| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? $200: The Bureau of Consular Affairs State |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | CLICHÉS REPHRASE $800: Unhappy Michigan or Utah & their illicit romances a sad state of affairs |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | EVERYDAY LATIN $800: The "state in which", it's the existing condition of affairs status quo |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | MISCELLANY $800: The Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs reports directly to this head of a cabinet department the Secretary of State |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $400: Let's go with the Flaubert! This 1857 novel details a truly sad state of affairs Madame Bovary |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THE 50 U.S. STATES $1200: As in the title of a Russell Crowe film, "State of" this refers to "the current situation" State of Play |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | SOCIAL STUDIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Bernie Sanders spent much of 2016 urging change to this 2-word Latin term for the existing state of affairs the status quo |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS $200: For a brief time in 1789, it was known as the Department of Foreign Affairs the Department of State |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT? $200: The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs State |
| #6166, aired 2011-06-06 | WE MAKE MONEY $200: When created by Congress in 1792, the Mint was part of this department more concerned with foreign affairs the State Department |
| #6003, aired 2010-10-20 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Before she was Secretary of State, she was a professor of international affairs at Georgetown Univ. Madeline Albright |
| #5976, aired 2010-09-13 | GOVERNMENT BY COMMITTEE $800: John Barrasso of this "Cowboy State" is Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Wyoming |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON $600: (Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.) In 1781, the State Department's precursor, the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established for the purpose of "friendly correspondence" with other nations by this legislature the Second Continental Congress |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | RANKS & TITLES $1200: Marc Grossman didn't feel it was beneath him to take the job of this for Political Affairs in the State Department undersecretary |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | THE CABINET $400: On September 15, 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to this Department of State |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | UNITED "STATE"S $400: Created in 1789, it replaced Foreign Affairs in the U.S. cabinet Department of State |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | AFFAIRS OF STATE $200: Alice Glass reportedly broke off her affair with this president because she opposed the Vietnam War Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | AFFAIRS OF STATE $400: It's out of the closet that he was in the closet with Nan Britton, a young flapper Warren G. Harding |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | AFFAIRS OF STATE $500 (Daily Double): 1884 reports that he committed his lover to an insane asylum nearly cost him the election Grover Cleveland |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: In 1789 the name of the Department of Foreign Affairs was changed to this Department of State |
| #2333, aired 1994-10-26 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $600: This Cabinet department's building houses the office of the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs the Department of State |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | HISTORY $800: Emperor Charles I resigned from Austrian affairs of state on Nov. 11, 1918 & this country's Nov. 13 Hungary |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $600: Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as this nation's minister of state for foreign affairs 1977-1991 Egypt |
| #1565, aired 1991-05-24 | THE CABINET $100: On September 15, 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to this Department of State |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | THE CABINET $200: It was created July 27, 1789 as the Department of Foreign Affairs; 1½ months later it was renamed this the Department of State |
| #1320, aired 1990-05-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: 3 months after Congress authorized the Department of Foreign Affairs, it changed its name to this Department of State |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | STATISTICS $100: The word statistics comes from the Latin meaning "affairs of" this state |
| #836, aired 1988-04-04 | TRUMAN SPEAKS $300: He told Congress this organization is "a mirror in which the state of world affairs is reflected" the United Nations |
| #417, aired 1986-04-15 | FINANCIAL AFFAIRS $200: Coin named for a late 19th c. president of Transvaal, a Dutch state in South Africa the Krugerrand |
|
Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
|
"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
|
|
Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
|
"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
|
|
Chris Wallace, a TV host from Fox News Sunday
|
"In March, this Fox News anchor was honored by the National...
|
|
Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
|
2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
|
|
Dana Perino, a TV host from Fox News Channel's The Five
|
"White House press secretary under George W. Bush, she now appears...
|
|
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas
|
2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
|
|
Jordan Brand, an anesthesiologist from Westchester, New York
|
Season 26 1-time champion: $24,405 + $2,000. The Sesame Street character...
|
