| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | THE TALLEST ONE $1600: In the heartwarming sismance among the main actors on "Ted Lasso" Hannah Waddingham |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: A 2023 miniseries tells the story of "Archie: The Man Who Became" this legendary star Cary Grant |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: In 2023 this dame portrayed Golda Meir in "Golda" & also narrated "Barbie" Dame Helen Mirren |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: Knighted in 1947, in 1970 he became the first actor to be named a baron Lord Laurence Olivier |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: He played C.S. Lewis in 1993's "Shadowlands"; in his role in "Freud's Last Session", he debates Lewis on the existence of God Anthony Hopkins |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: They're the mom & daughter pictured here at a gala Vanessa Redgrave & Natasha Richardson |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $200: Allison Janney & Dulé Hill did some walking & talking in the White House on this NBC drama The West Wing |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $400: In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom Community |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $600: In 2001 Jeri Ryan & Tim Russ completed a "trek" through the Delta Quadrant on this title starship Voyager |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $800: Rebecca Wisocky & Brandon Scott Jones are scary good as the dearly departed Hetty & Isaac on this CBS comedy Ghosts |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW $1000: We're sanguine you'll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin' in life in Loo'siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series True Blood |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $800: Ellen Burstyn used her salary for "Believer", a sequel to this '70s horror film, to fund a scholarship for actors at Pace U. The Exorcist |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | TITLE ROLE ACTORS $400: "The People vs. Larry Flynt" Woody Harrelson |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | TITLE ROLE ACTORS $800: Since 2011, "Thor" Chris Hemsworth |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | TITLE ROLE ACTORS $1200: "Marty" Ernest Borgnine |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | TITLE ROLE ACTORS $1600: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" Cate Blanchett |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | TITLE ROLE ACTORS $2000: "Barton Fink" John Turturro |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $800: It's the title of Elgar's Opus 78 & of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Opus No. unknown, featuring actors on roller skates Starlight Express |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $600: One of the great actors of his era, Edwin Booth's fame was eclipsed by his younger brother, this infamous assassin John Wilkes Booth |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $400: She testified on the Hill, playing Anita Hill in "Confirmation" Kerry Washington |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $800: He spoke the line "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side" (Harrison) Ford |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $1200: "Get Smart" & tell us the name of this actor, who was the voice of Inspector Gadget Don Adams |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $1600: In between roles her husbands included Eddie Fisher & Senator John Warner Elizabeth Taylor |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $2000: Two presidents share a surname with this actress, known for playing Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D. Sophia Bush |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $600: Something belonging jointly to actors Bautista & Keaton Dave & Buster's |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | AGATHA ALL ALONG $1000: More than 460 actors & actresses have appeared in this play that originated as a request of the BBC for Queen Mary The Mousetrap |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $400: This late, great actor excelled at playing movie villains Rickman |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $800: This redhead was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "The Help" but lost out to castmate Octavia Spencer Chastain |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $1200: After winning an Oscar in 2023, he exclaimed, "Goonies never say die!" Ke Huy Quan |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $1600: In "A Fish Called Wanda", John Cleese played Archie Leach, actually the real name of this movie star Cary Grant |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $2000: This Canadian doesn't just act: she also wrote & directed "Women Talking" Sarah Polley |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $2000: At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright Aeschylus |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | CELEBS $400: In 2020, he made the New York Times list of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century Joaquin Phoenix |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | LATINO ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This Colombian-born actress played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on "Modern Family" for 11 seasons Vergara |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | LATINO ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This actress said she was inspired by Bob Fosse & Siouxsie Sioux & '80s goth dancers for her viral "Wednesday" dance (Jenna) Ortega |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | LATINO ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: In a 2001 biopic, this actor seen here played Nuyorican poet & playwright Miguel Piñero (Benjamin) Bratt |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | LATINO ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: After watching "The Last of Us", Jon Favreau said this actor cornered the "protective father archetype" market (Pedro) Pascal |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | LATINO ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This actor who starred in "Summer of Sam" & "Spawn" also voiced Bruno in "Encanto", but we don't talk about that Leguizamo |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena's Roman equivalent, this goddess had a shrine on the Aventine that was a meeting place for writers & actors Minerva |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN $200: Gilbert & Sullivan's first work together was "Thespis", about a group of actors who take over this home of the Greek gods Mount Olympus |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $7,000 (Daily Double): Soon to mother a brood of actors of this last name, Georgiana Drew married actor Maurice in 1876 Barrymore |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $400: Will Hunting & Jason Bourne on the big screen who is Roger Murtaugh on the small screen Matt Damon Wayans |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $1200: Portrayer of the baseball bat-wielding Negan on "The Walking Dead" who narrated "March of the Penguins" Jeffrey Dean Morgan Freeman |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | BEFORE & ACTORS $1600: "Creed" star who got involved with a drug kingpin's kitty in "Keanu" Michael B. Jordan Peele |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film (Arthur) Miller |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $800: In 2004's "Finding Neverland", Johnny Depp played this playwright & creator of Neverland (J.M.) Barrie |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Jim Broadbent & Allan Corduner play this theatrical pair in "Topsy-Turvy", at work on "The Mikado" Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: In a 1997 film Stephen Fry played this Irish poet & dramatist, while Jude Law played Lord Alfred Douglas Oscar Wilde |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In "Shakespeare in Love", Rupert Everett has an uncredited role as this contemporary of Shakespeare Marlowe |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $600: 1926's War Paint Club evolved into the Indian Actors Association, co-founded by this super-athlete Jim Thorpe |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | 4th & GOAL $800: Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them behave more realistically a wall |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $200: 2018:
Hey, Emily Blunt & John Krasinski! Keep it down! A Quiet Place |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $400: 1993: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell & a cameo by Scooter as the creature mentioned in the title Groundhog Day |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $600: 1997:
Travolta / Cage, as only Travolta / Cage could do it Face/Off |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $800: 2019:
Driver
vs.
Johansson A Marriage Story |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE ACTORS IN THAT MOVIE $1000: 2008:
Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson visit Belgium, & reunite in 2022 for "The Banshees of Inisherin" In Bruges |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | LET THERE BE FROGS $200: A genus of frogs is called this type, presumably because they croak in unison like a group of actors speaking together in a play chorus |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $400: Angela Lansbury gave the opening speech at this acting union's inaugural awards in 1995 the SAG Awards (Screen Actors Guild) |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $200: Bill Camp played the janitor who teaches a girl to play chess, on this streaming show The Queen's Gambit |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $600: You may know Fred Melamed from "The Morning Show", "Superstore" or this Disney+ show with the Scarlet Witch & family WandaVision |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Lance Reddick played a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving Bosch |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: This veteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody" (Christopher) Lloyd |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $400: Dustin Diamond, who died in 2021 after a brief battle with cancer, is best remembered for playing Screech on this teen sitcom Saved by the Bell |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $800: Pre-"Taxi Driver", Scorsese cast her in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", where she asks another kid, "Wanna get high on ripple?" (Jodie) Foster |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $1200: Before settling on his final stage surname, he was known as Mickey McGuire (Mickey) Rooney |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $1600: Maybe Olivia Edward, child of psychic medium John Edward, foresaw playing Pamela Adlon's youngest daughter on this series Better Things |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | CHILD ACTORS $2000: Elsie Fisher had actually finished middle school when she played vulnerable young Kayla in this 2018 Bo Burnham film Eighth Grade |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $400: Once a desperate shaved-head Frenchwoman, things began to look up once I found out I was the heir to Genovia's throne Anne Hathaway |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $800: Here I am, just a lowly Hobbit from the Shire who finally took the field for Notre Dame; hey! I got a sack Sean Astin |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1200: Despite being brittle-boned Elijah Prince, I'm still firmly in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. Samuel L. Jackson |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $1600: Formerly an assassin & the boss of the Crazy 88, I've also branched out to practice law in Boston Lucy Liu |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP $2000: Being half of a legendary Wild West outlaw duo gave me the courage to take the ice for the Charlestown Chiefs Paul Newman |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | UNION PEOPLE $2000: Comic actor Francis Wilson was serious about the rights of his profession as the first president of Actors' this Actors' Equity Association |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | FRIENDS $600: On the 2021 reunion show the six stars were joined by actors like Christina Pickles and him, who played Ross & Monica's parents Elliott Gould |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | PLAYS & PLAYWRITING $400: It's a coveted Shakespeare role for older actors, like Christopher Plummer on Broadway at age 74 King Lear |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | ANAGRAM PAIRS $600: All the actors playing Macavity, Rumpleteazer & the rest in a musical Cats cast |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | MIAMI NEWS CLUES $400: (I'm Louis Aguirre.) The 1980s TV show "Miami Vice" changed the reputation of the city to one of chicness & glitz & made Florida a more desired film & TV location; these two actors, playing Crockett & Tubbs, added to the scenery Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $200: J.L.C.,
back for more in "Halloween Kills" Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $400: N.P.H.,
suiting up for "How I Met Your Mother" Neil Patrick Harris |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $600: W.J.H.,
making some (after)life changes in "The Good Place" William Jackson Harper |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $800: V.A.F.,
dealing with "The Wrong Mr. Right" & "The Wrong Fiance" Vivica A. Fox |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ACTORS, INITIALLY $1000: J.L.M.,
a cop on "Law & Order" & "The Flash" Jesse L. Martin |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | NONFICTION TELEVISION $1000: For 24 years, James Lipton interviewed the likes of Ellen Barkin & Russell Crowe while giving us a look "Inside" this title place Inside the Actors Studio |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $400: In 2018 Broadway's Sorting Hat placed this actor in "the lifespan of a fact" as Jim Daniel Radcliffe |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $600: The 1959 romantic comedy "Pillow Talk" was the first on-screen pairing of these two actors Rock Hudson & Doris Day |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $800: Willkommen! In 2014 life was this musical for Emma Stone Cabaret |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $1200: Bialystock & Bloom! Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick were Bialystock & Bloom in this Broadway show about a Broadway show The Producers |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $1600: In 2020 she left the "Ozark"s to visit Broadway in "My Name is Lucy Barton" Laura Linney |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $2000: He & future wife Natasha Richardson both starred in "Anna Christie" in 1993 Liam Neeson |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $400: Millicent Simmonds, co-star of "A Quiet Place II", suffered permanent loss of this as a baby hearing |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $800: A working actor to this day, Henry Thomas was 10 when he filmed this Spielberg classic E.T. |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $1200: McKenna Grace played preteen geniuses in the movie "Gifted" & opposite young Iain Armitage on this sitcom Young Sheldon |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $1600: "The Boys" is a memoir of child actorhood by Clint Howard (Mark on "Gentle Ben") & his brother Ron (Opie on this show) The Andy Griffith Show |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $2000: Miami-area kid Alex R. Hibbert played the child Chiron in this 2016 Oscar-winning movie set in that city Moonlight |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | WHO WAS THAT MASCARA-ED MAN? $2000: In a 1959 comedy these 2 actors donned dresses as members of Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra Lemmon & Curtis |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $400: It was a nearly impossible mission when he played a vicious killer in "Collateral" Tom Cruise |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $800: In "Battle of the Sexes", Steve Carell won zero love playing this misogynistic tennis star Bobby Riggs |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $1200: Notoriously virtuous Matt Damon said "Arrivederci!" to several victims as this "Talented" guy in a 1999 film Mr. Ripley |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $1600: This actor who played Atticus Finch later portrayed Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil" Gregory Peck |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD $2000: Morgan Freeman ends up being the kidnapper in this film directed by Ben Affleck Gone Baby Gone |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | BOBBING FOR ACTORS $400: In 2019, it was announced this actor would be the Batman Pattinson |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | BOBBING FOR ACTORS $800: He delivered the classic line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning... smelled like... victory" (Robert) Duvall |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | BOBBING FOR ACTORS $1200: This actor was back haunting dreams as Freddy Krueger in a 2018 episode of "The Goldbergs" called "Mister Knifey-Hands" Robert Englund |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | BOBBING FOR ACTORS $1600: As Alexander Pierce in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", this film legend didn't see eye-to-eye with Nick Fury Robert Redford |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | BOBBING FOR ACTORS $2000: As Ted Striker in "Airplane!", he says, "We're coming in... I guess the foot's on the other hand now, isn't it, Kramer?" Robert Hays |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | MAGAZINES $400: "The Talk of the Town" in this magazine's first issue in 1925 included Broadway actors out of work The New Yorker |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $1000: "Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius... husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" Maximus |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $400: Emma Stone says her accent in the 2021 movie named for this Disney villain is more 1940s movie actor than pure British Cruella (de Vil) |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $1200: She mastered the tricky vowels of Delaware County, Pennsylvania as the title cop on "Mare of Easttown" Kate Winslet |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $1600: She got the feel of her Brooklyn accent in "The Wolf of Wall Street" by waving her nails around as if they were still wet from a manicure Margot Robbie |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $2000: Before lending his voice to many Pixar projects, this New Englander did one of the few actual Boston accents on "Cheers" (John) Ratzenberger |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | ACTORS & ACCENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): Jonathan Groff from Lancaster, Pennsylvania worked up a posh English accent for this Broadway role in "Hamilton" King George III |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | SCI-FI MOVIE SYNOPSES $1600: Aging actors assume anterior aspects, Allen aids admiring aliens against annihilation Galaxy Quest |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $400: Helena Bonham Carter sings about "The Worst Pies In London" in this 2007 movie Sweeney Todd |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $800: He didn't sing in "The Dark Knight" but serenaded Julia Stiles with "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" in "10 Things I Hate About You" Heath Ledger |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $1200: In 1971 he sang "Pure Imagination" playing Willy Wonka Gene Wilder |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $1600: Before donning the Captain Marvel garb, she fronted the band Clash at Demonhead in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the world" Brie Larson |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $2000: Joaquin Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon did an upbeat version of Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" for an excited crowd in this 2005 film Walk the Line |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | DREW'S CLUES ON FAMOUS FAMILIES $200: (Drew Barrymore presents the clue.) My own family included the legendary Lionel, Ethel & my grandfather John Barrymore, one of the greatest actors of his time who is nicknamed "The Great" this; here's mine "The Great Profile" |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | DREW'S CLUES ON FAMOUS FAMILIES $600: (Drew Barrymore presents the clue.) Some of you may remember Charley Weaver from the original "Hollywood Squares", but that was just a persona; the grandfather of actors Rosanna, Patricia, & David, he had this last name Arquette |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BOYS $1600: The son of actors Dennis & Meg, he battles abusive superheroes on TV's "The Boys" Jack Quaid |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | GRANT WOOD'S AMERICANA $1200: A painting commissioned for the John Ford film "The Long Voyage Home" depicts its actors, including him, aka "Duke" John Wayne |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS $2000: In "Step Brothers", these 2 actors ask their parents for permission to make bunk beds; it doesn't turn out well John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POP CULTURE $1000: As teenagers in Mass., these 2 actors pooled their acting money in a joint bank account for audition trips to New York Matt Damon & Ben Affleck |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | ACTORS' FILMOGRAPHIES $400: "Trainwreck", "I Feel Pretty" Amy Schumer |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | ACTORS' FILMOGRAPHIES $800: "Training Day", "Roman J. Israel, Esq." Denzel Washington |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | ACTORS' FILMOGRAPHIES $1200: "Room", "The Glass Castle" Brie Larson |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | ACTORS' FILMOGRAPHIES $1600: "Mad Max: Fury Road", "Venom" Tom Hardy |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | ACTORS' FILMOGRAPHIES $2000: "The Mountain Between Us", "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" Idris Elba |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ENTERTAINING BROTHERS $1200: Last name of actors Gustaf, Bill & Alexander, sons of another well-known actor Skarsgård |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | ROM COMS $600: "Something's Gotta Give" is a ditty starring Jack & Diane, these 2 legendary actors Jack Nicholson & Diane Keaton |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Sully Sullenberger &
Walt Disney Tom Hanks |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Arnie Grape &
Jay Gatsby Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: Fantine &
Jane Austen Anne Hathaway |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Groundskeeper
Carl Spackler &
Franklin D.
Roosevelt Bill Murray |
| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: Captain
Hector Barbossa &
the Marquis de Sade Geoffrey Rush |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | JAMES BOND $2000: Donald Pleasence & Christoph Waltz are among the actors who've played this cat fancier & Bond archfoe Blofeld |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: The divorcing spouses in "Marriage Story" were played by Adam Driver & her (Scarlett) Johansson |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Josh O'Connor played budding writer Lawrence Durrell on "The Durrells in Corfu"; on season 3 of "The Crown", he's this royal son Prince Charles |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: She based her stage name on the word "awkward", which she says describes her Awkwafina |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: If you really want to call this young actor by his name, pronounce it the French way, Tim-o-tay Chalamet |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: Not many actors do cranky as well as this man, who plays Norman on "The Kominsky Method" (Alan) Arkin |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | UH, PHRASING... $1600: Actors don't like "Good luck" before shows, but this 3-word alternative seems awfully painful Break a leg |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | WHITE HOUSE HUNTERS $800: Pre-D.C., Nancy was an actress & Ronald was a different kind of president, leading SAG, short for this, from 1947 to 1952 the Screen Actors Guild |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1200: In the 2019 sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level", it's total "Dandemonium" when these two veteran actors named Dan join the game Danny DeVito and Danny Glover |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | WHEN TV WAS FREE $1200: It was as if Earth ceased its rotation when this CBS soap that had featured actors like Meg Ryan & Martin Sheen went off the air in 2010 As the World Turns |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $200: In 2007, the actors who played this small-statured group in "The Wizard of Oz" got a collective star the Munchkins |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The role of Pale, in "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson, is a showcase for young actors--John Malkovich in 1987 & this man in 2019 (Adam) Driver |
| #8063, aired 2019-10-02 | PART-TIME WRITERS $2000: James Lipton wrote "An Exaltation of Larks", about animal group names, before he hosted this Bravo acting show Inside the Actors Studio |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: After hanging out with "Friends" in the '90s, she made some "Drunk History" in a "First Ladies" episode as Edith Wilson in 2014 Courteney Cox |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: In 2004 she provided the voice of Elastigirl, the wife of Mr. Incredible Holly Hunter |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: One of his memorable lines in "A Fish Called Wanda" is "Don't call me stupid" Kevin Kline |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: This "Celebrity Jeopardy!" champion informed movie viewers that St. Hubbins was the patron saint of quality footwear Michael McKean |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: In "Hard to Kill", this martial artist & actor says, "I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank" Steven Segal |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO $800: In 1989 these 2 actors decided to rekindle their relationship; actress Dakota Johnson resulted Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | NEW TV $1200: "Are you hiring actors to play wrestler, or are we the wrestlers?" is a line from this Netflix show GLOW |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | GET "OFF" $600: The Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street or the Actors Temple Theatre on West 47th, for example off-Broadway |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ACTORS BY ROLE $400: Wade Wilson in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" Ryan Reynolds |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ACTORS BY ROLE $800: Beca, one of the Barden Bellas in "Pitch Perfect" Anna Kendrick |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ACTORS BY ROLE $1200: The voices of President Business & the man upstairs in "The Lego Movie" Will Ferrell |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ACTORS BY ROLE $1600: Jonas Taylor, who fights "The Meg" Jason Statham |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | ACTORS BY ROLE $2000: Scene-stealing friend Peik Lin Goh in "Crazy Rich Asians" Awkwafina |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $400: John Mahoney came into our homes as Martin Crane, father of this sitcom title character Frasier |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $800: By Grabthar's hammer, this late, great actor was also a classic "Die Hard" villain (Alan) Rickman |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $1200: Tessio in "The Godfather", on the small screen he spun off his show "Fish" from a character he played on "Barney Miller" Abe Vigoda |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $1600: A regular in James Cameron films, he appeared in "True Lies", "Aliens" & "Titanic" Bill Paxton |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $2000: This horror movie actor has been listed as a record holder for most screen credits, including the "Lord of the Rings" films Christopher Lee |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $400: Dude, where's my portfolio? A savvy tech investor, this star of "That '70s Show" was in on Skype in 2009; he did okay Ashton Kutcher |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $800: Shailene Woodley, who played Tris in this film series, has enjoyed making her own cheese, face oils & toothpaste Divergent |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $1200: In 2007 Chazz Palminteri brought this outer-borough story to Broadway; he's also got a restaurant on West 46th Street A Bronx Tale |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $1600: The first time Steve Martin publicly showed his art collection was in 2001 at this Las Vegas hotel the Bellagio |
| #7987, aired 2019-05-07 | ACTORS NOT ACTING $2000: This "Jurassic Park" co-star made a No. 1 jazz album with his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra Jeff Goldblum |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | ACTORS $400: He played Romeo in "Romeo + Juliet" & Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" (Leonardo) DiCaprio |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | ACTORS $800: She won a Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in "If Beale Street Could Talk" Regina King |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | ACTORS $1200: The Ancient One in "Doctor Strange", she uses a shortened form of her middle name, Matilda Tilda Swinton |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | ACTORS $1600: In a 2018 TV movie Peter Dinklage played this co-star of "Fantasy Island" Hervé Villechaize |
| #7976, aired 2019-04-22 | ACTORS $2000: This actor played a very good guy on "The West Wing" & a very bad guy in "Get Out" (Bradley) Whitford |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MOVIE & TV TERMS $400: Collective term for the actors' costumes & the department that handles them wardrobe |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | MOVIE & TV TERMS $1000: Ordinal term for the group that shoots crowd scenes, exteriors or other footage usually without the actors or director second unit |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | JAMES BOND & FRIENDS $1000: Jack Lord & Jeffrey Wright are 2 of the 8 actors who have played this American CIA agent & 007 ally Felix Leiter |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Akron-born NBA great who wrote "Shooting Stars" while hosting & creating "Inside the Actors Studio" LeBron James Lipton |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | ACTORS & THEIR TV ROLES $400: Boston lawyer Alan Shore;
Raymond "Red" Reddington James Spader |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | ACTORS & THEIR TV ROLES $800: Acting coach Gene Cousineau;
the Fonz (Henry) Winkler |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | ACTORS & THEIR TV ROLES $1200: Kara Danvers' boss Cat Grant;
Ally McBeal Calista Flockhart |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | ACTORS & THEIR TV ROLES $1600: Darlene Conner's significant other David Healy;
Leonard Hofstadter Johnny Galecki |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | ACTORS & THEIR TV ROLES $2000: Rory Gilmore's boyfriend Dean;
hunter of supernatural beings Sam Winchester Jared Padalecki |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $400: In addition to the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", this wild & crazy guy writes novels like "The Pleasure of My Company" Steve Martin |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $800: Lorelai from "Gilmore Girls", she's had 3 books hit the New York Times bestsellers list, one a novel Lauren Graham |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $1200: You know him as Dr. Gregory House, but he's also the author of the comic spy novel "The Gun Seller" Hugh Laurie |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $1600: When she's not palling around with Luke Cage & Daredevil, this actress is writing thrillers like "Bonfire" (Krysten) Ritter |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | NOVEL ACTORS $2000: This comic actor who played Dr. Frankenstein & Willy Wonka also wrote fiction like "Something to Remember You By" (Gene) Wilder |
| #7775, aired 2018-06-01 | I ONLY HAVE Es FOR YOU $200: A group of actors, musicians or pieces of clothing working together ensemble |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | SHOW RUNNERS $800: Produced by these 2 actors, the reality show "The Runner" follows contestants across the U.S., not just Boston Ben Affleck & Matt Damon |
| #7741, aired 2018-04-16 | COLLEGE HONORS $1600: This arts center on the Potomac gives out the Irene Ryan scholarships to college actors the Kennedy Center |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | ON-SCREEN ROMANCES $1200: (Iain Armitage of Young Sheldon presents the clue.) 50 years after these 2 actors fell in love in "Barefoot in the Park", they fell in love again in "Our Souls at Night", co-starring me, Iain Armitage Jane Fonda and Robert Redford |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ACTORS $400: On film he's played slain leaders Steve Biko & Malcolm X Denzel Washington |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ACTORS $800: He voiced both "The Iron Giant" & Guardian of the Galaxy Groot Vin Diesel |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ACTORS $1200: This Brit has played a mechanic and a transporter (Jason) Statham |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ACTORS $1600: TV viewers have seen this 3-named actor on "Grey's Anatomy", "The Good Wife", and "The Walking Dead" (Jeffrey) Dean Morgan |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | ACTORS $2000: On the wrong side of the law in his youth, he changed his ways and has starred in films like "Machete" (Danny) Trejo |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $600: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Kevin) It's November 21, 1980, with an actors' strike pushing the TV season back, it's been 8 months since we saw this character get shot
(Nancy) Tonight, 80 million viewers around the country will finally find out who done it--
(Kevin) My money's on the sister-in-law J.R. |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $1200: Voice actors of this Disney film included Phil Harris as Baloo & Louis Prima as King Louie of the apes Jungle Book |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | STATE OF THE UNION HEADQUARTERS $200: The eastern region of the Actors' Equity Association:
this state New York |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS $400: "I Was There Too" has as guests supporting actors like Clancy Brown, prison guard captain Hadley in this 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | IT STARTS WITH THE "END" $2000: This 9-letter adjective applies to lovable creatures like puppies & child actors endearing |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS $800: Beau Bridges was one or the actors who won for reading this warming warning by Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | WRITERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz & other 1980s writers shared this nickname with a group of young 1980s actors the Brat Pack |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | GHOSTLY ACTORS $400: Dead Charlie finds Hurley at a mental institution on this show, slaps him & tells him that his friends far away need him Lost |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | GHOSTLY ACTORS $800: A new "Return of the Jedi" ending unfortunately had a ghost played by Sebastian Shaw replaced by this actor Hayden Christensen |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | GHOSTLY ACTORS $1200: In "Beetlejuice" this teenage actress saw stranger things, like the ghosts of Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis Winona Ryder |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | GHOSTLY ACTORS $1600: On this show Denis Leary was often visited by ghosts, some of whom died during 9/11 Rescue Me |
| #7496, aired 2017-03-27 | GHOSTLY ACTORS $2000: Nicole Kidman finds out in this 2001 movie that the ghosts her family has been dealing with are a little closer to home The Others |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | ENTERTAINMENT "MORE" OR "LESS" $1200: Based on a Bret Easton Ellis novel, this 1987 movie features the actors who played Iron Man & Ultron Less Than Zero |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Linsey Godfrey and Pierson Fodé give the clue as Caroline Spencer and Thomas Forrester from The Bold and the Beautiful.)
"I'm so afraid, Thomas. I've made so many mistakes."
"There's no turning back now, Caroline. We have to move forward like Julius Caesar crossing this small river & triggering the Roman civil war" the Rubicon |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | GOOD WILL $800 (Daily Double): This man enjoyed good Will Shakespeare & his actors so much, he made them Grooms of the King's Chamber King James I |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This future actor-director has been friends with Matt Damon since they were both kids in Cambridge, Mass. Ben Affleck |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This recent movie Hulk is also green in his personal life, making efforts to combat fracking in New York State Mark Ruffalo |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: In 2016 Nia Vardalos returned as Toula Portokalos in a sequel to this 2002 hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: "a-LISS-ee-ah" is the pronunciation of the name of this Swedish actress who won an Oscar for "The Danish Girl" Alicia Vikander |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: In this 2014 film Elle Fanning plays Aurora, put into a deep sleep by the title character who it turns out had her reasons Maleficent |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $400: As an officer who doesn't like Nazis, he gives Christoph Waltz a new look at the end of "Inglourious Basterds" (Brad) Pitt |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $800: She gave the audience a shot of adrenaline in "Pulp Fiction", her first Tarantino film (Uma) Thurman |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $1200: In "Django Unchained", this Tarantino veteran plays a house slave almost as evil as his master Samuel L. Jackson |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $1600: This veteran actor has appeared in Tarantino movies as Mr. White & the problem-solving man known as "The Wolf" (Harvey) Keitel |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | TARANTINO'S FAVORITE ACTORS $2000: This British actor was unlucky & undercover as Mr. Orange in "Reservoir Dogs" (Tim) Roth |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | THEATER TALK $200: 2-word alliterative term for the moment after a play when actors return to receive applause curtain call |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Producers of "Furious 7" enlisted the aid of this late actor's brothers Caleb & Cody to fill in the gaps in production Paul Walker |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: (Neil deGrasse Tyson gives the clue.) When this actress was floating around in zero-G in a 2013 Oscar-winning movie, was I the only one who noticed that her hair didn't float freely on her head? Sandra Bullock |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: He performed his own motorcycle stunts as P.O.W. "Cooler King" Hilts in "The Great Escape" Steve McQueen |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: This actress has been seen on "Once and Again" & "CSI: NY" Sela Ward |
| #7352, aired 2016-07-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This tomboy who became an actress won an Oscar for playing a tomboy who becomes an actress in 1933's "Morning Glory" Katharine Hepburn |
| #7344, aired 2016-07-14 | MORE FUNNY THAN SCARY $800: The actors who played Ray & Shorty in the comedy "Scary Movie" had this surname, as did the director Wayans |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES $800: In production budgets, grips & catering are said to be "below" this; star actors & producers, "above" it the line |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS $200: In 2016 Todd Bridges said the late Nancy Reagan's part on this show helped him through his own drug problems Diff'rent Strokes |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS $400: This 2nd man on the Moon, after Homer Simpson caused a potato chip mess in space: "Careful! They're ruffled!" Buzz Aldrin |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS $600: We respect that in "Back to School", this comic didn't understand Vonnegut's books, so he had Kurt stop by in a cameo Rodney Dangerfield |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS $800: Offscreen on "Futurama", this theoretical physicist says, "There he is. Seize him" (Stephen) Hawking |
| #7323, aired 2016-06-15 | NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS $1000: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I made my acting debut in 2014, ordering Annie & Abed around as the host of a VCR game called "Pile of Bullets" on this NBC sitcom that also starred my old pal Jonathan Banks Community |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $200: If you're Cindy Drummond, you play a mom calling a spy hero at the worst time, in ads for this insurer; it's what you do GEICO |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $400: Henry Strozier & Justin Hagan are not farmers, but they do stand in bogs of these fruits in Ocean Spray commercials cranberries |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $600: This "Law & Order" assistant D.A. has told us the virtues of TD Ameritrade Sam Waterston |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $800: A natural blonde, Morgan Smith goes redhead to play her character in ads for this fast food chain Wendy's |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $1000: Phone home--Milana Vayntrub plays the young & helpful Lily, a saleswoman for this company AT&T |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $400: Actors John Heminge & Henry Condell brought together Shakespeare's plays into this 1623 collection the First Folio |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $1200: 3 main types of classical Japanese theater are noh, kabuki & bunraku, which uses these instead of the actors puppets |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | HOTEL CALIFORNIA $600: The actors who played these little folks had quite a wild time at the Culver Hotel during the making of a 1939 film Munchkins |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | THEATRICAL QUOTES $2000: This "Private Lives" playwright advised actors", if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet Noël Coward |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE $800: A delight to most actors, "S.R.O." stands for this, meaning a packed house standing room only |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | YOUR IDIOMS CONFUSE ME $1200: Actors use this horrific anatomical phrase to wish each other good luck break a leg |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | AIR QUOTES $1,000 (Daily Double): "These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air" in this island-set Shakespeare play The Tempest |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $400: The love song "Heartbeat" took this "Miami Vice" star all the way to No. 5 Don Johnson |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $800: Steve Martin gave us all a wacky history lesson about Egypt in this song "King Tut" |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $1200: From "Dirty Dancing", he had a No. 1 adult contemporary hit with "She's Like The Wind" Patrick Swayze |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $1600: In a 1985 hit this funnyman's girlfriend just wanted to "Party All The Time" Eddie Murphy |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | ACTORS' HIT SONGS $2000: As the frontman for Thirty Seconds to Mars, this 2013 Oscar winner has had 3 No. 1s on the alternative chart Jared Leto |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | THEATER RHYME TIME $200: A swift complement of actors in a play a fast cast |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | THEATER RHYME TIME $800: "Electrifying" movements & positions of actors on the stage shock block |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Here's something about this "There's Something About Mary" star: she went to high school with Snoop Dogg Cameron Diaz |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: She's starred in movies like "Flirting with Disaster", "Spanglish" & "Fun with Dick and Jane" Téa Leoni |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: He & Stephen Merchant created the British TV show "The Office" Ricky Gervais |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This brunette plays "Community" college student Annie Edison Alison Brie |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This comic actor lost 40 pounds for the role in "Moneyball" that earned him a supporting actor Oscar nomination Jonah Hill |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | APOSTOLIC NAMES $600: Actors Goode & Morrison Matthew |
| #7076, aired 2015-05-25 | STATE OF THE UNION HEADQUARTERS $200: The Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA California |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | "ALL" RIGHT, "ALL" RIGHT, "ALL" RIGHT $1000: Actors "break" this by addressing an audience directly from the stage during a play the fourth wall |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | MONTY OR MONTGOMERY $1200: This 1950s movie star was a founding member of the Actors Studio Montgomery Clift |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $400: Enter the "Dragon", Jason Scott Lee (no relation) as this martial arts legend Bruce Lee |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $800: In 2014 Nicole Kidman played her opposite Tim Roth as Prince Rainier Grace Kelly |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1200: Look, up on the screen! it's a bird! it's a plane! it's "Argo" man, this actor, as George Reeves in "hollywoodland" Ben Affleck |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1600: Swashbuckling Jude Law played swashbuckling Errol Flynn in this Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $2000: Martin Landau won an Oscar for his "Ed Wood" portrayal of this movie actor Bela Lugosi |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $400: From 1997 to 2003 she went by Buffy Anne Summers Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $800: In 2014 he tweeted, "I just uttered my last word as Barney "Awsomepants" Stinson" Neil Patrick Harris |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $1200: In "A Fish Called Wanda", she's a woman called Wanda Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $1600: He's the Dark Lord of the Sith--well, the voice, anyway James Earl Jones |
| #7016, aired 2015-03-02 | 3-NAMED ACTORS $2000: A child star in "The Bad News Bears", he's been a very different presence in recent films like "Watchmen" Jackie Earle Haley |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $200: Alright, alright, alright, for 2013, these 2 guys for their roles as Ron & Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club" Jared Leto & Matthew McConaughey |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: 1993:
Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett, a lawyer with AIDS, in this movie Philadelphia |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $600: 2005:
This actor as Truman Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $800: 1969:
John Wayne as this grumpy U.S. marshal in "True Grit" Rooster Cogburn |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | ACTORS & THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1000: 1983:
This actor as a country singer in "Tender Mercies" Robert Duvall |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | SOUNDS LIKE MAD LIBS, BUT REAL $1600: Before "Inside the Actors Studio", he wrote a book about animal group names & says he was a pimp in France James Lipton |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | JUST "MBLE" ALONG $1000: The Screen Actors Guild gives an award for best one of these, as opposed to a single performer ensemble |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: How fitting that she starred in "Twelfth Night" in 2009--she has the same name as Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: In 1965, at age 20, Helen Mirren played this Egyptian at the Old Vic Cleopatra |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: He received acting & directing Oscar nominations for 1989's "Henry V" Kenneth Branagh |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: In 1993 Lynn Redgrave premiered her 1-woman show "Shakespeare for My Father", dedicated to this man Michael Redgrave |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: In 1935 as Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew", Alfred Lunt tamed this wife who played Katharina Lynn Fontanne |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $400: Bridget Jones,
Dorothy Boyd Renee Zellweger |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $800: Captain Billy Tyne,
Michael Clayton George Clooney |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $1200: The Waco Kid,
Willy Wonka Gene Wilder |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $1600: Detective Alonzo Harris,
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Denzel Washington |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | ACTORS' ROLES $2000: Padme,
Nina Sayers Natalie Portman |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | THE STARS WRITE $400: Loosely modeled on 12-step programs is James Franco's debut novel titled "Actors" this Anonymous |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | THE CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE $200: Stones from the mine include one that bears the name of these 2 actors; Dick gave it to Liz for her 40th birthday Burton and Taylor |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | LABOR UNIONS $800 (Daily Double): Robert Montgomery & Ronald Reagan each served 2 stints as president of this the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $800: Hitchcock never said these people "are cattle"; what he said was these people "should be treated like cattle" actors |
| #6774, aired 2014-02-13 | VIDEO GAME VAULT $800: Hollywood actors & psychological nuance are featured in this 2013 release Beyond: Two Souls |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | '80s ACTORS & ROLES $200: She was the spurned Alex in "Fatal Attraction" Glenn Close |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | '80s ACTORS & ROLES $400: A role in this film brought Haing Ngor an Oscar The Killing Fields |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | '80s ACTORS & ROLES $600: This rap group entered the medical field in "Disorderlies" the Fat Boys |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | '80s ACTORS & ROLES $800: Makeup!
He was
"The Elephant Man" John Hurt |
| #6770, aired 2014-02-07 | '80s ACTORS & ROLES $1000: Jennifer Grey's "Dirty Dancing" dad (Jerry) Orbach |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ACTORS IN BIOPICS $400: Jim Morrison in "The Doors" Val Kilmer |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ACTORS IN BIOPICS $800: Ritchie Valens in "La Bamba" Lou Diamond Phillips |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ACTORS IN BIOPICS $1200: Anne in "The Other Boleyn Girl" Natalie Portman |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ACTORS IN BIOPICS $1600: Charlie Chaplin in "Chaplin" Robert Downey Jr. |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | ACTORS IN BIOPICS $2000: Bobby Darin in "Beyond the Sea" Kevin Spacey |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS $200: 2005:
As Denny Crane, a man who loved to hear the words "Denny Crane" William Shatner |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS $400: 1984:
As Thomas Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS $600: 2012:
As the Dowager Countess of Grantham, who really wouldn't have time for such trifling matters, Dear Maggie Smith |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS $800: 1983, 1984 & 1985:
As Lacey, not Cagney Tyne Daly |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | EMMY-WINNING DRAMATIC ACTORS $1000: 1980:
Making headlines as Lou Grant Ed Asner |
| #6747, aired 2014-01-07 | AFRODISNEYAC $800: In the 1999 Disney version, Tony Goldwyn didn't need the physique of earlier actors who played this swinger Tarzan |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | ACTORS WHO WRITE $200: They wrote "Good Will Hunting" together Matt Damon & Ben Affleck |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | ACTORS WHO WRITE $400: He co-wrote "Good Night, and Good Luck." George Clooney |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | ACTORS WHO WRITE $600: He co-wrote "The Passion of the Christ" Mel Gibson |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | ACTORS WHO WRITE $800: He adapted "Into the Wild" Sean Penn |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | ACTORS WHO WRITE $1000: He co-wrote "This Is the End" Seth Rogen |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: This "Oresteia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus Aeschylus |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | COMPUTER TERMS $1600: Actors might memorize these rectangles that appear onscreen to present information, then vanish dialog boxes |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $400: In "The Raven" a serial killer is inspired by the works of this author played by John Cusack (Edgar Allan) Poe |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $800: Opposite Toby Jones as Truman Capote, Sandra Bullock played this author, famed for her sole novel Harper Lee |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $1200: In "Misery" this actress gives novelist James Caan the agony of da feet Kathy Bates |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $1600: Everyone nose this actress wasn't afraid to play Virginia Woolf in "The Hours" Nicole Kidman |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $2000: Chris O'Donnell was "In Love and War" as a young version of this U.S. novelist who falls for a nurse in WWI Hemingway |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | HOMONYMS $400: To throw a fishing net into the water, or the actors in a play cast |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1200: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) This film about a "Southern fried demagogue and his lurid downfall" featured several miscast actors including Sean Penn "stepping into one of Broderick Crawford's blowhard roles" All the King's Men |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | ROBOTS $400: Anthony Daniels & Kenny Baker, who played these 2 robots, are the only actors to appear in all 6 "Star Wars" films R2-D2 & C-3PO |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | WORDPLAY $200: Not just fun on the playground, "unique New York" & other of these phrases are used by actors to warm up tongue-twisters |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $600: In 2012 this "Inside the Actors Studio" host turned an amazing 86 years old... how marvelous! (James) Lipton |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $1000: It's a coordinated outfit, or a group of musicians, singers or actors who perform together an ensemble |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | FILMMAKING $400: Time to lower this on you, the counterbalanced pole with a mic that dangles over the actors, out of frame the boom |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | ACTORS WHO SING $400: She displays her pipes as Fantine in the 2012 film version of "Les Miserables" Anne Hathaway |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | ACTORS WHO SING $800: This Oscar-winning actor released a self-titled album in 2011 Jeff Bridges |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | ACTORS WHO SING $1200: 2011's "Let Them Talk" is an album of American blues by this Brit who played "House" Hugh Laurie |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | ACTORS WHO SING $1600: She did her own singing & learned the autoharp to play June Carter Cash; the effort paid off in an Oscar (Reese) Witherspoon |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | ACTORS WHO SING $2000: He did his own singing as rocker Stacee Jaxx in the movie "Rock Of Ages" Tom Cruise |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | HELLO, LARRY $200: Ken Kercheval & this man were the only 2 actors to stay with "Dallas" throughout its original run Larry Hagman |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $400: 1941: "Citizen Kane" Orson Welles |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $800: 2012:
"Madea's Witness Protection" (Tyler) Perry |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $1200: 1996: "Sling Blade" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $1600: 2000: "Pollock" Ed Harris |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $2000: 2001: "Zoolander" Ben Stiller |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Evelyn Salt &
Lara Croft Angelina Jolie |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Ichabod Crane &
Barnabas Collins Johnny Depp |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: Galadriel &
Katharine Hepburn Cate Blanchett |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Les Grossman &
Ethan Hunt Tom Cruise |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: Stephanie Plum &
Alison Scott, who got "Knocked Up" Katherine Heigl |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | "FOUR" LETTER WORDS $800: 2-word theater term for the imaginary item that separates the actors from the audience the fourth wall |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES $800: Actors Dennis & Randy Quaid |
| #6469, aired 2012-11-01 | I WORKED FOR ROGER CORMAN $200: In 1961 this actor boldly went where a lot of actors had gone before--
starring for Corman--in "The Intruder" William Shatner |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | CINEMANIA $200: Aka background actors, they're the people milling about in a shot to lend atmosphere to a scene extras |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | CINEMANIA $1000: This genre created in the '70s featured African-American actors in stereotypical & often violent characterizations blaxploitation |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | "M"ISCELLANY $800: Marlon Brando was one of the actors who used this approach of deep character identification method acting |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | OPUS & OPERA $1600: It's the title of Elgar's Opus 78 & of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, opus no. unknown, featuring actors on roller skates Starlight Express |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | TITLE ACTORS $400: "The People vs. Larry Flynt" Woody Harrelson |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | TITLE ACTORS $800: "Marty" Ernest Borgnine |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | TITLE ACTORS $1200: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" Cate Blanchett |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | TITLE ACTORS $1600: "Barton Fink" John Turturro |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | TITLE ACTORS $2000: "Thor" Chris Hemsworth |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | SEE "INSIDE" FOR DETAILS $800: Actors, writers & directors reminisce about their careers on this James Lipton-hosted TV show Inside the Actors Studio |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $200: This actor was a "Thriller" in films like "House of Wax" & "The Fly" Vincent Price |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $400: "I Know" Jennifer Love Hewitt hits a high note as Julie James in this scary 1997 film I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $600: To be Frank, he's the actor seen here in one of his greatest roles Boris Karloff |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $800: This actress was a howl as little Regan in "The Exorcist" (Linda) Blair |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $1000: The senior frightener seen here, he showed many faces in his career Lon Chaney, Sr. |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $400: This Oscar winner played cab driver Max (not Maxx) in "Collateral" Jamie Foxx |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $800: "The Measure of a Man" is "a spiritual autobiography" by this actor whose distinguished feature film career began in 1950 (Sidney) Poitier |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $1200: Dennis Haysbert's credits include "The Unit", "Far From Heaven" & ubiquitous ads for this insurance company Allstate |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $1600: Woody Strode, seen here in this Kirk Douglas film, helped integrate the NFL in 1946 with the Rams Spartacus |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTORS $2000: He's gone from "Ocean's Eleven" to "Hotel Rwanda" Don Cheadle |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | 2010s TV $400: Bradley Cooper"... You. Were. Amazing. When you visited James Lipton on this Bravo series (& you're an alum, as well... marvelous) Inside the Actors Studio |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ADLER-TIZING $800: This woman! This woman! The daughter of Yiddish actors, she taught Marlon Brando "The Method" Stella Adler |
| #6339, aired 2012-03-22 | HOBBIES $800: Add 4 letters to "actors" to get these military devotees, like inauthentic farbs & obsessive stitch counters reenactors |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $200: Citrus fruit belonging to one of the "Grumpy Old Men" Jack's lemons |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $400: A quick kiss on the cheek from the movies' Atticus Finch Gregory's peck |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $600: A Bic belonging to the star of "Milk" Sean's pen |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $800: An accounting book belonging to a "Brokeback Mountain" star Heath's ledger |
| #6321, aired 2012-02-27 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $1000: An inlet on the Scottish coast belonging to a portrayer of king George VI Colin's firth |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | CHILD ACTORS $200: Henry Thomas, who played this role in "E.T.", turned 40 in 2011 Elliott |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | CHILD ACTORS $400: Scott Lookinland played his father, Mike, in the TV movie about the making of this sitcom The Brady Bunch |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | CHILD ACTORS $600: At age 11, this future portrayer of Bella Swan was Jodie Foster's daughter in "Panic Room" Kristen Stewart |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | CHILD ACTORS $800: This kid with a familiar last name is seen here in a 2010 film Jaden Smith |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | CHILD ACTORS $1000: In the 1930s Baby LeRoy played opposite this comedian, who spiked his bottle with gin to shut him up W.C. Fields |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | MELTING POTPOURRI $200: "Our actors", says Prospero, "were all spirits, and Are melted into" this, "into thin" this air |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | CALL ME SHIRLEY $400: The Screen Actors Guild presented this child star with a lifetime achievement award in 2006 Shirley Temple Black |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | MUSICAL THEATER $400: In "Kiss Me, Kate", the characters, as actors, perform this Shakespeare play at Ford's Theatre in Baltimore The Taming of the Shrew |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | ACTORS AS PRESIDENTS $200: Cliff Robertson
in "PT 109" JFK |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | ACTORS AS PRESIDENTS $400: Ralph Bellamy
in "Sunrise at Campobello " FDR |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | ACTORS AS PRESIDENTS $600: 2 presidents: Stephen Dillane & David Morse
in HBO's "John Adams" Washington and Jefferson |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | ACTORS AS PRESIDENTS $800: Kevin Kline
in "Wild Wild West" Grant |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | ACTORS AS PRESIDENTS $1000: Donald Moffat
in "The Right Stuff" LBJ |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $400: As Ricky Bobby:
"Well, let me just quote the late great Col. Sanders who said, 'I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"' Will Ferrell |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $800: In 2006:
"Enough is enough! I have had it with these... snakes on this... plane!" Samuel L. Jackson |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $1200: As Dr. Evil:
"I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with... laser beams attached to their heads!" Mike Myers |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $2,000 (Daily Double): To Marty Feldman:
"It's prounced Fronkonsteen" Gene Wilder |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ACTORS, KNOW YOUR LINES $2000: The dude playing Kirk Lazarus:
"I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!" Robert Downey Jr. |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $200: "Rocky II", "III" & "IV" Sylvester Stallone |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $400: "Million Dollar Baby" &
"Unforgiven" Clint Eastwood |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $600: "The Pledge" &
"Into the Wild" Sean Penn |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $800: "The Great Debaters" Denzel Washington |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | ACTORS WHO DIRECT $1000: "A Bronx Tale" Robert De Niro |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $200: For this WWII film Tom Hanks & the other actors in his squad had to endure a rigorous week of boot camp Saving Private Ryan |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Anastasia & Ilsa Lund Laszlo Ingrid Bergman |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Billy Flynn & Clifford Irving Richard Gere |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: Lon Chaney & George M. Cohan Jimmy Cagney |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Frances Farmer & Patsy Cline Jessica Lange |
| #6041, aired 2010-12-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: Polly Perkins & Pepper Potts Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #5990, aired 2010-10-01 | OUT GROWTHS $800: The actors in a play cast |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $400: Cherry stone for Angelina Jolie's life partner Brad's pit |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $800: Bird belonging to a movie "Gladiator" Russell's crow |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $1200: Breakfast meat belonging to the movies' "Hollow Man" Kevin's bacon |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Rule of conduct by which 2004's "Alfie" lives Jude's law |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $2000: Walking stick for 1966's "Alfie" Michael's cane |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | ACTORS' MOVIE QUOTES $400: 2006:
"We have to put a barrier between us & the snakes" (Samuel) Jackson |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | ACTORS' MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1984:
"Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off" (Pat) Morita |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | STAGE TALK $800: Alliterative term for the return of actors to the stage in response to applause at a play's end curtain call |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | ACTORS' MOVIE QUOTES $1200: 1998:
"The Dude abides" & "This rug... it really tied the room together" Jeff Bridges |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | ACTORS' MOVIE QUOTES $1600: 1997:
"You make me want to be a better man" Nicholson |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | ACTORS' MOVIE QUOTES $5,000 (Daily Double): 1995:
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" Kevin Spacey |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS $1000: It precedes "vivant" in a theatrical scene where actors stand still as if in a picture tableau |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $200: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) He told us, as a struggling actor, he used the pay phone at Pioneer Chicken as his office, before he got "Family Ties" Michael J. Fox |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $400: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) For his pants-less slide in "Risky Business", he said he put wax on the floor to the center of the shot, then dust to help him stop Tom Cruise |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $600: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) He said he loved his show's early scripts, because "Mulder is a complete failure... he's never solved a case. Ever" David Duchovny |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $800: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) He recounted how he himself named his "Gladiator" character; "Narcissus" just wouldn't work Russell Crowe |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $1000: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) He shared with us how the role of Tony Soprano may have driven him, ironically, to the psychiatrist's office James Gandolfini |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS $200: He went "Old School" as a "Wedding Crasher" Vince Vaughn |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS $400: This "X-Files" star went to grad school at Yale but didn't finish his thesis David Duchovny |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS $600: We were "Enchanted" by her performance as Delysia in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" Amy Adams |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS $800: This actor turned to directing & won an Oscar for his first effort--"Ordinary People" Robert Redford |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | ALLITERATIVE ACTORS $1000: Getting caught in the wheels of a machine makes him go berserk in 1936's "Modern Times" Charlie Chaplin |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $400: Seth Rogen voiced a mantis & Dustin Hoffman a small red panda in this 2008 movie Kung Fu Panda |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $800: Voiced by John Cleese, King Harold of "Shrek" fame was originally one of these small creatures frog |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $1200: Chemicals turn Lily Tomlin into this title "Woman" in a 1981 Joel Schumacher film The Incredible Shrinking Woman |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $1600: The return of two kidnapped fairies played by Emi and Yumi caused this winged creature to stop destroying Tokyo Mothra |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $2000: This 1987 film finds Dennis Quaid as a shrunken test pilot mistakenly injected into Martin Short's body Innerspace |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | "E" FOR EFFORT $800: The Screen Actors Guild gives an acting award named for this type of group on a TV series ensemble |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: She sunk her teeth into the role of Jane in 2009's "New Moon" Dakota Fanning |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This "The Hangover" actor has been linked romantically with Renee Zellweger Bradley Cooper |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: Appropriately, this martial arts master's voice is heard in "Kung Fu Panda", as the monkey Jackie Chan |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: In 2009's "Jennifer's Body", she played the title cheerleader with an eating disorder--she's a man-eating demon (Megan) Fox |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: She did most of her own rollerskating as Bliss (aka Babe Ruthless) in "Whip It" Ellen Page |
| #5837, aired 2010-01-19 | THE 3 STOOGES $2,600 (Daily Double): This form of physical comedy associated with the Stooges once referred to a physical object to smack actors slapstick |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg & Ron Kovic Tom Cruise |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Tinkerbell & Erin Brockovich Julia Roberts |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1200: Larry Gigli & George Reeves Ben Affleck |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: Elizabeth Swann & Elizabeth Bennet Keira Knightley |
| #5822, aired 2009-12-29 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $2000: Wyatt Earp & Snake Plissken Kurt Russell |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: 1930s movies were sped up with this type of dialogue in which actors don't let each other finish overlapping |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | SNL ACTORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $200: Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda) Radner |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | SNL ACTORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $400: The Church Lady (Dana) Carvey |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | SNL ACTORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $600: Bill Clinton,
Chris Matthews &
Dick Cheney Darrell Hammond |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | SNL ACTORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $800: Amber, the one-legged, hypoglycemic reality show contestant Amy Poehler |
| #5666, aired 2009-04-06 | SNL ACTORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $1000: The Target Clerk & master of one-upwomanship Penelope (Kristen) Wiig |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | ACTORS' DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS $400: "Dances With Wolves"
(1990) Kevin Costner |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | ACTORS' DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS $800: "Star Trek III:
The Search For Spock"
(1984) Leonard Nimoy |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | ACTORS' DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS $1200: "Paradise Alley"
(1978) Sylvester Stallone |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | ACTORS' DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS $1600: "A Bronx Tale"
(1993) (Robert) De Niro |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | ACTORS' DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS $2000: "Antwone Fisher"
(2002) Denzel Washington |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $200: Actors
Affleck & Seinfeld Ben & Jerry |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: In 1988 Val Kilmer was doomed to play this Dane at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder Hamlet |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: Patrick Stewart prospered as Prospero in this play in 2006 The Tempest |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: You may have witnessed Kelly McGillis as this obsessive hand-washer onstage in 2004 Lady Macbeth |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Wearing just a few small leaves, Judi Dench leaves nothing to the imagination as Titania in this 1968 film A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Roger Rees tried to domesticate Bebe Neuwirth (Good luck!) in a 1999 production of this comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $200: This actress provided the inspiration & voice for Stone Age sexpot Ann-Margrock on "The Flintstones" Ann-Margret |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $400: Pinto Colvig was the original voice of Goofy, but in this 1937 classic he got to be Sleepy & Grumpy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $600: Rip Torn ripped into the role of this supreme Greek god in the Disney film "Hercules" Zeus |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $800: Steve Carrell was elected to be the voice of the Mayor of Whoville in this 2008 flick Horton Hears A Who |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | VERY ANIMATED ACTORS $1000: Sebastian Cabot of "A Family Affair" bagged the role of Bagheera the panther in this 1967 film The Jungle Book |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $400: Det. Mike Lowrey,
Captain James West,
Hancock Will Smith |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $800: Teddy Roosevelt,
Jack Moniker,
Euphegenia Doubtfire Robin Williams |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $1200: Kitty Pryde,
Hayley Stark,
Juno MacGuff Ellen Page |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $1600: Royal Tenenbaum,
Coach Norman Dale,
Lex Luthor Gene Hackman |
| #5517, aired 2008-09-09 | MOVIE ACTORS BY ROLE $2000: Doomed poet Reynaldo Arenas,
implacable killer Anton Chigurh Javier Bardem |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $400: They're the 2 actors who won Oscars for playing Vito Corleone Marlon Brando & Robert De Niro |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD $200: He succeeded Robert Montgomery as Guild president in 1947 & later went on to even bigger things Ronald Reagan |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD $400: Of 12,000, 20,000, or 120,000, the one closest to SAG's current U.S. membership 120,000 |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD $600: In 2008 the SAG Award for a Stunt Ensemble in a Movie went to this Matt Damon Flick The Bourne Ultimatum |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD $800: Nominated for an Oscar in 1998, this "Titanic" co-star was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933 Gloria Stuart |
| #5500, aired 2008-07-04 | THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD $1000: SAG shares jurisdiction over TV actors with this sister union A(merican) F(ederation of) T(elevision and) R(adio) A(rtists) |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | MAN-AGRAMS $2000: The characters played by 6 actors in the 2007 film "I'm Not There" are based on this singer:
BLAND BOY Bob Dylan |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: (Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) I'm a proud member of this union that gave me awards for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series in 2002, 2003 & 2006 the Screen Actors Guild (or SAG) |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $400: "Joliet" Jake Blues John Belushi |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $800: Mrs. Prymaat Conehead Jane Curtin |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $1200: Axel Foley Eddie Murphy |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $1600: Wayne Campbell Mike Myers |
| #5413, aired 2008-03-05 | SNL ACTORS IN THE MOVIES $2000: Joe Dirt David Spade |
| #5389, aired 2008-01-31 | BIT PARTS $1600: Ricky Gervais created this series concerning bit-part actors in England Extras |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | HOUSEHOLD NAMES $400: These 2 actors won Oscars for writing "Good Will Hunting" Ben Affleck and Matt Damon |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE $200: A handful of actors play more than 100 roles in "The 39 Steps", based on this director's 1935 suspense classic Hitchcock |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: He was in as Danny Ocean in a 2001 film & its 2 sequels George Clooney |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: He got an Oscar nomination for playing Danny Archer, a smuggler interested in a "Blood Diamond" DiCaprio |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1,600 (Daily Double): He was detective Scottie Ferguson, whose vertigo caused him to leave the police force Jimmy Stewart |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a gym in Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) I'm at the spot where in a 1938 movie this actor, as Whitey Marsh, is elected mayor of Boys Town Mickey Rooney |
| #5357, aired 2007-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $2000: This 3-named actor gave a gritty performance as Sandman in "Spider-Man 3" Thomas Haden Church |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $800: Instead of human actors, bunraku theatre features these, which are manipulated in full view of the audience puppets |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | WELCOME TO JAPAN $1200: (Kelly stands between two actors.) The kumadori makeup used in this form of Asian theater features red lines on the hero's face and blue on the villain's kabuki |
| #5311, aired 2007-10-15 | POTPOURRI $1000: For one game, minor league baseball's St. Paul Saints used these on top of the dugout to reenact big plays mimes |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | YOUNG ACTORS $400: Hayden Panettiere, seen here, is virtually indestructible on this NBC show Heroes |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | YOUNG ACTORS $800: This "Malcolm in the Middle" star voiced the abandoned zebra stripes in "Racing Stripes" Frankie Muniz |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | YOUNG ACTORS $1600: On a Nick show, Lil' JJ plays a 15-year-old known as "just" him Jordan |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | YOUNG ACTORS $2000: She appeared in "Santa Clause 3" with brother Spencer before being nominated for an Oscar at age 10 in 2007 Abigail Breslin |
| #5308, aired 2007-10-10 | YOUNG ACTORS $2,400 (Daily Double): This "Harry Potter" actress made history in 2005 as the youngest ever to grace the cover of Teen Vogue Emma Watson |
| #5302, aired 2007-10-02 | THE SCINTALLATING 1700s $1600: Born into a family of actors, he was expelled from a seminary (big surprise!) before finding fame as a lusty libertine Casanova |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | WAR STARS $400: Songs like "As Time Goes By" were as much the stars of this 1942 classic as the lead actors Casablanca |
| #5278, aired 2007-07-18 | HOW WAS SCHOOL TODAY? $400: For the school play, this process of choosing actors & assigning parts started--I hope they pick me! casting |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ACTORS ON LOCATION $400: In this 1959 film James Mason is a bad, bad man at the location shown here North by Northwest |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ACTORS ON LOCATION $800: Charlton Heston encounters the item seen here on the beach in this 1968 film Planet of the Apes |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ACTORS ON LOCATION $1200: The landmark seen here is where François Truffaut looks to the skies in this film Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ACTORS ON LOCATION $1600: You're looking at one place Matthew Broderick and Mia Sara have a ball playing hooky in this film Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | ACTORS ON LOCATION $2000: At the spot seen here, Dorothy McGuire & Jean Peters wish for love in this 1954 film Three Coins in the Fountain |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Daniel Radcliffe's role as this bespectacled wizard made him an international star Harry Potter |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: (Hi, I'm James Denton.) After I appeared with this actor in "Face/Off", he helped me get a role in "Primary Colors" John Travolta |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $800: A style of handwriting, or something actors would be lost without script |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1200: In the '80s, he starred in movies like "Can't Buy Me Love" & "Loverboy"; now he's TV's Dr. McDreamy Patrick Dempsey |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: Richard Gere jazzed things up in Harlem as cornet player Dixie Dwyer in this 1984 drama The Cotton Club |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $2000: This versatile Aussie's roles include pianist David Helfgott, a pirate captain & the Marquis de Sade Geoffrey Rush |
| #5245, aired 2007-06-01 | ALSO A SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE $800: Actors Wagner & Redford Roberts |
| #5223, aired 2007-05-02 | BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT... $800: He was a movie star & president of the Screen Actors Guild Reagan |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | WE LOVE BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from a stage set.) Since 1988, more than 10 actors have starred as the Phantom of the Opera here on Broadway, but it was this actor who won the Tony Michael Crawford |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ACTORS IN BONDAGE $400: "Goldfinger" Sean Connery |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ACTORS IN BONDAGE $800: "Moonraker" Roger Moore |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ACTORS IN BONDAGE $1200: "Tomorrow Never Dies" (Pierce) Brosnan |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ACTORS IN BONDAGE $1600: "Licence to Kill" Dalton |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ACTORS IN BONDAGE $2000: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" George Lazenby |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $200: As the coroner in this 1939 film, Meinhardt Raabe said, "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead" The Wizard of Oz |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $400: In between "Austin Powers" movies, this actor played Griphook the Goblin in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" Verne Troyer |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $600: This Parisian-born actor was once nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on "Fantasy Island" Hervé Villechaize |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $800: Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film Poltergeist |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $1000: Peter Dinklage didn't play the title character in this holiday film; he did come to blows with Will Ferrell, though Elf |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $1200: Don Vito Corleone (2 actors) Marlon Brando & Robert De Niro |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $1600: Actors at Peter Quince's house go over "Pyramus & Thisbe" for Hippolyta & Theseus' wedding in this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5105, aired 2006-11-17 | THE "END" $1200: Many out-of-work actors make ends meet as mixologists, this profession a bartender |
| #5089, aired 2006-10-26 | IT'S "TEA" TIME $1000: One of the 2 plays with "tea" in their title that earned Tony Awards for their actors in 1954 (1 of) Teahouse of the August Moon & Tea and Sympathy |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | THE "CAT" $600: An audition open to everyone; it may bring a stampede of actors cattle call |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $400: Over a 20-year period, he played vigilante Paul Kersey in 5 "Death Wish" movies Charles Bronson |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $800: I kid you not! In 1972 he brought his famous role to TV, starring in a sitcom version of "Anna and the King" Yul Brynner |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $1200: Of the actors who have played James Bond, he's the one born in Ireland in 1951 Pierce Brosnan |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $1600: For his starring role in "The Pianist", he shed 30 pounds & brushed up on his arpeggios (Adrien) Brody |
| #5085, aired 2006-10-20 | "B" ACTORS $2000: This Dublin-born actor who's featured in "The Usual Suspects" & "Stigmata" was formerly married to Ellen Barkin (Gabriel) Byrne |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $800: 3 actors got 1982 nominations for acting in drag: Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews & this film's John Lithgow The World According to Garp |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Dubbed the "inventor of tragedy", this Greek poet lends his name to a word for actors Thespis |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $1600: Where the actors are during a theater performance when they're closest to the audience downstage |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: His first regular role on a TV series was as CTU agent Jack Bauer on "24" Kiefer Sutherland |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: In 1994 she was nominated as a supporting actress for "The Firm" & won as best actress for "The Piano" Holly Hunter |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: That's actor Billy Crudup doing the "Priceless" voiceovers in commercials for this credit card MasterCard |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: The actor who brought Gollum to life in "The Lord of the Rings"; you could call him a 3-ring one (Andy) Serkis |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This "Training Day" co-star wrote the novels "The Hottest State" & "Ash Wednesday" Ethan Hawke |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | STAGE ACTING $400: (Cheryl walks around the living room set.) Actors need to remember more than just lines; also this, their assigned movement around the stage blocking |
| #5034, aired 2006-06-29 | STAGE ACTING $600: "Directional" term for pages from a script, given to auditioning actors sides |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | HUMPHREY BOGART $800: In 1947 Bogie joined other actors in protesting the witch hunts conducted by this committee the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: Proverbially, true actors love the roar of the crowd & the smell of this stage makeup greasepaint |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | CITY OF THE DAY: RALEIGH $800: Raleigh boasts a statue of these 2 actors--with fishing poles--as they appeared on a beloved N.C.-set TV series Ron Howard & Andy Griffith |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | GETTING ATTACHED $2000: Actors attach false beards with this "ghostly" substance spirit gum |
| #4956, aired 2006-03-13 | RECENT MOVIES $800: "Crash" totalled the competition & won this union's award for outstanding ensemble performance SAG (Screen Actors Guild) |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: The middle name of this "Kill Bill" star is Karuna & she has a brother named Mipam Uma Thurman |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Born in Vancouver in 1981, on film he "skywalked" into space in 2002 Hayden Christensen |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: A star of the "Matrix" movies, she was named after a Hollies song Carrie-Anne Moss |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: He delivered the "Jaws" speech about the shark attack on the Indianapolis' crew (Robert) Shaw |
| #4892, aired 2005-12-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: OK, one more time: John C. McGinley is on "Scrubs"; this actor played Amos in the 2002 film "Chicago" John C. Reilly |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $400: A 1928 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she won her first acting Oscar in 1934 Katharine Hepburn |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $800: An Oscar winner for 1940, he's seen here playing his accordion on stage at Princeton in the 1930s Jimmy Stewart |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $1200: In the 1950s Jane Fonda attended this New York women's college Vassar |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston & Patricia Neal all studied at this Illinois university founded in 1851 Northwestern |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | ACTORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: 20 years after attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, he won an Oscar in 1945 Bing Crosby |
| #4878, aired 2005-11-23 | A BROADWAY MUSICAL QUIZ $200: "Imagine" 9 different actors playing this man & singing his songs & you've got the 2005 musical named for him (John) Lennon |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | STAR WARS FOREVER $1200: The only actors to be in all 6 "Star Wars" movies are the men who played these 2 robots C-3PO & R2-D2 |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $200: Tony Dow as Wally & this guy as "The Beaver" Jerry Mathers |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $400: "Bonanza" featured Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts & this man as Ben Lorne Greene |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $600: Adam West was Bruce Wayne; this man played Dick Grayson (Burt) Ward |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $800: On "Mission: Impossible" Martin Landau played Rollin Hand & this real-life wife was Cinnamon Carter Barbara Bain |
| #4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $1000: He "Bewitched" us as Uncle Arthur Paul Lynde |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $200: Kate Mulgrew portrayed this legendary Kate in the 2002 play "Tea at Five" Kate Hepburn |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $400: Angus MacFadyen in "Cradle Will Rock" & Liev Schreiber in "RKO 281" played this man who raised "Kane" Orson Welles |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $600: Kevin Kline cut a dashing figure as this silent screen swashbuckler in the film "Chaplin" Douglas Fairbanks |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $800: In a 1983 TV movie, Cheryl Ladd played this regal beauty who knew her way around "High Society" Grace Kelly |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1000: Christopher Plummer is seen here (in profile, of course) in his Tony-winning role as this legend of stage & screen John Barrymore |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | INNER SPACE $400: This room isn't just for actors; it's become part of many master bedroom suites a dressing room |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS $400: 2000:
Maximus Decimus Meridius Russell Crowe |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS $800: 1979:
Ted Kramer Dustin Hoffman |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS $1200: 1996:
Football player Rod Tidwell Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS $1600: 2002:
Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman Adrien Brody |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTORS $2000: 1999:
Lester Burnham Kevin Spacey |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | 2 ACTORS, SAME ROLE $400: Sally Kellerman &
Loretta Swit "Hot Lips" Houlihan |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | 2 ACTORS, SAME ROLE $800: Buddy Ebsen &
Jim Varney Jed Clampett |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | 2 ACTORS, SAME ROLE $1200: Goldie Hawn &
Lorna Patterson Private Benjamin |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | 2 ACTORS, SAME ROLE $1600: Ross Martin &
Kevin Kline Artemus Gordon |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | 2 ACTORS, SAME ROLE $2000: Jonathan Harris &
Gary Oldman Dr. Smith |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $200: At the theatre it's the sole job of--Line!--following the script & reminding actors what to say next prompter |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | REAGAN 101 $800: His term as president of this began in 1947 the Screen Actors Guild |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $1600: Ancient Greek actors wore white lead paint on their faces before switching to this innovation masks |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | HAMLET $1600: The text in this 1623 volume includes possible ad libs by actors, like a sudden cry of "O, vengeance!" the First Folio |
| #4660, aired 2004-12-03 | AT "EASE" $1000: Waxy, colored makeup used by actors greasepaint |
| #4651, aired 2004-11-22 | STUPID ANSWERS $200: In 2002 Melissa Gilbert was reelected president of this guild formed by actors of the silver screen the Screen Actors Guild |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | STAR WARS $400: (Mark Hamill reads.) This villain was portrayed by three different actors: one did his voice, one did his physical acting, & one did his stunts Darth Vader |
| #4632, aired 2004-10-26 | O FOR A $1600: The price for the group of actors in a play the cost for the cast |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda & Jimmy Stewart won Oscars when starring with this lady Katharine Hepburn |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: In "Honeymoon in Vegas", poker player James Caan wins a weekend with Nicolas Cage's girl, played by her Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: His many roles have ranged from villain to Jesus Willem Dafoe |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Jose Ferrer in 1952 & John Leguizamo in 2001 played this artist Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: Kate Winslet was Ophelia to Branagh's Hamlet & she was Ophelia to Mel Gibson's Helena Bonham Carter |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: In 1982 he played Broadway as Cassio to James Earl Jones' Othello (Frasier Crane would be impressed) (Kelsey) Grammer |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: In 1968, in Canada, Christopher Walken got romantic as this member of the Montague family Romeo |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: Christopher Plummer is seen here in his searing 2004 performance as this mad monarch King Lear |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: Now an assistant DA on television, he's seen here in 1968 playing Prince Hal in "Henry IV, Part II" Sam Waterston |
| #4573, aired 2004-06-23 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Quick, name this dame who played Mistress Quickly in Kenneth Branagh's film of "Henry V" Judi Dench |
| #4557, aired 2004-06-01 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $1200: In the operetta "Thespis", a troupe of actors takes over the duties on this mountain so the gods can go on vacation Olympus |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Emma Watson made her acting debut as this bookish friend of Harry Potter Hermione Granger |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Ian Holm plays this older hobbit in the first "Lord of the Rings" film Bilbo Baggins |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: This "Sabrina" star has a production compay called Heartbreak Films Melissa Joan Hart |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: Jinkies! It wasn't too much of a stretch for him to play Fred in the "Scooby-Doo" movies Freddie Prinze Jr. |
| #4537, aired 2004-05-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: He's the Nick star seen here Nick Cannon |
| #4530, aired 2004-04-23 | WHAT IS IT ABOUT HIM? $1200: Some politicians & some actors & he have this, from the Greek for "favor" charisma |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $400: You might take a taxi to watch the nightclub act of this star seen here Tony Danza |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $800: This "Sex and the City" actress starred in a 1996 revival of the Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $1200: It's worth renting "Heartburn" just to hear this actor sing the "Soliloquy" from "Carousel" Jack Nicholson |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $1600: Joey Lawrence was on this hit sitcom in 1993 when he had a Top 20 hit with "Nothin' My Love Can't Fix" Blossom |
| #4517, aired 2004-04-06 | SINGING ACTORS $2000: Nicole Kidman teamed up with British pop star Robbie Williams on a 2001 version of this Frank & Nancy Sinatra duet "Something Stupid" |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | WOMEN WITH 40-TUDE $1200: In her 40 years she's married a Brinkman & a Boxleitner & been president of the Screen Actors Guild (Melissa) Gilbert |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | CELEBRITY NAMES $800: Popular in Britain, it's the name shared by actors Farrell & Firth Colin |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE $2000: The play "Breath" by this author of "Waiting for Godot" has no dialogue, no actors & lasts only 35 seconds Samuel Beckett |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | SUCCESSORS $1200: James Cagney was a tough actor to follow as president of this, but George Murphy did it in 1944 Screen Actors Guild |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | WEBSTER'S 1806 DICTIONARY $2000: A tiringroom is used by actors to do this in change |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | I FEEL LIKE SUCH AN IDIOM! $600: On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth must have taken literally this 3-word actors' phrase meaning "good luck" break a leg |
| #4374, aired 2003-09-18 | TODAY'S FORECAST $1600: Hire too many actors for your play, or toss your fishing line out too far overcast |
| #4346, aired 2003-06-23 | CABLE TV $200: A shout of approval to an actor, or the cable network of "Inside the Actors Studio" Bravo |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $200: Lorraine Bracco dared to go bare when she took over the role of Mrs. Robinson in this play based on a film The Graduate |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $400: This "Independence Day" co-star was in a league of his own as a real animal lover in Edward Albee's play "The Goat" Bill Pullman |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $600: "Gantry", a 1970 musical version of "Elmer Gantry", featured this "West Side Story" Oscar winner as Sister Sharon Rita Moreno |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the stage of the Neil Simon Theater in NYC)
This actor who's just divine as Tracy's mom in "Hairspray" wrote & starred in the play "Torch Song Trilogy" Harvey Fierstein |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $1000: When the Neil Simon Theater got its name in '83, this young actor was starring there in Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" Matthew Broderick |
| #4339, aired 2003-06-12 | ON THE STAGE $200: 2 actors play a townful of characters in the comedy "Stones in His Pockets", set in County Kerry in this country Ireland |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $400: As a teenager this "Gladiator" star recorded the song "I Want to Be Like Marlon Brando" under the name Rus Le Roc Russell Crowe |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $800: Actor heard here in the Broadway musical "Greenwillow" the same year he starred in a Hitchcock film Anthony Perkins |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $1200: This "Goodfella" sang "Yo Cousin Vinny" on his "Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You" CD Joe Pesci |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $1600: In 2001 this Oscar winner sang "Angelina", a romantic tribute to his fifth wife, on his album "Private Radio" Billy Bob Thornton |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | SINGING ACTORS $2000: Fans of her "Star Trek" role as Uhura go into orbit when they listen to her "Out of This World" CD Nichelle Nichols |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the set of The Producers.) According to the cast of "The Producers", actors say this three-word phrase, instead of "Good luck" "Break a leg" |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from backstage at the Gershwin Theatre.) These are the areas just offstage, & actors wait in them to make their entrances the wings |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew has snuck into the dressing room of Hairspray.) It's considered bad luck to mention the name of this play in the dressing room; actors call it "The Scottish Play" Macbeth |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $1000: (Jimmy and the rest of the Clue Crew, on stage at the St. James Theatre.) It's the two-word term for the event after a play when the actors appear to take their bows a curtain call |
| #4273, aired 2003-03-12 | BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT $600: He began his term as president in 1947 (president of the Screen Actors Guild, that is) Ronald Reagan |
| #4204, aired 2002-12-05 | THEATER $400: Method actors know Konstantin Stanislavsky opened his influential theater in this capital city in 1898 Moscow |
| #4200, aired 2002-11-29 | TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE $2000: (Pun!) A quartet of old Roman predictors of the future, or several actors in a Shakespearean play four soothsayers ("Forsooth" sayers) |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: She married her boyfriend, cameraman Danny Moder, in a secret midnight ceremony on July 4, 2002 Julia Roberts |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This TV "Friend" won critical raves for her role as "The Good Girl" in a 2002 film Jennifer Aniston |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: In a 2002 blockbuster, he played both Peter Parker & your friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man Tobey Maguire |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: He played Will Freeman in "About a Boy", based on the book of the same name by Nick Hornby Hugh Grant |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This star of "XXX" was also the voice of the title character in 1999's "The Iron Giant" Vin Diesel |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $400: Ashley Judd, Catherine Hicks & Mira Sorvino have all played this sex symbol in TV movies or miniseries Marilyn Monroe |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $800: This beauty played not only herself but her own mother in a 1980 TV movie (hint: Rip Torn played Carlo Ponti) Sophia Loren |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1200: Marcia Gay Harden played this sultry second wife in the 1992 miniseries "Sinatra" Ava Gardner |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1600: (Hi, I'm Virginia Madsen.) In a 1985 TV movie, Robert Mitchum played William Randolph Hearst & I played this actress, Hearst's longtime mistress (Marion) Davies |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $2000: He was best known for his role on "Marcus Welby" before he played Clark Gable in "Gable and Lombard" James Brolin |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: In 2001 she denied reports of a $20 million offer to reprise her role as Ripley for "Alien 5" Sigourney Weaver |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Born in NYC in 1955, this Oscar winner has played a thief, a nun, a psychic & an intergalactic bartender Whoopi Goldberg |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe & Raquel Welch (in poster form) help Tim Robbins escape prison in this 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: "Don't Look Now", "Darling", but this beauty gave one of her finest performances in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" Julie Christie |
| #4106, aired 2002-06-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Washington, D.C.) In "The Exorcist", Jason Miller as this priest falls down the steps here, now known as "The Exorcist Steps" Father Damien Karras |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: When Jamie-Lynn Sigler auditioned to play Meadow on this HBO series she "had no idea it was about the mob" The Sopranos |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: On a CBS series, Marg Helgenberger plays a C.S.I., which stands for this type of sleuth a crime scene investigator |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $600: Concetta Tomei, who isn't really a smoker, lights up herbal cigarettes as Melina Kanakaredes' mom on this series Providence |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $800: Simbi Khali, seen here, played the beleaguered assistant to Dr. Albright & Dr. Solomon on this sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #4075, aired 2002-04-26 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $1000: This actor began starring on "Combat' in 1962, the year his daughter Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Vic Morrow |
| #4061, aired 2002-04-08 | WHAT'S "D" MATTER? $800: Bela Lugosi & Gary Oldman are counted among the actors who have played this movie role Dracula |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: In his third outing as Crocodile Dundee, he left the outback for Los Angeles (Paul) Hogan |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Played by Brendan Fraser, he's the hapless lawman seen here with his beloved horse, "Horse." Dudley Do-Right |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1200: He played the lead in the movies "Rob Roy", "Michael Collins" & "Schindler's List" Liam Neeson |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1600: 31 years after McQueen, Steve McQueen, this actor played the lead in the new "Thomas Crown Affair" Pierce Brosnan |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $2000: Ewan McGregor portrayed this aspiring Irish writer in the 2000 movie "Nora" James Joyce |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | GOTTA RUN! $200: Life was a drag for these 2 actors when they dolled up like dames to flee the mob in "Some Like It Hot" Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | '80s TV $1,000 (Daily Double): As divorced apartment-mates, black actors Ron Glass & Demond Wilson were "The New" this Odd Couple |
| #4026, aired 2002-02-18 | ENDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1995 the marriage of these Shakespearean actors & co-stars did wither like the leaf in autumn's chill Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $400: Che sera sera! We loved Antonio Banderas' singing when he played Che in this Madonna movie Evita |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $800: Using the stage name Rainbo, she recorded a song about John & Yoko before starringin films like "Carrie" Sissy Spacek |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $1200: While studying acting in Manhattan, this "Manhattan" actress sang in a rock band called the Roadrunners Diane Keaton |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $1600: A "wolf" whistle for this actress who, as the voice of Tzipporah, sang "When You Believe" in "The Prince of Egypt" Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | ACTORS WHO SING $2000: His starring role as Bo Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard" kick-started his recording career John Schneider |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $400: Gabriel Byrne was born in this world capital & acted with its Abbey Theatre Dublin |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $800: 1 of the 2 successful actress daughters of "Tom Jones" director Tony Richardson Natasha Richardson (or Joely) |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $1200: This star of "Jean de Florette" & "Cyrano de Bergerac" did some boxing before becoming an actor Gerard Depardieu |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $1600: Her husband Franco Cristaldi tried to make her the sexy successor to Loren & Lollobrigida Claudia Cardinale |
| #4000, aired 2002-01-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $2000: This renowned star of Japanese films played Lord Toranaga in the TV miniseries "Shogun" Toshiro Mifune |
| #3986, aired 2001-12-24 | CHRISTMAS PRESENTS $800: In this now "digital" home viewing format, movies may include extra footage & interviews with the actors DVDs |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | MOVIE TRAILERS $800: These married sitcom actors were saddled with the title object in 1954's "The Long, Long Trailer" Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz |
| #3969, aired 2001-11-29 | THE 20th CENTURY PLAY'S THE THING $1600: "Nothing On" is the farce performed by the actors in this Michael Frayn comedy Noises Off |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $600: James Lipton, seen here, hosts the cable TV series that takes us inside this famed acting school the Actors Studio |
| #3944, aired 2001-10-25 | DON'T LISTEN TO THEM! $200: An Actors Studio founder once said of this play, "Who wants to see a play about an unhappy traveling salesman?" Death of a Salesman |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $100: Matt Damon showed off his talent in this "talented" title role in 1999 Mr. Ripley |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: Clint Eastwood directed & starred in this 2000 film that could have been called "Grumpy Old Astronauts" Space Cowboys |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $300: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rides the Ferris wheel at the Orange County Fair.) Joseph Cotten & Orson Welles took a famous ride in a Ferris wheel in this classic 1949 film noir The Third Man |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: This Georgia-born actress earned an Oscar nomination for playing Sally Field's Southern daughter in "Steel Magnolias" Julia Roberts |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $500: (Hi, I'm Virginia Madsen.) I played Princess Irulan in this 1984 David Lynch film based on Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel Dune |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | FAKING IT $500: An offstage area where prompters whispered lines to actors gave us this phrase for impromptu performing winging it |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | GRANDKIDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Louisa Drew, known for playing Mrs. Malaprop, was the grandmother of 3 famous actors with this last name Barrymore |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "ACT" UP $400: NYC school of Palance, Brando & Newman the Actors Studio |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES $400: For practice, many Hollywood actors memorize one of these long passages in a play spoken by only one character Soliloquy/monologue |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES $500: They're the 2 main unions that represent professional TV & film actors in Hollywood AFTRA & SAG |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $200: Nominated for Best Actor for "Good Morning, Vietnam", he won for support in "Good Will Hunting" Robin Williams |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $400: Mister Robards won for "Julia"; he won for "Mister Roberts" Jack Lemmon |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $600: He served up a Best Supporting Actor performance in "Arthur" Sir John Gielgud |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $800: Kevin Kline "caught" a 1988 supporting Oscar for his role in this comedy A Fish Called Wanda |
| #3864, aired 2001-05-24 | OSCAR'S SUPPORTING ACTORS $1000: In the '70s he was in his 70s when he "earned" an Oscar as Professor Kingsfield in "The Paper Chase" John Houseman |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | SEEING DOUBLE $400: These 2 actors were the genetically designed "Twins" in a 1988 film comedy Danny DeVito & Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| #3855, aired 2001-05-11 | YOUTH IN ASIA $600: Young actors like Rani Mukherjee perform in movies in "Bollywood" in this populous Asian country India |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | YOUNG ACTORS & ROLES $200: A college student in real life, Zhang Ziyi played the daughter of a nobleman in this 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | YOUNG ACTORS & ROLES $400: The Aussie teen film "Blackrock" introduced this young hunk who played Mel Gibson's son in "The Patriot" Heath Ledger |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | YOUNG ACTORS & ROLES $600: The new Broadway musical "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" features Kristen Bell as this young lady Becky Thatcher |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | YOUNG ACTORS & ROLES $800: Heather Headley, seen here, won a Tony Award in 2000 for playing the title role in this Elton John musical Aida |
| #3848, aired 2001-05-02 | YOUNG ACTORS & ROLES $2,000 (Daily Double): Jena Malone played fledgling astronomer Ellie Arroway in this 1997 film; Jodie Foster played Ellie as an adult Contact |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $100: In 1927 Harry of the Warner Bros. said, "Who the hell wants to hear actors" do this Talk |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | SHOW BIZ SAYINGS $400: Completes the saying "There are no small parts...." There are just small actors |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | SHOW BIZ SAYINGS $500: An old adage tells actors never to work with either of these 2 adorable groups Children or animals |
| #3833, aired 2001-04-11 | OLD RADIO ADVENTURES $600: When "The Adventures of" this pair first appeared on radio, actors played their sons David & Ricky Ozzie & Harriet |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $200: This Mouseketeer hadn't been to a "Beach Party" yet when she played Anita Cabrillo on TV's "Zorro" in the '50s Annette Funicello |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $400: He was TV's Opie when he co-starred with Johnny Cash in the 1961 thriller "Door-to-Door Maniac" Ron Howard |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $600: Eileen Brennan reprised her movie role as Captain Lewis in this sitcom based on a Goldie Hawn film Private Benjamin |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $800: This co-star of "Just Shoot Me" earned a 1966 Oscar nomination for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" George Segal |
| #3810, aired 2001-03-09 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $1000: This Brit battled pirates on the '50s TV series "The Buccaneers" long before he battled a movie shark in "Jaws" Robert Shaw |
| #3809, aired 2001-03-08 | "PEP" BOYS $400: He trained at the Actors Studio before starring on "Banacek" & "The A-Team" George Peppard |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: Dule Hill, seen here, plays the president's personal aide on this series The West Wing |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Thomas Cavanagh finds out that law & bowling are up his alley in this heartwarming NBC series Ed |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: (Hi, I'm Greg Proops.) I once performed my own version of this 1939 film for Radio Scotland; I played all the parts, even the winged monkeys The Wizard of Oz |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: In a 1996 film, Denzel Washington tried to find out if Meg Ryan had this title quality Courage Under Fire |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: You could say Dan Aykroyd's role as this director in "Chaplin" was the "Keystone" of the film Mack Sennett |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $100: Her relative Sydney Kidman was a cattle baron who owned huge swaths of outback Nicole Kidman |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $200: Toshiro Mifune & this director with whom he made 16 films died less than a year apart Akira Kurosawa |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $300: This British veteran's films include "Tom Jones", "Under the Volcano" & "Erin Brockovich" Albert Finney |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $400: This blonde beauty from South Africa gained notice when she grappled with Teri Hatcher in "2 Days in the Valley" Charlize Theron |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $500: Seen here, she was born in Paris & starred in "An American Werewolf in Paris" Julie Delpy |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | THE VENETIAN $1,000 (Daily Double): Born the son of actors in 1725, this legendary Venetian lover originally planned a career in the priesthood Giacomo Casanova |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | GRUMPY OLD MEN $400: This director denied that he said, "Actors are cattle"; "What I said was actors should be treated like cattle" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: Once Tommy Mullaney on "L.A. Law", John Spencer now plays White House chief of staff Leo McGarry on this series The West Wing |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: Barbra Streisand knows he played Lt. Col. Bill "Raider" Kelly on "Pensacola: Wings of Gold" James Brolin |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) I played Don Kirshner in VH1's TV movie about this quartet who sang "Daydream Believer" The Monkees |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: Teri Hatcher looked "shipshape" as one of the singing "mermaids" who jumped on board this cruisin' series in 1985 The Love Boat |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: On "Saturday Night Live", he's famous for playing Craig the Cheerleader, Janet Reno & moi Will Ferrell |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | I GOT AN "F"! $400: A chambermaid does it to your pillow; forgetful actors do it to their lines fluff |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $200: Her TV roles include lifeguard C.J. Parker & "V.I.P." Vallery Irons; on film she was Barb Wire Pamela Anderson Lee |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $400: Before he was Dharma's Greg, he co-starred in the 1994 Whit Stillman film "Barcelona" Thomas Gibson |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $600: She played Craig T. Nelson's daughter on the '80s series "Call to Glory" before "Leaving Las Vegas" Elisabeth Shue |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $800: Ashley Judd spent several seasons playing Swoosie Kurtz' daughter on this series Sisters |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $1000: Jennifer Saunders was in "Spice World" & played Edina on this sitcom about 2 spicy British women Absolutely Fabulous |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $200: In Adolphe Menjou's last film, he got cheered up by Hayley Mills as this optimistic little girl Pollyanna |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: He's the film & TV favorite seen here Brian Keith |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $600: Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars as Father Fitzgibbon in this film Going My Way |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Seen here, this woman from an acting family livened up many '90s movies Joan Cusack |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: In 1972 this bug-eyed Brit seen in "Young Frankenstein" had his own TV "Comedy Machine" Marty Feldman |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | MOVIE L.A. $300: This guild whose past presidents include Ronald Reagan is headquartered at 5757 Wilshire Screen Actors Guild |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: James Coburn shot to fame in 1960 as part of this title film septet The Magnificent Seven |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: TV's Sergeant Bilko, he cavorted on film in "Cover Girl" (but not in the title role) Phil Silvers |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Ricki Lake appeared as a bridesmaid in this film that starred Melanie Griffith as an ambitious secretary Working Girl |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: A child slave on film in "The Ten Commandments", Kathy Garver also played Buffy & Jody's sister on this sitcom Family Affair |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: Ian McKellen was crowned with a Golden Globe Award in 1997 for playing this czar in the HBO film "Rasputin" Nicholas II |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: Jay Scott Greenspan began using this stage name as a teen, long before he played George Costanza Jason Alexander |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: (Hi, I'm Liza Huber of the NBC soap opera "Passions") In January 2000 my real-life mom, Susan Lucci, celebrated the 30th anniversary of her debut on this soap opera All My Children |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Ex-fashion model Wendie Malick struts her stuff as ex-fashion model Nina Van Horn on this sitcom Just Shoot Me! |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Andrea McArdle was still a kid herself when she played this great child star in the 1978 TV movie "Rainbow" Judy Garland |
| #3650, aired 2000-06-16 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: In the summer of '66 she said farewell to "Peyton Place" & married Frank Sinatra Mia Farrow |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $200: The 1973 movie musical "Tom Sawyer" featured young Jodie Foster in this role Becky Thatcher |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $400: (Hi, I'm Francesco Quinn of The Young And The Restless.) I played Rhah the drug king in this Oliver Stone film that won the 1986 Best Picture Oscar Platoon |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $600: Swoosie Kurtz appeared as Uma Thurman's mother in this 1988 film about hazardous trysts Dangerous Liaisons |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $800: Despite his role as tobacco co. whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in "The Insider", this actor still smokes Russell Crowe |
| #3634, aired 2000-05-25 | MOVIE ACTORS $1000: She played Moses' wife in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments" (& Herman Munster's wife on TV) Yvonne De Carlo |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: In 1998 Alec Baldwin & Angela Bassett co-starred on the New York stage as this pair of Scottish schemers Macbeth & Lady Macbeth |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: Hal Holbrook portrayed this malevolent moneylender in a 1999 production of "The Merchant Of Venice" Shylock |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: 1989 was a good year for this actor: he starred in "Hamlet" onstage & "My Left Foot" on film Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: In 1966 Jon Voight was onstage in San Diego playing this airy sprite in "The Tempest" Ariel |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Katharine Hepburn played Beatrice to Alfred Drake's Benedick in a 1957 staging of this "ado"rable comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #3632, aired 2000-05-23 | LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $500: Shaun Cassidy was 10 years old when these actors, his parents, starred in the 1968 musical "Maggie Flynn" Jack Cassidy & Shirley Jones |
| #3624, aired 2000-05-11 | EX-RATED LATIN $1000: In Shakespeare, when this stage direction is followed by "Omnes", all the actors leave the stage Exeunt |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | "SUB" CATEGORY $300: The voices of John, Paul, George & Ringo were dubbed by actors for most of this film Yellow Submarine |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: In 1996 Elijah Wood played Sandy, a pal to this title dolphin Flipper |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: In "Dragon" Lauren Holly played this martial artist's wife, Linda Bruce Lee |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: (Hi, I'm Kevin Spirtas from Days of Our Lives.) In 1994 I played Hollywood agent Tim Burke in a TV mini-series based on this Jacqueline Susann bestseller Valley of the Dolls |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: He could have played himself in "Man on the Moon", but he played Andy's manager George Shapiro Danny DeVito |
| #3612, aired 2000-04-25 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: This Cambodian-born doctor won an Oscar for his portrayal of Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields" Haing S. Ngor |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: Martin Milner & DeForest Kelley played James & Morgan Earp in 1957's "Gunfight at" this place The OK Corral |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: Hal Holbrook played the head of a sinister group of lawyers in this 1993 film based on a novel The Firm |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $600: John Ritter was acclaimed for his portrayal of a small-town gay man in this 1996 Billy Bob Thornton film Sling Blade |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $800: Minoru Chiaki, the last surviving member of this Kurosawa film septet, passed away in November 1999 Seven Samurai |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $1000: In the 1944 classic "Gaslight", Terry Moore played the teenage Paula & this actress played the gaslit adult Paula Ingrid Bergman |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | THE MOVIES $800: The father of actors David, Keith & Robert, he played Moses' brother Aaron in "The Ten Commandments" John Carradine |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $200: "Fantasy Island"'s Tattoo, he played Nick Nack in the James Bond flick "The Man With The Golden Gun" Herve Villechaize |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $400: (Hi, I'm Richard Kind of "Spin City".) I provided the voice of Molt, the annoying grasshopper, in this 1998 animated Disney film A Bug's Life |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $600: She found out about "Sex And The City" in "L.A. Story" & "Honeymoon In Vegas" Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $800: He appeared as Ali MacGraw's dad in "Goodbye, Columbus" before he was TV's Oscar Madison Jack Klugman |
| #3583, aired 2000-03-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $1000: John Mahoney of "Frasier" played one of the guys who sold aluminum siding in this Barry Levinson film Tin Men |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | ACTORS & MOVIE ROLES $200: He played a fashion show bartender in the Michael J. Fox film "Bright Lights, Big City" (Would Niles Crane approve?) David Hyde Pierce |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | ACTORS & MOVIE ROLES $400: We were "Mad About" his performance as a bad guy named Burke in "Aliens" Paul Reiser |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | ACTORS & MOVIE ROLES $600: Christopher Plummer has won wide acclaim for his performance in this role seen here:
"Delivery device for nicotine. Put it in your mouth, light it up, and you're gonna get your face..." Mike Wallace |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | ACTORS & MOVIE ROLES $1000: He played the CIA chief in "No Way Out"; now he represents Tennessee in the U.S. Senate Fred (Dalton) Thompson |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | ACTORS & MOVIE ROLES $5,000 (Daily Double): The mysterious title character Ralph Fiennes played in this 1996 film was actually Hungarian The English Patient |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | FILM ROLES IN COMMON $200: Actors who've played this role include Moore, Roger Moore & Dalton, Timothy Dalton James Bond |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $100: In his teens, this star of "Easy Rider" & "Blue Velvet" was a Shakespearean actor at the Old Globe in San Diego Dennis Hopper |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: Helen Mirren was only about 20 when she played this Egyptian at the Old Vic in 1965 Cleopatra |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $300: We'd like to see the 1953 TV production of "Othello" -- it featured Walter Matthau as this villain Iago |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: A 1955 production of this play featured Roddy McDowall as Ariel, Jerry Stiller as Trinculo & Jack Palance as Caliban "The Tempest" |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $500: Christopher Walken played this famous "heel" in "Troilus and Cressida" in 1973 Achilles |
| #3526, aired 1999-12-27 | THE MONROE DOCTRINE $300: Monroe studied acting at his Actors Studio in New York for a year Lee Strasberg |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: In 1982 this series was retitled "Little House: A New Beginning" & Shannen Doherty joined the cast as Almanzo's niece Little House on the Prairie |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: She was seen as Eileen on the '80s sitcom "Day By Day" before she played Elaine on "Seinfeld" Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: He was playing Rev. Fordwick on "The Waltons" when he was cast as the irreverent Jack Tripper on "Three's Company" John Ritter |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: (Hi, I'm Richard Kind of Spin City.) I played Mark, the ex-husband of Jamie Buchman's friend Fran, on this NBC sitcom Mad About You |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: This hostess of PBS' "Mystery!" series also stars in "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" Diana Rigg |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | TV DETECTIVES $600: These 2 actors were "Moonlighting" as the Blue Moon Detective Agency's Maddie Hayes & David Addison Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis |
| #3493, aired 1999-11-10 | FAMOUS NEW YORKERS $100: Actors born in Peekskill, N.Y. include Paul "Pee Wee Herman" Reubens & this "Road Warrior" Mel Gibson |
| #3490, aired 1999-11-05 | LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION MOVIE! $1000: These 2 actors play detectives Riggs & Murtaugh in the "Lethal Weapon" movies Mel Gibson & Danny Glover |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | ACTORS' RHYME TIME $200: Michael J.'s containers Fox's boxes |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | ACTORS' RHYME TIME $400: Cybill's large cats Shepherd's leopards |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | ACTORS' RHYME TIME $600: Nolte's films Nick's flicks |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | ACTORS' RHYME TIME $800: Torn's witticisms Rip's quips |
| #3480, aired 1999-10-22 | ACTORS' RHYME TIME $1000: Calista's collection of photos of actress June Flockhart's Lockharts |
| #3477, aired 1999-10-19 | LET'S PUT ON A PLAY $800: Founded in 1913, this stage actors' union represents about 40,000 members in the U.S. Equity |
| #3470, aired 1999-10-08 | FIRST LADIES $100: She married husband Ronnie in 1952 when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild Nancy (Davis) Reagan |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $200: His role as a suspected killer in the 1999 revival of "Night Must Fall" was a far cry from Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $400: Jeremy Kushnier cuts loose in the Kevin Bacon role in the musical based on this 1984 film; "Let's Hear It for the Boy" Footloose |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $600: (Hi, I'm Jane Seymour.) I starred on Broadway as Mozart's wife in this acclaimed drama Amadeus |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: He was first famous as a comedian, but now he's into more serious stuff in movies like "Patch Adams" Robin Williams |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This actress who's been in "E.T." & "Never Been Kissed" was a little scamp when she was your age Drew Barrymore |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: This actor from Scotland plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" Ewan McGregor |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: On "Home Improvement", 3-name kids included Zachery Ty Bryan, Taran Noah Smith & him as Randy Jonathan Taylor Thomas |
| #3448, aired 1999-09-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This "Suddenly Susan" star sadly split from tennis star Andre Agassi in 1999 Brooke Shields |
| #3446, aired 1999-09-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $500: As Jim West & Artemus Gordon, these 2 actors rode into the "Wild Wild West" in 1999 Will Smith & Kevin Kline |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: His career wasn't "Titanic" yet when he played the teenaged Garry on the 1990 sitcom "Parenthood" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: His brother George played detective Stavros on his hit TV series "Kojak" Telly Savalas |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: Jonathan Winters provided many mirthful moments as Mearth, the enormous child of this title couple Mork & Mindy |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: Raymond Massey played Anton the Spymaster in this series with the same title as one starring Cosby & Culp I Spy |
| #3443, aired 1999-07-21 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: She played Lola the Cigarette Girl on "The Morey Amsterdam Show" before she wrote "Valley of the Dolls" Jacqueline Susann |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | AMERICANA $400: The Actors Theatre of this Kentucky city is housed in a national historic landmark Louisville |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | TELEVISION $800: Guy Williams won this swashbuckling role because he was one of the few actors tested who could fence Zorro |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Irish actress Roma Downey is downright "heavenly" as Monica on this CBS series Touched by an Angel |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Before he became TV's "Beaver", he appeared in Hitchcock's film "The Trouble with Harry" Jerry Mathers |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: She won her first Oscar, as Best Supporting Actress of 1979, for playing Joanna Kramer Meryl Streep |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: In 1978 she played Brooke Shields' mother in 2 different films, "Pretty Baby" & "King of the Gypsies" Susan Sarandon |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Autumn Sonata" was not only this actress' last feature film but her last film in her native language, Swedish Ingrid Bergman |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: Her real name is Donna Miller; another actress had the same name, so she changed hers to this Donna Mills |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: In the 1930s this heartthrob was so popular he was known as "The King of Hollywood" Clark Gable |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Of John Gielgud, Henry Irving or Laurence Olivier, the first English actor to be knighted Henry Irving (back in the 1800s) |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: This "Fair Lady" of film starred on Broadway in a non-musical version of "Gigi" in 1951 Audrey Hepburn |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: He once played young Tom Hughes on "As The World Turns" but he's better known as John-Boy Walton Richard Thomas |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: Christopher Walken played this doomed Dane twice, in 1974 & 1982 Hamlet |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: We assume his portrayal of Macbeth in college was a far cry from his current TV role, Andy Sipowicz Dennis Franz |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: In 1986 she played Portia in "The Merchant of Venice" onstage & starred in the film "Aliens" Sigourney Weaver |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $800: In San Diego in the mid-'60s, you could have seen him play Romeo before "Midnight Cowboy" made him a star Jon Voight |
| #3396, aired 1999-05-17 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $2,200 (Daily Double): When he directed "King Lear" onstage in the early '90s, he cast Emma Thompson as the fool Kenneth Branagh |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Jean Marsh of "Upstairs/Downstairs" played Antony's wife Octavia in this Taylor-&-Burton epic Cleopatra |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He wasn't an Oscar winner yet when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola directed him in "Rumble Fish" in 1983 Nicolas Cage |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: Shirley Eaton played the gilded glamour gal in this 1964 spy classic Goldfinger |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Originally named Susan Stockard, she found fame & fortune when she co-starred in "The Fortune" in 1975 Stockard Channing |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This leading man of "Speed II" was first seen onscreen in the futuristic flick "Solarbabies" Jason Patric |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | AN ACTOR'S LIFE $200: Ed Asner, Charlton Heston & Ronald Reagan have been president of this actors union SAG (Screen Actors Guild) |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | FAMOUS PARTNERS $300: By their last names, it looks like the actors seen here, partnered in 1997, were actors under aliases Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | AN ACTOR'S LIFE $400: Pat Kingsley of PMK is one of the most famous of these people who keep actors' names in the news publicist |
| #3359, aired 1999-03-25 | UNIVERSAL "STUDIO"s $400: Marlon Brando, James Dean & Paul Newman studied under Lee Strasberg as a part of this group the Actors Studio |
| #3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DON'T LISTEN TO THEM! $300: "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" asked one of these Hollywood "Brothers" in 1927 the Warner Brothers |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | TV's SUPPORTING ACTORS $100: Her long-running variety show featured supporting actors Tim Conway & Harvey Korman Carol Burnett |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | TV's SUPPORTING ACTORS $200: The first 3 Supporting Actor Emmys went to this man, Jackie Gleason's comic foil Art Carney |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | TV's SUPPORTING ACTORS $300: On "The Waltons", Will Geer played Zeb, whom all the kids called this Grandpa |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | TV's SUPPORTING ACTORS $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Gordon Clapp of NYPD Blue.) I won the 1998 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing this character Greg Medavoy |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | TV's SUPPORTING ACTORS $500: In 1986 John Malkovich played Biff Loman in a CBS production of this play Death of a Salesman |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $200: During rehearsals, the director arranges the actors' movements in a process known by this "wooden" name Blocking |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: He played a box of lemon chiffon pie mix in a TV commercial long before playing Sam on "Cheers" Ted Danson |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: This actor starred as Tom Dooley in the film seen here in 1959, the same year he hit it big on TV Michael Landon |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: This star of "Suddenly Susan" disguised herself as a man in the 1984 film "Sahara" Brooke Shields |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Once Miss U.S.A., Laura Harring played a police officer on this, Aaron Spelling's first daytime soap Sunset Beach |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: In her last years, this chic star of the 1954 film "Sabrina" was a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF Audrey Hepburn |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: This violet-eyed beauty was 12 years old when she starred in "National Velvet" in 1944 Elizabeth Taylor |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Oops! When she won a Golden Globe for "Chicago Hope", she was in the ladies' room Christine Lahti |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This star of "Hard Rain" did some hard time in 1998 Christian Slater |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jerry Orbach.) I had the time of my life playing Jennifer Grey's father in this 1987 film Dirty Dancing |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: Sam Elliott co-starred with this "Butch Cassidy" actress in "The Legacy" before he became her husband Katharine Ross |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: In the 1998 TV movie "Dallas: War of the Ewings", another attempt was made on this Larry Hagman character's life J.R. Ewing |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: As a child in the early '70s, Jodie Foster played Eddie's pal Joey on this Bill Bixby series The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: Lara Flynn Boyle of "The Practice" used to play Laura Palmer's friend Donna on this series Twin Peaks |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Alan Rachins.) When I played legal eagle Douglas Brackman on this hit TV series, I got to date Vanna White L.A. Law |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: Swoosie Kurtz of "Suddenly Susan" starred as Alex Reed Halsey Barker on this NBC sibling series Sisters |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $200: In 1998 this film director made his Broadway acting debut in "Wait Until Dark" & that's no "Pulp Fiction" Quentin Tarantino |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $400: TV's "Odd Couple", they played an even odder couple in a recent Broadway revival of "The Sunshine Boys" Jack Klugman & Tony Randall |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $600: In 1998 this "M*A*S*H" star made a s*m*a*s*hing return to Broadway in the hit play "Art" Alan Alda |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $800: You could say Kirstie Alley was an alley cat when she played Maggie The Cat in a 1984 revival of this play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | STAGE ACTORS $3,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jerry Orbach.) I introduced the song "Try To Remember" in this musical that opened in 1960 & is still running The Fantasticks |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | 10 YEARS LATER $100: In 1959 he was president of the Screen Actors Guild; 10 years later he was governor of California Ronald Reagan |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | 1980s LIT $1000: Controversial '88 book in which 2 Indian actors are transformed into archangel & devil after a plane bombing "The Satanic Verses" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | ANIMAL GROUPS $300: A group of hawks released by a falconer, or a group of actors performing in a play Cast |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | MATTHEWS $100: One of two "Friends" actors who fit the category Matt LeBlanc (or Matthew Perry) |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | 1898 $500: This Russian actor-producer founded the Moscow Art Theater for method actors Constantin Stanislavsky |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $100: Actors who have played cops on this series include S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth & Paul Sorvino Law & Order |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $200: On this series, William B. Davis plays a character called the Cigarette-Smoking Man The X-Files |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $300: Now a regular on "NewsRadio", on "Saturday Night Live" he played the Anal-Retentive Chef Phil Hartman |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $400 (Daily Double): (Hey, I'm Alicia Witt.) In 1995 she won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work on the sitcom we both work on, "Cybill" Christine Baranski |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $500: Wallace Langham plays Josh on "Veronica's Closet" & Phil on this HBO talk show spoof The Larry Sanders Show |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: We were bowled over by Liza Minnelli's performance as Sally Bowles in this 1972 movie musical Cabaret |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: She had the "Basic Instinct" to romance Robert de Niro in "Casino" Sharon Stone |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: In 1997 he married model Jennifer Flavin, the mother of his infant daughter Sophia Sylvester Stallone |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This "Gandhi" star is the son of an Indian physician who emigrated to England from South Africa Ben Kingsley |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $5,200 (Daily Double): [Hi, I'm Teri Garr.] I played Michael Keaton's wife in this hit 1983 comedy about a stay-at-home dad Mr. Mom |
| #3197, aired 1998-06-23 | CULTURED CELEBRITIES $200: TV's Felix Unger, he founded the National Actors Theatre to educate Americans in the classic plays Tony Randall |
| #3174, aired 1998-05-21 | MOVIE STARS $800: Jamie Lee Curtis wasn't born yet when these actors, her parents, co-starred in "Houdini" in 1953 Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh |
| #3170, aired 1998-05-15 | IN THE CREDITS $600: A "dresser" helps actors with costumes; this type of "dresser" gives the film its props Set dresser |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: As this film's title character, Adam Sandler serenades a pair of newlyweds with the song "Love Stinks" The Wedding Singer |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: A Three Stooges short, seen here, featured an early film appearance by this comedienne Lucille Ball |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: Nick Nolte's son Brawley played Mel Gibson's kidnapped son in this 1996 film Ransom |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Helen Hunt made her Broadway debut in 1989 as Emily in a revival of this Thornton Wilder play Our Town |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: She's also the voice of Marge Simpson's sisters, Patty & Selma; they sound a lot like Marge Julie Kavner |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: In "Scream", this actress seen here was the first to scream Drew Barrymore |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: "I want my work to scare you to death", said this buff little actress & vampire slayer Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: This former movie "Batman" is a distant cousin of the poet who wrote "Trees" Val Kilmer |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: He plays the snidely sarcastic Dennis on "Just Shoot Me!"--what a card! David Spade |
| #3162, aired 1998-05-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This actor has won 2 Tonys for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & for the show ("How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying") in which he sang the following Matthew Broderick |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | GROWING UP ON FILM $200: In "Kundun" 4 actors played this spiritual leader from the age of 2 to adulthood Dalai Lama |
| #3157, aired 1998-04-28 | GROWING UP ON FILM $1000: Jeremy Kissner & Raquel Beaudene grow up to be these 2 actors in 1998's "Great Expectations" Ethan Hawke & Gwyneth Paltrow |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BUFF ACTORS $200: 45 seconds of Sharon Stone & this naked actor were cut from "Basic Instinct" to get an R rating Michael Douglas |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BUFF ACTORS $400: In his 1995 film "Braveheart", this actor-director showed us what Scotsmen wear under their kilts Mel Gibson |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BUFF ACTORS $600: Holly Hunter was speechless when Harvey Keitel exposed himself in this 1993 film The Piano |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BUFF ACTORS $800: Killer Schwarzenegger cyborg whose time travel device can't send his clothes with him the Terminator |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | BUFF ACTORS $1000: Jaye Davidson surprised movie audiences when he slipped out of his clothes in this 1992 film The Crying Game |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $200: More bare than scare, this Mistress of the Dark's real name is Cassandra Peterson Elvira |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $400: As Laurie, this actress did a lot of screaming in the first "Halloween" film Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $800: 1972 title role played by William Marshall as a hip, happenin' soul man with a taste for blood Blacula |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $1000: Jack Nicholson lycanthropically marks his territory in this shaggy 1994 tale Wolf |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | THE SCREAM ACTORS GUILD $2,100 (Daily Double): This 1922 F.W. Murnau drama, seen here, was one of the world's first horror movies: Nosferatu |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: Between TV stints as Andy Griffith's son & Tom Bosley's son, he played Henry Fonda's son on "The Smith Family" Ron Howard |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: In 1979 this Canadian made his U.S. TV debut on "Letters from Frank" & added the initial "J." to his name Michael J. Fox |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: From 1981 to 1985 Orson Welles provided the voice of the elusive Robin Masters on this series Magnum, P.I. |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500 (Daily Double): Ann Guilbert, who played Millie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show", now plays a grandma on this sitcom: The Nanny |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: Originally Lisa Kudrow was set to play Roz on this sitcom but the role was recast with Peri Gilpin Frasier |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | ACTORS $200: He reportedly said he would've paid the studio for the chance to direct his first film, "Play Misty for Me" Clint Eastwood |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | ACTORS $400: Rap star & underwear model who played porn star Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights" Mark Wahlberg |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | ACTORS $800: She was once the talk of the town, the town of Braselton, Georgia; she owned it for a while Kim Basinger |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | ACTORS $1000: Marcel Marceau wrote a tribute to this late red-haired comedian for the Oct. 11, 1997 TV Guide Red Skelton |
| #3116, aired 1998-03-02 | ACTORS $1,500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Traci Bingham) This "Baywatch" star was once a centerfold...a centerfold in the May 1990 issue of Cosmopolitan David Hasselhoff |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | TAKE A GUESS $800: 2 of the 4 actors who earned 1974 Oscar nominations for "The Godfather Part II"; one of them won (2 of) Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Michael V. Gazzo, & Lee Strasberg |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: She earned an Oscar nomination for "Agnes Of God"; sis Jennifer Tilly earned one for "Bullets Over Broadway" Meg Tilly |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: Barbra Streisand starred as Fanny Brice in these 2 movies, filmed 7 years apart Funny Girl & Funny Lady |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $800: Sophia Loren did her own singing when she played Aldonza in this movie musical Man of La Mancha |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Seen here, working at mission control, he's also played an astronaut: Ed Harris |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $1000: Robert Mitchum & Gregory Peck, the original stars of this '62 thriller, had cameo roles in the '91 remake Cape Fear |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: In 1997 his character, Paul Buchman, became a dad Paul Reiser |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: After he hit the jackpot as Dan Tanna on "Vega$", he became "Spenser: For Hire" Robert Urich |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $600: He played the debonair Steele...Remington Steele Pierce Brosnan |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $800: He was Karen Arnold's boyfriend on "The Wonder Years" before playing Ross on "Friends" David Schwimmer |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $1000: In 1991 Emmys went to Patricia Wettig & Timothy Busfield, who played couple Nancy & Elliot on this show thirtysomething |
| #3071, aired 1997-12-29 | FUN WITH DICK & JANE $3,000 (Daily Double): The 2 actors seen here, they both played the same role on TV:
[Darrin Stephens] Dick Sargent & Dick York |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Mary McCormack of TV's "Murder One" may know about his "Private Parts"; she played his wife in the film Howard Stern |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Clark Gable co-starred with her in "No Man Of Her Own" in 1932 & married her a few years later Carole Lombard |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: Sean Penn made his professional on-camera debut in a 1979 episode of this Buddy Ebsen detective series Barnaby Jones |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This star of TV's "Prime Suspect" played a sexpot who agrees to pose for James Mason in 1969's "Age Of Consent" Helen Mirren |
| #3064, aired 1997-12-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: Before her "bewitch"ing role as Samantha'a mother Endora, she played Orson Welles' mother in "Citizen Kane" Agnes Moorehead |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: He's come a long way since his Sweathog days as Vinnie Barbarino on "Welcome Back, Kotter" John Travolta |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: In 1997 Johnny Depp went undercover to infiltrate the Mafia in this film based on a true story Donnie Brasco |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $3,000 (Daily Double): [Hi, I'm Rob Schneider. In addition to my TV roles] I've also appeared in 2 Sylvester Stallone films, "Demolition Man" & this futuristic film based on a comic book [that was very popular in Turkey!] Judge Dredd |
| #3053, aired 1997-12-03 | LEADING MEN $300: In the early 1980s this star of "Scarface" & "Serpico" was an artistic director of the Actors Studio Al Pacino |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $200: Mom role shared by Barbara Billingsley & Janine Turner June Cleaver |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $400: Fess Parker & John Wayne have both played this king of the wild frontier Davy Crockett |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $800: In 1994 Rosie O'Donnell was cast in this role in the stage version of "Grease"; in 1997 Lucy Lawless was Rizzo |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $1000: In a 1996 Fox TV movie based on a British series, the 2 actors seen here both played this time lord: Doctor Who |
| #3048, aired 1997-11-26 | ACTORS & ROLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Anne Parillaud role that led to the other 2 seen here: La Femme Nikita |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | ACTORS IN POLITICAL FILMS $200: In 1993 he was "In the Line of Fire" as Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan Clint Eastwood |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | ACTORS IN POLITICAL FILMS $400: This star of "Grumpy Old Men" played a grumpy Supreme Court justice in "First Monday in October" Walter Matthau |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | ACTORS IN POLITICAL FILMS $600: Laurence Harvey & Frank Sinatra starred in this 1962 political thriller based on a novel by Richard Condon The Manchurian Candidate |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | ACTORS IN POLITICAL FILMS $800: In "All the President's Men", Hal Holbrook played this informer whose true identity is still a mystery "Deep Throat" |
| #3044, aired 1997-11-20 | ACTORS IN POLITICAL FILMS $1000: This British actor, JFK's brother-in-law, played a U.S. senator in "Advise and Consent" Peter Lawford |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | "HOT" AIR $1,000 (Daily Double): For this 1959 film, a female impersonator taught actors Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to be girls Some Like It Hot |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $100: In 1996 Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy & other actors from this series reunited for a TV movie Dallas |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $100: LeVar Burton was a drama student at USC when this role in "Roots" made him a star overnight Kunta Kinte |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: "Law & Order"'s Jerry Orbach provided the voice of Lumiere, who lit up the screen in this 1991 Disney film Beauty and the Beast |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $300: Once Nell Carter's neighbor on "Gimme A Break", she's in a league of her own as a talk show host Rosie O'Donnell |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $400: Frasier's TV dad John Mahoney appeared as Clint Eastwood's Secret Service superior in this 1993 thriller In the Line of Fire |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | MISSED ON SHOW NO. 1 $1000: ACTORS & ROLES
Sam Shepard played this barrier breaker in "The Right Stuff" Chuck Yeager |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $1,100 (Daily Double): (I'm Sam Waterston.) I played Nick Carraway in the 1974 film version of this famous novel The Great Gatsby |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | ACTORS & ROLES $100: In 1992 she put on a great act in "Sister Act" & in 1996 starred in "The Associate" Whoopi Goldberg |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $200: In 1996 the Screen Actors Guild chose this "Murder, She Wrote" star for a lifetime achievement award Angela Lansbury |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: Andrew's big sister, she earned an Oscar nomination for "Leaving Las Vegas" Elisabeth Shue |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | ACTORS & ROLES $300: As newsman Warren Justice, he got "Up Close & Personal" with Michelle Pfeiffer Robert Redford |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | ACTORS & ROLES $400: He played the title roles in "Nixon" & "Surviving Picasso" Anthony Hopkins |
| #2978, aired 1997-07-09 | ACTORS & ROLES $600 (Daily Double): 2 of the movie roles she's played are Ethel Thayer & Rose Sayer Katharine Hepburn |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: He made the cover of Time in 1989 as "Hollywood's Top Gun" Tom Cruise |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: She played Solitaire in the 007 film "Live and Let Die" long before she became a frontier doctor on TV Jane Seymour |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Adam Arkin, who plays Dr. Aaron Shutt on this TV series, is the son of actor Alan Arkin Chicago Hope |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Like his brother John, he performed with Second City & was a regular on "Saturday Night Live" Jim Belushi |
| #2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: A native of Calcutta, Victor Banerjee played Dr. Aziz in this acclaimed David Lean film A Passage to India |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Ads for this blue-eyed star's 1994 film "Nobody's Fool" stated he's "worn to perfection" Paul Newman |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Fans of "Friends" can tell you she's the one who starred in "She's The One" Jennifer Aniston |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: Elizabeth Taylor was a budding star when she played an orphan in this 1944 film based on a Bronte novel "Jane Eyre" |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Christopher Walken played Diane Keaton's neurotic brother Duane in this classic Woody Allen film "Annie Hall" |
| #2965, aired 1997-06-20 | MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This lead singer of Blondie played Velma Von Tussle in John Waters' film "Hairspray" Debbie Harry |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: Mariska Hargitay of "Can't Hurry Love" is the daughter of Mickey Hargitay & this blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Diahann Carroll played Blake Carrington's half-sister Dominique on this Aaron Spelling series "Dynasty" |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Martha Raye appeared as Mel's mother on this Linda Lavin sitcom "Alice" |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Lee J. Cobb played judge Henry Garth, 1st owner of the Shiloh ranch, on this James Drury series 1962-66 "The Virginian" |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $500: He was the star of the 1950s TV series "Medic", so it could have been called "Have Scalpel Will Travel" Richard Boone |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $200: Andy Garcia was born in this island country but fled to nearby Miami with his family when he was 5 Cuba |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $400: This brother-in-law of Loretta Young was born in Mexico City, not on Fantasy Island Ricardo Montalban |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $600: This Irish star of the film "Camelot" is also a writer; his thriller novel "Honor Bound" appeared in 1982 Richard Harris |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $800: This Canadian comic appeared on "In Living Color" & in 2 Clint Eastwood films, "Pink Cadillac" & "The Dead Pool" Jim Carrey |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $1000: He must have been "Breathless" when he was elected president of the French Actors Union in 1963 Jean-Paul Belmondo |
