| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $600: In a Tom Lehrer song, a movie called "The Eternal Triangle" stars Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle a hypotenuse |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $800: It's a constant that multiplies a variable; in physics, there's a well-known one "of friction" a coefficient |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $1000: These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis Cartesian |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $1000: It was Ben Affleck's turn to be a math whiz when the books were cooking in this 2016 action film, & Ben did more than the title implies The Accountant |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT "MATH" $900: A common way to greet a friend in Australia is to say "G'day," this Mate |
| #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 |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | "TRI" ME $1000: In math
2a2 + 6a + 9 is one of these expressions a trinomial |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $2000: In math it's an irrational constant beginning 2.71828, getting its letter from a man named Leonhard e |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | A CRASH OF SYMBOLS $1600: Similar to one in math, in music, the symbol here means this gradual lessening in loudness decrescendo |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $400: One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions a line |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES $3,000 (Daily Double): "We have now lived almost 50 years under the Constitution framed by the sages & patriots of the Revolution" (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $400: "Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line geometry |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | "ICU" THERE! $400: In math, normal is a synonym for this, meaning at right angles perpendicular |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $200: Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean the average |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $400: This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same the associative property |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $600: You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math algebra |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone the apex |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | AN "A" IN MATH $1000: The wavy lines in the expression seen here stand for this approximately (equal to) |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | "A"NTONYMS $800: In math, of obtuse acute |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MATH, PROFESSORS $1000: In a set of data, the median is the middle point, the mean is the average & this other "M" is the number that occurs most often mode |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $400: Darren Aronofsky's directorial debut was this 1998 film about a math genius who might have approximated the title as 22/7 Pi |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $800: As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array The Matrix |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1200: Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term Dividend |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $1600: Ben Affleck played a younger version of Jack Ryan in this explosive 2002 thriller The Sum of All Fears |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE $2000: Troubled hubby Michael Keaton is cloned several times in this 1996 screwball comedy Multiplicity |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Yep, people still use this handy measuring tool in math class & in certain professions a protractor |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ENDS IN "EX" $3,000 (Daily Double): In math, these 2 words are often used interchangeably for the top point of a figure, like a cone the apex & the vertex |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE END OF THE WORLD $2000: In math it's the set of sums of a sequence;
for 2, 4, 6, 8...
it's 2, 6, 12, 20... a series |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $400: To find the area of a sector of a circle, the formula is seen here, but fill in this missing number 360 (degrees) |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | MATH $2000: In calculus this is defined as the instantaneous rate of change of a function, so for a constant function (no change) it's 0 derivative |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $400: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Gamblers & investors know their perms & combs; it's short for permutations, a set where the order matters & these, a set where it doesn't combinations |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $800: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Video game designers plan out their games using this kind of system, that by definition uses X, Y & Z values to determine the position of a point a coordinate system |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | MATH IN THE WORLD $1600: (Joy Buolamwini presents the clue.) Intersectional analysis is a way to evaluate how multiple variables influence the accuracy of this surveillance technology I have shown to struggle on darker faces facial recognition |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | SCIENCE CENTER $1200: This non-imperial measure was originally defined as one 10-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the equator a meter |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | KEEPING IT 100 $800: In a non leap year, the 100th day falls on this date April 10th |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $800: To enroll in a university matriculate |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $1000: A rectangular numeric array in math a matrix |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $800: Conjure up this name for a grid in which the numbers add up to the same total in each column, row and main diagonal a magic square |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $1200: In a Venn diagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" and "B" the intersection |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher (Blaise) Pascal |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | MATH TERMS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) A congruent number is a positive integer that can be the area of a rational right triangle; in the case of the right triangle with the measurements of 3, 4, and 5, this is the congruent number 6 |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $200: 800 + 250 to this architect of a D.C. landmark dedicated in 1982 Maya Lin |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $800: Among Ptolemy's pursuits was drawing up a table of these--not in a musical score but as line segments in a circle chords |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $2,000 (Daily Double): The subject of a 2001 film, this mathematician won a 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics John Nash |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $2000: This Swiss mathematician's principle says the pressure in a fluid moving horizontally decreases as its velocity increases Bernoulli |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1600: In math the vertical "rise" of a line is divided by the horizontal "run" to calculate this measure slope |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | RECENT CINEMA OF THE PAST $800: Octavia Spencer was a lady on a mission--help NASA win the space race & bust some societal fences as a math genius in this film Hidden Figures |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $400: It's the number of distinct digits that are used to represent numbers in a particular number system; you probably use 10 the base |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | MATH, TEACHERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a coordinate system on the monitor.) To describe the position of a point in two dimensions, you can use the distance from an origin point & the angle from an axis, which are these paired coordinates with a chilly name polar coordinates |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $2000: In "Stand and Deliver", Edwards James Olmos gets his dropout-prone kids ready to pass a test in this tough branch of math calculus |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THAT'S MY MATH OR SCIENCE THING! $800: Here's our in-depth examination of cats and dogs in this diagram, named for a 19th-century English logician Venn |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | ENDS IN "ITE" $800: In math, when the number of elements in a set is countable, it's this type of set finite |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | MEANWHILE... $800: Sir Francis Drake failed to capture Lisbon in 1589, but this astronomer succeeded in taking a chair--in math at the U. of Pisa Galileo |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WOMEN IN MATH & SCIENCE $400: In 1923 Edith Quimby devised a way to use this type of radiographic film to accurately gauge exposure to radiation X-ray film |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | WOMEN IN MATH & SCIENCE $800: For WWII Katharine Blodgett found a way for 2 quarts of oil to make this cloaking "screen" cover several acres a smokescreen |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1952 an early computer was used to discover the 13th Mersenne one of these numbers a prime number |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | MATH VOCAB $2000: As a verb, it means to slant or depict unfairly; in math it refers to 2 lines that do not intersect & are not parallel skew |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | MATH & SCIENCE $1600: The equation y2=2px describes this conic section, the shape of the arch in some bridges a parabola |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | 9 (LETTER WORDS) $1000: In math, it's the set of real numbers; in "Star Trek", the space-time one got messed with quite a bit a continuum |
| #7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $2000: "(____) Days of Summer" times "____ Heads in a Duffel Bag" 4000 |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | MATH $1000: The 6 functions of this branch of math are each defined by the ratio of 2 sides in a right-angled triangle trigonometry |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | SOUNDS LIKE A LIQUOR BRAND $400: In math it's found before "value"; in thermodynamics, before "zero" absolute |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $2000: In math this adjective describes a number expressible as a quotient of 2 integers rational |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | MATH, NOW... $400: Give us an "A" in this 4-letter math word for the tip of a cone or pyramid apex |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $1000: Before he took on Cylons, he took on teaching math in East L.A. as Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" Edward James Olmos |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $1200: The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13" a slide rule |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $1600: Jodie Foster directed & starred in this "Little" film about a math prodigy & his mom Little Man Tate |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Fibonacci sequence factors into the clues left behind by a museum curator in this 2006 film The Da Vinci Code |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MATH IN THE MOVIES $2000: I have the solution! This film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a mathematician afraid of inheriting insanity Proof |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In math it's a synonym for "times" by |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | MATH $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a trigonometric animation on the monitor.) As the circle is drawn in blue, in red, the "Y" values translate to sine, & in yellow, the values of "X" translate to this cosine |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | LET'S TALK ABOUT "X" $600: In math the abscissa is the coordinate of a point along this the x-axis |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Divide the change in a line's vertical "y" component by the change in its horizontal "x" component to get this measure of its inclination slope |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | MATH TERMS $400: We'll meet again, don't know where, but do know this diagram used in math a Venn diagram |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1600: In 2014 work on curved surfaces made Maryam Mirzakhani the 1st woman to get the Fields Medal, this field's top honor math |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | FILM SCHOOL $1000: Lambeau fielded offers for a math genius/college janitor in this 1997 film; your move, chief Good Will Hunting |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Number of ounces in a pound plus the number of pints in a gallon 24 |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: Yards between the end zone on an NFL field divided by the number of 15-minute periods in a game 25 |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | YOU DO THE MATH $600: Number of seconds in an hour divided by the number of degrees in a circle 10 |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $200: This spiteful word is the average of all the numbers in a data set mean |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GIMME SOME MATH! $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) In Cartesian geometry, the y coordinate of a point is called the ordinate--the x coordinate is called this, from Latin for "cut off" the abscissa |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | THE LONG & THE SHORT OF IT $600: This verb meaning to lengthen is found in the name of a math instrument protract |
| #6764, aired 2014-01-30 | MATH PROBLEMS $2000: The office measures 10 feet by 18 feet; to carpet the whole thing will cost this much at $10 a square yard $200 |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | INSIDE ART $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us an engraving in the studio.) A closer look at Albrecht Durer's "Melencolia I" shows his skill at not only art but also math; the box in the back is one of these mystical constructs in which any row or column adds up to the same number; here, it's 34 a magic square |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $600: In math, it's a rectangular array of numbers, not the setting for a dystopian 1999 sci-fi movie the matrix |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | TALKIN' MATH $1000: In calculus, it's what the notation df/dx represents; don't try to be original derivative (differentiation accepted) |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $400: Number of "Hours" in a CBS documentary show plus number of "Minutes" in a CBS documentary show 108 (48 + 60) |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | TV TITLE MATH $3,000 (Daily Double): Sum of the digits in a famous Shannen Doherty ZIP code 12 (9 + 0 + 2 + 1 + 0) |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $200: As the bases are 90 feet apart, it's the area in square feet of a baseball infield 8,100 square feet |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | MATH APPEAL $400: In 67 divided by 22, 67 is this, also a nice check stockholders get a dividend |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: Your class forms a leapfrog league with teams made up of 4 players each; with 28 kids in your class, there are this many teams 7 |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $2000: You can eat 2 pancakes in a minute & a half, so it'll take you this long to eat 8 6 minutes |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | OUT ON A "LIM" $2000: In math, a converging series approaches this limit |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $2000: In rectangular Cartesian coordinates, the first this is the area to the right of the y-axis & above the x-axis a quadrant |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | STARRY NIGHT $1600: Meaning "changing", it's a type of star whose brightness changes; it's also a word for an unknown in math a variable |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Take a circle whose diameter is 1 foot & mark the bottom; once the wheel has made one revolution, you have a measurement, in feet, of this ratio pi |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | MATH FUN $800: It's the sum of the 4 numbers in the center column of buttons on a standard touch-tone phone 15 |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1,000 (Daily Double): The decline of the Hanseatic League was in part due to this devastating war that lasted from 1618 to 1648 the Thirty Years' War |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TEACHERS IN THE MOVIES $400: Matt Damon brings an M.I.T. prof to his knees by burning a previously unsolved math proof in this film Good Will Hunting |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | "O" MY $2,000 (Daily Double): In math, it's 1/8 of a circle or a 45-degree angle; it's also an instrument for measuring angles an octant |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $400: A formula used for cubes is V = e3, in which "V" is this volume |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | MATH FORMULAS $800: In degrees, the sum of the interior these in a polygon equals 180(n-2) angles |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | FLOAT SAM & JET SAM $1,000 (Daily Double): From 1937 to 1940 Samuel Eliot Morison researched a 450th anniversary bio by retracing this man's voyages Christopher Columbus |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $2000: In math you get a difference by subtracting the subtrahend from this number the minuend |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $800: Number of hulls on a catamaran times the number of days in April 60 |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 score & 7 minus the syllables in a haiku 70 |
| #6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $2000: "Men on the dead man's chest" in "Treasure Island" divided by books in the Pentateuch 3 |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $400: In this type of triangle, all 3 angles are less than 90 degrees acute |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $800: This segment of a circle can be measured by its length or the angle it forms an arc |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.) The Exchange now allows brokers on the floor to execute trades from handheld devices using programs called "algos", short for this type of step-by-step mathematical process an algorithm |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $1600: 2 angles in a plane sharing a common vertex & side are said to be this adjacent |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | "A" IN MATH $14,200 (Daily Double): It's the length from the base of a cone to the apex the altitude |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $400: In finding the area of a parallelogram, A=bh, b standing for this base |
| #6214, aired 2011-09-29 | MATH ABBREV. & SYMBOLS $1600: cot, also in trig cotangent |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THAT'S SOME NERVE $600: This nerve involved in carpal tunnel syndrome shares its name with a math term for the middle number in a sequence the median |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | NOTHING $2000: In math, a solution to an equation in which the value of every variable is equal to zero is called this, like certain "pursuits" trivial |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $400: Number of simians in a Bruce Willis time travel movie squared 144 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $800: Number of "Weeks" in a Mickey Rourke film plus the title of a Fellini film; they add up to a whole number 18 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1200: Number of "Days Later" in a zombie flick divided by the title number of heroes in a Jessica Alba Marvel movie 7 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1600: It's what 2(x+y) equals if x is the number of "Angry Men" in a 1957 film & y is the "Kings" in a George Clooney movie 30 |
| #6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $2000: Number preceding "Pick Up" in a Roy Scheider film minus Wesley Snipes' "Passenger" number in a 1992 movie -5 |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) When graphing the equation y=2x+1, the line intersects the y-axis at 1; in general, the point where the line crosses is called the y-this the y-intercept |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | MATH TERMS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor) A circle has 2 foci that coincide in a single point. If we separate the foci, we can draw this 7-letter conic section an ellipse |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | MATH TERMS $1200: (Jimmy shows a logical proposition on a monitor.) Used in propositional logic problems & often read, for example, as "P if and only if Q", the symbol here denotes this term biconditional or equivalence |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | I KNOW A LITTLE... $600: Greek; he's known as this letter,
which in math means a tiny quantity epsilon |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains an equation on the monitor.) The big "E" is actually the Greek letter sigma; in math, it means to do this to a series of terms--here, from 1 to 3 sum them (or add them) |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $3,200 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew explains an equation on the monitor.) In math, an exclamation mark is called a factorial symbol; it means to do this with every positive integer of equal or lesser value--in this case, equal to 120 multiply it |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | WANT TO RACE? $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the Toyota Grand Prix.) In math, this 4-letter term is the top part of a triangle, but in car racing, it's the innermost part of a turn the apex |
| #5869, aired 2010-03-04 | MATH-POURRI $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of a board with numbers.) The highest number that divides evenly into two different numbers is called this, also known as GCF; for 40 & 100, the GCF is 20 the greatest common factor |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | MATHLETES $2,000 (Daily Double): He thought, in math the last letters should stand for unknowns & the first letters for known quantities--therefore it was René Descartes |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | VICTORIAN NOVELISTS $800: While creating Alice in Wonderland, he was serving as a math lecturer Lewis Carroll |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $800: He played math genius John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $1200: In coordinate geometry, the abscissa is the distance of a point from this vertical axis the y-axis |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | MATH $1600: The continuous summing of a change in a function over an interval, it's the inverse process of differentiation integration |
| #5683, aired 2009-04-29 | AROUND A GREEK TEMPLE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an architectural graphic on the monitor.) The ring at the bottom of a column is called a torus; in math, a torus now refers to any donut-shaped figure for which the formula 4π2Rr determines this area |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | FROM A TO Y $1,000 (Daily Double): In math, it's the degree of correctness of a quantity or expression accuracy |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C 90 degrees |
| #5602, aired 2009-01-06 | HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) If a line's slope equals 3, "X" equals 1 & "B" equals 1, then "Y" equals this 4 |
| #5564, aired 2008-11-13 | DIMENSIONS $400: Hyphenated term used in math to describe a line, & in movie reviews to describe a character without depth one-dimensional |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $400: It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia Art Garfunkel |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | GAMBLING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew tries her hand at roulette.) In Las Vegas, the payout on a single number in roulette is this to 1, so on a 25-dollar bet, I'd win 875 dollars 35-to-1 |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $800: In our number system, it's 10;
in a triangle,
it's the lowest side the base |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | MATH $1600: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $500 (Daily Double): An $80 shirt reduced in price by 20% would cost this $64 |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $200: Term for the line that cuts a square into 2 triangles a diagonal |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $400: In a fraction, the numerator is the dividend & this is the divisor the denominator |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | "D" IN MATH $600: A binary system is based on 2; this is a system based on 10 a decimal system |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | MATH ROCK $200: In 1974 rocker Todd Rundgren sang a tune entitled "No. 1 Lowest Common" this denominator |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | TV MATH $2000: Hawkeye's unit number in "M*A*S*H" plus John Lithgow's title rock "from the Sun" 4080 |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | STUDENT & TEACHER $400: Hermann Minkowski taught him math in the 1890s & couldn't believe it when he became a great scientist (Albert) Einstein |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | MATH $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the equation 5x/6 = 10/1 on the monitor.) To find the value of a variable in equivalent fractions, you perform this operation first cross-multiplication |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): This first American woman in space heads a company geared to girls who are interested in science & math Sally Ride |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | MAKES THE HEART $2,000 (Daily Double): The mitral valve has 2 flaps & is also called this valve, just like a certain tooth a bicuspid |
| #5229, aired 2007-05-10 | COLLEGE MOVIES $200: Matt Damon plays a janitor at M.I.T. who's really a math genius in this film Good Will Hunting |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | MATH $1200: Not a "perimeter", this means a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to produce other curves parameter |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MATH PROBLEMS $600: To pay $200 in rent, a worker getting 50 cents per bucket of tomatoes must pick this many buckets 400 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a figure of a right triangle with sides marked "3" and "4" and a hypotenuse marked "C".) According to the theorem made famous by Pythagoras, it's the value of C in the figure seen here 5 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: You live in a 5-story building where there are 3 apts. on each odd floor & 4 on each even floor; this is the total number 17 |
| #5157, aired 2007-01-30 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a diagram of two rectangles, one 7' by 7' and one 7' by 4'.) It's the total number of square feet in this diagram 77 |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $1600: In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor a numerical coefficient |
| #5112, aired 2006-11-28 | MATH $2000: This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry hyperbolic |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | MAKE $$$ IN YOUR SPARE TIME! $400: Numismatics, man! In 2005 one of these dating from 1792 sold for $437,000--that's 43.7 million times its face value a penny |
| #4976, aired 2006-04-10 | LITERARY TERMS $5,800 (Daily Double): Edmund Spenser coined the term prothalamion for a poem that celebrates the impending one of these events a wedding |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $800: Usually symbolized by a letter, a changing quantity in algebra is called this a variable |
| #4933, aired 2006-02-08 | MATH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a Venn diagram on a monitor.) An intersection contains elements common to two sets; this set, symbolized here, contains all the elements in either set the union |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $400: His experiments in the mid-1660s showed that the colors produced by a prism were due to different refraction rates Newton |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a % sign on a video monitor as it changes to have one more 0 in the denominator.) You know percent, but how about this similar term that indicates parts in 1,000 per mil |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | MATH & SCIENCE $2000: The name of this force that can compel an object to move in a circular path is from the Latin for "seek the center" centripetal force |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to some expressions on a monitor.) In a complex number of the form shown here, "i" is short for this type of unreal number, like the square root of negative one imaginary |
| #4867, aired 2005-11-08 | STATE "NC" $1200: High school math may include these, a term first used by Descartes in 1637 & involving variables functions |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | MATH $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands at a chalkboard.) Multiplying in scientific notation gets me a product with this exponent 9 |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | LET'S BE SECURE $2000: (Tom Ridge reads one last time.) Our front line of defense against a terrorist attack is local police & firefighters, known as "first" these responders |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "PRO" $1600: In anatomy, it's a muscle that draws a part forward; in math, it's a device for measuring angles a protractor |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | ACADEMIC PENTATHLON $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a pair of polynomial expressions on a chalkboard.) Math:
It's what the lower expression is to the expression on the top its square |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | A WEALTH OF INFORMATION $800: Math term found in Genesis 1:28 multiply |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $400: John Wheeler named this singularity in the late 1960s; the Russians called it a collapsar a black hole |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | MATH & SCIENCE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a strip of paper from the top secret Jeopardy! labs.) The Mobius strip is used in this field, the study of properties that don't change when a shape bends or twists topology |
| #4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a diagram on the chalkboard.) In the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that the r stands for radian |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | TOP 40 MATH $2000: In the song's title, Zager & Evans' "In The Year" this minus The Commodores' "Times A Lady" 2522 |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | MILITARY MATTERS $600 (Daily Double): A popular German hit song during WWII was these tanks "Are Rolling In Africa" Panzers |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "A" $400: Polynomials & coefficients are used in this branch of math algebra |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | DO THE MATH $1600: You'll pay this much to stay in a $200-a-night hotel suite for all of February 2004 $5,800 |
| #4440, aired 2003-12-19 | DO THE MATH $2000: (Video of Jimmy at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY.) The Kentucky Derby is a mile and a quarter race run on a mile oval, so the start and finish line are this many feet apart 1,320 |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | GRADE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the equation y = 3x + 7 at a chalkboard.) Eighth graders should be able to deal with this type of equation that uses variables without exponents a linear equation |
| #4269, aired 2003-03-06 | SIGNS $2000: In math a plus or minus sign is also called this, like a certain person reached by phone operator |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | VOCABULARY TEST $600: In math the radius of a circle is half of the line called this diameter |
| #4183, aired 2002-11-06 | MATH TERMS $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) From the Latin for "to turn upside down", the function g is described as this of the function f inverse |
| #4150, aired 2002-09-20 | SCIENCE PRIZES $1200: Solve equations like 3x(squared)-15=0 & you could be headed for a Frank Nelson Cole Prize in this branch of math algebra |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | COLON $2000: In math, a colon denotes this a ratio (or a proportion) |
| #4107, aired 2002-06-11 | SCOTLAND $2,000 (Daily Double): Hundreds of years old, the de facto national flag features this saint's cross Andrew |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | YOU DO THE MATH $1600: Number of face cards in a standard deck of playing cards divided by the number of aces 3 (12 divided by 4) |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | YOU DO THE MATH $1200: The 4 angles in a square add up to this many degrees 360 |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | COLLEGE MOVIES $1000: In "Good Will Hunting", Matt Damon played a hunky math genius toiling as a janitor at this university MIT |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $400: Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus 8 (5 + 3) |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $600: Days in a leap year minus the title "route" number of a TV show starring Martin Milner 300 (366 - 66) |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $1000: No. of "islands" in a mayo-based salad dressing plus a "baker's dozen" of cookies made by Martin Milner 1,013 |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | MATH $200: This point is the dot (comma in Europe) in numbers like 23.91 a decimal point |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $200: Even the janitor at M.I.T. is a math genius in this 1997 Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF MATH $200: A point equidistant from the vertices of a regular polygon or a position in hockey & basketball Center |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE OF MATH $800: If a circle has a radius of 7.3 inches, its circumference in inches is 2 x 7.3 x this pi |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: The number of items in a dozen times the number of months in a year 144 (12 x 12) |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $400: The number of days in a week times the number of ancient "wonders of the world" 49 (7 x 7) |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | YOU DO THE MATH $500: The number of events in a decathlon divided by the number of years in a decade 1 (10 ÷ 10) |
| #3640, aired 2000-06-02 | ABSOLUTELY NOTHING $1000: In math, a set containing no elements is called an empty set or this type Null set |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: The number of loaves in a baker's dozen plus the number of months in a year 25 (13 + 12) |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | YOU DO THE MATH $1000: The number of pounds in a ton multiplied by the number of feet in a yard 6000 (2000 x 3) |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | YOU DO THE MATH $200: Number of days in a leap year minus the number of days in a week 359 (366 - 7) |
| #3580, aired 2000-03-10 | SCIENCE $100: In biology it's a finger; in math, a figure like 1 a digit |
| #3560, aired 2000-02-11 | SAT: MATH $1,300 (Daily Double): In 90 minutes a minute hand will travel this many degrees 540 (360 + 180) |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $1000: The number of years in a millennium divided by the number of years in a score 50 (1000/20) |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | MATH CLASS $3,000 (Daily Double): The perimeter in inches of a square with 11-inch sides 44 |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | MATH TERMS $200: In our number system, it's 10; in a triangle, it's the lowest side Base |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $300: Number of playing cards in a standard deck without jokers divided by the number of suits 13 (52/4) |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $500: In MLB, the number of bases (including home plate) times the number of innings in a standard game 36 (4 X 9) |
| #3337, aired 1999-02-23 | MATH CLASS $200: The degrees in a circle divided by the degrees in a right angle 4 (360/90) |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | MATH CLASS $500: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $100: Number of nursery rhyme blackbirds baked in a pie divided by number of nursery rhyme blind mice 8 (24/3) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | YOU DO THE MATH $500 (Daily Double): Number of ounces in a standard avoirdupois pound divided by number of cups in a gallon 1 (16/16) |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | THE "I"S HAVE IT $300: In math, the symbol for this looks like an 8 on its side infinity |
| #2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In math it means at a right angle to the horizontal perpendicular |
| #2737, aired 1996-06-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $500: On graduating from West Point in 1843, he hoped to become a math teacher Grant |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | MATH $200: In an improper one of these, the numerator is greater than the denominator a fraction |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | MATH $600: In geometry this logical argument showing a statement is true can be direct or indirect a proof |
| #2705, aired 1996-05-10 | MATH $1000: Term for the number of different symbols used in a number system: binary is 2, decimal is 10 a base |
| #2695, aired 1996-04-26 | ISAAC NEWTON $3,000 (Daily Double): Newton engaged in a protracted argument with Leibniz over which of them invented this branch of math calculus |
| #2644, aired 1996-02-15 | MATH CLASS $1000: It's the highest power of an unknown variable in a quadratic equation the 2nd power |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | WORD"Z" $400: A person who excels at a certain subject, like math or aerodynamics whiz |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | MATH $100: This process will result in a quotient division |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $3,100 (Daily Double): In 1910 the South Carolina Military Academy changed its name to this the Citadel |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | MATH $1000: A location in space or in a coordinate system, one of these has no dimensions a point |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | MATH $100: In a fraction the number above the line is the numerator & the number below it is this the denominator |
| #2324, aired 1994-10-13 | MATH $500: Euclid provided a proof that the number of these is infinite; in 1992 one with 227,832 digits was found a prime number |
| #2205, aired 1994-03-18 | SCIENCE $2,400 (Daily Double): It's a branch of math or, in dentistry, a hardened plaque on the teeth calculus |
| #2182, aired 1994-02-15 | MATH $200: In this plane figure, all the points are equidistant from the center a circle |
| #1986, aired 1993-04-05 | "BI" WORDS $500: In math, it's an expression consisting of 2 terms connected by a plus or minus sign a binomial |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | MATH $200: In a division problem, any number that's "left over" is called this remainder |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | MATH $600: In the metric system, this unit is equal to the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water gram |
| #1926, aired 1993-01-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "A" $300: Diophantus, a Greek who lived in the 3rd century A.D., has been called the father of this branch of math algebra |
| #1912, aired 1992-12-22 | MATH HISTORY $200: Around 190 A.D. the Chinese calculated it to 5 places; in 1989 a computer did it to 1,011,196,691 places pi |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | SONG STANDARDS $700 (Daily Double): It's the question asked in "I Got Rhythm" Who could ask for anything more? |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | MATH $400: The number of scruples in 6 drams or the number of inches in half a yard 18 |
| #1511, aired 1991-03-11 | MATH $600: It's the next number in the sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 21 |
| #1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MATH $500: In geometry, a hypothesis & conclusion make up this type of formal statement a theorem |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | EASY MATH $400: A statement in algebra that shows the value on the left to be the same as the value on the right equation |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | EASY MATH $500: From the Latin for "how many times", it's the answer to a division problem quotient |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | "V"OCABULARY $200: A quantity in math capable of assuming any of a set of values a variable |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | MATH $300: The quantity that divides the numerator; in a fraction, it's written below the line the denominator |
| #1421, aired 1990-11-05 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: In math a horizontal line with a dot above & below it represents this division |
| #1400, aired 1990-10-05 | NUMBER, PLEASE $500: People generally work 40 hours out of this many in a week 168 |
| #1264, aired 1990-02-15 | MATH $500: Number of square inches in a square foot 144 |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | "F" IN MATH $200: A number written as a quotient; examples are 2/3, 1/2 & 1/4 Fraction |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | "F" IN MATH $400: 1/8 of a mile, or 201.7m Furlong |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | "F" IN MATH $800: Also called a divisor, it's a number by which another number is divided Factor |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | "F" IN MATH $1000: This adjective describes a set with a fixed, countable number of elements Finite |
| #1227, aired 1989-12-26 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: Edward James Olmos gained 40 lbs. for the weighty role of a math teacher in this '88 release "Stand And Deliver" |
| #1196, aired 1989-11-13 | MATH $500: Branch of math meaning "pebble" in Latin, it's also related to a word that means "to determine by math" calculus |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | MATH PROBLEMS $200: If your allowance is $10 a week, you'll be given this much in a year $520 |
| #768, aired 1987-12-30 | MONEY MATH $500: Difference in value between a bill with Hamilton's portrait & one with Lincoln's $5 |
| #602, aired 1987-03-31 | EASY MATH $200: Basic operation in which you would use a minuend subtraction |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | "D" IN MATH $400: 1/360th of a circle, used in geography to measure longitude & latitude degree |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | "D" IN MATH $600: A 10-sided figure decagon |
| #579, aired 1987-02-26 | "D" IN MATH $800: In geometry, a line that slants in an oblique direction diagonal |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | MATH CLASS $1000: Term for the equal factors of a number, as in 3, 3 & 3 for 27 cube root (roots) |
| #575, aired 1987-02-20 | MATH CLASS $1,100 (Daily Double): Number of degrees in the angle opposite the hypotenuse of a right triangle 90 |
| #409, aired 1986-04-03 | EASY MATH $400 (Daily Double): Sum of the digits in the title of the following song by Prince:
"Tryin' to run from the destruction / You know I didn't even care / 'Cause they say / 2000, zero-zero, party over, oops, out of time / So tonight, I'm gonna party like it's 1999" 28 |
| #317, aired 1985-11-26 | MATH CLASS $300: The amount of sides in a decagon minus the amount of sides in a hexagon 4 |
| #267, aired 1985-09-17 | EASY MATH $300: In a crash between a Mercedes 450SL & a Datsun 240Z, the numerical total "totaled" 690 |
| #183, aired 1985-05-22 | BABY CARE $500: Most experts agree that nursing mothers should drink at least this much milk a day a quart |
| #141, aired 1985-03-25 | EASY MATH $200: Number of first-class stamps in a $20 roll a hundred |
| #112, aired 1985-02-12 | MATHEMATICS $600: In your watch it's a liquid crystal diode, but in math an "LCD" is this least common denominator (or lowest common denominator) |
| #56, aired 1984-11-26 | NUMBER PLEASE $300: Square inches in a square foot 144 |
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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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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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Steve Mond, a 9th and 10th grade math teacher from Midvale, Utah
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2018 Teachers Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,000 + a $2,500 grant. At...
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Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
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"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
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"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
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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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Molly Gier, a twelve-year-old from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"She is preparing for a teaching career by tutoring her peers....
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Bobby Millison, from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
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"He's an award-winning diver, and would like to serve his country...
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Bryce Piotrowski, a twelve-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin
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"He has no idea what he wants to do later in...
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
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"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
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"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Scottie Szewczyk, from Belleville, Illinois
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"He enjoys science and sports, and would like to work as...
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
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"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Andy Anderson, a high school math teacher originally from Batavia, Illinois
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Season 32 player (2015-09-15). Andy appeared on the show by winning...
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Hannah Krug, a high school math and physics teacher from Laurel, Maryland
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2016 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Chris Tempro, a 9th grade math teacher from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2016 Teachers Tournament semifinalist: $10,000 + a $2,500 education grant to...
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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
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"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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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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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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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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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Jason Pratt, a middle school history teacher from Woodbridge, Virginia
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Season 25 2-time champion: $32,701 + $1,000. Jason Pratt - A...
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Kevin Yang, a junior from Birmingham, Alabama
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio
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2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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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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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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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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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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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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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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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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Sebastian Johnson, a senior from Takoma Park, Maryland
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Listed as "Sebi" on the...
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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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Cerulean Ozarow, an 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York
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"His future is full of options. He wants to become either...
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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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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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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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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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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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2023 Jeopardy! Masters 3rd place player: $150,000. 2022 Tournament of Champions...
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Vivian Lappenbusch, a twelve-year-old from Seattle, Washington
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"She finds other people's stories and cultures fascinating, so anthropology is...
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Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 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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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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Amy Wilson, a college writer from Baltimore, Maryland
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"She was a junior from McGuinness High in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;...
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Gwynne Ash, a university professor from Austin, Texas
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Season 24 1-time champion: $22,400 + $2,000. Gwynne unintentionally tied with...
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Dan Katz, an assistant professor of mathematics from Greensboro, North Carolina
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Season 26 player (2010-06-09). Not to be confused with Season 6...
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