to prevent a third world war" Korea |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $800: 1988:
A self-centered salesman embarks on a cross-country journey with the autistic brother he never knew existed Rain Man |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $800: He was a world leader from 1983 to 1989; then he began to be led around Noriega |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | BRING OUT YOUR FRED $2000: In 1989, he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president Frederik Willem de Klerk |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $800: According to legend, he was a Phrygian slave who may have lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $400: In 1973 he founded a nonprofit society dedicated to marine conservation Cousteau |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $200: In 1977, he wrote "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist" Dan Rather |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $400: Not only did he produce "Citizen Kane", he co-wrote, starred in & directed the film, too--talk about a best boy Welles |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | PRODUCE $1600: As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that! Ron Howard |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $100: On a trip to Asia in 1492, he ended up thousands of miles away and still got a U.S. federal holiday in his honor Christopher Columbus |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $200: The presidency may have eluded him in 2000, but on the bright side, he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 Al Gore |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | SCULPTURES $300: Michelangelo's most iconic statue depicts David before a battle with this giant -- whom he apparently fought without pants Goliath |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $500: Genghis Khan had a breakthrough when he "broke through" this fortified Asian structure that was built over 2000 years the Great Wall of China |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $1200: The first player in the National League to be MVP two years in a row, he's known as Mr. Cub Ernie Banks |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WE MADE IT $600: He substituted mercury for alcohol in a tube around 1714, creating the modern thermometer Fahrenheit |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $800: He spoke the line "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side" (Harrison) Ford |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $800: Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration time |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $2000: Hobbes followed this -ism, not meaning he was greedy but that he reduced every experience to a physical process materialism |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! $200: In song, he "had a very shiny nose... you would even say it glows" Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $200: After observing a comet in 1682, he proved it was the same one seen in 1607, 1531, 1456... (Edmund) Halley |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $1000: In the early 1600s this British king said that he could make a man a lord but "only God almighty can make a gentleman" James I |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB $4,000 (Daily Double): He won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for a movie named for a different character F. Murray Abraham |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $300: When he's not searching for the Lost Ark or the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones teaches this subject archaeology |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $600: "No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film Philadelphia |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $900 (Daily Double): Along with "Deep Throat", he's the reporter mentioned on a historical marker outside a parking garage in Arlington, VA Bob Woodward |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $600: Mr. Jenkins has 3 nickels, 13 dimes & 54 pennies; he can't afford a Phantom from this car company Rolls-Royce |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | & TAKIN' NAMES $800: The pseudonym he used for "The Running Man" in 1982 came to this author as he listened to a song by Bachman-Turner Overdrive Stephen King (Richard Bachman) |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955 Tennessee Williams |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WHO SAID THIS? $800: He humbly shared with the British in 1936, "A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as king..." Edward VIII |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WHO SAID THIS? $1000: In a 1775 speech he declared, "I know not what course others may take..." Patrick Henry |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $1200: AKA Saloth Sar, he was a novice monk for a time in Cambodia before becoming infamous for "Killing Fields" Pol Pot |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | PRE-FAME CELEBS IN ADS $1600: With no pandas, kung fu or otherwise in sight, he hawked "Pitfall" for the Atari 2600 (in a pith helmet!) Jack Black |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | WHO SAID THIS? $2,200 (Daily Double): In a 1974 national TV address he conveyed, "Our long national nightmare is over..." (Gerald) Ford |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $1600: "Hold the execution. John Coffey's been found innocent. He is a free man." "Phew. That was close" The Green Mile |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | HAPPIER MOVIE ENDINGS $2000: Whoa...we're killing off Wolverine?! The film's made over $600 million! No! He heals up just fine, dusts himself off & makes a sequel Logan |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $800: He debuted the character of Wayne Campbell with a "shwing!" & a prayer on "SNL" in 1989 Mike Myers |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: The employees commiserated about the avariciousness of the boss--he really is a this a miser (in commiserated) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: The physician felt a rush of adrenaline when he barely avoided nicking this artery entering the kidney renal (in adrenaline) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS $300: While his bros had hits like "Sucker", actor Frankie said he hated being called "the bonus" this name Jonas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $600: Boxing's greatest "J.Lo" of all time, he had a sports arena named after him in Detroit that was known locally as "the Joe" Joe Louis |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $1200: A 17th century philosopher who defended "life, liberty and property", this "J.Lo" influenced the founding fathers John Locke |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | COMPOSERS & THEIR KIN $200: Though he wrote a number of operas, Michael Haydn is far less famous than this older brother Joseph (Haydn) |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NICE SIDE WHISKERS! $400: Before becoming a prolific author, he taught biochemistry Asimov |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $400: Some stats from a 1966 title bout: Over three rounds, he threw 100-plus punches, took less than 10, & knocked down his foe four times Muhammad Ali |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | FRANKLY $800: He won 3 Oscars as a director, including one for "It Happened One Night" (Frank) Capra |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $400: His diary for July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, read, "Rien", meaning "nothing" Louis XVI |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | LOONEY TUNES $800: In "Buccaneer Bunny", he calls himself the "blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em firstiest, doggone worstiest" Yosemite Sam |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WE TRY TO STAY NEUTRAL $1000: In 1927, he did not go to a neutral corner after knocking down Gene Tunney who may have gotten a 14-second long count Jack Dempsey |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $200: Eat my shorts, Jay Gatsby! He was the only fictional character on Time's list of the most influential people of the 20th century Bart Simpson |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $300: A giant beverage pitcher with legs who often causes property damage the Kool-Aid Man |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle) |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $1600: After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset" James Garner |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP $2000: Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73" Will Geer |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $800: He was a good "Birdman", but in "Homecoming" he preyed upon Spider-Man Michael Keaton |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | MARVEL VILLAINS $1000: On "Daredevil", Vincent D'Onofrio plays this foe who sounds like he'd be at home at a bowling alley Kingpin |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $200: 1997.
Five words: state championship clinched by dog Air Bud |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $600: Uncle Dan turned 50, got a Corvette, got hair plugs, got a tattoo... I think he's having a "midlife" this crisis |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $2,500 (Daily Double): As Taylor Swift knows all too well, this type of person has an intense dislike of something hater |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | IN THE CORPORATE ARENA $800: O-ho, this wagon is a-comin' down the street, bringing the money to get its name on the Philadelphia Flyers' arena Wells Fargo |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | INDIANA WANTS YOU $800: Indiana's 50th governor, he slashed state taxes & in 2017 moved on to a big job in Washington Pence |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE LYRICS SAY! $2000: This "sibling" band: "As he rises to her apology / Anybody else would surely know / He's watching her go / What a fool believes, he sees" The Doobie Brothers |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $1200: The town in his "Starry Night" is Saint-Rémy, where he was a patient in its mental hospital van Gogh |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | PAST HISTORY $800: Born in Poland in 1686, he would heat things up by inventing a mercury thermometer in 1714 Fahrenheit |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB $800: A capital expert:
STOIC OMEN an economist |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | RESTAURANT HIJINKS $400: In 2017 a Florida man called this important number--twice!--to complain the clams he had at a seafood shack were too small 911 |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | TALK LIKE A PIRATE $800: This Steven Spielberg title pirate is described by Smee as being "so deep he's almost unfathomable" Hook |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | TRAP $2000: In 1187 this leader delivered a major blow to the kingdom of Jerusalem when he trapped an army of crusaders at the Battle of Hattin Saladin |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE 2023 TIME 100 $400: This novelist "was able to describe the attack on him" in 2022 "as he was speaking about the U.S. as a safe place for exiled writers" Salman Rushdie |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $800: He went 36-44 as head coach of the Browns; he's had a bit more success in New England Bill Belichick |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $200: He helped computerize his high school's scheduling system, went to Harvard in the '70s, dropped out & was a billionaire by 1987 Bill Gates |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM $400: In 1887 he began running the San Francisco Examiner, which his dad acquired 7 years before Hearst |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | POTPOUR-EVERYTHING $200: The late Richard Belzer was a cousin of this actor seen here; Belzer appeared in "Night Shift" & he returned the favor & guested on "SVU" Henry Winkler |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | GEORGIA ON MY MIND $1600: The subject of a 2019 film, he was eventually commended by the governor for saving lives in the 1996 Olympics bombing Richard Jewell |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | KIN $800: Anderson Cooper descends from this shipping & railroad magnate who left a fortune of more than $100 million when he died in 1877 (Cornelius) Vanderbilt |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $800: While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he'd get little nutrition from them drumsticks |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $400: He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature Thomas Jefferson |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Perhaps wandering lonely as a cloud, this poet was inspired to pen "Daffodils" about the flowers he saw at Lake Ullswater Wordsworth |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $1600: He published a feminist tract written under the pseudonym Silence Dogood Franklin |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ON THE MONEY $2000: He died on April 15 Abraham Lincoln |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THE FORBES 2023 BILLIONAIRES $200: Forbes cited "investor fears about" him "adding yet another CEO job" after a $44 billion purchase; he fell to No. 2 on the list Elon Musk |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates Joseph Smith |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $2000: He uses his "silver hammer" to take out a quizzical Joan, an annoyed school teacher, & even the judge at his trial Maxwell |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $600: "Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $800: 7 months after he died in 2009, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were part of a tribute to him at the Oscars (John) Hughes |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $800: "'He shows himself; he's a hunchback. He walks; he's bandy-legged. He looks at you; he's one-eyed. You speak to him; he's deaf"' Hugo |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MY WOULD-BE VP $100 (Daily Double): Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., running with a then-veep himself Nixon |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | MAKEOVERS $800: In "Encino Man", this actor gets a major makeover after defrosting--he takes a bath Brendan Fraser |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $800: After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't Apollo 13 |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In this play Puck has some handy juice that makes a sleeper fall in love with the next person he sees A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $400: When meeting this Dr. with a unique palate, "Do not reach through the bars... do not accept anything he attempts to hold out to you" Dr. Hannibal Lecter |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | PAINTER SELFIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1960 his triple-selfie graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho! |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $800: Seen here as a boy with his dog, he hit the shelves with 1900's "The Son of the Wolf" Jack London |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | TOM SWIFT TALES $200: In 1914 Tom had a "Photo" one of these; today he could use a Samsung Galaxy a (photo tele)phone |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | FISH PEOPLE $600: It was a "bust" for this explorer in 1806 when he decided not to scale the peak that was later named for him Pike |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WITH BELLS ON $800: On "The Addams Family", he would often respond to a bell's summons with a simple "You rang?" Lurch |
| #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 |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | A TOUCH OF GREY $800: Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company Western Union |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): Armed with trumpets & torches inside jars or pitchers, he led an army of 300 in victory over the Midianites Gideon |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $200: In a 2017 smash, Post Malone sang, "I feel just like a" this, which he is--he didn't mean he wanted an energy drink a rock star |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | THE ____ OF CANADA $800: National symbol Johnny Canuck: this after a national symbol he's shown kicking out of the country in an 1869 cartoon the Uncle Sam of Canada |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | STATE INSECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri a honeybee |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | ROMAN EMPERORS $1600: Incitatus was this emperor's favorite horse & legend says he once tried to make the animal a consul Caligula |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | TAKING A RIDE $1600: In 1961 he became the first American to ride into space; apparently enjoying the area, he took a walk on the Moon 10 years later Alan Shepard |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | KEVIN SENT $1600: Nick Cannon sent a live llama to the home of this standup comic & film star as a birthday gift; he put Nick's private number on billboards (Kevin) Hart |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $600: He said, "Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round" Muhammad Ali |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | EAGLES $400: Sure, this Marquette Golden Eagle here is a Miami Heat legend & won Olympic gold, but his real career highlight--he became a game show host (Dwyane) Wade |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | ART & ARTISTS $600: He was a committed revolutionary, but this Frenchman's paintings of Napoleon are among his best known works David |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "B" MOVIE QUOTES $2000: "Just what are you getting at, Elvis?"; "I think you know what I'm gettin' at, Mr. President. We're gonna kill us a mummy" Bubba Ho-Tep |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $600: On the anthology "Miracle Workers" he has portrayed God, a peasant during the Dark Ages & an outlaw on the Oregon Trail Buscemi |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE HYPOCRITIC OAF $800: Before he freely sang a song of himself, Whitman was soused when he wrote a novel for this movement that led to prohibition the temperance movement |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | LIT-POURRI $800: This poet dedicated "Howl" to Carl Solomon, whom he'd met & learned from when both were in a mental hospital (Allen) Ginsberg |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal" Capote |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: Years before "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu", he fought a duel with a critic who had angered him; both shots missed Proust |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | NAMES OF THE 1990s $1200: He won a 3-way race for party leadership & became prime minister of Great Britain in 1990 John Major |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In "Night", his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (Elie) Wiesel |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | TRUMPET TOOTIN' $800: In 1944 he tooted his own horn to study at what is today Juilliard; by '57, he was "Miles Ahead" with a masterpiece album Miles Davis |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | CELEBS $800: Ask him about it over coffee--this comic's car collection includes a lot of Porsches, though he auctioned off a bunch in 2016 Jerry Seinfeld |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $400: After his victory at Waterloo, he said, "I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to always be fighting" the Duke of Wellington |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $500 (Daily Double): In absentia he was sentenced to death in 1940, weeks after a London radio speech in which he asked the French to keep fighting Charles de Gaulle |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY $1600: Subutai, a general of this people, was devastating Europe in the 13th c. when he was called back for an election for a new great khan the Mongols |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | FINISH LAST $1000: Known as "Mr. Cub" & a player on more than one last-place team, he said, "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose" Ernie Banks |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $200: Known for his brutality, he went to war with Livonia--now Latvia & Estonia--in 1558; the 25-year event ended up as a bust Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE CZAR $400: A true great, in 1721 he dumped "czar" for "emperor of all Russia" to help with primacy over the church but the old title stuck Peter the Great |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | RANDOM STUFF $800: Jesus was said to be born fully formed, so he looks like a little man in works called the "Throne of" this quality he shares with Solomon Wisdom |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | STAND-UP SPECIALS $1200: He was just 22 when he took to the stage in a red leather suit for his 1983 special "Delirious" (Eddie) Murphy |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS $1600: "In your heart, you know he's right" (a Republican, 1964) Barry Goldwater |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | PETS ON FILM $400: Bong Joon Ho's 2017 film "Okja" is about a big one of these who has been genetically engineered by an evil corporation pig |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | A EURO LEADER PASS $1200: This prime minister has said his greatest regret was losing the referendum he called, hoping to defeat Brexit (David) Cameron |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $400: "Hey there, hi there, ho there!" was a greeting in the theme song for this TV club that began in 1955 the Mickey Mouse Club |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG $600: At the X Games in 1999, he became the first pro skateboarder to land a 900--it was epic! Tony Hawk |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | COMPANY $800: Evan Moore heard a macaroon shop turn down a delivery order & created this speedy company he dubbed an "On-Demand FedEx" DoorDash |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN $1200: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end Javert |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS $1200: On the spectrum it shows the universe expanding: HE DRIFTS a red shift |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MYTHOLOGY $800: A very unfortunate family man, this future king of Thebes left Corinth on learning he was fated to kill his dad; fate is rough Oedipus |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Commanding officer of one of the first U.S. steamships in the 1830s & could he be more of a star of "Friends"? Matthew Perry |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $200: 6th c. B.C. assassin Zhuan Zhu spent months learning to prepare & fillet these so he could hide a dagger in one & kill king Liao a fish |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | IT'S A FACT $1200: He came up with the name Kodak (George) Eastman |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1600: Going up? Going down? He made elevators more secure with his invention of a safety brake Otis |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN $600: In "The Pirates of Penzance" it's the rank of an army officer named Stanley; in fact he's the very model of a modern one major general |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $200: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) When my dad listened to the song here from this show I asked him, "Does it sound like anything else"? & he responded, "It sounds like $10 million"
"Midnight / Not a sound from the pavement / Has the moon lost her memory? / She is smiling alone..." Cats |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR $200: Enzo Ferrari is said to have quipped, "Ask a child to draw a car, & certainly he will draw it" in this color, a Ferrari favorite red |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | 8-LETTER WORDS $600: When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass eligible |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | BARRIERS & DIVIDERS $2000: Get a chuckle with this name for a sunk fence to separate animal from human territory; Monticello had one a ha-ha |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $600: Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Jules Verne |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS $1000: This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | A DOCTOR FROM CHICAGO, ILLINOIS $1000: He played Dr. Mark Greene for many seasons on "ER" Anthony Edwards |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | POLITICIANS $4,000 (Daily Double): He talked about being a Vietnam vet, 5-term senator & Secretary of State in the memoir "Every Day is Extra" (John) Kerry |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THANKS A MILLION $600: He wrote, directed & starred in the comedy Western "A Million Ways to Die in the West" Seth MacFarlane |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $400: From 2001 to 2006, Emmy voters didn't quite get the "essence of" this chef, but in 2017... bam! he got a trophy for "Eat the World" Emeril Lagasse |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | MICHAEL J. FOX $600: (Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) An inspiration for my character in "The American President" was this advisor to Bill Clinton, a spin doctor in his own right; he also made a cameo on my show "Spin City" Stephanopoulos |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $800: Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry Haight |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $1200: In this 2013 movie it's pretty much just Nicholas Hoult as a zombie & Teresa Palmer as a girl he decides not to eat Warm Bodies |
| #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 |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $200: Called invincible, it was sent from Spain in 1588 by King Philip II to invade England; it proved... vincible Spanish Armada |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: In his youth he was a chocolate tester for Cadbury, which no doubt inspired his "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Dahl |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $400: You didn't want to mess with Erik Satie on his daily walks through this city, as he always carried a hammer Paris |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | RECENT EVENTS $800: Subheads in a piece on this N.Y. rep.: "lied about where he went to... college"; "allegedly swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying" George Santos |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $800: This title girl from a 2018 movie came & gave without taking & they took her away from Nic Cage; big mistake--he's good with a chainsaw Mandy |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS $800: It bears the name of its inventor, who needed extra sleeping space in his cramped apartment; he called it in-a-dor Murphy bed |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $800: Already a veteran of Tin Pan Alley & Broadway, in 1932 he premiered his own "Second Rhapsody", Serge Koussevitzky conducting George Gershwin |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS $1200: President of France from 2007 to 2012, in 2021 he was found guilty of corruption by a Paris court & sentenced to house arrest Sarkozy |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | CENTURY NOTES $400: 10th century: this Bohemian prince is murdered; later, he would Czech in as a saint King Wenceslas |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | EPONYMS $2000: An inspector general of infantry, he shaped Louis XIV's regular army; his name lives on as a drillmaster or disciplinarian (Jean) Martinet |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $200: A national monument in Singapore, the villa named for this man was his base while he planned to end China's last dynasty Sun Yat-sen |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE $400: In 1956, he became the first Black entertainer to host a nationally broadcast TV variety show Nat King Cole |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Stacy's Mom" warblers put an actor in the band; once a TV postman, he wandered seeking chivalry & adventure Fountains of Wayne Knight errant |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | FOR MASTERS ONLY $1600: He wrote the novel "True Grit" but his funnier books like "The Dog of the South" won him a cult following (Charles) Portis |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: These 3 words, a cliché about our first president, are really on a plaque about what he did at a Georgia inn on May 16, 1791 Washington slept here |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | LOVE LETTERS $1200: During 1932 this "Winesburg, Ohio" author wrote a letter a day to Eleanor Copenhaver; he dedicated "Beyond Desire" to her too Sherwood Anderson |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | & SCENE $800: Albert Brooks takes flop sweat to a new level when he gets his break as an anchorman in this comedy Broadcast News |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! $200: The longest-tenured cast member of "SNL", in 2022, he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Kenan Thompson |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | LITERARY MISMATCHES $800: In a Daphne du Maurier novel, Maxim de Winter tells his nameless second wife he was not happy with this first one Rebecca |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | RESTAURANTS $200: In 2019 a French chef demanded to be taken out of this prestigious guide that had claimed he used Cheddar cheese in a soufflé the Michelin Guide |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | COMIC STRIPS $200: This little friend of Snoopy in "Peanuts" was unnamed until 1970, when he was named for a recent festival Woodstock |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | NOT-SO-PLAIN JANES $800: She claimed in her 1896 autobiography that she captured Jack McCall with a meat cleaver after he killed Wild Bill Hickok; not true Calamity Jane |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS $800: In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part Cecil B. DeMille |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): During World War I Charles de Gaulle was wounded several times before he was captured in 1916 at this bloody battle Verdun |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BRING WHAT? $1000: An inscription at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station says, "He that would bring home" this phrase "must carry" this phrase "with him" the wealth of the Indies |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 1990s EMMY AWARDS $1600: A college football player, he scored an Emmy for coaching the game as Wood Newton on "Evening Shade" Burt Reynolds |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TURNS $400: This Loony Tooner frequently lamented that he should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque Bugs Bunny |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1200: After failing to establish a permanent colony in North Carolina, he led an expedition to Venezuela & wrote a 1595 book about it Raleigh |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1600: When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see San Salvador |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | SCIENTISTS $800: Galvani said he'd found a new type of this restricted to animal tissue; Volta proved it's the same type that goes through metal electricity |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $200: Andrés Cantor said he almost fainted while making this call after a thrilling Landon Donovan score GOOOAAAL! |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | MUSICAL THEATER $1000: Set pieces in this Broadway musical include a life-sized helicopter & a giant head of Ho Chi Minh Miss Saigon |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER $400: On St. Helena in 2022, Jonathan, one of these animals, moved slowly at his 190th birthday fete--but then again, he's always slow a tortoise |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $800: He was a regular on "Hogan's Heroes" & "Laugh-In" before getting the hosting gig on "Family Feud" Richard Dawson |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | GAME SHOW HOSTS $1000: The love of Betty White's life, he met her when she was a guest in the third week of "Password" Allen Ludden |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $3,000 (Daily Double): ...the former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means "he who enlightens" Ho Chi Minh |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | 2-LETTER RESPONSES $800: A 1979 paper by Sandra Schecter argued that this interjection is a central part of Canadian identity eh |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | CHRISTIAN-ITY $2000: An 1840s experiment involving trumpeters on a moving train verified the acoustical effect that he proposed (Christian) Doppler |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | COUNTRY MUSIC $200: After moving to Nashville, he joined a band called The Ranch, but soon had a solo No. 1 country hit with "But For The Grace Of God" Keith Urban |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $400: He published "A Child's Garden of Verses" in 1885, a year before his novel "Kidnapped" (Robert Louis) Stevenson |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSIC MOVIES $600: John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up Boyz n the Hood |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $800: Proudly from New Orleans, PJ Morton released a 2020 gospel album; he is also known for playing in this band with Adam Levine Maroon 5 |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | STRAIGHT TO JAIL $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 he came up with a scheme regarding postal reply coupons & would later offer investors 50% interest in 45 days Ponzi |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE MALE GAZE $2000: Back in 1975 he had a No. 1 hit singing, "My eyes adored you though I never laid a hand on you" Frankie Valli |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | WIVES OF THE NOT YET PRESIDENTS $200: When Dwight Eisenhower first met her in 1915, he thought she had a saucy "look about her face and in her whole attitude" Mamie |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $400: Ferde Grofé's account of his first time at this place, about which he wrote a suite, includes "All of a sudden, bingo! There it was" the Grand Canyon |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $2000: His name became legendary from the bed he built that he forced people to fit into Procrustes |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | MOVE FAST $200: At the 2009 World Championships, he was Jamaican off with the world record in the 100-meter dash, clocking a 9.58 Bolt |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | MOVE FAST $400: At the 2017 NFL combine, John Ross' feet did not fail him as he dashed this many yards in a record 4.22 seconds 40 |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | LESS-THAN-STELLAR SCIENTIFIC POETRY $1000: A 1918 Nobel win/ It is tough to follow / A German physicist / Which kinda rhymes with lyricist? / He's a man of "constant" sorrow Max Planck |
| #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) |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | THE OTHER MASTERS $1000: The annual champions dinner began in 1952 when he hosted, a year after his first Masters win & 3 years after a near-fatal car wreck Ben Hogan |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TV $200: The last advertising idea conceived by Don Draper on "Mad Men" was for this bubbly product Coke |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1600: From this Broadway song, "Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire, thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there" "Master Of The House" (from Les Mis) |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $800: Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals" MacArthur |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $1600: Jim Rockford; he kept it parked in Malibu a trailer |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | POP CULTURE IN BLACK & WHITE $400: To start the '70s he replaced the 2 white guys in the Experience with a black rhythm section in Band of Gypsys Hendrix |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $400: He sang, "I'm not big on social graces, think I'll slip on down to the oasis, oh, I've got friends in low places" Garth Brooks |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $800: Deeply religious, NFL quarterback Derek Carr said the first thing he'd do with his $125 million contract is make this payment a tithe |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $16,000 (Daily Double): An image of Our Lady makes a yearly trip from the Cathedral of Guadalajara to this other kind of major Catholic church of Zapopan Basilica |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $200: He's killed in chapter 135 when Moby Dick drags him into the ocean after he gets caught in the rope of a harpoon Ahab |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $400: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) The great Robin Williams has a unique link to "Star Trek": the uniform he wore as an alien on this '70s sitcom looks like the one worn by the evil Colonel Green in "The Savage Curtain" (or, "Help me, Spock!") episode Mork & Mindy |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | LITERARY DEMISES $400: In this Dickens novel, Sydney Carton loves Lucie Manette so much that he replaces her husband on the guillotine A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | ATHLETES NAMED FOR $600: Last name of Luke, a player or coach with 3 California NBA teams; he was named for his father's teammate Maurice Lucas Walton |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): As a Supreme Court justice for more than 2 decades, he was nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights" (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT $600: Tha (Dwayne) Carter Jr. went platinum at age 17 when he was with the Hot Boys, but you may know him under this nom de rap Lil Wayne |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | A JR. IN ENTERTAINMENT $800: The fans' choice as NASCAR's Most Popular Driver 15 straight times, he voiced himself--well, a version of himself--in "Cars" Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $1200: He's the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as "a cross between my mother & my aunt" Tyler Perry |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | INSIDE JOB $400: Job asks a friend whether this wild animal brays when he has grass the donkey (ass) |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "HOLD" UP $600: In "Sunset Boulevard" this Oscar-winning actor played a screenwriter, in "Network" he's a TV executive William Holden |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | SPORTS GOATs $1,000 (Daily Double): He was born March 30, 1970, in a Virginia stable Secretariat |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "HOLD" UP $1000: Marc Behm's novel about a private detective obsessed with the woman he's trailing is titled this, proverbially what beauty is in The Eye of the Beholder |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | TV DRAMA $1000: Post "Spider-Man", he played a devout detective investigating fundamentalism & murder in "Under the Banner of Heaven" Andrew Garfield |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This report, very important to boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space", is also a commercial broadcast for the audience's benefit TPSA |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | A FINE WINE FILM $2000: This actor starred in "A Good Year", in which he inherits a vineyard, & narrated the documentary "Red Obsession" about Bordeaux Russell Crowe |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $600: Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was) Socrates |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | CONFIDENCE $800: A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?" strut |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $2000: In 2023 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out Jerrod Carmichael |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | LET'S SEE A MO-"V" $2000: In response to a college admissions scandal, James Van Der Beek tweeted about this 1999 movie he starred in Varsity Blues |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | THAT'S AN ANIMAL SOUND $400: Social media can be hazardous to your career health! Winston Moss said he got fired as a coach in 2018 for one of these posts a tweet |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $600: In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Who is John Galt? He's the organizer of a strike of great minds in this novel Atlas Shrugged |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | WHEREFORE ART, THOU $2000: Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874 Paul Cézanne |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $400: Dickens had a pet bird of this variety that he featured in "Barnaby Rudge" & that, in turn, may have inspired a Poe poem a raven |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MISSING U $600: He guarded a harem:
ENCH a eunuch |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | REMEMBERING BARBARA WALTERS $800: Barbara said one of her most moving interviews was with this actor after he was paralyzed in a riding accident Christopher Reeve |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | I'M SO PROUD $1000: The U.S. Tennis Association's sportsmanship tips say, "avoid" this verb "after a win", so no "ha ha, love & love, I'm the best" gloating |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS $200: A desert bull may walk 50 miles a day to find food & water; he's guided by this, an elephant's proverbial strength memory |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | TV MOMS $1200: (Hi, I'm Brianne Howey.) I grew up with a single mom & love playing this title single mom to Ginny on a Netflix comedy drama Georgia |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | BAKER'S DOZEN $800: Relaying more information about the problem aboard Apollo 13, he said, "We've had a main B bus undervolt" (Jim) Lovell |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRIPLE "A" $800: It describes the crazy-sounding "bwah-ha-ha" laughter of many a movie villain maniacal |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1200: On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years Fry |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1200: Secretary of State for most of the Reagan years, he was a mentor to future secretary Condoleezza Rice Shultz |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING $1600: San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer the Zodiac Killer |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $400: Famous Americans of this heritage include Barack Obama seen here on a visit to the old country Ireland |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | I GOT THE RECEIPTS $600: In 1989 Jerry Jones bought this NFL team for $140 million; a decent investment, as it's worth more than $7 billion today the Dallas Cowboys |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | DE-COMPOSING $800: This Frenchman died on Dec. 28, 1937, never knowing he'd play a crucial musical part in a Bo Derek film Maurice Ravel |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $400: In a historic first, he won the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September 1968 Arthur Ashe |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $800: In the 1920s, he began a successful mail order business to teach ballroom dancing; his dance centers can be found worldwide Arthur Murray |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: While he popularized the concept, John Locke didn't actually use this term for the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth tabula rasa |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $1600: At L.A.'s Fairfax High, he showed a flair for poetry, later heard in his Red Hot Chili Peppers songs Anthony Kiedis |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC $2000: A member of his Ohio high school drama club, he'd get roles on TV & in films, but he's better known for his own brand of honky-tonk Dwight Yoakam |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $200: He racked up a number of wedding days: June 11, 1509; Jan, 25, 1533; May 30, 1536; Jan, 6, 1540; July 28, 1540; & July 12, 1543 Henry VIII |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $400: Hitman Samuel L. Jackson gets what he considers "divine intervention", as well as a Big Kahuna burger & a Sprite, in this movie Pulp Fiction |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): He worked to develop a flu vaccine before coming up with one for polio, declared safe on April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | PAINT ME A PICTURE $2000: Following the Civil War, he turned to scenes of the beach & sea like these three bathers on a beach in his native Massachusetts Winslow Homer |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | NATIONAL HEROES $3,000 (Daily Double): A hero of this island nation where he was born, Marcus Garvey has been proposed to appear on its $100 bill Jamaica |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | ANCIENT VIPs $800: In his play "The Frogs", he took a little dig at Euripides Aristophanes |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | LAST LINES OF MOVIES $1200: 1976: "This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings" Network |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A RELIGIOUS SERVICE $400: In an Orthodox church, a priest with his back to you isn't rude or shy, he's facing this direction like the congregation east |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: He speaks candidly about his addiction in "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing", with a foreword by Lisa Kudrow Matthew Perry |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead the Aegean |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $200: In 1986 this title guy & 2 friends had quite a day, hitting a museum & doing some fine dining; he even caught a ball at a Cubs game Ferris Bueller |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORLD HISTORY $800: This good guy of Christmas carol fame was actually a duke of Bohemia; he was only declared a king (& a saint) after his death Wenceslas |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | '80s MOVIE COMEDIES $1000: In this holiday film Randy Quaid's Eddie used to have a metal plate in his head, but use of a microwave made him forget who he was Christmas Vacation |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WHAT A BUNCH OF CARICATURES! $1200: He's the Polish-born composer tickling the ivories Chopin |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | FINNISH HIM! $200: Finnish children know him as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat" & he lives in a village in Lapland Santa Claus |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | PULITZER PRIZES $400: Seen here, he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975 Ebert |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands Abel Tasman |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | PULITZER PRIZES $2000: Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child" Sam Shepard |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem Caligula |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $1000: An MLB relief pitcher who doesn't get the save may be eligible for this, provided he gets an out & maintains the lead a hold |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | A.K.A. $400: Even before hacker Thomas Anderson took a certain pill in a 1999 movie, he was being referred to by this 3-letter name Neo |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | A.K.A. $600: When your British office mate asks if you can spare a drawing pin, he means one of these with a body part in its name a thumbtack |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $1000: Ben Stiller, guessing Zach Galifianakis' breakfast diet, suggested it's "egg" these yellows |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | ETYMOLOGY $1200: This enthusiastic phrase popularized by the Marines during World War II comes from a Chinese motto interpreted as "work together" gung ho |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | BOOKS: THE FUTURE IS NOW $2000: He saw 2024 as a hellish wasteland in his 1969 short story "A Boy & His Dog" Harlan Ellison |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | QUITE THE FISH STORY $1000: Melissa Etheridge gave Brad Pitt lessons in fly-fishing so he could play Paul Maclean in this film A River Runs Through It |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | CRY UNCLE $1600: Real name Ivan, he's the bitter, aging title character of a Chekhov play Uncle Vanya |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $1600: A "Scrivener" hired to copy legal documents, he's an early advocate of quiet quitting, then quits life itself Bartleby |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | STANDING ON A BOARD SIDEWAYS $400: He tweeted about a TSA agent who told him, "You look like that skateboarder (checks ID). Same last name too! Crazy!" Tony Hawk |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | POP CULTURE $800: Prior to being the silent half of a magic duo, he taught high school Teller |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | POP CULTURE $2000: In 2022 he returned as Ralphie, all grown up with a family of his own, in "A Christmas Story Christmas" Peter Billingsley |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | GOVERNORS $400: In a total recall election in 2003, Gray Davis was out as California governor & he was in Schwarzenegger |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | DEEP THOUGHTS $800: Nietzsche said that he who has a this 3-letter word to live for can put up with almost any "how" why |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: As a teen in Arizona he wrote & directed a sci-fi film called "Firelight", a precursor to "Close Encounters" Steven Spielberg |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $800: Once upon a time at his Kickapoo High School in Missouri, he was on the student council & was also voted Best Dressed Brad Pitt |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $1600: Here a few years away from serving in Vietnam, he used those experiences to shape some of his films like "Platoon" Oliver Stone |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | FUTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: He could have been a contender for class clown & incorrigible, so much so that his father sent him away to military school (Marlon) Brando |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER $3,000 (Daily Double): As her son Chlotar II was an infant when he became king in 584 A.D., his mom Fredegund served as this type of queen until he came of age queen regent |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | "U" BELONG WITH "ME" $400: Thoreau wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different" one of these drummer |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $400: If "a false" one of these "testified falsely against his brother... do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother" a witness |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $800: He is imprisoned on a false allegation when a woman grabs his garment (but not his coat of many colors) & says he made advances Joseph |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | FAMOUS PAIRS $1000: Philosopher John Locke was a court favorite of this royal couple, whom he'd met when he fled to the Netherlands William & Mary |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $600: A leader & producer of the Wu-Tang Clan, he composed music for "Kill Bill" & we can't help hoping he'll work on a song with SZA RZA |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | MARCH MADNESS $1000: In 1979, he conjured up a title for Michigan State over Larry Bird's Indiana State Magic Johnson |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | RECENT COMMERCIALS $2000: An animatronic dog gets a new lease on life when he dons this company's Quest 2 headset & heads to virtual reality Oculus |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $800: In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he'd run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision Alexei Navalny |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $1000: This seemingly Utopian land is the title of an 1872 Samuel Butler work, which he "Revisited" in a 1901 sequel Erewhon |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | POP MUSICIANS $400: Hozier wanted someone to take him to this place in a 2014 hit; "worship like a dog", he will church |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RE: UNION $800: He ran for governor of Vermont several times, unsuccessfully as a member of the Liberty Union Party (Bernie) Sanders |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | UNIONS $800: This poet was already married when he took up with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; the pair produced a lot of lit & some kids Percy Shelley |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | RECENT MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Constance Wu.) In this 2018 film, I played Rachel Chu, who discovers all of a sudden that her boyfriend is super wealthy & one of Singapore's most eligible bachelors Crazy Rich Asians |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | RAPPERS $800: He's seen here actually in a hoodie around the time of "Doris", his major label debut album Earl Sweatshirt |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | MEDIEVAL TIMES $1200: One legend says this son of Erik the Red came to America in a boat he bought from a merchant who'd told of seeing a land of trees Leif Erikson |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOUTHERNERS $1600: The voice of Olaf on film, he's a native of Hollywood... Florida Josh Gad |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | LITERARY REUNIONS $400: In the "Odyssey" Odysseus has a brief but memorable reunion with Argus, one of these, as he returns to Ithaca his dog |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | VERY ARTISTIC $400: In 1505 this 1-named artist planned to make 12 marble Apostles for a local cathedral, but he'd be called to Rome by pope-ular demand Michelangelo |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $800: Once a resident of Smiljan, he immigrated to the U.S. with 4 cents & later patented a polyphase system of A.C. dynamos Tesla |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $1000: He had a pretty good 19th century run, including saving France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | HITS OF THEN & NOW $1000: He rolled into 2019 with a hit tune featuring Drake rapping, "Young La Flame, he in sicko mode" Travis Scott |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE $2000: A high school plane trip to Europe! What could possibly go wrong?; making death mad... problematic; hi, Mr. Bludworth! Final Destination |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | LITERARY REUNIONS $2000: Some 20 books in, he won a Pulitzer for "American Pastoral", which delves deep into the psyche at a 45th high school reunion Philip Roth |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | LITERARY REUNIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): This title woman finally returns to Rochester, blinded after a fire; but fear not! He regains some sight after they marry Jane Eyre |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A Buckeye by birth, R.L. Stine also attended this university where he edited the Sundial Ohio State |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: Currently a chief part of the NFL, he threw for 5,052 yards & 41 TDs in his last year at Texas Tech in 2016 Mahomes |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: He modeled Gravesend Academy in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" after his alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire John Irving |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | THE PRESIDENTIAL VICTOR $400: In 1964 he won in a landslide over Barry Goldwater LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $1600: On the "WandaVision" episode about Wanda's reunion with this "mercurial" brother, he's a different actor from "Age of Ultron" Quicksilver |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $1600: Jesus was a regular shulgoer--the King James Bible says, "as his custom was, he went into" this "on the Sabbath day" the synagogue |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH $2000: Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men Little John |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | "PLAIN" & "SIMPLE" $800: Going to the fair, this nursery rhyme guy meets a purveyor of baked goods Simple Simon |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | I HAVE AN IDEA $800: The idea to write "The Remains of the Day" came when Kazuo Ishiguro's wife said he should pretend to an interviewer that he was this servant a butler |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD $2000: Remember Tom if you visit Bakersfield; he did too--specifically the outskirts & this kind of place named for a president (a) Hooverville |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | BORN TO RUN $2000: In 1965 he entered politics & won a seat as the member for Mount Royal; 3 years later he was prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | THE MIAMI VICE SQUAD $2000: You can see this "Birth of the Cool" trumpeter & hear his distinctive speaking voice when he played Ivory Jones on a 1985 episode Miles Davis |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | LIFE LINES $400: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans", sang John Lennon in a song to this person he loved Sean Lennon |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $800: In 1791 he built a coalition against Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to win a Senate seat; blood came after Aaron Burr |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $800: He played the extremely long game with "Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy of plays with a total of 13 acts Eugene O'Neill |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | ART-POURRI $1000: For a sculpture called "La France", he used the features of Camille Claudel, a sculptor who was also his assistant & lover Rodin |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | THE BOOK'S SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Dr. Brodsky & Dim, a Droog until he's very much not a Droog A Clockwork Orange |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IKE & PATTON $100: When George S. Patton took over a brigade that lacked supplies, he bought them himself from this company & Roebuck Sears |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY $200: Made antisocial by his deafness, he would sit alone in the corner of a crowded tavern eating cheese & herring Beethoven |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | COMPOSERS ARE QUIRKY $800: Some composers wait for this, a great idea coming to them from the universe; Erik Satie said he got it from 10:23 to 11:47 each morning inspiration |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $800: It's letter No. 3 in the Greek alphabet; the same-named "rays" hulked out Bruce Banner gamma |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $1000: November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand Steamboat Willie |
| #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 |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | IF ANCIENT GREEK DEITIES WERE AROUND TODAY $400: He rode a chariot pulled by fiery horses & brought daylight to the world; now he's a superchamp riding trotters in Yonkers Apollo |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | YOU "BREAK" $600: Jennings nutmegs the last defender! He's in on goal alone! It's one of these! a breakaway |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | PARDON ME $800: In 1868 he granted Confederate veterans a "full pardon and amnesty for... treason against the United States" Andrew Johnson |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | MOUNTAINS $2000: Teddy Roosevelt was on a family vacation in these New York mountains when he got word that President McKinley had died the Adirondacks |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | A CAPITAL OFFENSIVE $2000: After a rapid offensive, this capital was captured April 30, 1975, leading to a name change Ho Chi Minh City |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $200: In an '80s hit, "Her name is" this "& she dances on the sand": his name is Andy Hamilton, & he plays a sax solo on that tune Rio |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | LET'S TALK ABOUT SAX, BABY $400: This smooth jazz saxophone king got a Grammy nomination for "My Heart Will Go On" the same year Celine did; she won, he lost Kenny G |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $200: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this circus showman, but there's no proof he ever really said or wrote it P.T. Barnum |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $500: Here's this "Unstoppable" singer wearing one of her trademark oversized wigs Sia |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: A 2018 USA Today headline: "Rex Tillerson was on the toilet when he was told he'd be fired" from this diplomatic Cabinet job secretary of state |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $1600: In 1962, one month after publishing a novel about a trip from Mississippi to Memphis, he was dead of a heart attack William Faulkner |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | HEY... WHERE'D YA GO? $5,000 (Daily Double): A shelter possibly built by this alliterative capt. was found in the 1630s but he was never seen again after a 1611 mutiny Henry Hudson |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $600: In the 17th century Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" for the biological structures he saw using this recently invented instrument a microscope |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | POP CULTURE $800: Real name Archibald Leach, he was the dashing star of films like "Bringing Up Baby" & "To Catch a Thief" Cary Grant |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $1500: When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear a red hat |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | LONG-SERVING POLITICIANS $1600: He was the center of attention as New York's governor from 1959 to 1973 & a year later, was selected to be vice president Nelson Rockefeller |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | A LITTLE WORLD HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): He reunited the Eastern & Western Roman Empires in 324 A.D., & the new capital soon bore his name Constantine the Great |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $600: In 2022 this team gave 73-year-old Dusty Baker his 1st championship as a manager; he's the oldest skipper to win a World Series the Astros |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | SMALL TOWN AMERICA & CANADA $800: Seymour in this state was the place John Mellencamp was talking about when he sang, "I was born in a small town" Indiana |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $400: Martin Luther King never had a chance to meet this man who inspired him, but he did meet with his son Ramdas Gandhi |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $400: Pop to Pete, Janie, Zuzu & Tommy in a classic film, he's seen here with his own daughters Kelly & Judy Jimmy Stewart |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | EXPLOSIVE MUSIC $600: "I'd catch a grenade for ya", he sang in a No. 1 song Bruno Mars |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | WHAT IN THE WHIRLED... $200: Blindfold a child, spin him 'round 'til he's disoriented, then direct him to a diagram of Equus asinus in this game pin the tail on the donkey |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $200: He ended a poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" Frost |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $800: In "Harlem" he asked of a "Dream Deferred", "Does it explode?" Langston Hughes |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE ATTORNEY GENERAL $2000: As Obama's A.G., he took on the issue of trying terrorists in civilian rather than military court; today he fights gerrymandering Eric Holder |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $1200: At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he broke a basic military rule by splitting his forces but won anyway, for a while (Robert E.) Lee |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $2000: When he was VP of the U.S., a Colorado town bore his name; when he became a Confederate general, it changed its "kin" to "ken" John C. Breckinridge |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $800: This man who got a Sir on his name when he was made a baronet in 1820 wrote tales of knights like "Ivanhoe" (Walter) Scott |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $600: Aka "Pretty Boy Floyd", he retired at a perfect 50-0 & enjoys gambling, putting $800,000 on the Broncos over the Jets in 2014 Mayweather |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | SO THAT HAPPENED $1000: Sept. 2, 1666:
He journals about "a great fire... in the city" Samuel Pepys |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTS $200: Danny Ocean on film, he was arrested in real life at Sudan's embassy during a human rights protest George Clooney |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | IMPERSONATORS $300: Early 20th century British entertainer Bert Errol is described as a "female impersonator"; today, he might use this royal term drag queen |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $400: Zeus's lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter born unusually, as seen here Athena |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY $600 (Daily Double): After being part of a rebellion with his fellow Titans, he seemed to have the whole world on his shoulders Atlas |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $600: This chain of stores opened in 1979 & it seems like since then I've been trying to find an orange-aproned person to help me Home Depot |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | PHILOSOPHY $600: Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" includes the parable of a madman crying out, he "is dead... and we have killed him" God |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $900: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Before hitting it big writing novels like "The Da Vinci Code", he pursued a music career & also taught at prep schools in New Hampshire & Beverly Hills (Dan) Brown |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $1500: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) "It was one of the most rewarding jobs" he "ever had" said this "Hamilton" creator of his time teaching English as a substitute teacher Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $1500: In 2015 he announced the launch of a cruise line called Virgin Voyages but only after making some space(ship) in his life (Richard) Branson |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | JUST A LITTLE NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1600: He was knighted after his 1911 discovery of the nucleus; that's Sir Ernest to you Rutherford |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | SACRIFICIAL ROLES $2000: In "Game of Thrones" he really was a gentle giant, saving Bran by holding the door & fending off a horde of nasties Hodor |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $1600: After continually losing elections for Israeli prime minister since 1948, he won the office in 1977 in what's known as "the upset" (Menachem) Begin |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | I GOT A "B" IN HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In exile in Jamaica in 1815, he wrote a letter outlining unity among the to-be-liberated nations of Spanish America Bolívar |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $1200: He turned up on "Sea Hunt" as a kid, but an ex-CIA agent being hunted on "The Old Man" is his first starring role in a TV series Jeff Bridges |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In his 1843 essay "A Winter Walk", he mentions "the wonderful purity of nature at this season" Henry David Thoreau |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $400: To bulk up for his Wolverine roles, he did a lot of weightlifting & consumed 6,000 calories a day Jackman |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $400: He & his daughter Corinne joined forces to host a musical game show called "Beat Shazam" Jamie Foxx |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $800: In 1953 he informed newsstands that "Stag Party--a brand new magazine for men--will be out this fall" Hugh Hefner |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: He's a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger's Glass family; at one point, it's spelled as 2 words like "perceive extra" see more (Seymour Glass) |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $1,800 (Daily Double): John le Carré popularized this word; in a 1974 novel, he defined it as "an agent so called because he burrows deep" a mole |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | REMEMBER THE ALAMO BOWL $1000: Before he was a 2010 Super Bowl MVP for New Orleans, this QB was a 1998 Alamo Bowl MVP for Purdue Drew Brees |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1200: "Hodel, oh Hodel, have I made a match for you! He's handsome, he's young! Alright, he's 62" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | EVERYDAY ROYALTY & NOBILITY $600: Asked if he was okay playing the 2007 Super Bowl halftime show in a downpour, he had a request--"Can you make it rain harder?" Prince |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | A BIT OF EVERYTHING $200: Genesis 9:28 says he "lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years" Noah |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | MAGIC $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in New Jersey in 1956, this magician has "A Christmas Carol" in his top 10 books list, not the 1850 book he's named for David Copperfield |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | PUTTING ON HEIRS $400: Born in Buckingham Palace in 1948, he was the heir, apparently, for quite some time, until a sad day in 2022 King Charles III (Prince Charles) |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SUPERLATIVES $800: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this the fastest |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $1600: In 1667 he penned, "Incens'd with indignation Satan stood, unterrify'd, and like a comet burned" Milton |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $2000: In the "Rubaiyat", he wrote that hell was "the shadow of a soul on fire" Omar Khayyam |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | THE "J.C"s $1600: He founded a society that strives to "uncover the secrets held within our water planet" & "work to keep it alive and healthy" Jacques Cousteau |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLAYING SANTA $200: People magazine called Edmund Gwenn "the gold standard for cinematic Santa Clauses" after he worked up a "Miracle on" this 34th Street |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $400: The hero of this Stevenson novel finds himself on a ship he had no intention of sailing on--yup, he's been this title Kidnapped |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SHE BLINDED ME $600: Michonne dealt with The Governor in a stabby way on this show; he'd later sport an eyepatch The Walking Dead |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | TABLE TALK $600: One legend says this piece of furniture was a wedding gift to King Arthur when he married Guinevere the Round Table |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | "U" IN HISTORY $400: A Black resident of Philadelphia, William still kept meticulous records of enslaved people he helped escape via this network the Underground Railroad |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | MARK'S BROTHERS & SISTERS $600: A familiar TV actor, he's also made indie films like "The Puffy Chair" with brother Mark Jay Duplass |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | PREPARING FOR THE ROLE $800: For his role as Travis Bickle, he literally took the wheel, getting an actual license & driving shifts as a taxi driver De Niro |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $800: As first mate on the Pequod, he considers killing Ahab before what happens, happens & never gets to open his own java place Starbuck |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $1600: Things are looking up for this Bernard Malamud ballplayer when he strikes out "The Whammer" early in "The Natural" (Roy) Hobbs |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | WHAT A NOVEL CHARACTER! $2000: He is described as "Prometheus who changed his mind"; now you say the first sentence of "Atlas Shrugged" (John) Galt |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | MYTH $400: His wish that everything he touched turned to gold turned into a royal fiasco Midas |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | AFRICAN LAKES & RIVERS $200: In 1805 Henry Nicholls set out to find a route to the Niger River from this ocean, unaware he was starting from its mouth the Atlantic |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | HONORARY U.S. CITIZENS $1600: The law making him a citizen said he "secured the help of France to aid the United States' colonists against Great Britain" Lafayette |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | EVERY MAN A KING $1600: The title subject of 2 Shakespeare plays, he was England's first king of the house of Lancaster Henry IV |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $400: He graduated from Harvard in 1740, the year he turned 18; he'd later help organize a tea party but these days, is associated with beer Sam Adams |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $800: Johnny Weissmuller never said this 4-word phrase in a movie, though he did in a 1932 magazine interview Me Tarzan, you Jane |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS $1200: On Jan. 1, 1802 he wrote of "building a wall of separation between church & state" Jefferson |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | POLITICIANS BACK IN THE DAY $200: Yes, it really is this ex-veep in a pic from his Indiana high school, where he chaired the Funday Talent Committee (Mike) Pence |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | AH, HA HA "HA" $200: To be, or not to be this, a settlement smaller than a village, that is about to be the question hamlet |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | AH, HA HA "HA" $400: On a very special day like today, use this official stamp that indicates quality hallmark |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | AH, HA HA "HA" $600: Harrowed, gaunt, or in a positive way, Merle haggard |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | AH, HA HA "HA" $800: It's the Spanish word for a southwestern ranch hacienda |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $800: Billie Eilish & her brother & collaborator have both dropped the last name O'Connell; he just goes by this name now Finneas |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | AH, HA HA "HA" $1000: Don't be angry & get these, a dog's neck hairs, "up" hackles |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | UNFRIEND $1200: This hyphenated word can refer to a type of stitch or what your pal did when he betrayed you double-cross |
| #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 |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $200: In a Dumas novel, this hero plots his revenge on the men who put him in prison for a crime he did not commit The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes) |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $1000: We somehow avoided politics, except dad ranting about this president; we get it, dad, he blew it letting South Carolina secede Buchanan |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $800: In a Rossini opera, he shaves Dr. Bartolo Figaro |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Telepathic Patrick Stewart character shows you the exact place he hid the treasure, a bit of Earl Grey Professor X marks the spot of tea |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | RAPPERS WHO ACT $400: In 1991 he had a rap hit with "O.G. Original Gangster"; 9 years later, he began playing a cop on NBC & he's been doing it ever since Ice-T |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | RAPPERS WHO ACT $800: "I'm going back to Cali"; he's played a Southern Cali law enforcement agent on CBS since 2009 LL Cool J |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | RAPPERS WHO ACT $1000: A nice 2011 for this 1-name star: he joined Enrique Iglesias on "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" & played Tej in "Fast Five" Ludacris (Chris Bridges) |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022 $200: After wishing his coffee "had a little shot of Jack", Walker Hayes sang he was just trying to "stay out of" this 2-letter group AA |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: Not surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson's setup at this home is in front of a lot of books; he estimated he had 9,000+ in 1814 Monticello |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Ponce de Leon has a very elegant map of this peninsula on which he landed April 2, 1513; too bad it shows it as an island Florida |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $1200: This type of cymbal keeps steady rhythm rather than providing the occasional crash; we've done that cymbal to death a ride cymbal |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $200: He was MVP of the NBA Finals in 1991, 1992 & 1993 & again in 1996, 1997 & 1998 Michael Jordan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FROM "D" TO "O" $400: In the mid-1400s he sculpted the biblical David a bit over 5 feet high in bronze Donatello |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $1000: Before he set the major-league record, he had a 61-game hitting streak in the minors DiMaggio |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | YOUR U.S. HISTORY TEST $2000: An eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre said this man hit several soldiers with a club before he was shot Crispus Attucks |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $300: A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie" George Washington |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $600: A frequent source of comedy is new speakers who mix up michnasayim, pants, with mishkafayim, these--but you don't have reading pants glasses |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $200: Here's this Italian composer looking like he could use a visit from the Barber of Seville Rossini |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $800: He wrote a verse play about the Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt & Edvard Grieg wrote music to go with it Ibsen |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | WE SPY $1600: As portrayed in "Hamilton", he was a "tailor spyin' on the British govt., I take their measure-ments, information, & then I smuggle it" Hercules Mulligan |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $200: Holding the dead Cordelia in his arms, he hears that Edmund is dead & is dead himself a few lines later Lear |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $400: In 2016 Timur Gareyev played a record 48 simultaneous games wearing one of these; he won 35, lost 6 & drew 7 a blindfold |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | MOVIE QUOTES $2,800 (Daily Double): In this 2017 biopic Gary Oldman says, "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth" the Darkest Hour |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $200: Larry David remembered a tuba piece called "Frolic" he'd heard in a bank ad & that became a signature theme of this show Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | READY FOR MY NUDE SCENE $200: Seen here, he dropped trou in "Nightmare Alley"; not so much of a nightmare for some Bradley Cooper |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | POLITICS $600: In November 2018 he defeated Beto O'Rourke to retain his Senate seat & grew a beard Ted Cruz |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $1000: After the Soviet Union broke apart, so did its flag with a gold star & these 2 symbols representing workers & peasants a hammer & sickle |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | LOST IN EXPLORATION $1000: This Italian was looking for a sea route to the Pacific when he found some New York "narrows"; ah well, he got a bridge named for him Verrazzano |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $800: The name of this classic sweater honors James Thomas Brudenell's title cardigan |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $2000: In custody on a charge of murder, he was chosen by the crowd over Jesus & freed by Pontius Pilate Barabbas |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | SIMON SAYS $400: Actor Simon Callow writes of this "Ring" composer, "Had he been... other than a musical genius, he would have been locked up" Wagner |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | SIMON SAYS $800: In a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, he says, "I'm your church now! You understand,--you've got to be as I say" (Simon) Legree |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | HE DIRECTED THAT? $1200: A far cry from Shakespeare, he directed 2011's "Thor" & 2015's "Cinderella" Branagh |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | HE DIRECTED THAT? $1600: This actor who starred in "Bird" & "Lee Daniels' the Butler" took a breath & sat in the director's chair for "Waiting to Exhale" Forest Whitaker |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | THIS CATEGORY IS CONFUSING $400: Elvis sang that, in a state of amorous confusion, he was "all" this, a state not uncommon to snowglobes shook up |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND $1000: The "best of all possible worlds" was a philosophical tenet of this German who advised Peter the Great Gottfried Leibniz |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $1600: According to his '60s theme song, he lived "in a world full of wonder, flying there under, under the sea" Flipper |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $100: Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 Ireland |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $400: Tom Freston got fired from Viacom but had a very soft landing thanks to a "golden" this of $100 million parachute |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | GOING GREEN $400: Seen here, Mahershala Ali won a 2018 Supporting Actor Oscar for this film in which he played a musician touring the South The Green Book |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $800: Air-ing things out, this occurs when you don't have enough money in your account to cover a check but the bank pays anyway overdraft |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $1000: Time to get an "A" in finance; leveraged by hedge funds, this investment strategy has many types, like retail & merger arbitrage |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | HI, FINANCE $7,000 (Daily Double): A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020 Chapter 11 |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | IN THE SCIENCE DICTIONARY $1000: This German physicist doesn't look too happy, even though he devised quantum theory, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1918 Planck |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | THE NUMBER IN MUSIC $400: Later an actor & a Grammy winner, he teamed with Big Boi, with whom he went to high school in Atlanta André 3000 |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): He's a real bit player in "Hamlet"--just a skull Yorick |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | REVOLTS $400: Not even bearded yet, in 1953 he led a failed revolt by storming Cuba's Moncada Barracks Castro |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | RECENT MOVIES $800: Like life, he, uh, found a way to return as Dr. Ian Malcolm in "Jurassic World Dominion" Jeff Goldblum |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $800: A close-up of the clenched fist of this PBS character before he punched D.W. became a giant meme of anger expression Arthur |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | TV CARTOONS $1000: Going big on many levels, this title guy hung out with "The Masters of the Universe" & holding a sword, bellowed, "I have the power!" He-Man |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $1200: He criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe & Richard Wright in a book of essays called "Notes of a Native Son" (James) Baldwin |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CAPTAIN $600: A bit of a stickler, this captain, leader of the Jamestown colony, said, "He that will not work shall not eat" John Smith |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | SAY WHAT? $800: Imitation okay--NHL star Alex Ovechkin often uses this "I can't hear you" gesture when he gets booed a cupped ear (hand behind the ear) |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $300: In a televised speech, he informed America, "I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow" Nixon |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | ADVERBS THAT MAKE YOUR DAY $400: Wimpy of Popeye fame used this adverb to describe the manner in which he'd "pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" gladly |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $500: Also a noted essayist, he gave us the books "Charlotte's Web" & "Stuart Little" E.B. White |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | A MATTER OF WIFE & DEATH $200: At his death in 1616, he left 10 pounds to the poor of Stratford & his second best bed to wife Anne Shakespeare |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote, "O my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June" Rabbie Burns |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | HISTORICAL WEAR $4,699 (Daily Double): In 1921 he ditched Western suits for a shawl & a loincloth called a dhoti (Mahatma) Gandhi |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | CELEBRITIES $600: He went from the Funky Bunch to A-list Hollywood actor, starring in such films as "Boogie Nights" & "The Fighter" Mark Wahlberg |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $2000: He was laid to rest in the grandest of the pyramids, but a tiny ivory figurine is the only complete sculpture known of this pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A line from this play says, "He carries a nose!--ah, good my lords, what a nose is his!" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | SKIN CARE FROM A TO Z WITH MICHAEL STRAHAN $200: (Michael Strahan presents the clue.) Made from an Asian root vegetable, a contact sponge is helpful in this cleansing process of removing dead cells from skin surface--gimme an "E"! exfoliation |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect" in this tale the Metamorphosis |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | GAME ON $100: A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game Scrabble |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | BIRTH OF AN ARTIST $400: He was born in 1452 in Anchiano but the name he's known by would give a nearby place lasting fame Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $2000: In a 2019 film this actor bet big on basketball; in a 2022 film, he played a pro basketball scout; he likes basketball Adam Sandler |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | BIRTH OF AN ARTIST $2000: His father a sculptor & his mother a painter, he first became mobile on July 22, 1898 in Pennsylvania Calder |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | GO BLUE! $300: These turn blue & become munchable for arcade hero Pac-Man after he eats a power pellet; scary! a ghost |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $1500: (Ken delivers the clue.) 2 jobs with security are police officer & soap opera actor; Doug Davidson was both, playing Paul Williams of the Genoa City PD on this show on which he was a regular for 42 years The Young and the Restless |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | GIBSON GIRLS & GUYS $400: Cowboy star Edmund Gibson got this nickname as a boy either because he hunted owls or delivered for the Owl Drug Company Hoot |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | BLACK BUSINESS $400: His move into mogulship began when he launched Roc-A-Fella Records to release his album "Reasonable Doubt" Jay-Z |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: He invented the word "manxome" to describe a character in "Jabberwocky" (Lewis) Carroll |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: He did window displays for a toy store before writing & illustrating kids' classics like "Where the Wild Things Are" Sendak |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $1200: The job of unionizing migrant workers was a tall order, but he did it (Cesar) Chavez |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR $800: He played tight end for Stanford before getting a Rhodes Scholarship Cory Booker |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | HELPFUL HISTORIC FIGURES $1000: After World War II he was a sirdar, in charge of porters on treks up Everest; he would eventually reach the summit with Edmund Hillary (Tenzing) Norgay |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | COMPANY TOWNS $2000: He built a town near Chicago to house his railcar company employees, & some homes still stand (George) Pullman |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR $2,500 (Daily Double): Officially censured by the Senate, he died in office a few years later (Joseph) Joe McCarthy |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | A "C" IN LITERATURE $200: He calls Winnie-the-Pooh "silly old bear" Christopher Robin |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | WHEN POLK WAS PRESIDENT $1600: He sat out the first 2 years of the Polk presidency alone at a pond, though he did spend a night in jail for not paying a poll tax Thoreau |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | THIS INFORMATION $300: Bill Gates said he & Paul Allen picked this name "even before we had a company" Microsoft |
| #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 |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): From Greek for "the unseen", he ruled way downtown & had a 3-headed doggie named Cerberus who ate anyone that tried to leave Hades |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CELEBRITY CAMEOS $1200: Bill Murray dresses up like the undead to "blend in" in this 2009 film; Woody Harrelson admits that he's a big fan Zombieland |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $200: Legend says he dragged his axe behind him & created the Grand Canyon in the process (Paul) Bunyan |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | HATCHET MAN $1000: Before Jack chopped down the beanstalk, he stole the golden goose & a talking one of these musical instruments a talking harp |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | LITERARY PROFESSIONS $200: Atticus Finch; he's on your side! a defense attorney |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CASH $1000: The $10 bill was issued in 1914 with this president on the front; today, he's on a larger bill & some don't want him there Andrew Jackson |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $2,000 (Daily Double): Born almost with the century in 1800, he was executed in 1859 on charges including treason against Virginia, though he wasn't a Virginian John Brown |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | FRIENDS $200: Matthew Perry has said he got this character's "Could it be?" catchphrase from 2 brothers he knew as a kid Chandler |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $300 (Daily Double): A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo! the Cat in the Hat |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $300: He wrote about growing up in South Africa in "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $400: From Britain's Isle of Man, the Manx cat is distinctive for its lack of this a tail |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $500: A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing a monogram |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | TELLING A BEDTIME STORY $500: Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King Old Mother Hubbard |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $600: ...of James Dean's 3 major films; he would die a month before its release Rebel Without a Cause |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR $600: He takes liberties with history in the endings of "Inglourious Basterds" & "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Tarantino |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $800: Going from the movies to Prime Video, he grew as a character, as Alan Ritchson is about 6'2" & Tom Cruise... is not Jack Reacher |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Speaking at the opening of a World's Fair, he was the first U.S. president to appear on television FDR |
| #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 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1200: He created a heroine named Tess, who bears a child named Sorrow & later kills the man who seduced her Hardy |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | CLEANUP $200: The man, the myth, the legend, he cleaned king Augeas' huge stables in a single day, flushing them out by diverting rivers Hercules |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $400: (Jason McCourty of the NFL Network presents the clue.) Quarterbacks, take note; don't start the season like Chicago's Jim Hardy did in 1950, when he threw a still-record 8 of these--maybe it was the wind interceptions |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $1000: (Jamie Erdahl of the NFL Network presents the clue.) The Panthers' opening game in 2011 showed off the arm of this flashy dresser, as he passed for 422 yards, an NFL record for a player's first game Cam Newton |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | RALPH MACCHIO TALKS COBRA KAI $1000: (Ralph Macchio presents the clue.) We all wish Pat Morita was still with us to do the show; I've often said Pat brought a soulful magic to this "Karate Kid" role for which he earned an Oscar nomination Mr. Miyagi |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $400: After he murdered his brother Bleda in the middle of the fifth century A.D., he was the undisputed leader of the Huns Attila |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A.D. $1600: 1616 saw the death of William Shakespeare at New place, in this place where he was born Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | SLOW $400: In Exodus he says, "I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" Moses |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $1600: You'll find a bust of this composer near his piano at a small museum on Mallorca, where he wintered with George Sand Chopin |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600: Jack, seen at the right in a 19th century illustration, is earning this title the Giant Slayer (a giant killer) |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE MET: A VERSE $600: His painting "The Death of Socrates" is one of the museum's bigs; he's French, so say his name like that of singing actor Diggs David |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP $800: Before he was president, Volodymyr Zelensky voiced this marmalade-loving bear in the Ukrainian dub of 2 recent films Paddington |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | NOT A FEATURE $200: Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck" Daffy Duck |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HEY, NICE "AB"s! $1200: In a monastery, he's the boss the abbot |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1200: "And when he had opened the fourth seal... I looked, and behold a pale" this: "and his name that sat on him was Death" horse |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $1200: Getting the supreme boot in Genesis, he was told, "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be" Cain |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ACTIVE BIBLE VERSES $1600: As Jesus "walked by" this body of water, "he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers" the Sea of Galilee |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $200: With a name meaning "cold", he's the animated guy with a corncob pipe & a button nose Frosty (the Snowman) |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | THE LYIN' KING $1,000 (Daily Double): This mythical king whose name now refers to a never-ending task lied to get out of Hades Sisyphus |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | TRIAL & ERA $400: A Synodus Horrenda of 897 saw Pope Formosus guilty; 3 fingers were lopped off, but he felt nothing as he was in this state he was dead |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE JACKSONS, 5 $800: He was inspired by the original "King Kong" to become a filmmaker Peter Jackson |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $200: Hemingway's first great love, Agnes, was his nurse during WWI after he was hit by 200 pieces of this, fragments from a mortar shrapnel |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | FROM THE SPEEDWAY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) The purpose of drafting, or following closely behind another car, is to create this between his tail & your nose; so he pulls you along as your draft is reduced substantially a vacuum |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | BYE, GEORGE $1000: On June 23, 1937 this American composer complained of headaches, & an L.A. hospital diagnosed hysteria; on July 11 he died George Gershwin |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ON A HOLIDAY $200: Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses Halloween (October 31st) |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $800: In 1965, early in his career, he used a Honda motorcycle to leap over 2 mountain lions & a box of rattlesnakes Evel Knievel |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $400: In 2000 he published the not-so-scary "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" Stephen King |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | JOURNALISM $600: In 1971 he popularized gonzo journalism after Sports Illustrated assigned him to cover a motorcycle race (Hunter S.) Thompson |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $400: In 1613, as Galileo was among the earliest Europeans using this device, the trade-hungry Brits presented one to Tokugawa Ieyasu a telescope |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $800: Tsunayoshi's "Laws of Compassion" (enforced by death) banned animal cruelty; he was called Inu-kobo, or this animal-shogun dog |
| #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 |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $1200: Not much happens in this traditional form of drama, but shogun Yoshinori was assassinated while watching a performance in 1441 noh |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $1600: This former capital has a replica of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, built around 1400 by the third Muromachi shogun Kyoto |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | HE WAS A SHOGUN $2000: In 1192 Minamoto Yoritomo became the Seii Taishogun, or "general in charge of suppressing" these uncivilized invaders the barbarians |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1200: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | BASEBALL BABES $400: After 8 seasons in the Majors, hotheaded Babe Pinelli became one of these, with which he had frequently argued as a player an umpire |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 2022 ANNIVERSARIES $1000: June 5, 2022 is the 75th anniversary of when he first suggested his European recovery plan in a 12-minute speech at Harvard Marshall |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death Forster |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $200: When it comes to Louisiana's Cassidy, he's just a this, & he's sitting here on Capitol Hill Bill |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | WORD ORIGINS $200: The wearer of this wouldn't likely know that its name goes back to a Scottish scholar & his followers after he fell out of favor a dunce cap |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $800: A boxer is said to have this "breakable" 2-word item when he's unable to take a punch to the kisser a glass jaw |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TV FACTOIDS $200: With a knack for predicting plays, he's been a success in the broadcast booth like he was behind center Tony Romo |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | I DON'T HEAR A SYMPHONY $800: With Beethoven in mind, Mahler believed writing this number symphony was endsville, so he called a 1908 work a song cycle the 9th |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $400: He & co-writer Amy Wadge shared a Grammy in 2016 for "Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS $1600: In 1989 Bobby McFerrin took home a Song of the Year Grammy for this, & he probably didn't, & was "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $600: Dining out as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Rec", he introduced the "turf & turf. It's a 16-ounce T-bone & a 24-ounce porterhouse" Nick Offerman |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | HORROR MOVIES $800: In a 2017 horror film he starred as Chris Washington, trying to "Get Out" of the Armitage home Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | WHO WAS WHERE, WHEN $2000: He was inaugurated as president on Nov. 3, 1970 in Chile but 3 years later, fell in a military coup Allende |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $200: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance" Tom Brady |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $400: (Mike Curkov of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) In 1969, Milwaukee Bucks management was excited to introduce this new player who soon led the team to its first championship; he lived in an apartment in Juneau Village with a specially raised doorframe Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | STICKS & STONES $400: Teddy Roosevelt cited what he described as a West African proverb: do this "& carry a big stick; you will go far" speak softly |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $600: A cockfight victor crows to show he's won, attracting a hungry eagle; as the saying has it, this quality goes before a fall pride |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $1000: Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty Chaplin |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE $400: At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence Gandhi |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | KILLER TUNES $800: He's the "Calvin Broadus (1972-1994)" referred to on the cover of "Murder Was the Case", both a song & short film Snoop Dogg |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY $2000: Jefferson Davis: as U.S. Secretary of War in 1853, he approved the import of these from Egypt to test in the Southwest camels |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $400: In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force" (Tony) Robbins |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | STORIES OF THE SAINTS $400: This apostle & letter writer was a tent maker by trade, so he moved easily around the ancient world with tools & cloth Paul |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $1600: In 1829, he began a partnership with fellow French photography pioneer Nicéphore Niépce Daguerre |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $400: The Genesis of his hall of fame career was a toy drum kit he got as a kid:
Phil ____ Collins |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | PHIL & THE BLANK $600: With brother Don, he had a hit with "Wake Up Little Susie":
Phil ____ Everly |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | SUPER-DUPER SUPERS $2000: Seen here, he sounded like he could take a punch or 12 voicing the title super Invincible Yeun |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $400: A Faustian bargain hit the pop charts in 1979 when "The Devil Went Down To" this place, "he was lookin' for a soul to steal" Georgia |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | MAYORS $200: Before becoming New York City mayor in 2002, he founded a financial news & information service (Michael) Bloomberg |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | 18th CENTURY CULTURE CLUB $5,000 (Daily Double): He composed some famous music for a 1717 royal boat trip down the Thames George Frideric Handel |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | ALLITERATION ALL AROUND $400: In a dystopian novel he's the supreme ruler of Oceania Big Brother |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $600: Peter Biskind said of writing "Star", "Anything of a personal nature" after he "& Annette Bening married was off limits" Warren Beatty |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | SNEAKERS WITH JACQUES SLADE $200: (Jacques Slade presents the clue.) Nike designer Peter Moore was on a plane when he saw a child wearing a replica pair of pilot's wings; grabbing a napkin, he sketched the ball & wings logo, for this shoe that jump-started the sneakerhead culture Air Jordans (Air Jordan 1) |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | AVIATORS $600: AP's Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s, this golfer was an accomplished pilot; in 1969, he helped test fly the Boeing 747 (Arnold) Palmer |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $600: "Kneel before" this general! In a 1980 film, he finally gets his wish that Superman does so, but things go south real fast (General) Zod |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | SPORTS SHORTS $1000: He took gold with a powerhouse free skate at the 2022 Winter Olympics Nathan Chen |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | NEWS PERSONALITIES PAST & PRESENT $2000: With Fred Friendly, he had a radio broadcast called "Hear It Now", which became "See It Now" on television Edward R. Murrow |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THEIR LAST NOVEL $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Reivers"; he died in Mississippi a month after it was published William Faulkner |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO SAID... $1600: Fellow Hoosier "Bobby Knight told me this. He says there is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense" Dan Quayle |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $1000: In "War Horse", the novel & film, he's the brave equine forced to fight on the Western Front during World War I Joey |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $1600: In "Too Big to Fail", he played Fed chair Ben Bernanke; on "Billions", he's a U.S. attorney going after Wall Street corruption Paul Giamatti |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | RED $400: Around 985 he sailed from Iceland & founded a colony on Greenland; it vanished in the 1400s & no one knows why Erik the Red |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $2000: In 1964 he was called back to Moscow from a Black Sea holiday & told he was no longer in charge in the USSR Khrushchev |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $200: Paul Simon moved from New Jersey to Queens, where he teamed up with this classmate to form a folk-pop duo (Art) Garfunkel |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | FROM QUEENS $1000: He turned down a "close encounter" with Bernie Madoff before playing the man: "I already had a Queens accent, so he couldn't help me" (Richard) Dreyfuss |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS $400: Cal State Northridge's Matty is short for one of these men in the arena; he doesn't have a sword anymore Matador |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $1200: Yes, that's John voicing a ho-ho-homicidal robot Santa Claus trying to take out Fry & Leela on this animated show Futurama |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $800: He pitched 7 no-hitters in his career, a record that still stands Nolan Ryan |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | AFFAIRS $1200: Robert Redford makes this title offer to Demi Moore & Woody Harrelson in a 1993 film; how dare he! Indecent Proposal |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $800: He's at No. 30 with John Cage's "4'33"", a piece that is 4 minutes & 33 seconds of silence Silent Cal (Calvin Coolidge) |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $800: Making his name as a prosecutor, he was elected governor in 1942, 1946 & 1950 but lost twice for president in that time (Thomas) Dewey |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | IT'S YOUR TOP 40 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN $1200: He had a big debut with "Back To Normalcy" but now he's singing the blues with "Teapot Dome Got Me Down"; at No. 29, here's... Harding |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $200: Mission: Possible! He not only rescued a family from a burning sailboat but got a hit-&-run victim to a hospital & paid her $7K bill Tom Cruise |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $400: In 2001 he flew a helicopter, not the Millennium Falcon, to spot & help rescue a lost boy scout near Yellowstone Harrison Ford |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $400: After a big Bible belt that kills his brother, he is marked & heads east of Eden Cain |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $800: As a teen, he left "A Quiet Place" long enough to rescue a woman from drowning in a riptide in Costa Rica John Krasinski |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THE ACTOR REALLY SAVES THE DAY! $1000: "Are you famous?" asked the kid he rescued from a flipped car near his Malibu home; "Yeah, I'm a doctor"; how McDreamy! Patrick Dempsey |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | HISTORY $1200: Think of the name of Ho, its leader, to get the name of this organization that fought the French in Indochina in the 1940s the Vietminh |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2000: In a Virginia Woolf novel that spans over 300 years, this title character, a poet & nobleman, awakes one day to find he's a woman Orlando |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: After leaving Moscow as a lad, he studied computer science at Stanford where he met Larry Page & it was search engines, go! Sergey Brin |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $1200: Take a look at this then-young man from Wyoming, a few years before he was a heartbeat away from the presidency Dick Cheney |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $1600: After high school, he became a Navy SEAL; he'd grapple with some bodywork, act a bit, & get to governing after that Jesse Ventura |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | POLITICIANS IN THEIR SCHOOL DAYS $2000: About a decade after high school, he was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1970; the U.S. Senate came later (Joseph) Lieberman |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In "A Life in Parts", he writes of the end of a day on set: "I'd... let everything soak off ... leeching myself of Walter White" Bryan Cranston |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | I LEARNED IT IN THE COMIC BOOKS $200: One of his origin stories states he was raised by a lighthouse keeper before regaining his royal birthright Aquaman |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | PICTURE THE SONG $600: A familiar spiritual that was a No. 1 hit in the 1950s "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | APRIL FOOLS $1200: While besieging a castle in 1199, this "Lionheart" failed to wear his mail; he died in April after being struck by an arrow Richard the Lionheart |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $1600: After he snuck in an image of Lenin for a mural at Rockefeller Center, this Mexican artist's offending work was demolished Rivera |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $2000: There's quite a bit of red in the painting he did of Pope Paul III with his grandsons during a visit to Rome in the 1540s Titian |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST $200: This "Daily Show" host acted on a South African soap opera called "Isidingo" when he was 18 Trevor Noah |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | GEOGRAPHIC VERSE $800: A Whitman poem is titled "By Blue" this Great Lake's "Shore"; he could've been in the province of the same name Ontario |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | CELEBRITIES' FIRSTS $800: Cole Sprouse says he got his first kiss in this type of vehicle & notes you could call it the kiss of death a hearse |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | GEOGRAPHIC VERSE $1200: Wordsworth wrote of an ascent of Helvellyn, a mountain in this "District" that he called home the Lake District |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | A REIGN OF ERROR $400: After having his mom & wife killed, this emperor was accused of starting a fire that devastated Rome; he blamed the Christians Nero |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | A REIGN OF ERROR $600: Britannica, on one of this czar's many errors: he "met the rising groundswell of popular unrest with intensified police repression" Nicholas II |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IT'S A FACT $400: Competing against 19-year-olds, this Jamaican was 16 when he set a junior world record in the 200 meters at 20.13 seconds Usain Bolt |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | R&B MUSIC $800: In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was a kid Stevie Wonder |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | QUOTE-POURRI $1200: In a Bible parable, a merchant "found one" this gem "of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it" a pearl |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | MOVIE CRITICS $400: This character tells Agent Starling she has cheap shoes & looks like a rube, & he's just getting started Hannibal Lecter |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN $600: (Mandy Patinkin presents the clue.) Rich enough to retire from day-to-day business, in his 40s, Franklin began pioneering research into electricity; for a group of charged glass containers, he coined this word, from its meaning "of an array of cannons" battery |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CITY FOLK $1200: In 2020 he & Katy Perry welcomed a daughter named Daisy Dove Orlando Bloom |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BIRTH OF A WRITER $1200: Starting out life in India, he would later dedicate "Fury" to his soon-to-be wife, Padma Lakshmi (Salman) Rushdie |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $400: Why yes, we watched this "Knight Rider" sing "Hooked On A Feeling" while he flew with a flock of birds & 2 kids dressed as angels David Hasselhoff |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $200: He led the NBA in scoring 7 straight times, won 5 MVPs (& hit .202 for a minor league team in 1994, but let's not dwell on that) Michael Jordan |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $800: A few career highlights: he won the Heisman at Auburn, ran for 221 yards in one game for the Raiders, & was an A.L. all-star Bo Jackson |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $1200: This Italian composer also associated with Mozart discovered Schubert when he was 7 & became one of his teachers Antonio Salieri |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1992's "Aladdin", this villain weaves a spell so he can wed Jasmine & seize power Jafar |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | POP MUSIC PHILLY-STYLE $600: "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper" was a 1988 album by this Philly duo, one of whom soon famously went to Hollywood Will Smith & DJ Jazzy Jeff (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $800: Because he serves a man, Bertie Wooster, & not a household, P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves has this job title, not butler valet |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1200: A successful capitalist by day, he gave his pal Marx a yearly stipend of 350 pounds Engels |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | BEER TODAY $3,000 (Daily Double): Planning ahead a bit, he signed a 9,000-year lease in 1759 on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin for 45 pounds a year (Arthur) Guinness |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX $1200: This title cyborg formerly known as Alex Murphy reads Miranda rights to a suspect as he tosses him through a few glass windows RoboCop |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1600: While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold Archimedes |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY $2000: He led the Greeks against Troy Agamemnon |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Pro-environment & perhaps with a savior complex, he "was shortish. And oldish... and mossy", & kinda looked like Wilford Brimley the Lorax |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | THROWING SHADE $2000: In a 1922 novel he wrote that Siddhartha grew up in the "shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree" Hesse |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | AVIATION $2000: He won the National Air Race of 1930, 5 years before he & Will Rogers died tragically in a plane crash Wiley Post |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | THE ANCIENT MARINER $800: This Pooh creator wrote a poem about "An old sailor my grandfather knew who had so many things which he wanted to do" Milne |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: He composed the famous "Wedding March" heard here as part of the incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $2000: Sharing his pen name with a Hemingway character, he wrote the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series (Robert) Jordan |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | AUTHORS $5,000 (Daily Double): Best known for his detective stories, in his later years, he gave lectures on spiritualism & wrote a 2-volume history of it (Arthur Conan) Doyle |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | TUNE RIVER $400: It's said that he wrote the 2003 hit "Cry Me A River" about an ex, Britney Spears Timberlake |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | I LOVE YOU 3,000 $400: He's not a total outcast; he's a musical & fashion trendsetter Andre 3000 |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | A FEW MOMENTS WITH MILLARD FILLMORE $600: Too-friendly-to-slavery Millard's name is being taken off things at UB, the U. at this city in New York where he was 1st chancellor Buffalo |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang (Jack) London |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $2000: In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s Amor Towles |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | HOPPER $200: A clodhopper can mean a bumbling oaf or one of these he might wear shoes |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $1000: At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | BOOZE IN BOOKS $800: When James Bond orders the vesper type of this cocktail in "Casino Royale", he asks to have it shaken very well a martini |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $1200: He served as U.S. Attorney General twice in the early '90s & again two and a half decades later (Bill) Barr |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | THE APOLLO PROGRAM $400: A combat pilot during the Korean War, about 20 years later, he became the second man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $800: "The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off" & spoiler, he doesn't even get to eat it! What he does get is 19 years in prison Jean Valjean |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | MOUNTAINS $200: According to a Japanese proverb, "He who climbs" this mountain "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool" Mount Fuji |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES $1600: He was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy & Bill Blass called him "the quintessential American designer" Halston |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $400: Tolkien coined the term eucatastrophe, referring to one of these 2-word results, which he said made a complete fairy-story a happy ending |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | SAMS CLUB $1000: 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing" Sam Kinison |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | BOOK CHARACTERS $800: In "To Kill a Mockingbird", this reclusive neighbor hardly says "boo" but he saves Jem's & Scout's lives Boo Radley |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | THE MAN IN THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In 2009 he shot a documentary of "Kobe Doin' Work"; c'mon, do the right thing & name him Spike Lee |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $600: Last name of Carl, the first computer science graduate at Michigan & a teacher & mentor at Michigan State; he had a famous son, Larry Page |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $1600: On his ship La Dauphine, he explored New York harbor & is honored with a structure spanning it Verrazzano |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $800: After introducing rude Charlotte Braun into his comic strip, he let one reader know by letter she wouldn't be around for long Charles Schulz |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $2,500 (Daily Double): This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt" Cleopatra |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | SENATE COMMITTEES $600: A long-time member & sometime chair of the Finance Committee, in 2021 this 88-year-old Iowan announced he's running again (Chuck) Grassley |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | BROOM SERVICE $400: This segment of "Fantasia" finds Mickey Mouse getting more than he bargained for when he uses magic on a broom The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $800: A working actor to this day, Henry Thomas was 10 when he filmed this Spielberg classic E.T. |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FEB BE WARY $800: This sea captain should have been warier in February 1779; he was killed by locals after a kerfuffle at Kealakekua Bay Cook |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | ICONOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The base that the bodhisattva sits on is a stylized version of this symbolic flower, also the name of the position he's in lotus |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A DAY OF POP CULTURE $200: From a radio he boasted on "Industry Baby" of having "couple Grammys on him, couple plaques" Lil Nas X |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | SCARY STORIES $1600: In a classic tale by M.R. James, a man is cursed when he's given a slip of paper written with these Old Nordic letters runes |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | THE KOREAN WAR $800: Less than a year after he was chosen supreme commander of U.S.-led forces, he was relieved of all duties by President Truman MacArthur |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $1000: Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner based the painting seen here on a visit he made to this city Venice |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $800: It was no minor feat that in 1990, he emerged victorious in a 3-person race to succeed Margaret Thatcher as prime minister John Major |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1600: Multitasking in 1794, he negotiated a treaty with Britain while also serving as the first Chief Justice of the United States (John) Jay |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: In 2021 he dropped "Project Hail Mary", in which he embraced familiar themes about a lone astronaut struggling to survive (Andy) Weir |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | LET'S HAVE A WATCH PARTY $1600: Choices for this funny guy: "Inside", with him performing musical comedy, or the movie "Eighth Grade", which he wrote & directed Bo Burnham |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A MINOR IN HISTORY $400: Akhenaten's son, he got the pharaoh gig at age 9 & benched Aten in favor of a return to the worship of Amun King Tut (Tutankhamun) |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $800: (Richard Jefferson delivers the clue.) As an NBA analyst, I like to see my fellow Wildcats from this school, like Deandre Ayton, Andre Iguodala &, before my time, future congressman Morris Udall; he had a glass eye, but a wicked one-handed shot the University of Arizona |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | ABRAHAM LINCOLN $400: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln was a struggling 30-year-old lawyer when he began wooing this 21-year-old, & though she came from a prominent family & had many suitors, eventually won her hand in marriage Mary Todd |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | MIDAS $600: Midas got the wish he later regretted by being kind to Silenus, one of these faun-like beings a satyr |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $800: Reasonably sure that people would like another story about dinosaurs, he published "The Lost World" in 1995 Crichton |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NONFICTION $800: He covered stuff like how did the universe begin in "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $1000: Isaac Newton said he had seen further by "standing on" these the shoulders of giants |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | NIGHTTIME NEWS WITH WORLD NEWS NOW $2000: (Mona Kosar Abdi delivers the clue.) Vacationing on his family farm on an August night in 1923, this man was awakened with news that Warren Harding had died; by the light of a kerosene lamp, he was sworn in as president by his father, a justice of the peace (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | FANG SHUI $400: This count in an 1897 tale had a "grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth" Dracula |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | A KID DID THAT $400: Frank Epperson was 11 in 1905 when he accidentally invented this frozen summer treat a popsicle |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | A KID DID THAT $800: He figured out a system of writing & printing for the blind when he was about 15 & a student at a Paris school for blind children Braille |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $800: On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot (Saddam) Hussein |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | MARVEL $200: This Black Panther actor wanted T'Challa's accent to be authentically African, so he spoke in a dialect based on South African Xhosa Chadwick Boseman |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | RECENT NEWS $600: In 2021 this Canadian P.M. called a snap election; he held onto power but fell short of his goal of a majority government Trudeau |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $1200: George Takei cheekily said of a trip this man made in 2021, "He's boldly going where other people have gone before" William Shatner |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HISTORIC NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): The subject of a 1993 movie, he's the only member of the Nazi Party honored with burial on Israel's Mt. Zion (Oskar) Schindler |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS... $400: "Vronsky had never had a real home life... his father he scarcely remembered" Anna Karenina |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $800: Here's sculptor Antoine Coysevox holding this tool that he put to good use while at Versailles a chisel |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS... $1000: "At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age. It was three years since he had left his grandfather" Les Misérables |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | SPOT-IFY $800: Seen here, this bird is at the center of a battle between conservationists & the logging industry the (northern) spotted owl |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | HITS OF 2021 $600: He spent $1 million a day to complete an album at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz stadium; at least he got hits out of it like "Hurricane" Kanye West |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | ISLAND FOLK $1200: Tupaia was a Polynesian who guided Captain Cook as a star one of these, meaning he used the stars a navigator |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: He used 2 hammers to bore a 14-foot hole in rock & defeat a drill; however, he died doing it John Henry |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | MY MOVIE OCCUPATION $400: Denzel Washington, stepping up in "Philadelphia" a lawyer (attorney) |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | MY MOVIE OCCUPATION $1000: Holly Hunter, before saying hi to motherhood in "Raising Arizona" a policeman |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $200: In 1849 the last issue of a newspaper Karl edited wasn't black & white, but this all over; he defiantly used that color ink red |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | TV, STREAMED $400: The devil didn't go down to Georgia, he went up to L.A. to open a nightclub & solve murders on this Netflix show Lucifer |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | IN THEIR EXPERT OPINION $1200: In 2004 Bill Gates said, "Two years from now" this "will be solved"--he had a solution involving proof of emailers' identities spam |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | COMMENCEMENT $1000: On April 14, 1910 he became the first president to throw out the first pitch at the start of a Major League Baseball game Taft |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1000: 2014:
Soy this guy... he's a winner, baby--("Morning Phase")--so why don't you name him? Beck |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | CELEBRITIES $800: In 2020 he went in a different direction, wearing a Gucci dress as the first solo male to grace the cover of Vogue magazine Harry Styles |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | CELEBRITIES $1600: For his 2017 album "Damn", he became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for music (Kendrick) Lamar |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | CELEBRITIES $2000: These days, he's "The Good Doctor" Sean Murphy, but as a teen he played Charlie in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Freddie Highmore |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | IN AUTHORS' FOOTSTEPS $1600: Seen as a dangerous atheist, Voltaire bought a chateau near the border of these two countries so he could hop over the border as needed France & Switzerland |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | VICE PRESIDENTS $2000: This alliterative Lincoln vice president was a heavy smoker, but his grandson said he took it up on doctor's orders Hannibal Hamlin |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ORCHESTRA OF THE WHIRLED $400: He or she does it with a wave:
NO CUT CORD conductor |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $600: In a hairy situation in Judges 15, he sets the corn of the Philistines ablaze & does some serious smiting Samson |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $800: He tells Moses, "I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go", but seeing as how that appears in a book called Exodus... Pharaoh |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $400: He "peppered Wozniak with questions: could the computer ever be networked? Was it possible to add a disk for memory storage?" Steve Jobs |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIO 101 $600: A David McCullough presidential bio says on the first page, "He was... of Braintree and he loved to talk" John Adams |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $800: A leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, he wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother" Langston Hughes |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | ANGELS & DEMONS & INSURANCE AGENTS $1200: Taking a break from Nine Inch Nails, he formed How to Destroy Angels & married a bandmate (Trent) Reznor |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $400: It was a nearly impossible mission when he played a vicious killer in "Collateral" Tom Cruise |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | LAUGHTER IN THE BIBLE $1200: When God told this man that he would become a father to a son at age 100, he rolled on the floor laughing Abraham |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE MUSIC "MAN" $2000: Twice a "man", he had a hit with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" before hitting the charts again with his Earth Band Manfred Mann |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $600: A USC cinema building is named for this director who was rejected 3 times by the school & attended Cal State Long Beach instead (Steven) Spielberg |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $1000: Not realizing he was fleeing from the KGB, autograph hounds chased this dancer as he ran out a Toronto stage door in 1974 (Mikhail) Baryshnikov |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | DAD TV $800: Fred Andrews,
who took a bullet for his son Riverdale |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | HOOK $800: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the master of this signature shot that he used to great effect with the Lakers a sky hook |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): He wrote that in 1666 "I procured me a triangular glass-prisme, to try therewith the... phenomena of colours" Sir Isaac Newton |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CELEBS WHO APPEARED ON KIDS' TV $1200: Once upon a time in Hollywood, long before even his role in "The Basketball Diaries", at age 5 he appeared on "Romper Room" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | OMG! $1600: A version of the Old Germanic deity Donar, he's the Norse god of thunder & storms Thor |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $1600: The most celebrated French artist of his day, he painted works like "The Oath of the Horatii" in a Neoclassical style David |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $2000: "One particular horse, called Nugget, he embraces... they stand in the dark for an hour" is a line from this play Equus |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $200: In "U Can't Touch This", he rapped his thanks to the Lord "for blessing me with a mind to rhyme & 2 hyped feet" MC Hammer |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | EXPLORERS $1600: In 1728 he discovered that Russia was separated from North America by a narrow strait Bering |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH $400: Jack Worthing finds out that he's really Ernest John Moncrieff in "The Importance of Being Earnest" by this playwright Oscar Wilde |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | 1922 $1000: 20 years before commanding a raid on Tokyo, he made the first U.S. coast-to-coast flight in under a day Doolittle |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | YOU PLAYED YOURSELF $600: Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | WORLD HISTORY $800: During a forced exile, he wrote "The Prince" & began his "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | A MEMBER OF THE BANDS $200: He reached nirvana as a drummer but went on to fight foo as a frontman Dave Grohl |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ILLUSTRATORS $2000: "Blue-winged Teal" was among the 435 illustrations he did for a book published in four volumes between 1827 & 1838 Audubon |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | OATS $400: A FAQ on the PepsiCo website asks if the man on this brand's logo is William Penn; they say he isn't Quaker Oats |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $800: He's Ahab's No. 2; that & $4.65 will get you a grande mocha Starbuck |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORLD HISTORY $800: One of Millard Fillmore's few marks on world history was in 1852 when he put this man in charge of a naval expedition to Japan (Matthew) Perry |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG $1000: E.L.O.:
"A celebration," he's "up there waitin"' "Mr. Blue Sky" |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | WE GOT STUCK $600: In 1916 Tanglefoot, a maker of this sticky stuff, used star outfielder Zack Wheat in ads; they caught way more than he did flypaper |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ROM-DRAMS $1000: Before winning an Oscar as a 1960s Black Panther, he played Slim to Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen in a 2019 film Daniel Kaluuya |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $800: In 1981, when he'd only written a handful of novels, he published "Danse Macabre", an overview of the horror genre Stephen King |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $2000: Best known for his novel "Infinite Jest", he also wrote "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" David Foster Wallace |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS: Churchill gave a word a new meaning when he called for a "talk with Soviet Russia upon the highest level... a parley at" this the summit |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | GREAT BRITS: From 1689 to 1690 & 1701 to 1702, he served as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Cambridge University (Isaac) Newton |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne Al Capone |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | TRAILBLAZERS: The foremost member of the "Sochi Six", which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968 (Yuri) Gagarin |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier (François) Rabelais |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | AMERICAN MUSICIANS: Also an author, this singer who had 5 Top 40 hits in the 1970s was called the "Pirate Laureate" Jimmy Buffett |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate "models in motion" for a miniature circus scene (Alexander) Calder |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | LITERARY INSPIRATION: A book by historian Thomas Carlyle that Dickens said he'd read 500 times has this title subject that Charles would write about himself the French Revolution |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | THE WILD WEST: In 1888's "Ranch Life & the Hunting-Trail" Teddy Roosevelt wrote his 2 ranch hands were "able to travel" like this animal a bull moose |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | MOVIE MUSICALS: Of the musicals to win an Oscar for Best Picture, 1 of the 2 with one-word titles based on & named for literary characters (1 of) Gigi or Oliver! |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | FAMOUS NAMES: Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch Seabiscuit |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TELEVISION: This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch" Succession |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORD ORIGINS: Though it meant "seasickness" in Latin, this 6-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of sickness nausea |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | COMPOSERS: He was given piano lessons by Madame Mauté de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music (Claude) Debussy |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SCIENTISTS: A 1953 article by this pair says, "The specific pairing we have postulated... suggests a... copying mechanism for the genetic material" (James) Watson & (Francis) Crick |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOSERS: A fireworks display followed the April 27, 1749 premiere of a work by this man that had been commissioned by George II (George Frideric) Handel |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AUTHORS: He dedicated books to each of his 4 wives, including Hadley Richardson & Martha Gellhorn Ernest (Papa) Hemingway |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | OLYMPIC TEAMS: A city of about 2.5 million people, since 1984 for political reasons it has been in the name of an Olympic team Taipei |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE MEDICAL WORLD: He created a chest drain valve that aided breathing in wounded soldiers in Vietnam but is better known for a lifesaving measure (Henry) Heimlich |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns" |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | 20th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS: He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes) |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES: This residence is part of an estate that includes Ballochbuie Forest, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pine forest Balmoral |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OSCARS: Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS Radio Orchestra, he's been nominated for 53 Oscars John Williams |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities" Washington Irving |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MEDIEVAL PLACES: One of the participants in an 1170 event at this place said, "Let us away, knights; he will rise no more" Canterbury Cathedral |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | 1980s MOVIES: A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s" Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FAMOUS NAMES: For a special 1970s cookbook, he provided one simple recipe--a can of Campbell's tomato soup & 2 cans of milk Andy Warhol |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | TV FINALES: In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 Grace and Frankie |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism" Banksy |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | ENGLISH CITIES: William the Conqueror's son built a fortress on a key northern river in 1080, giving this city its name Newcastle (upon Tyne) |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca) |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In a September 3, 1939 speech, he said, "Everything that I have worked for... has crashed into ruins" Neville Chamberlain |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | LITERARY ANIMALS: This children's book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title creature, gets his name from the sound he might make Eeyore |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a Best Lead Actress Oscar Jack Nicholson |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 1972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | THEATER: In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play Julius Caesar |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop Spike Lee |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | RECENT BIOGRAPHIES: A 2021 book about his "Misunderstood Reign" argues that he hated slavery & actually suffered from bipolar disorder George III |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | 1970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MUSIC LEGENDS: Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk" John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | 1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne" |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how" Wilbur |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action a mousetrap |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES: Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are" Mr. (Fred) Rogers |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | WOMEN & SCIENCE: Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it's from the Greek for "equal" & "place" isotope |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: He got to propose his own sentence & joked that since he was actually a benefactor of the state, he should get free meals! Socrates |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AWARDS & HONOREES: He used his 1983 Pritzker Prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States I.M. Pei |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | 20th CENTURY ART: In occupied Paris, a German officer asked Picasso if he had done this masterpiece; he replied, "No, you did" Guernica |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | MOVIE APPEARANCES: Not an actor, this man who died in 2018 appeared briefly in some 40 mainly action films with a combined $30 billion worldwide gross Stan Lee |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In a 1912 telegram to his wife, he said, "Am feeling fine. Have bullet in chest, but...talked for hour and half after being shot" Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | THE MUSIC BIZ: In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had "come full circle" Berry Gordy |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | 18th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny Gulliver's Travels |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers" Notre-Dame |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FAIRY TALES: A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, "Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread" "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS: To celebrate the 500th anniversary of a major event, Seville, Spain & Genoa, Italy both had expositions in this year 1992 |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | ACTORS: Speaking of his role in a 1964 film, he apologized for "the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema" Dick Van Dyke |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | MUSIC STARS: On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate subcommittee on national penitentiaries Johnny Cash |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | POETS: A Dartmouth dropout, he received 2 honorary degrees from Dartmouth--in 1933 & 1955 Robert Frost |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | ASTRONOMERS: This man's name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he's the only human whose remains lie on the Moon Shoemaker |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 1950s PEOPLE: In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris" Ernest Hemingway |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | OPERA TITLE NAMES: Before being consumed in flames, he flirts with a bride on her wedding day & a list of his amorous conquests is sung Don Giovanni |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES: A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty Japan & Russia |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | ITALIAN INVENTORS: In a 1644 letter he wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air", which is what his invention measures Torricelli |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king" Shere Khan |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | WORLD LANDMARKS: "The Eighth Wonder", by composer Alan John & librettist Dennis Watkins, is about this building that opened in 1973 the Sydney Opera House |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original title of this 1900 classic included a gem; another working title mentioned a Plains state The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | TOYS & GAMES: The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexiko Scrabble |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | ANCIENT TIMES: In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C. Leonidas |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: Hoping to stop Dominican friar Johannes Tetzel from preaching for indulgences, in 1517 he wrote a series of debate topics Martin Luther |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POPULAR PRODUCTS: This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015 View-Master |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line "He had the wrong dreams" Death of a Salesman |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WORLD TIME ZONES: This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany Spain |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family Newman |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | GAMES: When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over The Game of Life |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR: "I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense" Émile Zola |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | TEACHERS: As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882 Annie Sullivan |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people The Deerslayer |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | THE ELEMENTS: Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia europium |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | 20th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird Atticus Finch |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including "The Cretan Bull" & "The Girdle of Hyppolita" Hercule Poirot |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!" Pinocchio |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Though he became a Cabinet secretary & chief justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its "awkward, fishy" sound Salmon Chase |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS: Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars Neil Simon |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | 19th CENTURY INVENTORS: He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a "vegetable leather" or "elastic metal" Charles Goodyear |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | POETS: He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem T.S. Eliot |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: 3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2 W and JFK |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES: He said, "Victory over (the) Depression will be... by the resolution of our people to fight their own battles in their own communities" Herbert Hoover |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY: After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin Loki |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah Rudyard Kipling |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In a twist of irony, he accidentally set fire to some 300 acres of woods at Fair Haven Pond near the Concord River in 1844 Henry David Thoreau |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1870s he wrote that "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits" Charles Darwin |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | OSCAR HYPHENATES: This actor has never been nominated for acting--he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012 Ben Affleck |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | FOLKLORE: In legend, he called all the animals together but only 12 came, including a rat & a dragon the Buddha |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: In a famous 1775 speech, he said, "Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!" Patrick Henry |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you" Thomas Dewey |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | ISLAND NAMES: A Portuguese explorer gave this name to an island he sighted off Africa's coast 40 days after Easter Ascension Island |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | AMERICAN QUOTES: In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new Constitution to these 2 things death & taxes |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | OSCAR-NOMINATED ACTORS: He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners--a real one in a 1992 biopic & a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy Robert Downey Jr. |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | FAMOUS RUSSIANS: In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead Alexander Pushkin |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned a pocket veto |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to "my dearest Theodosia"; he lived until 1836 Aaron Burr |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | CLASSIC LITERARY CHARACTERS: He declares that one of the people he is trying to emulate is a medieval knight known as Amadís of Gaul Don Quixote de la Mancha |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback the Rough Riders |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | U.S. AUTHORS: In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style Jack Kerouac |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 19th CENTURY EUROPEANS: In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choice” Vincent van Gogh |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri Richard Nixon |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | AUTHORS: A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new" Lewis Carroll |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | ADVERTISING CHARACTERS: This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials Dos Equis |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | 19th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there Lord Byron |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | THE OSCARS: For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films Al Pacino |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | OSCAR WINNERS: He's the only actor to win 3 Best Actor Oscars, the most recent for his portrayal of a U.S. president Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS: He said, "Never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another" Nelson Mandela |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | RECENT OSCAR WINNERS: For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar Eddie Redmayne |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works Herman Melville |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: Raised in industrial Yorkshire, he moved to L.A. in 1964 & thought, "This is the place to be--in the land of swimming pools" David Hockney |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | FAMOUS BRITISH NAMES: He used the coat of arms granted to his father in 1596; it depicts a long-shafted weapon, a visual pun on the family name William Shakespeare |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS: His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it" Richard III |
| #7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS: He said of his 1949 play & its main character, "I could write about failure only because I could deal with it...I knew how he felt" Arthur Miller |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS: A 1910 magazine article asked this groundbreaking artist if he used models; he grinned & said, "Where would I get them?" (Pablo) Picasso |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | CLASSIC MOVIE ROLES: A letter to the director that said, "Dear sir, I am fat & wear spectacles" got a young actor a role in this 1963 film Lord of the Flies |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS: The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man John Nash |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7421, aired 2016-12-12 | SCIENTISTS: In a 1694 Royal Society lecture, he suggested an astronomical cause for the biblical flood in Genesis Edmond Halley |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE DECORATIVE ARTS: In the early 1700s in Dresden, King Augustus locked up a chemist until he found how to make this product dubbed "white gold" porcelain |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | ENTERTAINERS: He won a Tony & later an Oscar for the same role & decades later, published a memoir called "Master of Ceremonies" Joel Grey |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | EARLY AMERICA: William Bradford wrote that this document was partly inspired by the "mutinous speeches" of some passengers the Mayflower Compact |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | FAMOUS NAMES: At a May 1989 ceremony in Cape Town, he received a bachelor of laws correspondence degree in absentia Nelson Mandela |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy" Eeyore |
| #7393, aired 2016-11-02 | EW's 50 GREATEST MOVIE DIRECTORS: He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died" Orson Welles |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | TELEVISION: The focus of a 1970s miniseries & its recent remake, he arrived at Annapolis in 1767 aboard the ship the Lord Ligonier Kunta Kinte |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | IN THE NOVEL: The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | ASIAN ISLANDS: Phuket, the largest island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004 Thailand |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | JUDGES: Before he headed up the Supreme Court, he argued only 1 case before it--a 1796 case he ironically argued on states' rights grounds John Marshall |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle" Neil Armstrong |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped Jefferson Davis |
| #7300, aired 2016-05-13 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen" George McGovern |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" P.T. Barnum |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | METAPHORICAL PHRASES: In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this 2-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment snake oil |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 19th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke Byron |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1705 he wrote, "And, if it should then return, we shall have no reason to doubt but the rest must return too" (Edmond) Halley |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | THE 1960s: In 1963 he wrote to MLK seeking a united front of "all Negro factions" against "a common problem posed by a common enemy" Malcolm X |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday |
| #7259, aired 2016-03-17 | GREAT BRITONS: A pair of shoes that he wore when making history in 1954 sold at auction in 2015 for more than $400,000 Roger Bannister |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | THE AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 MOVIES: This man who was in "The Godfather" & "Apocalypse Now" is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list Robert Duvall |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: At 24 he began a verse retelling the Cupid & Psyche myth, including a character named Caspian C.S. Lewis |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | ROYALTY: In 1604, for a special project, he approved a list of scholars to work at Westminster, Cambridge & Oxford James I |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: He wrote, "As life and fortune are risked by serving his majesty, it is necessary that the latter shall be secured" Benedict Arnold |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | PLAYWRIGHTS: He wrote the line "Our home has been nothing but a playroom" Henrik Ibsen |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind Armand Hammer |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | HISTORIC PLACES: In 1761 he started running a ferry where the Potomac meets the Shenandoah Robert Harper |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | AUTHORS: In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own" John Grisham |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NATO COUNTRIES: With a population of under 400,000, this founding member of NATO remains the smallest of the member nations Iceland |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE OSCARS: For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting George Clooney |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | PHILOSOPHERS: His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went Søren Kierkegaard |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES: He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living" the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES: These 2 6-letter rhyming countries both derive their names from rivers & were both once controlled by Great Britain Zambia & Gambia |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | U.S. LANDMARKS: For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold the Space Needle (in Seattle) |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927 Hermann Hesse |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1909 this Oxford student surveyed Crusader castles in the Mideast; a few years later he returned for less peaceful activities T.E. Lawrence |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | 20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS: Everything changed in 1924 after he observed, "I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula" Edwin Hubble |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | QUOTABLE PAINTERS: "A reviewer... wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was" Jackson Pollock |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS: A statue of St. Paul is located on this island where he took refuge after a shipwreck Malta |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | INFAMOUS: Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act Charles Guiteau |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: In an essay, he wrote, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion" Thoreau |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | THE OSCARS: Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director Coppola |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WEDDINGS: In April 2011 he married an heiress to the fortune of a company called Party Pieces Prince William |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | ACTORS: Ironically, in the summer of 1955, he gave an interview about the dangers of racing on highways James Dean |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | CELEBRITY FATHERS & DAUGHTERS: He won a Grammy in 1959, she won 3 in the 1970s & a song by both was 1991's Song & Record of the Year Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | THE SCULPTOR SPEAKS: "Chaste women remain fresher" was the reason he made a mother look barely older than her son Michelangelo |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | 2014 ALBUMS: With a new release & 8 viral videos to go with it, he had the first comedy album in 50 years to top the Billboard 200 "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| #7022, aired 2015-03-10 | NOBEL LAUREATES: He was the subject of a 2014 New York Times article headlined "A Pioneer as Elusive as His Particle" Peter Higgs |
| #7021, aired 2015-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: The first story in which he appeared began, "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at 3 in the morning" James Bond |
| #7014, aired 2015-02-26 | FOREIGN LEADERS: On February 25, 1956, he gave a speech "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences", seen as an attack on his predecessor Khrushchev |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Not in the 10 longest, this 1,560-mile river in a fertile basin flows by 29 cities of over 100,000 people the Ganges |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS: In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered... other men's flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own" John Bartlett |
| #6995, aired 2015-01-30 | INVENTORS: In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these horses |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | FICTION: A line in this short story is "Slowly, awkwardly trying out his feelers, which he now first learned to appreciate..." "The Metamorphosis" |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | ARTISTS: He said a 2009 exhibit was the 1st time taxpayers' money was used "to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off" Banksy |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | ROYALTY: He was the last English monarch to die in battle Richard III |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES: With a total of 5 wins, they're the only 2 Best Actress winners who were known professionally by the same last name Katharine & Audrey Hepburn |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE SUPREME COURT: After Washington & FDR, he is, perhaps fittingly, the president who appointed the most Supreme Court justices (William Howard) Taft |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ROCK & ROLL: A restaurant chain took its name from a British band's fourth chart-topper, this 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | LITERATURE: This title 1864 adventure is embarked upon by a descent into Iceland's Mount Sneffels Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | SPORTS FIGURES: He was featured on the September 22, 1947 cover of Time with the caption "He and the boss took a chance" Jackie Robinson |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | HISTORICAL FIGURES: A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy George Washington |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS: "His madness being stronger than any other faculty", he "resolved to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person he met" Don Quixote |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | FAUXBITUARIES: He received a real obituary in the Albuquerque Journal in 2013 noting his "long battle with lung cancer" Walter White |
| #6907, aired 2014-09-30 | WORLD LEADERS: He came to power 34 days before FDR & left it 19 days after him Adolf Hitler |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury Clarence Darrow |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | AUTHORS: In 1937 his sister said he had "hats of every description" which he would use as a "foundation of his next book" Dr. Seuss |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner he told Theodor Schwann who said, hey, so are animals cells |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Built for a World's Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7 million a year the Eiffel Tower |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 1970s FILMS: In 2013 Mario Cuomo said he finally saw this film, which he had boycotted for personal reasons, & called it "maybe... a masterpiece" The Godfather |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS: William Sullivan retired from the Foreign Service in 1979; he was the last U.S. Ambassador to this country Iran |
| #6855, aired 2014-06-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1911 Glenn Curtiss received this document Number 1 a pilot's license |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE 1960s: In his last speech, he mentioned local newsmakers of the day, including his friend Cesar Chavez & Don Drysdale Robert F. Kennedy |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | MONARCHS: 2 teen Hashemite cousins officially took the thrones of their respective countries May 2, 1953:
Faisal of Iraq & him King Hussein of Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom) |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: On December 20, 1956 the Court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event the Montgomery bus boycott |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DIARIES & JOURNALS: This archaeologist's diary for November 26, 1922 mentions 2 "ebony-black effigies of a king, gold sandalled" Howard Carter |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up" Rhett Butler |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Good looks weren't enough as he became the only full-term president rejected in a bid for his party's 2nd term nomination Franklin Pierce |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | HISTORIC IRONY: Theodor Herzl was inspired to begin the work that's the foundation for modern Zionism by an opera by this composer Richard Wagner |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela |
| #6797, aired 2014-03-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: The author of more than 50 books, he won 6 Hugo awards & was nominated for a 1968 Oscar Arthur C. Clarke |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | ACTORS & OSCARS: He was nominated for Oscars in 5 consecutive decades; the last nod was for his 1978 role as a Nazi hunter Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | WORLD CAPITALS: At 4,000 miles, the farthest-apart capitals of bordering countries are these 2 cities, one on a peninsula Moscow & Pyongyang |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | BRITISH ROYALTY: He was the last male monarch who had not previously been Prince of Wales George VI |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | NOVEL TITLES: The title of this 1951 novel comes from the hero's fantasy of rescuing children falling from a cliff The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: A protege of Oscar Hammerstein, he's won Grammys, an Oscar, a Pulitzer Prize & the most Tony Awards by a composer Stephen Sondheim |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | PRESIDENTS: He is the only 19th century president to serve 2 complete terms with the same vice president James Monroe |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS: He has the most speeches of any character with 471 in 3 plays, of which 2 are histories & 1 is a comedy Falstaff |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages Noah Webster |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | COMEDIC ACTRESSES: She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | NOTABLE NAMES: During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal (Edmund) Hillary |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS: Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same" Dorian Gray |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | ACTORS: In the '50s he won a Tony for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical & a Best Actor Oscar for playing the same role, a monarch Yul Brynner |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Although born in the United States, he was the only president who spoke English as a second language Martin Van Buren |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | MOVIE COMEDIES: The hero of this 1993 comedy says he's "been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted & burned" Groundhog Day |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY: In 1948 he won South Carolina with 72% of the vote & 3 other states but finished a distant third overall Strom Thurmond |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: This 1960s album ends with the line "I'd love to turn you on" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #6650, aired 2013-07-12 | VIDEO GAME HISTORY: The title princess of this game, which launched a best-selling franchise, was named for F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife The Legend of Zelda |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | AUTHORS: He quit pursuing a Ph.D. in 1926 to pursue drawing, but you might say he gave himself the degree anyway Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | NOTABLE NAMES: In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a 'Big Bang'" Stephen Hawking |
| #6611, aired 2013-05-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "This was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it" Harry Truman |
| #6587, aired 2013-04-16 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: The winner in 1984, he likes to be called "Arch", a reference to his job Desmond Tutu |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Since 1850, 1 of the 2 Republicans to appear on the ticket as president or vice president 3 elections in a row Richard Nixon or George H.W. Bush |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | ARTISTS: On his deathbed he told police, "What I have done is nobody else's business"; one theory is he was protecting others (Vincent) van Gogh |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | MILITARY MEN: On June 6, 1944 he said, "The eyes of the world are upon you" Dwight David Eisenhower |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | FIGHTING MONARCHS: Seen here is a suit of armor worn by this monarch at the siege of Boulogne in 1544 when he was 53 Henry VIII |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | AMERICAN ICONS: He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll & Minnesota Music Halls of Fame Bob Dylan |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT AUTHORS: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" and "A Late Victorian Love Affair" Oscar Wilde |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | EUROPEAN AUTHORS: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books Stieg Larsson |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair" "Clair de Lune" |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | BORN & DIED: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | CHILDREN'S RHYMES: Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia Fuzzy Wuzzy |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River Joseph Conrad |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | BOOK SERIES: In the 8th book in a series by L. Frank Baum, this character begins to speak; he simply chose not to before Toto |
| #6433, aired 2012-08-01 | BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1859 a theory was born when he wrote, "from so simple a beginning endless forms... have been, and are being, evolved" Charles Darwin |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | ANTARCTICA: This country that explored the Antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent Norway |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | INAUGURAL ADDRESSES: He said, "It is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: Among the many books he wrote were "The World Crisis", "The Second World War" & "Painting As A Pastime" Winston Churchill |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: In 1777 an opponent wrote of him "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country" Benedict Arnold |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | CONSTELLATIONS & MYTH: In Greek myth he became the prey when he was killed by Scorpius; now they're both in the sky Orion |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | WEBSITES: It launched its first offer on October 22, 2008: a two-for-one pizza deal in Chicago Groupon |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | 2011 MEMOIRS: He titled his 2011 memoir "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain" Hal Holbrook |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | MEDICAL DISCOVERIES: Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this insulin |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "I want to write about a fellow who was two fellows" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | 1930s NOVELS: An audio version of this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted author has introductions from Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic Johnny Got His Gun |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | ROCK ICONS: While he's had 12 Top 10 hits on Billboard, including 7 from a 1984 album, he's never had a No. 1 single Bruce Springsteen |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie Larry McMurtry |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | PLAYWRIGHTS: For a 1953 play, he spent time in Salem doing research at the courthouse & at the Witch House Arthur Miller |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 19th CENTURY POETRY: He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die" Oscar Wilde |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | 18th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or "Dean" Jonathan Swift |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | DEATH OF AN AUTHOR: In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | TOP OF THE POP CHARTS: In 1978 he replaced his brothers at No. 1, who then replaced him; one of the brothers was a writer on all 3 songs Andy Gibb |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS: He gave his horse a name that partly means "nag" in Spanish; the name he gave himself refers to a piece of armor Don Quixote |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900 Hershey |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | OSCAR WINNERS: The most recent father & daughter to win acting Oscars: he won for playing a veteran, she for playing a mental patient Jon Voight & Angelina Jolie |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | AMERICAN WRITERS: In the 1840s he wrote, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | MEDICAL HISTORY: In December 1967 Louis Washkansky, a patient in this country claimed, "I am a new Frankenstein" South Africa |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | ANCIENT WRITINGS: In 170 A.D. Melito of Sardis compiled a list of religious works to be included in this, a 2-word term he coined the Old Testament |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | AMERICAN POETS: "Bearing the bandages, water & sponge, straight & swift to my wounded I go", he wrote in "The Wound-Dresser" Walt Whitman |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: In 1909 he completed his last painting, a canvas called "Driftwood" Winslow Homer |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | AUTHORS: He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him James Herriot |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | BASEBALL & THE PRESIDENCY: As both vice president & president, he threw out a season's 1st pitch, each time for a different Senators franchise Richard Nixon |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | INFLUENTIAL 19th CENTURY THINKERS: At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity Karl Marx |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | GARMENTS OF THE WORLD: The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling the burqa |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES: Between April 1909 & March 1910, he killed 296 animals, including 9 lions & 8 elephants Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | AMERICAN LIT: He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: In an 1845 autobiography, he wrote, "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" Frederick Douglass |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | POLITICAL PARTIES: Only 1 U.S. president represented this party, & he said, "I dread... a division of the republic into 2 great parties" the Federalist Party |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: After meeting him, Hawthorne said he had a "sallow, queer, sagacious visage" warmed by "homely human sympathies" Abraham Lincoln |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | WORLD LEADERS: At his 1994 inaugural, he called for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world" Nelson Mandela |
| #6062, aired 2011-01-11 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS: In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, "No chaos damn it" Jackson Pollock |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | CABINET OFFICERS: He was the last Secretary of State to serve in the post under 2 presidents Henry Kissinger |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | 20th CENTURY NOVELISTS: A critic said that a character of his, "yearning for the moon... never saw the sixpence at his feet"; he made that into a title Somerset Maugham |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart John F. Kennedy |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year McKinley |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | BRITISH AUTHORS: His son Christopher said, my father "got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders" A.A. Milne |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | PRESIDENTS: He served the shortest amount of time as president before running for & winning reelection to the job LBJ |
| #5977, aired 2010-09-14 | LITERARY & MOVIE TITLE OBJECTS: The inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River "The Bridge on the River Kwai" |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Excluding honorary degrees, he's the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale George W. Bush |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | LEGENDARY PUBLIC SERVANTS: In 1929 he became a special agent with the Treasury Department's Prohibition Bureau, Chicago Division Eliot Ness |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | BILLBOARD HOT 100 HISTORY: Besides Frank & Nancy Sinatra, they're the only other father & daughter who each had No. 1 solo hits Pat & Debby Boone |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | AMERICAN CITIES: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states California & Texas |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | BUSY PRESIDENTS: He had previously been a U.S. senator, minister to France, England & Spain, Secretary of War, Secretary of State & Governor of Virginia James Monroe |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES: In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name Jordan |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | OFFICIAL STATE SONGS: In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical Oklahoma |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | POETS ON POETS: Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was" Lord Byron |
| #5908, aired 2010-04-28 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct" Galileo |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | ACTORS: In 1970 he became the first professional actor to be named a lord Laurence Olivier |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | NAVAL HEROES: When he was killed in battle in 1805, he was wearing a uniform coat with sewn-on replicas of his 4 orders of chivalry Admiral Nelson |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel L. Frank Baum |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for 8 Best Actor Oscars, including one for a 1961 film; his only win came for its 1986 sequel Paul Newman |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | MONARCHS: In 2001 Bulgaria elected as prime minister its former child monarch, the only person now living to have held this royal title czar |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: At his death in 1790, he left 200-year trust funds to the cities of Boston & Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin |
| #5845, aired 2010-01-29 | PRO SPORTS: The official address of the Atlanta Braves is No. 755 on the drive named for this man Hank Aaron |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS: Created in 1950, he finally hit a home run on March 30, 1993 Charlie Brown |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | AUTHORS: In "Comics Review" in 1965, "I was a Teenage Grave Robber" was his first published work; he's still going strong Stephen King |
| #5827, aired 2010-01-05 | ART HISTORY: Unique quality of "First Communion of Anemic Young Girls in the Snow", shown at the 1883 Arts Incoherents exhibit it was all white |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: A chorus in this 1741 work says, "King of kings and Lord of lords and He shall reign forever and ever" Handel's Messiah |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | HEALTH & FITNESS: Dr. Kenneth Cooper added "S" to a medical adjective to coin this word for the kind of exercise he advocated in a 1968 book aerobics |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: A state since the 1700s but not in the original 13, it ends with its own 2-letter postal abbreviation Kentucky |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | COMPOSERS: In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony (Franz) Schubert |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | HISTORIC SPEECHES: He said, "We look forward to a world founded upon" freedom of speech, of worship, from want & from fear Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | LONDON LANDMARKS: A statue of him stands outside the London Underground Baker Street station Sherlock Holmes |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day Alexander Hamilton |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | POETS: In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines T.S. Eliot |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself Gerald Ford |
| #5750, aired 2009-09-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS: Though known for writing nonsense verse, he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons & Tennyson wrote a poem to him Edward Lear |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | SCIENTISTS: He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his work on the photoelectric effect, not for relativity Albert Einstein |
| #5721, aired 2009-06-22 | PRESIDENTS ON FILM: Filmed signing a bill into law, in 1895 he became the first U.S. president to appear on moving film Grover Cleveland |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | STATE SONGS: It was originally dedicated to a Midwest football team; it's said that Sousa called it the best college song he'd ever heard "On, Wisconsin!" |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2 Henry David Thoreau |
| #5690, aired 2009-05-08 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, "If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing" Henry VIII |
| #5680, aired 2009-04-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S TITLE CHARACTERS: Though he reigned for only 2 years, this king has the second-longest role in a single Shakespeare play, speaking 1,164 lines Richard III |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | EXPLORERS: In 1611 Henry Greene led a successful mutiny against this captain, but soon after was killed by Eskimos Henry Hudson |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | NAME'S THE SAME: This cartoon character debuted in 1930, the same year the object he shares a name with was discovered Pluto |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | AUTHORS: In 1865 he wrote the line "You're nothing but a pack of cards!" Lewis Carroll |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | EXPLORERS: In 1871 he answered, "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you" Dr. Livingstone |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY: On June 5, 1989 a young man never positively identified became world famous for actions he took in this city Beijing |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899 Alfred Dreyfus |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres Corsica |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a 1914 novel, as a boy he could "drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb in rapid descent to the ground" Tarzan |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | 19th CENTURY POLITICS: When the GOP convened in 1888, he became the 1st black man to earn a vote for president at a major party convention Frederick Douglass |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS: When this was explained to Chief Sho-kup, he gave it a Shoshone name that means "wire rope express" the telegraph |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | INVENTORS: A key to Alexander Graham Bell's experiments was one of these, procured by a doctor friend, Clarence Blake an ear |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | ASIAN NATIONS: Of the world's 11 countries whose English names start with "A", the only 2 whose names don't end with "A" Afghanistan & Azerbaijan |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | THE EMMY AWARDS: A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character Ed Asner |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders Wilson |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | MUSICALS: Profession of the title character of "Little Johnny Jones", featuring the song "The Yankee Doodle Boy" jockey |
| #5539, aired 2008-10-09 | 1960s HIT SONGS: The singer/songwriter of this 1960s mega-hit has revealed that it was inspired by a president's daughter "Sweet Caroline" |
| #5527, aired 2008-09-23 | TENNIS: This Grand Slam stadium is named for a WWI pilot who pioneered the use of machine guns on fighter planes Roland-Garros Stadium |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It's 277 miles long, it's up to 18 miles wide, it's 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees the Grand Canyon |
| #5522, aired 2008-09-16 | PRESIDENTIAL LASTS: He was the most recent president who had not previously been a state governor George H.W. Bush |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | THE VATICAN: A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633 Galileo |
| #5514, aired 2008-07-24 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1906 he launched Conjurer's Monthly, a magazine that he pretty much wrote & edited himself Harry Houdini |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | 1970s HITS: In 1970 2 performers reached the Top 20 with this hit whose 6-word title was inspired by Boys Town "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team the Chicago Cubs |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn't get to enjoy the victory for long William Henry Harrison |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | PLAYWRIGHTS: On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet George Bernard Shaw |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film Henry Fonda |
| #5480, aired 2008-06-06 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the last person to receive a state's electoral votes while not running as a Democrat or as a Republican George Wallace |
| #5473, aired 2008-05-28 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: He said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last" Winston Churchill |
| #5467, aired 2008-05-20 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: In 1896 he said his mother had lost her childhood at 8; he "knew a time would come when I also must give up the games" J.M. Barrie |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | HISTORIC JOURNALS: On January 18, 1912 he arrived at a tent near the pole & found "a record of five Norwegians having been there" Robert F. Scott |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AMERICAN THINKERS: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work Henry David Thoreau |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | MILITARY MEN: In a 1944 speech, he said, "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge" George Patton |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip John Glenn |
| #5428, aired 2008-03-26 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: In 1954 he won a record 4 Oscars, including one for "Best Documentary Feature" for a film set in the American desert Walt Disney |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WORLD LITERATURE: "If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake" refers to a murderer in this 1866 novel Crime and Punishment |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | ACTORS: He never won an Oscar, but this 1960s movie star got a patent for a low-slung bucket seat for race cars Steve McQueen |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1733 he wrote, "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart" Benjamin Franklin |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass |
| #5391, aired 2008-02-04 | BRITISH ACTORS: The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor Rex Harrison |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | FOREIGN FILMS: A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat a ring |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese Herbert Hoover |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | POETS: Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass" Walt Whitman |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface Harry Houdini |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury" Roget |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | THE MOVIES: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point 8½ |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | HISTORIC ARCHITECTS: He designed S.C.'s State Capitol, burned during the Civil War; his most famous building had burned during the War of 1812 James Hoban |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: Paul III roared at him, "I have waited 30 years for your services. Now I'm pope, can't I satisfy my desire?" Michelangelo |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | DOCUMENTARY SUBJECTS: A documentary from ESPN is based on the premise that this Louisville-born man "invented" rap in the 1960s Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay) |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | ARTISTS: In 1881 he wrote to Emile Zola, "I must soon leave Vetheuil, and I am looking for a pretty place by the Seine" Claude Monet |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | AUTHORS: In 1949 he wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever" (George) Orwell |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | 17th CENTURY PEOPLE: Rev. John Robinson, Minister to these people, wrote them a letter saying how upset he was not to be going with them the Pilgrims |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | MYTHICAL HEROES: In a play by Euripides, he goes mad & thinks he's tearing down the walls of Mycenae but destroys his own house Hercules |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY: A patient who told this Frankfurt doctor "I have lost myself" was the basis for a paper he gave in 1906 Alois Alzheimer |
| #5266, aired 2007-07-02 | AFI's TOP MOVIE QUOTES: Prizefighter Roger Donoghue was Marlon Brando's trainer for "On the Waterfront" & inspired this line on the AFI list "I coulda been a contender" |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ENTERTAINERS OF THE '60s: He won 3 straight Emmys for dramatic acting & a record 6 straight Grammys for comedy albums Bill Cosby |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | HISTORIC NAMESAKES: Born in Predappio, Italy in 1883, he was named for a famous politician born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1806 Benito Mussolini |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SPORTS LEGENDS: Between 1977 & 1980, he won a state high school championship, an NCAA championship, & an NBA championship Magic Johnson |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | HISTORICAL MOVIES: One of the 2 actresses nominated for Oscars for playing the same person in a 1997 blockbuster (1 of) Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: So Prussia could dominate Germany, Bismarck excluded this country that lost the 1866 Battle of Koniggratz Austria |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN: The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings Nostradamus |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Decreed by Congress in 1989, National Tap Dance Day falls on the May 25th birthday of this man born in 1878 Bill Robinson |
| #5205, aired 2007-04-06 | 20th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN: He published "Hunting, Fishing, and Camping" in 1942 & "My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant" in 1960 L.L. Bean |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde |
| #5195, aired 2007-03-23 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000 John Grisham |
| #5191, aired 2007-03-19 | HISTORIC QUOTES: On May 5, 1961 he famously exclaimed, "What a beautiful view!" Alan Shepard |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | BRITISH NOVELISTS: In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable" George Orwell |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Elected president twice, he beat his 2 opponents by a combined Electoral College tally of 1,014-62 Ronald Reagan |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | AMERICANA: In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock a silver dollar |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | 19th CENTURY MEN: In 1813 Louisiana Governor William Claiborne put a $500 bounty on him; he responded by offering one for the gov.'s head Jean Lafitte |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur |
| #5148, aired 2007-01-17 | 18th CENTURY AMERICANS: He preached, "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider... over the fire, abhors you" Jonathan Edwards |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | 19th CENTURY DEMOCRATS: In a famous speech he said, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns..." William Jennings Bryan |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | NOVEL INSPIRATIONS: Novel inspired by a vision of a "pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together" Frankenstein |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | WRITERS: A memorial window near his grave at Winchester Cathedral was a gift from the fishermen of England & America Izaak Walton (author of The Compleat Angler) |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHY: Around 1830 the first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S. obtained land in this state where a university now stands Indiana |
| #5122, aired 2006-12-12 | CHIEF JUSTICES: He wrote that if a person in custody "cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for him... if he so desires" Earl Warren |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Lusatian Mountains, in the western Sudeten range, form part of the border between these 2 countries Germany & the Czech Republic |
| #5116, aired 2006-12-04 | THE 1950s: On a March 9, 1954 broadcast, he famously said, "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty" Edward R. Murrow |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | BROADCASTING FIRSTS: In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language Navajo |
| #5114, aired 2006-11-30 | PLAY CHARACTERS: He is based partly on a philologist who wrote "A History of English Sounds" & "A Handbook of Phonetics" Henry Higgins |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | 1970s TELEVISION: Bruce Peterson, a NASA test pilot, helped inspire this series; the crash he survived was seen in the show's opening credits The Six Million Dollar Man |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | PRESIDENTIAL DISTINCTIONS: Captured as a 14-year-old soldier in 1781, he was the only president who had ever been a prisoner of war Andrew Jackson |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | AUTHORS: John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek Plutarch |
| #5095, aired 2006-11-03 | THE OSCARS: He's the only person over 70 years of age to win a Best Director Oscar Clint Eastwood |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | THE 1850s: He published a book of prose & verse quotes "to trace to their source passages and phrases in common use" John Bartlett |
| #5087, aired 2006-10-24 | MOVIE VILLAINS: Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains Hannibal Lecter |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: Once a top spy, he invented the mug shot seen on reward posters in the Wild West Allan Pinkerton |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | FAMOUS PAINTERS: He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | AMERICANA: A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother" Boys Town |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | OSCAR-NOMINATED MOVIES: One of the 2 Best Picture nominees in which CBS newsman & "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt is a character (1 of) The Insider & Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTATIONS: He announced to the American public, "The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed..." Harry Truman |
| #5044, aired 2006-07-13 | U.S. HISTORY: He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 outlets of the Gulf of Mexico, a strait & a channel, bear the names of these 2 land areas Florida & the Yucatán peninsula |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: It was said that being with these 2 leaders, born 1874 & 1882, "was like sitting between 2 lions roaring at the same time" Winston Churchill & Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: It's the only Canadian province or territory whose 2-letter postal abbreviation is a preposition Ontario |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored August Wilson |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: Encouraged by RFK to seek public office, he left the Marines as a colonel in 1965 & won a Senate seat 9 years later John Glenn |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | COMPOSING CONTEMPORARIES: One of 2 hyphenated composers who flourished in the 1870s, one with "The Maid of Pskov" & one with "Samson et Dalila" (1 of) Camille Saint-Saens & (Nicolai) Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus Ulysses S. Grant |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MEMOIRS: Chapters in this 1937 memoir include "A Kikuyu Chief", "War-Time Safari" & "Old Knudsen" Out of Africa (by Isak Dinesen) |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | PEOPLE IN SPACE: In 2005, as the shuttle Discovery prepared for landing, NASA played a Dexys Midnight Runners song in her honor Eileen Collins |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | THEATRE 2005: The conduct of a priest arouses suspicion in this play that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley) |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | AMERICAN POLITICIANS: In 2005 he took his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, on a new nuclear vessel that's named for him Jimmy Carter |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | '60s NOVELS' FIRST LINES: It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera... waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter" The Godfather |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GERMAN AMERICANS: He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title Henry Kissinger |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | HISTORIC NAMES: When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation Aaron Burr |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | WORLD LEADERS: The first prime minister of his country to be born in that land, he was assassinated in 1995 Yitzhak Rabin |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | LITERARY ANIMALS: In an 1877 novel, he tells us that he was originally called Darkie, & later, Old Crony Black Beauty |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORLD MONEY 2005: This U.S. sports figure (born 1940) became the only living person ever on a Scottish note besides the Queen & her mum Jack Nicklaus |
| #4922, aired 2006-01-24 | WORLD HISTORY: This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written George III |
| #4906, aired 2006-01-02 | ANCIENT BIOGRAPHERS: Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures Plutarch |
| #4889, aired 2005-12-08 | POLITICAL LINGO: Senate Rule 22 governs this; Clinton called it "posturing to prove... a minority can paralyze the federal government" filibusters |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: This 1955 novel was originally titled "The Kingdom by the Sea", an allusion to Poe's "Annabel Lee" Lolita |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII |
| #4883, aired 2005-11-30 | IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s television |
| #4874, aired 2005-11-17 | BRITISH POETS: In 1812 he became a disciple & friend of social philosopher William Godwin, later his father-in-law Percy Shelley |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | 2005 COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES: Speaking at his alma mater, he urged graduates to be voracious readers, donate to worthy causes & stay in Maine Stephen King |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law" William Howard Taft |
| #4869, aired 2005-11-10 | BILLBOARD MAGAZINE: Launched in 2004, Billboard's first Top 20 chart for these included "My Boo", the "Halloween" theme & "Ice Ice Baby" ringtones |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | NOTABLE NAMES: He declined the offer to lead a country & once said, "Politics is for the present... an equation is... for eternity" Albert Einstein |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967 Fahrenheit 451 |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He defended civil rights as a representative from Massachusetts' 11th District from 1895 to 1901 John Francis Fitzgerald |
| #4833, aired 2005-09-21 | NOVELISTS: His great-granddad wrote the best-seller "White Rose of Memphis", a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised William Faulkner |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | RANKS & TITLES: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name Julius Caesar |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages" Gulliver |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond |
| #4820, aired 2005-07-15 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: This 1952 classic contains the line "No one was with her when she died" Charlotte's Web |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: Robert Jackson, the only justice to take a formal leave of absence, went to be a prosecutor in this foreign city Nuremberg |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | OSCAR NOMINEES: In a 1964 film, he played 3 characters but received only one nomination for Best Actor Peter Sellers |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1956 she published "Venice Observed" & her brother Kevin starred in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Mary McCarthy |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | CHARITABLE WORK: Musician Ray Charles raised money for people afflicted by this, saying, "To me, it's the worst thing in the world" deafness (or hearing impairment) |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY: Much in the news of the world at the end of June 2004, it's the only English word to contain "GNT" consecutively sovereignty |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati |
| #4760, aired 2005-04-22 | NEW LAWS: CEOs must personally certify their corporate books following a July 2002 law named for these 2 men Sen. Paul Sarbanes & Rep. Michael Oxley |
| #4757, aired 2005-04-19 | THE CABINET: A top member of the Reagan Cabinet, he was also Labor Secretary & Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon George Shultz |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig |
| #4753, aired 2005-04-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: As a foe of the Spanish, he's been called "The Queen's Pirate" & a "Gran Luterano" Sir Francis Drake |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: This president arranged the first film showing in the White House when he had "The Birth of a Nation" screened there Woodrow Wilson |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | HISTORIC BRITS: During the American Revolution, in his last moments he said, "It will be but a momentary pang" Major John André |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Built in memory of a victim of this tragedy, Harvard's Widener Library was opened in 1915 the sinking of the Titanic |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: (Hi, I'm John McCain.) In presidential succession, the senator holding this position follows the VP & the Speaker of the House president pro tempore |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | FICTIONAL CHILDREN: This boy introduced in a 1902 book flew away from his mother when he was 7 days old Peter Pan |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades George Tenet (former head of the CIA) |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate John Tyler |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | AUTHORS: He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books Ray Bradbury |
| #4670, aired 2004-12-17 | ANNUAL EVENTS: A high-bounce ball inspired businessman Lamar Hunt to give an annual event this name the Super Bowl |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | HISTORIC MESSAGES: In 1943 he sent the famous message "Eleven alive native knows posit and reefs Nauru Island" John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | COMPANY ORIGINS: This Fortune 100 company got its name from what it bought from sailors & sold to natural history collectors Shell Oil |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | SPORTS: Its solo female winner is awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish Wimbledon |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | SEMIANNUAL PUBLICATIONS: It began in 1886 as an extension of an upper crust family's list of whose house they'd visit & who they'd receive The Social Register |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | HISTORIC AREAS: In 1893, as it was disappearing, F.J. Turner wrote a famous essay on "The Significance of" it "in American History" the Frontier |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | AUTHORS: After several decades off it, works by this man seen here returned to the New York Times Bestseller List in 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: After his public comments were criticized by FDR, he resigned his Air Corps Reserve commission in April 1941 Charles Lindbergh |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | POETS: A San Francisco resident since the 1950s, in 1998 he became the city's first Poet Laureate Lawrence Ferlinghetti (owner of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco) |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: After WWI he wrote, "To develop a horse-surgery… would necessitate a knowledge of horse language" Hugh Lofting (author of the Doctor Dolittle books) |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | ALIASES: Norma McCorvey recently sought a reversal to her landmark 1973 case in which she had this name (Jane) Roe |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | SINGERS: Her recording career lasted just 8 years, starting in 1955 with "A Church, A Courtroom And Then Good-Bye" Patsy Cline |
| #4592, aired 2004-07-20 | ON THE MAP: In area it's the largest African country through which the Greenwich meridian passes Algeria |
| #4590, aired 2004-07-16 | FOOD: Experts believe that 16th century Dutch growers, through breeding, gave this vegetable its color to honor their ruling house the carrot |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: With a book about the South, he became the first president--past or present--to publish a novel Jimmy Carter |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel |
| #4585, aired 2004-07-09 | INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Of the 8 members of the G-8 industrial nations, the one with the smallest population Canada |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | FICTIONAL PEOPLE: After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720 Lois Lane |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | WRITERS: Born in 1564, he was employed by Elizabeth I's Secretary of State to uncover Catholic plots against her reign (Christopher) Marlowe |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | BOOK TITLES: "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this Song of Solomon |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist |
| #4571, aired 2004-06-21 | INVENTIONS: Josephine Cochrane's 1886 version of this consisted of a copper boiler, wire baskets & a pump a dishwasher |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | MYTHS & LEGENDS: At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread Damocles |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | CLASSIC MOVIES: A 35-foot-long muslin stocking was used to create the cyclone for this 1939 film The Wizard of Oz |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES: His name means "The Glory of" a certain goddess, & he built shrines to that goddess Hercules |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | HISTORIC NAMES: As a teenager in 1653, he played the sun in a court performance of the "Ballet de la Nuit" Louis XIV |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: He wrote a "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842" John C. Fremont |
| #4501, aired 2004-03-15 | THE 1960s: Used most infamously in 1963, a .38-caliber Colt Cobra handgun belonging to this man sold in 1991 for $220,000 Jack Ruby |
| #4488, aired 2004-02-25 | ASTRONOMY: The name of Mintaka, a star in this constellation, is from the Arabic for "belt" Orion |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | FAMOUS NAMES: A grandson of Man O' War, he defeated his uncle in a famous matchup November 1, 1938 Seabiscuit |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | SONGS: One of the first to sing it publicly was Baltimore actor Fredinand Durang at Captain McCauley's tavern in October 1814 "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the U.S. president whose great-grandson seen here taking part in a special celebration Teddy Roosevelt |
| #4435, aired 2003-12-12 | 19th CENTURY BUSINESS: Frederic Tudor became wealthy marketing this, which he took from a pond called Fresh Pond in Massachusetts ice |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He called himself a "Cubano Sato", a phrase from the Cuban dialect meaning both "flirt" & "half-breed" Ernest Hemingway |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | NOTABLE NAMES: In 1908 he turned the techniques he used to train army troops into a manual for training small groups of boys Lord Baden-Powell |
| #4408, aired 2003-11-05 | POSTAGE STAMPS: In honor of the 400th anniv. of his birth, in 1964 he became the first English commoner to appear on a British stamp William Shakespeare |
| #4402, aired 2003-10-28 | LEGENDARY RULERS: He's been written about by Aneirin in "The Gododdin" around 600 A.D. & by Fay Sampson in the "Daughter of Tintagel" series King Arthur |
| #4394, aired 2003-10-16 | NAME'S THE SAME: This sports superstar of 1973 bears the name of one of the 6 major organs of the United Nations Secretariat |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | OPERA SETTINGS: Verdi's Nabucco, who's also known by a longer form of his name, is the king of this ancient place Babylon |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | MOVIES: A catering hall called Aphrodite's Palace is featured in this 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| #4386, aired 2003-10-06 | AUTHORS: He chose a quotation by Scott Joplin as the epigraph for a 1975 novel E.L. Doctorow |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This title character was based on a man who bravely served the Guides Regiment at the 1857 Siege of Delhi Gunga Din |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | PEOPLE: He said, "I... really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit" Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | MAGAZINES: For its 1st swimsuit edition in 2003, it covered 100 years of the swimsuit & included a 1917 photo of topless island women National Geographic |
| #4356, aired 2003-07-07 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: He turned down an appointment as a U.S. senator in 1875 because it meant accepting a pardon for treason Jefferson Davis |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | OPERA: Title character of a 1787 opera who says he needs women "more than the food I eat,... than the very air I breathe" Don Juan (or Don Giovanni) |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | TELEVISION: In Apple's I-Movie program, the effect seen here that's done with photos is named for this TV filmmaker Ken Burns |
| #4337, aired 2003-06-10 | 2001 NEWS: On May 9, 2001 he signed a state law banning punch-card voting Jeb Bush (governor of Florida) |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | CHARACTERS: Person missing from: Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Waltraute & Schwertleite Brunhilde (one of the Valkyries) |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | MOUNTAINS: All of the mountains in the U.S. over 14,500 feet are in this state Alaska |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | AUTHORS: In September 2002 he offered $10,000 to help capture the person who burned down Iowa's Cedar Bridge Robert James Waller (author of "The Bridges of Madison County") |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | THE GLOBE: Of the more than a dozen countries through which the equator passes, this country stretches farthest south Brazil |
| #4233, aired 2003-01-15 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: He's the Frenchman seen here in a detail from a portrait by Jacques-Louis David Antoine Lavoisier |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first president to use a middle name John Quincy Adams |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela |
| #4209, aired 2002-12-12 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS: He's the last person to win the Best Director Oscar for a film in which he also starred Mel Gibson (for Braveheart) |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | THE PRESIDENCY: He was the first man to become U.S. president as a result of the 25th Amendment Gerald Ford |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | NATURAL WONDERS: Given its current name by John Wesley Powell, it was called Kaibab, or "mountain lying down", by the Paiutes the Grand Canyon |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE CENSUS: The 1930 U.S. Census was the first to ask if residents owned one of these & 12 million were counted a radio |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency James A. Garfield |
| #4158, aired 2002-10-02 | BROADWAY STARS: This Tony-winning actor with the real name Joseph took part of his stage name from a role in "Guys and Dolls" Nathan Lane |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | WORLD LEADERS: In April 1952 he wrote in a poem, "Cherry blossoms are blooming full today, now is the nation's springtime" Emperor Hirohito |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | SPORTS STARS: He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series Deion Sanders |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: "May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer John Adams |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: He once said, "If I can make a deaf-mute talk, I can make metal talk" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #4125, aired 2002-07-05 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He was the first U.S. president who never had a vice president John Tyler |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | 1980s BUSINESS: In his job since 1984, this man has been called "the Prince who awakened Sleeping Beauty" Michael Eisner |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | LITERARY HEROINES: This literary character was inspired by Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide Madame Bovary |
| #4094, aired 2002-05-23 | ISRAEL: They are the 2 Arab countries in which Israel currently has embassies Egypt & Jordan |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | KNOWLEDGE BY THE NUMBERS: Number of males who served as British PM in the 1990s plus Oscars won by Tom Hanks plus protons in a helium nucleus 6 (2 + 2 + 2) |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | ESPIONAGE: He was born in India; his father worked for the British government & he was nicknamed for a Kipling character Kim Philby |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | SOUTHERN WRITERS: He said, "My own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about... I would never... exhaust it" William Faulkner |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Other than FDR, he's the only man to appear as President or VP on a major party ticket in 4 straight elections George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #4060, aired 2002-04-05 | AUTHORS: Like one of his most famous heroines, he died at a train station in 1910 Tolstoy |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | CELEBRITIES: He describes himself as "Cablinasian", a hybrid of Caucasian, Black, American Indian & Asian Tiger Woods |
| #4014, aired 2002-01-31 | ATHLETES: He was an Olympian, played pro baseball for the Reds & was a charter member of pro football's Hall of Fame (Jim) Thorpe |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | WORLD LEADERS: Born into a royal family of the Thembu people & expected to become a chief, he became a president in 1994 Nelson Mandela |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP: Tourist spots in the Asian city named for this man include Notre Dame Cathedral & Reunification Hall Ho Chi Minh |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | INVENTORS: Summarizing the dawn of a new era, he came up with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest" George Eastman |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | 1950s TELEVISION: According to the L.A. Times, he quipped, "How many stories should you tell about two people in an apartment?" Jackie Gleason |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ORGANIZATIONS: In 2001 a fight over these initials pitted the panda against The Rock WWF |
| #3994, aired 2002-01-03 | FAMILIAR PHARASES: This 2-word term entered the English language after a pilot reported seeing 9 of them near Mt. Rainier in June 1947 flying saucers |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | CLASSIC TV CHARACTERS: In a real ceremony in 2001, the Marines promoted this character to Lance Cpl. after he was a private for over 30 years Gomer Pyle |
| #3991, aired 2001-12-31 | LAW HISTORY: In 1964 he was the prosecutor of Jack Ruby; in 1973 he was the defendant in a landmark Supreme Court case Wade |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | ANIMALS: Scientists named an anticoagulant found in the saliva of a species of this animal "draculin" (vampire) bat |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | ANCIENT ROMANS: According to tradition, he was descended from the clan of the Pontii & killed himself in 39 A.D. Pontius Pilate |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush |
| #3947, aired 2001-10-30 | COLLECTIBLES: When he moved into the White House, George W. Bush brought some of his over 150 autographed ones of these baseballs |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | WORLD LEADERS: In April 2001 Kevin Costner screened his film "Thirteen Days" for this man, a key player in the events portrayed Fidel Castro |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: Linda Collins's tetanus antitoxin allergy led her parents to found this emergency information service MedicAlert |
| #3909, aired 2001-09-06 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here Jefferson Davis |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS: D.H. Lawrence called him "an adventurer into the vaults and...
horrible underground passages of the human soul" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | THE EMMYS: The star of one of TV's most popular shows ever, he's the only person to win Emmys for acting, writing & directing Alan Alda |
| #3878, aired 2001-06-13 | DIRECTORS: In 1939 he helped Roger Hill prepare the "Mercury Shakespeare", a series of editions for actors Orson Welles |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS: A Red Sox pitcher, later a Yankee, he held the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings from 1918 to 1961 Babe Ruth |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | POETS: Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | U.S. HISTORY: This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion Abraham Lincoln |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | FRENCH NOVELISTS: A relative of Henri Bergson's wife, he used Bergson's mystical concepts of time in his most famous work Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past) |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3789, aired 2001-02-08 | POLITICIANS: A current U.S. governor, he hosted the game show "Grudge Match" in 1991 Jesse Ventura |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | FAMOUS SHIPS: In December 1620 this vessel came ashore at a secondary destination because of a shortage of beer the Mayflower |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | RELIGIOUS NAMES: In commemoration of his predecessors, he was the first pope to choose a double name Pope John Paul I |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | LIFE SCIENCE: A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species Dolphins |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | TRAVEL: By population, it's the largest city on a Caribbean island, though you may not be allowed to go there Havana, Cuba |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | PLANTS & FLOWERS: Named for a U.S. statesman, it was known in Central America as the "Flower of the Holy Night" Poinsettia |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS: A conversation he had with Miles Davis became the first of the “Playboy Interviews” in 1962 Alex Haley |
| #3740, aired 2000-12-01 | SCIENCE: He invented carbonated water as a byproduct of his investigations into the chemistry of air Joseph Priestley |
| #3719, aired 2000-11-02 | STATE MOTTOES: The state motto of Ohio, adopted in 1959, was ruled unconstitutional in April 2000 as it included this word God |
| #3716, aired 2000-10-30 | IN THE NEWS 2000: 40 years after a famous incident, he was awarded a DFC, POW Medal & Natl. Defense Service Medal posthumously Francis Gary Powers |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | INVENTORS: In September 1899 he equipped 2 ships to report the progress of the America's Cup yacht race to a NYC newspaper Guglielmo Marconi |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: His 2 acting Oscars have been awarded for playing a tough cop in 1971 & a brutal sheriff in 1992 Gene Hackman |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | NEWSPAPERS: Sime Silverman founded it in 1905 after he was fired from another paper for panning a show Variety |
| #3687, aired 2000-09-19 | FAMOUS NAMES: The Hopi Indians gave this German-born man the name "The Great Relative" when he visited Arizona in the 1930s Albert Einstein |
| #3683, aired 2000-09-13 | FAMOUS PEOPLE: On January 27, 1999 he returned home aboard a TWA 767 designated Shepherd I Pope John Paul II |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: "The Line King" is a film about this man whose work has been in the New York Times for the last 70 years Al Hirschfeld |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | CURRENT TELEVISION: Dee Dee Myers is a consultant to this drama series The West Wing |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | THE PULITZER PRIZES: The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies Roger Ebert |
| #3607, aired 2000-04-18 | WORLD WAR II BATTLES: In 1998 Bill Surgi helped locate the sunken aircraft carrier Yorktown, a ship he last saw during this WWII battle Midway |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | BRAND NAME PEOPLE: Immigrating to the U.S. at age 17, he cooked at the Plaza in New York & catered Pres. Wilson's wedding reception in 1915 Chef Boyardee (real name Ettore Boiardi) |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | THE TONY AWARDS: (Hi, I'm Brian Dennehy) This man won a Tony for writing the Best Play of 1949 and I had the honor of presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1999 Arthur Miller (wrote "Death of a Salesman") |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | HISTORIC QUESTIONS: "'Yes,' said he, with a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly" was the reply to this 1871 question "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | ARTISTS: Looking at kids' art, he said at "Their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them" Pablo Picasso |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | AUTHORS: In 1594 he took a job as a tax collector in Andalusia Miguel de Cervantes |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | SCIENCE HISTORY: In 1672 Christiaan Huygens sketched its southern ice cap Mars |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | HISTORIC FIRSTS: Stopped by a cop on a bike, in 1896 Walter Arnold was the first man in England to receive a fine for this Speeding |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | INDUSTRIALISTS: In 1916 he said, "The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today" Henry Ford |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | POLITICIANS: He began his political career by defeating Jerry Voorhis in 1946 for a California house seat Richard M. Nixon |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Chapter XVI of this novel concerns "The Inn Which He Took for a Castle" "Don Quixote" |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | FAMOUS FATHERS: He played rhythm & blues guitar before working as a crane operator & raising a family in Gary, Indiana Joe Jackson |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: Named for its shape, this region stretches NW from the Persian Gulf, W. to Syria, then S. through Palestine the Fertile Crescent |
| #3386, aired 1999-05-03 | ORGANIZATIONS: In 1901 Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Baltimore & Philadelphia made up this; Tampa Bay joined in 1998 the American League |
| #3353, aired 1999-03-17 | IRISH-BORN AUTHORS: Once a drama critic in his native Dublin, he toured the U.S. as an actor's manager, but never visited Romania Bram Stoker |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | AUTHORS: In 1745 he bequeathed his estate to be used for the founding of a hospital for the mentally ill in Dublin Jonathan Swift |
| #3310, aired 1999-01-15 | FAMOUS ARTISTS: In 1909 he exhibited a group of his paintings entitled "Nympheas: Series de paysages d'eau" Claude Monet |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | PEOPLE: He made the cover of Life magazine 3 times in February & March of 1962, & again in October 1998 John Glenn |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THE 1970s: In April 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a license plate that read "HLA715" Hank Aaron |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AWARDS: In 1927 Cedric Gibbons designed this award that he went on to win 11 times The Academy Award (Oscar) |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | FAMOUS NAMES: In a 15-minute-long ceremony, his New York townhouse was designated a "Cultural Landmark" in 1998 Andy Warhol |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | LEGENDARY PEOPLE: He lived with his girlfriend, a fat priest & a 7-foot-tall archer Robin Hood |
| #3239, aired 1998-10-08 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last man elected president who had served as a U.S. senator Richard M. Nixon |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS: In 1912 he began creating abstract sculptures of Maiastra, a bird in Romanian legends Constantin Brancusi |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | PEOPLE IN POLITICS: A former gov. & presidential candidate & now mayor-elect, in 1998 he quit the "corrupted" Democratic party Jerry Brown |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | WESTERNS: Created by Clarence E. Mulford, in books he was a crusty guy with a bad leg; in film, a romantic lead Hopalong Cassidy |
| #3193, aired 1998-06-17 | TELEVISION PERSONALITIES: He was ordained by Pittsburgh Presbytery in 1962 with a charge to work with children through the media Fred Rogers (host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) |
| #3177, aired 1998-05-26 | SINGERS: He first recorded in 1939, "retired" in 1971, returned & had a Top 10 album in 1993 Frank Sinatra |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS & AUTHORS: He also created a 2-letter land called Ix L. Frank Baum (creator of the Wizard of Oz) |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | AVIATION: On October 14, 1997 he re-created a feat he had performed exactly fifty years earlier Chuck Yeager |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | HOLY DAYS: On this day you can hear "Remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return" ritually repeated Ash Wednesday |
| #3115, aired 1998-02-27 | TELEVISION BIOGRAPHIES: The biography of this man on PBS' "American Masters" was subtitled "Submitted for Your Approval" Rod Serling |
| #3114, aired 1998-02-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He launched his lecturing career in 1866 with a talk later titled "Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands" Mark Twain |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | AUTHORS: He claimed that as a Pinkerton detective, he had worked the Fatty Arbuckle & Nicky Arnstein cases Dashiell Hammett |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | NATIVE AMERICANS: Before this great chief died in 1877, he reportedly prophesied, "I will return to you in stone" Crazy Horse |
| #3104, aired 1998-02-12 | U.S. STATESMEN: Between 1803 & 1848, he served as a U.S. senator, Sec. of State, president & congressman, in that order John Quincy Adams |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | WORLD LEADERS: In a September 18, 1978 speech, he said, "Blessed are the peacemakers" President Jimmy Carter |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | LEGAL EAGLES: In 1931 he narrated "The Mystery of Life", a full-length film about evolution Clarence Darrow |
| #3079, aired 1998-01-08 | ECONOMISTS: In 1980 he hosted a 10-part PBS series & co-authored the companion book, both titled "Free to Choose" Milton Friedman |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | JOURNALISM: In an 1897 editorial that stated, "Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever" this question was answered "Is there a Santa Claus?" ("Yes, Virginia...") |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | 16th CENTURY EXPLORERS: He was buried under a stone that read "Beneath this stone repose the bones of the valiant lion..." Ponce de Leon |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES: Name shared by characters that Derek Jacobi played in a PBS miniseries & in Kenneth Branagh's film of "Hamlet" Claudius |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | POLITICAL CONNECTIONS: In 1832 when the House tried Sam Houston for contempt, he was defended by this lawyer & lyricist Francis Scott Key |
| #2994, aired 1997-09-11 | TELEVISION: A 1997 episode of this series guest-starred Philip Michael Thomas & Tommy Chong Nash Bridges |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | REPUBLICANS: He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday Alf Landon |
| #2982, aired 1997-07-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox James Knox Polk |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England Henry James |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | VICE PRESIDENTS: 1 of 2 men who served as U.S. vice president & also won a Nobel Peace Prize Charles Dawes or Theodore Roosevelt |
| #2947, aired 1997-05-27 | MUSICIANS: As a disc jockey in the 1940s, he was known as "The Blues Boy from Beale Street" B.B. King |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | GENESIS: The final word in Genesis is the name of this country Egypt |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | JOURNALISTS: Before his death in 1920, he led America's Communist Labor Party, drew up its manifesto & edited its paper John Reed |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King James Buchanan |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: Queen Victoria called his death "a very great loss. He had... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes" Charles Dickens |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | RULERS: In 44 B.C. he was made dictator for life, a post abolished after he died the same year Julius Caesar |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | POLITICIANS: His rise began when he upset Robert M. La Follette, Jr. in a 1946 Senate primary Joseph McCarthy |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | FAMOUS NAMES: Before achieving fame in Hollywood, he was a cosmetician to the Russian royal court Max Factor |
| #2843, aired 1997-01-01 | AUTHORS: In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client John Grisham |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: Arrested twice at the 1968 convention for demonstrating, he was a delegate to the 1996 convention Tom Hayden |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | ASSASSINS: The knife he used to stab Major Henry Rathbone is in a Washington, D.C. museum John Wilkes Booth |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | NOTORIOUS: A corrections museum in Trenton, New Jersey contains the chair in which he was executed in 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann |
| #2788, aired 1996-10-16 | 1960s AMERICANS: As a fugitive from the law, he assumed the identity of Barry Freed, an ecological crusader Abbie Hoffman |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut Kevin Costner |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | FILM DIRECTORS: This actor-writer-director born in 1963 was named for a Burt Reynolds TV character Quentin Tarantino |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | 1996: On June 11, 1996 the U.S. Senate voted to name a balcony in his honor Bob Dole |
| #2761, aired 1996-09-09 | AMERICANA: The canceled check for this purchase, in the amount of $7.2 million, is on display at the National Archives the Alaska Purchase |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ARTISTS: In 1914 his brother's remains were moved from Holland to Auvers, France & buried beside him Vincent Van Gogh |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In 1781 he wrote, "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing" Alexander Hamilton |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BLACK HISTORY: In 1920 he was named provisional president of Africa with a mandate to free it from white domination Marcus Garvey |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | INVENTORS: In 1856 he addressed a British scientific association on "the manufacture of iron without fuel" Henry Bessemer |
| #2708, aired 1996-05-15 | PATRIOTIC PLACES: This site on the Schuylkill River was named for a small ironworks nearby Valley Forge |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THE EMMYS: He won Emmys for teleplay writing 3 years in a row, 1955-57 Rod Serling |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | STATESMEN: He abandoned plans for a military career at age 17 &, in 1607, became Bishop of Lucon Cardinal Richelieu |
| #2683, aired 1996-04-10 | SAINTS: He wrote, "Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures, above all brother sun" St. Francis of Assisi |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | FOREIGN DIRECTORS: His fascination with clowns & make-believe may have begun when he ran off with Pierino's Circus as a child Federico Fellini |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | OPERA: He conducted the world premieres of "Pagliacci", "La Boheme" & "The Girl of the Golden West" Arturo Toscanini |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | AUTHORS: He adapted a rejected treatise on exploring Africa by balloon into an 1863 novel, his first big success Jules Verne |
| #2654, aired 1996-02-29 | AUTHORS: He created his most famous character in 1952 at Goldeneye, a holiday home he bought in Jamaica Ian Fleming |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: The 1st man named this was a violinist, the 2nd, an actor & the 3rd, CEO at Times Mirror Magazines Efrem Zimbalist |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1941 & 1942 he served as a photo-muralist for the Department of the Interior Ansel Adams |
| #2645, aired 1996-02-16 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES: This actor's first name is Hawaiian for "cool breeze over the mountains" Keanu Reeves |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943 Newt Gingrich |
| #2613, aired 1996-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: In the 1950s he won 2 Best Supp. Actor Oscars: 1 for playing a revolutionary, & 1 for playing an artist Anthony Quinn |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | DEMOCRATS: In 1995 he cast his 14,000th vote in the Senate, a record for any party Senator (Robert) Byrd |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | ARCHITECTS: Frank Lloyd Wright had a fine collection of art from this country where he spent a lot of time 1915-1922 Japan |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | BESTSELLING NOVELISTS: From 1979 to 1986, he was dean of the college of business administration at the University of Northern Iowa Robert James Waller ("The Bridges of Madison County") |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He's the co-founder & editor-in-chief of a new magazine that hit the stands on September 26, 1995 John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BUSINESS & LITERATURE: On March 24, 1994 this store held a breakfast to announce the new Truman Capote Literary Trust Tiffany's |
| #2561, aired 1995-10-23 | FAMOUS NAMES: As British ambassador to Turkey he was allowed to take away "any pieces of stone with old inscriptions" (Lord) Elgin |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | THE CARIBBEAN: Its peso is symbolized R.D.$ the Dominican Republic |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: He served as assistant attorney general of Missouri under John C. Danforth from 1974 to 1977 (Clarence) Thomas |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | 19th CENTURY ARTISTS: He sued a man for libel over a criticism of his painting "Nocturne in Black and Gold"--& won (James Abbott McNeil) Whistler |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | NATURALISTS: Before his death in 1914 he studied forests in Russia, India & Australia, as well as the U.S. John Muir |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | NOTORIOUS: Oscar Collazo, serving a life sentence for his assassination attempt on this president, was released in 1979 Harry Truman |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: He died July 12, 1804 of a gunshot wound received at Weehawken Heights, New Jersey Alexander Hamilton |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | ARTISTS: He painted a "Crouching Marquesan Woman Seen from the Back" circa 1902 Paul Gauguin |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | FAMOUS NAMES: In a 1987 interview, he said, "In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people" Marcel Marceau |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In September 1814 John S. Skinner & this Maryland atty. were sent to negotiate the release of William Beanes, a POW Francis Scott Key |
| #2488, aired 1995-05-31 | FAMOUS NAMES: Best known as a novelist, in 1973 he directed his first feature film, "Westworld" Michael Crichton |
| #2469, aired 1995-05-04 | POLITICAL TERMS: In a 1906 speech Teddy Roosevelt said he agreed with their aims but their methods were sensational & irresponsible muckrakers |
| #2441, aired 1995-03-27 | SCIENTISTS: In 1928 he published "Introduzione alla fisical atomica", a university physics textbook Enrico Fermi |
| #2435, aired 1995-03-17 | PHILANTHROPISTS: In 1887 the remains of James Lick were placed inside one of these that he endowed a telescope |
| #2430, aired 1995-03-10 | POETS: His wife Caitlin, who outlived him by 41 years, passed away in 1994 at age 80 Dylan Thomas |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | THE 1980s: In 1989 a statue called "Goddess of Democracy" was erected in this square Tiananmen Square |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | KINGS & QUEENS: This royal wife, Queen of England for just 6 months in 1540, was the daughter of a German duke Anne of Cleves |
| #2393, aired 1995-01-18 | ANCIENT TIMES: While conquering Asia, he carried a copy of the "Iliad" in a special gold casket Alexander the Great |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: During WWI this singer raised several million dollars for the Italian Red Cross Enrico Caruso |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | ETYMOLOGY: Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine a computer |
| #2367, aired 1994-12-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Appointed minister to Mexico in 1853, he was recalled in 1856 James Gadsden |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He was 50 yards from victory in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase of 1956 when his horse collapsed Dick Francis |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | HISTORIC NAMES: A midshipman at age 9, he served in the War of 1812 at age 11, & became a Civil War hero while in his 60s David Farragut |
| #2339, aired 1994-11-03 | PLAYWRIGHTS: He's won 3 Pulitzer Prizes for drama--in 1967, 1975 & 1994 Edward Albee |
| #2329, aired 1994-10-20 | 1960s THEATRE: In the 1966-'67 Broadway season, this playwright had 4 shows running simultaneously Neil Simon |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | RULERS: In the Mayflower Compact this king was called a "dread sovereign lord" King James I of England (or King James VI of Scotland) |
| #2323, aired 1994-10-12 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: To cure his affliction he was told to bathe in the Pactolus River King Midas |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | NOVELISTS: In 1918 he proudly wrote to his family "I'm the first American wounded in Italy" Ernest Hemingway |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | 1994: James Gregory, a former Robben Island warden, was an invited guest at this May 10, 1994 event the inauguration of Nelson Mandela |
| #2299, aired 1994-09-08 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1877 his remains were buried at West Point, where he had graduated last in his class George A. Custer |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1921 he was appointed an advisor on Arab affairs to then British colonial minister Winston Churchill T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | MEMOIRS: In 1981 he published "A Knight at the Opera" Rudolf Bing |
| #2241, aired 1994-05-09 | THE SUPREME COURT: While Chief Justice, he was made special envoy to England, where he made a very unpopular treaty John Jay |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | THE BIBLE: Although blind, he killed 3,000 at a religious festival Samson |
| #2230, aired 1994-04-22 | OLD RADIO: This comedian said he took his last name from a Revolutionary War hero who was no longer using it Fred Allen |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS: Mrs. Patrick Campbell said of this vegetarian, "God help us if he should ever eat a beefsteak" George Bernard Shaw |
| #2190, aired 1994-02-25 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1970 he made his first visit to a Tennessee classroom since his conviction 45 years earlier John Scopes |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | HISTORIC CAPES: On October 21, 1805 the Victory won a victory off this Spanish cape Trafalgar |
| #2183, aired 1994-02-16 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a 1963 speech JFK declared, "2,000 years ago the proudest boast was 'civis romanus sum.' Today" it's this Ich bin ein Berliner |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1992 he became the first foreign head of state to be convicted by a U.S. jury Manuel Noriega |
| #2151, aired 1994-01-03 | POP MUSIC: He has surpassed Elvis with a Top 40 hit in 24 consecutive years Elton John |
| #2125, aired 1993-11-26 | THE CABINET: In the 1970s he held more Cabinet posts than anyone in U.S. history—4, including Attorney General Elliot Richardson |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: At age 13 in 1926, he was accepted as a novice at the abbey of Kykkos; he later taught there Archbishop Makarios |
| #2122, aired 1993-11-23 | HISTORIC FRENCHMEN: In 1704 he was commandant of Detroit; a few years later, he was made governor of Louisiana Antoine de Cadillac |
| #2107, aired 1993-11-02 | PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS: Since 1952 he's hosted a weekday talk & interview show on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT Studs Terkel |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | TELEVISION: This series noted for the highest rated single episode of the '60s had a 1993 film based on it The Fugitive |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | SCIENTISTS: He is Cambridge Univ.'s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a chair held 300 years ago by Isaac Newton Stephen Hawking |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | QUOTES OF THE 1960s: He once told Newsweek, "I have no country. For me a country is just a place to dance" Nureyev |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: He used his fishing boat, the Pilar, for counter-intelligence work during World War II Ernest Hemingway |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Before Clinton, he was the last U.S. president who was a law school graduate (Gerald) Ford |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | POETS & POETRY: He was buried in a country churchyard in Buckinghamshire, England in 1771 Thomas Gray |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | THE 1950s: June 2, 1953 event telecast worldwide & filmed in Technicolor Queen Elizabeth II's coronation |
| #2036, aired 1993-06-14 | POETS: In 1993 Maya Angelou became the first poet to read at a presidential inauguration since this poet in 1961 Robert Frost |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | IN THE NEWS: In January 1993 he was elected president of a country 2/3 the size of the one he led 7 months earlier Vaclav Havel |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last unmarried man elected president Grover Cleveland |
| #1995, aired 1993-04-16 | ASSASSINATIONS: On February 21, 1965 he was killed in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City Malcolm X |
| #1985, aired 1993-04-02 | THE TONY AWARDS: He won his first of 9 Tonys for the first Broadway musical he choreographed, "The Pajama Game" Bob Fosse |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | ISLANDS: After its ruler left February 26, 1815, this island was restored to Tuscany Elba |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Abandoned as a child in Liverpool, he was raised by the Earnshaw family Heathcliff |
| #1927, aired 1993-01-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | PLANTS & TREES: Botany Bay kino, a resin used to protect wood from worms, is derived from this type of tree eucalyptus |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | QUOTES: The author who wrote, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1906, aired 1992-12-14 | ROMAN EMPERORS: In 54 A.D., as the result of his mother's scheming, he became the first teenage emperor of Rome at age 16 Nero |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He retired after the only woman he ever loved, opera singer Irene Adler, passed away Sherlock Holmes |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | POLAND: Laid to rest temporarily at Arlington in 1941, his remains were returned to Poland in 1992 Jan Paderewski |
| #1883, aired 1992-11-11 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He served as vice president for the shortest length of time: one month John Tyler |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | MEN OF SCIENCE: In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published Luther Burbank |
| #1862, aired 1992-10-13 | PRESIDENTS: Before Eisenhower, he was the last president to preside over the admission of a new state (William Howard) Taft |
| #1844, aired 1992-09-17 | U.S. ELECTIONS: He's been on the Republican national ticket more than anyone else, 5 times Richard Nixon |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | FILMS OF THE '50s: One of the 1st lines in this William Holden film is "The poor dope. He always wanted a pool." Sunset Boulevard |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN: This legendary 71-year-old performer, the widow of a diplomat, died in Panama in 1991 Margot Fonteyn |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | COMPOSERS: An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since George Frederick Handel |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | AMERICAN STORIES: Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains" "Rip Van Winkle" |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | ARTISTS: 2 of his major works are "Synagogue at Safed" (1931) & "King David" (1951) Chagall |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: A native Kentuckian, he was the first president born outside of the original 13 states Abraham Lincoln |
| #1779, aired 1992-04-30 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the first Navy veteran to become president Kennedy |
| #1768, aired 1992-04-15 | AUTHORS: His exact birthday is unknown, but it's believed to be Sept. 29, 1547, the feast day of San Miguel Miguel de Cervantes |
| #1753, aired 1992-03-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He served 8 years each as a member of the House, secretary of state & president James Madison |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1789, while commander of Paris' National Guard, he saved Marie Antoinette from a mob that invaded Versailles Marquis de Lafayette |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term Richard Nixon |
| #1734, aired 1992-02-27 | SCIENCE: 1 of 2 chemical elements whose symbol is a pronoun (1 of) iodine or helium |
| #1717, aired 1992-02-04 | MAGAZINES: This late actor was on the July 13, July 20 & July 27, 1991 TV guide covers Michael Landon |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | ACTORS OF THE PAST: Born in 1895, 2 of his greatest film roles were Julio Desnoyers & Ahmed Ben Hassan Rudolph Valentino |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | ART: Rodin originally conceived "The Thinker" as a seated portrait of this author for "The Gates of Hell" Dante |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | THE BIBLE: The book of Genesis ends with his death "and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" Joseph |
| #1699, aired 1992-01-09 | THE SENATE: In 1961 he became the first Republican senator from Texas since Reconstruction John Tower |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | INSECTS: This pest escaped from a Mass. lab where it was brought in the 19th c. as a possible silkworm the gypsy moth |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | THE MOVIES: This 1971 musical featured violin solos by Isaac Stern Fiddler on the Roof |
| #1686, aired 1991-12-23 | U.S. CITIES: The Colorado city named for its location at the confluence of 2 major rivers Grand Junction |
| #1685, aired 1991-12-20 | THEATRE: The patriarch of this family was born Herbert Blythe in 1847; he took a stage name in 1872 the Barrymores |
| #1684, aired 1991-12-19 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: In 1952 he set up a law practice with partner Oliver Tambo Nelson Mandela |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the grandson of one president & the son-in-law of another David Eisenhower |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SCIENTISTS: In 1902, at age 23, he was appointed to a position in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland Albert Einstein |
| #1668, aired 1991-11-27 | SHAKESPEARE: In his diary Samuel Pepys described this play as silly, "and not related at all to the name or day" Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
| #1656, aired 1991-11-11 | AUTHORS: His father was a general under Napoleon & he took part in Garibaldi's liberation of Sicily in 1860 Alexandre Dumas |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES: Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, Richard Mulligan & Gary Cole have all played this historical role George Armstrong Custer |
| #1622, aired 1991-09-24 | THE PULITZER PRIZE: In 1991 he won his second Pulitzer for fiction, with a book that was a sequel to his first winner John Updike |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE 20th CENTURY: He was attacked by R. Mercader, a Spanish Communist agent, on Aug. 20, 1940 & died the following day Leon Trotsky |
| #1614, aired 1991-09-12 | INVENTORS: Advised to invent something to be used & thrown away, he did in 1895 & made a fortune King Gillette |
| #1602, aired 1991-07-16 | HISTORIC NAMES: He married Edith Bolling Galt, a widow, on December 18, 1915 in her Washington, D.C. drawing room Woodrow Wilson |
| #1598, aired 1991-07-10 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: A 40-year old widower, he was engaged to remarry when he died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the last vice president who didn't serve a full 4-year term Nelson Rockefeller |
| #1568, aired 1991-05-29 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He served as president during the 49th, 50th, 53rd & 54th Congresses Grover Cleveland |
| #1560, aired 1991-05-17 | SCIENTISTS: In 1879 he showed that gastric juices can be produced without food being put in the stomach Ivan Pavlov |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The only 1 to sign the Declaration of Independence, 1778 alliance w/France, peace treaty w/G.B. & Constitution Benjamin Franklin |
| #1547, aired 1991-04-30 | THE WHITE HOUSE: He submitted a design for the executive mansion under a pseudonym, A.Z.; it was rejected Thomas Jefferson |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of 2 men elected president while serving as a U.S. senator Warren G. Harding or John F. Kennedy |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | MUSEUMS: When he died in 1936 he left his Sarasota estate & museum, with a vast Rubens collection, to Florida John Ringling |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Edward Everett gave the principal speech here November 19, 1863 Gettysburg |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: Striking soft chords on the piano, he says, "Like the painting of a sorrow; a face without a heart" Dorian Gray ("The Picture of Dorian Gray") |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | WORLD HISTORY: On July 15, 1815 he surrendered to the captain of the Bellerophon Napoleon (I) |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | MUSICAL THEATER: This lyricist was the grandson of a German-American opera impresario whose name he shared Oscar Hammerstein |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | WORLD HISTORY: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947 Pakistan & India |
| #1419, aired 1990-11-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: John Adams was the great great grandson of this couple who came to America in 1620 John & Priscilla Alden |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | SAINTS: Founder of the Friars Minor in the 13th c., he was made patron saint of ecologists in 1979 St. Francis of Assisi |
| #1391, aired 1990-09-24 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president to ask the U.S. Congress to declare war on Great Britain (James) Madison |
| #1388, aired 1990-09-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS: Before he stabs himself he confesses that he "threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe" Othello |
| #1385, aired 1990-09-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last president who was not a college graduate Harry Truman |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | THE 20th CENTURY: He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president Harry Truman |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A member of this famous family proposed it and he and his brother signed it for Virginia Lee |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTES: The famous line "Out, out, brief candle!" is spoken after the announcement of this woman's death Lady Macbeth |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | THE BIBLE: "The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life" Samson |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote: "They spell it Vinci & pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce" Mark Twain |
| #1331, aired 1990-05-21 | SCIENTISTS: When Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics, he was a naturalized citizen of this country Switzerland (He came to the U.S. later on) |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | THE SUPREME COURT: Son of a famous poet, this oldest justice ever didn't retire until he was 90 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | ARCHITECTURE: Once a professor of astronomy, he designed the Royal Observatory at Greenwich Sir Christopher Wren |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY: Some say he was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett, & other believe he killed himself John Wilkes Booth |
| #1295, aired 1990-03-30 | WORLD HISTORY: He became a nat'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s Gen. Francisco Franco |
| #1279, aired 1990-03-08 | FAMOUS NAMES: He published a history of Virginia & New England in 1624, after escaping from Turks, Indians & pirates Captain John Smith |
| #1276, aired 1990-03-05 | SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS: He is introduced as "the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Marc Antony |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | NOTORIOUS: Probably born in France, a U.S. hero in 1815, he burned down his own colony in 1821 & disappeared Jean Lafitte |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: Simultaneously on the covers of Time, Newsweek & S.I. in 1973, he was buried in 1989 in a 6' X 6' casket Secretariat |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | POLITICS: He was the last man holding the office of gov. when elected vice president of the U.S. Spiro Agnew (1968) |
| #1241, aired 1990-01-15 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected John Adams & John Quincy Adams |
| #1233, aired 1990-01-03 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: The last 2 U.S. women to win Olympic gold medals in individual figure skating Peggy Fleming & Dorothy Hamill |
| #1221, aired 1989-12-18 | FAMOUS NAMES: He said, "I saw a fleet of fishing boats, ...flew down...& yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland" Charles Lindbergh |
| #1209, aired 1989-11-30 | THE POST OFFICE: From 1837-1970 this animal was on the seal of the Post Office Department a horse |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Hired as a ship's cook, he led the mutiny aboard the Hispaniola Long John Silver (in Treasure Island) |
| #1187, aired 1989-10-31 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1805 he was named Gov. of New South Wales & was overthrown in a mutiny 3 years later Captain William Bligh |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BOXING: He lost a heavyweight championship bout in 1938 & is now a Coca-Cola bottler in West Germany Max Schmeling |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | DISNEY FEATURE FILMS: This 1940 Disney title character wore a Tyrolean hat Pinocchio |
| #1164, aired 1989-09-28 | LEGENDS: She abducted Lancelot when he was a baby & kept him on an island the Lady of the Lake (or Vivien or Nimue) |
| #1160, aired 1989-09-22 | THE U.S. CONGRESS: As long as Hawaii's been a state, he's represented it in Congress Daniel Inouye |
| #1145, aired 1989-07-21 | AMERICAN POETS: He wrote a biography that won Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940 & won for his poetry in 1951 Carl Sandburg |
| #1137, aired 1989-07-11 | MOVIES: Title of a 1960 S. Tracy film, it completes the bib. quote "He that troubleth his own house shall..." Inherit the Wind |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | MONEY: It was the 1st country to use paper money China |
| #1103, aired 1989-05-24 | WORLD CITIES: Linked by the world's 5th longest suspension bridge, it lies in both Europe & Asia Istanbul |
| #1102, aired 1989-05-23 | LITERATURE: It's where Philip Nolan asked to be buried at sea |
| #1093, aired 1989-05-10 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: 1 of 2 current U.S. possessions acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War Puerto Rico or Guam |
| #1092, aired 1989-05-09 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character, created about 1850, has an artificial leg made of white polished bone Captain Ahab |
| #1089, aired 1989-05-04 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: "Best Actress" for 1968, she was the only one in Oscar history to win for playing a queen Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) |
| #1084, aired 1989-04-27 | MONARCHS: He married a woman with royal blood & then killed his own cousin to become king of Scotland Macbeth |
| #1065, aired 1989-03-31 | PLAYWRIGHTS: The son of an actor, he won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, more than any other playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #1057, aired 1989-03-21 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Though his 2nd administration was scandal ridden, he was almost nominated for a 3rd term 4 years later Ulysses Grant |
| #1042, aired 1989-02-28 | ACADEMY AWARDS: The 1st person to win a special Oscar, he won in 1929 for writing, acting, directing & producing Charlie Chaplin |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | VICE PRESIDENTS: The only 2 vice presidents who previously represented Minnesota in the Senate (Hubert) Humphrey & (Walter) Mondale |
| #1027, aired 1989-02-07 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: He served as a major general in the Continental Army & a brigadier gen. for the British Benedict Arnold |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election Thomas Jefferson |
| #946, aired 1988-10-17 | ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated posthumously for "Best Actor" 2 years in a row, in February 1956 & February 1957 James Dean |
| #915, aired 1988-07-22 | ROYALTY: Before his marriage in 1956, he slipped out of Los Angeles using the alias "C. Monte" Prince Rainier |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | THE U.S. CONGRESS: He is the oldest member of Congress Claude Pepper |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | CINEMA: The last film Cecil B. De Mille directed, it was a partial remake of a silent epic he'd directed 33 years before The Ten Commandments |
| #864, aired 1988-05-12 | PRESIDENTS: He was last president to have a Secretary of War & 1st to have a Secretary of Defense Truman |
| #791, aired 1988-02-01 | POP MUSIC: Solo or in a duet or group, this artist has had more Billboard #1 hits than any other, 29 in all Paul McCartney |
| #787, aired 1988-01-26 | 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS: He was an undersecretary of Health, Education & Welfare, a governor & vice president Nelson Rockefeller |
| #722, aired 1987-10-27 | BRITISH HISTORY: The 1st Tudor monarch of England, he was grandfather of the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I Henry VII |
| #686, aired 1987-09-07 | FAMOUS QUOTES: Though Neil Armstrong says he uttered it, this word is missing from tapes of his famous quote a |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for writing, directing, & acting in a 1978 film, & again for a 1981 film Warren Beatty |
| #667, aired 1987-06-30 | ORGANIZATIONS: While Easter Seals is a group in itself, this group sponsors Christmas Seals the American Lung Association |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | RELIGION: After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Benjamin Weir |
| #649, aired 1987-06-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Renaissance man, "he seized the lighting from heaven & the scepter from tyrants" Ben Franklin |
| #638, aired 1987-05-20 | THE OSCARS: Tied with Olivier for most "Best Actor" nominations at 9, he won 2 years in a row as a sailor & a priest Spencer Tracy |
| #615, aired 1987-04-17 | WORLD LEADERS: In 1962, he asked "How can you... govern a country that has 246 different kinds of cheese?" Charles de Gaulle |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | CITIES: In 1904, this city hosted the Democratic National Convention, a World's Far & the Olympics St. Louis |
| #546, aired 1987-01-12 | KINGS & QUEENS: Number of Henry VIII's wives who outlived him 2 |
| #535, aired 1986-12-26 | SCIENTISTS: Called father of the Soviet H-bomb, he's a hero in the West but not in Russia Andrei Sakharov |
| #527, aired 1986-12-16 | THE MONTHS: It's only month that can start on the same day of the week as the month before it March |
| #508, aired 1986-11-19 | MAN IN SPACE: Now seen as a TV spokesman, he was only astronaut to orbit Earth in Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo craft Wally Schirra |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | THE MILITARY: With MacArthur & Eisenhower, 1 of 3 WWII generals who were only men to ever hold 5-star rank (Omar) Bradley, (George) Marshall or (Henry) Arnold |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | THE OLYMPICS: The games held in this city were the only ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere Melbourne |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise |
| #385, aired 1986-02-28 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: 10 years before publishing book subtitled "Life in the Woods", he caused a 300-acre forest fire Henry David Thoreau |
| #374, aired 1986-02-13 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1985, this person became the 1st professional athlete ever to appear on the front of a Wheaties box Pete Rose |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | WEATHER: All states have recorded temperatures below zero (F.), except this one Hawaii |
| #331, aired 1985-12-16 | U.S. CURRENCY: Up to & including the $100 bill, the sum total of all U.S. paper currency denominations in current use $188 |
| #296, aired 1985-10-28 | THE OSCARS: In 1937 & '38, he became only man to win Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years Spencer Tracy |
| #293, aired 1985-10-23 | HISTORIC NAMES: 1 of the "heroes" of the Alamo, he was also a slave-trader, land-swindler, & notorious brawler Jim Bowie |
| #280, aired 1985-10-04 | BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY: Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state Delaware |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | WORLD POLITICS: Last Communist party chief of the U.S.S.R. to leave office without dying Nikita Khrushchev |
| #270, aired 1985-09-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Our 8th president, he was 1st to be born an American citizen & not a British subject Martin Van Buren |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | MISS AMERICA: He replaced Bert Parks as host of Miss America pageant for 1980 Ron Ely |
| #193, aired 1985-06-05 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1974, this baseball figure set record for most letters received in the mail in a year, some 900,000 Hank Aaron |
| #184, aired 1985-05-23 | REPUBLICANS: The 2 who were presidents during the Centennial and Bicentennial years Ulysses Grant & Gerald Ford |
| #179, aired 1985-05-16 | TELEVISION: Only "M·A·S·H" regular to really serve in Korea, he also served in "AfterMASH" Jamie Farr |
| #165, aired 1985-04-26 | FAIRY TALES: Worldwide, this fairy tale has been subject of 58 films, more than any other story Cinderella |
| #163, aired 1985-04-24 | ROYALTY: Queen Elizabeth II's father, he became this king when his brother abdicated the throne George VI |
| #157, aired 1985-04-16 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: Upon completion of his "Answered Prayers", this late author would have received $1 million Truman Capote |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | PRESIDENTS: Last President to appoint a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Richard Nixon |
| #89, aired 1985-01-10 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Illinois family that included a vice-president, governor & U.N. ambassador, & a U.S. senator the Stevensons |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus |
| #24, aired 1984-10-11 | THE SUPREME COURT: He successfully argued Brown vs. Board of Education before Supreme Court, then became its 1st black justice Thurgood Marshall |
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
|
"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
|
"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
|
|
Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
|
"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
|
|
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
|
"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
|
|
Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
|
"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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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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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
|
|
Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
|
"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
|
|
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
|
|
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
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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|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
|
|
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
|
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
|
|
Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
|
"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
|
|
Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
|
"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
|
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
|
2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
|
|
Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
|
"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
|
|
Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
|
|
Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
|
|
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
|
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
|
"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
|
|
Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
|
|
Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
"The reigning Tournament of Champions winner, he attended Johns Hopkins University...
|
|
Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
|
\"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
|
|
Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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|
Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
|
"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
|
|
Paul Kursky, a copywriter from San Francisco, California
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
|
|
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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|
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
|
|
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
|
|
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
|
|
Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
|
|
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
|
|
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
|
2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
|
"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
|
|
Tim Russert, a moderator from Meet the Press
|
"He's the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and the longtime...
|
|
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
|
|
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
|
|
Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
|
|
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
|
|
Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
|
"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
|
|
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
|
|
Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
|
|
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
|
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
|
|
Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
|
"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
|
|
Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
|
|
Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Jeff Kirby, a math and science teacher from Santa Maria, California
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
|
|
Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
|
|
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
|
|
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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|
Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
|
|
Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
|
|
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
|
\"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
|
|
Aaron Brown, an Emmy Award-winning newsman from CNN's popular primetime newscast
|
"A journalist for over 25 years, he now anchors CNN's popular...
|
|
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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|
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
|
|
Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
|
|
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
|
|
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
|
"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
|
|
Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
|
|
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...
|
|
Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
|
2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
|
|
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
|
|
Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
|
|
Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
|
"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
|
|
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
|
|
David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
|
"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
|
|
Tavis Smiley, a talk show host from PBS's The Tavis Smiley Show
|
"He's interviewed such diverse personalities as Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul...
|
|
Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
|
|
Okey Chikezie, from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
|
"He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows...
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
|
"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
|
|
Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
|
|
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
|
|
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
|
|
Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
|
"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
|
|
Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
|
"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
|
|
Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
|
"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
|
|
Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
|
"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
|
|
Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
|
|
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
|
|
Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
|
|
Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
|
|
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
|
|
Jonathan Reinstein, a junior from Dix Hills, New York
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
|
|
Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
|
2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
|
|
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...
|
|
Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
|
|
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
|
|
Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
|
|
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
|
|
Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
|
|
Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Paul Boymel, a civil rights attorney from Potomac, Maryland
|
"He was the top winner of the 1984-85 season. Now he's...
|
|
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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|
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
|
\"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
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|
Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
|
\"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
|
|
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
|
|
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
|
"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
|
|
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
|
|
Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
|
"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
|
|
Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
|
"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
|
|
Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
|
"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
|
|
Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
|
"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
|
|
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
|
|
Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
|
|
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
|
|
Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
|
"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
|
|
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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|
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
|
|
Bob Shore, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 21 2-time champion: $47,602 + $2,000. Proponent of Shore's Conjecture....
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
|
|
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
|
"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
|
|
Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
|
"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
|
|
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
|
|
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
|
Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
|
|
Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
|
"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
|
|
Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
|
|
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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|
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
|
"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
|
|
Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
|
2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
|
|
Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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|
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
|
|
Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
|
2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
|
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
|
"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
|
|
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
|
|
Paul Shaffer, a composer and musical director from The Late Show with David Letterman
|
"David Letterman's musical director for 24 years, he's also musical producer...
|
|
Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
|
"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
|
|
Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
|
"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
|
|
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
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Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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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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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
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Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
|
2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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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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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
|
"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
|
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Graham Gilmer, a senior at Stanford University from Stanford, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 2001. Now he's a...
|
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Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
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Matt Morris, a financial analyst originally from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 1994, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a financial...
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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
|
2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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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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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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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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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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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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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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Emily Love, from Overland Park, Kansas
|
"This future chef wants to run her own restaurant and have...
|
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Harry Smith, a broadcast journalist from The Early Show
|
"This hard-working host of CBS's The Early Show has interviewed five...
|
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Dennis Donohue, a general manager from Janesville, Wisconsin
|
"He was administrative services officer from Arizona when he became a...
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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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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Arjun Malhotra, a 12-year-old from Sammamish, Washington
|
"He says he's not naturally inclined to be an athlete, so...
|
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Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
|
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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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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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
|
2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
|
|
Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
|
|
Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
|
|
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
|
Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
|
"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
|
|
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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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
|
|
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
|
"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
|
|
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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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...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
|
"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
|
|
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
|
2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
|
|
Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
|
"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
|
|
Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
|
|
Adam Barrow, an 11-year-old from Greensboro, North Carolina
|
"And he wants to be a sportswriter, so he can combine...
|
|
Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
|
"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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|
Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
|
|
Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
|
"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
|
|
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
|
|
Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
|
"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
|
|
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
|
"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
|
|
Andrew Hutchings, a graduate student from Ithaca, New York
|
"A senior when he won the 1998 College Championship, he's now...
|
|
Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
|
|
Brian Wangsgard, from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
"He was the biggest winner in the 1988-1989 season, and a...
|
|
Michael Arnone, a writer and editor from Alexandria, Virginia
|
"He was the largest 1-day winner in the 2000-2001 season. Today...
|
|
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
|
|
Bob Verini, an academic director for a test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a playwright and an actor living in New York...
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|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
|
|
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
|
"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
|
|
Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
|
|
Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
|
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
|
Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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|
Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
|
"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
|
|
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
|
|
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
|
|
Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
|
"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
|
|
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
|
|
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
|
"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
|
|
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
|
|
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
|
|
Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
|
\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
|
|
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
|
"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
|
|
Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
|
|
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
|
|
Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
|
|
Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
|
"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
|
|
John Cuthbertson, an investment analyst from San Diego, California
|
"He was the highest money winner of the 1993-94 season. An...
|
|
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
|
|
Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
|
"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
|
|
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
|
|
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
|
|
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
|
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
|
|
Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
|
|
Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
|
"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
|
|
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
|
|
Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
|
"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
|
|
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
|
|
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
|
|
Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
|
"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
|
|
Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
|
"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
|
|
Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
|
\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
|
|
Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
|
|
Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
|
"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
|
|
Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
|
"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
|
|
Michael Galvin, a consultant from Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
|
"He was the first winner of the Teen Tournament back in...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
|
|
Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
|
|
Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
|
|
Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
|
|
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
|
|
Brandon Blackwell, a sophomore from Holliswood, New York
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
|
\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
|
|
Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
|
|
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
|
"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
|
|
Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
|
|
Michael Rooney, a college professor from Pasadena, California
|
"He was a winner of 5 games in 1999, and is...
|
|
Bruce Borchardt, a metrologist from Washington, D.C.
|
"A winner of five shows in 1995, he spent most of...
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado
|
"He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
|
|
Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
|
|
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
|
|
David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
|
|
Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
|
"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
|
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
|
Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois
|
"Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
|
|
Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee
|
"As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
|
|
Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
|
|
Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
|
"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
|
|
Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
|
|
Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California
|
"He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
|
|
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
|
|
Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
|
"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
|
|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
|
|
Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
|
|
James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
|
|
Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
|
|
Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
|
|
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
|
2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
|
"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
|
|
James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
|
|
Ivan Kleinfeld, an 11-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
|
"He would like to be a doctor so that he can...
|
|
Reggie Jackson, a former pro baseball player originally from Wyncote, Pennsylvania
|
"Twice a World Series MVP, his powerhouse hitting earned him the...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
|
"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
|
|
Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
|
"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
|
|
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
|
|
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
|
|
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., a congressman from the U.S. House of Representatives
|
"And he led a voter registration drive for the national Rainbow...
|
|
John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
|
|
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
|
|
Brad Plovan, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"With the money from his five wins in 1995, he bought...
|
|
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
|
|
Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
|
|
Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
|
"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
|
|
Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
|
"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
|
|
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
|
"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
|
|
Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
|
"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
|
|
Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
|
|
Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
|
"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
|
|
Julián Altschul, a math and science tutor from Jackson Heights, New York
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $19,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
|
|
Scotty Ballard, a 12-year-old from Murphy, Texas
|
"When he grows up, he hopes to serve justice as a...
|
|
Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
|
"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
|
|
Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
|
"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
|
|
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"In 1991, he was the winner of the Tournament of Champions....
|
|
Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois
|
"He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
|
|
Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
|
"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
|
|
Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
|
"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
|
|
Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
|
"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
|
|
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
|
|
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
|
"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
|
|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
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"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
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"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
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"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
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Kurt Bray, a scientist from Oceanside, California
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"A 5-time winner in 1994, he used some of his winnings...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
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Bebe Neuwirth, an actress from Frasier and the Broadway revival of Chicago
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"She won two Emmys for playing Dr. Frasier Crane's acerbic wife...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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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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Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
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"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
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"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
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Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
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"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
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Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
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"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
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Carol Denny, a writer for a non-profit environmental foundation from Arnold, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,199 + $1,000.
Identical twin sister of Season 29 player Chris O'Toole.
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
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"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
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"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
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"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
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"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
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"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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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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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
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\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
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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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Leonard Koss, an entrepreneur from Santa Monica, California
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-08). KJL game 27. Leonard was a writer...
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Steven Evenhouse, a junior high school social studies teacher from Orland Hills, Illinois
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"He likes teaching because it gives him a captive audience for...
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Nate Rice, a high school ACT prep teacher from Catlettsburg, Kentucky
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"This is his first year in the family business. His mother's...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
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"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
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"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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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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Wolf Blitzer, a reporter from CNN
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"An Emmy Award-winning reporter for CNN and host of Inside Politics...
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Paul Thomas, a theater technician from Hollywood, Florida
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Season 24 1-time champion: $32,001 + $2,000. Paul won his first...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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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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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
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"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
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"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Matt Zielenski, a research analyst originally from Broadview Heights, Ohio
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"He became the Teen Tournament champ in 1995. Today he's a...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
|
"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
|
"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
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David Traini, a high school administrator from Moorestown, New Jersey
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"This 5-time champ finished second in the 1987 Tournament of Champions....
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Tessa Fleming, a high school history teacher from Mission Viejo, California
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Season 31 player (2014-09-16). Tessa's father was a 2-time champion on...
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John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
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"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
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Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
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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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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from Plano, Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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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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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
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Bruce Lin, a research scientist originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 3-time champion: $54,599 + $2,000. On his first appearance,...
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Peter Booker, an Army officer from Fort Monroe, Virginia
|
Season 22 player (2006-01-25). According to the official Jeopardy! web site,...
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Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
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Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
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"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
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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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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
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"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a former pro basketball player and actor originally from Brooklyn, New York
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"Three decades in the NBA netted him six championship rings and...
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Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
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"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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David Venderbush, a lawyer from New York, New York
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"His 5 wins in 1993 came just in time to pay...
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William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington
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"Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
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Adrian Ho, a healthcare consultant from Palo Alto, California
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Season 30 player (2014-01-10).
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Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
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"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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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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Dave Sikula, an Internet search editor from Pacifica, California
|
Season 24 1-time champion: $15,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Oliver North, a radio talk show host from the Oliver North radio show
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"A combat-decorated Marine who now hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk...
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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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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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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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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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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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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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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
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"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Holly Flynn, an 11-year-old from Holmes, Pennsylvania
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"She started performing in community theatre when she was just 4...
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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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Priscilla Ball, a government contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
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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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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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Robbi Rogers, a respiratory therapist from Corsicana, Texas
|
Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Robbi won her first...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
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"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
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"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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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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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
|
"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
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"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Chad Mosher, a seventh-grader from Flint, Michigan
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2003 Holiday Kids Week player (2003-01-10). Chad\'s personal website features a...
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Lee Ann Roberts, a homemaker from Albuquerque, New Mexico
|
Season 29 player (2013-01-08). Lee Ann won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois
|
"He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
|
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
|
"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
|
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an attorney and professor from Pace University School of Law
|
"A crusading attorney for the environment and a professor at Pace...
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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
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"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher originally from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Michael Braun, a high school junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
"He is the 2005 Teen Tournament champion. A high school junior...
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Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
|
"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
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Elliot Yates, an opera producer from New York, New York
|
2015 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 31 4-time champion: $65,000...
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Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
|
"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Priscilla Ball, a federal contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
|
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John Hines, a high school social studies teacher from Tacoma, Washington
|
"He teaches at Todd Beamer High School, named for a heroic...
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Jimmy Miotto, an 11-year-old from Northborough, Massachusetts
|
"He wants to be a Disney Imagineer and the president of...
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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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David Siegel, a paralegal from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a finalist in the 1995 Tournament of Champions. A...
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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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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
|
"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Barbara Noyes, a police officer from Blauvelt, New York
|
Season 22 player (2005-12-23). Barbara, as a member of the Fornario...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
|
"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
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Megan Barnes, a stay-at-home mother from Baltimore, Maryland
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $103,203 + $2,000. Megan won $16,000 on...
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Hunter Brown, a senior from Wheaton, Illinois
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Brian Dennehy, from the play Death of a Salesman
|
"He's the film and television star who won a Tony Award...
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Aimee Seligstein, a recruiter originally from Memphis, Tennessee
|
Season 30 player (2014-04-25). Last name pronounced like "SEE-lig-stine". Aimee joined...
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Michelle Clum, an executive assistant from Wichita, Kansas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Emily Herndon, a bakery owner from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $8,100 + $2,000. Emily won $5,000 on...
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Kay Thanaporn, a health care consultant from Decatur, Georgia
|
Season 30 1-time champion: $33,199 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "TAN-a-porn".
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John Schultz, a computer programmer from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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2015 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 5-time champion:...
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Laura Spadanuta, a trade magazine reporter and editor originally from Floral Park, New York
|
Season 27 player (2010-10-26).
Last name pronounced like "spad-a-NOOT-a".
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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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Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas
|
"He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
|
"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
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Kim Taylor, a professor and scientist from Falls Church, Virginia
|
Season 26 player (2009-10-07). Not to be confused with Season 18...
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David Juliano, a casino dealer from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 9 1-time champion: $8,000 + a week's vacation at Murrieta...
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Kevin Yokum, a 12-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
"He plans on becoming an engineer just like both his mom...
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Parker Norton, a 12-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee
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"As a doctor treating infectious diseases, he hopes to heal others....
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Jacob Joyner, an 11-year-old from Quantico, Virginia
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"As a politician, he plans on improving the lives of Americans....
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Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
|
"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
|
"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 2nd runner up: $25,000. 2023 Jeopardy! Masters...
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Jerry Hou, a freelance orchestra conductor from Rochester, New York
|
Season 27 player (2011-07-18).
Last name pronounced like "HO".
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Gabor Vari, a psychiatrist from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 2-time champion: $58,402+ $2,000. In his first game, Gabor...
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Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois
|
2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
|
"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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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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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
|
"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California
|
Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
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Al Michaels, a sportscaster from ABC's Monday Night Football
|
"Named Sportscaster of the Year in 1996 by the American Sportscasters...
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Chris Parsons, an undergraduate student from Wabasso, Florida
|
Season 20 1-time champion: $18,801 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
|
"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Josh Vincent, a waiter and a chef from Brigantine, New Jersey
|
Season 8 4-time champion: $58,800. The recording used to archive the...
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Mike Shapiro, an actuary from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 30 2-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. A clip of one...
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Brendan Pimper, an engineer and student from La Habra, California
|
Season 23 player (2007-03-28). Won $12,100 + a trip to Phoenix,...
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Beau Henson, a test prep teacher and actor originally from Mt. Carmel, Illinois
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Season 28 3-time champion: $51,203 + $2,000. Beau won $250,000 on...
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Sara Lehmann, a retail sales associate from Albuquerque, New Mexico
|
Season 29 1-time champion: $24,800 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
|
"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Ben Wong, a high school history teacher originally from San Francisco, California
|
Season 27 player (2011-07-01). Ben won $64,000 on the College Edition...
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Barbara Sheridan, an attorney and law clerk to a judge from Yonkers, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $17,999 + $1,000.
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Diva Bole, a law student from Elkton, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-01-17). Last name pronounced like "BOWL". Diva won...
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Katie O'Meara, an 11-year-old from Plano, Texas
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"This future kindergarten teacher is straight-A's in our book. From Plano,...
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Scott Goldstein, a director and writer of a sketch comedy theater from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 27 player (2011-06-21).
Last name pronounced like "GOLD-steen".
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Lori Fountain, a homemaker and substitute teacher from Henderson, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-06-28). KJL game 19. Lori later won $50,000...
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Amy Paull, a stay-at-home mom from The Woodlands, Texas
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Season 28 player (2012-06-28). Amy won $30,000 on Who Wants to...
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Cecilia Boudreau, a lawyer for a nonprofit from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-03-03).
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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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Saidi Chen, an attorney for a legal nonprofit from New York, New York
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Season 29 player (2012-12-12).
First name pronounced like "SIGH-dee".
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Ric Leach, a training director from Miami, Florida
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Season 24 2-time champion: $32,800 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Phil Hornbostel, a physician from Sedalia, Missouri
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Season 24 player (2008-03-11). Won $1,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Tom Morris, a retailer and 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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Allison Solomon, a management consultant originally from Brooksville, Florida
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Season 31 1-time co-champion: $20,200 + $1,000. Allison and Ryan Alley...
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Michael Arnone, a reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Tricia Barreiro, an interactive project manager from Santa Monica, California
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Season 22 2-time champion: $24,398 + $1,000. Won $100,000 on Who...
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Tod Macofsky, a massage therapist from West Hollywood, California
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Season 31 player (2014-09-26). Tod won $5,000 on Who Wants to...
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Catherine Hardee, a hotel front desk clerk and recent college graduate from Kinston, North Carolina
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2015 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 31 4-time champion: $95,201...
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Sita Yerramsetti, an eleven-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Her heart is set on becoming a cardiac surgeon. From Houston,...
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Christopher Chilton, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Holly Springs, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Christopher won $5,000 on Who Wants...
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Diane Mettam, a pastor from Independence, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $19,400 + $1,000. As an accommodation for...
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Scott Wells, a medievalist from Los Angeles, California
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Season 27 player (2010-09-13). Season 26 player (2009-11-16). Scott was returned...
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Morgan Saxby, a research associate from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 26 3-time champion: $66,401 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Gary Gambino, a refinery planning manager from Oregon, Ohio
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Season 26 player (2010-04-02). Gary won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
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Rick Pernod, a teacher from the Bronx, New York
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Season 21 player (2005-01-10).
Last name pronounced with a silent "D".
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Autumn Haag, an archivist from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2010-06-22). Last name pronounced like "HAYG", with a...
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Brad Rodriguez, an assistant general manager of a minor league baseball team from Jacksonville, Florida
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Season 27 player (2010-10-08).
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: J!FAIL
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Nick Gorski, a journalist from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2010-03-15). Nick wore a Regis High School tie...
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Tui Sutherland, a children's book author from Watertown, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. First name pronounced like...
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Cathy Melocik, an editor for a business school from Wilder, Vermont
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Season 26 2-time champion: $46,002 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MELL-oh-sik".
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Gordon Purcell, a comic book artist from Plymouth, Minnesota
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Season 26 player (2010-05-24). Won $50,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Kori Tyler, a high school history 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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Nicole Labruto, a surf school manager from Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey
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Season 26 player (2009-10-06). Nicole's father, Fran, was a Jeopardy! 1-day...
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John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
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Judy Nakamura, a stay-at-home wife from Seattle, Washington
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,400 + $1,000. Judy laughed incredulously during...
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Alonso Duralde, a film critic from West Hollywood, California
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Season 26 player (2010-01-11). Alonso won $14,200 on Trivial Pursuit: America...
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Ross Brown, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 23 1-time champion: $12,300 + $2,000. Ross appeared as a...
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Ann Gavaghan, a congressional staffer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 24 1-time champion: $12,399 + $1,000. Ann is a current...
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Dorothy Gilmartin, a teacher from Weehawken, New Jersey
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Season 24 player (2007-09-10). Dorothy's turn against IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer Watson...
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Katie Baxter, a 10-year-old from Glenside, Pennsylvania
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"She has already won a presidential award. So why not the...
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Ellyn Ritterskamp, a prepress technician and ethics instructor from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 21 player (2005-07-20). Won $32,000 on Who Wants To Be...
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Julie Seitter, a voice talent from Littleton, Massachusetts
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Season 22 player (2006-02-28). Julie's voice can be heard in the...
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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Chip Bell, a telecom engineer from Marysville, Ohio
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Season 30 2-time champion: $29,300 + $2,000. Chip won $5,000 on...
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Chris Dellicarpini, a screenwriter from South Huntington, New York
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Season 23 1-time champion: $25,199 + $2,000. Chris was a high...
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Ben Ingram, an IT consultant originally from Florence, South Carolina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Daniel Cohen, an interactive developer originally from Liverpool, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-04-12). Daniel died 2023-09-24 at the age of...
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Betsy Foss, an English-as-a-second-language instructor from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Season 30 player (2013-12-16).
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Tiffany Gholar, an abstract painter from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 30 1-time champion: $6,399 + $2,000. No returning champion Hometown...
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Bonnie Fish, a contract writer and retired educator from Cameron, Missouri
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Season 25 player (2009-06-05). Bonnie won $1,000 on Who Wants to...
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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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Carole Furr, an accountant from Richmond, Vermont
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Season 30 player (2013-11-05).
Carole's father was a Season 5 1-time champion.
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Bill Tolany, a marketing executive from Austin, Texas
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Season 30 3-time champion: $44,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mat Ahn, a law student originally from North Royalton, Ohio
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Season 30 player (2013-10-16). Mat was a student at New York...
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Lou Ascatigno, a teacher from Concord, California
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Season 20 player (2004-07-15). KJL game 32. Last name pronounced like...
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Leo Velazquez, a theme park ride operator from Orange, California
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Season 28 player (2012-07-03). Leo was the alternate for the 2010-B...
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Linda Percy, a retired emergency room physician from Connellsville, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $70,401 + $2,000. Won $32,000 on Who...
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Tony Hightower, an event planner from Astoria, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $21,300 + $2,000. Tony won $250,000 on...
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Darren Munk, a web application developer from Camarillo, California
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Season 25 player (2008-10-07). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: knumd Darren...
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Brian Levinson, a writer from Queens, New York
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Season 25 3-time champion: $72,801 + $1,000. Brian is the cousin...
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Lori Hohenleitner, an executive director for a nonprofit from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
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Season 28 player (2012-07-26).
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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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Jennifer Dockter, a stay-at-home mom from Fremont, California
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Season 28 player (2011-10-25). Jennifer has a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences,...
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Michael Stewart, a Renaissance player and trivia host from Charlotte, North Carolina
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Season 28 player (2011-10-11). Michael wore a Scrooge McDuck necktie on...
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Amy Stephenson, a writer and editor from Sunnyside, New York
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Season 28 2-time champion: $32,799 + $1,000. Won $1,000 on Who...
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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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Susan Jann, an operations coordinator from Bristol, Pennsylvania
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Season 29 3-time champion: $53,800 + $2,000. Susan won $5,000 on...
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Alistair Bell, a computer chip designer from Berlin, Massachusetts
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Season 29 3-time champion: $56,800 + $2,000. JBoard user name: ThreeIfByAir...
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Julie Podlesni, a law clerk for a federal judge from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 28 player (2012-01-09).
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John Anneken, a postdoctoral researcher from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 29 3-time champion: $60,112 + $1,000. John appeared on The...
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Dan Maggin, a construction manager from Rockville, Maryland
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Season 24 player (2008-05-27). Won $1,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Jeff McCollum, a Navy officer from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 24 player (2008-03-31). Jeff is a commander in the United...
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Ryan Pensyl, an Army officer originally from Shamokin, Pennsylvania
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Season 31 2-time champion: $32,000 + $1,000. Ryan was a captain...
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John Kozempel, an I.T. consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 32 player (2015-10-06). John, an I.T. consultant, memorably received a...
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Jason Thweatt, a college instructor from Christiansburg, Virginia
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Season 24 player (2008-01-03). Last name pronounced like "THWEET". Won $32,000...
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Tim Bobinski, a U.S. Air Force pilot originally from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Season 24 player (2008-03-06). According to the official web site, Tim...
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Heather Chapman, a news assistant from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 24 player (2008-01-04). Heather appeared on Master Minds on 2020-05-07....
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Che Smith, a consultant and Ph.D. candidate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-11-06). ché wrote her name as such on...
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Debbie Rothschild, a stay-at-home mom from New York, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-04-30). Won $50,000 on Who Wants to Be...
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Eileen Dreyer, an author from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2014-10-30). Eileen mentioned also being a trauma nurse....
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Dom Ochotorena, an Air Force officer from Altadena, California
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Season 23 player (2007-01-12). Dom is a captain in the Air...
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Alexia Henke, a singer from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 23 player (2006-11-29). Won $1,000 on Who Wants to be...
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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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Sara Goodman, a graduate student originally from Huntington Woods, Michigan
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Season 31 player (2014-10-01). Daughter of Season 24 player Allen Goodman....
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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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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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Jessica Schreader, an office manager from Delran, New Jersey
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Season 21 player (2005-07-11). Jessica won $64,000 on Who Wants to...
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Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas
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"He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
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Anjali Chelliah Sawe, a pediatric cardiologist from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2010-10-14). Name pronounced like "AHN-jah-lee chell-LIE-ah SAH-way". Anjali...
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Cliff Kowalczyk, a trucking subcontractor from Lakewood, Ohio
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Season 21 player (2004-12-16). Cliff won $32,000 on Who Wants to...
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Eric Rau, an assistant federal public defender from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 26 player (2010-06-21). Eric appeared in the Fastest Finger circle...
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Ben Wiles, a minister from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Season 21 player (2004-11-01). KJL game 64. On 2010-04-26, Ben appeared...
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Peter Hall, a teaching artist at a museum from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $36,800 + $1,000.
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Carin House, a quotation specialist from Evanston, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2009-10-14). Carin won $X on Who Wants to...
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Marianne Fichtel, an investor relations manager from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $24,888 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Genevieve Sheehan, a private equity professional from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 26 player (2009-10-08). First name pronounced like "JEN-uh-veev". Genevieve won...
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Maureen Abell, a family law and immigration lawyer from New York, New York
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Season 27 player (2011-01-06).
Last name pronounced like "A-bul".
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John Blanton, a newspaper editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-04-16). Won $9,550 on Who Wants to Be...
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Rachel Barg, a charter school teacher from Los Angeles, California
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Season 24 player (2007-11-19). Last name pronounced with a hard "G"...
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Kevin Hullihan, an Air Force officer from Great Falls, Montana
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Season 24 player (2007-10-30). Last name pronounced like "HOO-lih-han". Kevin is...
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Rosemary Travis, a retired patient advocate from Palm Coast, Florida
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Season 23 player (2007-06-28). Rosemary was also a 5-time champion on...
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Chris Pae, a high school history teacher from Suwanee, Georgia
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"He studied pre-med, then pre-law, but discovered his passion was teaching....
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Samantha Ross, a student from Hillsdale, New Jersey
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Season 23 1-time champion: $14,000 + $1,000. Won $1,000 on Who...
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Mary LoSardo, a retired executive, now web site designer from Bayonne, New Jersey
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Mary won $60 +...
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Monica Lenhard, a teacher from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 23 1-time champion: $21,000 + $2,000. Won $32,000 on Who...
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Sarah Altier, a teacher from DeLand, Florida
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Season 22 player (2006-01-30). Last name pronounced like "all-TEER". Won $64,000...
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Jeff Suchard, a toxicologist from Placentia, California
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Season 21 player (2004-10-04). KJL game 49. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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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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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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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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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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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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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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• 74-game champion with longest winning streak • Total earnings over...
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Ken Jennings, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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"He was a software engineer living in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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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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Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
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Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Ken Jennings, a 74-game champion from Seattle, Washington
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"In 2004, his record-breaking 74-game win streak set a standard for...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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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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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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Ken Jennings, the winner of 74 consecutive games from Seattle, Washington
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11).
Charity: American Heart Association.
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
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2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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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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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Ryan Ballengee, a senior from Pasadena, Maryland
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jeff Kirby, an elementary school teacher from Santa Maria, California
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Season 26 player (2009-10-12). Season 16 player (1999-12-08). Jeff returned to...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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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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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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Jim Fitzpatrick, a senior at Wake Forest University from Colts Neck, New Jersey
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. According the the official Jeopardy! web...
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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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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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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Hollywood, California
|
"He was a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when he won...
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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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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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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
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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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Patton Oswalt, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
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\"A Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose...
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Wil Wheaton, an actor from Burbank, California
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"An actor from Burbank, California, he burst on to the scene...
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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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Brad Rutter, a $3.2-million winner from Los Angeles, California
|
"In 2000, he became a 5-time champion and went on to...
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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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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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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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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
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Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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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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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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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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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey
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1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
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Anderson Cooper, a host from AC360°
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"He covers major news stories from around the world and plays...
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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
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"He was a sportswriter living in Reston, Virginia, when he won...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from New York City, New York
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"He was a New York City cop when he won five...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Louie C.K., a comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer from Louie and Horace and Pete
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"This multitalented actor, writer, producer, and director is also the star...
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Jonathan Capehart, a journalist from The Washington Post
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"This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is a member of the Washington Post...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"He was a writer living in Studio City, California, when he...
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tom Hartmann, a junior from San Antonio, Texas
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Roger Craig, a data scientist from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a graduate student in computer science living in Newark,...
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Fritz Holznagel, a writer from Somerville, Massachusetts
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"He was a writer living in Oregon when he won the...
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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
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• Highest all-time winnings (over $4.3 million) • Has never lost...
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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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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Tucker Dunn, an ESL teacher from Tucson, Arizona
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Season 33 3-time champion: $39,999 + $1,000. In his first appearance,...
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Mark Dawson, a writer and editor for the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge from Chamblee, Georgia
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"He was a business manager when he won the Tournament of...
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Dan Melia, a retired professor from Berkeley, California
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"He was a professor at U.C. Berkeley when he won the...
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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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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Brad Rutter, the biggest money winner from Los Angeles, California
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2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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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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Brendan Hunt, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he began his career as a...
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Joel Kim Booster, a comedian from Chicago, Illinois
|
"A comedian from Chicago, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote,...
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Ed Toutant, an engineer from Austin, Texas
|
Season 6 1-time champion: $11,401. Ed appeared on The Challengers in...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Bob Woodward, an assistant managing editor from The Washington Post
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: Sidwell Friends School.
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Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He was a musician and transactions lawyer when he won the...
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
|
"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
|
"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Brad Rutter, a college student from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
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Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
|
"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
|
2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
|
2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
|
"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
|
2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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|
Dan Pawson, a global health consultant from Brooklyn, New York
|
\"He was a legislative aide living in Boston when he won...
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Michael Falk, a junior high school math teacher from West Allis, Wisconsin
|
"And he was a meteorologist when he won the Tournament of...
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Tom Kavanaugh, a personal trainer, filmmaker, and singer from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He was a writer when he won eight games in Season...
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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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Sacha Samotin, a student from Naples, Florida
|
Season 31 1-time champion: $19,600 + $1,000. According to a news...
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Shane Whitlock, a radiologist from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
"He was a student at the University of Arkansas when he...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Steven Chinn, an attorney originally from London, England
|
Season 4 player (1988-01-04). At the time of his show's taping,...
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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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|
Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Ike Barinholtz, an actor from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"An actor from Chicago, Illinois, he appeared on Fox\'s Mad TV,...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Tom Nichols, a political science professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1994 Tournament...
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Jalen Rose, a basketball star from Detroit, Michigan
|
"A basketball star from Detroit, Michigan, he revolutionized the sport as...
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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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Tucker Carlson, an author and co-host from Crossfire
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10). Charities: American Camping Association &...
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David Gregory, a political analyst and author from CNN and How's Your Faith?
|
"An NBC correspondent and anchor for nearly 20 years, he recently...
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Graham Gilmer, a senior from Lynchburg, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Teen...
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
|
"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer from the Style Network
|
"Known for bringing high fashion to American women everywhere, and now...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Sam Leanza, a senior from Laguna Hills, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Cypress, Texas
|
"He was a history professor when he became a 5-day champion...
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|
Ben Gammage, an eleven-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"And when he grows up, he wants to be either a...
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|
Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Eric Newhouse, a public policy coordinator from Sioux City, Iowa
|
"Alex called our next alumnus a 'Powerhouse.' He was the youngest...
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Dan Oxman, a senior at the University of Maryland from South Orange, New Jersey
|
\"He was a senior from South Orange, New Jersey when he...
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Tim Cho, a senior at Columbia University from Champaign, Illinois
|
\"When he first appeared on Jeopardy!, he was a senior in...
|
|
Colby Burnett, an AP world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He won the Teacher\'s Tournament and the Tournament of Champions last...
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Ryan Presler, a senior at Brandon Valley High School from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|
"He was only in 8th grade when he became a finalist...
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Jack Izzo, a senior at Northwestern University from San Diego, California
|
"He was a senior in San Diego when he became a...
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|
Avi Gupta, a senior at Stanford University from Portland, Oregon
|
"He was a high schooler in Portland, Oregon when he won...
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|
Hasan Minhaj, a comedian from Davis, California
|
"A comedian from Davis, California, for years, he was a correspondent...
|
|
Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina
|
"He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
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|
Andy Siegler, a senior from Cinnaminson, New Jersey
|
2001 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $15,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a writer living in Los Angeles when he won...
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Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
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Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
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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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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Jackson Jones, a junior at Vanderbilt University from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"He was a semifinalist in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a...
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|
Rohit Kataria, a junior at Vanderbilt University from Wheelersburg, Ohio
|
"In his first appearance on Jeopardy!, he was a high schooler...
|
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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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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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
|
2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
|
|
Senator Al Franken, a U.S. senator from Minnesota
|
"After a successful career as a comedy writer, author, and radio...
|
|
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
|
2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Kevin Sorbo, an actor from Andromeda
|
"For 6 seasons, he starred as TV's Hercules; he now plays...
|
|
John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
|
|
Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California
|
2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
|
|
Roger Storm, a teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
1990 Super Jeopardy! semifinalist: $10,000. 1987 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist:...
|
|
Allyson Lieberman, a 12-year-old from Whitmore Lake, Michigan
|
"Since she was little, she has truly loved to act. Broadway,...
|
|
Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
|
|
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
|
|
Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
|
|
Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
|
|
Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
|
|
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
|
|
Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
|
|
Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
|
|
Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
|
|
Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
|
2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
|
|
Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a graduate student in psychology from Princeton, New Jersey
|
\"She was a student at Loyola University when she won the...
|
|
John Michael Higgins, an actor from Boston, Massachusetts
|
"An actor from Boston, Massachusetts, since 2018, he's hosted the popular...
|
|
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
|
|
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
|
|
Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
|
|
Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
|
|
Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
|
|
Robert Wargo, a student from Fairfield, Connecticut
|
Season 2 player (1986-05-29). Robert appeared on seven episodes of Connecticut...
|
|
Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
|
|
Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
|
|
Dan Avila, a photographer from Los Angeles, California
|
Season 7 1-time champion: $5,300 + a Sanyo remote control stereo...
|
|
Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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|
Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Caleb Richmond, a sophomore at Georgetown University from Bedford, New Hampshire
|
\"In 2018, he became a semifinalist representing Bedford, New Hampshire. He\'s...
|
|
Andy Richter, a comedian from Yorkville, Illinois
|
\"A comedian from Yorkville, Illinois, he was Conan O\'Brien\'s sidekick on...
|
|
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
|
|
Richard Cordray, a judicial clerk from Grove City, Ohio
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000 (prize declined as a...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a think tank researcher from Culver City, California
|
• 2000 College Championship winner • Semifinalist in all other tournaments...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Sreekar Madabushi, a junior at the Georgia Institute of Technology from Basking Ridge, New Jersey
|
"In 2019, he was a high school junior at Basking Ridge,...
|
|
Armand Kachigian, a podiatrist from Granite City, Illinois
|
Season 10 player (1994-02-10). Armand won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
|
|
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
|
|
Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
|
|
Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
|
|
Jeff Haylon, a sophomore from Newtown, Connecticut
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida
|
\"He finished third in the 2019 Teen Tournament as a junior...
|
|
Tim Russert, a journalist from Meet the Press
|
"The host of the longest-running show in the history of television,...
|
|
Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
|
|
Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Jimmy McKew, an 11-year-old from Portland, Maine
|
"Because he enjoys the strategy of the game, he will likely...
|
|
Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
|
2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
|
|
Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
|
|
Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
|
2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
|
|
Doug Meyer, an editor originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 21 player (2005-06-09). Season 20 player (2004-03-11). Doug previously appeared...
|
|
Mark McDermott, a desktop publisher originally from Schaller, Iowa
|
1993 10th Anniversary Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 1989 Tournament of Champions semifinalist:...
|
|
Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
|
|
Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho
|
2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
|
|
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...
|
|
Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Neville Fogarty, an 11-year-old from Kingwood, Texas
|
\"This chess player is planning his career moves very carefully. From...
|
|
Alan Jackowitz, an accountant originally from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 2 player (1985-09-11). At the time of his appearance, Alan...
|
|
Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
|
|
Justin Bolsen, a first-year student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia
|
2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. \"He was a high school...
|
|
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
|
|
Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
|
"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
|
|
Simu Liu, an actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
|
"An actor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, he starred in the Canadian...
|
|
Kate Rowland, a family doctor from Chicago, Illinois
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000.
|
|
Anish Maddipoti, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
|
\"In the 2018 Teen Tournament, he was a high school junior...
|
|
Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
|
|
Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
|
|
Logan Bell, a senior from Rock Falls, Illinois
|
2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Russ Schumacher, a university professor from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He was a graduate student when he won the Tournament of...
|
|
Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
|
"He was an online-books editor when he became an 8-time champion...
|
|
Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
|
|
Ken Hinton, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 22 player (2006-05-30). As an accommodation for a disability, Ken...
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Mike Dupée, a post-graduate student from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was an attorney when he won the 1996 Tournament of...
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio
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Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
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Anthony Ambrogi, a college admissions director from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 25 player (2009-06-17).
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Matthew Silski, an 11-year-old from Laurel, Maryland
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"He has wanted to be on the show since he was...
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Larry Cloud, a computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician from Brooklyn, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,201. 2001 Tournament...
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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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Brandon Blackwell, a writer and TV personality originally from Jamaica, New York
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist:...
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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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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Allen Goodman, an economics professor from Huntington Woods, Michigan
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Season 24 player (2008-06-13). Web site at www.econ.wayne.edu/agoodman. Allen detailed his...
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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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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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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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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Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
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2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
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2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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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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Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
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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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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Myron Meyer, a scheduling coordinator from Owatonna, Minnesota
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Season 19 1-time champion: $50,000 + $1,000. In his first game...
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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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Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
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Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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David Hudson, Jr., an 11-year-old from Richmond, Virginia
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"If the L.A. Lakers don't have a spot for him, he'll...
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York
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"A police officer from Flushing, New York, Frank Spangenberg, who has...
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Dan Alves, an engineering supervisor from Santa Maria, California
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Season 2 3-time champion: $36,100. Last name pronounced as one syllable,...
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David Madden, an academic competition director 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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David Madden, an academic competition director from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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• 19-game champion • 3rd longest winning streak 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational...
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Ryan Fenster, a banker from SeaTac, Washington
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2019 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 34 7-time champion: $156,497...
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Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Matt Amodio, a post-doctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
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James Holzhauer, the setter of 20 Jeopardy! records from Las Vegas, Nevada
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
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James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 +...
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Richard Chamberlain, a traffic accident investigator from Shelby, North Carolina
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Season 2 1-time champion: $6,200 + a Maytag full-size stacked washer...
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David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan
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Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters player: $X. 2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All...
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Paul Katz, a lawyer from Daytona Beach, Florida
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Season 5 player (1988-10-10). Season 4 player (1987-12-04). Paul was returned...
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Paul Katz, a lawyer from Flagler County, Florida
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Season 5 player (1988-10-10). Season 4 player (1987-12-04). Paul was returned...
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Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
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Andre Green, a data analyst from Somerville, Massachusetts
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Season 29 1-time champion: $25,200 + $1,000.
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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Crystal Leonard, a stay-at-home mom and substitute teacher from Upland, California
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Season 27 player (2011-06-07).
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Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
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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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Brandon Brooks, an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 34 2-time champion: $27,401 + $1,000. During his first contestant...
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LeVar Burton, a distinguished actor and TV host from the Emmy-winning children's program Reading Rainbow
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $14,500 for the Somalia Foundation. "A distinguished...
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Dan Jansen, a world record holder and gold medal winner in speed skating from the 1994 Olympics
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1995 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $10,000 for the Dan Jansen Foundation. "World...
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Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
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"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
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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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Richard Finch, an attorney from Dearborn Heights, Michigan
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Season 19 player (2003-07-14). Season 18 player (2002-02-26). Richard was returned...
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Anthony Trifilio, a construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 19 1-time champion: $8,000 + $2,000. Season 18 1-time champion:...
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Roger Christensen, a registered nurse and pre-med student from Los Angeles, California
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Season 18 2-time champion: $42,300. In his first two games, Roger...
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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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Røb Severson, a custodial facilitator from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 26 player (2009-11-17). Name pronounced like "ROB SEE-ver-sun". Røb wore...
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Frank Spangenberg, a transit cop from Douglaston, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Jamie Campbell, a secretary originally from Texas
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Season 4 player (1988-01-04). When Johnny Gilbert announced Jamie's hometown, he...
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
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"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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Anissa Chitour, a ten-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey
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"Her extracurricular activities include playing violin, playing field hockey and shopping...
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Matthew Fox, an actor from Party of Five
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"He's a hot young star in a critically acclaimed TV series....
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Louis Virtel, a journalist and comic originally from Lemont, Illinois
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Season 31 player (2015-05-08). Last name pronounced like "vur-TELL". Louis gave...
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Eric Idle, an actor and comedian from Monty Python's Flying Circus
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"A founding member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, he fulfilled a...
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Tyler Allard, a senior from Garrett Park, Maryland
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2003 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $28,400.
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Ali Binazir, an author and hypnotherapist from Santa Monica, California
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Season 27 player (2011-01-18).
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Seth Green, an actor from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
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"His role as Scott Evil in The Spy Who Shagged Me...
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Mehrun Etebari, a grad student from Durham, New Hampshire
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Kevin Welber, a lawyer originally from Ramat Gan, Israel
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Season 14 player (1998-01-30). Kevin Amir Welber's biographical sketch, taken from...
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Harry Stessel, a college teacher and potter from Westfield, Massachusetts
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Season 23 player (2007-03-07).
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Martha Rothman, a retired stockbroker from Barnegat, New Jersey
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Season 24 1-time champion: $32,801 + $2,000.
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Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
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"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
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"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police officer from Flushing, New York
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mallory Banks, from Summerville, South Carolina
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"And this future physicist loves figuring out the underlying components of...
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Sarah McNitt, a study-abroad advisor originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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2014 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 30 5-time champion: $89,398...
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Jay Rosenberg, a professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1986 Tournament...
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Jay Rosenberg, a professor of philosophy from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1986 Tournament...
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B.J. Novak, an actor from Newton, Massachusetts
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"An actor from Newton, Massachusetts, during its nine-season run, he wrote,...
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Thomas Hurley, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Newtown, Connecticut
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"Watch out, Alex. This kid wants to host Jeopardy! He says...
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Chris Clayton, an agribusiness finance attorney from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 player (2011-06-28).
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Reggie Watts, a comedian from Great Falls, Montana
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"A comedian from Great Falls, Montana, since 2015, he's worked alongside...
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Matt Rogers, a comedian from Long Island, New York
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\"A comedian from Long Island, New York, his podcast, Las Culturistas,...
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Alison Parakh, a personal trainer from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $15,201 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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