| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Meaning "tireless", it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland the HMS Indefatigable |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ON GUITAR $1200: Prince could do it all, including the jaw-dropping outro guitar solo on this tune about looking for the purple banana (huh?) "Let's Go Crazy" |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | THE MANHATTAN PROJECT $400: As you can imagine, the project was pretty hush-hush; even this guy didn't know about it until he suddenly became president Truman |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): This eastern Alabama city was named for a line in an Oliver Goldsmith poem about the "loveliest village of the plain" Auburn |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | FLAG TIME! $400: Mary Pickersgill made the flag that was flying over this fort in 1814; it inspired a patriotic poem Fort McHenry |
| #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 |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $3,600 (Daily Double): If you're really smart, you should know that this constellation was named for South Africa's Table Mountain Mensa |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | AUTHORS AT WAR $400: As a 2nd lieutenant in the czar's army, he saw the siege of Sevastopol & wrote about it in his "Sevastopol Sketches" Tolstoy |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | HOP ON THE INTERSTATE $1000: It's about 2 1/2 hours going west on I-80 from Davenport to this state capital Des Moines |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $400: It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS $800: In 1889 the new owners of this paper had John Philip Sousa write a march about it for an awards ceremony The Washington Post |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $2000: With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa DRC |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | FESTIVALS $400: It's held for about 2 weeks each May, & in 2023 awarded its Palme d'Or to "Anatomy of a Fall" the Cannes Film Festival |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | RESISTANCE IS FUTILE $200: When it's time for right hand red but your left foot's on green & a player is in your way, you're about to hit vinyl & lose this game Twister |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $800: Is anyone here a marine biologist?! Here, being this Jesuit university in Spokane, & you could be after learning about it in bio 403 Gonzaga |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | TV COMEDY $200: From this show--Brian: "It's about the journey, not the destination"; Stewie: "No, it's not. This sucked & you failed" Family Guy |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE $1600: A sirtaki features in the movie about this life-loving Greek, who teaches the proper Brit Basil to dance it on the beach Zorba |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | DESCRIBING THE SONG $400: Michael Jackson warns about evil "lurking in the dark" & Vincent Price waxes poetic about grisly ghouls "Thriller" |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | NOTABLE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" Goddard |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Well-preserved sections of it run about 5,500 miles from Mount Hu near Dandong to Jiayu Pass in the Gansu province the Great Wall of China |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $200: Lizzo sang, "It's About Damn" this Time |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | LAKES & RIVERS $600: At about 7,300 square miles in area, it's the smallest of the 5 Great Lakes & also the easternmost Lake Ontario |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: On the water, it's about 1.15 miles per hour a knot |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN $1600: To his family & close friends, Tolkien was known by this name, the first "R" in his initials Ronald |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $400: Founded in 1995, this media brand says it's "written for & about the most progressive business leaders" Fast Company |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $2000: Tennyson's poem about the land of these people, named for their diet, in which it seemed always afternoon, inspired a painting the Lotus Eaters |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | SHORT STORIES $2000: Kristen Roupenian's 2017 tale about a date gone wrong, it became a 2023 movie with new events dreamed up by the screenwriter "Cat Person" |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $400: Charles Dickens went to Lancashire to observe a strike in the industry of this plant fiber & wrote an 1854 article about it cotton |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: The largest desert in Asia at about 1,200 miles long & 600 miles wide, it has a name from Mongolian meaning "waterless place" the Gobi |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE FRENCH HORN $2,000 (Daily Double): In one of the least alluring rituals of horn maintenance, players must invert their instruments routinely to drain them of this spit |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $600: It's no small thing that Tom DeLonge of this pop-punk band was mentioned during a congressional hearing about UFOs Blink-182 |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $800: Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king Richard I |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1200: Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia" Otello |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | MUSIC $800: We could drone on & on about this Aussie Aboriginal wind instrument--that it's a 5'-long pipe made of eucalyptus wood, sounds cool... a didgeridoo |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | ALLITERATION $800: To get down to discussing the important point; it seems to come from a 19th century folktale about a hunting trip to talk turkey |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $600: Before writing "The Hunger Games", she wrote for children's TV shows, including "Clarissa Explains It All" (Suzanne) Collins |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $2000: This wood in eastern Scotland is about 12 miles from the peak of Dunsinane, to which it "comes" in "Macbeth" Birnam Wood |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $1000: A disfigured guy / Falls for a woman in Paris, it's true / Sounds like it's "Hunchback" / But it's by a man named Leroux The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $600: The ayes had it for Jessica Chastain in 2022 for her Best Actress-winning role in this movie about TV evangelists The Eyes of Tammy Faye |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $400: A person you're having obsessive thoughts about is "living" this cost-related way "in your head" rent free |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CHICAGO $200: A big motorboat dyes the Chicago River & a smaller one churns the water to get it green in about 45 minutes to celebrate this annual event St. Patrick's Day |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $600: P.T. Anderson said the line in "There Will Be Blood" about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome scandal milkshake |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $800: Since 1911, a hallmark of its state fair is a cow sculpted from about 600 pounds of butter the Iowa State Fair |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $800: You can be like Daenerys & actually learn about 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo Dothraki |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $200: Homer begins this epic poem by telling us it's about the anger of Achilles the Iliad |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $600: It was all about "Love" as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019 Michael Bublé |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $400: By Stephen King: "The inmates made jokes about the chair... they called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy" The Green Mile |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SPELLED RONG ON PURPOSE $600: When asked about this WWII film's misspelled title, Quentin Tarantino once explained, "It's a movie thing" Inglourious Basterds |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $200: Three Stephen King novels made it to the big screen in 1983: "The Dead Zone", "Christine", & this film about a rabid St. Bernard Cujo |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $1000: The sun got too bright inaugurating Kennedy / This poet recited "The Gift Outright" from only his memory Robert Frost |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Along with "wastin' time", add whistling to the list of things Otis Redding was doing in a 1968 hit about "Sittin"' here "On The Dock Of The Bay" |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $800: In 1877 the Bolshoi first danced this ballet about a prince who falls for a were-bird Swan Lake |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $800: Had Julius Caesar heeded the warning about this day, he might have survived it the Ides of March |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $2000: After taking power in South Africa, this party apologized for the faulty timing of some bombs as it battled apartheid the ANC (African National Congress) |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $400: Stage backdrops are part of this; don't crash through it & don't, by overacting, "chew" it scenery |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $1000: Any follow-up interview or audition for a role you've already tried out for is called this a callback |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | CAR TUNES $1000: This number follows "Rocket" in the name of a classic Oldsmobile & of a song about it, often called the first rock & roll record 88 |
| #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 |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TEACHING $4,000 (Daily Double): This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label" a syllabus |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $200: This weepy Sinéad O'Connor ballad might not be about lost love; Prince is rumored to have written it about his housekeeper "Nothing Compares 2 U" |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $1200: It was Sagan's award-winning PBS TV show about the universe Cosmos |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | QUICK CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): Nicknamed "Hollywood North", it's about 1,100 miles north of the real thing Vancouver |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS $100: Fittingly, this number of the amendment that repealed prohibition is also the legal drinking age in the U.S. the 21st Amendment |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $2000: Upset about taxes? Take it up with this committee, the House's main one for writing tax bills the Ways & Means Committee |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "Sunflowers and Swirly Stars" is the subtitle of a book about this artist van Gogh |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | 'ROUND MIDNIGHT $1600: James Leo Herlihy wrote this 1965 novel about Joe Buck, who tries to make it in New York as a stud for hire Midnight Cowboy |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love Y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Mark Antony |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | AS SEEN ON SHARK TANK $200: Shark Lori Greiner won the bidding war for this smiley-faced cleaning implement, and the rest is sponge history Scrub Daddy |
| #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 | HI, I'M J.LO $2,100 (Daily Double): You can buy a copy of "The Call of the Wild" at the gift shop in the California state park dedicated to this "J.Lo" Jack London |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | ELTON JOHN SONGS $400: "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell" "Rocket Man" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | JOYCE, CARROLL, OATES $400: "Wonderland" Joyce Carol Oates |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | SCIENTISTS' RHYME TIME $600: Danish physicist Niels' small openings in skin Bohr's pores |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | GEOGRAPHY "B" $400: Home to about 5.4 million, it's the province seen here British Columbia |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $2,000 (Daily Double): James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| #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 |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $1600: This Whitman sampler / Was full of introspection / With "The Wound-Dresser" & "Full of Life Now" / It's a heck of a collection Leaves of Grass |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $1600: A 1935 article highlights Gable's negging of Colbert in this film: "Peter... tells her she's... spoiled & selfish" It Happened One Night |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FACTS ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE WINNER $7,200 (Daily Double): Doug Jones said the latex rubber suit he wore in this film acted "as a sponge" The Shape of Water |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $300: It's thought that about 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry through this immigration station, seen here Ellis Island |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | POST-APOCALYPTIC POP CULTURE $1000: Kevin Costner starred in two post-apocalyptic films in the 1990s: "Waterworld" and this misfire about a nameless drifter The Postman |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | TAKING A STAR TURN $400: Its radius is 109 times that of Earth, its surface temp is about 5,800 kelvins & it's kind of a majorly important thing for us the Sun |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | MAMMALS $1000: According to Britannica, though called "naked", these rodents actually "have about 100 fine hairs on their skin" a (naked) mole rat |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | & WE HAVE A NOVEL TITLE $2000: "'I would give a good deal to know how it comes about that"' this wealthy title man "'is acquainted with M. de Villefort"' the Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | GREEK GEOGRAPHY $400: At about 9,570 feet, it's Greece's highest & arguably best-known peak Mount Olympus |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | THAT SONG SLAYS $1200: "Murder by numbers, 1, 2, 3, it's as easy to learn as your ABC", sang this group in 1983; someone should call them about that The Police |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $2000: In the early 1900s the "plum pudding" model for the internal structure of these was replaced by the planetary model the atom |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A VACATION FROM POP CULTURE $400: It's the name of the official Kenny Chesney fan club & precedes "no shirt, no problems" in a song about a Mexican getaway No Shoes |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW $400: It may get your Irish up to know in 1977 this Indiana private U. cost about $3,000 but tuition & fees now go for 62 grand Notre Dame |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | RELIGIOUS OBJECTS & SYMBOLS $2,000 (Daily Double): Measuring about 14 1/2 feet long, it was called by Pope John Paul II "a mirror of the gospel" the Shroud of Turin |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $800: "So Much To Say" about the band named for him, like that it sold 7 million copies of 1996's "Crash" Dave Matthews |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $1200: It's the title of a 1978 Brooke Shields film & a 2023 documentary series about Brooke Shields Pretty Baby |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $1000: It describes the smile of a baby younger than about 6 months, or an ineffective law toothless |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORLD RIVERS $2000: Starting near Lake Geneva, it flows about 500 miles to reach the Mediterranean near Marseilles the Rhône |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | WRITING: MUSIC $2000: Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Almost Famous", this critic wrote a book about Blondie & "Let It Blurt" is a book about him Lester Bangs |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | A SPACE ODYSSEY $1200: Because it ranges from about magnitude 9 to magnitude 3, the pulsating Mira Ceti is said to be this type of star variable |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | CELEBS $800: Ask him about it over coffee--this comic's car collection includes a lot of Porsches, though he auctioned off a bunch in 2016 Jerry Seinfeld |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | LOVE ISLAND U.K. $400: About 700 miles southeast of NYC & home to around 70,000 people, it's known for its shorts & some troublesome triangulation Bermuda |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CUFFING SEASON $400: It was SZA szn on TikTok after she sang about "cuffing" a large man for the cold months on this NBC show Saturday Night Live |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $400: In this Swiss city for Red Cross meetings check out the Jet d'Eau; it can shoot 7 tons of water about 450 feet high Geneva |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DEEP BOOKS $2000: Take a prison term decided by a judge, insert 1 letter & you have this book by Nicholas Humphrey about what it is to be conscious Sentience |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): After the success of this classic about Francie Nolan & her impoverished New York family, Betty Smith co-wrote a musical based on it A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | "REE" SEARCH $2000: The first ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins, it's about 3 footloose sailors "On the Town" Fancy Free |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $1000: In 1864 it became the northernmost state to see land action when about 25 Confederate soldiers raided the town of St. Albans Vermont |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $1600: It turns out about as well for Caleb & Aron in this 1952 novel as it did for Cain & Abel in an earlier book East of Eden |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $800: Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry Haight |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS $200: Called invincible, it was sent from Spain in 1588 by King Philip II to invade England; it proved... vincible Spanish Armada |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | COOKING WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: No measuring utensils? no problem! It'll help to know that this measurement is about the size of a baseball a cup |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | COOKING WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: It's one itty-bitty branch of an herb plant; one of rosemary is about 3 inches long a sprig |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Kermit's colorful theme song about the group that nominated Ralph Nader & always spoiled the fun at festivities "It's Not Easy Being Green" Party pooper |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | TOUGH SCIENCE $1600: Used in astronomy, it's the percentage of light reflected by an object; the Moon's is about .1, cloudy Venus', about .7 albedo |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $1200: After failing to establish a permanent colony in North Carolina, he led an expedition to Venezuela & wrote a 1595 book about it Raleigh |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | 16th & 17th CENTURY ART $2000: It takes a genius like this German painter & printmaker to get people excited about a work called "The Large Piece of Turf" Dürer |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | "SPECIAL" DELIVERY $1200: It's a folk song about a train as well as a 90-minute musical showcase on 1970s TV "The Midnight Special" |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL $200: Capitals don't get much closer than Providence & this one; it's about a half-hour train trip to Back Bay Station on the Acela Boston |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | W-2 $600: If you want to be fancy about it, a tailcoat can have this longer name that fits the category a swallowtail |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | HANG IN THERE $600: In Shakespearean English, this word for hanging tough has the stress on the 2nd syllable, like it's about the Adam Scott TV show perseverance |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $800: No. 2 of the 3 periods of the Mesozoic era, it began about 201.3 million years ago; welcome...! to this Jurassic |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICS $400: Ferde Grofé's account of his first time at this place, about which he wrote a suite, includes "All of a sudden, bingo! There it was" the Grand Canyon |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | TIME TO LAWYER UP $200: For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years contempt (of court) |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | SING YOU A COUNTRY SONG $1000: Kris Kristofferson wrote this song about what follows a rough Saturday night & Johnny Cash made it a No. 1 country hit "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $200: About half the size of Earth, it has a 24.6-hour day Mars |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | FLORIDA PLACES $200: In 1896 about 400 people lived in this city on Biscayne Bay; today, it's Florida's second-largest city, behind Jacksonville Miami |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | MIX -OLOGY $800: It's about time:
OOH GLORY horology |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! $600: It's the musical version of an 1838 novel about a young orphan who joins a criminal gang Oliver! |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | A REAL BODY BUSY $400: The largest internal organ, it weighs about 3 pounds & breaks down substances like alcohol the liver |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $1000: Born into it herself, Edith Wharton wrote about American high society of the 1870s in this Pulitzer-winning novel The Age of Innocence |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $200: To become involved with something lucrative before a larger group of people learns about it is to "get in" here the ground floor |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $1200: Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it Shaft |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | QUANTUM SCIENCE $800: (Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) World Quantum Day is April 14th because Planck's constant, which is in constant use, rounds to 4.14 eV, short for electron this unit; it takes about 625 quintillion eV per second to light a 100-watt bulb volt |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $600: A few things about this iconic item; its strike note is E-flat, it weighs a ton & Pennsylvania is missing the second "N" on it the Liberty Bell |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $200: Tina Fey said "Gravity" was about how this actor would rather float away & die in space than spend time with a woman his own age George Clooney |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | ANCIENT CITIES $200: Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea the Mediterranean |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $400: "Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, take this child away, and nurse it for me" Exodus |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | ADJECTIVE THEN NOUN $800: Rap music until about 1985; let's put on some Treacherous Three & kick it... old school |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | VERMONT $200: Population about 7,800, it's the USA's least populous state capital Montpelier |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $600: No wonder it's the most expensive--it takes about 70,000 crocuses to produce just one pound of this spice saffron |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | "EI", OH! $400: The average cup of coffee has about 100 milligrams of it caffeine |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | A DEADLY WEAPON $600: One tale about this Kentucky frontiersman: his rifle was named Tick-Licker as it could shoot a tick off a bear's snout Boone |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | ISLANDS OF THE FAR NORTH $400: Like Antarctica, this vastest island is capped by an ice sheet; it has an average thickness of about 5,000 feet Greenland |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | WE QUOTE MR. Ts $800: Who's the boss? In 1871 in NYC, it was certainly him: "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?" Boss Tweed |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | TO THE MOUNTAINTOP! $400: It takes about 6 hours to hike up this via the Yoshida Trail from the Subaru Line 5th Station Mount Fuji |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE "A"RTS $1200: An Italian word for a lively tempo; it's also the title of Erik Satie's first known work, a piano piece lasting about 30 seconds allegro |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $400: In 2000 a period of freedom in Syria upon the death of Pres. Assad I was called the Damascus this & lasted about as long as a season Spring |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | SHAKE IT OFF $800: "The Private Investigator's Handbook" talks about shaking this 4-letter follower a tail |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | RANDOM STUFF $400: About the size of a grain of rice, one of these embedded in your pet maximizes the chance of it being returned if lost a microchip |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | I'M SORRY, THERE'S MORE MATH $800: Equal to about 57.2958 degrees, it's the angular measurement made by wrapping half the diameter around a circle a radian |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | SOUTHERNERS $1200: What's poppin'? The career of this rapper from Louisville Jack Harlow |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's about 90 miles from San Francisco Sacramento |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It's about midway between Yellowstone & Glacier National Parks Helena |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) The title of my novel about Aza & how her OCD affects her life comes from a philosophical joke in which the Earth is flat & resting on the shell of a reptile, & what is that reptile standing on? It's these all the way down turtles |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE FORCE WILL BE WITH YOU $800: It's the measure of a force that makes an object rotate about an axis, & also a big selling point for heavy-duty trucks torque |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $1200: It's "To" him "with Love" in E.R. Braithwaite's title about a dedicated teacher in a tough London school To Sir |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | ACC SCHOOL HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1926 this southern school enrolled about 650 full-time students, but of all things, a hurricane nearly put it out of business the University of Miami |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | SUPER BOWL HEROES $200: (Mike Pereira of Fox NFL Sunday presents the clue.) Cheeseheads ate it up after this quarterback threw for 304 yards & three touchdowns to lead Green Bay to a win in Super Bowl XLV (Aaron) Rodgers |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $600: Tracy McCubbin's "Make Space for Happiness" is about "How to Stop Attracting" this--it's in the way & dragging you down Clutter |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $400: Count it--it's equal to about 4.2 joules a calorie |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | NUTS TO YOU! $200: Cashews are tasty but take it easy; they have a high this content--about 12 grams per ounce fat |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $600: Walt Disney coined this acronym for the experimental prototype community he planned to build in Florida; it would open in 1982 EPCOT |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $800: In 2006 Disney acquired this computer animation leader that it had first collaborated with on "Toy Story" Pixar |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ALL ABOUT DISNEY $1000: November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand Steamboat Willie |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | THERE WILL BE BLOOD $1500: It's got glucose, it has proteins to help blood to clot & this liquid makes up about half of the content of the blood plasma |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | YOU "BREAK" $1000: An 1889 Chekhov story is about this, an inability to cope with life due to stress; it's no longer an accepted medical diagnosis a nervous breakdown |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $1000: The Grimms had this animal eat 6 baby goats, then get sliced open as it slept, with the "meal" still alive within a wolf |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $900: Looks like this fruit is about ready for picking a pomegranate |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | "SIDE" EFFECTS $1000: In 1957 athlete & future actor Bruce Dern left the Penn track team rather than shave these his sideburns |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $1200: This 4-letter order is Latin for "let it be done"; you hear complaints about arbitrary & unfair "government by" it fiat |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: Jainism views time as one of these, with 12 spokes corresponding to eras a wheel |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: The Piraha people of the Amazon have limited conjugation of verbs, which as a result lack these time-indicating properties tenses |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $600: "Time is a measure of motion and of being moved", said this student of Plato Aristotle |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: In "The Tempest", Antonio says, "What's past is" this, also a word meaning preface prologue |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: This word follows "space-time" to describe the 4-dimensional universe suggested by relativity theory continuum |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $1200: No, it's not about where Ken & Barbie live; the title of this trashy novel by Jacqueline Susann refers to uppers & downers, as in pills The Valley of the Dolls |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | ALL ABOUT HAIR $1000: From the Greek for "fox", it's a medical term for hair loss alopecia |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | I LOVE MY DAD $500: Milo Ventimiglia was Jack Pearson, father of Kevin, Kate & Randall on this NBC drama, & now we're getting a bit choked up thinking about it This Is Us |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | THE EX-STATE CAPITAL $1600: It's about time you found your way to this city, part of Silicon Valley & California's first state capital San Jose |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $1000: "The Untouchables" popularized a new expression for ill-preparedness as Sean Connery talks about bringing "a knife to" this a gunfight |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: It's about 5 feet long & its name refers to its wider diameter, not its length the large intestine |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $800: This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War Twain |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | STAGE MUSICALS BY SONG LYRICS $1600: "There is a sucker born every minute, each time the second hand sweeps to the top like dandelions up they pop" Barnum |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT $1600: (Rian Johnson presents the clue.) "Just one more thing"--what I loved about this show was while you knew whodunit in the first five minutes, the suspense & the fun was in how Peter Falk nailed them for it Columbo |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $600: We keep it 100s (A.D.) as we talk about this landmark that ran 70+ miles from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth Hadrian's Wall |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SUPERLATIVES $800: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this the fastest |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | MACHINES $1000: A company called Dominion filed suit claiming it was defamed by news reports about these machines voting machines |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $1000: Facts about this seabird: Its 3-letter name has 2 vowels, it has short wings & webbed feet & it stands upright on land an auk |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | TIME FOR READING $1000: About the Doolittle raid: ____ ____Over Tokyo" Thirty Seconds |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $200: On "Seinfeld", Kramer wrote a book about this kind of table--it's also this kind of book & this kind of table a coffee table |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | SCIENCE! $200: A measurement of distance, not time, it's equal to about 6 trillion miles, you know, give or take a light year |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | SEQUELS $1600: It's the fitting 2-word title of Jojo Moyes' sequel to "Me Before You", about Louisa Clark following the death of Will Traynor After You |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $800: Cultivated rubber trees are "tapped" about once every 2 days, yielding around a cup of this sap each time latex |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $1000: We somehow avoided politics, except dad ranting about this president; we get it, dad, he blew it letting South Carolina secede Buchanan |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | A 20th CENTURY FACTS PRODUCTION $800: Shocking Americans and beginning the Space Race when it was launched October 4, 1957, it weighed about as much as Mickey Mantle Sputnik |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MEMOIRS & PERSONAL ACCOUNTS $400: He wrote about his older brothers, his illness & Chappaquiddick in his 2009 memoir "True Compass" Edward Kennedy |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | SHARK TANK $400: Though it has about 50 rows of very small teeth on each jaw, the megamouth shark is a filter feeder, eating this 5-letter crustacean krill |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | SHARK TANK $800: The largest shark to ever live, it was an estimated 52' long & had a name meaning "big tooth"; it died out about 3 million years ago megalodon |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | DRIVING IN L.A. $1000: The 1950 movie with this title is about an hour & 50 minutes; it'll take about that long to drive the same-named 22-mile road Sunset Boulevard |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $400: Law professor Michelle Alexander saw a race-based U.S. justice system in "The New" this name, a symbol of segregation Jim Crow |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $800: He wrote a verse play about the Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt & Edvard Grieg wrote music to go with it Ibsen |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | HOPE YOU READ MIDDLEMARCH $2000: The name of this character writing about world myth has become synonymous with dry, out-of-touch scholarship Edward Casaubon |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $100: Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends Hogwarts |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: Coming about 40 days after Lent begins, it's one of the few days when it's relatively safe to put all your eggs in one basket Easter |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $300: The highest point of Nepal, it's also the highest mountain in the world Mount Everest |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FIRE ISLAND $300: Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida Cuba |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $600: From 1867 to 1918 it formed a dual monarchy with Austria Hungary |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HISTORY IN COMEDY $900: Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!" tobacco |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $1200: Known as the "land of the Inca", it's also home to Machu Picchu Peru |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY $1,500 (Daily Double): No butts about it--it's the 2-word name for the most massive muscle in the human body gluteus maximus |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $800: Located about 4 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, it's one of the few U.S. place names to have an apostrophe Martha's Vineyard |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | OF COURSE I'M NOT BREAKING UP WITH YOU $900: It's more like we each "take" this respiratory term to get our wind back & think about things a breather |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | BIOLOGY $12,000 (Daily Double): Animals like frogs that can live on land or water are known as these, from the Greek for "both" & "life" an amphibian |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: Published in 2021: "The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of..." (Angela) Merkel |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: "The Matriarch", this late mother of six Barbara Bush |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "Out of the Corner" (because nobody puts Baby there) Jennifer Grey |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist Nina Simone |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $2000: Ralph Fiennes struggles to direct an actor to say, "Would that it were so simple" in this Coen Brothers movie about making an epic Hail, Caesar! |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $3,500 (Daily Double): Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist (Margaret) Mead |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $2000: Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $400: Seen here is one of the world's smallest mammals, the pygmy this, though we're not so sure about "the taming" of it a shrew |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | ONE-NAMED ROCK STARS $200: About the Joshua Tree Tour, he declared, "It's only taken me 30 years to learn how to sing these songs" Bono |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS $500: When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world's foremost" magazine about this sport boxing |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR $800: This film about an alien trying to get home turned 40 in 2022; Steven Spielberg calls it "my first love story" E.T. |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | "AB"s WORKOUT $1,500 (Daily Double): This synonym for a deep chasm comes from a Greek word for "bottomless" abyss |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $400: Teddy Roosevelt helped bring about independence for this Central American country in 1903 Panama |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Tropic of Capricorn passes through this Indian Ocean island nation about 300 mi. south of the capital, Antananarivo Madagascar |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | OLD FASHIONED $1600: In dictionaries O.E. is Old English & O.H.G. is this European language used until about 1200 Old High German |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | ENTERTAIN "YOU" $200: Disappointingly, the sequel to this 2013 film about a team of bank-robbing illusionists was not called "Now You Don't" Now You See Me |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | 2022 GEOGRA-FEE $600: It's about 200 miles north from Syracuse to this world capital; if you get 40 miles to the gallon at $5 per, that's a $25 trip Ottawa |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | SINGERS WHO ACT $2000: This rocker played Jareth, the Goblin King in the 1986 cult classic fantasy "Labyrinth" David Bowie |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | NFL OPENING WEEKEND $800: (Peter Schrager of the NFL Network presents the clue.) Those clichés about how "it's just one game" are true; in 1981, this team, led by Joe Montana & Bill Walsh, lost its first game to the Lions but ended up winning it all the 49ers |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1600: Ruling in "The Cider House Rules" & (What's it all about?) "Alfie" Sir Michael Caine |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | WATERCOLORS $1200: What's so surreal about this artist's watercolor of the "Day of the Virgin" is that it's not surreal Dalí |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WEST VIRGINIA & REGULAR VIRGINIA $200: This office building in Virginia has nearly 18 miles of corridors but you can walk between any 2 points of it in about 7 minutes the Pentagon |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | BOOKS OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA $4,000 (Daily Double): In addition to fiction portraying herself & her sisters, she penned "Hospital Sketches" from her time as a Civil War nurse Louisa May Alcott |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $400: About temperature, this adjective can mean cold; when used regarding lettuce, it means fresh & firm crisp |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE FOUNDING FATHERS $800: This Virginian first became prominent for his oratory in a 1763 case about whether it was OK to pay clergy with cash rather than tobacco Patrick Henry |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | "G"EOGRAPHY $800: About 1,700 square miles in area, it's the largest inland body of saline water in the Western Hemisphere the Great Salt Lake |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | TUNNELS $200: On the high-speed trains, it takes about 35 minutes to go underwater between England & France via this the Chunnel |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $400: After wheat is processed via milling, about 72% of the original grain ends up in sacks of this flour |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEELING SCIENCE-"E" $400: It's the lightest stable subatomic particle (that we know about) electron |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: Nikki Giovanni's poem about this civil rights heroine ends, "In not being able to stand it. She sat back down" Rosa Parks |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $2000: Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death Forster |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | "M.R.", AYE! $1600: It flows about 1,100 miles through Canada, emptying into the Beaufort Sea the Mackenzie River |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $2000: Having a right to something, or acting like you have a right to just about anything entitlement |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $4,000 (Daily Double): Nobel winner Kip Thorne made sure the science was right in "Interstellar", about a trip through one of these relativistic tunnels a wormhole |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | MAMMALS $800: Looking "like a small watermelon on little, tiny legs", a baby pygmy one of these made its debut at a Sydney Zoo in 2021 a hippopotamus |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | PUMP-POURRI $200: It's the size of a fist & pumps 5-6 quarts of blood per minute, or about 2,000 gallons a day the heart |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | ELEMENTS & THEIR USES $800: Okay, we've heard about it regarding "fire & brimstone", but this element is used as a fungicide & in vulcanizing rubber sulfur |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | LAUREL $1000: You likely won't hear him bragging about it, but this reclusive author of "Vineland" won a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1988 (Thomas) Pynchon |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEAR-POURRI $200: It's Nicholas Sparks' novel about a soldier who receives a painful letter & you can probably guess his first name Dear John |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan Lake Huron |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $400: It was Dodie Smith's first book about all those many pups The Hundred and One Dalmatians (101 Dalmatians) |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | THE ONE BEFORE THE FAMOUS ONE $1600: No one's written a musical about this Manhattan street, but the century-old Nederlander Theatre is on it 41st Street |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY $1200: When the U.S. annexed this republic in 1845, it added about 390,000 square miles to the nation's territory the Republic of Texas |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2,200 (Daily Double): This dwarf planet is about 25% water, which could be handy for the goddess of crops it's named for Ceres |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS $800: It's a 4-letter name for a partially terrestrial salamander with poisonous skin a newt |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | 2 FIRST NAMES? $200: This actor's famous feud with Jimmy Kimmel goes back about 15 years, but don't worry, it's all in good fun Matt Damon |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $1200: Now this is a story all about how Janet Hubert split time with Daphne Reid as Vivian Banks on this '90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll have to wait to cross the Forbes Ave. bridge in this city; it collapsed in 2022 just before a presidential visit about infrastructure Pittsburgh |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | IT'S TV MOTHER'S DAY $2000: When not helping special victims in about 500 episodes, this "Law & Order: SVU" character adopted an orphan named Noah Olivia Benson |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE MOVIES $800: This 1964 Stanley Kubrick film yuks it up about nuclear war Dr. Strangelove |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | COUNTRY MUSIC SONG TITLES $1200: In a Grammy-winning hit, Jeannie C. Riley sang about "the day my mama socked it to" this school organization the "Harper Valley P.T.A." |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: It's about a 2-hour ferry ride from this island to Dar es Salaam Zanzibar |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | WAITS & MEASURES $400: Glidden says it takes about an hour for latex this to dry; wanna watch? paint |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | IRON $2,000 (Daily Double): At about 1,000 feet, it was the tallest iron structure in the world when it was completed in 1889 the Eiffel Tower |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $4,000 (Daily Double): 3 of Canada's 4 Atlantic provinces start with "N": Nova Scotia, Newfoundland & Labrador, this one New Brunswick |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $600: A newspaper feature first published in 1918 about bizarre curiosities inspired this TV show most recently hosted by Bruce Campbell Ripley's Believe It or Not! |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI $1600: On the Kansas turnpike, it's about 8 bucks cash to drive from Topeka to this bigger city 140 miles southwest Wichita |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: "Notorious RBG" Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: "Bossypants" Tina Fey |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "My Life with the Chimpanzees" Jane Goodall |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1600: "Road to Tara: The Life of" this author Margaret Mitchell |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "Power, Privilege and the Post" Katharine Graham |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IT'S A FACT $1000: This yellow gastropod named for its resemblance to a fruit can move about 6 inches per minute a banana slug |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $800: Queen Elizabeth I had an age named for her & lived about twice as long as this mother of hers Anne Boleyn |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $400: It's about a 50-mile jaunt from Damascus, Syria to this Lebanese capital Beirut |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HISTORY IS CIRCULAR $400: A recent theory about this stone circle in England: it was part of a great raised altar with long-gone wooden ramps Stonehenge |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | CLOSE CAPITALS $1000: It's about 140 miles from Rome to the capital of this serene republic that is surrounded by Italy San Marino |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE $2000: Y? Y ask about this element with the symbol Y? Because it's used in structural ceramics, fluorescent lamps & simulated diamonds yttrium |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: No beans about it, this school now in Chestnut Hill was founded by a Jesuit priest in 1863 Boston College |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $400: Larry LaPrise, who's credited with this song & dance, said it's "like a square dance, really... you turn around, you shake it all about" "The Hokey Pokey" |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $1600: People were already doing this dance when Van McCoy wrote a song about it, helping to usher in the disco era "The Hustle" |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | LAWN TOMORROW $1000: Creeping red & chewings are "fine" this grass, drought-resistant & green all year if you're good about maintaining it fescue |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $200: Tom Clancy launched his career with this runaway bestseller about a Soviet nuclear sub whose crew might be trying to defect The Hunt for Red October |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2000: From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it" Pliny |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | TUNE RIVER $400: It's said that he wrote the 2003 hit "Cry Me A River" about an ex, Britney Spears Timberlake |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | ARTHURIAN LEGEND & HISTORY $7,600 (Daily Double): The figure best known by this name appears in some versions as Ambrosius, a prophet & adviser to King Vortigern Merlin |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $600: Dionne Warwick asked him, "If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this" Chance the Rapper |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | IT'S JUST ABOUT TIME $400: Playbill says this period lasts 10 to 15 minutes intermission |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | IT'S JUST ABOUT TIME $800: The American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology applies this 2-word phrase starting at exactly 39 weeks of pregnancy full term |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | IT'S JUST ABOUT TIME $1200: Often a dubious purchase, it gives you peace of mind for a longer time & is also called a service contract an extended warranty |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | IT'S JUST ABOUT TIME $1600: Coal was not a dying industry in this part of the Carboniferous Period that succeeded the Mississippian 323 mil. years ago the Pennsylvanian |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | IT'S JUST ABOUT TIME $2000: One reason they eat so late in Spain is they're on Central European time, an hour ahead of the more logical GMT, short for this Greenwich Mean Time |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $200: It's about 450 miles away from Greenland, & the magnetic one is on the move, heading toward Russia the North Pole |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | WE'VE GOT THE BLUES $1600: More than 20 years after his death at about age 27, the 1961 album "King of the Delta Blues Singers" made him newly famous Robert Johnson |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT $2000: "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this arsenic |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $400: It sounds like a computer game about an island, but in weather lore it's very fine water droplets at ground level mist |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN $400: It took 11 years & about $25 million, but in 2001 this landmark was reopened with its tilt reduced by about 16 inches the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THE HARDER THEY FALL $600: This Broadway musical is about trying to make a flop, but the curtain didn't fall on it until the 2,502nd performance The Producers |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | A CHAPTER OF IT BEGINS... $600: "When I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about Miss Havisham's, and asked a number of questions" Great Expectations |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | U.S. CITIES $600: It's about 500 miles from this state capital to the larger city of the same name Charleston |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $800: Marx wrote that this "is money." This "is commodities" & had a lot more to say about it, the title of his longest work Capital |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: In a holiday favorite, "The fire is so delightful and since we've no place to go", this title, this title, this title "Let It Snow" |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: In this disco classic by The Weather Girls, the forecast was very unusual precipitation; "hallelujah!" "It's Raining Men" |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: Making some big noise, AC/DC "Got Some Rock & Roll" this, while Kiss staked a claim with "God Of" it Thunder |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ORCHESTRA OF THE WHIRLED $800: It's all about music love:
MOLAR INCH HIP philharmonic |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600: With about 15 million people, it's Canada's most populous province Ontario |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS $400: At about 10.5 degrees north latitude it's the northernmost of South America's capitals Caracas |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | GET A JOB! $1000: It means following the rules & is the usual word for an "officer" who makes sure you follow the rules, like about COVID compliance |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT WAS ALL PURPLE $1000: In the 1990s, this author who wrote about a house on Mango Street painted a house in an historic area of San Antonio purple (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $800: A grandfather tells a story about a town called Chewandswallow where food falls from the sky Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | AMERICANA $600: Young woman! It's fun to stay here & Julia Morgan, the USA's most prolific major architect, designed about 20 of them the YWCA |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | IT HAPPENED IN EUROPE $600: Historian Arnold Toynbee popularized this 2-word term describing Britain's economic change from about 1760 to 1840 the Industrial Revolution |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | ALWAYS BROADWAY $800: In 1990 this musical about a musical closed after 6,137 shows; God, I hope you get it! I hope you get it! A Chorus Line |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | THE CAROLINAS $800: It's about 200 miles between these 2 capital cities of the Carolinas Columbia & Raleigh |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $800: In 1992 this vocal group who are always in style sang, "No, you're never gonna get it" about "My Lovin"' En Vogue |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | FICTIONAL PLANETS $400: Infant Kal-El's father & mother send their baby in a rocket away from this planet just as it is about to be destroyed Krypton |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | MOVE IT! $200: Called the "move of the millennium", in 1999 one of these massive beacons was moved inland about 1,000 yards on Cape Hatteras a lighthouse |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | RELIGION $800: Just as Catholics debate this practice of its priests, in Thailand there's debate about it (brahmacharya) for Buddhist monks chastity |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | RECENT POP CULTURE $400: It's the 3-letter title of the M. Night Shyamalan movie about people aging with terrifying speed Old |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $1600: On radio, this soap opera was all about a minister, but he had been written out when it began a 57-year TV run in 1952 Guiding Light |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING $1000: An ancient sculpture of an athlete about to throw this should arrive by Christmas --Myron's original is lost, so it's just a copy the discus |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: El Salvador's volcanoes include this one that has the same name as the capital & is about 7 miles away from it San Salvador |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: It's about 130 miles long & in July 2021, it reached about 130 degrees Death Valley |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | WINTER HOLIDAYS $600: Celebrated Dec. 23, Festivus includes "the airing of" these; "I got a lot of problems with you people! Now, you're gonna hear about it" the airing of grievances |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | YIDDISH THEATER $1600: The play "Chantzhe in Amerika" is about a woman wanting to learn this modern skill; "How I Learned to" do it is a non-Yiddish play drive |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | WRITERS, WITH STYLE $2000: He didn't use sci-fi in 1961's "Mother Night", about an American playwright spying on the Nazis. He passed away in 2007. So it goes Vonnegut |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | SOUNDS SERIOUS $400: Cutis anserina is nothing to worry about; it's just this "fowl" reaction to cold or fear goose bumps |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | AUTHORS OF TODAY $2000: He covers people who create change with fresh thinking: about baseball in "Moneyball"; about medicine in 2021's "The Premonition" Michael Lewis |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | VENUS $1200: Early information about Venus was gathered when it made these, a term for when a planet crosses the Sun from Earth's view transits |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $2000: It's alive! Tim Burton directed this animated film about a boy's beloved dog brought back to life Frankenweenie |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SATELLITES $1200: Launched in 1998, it circles the Earth about every 90 minutes & can often be seen with the naked eye the International Space Station |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES $1600: For decades, Singapore has complained about the price it pays to get fresh water from this country Malaysia |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FILL OUT YOUR "W"2 $200: It's the "W" in WPA, an act protecting federal employees who disclose information about abuse of authority or mismanagement whistleblower |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE END OF THE WORLD $800: For squash players it's about 32 feet long & 21 wide a court |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter 1 of this 1939 novel has quite a lot to say about dust, like "In the morning" it "hung like fog" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $2000: Receiving water from about 200 rivers, it's the largest lake in the Western Hemisphere Lake Superior |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | BY A ONE-NAMED WRITER $1200: "Buy Me the Sky" by Xinran is about this population control policy & the spoiled "little emperors" it created the one-child policy |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $1000: It's the original title of Sapphire's novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones Push |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1200: Might seem that way, but it won't take a hundred years to read this 1974 James Michener bestseller about the American West Centennial |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | "ST" FOR A START $800: It starts about 6 miles up from the ground the stratosphere |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $1600: It's the 10-letter term for a column of rapidly swirling air occurring over a lake or ocean waterspout |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | A WORD IN SPANISH $200: A Spanish idiom for "Don't worry about it", literally "nothing happens", is no pasa this word nada |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $800: The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest a sloth |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS $1600: The kestrel is also known as this type of hawk, after the nice little bird it's looking around for here (the) sparrow (hawk) |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | LET'S TAKE IT OUTSIDE $600: Black's Law Dictionary says this 6-letter verb means "to hang about & (do) nothing in a public place" loiter |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THE 50 U.S. STATES $1600: The third book Bob Woodward wrote about the Bush administration's Iraq War failings is called "State of" this Denial |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | IT'S A TRAP! $400: Here's this perennial that has a special diet; it can close shop in about half a second the Venus flytrap |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | LIT BITS $800: It's Mary Norton's 1952 children's classic about a family living under the floorboards The Borrowers |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | IT'S LIGHT OUT $200: Proverbially, "It's always darkest just before" this, but when you think about it... not really dawn |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | IT'S LIGHT OUT $1000: How about some applause for this light-killing device that debuted in 1984, one of Time magazine's top 100 all-time gadgets the Clapper |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | LET'S GO TO THE BEACH $1600: The beach Matthew Arnold was talking about must not have been this sunny spot on Barbados' south coast; it's no darkling plain Dover Beach |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE $1000: Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about growing up in a mortuary, it was the basis for a Tony-winning musical Fun Home |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MOVIE IN QUESTION $1000: 1993, about the woman seen here; the 7-word title What's Love Got to Do with It |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | SCIENTISTS $1000: When asked about his proof of the existence of these waves, Heinrich Hertz said, "It's of no use whatsoever" electromagnetic waves |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | FACE THE PERFORMER $1000: On "Parks and Rec", this actress told Amy Poehler, "You can trust me because I don't care enough about you to lie" Kathryn Hahn |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: Asked about how she hit the ball so far in golf, this multi-sport wonder said she just loosened her girdle & let it fly Babe (Didrikson) Zaharias |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | GAME $200: Since we're all about tennis, if you serve a ball that doesn't land in the proper service box, it's one of these a fault |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: In "My Beloved World", this first Hispanic American on the Supreme Court talks about growing up in a Bronx housing project (Sonia) Sotomayor |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: In this 1937 memoir Isak Dinesen told of her life in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation Out of Africa |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "Mad Girl's Love Song" tells of this poet's "Life Before Ted" (Hughes) Sylvia Plath |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1600: "Daughter of Destiny" is the autobiography of this slain Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is less about Alice & more about this woman, her life partner who wrote the book Gertrude Stein |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | GERMAN AUTHORS $1200: Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen lived through this 1618-1648 war & wrote about it in "Simplicissimus" the Thirty Years' War |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | A CATEGORY ABOUT NOTHING $800: In the title of Jean-Paul Sartre's work, it's paired with "Nothingness" Being |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | DING DONG $400: "Ding dong", it's this company "calling"; how about some lipstick or other cosmetic? Avon |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $800: First found in Nigeria in 1956, it's the nation's most important source of government revenue oil |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $6,200 (Daily Double): The longest river in Ireland, it flows 220 miles to reach the Atlantic Ocean near Limerick the Shannon |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS $2000: Joe Jackson: "If you want to know about the bishop & the actress... you can read it in" these weekly editions the Sunday papers |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1600: About his "Memoirs and Misinformation", this comic actor said, "None of this is real and all of it is true"--alrighty then! Jim Carrey |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | SCI-FI MOVIE BY QUOTE $400: 2009: "Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it, but I never figured I'd be goin' there" Avatar |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | DIETARY MATTERS $600: When it comes to weight loss, it's really all about these units of energy, the amount you take in & the amount you burn calories |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | CONNECTING WITH CONJUNCTIONS $800: It pairs with & precedes "then" in general statements about variable logic if |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE $400: Lavoisier said he never got Scheele's 1774 letter about discovering this component of water, but it was found in his papers oxygen |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $600: Dan Wilson of Semisonic said this song is about a baby leaving the womb as much as it is about the end of the night at a bar "Closing Time" |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $2000: She said what she likes most about her novel "The Outsiders" is "how it has taught a lot of kids to enjoy reading" (S.E.) Hinton |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | THEY GO LOW $400: In 1923 more than 850,000 Americans had this job, often coming home with dirty faces; today, it's about 50,000 miners |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | IT'S THEIR SONG $400: On the album called "The" this rapper "Show", he performs "Hailie's Song" about his daughter Eminem |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | IT'S THEIR SONG $1600: About a decade after "Your Song", a British superstar had his first name in the title of this "Song" "Elton's Song" |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | POETS & POETRY $1600: "It was many and many a year ago", begins a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about this maiden Annabel Lee |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | 6-LETTER COUNTRIES $200: It occupies about half the land mass of the South American continent Brazil |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: It's "your old" home turf where you really put your foot down about having that hamburger meat stomping ground beef |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | GOING FROM FIRST TO THIRD $1200: Bo Jackson & Bob Dole are famous for illeism, using this when talking about themselves; it can help kids with speech impediments the third person |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | IT'LL ALL END IN "X" $2000: It took flight about 150 million years ago & was once considered the oldest known bird the Archaeopteryx |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $800: It remains the only country with a Communist government in the Americas Cuba |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $2000: With more than 200 million people, it's the most populous country in Africa & by 2050, its population is expected to double Nigeria |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $2000: This French-titled book about the round table knights begins, "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon..." Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $1600: If it's got to be about the stars & stripes, how about "The Stars & Stripes Forever" or George M. Cohan's "You're A" these 3 words Grand Old Flag |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE? $600: Hopefully, it's as deep as the love shown in the 2014 Budweiser ad about an adopted puppy who bonds with one of these horses Clydesdales |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | MOVIE MAGIC $2000: It's Hugh Jackman vs. Christian Bale in this Christopher Nolan film about a pair of uber-competitive magicians The Prestige |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | FOREIGN ELECTIONS $800: It takes weeks to get all the votes securely with about 900 million eligible voters in this country's elections India |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Though large & powerful, this South American empire flourished for only about 100 years until the Spanish conquered it in 1532 Inca |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400 (Daily Double): It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast Cape Town |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | NO. 1 RECORD $2000: About 20 years after Ray Charles hit No. 1 with this tune, it became a state song "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It was so cold in London in 1814 that a frost fair was held on this river that had frozen over the Thames |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: It's the "colorful" term for a thin frozen film on the road that can lead to hazardous driving conditions black ice |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: It's the type of cloud seen here before it touches the ground & becomes a tornado a funnel cloud |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: It cost the U.S. about $380 million to build this canal that opened to traffic in 1914 the Panama Canal |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | THESE SONGS COULD KILL YOU $400: In "A Clockwork Orange", the Droogs were up for "a bit of the old ultra-" this; Lana Del Rey sang about it in 2014 violence |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | CHRISTMAS MOVIES $600: Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $200: In Genesis, Eve is made from Adam's rib; God forms Adam out of this "of the ground" & tells him unto it "shalt thou return" the dust |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $1000: After God expelled Adam & Eve from the garden, he placed these second-highest angels to the east of Eden to guard it cherubim |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | OY! IT'S WORDS FROM "O" TO "Y" $1600: Numbering about 175,000, these upper Midwesterners are one of the largest native peoples north of Mexico Ojibway |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | HOW DO YOU... $800: Begin with putting your right hand in, then put it out, then back in again, then shake it all about; repeat with other body parts do the Hokey Pokey |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: An eponym is a word derived from a person's name; this is a word for a person from a particular place, like Muscovite demonym |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | BIOLOGY $1200: Considering it's about 7 feet up from its heart to its brain, this mammal's normal blood pressure is about 280/180 the giraffe |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | MAN ABOUT TOWN $1200: Herb Caen wrote about this city for nearly 60 years, calling it "Baghdad-by-the-Bay" San Francisco |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $400: This director created "The Terminator" after a nightmare about a metallic figure emerging from a fire James Cameron |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | IT CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM $800: After a feverish nightmare about cannibals, Elias Howe is said to have had a breakthrough in his invention of this device a sewing machine |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | ONE-SUBJECT NONFICTION $2000: Charles Seife wrote a book about it; ignored by the Romans & Greeks, it became "the most important tool in mathematics" zero |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | A BUSY BODY $800: The thinking part of the brain, it accounts for about 85% of the brain's weight the cerebrum |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS $400: With an area of about 840,000 square miles, it's the world's largest island Greenland |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | PODCASTS $800: Start counting Scovilles as the podcast about this food heats up on "It Burns" (chili) peppers |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | FOXES $600: Writing about foxes? It's required that you use the adjective "bushy" to describe this body part the tail |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $800: It's about 5 feet long & includes the cecum & the colon the large intestine |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $2000: A book about the hero's formative years is this kind of "education novel" a bildungsroman |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | IT STARTS WITH "U" $800: This diacritical mark gets its name from German for "about" & "sound" umlaut |
| #8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PRIMATES $3,200 (Daily Double): About 30,000 years old, an early Homo sapiens skull called this "1" was discovered in 1868 at the French site of the same name Cro-Magnon |
| #8256, aired 2020-10-12 | I'LL TURN IT $800: A novel by David Leavitt is a real this; that's its title, about a job assisting a classical pianist a page turner |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) Though the Freerider route takes most people four days, it took Alex Honnold about four hours, ropeless and using some holds the width of a pencil, to climb El Capitan in this national park Yosemite |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | SPEED READING $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the 4-letter title of Lisa Patton's novel about students caught up in the frenzy of matching students with sororities Rush |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | LETTERS FROM AUTHORS $400: Describing a book he was writing in 1881: "it's all about a map, and a treasure, and a mutiny, and a derelict ship" Robert Louis Stevenson |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | DOCUSERIES $600: It makes sense that "The Imagineering Story" about the making of theme parks is on this streaming service launched in 2019 Disney+ |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | THE MAN, THE POETRY $400: "i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens...nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" (e.e.) cummings |
| #8242, aired 2020-09-22 | YOU GOTTA FIGHT! $800: No bones about it--this dominant UFC light heavyweight has a brother who plays linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals Jon "Bones" Jones |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | HELLO & GOODBYE $1600: It sounds like it's about divine velocity, but it's really an expression of good wishes for someone leaving on a journey godspeed |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | INSIDE OF ME $800: If you want to be formal about it, "vermiform" precedes the name of this tube that seems to serve no purpose but can become inflamed the appendix |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NAME THE SEASON $600: National Hangover Day (think about it a half-sec, you'll get it) winter |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $800: No--the bee variety of this is the world's smallest bird at only about 2 inches long a hummingbird |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | NATIONS' SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1600: Barcelona is Spain's second-largest city & has about a fifth of the population of this region it's in Catalonia |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | IT'S A FACT $800: One Japanese type of this tall hollow grass takes about 120 years to blossom; after that, it usually dies bamboo |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $800: Shh! It's the 5-letter title of Susan Cain's book about "The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" Quiet |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | A "BOTTLE" IN FRONT OF ME $600: Dr. Spock advises about this practice, "sterilize carefully... germs thrive on milk, just the way babies do" *bottle feeding (**using a bottle to feed your baby) |
| #8212, aired 2020-04-28 | DJ, JAZZY $400: Horace Silver's tune about L.A. DJ Chuck Niles isn't "the hippest guy in Hollywood"--it uses this 3-letter jazz word for "guy" cat |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $800: If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state Maine |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | LITERARY TERMS $400: It's the practical lesson about right & wrong that results from an instructive story like a fable a moral |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES $1000: How about trying this sport nicknamed "chess on ice" that uses 8 granite stones per team curling |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | "AD"JECTIVES $1600: Meaning hardheaded about something, it also means a really hard type of rock adamant |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $800: In poetry, it's a long narrative, often about heroic deeds; there's also a "mock" type an epic |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | ALL ABOUT APRIL $200: It was created as an environmental teach-in & first celebrated on April 22, 1970 Earth Day |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $2000: Equal to about 230 million of our years, a galactic year is the time it takes for the solar system to make this trip a trip around the Milky Way |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) When Marco Polo told stories about Africa, he most likely confused two different places. In describing the city of Mogadishu, he referred to it by the similar-sounding name of this island, 1,000 miles away Madagascar |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | YOU'RE QUITE THE PAIR! $2000: Talk about a final act! Near the end of "Hamlet", it is reported, "Tell him his commandment is fulfilled, that" these 2 "are dead" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | ATLANTIS $2000: Many think Atlantis refers to this culture that flourished on the island of Crete about 5,000 years ago the Minoan civilization |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | LYRICS OF TODAY $200: Country's Jason Aldean sings about how it should be the other way around, but "memory drowns" this--Jack Daniel's, specifically whiskey |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | "OO", SORRY $400: It means free to travel about & is often paired with "fancy-free" footloose |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $2000: It's French for "evening"; an 1887 book of manners says it's held at an early hour & is more about conversation than dancing a soiree |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | RUNNING GAGS $200: (Jimmy Kimmel presents the clue.) Since our show's 3rd season, I've been apologizing to this talentless hack for bumping him at the last second; it happened a few times since but the real truth is I've never actually been sorry about it Matt Damon |
| #8182, aired 2020-03-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: In a 1980 eruption, it lost about 1,000 feet off its top Mount St. Helens |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT I'M WALKING ABOUT $800: In 1985 APLA, this Project Los Angeles, held the first walk for it, raising nearly 7 times the goal amount the AIDS Project |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | "R" WE THERE YET? $400: It's about 30 miles north of Carson City on Interstate 580 Reno |
| #8180, aired 2020-03-13 | 1940s LITERATURE $1200: This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later The Lost Weekend |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | LITERARY FESTIVALS $1600: Louisville's Gonzofest is not about Muppets; it celebrates the writing of this native son Hunter Thompson |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | SHAKESPEARE BY NIGHT $2000: Marcellus asks this friend of Hamlet "to watch the minutes of this night, that if again this apparition come, he may...speak to it" Horatio |
| #8146, aired 2020-01-27 | "M___T" PROMISES $1600: As an adjective it can mean active in combat, or aggressive about a cause militant |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES $400: It's the German word for a novel about the education & formative years of the protagonist; "The Catcher in the Rye" is one a bildungsroman |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | RECOGNIZING THE COUNTRY $400: About the size of Kentucky, it looks bigger when it's not floating in the Atlantic Iceland |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED $800: When CBS got FCC approval to broadcast in this in 1950, only about 2 dozen sets could receive it color |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | IT COMES THIRD $800: The Third Amendment is about this activity, a word actually from the Latin for "fourth" quartering of troops |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | IT COMES THIRD $2000: "Arrow of God", about a Nigerian priest dealing with missionaries, is the last book he wrote in what's called his "African Trilogy" (Chinua) Achebe |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $400: He simply titled his 2019 memoir "Me"
I knew that Taron Egerton was the right man to play me when I heard him sing "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" -- he managed to get through it without threatening to murder anyone or screaming about Engelbert Humperdinck Elton John |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE TOTALLY RAD 1980s $600: I thought this movie about Olympic runners would be grody to the max but not even! It won Best Pic, & everyone loves Vangelis! Chariots of Fire |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | & DEAL THE CARBS $800: Okay, these fruits are about 22% carbs, but Cavendish ones do help lower blood pressure & promote a healthy heart, so it's worth it! bananas |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $800: I "sense" you know it's the remaining sensation about an experience, often a bad one aftertaste (*after effects) |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | A POWER CALLER $400: 10 years ago, it cost about $50,000 to install a system to power your house using this energy; now, a 6-kw system could go for $14K solar |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA $1200: I have found it! --this city about 100 miles south of the Oregon border whose name is also the state motto Eureka |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | NATIVE AMERICANS: THE REALITY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) The Americans exhibit highlights Native Americans' role in American identity. One legend is Pocahontas' famous 1607 rescue of this man, a story some doubt, as he didn't tell it until 1624, though he had written about his time in Virginia before then John Smith |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | ABOUT [TYPE]FACE $400: In 1932 this London newspaper started using the New Roman typeface named for it The London Times |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | FACTS $1200: On I-64 it's about an 80-mile drive between these 2 metrop-"L"-ises of Kentucky Louisville and Lexington |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | RHYMES WITH A SEASON $400: A complex like Westfield Citrus Park in Tampa a mall |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE $1200: It's investigation into a bone-softening disease caused by vitamin D deficiency rickets science |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | TANKS A LOT! $200: For a full-sized SUV, it holds about 30 gallons a gas tank |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM $1600: In an episode on "Bikes" I visited a company that uses a special wind tunnel to help design the most efficient competitive sports bikes where it's all about this, the science of the way air moves around objects aerodynamics |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JEFF GOLDBLUM $2000: When it comes to videos of unboxing--sneakers, for example--I found that it's all about anticipation & the release of this neurotransmitter that gives us a rush of happiness--even when the shoes aren't necessarily for us dopamine |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $800: About 378,000 square miles: also called the East Sea, it borders Sakhalin Island the Sea of Japan |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | FUN WITH G20 COUNTRIES $2000: Population about 500 million, it's the only G20 member that is not a country in its own right the European Union |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $200: At 22 this Aussie native inherited a newspaper after his father's death; in 2019 he & his family were worth 11 figures Rupert Murdoch |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $400: He rebounded nicely after getting fired from Salomon Brothers, becoming mayor of NYC & being worth about $50 billion in 2019 (Michael) Bloomberg |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $800: Talk about Amazon Prime! This woman pledged more than half her $37 billion fortune to charity in 2019 (MacKenzie) Bezos |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $1000: Very rich men Larry Page & Sergey Brin head up this parent company of Google Alphabet |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY $4,000 (Daily Double): Last name of brothers Charles & David, worth around a combined $100 billion at the time of David's death in 2019 Koch |
| #8096, aired 2019-11-18 | COMEDIANS ON AUDIBLE $400: She talks about her childhood in "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?": I don't remember a time when I wasn't chubby. Like being Indian, being chubby feels like it is just part of my permanent deal Mindy Kaling |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $600: The German army sent him to the Western Front & in 1929 he published a novel about it (Erich Maria) Remarque |
| #8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL $2000: This playwright's semi-autobiographical "Chapter Two" is about a writer who remarries after his first wife's death Neil Simon |
| #8084, aired 2019-10-31 | THE SYNDROME SYNDROME $1600: rls.org wants to turn the 1st "R" in this syndrome into "relieved"; it's about limb movement but can also involve a burning sensation restless legs syndrome |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | TONS OF FUN $200: It's estimated that some of these, literally "terrible lizards", stood about 50 feet tall & weighed as much as 85 tons dinosaurs |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ $1000: This phrase about liberty in all 4 verses provides the title of a song by The Killers where it has a more ironic meaning the land of the free |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | AMERICAN GOTHIC $3,000 (Daily Double): This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ Flannery O'Connor |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): "It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood's depths" in an 1883 tale of this hero Robin Hood |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | WEIRD SPORTS STUFF $200: It's not about hunting--these rights that get NBA teams around the salary cap are named for Larry Bird rights |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1000: 4-word phrase that's the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic but wait, there's more |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | SOUTHERN POLITICIAN/AUTHOR $400: In the 2000s Doug Jones prosecuted 2 men for the 1963 church bombing in this city; he wrote "Bending Toward Justice" about it Birmingham |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | CLASSIC TELEVISION $400: The Ministry of Silly Walks was a sketch on this British troupe's comedy show Monty Python |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | A DAY ENDING IN Y $800: In a song by The Cure, "Thursday I don't care about you, it's..." this title "Friday I'm In Love" |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1600: It's a word that tells people you're in a group; in the Bible those who said "sib" instead of "shib" were slaughtered a shibboleth |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): 2-word term for a common language for speakers of different tongues; it was once an actual language quoted by Moliere lingua franca |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | THE WORKING DEAD $400: Its founder William died in 1857, about 40 years before it sold the first toothpaste in a tube & 70 before merging with Palmolive Colgate |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | TIME FOR A SNACK $400: Even if it's not October, how about some of these, also called pepitas pumpkin seeds |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $1600: It's Roald Dahl's 1961 book about a boy crossing an ocean on a very unusual vessel James and the Giant Peach |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | A "DROP" $1000: When you read in an old book about a death from this, it means what we now call edema dropsy |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: It takes about a week to travel the 5,700-mile route from Moscow to Vladivostok on this railway the Trans-Siberian |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | LEFT ON THE BOARD $400: A saying about this empire's vastness in the 18th to the 20th century was that "the sun never sets" on it the British Empire |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | CANADIAN PROVINCIAL SYMBOLS $400: If I told you this province's flower was the dogwood, could you guess it? How about if it's the Pacific dogwood? British Columbia |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE "B" THAT POWERS $1200: It gets up to about 3,000 degrees in this kind of furnace used to make pig iron blast furnace |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | LET'S TALK ABOUT FLAGS $800: A 2017 article written in June--not Aug. or Sept.!--asked, at 31-41, "Is it time for the Mets to wave" this? the white flag |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's about 85 miles northeast of San Francisco Sacramento |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE '80s $1600: Lipps, Inc. sang, "Well, I talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it... won't you take me to" this title place Funkytown |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | IT'S TIME FOR TIME $1,000 (Daily Double): Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day" circadian |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $800: Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedy" started a trend in plays about this need to get even; a character in it is even named that revenge |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | STUFF ABOUT CELEBRITIES $1200: It's the last name of the model sisters seen here Hadid |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | STUFF ABOUT CELEBRITIES $1600: He did some fencing in school, but when it came to playing Will Turner on screen, he trained with a sword master Orlando Bloom |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | HODGEPODGE $800: Trending with about 2,000 across the U.S., it's a venue in which you must solve puzzles to get out of a locked space escape rooms |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | A LIL RAP CATEGORY $200: "Wanna be ballers, shot callers?" Lil' Kim was on hand with Puff Daddy & The Family, who let us know "it's all about" these the Benjamins |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | IT'S HARBOR DAY! $800: About 400 miles at its widest point, this sea has harbors in Riga, Latvia & Klaipeda, Lithuania the Baltic Sea |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | ALPHANUMERICS $400: Talk about primo & to the point! It was the alpanumeric license plate--London's first--issued December 1903 A1 |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | WE BORDER GERMANY $400: It has a total area of about 1,000 square miles; oh, you're in Grand Duchy now! Luxembourg |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | POTPOURRI $1200: This animal, a proverbial symbol of grace, also has pure speed: it can run about 50 mph a (Grant's) gazelle |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | POETIC GEOGRAPHY $400: Carl Sandburg's poem about this city declares it "Hog Butcher for the World" Chicago |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | HIP-HOP TO IT $200: This Dr. is in:
"Got a palace in the hills overlookin' the sea, it's worth 8 but I only paid 5.3" Dr. Dre |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $1000: In geologic time it's smaller than an eon or era, but the Eocene one still lasted about 20 million years an epoch |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE $400: It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS, ENDS WITH ONE $600: It's a powerful feeling of anger, maybe about social injustice outrage |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | THE DOUBLE L WITH YOU $400: When talking about the U.S. federal budget, it's 1 followed by 12 zeroes trillion |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $800: It's Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller about "an Olympian's journey from airman to cast-away to captive" Unbroken |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | LAW $600: It's the pre-trial procedure in which each side "finds" out about the other's witnesses & evidence discovery |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | IN JERUSALEM $600: In 1000 B.C. David conquered Jerusalem & made it his capital; about 40 years later, this man, his son, built the first temple Solomon |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MUSIC "MAN" $25,000 (Daily Double): Tammy Wynette said she spent 15 minutes writing this song about devotion & a lifetime defending it "Stand By Your Man" |
| #7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $600: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) On TCM, I get to talk about my great-uncle Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won Oscars for writing & directing this 1950 film, the ultimate backstage drama where Bette Davis memorably says, "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" All About Eve |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LOGGER $400: Sharing its name with a Beatles tune, it's the title of Lars Mytting's book about chopping trees the "Scandinavian way" Norwegian Wood |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LOGGER $600: One story about this companion of Paul Bunyan says it would take a day for crows to fly from one horn to the other Babe (the blue ox) |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRICKS OF THE MIND $800: When you apply a positive first impression to everything about a person, it's this effect--angel, saint or not halo |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | NATURE STICKS IT TO YOU $200: These from a porcupine puncture the victim with ease, but require about 4 times the force to be removed quills |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | U3 $400: In 1891 it was incorporated as a city in New Mexico; it had about 3,800 people then Albuquerque |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | PUT A "RING" ON IT $800: Put "ring" on a word meaning fuss (perhaps about nothing) to get this, meaning full of love adoring |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | THE CELEBRITY AUTHOR $1600: The L.A. Times:
"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a novel about" him, "Sherlock Homes' brother (and it's good!)" Mycroft Holmes |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ON THE MOVE $1200: A word also used in the navy, it's an airline's planes as a whole; spirit airlines has a young one, averaging about 6 years old fleet |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | THE PLAY'S LAST LINES $2000: By Woody Allen: "Well, you see, the thing about Bogart that most people don't know is that..." Play It Again, Sam |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE DRY TORTUGAS $400: About a century after this naturalist visited Bird Key in 1832, a storm washed it off the map Audubon |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $200: This Police song sounds like a love song, but Sting admits it's really about jealousy & obsessiveness "Every Breath You Take" |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | FAMILIAR BRANDS IN SONGS $400: This Meghan Trainor tune says, "I see the magazines working that Photoshop, we know that...ain't real" "All About That Bass" |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | CLASSIC MOVIES $200: It's the first rule of Fight Club you do not talk about Fight Club |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | ANIMAL TALK $1000: Weighing several tons, it's obvious to everyone present, but no one has the courage to talk about it the elephant in the room |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $1000: In myth Selene couldn't bear this handsome guy ever dying, so she had him sleep forever; Keats wrote a poem about it Endymion |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | SAME DAY $600: The Washington Post printed this type of edition with same-day news that O.J. Simpson was acquitted; "Read all about it!" an extra |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | MUSEUM MISCELLANY $600: Cuba's Museo Giron has a film about this battle, calling it the "first defeat of U.S. imperialism in the Americas" Bay of Pigs |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | MOVIE QUOTES $1000: About a drummer at "the Isle of Lucy Jazz and Blues Festival...it was tragic, really. He exploded on stage" This is Spinal Tap |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | SINGING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES $800: Hugh Grant comes to the rescue & helps young Nicholas Hoult kill it with a "Killing Me Softly" cover About a Boy |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | MAKE IT LOOK GOOD $1200: In 2008 candidate Obama compared McCain's policies to Bush's by using this phrase about an animal & cosmetics putting lipstick on a pig |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $800: From 2006 to 2013 Showtime killed it with this show about a crime lab worker with a very different night job Dexter |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | STEAMY SCIENCE $10,800 (Daily Double): Earthquakes have lengthened the average interval between its famed eruptions of water & steam by about 30 minutes Old Faithful |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | FER SURE, IT WAS THE '80s $200: Its 1986 visit to our skies, the last until 2061, was a bit of a dud, as it was only about as bright as the North Star Halley's Comet |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | "ITS" FINAL $600: Watch it! I've about reached these boundaries of mine limits |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | 10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN $600: Aretha was "The Queen of Soul", & as such, could do no wrong / in '67 she spelled it out, hit No. 1 with this great song "Respect" |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $800: From the Latin for "word", it refers to a passage repeated word for word verbatim |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | BOY STORY $1000: It's Nick Hornby's novel concerning a 12-year-old lad & a man in his 30s & how the 2 bond About a Boy |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT? $1200: George Clooney tries to kill, then tries to save Prince Nasir in this 2005 film about oil & greed Syriana |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $800: In "The Name of the Rose", it is revealed that the murders are related to this Greek's "Poetics" Aristotle |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | TV MOVES $400: (Jimmy shows the subclavian artery on the monitor.) Pressure on the subclavian artery is one theory about how the Vulcan neck pinch might work; it was created by this actor when he thought the script's conk on the head seemed too 20th century Leonard Nimoy |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | TV: THE WHAT? $200: It's about old new cop Nathan Fillion The Rookie |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | SAY IT IN LATIN $400: Not sure of the year Chaucer was born? you can use around, about or this Latin word before the year circa |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | 4th CENTURY BOOKSTORE $1200: Chrysostom's book about parenting says don't overdo this: "Threaten (a child) with the tawse, but do not lay it on" beating a child |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | GREAT BOOKS ON AUDIBLE $1200: Take a listen to Scarlett Johansson if you are curious about this classic
I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! Alice in Wonderland |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | GET IT STRAIT $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the Palk Strait on the monitor.) It's about 40 miles across the Palk Strait from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to this island that's about 15% ethnically Tamil Sri Lanka |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | A POP "UP" CATEGORY $1600: In 2018 Drake rapped about feeling this, "Hundred thousand on my head, it's disrespect" "Upset" |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | I'M NOT RETIRING! $800: I've read clues about the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics; now it's on to that city's Winter Games coming up in this year 2022 |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | RIVERS OF CALIFORNIA $800: This river provides about 60% of the water for SoCal, but is barely a trickle when it reaches the ocean the Colorado |
| #7868, aired 2018-11-21 | MUSIC OF YESTERDAY & TODAY $800: No, he said, "In The Air Tonight" was not a real story about someone drowning, it was him being angry about his divorce Phil Collins |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a story that teaches a moral, like the one about "The Tortoise and the Hare" a fable |
| #7866, aired 2018-11-19 | NOT-SO-ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In 1995 Colin Firth played this character in "Pride & Prejudice" on a TV miniseries--ask your mom about it (Fitzwilliam) Darcy |
| #7864, aired 2018-11-15 | CELEBRITIES $200: At the Grammys, it was all about this singer, who won for Best New Artist in 2016 (Meghan) Trainor |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | IT WAS 10 MILES $800: There's an annual race from the bottom of the Eiffel Tower to this royal chateau about 10 miles away the Palace of Versailles |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | ON BROADWAY IN 2018 $4,000 (Daily Double): broadway.com said it best about this show:
"Tina Fey's fetch movie is, like, now on Broadway" Mean Girls |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | IT'S A WITCH $400: This novel by Gregory Maguire about the green-skinned Elphaba became a gravity-defying musical Wicked |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | NUTS ABOUT DOUGHNUTS $1000: Cafe du Monde in New Orleans calls it "a square piece of dough, fried & covered with powdered sugar" a beignet |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: From the Latin for "seed plot", it's a conference or college course to learn about a narrow subject a seminar |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | "TIME" FOR A TUNE $1200: It's the "Rocky Horror" tune about "a jump to the left" & "a step to the right" "The Time Warp" |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: The stuff you'll gradually learn about a movie or TV character's prior life; flashbacks can fill it in a backstory |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | THIS IS "EZ" $800: From the name of a movie monster, it's a woman who is obsessive about wedding planning a bridezilla |
| #7831, aired 2018-10-01 | GETTING SPECIFIC AT GENERAL HOSPITAL $200: (Nancy Lee Grahn and Michelle Stafford give the clue as Alexis and Nina from General Hospital.) "You think you're getting away with it, Nina, but I'm on to you"
"Oh, really Alexis? Well your little world, your sterile field, is about to be in this condition, compromised by the introduction of foreign bacteria" infected (or contaminated) |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This European country has about 33,000 people; the country that completely surrounds it has about 60 million San Marino |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | SAY IT 3 TIMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Say this cliche Lord Harold Samuel gave about the 3 most important things in real estate location, location, location |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $5,000 (Daily Double): It's about a 50-mile drive from Penn to this other Ivy League school that fits the category Princeton |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $200: Banks make money via this, the price paid for the use of borrowed funds interest |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $400: Adjective for assets that can be turned into cash quickly without much trouble liquid |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $600: The auto industry introduced this incentive in a 1975 commercial--Joe Garagiola saying, "Buy a car, get a check!" cash back (or rebate) |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $800: This general term for gold or silver bars kept in bulk is in the official name of Fort Knox Depository bullion |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $1000: "What's It All About?" isn't about Alfie but about this actor who played him in the original 1966 film Michael Caine |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY $1000: It's a gift of money as a legacy to provide income for an institution or a person; there's a national one for the arts an endowment |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | "C" YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPERS $2000: It's about a grumpy bus driver Crankshaft |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | FROM BOOK TO TV $1200: Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" is about an alien invasion, so this is the obvious network to have aired it in 2015 Syfy |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800: In January 2018 (after Christmas, thank goodness) this retail chain that kids love said it would close about 180 stores Toys "R" Us |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES $1200: It's how AC/DC parenthetically hailed listeners in "For Those About To Rock" "(We Salute You)" |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT $400: Showing what you got on this device was expensive when it debuted in the '70s costing about $1,200 a VHS system |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | MUSICAL "P"ERFORMERS $800: Let's talk about this spicy rapper, part of the trio behind "Shoop" & "Push It" Pepa |
| #7791, aired 2018-06-25 | THAT TITLE IS SO CLICHÉ $1600: Oddly, the 2016 sequel to this 2013 Woody Harrelson movie about magicians isn't called "Now You Don't" Now You See Me |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $400: The Divinity School has a course focused on the early life of Moses--it's all about chapter 2 of this Biblical book Exodus |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: The D.O.E. found that 4 extra weeks added to this period in 2007 saved 0.5% of electricity per day, 1.3 billion KWH in total Daylight Savings Time |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: Also called "New Style", this calendar was proclaimed by the pope in 1582 as a reform of the Julian one Gregorian |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $600: In 1883 the scheduling of these made the adoption of standard time zones a necessity the railroad |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: The moving shadow of a gnomon on this is what led to the use of the word clockwise a sundial |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: The Pleistocene is an example of this subdivision of a period, itself subdivided into ages an epoch |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | "S"EVEN LETTER WORDS $600: It's a malicious computer program that gathers info about a user & then transmits it to an outside entity spyware |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | TOP TV SHOWS 1968 $800: Your answer, should you choose to say it, will be this series about a team of secret government agents led by Jim Phelps Mission: Impossible |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | CLASSIC COUNTRY SONGS $200: In the Hank Williams song, it precedes, "Whatcha got cookin'? How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?" "Hey, Good Lookin'" |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MUSIC INDUSTRY TERMS $400: In digital music sales, this method used to be about 20% of purchases & downloads were 70%; now it's flipped streaming |
| #7772, aired 2018-05-29 | OKLAHOMA HISTORY $1200: 1/4 of this tribe died on the march from the southeast, but today it numbers about 250,000 in Oklahoma the Cherokee |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | THE BODY HUMAN $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the human body.) It takes three main muscles to raise the arm above the head: first, the superspinatus; next, the deltoid to about 90 degrees & finally, this large, flat, triangular muscle of the upper back the trapezius |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | YOU'LL UNDERSTAND IT BETTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Virgil's "omnia vincit amor" is this saying in English about the power of the heart love conquers all |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | IT'S ME, MARGARET $2000: In the '90s this comic starred in "All-American Girl", the first sitcom about an Asian-American family (Margaret) Cho |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | PRONOUN TEST $1000: Let's not argue about whether it's OK to use this 5-letter relative pronoun instead of "that" in a restrictive clause which |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SPEAK EASY $600: Dennis Hopper said this "was never a motorcycle movie to me...a lot of it was about politically what was going on" Easy Rider |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | MOVIES IN THE SKY $1600: It's a rhyming nickname for a drone (t's watching us right now!), or a Helen Mirren film about them Eye in the Sky |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | SCIENCE FRICTION $400: Pope Urban VIII originally approved this man writing about heliocentric theory, but not defending it Galileo |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | LET'S WATCH CARTOONS $200: Bobby, hyper-aware on A.D.D. drugs on this Texas 'toon:
"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad... & there it goes" King of the Hill |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $800: People doing this dance at a nightclub in the 1970s inspired Van McCoy to write a song about it the hustle |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | ENTREPRENEURS $800: Read all about it! In 2013 this Amazon founder bought the Washington Post (Jeff) Bezos |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | IT'S A DISASTER! $400: By around 1400 this was responsible for the death of about 40% of Europe's population--25 million people the Black Death |
| #7730, aired 2018-03-30 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $2000: They have a reservation in the Uintah Basin about 150 miles east of Salt Lake City the Utes |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | MIX -OLOGY $200: It's all about star signs:
ARTSY LOGO astrology |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | THE MOST EXCITING PLAY $400: Though it may have put me off all pies forever, this play about a "demon barber" certainly has some thrills Sweeney Todd |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | EASTER $600: Judy Garland sang about one of these "with all the frills upon it" an Easter bonnet |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: It is the title of Stephen King's novel about the creepy clown Pennywise It |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | SCULPTURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a sculpture on the monitor.) Leaning against another famous figure, the sculpture here is a personification of this river, with 16 children climbing about alluding to the 16 cubits it ideally rose during flooding to ensure a fertile year the Nile |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | THAT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT $200: This smallest U.S. state can fit inside the Big Island of Hawaii Rhode Island |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | THAT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT $400: Think there are a lot of people in the eastern United States? Compare this country and there's clearly room for a billion India |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | THAT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT $600: With no Mercator projection, this island from up north doesn't look so big--it's smaller than Argentina Greenland |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | THAT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT $800: If you take this country out of South America, it would stretch from the Barents Sea down to the Persian Gulf Chile |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | THAT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT $1000: This Scandinavian country is larger than California, but California has 30 million more people Sweden |
| #7709, aired 2018-03-01 | GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER $2000: This band's Black Francis said of reunions, "This ain't about the art anymore...now it's time to talk about the money" the Pixies |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | LANGUAGES OF INDIA $2000: The written language of about 100 million people, it's basically Hindi, but with Arabic script Urdu |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | EVERYBODY'S A CRITIC $200: Of this Arthurian musical, Noel Coward said, "It's about as long as 'Parsifal', and not as funny" Camelot |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $1000: Calormen--it's south of a more famous land C. S. Lewis |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | STAG, YOU'RE IT $1200: Here's Actaeon about to be caught by his own dogs after this Greek goddess of the hunt turned him into a stag Artemis |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | ADJECTIVES $2000: If you can't pay certain fees, a court may declare you this synonym for needy indigent (destitute accepted) |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | "YOU" TUNES $400: You prob'ly think this Carly Simon hit is about Warren Beatty; perhaps, but it's a fact that Mick Jagger sang backup on it "You're So Vain" |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | SEAS OF THE WORLD $800: From Bulgaria to Georgia, it's about 700 miles across this "colorful" sea the Black Sea |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | THE TV DEVIL $400: This Fox show claims it is about "the original fallen angel" Lucifer |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | THE END OF TIME $200: This period during the Mesozoic Era ended about 145 million years ago, but it's still ripping up the box office today! Jurassic |
| #7671, aired 2018-01-08 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $1200: Like my love affair with Vanna, it's a supposedly hidden fact that everyone really knows about an open secret |
| #7669, aired 2018-01-04 | FAUX PAS $200: Time magazine published a 2009 article about why it's uncouth to wear white after this holiday Labor Day |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | THE MEDITERRANEAN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From the Italian port of Pescara to Dubrovnik in Croatia, it's about 200 miles across this arm of the Mediterranean the Adriatic |
| #7660, aired 2017-12-22 | MIDDLE "P" $800: You stand on it when speaking passionately about your opinions soapbox |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: This military command is used to mean a sudden change in direction about-face |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | PUT A "LID" ON IT $600: When asked about a shorter or easier method, he told Ptolemy I, "There is no royal road to geometry" Euclid |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1600: He fought & was wounded in the Spanish Civil War & wrote about it in "Homage to Catalonia" George Orwell |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "K"9 $400: It's equal to about .62 miles a kilometer |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | MILLENNIALS $2000: With about 100,000 people, this city was Europe's most populous in 1000; today it's around number 10 in Spain Cordoba |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CURRENT EVENTS $1000: A spike in overdoses has made this drug a common lifesaver as it reverses the effects of opiods Narcan |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | KICKING AXIS $2000: In May 1941 3 British ships sank this German battleship along with most of its 2,300-man crew the Bismarck |
| #7626, aired 2017-11-06 | WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $400: Before Warner Books picked it up, James Redfield self-published this "Prophecy" about a mysterious manuscript The Celestine Prophecy |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here" is a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States Sinclair Lewis |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | TAKE A HIKE! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For those who like a challenge, it takes about six months to hike the nearly 2,200 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mt. Katahdin in Maine to complete this trail in its entirety the Appalachian Trail |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: Though it sounds like a measure of time,it's a measure of distance, about 32,000 round trips from the Earth to the sun a lightyear |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1600: Look! Up in the sky! It's not a bird or a plane, but it is this 1905 George Bernard Shaw play about humanity & God! Man and Superman |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: "Go Tell It on the Mountain", about the 14-year-old son of a preacher, was this author's first novel (James) Baldwin |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | THE MIDWEST $200: Population about 70,000, it's where to go to see the Hawkeyes play in Kinnick Stadium Iowa City |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | INVENTION & DISCOVERY $1200: A 2010 discovery about the protein ovocleidin-17 may hold the key to this age-old question (it's the bird) Who came first, the chicken or the egg? |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | THE WRITING STUFF $400: "Uneven" 2-word term for an early version; Jefferson used it about one pass at the Declaration of Independence a rough draft |
| #7603, aired 2017-10-04 | TIMELY TALK $1000: Before singing about "The Time Warp", Riff Raff intones, "Time is" this, meaning it passes quickly fleeting |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | MELLOW FELLOWS $400: This physicist: "It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability... people won't have time for you if you are always angry" Stephen Hawking |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | LITERA-CHURCH $800: It's the planetary title of Ken Follett's historical fiction about the building of a 12th century cathedral The Pillars of the Earth |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | A NUMBER OF GROUPS $200: "Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale, and it's about to set sail" sang this group in "Love Shack", baby The B-52s |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | IT'S THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL $2000: "The Beggars", the Louvre's only painting by this Flemish artist the elder, is also one of its smallest, about 7 x 8 inches (Pieter) Bruegel |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | ONE STATE, UNDER CANADA $200: Using the Trans-Canada Highway, it's only about an hour from Lynden in this state over the border to Vancouver Washington |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | LIBRARIANS $400: Librarians use not square but linear these to measure the space books take up; it's about 3 to a standard shelf feet |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KELVIN $800: On the Kelvin scale -459.67 degrees equals this 2-word term, & though "very cold!" is technically right, we won't accept it absolute zero |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | SEE "SPAN" $1200: With about 30,000 men aboard in the late 16th century, it set sail for England the Spanish armada |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | BANG THAT TAMBOURINE! $2000: "It took me so-o-o long to find out" about the tambourine on this 1965 hit "Day Tripper" |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $600: Pick up a hot dog in Chicago & the locals will be adamant about "absolutely, positively, no" this condiment! ketchup |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! $600: In a travel book about this peninsula, Thoreau called it "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts" Cape Cod |
| #7572, aired 2017-07-11 | FILE UNDER "OZ" $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "ancient" & "animal", this era of geologic time began about 540 million years ago Paleozoic |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | FASCISM $1200: Fascist leaders liked talking about this metal "fist"; it was also the fascist "guard" that led Romania Iron |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | ANAGRAM OF A STATE $2000: In 2 words it's what the Supreme Court said about the presidential race Dec. 12, 2000 no Gore (anagram of Oregon) |
| #7562, aired 2017-06-27 | SEUSS SYNOPSIZES HIMSELF $600: It's the title animal / in a story about socks & Knox & bricks & blocks & ticks & tocks & chicks & clocks the fox |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | SCARY READING $200: The devil might have made her do it in this 1967 thriller about a demonic offspring Rosemary's Baby |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | CAMEL LOT $200: Camels were brought to this country to work in the Outback; today, it has the world's largest herd, about 750,000 Australia |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | MOVIEMAKING $600: It was gloomy in L.A. that day, the day I asked 3 strangers about this 1940s film style, French for "black film" film noir |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOME FASHION CENTS $800: It's about $30 a gallon if you shell out $299 for a Tom Mix 10-gallon cowboy hat from this U.S. company Stetson |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $400: (Karla Mosley and Jacob Young give the clue as Maya and Rick from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"Rick, if you keep obsessing about taking over the company, you're gonna make yourself sick."
"No, Maya, it's time to strike like this bold U.S. commander during the Korean War who cut off & surrounded the enemy with his brilliant Inchon landing" (Douglas) MacArthur |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | A 5-STAR SCHOOL LUNCH $600: The students rave about this type of Wagyu steak from Hyogo Prefecture, so pale when raw it's almost white Kobe beef |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | U.N. ABBREVS. $600: WIPO:
World this Property Organization-- think about it intellectual |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS $1000: In 1997 Hillary Clinton won for reading this book of hers about how we raise children It Takes a Village |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | ROCK BAND IDIOMS $400: Gwen Stefani,
Adrian Young
"...about it" No Doubt |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS $600: It's about a 2-hour drive northeast from Wesleyan in Connecticut to this Seven Sisters college in Massachusetts Wellesley |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | POETS & POETRY $1200: It's thought that Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm inspired this poem of his about a maiden in a kingdom by the sea "Annabel Lee" |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | EAT THIS VERB $1600: Body part verb for what the person seen here is about to do to the food approaching his mouth gum it |
| #7509, aired 2017-04-13 | NOTABLES & THE CHINESE ZODIAC PLACEMAT $1200: Nibbling a wonton, Grace Slick says it makes sense she was born in the year of this animal, as she sang about a white one a rabbit |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | TIME SPANS $1000: A period of about 30 years, whether it's "the greatest" one or not generation |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT'S EPIC $400: "The Lusiads" is an epic poem in this language about explorer Vasco da Gama Portuguese |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | BLUESY MUSIC $800: Legend has it, having forgotten about a 1924 deadline, George Gershwin wrote this piece in 3 weeks "Rhapsody In Blue" |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | FULL OF QUESTIONS $1000: We applaud you if you know this Zen question about a certain extremity & the noise it may or may not make "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | MONEY MUSIC $2000: It's the Steve Miller Band's song about criminal lovers Billy Joe & Bobbie Sue "Take The Money And Run" |
| #7476, aired 2017-02-27 | POETRY & BRIDGES $1,000 (Daily Double): A poem about it by its chief engineer says, "To north, the Redwood Empire's gates / To south, a happy playground waits" the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #7473, aired 2017-02-22 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $200: Picture it: Ed Sheeran wrote this hit about a memento of love while building a Lego X-Wing fighter in a hotel room "Photograph" |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $800: In 1986: "If you lead a country like Britain... you have to have a touch of iron about you" (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #7458, aired 2017-02-01 | THE KING OF COMEDY $400: He "Report"-ed, "There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good" Colbert |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | IT DOESN'T GROW ON TREES $600: For men this track & field object weighs about the same as a bowling ball but is half the size a shot put |
| #7449, aired 2017-01-19 | AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $1600: This job didn't bug William S. Burroughs; he wrote a story about it in which a boss eats the arsenic for fun an exterminator |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | OUT OF CON TEXT $400: By Stephen King: "The inmates made jokes about the chair... they called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy" The Green Mile |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AUSTRALIANA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Equal in size & volume to about 10 chicken eggs & dark green in color which helps camouflage it in a nest of grass & leaves, one of the largest bird eggs belongs to this big bird of Australia an emu |
| #7440, aired 2017-01-06 | CHILD REARING $600: It's a 5-letter word for a kid from about 9 to 12, no longer a child & not yet an adolescent a tween |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $2000: (Neil deGrasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) I once co-signed an open letter to congress about the danger of NEOs, short for these, & their potential for harming life on Earth near Earth objects |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | 4 YOUR CONSIDERATION $800: For UFO fans, a close encounter of the 3rd kind is meeting aliens; this is one of the 4th kind being abducted by aliens |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLLEGE $1000: Named for a Supreme Court justice, it boasts Pulitzer winners Margo Jefferson & Thomas Friedman as alums Brandeis University |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLLEGE $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the only Pac-12 school that does not contain the name of a state Stanford University |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TALES $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 9th century Arabic tale tells us it spanned about 2 3/4 years One Thousand and One Nights |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1,000 (Daily Double): While it feeds mainly on termites & the insect in its name, this toothless mammal also enjoys avocados an anteater |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C.) Extinct in the wild until recently, Przewalski's horse, the only truly wild horse, has been reintroduced back into China & this landlocked neighbor to the north, where it is a symbol of national heritage Mongolia |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $1200: It's the "snaky" title of Bernard Cornwell's novel about a Confederate officer jailed as a Yankee spy Copperhead |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $400: It can mean "unfriendly", but not when talking about a famous snowman of that name frosty |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | "ROCK" IT TO ME $2000: The Righteous Brothers hit No. 3 in 1974 with this tune about a place with "a hell of a band" including Jimi, Janis & Otis "Rock And Roll Heaven" |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | "C" THE WORLD $1600: About 1/4 of this Central American country's land has been set aside as protected area for the nation's diverse wildlife Costa Rica |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | "T" UP SOME ENTERTAINMENT $1600: As well as part of a Disney theme park, it's a 2015 George Clooney movie about our bright techie future Tomorrowland |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $2000: Guilt, fear, photos & a diary are among the title possessions in this book by Tim O'Brien about the Vietnam War The Things They Carried |
| #7399, aired 2016-11-10 | THAT'S MESSED UP, SHAKESPEARE! $400: This tragedy has it all! Poison in the ear, on a sword & in some wine, & the title guy giving his royal mom advice about her sex life! Hamlet |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | THAT'S AWFUL GRIMM $200: These 2 kids, near-victims of cannibalization, burn a woman to death & don't think twice about it Hansel & Gretel |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | YOU'RE THE TOP $400: Covering about 600,000 square miles, it's the largest gulf in the world the Gulf of Mexico |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HALLOWEEN ENTERTAINMENT $1600: This Warren Zevon tune about shapeshifters in England is a staple on radio stations in October "Werewolves Of London" |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | STUFF ABOUT STATES $400: It ranks second among the states in both population & area Texas |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | STUFF ABOUT STATES $1,500 (Daily Double): It was the first state to have a chemical element named for it California |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | THAT EXPLAINS IT $600: This 21st c. word happens when a male patronizingly tells a female about a topic she already understands mansplaining |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | STAR FISH $800: A Roger Corman cult classic is about these title killers, who've somehow made it from the Amazon to a U.S. resort Piranha |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | PREPOSITIONAL IDIOMS $1200: Perhaps the Walden ones, they're what you're "out of" & relieved about it the woods |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | "OOT" & ABOUT $1000: It's a short cigar that's flat rather than tapered on both ends a cheroot |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIOLOGY $2000: Only about 1 1/3 inches long & less than 1/10th of an inch in diameter, it ventilates the middle ear to keep pressure normal the Eustachian tube |
| #7365, aired 2016-09-23 | IT'S PLAIN TO SEE IT'S 33 $200: In May 1927 it took him about 33 hours to make his most famous flight Lindbergh |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | 1999 $200: It was equal to about $1.15 & wasn't circulating as cash yet when it went into effect on January 1 the euro |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $2,400 (Daily Double): This science fiction award is named for an interstellar gas cloud the Nebula Award |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (I'm Ryan Chiaverini.) (And I'm Val Warner of Windy City Live.) Everyone knows Chicago is the Windy City some say it has to do with the way we brag about out town...
...But more likely it has to do with the stiff breezes that come off of this lake Lake Michigan |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $2000: In 1775 Boone & about 30 companions built this "Road" leading from Virginia into Kentucky & points west the Wilderness Road |
| #7353, aired 2016-07-27 | MONEY MATTERS $4,600 (Daily Double): It’s the basic monetary unit of Gibraltar the pound |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | THE MAGIC OF LAIKA ANIMATION $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Laika Animation Studios.) Needing to shoot 24 precise movements per second results in only about 4 seconds of film a week per animator, it's no surprise it can take up to two and a half years to produce films like this Laika Oscar-nominated feature, based on a work by Neil Gaiman Coraline |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE $2000: In 1992 he won a special Pulitzer for "Maus", his graphic novel about the Holocaust Art Spiegelman |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | AND I QUOTE $1200: In 2013 he said of contraception & related topics, "It is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time" Pope Francis |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HIDING PLACES $1200: There was much ado about the fact that it's the largest of Africa's 16 landlocked countries Chad (in much ado) |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $800: Something about "the quality of mercy", going into "It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes" The Merchant of Venice |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | EARTH SCIENCE $2000: From the Latin for "whiteness", it's the amount of sunlight reflected back from a planet; for Earth it's about 33% albedo |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $200: Though it's a country, with embassies & everything, its population is only about 800 Vatican City |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: "The Princess and the Package", about this beloved woman Princess Di |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: "Road to Tara", about this author Margaret Mitchell |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1,200 (Daily Double): "Full Bloom: The Art & Life of" her Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1600: "Stormy Weather"--this singer & actress Lena Horne |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the power of government to expropriate land for public use subject to reasonable compensation eminent domain |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "Rosemary: The Hidden" daughter of this family the Kennedys |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | LADIES & GENTLEMEN... THE BEETLES! $2000: Totaling about 8,000 species, this beetle gets its name from the sound it makes when it jumps click |
| #7319, aired 2016-06-09 | "BEE" MINE $800: Seen here, it's about 5/8ths domestic cattle & 3/8ths bison a beefalo |
| #7309, aired 2016-05-26 | MOUNTAIN / MAN $200: Why ask about this mountain named for a British surveyor in 1865? Because it's there Everest |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | THE RAZZIE FOR WORST ACTOR $1600: It was Raspberry nirvana for Mike Myers when he won for the title role in this 2008 comedy about a holy man The Love Guru |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION $800: Michael Dawson & Richard Alpert are men who've loved & lost as characters on this show & are mad as hell about it Lost |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? $200: It's been observed that "there's something slightly creepy" about carrying this animal's foot for luck a rabbit |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | A COOK-OFF $200: No beans about it: for your first challenge, you'll be making (what else?) this dish that Texans call a "bowl of red" chili |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | THE AL FRANKEN DECADE $400: On May 22, 1980 Namco began gobbling up the competition by releasing this video game Pac-Man |
| #7303, aired 2016-05-18 | MUSICAL THEATER $800: A Liberian warlord known as General Butt Naked inspired an antagonist in this recent musical about missionaries in Africa The Book of Mormon |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | YOUR VOTE $1,000 (Daily Double): The scarecrow knows about this kind of unofficial vote held as a gauge of opinion straw vote (or straw poll) |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS $800: It's home to about 80% of Japan's people Honshu |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: If this is 100% an 85-degree day can feel like it's 108 degrees humidity |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | A++ $800: It has about 6% alcohol by volume ale |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: (Hi. I'm Al Roker.) A sudden onset of winds increasing by at least 18 mph; it precedes "line" to describe a line of active thunderstorms squall |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1200: It's not George W.'s offspring, but this tree-dwelling primate of Africa a bush baby |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | LET'S TALK ABOUT "X" $200: It's a noble gas, man xenon |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | LET'S TALK ABOUT "X" $400: It's the fear of strangers--look out! They're everywhere! xenophobia |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | LET'S TALK ABOUT "X" $800: It's prominently featured in Pierre Boulez' 1955 composition "The Hammer Without A Master" a xylophone |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: P.M. is short for "post meridiem" & A.M. is short for "ante meridiem", meaning "after" & "before" this time noon |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: We really, really like this term for the increase in value of a real estate property over time appreciation |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $600: 2-word beverage term for a short period of rest at work; What? It's over already? a coffee break |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: Don't wait until tomorrow to tell me this word, Spanish for "tomorrow" mañana |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: A movie showing an 18th c. pirate checking his email is an example of this, from Greek for "against time" anachronism |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MY ROBOT PAL $3,000 (Daily Double): The name for this robot came about during the slating of the second reel of dialogue for the film "American Graffiti" R2-D2 |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE $1600: About 420 miles long, it bears the name of a former African country Lake Tanganyika |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | HYPHENATED TERMS $4,000 (Daily Double): The name of this figure in square dancing comes from a corruption of the French for "back to back" do-si-do |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | 7 UP $400: At about 3 million square miles, it's the smallest of the world's 7 continents Australia |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | "GET" GOING $1200: It's about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg Gettysburg |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE PEPYS SHOW $1000: As president of this "Society", Pepys put his imprimatur on the title page of Newton's "Principia Mathematica" the Royal Society |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE! $2000: In 1952 the population of this double-talk Hawaiian goose was about 30 but today it thrives on Kauai nene |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | NEWSPAPERS $1600: It's the leading newspaper based in Phoenix The Arizona Republic |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | AFTER & BEFORE $1200: Defined as the next in order, it was also the title of a Fox TV show about a serial killer & his cult The Following |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The highest state capital in the U.S. at about 7,000 feet, it lies in the northern Rio Grande Valley Santa Fe |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | POLISH HISTORY $400: Since 1989 Poland's GDP has grown about twice as fast as the rest of this organization that it joined in 2004 the E.U. (the European Union) |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | THE INDIAN OCEAN $400: The Indian Ocean's largest island in area, it lies about 250 miles from the African mainland Madagascar |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | LANDMARKS $800: Built around 200 A.D., it's about 500 feet square & is Teotihuacan's second biggest structure behind the Pyramid of the Sun the Pyramid of the Moon |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | LITERARY QUOTES $1000: This gumshoe tells Brigid, "When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it" Sam Spade |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | THE LOWER 48 $800: The USA's most populous island, it's home to about 40% of the people in New York State Long Island |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | ALL ABOUT NUMBERS $2000: There's a song about it, the main road between Chicago & Los Angeles before the interstate Route 66 |
| #7228, aired 2016-02-03 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $1000: The president just before Lincoln, he called slavery "a great political & a great moral evil" but didn't do much about it Buchanan |
| #7217, aired 2016-01-19 | I NEED MY "SPACE" $1000: In 1948 it was a novel about Matt Dodson's adventures on Venus; today it's someone out of touch with reality a space cadet |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | IT'S SHOWTIME $1600: This series starring Don Cheadle & Kristen Bell is based on a book about management consultants House of Lies |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $1600: Helen Hunt was still on "Mad About You" when she won an Oscar opposite Jack Nicholson in this film As Good As It Gets |
| #7211, aired 2016-01-11 | AUTHORS' LESSER KNOWN WORKS $800: This author's "The Diamond Smugglers" is nonfiction, but it's about a British secret agent who uses gadgets (Ian) Fleming |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | WYOMING $1,000 (Daily Double): This resort area is about 6,000 feet up, but as it's surrounded by mountains over 10,000 feet, you can see how it got its name Jackson Hole |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MATH WORDS $1600: No question about it, this is the definitive term for the positive value of a number the absolute value |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | A NEW YEAR'S BABY $1600: Nothing phony about it--this author was a 1919 New Year's New York baby (J.D.) Salinger |
| #7202, aired 2015-12-29 | "EPI"DEMIC $800: It's from the Greek for "upon a tomb" epitaph |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | SOUNDS OF SILENCE $800: A judge may give this 3-letter order telling the participants in a case not to talk about it a gag order |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | FOUND IN GERMANY $200: For Neptune it's about 60,000 Earth days long a year |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AN EMOTIONAL CATEGORY $1200: In vaudeville, future "I Love Lucy" co-star William Frawley helped popularize the song about this sad "baby" "My Melancholy Baby" |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | PUZZLERS $800: Don't tell the little kids it's about the plague "Ring Around The Rosie" |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | "POP" CULTURE $800: This question about accessing a Tootsie Roll was first asked in ads in 1970 How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) About 2,900 miles long, it's one of the few major rivers to cross the equator, and actually does so twice before emptying into the Atlantic the Congo |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | HE WAS THE POPE... $3,000 (Daily Double): When the Arab Spring pro-democracy protests began in Tunisia Benedict XVI |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | COUNTING TO 2 $600: AKA a double star, it's a system of 2 stars revolving about their common center of mass a binary star |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | "UV" PROTECTION $400: We always hear about this French word preceding "riche", but it also is found in front of "pauvre" for a newly poor person nouveau |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | IT WILL BE OVER IN A YEAR $1600: From 1947 to 2007 these downturns averaged about a year each; then the U.S. economy encountered a "great" one recessions |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | DEBUT NOVELS $800: It's never too late: at age 73 Norman Maclean published this debut book about fly-fishing A River Runs Through It |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | MY KIND OF "TOWN" $4,000 (Daily Double): About 2.5 miles northwest of the Capitol, it's at the confluence of the Potomac & Rock Creek Georgetown |
| #7144, aired 2015-10-08 | THEY WROTE IT $1200: Carson McCullers:
"Lonely" novel about lonely people The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | "MM" BOP $400: It was about as large or even larger than a modern-day elephant a mammoth |
| #7134, aired 2015-09-24 | COULDN'T THINK OF A RHYME $1000: This ex-Beatle:
"You know it don't come easy, you don't have to shout or leap about, you can even play them easy" Ringo Starr |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | "B"OOKS $200: It's the huge 1992 bestseller about a photographer, a farm wife & 4 days in Iowa Bridges of Madison County |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $200: 7-letter beach danger--at least keep it to first degree sunburn |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $400: To open a flag unfurl |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $600: A stuffed animal is also called this "luxurious" kind of toy plush |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $800: Dense, fluffy cloud variety associated with rising air currents cumulus |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "U" $1000: A language closely related to Hindi but written in Arabic script Urdu |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $1600: It would cost about $2,000 to supply a family of 4 for a year with this, aka purified seawater desalinated water |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES & AESCHYLUS $1600: Euripides' play "Rhesus" isn't about a monkey; it's about a king who sides with the losers in this conflict the Trojan War |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT $400: In 1912 Shipbuilder magazine said it was "practically unsinkable" due to the watertight compartments the Titanic |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT $1200: In 1989 chemists Pons & Fleischmann announced they had created a new energy source, cold this; it was soon debunked fusion |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT $1600: In 1957 Ford G.M. Richard Krafve said this new model would exceed sales expectations; it failed miserably the Edsel |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | HURRICANE, TORNADO OR CYCLONE $800: It comes between "National" & "Center" in the workplace of about 50 people Hurricane |
| #7110, aired 2015-07-10 | LIVE "LONG" $400: One degree of it is equal to about 69 miles at the equator longitude |
| #7105, aired 2015-07-03 | NAMES FOR YOUR DOG $400: If it's black & white, how about Tuxedo or this, the name of Nabisco's classic sandwich cookie Oreo |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | GET PICKLED $400: Equal to about 2 gallons, it's the quantity of pickled peppers picked by Peter Piper a peck |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: Turn 180 degrees from the position of attention! about-face |
| #7098, aired 2015-06-24 | IT'S HYPHENATED $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a synonym for Old English, spoken before about 1150 Anglo-Saxon |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | FIORELLO LaGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL ALUMS $200: Gene Anthony Ray went to LaGuardia's precursor, the School of Performing Arts, & won renown in this movie about it Fame |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | I SAW IT ON THE INTERNET $600: I learned more than I needed to know about Tara Reid on this man's website, originally called PageSixSixSix.com Perez Hilton |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | LET'S TALK ABOUT NECKS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) To avoid "text neck", don't tilt your head to look at your smartphone; bending your neck increases the weight on the cervical part of this structure; it's better to hold it up the spine |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A VISIT WITH KATIE COURIC $600: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) When we talked about her dissenting opinion in the Hobby Lobby case, she agreed that some male justices have a blind eye when it comes to women's issues (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg |
| #7090, aired 2015-06-12 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK $400: It's "over" or "on" in the title of this Pierre Boulle WWII novel about a Japanese attempt to get a train route in Burma Bridge over the River Kwai (or Bridge on the River Kwai) |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PUSSYCAT POT-PURREE $2000: Janet Waldo's voice in a TV cartoon & Rachael Leigh Cook in the flesh on film have played the leader of this band Josie and the Pussycats |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | NEW TWISTS ON JEOPARDY! FAVORITES $200: In more than 500 clues about this Shakespeare play, it's never come up that one of its sources was "Gesta Danorum" Hamlet |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $1600: In "Some Like It Hot", this female sex symbol strums the ukulele Marilyn Monroe |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME" $400: Collective term for the main means of a society's communication, including TV, radio, newspapers & the Internet the media |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME" $800: 6-letter word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere meteor |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | POLITICAL DICTIONARY $1000: The Republican Party had existed for only about 20 years when it got this nickname the GOP |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME" $1200: It's equal to about 39.37 inches a meter |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME" $1600: Seen here, it lives in the Kalahari desert & is related to the mongoose a meerkat |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME" $2000: 8-letter negotiator who tries to make conflicting parties come to an agreement a mediator |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | LIKE SUNDAY MORNING $200: First things first! Get breakfast going, maybe this egg dish that can have "-te" at the end, or not omelette (or omelet) |
| #7066, aired 2015-05-11 | TV MOMS & DADS $1200: Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel & movie About a Boy |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | "VO"CABULARY $800: Originally applied to birds, it refers to something that flits about or changes rapidly, like some stock markets volatile |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | I'M TELLING YOU 2 TIMES--"SH"! $200: It's this Wisconsin city of about 65,000 on Lake Winnebago, b'gosh Oshkosh |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | INTERNATIONAL LAW $800: Read all about it! It's the delivery of a fugitive from another country specifically for a criminal offense extradition |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | PARABLES OF JESUS $1600: "A Parable of" this common Mediterranean fruit tree when it "putteth forth leaves" is about the Second Coming the Fig Tree |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | IN LIFE $800: In Catholicism this sacrament, administered on baptized persons at least age 7, allows you to take communion confirmation |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows an enclosed clockwork model.) Clockmaker Joseph Pope was about halfway through his 12-year project of building a gear-driven model of the solar system that showed the relative motion of the planets & their satellites, when in 1781, this planet was discovered, but rather than start over, he didn't include it Uranus |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BOTTLES OF WATER $1000: I'm getting a wicked sense of having already told you about this "colorful" DPS Group purified water Dejà Blue |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | THE 16th CENTURY $1200: Under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588, it consisted of about 130 ships, 8,000 seamen & 19,000 soldiers the Spanish Armada |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | THE ELEMENTS $400: An adult man has about 1/8 ounce of this element whose chemical symbol comes from the Latin word for it, ferrum iron |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | WHO CARES ABOUT APATHY? $1200: Sometimes a runner does not get credit for a stolen base due to "defensive" this, a lack of concern indifference |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | WHO CARES ABOUT APATHY? $1600: I don't wish to be blase about this, but it's French... it's a feeling of utter weariness... from lack of interest ennui |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | WHO CARES ABOUT APATHY? $2000: Meaning tranquil or unruffled, this word isn't impressive", but it is "im" this impassive |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | LITERA-SEA $2000: Patrick O'Brian's first novel about Captain Aubrey & Surgeon Stephen Maturin, it's set in the Napoleonic Wars "Master and Commander" |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | LORD BYRON $2000: Lord Byron got a bit childish & replaced the "W" at the beginning of this "Prelude" poet's name with a "T" William Wordsworth |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | IT BORDERS BRAZIL $400: Things can get Messi in this country whose southern tip is only about 600 miles from Antarctica Argentina |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | YOUR BODY HAS A SYSTEM $800: It's not 15 miles on the alimentary canal but about 30 feet, as part of this system the digestive |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | "UT" $400: During pregnancy, it expands to about 24 times its regular size the uterus |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $1200: John Roberts had this job for William Rehnquist; Rehnquist had it for Justice Robert H. Jackson clerk |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $2000: Rule 3 of the Supreme Court says, "The Court holds a continuous annual term" starting on this day the first Monday in October |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $800: This shape seen here is also a gem cut, but there's no need to cry about it a teardrop |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | SMALL STUFF $800: A book about this "merry old soul" is the smallest book in the Library of Congress; it's smaller than a comma Old King Cole |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $200: In 1890 she was 4 years dead / & her 1st book of poems was read / It was a big hit & such / For a lady who did not get out much (Emily) Dickinson |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | TIME FOR "T" $400: It's a newspaper concentrating on lurid news or whose pages are about half the standard size a tabloid |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $1,600 (Daily Double): My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | ABOUT TIME $600: In the NBA it's continually reset to 24; in men's college hoops, to 35 the shot clock |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | POETS & POETRY $1200: He had the ideas used in "The Divine Comedy" by around 1293 & took from about 1308 to 1320 to write it Dante |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | MUSICAL IDIOMS $1200: Like that Roy Scheider movie about Broadway, it means "those other similar things" all that jazz |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE TITAN MISSILE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona.) The stage I engine of a Titan II missile has the thrust of two 747s at full throttle, so in about 30 minutes, it could cover the 6,100 miles from here in Arizona to this world capital Moscow |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $700 (Daily Double): In 2014, 20 years after it was published, this book about the origins of Ebola was back on the nonfiction list The Hot Zone |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SPORTS SHORTS 2014 $400: They won the World Series (San Francisco) Giants |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | "CIVIL" $2000: Title of a 1970s bestseller complaining about Americans' bad English--keep it "in your head" A Civil Tongue |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | PUT IT ON MY "BILL" $600: With about 100,000 people, this seat of Yellowstone County is Montana's most populous city Billings |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | THE WHO $2000: It's the actual title of The Who song about a "teenage wasteland" "Baba O'Riley" |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | DO IT $2000: Channel Tracy Partridge, hold instrument at about face level, rap the stretched head with fingers play the tambourine |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | FAMOUS FIRST WORDS $5,800 (Daily Double): In 1933 the first of these addresses began, "I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the U.S. about banking" the Fireside Chats |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL $200: Hubbub or toil, but really, it's much this about nothing ado |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | & THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON! $1000: When it comes to 1943 Roddy McDowall films about a boy & his horse, let me introduce you to "My Friend" this Flicka |
| #6974, aired 2015-01-01 | "O" SAY CAN YOU "C" $400: Pertaining to the care of women in childbirth obstetric |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $2000: His poem about a "dream deferred" ends, "maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" (Langston) Hughes |
| #6966, aired 2014-12-22 | YOU CAN BUY IT ON eBAY $200: No returns on this item: a gravel yard in Poland, about 60 miles from this capital Warsaw |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | AT THE SMITHSONIAN $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Nat'l Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) The museum has one of the original stuffed animals named for this president & avid hunter, after a story spread about him letting a bear go; although, in reality, all he did was refuse to shoot the bear when it was wounded Theodore Roosevelt |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | YOU, PRONOUNS & ME $200: 4-letter word following "watch" or "now hear"; it's just about the most important word we use in "Jeopardy!" clues this |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | CHICK LIT $600: It's the "fowl" moral of a fable about a milkmaid who spills her pail before she can sell it & realize her dreams don't count your chickens before they hatch |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | CONTINENTAL $1000: It has about the same population as the state of Texas Australia |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | FROM OUTER SPACE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation of an expanding Sun obliterating planets on the monitor.) Today our Sun is a main sequence yellow dwarf, but in about 5 billion years when it uses up all its core hydrogen, it will become one of these massive objects, expanding past the orbits of some of the inner planets--maybe even Earth a red giant |
| #6935, aired 2014-11-07 | IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD $1600: Lying below the occipital lobe of the cerebrum, it makes up about 10% of the human brain's total volume the cerebellum |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | "I" LAND HOPPING $400: It's about 650 miles west of Norway Iceland |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CATEGORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Marcus Luttrell wrote this memoir about being the only Navy SEAL to come home from Operation Redwing Lone Survivor |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | MEET YOUR ANCESTORS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Though it leads in relatively few counties, most in the Northeast, this European ancestry, shown in green, is the USA's second-most common at about 11% Irish |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $800: From the Greek for "good speech", it's a mild word substituted for an offensive one a euphemism |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | THAT IS LIKE SO LATE 20th CENTURY $600: "It's all about" these first names, aka C-notes Benjamins |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | POTPOURRI $400: Stevie Nicks sang about the white-winged this, & here it is a dove |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | COUNTRY MUSIC $800: "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" was a big country hit for this former lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish Darius Rucker |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | CONTRONYMS $1200: If I'm this "about" you, that's nice; if I'm this "at" you, not; it's a this this this this word mad |
| #6917, aired 2014-10-14 | WHO WROTE IT? $2,000 (Daily Double): "We asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own?" Virginia Woolf |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | YOU'RE SO VAIN $600: She says her No. 1 hit "You're So Vain" isn't about James Taylor; some think it's about Warren Beatty Carly Simon |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $800: The name of this dance is Spanish for "double step";
the name of this dance... paso doble |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE $1000: In the early 1890s Sir Arthur opened a medical practice on this London street, years after Elizabeth Barrett lived there Wimpole Street |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | VANILLA $600: It precedes "people" in book titles about a suicidal teen & about the Osbourne family ordinary |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY $1000: Before her death in 1962, Eleanor made a final visit to the old family summer home on this Canadian island Campobello |
| #6890, aired 2014-07-25 | AROUND THE BODY $1000: If you want to be formal about it, "vermiform" comes before the name of this probably useless organ the appendix |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | MEASURE UP $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a basketball.) Usually measured at about 9 inches, it's the 4-letter term for the distance from the end of the thumb to the end of a pinkie of a spread hand the span |
| #6886, aired 2014-07-21 | IT'S SLANG-TASTIC $800: One term for talking trash about someone is "throwing" this, like a big elm tree might do shade |
| #6884, aired 2014-07-17 | NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): A California scenic byway takes you through this place; a 1907 ad about it asked, "Would you enjoy a trip to Hell?" Death Valley |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | TO THE STARS & BEYOND $200: About every two years this planet comes within 35 million miles of Earth, but at 54,000 miles per hour it doesn't stay in the neighborhood long Mars |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1200: The line about eating this & having it too was recorded in a 1546 book by John Heywood cake |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | "I" LOVE SCIENCE $1600: It's the invisible part of the spectrum from about 800 nanometers to 1 millimeter in wavelength infrared |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $400: The western pygmy blue type of this insect has a wingspan of 3/8 of an inch a butterfly |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $800: This 2-word item, pressed to summon help, was a real item used in WWII-era military planes a panic button |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $1200: The Pacific type of this fish can grow more than 8 feet long a halibut |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $1,400 (Daily Double): In traditional debate, each side makes both a constructive speech & this kind of speech a rebuttal |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SOME "BUT"s ABOUT IT $2000: It's an external support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts a buttress |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | A VISIT WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS $200: (George Stephanopoulos delivers the clue.) On "This Week", journalist Glenn Greenwald told me about the documents that showed this agency had been tracking trillions of phone calls & not telling us about it the NSA (National Security Agency) |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | CAIRO $600: Tahrir is the title Cairo place in this Oscar-nominated documentary about the recent upheavals in Egypt The Square |
| #6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1200: Sorry about your hubby Marcellus' death, Octavia! But it's 40 B.C. & I love y--no, I'm not into Egyptian girls. Why? Marc Anthony |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $400: This Al Gore book is subtitled "The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It" An Inconvenient Truth |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | YOUR HORROR-SCOPE $400: Something's fishy about this Feb. 19-March 20 sign, & it's your future; mercury poisoning awaits! Pisces |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS $1200: It's made up of about 700 islands & keys The Bahamas |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1000: Budd Schulberg's Hollywood novel about Sammy Glick:
Verb (1 of 2) Makes (or Run) |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | BROADWAY & POLITICS $4,400 (Daily Double): It's Peter Morgan's play about a revealing series of 1977 interviews Frost/Nixon |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | SINGAPORE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Singapore.) The cosmopolitan city of Singapore has evolved its own language called Singlish; it's a form of English with a large influence from this ethnic group that make up about four-fifths of Singaporeans Chinese |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | THAT'S THE "WAY" $1200: It was a 2004 newspaper headline about Mr. Canseco's try for a comeback with the Dodgers No Way Jose |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | FACTS ABOUT FIGURES $800: It's the 3-word term for the non-literal use of language in order to make a comparative point figure of speech |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | CHECK YOUR "OIL" $400: Hard work; it precedes "and trouble" in the title of a book about witches toil |
| #6813, aired 2014-04-09 | YOUR OWN 2 "Y"S $1200: It precedes "of the Spanish Chest" in the title of an Agatha Christie story that's not about Penelope Cruz Mystery |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $800: Josephine & Daphne in "Some Like It Hot" Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY $800: About once every 500 years, it builds a funeral pyre & allows itself to be consumed by the flames the phoenix |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $400: This city that in 1900 had about 6,000 people Boise |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | I'LL BE YOUR TV WAITRESS $800: Cliff, on "Cheers": "I'm ashamed God made me a man"; her: "I don't think God's doing a lot of bragging about it, either" Carla |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | POTPOURRI $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a formula on the monitor.) The old rule was to multiply this pet's age by 7 to get its age in human years; today, there's an updated formula that depends on what kind of breed, but it often comes out to be about the same dogs |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | VICE PRESIDENTS $800: In 1814 this VP from Mass. for whom a political term is named died in office having served less than 2 years (Elbridge) Gerry |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | ART & ARTISTS $400: It's about a 30-minute walk from the Rembrandt House Museum to the Amsterdam museum named for this artist van Gogh |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | SCIENCE TIMELINE $777 (Daily Double): In 1576 King Frederick II granted him title to the island of Ven to build an observatory Tycho Brahe |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | PIX-"R" $800: Bruce Willis & Helen Mirren returned in 2013 for this film "2", about older spies who've still got it RED |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $800: A beef with his "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on a Penn. reading list: "sexual content &... there is nothing good about it" Tom Wolfe |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | THE STAGE $400: From "Annie Get Your Gun", it was Ethel Merman's signature song about life on the stage "There's No Business Like Show Business" |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | THE ELEMENTS $800: It makes up about 11% of the weight of water hydrogen |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | MYTH DIAGNOSIS $1000: Electra has unresolved Daddy issues about him; is it guilt because he sacrificed her sister Iphigenia? Agamemnon |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | LIKE HENRY JAMES? $200: I like that "It was raining" is the first line of a story about "Life" in this city where Henry mainly lived from 1876 on London |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $800: A series of books by Charlaine Harris inspired this show about a group of supernatural misfits True Blood |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | READ THE BOOK, SAW IT ON HBO $2000: Evan Wright's book about a marine battalion in the early days of the Iraq War was the basis for "Generation" this Kill |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | RETAIL THERAPY $600: What's not to like about this online shoe store that's "powered by service"? It offers free shipping & free returns Zappos |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY $1000: I come to wive it wealthily at the University of this, founded in 1222 by about 1,000 ex-University of Bologna students Padua |
| #6755, aired 2014-01-17 | NONFICTION $1,400 (Daily Double): It's the rhyming title of the book about "how a gang of fame-obsessed teens ripped off Hollywood" "The Bling Ring" |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | HAPPY BIRTH DAY TO YOU $400: Read all about it! This newspaper mogul is delivered on April 29, 1863 in San Francisco! (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT "ARRY" $600: Like I do at the dessert table, it's to stay somewhere perhaps a little longer than you should tarry |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | I'M JUST WILD ABOUT "ARRY" $1000: It's a Scottish cap with straight sides a glengarry cap |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | BREAKAWAY NATIONS $1600: About the size of Pennsylvania, it broke free of Ethiopia in 1993 Eritrea |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | GUESS WHAT I'VE GOT? $200: A pack of this 3M item--it'd take about 550 million of the 2 7/8-inch square ones to circle the world Post-it notes |
| #6742, aired 2013-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $800: (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) The Cuban missile crisis was still fresh in viewers' minds when Stanley Kubrick played the situation for laughs in this 1964 classic Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | THE "DUCE" YOU SAY $400: It was Darryl F. Zanuck's job on "All About Eve" & "Gentleman's Agreement" producer |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | ANCIENT CHINESE EMPERORS $200: Ruling from about 1600 B.C., it was this man whose name sounds like a breakfast drink Tang |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | IT'S MAGIC TIME! $800: Talk about a "Mindfreak"! A YouTube video of this Vegas star walking on water across a pool has 46 million views Criss Angel |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR RESUMÉ $1000: From the Latin for "suffering", it means capable of powerful emotion about something passionate |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | METALS $800: Recycling this metal takes only about 5% of the energy needed to produce it from its ore, bauxite aluminum |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ALGERIA $1000: Algeria's third-largest city is named for this "great" Roman emperor who built it in 313 Constantine |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1000: Meaning "differing", it's Veronica Roth's first book about Beatrice Prior's rebellious choices Divergent |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | THE ONION DESCRIBES THE COUNTRY $800: It "cannot help but reminisce about the 1800s, when (it) was so powerful it could overtake any country simply by asking politely" Great Britain (or the United Kingdom) |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $2000: About her, Lennon & McCartney wrote, "nothing can come between us, when it gets dark I tow your heart away" Lovely Rita |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | FLORA! FLORA! FLORA! $200: This plant native to the Carolinas takes about half a second to catch its prey & about 10 days to digest it the Venus Flytrap |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: In geologic time, of epoch, period & era, the one that's the longest era |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: The traditional number of days in a U.S. school year, it's the title of a PBS "Inside An American High School" program 180 |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: A geisha's fee is figured in "sticks", about a stick an hour; the term originated as the time it took a stick of this to burn incense |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1600: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) I can sum up this animated Disney delight, one of my Critics' Picks of 2010, by saying, "Back to the castle, where it's all about the hair" Tangled |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | DEEP INSIDE OF ME $1,200 (Daily Double): About 80% of this organ can be removed without creating an insufficiency of the insulin it produces the pancreas |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $2000: (I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book Harry Blackmun |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | WICKED $1000: Fiyero here--I've been the love interest of both Elphaba & Galinda for 10 years, since the show opened on Broadway in 2003, the night before this holiday (fitting for a show about 2 witches) Halloween |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | CHINA TOWNS $800: The seat of Stark County, Ohio has not changed its name from this to Guangzhou, unlike the Chinese city it's named for Canton |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | FARTHER LEFT THAN BARACK OBAMA $400: He has something in common with Obama--both took over their jobs from George W. Bush, & that's about it Rick Perry |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | POINT "A" TO POINT "B" $3,600 (Daily Double): It's about a 30-hour drive between these 2 rhyming state capitals Austin & Boston |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): After this book was released in 1997, Mineko Iwasaki, on whom it was based, sued for defamation Memoirs of a Geisha |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | I SAW IT ON BUZZFEED $800: BuzzFeed went viral with a post on the best (& worst) parodies of this Macklemore-Ryan Lewis song about a store "Thrift Shop" |
| #6668, aired 2013-09-18 | WHAT'S IT 2 U? $2000: At about 480 degrees, this element that's big in gunpowder spontaneously ignites in air sulfur |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | POTENT POTABLES $200: (Kathie Lee and Hoda give the clue.) As Nick Charles says in "The Thin Man", it's all about the rhythm in the shaking--you shake a Manhattan to fox trot time but you use waltz time to shake a dry one of these gin drinks a martini |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | TRANSPORTATION $400: In 2009 Dubai put into service the world's largest one of these; it has an X-ray unit & can carry about 100 patients an ambulance |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | "G" WHIZ $600: Rumor has it that it's talk of a personal nature about another person--pass it around gossip |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | AT THE TOY STORE $400: "Just spit it out", says the trivia game called this "Rule", like the one about eating food that was dropped on the floor 5 Second Rule |
| #6659, aired 2013-07-25 | ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $400: The Achaemenid empire lasted for about 200 years until it was defeated in the battle of Arbela by this Macedonian Alexander the Great |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | THE CALENDAR $400: It takes about 365 1/4 days for the earth to orbit the sun, so we get one of these on the calendar every 4 years a leap day (leap year accepted) |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | A "TELL"-ALL CATEGORY $2000: It's the IP in WIPO, a world organization protecting copyrights & such intellectual property |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | WHAT'S YOUR POLICY? $2,300 (Daily Double): On Sept. 25, 1980 the Chinese Communist Party called on all its members to adhere to this policy the One Child Policy |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | -OLOGIES $800: This -ology practiced by a guy on the 6 o'clock news sounds like it's about bodies falling from space meteorology |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | EMMY'S BEST COMEDY SERIES $600: 1967:
Hey, hey, it's this show about 4 musicians The Monkees |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $1600: This "Heart of Darkness" villain lived in the jungles of Africa, where he controlled the ivory trade Mister Kurtz |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Animated film about a video game villain who designs polo shirts Wreck-It Ralph Lauren |
| #6641, aired 2013-07-01 | VERTICAL LANDMARKS $400: In 2001 it reopened after its foundation was stabilized & straightened about 15 inches to prevent collapse the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #6640, aired 2013-06-28 | AN OGDEN NASH MENAGERIE $400: "I do not charge" it "with matricide, but what about his Cleopatricide?" the asp |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | GO "C" THE COUNTRY $200: With a population of 1.3 billion, it has about 20% of all the people in the world China |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It can be a dry spell in the weather or, for a batter, going a long time without a hit a drought |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: Also a cloud surrounding a deity, it's the type of cloud that brings rain nimbus |
| #6625, aired 2013-06-07 | THE END "ZONE" $2000: It roughly follows the 38th parallel for about 150 miles the Demilitarized Zone |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | TREES THE CHARM $400: Though it's Georgia's state fruit, about 3/4 of the fruit grown in the U.S. from this tree is from California peach |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | TOWERS $600: This largest Alberta city has a very nice tower, though it's only about a third the height of the one in Toronto Calgary |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | STUFF ABOUT STATES $400: Judging from its nicknames, it's full of lakes & gophers Minnesota |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | STUFF ABOUT STATES $7,200 (Daily Double): Of the 4 states officially called commonwealths, it's alphabetically last Virginia |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | SIDEKICKS $1600: Krusty's ex-sidekick, he said, "no children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it" Sideshow Bob |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | ISLANDS $1600: Founded by Bounty mutineers, it's now encouraging immigration because its small population of about 50 is aging Pitcairn Island |
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Stephen Weingarten, a paraeducator from Portland, Oregon
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Courtney Trezise, a senior from Michigan State University
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2010-B College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Max Johansen, a senior from the University of Miami
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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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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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Andy Richter, an actor/comedian from The Tonight Show
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Bruce Naegeli, a retired law librarian from Phoenix, Arizona
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Anderson Cooper, an anchor from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°
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Jessica Dell'Era, a third grade Spanish bilingual teacher from Oakland, California
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Christopher Meloni, a star from Law & Order: SVU and HBO's Oz
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Melanie Bruchet, a senior from Bryn Mawr
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"Everyone wants to be an astronaut when they're a kid, but...
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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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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
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"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Naomi Senbet, an 11-year-old from Washington, D.C.
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"This sixth grader doesn't like to be late for anything; maybe...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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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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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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Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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David Skaar, a research scientist from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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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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Ben Bishop, a student originally from Seattle, Washington
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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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Brian Muth, a headmaster from Napa, California
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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David Hudson, a junior from the University of Virginia
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Jonathan Hawley, a sophomore from Harvard University
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Patrick Tucker, a senior from the University of Notre Dame
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
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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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Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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Steph Gagelin, a sophomore from the University of North Dakota from Grand Forks, North Dakota
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Colby Burnett, a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois
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Anjali Tripathi, a senior from MIT
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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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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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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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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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Roger Craig, a graduate student of computer science from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Yoni Freund, a Ph.D. student from Columbia University
|
"He has always wanted to be a writer, and now that...
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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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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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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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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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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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Anderson Cooper, a news anchor and correspondent from CNN
|
"He anchors his own prime-time news show, a syndicated daytime talk...
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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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Sara Wilkinson, a country club concierge from Athens, Georgia
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $72,701 + $2,000.
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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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Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware
|
2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
|
"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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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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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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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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Lisa Makar, a senior from University of Maryland
|
"As a seventh grader, she was planning a career as a...
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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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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...
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Charles Shaughnessy, an actor from Mad Men
|
"As Shane Donovan on Days of Our Lives, he won three...
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Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA
|
2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
|
"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Brooks Humphreys, a high school social studies teacher from Omaha, Nebraska
|
"He teaches at an all-girls Catholic school operated by the Sisters...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
|
"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
|
"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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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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Peter Severson, a senior from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|
2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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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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Matt DeTura, a recent law school graduate from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $61,601 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: MDT
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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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Kadeem Cooper, a junior from the University of Virginia
|
2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Brooklyn, New York...
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Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Weeds
|
"For the past five seasons, she's played the calculating and manipulative...
|
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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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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she was the first female winner of a Tournament...
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Lewis Black, a stand-up comedian from Lewis Black's Root of All Evil
|
"With success in films, plays, books, and TV specials, he tours...
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Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
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Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
|
2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 27 5-time champion:...
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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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Whitney Prince, a sophomore from Maryville, Tennessee
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Shay Collins, an 11-year-old from Averill Park, New York
|
"His passion for music helps this future rock star to play...
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Alex Johnson, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"He wants to be a chemist in the future. From Indianapolis,...
|
|
Cathy Lanctot, a law professor from Wilmington, Delaware
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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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.
|
|
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...
|
|
Rachel Millena, a 10-year-old from Concord, California
|
"Her sights are set on becoming a writer, journalist, photographer, or...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Kidnapped
|
"She won two Emmys for playing Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on...
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Vijay Balse, a chemical engineer from Chatham, New Jersey
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2010 Tournament of Champions...
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|
Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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|
Joon Pahk, a college physics teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 28 7-time champion: $199,000 + $2,000.
JBoard user name: jpahk
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Kendra Pettis, a junior from Oberlin College
|
\"She hadn\'t settled on a career goal at age 11. Now...
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Tyler Van Patten, from Burlington, Wisconsin
|
"He's focusing on becoming a corporate attorney, because of his fascination...
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Krissy Brzycki, an 11-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"Her love of helping her community and her interest in politics...
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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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Eddie Timanus, a sportswriter from Oak Hill, Virginia
|
"His 5 wins in 1999 made him one of the most...
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|
Lisa Klink, a TV writer from Los Angeles, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $70,150...
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Frank Spangenberg, a police lieutenant from Douglaston, New York
|
2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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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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Kristiana Henderson, a junior from Kent, Washington
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Andrew Watkins, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: everyday847
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Vanamali Compton, a junior from Clarkdale, Arizona
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
|
|
Rachel Horn, a sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
2008-A Teen Tournament winner: $75,000. 15 at the time of the...
|
|
Robin Quivers, a radio and television personality from The Howard Stern Show
|
"Howard Stern's news anchor and sidekick for the past 28 years,...
|
|
Leslie Decker, a high school German and ESL teacher from Austin, Texas
|
"She taught English to Europeans. Now she teaches German to Americans....
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|
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
|
"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
|
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Olivia Woods, a 12-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She loves working with little kids and would like to become...
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|
Dan Katz, a lawyer from Owings Mills, Maryland
|
"Since his five wins in 1990, he's seen Bruce Springsteen 16...
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|
Joshua Malina, a TV actor and creator/producer from Celebrity Poker Showdown
|
"He created and produced Celebrity Poker Showdown for the Bravo Channel,...
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Christina Maes, a senior at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay from Green Bay, Wisconsin
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Tom Baker, a writer from Tokyo, Japan
|
2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 20 3-time champion: $102,300 + $2,000.
|
|
Matt Olson, a sophomore at Stanford University from Berkeley, California
|
2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 20 at the time of the...
|
|
Jeff Spoeri, a university administrator from Boynton Beach, Florida
|
2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
|
|
Nicole Yoon, a 12-year-old from Asbury, New Jersey
|
"She has set her sights on becoming a medical doctor or...
|
|
Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Bill MacDonald, an attorney from Bonita Springs, Florida
|
2006 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $50,000. Season 22 4-time champion:...
|
|
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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|
Charlie Blatt, an 11-year-old from Scarsdale, New York
|
"Besides cooking, working on the computer, and tap dancing, she likes...
|
|
Harry Haghanegi, a 10-year-old from Chicago, Illinois
|
"Extracting DNA was one project this future geneticist enjoyed..." 2007 Kids...
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Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
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Neal Freyman, a ten-year-old from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
|
"He's not sure recess counts as a subject, but if it...
|
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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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|
Elaine Zollner, a physician from Glendale, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1990, she used her Jeopardy!...
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|
Peter Ellis, a senior at North Carolina State University from Cary, North Carolina
|
2005 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
|
"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
|
|
Gabby Fusco, an 11-year-old from Maspeth, New York
|
"She's loved everything about science she was a little kid, so...
|
|
Andrew Grace, a 12-year-old from Apex, North Carolina
|
"He wants to be a soccer player and an orthopedic surgeon,...
|
|
Kyle Hale, a college senior from Katy, Texas
|
"Representing Texas A&M, he won the 2002 College Championship. Now he's...
|
|
Nicole Karrow, an 11-year-old from Lewes, Delaware
|
"Her goals are to be a horse breeder and trainer..." 2007...
|
|
Rose Schaefer, a junior from Portland, Oregon
|
2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $36,000. 16 at...
|
|
Kathy Casavant, a high school English teacher from Oxford, Massachusetts
|
"Originally she wanted to do anything but teach. Well, she's been...
|
|
Brooke Martin, an eleven-year-old from Galway, New York
|
"It looks like smooth sailing for this marine biologist. From Galway,...
|
|
John Krizel, a writer originally from Oceanside, New York
|
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $105,204...
|
|
Marshall Tan, from Gaithersburg, Maryland
|
"His favorite subject is social studies, and he knows a lot...
|
|
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
|
"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
|
|
Tory Gilliam, a twelve-year-old from Powhatan, Virginia
|
"As a member of his school's debate team, he likes to...
|
|
Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
|
2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
|
|
Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
|
"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
|
|
Mike Marmesh, a veterinarian from Miami, Florida
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $4,700 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
|
|
Sean Ryan, a graduate student from Whitehall, Pennsylvania
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a TV quiz show host from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Catherine Briley, a senior from Grand Prairie, Louisiana
|
2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $31,000. 17 at...
|
|
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota
|
2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
|
|
Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
\"A Jeopardy! champion in 1991, she\'s now a Spanish teacher listed...
|
|
William Garrett, a 12-year-old from Greenfield, Indiana
|
"Serving his country as an officer in the military is his...
|
|
Justin Otor, a 12-year-old from Texarkana, Texas
|
"His chosen profession will be something in the field of science...
|
|
Vera Swain, a junior from the University of South Carolina
|
2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Charleston, SC...
|
|
Steve Greene, a senior from UCLA from Elk Grove, California
|
2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
|
|
Andrew Goldfein, a 12-year-old from Lincolnwood, Illinois
|
"He likes to argue and help people, so it's off to...
|
|
David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
|
2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
|
Mandy Berry, an 11-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland
|
"She wants to dedicate her life to helping animals by becoming...
|
|
Mark Born, a musician, writer and teacher from Bangkok, Thailand
|
\"He was the top winner of the 1990-91 season. He\'s a...
|
|
Robin Carroll, an instructional designer from Marietta, Georgia
|
"Winner of both the 2000 Tournament of Champions and the 2001...
|
|
Samantha Reback, a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Arthur Gandolfi, a commercial real estate executive from Pleasantville, New York
|
2004 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up: $25,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
|
|
Elizabeth Perkins, an actress from Big and Weeds
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the New England Learning Center...
|
|
Bobby Bretz, an 11-year-old from Bristol, Rhode Island
|
"It's either archaeology or pro baseball for this sports-loving scientist. From...
|
|
Loren Loiacono, a senior from Setauket, New York
|
2006 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Brian Weikle, a project manager from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Thomas McIntyre, a 12-year-old from Marino Valley, California
|
"This self-proclaimed Star Wars freak, who has earned star rank in...
|
|
Michael Schulson, a 12-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee
|
"As a member of bug club, it's only natural that he...
|
|
Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
|
|
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
|
|
B.D. Schwarz, a twelve-year-old from Oakland, California
|
"He wants to make others happy by opening a little game...
|
|
Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
|
"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
|
|
Jackson Ruzzo, a 12-year-old from Waccabuc, New York
|
"He wants to be a Broadway actor, because he likes to...
|
|
Eddie Kwiatkowski, a 10-year-old from Cumberland, Rhode Island
|
"His interests in presidents and their history could lead to a...
|
|
Claudia Perry, a sports copy editor from Jersey City, New Jersey
|
"A pop music critic when she first appeared on Jeopardy!, she's...
|
|
Russ Schumacher, a graduate student from Fort Collins, Colorado
|
2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
|
|
India Cooper, an actor and copy editor from New York, New York
|
\"She became a 5-time champion in 1991. An actor and copy...
|
|
Lori Kissell, a high school Latin teacher from Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
"She loves everything about Latin and shares that love with her...
|
|
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
|
|
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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|
Bonny Jain, a senior from Moline, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
John Munson, a self-proclaimed gadabout originally from Lakeland, Florida
|
Season 25 player (2009-07-24). John managed to write his name on...
|
|
Nick Dnistrian, an 11-year-old from Webster, New York
|
"With a nickname like Elvis, this future chemist is already the...
|
|
Jake McCrory, an 11-year-old from Pueblo, Colorado
|
"He wants to make a positive change in our nation's future...
|
|
Billy Hackenson, an eleven-year-old from Great Falls, Virginia
|
"As a descendant of President Taft, it's no surprise that he's...
|
|
Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
|
"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
|
|
Brian Weikle, a consultant from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
|
|
Kate Carlyle, a records officer from New Lenox, Illinois
|
Season 20 player (2004-07-09). KJL game 28. Kate was announced by...
|
|
Kate Dzurilla, a 12-year-old from Syosset, New York
|
"It's a slam dunk for this basketball lover and future WNBA...
|
|
Steve Chernicoff, a technical writer from Berkeley, California
|
"He was one of the top 1-day winners in the 1994-95...
|
|
Lee Lassiter, a data modeler from Topeka, Kansas
|
"A 5-time winner from 2000, he used his winnings to take...
|
|
Brad Rutter, a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time 2nd runner-up: $250,000. 2019...
|
|
Ken Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah
|
2020 Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time winner: $1,000,000 + a...
|
|
Hallie Fox, a 12-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan
|
"It's elementary. She wants to be a teacher when she's older....
|
|
Partha Purushotham, an 11-year-old from Palo Alto, California
|
"He is fair-minded, so he thinks he would make a good...
|
|
Elizabeth Pfeifer, an executive assistant from Oakton, Virginia
|
Season 29 player (2012-11-01). Elizabeth died at the age of 57...
|
|
Thomas Horn, a twelve-year-old from Piedmont, California
|
"He plans on making the world a better place as an...
|
|
Jack Aponte, a non-profit technology consultant from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 26 player (2010-04-09). Jack uses they/them pronouns. Jack wore what...
|
|
John Blanton, a newspaper editor from Brooklyn, New York
|
Season 25 player (2009-04-16). Won $9,550 on Who Wants to Be...
|
|
Brian Robin, a public relations executive from Lancaster, California
|
Season 23 1-time champion: $8,599 + $2,000. Brian won $5,000 on...
|
|
Susan Turi, a social worker from Woodmere, New York
|
Season 23 player (2006-10-30).
|
|
Tad Carithers, an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $41,300. 2001 Tournament...
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|
Soledad O'Brien, a broadcast journalist from CNN's American Morning
|
"This broadcast journalist has covered stories all over the world. Since...
|
|
William Marengo, an 11-year-old from the Bronx, New York
|
"He will be the next Bronx Bomber, maybe--if it's up to...
|
|
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
|
|
Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
|
Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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|
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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|
Alison Stone Roberg, an administrative assistant from Kansas City, Missouri
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $85,102 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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|
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
|
Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
|
|
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
|
|
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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|
Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
|
2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
|
|
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
|
|
Laura Hughes, a mom from New Market, Maryland
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $27,500 + $2,000. Wife of Season 16...
|
|
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
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|
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
|
Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
|
|
Becky Anderson, a retired software specialist originally from Morganton, North Carolina
|
Season 25 1-time champion: $16,401 + $2,000. Becky Anderson - A...
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|
Kori Tyler, a high school teacher from Cordova, Tennessee
|
Season 26 player (2010-02-26). Season 25 1-time champion: $20,000 + $2,000....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dan Pawson, a legislative aide from Boston, Massachusetts
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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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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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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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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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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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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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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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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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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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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Ben Schenkel, a junior from Allentown, Pennsylvania
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2007 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $42,800. 17 at...
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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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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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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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Michael McKean, a Grammy winner, Oscar nominee and multi-talented performer from Hairspray and The Pajama Game
|
"This multi-talented performer is a Grammy winner and Oscar nominee and...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio
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"He was the biggest winner of the 1999-2000 season. A marketing...
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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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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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Mike Nelson, a mechanical engineer from Geneva, Illinois
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Madeline Suchard, from Placentia, California
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"She has her sights set on becoming the Supreme Court Justice,...
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Larry Cloud, a bookkeeper and computer consultant from Inglewood, California
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"He won five times in 2001, allowing him to make a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jim Scott, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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"He was a legal assistant living near D.C. when he won...
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Matt Polazzo, a high school U.S. government teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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"He teaches at one of the most selective high schools in...
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Jeffrey Gerlomes, a freshman from Napa, California
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Courtney Jones, a 12-year-old from Largo, Maryland
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"She wants to dedicate her life to building things that benefit...
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Michael Farabaugh, a high school chemistry teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia
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"This chemistry teacher has been making things fizz, smoke, and explode...
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Alex Stambaugh, a 12-year-old from Paris, Kentucky
|
"He feels he can use his talents in math and science...
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Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama
|
"She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
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Connie Shi, a junior at the University of Michigan from Okemos, Michigan
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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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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Mike Hodel, a bartender from Bellingham, Washington
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Season 27 2-time champion: $20,200 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "ho-DELL".
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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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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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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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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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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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Leslie Frates, a Spanish teacher from Hayward, California
|
"A Jeopardy! tournament veteran, her best-known Jeopardy! appearance may be in...
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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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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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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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Amy Fletcher, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Aman Birk, from Irvine, California
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"He may not be the fastest swimmer on the team, but...
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Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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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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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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Jill Bunzendahl Chimka, a speech and language pathologist from Washington, D.C.
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2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $85,099...
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Kate Waits, a law professor at the University of Tulsa from Tulsa, Oklahoma
|
"A Harvard Law graduate when she competed in the 1988 Tournament...
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Ryan Elkins, a 12-year-old from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
|
"He wants to study physics and unlock the mysteries of the...
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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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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
|
"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Naren Tallapragada, a junior from Burke, Virginia
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Chris Breen, a sophomore at Princeton University from Springfield, Massachusetts
|
2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy! web...
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Rachael Schwartz, a lawyer with an international law firm from Washington, D.C.
|
"In 1994, she became the first woman ever to win the...
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Fred Cofone, a copy editor from Old Greenwich, Connecticut
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $24,400 + $2,000.
Last name pronounced like "kuh-FONE".
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John Kelly, a retired Air Force officer from Austin, Texas
|
"In 1992, he was one of the top five money winners...
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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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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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Ari Stern, a mathematician from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $17,201 + $1,000.
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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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Steve Unite, a writer from Studio City, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Scott Gillispie, a project manager and expectant father from Atlanta, Georgia
|
"While attending Georgia Tech, he won the 1991 College Championship. Now...
|
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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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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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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor from Houston, Texas
|
"His aggressive wagering helped him become the biggest winner from the...
|
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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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David Duchovny, an actor from Californication
|
"He's won two Golden Globes and stars as troubled novelist Hank...
|
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Steve Gratz, a freelance artist from Washington, D.C.
|
Season 27 2-time champion: $30,999 + $1,000.
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Ben Lyon, an industrial scaleman from Dallas, Texas
|
"Representing the University of Oklahoma, he won the 1995 College Championship....
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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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Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
|
\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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|
Grace Acton, from Harvard, Massachusetts
|
"This competitive gymnast is hoping to score a perfect 10 for...
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Lisa Dvorak, a grocery store chain administrative assistant from Millersville, Maryland
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $31,201 + $2,000.
|
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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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Mark Brown, an administrative assistant and father from Peoria, Arizona
|
2003 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion: $68,094...
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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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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
|
"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Ben Goldman, a sophomore at New York University from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Son of Season 17 1-time champion Marjorie Goldman.
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Viki Radden, a high school English and literacy teacher from Bakersfield, California
|
"She teaches at the largest high school district in California. From...
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John Shoe, a third and fourth grade teacher from Lakewood, Colorado
|
"He teaches at a school for gifted children who choose their...
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Lan Djang, a business analyst from Toronto, Canada
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Elite Eighteen (Round 2 winners) member:...
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Joseph Henares, from Avon, Connecticut
|
"Along with group science projects, history club, writing club, and chess...
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Billy Baxter, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia
|
"Representing the College of William & Mary, he won the 1992...
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Don Meals, an environmental scientist from Burlington, Vermont
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $42,599 + $2,000.
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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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Ben Tritle, an apartment manager from Los Angeles, California
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 5-time champion: $78,600...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
|
"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Anne Shivers, a senior from Peotone, Illinois
|
2005 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $18,000. 17 at...
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Jimmy Li, a senior from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
2005 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of...
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Casey Clough, a junior from Columbia, South Carolina
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "CLUE".
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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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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
|
"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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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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John Ryan, a corporate controller from Richmond, California
|
"As a college student, he was the top winner of the...
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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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Patrick Quinn, a high school German teacher from Chesterfield, Missouri
|
"He teaches at a school whose history goes back to a...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
|
\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
|
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Audrey Hosford, a junior from Annapolis, Maryland
|
2008-B Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,400. Jeopardy! Message...
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Bonnie Cao, a senior from Arcadia, California
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Madison Ball, from Montgomery, Texas
|
"He loves to design and build things, and that's why becoming...
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Laura Button, an editor and proofreader from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $28,800 + $1,000.
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Jimmy Miotto, an 11-year-old from Northborough, Massachusetts
|
"He wants to be a Disney Imagineer and the president of...
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Meryl Federman, a senior from Livingston, New Jersey
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games champion (semifinalist by wildcard): $75,000. 18...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
|
\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
|
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Andrew Westney, a sports business writer from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"He was a high-school student from Atlanta when he won the...
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Josh Powell, a phone-based health coach from San Diego, California
|
Season 27 3-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000.
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
|
2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Kelly O'Donnell, a political reporter from NBC News
|
"An Emmy-winning political reporter, she has covered Capitol Hill and the...
|
|
Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
|
2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, Georgia
|
"She's hoping to become a teacher and inspire her students in...
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Allie Pape, a sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Allie was 14 at the time...
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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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Mehrun Etebari, a graduate student of international relations from Durham, New Hampshire
|
2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Pranita Ramakrishnan, from Centreville, Virginia
|
"Not only does this future neurologist enjoy swimming, drawing and spelling,...
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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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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
|
"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Bill Dickenson, a college instructor from Richardson, Texas
|
"This 5-time champ from 1996 has taught students from over 100...
|
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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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Stephanie Radke, a senior from McLean, Virginia
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. As an accommodation for a disability,...
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Zach Blumenfeld, a junior from Lincolnshire, Illinois
|
2009 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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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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Jenifer Thomas, a teacher assistant from Jacksonville, North Carolina
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $13,400 + $2,000. Jenifer Thomas October 5,...
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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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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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Travis Troyer, a software engineer from Hereford, Maryland
|
2003 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 19 5-time champion:...
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Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California
|
2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Eric Newhouse, a director of technical assistance from Sioux City, Iowa
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Nifty Nine (players with byes into...
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Dan Amboy, a 12-year-old from Lapeer, Michigan
|
"He hopes to get into the best college that he can....
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Tommy Maranges, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Nathaniel Barnes, a composer and bartender from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|
Season 25 3-time champion: $57,300 + $2,000. In his first game,...
|
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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...
|
|
Leslie Shannon, a manager of a research lab from Sydney, Australia
|
"A recent art history graduate when she became Jeopardy! champion in...
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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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Tom Jennings, a maintenance mechanic from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $24,000 + $2,000.
|
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Yevgeny Shrago, a research assistant originally from Rochester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,600 + $2,000. Name pronounced like "yev-GHEN-ee...
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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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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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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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Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California
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"He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
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Brian Meacham, a film preservationist originally from Anchorage, Alaska
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2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 27 4-time champion: $90,500...
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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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Carl Bradshaw, a financial manager from St. Louis, Missouri
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Season 27 2-time champion: $17,899 + $2,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Titmouse
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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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Victoria Agrinya, a 12-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"She would like to be a successful entrepreneur when she grows...
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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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Mark McDonnell, a triathlon coach and entrepreneur from Miami, Florida
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Season 27 1-time champion: $27,601 + $1,000.
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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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Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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"He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
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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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Harry Shearer, an actor/writer/producer from The Simpsons and Le Show
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"His many credits include providing voices for The Simpsons, and he's...
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Allison Peña, a junior from Sunrise, Florida
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2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Catherine Whitten, a high school history teacher from Plano, Texas
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"This gifted teacher primarily teaches gifted students. From Plano, Texas, this...
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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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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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Terry Linwood, a bookseller from North Texas
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion: $122,705...
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Mark Wales, a substitute teacher from Amherst, New York
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2009 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion: $141,804...
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Ariel Schneider, a biology student from West Lafayette, Indiana
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Season 27 2-time champion: $46,300 + $2,000.
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Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000.
21 at the time of the College Championship.
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Andy Kravis, a freshman from Farmington Hills, Michigan
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2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Andy was 13 at the...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
|
"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Eureka Nutt, a paralegal from Canoga Park, California
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Season 27 2-time champion: $38,701 + $1,000.
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Matt Klein, a senior from Pittsford, New York
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2006 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $15,000. Won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois
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\"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
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Cora Peck, a high school teacher and grad student from Aliso Viejo, California
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Sally Umbach, a third grade special education teacher from Cincinnati, Ohio
|
"She teaches at a school district that has been in operation...
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Maddie Harrington, a twelve-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
|
"She wants to be a theater critic and she gets rave...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Ben Greenho, a junior from Plano, Texas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Maria Bennici, a junior from Walkersville, Maryland
|
2008-A Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Kristin Briggs, a senior from Parkland, Florida
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Nico Martinez, a junior at Stanford University from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
|
2006 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2005 College Champion: $100,000 +...
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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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Jessica Anderson, a twelve-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island
|
"She's known she wanted to be a teacher for six years--that's...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
|
"Legislative work in his home state was suspended so that lawmakers...
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Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California
|
"This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
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John Zhang, a freshman at MIT originally from Lexington, Kentucky
|
"He won the 2003 Teen Tournament. Today he's a freshman at...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
|
"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Zane Li, a ten-year-old from Provo, Utah
|
"He's a chess champion and a two-time Geography Bee winner..." 2002...
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Sara Terrell, a veterinary technician from Windsor, Connecticut
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2007 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Kevin Yokum, a 12-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
"He plans on becoming an engineer just like both his mom...
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Sarah Nothnagel, a sophomore from the University of Southern California
|
2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 at the time of the...
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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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Savannah Morgan, a 12-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina
|
"Her future recipe for success is as the star of her...
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Kyle Hale, a college student from Katy, Texas
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $25,000. 2003 Tournament...
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Jackie Harrison, a surgeon from Chicago, Illinois
|
2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 19 4-time champion: $66,602 + $2,000.
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Ben Noe, a sophomore from Flushing, Michigan
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
|
"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Eric Webb, a 12-year-old from Austin, Texas
|
"He wants to be a cartoonist so he can make people...
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Josh DenHartog, an actuarial technician from Thousand Oaks, California
|
"He was the Teen Tournament champion in 1997. Now he's an...
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Casey Retterer, a sophomore at the University of Maryland from Olney, Maryland
|
2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Chris Miller, a retail specialist from Louisville, Kentucky
|
"In 2004, he became a 5-time champion, and for Halloween, dressed...
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Barbara-Anne Eddy, a civil servant from Vancouver, Canada
|
"Her 5-time winnings from 1988 allowed her to go for nearly...
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Chloé White, a senior from Mission Hills, Kansas
|
2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Jonathan Groff, a writer and producer for television from Los Angeles, California
|
\"A 5-show winner in 1995, he\'s now a writer and producer...
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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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Katty Kay, a Washington, D.C. anchor from BBC World News America
|
"She's the Washington, D.C. anchor for BBC World News America, as...
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Evan Eschliman, a sophomore from Olathe, Kansas
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Rob Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Younger brother of 2008-B Teen Tournament...
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Raphie Cantor, a sophomore from San Diego, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
|
2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Tony Nagatani, a junior at Ithaca College from Honolulu, Hawaii
|
2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Tony was 20 at the time...
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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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Donna Vogel, a scientist from Bethesda, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Thulasi Seshan, a 12-year-old from Draper, Utah
|
"The sky is the limit for this future astronomer. From Draper,...
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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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Christine Kennedy, a freshman from the University of Notre Dame
|
2007 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000. 19 at the time of...
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
|
"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from Sherman Oaks, California
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2003 Tournament...
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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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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
|
2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Camille Bullock, a senior from New Orleans, Louisiana
|
2006 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Camille88
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Larissa Kelly, a grad student from El Cerrito, California
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois
|
2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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Tom Nichols, a professor originally from Chicopee, Massachusetts
|
\"A five-time champion in 1994, he used his winnings for a...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
|
2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Bradley Silverman, a junior from Alpharetta, Georgia
|
2008-B Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $44,600. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Christopher Weis, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. Last name pronounced like "WISE". Jeopardy!...
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Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
|
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000.
Season 27 4-time champion: $153,800 + $1,000.
JBoard user name: markrunsvold
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
|
2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Rachel "Steve" Cooke, a senior from Fishers, Indiana
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000. 17 at the time of...
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Katie Gill, a sophomore from Jackson, Mississippi
|
2008-A Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Liana Walters, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
2002 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Liana was 16 at the...
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Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California
|
2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
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Aaron Thompson, a special assistant from Washington, D.C.
|
2006 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 21 3-time champion:...
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Jack Weisman, a twelve-year-old from Beachwood, Ohio
|
"He's considering becoming a lawyer, just like Mom and Dad. From...
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Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York
|
2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
|
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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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Jeremy Bate, an emergency medical technician and writer from Tujunga, California
|
"A second-place finisher in the 2000 Tournament of Champions, he's now...
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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...
|
|
Jeff Gorham, an accountant from Richmond, Virginia
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $14,001 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SpacemanSpiff
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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|
Paul Glaser, a research scientist from Albany, New York
|
2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Adam Bibler, an economist originally from Lancaster, Ohio
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $12,000 + $2,000.
|
|
Jim Stevens, a high school math teacher from Fairview Park, Ohio
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 6-time champion: $140,600 + $2,000.
|
|
Zachary Baumgartner, a 10-year-old from Deer Park, New York
|
"He'll hit all the right notes in the future as a...
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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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Hayley Clatterbuck, a junior from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
|
2007 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of...
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Josh Lacey, a 10-year-old from Ellicott City, Maryland
|
"The International Olympic Committee does such good work, he would like...
|
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Sara Jansson, a 10-year-old from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
|
"She wants to become a singer because she loves music so...
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Whitney Dearden, an 11-year-old from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
|
"She enjoys working with animals and would like to become a...
|
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Emily Sturtz, from Parsippany, New Jersey
|
"Because she would like to help people, she wants to become...
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Matt Bushell, a junior at Georgetown University from Fairfield, Connecticut
|
2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Grafton Brown, a high school Spanish teacher from Chicago, Illinois
|
"He teaches at a school whose buildings are named in honor...
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Judd Hess, a high school English teacher from Huntington Beach, California
|
"In college, he volunteered to help in a classroom and was...
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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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Nikhil Desai, a junior from Fremont, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of the...
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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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Caroline Bartman, a senior from Washington, D.C.
|
2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Eliza Urban, a sophomore from Richmond, Virginia
|
2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 15 at the time of the...
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Bernard Holloway, a junior from Mitchellville, Maryland
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2002 Teen...
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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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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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Jayanth Iyengar, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis from Madison, Wisconsin
|
2005 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: Jiyen1213
|
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John Farley, an eleven-year-old from Marietta, Georgia
|
"This young man has a plan--Notre Dame, professional lacrosse player and...
|
|
Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
|
"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
|
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Steve Reynolds, a loan accounting clerk from Norman, Oklahoma
|
2004 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion:...
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Lisa Ackerman, a senior from Livermore, California
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the...
|
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Kyle Neblett, a senior from Beaverton, Oregon
|
2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games 2nd runner-up: $36,400. 18 at the...
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Katie Baxter, a 10-year-old from Glenside, Pennsylvania
|
"She has already won a presidential award. So why not the...
|
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Nicole Tantoco, a 12-year-old from San Ramon, California
|
"She has two simple dreams: to attend Stanford and then become...
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Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California
|
"A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
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Mike Thayer, a mathematics teacher from North Plainfield, New Jersey
|
"He was a junior at Rutgers University when he won the...
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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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Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
|
2008-B Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. Older brother of 2012 Teen Tournament...
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Caleb Olson, a senior from Chariton, Iowa
|
2012 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
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Zia Choudhury, a senior from Paducah, Kentucky
|
2008-A Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up: $18,000. 17 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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Matt Tick, from Escondido, California
|
"Will take violin lessons and loves science, but he really wants...
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|
Tom Cubbage, an attorney from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|
"He was the very first College Champion, and the only one...
|
|
Leah Greenwald, an architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts
|
"A winner of 5 games in 1988, she has since become...
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Al Lin, a law professor from Davis, California
|
"A law student when he won five times in 1993, he's...
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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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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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|
Robby Schrum, a junior at Yale University from Crown Point, Indiana
|
2003 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. According to the official Jeopardy!...
|
|
Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
|
2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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|
Michelle Schrier, an 11-year-old from Potomac, Maryland
|
"She plans on being a news reporter while waiting for her...
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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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Jared Rothenberg, an 11-year-old from Houston, Texas
|
"When he's not on the mound, he's warming up in the...
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
|
"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
|
"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Grace Veach, a librarian from Lakeland, Florida
|
"After winning 5 games in 1997, she was the grand marshall...
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Caitlin Millat, a kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, New York
|
"She receives support from Teach for America and works for Achievement...
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Charley Tinkham, an eighth grade history and technology teacher from San Bruno, California
|
"He teaches at a school that has been named a California...
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|
Brendan Barnwell, a grad student and tutor from Santa Barbara, California
|
Season 28 player (2011-12-05). Although Brendan played the Jeopardy! and Double...
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Dominic Olivera, a twelve-year-old from Bristow, Virginia
|
"Oh, good heavens! He wants to be a priest when he's...
|
|
Emma Johnson, an eleven-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida
|
"She'll hit a high note in her future musical career as...
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Rahul Francis, a twelve-year-old from Flushing, New York
|
"This electronic wizard's current plans are to run a technology company....
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Mary Ann Stanley, a high school chemistry and physical science teacher from Statesboro, Georgia
|
"She's been teaching for 22 years and is now teaching 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.
|
|
Julia Martinez, an 11-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia
|
"Get ready, Pennsylvania Avenue. She wants to be president of the...
|
|
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
|
"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
|
|
Krishna Bharathala, a sophomore from Fremont, California
|
2012 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
|
|
Allex Fambles, a sophomore from Brown University
|
"She knew at age eleven that she wanted to be a...
|
|
Christian Ie, a senior from Renton, Washington
|
2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "EE".
|
|
Melissa Luttmann, a freshman from Memphis, Tennessee
|
2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 14 at the time of...
|
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Margaret Monroe, a junior from South Plainfield, New Jersey
|
2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Margaret was 16 at the time...
|
|
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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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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|
Rick Knutsen, a musician and stay-at-home dad from Brooklyn, New York
|
"A finalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, he's a musician...
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Kathleen Mikulis, a stay-at-home mom from Mountain View, California
|
Season 27 1-time champion: $25,201 + $2,000. Kathleen's contestant experience blog....
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Paul Thompson, a human resources manager from Cheverly, Maryland
|
"He was the first 5-time champion in the 1995-96 season. A...
|
|
Forrest Sturgill, a senior from Kingsport, Tennessee
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "STIR-jill".
|
|
Leszek Pawlowicz, a computer consultant from Flagstaff, Arizona
|
"He was the winner of the 1992 Tournament of Champions. Today...
|
|
Jeff Richmond, an attorney from Los Angeles, California
|
"He used his 1988 5-game winnings to pay for law school....
|
|
Kennedy Stomps, a junior from St. Louis, Missouri
|
2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
|
|
Keith Williams, a college student from Manchester, Vermont
|
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2004 Tournament...
|
|
Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799 + $2,000.
|
|
Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Clayton, North Carolina
|
2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
|
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John Matthews, a senior from Escondido, California
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2003 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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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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Craig Westphal, a paramedic from Tucson, Arizona
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Erik Nelson, a grad student originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Season 25 4-time champion: $94,404 + $2,000.
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Sam Waterston, an actor from Law & Order
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"A Best Actor Oscar nominee for The Killing Fields, he's now...
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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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Jeffrey Baer, a senior from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time...
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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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Michael Glick, a 12-year-old from Smithtown, New York
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"He's in math honors this year, even though math is one...
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Emily Kamm, a 12-year-old from Arlington, Virginia
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"This member of Model United Nations has been on the principal's...
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Andrew Westney, a singer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia
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"In 1991, he won the Teen Tournament. Today, he's a singer...
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John LeDonne, a bookstore manager from Concord, New Hampshire
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"He was the last person to win 5 shows in 1990....
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Kristin Frankhouser, a 12-year-old from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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"Her future plans include becoming a physical therapist, a wife, and...
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Anne Boyd, a freelance writer and student from Los Angeles, California
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2004 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 20 4-time champion: $84,600...
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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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Frank Epstein, a police officer from Los Angeles, California
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\"He was a 5-time champion in 1992, and is still serving...
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Liz McCarthy, a communications executive from South Orange, New Jersey
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Season 34 player (2018-03-08). Liz\'s mother won about $50,000 on Tic-Tac-Dough...
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Tim Crockett, a casino worker from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Season 20 player (2004-07-19).
KJL game 34.
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George McAleese, a political researcher from Washington, D.C.
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Season 29 2-time champion: $56,402 + $2,000.
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Marcia Edmundson, a high school French teacher from Chesterfield, Virginia
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"In the banking world, she checked credit scores. She's much happier...
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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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Jaime Alayon, a sophomore at the George Washington University from Miami, Florida
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2012 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
19 at the time of the College Championship.
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Ryan Griffin, an 11-year-old from Waldwick, New Jersey
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"We're sure he'll do swimmingly as an aquatic biologist. From Waldwick,...
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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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Idrees Kahloon, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Allison Dziuba, a junior from Ridgefield, Connecticut
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2007 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time of the...
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
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"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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Caley Anderson, a junior from Santee, California
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2001 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 16 at the time of the...
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Alexis Stephens, a senior from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
15 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Ryan Moore, a partner in a start-up company from Venice, California
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2001 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $5,000.
Season 17 5-time champion: $39,800 + a Corvette.
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Brett Dvorak, a junior at Indiana University from Granger, Indiana
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2001 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $5,000. Brett was 20 at the...
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Sam Weaver, a sophomore at Bradley University from Pleasanton, California
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Sam was 20 at the time...
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Chris Mazurek, an assistant professor from Columbia, Missouri
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2007 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD Home...
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Maria Wenglinsky, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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2006 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 22 5-time champion: $122,300...
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Pat Godwin, a reference assistant from Clemson, South Carolina
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Season 22 player (2005-11-25).
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Veronica Fazio, from Roselle, Illinois
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"She dances, plays softball, and hangs with her friends, but wants...
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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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Jon Er, from Williamsville, New York
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"This musician always argues for his fairness, so he wants to...
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Pat Healy, an index supervisor from Vallejo, California
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"His five wins in 1998 helped him land a dream job...
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Jeff Stewart, an executive from Los Alamos, New Mexico
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"After winning the 1994 College Championship, he went on to finish...
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Tom Halpern, a lawyer originally from New York, New York
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"A writer and researcher when he won 5 times in 1991,...
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Bob Blake, an actuary from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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"In 1990, he won the Tournament of Champions. An actuary from...
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Dave Willis, a business manager from Ventura, California
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"He was the first to win five shows in 1992. A...
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Robert Slaven, a technical products specialist originally from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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"He won 5 times in 1992. Today, he's a technical products...
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Alan Bailey, a playwright and director from North Hills, California
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"This playwright and director became a 5-time winner in 2001. Today,...
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Kermin Fleming, a junior at Carnegie Mellon University from Lexington, Kentucky
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"He's the current College Champion. A junior at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Sahir Islam, an investment analyst from Somers, New York
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"The champion of the 1997 Teen Tournament, he's now an investment...
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Janet Wong, a development officer for a museum from Hoboken, New Jersey
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"As a senior at Drew University, she won the February 2000...
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Dan Melia, a college professor from Berkeley, California
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"He was a 1998 Tournament of Champions winner. Today he's a...
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David Sampugnaro, a writer and internet specialist from North White Plains, New York
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"A 5-time winner from 1996, he's now a writer and internet...
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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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Melissa Seal, a law student from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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"She was a senior when she became the Teen Tournament champion...
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Eric Terzuolo, a retired diplomat and university professor from Bergen, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
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"When he first appeared in 1990, he was a foreign service...
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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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Elyssa Browning, a junior from St. John's College
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Austin, Texas at...
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Joel Knight, a freshman from Farmington, Michigan
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2003 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500.
14 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Susan Mitchell, a chemical engineer from Houston, Texas
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2007 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + the Jeopardy! DVD...
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Doug Savant, an actor from Desperate Housewives
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"He met and then married his wife while both were costarring...
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Aaron Schroeder, a grad student from San Diego, California
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2009 Tournament of Champions second runner-up: $50,000. Season 24 5-time champion:...
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Sandra Thomas, a 12-year-old from Hartsdale, New York
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"This young woman is very sure about what she'll do with...
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Elise Burton, a freshman from the University of California-Berkeley
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2007 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 18 at the time of the...
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Diana North, a first grade teacher from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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"She recently celebrated her silver anniversary of teaching. From Rock Hill,...
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Arlynda Boyer, a grant writer from Staunton, Virginia
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Season 23 player (2007-03-29).
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Dean Malec, a junior from Northwestern University
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 at the time of the...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Inie Park, a research associate from Los Angeles, California
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Season 22 1-time champion: $10,800 + $1,000.
First name pronounced like "EE-nee".
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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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Meredith Dedopoulos, a 12-year-old from Durham, New Hampshire
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"This spelling bee champion has also won many sports awards. From...
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Tiffany Wen, a 12-year-old from Exton, Pennsylvania
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"This figure skater is also on the distinguished honor roll. From...
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Bob Verini, a director of academics for a national test preparation company from Los Angeles, California
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Trevor Norris, a budget analyst from Washington, D.C.
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"He can't walk through the Pentagon without someone mentioning his five...
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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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Roy Holliday, a radiologist from Nyack, New York
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"He was the first to win five games in the 1987-88...
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Amory Jendrek, a freshman at Davidson College from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2004 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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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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Rachel McCool, a sophomore at Dickinson College from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $25,000.
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