| #9365, aired 2025-06-27 | SOUP! $800: You don't need a stove to make this cold soup, which many have referred to as liquid salad gazpacho |
| #9364, aired 2025-06-26 | LITERAL ANSWERS TO RHETORICAL QUESTIONS $1000: Not me, Mr. Albee--in fact, I'm a big fan of her work; my book club wasn't at all intimidated by "The Waves" Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY WITH JOHNNY GILBERT $400: "I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep & find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap" "New York, New York" |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | I LOVE YOU, MAN $400: Royals,
secret agents,
Elizabeth's Darcy,
Bridget's Darcy--
Is there anything you can't do? Colin Firth |
| #9363, aired 2025-06-25 | FIGURES OF SPEECH $600: This term for, say, a Triple Red Hot 7s or Mega Moolah machine doesn't always apply, the way Vegas casinos look today one-armed bandits |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | LIVING DOLLS $400: With yarn for hair & a triangle nose, this doll & her partner come to life when humans aren't looking, & go on many adventures Raggedy Ann |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | CHAPTER & NON-VERSE $600: "The Black Bird":
"Yes, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him" The Maltese Falcon |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | WORDS ABOUT NERDS $2000: This compound term for a technophile refers to kinetic beanie hats once associated with fans of science fiction a propeller head |
| #9362, aired 2025-06-24 | WORDS ABOUT NERDS $5,000 (Daily Double): A hyperintelligent nemesis of Superman in comic books likely gave us this portmanteau word for someone who's crazy smart a brainiac |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | YELLOW $200: The video for this Cardi B song doesn't have that much of the color you'd expect, though there is a cheetah "Bodak Yellow" |
| #9361, aired 2025-06-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $6,000 (Daily Double): Fruity dessert created at Brennan's in New Orleans that had the 2011 hit song "Pumped Up Kicks" Bananas Foster the People |
| #9359, aired 2025-06-19 | PARDON MY FRENCH $2000: Don't confuse au jus, a way to serve a roast, with this phrase for the exact right word le mot juste |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | GETTING INVENTIVE WITH PHINEAS & FERB $1000: (Phineas & Ferb present the clue.) Good inventors don't mind stealing a good idea; Leonardo da Vinci sketched an aerial screw often cited as a forerunner to the helicopter; his inspiration was the water-lifting screw of this ancient Greek Archimedes |
| #9358, aired 2025-06-18 | POP CULTURE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK $1200: In 2021 David Hasselhoff sold his personal K.I.T.T. car, like one used on this series, with a portion going to charity Knight Rider |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | NOVEL PLOT POINTS $800: Clothes don't make the man, a Swiss scientist does; that does not go well at all; a dogsled chase Frankenstein |
| #9356, aired 2025-06-16 | NOVEL PLOT POINTS $1000: The narrator's in big trouble atop a skyscraper; gets in some scraps, which he really can't talk about; space monkey business Fight Club |
| #9355, aired 2025-06-13 | FIN"AL" WORDS $800: A topical medication like miconazole, for combating athlete's foot an antifungal |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | DID YOU EAT YET? $400: Spanish for "little donkey", this item isn't handheld when smothered with ranchero sauce a burrito |
| #9352, aired 2025-06-10 | YOU CANNOT BE SIRIUS $2000: Sirius emits more light than you do, so it has a higher this--an intrinsic property of stars that's measured in joules per second luminosity |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | QUASI-STUPID ANSWERS $200: Decibel, a unit of sound intensity, comes in part from the name of this man who did a lot with sound (Alexander Graham) Bell |
| #9351, aired 2025-06-09 | GRAMMYS FOR BEST SPOKEN WORD $1200: This late night TV host got a trophy in 2014 for "America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't" Colbert |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | SHAPED LIKE $600: 20 Fenchurch Street in London? Doesn't ring a bell, but the London building shaped like this rhyming gadget? Unmistakeable walkie-talkie |
| #9350, aired 2025-06-06 | CYBERCRIME $800: There's a weapon in the name of this cybercrime, an info-gathering attempt with a specific target; it won't catch any grouper spear phishing |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | SMOOTH SINGERS $1200: "Lose Control" was a 2024 No. 1 hit for this guy whose stage name sounds like a short sentence but actually includes an acronym Teddy Swims |
| #9349, aired 2025-06-05 | MEET ME IN THE "A.M." $2000: Don't hush & keep it down now! You don't have 'til Tuesday to remember this woman sang "Voices Carry"! Aimee Mann |
| #9348, aired 2025-06-04 | REELIN' IN THE YEAR $400: Fort Sumter becomes a hot spot; Vassar College is founded but doesn't open for 4 years, for Sumter-related reasons 1861 |
| #9348, aired 2025-06-04 | REELIN' IN THE YEAR $1000: Jacques Marquette hits Quebec; the Great Plague of London ends, but don't worry, there's also a fire 1666 |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | & YOU QUOTE $400: From a 1926 letter, "der nicht würfelt", meaning that God doesn't do this play dice |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | FASHION IN SONG $800: A song from this rapper & T-Pain mentions "Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur, the whole club was lookin' at her" Flo Rida |
| #54, aired 2025-06-04 | FASHION IN SONG $1200: In a Taylor Swift song, "She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, she's cheer captain and I'm" here in the bleachers |
| #53, aired 2025-06-04 | GET HYPHENATED $400: The ads of this fast food chain feature cows that probably wouldn't excel at a spelling bee Chick-fil-A |
| #9347, aired 2025-06-03 | A DOUBLE SHOT OF WHISKEY $200: If you don't know that Connemara & Tipperary are this type of whiskey, you need to travel more--& drink more Irish whiskey |
| #9346, aired 2025-06-02 | & WE'RE "OFF" $800: The use of a drug in a way that hasn't been approved; it's common among those often excluded from clinical trials, like pregnant women off-label |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | DON'T MISS THE BOAT $200: Once a type of oar-powered vessel, it now means a vessel's cooking facilities a galley |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | IT WILL HAPPEN $400: In July 2025 the 70th anniversary of this "land" will be celebrated with an audio-animatronic figure of its founder Disneyland |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | DON'T MISS THE BOAT $400: This popular type of fishing boat can get into shallow water to pursue the large & small-mouthed fish it's named for (a) bass (boat) |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | DON'T MISS THE BOAT $600: Now usually meaning a short-term job, in the age of sail it was a ship's 3-letter boat used to transport officers a gig |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | DON'T MISS THE BOAT $800: There are sailing & racing as well as garbage types of these flat-bottomed barges a scow |
| #9345, aired 2025-05-30 | DON'T MISS THE BOAT $1000: The Coast Guard employs this type of "sensitive" ship to maintain buoys & navigational aids a tender |
| #9344, aired 2025-05-29 | LEADING FROM THE FRONT $2000: Escorted by only a handful of Marines, Abraham Lincoln visited this still-smoldering city on April 4, 1865 Richmond |
| #9343, aired 2025-05-28 | HAT CHAT $600: If your brain is abuzz with an obsession, you have this headgear affliction a bee in your bonnet |
| #9343, aired 2025-05-28 | ENTERTAINING WOLVERINES $1000: "People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom" is intoned in a classic scene by this 1955 alum James Earl Jones |
| #52, aired 2025-05-28 | WHAT A "WO"MAN! $800: This author noted in her diary that on January 29, 1939, she hung out with Freud; he didn't help her depression (Virginia) Woolf |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | HARD SCIENCE $400: It's the only one of the noble gases with a name that doesn't end in "N" helium |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | HEY, "KID" $600: In an '80s ad this iconic phrase precedes "They got the best for so much less, you'll really flip your lid" I'm a Toys “R” Us kid |
| #51, aired 2025-05-28 | SAY IT IN A ROMANCE LANGUAGE $5,000 (Daily Double): It's Italian for "hope", as in the original of "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" speranza |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | THERE'S NO I, BUT THERE'S "M-E" $1000: It's a support at either end of a bridge; don't drive into it the abutment |
| #9342, aired 2025-05-27 | HISTORIC ALASKA $4,800 (Daily Double): Linking Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion the Alaska Pipeline |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $400: Treatment by a doctor via Zoom, for instance
(12 letters) telemedicine |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | WORLD OF WEIRD AIRPORTS $400: A street named for this prime minister cuts across the runway of Gibraltar's airport, but cars don't use it anymore Churchill |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | DOES THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? $600: Spelling in front of millions? Please do for this 13-letter adjective meaning relating to the current office of Ron DeSantis G-U-B-E-R-N-A-T-O-R-I-A-L |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | "I" ON ASIA $1000: A principal stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, this city lies just to the west & north of Lake Baikal Irkutsk |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $1200: Japanese style of grilling food on a steel plate
(10 letters) teppanyaki |
| #50, aired 2025-05-27 | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $5,400 (Daily Double): Doctrine by which bread & wine become Christ's body & blood (18 letters) transubstantiation |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | 5 BANDS $800: "A Decade of Destruction" looked back at the career of this metal band that always got your six Five Finger Death Punch |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | BAKING WITH DAME PRUE $1000: (Here's Dame Prue.) I hear there's a saying, "as American as apple pie"; for a French twist, there's this rustic cousin, similar to a tarte, made with a buttery, flaky crust & sliced apples a galette |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | IT'S A MORASS $1200: If you're in the Everglades, don't loose this invasive snake whose name says it's from Asia; they've led to a decline in mammals a Burmese python |
| #49, aired 2025-05-27 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $2000: Frank Capra won an Oscar for directing this film based on a comedy by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart You Can't Take It with You |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | IN THE STARS $600: A hard-to-spot star called Lionrock isn't in Leo but in this watery constellation Aquarius |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | CULTURE, IN THE POPULAR SENSE $800: A misheard lyric from a song by this band: "You are the Dancing Queen, young & sweet, only 7 teeth" ABBA |
| #9341, aired 2025-05-26 | YOU GET A P+ $1000: This army duty has been used as a form of punishment for some infractions KP |
| #9340, aired 2025-05-23 | SURGERY $200: A sympathectomy won't make you care less about others' problems; it's used for abnormally heavy this, like in your pits perspiration |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | GOOD EVENING, SPORTS FANS! $200: Attributed to this MLB Hall of Famer: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" & "I really didn't say everything I said" Yogi Berra |
| #47, aired 2025-05-21 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $11,800 (Daily Double): The first word in this 3-word cardiac condition refers to the buildup of fluid in the body; the last means the pump isn't keeping up congestive heart failure |
| #9337, aired 2025-05-20 | 18th CENTURY AVIATION $800: Flying with both these types of balloon seemed smart, but alas led to flammability risk & the 1st balloonist deaths in 1785 a hot air balloon with a hydrogen balloon |
| #46, aired 2025-05-20 | WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT? $1200: Don't confuse a muntin with this similar bar that divides panes in a window; the latter is a feature of Gothic architecture a mullion |
| #45, aired 2025-05-20 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $400 (Daily Double): 3 words:
Synonym for a balcony,
the provider of food at a function &
to go over a drawing again caterer, retrace & terrace |
| #9336, aired 2025-05-19 | NAME THE 5-LETTER SONG $800: By Britney:
"With a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride... I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're..." "Toxic" |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | ON A STAMP $400: The Meyer type of these fruits grace a 2-cent stamp; good thing you don't have to lick them anymore a lemon |
| #9335, aired 2025-05-16 | TRASH TALK $1600: This "itus" isn't a medical condition; it's debris often of organic matter like fallen leaves detritus |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | 2 E OR NOT 2 E $200: A natural growth you don't want in your lawn /
got married weed & wed |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | FUN AROUND THE U.S. $400: This innovator's museum in Dearborn, Michigan has all sorts of wheels, including Rosa Parks' bus &, of course, a Model T Ford |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | THAT IS THE QUESTION $800: In 1851 in Akron, Sojourner Truth delivered a speech called this 4-word rhetorical question Ain't I a Woman? |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | FUN AROUND THE U.S. $1600: Fjords aren't just for Norway! A cruise that visits the Kenai Fjords in this state can prove it to you Alaska |
| #9333, aired 2025-05-14 | RHYME TIME $5,600 (Daily Double): A compulsion to sing a song of mourning a dirge urge |
| #44, aired 2025-05-14 | BIOLOGIST BIO $7,600 (Daily Double): In 1929, way before she wrote a few bestsellers, she did post-grad work at the marine biological lab. in Woods Hole, Mass. (Rachel) Carson |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | IDIOMS FROM THE BIBLE $200: Typical, just typical--remember this idiom from Jeremiah 13 about a certain unalterable feline a leopard can't change its spots |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | SWAN DIVING $400: Louis ain't a talker but gets a horn to honk some game at Serena in this classic book The Trumpet of the Swan (by E.B. White) |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | "T.M.", I $800: At a dance at Oxford, future leader Benazir Bhutto introduced this future leader to her future husband Theresa May |
| #43, aired 2025-05-14 | "T.M.", I $2,200 (Daily Double): In an 1824 article for Britannica, he wrote about "Keeping population on a level with the means of subsistence" Thomas Malthus |
| #9332, aired 2025-05-13 | THE CHILDREN'S AUTHOR WHO WROTE... $200: "Piglet said (it) was a... good trap... he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was half-way down, when it would be too late" Milne |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $400: Not Julius but "Sawdust Caesar" is a 1935 book about this leader by George Seldes, expelled from Italy 10 years before Mussolini |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $800: A 1930s movie comedy about 3 couples in varying states of unhappiness is titled "Merry Wives of" this then-divorce capital Reno |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $1200: Bolingbroke deposes "Richard II"; in a 2014 "Future History" play by Mike Bartlett, Kate & William depose this title king Charles III |
| #9331, aired 2025-05-12 | IT AIN'T SHAKESPEARE $2000: A 1996 thriller by David Hewson isn't "Twelfth Night" but this 1-word title, the feast after Twelfth Night Epiphany |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | OUR NEANDERTHAL RELATIVES $600: It was long thought Neanderthals couldn't do this, but the discovery they carried FOXP2, a gene linked to it, suggests they could speak |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | OUR NEANDERTHAL RELATIVES $800: A Neanderthal skull came to England in 1864; he was sick & couldn't go see it, so friends brought it to him--"wonderful", he said Darwin |
| #9330, aired 2025-05-09 | THE 1913 ARMORY SHOW $2000: Now at Philly's Museum of Art, this Duchamp piece (No. 2) caused a huge scandal... good lord, steps! Where is my fainting couch? Nude Descending a Staircase |
| #9329, aired 2025-05-08 | EMPTY WORDS $400: Having an empty space inside, like some disappointing chocolate Easter bunnies, or the title men in a T.S. Eliot poem hollow |
| #9328, aired 2025-05-07 | CITIES AROUND THE WORLD $2,400 (Daily Double): Malaysia's oldest city, it shares its name with a nearby strait Malacca |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | LAW, LEGALITY & COURT STUFF $600: In 1995 this lawyer made national news with a closing argument that included "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" (Johnnie) Cochran |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | LAW, LEGALITY & COURT STUFF $800: A judge's meeting with lawyers from only one side of a case is conducted this way, & the Latin sure legals it up nicely, right? ex parte |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | JUST MOVED IN? $200: Hope you updated your subscription & don't miss a great history article in this magazine whose profits support a D.C. institution the Smithsonian |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | JUST MOVED IN? $600: You wouldn't be the first to move all your stuff & only then find the time to fill up a box for this organization founded in 1902 Goodwill |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | IT'S A FACT $1200: The "white" type of this large mammal isn't white; its name is said to be from Afrikaans for "wide", the shape of its muzzle a rhinoceros |
| #9327, aired 2025-05-06 | IT'S A FACT $1600: Ellen Gates Starr was a co-founder of this social settlement, but didn't get a share of the Nobel Prize Jane Addams won Hull House |
| #9325, aired 2025-05-02 | A LITTLE BIT OF LIT $400: In "The Pilgrim's Regress" by this "Narnia" man, a dragon laments, "Often I wish I hadn't eaten my wife" (C.S.) Lewis |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | JOKING AROUND $800: He's done the stand-up specials "The Tennessee Kid" & "The Greatest Average American" & hosted "SNL" twice Nate Bargatze |
| #9324, aired 2025-05-01 | A REAL PAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, there is a thawing stage in adhesive capsulitis, this condition abbreviated FS frozen shoulder |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | STATELY GEOGRAPHIC $200: You don't have to be a martial arts expert to visit this Mississippi & Alabama prairie named for its fertile dark soil the Black Belt |
| #9323, aired 2025-04-30 | DEMONS $800: You can't swing a stick without hitting a demon on this show starring Katja Herbers & Mike Colter Evil |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THUNDERBOLTS $1600: (Back to David Harbour.) In the novel "The Godfather", while in exile on Sicily, Michael is hit by the thunderbolt when he lays eyes upon this peasant girl & doesn't rest until he marries her; sadly, she dies in a car bomb explosion intended for Michael Apollonia |
| #40, aired 2025-04-30 | THUNDERBOLTS $2000: (Here's David Harbour.) You can't have thunderbolts without Thor; this 1863 poetry collection modeled on "The Canterbury Tales" includes "The Challenge of Thor", which says, "I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer!" Tales of a Wayside Inn |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | FEAT. $200: In 2024 she brought Yuki Chiba along for the ride on "Mamushi" Megan Thee Stallion |
| #39, aired 2025-04-30 | LONG WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL $400: 7 letters:
A horse removed from a race before it starts is one of these & no, you don't need lotion scratch |
| #9322, aired 2025-04-29 | ONE-TEAM PLAYERS $600: Kyle Seager & let me designate a hitter, Edgar Martinez; the 2 thrilled their fans, & if you don't respond, I'll be very sad the Mariners |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $200: Dried beans & canned goods are deemed "non-" this, as they stick around on the shelf for a while & don't spoil nonperishable |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | DRINKING SONGS $800: Little Big Town sings, "Don't wanna wait 'til the sun's sinking... why don't we do a little" this day drinking |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN $800: You don't want a diagnosis of CUP, this of unknown primary; fortunately, it's rare cancer |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | HOMOPHONES $1000: A piece of land &
followed the footsteps tract/tracked |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $1200: You could while away the hours looking for brains in the Malpeque or Fanny Bay types of these, but you won't get far oysters |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $400: To get one of these is to gain an initial opportunity or introduction; don't get it caught in there a foot in the door |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $1200: The witness can't possibly know why my client wanted a haircut on the day of the murder; that question calls for this speculation |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A phrase to introduce a piece of advice from an expert is here, right where you can't quite remember it the pro tip of your tongue |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $400: Thick varnish was the reason for this byname of Rembrandt's 1642 painting of a militia company The Night Watch |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC $800: This Digital Underground rapper would "shoot an arrow like Cupid, I'll use a word that don't mean nothin', like 'looptid"' Shock G (Humpty Hump) |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $1600: It's a German noun referring to a trashy work of art, yet one that some can't help but love kitsch |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | IRISH FIRST NAMES $400: It doesn't get more Irish than this name that means Ireland & precedes "go Bragh" in a famous phrase Erin |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $800: From stinger to pincers, this arachnid glows blue-green under UV light but scientists aren't sure to what purpose a scorpion |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: The narrator of this Ralph Ellison novel isn't just a member of a group called the brotherhood--he becomes a spokesman Invisible Man |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $800: "Oh, I know you... Spahn Ranch, yeah, woo! I don't know your name... nah, it was dumber'n that. Somethin' like Rex... Tex!" Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS $7,600 (Daily Double): Lenin was not a fan of the "bourgeois" this group, a Russian word for the egghead segment of society the intelligentsia |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $800: Reese's Pieces got a big boost in sales after appearing in this film; the script had specified M&Ms, Spielberg's favorite candy E.T. |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | ECONOMICS $1200: Alfred E. Kahn wrote a classic work on the economics of this, government rule-making that Elon Musk & Neil Gorsuch don't like regulation |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $2000: Before -sis, these 7 letters refer to a blood clot T-H-R-O-M-B-O (thrombo) |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $200: Kids nowadays don't know the pain of rewinding a VHS tape before returning it to this store--unless they live in Bend, Oregon Blockbuster |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $800: The Bellamy Brothers topped the country charts with the T-shirt ready title "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You" do this "Hold It Against Me" |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $1200: The title of a Michelle Pfeiffer movie, this toxic plant belonging to the genus Nerium is native to the Mediterranean region white oleander |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN $800: If a horse is back in the snaffle again, it has this metal piece in its mouth to give the rider control; hope it isn't "spit" the bit |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | VERSE $1000: "When did it end? All the enjoyment / I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend", laments this song from a blockbuster film "What Was I Made For?" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $1600: On the BBC since 1942, people have chosen these "Discs" for a place you can't leave; Colin Firth wants Mahler & Curtis Mayfield Desert Island (Discs) |
| #9304, aired 2025-04-03 | TAKE THE LONG WAY $400: In 1935 Jesse Owens set a record of 26'8" in this event that wasn't surpassed for 25 years the long jump |
| #9304, aired 2025-04-03 | TELL ME A STORY, QUICKLY $1000: An orphan finds blacksmithing isn't for him, comes into some money & heads off to London to not blacksmith Great Expectations |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | I DON'T FEEL SEEN $400: Similar to a barrier to women's rise, this "escalator" coined by sociologist Christine Williams invisibly lifts men glass |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | I DON'T FEEL SEEN $800: This Greek god of the underworld has a helmet that makes him invisible Hades |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | I DON'T FEEL SEEN $1200: Finding 6 new comets, a 1983 NASA satellite probed the Milky Way in this "light" of wavelengths we can't see infrared |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | I DON'T FEEL SEEN $1600: Silicon Valley was the birthplace of this brand that's a clear alternative to braces Invisalign |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | BUSINESS TERMS $400: Look up! It's this term for the ongoing costs of a business' operation that aren't related to creating a product or service overhead |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $800: (Melissa Peterman presents the clue.) After being on "Young Sheldon" for 30-plus episodes, I can finally say it--a subatomic particle's position & momentum can't be accurately determined at the same time, says his Uncertainty Principle. Oh, that felt good. Ungh! Heisenberg |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | SOMETHING TO WEAR $1,200 (Daily Double): The 1960s Courrèges boot, named for designer André, was often worn with this item, leaving lots of leg between it & the boot a miniskirt |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Henry Purcell's opera "The Fairy Queen" isn't based on Edmund Spenser's poem but on this Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | HOT TOPIC $800: This 4-letter co. was a very hot topic in early 2025 after plans to drop fact-checking to combat "censorship"; we won't follow suit Meta |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | DOUBLE TALK $400: A kids' song doesn't take place in a "papaya patch" but in a patch of this similar-sounding fruit the pawpaw (patch) |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | HAT TRICKS $800: A 1906 pic of Teddy Roosevelt abroad & wearing this hat made it famous, & bam! Here's Ted! Oh no; Ted died in 1919 & doesn't look great a Panama hat |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | LION AROUND $2,500 (Daily Double): Stage directions in this Shaw play based on a Roman story mention a huge thorn in a paw Androcles and the Lion |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | BEFORE PLEASURE $800: If you don't know the details of a secret government operation, you've given yourself this kind of deniability plausible |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | QUOTING THE FILM $1000: Ted Knight: "I'm no slouch myself". Chevy: "Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch" Caddyshack |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | PLEAD THE 5th $2000: Do we have an E.T.A. on that? Oh yes, 1810, when his glowing review of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony helped immortalize the work E.T.A. Hoffman |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | BILLS OF MORTALITY FOR 17th C. LONDON $400: In 1682 a total of 71 didn't get their vitamin C & fell to this disease scurvy |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | A SITE FOR MORE EYES $800: Said to be around 800 years old, the Avenue of the Baobabs isn't just any old street on this large island nation off Africa Madagascar |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | BILLS OF MORTALITY FOR 17th C. LONDON $2000: This, inflammation of tissue at the back of the throat, isn't often fatal now, but in 1696 a complication called quinsy killed 9 tonsilitis |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | A SONG FOR ALL SEASONS $200: In July 2019 Megan Thee Stallion tweeted, "I feel it's only right I drop a" this "song before the summer is over" hot girl summer |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | LITERARY CHARACTERS, HAVING A DAY $1,600 (Daily Double): He/it says, "I think there's been a failure in the pod-bay doors... lucky you weren't killed... Dave... what are you doing?" HAL (9000) |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $200: Throw doubles 3 times in a row in Monopoly & you're off to this place, & it ain't Marvin Gardens jail |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $400: I used a roll of the d20 to attack in this game created in 1974; my strength isn't great, but my charisma will open doors Dungeons & Dragons |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | YANGTZE! $600: Parts of the Yangtze are home to the giant type of this amphibian, which can weigh over 100 pounds & wails like a crying infant salamander |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THE SONG OF ROLAND DRUM MACHINES $2000: There's a Roland on this classic LL Cool J track whose album version doesn't include any of the ringing its title suggests "Rock The Bells" |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | "A"UTHORS $1200: The fancy encyclopedias say he didn't really exist, but in that case how do I read to my kid from "The Fables of" him, huh? Aesop |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | "BAD" ENTERTAINMENT $200: Bernie Mac & John Ritter can't stop Billy Bob Thornton as a not very jolly Saint Nick in this movie comedy Bad Santa |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $800: Edgar Linton reps Thrushcross Grange, has got some serious ducats & is fittin' to rizz up Cathy Wuthering Heights |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $1600: Wearing a T-shirt that says "Vote for Pedro", this character kills it with his super sweet moves in a 2004 flick Napoleon Dynamite |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $1600: The sigma John "The Savage" can't stand chads like Bernard Marx since they are all so soma-pilled Brave New World |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $5,000 (Daily Double): The people of Uruk hide their kids & hide their wives whenever the title king rolls up & they start glazing Anu to create Enkidu the Epic of Gilgamesh |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1200: An uncomplicated skin blemish in a cheek depression a simple pimple dimple (a simple pimple) |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | A NOTE OF COMMAND $800: Don't listen to this command when you're on the edge of a swimming pool, but do when you're a soldier told to join a formation fall in |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | STAR WARS $800: Asked her opinion about J Lo, this "Queen of Christmas" diva left some coal in a stocking by saying, "I don't know her" Mariah Carey |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | A HEART IN MY SONG $1200: "Did the heartbreak change me? Maybe", she asked, then warned her ex, "Don't start caring about me now" Dua Lipa |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $800: This North African dish of poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce isn't just for breakfast; plus its imitative Arabic name is fun to say! shakshuka |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | FEELING PUNCHY $3,400 (Daily Double): A powerful punch, it's likely named for the agricultural practice of cutting dried grass a haymaker |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | 10-LETTER WORDS $200: A magician might try to yank one of these out from under your dishes--& if he does it right, you won't need to buy new dishes a tablecloth |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $200: Perhaps proving the film's title, Woody Harrelson's slam dunks in this 1992 movie were done on a slightly lowered hoop White Men Can't Jump |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | PHOBIAS $300: If you suffer from bibliophobia, a fear of these items, avoid the biblioteca on your next Spanish vacation books |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | FLOWER GIRLS $500: Don't take candy from strangers or you might end up like this poor kid, who gets turned into a giant blueberry by Willy Wonka Violet (Beauregarde) |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | PHOBIAS $500: Don't give a $5 bill to a cashier with pogonophobia, a fear of these facial features--Abe Lincoln might freak him out a beard |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS $1000: Supervise a home birth! A CNM is a "certified nurse" this midwife |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | SNACK ATTACK $1200: This snack's name rhymes just like the letters in "E.T."; Hershey touts its "peanut butter taste in a crunchy candy shell" Reese's Pieces |
| #34, aired 2025-03-05 | GULFS $2,100 (Daily Double): Along with Mexico & the United States, this island nation is 1 of 3 countries bordering the Gulf of Mexico Cuba |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | POTPOURR-ONLY-E $400: A tree such as a Hollywood juniper, or in quiz-show-speak, a verb meaning to phrase a clue so it can't go out of date evergreen |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CURRENCIES $2000: Be careful when you make it rain in this African country; a Clean Notes Policy in 2007 said the naira isn't to be danced upon Nigeria |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | SOCIAL TYPES $400: Nara Smith & Hannah Neeleman make popular videos about how to be this smushed word for a woman who embraces a conventional role a tradwife |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | SYMBOLISM IN ART $400: This bird known for its showy feathers could represent immortality (ancient Greeks believed its body didn't decay after death) a peacock |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | LOOK & SEE THE DOUBLE VOWELS $600: You know how to play this instrument, aka mirliton, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together around it & blow... I mean, hum. You hum a kazoo |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | CONTEMPORARIES $400: Queen Victoria gave birth to her son Leopold in 1853, when this man (& sons) opened a piano shop in Manhattan Steinway |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SPELLING "B"s $100: This French-named hat follows "green" as worn by some U.S. Army special forces B-E-R-E-T |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES $100: Sadly, by the time Scarlett chooses him over Ashley Wilkes in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Rhett Butler just doesn't give a damn Gone with the Wind |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | ABBA $300: In a 1979 song, it's the lyric that follows "Gimme, gimme, gimme" a man after midnight |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SPELLING "B"s $500: It's how the singer of "The Way We Were" & "Evergreen" spells her first name (careful--it's only 6 letters long!) B-A-R-B-R-A |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | LITERARY LOVE TRIANGLES $500: Booktok was obsessed with the triangle between Feyre, Rhysand & Tamlin in this Y.A. romantasy series, "Acotar" to its fans A Court of Thorns and Roses |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | SOUNDS DELICIOUS! $1000: Founded in 1991, this band scored alternative hits with "Never There", "The Distance" & "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" Cake |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1200: Some puerile mind merged "SL" & "UT" & put it on a T-shirt; the "UT" stands for "Utah" & "SL" stands for this city Salt Lake City |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1500: It's the panhandle state on T-shirts that brazenly offer this accusation: "looks and smells like a sweaty foam finger" Oklahoma |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | NEW YORK TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): 1:00 A.M.--in 2006, Patti Smith winds down a 3 1/2 hour set; the final one at this Lower East Side club CBGB |
| #33, aired 2025-02-26 | CHEEKY T-SHIRTS: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the U.S. state on a saucy T-shirt that notes it's been "spooning with New Hampshire since 1791" Vermont |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | NONFICTION TV $200: John Carpenter said, "Hi, Dad. I don't... need your help. I just wanted to let you know... I'm gonna win the million" on this show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION $800: Obviously hearing about North Haverbrook, Seattle got on track with a 1997 initiative for a citywide this but it didn't get done a monorail |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | NONFICTION TV $1000: This woman sang "I Dreamed A Dream" on "Britain's Got Talent" & proved the show wasn't kidding Susan Boyle |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | HISTORY TO A "T" $400: In 1971 she eliminated a program that provided milk to schoolkids & got the rhyming nickname "Milk Snatcher" Thatcher |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | SEVERANCE $400: (Patricia Arquette presents the clue.) A Best Actor Oscar went to Ronald Coleman for playing a thespian who can't tell this Shakespeare role from reality & strangles Shelley Winters in the first of her many murder victim roles Othello |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOUR $600: For these pancakes, so it will be some of the same-named flour with an earthy taste; despite the name, it doesn't come from grain buckwheat |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | HISTORY TO A "T" $800: In 1922 Harry Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company got exclusive rights to drill, baby, drill at these Wyoming reserves Teapot Dome |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | FORESTS $800: Trees aren't the focus in Kyoto's Arashiyama Forest; it's stacked tall with a grassy grove of this bamboo |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY FILMS $1,200 (Daily Double): Alan Arkin:
"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit" Argo |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | HISTORY TO A "T" $1600: At the turn of the 19th century, this chief spoke for the indigenous people at great councils in Urbana & Chillicothe Tecumseh |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | HISTORY TO A "T" $2000: The number of sacraments was set at 7 at the 1540s Council of this place Trent |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | HISTORY TO A "T" $5,000 (Daily Double): The forces of Leonidas & Xerxes faced off at this 480 B.C. battle Thermopylae |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $200: A "Greatest Hits" album by this legend included "I Will Always Love You" & "Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)" Dolly Parton |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY? $800: It's your sign if, like Logan Paul, your birthday is on a day noted for pranks Aries |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | A DUAL MEANING $600: An unbranded range animal, or a politician who doesn't toe the party line maverick |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | BABY & TODDLER PRODUCTS $1000: Buy the tot a plush baby JJ, a character from this YouTube show with a fruit in its name Cocomelon |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $200: If you hit for the cycle in baseball, you've gotten all of these hits in one game, & congrats! a single, a double, a triple & a home run |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | THE ELEMENTS $2,200 (Daily Double): The Og of elements is oganesson--though we don't know for sure it's a gas, it's part of group 18, this septet the noble gases |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $400: I don't wanna wait for you to name this '90s TV drama; I want to know right now: what will it be? Dawson's Creek |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $800: No, Lucy, you can't be in the show at this Vegas casino, as it got leveled in 2024 to, perhaps, be a new home for baseball's A's the Tropicana |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | BORDERLINE $1,500 (Daily Double): Now a tourist attraction, the demilitarized zone separating these 2 countries was officially abolished in 1976 North & South Vietnam |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | CLOTHES MINDED $200: Don't know what to wear for warmth over a fancy dress? You can do this with your shoulders or choose the same-named sweater shrug |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | THE PRESIDENT IS IN TROUBLE $600: (Anthony Mackie presents the clue.) Possibly the greatest personal threat to FDR wasn't from a World War II foe but from the destroyer William D. Porter, which accidentally fired this aquatic missile at the president's ship, USS Iowa; fortunately, it blew up in the water torpedo |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | THE PRESIDENT IS IN TROUBLE $800: (Anthony Mackie presents the clue.) The Secret Service didn't have to dodge bullets but rather the shoes of a journalist after they were hurled at George W. Bush during a press conference in this world capital Baghdad |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: You can be this kind of doubter about religion or UFOs; in philosophy it's a guy like David Hume, saying we can't know much of anything skeptic |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1000: Sounds like "Bad Santa":
A kid who preys on weaker ones + a plastic cover for eating lobster + an unlucky number bully bib thirteen |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY! $2000: Joshua Jackson & Phillipa Soo star in this ABC medical drama aboard a luxury cruise ship with a mythic name Doctor Odyssey |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 17th CENTURY FACTS $600: In 1676 this colonist led a rebellion against Gov. William Berkeley but didn't live to see the end of the year Bacon |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS $800: The space between stars isn't a total vacuum; it contains matter called the interstellar medium, 98% made up of these 2 starry elements hydrogen & helium |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $100: If an authority figure is not around, mischief will ensue:
W.T.C.A.T.M.W.P. when the cat's away, the mice will play |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $200: 1 word, 1 syllable: if you don't speak Russian, it's your curt reply to a Russian who asks whether you speak Russian Nyet |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT $200: A low-impact alternative to a treadmill, this exercise machine is named after the oval-like path its pedals move in an elliptical |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $200: Sometimes folks get set in their ways & it's difficult to change their habits:
Y.C.T.A.O.D.N.T. you can't teach an old dog new tricks |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $300: People with similar interests tend to gravitate toward each other:
B.O.A.F.F.T. birds of a feather flock together |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $400: You're running around in a frenzied, distracted manner:
L.A.C.W.I.H.C.O. like a chicken with its head cut off |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $400: "Fool them all but baby I can tell, you're no stranger to the street, don't ask for favors, don't talk to strangers..." "Don't Ask Me Why" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $600: Years before playing fictional president Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing", he played John F. Kennedy in a 1983 miniseries Martin Sheen |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $1,000 (Daily Double): These are the 2 bands inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that have had Dave Grohl as a band member Nirvana & the Foo Fighters |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $12,000 (Daily Double): Son of Erik the Red, this Norse explorer is believed to have been one of the first Europeans to reach the shores of North America Leif Erikson |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 2024 a zoo in China was accused of deceiving visitors by dying dogs black & white & trying to pass them off as these pandas |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $6,400 (Daily Double): The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789 Ways and Means |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $200: If you like piña coladas, you'd better lay in a supply of light this, the base liquor rum |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $800: Murderous blood-splatter specialist Michael C. Hall is addicted to his cell phone & can't stop messaging Texter |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $1200: Some longed for a comma in the title of this film directed by Olivia Wilde & set in a creepy 1950s planned community Don't Worry Darling |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $200: No, the Titanic's fate wasn't due to a curse involving a priestess of Amen-Ra or any of these tightly wrapped types a mummy |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800: A real test of character, perhaps by fire, &
to put in more ammo ordeal & reload |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $800: This Ukrainian president wasn't seen on video in a strange costume doing a belly dance; that rumor's been debunked Zelenskyy |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $200: "Contrary to popular belief, me don't only eat cookies. Me eat three square meals a day... with lots of circular desserts" Cookie Monster |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LIBRARY GLOSSARY $400: I.L.L., short for this, won't make you sick; it's just a way of borrowing books from other repositories interlibrary loan |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $600: In 2019, Britain's Coastguard detained a replica of this 70-meter--sorry, 150-cubit vessel, saying it wasn't seaworthy Noah's Ark |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $200: The supermarket owner: "You can get a sandwich at the deli--don't make me explain that 'deli' is short for" this word delicatessen |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $800: These flightless birds don't just live in Antarctica--you can see many of them hanging out on South Africa's Boulders Beach a penguin |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $1500: It doesn't matter if it lives in the city or in the country, if it lives in Italy this animal says "squitt-squitt" a mouse |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MOVIE & SONG TITLE $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nicki Minaj hit that samples Sir Mix-a-Lot & a J.Lo movie set in the jungle "Anaconda" |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | KID STUFF $800: Schaper Toys, creator of Cootie, also gave us this tap-tap-darn it! game of small blocks in a grid Don't Break the Ice |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well legion |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | HOW FAR IS IT? $1200: From Q to T on a standard keyboard: across this many intervening keys 3 |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $100: Estimates show that, among humans, 10% of these umbilici are "outies" bellybuttons |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $100: According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, topping a wiener with this tomato-y condiment after you turn 18 is a no-no ketchup |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $200: In the U.S., we officially celebrate hot dogs in this month, as nothing says independence like grabbing onto a plump foot-long July |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $300: Put an all-beef wienie on a poppy seed bun & "drag it through the garden" to make a hot dog in the style of this Midwestern city Chicago |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | OVER, UNDER, OR EXACTLY 100 $400: Total number of elements on the periodic table over 100 |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $400: A man with a dream, Kevin Malone says, "I just wanna lie on the beach & eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted" on this sitcom The Office |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $500 (Daily Double): In 1916 Polish immigrant Nathan Handwerker got "Famous" selling dogs for a nickel in this Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | NOISES $600: 2-note come-on heard in the 1943 cartoon "Red Hot Riding Hood" wuh-woo! (wolf whistle) |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $800: Okay, okay, Ralph Nader called this model that debuted in 1960 a one-car accident, but ain't it cute the Corvair |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $400: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) In Hell's Kitchen, you don't need a Steinway or a Stradi to make music; Ali's love interest plays drums on buckets, & she joins in for this song that says, "She's a flame"
"You can try, but you'll never forget her name, she's on top of the world, hottest of the hottest girls say, oh-oh" "Girl On Fire" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $1000: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.)
"New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (oh, come on), there's nothin' you can't do"
The closing number's this song that I performed on the Tony Awards in 2024, with of course, a guest vocal by Jay-Z "Empire State of Mind" |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | THERE WILL BE MOVIE VENGEANCE $200: Turns out Jeremy Irons wasn't pleased how things ended for Alan Rickman in this first film, so a sequel returned "with a Vengeance" Die Hard |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | CHANGE THE MIDDLE LETTER $1600: The underlying subject of a literary work isn't love or guilt but a seasoning great for pasta & roasts theme & thyme |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | FOR THE "GRAM" $200: A 180-pound person weighs 81.6 of these, which somehow seems lighter, but y'know, isn't a kilogram |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | FOR THE "GRAM" $800: This device was patented by Emile Berliner in 1887, & I can't resist:
"Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me" a gramophone |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1000: (Jason Reitman presents the clue.) We didn't get much resistance from tobacco, alcohol or firearms companies, but can you believe the Park Service said no to a reflecting pool scene, adapted from a Christopher Buckley novel for this film? "Forrest Gump" had no such problems Thank You for Smoking |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | LITERALLY LITERATURE $800: This author is a character in "Shoeless Joe"; not happy about being portrayed, he isn't in the movie version "Field of Dreams" Salinger |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | WHATCHA WATCHIN'? $1200: The "Joker" sequel with this French subtitle--why didn't anyone tell me it was a musical Folie à Deux |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SALTY BODIES OF WATER $1600: This so-called "Sea" in a Southern California desert didn't exist until a flood filled a low basin the Salton Sea |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | I HAVE A MEME $100: Don't click on that hyperlink! You could become a victim of this O.G. meme, a bait-&-switch prank involving '80s singer Rick Astley a rickroll |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | DURING HIS PRESIDENCY $800: Spanish Civil War;
end of Prohibition;
launch of the New Deal Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $900: This is a metal, but it's liquid at room temperature--you shouldn't be able to pour yourself a cup of metal!
What's the deal?! mercury |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $1500: This metal has a 3-letter name, yet they gave it a 2-letter symbol, Sn--why not just "T"?! "T" was available! What's the deal?! tin |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | SCIENCE, TECH & TV $2,500 (Daily Double): A mad scientist & his grandson use a portal gun to travel to different dimensions on this long-running animated series Rick and Morty |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | ART CLASS $2,600 (Daily Double): The woman in this 1871 masterpiece is sitting down because she got tired of standing while posing for her son Whistler's Mother |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $400: It's the shape & style of the pendant seen here, but don't let it get you down a teardrop |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | SOME WEAR... $2000: Fedoras; others don this similar-looking hat that shares a name with a George du Maurier novel trilby |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | "B" ON THE SEA $2000: This 4-letter world capital is the largest city on the Caspian Sea--so what if the Caspian Sea isn't actually a sea? Who cares? Baku |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | PSYCHOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): Like "helicopter parents", this term from a sports-minded Danish psychologist describes parents who sweep obstacles away from kids curling parents |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | "MORE" OR "LESS" $400: Britney Spears assured fans that this line didn't mean physically but give me a sign hit me baby one more time |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | TRAVEL USA $800: You won't actually set sail but you can book a suite or stateroom aboard this historic ocean liner in Long Beach, California the Queen Mary |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | FICTIONAL FEMALES $600: Aibileen, why can't you be true... but you're a made-up maid in this novel by Kathryn Stockett The Help |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | IN THE KITCHEN WITH INA GARTEN $200: During her gig as the "Today" food correspondent for the 2024 Olympics, Ina crashed at her pied-à-terre in this city Paris |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $200: If party equals hangover, don't worry: on March 6, the German company Bayer registered a patent for this aspirin |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | NOT-SO-SURREALISM $300: It's not like Frida Kahlo is in a kayak or on Mars; in her 1940 painting "The Dream", she's literally lying on this furniture a bed |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | DOUBLE TALK $400: It's someone who is very, very well-behaved--especially when the teacher's watching a goody-goody |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | HISTORICAL RUMORS QUASHED $500: Stop giving me credit for inventing baseball in Cooperstown--I wasn't even there in 1839 & I'm tired of living a lie Abner Doubleday |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | NOT-SO-SURREALISM $600: Joan Miró's 1922 painting "The Farm" ain't so surreal; it literally depicts chickens, a barn & this covered vehicle a wagon |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | DOUBLE TALK $800: This nonsense phrase sounds idiotic as a catcall, but the bubble gum brand it inspired isn't so bad hubba-hubba |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | STREAMIN' TO THE OLDIES $900: With over a billion streams, ain't nothing gonna keep this 1967 Tammi Terrell/ Marvin Gaye hit from gettin' to you, babe "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | RESPOND IN GERMAN IF YOU DER $900: A groaner of a pun often seen on t-shirts is "German sausage jokes are just the" this Wurst |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | HEY "YA" $1500: In 1996, cowboy Wylie Gustafson was paid $590 to yodel the name of this company for a commercial Yahoo! |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | AS THEY SAY... $400: A proverb says, "A new broom" does this sweeps clean |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | BOTANY $800: Ask Mr. Alpert--a plant that doesn't produce wood is usually referred to as one of these herbaceous (herb) |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | TV THIS CENTURY $400: This Kristen Bell show is set in a a spot where people couldn't use curse words & ended up saying "shirt" & "fork" instead The Good Place |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | PLUG $200: Something completely worthless was once said to not be worth a "plug" one of these nickel |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $800: A 2015 Marvel movie:
"Heroes don't get any bigger" Ant-Man |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | PLUG $1000: The plug type was an early version of this weapon; the blade was inserted into the muzzle, however, & it didn't last long a bayonet |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | MOVIES BY TAGLINE $7,600 (Daily Double): 2010:
"You don't get to 500 million friends without making 'a few enemies" The Social Network |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL AROUND THE U.S. $400: Borealis Basecamp in Alaska is a prime place to view this "directional" atmospheric display (& don't talk your Latin to us!) northern lights |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | MOVIE LINES $800: Tom Hanks gave this iconic 5-word don't to the right fielder played by Bitty Schram in "A League of Their Own" There's no crying in baseball |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | BEST IF USED BY DEC. 31, 1999 $200: A Forbes headline: "Apocalypse Then: When" this alphanumeric "Didn't Lead to the End of Civilization" Y2K |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT $100: This "M" word meaning "slightly wet or damp" is the queen mother of hated words; you can use it to describe a nice pound cake moist |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | FUNNY MATH WORDS $200: A truncated hyperbolic paraboloid looks like one of these "once you pop, you can't stop" snacks that come in a can a Pringle |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT $200: This "C" word can refer to a bulky sweater or a thick, hearty soup; either way, it's a hard pass chunky |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT $300: Real talk: use this "S" word to refer to your loose-fitting pants, & you can probably forget about a second date slacks (sweatpants accepted) |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT $400: This vile "P" word is the thicker, more annoying cousin of mucus; he typically comes to visit in the winter when you have a cold phlegm |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $400: Overheard in the steam room: a hot room heated with dry heat instead of steam isn't a steam room, it's one of these a sauna |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT $500: This little orange citrus fruit has a "K" name that sounds positively revolting, but they're actually quite delicious kumquat |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HARD NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $600: 43-across, 6 letters:
"A Hard Day's Night" songwriter Lennon |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | 2004, WHAT A YEAR! $1500: We got so caught up in this Usher song that it spent 12 weeks at the top of the charts "Yeah!" |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | AMERICAN MASTERS $1500: Despite her denials, this modernist's work, including "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1", is thought to have erotic undertones Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | POTENT QUOTABLES $6,000 (Daily Double): This pale dry sherry gets title billing in a Poe tale Amontillado |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | SLANG FROM YOUR START-UP JOB $2000: No, our company didn't do this to keep people from seeing your dog's Halloween costume; the head of IG says it's "not a thing" shadow ban |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | IDIOT IDIOMS $800: 5 words of advice from his mama quoted often by Tom Hanks in a 1994 movie stupid is as stupid does |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | WHISKEY, & KEEP 'EM COMIN' $1200: In the 1930 film "Anna Christie", this actress says, "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side & don't be stingy, baby" Greta Garbo |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | NOVEL TITLE DROP A LETTER $3,700 (Daily Double): An Edith Wharton title drops a letter & laughter spews from a tube The Hose of Mirth (The House of Mirth) |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | JANE STONE, WWII LINGUIST $1200: Jane doesn't know it will someday be a TV streaming platform, but she is aware that this means "six" in Japanese roku |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $200: In a 2016 speech, she said, "When someone is cruel... you don't stoop to their level--No... when they go low, we go high" Michelle Obama |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | MILITARY CELEBS $800: After serving 4 years in the 25th Infantry, he got into music, then put in his 20 (& still counting!) as a cop on NBC Ice-T |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | NONFICTION $3,600 (Daily Double): "King of the Osage Hills" & "For the Betterment of the Bureau" are chapters in this 2017 bestseller Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Giotto opened a cool can of fresco in "Noli me tangere", meaning this, what the risen Christ is saying to Mary Magdalene don't touch me |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | CUPS & GLASSES $200: It's a cylindrical glass cup with an acrobatic name; back in the day, it had a pointed bottom & couldn't be set down without it rolling a tumbler |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | THE LAST TYCOON $400: This newspaper tycoon brought a Cistercian monastery over from Spain but couldn't put it together again Hearst |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | THE GADSDEN PURCHASE $400: One reason for the purchase was to provide a route for this across the southern U.S.; it wasn't completed until 1881 the Transcontinental Railroad |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | THE SIMPSONS CHARACTER WHO SAID... $400: "I could pull a better cartoon outta my a... Hey! Whoa! Wasn't that great, kids?!" Krusty the Clown |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | DESTINY'S OTHER CHILDREN $2,400 (Daily Double): There's a reason you don't hear much about the 5th century ruler Bleda; this meaner brother & co-ruler offed him in 445 Attila the Hun |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | FOOT BALL $200: Defenders can't approach a kicker taking this soccer penalty, whether the direct or indirect type a free kick |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | I'M SO INDICTED $600: So you made $116 mil. but didn't pay Uncle Sam a dime (in a non-legal way)? We'll indict you for this 2-word crime, like Pete Rose tax evasion |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | LET'S GO TO THE PARK $3,000 (Daily Double): Built over abandoned railroad tracks, this Chicago park opened in 2004, just a few years behind schedule Millennium Park |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WAITER $200: In a 2004 episode of this show, a waiter makes the fatal mistake of complaining to Christopher & Paulie about a tip The Sopranos |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | DUMB $200: "Don't get fooled!" became "Don't take any wooden" these coins nickels |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: After a famous opera singer passes out & can't perform, another man takes his place in Ken Ludwig's comedy "Lend Me a" this tenor |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | AT THE PET STORE $800: Add another "T" to the second letter of the Greek alphabet to get the name of this fish that's ubiquitous at pet stores a betta fish |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | INTERNATIONAL CITIES $1200: Once the center of a vanished kingdom, Benin City isn't in Benin, but in this bigger neighbor to the east Nigeria |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | SMOOTH AS SILK $600: Meaning "thing to wear", this term for a T-shaped garment often made of silk dates back to the reign of Emperor Meiji a kimono |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): A proverbial admonition not to weep over mishandled dairy that turned into a caramel-&-chocolate Hershey product don't cry over spilled Milk Duds |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | NAME A WOMAN $1000: This Bay State senator who said, "If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu" (Elizabeth) Warren |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | JURY DUTY $1200: A grand jury doesn't decide guilt or innocence but whether a person should be this, formally charged (& then arraigned) indicted |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | "T-W-A" $400: It's the feline name for the runway where models strut their stuff a catwalk |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | WHAT ARE YOU WEARING, LITERARY CHARACTER? $400: Miss Havisham dolls up for a wedding that wasn't; for one that does happen, Miss Skiffins just switches green kid these for white gloves |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | YOU DON'T KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $400: Adam Levine was in a group called Kara's Flowers before finding more enduring fame as "the voice" of this band Maroon 5 |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | "T-W-A" $800: It can mean asunder or a pair, like in that famous line about them never meeting twain |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | YOU DON'T KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $1000: A customized Lincoln Futura became the iconic Batmobile full of gadgets & driven on TV by this actor Adam West |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | "T-W-A" $1200: This German Air Force was officially announced in 1935, at which time it already had hundreds of planes the Luftwaffe |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | "T-W-A" $1600: There's no wiggle room in this word for a miser a tightwad |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | "T-W-A" $2000: It's a formal ruling on a point of Islamic law; one was famously rendered against Salman Rushdie in 1989 a fatwa |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1763 the Penns & Calverts brought in these 2 English astronomers to settle a boundary dispute Mason & Dixon |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $200: It can mean a new colony, or a business agreement negotiated to resolve a dispute a settlement |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $800: A woman's undergarment often trimmed with ruffles or lace a petticoat |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TV SHOW TAGLINES $800: "Science makes sense, family doesn't" is a truth shared by this animated comedy Rick and Morty |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | ASIAN AMERICANS $3,000 (Daily Double): The cake for his 100th birthday celebration was in the shape of one of his last buildings, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha I.M. Pei |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | LIFE IMITATES POP CULTURE $600: It wasn't called fake news yet when this 1997 film had a spin doctor creating a war to distract from a presidential sex scandal Wag the Dog |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | A MEAT & POTATOES CATEGORY $800: A bit larger than T-bone is this sharable steak cut with meat from both the top loin & the tenderloin a porterhouse |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | ADJECTIVES $3,000 (Daily Double): Related to the word "diamond", it means unyielding or inflexible, perhaps in your opinion adamant |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | BIG WORDS $400: P.T. Barnum's pachyderm Jumbo |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | A "BARREL" OF FUN $200: You're really scraping this when all that's available is something of the lowest or worst quality the bottom of the barrel |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $400: A new study says this red supergiant in Orion may be a binary star, so it's OK to say it twice--but please, stop there Betelgeuse |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | PLAY THINGS $600: In 1967 this play based around a classic one debuted on Broadway & pretty much promised the 2 title guys wouldn't make it out alive Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | ENTERTAINMENT HYPHENATES $1,200 (Daily Double): "Global Offensive" is one title in this Valve video game shooter whose name refers to a type of military retaliation Counter-Strike |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | THE MIDWEST $1000: Mimicking the name of a prehistoric site in England, this monument is just outside of Alliance, Nebraska, along Highway 87 Carhenge |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | VERY DEMURE, VERY MINDFUL $1000: This 2-word French term means fully informed & up-to-date au courant |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | BRITSPEAK $200: If someone asks you to "give me a tinkle on the blower", they're asking you to do this; don't forget! call them |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | ADMISSIBLE EDIFICE $1600: A Cleveland Clinic center for brain health isn't in Ohio, but in this glitzy city whose call Frank Gehry long resisted Las Vegas |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT THEM $2000: spelled her name in lower case; wrote the 1981 book "Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism" bell hooks |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | A PROJECT $800: A WSJ post asked, "He couldn't run a hamburger stand. How did Oppenheimer run" this project's "secret lab?" the Manhattan Project |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | 3-WORD PHRASES $1000: It means doing everything right, or getting a hit every time up, though the math doesn't strictly work on that last one batting 1.000 |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | SLOGANS $400: "Don't leave home without it" is a classic slogan of this company that also says, "Don't live life without it" American Express |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also a math term; the police sometimes set one up to secure an area a perimeter |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | "E" BOOKS $2000: It's Nicola Yoon's young adult tale of Madeline, who hasn't left her house in 17 years--then a boy moves in next door... Everything, Everything |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $400: We have a problem if you don't know that it's the fourth-largest U.S. city in population Houston |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $600: In humans "false" these don't connect to the sternum directly & are attached to the 7th pair by cartilage ribs |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | QUEEN VICTORIA $800: While she didn't have symptoms, Victoria was a carrier of this bleeding disorder & passed it on to several children hemophilia |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $400: The Beastie Boys promised, "No! sleep! 'til" this borough! Even if you don't know the song, you have a 1-in-5 shot Brooklyn |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW $1200: MC Hammer used Rick James' "Super Freak" in this 1990 Top 10 hit with a "tactile" title "U Can't Touch This" |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | I TINKER $400: Tim Derk developed the cannon for these as the San Antonio Spurs' coyote mascot, with help from the Phoenix Suns' gorilla T-shirt |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NONFICTION $1000: The arrival of birds from Polynesia to the raft of this ethnologist is a great moment in his 1950 book Thor Heyerdahl |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | GLADIATORS $1000: (Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Maybe you think, "If it was me, I'd play dead"; no, the god Mercury would enter with a branding iron to make sure you weren't faking & then this ferryman of Hades would hit you with the hammer he carried in Etruscan myth Charon |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | Y2K MEMORIES $600: This type of "it" bag from Fendi won't fit a loaf of French bread but shares its name baguette |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $800: In 1917 he edited a left-wing tabloid in the East Village months before leading a Russian revolution Trotsky |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD $1000: In 1881 James had a dream that this VP of his drowned & James couldn't save him; months later it was James dead & this man president Arthur |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | R&B & SOUL $1600: In 2016, he released the album "Blonde" alongside a zine called "Boys Don't Cry" Frank Ocean |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $3,000 (Daily Double): This fort nestled between the Adirondacks & the Green Mountains was the site of a July 1777 siege Fort Ticonderoga |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $400: Glenbach is (well, could be) shorthand for Glennon Doyle & this wife, a retired soccer star Abby Wambach |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $600: Jennifer Aniston has a pleasurable experience after her boyfriend Jim Carrey finds God in this film Bruce Almighty |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1000: We cherished Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a faded celeb desperately trying to return to the big time on this HBO comedy The Comeback |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $2000: From a 2022 Best Musical Tony nominee: "Ex-Wives" & "Don't Lose Ur Head" Six |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $600: Brooded, &
a low-powered bike moped & moped |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | "I"-FAN $1000: In the 1980s fans celebrated as this East Coast NHL team made it to 5 straight Stanley Cup Finals the Islanders |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $400: You could've bought this stock at $22 a share when it went public December 12, 1980, & why didn't you, mom & dad? Apple |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | CATCH, 22 $400: The Vikings haven't retired the No. 22 worn by Paul Krause, the NFL's all-time leader in these, catching a pass from the opposing QB interceptions |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $600: A 2-parter called "What's My Line?" had this title character wondering about career choices if fate hadn't made her a vampire slayer Buffy |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $400: If a car can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, be careful, that's pretty fast, & also the car is an SF90 Spider from this company a Ferrari |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $1200: If Pete eats 7/8 of this state's classic "mud pie" with a pecan, Graham cracker & melted butter crust, Pete better hit the gym Mississippi |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $1600: It's 1883; if train A leaves Paris at 9 A.M. & train B exits Bucharest at 20 mph, this line with those stops is in its 1st year of operation the Orient Express |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $600: 3 glasses of whiskey are said to have made his 1865 VP inaugural address a bit of an adventure; a stunned Lincoln couldn't even look Andrew Johnson |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | "B" IN SCIENCE $1600: Not quite star material & actually appearing red, these astronomical objects can't reach stable luminosities a brown dwarf |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): At his death in 1915 this school founder was laid to rest in a tomb built by students, on a hill overlooking the Tuskegee campus Booker T. Washington |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | JOIN UP! $800: Lend your voice to this; you don't have to sound like Whitney Houston, who sang in it at New Hope Baptist in Newark a choir |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | REALITY & COMPETITION TV SHOWS $1000: Joe Tessitore & Rob Riggle host this show where folks putt their mini golf skills to the test on a supersized course Holey Moley |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | HISTORIC WOMEN $1200: This heiress of Aquitaine so loved culture that her tomb effigy doesn't show her dead or asleep but reading a book Eleanor |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE $1000: "Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but..." you can't have a rainbow without a little rain |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | AFTERNOON "T" $200: Grab a friend & spend the afternoon getting in sync riding this bicycle built for two tandem |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | AFTERNOON "T" $400: For a summer afternoon cocktail, try this gin brand, perhaps its Rangpur lime Tanqueray |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | AFTERNOON "T" $600: How about a cup of afternoon tea? Perhaps from Tetley or this brand established in London in 1706 Twinings |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | AFTERNOON "T" $800: Hit the slopes on a snowy afternoon & do this type of skiing named after a region in Norway Telemark |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | AFTERNOON "T" $1000: A good afternoon activity is looking for & listening to this swan, seen & heard here a trumpeter swan |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | PHOTOGRAPHERS & THEIR CRAFT $1600: William Wegman's claim to fame--whimsical portraits of this dog breed that also starts with "W" a Weimaraner |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $800: The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A big party thrown by the Vanderbilts at their home known as the Petit this inspired a storyline on "The Gilded Age" Chateau |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | ROCK & POP FIRSTS $400: She deserves a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for being the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, back in 1987 Aretha Franklin |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | FASHION, DEFINED $800: "Leather shorts usually made with bib top, originally a Tyrolean style" Lederhosen |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | LIGHTER VERSE $200: Serious poet W.H. Auden's anthology of light verse includes "the old woman who lived" here, but she buys a coffin for her "many children" a shoe |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | PLANTED BY $400: The Haifa grounds of the Technion, Israel's Stanford or M.I.T., have a tree planted in 1923 by this visiting Jewish scientist Einstein |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | DUBLINERS: THEY WRITE, THEY PERFORM $400: In 2023 music fans mourned her, a 1991 Grammy winner for Best Alternative Music Performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" Sinead O'Connor |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $400: It can refer to a sequence of RNA, or a written record of what was said orally a transcript |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | TRANSPORT USA $400: Upon reflection, it probably wasn't the best look for the brand when this bus line owned a meatpacking company from 1970 to 1983 Greyhound |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | TRANSPORT USA $800: When the ferry can't go, Madeline Island in Lake Superior is accessible by this 2-word conduit, also in the title of a TV show the Ice Road |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $800: "Thursday I don't care about you, it's" this Cure title "Friday I'm In Love" |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1200: 7-letter word for a decorative crest of hair on the crown of the head a topknot |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $1600: This metal stand of 3 legs is used to hold cooking vessels over a fire a trivet |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $2000: Seize the day--heavy projectiles could be hurled from one of these in the Middle Ages a trebuchet |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $200: Don't ask the private eye what the empty bottle is for during this, a type of surveillance outside a suspect's house a stakeout |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $600: It's an individual who receives care at a hospital but doesn't stay overnight outpatient |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | STUNTING AT THE GYM $200: At the gym, one of these isn't a snack but a noisy name for an abdominal exercise a crunch |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | METONYMS $800: Proverbially, "you can't fight" it, it being a metonym for local government city hall |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | QUOTH THE WOMAN $1000: "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" is one of her snappy lines Dorothy Parker |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $600: William Harvey attempted this process in 1628, but it wasn't safe until the advent of donor compatibility tests in the early 1900s a blood transfusion |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | POSSESSIVE TERMS $800: The eponymous man's 1889 formulation of this dictum: "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off" Chekhov's gun |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $1200: To show Columbus wasn't first across the Atlantic, in 1893, a Viking ship replica sailed from Norway to a big party in this city Chicago |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | POSSESSIVE TERMS $6,400 (Daily Double): A structure of ropes & wooden steps for ascending a ship's rigging, or something that appears in Genesis 28:12 Jacob's ladder |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | PLEASE DON'T GO... $200: I know I've been singing this song about a young fish a lot lately, but... doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo... it's so much fun "Baby Shark" |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | PLEASE DON'T GO... $600: Sure I got you a vacuum cleaner for Mother's Day, but it was one from this brand that shares a name with our 31st president Hoover |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS $800: William Inge once had a terrier named Lula Belle, an inspiration for this little dog that isn't coming back in his classic play Sheba |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | PLEASE DON'T GO... $800: Maybe I erred in saying your friend reeks like this rarely blooming flower, also known as titan arum, but I nearly passed out a corpse flower |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | PLEASE DON'T GO... $1000: Yes, I spent our last dollar to build a Lego version of this mausoleum in Agra, but it was a labor of love! the Taj Mahal |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | 19th CENTURY CULTURE TRIP $400: In 1801 Alexander Hamilton launched this Big Apple paper that didn't have a Page Six yet The New York Post |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: Don't draw premature conclusions is the meaning of "one" of these birds "does not make a summer", attributed to Aristotle a swallow |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | FILM-POURRI $2,400 (Daily Double): A script called "Night Skies" about long-fingered aliens led to both "Poltergeist" this other 1980s hit E.T. |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $600: At a mad tea party this participant chides Alice with, "It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited" the March Hare |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | WILD LINES $200: "Why do you lead me" on one of these ridiculous quests, an unhappy Sancho Panza asks Don Quixote a wild goose chase |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH... $800: T:
To successfully hinder a plan thwart |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | CLASSIC COCKTAILS $600: Maybe at Havana's El Floridita, Ernest Hemingway in an afternoon could drink 12 of these--he liked them with grapefruit juice daiquiris |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $1000: He founded his publicly owned investment firm in Baltimore in 1937; perhaps you've seen its bighorn sheep logo? T. Rowe Price |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | TIME TO BUY SOME STUFF $800: Don't get those knickers in a twist! In 2015 the royal undies of Elizabeth II's great-great grandma, this woman, fetched $16,000 Victoria |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FIX THE PROVERB $200: "Its book by a judge don't cover" don't judge a book by its cover |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY CHANGE? $1,000 (Daily Double): On her journey "across Italy, India & Indonesia", she writes, "One must always be prepared for... endless waves of transformation" Elizabeth Gilbert |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | LITERARY EPITAPHS $1200: For his epitaph, he wrote, "A poet lies, or that which one seem'd he,--O, lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C." Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | A LITTLE FOOD, A LITTLE WINE $200: Can't say I know for sure, but I'll bet this airy chocolate dish tastes better than the same-named hair product mousse |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleyev wrote that when arranged via his method, the elements showed this kind of "change of properties" periodic |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | THE ENVIRONMENT $1000: You don't want pollutants ending up in a drainage basin, also called this, a term for an important moment a watershed |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $600: National Tater Tot Day & Day of the Crêpe both fall on this date, but we didn't find Live the Day Over & Over Day February 2nd (Groundhog Day) |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | INSTA-GRAHAM $400: It wasn't until March 17, 2024 that she joined Instagram, posting a picture from "Gilmore Girls" Lauren Graham |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $600: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa & Po were the big 4 on this BBC kids' show that opened with a creepy baby face in the rising sun Teletubbies |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $800: It preceded "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" in the title of a sci-fi series Terminator |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | LITERARY HATERADE $2000: W.H. Auden went in on this 19th century Brit, saying that "his wife"--also a poet--"probably didn't care for him very much" Robert Browning |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $1600: Despite the name, these birds aren't dumb--the masked & brown types make their homes on Johnston Atoll, a Nat. Wildlife Refuge boobies |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | SOME HATS, SOME CATTLE $1600: The name of this cattle breed prized for its marbled beef literally means "Japanese cow" wagyu |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | THE FOLKIE ERA $800: This biblical-sounding trio had 12 Top 40 hits, including "If I Had A Hammer", subtitled "(The Hammer Song)" if you didn't get it Peter, Paul and Mary |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | CYBERTALK $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the diplomatic word for the standards governing an exchange of data between computer systems a protocol |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | LEFTOVERS $400: The Heimlich isn't medicine's only one of these; if you have tachycardia, the doctor may ask you to perform the Valsalva one a maneuver |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | NATIONAL FLAGS $1,500 (Daily Double): The flag of this Central American nation has an ax, a ship & a motto meaning "I flourish in the shade", but no more Union Jack Belize |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | TRIAL BY JURY $1600: "The jury has spoken... you can't lie to shareholders", said a prosecutor who helped convict this Texas energy company's execs Enron |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | ONE-WORD SONG TITLES $2000: In a Reba McEntire hit, a mother to her daughter: "Here's your one chance", her, "don't let me down" "Fancy" |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | PASSIONATE ABOUT NEUTRAL WORDS $400: A 2012 headline asked if this kind of voter would "tip the election against Obama", but we haven't made up our minds on that yet undecided |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL $400: Don't leave a piano recital too soon--you might miss Prokofiev's showy "Precipitato" as one of these, not on the program an encore |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $1000: In 1941 this congresswoman said, "As a woman I can't go to war, & I refuse to send anyone else" Jeannette Rankin |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | NO. 1 ALBUMS BY PEOPLE WHO AREN'T TAYLOR SWIFT $1600: Here's a history lesson: Both this Billy Joel song & his "Storm Front" album were No. 1 when Taylor was born Dec. 13, 1989 "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $200: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter" Huckleberry Finn |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | TSA YEA OR NAY $600: Carry Nation carried these short-handled axes, but you can't, at least not in your carry-on a hatchet |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This novel opens on a rather bleak note with "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know" The Stranger |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $1000: Sylvia Plath: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, & I didn't know what I was doing in" N.Y. The Bell Jar |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | TRUCK & TRUCKIN' SONGS $400: Not sure what Rhett Akins drove, but it wasn't a 4x4 from this brand because "that ain't my truck" in his girl's driveway a Chevy |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | TRUCK & TRUCKIN' SONGS $1000: The title of this C.W. McCall song refers to a group of trucks all moving together; ain't she a beautiful sight? "Convoy" |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | LET'S TALK ABOUT CAKE $400: The name of this ring-shaped cake pan is a trademark of Nordic Ware, which added a "T" to a German word Bundt |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | EMOTIONAL WORDS? $800: This compound word referring to someone who spoils things for others doesn't refer to an actual murder a killjoy |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | PLAY TIME $800: A lack of props didn't stop this Thornton Wilder play from getting its props--the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Our Town |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | WELL, WE'VE NEVER HAD THAT RESPONSE $1200: Italian building 5.5 degrees from perpendicular + 4-letter Chinese sailboat = this; what a... Leaning Tower of Pisa junk |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $200: George Eastman said the letter K "had been a favorite with me", thus he created this name for his camera out of thin air Kodak |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | DON'T GO, JASON $400: In a memorable "SNL" digital short, Fred Armisen shoots this cast member to the strains of Imogen Heap's "Hide And Seek" Sudeikis |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $600: Originally, the cartons of this luxury ice cream featured a map of Denmark although its name wasn't Danish, it was made up Häagen-Dazs |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $1000: Infomercials in the 1980s touted the quality of these kitchen knives with a "Japanese" name; they were actually made in Ohio Ginsu |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | DON'T GO, JASON $1600: Jason Segel met his fate early on in this apocalyptic 2013 comedy, falling into a fiery pit right after Rihanna This Is the End |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | WATERFALLS $2000: A Yosemite fall with a wispy ribbon of water that flutters in the air like diaphanous cloth bears the name of this marital wear a bridal veil |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $400: In the workplace, P.T.O. can stand for this, like a vacation day paid time off |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? $800: An eft is a newt, but E.F.T. is short for this type of monetary transfer electronic funds transfer |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | SAME FIRST & LAST CONSONANT $400: Hopefully, you don't have to use your winnings to buy back the family jewels at this kind of store a pawn shop |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | STRANGE CURRENCIES $1000: Named for a signature sandwich, it was a cryptocurrency launched by the Russian branch of Burger King in 2017 WhopperCoin |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | "B" WEAR $600: When asked this age-old choice of underwear options, Bill Clinton didn't give a definitive answer boxers or briefs |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | THE DOGS $1000: This ancient breed from Central Africa is known as the "barkless dog"; although it doesn't bark, it does make a yodeling sound a Basenji |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | AFI's GREATEST VILLAINS $1200: No. 2:
Terrifying mama's boy who "wouldn't even harm a fly" Norman Bates |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | SCIENCE $600: The hypothetical solar sail on a spaceship wouldn't fly on solar wind, as you might think, but on these particles, also known as light quanta photons |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | SCIENC"E" $400: By definition, it's a substance that can't be chemically decomposed into a simpler one an element |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | YOU DON'T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT... $400: ...these, "also very much a thing for women before or during menopause", per a Cleveland Clinic web page cold flashes |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | GRAPPLE SAUCE $600: In Genesis this patriarch wrestles all night with God & won't stop until receiving a blessing Jacob |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | YOU DON'T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT... $600: ...these people, the title of a book by Cokie Roberts about Revolutionary War female heroes like Molly Pitcher the Founding Mothers |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | HATS ON $1000: You wear this Scottish cap anywhere, not just to a David Mamet play about real estate salesmen a glengarry |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | YOU DON'T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT... $1000: ...a bad Samaritan--how about this wicked biblical queen who tried to establish idol worship in Samaria Jezebel |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | FROM THE GERMAN $2000: This word for broken-down & completely useless ends with a double T in German; we just use one kaput |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | ELLIS ISLAND $2000: Emma Goldman, who wrote a book titled this political -ism, didn't enter the U.S. at Ellis Island but was deported via it in 1919 anarchism |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? $200: A neighbor of Manhattan, this northernmost NYC borough is just over the Willis Avenue Bridge the Bronx |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? $400: This over 700-mile-long peninsula, a neighbor to the U.S., boasts Pacific Ocean views Baja California |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? $1000: A neighbor of Alsace, this oft-disputed region is known as Lothringen in German Lorraine |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | POETRY TEST $400: Guests at many a wedding don't hear the lowercase in E.E. Cummings' "i carry your" this "with me" heart |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $800: I'll be very disappointed if you don't get these: Understanding or knowledge, & sharp like an animal's senses ken & keen |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | PREHISTORIC ANIMALS $800: An early type of this semiaquatic weasel wasn't cute & cuddly--it was the size of a wolf, with a bite to match an otter |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $1000: To abstain or elect not to do something, like not mentioning it's another word for a song's chorus refrain |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | STEVIE WONDER $600: Stevie wanted to add a Swahili phrase on this charity single, causing Waylon Jennings to bail (good ole boys don't sing in Swahili) "We Are The World" |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | YOU CAN'T SPELL... $800: This type of covenant, limiting how you can use your property, without "strict" a restriction (restrictive) |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | HIT THE ROAD, JACQUES $800: This explorer may have been to Brazil in the early 16th century before going west again, giving Canada its name on a later trip Jacques Cartier |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | YOU CAN'T SPELL... $1200: This word for a type of attachment to an item from your past, without "time" sentiment (sentimental) |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | YOU CAN'T SPELL... $2000: This, which roughly 1/4 of Americans experience each year, without "omni" (not exactly a plug for the hotel chain) insomnia |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES $800: That ain't your house! Cuckoos practice brood parasitism, putting an egg in this place, so other birds rear the young a different nest |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | DON'T WANT TO FIGHT $400: In the early U.S., John Randolph refused this from James Wilkinson; Wilkinson posted Randolph, publicly calling him coward a duel |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | DON'T WANT TO FIGHT $1200: A 2017 animated film was based on "The Story of" this big-hearted bull who'd rather smell the flowers than fight Ferdinand |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | DON'T WANT TO FIGHT $1600: This future oil baron paid a substitute to fight in the Civil War; his brother Frank was wounded at Chancellorsville John D. Rockefeller |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | DON'T WANT TO FIGHT $2000: "A" is for this purely defensive martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba, who hated fighting aikido |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | NEW TO THE OED $800: This unintended silence during a radio or TV broadcast isn't quite as fatal as it sounds dead air |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING $3,000 (Daily Double): During World War II he flew 60 combat missions as a U.S. Air Force bombardier... isn't that crazy? Or maybe not Joseph Heller |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE $400: Online, T.I.L. is short for this phrase reflecting something new you found out about today I learned |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | MICHIGAN $800: The name of this city in the west of the state refers to fast-moving water on a certain river Grand Rapids |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $400: A porterhouse has a larger amount of the tenderloin than this smaller, letter-perfect steak a T-bone |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS $600: Urged to give up a fast, he replied in 1924, "Am fasting to live not die unless God wills otherwise. Don't worry" Gandhi |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | DOUBLE "R" WORDS $800: In some places, a couple can get a divorce based on these differences when they can't agree upon much irreconcilable |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION $800: As well as buses & trains, transit options of the MBTA, or T, included this kind of service from Boston to Hingham a ferry |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | COMMON BONDS $800: A smile,
an egg,
the books things you can crack |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $1600: Bogie attests, "One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for" in this tempest-tossed John Huston thriller Key Largo |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL $800: A variant of the idiom "you can't get blood from a stone" is "you can't get blood from" this root vegetable a turnip |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | CLASSIC SONG NUMBERS $1000: Regarding this Meat Loaf song, it's a yes on wanting you & needing you, but loving you... Oo, sorry! Now don't be sad, 'cause... "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | ROLE WITH THE PUNCHES $600: This 2015 movie isn't about the rock band that sang "Higher"; it's about a young boxer who asks Rocky Balboa for help Creed |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IT WAS THE '60s, MAN $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1965 it became a criminal offense to burn, destroy or mutilate one of these a draft card |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | PLAY CHARACTERS $800: He wrote, "I couldn't stop at 'A Doll's House'; after Nora, I had to create Mrs. Alving" in "Ghosts" Ibsen |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | PLAY CHARACTERS $2000: Actors love playing Melissa & Andy in this epistolary play by A.R. Gurney & sometimes do so in combinations you wouldn't expect Love Letters |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | DON'T STOP RETRIEVIN' $200: The NBA uses this name for a stat that could also be "retrievals"; in a 1960 game, Wilt Chamberlain had an amazing 55 rebounds |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | DON'T STOP RETRIEVIN' $400: Next up after Neil, this Moon mission grabbed a camera from the "Surveyor 3" probe that had arrived 2 1/2 years before Apollo 12 |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CLASSIC RAP LYRICS $600: He rapped, "Today I didn't even have to use my AK, I gotta say it was a good day" Ice Cube |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | DON'T STOP RETRIEVIN' $600: It describes a loan co. taking a car back because of non-payments or when a spirit takes control of a body for a second time repossession |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | DON'T STOP RETRIEVIN' $800: The popularity of this dog breed was boosted in 1975 when one named Liberty gave birth to 9 puppies in the White House a Golden Retriever |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | DON'T STOP RETRIEVIN' $1000: In a 1930 novel Mr. Cairo asks Sam Spade to retrieve this "statuette, the black figure of a bird" the Maltese Falcon |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | WEAPON NAMES $800: Popular with gangsters & soldiers alike, the submachine gun nicknamed this was invented by John T. Thompson a Tommy gun |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SPILL THE "T" $1600: It can mean to shorten by cutting off a part, such as by dropping digits after the decimal point to truncate |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SPILL THE "T" $2000: Not exactly a science, it's a needless repetition of an idea using different words, like close proximity or frozen ice tautology |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | YOU CAN'T GET ANY FURTHER NORTH $800: In this New England state:
A town called Estcourt Station, specifically Rue de la Frontière or "Border Street" Maine |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | I'LL JUST NEED TO VERIFY YOUR IDENTITY $200: It's often noted that you don't need a valid state one to compete in a NASCAR race; officer, here's my Rusty Wallace novelty one a driver's license |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | LITERARY SIMILES $800: He jolted critics with a "Prufrock" simile: "The evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" T.S. Eliot |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | THE REAL TAGLINES OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES $200: These "aren't a girl's best friend, martinis are!" diamonds |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MISTAKEN IDENTITY $400: A newish legal term based on mistaken identity is named for this Jamaican music maker who sang "It Wasn't Me" Shaggy |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | SIGNATURE SONGS $1600: If you've seen a classic "Saturday Night Live" sketch, you'll never unhear the cowbell in this Blue Öyster Cult tune "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IN THE WEEDS $600: A brown Crayola color is named for this plant that blows down the streets of Western towns a tumbleweed |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | THIS! ISN'T! JEOPARDY! $200: It's better to be granted this status of refuge than be placed involuntarily into a very different type asylum |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | THIS! ISN'T! JEOPARDY! $800: From Latin for sacred, it could be claimed to get into a medieval church to save your life, but later you'd be exiled sanctuary |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Guarded by a dragon (it didn't end well for the dragon), these were the fruits of a herculean labor the golden apples (of the Hesperides) |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | THIS! ISN'T! JEOPARDY! $1000: Regarding protection, one is "under" it; regarding Greek myth, one uses it as a shield or breastplate an aegis |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | SECOND LETTER "Y" $200: You don't have to be a follower of Antisthenes to be one of these doubting downers a cynic |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: Endodontists swear that this procedure to remove infected pulp doesn't deserve its painful rep, but floss & brush to avoid needing it! a root canal |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $2000: It doesn't seem like the most obvious choice, but his 1991 novel "American Psycho" was briefly a Broadway musical in 2016 Ellis |
| #9107, aired 2024-05-21 | EXPENSIVE GRADUATION GIFTS $600: Aren't you one of the Cry Babies, fans of this alliterative female artist? She'll be taking a break from tour to play you some songs Melanie Martinez |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | SANDWICH POTPOURRI $200: A 2022 M.I.T. study examined the physics behind the process of twisting these sandwich cookies apart Oreos |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | "H" TOWN $600: Many a millennial child was sad to learn that Space Camp in this city's U.S. Space & Rocket Center didn't really end with a launch Huntsville (Alabama) |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $400: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) Don't believe that a species can change the whole world? You wouldn't have been able to breath Earth's atmosphere until some 2 billion years ago after newly evolved organisms like blue-green algae started creating oxygen as a by-product of this process photosynthesis |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $600: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) In a 2021 appearance before Congress, I encouraged bold investment in this energy technology that hasn't yet been proven practical but might one day provide virtually limitless clean, safe power fusion |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | JOURNALISTS $2000: This correspondent didn't wish to "be a footnote to somebody else's life " --specifically ex-hubby Ernest Hemingway Martha Gellhorn |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | ENTER THE LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: Holden Caulfield, who doesn't like many people, tells us about this sister of his, "You never saw a little kid so pretty & smart" Phoebe |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | BRIDGES $1600: A pedestrian suspension bridge is part of a trail leading to this end-of-the-alphabet Swiss village Zermatt |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | SCANDINAVIA $400: A trip to Copenhagen wouldn't be complete without visiting this 180-year-old theme park with rides, lush scenery & entertainment Tivoli |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Darlin', can't you hear a title ABBA distress signal that gets motor oil treatment & becomes an acronym for kissing & such S.O.S.T.P.D.A. |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BOOK NOIR $1000: Titles don't get much noirer than this, of Dorothy B. Hughes' novel about Dix Steele & of the movie with Bogie & Gloria Grahame In a Lonely Place |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1200: In his 1916 poem "Home", Edgar Guest wrote that "It takes" this much "o' livin' in a house t' make it home" a heap |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | UNION MEN $1000: He couldn't get it done as a general for Lincoln, but New Jersey drafted him to be governor in 1878 McClellan |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE RUNAWAYS $2000: This Japanese author's 2002 novel "Kafka on the Shore" isn't about a European author but teenage runaway Kafka Tamura (Haruki) Murakami |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $800: The pitch for this Freevee court show: "What if you (made) 'The Office' & Jim was a real person who didn't know that Dwight was an actor" Jury Duty |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $1000: Don't confuse Ocala, Florida with this Native American leader who in 1834 stood up there & said, "I love my home, & will not go from it" Osceola |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | PREHISTORIC CREATURES $1600: A 2023 paper brings new evidence to a raging debate in paleontology saying yes, T. rex had these soft-tissue features lips |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | 4 DIFFERENT VOWELS $1000: This type of diplomatic mission in a foreign country used to be more common than embassies, but there aren't any more a legation |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | DANCE MUSIC $1600: "Baby Don't Hurt Me" by David Guetta, with an Ed Sheeran writing cred, has been called a modern reimagining of this 1993 Haddaway hit "What Is Love" |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1600: The first governor of the separate colony of North Carolina, he doesn't have a loathsome face like the same-named Stevenson character Mr. Edward Hyde |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | 3-WORD PHRASES $200: If you don't win, perhaps you'll at least go out in one of these luminous conclusions a blaze of glory |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | ADD A LETTER $800: A new spouse & what she does in irritation when I ask her to do something she doesn't like bride & bridle |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | SONG LYRICS, BABY $1000: 2010: "I get the chills whenever I see your face & you in the place, girl, feel like I'm in a movie, baby, I'm like oowee, baby" Usher |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | THE ARTS $7,800 (Daily Double): Saint Bavo Cathedral in Belgium is home to Hubert and Jan van Eyck's "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", better known by this two-word name the Ghent Altarpiece |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE $400: She tells her 2 sisters, "I know what you are; and like a sister am most loath to call your faults as they are named" Cordelia |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE $600: Ain't no dinner party like a tragic Shakespeare dinner party! This title guy kills his daughter & stabs the empress Titus Andronicus |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | "M" & "M"s $600: Lactation from a female equine mare's milk |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE $1000: The settings in this play are Milan, a forest near Milan & the title city The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | GETTING MEDIEVAL ON YOU $1200: The byname of this 13th century saint is Dr. Angelicus, or "angelic dr.", but doesn't that kind of sound like a Marvel villain? Aquinas |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | PRISONS $400: ADX Florence, the only federal supermax, is called the Alcatraz of these mountains that inmates don't get to see much of the Rockies |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $400: She had a cameo as herself in the 1996 film "The First Wives Club" saying, "Don't get mad, get everything" Ivana Trump |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $1000: This Russian author depicted "A Month in the Country" Ivan Turgenev |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $400: Back in the 1840s a British photographer instructed folks to "say" these dried fruits so people's mouths wouldn't move much prunes |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THEY DID BAD $14,000 (Daily Double): Though nicknamed for a lethal weapon regulated by Congress in 1934, he doesn't seem to have killed anyone; kidnapped, yes Machine Gun Kelly |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | HOLLYWOOD LEGACIES $600: (Michael Douglas delivers the clue.) In a 2018 interview Mariska Hargitay said her late mother, this actress, "was this amazing, beautiful, glamorous sex symbol--but people didn’t know that she played the violin, and had a 160 IQ" Jayne Mansfield |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | PRONUNCIATION ADVICE $400: It doesn't take prizewinning journalism to know its first syllable sounds like a synonym for "tug"; Joseph said so Pulitzer |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DO YOU KNOW YOUR RALPHABET? $800: N:
He wasn't a favorite of the car industry, but the Automotive Hall of Fame inducted him in 2016 (Ralph) Nader |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DINOSAURS $1200: The most complete skeleton of a T-rex was found in 1990 in South Dakota & is now housed at this Natural History Museum in Chicago the Field Museum |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $800: He gave Jenny Lind the nickname "The Swedish Nightingale" & risked his fortune to bring her to the U.S. for a tour P.T. Barnum |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | LESSER-KNOWN ANCIENT ROMANS? $600: It was hard to take this guy seriously when he sat around all day, didn't move a muscle & his name meant "biggest butt" Gluteus Maximus |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | PRESIDENTIAL HOMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1823 Andrew Jackson donated land from this home to build a house of worship called Ephesus Church the Hermitage |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | CELEBRITY SIBLINGS $600: (J.J. Watt presents the clue.) In 2020, I participated in a rare 3-brother NFL game; My Houston Texans played this team & I had to face the Terrible Towels as well as Derek & T.J. the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | "ALL" THE WAY $400: In "The Shining" Jack Nicholson's writer's block doesn't seem to apply to this 10-word phrase, repeatedly typed all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $5 (Daily Double): (1954 Sinatra song)
It's a bad idea to leave a frozen embryo unguarded, would be my major takeaway "Young At Heart" (in embryo unguarded) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SUNG & UNSUNG HEROES $400: (Sheryl Crow delivers the clue.) Before I hit fame as a solo artist, I was a backup singer for Michael Jackson, & you can see me in my big-hair glory duetting "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" on his tour in support of this 1987 album Bad |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $600: ...U.K. / As prime minister, a late '30s stay / Not so powerfully built / & don't call him Wilt / Churchill's here now you go away Chamberlain |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $800: ...Paris / A minister of war, don't you see / He drew his "line" / Around 1929 / But the Germans... they didn't agree Maginot |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,000 (Daily Double): Held during the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, this festival began as a search for poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a Yangtze tributary the Dragon Boat Festival |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | INTERNET SLANG $1000: It's a portmanteau word for someone who makes internet content with an animal, like with Esther the Wonder Pig on Instaham petfluencers |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | BLANK VERSE $1200: By Jenny Joseph:
"When I am an old woman, I shall wear ____ with a red hat which doesn't go" purple |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | DISNEY MOVIE BY LYRICS $800: "I'm in the mood to help you, dude, you ain't never had a friend like me" Aladdin |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $1,000 (Daily Double): Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero The Red Badge of Courage |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | BELOW DECK: SAILING NOVEL $1200: The crew of the Ghost can't wait for the season to end in "The Sea-Wolf" by this author; Captain Wolf Larsen is a bit much! Jack London |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | HIKING GEAR $200: This end-of-the-alphabet company sells a ferro rod for starting campfires, if you don't have one of its lighters handy Zippo |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $200: You will rue the day & be far from "Euphoria" if you don't remember she took home a 2022 statue for starring as Rue Zendaya |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $400: Lee Yoo-mi was a winner as Ji-yeong on this game show-set Netflix drama where second place definitely wasn't three grand Squid Game |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | AN EMMY-WINNING ROLE $800: His wife said the posthumous Emmy won by this actor for voicing T'Challa in Marvel's "What If...?" was "a beautiful alignment" Boseman |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $800: T:
Adenoids are a type of these tonsils |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ACTING UP AT JUILLIARD $800: Group 1 included David Ogden Stiers, Patti LuPone & him, far from stupid as an Oscar winner for "A Fish Called Wanda" (Kevin) Kline |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ENDS WITH "B" $400: Don't let your book go out without one of these publicity notices on its jacket a blurb |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | OUR FLOUNDERING FATHERS $1200: Pre-"Give me liberty or give me death", he ran a failing store for his dad, didn't make it as a tobacco farmer & his house burned down Henry |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | DON'T EAT THAT! $400: A rook is a type of this, another 4-letter fowl crow |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $4,000 (Daily Double): A song often heard in Spanish-speaking countries at Christmastime is this "Sabanero", meaning "My Little Savannah Donkey" Burrito |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: On the sign, "impasse" doesn't mean a stalemate in negotiations, but this other French word for a street with no exit cul-de-sac |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $1000: Seen here, but not heard from 2015 to 2021, he learned "F is for Family" & if you don't know him, "I'm gonna put you through a wall" (Bill) Burr |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $400: These spies aren't tired; they function ordinarily in a population until activated for vital reasons at any time sleepers (sleeper agents) |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $200: In the 1960s, Freedomland in the Bronx was built to rival Disneyland as a history-focused one of these a theme park |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $400: Kyle MacLachlan was the clean-cut FBI agent investigating a murder in the very strange title town of this series Twin Peaks |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | "T.P." $1000: It precedes "Memo" in the title of a political news website Talking Points |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LITERARY LINES $400: Maggie, to Brick in this play: "We mustn't scream at each other. The walls in this house have ears" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $600: Popular in the 1800s, these meaty-named side whiskers were rocked by folks who didn't wanna grow a full beard muttonchops |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $200: A 2022 study said this state had the longest average work week, 41.4 hours; commercial fishing & drilling for oil ain't easy Alaska |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $11,200 (Daily Double): The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute Moll Flanders |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $800: Something that you can't get past is stuck here, a word for a part of bird anatomy your craw |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Frankie Valli, of course, is a character in this musical about the Four Seasons Jersey Boys |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | YOU CAN'T SPELL... $1000: This word for a tract or canal in your digestive system without "lime" alimentary |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $800: Once the site of a state prison, this city near Chicago has an economy today based on tourism & casinos Joliet |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $1000: This Top 10 title from 2001 precedes "I'll only fly away / I don't know where my soul is / I don't know where my home is" "I'm Like A Bird" |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | CLASSIC AD SLOGANS & JINGLES $400: "I don't wanna grow up, I'm" this kind of "kid" a Toys "R" Us kid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $400: What to do with Wanda Sykes' ashes? "Spread 'em over" this actress, Storm in "X-Men"; "she don't even have to be at the funeral" Halle Berry |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $1200: Paul Simon said this Yankee was baffled by a lyric in "Mrs. Robinson", telling Paul, "I haven't gone anywhere" Joe DiMaggio |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 2-WORD POP CULTURE $800: This memorable 1997 Apple ad campaign notably didn't end with a "-ly" Think Different |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | TOUGH VOCAB $1600: An attorney doesn't need to establish cause to exclude a prospective juror with this type of challenge peremptory |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $800: Jeopardy! isn't a card in this deck but Wheel of Fortune is; Judgement & Temperance also await a tarot deck |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $2000: Aye, I did write "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" & many another bonny iambic work, & ye needn't call me sir! (Walter) Scott |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $600: A perfect line from this satiric film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room" Dr. Strangelove |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE HISTORIC 1990s $600: It didn't end well in 1997 for this cult that believed a flying saucer was following comet Hale-Bopp Heaven's Gate |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $1000: Rhonda Byrne wrote this 2006 book, a hidden "principle of the universe", but don't tell anyone; scratch that. Tell me, now The Secret |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS $200: 3D printers aren't great for mass production but excel with these models, whose name is partly from the Greek for "first" a prototype |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | SILENCE, LETTERS! $400: Make no mistake--you don't pronounce either the "X" or the "S" in this French term for a slip-up a faux pas |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023 Black Cake |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | MIND THE GAP $9,600 (Daily Double): Near where Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee meet, you'll find this pass named for a son of George II the Cumberland Gap |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $400: Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck black cat |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $600: Rhinos don't have true horns; they're primarily composed of this fibrous protein found in hair keratin |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | BUSINESS PARTNERS $1600: Before launching a wellness studio, Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Rice co-founded this fitness company for indoor spinning SoulCycle |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MOVIE SONGS $400: A non-"Let It Go" song from "Frozen" says these "are better than people. Sven, don't you think that's true?" reindeer |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | CHAMP CHANGE $400: A 4-games-to-0 result in the World Series changes its second letter to "T" & becomes this adjective steep (from sweep) |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | ON THE WEB $800: This search engine with a double-talk animal name emphasizes privacy, saying it doesn't track searches or collect user info DuckDuckGo |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $800: On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibilists, a branch of this "enlightened" secret society... oh dear, I may've said too much the Illuminati |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | LOST WORKS $1200: The lost 9-hour cut of this Erich von Stroheim silent film with a deadly sin as its title likely showed money can't buy happiness Greed |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $800: Unlike other cats, this fastest one doesn't have fully retractable claws a cheetah |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $9,200 (Daily Double): In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue John Smith |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $600: 2021 called & wants this phrase back that means evaluating someone's mood or energy a vibe check |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | TRAIL $200: Great Bend, Kansas was a stopping point on this historic trail that went from Missouri to the capital of New Mexico the Santa Fe Trail |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE TALLEST ONE $2000: In boygenius, her name didn't lend itself to a category title Lucy Dacus |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $800: Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god a bacchanal |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OCCUPATIONS $2000: Terms for shoemakers include cobbler & this more archaic one derived from a type of Spanish leather a cordwainer |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $400: A longtime vegetarian like parents Paul & Linda, she doesn't use any leather or fur in her designs Stella McCartney |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | GETTING TOGETHER $600: John Sayles wrote a comic story about a convention of these people opposed to government, but they do happen, since the 1800s anarchists |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $800: Great material comfort, or anything you enjoy but don't need a luxury |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | "V"ACATION SPOTS $200: You haven't seen a palace until you've seen this place & its immense gardens designed by André le Nôtre Versailles |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: One who has a compulsive impulse to steal items they don't really need a kleptomaniac |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HAPPY HOUR $800: In 1988 it became the first song with no instrumental music to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; perhaps if I whistle a bit... "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $1200: This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel isn't quite as long as its title suggests but does run 1,000+ pages Infinite Jest |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: On this November holiday in Mexico, families gather to celebrate & remember their loved ones who have passed on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE $400: Laugh:
Baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse didn't get this music term quite right when the national anthem was sung "Acapulco" a cappella |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | MEMORY $200: So you have a good memory for these? So do chimps, who in a 2023 study could recognize ones they hadn't seen for 25 years faces |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $400: Math 0407, linear algebra & matrix theory, does not sound like an easy A at this HBCU founded by Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | SLEEP-POURRI $1000: A feminist cause around 1914 was childbirth in this time of day "sleep" so women wouldn't remember the pain later twilight (sleep) |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ADVERTISING SLOGANS $200: This brand that "takes a licking & keeps on ticking" reset its slogan in 2021 to "we don't stop" Timex |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BRIT SPEAK $400: Can we level with you? A British landlord doesn't rent out an apartment but lets one of these a flat |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 1990s MUSIC $400: (Diane Warren presents the clue.) This song that Toni Braxton wasn't too keen to record became her signature hit & won her a Grammy "Un-Break My Heart" |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PILES $600: The first man-made nuclear reactor was a 20-foot pile of graphite blocks with blocks of this element mixed in uranium |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | LITERARY HELPERS $2000: Frank helps Cora kill her hubby but is wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit in this James M. Cain novel The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | TV COACHES $200: Who else but this Apple TV+ coach would say, "If God wanted games to end in a tie, she wouldn't have invented numbers" Ted Lasso |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $800: In "Anna Christie" Greta Garbo requested this, "ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby" whiskey |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | TV COACHES $1000: On "Friday Night Lights", this actor played a coach with a simple message for his players, "Clear eyes, full heart, can't lose" Kyle Chandler |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | SCIENCE STUFF $400: This iron-containing pigment in blood has a job to do: carry oxygen to tissue hemoglobin |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $800: Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler's presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30 to override a veto |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $1000: After the close Nixon-Humphrey race, the House passed a resolution to abolish this system, 338-70, but the Senate didn't the electoral college |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | RHYMING PHRASES $1000: A police helicopter providing surveillance is idiomatically one of these & doesn't need to blink either an eye in the sky |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $2000: One benefit of reading this Stephen Chbosky book: "Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody" The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $400: Anne Hathaway is tortured, but not in that way, by a nonetheless vicious Meryl Streep in this 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | PASTOR BROWN'S CHURCH NEWSLETTER CROSSWORD $800: Don't go to Helvetica! Use a baptismal one
(4 letters) font |
| #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 |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1200: Grisly ghost? No, this Bond title from 2015 refers to the criminal organization that's vexing him Spectre |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1600: Jane Fonda had no bolts in her neck as the title family relation in this 2005 flick, but J. Lo wanted to scream anyway Monster-in-Law |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $2000: Daniel Day-Lewis dealt with frocks, not frights, in this 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson period piece Phantom Thread |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | NUMERICALLY PREFIXED $800: This term refers to walking & standing on 2 feet, like a T-rex or a human bipedal |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | SPORTS PROFESSORS $1000: You don't see a lot of players nicknamed both "The Professor" & "Mad Dog", but this Hall of Fame Braves pitcher of the '90s pulled it off Greg Maddux |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO $400: I realized bluffing didn't get you too far in the event called cowboy this, in which a bull helps players know when to fold 'em poker |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AT THE TINY DESK CONCERT $1200: The "T" on the 2014 performance of this future winner on "The Masked Singer" is that he sang "Buy U A Drank" sans Auto-Tune T-Pain |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $400: With steel shot or sand inside, a dead blow type of this won't bounce back after striking a hammer |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $1000: It's not a magnetic tool to help you detect a virile man, but rather its namesake item as well as nails hidden within a wall a stud detector (stud finder) |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | NOTHING BUT MAMMALS $2000: Secretions from the glands of these catlike carnivores are used in perfumes civet |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $200: Life can be like putting together one of these, invented in the 1760s though the tool didn't exist for another century a jigsaw puzzle |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $200: In the early 1890s President Cleveland wasn't "sweet" on one company controlling 98% of American refining of this sugar |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $1000: In a commencement address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted "You can't climb" this with your hands in your pockets the ladder of success |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BRAINY QUOTES $400: In a book from 1900, this character says, "I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all" the Scarecrow |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | TECH TALK $800: The accepted levels of this technology go from 0 (a 1978 Buick Regal) to 5 (no pedals; doesn't exist yet) self-driving cars |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | ARTFUL ROGERS $1600: This artful Cowboys quarterback didn't break into the NFL until he was 27 due to a 4-year commitment with the U.S. Navy Roger Staubach |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | SILENT H $3,200 (Daily Double): From the Dutch for "permission", it's a leave of absence granted to a member of the military a furlough |
| #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 | HOT FOR CREATURE $600: Birds don't have these glands, so they take heat out of their bodies using a version of panting sweat glands |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | DASHIELL HAMMETT $1200: This L.A.-based hard-boiled novelist said Hammett's work took "murder out of the Venetian vase & dropped it into the alley" Raymond Chandler |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $200: This title British woman imagines her mum telling her to have a fling with "Mark Darcy over the turkey curry, won't you? He's very rich" Bridget Jones |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Here's a self-portrait of this Baroque master who didn't make himself look too full-figured Rubens |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | PEAK TV $200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum Squid Game |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $200: '90s Texas governor Richards who once quipped, "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any" Ann |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night" Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OBSCURE NOVELS $400: "The Edible Woman" doesn't ring a bell? It was Margaret Atwood's debut novel before she wrote this 1985 book The Handmaid's Tale |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | OZZY OSBOURNE'S FAVORITE SONGS $1200: Ozzy is a big fan of The Animals' cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", originally recorded by this "High Priestess of Soul" Nina Simone |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $1200: Emily Dickinson,
Pablo Neruda &
T.S. Eliot,
to name a few poets |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | SCIENCE IS COOL $1500: Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn't melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this sublimation |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $800: In Stratego, the pieces that don't move are the bombs & this, & the object of the game is to capture your opponent's flag |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | FAMOUS FORGERIES $5,000 (Daily Double): Clifford Irving gambled (wrongly) that this reclusive billionaire wouldn't step forward to debunk a forged 1971 "autobiography" Howard Hughes |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | AN "H" & "R" BLOCK $800: The legal money of a nation is said to be the "coin of the" this the realm |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | VEGETABLE STEW $800: The first prop this comic used was a Neighborhood Watch sign that he stole to show that the Watch wasn't very watchful Carrot Top |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | RHYME TIME $400: A labyrinth fad a maze craze |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $800: A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't prejudice |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $1000: A 1968 ruling said this amendment's unreasonable search & seizure clause doesn't prohibit frisking of suspected criminals the Fourth Amendment |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $300: Alanis Morissette: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" "Ironic" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $300: Toyota debuted this model in the US in 1983; you can't spell it without spelling...
C A _ R _ Camry |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $400: A French horn & choir comprise the iconic intro of this Rolling Stones song, in which Mick assures us, "you get what you need" "You Can't Always Get What You Want" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $400: Kurt Russell's Santa is the gift that keeps on giving! He even speaks a fake language called "Elvish" in this holiday romp The Christmas Chronicles |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $500: In 1972, this brand debuted Red Zinger and Sleepy Time; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _
_ E A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Celestial Seasonings |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $200: So you got one of these as a pet, like Smaug or Viserion in books; well, at least you won't need any matches for the fireplace a dragon |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | STAY SAFE $400: Follow the rule don't be the tallest object in a storm to help avoid being killed by this, like 19 Americans in 2022 lightning |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $400: During the first millennium A.D. Brahma lost importance in the Trimurti of this religion & doesn't have tons of temples Hinduism |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE $800: I don't know if this proverbially rattled item here belongs in the kitchen cutlery, but, hey, you do you a saber |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $400: Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson was introduced to the MCU in this 2014 "Captain America" sequel The Winter Soldier |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: She gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at an 1851 women's rights convention, though she probably never used that phrase Sojourner Truth |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORD HISTORIES $1200: An adjective meaning gigantic, it came into English in the 1700s to describe huge elephant-like bones found in Siberia mammoth |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NON-MUSICAL THEATER $600: This famous author isn't a character in Edward Albee's best-known play, but her name is in the title Virginia Woolf |
| #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 | FEMALE FIRSTS $1200: In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships Simone Biles |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | ON THE PERIODIC TABLE $5,000 (Daily Double): Going in order on the periodic table, uranium and neptunium are followed by this element named for a dwarf planet plutonium |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SCIENCE $1200: Sir Peter Medawar proposed Medawar's paradox to explain why this system in women doesn't reject a fetus the immune system |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $200: All hail the king! In 1991 Saskatchewan discovered it was home to Scotty, a 42-foot-long, 20,000-pound type of this dinosaur a T. rex |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $600: Heavyweight Tyson Fury was 277 pounds for a 2021 fight; this character weighed but 190 against heavyweight Apollo Creed in 1976 Rocky |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $800: These clouds are associated with blue skies, especially the humilis type; they look all fluffy but weigh over a million pounds cumulus |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME $1000: Fluting on armor reduced weight; in Maximilian armour, a set for fighting weighed just 50 pounds, while a set for this was 100 jousting |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | NEW JAZZ $1600: A 2023 Hulu doc follows Atlanta musicians fusing jazz with this 4-letter hip-hop subgenre associated with T.I. & Migos trap |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $200: It controls the temperature in your house a thermostat |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $400: A small piece of food, or a small juicy piece of gossip a tidbit |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $600: Some runners favor this ensemble seen here a tracksuit |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "T" $800: This violent windstorm is sometimes found "in a teacup" a tempest |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | THOSE WHO CELEBRATE $400: Don't pester your Pagan friends on May 1st; it's Beltane, a Pagan spring festival celebrating this quality of creating life fertility |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | AT THE MUSEUM $400: A visit to Philly isn't complete unless you visit the Rodin Museum, home to this statue whose pensive pose you can imitate for photos The Thinker |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY $800: An asterism is a recognizable star pattern that isn't a full constellation, like this familiar one within Cygnus the Northern Cross |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag moose |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $300: Don't call them U2!--Larry Mullen Jr. & Adam Clayton were absent; the Edge did a Tiny Desk Concert with this singer in 2023 Bono |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | DIFFERENT SONGS, SAME TITLES $800: Elvis Presley,
Cheap Trick
(Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird) "Surrender" |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | CELEBRITY JEOPARDY AIN'T THE ONLY "CJ" $1200: She ran in a special election for California governor in 2021; who knows how many Kardashians voted for her Caitlyn Jenner |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1500: Though evidence suggests she never uttered the words, Truth's famous 1851 speech is known by the title "Ain't I a..." this Woman |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $1500: For a Tiny Desk Concert he did with Sting, this "It Wasn't Me" singer proudly sang "I'm a Jamaican in New York" Shaggy |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS $400: Idiomatically, you don't wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here a jaybird |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $1200: A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called "the reverend blue jeans" Neil Diamond |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $800: On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane a tropical storm |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HUNT & PECK $800: This fish with the significant species name Gladius doesn't impale its prey (how would it then eat them?); it uses its long bill as a club a swordfish |
| #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 |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $600: Won't you have another glass of Mexican wine at a vineyard in the Valle de Guadalupe on this peninsula the Baja Peninsula |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | MUSIC TERMS $2,200 (Daily Double): You can use the black notes on a keyboard to play this common 5-note scale the pentatonic scale |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS $800 (Daily Double): This "Age" began in the 1930s with the advent of a new type of engine, though it didn't take off for a decade or so the Jet Age |
| #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 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $800: A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him Judd Nelson |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS $400: Technology historian Henry Petroski said that little frill on these in the party meatballs probably began as an anti-swallowing warning a toothpick |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $400: She auditioned for "Twilight", but said she didn't even get a callback; eh, she's done okay since then Jennifer Lawrence |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS $800: This type of fork has a special leftmost tine for cutting the treat, maybe while standing a cake (a dessert fork) |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | 2020s TV $800: You can't swing a stick without hitting an assassin in "The Continental", set in the world of this Keanu Reeves guy John Wick |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $800: The prophet Zechariah envisions 4 of these, pulled by horses of different colors, but they don't race each other chariots |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $800: Outraging many whites, in 1901, Teddy Roosevelt invited this eminent Black educator to dine with him at the White House Booker T. Washington |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS $1200: KFC has introduced fit-on-your-finger versions of these hybrid items to eat sides such as coleslaw a spork |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS $1600: Petrossian suggests a spoon made of mother-of-pearl is the material of choice for serving this caviar |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS $2000: This Spanish dish is traditionally eaten from a communal pan with a wooden spoon to scrape out the crispy rice called socarrat paella |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | ODDS & "N"s $800: Australia also has a region called this, but theirs doesn't include Vermont & Connecticut New England |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | U.S. FIRSTS $7,000 (Daily Double): The first woman mayor of a major U.S. city was Bertha Landes in Seattle; soon after came Dorothy Lee in this city 172 miles south Portland (Oregon) |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WISH I'D SAID THAT! $1600: Attributed to Jeremy Bentham: these are "the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished" lawyers |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $400: He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl" James Brown |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A PROVERBIAL MESS $600: From a blood stone you get can't you can't get blood from a stone |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BROWNIAN NOTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): She ran Vanity Fair & the Daily Beast but said, "I didn't see myself as an editor. I wanted to be a playwright" Tina Brown |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | SCIENCE $400: Ocean sediment may be made up of coccolithophores, these tiny organisms, 6 billion to the square foot algae |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | HOLMES, SHERLOCK HOLMES $400: Gregson, Lestrade, Hopkins & Jones isn't a law firm; they're guys who sought Holmes' help for this "national" agency Scotland Yard |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION $600: "Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $400: "No thanks, Mrs. Robinson. I don't know what a 'cougar' is & I don't think I want to find out. Is Elaine home?" The Graduate |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CLASSIC MOVIE ORIGINAL DIALOGUE? $1600: "No. Wilson woulda killed you, Terry. You wouldn't have been a contender, just a bum, which is what you are. Sorry" On the Waterfront |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | ON THE "T"ABLE $200: You can serve stew or soup out of one of these deep-lidded dishes a tureen |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | ON THE "T"ABLE $400: A fancy fungus & a chocolate confection are both called this a truffle |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | ON THE "T"ABLE $800: Pewter is a traditional material for this vessel with a lid a tankard |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | ON THE "T"ABLE $1000: A Moroccan stew is named for this implement in which it's cooked a tagine |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $200: A memoir:
"On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut" Orange Is the New Black |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | I JUST WANT A LOVER LIKE ANY OTHER $200: Trust your friends--don't pass up this type of set-up evening, also the title of several TV shows including one Nikki Glaser hosted blind date |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | DOUBLE TALK $400: In a nursery rhyme it precedes "pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her" Peter, Peter |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY INITIALS $200: A mischievous fairy named Puck just can't stop pranking people:
A.M.N.D. A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THREESOMES $300: According to the carol, it's what "my true love gave to me" on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn't regifting 3 French hens |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $400: This online game spawned a battle cry that's now synonymous with idiocy gone rogue: "Leeroy Jenkins!" World of Warcraft |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $900: In a hit song, the Weeknd sang, "I can't feel my" this "when I'm with you, but I love it" face |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SPELLED RONG ON PURPOSE $900: A drizzle of this bright yellow dip from Kraft may get kids to eat their veggies --though it won't improve their spelling Cheez Whiz |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $1000: Have a pint at Pete's Tavern in the Big Apple but don't expect to get the booth where O. Henry wrote this poignant Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi" |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FEEDBACK: SANDWICH $600: I like the sweet marshmallow creme with savory peanut butter in this sammy, a New England fave, but don't love the texture a fluffernutter |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $600: Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field... and don't notice it" (Alice) Walker |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $600: Georgie Porgie didn't suffer from philemaphobia, a fear of this kissing the girls (kissing anybody) |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $800: In this 1978 film Eve Arden plays the principal who threatens a cocky T-Bird with "banging erasers after school" Grease |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | NURSERY RHYME PHOBIAS $800: While Mary, Mary was quite contrary, she didn't seem to have anthophobia, a fear of these flowers |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | AEROSMITH $1000: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", Aerosmith's first No. 1 hit, was from this movie Armageddon |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | FUN WITH GEOMETRY $2000: A spheroid might say, you can call me prolate or this, like the Earth--just don't call me late for dinner oblate |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $400: This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & bird eggs a hedgehog |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $1600: Georges Seurat painted "A Sunday on" this island, literally "the big platter" La Grande Jatte |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $3,000 (Daily Double): A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show The Fiddler |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $200: We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster the Great Depression |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $200: From the Latin for "instill with life", it's the creation of a motion picture from a series of still images animation |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BEN FRANKLIN'S DRINKER'S DICTIONARY $1200: "He sees" these (Ben probably didn't mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus) bears |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHAT THE "EFF"?! $200: A designation for certain washing machines designed to save water & energy, "HE" stands for "high" this efficiency |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $300: In a 1988 a cappella chart-topper, Bobby McFerrin serves up whistling & this titular advice "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SKIN CARE $400: Don't forget the SPF! Exposure to UV radiation can damage skin cells & cause inflammation--better known as this a sunburn |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $400: Thanks to the Griswolds' pea-green Family Truckster, sales of these plummeted after the release of "Vacation" a station wagon |
| #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 |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $1500: Can't find Slovenia on a map? Look for the shape of this animal, which it's widely said to resemble a chicken |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAR OUT $2,500 (Daily Double): Seen during a total solar eclipse, this outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere shares its name with a Mexican beer brand corona |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FLOWER POWER $800: I can't recall the last time that I saw one of these hyphenated perennials, from the Old French "ne m'oubliez mie" a forget-me-not |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1600: A warning that some of the T's & button-downs are grimy a shirt dirt alert |
| #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 |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | FICTIONAL MOVIE BANDS $2000: In a 1984 film, Peter Weller is this lead singer backed by the Hong Kong Cavaliers Buckaroo Banzai |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | BIBLICAL ZOO $800: According to Deuteronomy 17:1, if your bullock is blemished you can't use it as this a sacrifice |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | OXYMORONS $1200: A substitute master of ceremonies for a TV talk show guest host |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing bel canto |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $800: Cacao beans, the source of chocolate, aren't sweet; they contain this bitter popular stimulant caffeine |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $1600: Don't bring the "May" type of this to your teacher; Webster's says it tastes "insipid" apple |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | SOUNDS LIKE A LANGUAGE $600: In Louisiana, Beauregard isn't a county but this corresponding unit a parish |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | MORE TRICKY QUESTIONS $1000: It's the main reason in Wyoming why a man can't marry his widow's sister because he's dead |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENTISTS AS PARENTS $400: Behave or I'll turn this car around right now! This many degrees--half a circle; don't think I won't 180 |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $200: It's the term for a 200th anniversary; the United States celebrated one in 1976 bicentennial |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $300 (Daily Double): Tommy Shelby and his sharp-hatted gang carve out a crime empire in post-WWI England Peaky Blinders |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $400: Stereotypes about this demographic -- also known as "Gen Y" -- include "tech-savvy" & "saddled with student loan debt" millennial |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | CRINGEWORTHY OFFICE LINGO $400: It's a sonar-inspired way to say "contact me"--when "text me", "call me" or "email me" just won't cut it ping me |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $600: It describes the "first pitch" thrown by a guest of honor at a baseball game -- a nice way of saying it doesn't actually count ceremonial |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $800: Showcasing life in the 18th century, this Virginia attraction calls itself "the world's largest living history museum" Colonial Williamsburg |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $1000: It's the 2000 comedy with the Sandra Bullock line, "I'm in a dress, I have gel in my hair... & I'm armed. Don't mess with me" Miss Congeniality |
| #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 |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ROGET'S BUTT $1500: Honky tonk! Trace Adkins chose this synonym for "butt" for a 2005 hit country song badonkadonk |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SCIENCE MUSEUMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Behind thick glass in the Gems & Minerals Hall of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Tom's Baby is an 8-lb nugget of this gold |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | TALK CLEANLY TO ME $2,600 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "clean", it's a 6-letter adjective for virgin, hey! still not touched for the very first time chaste |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS $2000: In a painting by Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo de' Medici is portrayed as this poet & lyre player Orpheus |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MESSAGE IN A BATTLE $400: 3 legions were massacred in the 9 A.D. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; message to this empire:
Don't cross the Rhine! the Roman Empire |
| #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 | GOING THROUGH THE EMOTIONS $1600: This feeling of awe & respect follows "Your" in a form of address for certain clergymen Reverence |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | TALK ABOUT... PUP MUSIC $2000: This band sang, "I don't practice Santeria" & also let us know "I love my dog", a tune on a "Best of" album in 2008 Sublime |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | THIS CATEGORY DOESN'T STINK $4,000 (Daily Double): A strange visitor from another planet would find this gas, atomic number 36, odorless & colorless krypton |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $500: In 1790, this smallest of the 13 original colonies became the last to ratify the Constitution Rhode Island |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $1200: It's the year in the title of a 2021 bestseller, when captive Africans arrived in America a year before the Mayflower did 1619 |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | RIGHT "U-R" $1,500 (Daily Double): The New York Times called it a "sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance" parkour |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | HORSE, HOG, OR DOG $1500: The large black
&
the large white hog |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Treemonisha";
"Maple Leaf Rag";
"The Ragtime Dance";
"The Entertainer" Scott Joplin |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | TRIANGLES $800: From the Greek for uneven, it's the term for a triangle in which no sides are the same length a scalene triangle |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | TRIANGLES $1000: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | THE JOKERS $2,200 (Daily Double): A 2013 Oscar-winning actor; his surname is also the name of Apollo's mother Jared Leto |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | "A"UTHORS $1600: "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" was brought to life by this author; a response of "42" won't help you Douglas Adams |
| #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 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $1200: In a standard trap, a lobster finds the bait in this aptly named room, moves on to the parlor, & can't leave the kitchen |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | SEE "NN" $400: We hope your dog doesn't suffer ennui when boarded in one of these establishments a kennel |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $400: A man... a woman in distress... ladder climbing... a giant ape... this video game that debuted in 1981 had it all! Donkey Kong |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WASN'T THAT AN '80s THING? $2000: This stainless-steel car with gull-wing doors debuted in 1981; fewer than 10,000 were made a DeLorean |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1200: Cory Doctorow's somewhat Orwellian look at the near future isn't called "Big" this but "Little" this Brother |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR $400: No, it's not a metallic sensory organ but a phrase meaning I'm insensitive to music & can't carry a tune a tin ear |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $400: Line that precedes "they simply fade away" in a British army song old soldiers never die |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR $800: It's a term for a short-tempered person, not a feverish condition felt above the eyebrows hot-headed |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR $1200: No, this is not a symptom of hepatitis but a deli appetizer smeared on rye bread; what am I...? chopped liver |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR $1600: No, my scapula doesn't have osteomalacia--I'm talking about a road sign meaning the highway's edge is not firm soft shoulder |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | NO, I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR $2000: I don't personally have a gnarled extremity--this feature is on my old-fashioned bathtub a claw foot |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $200: Fran Lebowitz jokingly said, "My favorite animal is" this, but she didn't specify porterhouse or T-bone a steak |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $600: 455 A.D.:
These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome the Vandals |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | CULINARY QUOTES $1000: Thackeray's "Ballad of" this dish calls it "a sort of soup or broth... or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes" bouillabaisse |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH $400: Soccer-playing teens are prone to Osgood-Schlatter disease, mainly seen as a swelling just below this joint the knee |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH $800: This contact sport injury resulting from a blow to the head has several grades; with grade I, you stay conscious a concussion |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH $1200: It's the most common sports sprain & also common is your buddy telling you to just walk it off a twisted (sprained) ankle |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH $1600: This type of neck injury results from a sudden jerking of the head in one direction like from a rear-end collision whiplash |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | REPETITIVE SONG TITLES $100: It ain't no lie--*NSYNC had a top 10 hit in 2000 with this song (and we'd love for you to do the "talking puppet hand" motion) "Bye Bye Bye" |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORIC QUOTES REPHRASED $200: Richard Nixon, 1973: "I don't self-identify as a thief" "I am not a crook" |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $300: When he's not searching for the Lost Ark or the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones teaches this subject archaeology |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | HISTORICAL MARKERS $900 (Daily Double): Along with "Deep Throat", he's the reporter mentioned on a historical marker outside a parking garage in Arlington, VA Bob Woodward |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | ANIMALS IN ITALIAN $200: Don't be afraid--this animal is a pollo a chicken |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $600: Mr. Jenkins has 3 nickels, 13 dimes & 54 pennies; he can't afford a Phantom from this car company Rolls-Royce |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $200: In August 1940 this Russian got the ice pick of the litter from a Spanish assassin Trotsky |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | CHANGE A LETTER $400: We won't dance around it, this app says it "is the leading destination for short-form mobile video" TikTok |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $400: In the 13th c., mock battles of armed horsemen called mêlées began to give way to this related lance-a-lot sport joust |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $600: Carl Icahn's 2012 bid for CVR Energy was considered this kind of unfriendly "takeover" a hostile takeover |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | KICKIN' AZTEC $800: What the object seen here was used as; it certainly wasn't a pocket variety a calendar |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: Wilde said this "Man and Superman" author didn't have "an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him" George Bernard Shaw |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | CHANGE A LETTER $2000: Weak or indecisive; can't decide between desires or doing laundry wishy-washy |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | LIKE A ROCK $600: In earlier days, this pro-am golf tournament on California's Monterey peninsula was called the Crosby Clambake Pebble Beach |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $400: I can name this Native American dwelling in 2 letters a tepee (T-P) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE! $600: Take this pack animal I brought back from Asia; it grunts so much I can't sleep at night a yak |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $1000: Unlike Mr. Knievel, the van doesn't try to jump this river that forms part of the boundary between Idaho & Oregon the Snake River |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $200: The credo "Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done" led Pat Riley to 4 NBA titles coaching this team the L.A. Lakers |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $300: This company with a bumblebee-inspired name has the highest lifetime sales in "Shark" history; that's a lot of socks Bombas |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA $400: This author of "The Giving Tree" gave us the poem "Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda", a fun-size lesson in just doing it Shel Silverstein |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FOR SWEATER OR WORSE $1,000 (Daily Double): Sweaters that button in front are named for British officer James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of this Cardigan |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1200: Dianne Wiest plays Peg Boggs in this 1990 film; Johnny Depp plays the title character who gets to cut peg's hair Edward Scissorhands |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | FASHION FOR ALL $1500: A T-shirt made by the apparel brand Queerest Gear depicts this amphibian duo of kid lit (they're holding hands) Frog & Toad |
| #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 |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | FOOD $400: An energetic person is full of these, maybe the fava type beans |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $800: "Why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?" Melville |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THOMAS AQUINAS, ADVICE COLUMNIST $1000: Dear Scared: No, your parish priest can't give you this, a release from secular punishment; go get it over with an indulgence |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CANDLE IN THE WIND $2000: We'd know the type of candle seen here from this to post a pillar |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $200: Starchy tuber from Africa a yam |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | ARCHITECTURE TERMS $400: Miss this term for the main body of a church & it sounds like you don't know Jack the nave |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $400: The Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is near this landmark the Hoover Dam |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $600: Westphalian & Bayonne are types of this cut of meat ham |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $800: Wrestling throw that puts an opponent on the canvas back-first a body slam (a powerslam) |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $1000: Unit of weight; it's equal to 3.89 grams a dram |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL $1600: In "Metaphysics of Morals", this 18th c. man wrote that one who makes himself a worm can't complain if he's stepped on Immanuel Kant |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $300: A giant beverage pitcher with legs who often causes property damage the Kool-Aid Man |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle) |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $600: In "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" she rocked a chainmail dress & she sang the film's power ballad "We Don't Need Another Hero" Tina Turner |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $600: It doesn't have actual "power" to make you a lawyer, but this document does give you legal authority to act on another's behalf power of attorney |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $800: "I gets high off your love / I don't know how to behave"; it's the title track on D'Angelo's 1995 album "Brown Sugar" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NO CAP $900: It can be a type of joke or the title "Cats" in a T.S. Eliot book of poems
_ R _ _ T I _ _ L practical |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | ESTATE PLANNING $1,200 (Daily Double): In law, it's one party managing another's property for the benefit of a third; in life, some say it's the key to a good relationship trust |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PROVERB VS. PROVERB $400: I'm supposed to "beware of Greeks bearing gifts"--but if they bring me a gift one of these, I shouldn't look in its mouth... hmmm a horse |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1600: In Old Egypt, this cross shaped like a "T" with a loop at the top was a symbol of life an ankh |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $200: Designated SSN-780, the current USS Missouri isn't a battleship but a nuclear-powered one of these a submarine |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WEIRD AL PARODIES $600: Encyclopedias & a case of Turtle Wax were among the prizes Al didn't win in this song & video that's near & dear to our hearts "I Lost On Jeopardy" |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: If you really think about it / It isn't so ridiculous / Knowing these are the first 5 words / In "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas the night before Christmas |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | SEOUL FOOD $200: The "International House of" these, doesn't serve hotteok, a deliciously sweet type of one a pancake |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OH, THE IRONY! $1500: Even though his first name ends with "war", this president of Egypt won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 Anwar Sadat |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | ABOUT FACE TATTOO $600: If you don't like the L.A. Dodgers logo near the right eye of this West Side rapper, don't hate the playa--hate the... The Game |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $400: A tropical island seems nice for a new post-apocalyptic society, but I fear a few British boys won't see the end of this 1954 book Lord of the Flies |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY $800: "I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend, & I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when" Johnny Cash |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $600: "I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb" Pygmalion |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | ALSO A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION $1600: A boss in the military; I can't authorize that, corporal. You need to check with your... CO |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this Bellini opera set in ancient Gaul is a Druid priestess Norma |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $400: You don't have to be a Marvel hero to have this awareness of danger introduced in a 1962 comic book Spider-sense |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHYSIOLOGY $400: This word can refer to a network of nerves; you don't want to get punched in the solar one plexus |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2012 this Ohio univ. opened its May 4 Visitors Center to place a 1970 event in historical, political & social context Kent State |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | TO SIR PAUL, WITH LOVE $2000: The Beatles won a music Oscar for this 1970 doc., but finding itself in times of trouble, the band didn't accept in person Let It Be |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $200: A horse of pure stock a Thoroughbred |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $400: A sensational 5-column-wide newspaper a tabloid |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $600: A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind a tumbleweed |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $800: All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form tabulated |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HONORARY HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS $400: Playing center is the Holy C, the Bishop of Rome & the Thunderdome, from Argentina to the arena--this pope turned Trotter Pope Francis |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | A LATIN BESTIARY $400: That Bubo, this avian, was making noise all night & I couldn't sleep an owl |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SOUNDS LIKE FOOD $600: Not so great with peanut butter on a sandwich, Vaseline has been a brand of this since the 1870s petroleum jelly |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $800: Sheep like the Dorper that shed & don't need shearing are called not wool, but this type, also a word before "trigger" or "raising" hair |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU $1600: Short on time but want to get in a good workout? Some people enjoy this form of exercise, HIIT for short, but don't overdo it high intensity interval training |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | CROOKS $600: A 1949 obituary said the name of this man "whose magic would double an investment in 90 days, was heard everywhere" Ponzi |
| #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 $1200: Gustav Kirchhoff showed that this travels at light speed, so a circuit connecting a motor to a switch will start the motor fast electric current |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $600: Here's the brilliant Marty Feldman who played Igor in this 1974 classic film comedy & we haven't done a thing to the picture Young Frankenstein |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | UNIFORM NUMBERS $800: You won't see any players from this MLB team wearing a single digit number; they've all been retired, & No. 8, twice the Yankees |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $800: After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't Apollo 13 |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | THE "END" ZONE $1000: Someone who throws money away on things they don't need might be called this compound word a spendthrift |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | HOSTEL $1200: You don't have to BYOV, bring your own volleyball, to this hostel in Bali that sounds exactly like a Tom Hanks film Castaway |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | STATELY DEMONYMS $2000: Some New Englanders aren't Connecticuties but these, which mentions a spice Nutmeggers |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $800: Wanna play God like him? "Make the being of a gigantic stature... eight feet in height, and proportionably large", or... don't (Dr. Victor) Frankenstein |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $1600: The barks in this Lindsey Buckingham song aren't the dog that's in "National Lampoon's Vacation"--it's a co-o-o-o-o-o-o-incidence "Holiday Road" |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $800: A 2021 article title: "Why Do Men Wear" these knit caps "That Don't Cover Their Ears?" Beanies |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $1200: In a song mentioning the Hollywood Hills, the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang, "True men don't kill" these wild canids coyotes |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $600: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000
"Don't give up on your faith /
Love comes to those who believe it" Celine Dion |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN $800: The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song
"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality" "Larger Than Life" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her 1936 effort "We the Living" is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism Ayn Rand |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2000: "Wave" goodbye to this boys' name & hairstyling term; it hasn't been a popular name in France since the 1920s Marcel |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | OPPENHEIMER $1,000 (Daily Double): (Matt Damon presents the clue.) Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear test site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death & resurrection, including the sonnet that begins, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" the Trinity test site |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WITH BELLS ON $1600: Yongs are ancient brass bells that didn't have these tongues inside to make noise as mallets were used for that a clapper |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $2000: Sadly, she didn't live to see her song "Flashdance... What A Feeling" make it into the National Recording Registry Irene Cara |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): Armed with trumpets & torches inside jars or pitchers, he led an army of 300 in victory over the Midianites Gideon |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $200: In a 2017 smash, Post Malone sang, "I feel just like a" this, which he is--he didn't mean he wanted an energy drink a rock star |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $1000: Use a pound of the Bing variety & don't set yourself on fire when you ignite the liquor in this 2-word dessert cherries jubilee |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | TV QUICK TAKES $600: In a magical turn, Warwick Davis took this title movie role to Disney+ in 2022 Willow |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | STATE INSECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri a honeybee |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | SO YOU GOT YOUR "M.A." $1000: This 1910 law said you couldn't take women across state lines for immoral purposes the Mann Act |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: A vexing song or melody you can't get out of your head an earworm |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | WORD PUZZLES $400: A call to action:
D B1
N B2
A B3
T B4
S B5 stand up and be counted |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $1600: His "The Souls of Black Folk" includes a study of the Freedmen's Bureau & his disagreements with Booker T. Washington Du Bois |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY $800: You don't need one of his Oxford scholarships to know this diamond mogul was a July 5 baby (Cecil) Rhodes |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Note what the guys are carrying to identify this game, that dates back well over a century broomball |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | AT THE FARMERS MARKET $1000: I didn't know people still did this craft but I saw someone creating a wall hanging macrame |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | POLICY $800: The murder of Army private Barry Winchell helped lead to a review of this 4-word policy regarding gay people in the military don't ask, don't tell |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $400: Songs in this Broadway show include "Walk Like A Man" & "Big Girls Don't Cry" Jersey Boys |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $800: It was actually a trio of brothers who founded this New Brunswick-based healthcare company in 1886, but it goes by this & this Johnson & Johnson |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES $600: Know that Orkney & these islands in the northernmost part of Scotland are a district & we may give you a small pony! (But we won't) Shetland |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | KIDS OF THE '70s, REJOICE! $600: It wouldn't be the '70s without this type of carpeting seen here; yeah, baby a shag rug |
| #9343, aired 2025-05-28 | CARS & THE MOVIES: A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car's speedometer didn't go high enough a DeLorean |
| #42, aired 2025-05-07 | ART HISTORY: "Hide & Seek" & "The Cradle" by this French artist were among the 200 or so works shown at a gallery on blvd. des Capucines in 1874 Berthe Morisot |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: At the start of his writing career, his wife told him, if it didn't work out, at 6'4", he could be a reacher in a supermarket Lee Child |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | LANDMARKS: This landmark features a relief of Agrippa approving the design of an aqueduct as well as Pietro Bracci's statue of Oceanus the Trevi Fountain |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | GAMES: This game inaugurated a craze that "scandalized the puritanical and drove chiropractors wild with delight" Twister |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In the 12th c. after walking barefoot, this man stripped down & allowed himself to be flogged by dozens of monks Henry II |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | HISTORIC SCIENTISTS: A pair of discoveries by him in 1787 are named for stage characters, a new practice in his field (William) Herschel |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Asked by a student about the Loch Ness Monster, she said a time portal below could allow a prehistoric creature to pass through (Diana) Gabaldon |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk Sitka |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | COMPOSERS: "Troll Hill" is the name of his country home, the grounds of which include a concert hall & a lakeside cabin where he worked Edvard Grieg |
| #9250, aired 2025-01-17 | HISTORIC STATEMENTS: He wrote of his intent "to reserve & throw away my first fire, & I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire" (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SCIENCE: THE ____ OF ____: 4 of these discovered in the early 1600s were given the names of lovers of a mythological deity the moons of Jupiter |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | THEATER ETYMOLOGY: A centuries-old type of performance, this word includes Greek roots meaning "imitator of all" pantomime |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AWARENESS: As individuals, only Santa Claus & this public service ad icon introduced in 1944 have their own ZIP codes Smokey Bear |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1900 she told a Mr. Dobson, "Get out of the way. I don't want to strike you, but I am going to break up this den of vice" Carrie Nation |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: It caused rich amusement that the name of this president, whose wife didn't allow dancing, was similar to that of a dance James K. Polk |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WORLD POLITICAL HISTORY: William Whitelaw & John Peyton were also-rans in a 1975 leadership vote with this victor (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: A fragment from a nautical tool found on a Chilean island in 2005 was likely left by the Scot who partly inspired this character Robinson Crusoe |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES: This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson) |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a 1980 National Book Award winner, we learn this title character gets his name from the rank of his late dad--technical sergeant (T.S.) Garp |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | OPERA: The melody of a traditional piece for the koto called "Echigo-Jishi" is used in Act 1 of this opera Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | HISTORIC WOMEN: In the 16th century, she changed the "EW" in her family name to a "U" to help her new French in-laws spell it more easily Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925's Butler Act in Tennessee outlawed this activity & wasn't repealed until 1967 teaching evolution |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | BRITISH PLACES: This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva & a "sacred spring" found there Bath |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | ALSO SEEN AT THE CIRCUS: FDR gets credit for implementing this as a concept in the U.S. & the metaphor was used by FDR Jr., running for office in 1966 safety net |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | BUSINESS LOGOS: Early 1900s labels for this beverage brand featured a beaver sitting on a log at the top of a map Canada Dry |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | FAMOUS CHARACTERS: She's introduced in an 1845 novella in which she wears a short skirt with her mantilla thrown back to show her shoulders Carmen |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: Becoming a British subject in 1927, he described himself as a classicist in literature, royalist in politics & Anglo-Catholic in religion T.S. Eliot |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | 1990s NO. 1 SONGS: This title character of the top song from 1996 can't stand her boyfriend Vitorino & spurns him to be with his 2 friends Macarena |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES: This entire capital is a World Heritage Site "linked to the history of the Military & Charitable Order of St. John of Jerusalem" Valletta |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: At 14,410', it's one of North America's highest volcanoes; a Puyallup name for it can be translated to "bring the water" Mount Rainier |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALPHABETICAL AMERICA: Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically Connecticut |
| #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 |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | STATE CAPITALS: It was named for a nearby river that explorer Gabriel Moraga named for one of a religious grouping of 7 Sacramento |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC: "It was kind of a prodding to myself to play it straight", said Johnny Cash of this 1956 hit "I Walk The Line" |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | LANDMARKS: During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark L |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA: The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective Jumbo |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | MOVIE MUSICALS: Of the musicals to win an Oscar for Best Picture, 1 of the 2 with one-word titles based on & named for literary characters (1 of) Gigi or Oliver! |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Established in 1963, this group had its conclusions questioned in books, reports & a special 1970s congressional committee the Warren Commission |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí |
| #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) |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NAME'S THE SAME: This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #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 |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | RALLYING CRIES: Don't mess with Texas: Sam Houston's troops shouted this 3-word battle cry while attacking Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto Remember the Alamo! |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Also famously cracked like the Liberty Bell, this 14-ton landmark still sounds its distinctive bong every hour Big Ben |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #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 |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #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") |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O |
| #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 |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | TELEVISION: Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990 Law & Order |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | BUSINESS MILESTONES: These were first sold in 1908, at a price equivalent to about $27,000 today Ford Model T |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism" Banksy |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | PLAYS: A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play The Tempest |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | MUSICAL THEATER: The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy West Side Story |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca) |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | DOCUMENTARIES: In this 1970 film, Max Yasgur says, "I'm a farmer... I don't know how to speak to 20 people... let alone a crowd like this" Woodstock |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | POP CULTURE: In 2011 Leland, Mississippi, where Jim Henson grew up, honored Henson & his Muppets by renaming a bridge this, also a song title Rainbow Connection |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
| #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 |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | POEMS: The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness" The Waste Land |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | METEOROLOGY: It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible tornado |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg |
| #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 |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | 1970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | 3-NAMED WOMEN: Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections Louisa May Alcott |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS: In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't" "Don't trust anyone over 30" |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" Jaws |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | 1980s BESTSELLERS: The title of this 1985 novel by a Canadian author partly alludes to the similarly named stories in a 14th century work The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM: A real-life antidisestablishmentarian, William Bridgeman opposed the 1920 disestablishment of this in Wales church |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN REFERENCES: This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play the Winter of (our) Discontent |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair |
| #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 |
| #8247, aired 2020-09-29 | THE GREAT LAKES: An 1855 poem gives us this Native American name for the 1 Great Lake not known to us today by a Native American word or a tribe's name Gitche Gumee |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | NOTABLE BRITS: On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window... two dark and massive towers" Notre-Dame |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS: Of the 15 U.S. presidential libraries or museums, 3 are in this state, more than any other Texas |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CLASSIC TV SITCOMS: "I Love Lucy" used the French word "enceinte" in a 1952 episode title because CBS didn't want this word used pregnant |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | ADVENTURE NOVELS: In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel The Swiss Family Robinson |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | ADVERTISING: Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they're still using it What's in your wallet? |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | 1950s FILMS: The last line of this epic film was "Go--proclaim liberty throughout all the lands unto all the inhabitants thereof" The Ten Commandments |
| #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 |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | HISTORIC FIGURES: In legend, this real European leader fielded an elite corps called the 12 Peers that included Oliver & Roland Charlemagne |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: An account of a deposed Duke of Genoa in a 1549 "History of Italy" is a presumed source for this play The Tempest |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor Salem, Massachusetts |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | SCIENCE WORDS: In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo satellite |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | INTERNATIONAL AWARD TROPHIES: La Maison Chopard crafts this annual award’s crystal base & 118-gram, 18-carat frond Palme d'Or |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy Iago |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 1950s PEOPLE: In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris" Ernest Hemingway |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS: By Hebrew word count, the longest book bears this name that led to a word for a long complaint or rant Jeremiah |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | ITALIAN INVENTORS: In a 1644 letter he wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air", which is what his invention measures Torricelli |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: From an 1894 work, his name literally translates to "tiger king" Shere Khan |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | WORLD CAPITALS: In 1865 this city named for an early 19th century British hero became a British colonial capital Wellington |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | 1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer Rear Window |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women's this Suffrage |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | 1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn't been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill Nick Charles |
| #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 |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | AROUND THE USA: Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA's first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name Sun Valley |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 Virginia |
| #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 |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!" Pinocchio |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | NOVEL QUOTES: A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy" The Natural |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT MATH: Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition 35 |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government the velvet revolution |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | POETS: He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem T.S. Eliot |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES: 3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2 W and JFK |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | COMIC STRIP TITLE CHARACTERS: These 2 were named for a European "theologian who believed in predestination" & a "philosopher with a dim view of human nature" Calvin & Hobbes |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | TV DRAMAS: So that viewers wouldn't think it was about opera, the "R" in this show's logo was turned into a gun The Sopranos |
| #7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORLD AFFAIRS 2018: An Arab League summit final statement rejected "interference" by this country often mistakenly called an Arab land itself Iran |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | 1980s MOVIES: Ebert: This film "works as science fiction, it's sometimes as scary as a monster movie & at the end...not a dry eye in the house" E.T. |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | CLASSIC FILMS: In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?" The Godfather |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COLOR ETYMOLOGY: This word for a gem & a shade of blue derives from the name of a Eurasian country from which gems came to Western Europe turquoise |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | STATE NAME ORIGINS: Though it doesn't have "island" in its name, it's named after a European island New Jersey |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity" Hercule Poirot |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned a pocket veto |
| #7719, aired 2018-03-15 | EUROPEAN RIVERS: Of the 10 countries the Danube touches, this one is alphabetically last & is the only one that doesn't end in "Y" or "A" Ukraine |
| #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 |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | NOVELISTS: A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941 Virginia Woolf |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | RECORD LABELS: This label, home to U2 & Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling Island Records |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: At the Women in I.T. Awards in 2017, the head of MI-6 said today the real version of the character known by this letter is female Q |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | COMIC BOOKS: Told to create a character called this, Len Wein learned the real animal is short, hairy & will attack an enemy 10 times its size Wolverine |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | U.S. POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: In 1969 the "B" in this state's abbreviation was changed to an "E" to avoid confusion with a Canadian province Nebraska |
| #7568, aired 2017-07-05 | SMALL COUNTRIES: This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister Seychelles |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so" Nostradamus |
| #7537, aired 2017-05-23 | CLASSIC ROCK SONGS: Jonathan Cain was a struggling musician when his father told him to keep at it & never give up, inspiring this 3-word 1981 title "Don't Stop Believin'" |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | INTERNATIONAL BEVERAGE BRANDS: The name of this popular beer brand founded in 1897 is a reference to the 20th century Dos Equis |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | SOUTH AMERICA: This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country Brasilia |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | SCIENCE & MATH VOCABULARY: These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point vertex & vortex |
| #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 |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | BRITISH POP MUSIC: This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing "Space Oddity" (by David Bowie) |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | HISTORIC RELATIVES: In the same year as Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law Gen. Edward Pakenham died in this battle in North America the Battle of New Orleans |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | AUTHORS: In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to California "in search of something they don't really find" Jack Kerouac |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | FILM ADAPTATIONS: In a 2011 slate.com survey of movie credits, of the top 25 most adapted writers, this novelist is the only one living Stephen King |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped Jefferson Davis |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | STATE SONGS: Its state song rhymes "patriotic gore" with the name of its largest city Maryland |
| #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 |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 19th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke Byron |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1872 he wrote his thesis "Diseases of the Teeth" & soon after moved west to a drier climate for his health Doc Holliday |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | 20th CENTURY POETS: It was said "his accent which started out as pure American Middle West" became "quite British U" T.S. Eliot |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | SHAKESPEARE: After a royal passing in January 1820, this tragedy that had been little performed got 2 new London productions in April King Lear |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | FAMOUS LAST NAMES: The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier Collins |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | SPACE EXPLORATION: The first man to travel into space began his journey on that fateful day in what is today this country Kazakhstan |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1909 this Oxford student surveyed Crusader castles in the Mideast; a few years later he returned for less peaceful activities T.E. Lawrence |
| #7116, aired 2015-07-20 | POETRY: Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | QUOTABLE PAINTERS: "A reviewer... wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was" Jackson Pollock |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WEDDINGS: In April 2011 he married an heiress to the fortune of a company called Party Pieces Prince William |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: A 3-letter 9th century tribe is in the names of 2 21st century countries: the world's most vast, & this one Belarus |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | LITERARY ANAGRAMS: Vivian Darkbloom, a minor character in a 1955 novel by this foreign-born author, is an anagram of his name Vladimir Nabokov |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECHES: Springsteen said David Sancious was "the only member of the group who ever actually lived" there E Street |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM WINNERS: She was called a "trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization Juliette Gordon Low |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | 1980s MOVIES: At his term's end, Ronald Reagan took an office in an L.A. high-rise, still a mess from the filming of this 1988 thriller Die Hard |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | BUSINESS HISTORY: Found near Amsterdam in 2010, a 1606 stock certificate from this long-defunct company has been valued at $750,000 the Dutch East India Company |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | 20th CENTURY BRITS: Dr. Hugh Cairns, who tried but couldn't save the life of this man in May 1935, became a pioneer in the use of motorcycle helmets T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #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 |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | 20 YEARS AGO IN ENTERTAINMENT: In 1994 this comedian starred in a No. 1 sitcom, the No. 1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller Tim Allen |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE BEATLES: Of The Beatles' 20 U.S. No. 1 hits, this song has the shortest title "Help!" |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | OPERA: In a bit of foreshadowing, the title character's dad has committed suicide before the action of this 1904 opera Madame Butterfly |
| #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 |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: 1 of the 2 movies in the last 30 years, one a drama & one a comedy, to win Oscars for Best Actor & Best Actress The Silence of the Lambs or As Good as It Gets |
| #6838, aired 2014-05-14 | NAMES ON THE MAP: Visited by Jacques Cartier in 1534, it was later renamed for Queen Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent Prince Edward Island |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FAMOUS BOOKS: It was published March 26, 1830; a very popular work with the same name premiered March 24, 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: On December 20, 1956 the Court's ruling on Browder v. Gayle went into effect, bringing an end to this 381-day event the Montgomery bus boycott |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: Good looks weren't enough as he became the only full-term president rejected in a bid for his party's 2nd term nomination Franklin Pierce |
| #6814, aired 2014-04-10 | FOREIGN LEADERS: In 1964 he was convicted of sabotage & conspiracy & served over 20 years in prison Nelson Mandela |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | THE BRITISH EMPIRE: 1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3-square-mile area to Great Britain Gibraltar |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | AMERICAN THEATER: This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it" Death of a Salesman |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS: In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today the University of Oregon |
| #6715, aired 2013-11-22 | COUNTRY NAMES: In England in 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali coined this name, a country that wouldn't be formed until 14 years later Pakistan |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CARS: Introduced as a 2-seater & later celebrated in song, it was Motor Trend's Car of the Year for 1958, 1987, 1989 & 2002 the T-Bird |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | BIG COUNTRIES: In area, it's the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn't border an ocean Kazakhstan |
| #6666, aired 2013-09-16 | POETS: Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust T.S. Eliot |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | THE CIVIL WAR: Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, "a fit and necessary war measure" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE: Born in what's now Maine in 1807, he's honored with a bust in a special section of Westminster Abbey Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | AMERICAN WRITERS: Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes" Henry David Thoreau |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | FAMOUS EUROPEANS: After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem Oskar Schindler |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | THE THEATRE: Dramatizing a murder from the year 1170, a 1935 T.S. Eliot play aptly had its first performance in this English city Canterbury |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | AUTHORS: This author who passed away in 2012 quipped, "For those who haven't read the books, I am known best for my hair preparations" Gore Vidal |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | ITALY: The Italian word for "shadow" is used as a local variation on the name of this region midway between Rome & Florence Umbria |
| #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" |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers" E.E. Cummings |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man James Garfield |
| #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 |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | CHILDREN'S RHYMES: Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia Fuzzy Wuzzy |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | RECENT FILMS: One of its first lines is "I won't talk! I won't say a word!!!" The Artist |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | AIRLINE HISTORY: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991 Pan Am |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | ANIMALS: A 2005 study reported that this animal named for an island has, pound-for-pound, the most powerful bite of any mammal Tasmanian devil |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | BOOK VILLAINS: The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | 1870s PEOPLE: Preserved in the West Point library, his last message reads, "Benteen. Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs" General Custer |
| #6288, aired 2012-01-11 | FOOD ETYMOLOGY: Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan canola |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | ASTRONOMY: In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846 Neptune |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | BUSINESS HISTORY: Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product the Edsel |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | HIT SONGS: Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a cappella recording to top the Billboard 100 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (by Bobby McFerrin) |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | FROM THE GREEK: The word for a song element you won't find in instrumentals comes from the name of this instrument a lyre |
| #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 |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | U.S. STATE NAMES: Of the 4 states that begin & end with the same vowel, the one that doesn't begin & end with the same letter as the other 3 states Ohio |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | BESTSELLERS: In the beginning this 2005 novel was simply titled "Forks" Twilight |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | SPORTS & THE MEDIA: On February 8, 2010 the headline in a major newspaper in this city read, "Amen! After 43 Years, Our Prayers Are Answered" New Orleans |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | NEW SPORTS: In 2008, Middlebury College in Vermont won its 2nd straight championship in this sport introduced in a 1997 novel Quidditch |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | FILM LEGENDS: His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic Charlie Chaplin |
| #5862, aired 2010-02-23 | MONARCHS: In 2001 Bulgaria elected as prime minister its former child monarch, the only person now living to have held this royal title czar |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | THE AFI's 50 GREATEST FILM HEROES: Of the 50 on the list, the only character that wasn't portrayed by a human Lassie |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | FILM DIRECTORS: His work of the 1930s & '40s is so associated with sentimentality that his name is often combined with "corn" Frank Capra |
| #5777, aired 2009-10-27 | LANDMARKS: Operation Felix, a planned 1941 Nazi action to seize this territory, was never carried out because Spain wouldn't go along Gibraltar |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | POETS: In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines T.S. Eliot |
| #5751, aired 2009-09-21 | THE INTERNET: In a registered website domain name, it's the only mark allowed that isn't a letter, number or the dot a dash |
| #5726, aired 2009-06-29 | THE BEATLES: Fittingly, the cover of this Beatles album shows the Fab Four engaging in a semaphore message Help! |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SLANG TERM ORIGINS: Now referring to a scapegoat, this term originated as someone designated as a "proxy for correction" a whipping boy |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations James Dean |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | BRITISH LEGENDARY POETRY: The first edition of this collection of poems did not include "The Last Tournament"; it was added in the 1870s Idylls of the King |
| #5694, aired 2009-05-14 | SCIENCE TERMS: In medieval England, it meant the smallest unit of time, 1/376 of a minute; it didn't refer to matter until the 16th century atom |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II: This nickname given a bomber at a 1935 test flight reflected the early belief that it wouldn't need fighter protection the Flying Fortress |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | WRITER/DIRECTORS: His headstone, using a line from one of his scripts, says, "I'm a writer but then nobody's perfect" Billy Wilder |
| #5574, aired 2008-11-27 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The only public state holiday in the U.S. honoring a monarch is one honoring this ruler King Kamehameha |
| #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 |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | ASIAN NATIONS: Of the world's 11 countries whose English names start with "A", the only 2 whose names don't end with "A" Afghanistan & Azerbaijan |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character, created in Europe in the 19th c., has a name that can be translated as "eye of pine" Pinocchio |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders Wilson |
| #5523, aired 2008-09-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It's 277 miles long, it's up to 18 miles wide, it's 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees the Grand Canyon |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | 1970s HITS: In 1970 2 performers reached the Top 20 with this hit whose 6-word title was inspired by Boys Town "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | THE QUOTE OF THE MONTH CLUB: In a poem, these 5 words precede "breeding Lilacs out of the dead land... stirring Dull roots with spring rain" April is the cruellest month |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn't get to enjoy the victory for long William Henry Harrison |
| #5498, aired 2008-07-02 | AFI's TOP 100 MOVIE QUOTES: This quote, No. 31 on the list, comes 2 minutes after the No. 1 quote, & is the last line of its movie After all, tomorrow is another day! |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | HISTORIC NAMES: Born at Chateau Chavaniac in 1757, he was later hailed as "the hero of two worlds" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | BASEBALL TERMS: Hall of Famer Willie Stargell called it "a butterfly with hiccups" a knuckleball |
| #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" |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | THE WORLD MAP: 1 of the 2 South American countries whose mainland you'll fly over when heading due south from Miami, Fla. Ecuador or Peru |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | U.S. GOVERNMENT HISTORY: This man cast the first tie-breaking vote in U.S. Senate history John Adams |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | RICH & FAMOUS: At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million John Rockefeller |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | FOREIGN FILMS: A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #5370, aired 2008-01-04 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese Herbert Hoover |
| #5339, aired 2007-11-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek for "treasury" Roget |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | THE MOVIES: The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point 8½ |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | 16th CENTURY NAMES: Paul III roared at him, "I have waited 30 years for your services. Now I'm pope, can't I satisfy my desire?" Michelangelo |
| #5292, aired 2007-09-18 | MUSICAL HISTORY: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge |
| #5287, aired 2007-09-11 | AFRICAN CITIES: Africa's most populous city not on a navigable body of water; its settlers didn't need water when they had gold Johannesburg |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | ANIMALS: The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca the giant panda |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | AMERICANA: The original one of these on Mass.'s Little Brewster Island was built in 1716; automation didn't come until 1998 a lighthouse |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | MNEMONIC DEVICES: A traditional mnemonic device for remembering these begins, "Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three" English monarchs |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | HOLIDAY STUFF: In an 1850 essay Charles Dickens called it "that pretty German toy" a Christmas tree |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TECHNOLOGY: A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006 a telegram |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | WORD ODDITIES: This Britishism, a homophone of a letter in the alphabet, has one consonant followed by a line of 4 vowels queue |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | MOVIE HISTORY: Producer David Selznick was fined $5,000 by censors for using this word in a 1939 film damn |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS: The 1935 cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" was the first of many cartoons that paired him with a cat named Beans Porky Pig |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | IN THE NEWS 2006: Justice Peter Smith embedded a secret code into a 2006 ruling that said this author hadn’t violated a copyright Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code) |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | AMERICANA: A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother" Boys Town |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2 outlets of the Gulf of Mexico, a strait & a channel, bear the names of these 2 land areas Florida & the Yucatán peninsula |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | LITERARY QUOTES: "I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing" is a line from this 1952 work; like DiMaggio, it's an American classic The Old Man and the Sea (by Ernest Hemingway) |
| #5019, aired 2006-06-08 | UNIVERSITIES: It's the only state that doesn't have an undergraduate university or university system named just for the state itself New Jersey |
| #5018, aired 2006-06-07 | CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS: It's the only Canadian province or territory whose 2-letter postal abbreviation is a preposition Ontario |
| #5003, aired 2006-05-17 | BRITISH MONARCHS: The last British monarch who was not the child of a monarch Queen Victoria |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: On July 16, 1995 this company made its first sale, a science textbook Amazon.com |
| #4973, aired 2006-04-05 | STATE CAPITALS: Alphabetically, they're the first two state capitals named for presidents Jackson & Jefferson City |
| #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 |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: Growing up on a farm, Henry Ford didn't "care much for" these... "I never really made friends with them" horses |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | FORMER WORLD CAPITALS: In 1998 Czar Nicholas II & his wife Alexandra were laid to rest in this city St. Petersburg |
| #4934, aired 2006-02-09 | CONGRESS: The word for this job comes from a fox-hunting term for someone who keeps the hunting dogs from straying the whip |
| #4918, aired 2006-01-18 | U.S. COMMERCE: Huntington, considered the USA's busiest inland port & largely shipping coal, is on this river the Ohio River |
| #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 |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | THE OLD WEST: This outlaw's father, a minister, gave him his first & middle names after an 18th century English clergyman John Wesley Hardin |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: At 81, this Pennsylvanian was the oldest delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin |
| #4824, aired 2005-07-21 | LITERARY FIREARMS: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953 James Bond |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | SLOGANS: In 1986 the Texas Department of Transportation began using this 4-word slogan as part of a campaign to prevent litter "Don't mess with Texas" |
| #4815, aired 2005-07-08 | OLYMPIC ATHLETES: In 1960 European journalists gave her the nickname "La Gazzella" Wilma Rudolph |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | OSCAR NOMINEES: In a 1964 film, he played 3 characters but received only one nomination for Best Actor Peter Sellers |
| #4807, aired 2005-06-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In 1956 she published "Venice Observed" & her brother Kevin starred in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Mary McCarthy |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PRESIDENTS: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president Richard Nixon |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: This 5-word rule or maxim has been attributed to both H. Gordon Selfridge & John Wanamaker The customer is always right |
| #4772, aired 2005-05-10 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Born of Norwegian descent in 1916, he was given the first name of a famous Norwegian of the time Roald Dahl |
| #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 |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4735, aired 2005-03-18 | EUROPEAN LANGUAGES: In this language spoken by 120 million worldwide, all of the days of the week but one end with the same 3 letters German |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | ARTISTIC MASTERPIECES: "Shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" the artist wrote of this work The Starry Night (by Vincent van Gogh) |
| #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 |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790: It was the only state in the 1790 census to claim a slave population of zero Massachusetts |
| #4705, aired 2005-02-04 | U.S. POLITICS: A member of this family has spoken at every Democratic National Convention since 1956 the Kennedys |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest |
| #4697, aired 2005-01-25 | 18th CENTURY POETRY: 18th c. poem that says, "Forever cursed be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my favorite curl away!" "The Rape of the Lock" |
| #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) |
| #4683, aired 2005-01-05 | 1920s NOSTALGIA: A poor couple window-shopping a diamond bracelet at this store inspired the song "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" Tiffany's |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate John Tyler |
| #4657, aired 2004-11-30 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year H&R Block |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | POETS: Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful" Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman |
| #4605, aired 2004-09-17 | MARILYN MONROE MOVIES: Marilyn plots her husband's murder at a honeymoon site in this, her only film with a 1-word title Niagara |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: The 2 U.S. presidents whose middle names are also the last names of 2 other presidents Ronald Wilson Reagan & William Jefferson Clinton |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | SINGERS: Her recording career lasted just 8 years, starting in 1955 with "A Church, A Courtroom And Then Good-Bye" Patsy Cline |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | BOOK TITLES: "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this Song of Solomon |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist |
| #4566, aired 2004-06-14 | ON EXHIBIT: The Chinese government, which controls all of these in the U.S., won't let a new one be named until it's 100 days old giant pandas |
| #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 |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | MYTHS & LEGENDS: At a feast he couldn't enjoy his dinner because his life was literally hanging by a thread Damocles |
| #4525, aired 2004-04-16 | AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS: "Evita"'s "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was inspired by a 1969 concert of hers in London; she left the stage after 15 minutes Judy Garland |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | ISLANDS: 1200 miles from the nearest continent, it entered history because of its isolation (here's a map that shows you where it is) St. Helena |
| #4502, aired 2004-03-16 | MUSICAL THEATRE: When this Off-Broadway show closed in 2002, its lyricist said, "You can't be sad for a show that has run 42 years" The Fantasticks |
| #4474, aired 2004-02-05 | RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES: A November 2003 report said better tree trimming may have prevented this event that affected 50 million people in August the power blackout |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | THE MOVIES: They're the 2 2-letter abbreviations in the titles of movies directed by Steven Spielberg E.T. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) & A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) |
| #4454, aired 2004-01-08 | FILM TITLES: This Charlie Chaplin film lent its name to a famous bookstore that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary City Lights |
| #4391, aired 2003-10-13 | MOVIES: A catering hall called Aphrodite's Palace is featured in this 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: This observance began as a day to eat up all the stuff in your home you couldn't eat for the next 40 days Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | CHARACTERS: Person missing from: Rossweisse, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Helmwige, Gerhilde, Waltraute & Schwertleite Brunhilde (one of the Valkyries) |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS: French physicist Leon Foucault gave it its name, which is from the Greek for "to view the rotation" gyroscope |
| #4291, aired 2003-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Author of the 1889 novel that opens, "Camelot, Camelot... I don't seem to remember hearing of it before" Mark Twain |
| #4288, aired 2003-04-02 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY: One of the only 2 Canadian provinces that do not border a saltwater ocean or bay Alberta or Saskatchewan |
| #4238, aired 2003-01-22 | THE GLOBE: Of the more than a dozen countries through which the equator passes, this country stretches farthest south Brazil |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | SOUTH AMERICA: Alphabetically, they're the first & last of the 7 countries where the Andes are found Argentina & Venezuela |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS: This president shares his middle name with the name of a 1st c. Jewish theologian mentioned in the New Testament Warren Gamaliel Harding |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | AMERICANA: Baptist minister Francis Bellamy penned this oath in 1892 to reflect his Christian Socialist beliefs the Pledge of Allegiance |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | STATE FACTS: In August 1959 a coin toss helped Hiram L. Fong become this state's senior senator Hawaii |
| #4145, aired 2002-09-13 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The first winning presidential ticket of 2 sitting U.S. senators was the ticket of these 2 men John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | SPORTS STARS: He's the only athlete in history to play in both the Super Bowl & the World Series Deion Sanders |
| #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 |
| #4124, aired 2002-07-04 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN: According to the London Times she was England's highest-earning British woman in 2001, followed by Queen Elizabeth II J.K. Rowling |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | POLITICAL LONGEVITY: 2 of the 4 U.S. senators elected to their seventh consecutive terms in the 1990s (2 of) Strom Thurmond, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye & Robert Byrd |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | RENAISSANCE AUTHORS: In the 16th century he wrote, "Whoever wishes to found a state…must start with assuming that all men are bad…" Machiavelli |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the only vice president to be elected to, & serve, 2 full terms as president Thomas Jefferson |
| #4059, aired 2002-04-04 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: 5 beekeepers near this Iowa city formed a honey co-op in 1921; they named it for the city, but later respelled it Sioux City |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: One of only 2 U.S. presidents to be outlived by their fathers (1 of) John F Kennedy or Warren G. Harding |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | CABINET POSITIONS: This original cabinet post created in 1789 didn't get an accompanying department until 1870 the Attorney General |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer Gershwin |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | 1970s GAMES: Of this ground-breaking game, its creator said, "We knew a square ball wasn't cool" but "It was all we could do" Pong |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | ANIMALS: Scientists named an anticoagulant found in the saliva of a species of this animal "draculin" (vampire) bat |
| #3956, aired 2001-11-12 | THE EARLY 20th CENTURY: A 1904 issue of Popular Science Monthly reported their success in North Carolina the previous year the Wright Brothers |
| #3953, aired 2001-11-07 | LEGENDARY CHARACTERS: Led by Nicholas, a German boy, the Children's Crusade of 1212 may have been the inspiration for this character The Pied Piper (of Hamelin) |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | MUSIC & THE MOVIES: The soundtrack of this 1992 film is the bestselling movie soundtrack of the 1990s The Bodyguard |
| #3913, aired 2001-09-12 | ORGANIZATIONS: Linda Collins's tetanus antitoxin allergy led her parents to found this emergency information service MedicAlert |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | HISTORIC MONARCHS: This monarch, who sold the United States its 2nd-largest piece of territory, was the second to bear his name Alexander II |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS: A Red Sox pitcher, later a Yankee, he held the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings from 1918 to 1961 Babe Ruth |
| #3832, aired 2001-04-10 | FILMS & AUTHORS: "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" in 1953 was the 1st live-action feature film from this author's works; a 2nd was released in 2000 Dr. Seuss |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | U.S. HISTORY: This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion Abraham Lincoln |
| #3765, aired 2001-01-05 | LIFE SCIENCE: A study done in South Africa put these non-primates above chimpanzees, making them the world's second-smartest species Dolphins |
| #3761, aired 2001-01-01 | CELEBRITY WOMEN: She said, "The reason I'm not a nun is...you can't take your own name...I have the most holy name a woman can have" Madonna |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | BIOGRAPHIES: Carl Sandburg co-wrote a 1932 biography of this woman, "Wife and Widow" Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY: By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed the Scottsboro Boys |
| #3469, aired 1999-10-07 | FAMOUS BALLETS: A magic feather helps save the life of Prince Ivan in this Stravinsky ballet based on Russian folklore The Firebird |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | OLYMPICS 2000: Name of the new Olympic event that will cover a total of 51.5 kilometers the triathlon |
| #3346, aired 1999-03-08 | SHOW BIZ: In 1997 this singer & her husband opened a restaurant at Disney World called Bongo's Cuban Cafe Gloria Estefan |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: It's the only body of water with shores on the continents of Asia, Africa & Europe Mediterranean Sea |
| #3294, aired 1998-12-24 | CLASSIC MOVIES & TELEVISION: Bert & Ernie of "Sesame Street" are named after characters in this classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | 1998 OPERA NEWS: For his first opera, Andre Previn adapted this 1947 Pulitzer Prize play featuring sex, violence & insanity A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3280, aired 1998-12-04 | AWARDS: In 1927 Cedric Gibbons designed this award that he went on to win 11 times The Academy Award (Oscar) |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | LEGENDARY PEOPLE: He lived with his girlfriend, a fat priest & a 7-foot-tall archer Robin Hood |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | HALLOWEEN ON FILM: (Happy Halloween, I'm Janet Leigh.) In a 1953 film my then husband played this man, who died on Halloween in 1926; I played his wife Bess Harry Houdini |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WORDS: In 1973, TIME Magazine blended 2 words to coin this term they gave to Rex Humbard as a job title televangelist |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | STATUES: In 1820 a man named Yorgos unearthed 3 statues: 2 of Hermes & one of Aphrodite, later renamed this Venus de Milo |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | WESTERNS: Created by Clarence E. Mulford, in books he was a crusty guy with a bad leg; in film, a romantic lead Hopalong Cassidy |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | WORD ORIGINS: This type of establishment gets its name from the Latin for "to restore" a restaurant |
| #3130, aired 1998-03-20 | FINANCE HISTORY: In the 19th c., selling stock you didn't yet own, hoping it would fall, was called selling this animal's skin a bear |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | IN THE NEWS 1882: Queen Victoria was not amused when this animal ridden by kids at the London Zoo was sold to a U.S. showman Jumbo the elephant |
| #3011, aired 1997-10-06 | TELEVISION: In reviewing this May 1997 4-hour miniseries, TV Guide said NBC didn't "quite hit a Homer" The Odyssey |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: This group that first met in 1942 didn't get a permanent chairman until 1949 The Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | REPUBLICANS: He died in Topeka October 12, 1987, a month after his 100th birthday Alf Landon |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | MEDICINE: While many diseases bear doctors' names, a nerve disease is named for this victim who died in 1941 Lou Gehrig |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | 1990s AFRICA: In 1994 these 2 African countries' presidents Habyarimana & Ntaryamira died in a plane crash Rwanda & Burundi |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | THE LAW: From Latin for "under penalty", you're under penalty if you don't obey one a subpoena |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: The former kingdom of Saxony is now located in this country Germany |
| #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 |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut Kevin Costner |
| #2760, aired 1996-09-06 | CANADA: The flag & the coat of arms of this Canadian province feature a setting sun British Columbia |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | ARTISTS: In 1914 his brother's remains were moved from Holland to Auvers, France & buried beside him Vincent Van Gogh |
| #2740, aired 1996-06-28 | RIVERS: The world's first underwater tunnel was dug beneath this foreign river in the 1840s the Thames |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | ARTISTS: His "Young Corn" painting is featured on a 1996 stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Iowa's statehood Grant Wood |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Martial's "Book of Spectacles" in 80 A.D. was a book of poems published for this landmark's opening the (Roman) Colosseum (Coliseum) |
| #2683, aired 1996-04-10 | SAINTS: He wrote, "Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures, above all brother sun" St. Francis of Assisi |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | AUTHORS: He adapted a rejected treatise on exploring Africa by balloon into an 1863 novel, his first big success Jules Verne |
| #2621, aired 1996-01-15 | POLITICIANS: In 1961, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as vice president by this mentor Sam Rayburn |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The name of this country in the Southern Hemisphere comes from a Latin word for "southern" Australia |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE: Songs performed in a 1960 musical about her included "Beautiful People Of Denver" & "I Ain't Down Yet" (Unsinkable) Molly Brown |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He's the co-founder & editor-in-chief of a new magazine that hit the stands on September 26, 1995 John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | NEXT IN LINE: Jacqueline, Claudia, Thelma, … Elizabeth "Betty" (Ford) |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: The next-to-last line spoken by this man is "I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't" Rhett Butler |
| #2496, aired 1995-06-12 | FAMOUS NAMES: In a 1987 interview, he said, "In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people" Marcel Marceau |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | THE 1960s: John Froines, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger & 4 others made up this group the Chicago Seven |
| #2426, aired 1995-03-06 | THE 1980s: In 1989 a statue called "Goddess of Democracy" was erected in this square Tiananmen Square |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | FAMOUS SHIPS: It left Spithead, England December 23, 1787 & arrived in Tahiti October 26, 1788 the Bounty |
| #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 |
| #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) |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | BRITISH HISTORY: Over 300 years after his 1658 death, his head was laid to rest by his alma mater, a college at Cambridge Oliver Cromwell |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | THE 50 STATES: This Atlantic state's highest point is 442 feet on Ebright Road in New Castle County Delaware |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | BRAND NAMES: In the 1930s this product was advertised with the phrase "Don't put a cold in your pocket" Kleenex |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | MAGAZINES: After the TV show premiered in 1964, The New Yorker wouldn't allow this family in its cartoons the Addams family |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: 1 of 3 women who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1980s (1 of) Beth Henley (for Crimes of the Heart), Marsha Norman (for 'night, Mother) & Wendy Wasserstein (for The Heidi Chronicles) |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | LITERARY TERMS: Jonathan Swift defined it as a "glass wherein beholders... discover everybody's face but their own" satire |
| #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 |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: This term for a deadbeat came from a poker player whose hole card didn't fill out his hand four-flusher |
| #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 |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | THE 1950s: June 2, 1953 event telecast worldwide & filmed in Technicolor Queen Elizabeth II's coronation |
| #2019, aired 1993-05-20 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1529 this Spaniard was made Marques del Valle de Oaxaca Hernán Cortés |
| #2005, aired 1993-04-30 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: One of Canada's largest universities, it was endowed by a Scottish- born fur trader McGill University |
| #1968, aired 1993-03-10 | ISLANDS: These islands about 400 miles from Cape Horn were named for a British treasurer of the Navy the Falklands |
| #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 |
| #1923, aired 1993-01-06 | PLANTS & TREES: Botany Bay kino, a resin used to protect wood from worms, is derived from this type of tree eucalyptus |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | QUOTES: The author who wrote, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | ANATOMY: You have this bone, snakes don't, & in bats, it's keeled a breastbone (or sternum) |
| #1892, aired 1992-11-24 | HISTORIC PAIRS: They were the maternal grandparents of England's Queen Mary I Ferdinand & Isabella |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | SHIPS: This British navy ship left Devenport Dec. 27, 1831 & went around the world on a 5-year survey mission the HMS Beagle |
| #1820, aired 1992-06-26 | U.S. COINS: This 10-letter word appears on only one current U.S. coin, the nickel Monticello |
| #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 |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | ARTISTS: 2 of his major works are "Synagogue at Safed" (1931) & "King David" (1951) Chagall |
| #1788, aired 1992-05-13 | ZOOLOGY: The scientific name of this mammal is abbreviated H. amphibius a hippopotamus |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS: The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term Richard Nixon |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | U.S. CITIES: Pedro Menendez de Aviles founded this city September 8, 1565 St. Augustine, Florida |
| #1708, aired 1992-01-22 | ISLAND GROUPS: The last place Columbus stopped for supplies before reaching the New World the Canary Islands |
| #1693, aired 1992-01-01 | INSECTS: This pest escaped from a Mass. lab where it was brought in the 19th c. as a possible silkworm the gypsy moth |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | AMERICAN NOVELS: The narrative in this 1851 novel contains a dissertation on cetology Moby-Dick |
| #1682, aired 1991-12-17 | PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES: He's the grandson of one president & the son-in-law of another David Eisenhower |
| #1675, aired 1991-12-06 | SONG STANDARDS: According to Irving Berlin, "They can play a bugle call like you never heard before" Alexander's Ragtime Band |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | SCIENTISTS: In 1902, at age 23, he was appointed to a position in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland Albert Einstein |
| #1644, aired 1991-10-24 | THE SENATE: The 2 former major party vice presidential nominees who are now senators Robert Dole & Lloyd Bentsen |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | MUSICIANS: This famed musician disappeared on December 16, 1944 & was never found Glenn Miller |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | MUSEUMS: Since 1899 this museum of decorative arts has borne the names of two first cousins the Victoria and Albert Museum |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | VICE PRESIDENTS: He was the last vice president who didn't serve a full 4-year term Nelson Rockefeller |
| #1523, aired 1991-03-27 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 1 of 2 men elected president while serving as a U.S. senator Warren G. Harding or John F. Kennedy |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This country in the Southern Hemisphere was named for a province of the Netherlands New Zealand |
| #1494, aired 1991-02-14 | THE 50 STATES: The only one of the 50 states that has a 1-syllable name Maine |
| #1481, aired 1991-01-28 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In 1976, the same year her creator died, she made her final appearance, in "Sleeping Murder" Miss (Jane) Marple |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS: This German author is a character in Offenbach's last opera, which was based on his stories (E.T.A.) Hoffmann |
| #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 |
| #1458, aired 1990-12-26 | THE 50 STATES: 3 of the 5 states which, along with part of Minnesota, were formed from the Northwest Territory (3 of) Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio |
| #1457, aired 1990-12-25 | OPERA: Verdi eliminated all of the Venetian scenes in this opera based on a Shakespearean play Otello |
| #1429, aired 1990-11-15 | SPACE EXPLORATION: Next pair in the sequence:
Gumdrop, Spider;
Charlie Brown, Snoopy;... the Columbia & the Eagle |
| #1428, aired 1990-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other Tennessee |
| #1424, aired 1990-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country contains South America's highest & lowest points Argentina |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | SHAKESPEARE: The 3-word title of this play begins & ends with the same 7-letter word Measure for Measure |
| #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 |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | HISTORY: It was the first elected legislative body in the New World House of Burgesses |
| #13, aired 1990-09-08 | THE 20th CENTURY: He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president Harry Truman |
| #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 |
| #1340, aired 1990-06-01 | FAMOUS WOMEN: While a regular on Major Bowes' radio show, she said, "I'm 7 years old & I can sing 23 arias." Beverly "Bubbles" Sills |
| #1330, aired 1990-05-18 | THE SUPREME COURT: Son of a famous poet, this oldest justice ever didn't retire until he was 90 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | GEOGRAPHY: It's the only country whose name begins with "A", but doesn't end with "A" Afghanistan |
| #1314, aired 1990-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY: Some say he was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett, & other believe he killed himself John Wilkes Booth |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | WORD ORIGINS: Word derived from the act of breaking up a failed Italian moneylender's market bench bankruptcy |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | COMMUNICATIONS: The "T" in TASS, an agency founded in the Soviet Union in 1925, stands for this Telegraph |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | MONEY: It was the 1st country to use paper money China |
| #1065, aired 1989-03-31 | PLAYWRIGHTS: The son of an actor, he won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, more than any other playwright Eugene O'Neill |
| #1028, aired 1989-02-08 | VICE PRESIDENTS: The only 2 vice presidents who previously represented Minnesota in the Senate (Hubert) Humphrey & (Walter) Mondale |
| #989, aired 1988-12-15 | AMERICANA: The U.S. flag flies 24 hours a day over both his birthplace & his grave Francis Scott Key |
| #948, aired 1988-10-19 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: By June 30, 1988 every U.S. residence should have received a gov't booklet w/this man's photo on the cover C. Everett Koop |
| #934, aired 1988-09-29 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: It didn't become a federal holiday until 1971, though it was 1st celebrated in 1792 Columbus Day |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | MUSICALS: This Lerner & Loewe musical was written directly for the screen & wasn't a Broadway musical 'til 1973 Gigi |
| #888, aired 1988-06-15 | THE BIBLE: In Chapter 1, Verse 1, authorship of the book of Proverbs is attributed to this man Solomon |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: More than half the free world's commercial jetliners have been assembled in this U.S. state Washington |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | RIVERS: 2 of the 3 European rivers that begin with "T" on which a national capital is located (2 of) Thames, Tiber or Tagus |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | ISLANDS: This island of 5 million has 3 million fewer people now than it had 150 years ago Ireland |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | WORLD TRADE: Of all fresh fruits, the U.S. imports more of this one than any other bananas |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | POP MUSIC: This narrative #1 song from 1968 was only hit record to inspire a movie & TV series of the same name "Harper Valley P.T.A." |
| #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 |
| #780, aired 1988-01-15 | PRESIDENTS: Of the 5 vowels, only these are the 1st letter of a president's last name A & E |
| #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 |
| #729, aired 1987-11-05 | CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: 1 of 2 singers who have hit #1 as a solo, & in a duo & trio, both have had hits with "You Can't Hurry Love" Diana Ross or Phil Collins |
| #700, aired 1987-09-25 | PRESIDENTS: President in office the longest under the 50-star U.S. flag Ronald Reagan |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | THE CABINET: 1st Attorney General under LBJ Robert Kennedy |
| #597, aired 1987-03-24 | THE U.N.: Now 2nd largest contributor of U.N. operating budget, this country isn't a perm. member of Security Council Japan |
| #563, aired 1987-02-04 | THE OSCARS: 3 actors, including Kim Hunter & Karl Malden, won Oscars for this film but Brando didn't A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | ANIMALS: It's believed elephants rarely lived beyond 60, about the age the last of these wear out teeth |
| #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 |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | GAMES: The 4 corners on a Monopoly board are "Go", "Free Parking" & these 2 Jail & Go To Jail |
| #440, aired 1986-05-16 | THE CALENDAR: Day of the week Valentine's Day will be if New Year's Day falls on a Monday Wednesday |
| #403, aired 1986-03-26 | THE OLYMPICS: The games held in this city were the only ever staged in the Southern Hemisphere Melbourne |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | THE '70s: Due to '73 energy crisis, Congress stopped the environmental impact review & ordered its construction the Alaska Pipeline |
| #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 |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | ELECTIONS: 2 of 6 states that cast only 3 electoral votes for president in 1984 (2 of) Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, and Delaware |
| #295, aired 1985-10-25 | SCIENCE: From name of Greek sun god, it is the 2nd most abundant element in the universe helium |
| #285, aired 1985-10-11 | TELEVISION: For 2 years, NBC didn’t call it “Saturday Night Live” because of 18 wk. ABC “SNL” series starring him Howard Cosell |
| #264, aired 1985-09-12 | MISS AMERICA: He replaced Bert Parks as host of Miss America pageant for 1980 Ron Ely |
| #193, aired 1985-06-05 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1974, this baseball figure set record for most letters received in the mail in a year, some 900,000 Hank Aaron |
| #191, aired 1985-06-03 | RIVERS: 2 of the 3 "rivers" which surround Manhattan (2 of) East River, Hudson River & Harlem River |
| #184, aired 1985-05-23 | REPUBLICANS: The 2 who were presidents during the Centennial and Bicentennial years Ulysses Grant & Gerald Ford |
| #163, aired 1985-04-24 | ROYALTY: Queen Elizabeth II's father, he became this king when his brother abdicated the throne George VI |
| #144, aired 1985-03-28 | TECHNOLOGY: On std. touch tone phone, tot. No. of buttons with characters also appearing on top row of a typewriter 12 |
| #97, aired 1985-01-22 | THE THEATER: The musical "Hello Dolly!" was based on this Thornton Wilder play The Matchmaker |
| #94, aired 1985-01-17 | STATE CAPITALS: Most populous state capital, it falls alphabetically between Olympic & Pierre Phoenix, Arizona |
| #89, aired 1985-01-10 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: Illinois family that included a vice-president, governor & U.N. ambassador, & a U.S. senator the Stevensons |
| #44, aired 1984-11-08 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Along with president, these 2 must sign a bill for it to become law the speaker of the House & the vice president |
| #30, aired 1984-10-19 | ASTRONOMY: After the Sun & the Moon, the brightest astronomical object regularly seen in our sky the planet Venus |
| #13, aired 1984-09-26 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Only 1 of 9 planets not named for a Greek or Roman mythological figure the Earth |
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Gabrielle McMahan, a junior from Florida A&M University
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Springfield, VA at...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
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"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
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"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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Joey Beachum, a senior from Mississippi State University
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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"His musical taste has changed since he won $10,000 on Kids...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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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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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Ellen Eichner, a junior from the Ohio State University from Northbrook, Illinois
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Danielle Zsenak, a senior from Marquette University
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2008 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Last name pronounced like "zshen-NOCK"....
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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"Math and science were her favorite subjects in seventh grade. We're...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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"As a seventh grader, he was planning on a career in...
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Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2009 College Championship winner: $100,000...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
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2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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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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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $43,800 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Oceanside, CA at...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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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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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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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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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
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"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
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"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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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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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Paul Kursky, a copywriter 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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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Okemos, Michigan at...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Sam Spaulding, a sophomore from Yale University from Wilmington, North Carolina
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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Curtis Joseph, a sophomore from Scottsdale Community College
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"In 1999, his nickname was 'Curtles the Troll', and he wanted...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. 2019...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Olivia Colangelo, a junior from the University of Notre Dame from Murrysville, Pennsylvania
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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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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Brenton Montie, a sixth grade social studies teacher from South Lyon, Michigan
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"He teaches at a school ranked in the top 5% in...
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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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Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California
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"A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
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Elyse Mancuso, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska
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2012 Teen Tournament winner: $79,600. 16 at the time of the...
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Katie Winter, a senior from Tufts University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 22 and from Hershey, PA at...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
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Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
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Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
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"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
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"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Matt Jacobs, a science teacher originally from Stratford, Connecticut
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,323 + $1,000. Matt resided in Silver...
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Julie Bowen, a TV and film actress from Boston Legal, Lost and Modern Family
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"For two seasons, she played attorney Denise Bauer in Boston Legal....
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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
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2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a shovel bum from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was a material scientist living in Phoenix when he won...
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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"As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus of Harper's...
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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
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"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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"On TV, he's worked both sides of the law. Once a...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
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"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Will Warren, a senior from the University of Alabama
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Madison, Alabama. Will Warren Blog...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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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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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
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"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
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"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament 1st runner-up: $50,000. 2019...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
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"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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"He teaches at a school started by the Dominicans of St....
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Than Hedman, a freshman from University of Colorado-Boulder
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Denver, CO at...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jane Curtin, an actress from Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock from the Sun
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"One of Saturday Night Live's original Not Ready for Primetime Players,...
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Jane Kaczmarek, a TV, film and Broadway actress from Malcolm in the Middle and Raising the Bar
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"She went from playing a hard-nosed mom in Malcolm in the...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
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"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois
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Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
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Miguel Ferrer, an actor from Crossing Jordan
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"He began his career as a studio drummer and played on...
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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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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
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"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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John Beck, an associate creative director from Torrance, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $29,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Vermillion, South Dakota
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"He won both the 1989 Teen Tournament and the 1998 Teen...
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Diane Trap, a librarian and graphics specialist from Athens, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $21,400 + $1,000. Diane Trap - a...
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Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
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"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
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"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
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"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Vik Vaz, a medical student from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000. Season 22 3-time champion:...
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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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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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"This multitalented actor/comedian is now back on the couch with Conan...
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James Erwin, a writer from Des Moines, Iowa
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Season 25 2-time champion: $22,598 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Soledad O'Brien, an anchor and special correspondent from CNN's Special Investigations Unit
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"Currently the host of CNN's Special Investigations Unit, she's received critical...
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Greg Peterson, a senior from Park Ridge, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $38,600....
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Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
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"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
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Brad Brown, a theater teacher from Nashville, Tennessee
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"And he is a theater teacher at an international baccalaureate certified...
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
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"She has wanted to be a teacher since she was 7...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
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"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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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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Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Eddie Timanus, a sports reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
"A 5-time champion, he went on to become a semifinalist in...
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Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
|
"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
|
"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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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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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
|
"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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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...
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Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a recent college graduate originally from Laurel, Maryland
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
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"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Dylan Smith, from the Bronx, New York
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"This honor roll student wants to invent a teleporting system. From...
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Andrew Vogl, from Yonkers, New York
|
"He can ski the slopes with ease, but navigating his own...
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Mark Eckard, a software designer from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $35,600. 2001 Tournament...
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|
Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
|
"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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|
Cassie Hill, a recent graduate from the University of Mary Washington
|
"Her dad is a lawyer, and by the seventh grade, she...
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|
Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
|
|
David Madden, a student originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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|
Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
|
"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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|
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Bob Verini, a film journalist and test prep teacher from Los Angeles, California
|
"A resident of New York City when he won the 1987...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"Once a presidential speechwriter, he's had his own political talk show...
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|
Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
|
"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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|
Anurag Kashyap, a senior from Poway, California
|
2008-B Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. Anurag was also the winner of...
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Erin McLean, a junior at Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Lisa Johnston, a fourth and fifth grade reading and religion teacher from East Boston, Massachusetts
|
"She teaches at a parish that's focus is to dream big....
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
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|
Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Zane Ice, a 12-year-old from West Palm Beach, Florida
|
"He wants to build a business in emerging technologies to help...
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|
Phoebe Juel, a bookseller from Sylva, North Carolina
|
"She won the 1993 College Championship while attending Grinnell College. Today...
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|
Dave Abbott, a musician and licensing executive from Fort Thomas, Kentucky
|
"He won the 1999 Tournament of Champions. A musician and licensing...
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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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Eugene Finerman, a writer from Northbrook, Illinois
|
"A finalist in the 1987 Tournament of Champions, he's a writer....
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Russ Schumacher, a graduate student and newlywed from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
"He won the most recent Tournament of Champions. A graduate student...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
|
"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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|
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
|
"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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|
Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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|
Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
|
"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Sam Daub, an eleven-year-old from Eden Prairie, Minnesota
|
"And he finds video games enticing and has made a fantasy...
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|
Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
|
"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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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...
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
|
|
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...
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|
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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Folake Dosu, a senior from Stanford University from Bellwood, Illinois
|
2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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|
Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
|
"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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|
John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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|
India Cooper, a copy editor from Madison, Indiana
|
"She was an actor and copy editor in New York City...
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|
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...
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|
Tom Morris, a substitute teacher and grad student from Irvine, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 4-time champion: $100,801...
|
|
Kizzle Cote, a 12-year-old from Ludlow, Massachusetts
|
"This future ichthyologist has a 30-gallon aquarium in his bedroom..." 2007...
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|
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
|
"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
|
|
Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
|
"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
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|
Kevin Keach, a project administrator from St. Louis, Missouri
|
"He considered himself a simple Missouri farm boy when he won...
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|
Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
|
"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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|
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
|
"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
|
|
Scott Harris, a videographer and elementary school librarian from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $19,201 + $2,000. Scott won $30,000 on...
|
|
Tom Kunzen, a geotechnical engineer from Orlando, Florida
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 5-time champion: $133,402...
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|
Neha Embar, a 12-year-old from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
"No kidding--she wants to be a pediatrician when she grows up....
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
|
|
Mollie Haycock, a senior from Rocklin, California
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she's now a Spanish teacher listed...
|
|
John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
|
"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
|
Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
|
|
Elijah Granet, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Because he loves animals, biology, and helping others, he's thinking of...
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Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
|
"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
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|
Michael Blake, a 12-year-old from Hamburg, New York
|
"Our top story tonight is this young man, who wants to...
|
|
Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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|
Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
|
"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
|
|
April McManus, a homemaker from Hertfordshire, England
|
"A high school senior from Minnesota when she won the 1992...
|
|
Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
|
|
Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
|
"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
|
|
Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
|
"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
|
|
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
|
|
Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
|
|
Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
|
|
Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
|
"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
|
|
Melissa Luttmann, a freshman from Memphis, Tennessee
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
|
|
Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
|
"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
|
|
Will Walters, a twelve-year-old from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He wants to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Albert...
|
|
Ben Bishop, a college student originally from Seattle, Washington
|
2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $114,800...
|
|
Rowan Spake, from Portland, Oregon
|
"He's interested in nanotechnology and robotics to improve surgery. But getting...
|
|
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Mario Cantone, an actor and comedian from Sex and the City
|
"He played Anthony Marentino, the wedding planner with an attitude, on...
|
|
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
|
|
Tad Carithers, an attorney from New York City, New York
|
"He finished second in the 2001 Tournament of Champions. Today he...
|
|
Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
|
|
Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
|
|
Nick Yozamp, a biology student from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
|
|
John Kozempel, an I.T. consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 32 player (2015-10-06). John, an I.T. consultant, memorably received a...
|
|
Michael Arnone, a reporter from Arlington, Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
|
|
Steve Robin, a writer and producer from Miami, Florida
|
"He finished second place in the 1991 Tournament of Champions. He's...
|
|
Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
|
|
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
|
"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
|
|
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
|
|
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
|
|
Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
|
"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
|
|
Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
|
|
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
|
"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
|
|
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
|
|
Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
|
"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
|
|
Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
|
"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
|
|
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...
|
|
Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
|
"She hadn't settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
|
|
Nico Martinez, a college junior from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
|
|
Brady Newell, from Derwood, Maryland
|
"She loves diving and gymnastics, but is headed toward being either...
|
|
Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
|
|
Frank Spangenberg, a lieutenant in the New York Police Department from Douglaston, New York
|
"He still holds the record for the most money won in...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York City, New York
|
"A semifinalist in the Tournament of Champions in 1992, now an...
|
|
Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
|
"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
|
|
Kurt Bray, a scientist from Oceanside, California
|
"A 5-time winner in 1994, he used some of his winnings...
|
|
Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
|
"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
|
|
John Beck, a creative director from Torrance, California
|
"He played in 2003, and was the last retired 5-time champ...
|
|
Jason Zollinger, an engine assembler from South Dayton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $100,000. Season...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
|
|
Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
|
"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
|
|
Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Keith Williams, a sophomore at Middlebury College from Middlebury, Vermont
|
"As a freshman from Middlebury College, he won the 2003 College...
|
|
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
|
|
Dillon McCormick, a twelve-year-old from Erlanger, Kentucky
|
"A politician, maybe. An archaeologist, perhaps. Or a psychologist like grandpa....
|
|
Robert Arshonsky, a senior from Cal Poly
|
"As a 12-year-old, he wanted to be the first person on...
|
|
Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
|
"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
|
|
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
|
|
Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
|
|
Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
|
"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
|
|
Shane Whitlock, a resident physician from Little Rock, Arkansas
|
"As a junior at the University of Arkansas, he won the...
|
|
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...
|
|
Jack Archey, an actor and writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a CPA and comedian when he won his 5th...
|
|
Mark Eckard, an entrepreneur from Bedford, Massachusetts
|
"A 2001 5-time champion as a software designer, he has now...
|
|
Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
|
"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
|
|
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
|
"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
|
|
Jacob Hambalek, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California
|
"If he had to choose a career right now, he'd be...
|
|
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
|
|
Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
|
|
Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
|
|
Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
|
"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
|
|
John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
|
|
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...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2025 Jeopardy! Masters 7th place player (eliminated in knockout round): $15,000....
|
|
Pian Wong, a high school English teacher from New York, New York
|
"She teaches at a Bronx school that's been ranked the most...
|
|
John Botti, a high school history and English teacher from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"He says he keeps his spirit young by spending time with...
|
|
Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
|
|
Michael Falk, a meteorologist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2006 Tournament of Champions...
|
|
Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
|
2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
|
|
Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
|
"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
|
|
Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
|
"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
|
|
Joey Beachum, an Air Force intelligence officer from Conway, Arkansas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2008 College Championship winner: $100,000...
|
|
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...
|
|
Ethan Russo, an 11-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He really likes a big challenge. He wants to be the...
|
|
Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
|
|
Bethlehem Lema, a 12-year-old from San Diego, California
|
"Either being an astrophysicist or a pediatrician is in her future..."...
|
|
Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
|
"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
|
|
Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
|
"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
|
|
Gitta Neufeld, a Judaic teacher trainer from Far Rockaway, New York
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $18,300 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "GEE-ta...
|
|
Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
|
|
Terry Parker, a high school history teacher from Cutler Bay, Florida
|
"Don't try to pin down this wrestling coach, history teacher, and...
|
|
Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
|
|
Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
|
"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
|
|
Martin Short, a multitalented man from Fame Becomes Me
|
"Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley are among his many memorable characters....
|
|
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
|
2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
|
|
Hope Landsem, from Tualatin, Oregon
|
"She likes to win arguments, and that's why she's going to...
|
|
Bill Pitassy, a lawyer from Roselle Park, New Jersey
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"After winning 5 games in 1994, he took his family on...
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Bill Sloan, a realtor from Mission Viejo, California
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"Since winning five shows in 1996, he has gone on to...
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-show winner in 1995, he's now a writer and producer...
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Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
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"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Jean Grewe, a graphic designer from Oak Park, Illinois
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"She was the last 5-time champion in 1993. Today she's a...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Surabhi Iyer, a ten-year-old from Franklin, Massachusetts
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"Her research scientist dad has inspired her to become a neuroscientist....
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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
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"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
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"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Neha Gokhale, a 10-year-old from Houston, Texas
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"Because she liked 4th and 5th grade so much, she wants...
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Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
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2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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Tom Walsh, a writer from Washington, D.C.
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
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Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
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Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
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"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
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2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Will Harter, a 12-year-old from Park Ridge, Illinois
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"He would like to be a professional athlete. If that doesn't...
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Vinita Kailasanath, a sophomore at Stanford University from Laurel, Maryland
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, an actor from the Broadway musical Ragtime
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"His Broadway credits include Ragtime and Kiss Me, Kate, for which...
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Chacko George, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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"He won the November 1999 Teen Tournament. Now he's a senior...
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Priscilla Ball, a federal contractor from Montgomery Village, Maryland
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Season 25 2-time champion: $45,200 + $2,000. Priscilla was due to...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
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"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Tayonna Jones, a 12-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"She hopes to have her law degree by her 18th birthday...
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Tommy Hoyt, from Winnetka, Illinois
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"Journalism may very well be in his future as he feels...
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
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"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Chris Ward, a foreign service officer from Johannesburg, South Africa
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"A 5-game winner in 1998, he was living in Peru when...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Andrew Zazzera, a twelve-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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"He has a sunny future as a meteorologist. From Virginia Beach,...
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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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Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
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"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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Terri Pous, a social media editor from New York, New York
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Season 31 2-time champion: $36,801 + $2,000. Terri produced a podcast...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
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"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Jacob Joyner, an 11-year-old from Quantico, Virginia
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"As a politician, he plans on improving the lives of Americans....
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Michelle Cinguina, an 11-year-old from Stamford, Connecticut
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"Her favorite things to do are act, play the piano and...
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Rachel Beckman, an 11-year-old from Danville, Kentucky
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"As a member of her school's academic team, she has no...
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Curt Schilling, a pitcher from the Boston Red Sox
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"In helping the Red Sox to win the 2004 World Series,...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
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"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Aki Terasaki, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"This future millionaire would like to be a professional writer and...
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Phil Yellman, a legal assistant from Seattle, Washington
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"He was an office worker from Albuquerque when he won his...
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Stuart Anderson, a JAG originally from New Orleans, Louisiana
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Season 30 3-time champion: $51,601 + $1,000. Stuart was a captain...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
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"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Graham Doskoch, a twelve-year-old from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
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"He wants to put his love of design and building to...
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Barbara Sheridan, an attorney and law clerk to a judge from Yonkers, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $17,999 + $1,000.
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Hallie Fox, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan
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"It's elementary. She wants to be a teacher when she's older....
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Pam Maine, a mutual fund accountant from Boston, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-06-28). Won $32,000 on Who Wants To Be...
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Steve Berman, a teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He was a film executive when he won five shows in...
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Amy Helmes, a writer originally from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Season 21 player (2004-09-10). KJL game 42. A resident of Beverly...
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Morgan Saxby, a research associate from Charlottesville, Virginia
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Season 26 3-time champion: $66,401 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Andrea Salt, a twelve-year-old from Gilbert, Arizona
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"This animal lover plans on becoming a veterinarian. From Gilbert, Arizona,...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
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John Zhang, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Teen...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) and...
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Sophia Marianiello, an 11-year-old from Newark, Delaware
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"She plans on putting her love of building with cardboard and...
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Peter Wiscombe, a computer engineer from High Point, North Carolina
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Season 25 1-time champion: $16,799 + $2,000. Peter appeared as a...
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Katie Baxter, a 10-year-old from Glenside, Pennsylvania
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"She has already won a presidential award. So why not the...
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Darren Munk, a web application developer from Camarillo, California
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Season 25 player (2008-10-07). Jeopardy! Message Board user name: knumd Darren...
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Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois
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2019 All-Star Games captain of first-eliminated Team Julia: a share of...
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Venkat Krishnan, an I.T. manager from Sharon, Massachusetts
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Season 31 player (2014-10-09).
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Chris Parsons, an undergraduate student from Wabasso, Florida
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Season 20 1-time champion: $18,801 + $2,000. The official Jeopardy! web...
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John Blanton, a newspaper editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-04-16). Won $9,550 on Who Wants to Be...
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Michael Memberg, a bankruptcy clerk at a law firm from Chamblee, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-04-09).
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Tyler Crosby, a barista and bookseller from Ithaca, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-07-09). Tyler won $100,000 on Who Wants to...
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Kevin Hullihan, an Air Force officer from Great Falls, Montana
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Season 24 player (2007-10-30). Last name pronounced like "HOO-lih-han". Kevin is...
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Samantha Ross, a student from Hillsdale, New Jersey
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Season 23 1-time champion: $14,000 + $1,000. Won $1,000 on Who...
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Joe Kohake, from Florence, Kentucky
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"Golf, piano, and euphonium lessons are just a few of his...
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Jim Mainguy, a customer service representative from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Season 22 player (2006-07-21). Last name pronounced like "MAIN-gee" (with a...
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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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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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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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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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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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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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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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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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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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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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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rachel Rothenberg, a senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. Jeopardy! Message Board...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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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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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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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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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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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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Lauren Romero, a senior from Denver, Colorado
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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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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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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"He teaches at the smallest public school in North Carolina, and...
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John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
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Raynell Cooper, a senior from Rockville, Maryland
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2011 Teen Tournament winner (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 16 at the...
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Watson, a deep question answering system from IBM
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2011 IBM Challenge winner: $500,000 to World Vision + $500,000 to...
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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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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
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Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
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Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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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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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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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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Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Doug Dorst, a writer and professor from Austin, Texas
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2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 22 3-time champion: $66,802...
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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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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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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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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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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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Charles Temple, a high school English teacher from Ocracoke, North Carolina
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
2011 Teachers Tournament winner: $100,000.
JBoard user name: lonesomeseagull
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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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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
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"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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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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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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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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Christian Haines, a college student originally from Newport News, Virginia
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2007 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Nick Swezey, a publisher from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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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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Laura Ansley, a senior from Twinsburg, Ohio
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2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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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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Kelley Burd, a junior at West Virginia University from Bristol, West Virginia
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Mitchell Vogel, from Madison, Wisconsin
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"This future governor of Wisconsin enjoys rollerblading, reading, and playing saxophone....
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Seth Alcorn, a bookstore supervisor from Alexandria, Virginia
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2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 19 3-time champion: $106,400 + $1,000.
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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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Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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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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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Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
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2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
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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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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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Roger Mueller-Kim, a high school social studies teacher from Dublin, California
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Season 27 1-time champion: $17,401 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "MULL-er KIM".
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Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
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2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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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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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Alice Luo, a junior from Georgia Institute of Technology
|
2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of...
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
|
"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Daniel Stauss, a federal claims examiner from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $25,500 + $2,000. Daniel Stauss - A...
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Doug Hicton, a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 1st runner-up: $100,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 5-time champion: $83,401 + $2,000.
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester from Los Angeles, California
|
2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Matt Kohlstedt, a grad student originally from La Grange, Illinois
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 25 5-time champion: $77,803 + $2,000.
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Lindsey Hargrove, a senior at the University of Texas from Bellaire, Texas
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Mother's Jeopardy! Message Board user name: collegemom
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Ellen Lewis, a retired high school math teacher from Mount Vernon, New York
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $10,000 + $1,000.
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Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 6-time champion: $94,752...
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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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Erin Bogart, a junior at Miami University of Ohio from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Erin was 20 at the time...
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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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Will Schultz, a freshman from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 19 at the time of the...
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Claire Winkler, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"This honor roll student participates on both the year-round and summer...
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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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Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
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Larry DeMoss, a high school English teacher from Ellettsville, Indiana
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"He went from short orders to short stories when he switched...
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Morgan Flood, a junior from Pequea, Pennsylvania
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
|
"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia
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2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
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Sam Ott, a graduate student from Los Angeles, California
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19/20 4-time champion: $67,102 + $1,000.
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Hema Karunakaram, a senior from Saline, Michigan
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Name pronounced like "HAY-ma kah-ROO-nuh-KAH-ram". Jeopardy!...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
|
2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Amy Varallo, a senior from Aiken, South Carolina
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Kaitlin Welborn, a sophomore from the University of Pennsylvania
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
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Joseph Graumann, a junior from Mays Landing, New Jersey
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Emily Karrs, a junior from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania
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2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Emily was 16 at the time...
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Drew Lachey, a singer and actor from Dancing with the Stars
|
"He was working as an emergency medical technician when brother Nick...
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Andy Hutchins, a senior from Rockledge, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Rick Knutsen, a musician from Brooklyn, New York
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $33,201. 2001 Tournament...
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Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
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Jayce Newton, a senior at UCLA from Long Beach, California
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Jayce was 22 at the...
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Anna Allie, a junior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn from Dearborn, Michigan
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
|
"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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Beth Cimini, a junior at Boston University from East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: BrightStars1212
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David McIntyre, a twelve-year-old from Riverside, California
|
"When this Boy Scout was young, he thought that running from...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Scott Renzoni, a bartender and actor from Burlington, Vermont
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2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $112,998...
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Tom Zamojcin, a digital marketing manager from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $22,800 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "zam-MOH-chin".
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Charlie Penrod, an assistant professor of law from Natchitoches, Louisiana
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,000 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: CharlieP
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Anshika Niraj, a sophomore from Beachwood, Ohio
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Brandon Welch, a senior from Grayson, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Jason Block, an Internet researcher from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 17 4-time champion: $36,701. Won $125,000 on Who Wants to...
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Naomi Hinchen, a senior from Brooklyn, New York
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kyle Ziemnick, an eleven-year-old from Purcellville, Virginia
|
"He likes logical arguments and debates, so would like to be...
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Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27/28 6-time champion:...
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Colleen Mahoney, a sophomore from East Hampton, Connecticut
|
2001 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000. 15 at the time of...
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Heidi Greimann, a junior from Columbia, Missouri
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Heidi was 15 at the...
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Paige Feldman, a sophomore from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Silvio Menzano, a psychologist and university counseling center director from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $10,300 + $1,000.
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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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Brady Cassis, a junior from Yale University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 at the time of the...
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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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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Tom Toal, an orthopedic surgeon from Lake Oswego, Oregon
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Paul Gutowski, an alcohol and drug counselor from Rockford, Illinois
|
"He was the first 5-time winner in 1997. An alcohol and...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Zack Terrill, a senior at Vanderbilt University from Winter Springs, Florida
|
2012 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 21 at...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
|
"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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Bob Kennedy, a college linguistics instructor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $33,800 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Bobk
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Mysti Kofford, a junior at Boston University from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Mysti was 19 at the...
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Gabe Orlet, a senior from Belleville, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Maxwell Baldi, a ten-year-old from Los Angeles, California
|
"This future U.S. attorney general has always been interested in the...
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Rachel Gottesman, a junior from Cortlandt Manor, New York
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
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Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
|
"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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Jason McCune, an actor originally from Jasper, Indiana
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $90,041.
|
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
|
2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
|
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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "BOTS". Jeopardy!...
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Ann Thurlow, an aspiring novelist and retired salesperson from Mendham, New Jersey
|
Season 28 1-time champion: $26,805 + $1,000.
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Raya Elias-Pushett, a junior from Aventura, Florida
|
2011 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $20,851. First name...
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Steven Ho, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
|
2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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Evan Stewart, a sophomore from Frankfort, Kentucky
|
2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Evan was 15 at the time...
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Hon. Margaret Spellings, a U.S. Secretary of Education from Washington, D.C.
|
"As an advisor to President George W. Bush, she helped craft...
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and educator from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Pat Pauken, an attorney and doctoral candidate from Columbus, Ohio
|
Season 14 1-time champion: $7,200. Season 13 player (1997-01-21). Pat appeared...
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Caroline Evans, a twelve-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland
|
"The sky's not the limit. She wants to be the first...
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Jonathan Gillerman, a senior from Staten Island, New York
|
2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Leila Dooley, a reference librarian from Vista, California
|
Season 21 player (2005-01-25).
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Jim Stalley, a crime data specialist from Denver, Colorado
|
2004 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $84,100 + $2,000.
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|
Armand Kachigian, a podiatrist from Granite City, Illinois
|
Season 10 player (1994-02-10). Armand won $500,000 on Who Wants to...
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
|
"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
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Stephen Fritz, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2007 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $25,460.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ken Hinton, a teacher from Las Vegas, Nevada
|
Season 22 player (2006-05-30). As an accommodation for a disability, Ken...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Antonia Wang, a sophomore at Purdue University from Carmel, Indiana
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Fraser Woodford, an investment banker from New York, New York
|
"In 1993, winner of the Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
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Pam Jones-Pigott, a farmers' market coordinator from Pflugerville, Texas
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000.
Last name pronounced like "johnz-PIE-gut".
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|
Emily Lever, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Jim Fitzpatrick, a senior at Wake Forest University from Colts Neck, New Jersey
|
2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. According the the official Jeopardy! web...
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Erica Greil, a junior from Princeton University
|
2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 and from Hastings, Minnesota at...
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404...
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Nancy Grace, a TV legal expert from Headline News/Court TV
|
"She hosts her own legal analysis program on Headline News and...
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|
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Larry Marshall, a junior at the University of Missouri from Kansas City, Missouri
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Ed Toutant, an engineer from Austin, Texas
|
Season 6 1-time champion: $11,401. Ed appeared on The Challengers in...
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Aria Gerson, an eleven-year-old from Orem, Utah
|
"Shine an apple for our future teacher. From Orem, Utah, class,...
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|
Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
|
2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
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Andrew Nerlinger, a senior at the University of Notre Dame from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Andrew was 21 at the time...
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Anna Gohmann, a senior from Westlake Village, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Anna was 17 at the time...
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Seth Disner, a senior from Los Angeles, California
|
2002 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $28,900. Seth was 17 at the...
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Joely Fisher, an actress from 'Til Death
|
"She made her Broadway debut in Grease, and earned rave reviews...
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|
Jaime Green, a sophomore at Brown University from Nanuet, New York
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Jaime was 18 at the time...
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Elena Botella, an eleven-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"This future journalist loves to find answers, today, she'll have to...
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|
Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
|
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
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Anna Han, a sophomore from Penn State University
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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|
Andrew Rostan, a writer and script reader originally from Boardman, Ohio
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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|
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
David Hudson, Jr., an 11-year-old from Richmond, Virginia
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"If the L.A. Lakers don't have a spot for him, he'll...
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David Garcia, an IT communications strategy team lead from Troy, Michigan
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Season 38 player (2021-10-06). David appeared on Who Wants to Be...
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Sally O'Rourke, a freelance copywriter originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Season 27 1-time champion: $33,601 + $1,000.
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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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Christian Ie, a senior from Renton, Washington
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "EE".
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Kate Wadman, a junior from Tucson, Arizona
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2011 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: jeopartygirl
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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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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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Steven Chinn, an attorney originally from London, England
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Season 4 player (1988-01-04). At the time of his show's taping,...
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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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Mike Scott, an eleven-year-old from Lake Villa, Illinois
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"He really likes doing challenging projects in school, but hates doing...
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Katie Orphan, a freshman at Whitworth College from Reno, Nevada
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2002 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000.
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Nicole Savin, an eleven-year-old from Lindenhurst, New York
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"This little 4'4" New York Yankees fan and her friends started...
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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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Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
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"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
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"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
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Lily Wang, a junior at Columbia University from Plano, Texas
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2004 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D. student from New Haven, Connecticut
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2025 Jeopardy! Masters 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament winner: $150,000 + advance...
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Lee DiGeorge, a middle school English and technology teacher from Bayside, New York
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2018 Teachers Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a $2,500 grant. At the...
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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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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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Jason Shore, a medical student from Plano, Texas
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2013 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 29 4-time champion:...
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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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Paul Nelson, a Senate staff aide originally from Iowa City, Iowa
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2013 Tournament of champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 29 5-time champion: $54,900 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: PaulNelson2012
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Genaro Lopez, a contract administrator from Portland, Oregon
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Season 27 1-time champion: $29,001 + $2,000.
First name pronounced like "heh-NAR-o".
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Charlotte Scott, a twelve-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"Watch out, Diane Sawyer. This future news anchor is ready for...
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David Schuman, a communications and economics student originally from Ardsley, New York
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Season 29 1-time champion: $4,300 + $1,000.
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Gabriela Gonzales, a senior from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Tom Stetina, a high school math teacher from Millsboro, Delaware
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Season 25 1-time champion: $29,353 + $1,000.
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Rebecca Neese, a school office clerk from Rosemead, California
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Season 29 player (2012-12-07).
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Elizabeth Pearce, a freelance editor and writer from New York City, New York
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Season 8 1-time champion: $13,300. Elizabeth appeared on the original Jeopardy!...
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Ilene Morgan, a mathematics professor from Rolla, Missouri
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Season 29 player (2013-03-05).
JBoard user name: Linear Gnome
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Avishai Gebler, a rabbinical student originally from Sharon, Massachusetts
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Season 31 1-time champion: $25,200 + $2,000.
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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jacob Cytryn, a Jewish studies teacher from New York, New York
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Season 23 player (2006-11-24).
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Michael Steele, a political analyst and host from MSNBC and Steele & Ungar
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"He was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, and later...
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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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Tom Smolich, a Catholic priest originally from Sacramento, California
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Season 5 player (1989-04-11). Season 6 3-time champion: $39,802. Last name...
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Inez Friedman-Boyce, an attorney from Newton, Massachusetts
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Season 21 player (2005-01-04).
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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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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Shuyu Wang, a junior from Okemos, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Tara Karr, a senior from Laclede, Idaho
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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David Daniel, a writer and copy editor from Woodland Hills, California
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Season 24 2-time champion: $30,600 + $1,000.
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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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Haritha Sudanagunta, a junior from University of California-San Diego
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2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Joe Leibrandt, a marketing director from Costa Mesa, California
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Season 23 3-time champion: $61,001 + $2,000. Won $2,700 + a...
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Brad Selvig, a sophomore at Florida State from Jacksonville, Florida
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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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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Sean Ryan, a cab driver from State College, Pennsylvania
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Emily Goodlander, an attorney from Baltimore, Maryland
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Season 30 player (2014-01-15).
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Eric Winschel, a roofing contractor from Pasadena, California
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Season 30 player (2013-09-25).
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Neal Pollack, a writer from Austin, Texas
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Season 30 3-time champion: $60,798 + $2,000. No challenger Hometown Howdy...
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Craig Sallinger, a government librarian from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 player (2013-03-01).
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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
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Joey Falco, a writer from Santa Monica, California
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Season 28 3-time champion: $53,999 + $2,000.
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Michael Rose, a labor relations journalist from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2011-01-10).
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Clayton Hanson, a park ranger from Spokane, Washington
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Season 28 player (2011-11-28).
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Sheri Boysen, a stay-at-home mom from Houston, Texas
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Season 29 player (2012-09-26).
JBoard user name: Case
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Katie Houghton, a senior from Ewing, New Jersey
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2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HOW-ton".
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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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Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
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"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
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John Mingey, a physician from Erie, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 player (2011-06-15).
Last name pronounced like "MIN-jee".
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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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Donna Hesson, a public-health informationist from Ellicott City, Maryland
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Season 29 player (2013-07-08).
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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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Matt Heimer, a magazine editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-07-25).
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Frank McNeil, a facilities management specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
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Season 20 player (2004-07-16). KJL game 33. Frank was listed on...
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Tim MacGowan, a pastor from Haymarket, Virginia
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Season 20 player (2004-05-19).
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Nate Metcalf, an actor and playwright from Cokato, Minnesota
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Season 23 1-time champion: $22,438 + $2,000. According to the official...
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Kathy Maurer, a physics teacher from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 24 player (2008-07-07).
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Ethan Culbreth, an orchid specialist from Hollywood, California
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Season 20 player (2004-06-11).
KJL game 8.
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Leigh Hall, an executive assistant from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 player (2006-06-19).
First name pronounced like "LEE".
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Frank Liu, an anesthesiologist from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2006-12-29).
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Anne Fritz, an executive director from Memphis, Tennessee
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Season 20 player (2004-06-09).
KJL game 6.
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James Denton, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He plays Mike Delfino, Wisteria Lane's sexy plumber on the hit...
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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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LeeAundra Temescu, a communications coach originally from Troy, Michigan
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Season 22 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Web site at thecontrarypublicspeaker.com.
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Leslie Hickey, an educational director from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 22 player (2005-12-28).
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Christian Burks, a history student from Austin, Texas
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Season 31 player (2014-09-23).
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Steve O'Connor, a communications consultant from Naperville, Illinois
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Season 22 2-time champion: $33,401 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SteveO
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Sandra Gore, a researcher originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Super...
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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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Jennifer Hill, a Korean studies program coordinator from Washington, D.C.
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Season 27 player (2010-11-04).
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Charles Murphy, a health care and financial services advisor from Westmont, Illinois
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Season 25 player (2009-02-27).
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Elliott Rountree, a high school history and government teacher from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 player (2009-05-18).
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Jon Lovitz, an actor from the movie High School High
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"He's a two-time Emmy nominee and star of the Columbia TriStar...
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Ina Jazic, an eleven-year-old from Bolingbrook, Illinois
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"She doesn't have a least favorite subject now, but in elementary...
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Max Wagner, an eleven-year-old from Bedford, New York
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"He thinks insects are beautiful and can't wait to discover new...
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Jocelyn Certner, a call center supervisor from Schenectady, New York
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Season 25 player (2009-06-15).
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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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Janice Dooner Lynch, a homemaker from New York, New York
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Season 20 1-time co-champion: $27,600 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: yankeefanjan
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
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"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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Brian G. Hartz, a director and actor from Indianapolis, Indiana
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Season 20 player (2004-03-22).
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Rachel Landau, a museum night security guard from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 26 player (2009-09-24).
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Andrew Fechner, a television programmer from Montclair, New Jersey
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Season 26 1-time champion: $26,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: arfnj
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Sue Heitzman, a teacher from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
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Season 23 player (2007-05-14).
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Sandy Gore, a corporate consultant from Los Angeles, California
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1990 Super...
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Ralph Dellanno, a high school theology teacher from Edison, New Jersey
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Season 24 player (2007-11-30).
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Kate Zimmermann, a prosecutor from Bakersfield, California
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Season 23 1-time champion: $4,100 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: #1Jepfan
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Kriti Gandhi, a senior from Ellicott City, Maryland
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 18 at the time...
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Josh Kamensky, a communications director from Los Angeles, California
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Season 23 player (2007-07-09). Josh was the runner-up on the 2020-10-13...
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Eric Floyd, a college student from Calhoun, Georgia
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2003 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000.
Season 18 4-time champion: $97,800 + $2,000.
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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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Tom Cilla, from Kings Park, New York
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"He wants to join the Coast Guard or the Navy, but...
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Bryan Adams, an accounts receivable manager from Novato, California
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Season 22 player (2006-01-11).
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Dave Halliday, a travel marketer from Williamsburg, Virginia
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Season 22 player (2006-02-01).
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Dave Binnig, a bartender from Portland, Oregon
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Season 22 player (2006-03-22).
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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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Andrew Segal, a student originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 22 player (2005-09-23).
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