#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | COUNTRY MUSIC HITS $1200: In their first No. 1 hit, the Zac Brown Band served up "A Little Bit Of" this, "& cold beer on a Friday night" chicken fried |
#8954, aired 2023-10-19 | MUSIC TERMS $1200: String players debate how much of this technique to use; a little adds warmth... too much & you get the nanny goat effect vibrato |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $200: A wood block beats out the ticking of the clock toward midnight in Prokofiev's score for the ballet about this heroine Cinderella |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $600: Stephen Sondheim composed most of the score of "A Little Night Music" in 3/4 time, also known as this dance "time" waltz time |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $800: Disney's "Fantasia" featured this Mussorgsky work about a hilltop witches' Sabbath a Night on Bald Mountain |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $1000: This German title of a popular Mozart piece literally translates to "A Little Night Music" Eine kleine Nachtmusik |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $1,600 (Daily Double): Chopin was a master of these meditative piano pieces, a French word meaning "of the night" nocturnes |
#8873, aired 2023-05-17 | RECENT POP MUSIC $2000: Possessive title of the third solo album by Mr. Styles Harry's House |
#11, aired 2023-05-16 | MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER $1000: (Hans Zimmer reads.) I'm a big fan of this jack-of-all-trades musician who scored films like "The Master" & "There Will Be Blood"; you may have also heard of his little band called Radiohead (Jonny) Greenwood |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | COUNTRY MUSIC $400: This country superstar seen here studied advertising at Oklahoma State, but ended up changing his career path a little bit Garth Brooks |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $200: This rock & roll legend passed away in 2020 Little Richard |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $400: In 1983 Prince drove into the Top 10 for the first time in this title conveyance "Little Red Corvette" |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $600: This country quartet has won 3 Grammys, including one in 2016 for "Girl Crush" Little Big Town |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $800: "I'll keep you my" this, sang the All-American Rejects, though having a No. 1 hit might not be the best way to do that "Dirty Little Secret" |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC $1000: Be cool, relax & name this 1980 chart-topper by Queen "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | POP MUSIC $500: Here's this "Unstoppable" singer wearing one of her trademark oversized wigs Sia |
#8683, aired 2022-07-13 | WELSH FOLK $600: A commander of the Order of the British Empire, this Oscar winner made her Broadway debut in 2009 in "A Little Night Music" Catherine Zeta-Jones |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM $400: For "A Little Night Music", not a circus, Sondheim wrote the song "Send In" these, "don't bother, they're here" the clowns |
#14, aired 2022-02-17 | A LITTLE BODY ENGLISH $600: To deal with the consequences of your actions; hope the tune is at least catchy when you do face the music |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | MUSIC STUFF $1000: Mark Feld was the original name of this late style icon who joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 with his band T. Rex Marc Bolan |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE $600: One of the greatest songs he's written is "Send In The Clowns" from "A Little Night Music" Sondheim |
#8311, aired 2021-01-11 | KNIGHTS $1200: For services to music, this Beatle was knighted in 2018 Ringo Starr |
#8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $1600: In 1957 Little Richard quit secular music for 5 years after seeing a sign in the sky that turned out to be this new satellite Sputnik |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $200: Here's Little Big Town in 2018 performing their cover of a song from a tribute album honoring this legendary performer Elton John |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | A LITTLE ALLITERATION $1000: In 1922 London, over 50 companies were making this mechanical & musical wonder with no fingers on the keys player pianos |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $2000: The ancient libation, revived in hip-hop culture, is honored in "Pour Out A Little Liquor" by Thug Life featuring this late rapper Tupac |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | DISNEY ON BROADWAY $1000: Special footwear helps the characters glide across the stage in a show-stopping number from this musical
"Under the sea (under the sea) /
Under the sea (under the sea) /
When the sardine begin the beguine /
It's music to me..." The Little Mermaid |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1787 he gave us a little gem called "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" Mozart |
#8017, aired 2019-06-18 | CLASS(ICAL MUSIC) IS IN $1600: The Wagner piece heard here depicts these Norse maidens on a little ride the Valkyries |
#7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $400: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Perhaps music's most famous motif is often said to represent fate knocking, but others attribute the opening of this work to the deaf Beethoven feeling the vibrations of a little bird tapping on a tree Beethoven's 5th |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | GIVE A LITTLE WHISTLE $1000: If a calliope is powered by a boiler, it uses this kind of whistle to make music a steam whistle |
#7714, aired 2018-03-08 | MUSIC TERMS $1600: An accidental is a note that the composer changes by a semitone; a little b-looking thingy indicates this flat |
#7644, aired 2017-11-30 | MOZART $400: The joyful quality of this serenade makes it a favorite "A Little Night Music" |
#7537, aired 2017-05-23 | A "LITTLE" IN TITLE $1600: This Sondheim show with a Mozartean title returned to Broadway in 2009 with Catherine Zeta-Jones A Little Night Music |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Originally, his "A Little Night Music" contained an additional minuet, but it has been lost Mozart |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $800: Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G Major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for "A Little Night Music" (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) |
#7375, aired 2016-10-07 | MUSIC FOR THE DENTIST'S CHAIR $1600: Gulp! I just heard the lyric "I thrill when I drill a bicuspid" from "Dentist!", a song in this movie musical Little Shop of Horrors |
#7095, aired 2015-06-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC ADJECTIVES $200: There's this much "Night Music" in a 1787 work a little |
#7092, aired 2015-06-16 | A LITTLE DAD'LL DO YA $800: A Florence, Alabama music festival honors this "Father of the Blues" who was born here in 1873 W.C. Handy |
#7090, aired 2015-06-12 | THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED $800: We hope this gravel-voiced Brit had "a little help from" his friends before his death December 22, 2014 Joe Cocker |
#7069, aired 2015-05-14 | STEPHEN SONDHEIM $2000: "Send In The Clowns" is a beloved song from this "small" Sondheim show A Little Night Music |
#6709, aired 2013-11-14 | POP GOES THE MUSIC $400: 1978's "With a Little Luck" was Paul McCartney's last No. 1 hit with this group Wings |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | VIOLIN MUSIC $1200: Berceuse is French for this soothing type of song; Faure wrote one for a tiny little girl named Dolly a lullaby |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $200: Sept. 9, 2011:
This Eddie Vedder band was up "All Night" Pearl Jam |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $400: June 25, 2010:
This Detroit rapper "Won't Back Down" Eminem |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $600: July 26, 2012:
This Gwen Stefani group told us to "Settle Down" No Doubt |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $800: May 21, 2012:
This top-hatted Guns N' Roses guitarist was "Back From Cali" Slash |
#6571, aired 2013-03-25 | A LITTLE LATE NIGHT MUSIC $1000: May 13, 2010:
This Vermont jam band covered "Loving Cup" Phish |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | THAT'S A CLOWN QUESTION, BRO $1600: "Send In The Clowns" is from 1973's "A Little Night Music" by this legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim |
#6437, aired 2012-09-18 | MUSIC TERMS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a violinist at the Juilliard School in New York.) String players debate how much of this technique to use; a little adds warmth to the tone, but too much & you get the nanny goat effect vibrato |
#6121, aired 2011-04-04 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: From the Italian for "little property", it can be a trifle or a short, light piece of music or verse bagatelle |
#6035, aired 2010-12-03 | HOLLYWOOD TO BROADWAY $800: Playing Desiree in "A Little Night Music" was the Broadway debut of this Welsh-born movie star, & won her a Tony Catherine Zeta-Jones |
#6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set The Nutcracker |
#5925, aired 2010-05-21 | THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands with a portrait at the Juilliard School in New York.) One of the school's illustrious presidents was William Schuman, who established the Juilliard String Quartet; he composed a little, too, & in 1943, won the first music version of this prize the Pulitzer |
#5882, aired 2010-03-23 | MAKING OVERTURES $800: The first music the Chicago Symphony played was this German opera master's little-known "A Faust Overture" Wagner |
#5819, aired 2009-12-24 | "CHIN" MUSIC $600: Cash registers ring for Shania Twain in this song that says "We live in a greedy little world" "Ka-Ching!" |
#5273, aired 2007-07-11 | LULLABIES THAT ROCK $200: This lullabye will either "rock" your little ones or make them acrophobic "Rock-a-bye Baby" |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Pipe up if you know Bach wrote a "Little Book" of 45 Chorales for this instrument the organ |
#5246, aired 2007-06-04 | MUSIC $2000: Term for an opera passage that's more spoken than sung, with little accompaniment a recitativo |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | GERMAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Kleine is this adjective, as in "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" little |
#5042, aired 2006-07-11 | THE GRAMMYS $800: A hit for Judy Collins, this tune from Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" was 1975's Song of the Year "Send In The Clowns" |
#5015, aired 2006-06-02 | '80s MUSIC $800: Sting wrote this song that was a No. 3 hit for The Police "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" |
#4665, aired 2004-12-10 | I PREDICT "SNOW" $2000: Listening to this famous piece of ballet music makes me think of a flurry of little dancers "Waltz Of The Snowflakes" (from The Nutcracker) |
#4625, aired 2004-10-15 | MUSIC IN "C" $1600: Oh baby, it's the 1990 hit heard here
"It burned like a ball of fire /
When the rebel took a little child bride /
To tease yeah /
So go easy yeah" "Cradle Of Love" |
#4587, aired 2004-07-13 | A LITTLE BIT OF COUNTRY $400: In 2001 she played Annie Oakley in a Broadway revival of "Annie Get Your Gun"; she now stars in her own sitcom on the WB Reba McEntire |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | COMPOSERS $2,400 (Daily Double): A famous suite by this composer includes the piece heard here (Ferde) Grofé |
#4429, aired 2003-12-04 | THE 18th CENTURY $800: 1787 Mozart work often called a serenade; the "New Oxford Companion to Music" says it's, aptly, a nocturne "A Little Night Music" ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik") |
#4399, aired 2003-10-23 | THE '60s MUSIC SCENE $200: Grammy voters certainly loved Aretha Franklin "just a little bit"; she won 2 1967 awards for this song "Respect" |
#4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $400: In 1983 Prince has a "Little Red Corvette"; 20 years earlier The Beach Boys had this "fastest set of wheels in town" "Little Deuce Coupe" |
#4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $800: It's the Ricky Nelson hit heard here "Poor Little Fool" |
#4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $1200: In 1967 Dionne Warwick sang, "While combing my hair, now, and wondering what dress to wear, now, I" do this "say a little prayer for you" |
#4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $1600: This line precedes "And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime" "God didn't make little green apples" |
#4317, aired 2003-05-13 | A "LITTLE" MUSIC $2000: She worked as a babysitter for songwriter Carole King until hitting the big time with King's song "The Loco-Motion" Little Eva |
#4278, aired 2003-03-19 | TONY-WINNING COMPOSERS $1200: 1973:
"A Little Night Music" Stephen Sondheim |
#4244, aired 2003-01-30 | THAT '70s SONG $800: In 1975 & again in 1977 Judy Collins made the Top 40 with this song from "A Little Night Music" "Send in the Clowns" |
#4231, aired 2003-01-13 | THE MUSIC OF SOUND $1000: (Cheryl in Edison's Lab at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit) The first sound ever recorded & played was Edison's recesitation of this familiar nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" |
#4187, aired 2002-11-12 | POPULAR MUSIC $400: A little bird told us "Steve McQueen" is a number on her 2002 album "C'mon, C'mon" Sheryl Crow |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | MUSIC FROM THE "HEART" $2000: Jackie DeShannon's biggest hit "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" |
#4031, aired 2002-02-25 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This show that empowered women in the summer of '97 always closed with Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" Lilith Fair |
#3970, aired 2001-11-30 | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS $2000: Ingmar Bergman's movie "Smiles of a Summer Night" inspired this Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music |
#3610, aired 2000-04-21 | CLOWN SONGS $200: Judy Collins recorded a version of this song from "A Little Night Music" "Send in the Clowns" |
#3540, aired 2000-01-14 | COMPUSPEAK $800: (Hi, I'm Kari Wuhrer of a little show called Sliders.) My CD "Shiny" is available at my website on this letter-&-number format for sending music across the web MP3 |
#3435, aired 1999-07-09 | '50s POP MUSIC $200: As he first recorded it, "Tutti-Frutti" was a bit risque, so it was toned down when released as a single in 1955 Little Richard |
#3431, aired 1999-07-05 | "HOUSE" MUSIC $800: This song was a hit for John Mellencamp in 1984: ain't that America? "Pink Houses" |
#3199, aired 1998-06-25 | THE SOUND OF "MUSIC" $600: A 1787 Mozart serenade, or a 1973 Sondheim show "A Little Night Music" |
#3198, aired 1998-06-24 | A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC $100: It's not stolen money, my Lord, this instrument heard here is an old relative of the guitar: Lute |
#3198, aired 1998-06-24 | A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC $200: The chevalier must have brought this instrument; its name is Old French for "small drum": Tambourine |
#3198, aired 1998-06-24 | A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC $300: Apprentice, wake thy knight, these instruments being struck announce the day: Bells |
#3198, aired 1998-06-24 | A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC $400: I'll announce your arrival at the joust, my liege, with a coiled one of the instruments heard here: Trumpet |
#3198, aired 1998-06-24 | A LITTLE KNIGHT MUSIC $500: Drink some mead, young squire, & sing along with this rhyme time instrument heard here: Hurdy gurdy |
#3143, aired 1998-04-08 | '60s POP MUSIC $1000: Singer of "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" & "What the World Needs Now is Love" Jackie DeShannon |
#3132, aired 1998-03-24 | SMILE! $1000: Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" was based on this 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night |
#3020, aired 1997-10-17 | POP MUSIC $1000: During his long career, he had only 2 No. 1 hits: "Travelin' Man" & "Poor Little Fool" Ricky Nelson |
#3003, aired 1997-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This Stephen Sondheim musical was based on the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night" A Little Night Music |
#2995, aired 1997-09-12 | 30 YEARS AGO: SEPTEMBER 1967 $1,000 (Daily Double): In September they reached the Top 40 with the song heard here:
"I dig rock & roll music and I love to get the chance to play..." Peter, Paul & Mary |
#2840, aired 1996-12-27 | POP MUSIC $100: Little Richard has a street named for him in Macon in this state Georgia |
#2522, aired 1995-07-18 | 1950s POP MUSIC $200: This Little Richard hit begins, "A bop bop aloomop alop bop boom" "Tutti Frutti" |
#2504, aired 1995-06-22 | POP MUSIC $200: After the Mamas & the Papas, she had solo hits with "Dream A Little Dream of Me" & "It's Getting Better" Mama Cass |
#2494, aired 1995-06-08 | MUSIC $200: As you might expect, a fughetta is a little one of these a fugue |
#2055, aired 1993-07-09 | MUSIC $600: A ponticello is a little one of these found on a violin a bridge |
#2015, aired 1993-05-14 | POP & ROCK MUSIC $2,000 (Daily Double): This group won 3 1992 Billboard Music Awards for the single heard here Boyz II Men |
#1863, aired 1992-10-14 | MUSIC $400: A sonatina is a little one of these a sonata |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $300: Nachtmusik is German for this; you might like to hear "a little" of it night music |
#1510, aired 1991-03-08 | MUSIC $600: "Little book" designed to be read along with an opera, which is hard to do when they turn down the lights a libretto |
#1403, aired 1990-10-10 | MUSIC CLASS $400: A whole one of these is shown as a little black rectangle hanging from a staff line a rest |
#1400, aired 1990-10-05 | MUSICALS $800: Sondheim musical suggested by the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night" A Little Night Music |
#1391, aired 1990-09-24 | COUNTRY MUSIC $5 (Daily Double): She made her TV debut on "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts" January 21, 1957, singing the following:
"I go out walkin' after midnight / Out in the moonlight / Just like we used to do / I'm always walkin'" Patsy Cline |
#1385, aired 1990-09-14 | MUSIC $200: Prokofiev's piece about a little Homo sapiens & a Canis lupis Peter and the Wolf |
#1232, aired 1990-01-02 | COLORFUL SONGS $500 (Daily Double): Played here by Mantovani, this classic was a rock 'n' roll hit in the '50s, '60s & '70s:
Instrumental music plays. "Deep Purple" |
#1217, aired 1989-12-12 | FROM THE TOP $500: "It was a moonlit night in old Mexico
I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas.
Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl..." "Speedy Gonzales" |
#1134, aired 1989-07-06 | THE MOVIES $800: Elizabeth Taylor sang "Send In The Clowns" in this movie musical, & we're not clowning around A Little Night Music |
#1124, aired 1989-06-22 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $2,000 (Daily Double): Last name of the composer who wrote the music to this song, B. Streisand's 1st million-selling single:
"Memories / Light the corners of my mind / Misty water-colored memories / Of the way we were..." Marvin Hamlisch |
#1104, aired 1989-05-25 | MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB $200: In the 1830s Lowell Mason did this with the poem set it to music |
#1056, aired 1989-03-20 | SHOW MUSIC $500: In "Damn Yankees", Lola sings about "a little brains, a little" this, "with an emphasis on the latter" talent |
#880, aired 1988-06-03 | THE TONY AWARDS $600 (Daily Double): The "Best Musical" of 1973, it was set in turn-of-the-century Sweden & featured the following: A Little Night Music |
#820, aired 1988-03-11 | JACKIE GLEASON $500: Before exclamining "& aw-a-ayy we go!" Jackie would ask the bandleader for this a little traveling music |
#806, aired 1988-02-22 | "COUNTRY" MUSIC $100: Donny's "I'm a little bit rock & roll" was a response to this line by Marie "I'm a little bit country" |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $200: Subtitle of "This is All I Ask", they were asked to "walk a little slower when you walk by me" "Beautiful Girls" |
#727, aired 1987-11-03 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: Sondheim musical based on a Bergman film, not Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" A Little Night Music |
#665, aired 1987-06-26 | AMERICAN MUSIC $200: In a song title, this is the Southern food "Mammy's little babies love" "Shortnin' Bread" |
#620, aired 1987-04-24 | "A.C." $400 (Daily Double): He won an Oscar for his score for the 1949 film "The Heiress", but is better known for this: Aaron Copland |
#531, aired 1986-12-22 | U.S. CITIES $700 (Daily Double): (Alex: Here comes the music.)
"Have you ever passed the corner of Fourth and Grand /
Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoe shine stand? /
People gather round and they clap their hands /
He's a great big bundle of joy /
He pops the boogie woogie rag..."
City in which you'd find title character of this song
"...Yeah, he charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe /
He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new /
You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through..." Chattanooga (Shoe Shine Boy) |
#509, aired 1986-11-20 | TV BANDLEADERS $1000: When the Jackie Gleason show moved to Miami Beach, he provided a little traveling music Sammy Spear |
#490, aired 1986-10-24 | TIMELY MUSIC $200: In '59 hit by Dinah Washington, it's the line that follows the title,
"What a difference a day makes" "24 Little Hours" |
#477, aired 1986-10-07 | DADDIES $500 (Daily Double): Cole Porter wrote this, Mary Martin made it famous, & Count Basie plays it here:
["Instrumental music plays"] "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" |
#435, aired 1986-05-09 | CLASSIC TV $400: After he got "A Little Traveling Music", he would say, "And away we go" Jackie Gleason |
#175, aired 1985-05-10 | "LITTLE" $1,300 (Daily Double): Broadway musical from which the following song comes:
"Isn't it rich? / Are we a pair?" A Little Night Music |
#173, aired 1985-05-08 | MUSIC $400: From Italian for "little book", it's the text of an opera a libretto |
#159, aired 1985-04-18 | COUNTRY MUSIC $100: His '64 film biography was called "Your Cheatin' Heart" Hank Williams |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | TREES $1,800 (Daily Double): “Botanical” name of this Scott Joplin tune: "The Maple Leaf Rag" |
#92, aired 1985-01-15 | MUSIC $200: Oscar-winning song cut & reinstated 3 times before the release of "The Wizard of Oz" "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" |
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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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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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
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2019 All-Star Games member of winning Team Brad: a share of...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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Christine Carrino Gorowara, a teacher educator from Wilmington, Delaware
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,202 + $1,000. Wife of Season 26...
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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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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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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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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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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
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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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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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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "BOTS". Jeopardy!...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Shelby Malone, a senior from Grayson, Kentucky
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: sleeping_stars
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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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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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LeeAundra Temescu, a communications coach originally from Troy, Michigan
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Web site at thecontrarypublicspeaker.com.
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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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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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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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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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Dan Royles, a senior from Chula Vista, California
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Dan was 17 at the time...
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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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