| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $200: Tim McGraw hit the Hot 100 wanting to "live a life so when I die, there's" this crowd situation, SRO for short standing room only |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $600: "Now & then, I miss you, oh, now & then, I want you to be there for me", sang this band in a 2023 song written in the '70s The Beatles |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $600: Founded in 1965 as a mail-order veterinary supply company in San Diego, it now has its name on a stadium there Petco |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $800: Not soccer, but pato, a combination of polo & basketball, was declared the national sport there in 1953 Argentina |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? $400: There's no place like Sherlock Holmes for this hat a deerstalker |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $800: Why use money or credit cards when there's this system where a mechanic might trade a tuneup to a farmer for some apples barter |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $9,000 (Daily Double): The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there Genoa |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | HISTORIC REFUSALS $200: A British delegate refused to sit for a painting of the 1782 talks ending this; John Quincy Adams said it's OK, he's ugly anyway the Revolutionary War |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $400: Scientist Elizabeth Zott ends up hosting a cooking show called "Supper at Six" in this 1960s-set novel Lessons in Chemistry |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS $200: Animal you "play" when feigning death
&
a brief & succinct explanation of an event possum & summary |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $400: Inspired by the drama of "The Winner Takes It All", this musical premiered in London in 1999 & played its 9,000th show there in 2022 Mamma Mia! |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $600: Real Madagascar vanilla is one of the spices in this "original spiced rum" brand, & I totally mean to pull rank here Captain Morgan |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $200: This standardized test widely used in college admissions since 1926 is introducing a digital version in March 2024 the SAT |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $400: In "Dumb Money", Paul Dano plays an investor who led a surge in value for this stock, & Anthony Ramos plays an employee there GameStop |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $400: An evasive maneuver test for cars in Sweden bears the name of these deer you would definitely want to avoid when driving moose |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $600: The NCAA's drug testing program covers stimulants, masking agents & these, such as androstenedione steroids |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $1000: In 1915 Emil Truog developed a test to measure the level of this property in soil, leading to restored fields & increased yields pH (acidity) |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $4,600 (Daily Double): Used to determine if a computer can "think", the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing the imitation game |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $2000: There is a sense of foreboding in the overture to his 1862 opera "La forza del destino", or "The Force of Destiny" Verdi |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $1600: In 1600 Tycho Brahe asked this German astronomer to join him in Prague; a statue there honors the pair Kepler |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | FOOD & DRINK $600: With spinach as a star ingredient, the dish seen here goes by this 2-word name, partly after a city quiche Florentine |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RENAISSANCE WOMEN $800: Victor Hugo's play about this woman popularized her image as a poisoner, though there's no real evidence she was one Lucrezia Borgia |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | TRAIL $1,800 (Daily Double): Surname of settler John, who blazed a trail to Montana & left his name on a city there Bozeman |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $400: The Hawaiians who developed this dance to honor gods or chiefs never thought there'd be a special Aulani version hula |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas Argentina |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: In 2023 Paul Giamatti, a graduate of this university & son of its 19th president, got an honorary doctorate there Yale |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $800: There's a fruit inside this word meaning "marked with small patches" such as "of sunlight" dappled |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $800: In this play named for a Danish city, the spirits of Heisenberg & Niels Bohr come together to discuss a meeting they once had there Copenhagen |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | SAFE MODE $1000: A guard posted to say, "Who goes there?" to possible intruders; here he is as the logo of a safe company founded in 1930 Sentry |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1200: There's lunch meat nestled in this cloth used for polishing a chamois |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $400: Biothrax protects against this disease that's transmitted to humans from farm animals anthrax |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $1200: Breathe easy! We'll only make you identify the "R" in RSV, this syncytial virus, & let you know there's a vaccine available respiratory |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $1600: There are vaccines to protect against this inflammation of the lining of the brain & spinal cord meningitis |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $2000: A vaccine by any other name: both DTaP & Tdap offer sweet protection against tetanus, pertussis & this diphtheria |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $7,000 (Daily Double): The CDC wants you to know that the 4 vaccine shots for this are fairly painless & now given in the arm, not the stomach rabies |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NUMERICAL TELEVISION $600: There was a new family in the neighborhood on this sitcom, not from another city, but from another planet 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SIMPLE SPANISH $200: There is a rose in Spanish & it's this word, not much different rosa |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $800: There's not haunting in "Ghosts of the Abyss", a documentary by this director James Cameron |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $400: There's a shell-less mollusk at the start of this word meaning slow & lazy sluggish |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | RHYMING FOLKS $1200: There were "Holy Cow"s in the high mass & a banner reading "Heaventh Inning Stretch" at his Chicago funeral in 1998 Harry Caray |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $400: There is no need to have a dental item for doing this, a word meaning showing off; Dr. Dre rhymed it with slauson flossin' |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | "N" SCIENCE $2000: A BYU study on microscopic worms revealed that there are 57 billion of these roundworms for every living human nematodes |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | TELEVISION $400: There wasn't a dry eye in the house when this show recently paid tribute to the late Len Goodman with a waltz Dancing with the Stars |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Up we go! There are more than a dozen old-school funiculars in Valparaíso on the coast of this South American country Chile |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $200: Not very frugal, but romantic: Jack Benny left provisions for the delivery of one of these flowers to his widow every day (one long-stemmed) rose |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $400: Snack container inventor Fredric Baur requested that some of his ashes be buried in a can from this brand of potato crisps Pringles |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $600: Princess Diana left the bulk of her assets to her sons, but also a 50,000-pound bequest to Paul Burrell, this manservant of hers her butler |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $800: This actress who died young left her estate to friends, family, her psychiatrist & her acting coach, Lee Strasberg (Marilyn) Monroe |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $1000: This diarist & naval official left his model ships to William Hewer & his library to Cambridge U., where it's still more or less intact Samuel Pepys |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | FULL-COURT PRESS $200: In 2000 the New York Daily News printed "Bush wins" after the Supremes rejected a recount in this state Florida |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | OUR SONG $200: Tommy, a union man, & Gina, in the food service industry, make a go of it in this 1987 Bon Jovi hit; c'mon, we're halfway there! "Livin' On A Prayer" |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $900: These words meaning "junk" refer to floating debris from a ship--some thrown overboard on purpose, some there by accident flotsam & jetsam |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS $1200: Director Bobby Farrelly revealed that his sister's friend once zipped up his "frank & beans", inspiring a scene in this film There's Something About Mary |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $10,400 (Daily Double): In 2023 this documentarian released his latest film, a four-hour series examining the rich history of the American buffalo Ken Burns |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THIS CATEGORY IS "MID" $3,000 (Daily Double): "The demon of noon" is the translation of the French term for this, which may lead to buying a red sports car midlife crisis |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | EXISTENTIALISM $1600: Texas prof Robert Solomon appears in this animated Linklater film to link existentialism to a life of purpose & exuberance Waking Life |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | 20th CENTURY AMERICANS $2000: Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington Bayard Rustin |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $1000: Talk about a man cave! There's a basement modeled on this French cave designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 Lascaux |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | U.S. MONEY $600: In the late 18th century, the first U.S. coins were minted in this city, the capital at the time Philadelphia |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $200: Andre Agassi won the U.S. Open twice in the '90s; this tennis icon won it in 1968 and has a stadium there named after him Arthur Ashe |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | COUNTRIES THAT START WITH "I" $400: An anagram of "Arabs", Basra is a port city in this country Iraq |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $600: Hunter S. Thompson's "Courage and Fondness in Las Vegas" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS $600: Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S. there are plenty of fish in the sea |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $9,000 (Daily Double): A "2,000 miler" is someone who has hiked this entire route from Maine to Georgia the Appalachian Trail |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $400: There's only one consonant in the name of this woodwind that tunes the orchestra by playing a long sustained A oboe |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | GAME SHOW $200: There are 15 multiple-choice questions to answer to win the top prize on this game show; would you like to ask the host? Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects an earmark |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | WOMEN ON TRIAL $800: As well as high this crime, there's petty this, like by a wife against a husband; Catherine Bevan was tried for it in 1731 Delaware treason |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: A beloved 1964 book by him begins, "Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy" Shel Silverstein |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | THE MANGER ZONE $400: "She brought forth her firstborn son... and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them" at this place the inn |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $600: P.T. Anderson said the line in "There Will Be Blood" about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome scandal milkshake |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $800: Since 1911, a hallmark of its state fair is a cow sculpted from about 600 pounds of butter the Iowa State Fair |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $1200: There's a statue of this guy, hammer in hand, outside the Great Bend Tunnel in West Virginia John Henry |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OH, "IC" $400: This form of poem might begin, "There once was a man from Kentucky" & get... saucy a limerick |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | SAN FRANCISCO, NOW & FOREVER $800: It's a 1.7-mile walk across this; it's windy, so wear layers--& remember, there are restrooms at both ends, but none in the middle the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $300: According to the carol, it's what "my true love gave to me" on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn't regifting 3 French hens |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | "SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $1000: After being stood up by the "letter of the day", she sings "I Don't Know Why 'Y' Didn't Come", a take on her hit "Don't Know Why" Norah Jones |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | NASHVILLE, GEOGRAPHIC $400: There must be a "Gap" in your memory if you don't know that Nashville lies on this river the Cumberland |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $400: There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore The Little Mermaid |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT TERM $2000: In the Chinese calendar: dragon, snake... a horse |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $400: If you enter a room with a matchbook & there's a candle, oil lamp & heater, this is what you'd light first the match |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $800: It's no picnic being a flyer in this flashy stunt where teammates lock hands, fling you into the air, and hopefully catch you a basket toss |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $1000: Hey, fulcrum lovers! At Columbus, Ohio's Center of Science & Industry, kids can lift a 2,437-lb. car using this bar a lever |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BILLIONS & BILLIONS $400: There are a billion cubic these in a cubic meter a cubic millimeter |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GOLF $1000: The closely mowed ring of grass around a putting green is called an apron or this out-there name the fringe |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $3,200 (Daily Double): Will you sign my copy of the "Domesday Book" you commissioned, my king? It's a first edition from 1086 William the Conqueror |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | DEATH $1,600 (Daily Double): The London space called this "Green" has a memorial to those, such as Margaret Pole, who were beheaded there Tower Green |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $800: There are bass & alto versions of this popular orchestra instrument heard here a flute |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THIS CATEGORY DOESN'T STINK $800: It's generally odorless, so an odorant is added to let you know if there's a leak or if you left the oven on natural gas |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $1600: Term for a Buddhist temple, there's a big one in Angkor wat |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $100: Fittingly, this number of the amendment that repealed prohibition is also the legal drinking age in the U.S. the 21st Amendment |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | BEST PICTURE WINNERS IN A NUTSHELL $500 (Daily Double): 1978:
Lifelong friends from a Pennsylvania steel town deal with the devastating effects of the Vietnam War The Deer Hunter |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | A YEAR THAT ENDS IN ZERO $600: Nat King Cole hits No. 1 with "Mona Lisa",
NATO turns one year old 1950 |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | FASHION STATEMENTS $600: This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones the shoe is on the other foot |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): To Ian McEwan, there is no redemption, no amends, no this, the title of his novel made into a 2007 movie with Saoirse Ronan Atonement |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $1500: It's a greatest hits album released by Madonna in 1990
_ _ E / I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I O _ The Immaculate Collection |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | JUST KIDDING $400: This "Price is Right" host: "Hate your job? There's a support group for that--it's called everybody. They meet at a bar" (Drew) Carey |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | MIRRORS $800: There is evidence that Precolumbian Mesoamericans used this black volcanic rock with a Roman name to make mirrors obsidian |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $400: There's a cannon in the logo of this English soccer team nicknamed "The Gunners" Arsenal |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | BOARD GAMES $400: On a standard Scrabble board there are only 8 of these premium squares that boost your points Triple Word Score |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $500: The World Tango Museum is located in this country Argentina |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BOOK CLUB $8,000 (Daily Double): A 1989 bestseller begins, "My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at" this the Joy Luck Club |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WINE BIZ $400: There's a chance your favorite vino might be made from this most widely grown red wine grape with a two-word name Cabernet Sauvignon |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | DEMONYMS $500: It's how you might refer to a resident of Tirana, a capital city near the Adriatic coast--or to a resident of NY's state capital an Albanian |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $900: Because clasps in the back can be painful to reach, Liberare is a brand that sells front-opening types of this undergarment a bra (brassiere) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | NUMBERS 4 LETTERS $2000: A shade of blue:
3-25-1-14 cyan |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ANATOMY IN LATIN $300: The debate rages as to whether this is a finger:
pollex your thumb |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | 4, 4 $2000: This situation means one negative consequence leads to another; Jim Collins popularized the term in his book "Good to Great" a doom loop |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TRICKY QUESTIONS $200: Total cubic feet of earth in a hole 1 yard wide, 1 yard long & 1 yard deep there is no earth in that hole (no dirt at all in a hole) |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | MIXED NUTS $600: There are European & Japanese varieties:
SCENT HUT a chestnut |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | LAW & ORDER $800: This other "A" word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed an accessory |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1500: There's a Louisville Slugger store in Louisville Muhammad Ali Intl. Airport; there's also a store named after this racetrack Churchill Downs |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $600: In 2010, this plastic horn infamously made its presence known among World Cup crowds in South Africa the vuvuzela |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $400: "I gotta show some of those pompous, self-important executives over there that Hap Loman can make the grade" Death of a Salesman |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL $400: Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, of this NFC East team: "Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs & have some fun" the New York Giants |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU $400: Hey, Kenya dig it? / Started as a water hole / 4 million now there Nairobi |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $600: Buchanan, in this state, is a beautiful storybook town per Matthew Ramsay of the band Old Dominion who grew up there Virginia |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $800: Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite cold & heat |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $2000: In the early 1900s the "plum pudding" model for the internal structure of these was replaced by the planetary model the atom |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY $1600: There's a member of genus Corvus in this phrase that means "in a straight line" as the crow flies |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | HOSTEL $400: At the Circus Hostel in Berlin, there is a museum of this "Baywatch" actor who single-handedly ended the Cold War (jk, jk) Hasselhoff |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | HOMOPHONE CONNECTION $800: A hidden stash, or the dollar bills you might store there cache/cash |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $600: Michele Alexander & Jeannie Long put it right there in the title--"How to" do this "in 10 Days: The Universal Don'ts of Dating" Lose a Guy |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66 $400: In Carthage, Missouri, there's a historic one of these where you can catch a movie without ever leaving your car a drive-in theater |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $800: A cement quarry near Sucre, judicial capital of this country, is the site of numerous dinosaur tracks Bolivia |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $1200: A 470-mile parkway linking Shenandoah & Great Smoky Mountains National Parks is named for these mountains Blue Ridge |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | I'LL "B" THERE $1600: This 215-mile-long Australian river shares a name with the capital of Queensland Brisbane |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WITH BELLS ON $2000: This word refers to a set of bells in church; there must be at least 23 bells & as many as 78 a carillon |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS $200: There's a mollusk in this phrase meaning to become suddenly silent to clam up |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | "HIGH" THERE $400: A drink of whiskey & soda gave its name to this type of glass seen here a highball |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | "HIGH" THERE $1200: Sean Connery teaches a Scot to fight & be immortal in this film Highlander |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | "HIGH" THERE $1600: It's what you call this type of chest of drawers seen here a highboy |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | A GAME OF CARDS $2,200 (Daily Double): There are 2 types of booze in this 2-player game gin rummy |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | COUNTRY SINGERS IN COUNTRY SONGS $800: A song by Heidi Newfield begins, "There's something 'bout a man in black" & the chorus says, "I want a love like Johnny &" her June |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $400: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this showman, who obviously would not be referring to his own 1810 arrival Barnum |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $400: There's a rivalry between Brussels & Liège about the better way to make these--they are more rectangular in Brussels Belgian waffles |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WESTMINSTER-WINNING DOG BREEDS $600: When a good time turns around you must name this fast breed here, 1964's winner Whippet |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | "NEG" BAIT $1000: A county in northwest Ireland, it's also the name of a durable tweed fabric made there Donegal |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | POP EYE $800: A Dungeons & Dragons computer RPG from 1991 is called "Eye of the" this, also the name of a monster watching you there Eye of the Beholder |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $800: Joan Didion wrote of a 1968 recording session, "There were 3 of the 4 Doors", a producer, girls, a dog, cheeseburgers, everything but him Jim Morrison |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | WRITING ON THE WALLS $1200: In his book "Stardust", there is a hamlet named Wall & Tristran sets out on a journey through the only hole in that wall Neil Gaiman |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $400: It's a story's line of development, or a portion of a circle's circumference arc |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1200: The symbol tells you this is the relation between A & B a subset of B |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $2000: Legend says facing a teacher's make-work task to add up the first hundred positive integers, Carl Gauss quickly saw 50 pairs each totaling this 101 |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $1200: There may be a bit of chagrin involved when this long word comes before "of riches" in an idiom embarrassment |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | RETRONYMS $600: There's more than a 2% chance you'll know this retronym for a full-fat dairy beverage a whole milk |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | A "MID" CATEGORY $2000: This plural-sounding word for the area seen here is an adverb, as in “There was fierce fighting” amidships |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | JOIN THE CLUB $400: "Hey there, hi there, ho there!" was a greeting in the theme song for this TV club that began in 1955 the Mickey Mouse Club |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left faster than light |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | DISNEY ENDINGS $1200: Tadashi dies in a fire in this 2014 movie, leaving Hiro devastated, but Baymax is there for him Big Hero 6 |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $400: Lovers of the game like Ken Burns & Bill "Spaceman" Lee have observed there's no this in baseball, but as of 2023 there is a clock |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $1,000 (Daily Double): U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin was its general counsel & is credited with smoothing the prose in its 1964 report the Warren Commission |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NATURE $1600: The fragrant flowers of this plant turn toward the sun, hence its name; it's also the name for a shade of purple heliotrope |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS $1600: A historical park devoted to the whaling industry in this Massachusetts city features a museum & the schooner Ernestina New Bedford |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | HORROR MOVIES $1600: She stars in Fresh, which seems like a rom-com at first, but thanks to Sebastian Stan, she soon learns there's more on the menu Daisy Edgar Jones |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $4,200 (Daily Double): Though Geneva is pretty low as Swiss cities go, a Cold War meeting there was the first one called this top-level type a summit |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $600: (Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the clue.) This facility at 81st Street off Central Park West has special meaning for me: I visited there as a kid, became starstruck & today I'm the director the Hayden Planetarium |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE MOVIES $1000: This 2000 film has a choreographer named Sparky demonstrating, "these are spirit fingers" Bring It On |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU CAN'T GO THERE $200: In 2017, a group of Kentucky politicians were the first civilians let into this bullion depository in more than 40 years Fort Knox |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | YOU CAN'T GO THERE $1000: Volcanic action created this Icelandic island in the 1960s, providing scientists a lab to study biological colonization Surtsey |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | POWER OCCUPANTS $1000: It's where Elizabeth II liked to go at holiday time; in the movie "Spencer", Kristen Stewart has a very unmerry Christmas there Sandringham |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | MYTHICAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: This dwelling place of the gods in Norse mythology consists of more than a dozen realms, including Thrudheim & Breidablik Asgard |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $200: This "king of the tyrant lizards" was a heavyweight at up to 15,000 pounds but did have a problem throwing jabs T. rex (Tyrannosaurus rex) |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $400: Ford spent $250 million ahead of the 1957 debut of this car; let's just say it didn't live up to expectations the Edsel |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $600: Solve for x:
3x - 2y = 11,
when y=2 5 |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $800: One symptom of trouble with this finger-shaped pouch is sudden pain near the navel that shifts to the lower right abdomen the appendix |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM $1000: Louis XIV deals with a family "problem" (well, for Louis, anyway) by giving Philippe the title headwear in this Dumas novel The Man in the Iron Mask |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $1000: Each of the items seen here is this, with a different preceding word tender |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | POE"M"S $1200: Elizabeth Bishop's "I Am in Need of" this says, "There is a magic made by melody" music |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: One can be between a rock & a hard place or similarly, between this pair of foes faced by Odysseus Charybdis & Scylla |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $5,000 (Daily Double): There's a light fixture in this word meaning settled & not going anywhere ensconced |
| #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 |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | TO THE NINES $1000: In "God of War" there are 9 of these warrior women of Norse myth & you may have to fight Rota or Sigrun Valkyries |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $3,000 (Daily Double): Acorn Street is one of the most historic in the Boston neighborhood called this Hill, after a warning light that once stood there Beacon Hill |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | THE FRENCH REVOLUTION $800: Locked out of a meeting hall at Versailles in 1789, members of the Third Estate took their famous oath at this location there a tennis court |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | TV THERAPISTS $2000: This onetime shrink played by David Cross on "Arrested Development" suffers from never-nude syndrome Tobias (Fünke) |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GROWING UP X $200: Of course there's a video case dating back to 1993 from this rental chain; let's make it a this night! Blockbuster |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | GAMES, OLD & NEW $400: Named for a historic trek, there's now an online version of this game from 1971 in which death from typhoid & snakebite are commonplace Oregon Trail |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | TABLE TALK $800: If you're an architect or engineer, there's always room on this inclined table for your T-square a drafting table |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $200: Check out a view of downtown this West Coast city of 900,000 from its Twin Peaks San Francisco |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $1000: A desert by the sea, Punta Gallinas, in this nation is the northernmost point in continental South America Colombia |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $1200: Alice finds a marvelous garden in Wonderland but has trouble managing this bird while playing croquet there a flamingo |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $600: Nicknamed "K-Rod", in 2008 this Rodriguez set a single-season record for saves with 62--& careful, there's no "K" Francisco Rodriguez |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $400: Ferde Grofé's account of his first time at this place, about which he wrote a suite, includes "All of a sudden, bingo! There it was" the Grand Canyon |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO $1200: Language or jargon used by lawyers & a language or people of Sri Lanka legalese & Sinhalese |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | ETHIOPIA $200: 30 years after organizing this huge concert for famine aid in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof led a fund for private equity investing there Live Aid |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $800: There's a southern German state in the name of this Alpine subrange that runs along the border of Germany & Austria the Bavarian Alps |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 1920s SCIENCE $800: Lewis Fry Richardson proposed doing this with 64,000 computers (those were people then) & data from a world network of balloons forecasting the weather |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | ____ OF THE ____ $1600: From this Broadway song, "Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire, thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there" "Master Of The House" (from Les Mis) |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $1600: It's the largest & southernmost of Ireland's counties Cork |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FLYIN' HIGHER THAN A JET AIRLINER $400: Apollo 15 was the first mission to use this 460-pound item on the Moon & it's still up there, basically left on the lot the (lunar) rover |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | COMIN' TO YOUR CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): Take in the earthquake-resistant "Cardboard Cathedral", built after a 2011 event in this New Zealand city Christchurch |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $200: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) As co-pilot Roger Murdock, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was out there busting his buns every night in this classic 1980 film that took comedy in a new direction altogether Airplane! |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 20/23 $200: In the human body most cells normally contain 23 pairs of these chromosomes |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A TRIP TO ASIA $400: We'll enjoy Oskemen on the Irtysh River when we're in this country, but we will not make one Borat joke when we're there. Very nice! Kazakhstan |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's a pair of Zs in this word for a type of musical entertainment presented between opera acts intermezzo |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | ALLITERATIVE HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner were members of this "extreme" group in Lincoln's party advocating emancipation Radical Republicans |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | A REAL FONT OF KNOWLEDGE $2000: Last name of 18th century Italian printer Giambattista, who designed an eponymous font that has a distinct Q Bodoni |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | A MUSICAL BOUQUET $2000: This song by The Foundations was on the soundtrack of "There's Something About Mary", so don't break my heart "Build Me Up Buttercup" |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | THE TOWER OF LONDON $800: A balcony is named this princess' "Walk", where she would stroll while imprisoned there by her half-sister Queen Mary Elizabeth I |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $400: In 2023 the EPA blocked a proposed copper & gold mine in the Bristol Bay region of this state Alaska |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $800: An old miner's trick to separate gold from minerals: mix with this liquid metal, put that inside a potato & toss in the fire mercury |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $1200: Home to the Miners, UT at El Paso's student newspaper is named this, like someone who explores an area for gold a Prospector |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $2000: Seen here, this box helps filter & sift heavier mineral deposits like gold from useless & boring regular dirt a sluice box |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $1600: The worker bee is a symbol of this industrial city in northern England & represents unity since a 2017 bombing there Manchester |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Whenever there is danger my heart begins to beat fast", says this character in a 1900 book the Cowardly Lion |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $2000: In this poet's "The Second Coming", "a shape with lion body and the head of a man... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" Yeats |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | COMEDIANS $1600: There's video of this star of "Ride Along" taking a polygraph: inflating his height to 5'4" doesn't fool the machine Kevin Hart |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | THE 12th CENTURY $400: In 1171 England's Henry II landed with a large army in this island country to assert his right of rule there Ireland |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | OUR NATION OF IMMIGRATION $400: Famous Americans of this heritage include Barack Obama seen here on a visit to the old country Ireland |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NO, PRIME MINISTER $400: On live TV, Dutch PM Mark Rutte said don't perform this greeting ritual due to COVID, but forgot & put 'er there moments later a handshake |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $200: Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea the Mediterranean |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | & THEN THERE'S MOD $400: Mod style included these shoes named for a coin & worn by Miles Davis, the coolest man then alive penny loafers |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | & THEN THERE'S MOD $800: Stylist Leonard of Mayfair gave Lesley Hornby the short hairdo that made her a mod icon under this one name Twiggy |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | & THEN THERE'S MOD $2000: Yves Saint Laurent got in the mod spirit with a dress inspired by this painter, who died in 1944 Piet Mondrian |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | GOODNESS & MERCY $400: Benevolence, or an organization that has 3,000 stores where you can get a tax-deductible receipt when you donate there good will |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $1000: Parking is tough in this rhyming region of China; a parking space in a luxury building there sold for $1.3 million Hong Kong |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | OH, THE LITERARY PLACES YOU DON'T WANT TO GO! $1600: In a Dennis Lehane novel, this title place is home to Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane & you may be stuck there Shutter Island |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | THE GREATEST SNOWMAN $800: After Elsa creates him in "Once Upon A Snowman": "I can talk! I can think! I can juggle...! No! I cannot. I got too confident there" Olaf |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP $400: Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat William Penn |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing" feng shui |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | THE LIFE SCIENCES $2000: There's a motion of the ocean in this word for the building blocks of the acids that control heredity nucleotides |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | & EYE $600: Everyone has a blind spot, as there are no photoreceptors--that is, rods or these--in the optic disk cones |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | U.S. ISLANDS $5,000 (Daily Double): Despite its name, this island doesn't actually have any wineries, but there are a couple of liquor stores in Edgartown Martha's Vineyard |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | WORLD TRAVEL $1200: A cruise line that sails to French Polynesia is named for this painter who sailed there too Gauguin |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | DEEP THOUGHTS $1200: Add -ism to a Swedish vodka brand to get this, the moral view that there are universal principles for judgment absolutism |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | DYNASTIES OF SPAIN $2000: Around 585 A.D. King Leovigild of this Germanic people united much of Spain & began a dynasty that reigned there until 711 A.D. the Visigoths |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $800: The Awlad Ali are a desert tribe of this people; thought of as nomadic, they've undergone what sociologists call sedentarization the Bedouins |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $400: This 1815 Jane Austen title is just the heroine's first name Emma |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $800: Annie is the real name of this Henry James title character who goes by a flowery nickname Daisy Miller |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: The names of 2 lovers are in the title of this Shakespeare tragedy set during the Trojan War Troilus and Cressida |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1600: Chaim Potok's "My Name is" this traces the inner struggle of a young Jew whose artistry conflicts with his Orthodox faith Asher Lev |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $2000: This Aristophanes play is named for the character who inspires the women of Athens & Sparta to end a war between the cities Lysistrata |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $400: There's a chill in the name of this device that blows heated air across the inside of a car's windshield (the) defrost(er) |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: In the full title of a sequel, this is followed by "& What Alice Found There" Through the Looking-Glass |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $2000: There's an accent over the final "E" in the name of this man who scored a hat trick for France in the 2022 World Cup Final Kylian Mbappé |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1600: From the French, this word referring to a commotion or uproar sounds like there's laughing at the end of it a brouhaha |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $600: 4πr2 gives the surface area of one of these 3-dimensional shapes a sphere |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $800: Equal to about 57.2958 degrees, it's the angular measurement made by wrapping half the diameter around a circle a radian |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $1000: The domain is the set of values that can be input into a function; the set of possible outputs is called this expanse the range |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | COMPANIES IN HISTORY $800: This company still markets bananas from Guatemala; when it was United Fruit Co., it helped kill a 1950s land redistribution there Chiquita |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | WHAT'S THAT SCI. ABBREV.? $1000: Pa:
This unit of pressure named for a 17th century Frenchman pascal |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $200: This 20th c. British physicist said, "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can & will create itself from nothing" Hawking |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | DESCRIBING THE HORROR FILM FRANCHISE $2000: A high school plane trip to Europe! What could possibly go wrong?; making death mad... problematic; hi, Mr. Bludworth! Final Destination |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance a light-year |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | TV SWITCHEROO $2000: After a big time jump in season 9 of this show, we find a new actress playing young Judith Grimes & she's there to help the survivors The Walking Dead |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | COLLEGE TOWNS $800: Boulder, Colorado is a mecca for atmospheric research & this 4-letter cyclone-tracking agency has a lab there NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | BOB DYLAN LYRICS $400: "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" Mr. Tambourine Man |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $400: Oo, we've got you in this wrestling move, where one arm goes under your foe's & your hand is on the back of their neck a half nelson |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $800: A half bath, with toilet & sink but no bath or shower, is also called this "room" where you can at least touch up your face a powder room |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WE'RE HALFWAY THERE $1000: Half-timbered houses as on Funen Island, are a nostalgic symbol of this country, & are seen on tins of its butter cookies Denmark |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $1,000 (Daily Double): Last name of Homer, a filmmaker himself as well as father of a creative son; in 2015 there was a retrospective of his work in Portland Groening |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | FROM A "D" TO AN "F" $200: If you're always sitting on this, there's a limit to what you might accomplish duff |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $900: As well as 8 arms, this creature in a genus of the same name has 3 hearts to pump its blue blood an octopus |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $1500: On the border between Europe & Asia, this "sea" is actually the world's largest lake the Caspian Sea |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | COUNTRY SONGS $400: Inspired by an Oz character, Miranda Lambert sings, "Hey there, Mr." him, "Take it from me, darlin', you don't want a heart" Tin Man |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $1600: A passage in this novel relays, "Gurney saw Fremen spread out across the sand there in the path of the worm" Dune |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $200: "There's a sucker born every minute" is attributed to this circus showman, but there's no proof he ever really said or wrote it P.T. Barnum |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | UNDER STUDY $300: Entomology is the study of these, of which there are close to a million identified species insects |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: A 2018 USA Today headline: "Rex Tillerson was on the toilet when he was told he'd be fired" from this diplomatic Cabinet job secretary of state |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW DO I GET THERE? $200: This venue that opened in 1891:
Go south on 5th past Central Park, hook a right onto 57th, hit 7th & also practice, practice, practice Carnegie Hall |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | HOW DO I GET THERE? $400: This UNESCO World Heritage Site:
Leave Cuzco on a narrow-gauge railway & get set to climb up from the Urubamba River Valley Machu Picchu |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $800: In a famous slogan these 4 words precede "State Farm is there" like a good neighbor |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | EUROPE A-GO-GO $1200: Northern Ireland is also known by this 6-letter name, referring to a people that once lived there Ulster |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $1600: A false emergency alert that a missile was headed for this U.S. state caused panic there in January 2018 Hawaii |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $2000: In the gospel of Luke, "There went out a decree" from this ruler "that all the world should be taxed" Caesar Augustus |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $800: This Iowa capital began as a fort in 1843 & the Women's Army Corps began there a century later Des Moines |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE $300: Newton's third law of motion is often stated as "For every action, there is an equal and opposite" this a reaction |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | SHOE BIZ $600: Like Elvis sang, "don't you step on" these shoes that you can get from Brooks Brothers (blue) suede shoes |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | LET'S TALK GALAXIES $600: There are "only" about a billion stars in our closest neighbor galaxy, a dwarf galaxy in this big dog of a constellation Canis Major |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $1200: Clive Anderson hosted the U.K. version of this comedy improv TV series Whose Line is it Anyway? |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT PHRASE $400: Begin a decline in quality:
"Jump the ____" shark |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT PHRASE $800: Angry like a certain insect:
"Mad as a ____" a hornet |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WHITES & COLORS $200: There are 2 symbols on this state's blue flag: a white crescent & a white palmetto tree South Carolina |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $400: Seen here in a satellite image, it wasn't always icy & dinosaurs once lived there Antarctica |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | BUILDINGS & BRIDGES $800: During World War II, Allied prisoners of war really did build a bridge over this Thai river; a simple black iron bridge is still there the Kwai |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RANDOM FACTS $1600: A type of blackberry, marionberries are grown primarily in this northwest state & are named for a county there Oregon |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: "Hairy" last name of Medford, Massachusetts' Charles, benefactor of a university there Tufts |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | THEY WERE TEACHERS $1200: (Colby Burnett delivers the clue.) Oscar-nominated for films like "BlacKkKlansman" & the documentary "4 Little Girls", this acclaimed filmmaker is a tenured professor of film & artistic director at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Spike Lee |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $200: A genus of frogs is called this type, presumably because they croak in unison like a group of actors speaking together in a play chorus |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $400: A common phrase & relationship books say you've got to kiss a lot of frogs to find this a prince |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $600: This cartoon character was likely inspired by a reptile found alive inside a time capsule that was opened in 1928 Michigan J. Frog |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $400: 1900:
First count of Native Americans on these, not just in the general population reservations |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $800: 1890:
14.8% are this, highest in history, finding the streets paved with gold immigrants |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $1200: 2010:
The 45-64 population grew 32% since 2000, thanks to this post-WWII phenomenon the baby boom |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $1600: 1850:
All free people listed, not just this alliterative paterfamilias head of household |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | THERE'S A CENSUS EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR $2000: Census talk! 1950:
The first post-enumeration survey revealed this shortfall, more than 3 million people an undercount |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | THE COMEDY OF ERAS $2000: There are plenty of laughs in this 1878 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta set aboard a Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Pinafore |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $2000: "You were never there", a girlfriend tells this hero of Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"; other people just seem to mold him Clay |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1600: "There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop" Barnum |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $400: Anagram fans know Loney M. Setnick's "The Pony Party!" is a feature in the "Autobiography" of this author of "Unfortunate Events" (Lemony) Snicket |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $800: In this novel, Winston is inspired by a copy of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" 1984 |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $1200: In a book by this man, "Misery's Return" was a hard-to-execute novel by his character Paul Sheldon Stephen King |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $2000: Hannibal Lecter is found with a copy of "Le grand dictionnaire de cuisine" in this "colorful" novel Red Dragon |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $3,600 (Daily Double): "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is an underground novel in this Philip K. Dick book set in a conquered America The Man in the High Castle |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SOUNDS LIKE A BUG $600: There are some moving parts on this type of knife seen here a butterfly knife |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | 10-LETTER VERBS $1200: There's a "Q" in this word meaning to give something up, like a throne relinquish |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 4 FUNERALS & ANOTHER FUNERAL $200: There was crying for her as hundreds of thousands of Argentines visited her casket in 1952; about a dozen died in the crush Eva Perón |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | TRUE GRIME $600: It means boggy or swampy ground; as a verb it's what happened to the wagon that got stuck there a mire (mired) |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | "P"OTPOURRI $400: There is actually a vegetarian species of this razor-toothed fish also called the Caribe a piranha |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: There are 300 islands in the bay on which this Finnish capital sits & a taxi boat will take you to many Helsinki |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | POINTING OUT DECIMALS $800: It's easy as pie to take pi to 2 decimal places (there's even a day for it) but take it to 3.these 5 digits 3.14159 |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | STARTS OR ENDS WITH X $1200: There's a big bovine at the end of this 6-letter word for a big clumsy man lummox |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | TIME FOR SOME FOOD $200: There's a city in the name of these, disliked by man Brussels sprouts |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $1200: 3 words that fill in the King James Bible quote from Genesis--"There were giants... in those days" in the earth |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | "GIVE" OR "TAKE" $1000: There's a male bovine in this expression meaning to meet a difficult situation promptly & boldly take the bull by the horns |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $200: It's not heaven, it's Dyersville in this state where the Yankees & White Sox sent 8 home runs into the corn in a 2021 game Iowa |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $600: Home of Alex Trebek's beloved CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the field named for this donut company hosted a 2022 NHL outdoor game Tim Hortons |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $800: When a ball is out at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in this wealthy emirate known for its skyscrapers, it's really out Dubai |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS THERE! $1,000 (Daily Double): Site of a brief 1983 coup, this West Indies isle of spice hosted 2007 World Cup games at its National Cricket Stadium Grenada |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $5,600 (Daily Double): Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary Ball Four |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | THE "ANTI" CATEGORY $200: Lacking admirable qualities, Alex in "A Clockwork Orange" is considered this type of protagonist an antihero |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NOW STREAMING ON DuMONT+ $400: You can binge "Man Against Crime", one of the first shows about someone in this job, preceding Mannix & Veronica Mars detective |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE "A" LIST $100: Found in baseball box scores, it means how many people were there attendance |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $300: I'm staying anonymous, but I put my initials on a train, a form of graffiti called this a tag (tagging) |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $400: I'm lead architect James Polshek & I kept a bridge motif in mind designing this man's presidential library in Little Rock Bill Clinton |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | SEE WHAT I DID THERE? $500: I'm this 1-named Renaissance sculptor & I did a bust, now in Florence, of another 1-named dude, Brutus Michelangelo |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | BRUSH UP YOUR HEBREW $1500: In Hebrew verb tenses, atid means this; Yesh Atid, or "there is a" this, is an Israeli political party future |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: There's a period before this number that comes before "Special" in the name of Donnie Van Zant's high-caliber 1970s rock band 38 |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HOMOPHONES $1000: A visual aid following "pie" & newspaper slang following "nut" graph/graf |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: An ectopic pregnancy, from the Greek for "displaced", is called a tubal pregnancy when it occurs here inside the Fallopian tubes |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | TELEVISION $1600: According to his '60s theme song, he lived "in a world full of wonder, flying there under, under the sea" Flipper |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $200: "It's raining" these means it's coming down hard, not that there's a deluge of Angoras & Akitas cats & dogs |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | CLASSIC TV $900: It originally opened with "Once upon a time there were 3 little girls who went to the police academy" Charlie's Angels |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: There's a certain braveness to this black bird the raven (in braveness) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST $1000: (Shankar Vedantam presents the clue.) I interviewed neuroscientist Sophie Scott, who studies the science of laughter, truly the best medicine, because it releases serotonin & this other neural transmitter that can create a sense of euphoria dopamine |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | McDONALD'S AROUND THE WORLD $200: In this country you might ask "Where's the beef?" because there isn't any but there is dosa masala on a bun India |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | AROUND PHILLY WITH RYAN LONG $600: (Ryan Long presents the clue.) Housed in its own center, this American icon is a must-see of Philly; we can get an insider view of it, literally: there are X rays of its famous crack the Liberty Bell |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IN THE BIBLE BOOK $200: "Let there be light"; Jared begat Enoch... "begat" appears a lot, actually Genesis |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $400: After doing America in 1996, this pair of probably-not-"Jeopardy!" fans returned in 2022 to "Do the Universe" Beavis and Butt-Head |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $800: Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy reprised their roles in this 2004 sequel to "Before Sunrise" Before Sunset |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $1200: Danny Boyle took his time making "T2", the 2017 sequel to this 1996 film about Scottish junkies Trainspotting |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $1600: This 2011 "Part 2" was the 8th film in a series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $2000: There's a statue in Central Park of this heroic sled dog for helping run a diphtheria antitoxin to remote Alaskans in 1925 Balto |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | THERE'S A SEQUEL $2000: Christian Bale stars in this 2012 sequel to a 2008 sequel to a 2005 movie The Dark Knight Rises |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | ADJECTIVES $1600: There's a "Q" in this adjective for an informal way of speaking colloquial |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | MASCOTS $300: This battery mascot that's been going & going since the late 1980s has entered the OED to mean something or someone persistent the Energizer Bunny |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $400: There's tension in the wire & among the crowd when these circus performers take their walk high in the air a tightrope walker |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: There's a "Q" in this word referring to any nickname a sobriquet |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | IS HISTORY $1000: The job of emperor of this country was long dominated by the Amhara, who also gave their name to a major language there Ethiopia |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $400: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) I know all of you parents out there either love me or hate me for it, but I'm thankful this song from "Frozen" has such a lasting, resonating effect on people "Let It Go" |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | "GO"ING PLACES $800: This island on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls is named for a herd of ruminants that roamed there in the 1700s Goat Island |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | CLASSIC SITCOMS BY EPISODE TITLE $1000: "Patient 4077" M*A*S*H |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | STARS $200: Giddyup, this constellation named for a mythical flying horse; a supernova was seen in a spiral galaxy there in 2014 Pegasus |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 21 OR UNDER $200: Including the pole vault & hurdles, the athletic contest known as the decathlon comprises this many track & field events 10 |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $200: "We got next" was the slogan of this league when it debuted in 1997 with stars like Lisa Leslie & Rebecca Lobo the WNBA |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE TERMINAL LIST $300: "I was on a Paris train, I emerged in London rain /
And you were waiting there," at St. Pancras, from 1876, in the age of this queen Victoria |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | AMERICANA $400: Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV's Gilmore girls Connecticut |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $1000: A musical instrument is found at the end of this word that describes a hard-to-solve problem conundrum |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | CENTRAL AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: "Beautiful port!" said Columbus, giving this Panama town its name, later applied to a London "Road" after the British captured it Portobelo |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | A COMMON CATEGORY $1200: Woodrow Wilson said, "There is no higher religion than human service. To work for" this "is the greatest creed" the common good |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | AUSTIN TENDS BAR $300: (Austin holds a glass full of a dark beer at his bar.) Tending bar at an Irish pub, I've poured many a pint of draft beer from this 260+-year-old Dublin brewery; there's a technique, here--it's not just flip & drip Guinness |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | POPES UNDER THE SCOPE $1000: In 1492, Pinturicchio worked blue & other colors decorating apartments for Alexander VI, named for this family of Alexanders a Borgia |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $400: About $2.50:
A head of this, & you'll need a few heads to make a decent batch of sauerkraut cabbage |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $800: More than $20 million: "Head of a Young Woman", 1906, by this Spaniard Picasso |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $1200: $30:
A new head from this German company; the story is that founder Max shaved all his male staff before introducing his shaver Braun |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $1600: $1,100:
A Holstein one of these, a young milk cow also starting with "H" a heifer |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | THERE'S A PRICE ON MY HEAD $2000: Tens of millions:
Each W-80 nuclear warhead, which can be delivered by this bomber also called the Stratofortress the B-52 |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $1200: Fortnite & League of Legends are popular games in this; there are tournaments & spectators too esports |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | CASH $1000: The $10 bill was issued in 1914 with this president on the front; today, he's on a larger bill & some don't want him there Andrew Jackson |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $600: "Sorry, Dave... when the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control" is a line in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TINY 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This quick dance move using your arms was popularized by Migos & Cam Newton a dab |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY VIA KOKOMO $1600: Baby, why don't we go to this bay? Usain Bolt has a restaurant there and check out Doctor's Cave Beach on the North Shore Montego Bay |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | THERE'S THE RUB $200: Often made of felt, these classroom mainstays were clapped outside after a vigorous rub inside erasers |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | GENRES OF POETRY $400: "There was a young lady of Norway" limerick |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | THERE'S THE RUB $400: These 4 syllables begin the nursery rhyme about the trio seen here Rub a dub dub |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | I'LL HAVE SECONDS $800: There's a proverbial saying: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is..." now |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | JACK $400: Though there was more than a decade to go, in 1988 golf magazine named him "Golfer of the Century" Jack Nicklaus |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | MAGAZINE COVERS $800: A 1969 Life cover showed Buzz Aldrin &, mirrored in Buzz' visor, this man who had taken the photo Neil Armstrong |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $1600: Adopted in 1960, the national anthem of this country of western Africa is "L'Abidjanaise" the Ivory Coast |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $2000: There's a "Q" inside this synonym for abrupt brusque |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | LET'S GO FISHING $2000: There's a synonym for a fisher in the title of this, Izaak Walton's classic 17th century treatise on fishing The Compleat Angler |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | HISTORY $2000: A statue of a speakers' wagon stands in this Chicago square to commemorate the 1886 riot that occurred there Haymarket Square |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2,500 (Daily Double): A 1903 courthouse in this state is preserved as a museum because as a young girl, Harper Lee watched her dad argue cases there Alabama |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | A PRISONER OF YOUR OWN DEVICE $400: Sweet! I just downloaded the "Saga" version of this app with a confectionary name; not sweet: there are over 11,000 levels Candy Crush |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | EXPENSIVE FOODS $600: At only one farm in Sweden, cheese is made from the milk of this largest deer, known as elk over there a moose |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | THE OLD WEST $600: Before becoming sheriff of this South Dakota town, Seth Bullock opened a hardware store there with partner Sol Star Deadwood |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | EATING & DRINKING PLACES $1600: The Internet is on tap at this place with a 1-word name suggesting you can get a cup of joe there as well a cybercafe |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | U.S. PLACES, EVERYBODY! $400: There's a reindeer barn at Santa's workshop in this appropriately named New York hamlet, not far from Lake Placid North Pole |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | SCANDINAVIA $200: Every December 10, after these are handed out, there's a banquet at Stockholm's city hall the Nobel Prizes |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | ONE LETTER CHANGES EVERYTHING $800: Subtract a "B" from a loose-fitting women's shirt to get this parasite you don't want to find there louse |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | THE COLD WAR ERA $2000: Abbreviated M.A.D., this theory deterred the use of nuclear weapons by suggesting there would be no winners mutually assured destruction |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $1200: Sloan Crosley's collection of humorous narratives of life in NYC has the tasty title "I was Told There'd be" this treat Cake |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $1600: There's a lot more humor in her story "Charles" than in her most famous one, "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | FILMED IN GEORGIA $1600: The Whistle Stop Café in Juliette became a real eatery after this 1991 movie filmed there, & still serves up the title dish Fried Green Tomatoes |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $2,018 (Daily Double): There's a lot of smiting & destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either the Philistines |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | KITCHEN TOOLS $1000: There's a shape in the name of this device that makes vegetable noodles a spiralizer |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | RED ALL OVER $400: There's a red in the name of this gravest type of transgression in Catholic theology a cardinal sin |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | PLACES IN THE USA $800: An Idaho city gave its name to a geyser there called these "Springs"; it was Beer Springs but went non-alcoholic Soda Springs |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | GET OUT $800: Get out there & meet someone, then 7 minutes later meet someone else in this system invented by an L.A. rabbi in the 1990s speed dating |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | PUT IT ON WHAT? $800: Decca F.11940, released 1964 a turntable |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEER-POURRI $1200: Let's hop off AB-2 & go horseriding at Heritage Ranch in Red Deer in this province, & there's a Tim Hortons nearby too Alberta |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $400: Tom Hanks in this 1992 film: "Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | D-DAY, THE 6th OF JUNE $400: Told there'd likely be a June 6 break in bad weather that had delayed the invasion, this commander gambled & said, "OK, let's go" Eisenhower |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | ORANGES $1000: The there in "There There" by Tommy Orange is Oakland, where his characters are headed for this gathering of Native Americans a powwow |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT $1600: There are 12 ounces per pound in the Troy system & 16 ounces per pound in this system of weight abbreviated avdp avoirdupois |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $800: Spoken by Stanley, the first line in this play is "Hey, there! Stella, baby!" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | NUGGETS OF INFORMATION $1000: Still published today, the Nugget is a newspaper in this Alaskan city that covered the 1925 dogsled rescue there Nome |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | VERB + "ER" = NOUN $800: A store's cashier--if there is a big line, there can be a call for a "second" one a checker |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | LITERATURE $1600: "Cat's Cradle" by this author begins with a chapter called "The Day the World Ended" & goes on from there (Kurt) Vonnegut |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO SAID... $1600: Fellow Hoosier "Bobby Knight told me this. He says there is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense" Dan Quayle |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | MUSEUMS FOR FOODIES $800: In Japan, a museum & mini theme park celebrating this national dish has been called "the Disneyland of noodles" ramen |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | MUSICALS BY LYRICS $2000: "In short there's simply not a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here" Camelot |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | TIMELY TALK $1200: There's a personal pronoun in this nickname for the 1970s the "Me" Decade |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | JOHN GOODMAN IS HARD TO FIND $800: There was less of a sheen in the White House when John had a brief run as president as Glenallen Walken on this NBC drama The West Wing |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | KEEPIN' UP WITH NASA $400: Launched December 25, 2021, the James Webb Telescope has a primary this, six times the area of the Hubble Space Telescope, so it gathers far more light a larger mirror |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | THEY NAMED A CITY FOR HIM $800: A town in Eastern Pennsylvania honors this Native American & all-around athlete who was laid to rest there Jim Thorpe |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $400: (I'm Louis Aguirre.) The 1980s TV show "Miami Vice" changed the reputation of the city to one of chicness & glitz & made Florida a more desired film & TV location; these two actors, playing Crockett & Tubbs, added to the scenery Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | DOUBLE DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $400: Of course, there's a pumpkin spice version of this icy cold blended beverage from Starbucks a Frappuccino |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | I'LL FOLLOW YOU $800: There's a tradition of watching these birds follow their mother through school buildings in Reading, Mass. & Hopkins, Minn. ducklings |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | MULTIPLE HYPHENS $2000: There are multiple hyphens in up-to-the-minute & this similar term that sounds fancy enough to be in a museum state-of-the-art |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | NOT TOO "SEX"Y FOR YOU $1200: This noun refers to someone between the ages of 60 & 69 a sexagenarian |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | "ICU" THERE! $400: In math, normal is a synonym for this, meaning at right angles perpendicular |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | I SEE YOU THERE! $600: Don't get too close to the edge at Norway's Pulpit Rock 2000 feet above one of these bodies of water a fjord |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | I SEE YOU THERE! $800: It's dark, but I'm pretty sure that's you inside one of these naturally occurring volcanic tubes a lava tube |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | "ICU" THERE! $3,000 (Daily Double): In a friendly legal term, it precedes "brief" an amicus curiae |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ART ON COMMISSION $2000: There's quite a bit of red in the painting he did of Pope Paul III with his grandsons during a visit to Rome in the 1540s Titian |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $800: A 1931 newspaper article: "My Fingers Dialed" this number." 'Information, can you tell me where there is a breadline?"' 411 |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | ROCK ART $2,000 (Daily Double): A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings" petroglyphs |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | BEAN THERE $1000: Minnesota's Otter Tail County is a center for growing this bean named for its shape a kidney bean |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $600: It's a mere 2 miles from Kinshasa to Brazzaville, but there is no bridge joining them across this river--yet the Congo |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | A DISH OF SCHUBERT $400: A son of this capital, Franz was baptized in what's now known as the Schubert Church & at 17 wrote & conducted a mass there Vienna |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GIMME SOME SPACE $1000: There's still time to get ready, but in 4 billion years, this galaxy is destined for a head-on collision with ours Andromeda |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | WHERE THERE'S A "WILL" $200: It's the internal fortitude that allows you to skip dessert willpower |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | WHERE THERE'S A "WILL" $400: It's where you pick up your theater tickets on the night of will call |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | WHERE THERE'S A "WILL" $600: This colonial town in Virginia was first settled in the 1630s as Middle Plantation Williamsburg |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $800: A '70s Smokey ad showed a fawn & little bunnies & said there are these "in the woods", an idiom meaning naive or innocent babes in the woods |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | WHERE THERE'S A "WILL" $800: This rhyming term means haphazardly & without any planning willy-nilly |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | WHERE THERE'S A "WILL" $1000: A tree inspired this adjective meaning slender & graceful in form willowy |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1200: Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish buries her |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY $1600: Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women a hijab |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | CAN I MAKE YOU A DRINK? $400: As The Dude says, "There's a beverage here"; although as mine is just a virgin White Russian, I have a glass of this milk (heavy cream or half & half) |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty" The Odd Couple |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $600: As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & the bay it flows into Flushing |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | MOVIE MADNESS $1600: This 1960 film character: "A madhouse?... My mother there? But she's harmless!" (welllllll... yes & no) (Norman) Bates |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK $1200: Silverstein: "There is a place where ____ ____ ____ and before the street begins, and there the grass grows soft and white" the sidewalk ends |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | BOOK CHARACTERS $1600: Hunting a whale, Starbuck orders this character, "There, there, give it to him!" meaning to throw a harpoon Queequeg |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE $400: A thriller about an assassin:
"The Day of the ____" Jackal |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE $800: Set in India & the basis for a 2021 film:
"The White ____" Tiger |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE $1000: A 1971 sequel:
"____ Redux" Rabbit |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $200: Demonstrating a sense of humor, this agency debuted on Twitter with "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet" the CIA |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | A STATE CAPITOL IDEA $2000: The Capitol in this northern city lacks a dome, big grounds & any road to get there; you can hit the sea & use the marine highway Juneau |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | STICK $200: There's a body part in the name of these wooden sticks that a doctor uses when asking the patient to say "ahh" tongue depressor |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BRING YOUR "A" GAME $400: There are 441 red cards & 63 green cards in this Mattel game of comparisons Apples to Apples |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | MUSIC CLASS $400: There are 52 white keys on a standard piano & this many black ones 36 |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $400: There's a Fairmont Hotel in the 1,972-foot-tall Abraj al-Bayt clock tower, next to the great mosque in this holy city Mecca |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | DON'T BE SO THIRSTY $600: A dark mustache on a BYU student may indicate she's been drinking this, the most popular beverage sold there after water chocolate milk |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | GREEK LETTERS, ROMAN NUMERALS $200: The Dog Whisperer says, "There is usually one" this Greek letter "couple, a male & a female, that lead the whole pack" alpha |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE $600: South of Alaska, there's a Sitka one of these trees in Oregon that's 144 feet tall with a 93-foot crown spread a spruce |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | OH, THE THINGS I'VE DONE $600: In June 1791, I tried to escape captivity, fleeing Paris in a regular-guy hat; unfortunately, people tend to recognize the king King Louis XVI |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | A SEMESTER ABROAD $600: This biological reservoir is 2.3 million square miles in area & stretches to the Andes; when there, feel free to save it the Amazon |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | FROM THE BRITISH ROYAL WEBSITE $1600: At a coronation, following the oath, there's an anointing with oil by the person with this title the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | SPORTY LINGO $600: There's a cozy word in this term for a player or a person who sits around waiting to go in a benchwarmer |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | THE ELEMENTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This element makes up about 25% of the mass in your average star helium |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $2000: The hackney gait of the min Pin, short for this breed, is a high-stepping one, much like a trotting hackney horse a miniature Pinscher |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ART APPRECIATION $3,000 (Daily Double): No surprise, there's an unusual clock in "Premature Ossification of a Railway Station" by this Spaniard (Salvador) Dalí |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ON THE TRANSCRIPT... $800: Of Rep. Shirley Chisholm's speech in favor of this proposed amendment: "There were no founding mothers--a great pity" the Equal Rights Amendment |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $1000: "When Joshua was by" this place, "there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand" Jericho |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SKIP CLASS $200: There's not just "one" strategy for this game, but a few, like discarding "wild draw 4" cards & using "reverse" & "skip" adeptly Uno |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $2,000 (Daily Double): This Po River city's Santa Sindone Chapel houses a famous linen; there's great opera at its Teatro Regio Turin |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $2000: A chapel on its banks contains a fresco depicting the 1291 oath there that formed the Swiss Confederation Lake Lucerne |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $1600: Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one of these organisms & may be found widely in a home a fungus |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CEREAL $600: "Wake up in the morning, there's a crackle in your face", said a 1964 Rolling Stones (yes, those Stones) jingle for this Rice Krispies |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | TIME TO GET A "HEAD" $400: If the editor says to set this in 72-point type, there's big news happening a headline |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | CORRECT THAT NUMBER $1000: In a classic poem: "Then they rode back, but not / Not the" 19 600 |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $1200: "A River Runs Through It" begins, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and" this 2-word activity fly fishing |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG $1000: E.L.O.:
"A celebration," he's "up there waitin"' "Mr. Blue Sky" |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CHARACTER TEST $1600: This "A Tale of Two Cities" hero goes to his death in place of his lookalike Charles Darnay Sydney Carton |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | ROM-DRAMS $400: If there's one thing we learned from Patrick Swayze in this 1987 film, it's that "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" Dirty Dancing |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | BANK SHOTS $400: There's a pretty obvious reason that the United Overseas Bank building in Bangkok is known as this 5-letter building a Robot Building |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE $1200: The 1820 compromise allowed slavery only south of a line of this; it still forms state boundaries & there's a marker on it in Enid, Oklahoma latitude |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | FAMOUS AMERICANS ON STAGE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908, this author toured in a stage show called "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" L. Frank Baum |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MODERN FOLK HEROES $1200: The U.N. made July 12 her day, honoring when the 16-year-old Pakistani gave a fiery speech there in 2013 Malala |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | PHILOSOPHY $200: David Hume wrote that in any instance of "cause and" this, there's no necessary connection, just a sequence of events effect |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | TWENTY QUESTIONS $600: Traditionally, there are 20 grooved channels in a column of this oldest & simplest order of classical architecture Doric |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | SCIENCE $2000: In a molecule of sulfuric acid, there are this many atoms of oxygen 4 |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SHORT POEMS $1600: William Carlos Williams began a poem, "So much depends upon a red" this, & there are only 8 words after that wheelbarrow |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | STOCKS, SYMBOLICALLY $800: CMCSA:
your technician will arrive between 7 A.M. & 11 P.M. (We kid, there's a 2-hour window) Comcast |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY $1000: This evangelist opened the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles & preached there to a flock of thousands Aimee Semple McPherson |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | AN INSTRUCTOR $600: In 1984 there was a new Barbie doll: instructor of this type of heart-healthy exercises aerobics |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT $800: Enlightenment thinkers revived the concept of the human mind at birth as a blank slate to be written on, this 2-word Latin phrase tabula rasa |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | PROFESSIONS $1000: There's a word for a quick race in the middle of this purveyor of men's furnishings a haberdasher |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LET THERE BE ENLIGHTENMENT $3,000 (Daily Double): This concept of an actual or implicit agreement between rulers & the ruled gave a 1762 Rousseau work its title The Social Contract |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $800: Late 1890s prospectors got a real rush heading to the region around this tributary of the Yukon River the Klondike |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $1200: A National Historic Site in Inglis, Manitoba preserves storage structures called grain these which used to dot the prairies elevators |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CANADA $2000: On Prince Edward Island, you can visit the farm that inspired this 1908 novel, a classic of Canadian literature Anne of Green Gables |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $800: Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands Venus de Milo |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC $2000: This New Yorker incorporated graffiti into his work, & was a celebrity in the art world when he died at age 27 in 1988 Basquiat |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: A poem about this prison said, "There's a graveyard near at hand... 12,000 Union men beneath the Georgia sand" Andersonville |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | PLAY CHARACTERS $600: In a classic American play, his first line is bellowing, "Hey, there! Stella, baby!" Stanley (Kowalski) |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $2000: Heading to Machu Picchu? Book your hotel in this Peruvian city 50 miles to the southeast & take a train there Cusco |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | RUFF CROWD $400: This NFL team has a proud dog named SJ as a mascot; there are Dawgs in the stands, too the Cleveland Browns |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BROADWAY IS BACK $800: Kristin Chenoweth welcomed the audience at the reopening of "Wicked" with these 5 words, a line from "The Wizard of Oz" There's no place like home |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | LEFT MOTION $800: Bugs Bunny's line about wishing he'd toined left at this city may be based on a real turn there that would keep you on Route 66 Albuquerque |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BROADWAY IS BACK $1200: The musical "Six" features a modern take on Henry VIII's 6 wives, including this first wife who was born in Spain
"If you think for a moment /
I'd grant you annulment /
Just hold up there's n-n-n-n-n-n-no way..." Catherine of Aragon |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | GET THE H OUTTA HERE! $800: A word meaning to make holy loses an H & gets permission to become this word meaning to permit allow |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $1600: In 1859 a few European rabbits were released on this continent; by the 1920s there were billions Australia |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | DANCE IN HISTORY $200: In the Dakota Territory city of Medora, there was a real account of cowboys making new hands dance by doing this shooting at their feet |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | A FAIR PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT $600: There are kids at a fairground at the start of the video for this Springsteen song about a ride "Tunnel Of Love" |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | AMEND THE AMENDMENT $600: 6th: "The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public freeway" (there's an amendment L.A. can really get behind!) trial |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WHAT "A" TEAM! $400: The NBA's Hawks nest there Atlanta |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $800: As Dorothy walked through Oz, "now and then there came a deep" this sound "from some wild animal" a growl |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | JOKERS $800: "I would like to give these kids a good home; in fact, there's a good one a few miles away" was one of his lines as a grumpy TV foster dad Bernie Mac |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | ZOMBIETHON $400: "Train to Busan" is set in this Asian country during a zombie outbreak there South Korea |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | 10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Knock knock--who's there? It's this noisy type of ghost a poltergeist |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | UNPACK YOUR ADJECTIVES $800: There's a double "L" in the middle of this adjective meaning morose or gloomily silent sullen |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES $200: I cannot tell a lie: Virginia was still a British colony when he was born there in 1732 George Washington |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | "D" NATURE OF THINGS $200: There are white-beaked & bottlenose types of this creature a dolphin |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME $800: Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "Hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park Jackson Hole |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | IS IT ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? $1000: There are only two of me in a standard deck of cards; call us by our hyphenated name & we just might make your house full a one-eyed jack |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | I WANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD! $400: There are 3 species of this flyer, the only mammal whose diet is solely based on blood a vampire bat |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BLACKSMITHING $1000: In Illinois, there's a replica of the shop where this blacksmith & company founder forged the first successful steel plow John Deere |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $1200: In "Henry IV, Part 1" Falstaff disses a hostess: "There's no more faith in thee, than in a stewed" one of these fruits a prune |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | RECENT MOVIES $1200: Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote Venom |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $600: This city on the Lower Mississippi takes its name from a Native American people who once lived there Natchez |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | THE EARTH $800: A cirque is a bowl-shaped hollow; there's a cirque type of this snow & ice formation glacier |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THIS CATEGORY IS FILLER $2000: This French-named delight seen here in a bowl & as filling is made by whipping up chocolate & heavy cream ganache |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $200: 2018:
"Ant-Man and
the ____ " Wasp |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $400: 2018:
"The Girl in
____ ____ ____" the Spider's Web |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $600: 1938,
a Disney
"Silly Symphony":
"____ and the Flame" Moth |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $800: 2002,
desert battles in the ancient world:
"The ____ King" Scorpion |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $1000: 1958,
remade in 1986:
"The ____" Fly |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | CITIES OF IRELAND $1200: It was a long way to this city for the English King John, who built a castle there when he was governor Tipperary |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1600: There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work Bleak House |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $2000: Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin' Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | BUSINESS $200: There are 3 of the same vowel in this term for the exclusive control of a product or service by one business or group a monopoly |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $800: "There's a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives, it's true we'll make a better day, just you and me" "We Are The World" |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | PRIZED POSSESSIONS $2000: Now restored, a spyglass belonging to Napoleon was left on this Mediterranean isle after his flight from there Elba |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THAT'S CANADIAN ENTERTAINMENT $600: This Vancouver native lent his voice to the city's public transit in 2018; here's a sample:
"Get those feet off the seat; my mom might be sitting there one day, come on" Seth Rogen |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1000: Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the 1897 reply to young Virginia O'Hanlon that's known by these 7 words Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | NOVELS SINCE 1900 $800: There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White The Sword in the Stone |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | "G" I'D LIKE TO GO THERE $2000: A huge legendary being is said to have created this causeway of basalt columns jutting into the sea from Northern Ireland Giant's Causeway |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: Term for a day on Mars--24 hours & nearly 40 minutes, so you can hit snooze a little longer there sol |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | TALK SHOWS $1600: There are A-list stars, but the audience makes "The Big Red Chair" segment from this host, seen on BBC America Graham Norton |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | THE CDC SAYS SO $800: In 2020 the CDC reported there had been nearly 3,000 cases including many deaths due to EVALI, a lung injury caused by this activity vaping |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $200: D'oh! It may seem like there's a town named this in every state, but the USGS says it's only 34, including Missouri & Oregon Springfield |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $400: For a change of changing of the guards, check out the one in this city at the mausoleum of Uruguayan hero Jose Artigas Montevideo |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $1000: Isak Dinesen wrote this Kenyan seaport is like "a picture of paradise... the deep sea-arm round the island forms an ideal harbour" Mombasa |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR $800: A Templar church has been called London's first this type of place; Pilgrims would deposit money there & withdraw it in the Holy Land a bank |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | ARABIA $1600: Animals in the region include camels, a main mode of transport, & these 2 farm animals known there as khiraf & ma'iz sheep & goats |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | A BORING CATEGORY $600: In "There Will Be Blood", this actor uses a straw analogy regarding oil drilling: "I... drink... your... milkshake!" Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | LITERARY SUBTITLES $200: The prologue to a trilogy, this novel is subtitled "There and Back Again" The Hobbit |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | ON LIFE $400: "There is no God... man simply is", Jean-Paul Sartre said in a 1945 lecture defending this philosophy existentialism |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | & AWAY WE GO! $800: Though this West African country has a word for "lion" in its name, it's the chimpanzees we're going there to see Sierra Leone |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ODD HISTORY $200: One of these took place on the Bounty in 1789; there was another of sorts on Skylab in 1973 when the radios were turned off a mutiny |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $400: The 6th & last of these "Concertos" named for a place has no violins, but there's harpsichord, 'cause that's how Bach rolled Brandenburg |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | TUNE A FISH $200: This song by the B-52's says, "There goes a dogfish, chased by a catfish" "Rock Lobster" |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $400: There's a direction & a paradise in this double-"E" Steinbeck title East of Eden |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | RESISTING A REST $600: I took too many NoDoz, an oral tablet of this alkaloid, & now there's no sleep for me caffeine |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $2000: In 1996 the NYC parade for this fall day was down to 15 blocks & a few spectators; in 2009 30,000 participants marched 34 blocks Veterans Day |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $2000: 19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard" Lear |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | SO CLOSE... $400: There's a car part in this repetitive term that describes automobiles in gridlock bumper to bumper |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | A NON-ALCOHOLIC CATEGORY $400: There is absolutely no brandy in this cereal company's Apple Jacks Kellogg's |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $600: There's a memorial tower to this inventor at Menlo Park, New Jersey, site of his lab Edison |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | HERE'S YOUR CONSTELLATION PRIZE $800: Jason put in a good word for Vela, so you can hop on up there as the sail of this ship the Argo |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | ANTHROPOLOGY $800: A theory named for this vast grassland of Europe & Asia says the Indo-European languages originated there the Steppe |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | IN A BOTTLE $200: There are no parabens in this company's baby shampoo; the bottle promises "No More Tears" Johnson & Johnson |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $1000: A manufacturing facility, or a person in the audience who's there to help a performer a plant |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | THE OLYMPIC FLAME $200: In 1992 there was a dramatic lighting by Paralympian Antonio Rebollo, who shot a flaming this arrow |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | BEFORE BEAUTY $400: Stew on this! It's a hyphenated term for an accountant a bean-counter |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE $1000: Located on the lower slopes of a volcano called Pichincha, this capital of Ecuador is up there at 9,350 feet Quito |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | GAME $1000: Handicaps & divots are in this sport, but don't say golf; there is also penalty 3, a free hit from 40 yards to an open goal polo |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | NATIONAL FLOWERS $800: Tunisia's national flower is this fragrant white one, also the name of a revolution that started there in 2010 jasmine |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | SUMMER MOVIES $400: In 2017 there were plenty of robotic performances in "The Last Knight", a continuation of this action film series Transformers |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $1200: TB, or not TB, there is no question tuberculosis killed this "Eve of St. Agnes" romantic poet at age 25 (John) Keats |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS $2000: There's a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines lionfish |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: It describes a person who's anywhere from 45 to 65 middle-aged |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | PIECES OF GAMES $200: In a standard Monopoly game, there are 32 green houses & 12 of these that are red hotels |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $800: In song, "There's a blaze of light in every word, it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken" this hallelujah |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | AMERICAN MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD $1600: There is an American cemetery & monument with "crosses row on row" at this alliterative field near Ypres, Belgium Flanders |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THERE IS AN "I" IN TEAM $200: A sometime Coral Gables resident, singer Marc Anthony co-owns this NFL team the Miami Dolphins |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: There's a term for a lover of his country in this 10-letter word for a fellow countryman compatriot |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER FOOTBALL TEAM $3,400 (Daily Double): A very outside LB, this guy plays on an island; the son of a witch & a devil, he's a total beast out there! Caliban |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY $200: There's a silent "B" in this adjective meaning mysterious & faint, like the Mona Lisa's smile subtle |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | ROCK BANDS $800: There "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" for this band with a name that includes a pachyderm Cage the Elephant |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $800: These are a tradition on Tahiti; after months there, Fletcher Christian appeared before Captain Bligh covered in them tattoos |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | "A" MATERIAL $800: In 2020 a town in Quebec voted to no longer be named for this dangerous stuff once mined there asbestos |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $800: There's a long & an alternate shortened spelling of this ship area, seen here the forecastle (fo'c'sle) |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | I'M ON A BOAT! $1000: There's a long & an alternate shortened spelling of this petty officer whose pipe is heard here a bosun (boatswain) |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $600: "Therefore is the name of it called" this; "because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth" Babel |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | FOWL LANGUAGE $800: A true lack of something is said to be "as scarce as" these (of which there are actually none) hen's teeth |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | MONTANA $400: "Eragon" author Christopher Paolini is a longtime Montana resident, while this 4-time Oscar nominee was born there Michelle Williams |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | ALMOST PARADISE $1200: To do this process, heat milk to 161 degrees, hold it there for 15 seconds & then rapidly cool pasteurize |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | MUSIC"!" $3,000 (Daily Double): The hip-hop duo Tag Team gave us the destined to-be-a-classic this! "(There It Is)" "Whoomp!" |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $800: There's a silent "H" in this art form that served the Greeks & Romans well in speaking & writing rhetoric |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | MEDICAL PREFIXES & SUFFIXES $4,000 (Daily Double): These 2 -iatricians specialize in opposite times of life & there's often talk of a surplus of one & a shortage of the other a pediatrician & a geriatrician |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 2020 VISION $400: Taking a leap on Leap Day to support low-income people, this grand duchy became the first nation with free public transport Luxembourg |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | GLADIATORS $800: There's debate as to if this gesture, pollice verso, urged a victor to kill his defeated opponent or to drop his weapon & spare him thumbs down |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MUSIC SCALES $1000: There's a half-step between every 2 notes in this "colorful" scale pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg the chromatic scale |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE WHALES $600: Belugas get a spa day at a secret site off Canada's coast; traveling far to use rocks there & do this, shed the surface of old skin molt |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $800: Fittingly in New York, there's a college of criminal justice named for this first Chief Justice of the U.S. (John) Jay |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | HISTORY $2000: A 4-term governor of New York, he lost his race in 1928 as the first serious Catholic candidate for president Al Smith |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DISSECTING THE LYRICS $800: "There were plants & birds & rocks & things", noticed America in "A" this "With No Name", & that's hard to argue a horse |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $200: "Stranger in a Strange Land" refers to this leader exiled in Exodus; his son's name means "stranger there" Moses |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | MALFUNCTION $2000: This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine, but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928, flooding Ventura County William Mulholland |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | CONNECTING WITH CONJUNCTIONS $600: It's the partner of "neither" in a phrase regarding "here" & "there" nor |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing" A River Runs Through It |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | HEAVY METAL $1000: A 14-ton replica coin in Sudbury, Ontario, is called the Big this, an element long mined there Nickel |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | STATE THE STATE $200: Hearst Castle is a landmark there California |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | "BUT" $800: There are North Atlantic & Pacific species of this extremely edible flatfish a halibut |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | LET'S MAKE A PACT $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1291 pact between 3 cantons is considered to be this European nation's founding document Switzerland |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | CURRENCIES $800: The currency of this nation of 59 million features wildlife commonly found there South Africa |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE COLD $400: Despite the name, there's no booze in the dish seen here a shrimp cocktail |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The town of Falaise in Normandy is home to a statue of this man who was born there around 1028 William the Conqueror |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | TERRIFIC TV $600: On this NBC show, Chidi Anagonye left himself a note with crucial info--"There is no 'answer'... but Eleanor is the answer" The Good Place |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $1600: In "The Raven", "while I nodded, nearly ____, suddenly there came a tapping" napping |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | FERRIS & OBSERVATION WHEELS $1000: In the movie "Divergent" , there's still a Ferris wheel on this pier in future Chicago & Tris climbs it Navy Pier |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | EUROPEAN CITIES $1200: There are 4 A's (or 4 alphas) in this capital of Greece's Messenia region, known for its delicious olives Kalamata |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | THE KING OF TV $200: Once there was a spot--on Starz in 2011--where Jamie Campbell Bower played this role in "Camelot" King Arthur |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | TOUGH TALK $800: There's a sensory organ in this hyphenated adjective meaning tough-minded hard-nosed |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | NUMBERS $600: There are 76 trombones & 110 cornets mentioned in a song from this show The Music Man |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | CRACKER JACKS $1000: Billy Wilder, his director in "The Apartment", said there was a little bit of genius in everything he did Jack Lemmon |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $200: As Charles Xavier, James McAvoy reads to his students from "The Once & Future King" in the "Apocalypse" film in this franchise the X-Men franchise |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $400: In this film, Tom Hanks identifies Meg Ryan as his online love interest by a flower inside a book, specifically, "Pride & Prejudice" You've Got Mail |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $600: In this film that's near & dear to us, Rosie Perez reads the World Almanac to study for "Jeopardy!" White Men Can't Jump |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $800: In "Pleasantville" Reese Witherspoon goes from black & white to color after reading this novel by D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $1000: Naturally, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is at the heart of this film with Amy Adams & Meryl Streep Julie & Julia |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $600: (Kai Jackson of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Baltimore is steeped in history, much of it reported by The Baltimore Sun which was featured prominently in this HBO crime drama whose creator, David Simon, was a reporter there The Wire |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | LEFT BEHIND ON THE MOON $400: Brought by the last 3 manned missions, vehicles called these are still there & ready to go a (lunar) rover |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | STEM $1600: (Dr. Frauke Neuser presents the clue.) Mathematician Emmy Noether formulated a theorem that scientists make use of to this day--there is an associated symmetry for every law of this, meaning a total quantity remains constant conservation |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | FACTS & FIGURES $1000: China has this type of legislature, meaning there's only a single house; it has almost 3,000 members unicameral |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1200: "He's a pinball wizard, there has to be a twist, a pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist" Tommy |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $400: Able to use both hands with equal ease ambidextrous |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1200: Of dubious authenticity, specifically like non-canonical Bible books apocryphal |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1,500 (Daily Double): Someone who takes blame for others, from an ancient Jewish ceremony a scapegoat |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $1600: A new term for a suddenly old version of something, like "film camera" a retronym |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT $2000: The study of flags vexillology |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | ATLAS ALLITERATION $2000: This world capital is named for a lady who found a bronze Buddha there Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: There's quite a scene in New York Harbor as a reproduction of this Pilgrim ship arrives after a voyage across the Atlantic the Mayflower |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | VIDEO GAMES $600: Battle Royale & Plunder are game modes in this series' "Warzone" Call of Duty |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | LINCOLN BLOGS $600: 1848: I'm in Congress repping this party, but starting to think there might be a lane for a new, real anti-slavery party the Whigs |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE 5 W's, HISTORICALLY $200: Where: every Aug. 6, a service is held in this city for the estimated 70,000 people who were killed there on that date in 1945 Hiroshima |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | LITERARY VACATIONS $3,800 (Daily Double): The beginning of "A Room with a View" concerns a view of this Italian river the Arno |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $1000: In this bestseller by Angie Thomas, 16-year-old Starr Carter sees her friend shot dead by a police officer The Hate U Give |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | '80s HITS $400: We're halfway there! Bon Jovi topped the charts with this tune in 1987; you'll make it, I swear! "Livin' On A Prayer" |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | CELEBRITY NAMES IN COMMON $600: Garner &
Hudson Jennifer |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | DOG IS MY COPILOT $2000: Obviously it's off to the ballet for this breed here, a favorite of Russian nobility for hundreds of years Borzoi |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | POSSESSION IS 9/10 $800: There is no Sigourney Weaver, only Zuul, & what a lovely singing voice Zuul must have in this 1984 movie Ghostbusters |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | ADVERBS $1000: This 4-letter word is an adverb when found before a number to mean "about", as in "we had to drive ____ 50 miles to get there" some (like) |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | MOVING $600: Some companies charge per stair, so you'll pay dearly to move into a NYC fifth-floor this, meaning there's no elevator a walk-up |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | PRIME $800: There are this many cards of each suit in a traditional deck of playing cards 13 |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | CAVE CAVEATS $400: You've heard of this biblical guy's "ladder", but there's also a dangerous cave system near Austin with his name Jacob |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | WHAT ARE THE ODDS? $800: The ESA said there was a 1 in 7,299 chance that 2006 QV89, one of these, would hit earth in 2019 (Spoiler alert: It didn't) an asteroid |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | WORLD CAPITAL BINGO $1000: "O", around 1300: Akershus Castle is built in this city; it's still there today, south of a street called Karl Johans Gate Oslo |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BRITISH ENGLISH $400: The Brits put their trousers on one leg at a time; this 5-letter word that Americans use means underwear over there pants |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | SOUTH PARK $2000: A Birmingham park is named for this Roman deity of the forge; the god himself is there in the form of a ginormous cast-iron statue Vulcan |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | MOVIE GOOFS $1600: In 1955 Marty plays a Gibson ES-345 guitar, but that hadn't been made yet--maybe there was an extra trip in this 1985 pic Back to the Future |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | MINING $600: Mining this precious metal discovered there in 1865 made Belmont, Nevada a boomtown until the 1880s silver |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | FOREST CLUMP $800: On Yemen's Socotra Island, there's a forest of this mythical animal's blood trees named for the deep red color of their sap dragon |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | SCIENCE BOOKS $800: "The Fabric of Reality" explores the idea that there is a multiplicity of "parallel" these (the one we know is the "tangible" one) universes |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $200: There's no guilt in knowing that "gelt" is this; you'll receive some with a correct response money |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | ADVENTURE CAPITAL $1000: These 2 major airports make it tough to skydive over Paris--but there is a drop zone north of the capital Orly & Charles de Gaulle |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $1600: It's a general term for maps used by ocean navigators; there's a book of these "& Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages" charts |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | RELIGION $800: The shahadah, a basic statement of faith, begins, "There is no god but" him Allah |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $1200: There's no webbing between the toes of these little bandits that've been known to untie knots & unscrew jars a raccoon |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE $800: In a 2014 election, there was no box to check to vote for this republic to remain as part of Ukraine Crimea |
| #8285, aired 2020-11-20 | SILENT "L" $800: There's a silent L in this word for silently sneaking up on prey stalk |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Arturo Schomburg's collection in a branch of the N.Y. Public Library in this Manhattan area contributed to a renaissance there Harlem |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | I GOT THEM HISTORICAL BLUES $600: There's a dark house over yonder / In Boston's North Square / The home this Founding Father rode from / A home still standing there Paul Revere |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | JEOPARDY! WORLD TOUR $1200: We've landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a stay in this capital; we hear one night there makes a hard man humble Bangkok |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | FEMINISM $200: An 1848 declaration said these institutions were unjustly closed to women; today women are the majority there colleges |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | BEVERAGE RHYME TIME $800: Perhaps there's a health benefit to adding the seeds seen here to the fruity wine, also seen here, to make this rhyming drink a chia sangria |
| #8277, aired 2020-11-10 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: A 60-foot Gigantor robot was built in this Japanese city as a symbol of hope & strength following the 1995 earthquake there Kobe |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $600: Mobile's Winston Groom wrote this 1986 novel about a man with childlike wisdom Forrest Gump |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | THE PRINCESS BRIDE $600: There were riots in this world capital in 1966 when its princess Beatrix wed a German diplomat who'd been a member of Hitler Youth Amsterdam |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | "BE"SOMETHING"ED" $1600: It's the state of a sailing ship that can't move because there's no wind becalmed |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | WHAT'S YOUR "I.P." ADDRESS $1200: Dr. Robert Wang helped create this brand of multicooker whose name implies speed Instant Pot |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: This term can refer to a cheap saloon, the type of music played there or the "Women" in a Rolling Stones song a honky-tonk |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | LITERARY QUOTES $600: This Steinbeck hero, before taking leave of his family: "Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" Tom Joad |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | INSIDE "MAN" $400: There are about 700 species of these, most looking like a cross between a frog & a lizard a salamander |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PLAY $800: There are "safety" & "suicide" versions of this baseball play in which a runner bolts home from third as the batter bunts a squeeze |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | MEDICAL HISTORY $800: Why is it called an operating theater? There used to be an audience, like for Dr. Keen, the USA's first of these, also known as neurosurgeons a brain surgeon |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnold about four hours, ropeless and using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitan in this national park Yosemite |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $600: In the longest strike there in half a century, 48,000 UAW workers walked off in 2019 at this company General Motors |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | YANKEE STADIUM $600: It wasn't just baseball at the old stadium; this Frank Gifford team moved there in 1956 & promptly won a championship the New York Giants |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Great
Market Hall in Budapest, Hungary.) In the tradition of Hungarian inventive geniuses like Mr. Rubik, two Hungarian scientists designed the Gömböc to prove that there can be a three-dimensional object with only one stable and one unstable point of this balance |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | MOVIN' ON "UP" $1000: From the Bible: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and" this upright |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Oct. 22, 1962 JFK announced a naval blockade of this country due to Soviet missiles being discovered there Cuba |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS $800: Highlights for children has been called "that ubiquitous magazine" there a waiting room |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | A BOROUGH BURIAL $400: Cornelius Vanderbilt, long-time owner of the ferry service named for this borough, rests in an elegant mausoleum there Staten Island |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | SUMMARIZING THE NOVEL $1600: Here comes the Barnes; where there's a will, there's a Hemingway; Romero the torero The Sun Also Rises |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | 3 NAMES IN CLASSIC ROCK $1600: Earth, Wind & Fire covered this Beatles tune that begins, "I was alone, I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there" "Got To Get You Into My Life" |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | CANSPLAINING $200: Let me stop you there... proverbially, in exposing yourself to a possible problem, you're opening up a giant "can of" these worms |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | GONE FISHING $800: Black & blue are 2 species of this sport fish & there's a multimillion-dollar Black & Blue Tournament to catch them off Baja Calif. the marlin |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education" Scholastic |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | POLITICS: WHO SAID IT? $1000: 1969: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full" Henry Kissinger |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE $400: There are a limited number of I's--3--in this word meaning endless... or unlimited...or... infinite |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $200: Born 1890, was a merchant of "murder" & "death", named a dame in 1971, & then there was none of her in 1976 Agatha Christie |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $600: To tap gently with affection; you can also "stand" there by staying firm on a choice pat |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $200: God reveals in Genesis, "Neither shall there any more be a" this "to destroy the earth" a flood |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | THEY DIDN'T SURVIVE THE FILM $200: "Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin' boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam" in this film Forrest Gump |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | ROCK BANNED $2000: 1968: "There's just no place for" this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations "Street Fighting Man" |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | TOOT SUITE $300 (Daily Double): There's a bassoon solo in the Rimsky-Korsakov suite named for this woman who told great stories Scheherazade |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $400: Born on the foam of the sea, this "mighty" goddess had a magic girdle that made the wearer amazingly desirable, as girdles do Aphrodite |
| #8213, aired 2020-04-29 | THERE SHE IS, MYTH GREECE $2,000 (Daily Double): An early snowbird, this daughter of Zeus had to spend a few months a year in Hades after an unfortunate food choice Persephone |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | UH, PHRASING... $400: Meaning to "achieve a goal", "there's more than one way" to do this, but why bring the feline into it? to skin a cat |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | GENERAL HOSPITAL $1600: One factor for a newborn entering the NICU, short for this, is a birth weight of less than 5.5 pounds neonatal intensive care unit |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | STATE FLAG SUBJECTS $1000: On Missouri's flag, 2 of these large predators once plentiful there stand atop a scroll on which the state's motto appears bears |
| #8208, aired 2020-04-22 | WHAT SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT IS THIS? $1000: There's an alloy in this word for a type of casual restaurant, French for "brewery" a brasserie |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT $600: She says, "There's rarely a day that I'm out in the world that somebody doesn't mention '13 Going on 30'" Jennifer Garner |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $600: A native of this state and long-time university coach there, Bill Bowerman is seen in his pursuit of a better track shoe Oregon |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Thinking there weren't enough solo pieces for violin, Fritz Kreisler did this & attributed them to nobodies like Pugnani he composed them himself |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $800: In poetry, it's a long narrative, often about heroic deeds; there's also a "mock" type an epic |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY $1600: In this 19th c. year the USS President fought a battle with HMS Belvidera, which until then didn't know for sure there was a war on 1812 |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $600: If a responder steals from a house where this has broken out, "he shall be thrown into" it then & there a fire |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE CODE OF HAMMURABI $800: A judge who makes an error "shall be publicly removed from" this judge's seat "and never again shall he sit there" bench |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: St. John experienced this in a cave on the isle of Patmos & is said to have written the Bible book of the same name there Revelation |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: William Kennedy was born in this state capital & set a trilogy there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ironweed" Albany |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THIS DEFINES ME $1600: The second-highest ranking graduate in a class, & don't say "runner-up" & make me come over there the salutatorian |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $800: To leave a building or other location because it is not safe to stay there evacuate |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM $2000: 2009: "Phil, there is a tiger in the bathroom!" The Hangover |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | THAT'S OLD SCHOOL $600: Tennyson attended this college at Cambridge University; there's a college with the same name in Dublin Trinity |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | CHARACTERS IN MOBY-DICK $1200: There once was a man from this Massachusetts port who signs up Ishmael & the others to the whaling voyage Nantucket |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE $2000: In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end" dateless |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | A CASE OF THE BENDS $400: Drake Park in Bend in this western state isn't named for a duck, though the ducks are popular there Oregon |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $400: The town of Oymyakon, Russia in this proverbially cold region plunged to a mind-numbing -90 degrees in 1933 Siberia |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | LET THERE BE LIGHT $400: Using just a few pieces of plastic cut from an old CD case, you can turn your smartphone into a projector of these 3-D images a hologram |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | LET THERE BE LIGHT $800: This phenomenon is the change in direction of a ray of light as it moves from one medium into another refraction |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1954 an historic contiguous USA low temp of -70 was recorded near Rogers Pass in this fourth-largest state Montana |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $2000: In Feb. 1947 temps reportedly fell to -85 at Fort Selkirk on this river that lends its name to a Canadian territory the Yukon River |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS $800: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how a plant can detect these hazards that kill thousands of people each year: "If the plant puts out red leaves, beware. But, if its leaves are green, then you can play there in peace with your friends" landmines |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | MOON ME $1600: A plaque reading, "Here man completed his first explorations of the Moon" is still there, signed by this president Nixon |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $400: After nearly a decade of waiting, this author assures us "The Winds of Winter" is coming--there's an excerpt on his website George R.R. Martin |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Along the Mediterranean there's a French & an Italian this, Italian for "coast" Riviera |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $600: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Ecclesiastes |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: It's estimated that in Finland, population 5.5 million, there are between 2 & 3 million of these steamy rooms a sauna |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | 20-20 $600: In old British currency, there were 20 of these to a pound a shilling |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | DEFENSE MECHANISM $2000: On Reddit, there's an entire subreddit enamored with this weapon seen here, & they're not big fans of catapults trebuchets |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $800: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" says this grim spot is "a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace" grave |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | THE ILIAD $600: There's quite a bit of graphic violence, as when Patroclus kills a Trojan with this long weapon, then hauls him up on it like a fish a spear |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: After World Champion, the highest title in chess is International this; today there are more than 1,600 of them a Grandmaster |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES $600: There's no "-proof" in this adjective often seen on kids' PJs & meaning designed to fend off flames fire-resistant |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLDS $600: On this planet we have a friend we call Oppy, who weighed 384 pounds on Earth but is 146 up there Mars |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | & THEN THERE WERE NUNS $1200: A follower of St. Francis, St. Clare of this Italian town took her vows in 1212, founding a new order Assisi |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | & THEN THERE WERE NUNS $2000: Her books include "Dead Man Walking" & "River of Fire", a 2019 memoir about becoming an activist Sister Helen Prejean |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | SHOW TUNE RHYMES $400: In "The Music Man" there were "copper bottom tympani in horse platoons... double bell euphoniums & big" these instruments bassoons |
| #8153, aired 2020-02-05 | THE "IDE"S OF FEBRUARY $1200: On Feb. 3, 2019 the slogan "There's enough money when no one steals" gave Nayib Bukele this type of win in El Salvador's election a landslide |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE? $1200: "Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground" Paul (Saul) |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | EMMY WINNERS FOR BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA $400: The truth is out there; this actress took the trophy in 1997 for her role on "The X-Files" Gillian Anderson |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | HIDDEN TREASURE $1200: When I tripped & fell into the Upper Tiber, there was a big splat in Umbria platinum (in splat in Umria) |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | DISPUTED TERRITORIES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland, is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there & leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag & leaves bottles of aquavit Denmark |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1900, 3 years after leaving the vice presidency, he welcomed a grandson given the same name, later a candidate for president Adlai Stevenson |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $400: His whale of a tale began in New York City in 1819 & ended there with his death in 1891 (Herman) Melville |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | GLOSSARY OF HISTORY $400: A physical repository of historic documents; there's a famous one at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue an archive |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THAT'S "SOME" ENDING $1000: There's a body part in this word for flavorful toothsome |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | THE DASHBOARD LIGHT $600: There is a fault in this system if the light stays on the airbag system |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1200: Naturally, Colin Farrell read this novel by a fellow countryman
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $2000: Colin Firth reads the line that gives a novel by this British author its title
But that wasn't what Sarah had said, and sitting there beside Henry in the Victoria Gardens, watching the day die, I remembered the end of the whole "affair" Graham Greene |
| #8132, aired 2020-01-07 | POLITICS $1,600 (Daily Double): Cities as big as L.A. & Dallas have this kind of mayoral election where there's no "D"' or "R" after the candidates' names nonpartisan |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $600: This half of a sibling duo runs the gamut from "There's Something About Mary" to "Green Book", for which he won 2 Oscars Peter Farrelly |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | POP CULTURE BOOKSHELF $1200: (Kevin Hart delivers the clue.) There's desert & snow & now, it's Danny Glover taking over my avatar in "Jumanji: The Next Level", the most recent film inspired by a book written & illustrated by this man Van Allsburg |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE "SAT"s $1200: There's a planet in this word meaning an orgy or a wild celebration a saturnalia |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $8,600 (Daily Double): Louisiana Purchase explorers joined by LBJ's Secretary of Defense & a "Golden Boy" dramatist Lewis and Clark Clifford Odets |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $200: It's 399 B.C. & I'm ready for my trial; 500 Greek jurors are sure to give this harmless elderly philosopher a fair shake Socrates |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $800: The 100s are my time, so I'm gonna put my name on a wall that runs from Wallsend-on-Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway Hadrian |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | SLIDING INTO YOUR CMs $1200: A quote from his ever-cheery "The Road"--"There is no God & we are his prophets" Cormac McCarthy |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | IT'S A HAND! IT'S MICHIGAN! $1600: Right there in the webbing of the Michigan hand is Madonna's city of birth, named for its location on this bay Saginaw Bay |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | ROCK BANDS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1988 "New Jersey" was a No. 1 album by this band that's from there Bon Jovi |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | UNCOMMON $800: There are 3 C's in this word for someone who has a truly unconventional personality eccentric |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | THEATER TERMINOLOGY $1200: An alternate performer who learns the role of a featured player just in case there is an emergency need for a substitute an understudy |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS $400: There was a pretty big revolution in 1905, but 2 bigger ones came in this year & saw Nicholas II get the boot 1917 |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | PROVERBS $800: Economist Milton Friedman was fond of the saying, "There's no such thing as" this a free lunch |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | THE "BAR" EXAM $3,000 (Daily Double): This primate, seen here, lives in coastal countries of North Africa A Barbary ape |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.) The Széchenyi Chain Bridge was the first to permanently span this river and connect the two old cities that form Hungary's capital. At the time, there was debate over Budapest versus Pestbuda the Danube |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | MOVIE EXCHANGES $800: 2 characters: "Look, your worshipfulness... I take orders from just one person: me"; "It's a wonder you're still alive" Han Solo & Princess Leia |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $200: ...Brazil / who kicked a ball with some skill / finding the holes / scored 1,200-plus goals / & gave us 2 decades of thrill Pelé |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $400: ...Chicago / his Sen. seat, "golden" said Blago / won a Nobel for Peace / his term did cease / don't think he'll stay at Mar-A-Lago Obama |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $800: ...Iran / who ruled with too firm a hand / according to text / Khomeini was next / he was no longer the king of his land the Shah |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $1000: ...St. Louis / the ragtime king, I can prove this / wrote "Maple Leaf Rag" / with hardly a snag / now say his name, c'mon, do this! Scott Joplin |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | GEO, DUDE $800: Lafitte's blacksmith shop...isn't one? It says it is "the oldest structure used as a bar in the U.S.", on this N.O. St.? We're so there! Bourbon Street |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | TRIOS $800: There's a statue of this trio in Denver, former home of their creator, poet Eugene Field. Nod is of course, the sleeping baby Wynken, Blynken & Nod |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | FROM G TO G $600: There are 12 species of this aromatic herb with a name from Chinese meaning "root of heaven" ginseng |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AMERICAN CATHEDRALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Both Spanish & French governors worshipped at a church on the site of what's now this city's St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | OF THE THIRD KIND $2000: In July 2019, around a big anniversary, there was renewed interest in this 88-year-old often called the "Third Man" (astronaut) Michael Collins |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $200: The second Monday in February is Clean Out Your this Day, so shake the crumbs out of that keyboard & delete those unused .exes a Computer |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $400: Write (actually write, on paper) a letter on June 1, the National Day for these alliterative & friendly correspondents Pen Pals |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $800: On February 1, I scream, you scream, we all scream for this fancy dessert named for the 49th state baked Alaska |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $1000: Spare a thought for the humphead wrasse & Oahu tree snail on the third Friday in May, the national day for these endangered species |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1200: Valletta, Malta was named for the grand master of the Knights Hospitaller after they survived a 1565 siege there by this empire the Ottoman Empire |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | SITCOMS $400: On this 1990s sitcom a well-to-do Southern California family took in a streetwise relative from Philadelphia The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | MED. ABBREV. $1000: There's no "Q" in this adjective for a shot given into the fatty tissue under the skin, but SQ is the abbreviation for it subcutaneous |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) According to "National Geographic", since 1995, there have been major collapses of sections A and B of the ice shelf named for this Norwegian explorer; an iceberg about the size of Delaware broke off section C in 2017 Carl Anton Larsen |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | THE HARVARD LAMPOON $200: Now a fixture as a late-night TV talk show host, in the 1980s, this very tall redhead was a two-year president of the "Harvard Lampoon" Conan O'Brien |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $1600: This nickname for Dong Ap Bia mountain in Vietnam was inspired by a brutal battle that took place there in 1969 Hamburger Hill |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE U.N. REPORTS $400: From a 2018 report: "There is evidence that integrating" these people fleeing violence "in local economies can be mutually beneficial" refugees |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | CONTRACTIONS $1600: There is a contraction in this French phrase for "please"; it's literally "if it pleases you" s'il vous plait |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | GRANT $6,000 (Daily Double): Grant said, "I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than" this one, the first in which he fought the Mexican-American War |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | VEHICULAR ACTIVITY $200: There's a kind of plane in this word for traveling to exotic places & living a luxury lifestyle jet-setting |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1000: 4-word phrase that's the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic but wait, there's more |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | '60s POP CULTURE $1000: At the Oscars in 1969, there was a rare tie for Best Actress between Barbra Streisand & this other legend Katharine Hepburn |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | NATIONAL PARKS $1200: Development on this Florida bay spurred the campaign that helped create a national park there in 1980 Biscayne |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | AROUND THE USA $200: You may be more familiar with the La Brea ones, but there's a sticky batch of these in Carpinteria, California as well tar pits |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | 2 LETTERS, SECOND IS K $400: You can get a Whopper Jr. there BK |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | SHIFT THE STRESS $600: To say no & a social loser (there's a band of All-American ones) Rejects & reject |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | GETTING TO THE AIRPORT $400: In San Francisco's International Terminal there's a station for this train service with a male first name the BART |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE $800: Hull House was a center of the Arts & Crafts movement & in 1901 this architect spoke there on "the art & craft of the machine" (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | DESCRIBING THE CASINO GAME $400: There's no joy in a push;
soft numbers, hard choices;
a "split" personality blackjack |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | REAL-LIFE METAPHORS $2000: Really, really old expression meaning that an irreversible step has been taken the die is cast |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $400: He's seen here around the time his HBO special "Bring the Pain" brought him a new level of fame Chris Rock |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $1200: Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw" Eddie Murphy |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $1600: Recorded in part at the San Francisco club the hungry i, his 1960 "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" won a Comedy Album Grammy (Bob) Newhart |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE $2000: Aussie comic Hannah Gadsby undermined traditional stand-up in this show on Netflix with a woman's name as the title Nanette |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | SUN SALUTATIONS $800: This Thoreau work ends, "There is more day to dawn. The Sun is but a morning star" Walden |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $1200: This British pop singer revealed she survived a stroke at 18 & "there's no real reason for the J" Jessie J |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE $200: Hey there, fancy (above the) pants! The name of this tuxedo staple comes from the Hindi for a waist band a cummerbund |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $1200: Among species, there are brood, social & sexual types of this relationship in which someone is usually a loser a parasitic relationship |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FROM "C" TO "X" $1600: It's an ancient manuscript that is the earliest form of a book; there is a Madrid one & a Dresden one a codex |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLAGS $2000: This Minnesota gov. believed "Body" & soul, "There is much more to being a patriot...than reciting the pledge or raising a flag" Jesse Ventura |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | MOM & DAD CONFUSE ME $200: Mom says in the election, Pennsylvania will be this pivotal kind of state; I want to go there & have Daddy push me--whee! a swing state |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NEW GROUP NAMES OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $1200: (If there were more than one) a maze of these bullheaded monsters, the offspring of the wife of King Minos minotaurs |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | A TOUR OF EUROPE $3,400 (Daily Double): Roman baths once highlighted this Paris locale that got its name due to the language spoken there until about 1789 the Latin Quarter |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! $400: You'd think after 56 years, there'd be a premium version of this cereal where its mascot gets his long-deserved admiral promotion Cap'n Crunch |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | ON SECOND THOUGHT $600: There's a diner foodstuff in this verb meaning to go over something again & again &... rehash |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $200: East Pittsburgh,
Nov. 2, 1920:
Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium radio |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $400: Philly,
July 12, 1776:
John Dickinson asks the Continental Congress, hey, did you read these Articles I sent you? the Articles of Confederation |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $800: London, 1854:
Dr. John Snow identifies the Broad Street pump as the cause of an epidemic of this disease cholera |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $1,000 (Daily Double): 1541, Lima:
This conquistador is murdered at dinner in his palace Pizarro |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $1000: 1862,
this Tokyo castle:
Iemochi marries Princess Kazu in a shogun wedding Edo Castle |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | SALAD $200: There's a kitchen honcho in the name of this classic salad with egg, cheese & meat a chef salad |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a shallow bay; there's one of Benin the bight |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE SAHARA DESERT $400: These long-necked ungulates most often associated with the Sahara weren't introduced there until around 200 A.D. camels |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | ISSUES OF THE 2020s $1600: If automation replaces the USA's 3.5 million of these workers, there'll be no more songs like "18 Wheels And A Dozen Roses" truck drivers |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | THERE'S AN EMOJI FOR THAT $200: A person in this seated, cross-legged yoga position lotus |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | THERE'S AN EMOJI FOR THAT $600: This primate has 5 emojis, including smiling, hearing no evil, seeing no evil & speaking no evil a monkey |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | THERE'S AN EMOJI FOR THAT $800: A man in a suit defies gravity & is doing this synonym for floating, from the Latin for "light" levitating |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1200: Michael Drayton's "Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part" is a pretty good one of these 14-line poems a sonnet |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This first book in a series has the chapters "What Lucy Found There" & "Back on This Side of the Door" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $400: Someone's dead & there's a party & that's all we can say about the plot of this long James Joyce novel Finnegan's Wake |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | REMEMBER THE 1990s? $1000: In the late '90s, this toy from Bandai helped you attempt adulting by raising a digital pet Tamagotchi |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | THE RULES THEY JUST MADE UP $600: SALT stands for "state and" these "taxes" & there's now a $10,000 limit on deducting them on your IRS 1040 local taxes |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | FROM THE GERMAN $800: You may have this German desire for travel, but snap out of it--there's a game to play! wanderlust |
| #8012, aired 2019-06-11 | LITERARY GREEN THUMB $800: "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy", begins this book by Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | WHAT A COINKYDINK $400: When 67-year-old Dorothy Fletcher had a heart attack on a plane in 2004, she was lucky there were 15 of these specialists aboard cardiologists |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | 3-WORD CITY NAMES $1600: There's a 4-letter preposition & a river in the name of this historic northern England coal center Newcastle upon Tyne |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IT'S HARBOR DAY! $200: There's a 225-ton lady eternally greeting visitors at the entrance to this harbor New York Harbor |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | ON THE BEACH $600: There's a Barbie doll based on this 1990s TV show about beautiful & fit lifeguards on L.A. County beaches Baywatch |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH NAMES $1200: There's an actress with lots of kids, 3 adopted--before she married that actor, she was married to this other actor, him, with 3 names Billy Bob Thornton |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $800: In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier Joe McCarthy |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | CLUES ACROSS TEXAS $1000: (Hi, I'm Kris Radcliffe from KCEN 6.) The "Branding the Brazos" sculptures depict a cattle drive across Waco's suspension bridge, opened in 1870 as part of this trail; there was a nickel toll for each head of cattle crossing the Chisholm Trail |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | GEOGRAPHY $400: It's loosely defined as the area from North Africa to Arabia; George Mitchell was a U.S. special envoy to try to make peace there the Middle East |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This term for a cure-all bears the name of a daughter of Asclepius panacea |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | DANCING BACK TO DISCO $200: The Village People knew "there's a place you can go...when you're short on your dough"; hey, it's "fun to stay" here! at the YMCA |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a book and its ISBN.) On the back of every book there's a code; on the one here, the 0 denotes the book is from an English-language country, & the number here stands for the publisher; the whole series is called an ISBN, this type of book number International Standard |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | NATURAL LANDMARKS $400: There's stone in the name of this material seen in Kunming, a stone forest in China limestone |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $1600: Naturally, there's dance music in this Italian's 1859 opera "Un Ballo in Maschera", "A Masked Ball" Verdi |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | GEOGRAPHY $200: In this state, not far from Mount Hood, there's a town that's Boring (that's its name, really) Oregon |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | NOBODY EXPECTS $600: David Niven & the audience were taken unawares when one of these rushed the Oscars stage in 1974 a streaker |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | TRICKY TRAILS $1200: The dangerous Hawaiian stairs here share a name with a type of poem, but there are many more than 17 steps on it a haiku |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | PUP CULTURE $800: There it is--it being this breed, the emblem of the Westminster Kennel Club & seen here in its classic pose a pointer |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | 1930s SLANG $200: There were a number of slang words for this weapon, including a convincer & a roscoe a gun |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WE WILL ROCK YOU $600: This 2015 Rock Hall inductee: "We came back to Liverpool, & there was a knock on my door. The drummer wasn't well & would I sit in?" Ringo Starr |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | COLOMBIA PICTURES $11,022 (Daily Double): There are great beaches at the walled city founded as this de Indias, meaning "Carthage of the Indies" in English Cartagena |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | "EX" $2000: The mission's over or aborted--time for this action of getting a military team out of there extraction |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | MONET-PUNNY $1000: It's not just canvas--there's paper Monet, like a drawing of this city known for its cathedral & for the death of Joan of Arc Rouen |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $800: A chandler was a castle's store room; its name is directly related to these that were stored there candles |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $400: "'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | ALLONS-Y $800: Though there's a statue of him, Cyrano wasn't actually from this Dordogne town & missed out on its wine & cute squares Bergerac |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $800: There were no bears on the set of this film--the mama grizzly that attacked Leonardo DiCaprio was a CG effect The Revenant |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | 18th CENTURY NICKNAMES $1600: A British empire builder was called "Clive of" this Asian land & was known there as Sabut Jung, or "Daring in War" Clive of India |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | HIGH GARDEN $200: There are roof gardens atop this Center in the center of Manhattan, between 5th & 6th Avenues around 50th Street Rockefeller Center |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE WALL $1000: A popular album track says, "There is no pain, you are receding...I have become" this title "Comfortably Numb" |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | POP MUSIC ACROSS THE DECADES $800: In 1984 this band scored a Top 10 with "New Moon On Monday"; now test your re-fle-fle-fle-flexes Duran Duran |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TV $200: In 1959 there were more than 25 shows in this genre on TV, including "Rawhide" a western |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | VOWEL-POURRI $600: There are 4 consonants in a row in this word for combining 2 vowels in the same syllable, as in "coin" or "loud" diphthong |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $1000: This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language Gamesmanship |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 4,3,4 $400: McCrory's was this kind of store named for the coins spent there; John McCrorey dropped his "E" for cheaper signage a five and dime |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $600: This '90s sitcom that starred Ryan Reynolds & Nathan Fillion dropped "A Pizza Place" from its title Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $200: "Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever", said an 1897 New York Sun editorial reply to an 8-year-old with this first name Virginia |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | FIRST-TIME RESPONSES $400: In marketing there are 5 categories of these consumers; "early" these help popularize a new product an adopter |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | YOU HAD TO BE THERE $200: This summons for a defendant to appear in court comes from Latin for "under penalty" subpoena |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | YOU HAD TO BE THERE $400: The most important difference between a funeral service & a memorial service is the presence of this a dead body |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | YOU HAD TO BE THERE $600: In Michigan, convicts released under this system cannot leave the state without a travel permit parole |
| #7930, aired 2019-02-15 | YOU HAD TO BE THERE $800: In 1973, the last year this happened, 646 men were inducted to serve a draft |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THE TOP 25 ROMANTIC COMEDIES $400: Of this 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone & Paul Rudd, Vanity Fair asks, "Has there ever been a better teen comedy? As if" Clueless |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: A place to total up your money; "the king was" there in "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" the countinghouse |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | A REAL HORROR STORY $200: "There are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic" in this classic novel Dracula |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | FAR OUT, MAN $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the Pacific Ocean on the monitor.) A spot in the Pacific is so remote that world space agencies use it as a dumping area because there's little chance of endangering humans; it's named Point this after a literary captain whose name means "no one" in Latin Point Nemo |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | MO"V"IES $2000: There's a Spanish city in the title of this 2008 Woody Allen flm Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | SCRIBBLING SIBLINGS $600: "The Comedy Writer" is a novel of L.A. by Peter of these "There's Something About Mary" brothers Farrelly |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | "ACE" SHOWING $600: There's a spud in the name of this classic American contest a potato sack race |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THERE COMES A TIME $200: This palindromic time of day is from the Latin for "ninth hour" noon |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THERE COMES A TIME $400: A type of redwood that would be, proverbially, up at the crack of it dawn |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THERE COMES A TIME $600: A hit song had us "workin"' these hours, "what a way to make a livin"' "9 To 5" |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THERE COMES A TIME $800: Brian Williams' MSNBC show has this title that denotes the last possible moment to get something done The 11th Hour |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $1000: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): After negotiations to end the American Revolution, Ben Franklin said, "There never was a good war, or a bad" this peace |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THERE COMES A TIME $1000: A 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign ad had a crucial phone call at the White House at this early morning time 3:00 A.M. |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | 3 G CAPABILITY $200: There's a (nonalcoholic) Southern Comfort brand of this Christmas drink eggnog |
| #7910, aired 2019-01-18 | MADLIBERALS $1600: Eugene Debs: "While there is a soul in prison, I am not (adjective)" free |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | A VISIT TO SKANSEN $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Skansen Open-Air Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.) Skansen preserved the summerhouse from the estate of the great 18th century mystic & author Emanuel Swedenborg, who lived there when he wrote "Secrets of Heaven", a verse-by-verse commentary on these first two books of the Old Testament Genesis and Exodus |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | "WEST" WORLD $1200: This London borough calls itself a city, but the queen does live there... Westminster |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of a 1775 play character gave us this word for an error like "there is no anecdote for the poison" a malapropism |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | NEWSPAPER NAMES $800: A Philly paper got this name in 1829 because "there should always be" one "asking on behalf of the people" the Inquirer |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | YOUR BLESSINGS $200: In Judaism, there's a blessing you say after seeing one of these in the sky, a reminder of the covenant God made with Noah a rainbow |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | THAT'S SOME STRONG LANGUAGE! $1000: This adjective for a muscular young man can also mean a corporal punishment once used in schools strapping |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | TOP 40 COUNTDOWN $2000: In a 1997 hit the Wallflowers drove it home with this "One Headlight" |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $1200: George Clooney tries to kill, then tries to save Prince Nasir in this 2005 film about oil & greed Syriana |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | SEND LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY $1200: There's a daily 2:00 gunfight reenactment at this historic site in Tombstone, Arizona O.K. Corral |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | VERY DEFINITELY FOR PROFIT $2000: Last name of American Tobacco's James B., who smoked up profits with American Cigar & American Snuff Duke |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | A POP "UP" CATEGORY $2000: "And if this old world starts getting you down, there's room enough for two" here "Up On The Roof" |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $200: "You better watch out" for Bruce Springsteen's rockin' rendition of this Christmas classic, recorded live in 1975 "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $400: In 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street" Edmund Gwenn plays a character called this who claims to be the real Santa Kris Kringle |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $600: Tom Hanks voices Santa & the conductor in this 2004 animated favorite The Polar Express |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $800: There is a town of Santa Claus in this Midwest state that postmarks about half a million holiday cards each year Indiana |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS $1000: Our image of Santa is largely based on Harper's Weekly illustrations from the 1800s by this political cartoonist Nast |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | INITIAL INITIALS $2,500 (Daily Double): A merger brought the "-CIO", but first there was the AFL, which stood for this American Federation of Labor |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | HOW MANY? $1600: People in the Juilliard, a famed group of string players, when it was formed in 1946 four |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $2000: The name of this Tokyo district of expensive shops means "silver mint", as a mint stood there centuries ago Ginza |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | TITLE NAMES $2000: A classic asks, "Are You There God? It's Me," this first name Margaret |
| #7862, aired 2018-11-13 | RHYMES WITH A VOWEL $1600: Exultant joy; there are clubs for it glee |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | TO GRIND $2000: Mt. Suribachi was the site of a famed flag raising on this WWII island; Meat Grinder Hill was also a tough battle there Iwo Jima |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | AT MY SAFETY SCHOOL $400: At Park City, Utah there's a school for this activity that will keep you safe on the slopes skiing |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | OOPS ON STAMPS $400: A 2007 stamp from Papua New Guinea misspelled this word, the inability to read (there was only one "L") illiteracy |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | PLEASE WELCOME MYTH GREECE $400: Enjoying mountain living, 12 major Greek gods called this place home; at nearly 9,600' up there, the gods did have a nice view Olympus |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $600: There once was a town called Spokane / but a long rhyme won't fit here, no, man / so just name this Irish sister city Limerick |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | STATE FOSSILS $800: Arizona's is this rock-hard wood; there's a whole "forest" of it in the north of the state petrified wood |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | LITERARY OPENINGS $3,000 (Daily Double): The first in a series:
"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | WHERE THERE'S SMOKE $200: Smoke jumpers are a specialized group of these emergency workers who parachute into action firefighters |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | WHERE THERE'S SMOKE $800: Smoke is paired with these to make a phrase used when reality is being deliberately obscured mirrors |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | WHERE THERE'S SMOKE $1000: By the 17th century keepers of these had developed a screen veil & had learned the value of smoke in controlling them bees |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | TIMELY PHRASES $1000: JFK loved the Broadway lyric "once there was a spot, for one" these 3 words "that was Camelot" brief shining moment |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $200: The 1814 bombardment of this Maryland fort almost made it to a second night, but the flag was still there Fort McHenry |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | THE SHUSH DOCTRINE $400: There's a bivalve mollusk in this 2-word idiom meaning to become silent clam up |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | POP CULTURE POPS $600: On this sitcom clan patriarch George Bluth said, "There's a good chance I may have committed some light treason" Arrested Development |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | TOYS & GAMES $600: There's a "Super Spud" version of this classic toy Mr. Potato Head |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | OFFBEAT MUSEUMS $800: Sweet! In Burlingame, Calif. there's a toy museum along with one of the largest types of these candy dispensers PEZ |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders" Ambrose Bierce |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | I LEARNED IT FROM MENTAL FLOSS $600: On New Year's Eve Bethlehem, Penn. drops a giant chick, a replica of these marshmallow candies that are made there a Peep |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | EXERCISING: YOUR OPTIONS $200: Take a run at this exercise machine, also defined as "any monotonous...routine in which there is little or no...progress" a treadmill |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | SAINTS ON EARTH $200: From 1815 to 1821 Napoleon had a lot of time to sit right there & think about what he'd done on this island 1,200 mi. off Africa Saint Helena |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $400: The Lied Jungle at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo is North America's largest indoor one of these forests a rain forest |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $800: See gorillas in their jungle habitat on a safari to the republic of this river Congo |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1951 an airstrip was cut in the jungle near this nation's Mayan ruins of Tikal Guatemala |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $1200: Synonymous with cutting a path through the jungle, its name is from the Spanish for "hammer" machete |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE $2000: This jungle-dweller of South America uses its mini-trunk to browse higher for twigs & leaves a tapir |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $1000: It's a gift of money as a legacy to provide income for an institution or a person; there's a national one for the arts an endowment |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | HIT THE BEACHES $400: In 1935 a race car went 277 MPH on this Florida beach; now there's an international speedway in town Daytona |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | ENTITLED $400: A female member of an order of knighthood; it's been said there's nothing like one a dame |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | NEW PHONE $1200: Whether or not it has a silver back, there's a good chance your phone has Corning's this ape "glass" for its screen Gorilla |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DOUBLE-LETTER STATE CAPITALS $400: It houses a 338-acre military academy founded there in 1845 Annapolis |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | CAKE $600: There's a sculpture material in the name of this kind of cake seen here marble |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $2,000 (Daily Double): In Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a street (not Main Street), is named for this author born there in 1885 Sinclair Lewis |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | A VANILLA CATEGORY $800: Whether or not there is dairy involved, vanilla-flavored carbonated drinks are called this cream soda |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | PLACES $800: Despite Babe Ruth's nickname, there was no real "Sultan of" this region, a valley now in Pakistan Swat |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU $800: According to Dio Cassius, this not-all-there Roman emperor planned to make his horse Incitatus a consul Caligula |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | SWITCH TO A COMPETING BRAND $800: The story of Rumpelstiltskin begins, "Once upon a time there was a Budweiser" Miller |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | SWITCH TO A COMPETING BRAND $1000: "There is a Purex in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" Tide |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | A NICE CUP OF COFFEE $400: There are 2 main types of coffee beans, Robusta & this type Arabica |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | SHAKESPEAREAN MENAGERIE $1600: Ariel sings to Prospero, "where" this insect "sucks, there suck I; in a cowslip's bell I lie" the bee |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | COMMUNICATION $3,000 (Daily Double): There's no such thing as a native speaker of this, a word found before "English" for a mix of a colonizing & a local language pidgin |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A classic by Munro Leaf begins, "Once up on a time... there was a little bull and his name was" this Ferdinand |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | DON'T TELL ME $200: Malcolm, there's a reason Cole can see you in this 1999 film, & you're not gonna like it The Sixth Sense |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | MEMBERS OF THE HIP-HOP GROUP $800: Ghostface Killah,
Raekwon,
Inspectah Deck--
there are a lot more... the Wu-Tang Clan |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | YEARLY BELOVED $200: There were an impressive 1,200 entrants in the Westminster Kennel Club's first of these in 1877 a dog show |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | WHO HAS MY LETTER? $1000: There's a giant one on a Provo, Utah hillside; the letters "B" before it & "U" after it never got built Y |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | MAN CAVES $2000: A cave on Mount Carmel is named for this prophet who may have lived & hid there before whirlwinding up to heaven Elijah |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | AMERICAN DOGS $600: Developed in Wisconsin & seen here, the American water this is a rare breed; there are only about 3,000 in the world the American water spaniel |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE NOVEL'S SUBTITLE $800: A fantasy classic:
"There and Back Again" The Hobbit |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | REFRIGERATOR MAGNETS $600: Do you expect me to just pretend there's not a slice of chocolate tuxedo cream this from the same-named "Factory"? cheesecake |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES $800: A village there has boasted the longest place name in Europe, at 58 letters Wales |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | RETORTS $1000: Boswell quotes him, asked to compare 2 poets: "There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea" Johnson |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | SWINGERS OF SPORTS $800: He holds the MLB record for home runs by a shortstop, 345; there was a reason his manager let him play every day Cal Ripken Jr. |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: On the seal of this school in Hamilton, there's a Latin motto & a hand holding a torch, not a tube of toothpaste Colgate |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $400: There's a piece of furniture in this phrase for something covert under the table |
| #7769, aired 2018-05-24 | WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? $1000: There's liquor & liqueur, a sweetened spirit like this one whose name may refer to its having been distilled 3 times triple sec |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $400: A large bird feather used as a writing implement in centuries past a quill or pen |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | ILLINOIS AT 200 $1,200 (Daily Double): This official slogan of Illinois honors a man who moved there at age 21 the land of Lincoln |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah shows a map on the monitor.) Between Cuba and Puerto Rico, you'll find this politically divided island that was named by Columbus, who landed there in 1492 Hispaniola |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | HEALTHY GREENS $800: There are about 50 of these green nuts in a one-ounce serving & as much potassium as half a banana pistachios |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SOCIOLOGY $1600: Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them veterans |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | I NEED A VACATION! $400: There's more to this Texas city than Paseo del Rio, or the River Walk, especially in its tricentennial year of 2018 San Antonio |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | I NEED A VACATION! $1000: My feet hurt; there's no way I'm walking the entire length of this from Mount Hu to Jiayu Pass the Great Wall of China |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $1000: This Heinlein novel begins, "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith" Stranger in a Strange Land |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | ANTIQUES $200: If you own a John Aitken side chair, you might say, "Washington sat here", as there are 18 of them at this house Mount Vernon |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | CINCO DE MAYO $2000: There are many ways to make this spicy mayo sauce that Cajuns are known to dip chilled shrimp into a remoulade |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | WE'RE AN AMERICAN LAND $5,500 (Daily Double): Annexed in 1867, this island may be only 2 square miles but a 1942 battle there proved to be a key moment in the Pacific in WWII Midway |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | LET'S WATCH CARTOONS $200: Bobby, hyper-aware on A.D.D. drugs on this Texas 'toon:
"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad... & there it goes" King of the Hill |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | AMERICAN POETRY $400: One of his poems for kids begins, "There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins" Silverstein |
| #7750, aired 2018-04-27 | THEATER SUPERSTITIONS $1200: Never say the name of this play in a theater or there may really be "double, double toil and trouble" Macbeth |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Chicago on the monitor.) In Chicago, there's a big economic difference between the mansion where Bigger Thomas worked & his family's apartment just a few blocks away in this novel Native Son |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $400: A rabbi, a priest & a minister walk into this type of graph seen here a bar graph |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $800: Multiply 2 of these integers, like 3 & 7, & you get a "semi" one, like 21 a prime number |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | YOU KNEW THERE'D BE MATH $1600: A vector has both magnitude & direction; this type of quantity, such as speed, has magnitude only a scalar |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $400: Naturally, Florida chose this, made from a big crop grown there, as its state beverage orange juice |
| #7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $2000: It's Detroit's county & is on the name of a state university there Wayne |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | HAMLET $800: Perhaps because a ghost was seen the night before, the play opens with foreboding when a sentry asks this 2-word question "Who's there?" |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | TRY THIS ON FOR SCIENCE $1600: There are 602 sextillion, 200 quintillion atoms in one of these standard international base units a mole |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | MINE-APOLIS $200: Galena, Illinois is so-named because Galena, a sulfide of this soft metal, was mined there lead |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | KING JAMES BIBLE QUOTES $600: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every ____ under the heaven" purpose |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: Arabic for "forbidden" gave us his word that meant an off-limits section of a house as well as the wives living there harem |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | WRONG $600: In 1987 the BBC's Michael Fish said "there isn't" going to be one of these; London got its strongest winds ever recorded a hurricane |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $400: In Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novel about a penal colony there, this "Is a Harsh Mistress" the moon |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | BODIES OF WATER: The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas the Sea of Marmara |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | 1950s POLITICS: In 1959 Bob Bartlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title senior senator |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | TOURIST SPOTS: Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904 Times Square |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | SPACE: Since it has caused spacecraft to malfunction, a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly is known as this area "of space" Bermuda Triangle |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | INVENTIONS: Invented in 1816, it takes its name from Greek for "chest" & "observe" a stethoscope |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | BRITISH CITIES: Over the motto "Fortis est Veritas", the coat of arms of this city features a beast of burden crossing over some water Oxford |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 21st CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: It was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate 2008 (Barack Obama & John McCain) |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter Bob Dylan |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SCIENTISTS: A 1953 article by this pair says, "The specific pairing we have postulated... suggests a... copying mechanism for the genetic material" (James) Watson & (Francis) Crick |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere Apia or Oslo |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | LANDMARKS: For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure the Kaaba |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES: After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress" Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy") |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MEDIEVAL PLACES: One of the participants in an 1170 event at this place said, "Let us away, knights; he will rise no more" Canterbury Cathedral |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | BRITISH LANDMARKS: Like Sir Thomas More, 3 16th century English queens are buried at this location the Tower of London |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Until a 1903 secession, this country's contiguous territory spanned 2 continents Colombia |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product Milk Duds |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NOVEL LOCALES: This place from a 1933 novel lies in the Valley of Blue Moon, below a peak called Karakal Shangri-La |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | TRAVEL: The 1948 edition of this publication said, "There will be a day... in the near future when this guide will not have to be published" the Green Book |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 1972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | U.S. MUSEUMS: Named for a benefactor, it was established in 1893 to house artifacts from the nearby World's Columbian Exposition the Field Museum |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | 1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne" |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | FICTION: In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: A national capital for less than 100 years, it's the westernmost capital in mainland Asia Ankara, Turkey |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE: Before they were photographed together in 1862, Lincoln wryly noted this general "should have no problem" sitting still for it George McClellan |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | PRESIDENTIAL GEOGRAPHY: This Midwest city is the burial place of one 19th century president & was named for a relative of another Cleveland, Ohio |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture Ang Lee & Alfonso Cuarón |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NOVELISTS: In a 1952 novel, he wrote, "But there were dry years too, & they put a terror on the valley. The water came in a thirty-year cycle" John Steinbeck |
| #8046, aired 2019-09-09 | BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: A site excavated since 1899, Tell es-Safi has been identified as this Philistine city, home to a giant warrior Gath |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEDICAL NEWS 2018: For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn't been a new case in 40 years smallpox |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | 20th CENTURY BESTSELLING AUTHORS: He once said, "In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage...who we are and where we have come from" Alex Haley |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | POETS: A poem by him includes, "It was grassy and wanted wear;/
though...the passing there/
had worn them really about the same" Robert Frost |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Remove 2 letters from within the 6-letter name of this capital & you get the name of a capital from a neighboring country Berlin |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | 1950s TRAVEL: In March 1958 Hilton opened a hotel in this Western Hemisphere capital but 2 1/2 years later was out of business there Havana |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: To set a record for longest solo journey by kayak, 2,010 miles, Helen Skelton traveled through this nation for a month Brazil |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | EXPLORATION NAME'S THE SAME: The deepest part of the Mariana Trench & a submersible that went there share the name of this space shuttle Challenger |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | AMERICANA: A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet" the Empire State Building |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | HIT SONGS OF THE '90s: The title of this dance hit, No. 1 for 14 weeks in the '90s, can refer to a Seville, Spain neighborhood or a woman from there "Macarena" |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 19th CENTURY EUROPEANS: In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choice” Vincent van Gogh |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES: Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat" Hermitage |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | CANADA: As a response to new developments there, this territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 the Yukon Territory |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor Maréchal Philippe Petain |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | 19th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there Lord Byron |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | OSCAR WINNERS: He's the only actor to win 3 Best Actor Oscars, the most recent for his portrayal of a U.S. president Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | BRITISH POETS: The statue of a sailor seen here in Watchet, England is based on a famous poem by this man Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #7530, aired 2017-05-12 | PLACE NAMES: A town named for its location where a river in Devon meets the English Channel, it's also the name of a college in New Hampshire Dartmouth |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: A 2010 study of this country is subtitled "Inside the Land of Milk and Money" Switzerland |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS: His tombstone in a Hampshire churchyard reads, "Knight, patriot, physician & man of letters" & "22 May 1859-7 July 1930" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | SOUTH AMERICA: This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country Brasilia |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | THE CIVIL WAR: Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Alabama machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times the Hunley |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Nominated 8 previous times, he finally won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, 6 years before his death John Steinbeck |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | SHAKESPEARE: These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing Juliet Capulet & Julius Caesar |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | ANIMALS: In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the Sphinx; in zoology it's a weird mammal that lays eggs Echidna |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | BILLBOARD CHART-TOPPERS: This singer's first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit No. 1 Tony Bennett |
| #7296, aired 2016-05-09 | LEGISLATION: The original law called this was passed in 1944; today, there's a "Post-9/11" version that also pays for 36 months of university education the G.I. Bill |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" P.T. Barnum |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH SCIENTISTS: In 1705 he wrote, "And, if it should then return, we shall have no reason to doubt but the rest must return too" (Edmond) Halley |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS: A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters" Sue Grafton |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | 21st CENTURY NEWS: Russia took out $200 million in insurance, anticipating any damage that might be caused by this in 2001 the crash of the Mir space platform |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | STATE CAPITALS: Settled in the 1780s, it's the only state capital without a McDonald's Montpelier, Vermont |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | FAMOUS PHRASES: In one version of a 19th century quote, "There is room and health... away from the crowds" so you're urged to do these 2 words Go West |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the only 20th century president who never delivered an inaugural address President Ford |
| #7224, aired 2016-01-28 | BRITISH MUSICAL THEATRE: A critic said, "I doubt if there is a single joke in" this 1885 work "that fits the Japanese. But all the jokes... fit the English" The Mikado |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | STATE CAPITALS: A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too Little Rock, Arkansas |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN: Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind Armand Hammer |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | THE OSCARS: For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting George Clooney |
| #7159, aired 2015-10-29 | AFRICA: On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter Djibouti |
| #7067, aired 2015-05-12 | BUSINESS: These 2 American businessmen are seen here in early 20th century photos Harley & Davidson |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 5 cities mentioned in Shakespeare play titles, it's the only one not found in Europe Tyre |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In this year, there were no pres's or VPs running, but 3 of the 4 men on the 2 major party ballots would become president 1920 |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FOREIGN WORDS: The Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806 was the first; the German empire from 1871 to 1918 was the second reich |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | AWARDS & HONORS: There were no winners for this award from 1939 through 1943; in 1944, it was won by the International Committee of the Red Cross the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | WEBSITES: A slang term for Harvard's freshman register gave this website its name Facebook |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | FOREIGN AFFAIRS: William Sullivan retired from the Foreign Service in 1979; he was the last U.S. Ambassador to this country Iran |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Serving 160 years apart, these 2 Secretaries of State are the only ones who never married Condoleezza Rice & James Buchanan |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | MONARCHS: 2 teen Hashemite cousins officially took the thrones of their respective countries May 2, 1953:
Faisal of Iraq & him King Hussein of Jordan (the Hashemite Kingdom) |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | MUSIC MAKERS: Salisbury Cathedral's dean said this man, via his 2013 album, "is creating a huge awareness of" an historic document Jay-Z |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | ACTORS: In the '50s he won a Tony for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical & a Best Actor Oscar for playing the same role, a monarch Yul Brynner |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | STATE CAPITALS: It's the Southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help Austin |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | GEOGRAPHIC MATH: North America's 3 mainland countries have a total of 91 states & provinces; Mexico has this many states 31 |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CAPITAL CITIES: It's criss-crossed by dozens of "peace walls" that separate its Catholic & Protestant neighborhoods Belfast |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | SHORT STORIES: It says, "The body of the trooper having been buried in the church yard, the ghost rides forth... in nightly quest of his head" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS: The rooster atop many church weather vanes is there to remind us of a story involving this apostle Peter |
| #6477, aired 2012-11-13 | BORN & DIED: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Captain James Cook |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | PLAYS: Referring to its 2 acts, an Irish critic described it as "a play in which nothing happens, twice" Waiting for Godot |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel Lord of the Flies |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | THE BIBLE: This term for a final resting place got its name because clay was dug up there for craftsmen potter's field |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | THE OSCARS: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s Ben-Hur |
| #6364, aired 2012-04-26 | INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS: It's the constitutional kingdom of more than 6 million whose road vehicle sticker is seen here
HKJ the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY: This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776 New Jersey |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | MEDICAL DISCOVERIES: Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this insulin |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | "FIRST" PHRASES: The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914 First World War |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | NOTABLE GROUPS: Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say the Algonquin Round Table |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | DEATH OF AN AUTHOR: In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | EUROPEAN TRAVEL & TOURISM: Visited by 15 million people a year, this spot in Britain honors an 1805 battle fought elsewhere Trafalgar Square |
| #6205, aired 2011-07-29 | LOS ANGELES LANDMARKS: A James Dean memorial can be found adjacent to this structure, located at one of the high spots in Los Angeles the Griffith Observatory |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | THE TONY AWARDS: There has never been a Tony Award winner for Best Musical set on either of these 2 continents Antarctica & Australia |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | EVENTS OF 2010: A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country Chile |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart John F. Kennedy |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | PRISONS: Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 & the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here the Tower of London |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only 2-word state name in which neither word appears in the name of any other state Rhode Island |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | THE 50 STATES: It's the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay Montana |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES: In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name Jordan |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: The July 1, 1946 cover of Time magazine depicted him with the caption, "All matter is speed and flame" Albert Einstein |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS: This bird is known for its size (5 feet tall), its call (carries 2 miles) & its rarity; in 1941 there were only 21 in the wild the whooping crane |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | MOVIES & DANCE: Derived from other traditional dances & still popular today, the syrtaki was created for this 1964 movie Zorba the Greek |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day Alexander Hamilton |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | THE CALENDAR: This U.S. event was set after the harvest, on a day when rural folk could get there without having to travel on Sunday Election Day |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | THE 20th CENTURY: On June 5, 1989 a young man never positively identified became world famous for actions he took in this city Beijing |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS: On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres Corsica |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS: From this book's penultimate paragraph: "There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him" Gone with the Wind |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | HISTORIC JOURNALS: On January 18, 1912 he arrived at a tent near the pole & found "a record of five Norwegians having been there" Robert F. Scott |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Circled 7 times by the Israelites in Joshua, it's said to be the world's oldest walled city Jericho |
| #5423, aired 2008-03-19 | BEATLES TUNES: It's the Beatles' only U.S. No. 1 hit single whose title is the name of an actual place "Penny Lane" |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" grass |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller |
| #5368, aired 2008-01-02 | THE BOX OFFICE: Rated "R" for violence, this 2004 film set in ancient times is the highest-grossing "R" movie ever in the U.S. The Passion of the Christ |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES: In 1921 he got a patent for a diving suit that allowed one to quickly discard the suit & escape to the surface Harry Houdini |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | SPORTS BUSINESS: In 1993 this man said, "What Phil & Nike have done is turn me into a dream" Michael Jordan |
| #5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEDICAL HISTORY: A patient who told this Frankfurt doctor "I have lost myself" was the basis for a paper he gave in 1906 Alois Alzheimer |
| #5263, aired 2007-06-27 | LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work the Iliad |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country Liberia |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | '60s OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: Although 216 minutes long, this 1962 film had no women in credited speaking roles Lawrence of Arabia |
| #5198, aired 2007-03-28 | LITERARY FIGURES: Bono, Jim Sheridan & Liam Neeson were featured in a 2004 documentary honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of this man Oscar Wilde |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: In 2006 Albert II of Monaco attended the Newport Jazz Festival's 50th anniv. celebration of this film that's set during the festival High Society |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | BRITISH ROYAL NAMES: Thomas Malory's posthumous 1485 bestseller inspired this first name of a prince born in 1486 Arthur |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | THE MIDDLE AGES: This name given to a survey refers to the time when men face the judgment from which there is no appeal the Domesday Report |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | BROADCASTING FIRSTS: In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language Navajo |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | FAMOUS PAINTERS: He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: Originally housed in a boarding house & then in the Capitol, today it occupies 3 buildings named for presidents the Library of Congress |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: It was said that being with these 2 leaders, born 1874 & 1882, "was like sitting between 2 lions roaring at the same time" Winston Churchill & Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | MILITARY HISTORY: Lasting about a month, it's the battle for which the most marines earned the Medal of Honor Iwo Jima |
| #5002, aired 2006-05-16 | SCIENTISTS: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | AFRICA: In November 2005 leaders of Spain & France joined in celebrating the 50th anniversary of this country's independence Morocco |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | HISTORIC NAMES: When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation Aaron Burr |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | ISLANDS: Despite landmines dating from 1982, penguins use these islands for mating grounds, being too light to set them off the Falkland Islands |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | NOTABLE WOMEN: In 1967 Dame Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher's, the first modern one of these; in 2005 she died there a hospice |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | WORD ORIGINS: This word that has come to mean "sudden prosperity" means "good weather" in Spanish bonanza |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea's south boundary is a line from the southern tip of India to the eastern tip of Africa the Arabian Sea |
| #4903, aired 2005-12-28 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS: This play says "Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | 1950s MOVIE ENSEMBLES: Name missing from this list: Webber, Begley, Marshall, Warden, Balsam, Fiedler, Klugman, Binns, Sweeney, Voskovec & Cobb Fonda |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | WORLD CITIES: Capital of the ancient Roman province of Galatia, it became a modern national capital in 1923 Ankara |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. CITIES: In 1790 this Midwest city was named for a society that had been named for a Roman citizen-soldier Cincinnati |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: This president arranged the first film showing in the White House when he had "The Birth of a Nation" screened there Woodrow Wilson |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | SPORTS PHRASE ORIGINS: In 1939 an Illinois sports official wrote "A little" of this alliterative phrase may "contribute to sanity" March Madness |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades George Tenet (former head of the CIA) |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Isaac Asimov |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | PSYCHOLOGY: In 1973 4 bank employees held hostage in this city ended up feeling grateful to their captors Stockholm |
| #4666, aired 2004-12-13 | BUSINESS HISTORY: Last names of the 2 men, both engineers, who met & formed a partnership at England's Midland Hotel in May 1904 Rolls and Royce |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | WAR MOVIES: A controversial 1979 war film was based on a 1902 work by this author Joseph Conrad |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She's the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics Marion Jones |
| #4546, aired 2004-05-17 | THE 50 STATES: The USA's most-climbed mountain, Monadnock, is in this state associated with rock New Hampshire |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | AMERICAN SLANG: This term for a small, out-of-the-way town is also the name of a long-gone Algonquian Indian tribe Podunk |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | ITALIAN TOWNS: This small town in Tuscany was the birthplace of the man who painted the Mona Lisa Vinci |
| #4458, aired 2004-01-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country's coastline, on the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean, is the longest on the African continent Somalia |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | CLASSIC STORIES: The opening to this classic story includes the line "Once upon a time there was a piece of wood" Pinocchio |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | THE BODY HUMAN: At about 63%, there are more atoms of this element than any other in your body hydrogen |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | CELEBRITY AUCTIONS: A 1999 sale of her effects included a baseball signed by one husband & a conversion certificate signed by her last Marilyn Monroe |
| #4299, aired 2003-04-17 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES: Over the end credits of "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" she sings "There's No Business Like Show Business" Rosemary Clooney |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | NEW YORK CITY LANDMARKS: Moving several times, the first was originally P.T. Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome Madison Square Garden |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | SEPTEMBER 1984: History-making woman whose Sept. 1984 itinerary included speeches in Dallas, Spokane, Syracuse & Youngstown Geraldine Ferraro |
| #4076, aired 2002-04-29 | SOUTHERN WRITERS: He said, "My own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about... I would never... exhaust it" William Faulkner |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | RELIGIOUS PLACES: A bullet that struck Pope John Paul II was placed in the crown of a statue of the Virgin Mary in this Iberian village Fatima |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | ORGANIZATIONS: In 2001 a fight over these initials pitted the panda against The Rock WWF |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | STATE SYMBOLS: Appropriately, the mayflower is the official flower of this state Massachusetts |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | FIRST LADIES: First & last names of the 2 First Ladies who each had a husband & son serve as president Abigail Adams & Barbara Bush |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | MUSIC & THE MOVIES: The soundtrack of this 1992 film is the bestselling movie soundtrack of the 1990s The Bodyguard |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | BUSINESS HISTORY: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people The British East India Company |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815 "Mary had a little lamb" |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | FAMOUS SHIPS: In December 1620 this vessel came ashore at a secondary destination because of a shortage of beer the Mayflower |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | REPUBLICANS: The only election year since 1948 in which there was not a Dole, a Nixon or a Bush on the Republican national ticket 1964 (Barry Goldwater & Bill Miller) |
| #3760, aired 2000-12-29 | TRAVEL: By population, it's the largest city on a Caribbean island, though you may not be allowed to go there Havana, Cuba |
| #3450, aired 1999-09-10 | FUN WITH NUMBERS: Number of degrees the minute hand on a standard clock travels in one hour 360 |
| #3401, aired 1999-05-24 | VICTORY CELEBRATIONS: This man received the first & only New York City ticker-tape parade ever given to a classical musician Van Cliburn |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | ANIMALS: There are only 3 of these animals in U.S. zoos: a 28-year-old in D.C.'s National Zoo & 2 younger ones in San Diego pandas |
| #3252, aired 1998-10-27 | FAMOUS PEOPLE: In 1998 the govt. of Ontario was forced to pay them $2.8 million for exploiting them decades ago the Dionne Quintuplets |
| #3129, aired 1998-03-19 | BROADCASTING: Founded in the early '50s, in 1995 it moved its headquarters from Munich to Prague Radio Free Europe |
| #3097, aired 1998-02-03 | ASIAN NATIONS: In population, it's the largest country that's not a member of the United Nations Taiwan (Republic of China) |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | MOVIE HISTORY: This resort island lent its name to a 1948 Bogart film; the African Queen is now moored there Key Largo |
| #3075, aired 1998-01-02 | IN THE NEWS 1997: 50 years after a famous incident, this city got a new flag, seen here, featuring a mysterious dot in the sky: Roswell, New Mexico |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | JOURNALISM: In an 1897 editorial that stated, "Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever" this question was answered "Is there a Santa Claus?" ("Yes, Virginia...") |
| #2945, aired 1997-05-23 | GENESIS: The final word in Genesis is the name of this country Egypt |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: It's the first in a trilogy of books that also includes "In the Night Kitchen" & "Outside Over There" Where the Wild Things Are |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk |
| #2879, aired 1997-02-20 | HANDICRAFTS: Supposedly made by William the Conqueror's wife, there's a 230' long copy of it in the V&A Museum The Bayeux Tapestry |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | NOTORIOUS: A corrections museum in Trenton, New Jersey contains the chair in which he was executed in 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann |
| #2782, aired 1996-10-08 | AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES: French Catholic missionaries led by Father Edward F. Sorin founded this university in 1842 Notre Dame |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | NATIONAL MOTTOES: Country whose motto is "L'Union Fait La Force" or "Eendracht Maakt Macht"—"Union provides strength" Belgium |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | RIVERS: The world's first underwater tunnel was dug beneath this foreign river in the 1840s the Thames |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | FAMOUS NOVELS: Published in 1605, the first part of this novel was dedicated to the Duque de Bejar, Marques de Gibraleon... Don Quixote |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS: U.S. sailors & Marines who participated in this battle were awarded the Dewey Medal the Battle of Manila Bay |
| #2659, aired 1996-03-07 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Karen, a suburb of Nairobi, is named in honor of this woman who once lived there Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: He served as assistant attorney general of Missouri under John C. Danforth from 1974 to 1977 (Clarence) Thomas |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | NATURALISTS: Before his death in 1914 he studied forests in Russia, India & Australia, as well as the U.S. John Muir |
| #2492, aired 1995-06-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: Among the 2-letter abbreviations for U.S. states, this state's is 1st alphabetically Alaska |
| #2420, aired 1995-02-24 | KINGS & QUEENS: This royal wife, Queen of England for just 6 months in 1540, was the daughter of a German duke Anne of Cleves |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | ETYMOLOGY: Until 1946, this word usually meant a mathematician; since then, it's come to mean a machine a computer |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games Andrew Young |
| #2325, aired 1994-10-14 | RULERS: In the Mayflower Compact this king was called a "dread sovereign lord" King James I of England (or King James VI of Scotland) |
| #2306, aired 1994-09-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: In 1864 the Comm. of Agriculture advocated that the government issue daily ones of these via telegraphs a weather report |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | 1994: James Gregory, a former Robben Island warden, was an invited guest at this May 10, 1994 event the inauguration of Nelson Mandela |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | LANDMARKS: This barrier is situated in the British Isles about 100 miles south of the Antonine Wall Hadrian's Wall |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1921 he was appointed an advisor on Arab affairs to then British colonial minister Winston Churchill T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: This European resort was founded in 1856 & named for Prince Charles III Monte Carlo |
| #2126, aired 1993-11-29 | PRESIDENTS: Under an act passed in 1958, they became the first two former presidents eligible for a pension Harry S. Truman & Herbert Hoover |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: At age 13 in 1926, he was accepted as a novice at the abbey of Kykkos; he later taught there Archbishop Makarios |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | LITERARY TERMS: Jonathan Swift defined it as a "glass wherein beholders... discover everybody's face but their own" satire |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | POLITICAL QUOTATIONS: In '77 this foreign affairs adviser quipped, "There cannot be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full" Henry Kissinger |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | FAMOUS HOMES: The ticket office at this presidential home hands out dozens of $2 bills as change every day Monticello |
| #2080, aired 1993-09-24 | IN THE NEWS: On St. Patrick's Day in 1993, she was appointed ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith |
| #2067, aired 1993-09-07 | LANDMARKS: The Sceptre with the Dove & the Sword of Mercy are part of a collection housed here the Tower of London |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: He used his fishing boat, the Pilar, for counter-intelligence work during World War II Ernest Hemingway |
| #2015, aired 1993-05-14 | ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: One of Canada's largest universities, it was endowed by a Scottish- born fur trader McGill University |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was the last unmarried man elected president Grover Cleveland |
| #1987, aired 1993-04-06 | FAMOUS HOMES: There's a famous home on a piece of land called Walker's Point in this U.S. town Kennebunkport, Maine |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | ISLANDS: After its ruler left February 26, 1815, this island was restored to Tuscany Elba |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | NEW ENGLAND: In Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall, the state of Vermont is represented by this patriot Ethan Allen |
| #1937, aired 1993-01-26 | ODD JOBS: It was the profession of Lou Jacobs, the model for a 1966 postage stamp, who died in Sarasota in 1992 a clown |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | QUOTES: The author who wrote, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1884, aired 1992-11-12 | POLAND: Laid to rest temporarily at Arlington in 1941, his remains were returned to Poland in 1992 Jan Paderewski |
| #1795, aired 1992-05-22 | COMPOSERS: An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since George Frederick Handel |
| #1781, aired 1992-05-04 | THE 1970s: These documents revealed the Truman admin. gave military aid to France in its war against the Viet Minh Pentagon Papers |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | AFRICAN HISTORY: Taitu, the wife of Emperor Menelik II, gave this capital city its name; it means "new flower" Addis Ababa |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | ISLAND GROUPS: The last place Columbus stopped for supplies before reaching the New World the Canary Islands |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | U.S.A.: This community outside Washington, D.C. is named after a Presbyterian church built there in 1820 Bethesda, Maryland |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: 2 characters in this American classic were named for a king of Israel & the oldest son of Abraham Moby-Dick |
| #1563, aired 1991-05-22 | QUOTES: Nobel Laureate & Reagan advisor who titled 1 of his books "There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch" Milton Friedman |
| #1561, aired 1991-05-20 | WORLD POLITICS: The 2 island nations that are members of NATO Iceland & United Kingdom (England) |
| #1557, aired 1991-05-14 | WORD ORIGINS: The word "jot" comes from this Greek word, as back then I's & J's were the same iota |
| #1552, aired 1991-05-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The only 1 to sign the Declaration of Independence, 1778 alliance w/France, peace treaty w/G.B. & Constitution Benjamin Franklin |
| #1532, aired 1991-04-09 | WORLD LEADERS: This woman, elected president of Ireland in 1990, used a 1968 Simon & Garfunkel hit in her campaign Mary Robinson |
| #1485, aired 1991-02-01 | THE AMERICAN FLAG: Total number of horizontal rows of stars on the U.S. flag 9 |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | FAMOUS WOMEN: 1 of 2 women who made the Top 10 on Forbes' list of the highest-earning entertainers of 1989-90 (1 of) Madonna & Oprah Winfrey |
| #1471, aired 1991-01-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 U.S. Presidents who served in the military in World War I Harry Truman & Dwight Eisenhower |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | OPERA: Verdi eliminated all of the Venetian scenes in this opera based on a Shakespearean play Otello |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | SAINTS: Founder of the Friars Minor in the 13th c., he was made patron saint of ecologists in 1979 St. Francis of Assisi |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | RELIGION: More popes have taken this name than any other, but only the first one was declared a saint John |
| #1371, aired 1990-07-16 | THE BIBLE: "The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life" Samson |
| #1356, aired 1990-06-25 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: He wrote: "They spell it Vinci & pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce" Mark Twain |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | WOMEN: 1 of 3 states that currently has a woman governor (1 of) Vermont, Nebraska, or Arizona |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election Thomas Jefferson |
| #960, aired 1988-11-04 | LETTER PERFECT: Vowel found in the names of 7 of the 9 planets U |
| #890, aired 1988-06-17 | CINEMA: The last film Cecil B. De Mille directed, it was a partial remake of a silent epic he'd directed 33 years before The Ten Commandments |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | WORLD TRADE: Of all fresh fruits, the U.S. imports more of this one than any other bananas |
| #837, aired 1988-04-05 | U.S. HISTORY: Of those who served as president or vice president, more men have had this surname than any other Johnson |
| #822, aired 1988-03-15 | COLONIAL AMERICA: 1 of 3 colonies which as late as 1775 was still controlled by a proprietary family (1 of) Pennsylvania, Delaware or Maryland |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | U.S. CITIES: Appropriately, there's a small town by this name midway between Napoleon, Mo. & Wellington, Mo. Waterloo |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | THE MOVIES: This musical drama was made in 1927 & remade in 1953 and 1980 The Jazz Singer |
| #772, aired 1988-01-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: 2 of the 3 19th c. authors on whose stories the last 3 Tony Award winning musicals were based (2 of) Victor Hugo (Les Misérables), Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), & Mark Twain (Big River) |
| #771, aired 1988-01-04 | TELEVISION HISTORY: This variety show that replaced the Smothers Brothers on CBS 20 years ago is still in production Hee Haw |
| #770, aired 1988-01-01 | TRAVEL & TOURISM: The 2 major cities you'd 'fly to, 1 in the USA, 1 in the USSR, to visit landmarks called "The Hermitage" Leningrad & Nashville |
| #734, aired 1987-11-12 | AMERICAN INDIANS: This famed Sauk Indian had both a war and a pro sports team named for him Black Hawk |
| #732, aired 1987-11-10 | THE BIBLE: The first verse of this book says, "There was a man in the land of Uz that feared God and eschewed evil" Job |
| #712, aired 1987-10-13 | HISTORIC NAMES: This man was killed in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey 2 1/2 years after his son died in a duel there Alexander Hamilton |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | THE MIDDLE EAST: The Al-Aqsa Mosque & Dome of the Rock now stand on this ancient building's site the Temple of Solomon (Herod's Temple, the Temple of Jerusalem) |
| #681, aired 1987-07-20 | ACADEMY AWARDS: He was nominated for writing, directing, & acting in a 1978 film, & again for a 1981 film Warren Beatty |
| #661, aired 1987-06-22 | RELIGION: After being a hostage in Lebanon, he became head of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Rev. Benjamin Weir |
| #647, aired 1987-06-02 | SCIENCE: Of the 106 elements, the greatest #, incl. aluminum & silicon, were identified in this century the 19th century |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Total number of presidents who died while in office 8 |
| #619, aired 1987-04-23 | GAY '90s: By 1897, as many as half of Seattle's police & firemen had left the city to go there the Yukon |
| #583, aired 1987-03-04 | LETTER PERFECT: All the letters that appear on the top row across on a standard touch-tone phone ABC, DEF |
| #527, aired 1986-12-16 | THE MONTHS: It's only month that can start on the same day of the week as the month before it March |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | TELEVISION: This mini-series & its sequel featured Ed Asner, Lorne Greene, Henry Fonda & Marlon Brando Roots |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | GAMES: The 4 corners on a Monopoly board are "Go", "Free Parking" & these 2 Jail & Go To Jail |
| #396, aired 1986-03-17 | MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | AMERICAN STATISTICS: Highest birth rate in the U.S. is in this state, where almost 70% of the population has same religion Utah |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | U.S. CURRENCY: Besides "In God We Trust", the other word found on the face of all current U.S. coins Liberty |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | WEATHER: All states have recorded temperatures below zero (F.), except this one Hawaii |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | RIVERS: 2 of the 3 "rivers" which surround Manhattan (2 of) East River, Hudson River & Harlem River |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | GAMES: In a standard deck of playing cards, the only suit that does not have a one-eyed face card clubs |
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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Cliff Galiher, a sophomore from UCLA
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
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"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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"He finished second in the 1988 Tournament of Champions. A retired...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
|
"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
|
"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
|
"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
|
"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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Bernie Cullen, a biologist from Santa Barbara, California
|
"He was the first 5-time champion of the 1996-97 season. A...
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Lan Djang, a health policy analyst from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 2001. Today he's a health...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
|
"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
|
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
|
|
Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
|
"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
|
|
Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
|
|
Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
|
"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
|
"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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|
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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|
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
|
|
Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
|
|
Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
|
|
Tom Kavanaugh, a kickball team captain from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
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|
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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|
Patrick Tucker, a graduate student of public policy from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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|
Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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|
Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
|
"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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|
Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
|
"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
|
|
Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
|
|
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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|
Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
|
|
Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
|
|
Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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|
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
|
|
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
|
|
Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
|
"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
|
|
Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
|
|
Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
|
|
Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
|
2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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|
Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
|
"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
|
|
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
|
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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
|
"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
|
|
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
\"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
|
\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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|
Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
|
"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
|
|
Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
|
"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
|
|
Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
|
|
Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
|
"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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|
David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
|
"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
|
|
Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
|
2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
|
"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
|
|
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
|
|
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
|
|
Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
|
|
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
|
|
Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
|
"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
|
|
Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
|
|
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
|
|
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
|
"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
|
|
Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
|
"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
|
|
Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
|
|
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
|
|
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
|
\"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
|
|
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
|
"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
|
|
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
|
|
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
|
|
Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
|
"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
|
|
Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
|
"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
|
|
Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
|
"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
|
|
Amy Fine, a part-time teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"She was the last 5-time winner in the 1993-94 season. A...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
|
|
Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
|
|
CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
|
"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
|
|
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
|
|
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
|
|
Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
|
|
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
|
|
Ed Schiffer, an attorney from San Francisco, California
|
"A champion of five shows, he was the top winner of...
|
|
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
|
|
Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
|
|
Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
|
|
Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
|
"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
|
|
Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
|
"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
|
|
Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
|
|
Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
|
|
Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
|
|
Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
|
"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
|
|
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
|
Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
|
|
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
|
|
John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
|
|
Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
|
"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
|
|
Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
|
|
Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
|
|
David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
|
"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
|
|
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
|
|
Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
|
"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
|
|
Bruce Ikawa, a college professor from Hillsdale, Michigan
|
\"He says his 5 wins in 1990 increases his credibility with...
|
|
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
|
|
Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
|
|
Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
|
|
Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
|
"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
|
|
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
|
|
Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
|
|
Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
|
|
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
|
|
Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
|
"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
|
|
Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
|
\"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
|
|
Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
|
|
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
|
|
Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
|
"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
|
|
Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
|
"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
|
|
Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
|
"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
|
|
Lauren Kutner, an 11-year-old from Newtown, Pennsylvania
|
"The best part of middle school for this seventh grader is...
|
|
Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
|
|
Jennifer Wu, a high school junior from Arkadelphia, Arkansas
|
"She won the 2004 Teen Tournament at age 15. Now 17,...
|
|
Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
|
|
Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
|
"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
|
|
B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
|
"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
|
|
Joli Millner, an eleven-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"No kidding, she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows...
|
|
Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
|
|
Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
|
|
Mark Lee, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $67,500...
|
|
Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
|
"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
|
|
Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
|
|
Susannah Brooks, a communications assistant from Madison, Wisconsin
|
Season 22 2-time champion: $56,001 + $2,000. Susannah competed under a...
|
|
Beau Henson, a test prep teacher and actor originally from Mt. Carmel, Illinois
|
Season 28 3-time champion: $51,203 + $2,000. Beau won $250,000 on...
|
|
Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina
|
"He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
|
|
Marie McGraw, a senior at MIT from Cleveland, Ohio
|
2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
|
|
Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California
|
"He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
|
|
Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
|
|
Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
|
"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
|
|
Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
|
"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
|
|
Rajeev Gorowara, a chemical engineer from Wilmington, Delaware
|
Season 26 player (2010-01-26). Husband of Season 25 2-time champion Christine...
|
|
Dorothy Gilmartin, a teacher from Weehawken, New Jersey
|
Season 24 player (2007-09-10). Dorothy's turn against IBM's Jeopardy!-playing computer Watson...
|
|
Daniel Cohen, an interactive developer originally from Liverpool, New York
|
Season 27 player (2011-04-12). Daniel died 2023-09-24 at the age of...
|
|
Jared Hall, a graduate student in global policy studies from Austin, Texas
|
2014 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29/30 6-time champion: $181,001...
|
|
Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
|
"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
|
|
Barrett Hildreth, a software analyst from Portland, Oregon
|
Season 21 player (2005-01-17). Barrett won $1,000 on Who Wants to...
|
|
John Munson, a self-proclaimed gadabout originally from Lakeland, Florida
|
Season 25 player (2009-07-24). John managed to write his name on...
|
|
Joanne Platt, a waitress from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Season 24 2-time champion: $6,999 + $1,000. Won $16,000 on Who...
|
|
Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
|
|
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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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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Elza Reeves, a bank teller from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,400 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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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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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
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Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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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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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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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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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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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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Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
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Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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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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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Season 25 3-time champion: $102,000 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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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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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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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Rachel Pildis, a software developer from Oak Park, Illinois
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000. Rachel Pildis - A...
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Paul Wampler, a web programmer from Knoxville, Tennessee
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Season 27 4-time champion: $72,001 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: paul5562
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Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
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2011 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 26 4-time champion:...
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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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Dave Belote, a recently retired base commander from Woodbridge, Virginia
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
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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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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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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Tom Nissley, a writer from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Tara Franey, a senior from Michigan State University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: tarafraney
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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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Amy Wilson, a creative writing and women's studies student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,999 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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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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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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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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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Tom Scavo, the sometimes-befuddled husband of Felicity Huffman on...
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Katie James, a sophomore from Winchester, Virginia
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Bob Mesko, an arts administrator from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion:...
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Regina Robbins, an arts teacher from New York, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $90,700...
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Orlando Zambrano, a junior from Tampa, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
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2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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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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Enrique Machado, an oil filtration business developer from Orlando, Florida
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Season 26 1-time champion: $30,799 + $2,000. Enrique Machado September 16,...
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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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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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Celeste DiNucci, a recent graduate student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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Marissa Goldsmith, a web developer from Springfield, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $44,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: marteena
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Justin Waters, a resident physician from Royal Oak, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $7,199 + $2,000. Justin Waters Royal Oak,...
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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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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's appeared on Broadway in Proof, Assassins, and Cabaret. He's now...
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Kweisi Mfume, a president from the NAACP
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Name pronounced like "kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may"....
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Kerry Breitenbach, a marketing analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 21 5-time champion: $90,400...
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John Krizel, a green community program coordinator from Beckley, West Virginia
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
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"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
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2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
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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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Colin Brown, a senior at the University of Rochester from Milwaukie, Oregon
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
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Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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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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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Evan Sandman, a hotel front desk manager from Los Angeles, California
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Season 28 1-time champion $28,801 + $2,000.
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
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2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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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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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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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Jim Fitzpatrick, a senior at Wake Forest University from Colts Neck, New Jersey
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2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. According the the official Jeopardy! web...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Dave Ellis, a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,000 + $2,000. Not to be confused...
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Deborah Fitzgerald, a retired government employee from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 24 4-time champion: $55,901 + $1,000.
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Anna Han, a sophomore from Penn State University
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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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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Chuck Newell, an English teacher from Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Season 23 player (2007-02-26).
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Marie Braden, a customer service representative from Tempe, Arizona
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,800 + $1,000. Marie's boyfriend Kirk's Rock...
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Matt Drury, a government analyst from New York, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,799 + $2,000. Matthew Drury - A...
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Dan Jensen, a restaurant manager from Reston, Virginia
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Season 27 3-time champion: $58,203 + $1,000.
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Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
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2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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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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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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Lara Logan, a correspondent from 60 Minutes on CBS
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"Her bold, award-winning reporting has earned her a prominent spot among...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Jason Richards, a pharmacy technician from Old Town, Maine
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2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 22 4-time champion: $99,200 + $2,000.
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Kevin Marshall, a student from Metairie, Louisiana
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 6-time champion: $98,201...
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David Rozenson, a lawyer from Newton, Massachusetts
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 21 3-time champion: $76,000 + $1,000.
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
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Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Drew Joanides, a high school history teacher from Miami, Florida
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"He is one of our four teachers competing in our tournament...
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Tony Harkin, an eleven-year-old from New Milford, Connecticut
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"Dig this--he wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up....
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Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
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"In 2004, he joined Barack Obama's senatorial campaign as communications director,...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Ashleigh Banfield, a TV correspondent originally from Canada
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"She's covered such various stories as the Clinton/Yeltsin summit, the War...
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Brittany Rogers, a sophomore at Saddleback College from Lake Forest, California
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brittany was 18 at the...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
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2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
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Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
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Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Ruvani Fonseka, a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of...
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
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Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
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Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
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Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
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Stephen Weingarten, a stay-at-home dad from Portland, Oregon
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $96,690...
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Amanda Sonmor, a virtual assistant originally from Denver, Colorado
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Season 27 2-time champion: $21,501 + $1,000.
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Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
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2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
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Sandra McClellan, a granny nanny from Arlington, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $4,199 + $2,000.
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George Tsuji, a software engineer from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Amy Levine, a freshman from North Potomac, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time...
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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
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2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
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Patton Oswalt, a Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia
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\"A Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning comedian from Portsmouth, Virginia, he rose to...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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David Walter, a senior from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 17 at the...
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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
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"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
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"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
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"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
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"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Paul Kursky, an online marketing producer from San Francisco, California
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $109,411...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Heidi Fogle, a senior from Overland Park, Kansas
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Butch Malec, a freshman at Reed College from Edinboro, Pennsylvania
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1999 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. In Butch's game, the entire Double...
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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
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Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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Bev Schwartzberg, an adult literacy program coordinator from Santa Barbara, California
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"She finished second in the 1993 Tournament of Champions. Today, she's...
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Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois
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2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
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Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Craig Boge, a senior from Stanford University
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2007 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. 21 at the time of...
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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Larry Cloud, a computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
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"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician from Brooklyn, New York
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,201. 2001 Tournament...
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Kenny Schlax, a junior from Deerfield, Illinois
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Listed as "Kenneth" on the official web site.
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
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"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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Charlie Rooney, a sophomore at Loyola University Chicago from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
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2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
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2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
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"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
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"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Elena Botella, an eleven-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
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"This future journalist loves to find answers, today, she'll have to...
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Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Aiden Pink, a freshman from St. Louis Park, Minnesota
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 15 at the time...
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Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California
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2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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Sarah Bart, a senior at Goucher College from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2012 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 22 at...
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Quinn McDonald, an inventory control manager from Lowville, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Mighty Q
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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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Richard Mason, a roboticist from Pasadena, California
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Season 18 2-time champion: $50,600 + $2,000. Husband of Season 14...
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Ari Fleischer, a former White House Press Secretary from the current Bush administration
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"For the first two years of the current Bush administration, he...
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Nicole Reimer, a junior from Columbus, Ohio
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
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Sara Dean, a junior at Syracuse University from Olney, Maryland
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Sara was 19 at the time...
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Brian Moore, an astronomer from Houston, Texas
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"He was the first 5-day champion in the 1993-1994 season. An...
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Heather Fach, a creative director from La Vergne, Tennessee
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Season 24 player (2007-11-27).
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Judy Shewmake, a retired middle school history teacher from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Season 27 1-time champion: $20,801 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "SHOO-make".
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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
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2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Max Levaren, a personal success coach from San Diego, California
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 4-time champion:...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: rachel_pi
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Sarah Bauer, a junior at Indiana University from Carmel, Indiana
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Susan Sweet, a former basketball coach originally from Toledo, Ohio
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Season 1 player (1984-11-09). Johnny Gilbert stumbled over Susan\'s introduction, calling...
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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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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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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Charles Swanson, a substitute teacher from Racine, Wisconsin
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Season 25 player (2009-05-25).
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Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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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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Kate Sendegeya, a payroll manager from Antioch, California
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Season 21 player (2005-05-26).
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Amanda Nowotny, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh from New Castle, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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William Carpenter, from Bainbridge Island, Washington
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"Being the scientist that he is, Mom never knows what she...
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Jay Wolman, an attorney and mediator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 21 player (2004-10-05).
KJL game 50.
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Gregory Proops, a retail sales clerk from San Francisco, California
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Season 1 player (1984-11-08). Gregory played Alex Trebek during the Improv...
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William Castañeda, a human resources professional from San Francisco, California
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Season 28 1-time champion: $9,400 + $1,000.
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Karan Takhar, a senior from North Attleborough, Massachusetts
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2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. First name pronounced like "KUR-run". Jeopardy...
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Annette Todd, a marketing director from Riverside, California
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Season 28 player (2012-03-02). This was Annette's seventh game show appearance...
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Claudia Gray, a substitute teacher from Monrovia, California
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Season 28 3-time champion: $45,202 + $2,000.
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Susie Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences from Zionsville, Indiana
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Season 29 player (2013-01-23).
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Zach McDonnell, a freshman at the College of William and Mary from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2012 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
18 at the time of the College Championship.
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Chris O. Cook, a college English teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 29 player (2013-05-27).
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Matt Collins, a graduate student in economic policy from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 28 player (2012-07-16).
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Laura Sikes Jambon, a graduate student of American history from Rochester, New York
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Season 28 player (2012-07-12). Last name pronounced like "zham-BOHn" (French-style pronunciation)....
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Steffa Burke, a payroll administrator from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 player (2008-10-17).
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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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Dan Schulte, a senior vice president of hospital finance from Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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Season 23 player (2007-01-03).
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Val Adamcyk, a foreign services officer originally from Manhasset, New York
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Season 23 player (2007-01-12).
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Jim Burkhard, an automotive engineer from Chili, New York
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Season 22 player (2006-01-04). The official Jeopardy! web site lists Jim's...
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Lisa Loiselle, an investigator and lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 player (2005-12-22). Last name pronounced like "loy-ZELL" (Johnny Gilbert's...
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Steve Friedman, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-05-31).
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Vicky Stanton, a school psychologist from Sherman Oaks, California
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Season 22 2-time champion: $19,799 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Vicky
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Dawn Volmert, a controller from Troy, Missouri
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Season 30 player (2014-02-28).
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Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas
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"He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
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Sally Sheinberg, a substitute teacher from Palmdale, California
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Season 30 player (2014-07-04).
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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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Sara Mixter, a child health advocate originally from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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Season 21 player (2005-06-03).
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Aidan Mehigan, a sophomore from McLean, Virginia
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2009 Teen Tournament second runner-up: $15,000. Name pronounced like "AY-den MEE-gan"....
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Will Dantzler, a senior from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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2009 Teen Tournament first runner-up: $31,600.
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Adam Villani, an engineer from Long Beach, California
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Season 21 player (2004-10-27). KJL game 61. Adam won $80,000 on...
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Cynthia Reedy, a science and French teacher from Norway, Maine
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Season 25 player (2009-05-19).
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Diane Armstrong, a consultant and retired Navy officer from Alexandria, Virginia
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Season 26 player (2009-09-21).
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Dave Sutherland, a newspaper ad salesman from Invermere, British Columbia
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Season 26 player (2009-09-15).
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Justin Klos, a legislative staffer from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 player (2009-04-27). Last name pronounced like "CLOSE" (as in...
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Kristin Schleicher, a graduate student from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 player (2008-12-22).
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Peter Murray, a non-profit fundraiser from Seattle, Washington
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Season 25 player (2009-04-07).
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Andy Holt, a biotech account manager from Garner, North Carolina
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Season 27 player (2010-12-03).
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Anastasia Knasiak, a 12-year-old from Brookfield, Illinois
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"We don't know if there's a doctor in the house, but...
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Trevor Norris, a management analyst from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Angel Gomez, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-06-15).
First name pronounced like "AWN-hel."
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Pat Cantor, a professor of education from Concord, New Hampshire
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Season 23 player (2007-03-13).
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Leslie Rochlen, a professional organizer from Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Season 24 1-time champion: $29,750 + $1,000.
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Melissa Ingells, a radio host from Okemos, Michigan
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Season 22 player (2005-09-26).
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Maya Kobersy, an attorney originally from Sterling Heights, Michigan
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Season 21 player (2005-07-22).
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William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
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"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
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Ruth Dammel, a customer service supervisor from Perry, Iowa
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Season 23 1-time champion: $28,200 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: raliced
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