| #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? $2000: Two presidents share a surname with this actress, known for playing Detective Erin Lindsay on Chicago P.D. Sophia Bush |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | ACTORS $400: This late, great actor excelled at playing movie villains Rickman |
| #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 |
| #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 $1600: Maybe Olivia Edward, child of psychic medium John Edward, foresaw playing Pamela Adlon's youngest daughter on this series Better Things |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | ACTORS SING $1200: In 1971 he sang "Pure Imagination" playing Willy Wonka Gene Wilder |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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. |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | TV & MOVIE ACTORS $800: Ashley Judd spent several seasons playing Swoosie Kurtz' daughter on this series Sisters |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #2955, aired 1997-06-06 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: He appeared as Tracey Gold's boyfriend on "Growing Pains" before playing Chandler Bing on "Friends" Matthew Perry |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | COMIC ACTORS $800: 20 years after playing Woody Allen's "Annie Hall", she's become a respected film director Diane Keaton |
| #2833, aired 1996-12-18 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $500: Joan Allen earned an Oscar nomination for playing this famous woman in a 1995 film Pat Nixon |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: This actor, best known for playing Mr. Mooney on "The Lucy Show", passed away in 1995 Gale Gordon |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $800: Hugh Beaumont played detective Michael Shayne on film but is best remembered for playing Ward on this TV show Leave it to Beaver |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: Before playing John-Boy Walton, he'd appeared as both of the little princes in productions of "Richard III" Richard Thomas |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: In 1934 Jessica Tandy appeared onstage in her native London playing this role opposite John Gielgud's Hamlet Ophelia |
| #2359, aired 1994-12-01 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $400: Surprisingly, Marlon Brando wasn't nominated for a Tony for playing this role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" Stanley Kowalski |
| #2344, aired 1994-11-10 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: He first came to fame playing Charles Ryder on the TV series "Brideshead Revisited" Jeremy Irons |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: She was one of Marcus Welby's nurses, but she's more famous for playing Chris Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey" Sharon Gless |
| #2310, aired 1994-09-23 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $500: Roseanne's TV mom, she won an Oscar for playing Clyde's sister-in- law in "Bonnie and Clyde" Estelle Parsons |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | STEPHEN KING FILMS $200: Among the actors playing teenagers in this 1976 King classic were Amy Irving & Sissy Spacek Carrie |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Warner Oland & Sidney Toler made their last film appearances playing this character Charlie Chan |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $200: This was Frank Langella's stage role in "A Cry of Players"; Anne Bancroft played Anne Hathaway Shakespeare |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $400: Helen Hayes played this renowned antislavery novelist in a 1943 play Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $600: Sydney Greenstreet appeared as Thackeray in "Devotion", a 1946 film about these British literary sisters the Brontes |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $800: Glenda Jackson portrayed this British poet onstage & on film in "Stevie" Stevie Smith |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | ACTORS PLAYING AUTHORS $1000: John Carradine played this author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" in a 1944 film about Mark Twain Bret Harte |
| #2178, aired 1994-02-09 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: After playing Dian Fossey, she became honorary chairman of the Digit Fund, dedicated to saving gorillas Sigourney Weaver |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | CANADIAN ACTORS $400: Kate Nelligan earned an Oscar nomination playing Nick Nolte's Southern mother in this 1991 film Prince of Tides |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: In 1968 she began playing Lucille Ball's daughter on "Here's Lucy" —not much of a stretch Lucie Arnaz |
| #2002, aired 1993-04-27 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $300: Butch Patrick played Greg on "The Real McCoys" before playing Eddie on this show about a spookier family The Munsters |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $500: Tyne Daly & Angela Lansbury won Tonys for playing Mama Rose in this musical, but Ethel Merman didn't Gypsy |
| #1724, aired 1992-02-13 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $600: For playing the title role in 1941's "Sergeant York", this actor won his first Oscar Gary Cooper |
| #1710, aired 1992-01-24 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Alex Rocco won a whole Emmy, not just 10% of one, for playing one of these on "The Famous Teddy Z" agent |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He won an Oscar for playing Jamie Lee Curtis' boyfriend in "A Fish Called Wanda" Kevin Kline |
| #1650, aired 1991-11-01 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: This actor received Oscar nominations for playing Henry II in both "Becket" & "The Lion in Winter" Peter O'Toole |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $1000: He directed himself playing a director in "White Hunter, Black Heart" Clint Eastwood |
| #1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $300: Maria Karnilova was a ballerina before playing Tevye's wife in this Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $100: After his 1960 Army discharge, this rock star was back in uniform playing a G.I. in "G.I. Blues" Elvis Presley |
| #1411, aired 1990-10-22 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for playing Lord Marchmain in the miniseries based on this Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited |
| #11, aired 1990-08-25 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: G. Depardieu was named best actor at Cannes for playing this swordsman; you might say he won by a nose Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #1317, aired 1990-05-01 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: He spent some "Happy Days" playing Fiorello LaGuardia, & won a Tony too Tom Bosley |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: The great 19th c. actor Edwin Booth was most famous for playing this Shakespearean role Hamlet |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: He won an Oscar playing an actor obsessed with the role of Othello in "A Double Life" Ronald Colman |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | ACTORS ONSTAGE $800: John Lithgow won a Drama Desk Award in '85 for playing "Mountain McClintock" in this play on B'way Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| #1236, aired 1990-01-08 | ACTORS & RUSSIAN ROLES $600: Playing a Russian commissar, this Hungarian was seen in "Ninotchka" without fangs Bela Lugosi |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | CANADIAN ACTORS $600: 13 years after being "beamed up" for the last time on TV's "Star Trek", he began playing "T.J. Hooker" William Shatner |
| #1223, aired 1989-12-20 | PSYCHOLOGY $500: When playing a role you "put on" one of these, from Latin for the mask worn by actors in dramas a persona |
| #1215, aired 1989-12-08 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: Dianne Wiest won an Oscar for playing one of the siblings in this Woody Allen film "Hannah And Her Sisters" |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: This polo-playing Harvard grad played Loretta Lynn's husband in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (Tommy Lee) Jones |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | ACTORS & ROLES $800: This black "Dynasty" star was nominated for an Oscar for playing a ghetto mother in "Claudine" Diahann Carroll |
| #1144, aired 1989-07-20 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $400: Born Maude Kiskadden in Utah in 1872, she was best known for playing Peter Pan Maude Adams |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $400: John Goodman has become a new kind of sex symbol playing her hefty husband on TV Roseanne Barr |
| #1072, aired 1989-04-11 | ACTORS $400: After "The A-Team", he went on tour in a one-man show, playing Ernest Hemingway George Peppard |
| #1064, aired 1989-03-30 | ACTORS & ROLES $600: Before playing the psychic Tangina in this film, 4' 3" Zelda Rubinstein worked on a shrimp boat Poltergeist |
| #1005, aired 1989-01-06 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: The 2 stars who won Oscars playing the title roles in "Kramer vs. Kramer" Meryl Streep & Dustin Hoffman |
| #980, aired 1988-12-02 | ACTORS & ROLES $300: 10 years after playing "The Greek Tycoon", he turned up in a miniseries as Onassis' dad Anthony Quinn |
| #938, aired 1988-10-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: He was a Chicago policeman for 18 years before playing one on "crime story" Dennis Farina |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $100: James O'Neill, father of this playwright, was arrested for playing Jesus in a passion play Eugene O'Neill |
| #792, aired 1988-02-02 | ACTORS OF THE PAST $300: At age 80, William Gillette was still playing this British detective, his most famous role Sherlock Holmes |
| #619, aired 1987-04-23 | ACTORS & ROLE $800: C. Laughton, T. Howard & A. Hopkins were all adrift playing this part Captain Bligh |
| #482, aired 1986-10-14 | ACTORS & ROLES $2,000 (Daily Double): Peter O'Toole has received 2 Oscar nominations for playing King Henry II, 1 for each of these 2 films The Lion in Winter & Beckett |
| #100, aired 1985-01-25 | BROADWAY $800: Play in which the actors traded roles; Quinn playing the saint & Olivier, the king Becket |
| #17, aired 1984-10-02 | MOVIE TALK $400: Director's order to actors to begin playing a scene "Action!" |
